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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 14, 1954)
V JVU Ml TO 1 In The' Dav's km By FRANK JENKINS "'The Oregon supreme court Is going to investigate the feuding that has been going on over court conditions in Klamath county . . . Chief Justice Earl C. Latourette has sent Jonel Hill, his administra tive assistant, to Klamath Falls to find out what's going on . , . Justice Latourette also plans to - confer with the Oregon state bar 1 on the situation." That I am glad to hear and I thin' nearly everybody In Klamath . county will be glad to hear it. 11 This situation that has arisen In our courts is a most unpleasant one. It has dangerous overtones. I think it must be said that if it is permitted to continue indefinitely it will result In a ser if ious weakening of law enforce ment in Klamath county. That we can not and must not tolerate. This unfortunate situation is highly technical. It Involves, for example, the ability of the district attorney, who is the legal represen tative of the people of Klamath county to draw an indictment that will stand up in the courts. That is something that no lay man is competent to pass upon any more than a mere layman is competent to diagnose and treat serious and complicated illness. So I'd say ' The final decision as to who Is tight and who is wrong in this controversy between our district attorney and our circuit judge is one for our higher courts to de cideprobably with the advice and the assistance of the Oregon state bar association. We could, of course, call upon the members of the Klamath County bar association. But that would unavoidably Involve local personalities. The state supreme court and the state bar associa tion are completely removed from local prejudices and their decision as to what should be done should be an Impartial and unbiased one. For that reason, it seems to me, this situation In Klamath county is being approached from the right direction, ' I think It might be well here to add a word or so for the benefit of the members of the next Ore- ' gon legislature. In Oregon it has long been the custom to employ as district at torney in our counties young at torneys who are Just out of law school and are therefore willing to serve lor a wnue U ajow salary. That is a thrifty thought, of course, and thrift is never out of place in public matters. But is the practice that has long pre vailed in Oregon a truly THRIFTY one? I doubt it. We must remember that the district attorney of an Oregon county Is not merely the prose cutor. He Is the legal representa tive of all the people of his county In public matters. I think tt will be admitted that any Ore gon county (counties are municipal corporations) is more important than any private corporation in that county. No big private corporation in Oregon would EVER be willing to entrust all of its legal business to a young attorney just out of law school merely because he was willing to work for small pay while gaining experience enough to set up for himself in private practice, No private corporation eould af ford to do that. I don't think any Oregon county can afford It. So I'd like to suggest to the members of the next Ore gon legislature that they consider seriously this business of low sal aries for Oregon district at torneys. I think we'd better PAY MORE In order to attract more experi- enced men to the job. Heat Wave Moves East By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The season's most extensive and most severe heat wave pushed eastward to the Atlantic today while a cool front from the north ern Rockies began moving Into the Midwest. 1 But no relief was in sight for south-central sections of the coun try, where seven consecutive days of plus 100-degree heat have taken a toll of crop and poultry losses. Heat deaths mounted to at least 17 across the country and more records "toppled yesterday as the swelter belt stretched from south ern Texas and South Dakota east ward. Oklahoma counted 5 heat vic tims; Colorado, 4; Illinois, 3; Missouri, 2; Iowa, 1: Nebraska, 1; Louisiana 1 and Pennsylvania 1. The heat wave was centered in southeastern Kansas and northeast em Oklahoma. The day's highest official reading was 114 reached at Ponca City, Okla., and Emporia and Chanute, Kan. REBELS LONDON, W Some 40 Con servatives in the House of Com mons rebelled early Wednesday gainst Prime Minister Churchill and agreed formally to vote against any settlement of the Suel Canal xone dispute with Egypt which requires Britain to withdraw its garrison. Price Five Cents 16 Pa;es . . Atlee Clash' Over China LONDON UTI Prime Minister Churchill clashed bitterly with Clement Attlee, former Labor prime minister, Wednesday in a House of Commons debate over the seating of Communist China in the United Nations. Attlee started off by accusing Secretary of State Dulles of "play ing right into the hands of the Communists" by failing to return to the Geneva conference. He said it Is "wrong, unwise and