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Newspaper Page TextEUGENE, ORE la The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS Pacific Coast economic note: The San Francisco office of the department of labor reports that wage and salary employment in the three Pacific states DE CREASED by 231.000 oersons be tween mid-December and mid- January. That's a decline of just under a quarter of a million jobs. Sounds pretty bad, doesn't it? But wait a minute. January (19581 employment in the three Pacific states stood at 5.549,600 HIGHER THAN IN ANY JANUARY PRIOR TO 1957. What that means is this: While the economy of the Far West is pausing temporarily while it catches its breath, it is pro viding employment for more peo ple in this supposedly glum Jan uary of 1958 than ever were em ployed before with the exception of January of 1957. Put that way, it sounds better, It all depends on whether you look at the doughnut or at the hole. President Eisenhower says this morning he rejected a drive to beat Russia into the air with an ' EXPERIMENTAL atom powered plane because he thought a "crash" program to be first in the air would delay development of a more important objective a COMBAT-TYPE atom plane. His statement is made in a let ter to the congressional sub com mittee on atom research and de velopment, which had criticised the President's decision on the grounds that the delay might give the Russians another disastrous propaganda victory. Members of congress, of course. have a perfect right to criticise the President. As a matter of fact, they SHOULD criticise the President whenever they are rea fonably sure1 he is wrong. President Eisenhower isn't al ways right, and he may have been wrong in this particular instance But at least he is generally rec ognized as, the world's foremost soldier, and it is a fairly reas onable conclusion that the judg ment of the world's foremost sol dier in a purely military manner auch as this might be better than the judgment of civilians. It is true that Sputnik was a big propaganda victory for the Russians. It lifted them high up in the world's thinking and low ered us in the world s thinking But Sputnik wasn't a WEAPON. It didn t drop any bombs on us. A nuclear-powered combat plane IS a weapon. If we wasted time on a propaganda stunt and the delay resulted in the Russians get ting into the air first with an atom-powered combat plane, it would be bad. The point I'd-like to -make tiere is 'that we must be DISCRIMI NATING in our reading of the news if our reading is to do us any good. Otherwise, we can't form accurate judgments for our selves. You should read editorials In this and other newspapers with similar discrimination. We editors think we know everything, and it is a part of our job to offer our opinions on what is going on. But don't take what we say as gospel. Before accepting it. TEST IT WITH YOUR OWN INTELLI GENCE. Facts-the TRUTH are the most important thine in the world As a nation, one of our greatest dangers is that we know so many things that aren t so. Army Chief Says U.S. Superior LOS ANGELES Wl The chair man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says that from an over-all point of view the free world is "supe rior militarily and industrially to the Soviet bloc." Gen. Nathan F. Twining told the Western Industrial Survival Conference yesterday that the So viet bloc is on a war footing "dur ing a period of supposed peace" and has nearly as many divisions, and more weapons, than it had in World War II. FORMULATING A PLAN to prevent any further destruction of wildlife caused by the dis tribution of poisoned grain in the mouse control program in the Tulelake Basin are the ex perts pictured above. From left to right seated are Ned Dollahita, California Fish and Gam Department warden, Tulelake; James R. Morris, game management officer from Klamath Falls; Rolo F. Talbert, California Department of Agriculture; Jess Grishem, Sis kiyou County agriculture commissioner; G. H. Hansen, U, S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Gene Branson and Tom Horn, both managers of the Tula Lake Refuge of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service; and Loring White, Modoc County agriculture commissioner. Stand ing from left to right era Leroy Smith, Modoc County agriculture commissioner and Bill Huse Siskiyou County agriculture commissioner. j l 1 idtaJlSr'- , i ' ' VISITING KLAMATH FALLS for a round of campaign ac tivities on Wednesday and Thursday war Mr. and Mrs. Sig Unander. Unander, now state treasurer, it seeking the Re publican nomination (or governor. T h a i r appearance in Klamath Falls was handled by the Young Republicans, Fred Heard, chairman. It included a series of social hours, meet ings, coffee hours and a no-host dinner which was held Thursday evening at the Winema. Unander Raps Tax System During Tour Through Basin By FLOYD L. WYNNE State Treasurer Sig Unander, candidate for the Republican nom ination for governor, listed timber, taxes and power as the three fields needing considerable study and at tention if Oregon's economic pic ture is to become brighter. Unander and