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Day's iYews
By FRANK JENKINS
In Washington yesterday,
President Johnson set as a goal
for his administration a five mil
lion increase in the number of
jobs. Such an increase, he said,
would bring the number of jobs
available in the U.S.A. to a rec
ord total of 75 million.
Which is to say:
The present population of the
United States is somewhere in
the neighborhood of 188 million,
according to the experts. A To
tal of 75 million jobs would mean
an average of one job for each
two and one half persons.
Is that possible?
There are two ways in which
it might be done:
1. An economy in which peo
ple will earn so much money
that they will be able to pay
practically any price (or what
they want.
2. An economy in which prices
will remain so low that people
can afford to buy what they
want.
Question:
Which is (he better way?
Let's put it this way:
It can be done either way.
but it can't be done both ways
at once. If prices go up every
"i time w ages go up and w ages go
up every time prices go up.
there will be no change in the
situation.
Another modern problem:
Portland is host this week to
the 17th clinical meeting of the
American Medical Association.
At yesterday's session. Dr. Lee
Fair, a professor of nuclear
medicine at Houston. Texas, told
his hearers that NOT bacteria
or viruses but NOISE CON
TROL may be the medical fron
tier today.
He added:
"The air today is polluted as
much by noise as by virus, bac
teria, fall-out or dirt. If your
nerves go jingle, jangle, jingle,
the trouble may lie not in tired
blood but in DECIBELIT1S,
which means noise sickness."
He went on to say:
"And don't expect to find
peace and quiet at home. Home
Sweet Home may be noisier
than a boiler factory. In fact,
that may be the source of all
your decibility. We have ordin
ances to control noise on the
city streets. Most ultra modern
offices are noise-conditioned.
"But back at the old home
stead the soothing low of the
cattle at evening has been re
placed by the slosh, gurgle,
thump and splash of the dish
washer and the clothes washer
and dryer, the roar of the vac
uum cleaner and the high
pitched snarl of the hair dryer
to say nothing of the TV, the
radio and the record player."
He concluded:
"Add them all together and
you get a pandemonium louder
than a 40-ton truck or a light
twin-engined airplane louder
than the law allows in many
factories."
"And-
"N'oise can produce as great
a hangover as alcohol. You don't
hear many complaints about the
alcohol, hut some, especially
older people, reject cocktail par
ties because they can't stand
the noise."
What a world!
And it's getting noisier by the
hour.
RUNS FOR POST
TOCCOA. Ga. VPV - Negro
grocer Leroy Roberts. 64, op
posed two white men today in
an election to fill a vacancy
on the city school beard.
Roberts was believed to be
the first Negro ever to seek
public oflice here.
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PARADE TROPHIES The three floats judged most outstanding in the Herald and
News Christmas Parade will be rewarded with trophies and cash awards. The flrsa s)laae
brass end walnut trophy at the top bears the names end themes of the swt&iSikes
winners In the 1961 and 1962 parades, end the added second end third elate match,
ing plaques et the bottom will be inscribed for the first time this year. Sponsored
by churches in the Klamath Basin, the caravan of colorful floats will follow e route
dowj fvtojn Street beginning et 2 p.m.
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FREE AGAIN U.S. Army Col. James K. Chenault and wife, Ruth, leave for U.S.
embassy In Caracas, Venezuela, early today after Chenault was released by pre
Castro terrorists. The terrorists group kidnaped him eight days ago as a propaganda
stunt in its unsuccessful bid to disrupt Venezuelan elections. He was released un
harmed early this morning. UPI Telephoto
Blue Ribbon Panel Begins
Assassination Investigation
WASHINGTON (UPD-A blue
ribbon commission to investi
gate the Kennedy assassination
held its first formal meeting
today. A lop Justice Department
official and a shorthand stenog
rapher were the only outsiders
present.
As the organizational meeting
began behind closed doors. Dep
uty Atty. Gen. Nicholas Katzen
bach was on hand along with
the seven commission members
named by President Johnson to
United Fund Total
Reaches $105,082
All II United Fund divisions
have collected more than 50
per cent of their goals and the
total campaign stands at the
70.8 per cent mark of the goal
of $148,311.
