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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 24, 1955)
I suppose you're at least casually aware of the ruckus that has arisen over the alleged demand of three U.S. senators that military planes oe sent over to bruin them and their wives back from a Junket In curope. . The point of It Is that if they had returned by regular civilian passenger planes the cost would have been PEANUTS whereas the cost of getting them home by spe cial military planes would have to Be reckoned In FOLDING MONEY. The Pentagon said the other day mat special planes had to be dis patched to Europe to bring the senatorial globe-trotters back at a cost of $20,000. Two of the sena tors say this morning it AIN'T SO that they're returning to Wash ington today on a regularly sched uled military flight. Who's right? I wouldn't know. The senators could have called for the special planes (which, of course, would be a nice way to return from Europe) and then. when they heard the political up r , roar, which COULD threaten their (political future, they could have claimed they didn't do any such thing. And We must keep In mind the fact that our federal government has become so Immense and sprawling that no human mind can handle all Its details. Someone among the tens of thousands who work in the Pentagon building could have pulled an unintentional boner. Market news note: Cotton futures prices broke sharp ly on the New York cotton ex change this morning, with some contracts down more than $7 a bale in early trading. Brokers said the severe break followed a wave of selling on the Liverpool (England) cotton ex change, triggered by authoritative forecasts on rising cotton produo lion in areas other than the United States. The International Cotton Advisory Committee said that If foreign cot ton production maintains its pres ent rising trend THE WORLD IN A FEW YEARS MAY -BECOME WHOLLY INDEPENDENT OF U.S. COTTON. That Is to say: Continued high parity support has kept American cotton prices so HIGH that foreign nations have increased their cotton production to the point where In a few years more they will be SUPPLYING ALL THE COTTON THE WORLD NEEDS. In that event, all that would be left to do with our cotton surplus (above our domestic needs) would be to pile It up In government warehouses. I hate to keep harping on this farm price support string. But it is so TERRIBLY important to the future of American agriculture. If the political farmers succeed In doing what they so obviously have in mind which Is to buy farm state votes by the process of pledging themselves to continued high price support for American lnrm products, regardless of sup ply and demand they will destroy our agricultural economy. We can't go on FOREVER piling up surplus crops in government warehouses at taxpayer expense. It Isn't just a political Issue In which the Republicans line up on one side and the Democrats on the other. Unfortunately, there are Re publican politicians who are not above dabbling their toes' In this business of selling the long-term agricultural economy of their coun try down the river for a mess of ulltical pottage. Burglars Loot Safe Of Cash ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., (UP) Burglars cracked open the safe of a branch bank at top secret Sandia Base here yesterday and escaped with an estimated $46,500. Branch Manager John T. Wien 3 ing of the Bank of New Mexico discovered the robbery this morn ing when he found the bank door (pen and the lid of the safe blown off. An armed gunman had entered another bank of New Mexico branch here about 13 months ago and made off with HU.000. The FBI and the Army's Crimi nal Investigation Division moved In Immediately, and bank officials said they were delaying an actual count of the missing money until attempts at obtaining fingerprints had been completed. The bank is located directly across from the administration building of Sandia Base, where the Atomic Energy Commission man ufactures the trigger for the atom ic bomb. Weather FORECAST Klamath Fall and vicinity: Fair through Tueiday ex cept for variable high cloudiness. Low Monday night 28, high Tues day 65. Low last night .18 High yeterdy Precipitation last U hours Since 0t. 1 . 55 Sme period last year . M ornal for period 8.7? i w mts ira j 7 M Price Five Cent- 1C Pages KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1S55 Telephone 8111 No 3309 IC n A JL J f m- a..j.-J r ... i- :r-Tn- tast BaV aS nan vuuuiea ror ; : f ; &&&& f Ij - I "a '- ,- - V T""V which struck the San Francisco W CSk '. t j jA $W'.S . . -6Hr4 ' --.t ' . ""'V.