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AUTOMATION State Representative Carrol Howe of Klamath County (standing)
met with members of the Legislative Interim Committee on Technological Employment
yesterday afternoon during the first of two days of public hearings on the effects of
automation within the county. The hearing was held at the local employment office
yesterday and moved to the OTI campus today. The three lawmakers who officiated at
the hearing are, left to right, Sen. Alfred H. Corbett, Sen. Arthur P. Ireland and Rep.
Richard Kennedy. Nine legislators compri-e the committee.
Technological Committee
Studies Automation Impact
By DICK BRir.C.S
The machine is gradually re
placing the unskilled worker in
the potato and timber Indus-
In The-
Day's lews
By FRANK JENKINS
As this is written, Moroccan
troops are reported to have
routed the remnants of three Al
gerian battalions (rum a con
tested Sahara oasis. Headquar
ters of the Moroccan task force
at Tagounit say Moroccan
troops now control the entire
area around the oasis of Hassi
Beida, scene of the fighting for
the past two weeks.
In Morocco, military spokes
men reported Moroccan planes
and troops had pushed back a
stream of Algerian reinforce
ments trying to reach forward
outposts that are under siege.
Your reaction to that news?
It's probably something like
this:
"Let 'em go to it, and may
the best man win. It's a long
way off, and it doesn't concern
me much. I have troubles of
my own."
Wait a minute.
Read t Ills dispatch from Al
giers: Western diplomats say that
SOVIET tanks and planes have
arrived in Algeria aboard a CU
BAN ship. These diplomatic
sources say the Cuban ship ar
rived in the Algerian port of
Iran Friday with modern Sovi
et tanks and crated jet fighter
planes.
The diplomats add that the
Soviet tanks and planes were
part of a major arms shipment
ordered from the Soviet Union
LONG BEFORE the outbreak
of the Sahara conflict.
Which is to say:
1. The Russians have been re
ported to be uninterested in fur
ther forays in Africa, but LONG
before the present ruckus be
tween Morocco and Algeria
broke out tliey were selling
planes and tanks to the communist-slanted
Algerian govern
ment. 2. When the lime came to de
liver the tanks and the planes,
the delivery was made by
CUBA, Russia's stooge.
Disturbing thought:
When Russia orders. Cuba
obeys.
Suppose Russia should order
Cuba to start stashing away
RUSSIAN MISSILES again.
From Washington:
Leaders of the U.S. space pro
gram report that Soviet pull
back on lunar landing effort will
not and should not affect U.S.
moon research pojects.
James E. Webb, administra
tor of the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration, says
the United States has put to
gether a program calculated to
cost $35 billion over a period of
ten vears.
He adds:
"This program can not be
turned on and off without seri
ous losses in time and money."
Personal question:
Which wtwld YOU prefer
Spending $.S BILLION, and
adding it to our already stag
gering national debt, in an ef
fort to put l man on the
moon
Or calling it off and using the
billion to REDUCE our na
tional debt and thus helping to
reduce taxes?
tries in Klamath County, rep
resentatives of those fields told
a Legislative Interim Commit
tee on Technological Employ
ment Tuesday during the first
of two days of hearings which
concluded here today.
But while machines loom as
obstacles to t h e unskilled in
their efforts to earn a liveli-
Debt Limit
Increased
WASHINGTON UPI Acting
with unusual speed, the House
Ways & Means Committee to
day approved the administra
tion's request to raise the na
tional debt limit to $315 billion
for the last seven months of
this fiscal year.
Republicans fought the move,
arguing the figure was too high
but lost on a straight party-line
vote.
The current temporary limit
of $309 billion will expire Nov.
30 unless Congress acts. The
debt ceiling then would revert
to its permanent level of $285
billion, far below the present
actual mark.
The national debt now stands
at 107 billion.
Shooting Hours
OREGON
October 31
Open Close
6:02 a.m. 5:07 p.m.
CALIFORNIA
October 31
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6:06 a.m. 5:03 p.m.
Snag Delays Rescue
Of 3 Trapped Miners
PEINE. Germany UPH
Three miners trapped more
than five days 262 feet below
the earth in a flooded iron mine
will not be rescued before
Thursday night or Friday morn
ing, the mine manager said to
day. Rudolf Slein, manager of the
Mathilde mine, said gravel in
a partially completed escape
shaft was snagging steel pipe
bring lowered to line the hole
and it may have to be re-drilled.
