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Newspaper Page Textr Ml l 1 1 Wl. w QiyjiyjlHuu 11 In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS As these words are written, ad journment of congress so that Its members may go home and start campaigning appears to be only a matter of hours. Democratic Sen ate Leader Lyndon Johnson of Texas has Just touched the cam' paign off with the statement that the Democratic party will light the November election battle on the main Issues of the Republican ad ministration's tax, farm, labor. power and business policies. These policies will be attacked by the Democrats. Within a few days. President Ei senhower will make a speech in which he will defend the policies of his party and the record of his administration. The campaign will then be on, It Is noteworthy, I think, that In listing the Issues of this quite im portant campaign Senator Johnson omitted foreign policy. 1 hope he did so Intentionally. Our country faces a grave and serious foreign situation. Many mistakes have been made. Neither party can charge the other Justly with s mo nopoly ol the mistakes. The respon sibility for them will have to be shared. The possibilities of the future are so serious that we shall need the best brains we have if we are to ' meet and resolve the problems that are piling up. So far as foreign policy is concerned, we mustn t say in the future that Republican brains are good and Democratic brains are bad or vice versa. If we are to survive, we must use the best brains we have, regard less of political labels, in our hand ling of our foreign affairs. We must learn the all-important technique of WORKINO TOGETH- ER in matters of foreign policy. no matter how sharply we may divide on domestic issues. Domestic issues are another ket tle of fish. There will be plenty of differences there. There will be sharp cleavage lines between con trasting philosophies of government and economics. The Democrats will be for going back to the philosophies of the New Deal Big Government, big spend ing, rising public debt, rising in flation. They will be strongly for public power. In its upper echelons, the political campaign in Oregon already revolves around Hell's can yonwhich is in IDAHO. The Dem ocrats will favor more government in business, rather than less. The Republicans, backing the middle-of-the-road philosophy of President Eisenhower, will favor .., I...- ' 131 ilm,B VMM S. f ' A more . manageable :sise,-. -bringing more government back into the states, the counties and the cities, curtailed spending, an ultimately balanced budget, putting a stop to the long rise of Inflation, etc. They will be for public power only in those cases where the projects are so big that only the federal govern ment can handle them. They will favor giving private power a place in the economic picture. In gen eral, they will be for less govern ment in business, rather than more. All this, I think, is good, not bad. It is as it should be in a two party political system. A sharp cleavage in domestic Issues, such as the campaign that is now begin ning will have, will give people something to BELIEVE IN when they go to the polls. That will be good for all of us. Up in Washington the state de partment of civil defense is plan ning a practice test that will be called Operation Floodout. The problem will be how to meet the emergency that would be created if an enemy should knock ,out Grand Coulee dam. Destruction of the 550-foot high dam by an H-bomb would unleash a torrent of RADIOLOGICALLY POISONED WATER to go roaring down the Columbia, crippling traf fic and power production and forc ing evacuation of an estimated 74, 000 persons. Defense officials say such a flood would be worse than any ever seen in the Columbia Basin. Even as far downstream as Portland, they estimate, the water would be THREE STORIES DEEP around the Multnomah hotel. Pretty scary? Gives you the shivers? Wait a minute. Before going out and Jumping in the lake and end ing it all, remember the predictions of a few years ago of the comets that were going to sideswipe the earth. Their poison gas tails were going to swish around and envelope the globe and KILL EVERY LIV ING THING. Well, it DIDlt'T HAPPEN I Ike Leaves For Vacation WASHINGTON Wl President Eisenhower left Washington by air at 9:25 a.m., EDT, for a work-and-play stay in Colorado, where he'll plan a speaking campaign to help fellow Republicans win firm er control of the next Congress. The President and Mrs. Eisen hower left Washington National Airport aboard his plane, the Col umbine, for the 6 Vhour flight to Denver. - j As the President left the capi tal, he was obviously pleased with the way his legislative program fared in the Congress session that! was adjourned Friday Bight. