-3, ,-H-i i o 1 o n e u v v v c o doira n n v n u v v r r - r. c A 4 V - -leseS . . . m a w I u uujlltjljv u ULrviU UU ULdUU U UULb la The ' IMT R V 1 Pays iews ijMmmlB I V By FRANK JENKINS C ' ; .' , Jr . Problem Tinta In , - ' The Moscow radio declares to day me H-bomb increases the need vi mu wivinauonai Dan on atomic weapons. The Russians for some time have been proposing outlaw ing atomla weannn- hut hv- . fused to agree to Western demands w cuecuve it4oPction sys tem. - That's what happens when you're wnu someone you can't Incidental Information? i - Approximately two per' cent of all the farmers producing potatoes In the .United States produce 85 ,. rsit iUNT of the total commer cial potato crop. - 'More Incidental "information . Nine percent of the farms In ttie United States produce 50.8 PER cent ot the total VALUE of Amer can farm production. . ! While we're at it, here's another It me lor.the book: .. . . ''What the census bureau calls part-time farmers constitute 21 per cent of all the farms in the. United States, but the total value of their . crops represents only 2.1 per cent w we total value of American farm proauction, Summing ud: . . . - In 1949 (the last year covered by the census bureau) there were 5,379,250 farms inthe United States and the total value of their products was 22,279, 562,599. In that year there were 103,231 farms that pro duced more than $25,000 worth of products per farm. The total value or tea production from these 103,231 farms was 15,786,964,285. ' That Is to say. these $25,000 and ever farms represented 1.9 per cent of the total number of farms but accounted for 28 per cent of our total farm production. Getting- back to the big issues, I- suppose you'd better get a copy of this week's U.S, News and World Report and read Admiral Theo bald's story of Pearl Harbor and what led up to It. There's nothing much startlingly new in' It, but It adds confirmation, to something that had been generally tmderstood. The gist of it Is that President Roosevelt felt strongly that destiny called us to get into World War II. He was aware that the people of our country quite generally want ed to STAY OUT. He knew that , the only way we could be brought Into the war was by some direct weKreaamn iguan us. So he deliberately set our Pa cific fleet out as bait to Invite a Jap attack. Admiral Theobald relates that, naving nroxen ine jap secret code, Washington was aware that Tokyo was plotting an attack on the fleet at Pearl Harbor. This news was KEPT FROM Admiral Klmmel and General Short, our navy and army commanders at Pearl Harbor. So, when the attack came, we were unprepared to meet it and suffered not only the crippling of our fleet but some 4,000 casualties. At any rale, Admiral Theobald says, we went to war. We WON the war. Destiny is a big word. Perhaps destiny did call us to do what was done. The tragedy of it is that in the war we thus got into we sowed., the dragon's teeth as those who go to war' so often do. One of his tory's tragic lessons is that wars tend to breed other wars. President Roosevelt was one of history's great and forceful lead. ers. There can be no doubt that he thought he was answering des tiny s can. There can be no doubt, I'm sure, that in answering des tiny's call he thought he was doing ins duty as ine leader ol the Amer ican people. It was a case where he thought the. end justified the means. But I hope that in the future we follow our constitutional processes more closely. That much power in one set of hands can be VERY dangerous! ' Ike Plans Speech Tour WASHINGTON iffl President Eisenhower has a busy speaking and travel schedule cut out for himself in the next 4 14 months. Starting next Thursday he will make 10 speeches in this city, New York, Kentucky, and Illinois, and make a quick trip to Virginia. There undoubtedly will be other speeches, but that Is tike schedule he has to date as a result of peri odic acceptances of Invitations to attend luncheons, dinners, fairs and political meetings. Unannounced but in the virtual ly certain category are these non speaking engagements throwing out the first ball April 13 at Uie opening baseball game between the Washington Senators and New York Yankees; A trip soon there after to his Oeorgia cottage on the Augusts National Golf Courw. and a late August vacation in Denver. Clark Griffith, president of the Washington ball club, has an en gagement to see the President Monday to invite him to the cur tain raiser at Griffith Stadium. The President, who was freely criticized last year for passing up the scheduled opener because of a prior engagement, is reported eager to accept this time. MannCok-flflm KLAMATH . FALLS. OUGON, FRIDAY. APRIL t, UM Trlralises till Sa. mm" ' -1 ' i k M ' ( . ? ' ,' I i CARMEN EMBREE, a taller at the United States National Bank of Portland, Klamath Falls Branch, on her way to work from her home at Route .2, Box 814 when the roving photographer passed. School Bus Hit By Train YAZOO CITY, Miss.