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U Of OREGON LISSAUX
EU3SNS, ORE.
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Day s lews
By FRANK JENKINS
1 Senator Morse, who has run al
ways before as a Republican, is
campaigning for the U.S. senate
this year as a Democrat.
I think any fair-minded person
will agree that anyone has a per
fect right to change his party af
filiation at any time he chooses.
inaeea, i minx we can an agree
that one SHOULD change his par
ty whenever he finds himself
completely out of sympathy with
its beliefs and in full sympathy
with the beliefs of another party.
So I don't hold against Senator
Morse the fact that he changed
bis coat. But I do think we have
a right to be curious about his
REASONS for changing.
The circumstances suggest that
he quit the GOP in a fit of temper
because he failed to get from it
something he wanted. That is
nardly what one would call
moral or an ethical reason for a
change of party allegiance.
Back in 1946, when he still wore
his Republican coat, Senator
Morse said in a political address
in Des Moines Iowa, as quoted
in the Des Moines Register:
"Liberalism is DEAD in the
Democratic party, and that party
has reverted to its tradition.
AL role of placing political privi'
lege and corrupt machine politics,
a la the Missouri gang, above the
general welfare of our people.
i i 1, ... . i ,.,,.
riseiltliur m D r e jiaa biwhjd
dramatized himself as The Great
Liberal. Being a great liberal and
feeling that liberalism was DEAD
in the Democratic party, how
could he change his coat and go
over to the Democratic side as a
matter of PRINCIPLE?
That, of course, was back in
148. But in February of 1952 he
said in a letter to a North Bend
publisher:
"It is my opinion that the wel
fare of our country demands
that we bring to an end the na
tionwide disunity among our peo
ple which this (Democratic) ad
ministration has developed. We
just CANNOT run the risks which
would be entailed in four more
years of a Democratic adminis
tration." In view of these vigorous ex
pressions, extending over a consid
erable period of time, of his dis
trust of the Democrats, his
change of political coats could
hardly have been the result of a
growing conviction on his part
that the Democratic party is bet
ter for the people of this country
than the Republican party. As
late as the spring of 19S2 he was
so distrustful of Democrats that
he felt "we just can't run the
risks entailed tn four more years
of a Democratic administration.
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It seems to me
His change must have been due
to a belief on his part (following
whatever it was that upset him
at the Republican convention in
July of 1952) that it would be
BETTER FOR SENATOR
MORSE if he became a Demo
crat than if he remained a Re
publican. At the hearing on termination
of the Klamath Indian reservation
held here the other day by the
senate interior and insular af
fairs committee the management
specialists told the committee
members they had been advised
by lumber experts that dumping
this vast, tract of timber on the
open market would have harmful
economic effects not only on the
Klamath Basin but on the entire
state.
That is true. But something
else is equally true. It would have
. Jurmful effects on the Klamath
yjans. They are the owners
of this timber. If, by throwing it
on the market at forced sale, the
price is forced down materially,
. it is the Klamath Indians who will
be the losers.
They shouldn't have to be the
losers. The Klamath Indian res
ervation is their patrimony. It
came down to them from their
ancestors. It is all they have left
of the country that belonged to
their people for immemorial time.
If anybody benefited from a
forced sale of this timber, it
would be those who acquired
it cheap. Because of acquiring it
at a low price, they would have
an advantage over their less for
tunate competitors. We don't want
anything like that to happen. It
would be another case of the white
man robbing the Indian.
' I think this hearing contributed
quite a little to the solution of
the difficult and complicated prob
lem of liquidating the Klamath
reservation. Among other things,
it brought out the fact that term
ination of federal control of this
2,000-odd square miles of Oregon
terrain tin t lust a matter of dot
lars of settling up an estate and
dusting off our hands and saying
that's that
Two thousand human beings are
involved in these termination pro
ceedings. The human side of the
problem is far graver than the fi-
nancial side. That fact needed to
be brought out and I think it was
brought out at Thursday's hear
ing.
GRAND PRIZE float in the Merrill Spud Festival parade Saturday morning was
flower bedecked creation sponsored by the Ground Observer Corps.
this
Weather
FORECAST Klamath Falls and
TtciaKyi Cleartaf, some eloodl
aete la SMralag mat erealoe. High
gai.iy M-U, Itw UalfBt ZS-1J.
