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COMP 0 Or OEEQOM LIBRARY CUOEXt, 0&. fo) mm President To Seek Tax Cat If Business Lag Continues WASHINGTON W - President Eisenhower said Wednesday it could be the administration will recommend a tax cut if an ex pected business upturn fails to de velop about midyear. The President his voice very hoarse and husky because of a cold told a news conference, however, that he still believes it is reasonable to assume business will pick up about the middle of the year. Eisenhower said he looks for the current business recession la The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS In a speech delivered at Athens Ohio, United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold of fered some observations on pub licity that are worth serious con sideration here in the United States of America. He warned his hearers that TOO MUCH PUBLICITY may hamper international negotiations. Mass media,' he said (meaning all the newspapers, all the radios, all the TVs, etc.) can be MISUSED under certain circumstances for harmful propaganda. He added: "The best results of negotiation can not be achieved in the full glare of publicity." Fnr pvamnlp- Suppose you were considering selling your business n you could get an attractive offer. Suppose that at evprv nptrntMiHnEr spcsinn with prospective buyers you called in an me reporters thus, among other things, tipping off all your competitors to everything you were doing. What wnllM hnnnpn? The chances are you wouldn't make a deal. The people's business, as well as private business, n e e d s to be transacted WISELY. It is seldom wise to carry on negotiations wmch, in the case of the PEO PLE'S business, can be so touchy ana delicate as to involve the pos sibility of WAR if something goes wrong in a fishbowl or on a soap box at a street corner. .In negotiations dealing -with the public's business, it needs partic ularly to be remembered that there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip. Let's take a look at this Van guard satellite business. The failure this morning, com ing on the heels of other failures, has cast a reaction of gloom over the country and has HEARTENED our enemies. It has dimmed the glory of the army's SUCCESS FUL launching of a satellite. It has given the Russian propa gandists an opportunity to paint us to the world in general as a nation of bunglers who get a break now and then but can't be de pended on for consistent and busi nesslike PERFORMANCE. We'll have to admit that the Russians were smarter than we in their satellite project. Nobody knows how many times they tried before they hit it. Maybe DOZENS of times. But they kept MUM about it. Thus they were able to present the world with a FACT ACCOMPLISHED. If they had failures along the line, nobody knew anything about them. They probably DID have fail ures. t hese satellite-launching missiles (Continued on Page Four) lAST CHECK of the audit figure of the Klamath County United Fund, before the annual meeting tonight at the First Presbyterian Church, was made by Leo Molatore, seated, treasurer of the UF, Al Bellotti, left, accountant with Kenneth Lambie, and Rex Dye, right, executive secretary of United Fund. All audit records are included in the annual report and are on file in the county clerk's office in accordance with the Oregon Nonprofit Cor porate laws. Tonight's dinner meet at 7 o'clock is open to the public. Board members end efrtcert will be elected during the business session. certainly to continue through this month and next. But as summer comes on, he added, there should be an uptrend. A reporter asked whether the administration will be for a tax cut if the expected uptrend does not materialize. - It could be, Eisenhower replied. He went on to say that a reduc tion certainly would be a real stimulant to business. He added, however, that it would be possible to go too far in the tax cut direction. Eisenhower commented that it wasn't very long ago that the country was concerned about in flation. Eisenhower developed a cold and what the White House called a slight sore throat on his return from a weekend of golf and gen eral relaxation at Augusta, Ga. He turned up at the news con ference looking, in the opinion of some newsmen, a bit pale and somewhat listless. His voice was extremely hoarse and he remarked at the outset of the session, with a slow grin. that because of the condition of his vocal chords he would appre ciate long questions he could an swer yes or no. This is Eisenhower s first an nounced indisposition since he suf fered a minor stroke last Nov. 25. Eisenhower also dealt with these other matters: SUMMIT CONFERENCE T h e United States is working very hard in an effort to make a sum mit conference with the Russians possible. But at this point, Eisen hower said, he sees no basis for any truly favorable conclusion on Employment Figures Told Guy Barker, manager of the Klamath Falls employment office, reported in his January summary that approximately 84 per cent of the covered workers in Klamath County have been employed up to the present time, and more are being called back to work each week. 