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f PAGE FOUR HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21. 1957 TIZZY,' By Kate Osann "Rogwr hat a ort of half eonvtrtibl h top won c go Long Dispute Over Water Rights Appears Near End SACRAMENTO (UP) A four year deadlock between two North ern California water districts over ITaathAP RivAF'l -Smith Fork de. ; velopment appeared near an end ' loaay. Both districts agreed at the 'end . nF q turnwtnv hARrinfr to consult with local interests and meet again next Tuesday to give reac tions to a mediation proposal ad vanced by the Water Rights Board chairman, Henry Holslnger. Holsinger suggested that a "third part," probably the De partment of Water Resources, act as "watchdog" over construction of the project by the Orovllle- . Wyandotte Irrigation District to make certain no money was loose ly spent. Attorney P. J. Minasian, Oro ville, said his group would agree to proceed with its plan to con struct its $46,410,000 water project under this proposal. But attorney Martin McDonough, Sacramentto, representing the Yu ba Water District and the Yuba County Board of Supervisors, asked for additional time to con sult with his two boards, . The Oroville - Wyandotte plan, first advanced Dec. 20, 1056, calls for construction of four diversion tunnels, four reservoirs, two di version dams and a power plant but does- not include definite plans or utilizing Dry Creek water for Yuba County. For the most part, it was on this ground that the negotiations tiivA Kajm HaH un rftfiilltinff in the two-day hearing between the two districts and tne water uoara. Without the Dry Creek Project, vhlrh wnuld cost an estimated $3,100,000 to construct, Yuba Wa ter District would receive a,auu acre feet of water. McDonough maA ik rum orr fni: wjii the min imum requirement for operation oi me oismci. Meanwhile, civil engineer Ted Cthuinrt nF thit Vuhn District sub mitted to the board Wednesday afternoon an entirely new plan, Beck Jr. Trial Hearing End SEATTLE (UP) The grand lar eenv trial of Dave Beck Jr. neared Its climax today and both prosecution and defense agreed the case would reach the jury by Friday. The 37-year-old son of the out going Teamsters Union president Dave Beck, Is accused of selling two Teamster-owned Cadillacs and keening the money. He took the stand on his own behalf Wednesday and testified he sold the cars on orders from his father. Beck said the 1991 Cadillac owned by Joint Council 28 was sold to John Stratton of Seattle for $1,890 and paid for by check made out to him because no In structions had been given on how the transaction should be made. He said he gave the money to his father a day or two later and asked "someone" in the union of fice to take care of a transfer of title. "Did your father tell you what he was going to do with the mon ey?" asked defense attorney Charles Burden. "He said it would find Ms wav back to the rightful union," said Beck. "He said he was going to give it to Verschueren." (Fred Verschueren Jr., Joint Council . bookkeeper). Earlier in the day, deputy pros ecutor Laurence Regal charged . Verschueren's testimony that he had been given two envelopes con talning $6,600 by Beck Sr. pur portedly containing money from the sale of the Cadillacs "was a tory concocted by the bookkeep er and the Teamster official. Verschueren denied the allega tion. Burdell said he would ask Beck Sr. to take the stand today "if necessary." The retiring Teamsters presi dent was indicted by the same grand Jury that indicted his son. He it charged with misappropri ating the money from the sale of one union-owned Cadillac and will CO on trial Dee. 1 i upt just completed, for utilization of the South Fork water trough a system similar to that proposed by Oroville Wyandotte officials, but costing an estimated $61,870, 000 to construct. Schwartz' plan would include utilization of five diversion dams, three reservoirs, a tunnel and a power house. He was questioned by Minasian and McDonough of points of his proposal and Minasian said he doubted if such a plan would be approved by his group. It would furnish 19,000 acre feet to the Yuba District and a total of 20,000 acre feet at Miners' Ranch to the Oroville-Wyandotte agency, 14,000 acre feet less than the latter group's plan. Its power would sell for three million dol lars compared with $2,900,000 an nually for that produced under the old proposal. Both districts have filed appli cations for water in the river but the applications conflict and the districts were ordered to negoti ate on a joint project since hear ings, which began in 1053, ended a year and a naif ago. , Industry Split On Quota Plan WASHINGTON (ffl The lead zinc mining and smelting indus try stood