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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (June 22, 1954)
F km Gaipit unreal , n 1(0 -tens ft . PAT KOSSMAN, 2460 Apple gate Street, was buiy this morning delivering douqh nuti for the Rolling ( Pin Doughnut Shop, 2263 South Sixth. In The' Bf PRANK JKNKJNB You may or may not have been following Uie Hood situation In Uie corn belt especially In the rich bolloma of central Iowa, whore the Dea Moines river and Uie Rao coon river com logeUirr at' the city of Dea Molnea, Uie date cap ital. Here la the picture: A few days ago Uiesa productive bottom landa were lush with u row ing corn, Interspersed lor rotation al purposes with fields of oats and soybean and clover and auch. There came then a period of unseasonably heavy ralna. Then Almoat In a matter of houra Uteae lnvrly flelda of growing crop were filled with swirling, muddy watera. In time perhaps In a day or ao, Uie watera will subside. After that will come the horrible, slink ing rneiia when the hot aim cornea out and literally cooka the green corn and the oata and the clover and the eoybcana. The tragedy of It la that by thla time of the year It la too late to replant. IeTa keep thla In mind: These floods, coming at the height of the growing aenaon, hap pen in rien agricultural Iowa, gen orally regarded, ax UJ cream of the corn and hog Middle Weal, aa often aa frost happen In Uie rich agricultural Klamath Basin. Lei's not lei ANYBODY aell our country ahorl. Our average condition are aa good aa the beat. It la aald on good authority that Prime Mlnlater Churchill, when he arrlvra In Washington thla week end, will tell President Eisen hower that Britain la ready to Join Die Southeast Asia alliance against communism aa aoon aa the Oe neva conference enda. Mennwhlla the alrateglo moment at which military Intervention In Indochina might have accom plished something worth while has P A B 8 C D. and It seems likely that Intervention now would lead only to another costly, fruitless war. It looks like another case of too little and too late. And, In London tills morning. Churchill tells the British par liament; "Britain, however, doesn't pro pose to lose any opportunity of Im proving relations with Russia." Orlm (but cagey) thought: Let's stay out of any more for eign wars UNTIL SOMKBODY Et.8E IB WILLING TO FIOHT FOR LIBERTY. We could go on fighting for some body else'a liberty until we be came too wenk to fight for our own. ' At United Nations In New York yesterday, the Russians cast their 60th veto since U.N. was or ganised against a motion to refer the Guatemalan complaint of ag gression to the Organisation of Amerlcnn Slates which Is a re gional organization of the Western Hemisphere. U.N. Council President Henry Cabot Lodge attneked the Rus alan veto aa showing plainly that the Russians have designs on La tin America. Ho warned: "I say to the soviet delegate: STAY OUT OP THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE. Don't try to atari your plans and conspiracies here." ' Amenttl Wo Americans, whatever any body else does, WILL FIOHT FOR OWN OWN LIBERTIES and we'll feel that our own liberties aro threatened whenever world com munism makes a definite pass at Ihe Western Hemisphere. As this Is written, the dispatches report that throughout the fir belt mills are down In every di rection and some 70,000 to 110,000 men nrn idle, There are scattered strikes throughout Northern Cali fornia, Oregon and Washington. Hero In the Klamath country, the mills are operating and every body la working and earning and (Continued on page t) BASEBALL SCORES Cincinnati 904 toi 130-13 17 1 Brooklyn 000 000 010 1 3 3 Podblclan and Semlnlck: Podroa, Mllllken 3, Wade 7, Pallcia 9 and Campanella, Dan lews KLAMATH rrlea five Cents 14 Pairs Churchill, Ike Meeting Scheduled LONDON HI Prime Minister Churchill declared Tuesday Bill am does not propose to lose any opportunity of Improving relations with Russia "but this must be mora than a one way allulr." He made Uie atatemenl In reply to Laborlte questioners )ust two daya before he flies to Washing Ion for a conference with Presi dent Elsenhower. An authoritative source also said Churchill Is now ready to commit llrtlum to Join the proposed south east Asian detense alliance against communism after the Oeiwva Con leroiice adjourns, Churchill's cabinet, which met earlier, waa understood to have approved such a commitment dur ing Churchill's conferences In Washington with Prealdent Elscn howor. Thus far the British have agreed morely to examine the desirabil ity of aettlng up Uie contemplated SouUieasl Asian Treaty Organisa tion ISKA'IXJI, a military