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LESTER JONES is shown here in his field of registered Toper Pubescent wheat grass.
This -field was first planted in 1956 and harvested for the first time last fall. The 10
acres produced a yield of 3,000 pounds of quality seed. SCS Photo
In The
By FRANK JENKINS
This piece is written about mid
morning of the 13th day of May of
the year 1958. At the moment of
writing, there seems to be nothing
particularly unusual about the day.
The communists' appear to be
just as ornery as ever. The chief
of the U.S. secret service has just
received indirect reports that they
will try to shoot Vice - President
Nixon when he reaches Caracas, in
Venezuela Nixon takes
the report in stride and says he's
going there, anyway.
i The politicians are carrying on
about as usual. Democratic Nation
al Chairman Paul Butler, speak
ing in Seattle, says President Eis
enhower's anti-recession plans are
"not only Impractical, but
CRUEL." He adds that the re
cession trouble is due to "lack of
cash, rather than lack of desire to
spend monev." That's good, stan
dard POLITICIAN doctrine. Start
the printing presses and give ev
erybody gobs of money and every
thing will be hunkydory.
Oh, yes. Portland has just re
ported something unusual this
morning was the coldest May 13
morning in 82 years which doesn't
mean that tomorrow might not be
the hottest May 14 in Portland in
ion years. Nobody knows what the
wevver finks.
Come to think of it. May 13 Is
quite a day jn history.
It was on May 1.1, 1607. that
three little ships hove to off the
site of Jamestown in Virginia and
prepared to found the first per
manent English settlement in the
new world. The colony was sent
out by the London Company, and
it was composed largely of ad
venturers who were greedy for
gold and hoped to make their
fortunes in America by the always
popular process of turning a quick
buck.
They didn't find any gold. They
had a terrible time. But they
stuck it out. Among other things.
they discovered that socialism
won't work in America. They tried
)t out and nearly starved to death
before changing over to the free
enterprise system of everybody for
himself, with his own little patch
ot ground.
1 it was on May 13, 1940, that an
other free enterprise Englishman
Winston Churchill made his for
ever - to" - be - remembered
"Blood, Sweat and Tears" speech
that will go thundering down
through the ages as long as there
are English - speaking people on
this terrestrial ball.
Sometimes wo are inclined to
think things are tough now. They
were tougher MUCH tougher
when Sir Winnie made that in
spired speech.
We came out of it then.
We'll come out of it now.
It was on May 13. 1846, that the
U.S. Congress declared war on
Mexico an act that alienated all
of Latin America from us but
won for us all the Great American
Southwest, including California.
In the clear light of hindsight, we
know it would have been better to
go slower and get the Southwest by
Uie process of peaceful annexation.
Isn't hindsight wonderful?
One more:
On May 13, 1RR8, Actor Dewolf
Hopper first recited "Casey at the
Eat" in a new musical comedy
In New York.
Service Pay Bill
On Ike's Desk
WASHINGTON W) President
Eisennowcr is expected to sign a
bill that would start pay checks
flowing to most members of the
armed services as of June 1.
The measure aimed at encour
aging trained personnel to sfcay in
uniform was passed finally by
by the lloui-e and Senate yester
day. It is generally in line with
Eisenhower's recommendations.
Under its terms, virtually all
servicemen with at least two yean.
duty would get pay boosts rangin,,
from 6 to 60 per cent, with the
biceest hikes going to generals.
admirals and other senior offi
cers.
The hill is designed primarily
lo benefit active duty military per
onnel, but also would apply to
reservists and those on the re-to-ed
list. Personnel in the Coast
Guard, thi Public Health Service
and the Coast and Geodetic Sur
vey would get higher pay, too.
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Day's lews
Mrs. Davis
Loses Leg
JOHN DAY. Ore. Wi Mrs.
Bruce Davis, rescued from moun
tain snows three weeks ago after
a plane crash, lost her left foot
in surgery Monday because of
frostbite.
Her , husband, Fresno. Calif.,
band leader Bruce Davis, whose
amazing stamina in a three-day
struggle to civilization led to her
rescue, was with her.
