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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (April 29, 1954)
On (n mi n n : U U Ky)iJK u A QUICK TRIP In daddy's car gets Paul Griffith, a second grader at Saerad Heart Academy, to school on time In (ha morning. Paul It the ion of Mr. and Mm. Bill Griffith. 40) Walnut Avanua. In The' Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS Washington: In yesterday'a In eUllment of these chronicles I Mioka of tha horror that would have Dripped tin Pounding Falhere If noma eeventh son ol a seventh ton, filing the mood of prophecy coming upon him, had gone Into a tranca and whllo under tha In fluence of tho occult had described to them the hearing on Uia Mc Carthy chariiea against the army that la now iirlppuig lha altenllon of thla town. What Uia Founding Father had in mind waa a republic. That la to nay, a nation governed by REPRESENTATIVES of the peo ple. I'm certain they thought of "representative!" aa peraona quit like ihemsclvea. Educated people meaning by that not mere ly people who could read and write 1 and figure but people deeply learned In hlaUiry and philosophy. Cultured people. SELFLESS PEOPLE, People who thought Ural and often of their country's welfare and seldom, u at all, ol their own political advancement. Holding ideals of that sort. honky tonk show like thla McCar thy bearing would have been ut terly abhorrent to them. If It had . been explained to them Jhat tills eldeahow In an election year year would be carried to the eyea and the eara of nearly all Hie people over the air waves, so thai tha whole fantastic thing would come Into their homes where, altttng comfortably In their stocking feet they could ace It all and from It form their opinions aa to how to vote come next No vember, I fear the Founding Fa' there would have blown a gasket. Let ua remember that Uia Foun ding Fathers lived and did their great work approximately a oen tury and three quarters ago. Much water has gone under the bridge alnce then. Considering thai fact, I'm not too aura that this thing that Is going on here tills Show of Shows In which the representatives of the people alt hemmed In by TV cam' eras and newsreel cameras. In the blaring while glare of a battery of klleg lights, knowing that every gesturo, every word, every Inflec tion la being seen and heard by two thirds of all the people of the land la an evil. After all. there IS such a thing aa the MASS wisdom of the people. The mans common sense of the people. Seeing It all Just aa It Is happening, hearing It all Just aa It Is happening, with NO BLANTINO, I think tha people will be able to do for themselves the discounting that needs to be done. that they will be able to recognize the playing to the galleries that la going on and who Is doing It and that In the end they will be able to form for themsclv ; pretty accurate Judgments aa to what II la all about. If not well, IF NOT progress Is going backwards Instead of for ward, and that I don't want to believe. In conclusion, let me quote two opinions ol senator McCarthy both In response to the question: "Hows he doing?" One la from an able, expert enced member of the house of representatives. He answered: "He's slipping. Tha slip started In faint way before he tangled with the army, but alnce then Its angle Is distinctly steeper, Among other things, there are many millions of OI's In this country of oura and no matter what they may say in their more eynlcal and wine cracking mo menta they aim have a lot of bsslc reapect for the army of which they were once a part." On the way back from the Hill thla afternoon, I put the aame question to the taxi driver, col ored boy, He mentioned McCarthy, and I aald to him: "Which side are you on?" He. replied, with a aerlous note In his voice, "Ah'm on both aides, auh. Ah think he's done a lot of good, fo' these com mies Just ain't our kind of folks and we don't dare handle 'em like people, but he's also done a lot of ha m, fo If we lose confidence In our a'my wa ain't got much left to have faith In." Somehow I don't think much wool has been pulled over that boy'a eras. Ha baa It pretty well Mttv h rrteo Five Cents I rages Stevens Confronted With Army General's Statement WASHINGTON 11 Secretary of the Army Slovene teatllled Thursday he was apprehensive the Ft. Monmouth,' . j., commanuer was moving too fust sgslnst si leged security risks Issl October. He ssld It waa "entirely possible" the commander, MaJ, Oen. Klrke O. Lswton, had been aaked to withdraw some suspensions. Stevens had been confronted at the McCarthy-Army hearings with a statement by Lswton that Army counaelor John O, Adams tele phoned him early In November urging him to "dismiss certain se curity cues" at Uie Army radar research center. In a dramallo development, Ray H, Jr.'iktna, special counsel to the Senate Investigations subcommll lee, produced the memorandum. hot two hours old." ssylng Law- ton had dictated it In Jenkins' presence. The memo waa handwritten In Ink. Jenkins said Capt. Joseph E. Corr Jr., aide to Lswton, had taken down the general'a state ment. Jenkins termed the memo of vital Importance to the contention by Sen. McCarthy denied by Stev ens that Stevens sought to stop the aenator's Investigation of al leged aubverslve activities at Mon mouth, Tha apeclal counsel conducted such hammering cross-examine tlon of Stevens that Joseph N. Welch, apeclal counsel to the sec JUU UU UU ir i if I I ir - i -a i n y i ii j i ii a i ii 4 i a i a i i r !