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coap. GEN.BSF.AHJ DOCUtfSHTS DIV. EUSJI90ftS In The- Day's km By FRANK JENKINS The news today? It's somewhat less exciting than the news of yesterday. Tlie U.S. Army sends another convoy through the Soviet checkpoint at Marienborn in the Western edge of Berlin and the Russians clear the 22 men In the convoy's ten trucks in only 20 minutes. Informed Western sources say this morning that LARG ER convoys will he sent out in the next few days to test the Russians. The point seems to be how many men in ho w many trucks will the Russkies let pass without kicking up a ruckus? What to say about it all? Let's leave it to John Green leaf Whitlier who a century ago told about a chance meet ing between the Judge and Maud Muller. Maud, you will remember, was raking the meadows sweet with hay when the Judge came along. The Judge was thirsty, so Maud dropped her rake and brought him a drink of water from the spring. Long afterward the Judge, meditating nostalgically on how wonderful it would have been if lie and Maud had married and lived happily ever after ward, uttered these mournful words: "Of all sad words "Of tongue or pen, "The saddest are these: "It MIGHT have been." In these days, we can t help thinking sadly how wonderful it would have been if. back in !!M3, we had gone ahead and TAKEN BERLIN FIRST, in stead of holding back and let ting the Ruffians take it first. Question: Just how ticklish is this res ent Berlin situation? Well, dispatches from Wash ington this morning assure us that as yet the HOT LINE be tween Washington and 'Moscow has not been used. The d i s patches add that under a poli cy of not talking about the "hot line" neither the While House nor the Pentagon will say whether the emergency com munication channel has so far been called into service, but H . lias been learned authoi itative ." ly that it has .not been used in ' connection w ith the blockade by Soviet troops of a U.S. Army convoy en route to Berlin. Question No. 2: Do you reckon that if Kroosh had it in mind to START SOMETHING BIG in Berlin he'd call JFK on the hot line and tell him what he was go ing to do and listen while JFK undertook to talk him out of it? Or would he HIT FIRST and TALK AFTERWARD? Interesting little tale in the news: At Tuesday's election, X e w Jersey voters gave Democrat ic Governor Hughes a sharp setback, defeating decisively his proposal for a $750 million bond issue to finance highway con struction and school aid and PIT IT ON THE CUFF. Jle had told the voters that if t'.iey defeated his bond issue lie d go to the legislature for a TAX with which to do the job. The voters called his bluff and told him to bring on his bears. , Interesting question: Do you reckon the New Jer sey voters liave been looking at tlie fabulous sum that Uncle has put on tlie cuff and came to tlie conclusion that it might lie just as well for New Jersey to pay as it gees and STAY OUT OF DEBT? EARTH MOVER BREAKDOWN STALLS EXCAVATION WORK The excavation work . .1 . .1 lL. D.a.Lul..:.. 1-1 1 1 'I.I . L A- J T Tnt SITS OT Tn n i idutiviiiii iitiwrtv nrrunuy dutpiioi wo inivrrupTva 10011 after it began Wtdnetday when broken soring on a power thovel (left photo, fore ground! halted operation!. Excavation equipment at the site '-v includet two D-8 tractors and a D-20 earth mover, but additional heavy machinery wii enpected to be entail fVfXfl VT"" V Will & I IB : V .7 -ot:r . A TOUCH OF WINTER The first measurable snow of the season for Klamath Falls and vicinity began falling early Thursday morning as winter made its voice heard above the autumn din. Photographer Don Kettler cap tured this picture along the Eleventh Street bridge. Foot prints in the snow will be a familiar sight from now until spring. 2-Week Ordeal Ends For Trapped Miners PEINE, Germany (UPU Rescue workers brought 1 1 men safely to the surface today from the underground shaft where they had been trapped for two weeks in a flooded iron mine. A giant. American-made drill chewed its way through the fi nal barrier of earth to reach the men, who had been en tombed since a huge sedimen tation basin on tlie surface col lapsed Oct. 24 and poured 19 million gallons of water down the shafts. There were 129 men in the mine at the time. Most escaped immediately. Thre were plucked from another under ground tomb last week. The 11 rescued today were discovered Sunday after they had been given up for dead. Of the remainder, 10 bodies were located in the chamber reached today. Another 19 are missing and presumed dead. Those brought up today in cluded 10 miners and a young electrician who was trapped during his first trip into a mine. When the rescue drill cut through to the 9-by-12-foot chamber in which tlie men had huddled since the disaster, there were fears that the roof of the gallery might collapse. But the roof held, and a torpedo - shaped steel capsule Shooting Hours OREGON November 8 Open , Close 6:20 a.m. 4:35 p.m. CALIFORNIA November 8 Open Close 6:14 a.m. 4:53 p.m. - - quickly was put into operation to