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Newspaper Page Textlew Hft Twaaiteflisdl Jaif Sets Strategy - .. ... ; . ,7 NEW LEGION AUXILIARY OFFICERS art shown bov. Left to right: Mn. Foroit Erickton, V Eitaed, vie preildentj Mn. McKinly Kn. Dund, treaiurer; Mn. Robert Kreeton, Dallas, president; Mrs. W. E. Willcins, national commit! woman; and Mrs. Mai Whifcomb, Portland, icrtry. Th naw ofllcars war installed today. nTUc . Kill Br FRANK JENKINS Pointed; Senator Dirksen, of Illinois, and Senator BuUer, of Nebraska, high brass supporters of Senator Toll In the pre-conventlon campaign, have come over Into Die Eisenhower ramp end announce that they are ready to go to work. Don't pay too much attention io the proloulonal In thin political r.mpalsn-whlch la DIFFERENT. You'll be better pleased with your elf If you follow YOUR OWN hunches. The professionals have In he con altent. They have to CONFORM. The flrat rule of professional poll tlca la that you'll gel farther by ticking with your own crowd. . Hio profeiulonala have to follow that rule. You don't. Be yoursell thta time and follow your Instincts. By the wav, what la a "hunch?" the dictionary dellnea It as "a strong, Intuitive I m p r e a a I o n." Many of our better psychologists urge u to PAY ATTENTION to our hunches which, they y. are the mature Judgment of our tub conscious mental processes. Aa such, Uiey tell us, hunchea are apt to be more dependable than the reasoned conclusion of our conscious minds. Did vou -ever disregard hunch and wish later that you hadn't? I have often. In lact. advancing; yeara are leading me to the con clusion that practically every time I reason myself out of a hunch that l. when I o against In stinct and aot on the reasoned judgement of mv CONSCIOUS mind I stet Into trouble. More ' politics this time In the tense of political trends: In Virginia, the Richmond News leader haa Just become Uie first Richmond newspaper alnce IMS to support a non-Democratic Presi dential candidate. U has come out for the Elsenhower-Nixon ticket. Watch It. Sooner or later, the South will come back POLITICALLY Into the Union, by which I mean It will vol untarily reedopl the two-party pol itical system. Patriotically, of course, the South lonir ago came back Into the United States. Two wars prove that beyond all possi bility of doubt. As long aa the South stays Demo cratlc THROUGH THICK AND : THIN. It will remain the helpless '. captive of the Northern wing of the Democratic party. It Isn't going to like that In lllese days when It Is becoming the most rapidly grow ing Industrial area In the nation. "Dlxlecret" movement are help . 'tss gestures of resentment. The rav for the South to ASSERT IT SELF Is to be able to go Repub-U-jan when It doesn't like what fie Democrat do. Aiilng Albert Einstein, the math ' emstlcal wltard whose theory of relstlvlty has more or less upset all our previous theories about the universe and what makes It tick, was questioned the other day about flying saucers, He answered; "What they are I do not know. And I am not curious to know." I can't go quite thai far. I'm acutely curious like everybody else. But at least I'm not scared. Whatever It Is, I'll tako It. . I can't, of course, swallow ALL - (Continued en rag 4.) Reds Hint Talks Break MUNBAN, Korea Iffl The Com munists Wednesday suggested a possibly significant chango In tho wording of the proposed Korean armistice document now under study by staff officers of both sides. It dealt With' a paragraph relat ing to war prisoners. The issue ol prisoner exchange has blocked a truce for months. The Reds propose changing the lerm "captured personnel" to "prisoner of war" in Paragraph 53, which would then read: "Each side agrees to insure thnl It shall not employ In acts of war in the Korean conflict any prison ers of war released from custody Incident to the armistice." Col. Duncan 8. Somervllle, U.N. command staff officer, said he hnd asked the Reds for clarification. During rooont secret truce talks, MnJ. Oen, William K. Harrison, senior U. N. armistice delegate, told the Reds the term capturod fiersonnel mount nil people, even hose opposing repatriation. Wnr prisoners, he added, were all those persons who were to be repatrl i ated i.' Legion Seminar Shows Faces of Communism Ily MALCOLM F.l'I.F.Y JR. A corps of men who know well tho effects of Communism and how It works 111 America presented sol Id facts to Rome 200 persons at tending the American Legion's sem inar on Un-American Activities at Uie high school last night. Umlrr the direction of Capt. Wil liam Browne, farmer chief of de tectives for the Portland Police Dept., and a member of the Le gion's national aubverslve activi ties commission, they presented evidence and testimony which star tled listeners who felt Communism was something far removed from Klamath Falls. . . A 