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U Or oaJJ.J Li-i-LUtf E'JSSJiE, Qi. CCi? mm m m i . M ' MM I fiffaJli amh Hi tot tram By FRANK JENKINS On the west coast of Mexico above Mazatlan there are two out sianaing resorts, one oi them, at Guaymas, has been described in t.iese sketches. The other is at Los Alamos. Both are in the state of Sonora. Guaymas has glamor. But Los Alamos has more of it. There was a time, some three centuries ago, when ios Alamos was the great' est silver producer in the Span isn world. It had wealth. It had power. And it had builders. Its architecture was as beautllul as any in Spanish America. What re mains ol it is still so beautiful that 11 makes you catch your breath. Knigius in armor trod its cob bled streets. Great Spanish ladies looked out from the uarred wiu wws of its entrancingly lovely homes and perhaps tossed a red rose to the caballero of their choice. Over El Camino Real the Highway of the King on which Los Alamos was the most import ant place north of Mexico City passed at one time or - another all the dignitaries of New Spain, That was In the. centuries that are past. In the plaza of Los Alamos, in me shaaow of its gravely beau tiful old church whose bells still peal sottly night and day, burros graze. Chickens and sometimes pigs forage for food. And brown skinned children play and wave and, shout "hallo" to American tourists. And in fiesta week the people of the town, from grandfathers down to tots, gather for a happy, carefree time. They don't do so as a snow for the tourists, for Los Alamos is 30 graveled miles from the paved tourist highway. Tly do it for their own pleasure as their grandparents and their great - grandparents and their great-greal-grandparents did. Therein lies the charm of Los Alamos. It is still natural. It is still just itself. It sleeps in the sun and lives each day as it comes and enjoys life after the manner of simple people whose wants are few. In Los Alamos there is an inn La Casa de los Tesoros. It has been remodeled from an ancient convent. Its guest rooms, with their 20-foot-high ceilings, were the nuns' cells. Its dining room was the convent's refectory. Its patios were the patios where in other cerituries the nuna Btrolled. - It has been done over in xcU lent taste by a srharf 'California couple who kept all its romantic charm but built in modern con veniences, such as fireplaces and tiled showers in the rooms and a swimming pool in one of the pa tios. They didn't spoil a thing. They just made the place charm ingly habitable ir these modern days. - Its rates are slightly lower than at iGuaymas about $20 a day for two people American plan, which means meals included in the price. So much for the luxury places. In the BEST Mexican commer cial hotels in the towns and cities from Guadalajara north, room rates are apt to be around $5 a day for two people. Seldom more than that. Often much less. In Topic, a city ,of 40-odd thousand people, dinner, lodging and breakfast for two at the city's best hotel runs a little under $5 for the whole shebang. And in the morning a gang of wholly love able little Mexican rascals ranging up to seven years of age. will have your car which you left in the sueet all shined up like a plate class window, and if you shell out a handful of 20-cenlavo pieces (20 centavos are worth one filth of eight American cents) ev erybody, Including you, will be as happy as a lord. If you watch your pesos and your cenlavos. you can travel in Mexico for about half what it will cost on our side of the line. You Won't, of course, live in marble palaces. But the places will be clean and attractive. And if you like Mexican food (ham and eggs are as standard in Mexico as in the U.S.A.! the food will be good. All in all. an automobile trip along the west coast of Mexico is a pleasant and inexpensive and re warding experience. Among Its re wards are the PEOPLE of Mexi Co. who are kindly and friendly and courteous and thoughtful. They provide considerably more than half of the charm of such a trip. Sig Unander Files For Post SALEM 'V State Treasurer Sig TJnander filed for Republican re nomination Thursday, with indica tions that he won't have opposition in the May 18 primary election. The only Democratic candidate ' for ;he position is Al Richardson, former food manager ft the pen itentiary, whose charges of food mismanagement in state mstltit tionr. have brought a grand Jury Investigation. The deadline for filing in the prmary Is Friday, when more than 200 candidates probably will enter the manv races lor statewide, leg islative, ludlclal and party offices. Other filings: E. Otis Smith. Ontario, for cir cuit judse. Llovd V. Arant, Roscburg Dem-ocr-l, for slate senator. Edward A. Oeary, Klamath Fails Republican, for state aena. tor. i w y 1 Price Five Cents IS Pages rVjnf 4'v vt . .V Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Partial clearing Thursday night. Partly cloudy Friday,' Low Thursday night 17-24; high Friday 35-40. High yesterday ". .. 