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By FRANK JENKINS
Another international conference
appears to be In the offing.
Highly placed diplomatic author
ties in Washington say this morn
ing that an announcement is ex
pected shortly of a Southeast
Asia DEFENSE conference to be
attended by the United States,
Britain and other "friendly" na
tions. It is expected to begin late
next month. II will probably be
held somewhere in the Asian area.
What would it do?
ITS AIM WOULD BE TO PRE
VENT FURTHER RED CON
QUESTS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA.
- How?
When nobody Is willing to fight
to PREVENT the spread of com
munism And the reds know it
S And when the reds themselves
are willing and eager to fight to
SPREAD COMMUNISM OVER THE
WORLD
Just how is a conference of na
tions that aren't willing to fight
going to prevent further Ted con
quests in Southeast Asia?
This is the only answer I can
think of:
I wouldn't know.
This, however, Is worth remem
bering: Attila and Genghis Khan weren t
stopped by conferences. They, were
stopped by hard, bloody fighting.
This, I think, is a possibility to
which we'd better be giving some
serious thought:
If we're going to have to fight
communism ALONE, can we af
ford to be spread thin all over
the world?
But let's get closer home.
Klamath Falls and Klamath
County are presently considering
this problem:
Shall we or shall we not hire
a paid professional manager (at a
reported salary of $7,000 a year)
to run our United Fund?
In community matters such as
this, everyone should speak up
f reelv and frankly. So I'll lead off.
I think we'd better not.
let's put it this way:
The United Fund is a community
enterprise. The money to support
it is contributed voluntarily by
people who could USE THE
MONEY THEMSELVES but are
willing to part with it to help com
munity projects to wh'j-h hundreds
of other people are contributing
time and energy and leadership.
I'm afraid that if we go on hiring
professionals to carry on our com
munity betterment projects the
people who put up the money will
get tired and quit giving.
That could happen.
Basin 'Cold
Snap' Eases
Butte Valley appeared to be the
coolest spot in the Klamath Basin
for the second night of the "cold
snap." . ,
Temperatures were considerably
higher than Tuesday night and no
damage to crops was reported.
The Mt. Hebron Ranger Station
recorded a low of 29. Tulelake 40,
and Foe Valley from 38 to 42.
Weyerhaeuser
Meetings Fail
PORTLAND Wl First local
plant negotiations between Weyer
haeuser Timber Co. and the CIO
International Woodworkers failed
, at Longview, Wash., Wednesday to
bring any change in the lumber
strike, and the two sides moved
to Raymond, Wash., Thursday for
another local-plant talk.
That was the only formal negoti
ating session on schedule. It was
arranged by Clyde Deal, federal
mediator, after Weyerhaeuser told
employes it would negotiate only
on the local level. In the past, CIO
employes have had company-wide
negotiations. In the present talks,
the regional union committee is
acting for the local unions.
Expectation of a ruling Thursday
on M and M Woodworking Co.'s
request for an injunction against
AFL Lumber and Sawmill Work
ers' picketing the firm's Oregon
and California plywood plants,
failed to develop. Judge James W.
Crawford, who heard arguments
here, said he had asked attorneys
to cite additional authorities and
his opinion likely won't be ready
before Monday.
George' Weyerhaeuser said at
Springfield that he was going to
seek an injunction against what he
called Illegal picketing at the
Weyerhaeuser plant there. He said
it was prompted by "violence and
threats of violence." A non-union
employe In a semi-supervisory job
was punched in the face Tuesday
as he went through the picket line.
Oregon Gov. Paul Patterson said
at Coos Bay, where he attended
the Oregon American Legion con
vention, that he planned to talk
with both sides to see if he could
help in reaching a settlement in
the strike which started June 31
on the union's demand for a 12 r
cent hourly pay Increase and op
erators' offer only to renew the
existing contract.
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H. E. HAUGER AND H.J. WIN DE
H. E. Hauger Sells Buick
Agency Started In 7923
Sale of the pioneer Hauger Buick
automobile agency to Jim Winde,
former Buick dealer at Newport,
was announced today by H. E.
Hauger. The successor firm will
be known as Jim Winde Buick
Company.
"Herb" Hauger was the dean of
Klamath automobile dealers. He
secured the Buick franchise and
opened the agency June 33, 1923
and has been Buick agent contin
uously since.
He came to Klamath first on
Ike To Attend
Dedication
WASHINGTON M President
Elsenhower Thursday accepted an
invitation to attend the dedication
of McNary Dam on the Columbia
River Sept. 33.
