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A If v. aim. wwmm Price Five :enu it Pages KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1958 Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 4025 GOP Chiefs Say Tax Cut old Grips Wide Area; t : t A t . . . Is Unwise TollHits.82 i' JSPtri ass- r GLANCING AT SOME OF THE MERCHANDISE, which local merchants have contributed for tonight's Junior Miss Oregon of 1958 Contest, are members of the contest committee, Neal Wadley, left, and Roy Weaver. Tonight's queen will receive an all-expense trip to Mobile, Alabama to compete in the national contest and take part in the Mobile Azalea Festival, February 27 through March I. This is the first contest of its type held here. la The- Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Business note in the news: The New York Stock Exchange figures it will take an average sev en billion dollars PER YEAR through 1965 in pew stock issues to foot the corporate bill for new plants and equipment. President Keith Funston says the figure has been revised from a pri or prediction of six billion dollars. He says a total of 45 billion dol lars will have to be raised be tween now and 1965 to keep Amer ican industry efficient and up to date. Where will the money come from? The answer is plain. It will have to come out of the savings of people who buy shares in American industry. There is nowhere else for it to come from. Is that bad? No! It's good. If it comes to pass, it will be WONDERFUL. Here's how it works: You save up some money by the process of spending less for things that are less important so that you may have MORE money to put into the things that are MORE important. , . When you neve saved up enough money (it doesn't take much to make a start) you invest it in shares (which are also called stocks) in American business en- terprises. You then become a PART OWNER of these industries. As they prosper, you receive your share of the profits. This business of ownership of American industry ought to be bet ter understood. Because it isn't as well under stood as it should be, self-seeking demagogues are enabled to MUD DY THE WATER, making people think they are being EXPLOITED by big business. The truth is that modern big business makes it pos sible for every thrifty person in our country to BECOME A CAPI TALIST on his own account. ' For example: General Motors (America's big gest business corporation and prob ably the world's biggest) has more stockholders than employees. The day when a few captains of in dustry wearing plug hats and Prince Albert coats owned Ameri can industry all by themselves is GONE. Where has it gone? . It has gone where the dinosaur went when the world changed so that dinosaurs could no longer exist. A new day has dawned. In this new day mor- money is needed to finance American indus try than can be provided by a few tycoons. The immense sums of money needed to keep American industry GOING FORWARD in these mod ern days can be provided ONLY by pooling the savings of A L L THE PEOPLE and investing these savings in the buildings and the machinery that modern industry must have if it is to go on ex panding to keep pace with mod ern developments. More Letters From Soviets To Eisenhower Foreseen WASHINGTON tfl Diplomatic officials said today it is quite like ly Soviet Premier Bulganin will ignore President Eisenhower's ad vice and keep firing public letters at the White House. If he does, they said, Eisenhow er would have no choice but to answer the notes just as publicly. Silence, it is felt, would only al low the Soviets to win a high-level propaganda war without a con test. These officials discussed this outlook in the wake of the strongly worded Eisenhower letter to Bui sanin which the White House made public yesterday The Eisenhower message virtu ally told Bulganin further letters from him on the subject would be unwelcome. Eisenhower suggested. inSteau inai Uie iviciimn icoucia , conceotraW oo "1cm formal audi JC Contest Set Toniqht Tonight's Junior Miss Oregon of 1958 Contest, to be held in the Mills School auditorium at 7:30, will determine which Klamath County high school senior coed will represent Oregon in the Mo bile Azalea Festival, during Feb ruary 27 through March 1. Dean DeWitt, chairman of the sponsoring committee of the Jun ior Chamber of Commerce, said that local merchants have donated many items such as costume jew elry, shoes, sport slacks, a blouse, gift certificates, a travel alarm clock, hosiery, lockets, a cotton housecoat and flowers for tonight's queen and her runnersup. On the subject of prizes, De Witt said that the winner of the national contest will receive a $5,- 000 scholarship award. Second prize is a $2,000 award and there will be three $1,000 awards for the next three places. "Judges for tonight's contest," DeWitt said, "are Mrs. Marcella Bigler, chief stewardess of West Coast Airlines; Earl G. Bray and Roger K. Haldeman, advertising sales supervisors lor P.l.