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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 12, 1954)
MI! mm I In The' Dav's lews By FRANK JENKINS In the mail the other day I got a questionnaire from an Eastern outlit that is planning a travel took on our general area of the glamorous and fascinating Pacific coast, i was just about to toss it in the waste basket, for in our business questionnaires are ana thema. Somebody Is always want ing to know something, and about the first thought that occurs to mm is to get somebody to dig up the facts for him for free. So he sends out a questionnaire. But just as I was starting to give It the heave-ho my eye fell upon the first subject upon which ne wanted knowledge. The subject was FISHING. That raised In my mind , an ancient question: a Shall I tell him about our won- derful fishing (mind you, I'm talking about FISHING, not CATCHING PISH) and run the risk that he'll print a book that will bring outlanders swarming In here to catch the finny denizens of our lakes and ovr rivers that WE'D MUCH PREFER TO CATCH FOR OURSELVES? - Or shall I keep mum about It? That thought dredged up some reminiscences. For many years I've been a member of a committee composed largely of newspaper and advertising-minded people whose job is to advise the Oregon State High way commission in the spending of a modest sum each year to bring tourists to our state. The money comes out of gaso line tax revenues, and the tneory Is that the tourists will buy enough gasoline and pay enough taxes on it to pay for the advertising and have a Drofit left for the State of Oregon. A deal like that sounds too good to ne true Kinaa i'kb the guy who started a cat and rat farm and fed the rats to the cats and then killed the cats and skinned 'em and sold the skins and fed the cats back to the rats to raise more rats to raise more ' cats to raise more Heck! That thing could go on forever. Suffice it to say tnai tne scheme to sell gasoline to the tourists to get gasoline tax money to buy more advertising to bring more tourists to buy more gasoline to bring in more tax money to buy more advertising w arms mure tourists Holy suffering Fete! I seem to have got myself into the fix of the squirrel that goes out of his cage into the little revolving wheel to get some exercise to work up an appetite to eat more nuts to give him more strength to go out in the wheel to get more exercise to eat more nuts I give It up. what I'm trying to say is that the State of Oregon advertising project has worked out. Year after year for nearly two decades the gasoline tax mon ey paid by tourists coming to Ore gon has brought in money enough to pay the advertising bills and leave a handsome profit for the state besides. That brings me up to what I started out to say In the first place. Some years ago we were all gathered together in a meeting whose purpose was to plan themes for next year's advertising. We simply ITCHED to show beautiful pictures of a tourist standing on the bank of an Oregon stream and casting his fly far out over the burbling riffles. We knew we didn't dare to show him actually HAULING IN THE FISH. That would turn the hair up on the back of every native Oregon fish erman who would quite naturally want to catch the fish himself in stead of letting some outsider come and get them. But we thought maybe a picture of a J fisherman casting his fly but not ; actually getting anything to put in the basket might get by. We chewed the Idea over and over, but in he end we gave it up. That's why you don't see in Oregon's advertising any thrilling pictures of tourists standing on the banks of Oregon streams and casting their flies. I still think the theme would be a good one. Everybody knows that the tourist fishes in streams BE SIDE PAVED ROADS. And every body in Oregon knows no fish can be caught in such places. We could lure the tourist here with these lov ely pictures and when he didn't catch anything he'd probably shrug his shoulders and say they just aren't biting today. But we've never got up nerve enough to give it a trial. NO fish erman ANYWHERE ever wants to risk bringing outsiders in to catch the fish that ha himself might catch otherwise. Multnomah County Fair Opens GRESHAM im The annual Multnomah County Fair opened Thursday for a 10-day run. three days longer than any previous showing. Nine days of horse rac ing are scheduled. TAX PROBE MEXICO CITY W Charging politics, William O'Dwyer says he will "fight every inch of the way" a probe by federal income tax authorities into his returns for 3949-60. Federal Judge Denies New Harry Bridges Court Move SAN FRANCISCO If) Federal District Judge O, D, Hamlin Thurs day denied the motion by Harry Bridges, West Coast longshore leader, to dismiss the govern ment's civil suit seeking to revoke his citizenship. Judge Hamlin heard lengthy ar guments on the motion Aug. 3. After weighing the arguments, he said, "this court is of the opinion tnat tnere s no legal bar to the Debate Curb May Speed WASHINGTON UPI A surprise Senate agreement to curb debate on atomic