The White House announced the
President, who expects to be va
cationing in Denver at that time,
will arrive at the dam between
Walla Walla, Wash.: and Pendle
ton, Ore.: about 10:30 a.m. (PST)
on the day of the dedication.
Tbe announcement said the Pres
ident will speak at the ceremony.
The subject was not disclosed.
The President received an in
vitation to take part in the dedica
tion earlier this week from Sen.
Cordon R.-Ore.) and other mem
bers of the Washington and Ore
gon congressional delegation,
Oregon Republicans have been
eager to have the President visit
their state in the hope he will
help Cordon's re election cam
paign. Renewed Red
Drive Eyed
WASHINGTON Wl - Top U.S.
officials believe the Kremlin will
follow up the Indochina peace
agreementiwilh a reinforced drive
to break the Western powers' anti
Communist alliance.
They expect an early and vigo
rous renewal of Soviet proposals
made at Berlin early this year for
an all-European defense treaty in
which Russia would join. That plan
was offered as an alternative to
the European Defense Community
treaty which the United States
strongly urges as a means of per
mitting West German rearmament
with French approval.
And there is considerable con
cern here that the Indochina agree
ment may throw European peoples
off guard and thus make Soviet
policies and propaganda aimed at
a key point of the Western defense
system more attractive.
Washington would like to see
Western unity tightened and
strengthened In the wake of the
Geneva settlement. In fact. Presi
dent Eisenhower and Secretary of
State Dulles give every evidence
of regarding this as essential If the
security of the non-Communist
world Is to be held against relent
less expansive pressure of the
Communist world.
Weather .
FORECAST Klamath Fall and
vicinity: Fair through Friday. High
Friday 80; low Thursday night 60.
Hlnh yesterday 86
Low last night ...43
Precip. last 24 hours . 0
Since Oct. 1 M
Same period last year -Normal
for period ,,
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KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON,
rrvp i
February 12. 1909 to work on the
Ellis and Albright "Seven Mile4
Ranch ' at Fort Klamath. After
year there he moved to Portland
and then returned here in 1916.
At that time he represented Well.
man Peck and company, wholesale
grocery firm of San Francisco,
covering an area from Red Bluff
to Alturas to Ashland. He con
tinued in this business until open
ing the auto agency in 1923.
The agency opened with the
Star Car as well as Buick. He
also has been the agent lor Olds-
mobile.1 GMC truoks and was
Pontlao-service agency during
World War II.
Hauger has been active in com
munity affairs as well as automo
tive. He has been an active mem
ber of Realties Golf and Country
Club; the Klamatli Falls Rotary
Club since 1924; a member of the
Elks Lodge for 37 years; a Ma
son since 1915; and a charter mem
ber of the Klamath Gun Club,
"I have known Jim Winde for
the past five years, and am happy
to pass the Buick dealership into
his hands. I recommend him to
all the Buick owners ill the Basin.
"I appreciate the fine business
that Klamatn people nave given us
over the years and have tried to
fulfill my obligation to these cus
tomers by turning the agency over
to a man of Winde's caliber,"
Hauger said.
Jim Winde has bandied Buick at
Newport lor the past five years.
He was born and raised in Ever
ett, Washington, and was in tne
auto business there prjor to mov
ing to Newnort.
He is a graduate of the Univer
sity of Washington ana served wun
the Navy overseas during World
War II. Winde is a bachelor.
"I have visited Klamath many
times and am very enthusiastic
about the country, I've enjoyed
Klamath from a recreational hunt
ing and fishing standpoint; I've
enjoyed being a Buick dealer; now
I'm looking forward to getting
acquainted with the fine people
of this Klamath country," Winde
said. . .
Three Killed
In Explosion
CRANBURY, N. J. I A ter
rific explosion blew a building to
bits at the Unexcelled Chemical
Co. plant Thursday, killing at least
three workers and injuring nine
others.
The firm, one of the state's
largest fireworks manuiactuers,
had been working on government
munitions contracts exclusively in
recent months, a spokesman said.
It was the nation's third fatal
blast In a similar installation with
in a week. At least 13 persons
were killed last Friday In explo
sions in Chicago and Chestertown,
Md.
State Pollre Lt. William Saw
yer, regional civilian defense co
ordinator for central New Jersey,
said the blast occurred in a build
ing loaded with fuses that had
been rejected by the U. S. Army.
He said the three victims were
in the structure preparing the
faulty fuses for removal by, the
Army next week. '
Benjamin Crowley, assistant to
the President of Unexcelled, said
the firm was operating under gov
ernment contracts to make muni
tions. He said 300 persons were
at work at the time of the explo
sion. Two of the victims were tenta
tively Identified as: Joseph La
mantis, 45, and John Lamantia,
40.