Current figures show that
$105,082.39 has been collected to
date.
More than $5,000 of the total
was turned in at this week's re
port meeting.
United Fund officials said the
biggest contribution yet to come
will be from Weyerhaeuser Tim
ber Company and its employes.
Last year, the firm and em
ployes contributed about $15,000.
Contributions to the United
Fund this year are running
about 11 per cent above those
of last year, based on a com
parison of completed calls. But
United Fund officials have es
timated that an increase of 16 8
per cent w ill be needed to reach
the goal.
Kingsley Field continues to
lead all divisions in collections
with a total of $9,361.84 133.7
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conduct the special inquiry.
A spokesman for the group
told newsmen that none of the
members of the panel had any
statement before lite meeting
began and there was little like
lihood any would be forthcom
ing after the session.
The commission, headed by
Chief Justice Earl Warren, is
expected to proceed carefully
in its investigation, partly be
"caiise Jack Ruby, Dallas night
club owner who shot to death
per cent of the goal of $7,000.
The only other division over
the 100 per cent mark is Spe
cial Gifts with $4,645.50108 per
cent of the goal of $4,300.
The largest percentage in
crease this week has been
turned in by the downtown I
division, which rose from 51.5
per cent of its $13,000 goal last
week to 64 per cent this week.
The division total now stands
at $8,320.18.
Another large jump was
made by the Downtown II div
isionfrom 39.1 per cent last
week to 50 per cent this week.
Downtown II has now collected
$2,977.50. Its goal is $6,000.
Other divisions, their totals
and percentages of goals f o 1
low: Education, $9,799.75, 89.1 per
cent; Pilot, $30,131.78, 85.3 per
684 per cent; Large Firms II
$3.942 73. 60.7 per cent: Public
Employes. $3,362.44, 56 per cent;
County, $3,639.23. 52 per cent:
and Large Firms I $20,690.72
50.5 per cent.
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the accused assassin, Lee Har
vey Oswald, faces trial on mur
der charges.
No full report to the Presi
dent is expected to emerge in
the immediate future although
a commission spokesman said
that statements by the commis
sion might be issued "from
time to time" through the Su
preme Court press f fice.
Johnson instructed ihe com
mission "to satisfy itself that
the truth is known as far as It
can be discovered, and to re
port its findings and conclusions
to him, to the American people,
and to the world."
Included in the commission's
mandate was an inquiry into
the circumstances surrounding
Ihe murder, 48 hours after Ken
nedy was killed, of Lee Harvey
Oswald, his alleged assassin.
Johnson ordered all federal
agencies and departments to co
operate with tlie commission's
investigation. Sen. Kenneth B.
Keating, R-N.Y., acted Wednes
day to secure a congressional
grant of subpoena powers for
the panel also.
Keating said his proposal was
modeled on the law which gave
similar powers to the s p e c i a 1
commission named by Presi
dent Franklin D. Roosevelt to
investigate Ihe Dec. 7, 1941,
Japanese attack on Pearl Har
bor. High Laos
Official
Murdered
VIENTIANE. Laos tUPP
Col. Leuang, chief intelligence
officer for neutralist Premier
Prince Souvanna Phouma, was
assassinated today by unknown
killers near ls home here. He
was the filth Laotian official lo
die of assassin's bullets this
year.
Tlie assassins pumped 18 bul
lets into Lcuang's body.
Dressed in khaki uniforms, they
cscaied in two unmarked jeeps.
Iuang, father of nine chil
dren, was cWef of the deuxieme
i second i bureau of the intelli
gence service of Ihe Iaotian
neutralist faction and reported
directly lo Premier Souvanna.
Neutralist Gen. Amkha
termed the assassination a
"well organized plot." He told
a news conference that he knew
of no personal or political mo
tives for Ihe slaying. He also
promised a tightening of secu
rity regulations in Vientiane.
From witnesses who reached
the scene in lime In see the as
sassins flee, police pieced to
gether thif account :
Leuang was riding home
shortly after midnight ween a
jeep cut in front of his car,
forcing him lo stop. Another
jeep then pulled alongside of
the car. and gunmen in both
jeeji opened fire.