energy legislation today boosted chances lor speedy con gressional adjournment but left prospects for the disputed bill In doubt. The agreement, reached late last night, brings the compromise measure to the Senate floor to morrow under a talk limit of three hours. When the bill went through the Senate last month it prompted 169 hours of argument, including four days of round-the-clock speech making, and majority leader Knowland of California said this week Congress' go-home date de pends on whether there is "an. other filibuster" on the measure. He postponed the adjournment tar get date from this Saturday to sometime next week or later. There was no objeotion and no questioning from the floor when Knowland offered the unanimous- consent arrangement last night. saying Democratic leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas had helped mm frame it. This means the bill, a major fea ture of the Eisenhower' legislative program already approved by the House, will go to the President for signing if the -Senate concurs. If it doesn't, the measure may go back to Senate-House conference for an other try at compromise. The legislation provides for a sweeping new atomic program al lowing private operation of civilian nuclear, plants, a limited sharing ot intormation with America's al lies and other changes in the basic 1946 atomic energy law. But the debate-curbing agreement left un certain the bill's prospects for fi nal . passage without further change. Senate Passes Talent Job WASHINGTON Wt A bill to authorize construction of the Talent Division of the Rogue River, Ore., Irrigation Project was passed by the Senate Wednesday and sent to the White House. Estimated cost of the work is $22,775,000. The project would pro vide water for about 18,000 acres of land, would include a 16,000 kilowatt capacity power plant and would provide for rehabilitation work on the Medford and Rogue River Valley Irrigation districts. Gov. Paul Patterson 1 r 1 31 i a M: tl: "V .: ,- -j bs :.v,v;' J r 'X Basin GOP Plans Annual Picnic Governor Paul Patterson of Ore gon, U.S. senator uuy toraon, U.S. Congressman Sam Coon, their wives, Mrs. Olive Cornett, National Republican Committee woman from Oregon and other Republican party dignitaries will be present for the annual Klamath County Republican picnic, and kick-off affair for the fall congres sional campaign to be Jield Aug ust 29 at Collier Park. The meeting will also mark the celebration of the . 100th anniver sary of the founding of the Repub lican party. The meeting is expected to bring several hundred party members from all parts ot the 17th Sena torial district to meet Nominee Os car Klttredge, Lake County stock man, unanimously named August 6 by nominating committees of Jefferson, Deschutes, ' Cook and prosecution of the present pro ceeding by the government." The government filed the civil action May 26, 1949. At the same time it filed a criminal action against Bridges and two co-defendants, charging them with perjury in connection with Bridges' er zenship which was granted hi. Sent. 17 1954 In a long trial in federal dis trict court a jury convicted the three men and substained the gov ernment's contention that Bridges had perjured himself when he said in obtaining citizenship that he had not been a member ot the Communist Party. The criminal conviction subse quently was overturned by the U, S. Supreme Court on the ground that the statute of limitations bad run against bringing the suit. Bridges, a native of Australia, sought dismissal of the civil suit. which bad lain dormant until last June 7 when the government op posed the motion, Hamlin's decision upheld in ef fect the contention of chief assist ant U.S. Attorney Lynn J. Glllard that with the exception of the criminal trial, the previous Brid ges' proceeding were before spe cial hearing officers appointed by the Immigration Service to inquire into the allegations of Communist Party affiliations and therefore were adminitrative and not Judi cial. Gillard said that in the only time the Bridges' case had actually gone to court a jury found he was a member of the Communist Party,: and had perjured , himself in ob taining citizenship. Assistant U.S. attorney Robert Schnacke said Bridges could not appeal Judge Hamlin's decision. He said any future motions would be merely for "narrowing the is sues preliminary to the trial" of Bridges, There was no Indication of when the trial would start. Mother Saves 's Life HOOD RIVER Wl A quick- thinking mother saved her 6-year-old daughter from certain death Wednesday after the girl had been splashed with the deadly fruit spray that killed a 8-year-old boy here last March, Mrs. Arvo Annala, remembering newspaper accounts of the first aid to be applied in such cases, stripped off her daughter's clothes and held her under a hydrant. The girl, Janet Annala, had bumped into an orchard worker who was mixing TEPP spray, TEPP contains the same chemi cals used In making a lethal nerve gas. Dr. Herbert Lewis said the spray splashed onto the girl was 50 times the amount needed to kill her. The mother's quick action, however. saved her, and the girl is out of danger, the doctor said. Dr. Lewis also had attended Michael Ogden, who died from TEPP poisoning last March, Postponed Yacht Club annual overnight trip to Rocky Point has been post poned from the weekend of August 14 to the weekend of August 21. V.