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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 5, 1954)
In The' Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS Election year news Hem: The (Eisenhower) administration bid for a postal rate increase Is given only a SO-SO chance today as It conies up before the bouse of representatives postolftce com mittee in Washington. What's the score? . Well, It's like this: In this elec tion year EVERY MEMBER ot the house of representatives and quite a chunk ot the membership of the senate come Up for reelection. To each of them, reelection Is the MOST IMPORTANT THING IN HIS LIFE. ' 5 - Over the 1 years, they've been taught (partly by precept and part ly by experience) tnat in an eiec tion vear nobody runnintr for of fice must ever do ANYTHING that ANYBODY might not like. ' .' This is the postal situation in a nutshell: 1 Practically ever since the time whereof the memory oi man run neth not to the contrary, the postal system has run In the red to the tune of hundreds of millions of dol lars a year. The deficit has been met out ot taxes. The Eisenhower administration thinks that Isn't right. It tmnis the postoffice department should at least come NEARER to paying its own way. So it is asking for across- the-board postal rate Increases that wuT REDUCE THE DEFICIT by about 240 million dollars. The bulk of the 240 millions would be ob tained by increasing letter postage from three cents to four. Put it this way: ' We'll have to nungle up the mon ey ANYWAY. It's Just a question of how we will pay it. personally. I'd rather pay a penny more every time I buy a stamp than to pay my share of the deficit ALL AT ONCE in taxes. r It's Just that simple, You know, I think these office seekers who think that In an elec tion year they must never be against anything but sin or for anything but moral rectitude are ALL WRONG. I'm becoming such a hopeless idealist as to believe that at this perhaps brief moment in history the people want as their representatives and their adminis trators men whose guiding prin ciple is WHAT IS BEST FOR OUR COUNTRY, In the routine news of the day there is another Interesting little wasnington inciaeni. i VimiRn nf Tenreaentatives in veBtltratinc committee says this momma that the armed services ere piling up surplus equipment (that is to say, OBSOLESCENT weaoonsi faster than they can dis pose of It. The committee Is headed by Congressman Riehlman, who lives in Tully. New York, where among other things he owns a big bakery. He thinks he has turned up something pretty hot, and prom ises to call military officials on the carpet within the next couple of weeks and give them a good going over. At first thought, It does seem that he must have something pretty wicked by the tall. But wait a min ute. Call up the soberer second thought. When the machinery In Congress man Rlehlman's bakery becomes obsolescent, how does he dispose of it? Why, he trades it off to somebody else whose operation is smaller and less complex and doesn't need the last word in me chanical equipmenti How do YOU get rid of your ob solescent car? You trade it In on a new one, and in the logical course of events your old one la pur chased by somebody who is quite willing to get along, in return for the cheaper price, with an ob solescent moaei, i The armed services can't do that Facing the possibility of all-out war, In which victory will go the ide with the best weapons. NO BODY WANTS AN OBSOLETE -GUN. 7 so the armed services naturally have trouble disposing of their ob solete and obsolescent weapons Just as the automobile Industry would have difficulty In disposing of its obsolete and obsolescent mod els IF EVERYODY HAD TO HAVE THE LAST WORD IN CARS. Reports Good On Crater Skiing Skiing IS good at Crater Lake National park now, according to report from the park rangers Uils morning. Maximum temperature yesterday was SB and minimum 28 degrees. "The weather up here is beauti ful," they stated. Total snow on the ground is 118 inches as compared with 104 inches last year. Highway 62 Is open through the park. The road from Annie Springs to the rim is also open and no chains are required. Roads are Icy in spots, however. The warming hut will be open this weekend if weather remains good. MOVIES ROME lift Italy announced to day she has agreed to exchange movies with the Soviet Union on a fllm-for-fllm basis. The government termed the agreement important" and said it represented "concrete progress in the orbit of cultural relations." a -4- rrlee- Fin Cents It rages THE CHILOQUIN BLOOOMOBILE , trip set for February 10 has plenty of enthusiastic backing and all the making' of a good scrap when Chiloqum and Fort