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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 7, 1954)
trite BSdiiiSdDii Eftiis In The Dav's lews By FRANK JENKINS Prom Washington: i There are contrasting opinions this morning as to whether the special senate committee will make Its report on Senator Mc Carthy BEFORE THE CONGRES SIONAL ELECTIONS IN NO VEMBER. The senate today Is debating the Elsenhower flexible support farm bill. It has just agreed to put a limit on the debate and to bring the bill to a vote on Mon ' day. The final vote Is expected to be close. Republican Senator George Ai ken of Vermont says he thinks that come Monday, if all senators are present and voting, the senate will approve a flexible support system of from 80 to 90 per cent of the more or less mythical stan dard of parity. Republican Senator Milton' Young disagrees sharply with Ai ken. He offered this morning to bet a Washington correspondent a client uuiuer Hint lie aim outer supporters of the high and rigid parity system can beat the flexi ble supports bill. Young comes from North Dako ta, where wheat is king. Wheat was the first crop grown there. Huge "bonanza farms," ranging from 3,000 to 66.000 acres grew up in the early 1870's and these farms were devoted exclusively to the growing of wheat. It was wheat that built North Dakota's cities. Wheat is still grown in EVERY North Dakota county, and Is by far the state's most important crop. Republican Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire wants the flexible price support system. He says the present rigid system . has piled up the huge supluses of wheat and other basic crops that are now in government hands. He adds that if the present sys tem of rigid supports continues farmers growing the basic crops will face tighter and tighter ACREAGE controls. Both Bridges and Aiken are from New England, which grows NO commercial wheat, corn, cot ton, rice or peanuts. These are the five big basic crops on which the rigid high support system Is pretty much based. " Then there's Senator Morse the Maverick, who comes from Ore gon where wheat is an important but by no means a dominant crop. He attacks the Elsenhower admin istration's farm policy and Secre tary of Agriculture Benson, He says Benson has crowded the real dirt farmers out of the depart ment of agriculture in favor of non-farmers. (I think we can be tolerant of Senator Morse. He just HAS to talk. If he didn't, he'd blow up with a loud bang like a toy bal loon when touched by the hot end of a cigarette.) With few exceptions, the sup porters of high, rigid, unchanging supports for the basic crops come from states or districts where corn, wheat, cotton, rice or pea nuts are grown in HEAVY volume by large numbers of voters. Because continuance of high, rigid supports is a SECTIONAL issue, let's take a look at the agriculture of Southern Oregon and far Northern California. In this area, we grow very little wheat. We grow NO commercial corn, cotton, rice or peanuts. Therefore the present system of high, rigid supports tends to Injure our agri culture far more than It helps it. This is how it works: As high, rigid supports encour age more and more overproduc tion of the basic crops (none of which we grow commercially on a scale of any size) and as more and more fertilizer and better tnd. better farming methods are 4sed to increase the YIELD PER ACRE of these basic crops, t':e acreage of them must be pro gressively curtailed. As acreage of corn, wheat, cot ton, rice and peanuts is forcibly reduced the growers of these crops will TURN TO OTHER CROPS for the land they are compelled to take out of basic crop produc tion and as they do so they tend to nut the land into crocs that OUR COUNTRY GROWS as a regular business such as barley, pota toes, alfalfa, small seeds, etc. thus Increasing our competition and injuring our markets. Already we are feeling this com petition. When accurately analyzed, this high, rigid support system ap pears In its true light as a dis astrous upsetter of the agricultur al economy of our Southern Ore gon and far Northern California area. Atom Strike Threatened WASHINGTON m New efforts io eliminate the threat of another strike at two strategic atom and a-bomb material plants will be nade at Oak Ridge, Tenn., Mon day. Another day of angling for a dif ferent approach to settle a lour nonth - old labor controversy wrought an announcement Friday sight from the Federal Mediation Service that negotiations