10-year-old boy whose nsme was not uaed for reasons of his own security explained how he was first Introduced to the "dream land" of Communist Russia and Communism while In grade school. He explained how he made him self Informed on what to expect, building up resistance to the Com munist talk of Utopia. "I watched others not as lucky as I." he said, "who are com pletely taken over by Communist doctrine." t'OOPKRATION In complete cooperation with the FBI the young man worked his way up in the confidence of party leaders until he became a leader himself In a youth movement. Former 1 Stale Sen. Al Canwell, Washington Slate Legislature, de fended his position aptly and logic ally as the head of the famed Can well committee on aubverslve ac tivities. Explaining cases of fact in which young people from good homes were machined Into the Communist party. Canwell told how his committee was smeared clear to Uie top by persons reached by those whose toes he was be ginning to step on. As one of the speakers put It, "It was clear Canwell was expos- Legion Holds Final Session Oregon Legionnaires locked In rousing but friendly battles today over several resolutions. It was Uie final session of the state con vention here. At press time today two reso lutions of particular Interest here had been passed. One called for an end oi foreign agreements whereby nationals of ' several na tions are not required to serve In the armed forces of nations in which they are residing. The reso lution was no doubt prompted by an Incident In Lake County recently In which two Irish nationals re fused to be drafted Into U.S. serv ice. Another resolution called for the Bureau of Land Management to hold homestead drawings on some 300 lease plots In the Tule area. Today's closing session, sched uled for a morning event, carried over Into this afternoon with many Items left on Uie program. It ap peared Uie session would require the entire day at best. Bosldes the controversial resolu tions, annual election of officers was programmed. Bulletins NEW JUDGE D, E. Van Vaclor, at present Klamath County District Attor ney, will become Judge of the District Court Friday, succeed Ing Judge M, A. Carter. The ap pointment, rumored for several days, Waa announced this after noon by Gov. Douglas McKay. No aucoesaor In the district at torney's office was named lin medlatley. , FOREST FIRES With nine small llghlnlnr fires' burning and more expected from a threatening storm thla after noon, the U. S. Forest Service here was parachuting tire fighters into remote mountain areaa this afternoon. District Ranger' Bob Cooper aald Jumpers had been aent to a fire on Aspen nutte and more Jumpers wore under way to a blase In the sum mit of the Cascades, south of Crater Lake. He said he believed all the fires burning early thla afternoon could , be . controlled wllh minimum losses. r'J - r - ft Ing too much In his University of Washington investigations, and Uie result of organised smesrs which Commies put the heal on." As a result of organlwyl smears which followed. Canwell was not elected to his legislative oflice again. Father Clarence Dut'bln. profes sor of economics and political sci ence at Portland University gave the accepted answer to Commu nismChristianity. Ood. he said. Is the foundation of all true government. Father Durum pointed out that under Communism there is no freedom, because Uie Communist doctrine does not recognize Ood. "They have substituted the wor ship of Stalin," he said, "for the worship of Ood." He said under CoinKiunlsm there was only one reality materialism. Man is matter, an animal. Com munism denies man his rights un- aor Aimignty uoa tne rights guar snteed In Uie American Constitu tion aa "Ood-glven. ' John Leech, who was top Com' munlst In Southern California dur ing the 1030 s snd one of the or ganizers of Uie party in the movie Industry explained he Joined the parly because of his economic sit uation In the early 30's and Uie sweet dreams and promises made him. . none of which could be (Ullllled. . "Communism offers everyone something,? . he said, "and gives mem nouiing." EDUCATION All the speakers In the seminar agreed (hat Uie protection against uommunism infiltration into the minds of the people is education. This signalled for better accept ance of Uie Investigative bodies of the legislatures from the top down which have been con demned and smeared almost too completely by Communist smear campaigns. "The legislative Investigations Canwell explained, "have been go ing on lor more than luo years in our Federal government." Yet, he said, the Communists ssv there Is nothing more subversive than the way his committee has investi gated subversives, "Tlie smear Is the only effec tive danger left the Communists," Leech said, and warned Americans must take warning and protest It. Canwell's committee was the or