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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (March 23, 1956)
9 or ostsoa ususr COJC v u I tM Ml' nr,tv a i Jim THE Hl-Y. TRI-HI-Y CARNIVAL will be held Saturday beginning at 7 p.m. in the YMCA build ing, 722 Pine Street. The carnival it being sponsored by. the Hi-Y, Tri-Hi-Y clubs of Klamath Union High School to raise funds to send delegates to the YMCA Youth in Government Pro gram scheduled for April 26-27-28 in Salem. The. Y members shown here making ready for the fun night are Susan O'Hair, chairman of the carnival; Larry Worden, center, president of McKy Chapter of the Hi-Y, and Joe Linman, president of the Hi-Y, Tri-Hi-Y Council. efense WASHINGTON W The House Appropriations Committee made public today a stall report criti cizing Defense Department pro curement practices as "unrealist ic' and as giving contractors "a tremendous advantage." Included In the 397-page docu ment were formal replies from the Defense Department, the Army, the Navy and the Air Force, in general, they defended the criti cized practices on grounds the hurryup or "crash" nature of the contracts involved made normal procedure impractical. Rep. Whitten (D-Mlss), a com mittee member, commented in the report that there were indications that "the government Is spending billions needlessly to someone's profit." THE REPORT The report, on which three teams of committee probers have been working since last April, made no charges of corruption or willful wrongdoing. No specific time period was cov ered by the survey, but much of the material involved was ordered or delivered during the Korean War period. The report made no distinction between Republican and Democratic administrations. The wartime period included parts of both. The . report i cited examples it said showed "serious deficiencies with respect' to policy guidance . : . unconscionable" delyi" in making formal contracts, "un. Range lobby' Charge Made WASHINGTON (UP) The commanding officer of the Naval Auxiliary Air Station at Fallon, Nev.. was criticised before a con gressional committee today for "lobbying" on a matter under committee consideration. The issue i3 a Navy request to acquire about two million addi tional acres of public lands in Northwest Nevada for an aerial gunnery range. Rep. Clair Engle (D-Callf), chairman of the House Interior Committee, accused Capt. Walter H. Newton Jr., commander of the Fallon station, of lobbying with merchants and civic groups, urg ing them to wire members of Con gress in favor of the Navy's plan. "You told them to pour it on that committee back there, didn't you?" Engle said. "I told the people in favor of the range, and those not opposed to it. to let their wishes be known to their congressmen and this committee," Newton said. "If the Defense Department is going to let its hirelings In Navy stripes go out and lobby against the elected representatives of the people, there's going to be a lot of fur flying around here," Engle added. Engle also said Newton accused Sen. George W. Malone (R-Nev) of "not knowing what he was talking about." Engle also accused Newton of "threatening" Nevada merchants that the $16 million Fallon project would be closed if the Navy did not get the land. Newton said he told Nevadans that the Navy's mission In Nevada would be made more difficult with out the additional land and that without it there may be serious consideration given to abandoning it. Dry Yeather Reported Bv THE ASSOCIATED PRESS There were a few patches of snow or rain but dry weather pre vailed in most of the country Fri day. A little wintry weather returned o some northern Midwest areas with snow falls in sections of North Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin. A narrow belt of snow extended from North Dakota southeastward into Western and Southern Wis consin and into central and South eastern Minnesota. Falls ranged up to one inch. The cold air mass which moved southeastward across the lower Great Lakes region and Penroyl rama brought scattered snow flur ries during the night. Another wet belt was in Western Oregon and Washington. Ram measured from l to inch along coastal areas and lower in inland cities. Procurement realistic" delivery schedules, di version of production funds into research and development, inade quate stock control, "flagrant de ficiencies" in procurement and contract operations and reports of "political