his wife, Vivian, were guests Wednesday night at both a Midland Grange and Henley Grange meeting. Their Thursday schedule included visits to Oregon Tech and Weyerhaeuser, several coffee hours, a noon appearance for Unander at the Kiwanis Club and his wife at the Soroptimist Club. The schedule included a no-host dinner at the Winema Thursday evening, and radio interviews on both KFLW and KFJI. Questioned about his stand on taxes and the tax structure in the state, Unander pointed out that Oregon's tax structure has become a patchwork. "Oregon needs a tailor-made tax structure," Unander commented, "not a shotgun ap proach to the tax picture." "The Sly Survey being conducted by the Princeton University is the best approach," he continued. "It is an independent study that should outline for us the program that is best for Oregon. I will buy the study if it is an honest, ob jective study, which 1 feel it "Will be." . Unander criticized the present tax structure as being built on a very narrow base. He labeled the Oregon tax picture as noncom petitive when compared with that of Washington and Camornia. Summarizing, Unander said, "We need to build a tax program that will stimulate our economy and put us on a competitive basis for outside industry with our neighbors." He declined comment on the sales tax, pointing out that any stand on types of taxes that might be necessary would be another ex ample of patchwork thinking in the tax structure field. When queried about a stand on the plan to employ a sales tax for educational purposes, Unander said, "This type of plan doesn't make sense to me. The needs of education may be greater or less than a sales tax would provide. yet for better or worse, under the plan education would be married to the sales tax. He agreed that property taxes were highly oppressive and that some action must be taken to pro vide relief in this taxation field. He labeled a possible right-to-work law as unnecessary and re strictive. He took issue with the present governor on the question of capi tal punishment. "The governor took an oath to carry out the duties of the office and the laws of the state," he said, "but in some instances of this nature he places personal feelings above the oath. This is wrong. "Personally." he continued, am not going to vote to repeal the capital punishment law. Unander complimented Oregon Tech for the important niche it is filling in the educational field. The standards are excellent at Oregon Tech," he commented. The greatest need of the state at the moment, Unander stated, is for able and conscientious lead ership in government, the kind of leadership that will command the respect of the people. Three things needed to Improve the economy of the state listed by Unander were (1) revitauza tion of the timber industry, (2) drafting of a thorough tax plan, and (3) development of hydroelec tric resources for full utilization. He also scored the power prefer ence clause that denies Oregon a fair share of all federally gen erated power. When asked how he felt about other candidates filing against him for the gubernatorial nomination Unander said, "I believe in a wide open primary, it's part of our American heritage. The other can didates are welcome, and it should be a fine contest. - He also paid -tribute to . Mark Hatfield and Warren Gill, two other seekers of the Republican nomination, terming them both competent gentlemen. Unander left Friday morning for Eugene where he was sched uled to make an address before returning to Salem. Nothing New In Soviet Note WASHINGTON W President Eisenhower received the transla tion of Premier Bulganin's latest note urging an East-West summit meeting Friday. He apparently found it disappointing. U. S. officials who analyzed the letter declared there was nothing new in it. They called it a prop aganda document designed to persuade world opinion that Rus sia is working harder for a sum mit meeting and for cold war agreements than the United States. James C. Hagerty, White House press secretary, said the letter was not discussed at Friday's cabinet meeting, which lasted an hour and a half. An earlier exchange of notes published by the State Depart ment showed Washington and Moscow tightly deadlocked. M Price Five Cent It Paget Hot Election Race Looms In Primary SALEM m Eight candidates for governor had filed Friday for the May 16 primaries as Secretary of State Mark Hatfield officially entered the race by the seldom used petition method. As election officials prepared for a rush before Friday's S p.m. fil ing deadline, Hatfield saved him self the $100 filing fee by submit ting petitions from voters in 10 counties. It was the first time in 20 years that a Republican had used peti tions to file for governor. Names of l.QOO voters are needed, but Hat field said he bad far more than that. With five Republicans and three Democrats in the contest for gov ernorand the possibility that more might file before the day ends one of the most exciting primary election campaigns in many years was shaping up. Gov. Robert D. Holmes, bidding for reelection, faces opposition in the Democratic primary from for mer