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IMP MSI ? : A 0 In The ' Dav's lews By FRANK JENKINS Peace-by-diplomacy note: Representatives of eight nations Britain, Trance, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand. Pakistan, the Philippines and the United States will meet In Manila beglnnig September 8 to "discuss" a Pa cific alliance against communist aggression. The fly In the ointment: India, Indonesia, Burma and Ceylon REFUSE TO HAVE ANY THING TO DO WITH THE PRO POSED PACIFIC ALLIANCE. Pakistan agrees to be represent ed at the Manila discussions with the distinct understanding that it will accept no commitment in ad vance to participate in any alli ance that may emerge from the meeting. Cynical sidelight on the whole business: Former British Prime Minister Clement Attlee and other members ot a British Labor party mission to Russia have been in Moscow for several days. They have been wined and dined in a big way by the Kremlin leaders. On one oc casion the Kremlin boys, headed by Malenkov himself, proposed 16 toasts. The Britishers responded with eight toasts. (According to the pleasant but ramer neaay nussian cusiom, e tnnef le nnnmnnnipri hv the down- ing of a water glass full of straight vodka, on eacn toast, it's oui Tfiufi TTT onri nn fllriirini?.) The British Labor party mission left Moscow day before yesterday and has arrived in Peiping, the .en!ioi nf fpi rhlnn. The red radio says they were welcomed on their airival by a delegation oi commit nist Chinese officials. Meanwhile the French are stall nn tfea Tritrnnpnn nefensp Com munity, and are meticulously care ful not to oftend iiussia in any way. ennco tells US that a Ti'.-trin nlllana rnlihlpH together jruuiui under such circumstances would stand on a very, very snaay ni dation. More on the Asian situation: Red China's Premier Chou En Lai has made a very strong state ment about the Chinese Nationalist inland of Formosa. He says FOR MOSA MUST BE TAKEN FROM THE CHINESE NATIONALISTS. He adds that in the case of For mosa red China will brook no for eign Interference. ' Question: " If the reds attack Formosa, what will we do? I'd say that in that event we'd better STAND AND FIGHT. We let our friends be run out of China by the communists. They're now cooped up on the island of Formosa. If we stand by and let them be taken over by the reds (and LIQUIDATED In the brutal communist manner) what ever prestige we may now have in Asia will be gone where the wood bine twineth. But let's get back home. From Salem comes this cynically Inter esting dispatch: "Oregon's 36 counties have just split up $220,000. plus the usual allotments to fairs, shows and ex positions. The total Is the state's share of RACING RECEIPTS so far this year. Each county got $6,116. "In addition, these allotments were made: Pacific International Livestock Exposition and Oregon State Fair. $35,000 each; Eastern Oregon Livestock Show and Pen dleton Round-up $1500 each; Mid Columbia Livestock Show and Klamath Basin Round-up, $5,000 each; Spring Lamb and Dairy Show and Oregon State Corn Show $2500 each; Northwest Turkey Show and Pacific Coast Turkey Ex hibit $2400 each." All this money is GAMBLING money. It comes out of the pari mutuel machines at the Oregon racetracks. The CONSTITUTION of Oregon forbids LOTTERIES. Anybody who ever saw one knows a pari-mutuel machine is a lottery, pure and simple. Remember the ruckus that was kicked up over Klamath's now fa mous Account No. 307 which used money from questionable sources to provide needed and wanted im provements in the city of Klamath Falls? Just how-in PRINCIPLE did the money In Klamath's Account No. 307 differ from this money de rived from racetrack gambling that has just been split up among grateful Oregon communities for use in provioing uecucu uu ed improvements and entertain ment? Monkeys Rampage Through Store DALLAS tf Three Rhesus monkeys got loose from their air conditioned department store cage last night, smashed a mirror and scattered shoes and lingerie In all directions before police and em ployes corralled them. The monkeys led pursuers on a 45-minute chase through the aisles and over displays of Volk Bros, wynnewood store after closing time. "Darndest call I've ever been on." Patrolman P. Trevore Dean said after the capture. "If they had been as big as us, they would have whipped the whole bunch." The monkeys live in a glass cage In the store. California Lumber Mills End Strike According to telephone Informa tion received by Pine Industrial Relations Committee, Inc.. the Quincy Lumber Company, Quincy, California, reached an agreement Friday with AFL Local Nd. 1123 which ended strike and picket ac tivity at the company's