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mm wM Day's Jews In The- C o)fc By FRANK JENKINS The Salem Statesman which describes itself as having been "very unnappy" over Senator Cor don's position on other important public Questions refuses to go along with the Neuberger accusa tion that Cordon has been respon sible lor blocking further develop ment 01 federal power in the Pa cific Northwest. It says: "On the power question, the Statesman believes that Senator Cordon deserves a mator share of credit for the federal (power) de velopment that has come in the Pa cific Northwest area during the ten years of his service in con gress." In support of its opinion, the Statesman quotes the senator's statement In a recent statewide radio address in which he said: "When I went on the senate ap propriation committee in 1946 we in the Northwest) were getting 4.7 per cent of all (federal) funds for dam construction THAT has In creased year by year until this year the percentage was 27.5 . . . I have done my best in that field for the Northwest and Oregon." I've known Senator Cordon per sonally and Intimately for more than a quarter of a century, and T irnAn, Vila nmrit ! trntiA Vm 1ft nn peddler of reckless statements for campaign purposes, wnen ne speaks, he knows what he is talk ing about. But It is unfortunately true that when irresponsible statements are being tossed around in political campaigns EVERYBODY'S word becomes suspect. So let's examine the record. Senator Cordon became a mem- i -I V- ..nnla nnnrODriatlon committee in 1946. Beginning with 1947, here is me cumulative nt annrnnriRtionjI UD to HOW by the house, the senate and by the house- senate conference committees ur .1 Mnrihw:t federal MIC 11 IU1 -3 . - - power dams McNary, Chief Jo seph, Trie Danes, Aioem j-mio, Lookout Point and Detroit: House 1521,899,680 - KMflflO.SOO Conference Committees 628,834,800 To understand these figures, one irai,il th ftVAtam. Un- JUUOb l"i." ....... . . der which appropriations are made in our congress, ah money wu wust originate in the house of rep resentatives. From the house, they go to the senate where they are re used and amended, upward or downward, according to the ideas of the -senators especially the members of the senate appropria- ftmmit.lMi. After the bills have been acted upon by both Bouse ana senate they go to the Joint house-senate conference committee, composed of H-mhArs nf hnth houses, where the differences are ironed out and a single final. out is agreea upon Let's analyze these figures, which include all the money ap propriated for these Big federal power dams in tne pacine norm- west since Senator Cordon became a member of the powerful senate appropriation committee. You will note that since 1946 the HOUSE has appropriated a total of $521,899,680 for federal power dams in the Pacific Northwest. To this total the SENATE has ADDED (over these years) the alseable sum of $177,780,820. From the total senate appropria tions the joint house-senate confer ence committees over the years since 1946 have cut out $10,855,700. But The FINAL total made available for the construction of these fed eral power dams by the Joint con ference committees has been $106, 925.000 HIGHER than the total ap propriations approved by the house of representatives. Anyone with any knowledge of congressional procedures knows that this record of consistent and heavy financial support for federal power dams in the Pacilic Norm- west could not have been made without the active support of Sena tor Cordon of Oregon as a mem ber of the powerful senate appro priation committee. I think the record fully Justifies the Salem paper's statement that "Senator Cordon deserves a MA JOR share of credit for the fed eral power development that has come in the Facuic Nortnwest area during the ten years of his service in congress." Why Is all this Important? Here's why: It's another instance on Neuber- eer's part of being loose and lib eral with .words and careless with facts. Midcontinent Cool, Rainy B? THE ASSOCIATED PRESS It was cool and rainy over wide areas in the west and midcontinent Tuesday while summer weather continued over most of the south and east. Temperatures dropped below freezing in sections of Montana and the western Dakotas, the cen ter of the cold air mass. The chilly air extended from