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, ISM Price Fhre Cents 18 Pages Telephone (111 Federal Pay Raise May Be Vetoed WASHINGTON m Roughly a million- and a half government workers crossed their fingers Sat urday, anxious for word from Pres idem Eisenhower on a lust-minute act of Congress to raise their pay The president's congressional leaders Sen. Knowland (R-Callf) and Rep. Halleck (R-Ind). de scribed the chief executive as op posed to the measure which calls for an average 5 per cent salary Increase, but no accompanying postal rate boost urged by the ad ministration. And a White House official who wouldn't be identified publicly com mented; "It looks like we'll have to veto it, doesn't it?" A veto would stick, because Con gress has adjourned. Knowland's strong prediction of a veto didn't keep the Senate from passing the Dili by a roucau vote or 69-4. STATEMENT Nor did Kalleck's statement that the President hasn't changed his position -prevent the House from whisking it through by voice vote in less than a minute, The President's position has been that any bill increasing pay should be accompanied by a hike in postal rates to help defray the estimated 380 million dollar cost. The Senate- specifically refused to tack a 340-mtllion-dollar postal rate boost onto the bill. Knowland's amendment to do that lost by a vote of 56-16. - The postal rate increase wasn't even suggested in the House Fri day. The House turned down a similar proposal Just a month ago. The raises are due to become ef fective the first full pay period aft er the bill becomes law it It does. Beneficiaries would be 600,000 postal workers, plus about a mil lion civil service and congressional employes. Postal employes would each get a minimum annual raise of 2O0 and a maximum of $400. The others would gat not less than 170, nor more, than $440.., JOB SURVEY ' The bill provides for a Post Office Department Job survey, with Con gress retaining the right to veto any reclassification program oth erwise, the program would go into effect without further congressional action. Knowland, who had breakfasted with the President shortly before the Senate voted, said that in his opinion a bill without "compensa ting revenue will not become law." Others senators said they doubt ed that. House members said they doubt ed It, too, despite Kalleck's asser tion that the President hadn't changed his position. The general feeling in the House was that the President would think twice before vetoing a pay raise bill so close to the congressional elections In which government employes, their friends and relatives will cast a lot of votes. EXPULSION LOS ANGELES (ft Delegates to the Military Order of the Purple Heart national convention are on record as favoring the expulsion of Soviet Russia from the United Na tions and the denial of Red China to membership. The convention adopted such resolutions yesterday. Weyerhaeuser, Unions To Discuss Wage By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Contract negotiations were to re sume Saturday between the Weyer haeuser Timber Co. and the two unions which have closed its plants the past 10 weeks. The firm has offered a 2i cent hourly wage Increase to CIO Wood workers and AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers. Kenneth L. Davis, executive sec retary of the AFL union, said he had asked management represen- ; tatlves to present officially the of-, fer to the union's district councils Saturday. . , A. F. Hartung. president of the j CIO Woodworkers, said his union and Weyerhaeuser representatives were to reopen contract negotia tions on the basis of the new offer In a session scheduled for Satur day afternoon In Portland. If accepted, the Weyerhaeuser offer would Increase the minimum pay for workers to $1.90 an hour, Davis said. That is T- cents above the general basic wage paid. In the industry before the two un ions went on strike June 20 to back up demands for a 12 ij-cent hourly Increase. Friday Davis and R. A. Ding man, Weyerhaeuser's Industrial re lations director, announced they had reached a basis of settlement for 2 Vi cents at the company's Coos Bay, Ore., and Bnoqualmie. Wash., branches and at its Long- Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity; Fair through Sunday. High Sunday 80; low Saturday ulght 42. High yesterday L 73 Low last night.. . 