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Newspaper Page Textu In The- Day's lews t . SJ-k..-.-y- ,. - '."" By FRANK JENKINS I'd like to otter for your atten tion in this space today a couple 01 statements made mis morning by Undersecretary of Commerce Walter Williams in a speech to the annual, convention of the Amer ican Bankers association at At lantic City. Here's statement No. 1: "Net personal Income of Amer icans (meaning what Americans nave left to spend, for all pur poses, after they have paid their taxes) poured into family pocket- books (not corporation treasuries) this summer at a rale of 250 bil lion dollars a year THE HIGH EST EVER ACHIEVED. Here's statement No. 2: i "Consumers spent their money on goods and services at the rate of 233 billion dollars annually, or aooui wree onuon uouars muie than In 1953 (1953 is generally be lieved to have been the best year m our nisiory.r I realize, of course, that In an election year NOBODY believes ANYTHING that ANYBODY says any more. for the sake of argu ment, that what Williams said in Atlantic City this morning MIGHT be true In this summer of 1954 which everybody Is crying about Americans have had in their pock ets more SPENDABLE money than they ever had before In our history. Shutdowns and unemployment? Sure I ' we've had 'em. Here's why: , After we quit burning up a large share of it In shooting war, our fabulous American production machine produced .for a while more goods and services than we consumed. The result was a tem porary surplus while we were re adjusting from snooting war xo me present (uneasy) state of peace. But we're catching up on it. ' What has happened? I think that out-of-office politi cians who want to get in are kid ding us about what has been go ing on. Let me cite for your attention a statement made at The Dalles on Saturday bv Al Ullman one of our Three Musketeers of the New Deal In Oregon. He said: "The (Eisenhower) adminlstra- tion's CALCULATED PLAN to KNOCK DOWN FARM PRICES providing great benefits to 'the SPECULATORS. Is being reflected in rising unemployment in many predominantly agricultural areas. The farmer Is the backbone of Eastern Oregon's economy and 1 when his buying power is cut by reduction of farm prices the ef feet Is felt on every Main Street." Stop and think. Try the sound device of putting yourself In the other fellow's place and figuring out what you would do In his sit uation. Use your head. If vou were IN OFFICE and wanted to stay in would you, cat culatedlv and deliberately, set out to bankrupt the farmers, who have a lot of votes, just to get the votes of the speculators, who are com paratively scarce? I doubt It. Consider this fact: SPECULATION FLOURISHES WHEN -PRICES ARE RISING CONSTANTLY as they do tn periods of unchecked inflation Speculation Is buying low and sell. Ing high. When prices are rising constantly, as they do In periods of inflation, it's duck soup for the speculator. In such periods, all he has to do Is BUY ENOUGH and hang on long enough and he can't help getting rich. Take a good, factual look back over these years of steadily rising inflation. Consider the fabulous luxury hotels that have been built in Miami and Honolulu and Las Vegas and such like hot spots. Who has been keeping ithese $100-a-day places going? Has It been the workers for wages? Has it been the common run of peo ple? Not on your life. It has been the speculators, the racketeers and such cattle wbo flourish like the green bay tree in periods of wild inflation. One of our great troubles lies in the fact that we know so many things that ain't so. One of these things that AIN'T SO is the allega tion implied or otherwise that INFLATION IS GOOD FOR US, and If we can just go back to It it will be WONDERFUL. It will be good for the specu lators, of course. But It won't be good for the rest of us. If continued long enough, it will ruin all of us except the spec ulators, who will have theirs salted down. SHOOTING HOURS Oregon October 19 OPEN CLOSE 5:54 5:09 California October 19 OPEN CLOSE 5:50 5:23 A BRIGHT FUTURE for Klamath Falls was predicted by Roger Lewis, assistant secretary of the Air Force, when he inspected the municipal airport site for a jet interceptor base. Lewis said the base will add $4,000,000 annually to the local payroll and provide hundreds of new residents for Klamath Falls. Shown II to rl Attorney George Proctor, Secretary Lewis, Mayor Paul Landry and George P. Davis. U.S. Air Force Officio Warns Of Need For American By LYLE DOWNING Roger Lewis, assistant secretary of the Air Forco, who spent a busy nine hours in Klamath Falls Sat urday warned that in this "age of