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In The- Day's News By FRANK JENKINS A look at the future: A top American scientist calls this week for federal scholarships to provide the United States with future scientists. He is Dr. I. I. Rabi, chairman of President Ei senhower's scientific advisory com mittee. He thinks the U.S. must meet the new Russian challenge in the field of science and he thinks the best way to do so is to insure that American youths starting col lege are equipped with the essen tial mathematical tools. He says the federal government should award a $500 scholarship to every high school senior who passes a properly devised federal mathematics test and 'he would award a $500 scholarship to every college student who passes a fed eral test in calculus (top brack et mathematics) at the end of his freshman year. As a top scientist, Dr. Rabi knows that mathematics is the handmaiden of science, 'what is Russia doing? ' The U.S. office of education says a two-year study of the Russian educational system shows that more than half of a Russian stu dent's first ten years in school is devoted to science subjects. The study reveals that during this first decade of their education Russian students are required to take 10 years of mathematics five of physics (physics is that branch of knowledge treating of the material world and its phe nomena), five years of biology four, years of chemistry and one year of astronomy. : That provides a pretty good sci entific loundation. What do OUR students take? Well, whatever else they take, they SHY AWAY FROM MATH-. (Most of 'them, that is.) This much is certain: ' The world of the future will be increasingly a technological world (technology is industrial science: systematic knowledge of the indus trial arts.) Someone will ask: "Do you mean SPACE TRAV EL?" I wouldn't know. Somehow I doubt it. It seems to me that space travel is more rewarding as something to TALK ABOUT rather than as something to DO. But ' , . The world of the future, which will be increasingly a technological world, must include such things as: Physical changes in the struc ture of the atom, resulting in new raw materials, new products, new kinds of power. New processes, foreshadowed by automation. New machines, foreshadowed by electronic brains. , And so on. NATO Naval Chief Seeks Atomic Subs PARIS wt NATO's naval com mander, U. S. Adm. H e r a u 1 d Wright, "urged Wednesday that U. S. nuclear secrecy be modified to help equip all NATO navies with atomic submarines. The admiral told the Atlantic Alliance's advisory Parliamen tary Assembly arming the navies with A-subs should be given top priority. He added that NATO countries could equip themselves without receiving U. S. -built subs if the U. S. Congress would amend the McMahon act to make more nu clear know-how available. Wright told a closed session of the Assembly that the Soviet Un ion s submarine fleet is three times as big as that of the United States and all its allies combined. The Russians are known to have about 500 submarines and the number is increasing by 75 to 100 a year. The mission of allied subma rines would be to try to knock out Soviet subs if there is a war, Wright said. The admiral was the last of NATO's top military men to brief 170 congressmen and parliament members from the 15 NATO countries, assembled for their third annual conference. George Brown, defense expert in the British Labor Party's "shadow cabinet." told the As sembly that NATO members should remodel their armies in the pentomic structure used by the United States. U. S. Sen. Green (D-RI), chair man of the Senate Foreign Rela tions Committee, told an Ameri can Club luncheon that all the Western powers could pay more for defense and probably would have to. Price Five Cents 22 Paget KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVKMBKK 13, 1957 Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 3943 -'those will 'nuke engineers and technicians, researchers, sci entists, essential to our progress perhaps essential to our SUR VIVAL in the world of the future. And All this will require mathematicians. Court Denies Anderson Plea SALEM lP) The Oregon Su preme Court ruled Wednesday that James Quinton Anderson, Klamath County, must remain in prison for a murder committed on the Klamath Indian Reserva tion. In denying Anderson's writ of habeas corpus, the high court ruled that the slate has power to prosecute major crimes commit ted on the reservation. This power was turned over to the state by Fmt federal government. "' Anderson based his case on a contention that transferring this power was unconstitutional. The decision, by Justice Randall Kcstcr, upheld Circuit Judge David R. Vandenberg of Klamath Falls. Adlai Takes Adviser Role WASHINGTON Wl Adlai Ste venson held out the possibility to day he may accompany President Eisenhower to a Paris meeting next month designed to increase Allied cooperation. From a haze of confusion, the role of the Democrat