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J . - - itLiuukiiit gJUiiif UJiiHiil rui Jl M n JU u IV ,e 1 y's lews FBANK JENKINS did you think of Ike's !ir- 1 be i r asked that question, I'll I for myself. I liked it. It the feeling that we're brogress toward peace and prosperity which, I think, we want more than any a to peace. He Bays: ', but surely, the free iTHEBS STRENGTH." Mt it this way: y being strong can we Fee. s: . while from behind the rtain, there are signs that Is in trouble and remind i.its structure is as brittle irface is hard." t he means that evidence is ting that communism is ta thing that it can't en world where men yearn Be. "ot 4 encouraging. j to 'taxes, he says they can 1 win be reduced as reductions Mtn. Oltures are maae. 9 e 't cut taxes in any other f ar. REMAIN 501jVt. jl in induction in expenditures, im.n the spending budget for rgt J year that will begin next V i be about 66.8 oinion aoi- i. 1 t, he adds, will be about ibiU D dollars LESS than the boat r'Truman budget for the i-mt fiscal year. JM'f reducing expenses. (a subject that Is close to our j-tt (national security) he dis tal M his State of the Union tor that more than 2200 em f i have now been separated I deral jobs under the Ei- r administration's new se ll cogram. ifc. t it must be agreed that the i s ,y to get rid of disloyal arai employees Is to fire them, h thousand disloyal -employees enr national government could lot of harm. nth , recession talk filling the f ha sketched plans to combat I business recession or depres- t but declares that the nation's ooniT is basically sound and 8 'his administration is deter led to keep it growing, hat" Isv reassuring. Sound gov men Policies can help immeas- biy the process or readjusting I' eiy from a, dozen years ' us war boom, , v,.: A. - 'M leave ALL this business vtment to the President a dministration. If each of wit diust his OWN affairs ely '; - the changing conditions our national economy, me Bess of national readjustment proceed much more soundly Vs not leave it all to Papa. 00 OUR share. i message, he sets forth oint on farm prices. es out for flexible sup ilch he says will stimulate tt of needed supplies and one time will stimulate PTION of commodities Doodtng the market. ppatches' add by way of in: "This, ot course, Ivering prices on overpro- Ms and political trouble Od on this point." fc putting it mildly. There tENTY of political trouble loint. Nobody wants his luced. But the only sound Ispose of surpluses is to E them. Bad trouble bllow indefinite piling up Jturai surpluses. Raising the President's ;we must remember that Wing us what is GOING DONE. He is telling us bulks SHOULD be done. . our support, he will be fry his program through. lour support, he can trough. tie meat of the situation. ) 1 '00 Buries I Hamlets tUPi. Europe shivered from winter ice and day. Northern Italians, nt's hardest hit, strug- g out from under the iket before new storms f 8mflll Villa n Iv. hn ln Ips were Isolated after lon.fc Bnowstorm in 15 years. Mo ifts closed many miles p- ys. a textile mill co pa Wednesday nie-ht. nnHpr Of OlOW near Pnnbnnna hot pw i mpioyes had left for the T flood damage in the Po Mta could not be esti reat areas of Tirh farm. e wrecked and fishermen 'large losses. Six smn were Inundated. Everyone danger had been evac h- KLAMATH BASIN SHIPMENTS i Sunt Dty Last Tor rears 83 cars cars S625 cars k 1632-5 The News In Brief: TALKS SLATED WASHINGTON OB The Stale Department said Thursday the United States and Russia will start preliminary talks on President El senhower's atomic pool proposal presumably In the course of the next few days." me two countries agreed Wed. nesday to begin conversations aimed at setting a time, place and oseiiaa ior iuii scaled negotiations on the project outlined by Eisen hower in his Dec. 8 address to the umiea nations. Soviet Ambassador nenro-i m Zarubin will represent Russia and Secretary of State Dulles will speak for the United states at th preliminary talks here. row crisis SEOUL m The Rnmrminicte Thursday night made formal de- manas mat prisoners be detained beyond the Jan. 22 desriiin. in. slsted upon by the Allies and said a majority Of the Rpnatrintinn Commission sided with them. The Communists made public a hitherto secret memorandum from India's chairman of the Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission which quoted him as saying the truce terms nowhere specify 'about commission custody com ing to an end" Jan. 22. This is the crucial point of a dis pute over what to do with 22,000 Chinese and North Korean priso ners refusing to return to com munism. The Red demands could force a crisis Jan. 23, the day the U.N. command insists that all re maining prisoners must be freed. SPEECH REACTION WASHINGTON W Congression al Democrats generally greeted President Eisenhower's State of the Union Message Thursday with reserve. Republican reaction ranged all the