Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, January 11, 1954, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textmm GSUNTY LIBRARY ay's lews U,K JENKINS sssa7i"'hen,Bke5tW0 r"J i haU billion doUars KS5 SaU) ol our present !2mo flexible price aup- -,se of recommendation 5& l ,reeze "T iJ half of our accumu thus relieving the Z item from current " V products thus re "J the regular markets '5J5l to8 school luneb L welfare organizations !. umably. GIVING riiuniry PPle. at home Id) or just storing them r, future emergency. Imso of recommendation gte more far-reaching. Xlble support program, ''. price guarantees 7HIOH in time of short- encourage more produc- j LOW in 'lmes of Dlenty to encourage con- u to say, freezing from the i HALF of our present lied surpluses would be a dTvlce to help in stabil RESENT prices, and ft shift Srf high supports to flex J. would be a onger- tfort to bring supply and j lor farm products more Uto balance over the long L ire two sound ways to dis Jlte foods we grow on our "om is to eat them our- i The ower js w ........ J Is of course. ANOTHER We can go on piling up sur nnder fixed high supports in we can give them away jttoy them. ft about the long and the was an Interesting reaction e commodity markets this g to the President's farm His. I opened active, with prices cents to fl over last week, were steady to higher and ale meats were steady to '. Grain prices sagged, with sh dealing on the Chicago of trade. was cause and effect In iituation. When grain prices hicb In relation to prices estock, nobody can aiiora to wain to animals. Grain (es- ilv com and wheat) is in overproduction and would ore sutler most in the way Ice from a 'system of llexlble rte. If (train prices go flown, s can afford to pay more for animal. I Is another way of saying kretty hard to get away from r and demand as a control mtoence on the markets. I I -, k-.- -a, (if) A j fit .i v?; Eisenhower Outlines Farm Support Proposals ihing Rules t Changes ITLAND W The State Game ussion Saturday proposed to the entire state to trout fish- lit May 1. only exception in the tenta- epilations drawn up by the ilssion after a public hearing ! Is for the Cascade Moun kes. They would be opened S. The closing date for the state would be Oct. 10. commission also proposed to 11 lone l coastal waters from ' 1 to April 30, a move in 1 to cut down on catches of teelhead. cutthroats and im- salmon. "sh were proposed on re- tor a number of streams Ues. Included was a change I limit at Diamond Lnlte. Ml be closed Sept. T, when list) will be netted for re I prior to poisoning of the eliminate scrap fish. "ill be allowed In the sea ' "ten jo fish a day and 6C days, resardless of size. commission will make regu- - "uai on jan. 22. By OVID A. MARTIN WASHINGTON Wl President Eisenhower recommended Monday mat z,ow,uuu,uuu oi present farm surpluses be "froien" from reg ular markets and that the govern ment move .into a flexible farm pries support program. In a special message to Con gress, the President said the agri cultural problem is as "serious ana complex" as any confronting the legislators. . . "Immediate action is needed," he told them, 'to arrest the urowine threat to our present agricultural program and to prevent the sub sequent economic distress that coum follow in our farming areas." Elsenhower also sent .the law makers a separate message ask ing revision of the Taft-Hartley labor law. A major point of his request on this was for a provt sum requiring a vote of workers oemre a strike could be called. He also called for a "thorounh study" of union welfare and pen sion funds "with a view of enact ing such legislation as will protect ana conserve these funds for the millions of working men and wom en wno vare the beneficiaries." These two programs farm audi a b or affect the two largest groups of voters In the nation. As be did in bis State of the Un ion message last week, the Pres ident said a flexible price support plan must be the back bone of now farm programs. Eisenhower also said special emphasis in the future must bo placed on efforts to develop for eign markets for agriculture's greatly expanded productive capa city. Under his proposal to "freeze" certain surpluses, the excess sup ply of these commodities such as wheat and corn would be Isolated from the market so as not to have a depressing effect on prices. Under the flexible program, gov ernment price guarantees would be high In time of shortages to encour age production, and low in times of surpluses to encourage consum ption and discourage over production. The President said the present war-born mandatory supports should be permitted to expire at the end of this crop year. "A farm program" he said, "first of all should assist agriculture to earn Its proportionate share of the national income. It must likewise aim at stability in farm Income. There should therefore be no wide year to year fluctuation in the level of