- OH A slowly moving freight train crashed into a school bus at a Yazoo City crossing Friday, injur ing at least 13 high school stud- Witnesses said several students appeared critical and hnnntui authorities listed nine as.aerloiulv. Bus "Driver J. H. Moore, 50, sr.ld his brakes failed, allowing the bus loaded with some 30 students to roll onto the Illinois Central Rail road track in front of the train. The Injured, from 14 to 18 years of age, Jammed the King's Daughters Hospital. Attendants rushed the more seriously injured to the operating rooms and treated others in .the halls. Engineer A, Cutrer of MacComb estimated the train was moving about 15 miles an hour. He said it bad stopped within a block of the crossing and he did not see the bus until just before the Impact. Normally the bus would bave carried 40 students. Ten seniors were out of town on a field trip. TREASON VIENNA tfl A Czech court In Ustl Nad Labem has convicted 11 persons ' on charges of high treason and sabotage, radio Prague reported Friday. 3pL i iFl ONE OF THE BIGGEST carnages evar built in this country, and msybe anywhere elie, has iust been completed by Klamath Machine and Locomotive for shipment to Australia. The 20 ton rig. which took a year of planning and designing and better than a month to assemble, is forked by a series of 12 air motors, alto constructed here, and is specially designed to handle Eucalyptus logs native to Australia. Using a new type of dog the big piece of equipment has five knees and blocks instead'of the usuel three to handle the long, heavy, crooked logs. Air motors are used instead of the more conventional air cylinder. The machine, built for Lam bert Hyne and Son. Queensland, was designed by John Thediek. Interested persons are urged to vis,t the plant on Spring Street and inspect the equipment any time prior to next Tuesday. On that date the rig will be dismantled and shipped to San Francisco for crating and over seas shipment. International Of Hydrogen LONDON (Pi Moscow1 radio said Friday the hydrogen bomb nas increased the need for an in ternational ban on atomic war fare. The broadcast, quoting the Com munist Party onran Pravda. linked Russia's surprise March 31 bid to Join NATO to "the fact that the destructive Dower of the atomic weapon Is incessantly in creasing and m addition to th s ue nyarogen weapon has ap peared wnose power surpasses Final 7ord On Klamath' The Federal Communlcatlnna vommission has now closed the cnannel 2 television -contest In Klamath Falls on the basis of com parative merit between the propos als ui rvrji. Broadcasters and Klamath Falls Television, Inc. . Until 'March' 11 of -la.it vear -when the" FCC first reached Ham- am .rails under its priority system of handling TV applications ac- ooraing to olty size, the commls. sion has publicly encouraged appli cations from, all individuals and firms interested in making a pro posal oi television service for the Basin Area. Klamath Falls Televi sion, inc. made the first public an nouncement of intent to file for TV nere and KFJI Broadcasters ac tually filed the first aoDllcatlon. Had either application been unoo- posed as of March 11, 1963, It might nave oeen granted li. ine commis sion found it In compliance with the law and In the public interest. With two applications on file at tee time of Initial examination how. ever, the FCC ordered the case held open for any additional applications and to await an eventual hearing in wasnmgton, D.o. to determine wnien proposal would best serve the Klamath Falls region.' Last Wednesday, with no addi tional proposals having been re ceived for Klamath Falls, the case was officially closed between exist ing applicants and the hearing date set for April 30. The commission is now expected to instruct the