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Johnson
Racial Issue
Talk During
WASHINGTON IUPH Presi
dent Johnson held a rapid fire
series of meetings today with
political, labor and racial lead
ers in a hard-driving effort to
get the civil rights bill passed.
In The-
Day's lews
By FRANK JENKINS
In Venezuela the other day,
they held a presidential elec
tion. The voters faced a rugged
choice. Voting is compulsory
there. So, if they slaved away
from the polls, they might wind
up in jail. Pro-Castro commu
nists threatened to shoot all cit
izens who turned out to vote.
But 90 per cent of Venezue
la's registered voters went to
(lie polls and cast their ballots.
They voted AGAINST the com
munists by a ratio of nearly
one and a half to one.
Apparently they knew what
they wanted and were willing
to take long chances to get it.
Venezuela has immense de
posits of oil and iron. These
natural resources have been de
veloped chiefly by Americans.
Sunday's election there seems
to indicate that Americans are
not as unpopular as the com
munists would like to make out.
Maybe if we announced that
from here on out we're going to
enforce the Monroe Doctrine rig
idly we'd get cooperation rather
than opposition from our West
ern Hemisphere neighbors.
A reader of this column asks:
"WiH you please tell us what
countries other than the United
States have a national day of
Thanksgiving for our bless
ings?" According to the World Book
Encyclopedia, only in (lie Unit
ed States and Canada is a
day set a s i d e each year as
Thanksgiving Day. For thou
sands of years, people in many
lands have held harvest festi
vals. The American Thanksgiv
ing Day probably grew out of
these harvest - home celebra
tions. The first New England Thanks
giving day was celebrated dur
ing the second winter the Ply
mouth colonists spent in the
New World. The first dreadful
winter in Massachusetts had
killed nearly half the memlwrs
in the colony. But new hope
grow up in the summer of
1621. The corn harvest brought
rejoicing. Governor William
Bradford decreed that Decem
ber 13. 1621. be set aside as a
day of feasting and pracr to
show the gratitude of the colo
nists that they were still alive.
There is no record of it. but
it is quite likely that the mem
ory of the harvest - home cel
ebrations in England prompted
the proclamation by Governor
Bradford.
While we're talking about
American institutions, let's put
m a word about rocking chairs.
President Kennedy, as everyone
knows, used one in his office.
One of President Johnson's first
acts was to bring his rocking
chair to his office.
In earlier days in our land,
rocking chairs were much more
widely used than now. On week
days, people sat in them in the
evenings, after the chores were
done, for rest and relaxation.
And. on Sundays, in the cle
ment scaons. they were moved
tn the front prrch-and tiierc.
on the Day of Rot. P P 1
rocked, and looked, and nodded
and waved to their neighbors.
And watched the world go by
-on foot and in horse drawn
carriages. .
It just might be that if in
these dav we did more cf that
and less of the hell-raising that
characterizes modern c-h-scrvance
of Sundays and other
holidays ed be better off
bnth as a nation and as individuals.
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Steps Up Efforts For Civil Rights Bill
Dominates
Meetings
Shortly after a breakfast ses
sion by Democratic legislative
leaders with Johnson, Speaker
John W. McCormack announced
that an effort would be
launched Monday to pry the
civil rights bill out of the South
ern - dominated Rules Com
mittee. Johnson also discussed eco
nomics in his meetings but civil
rights was the dominant theme.
The President rode to the White
House with AFL-CIO President
George Alcany and got assur
ance from Meany of organized
labor's help in his effort to get
the civil rights bill passed.
Then Johnson met with the
congressional leaders at the
Tuesday morning breakfast the
lale President Kennedy custo
marily held and w hich Johnson
plans to continue.
In addition, Johnscn sched
uled a meeting with tite Rev.
Martin Luther King Jr.. the
third national Negro leader to
be invited to the White House
in five days. Johnson also was
expected to discuss civil rights
with the executive committee
of the National Governors Con
ference later today.
Senate Democratic Leader
Mike Mansfield said Johnson
also brought up the tax cut bill
at the breakfast meeting.
Mansfield said the President re
newed his insistence that early
passage of $11 billion measure
was needed and emphasized his
belief a tax cut would bolster
the economy.
