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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 6, 1958)
ecu? u or ohegoh librae EUSSHE, OHE. 1 fMyiiwll)yiyw mm. 9 J iVi THESE KLAMATH BASIN United Fund supporters were among the honored guests at the UF's fifth annual report meeting Wednesday evening and received plaque awards for the high contributing firms they represent. From left to right seated are Don L Goldinq, Riverside School; Ralph Hemmesch, newly installed UF president who made the presenta tions; and Theodore B. Case, J. W. Kerns Company. From left to right standing are Del bert Folk, Oregon Technical Institute; John Quinn, Medo-Land Dairy; Gene Yadon, Peyton and Company; Ada Sproat, LaPointe's; and Lube Young, East Side Electric. J" Photos by Kettler la The- Day's News By FRANK JENKINS A new Vanguard is waiting to be nestled into its firing pad for an other try to launch an earth satel lite. The navy says the try will be made as soon as it finds out what went wrong with yesterday's locket. The navy is following an old and time-tested maxim: If at first you don't succeed, TRY, TRY AGAIN. Keeping on trying has been re sponsible for most of the progress achieved by .mankind. A statement released late yes terday said the big rocket broke in two pieces because something made it turn sharply to the right about 60 seconds after it took off. These big satellite - launching rockets aren't toys. They cost in the broad, general neighborhood of two million dollars. They have thousands of parts. If any essential part goes wrong, the rocket fiz zles. - Finding out what happened and teeing that it doesn't happen again takes time and involve disappoint ments, but there seems to be no better road to ultimate success. The National Safety Council has been studying types of accidents that took lives and caused injuries during .1957. It reports this morning that ac cidents of all kinds in the U.S. last year took 95,000 lives. High way mishaps were first with 38, 500 deaths. Accidents IN THE HOME came second with 37,500 fatalities. During the year, 9.500,000 per sons were injured in the types of accidents studied. Total cost in volved amounted to 11 BILLION 500 million dollars during the year. One's first Inclination is to say THERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW or, to be more exact, more laws and one supposes that must be true in the case of traffic laws. As traf fic .on our highways changes and increases, there must be new laws and new regulations to meet the changing conditions. But There remains the problem of accidents in the home. Among these accidents, slipping in the bathtub looms rather large. Suppose there was a law against slipping in the bathtub AND YOU SLIPPED AND BROKE YOUR NECK. The law wouldn't help much. Suppose we passed a law forbidding bathtubs and re quiring showers. Suppose you stubbed your toe getting into the shower compartment and came to vour death in the ensuing fall. Again the law wouldn't have helped much. The moral is that CAUTION helps to prevent accidents fatal and otherwise. You can't LEGIS LATE caution. Caution is an IN DIVIDUAL matter. There are many responsibilities that can't be pushed off onto gov ernment by passing a law. Caution is one of them. Hearing Set On Bus Strike PORTLAND i A hearing at 4 p. m. Thursday before U. S. Dist. Judge William East is the next move by Greyhound Bus Lines for an injunction to halt a walkout of 200 drivers. The walkout began Monday in protest against what the men said was discriminatory discharge of a driver who had been involved in an accident. It tied up the line's bus service in western Oregon and extreme Northern California. Wednesdav East turned down the firm's request for a restrain ing order. He said the Motor Coach Employes Union, against which the company sought the order, had not been advised of the court action. The company then asked for an Injunction to 'top the walkout. The union will be represented in Thursday's proceeding. A union spokesman said the drivers had been urged by the onion to return to work and that they had remained idle on their own. 1 -S!' "ft,-! 