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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 8, 1954)
I Ml In The' Day's lews lly 1 HANK JENKINS Telolyiie chatter: Mm. Louis Slegol n driving Uits morning In Portland In hoavy (radio. Cora to the iront oi nor, Cara to the rear of hir, Like Uie guns at Baluklsve when Uio Unlit ilrliiado cliamod tnrougn, uioir hauala volleyed and ihumtorea Everybody waa In a hurry, and Mra. Slegol waa m aa Dig a nurry aa anybody els. Suddenly ahe was bumped from the rear by an impatient driver, (Die held her temper, supposing It waa a iiltp of Uio too on tho Uirot tie' of Uio following ear. Then alie waa bumped again, and thla time til guy blew hla horn. Still, being a patient woman, ahe held onto her temper. Then The mala driver of tha car to her rear (who had been doing the tender bumping and the horn Honk Ing) grit out at a atop light and alerted awearlng at her for holding up tha tralllc. That DID IT. Mra. Blegel (weight 130 pounds) got out of her car. She started to tell him off politely, but just then her temper boiled over and ahe hauled olf and hit him on the none, The nun (I reckon. In view ot the fact that he weara panla and ahavea, he could be called a man 1 reeled back, clutching hla bloody now, and beat a retreat. The teletype adda that h waa treated later at a hospital. I don't know thla Mra, Bleget, But I'd like to know her. I'd like to tell hnr lut how wonderful I think ah la. If there la any peat more annoying than tha peat who In heavy tratlio bleu nta horn ai you and bumpa your bumpera, when you want to get where you're go ing lual aa much aa he doea but can t because of all ui traflie ahead of you, I wouldn't know what It could be. Over and over I've felt Uur urge to do what Mra. Slegel did In Port land Una morning, but I never had quite nerve enough, to go through with It. I aaluta her. In an elfort to throw aome light en our dlMrlct attorney-circuit court ruckus, which la rapidly Becoming a nuisance that muat be abated II law enforcement la not to break down )n Klamath county, KFLWa Plovd Wynne addressed aerlea of question Die other day to Dis trict Attorney Aiueraoo ana mt- cult Judao Vandenberg. ' They were temperate, 'moderate quealiona that aought to bring out the (act involved in inia unior lunate aituatlnn that has arisen. Both Judge Vandenberg and Mr, Alderson Indicated that they would be willing to answer them. It waa Wynne's purpoae to us the an swers, exactly aa given, in his Wednesday evening broadcast, hop Ing that In that way tha public might get a better picture of what It la all about and thua nilgnt be able to coma to a mora Intelligent conclusion aa to what ought to be done about It all If anything. At thla point, the Klamath Coun ty bar association entered the pic ture with a statement to Die ellect that It would be contrary to the ethics of the legal profcsalon for a Judge to permit himself to be subjected to questioning In a mat ter of thla sort and auggested that It would be belter for the bar association to do the answering. I'm In sympathy with that aug geitlon. Except at the polls (cir cuit Judgea In Oregon aro elected by the people) no Judge should nave to give a publlo accounting of hla actions and his decisions. which are aubjeel to review by the higher courts. We certainly must maintain the dignity of our court If justice la to prevail. -But We are facing a humiliating sit uation here In Klamath county. Tne situation Is approaching a point where It Is beginning to look to laymen Ilka Justice Is bogging down because of a conflict be. tween our proseoutlng attorney and nur courts r junae van vactor en tera Uio altuation today with sharp criticism of the district attorney.) We can't let such a altuation go on. But what are we to DO ABOUT IT" It la a highly technical Issue. We laymen are not qualified to Rive a proper technical answer. It looks to me use it la high time for the Klamath County bar association, which la composed of lawyers, to tell ui Just what we ought to do in this annoying and humlllntlng all nation. And how. And when, 1 hope auch an opinion may be forth coming without too much delay. State Job List Shows Increase SALEM (ffl Labor disputes and late season Were Jointly respon alble for a 8,300 Increase In the number of Jobscokora reported this week by 38 offices of the state Un employment Compensation Com mission. About 98,000 persona were active ly aeeklng work at the mid-year compared with 32,600 on July 1 and 98,800 a year ago. Only 030 un filled Job openings wera counted by local office representatives of July 1, the lowest number at this period since the end of the war. About 3.