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Newspaper Page TextU OF OREGON LIBRAS EUiiSiJS, OSS. 'w? fo)Afl AMfril PR 12) : - ' : In The Day's lews 1 By FRANK JENKINS i I hope everyone has listened to (oav to the radio reports of Presi ' dent Elsenhower's State of the Un ; Ion message to congress. 1 hope .1 everyone reads carefully end thoughtfully the summary of it , ; that is printed in this newspaper jt this evening. . j It Is statesmanlike document. For reasons that are obvious, v the President's message was read to the congress. Following the reading of It, he went before the . radio microphones and the TV cameras at his vacation headquar ' ters In Key West and discussed it very briefly. In the course of. this personal discussion, he said: , "We will not talk about any re duction In taxes until we have be gun to make some modest pay ments on the national debt . . We MUST begin to make some payments on It If we are to avoid passing On to our children an - LvlPOSSIBLE burden of debt. : That is statesmanship. The attitude of the politicians Is: t f.CUT TAXES NOW and the heck with our children." : That is POLITICS. We have too much of It, Of the international situation, he said: "America must be very careful in watching the tactics of the com ' munlsts. "At times they smile, and at times they seem to threaten. Our own purpose Is to remain stead .' last in pursuit of a world peace based on justice and not be hysteri cal under uieir inreaw or oe ue - . gulled too much by their smiles." Again, there speaks the states man. . ; And . The wise, sound, able military "', commander. In his message, the President touches briefly on the farm prob- lem. In this sentence, he put his linger on the ORIGIN of the ;'l trouble: "Lack of government action aft i er the war to make TIMELY AD 1 JUSTMENT OF WARTIME FARM f PROGRAMS was what brought on V agriculture's present problem." There it is In a nutshell. " During the war we had to feed ourselves and our allies. In order i to do that we had to have an im- v.AneA WD&NflTnia nfnnr airrtr.ul. tural prtductrovit' So", tffcisnirameed high prices for the -seeded farm . products. , It worked. Our agriculture was Immensely expended and nobody went nungry during the war. But'' Came the end of the war. Readiustment was needed. But READJUSTMENT cutting acreage back by cutting guaran- f teed prices down too courage THE POLITICIANS DIDN'T HAVE THE NECESSARY COURAGE. So keot price sunoorts up. : The present farm mess is the ' result. With some of the President's recommendations I don t agree. Federal aid for the schools, for example. He is obviously sincere. His Idea is that the vast wealth concentrated In congested industri al centers be used to level out the situation and provide aid for less wealthy areas. Personally, I hope congress hacks away from federal aid for the schools. I- think that Oregon and California where we live can handle their own scnool prob lems, and I'm. sure they'll be bet ter off In the long run if they do. One interesting conclusion: Whai President Eisenhower tells the congress DOESN'T SOUND LIriE A FAREWELL MESSAGE. Grace Kelly's Wedding Seen NEW YORK (UP) Prince Rainier III of Monaco announced his engagement to actress Grace Kelly today through his office In Monte Carlo. Even close friends were caught by surprise. The glamorous couple who held hands until the wee hours this morning in a New York nighrclub. hid out from questioners even after the announcement came from Monte Carlo. "I have no statement to make." .k id golden - haired Miss Kelly i.irough her secretary. Until yes terday, even her studio officials had no idea any serious romance was brewing. They kept secret their Christmas rendezvous with her family In Philadelphia. Prince Rainier. 32, who arrived here Dec. 16 and denied he had come to seek a wife, left the apart ment of Charles Munroe, bis host, early and could not be reached. Presumably he was with the 25-year-old film star who is a socialite In her own right. Other sources revealed that the couple was driving to Philadel phia where Miss Kelly's family i had confirmed the engagement. "This news has caused great en ' thuslasm throughout the prlncipal- ity," the formal announcement of . the engagement reported from '. Monte Carlo. The announcement stated simply: "His highness. Prince Rainier . Ill, is happy to announce his en gagement with Miss Grace Kelly, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Kelly of Philadelphia." Death Takes Houston; Rites Friday Fred L. Houston, well known Klamath Falls pioneer business man, died at Hillside Hospital Wed' nesday forenoon following a short illness. ' He was born In Quitman, Mis. sourl, January H, 1879, and came with his parent, J. A. and Lydia Houston, to Klamath Falls on May 13. 