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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 29, 1954)
In The : Day's lews .... flumn-rf-j t 1,1 ., - il--nmwt'1tapvftirTVTff"' v-J .1 lW . 'k '. By FRANK JENKINS As these words are written, a most Interesting political campaign is nearing its end. It is interesting because, after nearly a decade and a half of war economy, we are readjusting to a peace economy. It isn't easy. In a war economy, the engine runs at wide-open throttle. It has to run at wide-open throttle, for in wartime we must have produc tion and more production and then STILL MORE PRODUCTION. Modern wars are won or lost on the ability of the combatants to produce. When production is high, we have at least the illusion of great prosperity. For the moment, the shooting wars are ended. It Is an uneasy peace, it Is true. But history tells us that a period of uneasy peace usually lollows a prolonged period of war. History tells us also that periods of uneasy peace are often followed by periods of solid peace. Maybe It will be that way this time. i We all bope so. But readjustment from war booms to a normal peacetime econ '"imy are never easy. It's hard to t.iorgot the booming days when everybody had a job, when over time was abundant, when prices were nigh and going steadily high er and wages were high and going eteaauy mgner. In short . When we never had it so good. The Eisenhower administration has had to face this readjustment. In doing so, it has displayed a great deal of courage. In this year of 1954, when the indexes by which we measure what we call prosper ity have been steadily declining, there has never been a day when the President and his advisers have not known that by turning on the spigot of inflation they could restore the ILLUSION of prosperity. They have had the courage to refrain from doing so. I admire thern for it for we can't get back to a normal peacetime economy if we keep turning on the spigot of inflation tq BRING BACK THE BOOM. Bo Since we MUST get back to a normal peacetime economy I hope the Elsenhower adminla. tration is sustained in the balloting next Tuesday and I shall do what I can to bring that about. All I can do in tn vntn fnr nanHI. fciftes who In my opinion will sup port and sustain the Elsenhower administration in Its really coura geous attempt to readjust our econ omy to a normal peacetime basis. That is all anyone can do. I shall of course vote to reelect Senator Cordon. He is an able. sincere, hard - working member of the senate. He has represented Oregon well and he has served his country well. In the Second congressional dis- , irict of Oregon, I shall vote-for the reelection of Sam Coon. He has represented this district ably, and I think he is entitled to another term. I think Eastern. Oregon will profit by giving him another term. On the same principle, and with out seeking to discredit his Demo cratic opponent, I shall vote to reelect Governor Patterson. He has been an able and conscientious gov ernor, and I think the state of Ore gon will profit by giving him an other term. In Klamath county, I will cast my vote for Henry Semon, Demo crat, and Ed Geary, Republican, for representatives in the legisla ture. This is without any thought of criticism of Mrs. Lowell, Demo crat, who is also seeking the office. Semon and Geary are able and experienced and influential mem bers of the Oregon house of rep resentatives and in the immediate years to come Klamath county must have that kind of represen tation at Salem, Great progress and development lie ahead of us and if we are to achieve what we are setting out to achieve we must have experienced representation In the legislature. For state senator from this dis trict and again with no desire to discredit his able Democratic opponent I will vote for Oscar Kittredge. , if ' . "liMi.. fa - 4 I ,V h T ' 'l i V IT WAS A HOT TIME in the old town last night lor Klamath Union High School football follower when a big pre-qsme bonfire rally wet held near the end of Kit Canon Way last' night. A group of Pelican lupportert it shown celebrating pre-game activities in front of the huge fire. Game time for tonight's game between Klamath Falls and Grants Piss it I o'clock. Early story on sports page. CAMPAIGNING FOR CORDON. U.S. Senator Frank Barrett "of Wyoming shakes the hand of Eva Cook, congratulating her on being from Wyoming, also, and extending best wishes for the election of the Republican candidates. From left: E. A. Geary, candidate