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Newspaper Page TextM xssm . ft In The' Dav's lews By FRANK JENKINS Evervbodv else todav seems to want to talk about Mr. McCarthy. ; I don't. I'm tired ot the guy. So I'm going to talk about Mr. Dun and Mr. Bradstreet. In their weekly review of retail i operations over the country, pub . Ushed this morning in New York, they say: "Americans tended to splurge on travel and vacation fun this '' week, rather than on housewares and apparel . . . Total dollar vol ume of retail trade in the week ended yesterday was unchanged from the previous week and slight ly below the level of a year ago . . . Retail sales for the week were estimated at from three per cent below to one per cent above volume for the comparable period of 1953 ... On the PACIFIC ; COAST, business was off three to I seven per cent from a year ago." And so on. Note, please, that Mr. D and Mr. B started their piece off on the theme that Americans have been so busy traveling and having fun this week that they lacked time for clothes buying and house hold wares shopping and suchlike business. Note particularly that according to their figures business was off MORE on the Pacific Coast than over the country generally. That i raises an interesting question: - Is the Pacific Coast gaining or losing in the exchange involved in vacation travel? Let's put It this way: If a town gets 100 tourists in a week but In the same week sends 150 of its residents touring SOMEWHERE ELSE, it loses money. That is to say: Whether a town or a county or a valley or a state or a region benefits from the tourist business , depends on whether it brings in ' more tourists or sends more tour ists out. It's all a question of put ting out and taking in. If you put out more tourists than you take In, you lose In the exchange. I'm beginning to wonder wheth i er AS OP NOW California, for xampie, gams or loses in uie wur- ' ist exchange. I have an Itching l .....t t Vottl orminri nvpr the country quite a little. Wherever I go, I seem to see large num ' bers of California oors. Could it be that California, now that she has become one of the largest in nnnnlntinn of our 48 States. is ,.sending out more tourists than she is taking" rn? -. ' The Dun Ic Bradstreet figures suggest that such might be the case. Certain states, quite obviously, benefit GREATLY from the tour ist exchange. Nevada is an ex ample. Nevada's population Is small. Her tourist Inflow (for Tea sons that are well understood) is relatively huge. No one can doubt that Nevada ' benefits enormously from the tour ist business. What of Oregon? I don't know. We keep fairly good figures on incoming tourists and the dollars they spend while here. But we keep NO FIGURES AT ALL on our outgoing tourist flow. So In reality We don't know how much we benefit by the tourist exchange. We must admit that there IS a debit and credit balance in this tourist business. Every Oregonian who goes touring elsewhere cancels off one tourist who comes to us from elsewhere, I'm not arguing that Oregonlans shouldn't go touring elsewhere. They SHOULD. Travel is a broad ening experience. But at least we should realize that there is a debit and credit balance in tourism. Unfortunately, our tourist season In Oregon is short. It Is presently confined too much to the three summer months. I'm sure we should strive through our adver tising and otherwise to EXTEND our tourist season. Oregon's spring season, for ex ample. Is WONDERFUL. And its falls are utterly delightful. We must entice more people here in the spring and in the fall. In that wav, -we can INCREASE THE TOURIST BALANCE IN OUR FA VOR. Fdr years Oregon has spent what seems to me to be a dis proportionately large share of its tourist advertising money in re mote areas, such as the Middle West and the East. We get ap proximately four-fifths of our tourists from our neighboring states notably from California. I can't help believing that if we spent more of our advertising money closer home we might be able to bring more tourists to Ore gon In the spring and in the fall and even In the winter, for our Unexcelled winter sports facilities thus increasing the balance of tourist exchange in our favor. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vlclnitv: Fair through Saturday. Hirh Saturday 8s. Low Friday night SO. Low last nhrht -SI Hirh yesterday ' Preclp. last 14 hoars Since Oct. 1 14.45 Same period lsot year.