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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 16, 1958)
U OF 0SS30M L.IB3AHT coa? EUGENE, ORE la The i Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS Speaking at a GOP rally in Phoenix Arizona last night, Vice President Nixon made this flat statement: "There is nothing wrong with the U.S. economy that a good dose of CONFIDENCE won't cure." Right you are, sir. And what you say of the coun try as a whole GOES DOUBLE for the Far West. The 11 Western states are growing twice as fast as the rest of the nation. Within the next quarter of a century they are expected to have 40 million people. Forty million people will provide a market that will justify HUGE industrial growth. Here in the Far West, we look forward to the future with com plete confidence. Speaking of the Far West, An drew Downey Orrick, cting chair man of the Securities and Ex change Commission and one of V3)e country's leading financial ex '$erts, calls San Francisco the sec ond most important financial com munity in the nation. He adds: "California's terrific growth has pushed San Francisco to a spot second only to New York in financial importance." 1 A suggestion: Get out your map. Draw a 400 mile circle around New York City. Within that circle lies the most heavily industrialized area of the United States. Then draw a simi lar circle around San Francisco Bay. That will give you an idea of the future that lies ahead of South ern Oregon and Far Northern Cal ifornia when they get ADEQUATE MARKETS for their products both industrial and agricultural. Adequate markets for our prod ucts will be provided by the popu lation that is clustering around San Francisco Bay. This congested population will be within EASY REACH of the Southern Oregon Far Northern California area. Signs of confidence: ' The Bank of America, as you have read in this space, has been planning a new office building on Market street near Van Ness. . Looking at the future, the bank's officials have decided to DOUBLE the size of the building. It will be eight stories high to start with, and will be so designed that addi tional stories can be added as needed. When completed, more than 1,000 employees will work in it. International Hotel Magnate Conrad Hilton has purchased two blocks in downtown San Fran cisco as a site for a 20 million dollar hotel. "Hilton Says he will build a 1000 . room luxury hotel,. with a 500-car garage and' perhaps a big civic auditorium. Evidently he has no fears as to the future of the West. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Cloudy with rain. High Sunday 39-45. High Saturday Low at midnight . CRATER LAKE High Friday 34 Low Friday night . 25 8 a.m. Saturday 32 Friday night snow 10 Snow depth Saturday 171 Same date last year 62 Highway 62 is open through the park with chains advised. Chnlns are required from Annie Springs to park headquarters and the road was closed on Saturday from head quarters to the rim for the third successive day. It was not ex pected to be reopened for Sunday travel. It was still snowing on Saturday morning and skiing is T, or. WARNER CANYON Fremont Highlanders said that skiing would be good on Sunday despite the slight rise In tempera tures. There was some snow dur ing the early morning hours on Saturday at Lakeview. I A mm mm THE PACIFIC COAST ABERDEEN-ANGUS ASSOCIATION pavilion at the Klamath County Fairgrounds Saturday. Oregon and California exhibited a wide selection of fine cattle. Over 60 head of registered hUcki wera told bv auctionee Si Williams afttr they had ridgt. Buyers froi their rtsptct for ridgt. Buyers from savenal 1 the quality 4 v&Htet&f&Rv ill.- V1hi Price Ten Cents M Pages US Reported Arbitrating New Dispute TUNIS, Feb. 16 lH-The United Slates worked in the background Saturday in an effort to settle Tunisia's bombing dispute with France without hauling it into the open forum of the United Nations, informed sources said. Both sides gave signs of conciliation. Western quarters feared a U.N. debate on the French bombing of a Tunisian border village a week ago would become a Communist sounding board to aggravate anti- Western feelings in sensitive North Africa and the Middle East. Informants said the United States hoped to get talks between France and Tunisia started before Tues day, when the U.N. Security Council is scheduled to take up Ihe dispute with the Soviet dele gate, Arkady Sobolev, sitting as president. As U.S. diplomats conferred with French officials in Paris and Washington, President H a b i b Bourguiba of Tunisia publicized a list of modified demands for settle ment. His announcement coincided with decisions taken at a special meeting of the French Cabinet. Diplomats here said Bourguiba's modification of his demands and the action of the French Cabinet indicated a strong possibility some sort of conciliation could be reached. Bourguiba's official spokesman said the President's changes were given to the Rome newspaper II Tempo, after an interview. They included: 1. French acceptance in prin ciple of troop evacuation. (France, in fact, already did this in March, 1956, when the French gave up Tunisia as a protectorate. Under an agreement at that time, France was given 20 years to complete a troop withdrawal). 