Meany said after his talks
with Johnson during a 15-min-ute
ride to the White House and
for a few minutes in the Presi
dent's office that they discussed
"the whole economic picture"
but civil rights in particular.
Meany told newsmen that or
ganized labor is fully backing
Johnson's effort to pass the
civil rights bill "as a matter of
simple justice and also, as
President Johnson said, as a
memorial to President Ken
nedy." Meany said civil rights legis
lation "is closely tied to the un
employment problem, inasmuch
as the unemployment rate for
Negroes is so much higher than
the average."
During the first meeting of
his busy day Monday, Johnson
was urged by civil rights leader
Whitney Young Jr., to undertake
a public works program and
other "crash" efforts to ease
Negro unemployment. Young is
executive secretary of the Na
tional Urban League.
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House Leader Vows To Push Bill To Vote
WASHINGTON iUP! -Speak
er John W. McCormack an
nounced today that an elfort
will be launched Monday to pry
Ihe civil rights bill out of tlie
House Rules Committee and
bring it to a vote on the floor.
McCormack said following a
meeting of Democratic congres
sional leaders with Proident
Johnson that "as far as the
leadership of the House is con
cerned every effort will be
made" to force the measure out
of Hie committee. Rules Chair
man Howard W. Smith, D-Va.,
has made it clear he will try
to keep it bottled up.
Talking with newsmen at tlie
White House, the ' speaker said
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. TIKSDAY, DKCKMKKK 3. 13
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a bomb scare that emptied the University of Southern California Library of 1,000
persons Monday. Police evacuated the library and found the "bomb" after receiving
a phone call. They rushed it out to the center of the Coliseum football field as guards
sealed off the area, Quan returned to the library explaining the feared "bomb" was
really his time-lock safe. He explained "I want to put in as many study hours as I can
to do my best work. I decided how many hours I want to study each day, then put my
transportation money in the safe and set the timer. Since my money is locked up I
can't leave until the time I set is up." UPI Telephoto
Council Denies Downtown tavern
Off -Sale Wine And Beer License
Klamath Falls city cuuncil
men got into a hassle Monday
night over an application by a
downtown tavern for an off-sale
wine and beer license, and
wound up denying the applica
tion by a 3-2 vote.
The application by the Pas
time, 804 Klamath Avenue, was
one of 3!) considered by the
council, and the only one de
nied. In ils denial of the permit,
the council reaffirmed ils stand
ing position against the issuance
of off-sale beer and wine li
censes in the downtown area.
But Councilmen Lyle Kell
strom and James Barnes voted
"no" on Councilman Walt
Attorney Appears Winner
In Venezuelan Elections
CARACAS i UPI' - Raul Lc
oni, a 58-year-old lawyer nomi
nated by President Romulo
Betancourt's Democratic Action
Party, was confirmed today as
tlie victor in a presidential elec
tion regarded as a serious re
verse for the Communists.
Unofficial returns from Sun
day's election, reflecting the
vote of 90.2 per cent of Vene
zuela's eligible citizens, gave
Leoni 985,230 votes (32.3 per
cent of the total) to 691.12S (22.6
per cent) for runnerup Rafael
Caldera, nominee of the pro-
a petition to discharge the bill
from tlie Rules unit would be
filed Monday by Chairman
Emanuel Celler. D-N.Y.. of tlie
House Judiciary Committee.
Celler's group has approved the
legislation but Smith's commit
tee, which filters legislation to
the floor, has taken no action
on it
Top Priority
The bill is designed to fight
racial discrimination in voting,
education, employment, public
accommodation, and the use of
fedora funds. President John
son last week placed the mea
sure at tlie top of his congres
sional priority list.
However, Smith Monday
nq
Fleet's motion to deny the ap
plication. Standing with Fleet
was Councilman Latld Hoyl.
With a 2-2 deadlock. Council
man Chct Hamaker was the
last to vole.
He sat silently for more than
a minute, then said:
"I said I'd say 'no' to all or
'yes' to all. Yes."
This gave a 3-2 majority for
denial of the application, but
Fleet's motion was re-read to
Hamaker and he indicated he
had misunderstood it. and
thought he was voting for ap
proval of the application.
