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interstofe Deer. HrW u-.. '..-t-ths .Inter rr- y r'Vvl... ' vfi fi I" Mil win y o o . - ij-h A x!) E'.d you ver hear ' I"" United western Plan? It Is a project to draw off water irom the basin of the Columbia r yer (which Includes the Willam. ette valley) and-or from the basins of the rivers of Southern Oregon and divert it. to the. dry-and-get-tmg-dner lands of Southern Cali fornia. In general, these waters would be collected by a system of canals and tunnels and dumped-eventual-ly Into the basin of the Klamath river, down which they would flow to the foot of the Klamajh canyon, where they would be Impounded behind a huge dam. From this artificial reservoir they would be pumped into another reservoir to ,be created by a high dam in the upper Trinity river. Prom there, they would be unshed aver Intn the basin of the Sacramento, above onasia dam. " From Shasta dam the water -would be carried by the machin ery of the Central Valleys project to- Bakersfleld and from there would be pumped over the Teha- cnapi into Southern California . Where necessary to overcome gravity, these waters collected from the basins of Oregon rivers .would be pumped uphill. Where they run down the hill on the other side, siphons could be utilized to lessen the pumping cost. ' The rough outlines of this imag ination - staggering project were partially revealed in what Is known as the McCasland report, a part ' of which was made public in Feb ruary of this year. The report gets ' its name from the fact that a man ' named S. P. McCasland headed the so-called "United Western" in vestigation, which began the work oi preliminary viewing ana aeriui reconnoltering of the Idea some two years ago. : The full details of this investi gation have not yet been disclosed by the department of the interior, but doubtless will be in tune. What was back of this project -when it was initiated? I don't know, but I'll otfer guess. The Southwest, particularly New Mexico and Arizona, is suf fering increasingly from lack of .water. Its people are beginning to fear that great climatic changes are in progress which will result in drying up that area as the Sa hara was dried up eons ago. r rowi 'Jr.g around down there and talking n them vmi hni that storv re " peatedly. I don't know that it has any scientific foundation whatever, but when people speak of it their faces are grave. Tne risan uiai snmethinsr of that sort may be un der wav is widespread In the Smithwest. Arizona and New Mexico have vast areas of rich, flat land mat needs only water, to become im mensely productive.- The southern part of these states, where the bulk of this good land lies, has a year around growing season. New Mexico gets little water from the Bio Orande, but only a rela te trickle. The Colorado is Ari zona's only hope lor the water it wants and needs ana ooumern California gets a large share of the water of the Colorado. If New Mexico and Arizona are to get mnr of the Colorado's water southern California will get less, Arizona is already pushing the bat tle for more. Unm 1c the sruess: The department of the Interior which under tne new ueai aamiu ' Istrations LOVED big, world-shaking projects may have initiated the United Western investigation with the idea of being able to say, to Southern California: "See here, if you will be reason able and wiU give up your share of the water of the Colorado, which is indispensable to Arizona and maybe to New Mexico, we'll go up north to Oregon and GET YOU THE WATER YOU NEED to re place the Colorado's water you are now using." , Hence possibly the McCasland Investigation. Mind you, that's only a guess. But It fits in so perfectly with the situation that is shaping up in the Southwest that one can't help feel ing it is a CLOSE guess. 4 But, vou will say, we have Mc Kav. We have IKE. They won't stand for anything like that. They aren't that kind of people. r.,,o a moment, and reflect. President Eisenhower is tackling one of the oiggesi joua j. He is undertaking to lead his coun try away from the primrose path of unlimited spending and back to the sale roaa oi ?"V im iti Pew leaders in his tory have ever accomplished that job. w tv. should fail, the country u k. ri for lust such imag ination-staggering projects as the United Western Plan. If we want y .7. r tAr. we'd better get y with the job of PUtTINQ IT ul J an if fiwor nnd nVI WI1HK.- All U v. - -,tu the last drop of produc tive 'value is squeezed out of it. nntUnir our water to work COMPLETELY can we hope to save It. POLIO CASES UP ' WASHINGTON Wl - The Public Health Service said Thursday there Sere 155 cases of Infantile para Ivs s reported last week. That was L more than the corresponding week last year-a record year Up to last Saturday. 