2. Immediate abandonment of minor French garrisons in Tunisia. (The French Cabinet con sidered this Saturday.) 3. Provisional concentration of French forces in the two main bases at Bizerte and Sfax. 4. Opening of negotiations on turning the French Bizerte naval base on the Mediterranean over to NATO. (The French suggested this earlier in the week.) In the beginning, Bourguiba de manded that France immediately pull all of her 15.000 troops out of Tunisia and abandon the strategic Bizerte base. His modification was seen by one important diplomat here as clearing a good part of the way toward solution of the crisis, Russian Colonel Enters Appeal NEW YORK, Feb. 16 Wl-Rus- sian Col. Rudolf I. Abel Saturday asked that his 30-year spy con spiracy sentence be tossed out on the ground that errors deprived him of a fair trial. Abel's plea was submitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals through his court appointed lawyer, James B. Donovan. The government has 20 days to reply. Oral arguments are expected to be heard in May Abel, the highest ranking Soviet espionage agent ever caught in this country, claimed evidence used against him in his Federal District Court trial last year was seized without a search warrant in violation of the constitution. He also contended that there had been no proof he conspired to steal specific defense secrets and that testimony of a prosecution witness, U.S. Sgt. Roy A. Rhodes, should not have been admitted. Rhodes himself now is under court-martial on spy conspiracy charges. weittrn states kept the bidding ot the animus ottered tor sal. - . ii.irjL jfii--. ;.', t : ' - J" KLAMATH LYLeIsMiJh I I fifel JAMES VKALER L Smith Files For Surveyor Lyle C. Smith, 36, 4647 Peck Drive, a graduate engineer, has filed on the Democratic ticket for county surveyor. County Clerk Charley DeLap announced Friday. Smith, who has been in Klam ath Falls for the past eight years, is a graduate of Oregon State Col lege, and has operated his own firm, Lyle C. Smith, Engineering and Surveying, for the past two years. The Smiths, Lyle and Helen have two children, Craig, 4, and Jean, 2. Listing his qualifications, Smith said that he has been an engineer for the Soil Conservation Service for eight years and has had ex perience in land surveying and ag ricultural surveying. Smith has also had graduate study at Purdue and Columbia universities. Present county sur veyor Bill Canton said that Smith is "a good man for the job," and added that he believed Smith s qualifications will hold him in good stead. Canton at the present time has refused to comment on his plans to seek reelection as county sur veyor, but still retains the post of county engineer, a position ap pointed by the county court. Potato Stocks Show Decline WASHINGTON Wl The Agri culture Department reported Fri day that stocks of potatoes nem by growers and local dealers on Feb. 1 were 15 per cent smaller than a year earlier and 7 per cent below the 10-year Feb. 1 average. They were reported at 67,000,000 hundredweight compared with 78,- 760.000 on Feb. 1, 1957 and 71,900,- 000 for the 1-year Feb. 1 average. The department said disappear ance or usage of storage potatoes during January was the second highest of record for the month. It was estimated at 21,700,000 hun dredweight. The stocks by major producing states on Feb. 1 this year and last included, respectively:. Oregon, 2,800,000 hundredweight this year and 3,150,000 last year; Washington 1.350,000 and 1,150.000. Maine 24,100.000 and 2.000,000 upstate New York 2,000,000 and 3.350,000: Pennsylvania 2.100,000 and 2.700.000; Michigan 2,350.000 and 3,200.000; Minnesota 2,900,000 and 5,200.000. North Dakota, 3,400.000 and 5,- 300,000; Idaho 15,500,000 and 16,- 000,000; Colorado, 3,070,000 and 3, 450,000 and California 1,230,000 and 1,200,000. held its 12th annual sals in the Some of tha top breeders from been judged by James Gutt- moving rapidly and indicated FALLS, OREGON, SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 16, 19SS THOSE PARKING TICKETS are in for a new method o han dling beginning Monday, February 17. Merle Young, traffic patrolman, here displays ihe new envelopes that will be in cluded with all traffic violations issued in the future. The envelopes are self-addressed and stamped and offenders can enclose their fines and citations in the envelopes and drop them in the mail. Everyone is reminded that begin ning Monday all traffic violations must be paid at the Traf fic Violations Bureau which will be in the city hall, not the police department as before. The new procedure has been recommended by Inspector Richard Young, Berkeley police officer, currently conducting an evaluation of the Klamath Falls Police Department. ' Photo by Kettlor Stassen Quits Enters Race THOMASVILLE. Ga., Feb. 16 W Harold E. Stassen stepped out Saturday as President Eisen hower's disarmament adviser and announced he is a candidate for governor of Pennsylvania. Stassen's resignation in order to run on the Republican ticket in the May primary was announced at the President's vacation head quarters. .. . .