pressure" in contract dealings. Secretary of Defense Wilson re plied: NO EXCUSE 'I do not excuse these kinds of things If they are' true. There is some explanation of it, probably, because people do not purposely do such sloppy things. That is. they sort of drift into it . . . all I can tell you is that one way and another we are trying to get hold of the thing." The investigators said there have been substantial Improve ments in procurement practices and policies in recent years but Annexation Plan Scored PENDLETON W Ontario City 8upt. Herb Derrick told the Legis lative Interim Committee on Local Government Thursday night that he was opposed to annexation of suburban areas around cities. This has been proposed as the solution to such problems as sani tation and police protection in fringe areas around cities. But Derrick said annexation just moves the problem to another fringe. Dr. E. E. Berg, Umatilla Coun ty health officer, complained that state legislative action was put ting more functions on local health units without giving advice on how money for these functions should be raised. Scott Edmonds, Umatilla county sanitarian, said garbage disposal conditions are bad in some areas f)f his county particularly in the Rletn and ukian sections. Representatives from Umatilla Wallowa, Grant. Harney. Baker Malheur and Union counties were invited to present their views at the session here. .Most of the speakers were from the Pendleton area. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Partly cloudy Saturday with a few showers in afternoon. Highs 50-55: low Friday night 30-38. Windy at times. High yesterday 52 Low last night - 30 Preclp. last 24 hours 0 Preclp. since Oct. 1 17.87 Same period last year 4.42 Normal for period 9.16 Adlai Firm On 'Moderation' CHICAGO (jpr Adlai E. Steven son made it clear today he is go ing to stick to his course of "mod eration" even if it costs him the Democratic presidential nomina tion. Stevenson, who took a shellack ing at the hands of Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn in Tuesday's Minnesota primary, said In an in terview he is not going to try to "out promise" anybody in the con tinuing contest for the nomination. This was an obvious reference to Kefauver's campaign pledge, par ticularly for high farm price sup ports.' "I intend to continue to express myself on the Issues as I see tliem," Stevenson said. "If I don't think 100 per cent of parity Is attainable, or even desirable, I'm not going to say thai it is. "If the people vote tirainst me, then my communications have failed or they don't like what I've got. If I'm defeated, it will be my own fault in not getting my ideas through to the people because I believe my views are sound." FAILURE 8ET Stevenson and his tides think his failure to get his ideas across to the Minnesota electorate con tributed to Kefauver's surprise victory. The Tennessee senator carted off 26 of the state's 30 pres idential nominating votes. James Flnnegan, Stevenson's campaign manager. Indicated there will be some changes msde in Stevenson's campaign tactics. In Minnesota, the candidate was whisked from platform to plat form for formal speeches, ith out !part time to shake msny hands. Kefauver made handshak Hit "no useful purpose would be served by documenting those re sults in this report." They complained that in all three services, the greatest por tion of high cost procurements are accomplished through negotiated contracts rather than through competitive bidding. They said that at North Ameri can Aviation. Inc., which is 99 per cent devoted to government busi ness, the government paid for most research and development costs, but did not share1 in the company's income from licenses and royalty fees resulting lrom nongovernmental business. ONE PROGRAM From one aircraft program alone, they said. North American received over five, million dollars in royalties and license fees, main ly from foreign manufacturers. During one period, the report said, the Ford. Motor Co. made a profit of 29.6 per cent on airplane engines before voluntarily cutting its prices on the basis of cost ex perience. The refunds cut the prof its to 19 per cent for the initial period, the report continued, while on total engines delivered under the contract over a three-year pe riod the profit was 8 per cent. The investigators said Curtiss Wrlght Corp. was still scheduled to deliver J65 engines W the Air