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By FRANK JENKINS
Dick Neuberger is running
against Guy Cordon tor U.S. Sen
ator from Oregon and Al Ullman
is running against Sam Coon for
congressman from Oregon's sec
ond district. They're charging Cor
don and Coon (Coon had nothing
to do with the deal) with what
amounts to a conspiracy to hi
jack the Bonneville Power Admin
istration out of its transmission
line to Klamath Palls and sell it
to Copco at a bargain price.
They're also trying to drag In
terior Secretary McKay into the
alleged conspiracy.
As they tell it, it makes a good
slory, with overtones of political
scandal. The trouble Is that they
don't tell it all and they don't
tell, it straight.
Lei's first get clear the back
ground of this Bonneville trans
mission line. It was- originally
planned as a tie-in with Shasta
Dam. As such, it met vigorous
opposition from Washington state,
which feared that it would be used
to ship Columbia river power to
California.
That was a natural fear, and I
suppose that we of Oregon would
have reacted similarly in similar
circumstances. Water and power
generated by falling water are
natural resources and sound eco
nomics dictate that both, when
ever possible, should be used -in
the areas where they originate.
The Washington people, quite un
derstandably, wanted to use their
power in their own state for their
own industrial and agricultural
development.
At any rate, their opposition
succeeded in stopping the Shasta
tie-In after it bad been built about
halfway across the state of Ore
gon. The actual order to stop it
came in a house appropriations
committee report in April of 1953,
which said in flat language:
"The committee has information
which clearly indicates that expen
ditures tor the Redmond-Klamatb
Falls line cannot now be Justified.
The secretary (of the interior) is
requested therefore to TERMI
NATE construction of this line at
the earliest possible time and to
SALVAGE SUCH MATERIALS AS
CAN BE USED ELSEWHERE."
That ended, the dream of the
Shasta tie-in.
It was at this point that Senator
Cordon stepped in. I think any
seasible person will agree it was
' high time, that" SOMEBODY
stepped in. Here was a power
transmission line built with tax
payers' money that had been left
dangling at loose ends in a spars
Iv settled region where there were
few customers. Something had to
be done to save the expenditure
from being totally wasted.
Let's brief what happened. Sen
ator Cordon proposed that the
Bonneville Power Administration
and Copco get together and see
if they couldn't work out some
salvage plan. They did so, and out
of the ensuing negotiations came
an agreement' that Copco would
tie onto the dangling end of the
BPA line and build it to Klamath
Palls. Copco would then furnish
power from its Umpqua plants for
the new defense plant at Nickel
Mountain in Douglas county,
which' Bonneville had already
agreed to serve. Bonneville was
thus saved the cost of building a
line from near Eugene to Nickel
Mountain near Roseburg.
Copco would take its .pav for
the power delivered to Nickel
Mountain in power delivered to it
by Bonneville at Klamath Falls,
over the new line. It was what
the power people call a "wheel
ing" arrangement. We Lavmen
would call it a swap of kilowatts.
Copco agreed to pay, and did
pay. to Bonneville the sum" of
$2,895,834.52 to cover the govern
ment's expense in materials, right-of-way
and engineering plans for
the final leg of the line to Klamath
Falls.
In reply to a question, Dr. Wil
liam A. Pearl, Bonneville admin
istrator, said recently:
"Copco paid the government .in
cash EVERY CENT the govern
ment had advanced for this line,
including interest and overhead
expenditures."
Let's get back to Neuberger.
Speaking at Westport at a Demo
cratic rally recently he said:
' Sale of the BPA's Redmond
Klamath line to Copco was a bar
gain basement deal. Interior Sec
retary McKay in a Portland in
terview called it a sale directed
by congress. THAT IS NOT COR
RECT. McKay and Senator Cor
don put the sale through."
I'm sure Mr. Neuberger can
read, so I suggest that he read
the report of the house appropri
ations committee already quoted
in this piece. It is a CLEAR DI
RECTIVE to the secretary of the
interior to do exactly what was
done that is to say, to stop the
construction of the line and to sal
vage as much as possible of the
materials and the services already
purchased for it with taxpayers'
money.