contrary to the principles of the United Na tions" to bar Red unina irora mm organization. Churchill replied that an effort now to force Red China Into the U. N. would be regarded In the United States as an "uncalled for act of unfriendliness." U.S. DEFENDED Churchill accused Attlee of mak ing "one long whine of criticism against the United States and of course advancing the importance, if not the virtues of Communist China." Churchill emphasized that Red China was still technically at war with the United Nations and was "stimulating the war in Indochi na." With jaw out, Churchill went out to warn: "I am sure to choose such moment as this to try to force the entry of Communist China into the United Nations would be to com plicate altogether the very grave affairs we have to deal with In so many othes spheres and would be regarded as a most harsh and un called for act of unfriendliness by the mighty people of the United States, to whom we owe much and from whom no government ever received more than the Labor gov ernment." Attlee, interrupting, said he nev er suggested that "at this moment wis could be done." "I am glad to hear that," re torted Churchill, "because it would, in any case be difficult to deal with the matter at this very moment." GOOD FAITH Churchill said Monday that he felt Red China should eventually get into the U. N. but declared the Communists must first give genuine evidence of good faith. Before Churchill spoke Attlee told the House: "I can perfectly understand the Americans fear of militant com munism and possible Chinese ag gression throughout Asia, but I think it is worth while looking at this from the other point of view." Declaring it "wrong, unwise and contrary to the principles of the United Nations" to keep out the Chinese Communists, Attlee said: "If you rule out the Idea of all out war against communism you come oack to peaceful coexistence and that Is what we want in respect to Russia and China." - Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair through Thursday. High Thursday 93; low Wednes day night 58. High yesterday 95 Low last night , . 58 Preclp. last 24 hours 0 Since Oct. 1 14.45 Same period last year 14.87 Normal for period 12.27 Churchill, HITTING THE TRAIL FOR HOME are these eager Girl Scouts who spent the first day of Scout day camp doing a little of everything including a hike up tha hill. Day camp it in set sion at Moore Park July 13 through 16 and J.uly 20 through 23, 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. Oregon Bar Association to Investigate Law Breakdown A sweeping investigation into Klamath county's battle of the courthouse will be launched later this week by Oregon Bar Associa tion in conjunction with the state supreme court. This was announced Wednesday by Glenn R. Jack, president' of the bar association. He told the Herald and News during a long dis tance telephone conversation that cursory investigation of the Ju dicial situation In Klamath coun ty convinced him that there had been a breakdown of law enforce ment here. The Herald and News also learned from another official who refused to be quoted that Circuit Judge David R. Vandenberg and District Attorney Frank Alderson will be called to Salem by the in vestigators. Chief Justice Earl Latourette of the state supreme court also told the Herald and News Wednesday that he was awaiting a report from his administrative assistant, Jonel Hill, before taking further action. Hill was in Klamath Falls Tues day conferring with Judge Vanden- Three Killed In Explosion LAKEPORT, Calif. W) Two 30,000 gallon tanks of butane gas exploded at a clear lake resort Tuesday, fatally injuring three persons whose quick warning prob ably saved a score of lives. The victims were Bess Gibson, B0, who co-owned the gas plant with her husband; Irvln J. Garner, 51, and his son Don, 21, resort operators. Severely Injured were Mrs. Gib son's husband, Lon, 50, and char- lie Baum, 49, who was passing in his car. The explosion tore down tele phone lines, disrupting service ior hours. Fire Chief Floyd Throop said the Gibsons discovered a leak in one tank. As the highly explosive gas seeped into a hollow the Gib sons shouted warnings to nearby residents. Woman Plans Long Swim VICTORIA, B. C. Wl Florence Chadwlck; famed long - distance swimmer, plans to swim the Juan de Fuca Straits during t'he second week in August, but the event will look more like a full-scale invasion to the casual observer. Swim officials met Monday, laid preliminary plans for "Operation Chadwlck," and listed three naval vessels, a helicopter, and a flying boat as equipment that will be used for the 18-mile Victoria-Port Angeles swim. . The helicopter will carry extra loud public-address equipment, to warn off any boats that come too close to Miss Chadwlck, endanger ing her with the cross-wash and exhaust fumes. Tne Grumman flying-boat, do nated by a private firm, will carry first-aid equipment, and will be reudy to land on the water in the event of an emergency. Prize money for