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la The- Day's Sews By FRANK JENKINS President Eisenhower who is the Republican party's leader) is predicting a quick upturn in the national economy. He says t h e change for the better should be noticeable as early as next month and should be clearly apparent to EVERYBODY by mid-summer. He says he bases his opinion on the best advice he has been able to get as well as on his own per sonal opinion. . The Democrats, almost without exception, are predicting worse to come. Commenting on Ike's pre diction, Senator Paul Douglas of Illinois says: "I remember how a former Republican President made similar remarks back in 1930 and 1931." Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota urges tax cuts, "mas- sive" school construction, s'l u m clearance and other public works In general, his idea seems to be that the doors of the treasury should be pried open and the mon ey permitted to spill out in a gold en stream which everybody can dip into more or less at will, In both cases, the political rea soning is clear. If an upturn doesn't come, the GOP is a dead duck. If it does come, the Democrats must be able to make out a case that it came BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY DID and IN SPITE OF WHAT THE RE PUBLICANS DID. So much for the politics of the situation. Let's take a look now at some purely business state ments, which represent the think ing of free enterprisers who are looking forward to the future and making plans for it. Pan American World Airways an nounces it will build a 15 to 20 million dollar jet overhaul base at Miami. Construction is scheduled to start about July 1. American Can Company's Dixie division will open a three million dollar plant at Lexington Kentucky this year. A Canco official says the firm also will expand its paper fa cilities in Darling South Carolina, Fort Smith Arkansas and Anaheim California. Ralston Purina Company says it plans to build a major cereal plant on a 20-acre site in the Cincinnati area. The expected cost isn't an nounced. Construction will begin immediately. The Bank of America will dou ble the size of its proposed new San Francisco office building on Market street near Van Ness. The building will be eight stories high, and bank officials say it will be designed so that additional stories can be added as needed. More than 1,000 employees will work in the building, which will supplant the Russ .building as the city's big gest office structure. These new plans represent CON FIDENCE.. backed by MONEY. . If confidence in the future con tinues, there will be NO depression. If confidence Is lost, there will be a depression and no possible shots In the arm can prevent it. What the future holds for all of us will ,be determined far more by the business people of our coun try who are trying to make a liv ing for themselves and their- em ployees than by the politicians who are reaching for political power. That's about the long and the short of it. wm j : Price Five Cents 24 Paget - KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY IS, IMS Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 40U Schwartz Accuses FCC Commissioner War Threat Issued i By Tunisian Leader TUNIS tfl President Habib Bourguiba said Thursday that he would personally lead the Tuni sian people in a guerrilla war if necessary to get French troops off Tunisian soil. The Tunisian president in a speech recorded for radio delivery later in the day, warned French authorities that any armed effort to break out of their blockaded bases in Tunisia would be met by force. ' Bourguiba added, however, that he did not despair of seeing wis dom gain control on the French side. He said he 'still wanted to negotiate with France, but only Iraq-Jordan Merger Hears AMMAN, Jordan (ffl Prepara tions continued Thursday for sign ing the proclamation federating the kingdoms of Iraq and Jordan. A government spokesman said the ceremony may take place late Thursday or Friday after Iraq's Crown Prince Abdul Ilah- arrives. Ilah, who was regent of Iraq until King Faisal turned 17, wields considerable power in his home country. The delay in his ar rival was believed to be one of the things delaying the proclamation. The new federation, regarded as a balance to the new united Arab Republic of Egypt and Syria, re ceived a message from pro-West ern King Saud of Saudi Arabia expressing his endorsement. Official sources already have said Saud might join the federa tion if Iraq pulls out of the American-sponsored Baghdad Pact. Jordanian officials are trying to avoid giving the impression that the new federation is a challenge and an answer to the U.A.R. after the evacuation of the 15,000 French troops on his soil. Bourguiba recorded his speech as tension mounted throughout his country and the French reported increasing minor incidents involv ing French troops, bases and civilians. France warned - the Tunisians through diplomatic channels that further grave incidents might