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QQ2? In The: Day's Jews BHSL7 o of oasao.'j lib." Any I Ro'E Dim Cs mm By FRANK JENKINS In a previous Installment of this series, I spoke of ihe burro. I feel safe in saying that If an epi demic as fatal to the donkey species as is tularemia to rabbits snould carry off all the burros in Mexico it would amount to a great national calamity in our neighbor to the south. As of now, with reservations as to the future, the burro Is perhaps the most useful Institution in the Republic of Mexico. What a burro can carry on his pipesiem-size tour legs and his sturdy back is beyond a!' human understanding. The custom is to load him down with whatever product needs to be carried from here to there to the extent of about his own weight or thereabouts. After that, his owner piles on top and freight, animal and owner go trotting r merrily aown tne road to their destination. Every time you see one of these ensembles It floors you. The other day I noted an indistinct mass ap proaching down the camino. It turned out to be a burro and his load. His load happened to be su gar cane. Two huge bundles of it one on each side had been piled on him. I wouldn't even at' tempt a guess as to the weight of this cargo, but it must have amounted to at least 100 kilos. (Down here, you don't speak in terms of pounds; you speak of kilos. A kilo is about 2.2 pounds.) So the sturdy little rascal must have oeen carrying around 200 pounds of sugar cane. His owner was perched on top of the pile. Mexicans of the peon class tend to be slight in weight perhaps because it takes food to produce avoirdupois, and food Is never too plentiful in the lower echelons of the Mexican popula tion. But this one was an excep tion. He was plump, to say the least. But the burro was trotting along as unconcernedly as if he had no load at all. The burro s business is to take whatever comes in stride. He isn't lacking, however, In personality. An American friend down here the roads are full of Americans, all of them traveling about the same route and encountering each other at some place more or less every day, so one makes mends readily was telling me about one of these little characters he had seen the day before. The burro,' he said, was standing beside the pavement. No load. Not nibbling at tne sparse grass tnat grows along the asphalt. Just standing there. Presumably think ing. As the American's car ap proached, the burro whirled so that its rear, or oiiensive, cno laceo the intruder. Its tail was switch ing. Its ears were laid back. It looked over Its shoulder with an expression that said as plainly a3 speech could hir-mmeTou and your smelly go-carts, coming down here and upsetting our peaceful world. If you dare to touch one hair of me, I'll kick the stuffing out of you!" To that. I'll add one of my own; In the mountains of the state of Jalisco the other day a procession of glittering American cars was winding down a curving road. Prom a barranca at the side, down a steep and rocky trail, a pack train was emerging. The burros were heavily loaded. At the rear end was an old and gray one. wise with the wisdom of his years and steeped in the traditions of Old Mother Mexico. He paused. For several minutes he stood there surveying his col umn of Americano monsters that derived their sustenance from an evil-smelling liquid called gasoltno instead of from the grass and the leaves and the weeds and the what not provided by nature for her children. Then he raised his head, twisted his ears and brayed. It was a derisive bray, with a note of con tempt in it. Having thus given vent to his feelings, the old burro took up again the burden of his job and moved on after his fellows down the winding trail. I'm sure I could read his mind. He was saying to himself: "These snorting, honking Ameri cano diablos! They can go roar ing along on the pavlmento, cov ering more kilometros in a minute than I can make in una hora. But what could they do out in the hills! "No! No! Mi vielol There will always be burros in Mexico." Airmen Cited After Rescue OAKLAND (UP) Oakland Po lice Sgt. Thomas Cooney rescued two stunned airmen from their wrecked auto early today moments before it burst Into flames. Cooney then gave the driver a ticket for speeding. Cooney said he spotted a car driven by Airman Charles Hender son, 26, speeding on East Shore Freeway. With Henderson was cur ley Smith. 