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v - EUSESlEt ORE. la The- Day's Sews By FRANK JENKINS In Washington, U.S. Attorney General Rogers orders the FBI to investigate charges that Rich ard Mack, a member of the Fed eral Communications Commis sion, received $2650 from an at torney representing a Miami (Florida) television firm. The charges were made by Ber nard Schwartz, chief counsel for a house of representatives sub committee that has been inves tigating the FCC. Schwartz told the committee the television firm won a choice TV channel in Mi ami. Ill Miami, the firm's attorney (name of Thurman Whiteside) de nies that the money had anything to do with political favors. White side charges that Schwartz trumped up a "scandalous lie." Schwartz has since been bounced from his job with the house in vestigating committee. The newspapers are putting big headlines on the story and the ra dio commentators are commenting on it in excited tones. What is it all about? Is skulduggery afoot? I wouldn't know. But bhe Federal Communica tions Commission along with oth er federal government regulating commissions, including the ILL which regulates ground trans portation, and the CAB, that reg ulates civil air transportation- holds a lot of power in its hands. It possesses the power to issue little pieces of paper that are called licenses. These little pieces of paper are precious. Not only do they confer a license to go into business. They set up a govern ment body, composed of political appointees, and endow it with the power to determine who ought to be allowed to go into the radio or the television business and who OUGHT NOT TO BE ALLOWED to go into the radio or the tele vision business. That is a lot of power to be held In a FEW hands. Under such a system, it is little wonder that scandals or at least ALLEGED scandals should arise, Storm Front Brings Snow By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Snow fell in the mountains and other sections of Oregon Friday, making driving hazardous. Else where there was rain as a series of Pacific storms moved across the state. The Weather Bureau at Portland said another storm would reach the coast Saturday, and recurring rain is forecast for the next five days with continued mild temper atures. Klamath Falls had about 6 inches of snow on the ground at midmorning and it was still fall ing. Lakeview reported 4 inches on the ground. Light snow fell at Baker, Sisters and Austin. The Weather Bureau said snow plows were operating at Santiam and Willamette passes, where the snow fall was heavy. The Oregon Highway Commis sion said chains were required at Timberline, Warm Springs Junc tion, Siskiyou Summit, Green Springs Summit, Willamette Pass and Chemult. Chains should be carried at Government Camp, Santiam Pass. Ochoco Summit, LaPine, Klamath Falls, Quartz Mountain, Lakeview, Austin, Seneca and Basque. Meacham reported icy spots on the highway. Crater Lake National Park re-' ported more than 8 inches of new snow in the 24 hours ending Friday morning, to bring the fall in the last eight days to nearly 4 feet. Nearly two-thirds of an inch of rain fell in the 24 hours at Brook ings on the Southern Oregon coast. Other points in Western Oregon had smaller amounts. Row May Cut Dulles Holiday WASHINGTON (let- Secretary of State Dulles may cut short his0ihcr firms in a ROBO project - Atlantic City vacation and return here Monday to mastermind per sonally this country's policy in dealing with the Tunisian crisis. There have been reports that Tunisia may make formal charges against France in the U.N. Se curity Council Monday over the bombing of the village of Sakeit Sidi Youssef last Saturday. I State Department press officer! Lincoln White said he did not i know whether Dulles will go to the United Nations if the case is WASHI.NGON Wl - Key Demo pressed there by Tunisia. cratic leaders in Congress were It was clear, however, that U.S. talking today in terms of a 5 to officials have given hope of a!10 billion dollar tax cut if the quick solution and are concen- business recession makes tax re lating now on keeping the crisis from getting worse. Just ahead of the State Depart ment discussion of the prospects. Sen. Knowland IR-Calif) said the ' United States itself should make clear to France that it will seek an immediate Security Council meeting if the French take armed action in Tunisia. FOR OLD FRIENDS' SAKE HOLLYWOOD l'P Act 0 r Jose Ferrer and his wife, singer Rosemary Clooney. set out Thurs day night to travel 8.200 miles to see a play. The couple is flying to Paris to see a new production of Gilbert Miller and will start home right after the curtain. "We're old friends." Ferrer said of Miller, "and we thought we'd go tee hit play." I ' iff- ! ' j V-''-:.'i FUTURE CIVIC LEADERS may be these four Klamath Falls youths who will attend the annual pre-legislative assembly Saturday in Ashland. Purpose of the assembly is to ac quaint YMCA youth with the functions of government. Cameron Hinman, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Hinman, 5326 Bryant Avenue, will campaign for governor against two unknown opponents. Others shown are, left to right, Maria Weed and Joan