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WATER RAVAGES AREA On the right side of this street stand homes. On the left,
all that is left is the pads where the homes were before the Baldwin Hills Reservoir
Dam (background) burst, tossing houses and automobiles like toys onto the crest of
the flood. The arrow points to the huge crack in the dam. At least 50 homes were de
stroyed by the gallons of water that roared through the broken fissure of the dam.
Residents of the area returned today to sort through the debris. UPI Telephoto
In The-
Day's lews
By FRANK JENKINS
From Moscow this morning:
The Soviet parliament re
ceived for formal approval to
day an unprecedented $212.3
BILLION peacetime budget for
the next two vcars that empha
sized BREAD AND BUTTER
instead of guns.
'Premier Khrushchev looked
on approvingly in the Grand
Kremlin Palace as Defense Min
ister Vasily Garbuzov read out
the figures, lopping off $666 mil
lion from DEFENSE spending
for the next year.
At the same time, $27.1 bil
lion was allocated to the na
tion's failing agriculture, over
the next two years and the
green light was given to a
chemistry industry build - up
which will supply the farms
with fertilizer and also satisfy
GROWING DEMANDS FOR
MORE CONSUMER GOODS.
This is the interesting part of
the story:
President Kroosh and his ad
visers appear to be coming to
the conclusion that it just might
be SAFER FOR THEM to
spend less for guns (and atom
bombs t w ith which to conquer
the world for communism and
more for butter (and also for
STEAKS and better houses and
better clothing and more auto
mobiles) and the other things
that go to make up the GOOD
LIFE that the people of the
Western world seem to be hav
ing in much greater abundance
than the people of the U.S.S.R.
That, if true, could be highly
significant.
Fome interesting figures:
The present estimated popula
tion of the United States is
about 188.000.000.
The present estimated popula
tion of the U.S.S.R. is about
220.000.000.
The anticipated federal budg
et of the U.S. for the next fis
cal year is in the neighborhood
of $100 billion.
The anticipated budget of the
U.S. S R. for the next year, ac
cording to this morning s dis
patches from Moscow, will be
about $106 billion.
Which is to ay:
Thp per capita federal tax in
th U.S. for the next fiscal year
w ill he about $
The per capita tax in the
U S S R, for the next fiscal year
will be about HS2.
Tlie.e figures, of course, don t
mean much.
The value of an American dol
lar depends entirely on how
much o( the necessities and the
good thine of 1 He a dollar will
buy.
The value of a Russian ruble
'which in foreian exchanee is
worth about $111' depends en
tirely on how much of the eood
things of li:e a rutiie will buy.
In this country, we're quite cer-
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Reds Announce Record
Bread, Butter Budget
(MOSCOW (UPIi Eussia to
day announced a record $212.3
billion peacetime budget for the
next two years that emphasized
bread and butter instead of
guns.
The budget presented to the
Soviet Parliament cut mili
tary spending by 4.4 per cent
from tile previous budget. Mili
tary expenditures represented
about 14.6 per cent of the total
budget compared to 16.1 per
cent during the current year.
The total budget was 193 bil
lion rubles. At the artificial rate
of exchange, the ruble is fig
ured at approximately $1.10.
Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev
looked on approvingly in the
Grand Kremlin Palace as Fi
nance Minister Vasily Garbuzov
read out the figures, lopping off
$666 million from defense spend
ing for the next year.
At the same time, $27.1 bil
lion was allocated to the na
tion's failing agriculture over
the next two years and the
green light was given to a
chemical industry buildup w hich
w ill supply the farms with ferti
lizer and also satisfy growing
demands for more consumer
goods.
Khrushchev and his advisers
had taken a cautious Jook into
the future and apparently de
cided that some funds could be
safely diverted from defense
and massive sums poured into
agriculture and die chemical in
dustry to prevent a recurrence
U.S. Shifts
Cuba Ruling
WASHINGTON 'UPI' - The
United States today amended
its controls on free world ship
ping to Cuba to provide in
creased incentive for shipown
ers to remove vessels from
trade with the Fidel Castro re
gime. State Department officials ex
pressed hope the new regula
tions will result in "a substan
tial additional reduction" in
free world shipping to Cuba
over the next year or 13
months.
They said the new rules were
designed to make it easier for
shipowners to withdraw from
Cuban trade.
The old U.S. regulations went
into effect last Feb. . They
provided that any vessel which
had traded with Cuba since Jan.
I. I3. would be placed on a
blacklist and would be ineligi
ble to load U S. government-financed
cargoes in U S. ports.
