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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 5, 1954)
n r ham mmm In The Dav's lews . 2 By FRANK JENKINS A few days ago (before the pres ent cool spell) I was sitting with group of friends enjoying the pleasant twilight hours that had fol lowed the hot and sunny day. As the shades of evening fell, we be gan slapping mosquitoes. That brought reminiscences. In tne area where we were sitting, there used to be NO mosquitoes. But several years ago there came a period of strong winds from, the northwest. These winds blew in mosquitoes from the lake. Ever since we've been alternate ly slapping mosquitoes in the eve nings and spraying or dusting with DOT. Such is life. You have it pretty good for a long time, and then conditions change arid you don't have It so good. ' ; "That started us off on politics. -AND economics. ,The two, you know, are related. .rFor the past dozen years or so We've had few FINANCIAL prob lems. After nearly a quarter of a cen tury of peace, WAR caught up with our country again back in 1941. War brought Inflation. War AL WAYS brings inflation. There are inflexible reasons why war always brings inflation, but we won't go Into that here. Let's just talk for a moment TRtJut inflation and what i 11 does to our Way of life. i In an inflationary period, too ' much paper money Is created. ' There are inflexible reasons why ' that is unavoidable in wartime, but , we won't go into that, either. It's too complicated. Suffice it to say that Inflation de preciates the value of our money ' and as the value of the money ' falls we raise PRICES to offset ' the decline. That leaves the wage earner in the bight of the line, so to offset that we RAISE wages. That results in higher costs, so we raise PRICES again. That makes 11 necessary to RAISE WAGES AGAIN. And so on ad infinitum, ' it's WONDERFUL while it's go ing on. When profits begin to fall, we Taise prices. Everything's hunky dory for a while. When (because ' of rising prices) wages won't buy enough, we raise wages. Then for a WHILE everything is hunkydory again. ,i While It lasts, it's a grand and 'florious rat race and everybody is i happier than a kitten with a sau er of cream. -i b- - ? As always ' x There Is a fly in the ointment. This is the fly: i We fall Into the habit of think ing that the inflationary cycle will last forever and that all we'll have to do clear on into the long, long time that we call infinity is to go on raising prices one day and rais ing wages the next and that every body will be happy and carefree forever. i It doesn't work that way. The reason it doesn't work that way is because sooner or later the war that caused It all comes to an end and when the war comes to an end the Inflation begins to fizzle out. ! That is to say, CONDITIONS CHANOE just as conditions , changed in the neighborhood I was talking about at the beginning of this piece. For a long time, in that neighborhood, there were no mos quitoes. Then a high wind came along and blew the mosquitoes in. Because of the change, people in that area have ever since been slapping mosquitoes and spraying and dusting with DDT and com plaining bitterly about it all. - It didn't usta be that way, they wail. In time, I'm pretty sure, they'll get rid of the mosquitoes. But, in the meanwhile, they'll have to do lot of mosquito-slapping and DDT-dusting. ' It's the same with all of us in the new conditions that have fol . lowed the end (temporarily, at - least) of war and its accompanying inflation. There will be quite a pe riod of discomfort while we are overcoming the conditions brought on us by war and inflation. - But eventually we'll get away with it just as eventually the peo ple in that district will get away with the mosquitoes that came upon them as a result of the winds that blew in the mosquitoes. Airline Strike Meetings Held , SEATTLE UP) Tentative agree ment on hours of service and over time was reached here Wednesday by West Coast Airlines and the AFL Air Line Agents Assn. Federal mediator James Holaren said the agreement hinges on favorable settlement of the wage issue, to be negotiated Thurs day. He gave no details of the pro posed agreement on working hours. Employes are demanding over time for all work above eight hours, and raises variously esti mated at from 6 to 9 per cent. The company offered wage in creases ranging up to 4' per cent. A scheduled walkout Monday was postponed at the request of the National Mediation Board. Some 150 employes in Washing ton, Oregon and Idaho are affected. Iranian Oil Agreement Announced TEHRAN. Iran ( Represents tives of eight big Western oil com- panies and the Iranian government announced broad agreement today to restart Iran's frozen oil indus try. They said they hoped to begin shipping at least. some of the. oil again, in about two months. Under the agreement announced simultaneously in Tehran and Lon don, the eight companies as a con sortium will operate the' vast Abadan refinery and the surround ing oil fields. They will buy the oil output from Iran and will sell the production abroad. Iran will retain title to the fields and the refining facilities. Settlement of the three-year dip lomatic battle was announced in a joint statement by Iranian Finance Minister Ali