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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 29, 1963)
HERALD A VP VEH'S. Klama.h ..., . k PT if' is5s ciiLA fij.v BACK IN THE SADDLE ranch at Johnson City, Tex. launton his spread. Historic Meeting Planned Between Pope, Patriarch VATICAN CITY ifPlI - An Eastern Orthodox prelate called on Pope Paul VI Saturday to dis cuss prospects for the Pope's expected meeting with Orlhodov Patriarch Athenagoras in the Holy Land. The pontiff was closeted with London's Orthodox Archbishop Athenagoras for more than half an hour. Their meeting was the first official contact between Deaths Set New Mark CHICAGO iUPIi - Traffic deaths on the "nation's streets and highways soared to a rec ord high during the first 11 months of the year, the Nation al Safety Council said Saturday. The safety council said 3!!,2H0 persons died in traffic accidents through November. The fatality rate was 5.4 deaths for every ion million vehicle miles. The November toll of 4.070 also set a record, jumping 11 per cent from last year and eclipsing the previous peak in November IMS. Redmond Fire REDMOND lUPH -Fire heavily damaged the pro shop and bar lounge at the Redmond Golf Club Thursday night. Dam age was estimated at $.10,000. New York, Moscow Air Link Seems Near WASHINGTON UPI - The Russians are ready to begin di rect air service between New York and Moscow next sum mer, provided the United States agrees. Najccb E. Halaby, adminis trator of the Federal Aviation Agency iFAAt, said Friday he expected President Johnson and the Stale Department to decide w ithin a month whether to sign an agreement establishing such a service. Halahy, just back from a trip to Moscow where he discussed technical and operational prob lems involved, said, "The Rus sians are ready to sign now. They say they can start prov ing flights this spring and will be ready to start service by summer." Six Months Work Halahy indicated that the technical problems could he worked out in five or six months. These consist principal ly of making sure that the Rus sian state airline, Aeroflot. will be able to navigate safely in t lie congested airspace around New York's Kennedy (formerly 'I iTWFalTT'wal. I L -I- ' f Falls. OrSo Sunday, Drrrmbrr N, 19fJ President Johnson demonstrates his riding ability at his He takes "Lady B," a Tennessee walking horse, tor a little UP Teephoto the Vatican and the Orthodox leadership in over 500 years. A Vatican source said their conversation was "very cor dial." He added that Pope Paul's contact with the arch bishop makes it virtually cer tain that he will meet the pa triarch in Palestine. At a New Year's audience for the diplomatic corps an hour before his meeting with the Orthodox churchman, the pontiff suggested that the diplomats do everything they can to empha size that his trip to the Holy Land will be a "purely religious act." "We ate sure you will want to use your influence, within your means and those of your governments, to prevent inter pretations of it (the pilgrimage i which would falsify its true per spective," he said. There has been some reaction against the trip in the Arab world because of its possible political implications. The Pope said today his trip will be "ab solutely foreign to any consid eration of a temporal or politi cal nature." Pope Paul will be in the Holy Land Jan. 4-6. If he talks with Patriarch Athenagoras there, it would be the first time the lead ers of the Eastern and Western churches have met since the churches split in 1054. Idlewildl Airport and use U. S. navigational aids. The FAA chief said he told Aeroflot officials their planes must satisfy New York noise abatement standards and be equipped In fly safely within the American air traflic control system. He said the Soviet Un ion is behind this country in de velopment of the latest electron ic navigation aids. Halaby said that if an agree ment is signed, it probably would call for two flights a week in the summer by both Aeroflot and Pan American World Airways, with the sched ule reduced to one flight a week by each airline in the winter months. L'se Giant Airliner Pretty as a Picture WITH AN EXCITING NEW PERSONALITY created by ocitmi n trim personally selected by Columbian Style Consultants to llatler natural beauty. 