There was no Immediate indica
tion of what caused the blast.
THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1954
Western Nat
Asian Allits
WASHINGTON Wl The Urn.
States, Britain and other friendi.
nations have agreed to call an
international conference late next
month to write a defensive al
liance designed to protect the
non-Communist lands of Southeast
Asia against Communist conquest.
Highly placed diplomatic auth
orities said an announcement of
the .meeting Is expected shortly.
The agreement was reached,
these officials said, among Secre
tary of state Dulles, Undersecre
tary Walter Bedell Smith, British
Foreign secretary Eden and oth
ers at Geneva after it became
certain that the fighting in Indo
china would be ended by ne
gotiated peace with the Commun
ists. ' ' ..
Some officials told a reporter
Ike Reports
U.S. Fiscal
Year Deficit
WASHINGTON W President
Elsenhower announced Thursday
the government "made a better
showing than expected" In the fis
cal year just ended by winding up
$3,029,000,000 In the red on June
30.
That was a deficit of a quarter
of a billion dollars less than El
senhower had predicted for the
fiscal year 1954 in his January
budget message. It was $6,893,000,
000 less than former President
Truman forecast for the same
year in his final budget.
And it was $6,411,000,000 below
the 89.449.000.000 by which the gov
ernment overspent Its Income the
year before.
The presidential announcement,
based on the Treasurery's state
ment of the nation's finances on
June 30, closing day of-the fiscal
year, was handed to reporters- by
Presidential Press Secretary
James Hagerty.
The 1 Hi per cent reduction from
the deficit predicted in January
when the fiscal year was half
done was achieved, Eisenhower
said, despite a sharp fall in the
government's income under the
predicted level.
The government's receipts In the
12 months' ended June 30 ran 3
billion dollars lower than predict
ed, tne president said, hut the ad
ministration meanwhile whacked
spending 3 Vt billion dollars below
what had been forecast.
That made the deficit a quarter
of a billion dollars less than had
been expected.
The Treasury's year-end figures
showed that fiscal 1954 tax re
ceipts from Individual 1 n o o m e
taxes were a billion dollars less
than previously estimated and that
cooperation tax receipts were
down over 1 V, billion dollars. The
hulk of the spending cut, about
2 r billion dollars of lt, was In
national security outlays of all
kinds, with direct military outlays
absorbing the biggest cut.
The reduction of the fiscal. 1954
deficit to nearly three billion do!
lars, Eisenhower said, takes the
administration "two-thirds of the
way" toward balancing the bud
get. He was referring to the nearly
10 billion dollars deficit predicted
for the year when tbe Elsenhower
administration took over.
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CHECKING A LONG LIST of details which must b taken car of before members of the
Oregon Gasoline Dealer Association Inc. arrive for their stata board meeting are officials of
the local chapter, (from leftl F. O. (Red) Reynolds, vice president; Ray Reeves, president; Paul
Coleman, secretary treasurer of the Klamath Falls chapter and second vice president of the
state organization. The board meeting will be held Saturday and Sunday, July 24-25, with
htaeJauarers a the Winema Hotel. ,
Telephone
aiming
inference
e meeting probably will be held
some place in the Asian area and
that the level of . representation-
foreign ministers of persons of
lesser rank- is yet to be deter
mined.
The United States originally
proposed that 10 nations make up
the Southeast Asia treaty organi
zation, iney were the United
States, Britain, France. Australia.
New Zealand, Thailand, The Phil
ippines and the Indochinese states
of Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia.
The British wanted to bring in
as many additional Asian nations
as possible, including India, Bur
ma and Pakistan.
The makeup of the projected
meeting remains to be worked out.
If Laos, Cambodia and Viet Nam
are permitted by the Indochina
peace terms to agree to attend
they will undoubtedly be Included.
But even If it is finally decided
they cannot attend, American of
ficials said privately that the de
fensive alliance can be written to
protect them as well as countries
like Thailand which would be
members.
Britain has been deeply con
cerned to obtain India's coopera
tion so far a3 possible and it Is
understood that the London gov
ernment is planning to consult
with Indian Prime Minister Nehru
as well as friendly governments
of other Asian nations, in the hope
of obtaining their sympathetic
understanding and moral support
if not their outright participation.
In fact, the participation of Pa
kistan has been considered prob
able.
Because of the British govern
ment's "go slow" attitude arising
out of Britain's solicitude for In
dia, it had been generally ex
pected in diplomatic quarters here
until Thursday morning that no
conterence could be beld for sev
eral months at least.
