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Newspaper Page TextIn The- ir 0 Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS Business new note: In the January to September period of this year, General Mo tors had an average of 633.000 employees. Its payrolls in that perioa came to a total of two and one-ihlrd BILLION dollaas. These figures were made public today in Detroit in a statement preceding the corporation s third quarter report to Us stockholders. When you think of Gcn-ral Mo tors, I suppose you think of its owners as a small group of portly Itentleineu, very well dressed, each driving a Cadillac (with perhaps two or three more in the garage at home i and each owning a pri vate yacht. If so, you're wrong. According to tho latest figures available at the moment (which are several months old) General Motors has a total of 459.099 stock holders. That is to say: For every THREE General Motors employ ees, there are TWO General Mo tors stkho!ders. Putting it another wav, the OWNERS oi G.M. are almost as numerous as the WORKERS for G.M. What the demagogs want us to believe is that America's great corporations are owned by a few fat and happy individuals who have Hie world by the tail with a downhill pull. Nothing could be farther lrom the truth. Our great business cor porations are owned by HUN DREDS OP THOUSANDS of peo ple who are investing their mon y in these large enterprises. American Telephone & Tele graph has 1,300,000 stockholders. Standard Oil of New Jersey has 297,000, General Electric has 295. 000. United States Steel (known as Big Steeli has 225,000. And so on, Tn his annual message. Presi dent Fetrus Peterson tells dele gates to the 1955 session of the National Reclamation association, which is meeting this week at Lin coln, Nebraska, that despite present agricultural surpluses reclamation development is essential to help meet the nation's food and fiber demands of the future. He pointed out that industries are laying plans now to meet the demands of a population growth f 4 million narrnns ln lha navt 20 years, but critics of reclama tion say the reclamation program should be STOPPED. He added: "Our critics seem to assume that a project planned ln 1955 will idd to the food surplus in 1956. They seem oblivious to the FACT that urban development, industrial plants, airports, highways and other enterprises are annuallv TAKING OUT MORE ACRES OF GOOD AGRICULTURAL LANDS THAN WE CAN HOPE TO OFF SET BV RECLAMATION." What the president of the Na tional Reclamation association is (elling us is that the bulk of the GOOD land in the United States has already been developed. About all that remains open for develop ment Is the ai-jdjgnd. .semj-arid land of the West. Good land is being covered up fister by industrial and housing developments, highways, airports, etc., than the remaining good land ran be brought into production by reclamation. At the same time, our nation is facing a population increase of 45 million persons in the next 20 years. Which is to say that all the remaining irrigable land in the West will be NEEDED by the time It can be brought into pro duction. So DON'T KILL OFF IRRIGATION. If that is done, our nation will regret it. What he is telling us is pecul iarly true of the Upper Klamath Basin, which lies half in Oregon and half in California, California Is the nation's most rapidly grow ing state. It Is already and will continue to be the West's dominant market. The Upper Klamath Basin lies closer to this dominant California market than any Irrigated district ut-side California can ever be. California Is covering up good land faster than any other state. So There will be a market In Cali fornia for every additional acre of good land that can be brought under Irrigation in the Upper Klamath Basin. Let'f keep that fact clearly In mind ln our plans for the future. . .... t 90'dodt 4 . Hi ' MIXING PAINT at the K.C. Paint Store, 520 Klamath Avenue, this morning when the tarly morning photographer camt by were, left, Jack Neipp, store manager, and Virgil Davit, who supervises the outside painting contracts. k ,? ." "J" LLOYD GIFT, LANGELL VALLEY RANCHER, who transformed unproductive tag brush and scabroek land into lush pastura land, was named today as Oregon Grassman of the Year in a contest sponsored by the Portland Chamber of Commerce. Gift will be entered in the tri-state Pacific Northwest contest, where ha will face winners from Washington and Idaho. Start ing with a dam from a defunct irrigation district, ha trans formed "worthless" land into good pasture for his