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0 OF ORSGOM LIBRARY 6-1-58 EUGENE, (MtBQ la The- Day's km By FRANK JENKINS As this is written. Democratic leaders are assembled in Washing ton ior a two-day meeting of their party's national committee. The meeting will kick off the political campaign for control of the next congress. One of the first items of busi ness was a resolution censuring President Eisenhower for his han dling of what the committee calls "the depression that is now grip ping the country." The resolution says: "We condemn the Hoover like approach to this problem. It is a disgrace to tell the unem ployed . . . that prosperity is just around the corner." Former President Truman is scheduled to make the big speech that will pull the cork and open the campaign, and four GOP sen ators promptly challenged him to renounce the "campaign of pro fessional pessimism" they say the Democrats are conducting. They added: "Don't sell America short be fore the world." The Republicans are also hand ing out advice to Ike. The anti-Benson group of the GOP (now grown to a member ship of 25) is planning to tell the President his secretary of agricul ture is a political liability that if Mr. Benson stays in office the penalty will probably be the loss of from 10 to 25 seats in the house in the November election. And so on. Something to remember: The big issue in this campaign that is opening (as in other poli tical campaigns) is WHO WILL SIT IN THE SEATS OF POWER? In this political Donnybrook Fair that is getting under way your job and mine is to sift out the wheat (if any) from the chaff (of which there is a plenitude.) Here's a timely thought: Yesterday was Washington's birthday. In his schoolboy copy book, George Washington wrote this sentence at the top of the pages:' "Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of . celestial fire that is known CONSCIENCE." He grew up to be the Father of Bis country. At this point, I think I'd better write a note to myself: DON'T GET TOO CYNICAL. It's true that at times these three-ring circuses we call poli tical campaigns tend to become a little tiresome and more than a lit tle disgusting. But After all The,y are a part of the American System of government. The Amer ican. System of government is the best system in tne world, it nas built not only the greatest nation in trie world but the best nation to live in. No American in his right mind could swap it for any other system. Let's keep this in mind: When light-weights get elected to office in times that call for what Josiah Gilbert Holland de scribed a century ago as "Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the log in public duty and in pri vate thinking." the fault lies not so much with the panty-waists themselves as WITH THOSE OF US WHO VOTE FOR THEM, last flight crews of the strike bound Western Air Lines reached their home bases today and all operations of the company, serv ing 13 states and Canada and Mexico, came to a halt. WAL's 263 pilots went on strike at midnight Friday in a dispute over wages and working rules. The company has been carrying approximately 4,400 passengers daily and serving 47 cities. The company's headquarters here was arranging flight trans- Snark Range Given Boost Flight (revs Strike Western Air Lines LOS ANGELES. Feb. 22 (-The i portation on other lines' for WAL HST Brands Republicans As Failures WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 W- Harry S. Truman rawhided the Eisenhower administration to night, saying that five years of economic misrule have pro duced a Republican recession at home and a crisis of confidence abroad. The Republican leadership, said the scrappy former President, is weak, timid, complacent, and has failed to advance with the times. As a result, he said, the Ameri can people are fed up, disil lusioned, and disturbed and "tired of being bamboozled by the Republicans." He told fellow Democrats just what they wanted to hear that the party is going to rack up sweeping victories in 1958 and 1960." Democratic bigwigs from all over the country congregated here to raise cam with the Republi cans, plus a bundle of cash to combat them. Some 3,000 of them, party leaders said, put up $100 each for a dinner honoring Tru man, the last Democratic occu pant of the White House. Adlai E. Stevenson, the party presidential candidate in 1952 and 1956, and other party chieftains were on the list for oratorical ef forts. But Truman was the main speaker at the political sendoff for the 19d8 congressional election campaign. The turnout was so big that it had to be a double-header affair half the partisans in the ball room at the Sheraton Park Hotel and the rest in the banquet room beneath. Truman and Mrs. Tru man agreed to dine with the crowd downstairs, then move up to the ballroom for his address, televised and broadcast nationally by CBS at 10:30 p.m. EST CBS has promised the Republicans equal time. , The 73-year-old Truman was of a mind to pour It on and give em hell, in the spirit of his own uphill presidential campaign of 1948. In his address he lit into Pres ident Eisenhower from start to finish, not by name but unmis takably. "People are tired of getting lib eral pep talks and reactionary policies," he