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Newspaper Page TextGEN.rft'r.ArW DOCUHStl.rS DIV. Jtwto, Reindeer To Arrive Wednesday At 4 P.M. For Main Street Stay lm The- Day's km By FRANK JENKINS The news today? It's an odd mixture. Let's get our teeth into it. In East Chicago, a barge loaded with 12.000 barrels of toluene sinks in the ship canal that leads in from Lake Mich igan. The barge went down by the stern, with the bow stick ing up. The toluene began to pour out and spread over the water. What's toluene? It's a blend of gasoline that is used to increase the quality of ordinary motor fuels. It is also a component of TNT. As the stuff spread over the water, the whole canal became "like dynamite," as one fireman put it. The exposive condition spread for three-quarters of a mile. Kor 14 hours, the people of East Chicago lived in fear of a holocaust that might have dwarfed the big Chicago fire that started when Mrs. O'Lea ry's cow kicked over the lamp baa: in 1871, 92 years ago. One match could have done it. How was it prevented? Firemen poured FOAM on the canal. Smoking was rigidly banned. They finally got a hose into the hold o! the barge and pumped the toluene out into waiting tank cars. Fourteen hours alter the leak started, the city's fire chief gave the ALL CLEAR signal. What a sigh of relief must have gone up! Down in Atlanta, they're hav ing trouble with starlings. What's a starling? It's a black songbird with a long sharp bill. It multiplies very rapidly. II also has unsan itary personal habits. It has a reprehensible habit of roosting on handsome public buildings especially white ones. It is quarrelsome, and with its long sharp bill it drives other birds away. The starlings have been mess ing up the handsome Georgia state capitol building. So the secretary of stale, Ben Fort son, decided that something had In be done about it. This was his scheme: Every few min utes, eight selected marksmen lircd shotguns into the swarm ing birds, killing thousands of them. The idea, the secretary of state explains, was to SCARE the birds not to kill them off. How did it work? Mr. Fortson says this morn ing: . "We might just as well have put' out a sign reading NO STARLINGS ALLOWED. Every time we'd shoot one starling, ten more would come in from somewhere." How did the starlings get lo the U.S.A? Well, back in 1890, some peo ple who thought that New York ought to look like London im ported 60 of the birds from England and turned them loose in Central Park. They've since spread all over the country finally showing up here in Oregon. In Portland, they've soiled some handsome buildings. Worse still, they have a bad habit of roosting in com v'miercial holly groves, where 'they mess up both the berry clusters and the bright green leaves. In Eastern Oregon and Ida ho, there are complaints that they appear in huge flocks in the feeding lots and consume a lot of feed designed for the cat lie. So far. no bitter complaints about the starlings have come from our own Southern Oregon. Boat Sold This boat owner used the Herald and News Want ads. giving an adequate descrip tion and running the ad a week. He received only one call but it sold the boat and got the cash. 09 SOLE - :' Commercial Troller, IT,, PO 4 two! gurflin. galloy nova. 100 ' ' " " Hal marine ""! 'J! I ,,. r. TM1 veil K lZo Z W.II "h "'. Comma-Ciill Ml"" "r Fu". Jr " 1; sm cwnDieu Mav Do w ' C'ji irr Moor.oe. TolWO. Ore For lurmer information! pnono v Use the Want Ads for ail "wants." It s easy. Dial TU "wants." It s easy. Dial TU 4-8111 and stop in at rl Es planade. A Want Ad Writer will be plan 10 m-ip y your ad. Weal her Klamatft fillt. TutaUkl an Lako- viow Partly cloudy and cool again Ismont olid lowt 1 U to H. Coni.O traoit doudinau Md miM with inow ar Uiowtrt twqinning lilt Wadnoaday. Huh Wadnoaday 44 to 44. High vaalorday 7 Lew this morninf 11 Hit ttir 49a 41 Low voir ago u Precia. Ian 14 hours .M tinea Jan. 1 oaa Soma oartod last yaar - 14.94 m NA TO Partners Asked To Carry Larger Load PARIS UPD - The United States called on its NATO part ners today to carry more of the Western defense burden and warned failure to do so would make the American Congress and people "increasingly rest less." Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara repeated President Johnson's pledge that Ameri can forces will remain in Eu rope at their present strength of about six Army divisions even though they are draining off American gold. But he warned the European members of the Atlantic Alli ance tliey must bring their own military forces up to the same degree of strength as are the Americans, which are main tained on a ready-for-combat basis. McNamara addressed the third session of a three - day meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) council. Can Deter Attack The NATO alliance. McNam ara declared, has sufficient nu clear forces to deter a Soviet atomic attack. But Western conventional or non-nuclear for ces must be strengthened to deal w ith possible limited Com Exile Reports Seeing Huge Rockets In Cuba MIAMI 1UPI1-A Cuban re fugee reported Monday he saw a Russian convoy of trucks and trailers transporting