price support." He said too that "a farm pro gram must fairly represent the int erests of both producers and consumers." The government supports prices of farm products by stepping into the market and buying whenever the price drops to the support lev el, or by making loans to farmers at the suoport level, The farmer's crop is security for the loan. If prices go down, he can elect not to pay the loan, leaving the crop to the government. If prices go up, he can pay off the loan, take back his crop and sell it. Under the President's program, price props on major crops would vary between 75 and 90 per cent of erest of farmers and In the Inter est of the economy of the nation as a whole. As to specific crops, the program outlined Monday offered little that was new, except in the case of wool. For this commodity, the President suggested the use oi production payments as a method of assuring producers fair income. Such payments were a feature of the controversial farm program ad vanced in 1848 by President Tru man's then secretary of agricul ture Charles F. Brannan, but nev er accepted by .Congress. The idea is that prices of do mestically produced wool would be permitted to seek these level in the market, competing with other fibers and with imported wool. The government would make di rect payments from the Treasury to domestic producers in order that these payments, when added to the average market price for the season, would raise the aver- to 90 per parity. Parity is a standard for measuring farm prices, declared by age return per pound law to be fair to. farmers in rela- cent of parity. tion to prices they pay. For such commodities as meat The President said adjustment to animals, dairy products, poultry a new farm program must be ac- and eggs, tobacco, soy beans, cot- complished gradually in the int- tonseed, flax, - fruits and vege tables, and sugar, the President proposed no changes from present programs. The flexible price support plan, under which price guarantees would move up or down with changes in supplies, would be ap plied to wheat, cotton, rice, corn, and peanuts. In urging flexible supports for cotton and wheat, the President said the major problem is to de velop a program which will help farmers gain foreign buyers. He said present high rigid supports stimulate competition by foreign producers and reduce U.S. exports. Eisenhower recommended that a "modernized" formula for deter mining parity prices, as written into the 1848-48 farm act, be al lowed to go into effect Jan. 1, 1956, for commodities not now un der it. Those commodities are wheat, corn, cotton and peanuts. The "modern" parity price for these products would be lower than prices determined by tne old lor. mula. The President suggested, be done in steps of five percentage points of the old parity per year until the change has been accomplished. Elsenhower said that removal of the threat of price depression due to -huge surpluses which now total nearly 5 billion doUars is an essential part of his program. "Destruction of surplus commod ities cannot be countenanced un der any circumstances," he said. "They can be Insulated from the commercial markets and used In constructive ways. "Such uses will include school lunch programs, disaster relief, aid to the people of other countries, and stock-piled reserves at home for use in war or national emer gency." The President said agriculture will face a problem of what to do with land diverted from crops be cause of production control pro-, grams. He suggested that subsidy pay ments made to farmers for carry ing out soil and water conservation however, that the shift from the practices should be used to help old to the new parity be carried keep such diverted land from go out gradually. He said this should ing into other crops. JAMES NOVAK, of 1919 Manzanita and a student at Sacred Heart, was in the cameraman's lens this morning. French Pour Power Into Laos Battle SENO, Indochina im French parachutists and North African troops kept up a "deadly game ol inue ana seek" Monday with Com munist-led Vletminh guerillas in the jungle northeast of this French held Laotian fortress. The French forces claimed more than 1,000 casualties among their rebel enemy and asserted they had wiped out any serious Vletminh menace in central Laos. They are f ighting one of the most important battles of the seven- year war against Ho Chi Minn's rebels. It is a battle without regular tront, on no fixed position, in quadrangle 25 miles square here In central Laos. ATTACK BROKEN ' ' The French commander. Gen. Andre Franchi, declared the Vlet minh no longer are oapable of mounting an attack on-Sewj'Unlesr they- receive substantial reinforce ments from other fronts. The parachutists and North Afri cans pressed the air attack on rebel units trying to reach the shelter of a plateau to the north which might prove inaccessible to the French. Franchi's artillery and the Air Force pounded their