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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 6, 1954)
EM f jvi n B m In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS At Tuesday's election the people of Oregon not only passed upon a list of candidates for national, state and local offices but registered their judgment on eight ballot measures. Of these eight meas ures, the voters approved four and disapproved four. It might be interesting to take a look at these measures in retro spect to see if we can discover any underlying trends In the voting on them. Because it offers some Interest ing testimony on public reactions, let's look first at the defeated milk law. Consider this: By a hairline margin, the people of Oregon elected Richard Neuber ger. who supports the theory of more government In business. By a decisive margin, they repealed the Oregon milk law, thus indicat ing their desire for LESS govern ment in the milk business. Why? Tne answer, I think, is to be found in Elmer Deetz, Clackamas county's gallon-jug dairyman. Be cause he Insisted on selling his milk in jugs at his farm at prices set by HIM and got into trouble with the milk control authorities by doing so, he dramatized him self as a little man oppressed by big government. I If that is true, it proves that In Oregon at least the position of un derdog is still politically desirable. It should be added, of course, that over the years the Oregon milk law has built up many irritations among consumers. But I doubt if without the Deetz incident the milk law would have been repealed. By a margin to three to one, the people approved a mental hospital for the aged in or near Portland, even though" it will cost a great deal of money which will be added to taxes. That proves, I'd say, the belief of our people that the state (that is, organized society) should be used to solve- problems that can be better handled by all of us act ing together than by each of us acting alone. We voted (fairly decisively) to make it a little harder to amend Oregon's constitution, which is Oregon's basic law. The bill itself didn't amount to much. The PRIN CIPLE it involved is important. It t indicates belief pn the part of the people thaMtris4WJWI8E ta amend our constitution as readily (and about as thoughtlessly) as we change our shirts. We voted to permit counties that WANT TO to elect their state sena tors and representatives by dis tricts, rather than from the coun ty as a whole. The big counties generally went for it; the small counties went against It. . That, 1 suppose, is reasonable thinking. The big counties get so big that people can't know every body. Also, they get diverse inter ests. The smaller counties are homogenous units, and prefer to remain so. So much for the measures that won. Let's now examine those that lost. Standard vs. daylight - saving lime Is a matter of personal opin ion. As of November 2,-1954, a de cisive majority of Oregon people prefer standard time. That's the long and the short of that one. The people voted fairly decisive ly against outlawing commercial fishing in coastal streams south of the Columbia. This, I think, was due to a faulty bill, which at least seemed to provide CONFISCATION of their gear if offshore commercial ilshermcn took refuge in a storm in the harbors at the mouths of coastal streams. That, if the courts had so con rtrued the intent of the bill, would . iave provided cruel and unusual Vunlshment for a minor oilense. The people of Oregon can be relied upon to oppose carelessly drawn laws that might permit such in justices. The people (wisely, I think) were asainst letting our legislators fix their own salaries. That prac tice leads to too much demagogic tommyrot. Our legislative salaries are too low. My personal sugges tion would be the creation of an advisory committee chosen from among the ablest and soundest citizens we have to suggest to the legislature the salaries to be paid to legislators. In general, these ad visory committees, when careful ly chosen, have worked well in our ctate. The rather decisive defeat of the state property tax limit amend-1 ment was due probably to failure to understand Its basic purpose which was to reserve the lion's 1 share of the property tax to the cities and counties while at the same permitting the state to use the property tax to meet financial crisis if other sources of state rev. enue should slump sharply. That, it seems to me, was a good purpose, but Ihe bill was too com plicated to be understood in a campaign that was overshadowed by other Issues of greater popular Interest. I think It should be added that ! the time h coming