whom Eisen hower twice defeated for the pres idency emerged as that of ad viserand possibly a participant in proposals Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles will pre sent to a North Atlantic Treaty meeting of heads of state in Paris Dec. 16. An error by James C. Hagerty, White House press secretary, brought on the uncertainty which both Hagerty and Stevenson later sought to clarify. Stevenson said he had informed Dul'-es a week ago that "while I could not undertake to formulate the President's policies, 1 would gladly review and discuss our government's proposals before they were put into linal shape." Hagerty said Stevenson "will be kept informed of the developing program and will, we hope, dis cuss the items in the program with the administration before they are finalized." In a bid for bipartisan support. Stevenson reportedly had been of fered ak first a key position in both formulating and presenting United States proposals to strengthen NATO against Rus sia's growing missile strength. LeMay Off On Second Record Try By VERN 1IAUGLAND ABOARD KC 135 Iff! This huge jet tanker-transport streaked over the Equator about 9:45 a. m. EST Wednesday, just over five hours out of Buenos Aires on the way to a possible inter-American record. With Gen. Curtis LeMay in com mand and most of the lime at the controls, the Boeing plane set a jet distance record Tuesday on the soutbound run of more than 6,300 miles from Westover Air Force Base, in 13 hours and 2 min utes. LeMay, vice chief of staff of the U. S. Air Force, lifted the four jet plane off the Ezeica Airfield runway about 4:28 a. m. EST. His goal was National Airport at Washington on a nearly straight course of 5,204 statute miles. Aboard were 22 crewmen and pas- sengers. It was a takeoff to sweat out. There were only 8.300 feet and we were loaded to 235,000 pounds. It seemed we used about all the run way there was. We asked Gen. LeMay about the takeoff and he said there appar ently was a lull in the wind at the far end of the runway and the takeoff run had been a bit longer than expected. , "It's amazing how you can fig ure out the runway length almost to the pound of fuel," he said. One hour after takeoff LeMay relinquished the controls to Capt. Charles L. Gandy and came back to check with the passengers. He confided he had taken on a goodly supply of this noon's Buenos Aires newspapers and planned to nave them distributed to the White House, the Pentagon, the Argen tina Embassy and the Press Club. Tax Office Plans To Remain Open For the convenience of persons who have pay days on Novem ber 15, and who wish to pay their tax statements on that day to qualify for the discount, the Klam ath County tax collector's oflice in the courthouse will be open until 8 o'clock Friday night. The announcement is made by Klamath County tax collector, Murray (Red) Britton, who adds that the tax payment discounts will not be applicable following No vember 15. Freight Rate Fight Flares SALEM Wl Washington and Oregon governors scheduled meeting Wednesday to plan fight against freight rates they consider discriminatory against the Tacit ic Northwest. The afternoon meeting of Gov Albert Roscllini of Washington and Gov. Robert D. Holmes of Oregon was set up after Holmes said he learned in a recent series of hear ings that freight rales were hold ing back economic development of this region. "Gov. Roscllini and I hope through this conference to initiate joint action before the Interstate Commerce Commission and if necessary, in the federal courts to secure the removal of discrimi nations against the West which have giown up during the past 10 years through percentage freight rale increases applied across the board b the ICC. said Holmes. He added, "Elimination of the very unfair percentage increases which compound the discrimina tion against our agriculture and manufacturing should be a great boon to our economic and indus trial development." Dewayne Kracger, head of the Washington Economic Develop ment Department, and a staff member of the Washington Public Service Commission, were ex pected wilh Roscllini. Howard Morgan, Oregon public utilities commissioner, and Julius Jensen, director of the Department of Planning and Development, were to be with Holmes. r,l' J I"'. iy.t'.ygssm f jn.n.i,.t li-imimnriit i i i ill in i a n 111' I rim Eisenhower To Outline Science Plan THE RAINS came Tuesday night and Wednesday morning at the Klamath County Jail, and Sheriff Murray (Red) BriHon wat busy all morning directing ther 55 prisoners to drier quarters in the jail building. The water leaked throughout the building in sizable quantities due to the roof being largely removed during the current- construction work which will add a third story to -the building. In addition to the water, large quantities of steam dampened the interior of the building due to the water dripping on hot pipes. "The bedding is wet and the jail is unhealthily damp," Britton said, "and I won't keep