state Sen. Lew Wallace, Port land, and Wiley W. Smith, Mult nomah County assessor. Hatfield's Republican adversar ies are state Treasurer Sig Unan der: state Sen. Warren Gill. Leb anon, Republican leader of the upper house: Albert Eichman, Clackamas tavern owner who wants open gambling; and George N. Livingston, Boring plumbing contractor. In the congressional races, the three Democratic incumbents still were without primary opposition Friday morning. They are Reps. Al Ullman. Baker; Edith Green, Portland; and Charles 0. Porter, Eugene. But Rep. Walter Norblad, Stay- ton, only Republican in the Ore g o n congressional delegation, faces a tough primary battle against former state Sen. Philip S. Hitchcock, Oswego. Freeman Holmer, state super visor ff elections, said he expects more than 100 candidates to file Friday. The usual last-day surprises were in store, with much interest in the contest for the Supreme Court seat held by Justice Gordon Sloan, who was sworn in only last Monday, So far, Sloan is unopposed, but several others are expected to file during the day. Until mid-morning, only half of the 60 House members had filed for reelection. Of the 15 Senate vacancies, only eight incumbents so far have filed. This would indicate a big turn over in the Legislature. The elections division moved into a big basement hearing room Friday and adopted an assembly line system to avoid the last-day confusion of past years. With 222 nominations to be made in the primaries, 180 candidates had filed Friday morning. Thursday filings included: Former state Rep. Earl H. Hill, Cushman Republican, for state representative from Lane County. Former state Rep. Ernest E. Schrenk, Creswell Republican, for state representative from Lane County. Orlo Bagley, Cottage Grove Re publican, for state representative from Lane County. Grace K. Williams, Canyon City Republican, for Grant County dis trict attorney. Lyle E. McCauley, Salem Res publican, for state labor commis sioner, John W. Snider, Medford Re publican, for state senator. Waterfowl Deaths Studied, New Plans Are Formulated TULELAKE Representatives of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the California State De partment of Agriculture, and Mo doc and Siskiyou Agriculture Com missions met at the headquarters of the Tule Lake Game Refuge Thursday to determine what could be done to prevent any further loss of wildlife due to the mouse baiting program in that area. Over 500 waterfowl died earlier in the week and the deaths have been tentatively traced to the aer ial distribution of grain poisoned with 1080 in the Panhandle area. Coming to quick agreement the wildlife and agricultural experts drew plans to alter the applica tion techniques involved in the bait distribution and -to embark upon a feeding program in the refuge. By holding the mouse baiting operation in abeyance for a few weeks, it is hoped that the northbound birds will begin feeding in the confines of the ref uge rather than on the agricul tural lands where baiting will be resumed. In addition, it was rec ommended that when the mouse baiting is taken up again the grain should be spread only in fields with some cover and not on bare ground. This will reduce the availability of the poison to the birds. Tom Horn, manager of the Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge, an nounced that .feeding at strategic locations on the refuge will begin KLAMATH if- 3 1 1 fi 27 V1 rjj y II CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. Wl -'J?; J The Navy postponed, at least tern- V r U3 RAY (STORMY) CHASE Chase Seeks County Office Ray (Stormy) Chase. Fort Klamath rancher, became the me uie late lot 'hefjP ion 3;te third Republican candidate county commissioner when his intent to seek election Thursday afternoon with County uerK cnariie uebap. Others who have announced their candidacy in the May 16 primary are Fred Heilbronner, re tired fuel dealer of Klamath Falls, and city . Councilman James M. Barnes. The candidate, who is a retired logger, is a 67-year-old native of Klamath Falls, but says he be lieves the county and not just the city of Klamath Falls, is entitled to some representation in the com missioner's office. He stated that he has experi ence in building roads and in fig uring costs on all types of con struction. He added "I think that the county is entitled to have a commissioner who will spend con siderable time on the job to see where and how our money is be ing spent. If I am elected. I will do just that and work to see that each part of the county receives equal share and consideration. ' Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Partly cloudy through Saturday .with scattered s n e w showers, mostly" over- mountains, Low Friday night 18-26; high Sat urday 35-40. High yesterday f. . 33 Low last night . 