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Newspaper Page Textn fo) Ml l LTQ A A mm. "S In The Day's lews Bv FRANK JENKINS Defense Secretary Wilson, asked this morning about the truce sit uation In Indo-chlna, answers: "The wise thing at the moment may be to draw a truce line across the country at or near the middle, but I'm not enthusiastic about the idea." Thank you, Mr. Wilson. That about sizes up we situation. When we stopped shooting on a line drawn across the middle ol Korea nobody was very enthusi astic about the idea. But we were all very, very happy indeed to get rid of a Bhooting war that we couldn't afford to win and couldn't afford to lose. It's about the same way, I sus pect, in Indochina. A thought lor today: T llrA tViA ttnvnaH rhllri that voids the fire and the wolf that got caught in the trap and was ever afterward cagey about traps let's be EXTREMELY careful it the future about getting into wars that we can't afford to win and can't afford to lose. In n roflumnhlv hectic session on the Chicago Board of Trade this morning, soybeans shot up ten cents a bushel and corn went up eight cents. Have you been reading the weather reports lately? It has v been HOT-T-T-T 1 1 I 1 (and dry) back in the corn and soybean belt tor davs and days and when it's V Anr korV than ffir daVS and days at this time of the year It means less corn ana soyuauu come harvest time, .with ip-w corn and soybeans in sight, buyers BID UP THE PRICE But- How about the huge surplus of priee-supportea corn puea up u. previous . years? Doesn't that nxert a bearish influence on this year's corn prices? If there Is a drop in corn production this year, due to heat and drouth, won't this huge stored surplus come onto the market and keep the price from going up? T.f'e not he childish. rrt.1 Id an wlnt.lnn vear. Do VOU think it would be likely that in an election year (with corn belt votes at stake) the stored-up SURPLUS of corn would be permitted to come ... u- arbat otirt PRFVF.NT CORN PRICES FROM! GOING UP because of neat ana arouuir At. nnv rata, the traders in Chi cago this morning didn't seem to V reduction in mis year s corn piu- iiirHnn t.hov went richt ahead and bid up the price. But If that's the case, how are we nirmD Ik naf viri nf thn hllfTA lir pluses that accumulate when prices or certain oasic ciot c guaranteed at a figure high .n.nVi Ia Tttenlt 4n rnnttnued over- production, regardless of supply ana aemanar Maybe the surpluses will ROT someday ana inus soive ie pruu lem for everybody but, the taxpay- T hone vou'll pardon those cynl- mi cracks. I must have got out iof bed on the wrong foot this morning. Let's turn to a more hopeful side or the picture. The census sharps say mat u.o. population is Increasing at a phenomenal rate. By 1975 (only two decades in the future) rising birth rates and declining death rates, they tell us. are expected to add from 40 million to eo mil lion to our present population, bringing the total up to 200 mil lion or over. That would be half of China's present population. China is NEVER troubled by food surpluses. Her troubles arise out of food SHORTAGES. So maybe we'll come out all right in the end. Ike Asked To Dedicate Dam WASHINGTON Wl President Eisenhower got an invitation Mon day to attend the dedication of McNary Dam this summer, and was reported hopeful of being able to make it. The invitation was presented by a Washington and Oregon congres sional delegation which talked with the President personally. The group even offered to fix the dedi cation dates to suit Eisenhower's convenience. Afterward, Sen. Cordon (R-Orel said the President showed Interest and hoped to be present at the dedication of the giant dam on the Columbia River near Umatilla, Ore. Cordon said Eisenhower thought arrangements possibly could be made while he is on summer vacation in Denver. Earlier Bertha S. Adkins, as sistant to the chairman of the Re publican National Committee, re ported to the President on her re cent seven-week tour of Western states. She told newsmen she was 'very much encouraged" about GOP prospects tn the November election. She said she believes the Republicans have an excellent chance of gaining a Senate seat In Wyoming and of picking up a House seat in Colorado, Price Five Cents 14 Paxes Heat Death Toll Rises In Midwest By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS More blistering heat scorched the central United States Tuesday. It boosted hog, poultry and crop losses and ran the nation's heat deaths in two weeks to 259. The temperature was 100 de grees or higher Monday from Tex as to South Dakota. However, local thundershowers