&T., Portland and Hazell Kann, man ager of the Town Shop. He added that Bob Frederick son, local advertising man, will emcee the show and stated that in addition to the songs, piano playing, and dramatic readings by the girls', top local entertainment has been obtained. Tickets for the show are still available at the chamber of com merce, Leo's Camera Shop and the House of Shoes in the Town and Country Shopping Center. Price is 75 cents for adults and 50 cents for children and students. Experts Check 'Space Pilot' SAN ANTONIO. Tex. W-Physi-cians and scientists at the Air Force's School of Aviation Medi cine continued checks and tests on the world's first "space man" today. Airman Donald G. Farrell, 23, of the Bronx, during the seven days in the compact space cabin, neither heard nor saw anything going on on earth. He was sub jected to most of the physical and psychological conditions scientists believe man will experience in space travel. Mostly, he said, he missed smoking cigarettes. He usually smokes a pack a day. At his first meal outside the chamber, attendants placed a big sizzling steak in front of him. "If Gen. Benson says I'm a chowhound I'm going to be one," Farrell quipped. Maj. Gen. Otis 0. Benson Jr., commandant of the aviation medicine school, branded Farrell a chowhound during the simulated space flight. Farrell ate the steak, slept most of the afternoon and then ate a roast beef dinner. He lost four pounds, he said, during the seven day flight. Farrell, who now wants to make a real flight to the moon, will complete a scheduled 72 hours of tests and observations tomor row. less publicized contacts" if they genuinely want to improve rela- tions and arrange fe summit con ference. The Eisenhower letter, easily the toughest in tone he has sent to Bulganin in the past two years, clearly reflected his view that such communications should not be used for propaganda in the cold war. Eisenhower corhpared the pro fessed Soviet desire for peace with what he germed the "constantly i,ivuii,iii Dkvuaauuiu uj mini' lin leaders. Some authorities professed to see good prospects that the Krem- lin would accept Eisenhower's challenge that they send some So - !viet leaders on visits to the united, States. Eisenhower invited themlShapli. that was nothing. Merely ,u Irani tiic icdi lana auuui the American longing for peace, Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Considerable cloudiness with a few periods of light rain through Wednesday. Low Tuesday night 40-45; high Wednesday 58-63. High yesterday 48 Low last night 39 Precip. last 24 hours Tr. Since Oct. 1 12.39 Same period last year 7.32 Normal for period 7.78 CRATER LAKE High yesterday 35 Low last night - 32 8 a.m. today 34 Trace of new snow Snow depth 152 Last year 60 It is cloudy and overcast in the park today. Highway No. 62 is open with chains advised. Chains are re quired from Annie Springs to park headquarters and the road is closed from headquarters to the rim. The last several days' snow has been heavy and wet and the snow plows are having difficulty keeping the highways open for travel Sudan Blasts Egyptian Move KHARTOUM, Sudan' Wl-Sudan has protested Egyptian efforts to take over some 6.000 square miles of her northern desert in a move to cut off Sudanese holdings at the 22nd Parallel. Prime Minister Abdullah Khalu told a news conference the Cairo regime replied that residents of the disputed area would partici pate in the Feb. 21 plebiscite to approve the union of Egypt and Syria. Khalil said Egypt had accom panied her claim with an offer to give back a small area south of the 22nd Parallel ceded earlier to the Egyptians. The Premier said Sudan had protested that the frontiers in question had been undisputed for the past 60 years and had been confirmed before Sudan declared herself independent in December 1955, ending the British - Egyptian condominium. Khalil said the area