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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (April 20, 1954)
r N. rui ji I 1 U0J cu u u I I tt u 4 W SF1 -it- I 0 (- I ; 'i' ;kI . ICING U? THI TRUCKS this morning with th let grinding. ;achin war Frank Fleet of City tea Company and Bill Van. ' nice of Valley Fir Eauiomant 'Spring Street. ' In The Day's to By FRANK JENKINS . I OMAHA. The flat plains of east - - era Colorado and Nebraska are be hmd ua. 'As of now. they're dry plains. Not parched as yet, any- r way. Just drier than they ought to " be in mid-April. r . - In this year of 1964, when there - are sign and portents In the South-west, that might be significant.. It . has been a long time since there - has been a real drought. This might ' Be tne. year. , Drought, It's a grim word. It carries connotations of privation and want and distress even hun ger. But, so weird Is this modern world we live In, a fairly wide- spread drought might carry the so lution of the American farm prob . lem. ; Could anything be more fantastic than that? , . ' Over the wide Missouri which In this spring ot 1954 Isn't aa wide or as deep as It might be. Nor are its waters as rollyas they jre wont to oo at ims season. Looting aown ward as the train rolls over the bridge, I have the feeling that If you tilled a glass with this yellow ish fluid and let It set for a half hour It wouldn't be more than may be a fourth mud at the bottom. That, too tells Its story In this .spring of 195. There Is less water In this vast valley of the Missouri than the people who live here would like to see. On Into Iowa the land of the corn and the hog. There Is plenty of both In sight Irom the car win dows. The fields are full of pigs little rascals about a foot long. If there is anything cuter than a pig about that age, I have yet to see It. And If there Is anything less glamorous than a full grown hog I don't know what It could be. I mean, of course, a full grown hog in the natural, on foot, and maybe emerging from a mud wal low. After the hog has been pro cessed into bacon and the bacon has been properly fried and artisti cally disposed upon a plate around a couple of eggs that have also been fried well, that's another story. When a pig has fulfilled lis ultimate destiny it Is a lovely enough object to gaze upon. The corn Itself isn't actually vis . lble. What one sees is a myriad of round bins. These bins I know that "crib" is the proper word for a building in which corn is stored, but It's hard for one who grew up in the cornfields to think of these round metal containers as . corn cribs clutter the landscape around every village and county Aeat town. . "J They look exactly like the tank farms that surround the big oil refineries, and at first one wonders what they're storing all this oil for out here In the corn belt. The tractors that have replaced the horses and the mules that once were the standby of the prairie far mer must be simply voracious users of fuel. Then It breaks In upon you that the world has changed. It used to be that corn was put In a tempor ary structure called a crib because a PERMANENT structure wasn't needed to hold com that would be fed to hogs and cattle during the winter months that follow directly after the husking and the cribbing of the corn. It's different now. Corn, you see, . la these days of farm problems is bo longer Just a feed for livestock. It's a prime raw material out of which votes are made, and as such it is too precious to be stored In an open crib thrown together out of rails or two-by-lours and narrow boards. Ah, me. There have been great ; , changes In farming since the days - when I grew up back here in the corn belt. I'll bet anything that If .' one watched carefully the graves In the) cemeteries where the rugged pioneers who took this country away from the Sao and the Fox - Indians are buried he'd see the bio f rase that covers them heav ' fnf mJ railing in many a spot. Comoanv. both at A&5 Smith Wilson Says US. Safe From Attack WASHINGTON VP) 'Secretary of Defense Wilson says he believes the united States Is "relatively se cure'' from surprise atomic attack and even more seoure from sus tained aerial assault. Wilson said Russia would loae many bombers and trained crews In the Initial stages of any air war over America "and I do not be lieve they could keep It up." - Testifying recently before a House Appropriations Subcommit tee considering the defense budget, Wilson challenged an opinion of Rep. Mahon (D-Tex) that the United States Is "highly vulnerable to atomic attack at this time." The secretary said he believes the nation is vulnerable but "rela tively secure," adding that he be lieves the Russians "have been much mo.e afraid of us than we are of Hum." ' .' -f;-:-"At, Other, .testimony, portions of which were made publlo Monday night, disclosed that: ". 