principals, W. D. Miller, President oi ju'ji .Broadcasters, and una Chandler, President of Klamath Falls Television, Inc., to appear in person In Washlngton'to testify con cerning the representations of pro posed service made In the respec tive petitions. With only two applicants Involved and the proposals very different in nature, the bearing may not be come as lengthy as those In pro gress concerning larger cities and many applicants for each avail able channel. . As soon as competitive details are released from Washington, D.C., the Herald and News will print a full and complete compari son or tne two proposals. Earnest date on which the Klam ath country may watch its own television station now appears to be November or December cf this year and it will probably be later If the hearing Is prolonged. TV Awaited Dan on Use Bomb Urged many times the power of the atomic weapon." Russia has long clamored for an immediate ban on atomic weapons but has refused to agree to Western demands that it be preceded by establishment of an effective system of inspection to ensure compliance. In Asia, Indian Prime Minister Nehru called on the United States and Russia for an immediate r'standstlll" on hydrogen bomb ex. plosions pending progress toward elimination of : mass destruction weapons. In a speech to the lower house of the Indian parliament, he also demanded an immediate meeting of the long -' deadlocked U.N. disarmament commission on the question. . In anxious Britain, Prime Min ister Churchill called a cabinet meeting lor Monday at wmcn tne government will decide its attitude toward a Labor Party motion urg ing an immediate high-level con ference between Britain, the United States and Russia. The Laborites believe such a conference should discuss a reduc tion and control of armaments. The Churchill government Is be lieved ready to go along on the principle of such a meeting but is undecided on the advisability of calling it right now. unurcnui repeaieoiy nas saia ne still wants an informal get-togeth er of world leaders to ease ten sionbut at the proper time. He will address tne House oi com mons Monday on perils and prob lems oi tne ri-como. In Western Europe, Newspapers gave - photographs of the 1952 H-bomb explosion precedence over written descriptions. Most West German newspapers shoved the pictures and stories inside or on their- back pages. , There was little editorial com ment. But Gtornale of Naples tied Russia's diplomatic bid to enter NATO to the H-bomb, saying tne Soviets now realize "It is all the more urgent to undermine the European defense , community "after having heard and under stood the H-bomb's -voice." ; Mutual Aid Pact KARACHI. Pakistan Wl Pakis tan and Turkey, the latter NATO's easternmost member, signed a five year mutual assistance pact here today, agreeing to cooperate in defense and economic matters. The United states had welcomed the agreement, announced Feb. 19, as a constructive step toward bol stering the free world's defenses. The Soviet Union, a northern neighbor of the two Moslem na tions, assailed the alliance, charg ing it creates an anti-Russian "mil itary bloo in the Near and Middle East." Washington officials hoped the collective security alliance across the Soviets' southern borders would be enlarged to include Iraq and Iran, but no formal overtures have been made to those nations. How ever, Turkish Foreign Minister Fuat Koprulu told his Parliament Feb. 19 Turkey aims to create a collective security system "with out any gap" and invited other nations to Join. No. 288 Committee Okays New es WASHINGTON m Th Ttnuu Labor Committee Friday, okayed the idea of having a revised Taft Hartley act provide for pre-strlke balloting. ' Chairman McConnell (R.Pai said the group fashioned the policy through a series of votes on pro posals dealing with -the Issue. The exact language reflecting the policy, he said, will be acted on when the committee meets on Monday. McConnell renorted the irronn in closed session, approved 23-5 a Proposal by Rep. Kearns (R-Pa) lor strikes to be lawful only if union members approve the action before It is taken. It also approved 18-9 another proposal by Kearns which would require a majority of the ellilble union members to determine the organization's course in a pre- strlke vote. , . McConnell said the aroun re jected 17-U a motion by Rep. Wler (D-Mlnn) that no vote be required In