eastern Lake Superior to east of Chicago and southwestward into Kansas. It also was on the chilly side with mostly clear skies over wide areas In the western half of the nation. Readings were in the 40s and 50s, and ranged upward into the 70s in the southwest desert region. It was mild across the Gulf and south Atlantic states with temper atures In the 70s early Tuesday. Readings were in the 90s yester day irom southwestern Texas into northeastern Oklahoma and reached above 100 in the south west desert. Price Five Cents 14 Pages GEORGE FIFE, 4604 Board man, wet snapped by the arly morning photographer this morning as he paused for a cup of coffee. Barley Price Support Asked SALEM W Congressman Wal ter Norblad (R-Ore) asked the Commodity Credit Corp. Tuesday to make Willamette Valley barley and wheat eligible for price sup ports. Norblad said the assistance is needed badly because the wet sum mer has damaged those crops. The barley and wheat in this region now is ineligible for price supports because of its unusually high moisture content. Sen. Guy Cordon (R-Ore) made a similar plea last week. Portland Firm To Dissolve PORTLAND W Doernbecher Manufacturing Co.. a 54-year-old furniture plant with 400 employes, is going to go out of business. Stockholders, meeting here Mon day, voted to dissolve the firm. E. S. Beach, secretary-treasurer, said supplies on hand would keep the plant operating about four months. Then it will quit. He said the company would like to sell the plant, a sawmill near Oregon City, and timber-cutting rights near Reedsport to a single buyer. But if such a buyer cannot be found, piece-meal sale will start. The firm was moved here in 1900 from Chehalis. By 1937 it employed a force of 1.500 men and was one of the country's largest furniture manufacturers. No reason was announced for the dissolution plan but the firm's net worth is four million dollars and its half-year earnings to June 30 were only S9.060. McKay Speaks To GOP Rally CODY. Wyo. dfl Republican control of Congress Is "essential if we are to continue to have honesty, integrity and efficiency in govern ment in place of the old chiseling, grafting and extravagance," Sec retary of the Interior McKay told a GOP rally Monday night. "If the Democrats were to gain a majority in the 84th Congress they would work overtime trying to embarrass and hamstring the Ei senhower administration," he de clared. McKay said the American peo ple have two choices in the No vember elections: "Whether they want the far-sighted, constructive Eisenhower program to go forward to completion or whether they want it to be sabotaged by a Con gress hostile to the President." "A Republican majority tn the coming 84th Congress is essential if we are to continue to hold high the banner of strength and free dom against a resurgence of the forces which clamor to bury It under a socialist empire of govern ment ownership and control," Mc Kav said. This Republican control also Is essential, he declared, for the ad ministration to continue its tax cutting program and to continue "the gains we have made in the fields of housing, social security, unemployme.it compensation and agriculture." KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, 15 Chaplains Parachute To Safety NEWHALL, Calif, (fl Praying as they parachuted in shirtsleeves, 15 chaplains landed safely minutes before their disabled Air Force C46 plane crashed and burned yes terday. The three crewmen also balled out successfully, "You can be sure there was plenty of praying going on," said the Rev. Lertis K. Kiieu oi Lawn- dale, Calif., Church of Christ, who is an Air Force reserve colonel. "This was an occasion when. doubly, we were practicing what we preach: namely, prayer," said the Rev. Neville E. Carlson of Fillmore, Calif. "The Lord was with us in many ways, even to the fact that the fire in one engine was on the right side of the plane and the door through which we Jumped was on the left," said the Rev. Bertil Von Norman of the West Hollywood Presbyterian Church. CONFERENCE The group of Civil Air Patrol chaplains from Southern California left Burbank at 8:03 p.m. (PDT) in the C46. bound for a regional CAP chaplains' conference at Sac ramento scheduled for last night and today. The plane crew included the pilot. Capt. Thomas E. Willson. North Highland, Calif.; Lt. Earl