'J The 16 per cent of insured work ers who were unemployed for two weeks or more during January were paid approximately 180,500 in benefits from Oregon and other state and federal programs. "This looks like a large amount of mon ey to pay out in this county," Barker commented, "but when di vided among 1,400 workers i gives each an average of $128.98 for a full month." The number unemployed during January of this year, Barker re ports, is only eight per cent above last year's figure and can be ac counted for in a large degree by our increase in labor force during 1957. The chamber of commerce reports a total of 732 new families have settled in Klamath Falls dur ing 1957. Their estimates show a net gain in population of 1,330 peo ple in 1957 for the county. "Under present economic condi tions;" Barker speculates, "it is evident that our labor force will continue to increase faster than the number of new jobs avail able." The local employment office is the gathering point for people looking for work of all kinds. Bar ker urged all employers to use this service where trained men will carefully select workers to fit their needs. Barker also reports that 140 high school seniors who intend to en ter the labor market after graduating next spring were given aptitude tests during January to give them a better idea of the type of occupation to pursue. either of two points: That U. S. Soviet relations have improved, or that the prospects for a sum mit meeting are better. That was in response to a ques tion as to whether he feels the series of letters he and Soviet Premier Bulganin have exchanged contributed to any betterment of relations. On a related point, Eisenhower :nid emphatically that the United States will never agree unilateral ly to creation of any atom-free zone in Europe as part of a dis armament plan. The other free nations con cerned, Eisenhower said, are ex posed to great danger with re spect to Russia, and they must be participants in any agreement regarding establishment of a zone clear of nuclear arms. DOERFER One of his law yers has advised him, Eisenhower said, that members of federal reg ulatory commissions are entitled to accept reasonable honorariums, or fees, for such things as making speeches. Eisenhower made that remark when asked whether he thinks it proper for members of such com missions to accept such fees. The questioner obviously had in mind the case of John C. Doerfer, chairman of the Federal Commu nications Commission, whose ac ceptance of fees is under invest igation by a House subcommittee. ADAMS Eisenhower said he sees no basic difference between lihimself and his chief aide, Sher man Adams, with respect to polit ical speeches they made last Jan 20. ' In his speech, Eisenhower called for leaving defense out of politics in this year s congression al election campaigns. In another speech the same night, Adams accused the Democrats of "polit icking with national defense." ' STASSEN Eisenhower put in a political plug for Harold E Stassen, his disarmament adviser, if Stassen decides to run for gov ernor of Pennsylvania. There were published reports last weekend that Stassen either would resign soon to bid" for the governorship on the Republican ticket, or Eisenhower would re quest his resignation as presiden tial disarmament aide. Eisenhower said Stassen has many traits which would be ad mirably fitted for such an office (the governorship). - . - . SATELLITES Eisenhower had no direct comment on the Navy's second failure to get its Vanguard (Continued on Page Four) Rain Storms Pelt Oregon By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A series of rapidly moving storms swept into California Wednesday morning, bringing rain to Southern Oregon. Northwestern sections of Oregon had cloudy weather. Clouds and showers are expected Thursday and throughout the rest of the week as weather conditions remain unsettled, the Weather Bureau said. Western Oregon can expect lows of 35 to 45 degrees Wednesday night. In Eastern Oregon the lows will range from 22 to 34 degrees and there may be some snow in colder areas. Nearly an inch of rain fell at Brookings on the Southern Oregon coast in the 24-hour period ending early Wednesday. North Bend had half an inch. The rain tapered off in northern Oregon and eastern sections reported only a trace of precipitation. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY S, 1958 Price Five Cents 12 Paget Telephone TU 4-8111 III:,.. - S-itElj THESE KLAMATH COUNTY YOUNGSTERS earned a guided tour of Southern Pacific facil ities Tuesday because of their effort toward better oral health during National Dental Week which ends Saturday, February 8, The children are members of the second grade classes of Miss Irma Wauchope of Fairview School, Mrs. Julia Cullen of Mills School and Mrs, Lucille West of Merrill School. All three classes were tied at the end of the judging. Dr. H, Melvin Amsberry, contest judge, said that the county health nurses are to be congratulated for their work during the judging. He said they instructed the children in the proper methods of brushing and gave toothbrushes to youngsters who did not have them. For many youngsters, it was their first train ride. - Photo by Kettler Cold Yeather Grips Florida MIAMI, Fla. Wl Miamians scraped ice off car windshields Wednesday as temperatures fell to 28 degrees in the suburbs. Lawns were white with frost and ice formed in birdbaths and puddles. Householders were up early to hose the icy crystals from plants. The temperature was 45 in down town Miamf