when Oregon's tax structure MUST be overhauled. Among other things, the tax struc (Continued on Face Three) Senate To Study Vote On Censure WASHINGTON Ml Senate Democratic leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas said Saturday the proposed censure of Sen. Mc Carthy (R-Wis) at a Senate ses sion starting Monday "is not a party matter." "It never has been and It never will be as long as I have any thing to do with It," he said. Johnson talked with newsmen shortly before meeting with Sen. Knowland of California, the Re publican majority leader, to dis cuss plans for the session. A special Senate committee of three Republicans and three Dem ocrats unanimously recommended after hearings last September, that McCarthy, controversial chairman of tile Senate's investi gating subcommittee, be censured for his conduct. McCarthy and his staff members meanwhile were reported arrang ing strategy meetings with sena tors friendly to his cause. McCar thy has said he plans' a detailed presentation of his side of the case for the benefit of the public, but has declined to call it a defense. The Wisconsin Republican has predicted the Senate will vote to censure him at the session starting Monday, saying only a few mem bers of the 96-man "jury" will go into the proceedings with an open mind. One main subject Knowland and Johnson were expected to take up is whether they can set the early target date some senators are ask ing for a showdown vote on the censure issue. Sen. Ferguson (R-Mlch.) chair man of the Republican Policy Com mittee, told reporters "I personally will be disappointed if it (the spe cial session) lasts more than a week." He said the Senate is re convening to do "one specific thing" dispose of a special com mittee's report recommending that McCarthy should be censured on three counts. Alaska Crash Kills Pilot JUNEAU, Alaska Oft A res cue party radioed late Friday that the pilot was killed and the two passengers were Injured gravely in the crash of a commercial plane near the north end of Chic- hagof Island Thursday. An attempt to evacuate the In jured couple, Mr. and Mrs. Chnrles Joseph Sr. of Sitka, by helicopter was to be made Satur day, If weather" permits. The pilot Who met death in the rainstorm crash was James Rlne hart, 63, a veteran pilot. The Alas ka Coastal Airlines amphibian crashed on a flight from, Pelican City to Hoonah. The rescue party at Uie crash scene reported the Josephs were too badly injured to be taken out by hiking stretcher-carriers. The crash was In rugged country about 75 miles southwest of Juneau. Rinehart had been a flier in Alaska since 1934. He was the son of Dr. J. Carle Rinehart of Port land. Ore . an early day flier and aviation enthusiast. Typhoon Heac For Philippines MANTI.A 11 Tvnhnrtn warn. ings were hoisted In the Central rniuppines Saturday as a new tropical disturbance roared nut nf the Pacific with increasing inten sity. The Manila Weather Bureau said the tvnhoon was lnrntpri dnn hundred miles east-southeast of Samar Island. Winds had stepped up to US miles an hour at the center. The typhoon is expected to hit the Central Philinntnes ftnnrinv afternoon. , HOOLIGANS VIENNA Austria Ift T- age "hooligans" have wrecked the largest movie theater in Wroclaw (Breslau) in the latest pnisnrie nr this kind to be reported from Communist Poland. SHOOTING HOURS Oregon November 7 OPEN CLOSE 6:17 4:40 November 8 OPEN CLOSE 6:18 4:39 California November 7 OPEN CLOSE 6:15 4:54 November 8 OPEN CLOSE 6:15 4:54 Price Five Cents 14 Paces Sex Patient Confesses To Murder KALAMAZOO, Mich lift A teen-age mental hospital inmate, under treatment .as a sex deviate, Saturday admitted Friday night's rape' slaying of a pretty nurse. State Police said Louis Maurice Smith. 18. confessed he was the one who raped and strangled blond Marilyn Kraai, 21, a nurse at Kalamazoo State Mental Hos pital. . Marilyn, a student nurse, was assaulted and choked to death with a necktie in a basement lab- oratory. Police looked for "a man with strong hands." State Police Det. Chief Victor Beck said Smith, committed for offenses against girls and as a "peeping Tom," confessed just be fore he was to take a He detector test. Beck said Smith admitted lur ing the girl to a basement hydro therapy ..room on the pretext of regaining a pack of playing cards he had left there. - He told Beck the girl volun- teered to accompany him to the room to recover the cards. Beck said Smith told him be killed Marilyn after the assault. Marilyn's body was found after other nurses became alarmed at her failure to keep a supper date with them. In her purse was a letter ad dressed to a friend. She ended