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KLAMATH FALLS.. OREGON. FRIDAY, MAY IS. 1958
Telephone TU 4-81U
No. 6093
Rangeland
Conservation
Needed Item
Weather
FORECAST Klamath Falls
and vicinity: Fair through Satur.
day. Low Friday night 40-46;
high Saturday 80-86.
High yeaterday
Low last night
In The-
Hay's lews
By FRANK JENKINS
. As this is written, the eyes of
me worm are on France.
What will France do?
The answer, I think, is that no
body knows including the French
Let's recite some history-
After a century of oppression
ana extravagance and grinding
taxation, the French rose in -revo
lution. They cut off heads includ
ing the heads of a king and his
queen. Blood flowed in the streets
cf Paris like water from a broken
main. ,
The French wanted democratic
government, but they didn't know
how to get it. They started with a
v Committee of Public Safety. They
went on by slow stages to what
was Known as the Convention
The Convention framed a consti
tution. The constitution provided
lor a national legislature.
But
The people rebelled against the
Convention's provision that two-
iniras of the new representatives
were to be chosen from among the
members of the Convention.
. There were mobs in the streets.
The leader of the Convention
Vicomte Barras, called in a young
army officer for a conference on
what to do. The name of the young
eitieer he was then 26) was Na
poleon Bonaparte:
Barras said to Napoleons "What
snail we do?
Napoleon said to Barras: "I'd
give the canaille a whiff of grape-
snot.
Which he did.
Mangled, writhing bodies filled
the street down which the canon
tired.
It was thus that Napoleon came
to power.
He bled France white with wars
and soaked the soil of half of
Europe with the blood of France's
eons. As long as he WON. the
French adored him. But when he
lost his magic touch for winning
Dailies tne people turned against
mm. i
In the end. he wound up in ex
ile, and the French could think of
nothing better to do in that emer
gency than to call back into power
the line of Bourbon kings who had
brought on all the bloody trouble
with their excesses of power and
extravagance..
That's France for -you.
At the root of the present trouble
lies Algeria.
France wants to KEEP Al
geria for it is very rich, includ
ing oil. The Algerians want to be
FREE and run their own shebang.
That is the stage as it is now
tet.
In the wings, keeping out of
light, is another strange character
General Charles De Gaulle.
What is he? What will he do?
Is he another Napoleon?
I think that can't be answered.
Nobody knows what De Gaulle
will do.
Nobody knows what the
FRENCH PEOPLE will do. No
body has ever known what the
French people would do.
We'll have to wait and see.
In conclusion, a word to the peo
ple of Oregon.
Go PRAYERFULLY to the polls
today (this is written on election
day) and cast your votes WITH
NO THOUGHT OTHER THAN
THE PUBLIC WELFARE.
That is the lesson of France
to us. M
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RANGELAND PLAYS AN IMPORTANT PART in the life
of the West. Conservation of range areas to furnish feed
for livestock as well as wildlife is a "must" in the develop
ment picture. This picture shows a typical sheep range in
the Lower Klamath Basin area just after the sheep were
turned out this spring. Photo by Baldwin, SCS
Two-Year Old
Slain By Lion
WASHINGTON Ufi A Kon
pulled a little girl into a cage at
the Washington Zoo Friday and
mauled her to death.
The child was 2'A-year-old Julia
Ann Vogt of Chilliwack, B.C., who
was here visiting her grandpar
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Jackson.
She was taken to the zoo by her
grandfather, who' was in such
deep shock after the tragedy that
he was unable to give -a clear
account.
Police said the gicl apparently
made her way through an outer
barrier and walked too close to
the cage.
It was the second time within
two weeks that a little girl from
British Columbia was killed by a
lion.
On May 8, 8-year-old Maureen
Vanstone of Nanaimo was clawed
to death by a fully grown African
lioness that escaped from a pri
vate zoo near the coastal Van
couver Island town.
Hamilton Field Commander To Speak
At First Annual Aviation Week Banquet
RATES SUSPENDED
LONDON un The war risk
rating committee of the Institute
of London Underwriters suspended
Friday the fixed shipping insur
ance rate for voyages to and from
Jordan, Lebanon and Syria be
cause of the new troubles in the
Middle
No Verdict Made
By Indian Group
WASHINGTON Wl The House
Indian Affairs subcommittee took
up a proposed Klamath Indian
timber sale program Thursday.
