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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 2, 1954)
.17 1 nds Dm 4. Cents 11 Faies 3'- iy's lews 07 FRANK JENKINS -tary of Commerce Weeks a his turn at the crystal ball fay. He says In Washington: 'The outlook for 1954 Is for one the better years of economic Itory . . . although 1954 may not tut) 1953's record setting urge." He adds: "Our better days are yet to be. IT nation is more productive and ore powerful than ever before, tort jfun difficulties may arise, it they can be faced with realistic lUmism." More Important than anything Se, Td say. In these days when t are beginning to readjust from doaen years of war boom to methiog approaching a peace- ne economy, is the way our npie think and act. It toe people take it In stride, -ttto alone for a while with some- bat fewer luxuries, spending a tie teas than they earn, paying little more attention to work and lraje.less attention to play, ae ittr little more thought and ef rt -netting themselves into s H t where they can pay their .in i i demand, I'm sure we will me ilirough the readjustment jlte ulright. Aa Secretary Weeks says, our ition k more productive and tore powerful than ever, before, ur population is rising rapidly. ' are expected to have some 200 illlion people by 1975, which is ly 31 years away. More people &4 more customers. More cus- mean more factories to pro- die things we want and need. l factories producing more of e things we want and need will lean more - openings for service itabUahments grocery stores, othing stores, gasoline stations, taurants, repair shops of all da, and so on. '11 these things, when there are comers to support them, make p ferity, . h ttouble Is that for a dozen arS have been accustomed to t ecoudmy based upon constantly fclng prices.? We have fallen into haiit of buying with less dls retion "than had formerly been eoessery, knowing that almost nything we might buy would be orth more in a few days or a sir weeks or a few months than e paid tor it. It tent going to be easy to re djust ourselves to a period when rices will be more inclined to fall ait to rise. But if we will stop ti that as prices fall our dol Lra'wfU buy more we won't need be too greatly disturbed. This thought we should bear con lastly tat mind: The boom that has been with us Mr a doaen years has been a war ram. 1? we want more of the war oom, we can have it. All we need do to Bet the war boom back is i start another shooting war some iiere in the world. That would turn the trick. I don't think we want more war oom.-1 don't. I don't know any ody who does. I'm pretty sure at .dux people want to return to le ptoasanter, happier conditions t Boscot-if our enemies will let Returning to an economy of face even an uneasy, uncertain eace Isn't going to be utterly ainless. But it is going to be far etter for us than going on with ar booms. If each of us will play is part as an intelligent, reason lg cltisen of the greatest country or earth, I'm sure we can ac Dmpliah the readjustment without oyone. being seriously hurt. Petroleum Lcds List OTTAWA lm Petroleum be une Canada's No. 1 mineral dur ig 1963 and led total mineral reduction to a record annual alue eg $1,331,000,000. Preliminary estimates bv the ureau , of statistics valued the ow of the west's "black gold" at IB million dollars, a gain of 55 illllons from 143 millions In 1952. utput reached 81 million barrels mnpared with 61 million the prev rns year. Petroleum took over top place In reduction value from gold, which ftd been Canada's most valuable ilneral- for nearly 25 years. Pro nged strikes at some mines cut aid production to 4,061.000 ounces wn M71.000, and value to 140 dllion dollars from 153 millions. The total value of all mineral reduction was 3.4 per cent above e mi total of $1,235,000,000. call ing a steady 10-year Increase Dm M5,800,000 in 1944. DIES lm, Spain ifl Gen. Jose - astray, founder of the Span-i a v lgn legion and one of his war i leading military figures. d (turday of a heart attack It tare here. Be was 74. KLAMATH Earthquake Jars Three State Area KNOXVTLLE, Term, un A min or earth tremor jarred homes and phones in mountainous regions of three states Friday night. No in juries or property damage were reported. Extent and origin of the shock had not been determined early Sat urday. The disturbance apparently be gan at 9:25 p.m. (EST) and con tinued several minutes. It was felt from Middlesborg, Ky.,' about 50 miles north of here, to Asheville, N. C., about 100 miles to the south east. Newspapers, radio stations and police switchboards were jammed oy teiepnone cans. ATOM FEARED Many feared there had