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U OF ORE50H LIBRARY COJIP EUOS.N5, ORB. la The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS . Financial note: Stocks in New York turned firm this morning in the wake of fresh evidence that the recession may have seen its low point and that a recovery is starting. - Spokesmen for a number of key Industries have reported improve ment in new orders. 'A thought: If the politicians will quit try ing to MAKE VOTES out of the recession, maybe we can get somewhere. Along that line. Secretary of Commerce Weeks, addressing a conference of corporation and busi ness executives in New York- City, Says the best way to cure the recession is the DO IT YOUR SELF method. ' He adds: "OVER-DEPENDENCE on gov ernment cures can disturb busi ness, hamper it, or even WRECK it." Let's put it this way: If wishes were horses, all beg gars would ride. . If merely passing laws would do the trick, everybody would be rich and happy. The truth, as Secretary Weeks suggests, is that in business mat ters (which include curing reces sions) the hard way is often the best way. Speaking of the easy way A report just issued by the joint congressional committee on reduc tion of NON-ESSENTIAL federal expenditures says that in the past ten years the government civilian pavro'l has increased more than FIVE BILLION dollars. It adds that the number of top civilian jobs has already TRI FLED since 1950. But- . ' You may say These government employees SPEND MONEY. That extra five billions they are -getting buys a lot of goods and helps to keep business booming. Wait a minute. Every billion the government spends costs you as an individual about six dollars. So that five billion costs you about $30. If you are the breadwinner for a family of four, it costs you about $120. Government, you know, has a cur ious way of getting its money. What it needs, it reaches into the taxpayer's pocket and TAKES. What government takes out of the taxpayer s pocket, THE TAX PAYER DOESN'T HAVE LEFT TO SPEND FOR HIMSELF. Price Five Onl U Paget KLAMATH FAI4.S, OREGON. TUESDAY, MAY SO, 1958 Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 607 Upturn Seen By Governor MIAMI BEACH, Fla. ( Gov. Harold W. Handley of Indiana said Tuesday an economic upturn is in sight for the country but Govs. G. Mennen Williams of Michigan and Robert B. Meyner of New Jersey were less optimistic. The three governors spoke out as the 50th annual Governors Con ference began panel discussions of the business recession and what to do about it. Handley, a Republican, said on a television program (NBC "To day") that there is evidence that by this fall the economy will be well on its way toward lull recov ery. But Williams, a Democratic ap peared on the same program, called for additional action to combat a slump he said is "due primarily to the policy of the El senhower administration." He suggested, specifically, a cut in excise taxes on automobiles. .Meyner. a Democrat, said at a news conference that any tax re duction should be part of an over all plan to stimulate the economy and boost buying power. "Mass psychology is a factor in an economic upturn or down turn," he said. Meanwhile a cross-section check among governors indicated a ma jority of them favors public works over a tax cut as a remedy unemployment. Senate Group Orders Full Riot Inquiry WASHINGTON UP - The Senate Foreign Relations Committee ordered a full fledged inquiry into U.S. - Latin American relations Tuesday in the wake of attacks on Vice President" Nixon. The study was assigned to a subcommittee headed by Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore). Sen. Theodore Francis Green (D-RI), chairman of the full com mittee, said the investigation was voted without objection, o n Morse's motion. The action was taken shortly after Morse told reporters the State Department's own testimony shows that Nixon's mob-molested South American tour was a "trouble causing trip" which Morse said the Vice President should not have undertaken. the committee also voted un animously to set up another sub committee to explore the need for more intensive examination of American policies elsewhere in the light of recent anti-American out bursts in Lebanon, Algeria, In donesia, Burma and other countries. Morse gave his views to re porters as the committee weighed testimony that Communist exploit ation of Latin American griev ances against U.S. economic poli cies fanned mob violence against the Vice President and Mrs. Nix- i. Robert Murphy, deputy under secretary of state for political af fairs, made that report to the sen ators Monday. He said Nixon was told in advance that there was danger of disturbances in Vene zuela, but added that "on the heels of assurances by the Vene zuelan government of its security measures, violence in Caracas was not anticipated." Murphy also told the committee there is "no evidence at present" that the South American demon strations against Nixon and his wile were directly connected with anti-American- outbreaks in Leb anon, Algeria, Indonesia, or else where. Morse said that