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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 6, 1954)
Farm ippoois Fight 4L rv - x,- " .- V. 0 T" AC t'SEnMnBaiSiilLi THE WATER'S FINE at La Ice view's municipal swimming pool. In its picturesque setting in a canyon on the eastside of the city, the swimming pool is one' of the finest in Oregon. Of ficials in charge of Lake view's annual rodeo which opens September 4 say the pool runs a close second to the cowpokes in drawing visitors. , In The Mi lews By FRANK JENKINS Let's start this off today with another one for the book. - You're aware, I presume of the distillery fire, accompanied by shattering explosions, in Pekin, Il linois. It has just been brought under control after having resulted in six deaths. The money loss to the owners (in warehouse buildings and aging whiskey In barrels) is placed this ' ' morning at- somewhat more than seven and a half million dollars. THE FEDERAL GOVERN. MENT'S LOSS OP POTENTIAL TAX REVENUE ON THE DES TROYED WHISKEY IS MORE THAN 47 MILLION DOLLARS 1 1 I You think whiskey barrels won't explode? Let me tell you a story: Back in a sleepy little .county seat town in the valley cf the Mis sissippi many years ago (more years than I like to admit) there was a drug store at a corner of the public square. In the bad old days before the town went dry the building had housed a saloon. In the basement were several empty whiskey barrels. One sleepy hot summer morn ing a small boy was playing down in the basement maybe because it was cooler there. The barrels en gaged his casual attention. There were wooden cork3 in the bung holes. He pried cut one of the corks. He jostled the barrel and nothing sloshed. An odor, however, issued from the hole. Having grown ' 'up under prohibition, he did not recognize it. But it intrigued him. So Being a small boy And small boys' reactions being always unpredictable HE LIGHTED A MATCH AND DROPPED IT IN THE BUNG HOLE. The resulting explosion lifted the two - story brick building a toot or more off its foundations and shat tered every window in It. The small boy, by some freak, escaped with only severe but temporary shock and the loss of his hair and eyebrows. ' Let's add a pinch of politics to the mulligan stew of today's news. In Tennessee, Senator Estes Ke fauver wins a smashing victory (more than 2!i tol) over Tennes see congressman Pat Sutton for the Democratic nomination to the U.S. senate. Kefauver this mornlpg proclaims his decisive success at the polls as a triumph over isolation. Maybe so. ' But I doubt It. i Sutton, the dispatches intimate, had a husk:' war chest, and he depended heavily on radio, televi sion, newspaper and billboard ad vertising and the various other aids to publicity that an ample war chest can command. Kefauver got out in the. Tennes see hills and knocked on cabin doors and shook hands with those who came to greet him and talked about people's relatives and kissed babies and ate until he bulged at watermelon feeds and used all the charm that nature gave him (which is quite a lot) and generally acted like a real down-to arth human being. That's quite an asset in politics in Tennessee and elsewhere. Kefauver has another asset a red-headed wife named Nancy. Nancy, perhaps uses a bit of dye to keep the gray in her hair from showing. She isn't unaware of the value of eye makeup and such. But she too Is a real, henest-to-good-ness band-shaker from away back and you can bet your bottom dollat that she was out among 'em doing her bit for Husband Estes be cause, among other things, she likes the senatorial life in Wash ington. Here in Oregon, some of cur ed itorial pundits are getting all stirred up over the use of large campaign funds and think there orta be a lawr. Heck!' The common, ordinary vitera In Oregon and elsewhere AREN'T SAPS. They know what's going on. When some candidate Is using too much money and too lit tle common sense in his campnign, you can depend on the voters to spot It. What happened la Ttnnpssee can happen In Oregon and will be pretty apt to every time the cir cumstances are the same. Y" - np 1 I High Army Officers Face New McCarthy Accusations WASHINGTON l Sen. McCar thy (R-Wis) said Friday- a secret Army report, 'names 30 officers, five of 'them generals, as having "active" roles In granting an hon orable discharge to Ma J. Irving Peress. Peress is- the New York dentist whose career as a reserve Army officer came under investigation by McCarthy last year. Peress de clined to answer questions from McCarthy as to whether he had ever had subversive connections. McCarthy called him a "Fifth Amendment Communist." During the McCarthy-Army hearings, McCarthy repeatedly re ferred to the case and demanded to know who was responsible for what he termed the- "promotion Four Killed In Jet Crash FAIRFORD. England