Peterson, Assistant Secretary
Of Agriculture, Merrill Speaker
MERRILL The growing belief
that only the federal government
can solve the increasing problems
of agriculture, was denounced Fri
day night by Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture, E. L. Peterson, who
spoke to a banquet audience of
more than 300 persons after he
crowned Queen Peggy II at the
20th annual Klamath Basin Potato
Festival at Merrill.
There is no signal solution, no
magic formula by which the prob
lems of agriculture can be solved,"
the secretary said.
While the greatest progress in
agriculture, to a great extent, has
been made through the knowledge
gained in government - sponsored
institutions, federal agencies'
should only encourage and assist
where problems cannot be solved
by the people themselves.
Although the problems of agri
culture have been cast into the pol
itical arena, he said, the farmer's
solution lies not in rigid price sup
ports and acreage allotments of
basic commodities,, hut in the de
velopment of new markets and the
recapturing of markets lost,
through providing quality prod
ucts attractive to the consumer,
ernment," he said, "for frankness,
honesty and responsibility."
The speaker was introduced by
Dr. Frank E. Trotman of Merrill.
During the coronation, 1955
Queen Lou Ann Kandra of Merrill,
relinquished the royal insignia to
this year's queen, Peggy Carson of
Merrill, who with her court of prin
cesses, Arlene Zeiders, Malin,
Judy Sutherland, Merrill, Delia
Smith, Henley and Shirley Young,
Tulelake, was introduced. Junior
attendants were Kay Thomp
son and Paula Harris, Merrill.
Members of a pioneer potato
growing family, Haskins and Com
pany, gathered in most of the top
awards in potato exhibits.
Arthur . M. Cherry, Klamath
Falls took the first place cup in
the Netted Gem commercial divi
sion: Haskins and Company took
first spots in the White Rose com-
Rogue River
Hearing Held
MEDFORD im Representa-
mercial. certified Netted Gem
seed, certified White, Rose seed
and U.S. No. 1 bakers.
Larry Haskins, Bonanza, won
the top award in the 4-H potato
growers section and first in the
high school class. The FFA sec
tion top spot was won by Harry
Wilson, Malin.
The Tulelake Growers Associa
tion topped all other community
displays.
Awards were presented by Rob
ert Petrik, president of the Klam
ath County Potato Growers Association.
An nstimnlaj n-ntuA nt R A1V iu,.
sons lined Merrill's Main Street ! iniured iilree Persons
to view colorful floats, marching!
units, children's entries, to see po-1
Utical candidates and commercial I
units. i
Grand prize for the best float
went to the Ground Observer
Corps which also took first in
the division for organizations and
lodges. Second place went to the
Merrill Theta Rho, third to the
Merrill Mariners. '..
The Merrill Lumber Company
took first in the commercial sec
tion, Kujac Dance Studio second,
Winema Elevators third. The Mer-
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KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1956
Price Ten Cents 12 Paces i Telephone TU 4-1111
No. 3614
Morse Defends Record At
Fairgrounds Speech Here
Senator Wayne L. Morse, Demo
crat of Oregon, made a surprise
switch in tactics in his campaign
for reelection in Klamath Falls
persons at a Democratic rally at
the Klamath County Fairgrounds.
In refuting charges by his Re
publican opponent, Douglas Mc-
Saturday night and went on the I Kay, that he established an odious
defensive to defend himself against record for absenteeism in the
what he termed a Republican Senate, Morse produced a photo-
smear campaign." stat of a telegram which he said
Morse spoke before some 400 ; he received from McKay.
"McKay sent this telegram
while he was governor of Oregon,"
Morse added. "In it he asked me
if I would either vole to override
the President's veto on the tide
lands oil bill or refrain from vot
ing.
Morse also said that he had one
of the best voting records on ma
jor issues in the Senate.
"The opposition is putting on a
real hate program," lie continued.
"You know McKay didn't even like
me when I was a Republican. One
thing I was able to do in Wash
ington Ihough, was to slow down
Storms Rip
Texas Coast
HOUSTON, Tex., tm -Two
persons were reported drowned
and dozens of fishermen were un
accounted for Saturday night as a
scries of squalls, accompanied by
hail, swept the Houston and Gal
veston Bay area.
The Coast Guard said the death
toll may be even higher and re- McKay s giveaway program.
ported at least 24 private boats' Morse then challenged McKay to
capsized or overdue in Galveston meet him any place at any time
oay. ii sum ij persons were res- between now and election day to
cued from the water or from
perches on buoys, dikes or jetties.
A Coast Guard plane was or
dered to drop flares over Galves
ton Bay to help eight boats search
ing 400 square miles of choppy
walers for missing boats.