the law. And it turned back 22-5 a Kearns suggestion that the law call for strikers to be required to vote on employers' final offers which precede walk outs. 1 , , . . The chairman indicated the lan. guage of the bill will provide for the pre-strlke balloting to be ar ranged by the U.S. Mediation and Conciliation Service but handled and supervised by state, local or private agencies. McConnell added that It Is likely the, final draft will call for the pre-strlke vote to be taken within a 10-day period before strikes can become effe tlve. : Once the strike vote provision Is completed, the committee will turn to the issues regarding ad ministration of the law and federal state relations. . ' President Elsenhower Included the strike vote issue among the 1 recommendations for changes la the labor law which Ii'a Mnt tn Congress In January. The -Senate Labor CommlUee which' complet ed a arait ot its version Thursday len out this issue. Former Air Chief Dies WASHINGTON m Gen. Hovt, T. Vandenberg, Air Force chief of staff from 1948 until his retire ment from service last June (1953) died Friday. He was 55. Death came at 1:05 p.m. EST. -uencrai van," as he was known to airmen everywhere, had oeen a patient in tne Army's Wal ter Reed Hospital here since last October, when he was admitted "for observation and checkuD." He was In virtual seclusion dur ing the last months of his illness, too sick to receive many visitors. The Air Force declined to state the nature of. his Illness but pri vate physicians who attended him in a 1952 operation said It was found then that he was suffering from cancer of the prostate gland, and that subsequently the malig nancy spread to the hips, spine and other bones. The second man to hold the Job of Air Force chief of staff, Van denberg succeeded Gen. Carl (Tooey) Spaats. In that role, he led the fight to rebuild the U.S. Air Force, dismantled after World War II, Into a position of world air leadership. It was Vandenberg who decided to concentrate the nation's air might in long - range, speedy planes capable of striking deep into the heart of any enemy any- wnere in tne world. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity; considerable cloudiness with s few showers through Satur day. High Saturday 48, low Friday High yesterday .... Low last night Preclp last 24 hours .... Since Oct. I , . 54 r ' 35 11.86 11.05 9.45 Same period last year normal lor period Sports Bulletin OLSON. GAVILAN CHICAGO M Bobo Olson weighed 159 V and Kid Oavllan 155 at the noon weigh-In for their 15-round bout for Olson's middle weight title at the Chicago Sta dium Friday night, (Early story on Sports sage) KLAMATH IASIH POTATO SHIPMENTS SVwtl 35 con Toul Fr 971 cen Sam ry Lan tw i 2S 10.S7 TH Chang & "r ; . I CAMP FIRE GIRLS will start selling their toothsome candy mints Saturday in the annual 'sal that helps raise money for1 camping fun during the summer. The girls hope to tell 7000 twin boxes of light and dark candy. The candy is stored each year upon arrival until the sale, through the courtesy of the Klamath Creamery. Here, wheeling out the first load tor deliv ery to leaders, is Don Piper, sale chairman and first vice presi dent of the Camp Fire council. Randy Lee Horn, aged 9, a Blue Bird, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Don Horn, 1436 Canby Street. Barbara Ann Robichaud, (center) sixth grader at Roosevelt, is the daughter of Mrs. Helen Robichaud. 628 Oak Street. ' ' , i Klamath Shoppers Quick To React To Excise Tax Cuts Klamath Falls ; shoppers, . . like Mrs. America all over the nation, reacted quickly to the cut in the excise tax Thursday, according to Keith Moon of the Town shop, president of the Klamath Mer chants Association. "Shoppers were elated at this real - evidence -that--the Republi can administration -Is keeping Its promise to cut taxes," .he added. "Ten cents on- a dollar reduction on such Items as a new purse for Caster was Just like finding extra money." - ' .. . Shopping In downtown stores was". Brisker than any other day, except tne Saturday spring Opening, for the last 30 days, he stated. Although the original draft of the act was amended and final word has not been received here on the out in all categories which will reach the pocketbook of the ulti mate purchaser, it is known that on many items there is more than the actual amount of the cut be ing passed on to the