said. "They are tired of getting words when they ask for deeds. They are tired of being deceived about conditions, at home and abroad. "The people want the truth. They want action at the top for the good of the nation and for the welfare arid benefit of the ordi nary citizen." clients who had made reserva tions several days in advance. WAL planes are tied up in Seat tle, San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles. Salt Lake City, Denver, Minneapolis and Great Falls. About 2,500 of Western's 2,700 employes are being furloughed because of the strike called by the Air Line Pilots Assn. They include flight engineers, stewardesses, baggage handlers, ticket agents, mechanics and porters. Bob Fox, chairman of the Air Line Pilots Assn., said today that Western had indicated its willing ness to give pilots a seven per cent wage increase, and that this would be acceptable, provided the company would: 1. Agree to provide rules and compensation covering time spent in training. 2. Increase the pension plan. 3. Increase the expense allow ance. 4. Provide protection for maxi mum on-duty scheduling and time away from home. 5. Give premium pay for pilots on international runs. President Terrell C. Drinkwater commented: "This is a strike by the highest-paid group of employ es in the history of unionism. Some of our pilots earn as much as $19,000 a year, and the aver age pay for them, based or our accounting records of 1957, was $12,529 a year." The National Mediation Board yesterday rejected Drinkwater's request for government interven tion. He had asked the board to recommend that President Eisen hower name an emergency board to study issues, which would have had the effect of postponing tne strike 60 days. The pilots set four strike deadlines before they walked out, The mediation board said it be lieves the issues can more appro priately be settled by arbitration. Postal Prices Cause Debate Price Tea Cents 64 Pates KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 13. 195 Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 4029 Washington Grand Jury Draws Blast WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 V Manufacturers of the Northrop Snark guided missile said today the weapon now has a range of more than 6,300 miles. It here tofore has been credited with S.000 miles. Able to cruise for 10 hours at almost the speed of sound, the Snark was described as the only current weapon capable of low- altitude attack upon virtually any target in Soviet Russia. A powerful tool for massive Intercontinental deterrent" pur poses was the way Northrup Vice President John R. Alison of Los Angeles described it. New or little known facts about the pilotless bomber were brought out by Alison and other Northrop aircraft officials at a briefing here designed to correct what they said was widespread misunder standing of the Snark's mission and performance. They said a new electronic de vice, specially installed on the Snark. can trick enemy radar in to mistaking the fighter-size mis sile for the largest of the jet bombers. Thus Snarks can be flown ahead of a B52 bomber at tack as decoys to cut down ene my interception of U. S. strategic bombers. A big load carrier, they said the Snark can plunge a large thermonuclear warhead into ene my targets with "truly amazing accuracy." Once it has left the round, a Snark is on its own. A pre-set self-contained inertial guidance system directs it on a straight, ligzai, or looped course. Although the Snark cannot be jammed by the enemy, it can be called back from its mission if a suspected enemy attack turns out to be a false alarm. More than 50 Snarks have been launched from the Air Force Mis sile Test Center at Cape Canav eral, Fla. Altogether they have flown the equivalent of three times around the world at the equator. Some of. them, fitted with land ing gear, have been brought back and landed and men nown again at many u three time. BOMBS BARRED BONN, Germany (UP) The British and U.S. Air Forces have heeded pleas of nature lovers and fishermen and agreed not to drop any more bombs on the Grosse Knechtsand, it was announced Saturday. The West German For eign Office said the two air forces will not renew the agreement which designated the sand spit off the North Sea coast as a practice bombing target. Nature lovers have protested for years that the bombings have killed wild fowl on the spit and fishermen complained that the bombs scared away the fish. WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (AT-Sen. Monroney (D-Okla) predicted to day the Senate will vote next week for a four-cent stamp on all letters instead of the five cents asked by President Eisenhower on nonlocal mail. The issue is to be fought out on the Senate floor starting Tuesday, when a postal rate increase bill comes up for debate. The present three cent stamp in effect since 1932, appears to be' on its way out by July 1 The House voted last year for a flat four-cent rate as part of a postal revenue increase' bill. Then the Senate Post Office Committee voted 7-6 last Thursday to amend this measure to put a five-cent rate on intercity letters for a three-year period, July 1, 1958, to June 30, 1961. Monroney and Chairman Olin Johnston (D-SC) of the