Marshall, representing the Otyolcwa Tri-Hi-Y; Hinman, and Amy Kerr, also of Otyolcwa. Delegates Trek To Ashland To Attend YMCA Session The annual pre-legislative as-1 scmbly for YMCA youth interested in government affairs will be held Saturday at Southern Oregon Col lege in Ashland, and attended by about a dozen youths from the Basin, Paul Campbell, YMCA di rector, announced today. Purpose of the assembly is to acquaint the Hi-Y and Tri-Hi-Y members with the functions of state government, to draft bills to be presented during the two-day legislative session scheduled for Salem during the latter part of April, and to choose a governor. Campbell said that Cameron Hinman,' from the Modoc Hi-Y, will be running for governor Sat urday against two unknown oppo nents. Hinman, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Hinman, 5326 Bryant Space Bomber Plan Revealed LOS ANGELES W) Douglas Aircraft Co. has developed plans for a space bomber which would orbit the earth at 18,500 miles an hour, the Mirror-News said Thurs day. The plane's purpose, the news paper said, would be to bomb anyi hostile spot on earth from outer space. The paper also said that a sim ilar study contract has been granted to Boeing Airplane Co., Seattle, for an unmanned ballistic rocket bomber, probably for tele vised reconnaissance work. The paper gave these other de tails about the Douglas project; Douglas, working under a one-million-dollar Air Force study con tract, has submitted its plans to Ihe Air Force's Rocket Orbital Bomber project. The space bomber, manned by a pilot, would be boosted by rocket engines hundreds of miles into space. Once in orbit, the pilot would take over. Rocket controls would enable him to change the course or orbit. To re-enter the earth's atmos phere without burning up, the pi lot would slow the bomber's speed by gliding down toward the denser air and skipping off the thick lay ers similar to a flat rock on water. A Douglas spokesman said he could say only that "we have entered into a competition with If any of the proposals are ac cepted by the Air Force it will take at least six or seven years before the craft receives its first flight test, experts say. Demos Talk Of 5-70 Billion mm. mm mm mm, i mm a DolCiT TflX CUl if Needed w" 1 ' wM llbbUbU auction necessary But burring a snowballing de cline in Ihe economy, there was no solid conviction on Capitol Hill that Congress will consider tax cuts before early summer and then only as a last resort to re verse the business slide. Early estimates of a possible tax reduction of two or three bil - lion dollars have been pushed aside as insufficient to stem a 'major economic dip. Nothing less than a 5 to 10 bil lion dollar cut would generate enough new buying power to put the economy back on the track, the leaders estimate. This reportedly was the think- ing behind a statement by House Speaker Rayburn of Texas, who said House Democrats are going to start a review pretty soon to . 1 - -M4aiM''V0Mlf Avenue, Is a senior at Klamath Union High School. The director explained that a rotation system makes it possible this year for a local youth to at tain the governorship. He said there are four groups, comprised of northwest Oregon, the Willam ette Valley and the coast, South ern Oregon, and eastern Oregon. "Each year, a different group' selects the governor and this year, it is our turn. I think Cameron, if elected, would make a fine gov ernor as he was one of our dele gates to the recent YMCA youth conference held in the East and is active in school activities," Campbell stated. At Saturday's pre - legislative conference, the delegates will be instructed in the art of writing bills by several representatives of the Legislature, including John Kerbow, Klamath Falls. These bills are not limited to any par ticular ieUj, . but deal with com munity problems and in many In stances in the past have actually been enacted later by the Legis lature. From Hinman's point of view highlight-of Saturday's pre-legis lative session will be the selection of a governor. After the candi dates make their campaign talks, the ballots are cast and the re ports of this session must show the names of the first, second and third place candidates. The reason for this is in case the elected official is unable to at tend the legislative session. Elected officials will arrive in Salem the aTternoon before t h e legislative session and will re ceive special instructions by state officials and other qualified per sonnel in -their particular duties. Other legislative officials to be selected at Saturday s session are a Senate reading clerk, two leg islative committee chairmen, two alternate committee chairmen and three reporters. In addition, the local YMCA will send two members to the Salem session who will be registered as lobbyists, or members oL the 'Third House. They must be either sophomores or juniors and will be expected to furnish infor mation to the legislators. INVITATION ISSUED PARK FALLS. Wis. (UP)-Dan Vicker. chairman of a homecom ing celebration here, today invited the abominable snowman of the Himalayas to join the returning natives. Vicker said the legendary snow man "originated at Park Falls but migrated