TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1954
HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
PAGE N04B
Various Groups Urge The
Creation Of State Water
Board; Plan Meetings
ARLINGTON, Ore. OB Creation
of a permanent state agency to
handle water problems was urged
Monday at an Oregon Water Re
sources Committee hearing here.
More than 125 representatives
from Wasco, Sherman, Wheeler,
Morrow, Umatilla and Gilliam
counties Attended the session the
lir.it of a series to be held through
out the state.
The committee was established
at the last session of the Legisla
ture to work out a. comprehensive
water development plan for the
state. Lyle P. Watts, Portland, is
chairman.
. Thirteen written reports by
chambers of commerce, farm or
ganisations, wildlife clubs and oth
er groups were read at the
ROK's Protest
ROW Removal
r SEOUL UV-South Korea warned
today that additional Indian troops
"will not leave here" until It is
assured ot future safety for 76 Ko
rean War prisoners now en route
to India.
' The Koreans did not spell out
the Implied threat to use force if
they consider It necessary.
; The ROK decision was an
i nounced In a letter to Lt. Gen. K.S.
.Thlmayya, Indian chairman of the
Neutral Nations Repatriation Com
mission. 1 Text of the letter, signed by Lt.
ben. Won Yong Dult, was made
public by South Korea's office of
public information.
. About 3,000 Indian troops which
guarded unrepatrlated war pris
oners have left for home and
bout J, 000 remain In Korea.
The 76 Korean prisoners had
asked to be sent to neutral na
tions rather than to North or South
Korea. The Indian . command or
dered them sent to India until ar
rangements are made for them to
jive elsewhere. ..
i South Korea has demanded as
surances that removal of the pris
oners was "voluntary and destina
tions freely selected by them." -
The U. S. 8th Army, which is
responsible fer moving the Indian
troops from Korea's neutral tone
to the port of Inchon, had' no com
ment on the ROK threats.
Thlmayya said he has confi
dence the U. N. Command will pro
tect Indian forces and added:
"I am not concerned with any
correspondence direct from any
government. ... I shall return the
letter to the U. N. Command for
whatever disposal it sees fit."
In addition to the 76 Koreans,
13 Chinese FOWs asked to live In
neutral nations and were taken to
India.
Won Yong Duk did not specify
how South Korea would or could
block Indian movements out of Ko-
rea. '
hour meeting held In the grade
scnooi nere.
Among organizations submitting '
eports we're the Pendleton Fish
County Development Committee;
the Pendleton Chamber of Com
merce, tnd the Pilot Rock Fish
and Wildlife Club.
Other recommendations Includ
ed: A state-sponsored region-wide
survey to find out how much water
is available:
Revision of the slate wale:- code
but with the emphasis Disced on
preserving existing rights;
more lecnmcsi aid trom the state
In development of water resources
01 tne region;
Regulation of dredgma oneratlons
In streams, suggested by the Fossil
and Condon area representatives.
The Pendleton Fish and Burn
Club suggested that live beavers
be placed In high mountain
streams; The beavers would build
dams which would help hold back
wh.vf linn nratrenr riwH av.,1
slon damage, a club spokesman
saia.
Pendleton and Sherman Countv
representatives expressed concern
over erosion and urged steps -be
taken to control it.
Concern over malntainlne mini
mum stream flow In Umatilla and
snerman -counties also was ex.
pressed in several of the renorts.
The committee was to hold an-
oiner session at La Grande Tues.
day.
French Hit
Vietminh In
Hard Fight
Pastor faces Check Charge
Red German Trader
Unionists Purged '
BERLIN 11 East Germany's
Communist trade unions disclosed
Tuesday a new purge has swept
seven top leaders Into disgrace.
The action the second In eight
, months Indicated continued op
position among the membership
to Red rule.
The ousters were announced in
a communique Issued by the Com'
munist-controlled "Free German
Trade Unions." It said the seven
had been dismissed for permitting
"agent activity" against coming
nlsm. It also disclose that two
already have fled to the West.
The purse affected half the or
ganization's 14-member board of
governors. ;
Condition Of State
Highways Reported
SALEM ifl There still ai
minor delays because of construe
lion on two sections of the Oregon
Const Highway, the Highway Com
mission said Monday in its weekly
maintenance renort.
Tile delays are three miles north
of Gardiner, and two miles south
of Port Orford.