"Her general condition is fine
and her mental attitude is wonder
ful," said Dr. Martha vander
Vlugt, whose husband, Dr. Jerry
vander Vlugt, performed the sur
gery. It still is not certain whether
Mrs. Davis, 35, is to lose some of
the toes of her right foot, the
woman member of the husband
and wife medical team said.
Mrs. Davis' feet were frozen as
she lay for three days in the snow
in the Blue Mountains of Eastern
Oregon.
The husband suffered frostbite,
too, she said, in his long wander
ings. He has remained at the
hospital sinoe the April 24 rescue
for treatment of that and of
broken rjbs, fractured when his
plane, lost in clouds, crashed.
The amputation of Mrs. Davis'
foot was not unexpected, Dr.
Martha vander Vlugt said.
"They have known from the
beginning that this ' was serious.
But as she puts it, 'loss of feet
is a small price to pay for a lifi'.
'She hag a really good philos
ophy." The Davises talk to their child
ren at Fresno by telephone each
day.
Some time next week, Dr.
vander Vlugt said, they may be
able to go home to them.
The Davis plane crashed while
on a flight from Fresno to Spo
kane, his former home.
Bargaining
Chats Resume
DETROIT m The United
Auto Workers Union resumes bar
gaining talks on new contracts
with the big three car makers
today following a top level parley
of UAW policy makers.
UAW President Walter P.
Reuther met late yesterday with
his vice presidents and other of
ficers. The union appeared to be striv
ing for a settlement at GM before
the contract expires at midnight
May 29. Contracts with Ford and
Chrysler run out three days later.
ti.M, Ford and Chrysler are
standing pat on offers that would
give workers an annual increase
of at least 6 cents an hour plus
cost of living adjustments over
tne next two years.
the average wage in the auto
industry is about $2.40 an hour.
I he union has put no estimate
on the wage and fringe benefit
demands it has made on the four
car companies but it contends
they are not inflationary.
GM has estimated the UAW
demands, not counting profit shar
ing, would amount to an increase
of 73 cents an hour. Ford esti
mates the increase at 70 cents
Union leaders have called both
estimates fantastic.
Anti-West Beirut Riots
BEIRUT, Lebanon Riot
ers smashed shops, blocked the
streets with flaming barricades
ana chased people from the side
walks Tuesday in violent protest
against Lebanon s pro - Western
government.
Demonstrators roamed through
Beirut for the second straight day.
Organized bands were determined
to force a general strike and
bring business to a standstill.
They smashed windows and
wrecked the insides of shops that
defied their orders to close. Taxis
that ventured into the streets were
smashed.
More barricades were set up In
Ihe streets and some were set
afire to make them more effec
tive as roadblocks.
Feverish political maneuvering
was under way in an effort to
restore order. The political oppo
sition disclaimed an responsibil
Weather
FORECAST Klamath Falls and
vicinity: Fair and warmer through
Wednesday. Low Tuesday night,
28-35; high Wednesday 65-70.
High yesterday 46
Low last night - 27
Low last 24 hours 0
Since Oct. 1 14.78
Same period last year 13.28
Normal for period 10.87
Mrs. Reeder
Dies At 72
A well known Klamath Falls ma
tron and member of a pioneer
family, Mrs. Anna M. tHeidrich)
Reeder, 72, wife of U. E. Reeder.
former Klamath County Judge,
died early today at Hillside Hospi
tal. She had been ill for some time.
Mrs. Reeder was born, January
15, 1886, in Linkville, Oregon, now
Klamath Falls, the daughter of
Otto and Ernestina Heidrich, who
left Germany in 1870 to settle in
St. Louis, Missouri, later coming
to Klamath County.
She attended school in both the
town of Linkville and Klamath
Falls. She was a member of Pros
perity Rebekah Lodge, the School
mates Club and Happy Hour Club.
Survivors include the widower.
U, E. Reeder, this city; a sister.
Mrs. Marion (Amelia) Hanks,
Klamath Fills; brother, Curtis
Heidrich Sr., Klamath Falls; neph
ews, Gary Heidrich, Portland, Pat
Malloy, this city, Marion Heidrich
Oakridge, Oregon, William E. Hei
drich, Eugene Curtis Heidrich Jr.,
Redding, California: nieces, Kay
M-lloy, Mrs. Burrell Webb, Port
land, Mrs. Everett Miner, and
Mrs. D. N. Clemens, oth o this
city.
