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HOSPITAL FUND SWELLS Otto Hall, econd from left, business agent for the In.
ternational Woodworkers of America (IWA) Union Local 3-12, presents Jim Stilwell,
general chairman of the Intercommunity Hospital Fund drive, with a check for $1,000.
Looking on are two campaign directors, Mike Balsiger at left, and Dick Heniel at
right.
IWA Check Aids Hospital Fund
The fund for the Presbyterian
Intercommunity Hospital contin
ues to inch toward its cherished
goal o beginning operations on
a debt-free basis.
A check was received this
week from Otto Hall, business
agent for the International
Woodworkers of America (IWA)
Union Local 3-12 for $1,000 from
the memzers of this union.
James Stilwell, general chair
man of the campaign, accepted
the contribution and pointed out
that the working forces in the
Basin have supported the cam
paign just about 100 per cent.
Stilwell also said, "With this
contribution, we have pledged
ourselves to a continued effort
to contact everyone in this area,
both present and former resi
dents, in order that they might
be given the opportunity to help
build this vitally needed hospi
tal." In The-
Day's lews
By FRANK JENKINS
Some interesting figures:
In 1800, the work week in the
U.S.A. was 84 hours.
In 1909, a little better than a
century later, it was 52 hours.
Today, the average work
week is slightly under 40 hours.
The unions, seeking to spread
employment, so that a larger
percentage of our population
may be employed, are working
for a 35-hour week.
Joseph Prendergrass, of the
National Recreation Associa
tion, predicts that within a
century the average work week
in America will be SEVEN
hours.
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In the face of these figures,
it's beginning to look like one
of the big jobs of the future
w ill be to learn how to be hap
py and contented though idle.
Is all this new?
The answer is NO.
Herbert Hoover, one of our
great thinkers, said many years
ago:
"This civilization of ours is not
going to depend on what we
do while we work, but on
what we do in our TIME OFF."
That's what Mr. Prendergrass
and his National Recreation As
sociation are thinking about
when he says that within a cen
tury the American work week
will be down to seven hours.
What he means is that if and
when the American work week
gets down to something like
seven hours it's going to be
necessary for Americans to
learn how to spend a large
share of their time in WHOLE
SOME PLAY.
Otherwise our nation will go
to tire dogs.
QUESTION' suggested by
reading a lot of newstapes and
listening to a lot of radio and
TV broadcasts:
How can you pass a law that
will prevent tlie spread of juve
nile delinquency of which we
read and hear so much?
Personally, I doubt if it can
be done by passing a law
or a whole batch of laws. The
prevention of juvenile delin
quency starts in the home. If
the home training is right and
sincere and1 honest and effec
tive, there will be relatively lit
tle juvenile delinquency.
Grim fact:
We just can t shrug FAMILY
responsibilities off onto the city
council and the state legisla
ture When it comes to charac
ter building, which lies at the
rnnt of good citizenship, there
is no substitute for home training.
'Man.-
OF
AHEflICA
He also urged everyone to re
examine their year end tax sta
tus in the light of the knowl
edge that contributions to the
hospital fund are deductible.
"We would prefer to have
them put such funds to work
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I ! Ill )- 11
U.S. Promises Viet Nam
Military Aid To Continue
SAIGON, South Viet Nam
(UPD President Johnson sent
a personal message to South
Viet Nam's new leaders today,
reassuring them that U.S. mili
tary aid will continue as long
as necessary to crush the Com
munist menace.
The oral message was given
to the junta leaders by Defense
Secretary Robert S. McNamara
before he left Saigon this after
noon to return to Washington at
the end of an intensive two-day
fact-finding analysis of the war
against the Communist guerril
las. Well informed American
sources said Johnson's message
in effect eliminates a 1965 tar
get date for the withdrawal of
U.S. military advisers from Viet
Nam.
The sources said Johnson's
message avoided any mention
of 1965 and set no new deadline
while pledging continued U.S.
military backing so long as it is
needed, and wanted, by the
South Viet Nam government.
The original 1965 target date
was announced in Washington
after McNamara's last visit to
Saigon in September. It be
came a cause for concern and
Sfudebaker
Last Car In
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (UPD
The last Studebaker car pro
duced in the United States was
scheduled to roll off the assem
bly lines at the South Bend
plant today.
The milestone car ended St
years of domestic automotive
production by the company,
which started in the highway
transportation field making cov
ered wagons. It came in the
same year other automakers
were posting records as the
best year ever.
Studebaker closed the plant to
photographers and planned no
fanfare for the event. "We're
still making and selling cars,"
Special Commission Finds
Many States Make It Too Tough
WASHINGTON iUPI '-President
Johnson and a special
commission agreed today that
many states make it too tough
to vote.