Integrated lumber operation. There was no change In wage rates and the par ties agreed not to seek a wage or contract change prior to April 1, 1955. .The agreement provides that no disciplinary action will be taken by either employer or union against employes by reason of the strike, or by reason of employe action auring ine strike. All. but six of tne company's 110 employes had been crossing picket lines all week. SIMILAR PACT A similar no wage or cost in crease agreement was proposed by local ai ivieaaow valley num ber Company, with operations at Quincy and at Spanish Ranch. Oth er details have delayed signing. The Spanish Ranch operation is closed by strike, but the Quincy yard, planing mill and box fac tory have a full crew working be hind picket lines. More than 80 per cent are regular employes. An em ploye petition to rescind the un ion's right to a union shop contract has been denied by the National Labor Relations Board because lo cal 1123 is not In compliance as to filing financial reports and non Communist affidavits as required by law. The company employes about 175 workers when in full operation at both sites. A full crew of 65 regular work ers went o work Thursday morn ine at Calvada Lumber Company, Greenville, California. No agree ment has been reached. The em ployes just went back to work, ac cording to PIKU. UNFAIR LABOR Ail NLRB investigator was in Su sanville, California, Friday conv oletine investigation of unfair la bor practice charges filed against the Northern California District Council AFL, and the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of Amer ica. The charges were filed by Paul Bunvan Lumber Company and allege that district council pickets are trying to keep the em ployes from being represented in collective bargaining Dy agenis oi their own choosing." This right is guaranteed by the Taft-Hartley Act Local 3033 AFL settled its dis pute with Paul Bunyan by execut ing a no wage increase agreement. The district council put pickets on the line when local union pickets went to work. A full crew of 195 men is cross ing the district council picket line in compliance with their contract. The NLRB could seek an injunc tion against the pickets because there is no dispute between the employer and the certified repre sentatives of the employes, local 3033. according to PIRO secretary, C. L. Irving. Board Fires Reed Teacher PORTLAND, Ore. Iffl Stanley w Mnnr 40-vear-old philosophy professor accused of having been a Communist, was fired by the Reed College board of trustees Fri day. His refusal to cooperate with the board's investigation of the Com munist accusation was the basis for the dismissal, the board said. Moore was granted a year's sev erance pay of about $6,000. Moore was one of three Reed in structors named as having been Communists by witnesses at House Un-American Activities Committee hearings here. The other two, Lloyd J. Reynolds and Leonard Marsak, cleared themselves, convincing the board they were not now members of the Communist Party. Moore, however, was formally charged with refusing to cooperate with the trustees' investigation. He was found "guilty" of the charge and the trustees ordered that "his connection with the college be sev ered immediately." Moore was critical of the trustees refusal to let him call Reed Presi dent Duncan S. Ballantlne as a witness in his behalf. He said he had planned to develop by question ing Ballantlne that his political be liefs and background were known prior to the Un-American Activi ties Committee hearing. Five Convicts Recaptured PUTNAM, Conn, tm Five armed desperadoes who fled Nor folk Prison Colony in Massachu setts with a guard hostage were taken into custody last night alt era swift-moving three-state man hunt. The" escapees, rounded up In Rhode Island and Connecticut less than 24 hours after they fled the Massachusetts prison, were re turned to Boston for arraignment today before a U.S. commissioner on double kidnap charges and pos sible life imprisonment. One of the escapers was flushed from a Pawtucket, R.I., swamp, two were hauled from a stolen car near Putnam, Conn., and the oth er two were taken in a nearby Put nam woodland by heavily armed local and state police and FBI agents. Price Five Cents 16 Pages n n n Congress Deadlocked Over Major Parts WASHINGTON Ml Senate House conferees reached their first compromise Saturday on a wool section of the controversial farm bill but remained deadlocked on other key issues. Sen. Aiken (R-Vt) and Rep. Hope (R-Kan) said the group would re- sump efforts to iron out remain ing differences later in the day at its sixth closed door session. Rep. Cooley (D-NC) said two disputed sections