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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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