Johnson, accepting a report
suggesting w ays to encourage a
greater turnout in U.S. elections,
said "in many cases it is easier
to enlist in the armed services
than to go and vote."
The commission report ob
served that some states make
it easier "to get a hunting or
fishing license or a pistol per
mit than to register and vote."
At a ceremony for presenta
tion of the report. Johnson an
nounced that he would extend
the life of the 11 member com
mission until next March 30. He
also planned to send a copy of
the report to each of the 50
state governors
The commission did not
recommend new federal laws,
but directed it suggestion to
wf
building this community," he
commented.
The fund drive is now in ex
cess of $1,100,000 and must sur
pass the $1,500,000 mark to en
able the hospital to begin oper
ations without a huge debt to be
repaid from operating income.
a serious issue in this country.
He flew into Saigon Thursday
accompanied by Arthur Sylves
ter, assistant secretary of de
fense for public affairs, and Wil
liam Bundy, assistant secretary
of defense for international se
curity afairs.
Together with U.S. Ambassa
dor Henry Cabot Lodge, McNa
mara plunged quickly into a
round of briefings by American
military and civilian officials in
Saigon. It is generally conceded
that the fight against the Com
munist Viet Cong is going bad
ly at this time. -
Here's How,
But Why Try
BONN (UPD - East Ger
mans who lost their prop
erty when they fled to the
West can apply for compensa
tion, the West German Refu
gee Ministry announced today.
But it won't do them any
good, the ministry added, be
cause no such compensation
will be paid.
Produces
U.S. Plant
a spokesman said, "and we're
not really ending production."
Automotive production in the
highly diversified company now
will be carried on at the Hamil
ton, Ont., plant.
In the move to Canada, about
6,000 Studebaker white collar
and hourly rated workers will
be thrown out of work at the
South Bend plant, the firm's
only U.S. carbuilding outlet.
However, Studebaker officials
have maintained the nameplate
will not die in this country. In
stead, they said, dealers will re
ceive cars built in Canada.
Parts and other necessary items
also will be supplied to dealers.
the states. It suggested a
sweeping set of 21 proposals for
state action along with activi
ties by the schools, private or
ganizations, and business.
"I call upon both political
parties, the governors and offi
cials of each state, and all citi
zens to join this effort," the
President said. Only through
concerted action can we secure
for all tlie right to vote without
unnecessary or unreasonable re
strictions." The President also plans to
confer early next year wiih Sen
Soessard Holland, D-Fla., spon
sor of a constitutional amend
ment out!ain2 the poll tax.
Johnson expressed the hope that
there would be sufficient stale
ratification by next year to out
law the tax.
He said he was bothered by
the fact that less than two
thirds of voting age Americans
participated in recent presi
aiiV.j. .1
Bitter Cold Continues To
By I'nitrd Press International
Freezing drizzle iced high
ways and triggered traffic
deaths across the Southern
Plains today and bitter cold
broke temperature records
again in the Midwest.
A freak storm dumped 20
indies of snow at Kalkaska,
Mich., during the night.
Temperatures fell below zero
from Montana to Maine and
dropped below freezing along
Ihe Gulf Coast. The mercury
dipped to 18 degrees at Nash
Woollier
Klamath Falls. Tultlak. and l.aa
vitw Cltaring and caloar tonight,
lowt 2t to 13. Mostly fair and mild
Saturday, h'ghi 40 ta'4l. Light wfltar
ly winds.
High ysstarday 41
Low this morning 14
, High vtar ago SI
Low vaar ago II
Procip. past 14 hours -M
Smco Jan. 1
Samo period last yaar U.H
Thousjmds
By JOSEPH B. FLEMING
United Press International
BERLIN (UP1) West Berliners began the first
mass visiting on the other side of the wall today.
Thousands more were held up by Communist red
tape.
Communist guards wearing Russian-style fur hats
and toting sub machine guns passed the West Berliners
swiftly and quietly through the five crossing points for
holiday visits with friends and relatives.
The number of visitors
was smaller than expected
because of snarls in issu
ing passes, and the Red
police outnumbered both
visitors and greeters on
the East Berlin side of the
barrier.
Those that got through in the
first mass visiting permitted
since the wall went up in Au
gust, 1!. moved quickly. Com
munist guards, in an obvious
holiday gesture, dropped their
usual controls and cleared the
visitors in about a minute. This
is from 29 minutes to an hour
faster than normal.
By 1 p.m., 2,740 pedestrians
and 683 automobiles had crossed
the border.