2.218 cases had been listed in 1953, compared with 1.76 in the same period year ago. . v' Price Five Cent 28 Pages Red Minister's Name Drops Out Of Sight; First Peiping Head 'Rolling Speculated HONG KONG Wl The name of Red China's labor minister, LI Li San, has vanished from the Communist press and radio, stir ring speculation that the first top level head has rolled in Peiping. The tense, fanatic, pro-Russian Red wasn't even mentioned in re ports from the all-China congress ROK Troops Throw Back Red Attack SEOUL Wl Counterattacking South Korean infantrymen today threw 150 to 200 Chinese Reds off an Eastern Front ridge after 12 hours of close-quarter seesaw fig.il ing. The Chinese swarmed up the slopes and seized the western end of the 300-year-long ridge shortly before midnight. Stubborn ROK soldiers clung to the eastern end. The Reds threw back two South Korean counter attacks. But ROK reinforcements were thrown into the battle before dawn and after six hours of fierce fighting the Reds called it quits, the Eighth Army said. For hours after the Chinese pulled off the ridge sporadic rifle and machine-gun fire continued, but the Reds did not attack again Elsewhere . along the ioo-mue battlefrbnt the; Reds, probed Allied lines and patrol skirmishes flared between the lines. Cloudy skies limited aerial ae- tion to fighter-bomner sinaes aiong the front and troop and supply areas Just behind tne Kea unes. Allied Sabre Jets stayed on the ground. ' ' hi. wifth Air Force said fighter- Immharc rirnnnrd eXDlOSiVeS Oh 25 personnel shelters. 5 supply shel ters. 3 caves, o juuiw ua-w. and 8 buildings. ' tpmirtAn B2A Sunerforts bombed a 194-acre supply dump near the North Korean capital of Pyongyang in Western Korea. The Air Force ..m tho snnevforts dropped 140 tons of explosives on 325 small. buildings at cnonman. Oregon Trees For Winnie cat. htm m . Douglas fir nd Ponderosa pine trees from Oregon cn mill h nlanted on the estate of Prime Minister Winston Church ill at Chartwell, Engiana. Rtate Treasurer Slg Unander, who knew Churchill when Unander was a colonel attached to Gen. Eisen hower's headquarters, is shipping the seedlings to England. Robert Letts Jones, former as sistant publisher of the Salem Cap ital Journal who now is touring in Europe, will present the seed lings. Churchill has written Unan der that he will plant the trees on his estate. Stale Forester George Spaur Is sending an accompanying letter giving planting instructions. Spaur aso is writing that the fir tree was named after David Douglas, a Scottish botanist, who brought the seeds from England to Oregon In 1827. The seedlings come from the state forest nursery. Seedlings also have been sent to Hawaii, Guam, japan and Morocco. Indians An historic pow-wow was held on the Klamath Indian Rcserva vation yesterday afternoon. Klam ath County's three state legislat ors met with the Klamaths and a tew white owners of land on the Reservation to discuss the new Oregon Klamath Water Commis sion setup. Old timers said it was almost certainly the first time state legislators had conferred with the Indians on state legisla tion. , . The commission, approved by the Oregon Legislature this yuar, is charged with surveying future water needs in Klamath and Jack son Counties. Only a relatively small amount of the available wa ter is now used and most of the surplus runs off down the Klamath Canyon. The commission is to lay claim to future needs In Klamath and Jackson for much of this sur plus water. This claim, it is be lieved, will forestall possible loss of a ft cm to win t - . of trade unions, a huge Red China meeting May 2-11 that or dinarily would have been under his thumb. - - Disappearance by omission is nothing new in Communist coun tries. Often deaths natural or otherwise are not announced The name of an official simply vanishes from that country's news. ,Although there has been much Darty purging at lower levels in Red China, no member of the top hierarchy has been thrown out. But it has been almost a year since Peiping channels carried any mention of Li. The last item recorded here was a warning that promised labor benefits might be a little -delayed. (A Nationalist China news agen cv carried a report March 24, 1953, that LI had gone to Moscow with Liu Shao-Chi. another Red China kingpin. There was no report that they returnea, aunougn uiu bpub at the labor congress in jviay.i Li, a member of the govern ment administrative council, is an old-line Red. He and Red China Premier Mao Tze-Tung split on policy in the 1920's, and LI went to Russia. , He studied with the Russian Communist Party 15 years and married a Russiah. in 1848 he returned to China when the Communist revolution was booming. Li and Mao made their peace and Li went to the top. - -But he isn't mentioned any more. lira Flllc Naval Post WASHINGTON Wl President Eisenhower Thursday formally nominated Adm. Robert B. Carney to be chief of naval operations, succeeding Adm. William recntei er. misenhower had announced prev iously that he planned to appoint Carney to the post as part of an entirely new alignment in the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The