It listened briefly to Hatfield
Chilson. undersecretary of Inter
ior, and Edward C. Crafts, assist
ant Forest Service chief, but
made no decision.
They spoke in favor of a Senate-
passed bill which would offer pri
vate operators the Oregon tribe's
umberlands under conditions re
quiring practice of sustained yield
lor 100 years.
Under the measure the govern
ment also could spend up to 90 mil
lion dollars for timber not pur
chased by private interests for in
clusion in the national lorest.
Rep. Ullman D-Ore) said Chair
man James A. Haley (D-Fla told
him after the testimony the sub-
committee plans to resume the
hearing soon.
Brig. Gen. Curtis R. Low, com
mander of the 28th Air Division
(Defense) at Hamilton Air Force
Base, will be one of the main
speakers at the first annual Avia
tion Week banquet to be held Sat
urday, May 17 (Armed Forces
Day), at 6:30 p.m. at the Willard
Hotel.
General Low, a native of Roslin
dale, Massachusetts, entered the
U.!. Military Academy at West
Point in 1933. Commissioned sec
ond lieutenant in 1937. he imme
diately began pilot training, grad
uating from primary and advanced
flying schools at Randolph and
Kelly Fields, Texas, in 1938.
During World War II, from
July 1942 to March 1943, he was
operations and executive officer of
the 12th Bombardment Group in
Tunisia, Libya and Egypt. Flying
B-25 Billy Mitchells and A-20 Bos
tons, he was credited with 22 com
bat missions and 80 combat hours
against Rommel's Panzer Division.
During this period the group
moved from Cairo to Tripoli across
the Western Desert.
From March 1943 to June 1943,
the general ww vice commander
of the Tactical Bomber Force, 12th
Air Force, a combined unit of
United States, Royal Air Force
and French light bombardment
units in North Africa. From July
1943 to February 1946, he was as
signed to Headquarters. Army
Air Force in Plans Division, and
later as a member of the War
Plans Committee, Joint Chiefs of
Staff in Washington. D.C.
In 1945, the general was
awarded the Legion of Merit foi
outstanding work in war planning
and for contribution to Joint War
plans in the Pacific during his
tenure as a member of the Joint
War Plans Committee, Joint Chiefs
of Staff. Presentation of the Le
gion of Merit was made personally
by the late Gen. H. H. Arnold.
General Low was a member of
the staff and faculty of the Air
Command and Staff School at
Maxwell Field, Alabama, from
March 1946 to mid-1949, when he
attended the air college there.
Graduating from the Air War Col
lege in June 1950, he becjme com
mander in July 1950 of the fa
mous 18th Fighter Bomber Wing
the "Truck Busters" of the early
Korean campaign. From his early
command of the 18th Fighter-
Bomber Wing, in Korea through
his final Far East command-of
the 39th Air Division (Defense)
which ended with his return ta the
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BRIG. GEN. CURTIS R. LOW
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PARACHUTE JUMPERS during weekend observances of Armed Forces Day and Aviation
Week will be Delroy Berg, left, and Richard E. Davison, right, both of Klamath Falls,
The jumpers art shown with Nad Putnam, center, chairman of Armed Forcts Day ac
tivity. Jumps arc scheduled for Saturday and Sunday.
Army Corporal Cited
For Turning Head
HONOLULU tm Cpl. Herbert
J. Morris was cited by his Army
military police unit Tuesday for
safe driving.
Thursday he got a citation from
the civilian police for careless
driving. His car hit the rear of
another on Waikiki Street.
Morris said he turned his head
to look at a young lady in shorts
HOOLIGANS .
LONDON Wl Teen-ago hooll
cans opened a flood gate at Til
bury Friday and sent the Thames
swirling through 30 riverside
houses.
United States in June 1953. Gen
eral Low was three times awarded
Oak Leaf Clusters to the Legion
of Merit.
The First Oak Leaf Cluster was
awarded for his development and
modification of the vital K-2 air
base at Taegu. which was the
USAF's stronghold in Korea dur
ing tne early days of the Korean
conflict. In addition to the First
Oak Leaf Cluster the general was
awarded the Order of Military
Merit Choonsmoo by Republic of
Korea President byngman Knee,
The Second Oak Leaf Cluster
was in recognition of his role as
deputy chief of staff, person
nel, for Filth Air Force from
March 1951 to January 1952.
