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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1954)
: : - y 0 jL 4 Price Five Cents 11 Pares KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, J 954 Telephone gill Na. J934 L-3-'-,." "' " S. ,- I In The Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS These words are written on Tues day, October 5. Four weeks from today will be election day. The big gest political question In Oregon as of now, I'd say, is who will be our next U.S. senator? The race is between Guy Cor don, able, quiet, sincere, hard working, effective incumbent, and Dick Neubeiger, colorful, fluent, flamboyant challenger. Who will win? I wouldn't know. I'm no'seventh son of a seventh son. The" general impression at the moment Is -that big Multnomah county will go for Neuberger and that the rest of the state will go (as a whole, with various exceptions here and there) for Cordon. Sketchy polls that have been tak en tend to confirm this opinion. For a slant on what might hap pen on the second day of next month, let's go back to 1936 when Senator McNary able, quiet, sin cere, hard-working, effective in cumbentwas challenged by Wil lis Mahoney, who was colorful, flamboyant and wordy. McNary stood on his record as Cordon is doing now. Mahoney embraced a fascinating ISM Townsendism. Back in 1936, Townsendism was an issue to conjure with. We were still floundering in the bogs of de pression. Everybody was sour and disillusioned. Townsendism offered the glittering promise of SECUR ITY FOR EVERYBODY with fun ny money. Don't think the appeal of It wasn't great. It was. McNary had no panaceas to of fer. He just ran on his record which was a GOOD record. He had to leave the glamor to Mahoney who was a splendid promiser. In 1936. Mahoney promised Town- sendism make everybody rich with funny money. In 1954 Neuberger is promising Big Government Do Everything lor Everybody with funny money. What happened back in 1936? McNary won. It is true that he won by a nar. row squeak. This was the vote: McNary 199,332. Mahoney 193,822. It should perhaps bo mentioned that in the final pinch Multnomah county, which had been expected to go lor Mahoney and Townsend ism, went for McNary by a vote of approximately 73,000 to 70,000, Why didn't Mahoney win in 1936 as was generally expected? This, I think, is the reason: It's a serious moment when one walks into the voting booth and realizes that after all the whoop and the hurrah and the ballyhoo this is IT. I don't believe ANY BODY can tscape the sense of RESPONSIBILITY that comes when one faces the printed ballot lying there on the shelf before him and picks up the pencil to mark his choices and realizes that indi vidually it's up to him and this is lor keeps. That sense of responsibility at that last moment in the voting booth is what makes democracy work. Oregon s people have always had a deep sense of political re sponsibility. (Continued on page 4) : J .-V U V; GUESTS AT THE HOTEL DE BUSH were a careless lot last Sunday when they checked out and left their campfire still smoldering in the tinder-dry woods near Kings Cabin northeast of Chiloquin. The smoke was reported by an alert hunter and Hal Ogle (right), KFPA superin tendent, checked up and found the still hot fire. A neighboring camp had also left a hot fire. The party was thought to be from west of the mountains. Frank Hamilton, district supervisor of fire wardens and inspectors, was with Hal when- they looked over the sign at headquarters here following the opening of deer season. AWOLGI's Jump Over Road Blocks LEWISTON, Idaho P) Police arrested two young men Monday who they said walked away from an Army stockade at Hanford, Wash., stole an airplane and took a leisurely flight over road blocks set up below. Detective Lt. Raymond Rain- ville identified the pair as Duane Frederick McMahon, 22, of Clarks- ton,. Wash., and Raymond Whaley. is bum Idaho. They were ar rested in a hotel here. Rainvllle gave this account: McMahon and Whaley were trusties at the stockade.