approxi mately 800 head of cattle. Lloyd Gift Named State 1956 Grassman Of Year Lloyd Gift, Langell Valley cattle rancher, was named today as the Oregon Grassman of the Year by the Portland Chamber of Com merce. Gift, who collected a $300 prize as state winner, will be Oregon's entry in the tri-state Pacific North west Grassman contest. Winner of this contest will be announced No vember 7. Second prize winner was George Milne, dairy farmer of Tillamook. Gift, Klamath County winner who was sponsored in the state contest by the Klamath County Chamber Cabinet Views Meg Romance LONDON (UP) RAF Group Capt. Peter Townsmd called at Clarence House today to tee Prin cess Margaret at the very hour when Parliament was inviting Prime Minister Anthony Eden to reveal whether they will marry. The 41-year-old Townsend turned up at 3:30 p.m. to pay what has come to be his almost daily call on the Princess at her royal resi dence In London. . Parliament ai the same time was reconvening after a three month recess, offering Eden his first official opportunity to dis close whRt he knows about the plans of Margaret and Townsend. It would require special legisla tion if Margaret were to marry Townsend. a divorced man. Eden would be the man to introduce the special bill to clear the way for the marriage. The House of Com mons would be the place for it to be introduced. A respected newspaper reported the Princess has said yes and is already planning "how and when their marriage can take place." Laborite Marcus L i p t o n has asked Eden "whether he will Intro duce legislation to repeal or amend the Royal Marriage Act of 1772." This is the law that requires Mar garet to give one year s notice to Parliament before marrying with out the consent of Queen Eliza beth II. Elizabeth, as head of the church and defender of the faith, cannot give her consent because Townsend is a divorced man. The 41-ycar- old grouo captain was the "inno cent" party to the divorce but the Church of England frowns upon the remarriage of a divorced per son while his forme." mate lives. . If YfrTVJ JSC, of Commerce, operates over 6.000 acre; of his own land and 7,480 acres of forest land. His acreage was considered largely worthless, with most of the land covered by scabroek and sage brush. However, some 700 acres of the land was from a now defunct irrigation district. Starting with the dam and other works of this dis trict, he expanded his irrigation system to where he was able to convert the rocky, barren land Into lush pasture land. He dug five miles of dri!nir ditches, increased the storage ca pacity oi tne old district reservoir and built additional reservoirs, levelled the land and seeded it to a grass-legume mixture. Theri he shifted his attention to the rocky upland area, where he idded to his irrigation system and ?eeaee me land with grass by air plane. In seven years, the land was transformed to good growing grass, with the sod covering over most of the rock so that the casual observer would never know the roccs were there at.-all. Of the total land he operates. approximately 1,700 acres are irri gated. No land was added to the irrigated total this year because oi a water shortage, but he used this year to increase his storage capacuy so mat when his reser voirs are full, he has a two-veer supply of water. Total storage of his three reservoirs is about 11,000 acre feet of water. The water is fully utilized as il drops from the reservoirs, located at high points on the ranch, to the bottom lands which were the first Gift improved. Runoff from the top pastures is carried by ditches to the lower pastures and very little water actually leaves the ranch. Gift runs approximately 800 head of his own cattle on this land, and grazes 260 head of other cattle on grazing contract. In addition to his work on the ranch. Gift has actively served in the soil conservation district move ment, having worked with the or ganization of the Langell Valley District, where he has been either president or member of the board of .directors since the district was set up in 1941. He also served as first president of the State 'Soil Districts Associa tion, and is a member of the State Soil Conservation Committee. The runner-up. Milne, took a 39-acre farm with poor clay soil and built it up. through use of gfass and fertilizer. The farm now feeds 39 head of dairy cattle. This year he got two cuttings of silage from the plot. California Slates Klamath Hearing SACRAMENTO. Calif. iTI The effect of logging operations on Itsh in the Klamath River will be probed a a meeting nf a Senate Investigating Committee, next month at Eureka. James stokes of Redding, re gional director of the Stale Fish end Game Dept. said Monday there is no doubt logging is harm ing the fish. The fish are not yet uying nowever, ne added. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls anil vicinity: Partly cloudy through Wedneada.v. Windy at limes. Low Tnerday nlghl 45; high Wednes day High yesterday ....... Kit Low last night . . 3a Preclp. last '24 hours "... a Preclp. sinre Ort. 1 5J Same period lt year Normal for period ......II Operation Fair Share Reported Goaf To Date Goal To Go M29.C37 t ti.904.4a . S3.12J.S0 Cent IS' race State Ready To Present Best Witness McMINNVILLE, Ore. MV-Victor Wolf, who has admitted rigging a bomb In an automobile to kill a Portland attorney, testifies today in the first-degree murder trial of the attorney's widow. He is the state's principal wit ness ln Its case against Mrs. Mar Jorle Smith, .who is accused of plotting her husband's slaying. Wolt already has pleaded guilty in court. He said he killed Smith April 21 at Mrs. Smith's urging because he was in love with her. He and Mrs. Smith planned to use money from Smith's estate to start a new life ln Alaska together. Wolf said. Mrs. Smith has denied all this and her attorney yesterday tried to have Wolf declared insane so he could not testify. Tne attorney, Bruce Spaulding, also contended that Wolf should not be permitted to testify on the ground that Mrs. Smith had been accused of being an accomplice with him in the slaying, and that under Oregon law, an accomplice, who has not yet been tried. Is pot permitted to testily lor or againl an accused person. f Circuit Judge Arlie G. Walker, who is trying the oase here be cause Mrs. Smith's attorneys said she could not get a fair trial in Portland, ruled against Spaulding on both issues. This cleared the way for Wolf to begin his testimony. Mrs. Smith broke into tears sev eral times at Monday's session once when pictures were shown by the prosecution of her husband's broken body. The pictures were taken at a Portland golf club part ing lot the night he was blown to bits when he touched the starter of his car. Five other witnesses look the star.d Monday to permit introduc tion of evidence such as photo graphs and maps. Before mis testimony, however. the prosecution and the defense outlined ther cases for the Jury oi nine men and three women, Water Leaders Get Warning LINCOLN. Neb. (UP) Sen. Frank Barrett, (R-Wyoi warned Western reclamation leaders today that a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision "Jeopardizes and Imper ils" state control of Inland water. Barrett told the 24th annual con vention of the National Reclama tion Assn. that the case of the Fed eral Power Commission vs. Ore gon, decided last June 0. was a 'staggering blow" to the theory that Western water rights are "de pendent on and determined 'by state law." Barrett said the case Involved an applicant for a power dam li cense. The dam would be partly located on an Indian reservation and part ly on a power site reserve, he said. The high court. Barrett said, grant ed the license, ruling that laws passed 90 years ago did not apply to use of waters on the reserva tions of the United States. The applicant had not acquired water rights for the plant under Oregon law. "Unless we take steps in reverse the decision by legislation." Bar rett said, "this could well be classed as a knockout blow." He said the "Congress. In its wis dom, took cognizance of the situa tion and by the act of 1866 made state law supreme." Earlier, Rep. A. L. Miller (R Neb) declared that the future pop ulation of the United States can not be fed unless the nation de velops completely Its Irrigation and reclamation potential. "Unless we face realities." said Miller, "we won't escape the hor lible nightmare of a shortage of food in the very near future." Red Smog Alert Continues In L.A. LOS ANGELES (UP) The Air Pollution Control District said Pmog Red conditions would con tinue tn the Los Angeles area to day. Today's smog hit the central area at 9:30 a.m. and the foot hills and Inland valleys shortly af terward. A 1200-foot Inversion and weak winds were forecast. Low inversion and weak winds yesterday caused the first Smog Red day In more than a week. The maximum ozone content was .43 downtown at 11:25 a.m. The high in Pasadena was .32. Early morning fog mixed with smog to cut visibility in the Los Angeles area. Fog blanketed coast al communities and rolled Inland much as IS miles at some points. CO.MMl'NIST BROADCAST TOKYO