in the early days when we had a mild winter. This winter, he said, should prove attractively "normal" to the abominable expatriate. see where a tax cut might do the most good "if there is one." Ttayburn, as well as other Haute tax leaders, said a tax cut might also depend on whether the bud get can stand it. President .Ei senhower already has forecast a deficit for the year ending this June 30. and many Democrats' are questioning the basis of his esti mate that a surplus will appear in the following year. If definite indications of recov ery do not become apparent by (May. it was believed Congress may have no choice but to enact a tax cut before it goes home. Before June, however. Congress cannot be expected to act "with any intelligence," one House member said. House lax writers appear to be especially concerned over the snowballing effect of the business i slump on the nation's psychology j They fear it will create a bad . psychological effect apart from 'the true state of the economy- mttix Price Five Cents 16 Pages Tunisian Chief Increases Pressure Against French TUNIS 1 President Habib Bourguiba increased his diplo matic pressure on France Friday and put a police blockade around three French consulates. Bourguiba previously had asked the French to close five of their consulates. The French refused on the ground that the Tunisians must first denounce the accord under which the offices were main tained. Police guards around the con sulates at Medjez, Le Kef and Gafsa put consular officials un der the same restrictions as France's 15.000 troops in Tunisia, now bottled up in their bases. Bourguiba has asked France to withdraw her troops and give up its big naval base at Bizerte as a result of the French bombing of a frontier village last Satur day. However, he urged the people to keep calm and limited to (our hours a general strike called for Friday to demonstrate national mourning for the bombing victims In Paris a French Foreign Min istry spokesman announced plans for a complaint to the U.N. Secu rity Council to counter Tunisia's charge that the French attack on Sakiet Sidi Youssef constituted aggression. The French said they would charge repeated violations of the Algerian frontier by rebel forces sheltered in Tunisia. A council meeting on the Tunis Atomic Sub Contracts Let WASHINGTON Wl - The Navy awarded contracts Friday for three atomic-powered submarines to fire Polaris guided missiles Two will be built by Electric Boat Division at Groton, Conn., and a third at the Mare Island, Calif., Naval Shipyard. The first of the three Polaris submarines probably will be com pleted by Electric Boat, a divi sion of General Dynamics. Corp. The first deliveries of the new missile firing submarines are ex pected in 1960, to coincide with the time when the ballistic mis siles are expected to be ready for quantity production. It has been .estimated the first boat will cost between 105 and 110 million dollars, with the cost of the next two dropping to between 85 and 90 million dollars.' A supplemental appropriation bill passed by Congress this year carries 296 million dollars for starting the submarines. The Navy has asked that the initial pro gram be expanded to a total of nine craft. The Navy announcement said: "These two yards were selected because, in the Navy's judgment, these assignments will permit the earliest possible completion dates." Rear Adm. W. F. Raborn, direc tor of special projects in the Navy Bureau of Ordnance, said the sub marines "are designed specif ically for carrying and launching the Polaris missile. UNDERMINED BY SNOW PENSACOLA, Fla. tUP) - It snowed in northern Florida Thurs day, the U.S. Weather Bureau re ported, but according to a Cham ber of Commerce official : 'Anybody who says it was is just trying to undermine sun- kissed Florida's tourist business." ""7 ." . ' mgfmMmmfwmmimsmmmfmmmmm limn 1 . . . ,w?mm my ...... ..Jr' v jgw '-'" ' I READY TO FIRE are these full time employes of the Oregon National Guard who demon strate here the positions of a crew on the 75mm gun. These men explained that the gun is capable of tracking a plane by radar and can fire automatically once on target. Built alia cost of $300,000 the guns are capable of firing 45 to 55 rounds per minute at a distance of 7,200 yards, about four miles, which limits their effectiveness to low flying aircraft. The Klamath Falls National Guard has five of these gum which will be on public display Sunday, February 23, as the guard reminds the people of National Guard Month. On the gun, left to right, are Sgt. I.C. Loren Stroud, 4739 Climax Avenue, who is shown here as the radar operator; Sp. 3.C. Dick Abraham, 1634 Nimitz Street, as the cannoneer; Sp. 3.C. Bert Hegler, 261 I Turnage Avenue, as the gunner and M. Sgt. Allan Cosand, 414 Oak Street, as the gun section leader. ian complaint is expected Mon day or Tuesday. The Tunisians claimed most of the casualties in the French attack 68 killed, 10 missing and 84 wounded were civilians. The French contend they were exercising "legitimate de fense" aj'ainst Alqerian rebels headquartered in the village. Ullicially. the Tunisian order confining 15,000 French troops to meir Dases sun stood. It also pro