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Newspaper Page Textfo) in Jl A IIV FRANK JliNKINS l'maldenl Truiiiuii blew 111 top tho otlirr dny uvrr cutn of four lo nix billion of dollars Unit hnve been niiiiln (tentatively, at leant) by tl 10 house of roi)ienciiliilivc In lila (Irlciiio (unit rt'iiuesta, Blinking his fist angrily, he charged Unit "congress I engag ing In thin I like rccinmn v wavo o when IIipv mi homo they run muk a hit u( stump specchon In try lo del elected." Holding up hln right nrin Willi fist cli'iH'lii-il. h added: "There'll only on thlim these congressmen linili'i nliiiKl, mill Hint In thin (poli ticking!." lis went on In miv Unit anybody who thlnkii nlimhrji In the delaine program lire true economy nuulit lo have hln hend examined, lie concluded: "If I hnve to cnll a special tur nip day aesslon of congress every dny between now and the flmt dnv of next Jiinuiirv, we lire going to net lhi Uilng done and don rlKht." Belnii thus bitten In the leu by the President, member of the house armed services committee bit rluht bnck, assorting Uinl Uie slashes In the military budget merely eliminated Truman's waslo and excesses. I .n't Unit a pretty kettle of HkIi? I wonder If a great nntlon, avium intr world tendcmhlp In a rnali In iniinklnd'a alfalrs, t-ould act any filler. What In the trull) of the matter? I don't know, but I'm pretty cer tain Unit It congress and the Prr.il. dent went nlioul the, Job aerlounlv and Booperntlvelv they could squceito six lillllou dnllnrH out of our fantastically swollen federal ex penditure without anybody cvfT mtiwlng It except posalhlv a ..-few minor hiirenucriiti and bbmidog Klern who might lone their Job a a reull of the aqueetum. I'll bet we'd even be MOKir KF FICIENT II we rut out our drunk en spending and wot down lo the hard bmfui tack of petting a dol lar' worth of result for everv dol lar put out. Did you ever aeen an efficient waslrcl? T sometimes wonder about theve big corporations. Are Ihev reallv a mnnrt and Miper-clllcirnt an they cliilm to be? That crack U nromnted by an AP dbmalch relaUni that In ISM Charles E. WIIon, president of (leneral Motor, earned, a total (In bonuses and aalarvi of Jiwt.oOO A company statement aavs the fed eral Income lax on that amount would M approximately M70.0O0. Albert Bradley, rxecutlve vice president and chairman of the fl nnnce nolle committee, eanied I4M.I0O. Harlow H. Curtl-e. execu tive v!ce-nreidrnt In Charge of ren. eral staff actives, got 1471.200. Frederick O. Dnnner. vice-president In charge of finance, received :1BI.- Taxes of tliese others must nave bitten relatively as deeply as In the enso of President Wlleon. The AP dispatch adds that under Oenernl 'Motors bonus plan fH top cxectittveir-.e.nd directors .eajned.a aiai of iio.iMMia last year. ' Mind you. I'm not complaining about the sire of the Salaries and oonuiien going to Oenernl Motors' lop brass. Management EARNS ITS PAY the name as labor, and It In an accented principle In busi ness that Uio bigger the responsi bility I he bigger the pay. Labor recognises that principle, Just as management does. Top union of llclals tret big pay -and earn It by .lie responsibility Ihey carry. What I'm questioning Is the plain horse sense of paying huge salaries tnd bonuses to high-up corporation xecutlves. who, after pungllng up :o Uncle Bam, hnve only relaUvely mall amounts left. If that ten million dollars re ceived by General Motors' 84 top xeciillves and directors had been distributed nut In dividends to OMs 453.000 sharholders. most of whom are In relltlvely low Income tax brackets, -the tax on It would have been far less. If It had been cut n halt, this upper echelon of CM management would still hnve re ceived nice pay checks, of which a much larger share would have seen take-home pnv, the share holders would have benefited, nnd '.he loin I tax would hnve been mailer. The answer, I suppose, Is that CIM saved a lot of taxes by pav ing those high snlerlrs nnd charg ing them to expense. Hint Illus trates the screwball nature of our present economy. i 1. 1 AX. ft NEW SLATE OF OFFICERS to p.resldo over Oregon De Molays the coming year gath ered In a group Saturday night at the Armory. They are (1 to r): Bill Cox, Portland, Deputy Master Councilor; State Master Councilor Vernon Thompson, Roseburg; State junior Councilor Bud Parker, Newport, an d Marvin Nersctl), ; Klamath Falls, State .Senior Councilor. . (Story on pagt 2) , Key Primaries Set This Week '.