Wl A U. S. Air Force B47 Stratojet bomber crashed near here Friday. The Gloucester fire brigade said all four crewmen were killed. The firemen said the fiOO-mile-an-hour medium bomber crashed and burned on takeoff from an air base. A U. S. Air Force ftre truck overturned in its rush to the crash, delaying other fire fighting equipment and ambu lances. - The six-jet plane capable of car rying an atom bomb was the sec ond of Its type to crash in Britain within the past 18 days. On July 20 a B47 came down near little Farlngdon, Killing one airman and injuring three others. Indian Bills Go To Ike WASHINGTON ( Legislation which will end federal supervision of some 4,000 Oregon Indians was en route to the White House after being passed by Congress Thurs day. The House bad proposed minor amendments in bills Involving the Klamath Tribe, comprised of about 3.000 Klamath, Modoc, Palute, Pitt River and Shasta Indians. The Senate accepted these amend ments. Besides the Klamath Tribe, the legislation affects the Grand Ronde, Siletz and Empire Indian groups of Western Oregon. aye;-: t mkm m 3r --t - - i. 1 Jmf 4 y "HOWDY, CLEM!" was the early morning greeting from Al Nanneman, (right) serviceman for Cascade Home Furnishings, to Clem Bortis, Bortis Plumbing and Heating. Bortis operates, from 127 North Fourth; Nanneman lives at 1202 North Eighth. 1 and honorable discharge of this Fifth Amendment Communist." McCarthy announced that he and fellow members of his Senate .in vestigations subcommittee had broken the seal on an envelope containing an Army report on the case which had been submitted by the Pentagon during the McCarthy-Army hearings. . McCarthy said the list gave the names of "a full general, two maj. generals, two brigadier generals, three colonels, two lieutenant col onels, and a major" in addition to others of 'lower rank. He said some of them will be called be fore him as witnesses for question ing under oath. McCarthy said that "after all this time. . . this lengthy Investi gation by the Army inspector gen eral, It (the report) doesn't show who was at fault" In promoting, and discharging Peress. "The implication is that they all were at fault," he said. "This at least shows it was not just the incidental discharge of a Communist." Asked about his next step In in vestigating the Peress case, Mc Carthy said: "I assume in view of the fact they all took an active part, they should all be called in." He said "some of them" should be "called in any event." Former TL Man Killed TULELAKE Kenneth Rudisill. Tulelake postmaster until two months ago, was apparently killed outright in an industrial accident near Cottage Grove Thursday af ternoon, August 5. He was 32 years old. Rudisill, a resident of Tulelake for -several years and postmaster since 19411, was employed as a timekeeper nod bookkeeper 'oi the George Stacy Construction Com pany, Tulelak", working on High way 09. Rudisill mounted nn earth mov ing machine, lt.fi vacant for a few moments by htj operator and the unwieldy equipment overturned, crushing him beneath. Details of the accident received here were meager. Rudisill was married about three months ago to Irene Cooley, daughter of a p:one?r Yreka fam ily who was in Cottrgj Grove at the time of the accident. An aunt and unci-?, Mr. and Mrs Ward McCullsy, Tulelake, advised of his death left at once for Cot tage Grove. His stepfather. Gerald Stark is an emplpye of the Southern Pacific here. Price Five Cents IS Pares Record OTI Enrollment Predicted A record enrollment at Oregon Technical Institute for the coming school year is forecast, W. D. urvine, dlreotor, (announced this week. . . Two classes have been placed on a waiting list basis for the fall term of 1954. Gunsmlthing and X-ray technology are now. filled and have applicants beyond capa city. Nearly all of the other courses have greater advance registration than in any year past, Purvine stated. Housing facilities for married couples are being reserved well in advance and very few units remain available, he added. Dormitory housing Is also nearlng the limit of present facilities, but additional units are being prepared to meet the needs. Advance registration at tho end of July shows 733 students signed up for the fall term. The number includes second-year and freshmen students and is nearly double the number registered at the end of July, 1953. The registrar's office each week is handling several times the number of inquiries that were received each week last year. September 13 starts registration and orientation week for freshmen students. Seniors will register Sep tember 17 with classes beginning September SO. Advance enrollment for 1954-55 Includes students from every Ore gon county. The counties showing the highest enrollment are Klam ath, Marion, Douglas, Lane, Linn and Coos. . "OTI now ranks fourth