involving a House-passed two-price system for wheat and a Senate-approved man agement system for forest lands probably would be dropped from the bill. Aiken, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, connrmco that neither side would budge on these two points but said no form al agreement had been reacneo to drop them. ' The wool compromise rewrote both Senate and House versions. SPECIAL SYSTEM It would permit a special sys tem of incentive or-production pay ments for domestic wool growers, beginning next year and operat ing for four yeRrs. With a celling of 110 per cent of parity on market price plus payments until produc tion reached 300 million pounds of shorn wool annually. Mohair which comes from goats could be supported at 15 per cent less than the wool supports. U.S. To Use Dutch Bases WASHINGTON The United States announced Saturday an agreement with the Netherlands government to station -a U.S. Air Force fighter squadron at the Dutch air base at Soesterberg. This move, a State Department announcement said, "Is of the ut most Importance for the defense of the Netherlands." . "It Increases the individual and joint capacity of Allied na tions to resist armed attack, an Important objective of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organiza tion) and of United States foreign policy," the Department said. Its terse statement said the agreement was signed Friday at the Hague and will take effect as soon as Dutch parliamentary ap proval has been obtained. France Sends EDC Changes PARIS IB Premier Pierre Mendes-France Saturday sent to the other five nations of the European Defense Community treaty project a long list of chang es he wants approved before France gives her ratification. The message to Luxembourg. The Netherlands, Belgium, Italy and West Germany went by ordin ary diplomatic channels. Mendes France wished to give the other nations plenty of time to study the documents before the Aug. 19 meeting of the six foreign min isters in Brussels. The Premier was moving ahead with his project despite the resig nation of" three of his ministers Friday night in protest against the decision to bring up the EDC treaty for ratification. The debate is scheduled to start In the Na tional Assembly Aug. 28. The Social Republican Party, to which the three resigning minist ers belong, gave its blessing to their action. The social Republi cans, who are followers of Gen. Charles De Gaulle, said Mendes France's proposed modifications fail to go far enough. They com plained that the principle of supra nationality had not been altered and that there had been nothing to remove the old objection against trying to unify Europe with only six nations. The men who stepped out of the cabinet were Defense Minister Gen. Pierre Keonig. Public Works Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas and Reconstruction Minister Mau rice Lemaire. BULLETIN A telegram received by the Herald and News shortly before press time today from Represen tative 8am Coon in Washington D.C., slated that the Klamath In dian termination bill has been signed by President Eisenhower and now becomes law. -XATH d Of Farm Bi The Senate had voted for a permanent wool program with no ceiling on the price plus payments. The House inserted the 110 per cent ceiling and a two-year lim it on the program. Incentive payments would come from a share of import duties on wool and wool products, expected to amount to 35 to 40 million dol lars annually. WOOL PAYMENTS -The wool incentive or produc tion payments are a new experi ment in federal farm supports. Some critics have termed them I'Branoan plan" because of slm- iliarity to broader proposals by former Secretary of Agriculture Erannan that were rejected by Congress. Instead of turning over domestic wool to the government under price 'supports while foreign wool was consumed, domestic produc ers are expected to sell their pro duct for whatever the market brings. , They would then' receive the special payments, determined by the Secretary of Agriculture and large enough to encourage an ex pansion of domestic production. DAIRY SUPPORT A House provision to raise dairy support prices remained a bone of contention as the conferees thrashed out their differences. Looking toward settlement of two issues, . Sen. Young (R-ND) said in an interview "it would be a possible swap, to drop the two price wheat program and the for est grazing land section." Aiken said neither section was absolutely- essential . .find both coma oe given more study. President Elsenhower, In an un usual letter to the conferees, had suggested that the two-price wheat program voted by the House be deferred for additional study. But ne had