brought scattered relief In parts of the swelterbelt and somewhat cooler Canadian air began pushing into the Midwest. The combined effect of heat and drought had farm advisers worried in Illinois, a major com ana live stock producing state. J. A. Ewing, federal crop statis tician, said corn is in only fair condition in the southern half of Il linois. Another week of heat and drought, he said, could cause serious damage. County fair advisers reported wholesale deaths of hogs and chickens In central Illinois. Farm ers near Staunton, in Macoupin County, said so many hogs have died they have been notified to burn the carcasses because reduc tion plants are swamped with work. Hiuh temperatures included: Wi chita. Kan. 107: Kansas C lty 109; St. Louis 102; Tulsa 106; Omaha. Neb. 103; Vandalla, 111. 100, and Huron, S.D. 100. At Little Rock. Ark. thunder- showers kept the temperature down to a maximum of 82, com pared with 108 the previous day. A surge of cooler Canadian air kept the mercury to 79 degrees In Dickenson, N.D. compared with 100 on Sunday. TTiundershowers sprinkled the Rocky Mountains, central plains and lower Mississippi Valley. Some cooling occurred in the Pa cific states but temperature changes in most other sections of the nation were minor. Missouri has had the heaviest heat toll this month with 94 deaths. Oklahoma counted 50 deaths, Kan sas 40. Illinois 15 and 18 other states from one to eight deaths. Klamath Hosts Fly way Meet KLAMATH FALLS W The Pa cific Plyway Council met here Tues day to discuss waterfowl regulations for the Pacific flyway. The council is made up of repre sentatives of the U. 6. Fish and Wildlife Service and of game de partments of Oregon, Washington, California. Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Montana and British Co lumbia. They were expected to work out recommendations to the lederal wildlife service for 1954 waterfowl regulations. These will be set in August after a meeting of the Na tional Waterfowl Council in Wash ington, D. C. The meeting, closed to the press, was expected to last into late after noon. Whether a resume 01 rec ommendations would then be made public was to be decided in the course of the session, a spokesman said. United Fund Meet Plained A mass meeting of members oi United Fund will be held Wednes day night. July 21, at 7:30 p.m. in the Little Theater at Klamath Union High School. Everyone who has donated one dollar or more to United Fund is a member, and is urged to attend the meeting, subject of which will be the proposed employment of an executive secretary for the Klamath County United Fund. The mass meeting has been called to give the specific donors to the Fund an opportunity to pres ent their views on the proposal. Officials have emphasized that only through attendance at a mass meeting such as this tan public opinion be learned. At an executive board meeting last Thursday evening to which all directors were Invited, the executive committee presented its unanimous recommendation that an executive secretary be hired. Jim Shelton, currently with the Oregon Chest, has been suggested for the position at a salary of S7.000 per year. This suggestion met with unanimous approval by board members present at last week's meeting. MEETINGS KINGSTON, Jamaica Wl Ja maica's Prime Minister William A. Bustamante promised Monday night to prevent future meetings by "Communists and fellow trav elers." He said he wuld take ac tion against the Reds and their associates witnm a few days. KLAMATH SEN. JOSEPH MCCARTHY IR-Wis), questions James W. Glatis of Boston, right, back to camera, as he resumes one-man Senate Investigations subcommittee hearings into red infiltra tion in the Boston area. At the committee table in the big Caucus room in Washington scene of big production McCarthy-Army row hearings are,' from left, Donald F. O'Donnell, assistant committee counsel; McCarthy; Francis Carr, committee staff director; and George Anastos, assistant committee counsel. Others in background are not identified, except Mrs. McCarthy, third from right. ' Small Mills Resume Work Weyerhaeuser Springfield PORTLAND W Two settle ments at Medford, increased work behind a picket line at Redmond and a vote against local negotia tions with Weyerhaeuser at Spring field highlighted reports Tuesday on the Northwest lumber strike, now in Its fifth week. And while these events became known, the top AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union policy committee met here with discus sion of whether to spread the strike into pine operations one of the principal topics. At Medford the Medford Veneer and Plywood