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fo)M 0) fo) .0) In The Dav's lews By FRANK JENKINS As this is written, the highly controversial Eisenhower iarm bill is still In the congressional works, but enough has happened to indi cate that the President has won a political victory. Both the house and the senate have endorsed the principle ot FLEXIBLE supports as opposed to the principle ot high and rigidly FIXED supports. There have been enough test votes on amendments to indicate that In the final voting that will send the bill to the President ior bis signature enough members will stand pat on the principle of flex ibility to insure its inclusion in the bill that will become law. Why is that a victory for the president? . ' This. I think, Is the situation: With the chips all down, a majori ty in both houses decided that it would be better politics to follow the President in the matter of farm legislation than to go against him. That's about the long and the short of it. What is this principle of flexibil ity that underlies the President's proposal for support of farm prices? It works like this: When surpluses begin to accum ulate, indicating that at the guar anteed prices consumption will not take care of production, the sup port price of the drops that are coming into surplus will be LOW ERED. That should accomplish two things: 1. It should discourage further production of the crops that are piling up. 2. It should encourage consump tion of them, thus tending to re duce the surplus. That is the theory of it. It Is at least a more intelligent theory than rigid, high supports of certain basic crops that encourage continued high production of these crops regardless of back - break ing surpluses that many be accu mulating. The politics of the farm bill sit uation is pretty well illustrated by an incident of yesterday when an amendment providing ,for price supports of the five basic crops at from 82i per cent to 90 per cent of parity came before the senate. , This amendment embodied the principle of flexibility and brought the Issue to a head. The vote was 49 FOR the amendment and - 44 AGAINST it. That was the show down. With 93 of the senate's 96 members present and voting, it gave a majority of five for the President's principle of flexibility. Hefe Is how Far Western sena tors voted on the showdown: Republican senators voting FOR it were California's Knowland and Kuchel (despite the fact that Cal ifornia grows a lot of cotton, which is one of the basic crops), Malone of Nevada, Cordon of Oregon, Welker and Dworshak of Idaho and Goldwater of Arizona (which also grows a lot of cotton.) Far West Democratic senators who voted for the flexibility amendment were McCarren of Nevada and Hay den of Arizona. Far West Democratic senators who voted AGAINST the amend ment (that is to say, who stood pat for continued rigid high supports for the basic crops) were New Dealers Jackson and Magnuson of Wash ington. They were Joined by New Deal camp follower Wayne Morse of Oregon. The state of Washington, of course, grows a lot of wheat and wheat growers naturally want continuation of guaranteed high wheat prices. But wheat Is by no (Continued on page 4) A SAGACIOUS APE is Cheta, who it best known for roles in Tarxan movies. Sometimes called the "Einstein of Monkeyland," . Cheta is in Klamath Falls with Polaclc Brothers Shrine Circus. Looking evtr the show's program, Cheta is pictured with his f raiitr, Al Antonueci, WARD 2 CANDIDATE to city council is Murdo Morrison of the office of Morrison and Howard Architects, who filed late Monday afternoon. Morrison Files For Council On the platform: "A city mana ger for Klamath Falls." Murdo Morrison filed as candidate to city council from Ward 2. Morrison paid his filing fee about' 4 p.m. Monday, and became the fourth candidate to file for elec tion to vacancies occurring in the city council. The architect is associated with Morrision and Howard Architects. He has a bachelor of architecture degree from Lawrence Institute of Technology, Detroit, Michigan, his borne state. In 1942 he entered the Navy, and served as captain of a landing ship in the South Pacific theater. While in service, he attended Columbia and Cornell universities. He was discharged in 1946 with the rank of lieutenant. - Morrison has worked as an ar chitect since 1337, with the excep tion of his years in service. He resumed architectural activity in Detroit following bis discharge. In 1549 he came to Klamath Falls, to 616 Lincoln Street, where he still lives. Although Morrison hns had no experience in city government, he has announced his plans to work for a city manager for Klamath Falls, a project that has been un der discussion here several times before but which has never be come reality. The candidate says he feels he has gotten a lot from tiie city; and should put something back. "I will try and help with city planning for the development of the town from an architectural standpoint," Morrison stated. He is married, has two children and is a member of the Lions, Elks and Masons. Other filers for city positions to date are: for councilmen, Jim Barnes, Ward 3; Robert Mest, Ward 4; Ladd Hoyt, Ward 5; seeking reelection as police Judge is Frank Blackmer. KF Jet Base Inspected Representatives from the office of the secretary of defense, the bureau of budgets, headquarters USAF and the Western Air Defease Board made a visit to Klamath Municipal Airport this morning. Purpose