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COUP. ns3?APea secriotf GCN.REK.AND DOOWEflTS DIV. America Pays Homage To All War Veterans HONORED A bouquet of tion s war dead at Arlington placed a Veterans Uay wreath nies Monday morning. In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS Forty-five years ago today was a day that no one then alive will ever forget. 11 was on that day that Ger man representatives signed a truce between the Allies and Germany. The signing took place in a railroad dining car in live For est of Compiegne. in France. The signing of the truce marked the end of actual fight ing in World War I. It touched off the wildest and happiest celebration that the world had ever seen. There was a curious sidelight to the celebration. The news of the signing leaked out prematurely, lead ing to what was known as the False Armistice. The celebra tion began with the first hint of the signing of the truce. Peo ple went wild with joy. Then There came the news that it wasn't true. The shock was terrible. But it didn't last long. . The signing of the Armistice was shortly confirmed, and the celebration was resumed where it had been halted. It went on and on and on. What a day it was! The world was mad with joy. NEVER AGAIN would there be war. The world had learned its lesson. In every mind was the prophecy of Isaiah: "They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: na tion shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." Ah, me. What an anti-climax. World War 1 was followed by World War II. And the horrors of World War I were mild when compared with the horrors of World War II. ' And if World War III should come, its horrors would far transcend the horrors of World Wars I and II. But The memories of that won derful 11th day of November, 1918, will never be forgotten by those who lived through it. The dream was shattered. But the wonders of it will nev er die. It just may be that the memories of that beautiful and wonderful day when it seemed to us that war had been ban ished from the earth may even tually lead us to peace to the prophesied beating of the swords into plowshares. At least let's hope so. Fire Kills Mom, Tots CANNON BEACH. Ore. il"PI A mother and her three children died early today in a lire that swept their coast cot lane here, firemen reported. The victims were identified as Mrs. Margaret Gee, 24; her daughter, Milchclle, 4. and sons. Warren. 2. and Daniel, 8 months. The Cannon Beach volunteer fire department was called about 4 a.m. Firemen said the home was a total loss by the time they arrived. Three nearby cottages were damaged by live flames. The burned bodies were re covered about dawn. The mother and three chil dren had moved here from Sea side last summer. j !4; fvV flowers Hon ers honors one of the thousands of graves of the na al Cemetery on Veterans Day. President Kennedy tha Tomb of the Unknowns durina SDeeial caremo. National v,e on Too Much Spending Puts UN In Squeeze ' UNITED NATIONS (UPH The United Nations, caught in the squeeze of rising costs, is worried about its growing budg etary problems. The United States and most other members think expenses of the Ill-nation organization are getting out of control and need some belt-tightening. This problem is separate from, though obviously closely connected to the financial crisis caused by high peace-keeping costs and the refusal of some members to share them. Speakers in the regular budget debate completed last week have complained about too many conferences, too much paper work, too much staff ex pense, too much guesswork in cost estimates, too little coor dination of the myriad econom ic, social, political and legal projects. Re-Evaluation Needed Alluding to the rapid increase in size and complexity of the organization over the past few years, Rep. William S. Mail lard, R-Calif., the U.S. spokes man., here, on money, matters, pointed out that "the U.N. to day is big business" and needs periodic re-evaluation. The budget debate skirted the real reason for the $140 million U.N. deficit the refusal of the Reds Stall Disarm Vote UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. UPI) Russia's demand for drastic changes in a 46-power resolution forced postponement today of a vote on disarmament in the General Assembly's main political committee. The 111 -nation committee agreed to a Nigerian proposal to adjourn its arms debate to let the sponsors consider the changes sought by the Soviet Union. The committee called a meet ing for this afternoon to debate a 10-nation resolution calling for de-nuclearization of Latin Amer ica. Success of the proposal, which grew out of last April's joint declaration by five Latin