(00 of the new Jebaeekers were among those out of work aa result of tha dispute between lumber operator! and employes, rage fries rite Cents St rage District Judge Van Vactor Testifies In By LYLE DOWNING Two persona Involved In what police doacrlbed as a sordid sex case were free Thursday after District Judge D. E. Van Vactor lesillleil in circuit court that they were Illegally held In Uie county Jail on a delecllvo complaint filed by tho district attorney's olllce. Tills new development In Klam ath County's battle of tho court house csme to light when Judge Van Vector waa culled as a wit ness at a habeas corpus hearing for can zumwall, held lor the grand Jury on a charge of contributing to Uio delinquency of a minor. Judge Van Vaaior, during his testimony at in habeas corpus hearing before Circuit Judge David D. E. VAN VACTOR Diitriet Judge R, Vandenberg, denounced the dis trict attorney's office and said he had been "covering up" Uie dis trict attorney'a legal errors. While Under questioning by At torney O. 8. Balentlne, counsel for Zumwalt. Judge Van Vactor was asked If It was true that the dis trict attorney's olllce had failed to establish venue In the sex case or had produced any evidence that the alleged crime was committed In Klamath County. The Judge said venue had not been established at the preliminary hearing for Zum walt In hla court. Balentlne then asked Judge Van Vactor If it wasn't a fact that he had commented on the lack of ve nue before he ordered Zumwalt and Mra. Florence Anderson, a co- defendant, held to answer to the grand Jury, The Judge made the following reply: I do recall making considerable comment about the way thla case was handled and the venue was Important to be established. It Isn't Uie first time It hss happened. A happened several' times. Tho district attorney'a oflice has failed to ask elementary questions about establishing locale or location where Uie crime was committed. and he didn't do it In this case. Tho facts In tho case wore sor did, and from Uie testimony It was a rotten typo of conduct. And be- causo ot uio inclilcleiicy oi tne dis trict attorney'a oflice to properly conduct the hearing, and failure to ask necossnry questions, I attempt ed to cover up you might aay, the miscarriage of tha district attor ney's oflice, and which I regret. ' "And I want to go on record right now aa stating from here on I will not be embarrassed or humiliated by any misconduct on Uie part of Uie district attorney's office, I am not going to cover up for them. They are going to stand on Uielr own feet, and regardless of publlo comment, the law Is going to be followed. I am alck and Urcd of being the gont In such escapades as aro happening now, and I don't Intend to be any more," , After Judtra Vandenberg recessed the hearing. Judge Van Vactor went to his own courtroom and Issued an ordor setting nslde his previous order holding Zumwalt and Mrs. Anderson for the grand jury. They were immediately released from the county Jail. Mrs. Anderson's husband. Car, who waived preliminary hearing. la still held In the county Jail. It was reported th district attorney's olllce plans to ask Uie grand Jury to Indict Anderson on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Clroult Judos Ralnh M. Holman. of Oregon City, assigned her by the state supreme court after Judge Vandenberg wag disqualified to try four cases by Dlstrlot Attorney Frank Alderson, Is scheduled to ar WWJfwta f ijf "aw ' it ejja90.!. FALLS, OKKUON, TIIUKHDAY, Court Battle rive In Klamath Falls Friday morning. Since he was assigned here, two of Uie esses In question were taken out of Judge Holman'a Jurisdiction by motions Hied by Attorney lien Uoddard asking another Judgo bo appointed. It Is mandatory for Uie supreme court to name snotlier circuit Judgo to preside at the trial of Uoddard' clients. Attorney Ueorge Proctor, counsel for Robert Wayne Kirk, charged with a grocery store burglary, has Hied a demurrer to the Indictment against his client. It Is expected Judge Holmsn will hear arguments on the demurrer Friday morning. Puerto Rico Terrorists Sentenced WASHINGTON