W. Meredith Jr., Sacramento, and Sgt. Lloyd Plew, Globe, Ariz., all stationed at McClelland AFB, Sacramento. The chaplains and crew were wearing back parachutes and had been briefed before take-off but none of the ministers had ever Jumped before. Minutes after the' departure. smoke began trailing from the C46. Vibration was felt In the ship, then the right engine caught fire ENGINE FALLS As Lt. Meredith and Egt. Plew carried the pilot's instructions to the chaplains to bail out at about 3.000 feet, the right engine fell awny. Mr. Von Nonmah, a CAP major, was credited by his col leagues with calm heroism as he helped the chaplains adjust their 'chutes and shepherded them out the door. He was the last chap lain to bail out. The crew followed, with Capt. Willson the last to jump when the ship was probably no more than 1.000 feet up just west of the Los Angeles Police Rehabili tation Farm for Alcoholics at nearby Saugus. The plane crashed and burned on the farm, only 75 -feet from where the nearest Inmates were working. A half dozen of the chaplains suffered cuts or bruises, wrenched legs or shoulders but none was seriously hurt. Two Killed In Indo Violence SAIGON, Indochina WP1 Demon strations by refugees from North Viet Nam erupted into violence Tuesday that claimed two lives. Gen. Mguyen Van Hinh, the Viet namese chief of staff, charged Premier Ngo Dinh Dlem's govern ment with provoking the trouble. Gen. Hinh, Involved in a bitter dispute with the premier that seemed sure to topple the govern ment, charged that approximately 500 refugees who demonstrated in favor of Diem and against the Army had been armed by govern ment forces with clubs and bottles. Police sought to disperse the demonstration. In addition to the two killed, several more . were wounded. The refugees were brought here from North Viet Nam after the country's partition under the Ge neva armistice. They are housed in a camp in Saigon. Most are Roman Cathoiics, as is the pre mier. The dispute between Hinh and the premier reached new heights Monday night with the resignation of nine ministers. Diem has not accepted the resignations but it ap peared that Diem's government had little chance of surviving the crisis. Ford Announces Stock Payment NEW YORK i Ford Motor Co. increased dividend payments to Its stockholders last year to about S15 a share, a calculation of figures in the annual report of its largest stockholders. Ford Foundation, disclosed Monday. Ford had paid ilO per share hi 1951 and 1952. Foid foundation holds 3.089,908 shares, all of it non-voting. Its annual report listed dividend in come of $46,361,853. Nearly all of the rest of the 3.452,900 shares outstanding, including all voting stock, is owned by ut Ford fam ily. The foundation began publishing its dividend Income figures three years ago, so there was no way of comparing dividends with those in previous years. IfiP. ., 1954 1 1 her ' FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: fair with variable' high clouds through Wednesday. High Wednesday 80; low Tuesday night 36. High yesterday Low last night Preclp. last 24 hours Since Oct, 1 lS.I4 Same period last year 15.81 Normal for period ...13.07 Potato Men Discuss '54 Wage Rates TULELAKE Potato harvesting wages were discussed at a grow ers meeting held at the Sports man's Hotel Monday night, but no definite rates were established. Growers attending the meeting, called by Stan Buckingham, presi dent of the Tulelake Growers As sociation, decided to attend a Joint meeting to be held at the rec reation hall In Merrill, Thursday night, September 33, and to rec ommend that Klamath, Modoc and Siskiyou counties establish the same harvesting rates. The following recommendations will be made at the Merrill meet ing: Potato picking Six cents a stub or $2.40 a ton. Bucking and swamping 80 cents per ton. Hauling 1.20 per ton. . Contractor 40 cents per ton. This would mean an overall cost to the farmer, who hired a con tractor to pick, load and haul spuds to storage; of $4.80 per ton. Merrill Webb, administrator for the Oregon-California control com mittee, gave a report on recent meetings at Greeley, Colorado and Chicago. Webb told the gathering that the recommendations made at the na tional meetings was to try to es tablish uniform grade and size in all of the potato producing areas, rather than