- ' '' i lid- it J I SWITCHBOARDING at the police st.'itioti when the 9 O'clock camera snapped this morning was- Priscilla Andrews, PBX operator at the City Hall. Annual Spring Fair Thursday Severn! hundred Klamath County 4-H'era are scheduled to participate In taus week's annual Spring Fair ni me uouniy rnirgrounus It marts Thursday, with doors open from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. First dny features Include demon- st ni Hons on everything from elec- trlcliy and heating to cooking, clothing and forestry. Friday's special feature Includes a 4-11 movie at 0:43 p.m. and a talent show st 7:30. On top for the latter will be song, dance and Itislrumenlal numbers all by 4-Hers. The fair la open to the public. Man Burned By Gasoline TULELAKE - limited gasoline. llliuou ur uie uiiisiuc ui nil mi - mobile seriously burned a Klamath Palls resident In Tnlelake last night. Ray Fbiher, 24 . 626 No. Bill, Is In Klamath Valley Hospital wllh burns on face, head, arms and chest. His condition this morning was report ed as fair. Fisher. In attempting to start an aiiiomooiie panca on Minn Biri-ci service stntlons In California. Ore near the Bank of America lost Ron Washington. Nevada. Idaho nigni, puurcti gasoline in me vr- hide's carburetor from a half gal lon can, nearly full. An unldentlllcri companion stepped on the starter nl Fisher's request and the gaso line was thrown, evidently by the force of uie Dackiirc, over rwner. With his clothing on fire he ran down the street before passcrsby slopped him and rolled him In Uie dust. Emergency treatment wan given at the office of Dr. I. Spomor. Tulclake. t. , v-'-irii m ' iti'.'-tJ r. i mm m m m "J o Idaho Drmocrula pick a dozen presidential - nominating delegates Monday a a aort ol prelude to Hlmllnr but bigger nciile doings Tucuday In Pennsylvania nnd New York. The Idaho delegation to Uie na tional convention In Chicago will be chosen at a atate convention In Lewbilnn. Ueaplle woolnit by cns. Eaten Kefnuver of Tennessee and Robert Kerr of Oklahoma, ' the group la expected to be uiilnntruct ed on now lo cant Its 12 volen next July. nit; fa( toiih Many more delegate vote are riding on tho outcome of Tucaduy'a primaries In Pennsylvania and New York. In Pcniuiylvuiiln. Re publicans and IAcmocrals elect 60 large delegates each already have district delegates each ten al bugo diiegules each already have been chosen. New York names 96 Republican and 04 Democratic delegates. Both parties In both ntaten will send their diiegules to CIiIcuko without Instruction. New York Clov. 'lhomas Dewey's backing of Dwlghl Elsenhower seemed to assure tho ncnernl the bulk of the OOP vote there, but backorn ol Sen. Robert Tnft of Ohio wero claiming 20 delegate. W. Averell Jlnrrlinnn, the admlnls- trntton'n foreign aid chief. Hecmed to have the New York Dcmocrutlc delegate volen cornered. TWO NAMF.K In Prmtnylvanla'a prenldentlal preference primary Ulrre were only two name on Uie ballot. both Republicans Elsenhower and former Oov. Harold Htanaen of Minnesota. Tail bowed out, say ing It wnn a waste of time and money Inasmuch as results are not binding on delegates. Pennsylvania Democrat had no presidential hopefuls on the ballot ior wihmii iu rsifirno inguii Injuries. The Body was taken However, backers ol Kefauveri.. ward's F,,.rol nm. .nrf .in were looking for a number of write-ins lor Uieir man. Hookcro THORNE. Eng. ( The Royal Humane Society awarded Its hero Ism medal Monday to a fisherman who saved the Ufa of a three-year- old boy by hooking onto his clothes nd reeling him In. Fisherman John Wood couldn't swim, but last October, when lit I tie Erroll Mnuntcnstle fell into the water, Wood cant his hook with I bullseye accuracy, snagged the boy s clnuung and nonchalantly i reeled him ashore. Court Thumps Oil Company , WASHINOTON i Tho Su preme Court Monday upheld 7-0 t a finding that the Richfield Oil Corporation of Los Angeles violat ed the anil-trust laws by requiring 2.985 western service stations to buy only from Richfield. t 'llif flnrilnrr hau Kmh ma. 8 D,,,rct jlldK(. Lcon R. Yank-. wlch Ot LOS AllgC CS. The high court's decision was announced In an unsigned order which noted that Justice Clark had disqualified himself from the case ond Justice Frankfurter had taken no part because he was ill nl the time 11 was argued