1 rrr -''iifr i -iiln mi ' m i i DEB ADDISON, right, turned over the presidential reins of the Klamath County United Fund organization to Ralph Hemmesch during the group's fifth annual report and din ner meeting in the First Presbyterian Church Wednesday evening. More than 125 persons attended the dinner, dur ing which the past accomplishments and future goals of the United Fund were outlined by Addison during his outgoing message. Hemmesch Elected Leader Of 7 958 United Fund Drive Ralph Hemmesch was elected president of the Klamath Basin United Fund drive for 1958 during the organization's fifth annual re port and dinner meeting Wednes day evening at the First Presby terian Church. Hemmesch is su perintendent of the Klamath Falls Great Northern Division, and has been an -active worker with the United Fund during past years. Other newly elected officers in clude R. A. Cantrall, first vice president, Frank Ganong, second vice president; Leo Molatore, re elected as treasurer; and Mrs. Charles Alward, secretary. Outgoing president Deb Addison commended the campaign workers for the excellent job done during 1957, and added that one of the principal purposes of the dinner meeting was to honor the em ployes of seven organizations who maintained the Basin's highest per centage of contributing to the drive. The honored firms and or ganizations include East Side Elec tric, Medo-Land Creamery, Peyton and Company, LaPointe's, J. W. Kerns, Riverside School, and Ore gon Technical Institute. Representatives of the firms re ceived commendation UF plaques during the meeting. New members elected to the board of directors were M r s. Charles Alward, Mrs. George Groups Support Federal Purchase Of Reservation WASHINGTON Ml A Senate Indian Affairs- subcommittee heard a lumber organization and two conservation groups Wednes day favor federal purchase of the big pine stands on the Klamath Indian Reservation in Southern Oregon. The Izaak Walton League of America said it wants the govern ment to buy the timber under a bill sponsored by Sen. Neuberger D-Orei. The Citizens Committee on Nat ural Resources favored the same program. But both said an alternative pro posal by the administration would be better than forced sale require ments of the existing law for dis posal of the reservation. Neuberger heads the subcommit tee, which is considering proposals to carry oui terms of the 1954 act under which the government will end its supervision of the tribe in 19W. Exiting law calls for sale by 1960 of parts ot a large stand of Ponderosa pine, with proceeds go ing to Indians who wish to leave the tribe. The timber has been appraised at 118 million dollars. Neuberger's bill proposes that the federal government buy the reservation to hold the timber un der a sustained yield program. 1 The administration has suggest Clark, Mrs. Bill Graham, Bob Harvey, Dr. R. E. Kerwood, Rich ard Laudenschlager, Dick Moeht, Mrs. Ted Rose, Mrs. Richard Smith, Ben Thompson, Dorman Turner, Jack Vaughn, and Herb Waits Jr. Prior members rtf elected to the board included Deb Addison, James Bocchi, Vince Bousquet, Andy Collier, Al Kusler, Leo. Molatore and Ron Phair. Also honored at the meeting were the campaign workers and chairmen of the high contributing outlying areas of the county. Rep resented, were the Henley, Malm Bly. Beatty, Merrill, Chiloquin and Chemult sectors. During his outgoing address Addison pointed to the continued progress of the United Fund drive since its inception in the late 1940's adding that the intent ot the ofiicers and directors is much more than fund raising for charitable purposes. "We must constantly strive to make the organization better and more effective, Addison said, "and through those accomplish ments the United Fund will grow and more completely serve the many areas in which it is active. He outlined the progress made during the past year, cited the job to be done during the year round, work, and stressed the need to" "Get Going Early." ed a plan under which the gov ernment would buy only that part of the timber which private firms would not purchase under sus tained yield requirements or spec ified minimum prices. Leonard Netzog. Portland, rep resenting the Western Forest In dustries Assn., told the subcom mittee Wednesday that timber op erator members of his group want Indians to get a fair price for the timber. But, he said, they do not think Indians would obtain just compensation under the existing law. ' Neuberger said he expected the hearing to close Thursday after testimony by Klamath tribal members. Red Ambassador Heads For U.S. . LONDON in Russia's new am bassador to Washington, Mikhail A. Menshikov, left for the United States today aboard a Soviet TU104 jet airliner. Menshikov arrived yesterday from Moscow aboai d the sleek jet, which is the second to fly to the United States. Last fall the Soviet delegation to the United Nations traveled aboard one of the new planes, which are converted Badger bonjbers. Mm Price Five Cent 24 Paget Accident Toll In U.S. Listed CHICAGO W-Accidents in the United States last year killed 95.