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KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBKR 29, 1963 Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 7641
WASHINGTON (LTD - Con
gress continued today at a re
cess tempo because of the Ken
nedy assassination and the holi
day weekend but its leaders
quietly geared or a speedup of
activity under President John
eon. Facing the leadership with
urgings by Johnson for quick
decisions on tax cut and civil
rights legislation.
The Senate met at 9 a.m.
EST, and adjourned until Tues-
ln The-
Day's lews
By FRANK JENKINS
Hijackers seized a twin-engine
Venezuelan Convair on a
domestic flight yesterday,
hurled pro-communist leaflets
over the city of Ciudad Bolivar
and then forced the crew to
land the liner in Trinidad. This
terrorist incident came as po
lice combed Caracas for Lieu
tenant Colonel James K. Che
nault, a U.S. Army officer kid
napped by pro-Castro foes of
Venezuelan President Romulo
Betancourt.
Borrtb blasts shock Bogota
and other Colombian cilies as
communists reacted against
U.S.-Latin American maneu
vers off the Colombian coast.
Testing out our new Presi
dent? Safe guess i
There will be a lot of testing
of him to see how far it will be
safe to go.
(From Washington:
Some 350 Bible - carrying,
sign-waving pickets paraded in
front of the White House yester
day demanding the return of
the Bible and prayers to the
public schools. The Thanksgiv
ing Day protest against the Su
preme Court's prayer decisions
apparently was organized by
religious groups across t h e
country.
In the center of the group,
about. 5Q of the pickets carried
inscription "We Want the Bible
back in the School Rooms of
America."
1'yn''1'r
Maybe we'd better get this
straight . in our minds. It is
based on the First Amendment
to the Constitution of the Unit
ed States, which reads:
"Congress shall make no law
respecting an ESTABLISH
MENT of religion, or prohibit
ing the FREE EXERCISE
thereof; Of abridging the free
dom of speech or of the press;
or the right of the people
peaceably to assemble and to
petition the Government f o r
redress of grievances."
(Continued on Page 4-A)
Hole In Road
Has Spokesman
NEWCASTLE, England
IUPH Alfred Bell became
public relations officer to a
hole in the road today.
Bell was hired to stand by
a five-mile-long trench, dug
for power cables down the
middle of Newcastle's busi
ness street, and apologize to
passersby for the inconvenience.
SANTA'S HELPERS Klamath Falls Jayr.ees gave Santa and tho Down
town Merchants Association a hand Wednesday night as they strung the
colored lights on the Community Christmas Tree at Eighth and Klamath.
The tree, donated by Weyerhaeuser, will be lit tonight along with other
city decorations to mark the opening of the Christmas season in Klamath
Falls. At the left, Jayceet Lloyd Olson (left) and Ron Smith begin thtj
day in a rapid one-minute ses
sion. Only three senators were
present for the convening which
is required under congressional
rules that the House and Senate
meet at least every three days
unless there is a formal recess
or adjournment. -
The House planned to follow
suit at noon EST.
Sen. Lee Metcalf, D-Mont.,
presided in the Senate and read
one routine order before gavel
ing a recess until Tuesday at
noon. The oilier senators pres
ent were Olin D. Johnston, D
S.C., and Roman L. Hruska, R
Neb. Despite the lull. Congress has
promised to quicken its pace.
Chairman Harry F. Byrd, D
Va., promised to finish public
hearings on the $11 billion tax
cut bill Dec. 6. The hearings
are scheduled to resume Mon
day. Once they are over, how
ever, the committee must vote
on 30 to 40 amendments in
closed session.
Although there was no hope
of final Senate action this year,
the fact that the finance com
mittee would start drafting the
bill before the Christmas recess
came as a complete surprise.
It meant that the bill could be
Pro-Castro Hijackers
Returned To Venezuela
CARACAS (UPP Six young
Castro - Communists who hi
jacked a Venezuelan airliner
over Bolivar City Thursday were
back ill this country today, fac
ing the prospect of a trial for
their terrorist act.