the letter by writing "it Is now 5:25 p.m. and I have to go." Her body was found at 8:45 p.m. A student at the Mercy Central School of Nursing in Grand Rapids, Mich., she had startdd a, three-. months tour' of catty" at the State Hospital, last Oct. 4. Sister Mary Xavier, superintend ent of the Grand Rapids school, described the girl as a "faithful nurse, of engaging personality, well liked by her fellow students and hospital patients and an excellent person in every way. 1 Former Nazi Official Freed BERLIN Wl Konstantin von Neurath, 81-year-old former Nazi foreign minister, was released Sat urday from the Spandau war crimes prison in West Berlin, Governor of Czechoslovakia dur ing the Nazi occupation, Von Neu rath was the first of Hitler's lieu tenants to win freedom from the four-power jail set up for those who escaped the hangman at the 1946 Nuernberg war crimes trials. Von Neurath is half blind and suffering from a heart ailment. He walked out of the grim prison Into the arms of bis daughter, Frau Winifried von Mackensen. They entered an automobile and drove away as a small crowd of curious bystanders peered down the side walks. Klamath Fires Reach New High Hie city's number of fires has reached an all-time high of 320 for the year, but fire loss is at the un usual low of $25,063.23, according to Pire Chief Roy Rowe. The local-fire department re ceived 42 calls in October, of which three were false. Pire loss totaled 82.877.60; insurance paid was $2,127.69. Matches and careless smokers were blamed for 20 of the fires; overheated stoves for eight. There. were no injuries or deaths. Slowness By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Fifty-four hours after the count ing started, the last of the Mult nomah County voting precincts fin ished its Job Thursday. Two others were not much ahead of the most tardy one. Because the late Multnomah count put Richard L. Neuberger in front. In his U. S. senatorial race against Guy Cordon, the question of why so much delay, has been asked repeatedly. Why couldn't the outcome be known sooner? James Gleason. the man who di rects the Multnomah County elec tion machinery, says . Oregon'sJ election laws are not geared to get speed out of big cities. This is what happens: An effort is made to change pre cinct boundaries in advance of elections to keep the registered vote in any one at a minimum of 400. This doesn't always work due OREGON WOOLEN STORE employes, Sid Weinstein, man. ager, and Jim Bell, assistant manager, were discussing business this morning when the 9 o'clock photographer eame by. United Fund Report Made Division heads at the United Fund - Red Cross noon report meeting Friday gave W, S. Mc- Bride, campaign chairman, a vo ciferous vote of confidence and promised their support In seeing through the 1955 campaign drive. Individuals pointed out that the load cannot be put, on one man and that the campaign chairman should not be forced to give up his own regular Job to do the work drive volunteers have promised to do. There are still numerous con tacts which have not been made for the drive, accounting tor much of the slowness of contributions to date, fund officials say. There is, however, support of the drive, evidenced In the Increasing number of oscars and certificates being earned. The latest list, with awards to be made Monday, In clude the following: Oscars and payroll deduction certificates: Medo Lend Cream ery, Great Northern traffic de partment. La Polnte's, Herald and News, KFLW, Sears, Southern Pa cific district office; Southern Pa cific oificlals, office of the police judge, city police department. Oscars: Girl Scout, Camp Fire Girls, Salvation Army and YMCA offices. Ace Mlmeo Service, Com mercial department of Klamath Union High School, sophomore class Tri-Hi-Y, Tri-Hi, Beach Jew elers. Awards will be made at the noon report meeting Monday at the Wil lard Hotel. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falli and vicinity; partly cloudy ihrouch Sunday. High Sunday 55; low Sat urday night 25. High yesterday .. 59 Low last night ....... ' 24 In Counting to physical and geographical limi tations, but the number Is less than the 600 which used to be the top. Within each precinct two boards are appointed: one to handle the voting and the second to handle the count The counting board re ports at 10 a. m., two hours after the polls.open, and goes to work as soon as 20 votes have been cast. The counting board stays on the job for a '22-hour shift If need be. If It still 'has not completed its Joo at 8 a. m. the morning after the election, then the voting board Is called back to take over the count ing. But, says Gleason, sometimes nfembers of the voting board are not available the second day, so the counting board Just stays on. This Is difficult. As the hours go by, counting slows because of fa tigue. The last Multncmah board to report this past election had to KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, M54 POTATO SHIPMENTS SEASONS 53-54 (4-55 Dally Truck Ore. V ' ' 4 y - 5 Daily Rail Ore. 11 6 Daily Truck Calif. - 2 9 Dally Rail Calif. 