38 Five Killed In Columbia River Mishap PORTLAND W A current sucked a 47-foot tugboat under the Bonneville Dam spillway Friday and live men lost their lives in the accident, the worst in the history of the Columbia River pro ject. Another man, Harold A. Cole, 29, Astoria, was rescued by Ivan Don aldson, a fish biologist for the Corps of Engineers, who happened to be in a Doat nearby conducting experiments. The bodies of two men were re covered. They were Merle Tobias, 48, Portland, an engineer, photo grapher and world traveler, and George Graham, Kalama, Wash., a carpenter. Still missing early Saturday were Magner Larsen 66, Astoria; Leo nard Boylan, Cathlamet, Wash.; and Don Lewis, 20, Portland, son of Frank Lewis, former resident engineer at the dam. Young Lewis was, a Junior at the University of Oregon. Coles said the six were on the tug boat which was hauling a barge below the dam in preparation for some construction work. The barge became caught in the current and started drifting toward the water fall over the spillway, uiiw v ieu to cut the line to the barge but the tug also was sucked under oy the current. Coles was thrown Into the water and came to the surface about 400 feet, below the dam. nmcfflnff operations for the mis sing three were resumed Saturday OUC no bodies naa Duen reuuveivu by mid-morning. Engineers planned to drop all the gates on the main dam at noon to permit a thorough search of the spillway. 'Big Mo' To Be Mothballed NORFOLK, Va. Ifl The battle ship Missouri will leave Norfolk Monday for Bremerton, Wash., where she will be placed in moth balls. Norfolk, her home port, isn't go ing to let her leave quietly. The vice mayor, George R. Ab bott, will be on the pier to bid farewell. Two bands will give the Mis souri a rousing send-off. Two Ad mirals will make speeches. A big farewell sign will be erected on the pier. She will be taken on her last voyage by a Virginian, Capt. R.T. S. Keith, of Warrenton. She will go by way of the Pan ama Canal to Bremerton, with several stops on the West Coast to give the people a chance to see her. Contract view plywood branch. Weyerhaeuser for some lime has been paying a five cents more than other operators In the Pacific Northwest Douglas fir belt. Davis added that he hoped other operators would offer 7' cents to bring the basis minimum through out the industry to $1.90. There were these other develop ments in the strike Friday: Chet Irvin". secretary of the Pine Industrial Relations Committee was to make an announcement of what his office called "important developments" in the Southern Oregon and Northern California pine region Saturday. Irving was iin Kcaaing, cant. At Toledo, on the Oregon Coast. AFL employes of the huge C. J. Johnson Lumber Co. voted by a 2-1 margin to return to work Mon day at the old wage rate. The com pany has agreed to meet any waae Increase won in industry-wide ne gotiations, Halley Hall, president of the local, reported. AFL crews at the Lincoln, Wash., Lumber Co. were returning to their Jobs and the firm announced that full day and night production had been resumed. At Spokane a temporary order restraining mass picketing at the Exchange Lumber Co. was extend ed to Sept. 13. The order limits the number of pickets at the plant to four. . et WW To . . oiven WASHINGTON I The Senate investigations subcommittee Satur day set an Aug. 30 deadline for its monibcrs to submit the ver dict or verdicts on the McCarthy Army hearings. That is the same date on which another Senate group investigat ing ine activities oi Be.n. McCarthy (R-Wls) plans to start its public hearings. Sen. Watkins (R-Utah). the chairman of that special Investi gating group, announced after a closed door meeting with Mc Carthy's lawyer that the hearings will start on schedule so far as he now knows. The investigations subcommittee which completed on June 17 its 3f days of uproarious hearings on the McCarthy-Army row, failed again oaiuraay to reach agreement ot what the evidence showed. Sen, Mundt (R-SD), the chair man, announced that bv unani mous vote of the six members present, the group has "set the date of Aug. 30 at S p.m. for sub mission of additional statements of view point" by Individual mem bers or groups of members. He said the group at Saturday's closed door meeting gave Its final approval to a summary of the evi dence and testimony taken in the 36-day hearings and added: "We agreed unanimously on a statement which will follow the narrative summary of the evi dence." Before Saturday's "showdown" session of the investigations group which McCarthy himself normally heads, Mundt said failure to agree on a verdict could mean a lapse of weeks or months . before the seven members could reconvene for another effort. Korea Gl Bill Limit Extended WASHINGTON M " President Elsenhower Saturday signed into law a bill extending by a year the time within which a Korean war veteran may start and com- plete a course of training under the GI bill of rights. The legislation also extends to July 25. 