- 14.87 Normal fo rneriod 12.42 Chessman Yins Fourth Reprieve SAN QUENTIN, Calif. W Caryl Chessman, convicted sex terrorist turned best-selling author, relaxed in prison today after his fourth reprieve from execution in six years. Two other condemned men who California's law enforcement chief insisted deserved as much consid eration as Chessman were sched uled to die In San Quentm's le thal gas chamber at 10 a.m. (noon EST). Chessman 32 year old convict author of "Cell 2455, Death Row" was granted a new stay of exe cution by State Supreme Court Justice Jesse Carter yesterday less than 24 hours before his sched uled execution. That reprieve prompted Atty. Gen. Edmund G. Brown to assert the administration of capital pun ishment in California is "a mock ery of justice" and suggest aboli tion of the death penalty in this state. Brown said his office will seek to have Chessman's stay reversed when the Supreme Court recon venes in September but he asked Gov. Goodwin Knight to hold up today's scheduled executions of two other convicts to give them the same chance for appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court that was granted Chessman. "There's no reason." Brown said, "why a man who can write a book should have an advantage that these two other apparently friendless people do not have." Knight, who consistently, refused to grant clemency for Chessman, said he saw no legal reason for delaying the executions of James Franklin Wolfe, 42, and Joseph Johansen, 26, condemned to death for killing another convict at Fol som Prison. The attorney general's senti ments were echoed in Los Angeles by Superior Judge Charles Fricke, who pronounced sentence on Chess man in 1948 after he was convict ed of eight counts of robbery, four of kidnaping, two of sex perver sion, one of attempted rape, one of auto theft and one of attempted robbery. Chessman, a criminal since teen age days but with an intelligence rating just below genius level was convicted of a series of at tacks in a Los Angeles lovers lane. The state said he flashed a red light from his auto pretended he was a police officer to halt cou plesand then dragged out his fe male victims And forced them to submit to acts of sexual perver sion. One of his victims Is still a pa tient of a state mental Institution. The U. S. Supreme Court twice In 1952 declined to review Chess man's case. Lumber Strike Talks Planned By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Another meeting between the CIO Woodworkers and employers will be held in Portland next Tues day, but employers dashed cold water on the prospects of a strike settlement then. "We believe it would ' be mis leading to raise any false hopes in the minds of the workers in the industry as to the outcome of this meeting," said H. J. Greeley, chairman of a group of eight em ployer associations. He said employer representatives would be on hand at the session, but only because the Federal Medi ation Service was requesting the meeting. DEATH WORKSOP, England Wl The dowager duchess of Portland died at her home Friday. She was 91. KNOT TYING IS BEING LEARNED by these Boy Scouts at the Lake. They are members of troops No. 42 and No. 1 10, Klamath Perkins, Bill Gibson, instructor, and Don Leach. Price Five Cents 16 Parliament Vote Backs Suez Plan By SEYMOUR TOPPING ' LONDON I Parliament got ready to close shop for the sum mer recess today after according Prime Minister Churchill a 10-1 ccnfidence vote on his plan to pull British troops from the Suez Canal zone. Most Laborites abstained on the ballot. The House of Commons backed the prime minister's historic de cision by a vote of 257-26 after Churchill made an Impassioned declaration that the H-bomb had rendered the billion dollar. 75-year-cld string of bases obsolete. Both Commons and the House of Lords, which also debated the controversial Suez issue, begin their summer 'recess today. They will not reconvene until October. Churchill, who in World War n remarked he had not become prime minister in order to liqui date the empire, declared yester day the whole British position in the Suez had been outdated by "the appalling developments and the appalling spectacles which imagination raises before us." "Merely to try to imagine in outline how to portray the first few weeks of a war as it is now. . would convince you of the obsoles cence of the base," he asserted. The agreement, which has strong U.S. support, calls for the transfer of 83,000 British troops from their Suez base within 20 months after a seven-year pact is signed. The pact will give Britain the right to reoccupy the base In case of attack on Turkey or any of the eight Arab nations. Civilian care takers under contract to Britain will keep up the great Installations dominating the vital waterway. A group of 40 rebellious Con servatives had threatened to break the party traces over hte prospect of seeing another portion of the empire pass out of British hands. But in the final test, only 26 Tories voted against, the government. Shakespeare Festival Opens ASHLAND ID The 14th annual Shakespearean festival will open Sunday with a performance of "Hamlet," perennial favorite among Shakespeare's tragedies. The play will begin shortly after 8:30 p.m., following the intro duction ot Justice James T. Brand, Chancellor Charles Byrne of the Board of Higher Education, and other visiting officials. A reception and buffet supper on