alliance linking uie West with non-Commu-nisi countries bi Asia. Thai agreement was reached when U. 8. Secretary of Stale John Poster Dulles conferred here in April with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. The foreign Office declined conunent on the report Uie com mitment will be extended. Churchill ssid plans for his meet ing with Elsenhower were under way belore Uie Geneva Conference on Korea and Indochina bad bogged down. He pointed out there would be no fixed agenda at the Washing ton conference ''but I hope we can have an exchange of viewa on all subjects of major current Import ance." HARRY D. IOIVIN Boivin Named By Democrats BEND I Democrats have Just about decided on Harry D. Boivin of Klamath Falls aa their candi date for the Senate aeat to be va cated by Philip S. Hitchcock. Boivin, former speaker of the Stale House of Representatives, waa aelected by Democratic com mitteemen from Klamath, Des chutes, Crook and Jefferson coun ties at a meeting here. Lake County has not yet announced Its choice. Republican committeemen will announce their choice at a meet ing June 24. Hitchcock la resigning lo Join the staff of Lewis and Clark College, Portland. Jets Moved To Europe Bases LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. lift Secretary of the Air Force Harold E. Talbott an nounced Tuesday that Tactical Air Comniiind'a 31st and 388th Fighter Bomber Winds will leave the Uni ted States lor Europe this fall. The announcement waa releaaed by Tactical Air Command head quarters here. Assigned lo TAG a Ninth Air Force, the two wings uso the North Amerlcnn F8HF Sabrejot lighter-bomber as their operation al aircraft, Tho overseas deploy ment of these units to F r a n o marks the second time thnt fully- equipped F86P Wings will go to the united Slates Air Forces in Europe for duly with the NATO defenso forces. Tho ovcraeas movement, part of the TAO'a continued support of worldwldo employment of tactical air power, marks Uie 19th and 30th Wings deployed by the com mand alncs the atari of the Ko rean War. - - i FAI.LH, OIIKdON, TUKHIMY, JUNK FOIIKCANT Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair through Wednesday, llllh Wednesday Mj low Tuesday night 4. High yesterday . 3 Low last night - 47 I'rei.lii lul :!4 hours 0 Mure last Oct. 1 I.M Name period laat year 14.'t Normal for period. . 11.1)8 Study Of Indictment Ordered A legal bombshell was exploded by Uie defense Tuesday at Uie man slaughter trial of Alfred Junior Carter, 31-year-old Merrill farm hand, and left a strong possibility thai the case will hsve lo be dis missed due to a faulty Indictment. Testimony of Uie first prosecu tion witness had Just been com pleted when Defense Attorneys Ed win E. Drlscoll and P. K. Puckett oflerred a motion lor dismissal on grounds thai the allegations act forth In the Indictment do not constitute Uie crime of manslaugh ter. District Attorney Frank Aldcrson had finished Interrogating Dr. Murray E. Robinson concerning a bullet wound suffered by Crus Un xuela, alleged victim of man slaughter, when the defense law yers asked dismissal of the charge and release of the defendant. Attorney Drlscoll pointed o u I that an essential element of Ihe charge of manslsughter had been left out of the Indictment. "Your honor." Drlscoll said, "The statute states (hat In order to con stitute Uie crime of manslaugh ter the Indictment must state thst Uie crime wsa committed 'In a heat of passion caused by a pro vocation apparenUy sufficient lo make the passion Irresistible.' In thla Indictment Uie part of Uie charge which covers 'Irresistible naaalon' has been left out. In It place the word wllfull' hss been Inserted." Circuit Judge David R. Vanden berg dismissed .Uie Jury, until 3 p.m. and ordered Alderson to pro duce legal authority to refute Uie defense motion. In pressing for dismissal, Attor ney Drlscoll told the court Uiat. If the facts as set forth to the Indict ment were proven, Uie defendant would not be guilty of man slaughter but another crime. "Under the law," Drlscoll con tinued, "such evidence would not be admissible. All Uie prosecuUon can prove Is manslaughter under this Indictment. This Indictment Is Inconsistent and Uie facta alleged ounnot be proven under the niles of evidence." Carter Is charged with Uie gun slaying of Uniuela, a Southern Pa clflo railroad worker, in front of Uie PasUme Pool Hall last Christ mas Eve. He was indicted twice for Uie crime. The first Indictment was ruled defecUve by Judge Van denberg. REQUEST WASHINGTON tfl President Elsenhower, an old Legionnaire, asked Congress Tuesday for a spe cial appropriation of HOJ.OOO to maintain "public