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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 31, 1963)
I! : o.'V 1 IJWWW" .A.'JJ t) 0 v 0 X : Weather Klamatft Ftlft. Tuklih and takt Vitw Mastly cMwdv tmi9i Wadnaa day ti a ftw 119(1! ihowtrs patubia at Mmt, Patchy tog aarly Watfnatday. Lews tonloht M t XX. H9ti Vttltrday St Law ttiis marnini 13 High yaar ao 1 Law yaar 19 19 Prtcip. Iat 14 iHHirt .M Sinca Jan. 1 IMS Sama ptriod latt yaar H.W Wonllier IXTENDED OUTLOOK Ttmptrihirts continuing abovt tanablt with hl9ht w ts 41. Low Jl t n. Rtcgmna oariodt f vary light thtwcrs. Price T Tfnts 13 Pge KLAMATH FALLS. OKKliON. Tl ESOAV. IKI F.MHKK II. 13 Trlrphonr TU 4-8111 No. 1Wi7 ' if V " ' : ." v ' s - SOT V , , , , V v1 V;r - . - . 1 win n 1 inf f "- - v WHO SAYS HAPfY NEW YEAR Ninemonih-old Lonomaikalani Bea mer, whole parents are featured in the Hotel Lexington's Hawaiian Room in New York City, doesn't hold much hope for the new year as he makes like 1964 for photographers. Maybe the floor's cold or maybe his diape.-'s wet or both UPI Telcphoto la The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKLNS 1 Mishmash in the Holiday Week news: 1 At his ranch in Texas, Presi dent Johnson names nine lop administration officials as a committee to produce new ideas for cutting waste, red tope and other deficiencies from the for eign aid program. He gave his new committee a seven-point program "to seek all possible ways to simplify procedures and to make the ad ministration of foreign aid as sistance as speedy and effective as possible.".' He says hit action, "far from reflecting any lack of conviction in the necessity of foreign assistance, ' demonstrates my strong determination that these programs be so administered as to yield the greatest benefit to our country and the free world." ' It sounds like he means busi ness. But he could have made it strong by adding one more brief directive: CUT OUT THE BOONDOG GLING. In Cleveland, a New York economics professor, addressing the 130th meeting of the Ameri can Association for the Advance ment of Science, urged over hauling of the federal income tax laws to allow deductions for "human depreciation" resulting from age and general wear and tear. He added: "My proposal resembles the way credits now are allowed for depreciated machinery." There is, of course, this dif ference: . When the old machine reach es the point w here it is no long er worth repairing, you can throw it away and buy a new one. We haven't reached that point yet with the human body. When the old heap is gone. ITS GONE! Still One never can tell. What the scientists are doing is amazing. i Back to President Johnson. On Christmas Day, he issued a hard-hitting directive aimed at tiie nation's two and a half million federal employees. The general result of his order is expected to be increased pres sure from their bosses to work harder and get more done. Ifmmmmmmmrrinimm Hnw about another demand: T.VKE ON FEWER USELESS PROJECTS including those dreamed up by members of congress whose chief objective is to get more votes at the next election. Tilis could save a lot of the mrney that is now going on (lie w.'i 'o be added to our fantas tically ewnvniji nauonal rleh' Tnis word in conclusion It looks so far like President Joiinson's objective is to ve he nation a busin5ke ai mirustja'itn. ' If so. mosC Ipvvji k m Noisy Celebrations Will Greet New Year By United Press International Americans collected hats and horns today for that most rois terous of holidays the wel coming of the New Year, ar riving at midnight. The millions of celebrations will have one thing in common noise. Many Americans will greet the New Year in ballrooms, restaurants and night clubs. Slany others will await the event at private parties. Some will attend special church serv ices. A few will spend the eve ning quietly at home, perhaps sharing .vicariously in the frivol ity by means (if radio or' tele vision. New York's largest celebra tion and perhaps the largest in the nation will be in the giant Grand Central railroad terminal, where 3.000 guests were expected to pay from $35 to $100 to dine and dance to the music of Guy Lombardo in a Woeful Fishing Tale Wins Liar's Club Championship BURLINGTON. Wis. UP1 Even the worsi fishing condi tions could not be as bad as those described by Richard Bur lin, of rural Chatham, Mass., the Burlington Liar's Club decided today. Burlin was named "World's Champion Liar for 1963" for this woeful fishing tale: "Fishing around here was so bad sometimes this summer that even the biggest liars didn't catch any." Another tale which won hon orable mention in the 35th