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Newspaper Page TextVn The -" rnni ii. . i ji Vn'iYfr v ilnn in in w ui urn n aaaafa i M By I IIANK JKNKINH I'r.im London: "Hrltlah aircraft constructors an nounced Unlay nil additional rcllne iiioul to Hid ejector etml ol apecv-iil-aouuU llwhlrr pUnra a liny gad get tlint automation lly brings Ihe iillcil imlaly to earth evon l( he liaa I Ml voniclounnrM. "The Invention lit a bnromotrlo box (lie ilas ol puck ol cigar ettes Unit tnkca over a noon a tllo pilot in hurled mil or Ilia plane, frees )ihn from tlx Mini unci t Die right altitude opens hi chulo. "Designers figure thai In qult llnn h tloo-mlle-an hour plane (he pilot might paaa out or nol other wlne bo In Rood lnipo to ODon his parachute." Prcuy complicated? Willi a minute. How about Uils nriiw tmlk td Ilia fled that IllCld- em Jl tighter planes are getting (no fast and TOO COMPLICATED lor liumun brnlna und human re actions lo kiwi) UP with. We are hearing already that such plane mual eventually be MANNKD BY ROBOTS,' We are (old Ihut If Ihe Ruinlans do It Ural we'll bo OUT. That's pretly complicated slulf. loo. Thru there are these platforms tin np-ict. muii-mad-i and man-main-JEiliwd. They'll circle Uie earth In an oroll. as other aalellltea mot inan-imidei circle othor planet. From them (maylx, we'll launch I maybe I KUtded mlwllei Uh atom ic wni heads that will amanh, any tlly on earth we might elect lo smash. Or (again maybe) well broadcast Irom Ihem televlilon pro grams thnt will cover Ihe earth Irom one point of origin. Aualn we're In d that If (he Rus alana do all (hta FIRST the Jit: will be up for ua. Bo 11 a up lo US to do It llrat. How about theae floalln plat lorma? Jlow will the air be up there? How abou-. the tempera Hirer How will human beings ins tain life on Ihem? How will living rondltlone be up there? Who will want lo man them? If nobody volunteera. will aomebody be dratl td in do H' . Aualn Ihe anawer may be RO BOTS. Thai raises another nuentlnn: HOW ABOUT GOVERNMENT? There I a lot of talk-much of II by Intelligent, able. thoughtful men Ui the effort that the BIO thins that la wrong with our fed eral government la that 11 has be come ao huge, ao complicated tnal no mere man can comprehend It -i, i.. turn. m,,iiii -nnftiklnn SKLK-tlEKKERB find Ihe opportu niiy to gain power or to gain pelf. la the anawer lo thai more ro bot? I ahudder to think of It. 1 don't want to be governed by a robot. There are robola and roboU. you know-'uil like people. There waa Percy the Iron Man Brains He rflaa Vlx...Jfouwlll' rocogntae him, W course, onlv If you're much old er ihufi you like to admit. He waa one of Ihe early verv. very early conilo atrip characters. He was an amusing blunderer. He waa el waya gelling himself Into Jama and he usually got out of them In wayi that brought laughs. BUT There waa rrankenateln the ro bot created by Mary Wollstonecreft Shelley awav back In 1MJ (you aee. people were thinking about ro bot even then.) The robot In Mra. Shelley a novel wna created bv a scientist, and It waa a holy terror. II destroyed lla orealor and raised merry hell generally. If we fall back on robota to do our governing lor ua, we could got one llkfl Hint. I'm "ag'ln" the whole Idea. I'd rather take my chancca with MEN. But. In a world In which compli cation la growing by leapa and bound a world in which we are already talking about robola to han dle lliihler planea that have be come too complicated and terrible lo be handled bv men born of womon. a world In which we al ready recognize that our malhe emallcnl problem are.no va.it thnt THINK1NO MACHINES have to be built to handle problem that are loo big and too fast for men's alow mlnda la there any other alterna tive?. I think there la. The alternative Is the principle of the Golden Rule deal with oth ers as you want others to deal with you. That principle Is simple enough to be applM by mere men. If we followed It, we wouldn't need robots. We could handle all our problems ourselves. Board Shuns Street Strips The Klnmnth Falls Park Board, mooting Tuesday afternoon, reject ed a suggestion by the Olty Council that the. Park Board take aver maintenance of the center strips on