each section of the country establishing its own standards. He also stated that the late crop in Maine had suffered some from blight during the past growing season and that some damage was done in the Idaho Falls district by a hailstorm in July. He rec ommended marketing cautiously but steadily so as not to have a surplus of potatoes to move late next spring. Local growers .will also recom mend a one and seven eighths Inch number one potato, with the same minimum size for twos. Ken Baghott, Farm adviser, re ported on leaf roll spraying dur ing the past summer and stated that good results had been ob tained through the use of Systox. He also advised growers whose crops showed considerable leaf roll to market soon after digging or put the crop in cold storage. Milton A. Foland, Pacific Na tional Advertising Agency, Port land, reported on research promo tion work already done in Cali fornia retail outlets. He reported that probably 30 to 35 per cent of potatoes delivered to large out lets and chain stores are being repackaged into smaller bags. Re tall outlets are highly pleased that the potato Industry will promote an extensive advertising program, Foland stated. DEMOCRATIC MEMBERSHIP for the two Basin retidenfi pictured above dates back to the era of nickel beer. They are Andy Moore, 73, I left I and Charlie Riley, 81, thown buyinq the first two tickets to the Buckaroo Breakfast next Sunday at 1 1 a.m. in Jen-Ed's restaurant for Senator Estes Kefauvar of Tennessee. Selling the tickets is Ruth Nelson, office manager at Democratio hoadqiMPtorssi . It Telephone 8111 Mayor Signs Street Pact With State Despite further dissension voiced by Klamath Avenue representa tives at city council Monday night, the mayor and polico judge this morning signed a contract with the state high commission for a cross-town traffic program i n Klamath Falls. The contract calls for one-way traffic on parts of Sixth, Seventh and Commercial, Not provided for in the contract, but assured by the state, is construction of an ad ditional viaduct for south bound traffic over the South Sixth Street rauroad tracks, dependent upon establishment of one-way traffic on Sixth and Seventh. A. H. (Red) Bussman, Klamath Avenue businessman, voiced his objections to city procedure. He threatened filing of an injunction against the city "unless, with the same stroke of the pen the con tract is signed, truck traffic or Klamath Avenue is relieved." In answer to Mayor Paul Lan dry's plea for cooperation in ob taining a new viaduct through es tablishment of one-way traffic on Sixth and Seventh, Bussman re minded council that the viaduct does not depend on not having one way traffic on Main and Klamath also. (At a meeting with city of ficials in August, the state recom mended one-way on Main and Klamath to handle traffic proper ly. This was eliminated In the subsequent contract.) for a favored few you saw a loophole by which you could still put trucks down Klamath and not down Main," Bussman declared. Al Hattan, chairman of the city cross-town traffic committee, de fended city's action and pointed out tne importance of a new via duct to business. Council authorized signing of the contract with approval of the third and final reading of an ordinance to mat euect. - - Man Held For Chech Charge Sheriff Murray Brltton was no- tiiled Tuesday that a man giving nis name as John Claude Thomas, 27, held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. has confessed passing $200 in bogus checks in Klamath Falls and has waived extradition. In a telegram to the sheriff's office here. Sheriff Max A. Barc zak of Milwaukee, - stated Thomas was picked up on a vagrancy charge and admitted passing spur ious checks here while under in terrogation. Records here show a warrant was issued several months ago for a John Floyd Thomas accused of passing worthless checks. He was arrested in Malin in August, 1953, for stabbing a bartender, Howard Daniel Butner. The grand Jury failed to return an indictment. Sheriff Brltton said a description of John Floyd Thomas has been given Milwaukee authorities. BASEBALL SCORES NATIONAL New York 400 Brooklyn 101 LEAGUE 010 OflO-5 7 : 000 000-2 5 I 16) and Katt; Gomez. Hearn Podres, nella. Lablne (8) and Campa- KLAMATH ' rAULCS . vw rvL W- f'--.