the Southern Oregon College campus will pre cede the play. "The Winter's Tale" will be presented Monday night, "The Merry Wives of Windsor" Tuesday and "Henry VI, Part 2" Wednes day. The four plays will follow that sequence throughout August. Some 20.000 persons attended last year's festival. A new record is expected this year since the out door theater's seating capacity has been increased to slightly more than 1,000. Playing Hamlet, the key role in this year's festival, is Claude Jenkins, 20-year-old Carnle Tech drama student from San Diego, Calif. A new approach is being taken to "Hamlet" this year, with the usually "melancholy Dane" being presented as a decisive, active character. KLAMATH ' s " 1 ' - ' ' '" V ' 1 ' ' , - - ' ! I ' ' V '1 if 4 t'J 1 CEREMONIES AT KIWANIS PARK Thursday evening saw the transfer of all physical prop, erty in the park from the Kiwanii Club to the City of Klamath Falls.. Charlie Mack, ileftl president when the project was initiated, 'irtade the presentation to Paul Landry, mayor, I cen ter I. John Van Doren (right) is current president of the club. Tha playground is located In Mills Addition. Klamaih Indian Council Discusses New Changes in Federal Withdrawal Bill By OTTO ELLIS A special report from delegates in Washington was the main topic discussed at a meeting of the Klamath Indian Council held Thursday at Klamath Agency. Nomination of officers was also held at the session. . The report dated Washington D.C., July 26, signed by Delegates aoya Jackson, aesse L. Kirk and Tribal Attorney Glen A. Wilkinson referred to the bill sent to.the.Sen- ate Committee asking for a $250 per capita payment to tribe mem- Ders wnich has been included In the Federal withdrawal supervis ion bill. The special report reads in part: "The Senate Committee action was taken in Executive Session. Thus your delegates were not afforded an opportunity to discuss the changes made by the committee. Also, the Senate Committee in cluded the per capita payment pro vision in the withdrawal bill. Al though we had hoped to have these bills considered separately, lack of time made this impossible , , . "Until recently we had not aban doned attempts to obtain passage of the Klamath per capita bill while deferring action on the with drawal bill. We attempted this in order to obtain more time for care ful consideration. However, early this month, we became convinced that such a result could not be achieved. Accordingly we concen trated our efforts on attempts to obtain satisfactory amendments to the withdrawal bill as passed by the Senate . . . "Congressman Coon participated activly in the final stages of these negotiations. These conferences culminated on July 16, in an agree ment whereby the bill would, sub ject to approval of the House Com mittee on Interior and Insular Af fairs and the full House and Sen ate, provide substantially as fol lows: '1. Close the rolls on the date of enactment of the Act. Boy Scout Camp at Crescent Falls. II to rl Lea Wade, Bill FALLS, OREGON. FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1954 Telephone 8111 No. 2906 "2. provide for a per capita pay ment of $250 to each member of the Klamath Tribe. "3. Direct the Secretary to re tain qualified management special ists, who were to accomplish the following steps: (We agreed to this in an effort to remove this program from Tribal politics and ,also to place it in the hands of qualified and inder .indent persons as much as possunje). i'a. Qau,ti complete-Appraisal or triDai property to be made. "b. Give each member of the tribe an opportunity to say whether lie wants to withdraw and have his interest paid to him or remain in the tribe and participate in a tribal management plan to be prepared. "c. Determine the portion of tri bal property allotable to withdraw ing members; and arrange lor its sale and distribution of proceeds to the withdrawing members. (This is to be done only after due consider ation is given to retention of prac ticable economic logging units or other appropriate units to be re tained for the remaining members of the tribe.) "d. Cause studies and reports to be made and a plan prepared for future management of tribal pro perty. "4. Federal supervision is to end UF Budget Meeting Held Hearings on budgets of the vari ous agencies to be Included in the October United Fund drive were completed late Thursday night. The budget committee will make its recommendations to the United Fund Board of Directors at a meet ing next Wednesday night. Members of the budget commit tee are Attorney L. Orth Slsemore, chairman: Walter (Bud) Franklin; Mrs. Arnold Gralapp, C. D. Long, W. S. McBride and Harold Goiger. Of the seven budgets reviewed In detail, three agencies requested amounts less than that received in the 1954 budget (from October, 1953. drive). These were Girl Scouts, Oregon Chest and Salvation Army. Other agencies, because of in creases explained in their budget