to succeed himself as state representative; Mrs. Cook, candidate for county treasurer; Senator Barrett, and Oscar Kittredge, candidate for Oregon state senator. Senator Barrett appeared with six other out-of-state senators in Portland Thursday evening on a radio panel in support of the reelection of Senator Guy Cordon. Wyoming Senator Barrett Lauds Cordon's Senate Record In K. Falls Interview "My purpose in coming to Ore gon is to pay my respects to my good friend, Senator Guy cordon,' announced U.S. Senator Frank Barrett Thursday m Klamath Falls. Barrett, from Lusk, Wyom ing, served in the House of Rep resentatives, was then elected gov ernor of Wyoming and is now In his second year of a six-year term In the U.S. Senate. Concerning; Senator Cordon, the Wyoming senator said: "I met Guy Cordon more than 12 years ago when he was In Washington rep- resenting public lands counties of the Western states. He was very helpful to me on a Jackson Hole legislative matter In which I was involved. , 'I formed a very healthy regard for Senator Cordon and I can tell you he Is a man with Intimate knowledge of all the problems of the public lands states in the West. I was delighted when he was ap pointed to the senate. 'I am proud to be associated with a man of the standing of Guy Cordon. I would rate him as one of the top 13 senators from both sides of the aisle. Any one of the 11 western states would be proud and highly honored to have one of their senators chairman of the In terior1 and insular Affairs Commit tee as Senator Cordon is. (I am only a member of the committee and we think that Is preYty good). As If that ' chairmanship isn't enough, Senator Cordon is chair man of the Interior Committee Ap propriations Subcommittee, Those two posts ere the most powerful for any senator from the western SHOOTING HOURS Oregon October 30 OPEN CLOSE 6:07 4:50 California October 30 OPEN CLOSE 6:06 5:03 states. In addition, he is a member of the joint committee on atomic energy. "Senator Cordon Is not only one of the hardest working members of the United States Senate, but he is also one of the most intelligent and effective members. I can say further that he does more for his state than any other western sena tor does. I happen to know, be cause I have observed his activi ties and I know he accomplished so much with so little notice among Farm Water Meet Planned All Klamath Basin farmers are urged to attend a meeting to be held next Wednesday evening at me Merrill Recreation Hall at 7:30. The meeting, called for the eve ning following the general election. has been arranged by the board of directors of the Klamath Irri gation District, at the request of various farm groups. Its purpose 1b to allow full dis cussion on the 'proposal of taking over the operation and . mairtteui aflce' contract of the irrigation dis trict wnicn comes up for election on Tuesday, November 9. Representatives of the Bureau of Reclamation have been asked to attend, also, In order that all ques tions on the proposition can be an swered and the various phases of the measure made completely clear in the minds of those eligible to vote. The operation and maintenance contract covers more than 40,000 acres . of land under Irrigation in Klamath County extending as far south as the Oregon - California line. The meeting Is open to the public and not restricted to the voters. The directors emphasize the im portance of all interested persons attending this meeting, November 3, 7:30 p.m., In the Merrill Rec reation Hall. Oregon Laws Confuse Men Two Arkansas brothers had "law trouble" Friday because they were unversed in the ways of Ore gon game law enforcement offi cers. Nell (Cornbread) Johnson. 54. started to serve BVA days in the c anty Jail in lieu of a $200 fine after his conviction in District Judge D. E. Van Vactor's court on a charge of illegal possession of I deer meat. ! His brother, Hede (Heavy) John son, 44, was arrested Friday morn ing by state police on a charge of hunting in a closed area In Jack son County. He was turned over to state police from Ashland. "We didn't aim to break no laws,". Cornbread Johnson told county Jailer Fred Calfee. "They are more particular about their deer around these parts than they are down In Arkansas where we come from." Klamath Indian By OTTO ELI.IS A stormy session of Uie Klanv am Indian Tribal council was held Thursday at the Klamath Agency. Climax of the meeting was a resolution to request that the sec retary of interior be Instructed