the prisoners under conditions like these." The sheriff said he was arranging bus transporta tion, and that if the rains didn't cease by early afternoon he would have the prisoners transported to the Multnomah County Jail at Rocky Butte. This picture was taken while prisoners were moving their bedding out of the main tank. Photos by Nemer COMPLETING PLANS for Thursday evening's parents visitation night and open house at Klamath Union High School are these Parents and Patrons officers and KUHS Principal Charles Carlson. From left to right are Mrs. Frank Bogatay, vice president of the par ents' group; Merlin Bleak, president of the organization; and Principal Carlson. The vent will be opened with a general assembly of parents in Pelican Court, during which several musical selections will be presented. Following that the teachers will be in their rooms for visitations. A social hour in the school cafeteria will conclude the evening. i IT WAS LIKE old times this morning for this pair of Navy veterans. Sheriff Murray Britton, left, and Head Jailer Fred Calfee were busy on the business ends of mops when assisting with cleaning up operations at the county jail. In addition to the jail being thoroughly wet down because of a leaking roof, Britton said much of the interior paint was damaged by steam within the building. Weather Mafia Linked With Rackets FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Considerable cloudiness and brief rainy periods through Thursday. Low Wednesday night 32-40; high Thursday 46-52. High WASHINGTON Wl A federal agent testified Wednesday the Malia, notorious criminal secret vesterdav 44 i society, has moved in on New ... i wi n a gal uac luiiuiuuu idini-ia Joseph Amato. head ot a special lasl Zi nours Precip Since Oct. It ', investigating squad in the Kedcral .. 2.16 1 Narcotics Bureau, also lold the Stumbos Face New Troubles ROSEBURG Wl The family that started to sell pieces of a federal highway in Oregon found itself in new trouble Wednesday. A warrant was out for the arrest of Robert G. Slumbo, asserting he had failed to have a subdivision acknowledged and recorded before ottering it for sale. The subdivision was of two-inch square plots ol a Hi-loot strip across Highway 99 near here. The Stumbo clan said they owned it. They did, too. The stale some how, kind tailed to ti'i; lt.r -. . . It first came (o the attention of Ihe public when Robert, two brothers and a cousin barricaded (he highway in (he summer of liloti. It did not stay barricaded long, but by the lime the barri cades were taken down, the Stum bos had what they wanted plenty of ollicial attention. But (hen the state did not offer as much money as (he Stumbos wanted. So the clan started selling off two-inch-square lots at $2 each. They sold 2!I0 before the slate Highway Commission filed a condemnation suit that stopped the sales. That tailed to stop Ihe Slumbos. though. They tiled a claim for $2.iO.IIIIO, asserting that was what they lost when the stale stopped their sales. They said they had 118.0110 lots platted for sale at $2 each. The Southern Oregon Douglas County Highway Assn. says it can stop the Stumbos on that. James Daugherty. association president, said 118,000 charges can be brought, and since the minimum line on that charge is $.10, the total could run to $5,900,000. Just one $50 charge, however, is in front of Stumbo at present. WASHINGTON Wl President Eisenhower left by plane Wednes day for Oklahoma Cily, from where he will outline to the nation Wednesday night a plan for train ing -more U. S. youths as scientists. His plane Columbine III took off from National Airport shortly aft er noon on the approximately 4V hour flight to Oklahoma City. Eisenhower, hatless and wear ing a charcoal gray suit, was ac companied only by members of his staff. He plans to fly back to Washington early Thursday. Some key scientific advisers to the President reportedly have sug gested to him that the federal government grant scholarships to promising students as an incen tive. But the White House de clined advance discussion of what Eisenhower wjll recommend. For tonight's coast-to-eoast television-radio address, the second in a "chins up" series, the President travels by plane to Oklahoma City. The speech will be carried live at 10:30 p. m. EST, by NBC-TV and all four major radio net works. ABC and CBS television will carry the address from film at 11:15 p. ni. Eisenhower will speak at Mu nicipal Auditorium in connection with Oklahoma's "Arrows to Atoms" 50th anniversary of state hood. He plans to start back to Washington by plane immediately after the speech. The President's drive to over take and surpass Russia in devel opment of missiles and other weapons of the future started for mally last Thursday night. In nationwide TV address then he named James R. Killian, presi dent of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as a special assistant to coordinate the drive. He also set forth several other steps in a program of immediate action designed to put Ihe United States ahead of the Soviet Union At the same time he mentioned briefly certain long-range require ments which he said he would dis cuss in more detail tonight. In his talk Jo si week he, said: "Acbrlltig .to .