The six five teen-age boys
and a girl who calls herself
"Major Olga" were brought
back to Venezuela under mili
tary guard Thursday night from
Trinidad. They were arrested
barely 13 hours after they had
forced the pilot of the hijacked
plane at gunpoint to fly them
to the former British colony.
They were flown to Caracas
and turned over to the political
police to be questioned and pre
Anti-Missile Missile
Scores Successful Hit
WASHINGTON (UPIi The
Nike Zeus anti-missile missile
has scored another successful
intercept of an Intercontinental
Ballistic Missile, the Defense
Department disclosed today. It
was the 10th successful shot so
far announced for the missile
killer.
An Air Force Titan missile
was launched from Vanden
berg Air Force Base, Calif., in
a Strategic Air Command
(SAO exercise, and the Army's
Nike Zeus was fired at it from
Kwajalcin Island, 5.000 miles
nut in the western Pacific, the
Pentagon said.
Yule Season
A free movie at the Esquire
Theatre this afternoon is just
one of the events scheduled for
the Christmas opening today by
downtown merchants.
Lights on the big community
Christmas tree on the parking
lot at Eighth and Klamath will
be turned on tonight.
Downtown street decorations
j
ready for a Senate vote early
next year.
Most members of the commit
tee conceded the bill will be ap
proved. The lax cut, which will
affect every American taxpay
er and corporation, will be
made retroactive to Jan. 1,
IS4.
As the bill stands, two-thirds
of the total relief under the two
stage measure would be felt in
the first year, with the other
third going into effect Jan. 1,
1965.
Action on the civil rights bill,
however, is another matter.
Johnson's unqualified support
for the measure did not seem
likely to change any votes.
Southern opponents expressed
regret that he called for quick
action on the Kennedy proposal.
However, its supporters be
lieve the President's assassina
tion may have provided a
strong enough push to win ap
proval for the most sweeping
civil rights bill ever to come
out of Congress.
The bill now is before the
House Rules Committee. Chair
man Howard W. Smith, D-Va.,
has given no sign he will do
anything to speed its trip to the
floor despite Johnson's plea.
pared for trial. .
Trinidad's Premier Eric Wil
liams assured Venezuelan Presi.
dent Romulo Betancourt that he
will not allow Betancourt's foes
to use Trinidad as a "trampoline
against the Venezuelan govern
ment." The plane and its six non
Communist passengers was re
turned earlier.
Edwin Richards, a Pittsburgh
businessman who was the only
American on the plane, said the
hijackers boasted of being mem
bers of the Communist terror
group which kidnaped U.S. Col.
James K. Chenault here
Wednesday.
Officials refused to say when
the latest lest took place. The
Pentagon never reveals the
dates of a Nike Zeus shot from
Kwajalicn since the first one
last year nor has it ever said
whether there had been any
failures in the test program.
The Nike Zeus, is the closest
development America has to a
defense against Intercontinent
al Ballistic Missiles. There is
no plan as yet to produce and
deploy it. Instead, a new and
more advanced research devel
opment effort is underway un
der the name 'Nike X.
Arrives
have been put up, and stores
will be open tonight until 9
o'clock.
The evening opening schedule
includes also Friday night open
ings on Dec. 6 and 13. every
night from Friday, Dec. 16
through Dec. 20 except Sunday,
Dec. 18, and also includes night
opening on Monday, Dec. 23.
task of untanalina the
UF Effort
Moves Past
$100,000
The Klamath County United
Fund campaign has topped
tlie $100,000 mark and now
stands at more tlian two-tlurds
of the goal of $148,311.
United Fund officials report
ed that $100.8)6.32 has been
raised to date S8 per cent of
the goal.
The officials said that 52.8
per cent of the calls Iwve been
completed and collections are
running 11 per cent above those
of last year. But it has been es
timated that collections will
have run 16.8 per cent above
last year if the goal is to be
reached.
Two divisions Kingsley Field
and Special Gifts have raised
more than 100 per cent of their
goals. To date. Kingsley Field
has raised $9,305.84 132.9 per
cent of its goal of $7,000.
The Special Gifts division's
total stands at $4,583106.6 per
cent of its goal of $4,300.