columns dav and night. The Vletminh Battalions ana tne pursuing French ground units wheel and turn through the dense jungle without pause, each laying amoushes for the other. Engage- m e n t s are o f extraordinary violence. ookfield ath Told -sc collar RrnnWtnlrf OT N with the lumber industry ', , "cl abou' mid- - nuisiae Hospital. His ,"? attributed to nneilmnnla following exposure on "Ms Day when the family -- nt at 149 no. 9th by Brookfield was born Julv 9. ! L'ord. Calif., son oi Parents who crossed the m Michigan by immi- Tk h"e he wenl 'o work Ml 1tIT',Lumbcr Co. when later ' 'med AU r was empioved sraderhvpj; Mturini r by ,'ne Kl"n k" h 'nde a daughter, )S'yi, lma Swtinan, Wrtt .; 3''r,ddnughter. ' Mrs r; DaJ,on' 0.: two i 1018 01sin. Sac pLn2,Hor Brookfield. (Ps; lso two great-grand- sC,'Jl Chapel. M 'nd ta,13' 2:30 Fl etilmermeM ta Link. Don Rinehart Dies At 33 Donald "Don" Rinehart, 33, parts manager for the. Pelican Tractor ana rviacninery no., aiea ounaay, Jan. 10, at Hillside Hospital follow ing a nine-weeks illness. Prior to his association with the tractor company, he had been with the old West-Hitchcock Co. A year ago Mr. Rinehart sub mitted to amputation of an- arm but had been in good health until his recent illness. .He was a member of Klamath Falls Lodge, No. .77, A.F. and A.M. of the First Christian Church, the Pilot's Club and ot the Naval Re serve. Surviving are his widow, -Mrs. Betty Rinehart, Klamath Falls; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. David P. Rinehart, Yakima, Wash.; two brothers. Major Al Rinehart, USMC and M. sgi. nan Rinehart, usaiu, both in Washington D. C also two sisters, Mrs. Herbert Ford, Seattle, Wash., and Mrs. Ellen McLeaish, Klamath Falls. Funeral services will be held Thursday from . Waitl's Klajnnth Funeral Home with the Rev, George Alder of , the Christian Church and the Masons officiating, Time of the services will be nounced later. Final rites and inter ment will be in Klamath Memorial Park. Woman Hurt In Itaset i An elderly Portland woman was brought to the Klamath Valley Hos pital Uv Kaler's Ambulance Serv- Ice Sunday afternoon suffering head injuries when her car went out oi control near the Chlloquin Junction and rolled end over end into the ditch. The injured woman, ' Mabel II, Miadleton, 8233 N.E. Going Place, Portland, was traveling north on Highway 97, according to Oregon State Police, and in attempting to pass a truck traveling in the same direction, lost control of her car and landed in the ditch. The car was badly damaged. At the hospital this morning it was reported the injured woman was doing nicely. i uiuvuun, muniiAi, jajxuahk 11, ivot j.eicpnono bixa no. ao ... : : al fix irsj t v i; Hi vn-5Sft,t,ti s;-4wrrS - i.- -r - ' Price Five Cents 12 Pages KLAMATH FALLS, Gotham Buried By Snow As Season's Worst Storm Hits NEW YORK m Near-blizzard conditions brought New York City's worst snowstorm in five years Monday. Winter Hits Wide Areas UV THE ASSOCIATED PRESS .a -Wintry weatheiv with snow, sleet and cold, mt wiae areas oi xne -na tion Monday irom tne ttocaies ui New England and deep, into me Southland. Snow fell as far south as Jack son and Vlcksburg, Miss. The snow belt in the South extended from Mississippi northeastward Into Eastern Kentucky and the Middle Atlantic states to southern xew Ens-land. More than 5 inches of snow ieu in Charleston. W. Va., since Sun day night. - Sleet hit much of Virginia ana New Jersey, as well as sections oi Mississioni and Kentucky. Snow and ice covered virtually all -of Arkansas and there were moderate falls In many parts of Tennessee. The first "sticking' snow in three years fell "n Mem phis with a fall of 4 incnes in prospect. Driving conditions tnrougnow me snow and sleet belt were hazar dous. Four persons were killed in Kentucky and Pennsylvania Sun day night in traffic accidents on slipper highways. Cold air extended oveT - wide northern areas from the Rockies into New England. It was below zero in sections of Minnesota, North Dakota. Maine and New York. Near zero readings were re ported in the North Central region. Northern New York ana sections oi New England. It was -14 at Houl- ton, Me.; -12 at rargo, n. u.; -5 at Duluth, Minn.; -1 at Albany, zero at Syracuse. Reports, from along the north eastern seaboard Indicated the city was getting the full brunt of the wide-ranging storm. Eight inches of snow had fallen at 7 a.m., (EST), and the Weather Bureau predicted a fall in excess of IS inches before the storm subsides early Tuesday morning. Southern New England was ex pected to get a foot of snow, with an estimated four to six Inches predicted for northern New Eng Strong to gale winds, resulting In deep drifts, were forecast. Tem peratures ranged as low as 23 de grees below zero at Caribou, Maine- .. . :i , .. - The Wother: Bureau -predlt ed four inches of snow for upstate New York, where temperatures tumbled well below zero. Highways were slippery