arise as a result of Tunisian refusal to allow French forces to supply their garrisons. . The French also carried their case again to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. At a meet ing of the Atlantic Council in Paris, French Delegate Etienne Crouy-Chanel reported for the sec ond straight day on the French- Tunisian difficulties arising from the French bombing of the Tu nisian frontier village of Sakiet Sidi Youssef. The Tunisian president set aside French arguments that the sup plying of the blockaded garrisons with food should be allowed as a humanitarian move. He said the evacuation of these troops to France would solve the problem At the end of the recording ses sion a newspaperman asked the Bourguiba: "If France would ac cept the mediation of the United States to return harmony to the relations between France and Tu nisia to put an end to this situa tion, would you agree to withdraw your complaint to the United Na tions?" Bourguiba replied, "Yes, 1 would." Tax Reduction Study Planned WASHINGTON W) House Speaker Rayburn said Thursday Democratic leaders are going to start a review "pretty soon" to see where a tax cut might do the most good if there is a tax cut. Rayburn was asked at a news conference about possible congres sional steps in view of the eco nomic downswing and mounting unemployment. Senate Democratic leader John son (D-Tex) is helping shape up a multi-point anti-recession pro gram, Heart Fund Events Slated The annual nationwide Heart Fund campaign, moving into high gear to be climaxed by Heart Fund Sunday on February 23, is being assisted locally by various activi ties, according to Robert L. Mason, Klamath County chairman. Mayor Lawrence Slater has pro claimed Saturday, February 15, as Red Heart Day. Members of the Pep Peppers Club and Future Nurs es of Klamath Union High School will sell small red plastic lapel pin hearts down town during the day. Mrs. Vern Schortgen has been named chairman for the Sunday campaign when direct solicitation will be made by voluntary workers throughout Klamath County. Work ers are still needed and anyone who can give even a few hours time are asked to call Mrs, Charles Switzler Jr., TU 2-3055. Mailing address for contributions is Heart, care of Postmaster, Klamath Falls, Oregon. Mason, in explaining the use of money collected during the cam paign, says that heart research in Oregon gets 30 per cent: national research 25 per cent; professional education, public education, com munity programs, administration and cardiac rehabilitation 45 per cent. There are six ways to guard the heart: (1) Don't guess, ask your doctor: 12) control your weight: (31 get plenty of sleep; (4) keep physically fit: (5) ease up and rest, and (6) contribute to the heart fund. Crews Rush To Aid Youth SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. W- A weak handwave from a boy lying helpless on a ledge In a snowy canyon spurred efforts Thursday to reach him while he still is alive. Fourteen-year-old Donald Burns fell 300 feet into the steep-sided, 900-foot-deep canyon Wednesday while on a hike. Wednesday night there was bone-chilling fog, rain and snow. This morning at 7:23 a.m. res cuers peering down frorn the lip of the canyon ' saw the lad wave feebly. A team of four mountaineers de scended the canyon slopes ropes, while another team, using alpine gear, worked its way up from the bottom. 'Spaceman' Going Strong SAN ANTONIO, Tex. Wl Air man Donald Farrell was doing "just fine" on his fifth day on his simulated moon flight, Air Force scientists said Thursday. They said he was just as alert and cheerful today as when he entered his compact space cabin last Sunday at 9:3s a.m. CM. Lt. Col. George R. Steinkamp head of the department of space medicine, School of Aviation Med icine, at Randolph Air Force Base, refused to predict when fa tigue might beset Farrell. Farrell began his fifth day of the test with a breakfast of soup and toast, which he prepared him self. Wednesday night's dinner in cluded lobster. Steinkamp announced that ad ditional tests are planned. "We plan to keep this space chamber 'busy," he said. V " mm w m COPCO'S NEW SUBSTATION at Chiloquin was activated Wednesday, February 12. Shown here examining the new $850,000 facility are, left,. Hank Fisher, Medford, chief electrical engineer for California Oregon Power Company, and Sam Ritchey, manager of the Klamath Falls branch of the company. Photo by Kettler Copco Opens Power Plant A new substation built by the California Oregon Power Company at Chiloquin for servicing the new Johns-Manville plant was activated Wednesday, February 12. Built at a cost of approximately $350,000, the new power unit will furnish 230 KV to the JM plant. Sam Ritchey, Klamath Falls Cop co manager, reported that the Chiloquin substation itself was con structed at a cost of $560,500. Build ing of the six miles of line to the Johns-Manville plant cost $158, 807.93. An additional substation, this at the JM plant, cost $119,633.