Amini and Howard Page of Standard Oil of New Jer sey, chairman of the negotiators lor the oil companies. Their statement did not detail the rate of payment to Iran but in formed sources said It was virtual ly the same 50-50 split that pre vails elsewhere in the Middle East. Amini and Page estimated that Iran, through direct oil revenue and taxes, would get 420 million dollars during the first three years of the arrangement. The 'estimate for the third year, more than 187 million, Is larger than Iran's p re- nationalization oil revenue. The agreement will run for 25 years, with provisions for three a-year extensions. The eight companies making up the consortium are Britain's Anglo- Iranian, which developed and oper ated Iran's Industry alone until ex Premier Mohammed Mossadegh nationalized its holdings in 1951: Standard of New Jersey, Standard of California, the Texas Co., Gulf Oil Co., and Socony Vacuum, all American; Royal Dutch Shell and Compagnie Francaise de Fetroles. Though Page in a separate state ment said the companies "must now conclude a separate agree ment among themselves covering their participation," informed sources said they would set up this division: 40 per cent to Anglo-Iranian, 40 per cent to the five Ameri can companies, 14 per cent to Dutch Shell and 6 per cent to the French firm. (Authoritative sources in Wash ington said participation of the U.S. oil companies had been essen tial to get Iranian agreement after the hitter dispute with Britain over the nationalization.) " " il Reported Oyer Basin Rain in the valley and some hail mixed with electrical storms at higher elevations Wednesday af ternoon were reported in a round up of weather news from scat tered points in the basin this morning. Butte Valley was reported as the coldest spot. The Forest Service thermometer at Mt. Hebron drop ping to a chilly 34 degrees early this morning. Tulelake, Malin and Langell Val ley reported showers in the after noon but no hall fell and no crop damage reported. KFPA lookouts reported some hail in the Yainax Butte area and light electrical storms both east and west of here. No fires had been reported this morning. wo inches of hail fell on Ball Mountain in Northern California, according to the lookout there. ;- 'if' 4 IS,, - . n , if. 4 -s PASSPORT fo the "State of Jefferson" of which Klamath Falls is the capital was given three visiting newspaper travel editors who spent Wednesday in Klamath County. The trio which had lunch at Crater Lake National Park and dinner in Klamath Falls as quests of city, were, standing: AJIyson Sanders of the Houston (Tex.) Chronicle; seated, from left: Fred Taylor Kraft of the Long Beach (Cel.) Press Telegram, and Mrs. Dorothy Powers of the Spokesmen-Review and Chronicle, Spokane. Pries Fit -23 Paces KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1954 ' Telephone- 8111 No. 2911 Disastrous Drought Sears Hiioe Central States Area By ROBERT H. JOHNSON JR. AP Staff Writer Farmers and ranchers are glum and dispirited in the vast drought country where corn and cotton droop and cattle graze on brown pastures. "Unless we assist in every pos sible way." says Agriculture Com missioner John White ot Texas, "thousands of our rural people will have to abandon the land." White speaks for only one state. But drought still rules all the great plains, in spite of recent rains and federal aid already granted to six sthtes. , Good rains in sun-burned sec- i Russia Renews Old Complaint LONDON Wl Russia has re newed its complaint that U.S. mili tary planes are shadowing Soviet mercnant snips in far eastern waters. The Moscow radio said last night that Foreign Minister V. M. Molo tov had fired off a note to the United States charging American planes with violating freedom of the seas by flying over Soviet merchantmen in the Formosa area. Poland recently accused U.S. military planes of strafing one of her vessels in the Far Eastern area. The united States denied the charge. Guatemalans Back Castillo GUATEMALA Wl Leading Guatemalans petitioned Junta President Carlos Castillo Armas Wednesday night to oust his two partners on the governing group and - take over the government, alone as President of the republic. The petition was presented dur ing a rally of 25,000 persons, dem onstrating in front of tne national palace after the suppression of a two-day rebellion by dissident units at an army base Just out side the capital. . Sponsors of the petition said if the rest of the junta did not quit in favor of Castillo Armas, they would call a general strike. The petition was signed by rep resentatives of leading farming, industrial and commercial enter prises, student groups and other phases of Guatemalan life. The petition also demanded pun ishment of those responsible for the attack Monday by military ca dets and troops of the Aurora base on the irregular "liberation army," which under Castillo Ar mas' lead sparked the overthrow of Communist-backed ex-president Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. Prior to presentation of the pe tition, the army's representative on the ruling junta. Col. Elfego Monzon, assured the crowd the military was firmly behind the junta. The army had pledged its support Monday night in return for disbanding of Castillo Armas' irregulars. tlons of the South