would re lume then. Famed Emilie Dionne Dies From Attack Of Epilepsy MONTREAL Ifl An epileptic stroke caused the death of Emilie Dionne, one of the famed Callan der quintuplets. Dr. Rosarlo Fon taine announced following an au topsy Saturday. Dr. Fontaine, Quebec's leading medico-legal expert, said the girl, who died after three strokes Fri day in Ste. Agathe, Que., had suf fered from epilepsy for some time. "The epileptic stroke was brought up by pulmonary conges tion, particularly in the pituitary gland In the brain." the doctor said after a 1-hour autopsy. New Senate Atomic Bill Fight Seen WASHINGTON Wl Sen. Gore (D-Tenn) Saturday predicted a new senate fight over a compro mise measure putting private in dustry into atomic power but said it probably would fall short of an attempt to "talk the bill to death." Opponents previously kept ar gument going on the subject for two straight weeks including four all-night sessions. The revised measure, hammered out in four days of closed-door ne gotiations ending Friday, goes to the House for final action Monday and will be up in the Senate later in the week. Gore, a leader' in the original lqs-hour battle over President Eis enhower's broad new atomic en ergy program, said a number of senators are "deeply concerned" over revised patent provisions which he called "icing on the give away cake." The proposed new patent section would permit normal 17-year pa tents on non-military developments not made under government aus pices. But for the next five years it would require the Atomic En ergy Commisson (AEC) to give preference in granting licenses for manufacturing commercial atomic equipment to concerns willing to share their patents, for a fee. This AEC authority would be permis sive in the case of research equip ment, licenses. ' One Democratic and six Republi can members of the conference committee accepted this as a com promise between the House pro vision for unrestricted, exclusive patents and the Senate stand for 10 years of compulsory patent sharing. Sen. Anderson (D-NM) and Ed win C. Johnson (D-Colo) delayed taking a formal position, but An derson said the compromise "looked pretty good." Rep. Holt field (D-Callf, who was out of town, has said he would not ac cept it. There was no controversy in conference over provisions author izing a limited exchange of nu clear data with foreign allies and making a number of other changes in the 1940 atomic energy law, untouched till now. Square Dance Jamboree Remaining events: Saturday, 4 p.m.,- Modoc Field Barbecue. Saturday, 8 p.m., Modoc Field Jamboree Dance. Sunday,' 1 p.m., airport Les Gotcher's Dance. Opinions Vary Over Early McCarthy Censure Voting By JACK BELL WASHINGTON Sen. Fergu son (R-Mich) predicted today the Senate will get a chance to vote before the November election on the issue of censuring Sen. Mc Carthy (R-Wis). But Sen. Monroney (D-Oklai said in a separate interview he expects the intensilled "political atmo sphere" of the campaign for con trol of Congress to delay any such showdown until late In the year if not until next January, The rival forecasts underlined the wide-ranging differences of view on Capitol Hill as a six-man committee drafted to probe cen sure charges against McCarthy werjj. into recess over the weekend. Yesterday the bipartisan group picked Sen. Watklns (R-Utah) as chairman and decided to bar TV and radio from its forthcoming hearings. Monday the special committee gathers again behind closed doors to go over a list of 46 specific ac cusations levelled at McCarthy by Sens. Flanders R-Vti, Ful bright ID-Ark) and Morse (Ind Ore), with an eye to weeding out charges that are minor or overlap. The special . committee, com posed of three Republicans and three Democrats, also will have to tackle some disputed points of pro cedure before it can get to the hearings stage. Still to be decided: Whether the hearings should be public, and whether McCarthy should have the right to cross examine witnesses as he has de manded. The committee's unanimous de cision against radio-TV coverage The autopsy was described as a formality necessary because of the prominence of the 20-year-old girl, and the fact no doctor was present when she succumbed. She died at Ste. Agathe Hostel for old folks and retired Roman Catholio clergymen. Dr. Fontaine completed the au topsy at 10:15 a.m. .He immedi ately conferred with Mr. and Mr. Maurice Girouard, elder sister and brother-in-law of Emilie and the other quintuplets. "The