- 20, and a line tap cost $12,000. The new substation will be able to service, also, any new industry that may decide to locate in its servicing radius, it was reported. Hank Fisher, chief electrical en gineer for the California Oregon Power Company, designed and su pervised the construction, of the substation. ..- Southand Residents Shiver As Unusual Cold Hits Area Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Clearing and colder Thursday night with low 22-28. In creasing cloudiness Friday with a little light rain late ia day. High Friday 45-50. High yesterday 43 Low last night 27 Preclp. last 24 hours 0.35 Since Oct. 1 11.36 Same period last year 7.20 Normal for period 7.56 CRATER LAKE High yesterday .. 32 Low last night 22 8 a.m. today ... 22 New enow , 8 Snow depth .. ....159 Last year s. 67 It was still snowing when the ranger station reported this morn ing. Highway 62 is open through the park with chains advised. The road from park headquarters to the rim is closed today. Chains are required from Annie Springs to the rim. During the days that telephone communication has been out the storm has continued, the rangers said. A total of 35 Inches of snow has been recorded in the last week. Cumulative snowfall this season is 394 inches compared with 265 inches last year and 371 inches the previous year which was a season of unusually heavy snowfall. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Nature spread a blanket of snow in the Deep South Thursday and the Weather Bureau issued freeze warnings for Florida. 'Fair and much colder this afternoon and tonight," said the Weather Bureau at Miami, where temperatures were expected to reach 34 to 38 along the water front and 29 to 33 in farming areas. Warren Johnson, meteorologist for the federal-state frost warn ing service at Lakeland, Fla., said all precautions should be taken for all growing plants and citrus. "This is going to be a very se vere night in all areas," he said. it. was a grim warning to a state which has been blasted by repeated cold since mid-December. Many millions of dollars worth of citrus and vegetables have been lost, range cattle have died '-and disgusted tourists have gone homo. Thousands of migrant farm workers were left jobless when severe cold wiped out crops in the Everglades and as far south as Homestead. 28 miles below Miami. Sub-freezing temperatures were COLORFUL RED AND WHITE envelopes, that explain the diitribution of funds gathered during the annual Heart Fund campaign, have been mailed out to Klamath Basin resi dents for the return of contributions to the campaign which centers around Heart Fund Sunday, February 23. Robert L, Maion, right, county drive chairman, shows the enve lopes to Richard P. Laudenschlager, treasurer. t ' A Candidate Airs Labor Issue LOS ANGELES Sen. William Knowland says he is willing to campaign for governor on the "right - to - work" issue. He said I do not intend to complacently allow California to become a sat ellite of Walter Reuther's labor political empire." The candidate made his remarks at a Lincoln Day speech in Los Angeles. Some 1,100 Republicans were there to hear him. Knowland says his Democratic opponent, Attorney General Ed mund Brown, appears to fear a vote of the people on the proposed right to work initiative. Knowland adds: "By manipulat ing the title of the initiative and by the vast work being expended in trying to prevent it from qual ifying on the ballot, one can de duce that they fear a direct man date." Knowland continued, "They seem to want to circumvent the people's decision which their pow er of political coercion cannot control." a dime a dozen over much of the southland. In Florida, 3 inches of snow fell at Tallahassee, 2 inches at Pan ama City on the Gulf of Mexico and an inch at nearby Pensacola Miami braced for temperatures expected to fall almost to freezing. The fall at Tallahassee, possibly the heaviest in the capital s his tory, continued past midnight. At New Orleans, Mardi Grtis throngs tossed snowballs, a rare sport that far south. The inch fall was New Orleans' heaviest in 59 years. Western Louisiana reported a heavier blanket. Snow dropped a thin coating on white sand beaches at Biloxi and Gulfport, Miss. Mobile, on Alabama's coast, had more than an inch in a 7V4-hour fall. Ft. Morgan at the mouth of Mobile Bay said the deposit amounted to 4 inches. Throughout the Gulf Coast area, azaleas and camellias drooped and sagged. Palm fronds wilted Snow covered the ground at Thomasville, Ga., where Presi dent and Mrs. Eisenhower were expected today as guests i of George Humphrey, former secre tary of the Treasury. Humphrey owns a plantation near that south Georgia town. At the usually balmy southeast Georgia port city of Savannah, one inch of snow fell the heavi est in 68 years. Children made snowmen and had snowball fights. An inch of snow also fell at Au gusta, Ga., a favorite, vacation spot of President Eisenhower. Jacksonville, Fla., took a triple beating. Rain turned to sleet and