d) a Ms m a OR - " Ij - o' - (g Mental Patient Ala Price Five Cent 1 Pages KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 19.K Telephene (111 Ns. 2731 RUSS TISDALE it,TIe By FRANK JENKINS Prom Washington: ' "Senator Kefauvcr conlldcntly nredlctcd Sunday he could win the Democratic Prenldentlal nomina linn EVEN IF PRESIDENT TRU MAN 8EEK3 Re ELECTION.'' Personally, I hop he's right. I Ihlnk the new constitutional amendment that forbids more than two elective terms (or any Presi dent lay down aound nd whole 4 .'me policy. If we ere to make democratic - government perma nently successful, we muitt sea lo It Uiat too much power Isn't held too long In too few handn. If an Incumbent can dictate hl urceuor, loo much power will continue to remain In too lew handn too long despite conalttu tlonal amendments limiting the number o( terma a President may aerve. I admire Senator Kelauver (or going altar Die Democratic nom ination In the (ace o( what cer tainly look like disapproval on Uie part of Prealdent Truman. Remember Harry's crack about "eyewash" the other day? Here's aome more eyewaxh: "Cluv Oabrlelaon. chairman of the Republican national commit tee, aald on a television program lal night he believe ANY OOP candidate can lick ANY Democrat. "Prank E. McKlnney, Demo cratic national chairman, aald In an addrtM In Detroit: 'Our rec ord and the aorry record of the Republican party are the aureat guarantees of a Democratic vic tory." The dictionary define eyewash aa "eyewater." It then goes ahead and deflnea - eyewater aa "a lotion for the eyes." Delving deeper Into Mr. Webater'a claaalc. we find that a lotion la "a liquid medicinal preparation for waahlng." That atlll leavea ua somewhat at aaa aa to the President" exact meaning when he referred with ob vious sarcasm to presidential pri maries aa eyewash. Webster con vey clearly the Idea that eye waah. which la "eyewater." which in It turn t "lotion." which In ITS turn la "a llqvld medicinal preparation," la something that Is GOOD for the eye. ThaW4,-tO v, omtthlnf thai make ua e better, At that point, politics part com pany with the dictionary. There can be little doubt that In the political lexicon eyewash la aoroa thlng that plays hob m-llh Ih voters vision and makes htm think he sees what really Isn't there (o be seen. When they apeak with such calm confidence ot victory, and with auch complete assumption of recti, tude an the part of the political organisation they head, both Chairman Oabrlelaon and Chair man McKlnney are dealing In eye wash. In Philadelphia the other day. police raided a luncheon place and rrested 14 man whom they found playing poker. It appears that the rops were prodded Into the raid DV THK WIVSQ W OVWIO. vr THE MEN, who. . the dispatch saya, "didn't like the Idea of their Men coming home late and short every payday." . , That raises an Interesting moral question: How about the wives of the men who cam out ON THE WINNING END? ; Do they object to gambling? This one comes from Canada: "Mrs. Herman ' Smith was mauled In a downtown ofdee the other day by a Hon that had been brought there to display a lew tricks. The Hon seised Mrs. Smiths plastic purse in lis mouth. Bhe yanked it away. This Irritated the lion, and It bit her In the leg. If a hair-trigger world, Isn't it? Even the animals are beginning to be affected, . 1 MEKT OFF C ' Becoune of Illness a meeting of .Jfflty Faculty Wlvea schtvluled for tonight has been cancelled. , Basin Potato Grovers By MALCOLM F.PLEV JR Farm Editor Klamath- potato growers are (tolng to get a boost In the base celling price set on their products, but it's not going to be Ihe 78 rent increase they asked for ear lier. Klamath grower Scott Warren, who Is chairman of the Oregon Potato Commission, arrived home Saturday from Washington, said yesterday he had been assured by OPS officials that local potato prices would be upped to the pres ent Idaho price. ' That means that the base price of $3.85 (plus 10 cents storage for February) may be ' upped -to Idaho's base price of. $3.85 (plus the dime). Idaho had been allowed a 20-centg more per hundred pounds than the rest of the West ern states beoause of a poor crop, Warren said the OPS should an nounce the boost tomorrow or Wed . nesday, If they do allow It. It will apply to ten Western states on, late