Winds up to 75 miles also raked
Port Arthur, 100 miles northeast
of Houston on the Gulf of Mexico.
A number of boats were over
turned on nearby Lake Sabine and
seven persons were rescued. No
deaths were reported.
The storms at Houston and Port
Arthur followed an afternoon in
which tornadoes and winds up to
110 miles per hour battered a wide
section of south central Texas and
enlarging upon tne price support i' "'TiJ ' Women's Club took first in service
program ana tne reduction 01 acre
ages on basic commodities, the
secretary said that land under this
plan that is taken out of produc
tion is in many cases diverted to j,J
heard detailed testimony from
federal and local witnesses at a
hearing on flood control and water
resource development of the
Rogue River Basin.
Col. Paul Weiland. Medford,
problem of overproduction !s,ale vlce President ot the lzaak
throughout the entire agricultural i" wwgue. saia ne was op
fieid. posed to construction of a high
whii. h. i,.,;i ;, r .u dam on tne Rogue, favoring in
.vY,.LVlLyr Li h 'T stead development of tributary
e.?le.mlr "Ja"".S " 1 watersheds to provide irrigation
materially increased in the past
35 years, increased production ca
pacity has, he stated, due to mech
anization, research and experimentation.
water and other benefits. He said
the building of smaller dams
would ease the flooding.
Weiland said a high dam below
the mouth of the middle fork of
He spoke briefly in support oflthp Rncriii. urnnlH harm fish runs
stales rights on water resources, m the stream.
saying that with water being the 1 More than a score of witnesses
number 1 problem in the U.S. to- to.iifi,! , ik Hav.tnno harmo
day, eternal vigilance must be ex-1 conducted by members of the
ercised to maintain the present ' Sonato Inlorinr and Pnhlic Wnrl:
system of allocation.
In conclusion, he criticized the
broad authority that has been
granted by the federal government
to secretaries of departments
which render the individual help
less to understand the laws by
which he is governed.
"There is no substitute in gov-
committees. Sen. Neuberger ID
Ore), member of both commit
tees, presided in the absence of
the chairmen, Sens. Murray (D
Mont) of Interior and Chavez (D
NMI of Public Works.
Others present included Sens.
Hruska R-Neb. Wofford (D SC)
and Barrett (R-Wyo).
clubs, second place went to the
Merrill VFW.
In the juvenile float division,
first, Malin High School: second.
Merrill Blue Birds: third, Merrill
kindergarten. Comic section, first,
1909 Reo car, second KFJI.
Children's vehicle division,
first, Mike Ratliff: second, Gary
Hodges: third, Ralph Northrup.
The Ben Franklin store took first
in window displays. Second went
to Otis Thompson.
More than 3,000 persons went
through the lines to the free beef
barbecue tables. Many later
viewed the football game between
Malin (21) and Chiloquin '0).
The queen's ball drew a capac
ity crowd Saturday night.
Closing activities of the three
day fete open at 1:30 p.m. Sunday
with a jackpot rodeo at the Hill
Brothers Ranch north of Merrill
and participation in the hardtop
races at the Klamath Speedway
in Klamath Falls.
Suez Confab
Set Oct. 29
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debate the issues of the campaign.
Morse also took credit with Sen
ator Albert Gore of Tennessee for
blocking what he said was an at
tempt by the Eisenhower adminis
tration to put the atomic energy
program in the hands of the pri
vate power companies.
"In 1954," he declared, "Senator
Knowland of California, came up
with an atomic energy bill which
had been steam-rollered through
the House. At that time, the tax
payers had spent 14 billion dollars
on the atomic energy program.
They were going to push it through
the Senate but I was able to stop
it by objecting when they called
for a unanimous vote."
On the subject of power, Morse
said his program was the program
of the late Senator Charles Mc
Nary of Oregon. .
"I believe that private utilities
should be helped to build low
dams," he said. "But they should
not be allowed to build low dams
at sites like Hells Canyon where
CAIRO m An Egyptian gov- multiple purpose high dams could
ernmeni omciai saia oaiurov be constructed.
preuipiuar) ikim regHiuinR me; morse was introduced by Al uii
HELEN PUCKETT, office
clerk at the Cascade Laun
dry, interrupted her work
Saturday morning to greet
the 9 o'clock photographer,
C
lost
Suez Canal dispute will open in
Geneva on Monday, Oct. 29.
The official, who requested that
he not be quoted by name, told
Egyptian reporters this country
probably would be represented by
the same delegation, headed by
Foreign Minister Mahmoud Faw
zi, which presented Egypt's case
in recent U. N. Security Council
debate.