urged retention of the Sen ate-approved provisions for a new system of management of the pub lic lands controlled by the U.S. Forest Service. OTI Expects More Students It appears certain that this year's registration at Oregon Technical Institute will exceed that of last year by more than 175 students. W. D. Purvine, OTI director, said today he would "stick his neck out and make a definite guess" as to the number of stu dents who would be enrolled by October 1, which is the last day for registration for full credit. T will guess that the enrollment on that date will be 825," he stated. Last year enrollment was 648 on October 2. That included 248 returning students, 289 new stu dents and 111 "walk-ins," students who came in to register without previous definite commitment. As of Friday evening, the OTI registrar's figures showed 805 ad vance reRistratlons for the com ing school term which starts in September. Of that number, 435 are returning students and 367 are new applications. Purvine said that there are numerous factors which may In fluence the number of walk-ins Ihis year. Because of the precar ious situation in the lumber in dustry last spring, many of the OTI students did not stay for the final week of the school y.?r, he stated, but left to take summer Jobs in construction work and with the highway department. How much effect the lumber strikes will have on attendance Is prob lematical, he said, and is Impos sible to determine in advance. U.S. Airlifts Flood Aid WASHINGTON 11 Huge Unit ed States military cargo planes are converging on flood stricken East Pakistan, carrying tons of medical supplies. Two C124 Olobemas'ers left Westover Air Force Base, Mass., Friday night with some 60.000 pounds of medical supplies. Three additional cargo planes of the same type were Teady to leave Tokyo for the same destination and on the same mission, carry ing 12 tons of equipment, supplies and small vehicles. Five other planes will follow from the Far East command load ed with medical supplies and army technicians. A V , FALLS, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1954 lies 'fx:--' CAMERA SHY NUGGET didn't have a chance when Gene I left I and Dwight McComas decided to pose for the 9 o'clock photographer. The boys live at 412 South Seventh. Soil District Meetino Held Less than a dozen farmers at tended the meeting at the fair grounds Friday night when the State Soil Conservation Committee scheduled a hearing to discuss the feasibility of enlarging the Klamath Soil Conservation Dis trict. Thirty two land owners had pre viously petitioned the committee to bold tne neanng, asking inai ail of that part of Klamath County not already in a conservation dis trict,' be included in the KSCD. All farmers present appeared favorable to the inclusion of the additional land in the already op erating Klamath Soil District. During the hearing a petition by Weyerhaeuser Timber Com pany was read by Bob Bnum, executive secretary of the Stnte Soil Conservation Committee, The lumber company asked that 144, 777 acres of tlmberland owned by them not be Included in the dis trict. This petition will be consid ered by the state committee when they meet at Corvallis on August 24 to consider testimony taken at the hearing last night. Landowners unable to. attend the meet last night were urged . by Baum to write to his committee expressing their views on the pro posal before the August 24 meet ing. Should the state committee de cide there is a need for the in clusion of the proposed area in the district a referendum vote by landowners within the proposed boundaries would be held the last of September or first part of Oc tober. 3 BACK BEHIND BARS after 49 hours of freedom is Roger "The Terrible" Touhy, pro hibition era gangster. U. S. Court of Appeals rescinded his bail. 12 " :- 1 1 ,. I Operation 51 mmm Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity j Partly cloudy with a few scattered showers and poaBi- lile thunderstorms Sunday. High .Sunday 76; low Saturday night 45. High yesterday...., 78 Low last night . 45 Foster To Hear KF Case William Robersoo. 