-.my, scientific friends, one of our greatest, and the most glaring, deficiencies is the failure of us in this country to give high enough priority to scientific education and to the place of science in our national life." GOP Offers Concession On Tax Cut By PAUL W. HARVEY Jr. ' SALEM Wl Republicans made a flat offer Wednesday to reduce their demand for a 30 per cent income tax reduction to 25 per cent. The offer was made at a meet ing of the Legislature's Senate House Conference Committee. The Democratic members of the committee said they would take it to a Democratic caucus to see if that party wants - to , recede from its 15 per cent reduction proposal. ; Both parties now agree that business should get some income tax benefits by adopting loss: carryover and accelerated depre ciation. These are in addition to. the percentage cuts in the per-'' sonal income tax. : The Republicans proposed that; Ihe 25 per cent reduction be ac complished by reducing the tax in each bracket, instead ot mak ing a flat percentage reduction,' as proposed by the Democrats. The Republicans first came up wilh the 25 per cent offer at a caucus Tuesday, provided that House members of the conference committee be given a free hand to reach a decision. - , On Wednesday, however, the Republicans dropped this provi sion, and made a firm offer. - Speaker Pat Doolcy (D). Port land, called the first 25 per cent proposed a "phoney." Reps. Clarence Barton (Dl, of Coquillc, and Guy Jonas (D), of Salem, House members of the conference committee which is seeking a compromise, said they would not even ask the Democrats for free power to negotiate. Rarton added, however, that the "new Republican otter does show there's nothing sacred and holy about 30 per cent." Dooley said he feels that the Republican television program Tuesday night, in which the Re publicans answered Gov. Holme arguments for a 15 per cent cut, makes a settlement more remote than ever. However, there Is a ray of hope in the fact that several Senate (Continued on Pae Four) SEARCH PLANK CAIRO Wl The newspaper Alj Ahram reported Wednesday Egypt has bought a special plane and equipment from the Soviet Union to search for uranium in the Egyptian deserts. Ticket Office Closure Set The ticket office al Ihe South ern Pacific Depot in Klamath Falls will be closed between Ihe hours ol 5:30 p.m. and 8:30 a.m., ef- leclive on Thursday, November 14, Al Kusler, district freight and pas senger agent said. The demand lor tickets during the night hours is so slight that the closing of the ticket otl ice dur ing lh.it period is expected to cause little or no inconvenience to the traveling public. Kusler said. In the case of an emergency, one may board Ihe north or south bound Cascade and pay the con ductor the fare to the next lay over point, he added. Train information will be avail able from the telegraph ollice, TUxcdo 2-2fl:ili, during Ihe hours the ticket ollice is nol in opera tion. Kusler said. He indicated thai shippers and heavy uses of rail service will receive special notili-cation. Garcia Leads In Philippines MANILA Wl Carlos P. Garcin. political heir of the late President Ramon Magsaysay, virtually clinched the Philippine presidency Wednesday. But the voters were giving him an opposition leader arike-. president . - .. Garcia and the apparent next vice president, Diosdado Macapa gal, are both considered good friends of the United Stales. Unless there is a complete re- ' versal in the trend, this 11-year- -old Asian republic will have a vice president wilh politics differ ent from Ihe chief executive's for Ihe first lime. With 26 per cent of the esti mated 4 million votes counted. Garcia. Nacionalista Party stand ard bearer, held a 150.000-vote lead over sugar magnate Jose Yulo, a Liberal. , Macapagal, Liberal, who spent his boyhood in a grass hut, was leading his Nacionalista opponent. House Speaker Jose B. Laurel Jr., by a thumping 262,b00-vote mar gin. The latest presidential returns showed: Garcia, 504.741; Yulo, 353,1118: Manuel P. Manahan, Pro gressive, 284.793: Sen. Claro M. liectu. Nationalist-Citizens, 118.