The Education division stands
in third place with 87.9 per
rent of its coal collected. That
division's total is $9,609.65 and
its goal is $11,000.
Other divisions, their collec
tions and percentages follow:
Pilot, $30,003.34. 85.5 per cent;
Professional, $7,410.50, 01. 8 per
cent; Large Firms II, $3,848.73,
59.2 per cent; Public Employ
es. $3,361.94 , 56 per cent; (Down
town I, $6,695.18, 51.5 per cent;
County, $3,539.25, 50.6 per cent:
Large Firms 1, $20,091.39, 49
per cent; and Downtown II,
$2,347.50. 39.1 per cent.
Collections this year general
ly are running above those of
last year, based on the same
number' of'' caHs'But 'Sever
al division and sub-units are
running below collections of
last year with the same num
ber of calls.
It has been found, for exam
ple, that collections in residen
tial areas by the Special
Gifts division are 16.7 per cent
below last year.
United Fund Campaign
Goal $118,311.(10
Collected (o date .... 100,8.16.32
Percentage nf goal 68re
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several hundred feet of wire
the lights. At the right, John Franks, Bob Flamme and Ed Coleman (left
to right) test bulbs before beginning the task of hauling the lines to the
op of the 40-foot tree. Pacific Power and Light Company erected the
tree and loaned the Jaycees ajadder truck for the lighting work.
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TROPHY REIGN DIMINISHES The third annual Herald and News Christmas Pa
rade on Saturday, Dec. 7, will result in a new owner of the first place perpetual
trophy now held by St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Giving the prize a last polish before
relinquishing their claim are three members of the Episcopal Young Churchmen who
worked on the winning religious-themed entry. From left are Judy Nicholson, presi.
dent Dennis Culver, and Dave Vaagen. The trophy, appropriately shaped like an open
book, is on display in the window of the newspaper.
2 Bead, 1 Missing
Down Plane Over
SAIGON, Viet Nam (UPU
The bodies of an American and
a Vietnamese whose B26 bomb
er was dow ned by Communist
ground fire have been found 160
miles southwest of Saigon. A
second American crewman is
missing.
A U.S. military spokesman
1said 4he two nvti bailed out of
Highway Death Pace
Falls Behind Normal
Two Killed
In Oregon
By United Press International
Oregon's Thanksgiving week
end traffic death count stood at
two today when a mother of five
children died when her car
plunged into the Tualatin River
in another accident.
Mrs. Dorothy May Foster, 42,
Sherwood, died when her car
plunged off a wooden bridge
Wednesday into the muddy Tu
alatin River near Tualatin.
Mrs. Greta I. Flint, 65, Port
land, was killed Thursday after
noon in a two-car accident just
east of the Portland city limits.
Calvin William Wakefield, 20,
of Hemlock, died Wednesday
night when the car in which he
was riding hit a slick spot on
Highway 20 and left the road
3'i miles west of Philomath in
Benton County.
prior to stringing
the stricken craft before it
crashed, but their parachutes
failed to open.
Search parties found the bod
ies of the two crewmen Wednes
day in rice paddies near the
town of Ca Mau at the southern
Up of Viet Nam.
An earlier report that the bod
ies ol twt Americans had heen
By United Press International
The death pace on the na
tion's highways fell below the
normal for a non-holiday week
end on the second day of the
long Thanksgiving holiday to
day. Since the holiday period be
gan at 6 p.m. Wednesday, auto
motive deaths had been occur
ring at the rate of 4.1 an hour.
The National Safety Council
said the average death toll for
a non-holiday period was ap
proximately 4.6 an hour.
A United Press International
count at 9:30 p. m. P ST
showed 173 traffic deaths since
the holiday weekend began.
The breakdown:
Traflic 173
Fires 10
Planes 10
Miscellaneous 25
Total 218
California led the auto death
count with 12, followed by Illi
nois and Michigan with 11 each,
Texas wilh 10 and North Cam
line with 9.
Canaveral Renamed 'Cape Kennedy'
WASHINGTON lUPD-When
the first U. S. lunar mission is
Launched, it will take off from
Cape Kennedy, named for the
President who dedicated the na
tion's space efforts to reaching
the moon.