and on Miami Beach but outlying districts were much chillier. It was the third blow of the sea son for winter-weary farmers and citrus men. Oddly, it was warmer at Pen- sacola in extreme northwest Flor ida 48 degrees than.in south Florida. It was 41 at West Palm Beach, 29 at Tampa, and 32 at Orlando. Crop experts saw the greatest danger to low-ground citrus and to plants set out alter mid-December and early January freezes. Earlier cold snaps ruined about 37 million boxes of citrus and dam aged other fruit. The flower industry neared to tal destruction. Frost and low temperatures, followed by heavy rains, ruined thousands of acres of pastures and left hundreds of cattle to starve. Tourists, one of the state's prin ciple industries, have failed to arrive in the expected numbers. Some who came left quickly; many headed for the. Caribbean to escape the cold. . Temperatures began falling In north Florida Monday night but a rise in the mercury after midnight dulled the killing force on citrus. AF Reveals New Type Gun FORT WORTH, Tex. (UP) The B58, the Air Force's fastest jet bomber, is armed with a modern version of the galling gun that can fire 7,000 rounds a minute from six rotating barrels, it was officially disclosed today. The B58, officials have indicated flies safely at about 1.150 miles an hour. It can fly faster, but probably would melt from air friction if allowed to. The gun is mounted in the tail of the plane in a special conical turret. August C. Esenwein, vice pres ident of Convair, which makes the plane at Fort Worth, said en gineers faced a melting problem in trying to find a gun that would shoot 7,000 rounds a minute. They turned to the multi barreled gun which R. J. Catling developed in 1861 and which was Unit used in the Civil War. "Catling got pretty close with his gun," Esenwein said. "We just improved the feeding mech anism and substituted a motor for the hand crank." While one barrel of the Gatling Gun on the B58 is firing, another is discharging a used casing and still another is being loaded. BETRAYED DY GOATEE WAYNESBURG. Pa. UP- John Martincc's pride led to his downfall. The 23-year old Martinec had been proud of his goatee. But the hirsute adornment led to his un doing when It proved the identi fying factor after his arrest Tues day on six charges of burglary. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Partial clearing Wednes day night and Thursday. Low Wednesday night 28-33; high Thursday 45-52. High yesterday .. 43 Low last night 27 Precip. last 24 hours Tr. Since Oct. 1 ...10.51 Same period last year ..- 7.19 Normal for period 7.14 CRATER LAKE High, yesterday' 35 Low last night --..i..':.. 24 8 a.m. today 25 New snow . 2 Snow depth . 138 Last year 73 It was snowing this morning at Crater Lake National Park. Roads are open; chains advised for travel over Highway 62 through the park; chains required from Annie Springs to the rim. State Water Outlook Good PORTLAND W - There will be a better than average supply of water for irrigation in Oregon this year, the U.S. Soil Conservation Service said Tuesday. W. T. Frost, snow survey super visor for the federal agency and for the Oregon Agriculture Exper iment Station, said that throughout the state, the snow cover is well above what it was last year. The supply of water in reservoirs now also is above normal. In addition, the water content of the mountain snowpacks is 124 per cent of normal, compared with 70 per cent of normal at this time in 1957. Frost -said the snowpack ranges from 91 per cent normal in the Hood River-Wasco County area, to 156 per cent in the Umatilla-Walla Walla region. Soils under the snow are wet in most watersheds. And the soil moisture in lower elevations has improved recently due to warm rains and the snow melt. Stored water in 24 important reservoirs is 127 per cent of the 15-year average and the stream flow for the irrigation season is expected to be normal or better. The stream flow forecasts range from a low of 83 per cent at Hyatt Lake in the Rogue Basin to 125 per cent at Gerber Reservoir in the Klamath Basin. Israel Denies Syrian Claim JERUSALEM UP1 Denying Syr ian charges, Israel says the men it has in the demilitarized zone along the Syrian border aren't troops, ' they're civilian police clearing mines left from the 1948 war. An Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman said last night the mine-clearing began three months. ago and the U.N. was notified. Earlier in the day Syria claimed that 60 Israeli soldiers had moved into the area, supported by four armored tars. The Syrians also said a jet plane flew over the demilitarized zone. Without saying it was the same plane, army headquarters in Tel Aviv announced an Israeli military plane, flying over Israeli territory, was fired on from a Syr ian position but was not bit. No. 4014 Bus Drivers Remain Idle PORTLAND W) Greyhound buses again Wednesday were idle on all Western Oregon scheduled runs as drivers stayed away from work in a wildcat strike. The company asked for a fed eral court order directing them to return to their jobs. A hearing was set for Wednesday morning before U.S. Diet. Judge William G. East. The drivers quit work Monday afternoon in what was understood to be a protest over a discharge. Company officials said they had no information that this was the course, but R. J. Olson, union