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Klaiaath leefe Dssans fkh tmilit I The- Day's lews KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 18. 1958 Price Ten Cents 80 Pages Telephone TU 4-8111 No. S070 KLAMATH COUNTY ELECTION TABULATION iyy fph ksmi By FRANK JENKINS The date of Oregon held a pri mary election Friday. It turned out to be a very quiet affair. If there was anything out of the. or dinary about it, it was .the fact that NOTHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY HAPPENED. In this presumably cockeyed world, that is rather interesting. For the governorship of Oregon, two glamorous young men Demo cratic nominee Robert Holmes and Republican Nominee Mark Hatfield will oppose each other at the general election next fall. Both were clearly the choice of their party. Both won their nomi nations decisively. In the campaign that lies ahead, let's hope they put less stress on glamor and more stress on the economic facts of life. One can't help wondering at times if in our politics vte don't tend to put TOO MUCH sttess on glamor and TOO LITTLE stress on hard facts. This isn't a DREAM world, you know. It's a world in which realities play a big part. I think we need to remember that. Too much dreaming and too little hardheaded business ad ' ministration are responsible for a lot of the things that bother us in this modern age. So- Let's hope these two personable young men formulate platforms and policies not just programs designed as flypaper to catch votes but serious statements of their beliefs and their intentions. I can't help thinking we need to get back nearer to the original two-parlv svstem concept of a CONTEST BETWEEN PRINCI PLES. .One trouble with our poli tics is that it has been trending too much toward PERSONAL contests. That leads us in the direction of a GOVERNMENT OF MEN, rather than a government of laws. As one looks around the world in these days, it is hard to escape the conclusion that a government of men is a dangerous thing. We need PRINCIPLES to s e t our stakes by. Speaking of principles, it seems to me this is one of our big prob lems: HOW MUCH CAN WE AFFORD TO SPEND FOR GOVERN MENT? We can have relatively inexpen sive government or we c?n have very expensive government. What we have depends largely on wnat our political people think we want and will VOTE FOR. If they think we want big gov ernment and big spending, they will give us big government and big spending. That much is cer tain. It is proved by past experi ence. That poses the big question: What DO we want? In trying to answer it for your self, keep this fact in mind: What government spends, it takes out of the pockets of the tax payers. That is to say, when gov ernment takes a dollar out of your pocket you no longer have that dollar to spend for yourself. Hmmmm. Reading back over this stuff, it sounds pretty heavy. Let's close on a lighter note. Tbe teletype tells us that city and county health officials in Port land report that a local infestation of head lice is out of control. Dr. F. Sydney Hansen, county health officer, says it appears that even DDT is not entirely effective against the parasites. He says his office is so swamped with "peo ole coming and asking if they have lice and most of them do that we can't get any other work done. So he appeals to the stale de partmcnt of health for help. Even head lice, you see, has be come a public problem in these modern days, to .be handled witn public money. In the older days of our nation it was a PRIVATE problem and it was solved with the aid of fine-tooth comb. New French Chief Appeals For Unity In New Crisis PARIS HWEm.battled Premier Pierre Pflimlin told the nation Saturday night he will use all his extraordinary emergency powers to crush the euorts of groups, right or left, altempting a violent overthrow of the firench Repub lic. With the threat of riot and bloodsh in the air, the new Premier: 1, Took t radio and TV to plead anew r unuy, law ana oraer. 2. Designated a new chief iP, staff of the combined armed forces to replace Gen. Paul Ely, popular army figure and De Gaulle sympathizer. Ely resigned afier the arrest of Uo air force gen erals in a roundup of rightists. 3. Sent his personal envoy twice to see Gen. Charles de Gaulle. The envoy. Gov. Marcel Diebold of the Haute-Marne Department, saw a Be Gaulle military aide on his first visit. The second time he talked with De Gaulle, presuma bly about the war hero's an nouncement he is returning to Paris Monday to talk about his offer to assume all power in France. In other developments, De Gaulle's right-hand man and chief Parliament representative, Jacques Soustelle, evaded police DEMOCRAT U.S. Representative: Ullman 4,657 Governor: Holmes 2,519 Wollaee 2,382 Smith- 446 Com. Bureau of Labor: Nilsen .....4,438 State Representative: Kerbow 4,114 Yancey , 3,947 County Commissioner: Walker jr. 1,451 Kaler 1,121 Allison 1,025 Huff 971 Williams 428 DePuy 352 County Surveyor: Smith 4,296 County Coroner: Adams .. 