The cold morning scene was
drab and depressing as the
West Berliners lined up to have
their documents checked. Few
of the visitors were met at the
crossings because no one had
been certain how long it would
take to go through the border
formalities.
"Just as grubby as tlie last
lime I saw it," one elderly man
whispered.
At least 23.000 other West
Berliners were blocked by the
pass shortage. They waited to
get credentials inside and out
side the issuing offices in West
Berlin schools. Other applicants
were told not to try for passes
today.
A few East Berliners stood
around watching the visitors
cross the border. They showed
little emotion.
The Eastern guards were obvi
ously under orders to avoid
trouble. They barely glanced at
the packets of fruit, coffee,
chocolate and other gifts every
visitor carried.
Western correspondents and
television cameramen, who
often are bullied by the Com
munist police, were treated
courteously and cooperatively in
a somewhat obvious show of
Christmas spirit.
Like many of the West Ber
liners, Elga Sagte, a 21-year-old
girl in a big white fur hat
and red ski jacket, said she
had sent a telegram to her
mother in East Berlin.
"I don't imagine she got it,"
Elga said, as she got into one
of the taxis East Berlin offi
cials had assembled around the
dential elections and less than
half of the eligible electorate
participates in congressional
elections.
"It is disturbing that our na
tional record of voter participa
tion compares unfavorably with
other democracies," Johnson
told the commission.
Most sections of tlie report
were adopted unanimously.
The commission, headed by
Director Richard M. Scammon
of the Census Bureau, was set
up by the late President Ken
nedy March 30. Its report, orig
inally scheduled for Nov. 2.
was delayed almost a month
because of Kennedy's death.
Study Voting Problems
Kennedy's order directed the
commission to studying voting
problems outside tl jurisdic
tion of the Civil Rights Com
mission, which is concerned
with discrimination against Ne
groes and other minorities.
ville, Tenn , and a chilly 48 at
Miami, Fla.
A 62-year record was shat
tered at Chicago when the tem
perature dipped to 9 below a
new mark for the date. It was
also the eighth consecutive sub
zero day at Chicago, a record
for December.
The temperature fell to 4 be
low at Pittsburgh, Pa., break
ing the old record set in 1884
by eight degrees. Records for
the date were also set at Dayton,
Toledo, Columbus. Akron and
leralii an
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Oberbaum
Bridg
crossing
point.
One elderly couple said
"it
smells the same as ever" as
they climbed the unpaintcd.
narrow stairs to a sister's small
apartment in a patched-up build
ing still showing the scars of
World War II.
The man asked correspond
ents not to use his name in
quoting him because "I want to
come back again over Christ
mas." The sister did not know they
were coming today. Their meet
ing, when she opened the door,
was almost painful in its emo
tional intensity.
First there was a look of
blank astonislment, then shock,
and finally joy. Then came the
embraces.
Until the agreement for the
passes was reached this week
between East Germany and
West Berlin, only foreigners and
West Geimans not resident in
Berlin had been allowed to visit
East Berlin.
P.O. Will Open
This Saturday
Tlie Klamath Falls Post Of
fice, 734 Klamath Avenue, will
be open Saturday for mailing
packages, picking up parcels
and the sale of stamps.
Postmaster Chet Langslct an
nounced that the office will be
open from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
No other service than those
three will be offered.
Shooting Hours
OREGON
December 21
Close
4:40 p.m.
CALIFORNIA
December 21
Close
Open
7 p.m.
Open
7:01 a.m.
4:37 p.m.
Voter apathy was one target
of tlie commission but most of
its attention was given to state
laws and practices restricting
the right lo register and vote.
"Many election laws and ad
ministrative practices are un
reasonable, unfair and outmod
ed." it said. "They obstruct the
path lo the ballot box, disfran
chising million' who want lo
vole.
"An unexpected business trip
or a broken ankle can deprive
a citiz.cn of his right to vole.
He may lose his vote by mov
ing across Ihe street. And he
may discover that became he
failed to vote to years ago he
cannot vote now."
The commission cited figures
showing heavier voter turnouts
in other countries. It said state
turnouts in the United Stales
ranged from 25.5 per cent of the
civilian population of voting age
in Mississippi to 80 8 in Idaho
Cincinnaii, Ohio, where the
temperature ranged from 4-14
degrees below zero.
The lowest temperature in the
nation was 35 below at Bemid
ji, Minn. It was 26 below at In
ternational Falls. Minn., and
Devils Lake, N.D., Madison,
Wis., recorded 17 below, Sub
urban Chicago 15 below and
Rockford, 111., 15 below.