nomination the President sent to the Senate Thursday is for a two-year term, but did not spec ify when Carney would take over from Fechteler. Some of the JCS shifts are not to take effect until August. Eisenhower also nominaiea Adm. Arthur W. Radford to hold the rank of admiral while serving as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Radford's nomination for the chairman's post went to the Sen ate last week. ' His present rank of admiral which would be continued by Thursday's nomination has been held as commander of the Pacific fleet. UN Library Clerk Fired After Quiz UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.Jfl New U. N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold has fired his first American employe for refusing to answer questions posed by U. S. Senate loyalty investigators. U. N. officials disclosed Wednes day night that Mrs. Eda Glaser, (4.000-a-year library clerk, was dismissed on May 13 after Ham- arskjold reviewed a transcript oi her testimony before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee last Feb. 19. Formerly an employe of the Soviet Government Purchas ing Agency In New York, she had declined to answer a question about current Communist affilia tions. Discuss Water Legislation the future use of the surplus water here through some other area tak ing the surplus for its use. The Oregon Klamath Commis sion is to . be comprised of live members appointed by the gover nor. One member Is to be from Jackson County and four from Klamath, One of the Klamath members Is to represent the in terests of the Reservation. State Sen. Phil Hitchcock and Rep's. Henry Semon and Ed Geary told the Indiana yesterday that per sons on the Reservation should de cide whom they want as their coin mission representative. The governor has asked the leg islators to see that he is supplied with 'a list of candidates from which he can make the five com mission appointments. The Oregon Klamath Commis sion is to work with a like com mission already aetivated and working in live Northern Califor nia counties. Each commission Is Ml! yv j) JEAN CHIESLAK Sacred Heart Student In Race For Roundup Queen By WALLACE MYEBS : ' . A 17-year-old Sacred Heart Aca demy student, Alice Jean Chleslak, yesterday afternoon became the fdurth candidate for; queen of this vear's Klamath Basin Roundup Alice, a puckish blonde with Major Kaschko May Be Alive patsley Mrs. Marie Kaschko took new hope that her husband, MaJ, 'Harold Paschko, a prisoner oi war in Korea, is still alive and will eventually be returned to her. Reading In the newspaper that Cap. Zach W. Dean had been re leased from Camp 2, near Yalu River, and returned to the U. S., Mrs. Kaschko wrote him seeking news of her husband Maj. Harold Kaschko who, when last heard from September 4, 1952, was a prisoner In the same camp. A response to Mrs. Kaschko's letter arrived Tuesday. In it Capt. Dean said the major was taken to Camp 2, shortly before Christmas 1951 and remained there until Just beforn Thanksgiving 1952 when he was moved to another compound. However, Capt. Dean had been able to see nim irom time io time and. reported the major was in ex cellent health. He believed there was no need to worry about him as he Is in fairly decent quarters and receiving adequate food. Dean expressed regret that he could give her no more informa tion. . RIDOWAY TO SPEAK NEW YORK iiTI Oen. Matthew B. RIdgway. Thursday night will make his first public address since he- became commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza tion. The address will be broad cast over the National Broadcast ing Company network from 8:30 to 9 p.m. (est). to file future usage surveys con stituting claims to necessary sur plus water. The claims must then be approved by the California and Congress. At yesterday's Reservation con ference it was apparent from some remarks and questions during an open forum period that manv did not understand the importance of staking claims now for future wa ter needs. The three legislators explained that water-hungry Southern Cali fornia Is known to have explored several plans for obtaining the Klamath Canyon surplus. The point the legislators, were trying to get across is basically this: once Southern California, through an elaborate and costly maze of dams, tunnels and canals, channels the surplus Klamath waters south and begins using them, it is probable the government would not allow those waters to be shut of for use 'B81MY, MAY XU IKS Telephone 8111 No. Z541 CT( -.v.-' U : sparkling blue eyes, lives at the Academy during school days and spends weekends at the home oi her uncle, L. A. Van Cleve, 606 Congress. Her mother, Mrs. June Ronninger, resides in Seattle and her father. 