Funeral services will be held
from O'Hair's Memorial Chapel,
Thursday, May 15, at 2 p.m. with
Dr. Earl Cochron of the First
Presbyterian Church officiating.
Cremation in Portland will follow.
Honorary pallbearers will be
Charles DeLap. Charles Drew,
Robert Weir, Stanley Hansen, El
mer Ahlstrom, Ed Gowen, P. D.
Reeder, O.D. Reeder, Glenn Dehl-
inger, Carrol Howe, Hugh Slapel
ton and Lyle McCormick.
Plains Hit
By More Rain
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
More rain fell across sections of
the plains and the Southeast but
generally dry weather prevailed
in most other parts of the country
today.
Severe thunderstorms struck the
southern plains region, with
strong gusty winds and heavy
rainfall m the Texas Panhandle-
South Plains last night. More
than five inches of rain flooded
a creek running through the down
town district of Clarendon, about
50 miles southeast of Amarillo.
Warm air moving northward
from Texas to the Dakotas which
collided with the colder air from
Ihe Rockies triggered thunder
storms in northern Nebraska and
the eastern Dakotas. Wind gusts
of more than 50 m.p.h. were re
ported. ity for the bloodshed and violence,
blaming subversive elements
working in the ranks of peaceful
demonstrators.
Five Lebanese customs officials
were killed in an attack near the
Syrian border and five more
deaths were reported in Tuesday's
fighting in Beirut.
This pushed the nation's death
toll since the fighting started Sat
urday to at least 36.
Associated Press correspondent
Wilton Wynn and his wife were
stoned but not injured on their
way into Beirut from the airport.
Two persons were killed Tues
day night when they ignored or
ders to halt. Three bombs were
found on one and a pistol on the
other.
The tabinet decided to protest
to the U. N. Security Council
against foreign interference in
Lebanon's internal affairs. The
Iministeri did not name any coun
Price Five Cents 14 Pages
Conservation:
Forage Grass Seed Adds To Basin Output
By DON BALDWIN
Soil Conservation Service
Klamath County, long famous for
potatoes, brewing barley, and al-
sike clover seed, is now gaining;
added fame as a producer of for
age grass seed.
This past year Carl Rajnus har
vested over 600 pounds per acre of
registered Greenar intermediate
wheatgrass. This is the highest
yield of seed ever harvested irom
this grass on a commercial scale
in the Northwest, and is conclu
sive proof that forage grass seed
can be grown successfully in the
county.
Every year hundreds of acres of
land are reseeded for range, pas
ture, and hay, and until recently
almost all of the seed has been
imported from other areas. In
some cases farmers or ranchers
have harvested some seed from
their pastures or range, but yields
have been poor and in many cases
seed was of poor quality. Several
farmers have raised turf grass
seeds successfully, and Grant
Brown has been very successful
Russia Asked
To Spell Out
Disarm Rules
WASHINGTON UV-The United
States plans to ask Soviet Pre
mier Khrushchev to spell out the
exact conditions he has in mind
for technical disarmament, talks
he reports he is ready to begin.
With Khrushchev agreeing to
the talks he once rejected. Pres
ident Eisenhower was reported
anxious to begin the discussions
quickly perhaps late this month
if Khrushchev gives him a satis
factory answer.
But informed authorities said,
Eisenhower and Secretary of State
Dulles both want Khrushchev to
explain what he meant when he
said such talks "should be com
pleted in the shortest term, agreed
upon before hand."
Khrushchev attached this condi
tion in a letter to Eisenhower Sat
urday in which he unexpectedly
agreed to the White House de
mand for such technical talks.
They would deal with means of
detecting violations of any agree
ment to halt . icicle ar weapons
tests, .
Khrushchev in agreeing, how
ever, expressed what he called
serious doubts that such talks
were necessary.
This Khrushchev alitude, plus
tne puzzlement over the deadline
the Soviet leader apparently wants
to impose, accounted for the cau
tious welcome Eisenhower and
Duiles gave to the new twist in
Soviet policy.
Dulles, returning yesterday aft
er a 10-day European trip, de
scribed Khrushchev's letter as
representing "a little progress."