in view of ad vance warnings of the danger of demonstrations, and three reports of rumors of attempted assassina tion, Nixon should have confined his trip to Argentina. Nixon represented the United Stales in the inauguration ( a new Argentine president, then went on to other countries. "Mr. Murphy's own testimony shows they expected trouble," Morse said. Knowing that, it couldn't be a good will trip, but a trouble-causing trip. "The problem now is what we propose to do to help improve economic relations with south America and that is a job for this committee." PACKED CROWD AT yesterday's community council meeting hears guest speaker Joi'.n Whitelaw, executive director of Portland's council. Whitelaw outlined functions of the soon-to-be formed organiiation, stressing its need to better health, recreation and wel fare facilities. Also in picture are Charlie Bane, chamber of commerce president, seated at far left; Mayor Lawrence Slater, center right; and Ross Ragland, who has been active in getting the new organization under way here. Community Council Group Meets To Formuhie Plans Over 100 persons turned out for a noon luncheon yesterday in the Willard Hotel where plans were formed to activate a Community Council in Klamath Falls. Purpose of the council will bo to coordinate and plan for improved services in health, recreation and welfare facilities. Membership in the council will be open to all or ganizations interested in or per forming services in the three fields. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair with variable high clouds Tuesday night and Wednes day. Low Tuesday night 45-50; high Wednesday 80, High yesterday 75 Low last night 53 Precip. last 24 hours 0 Since Oct. 1 14.80 Same period last year 14.10 Normal for period 11.07 GM Letter Asks Peace SORRY I SUN VALLEY, Calif. ) A week after someone stole the hubcaps from Mrs. Rosalie M. Sparacino's car, she found them in her yard with this note: "My dad caught me, damn it. So here are your hubcaps. Sorry I inconvenienced you." It was signed: "Midnight Auto Supply, Sun Valley." DETROIT Wi General Motors today appealed to 330.000 hourly rate workers for prompt agree ment to the only wage proposal the company says it .intends to make, GM President Harlow H. Cur Lice made the appeal in a letter mailed to employes yesterday. In the letter Curtice again went over the heads of United Auto Workers leaders who have reject ed the GM offer to renew the 214 per cent wage formula of the present contract. The company estimates union demands, exclusive of profit shar ing, would amount to an increase of 73 cents an hour per employe. The union denies this but has given no estimate of its wage and fringe demands. Curtice followed up a similar letter he sent employes May 3. This time he sent with it a 27-pagc booklet entitled "tTen Years of In dustrial Peace at GM and the Progress It Brought to You and Your Family." GM's bid for rank and file sup port came as the UAW's contract talks with GM, Ford and Chrysler were deadlocked under mounting pressure of deadlines. Talks were scheduled today at all three. The GM contract runs out May 29. Ford and Chrysler contracts end three days later. The union had no immediate comment on Curtice's appeal. The UAW's General Motors Council, as well as councils rep resenting Ford and Chrysler work ers throughout ;he country, were summoned to m-et in Detroit Fri day. The councils are expected to urge UAW members to report for work as usual if there is no set tlement when contracts terminate. Yesterday's meeting got down to brass lacks and elected rati O'Connor of the chamber of com merce as its temporary chairman. It also named Jack Douglass to chairman a nominating commit tee. This group will select a board of directors for the community coun cil and appoint a ways and means committee. Names of those to serve on the two bodies will be made known at a June 2 luncheon meeting in the Wincma Hotel. Di rectors will elect ofticers to head up the new organization. At yesterday's meeting, the throng attending heard guest speaker John Whitelaw, executive director of the Portland Commu nity Council. j Whitelaw outlined the functions of a community council. Some of these include: Studying the needs for betterments in the fields of health, recreation and welfare, if any, and recommending ways they can be met; Knowing what prob lems exist so that the council can supply information to governing bodies, enabling them to take ac tion. The Portland official estimated the Klamath Falls area spends some $50 per capita on health, wel fare and recreation facilities. A community council is urgently needed to insure that this money is used wisely, Whitelaw said. If it's not being used to best ad vantage, then the council's fa miliarity with the situation will enable it to intelligently recom mend the steps required to cor rect the trouble, the executive de clared. He added there arc now some 500 community councils perform ing this service in American cities. Yesterday's meeting was co- sponsored by the chamber of com merce and the American Associa tion of University