- U.S. Senator Guy Cordon Klamath counties at a meeting in Bend. Kittredge's name will be placed on the November ballot as a can didate for the Senatorial post left vacant by the resignation of Sen ator Phil Hitchcock who has ac cepted a post with Lewis and Clark College, Portland. The picnic is being sponsored by the Wood River Unit of the Republican Women's Council. .Chll oquin, assisted by other Klamath County party groups. Theme of the meeting will cen ter around the centennial observ ance. Participants, both men and women, are urged by the commit tees to wear old-time costumes, to promote the historical atmosphere. Governor Patterson has cancelled 'a previous appointment to arrive here for the gathering. Mrs. Cornett also will remain here for the day, missing the sessions 4 -MATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12. 19S4 Price Five ages Telephone sill No. 1917 f ..,te...-,," ., , , ; 'I,,,,, i i r mini i, ,- mmjL l BUY LOW FOOD CENTER at 1338 Oregon Avenue was the target for. safecrackers last night. Left, Harold Clark, store operator and Detective Bud Adkins inspect damage to safe. English Fete Top Russians MOSCOW (iTI The British Em bassy wined and dined Premier Georgt Malenkov and other top Soviet officials Wednesday night as its part of the Moscow social whirl for former Prime Minister Clement Attlee and six other visit ing Labor Party ieaders. It was Malenkov'8 first visit to a western embassy, and more evi dence of the Soviet effort to win Britain closer to Russia and away from solid alliance with the United States. .. .. Tlie party ate, xchitngea t?ht champagne toasts and talked until well after 1 a.m. The Russian nremier Joined in Ambassador Sir William Hayter's traditional Brit ish drink to the health or tjueen Elizabeth II, then proposed his own toast to "peaceful coexist ence." The guests, who Included Com munist Party Secretary Nikita S, Khrushchev, Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov and other top Soviet officials, talked with the Britons for an hour and a half after din ner. Commenting on the unusual length of the after dinner conver sation, one of the visiting lBborltes, Party Chairman Wilfred Burke, said: "The liquid was Scotch but the conviviality was Irish." Burke added that he was con vinced Malenkov is "very, very friendly" and "very anxious to establish peaceful relations with the Western powers." The Labor Party delegation leaves Thursday night for Pelping and a three-week visit to Commu nist China, They arrived in Mos cow Monday. U.S. Congressman Sam Coon of the Western states Conference of the National Republican Com mittee which is convening on Sun day, first of three days of "shirt sleeve" work scheduled for com mittee members August 30 Sep tember 1 in Cincinnati. Mrs. Cornett is serving on the committee which will take cam paign issues under advisement. Jess Gard, Portland, National Re publican Committee man from Oregon will serve on the publicity committee and Ed. O. Boehnke, state Republican chairman for Ore Ron, will assist the committee pre paring for use and distribution of campaign materia). Gard and Boehnke will leave tor Cincinnati before the picnic date. An invitation is extended to all Republicans to attend the affair. Picnic lunches should be taken. Speeches will be brief. Program numbers will carry out the cen tennial theme. Baseball Scores AMERICAN LEAGUE First game Philadelphia 300 001 0104 t 0 New York 201 001 Olx 6 6 1 Portocarrero and Shantz; Lopat and uerra. First game Washington 101 025 0009 12 2 Boston 000 013 100 5 8 2 Stobbs and Fitzgerald; Nixon, mora iw, nuason IB) ana White. T-H Injunction Blocks Strike OAK RIDGE, Ten., im Of ficials reported "business as usu al" Thursday at strike-threatened atomic plants here and at Padu- can, Ky. CIO production workers, who had threatened to strike Thursday as tne key atomic plants to enforce ineir demands for pay raise, backed down in the face of o,fed eral court injunction issued Wed nesday night. The plants produce all of a vital Ingredient lor atomic and hydro gen bombs in this country. Spokesmen for both" sides said there were no disturbances as the day shift reported for work and that it was "business as usual at the atomic plants. The Taft-Hartley Injunction was whipped out last night by U.S. district judge at nearby Knoxvllle to block the strike of 4, MO workers ordered lor 8 a.m. today. The move came Just hours after President Etsenhower said the government could not per mit a work stoppage at the plants for reasons of national securily. Emerson Pownall, president of the local, promised last night that the workers would be back on the Job today as another chapter was added to the four-month-old wage dispute. The injunction provides for an i-day cooling