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u.o? ov-uimat Nis.-Ar'aK stscrion cN.iiK.AMD cocuaEirrs orv. coa?. Flail fed WSMS reins Weather KUmith Fills, TukUkt ind Lakf vitw Cloudy tonight with rtm chang ing to mow Tuesday. Lows tonighl i$ 31; highs Tuesday 40-41. Windy al times. High yesterday 46 Low this morning 27 High year ago 4 Low year ago W Prtclp. past 24 hours .03 Since Jan. 1 ?.S4 Sam period last year 15.12 In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS From Salem (his morning: Oregon's traffic death toll to day tied the all-time state high of 492 recorded in 1959, and traffic safety officials fear the toll this year could top 550. If the toll follows its pattern for the balance of this year. 18 more people will die in traffic incidents this month and an lier 44 will be killed in De cember. So far this year, the toll has been above average ev ery month. So, if the average holds, Ore gon's death toll for 1963 will be 554. It sounds grim, doesn't it? But wait a minute. Before jumping to the con clusion that Oregon drivers are getting constantly more reckless, there is another fac tor that must be taken into con sideration. This factor is the number of motor vehicles on Oregon's highways. It stands to reason that the more motor vehicles there are on our highways the, greater the driving hazards will be. In 1959, there were 908,607 motor vehicles registered in Oregon. In that year, t h e re were 492 traffic fatalities. That figures out at one traffic fatal ity for each 185 motor vehicles. We do not yet know how many motor vehicles are reg istered in Oregon in 1963 for the year isn't yet finished and the figure has not yet been computed. But in the past reg istered motor vehicles have been increasing at a rate of about ten per cent per bien nium. If that rate holds there should be abouf 1.096,000 registered motor vehicles in our stale. That figures out at one traf fice fatality for each 199 motor vehicles. In other words, the HAZARD this year is slightly less than that in 1959. That brings up some interest ing figures recently cited by the Roscburg News - Review, which said: "According to the Oregon De partment of Motor Vehicles' Traffic Safety Division, there is a possibility that Oregon will record more than 500 traffic deaths this year. If this esti mate is accurate the waste of human resources reflected by it is sickening. What makes it even more sick ening is that a big proportion of these deaths could have been averted. "For example: "The report shows that 66 per cent of the drivers involved in Oregon's fatal accidents during the first half of the year were VIOLATING A TRAFFIC LAW at the time of impact. Speed too fast for driving conditions at the time accounted for 28 per cent of the violations. "Another 16 per cent died be cause their cars were ON THE UJiONG SIDE OF THE HIGH-V'fJjY- Eleven per cent died be cause the driver was driving in a negligent manner." '') Let's put it this way: RECKLESS DRIVING is re sponsible for TWO-THIRDS of all the traffic deaths in Oregon this year. That's a rugged record. Home Faces Test Ballot LONDON (UPI Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas Home, challenged by the oppo sition Labor party to call im mediate general elections, to day faced the first confidence test for his new goveiTimctt in the House of Commons. Douglas-Home was expected In win the vote easily because of tlie 100-vote margin his Con servatives hold in the House. The motion attacks the govern ment (or failing to deal ade quately with housing and slums in its legislative program. An other notion Tuesday charges the government has made no effective proposals for man power utilization. Price Ten Cents 14 Pages Barghoorn Released From Lubyanka Cell NEW HAVEN, Conn. (UPI) Yale political science Pro fessor Frederick C. Barghoorn, 52, spent 16 days in a small lighted cell in Lubyanka Prison at Moscow, it was learned to day. Mrs. Elizabeth Barghoorn, 80, mother of the mild - mannered professor, said, "the food was very poor, and he lost 10 pounds." The professor's mother, who lives in an apartment adjacent to her son's said two Russian policemen arrested him "and he was handcuffed." She said they took her son to a "little cell" where a light burned 24 hours a day. "The Russian guard looked in on him all the time," she said. Mrs. Barghoorn said that, when her son was freed, "they took him right to the plane. They didn't allow him to get in touch with the people at the (U. S.) Embassy.' He had cock tails there the night before he was supposed to leave (prior to his arrest I." She said her son "came home dead tired," and went to bed early Sunday night. He "was in a state of complete exhaustion," she said, but noted that he was up bright and early, today-. "He was waiting for a call from Washington," she said. Mrs. Barghoorn indicated her son probably would go to Wash ington to report on his impris onment. Barghoorn had been silent on details of his arrest Oct. 31 in Moscow while on sabbatical leave to research a book and "investigate methods of politi cal instruction and indoctrina tion." The Soviets have also de clined to elaborate on his ar rest but insisted they had evi- Eruptions Hit Alaska ANCHORAGE, Alaska UPH At least two volcanoes erupted Sunday and the shock wave from one reportedly almost blew a light plane, flying about 50 miles away, out of the air: Eruptions were reported on uninhabited Augustine Island, about 180 miles southwest of here, and in the Valley of 10. 