- J ... Bay area at 8:11 o'clock Sunday ater Resources vki-,: Jra raara HWrwwaHWV & "TV V-c , J tjtiVf "used by the bin shock will run LINCOLN, Neb. IP) Secretary of the Interior McKay Monday suggested the possibility of reserv ing the long-range revenue-producing capabilities of hydrotMocric projects for use. in financing fu ture water resource developments. McKay madj the suggestion In a speech prepared for the National Reclamation Assn. in which he cited the John Day Dam on the Columbia River as an example where Consrjss could reserve the power revenues for development of other projects alter a SO-year pay-out period. "Congress would be secure in the knowledge that revenue from this structure, as well as from other dams financed by the fed eral government, would be avail able for such purposes," McKay said. "This is only one of several methods by which revenue pro duced In water resource develop ment may make a contribution to additional water resource develop ment, Including reclamation and irrigation." without entailing ad ditional appropriations from tax payer money. McKay did not pinpoint the other methods. The secretary said that Congress has authorized construction of the John Day Dam by the Army Engi neers between Washington and Oregon at an estimated cost of 310 million dollars, with 273 mil lion of that to be reimbursed to the treasury over a 50-year period from power revenues at 2'i per cent. He added that three , private power companies have offered to put up the 273 million dollars in exchange for the power to be gen erated during the 50 years with the entire structure, power facilities and all, remaining federal prop erty. Under that proposal the gov Business Firms Respond To Payroll Deduction Plan Wing Commander Bob Beach, di rector of Operation Fair Share said Monday that one of the most en couraging single factors in this united Fund-Red Cross drive the response of business firms to the payroll deduction plan. Bench said several Klamath Falls firms are supportuig the theory of 'time enough to give enough" through payroll deduction, by hav ing the story told to employes of this year's community needs. Among the firms who have re- ouestcd speakers through the Unit ed Fund office were J. C. Penney Company, Sears, Gilchrist Lumber Company, Pacific Telephone and Telegraph, Southern Pacific Com pany, Firs', Nntlonnl BanK ana South Sixth Street Branch. First Federal Savings and Loan Associa tion, Montgomery Ward's, Miller's and Klamath Valley Hospital. Beach said results Jrom payroll deduction have been "rewarding" thi's far. He predicted comparable results from the residential campaign which will blast olf Wednesday under the command of WAF Mrs. Willard Ward. Mrs. Ward has divided Klamath Falls and the immediate suburbs into 30 flights, each headed by a flight commander who has recruit ed stovepipe lockcys to contact neighbors on their block. A briefing session was held last t' f? TV 81. m till . m V" ft. ' .-TVS' " . I m .jr-M ,IA,r mmMTn i i i "i THE EARLY DAYS of the Klamath Country were brought to mind with this first prize float, en tared by the Merrill Business and Professional Women's Club in the Klamath Basin Potato Festival parade at Merrill on Saturday, Mrs. Mamie Giacomini who churned industriously as the parade moved down Main Street before throngs of spectators, came to Merrill before roads were paved. She has taught music for many years in the Merrill community. W WW msmMW&mm Tenth or Straws ernment would be spared putting up the 2V3 million dollars. "At the end of 50 years." Mc Kay Si-id, "the government would be released from all obligations to the utility and own the com plete structure. "Then the Congress could make a decision as to the future operat ing plan lor the facility. "II Con gress desired to earmark power revenue for resources develop ment by means of special legisla tion or through a basin account, it would he entirely possible. "We could then proceed with long-range Irrigation development of additional acreage in the Co lumbia River Basin." McKay defended reclamation de velopment as having "proven an astonishingly good investment for ihe federal government." Both he and C. Petrus Peter son, president of the NRA said that despite present agricultural surpluses, continued reclamation development is necessary to help meet food and fiber demands of the future. Peterson called for alertness by the 17 Western reclamation states against attacks on their state wa ter laws, saying that recent