olf period In which the workers continue on the Jobs and management is barred from holding a lockout while negotia tions continue. Oregon Milk Rules Changed SALEM Ml New fluid milk regulations now are in effect, the Oregon Department of Agriculture announced Thursday. They provide that producer distributors and those who sell by the Jug cannot sell milk in their milkhouses. The regulations no longer provide minimum sizes for milkhouses, and they permit a direct opening between the mllkhou'se and milking parlor. There are no changes in the bottling and capping of grade B milk. Other changes Include: Automatic filler valves must be used to fill restaurant dispenser cans. ' There must be semi-annual tests ot raw milk herds lor Brucellosis. New farm tank sediment test standards are provided. There are new standards of Identity for flavored milk drinks. LOW BID WASHINGTON ifi The Vet erans Administration said Wednes day Rushlight Automatic Sprinkler Co., Portland, Ore., offered a low bid of $42,126 to Install automatic fire sprinkler systems tn four buildings at the veterans home at Camp white. Ore, Food Center Safe Robbed Safe - crackers made another haul last night when they broke into the Buy Low Food Center, 1338 Oregon Avenue, rolled the safe into the meat locker room, pried off the door and made off with a considerable amount of money. Entrance to the store was made by cutting the screen on an 18 inch square window in the rear of the building. The heavy safe was Tolled from the front part of the store into tlie' -thickly insulated meat looker room where officers believe sev eral hours were spent in prying olf tne door. A portion of the money stolen was postal receipts, officers stat ed. A post office sub-station is maintained in the store building. In addition to money thousands of stamps are missing from the safe. These include 300 one cent stamps; 600 two's; 3.000 three's, and 75 six cent airmail stamps. The locker room was badly torn up from the night's activities but apparently nothing was taken ex cept the contents of the safe, of ficers stated. Ike's McNary Visit Planned PENDLETON W Plans for President Eisenhower's visit to dedicate McNary Dam. Sept, 23, were drawn up here at a meeting concluded Wednesday, Representatives from every com munity of the area met with Jess Card, Portland, and Harlan Pey ton, Spokane, Republican national committeeman for Oregon and Washington. The group was told to set aside 17 acres of space to handle the ex pected crowd of 60,000. Arrangements ' also are to be made for sightseeing trains and buses to bring spectators to the scene of the ceremonies on the Oregon side of the dam. An executive committee was named with James Kuhns, Weston, Ore., 'general chairman. Other members are Henry Hamilton, Umatilla; Sam Sellers, Hermlston; Ed Hopkins and Frank Lampson, both of Kennewick, and Earl Hal vorson, Pasco. State Jobless Funds Shrink SALEM 11 Oregon's unemploy ment compensation trust fund, out of which benefits to the- jobless are paid, Is shrinking under, the heavy impact of unemployment. The fund now totals 62 million dollars, compared with the all-time high of 88 millions six years ago. By the time the Legislature meets next January, it probably will be down to around 50 millions. The fund Is shrinking because the amount of benefits is running about double tlie amount, being paid in through payroll taxes on employ ers. Last year, the Unemployment Compensation Commission paid out S19.275.204 In Jobless benefits, and took in only $10,901,355 In pay roll taxes. Benefit payments this year are expected to be at an all-time high. The previous record of $20,427,106 wbs set in 1950. The payroll tax payments are dropping. Last year's receipts from this source were 12,100,000 less than in 1951. Labor Conciliation Board Move Ordered By Governor By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Oregon Gov. Paul L. Patterson will ask the state Board of Concili ation to "proceed with its legal duty" to try to settle the paralyz ing 63-day-old lumber strike, he said on his return from Washing ton, D. C, Wednesday night. He said he will ask the board to Intervene as soon as tlie present two members, H. H. Harrison of Portland, and Guy Haynes of Carl ton, name a third member as McCarthy Denies New Tax Charge WASHINGTON W) The Wash lngton Evening Star said Thurs day Internal revenue agents, after an 18 months investigation, have concluded that Sen, McCarthy (R Wis) owes additional income tax es and interest of about $25,000. McCarthy, asked If he wished to comment on the newspaper's story, told a reporter: "It's strict ly untrue. There is strictly noth ing to it." Talking again with newsmen Inter, he called the story "a com plete and vicious noei. "There is absolutely no truth In It," McCarthy said, "There has been no intimation of any kind by any one that I owe additional taxes." The Internal Revenue Service declined comment. The newspaper said it had learned the revenue Bervice will soon present the evidence it has gathered to McCarthy and give him a chance to explain data