American countries that the area should he made nuclear free, depended upon the ani line of the United States and Cuba. The disarmament delay came after Russia had forced a week end recess of the political com mittee to get instructions from Moscow. The Russians demanded that the 4B-power resolution be chanced in these ways: Removal of reference to the joint statement of agreed prin ciples for disarmament, which was issued by the Soviets and the United Stales in 19fil and has been the hible of arms talks ever since. Elimination of a directive to the Geneva conference to con centrate on measures against surprise attack and against the spread of nuclear weapons. Removal of reference In shifts in the Easl-Wesl disarma ment positions which "have the effect of narrowing the differ ences." The Soviets sought to have those chances put in as amend ments to the resolution. West ern diplomats were divided on the possible motives for the de mands. Some saw a Soviet plan to force an 18-nation summit meeting, w ith the heads of state of the 17 Geneva nations, plus France, which has boycotted the Geneva talks. Tlie United States opposes such I conference. -A'. UPI Teleohoto Communist countries, France, South Africa, Portugal and some others to pay assessments for the expensive peace of-crations in the Congo and the Middle East. This is a political prob lem that has been put on ice un til next' year. But nobody denies that the peace-keeping debt caused the alarm that has led to the first concerted movement for a closer look at the U.N. books in all fields. Peace-keeping accounts are kept separate from the reg ular administrative budget used for staff salaries, travel, build ing upkeep, printing, special missions and the like. While there has been no trouble collecting assessments for the regular budget, wide--spread concern has developed because member states have just so much money for U.N. contributions peace-keeping or otherwise. So an economy drive is on. Thant's Dilemma Secretary General Thant, w ho technically is responsible for the budget figures, is caught in a di lemma. He is under pressure fromthe new countries of Africa and Asia for more aid for devel opment, but faces demands for economics because of the defi cit. The projected administrative budget for next year is approx imately $100 million. This com pares with $19.4 million in 1946 when there were 51 members, $60.8 million in 1959 when there were 82 members, and $93.9 mil lion members in 1963. The expenses will be offset by $15 million income from various sources. And while the total is far below the national budgets of most member states, dele gales are concerned because the trend is steadily upward. They pointed out that peace keeping assessments and con tributions for specialized agen cies such as U N I C E F and UNESCO add another $499 mil lion te t.'ie totai aiiRaally. bi calling, fos as examination of the U.N. fiscal system, Mail lard cited four feasie factors which contribute to the financial difficulties, irrespective of the political peace keeping problem: Inherent Complexity Inherent complexity of the organization. The U.N. is with out historical precedent, and is engaged in experimentation and pioneering in a diverse range of complicated activities, some of which have no clear guide lines. Rapid growth. U.N. mem bership has doubled, and the in stitutional structure ha; expand ed, into 23 constituent and af filiated agencies employing about 35.000 persons and con ducting operational activities in 125 countries and territories. Shortage of trained, avail able personnel to carry out com plex and technical programs in volving international staffs. A shortage of office space and facilities to meet the in creasing demands or informa tion, surveys, technical assist ance. Shooting Hours OREGON November 12 Open rinse t:ii a.m. 4:: p.m. CALIFORNIA November It Open Clou 8: Is a.m. 4:51 p.m. By United Press International Forty - five years, another world war and countless crises after the first Armistice Day, the nation offered homage to day to those who paid the su preme price in quest of peace. With a blast of steam whistles in Albuquerque, N. M., with a hushed chapel service at Whca ton College in Illinois, with a quiet tear in many homes ab sent a loved one, the countrv Wallier Klamarh Falli, Tulclake and Lake view Partly cloudy through Tuesday wilh a law briel ahowers possible Tuesday. Lew tonight 25-M. High Tuesday S0-1S. High yesterday SI Low this morning n High year ago 41 Low year ago 34 Preclp. past 24 hours .00 Since Jan. t f.or Same period last year 14.17 Haffie rcses SALEM (UPI '-Gov. Mark Hatfield called for a "no new taxes" policy today as the spe cial session of