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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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."
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the street and rooftops to
lives of at least 23 elderly
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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.
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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,
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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