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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (June 5, 1954)
(ft lb D Mil ! The' Day's Sews llf FRANK JKNMNS Adlal Stevenson, speaking today l Ills Bicentennial Conference of Columbia UuiveinKy In New York, aaya our nation hi whl h call a national neuronls characlerlwd py aell-doubt and loar." Ho adda: "We ol America have written tile greatest suoceas atory In human lualory . . . Wliy, then, hav vi acted of late ai thouch the whole of Uia nation la aecurlty risk?" I hale to aay It, air, because It sounds nasty and partisan, and 1 don't mean It Uial way, but. 1 think this U the answer to your qucnlton: The New Dint admlnlntratloni; that were responsible lor tin Alger lllanea and the Harry Orator White and the rest of the com munist crew thai were pushed clear up into tlio upper echelons of our national government SCARED US fiO BADLY that In a quits natural reaction to our Irlu-hL we've vane too far over to the other extreme. Thing i liko that often happen. 11m little town of Itlpun WUcon. aln la celebrating una week-end the 100th anniversary of the birth ol the Republican parly. Rlpon clalnia, with aoine justification, lhat the Republican parly was founded thrrs III 184, liters will bo a bif parade to day down Klpon's Main atrerf and tonight the keynote apeech will be delivered by Senator Mc Carthy, whose home la Applclon Wisconsin. Aa to Ripon's claim to being (he birthplace of the Republican parly, a meeting wai held there on February as, IBM. It waa a coali tion meeting made up of retire aentativea of the Whig party, the Frea (toilers and the Know-Noth-tni". The Whig party by then waa old and tired and torn by factional airlfe. The Free Boilers were ree aonably clear In their purposes, lly Pre Boll they meant NON HLAVE aoil. They were dead ael agaliut ths admlaalon of any more slave state into the union. The Know - Nothings wera a queer lot. Their parly waa a aecret aoclrly not unlike ths later Klu Klux Klan. Iia members naa to have a password to get Into the ineellnga. Ths password wsa I Don't Know," and from this the party look Its name. They were against cauioilca.- They were agaliut foreigners or all kinds, and they were agamst Immigration. They held a fussy common bsllef in America for Americans, ouv tney Insisted on defining Ameri canism according to their own screwball notions. On the all-Important issue of human slavery tney wer.e split some for and aonie against and this apllt on alavery later blew them up as a party. The Rlpon meeting, alter plenty of cat and dog fighting, got togeth er on a recommendation for the organization of a new party on the common platform of opposing the extension' of slavery Into tho ter ritories, It suggested "Republican" as the name for ths new party. The name Republican had been used by the followers of Thomas Jelferaon about 1793, and again by the po litical groups headed by Henry Clay and John qulncy Adaim about 1824. That gave It some historical background as a parly name. The namo was OK'd by a meeting o( Michigan citizens held In July ol the name year snd received furth er sanction at later meetings In Ohio, Indiana snd Vermont. The Infant psrty took a bsd lick ing In 1886, but came Into Its own In the great and soul-searching campaign of 160, when Lincoln wss nominated and elected, I've been led to this recital of the Republican party's orglns by the fact that at the Rlpon meeting tonight the keynote speech will be nude by Senator McCarthy. That will turn the hair up on the backs of a lot of necks. But Wo must not forget Hint a lot of screwballs took part In the ORIOINS of the Republican party, I doubt If Senator McCarthy its any farther olt the beam today than were ths wild and woolly Know-Nothlngs who took part In the Rlpon meeting at which the psrty got Its atsrt. And the Republican parly tint eventually developed out of the Rlpon meeting was a great and sincere' and devoted political or ganisation dedicated to the prin ciple that all men must bo tree. So let's not lose faith tti the re born Republioan party of today, headed by Dwlght D. Elsenhower, as sincerely dedicated an Ameri can as Waa Abraham Lincoln, Per sonally, t don't think McCarthy Is going to wreck tho parly. The crackpots who took part in lis or ganisation didn't wreck It. Even tually thoy were pushed nslde by men of high and noble character. I'm reasonably sure that will bnppen In McCarthy's case. