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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (April 30, 1954)
In The' HHP Day's Sews Hy FRANK JKNKINH Washington: In liila hliihly pollU leal city ware la an acute awaro. ness thai this la an election your. I'd any that two (aula aland out In prevailing opinion: 1. In aplto or confident clalina made by tlx opposing parties Uiere It NO certainly on anybody' pari aa to who will win control of congress In November. Aa ol now, It la regarded aa a toita-un. 2. There la unlvaraal belief that President Elsenhower liolda the confidence ol tha people. I have been able to llnd no excoptlona to mat rule. The general alrutegy of the pro fessional Democrats la Imeruslliig It waa broUKht out rather atrlklnii ly In a debate that waa one of the foaturea of the program of Uie an tmal meeting of the American Bo elely of Newspaper Editors held here laat week. Hie debate waa between Refcre- eenlatlve Charles Halleck, Ilepub- llcan leader In the house, and Hop reaentatlve John McOormaok, hia oppoalt number on the Democrat- la aide, nalleck, a brilliant debater, made an able defenae of Uie ad' niuilalrallon'a record. Inllatlon, he said, haa been stopped. Big govern, merit la being out down to man' alte. Spending haa been aharply re duced. Taxes have been lowered. Faith In government la being re stored. Halleck haa a moat effective technique of argument. Inatead of succumbing to Uie temptation to gloss ever weak apota In hla caae, he admlla them frankly and then uaed this trlok In hla approach to the Republican failure to balance the budget Immediately. Imagine yourself, he aald, driv ing along a highway In Uie winter season. You top uie creal of a rlae and llnd sheed ol you a stretch ol downhill rosd with patches ol Ice on the pavement and a bridge over deep gully at the bottom. Experience telle you, he aald. that II you alam on your brakes you'll skid out ol control. At the beat, you'll go In Uie ditch at Uie aide and at the worst you'll smash Into the bridge at the bottom. Bo you use your head and apply the lessons of experience. Instead of slamming on your brskes with sll your might, you touch them Just enough to check your speed and then take your foot oil. Then you apply them sently again. In time following thla skilful prscUce, you resell uie bottom sslely. That, he asserted, has been Uie ineory of the present adniinistra- tlon In Its approach to the serious problem of balancing Uie budget without upsetting Uie economy ol the nation and perhaps bringing on a serious depression. In selling forth hit side ol the esse. Representative McCormsck wss warm In hit praise of Presi dent Rlsenhower, painting him aa s great leader and e great Ameri can.' The burden of his argument was that the Republican party la a hopelessly divided army, with hall of lis troops fsclng one wsy and the other half fsclng determinedly In the opposite direction. The Democrats, he said, csn be depended ON TO OIVE PRFXI DENT EISENHOWER FAR BET TER SUPPORT IN THE CARIIY 1NO OUT Or HIS OBJECTIVES THAN THE REPUBLICANS. The present spectacular McCar thy hearings are the all-absorbing topic ol conversation In Wash ington. Wherever you go, they dominate Uie talk you hear. But Uie general feeling, I think, la that their ellect on Uie outcome ol Uie election next fall will be more or less negligible. The Democrats sre depending PAR MORE on the farm situation to give them con trol of Uie congress Ulan on Uie Issues raised by Senator McCar thy. There Is rather general confi dence on their part thai Uie farm ers In the big wheat, corn and cotton states aren't going to like Uie Benson program of flexible farm supports and are going to vote back In a lot ol Democrats In the belief that they will main tain the system of rigid IflOH price supports. Therein lies their chief hope of winning back control ol Uie congress. toss g)!iSSrag rice fin Cents 16 Paget KLAMATH rALLM, OKKOON, r Vrt ' , Mi Telephone III! No. 2s2 t . v Air Hangar Leveled By Bad Fire VANCOUVER, B.C. Ml A Klunl RCAF hangar and the six aircraft it contained were destroy ed In a spectacular, ganollne-lcd lire at Uie Sea Island Base near here Thursday nlghl which caused damsge estimated st close to two million dollsrs. Tic 180-foot square frame build ing was a totsl loss. Only smoul dering rubble remslned less than Uireo hours sltcr Uie blase broke out. Cause of the lire Is not known. An Air Force Investigation will be held Friday. No ono waa In Uie hangar st Uie time. The Hemes were first spoiled by an off-duty RCAP po liceman. Wing Cmdr, D. C. 8. McDonald said Uie damage would run to "at least one million dollars." but oth er air Inrce officials aet the llgure nt approximately two million dol lars. Base firefighters