peril" America must maintain su premacy in the skies. Lewis was entertained at a civic dinner Saturday evening in the Wl- nema Hotel. He also toured the municipal airport, where the gov ernment will build a 54,000,000 Jet interceptor base next year. "In the air as in poker," he told the dinner audience, "there is no second best 'hand. If we are to maintain the supremacy in the air which is now ours, we must take advantage of aerodynamic and electronic advances. "American pilots must have un. der them the finest equipment that science and technology can uro- vide. The technological advance since the Introduction of the Jet engine has doubled the speed and altitude of our Air Force. I am convinced that the future 'holds even greater possibilities. Rocket engines are here and nuclear power plants are not far off." Lewis, who came here primarily to discuss plans for the jet inter ceptor base with Mayor Paul Land ry and other city officials, said the Air Force project will add at least $4,000,000 annually to the Klamath rails payroll. The Air Force executive wag In troduced at the Winema dinner by Mayor Landry. H. O. Juckeland Ike Approves Hurricane Aid WASHINGTON W President Eisenhower buckles down to a full post-vacation schedule Monday after taking emergency action to mane government aid immediate ly available to the storm-stricken Carollnas. i The President, acting at the re quest of the governors of North and South Carolina, sliced through rea rape Sunday to authorize the use tram his special disaster re- nei iuna oi sucn amounts "as are necessary to supplement state and local efforts." Hurricane Hazel, which swept up the Eastern United States late last week, did extensive damage to property and brought consid erable human suffering in the Car olinas. White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said there was no estimate of the federal funds which would be needed. The American Red Cross said It had provided shelter for approximate ly 6,000 persons in the hurricane area, had fed most of them and had helped evacuate nearly 1,000 persous. Exploding Tank Car Siarts Portland Rail Yard Fire PORTLAND UH Propane gas from a railroad tank car exploded shortly before dawn Monday, threatening for a time huge oil storage tanks and demolishing some two dozen freight cars. No one was reported killed or injured seriously. The blast hurled flaming debris over a wide area in the Spokane, Portland and Seattle freight yard and around the tanks, located In an Industrial area about four milC3 northwest of the downtown business district. Officials at the scene said a conservative estimate of the loss would run between 300.000 and $500,000. That did not Include damage to homes and businesses within 3 miles of the blast, which was fell as far away as Battle Ground, Wash., some 30 miles to the northeast. City and county firemen rushed equipment to the area and within two hour had under control the flames that had lapped danger ously near the 90.000-barrel oil storage tanks. They then confined the fire to the burning tank car. The blast knocked one storage tank, which was empty, eight Inches off Its base and badly dented other tanks. Most of these were filled with fuel nil. which Is not so dangerously explosive. As official reconstructed events, some of the propane gas leaked from a seam of the tank car and Air Supremacy In KF Talk was master of ceremonies. The subject of Lewis' talk was: "Air- power the Keystone of our Na tional Defense." Soviet Russia, according to Lew is, is making rapid headway in the development of long range Jet bombers similar to America's lat est and best. "The most effective deterrent against Red aggression," he de clared, "lies in the ability of our long range bombers to deliver su perior numbers of nuclear weapons against the enemy." U.S., Korean Dispute Told SEOUL W") A showdown neared Monday on the continuing dispute between the United States and South Korea on the 700 million dollar U.S. economic and military aid program for this war-ravaged country. Gen. John E. Hull, U.S. Far East commander, was reported ready to fly to Seoul to lay a package aid bill before South Ko rean President Syngman Rhee on a "take it or leave it" basis. Sources said here Hull has given Rhee' a memorandum listing sev eral demands that must be met before the aid program for the 1954-55 fiscal year can start mov ing. The demands include: 1. The Koreans must establish a realistic exchange rate between the hwan and the dollar. J. They must supply the United States with lnformaton on dollar holdings in the Korean treasury. 3. They must reach a settlement on areas of procurement obvious ly in relation to trade with Ja pan. ... 