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Nl mm mm m u ui In The' Day's Jews Br FRANK JENKINS : Speaking of items tor the book, here's another one. It comes from the town ot Durban, away down In South Africa: "A carnival sharpshooter who fires at a line of bottles on a table from a speeding airplane (the bot tles crash as the gun roars, and the spectators are google-eyed with amazement) -was hooted off the program at the Durban air week festival today when the crowd got an unscheduled look at the trick to his trade. "The marskman fired and the bottles splintered twice in a row as the plane swooshed past at high speed. But the third time the slip stream from the plane's motor whisked away the sides of the table REVEALING A MAN UN DERNEATH WITH A HAMMER IN HIS. HAND." The niiv of it in that If the cuv had spent as much time actually sharpening up his shooting as he spent thinking up that scheme to FOOL PEOPLE, he might have been able to do the job honestly (as Annie Oakley used to do) and earn his money. This one is from Seattle: Washington will be one of the first states to try out a new trick to keep motorists from getting lost in strange cities. Colored highway markers will be installed 60on on an experimental basis in Seattle, Spokane and Olympia. Northbound motorists will follow orange highway signs. Southbound routes will be green, eastoouna brown and westbound blue. The Washington highway depart ment says that if the colored mark ers prove successful in the first three test cities they will be used throughout the rest of the state. It isn't a wholly new idea. It was first tried out in the maze of subways under the Times building in Times Square in New York. Colored lines were painted on the ceilings, with charts on the walls explaining that if you wanted a certain route you followed a red line, if you wanted a certain other route you followed a blue line, and so on. It was (and I think still Is) wonderful. You followed the right line and you got to the right place just like that. For quite a while Los Angeles which before the days of the big freeways was the screwballest spot on earth to get from where you were to where you wanted to be followed the same -system. Each route had it own colored stripe in the middle the Foothill Boule vard blue, the Valley Boulevard ned and so on through the list. It was fabulous. You got on the line of the right color and followed it through thick and thin and the first thing you knew there you were right where you wanted to be. I never was able to find out why LA abandoned the system. One theory is that the routes eventu ally became so numerous that they ran out of colors. Another one is that the crews of the. stripe-painting machines weren't able them selves to find the way to where they were going. I lean to the sec ond theory. Anyway, here's hoping the state of Washington iuck. I foresee one pitfall, however. In a real lulu of a Puget Sound fog, how are you going to be able to tell an orange colored northbound sign from a green-colored southbound one? Turning from the frivolous to the serious side, Speaker of the House Joe Martm (who, by the way, is a country newspaper publisher) told the Lions club convention in new York a while back that the free nations should use their HEADS AND THEIR HEARTS instead of their muscles to overcome the com munist threat. The greatest weapons on earth, he said, are truth, the will to win and moral stamina. These, he savs. we've GOT. All that's needed is a true understanding of the struggle. Once that is understood, we can turn the tactics used by the commies AGAINST THEM. Good for you, Joe. That's the kind of talk we .ought to have more of. Nobody in his right mind can be lieve that foul and awful comma nism can prevail over the long pull against the truly wonderful Amer ican way ol we. What we need, as you say, Is more FIGHTING FAITH in our own system. Explosion Hits Chicago Plant CHICAGO m A series of blasts destroyed a small fireworks nlant in schiller Park, a western suburb of Chicago Friday. Police said three persons were killed and two injured. The explosions and fire de stroyed the factory near Lawrence Avenue and Mannheim Road. Fire departments from Park Ridge, Franklin Park and Schiller Park fought the blaze. One of the injured persons was reported in critical condition In Resurrection Hospital on Chicago's west outskirts. The other was not hurt seriously, police said. COMMUNISTS niTATCMALA WI Speedy In vestigation of an estimated 3,000 alleged Communists, pro - Com munist and suspected Commun ists Jammed Into Guatemala's jails was directed Friday by the ruling military