Sn. site among the state-supported lnstitu- tions giving training at the post- high school level," Purvine com. mented, "with Oregon State Col- leae. University of Oregon and Portland State Collage ranking in that order according to enrollment statistics. The establishment of the school at Klamath Falls under the State Board of Education was based on estimated needs for post- high school education of two-year and terminal type," he added. : KF Jet Base Inspected Two official delegations spent all day Thursday Inspecting facilities at the Klamath Municipal Airport in the interests of its reactivation as a jet interceptor base. Lt. D. M. Felnman and Willard Hill, of the ISth Naval District in Seattle, inspected runways at the ,inui,t 7?na Averv. nlmort man ager, said the Naval District, which will be in charge oi worn on me runways, plans to seal cracks in the runway before applying the necessary coating. The jet base will utilize only the northwest southeast runway.. Air Force ofllclals, from the Western Air Defense Command, Hamilton Field, California, In spected armament testing facilities at the airport to determine any necessary re-deslgnlng or new con struction. Air Force -officials included a Major Plank, Major B. C. Wylle and M. L. Dunn, armament expert. Kefauver Wins Primary Vote NASHVILLE, Tcnn. W Sen. Estes Kefauver kept his position as a presidential possibility yesterday as he and Oov. Frank Clement won assured reelection by crushing majorities In Tennessee's Demo cratic primary. The winner of the . Republican senatorial primary was Ray H. Jenkins, the Army-McCarthy hear ing special counsel who didn't seek the nomination and said he wouldn't run If he got It. The figures from 2,084 of the state's 2,591 precincts tell the Democratic primary story: Senate: Kefauver 326,424; Rep. Pat Sutton 137,38. Governor: Clement 368.917; for mer Gov. 'Gordon Browning 151, 824. x Kefauver, who won most of the Democratic primaries and lost in the convention In the 1963 presi dential derby, said yesterday's vic tory over Sutton was a triumph over isolationism. Sutton, who conducted a fast paced helicopter campaign between marathon radio-television broad casts, conceded shortly before mid night, faying he held "no ill will or malice." c 1 KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, McCarthy Probe Committee Makes Plans; WASHINGTON W Sen. Wat- kins (R-Utah) Friday was chosen chairman of the special Senate committee to look into proposals that Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) be censured for alleged conduct un becoming a senator. Sen. Edwin C. Johnson (D-Colo) was named vice-chairman of the group,, composed of three Repub licans and three Democrats. Sen. Stennls (D-Miss), a mem ber, said these were the major decisions made in a closed ses sion with Vice President Nixon lasting nearly two hours. Watkins Is the senior Republi can on the committee and John son Is the senior Democrat. Friday's meeting left still un settled the question of just how the committee will go about its assign ment. In public or private statements, Revised Atom Bill Approved WASHINGTON Ifl-Senate House negotiators broke a two-day deadlock Friday and agreed on a revised bill putting private indus try into atomic power. Seven of the 10 conferees signed the revised bill. Rep. W. Sterling Cole (R-NY) said. The other three, all Democrats, have not decided yet whether to support the com promise or oppose It. The revised measure goes to the House Monday for final action Cole said. Agreement on disputed patent claims completed action in a brief meeting Friday. It ended ft stand oft over, Uie, -House, pro-vlsion.. au thorizing exclusive patents on non- military atomic developments and the Senate demand for a 10-year period of compulsory patent-sharing. USAF Orders Jet Tankers WASHINGTON Wl . An Air Force order for lis first jet tanker planes gave a boost Friday to the aircraft designed and built to be this nation's first jet airliner. Secretary of the Air Force Tal bott announced late Thursday that the Air Force has decided to buy "a limited number" of Boeing jet tankers with which to refuel. In flight, America's big jet bombers. Talbott said the tankers will be an advanced version of the Boeing 707 four-jet transport which made its maiden flight July 15. Boeing Airplane Co., Seattle, gambled 15 million dollars in the development of the 707, on tile possibility that (1) the Air Force would buy it as a tanker, and 2 the airlines would buy it for swift and smooth passenger transport. Airline executives have been watching the Boeing project close ly since the Seattle firm an nounced, four years ago, that It was going ahead without govern ment backing to develop jet trans portation. At that time the company de clared that domination of world aircraft markets was threatened by the lead of British and Cana dian jet and turbo-prop aircraft, and that U. S. airlines might be forced to operate foreign equip ment. With the assurance of at least some military saics, Boeing may now be expected to proceed with an aggressive selling program di rected at the major airlines. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair,' warmer through Saturday. Illfh Saturday 78; low Friday night 45. High yesterday 69 Low laat nljht 41 Precip. last 21 hours .. 02 Since Oct. 1 14.56 Same period last year 14.87 Normal for period 12.48 Schedule For Square Dances Friday, 8 p.m., airport All Callers' Dance. eaturday, 10 a.m., airport All Caller' Workshop Saturday, 4 p.m., Modoc Field Barbecue Saturday, 8 p.m. Modoc Field Jamboree Dance Sunday, 1 p.m., airport Lea Gotchers" Dance FRIDAY, AUGUST , 1954 Names Chiefs most of the members have Indicat ed a general belief the hearings should be open to the public but with some reins to avoid a, "vaude ville show." They said they did not want a repetition of the televised and brightly-lighted McCarthy-A r m y hearings. Watkins told a news conference tho committee had decided against any live television or radio cover age of its hearings. He said It has not yet been determined whether the press will be allowed to sit in or whether there will be 'closed hearings with transcripts made available to newsmen. HEARINGS The chairman said he didn't know when the hearings actually might get under way but that he thought lt would be a fair assumption lt would be after next week, when the Senate hopes to have finished lb- legislative program. Over the weekend, Watkins said. committee members are going to study on their own the long list of charges against McCarthy Vith the idea of discarding those that might not be regarded as signifi cant. The new chairman said the com mittee decided to get the assist ance of two lawyers and some stenographers borrowing them from other Senate committees, if possible and to enlist the aid of the staff of the Library of Con gress on research. FREQUENT MEETINGS Watkins said the committee will be holding frequent meetings from now on, the next one Monday alt- formally bid for a conference with the committee but has talked with some individual members. . "As soon as we feel we oould profit from h discussion with htm,1 the chairman said, "we will call him In." ' We will proceed In an orderly way to do the Job," Watkins said "keeping in mind the great respon sibility we have and the Importance of th decision." It hasn't been determined, and won't be for some time, he said, whether the committee will bring In specific recommendations either foi or against censuring McCarthy. He said a progress report on committee operations will he made to the Senate sometime next week. Tills will be an Interim report, Watkins said. Possibly lt will ask more time for the inquiry. The committee members Joined In pledging that action on the censure proposal will not be de layed until after the , November election. - Watkins said there was "no Idea of postponing a decision until after the election." Indochina Truce Begins SAIOON, Indochina Ml The French and Communist-led Viet mlnh ordered n cease-fire In Laos Friday, completing the third of five steps to muzzle rfuns through out all Indochina. The truce went Into effect In the little kingdom at 8 a.m. 5 p.m. (PST) Thuiuday. 7he French high command In Saigon raid tour hours later it had received no word of any violations, hut there have been no reports of fighting in Laos tor some weeks. The step-ny-step Indochina cease fire took effect In Nor.h Vict Nam on July 27 and In Central Viet Nam on Aug. 1, These were the two main battle areas. 1 1 The truce will take effect Sat urday In Camboiil.i and finally next Wednesday in South Vie! Nam, the region around Saigon. Under the tenm of the Laos agreement, an estimated 10,000 Vletminh invaders arc to withdraw within 60 days. About 1,500 Lao tians opposed to the kingdom's French-backed government are to group themselves in pockets around Sam Nctia and Phc-rig Saly. The resistance forces, known as Pathet Laotians, will be per mitted to keep ar.ns until elections this fall.1. The French are to keep two Laotian bases, and French officers also will remain as advisers to the Laotian army. The state will not be permitted to Join any South east Asian defense, pact. Boy Suffocates In Diving Mask ! FORT WORTH, Tex. l.il ' A boy suffocated Thursday nizht in his ' rubber-and-glass swimming mask, i The body of Charles Bryan i Halley, 14, was found in three feet of water at a pool. Vacuum creat ed by his inhaling had sucked ' the mask so tight over his nose and mouth It had to be cut from ; his face. Telephone 8111 No. 2912 Atom Strike ijunction Threatened WASHINGTON Wl The White House today was reported consid ering applying for an, 80-day