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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 23, 1954)
A mm nn ui 0 -(Pro i .I. i In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS Prime Minister Churchill of Brit ain and Premier Mendes - France of France have a three - hour con ference this morning at Churchill's country estate near London. As Churchill was helping the French man into his car to leave for the airport, he said to him: "I will do all I can to help." Help whom, Sir Winston? It rather looks at the moment like France is threatening to go communist if we don t give her everything she wants. Personally, I don't like the idea of being hi-jacked. That brings up the British Labor party leaders who are being wined and dined by the Russian and Chi nese reds. They visited a Chinese coal mine yesterday and since two of the British leaders are ex-coal miners they had a high time and tne visit to the mine is described as a great success. ' One little sidelight: , THE MINE THEY WERE VIS ITING HAD BEEN BUILT AND DEVELOPED BY THE BRITISH AND HAD BEEN TAKEN AWAY FROM THE BRITISH BY THE CHINESE REDS!!!! I It's a weird world, isn't It? There's a shivering thought In the news of today. It is suggested by the case of a U.S. Marine ser geant in Tokyo who got in a fi nancial hole and hollered for help lrom home. - . He needed 75 dollars, and when the check came and he looked at it he fell in a faint. It was for . A MILLION AND SEVENTY-FIVE dollars. The check writing machine in the bank had gone perseri. S'pose all the robots in all our offices and stores and banks and factories and homes should go off their rockers at the same time Or Worse yet . S'pose the commies should dis cover a way to send out over the air waves a iumbler that would JUMBLE the electronic brains of all these electronic robots of outs!!!! I The atom bomb or even the H-bomb would be a mere trifle in comparison to what might hap pen to us in such an event. Wanted: ' . ' : ' Somebody Who can Invent an electronic brain that wnen asxea how to bring the screwballed mod ern world back to peace and de cency and common sense will buzz and whir and groan and blink its i lights for a minute or so and then COME UP WITH THE RIGHT ANSWER. The problem is becoming too complex for mere human brains. Maybe another robot is the answer. That brings up Operation Flood out up in the-State of Washington today in which it is being pre tended that Grand Coulee dam has been hit by an H-bomb and a flood of radlologically poisoned water is roaring down the Columbia river "toward Portland where it will rise to a height of three stories in the downtown area after having de stroyed Bonneville and all the rest of the big dams. Here's a thought: Might it not be better to quit building these monster dams whose atomic destruction by an enemy poses the possibility of such hideous consequences and build in stead a multitude of SMALL dams such as those we want to build down here In the State of Jeffer son? I'm getting afraid there's TOO MUCH BIGNESS in the modern world already. U.S. Admiral Warns Reds WASHINGTON Adm. Felix B. Stump, Pacific Commander in chief, said Monday U. S. Navy units off the Communist China mainland would fire on any Reds who might approach "with obvi ously hostile intent." Stump, who commands ail Amer ican ground, sea and air forces in the Pacific, said units of his com mand would, in the face of any obvious threat, fire without wait ing to be fired upon. At the same time, he said, "our forces do have orders to scrap ulously avoid provocative ac tion." In a copyrighted interview with the magazine U. S. News ti World Report, Stump said: "The right to defend oneself legally becomes available immed iately when the fact of hostile in tent is recognized." , He said this rule also, would be applied if Russian or Red Chinese ships or aircraft approached the United States. Stump emphasized, as he has previously, that American pilots who last month shot down two Chinese Communist aircraft near the Red-held island of Hainain "were fired upon and we lired buck In self-defense." FAILURE BAGILT, Wales Cfl Jock the sheepdog was a failure he had a pure white coat and the sheep just dide't give a baa for him. So George Pugh, his owner, dyed the dog black. The result: Jock won the driving contest at the Welsh national sheep dog trials here. Fries Five Cents 14 Pages President Announces. Of Federal Pay Raise dill DENVER (P) President Elsen- hower Monday killed a 5 per cent pay increase voted by Congress for 1,500,000 