37 Low last night 30 Precip. last 24 hours 0 Precip. since Oct. 1 17.87 Same period last year 4.35 Normal for period 8.59 40 Motorists Escape Snow GRANGE VILLE. Idaho ii Forty persons trapped for hours in 25 stalled cars on a snow-swept road were rescued at 3 a.m. by highway crews Thursday. The cars were marooned between Grangeville and White Bird grade on ' Highway ' 95. A truck-trailer loaded with hay skidded sideways across the road Wednesday after noon and drifting snow clogged the highway. V Winds up to 26 miles an hour whipped the snow and cut visibility to almost zero. Schools were closed here Thur.v , ,y,t day after busses had trouble get-! committee announces, and the pub tine 300 Students home through I lie I, Invited Candidates for oil drifts Wednesday night. Main high- ways 'were open but most side roads were closed. Nine logging truck drivers en route home from work Wednesday night were marooned t nearby Craigmont. O'Hair Seeks riiMlit I nililTV I flT VVUIII I I VJI Keith O'Hair. Klamath F a 1 1 mortirinn Thur?d;y had filed a declaration of candidacy for the office of county coroner on the Republican ticket. O'Hair has operated O'Hair Me morial Chapel here since 1B4. He came to Klamath Falls from Cam as. Washington, where he served as a mortician and deputy coroner, of Clark County. The candidate also followed bis profession In Indians. 8altle and i Portland. He will oppose Incum-1 caused damage in exces. of three i bent Dr. George H. Adler. a Demo-1 million dollars in the valley. Ells crat. who has been county coroner I worth said th,0 study Is "desper 'lor 34 years. 'ately needed." ( KLAMATH o .TV. I Elmo Smith Due In KF - Governor and Mrs. Elmo Smith are expected in Klamath Falls on Saturday. - A luncheon Is planned for them at noon at the Winema Hotel at which time a Smilh-Ior-Governor committee will be organized. Beginning at 2:30 p.m.. all resi dents of the Klamath Basin are in vited to an inlormHl coffee hour to meet and visit with the governor and Mrs. Smith. Tne hosnltaliiv period, sponsored by the Klamath County Republican Club, will be held in the Camas Room of the Winema. Hostesses for the afler noonwill be Mrs. Laurence A. Brown, hospitality chairman lor the club, and Mrs. Oscar Kittredge candidate for the Republican nom ination for- state representative. from Klamath Countv. Governor Smith will speak at a public dinner meeting in the Hen ley orange Hall In the evening. soonsored Jointly bv ihe Henley Grange and the Henley Farm Bureau. The occasion will also mark the completion and dcdlca 'Inn of the recent addition to the hall. Serv nn will hpcrln al S n m thn public offices have been invited to attend and be introduced to the guests. The governor's speech Is sched uled to start at 8 pin. Ellsworth Asks Rogue Tests WASHTNOTOM. p0 M!.. wott iR-Ore) Thursday asked Congress to authorize Armv Engl- neers to undertake preliminary examination and survev of the Rogue River and its tributaries in Crcscn. The study would be designi-d to develop plans for flood control, reclamation and irrigation "and olher beneficial development and utilisation of water resources in cluding recreational uses." Ellsworth told the House It would be necessary also to consider the conservation and protection of soil, forest, fish and wildlife resources, I Pointing to recent floods which FALLS, OKKGON, THURSDAY, IMPRESSIVE CEREMONIES marked the conferring of United States citizenship on 14 persons Wednesday in Circuit Judge David R. Vandenberg's courtroom. The oath of the allegiance was administered by County Clerk Charles DeLap. The new citizens in the upper picture are: front row, left to right, Lina Lowell, Canada; Constance Breazeale, Canada; Trinidad Contreros, Mexico; Richard Birthelsdorf, Germany; Michael James Baxter, Ireland; Suzanne Southwell, Canada; back row, John Zupan, Yugoslavia; Avino Zupan, Yugoslavia; Ruby Uglum, England; Kjell Stardehn, Norway; Ara Kiiis, Latvia, and Christopher McAuliffe, Ireland. Standing Michael Foley, left, Ireland, and Lorn Max Allen, Canada. The petitions of the new citizens were presented to the court by Naturalization Examiner M, C. Walker, Portland. In the picture at left Mrs. Irene Poteet, commander of Dewey Powell Unit No. 12 Dis abled American Veterans Auxiliary, pins a flower on new citizen Richard Birthelsdorf, from Germany. The DAV auxiliary sponsored th.e ceremonies. Soon Proposes Compromise On Ejection Year Farm BUI WASHINGTON W. Sen. Case R-6D DroDosed Thutstiav what he termed a "compromise in the hoi Semite Argument over rigid vs flexible farm, price supports, Union Rejects Strike Plan WASHINGTON (fl The Tnler national Union of Electrical Work ers (IUE) Thursday pronounced "unacceptable" a government-pro- nnspri nlnn for KPttlinir th West tnghouse strike, now