order" during the American Legton'a convention here Aug. 30-Sept. 3. " : . u : 4.:iri? - ' vj aaaassai ROYALTY REIGNED AT THE Junior Chamber of Commerce dinner it the Willard Hotel last night honoring Queen Darlene Wlnebarger end her court, who are being feted at numerous pre-rodeo events before the big Fourth of July Klamath Basin Roundup festivities at the fairgrounds, July 3-4-5. Here, It, ISM Telephone 374. CTaims Life Of KF Girl I BULLETIN) Information from attending physicians and relallvea of the Uiree accident victims, received Just before press time. Indicate all are doing as well aa could be espeeled. While In surgery Oils morning It was found that Ronald Poole, operator of the car also wss Buffering from a broken arm. Klamath County's eighth fatal ity of the year occurred shortly alter 4 p.m. Monday when Janls Home, 16, one of nine teen-agers riding In a '48 Mercury sedan, lost her life when the car went out of control on Uie Upper Klamath Lake west side highway about 16 miles northwest of here. Five of Uie occupants of the Ill fated car were still In the Klam ath Valley Hospital today, three are believed to be seriously In jured. Steve Molatore, IS, 3030 Portland, received a broken shoul- der, multiple leg fractures, broken ribs, head Injuries and possible in terna Injuries. Tommy Sklens, It. 4C23 Cannon, Is reported to have a broken back and Kathy Keough. 17, 813 Conger, a badly shattered wrist and cuts and bruises. Leas seriously in- 8Jured were Sheila Ke ough, 18, a sister of Kathy. who suffered hesd Injuries, and the driver. Ronald Poole, 18, 5804 Delaware, re Klamsth celved a bad cut over CountT on J- Jm Premo, " , 15. 1759 Eldorado, suf fered a fractured right rsiaimes jCg. For 1954 Paula Home. 17, sis ' ter of the deceased girl and Dick Dougherty. 15, 1311 Cali fornia Avenue, were treated for cuts and bruises and releaaed. Sheila Keough was also permitted to go home from the hospital about midnight. - Several of the leaser Injured were taken to the hospital by pass ing motorists and the five most seriously hurt were brought In by Ksler's Ambulance Service. Janls Home was dead upon arrival at Uie hospital, according to attend ants. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Home, 3407 Altamont Drive. According to Oregon State Po lice the carload of young people were returning from a day at Lake of the Woods when Uie car apparently struck a soft shoulder ct the aide of the road, the driver lost control and Uie car plunged olf the right side of the highway and plowed into a 14 Inch tree with such force that the motor and right front wheel slid axle were pushed to the left so far that the tree was almost touching the cen ter of Uie windshield. The fatally Injured girl was riding in the mid dle of Uie front seat. Officers reported there was no sign of excessive speed and they are continuing their Investigation Into Uie cause of the mishap. Red Cross officials reported this morning four pints of blood taken at the Bloodmoblle last night were sent to the hospital for use If needed. 1 ' H STATE POLICE OFFICER Byron D. VVinningham impacts the car in which eight Klamath youths were injured and on killed on Lake of tha Woods highway Monday evening. FT f::'?Taaaaaaff i lav.liaaiuai JAWS HORN! Janis Home Rites Planned Janls Oayle Home, daughter' bf Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Home, 3407 Altamont Drive, lost her life In an automobile accident Monday afternoon. When Uie car In which she was riding left the highway, forged over boulders and finally struck a tree, five other teenage members of the party were ser iously injured. The accident occurred when the group was returning from a day of picnicking and swimming at Lake of the Woods. Janls was born at Ashlsnd on May 18, 1938. Two years later Uie family, which Includes her older sister, Paula, moved to Klamath fans. Active In high school work, she had been named to the staff of news reporters for Klamath Kratcr for the coming year. In addition to the Immediate fam ily, survivors Include grandparents, Mrs. Elsie Miles and Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Home of Ashland. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 10 a.m. at the Peace Memorial .Chu r c h In Klamath Falls and at 3:30 p.m. of the same day at the First Presbyterian Church. Ashland. Ward'a Klamath Funeral Home is In charge of arrangements. A memorial Is being planned and those who wish may contribute. front, (I to rl are Princess Mareia Wilson, Fort Klamath, Leo Molatore, vice president of the Jaycees, hosts for the dinner, and Queen Darlene, Macdoel. Back row, Princesses Nancy Gentry, Chiloquin, Joan Roinmiller, Tulelake, Donna Anderson Stover, Tulelake, Beverly Scott, rVUlin and Lit Sexton, Bonania. 