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la The- Day's lews Him By rRANK JENKINS The newly-completed merger of Af'L and CIO into one organlza tion with nearly 18 million mem' bers 1b worrying: the politicians. It is especially worrisome to the Republican politicians, because in recent years organized labor has leaned strongly toward the Demo cratic party. Reflecting this worry, Senator Barry Goldwuter of Arizona, who reads the Republican senate cam' paign committee, said the other day that unionn have no right to endorse a Presidential candidate. Republican Senator H. Alexan der Smith of New Jersey says this morning that while be approves labor unions keeping their mem bers politically informed he thinks It would be a mistake for them to endorse any congressional can didates in next year's election. - On the other side of the fence. Governor Harrlman of New York, who is a candidate for the Demo cratic nomination for President but isn't yet willing to admit It, says today that MORE not . less American working men and wom en are needed to take part in our political aflairs. Labor Secretary Mitchell tells the newly merged union's founding convention that organized labor has a duty and a responsibility to deal in political issues and that it should speak out loud and clear. He adds that he expects the new ltbor feneration to support the la' Iter policies -that have marked the Eisenhower administration. President Elsenhower himself, addressing by telephone and loud speaker the new afl-cio yes terday, urged it to scrupulously nrotect the minority views of lis members on social, economic and political Issues. He said: "You have a ureat opportunity of mak ing your meetings the world's mosi, effective exhibit of democratic processes. " He added: . "You are more than union mem bers bound together by a com mon goal of better wages, better working conditions and protection of vour security tnrougn collective bargaining. You are American cit izens." T find I can't go along with Sen ator Goldwaler's statement thai unions have no right to endorse a Presidential candidate. Personally, I think ANY sound, patriotic Amer ican organization wnetner iBDor, business, or what have you has the right to endorse any candi date in any election SO LONG AS IT LEAVES ITS MEMBERS WHOLLY FREE TO VOTE INDI VIDUALLY AS THEY PLEASE, WITHOUT. COERCION OP ANY SORT. - 1 If Senator Goldwater had said that top union officials have no riant to levy a uoMruiioutti as sessment on their members to raise a huge fund to be used for the SOLE purpose of promoting the election of ONE candidate for President, as opposed to another It would be different. That would be COERCION. . Coercion is bad. Inevitably, the new labor mer cer brlnKS Into sharper focus the question of BIGNESS in our econ omy. For weeks, a congressional committee has been Investigating General Motors. General Motors is bia. The members of the com mittee that have been taking part in the investliratlon have obvious ly been troubled by this question: HOW. BIO 15 1UU BIU7 I doubt If that question, can be answered yet. This is a big coun try. A big country requires big industries. Big industrial organiza tions call more or less naturally and logically lor big labor organ izations, r. If bigness is badness, then big ness is BAD. But we still lack conclusive evidence that in a big country bigness is bad. I think the new IS million mem bcr AFL-CIO might well be re minded of this fundamental fact: GREAT RESPONSIBILITY goes with great power. If that fact is kept clearly fn mind, I don't think we'll have too much to worry about. Fong Judge Cites Lawyer PORTLAND Circuit Judge Alfred P. Dobson cited Dep. Dist. "jAtty. Howard Lonergan for con tempt of court at Monday's session of the Sherry Fong first degree murder trial. Mrs. Fong is accused of poison ing Diane Hank, a 16-year-old high school girl. Judge Dobson Indirectly accused Lonergan of suppressing evidence statements by two former ac quaintances of Diane that they had seen the girl alive sometime after the date Mrs. Fong and her hus band, Wayne, are accused ot kill ing her. Lonergan was protesting "out rageous statement" when Judge Dobson. cited him "your Imperti nence" for contempt. Monday's stormy session appar ently completed testimony in the trial. Still to come are closing ar guments by both the prosecution and the defense and the Judge's Instructions to the Jury. Judge Dobson postponed the case