- ::o:i; Antonio Quirino, Independent Liberal, 22,522. Nacionalisla leaders indicated Macapagal likely will be put on ice during his four-year term as vice president. Macapagal campaigned a "Itiinesl Mac, the Poor Man Friend." lie wns cheered when he lold ol his grass but upbring- . ing. In later life he studied law and entered the Philippines foreign service, serving in the Philippine Embassy in Washington and help ing to negotiale the Japanese peace treaty. !iiiif iiprinri l'ist vear .I 64 , jei,"ie titu! uiVL-aiidi ijik v.uni milieu nidi VHJii'iii. si. at uiiiiiiui;, i Normal for period 1.78 Support Urged For Budget Air Force General Says Manned Space Ships Are Project For Distant Future AmaLo said. WASHINGTON Wl - Secretary Ama0 had hear(J lcsljmonv lhal of Commerce Weeks called on in- jnke(j (he nam(, of s jllanle wjh dustry Wednesday to support . a (he s,ajn sler Abcrt Ana. "less butter and more guns fed-1 (asia and t)e gar) rat.ket and cral budget to meet the challenge! he(her he considL.,.ed ne Rar. of Soviet science. Dase racket has become "some- Weeks strongly suggested the thing operated by the Mafia?" budget which President tisennow- whom Ihe committee has named as a kingpin in Ihe garbage rack et, is "an important ligtirc," ir the Mafia. WASHINGTON i.T An Air Force programs. The second Soviet satcl- "He is considered by me and -general says the United States al-1 tile, une carrying a dog was hung my office as a major source of ready is doing some preliminary; in space Nov. 10. supply (or narcotics as well as thinking about a manned space! Former President Harry Tru being a prominent racketeer," ishin although such a . project : man. in Washington to attend a er will hand Congress in January will call for stepped-up military and foreign aid spending and cur tailment of civilian programs. The secretary addressed 1,200 members of the National Defense Executive Reserve, opening a two- day conference here. "The Soviet Union's sensational exploits in satellites have posed the most serious challenge of this tension-wracked age," Weeks said. "As President Eisenhower steps up the campaign to mobilize scientilic and military resources, I American business must move up into the front line of defense. Naming ways by which industry can cooperate, Weeks headed the list with the exhortation: "Sup port a budget adequate for na tional security, "Yes, sir," Amato. replied. Chairman McClellan (D-Arki forbade photographers lo make pictures of the agent. Committee counsel Robert F. Kennedy said this was at the request of Harry J. Anshnger, head ot the Narcot ics Bureau. It was explained that slill is a long way olf. luncheon in his honor, lold news , Brig. Gen. II. F. Gregory. com-mcn: "We had a missile program ,.r ii, A;r v,,,,.,. (iiM,n f before I left the White House - it .Scientific Research, said in a was broken up alter I left." sneech vesterdav: "Although it1 H" sal(l ,hc PKtam may be somewhat early to lie was de- Corp. president who later left gov-, eminent service. "Somebody ought to institute a specific policy and see that it is carried out," he said. But about the same time. Sen, Bennetl 'It-Utahl issued a state ment saying the Truman adminis tralion must be blamed "for our lag behind the Russians in the building manned space ships, it is not too early to be thinking about exploratory research in this area. "In fact we have been doing it for some time." Gregory described the Air Force project Farside. a recent series of rocket lesta. as "one of many high-altitude scientific research ellorts that will he required . . . lor Ihe successful conquest ol Amato frequently engages in un-.-'l. ' .. ., . dercover work. Before Amato took the witness chair, there had been testimony from two garbage collector broth ersJohn and Anthony Monte sano that gangsters moved in on Ihe Garbage Collectors Assn. in Nassau County, N. Y., in connec tion with negotiation of a contract with a Teamsters Union local. The Monlesanos said the gang sters move began when they called in Squillante for assistance in con tract negotiations. previ ously that six rockets were fired in the Farside tests in Ihe Pacilic and there have been unoflicial re ports that Ihe sixth shot went more than 4.000 miles into the sky. Gregory said I hero was no foun dation for reports that Farside personnel had been pressured to speed up Ihe project as a result ol Russia's first satellite launching Oct. 4. It was that event which touched off a general clamor for acceler ating the U.S. missile and satellite l voted primarily to research from I ballistic missile lield. l!i.(i-51. and that it was headed; --The record of the Truman ad by K. T. Keller, former Chrysler! ministration on missiles reveals a monstrous neglect bordering on the criminal," Bennett said. "The Truman legacy was so de plorable that the Eisenhower ad ministration had to start virtually from scratch to begin to catch up with the Russians." There was one indication that government purse-s t r i n g s may have been loosened somewhat for 1 missile development. At El Paso. Tex., the Corps of Engineers said it will seek bids roon for building new facilities at McGregor range, where Ft. Bliss does guided missile work. A .spokesman said the money "is now available." bill did not indi cate when it was made available. Moscow reported last night that Sputnik II would complete its 138th ' orbit of the earth at 6 a.m. today, but it gave no Information on what ihad happened to the dog riding in I the satellite. SHOOTING HOURS OREGON November 14 Ol'KN 6:24 CLOSE 4:50 CALIFORNIA November 14 Ol'KN 6:23 CLOSE 4:47 , Ms i 4
