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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (March 26, 1954)
in n7nn 01 In The ) iliM) r V I' llf ... t Dart lews B7 FRANK JENKINS This being another ho-hum dav In the news, the teletype regales ui wis morning with a tale of the black taffeta skirt that blew down Michigan Boulevard In Chicago yesterday In a high wind and was ' retrieved by a hotel doorman. The dispatch adds: "The owner was nowhere In sight." . Well, If It had been a pair of pants mat blew down the bout Mich ahead of a high wind the owner wouldn't have been In sight either. When a man loses bis pants, bis first Impulse is to dis appear from public view. I suppose It works the same way,wlth women and skirts. 'That suggests a thought. .Demagogues are perhaps the greatest menace to our way of life. If we could tame the winds bo they'd take orders and blow the pants off every demagogue that gets up in public wouldn't it be wonderful? ( ,' Cynical second thought: It wouldn't work. The average demagogue Is windier than the wildest Florida hurricane. I reck on the only defense against dema gogues Is to teach people to think straight. ( : The other day an editorial, writ er for the New York Times went nostalgic and lamented the pass ing of the Lazy Susan. When the table was equipped with a Lazy Susan, be mounted, the meal was more leisurely. Tlie was no queru lous demand for the salt or pep per or some other condiment, fol . lowed by a dash to the kitchen ' to obtain the needed seasoning. For the benefit of the younger generation, it should be ex plained that a Lazy Susan was a revolving jigger placed in the center of the table. When you wanted salt or pepper or vinegar or a dash of grated horse radish. or even a second or third helping of the chicken gravy, you spun the thing around until the desired comestible was directly In front of you and then you helped yourself. Thus the conversation was en abled to flow on unimpeded. The Lazy Susan lament touched off the Oregonian, and one of its stable of writers shed a scalding tear over the passing of the old time hall tree with its abundance of pegs for coats and hats and its umbrella rack with a metal pan at the bottom to catch the drippings from wet bumbershoots denosited therein. ' Living In Portland, hewould Mink ot tnat ' At this point, Graham Dean of the i Ashland Tidings reached 'or ' his typewriter. Another phase of life of some 40 years ago, which Is now miss ing, he added sadly, is the coal range in the kitchen, where the semi-weekly baking of bread was turned out with crisp, dellclously browned crusts. He went on, drool ing a little perhaps: "Home-baked bread was mighty good, especially if you could hit the kitchen Just after the bread had been taken from the oven and manage to get a fresh 'heel,' load it down with butter, top It off with a thick coating of sugar and then retire to the back steps to eat one of the finest delicacies ever concocted in an American kitch en." Shucks, Graham, that was back to the days when nobody thought of his (or her) figure and calories hadn't been Invented yet and the doctors weren't everlastingly yell ling that putting on an extra ten pounds was equivalent to alerting the undertaker. The thing I want to weep over Is the old-fashioned cream pitcher holding at least a quart of the stuff that then rose all by itself to the top. of the milk without benefit of separators. It was so thick that It poured from the spout at about the speed of sorghum mo lasses on a chjlly morning, and the pitcher was apt to be filled at least three times In the course of an ordinary meal. Ah me, those were the days when strawberries were -worth eating. French Mop Up RiverDelta HANOI. Indochina UI Hie French reported they inflicted 131 casualties on the Communist-led Vletminh Friday, but only 15 of those killed were on the bloodied battlefield at Dien Blen Fhu, the surrounded French Union fortress In northwest Indochina. A mop up operation in the Red River Delta accounted for lis of the enemy killed, wounded and captured. The fighting took place near Sont&y, center of a big U.S. financed agricultural project to aid the Vietnamese. The French used tanks, armored cars and mobile artillery to smash the rebels in that sector, which Is only about 35 miles northwest of Hanoi. 