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: 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.
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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.
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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 - ,
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