to advertise three timber units for sale and a resolution passed re questing that forest supervisor F.. R. Wilcox be ousted from his po sition and a forester appointed that would cooperate with the ex ecutive committee. ' Three units of timber known ts Fuego No. '2a, Fuego No. 2b and Wildhorse No. 3a. comprising ap proximately 7 million board feet of timber and covering approxi mately 16.000 acres will be offered for competitive bids. Minimum acceptable bids were reduced after the two Fuego units were advertised last spring with no bids being offered. Minimum - acceptable bids as his fellows and perhaps that is true also in his home state. "If you were to hire somcbodv to go to Washington to represent you oeiore tne executive arm of the government, the President and particularly before Congress, you would select a man who stood pretty well with the party in pow er, mai is ouy cordon's position toaay. His nign standing in Wash ington makes It imperative that you keep Senator Cordon in of- lice." senator Barrett detailed a few of Senator Cordon's accomDlish- ments in the second session of the 83rd Congress just completed, re marking that Senator Cordon is en titled to credit for Congress' ap propriation for forest highways and access roads on a continuing pro gram, among other pieces of leg islation which are advantageous to uregon ana otner western states. He expressed satisfaction with the progress to date of the Repub lican administration under Presi dent Eisenhower, but warned that it Is vital to the success of the program that the President be giv en the support of a Republican Congress. "The rest of us envv Oregon's having Guy Cordon - don't think wtjion w Barrett concluded. The Wyoming senator left late Thursday In Tony Dwyer's Cessna 180 to return to Portland where he appeared Thursday evening wtlh six other out-of-state senators on a radio panel in support of the re election of Senator Guy Cordon. Banker's Body Found in River HILLSBORO, Ore. un The bodv of William C. Christensen, 61, miss ing bank president, was found Fri day in the Tualatin River south of here. He had been sought since failing to return home here the night of Oct. 21. The next day his car was found near the river and his hat and coat were at the river's edge His body was 150 feet down. stream and near the opposite side from where he entered the water. That point was established Thurs day by bloodhounds handled by Norman Wilson of Los Gatos. Calif. They nosed down to the water's edge where the garments had been found. Dragging had failed to find the body and the hounds were called In an effort to deterfnine whether Christensen, who bad been in ill health and under nervous tension, might have wandered away from tne river. Organized search was halted Thursday night after a fixed line had been placed across the river downstream. But two men. Roy Gowin of Hlllsboro and Charles Jasper of Portland, the latter a retired member of the city's har bor patrol, went back Friday for another try. Gowm, with a pike pole, nfade the find. When Christensen disappeared friends said he had been more III than generally thought. Officials of the Commercial Bank of Oregon, which he headed, said that both his personal and the bank affairs were in good shape. Tribal Council Requests Timber Bids agreed upon In the resolution are Ponderoa pine, $32; Sugar pin3, 122.50: Douglas fir and Incense ce dar, 19: Lodgepole pine, $5.75 ami White fir and other species $5.75 per thousand, board measurement The resolution requesting the sale of the timber reads In part: "Whereas it is estimated that an income from timber of approx imately 2", to 2', million dollars a year will be needed during thfl years of 1955 and 1956 in order to sustain per capita payments to members of the Klamath Tribe as well as to provide for the cost of administering the agency durln? the four year termination period for effecting the provisions of Public Law 587. . "Now, therefore be It resolved, that the secretary of interior Is requested to offer the shove units be sealed bid as soon as possible." The resolution requesting the re moval of Wilcox came after heat ed debates over the contracting of fe Says Md $mUm L T ' KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER Z9, 1954 ' Mea Five Cents 1 Pacta Telephone 8111 ' No. 2955 Small Girl Said Killed By Sex Fiend JOHNSTOWN, Pa. Wl The nude body of a pretty 6-year-old girl who left her nearby Cone maugh home to play Halloween "trick-or-treat" was found