'John Chleslak, In Ko dink, Alaska. The new queen candidate began her . Sacred Heart schooling when she entered the 4th grade here. She went to school in Seattle dur ing her 6th and 7th grade school years and has spent the rest of the school time at the Academy. Alice has been riding since she was a small youngster. She has her own horse, Trigger Bill. . Other than riding, she likes to collect minature dolls and has a large collection. Alice and the other queen can didates are to get together Satur day for the first time. They are to be at Municipal Airport to greet a Shasta County Rodeo contingent headed by Shasta Rodeo Queen Bonnie Wyman. a Redding beauty. The Shasta croup, expected to number about 30 persons traveling in 15 or 16 small planes, will be whooping things up for the Shasta Rodeo, June 6 and 7. The party Is expected to arrive here aonui 11:30 Saturday morning and plans to spend about two hours at the airport. Klamath Basin Rodeo of ficials and the Chamber of Com erce are planning some special hljinks for the visitors. Klamath's queen candidates are to be escorted by last year's ro deo queen, Marianna Hcllekson, and members of the Klamath Sad dle Club. Besides Alice Jean, these three girls have also entered this year's queen trials: Pat Rlley, Klamath Falls; Jane Bowie. Klamath Falls; and Nancy McPherson, Midland. Still awaltmg the first girl to sign up-at Herman's Men's Store is a special gift. None of last year's Roundup princesses have yet entered but several are expected to do so. Deadline for entering is noon, June 10. in this general area. Hence, the newly lormed Water Commissions which are to lay first claim to use of the surplus, thus beating other areas to the punch. The legislators asked the Res ervation people yesterday to name one or more commission candi dates as soon as possible. They said Gov. Patterson was anxious to make the commission appoint ments early next month, E. J. Dlehl, Reservation super intendent who presided at the meet ing, said he thought namimj of the Reservation commission candidate or candidates was a tribal matter and should be so handled. Sen. Hitchcock suggested more than one candidate be named in order to give the governor some leeway In making the appointment. He explained that the only quali fications are that the commission er be a Klamath County resident and docs not have to be an Indian. ii I - Collapse Of Mayer Party Cools Hopes WASHINGTON Wl President Eisenhower, Prime M I nl s t er Churchill and Premier Mayer dls- closed plans Thursday- to meet soon on Allied problems among them whether to have a high level conference with the Russians. . But within hours Mayer's gov ernment was ov e rt h ro wn in France. Collapse of the French Premier's government cast some . uncertainty over the prospect for the "Big Three" meeting but there was op timism that it would go through nevertheless. Dispatches from Paris said May er's successor presumably would attend. One official here, asking not to be quoted by name, said that ob viously further talk with Mayer s successor would bo necessary be fore anyone could say definitely that there would be a Big Three meeting. NO DATE SET No definite date and place had been announced here for the Ei- senhower-Churchlll-Maver session but Mayer had said it would be held in Bermuda June 17. Mayer was overthrown by the French National Assembly on do mestic issues involving tax propos als and subsidies for wine and sugar beet growers. The proposed session with Ei senhower and Churchill was not an issue, but on the contrary was used by Mayer in a dramatic ef fort to save his government. He disclosed plans for the ses sion w iu5 . -ct . QJ-. r. . a few hour before it voted on whether he should continue to head the French government. In a statement. President Eisen hower described the "primary purpose of the U. S.-B rl ti sh French meeting as "further to de velop common viewpoints with these friends on the many prob lems that must be solved cooper atively so that the cause of world peace may be advanced." In London, Churchill told Par liament: "My main hope is that we may take a definite step for. ward to a meeting of far graver import" with Russian Prime Min ister Georgi M. Malenkov. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Occasional snow showers through Thursday; partly sunny and warmer Friday with few show ers. High Friday Mi low Thurs day night 33. High yesterday ' Low last night - 2" preelp last 24 hours 02 Since Oct. 1 . 