had no chance to check the last-moving flamea. Exploding oxygen tanks and gaso line In Uie aircraft shot Uie blste out ol control within 30 minutes. Hie lire hoses were concen trated on iwn nesrby hangara which were Uirestened lor a time. The billowing (lames attracted scores ol people to the scene and police were lorced to cordon oil main highways snd brldgea over thi Fraaer River leading to the base. First reiwrts said a number of Jet aircraft were housed In Uie rared No. s hangar but this was Isler denied by RCAP nmclsls. None of the flvo 1500.000 Vsmplre jets on the base were endangered by the fire, they said. - Meet- of the aircraft destroyed belonged to Uie sir, aea search and rescue squadron on the base. They Included two Expediter Becchcralts, one Lancaster bomb er, two Otters, and one helicopter. There were 3. 000 gallons of gaso line In Uie Lancaster's tsnks. Three Canos. sitting In the door way of the hangar when the tire broke out. were hauled to aalety by airmen who rushed to Uie scene. Schine Photograph Still Probed By Investigators WABHINOTON Of) James Jul iana, an Investigator lor Uie Mc Carthy committee, testified Fri day he ordered Uie printing ol a controversial "cropped" photo grsph showing' Secretary ol Uie Army Stevens snd Pvt. O. Dsvld Schine alone. He acknowledged Uie print was from a more extensive picture showing also air Col. Jack T. Bradley. Julian aald he had ordered en largements of both the picture ol Stevens snd Schine slone, snd a picture showing the two with Bred ley, .f" Juliana ssld he delivered the phtogrsph allowing Schine and Stevens alone to Uie Senate com mittee Investigating the McCarthy Army row, because he thought Air Strikes Hit Vietminh HANOI. Indochina I French pilots flying American-supplied lighters and bombers roared out snew under clearing skies Friday to blast Vletnilnh concentrsuons rlmtlng Dlen Blen Phu. Transport plsnes resumed their missions of reinforcement. The French High Command snnounced thst more parachute troops, am munition and oUier war material had been dropped to the fortress. French commandoes msde new raids to destroy rebel gun posi tions and arms caches set up near defense barricades, but no Import ant Infantry fighting was under way. New Parking Lot Planned Klamath Falls' big parking problem will gel some relief with he opening ol Llnkvllle Parking Lot stVllth snd Klamath Avenue, across Uie street from Uie City Library. The possibilities of off-street parking, which csme up lor dis cussion Iste laat year by the city administration, have been real ised by lour Main Street mer chants In the courtesy parking lot which will open tomorrow. The four merchants sre Dick Reedcr, Dick Reeder Store; Keith Moon, the Town Shop (nnd president of the Merchants Asso ciation): Bill DePew, Flowers by BUI snd Rils; Elmer Hsrden, Star Drug. The site lessed for the parking lot was formerly occupied by the Parker Ponllae uaed car lot. Shoppers may park their ears free of charge snd when an at tendant It employed (sometime In the near future), drivers will be given a ticket to present to any of Uie four Interested merchants for vsUdsUou. Moon emphsslxed that parking privileges are not dependent on a purchsse. Approximately 40 csrs can be accommodated without an attendant on duty: probably 30 more when an attendant Is on band, ac cording to Moon. None of Uie four merchants in volved are members of the Off 8treel Parking Committee which Mayor Paul Landry appointed the end of last year, with Kasper Moty as chairman. The committee grew out of t study by Uie Cross- Town Traffic Committee of possi bilities of Uie city acquiring loca tions for parking lots before all available property not already Im proved was sold. The present bonding arrange ments through which Uie city raised money for development projects (streets and sewers) does not permit ine city to sen nonas to tlnsnce purchase of such lots for psrklng, Landry ssld. He Indi cated this moming. however, thst Uie Oil-Street Parking Committee Is still working towards securing more off-street parking spsce for shoppers In Klamath Falls. D that was what Uie committee wanted. "That was my decision." Prodded by Chslrmsn Mundt (ft-HD) as to whose "specific de cision" II wss to bring to the ln vestlgslors Uie picture showing on ly Stevens and Schine, Juliana re plied: "Thst wss my decision." Juliana aald he Instructed Don Surlne. assistant counsel for Uie McCarthy committee, to prepare the enlargements. ' Juliana was, called to Uie wit ness chair after Sen. McCarthy had spoken up at Uie hearings on hla row with Army officials and declared that Juliana bad altered the picture. In other developments: 1. Army Counsel Joseph, N. Welch demanded McCarthy be called to the witness chsir as soon ss Secretary Stevens finishes his testimony. Mundt told Welch Uie committee would determine the order of Uie proceedings. Mccsrthy (63), . . Uie proceedings. 