Rescue workers were trying
to keep the full impact of the
discouraging news from the
miners below. But the men, all
mine veterans, sensed some
thing was wrong.
"Don't worry if you don't hear
the drilling for a while," a res
cue official told them a
telephone lowered throuch a
drilled contact shaft. "We've
got to put in steel piping and
cement."
"That means another night
down here." a miner below re
plied. He sounded glum, an of
ficial said
The three men Gerhard
Hanusch. 4,1. Fritz Leder, 30,
and Emil Pohlai, .14 were re
ported in good condition in their
nine-foot-wide chamber, where
I I
lined, they, or tne lack of them,
also present problems to t h e
businessman with limited oper
ating expense. Yet, firms which
do not keep pace with the
changes brought on by automa
tion will fall by the wayside
victims of a system of mass
production which continues to
improve upon itself by ,way of
increased yields at lower pro
duction costs.
On the other side of the pic
ture, individuals who do n o t
train themselves will find there
will be less and less room for
them in the coming world of
greater technology. The world
will pass them by.
The problems of the small po
tato producer, as well as some
otlier business enterprises, in
realizing a fair return from
large investments in expen
sive machinery is becoming in
creasingly more, difficult
each year in the face of rising
operational costs, and, occa
sionally, overproduction, which
drives down tlic price of the
commodity grown by produc
ers. Those problems, among oth
ers, were hinted at by Duane
Blackman, operator of the
Blackman - Dchlingcr farm
near Dairy, who told the com
mittee yesterday that since
automation has made its effect
felt in industry four workers
now using heavy farm equip
ment in tlie potato harvest do
the job of 35 laborers working
by hand.
The interim committee is not
troubled primarily with how in
dustry reconciles its problems
of large capital outlays for
equipment with rising opera
tional costs and overproduction.
Its concern is w i t h the 31
workers out of the 35 which
have been replaced by ma
chines, and, perhaps, with some
of the remaining four which
similarly may be replaced dur
ing the coming years.
What has happened to those
31 workers?
Leonard Sytsma, state cm-
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tliey were receiving food passed
down a six - inch communica
tions tube and taking pictures
of each other with a camera
sent down by United Press In
ternational. Elaborate preparations will
be necessary before the men
can be brought up. including
cleaning the shaft and installing
a decompression chamber at
the top to keep the miners from
getting tlie "bends" after their
long imprisonment in high-pressure
air.
Then a rescue worker will go
down and help the men into a
10 . foot - long tcel capsule
I in which they will slowly be
brnueht to tlie surface, one at
I a time. The rescuer will come
! up last.
Hanusch, I.cdcr and Pohlai
i were among 129 men working
I in the mine when the bottom of
I a huce pond on the surface
I caved in last Thursdav night.
snilling 19 million gallons of
sludge - filled water down the
shafts. '
Forty men were killed. All
the olhers reached safety, ex
cept the three trapped in an
air bubble al the dead end of
j a 300-font-long lateral shaft
I that tilts up at the eid.
Educators Delay
PORTLAND (UPll - The
budget-minded State Board of
Higher Education has called a
special meeting one week after
the special session of the legis
lature ends.
The special session meets
Nov. 11.
Meanwhile, the board closed
a two-day meeting Tuesday by
telling slate-supporcd schools to
cut some $1.5 million out of non
teaching and student fund allo
Weather
Klamath Falls, Tulelako and Lake
view Fair and cool again tonight,
lows 2S to 32. Incrtatlng cloudiness
with showers likely lata Thursday,
highs SO to S3.
High vestarday SS
Low this morning 3a
High year ago at
Low year ago 34
Preclp. past 94 hours .04
Sinca Jan. 1 0.M
Same period last yaar 14.30
U.S. Trio
Captured
In Viet Nam
SAIGON, South Viet Nam
UPI Three Americans were
reported captured by Commu
nist guerrillas today in an am
bush on a Vietnamese govern
ment unit that was accompan
ied by U.S. advisers.
Military spokesman said 4Jie
Communists inflicted at least 50
per cent casualties on tlie gov
ernment troops. Twenty Viet
namese soldiers were killed, 11
were missing, and 32 were
wounded. There were no known
Communist casualties.
1 was believed that two of
the captured Americans were
officers and the third was an
enlisted medical technician. Tlie
two officers were reported to
have been wounded in tlie at
tack. The U.S. advisers were ac
companying a Vietnamese
strike force on a sweep against
Communist positions in Xuyen
Province. When the Vietnamese
reached the area where the
guerrillas had been reported,
they found they had vanished.