26. Both men are from Parks Air Force Base. The policeman said Henderson's cer rammed the rear of a car driven by another Parks airman. Robert McMUlin, 20, J.Ic.MU'.in was uninjured but the Impact stunned Henderson and Smith. Cooney reached the vreck and pulled the two men froM the car. Its gas tank then exploded. Henderson and Smith were treat ed for bruises at Highland Hospital and Cooney gave Henderson a ticket for speeding. Red Croit Bloodmobilt March S - National Gu(,ri at Airport, 7-1 p.m. March ( OTI, It a.m. t p.m. March J Elks Lodfe, - p.m. ' I IP artc iJi Sa Vr ,: V:, m c n ; -felt .1 A PLAQUE for careful car handling was presented fo Klamafh Ralls General Yardmasfer Jim Foster lin plaid jacket I by W. B. Knotts, supervisor of the freight protection service of the Southern Pacific as some yard crewmen look on. The Shasta Diviision won the plaque by having the lowest freight damage record of any of the SP's 1 1 division, in 1955. The plaque was also won by the Shasta Division in 1953. In the front row are Ifromj left! Trainmaster P. V. Stone, Knotts, Foster, S. P. Oliver, yard engineer, and Road Foreman jof Engines A. L. Shoupe. Farm Bill Signing Seen WASHINGTON (UP) Senate Democrats said today they are sure that President Eisenhower would sign a farm bill with 90 per cent price supports now that he has offered to run for re election. Chairman Allen J. Ellender (D La) of the Senate Agriculture Committee said that he now is "positive" Mr. Eisenhower wouldn't veto the Democratic om nibus farm bill being debated by the Senate. "When a man becomes a candi date, he turns politician to the core," Ellender told reporters, Mr. Eisenhower yesterday re iterated his unalterable opposition to high, rigid price supports, but he wouldn't say whether he would veto a bill with such a provision. if Congress passed it. The Presi dent instead urged speedy ap proval of the administration's farm program which includes re tention of flexible price supports, The Senate, which is in its second week of debate on th measure, agreed to start voting next Thursday. Debate then will be limited to two hours on each amendment and four hours on the bill- itself. A total of 4b amend ments have been Introduced, bu1 it Is unlikely thai all of them will be called up lor debate and separate vote. Ellender expressed hope that the Senate would complete action on the measure within three days after the voting starts. The bill must then go back to the House, which last year approved only the high price support feature of te Senate measure. The Senate bill, in addition to providing price supports at 90 per cent of parity for corn, cotton, peanuts and millable wheat, calls for , higher supports for dairy products: an administration backed sl.i billion soil bank pro gram; continuation of the dual parity formula, and a two-price system for rice. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Variable cloudiness through Friday. High Friday 38-43;, low Thursday night 27-32. High yesterday 39 Low last night 25 Prcclp. last 24 hours .07 Precip. since Oct. 1 17.55 Same period last year .......... 4.34 Normal for period 8.32 - V ' L CAROLYN GERKIN, left, and Dorothy Crumrine ganged u on the 9 o'clock photographer this morning while walking to Riverside School to ahend classes. Carolyn livet at the Klam ath View Trailer Court and Dorothy at the 97 Trailer (ouiit. Autherine Lucy Expelled From College Despite Order BIRMINGHAM. Ala. ( Au therine Lucy, Negro co-ed, was ex pelled from the University of Ala bama Thursday lor unproved charges that school authorities conspired in mob action 1 against, her. There was no official announce ment from the Board of Trustees, but members confirmed the actioi) was agreed upon at meeting; Wednesday night. They asked thai, their names not be ' used. The action came within houri. after U. S. Dlst. Judge H. Hobaii. License Revise Given Copco 1 WASHINGTON Wl The Powel Commission Tuesday issued ai amended license to California-OreJ- gon Power Co. (Copcot for the proposed Big Bend No. 3 hydro, electric development on the Klam ath River In Oregon. The amendments to the nine mi( lion dollar project's 50-year license, first issued. in January 1054, prof viHm ( 1. A chatlge in date, to make ft effective March 1, 1956. This, wjs done because the company com-1 plied with a condition that it entar an agreement with the Interior." Department concerning use of sur plus water from the federal Link River Dam. ' ' 2. Inclusion of a stipulation by the company with the Klamath River commissions of California and Oregon to provide "furthe r protection of the water users." ) At the time the original licence was issued, Copco also was direct ed by the commission to file ap plications within six months fer continued operation of five existing hydro electric developments on th e Klamath in California and-Oregon. Thus far Copco has not accept d the license for the Big Bend prq J ect. though the commission did not link that with its order concerning the five existing projects. Copco asked the U.S. Court ' of Appeals for the District of Colul n bla to review the commission's fic tion and the court remanded the case to the commission and raised several questions. ( Tuesday's supplemental opim on and order said the commission ian swered those questions. In effe ct, it affirmed its previous position. lid-: Grooms ordered the board to va cate an order excluding the 26-year-old Birmingham woman from the campus for safety reasons. He gave the university until Monday to lake the action readmitting fier. Andrew Thomas, attorney for the university, was closeted with Grooms in the Judge's chambers Wednesday but declined any com ment on reports that new Jegal steps are