3. Oeorge Anastos snd Mrs. Francea Mlms, staff employes of McCarthy, both swore they knew nothing about Uie "cropping" ol Uie photograph. There was some conflict, however, between their accounts of how Uie photograph was handled at -the staff offices. 3. Schine. In brief testimony, said thst alter refreshing his memory overnight he thought he hsd given an accurate account Thursdsy of bit part In the photo episode. Thst part was chiefly to furnish Uie original picture. Schine was excused from Uie wit ness chair but Is to come back later lor more general testimony. Juliana Insisted be was Just try ing to meet what he considered the wishes of the committee when be supplied. Uie photo of Schine and Stevens lone. '1 April Storms Sweep Nation riv the associated press Late April storms, rain, snow and strong winds, swept brosd sreaa in the mid-continent and Rocky Mountains Frldsy. Cooler weather moved from Uie Momans-North Dakota border southward to the Texas psnnanaie. Temperatures were below frees tag over the northern Rockies as far south as Denver, over mosi oi the Dskolat and In northern Min nesota. More snow fell In the west cen tral d 1 s 1 n s. Montana, eastern South Dakota and central Minne sota. Denver snd Cheyenne, wyo., each reported four Inches of fresh snow on Uie ground. Strong winds snd showers were general over Uie central great plains. The wet belt extended from eastern Oklahoma northward through most ol Kansas and Ne braska, eastern South Dakota, southern Minnesota and western psrts of Iowa and Missouri. Soveral small tornadoes were re ported In west Texas and parts of Oklahoma Thursday. Tne weainer Bureau ssld there wss a possibil ity of tornadoes in the same gen eral area Friday. Mild weather continued In the southern tier of ststes and mostly fair weather was reported In other sections. HUT POST OFFICE STATION on thi Northilde of town opem Saturday at Buy Low Food Canter, 1338 Oregon, In connaetlon with tha new variety and toiletries dapartmant of tha market which It oparatad by Harold' Clark (right). Impacting tha ilgn In advanca of tha opening ii Chat Langilet, Klamath Falls poit matter I left). This It tha third poit offict ita tlon In town In addition to tha main poit offlca. Other, ara at Laa Handriclci Drug Stora, 2212 South Sixth, and Schneiders Variaty Stora, 4801 South Sixth. This naw Northilda its tlon hat bean mada pouibla by tha expansion of tha Buy Low Food. Canter to utilita tht ntlre) marltat building which .Clark purchaiad a yaar ago thlt month. Indian Bureau Hit By Cordon WASHINGTON Wl Chnlrmsn Cordon (R-Ore) of Uie Senate In terior Appropriations Subcommit tee Thursday accused the Bureau of Indian Alfa Irs of negligence in permitting a health hnznrd to exist In Ihe city of Reno, Nov. Sen. McCnrran (D-Ncv) told Uie subcommittee that Uie Reno Sparks Indian colony, surrounded by the city of Reno, would like to build n sewer to tie In with Uie city's system. He ssld the city cannot construct tho sewer bertinse the land Is owned by the federal government and the Indians don't have the 548,365 the sewer construction would cost. v Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls snd vicinity; Partly cloudy with scat tered showers er snow flurries through Ssturdsy. Low Friday nlghl 28; High Saturday 50. High yesterday 53 Low last night SS Preclp Isst 24 hours W Since Oct. 1 ...... . ..1S.M Same period last year .....12.23 Normal for period ...,.lt.t7 Catastrophe Levels Area Near Athens ATHENS. Oreece 'fl A sharp earthquake struck Oreece Friday. Dwellings near Athens tumbled tike house of cards. Interior Min ister John Nlkolitsas said at least 15.000 persons were made home less. The number of casualties wss not known Immediately. "The calamity." he said. "Is comparable only to Uie catastro phic earthquake which laid waste the Ionian Islands last August. From 600 to 1.000 persons were killed and 120.000 were reported to have lost their homes la Uie Ionian disaster. The quake Friday centered In central Greece near Uie Plndus Mountain village of Granltsa, 135 miles northwest of Athens. The Athens observatory described It as of "catastrophic intensity." Police In Lamia, 100 miles north of Athens, said houses collapsed In Agla Marina and Ksto Domokos and a number of persons were in- hired. Some casualties and dam ace were reported in Trlkksls. center of a farming district 50 miles north of Lamia. Many telegraph and) telephone lines were felled by Uie quake. The terrain of central Greece Is nigged. Some sections csn be reached only by muleback or afoot, Nlkolitsas told of heavy damage and scattered casualties: In Kardttsa, 75 per cent of Uie houses collapsed and about 10,000 persons lost their homes. In Sophades. near Kardllsa, M ner cent of Uie nouses couapseo, six persons were killed and several injured. Aooui s.uuu were mixjrau homeless were. In Pharsala. 