1; 0 Northwest Lumber Strike Closes Majority Of Mills By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The sprawling lumber Industry of the Pacific Northwest was In but not complete paralysis Tuesday. There was little reported change lther In spreading walkouts or settlement offers from Monday when the long-threatened strike deadline arrived and thousands of woods and mill workers walked out. Employers and Uie two big un ions, the CIO International Wood workers (IWA) and Uie AFL Lum ber and SawmUl Workers (LSWU), were In disagreement on pay Uie unions asking a 12 u-cent hourly Increase and the big employers of fering no Increase. Oregon. Wsshington and North- era California felt the greatest ef fect of the strike, with fir opera tions most seriously crippled. Many Northern California, Nevada and Oregon pine operations were down, but Uie APL-LSQU which has most of the Montana snd Idaho workers did not extend the strike thst far east. A scattering of settlements was recorted. some Just before the strike started and some Just after ward, but litUe optimism was taken from these. Instead, the large firms repeated what they had said before: They would not agree to higher costs. At Shelton, Wash.. C. H. Bacon Jr., vice president and general manager of Uie huge Simpson lag ging Co., put the attitude Into these words: "We will not partici pate now or at any time during the progress of the strike In any settle ment which establishes any cost increase pattern. ... We will set tle at any time on the basis of an extension of Uie current contract without a cost increase." Disagreement between employers and the unions extended Into how manv men were on strike. Union spokesmen estimated the number at 103,000. Employers said 11 was about 56.000. Whichever It was. scores of big operators were shut down there was Longvlew, Wash., for example with a population of 30,000 and 4.000 on strike at Weyerhaeuser, Long-Bell and other plants. But at least 70 fir mills, tne AFL-LSWU recorted. continued to operate In Western Oregon pend ing either continued negotiations or consideration of offers. The blr Malarkev plywood oper ations In Washington, Oregon and California continued, company of ficials reporting that they have a separate contract which runs un til June 30. Reported settlement', offers ranged around 7 h cents with some at Uie full 13 '4 asked by the union. Kenneth Davis, executive secretary of the AFL Northwestern Council. said any offer of 5 cents or over would get consideration. Al Har tung, president of the CIO-IWA, said he thought It wouid be hard to get workers interested now in ap proving anything less than 12 Vj. The basic minimum wage In the old contract varies but Is generally regarded as about $1.87 an hour. By-Pass Plans Announced Only a very minor portion of Uie new Veterans Memorial Park will be used by Uie state highway department (or the proposed West side oy-pass, according to current I plans of the department. ' oinjui rim canary reucjvea u letter from R. H. Baldock of the state highway department Monday with a statement to this effect. The letter was accompanied with a map showing Uie present think ing or the department with re gard to the park, and suggested a location for Uie pump house to be constructed. A special meeting of the park board was called late Monday morning, at which plans for con struction of the pump house were discussed. Further development of the park was almost halted some weeks ago when Uie park board received notification that new surveys be ing made for the by-pass would call most of the park Into use. The state highway deoartment's present thinking, outlined on the map. shows a traffic route almost parallel to Riverside Drive. The route crosses the apple orchard above Riverside 'iand extends to a point just East of the present Link River Bridge. A new di vided bridge to be constructed at that point will branch Into Klam ath Avenue, for travel through Uie city to Uie North Entrance, and Into an overpass on Main Street, continuing on a curve almost parallel to present Conger Ave nue. Conger will be moved slight ly closer to Uie river, It the pres ent thinking is realized. This plan uses an area of the park only about 100 feet wide from Klamath Avenue to Main Street the park area fronting Link River. Cordon Lauds Maine Senator WASHINGTON I Sens. Cor don iR-Ore), Paine (R-Me), and Thye (R-Mlnn) paid high tribute Tuesday to Sen. Margaret Chase Smith of Maine for her lopsided victory over Robert L. Jones In the Maine Republican senatorial primary. cordon, who also races an elec tion test this fall, said Mrs. Smith's victory should give all senators "strength to go forward on Uie things that ought to be done and not Just those that are po litically expedient.' Payne took the floor to say Mrs. Smith had rolled up a "tremen dous majority In the face of a situation where her Americanism was under challenge." Army Civil Fund Bill Approved WASHINGTON Wt The House approved Tuesday a $457,071,300 compromise bill to finance Army civil functions In tho year begin ning July 1, Several major Pa cific Northwest projects are In cluded. The bill still requires Senate passage. 