4,636 NONPARTISAN Supreme Court Judge: Position Three Sloan 5,324 Overhulse 2,513 Bowe 1,407 Supreme Court Judge: Position Seven. ! " Lee ..4,706 Rossman 4,488. Delay Asked On A-Test Ban WASHINGTON I Britain was reported Saturday to have asked the United States to hold off final action on suspending nuclear weapons tests until alter Prime Minister Harold Macmiilan has a chance to discuss the issue with President Eisenhower here next month. Since Eisenhower is expected to go along with the request, this means that the test problem will be one of the chief topics of the June 9-10 Washington conference. It is also expected to be possibly the one issue on which agreement can be reached in an East-West summit conference, if such a meeting is agreed on with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. Eisenhower is due to send a note to Khrushchev next week welcoming the Russian s agree ment a week ago to )om in tech nical studies of methods of detect ing any violations of an interna tional agreement banning tests. The President is expected to try to get Khrushchev to agree to hold the technical studies under U. N. auspices. The United States con siders it important to maintain U. N. sponsorship in the whole disarmament field. surveillance and flew from Switz crland to a thundering welcome m Algeria, hotbed of Gaullism. Defence Ministry sources con firmed the two air force gener als, 'Andre Challe and Jacques Martin, were confined to quarters some distance from Paris. This is equivalent to house arrest The Defer. Ministry officially said ftly that the two generals had been given a mission which took them temporarily from the Paris region, he ministry would not say where Pflimlin went to the -people few hours after the Cabinet ses sion which named the new chief of staff for the armed forces and adopted the first measures under tne new emergency powers bill. Pflimlin issued a call for unity in his radio-TV talk after charg ing that conspirators against trance naa turned a demonstra tion in Algiers into an insurrection by the adroit use of lies and false propaganda. lie said some groups in France sought the violent overthrow of the republic. One group was ar rested Friday night in St. Etienne an industrial center of southeast France, while mounting an attack on the local government building he added. REPUBLICAN U. S. Representativs: Weatherford 3,267 Governor: Hatfield 2,954 Unonder 870 Gill 738 Eichman 174 Livingston 31 Rasor 21 Com. Bureau of Labor: McCauley 3,760 State Representative: Chilcote 3,106 Landry 3,025 County Commissioner: Heilbronner 1,734 Chase '. 1,568 Barnes .'....1,321 County Treasurer: Cook 4,227 County Surveyor: Ager 3,967 Council-Manager Plan: Yes 2,818 No .1,747 Road Tax Levy: No Yes' '.r.:..".:.".'.J Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair with some afternoon clouds. Low Sunday night 40-45; high Monday 80-85. Low at midnight 58 High Saturday 82 House Studies Tax Cut Limit WASHINGTON (ifl-Hotise lead ers were leaning strongly Satur day toward limiting tax cuts at this session of Congress to select ed excise levies. On the basis of current thinking among top Democratic policy makers, reductions in individual and corporation income taxes arc regarded as inadvisable at a time when the government's books show more and more red ink. No final tax decisions have been made, however, and none are in immediate prospect. Neither the Eisenhower administration nor congressional tax writers appear ready to make their tax moves. Whatever decisions result, they will be made jointly by Secretary of the Treasury Robert Anderson. House Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas and Rep. Wilbur D. Mills iD-Ark), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, which originates tax legislation. A friendly accord exists between Anderson and Rayburn not to jump the gun on each other's tax proposals. Meanwhile. House leaders are known to hold the view that care fully designed cuts in some federal excise taxes would be the most effective tax action at this time. They would be applied chiefly to transportation, automobile and possibly communication excises with the reduction perhaps spaced graconlly over two or three years, Whatever action is taken possi- it will come when the House Ways and Means Committee moves to extend or revise a num ber of excises and the corporation income tax rate before they drop automatically June 30. State Vote Turnout PORTLAND The Oregon voter turnout was approximately 48 per cent of the registered total in rnflays primary election. The total vote for governor was 429,143, roughly 51 per cent of the Democratic Republican registra tion in Oregon of 817,590. MORE TROOPS FOR KENYA LONDON (LPi - Britain is strengthening Its stiatcgic rercrve in Kenya by moving another 1.600 troops including administrative units to the Nairobi Area next month It was announced. .6,558 ..3,469 Editor's Note: These are complete, but unofficial returns as tabulated by the Herald and News. Defense Bill Change Seen WASHINGTON MV-Secretary of Defense McElroy predicted Sat urday that some senators are go ing to want "a hell of a lot" stronger defense reorganization