Under the old procedure the
only way an ouner could get a
veafcl off the blacklist was to
plcdce that all of his fleet would
be removed from Cuban trade.
of this year's disastrous harv
ests. U.S. Ambassador Foy D. Koh
ler and other envoys of both
East ond West watched the
speaker read out to 1444 depu
ties at a joint session of the
Supreme Soviet provisions of
the new budget.
Pyotr Lomako, chairman of
the state planning committee,
presented a two-year economic
plan to bring Soviet production
by 1965 to the United States
level of five years ago.
Tin Miners
Okay Pact
LA PAZ, Bolivia (UPI '-Rebellious
tin miners at Catavi to
day voted approval of an agree
ment reached with the govern
ment by their leaders lor Mie
immediate release of 21 hos
tages, including four Ameri
cans, held since Dec. 6.
The vole came after hours of
bitter wrangling at the rally,
held in (lie mine, where mine
leader Vice President Juan
Lechin was alternately attacked
and defended for his handling
of the situation.
The embattled miners had
previously demanded the re
lease of three arrested Commu
nist labor leaders held in La
Paz in exchange for freedom
for the hostages.
Lechin arrived in Catavi late
Sunday to get the miners to
ratify the agreement announced
during the weekend in La Paz.
The only concession Lechin was
known to have won was a gov--ernment
agreement to withdraw
troops deployed in the mining
area.
Aid Funds
Cut Backed
WASHINGTON 'UPI' House
leaders all but gave up hope to
day in tiie battle to add new
funds to the trimmed-down $2 8
billion foreign aid bill.
Speaker John W. McCormaik
told newsmen that the possibil
ity of persuading House mem
bers to increase die bill's total
was being "surveyed." But his
cautious altitude appeared to
reflect the outcome of a prelim
inary head count, which was
said to have shown that admin
istration leaders could not mus
ter enough votes to boost the
aid program.
In fact it appeared that they
would he lucky to block a drive
to pare d'wn the bill even
further.
Thankful Residents Return To Ravaged
LOS ANGELES (UPP-Bald-win
Hills area residents re
turned to their flood ravaged
homes today thankful only three
persons were killed when an
earth reservoir dam burst and
caused $10 million damage.
A warning of nearly four
hours was credited with pre
venting it "from becoming one
of the big disasters of all time."
With these words, city atty.
Roger Arnebergh seemed to
sum up the feelings of city of
ficials that most residents of
Wenllior
Klamath Palls. Tultlaha and Lake
view: Moilly clsuriy tftrouah Tuctday
with a chanct el inow or thowers lata
Tuesday. Lew tonight U-M. High Tues
day aoS.
High yesterday 4?
Low this morning 34
High year age 44
Low year agr, 40
Precip. past 34 hours
Since Jan. 1 9. ft
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Big College Aid Bill
Signed By President
WASHINGTON (liPI Pres
ident Johnson today signed into
law the $1.2 billion college aid
bill and said it is proof the na
tion plans to give its youth "all
the education they deserve."
The President, who signed the
legislation at a ceremony in the
White House Cabinet Room,
termed it "the most significant
education bill passed by the
Congress in the history of the
republic." The new program
provides for grants and loans
to help build college classrooms
libraries and laboratories.
But Johnson warned that the
job is far from finished. He
urged Congress to take prompt
action on the rest of the admin
istration's education proposals,
particularly aid to primary and
secondary schools, and govern
ment support of adult educa
tion programs.
In a tribute to President Ken
nedy, who -waged a long fight
"there was no topic closer to
Arctic Air
Hits Plains
Of Midwest
By United Press International
An Arctic air mass sent tem
peratures falling far below zero
across the plains and Midwest
today with subfreezing temper
atures reported as far south as
the central Gulf states.
The mercury plunged to 36
degrees below zero at Bemidji,
Minn., and 30 below at Interna
tional Falls, Minn.
Locally heavy snow squalls
blew off the Great Lakes east
ward to the Appalachians. Mus
kegon, Mich., reported six inch
es of frc. snow in six hours
today, making a total of 15
inches on the ground.
Rain and snow fell along the
northwest coast. A half inch of
rain fell at Astoria, Ore., in six
hours and another inch of snow
put nine inches on the ground
at Spokane, Wash.
Mostly fair skies prevailed
across the nation with some
olotidiness in the upper Ohio
Valley, south central states and
the Gulf Coast.
Precipitation has been gener
ally light in the Great Lakes
and Ohio Valley. Traverse City.
