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''Clrntiiiil ElHMil'Ower fiivorn
STATK OWNttKHHIP of l)m oil
rich nulimeiKrd oou'tiil Inmln, iic
cordlim to tndny'n Oiillun, TnxiiN,
MurnhiK News, Tint Nowh (iiiiilnn
the- Kfliicrnl itn HiiylhK ho him nut
chiuigiKl a prcvluiiiiy oxpfe il
opinion Unit Imlrrul control of thnno
' Mi-culh'J tUli'limdn vmiUI tend 'to
ward ccntrnllriul nwnRrnhl nnd
control . . , . T WHICH I 1IAVIS
urnmnLY oppouwiv "
If Ikii fvii Unit wuy iibont Ihc
lldcluii'lr., II In a iriiHoinibly (!
.mdble nlun tlntt lie Is a believer
In ntnlrs rlnhU (In the Jpllemnn
Inn neitHc lit opponi'd to DIG I' KU
KRAI, OOVKHNMKNT.
So (nr nn I know, liln ntntonient
In the Dnllt'ft Newn Ik Ihe f IihI
lime uny Itepiibllciin (or Ihe Prel
ilrncv mi toURi:hcd upon Ililt hlulily
r.lKnlflrnl iMiue. 1 hope ho lum
more lo nay (bout It iilmm the
mine line.
I Out here In the Wvil, Ihe ledenil
(tovernnienl nlrondv owipi In Ihe
' neluhlmrhood ol hnll of nil of our
hind men. In the Hiintn Mninrlln
mne In fiouUiern Clilllcirliln. It In
irnchlnii for owner..!:lp ol ALL the
wnler.
II cftN to me ll'n iiboul time
lo nlop Ihe fi:derl government be
lorn II KRKi 100 bln.
Thin niornlnu'ii Purllnnd Oregon
Inn nnyc
"If II In iinconntltiillonnl for Ihe
Iruliiliilmo to fix minimum vhnruoN
lor bnrbcrliiii nervlceit. how then
. tuny the stuto control milk prlccn?
"The queMlon niiturnlly rnv
from the drclnlon of the Orexon
iiprenio court llm olher dny Hint
Ihe 1041 Inw KcltlnK minimum Icch
. for bHrberln; In void."
Hy wy of clnrlllcallon, Ihe Ore-'
. gonlun ihen nddn:
"Junlle Took polnta out In his
opinion uwi 'where Ihe
iiumnen. ariectcd by nuch mrlce.
flxhiKl laws won lound to be one
. Intlmnlcly (nnoclnled with the nub
' lie hrnllh nnd wellnre, nuch nn Ihe
' milk Induntry, the nLitutrn were up-
nem an a reanonab.c excrcbie of
Die police power."
"In the barber cane, the court
wan not concerned with 'Icitlslntlon
" navinic a well-recognized and direct
ueariim upon Uio hcnllh. hnnnl
nenn and will-belnu of Uie public
an a wnoie.- ju-iure rooio added
'In thlt barber enne. we are con.
cerned with a prlci'-flxlng ntnlute
of primary Intercut to the barber
; irade ueU.' "
Let's try putting it thin way:
II you go without enouuh milk
r you may Bet nick. You mlishl even
die. Hint In the nubile' huninenn.
If you no unshaven and unshorn,
' you inny look like Ihe devil, but
THAT 18 YOUR BUSINESS.
PurHUlna Uila line of rouoiilnB
' II ihe barbers oan mnke It stick
that utmhavrn and unshorn men
frlfthten women and bnbles and
thus enrtnnner the nubile heullh.
maybe they can net away wllh
meir lw putting a tioor under the
price of bartering.
From Moscow:
'A hnlf hour conference helween
Prime Minister Stalin and India's
ambassador to Moscow has pro
duced a new call for the world's
TOP PEOPLK to meet in an au
tempt to settle major International
problems."
I wish It were possible to net
the world's COMMON people to-
Keiner ui ibn t, ol course) In a
serious attempt to nettle malar m
ternntlonal problems. That mlidil
(If It were physlrnlly possible,
which It Isn't) Bet somewhere.
I'm Retting cynical about these
conferences of the BIO SHOTS. Be.