split Thursday over the question of advocating a quota system on foreign metal imports. Differences were brought Into the open Wednesday as -the Tariff Commission continued hearings on an application by the Industry's emergency lead-zinc committee asking it to recommend higher tariffs to the President, or take some other action to protect the domestic industry from foreign competition. A quota plan, to supplement higher tariffs, was outlined to the commission at the opening of the hearing by Edward H. Snyder, president of the Combined Metals Reduction Co. of Salt Lake City. Snyder said the committee did not recommend the quota plan for adoption but he believed a major ity of the emergency committee members favored it. Wednesday, Howard T. Young, president of the American Zinc, Lead and Smelting Co., and like Snyder $ committee member, said he wanted no part of the quota plan. Snyder was backed in favoring import quotas by R. L. McCann, president of the New Jersey Zinc Co., who discounted Young i fears of government regulation. Orville Larson, vice president of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, told the commission that more than 9,000 miners have been thrown out of work this year as mines closed down because of de pressed metnl prices. LIVESTOCK STOCKTON (UP - FSMNS) Livestock: Cattle salable 23. Utility cows 14, Individual canner steer 11.90, canner bull under 800 lbs 13.90. Calves salable none. Hogs salable 25. Market un tested. Sheep salable none. Radio, TV Actor Dies In Wreck PORTLAND Ul - Robert W Amsberry, 29. radio and televi sion actor, was killed early Thurs day when his sports car plunged off a road into a light pole. The accident occurred on High way 26 about 10 miles east of Portland. Amsberry was associated for several years with the Mickey Mouse Club television program in Hollywood as "Uncle Bob." He recently returned to Portland. where he got his start in radio. and was broadcasting for Port land station HEX. GUN STOLEN City police are investigating the recent theft of a gun from the trailer belonging to Everet Stiles of 23 Main Street. The gun is a Browning automaua Motgun. AF Disputes Army Plans NEW YORK (Jfc-The New York Times said today the Air Force has placed a policy paper before the Joint Chiefs of Staff "taking exception to Army proposals for a major program to develop anu missile missiles." A Washington dispatch to the newspaper added that "the Air Force disputes the arguments for a contramissile advanced by Gen. Maxwell D, Taylor, Army chief of staff." The story also said in part Studies on this weapon have figured in service budget presen tations this week before the Joint Chiefs. The Air Force presentation made at the tame time as tne Army's disputes the Army plan on strategic grounds. It also questions whether Army develop ment ot a weapon to aesiroy long range enemy ballistic missiles is advanced for enough to warrant huge expenditures. One Army estimate was that it would cost about six billion dol lars to develop a ballistic missile "Killer" by mi. The Armys ad vocacy of this program was prompted by reported aoviei ad vances in ballistic- missiles. The Times printed a Washing ton story yesterday flaying the Ei senhower administration was be ing urged by the Army to spend between six and seven billion dol lars to produce an operational antimissile by 1961. Secretary of Defense Mcfciroy, asked Yesterday for' comment on the story, said the story "is something I need enligntening on also." McElroy denied that Taylor had placed the antimissile missile pro gram before him. The Times story of vesterdav said Taylor made the proposal to McElroy and the Joint Chiefs ot stall. McElroy said: "There is a great deal we need to know in terms of development before there can be any such program ' put into pro duction. Special Union Fund Reported ST. LOUIS W-Top officers of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters have acknowledged a legal defense fund is being raised and may reach $150,000 President-elect James R. Hoffa predicted the fund would total $75,000 to siuu.uw ano naroio. j Gibbons of St. Louis, an Interna tional vice President, said he will be very happy u tne union can raise $150,000. Both denied Chicago Tribune re ports the fund will be as much as two million dollars. Hoffa said in Detroit the union expects a wave of legal cases in volving officials and business agents, especially if the Team sters are kicked out of the AFL CIO. He said the fund "won't be used for my defense in pending trials. It will be used for the bene fit of business agents." Gibbons said only full-time, paid officers of the 800 Teamsters lo cals in the United States and Can ada are asked to donate. Officials Set Chiloquin Visit CHILOQUIN Stale Treasur er Sig Unander and Mrs. Unan der, accompanied by members of the Klamath County Young Re publicans Club and local Klamath County GOP officials, will be pres ent in Chiloquin at the Masonic Hall for a coffee hour on Satur day, November 23, between 9 and 10:15 a.m. The meeting for the visiting state officials has been ar ranged by the Chiloquin wood River - Fort Klamath GOP Club. Interested persons are Invited to attend and present questions to the state treasurer. Later coffee hours will be at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Larson, 4426 Anderson Street at 1:10 p.m.. and with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Redman. 