-. v s--r v ' ip ir 11 I ' Wv earnr tirvr roat paid fur YnXV xKai-l . l fly ciry jof tfuAHATtt FAlli, ' " ' " era IS KLAMATH retary, protested Jenkins waa go ing at It aa it were a "murder trial." Stevens swore that he had no recollection of the purported tele phone conversation between Adama and Lawton. But Stevens ssld It could be "en tirely poaslble" that It waa "con ceivable" he had told Adams he hsd belter csll Oen. Lawton. Stevens said he did recall last Oct. 31 he had talked to .Oen. Oeorge I. Back, chief signal offl cer, and told him he wanted the Army's commanding generals to exercise "careful and good Judg ment" In carrying out the govern ment's program to weed out se curity risks. The secretary said he told Back he did not want the removal of employee at Ft. Monmouth to be done so rapidly that people would be auapended without sufficient evidence to support the action. KLAMATH BASIN POTATO SHIPMENTS fthlM lUmti Dr T)r Last Tar 33 cor U cars Tout ir 10,702 can 11,701 can ISM-U UU UU UiJ u I li J i ii t i- -j i i 'S''VC fHWlMDAr, APBIL Zt, MM Telephone gill Ne. lt2S F .1 : V.jfjf f JL urr toasi SAN DIEGO, Calif. I An earthquake centered somewhere along the west coast of Mexico early Thursday was the strongest recorded here In 13 yesrs by seis mologist Fred Robinson. "It was sure a humdinger, some where," he reported. Two temblors were recorded, at J; 61. OS a. m. and 3:36.61 a. m. (PUT). The second swayed chan deliers and caused houses to cresk In Ban Diego, but few residents were awakened by the shocks. Robinson said the second quake could certainly have caused dam age in any populated area near Its center. There waa no direct communica tions from here with Mexican areas thst might be dsmaged. The quake waa also recorded at Berkeley end Pssadena. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair through Friday. High Friday U, low Thursday night ZS. High yesterdsy Low Isst night I'reclp Isst M boars Since Oct. 1 Bsrae period Isst yesr .lt.te Normal for period .10.t4 -.. PROPOSED ONE-WAY COUPLET AND TRUCK Judge Vandenberg Rules On Oregon Bad Check Law By LYLE DOWNING Oregon's insufficient funds check lew wss dcclsred unconstltutionsl Thursday by Circuit Judge David R. Vandenberg. Judge Vsndenberg concurred with an carter opinion by Circuit Judge H. K. Banna of Medford who stated: . "Equality of protection of the laws implies that in the adminis tration of criminal Justice no one shall be subjected, for the same oflenae, to any greater or different punishment from that which others are subjected. Hence statutea are unconstitutional which provide different degrees of punishment for different persons for the same act." In elaborating upon that conten tion. Judge Vandenberg explained: "I have read the opinion of Judge Hanna which In effect aays the Is In question does not apply equally to all persons. "The lew In question," Judge Vandenberg continued, "puts It within the discretion of the grand Jury or a magistrate to determine whether a person shall be prose cuted for a felony or a mis demeanor. "In such a situation, here's what could happen: Two men could be arrested on charges that each wrote a $10 check with Insufficient funds in the bank. One of them could be prosecuted for a mis demeanor and get off with as little as IS fine. The other man could be charged with a felony and on conviction be sentenced to the state prison lor a term of five years." The Issue came up In Judge Vandenberg'a court wneu Attorney George Proctor, counsel for J. , Wesley Ambrose, filed a demurrer to an indictment returned by the grand Jury charging him with fe loniously issuing a check without sufficient funds. Judge Vsnden berg has had the demurrer tinder study for several weeks. The lew under attack was passed by the Oregon legislature in IMS. It la reported that the de cision of Judge Hanna In Med ord will be appealed to the state supreme court. - County law enforcement offi cers hastily warned that the court's ruling does not mean that Insuf ficient funds check can be written with Impunity. Such check writers can still be prosecuted for obtain Ing money or property under false pretenses. After he sustained Attorney Proctor's demurrer. Judge Van denberg ordered Ambrose released from the county Jail where he had been held alnce February (, 8 HAVE OSAKA, Japan tsV-Too can get clipped In Osaka for a dime, shave and shampoo free. Osaka barbers in a price war shaved the cost of the combo Job from 40 cents. ROUTE '..'