000 Smokes, about 275 miles southwest of here on the Alaska Peninsula. Bill Harvey, owner of Har vey's flying service on Kodiak Island, said he received a radio report from a light plane pilot flying about 50 miles from the valley of 10,000 smokes. "The concussion flipped us over on our side and almost blew us out of the air," Harvey quoted the pilot as saying. Iraq Chief Leader BEIRUT, Lebanon l'PI) -Iraq's figurehead president. Ab dul Salam Aref. today led his country's army and air force in a dawn coup that Baghdad Ra dio said toppled the Baathist party regime. Fighting between the regular army and the Baathist national guard accompanied the take over but at 4 p.m. Baghdad Radio announced the army had established "control." Aref. who although president had been virtually powerless under tlie old regime, an nounced over Baghdad Radio his forces had taken control of the capital and had named him jo.nta chairman with "excenj ,tional poweps." Stunrntt Celebrate President Gamal Abdel Nas ser of the United Arab Repub lic immediately offered upport for Aref, in turn, called or Arab unity among Iraq, Syria and the U.A.R. Tlie ousted Baathist regime that was head ed by Premier Ahmed Hassan Bakr had been at odds with .Nasser. r KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, dence indicating the sandy haired bachelor was on a mis sion for American intelligence. Barghoorn was released Sat urday from Russian custody "in view of the personal con cern expressed by President Kennedy." He indicated he would not be admitted again, having been expelled under guard. At a news conference in the university's new Art and Archi tecture Building, Barghoorn ap peared decisive and deliberate Sunday as he spurned questions relating to the "strange and bi zarre aspects" of his arrest. He said, however, "I wrote a number of letters to university officials and to the Soviet gov ernment, saying quite openly and frankly, what 1 wanted to do." Thornton Voids Hatfield Cuts; Hopes Dashed For Session End SALEM (UPD - Hopes for Tuesday adjournment of the leg islature were dashed today by Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton who said the governor "has no power to make selective reduc tions in expenditures." Thornton's decision means the legislature will have to set rigid guidelines to authorize cuts, and set. down a list of priorities for possible budget restorations. While the ruling is a victory for legislators who have wanted guides established, it is another major setback for Gov. Mark Hatfield who had asked virtual ly unlimited control to make re ductions and restorations based on changes in the state's fiscal position. Rep. Kessler Cannon, R-Bend, had asked Thornton if the gov ernor had the authority to eli minate the community college building program, and other capital construction projects. Thornton said the governor did not have that authority. Uniform Percentage Then the attorney general went on to say the governor "has no power to make selec tive reductions in expenditures ...allotments to all affected state agencies must be reduced by a uniform percentage. "There is no indication that the allotment of one agency is entitled to a higher priority or greater dignity than that of an other," Thornton said. After voters rejected the tax increase Oct. 15, Hatfield elimi nated capital construction pro grams, trimmed general fund agencies, and called the legisla ture into special session to give him authority to cut basic school appropriations, and to en act a one-shot speedup of with holding tax collections. Reports from Cairo said sev eral thousand Cairo University students staged a jubilant dem onstration on the campus in support of tlie coup, cheering and shouting, "long live Aref" and "long live Nasser.") Aref. who ordered the army and air forces to lake control, is not a member of Baath, the Arab Socialist movement that has swept to influence in the Middle East during recent years and gained control of the governments of both Iraq and Syria. The 42-ycar-old Iraqi president had made a areer of master minding Iraqi revolutions. He helped former dictator Abdel Karim0Kassem stage, the July, 1958, revolt that bought down the Monarchy in Iraq. Then, last February, he led the up rising that overthrew Kasscm and established the Baalhist re gime. The broadcast announcement that the army had established control came 12 hours after the first announcement of the mili tary move by Aref. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1963 I- y - w. : f, l '.g , i M I , r? X . 1 v , r x " " tr i t i jnwi .MimdMw Jf it ,i v Jr- i i 8m r , : III ;r; fc- rn 23 DIE IN BLAZE Firemen wage a heroic battle from fight a roaring general alarm blaze which claimed the persons in Atlantic City, N.J. Thornton said the legislature ,would have to enact specific guidelines to make selective cuts legal. House Speaker Clarence Bar ton said, "The problem can easily be taken care of by set ting down guidelines." j Thornton said, "The legisla ture will have to set guides, but it may not be easy to do." Thornton said some legislators have questioned the constitution ality of the allotment control law, but added "I did not go in to that." Barton said the legislature could pass a bill dealing with the state's present emergency, and set maximum reductions for each state agency, and list a priority program for restoration if money becomes available. "I don't question the law," Barton said, "but it seems to me hospitals and welfare serv ices are a lot more important than the Rogue River Coordina ting Board or Civil Defense." Guides Wore Sought Rep. John Mosser, R-Beaver-ton, has been fighting for legis lative guides on the governor's authority since the special ses sion was called. Rep. Stafford Hanscll, R-Hermiston, has urged the legislature to draft a com plete new budget to meet the fiscal crisis. The Boardman Issue remained a question mark. Further committee hearings were planned today on an em ergency bill asked by Hatfield to remove legal entanglements which threaten the space age industrial park in northeast Ore gon. Legislators did not appear en thusiastic about having once again to pull the Boardman Of Dawn Coup In its 4 p.m. announcement, Baghdad Radio said that "only stray bullets can now be heard. A large number of national guardsmen have now surren dered. They were well treated." Aref proclaimed himself chief of slato and clamped an around tho-clock curfew on the country until further notice. In his initial announcement, Aref ordered the national guard a para-mililary organization formed by Baathist strongman Deputy PremkT Ali Saleh Al Saadi dissolved and instruct ed its members to turn in their arms. LnadCfin Exile Saadi is in exile in Madrid where he has been since an attempted coup by a right wing faction of the Baath party was crushed. Observers here fcaid today's revolt apparently wan staged to fend off the possibility thai Saadi, leader of the Baath ex tremist wing, might return from exile and try to seize the government. Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 7631 chestnuts out of the fire. The Boeing Co., which has leased the land for an industrial park, said it would not honor the lease if the legal cloud was not removed. Barton said, "There'll be quite a bit of storm and fury raised over this thing. There will be lots of 'I told you so' from op ponents. But we'vat gut to go ahead." So far, the special session has been a bad one for Hatfield. Russia Releases Yale Professor; Vay Opened For Talk Resumption MOSCOW (UPD-The release of Yale Prof. Frederick C. Bar ghoorn today opened the way for suspended U.S.-Soviet cul tural exchange talks to get started, but his case was ex pected to damen the spirit of die negotiations. Barghoorn, 52-year-old Soviet affairs expert arrested on es pionage charges Oct. 31, was released and expelled Sat urday. The Soviets have refused to drop the charges and were expected to make details public at any time. The State Department sus pended the talks because of Barghoorn's arrest and Presi dent Kennedy said last week it would be "hopeless" to conduct them as long as tlie professor remained in jail. But even with Barghoorn freed, the effects of the arrest lingered. Novelist John Stein beck said at the conclusion of a one-month visit here tinder 7 The reports of the fighting in dicated that some of the young national guardsmen loyal to Saadi resisted the takeover. Observers in Beirut pointed out, however, that the national guard, which was relatively poorly armed and organized, could be no match for the high ly efficcnt army whose lanks were known to have been ring ing the city up to Sunday night. At stake appeared to lie the future of the international Baath party whose leaders have called it "the wave of the future" in the Arab world. The Baalh party was formed in HMO by two Syrian politicians .Mi chel Aflak and Salah Bitat. ill Arabic, baath means "renais sance" or "resurrection." and the party's announced goals are socialism and A$ab unity. In neighboring Syria, also un der Baath party control, tlie Baghdad coup was denounced as the work of "suspicious ele ments" backed by "oil monop olies, reactionaries, oportunists and dcvialionists." 