5 8 Dally Total ORE. & CALIF. .22 28 Monthly Total 102 144 Season's Total 1102 681 Three Killed In Auto Crash REDMOND, Ore. Wl Three young parents were killed and an other was injured critically in the headon collision of, two automobiles Just south of here' Friday. Their two Infant children were hurt but were In satisfactory con dition at a hospital Saturday. Dead were Mr. and Mrs. William Gugler of The Dalles and recently of Spokane, aged 23 and 22, re spectively, and Mrs. John Nealon, Long Island, N. Y. Mrs. Nealon's young husband, a Navy man, of New York City, was reported in Improved but still ser ious condition Saturday, One of the children was Stephanie Diane Ougler, 9 months. The other was the 13-month-old son of the Nealons. State police said the Ougler car apparently swung out of Its lane to avoid hitting the rear of another automobile which had slowed down to make a turn. It crashed Into the oncoming Nealon car. NEW HOMES WATTRELOS, Franco i,f Premier Pelrrc Mendes- France said Saturday he would bring in foreign workmen if need be to keep up his program of 240,000 new homes a year for French families. Oregon Votes Explained By Official call It off for a few hours for sleep and two members got sick from exhaustion, and replacements were called in. But, says Gleason, the count Is not handled by "juveniles and old women" as a New York broad caster said in an unguarded mo ment Just before taking a plane back to tiie east. Board members are registered voters and most of them are housewives. But they aren't "old women." Many have threatened to quit because of the insult of that tag, Gleason said, and he's having a hard time paci fying some of them. He hopes to have that straightened out before the next election. - As things now stand, there isn't much to be done to get the count speeded up. More precincts with fewer voters in each Isn't a full answer because the slowest pre cincts were not the biggest. James Anderson Charged With First Degree Murder By LVLE DOWNING Jamea Qulnton Anderson, 32- year-old rancher, was captured by state police and aheriff's deputies a Beatty residence early Sat urday morning and arrested for the first degree murder of Richard David Miller, 25, son of a former Tucson, Arizona widow. According to reports from Tuc son, Mrs. Alice P. Miller has sever al pieces of property there Including a large house, and owns a ranch near Oracle. She has a daughter in school in Seattle and a son In Roswell, New Mexico. . According to state police Miller was shot in front of the residence of Hazel Hecocta In Beatty short time after he and Anderson engaged in' a fist fight. At the time of the killing An derson was at liberty under $10, 000 bond pending action by tho grand jury on a charge against him of assault with intent to kill. Anderson and Wayne Rodney Scott, 22, were arrested last month after they were alleged to have waylaid a Grants Pass automobile dealer and his wife on the Klam ath Reservation and kept them un der almost constant gunfire throughout an entire night. Scott pleaded guilty Thursday to sault with a deadly weapon in connection with the case and was sentenced to a year in the county jail, sentence was passed by Judge ttaipn m, Hoiman oi uregon city, THROAT SLASHED - " Last July Anderson was Involved in a shooting affray in the Half way House in Bly during which a Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. employe was critically wounded and a Mex ican logger had Ills throat slashed, Hie killing at Beatty Friday morning, according to District At torney Frank Alderson, occurred In front of the Hecocta residence, Here Is how Sheriff Murray Brit- ton and Btate Policeman Larry Bergmann, who arrested Ander son, described the homicide and events leading up to it: Shortly after Miller drove to the Hecocta home in a pickup truck and joined a drinking party, he and Anderson became involved In an ar gument which finally led to a fist fight. The officers said witnesses told them that Miller was badly beaten. ' LEFT PARTY Miller, according to witnesses, then left the party and drove away in the pickup truck. He went to his mother's 480 acre ranch and armed himself with a shotgun, a pistol and a knife. He then