the swim, if completed, totals $10,000. It has been donated by a paint company and The Victoria Times. . i - . r.j WEDNESDAY, JULY V - mFjS . berg and District Attorney Aider- son. "Mr. Hill was sent to Klamath Kails to Investigate the trouble there," Justice Latourette said. "I am awaiting his return to Salem." Justice Latourette said he con ferred with Attorney Jack Tues day. He said the bar association president was writing him a let ter concerning the Klamath Falls situation. i In his discussion of the court house feud Wednesday Attorney Jack said the only interest of the bar association is to see that the courts and district attorney's of fice In Klamah County are operat ing efficiently,. LAW BREAKDOWN "The Information I have at pres ent," he added, "is mostly what I have read in the newspapers. But it is apparent there has been a breakdown on law enforce ment in Klamath county." While Hill, administrative assis tant to Justice Latourette was in Klamath Falls Tuesday he ex amined court records. Both Judge Vandenberg and Attorney Aider- son refused to make any state ment concerning their conferences with Hill. It also was announced Wednes day that Circuit Judge Charles H. Foster of Lakevlew, already under supreme court assignment to try two criminal cases here in which Judge Vandenberg was disquali fied and Judge Ralph N. Holman of Oregon City was rejected by the defense, had been given a third case. The latest assignment is to pre side at the trial of Andrew J. Bushman, accused of a morals of fense. His attorney, J. C. O'Neill. filed an application for a change of judges after Holman was as signed to the case. JUDGE DISQUALIFIED - The uther twos cases in which Judge Vandenberg has been dis qualified on motions by the dis trict attorney and Judge Holman rejected by the defense. Involves T. M. Mitchell, alleged bogus check passer, and William Roberson, accused of burglary. They are represented by Attorney Ben God- dard. When Alderson made his un precedented move to eliminate Judge Vandenberg from trying criminal actions, he filed motions in five cases. Attornew U. S. Balentlne, counsel for Tobe Carter, accused of a mor als offense, immediately filed a motion In opposition . to the re moval of Judge Vandenberg from the" case. Shortly afterward,' Jus tice Latourette announced Judge Holman had been assigned to try the other four cases. At that time. Justice Latoui-ette told the Herald and News that Judge Van denberg-. would hear the Carter case. Last Friday, however, Judge Holman went oil-the .bench in cir cuit court here and assumed juris diction in the Carter case.: It is reported Balentlne Is planning to file a wrl.t of mandamus in the supreme court to prohibit Judge Holman from trying Carter. Whjle he was presiding here, judge HOiman disposed of one case. He gave RoBert Wa.yne Kirk, AWOL soldier, a six months sus pended sentence after the youth pleaded guilty to ourgiary. WHITE PAPER LONDON, M The British gov ernment Issued a white paper Tuesday night with figures to prove that Communist East Ger many is formidably armed while the Western zones have only light German defenses. 11 No. 2892 Long-Bell Mill Struck At Weed The unexpected arrival of seven pickets at the big Long-Bell Lum ber Company plant at Weed during the noon hour Tuesday has shut down operation of that plant ac cording to John Mantle, general manager. Approximately 800 employes at Long-Bell had returned to work Monday morning after two weeks' vacation. They worked all day Mon day and Tuesday morning. Re turning to their work following lunch Tuesday, they refused to cross the picket line, so the opera tion was shut down.' The pickets were said to be union men on strike from other Long-Bell operations, in the Douglas fir area In Oregon, chiefly from Gardiner, Reedsport and Vaughn. me Long-Bell employes at Weed are members of AFL local No. 2907. Originally they had voted negotiating authority to the North ern California District Council. The members later voted to withdraw this authority from the district council and refrain from taking a strike vote. The council refused to recognize the revocation and forced a strike vote on May 29. Results of that vote showed the membership 423 against a proposed strike and 133 in favor. There have been no independent negotiations between the local and the management of the weed Long Bell Lumber Company, the district council having made a wage in crease demand of 12'2 cents an hour on behalf of the union to the negotiating committee of Pine In dustrial Relations Committee. The demand was refused on behalf of the Long-Bell plant and more than 30 other plants In the area.. The employers offered to extend con tracts without wage Increases but the offer was rejected. Last Sunday, the last day of the employes' vacation, a union meet ing was called at Weed. Long-Bell management was notified follow ing the sessions that the men would continue working under the pre vious conditions, with the stipula tion that all employes would pay in $1.00 a