Force after last Dec. 1 although Bulck .Division of General Motors Corp. had been making tne Mme engines at a lower cost. River Group Meets Monday There will be meetings of the drafting committees of the Oregon Klamath River Commission at the Willard Hotel Monday and Tuesday. Nelson Reed, chairman, announced today. Reed said that during a recent meeting between representatives of the Oregon and California Klamath River commissions with represen tatives of various interested federal agencies In Washington, D.C., cer tain objections to the wording of the proposed Interstate Klamath River Compact were raised by the federal agencies. The purpose of the meetings Monday and Tuesday, Reed con tinued, is to attempt to rewrite certain sections of the proposed In terstate compact to meet objections of the federal agencies. As eventually t h e interstate Klamath River Compact must be approved by Congress to become law, it is desirable to iron out as many objections as possible before the compact comes up for hearings before the Congressional commit tees, the chairman stated. ing a cardinal point in his cam pa 'en. The two meet May 29 and June 5 in the Florida and Caliiorma primaries with indications that Stevenson must win both these tests to remain a major contend er for the nomination he won in 1952 without entering a primary. Finnegan said a 10-day cam paign in each of- the states may ADLAI STEVENSON U'mnuin pin 1 1 in ! m ji. wj-ijji ikm, vv- 'V',' v? n'y I. " - - Price Hvo Cent IS fates KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1956 Telephone (111 No. 3433 Lumbermen End Meet In Portland PORTLAND l.n - The West Coast Lumbermen's Assn., wind ing up a two-day meeting, heard an optimistic forecast for the lum ber Industry Thursday night from Gov. Elmo Smith. Smith, addressing 250 delegates at a banquet session, predicted Oregon's lumber industry payrolls would increase 25 per cent in the next 10 years, with 25,000 addi tional jobs. . "Through a stable forest econ omy, a pattern is emerging which may well determine the industrial future of the Northwest for the next half century," Gov. Smith said. RAW MATERIAL He said the region has the raw material, the growth capacity and the plant capacity for continued high production of lumber and re lated products. This new pattern of industrial growth, Smith said, began several years ago when the industry began to discover new uses for leftover and previously wasted products. Earlier, N. B. -Glustina of Eu gene.' reelected president of the association, praised the lumber- men for changing old habits and doing something about marketing their new products ana publicizing new methods. Five other officers were re elected along .with Glustina. They are Nils Hult, Junction City, Ore Robert M. Ingram, Aberdeen, -and Jack Fairhurst, Euieka, Calif., all vice presidents: Harrla E Smith, Portland, secretary; and H. V. Simpson, Portland, execu tive secretary. NEW TREASURER The new treasurer is Eliot Jen kins, Springfield. New directors at large are N N Cheatham, Portltn .'William Lulay, Scio, Ore., Al Felice, Coos Bay, and A. A. Lausmann, Med- ford. Elected new district directors wore F. R. Maw, Aberdeen, Wash.; L. J. Roedel, Dee, Ore.: G. P. Wilcox. Riddle, Ore.: R. T. Moore Jr., Grants Pass, and T. K. Oliver. Medford. Directors representing special industry1 groups are T. R. Miller, Chehalls. Wash., and . W. M. Black, Seattle. Eight Egyptians Killed In Wreck CAIRO, Egypt W. Rails weak ened by the widening of a canal gave way beneath a passenger ex press train early today and eight Egyptians were killed. The wreck occurred 180 miles south of Cairo, near Maghngha. The train was bound from Cairo to Aswan, Egypt's major winter resort on the upper Nile 360 miles south of the capital. The Egyptian State Railways an nounced the dead included Bishop Anba Thomas, secretary of the holy synod of Egypt's Coptic Christian Church, and a Coptic priest accompanying him: Railway officials said a "small number" of persons were injured but as yet they were not certain how many. be expanded. Stevenson Is being urged to become more folksy in his speeches and to limit the sub- Jects he discusses to those that have primary Interest for the states' voters. Stevenson's msnagers and friends don't think he will face the same obstacles In Florida and California he did in Minnesota. They contend that there was a tremendous cross-over of Repub licans into the Democratic pri mary in Minnesota that won't be possible in either Florida or Cali fornia. STRATEGIST Mayor Richard J. Dsley 'of Chi cago, one of Stevenson's strate- gists, said he thinks there was a ,r,a "rinnhl asatnat" vnta in large "double against' Minnesota. "Our analysis indicates that 150. 