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By FRANK JENKINS ' ?
In Indochina the French plead
tor a truce while they move their
wounded out ot beleaguered Dlen
Blen ?hu. The commies Ignore
their plea. The French high com
mand accuses the commies of fla
grantly ignoring the red crosses
plainly marked oh transport planes
flying mercy' missions such as get
ting the gravely wounded to .hos
pitals In time to save their lives.
As we move deeper into the cam
paign for political .control of con
. gress, the Democratic Big Winds
step up their criticism of Ike's pro
gram. TheV say It is getting no
where. Well, a big part of Ike's pro
gram of readjustment from the long
continued war boom is CUTTINU
SPENDING and. REDUCING
TAXES. When Ike wants to cut
spending, they yell lor MORE
spending. When he tries to balance
the budget, they put in snide pro
posals to cut. taxes and Increase
borrowing. - -
A lot of Republicans are not much
better. Their idea is to get elected
at any cost. ;
In modern war and in modern
politics, decency flies out of the
HnHntw in thn ntnches and all that's
left in the house is grim purpose
to Win JtEllAHUJUaoo.
For a change, let's turn to some
modern economics.
For some time you've been read
ing that Oregon's unemployment
itiint.inn this winter is among the
worst . in the country. , Perhaps
you've wondered why. Here is some
light on the subject.
Af fha wih annual vneetlnff of the
Northwest scientific Association in
Spokane on Decemoer 311, ima, wai
ter J. Meade of Lewis and Clark
s-nilarra in tani-ilnnrl nresented.a stu
dy on the economic significance of
the wood proaucis inauawy iu w
Pacific Northwest.
His study indicated that the rough
lumber industry Is and always has
been a boom and bust industry.
. In periods of rising activity, it has
. zoomed aDove tne general uiuua
4iai nvcirAirn. Tn nerlods of decline
it has DIVED BELOW the general
average. , ,
Oregon is now the TOP ROUGH
munm flTATR of the Union.
Hence its economy tends to follow
the boom and bust cycle. That, if
true, explains why Oregon's unem
ployment situation mis winter
been relatively naa.
Here's some food for careful
thought: '
Nearly a decade .Knd a half . ago
Washington passed the peak of its
rough lumber cut, leaving Oregon
as the . nation's No. I producer of
rough lumber.
lirooVilntrinn TTAVTNfl ALREADY
BtEctin Tllff PKAK OF1 ITS
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ROUGH LUMBER CUT, IS NOW
BETTER OFF INDUSTRIAL!, x
AMD ECONOMICALLY THAN
noniRAV wwnsm ROUGH T.UM
BER PEAK STILL LIES AHEAD.
Why? '
Hm aniuwi1 la ntmnle.'
wachincrinn realizing that its or
iginal supply of virgin timber has
been' depleted and that in the tu
lnr it. must deDend on annual
ornwth f sustained yield), has
turned to methods of utilization of
4. vamalnlncr timher'that Use feW-
4, kt pnnntTnn MORE
MAN HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT
PER THOUSAND twi.
Washington is making LESS
rough lumber and MORE wall
hnpni. hardbosrd. plywood, car-
4An naiwp hnves. duIo. naDer.
RAYON and other products that
come from the FIBER of the tree.
That is to say, Washington Is PRO
CESSING more 01 its wooa mio a
-rtHa roi-(tv nf nrnriucts and-is cut-
tins uo less of it into ROUGH
BOARDS. ,
Washington has had to look tne
facts of life in the face and realize
ltht iu suddIv of virgin timber is
not inexhaustible. Oregon Is still go
ing on the happy-go-iucxy assump
nn that there will always be plen
ty more logs where these came
from.
As a result, Washington is get
ting more payrolls and MORE STA
m.P! navrolls than is Oregon.
These are the cold facts of the
situation.
There's a lesson in all this for
the Klamath country.. We have
nassed the Deak Of our rough, lum
ber production. But if we are wise
enough to follow Washington's
example we can get far larger pay
roll!, and FAR MORE STABLE
PAYROLLS out of our timber that
is stlU left than we ever got out
of that part of our original stand
that we cut up so prodigally Into
rough lumber.