Post Of fice Committee plan to lead a fight to knock off the five - cent stamp amendment. Senate Republican Leader Knowland of California told re porters he expects a fairly close vote on the issue. Knowland said there is a good chance of retain ing the amendment as long as the additional one-cent increase is for a limited number of years and revenue from it goes for modern ization and construction of new post office buildings and facilities. Monroney said in an interview he believes most Democrats and a number of Republicans will back his fight to beat the amendment. "We are offering a middle ground proposition," he said. "We are for raising the rate one cent to cut out a good part of the def icit but not for a two cent jump which would mean a 66 2-3 per cent increase. "There is no question but that the four-cent stamp would more than pay its way." However, Sen Carlson (R-Kan) author of the five - cent amend ment, has expressed equal confi dence he will win. The extra 175 million dollars of revenue expected from a five-cent stamp would be earmarked for the modernization program. ATLANTA, Feb. 22 Wl Criti cism of the grand jury investiga tion into Teamsters Union affairs in Seattle last year is expressed in a speech prepared for delivery tomorrow by the president of the Washington State Bar Assn. Fred C. Palmer, a Yakima law yer, said in a speech prepared for delivery to the National Confer ence of Bar Association Presidents that it was unfortunate the inquiry was "so limited." In his prepared address Palmer said: 'There appears to be con siderable sentiment in our state and especially in Seattle that the grand jury inquiry was far from the sweeping investigation called for by the Bar Association." Palmer told the conference that the State Bar Assn. recommended and King County Superior Court judges ordered the jury convened after testimony before the Senate Rackets-Investigating Committee caused great concern among many members of the bar in our state. . Palmer told the barristers that county officials showed no signs of activity except for a police in vestigation ordered by the county prosecutor. "The prosecutor's staff, howev er, in making such an investiga tion did not have the power to subpoena witnesses and record. Palmer said. In Seattle, prosecutor Charles O. Carroll, William F. Devin and Vic tor Lawrence issued a joint state ment saying that Palmer was unin formed about the facts surround ing the grand jury investigation. Devin and Lawrence were spe cial prosecutors during the inquiry. The statement read: "The grand jury reported that it was precluded from making a 'sweeping' investigation into the affairs of the Teamsters' Union, not because of lack of desire, in terest or courage but for two rea sons: . , "1. All of the Teamsters' finan cial records prior to 1953 had been 'destroyed.' "2. Many of the matters brought to public attention by the Senate Rackets Investigating Committee were matters in which possible preseculion was outlawed by our state s tnree-year statute -ol llml tations." Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: variable high cloudiness Sunday with a few light showers. High Sunday 58-63. High Saturday 51 Low at midnight . ...40 CRATER LAKE High on Friday 50 Low Friday night 29 a.m. Saturday .. 32 No new snow Snow depth Saturday 142 Same date last year 75 Highway 62 was open through the park and to the rim with no chains required on Saturday. It was cloudy in the park. Skiing condi tions were fair to good. Soviets Claim Super Rocket LONDON. Feb. 22 W-Soviet Defense Minister Rodio Malinov sky today said Soviet armed forces already are equipped with rockets of long-range operational flight "capable of carrying hydro gen charges to any point on earth." He made the statement in a speech marking the 40th anniver sary of the Soviet armed forces. It was carried by Moscow Radio. Marshal Malinovsky said tre mendous Soviet achievements in industrial, scientific, and techni cal fields had made it possible to equip the armed forces with "all kinds of modern arms and mili tary technical means." 'Copters Hit; 6 Men Killed Solons Split Over Choice Of Witness US -Britain Close Missile Base Deal WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 W The lister Selwyn Lloyd decided Foreign Aid Support Set WASHINGTON iffi President Eisenhower and former President Truman head a bipartisan cast that will plug the U.S. foreign aid program here next Tuesday. Eric Johnston, the movie czar, will serve as chairman of the day long conference. Vice President Nixon will head a panel. All major U.S. radio networks, plus the British Broadcasting Corp., will be cutting in through out the day on the speeches to a gathering of perhaps 1,200 leaders of various segments ol the coun try's life. Participants are coming from labor, industry, church groups, veterans organizations, and so on. Members of Congress have been invited. Resignation Rumor Causes Protest From Probe Leader WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 W -i Chairman Harris ID-Ark I said to day the Eisenhower administra tion would be interfering with his House subcommittee's probe of the Federal Communications Commission if it forced the resig nation now of FCC Commissioner Richard