consumer. Admission to movie houses Is one example. Bert Henson returned Thursday afternoon from a meet ing with other managers and George M. Mann.' president of chain of theaters, in San Fran cisco, with word that his group is not nly passing along the 10 per cent saving to theater-goers. but the. admission price Is being dropped to where the remaining 10 per cent tax is not effective In most cases. The excise tax was cut from 20 to 10 per cent on all admission prices over 50 cents By reducing the price in all except the Cinemascope theater to 50 cents, all tax is eliminated, Mann was among Western movie execu tives who took the Initiative in giv ing the public full advantage of the possible reduction,' Henson stated. Lights can be Just as bright, but at about $5,000 a year less cost to Klamath Falls users as a result of the cut In tax from 20 to 10 per cent In light globes and fluorescent tubes. Living Is going to be easier In lot of other ways as the result of the federal action. All electrical household appli ances which previously carried a 10 Balentine Plea Heard PORTLAND Ifl U. 8. Balen tine, Klamath Falls attorney charged by the government with falling to make an Income tax re turn In the years 1950-1952, pleaded innocent beiore Federal Judge James A. Fee Friday. Balentlne's attorney asked that trial be set for Klamath Falls and Fee indicated he might set It for that city, but there was no defin ite determination. Balentine was ordered continued free on ball. Death Claims Veteran Writer BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. Uft Death has taken versatile, pro lific newspaperman Jack Lalt, 72, editor of the New York Dally and Sunday Mirror, A reporter and executive of Ream newspapers for more than half a century, ha died at his home here Thursday after aa illness of nearly two years. Lalt. who found time to write vaudeville stretche. screen plays, stare plays, novels and columns durinp a bust- career, suffered a xtrntrn and went to ft hospital last December. per cent tax will now be taxed per cent. Although the tax was at tne manufacturer's level,' it was passed on through the retailer' to the consumer-level to become- an Integral part of the price the buy er bad to pay. Approximately (1 million worth of .-electrical- ; household appli ances are -purchased in Klamath eaus each- year.- That Is going to mean ft savina- of aoirroxlmatelv S0,00ff to the householders, ;as it appears, that, most of- -tste-'rhanu- tactorers are going to pass along wis roving to tne consumer. That new electric power mow er will cost 6 per cent less. A preliminary check-uD shows a reduction of about ft per cent on sporting goods. Tne average cut In tax on that line is from It to 10 per cent. Athletic goods leads that list and the cut mav varv from ft per cent to less on some items which t did not carry a 16 per cent tax. 'It amounts to a verv real sav ing, particularly to the woman who Is in the market for Jewelry, furs and electrical household ap pliances. Moon stated. "First day's reaction shows plainly that tne puDiio is jubilant over the ad ministrative action." : i: lit. It. R. E. Fitislmmon Local Airman In Bad Crash Word was received from the Air Force that 1st. Lt. Reynold K. Fltzstmmons, son of L. J. FtU- almmons of 828 North Tenth Street, was one of the pilots aboard the C-119 cargo plane which crashed into a mess hall at Fort Bragg. North Carolina, Tuesday, March 30 killing seven persons. Fitsslmmons survived the crash suffering multiple Injuries and lac erations and a broken leg. Medi cal officers at he Fort Bragg Hospital report that he Is not on the critical list and is expected to recover. Lt. Fltzslmmons graduated from KUHS In 1948 and attended South era Oregon College at Ashland for two terms during 1949 and 1950. He received bis wings sa an Air Force pilot and commission as a 2nd lieutenant July 19. 1952 and was promoted to 1st Lt, on Feb ruary 1. 1954. Lt. Fltestnvnon presently Is stationed at Srwart Air Force Rasa. Nashville, Tennessee, wtoce he TntMes with his wife Puulme, V HardFioSif Races Oveir Dusty Plain By LARRY ALLEN HANOI. Indochina im Thous ands of' fresh Vletminh tranna smashed Into a French outcast about a mile northwest of the cen ter of besieged Dien Blen Phu. to -day and the French launched ft heavy counterattack, supported by tanks, in an attempt to regain the position. , , ..