17 Preclp. last 24 hours , 0 Since Oct. 1 13.20 Same period last year , 9.90 Normal for period 8.6S CRATER LAKE High yesterday Low last night 8 a.m. today ..... No new snow . . Snow depth Last year .150 Highway 62 Is open through the park and to the rim. No chains. Skiing conditions: powder snow, Skies were overcast and somewhat cloudy this morning; no wind. TOMAHAWK Tows and all facilities will op erate from IV a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. WARNER CANYON Six Inches of new snow covers 40 Inches of hardpack in the War ner Canyon ski area, producing excellent skiing, according to Jim Howard of the Fremont Highland ers. Tows and other facilities will operate from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m on Saturday and Sunday. The races on Sunday are open to the public; registration by 11 a.m. at once and the agriculturalists agreed to hold off temporarily the distribution of poison grain. Rolo Talbert, district supervisor of Rodent and Weed Control for the California State Department of Agriculture, expressed the opin ion that the accidental poisoning of the waterfowl would have hap pened under the circumstances re gardless of the type of grain or poison used or how it was ap plied. Mouse activity through last fall and winter has removed near ly all traces of feed for the mi gratory birds and when the poi son grain was spread in the plowed fields it was easily available to the ducks and geese, he said. So far, Horn reported, there has been no evidence of deaths among any of the upland game birds from consumption of the bait which is dyed. He announced that experiments will be started immed iately on the acceptance of col ored grain by waterfowl. With these steps, he said, it is believed that the mouse poisoning program can continue very effectively with the danger to wildlife greatly min imized. C. A. Henderson, Klamath Coun ty agent, reported that Klamath County will continue its concen trated mouse eradication campaign using the line phosphide and strychnine baits as In the past Spot poisoning, he said, has been the practice here and no wildlife deaths have been observed to re sult from auch methods. FALLS. OREGON. FRIDAY, MARCH 'Troubles' Delay Navy SatelliteTrv uurui uy, r riauy s scneauiea aay. light firing of its, satellite-carrying Vanguard rocket. It was due to minor technical difficulties, TheVanguard was to follow hard on the wheels of Thursday's announcement that the Army s Explorer II satellite had died f fiery death without going into or bit. The Navy did not immediately reschedule the Vanguard test ve hicle for firing, but said that "daylight firing is a required ob jective of this particular test, In Washington, the Defense De partment said another Vanguard launching would be scheduled "at the earliest practicable date. Pentagon officials were unable to say when this would be. The Army, meanwhile, made plans for more satellites, but they may be bigger and better than the now dead Explorer II. It said it was building Explorer III and would launch it this spring. ine Blame for the failure of Explorer II was laid to the 50- pound rocket that carried the satellite as its pointed nose. This was the final stage of the Jupiter- four-stage rocket system. The final stage failed to fire- why scientists don't know and don't expect to find out. The sat ellite, lacking the added thrust, didn t get up anywhere near the gravity-defying speed of 18,000 miles an hour. Blaze Razes Mill In Bly BLY The mill of the Bly Lum ber Company burned to the ground on Thursday night in a fire that started about 8.50. The South Suburban Fire De partment at Klamath Falls re sponded to a call received at 9:16' p.m. but the firemen were unable to save the mill building. Not burned were the warehouse. shop and fuel storage buildings. Rlv LumhAr- nwnpd hv Dnnnlrl L. McGee and Gilbert Lilly, has been in operation about four years following the purchase of the re maining assets of the old Spang ler mill by the partnership. Mc Gee had moved equipment from his mill operation at Fort Rock, bringing with him Jerry Ogle, millwright. Ogle had been working on a nto tor until about 8 p.m. and he and the night watchman said -everything was in order at that time. The firm's bookkeeper, Hazel Man- sur, and Lola Stephens, who was babysitting with the McGee young ster, saw smoke from their front windows across the street shortly before 9 p.m. and turned in the alarm. Mrs. McGee was attending a PTA meeting and her husband was at the Elks crab feed in Klamath Falls. The mill employed about 15 men and had just started up for the season. It was shipping green lumber to Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, McGee indicated. A rough estimate of the loss this morning set the figure at approxi mately $100,000. Cause of the fire was unde termined today. The owners said there had been a small fire on Wednesday and later that day all wiring had been checked and faulty wiring replaced. Some insurance was carried on the plant. liwiMUl lam .1 gpw!in' MORE THAN 2,000 official election forms were prepared this week at tha Klamath Man agement Specialists Office in Klamath Palls for mailing to members of tha Klamath Indian Tribe for individual decision on whether to withdraw from the tribe or to remain in th tribe and participate in th tribal management plan set forth in Public Law 587, Forms are to be returned to tha Klamath Management Specialists not later than midnight on April 21. Shown above checking tha last of ths mailings are members of tha office staff,' from left, Valeria Henderson, Colleen Ledbetter, Idella Edgar (office manager) and Vivian Sanders. Photo bv Kettlery I 7, 1958 m j ' . ... 