1886 As a very young man, he start ed clerking for the I. A. Dutfy Mercantile Store, later purchasing it and forming the Duffy Com' FRED L. HOUSTON pany with his brother, O. W. (Bill) Houston, and John and Joseph Brett. Fred Houston was president of the Duffy Company which was known locally as the KKK Store. It was an institution In the early days of Klamath Falls, being a combination store, bank and com munity hall. It operated until the rnid-1930's. Most of his life was spent In the clothing business and he was con sidered an outstanding salesman up to nis retirement from active bus' iness In January, 1955 He was a charter member of Klamath Falls Lodge No. 1247, BPOElks, a member of Hillah Temple, Klamath Falls . Masonic Lodge No. 77, and past president oi me Lions ciun. -i... Survivors .include one, daughter, Mrs, Virginia tllldtson of Chicago? fu'.ir rpimdcbililren: Hue brothers, G. W. Houston, Leo Houston-and John H. Houston, ail-af, Klamath rails, and a sister, Mrs. Vera Mos er of Corvallls. Funeral services will be ' . held from the chapel of Ward's Klam ath Funeral Home on Fridays Jan uary 6, at 2 p m , with officers of Elks Lodge No. 1247 officiating. Commitment service and vault en tombment will be in Llnkville Cem etery. Active pallbearers will be Charles DeLap. pick Rceder, Irwin Camp bell, Doug Puckett, Jim Bell and Keno Wright. Honorary bearers will be E. B. Hall, Guy Merrill, Charles Martin, John Martin, Claud Davis and Lloyd Low. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Showers of rain and anew late Thursday night and Friday. Windy at times. High Friday 35-40; lows Thursday night 25-30. High yesterday 33 Low last night ...... 26 Precip. last 24 hours 17 Prcclp. last since Oct. 1 11.23 Same period last year 3.11 Normal for period ......-..5.04 The Herald and News station KFLW presents a complete cov erage of the weather each eve ning at 5:30 . . . Monday through Saturday: the day's weather and a forecast. ' r-1 1 LPxrn "YJ 'A . ; g JEFF DUFFER', 2I3S Biehn Street, paused in hit duties as janitor at the Klamath Valley Hospital this morning when tht 9 o'clock photographer cam by. . KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1958 Frioe Five Cents 24 Pages . . Telephone gill No. 336 California Storm Reported light' SAN FRANCISCO (UP) Still another in a series of winter storms moved on California toaay but the weatherman promised it should bring nothing more than "occasional rainfall" and snow In the mountains. This was good news to the areas that suffered from the Christmas week floods. A storm promised for yesterday spent much of its force Slide Debris Litters PNW; U.S. 99 Cut By THE ASSOCIATED TRESS Debris from earth slides littered streets, highways and railroad lines In the : Pacific Northwest Thursday in the wake of wind, rain and snow storms. Highway 99. the main north-south route west of the Cascades, was cut north of .Vancouver, Wash., when Salmon Creek Bridge sagged from weakened underpinning. A detour was used, adding seven miles. There was no estimate when dam age would be repaired. DERAILMENT The Union Pacific's main line, blocked In the Columbia Gorge near Multnomah Falls, when a massive slide poured down Just ahead of a 125-car freight tram Wednesday night, was to be back in use later Thursday. Five cars were derailed as the train plowed through the slide but the crew es- oaped unharmed. Meantime tracks ;. .wasnington. sme ol; tnej At Seattle a mud slid' .-' .ea the horn -efJmes' 6. Sneddon, University of Washington photog rapher, burying his 12-year-old daughtcf for 15 minutes before Sneddon could rescue her. At least seven families left their hillside homes In Portland when slides endangered them. The still sodden earth held a continuing threat to them and to several others despite the let-up in rain which fell in torrents through the early part of the week. Main Oregon rivers took the run off and mostly stayed within their banks but tributary streams throughout the Willamette Valley spread out over the land, forcing many families briefly from their homes. Hiere was no repetition of the disastrous flooding of 10 days ago however. . NO NEW TROUBLE At Coqullle, center of the south western Oregon