803 Front Street at 8 p-m. in Klamath Falls. Funerals - FACCH1N MOUNT SHASTA Catholic services were held Monday night and Tuesday morning for M r s. Ermina Facchin, 67, who died on November 15. Surviving are the widower, Valentino Facchin of Mount Shasta; two sons, John F, Facchin of Mount Shasta and Mario Facchin of McCloud. HELD FOR JURY District Judge D. E. Van Vactor bound Rodney T. Holter, 19-year-old local youth. 2135 Orchard Street, over to the grand jury on charges of larceny and set bail at $2,000. Holter was arrested a few weeks ago and charged with stealing automobile parts from an East Main Street used car lot. Arrested with Holter was Fred Alexis, 20-year-old OTI student from Lakeview. who has been re leased by the grand jury. REALLY BL'ILT LONDON UP)-The foreman of a construction gang complained today that his workmen are get ting too arty. They're working too close to a window of a classroom whose stu dents are drawing a nude female model Doctor Soys New Device May Give Sight To Blind NEWARK, N. J. W-"Oh, I can see the light. It was in these words that a woman blind for 18 years de scribed her reaction to a new elec tronic device, her surgeons said. The woman. Betty Corstorphine, 35, underwent a series of tests in Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, Los Angeles, last month using a photo electric cell connected to wires in her brain. "I saw flashes, at one time a bright flash like an electric light bulb, and at another time a gray- Death Takes Basin Pastor The Rev. Charles Austin Water- house, 78, who has served the Keno Mission and other churches in the Klamath Basin as visiting pastor for a number of years, died at Klamath Valley Hospital, No vember 20, following a long ill ness. He had been a resident of Klamath Falls for 15 years and had followed the ministry since he was 20 years of age.. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. J. C. Freeman of this city, and Mrs. Lillice Kridler, Medford; two sons, Roy Watcrhouse, Klam ath Falls and Albert Waterhouse of Lakeview; a sister,- Mrs.Rose Savage, Everett, Washington; also 11 grandchildren. Funeral services will take place from the First Baptist Church on Saturday, November 23, 2 p.m. with Ward's Klamath Funeral Home in charge. Final rites and interment will be in Klamath Me morial Park. Court Hears RR Conductor Weyerhaeuser railroad conduc tor, Dale Hoover, 2145 Darrow Ave nue, testified Thursday morning that he had failed to notify Clinton D. Edwards that their logging train was in the process of backing up on June 13, 1956. Edwards who subsequently lost his right leg four inches be low the knee as a result of the acci dent that occurred in the vicinity of Camp Nine, 40 miles east of here, has filed a $175,000 damage suit against his company, charg ing the timber firm with negli gence. Meanwhile, attorneys Edwin E (Pete) Driscoll, Klamath Falls and James A. Meyers, of Oakland, said that they believed the trial, which began in circuit court M, o n d a y morning, would not be ready for jury deliberation until the middle of next week. Still to testify are other mem- Ders of the train crew and Meyers, reputed to be one of the fihest railroad damage action attorneys on the West Coast, if not the United States, is subjecting each witness to hours of examination and re direct examination. Meyers has yet to call the plain tiff, Edwards, who sits in Judge Vandenbcrg's courtroom with his wife, Alice. Longtime Basin Resident Dies Frank Gabriel, who homesteaded in the Swan Lake area in 1911, and farmed much of his life, died at tl family home near Olene, on November 19. Ho had suffered a heart condition for about three years. Mr. Gabriel, who had lived in Klamath County for 48 years, was a native of Dolni Ostrevlc, Czecho slovakia.' Immediately prior to his death he had been employed by Dant and Warnock, Incorporated, manufacturers of lumber products until the dry kiln closed last sum mer. , Survivors include his w i d o w, Mrs. Sylvia Gabriel: two sons, Frank Jr., and Lincoln Gabriel of Olene; a brother. Joseph, in