I wouldn't accuse Neubereer of
falsification. He Is Just loose and
liberal with words and careless
with facts.
EXPLOSION
HEIDELBERG, Germany m
A conventional type shell fired
from one of the Army's huge new
280mm atomic cannons exploded
prematurely over a German vil
lage Thursday nighl. sliattenng
eeral roofs. There were no casualties.
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BUTCHER'S APPRENTICE.
Hans Tennefoss, was caught
with the goods by the 9
o'clock photographer this
morning. Tennefoss is em
ployed by Trulove's Market,
919 East Main.
Court Changes
Life Sentence
NEW YORK OD The U. S.
Court of Appeals Friday reversed
the treason conviction and life
sentence given former Army Staff
Sgt. John David Provoo.
The court said Provoo should
not have been tried in New York,
and also the government had no
right to cross examine him on a
collateral'lssue of homosexuality.
Provoo, a lormer San Franciseo
bank clerk, was convicted of aid
ing the Japanese after the fall of
Corregidor in the Philippines.
He was accused, among other
things, of broadcasting for . the
Japanese, and of causing the death
of a fellow American prisoner by
giving derogatory reports on him
to their captors.
He went to trial here Oct. 27,
1952, and was found guilty on Feb,
11, 1953. He was sentenced to a
life term and a fine of $10,000.
The appeals court said the pros
ecution tried to draw from Provoo
an admission he had been hos
pitalized at Army bases for homo
sexuality.' Provoo denied he was a homo
sexual. The court said neither by court
martial nor by a civil court had
Provoo ever been brought to trial
and convicted on any morals of
fense. "Obviously such a charge was
utterly irrelevant to the issue of
whether he had committed treason
while a prisoner of war," said the
court.
Louis Soukup
Sells Ranch
Sale of a large portion of the
Century Ranch in the Fort Rock-
Silver Lake district was com
pleted recently, according to for
mer owner, Louis Soukup.
About 17,000 acres changed
hands in the sale, with the major
portion being purchased by George
W. Brewer and Associates who
operate large holdings in the Sac
ramento Valley. Gene Hughes.
Sacramento, also figured in the
purchase of the development pro
ject. Additional buyers purchasing a
small portion of the land are Wil
liams and Pitman, Bend.
Development work started ' by
Mr. and Mrs. Soukup when they
purchased the ranch last February
will continue with several new ir
rigation wells to be dug. A large
part of the acreage is covered
with sagebrush and the new own
ers plan to clear this as fast as
irrigation water is made avail
able, Soukup stated.
; Sale price was said to be ;ln
excess of $200,000. '
The Soukups still own property
in the Silver Lake area and own
and operate the Soukup Hereford
Ranch at Round Lake, purchased
four years ago from Keith Rice,
Jack Gardner and Jack Farns-
worth.
Famed Regiment
Changes Posts
SAPPORO. Japan W The U.S.
71h Calvary Regiment has been
7th Cavalrz Regiment has been
shifted from Hokkaido, Japan's
northernmost island, to the main
Island of Honshu, the Army, said
today.
The shift is part of a scheduled
mve of the U.S. 1st Cavalry
Division from Hokkaido. Troops of
Japan's new Army will take over
responsibility for defense of the
island, which is within sight of
Russian-held territory.
Tne 7th Cavalry Regiment was
moved this week. The division's
other Iwo regiments will follow
before the end of the year.
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Brazilians
Accused Of
Betrayal
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (7PI
Gen. Zenobio de Costa, minister
of war in the government of Pres
ident Getulio Vargas, charged Fri
day his fellow generals, betrayed
the Brazilian strong man. Vargas
committed suicide Tuesday after
high army and air officer forced
him to step down as President.
In a bitter statement submitted,
to the new war, minister, Gen..
Henrique Baptista Teixeira," Da
Costa also accused the new presi
dent, Joao Cafe Filho, of back
tracking on an offer to keep Da
Costa as head of the war ministry.