Pacific Terraco and California Avenue. Some weeks ago the Council had naked the Park Board to take over the grassed-ln center strips, citing that the Job of watering, mowing and weeding the atrlps waa getting to' be too much for adjoining prop erly owners. The Park Board however deter mined that the strips aren't Park property and Hint It has no nil ihorlty to spend park money on property It doesn't own. Other action of tha Park Boaid Tuesday Included deolnlon to re surface the two center tennis courts at Moore Park and approval ol Ihe department's tentative budget. The Recreation Committee which has the same membership as the Pork Board decided Tuesday lo recommend to the City Council that bleachers from Recreation Field be moved to Congor Field and re paired, The bleachers have been con demned as unsafe, and their use forbidden until thoy are repaired. Recreation Field has bocn used as a fonll park for Oregon Tech and BiuSrrd Heart this spring, and Sao rec" Heart has offered to buy the property from the city, 8 Hostages Freed, Cons Quit Flight ANCILETON. Tex Wl Balked In llielr attempt to steal a plane for an escape lllght Ui Moxlco. two fiiglllvtn from a Texas prison farm wore recaptured early Wedncnduy nfler lelesNlng three linalagca. Ihe hunt continued lor two other convleu, both believed unarmed and alool. The tour prisoner-! escaped from Ramiey Prison farm Tuesday night aet otl a reign of terror Wurlng which thev took, and aub- neyueiuiv released rlKhl Hostages. Ilotaken were John ii. Welch. 24, convicted murderer, end r.useell H. I'lilllaiii, 111, nerving a robbery lenience. At lurge were Robert Arthur Chick, an airplane pilot serving a robbery sentence, and Oeorge llie odorou. also senionerd tor robbery. Hontnites reloaeed here were Mrs. I.rha Snrolrs. 3(1. her daughter, Clara Jo. 6, and A. C. Searcv. 35, all of Analeton. Mr. Sprnles ssld the four sped Into her driveway at Anuleton just after Searcy had Klven her a ride home. CAI'TltRi: "Thov had on i-iiard uniforms but 1 lomehow knew rluht olf the but tlitv were oncipcd convicts," she mi 1(1. hugging hrr daughter. "One had a gun and he asld 'get In Unit car'," she related. "I told him, 'oh no you don't I lake the car rr anything ode you want but let ui alone 1 have a babyl He Just motioned us Into the car with the gun and Clara began to cry so we got In." The gun later turned out to be a wooden replica. iney apea lowara aivih. jcx.. and the fugitives askde where the nearest airport was as Uiev wanted lo steal a piano and flv In Mexico. The one Inev e illcd ChlrK said he was a pilot and could bundle tile plane," he continued. "1 told them they wouldn't be able to get gas for a plune U they did find one because the government had cut down on the aviation gas aupnlv because of the oil all Ike. They didn't even answer." RKLEARK Carefully obeying speed limits and once takma a back road on sighting a police car, thev ap proached Ihe Vela.icn. Tex., air port -where the hostages were forced out of the car. While one convict guarded them, the olhers nulled a small cabin plane rom a hangar and tried to get gasoline from fuel pump. "Thev couldn't get any aas Into the plan and so finally they gave up and herded us toward the car again." Mrs. Snrolrs ssld But on Ihe way thev spotted a IBftO green Mereurj sedan. " "The key's In WT' shouted one convict who looked Inside. "Let's take it. Our car a hot," Tie first gunflghl game as thev approached a Missouri Pacific rail road crossing en the western out skirts of Analeton. Thev iiped arrosi a roadblock and Just marie It In front of a slow moving freight which cut off pur suit. rRAYKR "Thev hsd broken Into a hard ware store at Velasco and taken four shotguns and two rifles and a lot or ammunition,'' Mm. Sprnles related." "There was snme shootlr.g as we sped over the crossing and I got Con n In the bottom of the car and prayed for Clara Jo and me." It was on the otl.er side of the track while temrtorsrllv safe from rursuli that the convicts stopped and allowed the Mire hos tages to Jump out of the car. Deputy Sheriff M. V. Craln said the hoslagea were not hurt. BULLETIN CANCELLED A meeting acneduled for tomor row afternoon between commit tees of Ihe