flood, damage last month, the Coquille River was causing no new trouble. Rain in that area did not reach the peaks of that In the northern part of the state where the week brought from 4 to 7 inches. In Washington, the Puget Sound country was, hardest hit by the Wednesday storm. A drenching rain was accompanied by lightning and winds up to 58 miles an hour. Cooler mountain temperatures checked any serious danger of floods, however. at sea and brought light to moder ate rain north from San Jose and Stockton. Heaviest amounts of rain were reported at Mount Shasta, which had almost an Inch and a hall in 24 hours, and Eureka, which had nearly three quurters of an Inch. Snow fell In the Sierra and SIs kiyous yesterday, sometimes leaching as low as the 1500-foot murk. This was a welcome change from the official forecast, which had warned of a warm rainfall as high as the 7000-foot level RAIN AND SNOW The new storm was expected to bring with It heavy amounts ol snow to the mountains. Rain was to fall to King City and Merced today, spreading over the rest of Central California tomorrow. The weatherman ordered storm warnings hoisted from Fort Bragg, Calif., to Cape Blanco, Ore., for gale force winds. Lt. Col. Alviti D. Wilder Jr.. chief of the Sacramento district of Ihe Army Engineers, was delighted at the mildness of yesterday's storm. It gove his men time to close a 600-foot gap in the levee at Yuba City. They finally closed lt at 6 a.m. yesterday. Wilder then ordered the levee workers to build It higher than it is now, five feet above the water level. He considered this far from safe, ' should another big storm blow in DEBRIS REMOVED The Eel, the Klamath, the Rus sian and other coastal rivers rose with the fresh rains, but Army Engineers were not fearful of nev; floods. Much . of- the debris that clogged the channels In the alter- math of the Christmas week floods nas oeen removed. Other developments:- 1. The California ia Department of rtjf-w w - Aifrieultfire. ".renor! 'Vtta bean fllsM'lhutnrf to cuftl. .i;"nft from .' regular sources. A survev showed relatively little crop and livestock damage caused by the iiooas, aespite ineir severity. 2. A special collection, last Sun day in Catholic churches of the 13 county San Francisco archdiocese provided more than $55,000 for flood relief. 3. Tne Small Business Adminis tration announced lis offices in Northern California and Nevada are now open to take disaster loan applications from flood victims. The offices are in Santa Crui, Yuba City. Eureka. Santa Rosa, Stockton, Visalia. Reno and San Francisco. 4. Sen. Thomas H. Kuchel (R- Callf) assured the Central Valley Empire Association at Fresno that he will push for construction of flood control projects in the San Joaquin Valley and other flood stricken areas during the current session of Congress. He said "high priority" should be given to the proposal of Rep. Clair Engle (D Calif) for a 100 million dollar fed eral construction to the Orovllle Dam on the Feather River. Stock Arena Bids Called Sealed bids for the construction of a stock sales arena building to be erected at Klamath County Fairgrounds will be opened at 2 p.m.. Friday. January 27. it was announced this week by Percy Murray, secretary of the county fair board. Bids are to be delivered to the office of Howard R. Perrln. archi tect, where plans and specifications are available for a deposit of 125. The building Is to be one story, with masonry block walls, struc tural steel columns supporting bow string trusses spanning 100 feet. Ground area of the building will be approximately 17,750 square feet and seating capacity will be 2,000. Cost has been previously estimated at about $30,000. SHOOTING HOURS OREGON January 6 OPEN CLOSE 7:06 4:50 CALIFORNIA January 6 OPEN CLOSE 7:04 4:48 4 President Urges Action On Day Dam WASHINGTON W President Eisenhower urged Thursday that Congress act at this session on the John Day partnership- project, i niultl-mllllon-dollar Columbia Rtv er dam enmeshed In a Pacific Northwest political dispute. The John Day project, above The Dalles Dam on the Oregon-Washington border, would cost 310 mil lion dollars for power features un der a partnership bill Introduced last session by Rep. Coon (R Ore). It was one of three projects mentioned specifically by Elsen hower in his State of the Union message to Congress. He said a "comprehensive legislative pro gram for water conservation" will be submitted to Congress during wis session. CONSERVATION "The