--: ,'J A Support The " v iE HUfA&UY ASK YOUR i i . jA' 'WELVMM rVCQUWIUG' OUR All (, x QUOTA OF 600 PlHTS OF APf X PRECIOUS BLOOD TWKT )2tff- ' lNILU SOMEDAY SAVE ftJ1' TWE UFE OF SOME A 'O'fXS -ET KLAMATH FALLS AAAN, J it$, WOMAM, OR CHILD.... f won't you MO cAvSy gRlUG- A BUDDY ? TJ Hi i "BET- KF Democrats Plan Rally Plans for a Democratic Rally next Sunday at which Senator Es tes Kefauver of Tennessee will be the guest of honor were complet ed Tuesday. The senator will arrive by plane from San Francisco at 10:30 a.m. Sunday. He will be escorted by motor caravan from the airport to Jen-Ed's Restaurant for a Buckaroo Breakfast. The rally, which will be attend ed by Democrats from all sec tions of Southern Oregon and Northern California, is scheduled for 1 p.m. in Mills School Audi torium, , . ' Senator Kefauver will be pre sented by Paul Buck, chairman of the Democratio County Central Committee. At the conclusion of the rally Senator Kefauver will confer with Klamath Basin party leaders and then leave by plane for Mcdford. . Tickets for the Buckaroo Break fast can be purchased at Demo- chatic headquarters, 121 Sixth Street. Annual Auto Show Planned The Toketee Lions Club has set the date for its second annual auto show aa January 22-23, 1955, and committee chairmen have been appointed to carry out the pro ject for the benefit of the club's sight conservation program. Wes McNee Is general chairman of the show, and following are Individual committee chairmen: Jim Lear, publicity and advertis ing; Grant Perry, decorations; Jim Mlsieldt, music and enter tainment; Lynn Propst, host com mittee: Ray Ledbetter, parking; Barney Cavanaugh, program: and Karl Glos, prizes. The show will be held in the Klamath Falls Armory, and all Klamath automobile dealers will display their 1855 model cars. . It.' i 1 mm Blood Drive 1 DAY Until the Red Cross Bloodmobilo Arrives Wednesday, September 22 and Thursday, September 23 AT THE ARMORY this visit is sponsored by The United Veterans of Klamath Falls Applegate Reaches U.S. SPOKANE, Wash. Ifl Richard Applegate, the radio correspond ent held captive IS months by the Chinese Reds, - came home -to America Tuesday and had a tear ful reunion with his doughty, 74- year-old mother. Applegate ran down the steps of his plane after It landed from the Far East and embraced his moth er who burst Into tears. "Why are you crying, fatty?" Ap plegate said. "We're home." Donald Dixon of the Interna tional News Service was with him, He stood by and beamed. Applegate, 42-year-old Hong Kong correspondent for the Na tional Broadcasting Co., Dixon and the skipper of their yacht were captured by the Communists as they sailed west of Hong Kong. Last week, they were suddenly re leased. It was "unified prayer" that did lt, aald Mrs. Frank Applegate who came here from Medford, Ore., to meet her son. 'You're thinner but we'll fatten you up, ' she said. We ve saved corn out of the garden We've butchered some chickens and we've got steaks foe you." "You shouldn't have mentioned that corn," Applegate said. "That's what I've been dying for." Spud Voting Deadline Near TULELAKE Potato growers and shippers in Modoc and Sis kiyou counties are reminded that Saturday, September 25 is the deadline on casting ballots in fa vor of the Northern California Po tato Marketing Order. The marketing order, If adopt ed, will provide growers with a long ranpe program for brinninff about improvement in the potato Industry in the fields of produc tion, marketing, research and seed Improvement, advertising and trade promotion, and correction of unfair trade practices. Sack Trial Continues PORTLAND Wl The trial of George Sack, accused of first de gree murder In the death of his wife last Feb. 16. continued In cir cuit court here Tuesday. Two detectives, witnesses for the prosecution, testified Monday that the first question Sack asked after viewing his wife's body in the city morgue was what had become of her Jewelry and personal effects. Her body was found in a clump of bushes in the Portland suburbs two days after her death. Other witnesses testified earlier they had seen Back's car in the area. Sack was accused by the district attorney of slaying his wife be cause of marital difficulties and because she had a financial Inter est in his business affairs. Sack, who has pleaded Innocent, has denied all knowledge of aow the woman died. Bargaining Seen Over Rival