President Johnson announced
Thursday in his Thanksgiving
address to the nation that Cape
Canaveral's name would be
changed to honor Kennedy and
the "future of the works he
started."
"I have today determined
that station No. 1 of the Atlan
tic missile range and the NASA
launch operation center In Flor
ida shall hereafter be known as
the John F. Kennedy Space Cen
ter." Johnson said that with the co
operation of Florida Gov. Far
ri Bryant he also had directed
that Cape Canaveral be called
Cape Kennedy.
The idea for the change came
from Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy
who suggested that the Cape's
new designation would be a fit
ling memorial to her hutband
who had dedicated Ui. space
As Reds
Viet Mam
found and a third was missing
proved incorrect.
The crash raised to 140 the
number of U.S. servicemen wbo
have died in Viet Nam since
the military assistance program
to the Vietnamese government
began in early 1961. The num
ber of missing was raised In 12.
Of, the 140 known American
'thiiitjij!, .id, 112 .have been
killed in action or in combat ac
cidents. The B26 was on a combat
support mission last Sunday
when it was hit by fire from
Viet Cong guerrilla fighters on
the ground.
Monument
Planned
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Mrs.
Jacqueline Kennedy has asked
California architect John Carl
Warnecko to help design a mon
ument to mark the grave of the
late President.
Warnccke said today that al
though he will design the monu
ment. Mrs. Kennedy will exer
cise "very close direction."
The President's widow and
his brother, Atty. Gen. Robert
F. Kennedy, took Warnccke In
Arlington National Cemetery
Wednesday evening to look over
the site of the grave.
Warnccke said that no design
has been agreed upon yet. What
ever the monument is, he said,
it will have to be appropriate
both to its setting and to the
spirit of the late President. The
grave is situated on a broad hill
side, below the Curtis-Lee Man
sion and overlooking the Wash
ingtnn skyline.
efforts to reaching the moon by I
1970.
Meanwhile, moves already
have begun in Washington to
dedicate the proposed National
Cultural Center to Kennedy's
memory. U also has been sug
gested that the District of Co
lumbia Stadium, opened a year
ago, be named for the assassi
nated President w ho was active
in sports.
Rep. Hugh L. Carey, D-N.Y.,
proposed that the Cae Cod Na
tional Seashore be renamed the
John F. Kennedy National Sea
shore. Tlie (Massachusetts area
"in identified with his happiest
years and will serve as a splen
did testament to the youth of
the future," he said.
Carey also suggested that a
memorial "to the yoalh" of the
late President be erected on the
Cape.
Speaking slowly and solemn
ly, Johnson said that "a deed
that was meant to tear us
apart has bound us together."
He asked tlie "help, the
strength, the prayers" of the
'Dollar Value' Theme
Pushed By President
WASHINGTON (UPII - Presi
dent Johnson told the nation's
military leaders today tliat he
expects them to abide by his
economy pledge to Congress
that the government will get "a
dollar's value for a dollar
spent" under his regime.
The White House said John
son empliasized this point to the
Joint Chiefs of Staff at his first
formal meeting with them as
President.
Acting Press Secretary An
drew T Hatcher eaid the lead
ers outlined their operating pro
cedures to Johnson and that
the new president did not con
template calling for any change
in this arrangement.
Johnson's meeting with Gen.
Maxwell D. Taylor, chairman,
and the other joint chiefs who
are the military heads of each
armed service, began a busy
round of conferences today by
tho President on international
and domestic matters.
Ilrlrfed By Bundy
He began his day with an in
telligence briefing from Mc-
George Bundy, special assistant
for national security allairs.
The Bundy briefing will -be-
come a daily event. Under the
late President Jolin F. Kennedy,
the intelligence briefings had
been conducted by military
aides.
After sitting for his first top
mal portraits at his White
House desk, Johnson met with
the joint chiefs and then con
ferrcd with Defense Secretary
Robert S. McNamara, Bundy
and Central International Agcn-
cy Director John A. McCone.
lie next met with Secretary
of State Dean Rusk for a fur
. tlicr discussion of Jorelgn poUcy
awl security matters.