been an atomic explosion at atomic energy commission installations in near by Oak Ridge. But AEG officials said they felt no tremor and had no iLA as to its origin. One Asheville resident reported his grandfather's clock moved no ticeably. A Knoxville caller said the tremor "seemed to start at one side of the building and spread throughout the house." The University of North Carolina seismograph at Chapel Hill showed "slight evidence of a disturbance starting about 9:26 p.m.'' At New York, the Fordham University seis mograph recorded a faint "ground disturbance" three minutes later. Neither could pinpoint the location, however. Amateur radio operations main tained contact during the early morning hours but received no fur ther reports of tremors Ike Readies Messages AUGUSTA, Gfu- W 'President Elsenhower will send the new ses sion of Congress a series of sepa rate messages calling lor tax pro gram changes, amendments to the Taft-Hartley labor law and "improved" farm program. Announcing this Saturday Presi dential press secretary James O. Hagerty said there also will be separate health-welfare and hous ing messages going to Congress during "the first few weeks" after the lawmakers reconvene Wednes day. Those messages, Hagerty said, will outline the administration's de tailed programs in those fields and will amount to an elaboration of general principles the President plans to set forth in his State of the Union Message to Congress next Thursday. Eisenhower conferred with ad ministration advisers Friday on the messages. BIRTHDAY LONDON Iffi Clement Attlee, leader of the British Laborites since 1053, celebrates his 71st birth day Sunday. L ; W v) ffffy S -' ; '-,'''",N,' x - ' .jr MORRISON AND KNUDSEN foreman L. G. Bennett and Kelly Crab-tree, Monarch Texaco Service, 310 South Sixth, were looking for a number in the phone book thii morning when the nine o'clock photographer went by. FALLS, OBEGON, SATURDAY, New Zealand's Maoris Wecome Queen Elizabeth ROTORUA, New Zealand Wl New Zealand's 120,000 Maoris wel comed Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh Sat urday Dy "crowning" them para mount chieftains of the Maori peo ple. Eleven thousand Maoris from all over New Zealand had spent the night camping out on the Rotorua racecourse, which was transformed Into a Maori village for the occa sion. The Maoris' ancient traditions were observed in the welcoming ceremonies. Attended by New Zealand Prime Minister Sidney Holland, the queen and the duke were met on arrival by two successive Weros (chal- GOV. PATTERSON Patterson Hat In Ring SALEM (ffl r- Gov. Paul L. Pat terson announced. Saturday he will seek the Republican . nomination for the office in the May; primary-. Secretary of State Earl Newbry, also a Republican, made known his candidacy for governor several months ago and has been cam palgning actively. Patterson became governor a year ago. As president of the State Senate he moved into the of fice when Douglns McKay re signed to become Secretary of the Interior. . Patterson is an attorney from Hills boro. Newbry is an Ashland orchard i st and fruit packer. ICE SKATING There will be ice skating tonight at 7 o'clock at Moore Park, according to an announcement from the Recreation Department. JANUARY t, 195 lengers). Warriors brandished their spears within a few feet of the queen, made frightening grimaces and stamped their bare feet on the grass. This was the traditional chal lenge by Maoris when a visiting tribe approached their village. Its intention was to ascertain whether lite visiting party was triendly. Once accepted into the ground, the queen was met by a fierce ceremorial war dance performed by 140 Maori warriors. Then 7f0 Maori girls in flaxed native dress sang their welcoming song. The queen was escorted to the dais where a 7-year-old Maori girl, of the host Araw tribe, presented her with a bunch of flowers, . Senior chieftains brought gifts for the royal couple. At the conclusion of her reply to the welcome the queen brought a roar of apprecia tion from the assembled Maoris with the words "kia ora koutu. (farewell to you all). Indian Bill Due Soon WASHINGTON Wl Legislation to free Indians In six states from government supervision will be sent to Congress early next month, Department of the Interior spokesman said recently. The bins are in response to resolution passed by Congress last spring. They would affect all Indians of Texas, Oklahoma and New York, plus the Klamath and West Oregon irioes of Oregon, the Turtle Moun tain Reservation of North Dakota, and the Menomlnees of Wisconsin. Although the individual bills varv they aim at taking the Bureau of Indian Affairs out