the Oregon legis lature convened. In a torse address to a joint session of the Senate and House, the governor said the lawmak ers should "be aware the vast majority of the people expect no new taxes from this ex traordinary session." Hatfield told the legislators to attend to the stales fiscal crisis and go home. He recommended re-passage of a $12 million tax speed-up, and cuts in basic school sup port and capital construction. "We are met to respond to the expressed will of the peo ple." he said. The voters "summarily and decisively" rejected the $tK) mil lion tax increase passed by the regular 1SI63 session, Hatfield said. Own Proposals Ignored "The fruits of your previous efforts have been voided by those to whom we owe final responsibility," he remarked, noting that his own proposals had been ignored. Hatfield' said the ' defeat of the income tax program has been variously interpreted to mean the voters want a sales tax, a cigarette tax, or no more taxes. "To interpret last month's Ike Foresees Nixon As Deadlock Nominee AUGUSTA, Ga. (UI'fl-For-mer President Dwigiit D. Eisen hower thinks a deadlock in the Republican presidential nomi nating convention next year would make Richard iM. Nixon a likely compromise to be "ex amined and approached." "He is, after all, a very knowledgeable and very cour ageous type of fellow," Eisen hower said Sunday of his for mer vice president. In a television interview, "Face the Nation" iCBS-TVi, taped here, the former Presi dent also agreed with Gov. Nel son A. Rockefeller's proposal for meaningful debates.- between front runners for the top GOP nomination. "I think Governor Rockefeller is right," Eisenhower said. "You have to think of the great mass of American people who say, we want something that is done that conforms to common seme, and to find what that so lution is, they can be told only by prospective candidates tell ing them exactly what they are going to do." People Don't Know Eisenhower said Sen. Barry Golduater, R-Ariz.. "right now is a very popular figure and a popular name and people say that they are for him because he is conservative. But tliey don't really know, I think, ex actly what that means." He said the country, faced wilh tlie knotty problems of medicare i"the need is there "i, depressed areas, ur ban renewal and the farm prob lem, was "unhappy with what is happening." "But the only way they have to express it is to say, well, I am (or Senator Goldwater or senator somebody else," the for mer President suggested. "And I do believe that they are more concerned now about halting the trend toward doing everything from Wa-hmKton. and that trend, if that is true, if I am correct on that, then I would say that is what they believe offered its respects on this Vet erans Day ol 1963. There were parades in prac tically every community across the land. But in many veterans hospital wards, it was only an other day for those left maimed or mute by the cruelties of man's inhumanity to man. In Washington, President Ken nedy was to take part in cere monies at Arlington National Cemetery. Price Ten Cents 16 Paces election remits as a demand for a new tax is to misread the in tentions of those we serve," he said. Hatfield's address came short ly after members of the House voted to open the door to in troduction of any and all lax bills. The Senate, taking an op posite stand, declined even to activate its tax commilice. The governor recommended of a bill that would require em ployers to speed up tlieir turn over of withholding taxes to the state, netting an extra $12 million this biennium. The one shot measure was a relatively uncontested portion of the lax program which the voters re jected. Hatfield also called for author ity to reduce basic school mon ey, for a saving of $12 million. And he asked tlie legislators to place a moratorium on slate construction. Much Already Trimmed Hatfield already has trimmed $17 million from agency budg ets under his control, and has junked $18 million in capital construction and salary hikes. The governor charged the leg islators "to. undertake no sub jects at this session which are' nol directly related to our fiscal picture." And he urged them "to recog nize that there will remain the uncompleted task of tax reform which must be faced squarely by going more conservative." Denies "Coolness" Eisenhower denied any per sonal "coolness" toward Nixon. "Strangely enough," he said, "that impression has just pcr sisled throughout these years and I have never known why." He said he liked his former vice president and Nixon's fam ily, too, and that in 1U62, al though he felt "free from the obligation of going into political activity all o'er the country, the