Women, who have long been interested in set ting up a council here. Presiding over the affair was Charlie Bane, chamber president. The June 2 meeting, as was yes terday's, will be open to everyone interested. it Hi' T3 JkT 9 F-4.' pnfmmmmrnmMammmMumn mmmm nnpm,,.,. , r Of- r .'' ' MODEL HOME CONTEST Over 80 Klamath Union High School seniors entered the annual Model Home Contest which has been sponsored by the Klamath Board of Real tors for the past 12 yean. At right it Realtor George Overmire, contest committee chairman, with the first priie winning entry ef Phyllis Crebtree. Mrs. James Kerns Jr.,' contest judge, stands to the left of the second place winning home of Barbara Overen. Contest winners end their parents will be honored by the realtors at banquet Wednes day evening. More Rain In Southeast By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS More rain fell in the Southeast but generally fair weather was the prospect in most olher parts oi the nation today. Light showers sprinkled coastal areas in Hie north and middle At lantic states during the night but cooler and drier air headed into most of the region. Warm, humid air clung to the Gulf region and along the Atlantic Coast with temperatures in the fills as far north as southern New England Readings were in the 50s south ward into Kentucky and in the cooler air in the northern Great Lakes region temperatures were the 30s, with below freezing marks in some areas. The major wet belt extended from Louisiana and southern Ar kansas eastward into South Caro lina and northern Florida. New Orleans was soaked with lli inch es of rain in a six-hour period. Widely scattered showers extend ed into southern Florida and southern Texas. I'M--:' 11 Peristi h Air EoUhkud French Face Showdown On De Gaulle PARIS 11 Premier Pierre Pflimlin was greeted with ap plause in the National Assembly Tuesday as he stood up to seek a virtual vote of confidence to meet France's darkest postwar crisis Most of the deputies appeared to be solidly behind him. Applause broke out from all but the right wing when he declared his government will crack down on all extremists, whether of the right or left. The moderate pre mier delivered a blistering attack on the rebellious Uaullists in Al geria. Moderate parties were reported banding in self-protection to turn back Gen. Charles de Gaulle's bid to take over the government with extraordinary powers. Pflimlin asked the deputies to give his six-day-old government a renewal of the emergency powers to fight the Moslem rebellion in Algeria, where De Gaulle civilian and military backers have seized control. The moderates can check De Gaulle by supporting Pflim lin's request. The Algeria special powers bill cleared the Committee of Interior by a 22-3 vote. The moderate par ties of the center supported the bill, extremist Poujadists of the far right opposed and 11 Commu nists abstained. Many thought this indicated a trend for the As sembly vote) Pflimlin appeared before the As sembly shortly after his cabinet announced that prompt security measures had paralyzed the ac tion of extremist groups that were preparing violence. WILLIAM KITTREDGE New ear sales Saturday and Monday Increased 1.13 per cent over comparable days a month ago and 50 per rent over a year aRo under the Impetus of "You Auto Buy Now" It was reported by members of the Klamath Automobile Dealers Association through Ace Mlmro Service. Total tales, new and used, for the two days were 48, 15 bring reported for Saturday and 3.1 for Monday. Members of KADA are continuing "You Auto Buy Now" through this week. Pioneer Basin Resident Dies Funeral services for William Kit tredgc, 81, who died May 19 at Hillside Hospital, wilUbe held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, May 21, from the First Methodist Church with Dr. Dallas S. McNeil officiating Mr. Kittrcdge had been a resident of Klamath County for 47 years He suffered a stroke some lime ago from which he did not com pletely recover. Active pallbearers will be Henry Gerber, Mure! Long, Ross Dollar- hide, D. G. Williams, Bill Lang, Jack Schulze. Honorary pallbear ers will be Lee McMullen, A. R Campbell, Dr. N. L. Tartar. Basil Williams, E. M. Hammond and Ted Conn. Ward's Klamath Funer al Home is in charge of arrange ments. Final rites and vault en tombment will be in Klamath Me morial Park. Mr. Kitlredge, born June 27, 187B at Ft. Simcoe, Washington, built vast land and cattle holdings. considered the largest individual opcrution of its kind west of the Rocky Mountains, from a meager beginning. He was first associated with his father, theJate Franklin Kittrcdge. a Methodist missionary and schoolteacher, who homestead ed in the Silver Lake country of Eastern Oregon in 18!I4. Ho took part in one of the long est overland livestock treks of ear ly days, helping drive .145 head of horses and mules from Silver Lake to Gibbons, Nebraska, taking 103 days on the trail Mr. Kittrcdge was married Sep temher 2J. 1899 to Maude A. Long of Sliver Lake, who survives him He expanded his land holdings to include ranches in Klamath. Lake and Harney counties