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Newspaper Page TextBy FRANK JKNK1NI Election post-mortems House of representatives Investl- rlor (members of a special iauno commute Investigating campaign expenditures; have turn inuiieil blgwlga of both miijor po llllcol partlra to Washington for a firm hand account of what eome of the probnra call the "alarming costs" or campaigning In Uio mod ern television ago. In announcing the hearings, the chairman of the committee aaya eilliiialee of apendlng In the recent political campaign run between M million and loo million dollars, and Hit number of special coinmltleea taking pan In (ha campaign tan Into lh thousands. . In that bad? You know, I'm Inclined lo doubt In the campaign that ended on the evening- of tin 3rd of Novem bar, our people were aroused and interested aa they haven't been In at leant half century. W caat more votes than w ever cant be fore. We voted larger percent age t tile total registration than ai any election In recent years. It aeema to me that'a all to the good particularly the THOUS ANDS of special committers that gut Into the battle. They weren't HIRED gangs. They were VOLUN 1t:Kn committees of cltlaena who fiot into It because they were deep y concerned with the uwuea and wanted lo do their part in acelng to It tint the election came out right aa they aaw the Tight. - Iiulead of being reprehensible, that sounds WONDERFUL to me. The foundation or good government In our country la an aroused and .lllaiit rntursle. if we can nave iaVt. In EVERY tnecllon, we'll nov- Vlt too far wrong. Let's take a sensible look at this estimate of M million to loo mil lion dollara the recent campaign is auunoserf to have coal. We have more than 1M million pevti In this country. If each per s had chipped In four bits, It would have come to a total of 7e million dollars We have 40-odd million families. At a dollar per family, that would run close to M million collars. . . ' What we need to guard against la t cynical theory of pontics un der which the bit contrDnitora arc netted tn aet the big on ices, don't think anything Ilk that hap pened Uila year. Take our own Douglas McKay, of Oregon, for enample. He drew one of the top appointment tn the new administration, . but I doubt tf ANYBODY would accuse him of having been one. of the TOP con tributors. All in eigne point to the conclusion thai Governor McKay aa named to the post of esere try of the interior NOT a po litical reward but because President-elect Elsenhower looked upon him as a . man. admirably filled to fill the job. We all realise, of course, that SDendlne- HUOE euma of money hw s. few BIO oeopla or big or- gantsatlona Intent upon OAININO POWER and using It for their awn eelllnh benefit is bad. But In Una particular election there was lea of that than at any time within recent memory. A a matter of fact, what we were all aeeklng (big people and little peo pie alike waa to put an end to that cynical theory of government. Personally, I'm not much wor ried about the money that' waa spent In the campaign of u. I d say offhand that we can aafely forget It and get on with our rat killing which la substituting EF FICIENT government for govern ment Uist haan't been too efficient. Everest itil! Mystery 1 KATMANDU, Nepal Wl The fiwias Mt. Everest expedition la reported heading back, but lt suc cess Or failure In scaling the world's highest peak atlU I mystery. A message Sunday night from Bhojpur a military post 110 miles southeast of here which haa the radio station nearest Everest ald only that the clljnbera had reached Nsmcne Baaar "on mi w a y home." Namche Baser la el days' march from' BholDUr. . The Bholpur. mesaage waa the first purporting to locate the Swiss climbers sine Nov. 17. The word then waa that a final assault team had reached point to yards from the summit of m unconquerea 39,000-foot mountain, itn New Delhi, India. Monday, a Swlsa legation spokesman aald he had no official confirmation of Sunday mania ranio report, "in fnct," he aald, "we have no news whatsoever.") Experts In Himalayan climbing said they believed the Swiss had failed In their second try at the last difficult stretch of Mt. Ever est. Otherwise, It waa points- out, they would have ruahed a report to tne outstae woria. However, the expedition leader. Dr. Gabriel Chevalley, financed the venture by selling exclusive pews right to various publications and might be holding report of the success or failure lor his cus tomers. , , SHOOTING HOURS JL14 December 2 ' , Opeii:.w...ii...W;,ijii.'