At Duluth, Minn., where the
high Thursday was 6 below, the
mercury (ell to 18 below today.
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON',
Journey
Foreign Aid Bill Snags Adjournment
WASHINGTON UP1 -Congressional
leaders today aban
doned plans to adjourn Con
gress tonight, called on scores
of members who already have
left town to return, and said
they plan to keep the lawmak
ers here until a contested for
eign aid bill has been linally
passed.
They acted under the prod
ding of President Johnson who
told Democratic leaders of
House and Senate at a White
House strategy session it was
imperative not only that they
finish work on the aid measure
but that they send it to the
White House minus a House
approved curb on use of gov-
Prison Life
Vill End
For Honeck
MENARD, 111. (U'PD When
Richard Honeck walks through
the gates of Menard State Pris
on today he will become a free
man for the first time in this
century.
Honeck, 84, will leave behind
64 years served as a "a lifer"
and "the loneliest person in the
country." For many years no
one cared enough to even drop
him a Christmas card.
Several months ago the story
of Honeck's long and lonely
prison life appeared in print.
As a result he received 2,000
letters the first he had re
ceived in over 50 years. Among
them was a note from a wid
owed niece, Mrs. Clara Orth,
62, San Leandro, Calif.
She said she would be glad
to care for him and the ma
chinery was put in motion to
seek the release of prisoner
numher 12742 if California
would agree.
Thursday night California
stale parole officials agreed to
permit Honeck to live with his
niece and her son, William, a
disabled war veteran.
About 10 o'clock Warden
Ross Randolph went to Honeck's
cell to tell him.
"He smiled, but there were
no tears," Randolph said. "He
learned to control his emotions
years ago."
A reporter will lake Honeck
by car to St. Louis, where they
will board a Trans-World Air
lines flight for San Francisco
tonight.
To Vote
in the 1960 election.
Urges Vote Campaigns
It said the most obvious way
to combat voter apathy was
through the register-and-vote
campaigns conducted by politi
cal parties and by civic, busi
ness, labor and other groups.
But it also urged tlie press, ra
dio and television to assume re
sponsibility and said these me
dia "hoid tlie key to adult edu
cation." Tlie report also criticized
schools lor "not doing the job."
"The teaching of citizenship
In our elementary and second
ary schools needs major over
haul," it said. "A trip to t h e
firehouse and a slide down the
fireman's pole are now many
times substituted for realistic
instruction in government and
politics. . .
"It small wonder that we
are a nation of cynics when it
come lo our politics."
Set Records In Midwest
Hazardous driving warnings
were posted for Oklahoma,
where icy roads were blamed
for1 at least five traffic deaths.
State police said' U.S. 77 be
tween Norman and Lexington
was "untravelable."
Freezing rain, sleet and fog
also covered parts of Texas
eastward into Alabama. Numer
ous traffic accidents were attri
buted to the weather in Texas
and West Texas airports were
"socked in" bv fog.
FRIDAY. DKCKMKFK 2, l!Hi3
ernment credit in the proposed
sale of' surplus U.S. wheal to
Russia.
This posed a tough lask for
House leaders, who apparently
were exacted to turn around
enough home bound House
members to reverse a 218 to 169
roll ' call vote by which tlie
House only last Monday had ap
proved the trade curb.
After only 288 of the 435
members answered an opening
quorum call at the start of what
was supposed to have been the
year's last House session Demo
cratic Leader Carl Albert took
tlie floor to announce the new
plans.
He appealed to those present
to cancel their plans to go
home, and called on those who
already had left town to return.
Both chambers were operat
ing on a "hurry up and wait"
basis as House and Senate ne
gotiators Iricd to work out an
agreement on the disputed bill.
The major controversy hinged
on a House-adopted amendment
Jbarring the Export . Import
Band Fund
Still Short
LalMar Jensen, director of the
Klamath Union High School
band, said today the fund for
the band's trip to the East-
West Shrine Game in San Fran
cisco Dec. 28 still needs $500.
Jensen said $3,000 is the goal
of the fund to finance the trip
for the band and $1,200 was
raised in the band's fruit cake
sale. Another $500 was left over
from last year's sale and dona
tions total between $800 and
$!oo.