To fill ' the gap, the Western
governments and Far Eastern co
operating countries bad agreed to
Issue in a few days a declaration
stating their intention to negotiate
a pact, r ' f-
Informants said that the doclar-t
ation plan has now been replaced
by the plan to can tne conterence
much earlier than had previously
been considered possible.
Youth Concert
To Be Held
Some 30 youths from Boys Town
of the West will present a con
cert In Klamath Falls Saturday
night under the sponsorship of
Aerie 2090, FOE.
Camp Columbia, as the town is
called, is sponsored by all West
Coast FOE aeries, and is de
signed as a home for delinquent
boys. The organization Is modeled
along the lines of Boys Town,
where care and training are given
UVJTH 111 I1CCU.
The first structure of the town,
located at White Salmon, Wash
ington, Is now under construction.
All costs of the town are raised
by donation. The site comprises
some 80 acres of land.
The show and concert, open to
all Eagles and guests, will be held
In the upper hall of the lodge.
Anyone having a spare bedroom
which they would donate for a
boy's use Saturday night is urged
to call the lodge at 6625.
JO
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TALKING OVER THE STORE'S SALE this morning were O. H.
Kienitz and Gerald Brown, manager and assistant manager of
J. J. Newberry Company, 825 Main St.
Results Of Geneva Meeting
Defended By
PARIS (ffl Smiling and looking
relaxed, Premier Pierre Mendes-
France returned home from Ge
neva today to present to the
French Assembly the Indochina
cease-fire he promised a month
ago to win from the Communists.
His DCS military plane touched
down at Villa Coublay Airport and
a few minutes later Mendes-France
stepped out jauntily to greet about
150 persons, including members of
his cabinet, his family and a corps
of newsmen and photographers
crowded about the ramp.
The Premier lirst kissed his at-
Death Claims:
Oregon Editor
PRINEVHjLE tn Death claimed
Joe Thomison, 67, long-time Ore
gon newspaperman, here Wednes
day night as the Crook County
Chamber of Commerce was pre
paring a ' community recognition
dinner for him.
Thomison, who had been man
ager of the chamber in recent
years, began his newspaper career
after his graduation from Stanford
University in 1910 on the old Hood
River Glacier. He became editor
in 1912, holding the position until
1029. He was president of the Ore
gon Newspaper Conference in 1926.
He was associate editor of The
Dalles Optimist from 1930 until
1941 and also published the Colum
bia Valley Commerce, which work
ed for construction of Bonneville
Dam and improvement of Colum
bia River navigation to The Dalles.
Thomison worked during World
War II as a publlo relations man
for the Kaiser shipyards in Port
land. He became editor of the
Madras Pioneer in 1946 and moved
here In 1948.
Thomison entered a hospital here
July 13 and sank rapidly. He had
been in poor health for some time.
Survivors Include the widow,
Lucy, and five children by a pre
vious marriage.
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French Chief
tractive wife, then moved on to
greet other members of his family
ana f inance Minister Edgar Faure
acting Premier during his weeks
of bargaining with the Communists
In Geneva.
Mendes-France made no state-
ment before pushing" through the
crowd to nis car and heading for
a Cabinet meeting.
The group about the plane had
applauded politely as he stepped
down but there was no other dem
onstration. Leaving Geneva earlier today,
Mendes-France said he bellnved
the results of the conference were
worm tne enorts we had made."
"I have read," he said, "that
yesterday was the first day of total
peace in the world in many years.
Addressing himself to "the men
and women of the United States,
whose love of peace is well known
to my country," Mendes-France
voiced the hope that "the world
Is now entering a phase where the
efforts of all governments will be
more devoted every day to the re
inforcement of this new and fragile
peace and to the progress of man
kind."
Before he left Geneva
Mendes - France heard the
United Slates and Russia present
last minute arguments for and
against the International army
plan to Tearm West Germany,
First Russia's V. M. Molotov
caught the French Premier's ear
yesterday to remind him of Rus-
's objections to tne defense
community Idea. The Soviet for
eign minister apparently hoped the
Reds' agreement to an Indochina
peace at Geneva would persuade
the French the Red bear now Is so
docile German troops are not
needed.
But at dinner last night U. S.
Undersecretary of State Walter
Bedell Smith drew Mendes-France
aside to remind him that the
United States still feels the EDO
the key to West Europe's ae-
fense against Communist aggres
sion.
The French Premier also had a
brief talk with British Foreign
Minister Anthony Eden. Britain has
joined the United States In urging
that France give quick approval to
the one-uniform army plan.