of the lives of the tribesmen within a maximum of five years. - In the 'interim would come the lengthy procedure of nrovidina- for .the distribution or transfer of jjrop- -uLy Alum uio Huvernment, to me Indians and the settlement of other problems arising out of the move. In some cases, state aotlon might De required to extend the state's civil and criminal Jurisdiction over present reservation areas. The bills are expected to be the first of a series aimed at the even tuai dissolution of the' Indian Bur eau. - Traffic Toll Low To Date By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Traffic deaths over the nation this New Year's holiday reached 148 Saturday, more than 100 fewer than were .killed on the highways in the corresponding period of the Christmas holiday. The count of persons killed in traffic mishaps began- at 6 p.m. Thursday and will continue until midnight Sunday. In addition to the traffic victims, 22 persons died in fires and 23 were killed In mis cellaneous accidents, a total of 103 deaths from violent causes. In the corresponding period Christmas weekend, a total of 317 lives were lost, including 255 in traffic, 36 In fires and 26 in other violent accidents. The final Christmas toll of ac cidental deaths was In, including 523 traffic deaths. German Tells Of Shootinos BERLIN l,B A young German journalist who spent almost seven years in Soviet captivity said Sat urday a drunken Russian guard wantonly sprayed the compound of a camp in East Prussia with bul lets and killed three inmates last Sept. 25. The incident occurred, he said, at the Tapiau Camp in East Prus sia, former German state now in corporated in the Soviet Union. v enier nemm. iiu. who camp. back to Berlin shortly before Christ mas wun otner repatriates, said he was in the camp at the time of the shooting. Arrested in East Berlin in February 1047, Hemm was sentenced to 10 years as a "saboteur." He said the only basis he could think of for the charge was that the Russians one time forced him to sign a pledge he would work lor them as an under cover agent, a promise he never kept. Hemm described life in Russian camps as one long round of "damp, black bread, salted cabbage," ill. ness and death. The shooting at Tapiau waa the only outbreak of such vicious violence he saw, but he added there were constant grapevine reports of similar oo currences elsewhere. He named the three slain Germane aa Hinue ber, Relneck and Fetereit, but knew notttot toon bout them. Telephone 8111 Climbers OK After Hood Storm Trap PORTLAND OR Three climb ers, caught by a blizzard atop Mt, Hood, managed to make their way back down the mountain laie Friday. Fred Hart, Corvallis; Art Maki, Ridgefield, Wash., and Layden Walsh, Olympia, apparently suf fered no damage in the storm that produced mile-a-mlnute winds and a foot of snow, on the 11.245-foot mountain. Mt. Hood is about miles east of Portland. They made the climb Thursday and spent the night atop the moun tain where the storm caught them. They signed a register at the top Friday to become the first on the peak in the new year. But their climb up the slopes was made in the old year. Other climbers are waiting for continued snow and strong winds to subside to try to make a dash up the mountain and become the first to make the climb in the new year. This is an annual con test. Visibility was only a few feet on the slopes above Timberline Lodge, which is about at the 6,000-foot level, and the three climbers had to use a compass to make their way back down the mountain to the lodge. Four others gave up Saturday in an attempt to climb the moun tain. They got up to the 10,000 foot level Friday night, but when they tried to make camp for the night, howling winds blew away two of their packs. They waited for daylight, then turned back down the slope, reaching Timberline Lodge at 10 a.m. The four were Andre Iseli, Port land, and three Hood River broth ers, Ron, Roger and Rich Get- chell. Storm Rips B. C. Coast VANCOUVER, B.C. Wl High winds and heavy snow left tanglea power and telephone lines on the British Columbia coast over the New Year's holiday. Telephone service was hard hit on Vancouver Island with 600 sun scribers cut off. Five inches of snow tangled Cowichan traffic New Year's Eve. The Strait of-Junn de Fuca re ported gales topping 70 miles an hour Friday night. The Queen Charlotte Islands had 60 mile an hour winds. The storm reached into the in terior, disrupting communications with eastern Canada as high winds ripped through the Rockies. Many telegraph circuits were down. weather was expected to im prove Saturday but another storm is due Sunday night from the Aleu tian Islands. At