potatoes. t- The Oregon delegation lo Wash ington, one of many sent by po 1 Into-growlng slates, consisted only of growers: Warren; Louis Lyon, Merrill, this region's director on the National Potato' Council: Roy btiable, official protestant for Ore gon; H, W. Steelehammer, presi dent of the Central Oregon Potato Growers Association and Clyde GEORGE P. DAVIS ijuiyitieii. i i . imiwiifsf) L. W. ROTHENBERGER 11 VIC SCHOONOVER GEORGE W. MORGAN Weather FORKCAST Klamath Falls and vicinity' and Northern California : Cloudy and cooler tonight, rain to morrow. Low tonight 23, high to morrow 48. . ' ; . High yesterday , ;',' . ' 38 Lew lait night .' ' SI Preolp Feb.' I... ,.81 Prerlp since Oct. 1 ., ........11.24 8ame pvrlod last year .......... 18.49 Normal, for period 8.83 (Additional Weather en Page. 81 Ward, a Baker- grower. , I The Oregon and California dele gations wore the only ones com posed only of grotvers,-. Warren t:ald. He said the Qregon, 'Califor nia ana janno acicgations were me only ones claiming a differential at a grower level. Warren said there was more "politics than Justice" hi the set ting of celling prices by the Office of Price Stabilization. Hp described the growers' case ns ft movdd through', the ranks of various departments, bureaus and officials during Uie , recent hear ings. ' , The group met' with other grow ers and dealers from spud grow ing arena everywhere .In the United States for . two days, pointing out discrepancies . In the OPS act of Jan. 6 which became effective Jan. 19 and Instilled' ceilings, rolling back prices, from five per cent in nome sections to 31 per cent In the Klamath area. The 'Official, meeting with the 0P8 was op Jan. 18,' Warren said, and-ended 'Willi some results and concessions' on a national level, It allowed the storage cost "(10 certts per month ibr February itnd Moron, nickel '', for April and May); It allowed" Uie Increase In spread between the growcV and re tailer from 70 cents to 86 cents; It set up a fairer packaging charge and recognised army crates as es ' DICK HENZEL ;' MnnHHi'.Uawi Forum On Industry Set Tonight One member of tonight's "Build the Basin" forum panel, Hal Gel ger of the CIO Woodworkers, has Had to cancel his appearance on the KFLW radio show. Over the weekend he came down with the mumps. Gelger was to have presented the viewpoints of organized labor regarding the forum topic: "How Can We Attract New Industry to the Klamath Basin?" ihe program will originate from KFLW studios at 8:30 and will be entirely unrehearsed, with the ex ception that members of the panel are to be at the studio at 8 o'clock to arrange for Introductory state ment at the beginning of the pro gram. On the panel will be L. W. Roth- enberger, Hercules Powder Com pany; Dick Henzel, Tulana Farms; George r. Davis, Lorenz company Runs Tlsdale, Firat National Bank; Vic Schoonover. Oreat Northern. and George W. Morgan, Southern Pacific. Bud Chandler, KFLW manager, will be moderator. The program la the fourth In the atatlon's "Build the Basin" series of programs dealing with local top ics of the day. Listeners may put questions to members of the panel while the show Is In progress by phoning 8111, The Herald ana News. Hot Council Meet Looms One of four resolutions slated (o come before City Council tonight la liable to cause considerable con troversy. . IUi resolution to place "before Ihe voting public In May prirnnrles the proposition of placing Park Commission authority In control of the Council. Under the Clly Charter Ihe Park Commission Is an independent or ganization unlike the Recreation Committee whose authority stems Irom the Council. . Other ballot title resolutions scheduled lor Council considera tion tonight at 7:30 p.m. Include: Whether the Mayor's salary should be Increased from $175 to 1500 a month. Whether a half mill levy should be assessed for seven years to raise 1150.000 for a proposed mu nicipal swimming pool. Whether a three mill levy should be assessed yearly to provide funds ior a municipal resiroom. If approved all these resolutions would result In placing the propo sitions belore the voting public in May 16 primary elections. The Council will be meeting In temporary Municipal Court quar ters while the Council Chambers are being revamped. These Guys Are Now Going Short PHILADELPHIA