He urged those wanting to
contribute to the fund to send
donations to him at Klamath
Union High School.
fANTA'f HELPER $AYf
SHOPPING DAYS
TO CHRISTMAS
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THEY HELPED TOO Camp Fire Girls of Lekani-ki-Nani group, seventh grader at
Roosevelt School, led by Mrs. Charles Houston, made envelope dolls, and Hi-O-Tan
members of the sixth grades at Peterson and Stearns schools dressed dolls, to bo giv
en to the Christmas Clearing Bureau. Tha dolls will go to small girls in tha county who
otherwise might be overlooked by Santa. Mrs. W. E. Brown is leader of th Hi-O-Tan
group. Front row, left to right, are Mary Miller, Kerry McFall, Laura Olson, Bonnie
Brown, Janita Amidon. Back row, tarn order, Debbie Hilgers, Kathleen Walsh, Susan
Ginty, Laura Houston and Alexis Cummings.
Three inches of snow fell at
Muskegon, Mich., Thursday,
pushing the month's total to
63.4 indies. Many rural schools
were closed and secondary
roads were clogged with blow
ing snow. Some schools opened
but shut down in mid-morning
because not enough students
showed up.
The weather bureau said lo
cally heavy snow squalls would
occur in the Muskegon area
again today, perhaps making
Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 7(w9
Bank from underwriting credit
for U.S. wheat sales to Russia
and other Communist countries.
The Senate rejected tlie
amendment in passing the ap
propriations bill Thursday.
Before the White House con
ference, legislative leaders had
planned to wind up the first ses
sion of the 88th Congress some
time today. If tlie deadlock per
sisted over the wheat amend
ment, they had intended to
shelve the problem until Ihe
next session convened Jan. 7.
A number of senators and
House members already had
headed for home as the longest
continuous peacetime session of
Congress neared its end.
IGDCq
Border Treaty Signed
Between U.S., Mexico
- WASHINGTON a'PIl Presi
dent Johnson today signed
treaty with Mexico settling the
long-standing Chamizal border
dispute involving land at 1
Paso, Tex.
Johnson In signing the formal
ratification of the treaty recent
ly approved by the Senate, said
the agreement demonstrated
"that old and distasteful prob
lems can be solved when men
of honor try and see each
other's viewpoint."
Johnson, a Texan himself,
signed the document in the
treaty room on the second floor
of the White House.
The agreement provides for
the transfer of 437 acres of
American territory to Mexico
and an accompanying transfer
of under 200 Mexican acres to
this country.
Dispute over the land along
the Rio Grande River consti
tuted, according to Johnson, a
810 Youngsters Call Santa
Santa Claus received telephone
calls from 394 more youngsters
Thursday night during the wind
up of a two-day "Hello Santa"
program, sponsored by the
Klamath Jaycees.
This brought to 810 the total
number of calls made in two
nights, an increase of almost
mill PHt " " 'ifw;
December the month of the
largest snowfall in Muskegon
history. January, 1962, recorded
63.4 inches.
"This past week has been one
of tlie most miserable I have
ever seen," a Muskegon mete
orologist said.
The weather bureau said a
storm centered in (he Pacific
Northwest will cause "wide
spread precipitation" as it
moves over the Rockies and
across the northern plains Saturday.
Weather
LONOHANOI OUTLOOK
Cool night and mild diyi r tx
ptcltd to continu through Christmas.
S m t snow flurriti or showtrt art
tortcast for ttvo first of tha wHk.
House Republicans made it
clear they would try to force
tlie Senate lo accept the wheat
sales amendment, although the
Senate rejected the proposal
Thursday, 52 to 32, before pass
ing its bill. The Senate vote on
passage was 60 to 25.
The House version totals $2.8
billion while the Senate bill
would provide $3.2 billion. The
late President Kennedy asked
$4.5 billion, and President John
son has urged the legislators to
vote at least the $3.6 billion au
thorized by Congress.
The difference in the money
totals seemed likely to be
worked out with a final com
promise of about $3 billion.
"thorn in-the side of our rela-
tions with Mexico for nearly a
century."
Johnson expressed the hope
(hat the Chamizal treaty would
be a model for settlement for
further problems in this hemis
phere and the rest of the world
"with similar tolerance and
trust."
The pact was ratified by the
Senate on a vote of 79 to 1 last
Tuesday. Designed to settle a
boundary hassle that has shad
owed relations between the two
nations for almost a century, it
returns to Mexico a section of
land lost when the Rio Grande
changed course in 1664.
The section, known as the
Chamizal or "thicket," lies
mostly in El Paso, Tex. Mexico
was awarded a decision in the
case by an international arbi
tration board in 1911, but the
United States refused to abide
by the finding at that time.
100 over last year's figure.
The program, conducted an
nually by the Jaycees, allows
youngsters to call Santa and tell
him what they want for Christ
mas. Calls were received from
boys and girls ranging in age
from 2 to 12, according to
Jaycee Chairman Jim Floyd.
Wa