3 DAYS UNTIL THE ILOODMOBILE VISITS KLAMATH COUNTY i t J - ' ;'J vs h J"' m oil - t,,,. SAFEGUARDING KLAMATH FALLS young school children on the way to school this morning at Ninth and High Streeti, was .Officer Carl Jennings. The school girls are Judy Ann Hall, Inez Wilbur and Joan Hamiton. U.S. Plans for Setback From WAHmuftmw fm ...... j WASHINGTON MV-The United States has suffered a new setback in its hopes for early French action to create a Euronean Defeiuw Community as the capstone of Western defenses in Europe.- French parliamentary debate will begin at least a month later than American officials had ex pected following the conclusion of the Berlin Big Four conference last month. It will not get under way until after the April 26 open ing of the Geneva conference on Asian problems a fact, which may cost far more time in the long run. Changes in the Bonn constitu- Delays Case A legal tangle Friday was de laying the trial of , Willie Eugene uesnears, . 24, cnarged with the theft of rock crusher parts from the w. D, Miller Construction Company. wnen Deputy District Attorney Robert Kerr attempted to Test the prosecution's case late Thursday, Circuit Judge David R. Vanden- berg halted the proceedings! The judge told Kerr he had failed to prove essential facts in the case. He specifically re ferred to the lack of evidence proving the corporate existence of the W. D. Miller Construction Co. and the value of the property al legedly stolen. When the trial before a Jury was resumed Friday morning Mrs. W. D. Miller, secretary of the con struction company was called to the witness stand. When she was unable to produce corporate rec ords of the firm, Judge Vanden berg called another recess. Defense Attorney Donald A. W. Piper objected to introduction of two documents offered in evi dence by the prosecution. Judge Vandenberg explained his action in refusing the state to rest its case with the statement that at that Juncture the prosecution had .failed to offer sufficient evi dence to support the charge of petty larceny against Beshears. Attorney Piper claims his client took the parts believing they had been discarded as Junk. It was reported that Kerr was attempting to obtain records of the Incorporation of the W. D. Mil ler Construction Company from Salem. The company's own rec ords are in custody of an account ant who Is out of the city. Spring Opening Prize Planned Drawing for the grand prize of $100.00 cash in the Klamath Mer chants Association s Spring Open ing "treasure chest" event will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in front of the Chamber of Commerce of fice at 323 Main Street. Individual awards of merchan dise gifts will be made by all par ticipating stores, and these win ners win oe announced in store windows as they are unveiled for Spring Opening Friday evening. Merchants have been giving .out serially numbered tickets com pletely free of any obligation and numbers for merchandise gift winners will be drawing from tick et stubs deposited in stores at 5:30 Friday. Tickets on the grand award will still be available until 1:00 p.m. Saturday. All merchants are re minded by Helen Clugston, open ing chairman, that ticket stubs must be taken to the Chamber of Commerce promptly at 1;00 for the drawing. XUVHBll MOMUO dO ' EDC Suffer French Delay ... ... uon were approved after a week of wrangling in which Initial r-rench opposition was overcome The Big Three high commission ers approved constitutional changes to permit West Germany to raise a 500,000-man army, while barring actual conscription until EDC is ratified by all six nations. So far, only the Netherlands and Belgum have completed ratifica tion. . The West German parliament has also approved ratification, but signature was withheld by Presi dent Theodor Heuss pending re quired approval of the constitu tional changes by the occupying powers. i One facet about the continuing aemys on juxj wmcn js particu larly worrisome to Washington of ficials Is that a foreign aid ap propriations bill to include funds for European arms aid goes to Congress early next month. Unless there is clear evidence of prog ress on EDC. officials fear that many congressmen will balk at voting any substantial additional sums. Some French officials argue that French endorsement of 1SUC now would work against Russian ac ceptance of any proposals for set tling the French-Communist war in Indochina. American and French government leaders con tend privately it would not work this way. t" .1 - . f.fcftEESE -. ! : . .. THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY earn, through with this print from sn old negative and the informa tion that the bearded gentleman lifting in the buggy i$ "Preu" Dorrit of early day ranching KJiMIMJ mM MSMM Aboard Lost l: v w v . w i fitse rtra Cauls It Pages Pay Raise Offered In Dock Strike - NEW YORK (A The .shipping industry has sought to get long shoremen back to work oh the strike-crippled waterfront here by offering them a package increase of 10 cents an hour and about $1,730,000 In retroactive 'pay and welfare benefits. . ; -The bid received a cool recep tion from both the striking Inter national Longshoremen's - Assn. (ILA) and . the rival AFL-ILA, many of whose members are work ing. ... The employers gave the long shoremen until next Wednesday to accept the offer. The strike now In its 22nd day- took a graver turn lata yesterday when ILA officials Instructed the 4.000 Fort of New York tugboat crewmen, who are ILA members, to respect picket lines of the union's pier strikers. A tugboat tleup would make the docking and sailing of liners and freighters hazardous. Union lead ers, however. . indicated there would be no Interference with har bor barges and tankers carrying fuel, food and other commodities vital to the metropolitan area. Workers in other North Atlantic ports from Portland, Maine, to Hampton Roads, Va.. failed yes terday to strike in sympathy, as had been expected by ILA leaders here. Scores of incoming ships have been diverted from New York to other ports. Mayor Robert T. Wagner sent a telegram to President Elsenhower yesterday urging him to Intervene in the strike. Murray Snyder, a White House press secretary, said Wagner was advised by the Labor Department that Secretary Mitchell could take no action In the strike because the Issue is pending In federal courts. A rise of 23a in the number of AFL-ILA ,men working was report ed yesterday on the rain-swept Waterfront.: The .New York-New Jersey Waterfront Commission said $.712 men were on the Job. A normal weekday turnout is 30,000. KLAMATH. BASIN POTATO SHIPMENTS tin Dif '. T0B7 40 can ; 64 ears TUl ft 9367 ears 10,234 cart "TiZT". KLAMATH FALLS, OBEGON, Conference Sef for Final Revision of Tax Cut Bill WASHINOTON W A cut of about a billion dollars yearly on a wide range of federal excise sales taxes seemed assured Friday with Senate passage of a $1,034,000,000 reduction bill. The cuts will' take effect next Thursday. The Senate approved the bill last night 76-8 after two days of lively debate filled with political over tones in a congressional election year. . , . . ,-, It was sent to a Senate-House conference which cannot take place before next Monday after noon, since both branches are In recess until then. But Sen. ' MUUkln (R.-Colo.), head of the Senate negotiators. said in an interview Tuesday he Man faces Kidnaping PORTLAND m Police Friday jailed James Valentine, 41, and charged him with trying to abduct 9-year-old George Brice III. Last Friday Mrs. Brlce, wife of a wealthy realtor and banker, was forced at gunpoint to drive to Oatlln-Hillslde School here where young George Is a student. Her maid, Lizzie May Brown, was forced to go along. The gunman said he would take George and hold him for $125,000 ransom.. At the school the man never did get sight of the Brlce boy- When grabbed by a teacher, Manvel Schauftler, the man shot Schaufller in the hand .and fled. Det. Sgt. Bard Purcell said Valentine has a long record of arrests, including narcotics viola tions.' He migrates between Port land and Los 'Angeles, Purcell said, and has record in other pities, too,.- -," ?'.;. r... , i He wasieVed up' for routine questioning one-of 183 taken in by police in the .week when Detec tlves Joseph Blewett and . John Frazer "got Information" he might know something, Purcell said. He was picked out In three separate lineups, Purcell added, by Mrs. Brlce, the maid, and a teacher at the school, Miss Muriel Babler. Two other- teachers, In cluding Schaufrier, said Valentine was a "good likeness" of the man but they wouldn't be positive. ' At about 4:30 a.m., after hours of questioning, the charges were filed, Purcell said. Valentine denies any knowledge of the affair, he added. Ti h.m (' Try Charge fame down around the line and east ef the pres ent site of the town of Dorrit. From tha looks of things his crew was engaged on a fance stringing jab t those rolls in the foreground are ebvioutV FRIDAY, MARCH M, UM is confident the conferees will act speedily and rush the measure to president Elsenhower. The dead line for the President's signature is next Wednesday midnight. IDENTICAL CUTS T Both branches - voted identical cms on many items, so they are certain to be In the final confer ence version. They Include furs. Jewelry. handbags and luggage,. cosmetics, sporting goods, traln-bus-p lane passenger fares, telephone ' bills, telegraph, charges, : mechanical pens and pencils, lighters and electric light bulbs. 