1960. the time within which some disabled World War II veterans may complete delayed rehabilitation training under the vocational rehabilitation act. Under the old law. Korean vet erans who were not disabled must have started their GI bill train ing by Aug. 20, 1954, or two years after discharge, whichever was later. And they were required to nnisn tneir training within seven years after discharge. The new law extends these two time limits to three years and eight years, respectively, after dis charge. Veterans with service-connected disabilities are given an addition al four years, from 9 to 13 years, to complete vocational rehabilita tion training delayed because of Illness or other reasons. SUICIDES TOKYO Un - Suicides In Japan have reached the all-time high of 54 a day, the Asahi Evening News reported Saturday. Favorite means of suicide In Japan in clude jumping before speeding trains and Jumping into live vol canoes, the paper said. v Mr ON THEIR WAY to purchase new clothes for the coming school season this morning, as the early morning photoqrapher snapped them, were Sharon Snyder, Route I, Klamath Falls end Marilyn Sharp, also of Routa I. JUNIOR LIVESTOCK SHOW COMMITTEES check final details at the Rotary Club luncheon held at the Willard Hotel Friday. Everything is set for the biggest show sale of them ell. Front (I to rl Loren Palmerton, Rotary Club president and Earl Kent, bull of the woods. Back row, same order, Mike Balsiger, little push; Tommy Waiters, wee push and Frank Fleet, big push. Air Mediation Plan Given WASHINGTON I The Nation al Mediation Board proposed Sat urday that striking American Airlines pilots go back on their runs Including westbound trans continental flights which are the basis of the dispute while non- binding arbitration is carried out. All American - Airlines flights have been grounded in the dis pute over objections by the AFL Air Line Pilots Assn. to sched uling crews for more than eight hours. Westbound flights, bucking prevailing winds, run over that time, and the pilots want a crew change ' stop. Before the new proposal was advanced, the pilots' union gave the board two proposals o( its own for settling the 22-day-old dispute. It suggested eMii? off Uie oyer-elght-hotir runs While the dispute Is worked out under procedures of the Railway Labor Act. Other flights would be resumed under the pilots' plan. Testimony Bill Signed WASHINGTON lit! Witnesses refusing to answer questions on national security matters could be exempted from federal prosecution on self - Incriminating testimony under legislation signed Friday by President Elscnhower. But such witnesses would face contempt charges If they sllll de clined to talk after receiving im munity for testimony before con gressional committees or in court. The measure was one of three signed by the President among a batch passed bv Congress to help the government combat subver sives. Another raises the penalty for harboring fugitives wanted for fel onies to a maximum of five years in prison and a $5,000 fine. The third provides similar punishment ior Jumping bail on felony charge, or one year and a $1,000 line for skipping out on a mis- demeanor charge. 'Jxr. 2 LAWRENCE E. SLATER - Photo by Ferebee Studios Slater Files For Council Lawrence E. Slater, a resident of Klamath Falls for 21 years, became the fifth man to seek a post on the city council. Slater filed shortly after three o'clock Friday as a , candidate lrom Wnrd 5 represented now by Frank Tarr. Tarr announced ear lier that he will not run for re election. The potential councilman has been operating his own insurance agency during that time. He will be opposed by Bob M,est, automo bile dealer. Civic activities Include five years as chairman of the airport commission and two years on the city budget committee. Slater served as a major In the USAF from 1942 to 1046. Lodge affilia tions include membership in the Elks, American Legion and Vet erans of Foreign Wars. Although this Is his first step In city politics, Slater expressed a keen Interest in city affairs and feels that his business and Air Force background will prove help ful in handling city