Junta. , KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, - 0 Price Five Cents 1 Pages Jl? ' French Seek Indo Peace Settlement By SEYMOUR TOPPING . GENEVA (in French Premier Pierre Mendes-France worked at whirlwind pace today, trying to get the Communists to agree to an Indochina cease-fire based on div ision of disputed Viet Nam at the 18th Parallel. Western diplomats said the Communists seemed willing to do business, but that they were dick ering for a bigger chunk of Viet Nam most important of the three associated Indochinese states. The Reds appeared toie seeking a compromise between the 18th Parallel across Viet Nam's narrow waist and their original demand for partition at the 14th parallel. FRENCH ACM The French want to hold the line at least to the 17th Parallel. To set it below that point would mean handing- over to the Communist-led Vietminh the important air and naval base at Tourane and the old Annamese capital of Hue. Loss of the latter particularly would be a severe blow to the prestige of ex-Emperor Bao Dai, chief of state for the government the French have set up in Viet Nam. Mendes-France has hinted he mieht be Dersuaded to turn over Viet Nam's northern war capital Hanoi, to Ho Chi Minn s forces. But the Premier was reported holding out stubbornly to retain at least temporary control of Hai phong, the major port of the rich Red River delta through which the French may have to evacuate their forces. OFFER In return for retaining Haiphong, 65 miles east of Hanoi and well above the 18th Parallel, the French have offered to let the Vietminh keep control of some of their pockets in the South. The French believe the Commu nists will - agree eventually . to a neutralization of the other two In dochinese states, Laos and Cam bodia, based on withdrawal of Vi etminh forces and incorporation of local Communist resistance move ments into "national communi ties." Mendes-France, who has prom ised to resign if he falls to get a cease-fire by July 20, is feverishly trying to iron out points of differ ence In small, private huddles be tween French and Communist del egates. Hitchcock Resigns Senate PORTLAND WI The resignation of Philip Hitchcock of Klamath Falls from the State Senate was effective Friday. As his final word as a senator, he told Multnomah County Young Republicans Thurs day night to work for election of a Republican Congress. Hitchcock, who will move here to ioin the Lewis and Clark College faculty, lauded Republican candi dates, assailed Richard L. Neuberger, Democratic senatorial candidate, and said "we better get behind Sen. Cordon and give him a whopping majority." X. f O'clock Special Ar"S I'Q fP-' CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME 1822 Earle Street where littla Jana Killmeyer gives daddy, Hugh, a lick ef her sucker but the limit it onel Killmeyer is employed with Southern Pacific Co.; mother, Edna, is in the classified advertising department of the Herald and News. .A aV I FORECAST ,amath Falls and -vicinity: Fair through Saturday. High Saturday 88; low Friday night 50. High yesterday 90 Low last night . S3 Preclp last 24 hour .- T Since Oct. 1 - r - H-45 Same period last year 14.87 Normal for period 13-29 Committee Approves Tax Cut Bill WASHINGTON WI A House- Senate conference committee Fri day approved a special tax cut for parents who pay child-care ex penses while they work. It is esti mated It will cost the government 130 million dollars a year in re venue. . The committee, settling differ ences between House and Senate versions of President Elsenhow er's big tax revision program, ac cepted without ohange the more liberal Senate proposal for child care expenses. The House had approved a much more restricted plan cutting taxes only about 40 millions. Committee members said they saw little chance they could com plete action on the big bill Friday as they had hoped earlier. The final version of the revision pro gram is expected to cut taxes about 1 4 billion dollars next year. On baby-sitters, the approved provision permits working parents to deduct up to $600 a year from taxable income for the expense of care for children under 12 while they work. v " The provision applies without rb- orard to Income in tne case ot single heads of households wid ows, widowers, divorced or sep arated persons. For married couples, where both husband and wife work, the full reduction would be allowed if their combined income was no more than $4,500 a year. The deduction would be reduced by the amount of annual Income above $4,500. Thus no deduction would be al lowed for couples with (5,100 In come or more. Good Samaritan Act Rebounds DETROIT WI Joe V. Gonzales, 22, saw a car