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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?
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tractors and a D-20 earth mover, but additional heavy machinery wii enpected to be
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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
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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
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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
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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
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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-
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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.
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