of the visit was for fa miliarization of the area and for final determination of the feasibil ity to expand available facilities to accommodate an Air Defense Com mand fighter unit. The delegation included more than a dozen representatives of the four offices, and was here for about two hours only. j Price Five Cents 16 Pages KF Youths Warned By Hoiman A tense court drama of the "crime never pays" variety was enacted Tuesday before Circuit Judge Ralph M. Hoiman when five confessed criminals pleaded guilty to burglary charges. Heading the list was James John Ryan, 74, whose criminal ca reer covers 41 years. Ryan was first arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment in an eastern state for wrecking a train. He was be fore the court Tuesday for stealing food from a drive-in restaurant. Judge Hoiman pointed out Ryan to two 20-year-old burglars as con vincing proof that "crime never pays." These defendants were Don ald Duane Frank and Terry Leroy Hooser, accused of stealing an electric motor and selling it for eight dollars. "You boys are at the cross roads," Judge Hoiman said. "This is either going to be a lesson to you or you will become confirmed criminals. Look at that old man sitting back there, if you want an example of where crime will lead you." With a stern warning that they will face five years in Oregon State Prison if arrested again, Judge Hoiman placed the youths on three years probation. In dealing with Ryan, the Judge pointed out that although he had been at odds with the law since 1913, since 1942 he had a com paratively clean record. An FBI report shos Ryan has been in half a dozen prisons on many different charges. In 1939 he was under investigation for compli city in wrecking the Southern Pa cific Streamliner City, of San Fran- Cisco near Hardy, Ncv. He was ab solved of blame lor this wreck which claimed more than a dozen lives. In 1913, Ryan was sentenced to life imprisonment for obstructing a railroad in New York state. His sentence was later reduced to 30 years. He was paroled after serving 17 years. "I've been trying to go straight for the past 13 years," the defend ant told the court. "It's pretty tough for an old man like me to get work." Judge Hoiman told Ryan if he gave him the maximum sentence of five years in prison, he would undoubtedly die in the state peni tentiary. He ordered him to serve a year in the county jail. The judge deferred passing sen tence on the other confessed bur glars, Robert Lee Sassen and Rob ert R. Seymour, until a report on them is received from the FBI. Weaklier FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair through Wednesday; High Wednesday 93; Low Tuesday nivht 54. High yesterday 8G Low last night 48 Preefp last 24 hours 0 Since Oct. 1 14.56 Same period last year 14.87 Normal for period 12.51 DROWNED NEW DELHI, India 11 Re ports reaching here Tuesday said 20 persons drowned when a river ferry capsized south of Indore. Thirty-one persons were reported rescued. WHILE HEADING SKYWARD. Lynn Hutton-Williams, sprightly aerial star with Polaclc Brothers Shrine Circus, was snapped by a Herald and News photographer. Harold Aliana, another star performer, is holding tha ladder. KLAMATH FAL' Jf .,T '5 d options i oia WASHINGTON Ml The 1954- 55 seasons for hunting wild ducks and geese will be as long or longer than those allowed last year ex cept in states which permit hunting as late as next Jan. 20. Undersecretary of the Interior Ralph A. Tudor Monday night made public the basic regulations to govern taking of migratory waterfowl during the 1954-55 sea son. He announced that the basic hunting season for ducte. geese and coots will extend from Oct. I to Jan. 10, with state game ad ministrators permitted to fix the seasons for their states within tha: framework. Specific dates and hours will be announced sometime after Aug. 25 following action by state administrators. States will be allowed to have seasons running for a consecutive number of days, or two split sea sons totalling somewhat less than is permissible for a straight-days season. Those desiring to do so Attlee Party Visits Russia MOSCOW. 11 Former British Prime Minister Clement Attlee and seven other British labor lead ers arrived in a chartreuse-colored Soviet army plane Tuesday for a two-day visit. They expect to have talks here with Premier Georgi Malenkov and other Soviet of ficials. ' The Labor Party delegation, which Includes left winger Aneurin Bevan, will attend a Soviet recep tion Tuesday night at which Mal enkov and other top Soviet lead ers are expected to be present. The Britishers are en route to Communist China for a three week stay. . Attlee and "the "others declined to comment upon arrival, saying only they had a pleasant trip. They stopped in Helsinki, where they boarded the Soviet army plane, a two engine IL12 with the chartreuse paint job. Annual Polack Broihers-Shrine Circus Opens Colorful Engagement In Klamath By LYLE DOWNING With the summer sky as its big top, Polack Brothers Shrine Circus opened a two day engagement in Klamath Falls Tuesday. Perform ances are scheduled for both days at 2:15 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. at the fairgrounds. The Shrine Circus which Is a regular annual event in Klamath Falls, turned up this time with a brand new lineup of attractions. Justus Edwards, the show's adjec tive - hurling press agent, almost ran out of superlatives In describ ing the wonders to be viewed by Basin