bring the men to the sur face, one by one and in swift succession. All were ashen-fat"'! and haggard, showing the terrible strain of their long imprison ment underground. It took six to nine minutes to bring up each man. in an order of rescue determined before hand by doctors who ordered the most critically ill or injured out first. Mrs. Smith Eyes Race WASHINGTON (UPU - Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, R Maine, is giving "serious con sideration" to suggestions that she seek the Republican presi dential nomination and enter the New Hampshire primary next March, her top assistant said today. Mrs. Smith does not plan, however, to comment on the matter until Dec. 5. when she speaks before the Women's Na tional Press Club, her adminis trative assistant. William Lew is, said. For the past year, the lady senator has been urged by sup porters throughout the country to enter the GOP presidential sweepstakes. But she has been most frequently mentioned in recent months as a possible vice presidential nominee. Sen. Smith's strongest sup port has been in Maine, and ad mirers there have been press ing her to enter the New Hampshire primary to give vot ers a "third choice'' rather than just Gov. Nelson Rocke feller of New York, a liberal Republican, and Sen. Barry Goldwater, a conservative Re publican. Sen. Smith is considered an independent or middle-of-the-road Republican. Weather Klomath Fills, TuttUkt and Llk view Contldtribft cioudiMit witti p nods of rin or snow through Friday. Strong gusty winds at timtt. Lows tonight 21 to M. High Friday about 4a. High yesttrday l Low this morning 1J High year ago if Low vtar ago 13 Prccip. past 24 hours Sinca Jan. 1 ' Samt period ytar ago U.it Rockefeller Tosses Iht NASHUA, N.H. (LTD New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller formally announced today his candi dacy for the Republican nomination for president. After making the long-anticipated announcement at Albany, N.Y., Rockefeller flew in a rainstorm to New Hampshire to do some spade work for the state's first-in-the-nation presidential primary in March. Rockefeller lashed out at the Kennedy adminis tration and hurled a chal lenge to Republican Sen. Barry Goldwater to oppose Goldwater To Avoid Party Fight WASHINGTON (UPli - Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona was pictured today as deter mined to avoid a knock-down, drag-out, party-splitting fight with Gov. Nelson A. Rockefel ler for the Republican presiden tial nomination. A source close to the senator told UPI the New York gover nor's formal announcement of his candidacy will have no effect on Goldwater's plans. The senator expects to an nounce in January whether he will seek the nomination. He also will decide then whether to en.ter .New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary. This source, w ho knows. Gold water's political thinking, con ceded that pressures are build ing up for the senator to an nounce early and to plunge into the primary fights. Goldwater, however, has con siderable skepticism about the value of presidential primaries. He never has considered them "too important," the s o u r c e siiid. ' He .also was .said to be con cerned about the 'kind of 'a campaign which might be waged. "He will not go into a fight which could be suicidal for the party," the source said. "If it turns into one of those things, the governor will be making it that way." The senator himself, has re called primary fights in which so much bitterness was gener ated that an outsider won the election. His concern is that Re publicans should attack Demo crats not each other. Does this mean the senator will avoid primary fights with Rockefeller? Not necessarily. It's too early to say what he will do about entering primar ies until after he decides one way or another about being a candidate. . Some Goldwater backers be lieve that primary competition from Rockefeller is the best thing that could happen to Gold water. They feel it would make the primaries meaningful and enable the senator to sew up the nomination in advance of the convention. They assign to Rockefeller the political punching bag role provided by Sen. Hubert Hum phrey of Minnesota in the 190? Democratic primaries. Two sol id primary victories over Hum phrey gave John F. Kennedy the edge needed to win a first ballot victory at the Democratic convention. moved to the site sometime today by the contractor, the TcoM Construction Com. pany of Roteburq. While the work at the site of the $2.1 million hoipital bogged down temporarily, other workmen were continuing construction of buildings at the OTI campus, located several hundred yards north of the hospital site. In center photo, em ploye of the H. Halvorson Construction Company raise a dormitory being constructed Price Ten Cents 28 Pages him in state primaries. Goldwater, though an unannounced presidential contender, is regarded as the front-running Repub lican. At a news conference here. Rockefeller read the same statement he made in Albany announcing his candidacy for the GOP