lifl The wives of 14 Philadelphia men are going to receive unopened pay envelopes after this, due to a ruling of Mag istrate Samuel Clark. The magistrate pronounced that sentence on 14 men arrested during a raid of a luncheonette where po lice found three tables of poker go ing full blast. . Inspector Albert DuBol.se told the magistrate the luncheonette was raided on complaint of some of the wives who didn't like the Idea of Ihelr men coming home late and short every pny day. The luncheonette owner was held In $300 bail for court. Promised Price Boost to Match Idaho Ceiling tablished shipping procedure, al lowing a 70-cent Increase there. Growers had asked for a $1 In crease. '.., To get an OPS adjustment on Ihe Western base price. It was necesary to get the United States Department of Agriculture to sub stantiate evidence offered by the delegation, and that the OPS be given new figures and recommend new changes be made. "Parity price (the point where the farmer gets a fair profit for what he sens in relation to what he buV.s) under Ihe Defense Pro duction' Act," Warren aald, "was set on a national level. It dis criminated against the West and the long variety of potatoes and especially against Oregon Aftei eeveral enlnns the rnw. or reported, the USDA agreed thatJA8rlfu"'Bl Committee held a the russet snud had been dlscrlm-r8."""' procured through the Po (noted against and should be treat ed as 0 - variety. . i In .several sessions between the Oregon delegation and - the OPS, Warren said,' the prloe' office In timated It would recognise ' the price differential which the russet had been receiving, In the past' and was substantiated, by evidence pre sented by the growers and, by the USDA. , "We watched the case develop," Warren said. "It continued through the USDA and on up the ranks ol nigllAndl':ets . Y t . ' , - PLENTY OF, HELP Three lifeguards pull Carl Winkler (in life jacket) out of the Pacific Ocean after a boat, from which he was setting lobster traps, capsized off White Point near Los Angeles. A. L. Putnam (not shown) swam out to the floundering Winkler and kept him afloat until life guards John and Leonard Olguin (left) and Leroy Overack er (right) arrived to complete the rescue. Another fisher man with Winkler reached shore under his own power. Theater Quits Business Here The Pine Tree Theater, operat ing since July, 1950. under owner ship of Al Adolph, was closed yes- icrauy. . .' The. building hss housed a the ater from-1920 until August: 1846. and was then dark until Al and kcx Atioiun took It over in I dsn In recent weeks vaudeville shows had been booked at the Main street show house. The location is owned bv ihe Moore estate, Charles L. Moore Dr. Rslph W. Stearns and T. B. Walters. Mud Closes Newell School TULELAKE Mnrl l nlnvlno havoc with transportation on many of the county roads in this area with most of the difficultv being localized East of Drain 10 and in the Newell district. School at Newell Is closer) until conditions are improved according to an unofficial report this morn ing. Classes were not held Prldav and busses that usually bring high school students from that district to Tulelske did not make the trip today. . Mail carriers on the two rural routes. Earl Heck, and Tim Hol land are finding travel increaslng- uy difficult as melting snow cuts througn surfacing. Holland is driv ing a Jeep. Both report . being pulled with tractors and some farm residents are driving, farm vehicles to meet carriers and dis tribute mail. rtt.K WATER MEET A meeting to discuss proposals lo set Mp a farmer-controlled water district In the Tulelake Basin has been scheduled for 7:30 Tuesday in the Legion Hnll. An election has been set for Mar. 11 to gain approval of the district the OPS. It reached a high level where It was knocked in the head." He said the OPS promised that all 10 Western states would be put In the disaster clause -along with Idaho. An OPS news release dated Feb. 1 seemed to back' this ' up. "I hope this 'will happen," he said. "But we shouldn't pin too much faith on it. We were prom ised, that's all;" The growers' official protest was filed Jan. 18 with the price of fice, and according to law must be allowed or denied within 30 days. , . . It was ' filed backed by the evi dence showing a 76-cent differen tial history