The statement said - the army
generals had pledged to' work to
uphold the constitution, but then
circulated a manifesto "aimed at
changing the commitment of honor
they had undertaken."
Vargas shot himself after a military-dictated
agreement to take
a permanent leave of absence. His
cabinet resigned when Cafe, the
vice president since 1951, took over
as chief executive.
Da Costa said Cafe asked him.
soon after Vargas agreed to take
a leave of absence, to remain as
war minister.
"But then I knew the same men
who had betrayed their commit
ment of honor in the meeting of
generals had taken hold of Catete
(the presidential palace) and were
again maneuvering against me,
Da Costa said.
The officer said he heard Cafe
was asking other generals to be
come war minister and went to
see the new President.
Gen. Teixeira's appointment as
war minister was announced Wed
nesday night, Cale Friday ap
pointed army Col. Geral Menezcs
Cortes police chief.
Eugenie Gudin. head of the Bra
zilian institute of economics, was
sworn in. Thursday night as Bra
zil's new finance minister to steer
the nation through its serious eco
nomic crisis.
Pickets. Halt
Hanford Job
RICHLAND, Wash. un A picket
line kept some 4,000 construction
workers off. the Job Thursday a.
a 40 million dollar chemical plant
project at ' the Hanford atomic
works.
Both the AFL carpenters and the
Pasco-Kenr.ewick Building Trades
Council said the picket lines were
not authorized.
AFL carpenters walked off the
Blaw-Knox Co. job on Aug. 13 in
a dispute over work assignments,
end a meeting Aug. 18 between
union and management negotiators
failed to settle the issue.
Joseph Ryan, labor relations
manager for Slaw-Knox, said the
carpenters protested assignment of
plumbers and electricians to cut
holes In pipe and conduit.
Pickets appeared Thursday at
the North Richland bus lot where
workers get transportation to the
project area, and at entrances to
Hanford on roads from Yakima,
Sunnyside and Prosser.
BARBER
NAPLES. Italy i Neapolitan
barbar Francesco Buono Friday j
claimed a world record for thei
fastest, it not closest shave a j
16-second job with no cuts. 1
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FIVE PRETTY PROSPECTS for barley queen of the annual
TuleUlce-Butte .Valley Fair lined up for the photographer at
the Sportsman's Hotel in Tulelalce. The winner will be an
nounced just before midnight, Wednesday, September 8 at a
free dance at the Tulelake American Legion Hall. The queen
end her court will be gues's of the Lakeview Roundup, Septem
'ber 4-5-6. Each girl will receive gifts end formal attire for the
KLAMATH
WHISKER HOPEFULS are working hard at their chore over in Lake County in preparation for
Saturday night's Lake County Pageant. Here, left to right (kneeling! are Martin McGrath,
Ernie Guthrie, Bob Howard and Red Haskinq. Standing, Cookie Elliott, Leo Albertson, George
Kratz, Hank Keumpel and Ralph Patrick. All of them are trying for one or more of the prizes
offered. There will be awards for the blackest and reddest beards, for the man who tries
hardest and gets least, for the beard judged most unique, the longest, the whitest and the
bushiest beards, too. The show is slated to open at 8 p.m.
KF Druggists
Form Group j
Druggists of Klamath Falls
banded together Thursday night in
a new pharmaceutical association
pledged to promote public health.
H. A, Speckman of Portland;
secretary of the Oregon Pharma
ceutical Association, added in set
ting up the new organization. He
said that druggists throughout the
state are becoming increasingly
active in the promotion of public
health programs. He also said the
state druggists association is plan
ning a comprehensive advertising
campaign to acquaint the public
with health promotion efforts by
pharmacists.
Will Woods was elected presi
dent of the new Klamath Falls
pharmaceutical Association. 6ther
officers named were: Tom Laird,
Malin, vice president and Vance
Vaupel. secretary treasurer.
P. D. Mead was elected as
chairman of the bylaws commit
tee and Lee Hendricks was named
publicity chairman.
