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Newspaper Page TextMini mm m:i mmm i Forallnh Mail QMm - HL? L 1 aaaa t "V V 1 V 1 Y 1 1 I t-T S J O ,. J "VJ III ! V I 1 II -T" T 7-. : I 'a . X III I I 1 IT 11- . . Bl ' ' I I . . ." I B I Nn rtn Cato-U nra , KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY IS. UN .' . Telephone IU1 Ne. 27S I v w ; I W M r 1 "I"' V i mt rni r-!- ilirililii iiy)ii i jjii I MMHifftW ,. v P .. !.-;. W - A '. at J ' n H I I fc, .Tl IS: i OTI SWEETHEART BALL queen Pat Walker was crowned last night at the fourth annual sweetheart ball on the hill by Robert McEndre, president of Omega Epsilon Rho. Pat is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie E. Walker, 2245 Union Avenue, and is a student in business admin Portland Lumber Company Plans Alaskan Sawmill ; JUNEAU, Alaska (ft Region si Forester A. W. Greeley said Timber Co, of Portland has asked Saturday the Pacific Northern the U.S. Forest Service to adver tise a timber sale in Alaska's Ton gass National Forest this spring. tThe timber would supply a pro- Wool Growers Back Ike Plan WASHINGTON Ml President Ray W.'WiUoughby of the Nation al Wool Growers Assn. said Satur day that wool growers "will sup port and work for the passage of President Eisenhower's wool pro gram in Congress." Wllloughby, of San Angelo, Tex. Hummed up the program this way in a statement: "Growers will sell In the open market, but in lieu of a proper tar iff level, the present wool tariff revenue will be used to provide the funds for a direct payment to the grower in the event average prices fall below a level which will provide an incentive for the American growers to provide the nation with wool as a recognized critical and essential material for the national security and wel fare." Wllloughby made his announce ment following a two-day confer ence between wool growers and government officials. Elsenhower's plan of Incentive payments to growers was ad vanced as a way to give them a fair return by adding the pay ments to the market price of their product. ACCIDENT LONDON lift The ancient Coldstream Guards reported a casualty in. the line of duty Fri day a sentry outside Bucking bam Palace tainted and, in fall ing, cut a finger on his bayonet. French Will Reject Rhee Offer Of Korean Troops WASHINGTON Of! American diplomats were understood today to view South Korean President Syngman Rhee's threat to march against North Korea as a bluff Just what he said it wasn't Intend ed to be. , They also were known to hold out slight hope for his govern ment's offer of troops for Indo china. A French Embassy spokesman said yesterday his government which stlU has not received the offer officially would reject the preferred South Korean division for tear Its Involvement in the ugly eight-year-old war might bring on open Red Chinese intervention in Indochina. The French commissioner gen eral for Indochina said In Bangkok today that his country still is ready to negotiate a settlement with the Insurgent Vletminh. Maurice De jean, the commissioner, charged at a news conference that military help from China Is prolonging the contact. . Dejpnn said France is trying to prevent "another Korea" and he voiced confidence that the Vlet minh rebels would be repelled from the Laotian capital of Luang Pra oang.. Enemy elements, he said. posed sawmill at Wrangell as well as a possible pulp mill in the Wrangell area. - In Juneau this week for discus sions with Greeley was C. Olrard Davidson, - attorney for Pacific Northern and for Georgia-Pacific Plywood, which has shown- inter est in the possibility of a pulp, mill ana' newsprint piani nere. I Greeley 3ld;they considered .va rious localities for timber cruis ing in Southeast Alaska and areas where logging operations would begin to supply a Wrangell saw mill. Davidson said Pacific Northern' had acquired a mill site about a mile from Wrangell, formerly oc cupied by a salmon cannery, where It plans to construct a mil lion dollar mill. He said company engineers are expected to be in Wrangell in the spring and it was hoped that construction could start in me summer. The pulp mill, he added, is part of the" company's plans for the future. Fred G. Hanford of Juneau and Wrangell, handling the company's nousing plans, said these caUed for the eventual construction of 200 houses. Regarding Georgia Pacific's program, Davidson said this com pany was seeking suitable land here with a nearby water supply and expected to send a represen tative to Juneau this spring to look over mill sites and timber possibilities. Boy Injured By Falling On Toy ; PORTLAND 11 A 17-month-old child is recovering here after being injured in a strange acci dent at his grandmother's home Friday. . Norman A. Thompson m fell off a chair and struck his head on a toy tractor. The metal axle cf the toy pierced the boy's skull behind the left ear. The axle was removed at a hospital. are within 