re turned to the Hecocta residence. The officers said he fired several shots in the air. At this Juncture a dozen persons rushed from the house into the street. Anderson was among them. The officers quoted witnesses as saying Anderson wrested a shot gun from Miller, Jumped into the rear of the pickup and shot Miller through the cab window. Dr. George H. Adlcr. county coroner. said the shotgun charge hit Miller In tne back and he must have died instantly. The officers also said that ac cording to witnesses Anderson then drove the truck, with Miller's body In It, a half a mile to a ranch owned by his mother, Mrs. O. T. Anderson. Mrs. Anderson discovered the body lying by the truck. The truck was standing against a knoll about 300 yards from the Anderson ranch house. Shortly after Mrs. Anderson no tified authorities of the homicide, state police, sheriff's deputies and Indian officers converged on the scene. They learned that Mrs. Miller, mother of the victim, had There are too many names and measures on the ballot for fast work, Gleason says. And In this election most people voted for even the unopposed candidates, adding to the tallying chore. Are voting machines the answer? Gleason says machine salesmen say so. But he points out that Multnomah County tried them once long ago and the people threw them out. Maybe they are ready for another trial, he agrees, but points out that no machine made will handle the Oregon primary election ballot. It's too long. Oleason points out that now Ore gon's election lumps national, state, county and city together and In the spring, the school elec tion Is added to the primary. In some states that Is not so. School and city elections are separate Sometimes county are too. That cuts down on the size of the ballot, and makes greater speed possible. Telephone Sill enlisted the aid of Indian Officer Walter Wentz in a search for her son several hours earlier. Investigation of the crime con tinued until 3 a.m. Saturday when state police and sheriff's officers surrounded the Hecocta residence where they learned another party was in progress. The officers en tered the place and said they found Anderson, unarmed, dozing in a chair. Officer Bergmann placed him under arrest and he was taken under heavy guard to tne Klamath county Jail. Anderson was arraigned shortly before noon Saturday on the first degree murder charge. District JAMES 9. ANDERSON Judge D. E. Van Vector gave him until next Friday to inform the court whether he wants a prelim inary hearing. Ho was remanded to the county Jail without bail. CRIMINAL CAREER ' Anderson's criminal career start ed in 1941 when he wan sentenced to 10 years in Oregon Slato Prison from Klamath County on a man slaughter charge. He spent 13 years In prison. After an escape in 1951, three years were added - to his sentence. He was released last summer and a short time later was Involved In the Bly shooting and knifing affray. i . While an escapee from the state prison, Anderson was prosecuted and found not guilty In Bozcman, Montana of transporting a 16-year-old girl across a state line for im moral purposes. Prior to his trial on this charge, he was involved in an automobile crash near Reno, Nevada In which two persons were killed. Following his acquittal In Bozeman. Anderson wus returned to the Oregon penitentiary. Complaining witnesses against Anderson in the assault with Intent tu kill case are Mr. and Mrs. Al bert Sidney Menasco Jr. of Grants Pass. They spent a night of terror hiding behind logs in a clump of trees while scores of shots were fired at them. JOBS TOKYO m How you going to keep 'em down on the farm? Don't try. Bring 'em to the big city. That was what the Tokyo metropolitan government did Sat urday in a mass employment of 158 farm girls, aged 17 to 25, who were assigned Jobs as . house maids. The program Is aimed at utilizing surplus farm labor at the end of the harvest season. What Is the situation regarding voting machines? They give an al most Immediate total on the vote3 when the polls close. They really answer the problem of speed, co far as results are concerned, when the ballot Is short enough lor ma chines to handle. But sometimes people have to stand In line to vote because It would cost too much to have B3 many voting machines as there now are booths. And waiting to vote Is as annoying to some peo ple aa is waiting to learn tne re sults. If machines were feasible, and one were assigned to each Mult nomah County precinct, the cost of buying them and Retting them delivered would run aiound a mil lion and a half dollars. Some 30 years ago the cost was the thing that stopped machines In Multnomah