It was at Misawa, Japan, Im
mediately adjacent to Russian
held territory on Sakalin and the
Kurile Islands, that General Low
earned his third Oak Leaf Cluster
for the development of an effective
air defense system for northern
Japan.
Returning to the the U.S. in
June 1953, the general attended
National War College, Washington.
D.C. In July 1954 he was assigned
to the Office of the Vice Chief of
Staff. USAF, as secretary of the
Air Force Council, and later as
executive to the vice chief.
General Low assumed command
of the 28th Air Division (Defense)
in August "W.
His other decorations include the
Distinguished Flying Cross, the
Air Medal with four Oak Leaf
Clusters, the Purple Heart and
numerous campaign and service
medals.
General Low will be Introduced
at the Aviation Week banquet by
H. o. juciteland, chairman of the
Sportsmen Pilots Association-spon
sored Aviation Week celebration.
Other speakers will Include Tom
Croson, vice president in charge of
public relations. West Coast Air
lines, from Seattle; Roger Loenig,
Haines, Oregon, former state pres
ident of Sportsmen Pilots and one
time state senator.
Aviation Week is being held in
Klamath Falls May 11-18 in con
junction with National Armed
Forces Day, May 17.
The Saturday evening banquet is
open to the public. Reservations
may be made with Harold Jones,
city airport manage, and tickets
will he on sale at the door.
By GENE COX
Soil Conservation Service
In the western states range con
servation is a large part of the
conservation job. Over three
fourths of the land in Klamath
County f three sou conservation
districts is range land.
One of the major benefits of
range conservation is increased
production and income. Ranges in
good condition usually produce
twice as much forage as those in
poor condition. This means a good
condition range will produce more
pounds of beef, mutton or wool
per acre.
Much of our range land has been
reduced to fair or poor condition1
rjy uncontrolled grazing in the ear
ly years of the settlement of the
county. In those days the hills and
ridges were covered with good
stands of bunch grass. Heavy graz
ing weakened the bunch grass and
was repaced by the brush and
juniper which cover so much of
our range land today.
Wherever there is a scattered
stand of bunchgrass left it can be
increased by proper management.
lhe first thing required is to al
low the bunch grass to go to seed
This means complete rest from
grazing or at least deferring graz
ing until fall, after the seed is
matured. On ranges In poor condi
tion complete rest is often neces
sary to build up a mulch on the
soil. This will reduce erosion and
increase water intake Into the soil,
Much of our better range land
found in mountain meadows
along the streams and lake beds.
These areas can often be made
much more productive by reseed-
ing. Several improved varieties of
grasses have been developed for
this purpose. Water control by
drainage or irrigation is often need
ed on these lands.
Nearly all of our range land
is also used for either timber pro
duction, wildlife or watehshed
areas. A good cover on the ground
will prevent erosion and silting of
streams and reservoirs. It also
means more forage production. It
is important to all ot us, as
well as the individual rancher, that
ranges be kept in good condition
by conservation management.
Demos May
Yin Control
Over Senate
Employer Tax
Hike Slated
75
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Precip. last 14 hours 0
Since Oct. 1 14.78
Same period last year 13.32
Normal for period 10.94
BY PAUL HARVEY JR.
SALEM Wl The Democrats
are heavily favored to win control
of the Oregon Senate in this year's
elections, and should be slight fa
vorites to win control of the House.
If they win Senate control, it
would be the first time since 1878.
Control was split 15-15 between
the Democrats and Republicans
last year.
Only half of the Senate Is elected
each two years. Of the 15 senators
who don't face election fights this
year, lz are Democrats.
That means the Democrats
would have to win only four out of
15 seats this year to achieve con
trol of the upper house. They are
counting on doing that much in
Multnomah and Clackamas coun
ties, both with heavily Democratic
registrations.
All 60 House seats are up every
election. Of the 1957 legislators
seeking reelection, 26 are Demo
crats and 14 are Republicans.
mat margin favors the Demo
crats to keep the control that they
won two years ago.
Yeggs Blast
Shasta Safe
SA1JEM W A flat'J.T per cent
payroll tax against Oregon em
ployers will become payable in
July, Mrs. Cecelia p. Galey,
chairman or the stale Unemploy
ment Compensation Commission,
announced Friday.
The higher tax will be imposed
as the result of Atty. Gen. Robert
Y. Thornton's ruling that the state
had no authority to borrow 14 mil
lion dollars from the federal government.
The 2.7 rate Is about double the
present average rate. Some em
ployers will have to pay nine times
as much as they paid last year.