stalled on a busy Detroit thoroughfare. He assumed it needed a push. So he drove his car behind It and pushed. Before they got far, the pushed car veered over and another car. Gonzales had failed to notice the driver oi the stalled car was not In It. He had gone to buy some gasoline. "Whenever I see a man in trouble I want to help out,' Gon zales explained in Traffic Court yesterday. He was fined $25 and agreed to pay damages totaling 8375. US Aids In Drive For Asia Peace WASHINGTON Ufl Under Secretary of State Walter Bedell Smith leaves for Geneva today to throw American prestige into the crucial drive to negotiate with the Communists acceptable terms for ending the war in Indochina. Administration leaders were con vinced that, misunderstandings threatening Big Three unity had been eliminated among tne unuea States, Britain and France. The decision for Smith to return to Geneva was taken primarily be cause Secretary of State Dulles ob tained in Paris two days ago as surances Irom premier rierre Mendes-France that the Frencn government wiil not make a peace of surrender. Dulles returned with that word yesterday. Here in Washington, meanwhile, Dulles is pressing plans for a col lective defense of Southeast Asia which may serve (A) to secure non-Communist parts of Indochina from further Red aggression in event of a settlement or (B) to pave the way for possible quick intervention u tne war continues. Highly authoritative sources said Dulles told President Elsenhower and the National Security Council yesterday that Mendes-France as sured him France's final terms for an Indochina settlement would be terms which the United States could live with. Dulles arranged to discuss the results of his quick Paris mission with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today after Smith's scheduled takeoff. Informants said the President and National Security Council had approved the results of Dulles' mission. Difficulties began a week ago when Dulles decided there was great danger Mendes-France would seek peace at any, price by the deadline of next Tuesday which he has set for himself. Dul-s ap parently concluded that the United States would have to denounce the prospective settlement and that this could be done with the least harm if the United States had no high level representation at Geneva. Nat'l Forests Consolidated The Trinity and Shasta National Forests in northern California are being administratively consoli dated July 19 Into a combined Forest with headquarters located in Redding, according to a state ment just released by Clare Hendee, regional forester of the California Region of the U.S. For. est Service. The Goosenest District of the Shasta will become a part of the Klamath National Forest with headquarters in Yreka, California. The balance of the Shasta and the Trinity will be combined into one administrative unit to be known as the Shasta-Trinity National Forest. Paul W. Stathem, recently named supervisor of the Shasta will be in charge of 'the newly consolidated unit. This consolidation is a continua tion of a long established policy of the Forest Service directed to ward providing better service to forest users, says Mr. Hendee. At the same time, economies and efficiency In management can be eiiected by reducing overhead costs. Resultant savings will be used to expand much needed field operations and services. French Stage Big Assault HANOI, Indochina if Ten thousand French Union troops, hnrlcerf bv tanks and warplanes. smashed Friday at Vietminh forces entrenched in two positions west and northeast of Hanoi. A French briefing officer said losses were appreciable on both sides. The assaults began Thursday when 5.000 French Union troops In mobile Infantry units barreled out of Luc Nam to hit Communist led rebels dug in on a river bank six miles west of the town. This area Is 35 miles northeast ol Ha noi. Twenty five miles west of Ha noi, mobile Infantry rolled south ward out of Son Tay behind a spearhead of tanks in a four - pronged attack against Vietminh attempting to pick off French posts in that area. The briefing officer said both as saults pushed the rebels from their positions although fighting still raged Friday. The two attacks, the biggest French drives in weeks, were de signed to relieve the ever-increasing Vietminh pressure In those two areas. FRENCH PREMIER Pierre Mendes-France (center) greed United States Secy, of State John Poster Dulles (right I and British Foreign Secy. Anthony Eden (left! in Paris. They met to map a "united policy" for Indo-China negotiations. NEA Radio-Telephoto UF Executive Group Vote Approves Full Time Aide By PATI O'CONNOR In late March of 