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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.
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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. , -
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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
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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.