Corp. and Medford Door Corp. prepared to get back into operation. Agreement was reached Friday between tr oper ators and 1440 striking members of the AFL union. Neither would re veal settlement terms, but Kenneth Davis, executive secretary of the Northwestern Council, AFL-LSWU, said here that it was for an in crease of 5 cents and 7 'A cents an hour some workers getting one figure and some the other. The strike, by both AFL and the CIO Woodworkers, was to get an Increase of 12 & cents. There have been a number of settlements. ranging all the way from renewal of the old contract without change, to the full 12 Vi cents. These, though, have been chiefly in the smaller operations. At Redmond, where CIO Wood workers went through their local's picket line Monday to resume work at the Ponderosa Lumber Sales plant, a moulding mill, there were more pickets and more returning workers Tuesday. A company spokesman estimated 30 to 35 pick ets and about 75 employes who went past them without incident. Some of the pickets are com pany employes, the spokesman Union Leaders Eye Pine Belt PORTLAND Wl The strategy committee of the striking AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers Un ion was to meet here Tuesday and there was speculation that the strike might spread to the Pacific Northwest pine belt. So far the five-week-old strike by the AFL union and the CIO Woodworkers has been mostly con fined to the region's Douglas fir bell. But Kenneth Davis, secretary of the AFL union's Northwest Coun cil, said several days ago that ex tension of the strike to the pine industry was being considered. The unions are asking a 12 '2 cent hourly pay increase. Manage ment generally has contended it cannot afford any increases and has offered to renew the old con tract. ' Meanwhile a hearing on an in junction suit to halt picketing, brought by the M&M Wood Work ing Co. of Portland, was to resume in Circuit court here Tuesday. The hearing opened Monday with arguments by the company that four AFL locals were picketing the firm's plywood plants at Portland, Albany and Lyons, Ore., and Eu reka, Calif., although these plants are not Involved In the strike. The union is striking the firm's two door manufacturing plants. The union contends it has a right to picket the employer at all locations during a strike. CONFERENCE TOKYO Wl Gen. John Hull. U.S. Far East commander, flew to the United States Tuesday night for conferences on Asian prob lems. Hull's flight precede that of South Korean President Syngman Rhee, who is scheduled to reach Washington on July 26 for confer ence with President Eisenhower. FALLS, OREUON, TUESDAY. JULY said, and some are from the local at Bend or Prinevllle. All of those going through the line and they marched through in a body were on the payroll when the strike was called June 21, the company said. At Springfield Monday night at Gas Dealer Meet Planned Around 100 people from all over the state have been invited to the Oregon Gasoline Dealer Associa tion, Inc.,. which will hold Ija state board" 'meeting' in Klamath' Falls for the first time this weekend, July 24 and 25. The organization, only about one year old in Oregon, already has a total membership of 1200 in 52 chapters over the state. The as sociation is affiliated with the Na tional Congress of Petroleum Re tailers. Headquarters for the state meet will be the WUiema Hotel, Local officers in charge of ar rangements include Ray Reeves, president: F. O. (Red) Reynolds, vice president; P. J. Coleman, secretary-treasurer of the local organi zation and second vice president of the state group. i KF Jet Base Funds Approved Final 'approval on appropriations for the jet inter ceptor base at the Klamath Falls Municipal Airport was made public this morning by George P. Davis, president of the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce. Delegates fo the Pacific Northwest Plant Food Asso ciation now In session here were the sounding board for Davis' announcement, included in his welcome address. "The last 't' was crossed and the last 'V dotted yes terday," Davis said, and mentioned that initial requests had been cut $6,000 to the $4,127,000 finally approved. 