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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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-
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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
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