girl suffered a stroke and has suffered from epilepsy for some time." Dr. Fontaine said. "The pituitary gland was congest ed and enlarged as well as the thyroid and adrenal glnnds. "They were enlarged beyond normal size. DEATH NATURAL "So, you can see the cause of death was very natural." Dr. Fontaine's announcement was the first official word that Emilie had been subject to epilep sy. The ailment never has been mentioned publicly In connection with Emilie until after her death Friday. Emilie's death fojlowed three at tacks within 24 hours. Death came at the Ste. Agathe Hostel where the girl was a postulant with the Oblate Order of Mary Immacu late. Dr. Fontaine said "It is quite normal for a girl of Emilie's age to die of this illness." The Girouards telephoned the Dionne parents and quintuplet sis ters at their home in Callander, Ont. The body was moved immediate ly after the autopsy to a funeral home. It was to be taken later by ambulance to Callander, some 300 miles away. An inquest convened last night for identification purposes will be re-opened at Ste. Agathe later, an official said. SHELTERED LIFE ' The autopsy was the last strict formality following the death of the dark-haired, shy girl, who led a sheltered life although born to fame. Her body was moved under .po lice escort 45 miles to the Montreal Morgue. The autopsy, by the spe cialist. Dr. Rosario Fontaine, was set for 8 a.m., EST. The girl's grieving family went ahead with plans for funeral ser vices and burial Monday near the Dionne home at Callander, Ont. A dispute arose, meanwhile, over a surprise . report -that- she had been stricken with polio as a child. An elder sister, Mrs. Maurice Giraouard. who arrived to take charge of the body, said yesterday Emilie had polio 17 years ago and since then had been afflicted with fainting spells. The sister ex plained she was not familiar with the medical term for the attacks but believed they were epileptic. Others who knew her also said she was a victim of epilepsy. Baseball Scores NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago Philadelphia 002 000 0002 000 032 01X 10 Cole, Klippsteln (6) and Coop er; Miller, Dickson (6) and Burg ess. Milwaukee New York 101 000 0114 12 100 000 0012 7 Burdette, Nichols (9) and Cran dall; Gomez, McCall (9), Wllhelm (9) and Katt. yesterday prompted a protest from Charles Roeder. chairman of the Freedom of Information Commit tee of the Radio-Television News Directors Assn. Urging reconsideration of the ban in a telegram to Watklns, Roeder said the association "re minds your committee that it is Sen. McCarthy who is the subject of your censure study not radio and television." As for how much time the com mittee will need, Watkins and his five colleagues all agreed they can make an investigation and report to the Senate in time for a vote belore the election. Ferguson, who heads the Senate Republican Policy Committee, said he Is willing to interrupt his cam paign for reelection to return to Washington to debate the censure proposal next fall. He said he thinks most other candidates will agree to do likewise. Monroney, one of the 12 senators who voted against setting up the special committee, said, however. he thinks that' if the Senate fin ishes Its legislative business next week and goes home, it will be dif ficult to reassemble the members. "I am not casting any reflections on the investigating committee." he said. "I am sure the members will do a conscientious job and do it without delay. "But the best Intentions In the world are not going to keep this matter out of the campaign. The first time somebody complains about something the committee does you will find candidates tak ing one side or the other and it will become a campaign issue TH FALLS, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1954 Price Five Cen' Y , . Telephone till No. 2913 7y 1 ' FWTTTI COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN are formulating plans for the Oregon Insurance Agents Convention to be held her September 2, 3 and 4. Chairmen include (seated, from left I Dana Backes, women's division; Lawrence Slater, general chairman; (standing, same order) John Sandmeyer, co-chairman housing and registration; Forrest Kelly, special gifts. Kelly is also president of the local group. KF Insurance Meet Planned Klamath 'C o u n t y Insurance Agent" Association is laying plans for the annual Oregon Insurance Agents Convention to which the lo cal group will be host September 