During the session in the Wi
nema Hotel, Speckman gave the
druggists a resume of activities at
the Oregon State Pharmaceutical
Association convention last month
in Medford.
Postponed
The annual fishing de r b y
scheduled for toniuht has been
postponed until Friday, Septem
ber 3. from 5 to 6 p.m. on
Link River in Veterans Mem
orial Park.
Announcement was made bv
Bob Bonncy, city recreation di
rector. Sponsors of the annual
derby for youngsters to age 14
arc the Izaak Walton League
and the city recreation depart
FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1954
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Annual Lafceview Roundup
Pageant To Be Presented
The panorama of Lake County
history, prior to 80 years ago, will
unroll in pageant form Saturday
night, August 28, at the Lakeview
baseball park when the annual
Roundup pageant Is presented un
der sponsorship, of. -LakeyCounty
council of the Knights of Colum
bus. Co - chairmen are Father
Patrick Lunham and Bob Howard
and the script has been prepared
by Douglas Fetsch and Mr. and
Mrs. Dclbert Milholland.
The show will begin at 8 p.m.
with a grand entry by riding
groups, including the Roundup
court, Lakeview Riding Club, col
or bearers from the American Le
gion, the Sagebrush Caballcros.
. George Garrett, president of the
35th annual Lakeview Roundup,
will present the court, Queen Bev
erly Vincent and princesses, Judy
Laird and Beth Tracy, and he will
crown the queen.
The pageant Itself will deal with
the earliest history of Lake County
from the coming of trappers to
Weather
FORECAST Klamath Falls and
vicinity; Mostly cloudy, occasional
showers or thundershowers
through Saturday, High Saturday
tiR; .low Friday night 45,
High yesterday 58
Low last night 45
Precfp. last 21 hours . 04
Since Oct. i 15.17
Same period last year 14.88
Normal for period 12.67
ATTACK
NEW DELHI m V.' K. Krish
na Menon, India's chief delegate
to the U. N. Assembly, attacked
the proposed Southeast Asia
ireaty urgamzation Friday as - an
organization ol outsiders." I
dance. The queen contest is sponsored by the Veterans of
Foreign Wars. II to rl Mary Mauch, sponsored by the Merrill
Moose Lodge; Nancy Young, sponsored by the Tulelake Ameri
can Legion Post; Darlene Enide, by Dorris VFW; Lucille
Weber, sponsored by the Malin Legion Post and Judy Main,
sponsored by the Newell PTA. Photo by Den Crawford
1874, the year the county of Lake
was created by the legislature
from part of what was Jackson
County (Lake County officially
came into existenco on February
14, the birthday of Oregon, the lol
lowhitr year), - -
- The roles of Indian braves will
be taken by members of the Lions
troop of Boy scouts (Troop 12) un.
der direction of Scoutmaster
George Lea, and Indian women
will be portrayed by Girl Scouts
under direction of Mrs. Robert
DeWltz.
Les Pardue will be wagon boss,
the Nationnl Guard members will
be Ihc army. The MC Ranch will
furnish Its chudc wagon, operated
by Charles Crump and Ross Dol
larhide. Part of the program will Include
square dancing, arranged by Mrs.
Velma Newcombe and Dan Collins.
Announcing will be handled by
Bob Alger and Douglas Fetsch.
with John Scovlllc In chargo of
communications.
Tlie annual queen's dance will be
held following the pageant, at
Gary's Skat erdance. with music
by Gene Anderson's orchestra.
Dancing will be from 10 p.m. to
2 a.m.
The high school band, directed
by James Arment. and the accor
dion band,' directed by Mrs. Helen,
Bradley, will have parts in the
pageant. John Kares and Morgan
Vcrllng are In charge of special
stages. Father Lunham Is stage
manager and Dan Dunham has
gate control. Bill Green and Carl
Fetsch are arranging for the men's
riding group, with Mrs. Carroll
McDonald In charge of the wom
en's group. Lighting is being ar
ranged by Phil Qtiiscnbcrry and
Bob Howard, Martin McGrath is
in charge of seating, and Billy
Verling and Leo Beese have
charge of finance.