one man I was worried about was Dick Nixon out in California." SWA Ends Dispute COOS BAY (UPI i A strike which has idled Weyerhaeuser Co. lumber operations in the Coos Bay area since the middle of last month was settled Sun day afternoon. Members of Ixical 3-2T.1 of the International Woodworkers of America here accepted an agreement reached Saturday in Portland between union repre senatives and officials of the big timber firm. Ken Johnson, business agent for the local, said the vote was "overwhelmingly" in favor of acceptance. Details of the agreement were not disclosed. Work was to resume today at Ihc company's operations at North Bend and Allegany. It will resume in the firm's woods operations in the area Tuesday morning. The strike was called because of union grievances over job classilications and wages at the Coos Bay area operations. About 1 .0(10 workers were idled. Roving pickets periodically closed oilier Weyerhaeuser plants at Klamath Falls, Spring field and Cottage Grove in Ore gon and Everett, Enumclaw and Raymond In Washington. Id Opens No N Gen. Matthew Ridgway, for mer Army chief of staff, re ceived the National Veterans Award in ceremonies at Bir mingham, Ala., Sunday night. The award, originated in 1954, goes to the American who has distinguished himself most as a veteran during the current year. It also was during 1954 that Congress changed the name KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, ew Taxes' by the 15 regular session." Hatfield took tlie opportunity to give die legislators a brief re buke. He noted the regular ses sion had rejected his own rec ommendations for broad tax re form and a cigarette tax, and had turned down his proposal for a mid-session election to de termine the w ishes of the people. He said the program the leg islature fiiuijly approved was I Solons Open Door To New Tax Bills SALEM (UPI i The door was opened to the introduction of new tax bills Sunday night when the House and Senate held or ganizational caucuses here to agree on rules for the special session w hich opened at noon to day. Rep. Joe Rogers, R-Independ-ence, announced he would sub mit a sales tax bill to the House shortly after it convened. House 'Minority Leader F. FV Montgomery, REugenc, said he would introduce two measures proposed by Gov. Mark Hatfield. One would give Hie governor al lotment control over basic school funds. Tlie other calls for a $12 million speedup in with holding tax collections. Both chambers planned a skeleton operation. The House agreed to activate the Rules, Tax and Ways and Means committees. The Senate activated only the Rules and Ways and Means committees, but indicated the tax committee would be acti vated if the House sent over a tax bill. Small Staffs Both houses planned to op erate with small staffs. The Senate hired 19 full-time em ployes, and three part - time workers. The House staff in cluded 24 full-time, and one part time. Wilh one exception, legislator secretaries' salaries will not be paid by tlie state. An exception was made for Sen. Andrew Na terlin, D-Newport, who is blind. Although he objected vigorously and said "If 1 can't lake care of myself I should stay home," the Senate voted unanimously to provide secretarial help (or him. The Senate's organizational . " Y'ir-M IT VET COUNCIL REORGANIZED Klamath Falls veterans organizations have reorganized the Allied Vaterans Coun cil with a view to coordinating the programs of local vet groups and developing interest in those affairs. The veter ans organizations will be represented at the council by two members of each group. Named to the council were, left to right, Herb Jackson, Disabled American Veterans; from Armistice Day to Veterans Day and broadened its scope from only the anniversary of the end of World War I on Nov. 11, 1918, to honor all those who had fought in all the wars of the United States. More than 200 persons at tended Veterans Day ceremon ies in Dulfy Square in New York Sunday in front of the statue of Father Francis P. Duffy, the World War 1 chap MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11. 