Friday In the ghostly surroundings of a grave yard. Conemaugh Police Chief George Fesko said the child "was murdered by a sex fiend." Fesko said the death "is the work of a sex maniac," and add ed: "We are rounding up all known sex degenerates for questioning." Cambria County Deputy Coro ner Richard P. Wilkinson ordered an autopsy but said results will not be known for several hours. Fesko said the little girl's face and body were bruised and "blood was running from her mouth." BODY FOUND Steve Stefflsh, member of the Connemaugh Fire Department found the body near the entrance of the East Taylor Township cem etery, two miles from the home of Karen's parents, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Mauk. U- Mrs. Mauk said she reluctantly gave the child permission to leave the house about 7 p.m. Thursday night to take part in neighborhood Halloween activities.- The mother said the child wore a white falseface and a paper hat. The paper hat was found near the body with shreds of the child's clothes. The Halloween mask has not been found. Mrs. Mauk reported the child missing about S p.m. when she did not return home. Police said the mother has not been able to identify the other children Karen joined when she left the house. Earlier in the evening the little girl hi? been . playing with a coosiDJ 'PauU Llndenberg, 6. -But Mrs. lyfauk said the child returned home after that and then went out again. SEARCH PARTY Conemaugh firemen and neigh bors organized a searching party after the child was reported miss ing. Firemen blew the siren to summon help. Cambria County Detective John Reed and Sgt. James Ballr of the Pennsylvania State Police said they have not been able to estab lish cause of the death. However, Chief Fetsko said an attempt to molest a 14-year-old high school girl was reported earlier in the evening. Fetsko did not Identify the girl but quoted her as saying she fought off the man and ran. Fet sko said the girl placed the scene of the attack two blocks from Ka ren's home. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair through Saturday. High Saturday 60; low Friday night 27. ' High yesterday ......55 Low last night ...Z Precip, last 24 hours 0 Since Oct. 1 2 Same period last year 1.44 Normal for period 96 POTATO SHIPMENTS SEASONS . 53-54 54-55 Daily Truck Ore. 11 2 Daily Rail Ore. 21 7 Dally Truck Calif. 4 2 Daily Rail Calif. 20 5 Dailr Total ORE. & CALIF. 666 16 Monthly Total 1207 383 Season's Total 1347 497 Chriscmas tree sales by individual tribal members and Wilcox. According to Wilcox stumpaRO rates of 40 cents per tree have been set by his department and allottees cannot sell their trees for less. Wilcox also stated that not more than 20 contracts would be let for the taking of trees on the reserva tion, staling that not enough for estry personnel were available to supervise the harvest of these trees. It was the contention of tribal members that they should have the final decision on when and to whom and at what price they could aril trees from their lndlv-1 dual allotments. Another controversial subject that drew the ire of man; tribal members present was the n. inner in which some children have been kept off the rolls. As explained by members of the enrollment committee many birth Boy Defender New Hearing WEST MONROE. La. W A third hearing was scheduled today for 10-year-old Joe Cooper who leveled a loaded shotgun at the principal and truant officer of a rural school to save his dog from a gas chamber. Judge Howell Heard, who raised nationwide protests by quickly committing the son of an impover ished widow to a reform school, said the hearing would be closed to the press and publio in accord ance with state law. The judge declined to discuss re a- Halloween Warning Given Police Chief. Orville Hamilton this morning Issued a reminder to potential pranksters that the police department is anticipating Halloween merrymaking on Satur- uay mgnt only, aitnougn Sunday night is Halloween. . . "We will tolerate no vandalism, damage to property or soaping of windows or automobiles," the chief warned. Halloween, originally only a church observance, means "hal lowed" or "holy" eve and was set aside for Christians to prepare lor the, feasti of All Saints Day. November 1, still a holy day of obligation In the Catholic Church. The secular practices now asso ciated with the night have grown up in more recent years. Former FHA Man Jailed WASHINGTON Wl Clyde L, Powell, ousted assistant, .federal housing-commissioner, was