Czech oslovakia: a stepdaughter, Ruth Kosecr.ms, Ashland; a niece. Pa tricia Wiggins of this city; also two slep-grandchildrcn. Funeral services will take place from the chapel of Ward's Klam ath Funeral Home at 2 p.m. on rriaay, iNovembcr 22, with the Rev. James Overdorff of the First Presbyterian Church officiating. Fi nal rites and interment will be in the Lost River Cemetery, Bonan za. MAN SENTENCED Joseph E. Wahl, a 41-year-old Klamath Falls man who was orig inally charged with driving while intoxicated and later picked up on a bench warrant on charges of jumping $400 bail, was sentenced to nine months in the county jail ana a saw tine inursday morning. The sentencing was in the district court of Judge D. E. Van Vactor. AOSJTDaDDITDS A Normtl HtnA t SPEARS 9 Artkrilie H,n4 niw opeoea sue aoor v health for theosand sufferer who had beea ted to betteve there was aa help for their arthritic and rheomatle aconiea. It TOtJ are tntareated s the treatment that ha released so many from the bondage of pais and ! vaUdlsm, writ for Mr fn literature; aad as your local ehh um 'ie. Pi h J ! Spears Chiropractic Hospital ness as though a light had just gone out, she said. Dr. John C. Button said the test showed that brain cells did not atrophy like unused muscle cells but could be stimulated. . Saying that the test "opens the door to the possibilities of elec tronic vision," he predicted that with adequate funds medical sci ence could refine the apparatus so that within five years almost all blind people could "see" by means of electrical stimulus of the vision centers. "Eventually," he said, "I'm sure we 11 get real sight. Miss Corstorphine expressed a cautious optimism about the ex periment. "I went out there knowing, of course, that I was not going to get my sight back," she said. "I knew it was only a test, that much more research will have to go into It. But someday we re hoping it's soon there may be vision aids for the blind like there are hearing aids." Button, a 46-year-old neurologist who lives in nearby Maplewood, described the device that may eventually be developed as "some thing like a radarscope or tele vision set. Miss Corstorphine. who volun teered for the tests begun last Oct. 28, has been blind since 1939 because of the pressure of an in operable, benign tumor on her op- tie nerve. "It is my understanding that there are different kinds of blind ness," she said. "I seem to have alternating days one day in which everything seems bright and another day in which it seems dark. But, she added, "what I saw in Los Angeles was different I saw flashes. Button, who is also an osteo path, conducted the experiment with Dr.- Tracy Putnam, former professor of neurosurgery at Har vard University and presently chief of neurosurgery at the Ce dars of Lebanon Hospital. First, Button said, wires about half the thickness of a human hair were passed through drilled holes into Miss corstorpmne s Drain. They were then pushed about two inches into the back of the brain to the centers of vision. The wires were attached to a transistor amplifier which, in turn was connected to a small photo electric cell. The theory was that the photoelectric cell would pick up light and convert It into a mild electric charge, tnereoy stimulat ing the brain. Miss Corstorphine was given the cell and told to point it about a partially darkened room. As the cell was pointed toward lights placed about the room, Miss Cor storphine said she received flash es of light. In further tests, Button said, she was able to determine whether the light was to her left or right She could pick up flashes lights1 as dim as a 40-watt bulb, he -said. The device, he said, can work on any blindness except that caused by injury to the center of vision deep in the brain. And, he added, "there aren't many of them." Scout Troop Plans Event FORT KLAMATH - At the pub lic monthly pack meeting of Fort Klamath Scout Troop 34, to be held in the C. I. Clubhouse at 7:30 Friday evening, November 22, achievement night will be cele brated. Handmade articles fash ioned in various projects by scouts during the past year will be on display and Boy Scouts will give a demonstration of knot tying. Awards of achievement feathers will be made by Cub Scoutmaster Gail Culver to Cub Scouts Kim Kizer, Wayne and Kenneth Scott. Refreshments will be served at the close of the meeting by scout mothers Mrs. Lloyd Nicholson and Mrs. Gail Culver, the latter being troop secretary, also. Claude Shepherd is scoutmaster for the Boy Scouts of the troop. Anyone interested is extended a cordial invitation to attend .the pack meeting. OIL ROYALTIES ITNnFMEVARLE PROFITS! NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY! Under a Federal Ruling, Oil