A. Mack. Harris also said he doubts the wisdom of Congress setting up an ethical code aimed against wire pulling in cases before supposedly independent regulatory agencies. Some subcommitteemen have pro posed enactment of such codes. He suggested a better course would be for the agencies them selves to draw up cedes of prop er conduct then have the codes available for congressional re view. The . Arkansas Democrat spoke to newsmen as his special sub committee prepared for resuming its hearings Mpnday in its inquiry into alleged pressures surround ing the FCC award of lucrative TV Channel 10 in Miami. Mack, ticketed for questioning under oath next week, has been accused by ousted subcommittee counsel Bernard Schwartz of re- $2,650 from a lawyer ressing for the applicant which er three rivals. L'lving pressing I won ove Mack has denied any wrong doing and said he docs not intend to resign. In a copyrighted story today, the Minneapolis Tribune said the administration has taken the first steps to force Mack's resignation. ine story, from the papers Washington bureau, quoted White House sources, as saying Sherman Adams. President Eisenhower's staff chief, has passed word indi rectly to Mack that his usefulness to the administration has ended The Tribune said Justice Depart ment officials have reviewed the law concerning removal for possi ble use if .Mack balks at volun tarily stepping a'le. Mack, a Florida Democrat, was named by Eisenhower to the FCC in 1955. White House press secretary James C. Hagerty declined to comment at Thomasville, Ga., on the Minneapolis Tribune story on Mack. Harris said he had not heard of any administration move to get rid of Mack. But he said Mack's resignation before the subcommit tee gets to question him could be widely interpreted as meaning the House group would abandon its in iquiry. RED BLUFF, Calif.. Feb. 22 W Six crewmen were killed in the air collision of three big Army helicopters in a remote area near Red Bluff today. Three apparently survived. It was not known whether they were injured. Army Capt. W. W. Jackson clamped censorship on the accident. The three helicopters were part of a flight of 21 "Flying Bananas" en route from Ft. Riley, Kan., to rt. Lewis, wasn. Foggy weather apparently caused the accident some 10 to 15 miles east of Red Bi'.iff. The craft fell in the foothills and caught fire, Coroner George Hoyt of Tehama County said he was lnlormed. Dep. Sheriff E. E. McWilliams said Capt. Jackson had ordered sheriff's officers not to give any information to newsmen other than the location of the accident. Capt. Jackson, reached by The Associated Press at the Civil Air Patrol office at Red Bluff, was asked for details of the accident. Jackson said crisply: "No com ment this end. Suggest you con tact 6th Army at San Francisco. A 6th Army spokesman in San Francisco said: "We are compil ing information now and will give it out as soon as possible." Coroner Hoyt said he was in formed "there are six bodies" at the scene of the accident. WASHINGTON. Feb. 22 Wi-The Kohler strike which pitted father against son has split Democratic and Republican senators investi gating the violence it generated. The strife between Walter Reu- ther's politically powerful United Auto Workers Union and the Wis consin bathroom fixtures manu facturing firm has become a ma jor subject of inquiry by the Sen ate Rackets Investigating Committee. Its four Republican and four Democratic members have snlit down party lines on a key issue wnom to summon as the leadoff witnesses in hearings first sched uled to start Monday. These hear ings were suddenly put off until at least Tuesday while the eight senators thresh out the procedural issue. Chairman McClellan (D-Ark), who has warned his colleagues repeatedly against partisan bick ering, sought to soft-pedal the split while he reportedly worked on some plan to restore peace among members. It is the second time they have been torn by con troversy over this inquiry. The hearings will offer the Re publicans' 1 a w y e r-investigator John McGovern a chance to make good on his statement to Detroit newsmen that he had turned up "astounding" evidence against the union's top officials a statement that brought demands from one committee member. Sen. McNa- mara (D-Mich), that McGovern should be fired on the spot. The Kohler strike is still un settled after nearly four years. ine company and the UAW have blamed each other for beat ings and other violence which turned Sheboygan, Wis., the fac tory's home town, into a city di vided. Fathers and sons, brother and brother, found themselves ranged against each other. John Buchen, court-appointed lawyer in Sheboy gan, says he has handled at least a half dozen divorces attributable to family feuds generated by the strike. The UAW says it has spent 12 million dollars trying to win the strike and has more to spend if necessary. The company says it ctn rule out me dispute. . United States and Britain have fi nally signed under conditions of unusual secrecy an agreement for establishing intermediate range missiles bases in the Brit ish Isles. The missiles and nuclear warheads are to be supplied by the United States. A mysterious silence main tained by the State Department and British