an nual competition for the world's tallest story of the year was sent in by Rondla Johnson. Seattle, Wash., who said: "It was so cold here one winter that we all took steam baths by crawling into the refrigera tor." George Low rev. Mcindoe Falls. Vt., claimed: "It rained so hard for tle last two weeks West Hails Nikita's Friendly Tones By HENRY SHAPIRO MOSCOW "LTD Premier Nikita S. Khrusnchev'g New Year's message to the United States was viewed by Western diplomats today as a good omen for 1964 because cf its concrete proposals and lack cf boasts or threats. They said Khrushchev not only issued one of the friendli est messages in years but in dicated the Soviets might ac cept at lea't one part of West ern disarmament plan? This i a step-by-ncp ap proach to disarmament, with adequate controls as each step is achieved. In the past, the Khrushchev line has been to press for sweeping general dis iraawit at ance. with the kwl system tiOcnme later. ooboif b o s I . Ne i; ft''' mental health benefit. Private railroad cars will shuttle the socialite guests from the sub urbs to the affair, which will be televised. Elsewhere in .New York. Del monico's Restaurant offered dinner, dancing and entertain ment for $30 and Hawaii Kai scheduled a luau at $17.50. San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel offered dinner and danc ing for $25 a couple and to in sure that no one would miss the significance; of the occasion, scheduled a parade of waiters bearing letters carved in ice and spelling out "Happy New Year 1964."; . ., . At Dallas the Slatler-Hillon prepared to greet 500 revelers with a $20 a plate dinner, danc ing and a floor show headlined by flamenco expert Jose Greco. But the city's biggest party will be in the Grand Ballroom of the Sheraton Hotel, where the Cotton Bowl Association pre pared for 700 guests. in Vermont Uiat the Vermont side of the Connecticut River was four feet higher than on the New Hampshire side." A complaint about mail serv ice by John Zepezyk, Phillips, Wis., also won honorable men tion. He said: "I hope this ar rives in time for the 1963 con test for liars, but the mail is so slow here that all of die mailmen have moss growing on the north side of them." A New York City schoolgirl, Sara Barbosa, wrote that she knows a "girl in our neighbor hood whose mouth is so small that in order to say 'three,' she has to say, 'one, one, one.' " Finally, this story about weather by W. Y. Brown. Brcn son, Mo.: "It has been so dry here in the Ozarks for so long that we have frogs two years old that don't even know how to swim yet. Yesterday, 1 saw two men cleaning a string of fish with a whisk broom." Year's statement was issued Monday in response to questions put to him by this correspond ent, said the new year could bring "decisive change for the better in the entire internation al situation." lie listed a broad range of issues on which East West agreement miaht be pos sible. They included: ".Measures aimed at slow ing down the arms race and at further alleviating international tension " Reductions in armed fortes and military KpenHirrg hy Ivth sides A non-a?gressi(in agreement between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization iNATOi na tions and the Warww Paf members. -Agrannent not ;pre?d 0 Johnson Ponders Public Works Bill JOHNSON CITY, Tex. (I Pl) President Johnson today re luctantly signed into law the $4.4 billion public works ap propriations bill, with a firm ly worded reservation that a section dealing with the l'ana- First Baby To Receive Many Gifts Since the stories of finding new babies under a cabbage leaf or swinging from the long yellow bill of a member of the Ciconinae family, commonly known as stork, have been rel egated to the attic, there is an air of expectancy at Klamath Valley Hospital. The reason? It is New Year's Eve, an exciting time for new arrivals, boy or girl, twins or triplets, to put in on appear ance. And there are several prospects. Being born on the first day of a brand new year, especially if first after the bells ring at midnight, somehow sets the newborn on a special pedestal for the remainder of his years ... it makes him a brand new exemption from taxes to be paid from papa's pockets and gives him an edge over ootli crs and sisters whose natal days fall later in the cycle of months. Within the brick walls of Klamath Valley Hospital on 3rd floor, where several other small bundles or Joy have ar rived in the last two or three days, a very special baby will arrive, possibly soon after the clock strikes 12, possibly later, for who can be sure? This baby will start out on the long road to growing up