12'i miles of that city. The Indochina problem caused some political repercussions In France, where Assemblyman Pierre Mendes-France charged last night in a speech at Vernon that Foreign Minister George Bidault is begging Mao Tze-tung, the Red Chinese leader, to stop backing the Vletminh. Mendes-France demanded that France negotiate a truce directly with Ho Chi Minn, the Vletminh chief. f In Paris. French officials and those of the Invaded kingdom of Laos said there Is no foundation for reports that the Laotian gov ernment had asked for the ROK troops. In this connection, the South Ko rean defense minister, Sohn Won II, said in Seoul his nation Is pre pared to send land, sea and air forces to help the French. Ji Mid they would be volunteers. Diplomatic officii in Washing ton were inclined to discount an other South Korean, proposal that U. S. Gen. James A. Van Fleet come out 'of retirement to .train both ROK and IndochineM troops. Van Fleet commanded - the th Army In Korea during the build-un of the ROK's la divisions. SEOUL on Informed sources In Korea, who have negotiated with the Communists, said today Russia stands a good chance to achieve one of Its major objectives expos ing a split in Western policy to wards Red China if a major power conference on the Far East is held. ' The question of convening a Far Eastern conference is. under dis cussion among the Big Four for eign ministers now meeting In Berlin. The news tnal Bussia s V. M. Molotov will propose an assembly Including representatives of Asian nations came as no sur prise here. A top authority, who declined to be identified, said such a move was anticipated when efforts to arrange a political settlement on Korea failed. We long ago advised Washing ton' that the Communists have no intention of concluding a political agreement on Korea," he said. What they really want is a Far Eastern conference in which those countries with ideas of neutralism wiU be represented." Both India, and Indonesia are considered to be In that category- Burma also would lean toward the neutral" side. a.. Observers see these three main Russian objectives In such a con ference. 1. To bring Into the open known Oregon Harbor Work Eyed WASHINGTON!)-Three Oregon harbor and navigation projects will be the subject of congressional bearings scheduled for March 4 Rep. Homer Angell (R-Ore) re ported Friday. , The projects: Deepen and widen the Columbia River channel mouth: improve harbor facilities at Oold Beach; and Improve the Scholfield River channel at Recdsport. Angell,. chairman of the House rivers and harbors subcommittee, said ..sponsors: Jiopei, have . the projects- Included in the omnibus authorisation bill which will be presented to Congress later this session. . The Columbia River project would cost an estimated 18,598,000 (2,696,000 for dredging the channel to a depth of 48 feet and to a width of half a mile, and (5,700,000 fpr construction of a Jetty at tne river's mouth. The Gold Beach project at the mouth of the Rogue River would cost $3,758,000 with local interests contributing $163,000. It calls for construction of twin jetties, widen ing the channel to 300 feet and deepening It to 13 feet from the mouth to the coast bridge. A turning basin also Is u the plans. The . Scholfield River project calls for dredging a channel 12 feet deep and 100 feet wide for two miles upstream f rbm where the Scholfield and Umpqua Rivers flow together. It would cost the federal government an estimated J4i,wu, plus $10,000 contributed locally. Pope To Speak Says Vatican VATICAN CITY (fl Convalesc ing Pope Plus H will speak by radio Sunday to the world's sick. The announcement was the firm. est sign that the 77-year-old head of the Roman Catholic Church definitely Is recovering. A gastric ailment has confined him to his apartment since Jan. 25. The Pontiff's address will be broadcast by the Vatican Radio, beginning at 7:16 p. m. (10:15 a. m. PST) on medium wavelength 106 meters and short waves 49.7$, 41.21. 31.10. 27.67 meters. L'Osser- vatore Romano said the Pope would speak the first words of the 10-mlnute address and that it would then be completed by a Vatican radio speaker. His address will be in conjunc tion with the Marian Tear observ ance. Commemorating the centen ary of the dogma of the Virgin Mary's Immaculate conception. It began on Dec. 8 last year and continues until Dec. 8, 1054. A day of prayer for the sick Is one of the major events of the ob servance. Sunday, Catholics throughout the world will offer such prayers. Sick Catholics, on their part, will offer prayera for the Pope, the church, and for world peace. The Pope will speak from bis Vatican apartment, possibly from his bed. He has left It for a few hours dally In the past four days, but still is too weak to stay on bis feet au day. ' COMMUNISTS LONDON (PI Britain's tiny communist party .Saturday re ported a drop In membership over the past year and called for in all-out . drive against stagna ion tnthe ranks. Latest figures, published In the party's report for the annual con gress at Easts, give a total mem bership of 36,054 last March, com pared with 34,124 in 1S53. differences among the Western democracies, especially on a Joint policy toward itea unina. . .. 