- , , . Eisenhower said he was accept ing the resignation with deep re gret. As is his custom in the case of primary races, the President did not directly endorse Stassen's gubernatorial bid. But in a "Dear Harold" letter to Stassen he said Warren Gill In State Race PORTLAND Wl Warren Gill, Lebanon attorney ani veteran state senator, said Friday he will be a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor. Three others had announced their candidacies earlier for the GOP nomination. They are Secre tary of State Mark Hatfield, State Treasurer Sic Unander, and George Livingston, a Damascus plumbing contractor. The post now is held by Demo cratic uov. Kobert D. Holmes. Gill outlined a three-point cam paign program: "I will veto any bill passed by tne legislature which would in crease income or property taxes. "I will request the Legislature to enact laws which will exempt per sons over 60 who have an income of less than $150 a month from property taxes on their home steads. "I am inclined to suonort the 'education tax' program suggested by Sen. Walter J. Pearson." This program, formulated bv Sen. Walter Pearson (D-Portland), provides for a sales tax to sup port schools. bill said he lacks camnaizn funds, but will discuss issues with other Republican candidates any time or any place if they will pay his expenses. Of his opponents Gill described Unander as "a rich man who can support a campaign." And he said he had been informed that Hat field "has received assurances of linancial support. uill expressed great resoect for both men. But, he added, to his snowieage,. n e 1 1 n e r has ever worked in a business of his own. - Gill has 10 years' legislative service two years in the House and eight in Ihe Senate. He is married and the father of two daughters. Hinman Elected To Governorship Cameron Hinman, a Klamath Union High School senior, w a elected governor for the annual Hi-Y Tri-Hi-Y legislative assembly lo he held in aalem sometime in April. Cameron was elected at the pre legislative assembly for YMC'A youth interested in government which was held at Southern Oregon College in Ashland on Saturday. During Ihe assembly the young del egates, i docn of whom were from the Klamath Basin, were made acquainted with the various func tions of state governments. Cabinet Post For Governor "you have much to contribute to the future of our country." In recent weeks there have been published reports one pinned to a high administration official that Eisenhower had decided Stassen had outlived his usefulness as disarmament adviser and would have to go 1 But While House Press Secre tary James Ci Hagerty replied to day "of course he wasn't" when asked whether Stassen had been requested to quit. He said the friendly tone of the President's letter should scotch any such idea. Hagerty said it was Stassen's own decision and added that the decision was inevitable and auto matic once Stassen decided to re enter the political arena. The decision came as no sur prise. Stassen, 50, three times governor of Minnesota, has been sizing us the Pennsylvania picture for months. He acted against a background of increasing disagreement with Secretary of State Dulles over disarmament policy and negotia tion with the- Russians. Pennsylvania is S t a s s e n s adopted state, as it is Eisen hower's. After being elected gov ernor of Minnesota three times he resigned during his last term to enter the Navy in World War II. After the war he served as presi dent of the University of Pennsyl vania. Election of Stassen to the gov ernorship would give him an ex cellent forum from which to make another bid for the GOP presi dential nomination. It appears now that such a bid would pit him against Vice President Nixon as a principal competitor in 1960. Stassen s announcement of his gubernatorial ambitions brought from Pennsylvania Republican party Chairman George I. Bloom this statement: 'Anywhere that I have had any contact with Republicans in Penn sylvania I have found no senti ment for Harold Stassen. In three party meetings held recently the sentiment was opposed to him." oMalin Jr. High Wins Contest Malin Junior High School con testants walked off with top hon ors for the third consecutive year in the annual Klamath County Speech Festival held all day Fri day at Altamont Junior High in Klamath rails. Malm receives permanent possession of the cup and presentation of the award was made by Howard Bingham on be- hall of Klamath County School Dis trict et the close ol the contest, second place was won by con testants from Altamont and third place by Bly Junicr High stu denis. Each county junior high school was invited to enter one s ; contestant In each of the six di visions. The divisions were story te.lling, serious, pestry, radio, chor- al reading and humor. i Mildred Tofell, Malin teacher, - was chairman of arrangements for the speech festival and was as- sisted by Christine Murray of Al tamont and Freda Thayer of Bly. Judges for the event were Ger ald Bevans, the Rev. Burton Al vis, Eileen llerring.shaw, Wyatl Padgett. Addie Mac Nixon. Kath erine Stonecypher nd Floyd Wynne. Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 4023 a Kaler Hakes Bid For Post James V. (Jim) Kaler, well known Klamath Falls business man, has filed as a Democratic candidate for Ihe county commis sioner seat now held by Jerry Uainus. The latter has indicated that he will not seek reelection during the May 16 primaries. Kaler is a native of Klamath Falls and received his elementary and high school educations here. He is 40, married, and the father of three children ranging in age from 3 to 13. During 1939 and 1940 he farmed in the Merrill area with his uncle, C. O, (Docl Pren tice. Following that he operated a filling station, worked with the local fire department, and in 1944 established his own machine shop and automotive repair unit. Two years later he organized and operated the Kaler Ambu lance Service which was sold last year to Felix Peace. He was a member of the Klam ath Falls City Council in 1950, and resigned after one year's service because of conflicting business in terests. In 1956 he was the Demo cratic nominee for the county court and was defeated by Com missioner Ed Gowen. . "My platform is brief but broad in scope, Kaler said, 1 am lor a progressive, economical county administration with harmony and sound judgment. He added that the recent sale of his ambulance business will permit him to devote much time to the job of county commissioner if elected. Kaler is a member of the Elks, Moose, the International Order of the Foolprinters, has been a spe cial deputy sheriff since 1942, and is the institutional representative of the Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts of Mills School. Also seeking election to the com missioner seat presently manned by Ramus is Jimmy Barnes, a Republican nominee and currently a member of the Klamath Falls City Council. , Rebels Name Own Premier PADANG, Indonesia, Sunday, Feb. 16 W A revolutionary gov ernment for Indonesia was pro claimed last night with the aim of ousting Premier Djuanda and forcing President Sukarno to give up his "guided democracy" pro gram, It was the guided democracy program that brought Commu nists into the central government. Rebel leaders said they will con tinue to consider Sukarno as pres ident, but only under certain con ditions. Dr. Sjafruddin Prawirancgara former finance minister and until recently governor of the Bank of Indonesia, was named premier and finance minister. " Wi i iiwiiiwi ,;: Ian .,i U . WAITING FOR THEIR CUES are these radio speech contestants who participated in tha annual Klamath Oiunty Speech Festival held at Altamont Junior High School on Friday. The contest was separated into six divisions: radio, story telling, serious. reading, poetry, choral and humor. Malin Junior High School won the contest tor ths third consecutive year. t Ike Writes Nikolai About Summit Talks WASHINGTON. Feb. 16 ( - President Eisenhower has written new letter to Soviet Premier Bulganin which is designed to try to pin Bulganin down to brass tacks talk about arranging a sum mit conference. The letter has been cleared with this country's North Atlantic Treaty Allies, informants said Sat urday. It will be delivered in Mos cow early next week, probably Monday. Information abput it became Party Heads Start Work On Tax Cut WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 Itf-The Eisenhower administration and Democratic house leaders both arc reported working quietly and separately on lax reductions plans to use if business continues to slump. Each side wants to be ready to move quickly when and if neces sary. The Democrats are reported putting logether a package plan of tax cuts totaling more than five billion dollars and cutting across the economy in both gen eral and selective areas. Administration officials were disclosed Saturday to have been calling in private experts and con ferring among themselves in an ef fort to work out tax reduction formulas to meet any of a number of conditions of unemployment and declining production. lntormed government sources said the Treasury, the President's Council of Economic Advisers and other agencies were studvine "preparedness" plans, but denied any expectation ot using them. An administration official said: "We're not trying to draft a ready-made, 'tax package.' Things haven't gone far enough to know what we would need or whether we will need anything at all. "We're talking to a lot of peo ple, inside and outside the gov ernment, to find out what might be done under a variety of