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."'if . ... If ' ' ' v : SI I Strifift auk Itte I M A Nil A (w? : As stated before In these chron' lcles, California has 130-odd state parks comparing with 140-odd in Oregon. With one exception, the area along the Curry county coast line. Oregon's parks are small California has some 400,000 acres lii one park, but it is in a desert area. - The jewels or the California elate park system are in the red- . voods area extending from the Oregon line to the southern boun dary of Humboldt county. There are some beautiful redwood areas in Mendocino county, but they are relatively small. ' There are two varieties of red' voods sequoia sempervirens, on the western slopes of the Coast lance, and sequoia gigamea. about midwr.y of the Sierra. Sequoia gigamea, as the name indicates, - is the more robust and long-lived. Fequoia sempervirens is infinitely the more lovely partly, of course, because of the lush undergrowth stimulated by the abundant rain lall of the coastal area. Z Basic state park theories differ . somewhat in the two states. In Oregon, the state parks are un der ihp Jurisdiction and manage ment ol the state highway com mission, and are financed by state -hicrhwav funds including the ffaso- J lino tax. They are regarded as an .' adjunct of the state highway sys . tern and in theory are maintained for the benefit of thoe who use Oregon's highways. " , I'd like to and here that the Oregon system has its thriltier - aspects. Under the Oregon theory, ' the state parks are maintained for the benefit, of the road users, and . among the road users are tourists from other states. They pay gaso line taxes in Oregon. Their gaso line tax money goes toward the maintenance of both the state high- ways and the state parks. Thus, you see, they help to pay for the facilities that are created nnd maintained, In part, for then benefit. To me, that seems emi- ; nently logical. You may disagree with this no tion. You will be almost sure to if you are on the idealistic rather than the practical side. Personal- j ?y, I'm not above being practical. We just couldn't run this world without at least a reasonable mea sure of PRACTICAL people. If we turned everything over to the idealists; they'd run us so deep in debt that before long we wouldn't be able to afford either state high ways or state parks. Besides, I get around to some extent in other states. In nearlj all of them. I pay SALES taxes. It doesn't burn me at-aHTo do so. These other states have facili ties that are there for my use. 'lhey are paid for in considerable measure by sales taxes. It seems quite fair to me that I should chip in my two bits worth in the way of sales taxes as a minuscule contribution toward the mainten ance of the economy of the slates in. which I am a visitor. I am quite sure that our visitors who use our state parks, along with our state highways, feel the same way about it and do not .bject at all to putting a little in the pol in the way of gasoline taxes to help pay for our state parks system. California's system of financing state park3 is quite different. The bulk of the money our sister state uses for parks maintenance comes from royalties on offshore oil. So California's baslo philosophy regarding its state paiks differs from Oregon's. It looks upon them as resources that are designed to bring to the PEOPLE OF THE STATE a fuller realization of the majesty and the beauty of nature. That is the underlying purpose of California's state parks system, as it is presently administered. I have great respect for the Cali fornia philosophy, but I can't help recalling that California has off shore oil royalties to spend and Oregon doesn't. So I can't escape the - feeling that Oregon will be wise if it con tinues its present system of financ ing its state parks thRt is, as an adjunct of its state highways. II B II lue, uuiies express For Concrete Meet Resu DENVER (UP) Secretary of . Slate John Foster Dulles reported nfter a conference with President nnknu,r Inrf.v .hot h. ,nH th. I Eisenhower today that he and the chief executive had shared a "measured hope" for concrete achievements from the forthcom ing Big Four foreign ministers meeting in Geneva. Dulles, following