Embassy on the con clusion of the historic agreement was broken late today by the De fense Ministry in London. A spokesman there said that offici al statements on the signing will be issued Monday. In Washington, apparently in deference to British desires to keep the operation largely un der wraps until it could be pre sented to Parliament, the State Department declined to make any immediate comment on the Brit ish report of the signing. The subject is politically explo sive in Britain, where there is much public reluctance to see the bases set up. Duncan Sandys, defense minis ter in the government of Prime Minister Macmillan, is to make a statement about the bases in Par liament Monday. The Monday schedule repre sents a delay of almost a week in making the announcement. And the actual signing reportedly ac complished in a , roundabout, al most furtive way itself had been delayed until today. Ihe official reason, as given in London yesterday, was that Mac millan wanted to cover the final draft of the agreement before giving his consent. In fact, the understanding of diplomats here is that Macmillan and Foreign Mm against injecting the inflamma tory missiles argument into this week's House of Commons' de bate on British foreign policy. ine missiles agreement prob lem is a measure of the enor mous difficulty confronting the United States and other Allied gov ernments in carrying through the NATO conference decisions last December to arm the alliance forces with nuclear rockets. HEAVY LOAD NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UP) - A hurry call for the largest wrecker in town was sent to police head quarters here after a tractor- trailer was involved In a minor accident. The trailer's cargo was two one-ton elephants. Pentagon Plan Almost Ready WASHINGTON. Feb. 22 UTt- President Eisenhower can expect a new blueprint for Pentagon re organizationthe third since the unified Defense Department came into existence a decade ago to be in his hands within the next month or two. Down at a secluded spot at Ramy Air Force Base, Puerto Rico, Secretary of Defense Neil McElroy huddled today with his advisers in one of a weekend se ries of meetings devoted to study ing a mountain of ideas for re vamping the military establish ment. McElroy had told newsmen, be fore his departure from Washing ton yesterday, that he thought he and his advisory group would ar rive at some final decisions with in the next few weeks. r i, $ f3i Union To Test Merger Rule GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.. Feb 22 Wl The AFL-CIO will test its authority to force merger of labor groups on the state level at a three - day convention opening here Monday. AFL-CIO President George M e a n y ordered the special con vention after two years of nego tiations had failed to bring about a voluntary merger of the AFL and CIO organizations In Michi gan. Meany's 15-million-member unit ed labor movement was formed Dec. 5, 1955. State and local groups were allowed two years to ellect mergers. The outcome of Meany s crack down on quarreling unions in Michigan may set a precedent for action in other states where the AFL and CIO have been slow to mfrge. Ohio, Indiana, New York nnti Maut lac-Air a.a imnflH (ho ..m uv, at j civ oii.uus nit states that have failed so far to effect voluntary mergers. Meany singled out Michigan for action after the AFL - Michigan Federation of Labor had defied his orders. Back of the AFL's reluctance to merge is the old feud between craft and industrial unionism. The Michigan AFL, which has about 300,000 members since the expulsion of the Teamsters, fears domination by the 650,000-mem-bcr Michigan CIO organization. James K. Hoffa, Detroit, is na tional president of the Teamsters union and a power in the Michi gan AFL. A special stale convention in Lansing Feb. 1 voted to boycott the Grand Rapids convention. The state group also defied Meany by taking no action on his order to expel the Teamsters. It accused Meany of trying to destroy the authority and autonomy of inter national unions." Meany has lifted the charters of both the Michigan Federation of Labor and the State CIO Council to pave the way for the merger convention. The CIO group complied with Meany's order to turn over all its assets to his special representa tive, R. J. Thomas, a former president of the United Auto Workers. But the AFL group defied a similar order to turn over its as sets to another AFL-CIO special representative, Peter M. McGav-in. Nasser Wins Arab State Presidency CAIRO, Feb. 22 WlGamal Ab- del Nasser, once little known offi cer in the Egyptian army, became president of the United Arab Re public today with almost absolute power over 27 million people in Syria and Egypt. Nasser told a cheering crowd of 500,000 persons in Cairo's Re public Square that the republic is a big weapon for the Arabs and the foundation stone of a united Arab world. He proclaimed the U.A.R. as the protector of all Arabs. There was near panic and al most a stampede in the square as the broad-shouldered Egyptian leader stepped outside Abdin Pal ace. Women became hysterical, and police beat back the over-enthusiastic with belts and ropes. In Damascus, capital of Syria, cheering mobs streamed into the streets, and