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls end vlclnltyi Rain, snow Saturday and Sundsy. tow tonight 91, high Sun day II. lew list night 17 High yesterday . .........U ll a I'rlca Five t enia I I'sgra Chemical ttml MAKING PLANS FOR THE COMING 23rd annual Moots stale convention and the Women of the Mooie conference, to be held here June 18-20 ae, seated, II to r I Junior Regent, Ruth Chapel, luncheon chairman; Fannie May Thompion, chairmen of registration; Senior Regent, Kathleen Hepburn, general chairman; Ilia Dougiat, coronation chairman; Haiel Pulley, publi city chairman. Standing tame order, Marie Reii, decorations chairman; Virginia Fuller, banquet; Irene Hamel, reception; Elora Bagley, credential!. Not appearing in the picture, Erme Go Rue, chairman of housing. Photo by Miller-Williams French Blast Rebel Redoubt HANOI, Indochlns tfl French warplanea blew up a Vletmlnh ammunition dump 35 miles east of here Saturday and diva bombed communlat-lcd rebel troops creep ing toward this war capital on two roads. A French Army spokesman aald tjie dump apparently waa "an emergency storage area for small arms and mortar ammunition." Direct hits by thousand pound bombs wero reported on Vletmlnh convoys on Routes 13 and 41, the rosds the rebels are using to move toward Hanoi Irom Dlen Blen Phil In a plncer move. The most advanced Vletmlnh Column from Dlen Blen Phu was reported SO miles west ol the Red River Dflta defense perimeter. Vletmlnh saboteurs cut rails on the vital supply line between Ha noi and the Hniphone seaport. A KYcnch briefing ofneer said the damage was quickly repaired and tralllo only briefly delayed. INSTALLATION New olllcers of the Business end Prolciuionnl Women's Club will be Installed at the dinner meeting at the Wlllnrd Hole). Monday, June 7, Past presidents will be In charge of the meeting. The pro gram will be under the direction of MarUia McColIum. May Phlnney will conduct the Installation. Patricia Collins will talk on "Olrl's Stale," sponsored by the American Legion auxillnry. Reservations are to be mado with Mnrjorio Comer, phone 8191) or Lydla Howard, 5089. iter tar, :';J rV iP; - f ,V, ; i t .Tift, i iimiih imiia inrlk r ' USAF ENLISTEES WHO LEFT THURSDAY for Portland to be Inducted Into the service are, from left, front row, Harold Welborn, Jerry Let, Dave Moran and Dave Noeley; standing, Jerry Bliss and Mike Willingham. Back row, from left, Virgil Vadon, Gorald Cast, Lauren Rickman, Roger Morrow, Don Wtston, Larry Larson and recruiter, Sgt. Don Adams. KI.AMA Til FA I yT TjrdjP tlAlf, JUNK , li Merchants Planning Gala Downtown Activities For -Big Annual Basin Roundup A Shetland pony, eomplrlc with saddle and bridle, will go to aomc lucky Basin youngster as a result of the activities of the Klamath Kurbstone Kowpokea during the coming fourth of July rodeo and festival. The KKK. made up of members of the Klamnlh Merchants Asso ciation, havo planned a full sched ule of events for the coming show, including n kangaroo court, bal loon rclco.se with merchandise awards, a cow milking contest be tween mayors of Basin communi ties, an outdoor fashion show, a wheelbarrow rsce between Main street merchants, a burro relay Rugged Mower To Take Acid Test RANSOM, Ksn. Virgil Cof cr 35, of Ransom, has Invented a new type of power lawnmower and ho plans to ride the thing from cosst to cosst to prove It is sturdy. Cofer wss scheduled to leave Saturday lor Whlttlcr, Calif., In a pickup truck, hauling two of the mowers. He said he would lake the cut ting blade olf one of the mowers and do 35 miles an hour in putl- puttlng from Whlttler to Washing ton. D.C. Lcroy Schuppmsn of McCrack en, Kan., Is mnklng the trip with Cofer and will drive the truck while Cofer rides the mower. 1 A 1U race, western- promenades with prises lor the best dressed cou ples, street dances and a mam moth parade. The kangaroo court will operate block by block downtown in con nection with appearances of the .queen and her court and will sell ribbons as a share in tho pony winch will be awarded to some youngster. Starling June 26 a hillbilly band will serensde downtown every day. Roundup gurb will bo in order aficr June 19, with men turning out In leans and big hats ' and women In early day garb, with ,dsily prizes going to the best dressed man, woman and child. Invitations arc already In the malls to the mayors of surround. Ing towns lor a cow milking con- test to be held In Klamath Falls. the champion to retain his title with appropriate honors, until 1955. Merchants on opposing sides of Mam Street, will take part in a wheelbarrow race the length of town, each wheelbarrow to be lorded with a queen or a pruv cesr. From all Indications this stands to be the biuuost