The Ulri-nl nffrrpmrnLs ftffr-tri ;lin( Arlsona The Justice Department told the Supreme Court the 2.965 stations sold 7.5 ppr cent of all the gaso line sold bv retailers In the six suites and that In 1950 the Rich field stntlons distributed some 43 million dollars of petroleum pro ducts and accessories. Richfield asked the high tribunal to overturn Judge Yankwlch's de cision on tho ground It extended tho anti-trust laws "beyond their language and purpose." I Prlca Che Cent' J-e Weed Ranch Hand Victim Of Car Crackup TULELAKE A speeding automo bile that Jumped an Irrigation ditch and settled bock Into a small (low of water brought death early Bun day morning to a resident of Hay ward. Dead Is Walter Paul Jackson, 2d. farm worker employed by H.T. Osborne. Jncknon, according to an eye wit ness. Mm. Edna Boggs. traveling behind the 1949 Ford sedan, was traveling at a high rate ol speed. His car narrowly missed the abut ment of a concrete bridge across a deep cunul. then left Uie right- hand side of highway 139, Jumped about 29 feet Into the bank and rebounded, upside down In the ditch. He was pinned Inside the car. The accident happened one mile norm or hero- near we Crawford and Wolfe warehouse. Jerry Ternus of the city police force was called to the scene by Mrs. Bogvs. O. B. Pedersen. deputy coroner Investigated the accident. An aulonsy held here today re- VfilH .lirVinh AA IrAtn tnultlnl be hlnned to Oakland Calif Jor funeral services, Surviving are his widow, Dorothy, a son. Walter Paul Jackson Jr.: daughter I Inda all of Hayward his father H. A. Jackson, Burk Burnett, Texas: three brothers. Ross Jackson. U.S. Navy, Russell Jaclcson. Pan Leandro, Robert .lack son. North Carolina; alro a sister. Lcnora Hager, Red Bluff. Crater Spp Still.Heavy- There's "Itlll plenty of snow st Crater Lake, but tprlng air brought out 829 persons over Uie weekend Just Uie same, according to a re port received here from Ranger Richard Ward. The crowd came In 214 automo biles, and there were 14 skiers among them. Ronds are clear, Ward reported, and Uie warming hut Is open every day. Snow depth at Park headquar ters was 157 Inches when meas ured this morning, according to Uie ranger, but there are stIU 30-foot snow drifts at me rim. Big Explosion Fired for Dam THE DALLES Wl Another huge blast was set off In the Columbia River here Sunday to prepare the river's bnl for construction of The Dalles Dam. The dynamite blast, the largest so far, shot water more than 1.000 feet Into tho air. Hundreds of spectators watched from nearby cliffs. Not far away about 400 Oregon and Washington Indians held their annual spring salmon and root festival a thanksgiving ceremony. The festivnl was one of the Inst to be held since the dam will flood the traditional Indian fishing grounds at Celllo Falls. EXPLOSION KILLS SIX TOKYO 8lx Japanese were killed nnd several injured Monday In the cxpios'on of a IJreoraskrr fnclory In Shlkoku, one of Japan':) siiuhtorn Islands, Kyodo News Agency reported. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity and Northern California: Sunny and warm Monday, mastlv clear Monday night. Partly cloudy and cooler Tuesday with a few brief showers. High Monday 65, low Monday nlghl 35. High Tues day 57. High temperature yesterday .. SI Low Inst night .. 32 Preclp yesterday 0 Since Oct. 1 1I.21 Normal for period 9.94 Same period last year 12.S6 W. A. Van Buskirk Dies In New Mexico Hospital William A. (Bill! Van Buskirk. 51, vice, president and service manager at Bnlslgor Motor Com pany, died Sunday morning at a Tucumcnri, N, M., hospital as a result oi a nenn attack suffered earlier. The body la to be brought here for funeral services and burial sometime tills week. Van Buskirk had been associated with Elmer Bnlslger In the busi ness here since September, 10'J3. and was a so ' Interested In other Balslger enterprises here, in Tule-' lane ana Laxeview. He and Mra.. Van. Buskirk, had tl araaim mar inwrTi n i an -nrrin "rfr nr-r "-t-":--i,-iifrfVfi"itif .;,.,.,..-.--. ..