a 25-minute ses lon at the President's bedside -at FitKsiinons Army Hospital, said he expected no ' spectacular results" from Oeneva but that "any results at all would mark an advance on most if not ell of our prior con ferences with the Soviet Union." Dulles covered the Oeneva agen da again w-ith Mr. Eisenhower and reported thnt the President was Pleased that he. Dulles, planned to slop In Rome for brief conferences with top Italian leaders before going on to the foreign ministers conierenre EXPECTS RESI LTS "I go to Oeneva with the as surance that I have behind me President whj fully knows the Is sues and who has given me a full and comprehensive mandate to speak for our nation at that conierence." Dulles said at a ncwi cor -r. nee Dulles, at the request of nei-; Price Five Cents 24 Pages Truck Loses Brakes, Five Persons Die CUMBERLAND, Md. 'i A big tractor-trailer truck lost its brakes and plummeted out of con trol down big Savage Mountain into the west outskirts of Cumber land Wednesday, killing five per sons when it overtook a car and smashed into another truck. The victims were identified as two men and two women passen-' gers driving into Cumberland from Frostburg. Md.. to work, and a Pennsylvania truck driver. State police listed them as: Clifford Fearer, 38, assistant manager of the Cumberland Steel Co.; , Francis X. Spearman. 59. long-time clerk in the office of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's superintendent at Cumberland: Miss Nellie Thomas, 31. cashier and payroll clerk at the Buchanan Lumber Co.. and Miss Grace Ev elyn Lloyd, 33, also a clerk for the B fc O. Samuel J. Brenneman. driver of one truck and building contractor from Springs, Pa. EASTBOIND Brenneman was eastbound on U. S. 40 with a bulldozer on his rig and was about to turn off when the runaway truck came down be hind him at 85 to 90 miles an hour It hit the Fearer car and then smashed into Brenneman's trailer. Brenneman was decapitated. The driver of the runaway truck, Paul Stewart Myers. 25, of Dover, Pa., had only a. scratch over one eye. Fearer and his passengers were .burned to death when the roaring truck overtook their sedan from behind, smashed over it and dumped part of its load of alumi num sheeting upon ' the twisted wrecRaire. Eyewitnesses said the sedan's gas tank apparently exploded at the impact. Myers told police his brakes failed on big Savage Mountain as be came east Into Frostburg. He disengaged his engine and gave- it full lhro.. "trying-. Ho build up air pressure in the brake system. The truck - careened through Frostburg without hitting flnvthuitr. FIVE MILES For almost five miles it rocked on down the. steep grades into the west outskirts of Cumberland. At Allegany Grove, as it entered the Cumberland suburb of Lavale. a tire blew out and it lurched into one front yard and on through to the yard of John D. Kasekamp. At the edge of the Kasekamp yard it overtook the Fearer sedan. Fearer apparently had pulled to the side of the road and had al most stopped in an effort to get out of the truck's way. After crunching the car aside, the truck piled another 100 feet down the highway and smashed into Brenneman's rig. Neuberger Plans Adoption Bill WASHINGTON iiCI Sen. Neu berger ID-Orel plans to introduce legislation at the next session of Congress to provide government aid for Korean-American children, fathered by GIs and left behind in Koiea. The senator, who sponsored a bill to enable Mr. and Mrs. Harry Holt ot Creswell, Ore., to adopt eight of these children and bring them from Korea to their home, said , his interest In the problem of the j nbsnaoned youngsters had been stimulated by the case. ' V men. said he thought the Geneva , meeting promised to bring forth certain results. ' .j v. ., ... He said he thoueht there would be "concrete nronress toward ihe i reunincallon of Germany within a framework of European security. "I do not expect that Germany will be reunified within the next month, but I expect some of the obstacles to that unification will have been surmounted." he said. PRESIDENT IMPHOVKS He was not as optimistic about the prospects of achievements in the field of disarmament but he saia ne icn conuaent ' Miai me talks we will have about disarma- n eighth uoor lerrace al smblv decided to con- ment will clear awav tome of the Mmons Armv Hospitn lor 30 mm-;' nbly atciaea 10 con meni win ciear away ?ome oi ine t.