2. To delay restoration of Ja pan's strength so it will be weak point in the pattern of power In the Far East. 3. - To revive charges that the French Air Hits Rebel SAIGON, Indochina ( . For the fifth consecutive day, French fighters and bombers attacked con centrations Saturday of rebel di vision 308, which has been moving southward in the direction of Luang Frabangi'the royal capital of Laos. The French planes found the Communist-led Vletminh troops In the valley of the Bac River, some SO miles north of Luang Frabang. A communique announced "cer tain losses", had been Inflicted on the enemy.' Forward elements of the division do not seem to have advanced and apparently have not yet crossed tne River Nga, 30 miles north of Luang Prabang. French forces on reconnaissance , missions moved out from the hastily built fortress at Luang Frabang without making contact with Vletminh regional units, which are not part of the crack division 308. These regional units have been about 10 miles north and northeast of the capital for the past five days. Meanwhile, much further to the north, French troops striking out irom weir -dust bowl fortress at Dlen Bien Phu renewed -probing attacks against Vletminh trooos en trenched In encircling positions in we nuis uiree to live miles away, A spokesman, said the' French are using . upwards of 4,000 men in "strong reconnaissances" against in xoeuu-an .ire.'.ve- wen losses on both sides In the bitter clashes but that no battle has been joined yet. ' Six Month Coma Ended YAKIMA, Wash. HI ' Bonnie Peterson, 17, who had been In a coma for six months, talked with her parents Saturday for the first time since she was Injured in an auiomooue accident last August, - Police Chief Ross Peterson of Mabton, Wash., and Mrs., Peter son said their daughter's awaken ing was "like bringing her back from the dead." . Friday a nurse was massaging Bonnie's arm when the girl said "ouch." Startled, the nurse asked her what she said and Bonnie repeated: "Ouchl" She had spent months in hospi tals in Seattle and Yakima. Only Tuesday the Petersons took their daughter to a home here. Peter son said hundreds of neonle. hear. ing of the case, had contributed toward payment of medical ex penses which have reached $20, 000. Bonnie talked with her parents and sat up in a daveno Saturday to watch television, when asked If she was tired and wanted to re turn to bed she had a ready and emphatic answer.. "No!" Chicago Drives On Mad Dogs CHICAOO HI A team of 40 vet erinarians, supplied with enouirh anti-rabies serum to Inoculate 36,- 000 dogs, went into action Satur day In the latest move to quell Chicago's "mad-dog" scare. Both the vaccine and 25,000 cer tificates (arrived In the city Fri day. - The veterinarians operated from nine publlo health centers in the South Side, where the rabies out break has centered. A police sound car circulated through the area, telling, dog owners to bring their pets to one of the centers for free Inoculation or face prosecution. Meanwhile, with many of the stray dogs rounded up. health offi cials reported the number of dog bite victims has subsided since last week when bite reports exceed ed 19 a day. , , Old Solditr Facts -Touah Fiaht AUSTIN, Tex. WV Confederate veteran Tom Riddle, 107. fought old age end pneumonia today and doctors said bis condition . re mained critical. Dr. Herman Wing, medical dl. rector of the Texas Confederate Home where Riddle has lived since 1060, said he was "waning hope fully." Riddle Is being fed intravenously ana. is xept unoer an oxygen tent. Western nations maintain their alleged desire to restore the "co lonial system ' in the Far East. Of the three, the first is believed tc hold the best chance of success for the Russians. The United States does not see eye to eye with Britain or France on policy toward Red China. Bri tain originally recognized the Com munist government in Pelping. British official opinion as ex pressed to this correspondent In London recently favors acknow. ledguig "the fact that the present government is in power and is likely to stay In power. Therefore the best thing to do la to admit the fact and deal with it accord ingly." Also, trade considerations inter. est the British more than they do the Americans or French. Regarding . Japanese rearma ment, Informed opinion here Is that the Soviets will try hard to halt it. - "They have run uo against -a stone wall in Europe," the source said. "They want us to block the same thing In the Orient, with Japan as the keystone, before it has gone too far." The third point charges of "colonialism" aims to revive ami- Western sentiment among the Far Eastern governments created after World War II. . KPCA Plans Anniversary In ijunding out 20 years of service to farmers and stockmen, the Klamath Production Credit As-, sociation will celebrate Its twentieth anniversary Saturday, February 20. Ernest E. Henry, president of the Production Credit Corporation, opoxane, nas been selected to speak at the 20th anniversary di rectors meeting to be held at the Armory. ,.;.,. .