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Candidacy
Plan Denied
By McKay
By PAVL W. HARVEY JR.
SALEM Lfl Secretary of the
Interior Douglas McKay, who flies
back to Washington, D. C, Sun
day after a month's vacation,
swears emphatically that he never
will run for public office again.
The 61-year-old former Oregon
governor made the statement
Thursday as he and Mrs. McKay
closed up their summer home at
Neskowln, on the ocean beach west
of here.
He often was mentioned as a
Republican hope of defeating Sen.
Wayne Morse when Morse comes
up for reelection In two years. But
as McKay prepared to leave his
beach home, he said he is deter
mined more than ever to become
an ordinary citizen when his cab
inet duty Is over.
Mrs. McKay, too, Is determined
that they are through with public
life when his Washington assign
ment Is ended.-
"When I go Into my own auto
mobile agency, nobody knows me
any more," McKay, who is Salem's
Chevrolet and Cadtllao dealer,
said. "After all, I've hardly been
around the place in the last 12
years."
The McKays spent the whole
month at Neskowin, except for a
five-day horseback trip that McKay
took In Yosemlte National Park.
With the McKays at the beach were
their two daughters and six grand
children. McKay spent the time at the
beach painting the fences, getting
the 4awn and shrubs in shape,
and resting.
Mrs. McKay didn't have much
rest, though, she cooked for the
whole crowd.
McKay said his next visit to Ore
gon will be Sept. 23, when he comes
with President "Eisenhower when
the President dedicates McNary
Dam,
After that, his next Oregon visit
will bo In November,
He Is well rested and relaxed
but regrets that he has to leave.
He already has decided where to
start next summer when he goes
back to Neskowln. He has to fix
up his fuchsia beds, as he didn't
have time to do it this summer.
Mrs. McKay will stay in Salem
for another week before she goes
to join her husband in Washington.
Russians Plan
Kremlin Move
MOSCOW Ml A campaign is
underway to de-emphasize the
Kremlin as the seat of Soviet gov
ernment power and to establish
the ancient walled fortress as a
symbol of Russian history and
culture,
Government leaders are moving
out to scattered villas and many
government - departments nlready
hnve been established elsewhere In
Moscow. A plan has even been
announced to move the bodies of
Nikolai Lenin and Joseph Stalin
from their Red Square tomb to a
planned new pantheon in the out
lying Lenin hills.
Just across Moskovoretz Square
from the Kremlin, on the banks
of the Moscow River, the steel
framework of a new skyscraper
is going up. Muscovites say upon
completion this will provide gov
ernment offices, enabling remain
ing ofllclals at the Kremlin to
leaver
Persons present at the British
Embassy dinner lor former British
Prime , Minister Clement Attlee
and his Labor Party delegation
during their recent visit to Mos
cow said Communist Party Secre
tary Nlklta S. Khrushchev told
them the government hopes to open
Ihe entire Kremlin to the public
as a museum within a relatively
short time.
The Informants said Khrushchev
did not tell them the government
was planning to leave the Kremlin
altogether, but said such a con
clusion might be drawn from the
plans to make It a museum.
Copper Strike
Deadlocked
By Till: ASSOCIATED PRESS
A strike of copper and brass in
dustry workers, Idling 25,000 em
ployed in eight states, took on long
term aspects Friday.
Negotiations at Butte, Mont., and
Waterbury, Conn., are at s stand
still. Management and International
Union of Mine, Mill t Smelter
Workers (Ind) ofiicials continue
talks at Salt Lake City and Doug
las, Ariz. They reported no pro
gross Thursday.
Mine-Mill seeks a S5-ccnt hourly
wage boost. Its miners in the West
presently ram 114.71 to (15.55 a
clay and laborers earn 112.76 to
113,85.
AFL' Agrees
To Plan, CIO
Undecided
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A plan aimed at getting a biff
part of striking sawmill and woods
workers back on the Job by Mon
day was up for ratification Fri
day and the CIO Woodworkers
were giving it fresh study.