Mich., however, reported an
additional six inches of snow.
Maine. New Hampshire, Ver
mont and Rltode Island were
caught under a freeze-up of
temperatures zero and slightly
below.
At Buffalo, N.Y., traffic
bogged down in the blowing,
drilling snow which clogced
highways and reduced visibility
to the danger point.
Southern Erie and northern
Cattaraugus counties, N.Y., suf
fered its worst w intery blasts of
the season.
Santa Readies
Visit To KF
Santa Claus and his icindeer
come to hjamath Falls Wednes
day. The appearance of Santa and
his reindeer is sponsored by
the Klamath Merchants Associ
ation. Children will be allowed
lo pet the reindeer and Santa
will talk to children no Main
Street between Filth and Sivth
streets from 4 to 9 pm Wednesday.
the heavily populated area es
caped death Saturday when a
wall of water destroyed or dam
aged nearly 1,000 homes.
However, there was a possi
bility the death toll might rise
higher as residents and workers
dug through three and four feet
of mud.
A path of water, almost 40
feet wide, ripped through an
area a mile and a half square
with homes up to the $50,000
class.
Police threw up a cordon
around the area to prevent Unit
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his heart." He said the bill was
a monument not only to Ken
nedy, but "to every person who
participated in passing it."
Tile President used about 50
pens to sign the bill, passing
them out afterward to con
gressmen and educators attend
ing the ceremony. The first two
went to Sen. Wayne L. Morse,
D-Ore., and Rep. Edith Green,
D-Ore., the managers of the
bill.
The three-year program is de
signed to meet an expected "ti
dal wave" of college students
in the 19H0-70 decade. A major
part of the late President Ken
nedy's education request, the
bill would authorize the first
broad assistance program for
the nation's colleges since the
land grant act of a century ago.
If used to the limit, the $835
million in direct federal grants
and $360 million in low-interest
loans could generate up to $3
billion in new construction on
the campuses of 2,100 pub
lic and private colleges, univer
sities and technical institutes.
Colleges will have to match
federal grants two to one, and
supply at least one-quarter of
total project costs when seeking
the 50-year loans.
Tile program will be open to
privately endowed and church
connected institutions as well as
publicly owned and financed
schools. No funds will be spent
on chapels or divinity schools,
nor on sports arenas or other
buildings to which admission
would be charged.
There also are limitations on
use of the $fi!X million ear
marked for grants to help build
undergraduate academic facili
ties. Classroom buildings under
that part of the program will
have to be designed for instruc
tion in the sciences, mathemat
ics, engineering and modern for
eign languages.
All Details Completed
On Boardman Leasing
SALEM l UPI I -With Ore
gon's lease of the planned
Boardman Space Age Industrial
Park apparently an accomplish
ed fact, the Boeing Company
Board of Directors was expected
to meet today and appropriate
funds (or initial development of
the project.
H. C. Saalfeld. director of the
state's Veterans' Affairs Depart
ment which now owns the lull,-000-acre
tract in northeastern
Oregon, said "we have per
formed all the state's obliga
tions." Planning and Development Di
rector Samuel H. Mallicoat. who
has mothered the crisis-ridden
project for three years, said
"the state has met its require
ments. It's now up to Boeing.
We expect an appropriation to
be authorized by the company's
directors at their meeting to
day." Loren Hicks, legal advisor lo
Gov. Mark Hatfield, said "the
stale has now completed its
part, and the lease and attach
ments and title policy have gone
to Boeing "
Mallicoat and Saalfeld said
Boeing attorney Giant Anderson
had g i v e n his unqualified en
dorsement of the state's title lo
the land the final act needed
to make the lease operative.
Hicks commented "I think the
big hurdle is now passed and
we have perfected title."
Mallicoat said Anderson took
the lease, bile policy and other
ing and only residents with
passes were allowed to pass.
Hundreds of policemen patrolled
the muddy, debris-filled area.
Mayor Samuel Yorty Sunday
appointed the heads of three
leading universities in the area
to nominate members for a
blue ribbon fact finding board
of inquiry.
The appointments were
promptly accepted by Dr. Nor
man Topping, president of the
University of Southern Califor
nia; Dr. Franklin Murphy,
president of UCL. and Dr. 1-ce
KLAMATH FALLS. ORKGOX,
To
By JOSEPH W. GRIGG
PARIS (UPI) President Johnson pledged firmly
today to keep the equivalent of six U.S. Army divisions
in Europe "so long as they are needed."