KLAMATH FALLS OREGON', THl'HSDAY, DKCEMBKR 5, 13
CARACAS (UPI'-A US. Ar
my colonel was released un
harmed today eight days after
he was kidnaped by terrorists.
"It's a great feeling to be
free again," said Col, James
K. Chenault alter he was re
leased. Chenault, 45, a native of
Sherman. Tex., and a World
War II i anti-tank combat offi
cer, met newsmen at the U.S.
Embassy a few hours after his
release at 6 a.m. lie had been
kidnaped from the doorstep of
his home by four heavily armed
pro-Castro members of the un
derground Armed Forces for
National Liberation lFA-L.Ni.
The officer read a brief
written statement and then an
swered questions. He wore a
neatly pressed Army dress uni
form with three rows of rib
bons. "I was held in some section
of Caracas which 1 cannot
identify other than Ihe fact it
seemed lo be heavily populat
ed," he said. "I was guarded
continually but received rea
sonally good treatment consider
ing the circumstances."
Chenault, deputy command
ing officer of the U.S. military
mission here, was kidnaped as
a "propaganda gesture" by the
FALM after his young captors
had overpowered a Venezuelan
army private acting as his
driver.
Chenault said his kidnapers
tried to get him to read books
on communism but that he re
fused. He replied "no com
ment" when asked if he had
tried to escape while being
held.
Chenauit's release by his cap
tors was carried out without
fanfare. Earlier, anonymous tel
ephone callers had warned he
was considered a "prisoner of
war."
After his release Chenault
took a taxi, to his two-story
lr borne in the eastern end of the
city.
He was.vearin his uniform
shirt and trousers when he
reached home.
Maj. Joseph C. Elevens of Ihe
military mission said Chenault
was in good shape.
About the same time that
Chenault was released, it was
announced that Juan de Dios
Concado, self-styled "supreme
commander" of the FALN ter
rorist organization, was cap
tured by government forces
Wednesday night.
R was not certain whether
there was any connection be
tween the capture of Moncaclo
and the release of Chenault.
After breakfasting at home,
Chenault wenl with his wife to
the U.S. Embassy. They both
looked serious but happy as
they left their home for the 10
minute drive to the embassy.
Blevens, who rushed to the
Chenault home when word was
received of the colonel's re
lease, said Mrs. Chenault was
"overjoyed simply overcome
with joy-'
First word of his release
came from Mrs. Chenault, who
telephoned U.S. Ambassador C.
Allan Stewart minutes after her
husband arrived home.
Though the elder Chenaulls
were grim, but obviously re
lieved that the ordeal had end
ed, their daughter Sandy. 20,
oldest of their three children,
ran from the home of one
neighbor to another announcing
tlie release of her father.
Venezuelan investigators ques
tioned Chenault while he ale
breakfast and he was sched
uled to make 8 full report to
Ambassador Stewart.
Chenault was kidnaped a
week ago Wednesday at 7 a.m.
as he left his home to drive to
Civil Rights Action
WASHINf'TOV U.TI Two
powerful House lenders indicat
ed willingness today lo spur ac
tion on the administration's
stalled civil rights bill but not
until January.
Republican House IjcmUt
Charles A. Hallcck made an
outright pledge to President
Johnson In work for passage of
the legislation.
(hairmi.n Howard W. Smith
of Ihe Rules Committee an
nounced that his group would
begin hearings on (he measure
he opposes "reasonably soon in
January."
The President and Halleck
discussed the situation at an un
scheduled early morning meet
ing at the White House. The In
diana ttcpublican said he had
tlie U.S. military mission, sit
uated at the Cone jo Rlancn
army base on tlie outskirts of
Caracas, one of Venezuela's
largest.
Four armed men previously
had overpowered Chenauit's
Venezuelan army chauffeur and
liad been waiting about five
minutes to surprise him as lie
appeared. He was hutlcd into
a waiting 1962 white Chevrolet
and driven away so quickly
thirt his wile, who had accom
panied him to the door, was not
even aware of what happened.
Texas Chief
Checks Out
Of Hospital
DALLAS (UPI I Texas Gov.