the weather ship 500 miles off Vancouver Island winds reached hurricane proportions of 80 miles an hour. ' New York Smoking Off ALBANY, N.Y. IPl New York state residents lit fewer cigarettes during the first eight months of 1053, thereby costing the state a half million dollars. The state tax department, in a year-end report, snid cigarette tax revenues for the eiK'nt montas end ed Nov. 30 totaled $41,025,112, a drop of 1.21 per cent from the comparable 1052 figure of $41,525, 112. Except for the last year of World War II when civilians had diffi culty obtaining cigarettes, it was the first drop in cigarette tax re ceipts since the levy went into ef fect on Jan. 1, 1030. The rate of decline Indicates res idents of the state are smoking 25,006,600 fewer packs annually than they did a year ago. The reason Tax officials have no definite opinions. However, speculation suggestes that the three principal factors may be the king-size cigarette, higher prices and health considerations. Moscow Radio Puts Western Music On LONDON irl Moscow Radio surprised its fans Saturday by playing a record of George Ger shwin's "Someone to Watch Over Me." It happened during an English language transmission to South east Asia. Monitors said the Soviet disc jockey gave no explanation for the sudden switch to modern music of the West. Most Moscow musical interludes are orchestral classics or are devoted to songs about tractor stations and other Com munist themes. . ::: ' -f -w ); INSAF ABADIR (left), exchange student from Cairo, Egypt, is houseguest of Joan Bussman (right), daughter of Mr, and Mrs. A. H. Bussman, 2039 Del Moro. Both are students at Oregon State College. Exchange Student From Egypt Houseguest In KF Ihsaf Abadir, graduate student in sociology at Oregon State Col lege, is an exchange student from Cairo, Egypt, here to further her studies and to gain practical know ledge of the functioning of human society, which is one reason she is at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Bussman as houseguest of their daughter Joan. The other Is, Hunting Death Toll Seven Seven persons died from acci dental gunshots during 1053 hunt ing seasons in Oregon. The State Game Commission also received reports of. 22 persons be ing-wovlnded' ill" -hunting; 'mishaps, The death victims were Mrs, Clarence Barnes, about 42, Milton- Freewater: Gilbert Gabrielson, 23, and Richard C. Roadman, 29, both of Portland; Wayne Gordon Olson, 14, Medford; Jack Eastham, 23, Astoria; Jimmle D. Hooker, 24, Al bany, Ore., and Edwin Cecil Mc Laren, 49, La Grande. In addition at least 14 hunters suffered fatal heart attacks in the woods and three persons were killed in traffic accidents while traveling to hunting sites. Jet Plane Sets New Record NEW YORK Wl Col. Willard W. Mllllkan flew an F-86 Sabre Jet coast to coast in about four hours and eight minutes Saturday, slic ing some seven minutes from seven-vear-old record. Mllllkan. 35-year-old World War II ace, flashed across Brooklyn's Flovd Bennett Field at a:m p.m. (EST). He left Los Angeles inter national airport at 10:10:5 a.m. (EST). (7:10:55 a.m. PST). The record, clocked by the Na tlonal Association of Aeronautics, is "air" time that is from 1,000 lect over the Los Angeles field to point 1.000 feet over Floyd Ben nett. Extortion Try Failure TURIN, Italy lB A threatening note ordered a Turin power com nnnv to toss a million lire ($1,600) from a speeding train, or its plant would be dvnamlted. So a bundle was tossed from the window of the Aosta Express Into a field marked with two empty gasoline cans, as the train streaked by at a mile a minute. A dark-clod man dashed out and snatched ud the bundle, the train screeched to a stop, 20 armed de tectives vaulted to the ground, fanned out, and caught the man as he tried to escape. Identifying himself as Bruno Batten, 48, a soap salesman, nc admitted the threatening note and was In Jail here Saturday for at tempted extortion. Battelll let the police In on secret he not only had no dyna mite but had never seen any. GREETINGS BERLIN tin Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov has cabled New Year's greetings to the East Oerman Communist government, expressing hope that 1954 will ad vance the cause of German unity. Molotov sent his wire to East German Foreign Minister Lothar Bolz. A year ago, his predecessor, Andrei Vishinsky, sent a similar message to the Soviet zone foreign minister, Oeorg Dertinger. Two weeks later Dertinger was arrested aa a "western spy." He has never been brougnt to trial. that she and Joan (a sophomore in home economics at OSC) are personal friends. As houseguest, she is acquiring first-hand