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By IHANK JCNKINH
Charley Stanton of Uie Roseliurg
Newa-itevlcw mid Joliu Walla,
rxcuullvo ancrctary ol Oreiion'a
now development conuiilnslon, tol
tng-Uicr over In ROM'burg the -jtli-rr
cluy mid held a nonlulglo aeulon
on the good old daya.
John led off by telling Charley
bout nil expedition ho made u while
back Willi hla lunilly In search ol
a bit ol wilderness where they
could net awiiy from ll ull ami
maybe gel aoino full. They (Irovr
to Um end o the roud, Iff t thou
car, aliouklorcd fiwk and hiked
flvfl miles to Ml ISOLATED lake.
Thev found the lake ringed by
anglara and Us surface dotted with
boat whoaa outboard motors
churned Uie water, shattered tile
primeval alienees with raucous
couiiba and barks thai reverber
ated from the mountain peak
and tainted the air with the fumes
of burned gasoline.
Where the boata came from
John didn't aay, but Uie oulbourd
had been luviicd over Die trail by
hardy moderna willing to load
thenuelvea down with a gasoline
elm me but unlnlereated In build
ing a raft and propelling It out
Into tlio lake with crude paddled
(lowered by human muacle.
PS. lie got no ftah.
That atarted Charley olf. He re
lated that a Sunday or ao ago he
drove out to what uaed to bo one
of hla lavorlte flahtng holea. Mlit
appointment awaited him. A lum
ber oporatlon had cleaned ufl Die
cover and exposed Uie anil to un
hindered eroalon. Instead of clear
water tuinblUig over bouldera Into
limpid pool', he - found muddy
water. But oven ao the bank of the
creek were cluttered with flrher
men. All of them working at It,
but nobody catching anything
much.
That reminded him aadly of a day
barg in the golden paat when he
tell In over hi head one aunny,
lovely morning, aoaklng the cigar
ettes In hla ahtrt pocket. He went
until five o'clock in the evening
before lie found another fisherman
r?om whom he could bum a smoko.
I can match that one.
Back m those olden, golden daya
1 waa following m high and lonely
trait along our matchlena Cascade
kyllne. My trnincort waa aartdle
and park horae. It waa one of those
crystalline inorninga. 'Ilia a I r
aparkled, Tlio clear water chuckled
ovar the uebblea where the streams
crossed the trait. The. pine squlr
rela chattered and dashed up and
down the trunks of the treea. The
camp robber Jeered from Uie
branchea.
All was Joy and peace until a
minute or ao alter It occurred to
me that I could us a amoke. That
waa before the day of tailor
madea out In the hilla. So 1 got
out a package of Bull Durham and
rolled me one. Then I reached for
match. There waa no match In
my ahlrt pocket. I searched all my
other pocket. No match. I dug
Into my aaddlebaga. No matcho.
Reaching for the amoke In Uie
flrat place had been a mere casual
reflex. But by then I WANTED
one badly. Bo I "topped and un
packed and rummaged through
the alforquca bag. NO MATCHES.
I reckon I'd left them In camp
When I packed up.
It vm five long hour before I
met another rider on the trail
from whom I borrowed aome
matchea. Boy, that amoke tasted
good aa I'll bet Charley' did the
day he got wet all over.
At thla point, I'd like to depart
from the pattern laid down by
Charley and John Watt In their
confab the other day.
Lest August I went out again
along the Skyline trail. With a
companion. With saddle horaea and
pack horae. Up In the wilderness
are, around the base of Mount
Pitt, where cars. Including Jeeps,
are verboten, and the trails are
reaerved for back-packer and
liorae packer. So help me, we rode
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PONDIROUS PACHYDIRMS art shown en their way from the Southern Pacific railroad yardt
fo the circus grounds where they will perform under the banner of Clyde Beatty. The ele
phants caused a miner traffic jam ai they want through the Main Street underpass. The cir
cus will stage three performances ttartlng Friday night. There will be e downtown perade end
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AN ARCHITECTS DRAWING compl.ted about two ya.rj
go ihowt the above Municipal Swimming Pool. Then It wet
dream; now It it reality, with the exception of the wading
pool and landtcaping, and ii ready for public impaction until
9 p.m. tonight. The pool, open for twimming tomorrow, at
8:30 a.m. Thii view ihowi the tank to the left with the filter
plant directly to the rear, a propoied wading pool to the right
of the filter plant (net constructed), and the bathhouse to
the right of the tank. Total coit of the pool and file develop-
Cordon Land
Bill Approved
WASHINGTON W Ben. Ouy
Cordon's bill to put 479.000 tores
of disputed Oregon timber land
under Forest Service administra
tion won approval of the Senate
Thursday.