'The jet base will provide a new impetus to industry and home building in the Klamath Basin," the chamber president remarked. He credited Sen. Guy Cordon and Rep. Sam Coon for their part in finalizing plans for the base. ti. -'. . " . i .. J t .'Aft r i r- VHA EXHIBITING THEIR PET DUCKS, Donald, Daisy and Gladstone this morning as the early morning photographer came by were Linda Smith and Danny Robbin, (front) with Robert Phillips and sister Shirley, aH of .California Avenue. jrr' v i In Medford; Meet Held a closed meeting of CIO sawmill division employes of Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., it was reported that negotiations through a local com mittee were turned down by a 3-1 margin. The union spokesman, who said 600 of 800 affected employes attended, reported that the region, al committee will continue to speak for local workers. Weyer haeuser recently told its employes it will no longer negotiate company-wide and the first meeting since that time is set for Wednes day at Longview. The regional committee win meet there with company officials as it has in the past, A. F. Hartung, international iwa president, said. ,yTho Medford settlements ended mill closures In that Immediate area, although the Red Blanket Lumber Co. remains struck. It has been operating without trouble be hind a picket line of the CIO-IWA. One effect of the summer strike Is to cut into the stockpkiling of logs for winter.- The Pacific North west Loggers Assn. reported Tues day that its July 1 figures show Columbia River log booms with 387,911,000 feet compared with 462, 911,000 at this time last year and Puget Sound booms with 366.187, 000 compared with 478,744,000 on July 1 last year. Operators said Inability to build log inventories now hinted at win ter shutdowns. O ' Jo? Telephone 8111 No. 2897 McCarthy's Chief Aide Resigns WASHINGTON (fl Rov M. Conn resigned Tuesday as chief counsel of the McCarthy investiga tions subcommittee, and Sen. Mc Carthy shifted assistant counsel Donald A. Surlne to his own staff pending official word on why Su rlne has been denied clearance to handle defense secrets. Under pressure from a majority of his subcommittee for a staff "housecleaning." McCarthy an nounced the Cohn resignation and Surlne shift shortly before a closed door meeting called fat a ahnw- down on the issue of a shakeup. STATEMENT In a statement. McCarthy said he has demanded that Secretary of Defense Wilson state why Surlne was denied clearance. He added: "When a reply is received from the secretary of defense I shall move that Mr. Surlne be returned to the subcommittee staff." McCarthy's statement said an FBI file check "has failed to dis close a single word or action of Mr. Surine's which can in any way be distorted into a charge of dis loyalty or violations of security." McCarthy added: "Instead, one of my committee Democrat colleagues clutched In his hands the affidavit of a Jailed white slaver in an attempt to discredit Mr. Surine. "This white slaver's affidavit was obtained from him behind prison bars where he sits convict ed on evidence Mr. Surlne secured against him evidence which led him to admit his guilt." nPSIONATTON Earlier, in a separate statement, he had announced the resignation of Cohn who was the No. 1 target of the members demanding a staff shake up. "The resignation of Roy Cohn must bring great satisfaction to the Communists and fellow travel--ers.". McCarthy said. - - "The smears and pressures to which he has been subjected make It clear that an effective anti Communist cannot long survive on the Washington scene." McCarthy said also that he be lieves the American people who saw Cohn as one of the principals in the televised McCarthy-Army hearings "will resent as I do the treatment to which he has been subjected." New Judicial Area Urged WASHINGTON W The Judicial conference of the United States Tuesday recommended that Con gress divide the Ninth Federal Judicial Circuit which embraces the Far Western states and cer tain territories. The proposal would mean the creation of a separate new circuit to be known as the Eleventh and would mean the appointment of three additional Judges. The conference is made up of the chief Judges of the present 10 circuit courts and the court of the District of Columbia. Pacific Northwest Plant Food Group Greeted By Klamath Falls Officials Eight speakers, authorities In their field, addressed delegates to the Pacific Northwest PlBiit Food Association In the first session of the Fifth Annual Fertilizer Confer ence held this morning at Fremont School, Delegates from Oregon, Wash ington, Idaho and British Colum bia were welcomed by Mayor Pro- Tern Don Kenyon; George Davis, president of the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce: F. E. Price, dean and director of Agri cultural Experiment Station, Ore gon State College; Ernie Hanson, associate president of the associa tion. Startling announcements of re search on frozen food plant po tentials here, and of final ap roval on the Jet Interceptor base for Klamath were made by Davis, who emphasized the value of ag riculture to the economy of the Basin. "This hour has marked a defi nite and specific turning point In the economy of the Klamath Ba sin." he said. Dean Price briefly pinpointed speclfio work experiment stations have done throughout the state to Increase agricultural yields and the cooperative research work done among states with federal and state government funds. HISTORY C. A. Henderson, county stent. discussed the history and back ground of agriculture In the Klam ath Basin. 