hearings, asked additional funds but most of them were relatively small. Total increase, percentage wise, is about two per cent over last year. Half hour hearings were granted all the local agencies Thursday af ternoon and evening. The hearings showed that most Increases are due to more exten sive programs, serving additional numbers which correspondingly ne cessitates an increase in personnel. AH of the budgets represented a very minimum program. Agencies expressed the view that, with increased funds, additional growth may be made. As one agency representative said, "We can prosper more with more help; If our budget is cut. we will work anyway and hope that next year the community can give Increased help." The United Fund, although it has no control over the Red Cross budget, had a hearing with Vir ginia Dixon, Red Cross executive, and Russ Tisdale, board members, for a thorough understanding of the funds request. Detailed explanations of the budgets will be made in the Herald and News Monday. four years following approval of the act. . . " S. E. Kirk and Delford Lang were unopposed for the offices of president and vice president spectlvely during the nominating session. , Dlbbon Cook and Lawrence Witt were nominated for the post of sec retary and Gerald Chester, Doro thea McAnulty and Dlbbon Cook were named for the position of treasurer, , .. l ., wnbur 'CHm flecllned the domi nation as sergeant at arms leaving Del smith unopposed for that posi tion. Members nominated to form the eight man Executive Committee in cluded: Boyd Jackson, Dice Crane, Jesse L. Kirk, Lawrence Witt, James Johnson, Wilbur Eggsman Sr., Dorothea McAnulty, Wernie Foster, Al Davis, Gerald Chester, Doris Richards, Alfreada Bodner, Sandy Miller and Wilbur Crlm, Nominated to fill a vacancy on the loan board were Dice Crane, Ida Crawford and Lawrence Witt. After nominations were declared closed by Chairman S. E. Kirk, a motion was made by Lawrence Witt to hold a secret ballot vote Immediately to elect the new loan board member. This motion was opposed by a majority ot those voting. Superintendent W. W. Palmer was called on to explain certain amendments made by the commit tee on Interior and Insular Affairs to the termination bill. Martin Whcelock, appointed re cently as chief clerk to fill the vacancy left by the transfer of Tom Sanders was Introduced to the assembly. Wheelock assumed his duties at the Agency July 18. Another general assembly meet ing was scheduled for today at which time budgets and a date for election of officers will be on the agenda. Baptist Plan Anniversary On Sunday, August 1, the First Baptist Church will observe the 70th anniversary ot Its founding in the Klamath country. Several for mer pastors and members of earl ier years will be included on the program. Dr. R. E. Milam, Portland, ex ecutive secretary of the Baptist General Convention of Oregon and Washington, will be the speaker for the 11 a.m. worship service. Dr. Milam, son of a lormer pas tor,' the Rev, S. E. Milam, and himself a former KUHS football star, was licensed to preach by the church In 1921. The Rev. L. B. Slgle, pastor of the church for four years beginning in 1930, will speak at 8 p.m. He is now a missionary of the Home Mission Baord of the Southern Baptist Convention and lives at Qulncy, California. The church, one of the first two churches in Klamath Falls, was started in the poe Valley commun ity in the summer of 1884, with 11 original members. The only one still living is Mrs. C. R. DeLap. Roseburg. mother of County Clerk Charles DeLap. The early church was known as Mt. Zion Baptist Church until Its relocation in Klamath Falls in 1900. From the original small beginning has come six other churches with a combined present membership of more than 1200. Seven men have gone from the (Continued en pat 4) Former POW To Face 4 Charges SAN ANTONIO Wl Three more charges were filed by the Army Friday against Cpl. Claude J. Batchelor, the young Texan who elected to stay with his Commu nist captors in Korea and then changed his mind. Batchelor, 22, of Kermit, Tex., is in 4th Army custody awaiting a court martial on charges of giv ing aid and comfort to the enemy while a prisoner of war, ' The 4th Army headquarters said two of the new charges accuse Batchelor of Informing on other prisoners of war in North Korea. Batchelor always has maintained that In the North Korean prison he- was known as a "progressive who didn't squeal on his buddies." The third charge accused Batchelor ot taking part in a trial in a prisoner of war camp, The prisoner In question was reported being tried by "progressives" in the camp. Batchelor faces trial in San An tonio next month. Until Friday, he has been ac cused only of making speeches in which he tried to convert Amer ican soldiers to communism, wrlt-ina- articles to make prisoners ac cept enemy propaganda and writ ing letters wnich tne Army saia expressed