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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (May 12, 1952)
Ilnihl lliu Itsisin t Bws raid nratK ra few. rv if s Steel Seiire 01 r .o 0. D. MATTHEWS IilTh Ity FRANK JICNKINS JYoui Salem: "General Dwlghl Elsenhower nd Senator Emm Keinitver will win Oregon' Mv la Presidential prl tfnary by clear majorities, In Ihc -ollectlve opinion of Oregon new- ment ( expressed In poll taken lul weekV" I think that U probably true. Al least, H Hi the general expectation In llieao final few daya preceding Ihc Oregon primary. But here la something Ulat Un'l so Koncrallv undrratood. Lot me pul II In the wordt of Charles A. Sprague, the clear-thinking, well-informed edl lor of the Salem Statesman. He aaya In nil column "U Seems to Ma:" "Orugon Republican may Rive a big majority to General Elsen hower In expressing their Presi dential prelaronce at the prlmarlea on May 18 and vet Senator Tall mlicht Ret eight of the IB delegates who are being choten at that time. "The 1015 law aetlina up tne Presidential preference primary rrguire candidate tor delegate to the national convention wno me under trite law to lake a pledge to 'uu hla beat elforta' to obtain the nomination of the candidatea for President and vice-president who net the hlaheat number of voiea in the party primary. An older law, however, permit eendl' na.ea lor doleRate to file bv pell' Hon. If they do lhi. Ihev are not xeoulred to alim tliUt pledge. In other word, thev re free agent Witliout doubt, this circumvent the 1015 law which tried to bind delegate to trie popular cnoice. Thcie candidate for delegate to the lpubllin nanonai conven imn nher are eight of them I who have li'ed by petition In order to be free to upiri wnonwvw inxjr please, regardleu of the popular vote In the preference, primary. for delegate-at-large: Lowell C. 'Paget Mr. irn-uV""y,1,yJ" R. l.aloiirrile, Jr.. Irvhia Wand, Kobert A. Bennett nd - Phil Mruchun (nephew of the late Phil Metschan.) For delegate from the cecond dlatrlct: U. 8. Balentln. For delegate from the fourth dis trict, fcrnest Q. Swlgert. I have no obleotlon to anvone being for Mr. Tall for President. Choosing vour candidate and doing everything you can within Uie l.mlt of good anoilamanshlp and good citizenship to get him elected In about a fundamental In our lyslem a anything could be. And aa Bnrageue av. It can hardly be labeled a a pollllcul trick because the significance of Oil wev of brooming a candidate for delegate haa been well publicised. But I think It would have been much OPENER If these candidatea had announced flatly that It they are elrcled they will aupnort Mr. Tefl, prgardlen of the outcome of the preference of the votera as expressed at the ptlmery. It would have been even better If thev had explained that they filed bv peti tion In order to be free lo vole for Mr. Taft and had added that Ihev filed that wav rpeclfleallv In order to get. If possible, aome Ore gon delegate for Tuft even thounh ho had not chosen to aubmlt hi name i t the Oregon primary. For that matter, I think It would have lit en belter atlll If thev had circulated petitions and had filed Mr. Tall'a name a regular candidate, whether he wanted to V'e li.lo the primary or not. If -4e going to have "preference" primaries, how are the votera to rxpreja a leal preference If Die names of the candidates are not on the primary ballot? Anyway, I shall take care not lo vole for iinv of those candidates nt ihc primary election on Friday. I ,m for Elsenhower. I'm not ashamed of It. So I don't want to vole for anvone who would thwart mv desire to see Ike Ret ALL the Rrmibllonn delegate! from Oregon. On the other hard. I wouldn't want to discourage any Taft voter from writing In Mr. Taft 'a name on the ballot. I think all elections. Including primaries, should be completely free and open. Even If Mr. Taft didn't choose to file as a candidate In Oregon, there Is no reason why his smiportera should not write lit hi name. Kidnaped Girl Returned Safe SEATTLE Wl A kidnaped 13-Vcnr-old girl, whose abductor left a crude ransom note demanding H.000 In her parent's mailbox, vas found terrified but apparently oth erwise unharmed north of the city limits early Monday. ' She was Linda Lambeth, daugh ter of Mri. William L. Oarlln. She was lying on a roadside, dazed nnd hysterical, when sheriff's le)v ullea located her about 4:S0 a.m. Her mother returned home Sun duv night' to find her missing. in the mailbox was b crude sciswlcd note which read: . "You daughter has been taken Into captivity. For her we wish MflOO, delivered to this addrerai, 1TJ3 Lake Washington Boulevard. Both of you wish to see her again