what ap peared to be huge rockets on a highway in Cuba. Ignacio Bladeres, a 21-year-old skin diver, said the "cylin drical objects" aboard the ve hicles were covered with can vas but they "certainly must be rockets . . . (andi really big ones." Bladeres, who fled the Com munist island with three friends was picked up by an American Meaty Problem Takes Study LONDON (LTD Labor parly Member of Parliament Marcus Joe Lipton attacked "this palsied government of ours" Monday night when a spokesman admitted it 1 0 0 k the Agriculture Ministry sev en years to complete a study on how much meat should be in a meat pie. "V " 4t V 1 LEARNING AGAIN Mrs. Marie Gray it a native of Oregon, born Dec. 21, 1895. She it the victim of a stroke, it bedridden and mutt learn lo tpeak again, al ready hat learned a few wordt. She knows that Santa hat gl f is in hit pack for her and that the gay old fellow, who tells jokes while delivering package!, will be at the Klamath Nurting Home Friday, Dec. 20. The 54 men and women will be guettt of the Klamath Basin retidentt, who have to generously contributed giftt again thit year for Santa's pack. The Share Your Chrittmat Party it tpontored by the Herald and Newt. Price Ten Cents 16 Pages deceives Support munist military attacks in Ber lin, or on the southern or north ern flanks of NATO's front, he insisted. He indicated it is now up to America's allies to make these increases in non - nuclear strength, to match the tremend ous effort of the United States since 1961. McNamara said the picture in the public mind of a West hopelessly outnumbered and outgunned by hordes of Com munists and. consequently. United Fund Total Passes $126,1 The United Fund campaign inched toward its goal today and is approaching the total raised last year in Klamath County. Latest figures show that $125, 450.89 has been raised 85.3 per cent of the goal of $148,311. Last year's drive raised $127, 000. United Fund officials said the current total has been raised oil tanker when the refugees' small boat sank about 15 miles off the Florida coast. Fifty three other refugees arrived here from Cuba over the week end. Several Cuban fishermen said Soviet captains are in command of a number of the more than 200 patrol boats in Premier Fi del Castro's coastal navy. "They have to use interpret ers to give orders," said one refugee, the captain of one of two vessels which fled Cuba to gether. "There are many Russians still in Cuba, at least several thousand, I would say," he said. "There are also a lot of Chi nese who are supposed to be technicians.1' Many of the refugees were joulhs fleeing Castro's new compulsory draft law for all males between the ages of lfi and 44. They reported that house-to-house surveys made it "virtual ly impossible" lo avoid regis tering for Ibe draft which, tliey said, already has signed up more than one million youths and men. it t - .? doomed to rely on immediate resort to nuclear weapons for every contingency, no matter how limited in character, is open to serious question. In stressing this. McNamara spoke up for the United States policy of a "strategic pause" in case of Soviet attack in the West. The United States asserts that such an attack should be resisted at first by conventional forces until it is clear whether the Russians have launched all out war. w ith completion of 66 per cent of the planned calls. On a call-to-call comparison, this year's campaign is running 10 per cent that of last year. Kingsley Field, which has completed its campaign and turned in its money, still leads the divisions with a total of $9, 361.84 133.7 per cent of its $7,000 goal. . Right behind Kingsley is the Special Gifts division with $4, 803 111.7 per cent of its goal of $4,300. " Large Firms I jumped into third spot Jast week with the more than $16,000 donation from Weyerhaeuser Timber Compa ny and its employes. This divi sion's total now stands at $38, 921.7295 per cent of its $41, 000 goal. Other divisions, their current totals and percentages of goals are: Education, $9,799.75, 89.1 per cent: Pilot $30,131.78, 85.3 per cent: Downtown I, $10.550 63, 81.2 per cent; Professional, $8. 473.70, 70.6 per cent: Large Firms II, $3,942.73. 60.6 per cent; County $3,932.75, 56.2 per cent; Public Employes, $:), 362.44. 56 per cent: and Down town II, $3,170.30, 52.8 per cent. Chill Blasts North Area By United Press International Temperatures dipped below zero across the North again to day and more snow blanketed communities along the lee side of the Great Lakes. The mercury plunged to 16 bolow zero at Rome. N.Y., and 11 below at Lone Rock, Wis. Snow fell during the night at Syracuse, N.Y., adding to the 14 inches that fell Monday. As much as a foot of new snow was forecast in western New York. Three elderly men died of ap parent heart attacks Monday while shoveling snow in Syra cuse. The hard freeze aggravated the drought problem for Wil mington, Ohio, where a six-inch pipeline used (0 carry water from a lake five miles 'run town was frozen solid. Water consumption has been re stricted. Shooting Hours OREGON December 18 Open Close 7 p.m. 4:40 p.m. CALIFORNIA December 18 Open Close 