court Injunction under the Taft-Hartley Law to ban a threatened new strike of key atomic workers. Should they so decide, federal at torneys could seek the court order almost at once because they cleared legal preliminaries for the same case last month. Government efforts to spur a wage settlement In the four-month- old dispute involving CIO workers at Oak Bldge, Tenn., and Padu- cah, Ky., collapsed last night. Chief Government mediator Will- ley P. McCoy said, "there's nc progress so what's the . use of further meetings?" He said it appeal's that President Eisenliow er would have to consider ordering the Justice Department to obtain strike-banning court order. Elwood Swisher, president of the CIO Gas. Coke and Chemical Workers, whose 4,500 members at Oak Ridge and Faducah struck four days last July 7-10 In the same dispute, said the union has set a new strike date, but declined to name the day. He said rumors that it is next Tuesday, Aug. 10, are "pure speculation." The CIO workers produce the nation's Antlro Rtivmlu nf 1h lll'n- 1 :uum material used in making the atomlo and hydrogen bomb. A government panel two months ago recommended a 6-cent hourly pay increase, but both, the CIO unlou and the AFL Atomic Trades and , Labor- Council representing another 4.500 workers in other Oak Ridge atomic plants rejected the proposal, asking for a 15-cent raise. However, the AFL workers did not strike. Present pay rates range from $1.58 to $2.40 an hour. Elsenhower Invoked the Taft- Hartley Law's national emergency provision when the earlier strike broke out, but did not seek a court Injunction when the strikers heed ed last-minute back-to-work ap peals. However all the law's pre liminary requirements were by then cleared away so an Injunction could now be applied for on short notice. There were Indications the CIO union may appeal to Secretary of Laoor Mitchell. Mltcncll arranged the voluntary end of the prior strike. INCORPORATED SALEM W New corporations Friday included: Klamath Falls Area Painters and Decorators Joint Committee. Inc., Klamath Falls. L. P. Brockman, L. V. Tyree and R. O. Miller. Vtt. I Jajq-', 5 f n INFORMATION, PLEASE? Mere's the piece to 90 Eighth end Main where the Do-Si-Do- Club 20-30 Club information trailer is stationed to answer questions on the Western State Square Oance Jamboree which opens tonight. On duty today were Polly White, llettl publicity -chairmen, end Pauline Pearson, secretary of the Do-Si-Do Club. GOP Leader Hopes For Early Vote WASHINGTON W) Both -sides claimed victory Friday in the hot Senate dispute over high rigid vs. flexible farm price supports. . As the Senate launched its third day of debate on farm legislation, OOP Leader Knowland said he still hopes for a voto Friday on the key Issue of price supports. Sen. Young (R-ND), a leader of the forces seeking to continue rig Id supports, said: "I think we are going to win now there have been some switches." Knowland, fighting for the El senhower administration's propos als for flexible and tower price supports, scoffed at Young's claim, "We have two or three switches, too," Knowland commented. Knowland added that both, sides were anxious to have a vote- on the Issue. Sens. Bridges (R-NH) and Payne (R-Maine) jumped into the debate Friday on the. side of the admin istration. - ' Bridges, a one time agricultural teacher and county agent, said the administration program "will stop the senseless raid on the tax payers, , to please a vociferous lew." . - Bridges, chairman of the- Sen ate Appropriations Committee, said the government already has more than six billion dollars Invested In farm surpluses, and that Con gress had been asked to boost farm price support funds from; a present 8, '4 billion dollars to 10 billions before this session ends. We can no longer d e I a y," Bridges said.. "First, we must stop these wartime price supports which encourage farmers to produee crops that we have no market for, that the government must buy and then, with taxpayors' money, store away in victory ships or air plane hangarsuneaten." '; v Payne said rigid supports tor co !na Du,tr a Tl Pasi larm programs naa mjureo """.rT "V .L i " . 1 ... .' ! .-v. . '54 Wool Crop Shows Drop WASHINGTON (fl The Agri culture Department Thursday-estimated this year's production .of shorn wool at 229,371,000 pounds or about one million pounds less than last year. The- Indicated production, how ever, is about 14 per cent less than the 10 year (1013-52 J annual average. , No estimate was given for pro duction' of pulled wool, that taken from hides of slaughtered animals as contrasted with that shorn from live ones. ' The number of sheep shorn this year has been 3 per cent less than last year. Production of shorn wool was greater than last year In Idaho and Oregon. It was smaller In Montana and Washington. 4' v. " I 1