1 Bulk of the money In the com promise bill $436,379,100 Is for planning, construction and op eration of flood control, naviga tion and other river and harbor projects. Of this $300,387,600 la for construction. Des Moines Braces For High Water DES MOINES 11 The greatest flood crest In history rolled down the Des Moines River Valley In central Iowa today as the state wide peril from marauding rivers continued. The only cheerful note In the disastrous four-day-old floods was a forecast of generally fair weather for several days. New rains in central Iowa yes terday added to the flooding strain on the Des Moines River. In the northwest the Floyd River was ex pected to crest for Uie second time In three days at Sioux City today. More than 1,000 families were homeless in Iowa and the number was expected - to multiply. The death toll was one lone drowning. However, the loss was In prop erty and rich farmland will total millions of dollars. The greatest ' threat was on the Des Moines River, which cuts through Uie heart of Iowa past Fort Dodge, Boone and Into thla capital city. At Boone, 40 miles north of Des Moines, the river was expected to crest today at an all-time high of 23 leet, nearly four feet above the previous record. Des Moines' new levee system will get Its first serious test when a crest of 27 to 38 feet, four feet above flood stage, strikes lata Thursday. The previous record stage was 37.3 feet in May 1903. National Guard companies were doing emergency duty at Fort Dodge, Webster City and Boone, where a battle to gave the water works is being made. At Sioux City a crest two feet higher than the 20.8 level of Sun day was expected today. The Floyd rolled near the tops of levees but officials were optimistic they would hold. Trucks loaded with 3.000 sandbags stood by if a leak should occur. Another series of flood crests surged down tributaries of the im portant Cedar and Jowa rivers In northeastern Iowa. Waterloo and Cedar Rapids prepared for crests later this week. The Iowa office of the federal Soli Conservation service estimates 725.000 acres of crop land has been tinder water during; the last three weeks from torrential rains. How ever, this figure does not include tne overuows or the last two days. CHESTER L. LANGSLET Postmasters Meet Begins The 30th state convention of Oregon State Postmasters Asso ciation started today with registra tion at 3 p.m. at the wmard Hotel. Hosts are postmasters of Klam ath County, with Chet Langslet, Klamath Falls' postmaster, as general chairman. Arriving by 8.P. train this af ternoon will be tonight's speaker, John F. Fixa, national vice presi dent of the National Association of the Postmasters of the United States and postmaster at San Fran cisco. With him will be his family and J. F. Lynch, director of the regional accounting office at San Francisco, who is also making an address at tonight's dinner. Reception for new postmasters will start Uie evening's activities at 7 p.m., followed by a buffet sup per In Uie Pine Grove Room of the Willard. Ethan Newman, postmast er at Eugene, will be toastmaster. The Rev. Galen Onstad will give the Invocation. . Wednesday morning 'a breakfast will be served In the Camas Room of the Wtaema Hotel from 8 to 9:30 a.m. Business sessions will bo held In the Pine Grove Room of the Willard Hotel, starting at 10 a.m. Mary Horn of Jennings Lodge, state president, will pre side. Greetings from the city of Klam ath Falls will be given by Mayor Paul O. Landry and George P. Davis, president of the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce, Al bert M, Hodler, central accounting postmaster, Portland, will make the response. Morning speakera In clude Paul D. Bentley, Inspector In charge, Seattle. Luncheon will follow In the same room at 1:15 p.m. The banquet Wednesday evening; at the Willard Hotel Is formal for ladies. Toastmaster will be Moore Hamilton, Medford postmaster. Speaker of the evening will be S. G. Schwarts of Portland, new regional operations manager who Is coining from Cleveland to ae (Ooattaaea age ) .wl i i '