-Last Sat urday they went to the supply room and got some civilian clothes that had been checked in by other prisoners. They hid them i a trash barrel. On Sunday they put on the clothes and walked out through the dates. An alarm went out and police set up road blocks on the highways. But . McMahon and Whaley went to tile Richland airport and spent the night in a light Btinson 105 plane. The next morning, wun McMahon at the controls, the two flew off to Clarkston as police checked cars on the highway be low. Rainvllle said McMahon got in touch with his wife and son at Clarkston and took them for a ride in the airplane. They later went to a Lewlston hotel where Whaley also had a room, he said. The detective said neither offer ed any resistance and that both were being held for Army author ities. Rainvllle said officers checked the Clarkston airport alter a stolen plane report came in and traced the pair to the hotel. He said McMahon told htm he had taken flying lessons at Moscow, Idaho. Legislature's Agenda Full SALEM If) The Oregon Legis lature's committee on statutes and revisions already has received 131 requests for drafting bills although the 1955 session is three months away. Sam Haley, legislative counsel, said Tuesday the requests are from legislative interim committees, in dividual legislators and state de partments. Interim committees, which asked for more than half of the draftings, submitted propos als covering subjects they have been studying, Haley predicted that more bills will be ready lor Introduction than at any previous session. That would permit legislative committtees to get down to work a week, or more earlier than in 1953. . The statute revision committee Is compiling a report covering de fects in the revised code and 1953 laws which there have ben court interpretations. It will be submit ted to the Legislature with no rec commendatlons. V'- - 9&'docASpnctaI i I & ' 1 VERN PRIOR, a former OTI student and now employed by the city street depart ment, was working on a job on North Sixth. when the cameraman dropped by this morning. Verr (tyas at 1420 Etna. t- j! ;i Wet Yeather Moving West By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS It was wet and. cool over the mid-continent and Western areas Tuesday while mild weather pre vailed over most of the South and East. P.aln fell during the night in a belt from the eastern slopes of the Rockies eastward across Nebras ka parts of Kansas and South Dakota. Northern Illinois Missouri and into Indiana. Scattered showers also were re ported in the lower Rio Grande Valley and in the far Southwest. The cool air extended over the Northern tier of states lrom the Rockies to the Eastern Great Lakes region and southward into the Texas Panhandle and the Cen tral Mississippi Valley. Tempera tures were below freezing in sec tions of Montana and North Da kota. Generally fair skies prevailed in California but it was mostly cloudy in Washington and Oregon. JUNKET TOKYO tfl Foreign Minister Katsuo Okazaki left for Brazil Tuesday on a 24 - day goodwill junket to South America and the United States. He hopes to discuss problems of emigration, trade, cultural ex change and extension of air line service between Japan and tne Western hemisphere. Id 'P 'nl NYC Docks Crippled By ILA Walkout NEW YORK P) A strike by longshoremen In a wage dispute tied up the world's largest and busiest port Tuesday for the sec ond time in six months. Tugboats still were operating and big Mners were able to dock but there was nobody to unload the cargoes. There was no Immediate pros pect gf a settlement between the Inter national Longshoremens Assn. (ILA), independent, and the New York Shipping Assn., repre senting steamship lines and steve doring firms. ' Baltimore and other East Coast ports laid plans to handle cargoes expected to be diverted from Tew York as they were during a 29 day walkout last March and April. The American Export liner In dependent, first large ship to ar rive since the strike started Mon day midnight, berthed without dif ficulty. Tugs nosed her to the pier where non-longshore employes of the company handled the lines and the passengers' luggage. QUEEN IN The Cunard liner Queen Mary docked later in a similar manner. John F. Gehan, vice president of the American Export Line, ar riving on the Independence from Mediterranean vacation, told newsmen a long strike would mean permanent loss of port business. Police, mounted and on loot, pa trolled the waterfront. All 159 piers along the port'-, 350-mile waterfront except mili tary docks in Brooklyn and Stater. Island appeared to be hit by the strike. Strikers, wearing hastily-scrib bled sandwich signs reading, "ILA officially on strike", picketed all piers at which ships were berthed. with the exception of military piers exempted from the strike, UNION OUSTED The ILA, an Independent union since it was ousted by the AFL more than a year ago aa allegedly dominated , by -racketeers, -,was certified last August 'nS'Sole Bar gaining agent for the port's 25,000 longshoremen. Since then the ILA has been ne- kotiatins for a retroactive pay in crease back to Oct. 1, 1953, when its last contract expired. It de manded that wages, which now amount to $2.27 an hour, be upped eight cents and the employers welfare contribution