1963 ession; "disliked for many reasons." "But it is not for us here as sembled to dwell on tlie past," he said. "Let us resolve here logetlier lliat we will so meet the chal lenge which is ours that we will deserve the confidence of the people of Oregon," he said. "Tliey have spoken. There is only one response, and that is "so be it." meeting breezed through in 50 minutes, despite a move by Sen. Vernon Cook, D-Grcsham, to overthrow the plan to require all bills to go through the rules committee before being intro duced. "I'm not here to be a rubber stamp, and I don't want a com mittee to be able to restrict what I want to do for my con sfitutents." Cook said. ' But in (lie House, it was'" a' different story. Green Light Given The plan to have all House bills go through the rules com mittee was upheld 31-27 only after it was explained that any bills dealing with new taxes or budget cuts had a green light. House Speaker Clarence Bar Ion. D-Coquille, said, "As I see it, any bill that treats to the solution should pass rules in cluding a sales tax, cigarette tax, or cutting of legislators' salaries." Barton added, "I would think the quicker we could ge through our business the better off we'd be." Senate President Ben Musa, D-The Dalles, told his col leagues,, "We all know why we are here. We are going to do the best we can. I hope our de cisions are equitable and just, and are made without any un due hardship to any person or thing." Musa said the Senate Tax Committee would be activated with the same membership, and possibly expanded, if the House sent over any tax bills. While the Senate's organiza tional meeting moved swiftly along, the House got off to a hailing start, and took 90 min utes. r f llUi-i-' ' 'tiM'-'' lain of New Yolk's IWth In fantry Regiment of the famed Rainbow Division. The service was in tribute to the lost battalion and the other heroes of New York's 77th Di vision in two world w ars. Thom as Kelly, president of the Medal of Honor Association and a World War II veteran, was among those present. Taps sounded at State and Madison in Chicago, and the in Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 7K!5 rag . m . f ... l& ' -xM -.s I. f LV JMf -WW , i' LEGISLATORS' MAIL Senate mailman Lenard Chap man delivers the first letters, about 300, to the senators on the opening day of the special legislative session in Salem. UPI Telephoto Doctor Says Smoking Can Affect Mothers WASHINGTON (UPD-One of the nation's leading obstetricians says cigarette smoking by ex pectant mothers resulted in births of smaller infants. Dr. Paul B. Underwood Jr., of Charleston, S.C., made the statement in one of several re search reports presented last week at the annual meeting of the American College of Obste tricians and Gynecologists. Underwood, head of the South Carolina Medical College obstet rics and gynecology department, said a survey showed that the heavier the smoker, the smaller infants were at birth. He said 4,440 women repre senting more than 16,000 preg nancies were interviewed be tween 19(j0 and lflfiZ. Those ques tioned were divided into groups of smokers and non-smokers. The women who smoked were then separated as to the quan tity of cigarettes used a half pack, one pack and more than a pack a day. Underwood said the study showed that women who didn't smoke gave birth to heavier in fants than did mothers who smoked only a pack a day. He .' .,..., -..Mi.i4it tmmnniia Archie Corzatt and Bill Maxwell, Order of Cooties; Fred MandelU and Sam Haines, Veterans Foreign Wars; Earl Carlson (president), DAV; Vern Schortgen (vie presi dent I and Paul Robertson (secretary-treasurer), World War I vets; Tom Winterringer and Robert Anderson, American Legion; Ken Hartley, 40 et 8, and Will Solis and Bob Stokes, Marine Corps. tersection known as "the world's busiest" observed a mo ment of silence. There was no mail delivery during the day, and in many states, governmental offices were closed and schools were dismissed. Most stock exchanges were open, although tlie New York cocoa, coffee and sugar exchanges, the New Orleans cot ton exchange and wool asso ciates were closed. Weallicr LONG . RANG! OUTLOOK Ttmparaturaa averaging abeva nor mal and mora than normal precipita tion In rtcurrlng showery period this week. Showers Indicated Tuesday Wednesday, and again Saturday. , r&at wan said even smaller Infants were born to women who smoked more than a pack a day. "Thesd statistics indicate that smoking during pregnancy does decrease the birth weight of newborn Infants," Underwood said. However, he added "other factors, possibly nutritional also play an important role." Underwood said the rate of premature births increased when the expectant mothers smoked. Ho said the prematur ity rate was "directly propor tional to tlie number of cigar ettes smoked per day." He said the survey also noted a "slight" increase in tlie rate of abortion among women who smoked, but said tlie rate of stillborn infanls was not affect ed by smoking. "Since tlie abortion rate was consistently elevated in all groups that smoked," Under wood said, "we have to consid er it significant." Underwood said his study "by no means intends to indicate that cigarette smoke is the only actor governing the birth weight and incidence of prematurity." ' -1 V n 1 - fern mil aal tj