They apparently were am
bushed on the return trip to
their base.
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Man Shatters
Own Business
SAN DIEGO. Calif. (UPI)
The owner of a San Diego
janitorial service was ar
rested Monday on suspicion
of breaking more than 200
dirty windows he was hired
to clean.
'Police said Bernard G. Pol
lard, 34, of the Dependable
Maintenance and Janitorial
Service, had hoped tlie custo
mer would blame juveniles
for the breakage. But a pri
vate investigator took films
of the incident, officers said.
Mother Fails
HONG KONG (UPI) Mrs.
Ruth Redmond of Yonkers,
N.Y., returned from Commu
nist China today after visiting
her son in Shanghai prison. But
she had no luck in winning his
freedom.
Mrs. Redmond's son, Hugh,
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TIME ON HIS HANDS Miner Emil Pohlai teems totally
relaxed at he poses 262 feet underground, trappad in a
mine near Peine, Germany. Pohlai it one of three miners
who hai been "buried" for nearly a week. Rescue officials
said today the miners will spend at leait another day and
possibly two in their underground prison. This photo wai
made by one of the other two trapped men with a camera
lowered to them by a UPI cameraman. UPI Talephoto
cations. The way the money
will be cut was left up to the
schools.
Such cutbacks would affect
fees paid to support student
government, athletics, and
campus press services. They al
so would reduce maintenance
and janitorial services.
William E. Walsh, chairman
of the board, said action on oth
er cuts would be held up until
after the legislature meets. Gov.
Heraltiatt
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PASSED SECRETS John William Butenko, 38, ducks his head as he is escorted from
the FBI headquarters in Newark, N.J., last night following his arrest on chargesof
passing classified defense contract information to members of the Soviet delegation
to the United Nations. Butenko is an electrical engineer with the International Elec
tric Corp. UPI Telephoto
Bobby Baker Among Those
Aided By Tax Break1 Bill
WASHINGTON (UPI I Eigh
teen months ago former Senate
Democratic Secretary Robert
G. (Bobby) Baker was among
the happy beneficiaries of a
tax break sponsored by the man
who was to become his nemesis,
Sen. John J. Williams, R-Dol.
Today the 35-year-old politico
entrepreneur, who resigned his
$19,600 job earlier this month,
is the target of a wide-ranging
investigation sparked by Wil
liams. The turn of e v e n t s which
placed the two men on oppo
To Gain Son's
is one of four Americans im
prisoned in Red China as al
leged American spies. Redmond
is serving a life sentence.
The grey - haired Mrs. Red
mond told a news conference
that she was disappointed that
she was not able to slay long
Action
Mark Hatfield has asked that
lusher education take a cut of
$8.2 million because of voter re
jection of the income tax mea
sure Oct. 15.
Tuition Hike Eyed
Chancellor Roy Lieuallen has
suggested holding faculty salar
ies at present levels and boost
ing tuition and academic re
quirements, the latter to hold
enrollment to this year's levels.
Proposed cuts also would af
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 30. 1963
site sides of the current sensation-tinged
inquiry may touch
on other prominent persons, in
and out of government.
A House Republican has
asked whether the Senate Rules
Committee inquiry is connected
with sex-spiced reports of the
forced flight from Washington
to her native Germany of 27-year-old
Mrs. Ellen Rometsch,
wife of a German army ser
geant. Has Great Interest
Baker, whose job in the Sen
ate was to help speed the pas-
Freedom
enough to help celebrate her
son's 43rd birthday today.
She said the Communists
would not extend her visa.
"They extended it for one day
but that wasn't enough," she
said. She explained earlier that
she was able, however, to have
an "advance birthday party"
with her son Monday in his
bleak prison cell.
Mrs. Redmond said she found
her son in excellent spirits
considering his position but
said he seemed to "have lost a
little weight."
She said she made a new np
pcal to Chinese authorities for
the release of her son on hu
manitarian grounds.
But like an earlier appeal, it
went unheeded. She declined to
discloso details of the appeal,
including to whom it was made.
Mrs. Redmond said she visit
ed her son on four different oc
casions. Their conversation was
restricted by Communist order
to innocuous family affairs and
Totaled subjects.