.' Close ,...........3;33 p.m. mm Fries Five Cents M Page Basin Forum t o Consider Klamath Lease Problems "Build the Basin" tomorrow eve ning turns lo one of the moat timely and controversial topics In the Klamath Country Just now. Hie question for Uie psiiei win do: 11 What should be done with Uie lease land In the Klamath project of the Bureau of Reclamation?" Early last week It waa learned that th Reclamation Bureau had notified m persona that their leases on 19,0(4 aorea of crop land would not be renewed after ex- Slrallon Deo. 31,- In September, 0 other leases on 3,280 aorea were cancelled for what the bureau aald were violations of lease provisions. Last week's .wholesale leaae alop- U.S. Bank Has New Manager William A. HutiKlna has been named manager of the ' United State National Bank's brunch here in Klamath Falls, replacing E. H. Thompson who Is moving lo a high er position 111 the banking system. Thompson had been manager of tne bank for seven yeara. The na- ; I. H. THOMPSON lure of bis new position- has not been disclosed, according to an nouncement of E. O, Summons, Dresident of the banking firm. Hugglna first Joined the United States National in 1836. aervlng in the Portland office until 1841 when he joined the elan of tn national Bank Examinrra, working In the Portland and Seattle divisions. In January of this year he re turned to United States National and during the past several months haa been in tne Drancn loan de partment and gained experience In various assignments wroujnoui the state. Hugglna la a graduate of the Pacific Coast School of Banking at the University of Washington and has taken special courses In the American Institute of Banking at the University of Oregon exten sion center. During world War II he nerved with the U. 8. Army In the African and European the aters. He li married and hag two chll dren. The change In management of the local bank branch was ef fecUve today. Santa Needs Security Card Even Santa needs a Social Se curity number now I KlamaUi Social Security Of(lo Mgr. Everett Eaton announced to day that It Is best even temporary Chrl8tmatlm workers have -So. clal Security account cards handy when applying for Joba. . Eaton, aald employers are more and more reltislng to hire persona who csnnot present cards at the time of hiring to Insure correct Information for 'handling accounts. If there have i been any changes on cards. Eaton' haa advised they be checked and corrected at the local Social Security office tn the Poatofflce Building, A corrootlon will take a few minutes ha said, though It will take a week or in days to obtain a dunUcate to re place a lost, card, ) KLAMATH FALLS, OKF.UGi panes made no mention of viola tion. The 152 lease stoppages account for practically all the valuable crop land leases In the Klamath Project, Only one large leaae, that of Tulana Farms on 2,314 acres, waa - not killed, Reclamation Bureau Commis sioner Michael Straus In ordering the lease not be renewed, offered no reason for the action. Neither did he auggcat what might be done with the land. In a later directive Straus' Washington office advised that the land would either be re turned to leasing, converted to homesUadlnar or that "part all" of it might be turned over to the Fish and Wildlife Service. The directive added that no decision would be forthcoming "prior to Nov. 30." At press fine today, no word had yet been reported at the KlamaUi Project headquarters her. r . Tomorrow evening's pane! Is to be comprised of five men, repre senting escb of Uie major groups Involved In the lesse controversy. Representing Uie Bureau of Recla mation will be Charles Wamstad, Klamath Project engineer. Tom Horn, manager of the Tulelske