4. They must make positive moves to combat inflation. The present legal exchange rate between the hwan and the dollar is 180-1. The black market rate is 600 to 800-1. The United States wants at least 254-1. The South Koreans want it to remain at 180. POTATO SHIPMENTS SEASONS 53-54 54-55 Daily Truck Ore. 11 5 Dally Rail Ore. 18 14 Dally Truck Calif. 7 1 Daily Rail Calif. 7 10 Dally Total ORE. & CALIF. 43 30 Monthly Total 224 627 Season's Total 338 761 formed a vnnor whicn seoneri ti a highway Just west of the freight yards. A spark from the exhaust of an automobile apparently got me vapor, mis carried back " uie car and touched off terrific explosion. winoows were smashed and onors lorn off buildings in afBiBciy populated nillside area three miles west of the scene. It shook houses throughout the city, Biy(ening uiousanas of residents. itaoio stations and newspaper switchboards were swamnpri wiin calls. Some residents thought an eannquaae naa nit. The propane tank car was In a frciRht train being made up for movement into upstate Oregon value of its contents was not immediately known. a car cierK. a. Schacffer, was the only one to notice the leaking gas. He was reporting It to superior when t h e explosion occurred. The only known Injured person was John Rawlins, who was with another workman in a laboratory at an asphalt plant 150 yards awav. Rawlins was knocked from a chair and suffered a cut neck. Ron Williams, a Standard Oil Co. foreman, had returned to his plant office from an inspection tour near the blast scene only seconds before the explosion. The fire and wreckage did not halt traffic on adjoining 6Pai6 main line tracks. Lewis also stressed the import' ance of the defense warning sys tem. Neither ouf radar nor our ground observer net is complete yet," he explained. "Radar nets require much money and time to build. Ground observer nets re quire many more people than have volunteered so far." The Air Force executive predict ed a busy future for Klamath Falls airport. "In a few months," he said, "this airport will become the scene of great activity. Runways will' be lengthened so that fast Jets can use them. Large fuel tanks will be installed. We will build hangars, barracks, mess halls and office buildings. Several hundred new persons will become part of your community. During the coming year, the government will spend nearly $5,000,000 in Klamath Falls. When he landed at the municipal airport in a C97 Stratocruiser, Lewis was welcomed by a civic committee which included: George P. Davis, business leader. Mrs. Olive Cornett, Republican national committeewoman, " Attor ney George Proctor; Elmer Lem- ler, chairman of the Republican County Central Committee, County Commissioner Jerry Rajnus, H. O. Juckeland, municipal av 1 a t i o n committee, Russ Avery, airport manager: Judge U. E. Reeder of the county court, and Judge Frank Blackmer of the municipal court, UF Campaign Plans Made The 1955 Klamath County United Fund-Red Cross campaign will gt underway Wednesday, October 20, with a kickoff breakfast which all volunteer workers are urged to at tend. The no-host breakfast will be held In the Camas Room of the WInema Hotel beginning at 8 a.m. and ending promptly at 9 a.m. Workers will receive Instruction and inspiration from campaign leaders to make this year's drive a success. The meal will be served by candlelight while a top-star ra dio show is heard and a color- sound film is shown. W. S. McBride, county cam paign chairman, will give a brief informational talk supplemented by instructional slides. Coordinator of breakfast plans this year Is Rex Dye, chairman of the county's first United Fund - Red Cross drive last year. He urges all workers to be present for the kickoff event, which he considers one of the high points In the year around efforts of Klamath citizens to make ours a better community. This year's goal is $117,132, about $10,000 more than last year's quota. ?v f ?