50 per cent of the houses collapsed and a number of persons Uie total unspecified were killed or injurea. Check Ruling Effects Cases Libert was short-lived for J. Wesley Ambrose, 48 - year - old Klamath Falls Salesman freed from Uie county Jail when Cir cuit Judge David R. Vandenberg ruled Thursday that Oregon's In sufficient funds check law under which he was held was unconsti tutional. Amhrnc was back In fail again Friday awaiting transfer to Yreka, California, where he Is wanted on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. He has wslved extradlUon. Judge Vandenberg's ruling which held Uie insufficient funds check law Illegal also has written oil Uie books, as lar as county law enforcement ollicers ore con cerned, Uie cose of Oeorge Martin, 71. prominent Klamath Falls live stock trader, who mulcted farmers and business men out oi approxi mately 5125,000. On March 32, a complaint was Issued by Uie district attorney's of fice charging Martin with Issuing a check with Insufficient funds In the amount of 53.175. The com plaint was signed by Reuben S. Laurhammer, Klamath Falls ac countant. Martin, who has been described by Investigators, as a modern "Get Rich Quick Walllngford." disappeared last February after a series of alleged spurious trans actions by which Klamath Basin residents were swindled out of more Uian 5120,000. No trace of the ' livestock trader has been found. Operatives of Uie Burns De tective Agency, acting on behalf of a Klamath Falls bank, are re ported to be searching for him, Martin left an overdraft on Uie bank. According to Information given law enforcement officials, Martin after establishing an excellent credit rating over a period ol nearly 20 years, flooded the Klam ath Basin area with bogus checks and Uicn fled. Murder Rap Faces Men MEDFORD W Two young hitch-hikers were Indicted on first- degree murder charges Wednes day, four days after Mrs. Fern Hile, 30, was beaten to death with a hatchet. - The grand jury returned the In dictments against James Norman Jensen, 24, Larkspur, Calif., and Donald Chesley, 18, Coos Bay, who already hsd been accused of break ing Into Uie Hlle home in robbery attempt laat Saturday, J" fit IS I ' IT MM if 1r If I A. CHECKING THE DAYS SCHEDULE this morning for the 9 o'clock photographer were Dr. Harold L. Catmull and dental asiittant Velma Guitin at tha South Sixth Dental Clinic, 3952 South 6th. Geneva Conference Slowed By Indochina, Korea Truce GENEVA Wi The Geneva con ference wound up Its first week of work Friday apparently bogged down on Korea and still studying how to get the Indochina peace talks started. No sessions are scheduled Saturday or Sunday. British Foreign Secretary , An thony Eden conferred privately with Russia's V. M. Molotor and Red China's Chou En-Lai at luncheon in Molotov's villa, sup posedly on the procedure for Indo china. A British spokesman, com menting on this gathering, said "We wont to get on with the Job.1 Lumber Strike Deadline Near PORTLAND U1 Both of the Pacific Northwest's big lumber unions may go on strike unless progress is made soon In wage negotiations. ' The CIO Woodworkers, claiming 50.000 workers, already have au thorized a strike, and Uie AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers. claiming; 85.000 men, decided Thursday to call a strike vote at once. The Woodworkers have author ised officials to call a strike May 3. The AFL vote will be to author ize offioisls to set Uie strike date. Both unions are seeking 12 lu cent hourly wage increases. Nego tiations have been conducted sep arately with employers, but neither union has reported any progress. Employers insist they cannot af ford an Increase. The Woodworkers were engaged Friday In a session with employers of Western Washington and the Willamette valley of Oregon in an attempt to head off the strike. The meeting was held under susplces of Uie federal conciliation service. According to Information received In Klamath Falls by Uie Pine Indus trial Relations Committee, Inc., from Uie Inland Empire region, lo cal unions there are notifying em ployers in the Northern Idaho area that the strike date In that area Is effective at the start of the Tues day morning shift. May 4. A U. S. spokesman said later Secretary of State Dulles will call on Molotov Saturday. He declined to say who asked the meeting, but it was recalled that Molotov called on Dulles lost week. At that time the two discussed Uie atomic ques tion. This was Eden's first