AFL Lumber and Sawmill Work
ers' representatives and spokes
men for Douglas fir operators
reached agreement at Olympla
Thursday in a day-long conference
with Govs. Langlle of Washington
and Patterson of Oregon. Terms of
the plan to which they agreed were
not made public, but in general
the men would go back to work
while a fact-finding committee stu
died the issues in the prolonged
strike.
CIO Woodworker representatives,
headed by A. P. Hartung, interna
tional president, looked in on the
meeting, outlined objections to the
governors' original plan and then
left after asking that the dispute
be put up to binding arbitration.
Hartung Friday talked by phone
with Gov. Patterson, then said that
the plan as now set up has cer
tain changes from the original and
the IWA policy committee would
study the revised plan Friday aft
ernoon. He said he would not com
ment on what the changes were.
It kept the door open lor a
chance that both of the big unions
might Join in the governor's peace
plan.
Langlle and Patterson gave no)
details of the agreement with the ,
AFL union but said it would pro.'
vide a seven-man committee , to
study the issues and make recom
mendations. The committee would
bo made up of two men from la
bor, two from Industry and three
to be appointed by the governors.
Martin Deggeler of Harbor Ply
wood Co. of Aberdeen signed the
agreement for representatives of
the fir industry and said ho will
recommend to pine Industry em
ployes they also accept it. Indus
try leaders are expected to meet
at Portland this weekend.
Kenneth Davis, executive secre
tary of the AFL Lumber and Saw
mill Workers Union, said if the
pine Industry ratifies the pact he
will recommend similar action by
locals.
The Olympla conference over
shadowed other Thursday develop
ments in the strike, which includ
ed: 1. Operations were resumed Fri
day at the Snoqualmle Falls plant of
the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. aft
er an agreement was completed
between the company and Local
1845, Lumber It Sawmill Workers'
union.
Workers had voted 199 to 128
Wednesday night to accept a 2j
cent hourly wage increase and re
turn to work provide discussions
could continue on changes in plant
working conditions.
2. Four IWA locals and one AFL
local were ordered to restrict
picketing In a temporary Injunc
tion Issued by Superior Judge
Thomas Stelger at Everett. The
injunction was sought by Weyer
haeuser after 50 to 100 pickets
milled around the street outside
the pulp mill Thursday. Four pick
ets were jailed for disorderly con
duct but released when the IWA
posted bond. The court order set
Aug. 31 as the date for a hearing
to show cause why the injunction
should not be made permanent.
Legion Hears
Air Leader ,
WASHINGTON W The lr.
craft Industry told the American
Legion Friday It Is in a "general
state of good health" and is ready
to do tlie job required of it in the
event of large scale war.
Retired Adm. DeWltt C. Ranscy,
president of the Aircraft Industry
Assn., said, however, in his annual
report to tlie Legion's National Se
curlty'Commlsslon that aircraft re
search programs must be pushed
aim military manpower problems
solved.
"Our optimism about the project
ed capability of the aircraft manu
facturing industry must be pro
mised on the assumption that the
funds, manpower, machlno tools
and materials required to carry
out its expanded and accelerated
efforts would be made available,"
Ramsey said.
Ha said the United States Is
building between 900 and 1.000 mllll
tary planes a month but that out
put will start a gradual and order
ly decline sometlmo next year.
Production will reach a "sustain
ing level" sufficient to maintain
a modernized 137 wing Air Force
and commensurate Army, Navy
and Marine air strength in 1957,
he raid.
California Jet
Ace Rites Slated
GEORGE AIR FORCE BASE,
Calif. IP) Funeral services for
Capt. Joseph McConncll Jr., 32, the
nation's leading Jet ace killed In
a crash Wednesday, will be held
Eaturday.
A Catholic chaplain, Capt. Wil
liam McTeat, will conduct the ser
vices at 10 a.m. In the George
AFB chapel. The body will be
placed in a vault at nearby Victor
vule. the Air Force said, until a
cemetery Is completed at Apple
Valley, McConnell's home.