contemplated during the aay. SHOCKED "I am shocked at this new turn of events," said Miss Lucy in a statement. "I have done all I can. I was looking forward to returning to school. At this point there Is nothing more I can say." Mrs. Ruby Hurley, southeastern regional secretary for the National Assn. for Advancement of Colored People, said, "I wouldn't say her statement means acceptance non-acceptance of the order. The matter will be decided in confer ence of the attorneys with Miss Lucy." The NACP has sponsored the isirmmgimm iscgro woman in her 2':. year legal battle for admittance to the all-white school. Meanwhile, at Montgomery, the House of Representatives passed a resolution 75-0 that would require Miss Lucy to testify Monday before a legislative committed investiga ting Communist activity in Ala bama. Rep. T. K. Selman of Walker County, who introduced the reso lution! said "racial tension In Ala bama has mounted too fa at in the last few months ... I believe It is the work oi Communists working through the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People." UNANIMOUS VOTE In the Senate, unanimous voice approval was given to a resolution which would ask Congress for fed eral legislation to provide funds "to finance an apportionment of Negroes among the several north ern and western states, areas where Negroes are wanted and can be assimilated." Thurgood Marshall, NAACP le gal counsel who represented Miss Lucy, was allowed to drop allega tions at Wednesday's hearing that the trustees and university officials named as defendants had conspired with outsiders in mob rioting tha: drove Miss Lucy from the campus at Tuscaloosa Feb. 6. , Marshall told the court that "aft er careful Investigation we are un able to produce any evidence to support these allegations." Accusations Relight Pel ton, Hells Fights SALEM W The fight over I with all pertinent Idaho and Ore Hells. Canyon and Pelton dams gon statutes to such extent as may rayed anew Thursday witn an Ore- oe possible without conflict or in gon official accusing two private consistency with its rights and power firms of breaking state law Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton told iwo Oregon district attorneys to take steps that could lead to criminal prosecution of the lirms for starting construction of the dams without an Oregon license. Thornton, a Democrat, said It was his opinion thai the hcpn.ses were necessary, and that the Idaho Power Co. is .muting the law if it actually is starting construction of Hells Canyon ano Brownle dams on the Snake River, as recent news stories have reponed. ' The Portland General Electric Co. also is liable lor prosecution if it is starting construction of the Pel'on Opin on the Deschutes Riv er in Oregon, he said. hmn unnb won Fpc:eral Power Commission licenses for the dams aker lengihy harir.cs. IDAHO PKF.SIDENT Thomas E. Roach, president of Idano t'ower Co., asspiied m Boi.e that lc(?al counsel had advised him the company "has dor.e no.hin? that in any way onflicts'wiih any applicable or overriding provisions of Oregon law." "Idnho Power Is proceeding with the construction of its Brownlee project under authority of a fed eral licence . . . which contains specific starting and completion dates . . . ," Roach said. Roach said he had not seen j Thornton's written opinion, but added, "It has always been the j policy of Old a ho Power to comply ui urn mh'ik'miiwiji.ii m mminMini mm mum i nw upminimum mmmmmmm tm iiri.-i h Hi in i ri int hI.m i ii i mm -iiii n u. im ,mu niiwii i i il nii Hi Price Five Cento 30 Pares KLAMATH Probe Start Delayed By Arguments WASHINGTON A dispute over procedure including the power to be vested In the chair manslowed today the start of a special Senate committee's M0. 000 Investigation of loDbying and campaign contributions. The eiisht-member aommtttee, divided equally between Demo crats and Republicans, announced after its first session yesterday thai it had deferred election of a chairman until it agrees on rules for its inQuiry. i Sen. Bridges (R-NH), senior GOP member of the group, said in talking with newsmen later that "you have to know what rules you're going to operate un der before electing a chairman." QUESTIONS , ' Some of the questions to be de cided, he said, are who is to issue subpoenas, who is to decide what subjects are to be Investigated, who is to determine whether hear ings are to be open or closed, and who Is to hire the staff employes. Bridges said that if a chairman were elected before some of these things were settled, "the die would be cast and it would be too late." He also remarked that some members might not want to be chairman under rules ap proved by the committee. It had been generally expected In advance of the committee's closed-door meeting that Sen. Gore (D-Tenn) would be elected chairman. Gore declined to com ment. Sen. Mcdellan (D-Ark), senior Democratic member of the group, said he expects Gore still will he named chairman, perhaps at a meeting next week. MEMBERS DECIDE McClellan snld the members had decided that