wildlife refuge, will speak for the Fish and Wildlife Service. County Agent Charlie Henderson will represent the agriculturist point oi view, riounning out uie panel will be two Tulelske area ranchers, Sam Anderson end Johnny Cross. Anderson I a 1835 homesteader and Croas Is a World War Two veteran who has now been notified his farming lease Is not to be re newed. Aa usual, the oublic servJca radio forum will go on the air at 8 p.m., tomorrow. Bud Chandler will agais) oe uie moderator. In Salem this afternoon. Gov. Douglas McKay, Elsenhower's nominee aa the new secretary of the Interior, waa to meet with Klamath group to discuss the situ- auon. -me governor told the Aa aorlated Press In Salem that he would ", . . Just listen to these farmers' complaints becauao oaa't do anything about It yet.' Klamath Grand Jury Named Dance band leader W. R. CBaldy) Evans, 2044 Vine, will be foreman of uie Klamath County grand Jury sworn In today. He was appointed oy circuit Judge uavu R, vsnden berg. Other members of the Investiga tive group are w. n, MoreiocK, Malln; F. O. Duncan, 831 Kane; John Buell. Fort Klamath: Ernest Regan. 321 Oram; W. J, Kum. nomeaaie, and John James, Malln. . Today was the first day or the December term of circuit Court, and after the grand Jury was se lected only It namea remained on uie trial Jury panel, not enough to Begin a criminal trial scheduled or looey. Judge Vsndenberg ordered 12 veniremen summoned to sppear In court at 4 o'clock this afternoon, to fill out the regular Jury panel Tne trial scheduled involves a Charge of sodomy filed against Raymond Harry Landls. 48, who la held In the County Ju. He has pleaded not guilty, : District Attorney Frank Aldr- aon aald that his office would have no business to put before the grand jury until at- least the middle latter part of January, and that group' was recessed until call of the court. The grand Jury will serve six months, through Uie so-called De cember term of court which runs until next June, and could be held over for subsequent terms. The grand Jury composed of Rov Call Clarence Deffenbacher, Doris Cllk. Alice Eliedge, Byron Johnson, Roy Kuna and Don Hancock.' which haa been dismissed, aerved through tne last two torms of court. Weather FORECAST Klamath Fall and Tlelnltr, and Northern California Cloudy, with Intermittent rain oi snow through tomorrow. High Monday 4.1, low tonight St. High tomorrow o. , High temp yesterday ... 37 Low last night - . 31 Prerlp yesterday 0 Sine Oct, 1 -...,... 82 Normal for period 2.77 Same period last year 1,83 Repair Base Slated Here Morrison Knudsen Construction Company, one of the world's larg est auch firms, Is setting up a repair base at Municipal Airport and plans to bring from 40 to 80 men hers. The base being- located In Uie West side of - the ' big concrete hangar at tho airport, Ts to serve mis winter or repairs ot neavy equipment being; used by Uie firm on the Toketee Falls dam project. Tne nangar space was auo-tet from contractor F. L, Somera who leases It from the city. j" ' rr'S "" 11 - fV jNDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1852 Telephone lilt i No 2WS ;'!. i. l' u ! Y J .N3'V ."f. jk , , I n , 1 1 a. AN APPEAL from Pfc. David Burch in Korea . groups have senf bundles of clothing. Above for warm clothing that could be given to suf- ere some Camp Fir Girls mailing another faring Korean children is getting a generous bundle. In the picture are (I to r) Alice Renn, response here. Burch's letter was published in , Lorraine Hill, Postal Clerk C. A. Repp and the Herald and News and since then several Chubbin Spero. , Klamath County Refuses Cash Gift for Iron Lung One Iron lung has been ordered for Klamath Basin use but an of fer to buy a second found Insuf ficient Interest and the money was turned over to Modoo County, au thorities to buy the Iron lung for that area. Funds for the Iron lung on order foe Klamath were contributed through special events and popular subscr iDtion. Tne lund was given big boosts by the Klamath falls Police Benevolent Association, con. tributor of more than (1.300, Uie Klamath Saddle Club which spon