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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 26, 1956)
CCi'P mi ran n nr? : - f mm In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS In this space yesterday I spoke of going to the old Tremont hotel in Red Bluff for dinner and the pleasant ' relaxation that comes with the dinner hour. Why mention a trifle like that? Well, in this case,- the situation Is a trifle unusual. For nearly a hundred years, the Tremont has been the civic center of Red Bluff. In our youthful Western country, that doesn't happen too often. When it does happen, it is in teresting. As to the Tremont of a century ago, one can only guess. Red Bluff was then the hustling, bustling head of navigation on the Sacra memo. The riffles and the bars of the original discovery country, which lay eastward and northward from Sacramento, were becoming crowded. The miners, who were pouring into California In an ever swelling stream, were beginning to spread out in search of new JiB gings: They found them in the up ,ner Sacramento and the Klamath river country. The easiest way to get there was by way of the river. Steamboats chugged up the Sacramento as far as they could get, and when they went aground they stopped. Red Bluff was that approximate spot. So they stopped . there and trans ferred their cargo to land trans port pack animals at first - and later freight wagons: It was this traffic that built the town as Port Orford was later built on the Southern Oregon coast and later still, when Port Orford was destroyed by the great fire, old Scottsburg was built at the head of tide on the Umpqua. Supplying the gold mines was big business in those days. Red Bluff must have been a col orful place then, for the river men and the mule packers and the freighters were colorful characters by all accounts. Not to mention the miners, whose vivid traits have been told in song and story as long as gold has Been mined. But enough of the Red Bluff of the past. Its present is quite dif ferent. Different, but charmimr. ' A century ago, the' rush for gold was on in California. In these days a different kind of rush is on the rush for CLIMATE. All over America people are saying they're going to LIVE IN THE SUN or they're going to quit living. In the space of a few short decades this yen to live In the sun has changed California as completely as the gold ' miners changed it when In tne- 1850's they poured in and swamped the lazy, easy going. glamorous and romantic life of Spanish California. ' Which brings me to the point I d like to make. It seems to me that Red Bluff has been changed less by this rush of the climate seekers that has made California the second state of our Union in population than almost any other area of the Oolden State. Somehow Rod Bluff has been able to retain a considerable meas ure of the charm that must have characterized Spanish California in the days of the Dons or that was characteristic of the Old South of ante-bellum days. MRybe it's be- cause Tehama county has1 re mained predominantly agricultural especially cattle agricultural whereas the rest of California is going commercial and industrial in a big way. Anyway, take my advice and spend a Saturday night some time In Red Bluff. Go down to the old Tremont, with its spic-and-span new Palomino room which in cludes an ultra-modern, middle-of- the-room, built-of-sheet-iron, open- all-the-way-around fireplace with its attractive cowhide-with-the-halr-.left-on furniture and its old iron horseshoes for doorknobs. You'll find an unusual out-turn ing of home town people, sprinkled only moderately with tourists who hRve stopped lor tne mgnt, and EVERYBODY having a happy, re laxed and agreeable time chat ting with friends and passing the time 01 day. If you don't enjoy it, there's something wrong with you. If .....'. hneoH Mth It oil It nrlll ho a sign that you re just too darned modern. Pine Association Reelects D. Troy Members of the Klamath District of the Western Pine Association reelected David S. Troy, local manager of the Weyerhaeuser Tim ber Company, as regional chair man at a meeting held Wednes day at the Willard Hotel. Also reelected by the lumber men was Laurence Shaw, . presi dent of the Modoc Lumber Cam Deny as secretary of the district. The lumberman also elected two directors to the Western Pine As sociation Board. They are Carrol McDonald -of Lakeview and Frank Gilchrist of the Gilchrist Timber Company. In addition to the election, the group briefly discussed plans for the program lor tne coming year Weather FORF.5CAST Klamath Falls and Tlilnltv: Cloudy Thursday nicht and snow changing to rain Friday. HlrM 35-40; lows Thursday night I 28-32. Hifh yesterday ... 24 Low last nirht 2 i Preclp. last U houri t.u , Precip. since Oct. 1 15.09 , Same period last year 3.57 1 Normal for period .. 