International Wood workers of America and the Pine Industrial Relations Committee In connection with Ihe mill strike here haa been cancelled. Chet Irving, of Ihe I'lltC, aald early tills afternoon the meeting had been cancelled by Robert McC'lellan, commissioner of I h e Federal Mediation and Concilia tion Service. Mcdellan aald Ihe IWA committee would be unable to attend a meeting tomorrow. DOWN IN A HOLE Tom my McCill, phone company lineman, was down in a Main Street manhole re pairing a cable this morn ing when the photographer happened by.. MMMMMQaaMaiwMWMMiMaiaaaaai h tmmtm&mimmtKftttmaiiam laii rayiiiiiiriKiHiittaisM,i'in Pries Five Cents It Pairs Eisenhowc Praised By Gov. Adams By HALE SCARBROUOH The election of Ocn. Dwlght El senhower lo the presidency would be Ihe "greatest service the people of the United States have done for themselves since they elected Abra ham Lincoln," declared Gov. Sher man Arlnms of New Hampshire at last night's Republican rally here. The governor Is combing Oregon for Elucnhower voles In Friday's prlmsry ejection, snd tees Ike nol only as the salvation ol the Repub lican parly but of the country as wen. Since the general won handily In New Hampshire's Msrch 11 prl msry, Oov. Adams has been on the rosd almost constantly campaign ing lor Elsenhower in various states. He hsd dinner lsst night with a group of local Republican leaders, then Uilked belore a crowd of around 250 at the Wlllard banquet hall. MUGWUMPS' Elsenhower csn win this year, he said, and may be Uie only Re publican candidate who can draw enough of the "mugwump" or In dependent voters lo beat out the Democrats. Only by nominating Elsenhower. Adsins declared, can the Republi cans escape booting away Uieir chances for a fifth straight election and escape becoming an Ineffec tual splinter pariy. Sen Robert Taft. Elsenhower's chief opponent for the nomination. Is a "superlatively good legislator" snd should be kept right where he la, In the U.8. Senate, Gov. Adams aald. . , .. 'Die speaker characterised the Democratic administration as a "blot on the good name of Amer ica" and declared: "We're dictated (o by hoodlums and people who have no sense of morality or dignity." DEMO LINK As for Elsenhower's close con nection with the Democratic admin istration, particularly upon forelim policy matters. Gov. Adsins point ed to an Incident In his home sute before the primary election. Figaro, a Paris neuspaper, aent a correspondent to New Hampshire to feel out the Elsenhower senti ment. The newsman said he was there because ihe course of Eu rope's future depends also an the course of America's future. The United Slates, Oov. Adams ssld, cannot afford to lose sll the friends Elsenhower has made for this country In Europe and cannot shake off the rcsponslbllty It has for helping out Ihe rest of the free world. Airmen Tell Of Collision LOS ANOELES (IP) Five sur viving B-20 crewmen told Wednes day of the terrific Impact whicl) knocked four of them unconscious when Uiclr big bomber and a Marine fighter piano collided Tues day nearly three miles above Uie Pacific ocean. Altogether, six members of the crew parachuted to safety and seven an missing. None of the missing crewmen are from the Pacific Northwest, One Marine, presumably the pilot of Ihe Marine Corsair lighter plane, was killed. Those rescued suffered only minor Injuries. Witnesses said the big bomber appeared to break In two, the for ward section exploding Into flames. Navy and coast guard vessels continued searching southwest of Santa Catallna Island for any sign of additional survivors. Hones were not too high. Seven parachutes were sighted after the crash. 1 Thev were worn bv Ihe six sur viving B-29 crewmen and Uie dead Marine airman, whose oooy was recovered. Wreckaae of the planes sank Immediately. The bomber was front March Air Force Base, Calif., and the fighter from El Toio, Calif., Murine Air Base. S-Sitt. Lawrence-L. McLaughlin. 