Indefinitely, however, so he would have time to make rulings on nu merous motions by the defense for mistrial. Egypt, Israel Report Fighting GAZA. Egyptian-Held Palestine PI Egypt and Israel each act-used tne other of firing across the Oaza frontier near Deir ei Bal h Tuesday. A spokesman for the U.N. Mixed Armistice Commission said com plaints were received from both governments and ft U.N. observer, went to the scene to investigate. k Ytt vvv o : h s W hi) I " III n imm i iiiiiii mi iiiiiui i i hi ii II ii iiiniM miiii THE FIRST COURTESY DRIVING WINNER to identify herself fo the' officials of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, who are sponsoring the safety drive, was Mrs, N. Parker Dyer, second from left. Mrs. Dyer's driving was observed by the safety committee for about IS blocks Monday and the license number of the Dyers' car was published in Monday's Herald and News. Mr. Dyer, right, is accepting the $20 cheek for the award from Robert Kerr, courtesy driving chairman for the Jaycees. Bill Alexander, left, general chairman of the Jaycee's safety cam paign looks on at the presentation. Dulles Raps Force Policy In Goa Area WASHINGTON (UP) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles charged today that Russia has been trying to get India to use force in its dispute with Portugal over the territory of Goa. Dulles- made the charge at a news conference at which he de fended a joint U.S.-Portuguese statement on Goa which has in furiated India. Dulles said he gave very careful consideration to the statement is sued last Friday, and that he felt it was appropriate to express feel ings on Soviet statements aimed at fomenting trouble in the Goa area. STATUS DISPUTED i The controversial statement, which "Dulles issued Jointly with visiting Portuguese Foreign Min ister Paulo Cuhna, referred to Goa as a "Portuguese province." The phrase infuriated the Indians because they have insisted that Goa is not a province but an un willing Portuguese colony which should be turned over to India. Dulles refused to back off the controversial phrase which was used in .the U.S.-Portuguese state ment.. He said that far as he knows Goa. is a Portuguese nrnvlnr. nn. Pder Portugal's constitution and has had that status for about 400 years. Dulles also told newsmen: 1. Communist China has been steadily building up airfields in the Formosa Strait area. But U.S. in telligence so far has not indicated that the Red Chinese are making preparations to attack Nationalist Chinese holdings in the area. SEES NO CRISIS 2. The United States hopes both Israel and her Arab neighbors will see the benefits to all concerned in a solution to their dispute. So far no concrete step toward a solu tion is in sight, but the possibilities for agreement exist. 3. It is always possible that Communist East Germany will cut barge traffic to Berlin, but the United' States has no reason to think this will happen now. He said the United States will hold Russia responsible for interruptions in ca nal traffic under the 1950 agree ment assuring the West of commu nications with Berlin. Diplomats said earlier that Dul les would have to speak out person ally to get the United States off the hook with India on the Goa controversy. Blood Need Highlighted ' Tracing the path of a pint of lilood given by Mrs. Veryl Young during the September 21 visit of the Red Cross Bloodmoblle dra matically highlights the need and uses of donated whole blood. The pint of Mrs. Young's blood was the vital medical tool which was used to aid in the treatment of three-year-old Diane Daugher ty. Route 2, Gaston, Washington County, Oregon. On October 3 Diane was rushed to the Washington County Hos pital after falling into a tub of scalding hot water. The pint of Mrs. Young's blood was given to her soon after her arrival at the hospital where she was treated for severe burns. , INITIAL TREATMENT Alter her initial treatment in Washington County Diane was en tered in Doernbcrher Memorial Hospital for Children In Portland where she received more whole blood from other donors. Although she lost large areas of skin, she Is now discharged from Doem becher and is well on the way to recovery. Her father is unable to give blood at this time due to an ac cident he had sustained while working. However, he said that he plans to offer blood to the blood donor program as soon as he Is recovered to show his ap preciation for the aid given his daughter. Mrs. Young