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(K-i-rjvOvCflB H.)Pi'WI1W". ,HJOW "!it-Jff.1V-.'' u op onsaox libsar? E'JaSNS, ORE. cc a? i " : : : ' ' Senate Okays Natural 6as rafftk nl lice WASHINGTON W A bill to free natural gas producers from direct federal price controls was passed by the Senate last ntght 53-38 and sent to President Elsenhower. Both backers and opponents, in the three weeks of Senate debate which preceded the vcte, predicted Eisenhower would sign the bill into lav. Opponents said that would bring a sharp rise in householders' gas bills. The bill's chief Senate spon sors, conceding there might be some slight Increase, said the long- In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS This is written at Coronado. where the California Newspaper Publishers Association is holding Its 64th annual convention. In the 68 years since 1887, the news paper has come a long way. Back In the , 19th century, the newspaper at its best was a PRO FESSION. At its worst, it was a racket. On the average, the newspaper was then a way of life. People didn't then go into the newspaper business to make money. In itself, it wasn't looked upon as a career. If young men in those days were thinking in terms of a career, and took the newspaper into their thinking, they thought of it as a stepping stone leading up to a POLITICAL career. The newspaper was then apt to be regarded as a door leading into politics. All that has been changed. The newspaper in America is now an INDUSTRY. In our huge metro politan cities, it is BIG industry. It involves an investment r tuning lar, lar up into tne millions. The , investment includes huge build ings, vast and complicated ma chinery and staggering Invoices in the way of raw materials. From the standpoint of payroll lone, it must be looked upon as an industry. In any city, large or small, the newspaper payroll will rank in size well up toward the top. . . . The day when.- an- awbUibus Journalist could get into business with a shirt-tailful of type and an old jiandpress is definitely gone. Back in the eighties, when the California Newspaper Publishers Association was born, the ideal team for a weekly newspaper was a husband who had a nose for news and a talent for writing stirring editorials that would lead his readers to vote the ticket straight and a wife who could set type. Here at the Hotel Coronado, where the CNPA is holding its 68th annual session, the corridors are full of tales of California week lies that have just been sold for a hundred thousand dollars. But let's get away from all that. I'd like to talk today of a more interesting change that has come about in the newspaper. In those earlier days, the news paper was distributed chiefly by mail. Postage was free in the county of publication. Newspapers were carried in the mails at a very low rate which meant, in ef fect, a subsidy from the federal government. That too has changed. News papers are now distributed chief ly by their own carriers. These carriers buy their papers from the newspaper, just as a retailer buys his stock from the wholesaler, and resell them to their customers. We cnlt these carriers "little mer chants." It Is of these little merchants that I'd like to speak in this piece. There are ten of them at this con vention. They were chosen from among the tens of thousands of newspaper carriers in California. They are clean, handsome and ALERT. In no way are they out of place in this convention which includes some of California's most success ful business and professional men for the modern newspaper Is both a business and a profession. They are here as representatives of the California Newspaperboy Foundation, which is their seg ment of the newspaper business. In the state of California are some 50.000 newspaper boys. These boys handle some 20 million dol lars every year. They are the newspaper boys of today. To a surprising extent, they lepresent the business leaders of tomorrow. The newspaper has no prouder boast than the large num ber of America s most successful business and professional men who got their start as newspaper car riers. I d like to quote here a recent statement by J. Edgar Hoover, the able and respected head of the FBI. who says: "Among the 600.000 newspaper bovs in the United States, LESS THAN ONE PER CENT BECOME JUVENILE DELINQUENTS." That is a record that our indus try can be proud of and IS proud of. And yet ,! There are people who say that employment of these young Ameri cans to deliver newspapers to their subscribers constitutes EXPLOI TATION and ought to be forbidden by law. With that, I can't agree. i Expected term effect would