ever." BUZZ LARKIN i ',,i SAM NESLIN RUSS MARSHALL MARK SMITH Forum to Eye Ballot Issues The Ihree most Important meas ures on the Klamath Falls city ballot, to be voted upon next Fri- day will be up for discussion on tonight's "Build the Basin" radio forum over KFLW, The nrotram will be aired begin ning al 8:30. and listeners may pul nuestlnns to members of llie panel by calling tne Herald aim news. phone Bill, during the progross of Lhe Droit ram Up lor discussion will oe uie pro posals lo raise the Mayor's salary from 115 to 600 a month; remove the Park Board from its charter status and put it under I he control of the City council; and to ratue approximately llo.ooo by taxation over a sovnn-year porlod lor the construction of a public swimming pool. Members of the panel Include Murk Smith, member 0f the Clly council; Charles inur.i LnrKln. in surance man: O. D. Matthews. member of the Pork Board; Rush Mnnhi'.ll, member of the Park Board: and Sum Ncslln. clothing siore operator. Bud Chandler. KFLW manager, win oe moacraior. Youths Admit Petty Thefts Four youths pleading guilty ' to potty theft charges in District Court biaurdcy, were placed on five months probation each by Judge Nick Carter. Thoy were Tom Schubert, 10; Wiihiini hciuIci. 18; Huger Bliss, 18; and Dan Cobb. 18. District Attorney D. E. Von Vactor said tne boys admitted Inlclnir Various nrllclc." uucli rs automobile hubcaps floor mots and llc 1'lcc, but annnrcntly .with out thought of uroflt. Nentlol and Hill were involved in a car prowl Friday nlRht and the other two not Implicated In that Instance. But thev admitted re moving huhcDS from another ve hicle a couple of weeks ago. All lite articles taken have been re turned, 8CIIUMAN SPEAKS SARREGUEMINES, France Ml French Foreign Minister Rob ert Schtinion said Bunday "we are further from a war then we were a year or two ago." Ho colled for political and economic union of Europe "as was done In the United States of America." 1 j"" vjLhF V " Will I I y Presidential Spotlight On Klamath By HALE HCAItltltOl'Clll National politics the presidential race takes the upotllght here In Klamath Fall this week. The Oregon primary election comes off Friday and the probable winner of the presidential popular ity poll are Uen. Dwlghl Elsen hower on the Republican aide and Ben. Estrs Kefauver on the Demo cratic Kcket. Klunvir Temieshre'i lunlor not on and chulrman ol the highly pub licized Crime investigating com mittee. Is to be here Wednesday night tor a talk at Fremont Audi' lorium. lie I after Oregon'a 13 Demo delegates to the national nominat ing convention, aim probably will gel them. (HANOI: Kefauver la scheduled to arrive hore about 7 p.m., coming from th Prlncvllle-ftrdmond area. He Is traveling by private plane. Earlier the Teiuieaaeean hod been figured to arrive here about 6 p.m., bill hla schedule was ael back when he decided on a short stop al Hood Klver In addition to other pauses al Eastern Oregon towns. Local Democrat had to cancel out a banquet planned for him, but the public rally at Fremont Auditorium I scheduled for a p.m. Kefauver will stay overnight here. He probably will be accompanied by Lea Joulln ol Portland, for Demo itate chairman. Oen. Dwlght Elienhower Is not campaigning for the presidential nomination, but has plenty of peo ple stumping for him. GOVERNOR One of them Is Gov. Sherman Adam of New Hampshire, and Oov Adams b scheduled to be In Kiam alh Falls Tuesday nighl. Local Republicans have planned a rally for him at the Willard Hotel, p.m. Oov. Adams probably will be ac companied by Ralph H. Cake, OOP national committeeman irom Ore gon. Thieves Get Guns, Money Safe crackers made olf with an umiu.clo.Ned large amount of money ;ind tlir:t guns from the Big Y Market ove" the weekend. Sheriff Murray tR?d Brltton reuormu etui,- hiu mrde to uie mn'-kct. located at Uie lnlcrseo Hoi's ol huinweva IW oud J. by forcing a hanp off the front door, Saturday nleht cr early Sunday morning. Ronald Phnlr. market manager, llj.s morning said the amount of caMi fiiki-n Irom tilt olliue tale and a riuh rtgisler. had not been (Ifici'inineo. Sh-.TIII Brltton snid a considerable amount of money had been taken. ' ) , " ' r". ' 0D?"a' ;knocklng Pins rom three hinges The safe wa broken open bv and prylnn-oil l'e door with a bar. More than one person was In volved in the JoO. Brltton said. The safe was moved some 18 feet from llKi-ted area 111 the ofiice to a dark corner. I.i addition tc the money, two pistols and a rifle were stolen from the store iwninHiMiam-wni p"'Jii.iai)uij enwjiji aiiauiiw nawm i hwm ansj i 1 ti f I Hp' I DIANE OLDHAM of Klamath Union High was queen of, the District 3 track meet held on Modoc Field Saturday. Grants Pass won the meet trophy held by Diane. Price Fir Cent 14 Page mm m mt 2 Sum Timely Trio BUFFALO. N.Y. I Mrs. Hen ry L. Ooston celebrated Mother's Day Monday by giving birth to triplets. A boy and two girls were born early In the day to the Buffalo woman, who exlalmed: "I was really surprised. Some one better tell my husband.'' The trio weighed In at four pounds, 3 '. ounces; three pounds, 13 ' ounces and three pounds. 