is a two-gallon-three-pint donor: she has given blood at every Red Cross Bloodmoblle op eration since its inception here in 1951. whom: blood . Because whole blood is usable for only 21. days, blood donated In Klamath County is used through out Oregon and Southern Wash Band Fund Andrew Loney, director of music education in the ctty schools, announced today that the following; firms and individ uals hare contributed to the fund to send the Klamath Union High School band to the New Years Shrine East-West game in San Francisco: Oregon Water Corporation Rex and Art Dye, Inc. Dick Reeder Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. Shoop and Schulze Modoc. Lumber Co. Robert Dunlap Hew Courtesy Driver Named The first courtesy driving win ner in the Klamath County Jun ior Chamber of Commerce safety contest was identified Monday eve ning. The winner. Mrs. N. Parker Dyer, Route 2, Klamath Falls was presented with a check for S20 by the Jaycees for her courteous driv ing. ' The license number of the winning automobile picked Tuesday morning is 4F-885. By calling 4068 by 11 a.m. Wednes day he can claim the $5 prize. The Jaycees Safety pornmlUeeJ picks tne license numoer ot a sate driver every day and the number is- published in the Herald and News. IX the driver of the car Identifies himself by 11 a.m. of the following day, he receives a $5 prize. The prize is added, to the following .day's pifze if it ts not .claimed. Mrs. Dyer won S20 because no one had claimed the a for three previous days. The license number of Tuesday's safely driven car is 4F-885. The owner, or driver, of this vehicle can claim the $5 reward by calling 4062 before 11 a.m. Wednesday. SHOPPING UIhavq I PPT r Halp Fight TB , U.Buy Christmas Sea It. J ington wherever civilian hospitals cooperate with the Red Cross blood program. Blood Is returned to Klamath County weekly from collections made by the Red Cross Bloodmoblle in other communities. This assures Klamath County of a continuing supply long after blood donated at quarterly visits of the Bloodmoblle here would be exhausted or outdated. Two other gallon donors' blood donations jrere traced from the September visit: J. F. O'Dona- (Contlnued on page 41 MRS. VERYL YOUNG IrtTn in Mi Ike, Eden To Discuss Middle East WASHINGTON I President ; Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Anthony Eden undoubted 1 !y will give ton priority to ar ranging better cooperation in the critical ' Middle East when they meet here Jan. 30. Western relations with Russia in the wake of visits by top Russian leaders to India, Burma and Af ghanistan, and in advance of their projected visit to Britain next spring, also are due for sweeping review. . .. t. . JOINT MOVES But Joint B r 1 1 1 s h-Ameriean moves to avert war between Israel and its Arab forces promised to get primary attention. At present, British-American policies, while both aimed at per suading Jews and Arabs to settle their dispute peacefully, are some what contacting. Eden, coming here at Elsenhow er's invitation, has offered to serve as mediator in the Middle East quarrel, calling on both sides to agreo to permanent boundaries. He proposed that the 1947 United Na tions partition plan be used as a starting point lor talks. Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles have carefully avoided endorsing the Eden pi on. inanity, because. ,1.- hest-AroubM angry opposition Horn Israel. In Its war with the Arabs, Israel seized more territory than was awarded to it under the U. N, partition plan. It contends that t'.ie Western Powers sanctioned the present frontiers In 1950. COULD END THREAT Egypt and other Arab nations have hailed Eden's negotiation of fer as pointing the way to talks which could end the threat of hostilities in the region. Eisenhower andEden are ex pected to agree easily on the need for a solid, united front against Russia in Europe as an aftermath to the failure to settle any East- West problem at the Geneva for eign ministers meeting. 