6.43 Hftitil attl lug Price Fire Cents 24 Paces President Asks $126 Million For Five 'Point Program By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH WASHINGTON ( President Eisenhower asked Congress Thurs day to vote $126.S25.0O0 for basic research to penetrate the "dark mystery" of cancer and to com bat other leading killers. , The request was made in a five point program laid before the leg- Burton Abbott Remains Calm OAKLAND. Calif., (UP) Burton W. Abbott, 28, facing a gas cham ber death, continued today to shel ter his ego in the same Incredible calm he has effected since his arrest last July for the kidnap murder of Stephanie Bryan, 14, a Berkeley schoolgirl. This calm was broken only mo mentarily yesterday when the Jury, of seven men and five women brought in their death verdict. Ob viously shaken by the verdict, Abbott quickly resumed his im passive pose. "He doesn't seem worried a bit," said one of the deputies at the Alameda jail where the prison er Is held. "He slept all through the night. He didn't say anything about the verdict to anybody, and apparently doesn't even care about it." v . . Abbott played pinochle with fel low prisoners last night before re tiring. The prisoners looked with amazement upon Abbott's apparent 'lack of emotion which Prosecutor J. Frank Coakley once branded as "psychopathic ego" so great that ADoota. could believe his own lies. And it was Abbott's "white lies' which condemned lilm;' one oi the jurors revealed today. The Juror said Abbott's testimony was weighed against that of other wit nesses and the evidence for six days. On the seventh . day, five ballots were taken, three in the morning and two In the afternoon. On the first ballot, the vote was 11 to 1 to determine Abbott's simple guilt or Innocence. The holdout Juror listened carefully to arguments by the Jury- foreman and fellow Jurors. The second ballot, taken shortly before lunch, was unanimously for guilt. Death was agreed upon in the afternoon, a verdict which shook Abbott for the first time since his arrest. . Mollet Named French Leader PARIS (UP) President Rene Coty called on Socialist party leader Ouy Mollet tonight to be come France's, 22nd Premier since the end of World War II. The President Summoned the 51-year-old former English teacher after two days of consultations' with politicians in his efforts to decide who should try to form a new government. Mollet has been favored since the national elections were held earlier this month. He and Pierre Mendes-France already had de manded power for their left of center Republican Front coalition. The two Republican Front lead ers do not have enough votes of their own to win confirmation for a new gpvernment. The right of center coalition Kroup of parties headed by outgoing premier Edgar r-'aure were their bitter enemies in the elections. The Communists and the follow ers of anti-tax leader Pierre Pou Jade are the other two major groupings in the 'ssembly and, therefore, the balance of power. Schrunk Not To Seek Post PORTLAND I Terry Schrunk Multnomah County sheriff, said Thursday he will not seek the Democratic nomination for secre tary of state. He had often been spoken of as a probable candidate although his only comment had been to say he would think about It. Schrunk's removal of himself leaves Monroe Sweetland the only certain Democratic candidate for the office. He announced some days ago thai he would run. The Republicans have Mark Hat field. Salem, as an announced can didate. The incumbent. Republican Earl Newbry; cannot run again be cause of the constitutional limita tion of two terms in that otfice. In addition to being mentioned for secretary of state. Schrunk re cently was asked by friends to run for mayor of Portland. In saying Thursday he would not seek the ecretary of state position he add ed, "I cannot say whether I will be a candidate for any office in the 1956 election." Islators in a special message call ing for "a renewed and relnvig- orated attack on our health prob lems." Eisenhower told the lawmakers: "The nation in recent years has made notable advances in the un ending struggle against disease and disability. Human suffering has been relieved, the. span of man's years has been extended. 'But in the light of the human and economic toll still, taken by disease, in the light of the great opportunities open before us, the nation still has not summoned the resources It properly and usefully could summon to the cause of bet ter health." Elsenhower did not renew his re quest of last year for federal re insurance of health insurance a proposal which ran Into opposition from the American' Medical Assn., on grounds it might be an open ing wedge to socialized medicine. It got nowhere In Congress. PERMIT POOLING ' Instead, Elsenhower said the ad ministration is considering legisla tion to permit pooling of risks by private companies. He said this might offer "broad er benefits and expanded cover age on reasonable terms in fields of special needs." "But," he added, "if practical and useful methods cannot be de veloped along these lines, then I will again urge the enactment of the proposal made last -year." Elsenhower called for action in five general areas, providing for: 1. A 28 per cent Increase in fed eral funds for basic medical re search to a total of $126,525,000. 2. A new program of grants- 250 million dollars over the next five years for construction of .medical research and .training fa cilities. This money would go to state, local and private Institutions with a provision that they must supply "at least equal amounts in match ing funds." 3. Further steps to meet health personnel shortages. No specific amount was recommended here, but Eisenhower said the number of physicians being graduated from medical schools is barely, keeping pace with the Increase In popula tion, and that the number of den tists and nurses Is diminishing rel ative to population. 