way from full en dorsement to outright opposition on speciiic points. The sprinkling of direct GOP disagreement applied to such mat ters as the proposed cancellation of scheduled cuts in corporation income and excise taxes, and the President's call for higher postal rates. And Republican applause for El senhower's backln of flexible farm price supports was noticeably scarce in the House Agriculture liommmee. First reaction to his Dlan for sharing some atomic Information with Allies was favorable. On the broad scope of the mes sage. Ren. Halleck, of Indiana, the House Republican leader,, said it outlined a program geared to me hopes and-aspirations of the Amer ican people for a prosperity based on peace Instead of war." Rep. Rayburn of Texas, the House Democratic leader, pretty well summed up for the minority. He said the message made "few, if any, specific recommendations major subjects" and added: We still will have to wait to seewhat President Eisenhower's program is." Rep. McCormack (Mass), assist ant Democratic leader in the House, said: 'It's not what Is proposed but what is accomplished that is im portant. One thing is certain so far as accomplishments are con cerned, the Democratic Party is the party of responsibility. Pres ident Eisenhower and the people cannot look toward the Republican Party because it is badly split." Price Five Cents 20 Paces KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1954 Telephone 8111 No. 2733 Eisenhower Cuts, (Farm Pledges Tan Aid; Peace Coast Highway Buried In Mud French Brace For Attack SAIGON, Indochina Iff) The French braced themselves Thurs day to meet an expected attack on Laos from the Vietminh divi sion which drove across Indochina to the Mekong River and the Thai land border just before Christmas. The French said they believed an assault in the Seno area, just south of the rebels' invasion route, was Imminent. After almost two weeks of quiet in the area, numerous patrol clashes have been reported in the past 46 hours around Seno. The French claimed they had killed many troops of the Communist-led Vietminh in one ambush. Just north of the Laotian border, in northwest Indochina, French fighters and bombers kept up their round-the-clock attacks on roads and rebel supply lines northeast of Dien Bien Phu. Dairy Farmers. Get Broad Hint WORCESTER, Mass. OR Joseph T. Brown. Plymouth County agri cultural agent, gave dairy farmers a hint last night on how they could help reduce milk surpluses. Addressing the 37th annual union agricultural meeting, he said: "The dairy farmers could help by drinking a little more milk. I Couldn't help noticing that there was no milk served at me Pure bred Dairy Assn. luncheon today." Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls' and vicinity: Clearing and colder Thursday night with low of 25; high Friday 40. Hirn yesterday . . 40 Low last night - , ft Precip last 24 hours 0 Since Oct. 1 ....6.31 Normal for period 5.17 8ame period last year . 5.87 By MARVIN L. ARROW SMITH And WILLIAM T. PEACOCK WASHINGTON tfl President Eisenhower called for voting rights for 18-year-olds and held out hope of future tax cuts in laying before Congress Thursday a mas sive legislative program embracing (A condensation of President Eisenhower's message will be found on page two.) revision of farm, labor, social se curity, housing and tax laws. Announcing he intends a new. five-billion-dollar cut in govern ment costs, the President said a more economical defense program will be geared to the use of atomic weapons "if- they are needed to preserve our freedom." He asked that Congress grant authority to "share with our Allies certain tactical knowledge" of tiiese weapons that is, how to use them. - And to deal with Communists at home, Eisenhower proposed that citizenship be stripped from any one convicted in the future of con spiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the government. This is the charge on which top Communist leaders have been con victed. The President said his new five-billion-dollar cut in government costs which he proposes with a 66-billion budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1 would put run ning expenses 12 billion a year under what President Truman' last budget proposed. As costs are cut still further, Eisenhower said, new cuts in tax es "can and will be made." But he asked that Congress act to stop some reductions already scheduled for April 1 in corporation income taxes and -in federal excise, or sales, taxes on such things as gas oline, automobiles, tobacco and liquor. . . - DEBT LIMIT The President asked too that.the legislators go ahead and raise the federal debt ceiling now pegged at 275 billion dollars so that the government can borrow more mon ey if need be to finance its pro grams. This renewed a request he made to the last session. As for the domestic economy, which he called one of the wonders of the world, Eisenhower pledged that