000 Republicans who were against the administration's farm program went into the Democratic pri mary," Daley said. "Then they voted against the man who took the moderate approach snd in fa vor of the man who promised them 100 per cent of parity." Daley said "I don't think the nomination Is going to be decided on the vote of one state." Stevenson said he had received a "great volume" of mall and telegrams urging him to carry on the fight for the nomination. In a speech last night, Steven- son charged that the Eisenhower administration's record i one of "leaderless drift" which Is beinf camouflaged behind such a acreer of protective publicity as this coun try has never seen " He apoke a' a Democratic rail at Decatur, HI. - California Support Sure, Estes Says LOS ANGELES l.fl Sen. Estes Kefauver Hew in from San Fran cisco Friday to campaign in South ern California. More than 200 sup porters gave him an enthusiastic welcome. "I feel my strength is growing daily in California," the Tennes see aspirant for the Democratic presidential nomination said at the airport. "California is very import ant in my campaign plans." He Climaxed a busy day In Northern California with an ad dress at Richmond Thursday night predicting a farm revolt against the Elsenhower administration. The Tennessee senator said his victory over Adlai Stevenson In the Minnesota primary indicated s farm revolt by "the tremendous turnout" and by a larger vote for Democrats than Republicans. His speech climaxed a busy day of campaigning In the San Fran cisco Bay Area. Kefauver and Stevenson meet next in the Alaska primary April 24 and then the Florida primary May 29 in their campaigns for the Democratic presidential nomina tion. Kefauver meets Stevenson again in the June 5 California primary, the last of the preferential vote tests. Sixty-eight delegates are at stake. The Tennessean will cam paign in the southern half of the state through Tuesday, starting to day In Los Angeles. Kefauver said that he still "had a hard fight and struggle" ahead in the California primary. "If there is a certainty in poli tics," Kefauver said, "it is that, the Republicans cannot win with out the states of the farm belt." In his press conference assess ment of the Minnesota vote, Ke fauver named Minnesota, Wiscon sin, North and South Dakota, Iowa. Kansas and Montana as kla.es the Democrats have a "good chance" to carry in No vember. He amended on Kansas to say the prospect there was not as clear as in the other states, Analyzing the Minnesota result's Klamath Indian Post Argued WASHINGTON tfi The nam ing of William L. Phillips of Sa lem, Ore., to a $l,000-a-month property supervision Job with the Klamath Indian tribe drew criti cism Thursday from Sen. Keuber- ger (D-ore. Phillips has been appointed bv Secretary of Interior McKay to manage McKay's campaign for the Republican nomination to the U. S. Senate. Neubciger said on the Senate floor that McKay gave Phillips the lob as "managing specialist" supervising property of Vie Klam ath Indians. McKay said In Salem that Phil lips was one of three men he had recommended for the Job. The three were screened by a commit tee of Klamaths, he said, and Phillips was chosen last May. McKay said the Indian council set the salary and the money came from tribal funds. , Phillips resigned this tribal posi. tion In a letter posted last Friday, shortly after he was named to manage McKay's campaign. Mc Kay said he will accept the reslg. nation. Neuberger's accusation In the Senate was quickly challenged by w0 Republican senators. McCar- thy of Wisconsin and Schoeppel of Kansas. McCarthy said Neuberger had made "a completely unwar ranted attack ' on the secretary, Railman Saves Periled Girl LOS ANGELES Ifi Reaching out frpm the front of his moving locomotive, an engineer scooped up and tossed to safety a 2-year- nM nirt tL'hn hirf rim ..nln IK. t k , nPr d " irnt7lnier prnnu Mvr. sn ..in after trr- incident Thursday "I that she had frozen there, she nut her hands up to her face and began to cry. I scram bled down the step.i to the loot board and reached out. We were still moving pretty fast. "I was afraid to grab for her because I might not get a good hold, so when we reached her I Just .cooped her off the tracks : with mv hand. Forty fe?t beyond, the freight iraln halted. A woman came run- nine and took the child. I ' Thanks," she said. "I'll take her to her mother. We've been I looking all over for her." The fireman. W. B. Bramlett. said he pulled the whistle cord vhen he first saw the child on the I tracks. "She got off trie track." he aaid. . 