hibits shipping local supplies to them. But Tunisian authorities looked the other way as civilian bakerv and other food supply trucks drove up to the French camps and un loaded their wares in the pre dawn hours. French helicopters also made discreet flights during the night to supply isolated south ern bases. The barricades were taken away from the French military headquarters in Salambo and only four policemen left on guard. Nevertheless, negotiations be tween France and Tunisia ap peared distant. French Foreign Minister Christian Pincau said France would not negotiate under such pressure as the Tunisians are now putting on trench troops Bourguiba has said he would not deal with France until, all its troops are pulled out. The Tunisian governors at Med jez Jef and Gafsa followed up gov ernment proclamations and dered French consulates in their provincial capitals to close. Reports from Washington indi cated the United States wants to maintain a middle course and 'is ready to mediate between Tunisia and France. Italy also offered to act as go-between. Bourguiba told newsmen he would accept U.S. mediation. But newspapers in Paris talked with extreme displeasure of the idea and the Foreign Ministry said no such offer has been made. Oregon Marks 99th Birthday By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Oregon became a state 99 years ago. Its -birthday;' celebration will be conducted, as1 usual, by the Sons and Daughters of Oregon Pioneers as a dinner program at 6:15 p.m. Friday at the Washington Hotel. President James Buchanan signed the statehood bill on Feb. 14, 1889. The people, however, hadn't waited for that. After approving a constitutional convention in 1857, they ratified the Constitution and in 1858 set up a state government. John Whiteaker was elected gov ernor, this too in 1858 before Ore gon actually was a state. He took office on March 3, 1859 and served until Sept. 10, 1862. The last of Ihe territorial gov ernors was Benjamin F. Harding. Oregon centennial next year will be observed with a special fair, plans for which have been under way for some months. DEPENDS ON THE MOON NEW YORK (UP) Patrolman Harry Reinhart, about to retire from his post in the city's Times Square information booth, had this to. say about his customers: "Every second customer is a nut. When it's a full moon, the men are the worst offenders; when it's a new moon, the wom en." " J ' t KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1938 p. - n y , (Mh Br$M EARLY ARRIVALS for the annual Pacific Coast Aberdeen-Angus Association sale are Mr. and Mrs, Carl Hammond of Mt. Etna, California, who are shown above with their 2-year-old bull Revelation of Scott Valley. The Hammond's registered blacks will be judged along with the 60 entries for the sale beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday in the new sales pavilion at the fairgrounds. The sale will begin at I p.m. and the public is invited to attend. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: A few snow flurries Fri day night; scattered thickening cloudiness Saturday with snow or rain in the afternoon. Low Friday night 28-34; high Saturday 78-43. High yesterday' 37 Low last night 26 Prcclp. Inst 24 hours 0.01 Since Oct. 1 11.37 Same period last year 7.28 Normal for period 7.62 CRATER LAKE High yesterday 28 Low last night 20 8 a.m. today .25 New snow 8V4 Snow depth 166 Last year 64 It was still snowing In the park this morning, but the rangers have been able to keep Highway 62 open through the park. Chains are ad vised and the road Is narrow. Chains are required trom Annie Springs to park headquarters and the road has been closed for two days from headquarters to the rim. Skiing Is fair with deep pow der enow. TOMAHAWK There Is more than a foot of new powder snow on the Toma hawk ski hill, 24 miles northwest of Klamath Falls on Lake of the Woods Road, Don Divens report ed this morning. Tows, ski school and other facilities will operate from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Satur day and Sunday. WARNER CANYON Fremont Highlanders report this week's skiing Is the best of the season in the Warner Canyon ski area near Lakeview. Three Inches of new powder snow fell Thursday on a four-foot solid base and there was a foot of new powder snow on the runs when measurements were taken this morning. Skiing Is ex cellent. The tows will operate from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. There will be free les sons for novices on aaiuraay morning. The snack bar and warming hut will be open both days. Compulsory Cor Insurance Plan Outlined By Governor SALEM Wl Gov. Robert D. Holmes Friday announced he would ask the 1959 Legislature to pass a law requiring compulsory! liability and property damage insurance on all motor vehicles in Oregon. It is needed, he told a press con ference, to "solve a terrible social problem in Oregon." The governor said there now are 85,000 uninsured drivers in Oregon, and that they inflict millions of dollars a year in damage to inno cent persons. The present law requires proof of financial responsibility after a person has an accident. This gen erally means he must take out insurance after the accident. Gov. Holmes