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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.