need is such that we must make faster progress and without delay," the President said In the message section on resources con servation. "Therefore, I strongly recommend that action be taken at this session on such wholly fed eral projects as the Colorado Riv er Storage Project and the Frying l'an-Arkansas Project; on the John Day partnership project, and other projects which provide for .coopera tive action between the federal government and non-federal Inter ests; and on legislation, which makes provision for federal partic ipation in small projects under the primary sponsorship of agencies ol state and . local government." The John Day Dam, as originally proposed as a wholly federal proi ect, would have cost 400 million or more for power, navigation and flood control. The first session of the 84th Congress appropriated $50,000 last year,- for planning funds, with which the Army Engl' lwjw o n d u tl n COON'B BILL .' Coon's bill would permit utilities, public and private, to advance cost of the dam's power features, In re turn for which they would get 50' year power contracts. Oregon's Democratic senators opposed the bill, contending it Is "slanted" In favor of private pow er. Coon and Sen. Neuberger ID Ore) engaged In an extended de bate on the subject in Oregon last year. The House Public Works subcom mittee put off until this session a hearing on the legislation for Joint federal-local construction. SP Describes Storm Damage SAN FRANCISCO (UP) Record storms and floods" In Oregon, Northern California and Nevada over the Christmas holiday period cost the Southern Pacific about five million dollars, the company reported today. D. J. Russell, SP president, aald the loss represents flood damage, operating expenses of battling the storm and loss of revenue. Russell explained the revenue loss is due not only to suspended service and consequent Inability to move traffic, but also damage to properties of shippers which has put them temporarily out of busi ness. A large share of the loss, he said, occurred on the Northwestern Pacific Railroad, an SP subsidiary serving the area between Tiburon and Eureka. NWP expects it will be another three weeks or so before the line is opened to Eureka snd Areata, it is still out of service fiom Wil lits north. The SP called out several thous and men, including the forces of the Morrlson-Knud.ien Company, to re open all four main line routes ra diating from San Francisco. Most ol these men are still at work, bringing the railroad back to the condition it was In before the storm. Itussell said the heavy rain and snow accompanying the floods was not entirely without harm. Ho said this extra water supply may pro duce bigger crops and business later in the year. 'Vigorous' Fight For Peace Asked WASHINGTON OB The United States must wage peace with the same vigor It has waged war. President Eisenhower told Con gress Thursday. A he put it in his State of the Union mestage: "The um of our International effort should be this: The waging or peace, with as much resource fulness, with as great a sense of i nedlcatlon and urgency, as we 'have ever mustered in defense of i our country In time of war. In ; this effort, our weapon Is not force ' Our weapons are the principles and ideas embodied in our historic traditions, supplied with the same : vigor that in the past made Ameri ca a living promise of freedom I for all mankind.'' , Chief Executive Mis GbErf deduction Before WASHINGTON 11 President Elsenhower said Thursday govern ment financing is moving out of the red. But he called for a "mod est" reduction of the national debt before any cutting of taxes. In his State of the Union mes sage to Congress, where tax cut ling sentiment is high in this elec tion year, Elsenhower said present levies unquestionably are burden some, and should be reduced "when we prudently can." But he declared that obligations to future Americans require re ducing the debt "whenever we can appropriately do so." As to the state of government in PRESIDENT Polio Square Dance Slated The special events of the March of Dimes drive this year will be kicked off Saturday night by a square dance at the Klamath Falls Armory sponsored by the square dance clubs of the Basin. The dance will be from 9 p.m. to 12 midnight. Callers Nick Baldwin, Alturas; Olen Sturdlvant, Lakeview; John nie, Parsons, Macdoel, Ernie Day ley, Don Schwaegler and Bill May hew, all of Klamath Falls will lead the dancers. Jay Kroksh, March of Dimes chairman, said today