0. Smiths Buy Printing Plant Sale of the Smith-Bates Print ing Company to Otto and Mildred Smith was announced todav by the purchasers and Mrs. W. O. Smith, former owner. The concern has long been known as one of the leading printing companies in Southern Oregon and Northern California. The sale price was not disclosed. The company, which has operated in the same location at Fifth Street and Klamath Avenue for 27 years, was started by the late Wesley O. 6mlth. Otto Smith, an employe of the concern for 21 years and manager for 12 of them, expressed his dp sire to maintain the same high level of printing quality upon wmcn tne ousiness nas been oper ated In the past. Bus Overturns; Eight Injured MADRAS. Ore. Wl A bus! skidded and overturned on a high- wav near here Monday afternoon, injuring eight persons. One nf them. 81-vear-old Mr. Mabel Black ot Ogden. Utah, was seriously hurt. She and the seven ! stock and did some livestock trad others, were taken to a Redmond i Ing. hospital alter being carried through the smashed windshield bv fellow passengers. ! The bus, leased from Orevhound ! by Trailways, was en route from: Klamath- Falls to Spokane when the accident occurred on Highway -97 some five miles north of here. Driver Stanley Younger, 66. of The Dalles, said the bus skidded on frozen slush, smashed Into a power pole, reversed Its direction then flipped over on Its aide. The other Injured were Identi fied by stale patrolman Floyd Chestnut : Cecil Day, 44, and his wile, 48. Yakima; Loule Walker, 47, Orandview. Wash.: Betty Ash ton. 24. Paso Robles, Calif.: A. L. Ortiz. 28. Spane; Iris Porter. 48. Stockion. Calif.: and Kenneth ' Rat kham, 11, Carmichacl, Calif, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER , 1055 rrica Fin CenU18 Pages Telephone 8111 U.S., Canada Stage Mass Aerial Alert WASHINGTON 11 Flying units scrambled aloft and civilian vol unteers sped to ground observer posts Monday night in a surprise coast-to-coast trial of U.S. and Canadian defenses against mass air attack. The alert was called off shortly after 4 a.m. PST Tuesday, with no more advance word than was given on the order to man Inter oentor nlanes and spotter posts. That came well after midnight in the East Monday night. SECRETIVE Air Force and Air National Guard officers were as secretive on the outcome of the exercise as they had been on Its timing. The test, o a 1 1 e d Operation Crackc-rjack was directed by the Air Defense Command, neanquar ters at Colorado Springs, Colo. That command simply gave outi tfn,-H ti.oi th evei-cise had been terminated at- 4:06 a.m. PST. A public information officer said all information was "pretty well class ified" but the results will be eval uated and a summary released in two or three weeks. Notice that the "raiding" was over came from the Strategic Ail- Command whose big bombers pro vided the "enemy" force. There was no immediate list ot targets nor estimate of the de-i fenders' degree 01 success in waro-i ing off attack. ' UNITS INVOLVED Involved in the operation were units of the regular U.S. Air Force, the Air Reserve, the Ail- National Guard, Navy ana Ma rines. In addition to Canadian forces and some 400,000 members of the Ground Observer Corps. Officers said the main purpose ot the drill Is to check on the effec tiveness of radar tracking and In terceptor defenses under winter conditions, . The Air- Defense Command said there . will be jio disclosure-of specific numoeia ui men. ttuu planes involved. In New York, a spokesman for the Eastern Defense Command a! Stewart Air Force Base said mythical enemy attackers swept "in force" from over the Atlantic. He said the first wave of "at lackers" was met. by personnel who normally man the all-weather Jets based along the Eastern Sea board. INTERCEPTORS In Washington state, an opera tions officer with the 25th Air Divi sion at McChord Air Force Base said interceptors throughout the area were "real fast" in getting into the air. From O'Hare Field near Chi cago came word that the alert which was sprung with only long range and general advance warn ingcaught "virtually no pilots , . unaware." The volunteer ground watchers whose Job It Is to scan the skies for planes that might get by the radar undetccted-'apparenuy wcic responding with varying degrees oi effectiveness. Negro Leader Found Slain SCHULENBURO, Tex. Ii The beaten and burned body of the president of the local chapter oi the National Assn. for the advance ment of Colored People was found at his farm 20 miles west, of here Mnnrtav Sheriff L. O. McOlnty said he waa unable to establish a motive for the slaving of Herbert John son. 60, who also was commander of thp Rchulenburg Negro Amcri' can Legion post. The sheriff said Johnson apparently had been hit on the head and burned with his automobile. Johnson -had some money with him, but the sheriff didn't Know how much or whether it was suf ficient in provide a motive. .inhmnn'i wife. Naomi. 