John B. Connally checked out
of Parkland Memorial Hospital
today and prepared lo fly home
to Austin, his bullet-shattered
wrist in a cast, but well on the
way to recovery from the sni
per bullet that liit him ns he
rode with President Kennedy.
Connally said goodbye to 200
doctors, nurses and technicians
in the cafeteria of the hospital,
where Kennedy died Nov. 22.
"I'm ready to go," Connally,
46, said. "I owe my life to you
at Parkland Hospital. I'm sorry
to have met you under these
circumstances."
He said he was looking for
ward to returning and renewing
his friendship with them in
happier limes.
The dying Kennedy and
gravely wounded governor were
wheeled into emergency rooms
at Parkland shortly before 2
p.m EST Nov. 22. '"
The President died of two bul.
let" wounds. One bullet ' had
passed completely through Con
nally. shattered ribs, cut a
lung, broke his right wrist and
lodged in his right thigh. Sur
geons .saved him in a 41 j-hour
operation.
Connally was wheeled out of
the hospital, the cast on his
right wrist resting on a pillow
and a black sling around his
neck. He got out of the chair on
his own power and into an auto
mobile that took him to the air
port. Connally said it will be
"some lime" before he is hack
in his office, and "I won't be
back this month."
Connally said his wrist would
have to be in a cast for 90
days and it will be six months
before he will know whether he
will have full use of his arm.
It was broken twice by the bul
let and Connally said its mend
ing "will be a long rough
thing."
Shooting Hours
OREGON
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promised the President he
could count on I lie supiort of
all five GOP members of
Smith's committee in clearing
the bill to the floor.
Hut Halleck also predicted
tliat the earliest that House pas
sage could be expected would
be in January. He acknowl
edged that Johnson would like
to sec action sooner but as a
"realist." tlie President recog
nized that nothing probably
could be done until alter tlie
new session begins.
Smith, a leader of tlie South
ern bloc, made no mention of
how long he would let the Rules
Committee hearings run.
Smith's proxsal lo conduct
hearings by his House Rules
Commute was the first time
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NEW SIGNS A Farm Bureau membership drive in recognition of Oregon Farm
Bureau Week, Dec. 2-7, was kicked off Wednesday, Dec. 4, with a breakfast at the
Farm Bureau Hall at Mr. Laki. The meal was planned, cooked and served by the
men. Leland Cheyne was chairman. Following breakfast, the group divided into teams
and visited friends end neighbors to inform them of what the Farm Bureau means
to all persons engaged in agriculture. Every member is eligible for a safety sign
bearing "Stop" on one side and Farm Bureau Member on the opposite to be placed
in the ranch driveway. Left to right are members who helped: Jim Enman, Henley
Center treasurer; Percy Dixon, charter member; Jack O'Connor, Henley Center
chairman, and Wilbur Harnsberger, Klamath County president.
Committee Working On Tax Cut Bill
Hay Get Early Peek At New Budget
WASHINGTON (UPD Presi
dent Johnson may Rive the Sen
ate Finance Committee on ad
vance peek aHlis budget pro
posals to help expedite action
on Ihe priority tax cut bill.
The 17-member committee is
moving toward the end of its
long public hearings on the
President
Series Of
WASHINGTON (UPI) -A Ne
gro leader said today after meet
ing with President Johnson that
church sit-ins might be the next
course of antidiscrimination
demonstrations if a Senate fili
buster occurs over civil rights
legislation.
A. Philip Randolph, fifth Ne
gro leader to be invited to the
White House to see Johnson in
less than a week, told news
men of possible "people's edu
cation filibusters" in churches,
with round-the-clock meetings,
in event a talkathon stalled the
legislation.
Johnson breakfasted earlier
with House Republican Leader
Charles A. Hallcck who predict
ed House passage of the civil
rights bill next month. This was
the second successive day that
Johnson had held a secretive
session with a Itcpublcan con
gressional leader and got a
pledge of help toward passage
of the rights bill.
In addition In civil rights, the
Chief Executive concentrated
on a broad spectrum of prob
lems both national and inter
national. At 3 p.m. F.ST, he presides
Likely
the veteran Virginia Democrat
had given any sign of willing-
Wild West
In England
BRISTOL, England IUPH
John Wakesman, 24, and Dud
ley White, 22, were fined t224
Wednesday for firing flaming
metal arrows into the sides of
passing trains and buses.