22, flight engineer, Dayton, Ohio, told newsmen "it seemed as If the big B-29 Just stopped deod in tno air. It shook terrifically. I Jumped through a hatch and pulled my parachute rlpcord. The airplane was afire." McLaughlin, who suffered bruis es and abrasions, Is Uie only known survivor o( Uie forward section of the B-2B. . He and four fellow crewmen were rescued by the cruiser USS Toledo after being In the rough water for about a half hour. News men Interviewed them aboard tho Toledo later at San Diego, The first man rescued was Air man Third Class Clarke H, Boesen, 24, a student gunner of Boelus, Ncbr. "Ood be my witness," he aw, I'll never sav anything against the Navy again," . KLAMATH a s a r s on ItVUIir (Vf v. It i "'.- v- J GOV. SHERMAN ADAMS Yacht Cruise Short Lived SAN FRANCISCO UH The bat- lercd 88-loot yacht Elolse. with 10 adventure-seeking pontons aboard. was taken In tow bv the coast auard culler Ewlng Wednesday. "All personnel sate and account ed for," aald a messsge from the Ewlng. ihe Elolse, buffeted by rough seas while on Its way to Hawaii. waa taken In low some 2 miles southwest of the Golden Gate. coast uuara headouarlers sa d the Ewlng. answerlni; a distress can, put a line aboard the Eloise at 9:47 a.m. Then the Ewlng started back In San Francisco, with lu arrival time estimated at 7 p.m. The Elolse listed these passen gers when she departed: Capl. and Mrs. Harrv Farrell formerly of SeatUe, owners of the schooner,, . iiarreu. a retired Naw off cer. waa described as Uie onlv nnan. inicvi seaman aooara. , - . vr. ana Mrs. Harrv N. Mnn-h Orasa Valley, Calif., and Uiclr three children Hush. 17. Martha. 16. and Jane 11. William Snencer. Klamath riu pre.. William Jiickson. San Fran cisco and Mrs Kav Jurcensmever Champaign. III. (Early 8lorjr on Page tt) 2 Mills Make Strike Peace Two pine mills In Central Ore gon and another in California have come to local agreements with CIO Woodworkers to end strikes which hsd closed the plants for almost three weeks. Ponderous Moulding Company at Redmond and Tile Knot Pine Com pany at Sisters, and Setzer Forest Products. Greenville, Calif., reached settlements with locnl unions giv ing workers a 7'i cent hourly pay boost, three more paid holidays and a 2-cent Increase In night shift dlf lerentlsl pay. The workers will handle tbelr own health and welfare program. Here In Klamath Falls the Klam ath Basin Pine Mills remains struck by the woodworkers. 2 Bloodmobile Visits Slated A double-header visit, May 19 and 20 of the Red Cross Bloodmo bile is scheduled for Uiis month according lo Virginia Dixon, execu tive secretary, Red Cross headquar ters. Quota this month Is 300 donors. A total of 2S5 pints of blood was collected during the May visit. - Residents of the Gilchrist com munity will have an opportunity to donate on the first day, Mon day. 3:80 to 6:30, PST. Donors here will go Tuesday, 13:30 to 4:30 DST. Make reserva tions by calling Red Cross head quarters, 7184 or Mrs. Hugh Swu ncy, 3213. Bonus Checks Set for July SALEM Ml Oregon veterans bonus checks totaling 27 million dollars will bo paid In July to more than 65,000 veterans, the state veterans department said Wednes day. All veterans whose applications hnve been approved will be paid off In July. The maximum bonus is SOOO. - . - . While (ho department has on proved 65,000 claims, It has denied less than 400. Tho department estimates It will receive claims from 60,000 veter ans who have not filed their claims yet. ASHLAND TIME ASHLAND Ifl The Ashland City Council will deolde next Tues day whether to proclaim nayiigni saving time, The Ashland Chamber of Commerce has endorsed - the change. 1 FALLS, ORF.OO.V, WEDNESDAY, Kef&uver Bue Party Clans Clash; Vote Battles Hot By MORRIE LANDSBERG PORTLAND m Republicans and Democrats alike scrapped among themselves Wednesday In s lively prelude lo Oregon's presi dential primary on Friday. Sen. Estcs Kcfauver, virtually uncontested for 12 Democratic del ckiiich. stnrtcd the Democratic wrangling himself. In s speech at Balcm. he pub licly thanked a number of politi cians who he said had been sup- ! porting him. Some of these poli ticians are candidates for delegate ! In th D..inrwrallf- f-imvpntfnn. to Uie Democratic convention. ! Many of his listeners interpreted , this as endorsement of the candl- dales. Keiauver said It was not. PLEDGES It was pointed out thot every delegate has signed a pledge lo I nupporl Ue winner of the prcfer i entiol vote certain to be