We'd better begin to HEED that
lesson,
Weather
FORECAST Klamath Falls
and vicinity: Mostly cloudy through
Sunday with high of 48; low Sat
urday night 34,
High yesterday . ..." SI
Low Ust night ... 31
PROTEST STRIKE
CAIRO, Egypt tfl Represen
tatives of the syndicate of trans
port workers claiming control
over 40 unions of bus drivers, taxi
drivers 'and street car employes
said Saturday they are calling a
strike to protest the revolutionary
council's decision to turn power
ever to a , constituent assembly
July 24. ,
KLAMATH
Friee Mm Cents 16 Pages
amo ".N!rons
Returned In
PORTLAND Ufl A county grand
jury, moving with unusual speed,
returned three indictments Friday
Biternoon against James Valentine,
41, accused by police of trying to
kidnap George Brice HI March 19.
One of the indictments charged
him with the attempted abduction
of 9-year-old George, son of a
wealthy financier, from fashion
able Catlin Hillside school here.
The other accused him of kidnaping
tne boy's mother, Mrs. George
Brice Jr., and her maid, Lizzie
May Brown.
Ball of $25,000 was set on each
of the three Indictments, making
a total of S75.000.
Valentine, who oolice saiH had a
long record Including narcotics vio
lations, asked at his arraignment
for a week to enter a plea and de
clined to accept the services of a
court-appointed attorney. :
Police said during Questioning he
denied all knowledge of the affair.
They said he told them he' was
eating In a downtown restaurant at
the time of the kidnap attempt.
Both Mrs. Brlce and the meld-
picked him out from a police line
up, saying he was the man who
forced them at gunpoint to drive
them to the school.
The gunman remained In the car
while Mrs. Brice went into the
school. She had officials notify po
lice. The gunman then rushed into
the school and fired several jhots.
one of which wounded an instruc
tor,- Manvel Schauffler, in the
hand. The gunman who fled on
foot In the confusion. - '
Police checked out ' nearly 200
suspects before arresting Valen
tine. -
' Circuit Judge Lowell Mundorff
scheduled the next hearing on the
case for Thursday. He told Valen
tine a further extension would be
available then.
Ipy-Gives
Quick Verdict
After only 10 minutes of delib
eration, a Circuit Court Jury late
Friday found Willie Eugene Be
shears, 24, not guilty of theft of
rock crusher parts from the W.D.
Miller Construction Company.
Bcshear's trial, which lasted two
days, was marked by legal com
plications which held up the pro
ceeding, several times.
When the prosecution started to
rest Its case. Judge David R.
Vandenberg refused to permit that
action. He pointed out that Deputy
District Attorney Robert Kerr had
failed to establish the corporate
company and the value of the rock
crusher parts allegedly stolen.
Shortly before Ihe-case went to
the Jury, Defense Attorney Don
ald A.' W. Piper called the defen
dant to the witness stand. Be
shears told the Jury he took the
rock crusher parts but believed
they had been discarded as junk.
Kidnap Case
POSING FOR THE 9 O'CLOCK CAMERAMAN this morning
were Bonnie Joe Carter, her father, Wesley Carter and Don
Pont.
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FALLS. OREGON. SATURDAY. MABXH 7. lffM 1
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LOODMOBILE VISITS'
KLAMATH COUNTY
Bomb Tests
Feared By
LONDON Wl Mounting anxie
ty that. America's next hydrogen
bomb test may start an unstop
pable horror brought fresh parlia
mentary demands 'Saturday that
Prime Minister cnurcnui ao some
thing about it. , . ; '
A member of Ohurchlll's own
conservative party, Gerald Nabar-
ro, demanded Britain seek reports
of the first American H-bomb blast
March 1 off felklni. f
Churchill has cautioned in the
House of Commons that - "any
thing like panic" would be more
Ukelv to lead to war than to a
peaceful solution. When he speaks
Tuesday, it is understood ne win
appeal for calm in the face of
what he once termed "stupendous
problems and perils" inherent in
the hydrogen and atomic develop
ment. ' '
But the gnawing fears of Britain
appeared to be more immediate
than over the threat of war. News
papers have raised the awesome
thought that the next and Digger
H-bomb test might actually get out
of hand. -
The Manchester Guardian, in a
lead editorial, voiced the fears of
many here: .,'..