here. In comparison with national parity. On Jan, 21, he-said, the House tato Council, which "helped tre mendously in getting the, nation wide 1 revisions.' . , It was pointed out In that hear ing, Warren said,- that potatoes were Ihe first perishable crop (to have the lid clamped on. ' "That was a result of the Ad ministration's bargain with, .steel industry union officials who prom ised to hold off wage demands until all things they had to buy were placed under ceilings by the OPS. BULLETINS Tl'LANA LEASE U.S. Interior Department of ficials In Washington told Ihe Associated Press late this morn ing that there had been no ac tion taken on the controversial Tulana Farms-Reclamation Bu reau lease1. The lease on 2314 acres nf Tnle , su np . land has been shrned by Tulana and awaits either signing or rejec tion by the government. ' CARTER FILES Dlst. Judge M. A. (Nick) Car ter early this afternoon filed at the County Clerk's office for re election, lie was appointed to the post on death of Judge J. A. Mahouey early January of 1951. Gunman Robs Grocery Safe ROSEBUHG ift A grocery store chain manager reported a gunman held him up Saturday night and escaped with about $200, after tying up the manager and another employe. The manager, Archie White, said the gunman forced him to open the safe, then forced him to tie up the other employe, Thurman John son. The gunman, described as 55 or 60 years old, then tied up White. Johnson later worked loose, and freed White. Deputy DA Gets Mystery Beating PORTLAND W James V. Collins, Multnomah County de puty district attorney, said he was attacked and beaten by at least two men as he arrived home early Sunday. Collins suffered head bruises and a sprained arm. He could not ex plain the attack. He said he was returnliiK at the time from a party celebrating the election of Robert Elliott. Mcdford, as state Republi can party chairman. No attempt was made to roo mm, ne said. "We don't object to checking In flation," Warren said. "But that check should be fair." It was evidenced at the House hearing, too Warren said, that OPS mot but once with the Potato Advisory Committee, and at that time it had drawn up no price ceiling order on spuds to be ad vised upon. It asked no advice ' later, he said, and totally disregarded rec ommendations the committee had made a t -Its one meeting. . The hearing, Warren said, brought up the possibility that If too many other perishable foods were hit by similar OPS actions, a food famine may result next year. , . Even while the delegation was In Washington, Warren said other perishable iood producers were sending delegations with protests against the controls on their pro ductsmany of them equally as vigorous as the potato protests. . '"The greatest hope in the fu ture," he asserted, "lies in co operaung and coordinating' with producers of other perishable foods. .The Defense Production Act, expires this June 30, but under the present administration there seems a good chance for Its being re newed by Congress." . However, he said, if the food producers combined forces they may have strength enough to have Utah Region Whipped By Winds, Snow By The Associated Press Three storms which brought the country a wide variety of weather over the week-end converged Mon day, boding high winds and rain for New England.. One had whipped up a blizzard at Colton, Utah, Saturday that took three lives, and blanketed the cen ter of the continent with rain, light snow and freezing drizzle as It moved east. . A second sucked dust thousands of feet into the air over much of Texas before settling It with rain, and moved on over Arkansas Into Tennessee. . A third, with winds ranging up to 75 miles an hour, lashed the Atlantic coast and drove a 2,600 ton freighter aground off Cape Hat teras, N. C, as it took a northeast ward course paralleling the sea board. The result was rain over the Middle Mississippi and Ohio Val leys. Southern and Eastern Great Lakes region, and most of the Mid dle and North Atlantic states. The blizzard near Colton, Utah, Saturday stalled more than a dozen automobiles and when highway crews reached them Sunday, three occupants of one buried car were dead of carbon monoxide poison ing. - Great clouds of red dust, swept up from drought stricken plains of Western Texas, blotted out the sun