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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (May 29, 1954)
Treps Ill ffHM , , MrpHMMMiWMBHHB I' l I , . ' V i FOUT KLAMATH'S BID for th fill of Queen of the 1954 K!inth Beiin Roundup It Marcia Wilton, 18 year old daugh ter of Mrs. Herbert Wllion, 729 Cook, Klamath Falls. In The' Day's lews By KKANK JKNKINH You've heard, I suppose, that pollltca )s a tricky trade full of pits and deadfalls. It may be true. At least an Incident of Uie closing hours of North Carolina's Demo cratic primary election campaign points toward that conclusion. These are the circumstances: In one-party North Carolina, Uie Democratic nomination la equiva lent to election. The big battle of the primary campaign that closed Inst night (the election tls being held today) waa Uie Democratic nomination for U.S. senator. There are two leading candldatea Incumbent senator Alton Lennon and former governor W. Kerr Scott. The big Issue of the campaign was KACIAL 8EOREOATION, and all the way Uirough Lennon mid Scott stood ahoulder to shoul der for maintenance of segregated public schools supremo court de c Irion or.no supreme court de cision. Then In Uie final hours Tens of thousands of unsigned reprints of a newspaper advertise ment warmly praising Scott aa a friend of Uie Negro flooded Uie Mule's eastern rural areas. Mayor Marshall Kurfeea of Wln-alnn-Salem, an active LENNON supporter, admitted placing uie ad He aald he persuaded a Negro leader who la a professed support er of SCOTT to sign 11. There were Immediate anguished nnd angry erica of FALSEHOOD from Uie Scott camp and Scott'a aides ealled for a federal-state In quiry Into possible violations of statute against distributing un signed campaign literature. This Is the point: Throughout North Carolina,' and particularly In the rural eastern counties of the stste, there are Inr more registered white voters than registered colored voters nnd It is probable that the regis tered white voters of North Caro lina will be FOR continued seg regation. So il was reasoned If Scott could be painted as a Mend of the Negro and a supporter of NON-8KOREOATED schools he Would be defeated. The Idea back of It was the ancient nnd now, I hope discredited theory that nil's fair In war and politics and Hint the end always Justifies the means. This North Carolina business Is a perfect example of what used to be called a "roorback." The dic tionary defines a "roorback" as "n defamatory falsehood pub lished for political effect." The word originated In 1S44 when there was widely published, to the detri ment of Jnmca K. Polk, then a candidate for Prenldont, an ex tract purporting to be from Roor back's Tour through Uie Western nnd Southern States In 1B36. The "roorback" was a natural buck In (hose days when communi cations were- limited and .a lie could be spread faster than the truth could catch up with It, It Isn't ao offectlvo In these days when communlcatlona are ao com plete and so highly perfected that the dropping of a pin In Afghanistan can bo heard almost Inntnntnneously around Uie world. Even In bnckward eastorn North Cnrnllna nearly everyone has a radio nnd with the aid f radio plus television a llo can bo nailed as rapidly ns It can bo spread. Multiplicity and perfection of modern communications bring problems of their own. Among oth er things, they provide the domn goguo with a perfect medium for Ills demngoguery. But they do help to render LESS offeottve Uie dcsplcnblo expedient of a nasty po litical llo spread widely at Uie last moment, , It will be Interesting lo aee what hnppons In North Carolina today In a hot campaign Into wttloh the n n o I e n t technique of the "roorback" Was Interjected In this modern age, Girl Enters Roundup Queen Race Mnrcla Wilson toasrd her ten Ballon chapcau Into the ring (or Queen of Uie Klamath BaMn Roundup and brought Uie number of entrants to an even hall a dozen. The pelllo brown hatred, haul eyed horsewoman asplrea to take Uie queenahlp to Port Klamath. Marola la Uie daughter ol Mra. Herbert Wilson, 738 Cook, Klam ath Fulls, and hero ahp ataya dur ing Uie winter montha when achool'a a mii.it but when aum nier cornea and Uie thousands of cattle are returned from winter paaturo In California to summer range In the Wood River Valley, Marcla leavea textbooka and tcacheri behind and makea her headquartera Uie Pat McAullffe ranch at Fort Klamath. At the Fort, ahe makea a strong bid for the affectlona of Major, a bajr quarter horse, owned by Mc Aullffe. Flaah, a aorrell part quar ter home, part Uioroughbred. gets aiienllou from Uie horae lover, too, and one of these will be her mount In the queen contents. The young horsewoman rides more lor hef own enjoyment Uian anything, ahe aaya, but ahe la a willing helper In Uie corral and In Uie hllla when vaccination time for cattle rolls around or anytime she's needed. 