When the unemployment trust
fund falls below 3 Hi million dol
lars, the 2.7 rate goes into effect.
The money was borrowed to pre
vent the fund from falling below
that point.
"The fund is now at $28,106,881,
without the 14 millions," Mrs. Gal
ey said. "If economic conditions
do not Improve substantially, the
fund will be in precarious condi
tion.
The 2.7 tax rate Is effective as
of April 1, hut employers don't
pay it until July.
The 19d9 Legislature, meeting
next January, will face the prob
lem 01 pegging tne payroll tax
rates high enough to prevent the
fund from shrinking. It also could
authorize the commission to bor
row the money from the federal
government. .
One ellect of applying the 2.7
tax rale is to abolish the expen
encc rating system, under which
employers who maintain stable
employment are benefitted with
lower tax rates.
The rate last year ranged from
3 to 2.7 per cent. On Jan. 1. the
bottom rate was boosted to .6 per
cent.
MOUNT SHASTA The safe
in the D. A. Sheldon and Sons
Feed Store in Mount Shasta was
dynamited . early Friday morning
and it was estimated about $1,000
was taken.
Entrance was made through the
side door-about 4 a.m.
Sheriff Al Cottar of SiskiyouJ
County is in Mount Shasta to help-
with tne investigation, and he
eels that the lob was done by
professionals, according to -J. JO.
McKinney, Herald and News re
porter at Mount Shasta.
Tho sheriff also staled that'
there were numerous fingerprints,
which were being studied - by law
enforcement men from Vreka and
other California spots.
Dlno Pigoni; a milkman in Mount
Shasta, who stores his milk in.
part of the Sheldon store, was In
his storage room about 4 a.m. Fri
day and heard a commotion at
the side door, which is believed
to have been the robbers leaving
However, the robbery was not dis
covered until store opening time.
At press time, the store was
closed and tho investigation was
still under way.
Emergency
Powers Given
French Head
PARIS Un The French Na
tional Assembly, meeting under
the lengthening shadow of Gen.
Charles de Gaulle, voted Premier
Pierre Pllimlin emergoncy pow
ers Friday to fight what he called
a plot against the republic.
The vote was 461 to 114 pos
sibly a record majority for any
government since World War II.
The Emergency Powers Act
gives the three-day-old - govern
ment the means of cracking down
on all forms of subversive activity.
It can dissolve political organi
zations, arrest and hold suspects,
make searches night and day, im
pose lull censorship of press ana
radio, . collect arms, and close
movies, theaters and cafes.
Pflimlin. asking for special pow
ers, told the Assembly:
There is a real plot against
the republic and the established
order. The government will react
with vigor against those who pre
pared it."
While the Assembly voted tha
Council of the Republic, Parlia
ments upper house, heard PfUm
lin's speech read by Minister of
Justice Robert Lecourt. The sen
ators were expected to give their
confirming vote within a matter
of hours.
A notable absentee from Fri
day's assembly session was Gaul
list leader Jacques Soustelle. Ha
had been under discreet surveiU
lance since intercepted when try
ing to leave for Algiers earlier in
the week.
With 1,000 armed special secur
ity troops on guard outside, depu
ties defended or assailed De .
Gaulle, whose offer to assume full
power had plunged France deep
er into its blackest postwar crisis.
The bill to place France under
a state of emergency just short
of martial law sailed through the
Committee of Interior 33-6 with
only conservatives voting against
it.
The measure came under right
ist attack when the Assembly re
convened in urgent session. For
mer Premier Georges Bidault de
clared it was intolerable that Da
Gaulle should be accused of being
the enemy of the republic ha re
stored after World War II:
Senate Group Seeks Cause
Of Latin American Riots
WASHINGTON Ml - The Senate
Foreign Relations Committee de
cided Friday to inquire into the
background 01 Latin-American
violence toward Vice President
Nixon and also the anti-American
rioting in Lebanon.
The full committee, headed by
Sen. Theodore Francis Green (D-
RII, agreed unanimously to take
over the preliminary stages of the
inquiry on the motion ot acn,
Wayne Morse (D-Ore.)
After conclusion of this prelim
inary inquiry. Green said, "the
committee will decide on a course
of action to be taken with respect
to further studies of United States
policy in relation to Latin America."
Morse heads a subcommittee on
Latin-American affairs, and had
proposed Thursday to conduct an
inquiry into the violence Nixon
encountered in Lima. Peru, and
Caracas, Venezuela, on his Latin-
American Eood will tour.