sen fenced Friday to serve a year in jan lor criminal contempt of court. The sentence was imposed by U.S. Dlst, Judge F. Dickinson Letts, who ruled that Powell had "wilfully, deliberately and con tumaciously" disobeyed his order that Powell answer specific ques tions put to him by a federal grand Jury. The grand jury Is investigating charges of bribery and miscon duct in the Federal Housing Ad ministration. Powell had charge of multi-million dollar mortgage program which has been under fire. The 58-year-old former official was discharged from his job at the start of the investigation of housing scandals. Decision On Al Ullman Delayed SALEM W A decision by the State Real Estate Commission in a transaction affecting Al Ullman, Baker, sernocratlo candidate for Congress, will not be reached Fri day and "probably not" Saturday. Rnnnor Johnson, commissioner. reported that when asked when a decision, based on a hearing at Baker Wednesday, could be ex pected. The charge was against the real estate firm of Curfman and Ull man on a 1947 transaction. Ullman said it was politically inspired; jonnson said It was not. In the course of the hearing Johnson dropped charges of misrepresenta tion and violation of the real estate code, leaving only a decision to be reached on whether there was bad faith or Incompetent handling. United Fund-Red Cross Drive Goal ....,... $117,132 To Date S.,47,997 Goal $. 69,135 certificates of youngsters show them listed as white instead of In dian. According to tribal ordin ances a child placed on the rolls must be listed as Indian with at least one sixteenth Indian blood. Committee members stated that the parents of these children hav been asked to correct the birth certificates but have refused. It was the contention of the enroll ment committee that this wo&d make the child Ineligible for en rollment. A motion was made that the council reconsider the names cf children whose acceptance to the rolls was voted down at the last Tribal Council meeting. Thl mo tion was voted down by the gen eral asnemblv. The next meeting of the council will be held sometime In Novem ber at which . time it la, expected Commissioner of Indian Affairs Kmmorts will be here from Wash ington, D.C. ' Of Dog Gets Before Judge sons for the surprise hearing and did not indicate if it would mean a finul disposal of the case. But for Joe Cooper and his mon grel, Tipple, the court session meant another brief reunion after two weeks of separation. The sixth grader was- whisked off to the Louisiana Training Institute in nearby Monroe less than five hours after tho Incident at the Ransom School Oct. 6. Tipple has. been spending his days in a pet hospital. Joe's troubles started when the dog broke loose from the back yard and followed his master to school. i The principal, Mrs. Tina Clark. ordered the janitor to lock the un licensed and unvaccinated dog in a closet and sent for the dog catch er. She explained that school chil dren had been bitten in recent months by stray dogs. Joe pleaded in vain for the free dom of his- pet, then decided to do something about it. His decision gained the sympathy of dog lovers across the country and as lar away as Hawaii and England, ' Returning home, he took the family shotgun, and headed back toward school. Joe held the principal and the truant officer, Maurice Griggs, at bay until police disarmed him. "I wouldn't have shot anyone. I just wanted my dog," joe pleaded, "He's not much but he's all I got." The pleas set off a nationwide flurry of letterwriung that Is con tinuing. Joe has gained three pounds at the Institute, an un walled reforma. tory. Tipple, also In modified cap tivity has been vaccinated, cur- rled and combed through the gen erosity of West Monroe business men. . But squirrel season Is on now and both are anxious to forget their toubles and roam the woodland that borders on the Ouachlao River Water, Power Meetings Held Fred G. Aandahl, assistant sec retary of. the Department of In terior in charge of water and power, accompanied by C. H. Spencer, regional director for tho Bureau of Reclamation, Sacra mento, were in Klamath Falls Wednesday and Thursday morning wncre tney discussed water and power plans with local officials. Wednesday afternoon Aandahl, who is a former North Dakota governor, and Spencer, met with John Boyle and Glenn Jackson, Cal ifornia Oregon Power Company offi cials to discuss what might be termed water for power vs water for irrigation. The possibility of di verting water