2, 3 and 4. Approximately 400 agents and company representatives from all over the state and from California are expected in attendance as well as the national president. Ex J. Seymour, Monroe, Louisiana. This is the first time the state convention will be held in Klam ath Falls, according to the general chairman, Lawrence Slater. Committee heads appointed to various phases of convention plan ning include the following: John Sandmeyer and Buz Lark in, housing and registration; Rex Dye, publicity and decorations; Paul Landry, golf; Forrest Kelly, special gifts; William McKibbin, scenic trip. Bob Causemaker and Gene Whltmier, refreshments; Jerry Thomas, entertainment; Dena Backes, women's agenda; Wyatt Padgett, arrangements; Art Dye, treasurer. Officers of the local association are Forrest Kelly, president; Rex Dye, vice president; Art Dye, sec retary - treasurer. Headquarters for the convention will be the Willard Hotel. EXPERTS ' TOKYO Wl Fishing experts in northern Japan say pink is a fish's favorite color. They told the news paper Asshl they dyed their nets pink and got triple the ordinary catch. SMILING APPRECIATION for today's' sunshine was registered' by Bill Peterson (left) and Louis Dixon when the early morn ing photographer stopped at the Valley Hotel, Fourth and Pint, where both are resident!) Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair through Sunday. High Sunday 80; low Saturday night 50. . Low last night 54 High Yesterday . 80 Pumice Firm Leases Land United States Pumice Supply Company, Inc., announced today it had completed leasing approxi mately 10,000 acres In the Mt. Dome, California ' area south of here for exploratory nurnoses. L. B. Clark, vice president of the company who negotiated the leases, said the area contains a large amount of diatamaclous and pumiceous earth which the com pany hopes to employ in its pro duction of various kinds of non metallio products. Leases havs teen made with the Hammond Ranch on its Wil low Creek Ranch holdings; Jim O'Keeffe, Dan O'Keeffo, Leo Fogle and Mary Porterfleld, for the pur pose of carrying on further ex plorations. The company, which headquar ters in Los Angeles, has been in corporated 14 years. It maintains plants at Leevinir.g and Newell, California. The Newell plant has been In operation four years. Clark explained that, although the same earth can be found In several other areas in the west, locating mining operations in this area would have at least two ad vantages: proximity to the rail road and to the U.S. Pumice Sup ply Co. plant at Newell which will allow consolidation of activities. Wheat Quota Sales Lower WASHINGTON Wl The United States sold only about 65 per cent of its wheat quota for sale abroad under an international wneat agreement for the marketing year cricked July 31. The Agriculture Department Fri day reported sales at 106,511,000 bushels compared with a quota of 193,662,000 bushels. The U. 8. a year earlier had shipped its full former quota of 261 million Bush els. ' Increased production in many importing areas coupled with greater competition from some other exporting countries not members of the agreement are said to be factors Influencing the reduction in American exports, Failure to sell the full quota helped ' complicate the domestlo wheat supply situation. The coun try now holds a record surplus supply of the grain. Portland FHA Probe Planned PORTLAND W! Senate investi gators are looking into possible violations of Federal Housing Ad ministration regulations in the Portland area, ' Probers for the Senate Banking Committee, headed by Robert J. Fink, assistant counsel, arrived in Portland Friday. The investigative team is to be expanded to 10 men within the next few days, he said. The committee has been holding series of hearings in the East and Midwest seeking data on loop holes in the law permitting certain builders to receive excessive prof its on housing deala. Fink said the committee had not yet announced a decision on whether public hearings will be held here. The records of a num ber of firms in the Portland area have been subpoenaed, but names have not been disclosed because, he said, "we don't want to ruin anyone's reputation." Kentucky Has Light Voting LOUISVILLE, Ky. Wl Light and quiet voting marked Ken tucky's primary election Saturday. There are Hi million registered voters In the stale but less than a .third were expected to inter rupt their weekend holiday to choose Republican and Demo cratic