native horsemen gal loped through the capital waving swords and shields. Nasser was presented to the Cairo throng as the first president of the U.A.R. This followed an nouncements here and in Damas cus that yesterday's plebiscites had approved almost unanimous ly the merger of the two Arab states with Nasser as president. Twenty-one guns boomed a sa lute, fireworks exploded in the sky, and airplanes dropped para chutes bearing pictures ot . the smiling, 40-year-old Nasser. Scrawled in Arabic characters on the wall behind Nasser was the date July 23 the day in 1952 when a little group of officers including Nasser stepped from behind the scenes to take over Egypt in a military coup. He then was lieutenant colonel. Today he - stood in - civilian clothes, no longer president of Egypt but supreme leader of two U.A.R, provinces separated by 100 miles of foreign territory. When he spoke, few heard hint because of the tumult and confu sion in the crowd. "The unity which is realized to day is a big weapon of which we are proud," he said. "It is a weap on of the future with which we could face the common enemy who fought against unity, trying to sow dissension among us." Egypt's dispute with its south ern neighbor, Sudan, over border areas took a back seat to the cele brations in this country and Syria. Plane Crash Claims Three SAN DIEGO, Calif, tf) The deaths of three Navy men and Injury to two others In a plana crash and explosion on the air craft carrier Shangri-la off the California coast was disclosed by the Navy Friday night. One of those killed was the pilot of an Fll-F Grumman Tiger Jet coming in for a landing on the carrier. The other victims were working on the flight deck when the accident occurred Thursday afternoon, the Navy reported. The dead were: Lt. David Oscar Gudal, the pilot, whose wife, Mau reen, lives at Sunnyvale, Calif.; Ronald G. Payne, Airman 3.c, whose wife, Myrle, lives at San Jose, Calif., and Clandell N. Hardeman, airman, of Smithvillc, Tex. 1 m-- . Tularemia Bacteria Found In Some Local Water Tests Dr. Monroe Holmes, veterinari an for the Oregon Slate Board of Health, reported Saturday that positive Tularemia bacteria have been isolated in water samples re cently taken from wells, streams and standing water in the Klam ath Basin. He. suggests that cau tion should be used regarding wa ter from shallow wells which may have become contaminated by sur face water. The contamination has resulted CONTRACTORS from all over the state entered bids for the construction contract of Crest Elementary School at one of the largest bid openings for a school job in a long time. Bids were opened on February 20 by Klamath County School District. Shown Is the model of the 12 classroom elementary school, prepared by the office of Morrison and Howard, 203 Williams Building, architects for the project. The building will occupy about 27,300 square feet of ground area and will Include classrooms, offices, multipurpose room, kitchen, cafeteria with stage and utility rooms. Construction will be concrete slab, brick and reinforced concrete walls, glue laminated beams and T and G plank roof. Heating will be by hot water radiant floor panel system. Award was made to Brosterhout Construction Company of Klamath Falls on Its low bid of $284,747, which includes an accepted alter nate for cabinet work. The new school will be built on Crest Street near Laverne and it is anticipated that the official name will be changed to one representative of the Klamath Basin, might be taken to the Klamath County Health Office for testing. "Of course," he warned, "a well may test out all right one day and become contaminated the next." The U.S. Public Health Service's Rocky Mountain Laboratory at Hamilton, Montana reports that KiO cases of Tularemia have been diagnosed in mice taken from the Basin. This represents one of the largest known instances observed, according to their records. Musk- , ICS . ... ,, ,.u;i. l ,, . , . ,. i ...u;.v. 1 pnu lauuiu a a viiiuiii,, va rolii the infestation of mice which ... , .. ... ... has plagued this area for nearly . . . . a year, ne sa.u. ... '" ; lrappCrs not to handle these ani IMU U,M,..M.- ... m.,ls inom tnroign tne u-. ..u .u- p, Vertrees of the Klamath oHwacr. Holmes added hat con- L Agent's Office reported tact w in water " that the mice in this area have lion aiicnes dim uunun i"1 should be avoided and that mice should not be handled under any circumstances. Your local doctors are aware of Ihe situation," the expert said, "and people who suspect that they may have contracted the disease should report to their physician at once. Holmes suggested that where more than ordinary numbers of dead mice have been observed, or if sickness has occurred in the family, a sample of the well water shown no sign of a general die-off and are going into their breeding season at population levels which will enable them to increase even beyond the numbers which they reached last summer. He said that new nests and young mice have been seen recently and the poison program has been delayed by bad weather. Vertrees said that the opening of the general baiting campaign will be announced just as soon as a long range weather report indicates that it will be feasible. l I