32-year-old porter, will go on trial Monday be fore Circuit Judge Charles Foster ot Lakevlew on a larceny charge resulting from a burglary at the Medical Dental Building barber shop. Attorney Ben Ooddard, counsel for Roberson, claims police ar rested the wrong man. Ho contends his client Is innocent of any con nection with the burglary in which S185 was reported stolen. - Judge Foster was assigned to try the case after District Attorney Frank Alderson disqualified Circuit Judge David R. Vandenbcrg of Klamath Falls by filing a motion for a change of Judge with the state supreme court. Circuit Judge Ralph M. Holman of Oregon City was then assigned to the case. Subsequently, Goddard filed an application for a Judge to supplant Holman, The supreme court then assigned Judge Foster to the case. Goddard refused to ex plain why he disqualified Judge Hol man. Roberson was arrested in Salinas, California, and was brought back to Klamath Falls. He was formerly employed in the barber shop where the theft occurred. Asian Defense Meet Planned WASHINGTON tfl The United States Saturday announced it will join seven other allies Sept. 6 at Bagulo in the Philippines to dis cuss creation of a united defense against Communism In Southeast Asia. Simultaneously, the State De partment said a meeting will be held Sept. 4 between Secretary rf State John Foster Dulles and Phil ippine officials under the Philip-plne-U.S. mutual defense agree ment. The announcement of the Sept. 6 meeting to organize a Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) similar to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Europe, was made Jointly In the capitals of the eight nations in volved. The American statement said the government of these "like mind ed" countries Britain, France. Australia, New Zealand. Thailand, Pakistan, and the Philippines aim "to strengthen the fabric of peace in the general area of Southeast Asia and the Southwest Pacific." Such a united defense, to stem the Communist advance Iq. that area, has been sought by Dulles since early this year. Telephone 8111 - No. 2919 Governors Conciliation BULLETIN Kalpina Plywood Com pany is asking all regular employes to report for work Monday morning. The company states it is resuming full operation with the 8 a.m. shift Mon day morning. Randal Berger, business agent for Lumber (and Saw mill Workers local 2922 .AFL, stated, "There will be no picket ' line Monday morning," but refused to amplify his statement. Steve Michael, manager of Kalpine, could not be reached for a statement. By TI1K ASSOCIATED PRESS The governors of Oregon and Washington, acting Independently, have taken steps aimed at concilia tion In the Pacific Northwest lum ber strike, now in its eighth week. Gov, Paul Patterson of Oregon completed the Oregon Board of Conciliation by appointing J. L. Jennings, a retired Portland indus trialist, as the publio member. The board will meet. Monday to ar range a method of mediating the moor dispute. At Olympla.Washlngton Gov. Ar thur Langlle -conferred Friday about four hours with representa tives of Western Waslihigton oper ators. He told reporters tills was his second conference with the em ployers and that he had met ear lier with union representatives in efforts to develop areas of agree ment between tne two. Langlle declined to say what specifically had been discussed at the conlerences. There were indi cation he may have a statement later. DEVELOPMENTS Elsewhere in the strike these de velopments were reported: The Santlnm Lumber Co. at Leb anon Friday asked CIO Wood workers to return to work next Monday without a pay increase. However. John Ball, a union offi cial, said a picket line would be maintained at the plant and that workers voted last Monday not to accept a similar oner. A. F. Hartung, Woodworkers In ternational president, reported Sat urday some 200 loggers in the Ore gon coastal area around Seaside have returned to work under agree ments providing the full 12 !4 - cent pay increase for which the unions went on strike. The boost, he said. was retroactive to April 1 and makes the minimum hourly wage $1.90. PACT SIGNED Hartung said 26 companies signed with the CIO union's Seaside local some being new operations and others have been on strike. "most of these companles'have re- quested that their names not be released publicly as they fear eco nomic reprisals and blacklisting by the big employer associations," he said. At Coos Bay, a negotiating com mittee for a local of the AFL Lum ber and Sawmill Workers, accepted a 5-cent hourly increase offered by the Evans Products Co. Tile agreement, subject to rati fication by the union membership, calls for a wage readjustment In the event industry-wide negotia tions result In a different wage flR ure. About G50 are employed at the plant. The negotiating committee was given authority to accept any "rea sonable" offer made by the com pany at a Thursday nicht meeting when members rejected a company oiler of guaranteeing the present wage scale for t'io years. VOTE HELD Also at Coos Bay, AIT, woods and mill employes of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. voted 227-23 against re turning to work at the old wage rate. A group of union members had a-'-ked the back-to-work vote. At Spokane Thomas P. Graham