Klamath tangle to -see which community will donate the most whole blood. Here the Chiloquin group get together to plot strategy.: Left -to right are: Mrs. R. L. Mathis, Bill Lorenz, Mrs. George Brautlacht, Mrs.' Edward Cole,;Mrs. John Jaderholm and Mrs. Paul Herron. Nine Convicts Use Tunnel To Escape Alabama Prison ATM ORE, Ala. W) Heavily armed , police officers searched backwoods areas near here today for nine long-term convicts who escaped through a tunnel under Atmore State prison, last- night.1. The escapees used a key to open a door leading from a- special security cell block into a . small tunnel containing electrical wiring; They forced their way through two other doors into a main tunnel before reaching freedom,, emerg- French Throw Up Defenses SAIGON. Indochina Ifl French Union troops fought hard Friday against vietminh invaders at scattered points along a hastily thrown up defense arc 60 miles north of Luang Prabatig. But the main delense of the royal Laotian capital ot Laos, in northwestern Indochina, was still to come.- As the Communist - led rebels continued to file through the Jungle toward Luang Prabang, the French set up centers ot resist-. nice at paths In the region of Mu- ong Sat, on the banks of the Nam Hou River, and along the Nam Suong River. These were small corks, at best. as the French Command put it. The main resistance to the rebel advance was scheduled to take place, near, but not in, the capital. French fighter planes and bomb ers continued to hit the mile long lines of the advancing rebels. French Union troops chewed at the columns with ambushes. The French hoped that this tac tic would enfeeble the Vietmlnh before they reached the showdown area north of Luang Prabasg. - i '( : v J IX . r- , t, r-, lJ0ml Y( , ffw-s ffrwt S$s7 in - i. i fJL SCOUT WEEK PLANS were being laid today by, left to right, Jerry Rajnus, scoutmaster of the Malin Chamber of Commerce troop, Sam Ritchey, cubmaster of the Riverside PTA pack and Bob Hendershott, cubmaster of Peace Mem orial cub pack. Scouts will celebrate their 44th anniversary in the week starting next Sunday. KLAMATH -er; f ing in a powerhouse outside the prison fence., ; ;.. : The break' was discovered about 8:46 p.m., some 15 minutes after the nine were believed to have slipped away- under the prison. L. A. Strubble, deputy Alabama prison commissioner, said blood hounds had picked up a definite trail early today. Prison guards, sheriff deputies and state patrol men followed the dogs through sparsely settled areas near this prison town about M miles north east ot Mobile. to ; A rebuilding, program has been under Way at Atmore for nearly too years and is 70 per cent com plete. Prisoners have been kept in the old facilities while the new prison went up around it. "We've been afraid something like this would happen," strubble said. "They Just slipped one over on us." ., At the same time, the deputy prison commissioner questioned the vigilance of guards working in the security cell block and prom ised a full investigation. , He described the escapees as "tough turkeys," none of whom was supposed to have access to the corridor running by the tunnel door,, , Skiing Good At Warner Canyon LAKEVIEW "Excellent" is the word for skiing conditions at War ner Canyon, according to District Ranger Don Peters with current plans calling for opening the ski tow and snack bar Saturday and Sunday. Some snow covers a hard-packed crust- on the ski run with clear weather as of Thursday, S p.m. The highway from -Lakeview Is dry. FALLS, OREGON, , FRIDAY FEBRUARY 3, . Telephone 8111 No. 2758 s 'A VI ?!. -J ETrYa W - . fcu;'i ,, Vi ri v ?,,f '4, ri.v -r, fMn it) , EDWARD KELTON, a stu dent at Fdirview school where he is in the seventh grade, caught the nine o' clock photographers eye this morning. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair through Saturday with high of 48; low Friday night 25. High yesterday 38 Low last night ,14 Preclp last 24 hours .......... 0 Since Oct. 1 9.78 Same period last year 0-01 Normal for period 6.98 Fisherman Has Tallest Tales SAN DIEGO. Calif, im Th6 skip per of a fishing boat yesterday told of hooking a whale on a fish line and witnessing a collision be tween two other whales, all within the space of 30 minutes. Harold W. Hanson, skipper of the Lucky II, said he was fishing at the edge of kelp beds offshore when one of his hooks caught either a' part of the lobe of the whale's tail or became entangled In the mass of barnacles that en crusted the mammal's side. Hanson said the whale surfaced, spouted and then headed south at full speed, snapping the fishing gear. The fisherman said he then sight ed two other whales bearing down on his small tract, but