rodeo and fcstl vnl ever held in Klamath Falls. Tile Roundup Association has also planned many events, tno first ma- Jor one being the queen trials at the fairgrounds on June 13. The public Is invited to attend. A com plete schedule of Roundup events, both downtown and at the fair grounds, will be curried In the Her ald and News starting Monday, Telephone 1111 No, 2SM Blow Up Charleston Rocked By Five Blasts CHARLESTON. W.Va. Tons of water pumped from the Kana wha River held at bay today a dangerous chemical plant fire af ter a scries of five "atomic-like" explosions shook Uie countryside and injured at least 53 persons. Company officials said as far as they could tell all personnel were accounted for. About 200 men were working In the Institute plant of the Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp. about 11 miles west of here, when a tank car exploded and set olf a chain of four other blasts. a spokesman said there was a "possibility" some might have been caught In the blast area. He would not elaborate other than to say Llero had been no "roll roll" of- employes. About 40 of those hurt were em ployes of the plant. The others In cluded numerous nersons ent n otherwise Injured by glass and fly- Uncounted property damage re sulted from the blasts heard or felt within a 15-mlle radius of the sprawling plant In the heart of West Virginia's chemical valley. It was more than five hours be fore firemen got the upper hand on the huge lire In the styrene plant. Until electric power could be restored and water pumped from the nearby river, the fire ragea unseated. Homes and business places were shaken and windows shattered In South Charleston, 8t. Albsns, In stitute and Dunbar, spotted a few miles apart along the fleavtly-ln-duslrlahzed river front. The lint explosion, with a tire- ball nuiktngry like lhat,fron- an atomlo blast, occurred about 7:40 p.m. EST, Four hours later, fire men were beginning to gala on the chemical-fed blaze. WHITE FIRE Delbert Simmons of Dunbar, driving past the plsnt at the time of the first explosion, said "all I could see was a big Hash of white lire and my car turned around." The original blast and four suc ceeding ones spread fear and con sternation throughout the area. At Watt Powell Baseball Park In Charleston, the first explo sion sounded like a roll of thunder. Fete Droddy, who resides about m miles lrom the Institute plant. said the first blast -rocked his bouse. "The third blast looked like a gigantic mushroom," he said. "The smoke and flames seemed to rise about 300 to 400 feet Into the air. It Jarred pictures from the walls in houses all around here and broke windows." Droddy said he felt the "heat on my lace but I didn't feel any shock." Nell Bofgs. a Charleston Gazette reporter who witnessed atomic tests In Nevada while in the Army, said the lifth and last explosion was "the biggest thing I've seen since the atomic bomb. It lasted about two minutes and gave off a terrific, suffocating, searing heat, but there was no shock wave." A. Rankin Donnchy of St. Albans Stop 14. across the Kanawha and about 100 yards downstream, said "it was Just like an earthquake," BUILDING SPLIT A one and a half story masonry and cinder block kennel on Dona- chy's property was split horizon tally from the force of the explo sions. The crack, about two Inches wide and 30 feet long, ran across both sides of the structure. Tne first blast was followed by three secondary ones as storage vessels for chemicals were set off. The last blast was about an hour after the first. Telephone service was virtually cut olf between Institute, Dunbar and Charleston. The explosions knocked out elec tric power at the plant and efforts to halt tho fire were hampered by lack of water. Not until about M' hours niter the first blast, were the firemen able to pump water from the river. There was no way to determine how many of those Injured, scat tered in hospitals throughout the area, might be in critical con dition. - Dr. Richard A. Sexton, plant physician, was Injured seriously in an automobile accident on his way to the scene, Institute is one of several plants in the populous area operated by subsidiary companies of the big Union Carbide and Carbon Corp. The plant manufactures basic raw materials used In the making of plastics and other chemical products. , DROWN PUSAN,' Korea liis Twonly-sov- en Koreans were believed drowned Friday night when a ferry boat capsized and sank in the laktong River eight' miles north of pu- san, police said Saturday. SHARON EVANS, Klamath Falls candidate for queen of the 1954 