Then he said:
"I'll let it stand. They won't
go broke in a couple of weeks."
government Copei party.
The remaining voles were
split among five also-ran candi
dates. Leoni declined comment on
the results, saying he will wait
until the official returns are in
before claiming victory.
The fact that more than 90
per cent of Venezuela's regis
tered voters went to the polls
was regarded as a stinging de
feat for the Castro-Communist
terrorists who tried with bullets
and bombs to sabotage the elec
tion and intimidate (lie voters.
night threw cold water on
efforts by both Democratic and
Republican congressional lead
ers to press for action on the
legislation as a testimonial to
the late President Kennedy w ho
also had made it a key priority
item.
Smith said he did nut believe
ac'ion should he dictated by
"Ihe present stale of hysteria."
McCormack and otlicr House
leaders wasted no time prepar
ing to force the bill out of tlie
Smith "traffic cop" group. But
they were not certain rf suc
cess. McCormack said he could not
predict what the prosjiects
would be obtaining tlie required
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time - lock sate which caused
Councilman Kcllstrnm said he
w as voting against denial of the
application, as he had in past
years, because he thought the
action to be discriminatory
against Ihe Pastime.
Referring to drunkenness in
Ihe downtown area, Kellstrom
said:
"We're ignoring the problem
by attempting to cut off the
source." He said he felt the
question of suitability of lfccnscs
lor various taverns is the prer-
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C. Heaton
Re-eecfed
The South Suburban Sanitary
District in annual election Dec.
2 re-elected Charles Heaton to
the board of directors for a
three-year term and approved
the annexation of two small
areas to the district.
Heaton will serve with Board
President Walter Nitzel and Ho
mer Amoureux.
Annexed to the district were
an area on Hilyard Street be
tween Wasliburn Way and I h e
Great Northern Railroad, owned
by Dean Miller and Crater
Fuel Company, the second, a
triangle north of Shasta Way
adjacent to tlie East .Side By
pass on which a motel and re
staurant arc to be built.
218 signatures on the discharge
petition.
Move Alrraily Under Way
A move by administration
forces in tlie House, led by Ilcp.
Richard Boiling. D-Mo., already
has been under way to try to
extract the bill from the Rules
Committee through discharge
petition.
Because of opposition by
Southern Democrats to tlie civil
rights bill, considerable Repub
lican support is required to ob
tain the necessary 218 signa
tureshalf the House member
ship. But GOP leaders indicated
Monday they would not help.
Republican leader Charles A.
Hallacfc, Ind., said he opposed
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Littlt changa In tttt srtsant waathar
pattern of mild, sunny days and cold,
froity nights. Precipitation lass than
normal and ttmparaturts btlow nor
mal tor tht next several days at least.
Rail Unions
Will Test
New Ruling
WASHINGTON (L'PD - Five
unions involved in the railroad
work rules dispute announced
today they Mould file suit this
week challenging the decision
of an arbitration board that
would eliminate thousands of
rail jobs.
The unions said railroad man
agement would continue to ask
Congress to send labor disputes
to arbitration if the board's de
cision is allowed to go unchal
lenged or unchanged.
Tlie arbiters ruled Nov. 26
that 90 per cent of fireman
Jobs on freight and yard loco
motives could be eliminated
gradually. They also set up an
arbitration system to determine
size of most train crews if re
newed negotiations could not
settle that issue.
In announcing formally their
decision to file law suits chal
lenging the award, the five un
ions said "this precedent of la
bor compulsion is weighted
heavily in management's la
yer." Tlie union representing fire
men, switchmen, engineers.
trainmen and conductors said
disputes over other issues and
wage demands could again be
placed before Congress so long
as the! railroads found compul
sory arbitration "so palataWe.''
Negotiations on other issues
in dispute pay systems, work
jurisdiction and seniority dis
trictsare scheduled to resume
Wednesday after a recess since
Nov. 22. Both sides have indi
cated no progress has been
made on these issues and a
strike is possible if there is no
settlement by Feb. 24.
The rail unions also author
ized their attorneys to challenge
the constitutionality of the law
that set up the rail arbitration
hoard last August.