they sudden ly swerved and crashed into each other head on, He then got out of the area as fast as the Lucky II could go. Moulding Plant Rejects Union Results of an NLRB election last night at the Klamath Lake Mould ing Company, 3123 Crosby, showed 40 men voting against the IWA CIO and 21 in favor. There were no contested ballots and no challenges. ; : : A1 : Q 'J iornia Spud Growers fp-y M A I 2 I4 sr I y&.e MCiion i o Jf Disease In TULELAKE The v mounting threat to the certified seed potato industry in the Tulelake area was tackled last night when members of tlie Tulelake Growers board ot directors met with Modoc and Sis kiyou county agricultural commis sioners, members of the TO A, po tato committee, a California - state agriculturist and area farmers. ' A proposed control program will be presented at a membership meeting scheduled for Monday, February 8, in the Pheasant room of -the Sportsman's Hotel. , Measures suggested to check the spread ot nematodes In seed stock, that has been a serious develop ment of the past few years, in clude the erection of roadside signs at all major intersections in the'Tulelake area, to read, "State law requires" all seed potatoes to be inspected before planting." These signs will be supplemented by posters placed In all ware houses and other public places. Latins Ask US Supports WASHINGTON W The Latin American coffee - producing coun tries made an open bid early Fri day for United States government support against what they cnlled'a campaign in this country to com bat high prices by drinking less coifee. A few hours later a Senuto banking subcommittee made a start on a broad investigation of the soaring price3 by miming the coffee trade leaders it wfll ques tion at an initial hearing Monday. The committee investigation is aimed particularly at finding out how much Increased speculation has had to do with pushing prices above a dollar a pound and to ;o cents a cup. The producing nations contend that the basic iactors' are in creased consumption at tuB.brew 1111U PWK, bllfj mat wns the tnenie oi resolu tions adopted by the Inter-Amer ican Coffee Commission in the after-midnight wlnclup of an 11- hour session. The commission is made up of the 14 American coffee-growing nations plus the United States which Is the big con sumer. The commission adopted two companion resolutions expressing concern over 1 the campaign against the consumption of coilee being carried out in the United States" and calling for action to counteract it. Military Leaders Confer With Rhee SEOUL Wl The two top Allied military commanders in the Far LEast conferred secretly Frldoy Willi DUUUI XWlCtUl ICSlUt:"!, Kljllft- man Rhee. Gen. John E. Hull, U. N. and U.S. Far East commander, and Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, 8th Ar my commander, refused to discuss the conference, which presumably included the new ROK-U.S. secur ity pact. The conference was held at Chln hae, where Rhee is resting. Treaty Power Amendments To Come To Test Vote In Two Weeks Says Knowland By 30V. HALL WASHINGTON W Senate Re publican Leader Knowland of Cali fornia said today there will be no key test votes on the Brlcker amendment dealing with treaty powers until Feb. 16 or later. The hotly controversial issue Is being put aside to simmer all next week while the Senate turns to other matters. Knowland told newsmen he thought the delay would be healthy in giving Uie country a chance to be heard from further. Sen. Bricker (R-Ohlol, author oi the original proposal fought deter minedly by President Eisenhower, appealed to his followers to make known their backing for a modi fied plan he unveiled yesterday. This revised proposal makes big concessions but still is far more sweeping than anything the administration, has indicated it would accept. Knowland had been trying lo dis pose of the Brlcker proposal this week. It has been before the Senate for two weeks of debate while repeated efforts were made witli out success to compromise. Knowland said in advance of today's session it' might be possi ble to adopt two minor amend ments to the Brlcker proposal at this afternoon's session. But he added there will be no important rollcall tests until week after next. The week's delay Is forced by tho plans of many GOP senators to leave Washington for Lincoln Day speeches next week. Meanwhile, Sen. George (DOa) said in an interview that, what nan zpreaa Tule Area county agricultural commission ers were requested to make in spection in the future, of all seed stock planted in the Tulelake basin and to issuo Inspection slips, stat ing tnat the lot checked Is free oi nematode and has passed inspec tion. The committee Was also asked to review county ordinances