the sleet in turn changed to snow early today. The tourist trade and crops suf fered in many Dixie areas. Most schools closed at noon at Baton Rouge and throughout cen tral Louisiana. Students left classrooms and dormitories at Florida State Uni versity and staged snowball fights in Tallahassee's snow. Townspeo ple built snowmen on front lawns. Editor Robert Lodmell of the Daily Highlander at Lake Wales started a drive to send .food and clothing to Seminole Indians hit hard by the inclement weather. WASHINGTON W Bernard Schwartz testified Thursday that Federal Communications Commis sioner Richard A. Mack has acknowledged receiving "several thousand dollars" from an attor ney for a Miami television sta tion. . , Schwartz, fired counsel for a special House subcommittee, told the subcommittee under oath the money was paid to Mack after he became a member of the FCC in the summer of 1955. Mack was one of four commis sioners who voted to grant the hotly contested Channel 10 in Mi ami to Public Service Television Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of National Airlines. Schwartz said the money was paid to Mack in several checks by Thurman A. Whiteside, a Florida attorney who had been retained by Public Service for work ia con nection with its television application. Schwartz ' described Whiteside as an attorney who has a reputa tion in Florida as "a fixer." Efforts by reporters to reach Mack and ask comment on the testimony were unsuccessful. Aides reported the commissioner was out of his office and unavailable, In developments, meantime, out side the subcommittee hearing but related to it: House Speaker Rayburn (D Tex) told a news conference the subcommittee is determined to make a real inquiry and that he has confidence in the. leadership of Harris. I think Orcn Harris is one of the ablest men we have around here and one of the finest (in) honesty and integrity," Rayburn said. Rayburn specifically denied a report published by the Washing ton Post that the inquiry original ly headed by Rep. Moulder ID- Mo) had been granted House funds only after assurance from the leadership that Harris would not be chairman. "There is not a word of truth to jt," Rayburn said. aen. Morse tD-Ore) introduced in the Senate a resolution for creation of a special Senate com mittee to investigate the FCC and other federal regulatory agencies Morse told his colleagues he feels the Senate has "an independent obligation" to make such an in- vsstigation regardless of the House subcommittees inquiry. Schwartz read into the record information he said was from can celed checks in the subcommit tee files. "After coming on the Federal Communications Commission and while the case was pending. Mack acknowledged that he received several thousand dollars from Mr. Whiteside," Schwartz said. He did not immediately say what explanation Mack may have given subcommittee investigators for the payments. He said Mack "was aware that Whiteside had in some manner been brought into the case by the National people and was working for National." . , , The checks Schwartz read into the record totaled $2,650. He said this was the total during the time Mack was on the commis sion. Schwartz said Mack xefused to produce records when asked and Schwartz said he didn't know if this was all. Chairman Harris (D-Ark) said Mack would have "an opportunity to provide the committee with that information and if he refuses there will be ways of getting it." Schwartz then said Mack claimed the checks represented loans, but had "finally admitted" a portion of these loans had been forgiven. Schwartz also said Mack claimed he repaid some by cash. never by check, but acknowledged he never had received a receipt for repayment. Schwartz" said also .that when pressed, Mack "finally conceded" he had no specific recollection of the repayments. Schwartz gave his testimony of the alleged receipt of the money by Mack in the climax to a pro longed exchange over charges Schwartz hurled when the com mittee fired him as its counsel last Tuesday. One of Schwartz s charges was that the committee had fired him knowing he had evidence of the passing of money to a FCC mem ber in a contested television case. Senate Democrats Drafting Plan To Combat Recession WASHINGTON Ul Senate i Democrats are drafting a 10-point antirecession program which par ty leaders plan to give a speedy start through Congress. The program is being put to gether by individual committees under the guidance of the Demo cratic Policy Committee headed by Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas. It will represent the par ty's answer to demands that Con gress act before the business slump gets worse. Johnson is understood to have told his colleagues that while he is opposed to a gloom and doom attitude, he thinks immediate steps must be taken to combat unemployment, which now has reached 4'i millions. He has asked committees oper ating under Senators Fulbright (D-Ark), Sparkman (D-Ala), An derson (D-NMl, Hill (D-Ala), Kerr iD-Okla) and Gore (DTenn) to come up speedily with legislative proposals to cover a wide field of I dustries. 