said he wants the Legislature to pass a law similar to the New York state law which has been in operation for one year -MasaaehuaettB - is- the oids8tate besides New York which has com pulsory insurance. . Insurance companies generally oppose compulsory insurance. Under the governor s proposal, Ihe automobile owner still would have a free choice in purchasing his insurance from an insurance company. However, the proposal would set up a pool of all casualty insurance companies to take care of drivers who can t buy insurance from any company. During the year that I have been in office," the governor said, 'Space Pilot' Slowing Down SAN ANTONIO, Tex. UP) - Air Force officials said Friday that Donald G. Farrell, on the down hill side of mythical 7-day trip to the moon, had shown his first signs of real fatigue in the experiment al space cabin here. "However, this morning after a real good sleep he sounded much moro alert and we are very opti mistic he will complete Ihe full seven days," said Lt. Col. George R. Stcinkamp, chief of space medicine at Randolph Air Fqrcc Base. "It was during last night's work problems that we saw for the first lime indications of real fatigue. He skipped a couple and slowed down in reaction on others." Farrell entered the experiment al space cabin last Sunday morn ing and is scheduled to be re moved from simulated cabin of a space ship at 9:35 a.m. (CSTi this Sunday. Lt. Col. Stcinkamp said Thurs day he believed Farrell will gain weight during the week. Experts Say Another Motor Could Get Rocket To Moon PASADENA, Calif. iffi-Put one more rocket motor on the Jupiter C missile that launched the Amer ican satellite and you could reach the moon Srientists who designed Explor- er I disclosed this yesterday at a news conference called to report on the satellite's progress through the heavens. California Institute of Technol ogy s Jet propulsion laboratory has formally asked Defense De partment permission to try to cir cle the moon with some future satellite. - There is no thought at the mo ment, scientists said, of trying this with Explorer II, the second U.S. satellite now being rushed to completion at the jet lab. To reach the moon, a filth rock et stage would be added to the (our stages of the Jupiter-C. This stage, however, would be added to the nose of the missile, not the base. Teiepnone TU 4-8111 No. 403 "we have seen literally thousands of pitiful instances iof innocent persons being killed or maimed or their property destroyed by finan cially irresponsible motorists. 'This is a terrible social prob lem in Oregon, and compulsory automobile insurance is the an swer. "In many of those cases, judg ments could not be collected, or " the victim had to accept' a low setllement, because the driver at fault had, few or no assets. Many crippled victims were thus pre vented from earning their liveli hood and got no compensation for it. Many larmlies lost their sole source of support when their pro- vioer was Killed or maimed. Some families even had to become pub lic charges because they were destitute, and thousands had to pay. bills . which, .they could ttot afford., J "Those families were helped none by the fact that under exist ing law the driver who hit them would lose his driving privileges if he could -not show proof of future responsibility." FCC Leader Raps Charge WASHINGTON Wl Richard A. Mack lold congressional investi gators Friday he is confident that once they get the facts they will conclude that accusations against him "are without foundation." He asked an early opportunity to testify. Mack described charges that he had taken money and pledged his vote as a Federal Communica tions Commissioner in connection with a Miami, Fla., TV contest as "unsubstantiated charges, ac cusations, innuendoes and distor tions." In a letter to Chairman Harris (D-Ark) of a House committee in vestigating the FCC, Mack said too that he had advised the Just ice Department that he would co operate in every way possible with an FBI investigation. Mack told newsmen who were given copies of his letter at the FCC that he has no thought of resigning. He said further, also in reply to a question, that he did not know when he would testify before the Harris committee. In response to all other ques tions, Mack said his letter to Har ris would speak for itself and that it was all he intended to say at this time. Dr. Henry Richter and other scientists at the news conference sHd Explorer I is performing as they expected it would. Radioed information indicates that a hu- man could live in a satellite. "Room temperature" is being Imaintained inside the satellite and measuring devices Indicate no great peril from cosmic rays or small meteorites in space. A radio receiver, which Explor er I does not have, is being in stalled in Explorer II at the jet lab. "By means of this receiver we can tell Explorer II when to broadcast to us," Richter said. "A tape recorder In the satellite will save up information gathered while the satellite is farthest away from earth and send it to us, on command, when the satellite is nearest the earth." Because the radio will not be transmitting all the time, its bat tents will last longer. V