in aiski. you and Modoc to determine if tney are ndequale to cover tho con trol of nematode spread In this orea, and if further changes, to meet requirements are needed. A report was requested for the meet ing next Monday. inspection stations were also re quested lor advantageous locutions on both sides of Uio state lino, to be maintained during the plant ing season for Inspection of potato macinnery and seed oemg moved 'over public roads. ' , Once the requested county ordi nances have been established, an In- tormation plan for radio, news papers, bulletins and news letters will be worked out to acquaint the public with the need for cooper ation in the program. No definite action was taken at the meeting. All suggestions will bo presented at the general meet ing.. ... The seed Industry In the Tulelake Mncdoel areas normally brings in irom $600,000 to $1,800,000 annually above the total normally brought in from the same acreage of commer cial potatoes. Approximately 4,000 acres ot certmed seed were grown last year. bpeaking at the meeting, were Dudley Zoller, Siskiyou County ag ricultural, commissioner; Koiname Young, administrative assistant to the director of agriculture hi California, , and agricultural com missioner , Lorlng Young, Modoc County. -: ; Reports on the progress, being made In the fight on nematode: sne potato advertising and marketing- program; a talk by Stan Buckingham, delegate to the clov er, seed tariff meeting in Washing ton, D.C.i: an:mendment to the TG., bjjajjrju aj)obaiUiDaf. vacancy on me poara ot directors, will be on tile agenda for next Monday's meeting-. Elks Will fonor Scouts Eagle Scouts from VU to 112 years" will be guests of Honor. Thursday evening, February 11, 6 p.m. of the Elks Lodge. No. 1247 in uie Elks Temple. Announce ment of Uie affair, the first ever sponsored by the lodge was made today by John Hellbronncr, Elks chairman who is being assisted by Everett Ball and Don Adams. The dinner is free to all Eagle Scouts regardless of age and spec ial invitations have been sent to college men. i Rex Hunsaker, athletic coach at OTI wll be guest speaker and other program numbers are planned. The lodge hopes to make the dinner an annual affair. Following the banquet Uie guests and sponsors will adjourn to the Altamont school for the Eagle Scout court of honor. ever the flnol late of the Brlcker amendment, the 'debate on It will bring much closer . scrutiny of treaties than ever before. Presidents undoubtedly will be more careful obout treaties they submit to Uie Senate as a result of the row stirred up by the Ohlo an's proposed amendment, George said. And he went on, "an unfortunate by-product'' probably will be that H will Be more difficult to get pacts ratlllcd By the Senate. Sen. Wiley (R-WIsi, a strong foe of the Brlcker amendment, said m a speech last night he was con vinced that out of "the heat and, yes, the bitterness (of the dispute) win come a stronger America One Important result already, he said, is "the bold, courageous and brilliant reassertlon of leadership" on the part of President Eisen hower. As tho Senate prepared to put tho issue aside for 10 days, there appeared to be little change In the lour-way split that makes it diffi cult for any constitutional change in treaty powers to get the neces sary two-thirds vote. One key senator predicted pri vatcly that the substitute fir Brick cr's plan advanced by George would attract the most support. The Georgia senator's substitute says l that treaties and Inter, national agreements are void if they conflict with tho Constitution and (2 that presidential agree ments not subject lo the Senate ratilicatlon shall not override do- mcstlo law unless Congress so voles, 5 V , . TROY V. COOK (M Seeks,. County Post Troy V. Cook, lifetime resident of Klamath county and owner and operator of the Troy V. Cook Co., 2040 South Sixth, today tossed his hat into the ring as a candidate for county commissioner on Uie Republican ticket. ; - The following is a statement to the people of Klamath county signed by Cook. 1 ; '-- , -, In announcing my candidacy for commissioner of Klamath County I wish to make the following state: ment: - ,-. . I was born in Merrill and have lived In Kiamath county for 39 years and I . intend to-continue living here. I do not want to see this county continually saddled with high taxes, power rates and the pressures of special interests. I would oppose any Increases in taxes, , abovq the present level and believe substantial savings could be made in present spending and still get the same services. I believe county road funds could be more fairly distributed, and that county purchasing should remain in Klamath comity. Willi agriculture -and lumbering our main sources - of income we should work to promote these in dustries by guarding our water rights and timber resources. I believe tourist and recreation possibilities here can be more ac tively promoted. I represent no special interests or factions and would work for uie best Interests of Klamath county. ... , , It you believe as. I do in the future of this area I would ap preciate your support.' t , it-.'