cir cumstances." The administration will be es pecially wary, this source added, of initiating a tax cut just as the economy might be turning upward toward recovery, thereby pouring inflationary gasoline on the fire. In final form, the Democratic package is expected to contain proposals . for whole or partial elimination of the World WarII transportation tax, a tax cut for individuals in the low and middle income brackets, tax relief for business, and possible tax law re visions to wipe out some unin tended hardships. Orders for preparation of the standby tax legislation have gone out from House Speaker Rayburn of Texas. In response to his di rective, several alternative pro posals are being prepared by the staff of the House Ways and Means Committee for considera tion by Democratic policymakers. The final form of the Democrat ic tax package has not crystalizcd, and Democrats say it will be March or April before they know where they stand. They say their decision will be influenced by economic developments in the meantime, the course of unem ployment, and the Treasury's mid April revenue estimates. No exact revenue figures have been applied to the Democratic tax program. Leaders, however, have been talking in terms of five to ten billion dollars if lax cuts become necessary to stabilize the economy. OUT THE WINDOW WEED Hayes Royal, of 31V4 Tent Street, is a poorer but wiser man today. Royal had a nest egg of some $6,000 tucked away in his home, but when he came In Friday night he found $2,000 of his money on the floor near a bed room window. The other $4,000 was gone. known here as State Department officials studied evidence that the Soviets are whipping up a world wide diplomatic offensive in sup port of their drive for a summit conference. This involves Far Eastern as well as European , moves and could lead to some new Russian bid to include Red China in a summit conference. However, authorities here say that if the Soviets are really seri ous about setting up East-West talks they will not press the Red China issue, since the United States does not recognize the cninese communist regime. What is more puzzling to ad ministration leaders at the mo ment is the question of whether the Russians really do want a summit conference or whether they simply want to go on making propaganda about it. Eisenhower's letter reportedly tries to pin Bulganin down on specific points concerned with .con ference preparations, including how soon and in what ways Bul ganin would like to undertake ad vance preparations and what is sues he thinks can be successfully negotiated. Bulganin's most recent letter to the President came on Feb. 2. In it he strongly oooosed a foreinn ministers' conference in advance of a meeting of chiefs of govern ment. He implied that it would be impossible to negotiate with Secre tary of State Dulles. However, he did say he was con fident that agreement on confer ence preparations could be achieved "through the usual dip lomatic channels." That appar ently meant the U.S. Embassy in Moscow and me soviet Embassy here. Bulganin took the position that Eisenhower was insisting on a foreign ministers' meeting, but Dulles told his news conference Tuesday that such a meeting was not essential and cited words pre viously used that preparations could be carried on through diplo matic channels. The point on which both Eisenhower and Dulles still stand firm is that - the ar rangements made must offer good nope that a summit conference will be successful. What it could be successful on is still a wide open question. Space Gremlin Anchors Atlas CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.. Feb. 18 (At A mechanical "bug," halted the test launching of 'an Atlas In." tercontlnentat ballistic missile Sat. .. urday a split second before the blastoff.: The countdown reached zero and the button was pressed that would have sent the mighty weap on roaring skyward. Its tail belched a great cloud of smoke. Then, warned of possible trouble by his complex instruments, the test conductor pressed another button that cut off the engines. For a few minutes when smoke hid the Atlas from view, watchers on the beaches outside the cape thought it had blown up on its launching pad. ihe scene was the same as that of last Dec. 9, when a Vanguard satellite rocket exploded on take off. But when the smoke finally cleared, the Atlas could be seen still standing. It was covered by the glistening white frost which had formed after liquid oxygen was pumped into its fuel tanks at 300 degrees below zero. The Air Force said that at the moment of launching "the test conductor cut off the engines when instrumentation indicated a possible malfunction. No apparent damage was done to the missile, which will be re scheduled for . firing in the near future." It was the second mysterious- mishap in eight days to an Atlas, the free world s only ICBM and a power plant that may figure in the future in efforts to put bigger American satellites into orbit.