57, found the body after he failed to return from the farm where he had gone tn feed the stock 8unday ! The Negro leader, well-known in I In area: was a Janitor for several I buildings, owned his farm and live- : J New African Clashes Reported RABAT. French Morocco, ifi Violence continued Tuesday across French North All tea. Six Morocerns were killed in a cla h with French troops ' near Bcrkalne. in U mountains of Northeast Morocco. Soldiers wcic pursuing a band that bioke into a hospital to tree a wounded rebel. Ten rebels were reported killed In Algeria and a down wounded ai the Constantine area. Forty-six suspects were rounded up In the area just eaal of Algiers. Jay Kroksh Named March Of Dimes Chairman Here The appointment of Jay Kroksh, Klamath Falls manager for Con solidated Freightways, as Klam ath County chairman for the March of Dimes annual polio fund drive in January, was announced today bv Tom Perkins, Klamath county Chapter chairman of (the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The chapter fund raising com mittee is now in the process' of making preliminary plans for the drive, which will begin January 2 and run all month, Perkins said. Advance gift letters will be sent out late tills month, he added. "Many people do not realize how much money we spend right here in Klamath County on Klamath County victims of polio," Perkins said. .' HALF OF COLLECTIONS Tin sntH that in Ilia nact tntil. years, the local chapter has spent far more than Its 50 per cent of the local collections. The other JAY KROKSH , November Wet Month Here November In the Klamath Basin proved to be a wet month with a total precipitation of 3.74 inches S3 compared to a normal figure of 1.74 and 1.05 Inches for November of last year. Total precipitation to date for the stream year, October 1 to September 30, is 4.57 inches compared to a normal of 2.78. It also proved a cold month with an average mean temperature of 35.9 degrees compared to 32.1 last year and an all-records figure of 38.6. Highest recording for the month was 64 degrees on the ninth, and the coldest day was a chilly four degrees on the 15th, according to figures from the USWB station on Link River. There were five clear days, 10 partly cloudy days and 15 cloudy days during the month. I s SLUSHY SNOW JAMMED THE STREETS of Klamath Fells thii morning when 9 o'clock photographer Don Kettler took thit shot looking up Fifth Street. The mow which fell ell day Monday changed to rain during the night end turned the heavy snowfall into e slushy mess,. No. 334 half of the collections is turned over to the national foundation for research and aid in areas which are spending more than there is in the treasury. , "We have been fonunate," Per kins said, "that our -treasury still has a little money. : If expenses keep up tne way tney nave been, we. too, will have to draw on the national foundation." ' In 1952 and 1953, the county chapter spent about 81 1,500, while its share ot . the collections was about 85,890, In 1954, the figures were much closer, with expenses running about 84,000 and Income about 83,832. So far in 1955, the chapter has spent about $11,400 and - its share of collections has been about 16, 810. ' FOUR CASES ,' Almost all of this ' expenditure, Perkins said, was for four cases. One of the four county victims recently returned from a rehabili tation center In Soattle. On this case expenses so far have run more than $10,251, Perkins said. Thus, Perkins pointed out, if there was to be an epidemic here, the local chapter would be hard pressed for funds, and would have to turn to the national foundation. The other major expense of the national foundation, which takes 60 per cent of the local collections, is lor research sucn as mat wmcn led to the development of the Salk anti-polio vaccine which was in troduced last year. In 1954, when the research expense was extra ordinarily heavy, the national foundation took two thirds of the county collections, Perkins added, FALSE IDEA Perkins said that many people are under the false idea that the polio problem was licked, by the development : of tne Balk vaccine. However, he emphasized, there is much research, yet to do, as the vaccine is not 100 per oent ef fective, and money will be needed for this work. . The national quota for 1956 has been set at $46 million but the March of Dimes, does not set a local quota, Perkins said. He said that this quota represents a drop over past years, but that tills was because of the increased role be ing played by state health depart ments in the actual administration of the Salk vaccine to school chil dren. Kroksh will announce the ap pointment of the Klamath Palls city chairman and the special events chairman in the near fu ture. Detailed plans of the com ing drive will be announced as they are developed, Kroksh said. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falli and vlcinityt Clearing and colder Tues day night. Fair except morning fog Wednesday. High 49. Low 20. High yesterday ... 31 Low last night 28 Preclp. last 24 hours .73 Preclp. since Oct. 1 .. . M Same period last year ...... 1.53 Normal for period 3.00 V . . . Jf ..: . JA. raft VilsonSays No Change In Spending OETTYSBURO, Pa. (UP) President Eisenhower and his top defense and budget advisers agreed today on a military spend ing budget of roughly 34'4 billion dollars for next year. Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson told newsmen after an hour ' and ft half conference with Mr. El senhower that there was no majer change in previously announced plans to keep military spending at that level in the fiscal year start ing next July 1. "It will be tough," Wilson said. "We think wo can mako it." BIO PROBLEM The big problem which confront ed the conferees was whether de fense spending would ba such as to permit ft. balanced budget and ft possible election-year tax out. Besides Mr. Elsenhower and Wil son, those attending the conference were Adm; Arthur W, Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of stall, Budget Director Rowland R. Hughes, and Assistant Defense Secretary W. J. McNeil. The conferees met in Mr. Elsen hower's tiny temporary office In j the Post Office building in down town Gettysburg. The administration wants to bal ance this year's budget and have prospects of doing the same for fiscal 1956-57 before asking Con gress to reduce taxes. Defense is the dominant Item In government spending and, as such, is the key to Mr. Eisenhower's drive for a balanced budget and ft tax reduction. The Pentagon's pro posed spending figure for fiscal 1956-ST is reported to be about 35 billion' dollars. The military hopes to trim that, figure some but la none too sure It can. The Pentagon is trying to keep spending for the current year umiiea to S34.ouo.ggo, goo out auth orities aay it is "going to be tough" to do so and accomplish everything "essential." NO BIO CHANGES ' Wilson is not expected to ask for any big changes in military pro grams or in the distribution of funds between the Army, Air Force and Navy. The President's conference with Wilson and Hughes highlighted his work - and . resk schedule ior to- -day He will be busy all week and " will return to Washington-Saturday for a monthly physical examlna tion and conferences with Repub lican and bipartisan congressional groups. - The White House ' announced Monday that British Prima Minister Anthony, Eden would come to Washington Jan. 30 for a discus sion with Mr. Elsenhower of "mu tual problems." Officials said ' the conference would deal chiefly with Western strategy for coping with Russia in the light of the deadlock which oc curred at the recent Geneva for eign ministers meeting. Federal Water Stand Given WASHINGTON (UP) Picsiden- lial Asst. Sherman Adams said last night the government will be a. "useful servant" in helping solve water problems in the nation. But he told an organization seek ing Increased federal funds for watershed Improvement that fed eral control of water In the nation ultimately would mean "control of the whole economy." Adams spoke at the second an nual Watershed Congress, a meet ing sponsored by 25 farm, business and labor organizations. A com mittee of the group reported earn- er it has heard "Increasing criti cism" of the SO per cent limit on the federal contribution to water shed project costs. Adams said It should be clearly understood that the government "can continue to be a. useful servant, a leavening; and equal izing Influence among the states, regions and wjterheds." But he said government "must not be left to do the things that people still can do better for them selves." Adams said a national water policy under study by the adminis tration for nearly two years prob ably will -be ready for the next session of Congress. SHOOTING HOURS OREGON December 7 OPEN CLOSE 6:52 4:35 CALIFORNIA California Season Closed Until Dec. 10th