-. Following registration at tO'a.m. and a smorgasbord lunch at 11:45. member wilHMnoi lour men who have jrve'd as directors' since" the association was formed in 1933. . As an Incentive to make this the biggest - Farmers Day'1 in the his. tory of the association, invitations and free parking stickers have been mailed out to all members and guests, a crowd' of over 500 is expected to attend,' ' Following the luncheon a ahort business meeting will-be held; in cluded will be a report by Secretary-Treasurer Lee 8. MoMnllen and the board directors.Two direc tors win oe elected to fill the ex pired terms of Ed Geary and Lee HoUlday. Cordon Speaks In Portland PORTLAND tin , Ron n Cordon told about 1,000 persons at a Lincom uay dinner here Friday night that because of President Elsenhower'A nnmtlarllv T.n..l.1l- can officeholders are on something "The Democrats will not dare criticize the Prenlripnt hwaite, r his popularity," he said, "but there win oe continuous sniping at office holders at the caEinet level, at RATlHllnan (n hnt.H Viimum n.. . , W4 V,V,I- gress, and at Republican office- noiaers in every state, and to a verv fft-ent extent, the truth mill not be in it." in a tribute to Lincoln. . the senator spoke of the "7,eal, clarity, humility and rectitude" of the .TCpuuuuaji rnriy s ursfc presiaent. He compared problems of the American Revolution and the Civil War with the situation facing the present administration. "TtlA lfltuHnn In th um.U m (his moment is more critical, more ominous and of a complexity far greater than In the days of Wash ington and Lincoln." Cnrrinn aalri. "In those days they knew who their opponents - were,' and where they were. Today we do not always have that knowledge." Cordon again denied rumors that ne planned to resign ir re-elected. The Coos Bay Times said In a story ThUTsdRV there hAH heen rmnrli that Cordon would quit and that Oov. Paul Li Patterson would ap point former state Senate President William Walsh to succeed him. Patterson also denied he was a party to such a deal, saying: "He (Cordon) would not sloop, nor would I, to any proposition such as mentioned In the press In the last few hours." ' CORRECTION The new County Animal Shel ter, pictured In Friday's issue of the Herald and News, was erroneously reported as being combined with the City Animal 8he1ter,i The county pound, which opened February 1, Is adjacent to the city pound but operated separately. The county shelter was built after the Herald and News exposed de plorable condition at a privately-operated but county-financed pound on Miller Ave. 1 . ' . ., .. : i , -; ... . ,.!-'' , w "II, f f.TJ)I, w, vx. i ti -i W. L. JURGENSEN of Jurgensen's Groceteria on Oregon Avenue, and Helen Ppteet were giving this stalk of celery, some close inspection when the nine o'clock photographer happened by this morning.. .-. .:. - ;v. Controversial Improvement Fund Listed On City Books Account 307, still open on the city of Klamath Falls ledger, has a fund history dating from July, 1049, through March, 1953. - Duplicate receipts, on record at the city hall, show entries in vary, ing amounts to the Klamath im provement fund, which add up to 152,582.60 over the period in which the fund was active. Last March. following letters from the district attorney's olfioe to aueged bawdy- -ouae operators, au remaining mon ey in the fund was transferred out, lBetag.vUs -md- defunct. -"-. Receipts to the Klamath Im provement fund for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1960, show a total of 120,145 contributions in the 1SB0 audit. -Of this, 819,368 was trans ferred, out, leaving a balance of aV'17. . ; - -, v.j. The amount transferred to the Wealher FORECAST Klamath rails and vicinity: Partly cloudy with Beat- tered showera . of snow or rain through Sunday. High Sunday 4O; low Saturday night 30. , High yesterday . .'........-..'..J.' 41 Low last night . 