in its 144th ! dav The IUE governing Conference Board called for immediate new j negotiations "in order to conclude an agreement that will be fair, honorable and workable." James B. Carey IUF. president. said the decision by the 75-mem- ber union Conference Board was unanimous. Carey told a news conference the union's action was "not to be considered a rejection, nor could it be considered an acceptance it might be described that the plan so far Is unacceptable." However, government mediators had advanced the plan last week end as a package to be accepted or turned down. J-M Purchases Indian Land PORTLAND MV-The Johns-Man- ville Corp. has bought 131 acres j p,c SUpport.s n favor of a return of land on the Klamath Indian ; to giri pr0ps, countered that "I Reservation to get access to a site i s(lll believe we have the votes." where it may build a softboard Elkndrr said in a separate In-P'"n- . tervlew ihat tne Whlto House and The Bureau of Indian Affairs an- tn(. Agriculture Department "arc nounccd that hnre Thursday. ' wielding a lot of pressure on thn The land was bought for J25.000 iost, paiticularly on cotton area from Nicholas Rossi, an Indian i senators." w-ho bought the trust allotment ' several years ago. Officials of the Interior Depart ment snid Johns Manville was planning a plant which would pro duce softboard from lodeepole pine, which is abundant in the are?.. Tne plant, the officials said, would be of giesj imnortnnce to the pconomy of the Klamath In dian:. The deed provides that Johns Manville will release five acn?s '" "". - Fi: Mnrinc mention . unit numnlnlr i Modoc irrigation unit pumoing plant and in exchange it will have the right to dump up to five ruble fee per second of plant effluent Into an irrigation drainage waste way. Investigation of the Klamath rn as the slie of a proposed softboard plant to use lackpinc as tne chief raw material has been under way by the Johns-Manville corporation since last summer. Plant technicians and officers of the corporation have visited the I on Kepuoiican ticket Dciorc Klamath area on at least three dlf- the deadline. ferent occasions, during which they Wlesendanger. a resident of inspected various potential sites for Klamath Falls for 29 years, served the proposed plant. lour years In the Klamath Falls As of today, there has been no City Council from 1940 , to 1944. official announcement of plans lor i He was In Uie grocery ' business the Klamath Basin plant, but word for 20 years and has been an inde Is expected In the near future as pendent food products broker for to operations, personnel and other the past nine vears. He resides at information regarding the new in-1 2042 Eatle Street wllh his wile dustry. Peggy. MARCH , 19M suggesting ri-iid supports be Urn Ued to this election year. 1 Attached to the pending admin- isU'iHion omnibus soil bank far.n pla&is . a provision for restoring W per cent price supports, ...the world War n level. The amendment Cane offered would limit the restoration of war time 90 per cent supports to this election year Instead of the two year period that has been pro posed. Case said he probably would not sepk a Senate vote on it until after the Senate acted on a pending amendment that would knock out rigid supports for two years on cotton, rice and peanuts Case's proposal was one of more than 70 amendments offered to the controversial farm bill. . The administration wants a sys tem 01 liexlble, not rigid, price supports. The administration argu ment has been that price supports at 90 per cent of parity would nul lify benefits of the soil bank plan. Critics have been accusing the administration of using "pressure" and "political maneuvering" to put across the flexible price support plan. Not so. said Sen. Aiken (R-Vt), leading a touch-and-go fight for relention ol ,the admlnistiation backid system of flexible farm price supports. Declaring that nn Improper pressures are being ex- orteti. Aiken said: "Of course the proponents of a sound farm program are doing everything possible to get' a good bill. We are doing all we can and I am confident that we will win." Chairman Ellender ID-La) of the Senate Agriculture Committee, flnnr mnnncrrr for flip hill whlrh would Pcran the admmlstiatlon Deadline For Filing Hears Friday al 5 p.m. marks the deadline for candidates planning to file lor county offlres with the trlainnth Cnuniv i-lnrlr". nfflnu TVia filings must be made by that time .... . in ornrr lor me cpnuiunits 10 ap pear on the May 18 primary bal lot. At press time Thursday no additional candlaates had filed for Ihe various county posts but severr.l prospective olllce reeken had indicated that they might file Friday. It was repoited Thuisday tha'. j Walter E. Wies"ndanger, Rein I alh Palls food product broker, ! might (lie lor county commissioner Telephone Sill Eisenhower To Keep Full Duties WASHINGTON t Tile White House said Thursday President