1953 Klamath County launched what proved to be a highly successful United Fund. The first such drive in the County last October netted well over the $109,863 goal in pledges and payments. At a United Fund Executive Committee meeting Thursday eve ning, to which all directors were invited, another important step in their responsibility to charijies was taken by residents of the county when their UF represen tatives cast an affirmative vote for hiring an executive secretary. The outcome of last evening's meeting will be presented as a recommendation to residents of the county in a mass meeting to be held in the near future which all members of United Fund are urged to attend. Payment of $1 or more to the Fund constitutes membership. The executive approved last night, Jim Shelton, Snlem. is cur rently serving with the Oregon Chest, an agency, of. United Fund, He was scheduled to a post as head of Oregon Chests In East ern Oregon, with headquarters in Pendleton, but declared his interest in the local Job if direc tors approved the plan. A committee from United Fund, which Included Andrew Collier, Truman Runyon, Nelson Reed, Rex Dye and Elton Smith, pres ident of the Fund board, Inter viewed the prospective applicant on his brief visit to Klamath Falls Wednesday. ' UNANIMOUS Smith told the 12 board mem bers present at last evening's meeting that it was the ananl- Heat Death Toll Rises By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The death toll from heat and storms rose to 190 today as cool northerly winds routed the season's severest heat wave in most parts of the country. Tne cooler air extended from Kansas and Oklahoma eastward over Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio to the North Atlantic coastal states. Daytime temperatures in that area yester day were 10 to 25 degrees cooler than on the preceding day. Temperatures in the 90s and 100s still covered most of the southern half of the nation, with Little Rock. Ark., recording 107. Fort Worth, Tex., and Springileld Mo. reported 102. But the temperature reached high yesterday of only 92 In St. Louis compared with 113 the pre ceding day. More than a week of scorching heat was blamed for 46 deaths in St. Louis. Kansas City fell from a high of 112 Wednesday to 93 yesterday and New York City airport lrom 99 to 84. Missouri was hardest hit by the heat wave counting 60 deaths. Ok lahoma had 44: Kansas, 34; Illi nois, 11: Kentucky, 8; Pennsyl vania, 6: Colorado. 4: West Vir ginia 4: Ohio. 3; Arkansas 3; New Hampshire -2; Nebraska, Massachusetts, 2; New York, Iowa, Indiana, Louisiana Connecticut, Virginia, Tennessee and Maryland 1 each, '53 Spud Crop Shipments Told Total potato shipments from the Klamath Basin for the 1953 crop was 11,629 cars. This compares with 11,498 for tee previous year, according to final figures compiled by the county extension agents of fice. Tulelake was the heaviest ship ping station with 1,448 cars, fol lowed by Hatfield with 1,066 ana Malin with 904 cars. TREATY ROME WI The European De fense Community treaty passed another hurdle Friday. It won ap proval of the Italian parliament a defense committee, su to m. mous recommendation of committee that Shelton be the em- ployed in an executive capacity. Shelton's qualifications Include several years as volunteet chair man of the March of Dimes drive in Grants Pass, In which time re ceipts were doubled. Following his term of service, according to recommendations from Grants Pass, receipts decreased by 50 per cent. Before accepting his present Oregon Chest position a year and half ago, Shelton had been in advertising and public relations work in Grants Pass. The 34 year old executive attended Portland University, Is married . and has one daughter, Ernie Taylor, the first president of the United Fund board and a staunch supporter since it was first suggested in Klamath Coun ty, reminded the group that the employment ot an executive, who will give year round interest and attention to the job, may mean mere extensive cooperation in contributions to the Fund drive which will more than pay the executive's salary, DIFFICULTIES Board members have for some time been concerned about the difficulty in contacting the entire county to give everyone an op portunity to donate at his most convenient time. A full time executive in the office will mean that United Fund may be set up on a year-round basis, with com plete follow-up on pledges and payroll deduction promises, so that the campaign itself will be limited to Just one week: per haps one day. A report from Treasurer Har old Ashley shows a total Income to United Fund of (99,000; ex penditures other than to