such par ley here with the top communist diplomats. French Foreign Minis ter Georges Bldault previously held three meetings with Molotov, taking up the question of compo sition of the conference lor the Indochinese discussion and urging that the Russians help promote truce that would permit removel of French union wounded from be sieged Dies Blen Phu, It was learned Friday Molotov had proposed to Bldault that India-j oe included in tne comerence. sin French and Indian circles ex pressed belief the Russians would not make an Issue of India's in clusion. . The United States opposes repre sentation of Prime Minister Neh ru's government at the council table. An American argument is that the talks should be restricted for efficiency. Eden met with Bldault and Sec retary Dulles for on hour after his luncheon date with chou and Molo tov, presumably to advise them of how the talk went. Eden also bad conferred with Dulles before he set out for Molotov's villa. While the private conversations were m progress, Uie formal con ference on Korea almost dragged to a halt. At a session lasting about a half hour, only Uie repre sentatives of Turkey and Thailand spoke. They took Uie side of the West on Korean Issues that har dened years ago on East-West lines. KLAMATH BASIN POTATO SHIPMENTS Shln4 Taday 35 cars asms Day Latl Taar 19 con TUI tr Ssea 10,737 eon 11.097 cart Heavy Rain, Winds Hit Southwest FORT WORTH, Tex. HI An army of small but vicious torna does mauled more than a dozen cities and towns In the eastern half of Texas Friday and leaped Uie Oklahoma line for another strike. The marauding twisters appar erly came closest to producing a disaster at the Little Beulah Com munity, 12 miles southeast of Luf kin in east Texss. The storm smashed a country school there, reportedly injuring 11 of the 40 pu. pllx in Uie building. At least three other persons were hurt elsewhere. Mighty Texas winds also pound ed Fort Worth, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Bryan, Tyler, Mlne ola, Grapeland, Bremond, Elolse, Franklin. Coupelond, Kyle, Tyler, : Byersvllle and Uie communities of Gause, Jones Prairie, Minerva, Hanover, Slawn and Lone Star. Heavy rains drenched the torna do wreckage. High winds kicked up rough seas In Galveston Bay, capsizing the 48-foot tugboat John Wells. Tha boat's two crewmen clung to the pilot house 45 minutes until they were rescued by another tug, the Barbara Had en. The series of twisters pounced out of a thunderous collision of two cold air muses that locked horns as they moved eastward. The twisters left a trail of smashed buildings and fallen pow er, poles, trees, signs and TV an tennae. At Hugo, Okla., a tornado in jured - one' man, destroyed five houses and damaged at least 100 as It slashed across town in a heavy rain storm. : In Dallas, violent winds rocked the state fair auditorium, where Uie Metropolitan Opera Company is to appear next week. A 120-foot long protective wall extending over tne auditorium's root coiiapsea, leaving a gaping bole over one comer of Uie building. Damage was estimated at $100,000. FORT WORTH. Tex. If! A tornado, strong winds and heavy rains battered Fort Worth early Friday, causing thousands of dol lars In damage. The funnel shaped cloud, movtrje. In with a roar was sighted in the Riverside area about a a. m. by Charlie Mauck, and W. W. Ho Crory. a city policeman. McCrory aald it "was the Diaca est cloud J . ever saw." , , . Both men aald it was moving west to east. Later, residents in the Smithfleld area lighted the same funnel shape. ... The U. S. Weather Bureau re ported winds with a top velocity of 52 miles an hour. More man an inch of rain feu in les than an hour. Trees were topped, windows smashed, TV an- tennaes downed and roofs dam aged In all sections of the city. Plate glass windows and signs were smashed in the downtown area. A Baptist church under construc tion in north Fort Worth waa blown down. Britain Lifts Red Trade Ban LONDON US Britain announced Friday she would lift all restric tions on the sole of rubber to the Soviet Union and Its European sat ellites on Monday. The ban on shipments to Bed China, North Korea and Tibet a- well as to the non-Communist south China coast ports of Hong Kong and Macao r e m a 1 n a In force. This Far East ban on stra tegic materials Is in accordance with a United Nations resolution of May 1951 growing out of tha Korean War. . ' - i K.V:;:i' :l- -"v ' - i' P.. DONNA IECKWITH, JUDY PIESER AND JIM HOLLAND are busy planning decoration, and , program for tho danca to bo held Saturday night on tho OTI eamput. Tho dancing party, will climax a. two-day gathering of explorer tcouti from tho Southern Oregon area. Tho Hor izon .Girl. Club It aniiting with tho party arrangement..