thai all the fiindn collected at the dance will go to the polio drive campaign. He said all the square dance clubs of Lakeview and Alturas have been invited to attend the dance. The polio drive chairman also said that the various civic and fra ternal clubs of Klamath Falls have consented .to stage several fund raising events during the month long drive. These events will be announced at a later date, he aald. f , ' On a ,.:' . arii V' - 1 ' Fast Attack Planned For Farm WASHINGTON ifi President Elsenhower Thursday promised a "many-sided assault" on farm problems In an effort to help farm ers gain an "equitable" share of the national prosperity. Details of this attack on the po litically controversial Issue pf de clining agricultural prices and In come will be outlined in a special message the White House said Is scheduled to go to Congress next Monday. In his annual message on the State of the Union. Eisenhower gave this much of an outline: The recommendations will Include pro posals for a soil-bank plan designed to -reduce the size of an overex panded farm plant as well as a "new attack" on the problem of crop surpluses. GOOD MKT In setting forth his goal for farmers. Elsenhower said: "Virtually all sectors of our so ciety are sharing In these good times. Our farm families, if we act wisely, imaginatively and prompt ly to strengthen our present farm programs, can also look forward to sharing equitably In the prosperity they have helped to create." They alone of all major groups hae seen their Incomes decline rsthcr than rise, the President said, adding that farm era ara come and outgo, Elsenhower said "I expect the budget to be In balance during the fiscal year end ing June 30, 1956. "I shall propose a balanced bud get for the next fiscal year ending June SO, 1957." PERSPECTIVE In broad perspective, the Presi dent's message was an expression of satisfaction with progress made and of confidence in the future. Domestically, It sounded a theme of peace and prosperity certain to be echoed by Repub licans In the election campaigns but called also for continued prog ress. IISINHOWER 7 i i In foreign 'affairs, the tone waa optlmistlo even though, the Pres. ident said, "the Soviet leaders are not yet willing to' create the in dispensable conditions for a secure and lasting peace."- 'As to legislative requests, the document set out nothing speotacu lar or unheralded. Among major ones were pro posals for a stepped up and long term foreign aid program to counter Communist machinations, and a new farm program, to In clude the "soil banking" principle. Word of these had come out earlier. , IN THE MAIN ' , ' For the most part, the legisla tive proposals were either (A) calls for expansion and amendment of such present laws and programs as social security, wage-hour, and Taft-Hartley, or (B) renewal of earlier proposals, such as aid to education, highway construction, health Insurance plans, and state hood for Hawaii, Although the message ran 8,500 words, details of his various pro posals were left for later special messages. Thursday's was simply the broad outline. The first of the major specials that on the farm program is due Monday. White House messengers deliv ered the message to the Senate and House, to be read by the clerks of the two chambers. It was the first time Eisenhower has not de- Problems caught "between two millstones rising production costs and declin ing prices." He added that such harm to a part of the national economy Is of "great concern to us all." MKETINO ARRANGED Secretary of Agriculture Beason arranged to meet with the sen ators, as he" did with House mem bers yesterday, to discuss with them the proposals he will suggest that President Eisenhower recom mend to Congress in a special mersae Monday. He also arranged to meet later with 8enatora Ellender ID-La) and Aiken (R-Vt). the Democratic chairman and senior Republican on the committee, before flying late today to Key West, Fla., to make his recommendations to the President tomorrow. Ellender, saying Benson had in vited him to discuss the program in advance, said, "I'm trying to keep this (farm legislation) out of politics." ' But chairman Cooley iD-NC) of the House Agriculture Committee, soured at Benson's private discus sion with House committee Repub llcsn yesterday, accused the sec retary of wrapping the proposed farm program 'In a shroud of partisan politics." .. Tax Cuts llvered his State of the Union mes sage in person. By and large. Republican legis