10 ',? ounces. The Goston have Uiree othrr children. Wreck Victim Ex-Film Star? A man believed to have at one time been a Western movie actor was killed early Sunday morning In an auto wreck at Worden, about 13 miles south of Klamath Falls i US 97. M ura IHnflfliH .lullnut Ollln. . i-n.i.r u h nm her. onlv ....I.. irom oos Bv mil had a Job as a cat skinner lor Tu- j f'are nd burst into llaming lana Farms earners. The rumbling concux- But cards' and newspaper cllp-ls'n that followed ratUed windows pings found on the body gave the ; "J? &book doors, stage name of Gene Howard and Col T. Allan Bennett, Com mcntloned Western pictures mlniandlng ofllcer of the 25th Air which Howard had appeared. Re Defense Division at McChord Air cent membership card In the force Base near Tacoma, and Dr. Screen Actors Guild were among H"h Pfueti. University of Ore- hls effects, and a picture of how - ard which attendant at Ward's Funeral Home said was a picture of the dead man Fowler was killed outright when a car In which he was a passen ger smashed head-on into a parked 2 transport truck., The driver of the car, Ar chie Hughe. 36, was ltUt seriously hurt and was Klamath brought to Klamath Fatality Valley Hospital where attendants reported his condition aa satisfactory. State Police said the truck was pulled 13 feet off the highway and stopped. The driver, Kenneth Wal ter Larson, Sun Valley, calif., was a.'ileen In the sleeper compartment. The Impact threw Larson out of the truck Hughes' car apparently crossed the highway and went off the road into the front of the big truck. Hughes was driving a 1937 Fly mouth. He was an employ of the Hor ton Ranch In Poc Valley and ap parently had only a casual acquain tance with Fowler, meeting him Saturday night in a downtown bar. The accident occurred at 13:56 txn. Sunday. , Cards in Fowler's pocket asked that his wife be notified at Phillips vllle. Calif.. Just north of Garber vlllc. Ward's Funeral Home was un able to locate her Sunday. FISHERMAN LOST VANCOUVER, Wash, t Sher Iff's officers Monday dragged the Columbia River for Floyd Fjrs- berg, Rldgcfleld, Wash., fisherman missing since Sunday. rfMP. 0 Si! KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, MAY 12, 1952 Fiery Sky Blast Laid To Meteor SEATTLE 1 U.S. Air Force Investigators and astronomers, af ter checking hundreds of eyewit ness reports, said Monday a fiery . object which exploded with violent ! lorce over Seattle and the surround-1 day probablv was a meteor. They continued questioning wit nesses from Olympla, 60 miles south of here, to Bellingham, 80 miles north, however, and started a search for "strange" materials thev said might have come from a meteor. The object flashed across the sky at 1:30 a.m., PDT, Sunday. CONCUSSION Airline pilot and ground observ- said It exploded wltb a blind- :"" ..J -- b- l'nf' Director of the American : Meteor Society, agreed it probab- ly was a meteor. Bennett (aid none of the radar Installation In the Pacific North west picked up the object on their screens and he doubted the object could have been an aircraft or guid ed missile. DIRLCTION- . ""If It was a meteor, It was prob ably coming nearly straight down," Bennett said. "That would make It vary dif ficult to track (on radar) ... U it was an aircraft or guided missile we would have picked It up." Some observers said the object appeared to be as low as eight thousand feet. However. Dr. Pruett said meteors usually cease to glow al 25 lo 30 miles. Howls, Yelps Stir Memphis MEMPHIS Wl Howls and shrieks from hounds, humans and raccoons echoed over Lake Miguel and brought the Memphis Humane Society up in arms . The uproar Sunday came from a "coon-on-a-log" contest a contro versial sport which the. society calls vicious and Inhumane. George R. Bates, society presi dent, said he would seek a court injunction to prevent any similar competitions in the future. The contest was for the "south ern Championship." Forty hounds were entered. About 500 spectators allelic cd. It works like tills: The coon, with a handler neaiby holding a tether, is placed on a log floating about 50 feet from Uie bnnk. The eager hound Is sent to drag him off. il Uie swimming dog succeeds In getting a