4 Weather LONO RANG! OUTLOOK Abovi normal precipitation t h 1 1 wttk with a cooling trvnd after mid. Hi Rain or www Indicated Tuot day and again Thursday. the street and rooftops to lives of at least 23 elderly UPI Telephoto Two of his vetoes have tiecn overridden by the legislature. The Boardman project, a Hat field pet, has blown up again. And now the governor's author ity to make selective allot ment cuts has been challenged. Many lawmakers were open ly concerned that the governor's legal advisers did not catch the Boardman problem, or the allot ment control question, before the legislature was called into sccial session. the old cultural exchange agree ment that he would not feel safe coming back, and it- was felt that many other U.S. ar tists and intellectuals also would be unwilling to risk ar rest by taking part in the pro gram. The talks were scheduled to have begun Tuesday, but the U.S. delegation remained in Washington because of tlie Bar ghoorn case. An embassy spokesman said Sunday the del egation now is expected late this week or early next week. Barghoorn, one of tlie leaders of the cultural exchange pro gram, was arrested while gath ering data for a book on Soviet political institutions. Tlie U.S. Embassy was not told of his arrest (or 12 days. Policeman, 'Coon Tie A city policeman tangled with a raccoon early this morning on tlie Wcstside Bypass of High way 97 and tlie match was de clared a draw. Patrolman Larry Alexander was on routine patrol at 3 a.m. when he spotted the large 'coon silting on tlie ramp leading to the freeway. Seeking to remove it before it got hurt or caused an acci dent, Alexander slopped and tried to catch the animal. The policeman chased it around the ramp and finally caught it by stunning it with a blow. But all the fight wasn't taken out ol Die animal and it (TKik a lot of wrestling to put it into U (flilicc car Fisst, Mexancfcr took tlie anl nfdl to the city zoo, but the oo keeper said, he had too many raccoons already, so Alexander wound up releasing Uie raccoon near Veterans' Park, and it promptly disappeared into tlie Link Kivcr. During Its brief captivity, the animal chewed off an eight-inch piece of broom handle which Alexander used to keep him at bay. Hotel-Convalescent Building Becomes Giant Funeral Pyre ATLANTIC C1T', N. J. (UPI) a) pre-dawn fire turned a hotel-convalescent home into a funeral pyre for at least 23 elderly persons today and spread to eight other Boardwalk hotels. Fire Marshal Michael Bloom berg said indications were that only seven of the 30 guests registered at the 120-unit Surf side Hotel had escaped. By noon EST, firemen had re moved three charred bodies from the smoldering rubble. The blaze also destroyed tlie six-story Stratmore, the Leon ard, and the Imperial hotels and the Breycr guest home. It also damaged the Nixon Hotel, the Hollywood, Palm Hull and Virginia. With the exception of the Surfsidc, the hotels had no guests and contained only token maintenance crews. At least 12 persons were in jured, including a woman guest who was reported in critical condition. One policeman and two firemen also were among the injured taken to Atlantic City hospital. Firemen Ilelplrss The fire's early start and its extreme heat and smoke forced firemen to stand by helplessly as the Surfside burned to the ground. Screams and wails of the per sons trapped inside could he heard above the noiso of the fire-fighting equipment. The fire was discovered shortly after 4:30 a.m. EST and 30 minutes later the general alarm was sounded, bringing out fire apparatus from a half dozen shore resort. Frolow said the fire was contained at about 8 a.m., although some of the buildings were still burning. The Surfsidc was on Mary land Avenue, about 300 feet off the famed Boardwalk. It is a summer season hotel and be comes a residence for the ill and aged in the off-Season. "I heard scrciiming and wails from the Surfside," said Board walk artist Louis Lcvino, who It was a further four days before Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko announced the profes sor's release because of Ken nedy's "personal concern." There was speculation here that Premier Nikita S. Khru shchev personally ordered that Barghoorn be freed. Khru shchev has not been seen in Moscow since the Bolshevik revolution anniversary eclcbra. lions Nov. 7, but it was felt he had a direct hand In the Bar ghoorn case alter the stress Kennedy put on it last week. Western diplomats said Khru shchev may be working on party reports or may be vaca tioning in his Black Sea villa. Khrushchev will deliver a re port dealing with Ihe farm crisis and increased fertilizer production at a Central Com mittee plenary meeting Doe. 9. . U it i fiF j -:': If : . i r 1 1 :4 ' .1" N ,ni 'i i mi in. ii mi iiiii. ill m inmi.ifriTm.iiiJ SAFETY AWARD Jack D. Sturgeon (right,) Klamath Falls representative for the Oregon State Motor