'but her little dog got on It again , and she went after him. I gave the I emergency everything I had." I effects in his own party, Kefauver yesterday told a San Francisco press conference: "I think there should be some reconsideration given on the Dem ocratic side." He declared new offers of sup port already had showed such re consideration was under way by Democrats who had been neutral or backing others. ESTES KEFAUVER Air Base Job Openings Told Job openings In various classifi cations under U.S. Civil Service wlth( the U.S. Air Force at the Klamath Falls Municipal Airport have been announced by the Civil Service Clerk at the Klamath Falls Post Office. The jobs Include fire fighters, carpenters, electricians, painters, plumber - steamfittcr, sheetmetal worker, and trades helper. For general information regard ing veterans preference, citizen ship, nature of appointments, physical requirements; etc., see Form 12X-100 "General Information for applicants for Civil Service Ex aminations" which is displayed on the bulletin board at any post of fice where this announcement Is posted and Is available at the per sonnel office of each federal agen cy. The- forms to file Include Stan dard Form 67 and 5001 -r be which may be obtained from the Civil Service clerk at the Klamath Falls Post Office. After applications have been filed with the clerk the ap plicants will be notified by mail of examination time and place. Ike Firm On Farm Policy WASHINGTON Iff President Eisenhower was reported officially Friday to be Muriel in pat on his decision that the Senate-approved farm bill won't work. Some of his Senate supporters, however, appeared will In k to ac cept a temporary defeat on the price support IsMie in the hope of ultimate victory in later battles on the House and-Senate floor. James C. Ha gen y, White House press secretary, snid he knows of "no chit nee at all" in tht Presi dent's view, expressed at a news conference last Wednesday, that the bill passed by the Senate Is "unworkable." Hagerty denied a published re port the President met Thursday with Secretary of Agriculture Ben son and now is wtllinR to accept provisions of the Senate measure aimed at higher price supports on cotton and wheat, in order to get some sort of hill passed. Sen. Aiken U-Vt Indicated meanwhile that administration forces are reconciled to a tempo rary licking on the price support issue when Senate-House con ference committee makes Its rec ommendation on a compromise bill. Dimes Total . Announced The March of Dime drive conducted In Klamath County during January collected S12, 544.15, announced Jay Krokth, chairman of the drive, today. . "I would like to eipreas my appreciation in all the workers, both adults and teenagers, who participated In the rampalrn. Without their fine work the drive could not have been a luc re!," ha Hated. New Moscow Stalin Line Spins Reds NEW YORK Wt-Moscow's new Stalin - deflation campaign has dumped ' American Communists smack into the middle of a big utsy. It caught them In flat-footed sur prise. There was speculation that It also may have caused a .party split foreshadowing a top-rank purge, although party officials themselves hastened to label such talk "nonsense" and "preposter ous." The Dally Worker, official par ty publication, has devoted much space to the situation including pronouncements by party bigwigs which outsiders regarded as con flicting. LETTERS The Worker also has carried a number of letters to the editor giving a variety of views. One even blistered the paper for hail ing each new Moscow attitude without a thought as to what had been written In previous editor ials. Other New York newspapers have made much of all this. The Times viewed Daily Worker articles by Editor Alan Max and U. 8. Communist party Chairman William Z. Foster as reflecting a difference of opinion as to how American Reds should react to the Moscow development. The Times saw this as an Indication of a party split in this country. The