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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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. , ,-