business. otner tilers for city positions to date are: for councllmen, Jim Barnes, Ward 3: Bob M e s t, Ward 4: Ladd Hoyt, Ward 5: seek- mg reelection as police Judge is Frank Blackmer. New Laws Make Way For End Of Indian Supervision WASHINGTON tfl For the first time in history Congress has moved to end, rather than extend, federal control over the American Indians. Legal machinery was set In mo tion to free about 10,000 reserva tion Indians in five states during the next two to seven years. Bills passed by Congress during the past session will end federal supervision in two years over 60 western Oregon tribes, four Utah Paiute bands and the Alnbama and Coosevada Indians of Texas. The Oregon Klainaths will get freedom In four years, the Wis consin Menominees in five years and the northern Utes of the Uln-tah-Quray reservation in seven years. Among other legislation enacted are bills designed to: Improve the government s health and hospitalization facilities for Indians of the nation by trans ferring the health program from the Interior Department to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare: give the Indians the right to own and sell property and possess lire aftns and liquor; pro vide more efficient law enforce ment on reservations. Sen. Watkins (R-Utah), chair man of a subcommittee which handled Indian legislation, told the Senate the termination bills will 4-H Livestock Show, Sale Set The 19th annual FFA-4-H Club Junior Livestock Show and Sale is all set to go, according to re ports of committees at the Frl dny noon luncheon of the Rotary Club The three-day livestock show, one of the outstanding events held here and sponsored by the local Rotary, Club starts Sunday and will wind up with a beef barbe cue and livestock sale Tuesday night. Anticipating 1700 persons to be fed at the barbecue. O. K, Fuckett, chairman ot the beet procuring committee, has furnished two and three quarters of beeves for the feed. Gib Fleet and Jack Taylor head the Chefs Committee, known as Beef Barbecucrs of the Highest Order. The fend Is not open to the public but Invitations are extended to all exhibitors and their imme diate families, stock buyers and their wives, Rotarlans and their wives, invited guests and long. .time supporters of the project. Chow time Is 4:30 p.m. and will be followed by a parade of all livestock to be sold In the sale pavi lion. Sale time Is slated for 8:30. Bob Rhodes will do the auctioneer ing. Some Important Information for the benefit of prospective buy ers released by the committee states that the Bratton Packing Company, T. P. Packing Com pany, Super Packing Company (formerly Johnson Packing) and the Merrill Meat Company will pick up animals at the barn fol lowing the sale; slaughter and de liver to the buyer tor the following prices: Beef - for hide and offal at $7.50; Lambs - for hide and offal at $2.65, and hogs for two cents per pound dressed weight. Minimum 13. Four cents will be charged to cut and wrap any of the above for locker or home freezers. Purchasers must takr carcass from plant within one week due to shortage of storage space. Meat packers will also pay the following prices for animals pur chased If buyer wishes to sell, provided buyer paid at least these prices: Beef .22 cents per pound live weight; Hogs .25 cents per pound live weight: Lambs .17 cents per pound live weight. Pack- I ers will not pay for any weight above that paid for by the buyer, The public Is Invited to attend the three day show and sale. "slart the ball rolling to get the p-nvcrnment out of the Indian busi ness. "This Is the beginning of a pro gram which will set the pattern lor other tribes," he said. "I feel sure that the results will prove : Ing soon to re-examine any re to Indians and non-Indians alike, mainlng differences, that, with the encouragement His proposals involved 30 points. placed in these bills, the Indian people can show the Initiative and Industry necessary for success in society. "Indians are not lazy, but thev cannot all be forced to farm or raise sheep and cattle. Given his property and the right and obli gations to manage It wisely, the Indian will soon prove himself, as has every other minority in this melting pot of races." Watkins said five additional termination bills, which . failed to win approval in the PRst session, "must await another Congress for final action." They affect the Bern inoles, Turtle Mountains, Sac and Fox of Kansas, Flatheads and In dians of California, Problems confronting these tribes, Watkins said, "are not In surmountable, but require, some