He met afterward with Eisenhow
er at the White House to discuss
the development and report on the
Atlantic Pact conference in Copen
hagen which charted new Western
defense moves.
The State Department began
consulting allied governments to
learn their views on how to han
dle the newest pre-sitmmit man
euver. U.S. disarmament specialists
were clearly suspicious of
Khrushchev's deadline. They said
the problem of acceptable con
trols, including inspection, has
proved so difficult in the past it
would be virtually impossible to
agree quickly.
The Soviet view, reiterated by
Khrushchev, is that both sides
have enough detection devices to
determine precisely whether any
one violates any pledge to halt
testing atomic-hydrogen bombs
The American view is that each
side's detection network is not
enough, and that monitoring sta
tions on each other s territory
may be needed to make absolute
ly sure no one is cheating.
Some authorities suspected
Khrushchev would demand
short, quick conference of the
kind which would insure failure.
thus bolstering his argument that
disarmament can be tackled suc
cessfully only at a summit meet
ing. try but presumably had the Unit
ed Arab Republic in mind.
Radio stations in Cairo and Da
mascus, the two U. A. R. provin
cial capitals, have been broad
casting calls for open rebellion in
Lebanon. The Cairo newspaper Al
Ahram called on Lebanese Pres
ident Camille Chamouh to resign,
saying that would restore calm.
The rigid curfew imposed a long
night of calm after yesterday's
riots. The mobs in Beirut burned
a U. S. Information Agency li
brary, battled security forces,
closed shops, burned buildings,
set up roadblocks, overturned cars
and generally stopped transporta
tion. At least eight persons were
reported killed and 20 wounded in
firing between security forces and
rioters.
Rioting and shooting also broke
out again yesterday in the North
Lebanese port of Tripoli, where
another U. S. library was wrecked
KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON,
in raising meadow foxtail for seed
In the spring of 1955 several
farmers were encouraged to plant
intermediate wheatgrass for seed
production by the fieldman for one
of the large commercial seed com
panies. Carl Rajnus was one of
those who did a good job of car
ing for his seed field. He, in part
nership with his father, Laddie,
and brother George, also had a
field of Merion bluegrass which did
very well.
They planted the wheatgrass in
36-inch rows on rolling hill soils
that varied in depth from four inch
es to over five feet.
Sprinkler irrigation worked
fine until grass grew higher than
the nozzles. Then, rather than pur
chase extensions, it was decided
to skip the last irrigation. In areas
of deep soil this worked out all
right. But shallower soils didn't
have enough moisture, resulting in
lower yields.
More problems came up in the
harvesting operation and more
seed was lost. With all these trou
bles, a yield of almost 300 pounds
President Shudders Over
Further Aid Bill Slashes
WASHINGTON W President
Eisenhower told Republican con
gressional leaders Tuesday he
shudders to think of the impact
abroad if further cuts are made in
the administration's foreign aid
program.
The leaders quoted Eisenhower
as expressing that view at his
weekly meeting with them. The
conference was held as the House
aproached showdown voting on
the aid measure.
House GOP leader Joseph W.
Martin Jr. of Massachusetts said
he told Eisenhower he looks for
the House to approve the bill in
pretty much the form it came out
of the Foreign Affairs Committee.
As approved by that group, the
bill authorizes $3,603,000,000 for
mutual security 339 millions
below Eisenhower s request.
Martin said he looks for a de
termincd effort to cut the author!
zation further, but he predicted
administration supporters general
ly will be able to turn back such
moves.
"The president made It very
clear, Martin said, "that he al-
ready shudders at the idea of any
further euts.
Missing Boy
Found Safe
GOBLE, Ore. OR A mass
search for Jimmy Dean Helton,
7, lost overnight in the woods near
this lower Columbia River town,
ended happily Monday afternoon.
Frank Merrit and Bob Krause,
Rainier High School students,
came upon the boy asleep in a
gully, his sweatshirt pulled over
his head. He was unhurt.
The two were among 400 persons
who searched a four-square-mile
area of brush for the boy, who
became lost Sunday afternoon.
His first words to them were, "I
want my Mom. I'm hungry."
When Mrs. Rosemary Helton
was told her son had been found
safe, she said, "Thank God. I
don't think I ever want to get
outside the city limits again.