grip on the spitting, scratching coon, the tangle Is brok en up by the handler, Who pulls the coon out of danger by the tcllior. Ridgway Hands Reins to Clark TOKYO Wl Oen. Matthew B. Ridgway, who blocked the Com munists in Korea and engineered the end of the Allied occupation of Japan, left Monday on his way to Europe to succeed Gen. Dwlghl Elsenhower as commondcr of the North Atlantic Treaty Organuuv tion. . It was only a year, a month and a doy ago that Ridgway, soldier. a luminal and Pentagon trouble- shooter, took over from Oen. Doug las MacAi'tnur as supreme com mander of Allied Powers In Japan. As he left he turned over his United Nations and Far Eastern commands to Gen. Mark Clark. Chirk thon kissed the young and charming Mrs. Ridgway goodbye and she walked up the plane ramp with her distinguished husband. Weather FORECAST: Klamath Falls and vicinity and Northern California, fair to partly cloudy through Tues day. High 70, low Monday night High Sunday . M Low Sunday night 37 Preclp Sunday 0 Preelp since Oct. 1 .....V...15.1S Normal for period 10.59 ferlod last rear ....... . 14,63. Mi) IMPS ..w : r JIM BROWN Property Tax Kicks Heard The Board of Equalization began its Ihree weeks of hearings on pro tests concerning the Klamath Coun ty property tax. roll today, with only a few minor assessment and tax protests. Illea up to tnis morn ing. The board is composed of Judge U. E. Reeder, Alfred Collier, who is chairman of the county budget committee, and Charlie Mack, bus inessman and former employe of the County Assessor's Office. Representatives of the Klamath Merchant Association had taken out a large number of blanks used for filing protests, but liad returned none uus morning. Manv -merchants In Klamath County were Involved In a wranele wim trie Assessors office and the State Tax Commission over valua tion of personal property and were expedcted to protest raised assess ments lo tne Board of Equalization. Trio Injured, Recovering Mrs. and Mrs. Orville Kirkpal rick. Malln, critically injured in an early Sunday highway smash up near Mt. Shasta, were re ported "out of danger" at Mt. Shasta Hosptial today. Also critically hurt in the wreck was Mrs. Klrkpatrick's brother. Don Enloe. Mt. Shasta. He. too, was reported as recovering today. A truck driver who witnessed the accident about 1:15 a.m. Sun day, told California State Patrol men the car in which the trio was traveling left the highway at a nign rate of speed and over turned, throwing Mrs. Kirkpatrick through the windshield. ksrJ-..' --r .t-i r tut .V The crackup occured on Spring i evioence against them was circum Hill, just north of Mt. Shasta. stantial. -v .... v , ill mA h..V'Jl?Jf .aJii- S;A i iCitmn-ai lamrK-Tii la miiiininf WITH A HANDFUL of posies this morning when snapped by the 9 O'clock photographer were Marilyn Johnson and brother Larry, children or Mr. and Mrs. Ray John son, 2136 Garden. Ne. U17 Principal Takes Job At Redmond James L. fJim) Brown, now in his fourth year as Klamath Union High School principal. Is to tender his resignation at a School Board meeting tonight. Brown says he has accepted the post of superintendent of the Red mond Union High School district and will also serve as principal of the Redmond school. Nelson Reed, chairman of the Joint elementary and high school boards bare, said last night he had no Idea who might secceed Brown here. Paul Angstad is assistant prin cipal at KUHS. At Redmond, Brown la to re place M. E. Larive who resigned after differences with the School Board there. Brown came to Klamath Falls from Parkxose where he was principal of that Portland suburban high school three years. Wilsons Lose Legal Battle WASHINGTON iSl Th Sup reme-Court Monday refused lor the second time to grant a hearing to Jurman G. Wilson and Utah E. Wilson,' Brothers who are' under deatn - sentences In Washington state lor a xianap-muroer. The Wilsons were convicted in the Clark County (Wash.) Superior court oi tne Abaucuon-slaying of JoAnn Dewey. Miss Dewey, then 18. was abducted on a Vancouver, Wasn., street on March 19. 1950. Her body was iound a week later in wind River, 55 miles away. ine Wilson brothers were ar rested March 30. 1950. in Sacra mento, caui. Fingerprints on a beer botle found near the scene of the abduction were said by authorities to be those of Utah wnson. xurman Wilson was con victed oi rape in is-u. Execution dates for the hrnthn-s have been set twice, but each time uiey were saved irom tne gallows by last-minute stays. The Supreme Court on Oct 15, 1951, refused to review trial nr tiio Wilsons. They then asked the Wash ington State Supreme Court for a writ of habeas corpus. This was denied Dec. 1. 