and East have been more helpful but not enough to save most crops. Here is what men who live on the seared land throughout the dis aster areas say: RAIN Only a lot more rain, and then still more, can finally beat the drought and save them and when that happy day will arrive is an impossible guess. Meanwhile, they need federal help to hang on and, they grumble, they aren't get ting enough. "I don't think they're expecting a 'dole'," White said. "For the sake of our economic future, we have to help the little farmer and rancher stay on the farm. We can't help them It they are forced to drift into the cities to seek em ployment." The number of states eligible for federal aid reached six this week when Oklahoma and Missouri were added to Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico and Texas. Six more states Alabama, Arkansas, Kansas, Kentucky, Georgia and Tennessee have asked to be included. SITUATION BETTER Still, as of today, the situation appears slightly better than it was 10 days ago, when nothing but heat soaked the country from Georgia to Wyoming and Canada to Mexico. Since then, spotted rains have raised dabs of green in some of the driest states Texas, Colo rado, New Mexico, Kansas and Oklahoma. But scattered rains like these have fallen before In the past four years, and always the moisture has faded In a few days or weeks. Even in the South, where the drought isn't as old and tough as in the plains states, the rains of the past week weren't enough. For example, Kentucky received an av erage of 1.24 Inches, the most in any week since April. The rain helped tobacco, but most other crops were too far gone to be saved. . Timely. rains. also were reported In Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois and Minnesota. But in these states, too, the word was the same: More rain needed, and even that wouldn't revive some fields. GOP To Name Candidate PORTLAND Wl A candidate to seek the State Senate seat vacated by Philip Hitchcock of Klamath Falls will be nominated here Tues day by the Republican state execu tive committee. The committee is expected to approve the choice of a nominat ing committee which will meet Friday at Bend. It had been believed earlier that the nominating committee could pick the candidate. But Ed Boehnke, state OOP chairman, called the executive committee session after Robert Thornton, state attorney general, ruled that either the state or the executive committee must do the nominating to make it official. Hitchcock, who represented a district comprising Crook, De schutes, Jefferson, Lake and Klam ath counties, resigned recently to join the faculty of Lewis and Clark College here. Lumber Strike Unchanged By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Northwest's lumber strike continued unchanged Thursday with a couple of small negotiation sessions at hand in the wake of total failure in large sessions. At Eugene Thursday, as at Port land the day before, an effort of the Federal Mediation Service to lead an employer group and the unions toward a settlement got no where. The Willamette Valley Lumber Operators Assn. and the AFL Lum ber and Sawmill Workers were in the Eugene session. The AFL, as had the CIO the day before, pro posed arbitration. The Willamette Valley operators, as had the em ployer group at Portland, said no and proposed that the unions ne gotiate strictly on a local basis. The AFL, as had the CIO, said no. Mediator George Walker of Port land said he had arranged a meet ing at Prinevllle Thursday for the Ochoco Lumber Co. and its em ployes and one at Redmond for Friday between the Ponderosa Lumber Sales Co. and its em ployes. UNREST CASABLANCA. Morocco Wl In the face of rising unrest in Morocco, U. 8. military officers at Port Lyautey warned personnel Thursday to stick close to their bases and not to. become involved in incidents. ROBERT F. MEST, candidate for councilman from Ward 4, filed late Wednesday after noon. Mest Files For Council Post The third candidate for a post In the city government paid his filing fee late Wednesday after noon. He is Robert F. Mest, 1939 Lerby, who has filed to run for council man from Ward 4, the post now held by Frank Tarr. Tarr told a Herald and News reporter this morning that he has decided not to run for reelection. Mest has been a resident of Klam ath Falls since 1951 and has been associated with automobile dealer ship since he moved here from Portland. With George Dugan he operated the Dodge agency and recently the two have also ac quired the Chevrolet agency. This is Mest's first step in poll tics city or otherwise. He has said that his filing for candidacy was prompted by a desire for bet terment of the community. Mest said he wilL'work to make the town grow and to attract more people to it." Civic activities Include campaign chairmanship of the -Red Cross drive in 1953; vice presidency of the Lions Club and active partici pation in the Shrine Club. Other candidates who have filed for city posts to date are Council man Jamea Barnes and Police Judge Frank Blackmer. Barnes was elected over Gino Carnini In 1952 for a half term. Blackmer was appointed to fill the unexpired term of Leigh Ao kerman when he died, and was elected in 1952 over Wilbur Whit, comb, Bob Elder and Otia Metsker. Dulles Lauds Oil Agreement