Mrs. Helton lives at nearby St.
Helens. She had taken Jimmy and
her other two children, aged 5 and
4, to her parents' farm near here
for a Mothers Day outing.
Jimmy got lost while looking
for two cows which had strayed
from the farm.
He first was reported missing
at about 5 p.m. The search began
at once, boon some 200 to 300 per
sons were out looking for him in
the brushy country. They searched
until midnight, then took up the
hunt early Monday.
POSSUM
MILWAUKEE l - The Hu
mane Society was summoned to
take the bite out of an auto en
gine when mechanic Dick Schrav
en raised tho hood of Duane Pel
lows' auto, found a contented
possum perched in the engine
compartment, was nipped while
trying to dislodge the stowaway
Continue
Saturday and 16 persons were
killed in fighting between rioters
anu ponce, rtiso in norm lycnanon,
two unidentified men yesterday
niew up a pipeline carrying oil
from Iraq to TriDoli.
Heavily armed security forces
COnstanltV nntmltwl Rnirnl tlrnnlc
lasi nigni. rour muuiea expio
sions, apparently on tne city s
outskirts hrnkn iha tiiinnea Mi-
immediate explanation of them
was available.
The disturbances were triggered
by the t.ssassination last week in
Beirul fit A npwmannr mihliehsr
who supported U. A. R. President
Nassers' goal of gathering into his
domain an Aran nations. Includ
Ing half-Moslem, half christian
Lebanon.
The pro-Nasser forces also arc
fichtinff fThAmniir' rnnsir1 nlsn
to amend the cnnnlilntinn
ican have another six-year term.
TUESDAY, MAY 13. 1958
per acre was harvested
In the spring of 1956 the Soil
Conservation Service, through the
Klamath Soil Conservation District
furnished Carl with 85 pounds of
foundation Greenar intermediate
wheatgrass seed.
He bought enough additional seed
to finish out a 25-acre field from
Oregon State College. It was from
this field that he harvested over
15.000 pounds of registered seed.
The Rajnuses also seeded an ad
ditional 30 acres of registered
Greenar intermediate wheatgrass
for seed production in 1956 to bring
their total acreage of this grass
to 70 acres.
In the spring of 1957, the Soil
Conservation Service, again
through the Klamath SCD, fur
nished the Rajnuses enough foun
dation Whitmar beardless wheat
grass seed to seed 25 acres. This
field will be in production in 1958.
In addition to the Rajnuses, the
SCS, through the district, also fur
nished 20 pounds of foundation
Whitmar beardless wheatgrass
seed to the Flowers brothers for
seed production.
Preliminary voting was slated
(or late afternoon with passage
expected tomorrow. Then it would
be the Senate's turn to act.
Both Speaker Sam Rayburn (D
Tcxl and Rep. Joseph W. Martin
Jr. (Mass), the Republican lead
er, arranged for bipartisan pleas
to their colleagues to support the
program which Eisenhower says
is vital for both the free world
and America's own security.
Kep. i nomas E. Morgan 'D-
Pa), acting chairman of Ihe For
eign Affairs Committee, said he
was surprised at what he termed
the lack of strong opposition dur
ing yesterday's opening debate.
A key vote was expected lo
come on a proposal by Reo. Alvin
M. Bcntlev (R-Mich) lo cut 340
million dollars from the $1,640,
000,000 the bill carries for arms
and aid to 41 allies next year.
Benuey sain he was not likely
to win. He also called for an 85-
milhon-dollar slash in the 185 mil
lions provided for general pur-
puse economic am. nep. c;. uoss
Adair (R-Ind) proposed trimming
the 775 millions earmarked for
economic support of foreign da-
lense programs.
Rep. William A. Dawson (R-
Utahl offered an amendment to
require congressional committees
to include their spending of U. S.-
owned foreign currencies in their
budgets just as they now count
dollars. The committees don t
have to budget foreicn monev out
lays now. Dawson said this would
show taxpayers that congressmen
don't really indulge in free-spend
ing junKeis.
Reps. Morgan and John M.
Vorys (R-Ohio) told the House
yesterday that anti-American out
breaks around the world stem not
from a failure of U.S. policy, but
from a Soviet drive to enslave
free countries.