that the tax investigators do not under stand. "The tax agents do not contend that Sen. McCarthy acted with fraudulent Intent," the story said. "Instead, they assert tho Wiscon sin legislator erroneously classi fied as non-taxable some of the money he received- and on which he should have paid taxes." The case was described ax nnv. erlng the tax years 104S through 1962. I McCarthy, in the talk with re porters during which he called the newspaper's story a "libel." re. caned tnat a Senate rules sub committee raised questions about his finances in a report filed Just before the present Republican ad ministration took office. He said he requested the Inter nal Kevenue Service at that time to make "a full field Investiga tion" of his tax returns. He said he understood that tills was still going on a couple of months ago but that he didn't know the present status of it. Fundsliir Deadlocked WASHINGTON IB A Senate- House conference committee on a two - billion dollar supplemental money bill was reported Thursday to have broken up In angry con troversy. Members said the group may not meet again until next week. With leaders pushing toward agreement, the conferees were said to have deadlocked over Sen ate inclusion of $8,276,000 for rivers and harbors projects on which the House had not acted. Some senators said they resented what they called an "ultimatum" by the House group on this score and broke off meetings which have been running until midnight for sevcrnl days without agreement, mm? -v4i vM w& A EVEN THE SMALL SET hat to plan the day's activities welt in order to get the molt amount of play in the relatively few houn left until school time. From left, standing, ara Beth Lorenz, Suiy Taylor and George Taylor. Seated on the steps leading to the Lor em home at 45 Pina Street St Kathy Lorenz, chairman, Patterson win came a chairman should the two members fail to reach an agreement. The governor acted after Atty. Gen, Robert Y. Thornton ruled Wednesday that the board has the ! authority to act in industry-wide disputes. Patterson had asked Thornton to rule on the point. j Haynes, management represent ative on the board, and Walter A. I Durham Jr., manager of the Lumbermen's Industrial Relations Committee, expressed doubt that i the board could do marfe' twv.rd settling the strike, whiiiT'fc!gls jr over six western states. So did pat' " terson. But he said he was bound ,, L Durham indicated that the LIRC will consider whether the state j conciliation proposal is legal. j Patterson said if Thornton is "wrong, that's a matter lor the courts." PROPOSAL Haynes Thursday proposed Dr. ' V. G. Dubach, professor of polltl- ; cal science at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, for board chairman. Harrison, the labor rep resentative, nominated former State Sen. Phil Hitchoock of Klam ath Palls, who will Join the Lewis and Clark staff Sept, 1, - Meanwhile there were few other developments In the strike of the CIO Woodworkers and the APL Lumber and Sawmill Workers unions for a 12 y2-cent hourly wage Increase, Members of the Redmond, Ore., unit of the CIO union's Bend local continued work at the Ponderosa Lumber Sales Co. plant despite the ;' fact that the local's executive board voted not to recognize an agreement signed by the unit and the company. PICKET LINP The local maintained a picket line at the plant Thursday morn ing but 103 of a normal crew of 110 workers crossed to their Jobs without Incident. The pickets were Redmond men. Wednesday a large delegation of Bend union members were on the line to Inform workers of the local executive board's ac- -tlon, but the Bend men did not j appear Thursday. ! Tlte Knot Pine Mills, a second . . Redmond concern with whloh the unit signed, said Thursday It 'hopes , to reopen next week, It employs ' anoui aso men at its piam ana in logging operations. ', Tne agreement with the two firms provided for return to worls under the old contract with em- '. '1 ployes to receive any hvn esse won . , . in any industry-wide st'ileraVnU - CONTRACTS SIGNED . At Portland A. P. Hartung, Wood ; workers International president, - announced that 51 logging con corns employing about 8S0 CIO men have signed contracts with the union's Port Angeles, Wash., 2 local providing the full 12 ii-cent increase. r Ho listed some of the concerns. which he said were small, but said others asked not to be named "be cause they fear reprisals from other larger members" of the i Timber Operators Assn. j The fact that thev can afford to pay inoreases certainly Is an- f other indication of the justice of ' our demands," Hartung said. - i AFL employes ot the Evans Products Co. in the Coos Bay area t will vote Thursday night on a pro posal to return to work under a two-year extension of the old con tract with a company guarantee of no change in the wage scale. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair through Friday. High Friday 82) low Thursday night 45. High Yesterday 81 Low last night .60 Preclp. last 21 hours 0 Since Oct. I ..!4.56 Same period last year , 14.87 Normal for period 12.58