day to a fund for needy strikers elsewhere, Mantle stated. In the light of the Sunday de cision on the part of the employes, Mantle said management was "greatly surprised" to see a hand ful of pickets on duty at the end of Tuesday's lunch hour. Pickets showed up before the 8 a.m. start of the morning shift Wednesday. Mantle said. The out- of-town men were not in evidence, he added. Syngman Rhee To Visit U.S. SEOUL Ml President Syngman Rhee will fly to the United States next week on an official state visit to discuss the future of his war battered, divided nation, the U. S. embassy announced Wednesday. Rhee is due in Washington July 26, the embassy said. He will be accompanied by his Austrian-born wife. A highly Informed source said the 19-year-old president probably would depart Monday. Water Tank To Be Repaired Temporary repair work on the million-gallon water storage tank at the airport has started, following a meeting of the city airport com mittee Tuesday noon at the airport. Meeting to inspect the tank and discuss possible repairs were Russ Avery, airport manager; Verne Schortgren, city building Inspector; Don Kenyon and Frank Tarr. It was decided to nut In rpdwnorf decking and a built-up roof as a more or less temporary measure. A crew Is working on that todav. The big storage tank will be limned and debris cleaned out. The current project Is expected to cost about $4,000. Due to the critical water storscre supply problem during the summer months, complete renovating will be postponed until the critical per iod is past. In late fall, bids will be called for sandblasting, scaling and painting the interior of the tank. Preliminary estimates on sand blasting have been received from Eugene, Portland, San Francisco and Klamath Falls, The temporary reoalr work will take about two weeks, Avery stated. f , . -v-v . V n :,V;H1Um v LOOKING FOR A PENNY? No. They're relocating a parking meter on Seventh and Pine which was set in cement Tuesday,; bumped by a passing motorist Tuesday night, and just a hole in the ground Wednesday. At left is Al Brotherton, city meter maintenance man, with A. J. Landrie, city street employe. Lumber Wage Demands Rejected in Tuesday Meets By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CIO Woodworkers Wednesday entered their first major negotia tions with employers since the start of the 34-day-old Paclflo Northwest lumber strike, but little was expected to come out of the meeting at Portland. Operators in the past two days have broken off talks with three large groups of AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers soon after the start. In sessions at Portland Mon day and at Seattle and Eugene Tuesday they said they did not want to meet further until the unions accept their original offer to renew contracts without wage in creases. The employers said they were unwilling to consider any pay boosts. Tne unions are seeking a 13 V2-cent hourly Increase. Em ployers insist they can't afford any rise m production costs.' r- The Tuesday meetings were be tween the Lumbermen's Industrial Relations Committee and the AFL Flood Sweeps Down Danube VIENNA, Austria HI More thousands of Austrlans and Ger mans returned to their wrecked homes Wednesday as. central Eu rope's disastrous flood crest wept behind the Iron Curtnln. Communist Cechoslovakla and Hungary broadcast little about the effects that tne flood waters or the rampnging Danube were having tor 150 miles from Bratlsla.va to Budapest. But what the Red radios did say Indicated that the high - waters were having as tragic an outcome there as In' Germany and Austria, where 33 were known dead and 70,000 were forced to flee their homes during the five-day terror. Tnousnnds wno returned found their homes totally or partially de stroyed by the raging flood waters. Tens of thousands of dead cattle, sheep, pigs and chickens were left behind by the receding waters. German and Austrian health au thorities launched a big protective campaign through the flood area against typhoid and other epidem ics. SICKNESS OKINAWA Wl U. S. Command headquarters here said Wednesday encephalitis (sleeping sickness) has caused 31 deaths,' including one American airman, on Okinawa this year. I i THE MILLION GALLON STEEL WATER tank at tha airport will get a naw redwood deck and built up roof now; necessary sandblasting, scaling and painting will be advertised for bids this fall. Action was speeded to pravant possible rationing of water at tha airport. If m ' , . ; union's Puget Sound district coun cil at Seattle and between the Willamette Valley Operators Com mittee and the Willamette Valley ana Foruana-coast-coiumbla coun cils of the union at Eugene. While saying they did not want to continue negotiations along industry-wide lines the employer committees told the union Indivi dual operators "are free and will ing to meet with their crews or their representatives" to renew contracts. The AFL union Is ready to bar gain with any individual employer for wage increases, said Kenneth. Davis, secretary