his administration will be "al ways ready. . .to take well-timed and visorous action to sustain n. More on this subject is lo oe sei out in his economic report on Jan, 28. Eisenhower addressed a joint session of the Senate and House in the House Chamber. His address was broadcast by all major radio and TV networks. Eisenhower delivered his address In a firm, strong voice, reading from a text in a large loose-leaf notebook. It took hin 54 minutes. Altogether. Eisenhower was In- terrupted 45 times by applause. There was a standing ovation as he concluded. Eisenhower shook hands with those nearby, turned and left the chamber. ' The galleries admission was by special card only were packed long in advance Seven thousand words in length, It was one of the longest State of the Union messages any President has delivered. Yet Eisenhower only sketched broadly his plans in the farm, labor, social security, health, hous ing and tax fields. He said he would send the lawmakers sepa rate messages dealing with these in detail. The first two on farm and on labor are to go to the cap ital on Monday. The others will follow later. He did disclose that his farm program contemplates a gradual switch from rigid price supports to a more flexible scheme. And he reiterated that he wants social security extended to 10 million more persons. However, the initial comment and reaction mingled criticism and praise. By and large, as was to be expected, Republicans were more ready to praise than Democrats. Speaker Martin predicted that a "substantial part" of the Eisen hower program would be enacted. But Martin said he expects con troversy over the President's pro posals to keep some taxes at high levels. HODGEPODGE On the other hand. Rep. Price (D-Ill) called the President's pro posals a hodge-podge of typical GOP promises." He declared it would be "purely coincidental" If Congress enacted any of them, Rep. Vinson (D-Ga) struck out at the "new look" military pro gram. He asserted that the admin istration seemed to be "embarking on an economy program at the expense of a well-rounded defense program." Eisenhower was interrupted by frequent bursts of applause. One of the biggest hands of all and even a few applauding yells went to his proposal to strip cit izenship from convicted comma nist conspirators. Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) told re- President Eisenhower porters of this:, "The idea certainly sounds good,"!. .- , At one Dointl the President was strongly -enoouraglng about world developments. He ..-said:.'. "Slowly but surely, the free world gathers strength. Meanwhile from behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as Its sur face is hard.' In his address to an election year Congress almost evenly di vided politically, the President also: Predicted a Federal spending budget of about $66,600,000,000 for the fiscal year starting July 1 about 12 billion dollars less than the original Truman administra tion budget for the current year. Called for legislation to strip TJ. S. citizenship from Communists convicted of conspiring against the government in the future. Disclosed tnat more than 2,200 employes now have been separat ed from Federal jobs under the Elsenhower administration's new security program. The previous to tal, announced last ' Oct. 23,. was 1,456. Sketched plans to combat any business recession or depression, but again declared the nation's economy is basically sound, and said his administration is deter mined "to keep it growing." .: - -Recommended a Constitutional amendment to give American, youths the right to vote at 18 years of age instead of 21. Declared foreign military aid must be continued, -but that eco nomic aid can be cut except in Korea "and a few other critical places." SUPPORT PLAN Confirmed that the 'special farm message he will send to Con gress Monday will call for a new government price suppori program 'with enoueh flexibility to at tract the production of needed sup plies of essentia commodities ana to stimulate the consumption of those commodities that are flood ing American markets." His -support of a flexible price support pro gram was certain to divide farm ers as well as Congress members. Renewed his appeal for an in crease in the federal debt celling, now 275 billion dollars. The House aooroved his request for a 15-bll- lion-dollar hike last August, but the Senate Finance Committee reject ed it. U r a e d amendment of tne Atomic Energy Act to permit shar ing with "our allies certain knowl edge of the tactical use ot our nu clear weapons." Announced that during tne next fiscal year the U.S. will spend nearly a billion dollars more for continental defense than during the current year. Called again for expansion of the social security program to cov er 10 million more Americans, and for a substantial increase In bene fits. Urged extension of unemploy ment compensation to 62 million workers not now covered. Described