"It reminds one." said an
attorney, "of hoslile Indians
on the plains of Colorado, with
attacks on wagon trains and
Ihe defenses of General Cus
ter and Colonel Cody."
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House-passed bill providing the
biggest tax cut in history a
net $11 billion reduction over
two years. '
Including, today, 22 more wit
nesses remained to be heard.
Public hearings are expected to
end next Monday. Then the
committee plans executive ses-
Continues
Meetings
for the first time as President
at a meeting of the National
Security Council. It has been
arranged that Sicakcr John W.
McCormack, D-Mass., next in
line of succession to the presi
dency, attend council meetings
and other top-drawer sessions
on national security to keep
him informed in case of an
emergency.
Johnson was also scheduled
to meet with Gen. Maxwell D.
Taylor, chairman of Ihe Joint
Chiefs of Staff, for further dis
cussion of defense matters at
4 p.m.
The President also had an ap
pointment listed with Anthony
J. Cclcbrczzc, secretary of
health, education and welfare,
at 5 p.m. The meeting was an
other in a daily scries with in
dividual cabinet members de
signed to familiarize Johnson
with I heir operations and 'to
give him a chance to spell out
lo them his views. Johnson saw
Agriculture Secretary Orville L.
Freeman Wednesday.
The Randolph meeting
marked Johnson's fourth with a
prominent Negro leader in as
many days and his filth since
Inst Friday,
But Not
ness to start Ihe bill on the way
lo House action.
Tlie bill, designed to elimi
nate racial discrimination in
voting, education,. employment,
public accommodations and the
use of public funds, has been
before Smith's committee for
two weeks.
In an effort to get things
moving, House Democratic
leaders, with the backing of
President Johnson, put Into mo
tion machinery to bypasa the
Rules Committee and push
the bill to the floor early In
January.
While this move via a dis
charge petition appeared to
lack any significant prospects
of success, It apparently caused
Smith to arrange hearings.
Weather
LONO HANOI OUTLOOK
Wttathtr Mtttms trt ctanglnf stow,
ty and MM causa an icr in cloud
tnou and a Knc of sfcowtrt Satur
day r Sunday. Tamparaturtt will
continu mild wifti n hot or cold ax-Iramak
ions to start Voting on some
25 to 30 pending amendments. :
A key element to early action
or tlie bill next year will be
Johnson's spending proposals,
which he must send to Con
gress in his budget message by
Jan. 18.
The new Chief Executive is
committed, as was the late
President Kennedy, to hold
down government spending,
thus enhancing chances for pas
sage of tlie becalmed tax cut
measure.
Several members of tlie tax-
writing committee said private
ly tlicy expect Johnson to let
tlie panel know well in advance
of tlie Jan. 18 date what .his
spending plans will be. If given
advance assurances of govern-,
ment economy, the conscrva-'
tive bloc on Uie committee
would find it easier to support
tax reduction.
Bill Signed
By Hatfield
SALEM fUPI) -The bill to
shift ownership of the proposed
ino.OOO-acre Boardman space
age industrial park to the Veter
ans Affairs Department, and
clear the last hurdle to Boeing
Company's lease of the area,
was signed today by Gov. Mark
Hatfield.
Press secretary Travis Cross
said the governor signed tlie bill
shortly after 9 a.m. There was
no special ceremony.
The measure was rushed
through the special session of
Ihe legislature, and given final
approval late Monday just be
fore the lawmakers adjourned.
Hatfield made no comment
about the measure at the time
he signed it.
this Year
In a statement issued by his
office. Smith pointed out that he
received tlie final section of the
House Judiciary Committee re
port on tlie bill only Wednes
day. This was taken as an an
swer to charges that the Rules
Committee was blocking the
bill.
It was not known immediate
ly whether Smith's offer to
start hearings in January, after
Congress returns for its second
session, would be acceptable to
House ie.iders and civil rights
supporters.
The effort to bypass Smith's
committee is scheduled to shift
into high gear Monday when
civil right supporters have an
nounced they will seek signa
tures for a discharge petition.
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