over the entire area, but while traffic slowed down it continued moving, and transportation lines reported only comparatively slight delays. Motorists apparently heeded warnings to stay off the roads and use public transportation facilities. The Automobile Club of New York said there was "very, very little" traffic on any of the highways in metropolitan New York. The heaviest snowstorm in seven years dumped nine and one-half Inches of snow on Philadelphia and surrounding areas Monday. School shut down. Industries and offices operated with partial forces as workers gave up or were far be hind schedule in efforts to reach their jobs. Flight schedules were disrupted at LaGuardia Field and Idlewild Airport In New York City. If the Weather Bureau's predic tion holds good, the snowfall will be the largest in the city since early 1949 when about 15 inches fell. The record for theclty was the crippling 25. 8-Inch fall of Dec. 26 and 27, 1947. Complete mobilization of city De partment of Sanitation forces be gan early Monday. Eight thousand workers with 1,800 plows were on the job before dawn, and other thousands of city workers were due to pitch in later. DESTINATION WHITE HOUSE and mighty thrilled about it was 4-H Potato King Rex Porter, field (in checkered coat) at the trio left via United Air, Lines Saturday evening for Washing ton, D. C. Among the huga crowd at the airport for the tendoff was H. O. Juckeland (left), Jast president of the Kiwanis Club, sponsors of the contest. Shown with Spud King Rex, from eft, are Bryant Williams, 4-H leader making the trip, and Jim Porterfield, Rex's 16-year-old brother who was runner-up in the contest. Specially packaged prize Klamath U. S. No. I Netted Gems are being taken to Secretary'of Agriculture Ezra Benson, Secretary of the In terior Douglas McKay and President Eisenhower, , Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Partly cloudy Monday; clearing- and colder Monday night; sonny Tuesday. High Monday 38; high Tuesday 35; low Monday night 15. High yesterday 35 Low last night . 24 Precip last 24 hours 17 Since Oct. 1 - - 6.5 Normal for period ...5.37 Same period last year 6.47 BURNED LONDON lPI The death from burns of Miss Cynthia Seymour, 19-year-old godchild of Queen Mother Elizabeth, was announced Monday. Miss Beyour was burned on Dec. 17, when her dressing gown was set aflame by a gas fire. Porterfield Heads East lar.j.alL,, rtM.. 1 lMMrk3C. . "IT WONT REGISTER THE METER but it may help tome child walk again," Kenneth and Keith Woodt assure Police Chief Orville Hamilton at he inierti a dime in the parking meter. The boy, from Scout Troop 8, were two of the many Boy Scoutt who assisted the 1954 March of Dimes campaign by tying tags on Klamath Falls parking meters. The tags indicate that dimes, which won't benefit your pari ing, pill fee) twned in to the March of Dimes drive, to benefit semeoni lest fortunate, The potato promotion program sponsored by the Klamath Potato Growers Assn.. with its theme "We're trying not crying" moved eastward by air Saturday r.ight. The promotional program was given some added Impetus when Hex Porterfield, Kiwanis Club sponsored National 4-H potato king and 4-H leader Bryant Williams flew to Washington D.C. to present Klamath Netted Gem potatoes to government ofiicials at the White House. A crowd of well wishers estimated at over 100 were on hand at the airport to give the flying ambassa dors a rousing send off, and flash bulbs from the many photograph ers present kept the loading zone well lit as the self styled spud ad vertising team prepared to depart. Several hundred pounds of Klam ath Netted Gem No. l's were loaded aboard the West Coast Airlines plane and will be presented to 4-H officials and members of the Ki wanis International when Porter- liclc. and Williams make a short stop in Chicago. Upon arrival In Washington po tatoes will be presented to Presi dent Eisenhower. Secretary of Ag riculture Ezra Benson and Secre tary of Interior Douglas McKay. Making the ilight east with Wil liams and Rex was Jim Porterfield, Rex's 10 year old hrother who will act as "chaperone" to the two en thusiastic ambassadors. Jim Porterfield was runner-up to his brother in the highest percent-! in the Kiwanis sponsored spud con test last fall. Champ "Steals" President's Spud A Klamath Netted Gem potato, "swiped" from a 10-pound sack en route to President Eisenhower was accepted by the emcee on the Don McNeil Breakfast Club program over KPJI this morning. The baking size spud was pre sented by 13-year-old Bex Porter field, Klamath County 4-H club potato growing champion who is enroute to Washington D.C. as the guest of the local Kiwanis Club and the Klamath Potato Grower's Assn. Young Porterfield, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Porterfield, Dairy is accompanied by a brother, Jim, 16, also a potato grower and Bryant Williams, 4-H leader. The trio stopped over in Chicago, where the