lators had little but praise and applause for the message although some were not embracing it in Its entirety. On the Democratic aide. Sen. Magnuson of . Washington gibed that the massage "doesn't aet out any change in the administration policy of favoring big business." Rep. Kirwan of Ohio, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, aald ha found "nothing much" in the mes sage that hadn't been proposed by President Truman "and that the New Deal hasn't been pounding for 20 yeara." Eisenhower's legislative pro gram called for: 1. A 25-bllllon-dollar program of federal aid to hlghwaya such as Congress failed to approve at the last session. Eisenhower suggested merely "an adequate plan of fi nancing," rather than insisting on the long term borrowing program which caused the highway plan to bog down last year. FARM LEGISLATION 1. Farm legislation, including a soil bank program aa part of "a many-sided aasault on the stubborn problems of surpluses, prices, costs and markets." The program will be detailed In a special mes sage next week. 1, A five-year program of fed eral aid to school building. This, too, will be outlined in greater de tail In a later message. . 4. A two-year slum clearance program calling for 36,000 nubile housing units in each of the two ' years, 5. Creation of a bipartisan com mission to Investigate charges that in some localities Negroea ara be ing denied the right to vote. The President aald "we are proud of the progress our people have made In the field of elvtl right. . . , We must expand thia ,. PraaMettt Eisenhower will gin a brief summary at his state af the Unkm aaeeaaga aver radta atetloa KFLW tonight at ItH a'eleek, effort onv every front. ' We must strive to have every person judged and measured, by what ha la, rath er thatv by bis color, race or ra- .llglon." ''- '-' . V-;1' . '" .(. Statehood, or .Ha'wall some thing the President has repeatedly asked and Congress has refused ta approve. JElsenaower said ha hoped "progress toward - statehood" for Alaska also could be made at thia session. i- , T. Revision of the immlaratinn law so the number of persons ad mitted to this country each year oould be based on the 1950 census rather than that of I W0. Eisen hower also asked amendment of the 1051 Refugee Relief Act so mora Immigrants can come from Greece and Italy and from the ranks of Iron Curtain escapees, , REVIEW Eisenhower began his message with a review of progress he said had been made In the three years since he took office. In summary he said in part: 'Our country Is at peace. Our security posture commands re spect. A spiritual vigor marks our . national' life. Our economy, ap proaching the 400 b'Hion dollar mark, Is at an unparalleled level of prosperity. War in Korea ended two and a half years ago. The collective se curity system has been powerfully strengthened, our defenses nave Been reinforced at sharply reduced costs. Government spending has been cut by mare than ten billion dol lars. Taxes have been substantially reduced. A balanced budget la In prospect. "This record of progress has been accomplished with a self-imposed caution against unnecessary and unwise Interference in the pri vate affairs of our people, of their corhmunltiea and of the several states." WORLD AFFAIRS Turning to world affairs, Elsen hower said ' "Communist tactics gainst the free nations have shift ed In emphasis from reliance on lolence and the threat of violence to reliance on division, enticement snd duplicity. "We must be well prepared to meet 'the current tactics which pose a dangerous though less ob vious threat. At the same time, our policy must be dynamic as well as flexible, designed primarily to for ward the achievement of our own objectives rather than to meet each shift and change on the Communist front." Shevlin Citizens Plan To Move The town of Shevlin, which was moved three times in the past 35 years to follow logging operations, la being closed down by the Brooks Scanlon Lumber Co. Families living in the town, now located near Lupine, will move to the Bend area but the portable town will remain, abandoned, where It is. Brooks-Scanlon purchased the town when lt bought out the 8hev-lln-Hlxon Logging Co. in 1850. The town was located in Deschutes and Lake counties before being moved to Klamath County. TROUBLE SEEN SEOUL M South Korea's ar my chief of staff said Thursday his forces "will march north again, no matter what difficulties there may be. . . while President 1 . Rbee la still alive."