water shortages in Eastern and Southern states are leading them to re examine the laws on water rights. IJe also commended the partner ship policy of the Eisenhower ad ministration for development of water resources, saying the NRA for years had urged greater par ticipation In such projects by local agencies and local people. He criticized the report on water resources and power by the second Hoover Commission' as having "an unmistakable trend. . . to mini mize the importance of reclama tion and to place obstacles in its path." . . Wednesday In the Fremont School with Mrs. Ward In cnarge. speaner for the day was H. J. Chandler who borrowed from the recently popular song, "You Gotta Have Heart," to make his plea for in vestments in our community. A film was shown which illustrat ed Ihe work of the 26 youth, health and welfare agencies served through United Fund. Smog Red Haze Hits LA Area LOS ANGELES (UP) The All Pollution Control District issued Smog Red conditions today for the first time in more than a week. The forecast was based on a 700-foot atmospheric inversion and weak winds. No rubbish burning was permitted this morning and the APCD -asked motorists to cur tail all unnecessary driving. Eye irritation was felt in most of the Los Angeles Basin. FMERGENCY Klamath Falls police have an emergency message for John J. Mitchell of San Francisco. Mitchell is believed to be en route from San Francisco to Port land by automobile and may spend the nitjht here. Persons knowing of his whereabouts are asked to con tact the Klamath Falls police. It", rTTHf' ' -- i.. I I - jj y-&. . ' c 4 ' aMPQ'iW Into the thousands of dollars. It I N j k ! ' . W ' j0" V X. upset 0,6 Sunday-evening calm of ? , , I ., : TM i. Y"w' 1 broad area (rom Sacramento to V ! O V? 'i i l l J 1 San Jose. T . 10.. iL t I I T' I f 1 Shocks were recorded at 10:04 ' iM JiaJt ttxi I ' s A I W Sunday night and at 12:18 and 1 - 11 . A ll I 1 I I 1: a.m. Monday. A--NV"W-j,- Ik -?V I 11 I 111 I It was the second damaging l ) r-r sXj f T I VISITING THE NEW KLAMATH COUNTY MUSEUM OPENING Sunday were, left to right, Mrs. Best Loosley, Fort Klamath; Frank Applegate, Medford, and Mrs. Emil (Alice Applegatel Peil, Ashland. The visitors were among a crowd of about 700 who attended the formal open ing of the museum. Applegate is the father of news service correspondent Dick Applegate who was held by the'Chinese Communists before his release by them earlier this year. Truck Upset Slocks PLACERVILLE UP Highway crews turned out today to clean up the remainder of 17 ions ot pork thai snarled traffic on U.S. SO for 13 ItOJis. The Highway Patrol said a tractor-trailer overturned near Kyburz 30 miles east of here, yesterday spilling the pork halves lor 300 yards along the highway.' --- - "-Traffic otv, tbe. ,trpisconUnental route was channeled to oneMmie and held up lor 15 minute Inter vals from 10-a.m., yesterday until 11 p.m., last nieht. Both drivers oi tho truck wore injured. Eugene Cornelius of Illi nois was trapped m the cab for three hours while it was dismantled wilh cutting torches to release him. He received major injuries. including a crushed foot. John S. Kulbaknn, 55. Kansas CUV, Mo., received minor injuries. " Tile p.itrol said Kulbaxan failed o gear the truck low enough com- niK down the Sierra Nevada grpde. The patrol said the brakes be came hot a;id ineffective and the huge rig raced out of control. It hit a bank ana overturneu. DAMAGE SPOKANE i.'Vi A rifle bullej. apparently fired by a hunter damaged a 230.000-volt power line 12 miles east Of Grand Coulee and threatened part of Snokane's pow er supply from the dam, the Bon neville Power Administiation re ported Monday. Operation Fair Share Reported r.oai nK9.ua To Dale S 60.8IH.1J Goal To Go . , S 68,808.88 . r Ml - 'W? it 1 Klamath County Museum Holds Opening On Sunday Indian basket weaving; and pre paring wocus for lood by Klamath Indian women from the reserva tion highlighted the opening of the new Klnmath County Museum Sun day aiternoon. Hie museum is lo cated in the Klamath County t.t- Strike Slows UAL Flights NEW YORK (Pi A strike by flight engineers has caused can cellation, of about 17 per cent of United Air Lines system-w i d e flights, a company spokesman said Monday. The engineers walked out Sun day after a. breakdown In negotia tions over a new company rule (hat all newly employed flight engineers must be qualified pilots. The engineers contend that the rule Jeopardized their Job secur ity. Early Monday the airline had said operations were expected to be close to normal, but