The bill now goes to the House.
The Senate passed the messure
on a voice vote alter rejecting,
63-18, a move by Sen. Morse tlnd
Orel to put the lands under the
Department of Interior's Bureau ol
Land Management.
The BLM, which now manages
some two million acres of timber
land In Oregon, claimed Jurisdic
tion of the 413.000 acres. Morse
aald It would be "more sensible
and efficient'' to have the entire
acreage under one agency.
Cordon (R-Ore) said the 473.000
acre, which are part of the Ore
gon and California railroad land
grant reclaimed by Congress In
1910. now are under Forest Service
sdmlnlstratlon, and should remain
there. He said the Forest Service
also administers two other areas
of O ii C lands.
The bill approved by the Senate
provides Uint Umber sale receipts
on Uie 473,000 acres will be divided
under the O O formula : 75 per
cent to ir Western Oregon coun
ties and 36 per cent to the govern
ment. This differs from normal
Forest Service administration In
which Ii per cent goes to the gov
ernment, 15 per cent to the coun
ties.
The bill also direct the Interior
and Agriculture deparUnents to ex
change lands within two years to
form cohesive administrative
blocks, and urns Increase manage
ment efficiency.
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Kootenai Floods Big Farm
Area Near Bonners Ferry
BONKERS FERRY, Idaho IP
Another a.OOO acres of farm land
waa flooded early Friday as the
Kootenai River broke through two
more dikes, but It appeared this
town of l.soo might1, escape
Making.
The river had swelled to the
J6. 4-foot level at 5 a.m. when water
smashed past the two dirt bar
rlers near Bonners Ferry. The re
corded "flood stage ' here Is 31
feet.
Strong winds, a new menace
kicked up waves on the surging
river early Friday and threatened
two more diking districts.
Some a.OOO of the 40,000 acres
Teacher Ends
Long Career
A reception will be given In hon
or of Mrs. Kathryn Dick at the
East Side Orange Hall, at New
Pine Creek, on Friday, May 38
between the hour of 7 and 9
o'clock. All friends and former
pupils are urged to attend.
The Kelley Creek School Board
has chosen this medium as a fit
ting recognition to one who Is re
tiring from the tcschtng profession
with an outstanding record of serv
ice and achievement. Mrs. Dick
has been teaching for 43 years, 39
of which have been at Kelley Creek
grade school.
By this long and faithful perform
ance and allegiance to the advance,
ment of grade school education,
Mrs. Dick has the record of having
taught In one school the longest of
any teacher In Uie state of Oregon
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ment wai $106,000; the property, $11,000; the well, $4,400;
the bathhouia, $52,000. Total contract for the pool amounted
to $173,500. Paddock Engineering Co. of San Franciico won
the contract for the pool and lite development; Duncan Con
struction Co., Klamath Felli, the bathhouse; Wilton Well
Drilling Co., Merrill, the well-digging job. Howard Perrin
was architect for the pool; Morrison and Howard for the
bathhouse.
of tlch land In the Kootenai valley
we ce under water a the batUe
agatnss the Kootenai, bulging with
runon from record mountain snow.
pack, neared the end of Its first
week.
The river dropped to 35 feet
after the breakthrough but was
still rising upstresm and was ex
pected to crest at 36 feet late Fri
day or Saturday morning if the
dikes hold.
The town I surrounded by 37-
foot dikes and Army Engineers
said It appeared they would bold.
Frantic work on the levees went
on all night.
Another 360 soldiers from Ft.
Lewis,. Wash., arrived In trucks
at 8 a.m., aet up camp and went
into action a short Ume later with
sandbags to build un the dikes.