Congressional Pay Raise Approved
WASHINGTON UPH - The
House Post Office and Civil
Service Committee, today ap
proved legislation to raise tlie
pay of congressmen. Cabinet
members, federal judges, and
about 1.8 other government em.
ployes by tnro million a year.
The measure would raise tlie
pay of practically every civilian
federal employe, from the vice
president to the lowest ranking
civil servant, increases in civil
service and post office ranks
would range from 3 to 22 5 per
cent. Top level appointed and
elected officials would get in
creases of up to $10,000 i year.
On Most Budget Cuts
fect tlie University of Oregon
Medical School Hospital by cut
ting 46 beds and reducing the
number of patients receiving
crippled children's care. One
ward at the tuberculosis hospital
in Salem would be phased out
but Lieuallen said no one need
ing treatment would be denied
it.
A cutback of $8.2 million
would affect such items as edu
cational television, agriculture
sage of leadership-backed legis
lation, had more than passing
interest In the tax code amend
ment offered by Williams and 17
fellow senators and passed by
the Senate March 19, 1W2.
Designed to help East Coast
property owners whose homes
or business properties had been
damaged by the Atlantic storm
of early 1062, the amendment
permitted these taxpayers to ap
ply their 19fi2 "disaster losses"
against their 1961 federal in
come liability. Tlie tax break
was approved by tlie Treasury
Department on the ground that,
olhcrwisc, those entitled to tax
refunds for their loss could not
get them until they filed their
1DG3 returns.
Motel Damaged
Baker was among the disas
ter "victims" because his $1.2
million Carousel Motel, then
nearing completion outside
Ocean City, Md., took a pound
ing from the storm. He left no
(kiuht at tlie time that the Wil
liams amendment wtnikl mean
a substantial tax saving on his
1961 income.
Williams outlined his informa
tion on Baker's outside finan
cial interests in a 2'vhour
closed door session with the
rules committee Tuesday. Then
the group recessed until Friday,
when it will decide whether to
hire outside counsel or use its
own attorneys to direct the in
vestigation. Senate investigators said they
had been given Information
which if verified would
suggest that "there might be
a conflict of interest" in Rak
er's transactions.
The committee approved tlie
bill 15-9 but It is sure to run
into plenty of opposition from
economizers in Congress.
Under the plan, members of
Congress would have their pay
raised from $22,500 to $.12,500 a
year. Cabinet memliers would
get a hike to $.15,000 from $25,
000. Prior to revisions, the pay
legislation would have raised
Cabinet and congressional sal
aries by $12,500.
Tlie proposed pay raise rep
resents a compromise between
a bill co-sponsored by Reps.
Morris, K. Udall, D-Arii., and
Joel T. Broyhill, R-Va., which
On
experiment station work and
forestry and fishery research.
One proposal called for rais
ing of annual tuition by $75, or
$25 a term.
Some college presidents ap
peared to be against a proposal
to raise entrance requirements
for Oregon students above the
present two-point, or "C" aver
age. One suggestion would have
students w ith lower high school
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ENGLEWOOD, N. J. (UPD- j
An American engineer arrested
Tuesday night while allegedly
passing classified data to mem
bers of tlie Soviet U.N. delega
tion had access to Strategic Air
Command (SAC) secrets, it was
disclosed today.
FBI agents arrested John Wil
liam Butenko, 38, of Russian
parentage, and a Russian chauf
feur, Igor A. Ivanov, 33, In the
Englewood rail station parking
lot together with two members
of the Soviet U.N. mission. Bu
tenko and Ivanov were held in
$100,000 bail each on espionage
charges after pleading innocent
at tlieir arraignment. The two
Russians were released because
of diplomatic immunity.
The FBI said the four had in
their possession a briefcase full
of air defense contract secrets.
A spokesman for BiKenko's em
ployer, tlie International Elec
tric Corp. of Paramus, N. J.,
said Butenko had top security
clearance as control adminis
trator for the firm's field oper
ations, including SAC installa
tions. New System
International Electric, a sub
sidiary of International Tele
phone and Telegraph Co., has
been under contract to tlie gov
ernment since 1058 to produce
a new command and control
system for SAC that would Jink
the command b bomber, missile
and logistic support bases
around tlie world. v;
A company spokesman said
millions of dollars have oeen
poured into the program, which
occupies the majority of inter
national's workers. Butenko's
$14,70O-a-year job was to main
tain a master schedule concern
ing the contract In regard to
Civil Rights
Bill Clears
First Jump
WASHINGTON (UPI) The
civil rights bill lhat President
Kennedy wants was on the
track today but House passage
of the bipartisan measure still
was a month or more away.