igin of first public information on Uie Alger Hiss case, Uie tormer senator reported. Other cases wnicn drew heavily on first inior mation supplied by Uie Canwell committee included the Harry Bridges case, Ainerasia and uie atomic spy mens. Thanks The thanks and gratitude of the Klamath Falls Police De partment Is extended to Uie Ore gon Department. American Le gion, for the orderly and well mannered way the American Le gion's convention here the past five days was conducted. Police Chief Orvllle Hamilton said that his department had absolutely no trouble from the hundreds of Legionnaires visit ing Klamath Falls, that the co operation between Uie visitors and police officers was excellent. i LIGHTNING Monday night made an intriguing pattern for Herald and News Photographer Don Kettler. " 11 mmmm mmmm mi ii inmr, iiwi n mm ... m inimimim iiiihmmmj mi i iiiii mi m, , m , M lllmM Price Five Cent It Fr KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY. JULY M. IMS Telephone 1111 No. 2883 Defense To Double Its Steel Take WASHINGTON P The Penta gon expects defense production to take double Its ormal share of the nation's steel output during the next six months. An official handling military pro duction problems said this wui necessarily mean less steel, tem porarily, for civilian use, and a return in part to the system 01 wartime priorities for military pro duction. He said the nation lost 20 million tons of steel output during the 54 days of recent strike. To meet urgent needs of some plants, the official added, air ship ments of raw materials may be authorized. In order to see that the military gels first crack at available steel, the Dclense Department has as signed 30 special olflcers to stay at the mills. Meanwhile. Price Stabilizer Ellis Arnall signed an order permitting steel mills to put higher celling firlces In effect on all steel de Ivered on or after July 26. It was Issued after a directive from Acting Defense Moblllzer John K. steel' man. Price control officials said that a price lncrea.se probably will be given to aluminum producers and fabricators. A decision Is expected this week on Uie amount of the Increase. The big three producers. Alum mum Company of America. Reyn olds and Kaiser, have applied for celling price increases oi 2 to J cents a pound on raw aluminum ana io io li ,3 percent on semi fabricated and fabricated aluml' num products. They have signed contract calling lot higher wages It a price increase is granted. More Quakes In California ' BAKERSFIELD. Calif. Ml An atom bomb wouldn't scare the residents of this busy farming town much more than they were Wednesday. Bakersflcld has been through another earthquake, sev eral. in fact. Official county business Is be ing conducted on vacant lots. The courthouse has been Jolted so sev erly that engineers fear It may collapse. Part of General Hospital has been abandoned for the same rea son. Homes have burned, and hun dreds of Jltterv residents camped out after the last series of quakes Tuesday. They feared their own homes almost as much as if Uie buildings were radiation-contaminated. And an exodus, such as might stem from any aiom-Diasiea area has henun At least 3,000 workers are needed 04 at once to repair IrrigaUon lines damaged by the quakes. Other thousands are needed to narvesi a 50 million dollar cotton crop. Imperiled by laok of Irrigation wa ter. But workers and their families are leaving. They've had it. Four auakes - Tuesday provided the spur. Those tremors were Uie sharpest since July 31 quake took tne lives oi 13 persons. WINDOWS BROKEN BRUSSELS. Belgium 11 Sold lers and workers demonstrated against Belgium's two-year con scription period Wednesday. Re ports said windows were broken in A Brussels barrack, by protesting soldiers while in Liege io.ihki workers' went on a one-day strike. I FORM OF A CHAMPION -is shown by Doralea Goodwin, Portland, Legion drum and bugle corp majorette. She carried off the star title in competition kr,wf.' 'i - -.-- j . r - , r - - ... r , ' Swimming Pool Planners Hear Expert Testimony Members of the Swimming Pool Committee, oharged with planning for construction of a municipal swimming pool here, had a ses sion last night at City Hall with Whitney Mattsson. representative ol the Paddock Engineering Com pany. Los Angeles and San Mateo. The Paddock firm has built over 4.000 pools In the past 30 years, Mattsson said, and he had defin ite recommendations lor a.iamain Falls. H. sucrcested that this city build a sort of wedge shape tank, meas uring 40 feet wide at the deep end, 60 feet wide at the shallow. KFRrmWins School Bid TULELAKE Low bidder on the proposed Newell Union Elementary school building was Uie Duncan Construction Company, Klamath Falls, with a bid of 213.0O0 on the single story building. Second low bid was submitted by Plnniger and Watkins, Klamath