Oswald Acted
According To
WASHINGTON 'UPI) - An
FBI report concludes that Lee
Harvey Oswald was a "loner"
who shot and killed President
John F. Kennedy, government
sources said today. The report
says the President was hit by
two bullets, either of which
would have killed him.
The report is expected to lie
submitted to Atty. Gen. Robert
F. Kennedy this week. By the
end of the week it is expected
to be forwarded to the White
House where it will be turned
over to a seven-man blue-ribbon
commission named by President
Johnson to investigate the as
sassination. The commission is
headed by Chief Justice Earl
Warren.
Sources said the report finds
that both Harvey and Jack
Ruby, the night club owner who
in turn shot oswaio oeiore
television audience, were acting
as individuals, not as part of
any conspiracy.
Tlie FBI concludes Oswald
discharge petitions as a malter
of principle
Sir Santa'
Draws Fine
l-OSTWITHIEL. Eng. UPl
Sir Harry Leonard D'Arcy
Wacc-hter. a baronet, was
fined (70 Monday for skipping
out on a hotel bill here.
Waechtcr, who had several
previous convictions for inde
cent assault, was working as
a department store Santa
C'laus in I'laymouth when arrested.
Lawmakers Ratify Boardman Lease,
Proposed Pay Cut Left Stranded
SALEM (UPI) - The longest
special session in Oregon his
tory adjourned at 5:45 p.m.
Monday after ratifying Boeing
Company's lease of tlie 100,000
acre Boardman space age park,
and trimming $46.3 nullum from
the state's general fund budget.
Still stranded in a Senate
committee was a bill to cut
lawmakers pay $50 a month
and to shave the pay of elected
state officials.
The legislature was called in
to special session Nov. 11 after
voters Oct. 15 rejected the leg
islaturc's $M) million tux in
crease bill.
Legal entanglements in tlie po
litically explosive Boardman
space age industrial project in
northeastern Oregon came to
light while the session was un
der way. Gov. Mark Hatfield
submitted a special bill to per
fect tlie state's title to tlie lands
leased to Boeing.
The Boardman bill cleared the
legislature after several days of
party-line bickering.
Killed by Hie House was a
measure to freeze tlie hare land
tax value of the 12-mile-square
industrial park.
The session lasted 22 calen
dar days, longest in the state's
history. But nine of those days
were in recess out of respect to
President Kennedy whose assas
sination Nov. 22 gravely stunned
the lawmakers who were then
on the verge of adjournment.
Tlie legislature passed a spe
cial resolution Monday waiving
per diem pay during the recess.
Before the recess, lawmakers
had enacted Hatfield's austerity
cutbacks into law thus cutling
the state's $404 million general
fund budget by $46.3 million.
They approved a one-shot speed
up of withholding tax collections
to bring in an additional $12 mil
lion this biennium to make up
the balance of nearly $60 mil
lion budget adjustments made
necessary by the Oct. 15 tax re
ferendum. The session also modified the
$30 million higher education
bond issue to be voted upon
next May so that some com
munity college construction
could be financed by the bonds.
The legislative pay cut bill,
which went to the Senate after
a close House vote, was still
locked in tlie Senate Rules Com
mittee when adjournment came.
A last minute move to get the
Senate to vote on it failed on a
15-15 vote.
While the special session once
again pulled tlie Boardman
As 'Loner'
FBI Report
had no lielp in preparing his
ambush from the sixth floor of
the Texas school book depository
building: that he was alone
when he poked a holt action rif
le out of the window and fired
three shots at the passing pres
idential limousine Nov. 22.
Tlie first and third shots fired
by Oswald struck the President
while the second hit Texas Gov.
John Connally. 'Hie roKrt says
either of the shots that hit Ken
nedy could have killed him, the
sources said.
MAGIC FOREST TREES Christmas treat decked with ribbons and garlands con
structed of everything from aluminum foil to plastic vegetable cartons will be
featured at the annual Girl Scout "Magic Forest" exhibit. Made as a Girl Scout service
Firoject, the trees will be presented to shut-ins, hospitals, and the nursing home fol
owing the public exhibit at the First Presbyterian Church on Saturday, Dec. 7, from 10
a.m. to 4 p.m. There will be no admission charge. Displaying three of the unique Christ
mas trees are, from left, Kathy Cody, Fremont Cadet Troop; Sharon Marshall, Troop
E6, and Pam Hawkins, Troop 53.