as a first step it would be advisable to devise rules of organisation and opera tion. He snld Bridges and Oore were named to study the matter further and report back with sug gestions when they are ready. Hunt Continues For TY Workmen EUREKA (UP) Searchers concentrated on the lower slopes of Red Mountain today as they resumed their attempt to find two missing television technicians. Helicopters and ground crews completed the search yesterday on the upper slope ol the mountain. It was the first time that the weather cleared enough to allow helicopters to take part. The missing men are Komie Smith, 28. and Glenn McMartin, 25. They disappeared Friday on a routine trip to check microwave equipment maintained by station KIEM-TV at the 4200-foot level on the mountain. ' duties under its FPC license. In keeping with that policy the com pany has application on file with the Oregon Hydroelectric Commis sion, and a public hearing by that body was held in Baker, Ore., on Jan. 2l ' . Thornton said Idaho Power sub mitted to Oregon jurisdiction in that application, but did not wait for a ncense before starting con struction. The Hydroelectric Com mission has not vet announced lis decision on whether to grant a li cense. HKAKINft In that hearing attorney C. Gir ard Davidson, representing groups opposed to Idaho Power, called for the attorney peneral to prosecute the pii w ri firm l or ata rung con strucaon without an Oregon li cense. . Davidson. alo a Democrat. Is a former undersecretary of the De parimen oi Interior, and is a can didate for Oregon Democratic na Uonn cnmin tti'riiiin. Portland General Electric olfi ctals withheld comment. They said they wanted to study Thornton's opi'iinr. urn.. The state Hydroelectric Commis sion, and the state Fish and Game commissions opposed PGE's appli cation, but the company won an FPC license. The state challenged in court and won in the Ninth Cir cuit Court of Appeals at Ran Fran cisco. The Supreme Couit, how ever, in a 7-1 decision, ruled against the state. FALLS, OREGON, THl'RSDAV, Knowland Formally Closes GOP Nomination Campaign WASHINGTON (UP) Senate Republican Leader William P. Knowland formally folded his cam paign for the GOP presidential nomination today. The California senator threw his full support to President Elsen hower and Joined in sponsoring a slate of California Republicans pledged to nominate the chief exe cutive for a second term. Proctor Seeks Delegate Post Attorney George Proctor, Repub lican County Central Committee chairman, said Thursday he will file for delegate to the GOP Con vention in San Francisco. Proctor aspires to be one of the delegates to the Republican par- ley. from the Second Congression al District which embraces all of Eastern Oregon. The Klamath Palls attorney Is a member of the State Republican Executive Committee and in 1962 headed the Klamath County Citi zens for Elsenhower Committee. Proctor hailed the decision of President Eisenhower to seek an other term as "the greatest op portunity for advancement and progress for the Individual and the nation an a whole." Proctor is a native of Klamath Falls. He was graduated from Klamath Union High School and the University of Oregon 1 a w school. With his wife, Dorothy, he resides at 4607 Clinton Avenue. KF Hearing The Oregon Legislative In terim Committee on Local Gov ernment and urban and sub urban problems will hold a pub lic hearing In Klamath Falla at Mills Hchonl Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Friday. All Interested groups and Individuals are urged to attend. For further Information con tact the Klamath County Cham ber .of Commerce, telephone 5193. , r li I." J m n 3 ' GEORGE PROCTOR 11 c I V 1 A f I ACCEPTANCE OF THE COLORS by Army R.ierve Captain John F. Burke (second from right) formally marked the activation of th new 733rd Engineer Aviation Depot Company of Klam ath Felli. Major Jay M. Hamilton of Medford, unit advitar for Army Reierve units in Southern Oregon, made th presentation at Colonel Robert C. Whit, senior Army adviser for Oregon Military District, and Acting Mayor James Barnes looked on. Th new company meats on Mon day evenings at th Ayny Reserve Canter, 432 Main Strait, Ai Telephone 8111 MARCH 1, 195 No. 3114 But he warned that "the cam paign for 195A must not be taken ior granted" Just because Mr. Ei senhower has agreed to run. "Those who remember the cam paign of 1048 know that it is very dangerous to take any election for granted," Knowland said. That was the year President Truman came from behind to whip Republican favorite Thomas E. Dewey. CANCEL8 APPEARANCES Knowland Joined Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Gov. Good win J. Knight In sponsoring the California slate of delegates for Mr. Elsenhower, Knowland told a news conference he was notifying his supporters In Minnesota and Wisconsin, where his name had been entered in Re publican primaries, that he would not make his scheduled personal appearances there. . He said he had made no move to take his name off the ballot In these and other states where it had been