"The anxiety perhaps unfound
ed but existing is that the ex
perimenters in April may start
something they , cannot stop.'
Perhaps, says the Guardian "we
should put trust in the Atomlo En
ergy Commission and believe that
all in. wnll . Tlnfc that; .wftA Tom
etiier Tf themmlsslon were' riot
in quite such; a hurry to carry
out its next experiment."
The Guardian asked for assur
ance from wartime experts such
as Dr, J. .Robert Oppenheimer
and Dr. Vannevar Bush that they
"had satisfied themselves that all
will be well with the coming ex
periments."
Dr. Oppenheimer is the Ameri
can scientist who , headed - the
"Manhattan Project" which made
the llrst atomic bomb. Dr. Bush
was wartime American director of
the Office of Scientific Research
and Development.
KLAMATH BASIN
POTATO SHIPMENTS
SMppei ; Stmt Dr
Todir tut vr
72 cars ' 40 cars
Tout Far Set ton
9439 cars 10.364 can
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TefephoaetlU ' No. M1
Ike Program
Vote Appeal
Said Good
OMAHA, tfl President Eisen
hower's program "will provide the
most effective appeal to all vot
ers" in this year's congressional
elections, midwest Republican
leaders agreed Saturday.
. COP chairmen from 14 states
took this position In a resolution
adopted near the close of a two
day session Of the Midwest and
Rocky Mountain Republican State
Chairmen's .Assn. ' .
The resolution bore out pre-con-
ference predictions that discussion
of such current issues as the Mc
Carthy controversy would be "In
formal." So far there has been
no indication that the chairmen
would express themselves offici
ally of Sen. McCarthy's dispute
with the Army.
' Republican National Chairman
Leonard W. Hall said Friday in
an interview here Sen. McCar
thy (R-Wis) "has done more harm
man goon" m ms . controversy wiin
top Army officials. Hall said Mc
Carthy's "Senate effectiveness has
diminished' in the past few weeks
"The, dlstpue has hurt. Any
dispute nuns," nx.11 aaia. ,
The Elsenhower program reso
lution said;
The' broad scope of the pro
gram, its concern for every Amer
ican' welfare, and its ability to
bring about prosperity with peace
commend the program to us as
providing the most effective, ap
peal to ' all voters, BepuDUcans,
Democrats and independents.
'It is our considered Judgment,
based. , on two days of workshop
sessions, that President Elsen
hower's program win do vie rai'
lying Point for a united campaign
to elect a Kepunucan vongresa in
November.
"The accomplishments of tne El
senhower administration mark the
fulfillment of solemn pledges dic
tated for the general good of our
nation and not , lor political ex-
VMdifnov."c . V. V-. .
i Wisconsin - state Chairman Rob.
irt E Pierce, one of three leaden
in the conference larm- aiscusaions
said the group will make no at
tempt to tell Congress what kind
of a farm program the country
should have. But he predicted
that starting with the administra
tion's flexible price support pro
posal Congress will provide a pro
gram we au can go out ana sen,"
French to Get
More Ui. Aid
WASHINGTON Wl American
crews will soon ferry a new flock
of B26 fighter-bombers to Indo
china where French fliers will use
them in a round-the-clock bombard
ment of Red divisions besieging
vital blen Blen Phu.
.. The Defense Department an
nounced yesterday that 36 more
B26s would be lent to the hard-
pressed French, who are trying to
repel Vietmlnh efforts to take the
stronghold in timer' to give Kca
diplomats a talking, point at April
Asian peace . talks. In Geneva,
Switzerland.
The U. 8. also is sending am
munition and defense supplies. Al
ready In action are 33 B38s and an
undisclosed force of transports,
some of which are piloted by ci
vilian volunteers from this coun
try. ' . .
U.S. Not Harmed
By Bomb Testing
WASHINGTON M) The Atomic
Energy Commission says recent
hydrogen bomb testa In the Pa
cific brought a small but harmless
Increase In radioactivity over the
United State.