Routes closed by snow for the
winter are the Mt. Hood Loop, Mc
Kenzle, West Diamond Lake, and
Sun Mountain secondary highways.
Carson Speech
Starts Race
PORTLAND (fl Josenh K.
Carson Jr., a Portland attorney.
announced 'in a radio-television
broadcast Monday night that he
will seek-the Democratic nomina
tion for governor ot Oregon. .
Carson, who was, mayor of Port
and from 193 to . 1941 and who
served as a member of the U. S.
Maritime Commission from 1947 to
1950, said that if ha Is -elected he
will fight for more federal tunds
for power development in the Pa
clfic Northwest.,
He criticised the Republican
partnership" , power . program.
saying it was a deoartura (ror.i the
fol-partlsan, regional development
concept of the previous Demo
cratic administrations.
Carson said he favored reduc
tions in foreign aid to provide fed
eral funds for power and reclama
tion projects in the region.
Additional benefits for elderly
persons and for labor will ba
sought if he is elected, Carson de
clared.
He was the third person but first
Democrat to announce his candi
dacy. The other two are the in
cumbent, Gov. Paul Patterson, ami
Earl Newbry, secretary of state.
Patterson and Newbry are Repub
ucans. ,
.-, DROWNING . -! i.
VANCOUVER. Wash. I
53-year-old Portland man, Edward
Grossgriff, drowned Friday when
he fell into the Columbia River
from his small cabin cruiser at
moorage, near the Vancouver
Coast Guard station.
CHICAGO (IP) A 87-year-old ex.
convict minister, whom police said
had netted some 179,000 in passing
worthless checks, was summoned
before the U. S. court commission
er today for removal to Baltimore.
The FBI said Alexander George
Patterson had cashed worthless
checks in at least eight cities since
he became a minister in 1949 and
gationa! Church in Portland,. Ore.
Banister said Patterson left
Portland because of bad checks
HANOI. Indochina Wl French
Union forces broke out of their
northwest Indochlnese fortress of
Dlen Bien Phu Tuesday to drive
encircling Vietminh troops from
two hill positions. The - French
claimed they inflicted "heavy loss.
on the Communist-led enemy
and admitted "appreciable loss
es' on their side.
By their attack the ' French
seemed to Indicate they are k ey
ing to carry the battle to the 36.
000 rebels who have been threat
ening, but never yet have attempt
ed, an all-out assault on the heav
ily fortified French post Just north
Cjf ine Laotian border.
uen. nene uogny. rrencn com'
mander in northern Indochina, ap
parently tired of waiting for the
Vietminh to attack the fortress,
sent out 4,000 to 5.000 men against
me reoeis strongly entrenched in
the hills surrounding the French
Union position.
The army spokesman said the
French had not yet had time to
count the Vietminh dead.
As the infantrymen F r e n c h,
Senegalese, Moroccans and For-
elgn Legionnaires hacked their
hill positions of the - Vietminh,
way through the Jungle Into the
French mobile artillery moved in
to closer range and blasted away
ior nours. French lighters and
strafing and napalm bombing of
uie vieimmn concentrations.
Whether the French action would
force the Vietminh into decisive
battle remained a matter of swess-
wont. But nopes-ran high among
me French tnat they miehl vet
be able to deliver a crushing blow
to no cm Minn s crack divisions.
, DISPUTK
SEOUL 11 South Korea dis
closed today it had seised crews
of two Japanese fishing boats in
a renewal of the long-standing
fishing dispute between the two
countries. Seventeen fishermen
were held for trial. ,
in 20 vears had cashed worthier ""I b"? .!!Ld!)." 15
was seized by police yesterday in
the home of an evangelist in sub
urban Wheaton. on a Baltimore
warrant charging him with passing
a bogus check 'or (128. -
Guy Banister, Chicago FBI chief,
said Patterson's criminal record
dates to 1916. He said he had
served several prison sentences tor
rorgery Impersonation and cash
ing bogus checks.
Banister said - Patterson had
served as pastor of the First Bap
tist church of uooaing, laano,
Idaho, from 1949 to 1983 and from
August 1982 to last June he was
pastor pf the University Congre-
he had cashed worthless checks in
Cincinnati, 8U Louis, Kansas City,
Mo., Denver, Los Angeles San
Francisco, Chicago and Eugene,
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