'Soohislicate".. t sleek simple Irame . . . available in b!ark pium, bronze, linen or unite frost. Convergent Credrt W Give 4'H Green Stamps' 730 Main PACE JA, Johnson At Home JOHNSON CITY. Tex. IUPH President Johnson, looking perhaps more at home in the saddle than in his rocking chair at the White House, demon strated his riding ability Friday for newsmen by riding a Ten nessee walking horse on a brisk but short trip. Press Secretary Pierre Salin ger, a little less tall in the sad dle, accompanied him on a smaller rcd-and-white paint named "Pete." Johnson rode, then posed for photographers atop the sleek, black horse "Lady B." He dem onstrated her gait by parading beside a road. After the exhibition, a news man asked Johnson if the horse was in fact a Tennessee walk ing horse. "Didn't you see her walk ing?" Johnson asked. He start ed off again and called hack, "now, watch her walk watch her gait." 700,000 Visit Kennedy Grave WASHINGTON (UPli More than 700.000 persons have visit ed the grave of President Ken nedy at Arlington National Cemetery since his burial Nov. 23. Cemetery custodians expected the weekend and New Year's Day to bring a continued large procession of visitors to the site on a slope overlooking the Po tomac River. The Russians are planning to use their giant prop-jet TUU4, the world's biggest commercial airliner with a capacity of 224 passengers and a gross takeoff weight of 350.000 pounds. This compares with the long - range version of the U.S. Boeing 707 which carries 187 passengers and grosses 314.000 pounds for a transncean (light. The TU114, which is not a pure jet like the 707. is much slower and shorter-ranged. "They're even willing to change the props on the 114, which are pointed and create considerable noise," Halaby added. "I asked Aeroflot's top official why they were to eager and his reply was: 'To make profits.' " THY Our 59th Year TU 4-7121 City Seeks To Ease Firm Loss SOUTH BEND. Ind. ll'PI' Federal and local officials met Saturday to put the finishing touches on a retraining program for about 1.000 of the 6,000 per sons left jobless when Studebak er closed its automobile plant here. The session took place as ef forts continued to woo new in dustry to this northern Indiana community. Studebaker officials confirmed Friday night that they were ne gotiating to turn the firm's de fense production contracts over to Litton Industries of Beverly Hills. Calif. (Mirers of both firms refused to discuss details of the nego tiations, but it was believed that Litton would operate here if it look over Sludebaker's con tracts to produce trucks for the Army and other defense agencies. Local civic leaders Friday asked President Johnson lo con sider South Bend as a location for a major space research cen ter which could mean another 2.000 jobs. The U. S. Department of Agri culture also announced it had eased the income requirements for persons eligible lo receive surplus government foodstulfs. BIG SAVINGS ON ORGANS, PIANOS, TV, STEREOS, INSTRUMENTS demonstration today. GOOD USED ORGANS HAMMOND & iSJST NOW '825 HAMMOND Xs rff16 NOW 395 LOWREY $s SLgr NOW $ 825 THOMAS Ss " NOW $ 395 HAMMOND Sn aX" NOW' 845 ESTEY CHORD 2s NOW $ 165 ON ALL REG. PORTABLE S7995 STEREO T71 1 WaI : 830 MAIN JUST ACROSS FROM THE Castro Plans Major Policy Speech This Week, Close Ties Seen Between Cuba And Red China LONDON i UPI' A Red Chi nese report from Havana moni tored here Saturday said that Cuba's Premier Fidel Castro plans to make a major political speech on Jan. 2, the fifth anni versary of the Cuban revolu tionary takeover. The report, carried by live of ficial Hsinhua news agency, was seen by experts here as an indication that Peking appar ently was anticipating a major policy pronouncement by the Cuban leader. The announcement coincided with a Peking report that the Cuban ambassador in Red Chi na had been hosting members of the Sino-Cuban friendship as sociation with (oasts to the "growth of the Sino-Cuban fra ternal friendship." Red China's determined cam paign for closer ties with Cuba's Castro was spotlighted earlier last