(The gain over normal radia
tion always - present from outer
space, the A EC said, "Is far be
low levels which could be harm
ful in any way to human beings,
animals or crops."
There was no information avail
able on amounts of radiation reg
istered at specific points in the
United States from the recent
tests.
The amount now drifting over
this country from the Marshall Is
lands is less than that observed
in continental United States after
some nrevlous tests on the Nevada
proving grounds and overseas, the
ARC said, and even this will de
crease rapidly,
Portland Company
Victim of Robbm
PORTLAND Burglars broke
into the schnlteer Steel Products
Co. here, peeled open a safe and
took $1,100 early Saturday.
Detective Sgt. Dan Mltola said
thev nried onen a back door, bent
back two steel layers on the bot
tom of the safe and removed the
money from a cash box.
MAYIE ILOOD WON'T. HOW from a turnip, but It will from the veins of men 'and women
who pledge a pint of blood for the coming March 29-30 viiit of the Red Cross bloodmobile.
Members of the VFW Club, sponsoring the viiit here, wore Identification cards picturing a
turnip, and bearing the wordt, "We're Not After Turnipi," while, soliciting donon on Main
Street. (I to r) Harvey Brannan and Al Bakoiky, VFW memberi work the telephone round
ing up stragglers to donate between the hourt of 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. .
Posses
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MRS. TWYLA FERGUSON,
long prominent in Social end
civic circlet of Klamath Falls
patted ,eway in Ashland this
morning following a lingering
illness, according to word,
received from the Mountain1'
View Nursing Home, where
she had been a patient.' Fu
neral arrangements will be
announced on Monday by Ut
willer Funeral Home in Ash
land. U.S. Proposal
Given Nod
CARACAS, Venezuela W A full-dress,-
session of the 10th Inter
American Conference formally ap
proved last night the U.S. resolu
tion calling for collective action to
keep communism out of the West
ern Hemisphere.
Seventeen republics voted for the
measure,- with only Guatemala
voting against It. Mexico and
Argentina abstained. -
i Passage of the resolution was a
major diplomatic victory for .U.S.
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles, who extended his stay in
Caracas at the beginning of the
conference to fight for his anti
Red doctrine.
The overwhelming vote of ap
proval served notice on Moscow
that Red infiltration of the Amer
icas would be considered In the
same light as a foreign invasion.
The resolution calls on the Western
Hemisphere republics to take steps
toward collective action in case
the sovereignty of any member
nation is threatened by internation
al communism, .
FCC Dismisses
Eugene TV Plan
WASHINGTON Wl Dismissal
of the application of Television Air
Ways, Ino., for a channel 26 tele
vision station at Eugene, Ore., was
announced Friday by the Federal
Communications Commission.
The firm's failure to press lis
ease for the application was listed
as the reason for the FCC action.
West Germans Jail
Former Official i '
BONN, Germany Wl The West
German government has Jailed
former counter-intelligence chief
Frledrlch W 1 1 h e 1 m Heina and
charged him with misusing govern
ment funds.
Heinz, who resigned as top agent
for the Bonn government last Oc
tober, was arrested by federal po
lice last night.
He said he quit his government
post to fight charges that he-had
both Communist and Nazi affiliations.
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Historic Adams Ranch Sold
To Ft. Klamath Cattlemen
By OTTO ELMS
One of the four original ranches
in the south end ot the basin) the
Adams Ranch, located 314 miles
east of Merrill, has been sold1, the
owner 3, Frank Adams Jr., an
nounced today, i ,
Buyers of the property, Ira F.
Orem and son Harry, will take
over operation of the ranch next
week. ; :'.'.,::..-
The Adams Ranch, historic land
mark in Klamath County, is part
ot the Original holdings ot the late
J. Frank' Adams Sr., acquired
about 10 years ago, and consisting
of some 10,000 acresv .
.The ranch today consists of ap
proximately 600 acrea and is be
lieved to be the largest-ranch in
the basin using lrrgatlon water un
der- the U.S. -reclamation proiect.