-,Pi h,t,. tn .h hri M-tdcr Alireria. ow the cabinet misunnrrManauigs inai seem 10 have arisen. ' He also forecast '"some con crete progress" on the fourth item of the Geneva agenda which in volves increased contacts between the EjW ard Wet. As Dulles met with the President, medical reports continued to show : their Gettysburg. Pa . larm. a steady progress In Mr. Eisen-1 Mr. Eisenhower sitned docu houer's recovery from a heart at- , menls prorlaiming Oct. 2e f tacn sutierro orpt. The secretnrv. who planned to lln hrk In Wshinlnn thl alter. noon and leave for Rome Tndiy. ip'i!,iii - r : iix:m I It W &iXK r. " O " lt , AS ' . f'-'-'-i-iiirlliff-iiiWi f IW ifc.mtmmmmmm imiiiim mi - ; I im .ii . " yW:"!'mNr . ' GAVE!" ; C3 - f , jv. jfllfV V CJTWte ' Those listed below have given j xV-JXK at 7' lmf IL)! .. S100 or more to the I'nited Fund I CJL V MJ urli,r the Advance Gifts period 9 fW 1 777" i - jfli now under way. By doing so. y A I V AtVi they qualify for membership In fV V 4 the Order of Leaders and Dulld- ' ers of the Basin, a select group VTkW that is expected to take an active 43tpl1' part in the future In the new pe- V!- riod of economic development of . the Klamath Basin that is Just JU. - ' - ' beglnnlnr. ' 4 kv LIGHTNING STRUCK near the Coleman F. O'Loughlin res! dence, 1801 Lakeshore, about 2:30 a.m. Tuesday during the thunderstorm which roared over Klamath Falls. The lightning bolt evidently struck a tree about 60 feet from the front of the house and the concussion from the resulting blast broke the large window in the front of the house. The electrical shock also blew out a 30 amphere fuse in the fuse box at the rear of the house. No injuries resulted from the blast. In the upper picture O'Loughlin points to the broken window and lower he is showing Herald and News photographer Otto Ellis where the lightning bolt hit the tree, (arrow) Weaihcr FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Partly cloudy through Thursday. High Wednesday 66. Low Wednesday niqhl 36. High Thurs day 68. Tulclakc low 30. Iliffh yesterday Low last nifrht Prceip. last 24 hours ... Precip. since Ot:t. 1 . Same period last year Normal for period C - "2 nr "5, 0 07 0.06 said that in his meeting with the President, he lound "very disiint t evidence ol more vigorous health .nrt mar, .nvl.lrnr. nf tM.vsira I nd more .evidence ol physical robustness " Dulles conferred with the President here early last week. Desire If si Tne President steadily gained . j0llow-up ol the Summit confer-1 In dramatics at Northwestern Unl trength and his doctors wen'. nr. verslty. turned down proles- ahead with their methodical prep. aration to ?et him mvk on his feet acfiin. He was allowed in a wheelchair Tuesday lor the inst time. Lif-TKD utoM r.i:r from his bed and into the wheel r - """ j - While the President wa Mttinn tn his room, he was viMted by fir X.I il ! fiti t.Kfi'ihriu.'fir li it vnitnu. I 'h,w h ti.' of Penr.'ham State Umversitv. Mrs Kisenhower hrnuehi ihe Pn-s. ioet up-to-date on goings on l1ilonai li.i ui ria-n n n j extenoing eniercency llood relief I lo two more M.ito Pennv. Ivanu I and Massachusetts. KLAMATH. FALLS, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1955 47K k I i - 7 . V Faure Calls Cabinet Meet PARIS UPt Premier Edqar Fame called ill his cabinet today , to prepare for the Geneva Bir ' Four conference and take lip 1 Mark of pressing international problems that piled up while his government lectured in the bal ance. Faure's prepuce was bolstered by a vote ol confidence in the National Assembly Tuejdtty on the Marian problem. The vote, 308 to 15-1. was a larger margin Ihpn had iieen expected ana gave- nun a iree hand to cope with the prob lems at hand. The most pressing international proOletuo included: ; '' I" .! ;,' ,, ' " ' r r' I1,1i;tl.,s ,Pr, , ni rNAm .11 r iarlv hl'' 0 l,IC" I'AIO SlIICS earij The Geneva conicrcnce, now nex'. week and then move on toi Geneva to coiilront Soviet Foreign i Mmivie.