-v- .... A KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, Christianity on Forum Tonight -h lily .Ah PASTOR HOLLOWAy RONALD PHAIR-SP- PTT Workers Back on Jobs By The Associated Press Oregon Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. workers, on strike since last Tuesday, returned to work Monday. Picket lines were withdrawn ex cept at the Western Electric ware house In Portland as negotiations continued in New York in an at tempt to reach an agreement with Uie Western Electric sales force. In Washington, too, only Uie Western Electric warehouse at Seattle was picketed. The Oregon telephone workers, who charged a lockout and left their Jobs, agreed at a meeting with company representatives Sun day to remove pickets and go back to work. A company spokesman said they would be reassigned to regular Jobs as quickly as possible and that all should be back within 24 hours. The workers, members of Uie CIO ComniuincaUons Workers of America, struck in protest when the company announced it could not guarantee regular employment to those who did not report regu larly. That would have meant going through Uie picket line of Western Electric employes, also members of Uie CWA. The phone workers charged lockout and Joined Uie picketing. An aoreement was reached with Western Electric equipment in stallers In New York Friday, but attempts to reach a settlement with the sales force is continuing. Western Electric withdrew:- its pickets from telephone exchanges Saturday, but the Installers said thev would not report bnck to work until agreement Is reached with the sales force. Telephone pickets were removed Sunday. A union spokesman said Monday that If a Western Electric sales force settlement Is not reached quickly, resumption of telephone exchange picketing "Is possible." In Washington, the dispute In volved only Western Electric em ployes, although telephone com pany employes respected Uielr picket lines. been on n business and vacation trip back east and were driving a new pickup truck nnd house trailer home. He suffered a heart attack nt Cleveland, O., mid then another at Tucumcarl. He wns In the Tucumcnri hospital several days, and his two sons. Rodney, 14, and Douglas, 13, and b' brother, Jerry Van Buskirk of Tulclnkc, had gone there to be v,i i iniii. The Van Busklrks lived here at 55 Eldorado. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. w. van Buskirk. reside at '324. N.lUUi . AjaUaaifT9!! PASTOR CASSIDY V X 3$ I 1 kaaHallW fifcaajJKKaKftj FRANK SEXTON Firm Lowers Price of Cars DETROIT 1 The first sub stantial price reduction to be an nounced by any auto company In many months became effective Monday -with a 1100 to $168 cut In Katscr-Frazer's Henry J line. However, the reduction does not indicate a trend in auto prices generally, according to automotive authorities. Increases, authorized by AY, Ml the Capehart Amendment to,TuesdaJ' wheUV:r " nave day" the National Defense Act, have been Uie rule and there Isn't likely to be any definite price action by other manufacturers until uncer tainty about steel prices has been removed. Automotive circles interpret the K-F action In reducing Henry J model nrices as an effort to read- Just Uie competiUve position be tween this newest model in uie Kaiser-Frazer line and the average price of other somewhat larger cars in the lower-priced field. Rumor has had It that some K-F dealers have been protesting that their sales problems had been in tensified by the fact the differen tial between the Henry J models and average Ford, Chevrolet and Plymouth models was relatively small. In? "fecf aLiiiiiiaawliinia ,i-TV- 'TiT'Jr a ' I TOP ANGUSITES Charles T. Ryan, president of the Pacific Coast Aberdeen Angus Breeder's Association from Anderson, Calif., discusses the sale underway today at the Fairgrounds with Second Vice Pres. Edward Parson, Payette, Ida., and Mrs. Ryan. Mrs. Ryan is president of the women's auxiliary to the association which meets whenever a sale brings them together. t y Story on peg 10) , j Telephone II II No. 270 PASTOR GRAEF Basin Church Study Slated "What is cnristiantty s rote in ; building the Basin?" ! Eive prominent churchmen are ' to lie on tonight's Build the Basin radio forum to consider this ques tion. The program goes on the ah over KFLW at 8:30 p.m. On the panel are: the Rev. Lloyd Holloway, First Methodist Church; the Rev. Richard E. Oraef, Zion Lutheran Church: the Rev. Donald Cassidy, CongregaUonal Church; Ronald Phair. president of Uie Klamath branch of the Church of Latter Day Saints; and Frank Sex ton, active In Sacred Heart Church work. There has been a growing oe- mand for tonight's forum topic. It Tl... Ium. nnlntul mil Ihnt nmvlmH has been coin ted out that prei forums .have considered th ..fac- tors of politics,, economy, society