1. The Defense Department plans to bring more troops back from tho Far East, Earlier two Army divisions were ordered home from Korea for deactivation. - Wilson testified that considering South Korea now has 20 divisions and "from the point of view of not having an active war we still have too many troops In the Pacific. ... We expect to bring some of them back as conditions permit. 2. WUson and Asst. Secy. John Hannah told the subcommittee they have reports of 118 "security risks" who were fired or resigned last year after investigations were begun. They said reports have not yet been received from all military installations and offices. The olficlals said 111 of the lit cases "involved actual or alleged membership In the Communist Party, or affiliation or sympathetic association with Oommunistio or ganizations or persons, or Commu nistic Inclinations." , , Red Leaders Hold Meetings MOSCOW Ml With Premier Oeorgt Malenkov, Foreign Minis ter T. M. Molotov, and other lead ers on the dais, the newly elected Supreme Soviet (parliament) of the U. S. S. R. convened In -the grand palace of the Kremlin Tues day, The sessions are expected to last the remainder of this week. The main business will be adop tion of the national budget. It is possible, but highly uncertain, there may be a major policy speech by Malenkov or some other top official. The parliament session began with an organizational meeting of the council of the union, Malenkov sat in the iront row of a box behind the speaker's ros trum. He wore his familiar dark tunic and occasionally chatted ani matedly with his neighbors In the two-tiered box. In the chamber sat more than TOO delegates from, all sections of the Soviet Union who make up this council of the union. The coun cil of nationalities has more than 600 members. . Tne delegates ranged from shawl-wearing peasant women to Red army marshals and leading scientists of the Soviet Union. They all raised their hands in affirma tion for every vote called. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair through Wednesday. High Wednesday 63 Low Tuesday night 28. High yesterday . -.. 59 low last night ,3 Prectp. In last 24 hour , 0 Since Oct. 1 12.57 Same Period Last Year . . UJIS Normal for period - t.M 1 . i i Prtce Fire Ceall 14 Page . . . KLAMATH FALLS. OKEGON. TUESDAY. ATM. t. M4 - Tcteea till N. 22 Accused By WASHINGTON Wl A former prisoner of war swore Tuesday his pians to escape from a Korean prison camp were tipped off to his Jailers by Col,. Edward 8. Dickenson. The. witness. Cpl. Thomas A. Carrlck of Blacksburg, Va., said at tne opening of the second day of Dickenson's court martial that he' overheard the defendant inform on him. Carrlck said he listened through a paper door at the prison camp.. This testimony' sent ooooslng counsel into a vigorous debate on uie admissibility of Carrlck s tes timony. Guy Emery, defense at torney, drew from Carrlck on cross examination that he bad also overheard Dickenson confess that he, himself, was planning an es cape. Asked why he had not mentioned this fact, the witness said: ''I try to forget things, sir." Carrick said he was In a foxhole with; Dickenson just before both were captured Nov. 6, 1950. The witness said he saw Dick enson several times prior to Oct. (, 1951, when they confided to each other they were planning escapes Then, on that day, Carrick said he was ordered to. headquarters and was told by Wong, a Chinese military adviser, he was going to escape and was asked "who were going with me." Carrick said he told Wong he was not planning to escape where upon the Chinese left the room. Shortly afterwards, Carrlck said, he heard a conversation in an adjoining room between Dick enson and Tong, another Chinese captor. In which Dickenson was asked for the names of the men in Carrick a group planning to es cape. Dickenson repeated "the names of my men." Carrlck said. Tong asked Dickenson "it he would put It on paper. Then I beard the rattle of paper." 8hortly afterward, Carrick said. he was sent to another prison camp for "men the Chinese called Under oross examination, Emery asked Carrick If he had told the prosecution before the trial that Dickenson also had admitted that he was planning an escape. Car rick said yes. "That was before the rattling of the paper." be said. Air Force Plane Crashes BURBANK, Calif. Iff) A 0119 Flying Boxcar, believed to be one overdue at Lockheed Air Terminal on a flight from Chandler Air Force Base, crashed and burned In a fog Tuesday In the Granada Hills. The big two-engine plane nor mally carries a crew of four. Several residents of nearby Van Nuys reported hearing an airplane in a heavy fog and said they heard it crash In the Granada Hills area six to seven miles north of Lock heed Air Terminal. Policemen and firemen searched