8he learned to ride at her aunt and uncle's ranch. Uie Frank Kuiga, at Long Creek near John Day, Falls and winters she stays In town, attends Klamath Union High School from where ahe will graduato next Wednesday, keepa up on popular record releases, dances, sings In Uie a cappella choir, lakes part In Trl-HI-Y ac tivities, and waits for school days to ena. in uie summers sue con centrates on riding while a guest at uie McAuiitic rnnch, as ..she has been the past four summers. The It year old entrant will compete wilh Uie oUier five can didates In the queen contest June 13, when Judging will be on horse manship, 60 points. The remaining 40 points, divided equally between poise and personality, will be Judged at the queen's Ball at Uie armory Sunday, July 4. Candidates to date Include Betty Seals, Midland: Beverly Scott, Ma lm; Jean Relnmlller, Tulclake; Donna Anderson Stover, Tulelake: Darlene WUiebargcr, Mt. Hebron, California; and the most recent, Mnrcla Wilson, Fort Klamath, Deadline for registration for Uie contest Is June 10. Candidates may sign at Charlie Read Saddlery, ine rown onop or Drews Man store, RKD CHARGES LONDON Wl Ho Chi Mlnh, leader of the Victmmh In Indo china, waa quoted Saturday In the communist Dally Worker as sav ing "hsd Uicro been no American Intervention wo phrnild long ago have reached uu agreement with Franco." Tho veteran revolutionary was interviewed by Foll.'ih author Volt ack Zhukrovsky In llo'a olllcaa in northern Vict Nam, 8 9 ? i k & i S V AMERICAN LIGION DRUM CORK, PAST AND PRISINT will hold reunion hart Monday following The dedication of the new memorial theft. Memberi of the 1923, thi 1933 and 1939 bandi and th teni of the Americin Legion drum cerpi I If fries rtta Ctsls-H rage- 0 a -rt Navy Bennington Fire Cause QUONSET POINT. R. I. I Tho skipper of Uie Ueiuilnglon Sat urday testified concerning a poa alble link between catapult mech anism and Uie blasts and fires Wednesday that claimed 99 Uvea on Uie big aircraft carrier. Copt. William F. Raborn Jr., Ural witness before a naval ooard of Inquiry which opened h-Mrtngs In Uie administration building i.l Uuonset, ssld he wss on Uie brldgo about t a. m. Wednesday direct ing Jet launching. Both cslapulla had been ready lor use, he aald, but Uie lUroouM mechanism conked out, leaving only Uie port catapult In ise. A Banshee Jet,- which Uie stir bosrd catapult would not propel, was being towed away to an ele vator and Uie port cataoult was being used when he saw smoke coming from below decks on both sides of Uie ship. SMOKE SEEN He esUmaled It was only 15 sec onds alter Uie last Jet hsd been launched from Uie port catapult when he aaw Uie amoke Uiat was followed by the first explosl-.-n. Cspt. Raborn described Uie death dealing blasts, fire and smoke as Uie big carrier made for her Qunn set base from Uie point 19 miles south of Newport where disaster struck. He mid Uie amoke was typical of a "flash fire," with no bint of a petroleum product. He aald there waa no evidence of a break In gas lines or fuel lines and "lo my knowledge none In the main propulsion lino." When he took command of Uie Bennington, he aald. he closely In spected Uie catapult. The lessons learned for greater safely as reaull of the fire aboard Uie Leyte at Boston last October, caused by exploding catapult fluid, had been Incorporated In Uie Ben nington, Its skipper testified. In his recitation of Uie events on the day of the explosion,, the carrier captain reveaiea mat uie ship lost both Its gyro-compasses, enunclatora. Its whlsUe and siren and all communications for a per iod of time until crew members In Uie generating room could restore It. CARRIER GUIDED The carrier was guided Into Nar ragansctt Bay by Uie destroyer Ingraham because It had lost Its compass. The venUlatlng system spread whatever explosive mixture touched off Uie disaster to various psrts of Uie ship and damage was done on Uie aecond, third and fourth decks. Smoke was carried throughout the ship. He said Uie ship was carrying ammunition and officers were pre pared .to flood Uie magazines, which, U they had exploded, prob- aoiy would nave resulted in the Bennington's being a total loss. He waa high In his praise for the way the crew brought Uie lire under control. The board of Inquiry planned to sit throughout Saturday. The board probably will adjourn to Tuesday for further testimony to be followed by technical Inquiry at subsequent hearings. The number of deaths In the ex plosion rose to 99 last night and Navy doctors looked to the next 4R hours as Uie crisis period for the 30 bandage-swathed eamen battling for life at the naval hos pital in nearby Newport. ROUNDUP OFFICE The Klamath Basin Roundup Association ticket office and Information booth has been set up at the chamber of com merce, 333 