Falls, ana mira In line was R. E. Meade ana com pany. Grants Pass, witn rtu.iiv. Six bids were submitted. Bids were opened, read and tak en under advisement last night by directors of the Newell union Ele mentary school board, Perry M. Hawkins, Tionesta, clerk; Paul E. Christy, Tulelake, chairman; Paul Rogers, Earl rarsons auu uw Fuller. A representative of the slloca tlon department of the state board of education was present for Uie meeting. Plans drawn by Howard Perrm, architect, call for a ,one story building with, six niisterauy ugm- ed classrooms, kindergarten, ad ministrative offices, muiu-purpose room, kitchen lavatories, si"ro rooms, a Jonftor and boiler room. The project will cover a ground area Of approximately 14,550 square feet. Concrete foundotions, a copper coated roof, veneer facing on ex terior walls and acoustic tile In all ceilings are called for in the plans. Radiant heat provided by an oil fired hot water boiler will warm the building. The building will be located on school property at Newell, approx- matciy nine mncs souui 01 lake on Highway 139. Completion date is scheduled for 300 days after construction starts which will put t about March 1st If no serious delays develop. The present emergency housing, the old 'WRA school building and an auxiliary buldlng moved to the site, will again be used this year to nccommodnte an expected en rollment of 238 students. Eight teachers will be on the staff with Orait Lester retained as principal, v Three new 61-nassenger, school buses have . arrived, to. oover the union district . School opens September 3. , and 100 feet long. That would give a 6.000 square foot water area and could be built for about 160,000. be said. Paddock's planning and price figure includes Just the pool and its equipment, not Uie bath house, sun deck, and other outside re finements. The company specializes in a certain type tank, submerged. with a rounded bottom and con structed of a pressure-forced ce ment material called gunite. with a sUicite finish which the com pany says Is more Impervious than most materials and never nas to be painted. His suggestion for Klamath Falls is a pool with a maximum depth of 10 feet, -with one-meter and three-meter diving boards. The wedge-shaped pool. Matts son said, would give more shal low water space than the conven tional rectangular pool. Mattsson was the second swim ming Dool engineer the commit tee has heard. The first was Wes ley Bints of Lansing, Mich., whose firm specializes In elevated tanks. Klamath Falls voters okayed a $150,000 tax levy last May 16 for swimming pool construction, and the hope Is that some construction might be started this summer. But progress has hardly been no ticeable so far, although members of the committee say they are learning a good deal about swim ming pools Uiey don't anow De fore. 1 . Mattsson's company Is prepared to assist an architect In pool plan ning, if the city decides to build a Paddock-type pool, and then bid on the Job along with other con tractors. Construction of the bath house and other features of tne swimming pool park would be left up to the architect ana gen eral contractor. Thermometer Hits Record ' The weather here yesterday was either pleasantly warm, too warm or hot as blazes, depending on your personal taste In any event, the mercury touched a hew high for the year . . . 96, That was Uie reading on the Herald and News' big record- Ing thermometer downtown; at Uie airport, the reading was 94. Highest previous reading down town tms year was ao on jury iv. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity and Northern California: Cloudy with- occasional thunder showers. Low tonight 55,' high to morrow 85. High yesterday M Low last night 63 Preoln yesterday Preoln sines Oct. 1 ...11.11 Same period last year ...14.14 Normal for period .. ...13.35 Air Force Men Study Sightings By VERN HAUGLAND AP Aviation Reporter WASHINGTON Wl The Air Force says it's still checking into flying saucer reports, but it's cer tain 01 one thing: The saucers whatever Uiey are don't seem to be a menace to the United States. Most . of . the siahtinirs traced to date have turned out to be natural phenomena. A flurry of reports that scores of unidentified objects had been spotted by radar in Uie Washington area during the past 10 days led Uie Air Force to call a special news conference Tuesday to tell what it knew or thought of Uie saucers. About one-fifth of the sighting reports are "from credible obser vers, of relatively incredible things so we keep on being concerned aoout tnem." , Of Uie one-fifth for which there is no explanation. Maj. Gen. John A. Samford. Intelligence director. said: : NO PATTERN ... "No pattern has ever been found that reveals anything remotely like a purpose or consistency that can In any way be associated with any menace to the United