Egypt claims is believed to contain rich mineral deposits. It is a triangle in the northeast corner of the country, bounded by the 22nd Par allel on the south and the Red Sea on the east. Timber Sale Action Denied PORTLAND UF) A Klamath Indian woman Tuesday lost her attempt to prevent the federal government from selling timber she owns on the Klamath Reser vation. U.S. Judge William East denied an injunction sought by Mrs. Corahe Crawford Nelson of Palo Alto, Calif., challenging con stitutionality of the Klamath In dian Reservation Termination Act Mrs. Nelson's petition claimed the 1954 termination act gave her the right to dispose of her large timber holdings "just like any other citizen." The government argued that un til the secretary of the Interior ends U.S. trusteeship of the reser vation, the government is obli gated to administer the timber for the benefit of the Indians. Under an amendment, the termination date has been extended to 1960, with the government continuing its authority over timber disposal. Mrs. Nelson s attorney con tended the original termination act was binding. Mrs. Nelson said some of her timber on the reservation is being logged on a selective basis. Were she permitted to dispose of it her self, she said, she would realize more money because she would be able to sell under a clear cut ting contract. CHAMBER MUSIC CHICAGO 'UP Three police mien awakened disc jockey Omar Shapli Monday at the radio studio where he works. They had been sent there by worried listeners 1 who reported hearing an ominous thump over the air. Oh. said icu ajtri'lJ Willie UMdllug lu DU' 'toni't Sonata No. 2. WASHINGTON I' Republican leaders of Congress agreed with President Eisenhower's key cabi net officers Tuesday that it "would not be wise" to cut taxes as a business stimulant at this time. Following a breakfast confer ence at the White House, Senate Republican leader Knowland of California told reporters the de cision was "of course subject to review before Congress adjourns in late July or early August. Tax reduction was the subject of a "round table discussion," Knowland said, along . with the question whether the government should launch a major public works program to counter the re cession. Both the administration chiefs and the minority Congress mem bers agreed, Knowland said, that unemployment will start declining in March and business will turn up fairly soon thereafter without artificial stimulus. But Knowland added: "If the anticipated improve ment did not take place before midyear when Congress nears ad journment, public works would get serious consideration. Knowland's statement did not appear to rule out a tax cut as an additional stimulant later if business continues to slump. Both the administration and Democrat ic leaders are reported working quietly and separately on plans for such a move if it should ap pear necessary. The Democrats are reported working on a package plan total ing more than five billion dollars in cuts. At the same time administra tion officials are known to have called in private experts, and to have talked among themselves, in efforts to work out tax formulas to meet various economic condi tions. The congressional delegation, headed oy Knowland and Rep Martin (R-Mass), house minority leader, got a briefing on the eco nomic outlook from Secretary of the Treasury Anderson, Secretary of Commerce Weeks and Secre tary of Labor. Mitchell.' Police Identify 'Bread Bandit1 Vigilance has paid off for the patrol squads of the city police department. Eldon Baker at the Alameda Grocery recently reported to po lice that someone has been steal ing bread from in front of his store during the past 10 weeks. The bread has been stolen some time between the time the bread man left it outside the store at 5 a.m. and the opening time of the store at 7 a.m. The police instigated early morn ing breadbox watch but were not successful in apprehending the culprit. Each morning a loaf or more of bread turned up missing. However, persistence and pa tience paid off early Tuesday morn ing when Patrol Officer Rex King timed it just right and was there when the thief walked up and took a loaf of bread out of the open box and marched down the street. King tried to stop him. but the big Chesapeake dog, with bread in mouth, cleared a fence and headed for a nearby alley. The storekeeper estimates that during the past few weeks, the early morning "burglar" has got ten away