the hills In the heavy overcast. Lockheed control tower reported that the C119 radioed at 9:28 a.m. PST., that she was over Chats- worth and was making a range ap proach to land at Lockheed. witness a A w t wrwi ifciiiiM it - mwaj ' Wtlfcal THRliE PRETTY GIRLS will sing at the annual Pelicans to be presented by the radio students of Klamath Union High School at Mills School auditorium, May 7. The trio will sing several numbers oil the program that will be varied and interesting. The show will be free to the pub' lie. Her II to rl aa Dana Lampropulous, soprano; Margaret Scholar, second soprano and Joan Meador, alto. . -. Photo by Floyd OFFICIALS AT THE HEARING on HR 7320 at Klamath Agency Monday were: (I to r) Charles Cohen, area council, Port, land; Harvey Wright, repretenting Governor Patterson, Salem; Mrs. Altha Urquhart, Public Welfare Commission, Klamkth Falls Allen Jeffries, education director, Boise; E. J. Diehl, superintendent, Klamath Agency; Louis Segler, Indian Service attorney, Washington, D.C.; Judge U. E. Reader, Klamath Wiretap Bill Considered WASHINGTON Ifl Atty. Gen. BrowneU argued to a Senate Ju diciary subcommittee .Tuesday mat tne speed and secrecy needed to trap spies might be Impossible If a court order is required before wires can be tapped for. legal evi dence. The subcommittee Is considering a House-approved bill which would permit evidence secured by wire tapping to be introduced in federal courts in cases involving treason, espionage and related offenses provided a court order was se cured in advance approving the wiretapping. At present, wiretapped evidence cannot be used in federal courts although wire-tapping itself Is not unlawful and is often used In FBI Investigations of cases involving national security. BrowneU asked the Senate rtoud to strike 'but the House provision as to a court order and give his office unfettered authority to say where and when the tape should be placed. Nixon Defends Speech Stand NEW YORK OB The New York Times said Tuesday . that Vice President Nixon makes a point that he did not go to last Frldny's meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washing ton to launch a "trial balloon" for an Interventionist policy on Indo china. A Washington dispatch to the Times by James Reston said Nixon is disturbed about some of the re action to his controversial speech on the possibility of U. S. inter vention in the Indochina war. Indian Affairs Hearing Held At Klamath Agency About 40 witnesses appeared be fore the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee hearing at Klamath Agency Monday. The affair convened after the ar rival at the Agency of members of the subcommittee who arrived In Klamath Falls by train at 9:30 a.m. and with only a short lunch period moved along at a Tapid pace until adjournment at 8:45 p.m. Representative, E Y, Berry, (R B.D.), chairman of theisubcornmlt- tee; ueorge addoh, attorney tor the House Indian Affairs Subcom mittee, Louis Segler, attorney for the Indian Service, - Washington, u.u., ana j. jex, aaministrauve a slstant to Senator Arthur Watklns, (R-Utah) were the subcommittee members present. The hearing was conducted by Abbott. Purpose of the hearing was to take testimony from state, county and city officials, and represents. lives of Interested Indian groups on the reservation, as to the most logi cal and desired manner In which the government should step out as guardians of the Indians' affairs. From among 20 Indians appear ing as witnesses many different plans were offered, ranging from Immediate liquidation 01 an trioai propertiesand equal payment to all enrolled members of cash derived Irom the sale, to a plan to keep the reservation intact and turn the tribal alfairs over to the Indians thraiselves to operate as they de sire. About the only dissenting testi mony ottered on the bill under dis cussion by state and county offi cials came from Harvey Wright, a member of the Stale Department of Education and a personal repre sentative of Governor Patterson, when be stated. "If supervision Is released by the government, I be lieve the government should first replace or provide funds for a new school building at Cbiloquin." Superintendent of county schools Carrol Howe, was in accord with Falls; Tom Sanders, chief clerk, Klamath Agency; Don Foster, area director,' Portland; Paul Henderson. . area irrigation en gineer, Portland; Congressman E. Y.: Berry, South Dakota! George Abbott, attorney far House Committee. Washington..': D.C.; Mrs. Consallo Gosnell, area social worker,, Portland;; Forrest E. Cooper, attorney, lakeviow, and J. Jax, assistant to Senator Watkini of Utah. . : Wright, and stated 200,00 was needed ' at once to finance this structure. Administrative assistant J. J:x Informed the group that it waa Ills opinion the government would look