residents. Tuesday was Children's Day at the circus. Hundreds of Basin boys and girls were on hand for the opening performance. As Press Agent Edwards puts It. the show offers "two and a half hours of circus enchantment, rich in enter TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1954 Hunting may extend the season as late as Jan. 20 by giving up two days of allowable hunting for each day of extension, but this is permissible only when a consecutive-days sea son is chosen. The season will end Jan. 10 for all states choosing split seasons; States also are given a new op tion of ' selecting shooting hours. They may extend from one-half hour before sunrise to one hour before sunset, or until sunset. Hunting of woodcock and jack snipe, however, will be allowed until sunset in the seasons speci fied for taking them. On the opening day of each sea. son, including each half of a split season, hunting will begin at noon. The Pacific Flyway season for ducks, geese and coots has been extended to 80 straight days this year, instead of 75, or two split seasons of 36 days each. Pacific Flyway: Ducks geese, and coots. Arizona. California, Id aho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington will have an 80-dav consecutive season or two split perioos oi 36 days each. Th s Is an Increase of 5 days over last year s la-day straight season. (The same options prevail as to closing hours and extension of sen son beyond Jan. 10. A Jan. 15 closing would limit the season to 70 days; a Jan. 20 closing, to 60 days.) All states in the flyway will have an option to choose a bag limit of ducks consisting of a 10 a day or in possession, or 9 daily with 15 in possession, providing that such bags contain not less than 3 widgeons or 3 pintails, or 3 In the aggregate of both kinds. Bag and possession limits for geese remain at 6 birds, but such limit shall not include more than 3 of the dark species. For Brant, in Oregon, California, and Washington, the season will remain the same as last year, Dec, I .to Feb. 10, with bag and possession limits of 3 birds. Bag and possession limits for coots in this flyway remain at 25 The 15-day jacksnipe season re mains .unchanged, with bag and possession limits of 8 and 8. Bag limits on wood ducks re main unchanged. tainment and dlvertingly different from all previous presentations of the Polack Brothers':" Among the top attractions aro Professor George Keller's mixed Group of Jungle Cats, the Slkors ka Duo, aerial artists; Harold Al zana and Company, high wire per formers and Bob Nelson and his Trained Pigs. Other stellar acts Include, the the Besalou Baby Elephants, Gln ny Lowry and the Spnnglettes and a galaxy of some of the America's most famous clowns. Press Agent Edwards took a Herald and News reporter and photographer on a visit to the cir cus as It was setting up Monday afternoon. Professor George J. Keller, who found he had a way with wild ani mals after teaching 20 years at Pennsylvania State Teachers Col OPAL THE ELEPHANT who hat fop billing with tha Shrine Circus was irked by the weather when visited by Nancy and Keith Cedarleaf of 3927 S. Sixth St. Opal suddenly sat down on a bale of hay and let loose with a roar that probably was heard in Chiloquin. The pachyderm's trainer said the Basin is too hot for Opal. Telephone 8111 State Offers New Traffic Contract Possible solution of the city's cross-town traffic problem seems nearer witli the submission to the city of the State Highway Commis sion's contract considered by city council Monday night. , . Council hasn't signed the con tract yet: It Is waiting for a thor ough discussion- of the "small print" with R. H. Baldock, state highway engineer, and representa tives of the State Highway Com mission when they meet with the city administration In Klamath Falls this Thursday. The contract calls for one - way traffic on Main, Klamath Avenue, Sixth and Seventh Streets, in ac cordance with a "package" plan agreea on earner. J lie contract further calls for paving, by the city, of Elm between' Seventh, Commercial and South Sixth and establishment of one - way traffic there. . Originally the plan called for one - way traffic on designated streets simultaneous with construc tion of a modern four lane struc ture over the South Sixth railroad tracks, to relieve the traffio bot tleneck. Although the present conlract does not assure the viaduct, Al Hattan, chairman of 'the Cross Town Traffic Committee, says the reason is that the city will have no responsibility for its construc tion and so will need no contract, "The state has assured us we will have a new viaduct, probably next year," Hattan declared this morning. One section. of tiie contract raised a question in the minds of most councilmen and traffio com mitteemen. It states that the state "feels the new viaduct is not feas ible because of the resulting in creased flow of traffic into the city until and unless the project cov ered herein Is available to expedite the increased flow of traffio after It enters the city." "' Hattan and members' of his com. mlttee, Verne Moore, Rudy Ja cobs and Kasper Moty, were pres ent at council Monday night and advised signing the contract. (Continued on pare 4) lege, gave us a preview of his act. The professor claims it is easier to handle jungle beasts than mod ern youth. The ex - savant ex plained he has always been inter ested in animals of all types. When a boy in Bloomsburg, Pen nsylvania, the professor said he had some success training alley cats. Professor Keller's interest In an imal training intensified after he spent several years In classrooms. A former classmate at Columbia University sent him a mountain lion from Arizona and told him to "train It." He did such a good Job "educating" the lion that he was able to sell it to a circus for $400. In 1952, Keller resigned from the faculty of Penn State and decided to make training and exhibiting wild animals his life work. r . -ti A .'An",: . .