The Army Engineers have had
100 men and 50 pieces of heavy
equipment In the batUe most of
the week.
There are about 30 diking dlv
trlots In the valley and seven have
novf gone out. Two more were In
serious trouble Friday, and were
getting major attenUon from mili
tary and volunteer workers.
The river was rising upstream
again but cooler weather cut the
rate of Increase. The Kootenai
stood at 17.3 feet at Llbby, Mont.
Friday, up a foot as compared
with a 1.8 foot rise Thursday.
It takes less than a day for
that water to reach here. The
Weather Bureau forecast a crest
of 17.6 at Llbby Lake Friday end
said it should start dropping after
that. Near the Canadian border at
Rexford, Mont., the Kootenai was
up only .t of a foot compared with
a 1.8-foot rise Thursday.
The Kootenai flood Is an annual
thing here and the people In town
most of whom have moved out
of lowland areas, have kept mo
rale nigh.
That's not the case in some rural
arens. Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Whit'
beck, whose farm four miles west
of town was flooded In 1948 and
1950., horded their cattle to higher
ground at two In the morning and
mo7cn out of their house.
"I think this will be the last
lime," Mrs. Whltbeck said. "If Uie
rlvar goes this time, we're leaving.
We ' will sell the place to some
one else and let them fight It
out."
Onv. Lcn Jordan, who has pro
claimed a state of emergency
here, ordered a provisional Na.
tlonnl Guard unit of 30 men to Join
in the flood fight.
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KF Base Funds
Approved
The house armed services com
mittee today formally approved
and sent to the house for action a
four million dollar project for the
proposed Klamath Falls air base.
The Item, a part of the overall
defense budget, would provide for
a Jet Interceptor sguadron to be
stationed here, and would bring
aoveral hundred Air Force person
nel here on a semi-permanent ba
sis.
Considerable work la slated for
thejalrport, including lengthening
of runways, construction ol quar
ters and -other itema.
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Grain Freight
Rates Reduced
SALEM, Ore. Wl A 10-cent
per 100 pounds cut In grain freight
rate from the Northwest to 'the
Minneapolis milling area waa an
nounced Thursday.
The first word on the reduction
came from Charles H. Heltiel,
Oregon public utilities commission
er. It was confirmed by a Oreat
Northern Railway rate official in
Seattle, who said the agreement
bad been reached Thursday.
The Oreat Northern spokesman
said the reduction was agreed to
by all the transcontinental lines
serving Uie Northwest.
He said the cut is from 86
cent a 100 pounds to 76 '-j. Grain
growers had petitioned for a cut
of 13 cents to 74 H-
"This is a great boon to the
grain growers of Uie Northwest,"
Heltzel said, "because they have
been shut out of eastern markets
by blanket percentage freight rate
Increases.
Academy Holds
Honor Banquet
'Graduates of 35 years ago and
this year were honored at the an
nual Alumni Senior Banquet held
Thursday evening at Uie parish
hall, at which Uie valedictory, salu-
taiory ana Class speecnes were
given.
Featured speaker of Uie evening
was Walter Hannon. formerly of
Klamath Falls, now of Eugene,
who was the only graduate in the
second formal graduating class In
1923.
Valedictory address was given
by John Ely; salutatory by Cectle
vanaenoerg, All red Reginato, class
president, rend the class history;
Jonnette Brandcjsky, the class
will; Kathleen Onllagher, Uie class
prophecy.
Toasts from the student body and
the other classes were given by the
following: from Uie student body,
Louts Brown; eighth grade, Tom
Chin; freshman class, Colleen
Llnehan; sophomore, John Vanden
berg; Junior, JoAnne Schmlts.
Bernard Cavanaugh was toast
master for the evening.
At the head table were the two
members of the class of 1939, cel
ebrating Its 35th anniversary, who
were able to be present, Mrs.
Eldon (Luclle Calhoun) Baker,
Klamath Falls, and Mrs. Edna
(McMann) Schlerer, Danville, Cal
ifornia. The annual banquet Is for grad
uating seniors, their parents, mem
bers of the other three high school
grades and the eighth grade, and
alumni of Uie school. It Is sponsored
annually by the Alumni Association,
headed this year by Keith Ruco
nlch, president; Mrs. Harry Fred
erick, vice president; Mrs. Hal
Gcigcr, secretnry; Mrs. Louis
Cunlal, treasurer.