2. Legislation to permit Federal Reserve banks to make loans to small businesses which certify they can't get credit in ordinary channels. 3. Passage of a post office con struction bill. 4. Authorizations to put on ex tra shifts of workers on public works projects for which Con gress has provided the money. 5. Construction of military hous ing in areas with soft spots of unemployment. 7. Action to start and speed up with extra shifts work on reclama tion projects which have been au thorized by Congress. 8. Repeal of the pay-as-you-go provision so the interstate high way program can be speeded up. 9. Authorization for additional hospitals to be built under the Hill-Burton Act. 10. Action to authorize the plan ning of new projects aimed at pro viding more business for basic in government activity to bolster the economy. As Johnson views the program, it would shape up like this: 1. A comprehensive housing bill Johnson, who had experience with the National Youth Adminis tration and the Works Progress Administration during the depres sion of the 30s, has told his col- aimed at getting this limping in-j leagues he wants no leaf-raking dustry going lull blast, (projects. French Varn Against Action TUNIS Iff) The French gov ernment today .warned -Xunuu'a (hat further grave incidents might result from Tunisian efforts to cut off supplies to the 15,000 French troops still, in the North African country. President Habib Bourguiba or dered the blockade of the French garrisons as part of his campaign to force the French out of his country in retaliation for the French bombing of the Tunisian village of Sakiet Sidi Youssef. The French warning was con tained in a note delivered to Bour guiba's chief minister, Bahl Lad- gham, as the president was re cording his weekly radio address to the nation for broadcast later today. In Paris, Foreign Minister Christian Pineau scheduled a speech on the Tunisian crisis in the National Assembly this after noon. Earlier, the Assembly voted 339-179 to accept Premier Felix Gaillard's explanation that the bombing was in "legitimate de fense" against Algerian rebels headquartered in the village. Foreign ambassadors in Tunisia who visited the village, however, reported to their governments that most of the casualties ap peared to be civilians, as the Tu nisian government claimed. The Tunisians said 68 men, women and children were killed, 84 were wounded and 10 were missing. Potato Survey Resultstallied Walt JendrzejewsW, of the Klam ath County Agent's Office, reports that a survey of grade and size averages made by the inspection service in January shows the Klam ath Basin potato crop to average 57 per cent No. 1 potatoes above two inches in diameter. Central Oregon's crop averaged 51 per cent of this grade and size spuds. - The survey covered 141 samples from 45 growers in the Basin' and 78 samples taken from 28 growers in Central Oregon, the agent said. No. 2's over five ounces in weight made up 16 per cent of the Basin crop and 19 per cent In Central Oregon, while tubers being culled fop livestock feed averaged 27 per cent here and 30-per tent In the other area. , Of these, culls averaged 14 per cent in the Basin and 19 per cent in Central Oregon. Small sizes, from ope and one-half to .two Inches in diameter for No. l's and up to five ounces for No. 2's, averaged 13 per cent in the Basin and 11 per cent in Central Oregon. The survey, Jendrzejewski said, is in close agreement with actual pack-out percentages in the Basin this season. He added that growers are realizing very little from the cull-out being diverted to livestock feed. The feed value of potatoes is estimated to be about 22 per cent of that of barley, he stated, which means that 100 pounds would be worth 45 cents in com parison to the same weight of bar ley valued at $2. Because of the lack of competition for feed pota toes, stock feeders are obtaining the culls at present for simply hauling them away, the agent said. WHO'S HEN-PECKED? SHIMODA, Japan (UP) Twen ty men who married heiresses and adopted their wives' names gathered here to protest against society gossip that they were hen pecked fortune hunters. The meet ing was broken up by a flood of telephone calls from angry wives demanding that their husbands re turn home. - 1 1' LEASES NECESSARY for going ahead with 220 units of Air Force housing near Kingsley Field were recorded Thursday morning at the Klamath County Courthouse. From left to right are John Quinn, representative of the Wilson Title and Abstract Company; Capt. William Hicks, installation officer at the Kingsley base; and Charley D L a p, county clerk. The necessary Federal Housing Authority papers were signed Wednesday in Port land, and were flown here that evening. The estimated cost of the air base housing pro ject is $3,564,800, and the project has been underwritten by Commonwealth, Inc. Photo by Kettler