the controversial TafUHartley Labor Law as "basi cally sound" but in need of im provements he will recommend In a special message Monday. Advocated a system of "lim ited government reinsurance serv ice" to permit private and -non- nrofit- hosnital- and medical insur ance companies nuw uperauug 10 olfer "broader protection to more of the many families which want and should have it." He promised to elaborate in a special message Jan. 18. Appealed ' again for Congres sional approval of the St. Law rence Seaway as vital to national security. Urged Senate passage of the House-approved bill to grant state hood to Hawaii. Elsenhower went before the leg islators Just 24 hours after opening of the second session of the 83rd Congress. His message, carried to the na tion by television and radio, came at the start of a political year which will be climaxed by the November-Congressional elections, SLIGHT EDGE Republicans now hold only a slight margin of control at the- Capitol and the Democrats are hope ful they can slip into the sad dle. Meanwhile, the administration must win some degree of support from the Democrats for any suc cess In putting through the program uisennower said has one objective "The building of a stronger America." He told 'the legislators he be lieves "both of our great parties" can back it. As for tax cuts in addition to the income tax reductions and ex piration of the excess profits levy which were effective Jan. 1, the President, said: Future reductions in taxes can and will be made." But he conditioned reductions on the spending cuts he predicted. At another, point he declared: "Despite the substantial loss of revenue in the coming fiscal year, resulting from (Jan. 1) tax re duction now in effect and tax ad justments which I shall propose, our reduced spending win move the new budget closer to a balance." The President said the tax re vision program will be set forth in detail in his Jan. 21 budget mes sage. Informed sources have pre dicted cuts totaling about Hi bil lion dollars annually. Calling today for a thorough re vision of thes entire tax structure, Elsenhower declared: 'We should now remove the more glaring tax Inequities, par ticularly on small taxpayers; re duce restraints on the -growth of small business: and make other Qhanges that will encourage initia tive, enterprise ana production. On the other side of the picture, however, the President said again that corporation Income taxes should be kept at the. current rate of 52 per cent for another year instead of being allowed to drop to 47, and that excise taxes on such items as liquor, tobacco, gas oline and automobiles also sched uled for an April 1 cut, should be maintained at prevailing rates. On the foreign policy and nation al defense fronts, where Elsenhow er already has made an open bid for cooperation from the Demo crats, he said America has gained the initiative during the last year in the struggle against commu nismand means to keep It. "American freedom," he de clared, "is threatened so long as the worlq Communist conspiracy exists in its present scope, power and hostility." ATOM POOL Referring to his Dec. 8 United Nations speech calling on Russia to Join with tne u. s. and otner atomic powers in creation of an international atomic pool for peaceful use. the President said: 'A truly constructive Soviet re action will make possible a new start toward an era of peace, and away from the fatal road toward atomic war." In his prepared text, Elsenhower took no note of Moscow's announce ment last night of willingness to join the United States In discus sion of the President's proposal in Washington. Today's message was in three main sections dealing vHth protec tion of "the freedom of our peo ple," maintenance of a strong, growing economy, and "the human problems of the individual citizen." In the first section the President reviewed the world situation and found it encouraging. He said the United States is prepared to meet any renewal of armed aggression in Korea, that American bases in Okinawa will be maintained indef initely, and that he will ask con gress to authorize "continued mili tary assistance" to Indochina. "We also shall continue military and economic aid to the Nationalist government of China," he said. The President again stressed the desirability of bringing the Euro pean Defense Army into being. Eisenhower's demand that con victed conspirators against the government forfeit their U.S. citi zenship was aimed squarely at the Communists. "The subversive character of the Communist party in the United States has been clearly demon strated in many ways, including court proceedings." he said- . . The President, said Atty., Gen. Brownell soon Will go before Con gressional committees to recom mend "needed additional weapons with which to combat subversion ASTORIA (A Huge earth slides, brought on by heavy rains, ruined a residential area in Astoria and left the Coast