4. Action to strengthen certain other basic health services through out the nation. His fifth point was that of meet ing costs of medical care and em braced his plan possibly to submit later legislation for pooling of in surance risks. ALSO RECOMMENDED Under this- item, the President also recommended that Congress authorize a separate program through which the federal govern ment would match funds expended by the states and localities for medical care for the indigent aged, the blind, the permanently and to tally disabled, and dependent chil dren. Medal Given Dr. Jonas Salk WASHINGTON tfl Dr. Jonas E. Salk received a congressional gold medal Thursday for "his great achievement in the field of medicine" in developing the polio vaccine which bears his name. Secretary of Welfare Folsom presented the medal to the Uni versity of Pittsburgh scientist at the request of President Elsenhow er. Government officials, mem bers of Congress and officials of organizations Interested in the Salk vaccine program were invited to the ceremony. Folsom told Salk his "successful research is a great landmark In the war against polio. The secretary read a letter from President Elsenhower to salk say ing that "through dedicated and selfless effort, in the best tradi tions of medical research, you have brought new hope to mankind in the continuing battle against the dread disease." "I am confident that the entire nation Joins me in lasting grati tude and appreciation, and in best wishes for many years of con tinued service." the President add ed. Last April at a White House ceremony the President presented Salk a citation for his achieve ment and last summer Congress authorized presentation of the gold medal, voting $2,500 for that purpose. HITCHCOCK ELECTED PORTLAND Wl Philip S. Hitchcock, former state senator from Klamath Falls and now an I administrative staff member at ijcwis ana iiarg college, was elected president of the Multnomah County Republican Club without opposition Wednesday. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 156 I! .( , -ct. .; I. r J F. T. BOYD, 2512 Reclamation Street, proprietor of Boyd's' Union lervice station at I Min Street, 'mugged for the 9 o'clock photographer this rnorning. ;, , "; " ' Timbef trab' Denied In Sarena Hearing WASHINGTON Wl Accusations of "timber grab" in the granting of 15 disputed mining patents in Oregon's -Rogue River National Forest were denied Thursday by Clarence A. Davis, undersecretary of the Interior. '. . .The matters here Involved are not matters of discretion or of political action, but are matters of law and evidence," he told . a House-Senate subcommittee which is inquiring into the. department's award of the patents to Al Sarena Mines, Inc., in 1954. Davis appeared before the sub committee as it resumed a hear ing which has been marked by op posing cries of "giveaway" and 'smear." At the outset of his 7,000-word statement, Davis assumed full re sponsibility for the decision by which the Interior Department over-ruled the Bureau of Land Management's rejection of the pat ents. Davis was then the depart ment's solicitor. He testified such matters have been up to the solicitor "for a very great many years." As a result, he said. Secretary of Interior Mc Kay had no part in the decision and was "totally uninformed of any of those events" until after the decision was made. Afr .Wt. f-V I I ' ' PEANUTS FOR POLIO will ba told by tha Girl's League of Klamath Union High School Satur day on tha itreeti of Klamath Falls. Tha girls will sail bags of trash peanuts with all tha pro ceeds of tha avant going to tha March of Dimes anti-polio fund. This Is ona of tha many vents staged by tha Taans Against Polio in Klamath County thit year. Klamath County Sher iff Murray (Red) Britton looks over tha product tha qirls are going to sail Saturday, Nancy Clark and Bav Overan, members of tha Girl's League Peanut Day group, arc shown with tha sheriff, Accusations Davis detailed the history of the Sarena matter from the filing of 23 claims between 1897 and 1930, the company's application for pat ents in 1948, the Bureau of Land Management's rejection of 15 pat ents in 1950 on grounds of Insuf ficient mineralization and the com pany's appeal from that decision which, was pending when he be came solicitor. He said he was told upon Joining the department that the Sarena case was a "headache" which had been left from the preceding ad ministration. Davis said he first met Charles P. McDonald and his brother, Herbert president and secretary of the mining firm on March 30, 1953, and received from them "a very long list of things which they claimed as grievances against the Interior Department," Including "its long delay in the granting of their patents." A check of the records, he said showed "it was perfectly obvious to any lawyer that the evidence of the claimants was not' in the file and that on the state of the record as it then existed, judgment on the claimants' evidence could not be made." Telephone 1111 No. 3384 City Dump Committee To Be Named A four man. committee will be appointed in the near future to stu dy the problem of what to do about the Klamath Falls garbage dump, Councilman Lawrence Sla ter said Wednesday afternoon. Two of the committeemen