in Oregon) and near Corning. California after purchase of his first land bought in 1!I12 in the Silver Lake country, which he owned at the time of his death. Mr. Kittredge was widely known for his personal philanthropies, his continuing interest in agriculture, reclamation, land conservation and improved livestock breeding meth ods. He served for many years on the executive board of Hie Americas Cattleman's Assnciatirm; was a di rector of the Tri-State Livestock Association for several terms; was one of the original organizers of the Klamath Productive Credit As sociation, Klamath County, serving as presidenl from lt)34 until he resigned in 1!55. He was a mem ber of the Klamath County Cham ber of Commerce, numerous slate and county agricultural bodies and atlwided I h c Methodist Cheejh. The family home is at e2 k'ldora do Avenue. Survivors indui' the widow.' Mrs. Maude Kittredge, this city: a son, Oscar Kittredge. Klamath alls: a daughto. Mrs. Viola Gouldin. Koimalh Falls: grandchil dren, Donovan L. Nicnl. and Wil liam A. Kittredge. Adel. Oregon, Patrick L. Kittrcdge. this city; Mrs. Sue Tingley, Adel, Mrs. Dor othy Williams and Mrs. Roberta Dillavou, Klamath Falls; a sister, Mrs. Mary Davidson, Santa Rosa, California; also six great-grandchildren. Beirut Feels Money Strain BEIRUT. Lebanon (i The Leb anese public is lecling a severe economic strain as a result of 10 days of general strike enforced by daily bombing and terrorism Government security forces are daily gaining greater control over street mobs and opposition guer rilla bands. But the general shut down of shops continues iin Bel mt andrchief cities.1 ' The strike has been enforced by such terrorism as the bombs which exploded in the Beirut veg etable bazaar yesterday. At least five persons were killed and many wounded. Antigovernment gangs roam the city in automobiles, firing in the air to threaten shopkeepers who dare open. The opposition demands the Isignation of pro-Western Presi dent Camille Chamoun and a gov ernment policy oriented toward President Nasser's United Arab Republic. Opposition leader Saeb Salam says the strike will con tinue until Chamoun resigns. Trade is at a standstill. The average Lebanese aces a loou shortage and is plagued by rising prices. Workers, taxi drivers, shopkeepers and even night club entertainers are virtually unem ployed. In Beirut Harbor seven ships were counted at anchor wilh no one to unload them. Economists estimate the coun try is losing five million Leban ese pounds (more than l'i million dollars) daily from the reduction in tourism, air and sea traffic and transit trade. Conservative esti mates say Lebanon's trade has been cut in half. This is bound In have a severe effect on a nation which lives primarily on commerce and tran sit traffic. The north Lebanon city of Trip oli, meanwhile, is reported quiet alter bitter weekend fighting in which an estimated 60 persons were killed. BRUNSWICK. Md. (UP) A Chicago to Baltimore Capital Air lines passenger plane and an Air National Guard jet trainer col lided in the air near here today. All 11 persons aboard the Capi tal plane, seven passengers and a crew of four, perished. The pilot of the military plane. who identified himself as Capt. Julius R. McCoy, was taken to Frederick. Md. Memorial Hospital with severe burns of the face, hands, arms and head. He para- cnutca Horn nis plane. The pilot said one other man was aboard the jet, but his fate was not immediately known. McCoy was found in a field near Doubs, Md., by a larmer who rushed him to the hospital. It was the second collision of a commercial airliner and a mili tary jet in a month. On April 21, a United Air Lines DC7 and an Air Force jet col lided over Las Vegas, Nev., kill ing all 47 persons aboard the lin er and both pilots in the jet. Today's collision occurred at 8:43 a.m. p.d.t., near Point of Rocks. Md.. a picturesque spot on the Potomac River about 35 miles northwest of Washington. The commercial plane. Capital's r light 300, was a 44-passenger Vis count turbo-prop. This time it had only seven passengers aboard. It had left Pittsburgh and was seven minutes short of its destination in Baltimore when the collision occurred. Capital's headquarters in Wash ington said the two planes did not break up either on impact during the collision or after falling to the ground It said there was no explosion in the air following the collision but the planes burst into (lames alter smashing into the ground. However, an eyewitness, Mrs. Beverly Bles, Lovcttsville, . Va.. said the airliner appeared to have exploded and "split in two" about 500 feet olf the ground. Lovetts- villc is across the Potomac River from Point of Rocks. She said she did not see the military plane. I saw the airliner about 500 feet from the ground when there was Ihis loud noise and I saw It explode and crash to the ground, bine from Washington to New York via Gettysburg, Pa., and Harrisburg. Pa. The presidential helicopter had long since cleared the general area of the crash be fore the Capital plane and the jet collided. At the time of the crash, there was