a spokes man later said seven tnkeoffs from New York were cancelled and that Ihe picture throughout the country whs about the same. The spokes man said that as of noon, about 17 per cent of the airline's flights throughout the country had been affected. Crater Lake Has Good Weather Fine weather has prevailed at Crater Lake National Park for the last lo days with dally maximum temperatures around 50 and mini mum at night between 30 and 35 degrees, according to the ranger station. The wnrming hut Is being kept open and visitors In the park aver age from 75 lo 100 each day with the total reaching 150 to 175 on weekend;. The Annie Springs Road and Highway 62 are in good condition. There is some snow on ihe rim road which closed, along with the Notth and East entrance roads, a few weeks aco. Enge Calls For US Funds To Seed Forest Burn Area YREKA Congressman Clair Enclc (U-C11I1I.) ol Red Blull has requested Svciciary ol Agriculture Ezra T Benson lo make 80.000 of emeiuui.cy fund-; nviillable 10 rc-sccd 20.000 arres ul land Imrncu over In last monih's di.sasicrous forest fires. Enule told Benson th:' Ihe seed ing must be aone beoe the lir.st rnln tins f 11 in older 10 proen; erosion and pnekwc of the seed bed produced by the ashes. Engle ha previously uiRrd Ihe U .S. loresl m i vice lo rc-sccd the land In grnss lo provide livestock feed and erosion control while the new tree-crop is Mi'owina. The 20. 000 acre Iikiiic hud been deter mined bv the forest service In cooperation with M. V. Maxwell, direr-tor of extension service in Si-kiyou County. Cost was Fstlin.itc.1 at toO.000, computri a I $4 per acre lor seed anil 30 ccnls .in acre lor pluming. The acteate V.ngle desires to be seeded w part of Ihe 10.000 rcres damaged in the Haystack brary building at Third and Kl am ain. Klamath Falls Fire Chief Roy Rowe parked an old hand-drawn fire hose cart in front ol the building. This old cart was nulled to early-day Klamath Fans fires bv the young bloods of the volun teer fire department. Julian Kccles displayed several of' hlR Vintage . ftulqmoblles all. prf ectly Ttuitnyd 10 ine crowa oi aoout tw peopi who attended the opening. Members of the historical socle' ties of Jacksonville and Yreka at tended the opening and many old timers from the Basin and other points renewed old friendships at the fete. The opening was sponsored Joint ly by the Klamath County Museum Commission and the Historical So ciety. Mrs. Guy Hancock of the Historical Society wan chairman of Ihe committee which served tea to Ihe visitors In the museum. The museum commission consists of Hal Ogle, chairman. County Judge U. E. Feeder, Carrol Howe, Mary Case, Oliver Splker, Jess Smith and Mrs. LcRoy Gclnger. Dr. Paul Schuefnr is the curator. The museum will be open to the public every afternoon except Mon day and on Saturday evenings. SHOOTING HOURS OREGON October 25 OPEN CLOSE 5:56 5:13 CALIFORNIA October 25 OPEN CLOSE 6:01 5:11 burn, one of seven ma lor forest lircs in Siskiyou County early last month loliowine a dry thunder storm The ,-ccond Inritcst lire which occurred near Kidder Creek in western Scott Valley, was not discussed, as it was not undc. thp feder.il Jurisdiction. Meanwhile. Russell iV. Bower, superintendent of the Klamath Na tional Forest, said that plans for re-secdlng 700 acres of the lorcst are well underway, and said that firms purchn-sin- salvaw lim ber are being required to bear the cost ol re-scedtng the area which they work. Bower said that enouph money was being set aside from tun i-nlc of salvage timber to plint the bet ter areas in young trees, or to .seed spot the area with tree feeds. Bower estlmaied the cost ol re planting the area in trees would be about $50 an acre He said that seed spotting had never been tiled on a lunse stale !n the Klam ath forest, and that if it is sue resslul, more re-lorcsi tlon in Ihe future v.ouid bo by this method IT- 04 4 Big Three Agree About New Talks By WILBUR G. LANDREY United Tress Staff Correspondent PARIS (UP) The Din Three foreign ministers, under the shad ow of crisis in the Saar and the Middle East, reached "complete agreement" today on much ot their strategy for the forthcoming Geneva talks with Russia. French Foreign Minister Antoinc Plnay announced the "complete agreement" on proposals for Ger man unity and European security when he emerged from a meeting with Secretary ot State John Fos ter Dulles and British Foreign Secretary Harold MacMillan. This pronouncement of renewed Western unity came in the light ot uiese related dlplomatlo develop ments: 1, In a referendum yesterday, the Saarlanders rejected a pro posed statute to "Europeanize' their tiny state which lies between France and Germany, HATRKUS POSSIBLE 2. The result, a major defeat tor French foreign policy, threatened to revive Franco-German anunos- ily and renew old hatreds. 