7:00 a.m. 4:36 p.m. KLAMATH FALLS. ORF.GON. - m W ON DONNER, ON BLITZEN come to Klamath rails Wednesday afternoon. The appearance it tpontored by the Klamath Merchants Association and will feature Santa and hit reindeer on Main Street between Fifth and Sixth ttreett from 4 to 9 p.m. The reindeer will be in pent for children to pet them and Santa will talk to the youngttert about what they want for Chrittmat. Iron And Steel Cutbacks Ordered To Bolster MOSCOW (UPD Premier Ni kila S. Khrushchev has ordered a cutback in plans for the na tion's iron and slccl industry to provide funds for the buildup in tlie chemical industry and farming, economic experts said today. The Supreme Soviet today continued its debate on the budget and economic plan for the next two years. The parlia ment was expected lo adopt both with only minor changes Wednesday. Khrushchev also provided for a $660 million cut in military Needy Family Deadline Near The deadline for referring needy families to the Christmas Center will be Wednesday, Dec. 18, at 5 p.m. in order to iermit screening and other arrange ments for their participation in the Christmas Center cheer program. The telephone num ber Is TU 4-8829. The Chrislmas Store, where parents may go and purchase toys and clothing for their chil dren on the point system, will be open Saturday, Dec. 21, and Monday, Dec. 21. Surprise SALEM (UPI - Oregon's disaster machinery was thrown into action Monday night when Gov. Mark Hatfield called an unscheduled test alert. While the operation was not without flaws, most disaster personnel were pleased with the test. Hatfield cancelled an engage ment in Portland, and at 0:15 p.m. called his executive assis tant, Warne Nunn, and ordered the test alert. The mythical problem as sumed there had been an ex plosion which split the Detroit Dam, unleashing millions of gal- TUESDAY. OKCEMHKR 17. 1963 (Pledge Santa Claut with all hit Russian Agriculture spending to help finance the seven-year crash program to develop the chemical industry and solve the chronic farm shortages with chemical fertil izers. Military Remains Strong But he warned Monday night that despite these projected cuts and his policy of peaceful co existence wilh the West, Soviet East-West For Berlin BERLIN (UPD - West Bor lin today signed an agreement wilh Communist East Germany to permit West Berliners to cross through the Communist wall for Christmas visits in East Berlin. A West Berlin government spokesman a n n o u n ce d the agreement after long negotia tions with the Communists. It will be the first time West Berliners have been permitted in the Communist half of their city since the wall went up in August, 1961. Since that time, visits to East Aert Tests States Inns of water down the Santiam Canyon. Within 20 minutes Ihe new radio communication syslem in the basement of the Capitol Building was in operation. It was Ihe first test alert In use the basement command post since it was completed several months ago. Governor Supervises) Hatfield personally supervised the drill, and kept posing new problems as h I team of disas ter workers assembled. Within an hour most of the key personnel had assembled. National Guard disaster teams Telephone mm 1 trappings (shown here) will military forces will remain strong. In a statement at a re ception for Czech Communist leaders, Khrushchev said: "We are realists and we see perfectly well that there exist forces quite substantial . , . which arc not adverse to starting on the road of new military adventures. That is why we remain vigilant." Sign Pact Wall Truce Berlin have been permitted for residents of West Germany and foreigners, but barred to German residents in West Ber lin. The West Berlin government will issue passes for Hie visits, restricted to relatives of East Berliners. The talks were stalled for several dayc on Ihe issue of recognition of the Communist government. West Berlin nego tiators did not want to conclude any agreement that could foe constituted as recognition that the Communists are I lie legal regime in Ihe Soviet zone. in Dallas, Wondhurn, Salem and Silverton had been alerted and had received orders to assemble at the Salem Armory. Plans were marie to evacuate people from low lying areas, highways were blocked off, ar rangements were made for food for 25,000, and sleeping fur 12, 0O0 refugees. State agencies, civil defense, several county civil defense units, and the American Red Cross were mobilized. There were flaws: Noliody could find a map of Marlon County, briefing procedures were not organized, and there 1t I TU 4-8111 No. 7656 Johnson World Delegates Hear Talk By U.S. President UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UPD President Johnson pledged full support to the Unit ed Nations today and offered a new year vow to make world peace, civil rights and human welfare "not an illusion but a reality." Delegates of 113 nations stood as the President entered to be gin his first U.N. speech as Chief Executive. Tliey stood again and applauded for 42 sec onds when lie ended his 15 minute address with a pledge that: "Any man and any nation that seeks peace and hates war and is willing