federal workers. In a statement at his vacation headquarters, the President said he was announcing his veto of the legislation "in order that federal workers may not have to undergo Holds Talk On EDC Plan LONDON (PI French Premier Pierre Mendes-France conferred more than three hours Monday with Prune Minister Churchill or ways to salvage the European De- fense Community and left with the Briton's pledge "I will do all I can to help you." Churchill gave his pledge as he opened the door ol Mendes- France's car for him after a long talk at Chartwell, the Prime Min- ister's country estate 25 miles out side London. British Foreign Sec- rotary Anthony Eden Joined the session. The dynamic little French lead er, fretting over the fate of the EDC treaty when it comes up for debate in the French National As sembly Saturday, then drove to Biggin Hill Ai Field nearby and took a plane to Paris. FAILURE Mendes-France flew to Britain from' Brussels Monday morning after his failure there to sell France's five continental allies on proposals for a watered-down ver sion of the unified army. He reportedly discussed with Churchill a substitute plan for re arming West Germany if the French parliament refused to rat- iiy' EDC. - - - Before flying to Paris, Mendes France told reporters: "I was struck by the very nice reception that I got lrom the Prime Minister and I am grateful to him and Mr. Anthony Eden for the talks we had together. "I was pleased that once again we were working together on the idea of continuing cooperation of the Western countries particular ly of our two countries." A statement issued by Church ill's office at Chartwell said: "The Prime Minister of France, accompanied by the French Am bassador (Rene Massigli) and M. Philippe Baudet 4aide to' Mendes France), lunched with the Prime Minister at Chartwell today. Mr. Eden was also present, together with officials of the foreign office. DISCUSSION "A general discussion took place on the situation arising from the outcome of the Brussels confer ence. "The ministers were agreed on the importance of maintaining the unity of the free nations of the West and on the necessity of early practical steps to give effect to this." Mendes-France gave Churchill, father of the idea of a united European defense, a rundown on the abortive Brussels conference. i fj JL V A PRELIMINARY HEARING for Lton Pearson. 30.year.old Klamath Reservation Indian, charged with the first degree mur der of Gene Ericks, 29, has been set for Wednesday. Pear son (standing) is shown with his attorney, George C. Rein miller of Portland. (Story on Page 41. KLAMA' a period .of uncertainty as to my action." Congress passed the bill and sent it to the White House last Fri day, Just before it closed shop on legislative matters. "Tills measure," the President said, "because It ignores the ad ministration's recommendations for postal rate Increases, would add 112 million dollars to the cost of operating the Post Office Department which is operating at a deficit of 400 million dollars this year. "It Is well to remember that since 1945 the accumulated postal deficit has reached the staggering total of four billion dollars. Like wise, this measure would add more than 200 million dollars to civil service pay without providing any revenue to meet it." POSTAL PAY The pay hike voted by Congress in this election year would have gone to 500.000 postal workers. plus one million civil service and congressional employes. "The American people desire to reward properly, even generously, dedicated and faithful service on the part of their government ca reer employes," Eisenhower said "In return for the taxes', they pay they expect to have a civil service system that Is free of par tisan politics, encourages efficient operation, rewards merit, and pro- vines steady pay increases as the value of each employe In creases with service and- experi ence. "I am wholeheartedly in accord with those desires." The President then went on to say that since taking office his administration has developed a personnel program "applying the best practices of progressive em ployers to the requirements of public service." But the pay hike bill, Eisenhow er declared, "is not a part of progressive and efficient p r o- gram." Then he sald:r .. PRINCIPLES "In withholding my approval this Dill, I want to make it ab solutely clear that the administra tion Is not departing from the principles and purposes which 11 has hitherto advocated. "I shall continue to urge the enactment of the remaining parts of the personnel program which was submitted to this session of Congress so that obvious distor tions in the pay scales of both the postal and classified services can be corrected; so that adjustments and more equitable relationship between grades and steps within those grades can be made, and so that proper and effective relation ship between pay and work per formed will be established and maintained. "Legislation is obviously unwise that disregards these principles of sound personnel management and ignores the necessity of rev enue to pay for salary Increases." Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Partly cloudy Monday night and Tuesday. High Tuesday 72; low Monday night 43. High yesterday ...79 Low last night 47 Precip. last 24 hours 0 Since Oct. 1 14.68 Same period last year 14.87 Normal for period 12.64 dON, MONDAY, AUGUST 23. 1954 H- Q UU ' x... j mmor,riirfriinriaMiiiiiiiii nirnrn i n i.hj...i..uu.li jIlUiui ..j.-l GRAND CHAMPS AND RESERVE GRAND CHAMPS named In the sheep division judging Sunday are, from left, Katherinn Ahern, Merrill, and her Suffolk "Pauline," the grand champion ewe which placed as reserve ' -mpion two years ago; Margaret Colwell, Langell Valley, and her grand champion fat lamb, ' Jumper," a crossbreed; Sara West, Merrill, with "Marilyn Monroe," a Southdown ewe lamb which placed as reserve grand champion in the fat lamb di vision; Martha Tubach, Poe Valley, and her Hampshire reserve grand champion ewe.. iff- 'm fW. J DAIRY DIVISION CHAMPIONSHIP WINNERS named in Sunday's judging at Fair are, from left, Victor Milan!, Midland, whose entry, "Suxy," placed as champion and first place Holstein heifer-calf; Jim Hickman, Midland, owner of "Cascade Prairie Rose'' (Rosiel a Red Poll which placed as champion and first place dual purpose cow; Dean Haskins, Mer rill, with "Rachel," the champion and first place Guernsey cow winner. - .... Grand Champion Sheep, Dairy Winners Chosen At Annual 4-H Club Stock Show Judging results Sunday, the first day of the 19th annual 4-H and FFA Fall Fair, listed 10 young club members in the coveted top spots as grand champions, re serve grand champions and cham pions. Margaret Colwell. Langell val ley, entered the grand champion market lamb; . Martha 'mDacn, Poe Valley, was runnerup as re serve grand champion. Katherine Ahern and Sara West, both of Merrill, showed the grand champion ewe and ' the reserve grand champion ewe respectively. Alice Hatchett. Poe Valley, took champion and first in the Hamp shire ewe class; Sara West. Mer rill, champion and first in the Southdown ewe lamb division; Henry Williams, Henley, champion and first In the Columbia yearling ewe class; Katherine Ahern, champion and first place In the Suffolk ewe class. In dairy, Jim Hickman. Mid land, entered the champion and first place dual purpose cow; Dean Haskins, Merrill, champion and first place Guernsey cow; Victor Milanl, Midland, champion and first place Holstein heifer calf. Judging of sneep, dairy ana horsemanship events was com pleted Sunday, swine, beef, all ether animals, flowers, vegetables and food preservation exhibits will be Judged today. Tuesday s agenda caus lor live stock judging contests; selection for the special awards, the best herd of five beeves and the best sheep exhibit; a tractor driving contest at 1 p.m. followed by the Rotary Club barbecue and the finale the auction sale at which almost all the market an imals grading good or better will be sold. A record number of- animals have been entered in this year's show: approximately 176 aheep. 100 beef animals, SO hogs, 31 dairy animals and a few chickens, rab- bits, ducks and geese. Animals are housed in the barns at the fair grounds; flowers, vegetables, food preservation and entymology ex hibits are on display in the main exhibit building from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Judges for the show include the following; W. K. Farrell, county extension agent from Grant Coun ty, sheep, hogs, and beef judge; Harold Ewalt. dairy specialist from Oreeon State College Exten sion Service, judging dairy exhib its. J, L. O'Donahue, J. W. Kerns Co., is Judging poultry and rab bits: Mrs. Alice Lindsay. Grants Pass 4-H leader, food preserva tion; Keith Moon, Town Shop, and Jim Emmons, United States Na tional Bank, Judges of the horse manship contest; Lee Hansen, Lakcvtew County extension agent, is judging vegetables. Results of Judging Sunday fol low: Grand champion market lamb, Margaret Colwell, Langell Valley; reserve grand champion market lamb, Martha