sored a benefit tea. and ouier Klamath Youth War Casualty A Klamath Falls' boy. Ted E, P.UIeUe. is listed as musing In action in Korea, according to De fense Department announcement today. He Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Paillette. Mil &ane. Ted. 18 years old, waa a Navy medical corpsman auacaea to TED PAILLETTE unit of the 7th Marines, and had been in Korea only about a month. his mother slnd. He left the United States Sept. 15. and was reported to be missing in action as ot Oct. 27, His parents were notified Nov. 3 by the De fense Department, and have heard nothing since. Tr-d Paillette enlisted in the Navy two years ago Nov. 1, leav ing Klamath Union High School tn no into the service. A brother. Don Paillette, Is In his fourth year at the University of Oregon. 0 1 i F""" " eseaeajgajeajsy n I m o o i niiisiaii i " in bsestli groups. The fund, called the Adler Memorial Fund, was started by Dr. George Adler, whose son died s victim of polio several weeks ago. Soon after the - Adler fund had been launched. Ray i8tormy) Chase,- of Lakeview and Klamath Falls, olfered to give M.000 for Uie purchase of another Iron lung for KlamaUi. He stipulated that no charge be made for use of the lung. x , . . . . . Today, on the Herald and News editorial page. Chase, In a letter to the editor, announces with some bitterness that his offer was, in ef fect, ignored and that he had giv en Uie money to Modoc County. Dr. Beth Kerrori. county health officer this morning explained that were was actually no aemanaing need- for en Iron hing here. He said use of the lungs required specially trained personnel cot available here now. It is pos sible, he added, that polio victims might be placed in a lung here and transported to the Sacred Heart Hospital polio treatment cen ter In Eugene but that would prob ably have to be done by either transport plane or truck since it is unlikely any available ambulances would be large enough to handle Uie lung. A special electricity sup ply would also have to be provided in transit. When the Adler lung arrives about the first of the year. It Is to be turned over to Dr. Adler and he will decide how It Is to be used. Reds Asked To Aid in Search BERLIN (.f Russian authorities have been asked to aid In a search for 2nd Lt, Horace J. oincore. Homestead. Fla., who disappeared a week ego near the border of the U. 8. Sector oi Berlin ana uie sov iet occupation sone. The u. 8. Army said Monaay Ma). Oen. Lemuel Mathewson, uie American commandant In Berlin, sent a letter Saturday to Sergeln Dengin. soviet Control Commission representative, requesting aid. Mathewson said Sincore was last seen on Uie Wannsee Lake Island about 600 yards east of Ollencicke Brldce wher. the U. S. Sector of divided Berlin borders on the Sov iet son The Russians are noiatng two wno strayed across Uie Berlin frontier last Wednesday. They were iden tified Mondav as Pvt. Raymona Mlchalou.-s.kl. Perth Am boy. N. J.. and Pvt. Lieutenant wignt, i-os Angeles. Calif. The U. S. head quarters has issued a formal re quest to the Russians for. their return, 1 . . Office Damaged In Local Fire Fire this morning In an office Of the Modoc Company, First Na tional Rnnk Bulldina-. did minor damage to a desk and two walls. : Modoo employes said tne Diane started In some paint thinner and ignited a large piece of painter's canvass. When city firemen arrived, tne office workers had almost extin guished the blaze with an emer gency fire hose. SPARKMAN IN VIENNA 1 VIENNA. Austria l Sen. John Sparkman of Alabama arrived in Vienna Monday on a month's fact finding tour of Europe in which he intends to investigate an aspecw of .Uie Amerioan aid program to Europe; L. V. Hosford Death Told Dr. Leonard V, Hosford. M, well- known Klamath Falls chiropractic Dhvslcian. died unexpectedly at his bom Sunday morning of a heart attack. He collapsed In the bathroom of Uie family residence, 2126 Auburn, and efforts to revive him by use ot the Fire Department resuscttat. or, were unavailing. Dr. Hosford was aa Oregon tive, born at weidport on tne coast, and bad lived in KlamaUi Falls since 1938. Survivors