- TOM FAY, 1 84 1 Esplanade, pautei at hit work for the Hilton Distributing Company this morning at iht 9 o'clock phofographar cams by. 1uW b KLAMATH Price Five Cents 14 Pares . Employers Sign With Truck Union NEW YORK A two-day trucking tie-up that threatened the economic life of the metropolitan area seemed to be petering out Monday. Employers flocked to local of fices of the AFL Teamsters to sign up on union terms despite (the threat of one employer spokesman that a 10-mlllion dollar damage suit would be filed during the day against the teamsters and seven companies which had earlier dis rupted the unified employer front by signing agreements. ' There were, however, sharply conflicting estimates as to the vol- ume of trucking into and out of New York City. Cltv police at the Holland and Lincoln tunnels the two vehicular arteries under the Hudson River to New Jersey said big and lit tle cargo carriers were moving without any evidence of strike." . iBut the Port of New York authority, which op e r a t e s the tubes, said truck traffic was only 25 per cent of normal through the Holland tunnel at 9:30 a.m., while almost no trucks were moving through the Lincoln, tunnel. It was possible that the reported low volume of haulage was due to the delay between signing con tracts and getting trucks back on the road. Some 23.000 general cargo tiuck drivers- and helpers walked out Saturday in a wide area from Poughkeepsie, N.Y., to Trenton, N.Y. . . The effects were not felt Immed iately, however,' because of : the normal weekend lull. At mid-morning Monday David Kaplan; chief union economist. said firms employing o.auu oi 11, 800 New York City drivers had agreed to the demanded 25-cent hourly wage-welfare package. Knnlan said flaty that "the emergency is over." ' Earlier, the employers' chief ne gotiator, Joseph M. Adelizzi, had said that the only hope for an end to the strike lay in federal mediation. (Earlier Story on Page 2) British Hunf Terrorists OMAGH, Northern Ireland 11 Police began a house to house search Monday for wounded mem bers of a gang which made a bloody Sunday raid on a British army depot In this town near the Southern Ireland border. Five soldiers were shot or slug ged In the 10-mlnute gun bnttle. Two were In a serious condition. Police captured eight men they Identified as member of the il legal terrorist Irish Republic Ar my. The captives were charged with attempted murder. Army officials said at least two of the raiders suffered bullet wounds and were carried away by their companions. A wide area was cordoned off to prevent their escape into the Republic of Ire land. 15 miles to the south. Oregon Potato Growers To Compete For Klamath Basin Spud Festival Honors MERRILL Potato growers of Southern and Central Oregon are eyeing the 1954 state championship title on commercial Netted Gein and White Rose potatoes and on certified seed of the two varieties. Competition at the 18th annual Klumath Basin Potato Festival lo be held here October 22-23 Is ex pected to be keen with growers of the Bend, Redmond and Madras areas expected to challenge Mer rill, Malm, Klamath Falls, Henley and Bonanza growers in all divi sions. Two years ago. Bend took home most of the top prizes. Champion ship spots returned lo Southern Oregon last year with Bend grow ers capturing several second and thirds place ribbons. Harvesting In the basin will be pnst the peik bv fostlvpl time. Judges of exhibits are sold at auction following the banquet on Friday nlRht, money lo be divided bi'lwcen the hmh schools of Mer rill, Malin, Henley. Bonanza and Tulolakp. represented In the royal court. Exhibits will be left until the close of the festival on Satur day. U.S. Senator Wallace P. Bennett, Utah, will speak at the banquet Friday evening, opening day of the festival and will crown Queen Mary Johnson, Merrill's winning CHndidate for the crown. Membera of her court. Princesses Agnes Un ruh, Malin, Maureen Lyon, Henley, Ink jwWi FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER It, 1954 Telephone 8111 Speech To Be. Broadcast - Radio stntlon KFLW, at 8 p.m. tonight, will broadcast a tape recording of "The Truth About Ilewbuerger," a speech made by Oregon State Senator Gene Grown of Grants Pass at a Republican rally held here last week. New K: Falls School Site Announced Kembers of the Klamath Union High School Board, today an nounced the purchase of 27 acres of land in the south suburban area as a " site for a new high school building. While the purchase at this time does not indicate plans for a build ing program in the immediate fu ture, the land was purchased, ac cording to board members, to pro tect needs for future high school expansion, , The acreage, in three units, Ue3 west of the U.S. Reclamation Bu reau canal, south of the Oregon California and Eastern Railway tracks and east of Summers Lane. The property has 200 feet of front age on Summers Lane. The larger of the three units, 19 acres, was purchased from Dr. J. Q. Patterson, Klamath Falls, Seven acres was bought from A, M, Gibson and one acre from Curt is Cramer. Total purchase price waa $23,000. An additional piece of adjacent property is being negotiated or in ordet. to -meet the recomnjenda- tlons of the building consultant of the state department of education, A. L. Beck. Beck, here recently to