with gifts from persons he may never see, gifts from merchants and business firms . . . from a sterling silver bib holder to baby food on which to grow, gift certificates, clothing, start er savings accounts to encour age thrift, and others for his proud parents, who may dine out, pass on the chore of wash ing the family limousine to oth ers and go to see a motion pic ture . . . all on junior. It is going to be an exciting race. Any baby whose family lives anywhere in the Klamath country and that includes the Klamath Basin part of Northern California, who checks into Klamath Valley Hospital, the first after midnight, Jan. I, 1964. will be the lucky hoy or girl. Shooting Hours OREGON January 1 Open Close ::(I5 a.m. 4:50 p.m. CALIFORNIA January I Open Close 7:04 a.m. 4:40 p.m. nuclear weapons to countries wtiich do not have their own. Establishment of nuclear free zones. The lowest priority was given to a Berlin settlement, although Khrushchev warned that "it would be unw ise and I would say dangerous to put this mat ter off for future years." In a separate New Year's greeting to President Johnson broadcast by Moscow Radio Monday night, Khrushchev ex pressed the ho that the new vear will produac "rouro jwU. Vantial pogcs" n nvkmj major would paoBit-ftjj' The message, whixli tp signed by PaestiJ-i UAin Brezhnev, art th lffo ,vmm ik con3in tf ; Harj- VW, aNal mVA p; vu a togiig ' whith iidi- ma Canal to. is unconstitu tional. In a special statement, JohnsoD said he would not abide by the section requiring prior approval of appropriate congressional committees be fore the canal company ran dispose of property. JOHNSON CITY. Tex. (UPl President Johnson today faced a difficult legislative de cision on whether to veto the $4.4 billion public works appro priation bill or sign it reluctant ly with a strong statement of protest. White House officials report ed he was considering seriously vetoing the measure because it contains a section concerning the Panama Canal which he feels would set a precedent of restricting executive authority. Johnson has until midnight to night to sign the bill or with hold any action which would kill the measure through the process of the so-called pocket veto. In any case, Johnson was not expected to let the measure die without explaining publicly his reasons for so doing. Works On .Message While debating what to do about the bill, which is loaded with pet home-state projects sponsored by some of tile lead ing members of the House and Senate, Johnson also worked with his special counsel, Theo dore C. Sorensen, on a draft of his State of the Union message. During the afternoon, the President scheduled a meeting at the LBJ Ranch with Charles Murphy, undersecretary of agri culture; Michael Forrestal of I the National Security Council staff; Gen. Marshall Carter, deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and Elmer Staats, deputy director of the Budget Bureau The foursome was assigned by Johnson to fly from Wash ington tills, morning to Kansas 1 City; Mo. flirtrniission iMs-to report to former President Har ry S. Truman on the state of the fiscal 1965 budget, interna tional affairs and intelligence matters. Murphy headed the group because he once was cial counsel for Truman. Death Toll From Fire Rises To 22 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (UPI) An Atlanta woman died today, raising to 22 the toll in the Roosevelt Hotel fire. Mrs. Josephine Duprc, .15, whose husband died in the blaze Sunday, was pronounced dead at St. Luke's Hospital at 4:45 a.m., EST. She had been in critical condition since being rescued from the smoking build ing. Mrs. Dupre was the ninth Georgian to die as a result of the fire, which injured 59 other persons. Authorities believe they know the cause of the fire, but con tinued checking the building In day to make their finding def inite. Investigators went on with minute inspections and question ing of employes in the smoke blackened 13-story structure, but still were not ready to an nounce their theory of what caused the fire. rates "nations can cooperate in relaxing world tensions and reaching mutually advantageous agreements if the real situation in the world is soberly ap praiH'd " Feature Statement Soviet newspapers spread KhruslicheVs statement over front pages Monday and today and Moscow Radio broadcasts featured it. 