World-Telegram and Sun, In an article by Frederick Wolt- man, declared that "some heads are expected to roll." Particular ly singled out was the head of tne 7o-year-oia roster, As for other party members, Woltman added, they are "pre paring for the big crawl" after years of glorifyln! Stalin. Their "hour of humiliation is at hand," he said. KNUCKLE UNDER "Most of the party's leaders. In prison or out, will knuckle under," Woltman predicted, with "thou sands of words of double-talk to sell antl-Stalinlsm to the rank and file which had been fed Stalin Ism every morning for breakfast." Max himself candidly acknow ledged that he was "very much Jolted'1 by the anti-Stalin policy, but declared that talk of a Foster ouster was "Just preposterous." Milk Price Hike Hearing Sought PORTLAND W Immediate negotiations for a milk price In crease were sought Thursday by directors ot tne jurcgon Milk Pro ducers Assn. The dairymen, meeting here, directed manager Lester Adams to begin talks wtth milk distributors In this area for a boost In producer prices. A committee of Portland area dairymen proposed an increase of J6 a hundredweight for 3.8 per cent milk earlier this month. They said the Increase was needed to meet rising costs over the winter. The 18 boost would raise retail prices about a cent a quart. y -"e" : i Uf. PC-jaaMWT" MODOC LUMBER COMPANY employe. Reece Bail.v, ttateeT. end Harley Wardle were diicuttinq the dey'i work thil morn ing when the 'clock photographer mapped them. Big Three Set May Meet Date LONDON (UP) Britain official ly confirmed today that It hat completed a stand-by plan for military action In the Middle East In case of war. Official sources also said the Big Three foreign ministers will meet In Paris in May to mesh the Mideast military plans of the United States. Britain and France. The formal British announce ment through the Foreign Office was the firmest notice yet given by a Western power that an Arab or Israeli act of aggression will be met by Western force. The announcement of Britain's readiness to intervene was seen here as a measure of the gravity with which the Western Big Three regard the danger of war In the Middle East. COMMITTED TO ACT A Foreign Office spokesman said flatly that Britain has a plan -which could be put rapidly Into action" In event of an emergency In tne Mideast. 'We have worked out a plan which could be put rapidly Into action when It Is decided to do so," the spokesman said. "The Plato provides for how we could use our resources If we were to use them. It Is hoped that ac tion, it necessary, could be taken within the United Nations." But the spokesman recalled that the three-power declaration of 1050 commits the United States, Britain and France to guard Arabs and Israelis against aggression by each other through action "within or wllhout the United Nations." STATE OF READINESS Official sources disclosed that the United States and Britain have accepted France's Invitation to a Big Three meeting In Paris on the Mideast question in May. The del egation will be headed by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Brit Ish Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd and French Foreign Minis ter Christian Flneau. This meeting will be held main- . ly to draw up coordinated plans. But now, Britain apparently leels the danger of war Is great enough to require Us warning of readiness for military action. The plan which Britain would put "rapidly into action" Is under stood to Include use of the crack Bf'"h parachute brigade based on ?Prus p,rt pl i1?8 .Royal The spokesman who disclosed the plan declined to give any de tails. But the plan Is believed based on the idea of swift action to keep any hostilities from spreading. Hitchcock Tells Stand BURNS IM Phil Hitchcock again asserted Friday that the big Issue of the Republicans senator ial primary race is that the "choice of a candidate should be made by the Republican voters of Oregon and by no one else." Hitchcock obviously was refer ring to the late entry of Secretary of Interior1 McKay Into the race, McKay's entry had the backing of national GOP leaders, but it caught state COP officials by sur prise. McKay said Thursday, however, that demands from Oregon Re publicans convinced b 1 m he should run. Hitdhcock, one of four OOP can didates for the nomination, insist ed he would be the best candidate to oppose Democratic Sen. Wayne Morse. 7 aJ-r- A a . H . i