County people refused to vote bonds to buy them. Aid Assured President By Politicos By EDWTN B. HAAKINSOX WASHINGTON' Wl Sen. Lyn don B. Johnson (D-Tex), Satur day promised the newly elected Democratic Congress will co-operate with President Eisenhower It Democratic leaders are con sulted In advance on administra tion plans, Johnson, who expects to be Sen ate majority leader when the new Congress meets In January, also told a news conference he was "a little disappointed" in some of Eisenhower's campaign state ments. He said he referred to the Elsenhower remark that control of Congress by Democrats might result in a cold-war stalemate. Johnson said, too, "many Dem ocrats deeply resent the charges and unjust accusations made In the campaign." He described these as Republi can contentions that "Democratic left-wingers would take control of Congress" and that the Democrats had' been " a party of treason Johnson emphasized that Eisen hower had not made that charge, and later referred to Vice Presi dent Nixon and Republican Na tional Chairman Hall. ' DEMOCRATS INVITED Johnson said lie was happy that Democrats had been Invited to White House conference on foreign affairs Nov. 17. He added that Democrats are anxious to coop erate with the Republican admin istration If they are consulted be fore aotual decisions. Two Senate veterans on opposite sides of the political fence had said earlier that Elsenhower and the new Democratic Oongreai should be able to work In har mony for the next two years. Sen. Russell of Georgia, one of the several Southern Democrats in. line for Important committee chairmanships when his party takes over, sounded this theme In discussing prospects (or legislation under the new 84th Congress. Of course there will be some differences," he said In an Inter view, but the Democrats will give Elsenhower "lair consideration on his legislative proposals even, though we may have some ot our own to offer." . , Sen. Aiken of Vermont. Repub lican chairman of the Senate Ag riculture. committee In the last Congress; seemed equally optimis tic In telling a reporter: "We had a pretty good record in the 83rd Congress and I think there's a good chance of Improving It. in the 84th." ... The two legislators snoke after the new post-election harmony wave yesterday had surged for ward at least for the time being, on two fronts. CONGRESS MEET In Washington, Eisenhower called congressional lcadera of both parties to a Nov. 17 confer ence on foreign policy. Senate Ma jority Leader Knowland of Cali fornia said after a White House conference the President was ea ger to get on "cordial and con structive" working terms with the Democrats. In Bonham, Tex.. Democratic Leadens Hep. Sam Rayburn and Sen. Lyndon vJohnson held a 15 minute meeting In Rayburn's law ofllce. Johnson said afterwards the Democratic program "will be to maintain a united country rather than to have constant bickering among different groups." Rayburn said cooperation "will depend quite a bit" on the administrations at titude "if they want to go along with us the Democratic House will go full force on all measures for the benefit ot the country.' Both made It plain, however. that they will oppose the adminis tration where they think necessary and that they don't like what Ray burn said was Republican speech- makers' ' labeling of the entire Democratic party as "pinks" and "leftwingers.' NEW SPEAKER Rayburn will be speaker of the House when the new Congress or ganizes in January. Johnson, also a Texan, Is slated to succeed Knowland as Senate majority lead er. Johnson flew back to Washington last night with plans for calling a meeting of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee and a meeting of ranking Democrats who will assume committee .chairmanships. He also had a conference sched uled with Knowland today on pro cedures to be followed In the spe cial senate session beginning Mon day on the move to censure Sen, McCarthy (R-Wls). Johnson said on arrival the not- icy committee meeting date has not yet been set. and that he wasn't discussing committee assignments before then. But he described Sen. Morse (Ind-Ore) who lost his ma jor committee posts when he broke with the Republicans in 1952 as "a very able man." The 84th Con gress" lineup Is 48 Democrats, 47 Republicans and Morse who has promised to vote with the Demo crats on organization. Rep. Joseph W. Martin Jr. of Massachusetts, House speaker In the GOP Congress, said laist nlRht he is still undecided about whether to take the role of minority leader when the Democrats assume con trol. He said he wants to think about the situation before be makes up ma mind.