"Then,- he discussed pending
legislative problems with special
assistant Lawrence Uitfrien,
congressional liaison aide, and
deputy special . counsel Myer
feldman.
Johnson discussed legislative
matters by telephone with House
Speaker John W. MoConmack
and Senate Democratic Leader
Mike Mansfield. It was an
nounced tliat these contacts
would also be part of the Presi
dent's daily routine.
Meets With Wllklns
Next on Johnson's schedule
was a meeting with Roy Wil
kins, executive secretary of the
National Association for tlie Ad
vancement of Colored People
(NAACP). This centered on the
civil rights program on which
Johnson called for action when
he addressed a joint session of
Congress Wednesday.
In that address, Johnson
pledged to administer federal
spending with tlie upmost thrift
and frugality.
"I will insist that the govern
ment get a dollar's value for a
dollar spent. The government
will set an example of prudence
and economy. This docs not
mean we w ill not meet our un
filled needs or that we will not
honor our commitments. We will
do both."
Hatcher said it was this point
that Johnson empliasized to the
joint chiefs in connection with
American people, as well as
God's guidance.
Pleading for a closing of
ranks, Johnson said that, "we
must make our society well
and whole for tlie task ahead."
He called for unity in North
and South, East and West, free
of the burdens of hate and prej
udice "we have borne too
long."
Despite the sadness of this
Thanksgiving, Johnson said, the
nation still has much to be
thankful for. "Our harvest is
bountiful, our factories flourish,
our homes are safe, our de
fenses are secure. We know
that our system is strong," he
said.
Johnson quoted from Ken
nedy's Tlianksgiving proclama
tion, issued before his death,
and told his countrymen they
had passed a great test since
the assassination by showing
"that decency of purpose, that
steadfastness of resolve and
that strength of will which we
inherit from our forefathers.
Johnson noted that in each of
its application to defense agen
cies.
Johnson's talks with aides af
ter arrival at the White House
at 9:36 a.m. EST, undoubtedly
dealt with the possibility of new
Communist pressures in such
orld trouble spots as West
Berlin.
Allies Stage
Test Alert
In Germany
BERLIN (UPD-The United
States, Britain and France put
10,000 troops on a combat-readi
ness test alert today in an
other demonstration of their re
solve to defend Berlin against
any Communist action.
There was no sudden, new
emergency. But it was the larg
est such exercise since the
death of President Kennedy last
Friday.
Almost tlie entire Western Al
lied garrison in Berlin was
alerted in tlie operational test.
Most of the troops today were
alerted in barracks and drill
areas with combat equipment
and vehicles ready to take them
to the strongpoints around the
city they would guard in case
of a Communist attack.
However, they did not actual
ly disperse around West Berlin.
Such exercises are a regular
part of the training of allied
troops defending Berlin.
In another development. East
German police today resumed
evictions of residents along the
East-West Berlin border to pre
vent the flight of refugees to
the West.
Tenants in a five-story apart
ment house were moved to
other flats in the interior of the
city. West Berlin police re
ported. An armored car stood guard
as tlie evictions were carried
out. Tlie exact number of
persons evicted could not be de
termined. Residents of other houses in
tlie area sent word to West Ber
lin they, too, would be evicted
before Christmas.
Shooting Hours
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the past five administrations he
has seen in his 32 years in
Washington, "tlie greatest bur
den that the President had to
bear had been the burden of his
own countrymen's unthinking
and unreasoning hate and divi
sion." He referred to Presi
dents Kennedy, Dwight D. Ei
senhower, Harry S Truman,
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Her
bert Hoover.
The President's address came
toward the end of a busy
Thanksgiving Day. Earlier he
conferred with top aides and
took his family to a holiday
church service to offer prayers
for the nation.
After liis message, Johnson
returned to his home in the
Spring Valley section for a
quiot, private Thanksgiving din
ner with his wife Ladybird and
his daughters Lynda Bird, 19,
and Lucy Baines, 16. The only
guests were Lynda's fiance.
Navy Ens. Bernard Rosenbach
of Comfort, Tex., and Lucy's
escort, Jack Olsen, a Univer
sity of Wisconsin student.