be increased from five to seven cents an hour. The shipping association, repre senting 17 steamship and steve dore firms, made its final offer to the union Monday, agreeing to pay the eight-cent wage increase back to Oct. 1, 1953, and a two-cent wel fare boost back to April 1, 1954, However, it required that this be coupled with a new contract ex tending to Oct. 1, 1956. Union leaders quickly rejected the offer and voted to strike. Prize Bull Goes Berserk On TV TULSA, Okla. (fl) Reford Stout of Orlando, member of the Future Farmers of America, was being Interviewed about his champion bull In a live telecast over KOTV at the fair here. Evidently the camera had moved too close, the lights were too brlgnt and announcer Jack Alexander looked too unfriendly. . The bull made a lunge and Alex ander dropped the microphone and ran. Fair public relations man Ar nold Young picked up the mike gave a play-by-play description, but the bull turned and grounded him In the end zone, ripping his trou sers. The telecast wen, unannounced until Stout and his companions brought the star animal under con trol. SPEAKERS SPOKANE Iff! Secretary of Agriculture Benson and Secretary of the Interior Mcnay win Doin speak at the National Grange con vention here Nov. 10-19. Benson will address a Grange banquet Nov. 18 and McKay will sneak at a general session Nov, 12. Other speakers will include Joseph Belrne, vice president of the VIO and C. Clement French, president of Washington State College. Defendants Win Decision In Malpractice Suit Here Circuit Judge David R. Vanden berg rendered a decision Tuesday for the defendant! in a 114,000 malpractice action against Or. Raymond H. Engelcke, prominent Klamath Falls aurgeon, and the Klamath Medical Service Bureau, operator of Klamath Valley Hos. pital. The suit, tried last week before Judge Vandenberg without a Jury, was brought by Robert A. Smith of Bandon, Oregon, who claimed he was improperly treated and forced to leave the Klamath Falls hospital when be ran out ot funds. Ey v---. W -j i .-i-u 1'k ' t n iMimrn ' Mini-' i nmlinaii a ami Ti-ijiitiHtni" ' i ' 1 V -Y .-r-- -.--Triv-jt ai.'(.i WsS"? - ? " ''' $ w.,- -. . mift&j'j.y t . ..... i DEATH STRUCK FIVE TIMES when a truck and a hardtop convertible crashed headon, ' ona mile and a halt south of Tulelake on Highway 139 Monday night. At top, Sgt. H. L. Wright of the California Highway Patrol,' is shown inspecting the twisted wreckage of the hardtop. Below, D. R. Simpson, Jr., Tulelake volunteer ambulance driver, views the truck wreckage. Two persons also were critically injured in the accident. KASRU Slates Deer Fly-In Klamath Air Search and Rescue Unit has scheduled ts first deer hunt-fly-in for Sunday, October 10, at the Plnehurst strip between Klamath Falls and Ashland. In making, the announcement, Ben Burgess, flying chairman of KASRU, commented that the Pine hurst strip, about 30 air miles from Klamath Falls, lies in the heart of the black tail deer coun try. Complete arrangements have been made to take care of the Hy ing deer hunters. Breakfast, lunch and dinner or groceries may be bought at McVcy's Mountain View store near the strip. Fire permits. which are required to hunt in that area, may be secured alter arri val. Ned and Leonard Putnam and Earl Shearer will have trucks and cauinmcnt there to take care of the deer that are xiiiea. riuniers must havp their Oregon licenses and deer tags, however. Thin is the last scheduled fly-in for KASRU for the season, Bur cess stated, and flyers from all over Oregon and northern Califor- nla are expected. Those wishing to ao over Saturday night should bring sleeping b.igs. he added. TOL'R LONDON m Twenty labor partv nolitlcians and trade union officials left Tuesday for a five week tour of Communist China. Their leader, parliament mem ber Ellis Smith, said they were traveling as individuals and not as official delegates of their or gantzations. In announcing his decision Judge Vandenberg said Smith failed l P'ove his case either against the hospital or the surgeon. Smith was Injured in an auto mobile accident, near Tulelake two years ago. He was brought to Klamath Valley Hospital and Dr. Engekke was called to treat his crushed foot. Smith was represented at the trial by Attorney Burl Oreen ot Portland. Attorneys for the defen dants were Dick Maxwell of Klam ath Falls and Hugh Biggs of Port land. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Partly cloudy through Wednesday. Low Tuesday night 37, high Wednesday 60. High yesterday 68 Low last night 33 Precipitation last 24 hours 0 Since Oct. 1 0 Same period last year 0.03 Normal for period .14 Golfers Urged To "Be Like Ike" LOS ANGELES IIP) Be like Ike. That's President Elsenhower's pas tor's sermon for today to Sunday golfers. The Rev. Edward L. R. Elson of the National Presbyterian Church, Washington, here for a speech, told newsmen yesterday: The average Sunday golfer should be smitten in his conscience by the reflection that President Eisenhower, himself an avid golf- finds Sunday church attend ance indispensable to his life." . .l!!"'.".,"l v; ..- 4 J 'J-. U Sf PACKETS MUST BE FILLED for the many volunteer workers who will canvass the county for donations to the United Fund-Red Cross drive October 20 to 30. Helping stuff the envelopes this year were members of the Girl Scouts, an agency of United Fund. Among the young workers were, from the left, Jan Oviatt, Judy Purser and Dixit) VanHool. Crippled Ship Lands Safely SAN FRANCISCO 1B Eleven men threw all their baggage into the ocean and even tossed out parts of the plane in helping a Navy patrol bomber limp on one of its two engines for half of the 2,400 miles from Honolulu. The plane landed safely yester day at Half Moon Bay, south of here. At that, the fliers heard the one good engine sputter 400 miles out when the Neptune was 1,000 feet above the Pacific. Only a quick adjustment of fuel mixture pre vented a crash into the sea. The port engine caught fire when the Neptune was 50 miles beyond the halfway "point of no return." The pilot, Lt. Robert E. Combs, 25. of Denver, feathered the en gine and the wind blew out the lire. Car Piles Into Truck Near Tule TULELAKE Five persons axe dead and two others in critical condition following one of the worst highway traffic acoidents la this area in recent years. The dead lrom a headon colli sion Monday night between a truck and a hardtop convertible on High way 139 one and a ball miles south of Tulelake, were: Clifford Brown, 50, potato con tractor. Ina Bell Thornhill, 24. , George Cofield, 35. Mercy Cofield, 40. ' Mrs. Donna Brown, 35. All of the dead were residents o the Bakersfield, California are, and had been working during ti e potato harvest near Tulelake lor . several years. The bodies were tak en to O'Hair's Memorial Chapel in Klamath Falls. The injured were Lenora Par ker, 30, Ventura, California, and R. L. Thornhill, believed to be the husband of Ina Bell Thornhill. They are in critical condition at Klam ath Valley Hospital, Klamath Falls. According to Sgt. H. L. Wright of the California highway patrol, end Gerald (Red) Wilson, Siskiyou county coroner, the Cofield broth- ers were traveling south in a 1954 truck and the other victims were in a northbound hardtop convert ible. The accident occurred near Siskiyou County line In Modoc Coun ty. 1 The officers said the hardtop, at a high rate ol speed, on the wrong side ol the highway, crashed head, on into the truck. The impact was so great .that the crash could be heard a mile lrom the scene. The engine lrom the truck was hurled 85 leet lrom the point of impact Into a ditch at the side of the high way. The front wheels of the truck were ripped from the frame and catapulted into a yard on the op posite side of the highway. The hardtop was reduced to a pile of twisted Junk. With bodies strewn about the highway, traffic was held up one hour lor a mile in each direction while officers made a preliminary Investigation of the collision. It took two hours to extricate the bodies of Mrs. Thornhill and Brown from the wreckage. - Within a short time after the fa. tal crash another car plunged into a dry irrigation ditch half mile . away. C. J. Townsend, Anchor Ho tel. Klamath Falls, was taken to Klamath Valley Hospital suffering cuts and bruises. Four other occu pants of the car escaped Injury. They were Ernest Ladnier, F. M. Henderson, Dean Acuff and Willie Owens, all residents of the Newell Labor Camp. ' Injured in the wreck were taken to Klamath Valley Hospital by the Tulelake ambulance. Kaler's .am- b u 1 a n c e took the bodies to O'Hair's. Freak Accident Injures Woman MALIN Mrs. Eileen (Patrick) O'Connor, 47, Box 735, Malln, is in Klamath Valley Hospital, the victim of an unusual potato harvest accident this morning. Mrs. O Connor, employed on the Allen Prescott harvesting crew was working on the Rudy Jeiinek ranch on the Poe Valley Road north of town. Apparently she was standing be hind a pickup truck driven by George Smalley. Malln rancher. who was assisting with the work. Smalley backed up the pickup, running over Mrs. O Connor. In the confusion of shouts by eye witnesses, Smalley drove ahead, running over the victim the sec ond time. She was brought to Klamath Val ley Hospital by the Tulelake Am bulance. Extent of her Injuries were not known, pending X-rays.