'Early history waa one of live stock with some grain and alfalfa. In 1933 the production of crops surpassed that of livestock for the first time; potato value reached 1460,000 compared with 0,000 m US Stands Aside From Final Act Br EDDIE GILMORE GENEVA ift East aud West, with the United States standing aside, agreed late Tuesday to partition Viet Nam roughly along the 17th parallel, a French source said. He reported only technical diificulttes remained to be settled before signing of a cease-fire agreement for Indochina. The partition line, It was said, will run about 12 miles north of the Important highway No. 9, leading from Quang Tri on the coastal road to Savannakhet in Laos. The French source said the is sues involving Viet Nam were all settled with fixing of the partition line. Only a few language diffi culties remained in the peace pro visions concerning Laos and Cam bodia. FINAL DETAILS Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden of Britain and Soviet Foreign Min ister V. M. Molotov loft the meet ing where final details of the peace were being completed late in the afternoon for an hour's recess. They were scheduled to return later for another meeting with French Premier Pierre Mendes- France and Pham Van Dong, the Viet Minh foreign minister. Mendes-France was reported by French sources to be cautious, but very optimistic." He has pieagea to resign as premier unless a cease-fire agreement is reached by midnight (3 p.m. PST). The two major obstacles to ine signing of an armistice appeared surmounted and conference quar ters said an agreement before mia- night appeared certain. AGREEMENT A highly reliable source, wno ae- cllned to be Identified, said the Communists have agreed the United States would not be listed among the powers approving uie multilateral general declaration to be Issued at the close oi tne ses sion. It was learned that the Chinese Communists, who originally asked that the United States be included in the list, were now not inclined to Insist on this point. This block, thrown into the negotiations at the 11th hour, had dampened optimism for a while. The United States position has not changed, a spokesman said. Smith told a session of the con ference Sunday that the United States would assist in reaching an armistice, but would not sign the final act. Instead, the United States will Issue a unilateral dec laration pledging support of the agreement under the terms of the United Nations charter. URGENT SESSION The issue was one of several still unsettled which brought So viet Foreign Minister V.M. Molo tov, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, Vletminh Foreign Minister Pham Van Dong and French Premier lerre Mendes -France Into urgent session Tues day. French sources were uncertain how much Importance should be attached to the new Chinese de mand. A French spokesman said he expected many other snags Thornton Issues Press Ruling SALEM Uft Press released pre pared by or tor political candidates can't be anonymous, Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton ruled Tuesday. The name and address of the author and of the printer and pub lisher of each such press release must be written on the release. The opinion was asked by State Sen. Richard L. Neuberger, Port land Democrat, who is running for United States senator. 1023 and commercial fertilizer was coming Into general use." The steady growth of agriculture by 1053 listed livestock at an all time high in numbers and dairy decreasing. Hannchen barley for malting purposes is the major grain crop and at times the Basin has provided 50 per cent of the nation's alslke clover. Potato in come dropped tremendously In 1953, according to Henderson. Through the topic, "Industry Takes a Look at Experiment Sta tion Work," Karl Baur, Pacific Supply Coop., Portland, listed some constructive criticism on how sta tions can better Improve their services. NEW METHODS Rep. E. A. Geary, Klamath County lancher, "took a look" at experiment station work and told delegates that stations should be in a position to counteract over advertised new materials , and methods; maintain close connec tion