BlnnlnB with the Conurcsn of Vlen
nn. where the world's "top people"
Itot loKCthcr lo fix up tho mess thnt
had been maun ny Napoleon nnd
runnluR on down Uirouiih the Tren-
tv of Versailles and the Ynlta coiv
lerencc, It looks to me like the
more of these top-level "confer'
enccs" we hold Uio worse off we
set.
School Forum
Set Tonight
Oresion Tech the fnst-RrowIng
hilltop school Bnsln folk appnrent-
ly know too little about, Is the sub
ject of tonight's "Uulld the Ba
sin" radio forum. The Hcrnkl and
Ncws-KFLW public service program
goes on tne air nt b:ju p.m.
On, only Institution of Us kind
west of the Rockies, hns nttrnctcd
iiltlounl Interest In education cir
cles. And since It whs founded in
1047, the school hns zoomed to
lourth place In size anions Ihc
seven simo coiicrcs. Last mil. u i i s
enrollment surpassed thnt of South
ern Oregon CoIIcrc In Ashlnnd,
droppiiiR thnt school to fifth place.
The question for tonight's eight
member panel Is: "Whnt Is the
potential vnlue of Oregon Tech?"
Four OTI persons nnd four "out
sldcrn" comprise the panel. Scntcd
around the forum tnblc will be:
Stale Rep. Hunk Semon, chnlr
ninn of the Seunte-Housc Joint
Ways and Means Committee, nnd
a lighting chnninlon for the school;
Hnrry Bolvln, attorney, who wns
a member of the State Board of
Kducntlon when OTI ciune Into be
ing; Dr, Cecil Adnms, who hns
campaigned long and hnrd for rec
ognition of OTPs Mcdlcnl Tech
department; II. O. Juckcland, who
knows first hand of the vnlue of
OTI mechanical training; Winston
Purvlnc, OTI director; Albert Mc
Vey. OTI engineering instructor;
Mnry Reamen, president of the
OTI Women's Association; nnd
Lyle Read, OTI Student Body presi
dent. Weather
FORECAST Klamath falls and
vicinity and Northern California
Fair and cooler tomorrow,
Illfh yenlerday 05
Low last night 3,1
Preolp yesterday T
Prtlp since Oct. 1 14.15
SaAie period last year 12.AR
Normal for period 9.B3
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PLENTY OF ICE was in evidence at Thomas Creek, just west of Lakcview, when these
pictures were taken Saturday morning. Picture at the top shows a crew picking ice
out of a jam near the highway and shunting it down the canal. The picture at the right
was taken at the same spot and shows a dynamite blast being touched off to break
up the heavy formation. No serious floods' have been reported to date but fears are
held that rain may bring trouble.
Phone Crews Walk Out But Company
Officials Keep Lines In US Open
WINSTON PURVINE
HENRY SEMON
ALBERT McVEY H. 0. JUCKELAND
LYLE READ DR.
HARRY BOIVIN
MARY REAMES
CECIL ADAMS
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By EUGENE LEVI.V
NEW YORK Wl A two-pronged
communications strike flared
across Ihe country Monday, but an
American Telephone and Telegraph
spokesman said "most service it
normal."
The CIO walkouts hit the Western
Electric Company, installation and
maintenance subsidiary of the Bell
system In 43 states, and the tele
phone system itself In five states.
Coupled wlUi a continuing AFL
strike ngalnst the Western Union
telegraph system, the new walk
cuts - mad the communications
snarl a three-way affair..
About 67, MW workers 18,000 of
them employes of Western Electric
and 51,(100 of them telephone em
ployes In Ohio, New Jersey, Michi
gan, Northern California and Ne
vada quit their ions.
They are all members of the CIO
Communications Workers of Amer
ica. All-night mediation efforts had
failed to bring agreement.
Although ticket lines of the 43
slate Western Electric crews would
i threaten telephone service general
ly, picketing was only sporadic so
lnr.
I In the Western Union strike, now
in Its fifth day. the comnanv
claimed that service has been re
stored in 82 major cities of the
some 2.000 cities and towns where
it has offices.
The union, the AFL Commercial
Telegraphers, said this claim was
company propaganda, and thnt
we have Ihe country sewed ud
except for New York City."
runner mediation efforts were
scheduled Monday, both tor the
telephone and Western Union
phases of the strike.