- vir,if--i, m Moin-ov in I 2 The sar referendum ached- uuioruU'heSSal oi the "Luioptan" tjovcriunenl , ittVorrd by Fi di.ce, arc uncertain, (Ana its irjcctiun would touch oil a !new crisis between France and , ' Foreign t.,iL.r , pi.,v .aif nt itiu.st decide heiner to vo back or fonimue lo cold-shoulder the oifiamaiion. i 4. r.ie Middle Fast. The Ciech !'" K"I1 ,uu a Hurry in ail Western chancei- d0"10 hs I- appealed cool to the Bagh dad Pact, fo-ilrn-d by the United .Stairs and Biitain In ihe Middle r:a i'and wnich Iran has now - ' In floition theie was jlwa' the picking piobjcm of Nonh Ailica. l"i5. Charlet L. Moore 136. Mary L. Moore IRT-.t'llv. TitntM. Mnlfl -is-S,Lfl"i J- O. Gilfillan - .159. L. Dv-Stephens - - ." ' - 1IK1. Standard Oil Co. 161. Standard Stations. Inc. Ii2. Dr. George R. Nicholson 163. Dr. Gordon Erlandson COUNTY BASIN BUILDERS 15. Sam Wong and Son Death Takes John Kodiak ; HOLLYWOOD (UP)--Slagc and screen actor John Hodiak. 41. whose latest picture was to be premiered throughout the nation to day, died of a heart attack today In his Snn Fernando Valley home. The veteran actor, long a Reading man both here and on the New York stage, collapsed in his bath room, his studio announced He first won fpme on the screen as Uie major In the picture, "A Bell For Adano." Hodiak collapsed as he wns get ting ready to go to work in "On The Threshold Of Space." He lived in the Tarzana. home with his parents and brother and sister. Studio workers said Hodiak ap peared perfectly heallliv yester- i day and was "modest nnd turns- ! sum in? n.s usual." He hud returned 1 n u'pplf fifn Irmn Inrnllnn ahntu In I New Mexico for the film, now half j finished. Dr. Sidney Spies of suburban . Reseua wis called to the home and - said Hodiak died of "coronary cus(,a, Oregon s ue.iiocratic con thrombosis at 6:M a.m." He said, jresslonal delegation of trying to "death wa. Insianlnneoiis.'' The I nalt n"m Oregon so doctor said the actor hod no his tory of any heart ailment or any other lllrcss. A native of Pittsburh. actlmz came naturally to the dark-haired lcaulng man. Hoaiak was Hie son or Ukrnn Inn iinmiaranii Waller nnd Ann Parol clliec. The family moved lo Detroit when he was 'eight, anil he began his acting career Ihrer ll,lrr in Russian and Ukran- .....u .1 and I ree I h--.-- ,,...... ,..v. The young actor, talented to the extent that he won a scholarshiD "lonil baseball oiler In preference cting- His professional career actually nesin with rfriio part?. and. In 1M0 he orlRinated the part of Ll l Abner" in a Chicago show. Fair Share Drive Reaches $24,869 Operation Fair Share hit the $24,869.20 mark at tha firit report meeting in the 1956 United Fund-Rad Croii campaign this noon at the Winema Hotel. Campaign Worker! rtportad thil amount to their squadron commanders at the luncheon meeting. Tht report mooting was spurrad on by outstanding reports of employe contributions such as tha ona from tht Southern Pacific Railroad group which turned In a ttntativa total of $3,400. Report meetings continut daily at noon In tha Wi noma Hotel until November 1. Tha goal for tha driva is $129,627. Bob Beach is wing commander of tht drivt. No. 3305 Anti-Dump Spud Duties To Be Asked VICTORIA. B.C. I.Ti Kcnnethl Kiernan, British Columbia minist er of agriculture, will press for anti-dumping duties on U.S. po tatoes entering the Canadian mark et when he attends the Dominion- Provincial Agriculture Conference in Ottawa Dec. 6 and 7. ' What is renulred. Is an amend.: nieiit in nnti-dumnino- ieifisiatimi so that when a commodity, such as potatoes, is offered in our mark-i et below the cost of production, a I graduated scale of tarilfs would1 be applied." the minister said here) in an Interview, scale would bring the cost of the commodity up to the known cost of production. . "Those figures arc .available, " said Kiernan. At present.. Canadian, and par ticularly British Columbia potato ijiowers hRve little or no tariff pro tection. For six weeks each year, MM a ton is applied to U.S. po tatoes, to give Canadian growers a chance to capture some of the early market. For the remainder of the year, U.S. potatoes enter tariff-free. "But they get around that six veeks." said the minister, "by stocking up ahead oi time It doesn't mean a thing Canadian potatoes entering the U.O. pay a tarill