secretary, said the drivers told him it was. The discharge was appealed and a hearing on the appeal was held here by the company Tuesday afternoon. A decision by the com pany is expected to be announced from its San Francisco head quarters, but there was no indi cation when that might be. What would be the course of the drivers if the appeal went against the fired man was uncer tain. At union headquarters no one would comment, saying that the strike was unauthorized in the first place, and the men had been told by the union to get back to work. The company pinned its hopes on early settlement on the federal court hearing. Its complaint says the union, the Motor Coach Employes Union, "permitted in spired, directed or condoned" the walkout, and it asked an injunc tion against the union and dam ages from it for company losses. Coastal points have no other bus service and no rail lines. Only Astoria and North Bend are served by air. Inland cities of Western Oregon have access to the South ern Pacific railroad and to Con tinental Trailways. Eisenhower Says McElroy Will Supervise All Government Outer Space Programs WASHINGTON W - President i Eisenhower said Wednesday Sec retary of Defense McElroy will direct all outer space programs in the Defense Department at this time. Eisenhower . told his news con ference the scientists who are ad vising him expect to work out a program of outer space develop ments which they believe are pos sible and probable. He said this program will be distinct from defense projects in the space field. The defense program will be pushed under the direction of Mc Elroy and his assistants, the Pres ident said. Eisenhower said that Wernhcr von Braun and other scientists would be among the last to pre dict any timing for projects such as Sending a rocket to the moon. But he said the scientists who are now working for him intend to rough in a program of outer space achievement. He said they are not so much interested in a time schedule as they are in organiz ing for space projects. The President made his news conference comments as Repub lican senatorial leaders lined up solidly against any hasty move to take control of satellites and space weapons programs out of the De fense Department. Senators hnowland (R-Califi Bridges R-.II and Saltonstall iR-Mass) said in separate inter- views they believe any precipitate' ) run niia CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. (A i The Navy's second Vanguard sat ellite rocket roared skyward to day but ended just like the first in a fiery explosion. sixty seconds after a beautiful takeoff at 2:33 a.m., the bullet shaped Vanguard wobbled crazily. broke into two pieces and was de stroyed by the test range safety officer. If the flight had succeeded, the Navy would have put a tiny moon into orbit with the Army s Explorer, which was fired aloft Friday by the Jupiter-C missile. But the Vanguard climbed only about 20.000 feet into a cold, starry sky before the safety officer, R. D. Stephens, pressed the button that blew it apart and sent it plunging toward the ocean in fiercely blaz ing fragments. So the Soviet Union, having launched two Sputniks, still holds a numerical lead. Sputnik I dis integrated Jan. 4 but Sputnik II, carrying a dead dog, still whirls around the earth. The first Vanguard rocket, fired here Dec. 6, struggled upward only four feet before it toppled over and was partly consumed in its own flames. A fuel line leak, causing a loss of pressure in the combustion chamber, was blamed for that spectacular mishap, which dam aged U.S. prestige abroad at a time when the Soviet Union had the only satellites in the skies. Experts had hoped that the les sons learned from that first fail ure would help pave the way to success on the next attempt, but officials emphasized before to day's attempt that the odds against getting the Vanguard's 3V4-pound moon into orbit still were 1,000 to 1. The slender, 72-foot rocket left the ground sureiy and gracefully, riding a witch s broom of lemon- colored fire straight up into the blue-black sky. Its blazing exhaust lighted the countryside and the roar of its engines shook sleeping persons awake for miles around. Observers watching the blastoff from vantage points inside the test center -shouted as the Van guard began its arrow-true climb. But their cheers died in their USH Pressing A-Sub Project WASHINGTON M The Navy is pressing for permission and more than a billion dollars to build nine special nuclear' submarines to fire the Polaris 1,500-mile ballistic missile. - This would be a tripling of the present program for three such crafts. Navy spokesmen argue the Polaris, now nearlng the status of a war-ready weapon, teamed with special submarines would give the United States the striking equiv alent of a 5,500-mile Interconti nental Ballistic Missile. The Navy's plans were disclosed in testimony made public Wednes day by the House Services Com mittee, which questioned Secre tary of the Navy Thomas G. Gates at a secret session last Fri day. Even in censored form, Gates testimony appeared to indicate the Navy might have as many as three of the proposed submarines ready in 1960. He said that with the go-ahead and the money, the nine could be built in the time originally planned for three. It would take more than a bil lion dollars," he said, to be spent ovei about three years. Gates said he is recommending the stepped up program to Secre tary of Defense McElroy. action to create a separate space agency under civilian control might interrupt vital efforts to match the Soviet Union in the race to the stars. President Eisenhower has di rected Dr. James M. Killian Jr., his science adviser, to look into the matter and report to him whether the space program should be left in the Pentagon or trans ferred to a new agency. A Senate -House conference committee dominated by Demo crats skirted any final decision on the issue of civilian-vs.