from the Klamath River to Butte Valley was dis cussed. An early evening meeting was held Wednesday with board mem bers of the Tulelake Irrigation District and a later meeting held with members of the Butte Valley Water User's Association and Wil liam Hagelstein, representing the California Klamath River Commis sion. Thursday morning Aandahl met with Dick Henzel, representing both the Klamath Drainage Dis trict and the Meadows Drainage District. In summing up information pre sented at the various meetings Aandahl stated he felt with proper cooperation a satisfactory solution to the water problems here would be forthcoming. Aandahl left by plane late Thurs day morning for Portland where he will meet with officials at the Bonneville Power Administration offices. lte .VI? A m - ... :. J m-Maasr OFFICIALS HERE for wafer meetings this weak were from left C. H. Spencer, regional director for the Bureau of Recla mation and seated Fred G. Aandahl, assistant secretary of the interior. The two met with J. P. Elmore, local project manager for the Bureau of Reclamation. J President Stumps For Candidates ' WITH EISENHOWER W Pres.: Ident Eisenhower, a t r 1 v 1 n g to drum up votes for Republicans, told an industrial Detroit audience Friday his administration is solv ing the unemployment problem without war because ''we have government with a heart." Police Inspector Arthur J. Heldt estimated crowd of 50.000 per sons Jammed Cadillac Square in front of the city hall to hear El-, senhower declare: "I am quite sure we do not want to pay for false prosperity in the blood of our sons on the battlefield." , , As he did earlier in Cleveland Friday, the President said pros-: perity during the Democratic ad ministration was based on war. He pledged that America will never, during his administration,,, resort to war to solve unemploy ment. DETROIT STOP ! .. Elsenhawer's Detroit stonr was his second of the day on a four state flying campaign tour taking him Into Ohio, Kentucky and Del aware in addition to Michigan, In Detroit, administration oritlcs) have been pointing to Joblessness In the opposition campaign to elect Democrats to Congress and state office. How did unemployed get Joba In 1949 or '50?he Prealden t asked his aiqtee. "They eMiiS' went to war or worked In a.waf jilant. We have prosperity wlthouf that now." The President said "unemploy ment Is a heartache, it is priva tion. It Is discouragement." He'fcdded that so long as a sin gle' American Is out of work hia adminlstrationn never will cease its efforts to solve the problem. Mr. Elsenhower also told the De troit audience: WEALTH INDEX "By every Index by which we measure wealth of the nation, this is by far our best year. I "Things are on the upswing.' Eisenhower called for re-eleri tlon of Sen. Ferguson of) MIchrj, . gan, chairman of the SeniUoiRcj publican Policy-: Committee. IFer guson is being challenged hard by Democrat Patrick V. McNamara. Addressing a police-estimated crowd of 2,600 persons at Cleve land Hopkins Municipal. Airport, the President said prosperity un der the Democrats was based on war. He promised that his adminls tralon will do everything possible to find Jobs for those out of work, but said the solution under his leadership never will be based on a war economy. FOUR-STATE TOUR The President flew to Cleve land from Washington on the first leg of a four-state tour to get out the vote for next Tuesday's elec tion. , He came Into Ohio to help GOP Rep. George Bender in his con test for a U, S. Senate seat against the Democratic Incumbent, Sen. Thomas A. Burke, who was ap pointed to sucoeed the late Sen. Robert A. Taft, a Republican. In urging all citizens to go to the polls Tuesday, the President sounded the same theme he did in a Washington address Thursday night, when e declared: "Let's roll UD our sleeves. nnH go harder to work" for election of another Republican-led Congress. In his Cleveland address, the President said the American peo ple under his administration, have got the kind of government they wanted, "We were tired of hearing the word Communist," he declared. ' "And every time It was men tloned, it was called a red herr ing." That was an Indirect Jab at the Truman administration's handling of the subversion problem. For mer President Truman, in reply u a newsman's question, once said that congressional Investigations into subversive activities were t red herring designed to divert at tention from his legislative Dro- I gram. .1- .1 ar -I V t J I V T (I f '1