Pelping Radio said Tuesday the "lime is ripe" tor Red China and Italy to establish diplomatic relations. The broad cast, quoting the Tientsin newspa per Ta Kung Pao, said, "extension of economic and cultural exchange must be based on normal relations between the two countries," KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, Peace Package Full NATO Alliance Support PARIS (UP) The NATO alli ance threw its full support today behind the Big Three package plan for peace at the forthcoming Gen eva conference with the Soviet Union. The foreign ministers of the United States, Britain and France outlined the planned Western stra tegy to the members of the NATO council in two secret meetings held in the Palais de Chaillot. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles presented the plan for Ger man reunification and European security. British Foreign Secretary Harold MacMillan discussed dis armament. French Foreign Minis ter Antoine Plnay made proposals for more East-West contacts. The details of these proposals were drawn up by a committee of experts ln recent months and were indorsed by the Big Three minis ters yesterday. SPEAK MINDS The smaller members of the NATO alliance spoke their minds about the plans and asked for more details. This brought about two sessions today instead of one, and forced the Big Three foreign ministers to scrap plans for talks this afternoon on the explosive Middle East. But when the second NATO council meeting ended, a British spokesman said: "There was com plete agreement." The package plan for reunifica tion of Germany and assuring the security of Europe was agreed on at a i'i hour meeting among THEY GAVE!'' Those listed below have given 1100 or more to the United Fund during the Advance Gifts period now under way. By doing so, they qualify for membership in the Order of Leaden and Build era f the Basin, a select group that is expected to take an active part in the future In the new pe riod of economic development of the Klamath Basin that ia juat beginning. ' 169. First Federal Savings and - Loan Association 171; Doctors Massey and .Slasaey. 171. Charles J. Martin 173. Klllngson Lumber Company COUNTY BASIN BUILDERS 24. McAulifTe Brothers 25. Loren Miller Company 2. S. E. Nicholson 27. Orem and Son Police Slate Detector Tests CHICAGO I UP! Police sched uled lie detector tests for two "hot suspects" today and grilled a parade of known sex perverts In their dogged hunt for the killers of three young boys. The lie tests were planned for a 26-year-old man with a sex rec ord Involving young boys and for a 23-year-old male friend. A police spokesman called them "the hot test suspects thus far." The suspects were picked up In a giant roundup of men with sex records. It was then discovered that the two friends owned cars similar to ones spotted ln a forest preserve a short time before the boys' naked bodies were found stacked ln a nearby ditch last Tuesday. Also, the 26-year-old man ad mitted being in the northwest side area where Robert Peterson. 13. John Rchuessicr, 13. and his 11-year-old brother. Anton, arc be lieved to have been slain on the night of Oct. 16. police said. . The older man attended the Schuessler boys' wake, even though he professed not to know them, and his friend visited the woodland lot where the bodies were found, officers reported. Despite the new lead, top police olllccrs for the (list time voiced Irank pessimism about prospects for an early solution. The boys' stricken fathers have left their Jobs to Join the manhunt and reward money approaches the $30,000 mark. But thn woek-lona Investigation has failed to turn up a single tangible clue. SHOOTING HOURS OREGON October 26 OPEN CLOSE 6:02 5:10 CALIFORNIA October 26 OPEN CLOSE 6:01 5:08 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 35, 1955 Plan Gets Dulles, British Foreign Secretary Harold MacMillan and French For eign Minister Autoine Pinay. A conlerence spokesman said there was "full agreement" on the lour points the foreign ministers will tackle when" they sit down wlih Russia's tough bargaining V. M Molotov in Geneva T h u r s a a y. These points are European secur ity; German reunification; dis armament; and increased con tacts between East and West. WINS SUPPORT Dulles won support from Ger many and France desoile a Soar referendum that threatened to re cpen their ' ancient enmity. He asked the same support from the smaller powers. The Big Three plan offered Rus sia a security pact but only in exchange for a no-st rings reunifica tion of West and East Germany. The new Germany would