Diplomatic sources here and in
the United Nations have predicted
another round of secret talks was
in the making between Egypt,
France and Britain on six Suez
principles adopted by the Secur
ity Council as a basis of settle
ment. These dealt with guarantees on
freedom of navigation through the
canal, insulating the waterway
from political control of any na
tions, tolls, and improvement of
the waterway.
The official made his disclosure
soon alter India's foreign affairs
expert, V. K. Krishna Menon, had
a 90 minute meeting with Presi
dent Carnal Abdcl Nasser of
Egypt.
man of Baker, Democratic candi
date for Congress. Eldred Hansen,
Klamath County Democratic Com
mittee chairman, presided.
Blfk yeeterday
Lew last, algai
SUBJECTS OF THE KLAMATH BASIN Potato Kingdom
paid homage Friday night to their new sovereign, Queen
Peggy II. followinq her coronation at the 20th annual
banquet held Friday night in the elementary school where
she was crowged by U.S. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture,
E. L. Peterson. Junior attendants, Kay Thompson, left and
Paula Harris, right admire the lovely qunpn.
American Goes
To Tribune
CHICAGO Chicago's
century-old big morning newspa
per, the Tribune, announced Sat
urday it has purchased the Chicago
American, afternoon daily which
since 1900 has been a cornerstone
of the vast Hearst newspaper organization.
The Tribune Co. said the Amer
ican and its companion Sunday
publication, the Chicago Sunday
American, will continue to publish
"as a separate organization."
The purchase price was not dis
closed but the Tribune said it had
bought all the physical assets of
the American plant except the real
estate.
Winds, Rain Hit
Coastal Areas
SEATTLE W - Winds which
reached gust velocities as high
as 81 miles an hour whipped
across Tatoosh Island 125 miles
northwest of here Friday night,
bringing heavy rains to a large
part of the Washington and Brit
ish Columbia coastal areas.
The winds did little damage,
diminishing as they moved inland
Seattle and other inland points
recorded 20 to 30 mile an hour
winds and intermittent rainfall.
Tatoosh, at the northwest corner
of continental United States, was
soaked by 3.52 Inches of rain in
24 hours. British Columbia coastal
regions reported winds up to 70
miles, doing minor damage and
causing heavy rains.
Labor Rackets
Told In South
BILOXf, Miss. (UP) Blinded
labor columnist Victor Riesel told
the Mississippi Manufacturers As
sociation Friday that labor rack
eteering is "creeping into the
South."
Riesel, blinded last April S by
an acid - throwing assailant, told
the group to clean up racketeer
ing "you will have to say that you
will not tolerate it."
He said racketeers have merged
into respectable communities and
into the garment, trucking, water
front, construction and engineering
fields.
This thing is not only in the
North but it is everywhere. It is
creeping into the South." Riesel
said. "I don t understand why we
tolerate it. Where are the law en
forcement officers? Where are the
prosecutors?"
He said there has been
crackdown because "there is
fear that it might he misunder
stood and somebody might be
called anti labor."
Queen's Float Highlights
OT Homecoming Parade
The eighth annual Oregon Tech prize of $15 was awarded lo the
homecoming became history Sat-jl'hi Sig float. Third place was ad
urday night at the close of the judged a tie between the floats of
homecoming hall over w h I c h I the agricultural department and in-
Queen Gail Hunter and her prin- dustrial processes, which split the
cesses. Velva Smith of Tulelake $10. The four winners followed the
and Sandra Fields of Malm, pre- queen's float in the parade around
sided. the field at the half time.
The three pretty girls were fea- Tom Gee, Winema Hotel mana
lured in the queen's float in the ger, arranged a judges' stand on
homecoming parade during Satur- top of the marquee of the hotel,
day morning and announcement o(.ludges were Gee. OT1 alumni
the selection of the queen by stu. i Charles and Pal Rolven. Bob Hen
dent body vote was made during : ry and Florence Jenkins.
the hall time of the UJI-MJLfc, By noon on Saturday, more than
game. 30 out of town OTI alumni had
Nineteen entries in the parade registered at headquarters at the
made this year s event the largest ! V incma. Early arrivals included
in the school's history. Top prize Mr. and Mrs. Carl l.asater of Spo
of $25 went to the float produced ; k a n e, George Thompson and
by the diesel technology class. It ! Wayne Roper of Los Angeles, Mr.
depicted a yellow crescent moon and Mrs. Ken Glass of Coos Ray,
shining on a harvest cornfield Gary McClow of Corvallls and Wil
complete with scarecrow. Second liam Harliss of Empire, Oregon,
Lost Man
Found Okay
NORTH VANCOUVER, B,
un Alex Patterson,
six nights and six days on rain
and snow-swept Mount Seymour
was found alive, the Royal Can
adian Air Force reported
An air force search officer said
Patterson was in fairly good con
dition,
The young Scots Immigrant had
shivered alone in a cave on the
4,000-foot mountain since last Sun
day when with two companions he
became lost ccrjr hiking trip.