Ifl-Four Puerto Rlcan terrorist who shot up Uie House of Representatives March 1 and wounded five of Its members were given maximum prison sen tences Thursday ranging up to 73 years. A firry brunette, Lollta Lebrnn, 34, aelf atyled leader of Uie group, received a sentence of from 18 years, I months, to M years. Her three male companions re ceived sentences ot from 24 to 78 years each. U.S. District Judge Alexander HolUoff aald he fell maximum sentences were Justified because Uie crime was "so heinous, so Infamous, so daring and so atro cious as to shock Uie conscience of Uie nation." Tha longer sentences for Uie thre men resulted from Uie fact that a Jury convicted them last monthon five charge each of as aault with Intent to klU and five charges each of assault with dangerous weapon. Mra. Lebron waa convicted only en five charges of assault with a dangerous weapon. Before hearing their sentences. the four Puerto Rlcana protested anew that they merely staged demonstration In behalf ot Puerto Rlcan Independence, and did not Intend to kill anyone. In Uielr own minds, Uie Puerto Rlcnas said, they did not feel they were guilty of any crime. Judge Holtsoff took a different view. He called Uie pistol attack on Uie House "dastardly, wicked and ruthless." Except for Uie skill ful work of surseons. Uie ludee said, the Puerto .Rlcans would have been before him to hear death sentences, Instead of sentences on lesser charges. Lawyers tor Uie Puerto Rlcans said In advance of Uie sentencing they would file notices of appeal. The three men, convicted June 17 and aentenced with Mrs. Le bron were: Rafael Cancel Mi randa, 38; Andrea Flgueroa Cor dero, 38: and Irving Flores Rod riguez. 38. Testimony waa taken during Uie dramatic two-week trial from Uie four defendants and from Uie five wounded congressmen Reps. Cllf- tord Davis (D-Tenn), Alvln H. Bentley (R-Mlch), George H. Fal lon (D-Mdl Ben F. Jensen (R lows), and Kenneth A. Robert , (D-Ala.) KF Democrats To Hear Adlai Adlnl E. Stevenson, who Is va cnUonlng on Uie Metollus River In Oregon, will be heard by scores of Klamath County Democrats who will travel to Eugene. Saturday, July 10, to attend a statewide rally honoring Uie former Illinois gover nor. A caravan of cars will leave from Uie Klamath County Court house at f a.m. Saturday. The lo cal delegation will .reach Eugene In time for a luncheon to be nelo In Springfield, followed by Uie Eu gene rally at the clvlo auditorium starting at 3:30 p.m., at which Stevenson will deliver a major ad dress. The 1982 presidential nominee has bcon a guest at Uio Corbott Ranch on Uie Metollus River since Sunday, He will leave Oregon after Uie Eugene meeting (or an Alasknn tour, Saturday's speech Is expec ted to be of major Importance and Is attracting nationwide attention. Delegates from every county In Oregon will attend. Klamath residents wishing trans portation to Eugene to attend the rally are asked to call 6647 or 8087. Some of the cars will rettirn to Klamath Falls Saturday evening. STRIKE PARIS Wl Technicians of the government-owned French radio system went on strike last night for Uie third time In a month and all broadcasts were suspended for four hours, hmm "ft 1L . 5 r'.; P CHECKING TV SIGNAL STRENGTH thii morning with port bl fett unit were George Groesbeck, I OS West Oregon and ' Don Orrell, manager of City Basin Men Yin Homesteads Two Klamath County men were named winners of homesteads In a drawing held at Rupert, Idaho, Tuesday. The farms are In the rich Minidoka area. The second name to be drawn from Uie hat wa that of Carl Pur- key, Dairy, Oregon, and 33rd In the drawing was John Noggle, son of Mra. and Mrs. W. Q- (Doc) NoRgle, 1868 LeRoy Street Klamath Falls. Sixty Irrigated homesteads of 100 acres each and Valued at $10,000 will be awarded when applicant qualifications have been checked. The homesteads are a part of the Northslde Pumping Unit of the Minidoka reclamation project. Young Noggle Is completing his masters degree In animal husban dry at Oregon State College, and will go to Idaho In Uie near future to look over the homestead sites. Sportsmen Plan Picnic The Klamath Sportsmen's Asso ciation will sponsor a picnic at Collier Park next Sunday, starting at 11 o clock. A spinning contest, both accur acy and distance, children's games and races, and a tall tales contest will highlight Uie afternoon. The publlo Is cordially