further time and atudy." Congressional subcommit tees heard 200 witnesses during 60 days of hearings on the Indian bills. The transcript record is filled with more than one million words. US Attempts Negotiation Of Problems BRUSSELS, Belgium UP) The United States stepped Into the im passe here over the European army plan Saturday In a desper ate effort to negotiate a settle ment between the foreign minist ers of France and five other West European nations. Special ambassador David ' K. Bruce, the. United States' expert cn European Integration problems, flew in from Paris unannounced Friday night. He arrived on the scene as the foreign ministers were locked In a marathon eight-hour session try ing to hammer out their differenc es over France's proposed chang es in the European Defense Com munity treaty. Bruce met for an hour Satur day with West German Chancel lor Konrad Adenauer and then went to see Belgian Foreign Min ister Paul-Henri Spaak, chairman of the aix-natlon conference. A German spokesman said the main purpose of Bruce's talk with Adenauer was to bring about a reconciliation between him and French Premier Mendes-France on EDO. RATIFIED West Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg al ready have ratified the European Army Pact. France and Italy have not. Bargaining here the past two days has failed to bridge the wide gap between the army plan In Its original form and France's new proposed version. Unwilling to admit defeat, the foreign ministers assigned a com mittee of defense, legal and econ omic experts to meet again today to try working out details of a compromise proposed by Belgian Foreign Minister P a u 1 Henri Spaak. The ministers planned to take up the compromise plan in an aft ernoon session, mis probably will oe we iinai attempt at a settle ment in the parley, which had aeen scneauiea to end yesterday. Spaak's formula calls for taking up unsettled Issues after Franco ana Italy nave ratified the treaty. But French Premier Pierre Mendes-France feels a pledge to re open negotiations later la not enough to help him get EDO ap. proved by the balky French par liament. ., , , .. . "Only Spaak seemed eptlmlstlo after the breakup of the long ses sion this morning. He said, "We went through all the questions without reaching a deadlock" and added he still had "some hope." Mendes-France told reporters, "Things are going badly." BAD TIME West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, emerging from the aes- slon tired and drawn, said, "What good can you expect at such a bad time." The French Parliament still has not ratified the treaty, 27 months after it was signed, and Mendes France says Jt never will unless his proposals are accepted. He wants, among many other things, to delay for eight years the aupranatlonal features of EDO whereby an international commis sariat would make administrative decisions on defense for all mem ber nations. It Is through this device that the other nations would be given controls over Germany to pre vent a rebirth of nationalistic militarism. Envoys of the four nations which have won legislative approval of the unified army plan say they can't accept anything that would require their parliaments to con sider it anew. REVISIONS The French revisions, which would change EDO Into little more than a alx-nation coalition, certain ly would require new parliamen tary action. On this issue there seems to be little chance of com promise. Italy is in the lineup against the French revisions. Committees of the Italian Parliament - already have made their reports on EDC, and ratification was expected this fall. Spaak said today his compro mise plan embraced three steps: 1. A conference declaration ac cepting certain French revisions. 2. A conference directive to the Council ot Ministers, after EDC is formed, to Implement other revi sions proposed by France. i. A new foreign ministers meet- , the Belgian minister said, and a "certain number" had been agreed upon already. He declined to dis close what they were. Others were more gloomy. One informant, for Instance, said not one major French amendment had been accepted. Admiral Assumes Naval Command MANILA MWVice Adm. A. M. Pride, commander of the U.S. 7th Fleet which guards Formosa, to day assumed command of Pacific Fleet naval torces chiefly air craft carriers operating in the Philippine area and the South China Sea. In a brief ceremony aboard the carrier Yorktown in Manila Bay, Pride took over from Vice Adm. W. K. Phillips, commander ot the 1st. Fleet. Phillips will return to bis headquarters at Sao Diego.