"Under present circumstances there is no doubt
they will continue to be needed," Johnson said in a
message to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
council meeting here.
Johnson also pledged the "steadfast resolve" of the
United States to continue defending the free nations of
Europe.
U.S. Secretary of State
Dean Rusk read Johnson's
message to the opening
session, of the three-day
NATO meeting.
Immediately afterward,
Rusk drove to the Elysee
Palace for a 45-minute
courtesy call on President
Charles do Gaulle of
France.
Rusk gave the French leader
a message from Johnson ex
pressing appreciation for De
Gaulle's recent trip to Washing
ton for the funeral of President
Kennedy. However, nothing
was said about a possible new
visit by He Gaulle to Washing
ton lor talks with Johnson.
But today s - meeting, ar
ranged at Husk s request, ap
peared designed to infuse
warmth into the long frigid of
ficial relations between the
United Slates and France.
In its opening session the
NATO council also heard Brit
ish Foreign Secretary R. A.
Butler express belief that the
West today enjoys an over-all
superiority of force over Hie
Russians. But he warned that
the Russians will make "every
effort" to close this gap.
Butler said the Soviets did
not favor major concessions to
the West. Nor, he said, did they
want any big sliowdow-ns with
the West. He urged that the
West should maintain contacts
with Russians but said lie ttad
no illusions about early agree
ments or early solutionc to
East-West problems with Mos
cow. Butler said the main Uireat
from Communist China is not
documents to Seattle, where
they were to be turned over to
William Allen, Boeing president.
Saalfeld said final review of
the documents by his staff,
planning and development
workers, and Anderson was
completed at 12:45 a.m. Satur
day. Today was the deadline for
perfecting the title.
Saalfeld said Boeing has 10
days from receipt of the docu
ments for review, and if any
last-minute flaw Is discovered,
the state has 90 days in which
to correct it.
Saalfeld added: "It looks good
I'm pretty confident about the
whole project now."
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DuBridge, president of the Cal
ifornia Institute of Technology.
The death toll could have
been staggering had the dam
broken at night.
"Hundreds of the 16.500 resi
dents would have been killed,"
said a policeman who helped
clear the area. "Had it taken
us another 15 minutes we prob
ably all would have been lost."
Officer T. B. Mason said he
and other policemen were sent
to the scene immediately after
a crack, appeared in the north
wall of the 500-foot long, 135-
MONDAY, DECEMBER IB, 1W3
Sap Meimi
one of military aggression but
of encouragement to action
against the Chinese. He said
(lie Hcd Chinese also appear
determined to avoid a clash.
President Johnson's message,
in pledging America's firm re
solve to continue U.S. commit
ments to live defense of Europe,
said:
"This constancy reflects not
mer.ely the community of
ideals and culture which binds
us to Europe. It reflects also
my country's awareness that
its security can be assured, its
interest and values can be fur
thered, only by a close partner
ship with Europe in common
tasks.
Johnson said the first of those
tasks is creation of a balanced
defense posture for (NATO, in
eluding both nuclear and con
ventional forces which would en.
able the alliance to deal with
aggression "with the force ap
propriate to the threat.
High Court
Nullifies
Conviction
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
Supreme Court today reversed
the contempt convictions of two
Southern segregationists who
had been joined in their apeal
by the NAACP, the American
Civil Liberties Union and the
Justice Department.
Tile court sklcsteppcd a
broader issue presented by the
case: Whether a court order in
volving free speech and assem
bly can be tested by disobedi
ence or wlieUier it must be ap
pealed through legal channels.
The juslices, in their brief
unsigned opinion, merely cited
a lack of evidence as the rea
son for the reversal.
The two men involved were
Edward R. Fields, party infor
mation director of the National
States Rights party, and Rob
ert Lyons, youth organizer for
the group. They were convicted
of contempt after being forbid
den to distribute handbills and
hold an anti-integration meeting
in Kairfield, Ala.
In another action, the court
refused a liearing to a group of
Negroes who challenged Mis
sissippi's segregation statutes.
The Negroes, headed by the
Rev. L. A. Clark of Jackson,
had been turned down in lower
federal courts on grounds Ihey
could not act for all members
of Uieir race a practice known
legally as "class action."
live court also:
Agreed to decide a bound
ary dispute between Louisiana
and Mississippi involving oil
rich land under die Mississippi
River. Iiiisiana authorities
were authorized to file the suit
with the high tribunal and Mis
sissippi was given 90 days (o
file an answe.