be beneficial. They argued that removal of fed eral regulation would stimulate exploration and thus result in a more adequate supply of gas. All efforts to change the bill were beaten down by margins similar to that on final passage The Senate then accepted a ver sion which the House had approved 209-203 last year in place of the one drafted by lta own Commerce Committee. That action . bypassed another test in the closely divided House. On the final Senate test, 31 Re publicans and 32 Democrats voted lor the bill. Opposing it were 14 Republicans and 24 Democrats. The vote came at the end of a 101 3-hour Senate session. A disclosure by Sen. Francis Case (R-SD) that he had rejected a proferrcd $2,500 campaign con tribution, which he said seemea to be Intended to sway him for the bill, apparently had little, effect on the final tally. Case, as he had said he would do, voted against the bill. John M. Neff of Lexington, Neb., insisted there were "no strings attached" to his offer of the money to Case. With the bill Itself out of the way, Senate leaders arranged to press today for a bipartisan In- FRANK HURD Hurd To File For Judgeship , Frank W. (Pop) Hurd. a color ful figure in Klamath Falls civic affairs for many years, announced Tuesday that he will file for the nomination for county Judge oa the Republican ticket. , -. ,' Hurd. who says he is only seek ing one term as county judge, promises to devote his full time to the job, if he Is elected. "I won't forget that I am a serv ant of the people," he declared. "The county Judgeship Is a full time Job and the man who holds It should not be engaged with out side interests. All he is, after all, is a hired man for the county. "Not only is the county Judge the chairman of the board of county commissioners and custodian of county property," ne continued. "but he also should act as a public relations man for the county." Hurd has been an employe of J.W. Kerns Oregon Ltd. for the past 10 years. He has devoted a great deal of time to welfare and improvement programs In Klam ath Falls. He was born in Williams. Iowa. February 19. 1889. He is married and has three sons and two daugh ters. One of his sons, Horace (Red) Hurd, is a former sports editor of the Herald and News, and at pres ent is on the news staff ot the Portland Oregonian. Albania Makes Balloon Charge LONDON 'iP Communist Al bania, following the Kremlin lead. Tuesday accused the United States of floating "explosive balloons car rying photographic equipment and propaganda leaflets" over Albania. A Tirana radio broadcast, heard here, said the bailoons menaced air transportation, endangered the lives of Albanians and violated the nation's sovereignty. The broadcast said the balloons were being released by the priv ately financed Radio Free Europe, with headquarters hi Munich. "Albania demands that the United States take immediate measures to stop this criminal ac' tivllv," the broadcast said. The Albanian protest followed complaints by Ru'-'la and Easi European satellites that U.S. agen cies were sending balloons over Communist areas with leaflets or observation equipment. OBSERVER ARRIVES DAMASCUS. Syria (.1 The chief U.N. Palestine truce observ er, Canadian Ma). Oen. E.L.M. Bums, arrived by plane Tuesday and began discussions with Syrian officials on his proposal to ease tension around the Sea of Galilee. Burns suggested two weeks ago a "gentleman's cease - fire agree ment" between Syria and Israel. if, j.tv, rVO To vesication Into circumstances of the Incident. The closeness of the vote In both branches of Congress Indicated that proponents probably could not muster tne two-thirds majority which would be required to enact the bill over a presidential veto but such a veto is not considered likely. Rep. Harris (D-Ark) and Sen Fulbright (D-Arkl, the sponsors, predicted Eisenhower will sign the bill. Proponents contended that "bur densome" regulation of natural gas prices bv the Federal Power Commission discourages produc tion and would result in scarcities in years to come. They argued too that there are no similar federal controls on competing fuels such as oil and coal. Opponents asserted that lifting controls would mean a 600 to 800 million dollar hike In consumer gas bills and a multlbilllon-dollar "windfall" to big oil companies owning most of the gas. Proponents say that consumers would be protected by a provision that pipelines' wholesale rates to local distributing utilities must not reflect more than a "reasonable market price" paid to producers The effect of the bill is to nullify a 1954 decision by the Supreme Court that the FPC had a duty to fix wellhead prices for gas soid to companies for shipment through Interstate pipe lines. Previously, the commission held that the 1938 Natural Gas Act did not give it such authority. A 4-1 majority of the present commission backed the legislation. Loan Group Plans Meeting More than 100 farmers and their wives of Klamath and Lake coun ties are expected to attend the annual meeting of the Klamath. Lake National Farm Loan Asso ciation on Friday, February 17, at the Wlnema Hotel. The association will be host at a luncheon In the Camas room of the hotel at noon.