Jr., regional director of the Na tional Labor Relations Board, filed a petition in federal court asking an injunction to halt picketing by the AFL union of the Seneca Construe tion Co. or Exchange Lumber Co. customers. The petition accuses the union of unfair lnbor practices. Jennings will serve on the Ore gon board with H. H. Harrison, AFL Electrical Workers olllcial, labor member, and Guy Haynes, Carlton, Ore., management repre sentative. When they were unable to agree on the third rnember, Gov. Patterson made the selection. Increase In Benefits; Taxes Voted WASHINGTON W Moving with unaccustomed speed, the Senate voted last night to broaden social security coverage to another 6.700,000 workers and to boost both benefits and the payroll taxes that pay for them. Sen. Knowland of California, the Republican leader, said in an in terview he expects a Senate-House conference committee to compro mise quickly various differences so the bill can be sent to President Eisenhower, who has placed the legislation high on his "must" list. Though the House and Senate versions of the social security bill differ n places, they also agree in most important respects. As passed, benefits would be boosted an average of $6 a month for 62 million persons now on the social security rolls. The annual amount of wages subject to social security taxes would rise from $3,000 to $4,200. This tax Is at the rate of a per cent on both em ployers and workers. PAY UPPED For -present retired workers. monthly payments will range from $30 to $98.50, as compared with $25 to $85 under the present law. For those coming on the rolls in the future, the range of bene fits will be from $30 to $85.00. In the case of a couple, the max imum payment will increase from $127.50 to $147.50 for those al reaay receiving benefits and to $102.75 for those going on the rolls iue iiuurc. The two houses parted company i restriction or -.imniomont.i on eurnings by retired folks. ine nouse voted to allow social security beneficiaries to make up to $1,000 a year, compared with the present $75-a-month limit, with out being penalized. Th snoi put the top at $1,200 a year and agreed to include in these earn ings only what is received under employment covered by the social security laws. The House Bill would count earnings from any source. The Senate also voted to lower from 75 to 72 the age at which all restrictions are lifted from outside earnings by beneficiaries. COVERAGE RAISED Elsenhower had urged extension of coverage now applying- to 61 m on persons - to another luV million. He recommended that doctors be Included, but neither house went along witli him on that score. There is considerable disparity in the types and numbers of per sons who would be brought under social security under the Senate and House bills. The House bill calls for covers of 3 600,000 farm oPeratorsV.bogu1 federal workers all of whom were cut out of the Senate Ml Ty Me Finance Committee. Wurih.i more, the House bill l1 sm 1,300,000 farm hands - o numoer provided In the Senate bill. ine Senate bill wnnlrt some 3,600,000 state and local gov ernment employes and 260,000 clergymen on a voluntnm h..i. 250,000 domestics, 100,000 indus trial home workers, 50,000 in the ' nsmiis iiiaustry and added in amendments last nleht fnnnr. al directors and missionaries out side the country. NLRB Rules Aqainst Union SEATTLE (P) Striking a lob at Port Angeles to comoel an employer to assign work to a sls- let local In Richland was an il legal action, by Local 32 of the AFL Plumbers and Pipefitters Un ion, the National Labor Relations Board ruled Saturday. The Board ordered the union to Inform Thomas P. Graham, region al director, what steps it is tak ing to comply with the decision. It must act within 10 days. The Cliff Schlcl Plumbing & Heating Co., of Portlnnd brought the original charges after a strike on a school project at Port Angeles March 9. It claimed Wendell Straight of Seattle, business man ager of the union, directed ths men to strike to compel two Schlel affiliates to assign work to plumb ers on the Hnnford project. The employers at Hanford re fused to employ plumbers, trying Instead to hire laborers to lay concrete reinforced pipe. The AFL laborers refused to lay the pipe and the Hanford Job was struck. Straight denied he had directed the Port Angeles workers to strike, but the NLRB ruled there was "reasonable cause to believe" the union was respons ible. Ifisischsill Scores NATIONAL LEAGUE New York 301 010 0005 10 J Brooklyn 000 004 20x 6 6 0 Gomez, LIddle (6. McCall 6 . Wllhelm (7) and Westrum, Katt ID; Meyer, Lablne (1), Newcombe (6) Hughes 7 and Campanella. W Hughes L-McCali Home run: Brooklyn, Furlllo. M ' i