Klamath Basin Roundup. Klamath Falls For Rodeo Queen Signs Up The queen candidate count rose to nine with the registration of 21-year-old Sharon Evans, Klamath Falls representative. Sharon Is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. V. (Curley) Evans, former ly of Langell Valley and now of Fairbanks, Alaska. Sharon is em ployed at Wong's Cafe and lives at the Greer Apartments. Hobbies besides horses and horseback riding include swim ming and dancing. Her enthus iasm for riding got a workout dur ing the many years her father lived at the Kcno Springs Ranch and while he was cattle loreman for Loveness Lumber Co. At roundup lime, Sharon was ready and will ing lo help and did. She. is a graduate of Johnson County High School, Buffalo, Wyo ming. Later the brunet horse- horsewoman followed the rodeo cir cuit throughout Wyoming and Col. orado. Twice she rode In parades held in connection with the Boulder Pow Wow, three-day Colorado rod eo. Until last spring she owned her own horse. She will borrow a mount fox this year's queen contest TED BLOFSKY JR., was in town from his Henley home, this morning doing a little shopping when the nine o'clock photo artist caught him in the lens. irra aaaaaaaaaaaaaetUlAikt Lumber Contract Meeting Here Called To Halt By Federal Mediation Service A meeting In the Pine Industrial Relations Committee conference room Frldav afternoon at 1:30 p.m., between a sub-committee of IWA Northwest Regional Negotia ting Committee and employers ne gotiating committco of PIRC, was recessed 45 minutes later by the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service Commissioner, subject to call. IWA union spokesman was J. E. Dicey of Portland, IWA vice-pres ident. Tho. meeting was presided over by Federal Mediation and Conciliation service Commissioner George Walker, of Portland. The employers again went on record as rcluslng to make any offer other than extension of con tracts without change as to wages or other cost Hems. C. L. Irving, PIRC secretary- Candidate June 13 when she will compete In horsemanship trials against the other queen contestants, Betty Seals, Midland; Beverly Scott, Ma- lln; Jean Reinmiller, Tulelake; Donna Anderson Stover, Tulelake; Darlene Winebarger, Mt. Hebron, California; - Marcla Wilson, Fort Klamath; Alice Craves, Langell Valley and Elisabeth (Lbs) Sexton, Bonanza. Registrations for the queen con test may he filed at Charlie Read Saddlery, The Town Shop or Drews Manstore until Thursday, June 10. The queen's outing at the Rafter MD Ranch, owned jointly bv the Dr. Marshall Poole's and Bob Mot- sio, will be Friday, June 11. The queen try outs are Sunday. June 13. when girls will be Judged 60 points on horsemanship; . the cor onation ball Is Friday, June It, when girls will be Judged on poise and personality, 20 points each, and the queen will be crowned by t;ainerine uearoorn, 1953 queen. France Names Army Chief PARIS UB Gen. Augustln Guillaume, former resident gen eral in Morocco, has been named chief of staff of France's armed forces. He succeeds Gen. Paul Ely the nation's new political and mil itary chief In Indochina. The appointment was announced Friday by Premier Joseph La niel's office. It said the cabinet had approved the new assignments of both Ely and Guillaume at a meeting Thursday night. The posting; of Ely to his double barreled Indochina job leaked out shortly after the cabinet session. He succeeds Gen. Henri Navarre as commander-in-chief and Mau rice Dejean as French commis sioner general. In Saigon, Dejean described Ely as "a great soldier and a great patriot." There was no word of Navarre's reaction to his replacement. The government has not indicated any new assignment for him. Sam Freeman Death Learned Today Word was received here today of the death. Thursday, June 3, of a former Klamath Falls man, Sam Freeman. Mr. Freeman was about 40 years old. His death fol lowed a heart attack in Albany where the family moved about two years ago. Freeman was employed as a mechanic by the Crater Lake Ma chinery Company from 1949 to 1950. His widow and two children survive. manager. In commenting on the meeting, stated: "As we go further Into 1954, there is no development in the economy of the lumber industry that would justify responsible man agement in agreeing to any in crease In wages or any other cost item," There remain only seven com panies that are negotiating In this area, Irving stated. They are the Klamath Basin Pine Mills, the only one in Klamath County; Brooks Scanlon, Inc., Bend; Ponderosa Lumber 8ales and Tite-Knot Pine Mills, Inc., both of