- During the business- sessions which follow, two directors will be elected to three-year terms suc ceeding Vancil A. Withers ot Pals- ley and William F. Jlnnette of Merrill whose terms expire. Holdover directors are L. J Horton of Poe Valley, president of the association for the last several years and Cattleman of the Year Bryant Williams, Spring Lnke; Roy Gooding, Pine Grove, all of Klamath County; W. Warren Max well and Fred R. Peat, both of Lakevlew. - Principal speaker will be Fred A. Knutsen of Spokane, a native Oregonian, and recently elected president of the Federal Land Bank at; Spokane. Also attending will be Delos C. Puts of Spokane, regional manager lor the state of Oregon. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair through Wednesday with patches of morning fog. lllghs 40-43. Lows Tuesday night 28-33. Hlfch yesterday 3t Low last nlRht ...6 Preclp, last 24 hours . 0 Prerlp. since Oct. 1 . 15.33 Same period last year 3.85 Normal for period 7.16 CIVIL SERVICE STRIKES JERUSALEM, Israel, lfl Eight thousand high-ranking Israeli civil servants, most of them doctors, went on strike for more pay Tues day. Skeleton staff are manning hospitals. q, mm ; CLARENCE BENNETT, left, l03' Pine Street, and Billy Adlcim. 233 Cedar Street, were stopped by the 9 o'clock photogra pher this morning esthey trooped to Riverside School. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, Price Five Cents 14 Pages A LUNCHEON MEETING Monday noon at the Wlnema Hotel drew Boy Scout council officers and the operating committee of the Modoc Area Council-together for planning meeting in preparation for a review dinner on Wednesday, February 8, at which repreientativet of the National Council will be present. Those attending the luncheon were standing, left to right, Jim Harpole, Boy Scout executive; Jerry Thome, district executive; John Robinson, activities chairman;. James Pinniqer, advancement chairman; Cal Peyton, camping chairman. Seated, same order, William Ely, council treasurer; Harold Ashley, council Commissioner; J. Vern Owens, finance chairman; Ronald E, Phair, council president and George Elliott, training chair man. Members of the council not present are Winston Purvine, organiiation and extension chair man and Dr. Raymond Tice, health and safety chairman. Congressional Committee Votes To End Sarena Probe WASHINGTON Wl A Joint con gressional committee voted Tues day to end its inquiry into the grant of 15 disputed mining patents to Al Sarena Mines Inc. in Ore gon's Rogue River National For-, est . . '. - -- ' Sen. Scott (D-NC). who has pre sided over the Investigation, said the agreement was reached utter Charles and Herbert McDonald, brothers and principal officers of Ihe Oregon firm, advised him they did not desire to testily. Scott said Secretary of the In- Heart Attack Takes Reckard PORTLAND lft Ken Reckard. 48. manager of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce, died at a hotel here early Tuesday while at tending the Washlngton-O r e g o n Chamber of Commerce executives' conference. Death at 5:30 a.m. apparently was due to a heart attack. How ever, an autopsy was ordered. Reckard was nominated secre tary of the Oregon Chamber Ex ecutives Assn. Monday night and was elected to the post by the organization's executive board Tuesday morning before word of his death was received by officers. The board then named R. Frank Tucker. Klamath County Chamber manager to succeed him. Reckard became manager of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce last month, succeeding Frank Lockman who resigned. Prior to coming to Springfield, Reckard had served for four years as manager of Uie North Bend Chamber. terior McKay has not responded to the Joint Senate and House sub committee's Invitation and "appar ently" does not desire to appear, McKay Is now out of the city but wHI be permitted to testify if he wishes to upon his return; cott said. . The decision to end the pro longed proceedings was reached at a closed session of the committee. Scclt said the hearing record would be held open another 10 days to permit members to submit any additional data. Tile joint committee agreed to meet Feb. 21 to resume its hearing into forest management policies of the Indian Service. Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service. It was during hearings on this subject in Ihe West last fall that the committee launched Into its in vestigation of the controversial Sarena patents. Clarence A. Davis, undersecre tary of the interior, has assumed full responsibility for the patents which he approved in VM while department solicitor. The Bureau of Land Management In 1951 rec ommended against the patents, saying the 15 claims did not show sufficient mineralization. Democrats contend the Sarena company was more interested In "timber mining" than in the min erals. They say the company has done no mining since 1943 but has cut an estimated $100,000 in timber from the claims. Davis and Republican members of the committee contend he had no recourse under the law but to grant the patents upon a showing of a valid mineral discovery. Algeria Bans Public Meets ALGIERS ifl The local gov ernor banned all public gatherings in Algiers Tuesday as Premier Guy Moliet began talks with In dignant French colonists opposing concessions to Moslem nationalists. Starting his search for peace in France's guerrilia-torn North Af rican territory, Moliet first re ceived representatives of war vet eran groups. Their rioting on hU arrival Monday made clear they want the bloody 15-month-old rebel lion put down sternly and no re laxation of French dominance In the area. Already the colonists had handed the Socialist premier a stinging defeat. Their violent demonstration forced him within two hours of his arrival to accept the resignation of Oen. Georges Cniroux from the pec in 1 Cabinet post Moliet creat ed a week ago lor Algeria. Cat- roux, due here Friday to take up his post, was the demonstrators' chief target. The veterans, through a "Com mittee of Public Safety" they formed, called for reorganization of the French army along guer rilla lines. They demanded that France use all means to slop al leged Egyptian and Libyan aid of the nationalist rebels, that French sovereignty be maintained In Al geria and that Moliet drop any idea of a ainuje representative Algerian Assembly in which the eight mil lion Moslems would outvote the country's million Europeans. such an assembly was a key point in the ideas for Algerian peace advanced by Moliet during the recent French election campaign. FEBRUA"" '. 1W Telephone 1111 No. 3394 Admiral Okays Rescue Plan Aboard The U.8.S. Arned En Route to New Zealand 11 Rear Adm. Oeorge J, Dufek, command er -of the U S.) Deep Freeze.lask feree, Tuesday1, approved, a dra mfltio plan for a Navy patrol. bom ber to fly from Maryland to Join the search for a plane missing five days In antarctica with seven men aboard. A twin-engine Neptune took off Monday from Fatuxcnt Naval All- Station, Md., via South America to Little America V, Operation Deep Freese's main base on Hain an Bay. The P2V Is flying by way of Puerto Rico and South America, the shortest route to the antarctic. The missing plane, a single-en gine De Havllland Otter, disap peared Friday while flying from Marie Byrd Land to Little Amer ica with some members of a trail blazing party whose vehicles had broken down. The last radio voice contact wllh the Otter was 87 min utes after takeoff. An SOS, appar ently from the plane, was received Saturday. Extensive plans were made for Increased facilities for searching for the Otter. Dufek canceled or ders for two four-engine Skymast ers in New Zealand to be alerted for a flight to the antarctic. It was hoped these large-wheeled planes could fly directly to McMurdo Sound, land on the Ice to refuel, then search the area east of Little America. However, McMurdo re ported the Ice unsuitable for land ing. A second Otter has reached Lit tle America V aboard -the ice breaker East Wind and will be ready soon to Join the search. A third Otter is standing by at Mc Murdo ready to fly to Little Amer ica as soon as weather permits. STRIKE, CALLED OFF SYDNEY. Australia (A Union leaders called off the three-week-oltl strike of 21.000 dock workers Tuesday. They agreed to refer the dockers' wage demands to an ar bitration court. Shipowners have ollered an hourly Increase equival ent to seven cents. The unions want double that. Some 200 ships are idle in Australian ports. Norblad May Run For GOP Governor Nomination PORTLAND Ml Rep. Waller, Norblad said Tuesday he Is think Ing about running for the Repub lican nomination for governor to fill out the term of Gov. Paul Pat- terson who died unexpectedly last ween. Norblad. 