3. The government of Saar Pre mier Johannes Hoffman Tcslgned m me,. lace t the defeat oljho fcfercnduni which it" had sup ported. 4. West German Chancellor Kon rad Adenauer and French Pre mier Edgar Faure vowed in an exchange of telegrams to save the ftiendshlp between their two coun tries despite any temporary set back. 5. Israeli Premier and Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett arrived In Paris to confer with the foreign ministers and wilh his key ambas sadors from Washington, Moscow. London, Paris arid Rome about mounting Middle East tension. A spokesman said he has been prom ised a session with Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov in Geneva Thursday. He will confer with Dulles Wednesday. . and hopes to talk with MacMillan and Pinny later. DULLES IN ITALY 6. Italian officials and I lie pro- government press hailed a week end visit to Rome by Dulles as Insuring a more Important position for Italy In the Western alliance. Dulles was reported to have prom ised to consult Italy on ma lor Issues, continue the fight for Ilnl ian admission to , the United . Na tions, but to have declined to raise Italy and Germany to the same status as Britain -and France In Western councils. nog P 0 kak 5" I' A BROTHER AND SISTER poied thii morning for thTTffh o'clock photographer at they were on their way to River lida School. Thy wrt Bonnie and Loilio Tyion of 330 North Stcond. ouake in the area within seven weeks. Windows shattered, telephone lines went dead, statues fell from niches in a chapel, dishes fell from shelves and overhead lights swayed dizzily. At Oakland, an apartment house fire started soon alter the quake and burned to death an 85-year-old woman, Ora Bell. Tom Dolan, a battalion fire chief, estimated ' damage at J25.0OO and said the fire was "definitely caused by a tas explosion." Ruth Aldinger. 49. jumped out of a second story window during Ihe fire and suffered serious in juries. Oakland firemen also blamed the quake for a $3,000 house fire. Battalion Chief Bernard Dooley said it either cracked gas pipes or extinguished a pilot light, caus- ing an explosion. Manuel Ortega was hit by flying glass and injured slightly. INE SPILLS At Sonoma, the Buena Vista Winery said the jolt shifted a 1.200. gallon wine cask in its cradle. A scam split and. until workmen caulked it, a geyser of wine prayed out. There was not much los.s. Pacific Gas and Electric Go. said a neighborhood substation In Walnut Creek went out of serv ice temporarily. The firm said that probably two live wires blushed together. Two pinball devotees declared Ihe jolt was strong enough to tilt" the machines thev were playing. Dr. Charles RIchter at California Institute of Technology said his seismograpn at Pasadena rated the remor at 5.5. "enough to cause damage in the immediate area of source." Father John Weber at Simla Clara University reported the quake had a RIchter rating of una saia 11 was au mues away. wnicn would put Its center in the san Francisco area. Barbara Am- berson at the University of Cali fornia at Berkeley rated it at 4.5 and said her machine did not show any distance. -The RIchter rating for the big San Francisco ouRke of lQOft wn. was 8 5 for the Kamchatka quake . ot 1052. . IMAGES FALL ! , Statues of Ihe Virgin Mary and of St, John Baptist de la Salle fell some 25 feet from niches In the chapel wall at St. Mary's Univer sity, across the bay from San Fran cisco. Plumbing cracked in a uni versity dormitory. Two large windows shattered at the Anslo California Bank on San Francisco's Market Street. At Walnut Creek, near Oakland'. telephone lines went dead tempo- arily although Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. at San Fran cisco rcporled no damage. Most of the damage was in the East Bay near Oakland. At sub urban Orlnda dishes fell from shelves and windows were broken. A crnck appeared in the city room of the Sun Francisco Exam iner. Piaster cracked in a num ber of San Francisco homes. The quake was felt as far south as San Jose, although not too heavily, and as far west as Sac ramento and Stockton. This quake came Just seven weeks to the day from the Sept. 4 quake that centered at Hollls ler, south of 8an Francisco and near Snn Jose. That quake too was given a 5.5 rating. II - I X