-: STENOGRAPHER Patricia Fairchild was on her way to work at United States Nation al Bank when the roving cameraman happened by this morning. She lives at 944 El dorado. GOP Approves Kiltredge The official selection of Oscar Kit- tredge, Lake and Klamath County stockman as the nominee from the 17th Senatorial district to succeed Senator Phil Hitchcock, roslgned. was announced about noon today to Mrs. olive Cornett, National Re publican Commltteewoman from Oregon.' The message of the action of the executive committee of the Repub lican State Central Committee which met this morning in Port land was relayed . by Ed G. Bochnke, state Republican cnair. man. The selection of Klttredge was unanimous. He previously had been unanlmpuslr chosen by a, nominat ing committee of five counties, Klamath, Lake, Crook, Deschutes and Jefferson, comprising the 17th district, meeting August 6 at Bend. Approval of the Republican state committee was required oeiore nis name could be placed on the No vember ballot. Tiie nominating committee was commended on the choice of so highly Qualified a candidate for the senatorial post by members of the state central committee. Party members of all five coun ties have also signified approval of ihe committee's nominee. Governors Meet With Ike WASHINGTON IFl President Elsenhower had a chance Tuesday to try to sell his proposed 50 bil lion dollar highway building pro gram to a group of state gover nors Invited to lunch with him at the White House. The President's ambitious pro posal for a vast system of coast-to-coasb superhighways met with considerable opposition when it was unveiled by Vice President Nixon last month at the confer ence of state governors at Bolton Landing, N. Y. liv GEORGE J. KELLER, former college professor turned wild animal trainer, is shown hers being interviewed by Charley McFarlan of KFLW in the presence of Snookums, a toy leopard which a friend gave him last week in Reno. The jungle big cats of seven different varieties which Keller presents in the circus are less docile. Ike Forces Defeat Rigid Support Plan WASHINGTON Wl Supporters of the administration farm pro nosals continued their victory drive in the Senate Tuesday by killing mandatory supports for feed grains and soybeans. They beat down 54-33 a substU tute amendment offered by Sena. Young (R-ND) and Humphrey D Mlnn) calling for mandatory sup ports at 75 to 90 per cent of parity on oats, rye, barley, grain sor ghums and soybeans. Sens. Aiken (R-Vt) and Anderson (D-NM) opposed this. They said controls over planting and market ing of these crops would be re quired if supports were manda tory. Then the Senate approved 82-29 a proposal by Aiken, Anderson and others to knock from the Senate bill a provision tlelng mandatory supports for the four small grains to support levels for corn. It had been sponsored by Young, Humphrey and others who favored extending rigid 90 per cent on basic crops, cotton, wheat, corn, rice and peanuts. Tuesday's first vote came after more than two hours of angry de bate in wntcn campaign pledges or President Elsenhower to farmers and actions by Secretary of Agri culture Benson were sharply criti cized and defended. Sen. Humphrey told the Senate that he does not trust Benson. The administration, winner on two major - price support issues Monday, pushed tor final Senate action on the controversial farm legislation. Monday's victories were adop tion of the flexible support prin ciple for major crops in a range between 82 u, and BO per cent of parity, and approval of language allowing Benson to continue dairy supports at 75 per cent. - Parity is a computed price In tended to be fair to farmers In terms of the price of things they buy. . July Weather Figures Told Despite the fact that there was no precipitation tor the month ot July, 1951 is turning out to be wetter than normal year. Bureau of Reclamation figures releasee) today show that there was no precipitation in July ot this year or last, but this year's stream year figure for total rain fall is 14.45 as compared to a nor mal for the period from October 1 to August 1 of 12.434. The temperature averaged a de gree cooler this July than it did last year, with a mean monthly average for the period of record being a degree hotter. The aver age for July ot this year was 87.7 compared to 68.7 last year and an average of 68.4 for all time. Highest recording for. the month was 92 degrees on July 13. Lowest was on July 21 with 43 degrees. There was 26 clear, four partly cloudy and one cloudy day during- tne month. Storage In the various reservoirs. stands at 346,180 acre feet in Up per mamain, down a little from last year; 47,310 in Gerber Reser voir as compared to 68,360 last year, and 264,920 acre feet in Clear Lake, down a trifle from last year. Subscriptions Lakevlew resident!: to order the Herald and News delivered to your door the lame evening of publication call; Martha, Brooks, Bub Depot, phone 2121, home phone 212, V :1