nomination. Then, in answer to news men's questions, he , acknowl edged he was regarded the un derdog. "But whether you are ahead or behind matters very little. You fight just a little harder," he said. He said he will return to New Hampshire "as often as possi ble" to discuss the issues. He expressed confidence he can 4 . NELSON ROCKEFELLER beat President ' Kennedy be cauVe.'he'said", ther -voters-have lost faith in the President "for putting expediency before prin ciple." If he loses the nomination Rockefeller said, he will sup port "whoever is nominated to run" on the GOP platform. Rockefeller's arrival in New Hampshire was delayed by dense fog. He originally was scheduled to land at Grenier Air Force Base in Manchester but flew on to Nashua after his plane circled in the a i r for nearly an hour to await lifting of the fog. Rockefeller, in his Albany statement, criticized President Kennedy for "failures at home and ibroad." He renewed his criticism of the President in New Hampshire. It took the governor eight minutes to read his 1.300-word statement. He also took the oc casion to assail the administra tion of President Kennedy which, he said, had: Failed to "stimulate the American economy so as to provide tlie jobs and greater opportunities promised our peo ple by Kennedy during the I960 presidential campaign. "Failed to preserve the strength and unity of the free world and the vitality of its al liances. "Failed to understand and meet the menace of internation al communism." JfeYV' " tS.- vr S3 .Ct KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON Convoys Planned To Test BERLIN i UPI i - The U.S. Army today sent another con voy through the Soviet check point at Marienborn and the Russians cleared the 22 men in 10 trucks in only 20 minutes. The convoy represented no test of Soviet intentions regard ing access rights to West Ber lin through East Germany since small convoys never have dismounted for a head count. Informed Western sources said larger Allied convoys will be sent out to test the Russians in the next few days. Marienborn, where the Sovi ets earlier this week held up an Army convoy for more than Interim Committee With "Whitewash1 Actions by the Legislative In terim Committee on Wildlife in dicates that it is attempting to "whitewash" the State Game Commission for its mismanage ment of the interstate deer herd, C. E. "Red" Milhorn, president of the Oregon Fish and Game Council, charged to day. Milhorn's accusation was made vocal approximately one month after the interim commit tee had held a two-day public hearing here and at Yrcka to receive testimony from local people, representatives from state and federal agencies, and others interested in restoring the deer herd to its greater numbers of the past. The accuser is head of the organization of sportsmen whose protests contributed largely to the Jegislature's establishment of trie interim committee last June to study reasons for the depletion of the deer herd. The council has maintained that "extra hunting seasons" and antlerless hunts have re sulted in depicting the deer herd. The game commission has countered with arguments that tlie size of the deer herd has been regulated with the sup ply of forage available on the winter range. A drought in re cent years has wrought severe damage to bittcrbrush and oth er principal feed for browsing wildlife, according to the com mission: it has sought to reduce the number of wild animals dependent on such forage until the drought ends and range con ditions improve, it has been said. Tlie interim committee was 'Dead' Man Just Tired DUbUTH, iMinn. (UPD-iPo-lice said Monday a woman called and said a man was stuck in a laundromat dryer with his legs hanging out. She thought he might be dead. .Police hurried to the laun dromat. They found a repair man fast asleep with the top half of his body in the dryer and his lower half out. 1 WWWWNNWWS J ... ...... . THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 7, 1963 41 hours, is 110 miles from Berlin. The swift passage of today's convoy gave no indication of whether the Russians were planning new harassment of highway traffic along the auto bahn. The sources said renewed Al lied probes were desirable due to tlie clouded outcome of tlie latest incident. At stake in the technical dis pute over checkpoint proce dures is the larger question of Western access to West Berlin, which is surrounded by Communist-held territory, and Al lied determination to maintain named during tlie peak of the controversy to study the alle gations presented to the legis lature and come up with some facts which would lead to a pro gram acceptable to both sports men and the commission. "But the committee is only interested in facts which come from proponents of the game commission," Milhorn charged today. He alluded to a field trip made by tlie committee after it arrived here for the public hear ings. Members of the group were guests of the Winema Na tional Forest on a tour of the hinterlands in which the law Sweetiand Resigns, Hew Publisher Named William