1 . , Millikln and other Republican leaders predicted the President will sign the biU. although the ad. ministration urged against the ex cise cuts., - The billion dollar loss in revenue will add that much to the $J,00,- 000,000 deficit already forecast for the new finance! year starting July 1. , The bill also extends for a year. to April 1, 1055, a aeries of 1861 Increases In major excises. These wul bring in $1,077,000,000 In added revenue. But the President had) counted on this In figuring, his next, year's budget. Involved are automobiles and trucks, gasoline,' tobacco, liquor and beer. The House voted reductions for admissions to horse and dog tracks and to night clubs and other cabarets, and for club dues, safe ly deposit boxes and pistols. The Senate rejected these. They will have to be threshed put In confer ence. . . ; DISPUTED CUTS - ' , ' The two biggest items in dis pute wlU be a lOO-mlUlon-doUar slash voted by the Senate on such household appliances as refrigera tors, stoves and electric irons and a 85-mlUlon-doliar cut through wip ing out of the admissions tax on movie tickets and others costing less than. 60 cents. The House voted to cut the admissions levy from 20 to 10 per cent.. . . . . Some congressional sources Indi cated one likely compromise on this might be to eliminate the re duction on appliances but to ac cept the Senate provision on the lower-orlced tickets. - , Bens. Byrd (D-Va) and WillWnts (R-Delt- won a surprising amount of support in the senate for a move to knock out all of the cuts in the bill except' the 217 million on admissions. - - ; They charged it was irresponsi ble to cut taxes heavily In the present perilous world situation and with the budget unbalanced this year and next. Byrd argued that a highly secret Armed Services Committee brief ing Thursday on the ' nation's de fenses Indicated the country may be facing heavier spending for Its protection in a hydrogen bomb, Jet plane age. The Byrd-wuilams amendment lost 64-38. S III III ' . xj lt barbed wire, along- with a keg or two of nails,. The blacksmith was fust getting ready to do some thing with the horseshoe held in his tongs and the rest of 'am war busy watching the cameraman.:. No. M United Fund Elton Smith, president of the lo cal United Fund, ; appointed two committees vital to the organiza tion at Thursday evening's Board of Director's meeting. , ' , , Named to head the budget ad missions and quota committee was L, Orth . SIsemore. : Committee members are Walt Franklin, Mrs. Arnold Oralspp,. Harold Qleger, Myrtle,'' Wimer, ' Cj. D, Long, J. Thomson, E. M. Chiloote and W. S. McBrlde. The three latter mem bers replace Mrs. Ted DeMerrltt, Paul ' Landry ' and Elton Smith whose' terms expired. The budget admissions . , - and quota committee has announced that all agencies who Intend to be included In the combined drive must submit their budgets to the United Fund office not later than June 1. The executive committee,' also appointed at the first 1964 board meeting, includes the United Fund officers, Elton W. Smith, . presi dent; Roy. W. Murphy, first vice president; Robert Smith, second vice-president;. Mrs. Earl Sheri dan, secretary; Harold Ashley, treasurer. . - Also appointed to the committee are S. .O. Bowies, Andrew Collier, Harold pteger, C. D. Long, Cat Peyton, J, Thomson, Russ ,Tla dale,' Dr. F. E. Trotman and Myrtle Wimer. .. President Smith presented the problem of payroll deduction and pledge collection to the group. Ac cording to Smith, ' a problem rises when firms' fall to sigh new employes, to the payroll deduction plan. , ;. ; , . . Definite action on , the -problem is pending the acceptance by individual firms.' - . - A motion was made and carried to ' the' some- 22 aeenctea served by. United Fund monthly,' with $3,000; to be retained m the treasury . $or emergencies -and operating expenses. . The 'treasurer's report indicates a balance In the ' United1 Fund account of $27,428.91. The balance on February 28 after SO- per cent of all the