knowledge of how an average American family lives. A completely distorted picture of our life prevails in her native city through mass consumption of exag gerated American movies. She is here to observe and return with factual knowledge to clarify the hazy picture. Her educational background In cludes The American School For Girls, junior college, and a B.A, from the American University an in uairo. The vivacious young woman who speaks Arabic. French and English fluently, qualified for a Fullbrlght Travel Grant which paid her round trip ticket from Cairo to Corvallis; a part tuition . scholarship from OSCr-and- ft- board and room schol arship from Panhellentc at the same college. She Is cosmopolitan in manner and lives a metropolitan life with in an apartment in the heart of Cairo. Her father, now dead, was a pharmacist. One sister iB a stu dent at t h e American University and the other two are still in what are known as government schools (Comparable to our public school system). In her perfect English with a slight French accent she sincerely expressed me hope tnat in follow ing her chosen career in sociology that her stay In this country will help her to enlighten her own. Weather FORECAST Snow flurries Sat urday night and Sunday. High Sun day 33; low Saturday night 23. High yesterday Low last night VISITS NAVY TOKYO Wl Francis Cardinal Spellman began a tour of U. S. navy installations in Japan Satur day. The Cardinal is to leave Japan Sunday. inKE inKEE 3Vuui9 are people who will aid in the March Of Dimes drive which opened today. They are ihown here looking over a tableful of material which will be diitributed within the next few dayi. Right to left are Steve Banta, Jerry Allen and Fred Olien, all of Troop Three. Entrenched Troops Held Outmanned By LARRY ALLEN HANOI, Indochina Wl French Union troops deeply entrenched on the heavily fortified plain of Dien Bien Fhu Saturday tensely awaited an attack by the Communist-led Vietminh which may see the rebels hurling far superior strength Into the battle. A highly qualified French mili tary scource said the Vletminh's "iron division" No. 316 had been reinforced. A division usually con tains 12,000 men. The strength of the defending force cannot be given for security reasons. Seldom, however, has the Viet minh ever attacked such a strong French Union position without out numbering tile defenders anywhere irom six to ten times. The Viet minh. when they have attacked in the 8-year Indochinese war, al most invariably has done so with force of vast numerical suner- iority, hoping thereby to overwhelm and overrun the French positions. uinruiKNT No matter how big the attack ing force may be at Dien Bien hu, French commanders were confident that they could give the vieuninn a severe beating. Asked about battle nrosnRntji there, Gen. Rene Cogny, French commander in Northern Indochina said "the attack could come at any moment.- lie aaaea: "We expect the fifrhtina- to be hard and long. We will win." Hundreds of American-supplied Dakota transport planes, since the plain was captured on Nov. 30, have poured American-made guna ana ammunition and French-Vietnamese troop reinforcements into Dien Bien Fhu. The plain Saturday la a brlsUinv fortress much like that which the French built uo at Na. San. 117 miles west of Hanoi in 1952 and wnicn repeatedly threw baok with heavy losses all Vietminh assaults. BIKUNUHULU Dien Bien Fhu la the last bla- French stronghold in the pro French Thai Peoples Country. When the Vietminh assault comes It may develop on all sides of the plain. The r e b e 1 a for days have Deen moving into encircling posi tions With heavy mortars, machine guns and Infantrymen equipped with rifles, pistols, grenades, Knives ana DamDOO poles wnicn are usea as spears. ' Minor patrol clashes were re4 ported Saturday around Dien Bien Fhu-...wh'Ue . French . Jightera -end bombers struck at the Vietminh. similar skirmishes were reported in northern and central Laos. In the Red River Delta the Vietminh. kept up attacks on isolated de fense posts and continued ambush on French-Vietnamese patrols. Light losses were reported on both siaes. Rudisill Quits Post TIJT.TTT.AICKT Vnnnoth CiirltatUl postmaster nere tor the oast four rective New Year's Day. The letter erai Bummemeia staiea ne was re signing for "reasons of health, per sonal reasons and oblicauons to which I am committed for the coming year." Rudisill has served since the death of his mother. Mrs. Wanda Stark. cessor has as yet been made. Mrs. Everett SDroat Is assistant postmaster. rine corns in wor a war u. was awarded a lease In the Tulelake area and will farm next year. among xne many Momarn rant