Threw out two cases deal
ing with obscenity tests in Los
Angeles involving the Henry
Miller book. 'Tropic of Can
cer." It reiected an aptwal by
City Attorney Roger Arnebergh
who had been challenged by a
bookseller on grounds the novel
did not fall in the clasttfication
of "hard core pornography."
foot high dam. He said many
residents didn't even know the
dam existed.
Max K. Socha, chief engineer
of water works, said the dam
designed by the late R. R.
Proctor, was one of the most
advanced structures of its type.
Proctor, who died a year ago,
was a worldwide authority on
earth-empacted fills, and the
Baldwin Hills dam had served
as a model in both hemis
pheres, Socha said.
Although an oflicial investiga
tion was being held, observers
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Talks Prove Useless
On Berlin Wall Truce
BERLIN (UPD-East Ger
man Communist lcailer Walter
Ulbricht said in a telegram re
leased today that negotiations
on Christmas passes for West
Berliners to visit their rela
tives behind the wall in East
Berlin have been fruitless.
Ulbricht said in the wire to
the West German Socialist par
ly that progress has been
"blocked" by the refusal of the
West Berlin city government to
sign an agreement on such vis
its.
The East German Communist
chief claimed the West Berlin
city government has rejected
on political grounds the East
German plan to issue passes so
that West Berliners mav visit
with their East Berlin relatives
during the Christmas season.
Ulbricht appealed to West
German Socialist leaders to in
struct the Socialist-run West
Berlin city government to ac
cept the Last German plan
Negotiations on the Christmas
passes began Dec. 5 but have
bogged down over what West
Berlin officials consider to be a
back-door East German de
mand for recognition of their
regime.
Ulbricht's telegram was sent
Saturday and released by t h e
East German News service
ADN today.
It dimmed further the hopes
of West Berliners that they
would get tlie Christmas passes.
The official East German
Communist parly newspaper
Neues Deutschland accused the
West Berlin city government of
refusing to give guarantees
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HE WILL RECEIVE GIFTS Franklin Gray has no known
relatives. He has been at the Klamath Nursing Home for
more than a year. For many years ho was employed at
ranch work in Klamath County and one lived at Bonanza.
He was born in Warm Springs, Wyo., Nov. 14, 1874. H
it one of the 36 men at the home who will be remembered
through the generosity of the folks in the Klamath country,
during the annual Share Your Christmas Party Dee. 20,
sponsored by the Herald and News.
Region
speculated a series of holes in
the concrete and asphalt lining,
revealed after the 300 million
gallons of w ater emptied, could
have been the cause of the col
lapse. Subsidence caused by oil be
ing removed by the many
pumps that dot the area near
by was another possibility, as
was weakening caused by
movement of the earth and
cracking and stretching of the
earth in the area.
Whatever the cause, there
were hundreds of homeless.
Weather
LONG-HANOI FORECAST
C hinging wtthtr ptlttrni Indicate
mild limptralurt with prtclpitlinn
In Hit form of nw or khowtrt on Wed
ntsday and Frtdty.
that It would live up to pass
agreement.
The city government consid
ered the guarantees demanded
by the Communists a bid for
recognition of the East German
government.
The Communists made the
charge as East German and
West Berlin negotiators sched
uled another meeting today in
an effort to break the deadlock
on the passes.
Child Gets
Last Look
BOWLING GREEN, S.C.
(UPI) - Two-year-old Vickl
Wray, partially blinded by can
cer, joined her eight brothers
and sisters today for a last look
at the family Cliristmos tree.
Vicki will enter Duke Univer
sity Medical Center at Durham,
N.C., Tuesday where doctors
will remove her right eye. Her
left eye had been removed last
July in an attempt to save (he
child's life.
"There really won't be any
Christmas in this house," said
her father, Robert Wray, a $50-a-week
mill hand who works in
nearby Clover. "I've told the
big children not to expect any
thing. I don't know how to tell
the little ones."
Wray, 39, said Vicki's Christ
mas wish was a tree, decorat
ed Willi colored bulbs and shin
ing ornaments. Lacking enough
money to purchase one, he went
to some nearby woods and cut
down a tree.
"We had some ornaments left
over from last year and used
those," he said. "But there will
be no presents."
Doctors discovered a malig
nant tumor in Vicki's eyes last
March and now think another
of Wray's children, a month-old
infant, may be similarly afflict
ed. Wray and his wife will
bring the infant, Edward, to
Durham for observation.
"Hope is all we've got left,"
said the child's mother.
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