WASHINGTON Wl Secretary of State Dulles said. Thursday "every member of the community of free nations stands to gain from the Iranian oil settlement. Welcoming the agreement with "great pleasure," Dulles said In a statement It shows "that when good will exists and people strive earnestly and realistically, a way can always be found with honor and with fairness to overcome dli ferences." He predicted it will mean "a new era for Iran an era o( great hope and of prosperity." As soon as de tails of the agreement are com pleted, he said, substantial quan tities of oil should begin to flow to market almost immediately. He added that Iran in a few years will regain Its former position as one of the world's biggest oil pro ducers, Weatlir FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair Thursday night and Friday. High Friday 89; low Thurs day night 40. Hith yesterday - 6R Low last night 37 Since Oct. 1 14.54 Same period last year ....14.87 Normal for period 12.47 t FIRST CANDIDATE to file for office of police Judge is Frank Blackmer, filing to sue. ceed himself. Judge Blackmer filed by fee shortly after noon Wednesday, A 1,. : M Senate Committee Named To Investigate McCarthy WASHINGTON W Vice PresI dent Nixon Thursday appointed a six-member Senate committee to make an Investigation of the con duct of Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) and consider proposals that he be censured. The members: Sens. Watklns (R-Utah), Carlson (R-Kan), Case (R-SD), Johnson (D-Colol, Stennis (D-MIss), and Ervln tD-NC). While Nixon announced the ap pointees, the actual selections were made by party leaders. Quickly after the appointment of the committee, McCarthy arose and asked who would be the com mittee's chairman, Nixon replied that "the committee will select Its own chairman." ' McCarthy asked for a meeting Thursday afternoon with the com mittee. UNDERSTANDINGS McCarthy said he wished, among other things, to get an understand ing with the group which would avoid any conflict between its pos sible requirements on bis time and his own plans for conducting hear ings before his Senate investiga tions subcommittee. The Senate Democratic Policy Committee had an early morning meetinir to decide finally on the Democratic members. At its conclusion. Sen, Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, Democratic flood leader, said, without disclos ing the names, that his party'a selections "are men wno are sym bols for patriotism. Integrity and Judicial temperament." Johnson added: "Two of them have bad eminent careers as jurists. The third Is one of the most beloved and respected senior senators on the minority side of the aisle." Colorado's Edwin Johnson la the senior senator to whom Lyndon Johnson referred, VKTF.RAN Edwin C. Johnson, to, hat been in the Senate since 1937 and is outranked by only seven senators In point of service, . . ' A- former Colorado governor (1933 37), he haa announced his Intention to retire lrom the Senate and run again for the irovernorshlD. Stennis, 55, is a former Missis Landry Speaks To KASRU Mayor Paul Landry has assured civilian pilots of a future for pri vate flying in Klamath Falls. He told Klamath Air Search and Rescue Unit members In a talk Wednesday evening that civilian filers who use the municipal air port facilities will not be "sold down the river" when the airport Is reactivated as a jet Interceptor base. The mayor emphasized that fly ing will be controlled by the Civil Aeronautics Authority 24 hours a day. It has been Inferred that all fliers may be required to use two- way radios. f Further assurance that local ci vilian pilots will be protected was given when Mayor Landry told the group that representatives of the commercial pilots, whose livllhood depends on the airport facilities, and representatives of civilian "hobby" fliers will be consulted before final agreements are signed with the Air Force. KASRU president, Elton Alt, in troduced the speaker of the eve ning. Togo Stick' Planes Tested BURBANK, Calif. Wl The Na vy said Thursday one of Its two radically new "Pogo Stick" fight ers has made history's first free vertical takeoff and the other has proven able to hover motionless in free flight. The first, Convalr's XFY1 Delta Wing job, rose unassisted 20 feet from the ground at Molfett Naval Air Station last Sunday. On subse quent flights Monday and Tuesday it rose 150 feet then backed down to a landing on Its tall. The other, Lockeed's XFV1, has taken off horizontally then hovered nearly motionless in the sky In a nearly vertical position for several seconds on several occasions. Both the new planes are similar in design and are theoretically capable of taking off and landing vertically on their tails as well as doing the same conventionally then flying rapidly to high alti tudes and maneuvering like any fighter. It la hoped they will even tually be launched from aircraft carriers. The C o n v a 1 r ship underwent tethered flight tests before flying free. The Lockheed plane has made eight horizontal test hops at Ed wards AFB on temporary landing gear. Both depend for their lift on contra-rotAtint; ptopellots powered by turbo-prop engines. sippi circuit judge. He has been in the Senate since 1947. Ervin, 57, was appointed to the Senate only last June 6 on the death