candidates for eight seats In Congress. One position on the State Court of Appeals also was to be filled. s. The only statewide contest in volved the Senate seat held by Republican John Sherman Cooper, expected to be renominated as his opponents are two political un knowns. On the Democratic side of the Senate contest, former Vice Pres ident Alben W. Berkley had little to fear from his three opponents. Although the polls opened at 0 a. m., local standard time, and will close at 5 p. m,, the turnout was sparse In most areas. At Owensboro, the downtown pre cinct, which usually sets the pace in balloting, reported six persons had voted by t a. m. The polls also were quiet places In Louisville, Richmond and Madl- tonvllle. Federal Judge Refuses To Rule Against Injunction By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The seventh full week of the Pacific Northwest's lumber strike closed Saturday. It was a week marked by re newed efforts of the Federal Medi ation Service to find a pathway to agreement an effort which failed. There were reports of scattered settlements, some added back-to-work movements, some rejection of back-to-work proposals. Federal Judge Claude McColloch at Portland Friday refused to in terfere with the state court injunc tion banning AFL picketing of M and M Wood Working Co.'s four plywood plants In Oregon and Cali fornia. The Corvallls Lumber Co. Fri day notified Its striking employes it has a payroll of 135 that un less Uiey returned to work they would be replaced in their Jobs. The AFL union there promptly said it would resist by all peace able means. The mill there has been trying to run behind the picket line but has been unable to get an adequate crew for more than token operation. In Washington state, the Puget Sound AFL council reported it is prepared to spend "thousands of dollars" to relieve hardship among strikers. In Oregon's Willamette Valley, businessmen of Sweet Home and Lebanon started circulating peti tions asking Gov. Patterson to Intervene In the strike in the hope of reaching a settlement. This governor's intervention issue went into politics this week when U. S. senatorial candidate Richard L. Neuberger asserted that the Oregon Board of Concilia tion has had unfilled vacancies for months, and Democratic candidate for Oregon governor, Joe Carson, said it was the governor's clear duty to fill the vacancies and turn the strike Issue over to the board, Patterson has said he will act on the request of both sides. The state law setting up the Board of conciliation provides, at one point, for arbitration as one means of settlement. The rtriking CIO and AFL unions turned, this week in the meetings arranged by the Fed eral Mediation Service, to arbitra Youth Drowns Inllmpqua Sheriff's deputies from Douglas County were dragging the Ump- qua River near Toketee Falls Sat urday morning for the body of Leland Hescock, 12, of Klamath Falls, who fell into the stream and drowned while fishing. The ac cident occurred Friday afternoon. The drowning was first reported to Sheriff Murray Britton of Klamath Falls by employes of the Morrison Knudsen Co. who were called to the scene in Doug las County by Ronald and Richard Wickllne who had been fishing with the victim. The boys ran two miles to a construction camp for help. According to Information given Britton, the three boys were standing on a log protruding Into the river. Young Hescock slipped and fell into the swirling waters. The Douglas County sheriff's of fice at Roseburg reported Satur day morning that divers had failed to find any trace of the body. The drowning victim was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Hes cock, 1932 Summers Lane. Lake Mining Fever Told A mild case of mining fever Is reported In eastern Lake County today with the filing of an unde termined number of mineral claims. Main source of excitement, ac cording to a reliable witness, cen ters along the Middle Fork of Deep Creek, near the old High Grade area. Work in the latter area has been carried on for a long time, mostly In gold. Current rumors from the Deep Creek area hint at a possible find of uranium, although no definite filings have been recorded. At any rate, there is a good deal of activity going on, and gelgcr counters are being considered standard equipment for those roaming the area. Fighting In Cambodia Ends SAIOON, Indochina Wl An of ficial cease-fire was declared In Cambodia Saturdoy, completing four of the five stages to halt the Indochina