week by a series of significant remarks by Premier Chou En-lai, who is currently touring Africa. Experts said they appeared clearly designed to encourage Castro's revolutionary policies in Latin America and lo boost his fading prestige in the Latin continent. Points Out Character In Algiers a few days ago the Red Chinese premier went out of his way to stress the revolu SAVE $ ON NEW ORGANS NO DOWN PAYMENT On Approved Credit' MONTHLY PAYMENTS $29.82 1963 MODELS IN STOCK! N 0 w tionary character of Castro's policies. He said it was Castro's determination to "fight to the death" which stopped the late President John F. Kennedy from invading the island. This was an obvious indirect hit at Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev who claims it was his decision to withdraw Soviet missiles which saved Cuba from destruction. Peking ac State Highway Contracts Total $107.6 Million In 1963 SALEM (UPI i - The State Highway Department awarded $107.6 million in contracts dur ing 1963 $.11 million more than were awarded in 12, Highway Engineer Forrest Cooper said Marriage Ends After 57 Days LOS ANGELES (LTD - Ac tress Marie McDonald Friday filed suit for divorce from her sixth husband, film producer Donald F. Taylor, or annulment of their 57-day-old marriage. Miss 'McDonald, 40, contended that Taylor harassed her, hit her with a belt and threw a flat iron at her in the three days before the couple separat ed last Sundav. UP TO $ 59 95 STEREO HI-FI IN AN ELEGANT WINDOW CHEST 10 matched balance ipeakcrs 3 amplifiers 3 speaker lyttcmi Vibraionic sound Comprcssionaire Bass Diamond Stylus $ 439 NOW N DIME STORES cused him of "cowardice" for having done so. The Chinese strategy appar ently is designed to weaken So viet influence over Castro whom Khrushchev has been seeking lo win over and com mit to his brand of communism that preaches so-called peace ful co-existence. Castro, while formally com mitted at present to the Krem Salurdnv. In all, IN) contracts were awarded, compared with 105 the year before. Cooper said. He estimated the department would let $61 million in con tracts during 1064. Of the $107.6 million contract ed during the year, $16.7 mil lion was for bond projects, $3.2 million for construction on the county road system, $260,000 for work on city streets off the state highway system, $3.4 mil lion was in cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in connection with the relcation of U.S. 30 near the John Day Dam, $80.1 million was in con nection with federal aid partici pating projects, and $3.9 million was for state-financed construc tion. 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This leaves 260 miles to be put under construction to complete the interstate highway system in Oregon before the tar get dale of 1972. The highway department and U.S. Corps of Engineers arc re locating the Columbia Itiver Highway between Hufus and Boardman to skirt waters to bo impounded behind John Day Dam. The 28-milc stretch be BIG DISCOUNTS On New Baldwin Pianos MO DOWN PAYMENT $21.66 MONTHLY GOOD USED PIANOS Pin rr.iiki $1100 diuuuirn iu m-' GRETSCH GUITARS Rc9 5492 COMPARABLE SAVINGS ON OTHER GUITARS AND OTHER MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS! & ORGAN RENTALS ClIEMAWCE N 0 W $ BIG SAVINGS PORTABLE & CONSOLE DC Hie so-called imperialists every where. As a fiery revolutionary, Cas tro has sought to build up pres tige throughout Latin America. Apparently he has seen himself in the role of leader of a sweep ing Latin American "libera tion" campaign against United States influence. tween Rufus and Arlington is all on new location high on a hill. East from Arlington to Board man much of the Columbia Riv er Highway will be salvaged and become a part of the final four-lane divided interstate free way. Whiskey Creek Claims Girl, 2 SANDY (UPI I - Deborah Schnehcrgcr, 2, Sandy, drowned in Whiskey Creek near here Friday. The girl, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Schneberger, wandered away from her home and her body was found a few minutes later partly submerged in the creek. Delivery GUITARS NOW $ 350 262 50 TV Records of Your Choice With Purchase of a Console Stereo C. PH. TU 2-4883