of the veteran Sen. Clyde Hoey (D-NC). Ervln stepped down from his state's Supreme: Court bench to accept the appoint ment. Sen. Knowland of California, the Republican leader, described his task in advance as one of select ing men of judicious temperament who had not become deeply in volved In the controversy over McCarthy. ' Watklns, 67, Is a former judge in Utah. He was elected to the Senate In 1946. Carlson, 61, is a former gover nor of Kansas, He was elected to the Senate In 1950. Senate Passes KF Jet Funds WASHINGTON Wl P a c i f i c Northwest and Alaska military construction projects would re ceive $52,220,000 under a supple mental appropriations bill passed by tne Senate Wednesday. The bill provides for a total ap propriation of $1,322,900,000, of which 910 million would be In new appropriations and $412,900,000 from unobligated balances for the program in the year ending June 30. The Senate added $352,403,000 to the House appropriation of $557,- 597,000. Projects In the bill, as approved by the senate, witn the appropri ation for each Include: ARMY: Ft. Lewis, Wash., $6,268,000. AIR force: Gelger Field. Wash.. $150,000: Klamath Falls, Ore., municipal airport, $4,127,000; McChord, Wash., AFB, $1,561,000) Paine, Wash., AFB, $483,000. . STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND! "iFairchild, Wash., AFB, $6,787, 000; Oreat Falls, Mont., AFB, $6, 566,000; Mountain Home, Idaho, AFB, $526,00, TACTICAL AIR COMMAND: Larson, Wash., AFB, $1,890,000. ' NAVY: Aviation facilities Whldbey Island, Wash., air station, $4,187, 000, Two official delegations are in Klamath Palls today inspecting fa cilities at the Klamath Municipal Airport to determine what must be done to reactivate the airport as a jet Interceptor base. Lt. D. M. Feinman and Wlllard Hill have arrived lrom the 13th Naval District In Seattle; checking runways are a delegation ol three two majors and a civilianfrom the western Air Defense Command Hamilton Field, California. AGITATORS FERRARA, Italy Wl Twenty one agitators Thursday were hand ed seven-month jail sentences for inciting vlolenoe in the Communist-led Ferrari farm strike. . nK it WALKING TO WORK thi$ morning s fhe early mominej photographer chanced by were Yuvonda Kirkpatrick (left), 5370 Harlan Drive, who li employed by B & B Electria and toil Van Hook, 42 II Hoinedale, of J. J. Newberry Co. Destruction Of American Role Sought By JOH.f M. BIGHTOWEB ' WASHINGTON Wl Russia'! new proposal for. a Big Four foreign ministers meeting is officially re garded here as part of a persistent drive to, wreck Western antl-Com muntst defenses and to destroy eventually American leadership of the free world. Officials said today Britain and France stand firmly with the Uni ted States in opposition to this Kremlin campaign. They forecast that the Russian proposal for new talks on European security will be turned down by joint decision. Three-power talks on a reply are now getting under way in London. However, further Soviet moves are expected. The belief here la that the Russians may' try to de vise proposals of increasing at tractiveness to Western Europe. Their immediate major aim is to block West German rearmament. Their proposal for an over-all European security system has been put forth as an alternative to the Western-sponsored European De fense Community proposing to re arm Western Germany as part of a six-nation army. EDO is due to come up for action soon in the French Assembly, R u s s i a's over-all campaign aimed ' at destroying U.S. leader ship and isolating the United States is being developed along two main lines. , DIRECTED One -is directed toward convin cing non-Communist nations not only in Europe but all over the world that the Communist bloo wants only peace. The agreement of the Reds to end the' war In Indochina fits into that line, as does their European plan. The other line is directed toward convincing the free nationa that the United States is not peaceful but is committed to starting a new war. President Elsenhower told his news conference yesterday the So viets' are "spending literally bil lions in different kinds ot propa ganda" and using subversion and bribery to drive this contention ot their toward acceptance by mil lions. The President declared the United States must "be more im aginative In finding ways to om bat" the Soviet--campaign, :'- The latest Soviet maneuver 'Was made yesterday when Russian am bassadors In Paris, London and Washington delivered notes pro posing the foreign ministers of the. Big Four powers should meet in August or September to discuss Die calling of a big all-European conference on European security and on some German problems. PROPOSALS The Russians had made like pro posals earlier, most recently on July 24, urging creation of a Euro peanwlde security system which would Include Russia and the Iron Curtain countries. They have frank ly offered this as an alternative to EDO. They have suggested tnaf the United States should be a member, that Red China should be an ob server and that Russia might be taken into the North Atlantic Trea ty Organization. The whole concept of such a security system clashes with the systems in being and proposed by the Western powers with the goal of blocking any future Soviet ag gression. ... . - a m 1- 'Ml ' IFJ