be free to choose its own allies. The Western plan would draw c demilitarized buffer zone down the middle of Europe on both sides of tne Oder Nelsse line now dividing East Germany and Poland, ft would offer an all-European non- aggression pact to calm Soviet fears of aggression from the West. The Big Three powers promised NATO In advance to keep It closely informed on Geneva strategy. And NATO's Secretary - General Lord Ismay arranged to- call the Allied representatives together at half an hour s notice In anv emergency. EXPLOSIVE CRISIS Other presbing Issues also de mnnded the attention of the Big Three foreign ministers. The most potentially explosive was the crisis m the Mlciole East. Tension sharpened there with the sale oi Communist arms to Egypt. Israeli Premier Moshe Sharre'.t flew here to seek balancing guarantees from the West. Informed sources snld the Big Three viewed the Soviet attempt to penetrate tne strategic Middle East with alarm. Thev said the Western powers will press Moiotov about Russian aims in tne area in sideline ' talks at Geneva. Shsrrett sought guarantees oi Israel's irontiers and arms from the West to balance those the Com munUts sold to Egypt. Quake Rocks Brawley Area BRAWLEV. Calif.. (UP) The second earthouake In California in nree oays. a iiriii 'one jon locker, shook a 25-mile section ot the rich agricultural Imperial Val ley near the Mexican border to dav, Ectllng electric light fixtures swaying but causing no damage. II, followed by two days a mod rate quake that shook the Snn Francisco Bay Area, some ouo miles to the north, to the tune ol reported one million dollars In damages Tne two temblors were unrelated In cause, however. They occurred on dlllerent fault lines lu the Earth's reck structure. A "runtling like four dlesel 'rcight trauib" preceded the mid' morning Jolt, which was felt lrom Westmoreland to El Centro, a 25 mile stretch In a cluster of small arming cities stretching south rom the ballon Sea tu the Mexi can Bolder in Calllornla s "deep iouth." Seismographs in Pasadena, 180 miles distant, picked up the quake. Police received no immediate re ports of power interruptions or gna line breaks. El Centro residents timed the Jolt at 10 seconds and said it had sort ol rolling action." It came right through the chairs It, the oflke," said a clatf member of I he El Centro Post Press. "We felt It sood." , 1 fe myr A A i S V i E I y i: READY FOR THE BLAST OFF Wedneiday through residential area of Klamath Falls and the immediate suburbs are some 225 WAF stovepipe jockeys, headed by WAF Commander Mrs. Willerd Ward I right I . Serving with Mrs. Ward are some 30 flight commanders, Including Mrs. Oren Gossett lleftl and Mrs. Harold Ashloy. Commander Ward, her flight commanders and stovepipe jockeys ere expected to cover the residential area in three days. No. 3310 Landry Asks New Fringe Law Passage PORTLAND HI Problems of nnexalion of suburban nreas were the principal topic oi discussion at the opening session of the 30th an nual League of Oregon Cities con dition here Monday. Ofliclals from seven cities- ap- pearct1 bctore the Legislative In terim Committee on Local Govern ment and told of their experiences lth expanding fringe nreas. The informal hearing was the highlight ol Monday's program. Paul O. Landry, mayor of Ktanv th Falls, reported thai raw sew. ce was flowing In ooen ditcnes in some areas outside that city be cause the .saturation point haa been reached in septic tank use SUGGESTS LAW He suggested that the Legisla ture pass a law which would make annexation of fringe areas auto mntlo when the population density in a suburban area approaches that, of the city. The city then rould Improve the seivige situa tion in tho Miburoan area, he said. Another problem that-came un r olscussion was suburbanites who use city facilities but pay no taxes to support these facilities. Councilman Larry P. Watson ol EUKcno suggested that the com mittee consider recommending en abling legislation which would per mit a city to tax the wages of those who live beyond the city uni ts. Edward C. Harms Jr., mayor ol piingtlcld, suggested that .innex tinn laws he changed so that n majority vote In the combined city and fringe area would permit an nexation. At present, a favorable vote In both the city and the area ninnosed for -annexation is rc- uulred. WATER STORAGE Oregon City Mayor TUchard W. Long told of his town's water storage. He said new Industry was being turned away ana sup plies ol water to suburban areas were being umuea. M. A. Davidson, mayor oi The Dalles, reported that