B. Sweetiand, editor and publisher of the Herald and News since May, I960, an nounced today that he has re signed effective Friday, Nov. 8. Sweetiand will leave Friday for Chester, Pa., where he will be editor and publisher of die Del aware County Daily Times, a daily newspaper of approxi mately 50,000 circulation. Joe F. Caraher, editor and publisher of the Kalispell, Mont.. Daily Inter Lake, has been ap pointed to succeed Sweetiand, it wai announced. Caraher has been publisher of tlie Montana daily newspaper for almost four years. Caraher is a native of Se attle. Wash., attending Roose velt High School there. Ho is a graduate of Washington State University, class of 1935. Caraher has long been asso ciated with the newspaper work and related business and pro fessional activity. He began his newspaper career at Belling ham, W;ash., as sports editor and general assignment report er. For 10 years he was editor and co-publisher of the East Side Journal, a large Seattle suburban area weekly newspa per at Kirkland, Wash. He served as publicity and prcmo- i at the east end of the campus by the Spokane firm. The Washington company wat awarded the contract to construct the building on a l)w bid of $814,717. In photo at right, the frame of the college librery loomt from a heating ventilator at the adminis tration building, also under construction. Telephone TU 441111 No. 7622 h a strong position in Western Europe. Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev said in Moscow Wednesday the convoy was passed after giving in to Rus sian demands and indicated that the Soviet Union believes the access question could spark war with tlie West. Western officials maintained flatly that the convoy did not give in to Russian demands. Tliey said it was possible Khrushchev felt a Russian de mand had been satisfied be cause the Soviet control officer had been able to count tlie 20 troops traveling as passengers Charged Attempt makers were to observe condi tions of the winter range. Milhorn said that a sliort time later he invited Sen. Glenn Hu ston of Lebanon and others among the committee to take a similar tour and hear the views of sportsmen. The senator de clined on behalf of the commit tee, he said. iMilhorn slated that it was the council's intention to refute the claim of the game commission that drought had seriously im paired the winter range. "We wanted to show Uie com mittee forage plants that hadn't (Continued on Page 4-A) tional director. Rainier National Park Company; as executive di rector of Washington State Uni versity Alumni Association, and advertising manager of Puget JOE CARAHER Sound Light and Power Compa ny. During World War JI, Cara her served in the Air Force in the United Stales and Italy. Ho operated the overseas public in- (Continued on Page 4-A) "sMtv. ; Weather LONGRANGI OUTLOOK Strong tysttms moving through ttio Pacific Northwttt vili causo incurring periods of rain or snow tho naxt taw dayw with ttr.iptratgrts avtraging ntar normal. Soviets while they were seated in the trucks. The Russians have always been free to do this, Berlin Commandant Maj. Gen. James H. Polk said Wednesday. The men d'd not dismount, lower the tailgates of the trucks or stand up to be counted, West ern officials said. Allies Send Stiff Notes To Kremlin WASHINGTON (UPD-Sovict Premier Nikita Khrushchev's "brinksmanship" on tlie Berlin highway apparently was de signed to convince world Com munist leaders he had not gone "soft" in dealing with tlie West, American officials said today. The United States, Britain and France warned Khrush chev late Wednesday, however, that he would be "responsible for all consequences" of further efforts to restrict Allied mili tary traffic. They told him such harassment must end "once and for all." The Allied warning, in stiff notes delivered at the Kremlin, came a few hours after Khrushchev had claimed the 'United States knuckled under to Soviet regulations to obtain release of a convoy delayed 41 hours on tlie Berlin road. The State Department dis puted tliis, saying the United States made "no concessions." Department officials said eotv voy troops neither dismounted nor lowered the tail gate! of their trucks to facilitate a head check as the Russians had de manded. Minufeman Runs Wild CAPE CANAVERAL (UPI) A Minutcman "instant ICBM" veered wildly out of control and blew up a scant few hun dred feet above Cape Ca naveral tlay, raining fiery wreckage over the missile test center. Chunks of solid propellant, burning furiously, touched off fires over a dozen spots on the 15,000-acre Moonport U.S.A. ' The 54-foot Minuteman bolted from the boUom of a concrete lined launching silo at 12 noon, EST, after a perfect countdown. Almost from the start, the flight was a failure. The rocket, instead of climb ing into tlie blue sky, suddenly nosed downward. As the nose aimed at the ocean and the fiery tail swung upward, a range safety officer on the Cape flipped a pair of switches, touching off an explosive "de struct" package that blew (he missile into a hundred pieces. , r . ,