look over the gtound, recommended that the high rchool board buy ample ground to provide for full facili ties, including an athletic field, ample parking space and other needs of a iarge high school. ' Thn ground, slightly higher than some of the surrounding terrain, will have no drainage problem, a facte r of Importance in the adja cent area, according to Harold Ashley, clerk of the high school board. The location of the proposed new high school will be near four ele mentary schools, Peterson, Alta mnnt, Shasta; the new Twyla Fer guson school to be built within a year, and the Altamont Junior High School. The site purchase was financed (hruugh the special Improvement fund set up for buying sites, build ings, plants, equipment and for maintenance. Aid The United Fund Drive Give to help help to rive. Support health, welfare and character building agencies through your Un 1 1 ed Fund, Klamath County's second Unit ed Fund -. Red Cross drive itarta October 20. Joan Daley, Bonanza, and Marylou Steyskal, Tulelake. A turkey dinner la to be served family style by women of the Mer rill Presbyterian Church. There will be fish on the menu for those for menu the on fish be will who desire it. Bervlng will start at 6:30 p.m. with the grand entry of the royal court and the crown ing to Immediately precede serv ing. Tickets for the dinner are on sale at the Merrill Pharmacy, Hodges Brothers, the Ben Franklin Store and Merrill Clothing or may be had from any member of the Lions Club. A square dance sponsored by the Merrill Orange will follow the din ner in the community hall. Numerous entries have been reg lslered fur the parade at 10 a.m. Saturday morning. To prevent conflict of the Merrill parade and the Bnnual OTI Home coming parade, both scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday, October 23. OTI made application to the city coun cil for the homecoming parade lo travel down Main Street Saturday alternoon Instead of at 10 a.m. The Klamath Union High School band and the Henley High School band are both scheduled to be In the line of march at Merrill. The parade will led by John Colwell, as marshal of the day, followed by the queen's float, floats from several towns, marching units and com-. No. 2945 Anderson Preliminary Hearing Set James Quinton Anderson, 32 - year-old Beatty rancher, accused of a "night of terror" assault on Medford automotive dealer and his wife a week ago, demanded a preliminary hearing when he ap peared Monday before District Judge D. E. Van Vactor to an swer to a charge of assault with Intent to kill. At the request of the defendant's attorney, Edwin K. Driscon, tne hearing was set for 10 a.m. Oc tober 36. Anderson claims he was not In volved in the shooting affray on the Klamath Indian Reservation. He said it was a case of mistaken identity. The defendant told ar resting officers at the time of the alleged crime he was in bed and asleep at his home near Beatty. The complaint, signed by Albert Sidney Menasco Jr. of Medford, also names Wayne Rodney Scott, 23, also of Beatty. Menttsco told State Police SgU Earle Tichenor that at about 2 a.m. on October 10, he and his wife were driving along a lonely road near Beatty In a pickup truck; Ac cording to his story, another pick up with two. men and a woman in It overtook .the Menasco vehicle at a fork In the road. Menasco said the two men In the other truck opened fire with rifles. Menasco said he speeded awav but was forced to stop at 4he foot of a hill when a bullet flat tened one of the tires on his pick up. Menasco said he and his wife fled into a clump of brush and hid under a log. Until alter day light, he added, they were under almost constant gunfire. Then the gunman left the scene. Scott waived preliminary hearing. Judpe Van Vanctor ordered" bim held for the grand Jury. In lieu of $5,000 ball, he was remanded to the county jail. Anderson is at lib erty under a $10,000 property bond posted by friends. Klamath Fires Hit New High Klamath Falls set a record Sun dny with Its 300th fire of the year, The record to date tops that of 1952, when 298 fires listed at the Central Fire Department were the most In one year in the depart ment's records. The 300th fire, at the Leonard Gilchrist home, 2235 Darrow, was caused by a flooded oil stove, but resulted In no damage according to Fire Chief Roy Rowe. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Partly cloudy through Monday night; becoming ralnv Tuesday. High Tuesday 63; low Monday night 33, High yesterday - - 60 Low last night - 34 Preclp. last 24 hours trace Klnce Oct. 1 07 Same period last year .... .78 Normal for period - M mercial entries. The parade will form on the grndo school grounds where Judg ing will be completed before it moves out to the main street, Barbecue pits will hold enough barbecued beef for 2,500 to 3,000 guests. Serving will be at the com munity hall with arrangements to be made for double lines. U.S. Senator and Mrs. Guy Cor don and U S. Congressman and Mrs." Sam Coon are expected for the Soturday afternoon festivities that will Include a league football gitme between the chlloquin Panth ers and the Merrill Huskies. There will be a drill by the girls athletic team between halves. Immediately following the games, prizes will be given out at the. exhibit hall In the high school gymnasium. Entertainment Is planned with exhibition dances by Lelty Wilder, his wile and young sons on the program. A new Innovation tills year Is a rnrir-o at the Hill Ranch north of Merrill sponsored by the Merrill Rodeo Club. Events will start at 6:30 p.m. Saturday and will be continued Sunday afternoon, Octo ber 24, atarting at 3 o'clock. The harvest ball will be In the community hall with Baldy'a Band furnishing the music. City streets and store windows are being decorated this wtek. There will carnival concessions sod eats booths on Front Street, '54 Hunting Death Toll Now Twelve The accidental discharge of a shotgun Sunday morning took the life of Gerald Eugene Johnson, 16, Route 1, Box 658, southeast of here. The accident occurred on the hill road northwest of Merrill near the Scott McKendree ranch. John son, driver of the car, waa accom panied by his brother Duane War ren Johnson, 12, Dennis LeRoy Fiegi, 12, and LeRoy Rudolph Schlecht, 15, on a bunting trip. According to the story told state police officers and County Coroner Dr. George Adler, by the Flegl lad, Schlecht and Fiegi were in the back seat and Schlecht was trying to eject a 16 gauge shell that had Inadvertently been placed in the chamber of a 12 gauge shotgun. i Johnson had pulled to the side of the road and was about to atop when the gun discharged, the charge of shot striking, him just behind the right ear. He died in stantly. The car went out of con trol, through the fence and waa finally stopped by his companions. The three boys placed Johnsons body in the rear seat and drove to his home a quarter mile away and called the officers. m By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Two persons were killed and two others were wounded one of them gravely in week end bunting accidents In Oregon. Meantime, search continued In the Fanno Mountain . area, west of Dallas for a family of three, missing since Oct. 9 on a bunting trip. Dead are Gerald Eugene John son, 16, of Merrill, and Philip Stephen Mlnear, 12, of Medford. State police reported Fred Warden, SO, also of Medford, aald he was hunting In the Griffin Creek area Saturday when ho thought he saw a deer and fired. The bullet went through the Mlnear boy's abdomen and then struck Sharon Ruth O'Connors, 12, in the arm. The two youngsters wer. hiking- la the wond at the urn. or un accident. " .' Mlnear.' aoft 'of m."i1 Mrs.' Robert Mlnear, died in a Medford hospital flv. hours after the shoot ing. The girl's wound waa not considered serious. Arlan Young, 31. Lebanon, suf fered a critical gun shot wound while deer hunting in the Green Mountain area, southeast of Sweet Home Sunday. State police officer Harry Hansen reported that Roy W. Rice, Leba non, told them he fired at what he thought was a deer. Young was shot in the stomach. Rice and other members of his party carried Young out of the woods to Bweet Home. He later was taken to a Salem hospital. The weekend accidents raised Oregon's hunting death toll to 12. Five were shot to death in gun accidents and seven died from natural causes. ,Two others were killed In an automobile accident while on a hunting trip. Eight persons have suffered non fatal gun shot wounds. Last year at this time 11 were dead from heart attacks, four were dead In gun accidents and six had suifered from bullet wounds. Search was resumed Monday for Norman Zeiszlcr, 23; his wife, Esther, 33, and her son, Harvey Huff, 14, all of Newport, missing since Oct, 9 In the Fanno Mountain region. Sunday's search by some 200 , persons, Including national guards men, failed to develop any clue as to the whereabouts of the missing trio. WALLACE FOSTER BEN NETT, Republican U. S. Sana tor from Utah, will be quest speaker t the 18th annual Klamath Basin Potato Festi val to bt held at Merrill start ing Friday. Senator Bennett it past president of the Na tional Glass Distributors As sociation, was president in 194? of the National Asso ciation of Manufacturers and has served in th U.S. Sen ete since 1950.