But the full committee decided
lo broaden the scope of the
study to include the events in
Lebanon where U.S. Information
Agency libraries vera burned.
Green said the study would also
embrace "recent incidents else
where" withoug specifying what
these were.
He said representatives of the
Stale Department and Central In
lelligence Agency will be called
lor testimony on the background
of the attacks on Nixon.
Morse had said he wanted to
learn whether these agencies
were "ignorant or knowingly
undertaking a gamble" in view
of the dangers that developed on
.Nixon s tour.
The vice president returned to
a triumphant welcome yesterday
after an eight-country lour of
South America during which he
was stoned and spat upon in Peru
and threatened by mobs in Cara
cas, Venezuela.
Sen. Joseph S. Clark Jr. (D-
Pa), who Is not a subcommittee
member, told the Senato the
group should determine also
whether Nixon engaged Improper
ly in debates with college students
during the tour. Republican sub
committee members brushed that
suggestion aside.
Leader Quits
Over Riots
CARACAS. Venezuela Ml The
government junta shook up this
capital's administration Friday as
a result of the stoning of U. S.
Vice President Nixon Tuesday.
Col. Miguel Ramon De La Rosa
resigned as governor of the fed
eral district of Caracas and was
replaced by Lt. Col. Rafael Al
fonso Ravard, who had been pres
ident of tho Venezuelan Develop
ment Corp.
The prelect (mayor) of Cara
cas, Mai. Martin Marquez Ancz,
and Police Chief Lt. Col. Atilio
Albornos Berti were removed
Irom their posts.
Morning newspapers said the
Venezuelan government wanted to
protect Nixon with heavy armed
forces because of reports that sup
porters of former Dictator Marcos
Perez Jimenez planned disturb
ances. But, the papers added, the
U.b. Federal Bureau of Investiga
lion objected, explaining that Nix
on did not want a display of
strength.
Barbershop
Harmony Set
Barbershop harmony' In larg
and pleasant doses will be hand
ed out to the audience at tha
Peljcan- Theater Saturday night,
May 17, when six outstanding Pa
cific Coast' barbershop quartets
and two big choruses, men and
women of Klamath Falls, per
form in the 10th annual show to
be presented by the Klamath Falls
Chapter of the SPEBSQSA. Tha
Sweet Adelines are appearing as
a chorus for the first time on
the barbershop program.
Quartets to appear include tha
Four-Do-Matics, Seattle, cham
pions of the Evergreen District
who will compete June IS at tha
international contest in Columbus,
Ohio; the Lake Oswego Four,
Portland, popular in nine pre
vious appearances here; F 0 r c e p
Four, from the University of Ore
gon Medical School and cham
pions at the recent Forest Grove,
Oregon, contest; the Capitol
Chordsmen, Salem, top entertain
ers; House Brothers, favorite sons
in tho Klamath Basin, now living
in Sacramento; and tho Frisco
Four, melodious foursome from
San Francisco, whose bass, Dave
Stevens, will be master of cere
monies for the show.
From proceeds of the show, do
nations will be made to local
youth groups. Boy Scouts, Girl
Scouts and Camp Fire Girls.
Show chairman, John H. Hous
ton, stales that the program lined
up or the 1958 show is exception
ally line and that there has been
a good advance sale of tickets.
Tickets to prevent disappointment
should be bought in advance from
Derby's Music Store, and to avoid
standing in line at the box office.
Curtain time will be 8:15 p.m.
Doors will be open at 7 p.m. to
accommodate holders of general
admission tickets who prefer to
sit well in front. Acoustics, how
ever, are excellent to the last
row in the balcony.
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DEDICATION CEREMONIES will be held at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow for the naw Boy Scout
Training Canter, Manzanita and Dolores streets, sponsored and built by tha Klamath
Falls Lions Club with tha attistanea of Individuals and merchants of tha area. Tha naw
brick building, shown here in tha finishing stages, will provida a meeting and training
place- for 1,100 scout instructors and leaders. It will also ba tha headquarters ef tha
Modoc Area Council. City officials and other dignitaries are tlatad to ba on hand for
tha dedication, and tha public it Invited. Tha antira structura was built from fundi, ma
terials and labor donated by members of tha Klamath Falls Lions Club, many bustnaju
firms and citizens Interested In scouting in tha Modoc Council araa.
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