States." Samford is one of the Air Force's two top experts on saucers. The other is Maj. Gen. Roger Ramey, director of operations. Both attend ed the news conference to answer whatever questions newsmen tossed their way. samiord and Ramey announced that since 1947 the Air Force has analyzed about 2,000 reports 01 sightings of strange object la the sltv. ; The bulk, of these, after -crosschecking, have been reasonably well identified as the product of friendly aircraft, out and - o n t hoaxes, or electrical or meteoro logical phenomena. ILLUSIONS Other "saucers' are blamed on optical Illusions. Northern Lights, weather balloons, and reflection of llgnts even automobile lights. But every effort is being made to identify Uie mysterious one-fifth. .(Continued on Page Three) Vandals Active In Malin Park ' Malin Park officials are on the lookout for persons who have been dealing in vandalism at the park recenUy. Malin Park Board Member Emil Folivka said today that he had Uie cooperation of Uie Klamath County Sheriff s oitice and would "prose cute offenders to the full extent of the law." Folivka said sprinkler pipes were twisted around a tree Monday night and a park bench thrown Into a tree. The park board member also said that reckless and speeding drivers will also be watched in the future. Severe penalties will be as sessed against drivers who violate Uie ten-mile-an-hour limit or drive over the park lawns. V o b; 7r : J .- V LEGION VISITORS Mr. and Mn. Leon M. Brown and their daughter', Edith Gayle, art taking in the itata convention her. Thy ara from SaTem. . .. s . Taft Backers Offer Aid To Eisenhower By The Associated Press New voices were added to the Republican harmony chorus Wednesday as notes of discord sounded among Democrat In the South. Two senators who backed the un successful fight of Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio to win the OOP presi dential nomination were welcomed into Uie camp of Oen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Uie party nominee. They are Sen. Everett Dirksen of Illinois and Sen. Hugh Butler of neDrasta. Dirksen, who touched off a dem onstration at Uie Republican con vention in a speech blasting Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, an Eisenhower strategist dis closed through his office that he will Ily to Denver Saturday to par ticipate in a week-end series of Eisenhower campaign strategy conferences. BUTLER Butler called on Eisenhower Tuesday and came out predicting victory for the general In Nebraska and expressing confidence that Taft will take an active part in the campaign to put Eisenhower in the White House. In Indiana. Uie pre - convention State Committee for Eisenhower decided to stay In existence, but agree to cooperate with the pro Taft regular Republican state or ganizaUon. In Uie Democratic camp, rumb lings of discontent were heard in Virginia, South Carolina, Louisiana and Mississippi. They appeared to be directed more at the Demo cratic platform's civil rights plank man at tne party's nominees, gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois and Sen. John J. Sparkman of Alabama. in souin uaroiina, James r. Byrnes said he would have voted against the platform if he had the chance. He said he will make his views on Uie caididates known when Uie state Democratic con vention re-convenes Aug. 6 to de cide upon a course of action. VIRGINIA In Virginia, the Richmond Mews Leader became the first Richmond newspaper to support a ' non- pemocratio presidential candidate since 1896. It came out for .tha Eisenhower-Nixon ticket. But a po litical source close to the Virginia, stato Democratic central commit tee predicted inai tne state con vention would not be reconvened to bolt the Democratic ticket A decision is left up to state party leaders. In Mississippi, former Lt. Gov.' Sam Lumpkin of Tupelo said Ei senhower's name will be sug gested for possible endorsement at Uie Aug. 28 reopening of the state Democratic convenUon. But Gov. Hugh White has said he will sup port the national Democratic tick et. In Louisiana, Gov. Robert Ken non said Uie state Democratic cen tral committee will decide whether to support tne mevenson-spars-man ticket. The candidates themselves were busv men. STEVENSON In Springfield. Til.. Gov. Steven son canceled two Illinois speaking engagements this week to work on correspondence and other business piled up on his desk at the exe cutive mansion. He and Vice Pres ident Alben W. Barkley are still scheduled to speak at tne Illinois State Fair In Springfield Aug. M. Eisenhower worked with nis Denver headquarters staff on cam paign plans and set a series of high-level strategy conferences to begin Friday. Among those sched uled to attend the sessions are Sen. Richard M. Nixon, the GOP vice presidentiar nominee: Arthur E. summerneid, cnairman 01 uie (Continued on Page 3)