The A. T. & T. spokesman said
that "nil long distance calls
throughout the country are going
through," despite the walkouts of
operators nnd others at Bell sys
tems In the live states.
Some of the calls are moving
only "slowly." he said, because
"the boys with Ihc thumbs" (super
visors not fully skilled at the
switchboard) have taken the place
of regular operators!.
"Tills slowing down." he added,
"applies only to a few places and
is not general by any means. Most
service is normal."
Dial service, which takes care
cf a bulk of urban calls, is not
inrcateued, barrmg
equipment
oreaitnowns.
Reports from throughout the
country indicated that while most
Western Electric workers are out,
they had not yet attempted to
picket telephone cxehanges.
There was picketing of some
Western Electric plants, however,
nrd at telephone exchanges In the
states where the operators them
selves struck. W-E plants in Wa
tertown, Mass., and New Hnven
were shut down.
Wage disputes caused the com
munications lnbor troubles.
In the Western Electric Install
ers dispute. Federal Mediators
Francis L. Maher nnd Hnrry Win.
nlng said no specific time had been
set for further meetings.
The mediators said the union
proposed a S3 cents nn hour wage
increase and the elimination of
wage differentials.
As an alternative, the mediators
snld, the union suggested (hat the
dispute be uibmittcd to the gov
ernment's Wage Stabilization
Bonrd.
Wenver told newsmen the 23-cent-an-liour
pay boost was per
missible under federal wage poli
cies and represented a reduction
from a previous uul.m demand for
30 cents.
The vnion had turned ' down a
nlne-cent-an-hour increase offer by
Uie company.
Present wages for Ihe installers,
the union said, are $2.30 an hour
after five years of experience.
Federal Mediator J. R. Mandel
baum was to confer with Western
Union officials late Mondny morn
ing, but a company spokesman
said there "will be no change in
the company's position."
"I can't make thnt too emphat-
(Contlnued on Fage 8)
Top Court
OK's Guilt
On Stroble
WASHINGTON (AP) The Su
preme Court Monday upheld the
conviction of Fred Btrobie, Los An
geles grandfather under the sent
ence of .death for Uie sex-slaying
of 8-year-old Linda Joyce Olucoft.
The child was strangled, stabbed
and beaten to death Nov. 14, 1949,
and her body hidden behind a back
yard incinerator.
Police charged stroble killed ner
when she screamed and tried to
fight off his indecent fondling.
Justice Clark delivered tne t-J
decision. Justice Frankfurter wrote
tlce Douglas Justice Black Joined
in the Douglas dissent.
The majority was composed ol
Chief Justice Vinson and Justices
Reed, Jackson, Burton and Mln-
ton. in addition to Clark.
Stroble had asked Uie Supreme
Court to order a new trial on the
ground that his first trial was pre
judiced by "inflammatory newspa
per reports inspired by the dis
trict attorney," William E. Simp
son. Simpson Has since aiea.
Stroble also claimed a "confes
sion" used against him was "co
erced;" that the trial judge de
prived him of the effective aid of
a defense attorney, and that the
trial judge "secured Stroble's waiv
er to n Jury trial on the Issue of
Insanity, and then witnout more
ado, found him snne and responsi
ble for the crime."
Clnrk devoted eight printed
pages of his opinion to a detailed
account ol tne crime.
Then, referring to Stroble's com-
plaint
Ihnl hi rnnfe.m on was
coerced. Clark said:
"The records shows that from
the time of his arrest until the
time of his trial, petitioner (Stro
ble) was anxious to confess to any
body who would listen and as
much so after he had consulted
with counsel as , before."
As to the claim of inflammatory
newsDnDer accounts the mnioritv
I said publicity abated soon after
Stroble's arrest and the trial it
self was reported "usually on in
side pages . of the Los Angeles
newspapers
Clark said too the majority found
"no substance" in Stroble's con
tention thnt he did not have effec
tive counsel and added there was
no real Question as to Stroble's
sanity.
frankfurters dissent criticized
the action of the prosecutor in giv
ing newsmen details of Stroble's
confession. Frankfurter wrote:
"To have the prosecutor himself
feed the press with evidence thnt
no self-restrained press ought, to
publish In anticipation of a trial,
is to mnke the state itself, through
the prosecutor who wields Its pow
er, a conscious participant In trial
by newspaper, instead of by those
methods which centuries of experi
ence have shown to be Indlspen
slble to the fair administration of
Justice."