invited to at tend. Ham, watermelon, coffee and pop will be furnished by the Sports men, but those attending should bring their own plates and silver- war o and side dishes. Boat tickets must be turned In prior to Uie picnic JEANNE HILL, Paulin Hole and Karen Dixon try out the new 17-foot aluminum canoe en Lake Ewauna, It wai purchased for the Girl Scout Camp at Lake of the Woodi by th Hill estate in memory of Jeanie't mother, th late Mrs.' Ralph I Lei ) Hill, who died in 1952. Canoti at Camp Either Applegate ere thared by Girl Scouti and Camp Fire Girt. For teveral yetr the" campen have withed en lighted faggot from the I it camp fire for a canee. The. new canoe amwen that with, Jeanie and Pauline are Girl Scouti; Keren It e Brownie Seeut. The . canoi are brought to Klamath Falls each winter for uie by the Senior Scout Mariner group. Uie of the canoei it restricted to timai whn all safety itandardi have been met. JULY I, MM 2S sSrV TV Television. Weather FORECAST KUmath Falls and vicinity? Sunny and warm through Friday. High Friday (3; Low Thursday night 8. High yesterday .31 Low last night . Preclp. last 24 hours Since Oct. 1 . -14.45 Same period laat year , Normal for period .14.17 U.ll Fraser River ; Dikes Holding VANCOUVER. B.C. UI Dikes along the Fraser River held firm Thursday as Uie water level at Mission. B.C., Inched up to 20.06 feet, a rise of only .03 feet In 34 hours. Although high water .has been pressing against the dikes for three weeks, "reassuring reports from all stations" were received bv provincial diking commissioner Jock L. Macdonald. Meanwhile, In Uie Interior, con- unued hot weather has swelled Uie Columbia River to more than 39.47 feet, flooding out some roads and light Industry, Nlght-Ume ferry service across Uie Columbia has been cut sharp ly and searchlights probed the boiling water as driftwood swept down-stream past the Castlegar and Robson ferry landings, near the smelter city of trail. , ' REDS ARREST RIO DE JANEIRO, Braill UTh Police say they -have arrested 39 members or fellow travelers hi Brazil's ouUawed Communist party In Uie last 10 days. It appears to be a pre-election crackdown. tn 1.4) Telephone 1111 No. 2117 Picket Line Crossed By Workers The full day shift at the Red Bluff Moulding Company went to work on time this morning cross- lna- the Lumber and Sawmill Work ers AI'T, union picket line, accord ing to word received by the fine Industrial Relations Committee here. All of Uie men returning to work were former employes. The shift Is 'composed of approximately 80 men. The Wlldwood Lumber Company, also at Red Bluff, Is operating to day behind a picket line, according to PIRC. Some 33 men, moat of them former employes of the plan ing mUl and yard, reported for work making up a full crew. The two sawmills at Prospect, operated by Uie Red Blanket Lum ber Company, and It planer yard and shipping operation at Eagle point also have full crews working. Woods employes at Prospect are also working, PIRO reported. Ap proximately 68 per cent ot those making up Uie full crew are for mer employes and members of IWA-CIO local 6-1-3. The Forward Bros. Lumber Com pany at Red Bluff is operating Its planing mill at Red Bluff and woods ope ration at Man ton near Red Bluff a well as doing repatr work on Uie sawmill. AH employes are crossing picket lines, PIRC stated. The planing mill and moulding department are in operation at the White Pine Lumber Company at Alturas, with about 40 men cross ing the picket lines, It wa re ported. , Also about 33 former strikers and an unknown number ot new em ployes were working today behind picket lines at the Dorrls Lumber and Moulding company in Its Sac ramento plant. PIRC atated that an unknown-number of workers are crossing picket lines In other Sac ramento bos factories. The National Labor Relations Board has advised the White Pine Lumber Company at Lakeview that it has on file a peUtlon by which employes ask to rescind Uie author ity of the AFL, local union to ne gotiation a union shop contract. NLRB has scheduled a hearing at Lakeview today on a decertifica tion peUUon fUed by employes of American Forest Products Corpora tion oi Laxeview. . Indian Group Opposes Bill WASHINGTON Wl Legislation to permit states to take civil and criminal Jurisdiction over Indians wss opposed Thursday by the Na tional. Congress ot American In dians, unless provision Is made to