Tubach, Poe Val ley. Hampshire market lamb: first, Martha Tubach. Poe Valley; sec ond, Henry Williams, Henley; third, Susan Tubach, Poe Valley; fourth, Virginia Roenlcke, Poe Valley; fifth, Dolores Conner, Mer rill. 8lxth. Sally Read. Henley: sev enth, Beverly Moore, Merrill; Ike To Speak KFI.W will broadcast Presi dent Klsenhower'a titled report on the accomplishment of the second session of the 83rd Congress t o n I g b t at 7:00 o'clock. KFJI will carry this report at 1:30 p.m. Telephone till No. 2926 eighth, Janice Marshall, Poe Val ley; ninth, Virginia Harriett, Poe Valley; 10th, Glynna Weatherby, Malm. Suffolk market lamb: first, Gene Farmer, Keno; second, Eileen Fitzgerald, Keno; third, Joe Kerns, Keno; fourth, Shirley Moore. Merrill; fifth, Bondell Crawford, Henley. Sixth, Cholalne Moore, Merrill; seventh, Kalhlcen McAuliffe, Ms- lln; eighth, George Carleton, Mer rill; ninth, Sandra Bcasly, Merrill; 10th Pat Fitzgerald, Keno. Southdown market lamb: first, Carol Rolling, Poe Valley; second, Cheryl Went, Poe Valley; third, Margaret Quails, Merrill; fourth, Sara West, Merrill. Crossbred market lambs: first, Margaret Colwellr Langell Valley; second, Franklin Miller, Henley; third, Marie Arnold, Henley; fourth, Alice Flshback, Henley; fifth, Mary Anne Leavltt, Langell Valley. Sixth, Beverly Arnold, Henley; seventh, Marilyn Mack, Henley; eighth, Ted Flnkenbinder, Keno; ninth, Marygene Colwell, Keno; 10th, Mike Schmeck, Henley. Pen of three market lambs: first, Joyce Farmer, Keno; sec ond, Louise Ratllff, Merrill; third, Danlce Colwell, Keno. Grand champion ewe, Katherine Ahern, Merrill; reserve grand champion ewe, Sara West, Mer rill. Hampshire ewe lamb: first, Vir ginia Roenlcke. Poe Valley; sec ond, Cheryl West, Poe Valley; fifth. Alice Hatchett. Poe Valley. Sixth, Cora Enman, Henley: sev enth, Ann Taylor, Henley; eighth, Dennv Kallna. Malln ninth. BUI Taylor. Henley; 10th, Ronnie Ka the 4-H Fall llna, Malln. Hampshire yearling ewe: first. Alice Hatchett, Poe Valley; sec ond, Carol Relling, Poe Valley; (Continued en page 4) 21 Feared Dead In KlPJl Disaster AMSTERDAM, Netherlands WV A Royal Dutch KLM airliner from New York crashed Into the North Sea off the Dutch coast Monday and all 21 or more persons aboard are feared to have perished, the KLM Air Line announced, The airline said there were 12 passengers, mostly Americans and 9 crew members aboard the plane. The plane was flying from New York to Amsterdam and was on its final leg from Shannon, Ireland, when it went down. Earlier, fishing vessels reported sighting a big oil slick, lifebelts, a raft and other debris, from a plane. One vessel was reported to California Mill Wage Pact Signed Nearly all of the 325 men em ployed at Collins Pine Company, Chester, California, members of AFL local 3074, returned to work this morning after being out since the lumber strike was called June 21. Employes out of tiwn on vaca tion are given until September 3 to return to work. All of the men who returned to their Jobs this morn ing were Fnt to work, making up almost a full crew. This Is the first company and union reporting having ratified at the local level the memorandum of agreement signed Saturday at Redding by Robert Oieslck fox Northern California District Coun cil AFL and C. L. Irving for the employers negotiating committee which provides for reinstatement and-or extension of 1953-54 agree ments to their 195S anniversary date without wage Increase, EXPIRATION There is no uniform date of ex piration of contracts In th" area hence the 1953-54 wording In the agreement. The aureement further nrnvlrinrf that there is to be no disciplinary action by company or union against any employe by reason of the strike or by reason of employe action during the strike. Any law sulta or. charges, filed by either side, in connection with the atrlke, will be withdrawn and employes will be allowed approximately 10 days to return to work after the companies and the local unions have accepted this recommenda tion. two other settlements were reached Just prior to the Saturday meeting in Redding, when the B and D Lumber Company of Red ding and the T. S. Terrlll Com pany of Cottonwood, just south of Redding, signed with AFL local 2608, at no wage Increase. The pro visions or ootn settlements includ ed an agreement that there will be no strike at these operations with out a majority vote of the em ployes -of the Individual plants. Twenty - two men are employed at the B and D Lumber Company plant and 18 at the Terrlll opera tion. Both have been