of the union's Northwestern District Council, "The Lumbermen's Industrial Relations Committee has never settled a wage Issue with Davis said, "We have always come to terms , with individual oper ators." Meanwhile some operators have turned to court actions Jn an effort to stop picketing, Owners of a new mill under con struction at Cosmopolls, In the Grays Harbor area, Tuesday ob tained a county superior court or der forbidding- a Cip Woodworkers local from plckotlng the project. At Portland Circuit Judge Lowell Mundorff set Monday for a hearing on the M It M WoodworklngCo.'s petition for an Injunction to pre vent the AFL mlllmen from picket ing Its four plywood plants, three In Oregon and one in California. Some S.500 employf s of the plants have refused' to cross picket lines. At Lebanon and Sweet Home, union's refused a request by the Snntlam Eumber Co. to allow It to open its log ponds to bring In winter stocks. .Walter Lelsy, com pany' manager, pleaded that even if the strike ends soon, the mills will be closed in winter unless logs can be stored. Stork Believes In Self-Service HERMOSA BEACH, Calif. W) When Mrs. Daniel Baker real, lzed her husband couldn't reach the hospital In time, she ordered him to stop their car. That Is why Anna Danette Baker entered the world yester day at a serve-yourself gaso line station. ' Her parents, sheriff's depu ties and station attendants who helped with the delivery are recovering. Anna Danette, who weighed In at 1 pounds 3 ounc es. Is doing fine. She's In a hospital maternity ward now. Smith To Attend Indd Peace Talks PARIS Wl Walter Bedell Smith, U. S. undersecretary . of state, will go to Geneva soon to represent the United States at the Geneva conference, a communique Issued by the three Western big power foreign ministers announced Wednesday. Secretary of State Dulles, Brit ish Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and Premier Mendes-France Issued the communique after two days of meetings. They said Smith's presence at Geneva would satisfy British and French ' de mands tor a high level American representative at Geneva without departing from Dulles' principles against his own presence there, , The communique said: . i "We have had Intimate and frank discussions. These have re sulted in a clear understanding of our respective positions in rela tion to Indochina. "The United States secretary of state explained fully the attitude of his government toward the In-' dochlnese phase of the Geneva con ference and tne limitations wnicn that government desires to observe as not Itself having a primary re sponsibility in the Indochina War, The French premier and for eign minister expressed the view with which Mr. Eden associated himself, that it would nevertheless serve the Interest of France and of the associated states, and of the peace and freedom of the area U the United States- without depart ing from tlie principles which Mr, Dulles expressed were once again to be represented at Geneva at, the ministerial level. , . "Accordingly President Eisen hower and Secretary Dulles are requesting the United States under secretary of state, Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, to return to Geneva at an early date," Just before the communique was issued Clement Attlee, leader of Britain's Labor opposition, said the United States, by falling to re turn to the Geneva conference, would be "playing right into .the hands of the Communists." Dulles now will return to Wash ington, and Eden and Mendes France will return to Geneva to continue talks with the Communist powers on an Indochina cease-fire. Before the Big Three conference, Dulles and Eden passed up tha French capital's big Bastille Bay parade down the Champa Elysecs to confer together lor an hour at the U. S. Embassy. French Parade Through Hanoi HANOI. Indochina Wl A crowd of 20,000 Vietnamese watched soma 10.000 French and Vietnamese troops and hundreds of tanks and guns parade the streets of Viet-mlnh-threatened Hanoi Wednes day. Officially the military display , honored France's national holi day. Bastille Day, but obviously it also was designed to show the city of 600,000 that the French still ara here in strength. It was calculated to reussure pro-French Vietnamese who -fear Hanoi will be given , to tne com. munlst-led rebels in the negotia tions In Geneva or lost to them in a mass Red assault on tha shrunk en French holding in the Red Rrv- er delta. The parade also served to warn Vietminh sympathizers and ex-, treme nationalists that the Frenoh have men and guns ready to put down any revolt that might flare up If a cease-fire Is signed. Meanwhile, the Vietminh In creased their pressure on the northern and northwestern sides of the French defense perimeter of the Red River delta. Between Luc Nam and Phu Lang Thuong, about 28 miles north of Hanoi, the French-held post of Camp Erulln was completely en circled. Arms, ammunition and food were parachuted Tuesday to the French garrison, a French army spokesman said. 1
