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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. ,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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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,
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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
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'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.
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