agencies, Including salaries, (11,164; pay ments to agencies, $81,391. Agen cies have been paid a little more than 80 per cent of their budgets to date, according to Ashley. Shelton's flat iJlary wtll be $7,000 per year; less than tne amount paid executives In many Oregon cities. Smith quoted Shel ton as saying that an office secre tary would be needed during the pre-campatgn period, the cam paign and about a month follow In) at $225 per month. It has been pointed out by Fund members that the local United Fund, which has grown to be a $110,000 business needs one per son to give it full time attention. Forest Road Funds Sought WASHINGTON lPI The Forest Service wants 200 million dollars for a road construction program in national forests, a House ap nronriations subcommittee was told at a recent meeting here. Forest Service officials said some of the roads would be built by the federal government, ac cording to testimony made public Thursday, and others by private industry. Witnesses gave tnese ngures: 95 million dollars for 5,200 miles of mainline road to be constructed by the government: 105 million dollars for 9.000 miles by private industry. The Forest Service said the roads must be built within the next five or six years to harvest timber which is ripe or threatened by pests and disease. The Forest serlvlce asked the committee for a 6 'i million dollar supplemental appropriation In ad dition to the regular appropriation for the year which began July 1 for Immediate construction of ac cess roads in Southern Idaho, the Pacific NorthweBt and California. This would make 2D million dol lars available for the Forest Serv ice this year. The witnesses said 4 million dol lars would be spent building ac cess roads In Idaho. 4 million In California and 6 million in Wash ington, Oregon, Montana and other states. Explosion Rocks Maryland Town BULLETIN CHESTERTOWN, Md. (P) Authorities reported that . one more body has been recovered from the fireworks and munitions plant which exploded here Friday bringing the death toll so far to ten persons killed. CHESTERTOWN, Md. Ill An exploding fireworks and munitions plant shook Chestertown for SO minutes Friday and nine bodies were recovered from the flaming ruins. Two were found in an assembly line building at Kent Manufactur ing Co. when firemen finally were able to fight their way into the ruins almost three hours later. Kent-Queen Annes Hospital re ported 30 Injured there. Some of the less serious cases lay on stretchers on the front lawn. The fire, which burst out with the first explosion, was confined to tile 20-acre plant site on the west edge of chestertown. All houses In the immediate area had been evacuated ana authorities were in the process of moving everyone out of town when the explosions slacked off short ly afternoon. Llllle Mae Miller, 54-year-old worker on the assembly line in B" building, apparently the site of the first blast, said she started to run but was knocked down by falling timber. She said she saw another wom an worker lying outside the door, apparently dead. "I couldn't stop," she said. "It was terrible." Mary Younger, working in an other building 15 feet away, said she and five others escaped by fleeing Into a marsh back of the plant "but we kept getting knocked down." The first six bodies included two women and a man, plus three others so badly torn and burned their sex could not be determined immediately. About 275 were at work In the sprawling plant at the time. Firemen and ponce cleared, all houses in the area in fear the ex plosions and fire would reach large stores of lead azlde and oth er high explosives. Sheriff Bartus Vickers moved to clear the whole town but the ex plosions seemed to diminish after noon. Firemen decided to try to move In and wet down the center of the explosion and - fire at 1:18 p.m (EDT) they succeeded in getting two hose lines into play. The fire had been confined to the plant site and did not endang er the business section of Chester- town. There had been no panic despite the rush to Jeave town. Hundreds, including mothers wheeling baby carriages, streamed across the Chester River bridge In. to the neighboring county. Chestertown has a population of about 3,100. It Is directly across Father, Son Die Together HAGUE1, N.Y. lPI A father died with his infant son last night In a futile attempt to save the boy as he rolled in a runaway automobile down an embankment into Lake George. Witnesses said the man, Carl Vaux, 39, of Phillpsburg, Pa., chased the car on foot and followed it Into the water. Tne bodies of Vaux and his son David 20 months, were receovered Irom the lake shortly afterward. Dr. Hilton H. Dler