The association m embers
adjourned to the school auditorium
following the dinner, at which of
ficers for tho coming year were
elected. New officers include Fatl
O'Connor, president; Wayne Ncu
bert, vice president: Mrs. Harry
Frederick, secretary; Mrs. Don
Colwell, treasurer.
A dance followed, with tnuslo by
Baldy'a Band,
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Indochina
Peace Plan
Reported
By EDDY GILMORE
OENEVA to Russia was re
ported to have proposed a new
five-point plan for an Indochina
armistice late Friday. Informed
quarters said Britain and France
accepted the plan as a basis for
discussion.
The Soviet plan was said by a
reliable diplomatic informant to
have been submitted to the nine-
party conference on Indochina by
Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov
near Uie end of a four-bour secret
session.
British Foreign Secretary An
thony Eden and French Foreign
Minister Georges Bidault Immedi
ately said they were willing to
proceed with discussions at the
next meeting on Uie basis of the
Molotov plan.
The next session will be Mon
day afternoon, after Eden and Bi
dault have conferred with their
governments. They are going to
Paris Saturday and Eden plans to
go on to London Sunday.
One diplomat who was present
at the session said "important
progress" had been made.
Bldaull went to the nine-party
session prepared to sidetrack for
Uie moment the questions of Laos
and Cambodia and concentrate on
Viet Nam. where Communist-led
forces are threatening the Red
River delta.
Before Thursday's recess, the
conference came to a dead stop
over French demands for an im
mediate, withdrawal of Red troops
from Laos and Cambodia. France
Insists Uie problem of these two
kingdoms be treated separately
from Uie proposed cease-fire In
Viet Ham. ,
-Weather
FORECAST Klamath Falls sad
vicinity. High gaturday 7i tow
Friday night 32,
High yesterday . C4
Low last night 15
Precip 34 hours ' g
Since Oct, 1 IS.
Same period laat year .
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Correction
The interstate Deer Herd meet
ing date will be Friday May 38,
Instead of May 21 as was reported
in Thursday's Herald and News. ,
Purpose of the meeting wUl be
to discuss plans and the results of
the committee's work In the past
year.
Time of next Friday's meeting
is 10 o'clock standard time in the
Veteran's Memorial building.
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ACROSS THE YEARS graduates came for the ennuel Sacred Heart Alumni-Senior Banquet
held Thursday evening in the parish hall. (From. .left). Walter Hennen, Eugene, was featured
. speaker of the evening: Alfred Reglneto It president of the graduating class; Keith Ruconich
$ president of the Alumni Anocietion; which eponiOM the banquet,
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A COOL BREEZE greeted
Lillian Van Ooteghan this
morning as the left her home
at 817 Siskiyou for work at
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Light Voting
Over Oregon
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Oregon voters showed such lack
of interest in Friday's primary
election that precinct officials in
several parts of the state said a
new low voting percentage record
was in prospect.
That was based on the votes
east up to mid-morning.
Typical was this situation in the
biggest precinct in Klamath Falls,
with more than 600 voters regis
tered: Despite -perfect weather
with a light breeze and a sunny
sky, only 30 votes were cast in the
first two hours.
As predicted, there had to be
hot local issues to bring out the
vote. At Pendleton, the courthouse
precinct reported 44 votes at 10:30
a. m. which was only 10 less than
the number east by noon two
years ago. There was keen interest
In the legislative race and a tax
levy there which may have been
responsible for the 44.
Baker, with only a city official
contest for a local Issue, reported
an estimated 200 voters had cast
ballots In 13 precincts by 10:30
a. m. That is less than 4 per cent
of the registered total.
A mid-morning check of Fort-
land precincts showed about 10 per
cent of the vote cast. In -the 1952
primary election the percentage at
the same hour was 15 and in the
general election it was 28.
There was a 8 a. m. lineup at
one Springfield precinct, which
was unexplained, since the mld
moraing check both there and in
Eugene showed a light turnout.