Highway blocked about 80 miles south of here Thursday. A residential hillside slipped sev eral feet in Astoria, forcing 16 fam ilies to abandon their homes. Ten others prepared to follow suit as the slow - moving slide twisted house foundations, cracked streets beyond use, shoved sewer and water pipes into the air, and broke a number of pipes. Several houses appeared about ready to tumble down. At one house, a concrete garage, burrowed into the hillside, was twisted like a smashed shoebox. The slide Is similar to one of 1949. when 18 families were evac uated from another residential hillside. In that section of the message dealing with the administration's determination to sustain prosper ity, Eisenhower in what ap peared to be an oblique allusion to increased unemployment de clared: At this moment, we are in a transition, from a wartime to a peacetime economy. I am confi dent that we can complete wis transition without serious lnterup tion in our economic growth. But we shall not leave this vi tal matter to chance. Economic preparedness is fully as important to the nation as military prepar edness." POSTAL BOOST Elsenhower renewed his 'call for postal rate increases, and he said the federal government is continu ing Its "central role" in the high way construction program. In the section oi nis speecn on the problems of the individual citi zen, Elsenhower mentioned plans for Taft-Hartlej law changes, ex panded unemployment compensa tion and social security coverage, broadening df hospital and medical insurance programs, federal aid to states which can't provide enough school buildings, and a housing program designed to provide. among other things, insurance on long-term mortgage loans with a small down payment for low in come families. The 83rd Congress convened yes terday for its second session. A brief session was planned Im mediately after members return from the Joint session in the House chamber. It will be the first chance for senators to introduce new measures. The Senate will then re cess until Monday. No business was scheduled in the House. Many Republican legislators feci that for the administration, now in office nearly 12 months, this must be a year of decision a year of action on many problems wh ch hae been under study since Elsen- nower took over last Jan. 20, Democrats, close now and hon ing to win actual control of Con gress In the fall elections, know on tie other hand that the Republi cans must have Borne degree of cooperation from them to get fnr on the Elsenhower program. Rep Rayburn of Texas, the Dem ocratic House leader, said last night Elsenhower win continue to get bi partisan backing for worthy propos als even if the Democrats' backs "arc getting a little sore" under GOP attack on the Issue of commu nism. Rayburn was replying, at the Women's National Press Club Con gressional dinner, to GOP leader Halleck of Indiana. Halleck had urged Democrats to support what he said would be a constructive pro gram by Elsenhower. The President already has bid for Democratic help on the foreign policy and national defense aspects of his program. He dealt with those matters at a conference with oppo- (Contlnued en pare 4) Crews Rush Mine Rescue ButHopeDim RAVENSDALE, Wash, (ffl A coal mine rescue crew worked desperately throughout the night and Thursday morning in a vain attempt to reach a miner who was trapped deep underground by a cave-in near here in King County. A second victim of the accident, 400 to 600 feet underground, was freed Wednesday after being trapped for nearly four hours. mere was faint nope for finding Harry English. 39. alive in the chute where he vanished under coal, rock and broken timbers. His father-in-law, Harold Lloyd Sr., commented grimly after emerging from 17 desperate hours underground: "The only thing we can do Is to hope to God that we have not run out of miracles." PINNED DOWN A happier fate was experienced by Roy Coutts. 25. workine com panion of English when the slide occurred at 10:40 a.m. Wednesday. Fellow workers found him two hours later, pinned down by a rock which rested on his left lea and right arm. His head was covered with coal but he could breathe. Painstakingly .removing the . tuts, bers - and debris, the workmen freed Coutts but could find no trace of English. Working in pairs, the rescue crews started digging fe verishly for English despite the ai- most complete absence of hone he would be found alive. Coutts was reported in good con dition at a hospital in Enumclaw. Coutts later told of the fearsome experience, during which he kept shouting for help but never really convinced it would come. CAVE-IN "My partner (English) and I were Just getting ready to drill," he -related. "We were standing on timbers over a 4 by 4 foot opening to the chute. There must have been a cave-in below us. All of a sudden the chute Just went. "I grabbed at the timber and went down. Harry came after me. I could still