adversely on an expenditure of this size during the release from stipe vision perioa. Many state and county officials offered assurance to the commltte members that their deoartmanu -were read and willing to assist in any way possible in the program, State and county officials appear ing as witnesses included: Harvey Wright, L. P. Jeffries, Director of Education lor the state of Idaho. Boise; Forrest . Cooper, member of the governor's Advisory Com mittee, - uueview: Carrol Howe. ouperuiienaeni 01 Klamath County Schools; Arthur Dickson, county assessor; jurs..Aitna urquhart, ad ministrator Klamath County Public Welfare Commission; Francis Ma- tnews, juvenile officer: Mayor Paul mnary, Mayor James Chipman, Chiloquln and Rev. Lloyd Hoiloway, representing the Klamath Falls Ministerial Association. Justin H. Casey. Beatty: Paul Henderson, area Irrigation engi. neer, Portland: Ted Hyde, business manager for D. O. Williams cattle Interests: Bill Ganong, attorney for D. O. Williams and Ben Mur phy, secretary of the Modoc Point Water Users Association. Interested persons who did not have an opportunity to appear be fore the subcommittee were given 10 days in which to mall state ments to the House Indian Affairs Committee, Washington, D.C. Such written statements will be Included as testimony In yesterday's hearing, stated Congressman Berry. Asian Peace Talks Told NEW YORK 11 An NBC re porter in Tokyo said Tuesday that he had been Informed "highly sec ret meetings" are on between French officials and Ho Chi Mlnh In Saigon in an effort to work out peace In Indochina, James Robinson, the radio cor respondent, said he had been given the Information by a top member of the native anti-Communst gov ernment In Viet Nam. He added that other "compe tent" officials had told him that two months ago French Defense Minister Rene Plevln met Commu nist representatives on an aircratt carrier off Saigon and proposed a peace settlement. The heart of Plevln's proposal, Robinson reported, was that Ho Chi Minh accept vice presidency of the nation's government under its French-backed leader, Bao Dal. An NBC spokesman in New York said that Robinson has been cov ering developments In Indochina. It was not known here when he re turned to Tokyo. KLAMATH BASIN POTATO SHIPMENTS TtXar Latt Tr 3t cart 8 cm Total for 10,374 can 10.130 ear UU-U FBI Reports Crime Rise : WASHINGTON W) The FBI reported Tuesday major crimes in I the United State rose 6 per cent I last year to tin estimated total 01 2,159,080 offenses. - ."Crime Is outstripping popula-1 ton rate of growth. 4 to 1," the! bursas said In it annual bulletin "Uniform Crime Reports." ''The rla cannot be charged m-iiior5, in- popuaaton aton,' the FBI aid. "The . number of persons residing in 'the United States Increased about t per cent from the 1950 census to 1V63, while crime totals rose over 20 per cent.' Of the major crimes tabulated from police reports in all parts parts of the country, only murder dropped off from 1962. It showed a 1.2 per cent decline. Arrests of young people those under 18 rose 7.0 per cent In 1953, while adult arrests increased 19 per cent. A sampling of data from 1.174 cities Indicated that some four mil lion persons were arrested during tne year. This figure Includes per-, sons taken Into custody for driving while drunk and negligent man slaughter involving automobiles. but does not Include arrests for lesser traffic offenses. Although the crime rate contin ued to rise, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said only a few weeks ago that due to modern detection methods, the confirmed cri minal never stood a poorer chance of continued success than he does today. Uniform crime reports" said more than 59 per cent of the value of property stolen last year was recovered; of the 226.530 automo biles stolen (up 51 per cent from 1952), police reported recovery of 93.9 per cent. SPEAKERS CHICAGO W Senators Kennedy (D-Masa) and Douglas (D-Ill) were listed as chief speakers tonight at the tlOO-a-plate fund-raising dinner for the- Democratic party. Some 1.300 state and national party lead ers were expected to attend. Committee Appointed In Latest Annexation Move The long-standing, critical sani tation problem in the south subur ban area, moved one step nearer solution last night, through the de cisive, conclusion that the only answer to immediate action, is annexation of part of the area to the city of Klamath Falls. Unanimous approval of a group of interested property owners at Peterson school remitted in the ap pointment of a committee beaded by Walter Franklin, manager of the Medo-Land Creamery, to pre pare petitions favoring the pro posal. These petitions will be circulated to residents of the proposed dis trict at a meeting in the im mediate future. Last night's meeting, chair manned by Harold