will be appointed by the Klamath Coun ty Court and two by Mayor Paul Landry. Slater estimated that the appointments would be announce)! in approximately a week. He made his statement after he, Councilman Walter Fleet and Don McDowell of the Klamath Disposal Company met with the court Wed nesday afternoon. PROVISIONS The dump presently located on a side road a short distance off the Oretech Road, Is owned and op erated by the disposal company, but a provision in the com pany's franchise agreement with the city requires that persons us ing their own transportation to haul their garbage to tha dump must be permitted to dump it with out charge. Slater said that a spot check re cently showed that in one week's time, about nail tne persons Dump ing garbage came lrom outside of the city limits,. "This makes the dump a com munity problem, not lust a city problem," Slater said. He said that the court agreed, to the appoint ment- of the-joint committee Wednesday's meeting. - " i , . PRESENT DUMP ..- The present dump has been called an eyesore, but McDowell said that It could be cleaned up ' so no one could see it." He added that a second dumn and wrecking yard, located next to the oretech road on the road leading to the garbage dump, was at least partially re sponsible for the complaints. . Slater said that one of the func tions of the four-mnn committee would be to see if any controls could be set up for this dump. Last Mondav night, a delegation from the Llndley Heights district protested a city council proposal to move the dump to a site near that area, and Mayor Landry promised that It would not be moved there. Slater said Wednes day that any other proposed change In the dump location would stir up similar and equally hated pro tests. Cancellation The Polio Talent Show planned by the Teent Agalnitt Polio of Klamath Union High School for tonight In Mills Auditorium lias been can celled, announced Wally Wunri er, county Teem Afalnftt Polio chairman, today. The cancellation was neces sary due to conflicts with other activities at the s c h o ol , he said. Central, South Areas Hit By Heavy fains SAN FRANCISCO (UP) Storm punchy California took another ona on the chin today as more wind whipped rains flashed across the state from one end to the other. As much as six Inches of rain was ' dumped on soma sections causing flood threats in at least two areas. Central and Southern California got the worst of it this time. The weatherman said light rains would continue this afternoon and tomorrow, but clearing waa expect ed over most of California late Friday. Winds aa high as 69 miles an hour at Blue Canyon in the High Sierra and 37 mph at Pt. Reyes on the North Coast struck during the night. There was new snow In the mountains above the 3000 foot level. Eureka reported hall. HEAVY RAINSTORM Santa Margarita, at the head waters of the Salinas River, was drenched with six inches of rain. Santa Barbara got 4 1-2, Los Angeles airport 4, and Pasadena, 3.49. There apparently was no threat of serious flooding along the Feath er and Russian rivers, which did heavy damage during the Christ mas week deluge. But residents of Tulare County battled to hold back the swelling Kaweah and St. John's rivers. A state of emergency was declared late yesterday when tha atreams approached the danger point. STREAMS RECEDING Eugene Wise, assistant olvtl de fense director at Vlsalla, said the rivers had gone down "quite a bit" this morning and "everything seems to be moving pretty much in our favor.' The two streams, along with the Tule River, earlier caused four levee breaks in the county and an obstruction In Mill Creek at Vlsalla caused water as deep as three feet In some placea to flow over parts of the city s eastern section The new storm followed almost Immediately on the heela of a dis turbance that brought moderate to heavy rainfall over almost the whole state Tuesday and Wednes- aay. VIS ALIA HIT Early today, tha city of Vlsalla about 200 miles southeast of Ban Francisco, appeared to be suffer ing tha worst effects of tha storm An obstruction In Mill Greek, tributary of the T'.aweah River that flows under the business district, caused water to seep into, flown I Tha water pressure sent geysers 1 W YV 11 UUUIIICDO CaVltMIIOUIIIGIIVOi shooting up before an automobile agency. Elsewhere, the pressure caused tne sidewalks to buckle. Nearly 500 persons were evacu ated from various parts of Vlsalla and nearby, Farmersvllle and Camp Llnnell. ' Two National Guard units were ordered Into the area to help in the evacuations and to keep order. Army . Engineers were worried last night lest the Kaweah River levee give way at Mills Orove east of Vlsalla.' That would have sent a wall of water pouring Into the city. , . However, the Kaweah and Its tributary, the St. John's River, suddenly began dropping. Army Engineers planned to fly above the area today to see whether a break In the levee elsewhere caused the sudden drop. RED CROSS PREPARED The R. Cross set up emergen cy shelters at Woodlake, Exeter, Vlsalla and Three Rivers to take care of evacuees. To the south, the Tule River flooded U. s. Highway 99 near Tipton. However, most of the water was flooding farmland. The Tule River also broke a levee three miles west ' of the Frlant Kern Canal near Porter vllle. The danger In - the Sacramento San Joaquin Delta area was com pounded by high tides from San Francisco Bay, which backed the river waters up higher against the soggy levees. The Feather River was also re ported rising at Yuba City, scene of a disastrous break last Christ- Heavy Snow Hits Crater Six Inches' of new snow fell in Crater Lake National Park In the 24-hour period ending at S a.m. today, bringing snow depth to 128 Inches ' compared with 6? inches last year and 135 Inches In 1954. The dry powder snow wss drift ing this mornltiB. according to the rangers, and the road from Annie Springs to the rim was temporarily closed. They hoped to reopen It later today. Highway tl Is open, with chains advised. Maximum temperature Wednes day was 25 degrees; minimum last night. 