In Adam Sr., WtTdlfed
when horse he"was. rtdfng
stepped In i hole and fell with
him, and the following year Adams
Reds Ignore
French Pleas
HANOI, Bidochlna IB The
French Saturday stepped up radio
pleas for a brief cease fire to
permit planes to move their
wounded from Dlen Blen Phu. But
the Vietmlnh continued thelt con
stant bombardment of the besieged
Northwest Indochina fortress.
The French High Command for
mally accused the CommunlsUed
rebels of flagrantly ignoring Red
Coss-marked transport planes fly
ing mercy missions..
French commander In chief Gen.
Henri Navarre appealed personally
in a broadcast t6 Vietmlnh com
mander Gen. Vo Nguyen Ola and
gave assurances the Red Cross
marked planes would be used only
for carrying our wounded.
A command spokesman said the
Vietmlnh acknowledged receiving
three appeals to halt their, shelling
of the Dlen Blen Phu airstrip but
had kept it up without-a, break.
Despite this, he said, American
supplied helicopters and transports
were braving the fire and at times
managing to evacuate some
wounded. -i
The spokesman did not disclose
how many casualties had been
taken out to hospitals in Hanoi and
elsewhere or how many were still
in the heavily bunkered, under
ground first aid station of the for
tress. The spokesman said the aid
station had been hammered by
Vietmlnh fire-
Fred Hoagland
Will Retire
Fred Hoagland, who has been
manager of the local Fluhrers
Bakery for many years has an
nounced his retirement, effective
June 1.
Named as his successor Is
Ralph Hunter who has been with
the firm' for 14 years and stepT
up from the post of sales manager
of the local company. .
Hoagland has been with Fluhr-
ofg for 21 years. He came 'to
Klamath Falls In October, 193S.
Coincident with his announcement
to retire, he stated he has dis
posed of his Interest In the bak
eries, but plans to continue to
make his home In Klamath Falls
and handle his other Interests.
First matter on the summer agen
da will be a three to six months
vacation, he declared.
No other changes In personnel
are contemplated, nor any change
of business policy, Hunter stated.
Jr., purchased the ranch from the
estate and took over operation,
An attraction at the ranch for
years were the rows .of stately
poplar trees surrounding the build
ings. These trees were planted by
Adams Sr., in 1887 after hauling
the seedlings by buckboard from
Shasta valley,, .. .
The Adams Ranch, said to be
the fourth In the Merrill-Malm
area was superceded by the Col-
wen, wnltney and Boddy ranches,
The latter place changed hands
shortly alter tne death of Boddy
who was among the early settlers
massacred by Indians shortly be
fore me sioaoo war, and was
later known aa the Hartley, Ranch,
The new owners farmed ' for
many years in the Henley district
and a few years-, ago purchased
a caUla. ranch at Fort Klamath.
where the younger. Orem.n.o w
uvra. ,
. A new house will be built on the
ranch this year, replacing the
large two-story ranch home that
was built by Adams Sr., in 1898.
A part of the farm land will be
leased for the growing ot potatoes
and some diversified farming
will be continued, - Orem stated,
but most of the ranch activities
will center around the raising and
fattening of beef cattle.
Sale price of the ranch was not
disclosed, and participants stated
it was a private deal.
Plan To Stick
WASHINGTON (fl The gov
ernment has indicated it Is stick
ing to lis support lowering plan
that is expected to bring down
the price of butter April 1.
Sen. McCarthy' (R.-Wis.)- said
Friday night he heard the Agri
culture Department might make
a last minute switch away from
its announced plan to drop dairy
price supports from 90 per cent
to 75 per cent of parity April 1.
Parity is a price declared to be
fair to farmers in terms of what
they must buy.
But undersecretary of Agricul
ture True D. Morse, head of the
Commodity Credit Corp., which
handles price supports, said . he
knew of no change.
The government apparently is
going on, too, with . a purchase
and resale plan on dairy products
which McCarthy criticized- He
said he has assigned aides of his
Senate investigations subcommit
tee to look Into some financial
aspects of the shift to lower sup
ports. , , .