of Lake George, a Warren County coroner, issued verdicts of accidental death by drowning. Elmer Hoffman, a desk clerk at the nearby Island Harbor House, said Vaux, his wife and four older sons had gotten out of the car to view the scenery around the lake. They left David in the automobile. Hoflman said the car rolled down a rocky embankment and into six teet of water. Y&'-T'ffV. if" 7V ROBERT A. (BOB) THOMP SON has been named District Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler ot Oregon, . Southeast, of BPO Elks by Grand Exalted Ruler William J. Jernictc. Thi$ honor was conferred at the national convention of the Elks at Lot Angeles held July 4 to 8th. Thompson is a past Exalted Ruler of BPOE 1247, Klamath Falls. jr. i T- i more and Be miles south of Wil mington, Del, The fireworks plant was opened here during World War II and has been making detonator fuses for the armed forces, as well as fire works, The first explosion was about 10:30 a.m. (EDT) and apparently let go in a plant where women workers put fireworks together on an assembly line. Maynard porter, foreman there. said he had been able to account for all but three ot his crew mem bers, ' RaftLehi ; Crew Tell m Experiences SAN FRANCISCO 1 The ratt Lehi's quickly aborted drifting expedition toward Hawaii Friday was labelled tipth "stupid, ill-begotten" and 'a floating marine survival laboratory." Radio operator Don Smith made the criticism in a byllned, copy righted story in the San Fran clscd Chronicle. He said he wanted no more. Dr. Arthur Fearon. philosophy prolessor at the U. ot San Fran cisco and sponsor -of the Lent, had Issued his statement to newsmen a couple of hours earlier. He said the other tour crew members were anxious to try the trip agaln-ms soon as the raft can be repaired. First it would have to be found. It was abandoned some 60 miles oft the central California coast when, the five were rescued early Thursday. , . CHARGES . Smith charged: "They couldn't navigate their way out of a garage with the door open. They had two compasses. . . 30 degrees apart." Dr. Fearon: "The crew could have put out to sea westward. . .out purposely hugged the shore looking lor a boat to remove Don Smith. . . the raft was amazltngly maneuverable (with) ISO degree directional con trol." , . Smith; J'One port hole wan -never put in. We shipped water through It. The mast was not even bolted down. It was held up with four ropes." Fearon: "The wooden raft was unslnk able. . . amazingly seaworthy." AMATEURS The Lehi left Sun Francisco last Friday with a crew of five ama teurs hoping to drift 2,200 miles to Hawaii, It missed the current skipper Devere Baker hoped to find and In six days progressed only 180 miles or so, southeast. Tho men had expected to live off the Pacific catching fish and dis tilling sea water. v Smith began sending depressing messages little, or no food; little water to drink and the like on the second day, Tuesday and Wednes day he demanded to be taken off, saying hi was seasick and ill of Influenza. Wednesday he radioed an SOS "taking water at the bow." The five crewmen were picked up by a banana freighter, the Met pan, Thursday and returned here Thursday night. Airport Funds Aooroved WASHINGTON Wl-A proposed $4,127,000 Air Force project at Klamath Falls moved a steo near er today. It was one of the military construction jobs approved In con gress by the House Appropriations uommutee. The program Is Included in the over-all emergency appropriations bill which now awaits action by the hoiie, to be taken probably early next week. Oregon Bar Meet Sfated A conference between represen tatives of the Oregon bar and mem bers of the state supreme court on Klamath county's courthouse battle was tentatively slated for late Friday In 8alem. ; Olenn R. Jack, of Oregon City, president of the bar association, told the Herald and News he was awaiting a call to go to Salem from Chief Justice Latourctte of the supreme court. Jack refused to say whether Cir cuit Judge David R. Vandenberg and District Attorney Frank Al derson would be summoned' to Sa lem. He added, however, that he did not believe it would be pos sible to hold a hearing on the court feud without the principals being present. Jonel Hill, administrative assis tant to Justice Latourette, told the Herald and News Friday morning that he had requested a compre hensive report on court operations in Klamath county from County Clerk Charles DeLap. DeLap's of fice said the report had ' been for warded to Salem Thursday night. Justice Latourette's office re ported he was at his summer home in Oearhart but was expected back in his office Friday after noon, i - , ?