with more than $10 worth of bread. One big problem remains to find out who owns the dog. hKTl -- I' NEW PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTOR for the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce is Pali O'Connor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh O'Connor, 133 Grant Street. Miss O'Connor is well known in the Basin for having served as news chief for Radio Station KFJI and as a former re- ?orter for the Herald and News. Chamber manager, R. Prank ucker, shown with Pati, said that "As part of the program for the economic expansion of the Klamath Basin, it was necessary to engage a full time publicity director. I am confident she will do an outstanding job as she is known in the area end is appraised of the economy and the needs ef the Basin." PLANS ARE IN PROGRESS for the OTI blood drive March 4 which will be a part of the Red Cross sponsored blood program. The OTI students and faculty are organizing the program on a class basis. From left to right above are Mrs, Virginia Dixon, executive secretary of the Klamath Basin branch of the American Red Cross; Clint Mann, student chairman of the OTI blood drive; Don Sands, student body president; and Jim Armson, OTI faculty adviser. The organizational meeting was held Monday afternoon at the OTI student lounge. Photo by Kettler Examiner Denies Influence Used In Miami WASHINGTON Wl The exam iner who was overruled by the Federal Communications Commis sion on the award of a Miami TV channel testified Tuesday he be lieved he made the right recom mendation. "There was no question in my mind at all that I had arrived at the right decision in the case," Herbert Sharfman told a special House Investigating Committee. When the FCC reversed him, Sharfman said, "I was surprised, but I don't think shocked." He said there had been less doubt in his mind as to the proper de cision than in the only two prior contested cases he .had decided. Under questioning, Sharfman agreed that another examiner might in good faith have come to a' different conclusion. He said he encountered no im proper pressures in the case. Also under questioning, Sharf man said he didn't think he had ever described the FCC decision as "shameful" but that possibly he had used this word in conver sation about it. Sharfman was the only witness heard before the hearing recessed for lunch. The investigators called Sharf man and four men from Miami in digging into accusations that money was passed to influence FCC Commissioner Richard A. Mack in the case. Mack denies this and contends that $2,650 of cancelled checks, introduced in the hearing, represented loans to him bv a Miami lawyer. Sharfman. after lengthy hear ings, recommended in 1955 that Miami's Channel 10 be given to Radio Station WKAT, owned by A. Frank Katzentine. The FCC in February, 1957, granted the channel to Public Service Television Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of National Air lines. The award is now being con tested in the courts. I held that WKAT was the best qualified of four applicant s," Sharfman testified. The name of Sen. Smathcrs (D Fla.) has come into the ease in connection with the Wilson appli cation. Smathers was executor of Wilson's estate. Smathers told a reporter Mon day that he has no active con nection with the estate's prosecu tion of the TV application after TV Decision Wilson's death. He said he would be glad to testify if the House subcommittee asked him to. Smathers also said he recalled an informal conference of FCC members and the Senate com merce committee at which, he said, Sen. Magnuson (D-Wash) ex pressed an opinion that perhaps it wasn't wise for FCC to award a TV station to a party which also had interests coming under another Federal regulatory agen cy. Smathers said no names of ap plicants or cases were mentioned at this conference, held before the FCC made its decision in the Mi ami case. Fatal For 12 ATLANTA W Twelve persons, including 11 children in two fami lies, perished in a fire that roared through a two-story duplex build ing in Atlanta's southwest section last night. Firemen said they found the bodies of 10 children huddled in one upstairs bedroom. In other bedrooms were the charred remains of an infant boy in an incubator and a woman, mother of four of the dead young sters. Police said all 12 victims were Negroes. Mr. and Mrs. Jewell Jones risked their lives in unsuccessful attempts to reach their seven