his city was uhout to oass a subdivision ordi nance which would reauirc real. estate developers tu Install all mil' .lies, streets and sidewalks. The suburban sewage problem ulso was discussed by Mayor Lor- d i i T A .rr , . Z, Robert A. Duff, city manager Medford. Ike Poses For Photos DENVER (UP i President El senhower passed an Important milestone In his recovery from a heart ntlack today by taking his list steps nnd being photographed in his suite at Fitzslmons Army Hospital. It was the first time lie actually had walked slnco he was stricken icarly four and one half weeks go. And It also was tne Ins. loseup picture taking of the Pres ident n his room, although a few long range photographs have been mndo of tho chiel executive sun ning oi. the terrace outside his eighth floor room at Filzsimons. Eleven photographers and one reporter. Jack Horner of the Wash ington Still, were in the group that went upstairs to Mr. Eisen hower's suite shortly before 11 a.m. MhT to take the pictures ol ;he chief executive. The picture taking session was held on the terrace outside the President's room. The President looked "very healthy" for his for mal picture. Telrphone sill Pair Breaks Jail; One Recaptured CORVALLIS m A gunman spread terror through '.his quiet college town Monday night and was hunted Tuesday by a growing posse as one of his shooting vie- -tims continued in critical condi tion. The gunman hunted was a jail breaker, one of a pair who fled the county Jail at nearby Eugene in early evening Monday. Their trail was marked by taking a family hostage and by a split up that put one of the pair in Jail here. Police said Martin Royes. 23, of San Francisco fired at point-blank . range at Jimmy Applegatc, 39, a local man who tried to capture Reves. Applegute was critically wounded. More than 50 Oregon State Col lege students Joined the search for Reyes during the night. Blood hounds tracked Reyes then lost him at the north edge of town. ' COMPANION NAMED Reyes' companion, who gave his name as Sonny shadd and who ' said he was 17. was named as Jose Mitchell De Nesa, 21, Sau Francisco, by stale police. The two were arrested Sunday at jitims rass, cnurgea with steal-. Ing a car from near Eugene. Mon day Uity were taken to Eugene but ot the jail Reyes Dulled out a nistol he had concealed, and forced the jailer to release them. They, stole a snenii s car ironi ucputy Nelson Whlpps and headed this way. En route they flagged down a car containing Mr. and Mrs. H. H, Llttlelield and their three small daughters, of Medford. At first they started here with them, then changed plans, locked the family in the sheriffs car, and camo here m tne Llttlcfield car. Police officer Harold Schoenfeld said that De Nesa got scared and decided to break with Reyes. When he did, Reyes tired and wounded De Nesa slightly in one foot. ponce were on the lookout for them, having been notified b Llttlelield who got. free of the locked sheriff's car. They nabbed De Ntsa and Jailed him without ohBrge. ACCOSTED APPLEGATE Llttlelield had released himself by kicking out a window of the compnrtment In the sheriff's car normally used for transporting prisoners. Reyes, fleeing, accosted Apple gate and his tamily at a service slnllon and as he was- about to lake their car. Officer William C. Botlemiller upproached. Reyes shouted to the policeman to throw down his gun or the Applcgalo children would Vie-hot.-.Tne -ofin cer threw it down, Reyes started to get into Hie Applegute car, and Applegatc mude a grab for him. Reyes fired, bullets wounding- , Applegatc In the dies:, side and of Bbdolm!n. Re,, , ,,rt , .. temlller but missed, then fled on 'foot. A bloodstained shirt found be side the rood north of here Tues day was believed linked to Reyes. Bottemlller sold powder bums on 'he shirt suggested that when Rev es fired in the struggle with An- plegate. he had hit himself as well as Applegate. Bottlemlller said that as Reyes fled he threw down the pistol and Bottemlller Dlcked it up and fired three times. But the officer said he doubted that his shots hit Reyes. Bird Hunters Bag 5,163 Saturday PORTLAND Ml On the opening day of Oregon's waterfowl season Saturday. 1.700 hunters bngged 5.- 163 ducks and 4,227 geese at the Summer Lake public shooting gtounds. The Oregon Stale Game Com mission, reporting that on Tues day, said It was the highest open ing day kill ever reported. The average number of birds was 5.5 per hunter. The kill Sunday slackened but .772 birds were taken by 915 hunt ers. Elsewhere In the state the- open ing day success generally was poor.