a ceiling of 7,500 feet and visibility was seven miles. The T33, operating out of a base near Baltimore, was on a local training mission. It was flying un der visual flight rules, which is customary in good weather. LOS ANGELES (UP) -Rep. Patrick Hillings (R-Calif.). an out spoken supporter of a single agen cy to control all air traffic, today urged Defense Secretary Neil Mc- Elroy to invoke a temporary ban on all military jet aircraft opera tions in or near commercial airways. Hillings, in California camapign- ing for nomination as the Republi can candidate for attorney general wired McElroy to keep the jet military aircraft out of the com mercial airways until Congress can act to establish a single fed eral agency to control all air traf- lic. His action followed this morn ing's collision between a military jet and a Capital Airlines plane over Brunswick, Md., killing 11 persons. The congressman also dis patched a telegram to Civil Aero n a u 1 1 c s Administration chief James T. Pyle asking his support in the establishment of a single agency to control all commercial, military and private air traffic in the "shrinking air space." Hillings has pending before the House now a resolution calling for a joint congressional committee to investigate inflight collisions. This followed the recent Las Vegas col lision of a United Air Lines DC7 and a jet that claimed 49 lives. House Seeks Space Pact WASHINGTON 11 A special House committee, choosing civill- Si ij ,u i i.Vi. 5 d.. an over military efforts to make Mrs. Bles told the United Press. Amri. ,h m. ... "The plane split in two parts and then landed in two fields. Capital identified the pilot of its liner as Kendall Brady and the copilot as Paul F. Meyers, both of Chicago. Also aboard wcie two hostesses. The first passenger identified was Mrs. S. L. Johns, wife of doctor from the Pittsburgh area. President. Eisenhower flew over the general area of the crash earlier . today. He flew by heli copter and his four-engine Colum- Parade Set For Pianist NEW YORK (UP)-The lanky Texas youth who made the Amer ican public aware he is a phe nomenal piano-player by winning a prize in Moscow, had a trium phal musical home-coming in Car negie Hall Monday night, loday I here will be a ticker-tape parade tor him up lower Broadway. Harvey Lavan (Van) Cliburn )r., of Kilgore, Tex. enraptured his American audience by playing the pieces which earned him first place in the Russian competition last month. America s most-storied music hall was sold out, even to standing room, and at top prices, too. Cliburn was engulfed again and again in storms of applause and was required to play three en cores and answer eight "curtain calls." Before his Russian venture, the six-foot-four, 23-year-old could no more have filled Carnegie Hall than he could have taken wing, Now the world of music is his oyster. The audience included Russian diplomats, Cliburn's father and mother an oil company purchas ing agent and piano teacher re spectively. America the world's space leader, called today for agreement among nations for peaceful exploration of outer space. The House Space Committee ap proved a bill to create a new civil ian agency, headed by a single director, to work on broad eivilian projects. Purely military aspects would remain in the Defense De partment, hut the civilian ageiuy would push exploration. With committee approval. Chair man John W. McCormack (D Mass) and Rep. Kenneth B. Keat ing (R-NY) asked a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee to approve a resolution calling for internation al agreement for peaceful space . exploration. McCormack told newsmen that what the proposed new agency actually can accomplish will de pend on the man whom President Eisenhower names to head it. The House measure would cre ate a National Aeronautics and Space Administration headed by a S22,50O-a-year civilian director. He would be advised but not con mittee of nine government offic ials and e'. ht private citizens. Three of tl.4 nine government ad visers would be from the Defense Department. riic new agency would take over unctions of the National Ad visory Committee for Aeronautics, which has done air flight research since 1915. But the committee, emphasizing the need for civilian control, noted that 90 per cent of NACA's work has been done for the military services. It said also that the size and possible indecision within the De fense Department's Advanced Re search Projects Agency would create "potentially a grave men ace to our national effort If con trol were centered there. pisputes over whether space projects should be handled by the civilians or the military would be settled through a liaison commit tee. Unresolved arguments would go to the President. 7 NEWLY PAINTED SQUAD cars of Klamath Falls Police Department are lined up in front of headquarters for photographer's lens. Shown with the cars, left to right, aim Chiff ' Charlie Howard, and officers Cornelius Lasher, Dick Shipman, Odell Olson end Jim Brown. The cars ell have sparkling new black end whit paint job l they Mil recognised immediately. 1,