include the widow, Jes sie Lee Hosford, three sons and two daughters. t Funeral services are to be con ducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday from the Church of Jessus Christ of Lat ter Day Saints, with O Hair'a Me morial Chapel in charge of ar rangements, and burial will be In Memorial Cemetery. Auto Skids; Five Injured Five members of one family were brought to KlamaUi Valley Hospital this morning for examin ation and treatment of Injuries re ceived when their car skidded off US 87 and went over a 30-foot em bankment about three miles above tne ChUoquin funcuon. None was seriously hurt. Brought to Uie hospital by Kal er's ambulance were Mrs. C. E. Pomme. 31: her three young chil dren. Michelle, 4, Eddie, 5, and Frances 2; and the chtldren'a grandmother Mrs. , ClemenUne Pomme. They are from San Francisco, but are moving to Moscow. Ida.. where the younger woman's bus band, Capt C. E. Pomme, Is now stationed after having returned from Korea. Only the girl, Michelle, was ad mitted to the hospital. .The family car. a 1061 Ford. with the - younger Mrs. Pomme driving, apparently skidded on an Icy soot on uie nignway ana rouea down the bank. ' The occupants were pinned In, but Mrs. Pomme managed to get out a window and climb back to the highway to get help. Erma Pinelli illness Fatal i A Klamath County pioneer, Mrs. Erma Plnelll. 62, resident here since 1916. died at Klamath Val ley Hospital, Nov. 30, following a lengthy illness. . She was born April 18, 1890, at Fort Jones, Calif., and had made her home on a ranch on the Mid land road for many years. She was a member of the Episcopal Church and of the Midland Orange. Mrs, Pinelli Is survived by her widower, Lester A. Plnelll: five daughters, Mrs. Bernice ..pains, Mrs. June Elttreln, Mrs, Joyce Feu. sll ot Klamath Falls, Mrs. Frances Cain, Roseburg, Mrs. Margaret Burnett, Bonansa; one son, Herbert pinelli, KlamaUi Falls a sister, Mrs. Elda Guard, Watson vllle, Calif; a brother, Frank Hen ry, Oakland; t also seven grand children. Funeral services will be held from ' O Hair's Memorial Chapel, 6th and Fine Streets, 11 a.m., Dec Interment and final rites In the Llnkvllle Cemetery, Winds, Snow Lash Area Around Basin A storm which blew mostly dry for Klamath Falls yester day and last night brought rain, snow and isolation to soma parts of ihe Klamath Country and adjacent areas. The community of Weed, 71 miles south of here, was hit by heavy snowfall which was reportedly blocking traffic and closed schools in that area. Nearby, the town of McCloud was virtually marooned from tne rest of the world by the storm, Reports from Dunsmuir this morning said McCloud's high way was cut off by snow, and that telephone lines- both railroad -and service were down. The SP office here was unable to determine whether the McCloud River Railroad, Bulletin CABINET NEW YORK UP) Martin P. Durkln, ef Chicago Monday waa named secretary of labor and Sinclair Weeks of Boston. Mass., secretary ef commerce In President-elect Elsenhower's cabinet. Walter William of Seattle waa named undersecretary of mere 3 Killed In 7ild Gunfight EUGENE Wl A husband killed his estranged wife, a man who was taking her to a dance and himself Saturday night. Dead are William R. Cooper, 42, bis wife. Dorothea, 30, and Alvln David Alleman Farts, 39. The shootls; occurred In the Cooper home about 12 miles south of here.- Mrs.' Cooper's two child ren by a- former marriage Doro thea Henry. 11, and Deanne Henry, 9 were In the house at the time. Dean. Blatchley, assistant Lane County coroner,, said Uie shooting apparently occured this way: Farts called at the Cooper home Saturday night to take Mrs. Cooper to a dance. Cooper drove uo'to the house while Faris waa there. A quarrel ensued and Cooper apparently fired sis: shots at his wife end Farts, then reloaded his .3S-csliber revolver, fired another shot at Uie pair and then put a bullet through his head. Cooper had sent the two child ren to a bedroom before tne shoot ing. , Blatchley said Cooper apparently had planned Uie shooting as a note was found on his body concerning distribution of his