- 000 persons and injured 9Vi mil lion others and resulted in an economic loss of nearly 12 billion dollars. The National Safety Council, which announced the figures, said the all-accident death rate of 55.8 per 100.000 population was the lowest on record. The previous low was 55.9 in 1954. The number killed in accidents last year compared with 94,780 in 19a6 when the death rate was 56.7. The council said that one out of every 18 persons in the country suffered a disabling injury last year. Motor ' vehicle accidents, which accounted lor 38,500 deaths last year, retained their traditional role as No..l killer.. The 1956 toll was 39,628, or 3 per cent higher. Deaths in home and work acci dents declined from the , 1956 level. Home accidental deaths dropped .2 per cent of 27,500 and work accident deaths 1 per cent to 14,200. Public deaths resulting from catastrophes, fires and railroad and airplane accidents to'aled 18,000, a 13 per cent increase over the 1956 toll. Last year's over-all accident death rate,. 23 per cent under the 1941 rate, was the fourth in the history of accident records to dip below 60.. The estimated economic loss of $11,800,000,000 included wages lost, medical expense, overhead cost of insurance for all accidents, pro duction delays, damage to equip ment in work accidents and dam age from traffic accidents and fires. ' i Some 20,700 persons died in falls last year, a 2 per cent increase over 1956. There were 6,700 deaths from burns, 6,700 from drowning and 2,250 from firearm accidents. ' . Yemen Chiefs Nasser Confer CAffiO W 'i Yemen's Crown Prince and Egyptian President Nasser began negotiations Thurs day on the Hemeni request to fed erate with the new United Arab Republic. Nasser and Prince Seif El Is lam El Badr met at the same table in the Kubbeh presidential palace where Syria and Egypt agreed last week to merge their countries under Nasser s rule. Yemen's ruler, Iman Ahmed, instructed his son to discuss fed eration with the U.A.R. and not union, which would require- him to quit his throne. Ahmed is ab solute ruler of the 44 million per sons in his undeveloped southwest corner of the Arabian Peninsula SOME, OF OWN MEDICINE WALL1NGTON, England (UP) Attorney Anthony Lewisohn paid a five pound ($14) fine Wednes day for parking his car illegally while he was in court handling a traffic case. ha A GREAT BIG RED APPLE was presented to her teacher, Mrs. C. J. Long, by fourth grader Judy Boyington, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Boyington, recent arrivals in Klamath Falls. Because apples represent approximately 10 per cent of the produce volume in grocery stores across the nation, February 14, Valentine's Day, has received the official des ignation of Apple for Teacher Oay. Judy was just getting ahead of competition by bringing her apple early and her father, who is a local representative tor Pacific Fruit, brought along a box of apples so that the entire class could share in the treaty Photo by Ellis fflmwa mmtm KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, )!- aim nil nyinnwMMnp'ilWW- mm - CHAMBER LEADERS WHO HIGHLIGHTED the annual report forum meeting of the Klam ath County Chamber of Commerce, which was held in the Camas Room of the Winema Hotel Wednesday, were, left to right, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Veatch, "1957 president; R. Frank Tucker, chamber manager; Richard Gallagher, forum chairman; Charles Bane, 1958 president and Bob Mest, first vice president. Tucker, who was the speaker, reviewed cham ber activities for the past year before a crowd of 150. (Story on page four) Shorter Work Week Okayed Mayor Lawrence E. Slater an nounced today that the members of the Klamath Falls Police De partment will begin working a bas ic 40-hour week effective Febru ary 16, 1958. At the present time the department is working a basic 44-hour week. The reduction In the work week will be on a trial basis. Mayor Slater explained, and if it proves unsuccessful, the department will revert to the present 44 hours. This action .was taken following a preliminary report to the mayor and members of the city council who comprise the Police Commis sion of the current police depart ment survey by Inspector Richard Young of the Berkeley Police De partment. The decision to effect a trial 40-hour week was made with the agreement of Chief of Police Orville Hamilton. Inspector Young pointed out that the reduction in work week will not require the addition of any person nel to the police department. It does involve some reorganization of individual assignments and the op eration of the three-platoon syslem which is normal for most police departments, the inspector said. The Berkeley official added that the police survey thus far has in dicated that the reorganization of the department should be instituted for more effective police operations and the reduction in work week is a by-product of the reorganization. WHAT'S IN A NAME? TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (UP) Po lice arrested Cornelius Speed for speeding. 