require consent of Uie Indians to the change. Glen Wilkinson, attorney repre senting Uie Indian organization, told a Joint Senate-House Interior subcommittee the blU would sub ject Indians to state Jurisdiction even If they did not want it. Secretary Blasts Red China Regime WASHINGTON (XI Secretary of State Dulles said Thursday the United States, would use its veto 11 necessary, to keep Red China out of Uie U.N. Security Council. Dulles expressed complete con fidence Uie Red China regime would be unable to gain admit tance at Uie fall session to any of the principal U.N. organizations, Including Uie assembly. At a news conference, Dulles denounced the Pelplng regime for flouting the United Nations in Ko rea, supporting the Communists In Indochina and generally falling to fulfill International obligations. Dulles said firmly, fh answer to questions, he did not believe there would be any occasion for Uie United States to withdraw from the United Nations if Red China Is admitted, as Sen. Knowland (R.-Calli.) has proposed. . Talk of pulling out of the United Nations, he said, strikes a note of defeatism which Is entirely un justified because Uie United States and like-minded countries have a powerful case for blocking Red China's membership. President Elsenhower said he is "completely and unalterably op posed under Uie present situation to admission of Red China to the United Nations." His stand was believed to have warded off likelihood of aay early Senate action to put Congress on record with formal notice of American withdrawal li Red Chi na should be admitted, as suggested by Knowland. Knowland himself has been cooling-. on his Idea .and Sen. George (D.-Ga.) said in an inter view he dees not now expect rich a proposal to be offered. Oeorire. who Is senior Democrat on Uie Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he would , oppose Vietminh Cut Off French HANOI. Indochina W Viet minh guerrilla moved Thursday to cut off the southernmost French defense post in the Red River delta. ... a French army briefing officer reported the vietminh had ordered resident of vtllaaa . north of Rung- Yen to clear out o th ou tage can be uaeo. u s oaae or harassing Hung- Ten and the road leading north to Hanoi. Hung Ten, S mile southeast of Hanoi, lies inside a oena oi me Red River which forms the south west comer boundary ot the ter ritory still held by French forc es after their evacuaUon 10 days ago of Uie southern delta. . French Intelligence believe the Vietminh are establishing s base or ooerations on an island formed by a Red River channel split just northwest ot Hung -yen. Meanwhile, the briefing officer reported, Vietminh guerrillas ha rassed a half dozen small French posts 10 to 15 miles west of Hanoi and north of the vital supply line between Hanoi and Haiphong sea port. : - Fossil Found Near Condon CONDON, Ore. UI Fossil bones ot a rhinoceros-like mam mal, not previously reported west of Uie Rocky Mountains, have been found on Iron Mountain, in wneeler County. Lon Hancock, Portland paleon tologist, made Uie find In an area 10 by 30 feet on Uie south side of Uie mountain, near Clarno. He said some 1.S00 bone fragments were there, including the Jaw bone ot the rhinoceros-like animal, which he identified as a pantadont. The pantadont actually was larg er than a rhinoceros, with a short body and heavy legs, he said. There were bones from at least two other animals also, Hancock said. The fossU beds are being ex plored by some 2S teen-age boys and girls at Uie annual Camp Han cock encampment of the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. S. H. Shirk Is director. The pantadont Is from the Eocene period, Uie earliest of Uie sge of mammals. Governor Urges GOC Cooperation SALEM ( State agencies have been asked by Gov. Paul Patterson to cooperate with Uie Air Force In Its ground observer program, Civil Defense Dtrecto Arthur M. Sheets said Wednesday. Sheets said he has been notified by 35th Air Division that an exer cise involving Uie ground observer corps win take place aomeume during July. The exercise wUI be called ' Operation Check Point." BASEBALL SCORES NATIONAL New York . 