Ashley, fol lowed by a few weeks, a meeting called by the Peterson Parents As sociation to acquaint residents of the rapidly expanding district with the seriousness of the situation. A study ot suburban annexation, as a means of alleviating the sit uation and designed for the mu tual benefit of both the city and suburbs was prepared by the civic affairs committee of the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce. .Hub study wa mad publlo by mOiiy Of Revenue Chief Heard ' WASHIQTOW HI The fov emment's revenue chief testified Tuesday builders of 1,149 FHA-ln-aured apartment projects reaped 6a million dollars In profits almost entirely from borrowing more than they spent. . .. T. Coleman Andrews presented a statistical summary to a Senate hearing conducted by Sen. Byrd (D-Va). He did not pinpoint any -single project. ; , ' However, Byrd said housing of. ficlals guaranteed 24 million dol- . lara In loans on Glen Oaks Village in Queens County, New York, al though the project cost : only SO million, -. .. ;.. . And Byrd declared he under stood rents in the Glen Oaks proj ect were "16, or 20 or SB per cent higher" due to the fact that loana to the project were In excess of construction costs. ' Andrews put In thai not an of these loans were government In sured. . .. Andrews also said the revenue service thought there waa ns fraud, either civil or criminal, In volved because the builders of the Olen Oaks project had fully dis closed tneu income in , tax re turns. :,. '....,'- if-- Byrd said he had been unable to get an explanation of why this waa done, and called It a clear uvaalon of a law that limited sock loana to a maximum of five million dollars, Furthermore, tax off totals haw hundreds of similar example of' "unconscionable distribution of profits" and '"windfalls" . under' federal -housing programs, Byrd declared. ,' '-' "" Byrd'a comments cam aa his committee on redaction of non essential federal expenditure be-' I can-an inaulrv Into retwrta of multi-million dollar scandals in the federal housing program. 1 He said ne wrote Housin Ad ministrator -Albert'. M, cola- on March 34 aaking who waa reapon alble for these loan guarantees but. has not yet had a "direct newer.' Byrd credited Andrews with tip., pine oft that fact that ofnethtn was wrong m the federal nooning programs more than 10 month ago. or June 1 ot last year. 1 The Senate Banking Committee,. headed try Ben. capenart (n-ina,. I also to look tne tot the alleged scandal and the two groan wars to I holding separate hewing feauV tajieoutr.-'-'r-' : Cole was before ttos Capehart committee. Under questioning, he , testified that he asked the Whit House to obtain the resignations of Federal Housing Administrator' Ouy T. O. Hollyday. He said he did so because cf what he termed FHA's laxity in investigating and punishing alleged frauds , and. abuses. . Hollyday was ousted April 13. He told the committee Monday hi. resignation was requested by Sher man Adams, top aide to President Elsenhower, and that he was given no explanation. He said Cole had never spoken to him about It. Cole said at the time of Holly. day's resignation that Hollyday had failed to act against abuses. Disputing that, Hollyday said that as FHA commissioner he bad put in new regulations to stop "un scrupulous promoters." . Grain Storage Space Eyed SPOKANE IB The executive secretary of the Pacific Northwest Grain Dealers' Assn. said Tuesday the Northwest may actually have more grain storage space this year man la needed. Pete Stnllcop said If the wheat and barley croo in Washington. Oregon and northern Idaho Is equal to last year's, there will oe a storage surplus. Lack of storage has been a serious Northwest problem In re cent years. Tons ot wheat from bumper crops have had to be dumped on the ground. the committee which was beaded by Truman Runyan. BOUNDARIES i It outlined the boundaries of the area nronosed for annexation: pre sented the benefits to the city of . Klamath Falls of Increased popu lation, based on national business Impression; gave advantages to tho annexed area of police protec tion, extension ot street lights, re duction ot Insurance rates, sug gested possible removal of Irriga tion charges, outlined a substan tial Increase In the resale value of property and Increased avail ability of FHA and other loans tor building and refinancing and as sured an lncreas In state gas tax revenues, based upon city pop ulation. It was also conceded In the course ' of th meeting that there would he an Increase in taxes to off-set these gains in part, but since It la impossible to assure the main ob jective of sanitary, sewage with out annexation, that move remains the only recourse. In late 1953 a report wa fur nished to the city of Klamath ' Falls, known as the Cunningham report which dealt with the pr (Ceaalaaed Bag A