The Senate may not get to
act on the bill until next year.
The bill approved, 23-11, by
the House Judiciary Committee
Tuesday would seek to end ra
cial discrimination in voting,
education, employment and pri
vate business offering the ne
cessities of life to the public.
It tlso would give broad new
powers to the government to
combat discrimination.
Kennedy, who took a personal
hand in the delicate negotiations
which produced tlie bipartisan
hill, said in a statement that
the measure "will provide the
basis for men of good will in
every city in our land to work
together to resolve their racial
lrol)lcms within a framework of
law and justice."
However, It was unlikely that
the President expected the bill
the most sweeping civil rights
proposal of the century to
whistle through the House even
with leadership backing.
has administration support, and
a rival bill authored by Rep.
James H. Morrison. D-La.
Tire Udall-Broyhill bill origi
nally proposed a pay hike from
$22,500 to $33,0(10 for member
of Congress, but the committee
imposed a $10,000 ceiling on this
Increase.
Other congressional news:
Foreign Aid: Sen. Allen J. El
lender, D-La , said today the
Senate should cut its $41 bil
lion foreign aid bill by at least
$460 million and tighten It up
In other ways. The long-delayed
bill to authorize another year
of economic and military aid
would fall $300 million short of
Spy ..Chjairge
grades deferred until winter
term.
Lieuallen presented three top
priority capital improvement
projects among those now fro
zen. They are, in order, a
science building for Portland
State; funds for Campbell Hall
at Oregon College of Education,
and money for access walks to
the new building at Oregon
Technical Institute in Klamath
Falls.
Weather
AGRICULTURAL FORECAST
Harvost outlook only fair to '
nait tlvo days with recurring showery
periods. Temperaruras naar season
work outside
company
plant.
. The1 FBI said the meeting
Tuesday night was Hie last in
a series going back to last
April 21, all of which were ob
served by FBI agents.
Butenko, a bespectacled elec
trical engineer complained at
his arraignment before U.S.
Commissioner Theodore Kis-
caras in Rutiierford about pho
tographers snapping his picture.
"Tliey took enough, haven't
they?" he said to federal of
ficials. "If they keep on taking
pictures they're going to ruin
my life.
But Ivanov, showing an in
itialed tattoo on his left hand,
posed willingly.
IGOR A. IVANOV
Chauffeur Arrested
When FBI men seized the
Kussian's car after his rendez
vous with the engineer had end
ed, they found Butenko's brief
case in tlie rear seat They
also found a camera equipped
to operate from the car's cigar
ette lighter.
Detained Briefly
Yuri A. Romashin, 30, the
third secretary of the Soviet
U.N. mission, and Gleb A.
Pavlov, 39, an attache at the
mission, were detained briefly
after tliey joined the engineer
and tlie chauffeur at the rail- '
road station. Romashin had
failed in his role as a lookout.
Romashin, Pavlov and an
other Russian are being ordered
to leave th country at once,
Hie State Department an
nounced. The FBI told of four previous
meetings, all in Bergen County
suburbs. During each, it said,
Butenko's brief case passed
from his car to the Russian'.
The first occurred on April 21
in Butenko's car in the parking
lot of a food store in Closter,
the second on May 26, a Sun
day, in a Closter restaurant, the
third the following day at a
restaurant in Fort Lee, just
across tlie George Washington
Bridge from Manhattan, and
the fourth on Sept. 24 behind a
hamburger stand in Paramus.
Butenko, a bachelor,, was
graduated in 1949 with honors
from Rutgers University in
New Brunswick, N.J., where he
was born. He Uvea In Orange,
N.J., with his Russian - born fa
ttier, William, a naturalized
citizen. His mother, also born
in Russia, died in 1957.
the $4 5 billion asked by Presi
dent Kennedy, even if it sur
vives Senate cuts. But the $4.2
billion total approved by the
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee still was about $700 mil
lion more than the House voted.
Carrier! Outgoing Secretary
Fred Korth meets behind closed
doors with tlie Senate House
Atomic Energy Committee and
is expected to make a fervent
appeal for en all-nuclear fleet.
Korth was prepared to tell the
committee that Defense Secre
tary Robert S. McNamara went
against scientific advice In re
jecting construction of (mother
nuclear-powered aupercarrler.
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