Sunday. The; dust cut visibility to three-quarters ol a mile in eastern parts of the state before rain washed It away. Twenty six crewmen of the stranded Panamanian freighter Miget abandoned her In lifeboats after the ship ran onto a sandbar nearly a mile from nearest land off Cape Hatteras. They reached Portsmouth Island alely. ; The Coast Guard fougnt a losing bat tle throughout the night in an at tempt to reach the Midget. - Rains brought the threat of more flooding along the Ohio River In Kentucky and Ohio. The Weather Bureau at Cincinnati said the river level above flood stage, but 2.2 feet below last week's crest. xhe situation was similar at Louisville. The river stage was 4.8 leet aoove flood stage and another .7 rise was predicted. . But this would still be about one and a half feet below the danger point. Tax Scandals Probe Starts SAN FRANCISCO Wl The Northern California Internal Reve nue office, subject of probes by grand juries and state and federal officials, comes under the scrutiny of a soeclal subcommittee of Con gress Monday. Rep. King, D-Calif.. said public hearings into the scandal-riddled tax branch will begin Monday afternoon and continue about two weeks. King's group is a unit of the House Ways and Means committee Since the tax office first came under fire of the California Crime Commission, a year and a half ago, h dozen tax officers have been fired. Seven, Including former Internal Revenue Collector James G. Smyth have been Indicted on charges rang ing from revealing confidential in formation to outsiders to misap propriation of funds. Smyth Is ac cused of conspiracy to defraud the government. perishable foods lifted from ceiling price lists entirely, or least placed at a higher minimum base. "This must be given much con sideration, and a decision reached on which one of these to ask for." Warren commended Oregon's Congressional delegation during the protest meetings, especially Sen. Wayne L. Morse, who he said presented the Industry's case, got the appointments with- the right people, and made a speech from the Senate floor. "When we left we had done all that's possible at the present time." The potato industry, he said, has been placed in a poor position In the East because, of unfavorable publicity.' "The OPS has the potato Indus try, in a chaotic state, which suits their purposes." He said Eastern newspapers have featured the po tato shortage and blackmarketing as ' complete Justification for .OPS ceilings to stoo run away orlces. He said there will undoubtedly be a heavy force of OPS enforcement officials oh the road soon. "There appears to be no relief In sight for the present crop to do any good. Fighting with local OPS officials will accomplish noth ing, as they are carrying out tne orders of the president." Lost In Desert A low overcast cleared late this morning permitting search planes wj taae on ana seek a missing pri vate plane with three Boise, Idaho, men aboard, one of them a mental patient. Three small planes, piloted by Eldon Alt, Max Menti and Ed Scholer, took off from Municipal Airport here and more were ex pected to be In the air this after noon. At Redmond, a McChord Field B-17 also took off on the search. A McChord Air Rescue team has been at Redmond since early yes terday waiting for- a weather break. The missing plane, a Sttnson Voyager, has been ' unreported I since it gassed up and left Burns at 10:08 Saturday morning on a flight from Boise to Rosenurg. , . n the Diane were Dllot Norman Bryar, 26, Fred DeBlols, 27, a men tal patient being taken to the Veterans Hospital in Roseburs. and a guard, Paul Peterson. 30. Lloyd Eason. Boise flvina serv ice operator and owner of tha miss ing plane, told the Herald and News the guard had two pairs of hand cuffs when the party left Boise but he did not know whether or not the mental patient was actually handcuffed; However, airport work ers at Bums said when the plane gassed there later In the morning. DeBlols was in handcuffs. Only promising clue thus far to the missing plane's whereabouts was reported yesterday by persons in tne f ort Kock area. They said a plane answering the lost Etin son's general description was ob served flying west toward Rose burg and then making a 180 de gree turn and flying back toward surns. it is oenevea tne pilot may have