OI Sl.ou, a ion until one million bushels of table potatoes, ard J '. million bushels oi seen potatoes, nave ciusaeu tuc I border. . Telephone Sill After that quota Is filled, ."and speaking appearances in the North 11 doesn't take very long,'-' the tar- u. ,w .... - Kiernan said he expeoted feder - al government action on,, potato tariffs at the next session of Par liament. "But we will press for ac tion . at . the December conference, as we have done for the past three years." - - - Meg Resumes Royal Duties LONDON (UP1 Princess Msr- earet todny resumed the royal du ties winch aro among tne greatest ! romance with RAF Group Capt. j Peer Tewnsend. She presented colors to a bat talion of Highlander troops on famed Salisbury PlRin southwest of London and told them that this is a time "for resolute and un wavering service." Tonight she and other members of the royal family dine with heads of the Church of England, who are among the .strongest opponents of her possible marriage to a di vorced man. Margaret's ringing call to duty I to the troops was not likely to be I overlooked by forecasters who are trying to see what her own decision will be on marrying Townsend. I The royal dinner at Lambeth j Palace brings Margaret and the i prelate nf the established church. ! face to face. It gave the outspoken I archbishop an opportunity to de-1 liver his verdict on a Margaret-1 Townsend marriage, which would violate the tenets of the Anglican faith. Sam Coon Speaks 1 m d i TOP UdHI dUDpOPl ' itiu.'tu, ure. 'jr rtcp. uoon (Fl-Orei said Tuesday he had nc- thev wouid nave a campaign Issue in the next election. He told a mecllng ef the Slier mun County Republican Club that the three legislators iSens. Morse and Neuberger and Rep. Green I hsd not denied the chnrie and ' In my book, failure to answer an ac- rusntlon is an admission of (mill.' Conn l apcaking- In Eastern Ore iron tn Ruin support of his bill for '"partnership" construction of John Day Dam. The Oregon Democrats oppose the bill Coon said that partnership pro dram hd the active support of three Democratic president Wood row Wilson. Franklin D Roo- revolt and Harry 8. Trunmn. When I Oregon legislators altack the pari- nerhip piocram, thev are attack- I incr the policies of these three pre. 1 (dents, Coon i aid. Death Of Three Boys Results In PAanhunt CHICAGO (UP) Two fathers, their voices Strained with emotion, told today of searching city streets for their three missing sons, whose nude and mutilated bodies ' were found later in a forest preserve. Tile two men. Malcolm Peter son, 36, a carpenter, and Anton Schuesslcr, 42, a tailor, appeard at the limit of their physical en durance. Peterson broke down and wept on the witness stand at an uiquost into one of the most shocking crimes in Chicago's history. Schuessler had to be helped both to and from the witness chair. IN WOODS . The bodies of the three boys, missing smce Sunday, were found yesterday stacked like cordwood in a ditch in Robinson's Woods northwest of the city. The victims were 14-year-old Robert Peterson, John Schuessler. 13. and his brother, Anton Jr., 11. Peterson said his son Was "A home boy. . , and he went away Sunday and we weren't able to find him. , ." . He told of Uie frnnlic search he and Schuesslcr made Sunday night after their sons had left home to go to a downtown movie and had They searched the main route to the downtown district, inquiring at hamburger stands, bus stops and thenters. Then; after midnight, Peterson said, they began checking bowling allevs. ASKS ABOUT THREATS Coroner Walter J. McCarron Demo Leaders Slate Talks 'WASHINGTON (AT The Demo- ,,., jp. Nat nnnl Committee an. j n0unced today a new series of f1,,i.,.aUi dinner. and nallv gntlieriniis. with Gov. Avcrell Har- I rlmun nf Nffur Ynrlr ttstrri fnr four uarriman, one oi mrce uemo- 1 cvaUl jost prominently mentioned lor their parly's presidential nom Inatlon next year, will speak in Seattle, Wash., Dec. 21; Oregon City, Ore., Dec. 22; and Lewiston, Idaho! Dtc. 23. He also will appear til a luncheon Dec. 22 In Eugene. Ore., ana attend ,-a University oi Oregon convocation there the same dav. . .. . - - Adlsl E. 8lcvcnson and Sen Eslts Kelfltivcl of Tennessee, other fnn.rflnklnir