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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1958 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON PAGE TOTt Water Resources Board In Favor Of Oroville Dam - SACRAMENTO (UP) " The State Water Resources Board was on record Saturday urging Im mediate construction ol the Oro ville Dam and power plant as part ol the states' Feather River Pro ject. The . board late Friday also voted to ask Congress to authorise the Army Engineers to determine the flood control values of the Oroville Dam In order to ascer tain the extent of federal partici pation in its construction in the interest of flood control. The board also: 1. Reviewed Its recommenda- Death Takes Mrs. Jackson PORTLAND I Mrs. C. S. Jackson, the tiny, long-lived widow of the man who built the Oregon Journal Into one of the West's large -newspapers, died Friday night. Death was due to a stroke. She was 93, and she had outlived her- husband, two sons and her grandson. At death her closest rel ative was a great-grandson, Peter Jackson, now 12. She was chairman of the board .of the newspaper. She had been closely connected with the Journal from the time her husband took over the strug gling, four-month-old paper in 1902 and began building it into Oregon's largest afternoon dally. Mrs. Jackson announced several years ago that the paper was being placed in trust to the Jackson Foundation. A board of trustees, headed by Publisher William W. Knight, operates it. She long had been active In civic affairs, and had drawn many hon ors for her activities. Mrs. Jackson was a founder of the George A. White serVlce men's center, and in 1944 was named Portland's first cltiten by 'the Portland Realty Board. She was one of the few women so honored. Born in Richmond, Va., in 1862, she was married to Charles Sam uel Jackson at Pendleton In 1886. They remained there until 1902, when they sold the East Oregon Ian, bought the Oregon Journal and moved to Portland. One of her sons, Francis Clopton Jackson, was drowned when a snip same on ine uregon coast in 1919. Her husband died In 1924, and her other son, Philip L. Jackson, became publisher of the Journal. He died in 1953. Her grandson, C. S. Jackson II. the son of Francis, was assistant managing editor of the Journal, when he was killed In the crash of a helicopter In 1947. It is his son, Peter, who survives. Tax Basis Told DUNSMUIR The basis, for payments in lieu of taxes made by the U.S. Forest Service to counties was explained by Clem Crouch, district ranger of the Shasta-Trlnlty National Forest, at the dinner meeting of the Lions Club Tuesday night, January 31, at the Travelers Hotel. Counties receive in lieu pay mcnts on the basis of acres of na tional forests within their bound' aries. Crouch stated. This money is used for the support of schools and for road building and main tenance. The U.S. Forest Service Is a profitable government agency, Crouch told the Lions Club. All funds collected for timber, graz ing and other land use go Into the U.S. treasury and funds are re allotted for forest service work. Last year the government netted over $9 million from its . forest lands, he said. Crouch pointed out that because Siskiyou County is largely national forest land its citizens should be aware of this in lieu payment and also watchful that the present sys tem of pro-rating payments on a per acre basis be maintained. He further stated that counties with out national forest land would like to see It divided equally among the counties, which wouJd bring a hardship on those paying prop erty taxes in counties largely na tional forest land. Weed Residents Attend Meeting WEED Mr. and Mrs. Les Kyle, and Mr. and Mrs. Leno Len- si, attended the Lions Club zone dinner meeting in Yreka Sunday, January 29, at the Rex Cafe. Kyle is president of the Weed club and Lenzl is the secretary. Zone chairman William Paul. Dunsmulr. and Lloyd Johnson. Li ons district governor, conducted the meeting which is held regu larly for all district Lions Club presidents' and secretaries. Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Paul were among the lady guests at tending with their husbands from the district clubs. tions, made before the December floods, for congressional appropri ations for federal flood control works, but came up .with a (47, 201,000 total request, lower than made earlier. 2. Called for early state author ization of works similar to the Biemond Plan to provide flood control and salinity repulsion for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and to provide efficient transport of water across the delta for export to southern areas of de fiency. 3. Adopted the report of State Engineer Harvey O. Banks recom mending Congress appropriate ade quate funds to expedite or com plete 12 presently authorized proj ects, authorize five new projects and survey another dozen for pos sible authorization. 4. Accepted a report from a board of consultants recommend ing water quality standards to be applied at the delta to preserve the quality of water to be exported south, but deferred action on adoption of the standards pending completion of state studies. Although the board lowered its total request for federal flood funds, it asked more for specific projects where flood damage was great. Even the lower figure was tl9.920.ooo nigner man ine execu tive budget sent to Congress by President Elsenhower. Tho board voted to send its chairman, Clair Hill, and -staff members to Washington to confer with the California congressional delegation and the Army Engi neers prior to March congressional hearings. The board made these major changes from its previous request: Cut the requested appropriation for Coyote Dam on tne Kussian River from 5.500,000 to $2,250,000 because a local legal squabble had delayed work, and reduced its re quest for new Melones Dam from (500,000 to $300,000 because the Army Engineers said they could not spend the larger amount. Boosted to $1,000,000 its earlier $58,000 reauest for Terminus Dam on the rampaging Kaweah River which caused damage estimated at $18,800,000, the full price of the dam. Upped its request for the San Lorenzo River in Santa Cruz County to $200,000 from the earlier $50,000 recommended because of the "critical problem" In the city of Santa Cruz. The board said the Army Engineers believed the $200.