Until April 1, the government
Is committed to buy all the butter
ottered it at va.la cents a pound
Chicago basis. It Is getting more
than three million pounds a day.
FRED HOAGLAND
Soviet Anny
Paper Uses
tiro Pniirv
MOSCOW 1X1 The Army, news-
paper Red Star Saturday gave the
Soviet people a simply written ex
planation, complete with diagrams
of the hydrogen bomb It predict- -ed
the. thermonuclear energy of
the H-bomb, turned to peaceful
use, will permit Interplanetary and
Interstellar flight. .
The article said the Soviet Union
exploded a hydrogen bomb Aug. 8,
1953, and went on to say this
country will use the energy so de
veloped for such peaceful, purpos
es as construction work,' digging
canals and opening new sources
ot mineral wealth... . ..
The article was one of a series
explaining atomlo and thermonu- -clear
energy the first ever pub- ,
llshed for the general Soviet pub- '
lie- .-,,":, !
Western diplomats here find this
new policy of informing the publlo
extremely interesting, and some
are clipping the articles lor their
own information. '
The article Included a sketch
showing the difference between an
atomic bomb and an H-bomb. It
said the H-bomb releases 8 to 10
times more power with the same
amount of fuel. The paper also
printed a small, theoretical sketch
of an H-bomb.
"The power of explosion of . a
hydrogen bomb can best be com- 1
pared to the tungus meteorite ex
plosion in Siberia in 1908,". it said.
'The meteorite weighed not less
than one million tons and had a, J
speed of 60 kilometers (37.28 miles
per second. The bright tall of the
meteorite was seen at distances
of 600 kilometers (373.8 miles) and '
the explosions on striking the
earth were heard thousands , of
kilometers from the spot, The ex
plosions felled the forest over an
area of a hundred square Idioms-
ters. . .-'..'.,: !
"Doubtless an explosion of such
strength can be used not only for
military purposes and destruction,
but also for peaceful purposes...
the Brilliant discovery ot the real.
way of receiving energy from the
tnermonuciear reaction witn ny
drogen, made by Soviet scientists;
opens before humanity the pros
pects of mastering such forces ot
nature. and a growth in produc
tivity immeasurably greater than
anything yet known, in the iieid of
energetics. ,; " .-'
"Hydrogen energy - lor tne .
peaceful use Of which the- Soviet
Union is fighting will change
the conditions of the.pecple af -the
world and will permit a solution
to the problems of interplanetary
and interstellar flights and the re
construction of our planet for the
good of mankind,"' y : .' '
- Western diplomats are speculat
ing on the Soviet government's
reasons for its new policy of in
forming the citizenry of the nature
and effects of A-bomba and H
bombs. Some connect it with Pre
mier Malenkov's speech two weeks
ago warning that an all-out atomic-hydrogen
i war would "'destroy .
civilization." .
This remarkable statement oy
the Soviet premier attracted at
tention because it was the first
time any Soviet leader spoke so
plainly on the fate of the world,
Hitherto Soviet leaders have spok
en mainly in terms of deadly re?
tallatlon should the Soviet Union
be attacked. . -
Plainer speaking here Baa par
alleled plainer speaking by Pres.
ldent Eisenhower, Prime Minister
Churchill and other western lead
ers. . ' ' ; -
Some diplomats here think the
more such information given to
the people of both East and West,
the better chance there will be for .
an international agreement to har
ness these forces for peace. . ..
Forestry Group ;
Adds Tree Farms
PORTLAND Wl The Industrial
Forestry Assn's board of directors
Friday certified 10 private forest
holdings totaling 6,841 acres as
West Coast tree farms. "
Five, are in Oregon. The largest
is the Glustlna Bros. Lost Creek
property In Lane County. That to
tals 4,300 acres.
Others In Oregon are Levllle and
Frances I. Horner in Linn County,
Curl R. and Odllle A. Messing in
Douglas County, Eldred Caster In
Marlon County and Drew and Dav.
lene Mlchels in Polk County. : '
Oregon now has 19 tree farms
totaling 1,665,238 acres in the as
sociation's private forestry pro
gram, launched in 1040. . '.
RALPH HUNTER
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