Redmond; Ochoco Lumber Company, Frlne vllle; Fir Milling and planing Com pany, Ashland, and Red Blanket Lumber Company of Prospect and Eagle Point. Of the original IS companies en Unions Seek Pay Boost; Strike Eyed PORTLAND HI AFL and CIO woods and mill workers for the first time since their split in 1937. were united Saturday in quest of more money and the AFL union set June 20 as a strike deadline. The announcement of the two long - time opponents that they would aid each other was a major development Friday, a day which also saw; The AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union report a decisive vote in lavor of a strike in six states; The CIO International Woodwork ers of America strike five Oregon plywood plants; The Pine Industrial Relations Committee of Xlamath area em ployers turn down, again, the CIO demand for a pay increase. As a result of the day'a develop ments, the lumber industry of the Pacific Northwest was confronted with strike authorization by ome 150,000 workers; and Industry man agement appeared firm In its posi tion against any pay Increases. FAY BOOST Both unions have sought 12 'i cents an hour more and employers have countered with agreement to renew contracts without change. This last position was reiterated by the PIRC Friday, following sim ilar earlier statements by a group of fir operators and Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. There was no hint from the CIO what it might do, but its policy committee which holds strike au thorizationwas called to a Port land meeting Monday. In a joint statement, A. F. Har tung of the CIO and Kenneth Davis and Joe Hazard, Northwest and California AFL secretaries, said that if a strike were called, each union would help the other In any way possible, would not raid the other's membership and would re spect picket lines. PUSHED AROUND "The unions know they have been pushed around by the em ployers for the past two years be cause they are the only unions In the lumber Industry which have not operated as on union," the statement said. This was in reference to failure to win pay Increases either this year or last. Only Weyerhaeuser of the major operators gave any wage increase last year a S-cent boost and no big operator has yielded this year. - - - Lumber workers have Dot been united in dealing with employers since a large group broke away from the AFL IT years ago and formed the CIO lumber union. After failure of the last of tho negotiating sessions to find a meet ing ground, c, L. Irving, manager of the PIRC, said "there is no de velopment In the economy of the lumber Industry that would justi fy" any cost Increases. Lincoln County Construction On NEWPORT, Ore. W Construc tion of the new Lincoln County courthouse is under way here. The Junction City firm of Wall, Bertran and Sanford started the job on a $169,000 contract. A con tract for the rest ol the project, cost of which is estimated at $2&5,- 489, will be let after July 1. It was necessary to have two contracts because only $180,000 was raised in the first year of a special levy to pay for the courthouse. A similar amount will be available after July 1 when the second year of the levy begins. F. W. Henkel Funeral Monday . PORTLAND HI Funeral serv ices will be held here Monday for Ferdinand W. Henkel, 68, who broke into professional baseball by pitching a no-hit, no-run game. Henkel, who died Thursday, was just out of the University of Oregon when on July 5, 1911, be left- banded the Portland Beavers to a, hitless shutout victory over Sacra, memo at the Vaughn Street para here. He was one of eight Beaver pitchers who have turned in no-hit no-run games here. After retiring from baseball he worked for Portland General Electric before retiring last Feb ruary. Survivors Include the widow and a brother, George Henkel a Weston, Ore., wheat rancher. gaged In these negotiations, one company, Tarter, Webster and Johnson, Inc., DeUcker, California, went out of business while negoti ations wero on and Is now In the process of liquidation. Six other California companies, Including the big McCloud River Lumber Company at McCloud, with about 1000 employes, and the Med ford Corporation In Oregon, have signed contracts with their local unions without wage Increases. There Is one local union In Redd ing which Is negotiating with three employers and a local union in Graeagle, California, which have refused to authorize the IWA, Northwest Regional Negotiating Committee to represent them. Ne gotiations have been going on in dividually between .these two tin tons and the four employers.