'The Western press also wel comed KhruslKhev's stand. "Miiera!e and hopeful." Uin Ann's Daily 'Mail aid The Kxx4 tl Manchesrer wl tin? wsJI agsee with marf hViwsWiifv's plans, awl saitl "fct vital oe is to keep nu ir wv,,s in the hands only tf totse r.tv possessing them, 4 it M .;6'' in fewer bands ttill." Pri During Umiesisy Trace Mercury Tumbles In North Snow Falls In Deep South By I'nitrd Press International Snow fell in the Deep South, temperatures plunged to 20 de grees below zero in tlie North and broke records, and heavy rains beat against Flo rida today as winter turned on the special effects for a depart ing year. It wasn't much of a snowfall by northern standards, but thou sands of Sugar Bowl visitors at Now Orleans gaped when snow flakes fluttered down and gath ered in patches nn lawns and automobiles. Hie Weather Bureau said "moderate" snow fell in parts of northern Georgia. Kain Hits Florida Freezing rain swept the Caro linas, southern Georgia and northwest Florida. A storm off Public Hearings Will Test School Reorganization Plan Klamath County Court's i school reorganization plan faces its first test next week when the public gets three chances to comment on it. Three public hearings will be held during the week. The first will be held at Merrill High School Monday, tlie second at mills School in Klamath Falls art Tuesday, and the third Wednes day at the new Cliiloquin High Hearings Planned Here By Wildlife Committees A testimonial hearing on the interstate deer hei'd and gener al deer management practices of the Stale Game Commission will be conducted by the Ore gon Legislative Interim Com mittee on Wildlife, in one of two meetings of interest to sports men scheduled for the Green Room at tlie Winema .Motor Ho tel next week. The public hearing will com mence at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 8. when a subcommittee of the interim body will receive comments from sportsmen on the local deer herd and the Klamath River fishery. The other session will be a joint meeting of the O r e g o n ROYAL WELCOME Oregon Gov. Mark O. Hatfield receives an tnthuiiaitic welcome from Sun Carnival greeter Susie Boyd on his arrival in El Paso, Tax,, Monday evening. The governor was in El Paso to attend fiua afternoon's Sun Bowl game between the University, Jt QgG and Southern Methodist'. HssltUdA m'4 tf w ttt hf r,r Oregon a Jfi ne rrt jt i "V;- -v k1 TtfMMda Florida's southwest coast sent heavy rams spilling inland. Vero Beach, across the peninsu la, reported nearly l' inches of rain in six hours today. In the North, winter wus as wintry as ever. The tempera ture plummeted to 23 below at Johnsbury, Vt., and Lebanon, N.H. Watertown. N.Y., and Lone Rock, Wis., recorded 21 below readings. Tlie mercury fell to an official 2 below at Chicago to set a rec ord for the day and the Indi anapolis Weather Bureau said Indiana liad its coldest Decem ber in 03 years of record-keeping with an average tempera ture of 18.3 degrees. Other cities across the Great Plains, Slidwcst and Ohio Valley reported temperatures ranging School. All healings will begin at 8 p.m. The county school board has studied tlie plan in secret ses sion, but no announcement on its position has been made. Directors of city elementary schools have directed Supt. Ray Hunsakcr and Chairman Jake Kehie o attend the hearings, but have not adopted any poli cy concerning the plan. Game and the California Fish an Game commissions, slated for tlie following morning and to be recorded on tae by the Inter im Committee. Agencies of the two slates will also discuss I Ik- local deer herd and tlie Klamath River fishery, in addition to review ing "procedures for commission cooperation on interstate prob lems." tlie Oregon Game Com mission reported. Following the meeting, repre sentatives o.' the Klamath Coun ty Fish and Game Council, an association of sportsmen, will escort tlie Interim Committee on a field trip to the Lava Beds to inspect the winter range of the interstate deer herd. dow n to 18 and 19 degrees below zero. Chicago ran its string of sub zero days in December to 12, five more than tlie record set in 1905 and tied three times since. Milwaukee, Wis., had its 13th sub-zero day this month, break ing a record of 10 set in 1876 and tied in 1916. Temperatures well below the freezing mark were posted as Dallas, Tex., and Atlanta, Ga. The mercury plunged to near zero at St. Louis, iMo., and Louisville, Ky. At IMadison, Wis., Gov. John Reynolds announced that the Agriculture Department has agreed to supply government grain to farmers in eight drought stricken counties. Klamath Union High School di rectors have not yet met offi cially to study the plan, and may not before tlie hearings are held. It has been expected that any opposition to the plan might develop to the KU board, which had not. favored tlie so called "Wiard Street Plan" -adopted by the' county ourt." Following tlie three