m-nsnecls fnr the nl-es- fidentia nonimation, are down for one speech each ana msy dc booked for others later, Stevenson will address a !00 - a plate dinner the Democratic Nn tlonal Committee Is giving In Chi- cnao Nov. 19. Kelnuvcr will speak at Muskegon, Mich.. Oct. 29. Congressional, state and other party lenders have been booked for some 30 affairs between Oct. 21 and Dec. 23. Democratic National Chairmnn Paul M. Buller's itinerary, previ ously announced as including an appearance with Hnrrimnn at a dinner in Dt'S Moines. Iowa, next Saturday, has now been extended to Include trips to S:urboro, Maine, Nov. 1; Walervillo, Maine. Nov. 2; Chapel Hill. N.C., Nov. 11; and Albuquerque, N.M., Nov. -ii. SHOOTING HOURS CALIFORNIA October 20 OPEN CLOSE 5:51 5:20 . ' i ui EXPLAINING the Klemath County Chamber of Commeret charti and plant thit morning when the 9 o'clock photographer came by wet Frank Tucker, manager of tha chamber, Ruth Overen, 2060 Eberlein, new information clerk at tht chamber, wat being instructed by Tucker. asked each father whether the slain youngsters had complained of receiving threats from "anybodyteen-agers, gangs, cliques, crowds, men or boys." The two fathers shook their heads, and said "no." , George Dillon, a maintenance man at the Monte Crlsto bowling alley where the three boys were seen Sunday afternoon, described the neighborhood surrounding the bowling alley as "tough." . Schuessler's face was whit as , he testified. He was barely able to talk. He told McCarron that "my sons never left the house be fore to go downtown without their parents. . . This was . the first time." - . McCarron recessed the Inquest until Oct. 24. .. The clothes of all thre boys had been ripped from them wid marks showed their eyes, mouths and hands had been taped. They were not sexually assaulted. WORST CRIME It was bv far one of the worst crimes in Chicago's history. In their modest bungalow homes, the murdered boys' parents were ucar coliap.se. Mrs. Schuessler, a frail, 37-year-old woman, rocked back and forth on her living-room couch Tuesday night while neighbor women clus tered about her. Siie would murmur "My life . . . my arms , . . my legs . . . now gone." Once she shrieked, "I want my beys I I want my" - The father came in and tell on his knees before his wife. "Mother, motner what kind ot land do. we live in?" he sobbed. . . ' The boys' bodies were found .shortly after noon Tuesday, piled on top ol each other in a forest preserve ditch near a parking lot. lhey had apparently been killed shortly after they were last seen in a bowling alley Sunday night. DISAGREE Chicago authorities disagreed oil the motive behind the killings. Coroner Walter J. McCarron called it the work of a "sex maniac the most horrible sex crime in years." Sheriff Joseph- Lohman, however, believed that a brutal teen-aged gang had murdered the iioys. The seai-eh for clue In Pnhln. Lnn's Wooes, located outside. th - city's" northwest limits, continued inrougn me nignt ana into in early morning hours. It intensified at daybreak, with 100 officers, 8ta tioncd only four or five feet apart, moving i n i o u g n uie orusniano Guards and road blocks Isolated the avea. V- - " ...v .- ,-A-T Pol ice conducted" rTrfahtbtmd up of known sex deviates, eoncen Iriittng on persona employed in bowling alloys. - ; ; The boys had been dead 31 to 41) hour.) befoie they were found and marks on their bodies showed - i1Pv had nunarentlv been-carried - jn a car or truck. , j . : I Gales Whip North Sea LONDON m Gale force Winds end ruin lasiied the North Sea Wednesday, ripping a Dutch sub marine lrom its moorings on Bri tain's south coast and sinking a little Dutch freighter off Germany. Ousts up to 70 miles per hou were recorded along the Allantlo Coasts of Britain. An Inch and a, half of rain fell In the Sicily Isles during the night. . The 200-ton Dutch coaster Con I tint foundered al dawn off tht Herman Island of Julst. Searchers reported little hope for her cap tain and a small child adrift In a liicboai. Three men and a woman were picked out ot another llfe Ijoiit by the German motorshtp Duesseldorf. xjuuicjMcr" ' " ' " - ; .--.r ,',?'"' ', ' v:- ' -. 1 .'" -.' 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