with the college experiment station and other stations; work closely with the Extension Service as a clearing bouse for new ideas and methods, "The station working through the Extension Service should be able to Inform the farmer of the mer its of these Ideas or even more Important to perhaps prove that they do not apply to his territory or particular conditions," Geary said. H. P. Singleton, superintendent, Irrigation Experiment Station, Prosser, Washington, discussed the new outlying testing program In Washington, where testing on outlying farmers' fields la carried out to confirm the recommenda would appear during the day re quiring feverish consultation. The U.S. delegation waa under the impressions that the request for United States signature to the conference agreement came from the Russians. "Of course they want us to sign a declaration,'1 this source said. 'They've wanted it all along." The official Red Chinese spokes man said: "I know nothing about it. - , Patterson, Latourette Discuss KF Definite steps to end the current Klamath county courthouse row are expected to be - taken next Thursday after a conference be tween Governor Paul Patterson, Chief Justice Earl Latourette of the state supreme court, Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton and Glenn Jack, president of the Ore gon Bar. The meeting will be held in Salem. This was announced Tuesday bv Chief Justice Latourette, who told the Herald and News that he dis cussed the Klamath county law en forecement crisis with Governor Patterson Tuesday morning. "We win not make any publlo statement until after the confer ence next Thursday," the chief Justice said. "At that time the problem in Klamath county will be thoroughly surveyed. Then we will be ready to take action." Judge Latourette also Issued a statement in Salem Tuesday in which he said be believes the state legislature should require lawyers to show cause when they file affidavits seeking a change of Judges. It was the filing of five motions for a change of Judges in criminal cases here that brought the long standing feud between C 1 r e u 1 1 Judge David R. Vandenberg and District Attorney Frank Alderson Into the open. Subsequently, Judge Ralph M. Holman of Oregon City was givena general assignment to preside in circuit court here. De fense attorneys 3ien filed applies llnna fni annta0 iiiriirn tA rnllll-lft Holman. In his statement on the change of Judge statute. Judge Latourette said: "At present the attorneys are not required to show cause when they request a change of Judges. It should not be up to the whim of art .attorney as to the Judge who hears his case. If there is good cause for removal of the Judge in any par ticular case, the attorney should b forced to detail just cause in an affidavit. 4 "If attorneys were required to show cause why judges should not hear their case," Judge Latourette concluded, "It would prevent such situations as the one in Klamath county. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair through Wednesday. High Wednesday 80; low Tuesday night 43. High yesterday 89 Low last night . 45 Preclp. last 24 hours Since Oct. 1 14.15- Same period last year ..w.14.87 Normal for period ....12.83 tions based upon research work at the Experiment Station. H. B. Cheney, head of the De partment of Soils, Oregon State College, spoke on soli fertility re search in Oregon, EXPERIMENTS "In 1953, 168 field fertilizer ex perlments were conducted on experimental farms and on farmer fields throughout the state to adequately sample the varia tions in soils, crops, climatic con dltlons and management practices. "A variety of techniques must be properly integrated if we are to achieve the information needed to help farmers decide how to use fertilizers most efficiently," Chen ey remarked. The fertilizer testing program In Idaho waa discussed by G. O. Baker, Department of Agronomy, University of Idaho, Moscow. K. G. Baghott, farm adviser, Tulelake, California, outlined fer tility research on grain In the Tulelake area, which has shown that excessive nitrogen fertilisa tion may cause increased lodging, high protein, low extract, low kernel weight at very little in orease in yield. A. R. Halvorson, Klamath Exper imental Area, spoke on the topic, "Fertility Problems of the Klam ath Basin," and discussed the spe cific fertilizers needed on the five distinct kinds of soil dryland soils (mineral), irrigated mineral soils, alkaline muck soils, acid muck soils, alkali mineral soils. At luncheon at Jen-Ed's, Elmo Stevenson, president of Southern Oregon College, discussed the geological backgrounds for South era Oregon soils.