property. Biawniey aaia uie tnree died almost instantly after being snot. Mrs. Cooper eras shot at the cheat. nee and nead. rarls waa shot in tour niaeea. . . ...,,.,... ; Travel lip At Crater Lake 1 November saw an Increase In travel of H per cent over Uie aame period a year ago. mostly because of improved weather con ditions this year, according to fig ures released today by Asst. Chief Ranger Beruie Packard, Crater Lake National Park, Last month 1,503 cars carried i.tst persons Into Uie park as com pared with 820 cars and 2,007 per sons a year ago. Reason for the Increased travel was evident in -statistics on snow depth at the park. Packard said precipitation Uie past month amounted to i t inches as com pared with 12.40 for Uie same period j in 1851. Stream year elnce Oct. 1 showed only 3.S2 inches of precipi tation this year, and zs.w last. Total snowfall last November was 88.5 inches, Packard reported, and last month was 26 Inches. Since Oct. 1 this year there have been 26 inches of snow In Uie park, he said, and last year during the same period there were 144. oreatest aeptn on tne ground this year during a 24 hour period was 22 Inches, and last year was 54 Inches, the park ranger said. i .. i ' tf. -. - -y fc; X ' 'f ' 'H U: 90'xu ck SpJtciaf ... i , MRS. Lll WHEELER, 1316 Shelley Street, waa downtown early hi morning with, daughter, Connie, for a dental visit. a logging rail route connect- ing McCloud with the outside world, was open for opera tion. Police Clerk Rosemarie Rocchi at Weed said no trains have come over the line this morning, and that as far as was known all other com munications ; were put with the lumbering town. In Weed itself, she said, there is about five inches of very wet snow almost slush but reports from the south said traffic was badly snarled and road conditions were ex tremely hazardous. Dunsmuir, farther down the Sacramento Canyon, had 2.11 inches of rainfall yester day, and at 7:30 this morn ing snow began to fall and was still coming down shortly before noon today. Northbound traffic ijps being stopped at Dunsmuir, reports from that town said. The road was said to be blocked at Mott, between Dunsmuir and Mt. Shasta. Other reports, showed the Greensprings with rain and slush, Bly snowing lightly, Willamette Pass with seven inches of new snow, the Santlam and McKenzle Passes with 10-lnches of new snow each, end Government Camp and Ttmberline Lodge at ML Hood both with an inch of new snow and chains advised. LIGHT FALL In Klamath Tails and vicinity a light snowfau wss noted last night followed by a few drops of ram. out most notewortny waa the continued battering of tradi tional wintertime winds. The CAA airways communica tions station here measured winds velocities up to 38 and possibly 40 miles per hour during the night, with similar recordings noted throughout yesterday. The temperature here, however, pulled a turnabout In Uie face of the etorm front moving across this area. Where ttwtoiometers have been hitting as low as t and 10 de grees above here Uie past week Uie low last night was Just one degree below free sing 31 degrees. The high yesterday wasn't much wanner though, at 36 degrees. CRATEE LAKE Crater Lake, which Is still awaiting Its first real blast of winter to compare with last year, may be getting it today. Asst. Chief Ranger Bernie Packard reported high winds were carrying a heavy snowiall tn a noruontal movement there, and already Uie Annie Springs-Rim Village road has been closed to all travel at least temporarily. Packard aald this morning through traffic over uie South and West entrance roads was being maintained, though chains were necessary. About 10 Inches oi new snow fell during the night, with temperatures dropping as low as 20 degrees. At 10 a.m. it was 26 at Park Headquarters. Tne weatner oureau in roniana forecast more of the same weather for this area with little higher temperatures. . CASUALTY LIST ; WASHINGTON W The De fense Department Monday identi fied 66 more Korean war casualtiea (list No. 703). Of the total, six sre dead, 54 wounded, four missing In action and two injured In battle sone accidents.