Pacts LONDON W Hard bargaining shaped up Tuesday over rival British and French plans lor re arming West Germany. Ministers conferred anew over old problems of Western defense that must be taken up again at a nine-power conference in Lon don Sept. 38. And something of the conflict to attend that horse trading session In which French Premiere Pierre Mendes-France is to call for Brit ish commitments that Britain has refused In the past was pictured in the editorial comment of Europe's newspapers, left, right and center. Prime Minister Churchill's gov ernment was warned by the inde pendent, pro-Empire London Dally Express not to "take the easy way of smoothing down French fears at Britain's expense." COMMITMENTS On the other side of the fence, the Liberal News Chronicle de clared "The British government must recognize that the time to make our utmost contribution has arrived and that no contribution can now be effective unless posi tive commitments are made." France's Western allies were taking a long, cautious look at the plan outlined by Mendes France Monday In a speech be fore the European consultative assembly at Strasbourg, As a substitute for the six-nation unified army of the European De fense Community treaty which hla National Assembly killed Aug. 30, he wants to tie West Germany in a tight continental alliance with Britain that would limit the fight ing Torces of all member states and control their arms production. Under both Mendes - Prance's proposals and the British plan put forward previously by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, the basis for rearming German troops would be the Brussels treaty of 1048. That treaty was originally drawn up by Britain, France, Bel- glum, -The Netherlands and Lux embourg for defense against any new German aggression. EDC PARTNERS The idea now Is to admit both West Germany and Italy-whloh would get all the EDO partners together again and revamp the rules. Instead of the unified army envisaged under the EDC, mem bers of the pact would rush their national armies to defense of any other partner attacked. The council of the Brussels treaty met In London Tuesday to consider technical problems In volved in admitting West Germany and Italy, In Rome, Premier Mario Scel ba's revised cabinet discussed the nine-power conference "In Hie light of the new Mendes-France proposal." A communique an nounced a report by Scelba on In ternational developments was ap proved by the cabinet and the gov ernment's political line Is un changed. U.S. Plywood Buys Box Mill NEW YORK W United States Plywood Corp, announced Tuesday Its acquisition for cash of all of the assets of the Shasta Box Co. In Northern California. The acquisition Includes sawmills at Douglas City and Redding, a box plant and planing mill at Red ding, and Shasta Box Co.'s timber in the Douglas City area, mainly pine and Douglas fir species. U. S. Plywood already has substantial timber holdings In the Douglas City area which will be co-ordinated with the newly acquired facil ities. Shasta Box operations will be continued, with Marshall Leeper, former president and manager of the box company, continuing as mnnager. Shasta will retain its properties In Merced County, Calif. Ike Approves Korean Aid DENVER Ifl President Eisen hower Tuesday approved a 100 million dollar lpcrease in military and economic aid to South Korea under a new program providing for training of Jet pilots. The President's action was an nounced at the summer White House by Harold E. Stassen, chief of the Foreign Operations Admin istration, after he had conferred with the chief executive. Stassen also told a news con ference that Elsenhower has ap proved a plan lor use of more American-mined coal about 10 million tons in the foreign aid program. Stassen said the stepup In mili tary and economic aid to South Korea means the U, S. will pro vide about 700 million dollars dur ing the year which began July I, instead of about 600 million. The additional money, Stassen said in reply to questions. Is be ing transferred from other foreign aid programs. The purpose of Increasing aid to South Korean, Stassen said. Is to check inflationary pressures re sulting from the war, and to make lt possible for South Korea to maintain a strong army of its own in the light of withdrawal of Amer ican divisions from that oouotry.