16, and 22 at g a.m. today. Skiing conditions are fair. Heavy fog this morning made visibility poor and the snow was blown into deep drifts In spots. Heppenstall Dies In Portland PORTLAND 'UP Thomas E. Heppenstall, 67, vice president of Long Bell Lumber Company at Longvlew, Wash., died in a Port land hospital yesterday of Injuries suffered in an auto- accident Jan. 17. Heppenstall waa Injured when his car went out of control here, straddled a divider and crashed Into a concrete light post. mas, but the shanghai Bend levee was believed safe for tha - time being. From two to five inches of rain fell yesterday in parts of tha southern San Joaquin Valley. Winds aa high as 60 miles an hour were reported at Madera. Over on the coast side. Paso Robles reported five and one-half inches of rain. Many schools In that area had to close. In Nevada, Reno reported . 10 Inches of .snow. , , Ruling Frees IBM Patents; WASHINGTON I Pretrial set- ' tlements freeing patents of two corporate giants in electronics left ' pending today only one govern ment antitrust case in the field. This case, involving Radio Corp. of America, Is currently on the trial calendar of the Federal Dls- ' trlct Court in New York City. hca attorneys were reported to have been In Washington recent ly for oonferences at the Justice Department, and a trip to New York City late yesterday by Asst. Atty. Gen. Stanley N. Barnes led to speculation that negotiations for settlement of this litigation also might be In progress. SECOND 8UIT The second antitrust patent set tlement in as many days was an nounced late yesterday by Atty. Oen. Brownell in the ease of in ternational Business Machines Corp. (IBM). The first, announced Tuesday, Involved American Tele phone and Telegraph Co. and Its affiliate Western Electric Co. The attorney general said a eon- sent Judgment, entered in the New York federal court. - will reaulrn IBM to make all Its present pat ents, and tnose ontainea in tne next five, years, available to any one wanting to use them for man ufacturing in the united mates.. Patents relating to tabulating cards and card-making machinery will ba on a- royalty-free basjs. Those covering -tahnbiHHir nd elec tronic data processing machines sometimes called "electronic brains" must be supplied to all applicants, along with IBM know how, at reasonable royalties. TERMS 'SEVERE' In New York, Thomas J. Wat son Jr., who heads IBM, called some of the terms accepted by his company "severe." He said IBM's consent "is not an admis sion of any violation of the anti trust laws, which we continue em phatically . to deny having vio lated." In addition to the patent free ing, the IBM decree also requires that company to offer for sale its tabulating machines, now restrict ed to rental use, and to continue to service machines so sold. - The company agreed also to sell Its unique high-speed card-making presses to competitors. The original monopoly . aotion against IBM. filed in 1952, assert ed the company then had 90 per cent of the tabulating machine business in the United States. Fluoridation; Asked Here Glenn Bowen, manager of the Oregon Water Corporation, said Thursday that his office has re ceived 50 requests in the past week for fluoridation ol tne municipal water supply. The water company manager ex plained that although fluoridation was approved by the city council In 1952, It was not accomplished because the utility firm waa un able to determine whether a ma jority of the residents of Klamath Falls wanted it. - Since that time, ' according to Bowen, fluoridation has been rec ommended by leading medical and dental authorities. It Is supposed to prevent tooth decay up to 60 per cent. Bowen did not say when fluori dation of city water will be ef fected. . ' Oregon Areas Receive Snow By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A Pacific storm carrying rain to California veered northwarl Thursday and ran Into cooler air. Snow fell. More than an Inch of It piled Up In downtown Salem by mid-mom-Ing. Eugene and Portland at that time were getting a light powder ing which increased as the morning Wore on. All of Eastern Oregon got snow, the Weather Bureau raid. But the snow stopped at Rose burg by 11 a. m. and changed to rain at Medford. Along the coast ran began to creep northward but shortly before noon had not reach ed as far as Astoria. In s special forecast the Weather Bureau said Portland likely would get less than an Inch of snow be fore warmer temperaturea moved In and rain took over. The coast and Western Oregon are expected to get rain occasion ally Thursday night and Friday. RCAPending