Association, presents a plaque to City Manager Robert Kyle I center I and police Lt. Bud Adkins commemorating the city's record of no pedestrian fatalities durinq 1962. The award was the 13th to be won by Klamath Falls since 1941. Other Oregon cities receiving similar plaques were Astoria, Albany, Bend, Corvallis, Eugene, Forest Grove, Lake Oswego, Lebanon, Medford, Milwaukee, On tario, Salem, The Dalles and Portland, lives nearby. "I panicked and didn't know what to do." Levine said police did a "heroic job." Only one of the Surfside sur vivors was admitted to Atlantic City Hospital. She was Anna Shallit, 63, of Mill St., Morris town, N.J., listed in critical condition with severe body burns. The blaze sent flames roaring 200 feet into the air. Officials declined to make damage es timate, but observers said it would be well over $1 million. Wall of Flame The fire was discovered by Capt. James Dooney and Pa trolman Ace Godowski, answer ing a routine police call to the area. Dooney said he opened the lobby door of the Surfside and was met by smoke and a wall of flame. "We heard hollering Inside and knew there were people in there, but wo didn't know how many," Dooney said. "Nothing appeared amiss un til we opened that door." Dooney pulled one person from the lobby as Godow ski ran to the rear of the build ing and helped four persons make their escape. The flames jumped to the Stratmore Hotel, between the Surfsido and the Beachfront, and leveled the building. The fire then damaged the four story brick Nixon Hotel, next in lire to the Boardwalk. The three-story Leonard Ho tel at the rear of the Surfside, and the Breycr guest house, next in line, were leveled. The four-story double-frame Imperi al Hotel, where two sections are connected by a wooden ramp, was gutted quickly. At the Imperial, Karl Hciden, owner, and seven employes were asleep when the fire struck, but all escaped. ino suriside, winch had a large Jewish clientele, was four blocks from the swank Chal- fonlc Haddon Hall. Flames from the spectacular fire roared so high that they were reflected from the top floor windows of the 17 - story Claridge Hotel, nine blocks away. Millon Raucr, 48, owner of Ihe Surfside, was sleeping in Ihe back with his family when the fire struck. "I don't know how it start ed," he said. "It was a quick, sudden thing a blast of fire. The night man smellcd smoke, Shooting Hours OREGON November 19 Open Close 6:30 a.m. 1:45 p.m. CALIFORNIA November 19 Open Close 6:27 a.m. 4:45 p.m. awakened me, and called fire men and police. By then, every thing was a mass of flames. We jumped to safety from a back window on the first floor." Rauer and his three sons, Larry, 17, Stephen, 16, and Wil liam, 14, were treated for minor burns. His wife, Dorothy and mother, Betty, were not in jured. The blaze was fought by fire men from Absecond, Pleasant ville, Northfield, Linwood, Som ers Point, Margate, Longport and Ocean City in addition to the Atlantic City department. Firemen from Ocean City and Margate also took up positions at Atlantic City firehouses on emergency standby as pro tection against any other fires in the resort community. 2 Bandits Pistol Whip Bank Official NEW YORK (UPI) - A wealthy Wall Street banker who is a former resident of Port land, Ore., was pistol-whipped Sunday by two bold burglars who fled with $35,000 of his wife's jewelry. The robberv was tlie latest in a scries of major Manhattan jewel thefts. This time police said they had "good" informa tion about the bandits. The two men, one about 40 and the other about 28, over looked even more valuable gems in their haste to flee the park avenue apartment of John Gur ian, 62, a vice president of Mer rill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith, the country's largest stock' brokerage firm. Gurian lived In Portland for 50 years and headed the firm's office there before his transfer to New York in 1955. The pair forced an elevator operator to take them to the 12th floor apartment where Gur ian and his wife, Stella, were having a wedding anniversary breakfast. They carried a bunch of flowers, as a blind. Gurian was slugged with a pistol when he slowed his step while taking one of the gunmen from the dining room to the bed room where the gems were kept. Meanwhile, his wife bolted from under the gun of the sec-' ond man. She had managed to scream "help" into the house phono as the pair invaded the apartment and she ran for the door when hotel personnel arrived. An ele vator operator punched one of the gunmen In tlie nose. Both men dashed down 12 flights of stairs and cscapod. Earlier this month, a bandit entered the cast side hotel suite of comedian Jack Benny and took more than $200,000 in jew els at gunpoint from his wife, Mary Livingston. On Nov. 8 a team of holdup men took some $3.5 million in gems from a messenger service truck, but most of tlie loot was recovered by police. i