hearings, tlie county court may or may not make revisions in the plan. A final plan will be sent to the State Board of Education for its approval. If approved, tlie plan then will face the voters in a special election. If the state board finds fault, the plan will be returned to Uie county court for more work and if tin's occurs, the election may not be held before the April 30 deadline. The election must be held be fore April 30 if the plan is to go into effect July 1. If the election is not held before that date, the plan can not go into effect until a year later, and in dications are that if this is the case, the plan may be dropped entirely. Mandy's Not Mad At Anyone LONDON (UPI) - Mandy Itice-Davies. a central figure in tlie Profumo scandal, said today she invited former Prime Minister Harold Mac millan and former War Minis ter John Profumo to her New Year's Eve party. "It's time to let bygones lie bygones," she said. West Berliners Continue Talks To Keep Wall Open BERLIN 'UI'U-A West Ber lin spokesman today repeated the city's desire to continue talks with East German Com munists on traffic through the Berlin wall. He made the statement after the United States warned the city to go slow in its dealings with the Communists on passes to visit East Berlin. West Berlin F ress Chief Egon Bahr. a close aide of Major Willy Brandt, told a news con ference both the East Germans and the West Berlin city gov ernment want the wall to re main open for West Berliners alter expiration of tlie Christ mas pass agreement on Jan 5. The American warning to go siow, the first public one of its kind, was relayed Monday by West tkrman Chancellor Iiuth Erliard on his petiirifj fron) the United' :SliiK- Wh Gun Battle Interrupts Cease-Fire MCOSIA, Cyprus UP1 Greek and Turkish Cypriots to day began releasing refugees and hostages held by both sides in a step toward restoring peace to this bitterly-divided is land republic. The exchange began shortly after a new gun battle marred the uneasy cease-fire. A British military spokesman said the shots were fired in the Omorphita area of Nicosia when Greek Cypriot police ran into three Turkish cypriots try ing to return to the quarter. Nn injuries were reported. Two Turks were taken to police head quarters and the third disap peared. Sandys Visits Hostages British Commonwealth and Colonial Relations Secretary Duncan Sandys personally vis ited tlie 470 Turkish hostages at the Greek Kykko School just be fore they were let go. The agreement to exchange tlie prisoners was signed Mon day. Cyprus has been torn by vi olence between tlie two commu nities for mora than a week. About 200 persons are believed to have been killed and many wounded. British tittups moved into Un neutral zones between Turkish and Greek communities in an effort to end the bloodshed. 1 Even as tlie British worked to secure the neutral zone, con flicting statements by leaders of the island nation indicated continued trouble. British Commonwealth Rela tions Secretary Duncan Sandys called a meeting today of a po litical liaison committee repre senting Greek and Turkish Cyp riots to discuss additional pro posals for restoring peace fol lowing a week of fighting that left about 200 persons dead. The buffer zone in Nicosia wat adopted at Sandys' suggestion. .Foreign Minister Spyros Kyp rianou, a Greek Cypriot, raised the question of Cyprus' status Monday by calling for an end to the island's treaty ties to Turkey and Greece. Ho also suggested a government by Die Greek Cypriot majority instead of the present Greek - Turkish mixed administration. ' Claims Constitution "Dead" His statement followed a comment by Vice iPrcsident Eazil Kuchuk, leader of t h e Turkish Cypriot community, that the constitution that creat ed an independent Cyprus in lUtK) is dead and that partition of the troubled Mediterranean island may be tlie only solution. ence in Bonn the U. S. govern ment sees hidden dangers in pass talk with the East Ger mans. Bahr said the West Berlin representative in the West Ger man capital has contacted Chancellor Erhard to discuss the pass situation. Asked the result of the talks he said: "We have no reason to be dissatisfied ." He said Brandt has no imme diate plan to go to Bonn to sea Erhard about the pass contro versy. Erhard told newsmen Monday the U. S. government fears tha talks between the West Berlin and East German governments could strengthen the Commu nist argument that Wjest' Berlin is a aenai$t.r .entitf w'lth no ll-girf ties to Vt't'sU the chancellor repjUtcd tliat Washington wants tjje West Ger-' nlaiis to avoii dung anything that might "rompftot1 tha Berlin situation. , ,-