Companies have been re aping profit! from public lands for yean. You, too. can profit from thti little known opportunity. Theae speculative leasee are un usually attractive because of the Booming Area In which they are located. Utah's incred ible discoveries have led to de scription of the Fabulous Par adox Basin as one of the LARGEST POTENTIAL OIL RESERVOIR A tn the country. A total investment of only 9190 (time payments if desired) has a potential pay-off in Royalties which la nothing short of fan tastic. For information write: Wm. S. Burn ens. 1017 American Bank Bldg., Portland, Oregon. Dipl. B-M if MMU.aVrttt Jury Dumps Three Cases The Klamath County Grand Jury Thursday dismissed - indict ments against three men, one of whom had been arrested by city police and charged with murder in the second degree. Foreman Peter Rowe said the indictments were dismissed because of "insuf ficient evidence." . The accused murderer is-Tom Alfred, 41, whose address was listed as 826 Spring Street. Al fred was arrested in October for the ibotgun slaying of James Nave, 49, of 520 Broad Street. : Alfred had told authorities that he found Nave at the home of his estranged wife. The two others released are OTI student Fred Alexis, charged with larceny and itinerant laborer Chilers Myles, of Los Angeles. Myles is alleged to have stolen J15 from a Bonanza service sta tion. Alexis, 20, Lakeview, was charged with the theft of car parts from an East Main Street car lot. Tho jury said that- it also had seven true bills, or indictments, but requested that publication of those indicted and their crimes not be made known at the pres ent time pending the serving of warrants by the sheriff's office. Rock 'N Roll Hits Africa NEW YORK M-Rock V roll Is taking over in South Africa, ac cording to a Zulu disc jockey. King Edward Masinga, 41, who conducts a daily Zulu language program in Durban, is in this country on a special State Depart ment grant to study American drama and. broadcasting. Masinga said his program in Durban features the old folk mu sic, but that it is losing out to rock 'n' roll. Even the natives in the back country, he said, buy rock 'n' roll records when they come to town. TV PROGRAM Presentation of "Our Story of the Modocs," a tape slide produced by the students and teachers of the Tulelake Elementary School will be televised over KOTI-TV beginning at 5:30 p.m., Thursday, November 21. RANGER Way ahead in value- WHAT'S IT GOT? 303 horsepower at no additional cost. Heater with single dial control. Foam rubber cushions. Wheel covers. Oil filter. Styling that lis setting the pace. Engineering that makes every Edsel (4 series -18 models) the most convenient, most comfortable car to drive ever built. AND YOU DELIVERED COME IN AND TEST-DRIVE THE RANGER 2-DOOR HARDTOP AT YOUR EDSEL DEALER'S TODAY JUCKELAND EDSEL SALES, INC. Morty fin f PADPV GGTME " FUNNY-HW NCVErT f A CAR OF MV OWN.V WANTED TO HAVE J aaaHE,50NHI5WAV' I'S A CAR BECAUSC HE J J hwe with aJ ffyi TT Two Men Held For KF Police Sheriff's deputies are making ar rangements for the return of two prisoners to ' Klamath County on charges involving violation of pro bation and obtaining money under false pretenses. Being held' by Eugene police is Lew Hatfield, wno was recently placed on probation involving charges of obtaining money under false pretenses, Being held by Kingman, Arizona police is Benny R. Hill, 24-year-old Klamath Falls man who is wanted in this county on charges of obtaining money under false pretenses. POLLUTED AIR CITED NEW YORK (UP)-Dr. Leonard Greenburg, New York city com missioner of Air Pollution Control, said today that, city air pollution from gasoline and diesel exhaust fumes is apparently a major fac tor in causing not only lung can cer but other pulmonary diseases. 2-D00R HARDTOP GET ALL THIS 11th & Klamath Meekle Court Seeks . Lost Evidence SAN FRANCISCO UT-Police to day were investigating the disap pearance oi five -pounds ot opium from the court of Superior Judge Walter Carpeneti where it was to be evidence for a trial. The opium worth $5,000 on the illeeal market and contained in two paper bags vanished yester day. It had . been placed under the counsel table for safekeeping. Obituary WALKER Jay Carlos Walker, 75, a native and resident of Bonanza all of his life, died there November 20. He is survived by a sister, Mrs. Bes sie Campbell, a brother, Clarence Walker, both of Bonanza; also several nephews and nieces. Fu neral services will be held in O'Hair's Memorial Chapel Friday, November 22, at 2 p.m. The Rev. Jesse Alldridge will officiate. In terment will be made in the Lost River Cemetery, Bonanza. FOR ONLY Other models start os low as 28.200 lower than many models of the . low-priced three