Main. Phone 8041. Contestants for the rodeo will sign up at Uie fairgrounds prior to the show. Tickets for Uio show are now on sale. Vfil , i k? V kJ tt. 1 .tf KLAMATH Weather FOKICC AST Klamath Falls and vicinity: A few showers and part ly cloudy Saturday night and Ham day. High Sunday 68; low Satur day night and Sunday. High Sun day 68; low Saturday night 40. High yesterday Low last night Liberals Winning In Aussie Vote SYDNEY. Australia W The Liberal-Country Party coalition government headed by Prime Min ister Robert O, Menzles appeared Saturday lo have won Australia's general election by a narrow mar gin. With nearly three-quarters of Uie votes counted, Uie government, which favors free enterprise, ap peared likely to win 64 seats sgalnst 57 for Uie Socialist Labor purty. There are 123 seals in Uie House, but two of them carry only partial voting privileges. The vote of 4.800,000 Australians at first showed a trend toward Labor, which in Uie retiring par liament held 63 lo Uie govern ment's 88 seats but the govern ment gained as Uie count pro gressed. At Uie three-quarter mark In the vote count Uie popular tally stood at 1,679,479 for Labor. 1.444.963 for Uie government, 44,941 for the Communists and 48.731 for others. At this point Uie government ap peared sure to win two of eight seats which had been In doubt and with a good chance to take four of Uie other six. Sir Eric Harrison, deputy lead er of Uie Liberal Party, claimed victory for Uie government. Her bert V, Evatt, uie Labor party leader, aald the vote showed a sharp swing to Labor and made no concessions. Recently Uie government has held a margin of 68 lo S3 In full voting scale In uie house of repre sentatives. It had 74 to 47 when It swept labor from office In 1949. but lost much of its margin In the 1951 general elections. Todsy's voting, which was com pulsory for the electorate of 6.100. 000 persons was for 133 members of Uie House. The contest was among 391 candidates in 116 elec torates. In seven electorates, where, candidates were unopposed, 300 000 eligible voters were excused Irom going to Uie polls. Holiday Death Toll Mounts Br THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The number of deaths by acci lent rose alowly . Saturday as mil lions of -Americans began Uie three-day Memorial Day weekend. By noon Eastern time, 18 hours after Uie count started, 51 deaths had been reported. Included were 47 in traffic, 1 by drowning and 3 from other causes. The National Safety Council has estimated that 35 million motor vehicles will be on Uie roads dur ing the long weekend. It also esti mated that 340 persons may be killed In traffic accidents between 6 p. m, Friday and midnight Mon day. VESSELS SEIZED TOKYO Ifll Kyodo news serv ice said Saturday a busslan patrol boat seized two Japanese llshlng vessels Friday inirnlng notr Uio Kurllc Islands north of Japan. Tlicy brought to 17 Uie number of Japanese bonis listed as cap tured by Uio Russians Uits year. have all been invited to attend. Band members will assemble; at 9 a.m., drive to th cemeteries and plae wreaths on th graves of past memberi, and than will participate in th pa red and dedication ceremonies. Th pared is slated to 1 MM jMP FALLS, OKKCON, SATURDAY, MAY 29, IBM Rescuers Struggle Up McKinley FAIRBANKS. Alsska Wl A rescue party of eight men clawed up the rugged slopes of snow-covered Ml. McKinley Saturday to ward a Uny lent housing the bro ken body of a man they hdbe still Is alive. The rescue' party, spurred by clearing weather and air-dropped provisions, radioed its base late Friday night 11 was within 1.000 feet of Uie tent In which Pfc. George Argus was lying. The tent waa sighted from the air late Friday night by Morton Wood, one of three survivors of a 1.000 foot fall which killed one man and left Argus helpless with a broken hip. As a swirling snowstormalet up Friday night, the Air Force flew Wood over McKinley In a C47. He spotted Uie trrtt standing undam aged at Uie 11.000 foot level. From Uie plane Wood radioed instructions to the ground party. and with renewed hope that Argus might still be alive, Uie rescuers below pushed ahead. The 2S-year-old aoldler was left on the mountainside when Morton and Les Vlereck, Uie third eur vlvor, had lo give up attempting to bring him down Uie tortuous slopes alone. They left Argus in a lent last Sunday after spending a week with him waiting for help that never came. He was warmly wrapped, lying on an air mattress. But he had only enough food to carry him Uirough this weekend and there was no way to mark conspicuously the tiny tent on a vast expanse of scow and rocks. ' The rescuers, spread out In three parties ranging from the 6.000 to uie 7,600-foot level and sull at least 3.000 feet below where Argus Is believed to be lying. . BPA, Copco Sale Defended Bonneville- Power Administra