? Patterson ' ' only 1 light
clothes, had itoiwl nor matches,
and withstood the vorst week of
early winter weather this year,
Patterson, all but given up for
dead after a night of sleet and
snow, was found at the 2,500-foot
level on the side of a cliff-face.
A helicopter which had waited
on the mountalntop during the day
was unable to pick up Patterson
because of the rough terrain. ,
One of the Ihree-man climbing
party perished. Gordon McFar
lane, 27, died while attempting to
find his way down the mountain
on the north shore of Vancouver
harbor earlier this week. His body
was brought to North Vancouver
today. Coroner Dr. F. W. Dyer
said an Inquest will be held next
week to determine the cause of
McFarlane's death.
Robert Duncan, 23, who stum
bled to safety Wednesday, said he
saw McFarlane's body lying in a
creek. Duncan said the face was
badly gashed and it appeared his
companion had fallen from a cliff.
Bulganin
Letter In
Ike's Hands
LONDON, tm - Soviet Pre-
mier Bulganin has proposed to
President Eisenhower an im
mediate U.S.-Soviet agreement to
ban. H-bomb tests, Moscow radio
said Saturday. -
Bulganin used an argument ad
vanced by Democrat Adlai Stev
enson in the U.S. presidential
campaign that violation of such
agreement is impossible be
cause science now can detect
atomic tests anywhere.
"1 hope you will agree," Bul
ganin said in a letter to Eisen
hower "that should such agree
ment be reached on this matter
there will be no particular dif
ficulty in supervising its execu
tion since with the present state
of science no atomic or hydro
gen explosion can be carried out
without it being recorded in oth
er countries."
President Eisenhower has taken
the position there must be ade
quate inspection safeguards be
fore the United States enters into
any atomic test agreement with
the Soviet Union. , '
The proposal was In a letter
Bulganin sent Eisenhower Wednesday.
The letter said Bulganin had in
mind "the question of atomic
weapons and notably of the tests
of these weapons."
The letter, - which was handed
to Secretary of State Dulles in
Washington, said such a discus
sion "is apt to take the form of
polcmios in the United States to
day as the election is going on."
Bulganin added that "in. some
instances, official pronouncements
are giving evidence of manifest
misrepresentation of the Soviet
Union's policy on these matters."
"This is, unfortunately, partic
ularly true of the statements made
by Mr. Dulles, who is not stop
ping short of direct attacks on
the Soviet Union and her peace
striving foreign policy," the let
ter said.
Bulganin noted he and Eisen
hower had exchanged views on
the question of atomic tests at
the summit meeting in Geneva and
In subsequent correspondence.
"But since we have failed so
far to reach any agreement on
the question of atomic weapons,"
he added. "It appeprs advisable
lo try and weigh the available op
portunities once more so as to take
a step forward toward reaching
agreement on the prohibition of
atomic weapons."
The Bulganin letter appeared
certain to have political repercus
sions in the United States.
The whole question of whether
nuclear tests should be prohibited
has become one of the top Issues
of the presidential campaign.
Democratic nominee Adlai Stev
enson has argued that the United
States should take the initiative
in halting the tests. Eisenhower
has firmly rejected the proposal.
-BULLETIN-
Robert Franklin Glllean, 19,
farm laborer, who shot himself
in the head while playing "Rus
sian roulette" near Newell,
California, died Saturday night
In Klamnlh Valley Hospital.
(Story on Page 4.)
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OTI HOMECOMING QUEEN GAIL and her princesses were featured in (he eighth annual
OTI Homecoming parade through the business section of Klamath Falls on Saturday morn
ing. At the half time of Saturday'! football game, announcement was made of the selec
tion and the queen and her court introduc ad. Shown on the float are. from ft, Princess
Sandra Fields of Malin. Princess Velva Smith of Tulelake and ?utn e''' Hunter of,
Klamath Falls, Ajj three are OTI freshmen. - - -I