- Other rebel forces crashed - t the French- Union fortress from the southeast in a gigantic pincers movement aimed at the lu-u-t the bastion. - :. , A brief French ennummlmi ni4 the defenders had "violently coun- -terattacked" the Communist - led rebels each time they rushed at the ' ' two corners of the hill -encircled plain 175 miles west of Hanoi. There was savane hand-to-huiif fighting as the French forces re peatedly beat back the rebels try ing to break through into the plain's headquarters center. As the second maior Vletminh attempt. to overwhelm Dien Blen Phu raged on Into its third day, the fighting was so furious the .French, nad no chance to ostlmat the losses on either side. They had saia earner that the rebels - lost ' some 2,000 of their estimated 40.- 000 attackers in the first 48 hours. The attack on the northwest wss the first in that sector of the cur rent drive on the French 'fortress, though the rebels in their first mass frontal attack on the plain uree weeks sgo had taken two . posts in the center ot the northern defense perimeter. - ' a REBEL THREAT ' ;' In the current attack,, until to day, they had kept ft division ot some 10,000 men poised on tha plain's western fringes while two. other divisions attacked repeatedly on the east and southeast. - The French admitted last Blgb they had lost three eastern out. posts but said the heart and mala arteries ot the bastion were etlll Intact. Fighting raged In that sec- tor oft and on throughout sestet day as the black clad eebels, - ' armed with' containers ot high- ex plosive, rushed through wltherma; machlne gun lira to the barbed wire barricades. The desperate ' French Uniort forces French, North Africans. Vietnamese, That tribesmen and Foreign legionnaires fought hand so nana with those who broke) through the fire. The French hit ' hack, also with , six .tank-led coun-fer-attacks Into enemy hiU positions -around Dien Blea Phu. Despite the violent attacks, the garrison commander. Col. Christ. ' lan- de - Castries,- radioed army headquarters in Hanoi last night that his troops' morale was nirh and he believed they could hold on although outnumbered 4-1. AID APPEAL - ' : (In - Paris, the French- press agency reported that De Castries had sppesled for more reinforce ments.) Strang winds and Vletminh fthil. aircraft fire made lt difficult yes- teruay lor jTencn planes to swoop low over the saucer-shaped valley to padachute In supplies and troops the only means of supply, lng the fortress. ' American civilian pilots helped with the task, piloting slant riv ing Boxcars which dropped ammu nition ana otner u. s. supplied war material. . French bombers and fighters also made a record number of sor ties yesterday. , Paris HI A French news sgency dispatch said Friday reg ular Vletminh troops crossed the frontier from Laos Into Cambodia and that fighting was going on between the Communist-led rebels and Cambodian forces. Results of the fighting were not yet known, the dispatch from Fhnom Penh, capital of Cambodia, sain. The report said this was the first time Vletminh regulars had penetrated Cambodian territory. The dispatch said that the rebels had swept scross the frontier from ' the plateaus of southern Laos. Earllc. the agency said the In. vadlng Vletminh had captured the city of Voeun Sal in northeast- . era Cambodia. But at the request of their correspondent In Indochi na, the dispatch was "withdrawn," The second dispatch said nothing about Voeun 8a i. . Cambodia, which with Viet Nam and Laos make up the associated French states of Indochina, lies between southern Vietnam and Thailand, south of Laos. It Js the smallest of the three Indochlnese states, both in area and in popula tion. BULLETIN The meeting scheduled for the afternoon of Monday. April . by the Klamath County Farm Bureau Center, to discuss possibilities f -dehydrating alfalfa, has been post poned. Claude Conrad of the Hen Com pany, Seattle, principal speaker lor the meeting, has a confllctmg en gagement. : ' ' - The meeting is now set for Fri day, April 9. It will be an evening meeting, time and plane 'to De an nounced later, sccordtng to ' Earl Mack, president of the group. ' AKJtKf4T TOKYO Wi Police ' a rtesTfd another shipbuilding vfftctal Fri day tn a continuing Investigation of bribery and wnrupllori )n the met. prextrtmt Toshin Dnko of the Oa. w utresred and his offices ascrohm for Bvlflence.