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chestnuts out of the fire hope
fully for the last time by shift
ing tlie project to the Veterans'
Affairs Agency, the fiscal prob
lem was not solved.
It is estimated an additional
$40 million will be needed to
maintain the present cut back
level of services for the 1965-67
biennium.
Legislative Fiscal Officer Ken-
Boardman Issue
May Mot Be Dead
SALEM l LTD -The Oregon
Legislature gave its blessing to
Boeing's lease on tlie 100,000
acre Boardman industrial park
Monday, but the many lawmak
ers predicted they haven't heard
Ihe end of the issue.
The Senate passed the main
Boardman bill 20 to 10 late in
the day to clear the way for
adjournment, after the House
had given it a, 33 to 26 approval.
The bill ratifies Boeing's lease
on the northeastern Oregon land
and turns the project over to
Ihe State Veterans' Affairs
Agency, which will use profits
from its loan fund to clear title
to part of the area.
The first payments will be
$522,000 to tlie federal govern
ment for former Navy land and
$366,000 to the state's common
school fund for school lands In
volved in tho project.
While tlie Senate was consid
ering the main bill, the House
killed a companion measure to
freeze the value of the bare
land for tax purposes. The vote
was 30 yes and 29 no, one short
of the majority needed for
passage.
"Men and women of vision
prevailed in this hour of mo--jiientous
decision. Iliose who
would build Oregon and rise
above pettiness have provided
tlicir children with a great le
gacy," Gov. Mark Hatfield said
after the main bill was passed.
Boeing signed a 77-year lease
on the land July 1, but had un
til Dec. 15 to decide whether to
honor it. The company has not
stweified what it will do with
the land, but there were indica
tions it would be used for a mis
sile test facilily.
Senate President Ben Musa,
D-The Dalles, relinquished his
post to lead the floor light for
the bill in the Senate. He was
joined by 10 other Democrats
and all 9 Republicans in voting
for it. The remaining 10 Demo
crats opiHiscd it.
"This is not a matter of parti
sanship," Musa said of the bill,
w hich was requested by Repub
lican Gov, Hatfield.
"This is a matter of faith in
the future."
Opponents of tlie measure in
both the House and the Senate
contended that the lease is
weighted heavily in favor of
Boeing and that some of tlie
provisions are beyond the con
stitutional powers of the state.'
It was negotiated by tho State
Land Board.
Senate passage followed l'i
hours of debate after the Senate
Judiciary Committee approved
it 6-2. Democratic Reps. Ed
neth Bragg estimated a $i41
million general fund budget will
be needed for the next bienni
um if capital construction pro
jects are not again delayed.
Income for the next biennium
Is estimated at $370 million.
Bragg pointed out that
changes in federal income tax
laws, or the state's economy,
could change these estimates.
ward Fadeley, Eugene, and Al
fred Corbett, Portland, dissent
ed. The committee, under the
chairmanship of Rep. Thomas
Mahoney, D-Portland, had been
instructed to look at the bill
only from a legal standpoint.
Atty. Cen. Robert Y. Thorn
ton said Nov. 22 Uiat certain
sections of it were of doubtful
constitutionality and urged a
quick court test if it was passed
by the legislature.
Senate Minority Leader An
thony Ylun'i, R-Ontario, said
tlie items mentioned by Thorn
ton could be cut out of the bill
and out of the contract by a
court without invalidating the
whole Boeing contract.
Once on the floor, the mea
sure was attacked by Sen. Ted
Hallock, D-Portland, as a li
cense "to pirate our veterans,
to pollute our rivers and to hog
tic and eventually break the
hearts of the people of Eastern
Oregon."
CorMtt charged the Lease
went beyond the authority of the
State Land Board and called it -"an
unbusinesslike way to try
to get business.", v ,
... He fs a brother-in-law of for
mer Federal Power Commis
sioner Howard Morgan, who ihas
been mentioned as a possible
Democratic gubernatorial can
didate in 1966.
But Mahoney said Democrats
"who are turning this issue into
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