47. Is In his sixth term In Congress and suld recently he would seek re-eleclion, This thouch was before Patterson's dealh. Norblad said he would confer with Republican party leaders and othern for several days before maklng up his mind whether to seek Ihe governor's chair, a posi tion his lather, A. W. Norblad, once held. Norblad has been discussed as a potential Republican candidate for the U. B. Senate position held by Democrat Wayne Morse. But he said he woula not run for that. Whether he runs for the governor ship, he said, depends on the con ferences he has planned In coming days. He will be in Portland, two or Solons Slate Probe Of Campaign Proffer WASHINGTON I The Senate Tuesday created a special commit tee to investigate the offer of a (2.500 campaign contribution to Sen. Case (R-SDI during the gas bill fight. But Democrats on the Senate Elections subcommittee jumped the gun and summoned Case to a public hearing Tuesday afternoon. t On a 90-0 vote, with Case among those voting, the Senate adopted a resolution by Democratic leader Johnson (Texas) for an Investiga tion by a special tour-member com mittee. . But within an hour, an ennounce- Ex-Governor Lashes Out At Demos . By LVLE DOWNING One hundred and fifty Klamath County Republican leaders got a thorough briefing Monday night on OOP campaign strategy for 1055 from former Governor Dan Thorn ton of Colorado who indicated the Elsenhower forces will try to win at the polls on an Americanism ver sus Socialism basis. Thornton seemed to take It for granted that President Eisenhower will run again. He pinpointed the defeat of Senator Wayne L, Morse, Demoorat of Oregon, aa one of the chief objectives of the Repub lican party. LABOR BOSSES The former governor also charged that the Democratic can didate for president will be picked by "big city labor bosses" who are advocates of sweeping aside the American way of life and sup planting it with socialism. "That s the Issue," Thornton de clared. "We are going Into a death struggle between Americanism and Socialism. President Eisenhower has been able so far to keep the people of America from being en slaved by socialism." The Coloradon drew a compar ison between President 'Elsenhower and Abraham Lincoln. - He a a 1 d they both had lowly beginnings Lincoln in a log cabin and Elsen hower as the son of tenant farmer. "'C:' S At the climax of his talk. Therm ton pulled out all the stops and blasted Senator. Morse. He ' said the senior senator from Oregon be lieves In socialism and preaohes the . doctrine that government should do everything for the peo ple and the rights of the individual should be eliminated. COHORTS He added that Morse and his cohorts are "battling to capture the minds of the young people of America." "If President Elsenhower is to carry on his program," Thornton continued, "he must have people In Congress who will back him up. The spotlight Is on Oregon and I am sure the Republicans in this state will produce a candidate who will defeat Wayne Morse. Thornton spoke at a Lincoln Day dinner sponsored by the Klamath County Republican Central Com mittee. He . was Introduced by Committee Chairman Oeorge Proc tor. Oene Pavell acted as master of ceremonies. Before Introducing Thornton, Proctor paid glowing tribute to Mrs. Olive Cornell, Republican commltteewoman from Oregon, who has announced she will not seek another term. On behalf of the -central committee. Proctor presented Mrs. Cornett with a sil ver tray 'i Surprise Alert Called By Wilson WASHINGTON IT1 A surprise ulert called by Secretary of De fense Wilson Tuesday sent about 400 lesser officials from the Penta gon to the secret hideouts where top officials would go In an enemy attack. The stand-ins for the Pentagon's senior official and ofllcers left by helicopter, motoi' car and other conveyances Just as their boi-ses would do if 11 were the real thing. No sirens were sounded and few of the Pentagon's 25.000 workers .knew that anything unusual was aloot. three days, he said, then will go to 8alem and Eugene and on to other parts of the state. He said he expects to include EoMern Ore gon In his visits, probably the lat- ter part of this week or the flrsi of next. The only announced candidate for the governorship Is State Sen Robert D. Holmes, Astoria radio nation manager, a Democrat. Should both Holmes and Norblad run and win Ihelr party nomina lions, the November election would pit men who both have strong tol- lowinga In the northwestern part of the state. Oov. Elmo 6mlth, who moved up from Senate president on Gov. Patterson's death, fills the olilce until a successor Is elected In the November voting. He