Rep. J. L. Pilcher (D-Ga) called
billions of U.S. aid over the years
wasted because, he said, America
has fewer friends abroad now than
it had before.
These neutrals are using us for
suckers, Pilcher added.
The measure would authorize
aid totaling $2,959,000,000 to 63
countries. Another 644 millions
authority is carried over in exist
ing law. A separate appropria
tions bin must be voted later.
France Seeks
New Leader
PARIS Iff) Pierre Pflimlin
asked Parliament Tuesday to an-
prove him as the country's 25th
postwar premier on a platform of
limited home rule in strife-torn
Algeria.
With Ihe Assembly benches
packed and tense the leader o(
the left-of-center Catholic Popular
uepublicans (MRP) presented a
coalition cabinet covering most of
tne middle road parties.
A vole was expected some lime
late Tuesday night.
Pflimlin s Algerian policy, t h e
key issue now in r ranee, is es
sentially the same as that of his
predecessors. He told the Assem
bly that France's allies must be
brought lo support French policy
in North Africa.
THE RC-1 21 it ihe Air Force flying radar station. The aircraft is equipped with radar
instruments to patrol the outer extremities of tha defense network of tho United
States. This airborne radar station flies from 500 to 1,000 miles from tho east anal
west coasts of the U.S., and will be en display at Kingsley Field in Klamath Falls on
Armed Foreai Day, Saturday, May 17. Official Photo, USAP
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The Poe Valley Soil Conserva
tion District also has been encour
aging the production of forage
grass seed of varieties needed in
the district. In the spring of 1956
they obtained enough foundation
lopar pubescent wheaV's from
the SCS for Lester Jones to seed
10 acres. This field was harvested
for the first time this past fall.
In spite of several harvesting dif
ficulties, over 3,000 pounds of ex
cellent quality seed was harvested.
Last year Lester Porterfield was
granted enough seed for 45 acres
of foundation Whitmar beardless
wheatgrass,
Producing forage grass seed is
not easy, as Carl Rajnus and Les
ter Jones found out. Many prob
lems remain to bo worked out,
such as the locations for planting
different varieties, irrigation tech
niques, kind and amount of ferti
lizer used, and the type of har
vesting equipment best suited to
forage grass,
But results indicate that forage
grass production has a promising
future in Klamath rounty.
USIA Office
Sacked By
Algiers Mob
ALGIERS tfl French demon
strators sacked the U.S. Infor
mation Agency Office here Tues
day and then marched past the
American consulate.
About 50,000 persons poured
through the streets protesting the
designation of Pierre Pflimlin as
trench premier. They then turned
the parade into an anti-American
demonstration.
The USIA office, third to be at
tacked in Africa and the Middle
East in four days, was almost
demolished, A State Department
employe inside was shoved around
by French students but was un
hurt. The shouting French smashed
windows and furniture and threw
books out into the street.
The mob sacked the newspaper
office of the Journal D'Alger. It
has been accused by diehard right
wingers of being too liibcral in its
policy toward the almost four year
old Nationalist rebellion.
The crowds included large num
bers of student and war veter
ans. Many shouted, "The army to
power.
Two policemen were on duty at
the US I', office but did not in
tervene.
The angry crowd then headed
up the street to the U.S. consu
late about a mile away. The con
sulate was the sceno of a bomb
attack several weeks ago.
The demonstrations came as the
city's activity was brought to a
standstill by a total strike. The
Moslem workers stayed home and
Moslem shopkeepers put down
their shutters. The streets of the
Arab Casbah were empty of Ar
abs.
The demonstrations reflected
rising anti-American feeling in Al
geria. Many French here believe
the United Slates would like to
see Algeria independent of French
rule.
Expert Sees
Recession End
WASHINGTON W - William M.
Martin, Federal Reserve Board
chairman, told senators Tuesday
there aro some hopeful indicat
ors the recession is leveling off
but they are not yet conclusive
There is this process of level
ing out," Martin said at another
point, "If we can consolidate our
gains it could lead to a substan
tial spring uprise. Hut, he said
emphatically, "that is as far as
f would go toward a forecast
now.