CorvaUis. though, with hot locpi
issues, was headed for perhaps a
10 per cent vote. County Clerk
Ralph Schindler said. Some pre
cincts reported 20 per cent of the
registered voters had cast ballots
In Uie first two hours. .
In contrast, at Grants Pass In
the same time the turnout was
only 7 per cent in six downtown
precincts. Similarly, Roseburg pre
cincts reported very iignt voting.
The county clerk at Salem said
the voting appeared to be about
normal.
Generally the turnout of Repub
licans and Democrats toUowed
along the line of registraUon fig
ures although Uie keener interest
in the GOP gubernatorial contest
may have been a factor in such
differences as 88 Republican and
only 30 Democratic in an early
check at Grants Pass.
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Launch New
Assaults
HANOI, Indochina trl Three
little defense posts In the south
eastern sector of the vital Red
River delta battled fiercely Fri
day to hold off encircling Victmlnh
forces as the defenders of Dlen
Bien Phu tried to do.
French Union aircraft parachu
ted ammunition, guns, and food
to Vietnamese defenders with
French noncommissioned officers
in the posts of Ten Phu, Anna,
and Coquan.
They have been under constant
heavy mortar attack and machine
gun fire for nearly a fortnight.
Twice Anxa has thrown back big
Vletminh Infantry assaults. The de
fenders are outnumbered about
six to one.
French fighters and bombers
are heavily hitting the besieging
Communist-led rebels. B2Ss have
dropped scores of 1,000-pound de
layed action bombs timed to ex
plode to kill rebels when they
launch infantry assaults nightly.
Thus far the Vietminh have
faUed In all attempts to smash
into and capture either ' of the
posts.
The mud and wood constructed
forts with blockhouses and ma-
ehinegun pillboxes but no heavy
artillery are In Uie heart of
rice fields with limestone hills
nearby. From these hills the Viet
minh can pump over hundreds of
mortar shells to pave the way lor
infantry charges.
Yen Phu is six mues soutn or
Phu Ly, which is on a direct high
way to Hanoi 30 miles to uie
north. Anxa Is 12 miles northwest
of Thai Blnb, which is 50 miles
southeast of Hanoi. Coquan is nine
miles northwest of Thai Binh.
Earlier, the French command
said 159 wounded have been
brought out of Dlen Bien Phu and
that It hoped to fly out 100 more
Friday.
Helicopters ana Beaver auxrait
were making the slow but steady
shuttle from Dlen Bien Phu to the
royal Laotian capital of Luang
Prabang, where the wounded are
relayed to Hanoi by Dakota trans
port. The evacuation was siowea aowa
last night by -violent monsoon
rains which made flying impossi
ble for several hours. As a result
only 50 were flown out yesterday
Instead of the scheduled 120.
A high command spokesman
said there still was no word about
Dlen Bien- H-fe-taw' . French, air.;
force curse Mis Genevieve
Galard Terraube. He laid all that
was known of rebel plans to re
lease the blue-eyed, 39-year-old
nurse waa Uie announcement to
that effect by a Vletminh spokes
man in Geneva Wednesday.
Newly arrived casualties from
Dien Bien Phu said Miss De Gal
lard was "with our wounded work
ing day and night."
One Foreign Legionnaire told
newsmen at Lanessan hospital that
she was being helped by live
French male nurses. He said they
were aiding a corps of some 20
captive doctors.
Her friends In Hanoi believe the
nurse will stay on until the last of
the wounded Is evacuated. The
Vletminh have Indicated they will
permit release of 753 altogether.
It was not yet known whether
the rebels Intend to repair Dien
Bien Phu's shell-pocked airstrip to
permit big Dakota transports to
land and thus speed up the evacu
ation. The French said they would go
on with the slow, piecemeal shuttle
In hopes some improvement might
be worked out at the Geneva con
ference. The French continued to drop
food and medical supplies to the
2.000 wounded in the captured
northwest Indochina fortress.
French planes continued to ham
mer rebel concentrations and con
voys only 50 miles from the delta.
The air strikes were concentrated
on rebel units around Mocchau on
provincial ' Route 41 along the
Black River.
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