to fight the good fight against hunger and disease and ignorance and mis erywill find the United States of America by their side, will ing to w alk w ith them every step of the way." The delegates interrupted the President only once, applauding for 12 seconds when he said: "And more than ever we sup port the United Nations as the best instrument yet devised to promote the peace of the world and the well being of mankind." Only Communist Albania and Cuba did not join in the ap plause, although their delegates participated in the two standing tributes to the President. Security Restrictions The General Assembly Hall was packed, even though the puonc was oarrea unaer sccu. rity restrictions even more se vere than those in force when Soviet iPremier Mkita Jvhrush ehev and a company of world leaders attended the 1960 ses sion here. The President arrived 20 min ulcs early for his speech. Ho was whisked from tlie airport to the U. iN. headquarters in a car on which the presidential flag was not unfurled until it left the midtown tunnel on Man hattan. All traffic was stopped in the vicinity of the United Nations IS minutes before tlie presidential parly arrived. Tlie street before the glass-sided U. N. skyscrap er was deserted, except for New York police stationed every 15 feet. Slow Path to Peace The President departed from his prepared text only once, in serting a sentence saying: Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken ona step at a time." Except for that, he made on ly minor alterations in deliver ing the speech. "The United States wants sanity, security, and peace for all. and above all." Johnson said in a speech prepared for delivery lo the U.N. General Assembly. The 'President asked the dele gates to carry that message home to their countrymen from a nation "sobered by tragedy, united in sorrow, renewed in spirit." "We meet In a time of mourning, but in a moment of redcdicalion," Johnson said. His nationally televised appear ance was his first before the United Nations since tlie assas sination of John F. Kennedy thrust him into the U.S. presi dency on Nov. 22. A .Safer World Johnson said he was sure Disaster was lack of coordination be tween some agencies. Hatfield told the disaster workers "there's been no ad vance warning, you'll have to improvise." Public Utility Commissioner Jonel C. Hill commented acid ly: "It's 14 months since the Columbus Day storm and wa still don't have an Inventory of emergency generators." Drinking Water Needed The need for an alternate headquarters was revealed, as was the lack of drinking water for large masses of evacuees. But in general most ot the Wealher IONO HANOI OUTLOOK Cool alohn and mlkf dan t coa tlnuo with throat of aomo MOW Wadnoaday nlgnt and again Saturday. Kennedy "would regard as his best memorial the fact that in his three years as President the world became a little safer and tlie way ahead a little bright er." "To tlie protection and en largement of this new hope for peace, I pledge my country and its government," Johnson de clared. Over 2,500 Yule Tree Tags Sold Only seven shopping days re main until Christmas for people desiring to purchase permits entitling them to cut their own Christmas trees in tlie Winema National Forest or lands admin istered by the Klamath Forest Protective Association. For the convenience of the pub lic, KFPA headquarters and the Chcmult and Chiloquin Ranger Districts will remain open next weekend to sell permits. In tlie Klamath Ranger District, permits will be sold at district headquarters in Klamath Falls dafiy'during business hours and at the scaling s'ation. near the Rocky Point-Lake of the Woods Junction, this weekend. The sale of permits will continue through Dec. 24 at KFPA and in tlie Winema Forest Reports from the national for est and the association indicate that more than 2,500 Christmas tree permits have been sold dur ing the past two weekends. Paul Nichols, district warden of KFPA, disclosed that nearly 2.000 permits have been sold per- milting people to cut Christmas trees in an area from Camp Four to Parker Mountain. Per mits are 50 cents each at KFPA and $1 in the Winema National Forest. In the Winema, where this year tlie privilege of cutting a Christmas tree is being sold for the first time, sales were about normal compared with other years. Bud Twombly, ranger of the Klamath District, reported that 350 permits had been sold in the district during the past sev. eral weeks, including 150 last weekend. Twombly expected a substantial increase in sales for the coming weekend and the few remaining days before Christmas. fANTA'f HELPER 5AY SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS Plans disaster directors were sur prised at bow well the test pro ceeded. The telephone company set up emergency circuits, and the em ergency radio network was in full operation throughout the state within an hour ot the first alert. Four National Guard units to taling 153 men, in uniforms and full equipment, were convoyed to Salem and assembled at the armory at midnight. Hatfield Inspected the troops, then outlined the mythical dis aster and the jobs they would have performed.