Eisenhower has reduced none oi his constitutional duties and has no intention of doing so. Asst. Press Secretary Murray Snyder made the statement to newsmen in comment on an asser tion by Sen. Sparkman ID-Alai that Elsenhower Intends to "shrink" the chief executive's of fice as the result of his heart at tack. ' "Any such contraction of the presidency as Is contemplated In the Eisenhower proposal." Spark man said Wednesday night, "can not but upset the balances set up in our Constitution for the preser vation of popular government." COMMENT Snyder, replying to newsmen's requests for comment on Spark man's remarks, said: "I think the President very clear ly stated (at news conferences) last Wednesday and again this Wednesday the distinction between his constitutional duties and his hospitalities duties, the latter be ing In the department in which he has reduced his activities." Asked whether that is the only department in which Eisenhower has reduced his activities or in tends to do so, Snyder said: "I certainly don't think he has reduced his constitutional duties. I don't think the senator (Spark- man) would measure his services by the number of hours he puts in on the (Senate) . floor or by the number of constituents he sees." Sparkman's contention that El senhhower wanU to "shrink" the presidency is being made also by other Democrats. ARGUMENTS . Chairman Paul M. Butler of th Democratic National Committee advanced similar- urpumenta in speech at Louisville, -Ky., in which he said Elsenhower's health la a major campaign issue. Elsenhower, said yesterday that If he should ever feel physically unable, to carry on the essential duties ol the White House, "I won't be there." He did not make clear whether he meant that In such circumstances he would re sign or reverse his week-old de cision to seek a second term. Eparkman, Democratic vice presidential nominee in 1052, said In an MBS talk that Eisenhower is proposing to hand over to asso ciates "functions which lie at the very core of the presidency." The Democrats chose Sparkman to reply to Eisenhower's nation wide radio - television talk of a week earlier in. which the Presi dent explained his second-term de cision. Sparkman said that in discuss ing the medically imposed limits on his activities in any second term. Eisenhower was "quite frankly, and openly saying to the country that he can never be a truly full-time president . . ." "If a full measure of health is ever needed anywhere," Spark man continued. "It Is needed in the White House. "I do not hesitate to say tha' the American people cannot and will not sanction the Republican proposal for a part-time president to deal with full-time problems." BPeeffr A .V. to '1 "r7 7 'J ' t'-tr i I 'to in fn I M-Mtmm i a BILL BLAKESLEY, left, mechanic, and J. R. Powers, nightwatch. man, were mapped by the 9 o'clock photographer this morning. Both men art employettof M and M Dieiel Company. Two Drowning Deaths Reported In New York By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS I Raging rivers, fed by days of rain and snow, drove thousands of persons from their homes in New York and Pennsylvania Thursday. Two drowning deaths were re corded, both in New York. Warren, a northwestern Pennsyl vania community of 15,000, was iso lated by rising waters of the Al legheny River. All highways inlo the city were closed and the first floor of the Warren Hospital was reported un der water. It is only 40 yards from the river bank. Hospital authorities Immediately began evacuating patients by boat from the west wing. The flood besieged hospital reported It had 110 patients In all. Including seven new-born babies. AT PITTSBURGH At Pittsburgh the Weather Bu reau said the flood was the second worst In Warren's history. New York State also was hard hit along upper portions of the Al legheny, as well as along other flooding streams. At Salamanca, N.Y., a city of more than 9.000, the Allegheny soared to a record level of four feet above flood stage. The river runs through the middle of town, and water was four feet hlah In some business establishments along Its banks. Mnyor James J. Crowley de clared a state of emergency and summoned all civil defense and Red Cross workers to aid relief efforts. The Buffalo suburb of Lackawan na was also In a state of emer gency, with high water affecting some 500 families and causing an estimated half million, dollars In damaged. In other parts of New York, three days of rain and snow up to a depth of 15 Inches shut schools and factories, closed roads and sev ered utility lines. Fears of further flooding were multiplied by rising Susquehanna, I Chenango and Chemung rivers. HAVOC ARRIVES As the surging Allegheny smashed on Into Pennsylvania It brought havoc there, too. The town of Warren appeared hardest hit. All roads Into town were inundated, schools and in- oustrles were closed and ome families were evacuated