working be hind the picket lines for some weeks. The local union has called meet ings for today in connection with the Wlldwood Lumber Company and the Red Bluff Moulding Com pany, both of Red Bluff, UNION VOTE 1 AFL local 2608 of Redding Is voting this morning on acceptance of the memorandum of agreement on return of employes to work at U.S. Plywood, which employs more than 700 men at Anderson. This Is not to be confused with the Ply wood, Incorporated plant, which returned to work last week. U.S. Plywood has been shut down since June 21. . . A meeting Is scheduled this af ternoon by AFL local 2608, Red ding, employes of Trinity Alps Lumber Company, which has been closed since June 21, on accept ance of the memorandum of agree ment. Some 245 employes are in volved. As of Saturday, only six opera tions out of the 36 which were rep resented by the two committees when negotiations first started were still closed. Two companies retired from business. Many of the companies and local unions nego- tlated Individual agreements with out 'wage Increases and several other companies have been In al most full operation for some time behind picket lines. KF Airport Bids Awarded Contract for engineering on the runways and aprons at the Klam ath Municipal Airport for reactiva tion as a Jet interceptor base has been let to porter, urquhart and Beavlns, Mayor Paul Landry said this morning. The engineering firm, with offi ces at New York, Los Angeles and Sacramento, specializes In airport work. A crew from the contracting company Is on duty at the airport tins week making tests on runways and soli to determine what must be done. Only the contract for concrete work has been let to date. have found debris about 16 mile northwest of Ymuiden, Amster dam's seaport. The plane was only about) 10 minutes from Its goal, flying more than two miles up through murky weather, when It dropped out of sight. Land forces, planes and ships of The Netherlands and Britain joined m a nunt lor ine Douglas DC6B Wlliem Bontckoe, which had radi- oed at 11:33 a.m. (3:32 a.m. PST) that it was 20 miles northwest of Amsterdam, flying In clouds at 11, 500 feet. Silence followed that report. KLM spokesmen said discovery of debris by a pilot boat northwest of Ymuiden had led to the conclu sion that the plane had, "met with an accident." Plane wreckage and two KLM cushions were among the debris. The spokesmen said the pilot boat Bellatrix had not sighted any sur vivors, but rescue operations by boats and a helicopter were con tinuing. The commander of. the plane was Identified as Capt. Charles Har man, a Canadian of Edmonton, ' Alta. All other crew members were Dutch, Former KF Resident Dies Word was- received here by friends today of the death Satur day night, August 21 of Miss Marie McMillan, 212 High Street. Klamath County pioneer at her apartment In the Gaylord Hotel. San Francisco, - Miss McMillan left Klamath Falls last June to live in the bay area. She has not been ill and death apparently followed a heart attack, she was found by a maid In the hotel, partially diossed in the bedroom of her apartment. She was actively associated dur ing the 50 years she lived here with the progress of the city. er lamily was a Pioneer hotel family, her mother operating the old. Llnkvllle Hotel near the pres ent orioge across Link River, In later years Miss McMillan owned and operated an apartment house, constructed from an old school, now occupied by a parking lot on Pine and Tenth Streets, She leaves a wide circle ot .friends In Klamath Falla. . Surviving are one sister, Mrs. Ed Williams, Ohico, California and three nieces. No word was received on funeral arrangements. Those wishing to, may contribute to the heart fund in Klamath Falls, Klamath Park Board Meets The Municipal Swimming Pool was the subject of a special city park board and recreation com mittee meeting this morning at the pool. Meeting was held to decide ac tion to be taken on final payment to Paddock Engineering Company. Approximately 111,000 is being withheld pending satisfaction ot deficiencies in the tar In the Joints. The board will make a recom mendation to council this evening, according to Mayor Paul Landry. CRASH ' CORDOBA, Spain UI A pas senger express speeding downhill Jumped the track 15 miles south of here early Monday, killing at least 6 persons and injuring 87 others, most of them seriously. 0 I v 'yTvi iWWtl THROUGH tor tne oay with his paper route was Jack Riley, 522 North Fifth St., who delivers for the Ore-gonian, j ... . if (L Clip tytf$ it