27 ' ." ' PURGE 1 LONDON W) A Soviet broad cast Indicated Saturday that the premier of the strategic central Asian Soviet republic - of Kazakh stands in the path of a purge. The provincial sovernment chief. Y.B. Taybekov, was sharply criti cized for "shortcomings and mis takes in agricultural leadership" by the official radio In Alma Ata, we republics capital. , - -1 1 f s - SPEBSQSA MEMBERS INDULGE in a little harmless harmony following a kick-off break fast to plan for the Seventh Annual Barbershop Parade of Quartettes, scheduled this year for April 10 at the Pelican Theater. Seated, left to right, are Louis Stewart, After glow Committee chairman; John Houston, show director; Vernon Durant, president of the local Society for the Preservation and Enjoyment of Barbershop Quartette Singing in America; Benny Loftsgaard, chorus director for the .'54 show and northwest district vice-president of SPEBSQSA, Standing, left to right, are Charles Bane, immediate past president and ticket committee chairman; Sam Thompson, publicity chairman; Dr. . M. Marsha, advertising and program chairman; Earl Hamaker, breakfast committee chair- man; Louis (Hub) Stone, secretary of the local chapter and secretary ot the northwest district. ... , ' ' . . general fund went for the follow ing items: Armory fund, 31500; Rest Room (Community Lounge), 32000; garage, $6000;, band (city), $6000: doors, 3760; audit $1000: other contingencies (mostly raises) $3118. ,- . .; ". .- - .. The June 30, 1961, audit shows revenues in the amount of . $19,- IJM2.60, ' which, , with, the I960 bal ance 01 m maoe i,t.au, -roe entire . amount was transferred to the general fundi $4000 Was given fnt. rnnlotllniv anri ! i!ll In. that fund; $16,678.id went tor construc tion of the city Jail. Donations in; 1952 totaled only $2400, all of which was transferred to the general fund and subsequent ly aooea to tne replannig iund, The June 30, 1053, audit shows donations to the amount of $10,135, all of which was transferred to the general fund and then to the swim ming pool' fund. '" Contributions to the fund were not carried under personal names, but merely as "contributions or donations to the Klamath Improve ment runa.' . - The accountings are a matter of publlo record and are available to the public. KLAMATH BASIN POTATO SHIPMENTS ShlpMi , km. Dir Tafla?- - l,ail Tear 45 cart SO car Tata far aaiaa lonn-M 7314 car !- I23S car ;J 111 By JOHN M, HIGHTOWF BERLIN 1 Secretary of State John Foster Dulles declared Saturday Russia refuses to get out of Austria because It would mean withdrawing her troops from Hun- -gary , and - Romania. He implied that he - thought Moscow had rea son to fear the consequences of ' sucii t, move. .' . '; Dulles ripped into Soviet For eign Minister V. M. Molotov for his proposal to grant Austrian- in dependence only with a provlaio that Soviet and other occupation -troops remain on Austrian wli un til Germany la unified, wh.-Ji now appears In the-far distant future.- The secretary took up ti e cud gels for Austria . after Vienna's Foreign Minister Leopold Figl, ap pearlng before the Berlin Big Four comerence, xormauy rejected the - soviet pian. - ' ; To accept -Russia's Idea.. DuUea - Said, would be to expose the Unit ed States before the world as "morally .and - politically bank rupt." - - - Flgl led off Saturday's session ,. - of the Big Four on Austria with' ' his rejection of the Moscow pun. . He told Molotov, Dulles and Foreign Ministers Anthony Eden and Georges Bidault that it was impossible for the Austrian gov ernment to accept the Molotov proposal.' '. ''"r-:';iiofv?v He asked which of the Bis Four' ' would be willing to present such 1 a proposition regarding his own ' -country to his own parliament. tne v western- foreign ministers already have written off hooa of concluding an Austrian state - treaty at this conference, although - the debate on it will run into an extraordinary Sunday session. .. Borne western diplomats said they expected another . , secret meeting on the Far Eastern situ ation to be held Monday and it may be that the ministers will have another go ; round - on the problems of Germany and Euro- pean security. Western delegations now are pressing for conclusion v of the work here late next week, Dulles, backing un the Austrl- . ana, ripped into Russia's program -with the charge that It contained "poisonous proposals", for' an - 'Austria without freedom." ' He expressed "earnest hope" ' that Molotov - would ; withdraw his de mands so that a treaty mnv bar soucjuuea immeaiateiy. 3; Diilk!!ngDewn In January . WASHINGTON tfl New- home building activity declined S ner cent from December to January, mainly because of extremely cold weather, the Bureau of, Labor Sta tistics reported Saturday. With 66,000 new units started In January, however,-the- bureau re ported that residential- construc tion was . showing . ' continued strength. . , .. ; The report said that, ' adjusted for normal seasonal variations. privately - owned home building was at an annual rate ot 1,078.000 In January, the highest rate since last March except for December. Public bousing authorities began construction of 1,300 new units last month, the same number as were started in December, but only one third ae many as in January s year ago. DEATH .:"''- '"':)' KAI8ER3LAUTERN. Germany i) Oapt. Carl W. Johnson. 32, of San Diego. Calif., was killed Friday by explosion ot a rocket he was inspecting, a U.S. Army announcement said Saturday.