. ' ' "... ' : V I v I ANDREW LONEY J., diree tor of music education in tha Klamath Falls public schools, will direct tho KUHS a cap. pells choir when it tings to night for the opening session of the Stat Christian En deavor Convention which will be held in Klamath Falls .through May 2. More than 1000 youth and adults will be tn attendance. Dorris Hill Bid Reported SACRAMENTO W The Califor nia Publle Works Department an nounced Wednesday that the Clem ents Construction Company and the Clements Company of Center- vllle, California, submitted the low bid for grading and servicing three miles of U.S. Highway 87 between Dorris and the Oregon line. No award was made Wednes day. Chou En-Lai Statements Supported By EDDIE GILMORE GENEVA M Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov told tha Geneve, conference Thursday he greea entirely with the Asla-for Asians declaration of Chinese Com munist Foreign Minister Chou i Lal. Molotov, In bis first poller speech before the 19-nition con ference, aald a peaceful solution of the Korean problem can be found It the delegates proceed "from tha principle that the peoples of Asia have tha full right to settle their affairs themselves." "Other states, the participants of the Geneva conference," he said, "are called upon to assist the Asian peoples In thla respect by their friendly efforts." Molotov spoke after Australian Foreign Minister Richard O.Casey told the conference some United Nations troops may have to re main in Korea until the divided peninsula is unified tinder a demo cratic government. Many diplo mats here are convinced this may never happenat least not in the near future. The Soviet foreign minister be gan by noting the presence of Red China at the meeting and aald par ticular emphasis should be laid "on the fact that the great power of Asia the People's Republic of China will be able to contribute to the work of our conference." On the whole the speech wss mild and notable for the absence of personal attacks on Western political figures, but Molotov did assail the United States for what be called its "aggressive course.' "As far as the United States of America Is concerned, be aald, "the government of the country is openly pursuing an aggressive course in regard to the Chinese People's Republic. This aggressive course of the U. B. A. at the aame time is affecting the whole situa tion in Asia, v Hew Bond Levy Forum Subject The proposed bond levy to pro vide a cross-town truck route through Klamath Falls came in (or the-mam part -of discussion at the, Khnath County Chamber of Com merce forum meeting at the Wl nema Hotel Wednesday noon. , Harry Botvin, a member of the Cross Town Traffic- Committee, spoke for the proposal of the city administration, and Tom Watters, chairman of the Roads and High ways Committee of the chamber,, outlined the 1964 recommendations which have been worked out bv bis committee with the county court on road Improvements outside of the city. ; Boivin cited heavy truck use of High 97 and the importance of Klamath Fans as a distributing center as reasons why it would be "good business" to approve an $186,000 10-year bond levy for the truck route. This amount would construct a truck route from Second and Klamath as far as Commercial and Oak Streets, from where exist ing paved streets would carry the route to Highway 97 at Esplanade and Spring Streets. - Ed Chilco te, speaking from the floor for the "opposition", aald that Industry looks at a munici pality's tax structure before it does its truck routes, and that It was more important to bold the line on already high taxes than to , build this route. He also made a , point that the proposed bond Issue would build only part of the route and that the use of state gas tax money for widening of Oak and Spring Streets might "starve" . other streets. ' Chilcote further stated that the building of the new four-lane via duct ever the railroad tracks on Sixth Street and the Sixth-Seventh and Main-Klamath one-way coup lets by the state did not depend on the truck route. Proponents of the truck route stated that, while not liking bond issues in principle, they "would settle for the bond Issue to get away from traffio congestion downtown, to make it easier for people to come to town and do business." - Another point at question was whether the Westslde By-Pass, now officially on the state highway department program, would .do away with the need for a truck route when It Is completed. . Bolvln said that It was not known how soon the Westslde Job would be done, that a separate truck route was badly needed In the meantime, and that It would complement the by-pass when that Job Is done. Mayor Paul Landry said that the city Is committed to the state's program (which does not Include the truck route) and that when the viaduct is completed our one big gest traffio problem will be solved. Klamath Falls will save 30 to $40 thousand dollars a year when the state takes over Klamath Avenue, he aald. ' Via Schoonover. 1 director In charge of forums 'who was mod erator of .the program, pointed out that the Klamath County Cham ber of Commerce takes no stand for or against the truck route, and had scheduled the meeting to bring out discussion oo an aides of tha problem.