Kcfau ! ver. I Republicans, led by Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon, clashed anew ' over a slate of delegate candidates i selected in behalf of Gen. Dwlght D. Elsenhower, prime choice In the GOP race for 18 delegates. In I I Ills case. Eisenhower headouar lers acted to head off eight un pledged delegate-candidates whom they consider sympathetic to Sen. Robert A. Taft ol Ohio. Morse, while committed to Elsenhower, first criticized the singling but of 10 candidates for at-large places from among 50 who pledged to support Uie election winner. REACTIONARIES At the same time, In a statement at Eugene; he relerred to the un pledged candidates eight reac tionaries who seek to spilt uie Oregon delegation. Only three have declared themselves for Tuft Robert A. Bennett, a PorUand attorney and one of the eight, defended his position in the pri mary In a letter to Republican Gov. Douglas McKay, an Eisen hower backer himself. Bennett said that if elected he would sup port only candidates "who by their record and promises arc exponents of true Republicanism." Kcfauver puzzled some Demo crats by asserting in his speech at Salem that there Is a stop Kcfauver movement In Oregon Intended lo cut down the size of his vote. He did not Indicate who is behind It. "I know of no stop-Kefauver movement," said Monroe Sweet land, Democratic national com mitteeman. Swcetland recently wrote that the Tennessee senator (Continued on Page Three) THE GENERAL IDEA Here is architects' conception of the proposed municipal swimming pool. City voters are to decide in Friday's election whether or not to pay a 1.5 mill tax for, construction of the pool in the 1800 block on Main Street. Architects Morrison and Howard show a footbridge over the canal giving access to an off-the-street pool parking area. The pool would be roughly two or three times as large as the Malin pool and would have a large ; wading pool adjacent, v The pool would accommodate from 700 to 800 swimmers, with heated dressing rooms for , that number. Pool water and dressing rooms could be heated by a natural hot-water well already, drilled on the city-owned property, which contains 2.28 acres - " ' . ; ', MAY 14, 1952 fc. I r i til- Y X SEN.'ESTES KEFAUVER French Arrest Bey of Tunis TUNIS, Tunisia VF. France put the 70-ycar-oid Bey of Tunis under virtual House arrest Wednesday for balking at a French martial law decree. French troops carrying bayonets moved in and replaced the colorful blue-uniformed Arab soldiers of Sldi Mohammed Al-Amln's own honor guard at his summer palace built on the site of the ruins of Carthage. The Bey, nominal ruler of the country since May, 1943, refused a French demand that he countersign a decree declaring martial law In the country. In another blow, the French Is sued orders that two of the Bey's nine children woul-1 have to have French passes to get in and out of his palace. Tnev were prince cnaaiy. 47. and Princes Zakta. 30. The mince lone has been "known nr sympathetic to Tuniso s - Nationalists wno nave been demanding- freedom to rule Uielr own internal affairs. The princess was recently re ported to be one of the heads of a terrorist band or Nationalists. She is the wife of Health Minister Mohammed Ben Salem, recently re leased Irom arrest with other mem bers of the pro-Nationali't cabinet of deposed Premier Mohammed Chenik. Weather FORECAST: Klamath Falls snd vicinity and Northern California- Sunny Thursday. Sllgntiy warmer afternoon. High Thursday 72. High yesterday 49 Low last nlht Preclp last 24 hrs Since Oct. 1 15.13 Normal lor period 10.6a Same period last yr 14.84 (Additional Weather on Page 4.) T. .. .i.l...im No. ma Today Demo Rally To Honor Tennessean Tennessee's 8en. Estes Kefauver, although practically without oppo sition on Friday's Democratic bal lot, is working hard at the Job of getting Oregon support in his cam paign for the Demo presidential nomination. He is due in Klamath Falls about 7 o'clock tonight, and will appear at a rally at Fremont School at 8. This morning he was at Pendle ton, and at 1 p.m. talked from Uie courthouse steps at Prinevule. BEND At 3:30 p.m. he was scheduled for a speech at Uie Eagles Hall in send. The tall Tennessean