bill than was drafted by a House committee. McElroy said he expects efforts will be made in both the House and Senate to bring the bill more closely in line with what Presi dent Eisenhower wants. The next action on the meas ure, approved 32-0 iriday ay the House Armed Services Com mittee, is due to be taken on the House floor, perhaps within the next two weeks. After that it is scheduled to go to the Senate, which has not taken any action at all yet on Eisenhow er's defense reorganization pro posals. The President was pictured by some congressional sources as willing to sign the bill in its pres ent form, although Eisenhower has expressed hope that some language in the measure will be suitably adjusted on the House "oor. Commenting on the House com mittee version Friday night, Mc Elroy said that while the bill "seems to have accomplished most of the President's major objectives, certain language will, in our opinion, impair efficient administration." Elaborating in a talk with re porters Saturday, the defense sec retary said the first eliort to re vise the committee langu.'Ke prob ably will be made during House debate. He also said he thought some members of the Senate will want a stronger bill. The House committee bill is a compromise measure that would give Eisenhower substantially what he requestrd in arrange ments for streamlined command of unified forces. But there are two major provisions that the ad ministration docs not like. BAN MARRIED STUDENTS LUCE DALE, Miss. UP George County school officials have ruled against letting mar ried- students attend public schools on grounds that "likely cases of maternity" would disrupt classwork. AIR DISPLAY The air power display, ex hibits, and other activities fea turing national air week and armed forces day will continue through today. Record crowds attended the display and fes tivities Saturday at Kingalcy Field. AL ULLMAN !, .v JOHN KERBOW - ml V I EVA COOK US Steps Up I ' - d J ,x FRED HEILBRONNER . ROBERT WALKELlX , f j JMljlAN ASER ' LYLE SMITH ' To Lebanon; Planes Readied WASHINGTON Wi-The United States. Saturday stepped up its military aid to Lebanon and ord ered a huge fleet of Globemastcr transport planes to Germany for use in the Middle East "if need ed." The State Department disclosed U. S. agreement to send additional Lake Election Results Told LAKEVIEW Approximately 40 per cent of the registered Repub licans voted in Friday's primary elections in Lake County compared with approximately 33 per cent of the registered Democrats. Complete returns on Saturday morning from the 18 Lake County precincts gave U.S. Representative Ullman (Dl 563 votes compared with 581) for Weatherford (R. - Democratic candidates lor gover nor: Holmes. 293: Smith. 62: Wal lace, 263. Ucf?.ihlico candidates lor governor: hichman, 5,i; Gill, 84; Hatfield, 431: Livingston, 6; Rasor, 21: Unander, 172. Democratic candidate for slate representative from the 28th dis trict, representing Grant, Harney and Lake counties, Verne N. Cady received 535 votes. The Republi can candidate for the same post, Rudy Rcinertson, tallied 605. - Democratic candidate for Lake County commissioner, J. D. Cor nm, received 477 votes. Paul J. Brattain, Republican candidate, re ceived 629 votes. Chick Chaloupka, candidate for district attorney, received 663 votes. Votes for Harold M. Lang sley for county assessor totaled 669 and for Glenn E. Tyler, coun ty surveyor, 692. In the nonpartisan voting ( o r judge of supreme court, position No. 3: Bowe, 157; Overhulse, 651 and Sloan, 458: for position No. 7 voting was: Lee, 617; Rossman, 651. MARION WEATHERFORD CARL YANCEY Military Aid assistance to Lebanon's be leaguered pro - Western govern ment. More tanks and more po lice-type equipment were under stood to be included. At the same time, 18 three decker transports each capable of carrying a light tank began taking olf from Donaldson Air Force Base, S. C, for Germany at 10:15 a.m. Officials said Secretary of Slate Dulles has assured Congress lead ers the lives and property of the 3,000 to 4.000 Americans in Leba non will be protected. A Pentagon spokesman said the big C124 transports, which can enrry 200 passengers or a 35-ton load each, could be used to evac uate Americans or for other pur poses. The State Department announce ment said a Icbanese request to speed up prefiously promised arms and equipment had won U.S. agreement. Also, it said that "ad ditional assistance" had been re quested, reportedly within the past two weeks, and had been granted. Officials said they knew of no new kinds o equipment other than that previously announced tanks, tear gas bombs, helmets, gas masks and ammunition. But they said more of these than originally apreed upon were on their way. The implication was that the Air Force might airlift light tanks from U. S. stocks in Germany auoarn mo C124S. In addition to the 18 transports being shifted to control of the Air force commander in Europe, Gen. Frank Everest, an Air Fovcc spokesman said other aircraft are on alert for possible use. He said between 36 and 40 airplanes alto gether