13-18 Normal for period 10-91 Same period last year 15.17 GROUNDED -TOKYO iP) Fourteen crewmen remained aboard the grounded British merchant ship, Lady Wolm- er Thursday in an effort to salvage the 1,885-ton vessel. The ship ran aground Wednesday near Cheju Island off the southern tip of Ko rea, while carrying cargo from Kobe, Japan, to Korea. CITY FIREMEN wtre kept busy for a while yesterday when Francis apartments, 628 Oak, and quelled this fire which ment , t:-i ft x.4 JACK GOSSETT. mainten ance man for LaPointe'i, made the grade for the nine-, o' clock special this morning. He livet at 2694 Hope. Oafis-Czech 'Deal' Denied -WASHINGTON Wl The State Department said Thursday that the declaration of U. S. willingness to negotiate the end of reprisals against Czechoslovakia if and when AP correspondent William Oatls ws released did not in any wav constitute a "deal" for Oatls' release ' ' State Department Press Officer Lincoln White also told newsmen' that Secretary of State Dulles had been very active in . behind-the-scenes moves to bring about the release of the newsman from pris on. Oatls was freed late last week after he had served two years of a ten year sentence on a Commu nist spy conviction. The White House announced Wednesday night an exchange of hower and Czech President Anton- in Zapotocky, beginning March 30. The American President in that exchange declared that if Zapo tockv would release Oatis the United States -would be prepared "to negotiate on the basis of full mutual undcrstan' 8 huses ei ingdl. mutual understanding" the issues arising from. Oatis' imprisonment that is economic sanctions taken against Czechoslovakia, including barriers to trade and travel. Hiccuping Bull Goes Under Knife To Take Out Hie COLUMBUS. O. Wl Pete, the hiccuping Hereford, goes . under the surgeon's knife Thursday. Ohio state veterinarians hope to cut out of Fete the burps that have plagued him since March 29. The operation will last perhaps an hour and a half," said Dr. John Helwlg, chairman of prevent ive medicine who will do tne sur gery. "A metal detector applied to Pete shows that he may have swallowed some foreign object which is affecting his stomach wall. This may have overstimu- lalcd Pete's phrenic nerve." Pete has some cause to be hap py, however, even before surgery. veterinarians nave succeeui-a in cutting down the number of hic cups from 10 to 3 a minute. EgK'w"-,''iv. Hundreds Flee Waters Of Calcasieu LAKE CHARLES, La. Wl Th wildly spreading Calcasieu River . swirled toward this Southwest Louisiana port city today with the biggest tiood threat in 40 years ana drove l.ibo families from their homes, , High water elsewhere In Louis- lana caused two drownings, one at Kinder, 30 miles' upstream from. Lake Charles, and another at Crow ley, 60 miles east or here. .. ' Volunteers with , bulldozena and trucks sweltered In warm coastal temperatures during tho night to push up small dirt dikes to halt slowly rising waters In residential areas in the eastern part of Wis city. - . j'- ', i-iretrucks pumped at the river invasion which threatened to evr : V. ti. Highway 90, linking the near- r by Lake Charles Air Force Base with' this . city of 50,000. ' - i Weatherman Paul Cook said the : Calcasieu River, normally a tame; little stream, would reach five feet ' over flood stage today; beyond that he would not predict.- Flood stage Is four feet. . ' - - v j At Old Town Bay, a river gauge ; spot four miles north of Lake Charles, high waters surged to 14.85 ieet, more than 10 feet above flood stage. , Tne sneriff's office said 1,000 families were driven ' from their nomes in the Enstdale subdivision here. The Air Force said another too families were evacuated from : trailer camps and that 50 soldier aamiiy trailers were moved to the ' air base.' . - -: A young hitchhiker identified ax Louis Paul Urwaleck of New York uiiy. was drowned while trying to . wade acruss a flooded highway near Kinder yesterday. . ..... me numsDerry, 14, disappeared in a flooded gulley at Crowley. ; . New flood threats were reported on the Red River In Northwestern Louisiana and on the Black River in East-Central Louisiana.- ' ' : f Miles of rain-swollen .-waters, draining southward from . Central Louisiana, drenched in a foot Of rain early this week, built up along uib suarpiy turning Calcasieu as far north as Kinder. -..i Farm houses along the way in many cases showed only their roof tops.. An air survey showed the river, had bulged out more than two miles . wide over rich farm- 1U11US. - uroiinararfy 'tv Seeks Plane GRANTS PASS Wl Ground search parties left here at dawn Thursday to check over, rugged mountain country where a missing plane was believed to be heading when It disappeared Monday.- Five residents of the Iliahe area northwest of here reported hear ing a low-flying plane heading north at 7:25 a. m ' . That was 25 minutes ader How ard T. Shafer, Grants Pass, the pilot; Harold Shafer, McMlnnville, his brother; Mrs. Terry Hanna and Miss Bonnie Wilson, Grants Pass, left Gold Beach to fly to Grants Pass. ' Aerial search, hampered by clouds, has produced no clues in the days since. Two search parties left in trucks for the area with Sgt.- Charles , Childers in charge of a National Guard group and Orvllle Bell in charge of the other. They will search north from Iliahe, across the ranch of Bobby Doerr, the former Boston Red Sox star, and up the slopes of Bald Knob Mountain.- QUAKE HONG' KONG Wl The Com munist Yunnan radio at Kunming said Wednesday night a severe earthquake May 15 destroyed 100 homes and left many casualties In Meinau, 125 . miles southeast of Kunming. they answered a call to the St. extensively damaged ona apart i ? i- in i l 3