said Tuesday he hasn't made up his mind wheth er to run for the rest of the term which expires alter the 1958 elec tion. It Is this two-year term which Holmes seeks and which Norblad, and posiiibly Smith, are eyeing. ment came from the elections sub committee, headed by Sen. Hen nlngs ID-Mo), that Case would be heard by this group at 1 p.m. Hennings said Monday he fa vored an Investigation not only of Ihe Case Incident but a much broader Inquiry Into the use of money to Influence elections or legislation. SPECIAL COMMITTEE The four-man special committee also will probably meet some time during the day Tuesday. In Lexington, Neb., John M. Neff, 47-year-old attorney, who reported juonoay ne nad offered a 12,500 contribution to Sen. Case's cam paign fund, but with "no strings attached" said he welcomed the investigation. "I have no hesitancy tto testify) and I am glad there is an investi gation." Neff declined further comment, aa he has since making public the contents of telegram he said he sent to Case. He denied the contri bution was Intended to influence Case's vote on the natural gas bill. The committee Includes two Re publicans and two Democrats. It was Instructed to report back to the Senate by March 1. The mem bers, as appointed by Vice Presi dent Nixon on the recommenda tions of Johnson and Senate OOP leader Knowland, are: MEMBERS Sens. Oeorge (D-Os), Hayden (D-Aris). Bridges (R-NH) and Thye (R-Mlnn.) Hayden and Bridges supported the natural gas bill. Oeorge and . Thye opposed It. The four will choose their own chairman. The committee was given sub poena powers and 110,000 to finance the investigation. , case torn tne Senate of the 12.500 offer last week and interpreted It as an enort to influence Mm to vote for the gas bill. He said ha rejected the money, . And. when the Senate passed the gas bill Monday night, 53-38, Case was one of those voting against it. Case read to the Senate yester day Neff's telegram of explanation and said he never has contended that any "bribe" waa Intended. Case has said he asked that the money be returned to the original contriDutors or given to a charity organisation. Neff declined to dis cuss whether others may be in volved in donating the money, De. dining to any whom he represents, ne buiu, umu a get permission from, my client, . I don't want to UKGED ' v. ...-....-- ' . Senators Cuntls And Hruskt, Ne braska Republicans, said Neff bad urged them to vote for the gas bill but not in any improper way. At Lincoln, records showed Neff was registered during the 1955 ses sion of th Nebraska f .irinlafi!ri Us i lobbyist for the Superior Oil j Co. of Austin, Tex. Johnson told newsmen he and Sen. Knowland of California, the OOP leader, will press for Senate approval of a resolution proposing a special committee Investigation of the affair. He said what Hen nings does about it Is up to Hen nings. ' . Gore said In a separate Inter view he will follow Hennings' lead If the latter orders an immediate investigation. It was obvious they could overrule any objections by the third subcommittee member, Sen. Curtis. Search Begins For 'Chutists FORT WORTH. Tex. (UP) Helicopters, planes and some 500 aircraft workers and volunteers searched today for two Convalr Aircraft Co. flight engineers who balled out of a burning B36 bomb er which caught fire yesterday about 20 miles northeast of Fort Worth. J.E. Cunningham, 36, and F.J. Verrips, 34, were forced to ball out of the rear compartment to avoid suffocation. The B36 landed safely at Convalr Airport In Fort Worth a few min utes later and the fire was put out. Sharp Quaker. Jar Los Anqeles LOS ANQELES (UP1 Two 6harp but not serious earthquakes which apparently originated in mountains above Newhall Jarred the Los Angeles area last night. No damage was reported, but sev eral Interruptions In telephone service were reported. The first shock at 6:17 p.m. had a magnitude of 4.0, according to Dr. Charles Rlchter of the Califor nia Institute of Technology In Pasadena. The second temblor at 7:16 p.m. registered an Intensity of 4 6. The quakes, which were center ed about 40 miles from Pasadena, were felt most sharply in the Chatsworth area and in mountain sections near Newhall and Saugus along Highway 99. Salem Lawyer Files Candidacy SALEM I Jason Lee. 8alem lawyer, announced Monday he would seek the Democratic nomin ation for Congress In the First Dis trict. The seat noxy Is held by Rep. Walter Norblad, Stayton Republi can. Lee was graduated from the University of Oregon Law School in 1939, was administrative assist ant for the State Tax Commission until 1951, and has been practiciss law here since that time.