see him grabbing for timber above as I fell. When I stopped falling I was pretty nearly free. My right foot was caught but I could free It and sit in the open. The way the timbers were Jammed there, there was an opening. "Then there was another cave in and my left leg and right arm were buried under rock. I couldn't move. My head was covered with coal but I could breathe. "I yelled and yelled at Harry but he never answered." The hill has had lesser slides, dating back to 1908. The slide that, blocked the Coast Highway was near Brighton, where 200-foot-long slide tumoiea onto the highway to a depth of 50 feet. Adjacent southern Pacuic railroad tracks also were covered. Motor traffic was getting through via a detour. ' More than eight Inches of rain at Astoria in the new year touched -off the slide. Experts explained at the 1949 slide that a slick layer of earth underlies a deep top layer on the hills there, and that any prolonged rain is liable to start the upper layer moving. Rain halted Wednesday evening it was back to a drizzle Thurs day morning but in the four hours before midnight one place on the hill moved 7 feet. A two-block Brea of the hillside was affected. All buildings were frame structures, two of them large ones converted to apart ments. Among those evacuated were eight families of men stationed at the Tongue Point Naval Station. The Navy helped them move. The Red Cross said help would be given to the evacuees, some of whom went to hotels, others to friends' homes. . Fire Chief Wayne Osterby also abandoned his home after a night in which the walls kept ' twisting farther out of line and the plaster cracked. - Streets in the area were a Jagged mess as cracks opened and some sections lifted higher than others. Cracked pipes gushed water Into uie streets and tne Fire Depart ment brought up pumpers to carry away the water. - The heavy rains caused further i trouble for the town ot Nehalem. ' where the maul street was flooded at high tide Wednesday for the sec ond consecutive day. The rain swollen Nehalem -River flooded low-lying farmland and backed into Nehalem Itself when It met the high tide. About 700 acres of diked tidelands off Nehalem Bay also were flooded. High water olosed a sawmill and its logging operation near Mobler. (A re-broadcast of Eisenhower's speech will be carried by KFLW ot 7 o'clock tonight.) Six Die In Plane Crash PANAMA, Panama Six men were killed and eight injured in the flaming crash of a U.S. Navy pnotogrnphic plane in a Jungle area near the Trans-Isthmian Highway Inst ntaht. The four- engine plane was bringing a photo reconnaissance pin toon to the Ca nal Zone area from Miramar, Calif. Capt. William A. Thorn, com manding officer at the COco Solo Naval Base, announced the casual ties. Thorn said It appeared the plane had undershot by 2'2 miles Its destination Prance Air Force Base near Colon, on the Carib bean side of the Isthmus. He said Levi Anderson and Janies Hyatt, two farmers living near the crash area, did ' heroic service" in dranging several of the injured men to safety from the flaming wreckage. The survivors were taken to Coco Solo Naval Hospitnl with severe burns. Names of the casualties were withheld pending notification of next of kin. Snow Falls In Northeast : ' By THK ASSOCIATED PRESS - More snow .tfeU'i todays in -tfaa northeastern section of the coun try and rain continued along the Pacific Coast. -; . But dry and comparatively mild winter weather prevailed in most other sections of the country. The snow belt extended from the Upper Great Lakes southeastward into West Virginia, northeastward through the AUeghenies into New York and New England.' Falls measured 3 inches or more , over most of the area. The snow and a two-day cold wave resulted in at least five deaths In Pennsylvania. Three persons died of heart at tacks while shoveling snow while two others were killed when autos skidded on slippery highways. The' rain in the Far West ex tended from Northern California into Canada. Fair to partly cloudy skies were reported in otner sec tions of the nation. Temperatures were below freez ing from New England southwest ward into the Middle Mississippi Valley and northwestward over the Central and Northern plains and the Northern Rockies. Readings were zero and below In sections of North Dakota and in the 40s and 50s In other areas. Ex-Marine Still Has The Old Go KANSAS CITY Ifl-Pred DeHnss, former Marine, reported his car stolen last night while he was bowling. Later, the - foot 4 - Inch. 230- pound DeHass walked out of the bowling place ana saw nis car moving in a slow line of traffic. He dashed Into Ihe street, grabbed the driver's collar and or dered him to pull to the curb. The driver meekly complied. Police held Ihe man, James Price, 30, for Investigation. BETTY METLER wsi on her way to work downtown thi morning when the cameraman caught her. That sleepy look comet from looking at TV 1st last night. .
