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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.
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- 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.
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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.
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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