- 000 was the full amount that could be used In the next fiscal year. Increased Its request for San Lorenzo Creek in Alameda County from $150,000 to $200,000. The local interests had asked $2,000,000 but the board said the engineers re' Dorted It would be virtually impos' sible to complete planning and Initiate construction next year. Doubled its earlier request for $500,000 for preliminary examina Hons and surveys after some 25 agencies reported to the board on their needs, s Ike Heart Attack Rumor Disclaimed GETTYSBURG. Pa. I A rU' mor that President Eisenhower had another heart attack Friday was quickly denied by White House spokesmen. The rumor was that the Presl dent had been stricken sometime before 2 p.m. Friday. At that time, Elsenhower was registering to vote in the November elections. He ap peared to be in high spirits when he and Mrs. Eisenhower arrived at the courthouse here. The origin of the rumor was not known. But the White House in Washington received several tele phone inquiries about it. YOUR OWN LIFE AT SIXTY -IF YOU PROVIDE r A -.a S ; 4. EDWARD F. STORER, 79, longtime resident of Klamath County whose home is in the Hildebrand district, it recovering in Klamath Valley Hospital from a broken hip, suffered on Jan. uary 21. Mr. Storer was born in Augusta, Maine, August 4, 1876 and has seen much of the world in his travels. He was an electrician on ocean going vessels and shipt that tailed the Great Lakes, rode the trails behind the dogiet in the early days of the cattle industry, knew Will Rogen and remembers when sheep sold for 90 cents a head. He played in childhood with the children of James J. Blaine, owner of the Kennebec Journal, published in Augusta and has vivid recollection of many important dates in American hittory. , 1 Youths Drown After Accident EUGENE. Ore. Wl Four teen agers, who had left a dance a short time before, were drowned Friday night when ' their automobile plunged off a road into the Sius law River. They were John White, 19; Jan nett May Garrett, 17; Sharon Sing er, 18; and Danny Poppe, 19, all of Eugene. ' Headlights shining beneath 32 feet of the chill water were seen by George Johnson, a rancher who lives across the river and this led to discovery of the tragedy. One of the girl's wrist watches Arctic Workers Begin Leaving ABOARD THE U.8.S. ARNEB IN THE ROSS SEA I Opera tion Deep Freeze began to evacu ate from the Antarctic Saturday, leaving behind two nearly com pleted bases. With Adm. Richard E. Byrd aboard, the Arneb steamed north through McMurdo Sound out Into the Ross Sea behind the ice break er Edlsto. , The veteran explorer who Is re turning from his fifth Antarctic expedition, said the building of bases at Little America and Mc Murdo Sound ih the past) two months holds great. significance. "I think'' thls;Wepresents the opening of a continent," he said. "I think that from now on there will be permanent bases down here. This expedition showed it can be done." The Edlsto will shepherd the Arneb. through the ice pack, then turn back to survey ice landing field possibilities at Cape Adare for next fall's air operations. While the Arneb heads home by way of New Zealand, Australia) Italy and . Spain, the Edlsto will return to McMurdo to assist in buttoning up the first phase of deep freeze. stopped at 10:45 p. m. lead the police to believe thai the accident occurred at that lime. W. T. Moon, chief of police at Florence, said the car went into a ditch on the side of the road. struck a power pole and then veered across the highway into the river. This mishap occurred near the town of Mapleton $0 miles west of here. The headlights on the car re mained burning. This aided in re covery of the car and bodies by a diver. Moon said police were unable to determine immediately who had been driving. He said the four teen-agers were traveling west toward Florence at the time of the crash. They had left a public dance at Benton-Lane Park north of Eugene a short time before the accident. Drivers' Course Talks Continue WEED The Siskiyou County Peace Officers Association will con tinue discussion of Behind the Wheel Drivers' Training for Siski you county high schools at tne February 9 meeting, according to Judge Kenneth Stone, weed, pub' licity chairman for the group. Paul Fisher, superintendent of schools. Yreka, will make a port of his continued Investigation of the program's possibility of be ing initiated in the county schools, as proposed by the association, -The Thursday night meeting will he at Mike and Tony's in Mount Shasta, arrangements by Felix Oaspari, Mount Shasta CTjlef of Police, and other members of that citv. A full agenda of current busi ness is slated by the president, George Banich, Yreka. GM Earnings Top Record Madeln1954 NEW YORK Ifl The bluest of industry's blue chips came up with a batch of Jet-propelled 1955 earnings reports this week that left the record profits of earlier years in the model T category. Topping the star-spangled list of reporting firms was General Mo tors Corp., the world's biggest au tomaker. First company in U.S. history to break through, the billion-dollar profits barrier, GM last year racked up net earnings of $1,189,000,000. That's what the com pany had left after setting aside $1,600,000,000 for federal, state and local taxes. Also heard from were the world's biggest oil company, the world's biggest ateel firm and the world's biggest copper pr oducer. Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey), reporting the "best year in the company's history," estimated its 1955 profits at 717 million dollars, up 23 per cent from the year be fore. A 90 per cent hike was an nounced by United States Steel Corp. with profits at a new peak of $370,197,000, sales and fhlpmcnts also set new mgns. Kennecott cop per Corp. boosted its net earnings 61 per cent, to a record $125,615. 000. Net Income of Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. shot to a new high of $140,755,858. Contributing further to the ebul lient tone of business were predic tions by Industry leaders of more lush profits In 1956. The stock mar ket snapped out of its January doldrums with oil shares leading the advance. Retail trade moved ahead. Steel set new production records. Outstanding soft spot was the auto Industry which announced new cutbacks to bring production Into line with sagging sales. Beginning Monday, all Chrysler divisions In Detroit (Including the Chrysler, DeSoto, Dodge and Ply mouth) will go on a four-day week. Already shut down for two weeks was the Packard-Clipper di vision of Rtudebakcr-Packard Corp. with 5.500 Idle. For the Industry at large. It's estimated that some 33.000 auto workers have been laid off since the start of the year. January output of cars and trucks was g per cent under De cember and down nearly 7 per cent from January 1955. I iy' 9 o 1 ' Domb Cloini By Tvinino Q Qrh BURGLARY REPORTED Four half-dollar coins were all that appeared to be missing after a burglary at the' residence of Jesse D. Cobb, 3704 Diamond Street, Friday . evening, Oregon State Police reported today. Police said the theft occurred while the Cobbs were attending a motion picture show between 6-10:30 p.m. Friday. ! A HELPING HAND is extended to Vicki Carter by her father, Ronald Carter, at the Moore Park skating rink Thursday eve ning. Thursday was the first day of skating this season,' and recreation department officials estimated that mora than 1200 persons were on hand for the event.- Boy Faces Ninth Operation; Stricken Family Aided CABERY, II., (UP) The peo ple of Cabery rallied today .behind the family of a seven-year-old boy who has undergone eight opera tions since Inst June and faces still more major surgery. The villnge of 300 persons planned to hold a benefit dance In the grade school gym today for little Oregnry Hinnmel and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Durwood Hummel. , The boy's 25-year-old mother, Marilyn, snid Gregory was born with a nerve missing in his Intes tines. He underwent surgery for this last June. "It was a success," Mrs. Hum mel said. "But they ran into com plications, and that's why there's so much surgery now.. It's been one operation aricr another." Seven times tho boy was oper ated on and faces at least two most of his time at home now, playing a billiards game, watching television, entertaining his 15- monlh-old sister, and playing with his pets a dog, a cat, a parakeet and goidtisn. Mrs. Hummel said the people of Cnbery had been "wonderful Once, she recalled, Gregory needed regular bood transfusions when an Infection developed, "Every day, there was someone there to give blood," she said She said she had "no Idea" how much the operations had coat, but conceded It mounted Into the "thousands." None of it has been covered by hospital Insurance, she said. Mrs. Hummel said the family had such Insurance when they lived In Ban Diego, Calif., but can celed It temporarily on moving here laat year. They meant to re new it but before they had a Supported 'WASHINGTON UP Atomio . authorities today confirmed Oen. Nathan F. Twining'! assertion that accidental explosion of nuclear weapons la practically Impossible. The Air Chief of Staff said Fri day that U. S, strategic bombers are in a, atate of "instant readi ness" to wreak atomlo retaliation against an aggressor. He alao aald Americana needn't be alarmed by the thought of akyfull of big bombers laden with nuclear weapons. He aald the dan ger to U.S. civilians from accl- dental atomic explosions in the air : or on the ground Is "essentially : nonexistent." Atomlo sources said Twining wasn't Just talking "by the elide rule." Theoretical considerations convinced atomic weaponeers long ago that accidental explosion of - A-bomba either as the result of enemy action or of accidents . In handling waa highly unlike- iy. Nitroglycerin. TNT. and dyna mite non-stomlc explosives all are skittish. A bump under the wrong circumstances can aet tnem off. But that isn't the ease with . nuclear weapons. . Making, atomic weapons axpiooe Is a complicated engineering art. -You could drop the Empire Bute Building on an A-bomb without de tonating It. Unless; "aubcrltleal" amount of nuclear explosives are brought together in Just the right way to create a critical aeaem- ; bly," -they won't do anything but . lie there. , External force, such aa an en emy bombing raid, would be far more likely to scatter the vital components of' atomlo .weapons than they would be to assemble them explosively. The same would ' be true if a U.S. warplane lugging A-bombs, should crash on U.S. ' soil. ' . . But that Is slide rule stuff, and . the Atomlo Energy Commission wanted real proof. So last fall and thla winter the A EC etaged some tests In Nevada to see II It could make nuclear weapons go off without intentional activation of their built-in triggers. It la understood the testers tried ' w vspiuav atomic uavnv acci dentally"! by mesne of high ex plosive chargee and, on the )aat attempt, oy means of a iow-rer nuclear detonation, . ' -, - more operations. 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