tion's sale of Uie Yamsay-Klam-a in. Falls line to California Ore gon Power Company was not bargain basement sale, it was staled this week by Dr. William A. Pearl, BPA administrator at Portland. "The line was to have been built to deliver power to the Klam ath Tails area served by Copco," Dr. Pearl said. "We serve our customers at any point they de signate, II it is economically feas ible to do so. "Copco's analysis of Its own system operations determined that a Yamsay Interchange was uie most feasible. Bonneville no longei had any need for Uie Klamath Falls line, we had no other cus tomers in thst area. , Thus the federal line was stopped at Yamsay. with Uie un derstanding Ui.it BPA would fur nish power to Copco at this point to compensate the company for power Copco Is to deliver for BPA s account to Uie new nickel smelter at Riddle. "We sold Uie materials and right-of-way from Yamsay to Klamath Falls and this was not bargain basement sale. Copco paid the federal government In cash every cent It had 'ad vanced for this line, Including In terest and overhead expenditures." In reiterating Bonneville Power Administration's objectives and policies for the future. Dr. Pearl had this to say: "We will continue to plan uie operations of the federal system so as to derive uie greatest amount of power from our natural re sources. He Indicated that the program would be developed in cooperation with public and private utilities serving tho region. ffl llll I 13 1 'b BUYING A POrTY this morning from, saleiqirl Margaret Ogle, was Fred L Peterson of Swenien's Barber Shop. N ALAN K. AINER New Manager Of KFJI Named KFJI announced today the ap pointment of-Alan K. Abner as the radio and television director of Uie W. D. Miller Enterprises. Inc. Abner, manager of Uie Miller Ra dio station KWIN, Ashland for Uie past year, replaces Dick Maguire, manager of KFJI, Klamath Falls. Maguire's plans, unknown at the present time will be announced soon. Abner is not new to the Klamath Basin. He has been associated with KFJI since 1947 when he Joined the staff in a producuon-sales capacity. In 1930 Abner waa recalled tor a second tour of active duty with uie United States Air Force as a reserve officer. He was connected with the Air Force television pro duction "March On" released on KINO-TV, Seattle, during 1950. For the remainder of his tour, Abner's assignment was as chief of the division of the Air Force's Radio nnd Television Effort. Headquar ters, Washington, D.C. This activity Involved the re search and development Into the technical aspects of information media . In cooperation with other agencies of the federal government. This effort was also concerned with the production of materials re leased Uirough Uie State Depart ment to the Voice of America, Ra dio Free Europe and other outlets to the international information service of Uie State Department. Abner joins KFJI In It's 31st brondcast year. The W. D. Miller Enterprises Is currently applying to Uie Federal Communications Com mission for a television outlet for the Klamath Basin on Channel 3. ej t -n 'f if J!" start at 10:30 t th armory and wind up at th shaft en th courtheus lawn wher th new structure will b dedicated. Th band pictured her is th stat champion drum corps. Post No. I, Klamath Falls, of 193.' , , N. tiit Lumber Yage Talks Planned PORTLAND Ml Negotiations between CIO Woodworkers and Pacific Northwest lumber operat ors are to resume next week under the supervision of the Federal Mediation Service. The union's policy committee, which has conslstenuy rejected uie employers' offer to renew the pres ent contract without a -wage in crease, Friday asked the mediation. service to get the contract talks started again. Sessions with fir and plywood employers, including the 'lumber men's Industrial Relations Com mittee, are scheduled for Wednes day.- On Thursday the union will negotiate with Weyerhaeuser Tim ber Co. and on Friday with the Pine Industrial . Relations Commit tee at Klamath Falls. In its statement Friday, the union made no menUon of uie May 3 strike deadline which It post poned inoeiinitely, nor or its ear lier demands for a 13 !4-cent hour ly increase and other contract benefits. The statement called attenUon to Uie recent 2 -cent hourly Increase granted AFL pulp and sulphite unions. In many plants these work ers and CIO woodworkers "go Uirough Uie same gates to work." the union said. Meanwhile officials of the AFL Union reported that members were voting overwhelmingly to author- ire a strike to back demands lor a 13 &-cent hourly Increase. The AFL union's Northwest dis trict officers have scheduled a strategy meeting here June .11-12. Wreck Caused By Deer On Highway In attempting to dodge a deer on Highway 97 about four miles north of Chemult Friday evening, Thomas P. Satterlee, Long Beach, California, lost control of bis car and turned it over. He was brought to the Klamath Valley Hospital by Kaler's Ambulance Service for treatment, . Two passengers In the Satterlee car, Don R. Bailey, PorUand and mil rowers, Long Beach, were not injured. The three are students at Oregon State College. The Injured man spent the night In the hospital and was re-' leased this morning, His injuries were not serious. 