could he involved in the nperation eventually. The movement began as dis patches from Beirut reported Le banese government security forc es in control at all troub'e spots. President Camille Chamjun, ap parently on the way to crushing the week-long upheaval aimed at toppling his pro-Western govern iiii'iu, ipeaicu lor peace. J 1 Wit : 1 LJi I T h U it ;MJ eV it J 2V Is""' rrf Dr. J. M. ADAMS ROBERT HOLMES ED CHILCOTE I(F Residents Okay Manager Proposal i By FLOYD WYNNE ; Approximately half of the eligi ble voters of Klamath County went to the polls Friday to select can didates for the general election in November, and while Klamath Falls voters were approving a switch to the council manager form of government, county voters were defeating a proposed road levy. . . Candidate races were hottest for the posts of governor and county commissioner.- , Fred Heilbronner was given the nod for the Republican county commissioner spot wilh a total of ,734 votes as against 1,5118 for Ray Chase and 1,321 for James Barnes. On the Democratic side, Robert Walker of Merrill emerged the county commissioner candidate from a field of six. Walker polled 1,451 votes. Others in the race for the Democratic nomination and their vote totals were: Kaler 1,121; Allison 1.025; Huff 971; Williams 428 and DePuy 352. Thus Heilbronner and Walker will face the general election run off in November for the county commissioner post. The gubernatorial race in hlam th County saw Mark Hatfield swamp his five other Republican opponents, and Robert Holmes, present governor, edge out Lew Wallace on the Democratic side. Hatfield pulled 2.954 voles. His Ex-Aide To DA Wins, Loses Post Robert Danielson. until the first of this month an assistant district attorney in the office of District Attorney Arthur Bcddoc, was elect ed district court judge at Ashland rnday night but will reportedly not be able to take the post. Danielson had filed as a candi date for the judgeship, but in the meantime had left Ashland and moved to Klamath Falls to work in the district attorney's office. Ac cording to the Associated Press, his changing residence makes him ineligible to accept the office. Danielson received 7.226 voles, and E. Roy Bashaw polled 7,002. However, Bashaw gets the job. Danielson has since left the dis trict attorney's office and is now engaged in private practice in Klamath Falls. YOUTH INJURED Ricky Currin, the 14-year-old son of Dr. and Mrs. Kicnard uimn suffered minor leg injuries In Moore Park Saturday afternoon The boy was reportedly hurt when the human pyramid ho and some other youths were making col lapsed. He was rushed to the Klam ath Valley Hospital by Peace Am hulance, and was released after observation and X-rays. MARK HATFIELD PAUL LANDRY nearest rival was Si; Unander whs trailed badly with just 870. Other candidates and their totals were: Gill 738; Eichman 174: Livingston 31 and Rasor 21, On the Democratic side. Holmes had . 2,519; Wallace 2,382 and Smith 448. There was no race for the nosls of either U.S. representative or state representative. for state rcnresenlntives th Democrats gave John Kerbow 4.114 votes and Carl Yancey 3,947. The Republicans balloted 3,101 votes for Ed Chilcote and 3,025 for Paul Landry. ine only other issue at slake was whether or not Eva Cook would poll enough write-in vnte on the Democratic ticket for coun ty treasurer to enable her to be a candidate on both tickets in th ' fall. She polled 4,227 votes on. the Ra. publican ticket for county trees urer. However, on the Democratie side she was opposed by Lloyd ucuip, me oniy organized write in candidate for the Democratie nomination. Write-in votes were not tabulated Friday night, but Countv Clerk Charles DeLap indicated that the official canvas of the ballots would negin on Monday and the write-ins all tabulated at that time. One of the largest issues of tha primary for residents of Klamath Falls was the issue of a charter amendment to permit the city to ckange to a council-manager form of government. This issue had been the subleol of much debate, and a special council-manager committee had spent several months explaining uie issue 10 ine vetcrs and its importance to the city of Klamath Mills, he charter change amendment polled 2.818 votes jn favor, and only 1.747 against. All but thre of the city's 33 precincts turned in totals showing tho council-manager change in the affirmative. However, the county s bid for a five year extension of a three mill levy for road construction purposes was roundly defeated by the vot ers. The final totals showed 6. 558 vot ers against the proposal, and 3,469 lor it. It was estimated that approxi mately 10,000 of the 20,886 eligi ble voters in the county went ta the polls. The Republican voters turned out to the extent of approx imately 48 per cent of the regis tered total of 8,745, while only about 40 per cent of the U,85 Democrats cast their ballot. County Clerk Charles DeLap re ports that the returns were In and tabulated in Friday's election more quickly than any other elec tion In recent years. (Additional Election Results Page 41