1951. and thev again appealed to the highest tribunal. This time the question was whether the denial of the habeas corpus writ was proper. The Wilsons have contended the MCA Telephone gill : - ; President's Action Held Unnecessary WASHINGTON Wl John W. Davis argued to the Supreme Court that President Truman's failure to use uie Taft - Hart ev law in the steel crisis "points up our claim of usurpation ' of powers when he seized the steel industry. With the T-H law on the books. Davis contended, there was "a lack of necessity" for tho action taken by the President. Davis, white - haired New York . attorney, opened arguments for the steel Industry on the momentous issue of whether the President had 'lnnerent" cowers to seize the steel mills as he did on April 8 to head off strike. Davis has long been recognized as one of the country's top consti tutional lawyers. - Urn nta tk. rtomiM-sll- . unsuccessful nominee a quarter century ago for the presidency. OTHER SIDE , Waiting to reply for the govern- ment Was PhiliD B Perlman n. licltor general and acting attorney general. With his reference to the Taft. Hartley law. Davis aooarentlv was developing a contention that the President should exr,aust statutory authority in any event before draw ing on any claimed Inherent pow ers. Instead of doing that In the steel case, Davis said, Truman sought - to forge a new and different wea pon." The T-H law contain a nrovt- sion permitting; the government to seek a court order, good for an days, to bar strike which threat ens a national emergency. Truman has said In this connec tion that the CIO ateelworkers vol untarily withheld a strike for longer period than that. Specifically, the steel industry asks the highest tribunal to uphold ruling by V. S. District Judge David A. Pine that the seizure was ' unlawful. . ERROR : The government asks for si re versal, contending Pine erred in ' holdinj; that Trumin'e powers aa commander-in-chief t and other 'au-rf-thority conferred by the Constitu tion, were not broad., enough to permit seizure of the mills under the circumstances. Davis argued that the constitu tional provision making the Presi dent commander-in-chief of the armed forces was "a military pow er, not a civilian power." He said neither this nooanvthlntr else in the constitution gave the President authority to seize the steel mils. , ., Davis spoke for rlmost an hour before being interrupted from the bench. Justice Frankfurter ' asked his views on "a holding operation" by tne president to give Congress time to act. Davis said he would discuss that after completing his review of the President's powers under the con stitution. , . . Mill Strikers; Offer Terms: Strikin? emntnvM ' nf Yriamoth Basin Pine jndls today offered to go back to work if the company would agree word lor word to the settlement CIO woodworkers reached with Weyerhaeuser Tim ber Company last month. Klamath Bssin Pine Mills has been shut down by the CIO union for two week?. The Weyerhaeuser settlement gave cmplces a TA-cent hourlv pay raise, three additional paid . hondpyi an 'wceni raise In the night shift differential, and the wording of the agreement made the effective dates of the various conces-'ors mor 'rvorable it union than previously was offered uv ine rate indui'rlal Relations Committee. Tfc union also asled that local negotiations be continued regard- In- pa"ment for th union's he 1th and welfare plan, removing settle ment of that issue ss an obstacle to resumption of production at the ml' The offer was made this morn inir to 'van Kesters.in. tnanape' of Klamath Basin Pine Mills. About 22b employe of thit plant are out because of the strike. The weverhaeuser settlement provides a IVi cent raise effective April 1. if approved, by the Wage Stabilization Board' three more paid holidays at straight time pay as of tAe time of the holiday end certain eligibility r.jqulrements for the paid holidays and en adrttlonal 2 cent hourly shift dfferentlal. Mill employes met Sunde" and decided to make the , offer to Kesterson. The question of who would pay for the health and welfare pro gram, and how rm.ch, would be left up to further negotiation. This morning's talks were re cessed until afternoon. Meanwhile. CIO woodworkers and the Willamette Valley dumber- men's Association resumed negoti ations at Portland, and meet'ngs are scheduled with the Lumber men' indurtrlal deletion Com mittee Tuesday and the Plywood and Door Manufacturer Irdu'trlal Relations Commiltco Wednesday. Also on the labor scene here. employes of the Southern Paclfio and kulolne plywood companies, represented bv the AFL lumber and sawmill union, were reported taking a strike vote today.