4 CHESTER R. WILLIAMS Sprague River Resident Files Chester R. Williams, Sprague River, filed late Thursday after noon on the Democratic ticket for the county commissioner's office. a post currently held by Jerry Rajnus, who will not seek reelec tion, i Williams, a service station and garage operator, becomes the fourth Democratic candidate to file. The others are Jim Kaler and Dennis Depuy of Klamath Falls and R. R. Walker of Merrill. Williams, who has been a resi dent of Klamath County since 1943, said that he was running at "the insistence of friends," and prom ised that if elected he would work for the people and with the people of the county." The candidate said that this Is his first venture into politics and added that he has had road con struction experience. Born in Forest Grove 58 years ago, Williams and his wife, Na omi, have three children: Ray mond, a teacher in Forest Grove; Joseph, a Eugene fireman, and Mrs. Norman Brown, wife of Forest Grove forester. Williams is also a member of the Eagles Lodge. ' Landry Joins Political Tilt Patrt O. Landry, ' former tnayor and councilman of Klamath Falls, filed on the Republican ticket to day for the post of state repre sentative for hlamath County. Landry is a native of Louisiana, and moved to Eugene in 1923. He came to Klamath Falls in 1925 and has been in the insurance business here since that time He was a member of the city council between 1944-48, and was mayor of the city from 1952-56. He is married and the father of two daughters. Landry has been exceptionally active in community affairs, and is a member of the Rotary, Elks, Masonic, American Legion and Moose organizations. He is a mem ber of the Episcopal Church. Concerning his platform, Lan dry said he will realistically ap proach all governmental problems with an open mind, that he will give full consideration to all is sues, and that the rule of the ma jority will be of foremost impor tance when making ms decisions. FASHION . A special Spring Fashion Edition will be featured in the Sunday, March 9, Iss6e of the Herald and News In combina tion with the regular society pages. Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 4431 Farm Price Drive Hit By Benson WASHINGTON UP) Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson said today that a congres sional drive to bury his farm pro gram, u successiui, win unjus tifiably" raise food prices and taxes. Farm bloc forces in the Senate and House are mustering behind: a stop-gap bill to reverse Ben son's cuts in 1958 price support levels for dairy products, wheat. ana leea grains. The bill was approved 12-2 Thursday by the Senate - Agricul ture Committee. A House Agricul ture Subcommittee Thursday voted 5-0 for a bill reversing the dairy cut. The votes indicated there was little hope for Benson's long-range bid for authority to make ever deeper cuts in farm, ' price supports. Floor action on the Senate measure is scheduled next week. Benson, denounced the commit tee's actions in a statement issued after attending a Cabinet meeting this morning. He called the farm bloc moves "unsound" and said that "if sustained, they would do serious damage to our farm peo ple and to all America." "Unless defeated, they would add unjustifiably to the nation's food and tax bills. . . (and) pro long still further the problems plaguing agriculture." Benson renewed his appeal for support of the administration farm program. He said the Presi dent has recommended "a sound program" and Congress "will best serve the farmer and tha American people by supporting this program and defeating un sound proposals." Benson charged that tha bills approved Thursday "would undo much of what we have done to reduce the surplus. . , (and) un less defeated, these measures mean more controls, more regu lations and less freedom In farm ing and marketing operations.' lie saiu iarmers neea lo oe deeply concerned" that their dairy nrnduetn he nriPAd . so they will be bought by consumers and not go into government storage. He said raising prices would "inevit. ably add new costly income-de. pressing surpluses to thoM al ready existing." Precolored Lumber Eyed SAN FRANCISCO The lumber industry is looking forward to the day when it can roll precolored paneling off the production line in the sawmill. George A. Holden of Spokane told of his hope for the future yes terday in an address to the an nual meeting of the Western Pins Association. He also told of a new develop ment of interest to decorators and builders today knotty pine will soon be available in colored fin ishes direct from the mill. Work is now going on towards the finishability of 10 species of pine in the Western states, he said. "We're showing how dramatic color and natural wood can team up to play a big role in mod ern interior and exterior decora tion," Holden said. The next step will be the produc tion of prefinished, precolored pan cling by the sawmill. 0 , - a . - . .