filed. He said It Is impossible to remove his name in some slates where the deadline for filing was pas). NIXON'S CHANCES But Knowland said he had made his poslilon clear that he had said he would run only If Mr. Elsen hower were not a candidate, and that he now la Joining In support ol the President. "I believe there will be complete party unity" in California, Know- land said. He, Nixon and Knight all have been considered potential candidates if Mr. Elsenhower did not run. Newsmen asked If Knowland would support Nixon for the vice presidential nominaton this year; "I have inlays assumed that the ticket would, be the same as in 1052,"' Knowland said. "I have no reason to assume otherwise. He said he knew of "no major movement" In the party -to dis place Nixon. New Armory Bid Awarded Major General Thomas E. Ri lea, the adjutant general of Ore gon, today announced the comple tion of preliminary conferences preceding the start of construc tion of the new National Guard armory in Klamath Falls and that all contracts have been awarded to the Donald M. Drake Company of Portland. In Klamath Falls to meet with the architects, Murdo Morrison and John Howard of the firm of Morrison and Howard, were Col. Paul Kliever, director of armories and facilities for the National Guard at Salem and his assistant, Ma tor John Anderson. Bert B. Jackson of Portland represented the Donald M. Drake Company. Work is expected to commence within the next two weeks. Five contractors had submitted bids for the bid opening at Gen. Rllea'w office on January 2b, each bid with four alternates. Alternates 1, 3 and 4 were accepted which brought the Drake bid to a net of si 05,200. plus $3,300 stale, or tl.fiOO below the hid submitted by Wiley Construction Company of lviedford. Other bidders were Brosterhous Construction Company and Duncan Construction Company of Klamath Falls and Thompson and George son of Portland. Health Issue Raised; Hall Raps Demo WASHINGTON P) President Eisenhower offering himself to the American people as able to perform his duties as well as ever pressed his second term bid Thursday by entering Republican primaries In California and Wis. consln. He was off and running. And, as was widely expected, his health al ready w-as becoming an Issue ot the fast-developing campaign. Democrats challenged the Presi dent's own estimate of his physical capabilities, and asked whether the country wanted what they termed a "part time President." Prom GOP Chairman Leonard Hall came the retort that Eisen hower has been "a full time Presi dent." He predicted the Democrats would lose voles If they sought t make the President's health a mat ter of Importance in the campaign. Developments came thick and fast on this first day after Elsen hower announced his big decision and went on nationwide TV-radio networks to put his case before the people. They turned on three main subjects: DEMOS QUESTION Elsenhower's Health Democrat. were questioning whether the Pres. ident could, in fact, fully handle the duties of his office in the light of his Sept. 24 heart attack. Their general attitude was that Eisen hower himself had raised the. Issue by discussing his health M his broadcast Wednesday night. ' Gov. Averell Harrlman of New York, one of those figuring In spec ulation about the possible Demo cratic nominee, said the Presi dent's health certainly would be a campaign issue that Eisenhower "lias made it a major Issue." The possible GOP Vice Presi dential Nominee GOP chairman Hall predicted It win nan be Eisenhower's running mate. There has been recurrent talk that some elements In the Repub lican Party want to 'jettison" Nix- ,on. W- " ' "' The GOP Convention Eisenhow er signed statements permitting hi name to be entered In the presi dential primaries to be held In Wis consin and California on April 3 and June 5, respectively. Laws of these two states wquire a candi date's written consent. Elsenhow er's name already has been entered in half a dozen other states where no such consent is required. SOLIDLY EISENHOWER By all the Mgns, the delegates to the convention, to be held In San Francisco beginning Aug. 20, will be solidly Elsenhower. Hall was talking to a news con ference when he predicted Nixon will be the party's vice presidential nominee. Hall has favored Nixon all along. On the question of Eisenhower's health as a campaign issue, the GOP chairman said any "whisper ing campaign" in going to fail be cause "the American people know tho President has Insisted that every fact about his health be made known as quickly as it is determined by the medical author ities." Hall said the Republicans con sldered in the 1944 campaign whether to make the late Presi dent Roosevelt's health an issue. He said they decided that the American sense of plain decency would not permit it, "and, to put It in the bluntest terms possible, wculd cost us votes Instead of gaining them." Hnll paid the President is en titled to Republican working ma jorities in the Senate and House and promised a "real organized effort" to obtain this goal. " tr-i trr f ha