in low areas. Warren General Hospital waa surrounded by water and doctors and nurHea used boats to get to work. The Warren Times-Mirror plant was flooded and the paper suspenaea puoucauon. Tne rlvor was 1.7 feet above the flood stage of 17.6 feet. ' To the north, Maine and Ontario Canada, were pummeled by frees ing rain, sleet and snow. It was the fourth storm In five days for Maine, with a total snow fall of nine Inches at Portlnnd and even more in other sections. The weather man predicted six Inches more before the end of the latest storm Thursday night. ine mast oi com air. snow ana rain that covered much of the eastern half of the nation followed a brief spell of mild March weath er. , The Icy air moved over the'east ern and southern plains eastward to the Appalachians, dropping temperatures more than 30 de grees in Texas and as much as 40 INVITATION LONDON, 11 Britain Is going to Invite Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov to London for talks on how to safeguard the Vietnamese armistice, informed diplomats said Thursday. They reported Prime Minister Eden's government may suggest to Moscow that Molotov accom pany Premier Bulgnnln and Com munist Parly boss Khrushchev on their visit to this country next month. n Aarr.y m r degrees In the Ohio Valley thlj morning. Snow fell in the upper Mississip pi Valley, the upper Great Lakes region and western sections of the Ohio Valley. Rain or freezing rain hit the lower Great Lakes section. New England, the eastern Ohio Valley and In Alabama and Georgia. Heaviest snowfalls were In the Midwest with 7 inches reported at Wausau, Wis., and Pellston, Mich., since yesterday morning. Semon Plans To Throw Hat In Ring Henry Semon. veteran Klamath County legislator, announced Thursday he Is entering the race for representative from this dis trict on the Independent ticket. Semon, a Henley potato grower. has been a member of the legis lature since 1933. Previously he campaigned as a Democrat, al though In his first campaign he also ran as an Independent. While in Salem he served on many im portant law-making committees. When he announced he had filed his candidacy with Secretary of State Earl Newbry, Semon Issued the following statement: fcriiviiTYriiV it t A M L L i HENRY. SEMON "After careful ' consideration :I have decided to enter my name as an Independent candidate for the state legislature from Klamath County at the general election In November. I sincerely belieys that I will be better able to represent all the people of Klamath County as an Independent candidate. . For the past 23 years it has been my privilege to represent the voters of Klamath County in the legislature at Salem. During that time my record in the legislature will show that I havo been an in dependent thinker and voted for those things that were to the best Interest of all the people of Ore gon. And by so doing, I have made a lot of friends in the state and In the legislature In par ticular, and have become familiar with the needs of the people of the state of OrcgoA. 'In asking the voters of Klam ath County for their support again I can assure them that I will do I have in the past and work for every worthwhile protect that will benefit our own area and our stale. 'There are many extremely im portant problems that must come before the next session of the leg islature such as a new appraisal of our present tax laws and many others. With the experience of the past 12 sessions and as a member of - many of the more important com mittees that have handled these problems, I sincerely believe I can represent all ol Kiamatn county in a fair and honest manner. As an Independent candidate to rep resent KlBmath County and the siaie Ol urrntiu Hi iiic wm irgia- lature. I will again ask the sup port of all the voters at the gen eral election this fall." Heavy River Runoff Predicted PORTLAND 11 The Willam ette River runoff this spring and summer wll be one of the heaviest on record, W. T. Frost, snow sur vey expert, reported Wednesday. Frost said the April-September flow of the river at Salem will be 6,200.000 acre feet, compared with an average 4.35S.OOO. Whether there will be any flood ing, will depend on melting condi tions and precipitation. Frost said. Any Willamette flooding normally Is In the winter. Frost said the Willamette flow al Salem will bo 142 per cent of average. The North 8antlam flow will be 137 per cent of average and the Smith Knnilom !?6 per cent. He said there has been this much stored water in the Willamette Basin only seven or eight times since records wre started in 1910. STAND VRfiED . TOKYO im William Randolph Hearst Jr. said Thursday the United 8tates must make It clear to the remaining free nations of Alia that America will fight to prevent further Communist con quest of this area. The editor In chl( of the Hearst newspapers spoke to the Foreign Correspond enls Club of Tokyo. r ,.Jln.