been trying to circle prevail ing bad weather areas, gave up and decided to return to Bums. The Klamath Air Search and Rescue Unit has been assigned a search area in the Silver Lake and Beaver Marsh sections. With all available landing strips In that area covered with heavy snow, KASRU ootainea special permission irom the State Highway Department to land and take off from a section of Highway 31 near Silver Lake. A KAottu ground party set up a search base near the highway- land- The missing stinson s .flight path from Burns to Roseburg should have been about 210 miles and the plane should have made ihe trip in something over two hours. Eason, the plane owner, said the Solon Blasts Lake Bombing WASHINGTON Sen. Welker. R-Idaho, protested Monday that use of Pend O Reule Lake In Idaho for Navy pombing tests would ruin one of the country's best trout fishing waters. ' Welker' said he had learned that the Navy was planning "gigantic bombing tests" in the lake. He said he is asking the Navy to pick some other lake which "doesn't include the greatest trout supply in Amer ica." "I don't want to be In the posi tion of interfering with' the Navy in its proper tests." the senator told a reporter, "but I believe that, as a sportsman, I must object to the picking of the world's most fam ous trout lake for the tests. They certainly can find a suitable lake In another area. Welker said he was "shocked" to learn the size of the explosive to be used over a long period. The tests, he said, would kill many fish and make the Northern Idaho lake "unfit for fishlife for many years to come. i H"') ; i f it ''.- .''; ;:: 1 :,' :: rvt! , M L y READY FOR WORK at Howard's Cleaners, 925 E. Main, this morning were Ray Halbert, 2518 Applegate St., and Mildred Dillard, 1101 E. Main St. pilot, Bryar, was "a top pilot" and a good Instrument man. Interest in the lost ninn hn been heightened by the nresence aboard of the mental patient. It is being theorized that ihe Datlent may have gotten out of hand whllo tne plane was in flight. The missing plane Is maroon and f gray and carries the number MO 97663. Legislature Eyed For Funds Meet SALEM fP) Deputy State Trea surer Fred Paulus advocated Mon day a special session ot the Oregon legislature to save the state from possible financial disaster. Talking to the legislature's in terim tax committee, he said a big tax bill could be passed at the special session and the bill then could be referred to the people at the general election next Novem ber. , ASSURANCE That way,' Paulus said the 1953 legislature would be assured of enough money to operate for the following two years. Sen. Dean H. Walker, Indepen dence, senate tax committee chair man, said "what we fear is that the 1953 legislature might pass a tax bill, and then It woulu be re ferred by petition to the general election in 1954. If that occurred, we would have to operate without funds during the 1953-55 blennium." In Oregon, the legislature can't put an emergency clause on a tax - bill. This fact leaves all tax bills wide open to the referendum. Paulus told the committee that the state might have to go on a warrant basis because it won't have enough revenue in 1953, unless new tar sources are found. CREDIT CUT This poor financial situation, Paulus said, has caused bond buyers to reduce Oregon's credit rating to that of the lowest group of states. , - ' The reduction ' in credit rating means that- the- statexwill- have to pay mox Interest on its, bonds. Tribesmen Slay Fugitive Japs : MANILA Wl A police report Monday- said fierce Mangyan tribesmen wielding spears and ar rows killed 18 Japanese strairslers of World War n on a small, islet southwest of Manila. The Mangyans hid In thick underbrush of ahe Jungle covered islet and ambushed the Japanese when they returned from foraging ior iooa. Fourteen Japanese were killed by spears in the first onslaught. the report said. Two who tried to run were brought down by arrows. The Japanese fought futilely with bayonets and swords. Their am munition was corroded and useless. The Islet is off the coast of Bus- uanga Island In the Calamian group about 175 miles southwest of Manila. TO RUN PORTLAND Wl District Judge Ray D. Showmaker and Circuit Judge MacCormac Snow, both of Multnomah County, announced here Friday they would seek re-election.