agencies" budgets had been paid was $26,687.90. Ad ditional deposits to March 23 were $2,210.31. Minus disbursements for operating costs and taxes, the bal ance on hand Is $27,428.91. President Smth. urged all United Fund board members, agency di rectors and their officers to attend the State District Conference of Chests which will be held in Bend April 21 begnnlng at 9:30 a.m. ...... V- Telephone till . Committees Appointed In Disaster MEXICO CITY UI A Mexican airliner crashed and burned In the night on War's Peak, is miles north of Monterrey. All IS persons aboard perished,. Five . were from the United States, - - ', U. S. Consul General William . Allshle identified the American passengers, as James L. KcOsiv -mlck, his son, George McOormlck, and Donald T. McOormlck, all of Amarlllo, Tex.; Burton. Farmer of Guthrie. Okla..- and Jinn i. Johnson, an employee of the Pen oles Mining Co., whose home town -was not learned. . The plane, operated by the Mexican-owned Aero Naves Line, was on s flight to Monterrey from the Pacific Coast resort- of Mazat ' lan. Flying conditions had been rough. " ,i The burned out. wreckage was sighted from the air at daybreak in an Isolated mountain area near the, village of Puente tie Morales. The mountains are in the Sierra ' de Salinas Range, which lies ath wart the approach to Monterrey airport. ..... ........ Spud Support Plans Told More complete information has been received by. county - agent C. A. Henderson from the secre tary of agriculture regarding Sec tion 32 assistance in, disposal of the remainder of the 1953 potato crop. Apparently- this 'Situation has been brought about by Indica tions from growers that they plan on planting a smaller potato acre age in 1964. The report on the national situa tion Indicates that this v decrease may be from 8 to 10 per cent, and that the planted acreage will be fairly close to the recent acreage guides issued by the Department of Agriculture. A few leading po tato areas however, -. includng Maine, Long .Island, Idaho, North Dakota,- and . Oregon - are states which should reduce -their plant ing intentions in order to be with in the planting guides, I - -me order says that limited pur chases under Section 82 funds and payment for diversion to the flour and starch program, operated through Agricultural- Stabilization Conservation Committee off tees "HI b the extent ,oT government participation. Since these reports indicate that the government will purchase some potatoes for starch and flour manufacture- and make a diversion payment of 36 cents per cwt. to the arower. further Information has been reauested as to whether or not this provision will apply to potatoes sold' for livestock feed. Information ' avail able as yet is, not too 'conclusive. . Police beek Dog Poisoners State police and sheriff's depu ties were searching for dog poi soners Friday who caused the death of at least seven canines In the past few days. " Dr. H. A. Leonard, president of the Klamath County Humane So ciety, received reports that six dogs were poisoned in Bonanza and two in Klamath Falls. One of the Klamath Falls dogs recovered. Investigators are checking basin drug stores to determine whether any sales of strychnine had been made. This poison was found In the bodies of all the effected dogs. Deputy District Attorney Robert Kerr said that persons convicted of poisoning dogs are liable to a three years prison term. McKay Backs Power Policy WASHINGTON Wl The admin lstration has no plans to give up the federal reclamation program -or the Bonneville Power Adminis tration, Secretary of Interior Mo Kay said Thursday night, In nn address to the American Power Assn., and in a news con ference, McKay also reaffirmed the administration's partnership policy for hydroelectrlo develop ment. ' He said the government will con tinue to build multi-purpose dams in the West, and will encourage private Industry to construct smal ler projects. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair through Saturday with high of 54. Low Friday night 30. High yesterday . ;....'..... 5a Low last night ZS I'reclp last 24 hours Since Oct. 1 11.19 Name period last year U.as Normal for period 9.10 MUSIC BROADCAST KFLW will broadcast a half hour tape recording featuring Athena Lampropulo.i tonight at 9:30 to 10 p m. This is a com munity service, sponsored by Rickys, for those who ' were unable to hear her concert Wednesday evening at Mills School auditorium- ' , ' ,