war. ' The cessation of hostilities by French union troops and the Communist-led Vletmlnh was ordered into effect at 8 a. m. The truce was little more than a formality, however, since there has been no real military activity in the king dom of three million people for several weeks. Cambodia was the fourth area to gain uneasy peace under the staggered timetable decided upon at the Geneva conference. Truces already have become effective In north, Viet Nam, central Viet Nam, and Laos. The war will end officially next Wednesday when a cease-fire is ordered in southern Viet Nam around Saigon. tion as their proposal. The eper. ators rejected it. Operators suggested that unions withdraw negotiating power from regional committees and restore it to the locals. The unions rejected this. Both sides continued to present arguments through press releases, but the week ended with little actual change and with most em ployers still firmly rejecting cost increases and most strikers still calling .for an increase of 12 Yt cents an hour. Close Farm DiN Vote Predicted WASHINGTON Ifl Sen. Olln . Johnson (D-SC). charred Sat. urday the administration's pro gram for variable farm price sup ports did not "square" -with Re publican campaign promises of , two years ago. Leading off the filth day of de bate on the farm bill In the Sen-, ate, he declared present "rigid supports are not responsible for the high cost of living." Lower supports on top of reduced plant ings would squeeze all farmers ft nancially, Johnston said, and add ed: "It would take some high-powered advertising men to square this flexible program with tha campaign promises of two yeara ago. Sen. Hill D-Ala) called tha sliding scale farm nrlca clan an invitation to disaster," similar to "unsound farm policies of tha Harding, Coolldge and Hoover ad ministrations which brought on the agricultural depression of tha aos that ruined the whole econ omy." Only a handful of votes was seen as the margin of victory, either way, when the Senate gets down to final voting Monday on prica supports. 1 Sen. Aiken (R-Vt) predicted in an interview that "if all senator! are present and voting I think the Senate will approve a flexible pro gram of from 80 to 90 par cent of parity" on basio crops. Aiken i chairman of the Seriate Agriculture Committee and supports tha ad ministration plan for flexible prica props. But Sen. Young (R-ND), signal, caller for a bipartisan group that favors an extension of rigid 90 per cent supports, offered to bet a re porter "a good steak dinner that we'll beat that." A check of known positions' ol senators Indicated the victory mar gin will be from two to four votes, no matter who wins the first test. Aiken and Majority Leader Knowland (R-Callf) had hoped for a key vote yesterday but the grow ing list of senators who want to make speeches soon scuttled that. A unanimous consent agreement was then reached to limit debate and start voting Monday, leaving today open for more speechmak ing. Coon Busy Man In Congress WASHINGTON Wl Rep. Coon (R-Ore) figures he had a big day in Congress Tuesday for a fresh man member. He saw three bills of which he is the author passed by the House. One would end federal super vision over the Klamath Indians, another would authorize construc tion of a school at Chlloquln, and the third would approve a new repayment contract and provide for construction of a new reservoir for an Irrigation district at Madras. Coon, who is first-string catcher on the Republican congressional baseball team, commented, "I have not batted three for three in any league very often, and never before in this one." O.F. Kittredge Named By GOP BEND Wl Republicans of the state's 17th senatorial district in Southern Oregon Friday nominat ed Oscar F. Kittredge as their party's candidate for the state Sen ate post vacated by Sen. Phil Hitchcock. The nomination was made by committees from Republican or ganizations of Crook, Deschutes, Jefferson, Klamath and Lake counties all of which are includ ed in the district. Approval of the Republican State Central Commit tee is required before Klttredge'a name can be placed on the No vember election ballot. Kittredge. chairman of the Lake County OOP Central Committee and In 1948 an alternate to the Re publican National Convention, Is a resident of Lake County and has been in the cattle business in Southern Oregon for tha past 3D years. Hitchcock resigned recently to Join the staff of Portland'! Lawil and Clark College, .