KF Viaduct
Surveyed
Designs for the new viaduct over
the South Sixth Street railroad
tracks will get underway soon,
Joe Toole, resident state high
way engineer, said that survey
crews, on the scene for several
days, will complete their work at
the viaduct the end of this week.
The additional data will be sent
the state highway department so
that the modern, four lane bridge
can be designed.
Initial surveys have already been
made, Toole said, and work this
week has been concentrated on
testing the bridge foundation and
running lines for the new struc
ture. ,
Construction is expected to start
In the fiscal year beginning next
July, Toole stated.
Baschall
Scores
AMERICAN LEAGUE
First game:
Cleveland 300 002 0108 T 0
Boston 010 020 0003 T 4
Feller and Hegan; Sullivan, Heo.
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Debate On
AEC Sought
WASHINGTON Ifl -- Republican
Leader Knowland (Calif) began
taking soundings Thursday after
noon on the possibility of limiting
debate and breaking what he
called "the full-fledged filibuster"
In the Senate against the admin
istration's atomic energy legisla
tion. Critics of the bill had taken a
whipping on one big Issue Pres
ident Eisenhower's order for a new
private power plant serving the
TVA area and Knowland was
confident of approval if he could
get the measure to a final vote.
The GOP leader told newsmen
he had prepared a petition for
cloture, as debate limitation is
called, and already had "many
more" than the 16 signatures re
quired to present it to the Senate.
For the petition to become ef
fective, however, the move would
have to get the support ot 84 sen
ators. And in the past a sizeable
group of Democrats always has
bitterly opposed what they term
"gag rule."
Senate rules require ihat two
calendar days must . elapse be
tween the filing of a petition and
a vote on it. Senate parliamen
tarians have ruled that means 48
hours.
This probably would prevent a
cloture vote until sometime Satur
day if the petition were filed -Thursday,
The Senate had been In session
since 10 a.m. (EDT) Wednesday,
and Knowland earlier had de
clared grimly that he would hold
it at Its work continuously until
Sunday If necessary to get a vote.
Most of the opponents of the
bill declined to concede, despite
tbe lengthy-debate, that there was
a "filibuster."
But Sen. Morse Ind-Ore who
made a speech of six hours and
14 minutes against the bill, said
he so considered it.
"This is a filibuster,'' he said,
"I never sail under false colors."
Knowland recalled Morse's
words in telling reporters ot his '
move toward possible debate lim
itation.
At 10 a.m. EDT) Thursday
the 24-hour mark of the session-
Morse was in the midst of a speech
he had begun at 5:18 a.m. Fewer
than half a dozen senators were In
their seats and one ot the Sen
ate's two women members, Ben.'
Bowrlng (R-Neb), Was. In the pre
siding officer's chair,.
Court Dispute
Meet Held
SALEM tn Means of settling
the dispute which has tied up Kla
math County's circuit court were
to be considered Thursday after
noon by Oov, Paul L. Patterson,
Chief Justice Earl C.' Latourette,
Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton,
and Glenn Jack, Oregon City,
president of the State Bar.
The Klamath County feud Is be
tween Circuit Judge David R. Van
denberg and Dlst. Atty. Frank P.
Alderson.
The conference first had been
scheduled for Thursday morning,
but was delayed until 2:30 p. m.
United Fund
Meeting Held
Individual members and com
pany executives representing hun
dreds of employes expressed their
views on the proposed employment
of an executive secretary for the
United Fund in a mass meeting
at KUHS Wednesday evening.
The constructive thinking evi
denced In the meeting showed that
Fund directors and members have
at heart the best Interests of the
joint fund through which they sup
port some 23 charitable agencies.
Several suggestions lor a suc
cessful fund drive In '54 were
made at the meeting, including
the following:
(1) That the problem be taken
to the people through In plant
meetings. (It was pointed out that
this would be extremely difficult
In many cases).
(21 That a cross-section of
opinion be relayed to the UF
executive committee from small.
Informal "conversational" meet
ings: (3) That, if a decision Is made
to hire an executive, the salary
be paid from voluntary contribu
tions specifically intended for
salary.
The consensus of opinion voiced
was favorable to the proposed hir
ing; unfavorable to the proposed
salary.
It is felt that an executive on a
year around basis would provide
complete organization In the coun
ty, which comprises more than
3.800,000 acres. Both Anderson,
former office secretary, pointed
out that In last year's campaign,
$104,000 were collected from 30.
000 people In the city and suburbs;
$14,000 in the county from 15,000
people.
Directors emphasized that year
around organization in the county
would evenly distribute contribu
tions. Volunteers, they contend, do
not have time to give consistent,
full time attention to the prob
lems. The findings from last night's
meeting will be referred to the
board of directors before action Im
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