7: Ttjrm THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1958 Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Occasional rain or snow Thursday night, with low 30-35. Cloudy Friday with high 40-45. High yesterday 37 Low last night 31 Precip. last 24 hours 0.06 Since Oct. 1 10.57 Same period last year .... 7.19 Normal for period 7.19 ' CRATER LAKE High yesterday 30 Low last night 25 . 8 a.m. today 30 New snow 5 Snow depth ........140 Highway 6! Is open through the pnrK wuh cualns advised. - The road Is open to the rlin with chains required from Annie Springs to the rim. It was cloudy this forenoon in the park, , TOMAHAWK There are 18 Inches of packed snow for skiing this weekend. Ski tows will run on Friday from noon to 4 p.m. with Instruction for all classes of skiers. Tows will operate on Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Restaurant facilities will all be open. Pay TV Try Veto Asked WASHINGTON Wl The House Commerce Committee asked the Federal Communications Commis sion Thursday to call off its plans for a trial of pay television unless and until Congress approves the idea. Rep. Harris (D-Ark), commit tee chairman, told reporters at the end of a closed session that no member wanted to close the door on new ideas where the pub lic might be benefited. "This doesn't close doors," he said. "It merely asks the com mission to delay taking any action until the matter has been gone into thoroughly. Possibility That Reds Want Breather In Cold War Eyed WASHINGTON Of) Top U.S. officials arc looking into the pos sibility that the Soviet Union wants a breathing spell in the cold war badly enough to make some limited disarmament agreements. President Eisenhower and Sec retary of State Dulles are working on a prompt reply , to Premier Nikolai Bulganin's note of last Sunday about summit conference issues. They intend to keep the way open for a possible meeting. One aim reportedly is to explore all the possibilities of agreement which may be desired by the Sov iet Union and acceptable to the West in spite of the lack of encouragement which Eisenhower found in the latest message from Moscow. The new Soviet ambassador, Mikhail A. .Menshikov, is due here late today. Diplomats won dered whether the successor to Georgl N. Zarubin, who left last month, will have fresh instruc tions about pushing East-West negotiations. Eisenhower conferred for an hour with Dulles and Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson, the U.S. en voy to Moscow who came home 10 days ago for consultations. Thompson gave the President his estimate of the present situation in Russia and the possibilities of Soviet interest in easing off the cold war. Then Duljcs talked with Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 4015 State Jobless Figure Gains SALEM Ufi The number of unemployed persons in ' Oregon now stands at 75,000, the highest total since the big freezes of 1949 and 1950, the Oregon Unemploy ment Compensation Commission reported Thursday. Unemployment in southwestern Oregon was eased slightly during January as mud weather permit ted continuance of logging opera tions. But. the 'number ot jobless in the Portland area increased by 5,000.. . The Portland four-county arei has 30,700 without jobs, compared with 22,300 at last winter s peak. The rest of the counties have 44,300 jobless, compared with 41,- 500 a year ago. The commission paid $6,884,704 in benefits last month, an all time record. That was 2 million dollars more than the former high in January, 1950. The average weekly benefit check now is about $34, compared with $21.50 eight years ago. The number of persons filing claims is running about 50,000 a week, but the commission said it expects a decline if the weather remains mild. Six thousand persons have ex hausted their benefits, so can't get any more until the next fiscal year begins July 1. The number of such persons is rising at a rate of 1,000 per week. EMBARRASSING BUMP NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UP)- El- don Kay Rippey, Coy Mack Mccks, James E. Baggctt and .lames L. Ferguson crossed the railroad tracks too fast, and to day lace safe robbery charges as the result. A police car happened to be be hind the men's auto when the bump from the crossing jarred open the auto's trunk lid and dis closed the stolen safe. Eisenhower for an additional hour. Earlier, the President himself told a news conference that he and his advisers "are working very hard ... to see whether there Is any possible approach that we can make that will be appealing and which might lead after proper preparation to some kind of a meeting." But he indicated that Bulgan in's letters on the subject had giv en little