children. Jones was cut off by flames while trying to get to them and finally leaped to safety from a second-story window. Later he ran up a ladder erected by firemen and plunged into the smouldering structure. Firemen pulled him back. Mrs. Jones said she "ran through a wall of flames trying to get upstairs. My hair caught fire and my arms were blistered. I just couldn't reach the children." Police listed the seven dead Jones children as Sandra Louise, 8: Frederick, 6: Larry, 5; Charles, 4: Christine, 2; Barbara, 1; and Calvin Douglas, the infant whose body was found in an incubator. Also dead were Mrs. Mary Helen Rowe, Jones sister-in-law, and her four children, Betty Jo, Marvin, Robert and Calvin, all under 6. Jones told police he was repair ing a bed when he thought he smelted smoke in the duplex. He went downstairs. "The whole downstairs was a sea of flames," he said. "I ran back upstairs and tried to get to the bedroom where the children were sleeping, but the flames cut me off. "I saw I couldn't get to them and 1 jumped out a window." Cuban Forces Battle Rebels HAVANA, Cuba HV- The Cuban Army moved planes, tanks and droops into Orientc Province Tuesday, apparently in an attempt to trap a major force of Fidel Castro's rebels in the Northern fringes of the Sierra Macstra. The Army's General Staff here withheld any announcement of whether a major offensive was under way against the rebels' mountain holdout. But heavy fir ing was reported in Pino Del Agua, 20 miles south of Veguitas between Manzanilla and Bayamo. Some army sources claimed a big rebel contingent had been sur rounded. 1 KF Residents Hurt In Crash Five Klamath Falls residents were involved in a truck-car ac cident about three and one - half miles north of Weed on Highway 99 on Monday about 2:15 p.m. Critically injured is Elder Ronald Kegley, head of the Klamath Falls Seventh Day Adventist Church who is in Mount Shasta Hospital with broken legs, broken pelvis. crushed chest and undetermined internal injuries. His four women passengers re ceived less serious injuries. Mrs. John J. Banta, 916 East Main, and Mrs. S. D. (Don) Chrowl of Mid land were both hospitalized at Mount Shasta and Mrs. Marilyn Howard and Mrs. Wilma Unrue jvere, treated) at the,. Weed;. -Clinic lor cuts ana Bruises. - -Driver of the truck, Harold Rus seil of Anderson, California, was also hospitalized at Mount Shasta. His wife, who was riding wan mm, was not injured. California Highway Patrol Offi cer E. B. Brown and Weed Po lice Officer Ray Andreatta inves tigated the accident. Apparently, officers said, the group of church people was return ing from Yreka to the junction of highways 99 and 97 to come home to Klamath Falls. The passenger car driven by Elder Kegley met the empty northbound truck and trailer after the truck had nego tiated a turn. The trailer jack knifed, catching the front of the car which came to a stop partially under the flatbed trailer. The fore part of the car was caved in on the driver and it required about 30 minutes to extricate him. No citations for faulty driving had been issued this morning. The of ficers reported the accident hap pened during a heavy rainstorm with wind blowing at 50 miles an hour. Elder and Mrs. Kegley came to Klamath Falls from Bend last sum mer and live on Pacific Terrace. They have four children, ranging in age from a year and a half to 10 years. He was head of the Sev enth Day Adventist Church at Bend and his brother is attending a church college near Walla Walla. Communisis Reject Order To Return Stolen Airliner PANMUNJOM, Korea 11 The North Korean Communists today rejected the U.N. Command's de mand for return of a South Korean airliner and 34 persons aboard it and insisted that President Syng- man Ilhec s government negotiate directly with Ihe Pyongyang Reds. Communist spokesmen adopted this position at a meeting of the Military Armistice Commission secretariat on the fate of the twin engine DC3 airliner presumably forced across the Red border Sun day with two American pilots, a West German couple and 30 Ko reans aboard. A South Korean Foreign Minis try official labeled the Red de mand impossible. South Korea did not sign the armistice agree ment suspending the Korean War and has refused to recognize the existence of the Communist re gime. Any direct negotiations would constitute de facto recogm tion. A North Korean newsman cov ering the truce commission meet ing hinted that a fight took place aboard the airliner before it was diverted north. He told South Ko rean reporters that some of the 34 persons aboard the plane were "wounded and received medical treatment.' Col. Kim Joon Kyung of North Korea claimed at the secretariat meeting that those aboard the I plane, which was bound from Pit plane had "defected because thcysan to Seoul. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Numbing temperatures Tuesday gripped the Eastern section of the nation still trying to dig out from the weekend's heavy snowfall, even the Deep South had below freezing weather. The mercury dropped to 29 be low in Lebanon, N.H., 27 below at Newport, Vt., and 25 below in northern New York. Unofficial readings of minus 40 were reported in the Kenne, N.H., area. At least 182 deaths across the nation were attributed to the snow and cold. No immediate relief was in sight from the protracted cold spell now in its 10th day. At Newark, N.J., airport the thermometer has not been above freezing since Feb. 8. Schools were closed in many communities, and businesses were shut down in some. The Pennsylvania Railroad said westbound trains were three to four hours late and eastbound one to two hours late through the night. Below zero temperatures were the rule rather than the exception in most of New York state, though New York City's lowest reading was four above. Saranac Lake and Stillwater Reservoir, in upstate New York had 25 below readings to match their 25 or more inches of snow. Other below zero readings in New York state were: Glens Falls, 22, Albany 18. By a strange quirk, the tern perature at Caribou, Me., often a cold spot, was 17 above, warmer than some parts of the Deep South. Southern temperatures in cluded Augusta, Ga., 12 above, Charleston, S.C., 14 above, and Savannah, Ga., 15 above. Northern Indiana was hit last night by a new blizzard that added 20 more inches to the al ready snow-plagued area. The fall raised the total in South Bend to 35 inches. Michigan City, Ind., already covered with an estimated 54 inches, escaped the brunt of the new storm. Ice on the upper Ohio. River brought water traffIA there to a virtual standstill. The temperature in New Jersey dropped to 10 above at High Point. About 500 motorists in East Orange,- N.J., finally dug their automobiles out of snow drifts and found each had been tagged with an overtime parking ticket. The cold spell in Washington. D.C., was its worst in 16 years. The temperature dropped to five above in the district, which had a 14 inch snowfall Saturday. Public schools in the area were closed for a second day. Government workers had another holiday, this time at Uncle Sam's expense. Those who stayed out Monday were docked a day's leave. Middlcsboro, Ky not only had zero weather, but one-third of the coal mining town was without heat, awaiting emergency supplies of heating gas. . 1 USING HIS NOSE TROIA, Italy (UP)-Policeman Giovanni Ferramosca Monday dis played a bloodhound's ability to sniff out a thief. Noting that bur glars who had stolen 100.000 lire ($160) and $120 U.S. dollars from a tobacco shop had also spilled perfume on the floor, Ferramosca rounded up a group of suspects, sniffed at their shoes, and ar rested Antonio DeCecilio, 27, and Giovanni Ventura, 18, whose shoes were delightfully scented. could not stand any more of the U.S. aggressive policy against South Korea." Kim said the issue was not a proper subject for con sideration by the armistice com mission set up to police the truce. U.S. Navy Capt. George W. Kehl. the U.N. member of the secre tariat, termed the Communist ex planation of the planes flight north "utterly fantastic." He as serted that "since one or more Communist agents" kidnaped the plane and its passengers, the is sue was a proper one for the armistice group. Kehl told newsmen later the is sue could be handled through other channels, such as neutral nations or the U.N. itself. But at this point, he added, the armistice commission was the proper chan nel. The Communists also refused to accept from Kehl a list of the crewmen and passengers aboard and an inventory of the cargo. The pilot was Willis P. Hobbs, Vallejo, Calif., an American civil ian employed by the Korean Na tional Airline. A U.S. Air Force officer, Lt. Col. Howard W. Mc Clcllan, Buchanan, Mich., was flying as copilot to log additional flight time. They were believed forced to fly to North Korea by Communist agents in disguise aboard the