. i4.YijWK-.7S'.-.';'-.'. Park Buys Ski Tow Here The Klamath Falls Park Depart ment announced purchase Wednes day or the Moore Park ski tow. wnich will be operated, for the pres ent at least, by the department. Klanrath Falls Is virtually unloue In having a ski run and, tow right in town. The facility was made pos sible through the interest and work of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Chubb, who have operated It since its Instal lation at Moore Pork in 1962. It was origina'ly used at Crater Lake, Bob Bonney, city park and recre ation director, stated that chorges will remain si a day for adults and persons over 12, and SO cents a day for children under 12. Hours of operation are announced daily depending on weather conditions. The tow Is insured against acci dents in conjunction with its oper ation. Bonney expressed appreclollon for the Chubbs' interest in skiing which made possible the tow, and said that the park department Svill endeavor to continue the good serv ice. - I-,' -X i i ' 8 ,lu'A '".-IVf'th' ' - I ", VI- if u VERLA CHALLIS AND RICHARD BURNETT, sophomores of Bonanza high school have baen selected to represent -their classes in the annual king and queen. contest spoil sored by the Bonanza Parent Patron, organization. Verla is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Challis and Richard is tho son of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Burnett, Bonanza. ' Unification; Of Germany Hopes Dim BERLIN m The United States, . Britain and France Friday reject ed Russia's plan ror unifying Ger many and charged Moscow la trv ing to extend its powers all the way to the Rhine, . - U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden of Britain and, French Foreign Minister Georges Bldault exhausted 4,000 words ' more to notify the Kremlin thmt the idea of merging rivsJ govern ments in divided Germany u not slick enough to fool anyone, a . Therefore, the Western ministers concluded, the Russians must be entirely without desire to unify the nation. . , . Dulles took the lead in Friday's 11th session, denouncing the Rus sian plan as a mere grab lor pow er west of Berlin. ,' .';." , , Dulles said Soviet Foreign Min ister V. M. Molotov had rejected a Western plan for unification of Germany through free elections because he is afraid the 18 mil- - lion .Germans in the Communist zone "would overwhelmingly re ject" its present Red regime. ". GOOD REASON v - "Mr, Molotov has good reason to be afraid," the American min ister said. - - ' Dulles led off the Western attack on the Molotov plcn, which he said follows the "tragic pat tern'', by which the Soviet Union has spread Communist control over Eastern Europe since the war. -- .' ' -- :':-" . '; Dulles said Britain's Anthony Eden, France's Georges Bldault and he had come to Berlin two weeks ago hoping that solutions would be found to the problem of German unity in a conference' which at the outset carried the promise of easing world tension. ' cut, ne said, tne Molotov pro gram which the Russian minister put. before tho conference Thurs--day shows that "he has no inten tion of seriously seeking German unity with freedom." NOT TOO LATE - "I would say to Mr. Molotov," Dulles declared, "that It is late. but not too late to redeem the promise of Berlin."' ' The cornerstone of the Russian program. Dulles said. Is the Com munist government of East Ger many which he declared was put in oiuce ana kept were by Soviet power. ' . It would have been . ,"forcKly ejected" by tho workers of fast . . -' tCimtfnued oa-Balnf 4) vsi- '"'" ''v''.; ; ii ,-. T i Rue StrilrA Tic Up Eastern City ROCHESTER. N.Y W Thou sands of workers in this cltv of . S32.nnft VIAfA tullhnlit. him it-an--. portation Friday as a result of an unexpected strike of . about 900 drivers and mechanics of the Ro chester Transit Corp.; 'The city's subway trolley lino was also shut down. .. '.. - -.v. Robert W. Zielinski, president Amalgamated Street Electric Rail way and Motor Coach Employes Union, AFL, said the strike was called because of the company's failure to abide by an arbitration: board's award on wage scales and hours, - .' KLAMATH BASIN POTATO SHIPMENTS Rhlpptl barn Day TotUy LHlt w 32 49 Total Far . sbir 1!)!M-M I953.K1 6997 7967, . WO", wmmtntvm a :ibal