and educaUon in connection with the Basin's future; this fifth fac tor. Christianity, rounds out Uie basic needs for future strength of Uie Basin. As usual, a special telephone crew will man Uie Herald and News switchboard to take quesUons and comments from the audience. Daylight Time Decision Due SALEM m Oregon will know light saving Ume this summer, Oov. Douglas McKay said Monaay. The governor said he has almost completed his investigation on whether he should order the state's clocks set ahead one hour next Sunday. He said the only thing that he has yet to check is whether the city of Tacoma, Wash., wUl have davlight time. The state law provides that Ore gon can't have daylight Ume un less the governor proclaims it for the whole state. He can proclaim it only if he finds the state's -economy would be damaged by staying on standard time. Tlie governor regards the action to be taken by Washington cities on the time quesUon as im portant. He said that Vancouver and Longvlew, Wash., wiU go along with Oregon. Mm t . ' awr""" '-J . Guards Held By Rioters In Michigan JACKSON, Mich. Wt Six mora guards were seized as hostages by mutineers at the state prison of Southern Michigan Monday. This brought to ten the number of hostages held by the prisoners. Four other guards had been In the prisoners' custody since Sun day night. The method of seizure of the ad ditional alx was not Immediately made clear at the prison. The first gunfire of the prison riot meanwhile took place. State police fired four shots when rioters were said to have threat, ened guards of a work oarty In side, Uie grounds. The police said the shots were "warning shots" and were fired over the heads of Uie convicts. The gunshots came as rioting prisoners still held control of a large portion of Uie mammoth pri son hi a continuation of an out break that began Sunday night- REINFORCEMENTS The bulk of the Michigan state j police force was rushed to the scene to guard the neieaguered institu tion and prevent any possible mas escape attempts. Half a dozen prison guards had been Injured as the rioting spread Into mid-morning. The quartermaster building, con taining clothing, was set ablaze. State police used tear gas to keep some of Uie rioters from breaking Into other cell blocks. Meantime, another group broke Into the prison theater, seized mu rical instruments and paraded in Uie yard. At 11 a.m. officials reported they had secured control of about half Uie prison. Many prisoners bad been re turned to cells. Several hundred, however, still were rioting. They were breaking windows and raiding. 8HOP FIRED , The butcher shoo also was set afire. Some prisoners volunteered to fight the blaze. They were equipped with gas masks and band extinguishers to do the Job. Brooks said Uie question of "sup pressing" Uie rioters would have to tie considered afterwards. The fire in Uie ouartermnster building threatened the destruction of a supply of prison guards' uni- lorms. State police and guards sought a means of wheeling the prison's fire truck into the yard to put out the Southern Michigan prison is re putedly the world's largest. It has 6,481 inmates. Of these 4.978 are within the walls. The others are trusties or work camp prisoners. At the height of the rlotlnar of ficials said that fully 1,600 prison ers were involved. - The original mutineers In cell block 15 went In for publicity, de manding a newspaper man's pres ence and forcing a hostage.- with knife 'at his throat, to pose for pictures at a barred window.. NEW TROUBE , A night-long mutiny of some of the prison's toughest criminals tcuched off a series of new dis turbances after daybreak. The prison vicinity resembled an armed camp. State troopers encircled the walls outside. Another 25 troopers, armed with sub-machine guns and tear gas, took stations on the prison roof. Bedlam held forth within the walls. At least two prison blocks, In cluding a mental ward, and the mess hall were reported In control of Uie rioters at one time. In wrecked Block 15, the isolated block where Uie most dangerous criminals are confined, the hos tages were held prisoners. Sunday night's riot which oc curred about 7 o:clock in this block had touched off the series of disturbances. - Another followed at breakfast in the mess hall . Monday morning. Still others took place. Finally, prisoners swarmed into the big prison yard, taking control there. too.