Martin expressed th;so views In
testimony to the Senate Housing
subcommittee at a public hear
ing on a dozen different bills deal
ing with the government's annual
inultrbillion dollar housing activi
ties. Sen. John Spaikman (D-Ala),
subcommiliee chairman, asked
whether Marlin sees a leveling off
of Ihe business slump.
"I don't think there are any con
clusive indicators now," Martin
replied, declining lo make flat
predictions.
Venezuelan
Pupils Stage
Nixon Riot
CARACAS, Venezuela LP Jeer.
ing mobs of students spat on Vice
President Nixon Tuesday and
grabbed at Mrs. Nixon before po
lice using tear gas drove them
away. It was the most hostile re
ception the Nixons had received
in their South American tour.
Rooters spat on Nixon as he ar
rived at tha airport from Colom
bia, and then hurled tin cans and
rocks at his cap in downtown Ca
racas, One youth grabbed Mrs. Nixon
as she sought to enter the ear,
and yelled "Little Rock! Little
Rock!"
A Negro man shouted at Nix-
l:
"Democracy! You don't like Ne
groes there."
Youths in the crowd shook their
fists at the Nixons, crying: "Get
out! Get out!"
Besides Nixon, Oscar Garcia,
the foreign minister, and other
Venezuelan authorities were spat
upon. The foreign minister w a f
livid with fury.
The Vice President, winding up
his tour of South America, ar
rived here amid rumors that he -was
to be the victim of an as
sassination attempt. Venezue
lan authorities in advance of his
arrival had discounted these re
ports and given assurances that
Nixon would be well guarded. The
violence of the demonstrations
against the vice president obvious
ly surprised the officials.
One tear gas bomb exploded
about 25 feet from Nixon's limou
sine and security police got a whiff
of it.
A jeering, screaming mob of
about 500 teen-agers met the Nix
on plane at the airport.
As he entered the car they spat
repeatedly on him and his car.
He and Mrs. Nixon virtually had
to fight their way into the cara
van carrying them up a mountain
road to the city.
The students carried signs. "Go
home, Mr. Nixon. We don't for
get Guatemala. No, Mr. Nixon,
we don't want you. Latin America
doesn't want United States inter-
vention.'
The reception was as hostile as
the one the vice president re
ceived when he tried to speak to
students at Lima, Peru, last week.
The rioting came on the heels
of intelligence reports that the
Communists might try to assas
sinate Nixon on his visit here.
These reports were discounted by
government officials and newspa
pers. .
There were only a few friendly
shouts either at the airport or
along Nixon a route into the city.
Peers Find
Tupper Guilty
A jury of seven women and
five men found Klamath Indian
Bruce E. Tupper guilty of mur
der in the second degree last
night, after actually deliberating
only about an hour and IS min
utes. Eugene Circuit Court Judge
Frank Rcid granted the defense
a continuance in sentencing of 45
days so that Tupper's lawyers
could secure a transcript of the
trial and study it to determine
feasibility of asking a new trial
or making an appeal.
If last night's verdict stands,
28-year-old Tupper faces a man
datory life sentence in prison for
the rifle shooting January 15 in
Chiloquin of his Indian sweet
heart, Teresa Hunt, 41.
Customarily, the State Parole
Board requires that a prisoner
serve a minimum of seven years
on a life term before he becomes
eligible to receive parole consid
eration. The jury received the case at
4:46 p.m. yesterday and returned
its verdict at 8:05 p.m., after
dining out at a downtown rest
aurant. About a half hour was
required to elect a foreman. ""She
was Mrs. Leona Gavin.
Jurors had been instructed by
Judge Reid they could return one
of four verdicts: guilty as charged
of second degree murder; guilty
of manslaughter; not guilty by
reason of insanity; and not guilty.
It was reported that jurors first
voted unanimously that Tupper
was guilty. On the next ballot,
to decide the degree of guilt (sec
ond degree or manslaughter). It
voted for second degree and one
held out for manslaughter. All jur
ors voted that Tupper was sane
at the time of the shooting.
The defense contended through
out the trial that Tupper's brain
was afflicted because of chronic
alcoholism, and a childhood head
injury.
District Attorney Arthur Beddoe
maintained these factors had no
bcuring on the defendant's men
tal capacities and that, further,
he had confessed the crime to
various persons and officials on
the day of the shooting.
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