Rifle Shot Halts
Escape Attempt
SALEM (.Tl A llfle shot by a
prison pua id halted an escape at
tempt Sunday by two young trus
ties nt the Oregon State Prison
Farm.
The two men w?re ordered by
the guard to hnll as Uiey left the
fnrm Rute. They run, nnd the gunrd
fired a shot over their heads. They
stopped Immediately.
The men, who now are In isola
tion cells, are Joe Scott Wilson. 21,
received at tne prison from Benton
County in March. 1951, to serve
two years for larcenv: and William
H. Stark, 22, received from Hood
River County in April, 1950, to
serve four years for forgery.
Auto Crash
Proves Fatal
: COEUR D'ALENE. Idaho lid
Two persons were killed Sunday
in a rear-end automobile collision
Ion U.S. 10, four miles west of
: here.
Dead were T-Sgt. Raymond Mc
Grew, 34. of Allangan, Mich., and
Spokane Fairchild Air Force Base,
and Mrs. W1U A. Krommers, 53,
Spokane.
Krommers and three . airmen
from Fairchild were injuretfn the
crash, ,. t
Deputy Sheriff John V7. Rasor
said cars driven by Krommers
and S-Sgt. Bert E. Buchanan Hew
itt, Minn., were westbound on the
highway when Buchanan's machine
hit the rear of the Krommers auto.
Both cars burst into llames short
ly after the crash.
clotnjnz afie wa hurled on'to the
road. She died later in a Spokane
hospital.
Sgt. McGrew was instantly
killed.
Daylight Time
Decision Due
SALEM tifi Gov. Douglas
McKay said Monday he would de
cide next week whether to put Ore
gon on daylight saving time AprU
27.
He has arguments from the Ore
gon Broadcasters Association ask
ing that daylight time be started
that date, when the fast time
starts in eastern cities. He also
hns many letters from farmers
j who i oppose it. .
- -'"-,'".'
crnor has power to order the clocks
oci niicnu nii num.
He proclaimed daylight time last
year, also at the request of the
radio broadcasters and Portland
business men.
nwnwiryis: rii w Tier
ENJOYING THE WESTERN ATMOSPHERE Saturday at the luncheon meeting of Delta
Kappa Gamma in state conference here over the weekend, are Ella Blunk, (left), North
west regional director, Grants Pass, Neb., Isabelle Brixner. president of the Klamath
chapter and Melissa Martin, president Alpha Rho State. Luncheon and dinner sessions
were at the Willard Hotel.
Sioux, Missouri
Rivers Mounting
As Snow Melts
Steel Truce
Talks Still
Tied Down
NEW YORK ' A government
mediator pressed anew Monday
for a settlement of the steel wage
dispute but his efforts failed to
case the threat of a strike Tuesday
midnight.
Nathan P. Feinslnger. chairman
of the Wage Stabilization Board.
met with top union officials in a
last-ditch attempt to prevent a
wqlkout by 50.000 members of the
CIO united Sieelworkers.
In a statement, Felnsincer an
nounced he had met briefly with
industry leaders late Sunday night
and expecW to have "either sepa
rale or joint conferences through
out Monday."
While the search was on for a
peace formula, furnaces in the in
dustry's great mnls were being
cooled in preparation ior a snut
down.
Shortly before noon an aide of
Felnslnoer raid he had ended the
session with union leaders.
The aide added that Felnslnger
probably will meet later with in
dustry officials. The hour was un
certain. Meanwhile, a union spokesman
announced union Steel President
Philip Muiray would make a 15
minute radio address over station
WNBC Monday night at 7 p.m.,
iPST) with "an answer" to the
radio talk made Sunday night by
U.S. Steel Corp. President Ben
jamin Fairless.
Fairless asked the' union to call
off the strike, saying it would bene
fit "nobody this side of the iron
curtain." Murray commented brief
ly then that it was industry, not
the union, which was "forcing tne
strike."
Flood Threat
Said Easing
PORTAND W March preci
pitation generally feU below nor
mal in the Columbia Basin, and
the prospects now are good for the
region to escape any serious flooding-
'
The Weather Bureau's River
Forecast Center reported Monday
that there probably would be seme
local flooding on upstream tribu
tries plus a crest of 22 feet in the
Portland and Vancouver harbors.