encouragement to that prospect. Although some officials consid er Bulganin's series of letters only a propaganda effort, others be lieve that the Soviets, because of internal problems, actually feel the need of a breathing spell suf ficiently to agree to some meas ure of arms limitation and con trol. One Internal problem, according to the best information available to Washington authorities, is that the Soviet people urgently want assurance of peace and this public opinion is something the Kremlin must reckon with. Another is the Soviet drive to ward the fastest possible -expansion of industrial jroductlon. Soviet leaders also are confront ed with problems of persistent restlessness In the hastcrn Euro pean countries uler Communist rule, Top British Ba I Players On Plane MUNICJI. Germany OR-A Brit ish European Airways plane car rying Britain's championship soc cer team crashed on a takeoff Thursday and German police said at least 20 of the 44 person! aboard were killed. A Munich hospital spokesman said 15 to 20 injured had been rushed there and some were un dergoing operations. Eleven sports writers also were reported on the Elizabethan air liner. A BEA spokesman in London said, "We know of only 15 survi vors although we hope there will be more." The two-engined airliner crashed into houses in the village of Kirchdruding and burst into flames. A BEA spokesman In London said some of the survivors includ ed some members of the team. the famous Manchester United. He said among the other survi vors were four of the crew of six. Police feared at least two mem bers of a German family were killed when the plane struck their home. Rescue teams were still at the burning wreckage trying to pull out the injured. Fire brigades were rushed to the scene to quell the flames that spread to two buildings in the vi cinity of the crash. ... Police threw a tight cordon around the accident scene. The spokesman said his infor mation was that the plane plunged feet to the ground after takins! off. : The team has been called the "Busby Babes" to emphasise the youthfulness of the players, moat of them in their early 20s. - It played the Red Star team al Belgrade in the European cup match Wednesday, which ended nt a 3-3 draw, but sent the English club into the semi-f 1 n a 1 1. The club, with 17 players andV three officials, was ' returning to Eng land. The team has been outstanding: in post-war soccer,, and. man tar- man was one of the most valuable in the world. -. .- The players were valued at an estimated 300,000 , pounds. ($340y 000) in fees they would bring it transferred to other club. ' A plane crash in May. 194 alM involved a European soccer club. -The Torino team of Turin, Italy, were all killed when their plan. crashed into a Turin church. Another sports catastrophe oc curred in March, 1950, . when 80 fans perished in a plane crash. in Wales. They were returning home from an Ireland-Wales . rugby in ternational match. Ike Ponders Cultural Plan NEW YORK Wl President Eisenhower is considering a plan for a worldwide cultural confer ence to seek "new and better ways for human beings to exist peaceably together" and to bene fit more from scientific discov- ics. Sherman Adams, the President's chief aide, disclosed the project last night. He said the President last week 'asked some able people to con sider how such a project might be initiated." Adams, describing the scope of the proposed conference, asked this rhetorical question: "Who if there who can say that a convo cation in this country of scholars, historians, artisans, theologians, educators, sociologists, philosoph ers, artists and musicians rep resentatives of the cultural pur suits of all the human race meeting each other in their re spective groups could not sug gest new and better ways for human beings to exist peaceably together and to reap the greatest rewards from man s scienimc discoveries?" Adams discussed the project in addressing a Dartmouth College national alumni dinner. He is a graduate of Dartmouth, at Han over, N.H., and a former gover nor of New Hampshire. Adams suggested that' a confer ence such as the one under con sideration might be organized and sponsored better by American colleges and universities than by the U.S. government. , He added: "For this must be no propaganda effort or labeled as such. It must be undertaking by those whose contributions offer the best promise of making it a success." TAKES THE LONG WAT ALTMORE. Northern Ireland (UP) Farmer Harry McVeigh will break a window the next time he's locked out of his house. He forgot his key Wednesday and rather than mar his newly decorated house by breaking in, decided to slide down the chim ney. Rescuers pulled him out IS hours after be got stuck halfway down. t