Is traveling by plane, and after spending the night here Is scheduled to go on to Ashland and Medford to wind up his Oregon campaign. He is virtually assured of vic tory here In Oregon and the support of this state's 12 delegates to the Democratic national convention. Only the names of Gov. Adlai Stev enson of Illinois and Justice Wil liam Orville Douglas oppose that of Kefauver on the Demo presi dential ballot, and both Stenvensoa and Douglas have asked voters not to vote for them. ALL-OUT But he's campaigning as Ihouch he had a whole state of opponents. A delegation of local Democrats and city officials is to meet Ke fauver 's plane at the airport, and escort him to Fremont school for the public appearance. His talk is to oe oroadcast over Kt LW at 8:30. Votes Tonight Polls at 'Fremont : School and Klamaih Union Hich will be open until 9 o'clock tonight (daylight time! for balloting on Uie proposed 1952-53 elementary and high school budgets. ' The vote at Fremont is on the S789.2U45. and at KUHS on the high school budget which totals S551.903.77. Much of the moncv is to be raised by direct property taxation, so Uie ballot auestion ts whether to ac cept the prepared and published budgets and whether to levy Uie tax necessary to raise the money Uie buaget calls for. All qualified voters living within the city school district are eligible to vote. Telephone 1111 p""!-, . n-r " ; ' Men Demand Quick Wage Increase PHILADELPHIA Ml The CIO- Steelworkers Wednesday unani mously agreed to close the nation's steel mills In a new strlkn If In dustry falls to grant promptly a satisfactory wage Increase. The 2,500 delegatea to the sixth biennial convention rose and shout ed approval of the resolution. . ine convention turned Into a mass demonstration. Delegates swarmed over the speaker's platform shaklmr Presi dent Philip Murray's hand, yelling, Ishouttng. tossing co:Jettl and shoot ing off fire-crackers. the hugo convention hall was a bedlam for a full 10 minutes after Murray asked the delegates to rl in support of the resolution that de manded "the crisis in the steel in dustry must be promptly resolved." In the demonstration, the shout ing whistling, cheering delegates chanted, "no contract, no wirir "We cannot and will not contCe indefinitely to work in 1952 for lose) wages and working condition. 'We cannot and will not continue lndelinitely to work without satis factory collective bargaining con tracts. "We re-emphasized the position we expressed at our special con vention In January: DETERMINATION '"We re-emphasized our deter- ?ilnatlon to achieve our goal. Our ause Is Just. We ask only that which is our due. We ask for no more. We will take no less.'" The rank and file steelworkers stirred up talk of a new steel strike before and after an address by Secretary of Labor Maurice Tobin who told Uie convention he sup ported them In their demand for wage Increase. Discussion of the resolution took up most of the day's session aa delegate after delegate took the floor and demanded that America's steelmakers sign a new contract based on the recommendations of Uie Wage Stabilization Board. Tobin told the steelworkers be stands "heart and soul and spirit" behind them In their fight for more pay. Punchboard Ban Upheld SALEM Wl The Oregon Su preme Court ruled Wednesday that foruana s anti-puncnpoara ordi nance should go into effect Im mediately. In an oral order announced from the bench, the high court reversed a three-Judge 1 Multnomah Circuit Court order that had held the PorUand City Council had no right to attach Uie emergency clause to Uie ordinance, which makes all punch boards illegal. The City Council added the em- . ergency clause so Uie ordinance could go Into effect immediately. Correction A report in yesterday's Herald and News on the Monday evening "Build Uie Basin" forum erred in one place by saying City Council man Mart smith naa turnea "thumbs down" on Uie proposed in crease in the mayor's salary. (That proposal Is one of seven city bal lot measures to be voted on Fri day.) Councilman Smith, member of Monday's forum panel, actually fa vored the mayor s salary increase. "Thumbs down" should have read "thumbs up" In yesterday's forum story.