Flood stage'is 15 feet at Vancouver,
18 feet at Portland. At 22 feet the
river causes only minor damage.
The main danger as mountain
snows begin to melt will be in
some tributaries of the Snake Riv
er. Hydrologist Anthony J. Polos
said.
He noteH that the Upper Snake
average in the past 10 years. Unus
ually high water will resun aiong
the Big Lost, Big Wood, Little
Wood, Boise, Payette and Weiser
Rivers. These basins had above
normal precipitaUon in March.
No serious flooding is expected
in the Columbia tbove the conflu
ence with the Snake.
The lower Columbia runoff will
be 110 per cent of normal, but this
will De tar Deiow tne noon year iu
1948. The total volume of water
expected to pass The Dalles will
be 139.000.000 acre feet in the per
iod from last October to next Sept.
30. In Uie flood year of 1948, the
total was 171,000,000. It was 169,'
000,000 last year.
SIOUX FALLS, S. D. Wl The
Big Sioux and Missouri Rivers, fed
by fast-melting snow and ice.
swept southward Mondny, leaving
an estimated z,iuu persons Home
less. Ice cakes, some as big as houses.
shot down the churning Missouri
at Bismarck. N. D.. and as the
channel cleared, the "Big Muddy"
slumped about two feet.
It was still three and a half feet
above flood stagi at Bismarck
Monday morning, however, and the
Weather Bureau warned "there's
still a lot of water to come down
stream." At lost 300 Homes, housing some
1.000 persons, wero swamoed by
Ihe swirling water. The Northern
pacific Railway said about a mile
of its main line was washed out In
the Bismarck area.
The Big Sioux appeared to be at
its maximum springtime depth at
Sioux Falls Mondny. Disaster head
quarters were caring for some 350
ol 1,100 persons evacuated Sunday
when an airport dike broke north
of the city, flooding a housing area.
Several hundred residents of a
western addition of Sioux Falls
breathed easier Monday as an
Omaha Railway grade stood firm
against a three-foot flood wall. The
water was a scant few inches from
the track level.
The twin cities of Pierre end Ft.
ncrrc. uii Liie afjuin iuiuui self-
ment of the Missouri, braced for
what some river observers feel
might be the worst flood in 71
years.
CREST DUE
The Weather Bureau said the
Bismarck crest of Uie Missouri was
expected to gush into South Dakota
momentarily, boiling through
Pierre, the capital city, nearby Ft.
Pierre, and southward through
Chamberlain, S. O., and Sioux
City, Iowa.
The Weather Bureau predicted
high readings in the Dakotas would
reach the 70's Monday which
would quickly convert the winter's
remaining snow and Ice into more
run-off water for the swollen Mis
souri. Wind. Rain or snow was forecast
for the Dakotas Monday night.
In Montana, sandbag crews bat
tled the swelling Milk River which.
according to Army engineers esti
mates, has flooded nt least 125,000
acres of farmlands. The river was
cut of its banks from Glacier Na
tional Park to the Missouri River. -It
has caused . damage' estimated
to run into millions of dollars.
HOMES FLOODED '
More than three feet of water
was standing in flooded homes in
the southwestern section of ; Bis
marck. Lowlands between Bis
marck and Mandan were flooded
but a levee was keeping the roar
ing waters out of the latter city,
eight miles west of the North Da
kota capital.- Traffic on highway
10 between the two cities was
closed and the Northern Pactfie
Railway's main line was cut by
Uie flood. i
Pumps at the Mandan water
works were shut down temporarily
Sunday when the murky flood
started to seep in. Officials said
lhrn urna nn immeHifltp threat in
the water supply because reser
voirs held a large quantity already
processed.
At Sioux Falls, workers concen
trated on sandbagging the city's
waterworks and well field, near
the flooded airport section.
Voter's Pamphlet
Mailed Today 1
SALEM liT Distribution of the
826,000 copies of Oregon's Voter's
Pamphlet began Monday, David
O'Hara. supervisor of elections, an
nounced. . The first copies go to Eastern
Oregon counties. The pamphlets go
to all registered voters.