-mili- tary control. It wrote into an Air Force construction bill compro mise language allowing the secre tary of defense to go ahead for a year with development of mis siles, rocket weapons systems and satellites, The terms of the compromise avoided either authorizing or pro hibiting the establishment of the Advanced Research Projects Agency within the Defense De partment to manage missiles and satellite programs. Secretary of Defense McElroy has contended he already has authority to establish the agency under his direct control. Under the compromise language he could direct the development of systems and military requirements through "his designee." Previous ly the individual services have had a large measure of control over this work. Presidential approval would be iuhguii throats when they saw the missile incline too sharply, break up and plunge back toward the moonlit Atlantic. One huge ball of brilliant fire seemed for a moment to be spin ning back in the general direction of the test center and an alarmed observer yelled: "Look out, it's coming our way!" But the fireball disappeared at it neared the ground. At the same time, other sparkling fragments were seen plummeting into the ocean two to three miles offshore. Officials Clash At FCC Probe WASHINGTON W) Members of a House subcommittee and their chief counsel, Dr. Bernard Schwartz, clashed publicly Wednesday when Schwartz chal- lenged the credibility of FCC Chairman John C. Doerfer. Doerfer is one of five Federal Communications Commission (FCC) members against whom Schwartz and his aides have made accusations of personal mis conduct. Doerfer was testifying for the third straight day before a House Commerce subcommittee investi gating the big federal regulatory agencies. He has defended as legal and proper his acceptance at times of expense payments from the radio-TV industry which FCC regulates. Chairman Moulder (D-Mo) up held Schwartz in his cross-examination of Doerfer in the face of tart objections from both Repub lican and Democratic committee members. Rep. Harris (D-Ark), chairman of the parent Commerce Commit tee, declared we re not here to determine the credibility of the witness and demanded that Schwartz let the record speak for itself. Both Harris and Rep. Flynt (D- Ga) objected to what they termed repetitious questions of Doerfer by Schwartz, but were overruled by Moulder. At one point Flynt said it the subcommittee was going 'to allow 5chw.artz to "repeat and repeat and repeat," he had other things to do. i j - - Rep. Bennett (R-Mich) said the subcommittee was in the position of trying a witness for a felony. Reps. Hale (R-Maine) and O'Hara (R-Minn) also objected to the line of questioning taken by Schwartz. President Eisenhower told hie news conference Wednesday mem bers of the regulitory agencies are entitled by law to take reason able pay for speeche- before trade associations. Food Prices Show Decline NEW YORK (if) Wholesale food prices eased this week for the first time since before Christ mas, Dun & Bradstreet reported Wednesday. At $6.47 the organization's food index compared with $6.52 last week and was 5.S per cent higher than the $6.13 figure in the year ago week. The index represents the total cost at wholesale of one pound each of 31 foods in general use. Meat prices helped pull the in dex down this week. The list of foods declining also included wheat, milk, eggs and potatoes. Only six foods were higher corn, rye, oats, lard, tea and cocoa. required -for space projects with no immediately military applica tion, such as the Navy's Van guard. Both the Senate and the House are expected to approve terms of the compromise, but it could bring sharp debate in both houses. Knowland, Senate Republican leader, forecast that Congress will be asked to act in this session on the Issue of civilian-vs.-military control of space projects. He said he hasn't made up his own mind on the question but believes any hasty shift in responsibility might delay missile development. Bridges, chairman of the Sen ate GOP' Policy Committee and senior Republican on the Armed Services Committee, said that "for the time being at least, this program should be left in the De fense Department." "I'm afraid there would be dup lication of effort which would de lay matters if we started to set up a new agency now," he said. "I am in favor of civilians par ticipating in the work but there will be time In the future to de cide if a new agency Is needed." Saltonstall, head of the Confer ence of All GOP Senators, said he believes that for some time to come the satellite prograi.i must be handled by the military to avoid confusion. He said an ulti mate decision on the issue of - civilian-vs.-military management can be made when Congress hai 'more information. . " I