broadcast originates, for two days. Bags of Klamath grown Potatoes will also be presented to Ezra Benson, secretary of agriculture and Douglas McKay, secretary o! Reds Ask Korea Talk Reopening' PANMUNJOM W The Com munists Monday propdsed reopen intr of the brokenoff preliminary negotiations for a Korean peace conference. State Department representative Kenneth Young said he received the request in a letter from the Communists Monday afternoon. He said he relayed the Red let ter to Washington and added: 'I. . . am awaiting official reac tion. Any decision will have to come from Washington." Red China's Feiping radio said the Communist letter asked for a meeting of liaison officers at Pan munjom Wednesday (9 p.m. Tues day) to discuss a time for resum ing the negotiations. The Red move came as India officially requested that the U. N. Assembly reconvene In New York "at an early date" to discuss the Korean question. ' , Indian officials Insisted the ac tion was not intended to delay freeing of some 22,500 war priso ners, a spokesman said: DEADLINE 'That is a matter for the two commands to'settle and as far as India is concerned, Jan. 22 is the deadline for their release under the agreement of those commands." And in Seoul, a high source said the Indian command is considering a new plan to solve the critical rPOW'problemi'- -;v--r - The first preliminary talks to set up a peace conference were broken off by U.S. Special Envoy Arthur Dean after six weeks of fruitless haggling; Dean said the Communists wouM have to withdraw a charge of U.S. "perfidy" before he would come back. The talks themselves were bogged down over U.S. refusal of Red demands that Russia be In vited as a neutral. WITHDRAWAL Later, however, a high source in Korea said the United States might consider a direct Red move to get the talks going again as tanta mount- to withdrawal of the per fidy charge. The Red broadcast made no mention of any Communist retraction. Young, chief aide to Dean, re mained in Korea after the talks were broken off. The U.S. State Department and Young said he has conducted sec ret negotiations with the Reds through an intermediary in an ef fort to reopen the talks, but both the Chinese and North Korean ra dios have denied this. There was no indication whether the Chinese action resulted from Young's reported negotiations. STRAUS DIES VIENNA lfl Oscar Straus, famed Viennese-born composer of "The Chocolate soldier," and more than 50 other operettas, died of heart disease Monday in Bad Isnhl. He was 83. Though he won fame in the same field, he was no relation to Vien na's waltz king, Johann Strauss. DKMO MEET The Klamath County Democratic Club will meet Tuesday nlghl, 7:30 p.m. in the circuit court room to elect a vice president to replace Don Trumuiy. who moved some time ago to Medford. The meeting is for members only Blanche Petroif, president, will preside. CANDIDATE SALEM iflWEdward Geary of Klamath Falls announced Sat urday he will he a candidate for speaker of the House In the 1955 Legislature. That will make it a three way race. Reps. Carl Francis, Dnytou, and David Baum, La Grande, announced their can didates earlier. KILLED KUALA LUMPUR. Malaya W John Basil R it. son, 40. manager of Buk It Pilah estate at Bahua, in Negri Sembilan- State, was shot dead on the estate Monday. Police stud he was attacked by about 20 Communist guerrillas. KLAMATH BASIN POTATO SHIPMENTS Tdr 111 Lut Tef core 74 cars TUI Tar 5354 cart 589? can IHUI 1113-U Posse Closes On Killer Who Shot Three To Death, Wounde'd Two, Made Escape LEXINGTON, Miss. Ift A 150 man pos.se cloued in today . on a 28-year-old Negro who killed three men and wounded two others In a shooting spree that began Satur day night. The posse surrounded ' a five-square-mile area ol woods, waited all night tor the gunman to make a move and began closing in as daylight ncared. "He has to come out," a high way patrolman said, "and when he does we'll get him." Sheriff Richard P. Byrd of Holmes County said the Negro was Ed Noel, an expert marksman who practiced by shooting matches from his wife's mouth. He said Noel, who had never before been In trouble, apparently went berserk Saturday night In an argument with - a storekeeper at the Coxburg community nearby. Byrd said Noel killed the store keeper. Willie Raymond Dlckard, about 28. He said Dlckard ordered Noel out of the store after an argu ment and quoted Noel as saying, "Well, I'll Just kill the Byrd said he and Deputy John Pat Malone, 65, went to the store to arrest Noel and the Negro Jumped behind a bank and opened fire. Malone was hit in the head and died about two hours later. Joe Stewart, a 33-year-old tele, phone company employe and mem ber of the posse, was killed late yesterday when he and two others cornered Noel at his house. The' other two, Andrew Smith and F. E. Hocutt were wounded. They were shot when Noel broke from his house firing his automatic .23 rifle and fled Into, tha woods.