7 v : Telepbene. till Tank, Air Power Saves Vital Fort By LARRY ALLEN HANOI, Indochina ifi Five . thousand French troops smashed through to Uie relief of Yen Phu Saturday and Uie rebel besiegers ran for Uie hills. The French command said the relief force, under heavy air cover and using tanks and armored units, hammered Uirough with re inforcements and supplies for the. tiny post 30 miles south of Hanoi. Under fire for 18 days, It had been, manned by only one company ' 160 men. It has been a vital protective, redoubt for Phu Ly, one of the anchors of Uie Red River Delta' defense line In Uie south. The French described Uie relief operation "Uie biggest offensive move" they had made since Dten Blen Phu leU May 7. ' , The Vietminh were estimated to ' have 12 battalions In the Phu Ly sector. The French Union troops number about a division. The fall of Yen Phu and Phu Ly would give Uie rebels good bases to step up attempts to de stroy Uie highway and paralleling railway between Hanoi and the seaport of Haiphong. Over these routes moves Uie bulk ol Amer-. lean war equipment lor French forces In Uie delta. In attempting to mop up the Vietminh around Phu Ly, Uie French sent In amphibious units, to bombard Uie rebels from Uie Day River. Until the French offensive move, the Vietminh had been having an easy time creeping closer to Yen Phu. The rebels had kept the little out post In the vital Red River Delta area under steady mortar bom bardment while Vietminh mole squads burrowed to within 300 feet of the barbed wire barriers. Some 12 Vietminh battalions took part in the grueling attack. Following the tacucs they used to take Dlen Blen Phu, the rebels apparently aimed to pound the out post until It was sufficlenUy soft ened up (or a frontal assault. . News - of the French break . through came after a day of scat tered action in which the rebels knocked off one Vietnamese-, manned defense post . 20 miles southwest of Hanoi and encircled ' two others in the same sector. " The French said they were sup plying the embattled posts by air. : . iThe French Union cause was bolstered somewhat yesterday1 by the arrival of 17 American fighter planes and fresh troop reinforce ments. - The IT fighter planes Grumman Bearcat s arrived In Saigon aboard the American light aircraft carrier Windham Bay. The planes, with a top speed of 450 miles an hour, are. able to take off at high speed on short runways, a valu able asset In Indochina. The troop reinforcements were coming into the delta area both from France and other areas of Indochina. Posthumous Award Told Word has been received here of the posthumous awarding of Uie Distinguished Flying Cross and ci tation to Marine Major Orover R. Betzer, former resident of Santa Ana, and only son of Ray Betzer, 303 South Eighth Street, Klamath Fans. - - The distinguished flyer lost his life, May 2, 1953, In Korea as he flew a close air support mission. The award was presented to his . five - year - old daughter, Loralyn Rae Betzer, who lives with her mother, 610 Jonquil Road, Santa Ana. May 20 by Brig. Oen. John N. Hart, deputy commander Fleet Marine Force, Pacific. The citation read In part: MaJ. Betzer participated in Uie rescue of a downed Marine aviator who was surrounded by enemy troops af ter crashlanding his aircraft deep In hostile territory. Mai. Betzer flew a series of low-level straling attacks uirough Intense enemy fire to draw that fire from Uie downed pilot. After his ammunition was gone he continued simulated stral ing attacks that enabled a helicop ter to pick up the pilot. The major and his family had visited in Klamath Falls. Boat Capsized By Tornado BAQNGLL. Mo. If) A tornado upset an excursion boat on Uie Lake of the Ozarks yesterday. At least tour persons and probably six were drowned. Six passengers and the pilot were rescued. Two of the passen gers said the pilot saved their lives. Owners of the capsized craft said It was routine to send another boat to check on its excursions when a storm blew up, and that, precaution put a rnsoue boat along side the stricken craft quickly. The known dead: Mrs. Lelha Rockwell, 50, and a daughter, Rosalyne Ruth Rock well, 16, Belle Plalne, Iowa. Mrs. Richard Lamberty and a son. Warren, 2, Fremont, Neb. Missing were Dualne Hodges It, of Missouri Valley, Iowa, and Pa tricia Gump, 16, or Tunis, Mo. A relative said ba aaw them get on th excursion boat but It was not certain they were aboard. , ... ,