disloyalty. Lt. Dillard Barrera, 4th Army information officer, told of the new charges. He said two of the counts resulted from sworn statements mado by former prisoners. Bar rera said these men accused Batchelor of Informing the Chi nese Reds of activities of other prisoners and that this resulted in punisnmeni. An Army court martial nas con. vlcted another prisoner, Cpl. Ed ward Dlokenson of Virginia, of charges of collaborating with the Chinese Reds wnne a prisoner, f-T Steel Merger Talks Held NEW YORK m Biggest news in the steel business Friday is that merger talks are aotually under way between uetnienem oieei Coi'i. ana xoungsiown oneeb ot Tube Co. Even last week when talk of a Bethlehem - Youngstown merger was still in the rumor stage, steel stocks shot to their highest levels since 1929. although other factors besides the merger talk were In volved. Both Eugene G. Grace, Bethle hem board chairman, and J. L. Mauthe, Youngstown president. confirmed Thursday tnat discus sions are under way but stated that no definite agreement had been worked out. In New York, Grace told news men that he and Mauthe had been discussing the matter and that the talks had been under way "for quite some time" but matters were not yet in such shape to be pre sented to the stockholders. He declined to discuss the ad vantages or disadvantages of a merger to either company and said he didn't know when there would be a decision. ii, -inn- - lJ ! . - .SJtiiAtA'ni lansasHI LINK RIVER BRIDGE is getting a minor face-lifting by Ore. gon State Highway Commission employes, J. R. Miller (leftl( 3314 Maryland, and Dean Gillock, 3218 Diamond. Tha tide walk will be resurfaced and the whole bridge repainted. , Substitute Move Aske'd By Senator WASHINGTON Wl Sen. H. Alexander Smith (R-NJ) Friday quoted Vice President Nixon as saying Smith is "on ' the right track" with a proposal to Investi gate Sen, McCarthy (R-Wis) aa a substitute for a move to censure McCarthy. Smith told reporters that if his substitute Is defeated, however, "I would feel compelled' to vote lor resolution by Sen. Flanders H Vt) proposing to "condemn" Mc Carthy's Red-hunting tactics as chairman of the Senate investiga tions subcommittee. As a substitute for the Flanders resolution. Smith has proposed that the Senate create a special com mittee, headed by Nixon, to in vestigate "the alleged good or evil of so-called McCarthytsm." The committee would report to the Senate early next year. Smith said he discussed the plan with Nixon Friday morning and "the vice president thinks I'm on the right track." Smith said a number of senators want to make it clear that ''they are waiting to be counted" on the issue of McCarthy, and seem in. dined to let the test be mado on the Flanders resolution. He said if they prefer that "sudden death" approach to the problem, that will be all right with him. WASHINGTON (IP) Sen. Fland. ers (K-Vt). denouncing Sen. Mc Carthy (R-Wis) as one who "can scarcely avoid being called a fifth amendment senator." asked tha Senate Friday to censure McCar. thy for conduct mat "tends to bring the Senate into disrepute." Flanders presented in a pre. pared address what he termed bill of particulars" accusing Mc Carthy of contemptuous refusal to answer questions raised by a Sen. ate rules subcommittee' in 1950 concerning McCarthy's Integrity. RKFU8E , . " "If he (McCarthy) continues to refuse answering," Flanders said, "he finds himself la the aam category as the fifth amendment uommumsts. He is quite evidently occupying the same ground and can scarcely avoid being called a fifth amendment senator. "This first item of , the bill particulars affects the Senate'a honor and Is there pertinent to the (censure) resolution. . Flanders said other Items in hit "bill of particulars" are that: 1. "The Senate's honor and, in addition; the nation's honor have, been compromised by tha senator'! Irresponsible staff." 2. "The senator has an habitual contempt for people'1 which rn. eluded, Flanders said, the use ol abusive language to Brig. Gen. Ralph W, Zwicker, a decorated war hero, "that no one with any human decency would have used." ROW PROVOKED Flanders said the row which pro. voked the recent televised McCar. thy-Army hearings might nevei have occurred "if the Secretary of the Army (Robert T. Stevens) had not tried to appease the sen ator." "I think one may say with some assurance," Flanders continued, "that there are three who cannot be appeased. They are, or havt been. Hitler, the Kremlin, and the senator." Flanders said the loss of Mo Carthy's efforts from the field ol Red hunting. If lt happens, "will be no loss at all to the anti-Communist campaign." "The senator's contributions have been minor and comparative ly unimportant," he declared. VIOLENCE MARSEILLE, France HI A thousand troops bound for th violence-racked French North At llcan protectorate of Tunisia leil port here Friday aboard the linei President de Cazalet.