301 110 40111 IS I Brooklyn 300 000 000 3 7 0 Gomes and Westrum; Ersklne, Meyer (S), Hughes (7), Wojey (S) and Campanella. -" American" Baltimore 000 000 1001 7 Cleveland 001 013 Ox 4 t 0 Kretlow, Chakale (7) and Court ney Feller and Hegan, . such a move because It "might deprive us of freedom of action at a crlUcal time." Dulles also aald In dealing with other matters: 1. Neither he or Undersecretary Walter BedeU Smith has any pre sent plana to return to th Oe neva Far East conference, even though Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov, French Premier Pierre Mendes-France and Chinese Com munist Foreign Minister Chou En Lai have made arrangement to do so. Be does not wholly exclude this possibility, however. 3. The United Bute hopes and expect to grant full dlplomatle recognition to the new government of Guatemala after that regime has demonstrated willingness and ability to meet existing Interna tional obligations. 3. He hopes present talks with Britain aimed at creating an anti Communist Defense in Southeast Asia can be wound up quickly and that other non-Cornsnmlst countries will Join. , Union Calls Firm Strike PORTLAND Wl The M and M Woodworking Co.' plywood oper ations In Oregon were struck by Uie AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union Thursday and the firm's plant nt Eureka, Calif., waa expected to be struck. Eberly Thompson, executive Tie president ot the company which ha 3,500 employes and Is one of the country's largest plywood pro ducers, said the Portland plant was picketed at 7 a. m., and pickets appeared a short time later at the Albany and Lyons, Ore., plants, dosing them. He said he under stood Eureka, would be picketed by mid-si ternoon. M and If recent ly closed its Longview, Wash., plant, i Most other plywood operator to tne Northwest were struck earlier, when Uie CIO and AFL Joined in a eooperaUve effort for a 13 Ni cest hourly wage increase In woods and mills. M and M however, waa operating under s eentract wt ran through June. Thompson said that- la negotia tions, which continued to the last, there was no yielding on either side: the union sought Uie full 12 Vj cents and management offered to renew Uie old contract. That has been the pattern m other opera tons too. for the most pari. Here and there there have been small settlements since the June 31 start of the strike, but the big plants have remained closed. The federal mediation service Is trying to get operators and the two unions to resume negotiations. One of Uie big employer groups, the Lumbermen's Industrial Relations Committee, wsa meeting Thursday and its answer was expected shortly. Bob McClelland, mediator who asked for the meeting, said that while there bad been no hints that settlement was likely, the service considered Uie strike so thresten lng to the Northwest economy, that every effort wss necessary. . Plane Severs Power Lines Power service In the 8prague River area was interrupted Wed nesday forenoon after a private plane took out 4.000-volt lines some four or five miles southeast of of Sprague River, according to Truman Runyan, assistant mana ger at Klamath Falls for Calif tonus Oregon Power Company. The plane one of those used for crop dusting and privately oper ated by Jack Mulkey, who is now headquartering here, went through a three-phase circuit on Uie Doug Hess place, near Sprague River. The Klamath Falls Copco office received first word of Uie accident at 8: IS a.m. Wednesday when the Sprague River telephone operator reported that she was getting se vere Interference on the line. At 8:56 a.m. a Sprague River resi dent phoned that power lines were dangling and During east of tha town. ' 1 At 9:30 a.m. Jack Mulkey phoned, according to Runyan, to say that one of his planes bad gone through Uie power lines. He did not Indicate who Uie pilot was, but apparently Uie plane went on to land safely. Damage to Copco's operation was considerable, Runyan estim ated. Two of the high tension trans formers were burned out at the sub-station at Sprague River. It has not yet been determined wheth er a general overhaul and some rewinding will repair the damage or whether considerable equipment will have to be replaced, he added. Crews which were dispatched to Uie area found that one transform er at Uie substation was undam aged. Rewiring made It possible to restore single phase service for the town of Sprague River only by 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, New trans formers were shipped from Med- ford end Installed as speedily aa posalbl. , . Normal service . waa restored throughout the ere by 13:84 a.m. today. Plywood
