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u of oascoa liskatu EUQENE.OflEG. 6-1-53 . ' ' ' ' ' la The 1 Day's fews By FRANK JENKINS Screwball side of life note: Author Aldous Huxley ha at tacked the lubliminal advertising technique in a television interview. (This "subliminal" technique con sists of lashing advertising mes sages on TV and movie screens so fast you oen't see 'em, and they're supposed to influence your buying decisions without letting you know you're being influenced.) He forecasts an ALARMING new world in which politicians will make nonsense of democratic pro cedures by election campaigns aimed at the subconscious mind. Hrr-mmmmm, D'ya reckon the politicians can mess things up any worse with the aid of the subliminal technique than they ve been able to do with out It? At this point a question: What is a politician? The dictionary defines a politi- elan as "one addicted to, or active ly engaged in, politics as managed by parties: often, one primarily interested in political offices or the PROFITS from them as a source of private gain." The dictionary adds: "POLITICIAN now commonly im plies activity in party politics, es pecially with a suggestion or arti fice or intrigue. "STATESMAN now usually sug gests broad-minded and far-seeing sagacity in affairs of state. That takes us back into history. The Greek philosopher Plato, in his great work Republic, speaks of democracy as "a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike. At this point, another Hmmmmmm. ' ' They must have had politicians back in Plato s day. That suggests another question: When was Plato's day? It was a long time ago. It isn't known when he was born, but he died in 347 B.C., more than two thousand years ago. He was a disciple of Socrates and the teach er of Aristotle. Aristotle is general ly credited with being the father of science. Plato was the student and com panion of Socrates until the lat ter s trial and death in 399 B.C Socrates was condemned to death "for the corruption of youth" by Introducing new gods (meaning new ideas and new ways of think ing.) He was required, upon his con viction, to drink a cup of hemlock poison, the theory being that if he were guilty the hemlock would kill him but if he were innocent it would do him no harm. They had some queer ideas then, too. Back now to Aldous Huxley. Who's he? Well, he's an English novelist journalist and essayist. He's also a scientist and the grandson of a scientist. II i s grandfather was Thomas Henry Huxley, widely known for his defense of the theory of evolution held by Darwin. He was often called "Darwin's Bull dog," and engaged in a famous controversy with England's noted prime minister William E. Glad stone. Gladstone was a politician (in that he used the arts of politics to keep himself in office) and he didn't think the Darwinian theory that man is descended from the monkey would be popular with his constituents. Politics, you see, has ALWAYS been politics. T V , 1 l lilt H vtra r. ' w) m -i Price Five Cents to Pages KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1958 Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 607J NEW SIGNS TO ATTRACT visitors to city parks arc being painted by Oregon' Tch students happily at work above. The signs, sponsored and financed by Klamath Ex change Club, are a project of the OTI sign painting class under instructor Earl Bairey. Left to right, the brushmen are Bill Edinger, Jerry Jordan, Don Thurman and Jo Lunalc. The class will also paint some 50 other signs, much smaller than that above, which will be used to mark city park boundaries and to furnish directions to park users. Recrea tion Director Bob Bonney will coordinate the job with the students. Senators Vote To Restore Most Of Slashed Aid Funds WASHINGTON UPi The Senate I Foreign Relations Committee voted Wednesday to restore 220 million dollars of the 339 million cut by the House President Ei senhower's 13,942,092,500 foreign aid program. The committee.- by voice vole. approved Eisenhower's request for $1,800,000,000 in military hardware funds. The House had voted $1,-640.000.000. Similarly, the Senate group voted to grant the administration $835,000,000 in defense economic Man In Space Plan Studied Mostly Fair Over Nation By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Showery weather persisted in sections of the Southeast and Western areas but generally fair weather prevailed in the major part of the country today. Cool air spread across Northern regions from the Great Lakes to the North Atlantic states, but mild weather was the rule in most other sections. Temperatures were mostly in the 30s and 40s in the Great Lakes region and dipped to below freez ing in parts of Northern Michi gan. The cool air which moved into the north Atlantic states dropped readings into the 50s. They were in the-60s in the mid- Atlantic Coast while 70-degree marks were general in the Gulf Coast area and along the south Atlantic Coast. WASHINGTON UP) The Penta gon is studying a dozen proposals to place man in space, including one to rocket a human out of this world and bring him back in a matter of minutes. But the chief officials of the De fense Department's Advanced Re search Projects Agency assured Congress that no American will he hurled beyond the atmosphere until an animal has made tthe trip and been brought back to earth. They said a chimpanzee knay be put in orbit in 12 to 15 months If present studies succeed, United States plans lor space conquest and money to be spent on them were disclosed by Roy Johnson, ARPA director, and Dr. Herbert York, Us chief scientist in testimony released today by the House Appropriations Committee Johnson testified last month tnai a 72-miUion-douar appropriation request for the fiscal year start ing July 1 included money for man-in-space research. But man's safety in space can't he Euaranteed within the next 12 months, he said, "regardless of the amount of money that we spend." ARPA s chief scientists dis closed that the Air Force is now planning a reconnaissance satel lite with a gross weight ot trom 1 to I'i tons. They said it will take television pictures and pick up radio signals while over poten tially unfriendly territory and re- broadcast this intelligence while orbiting over American stations. York said the Army and Air Force have about a 75 per cent chance of success in getting satel lites in orbit around the moon this year. The Army has been author ized to make one or two tries at the moon, and the Air Force three attempts. support funds for countries with which the United States has de fense pacts. The House had cut this item to $775,000,000. The committee decided to meet again in another closed session Thursday to consider other items. There may be other Increases. In still another voice vote ac tion, the committee wrote into the foreign aid bill a declaration that is in the interest of the United States to join other nations in pro viding India with "support of the type, magnitude, and duration adequate to assist India in com pleting her "current program for economic development. From three senators Mike Mansfield (D-Mont), H. Alexander Smith (R-NJ) and George D. Aik en IR-Vt) came appraisals that n t i-American demonstrations against Vice President Nixon would help rather than hurt the administrations foreign aid program. Tuesday the committee direct ed a subcommittee headed by Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Orei to make a full-fledged inquiry into the back ground of the Latin-American in cidents. The House, accepting r e c o m- mendations ot its Foreign Affairs Committee, cut 339 million dollars from the amount Eisenhower asked but rejected heavier cuts n the military and economic aid authorizations.' Mansfield, who advocates deep er cuts than those made by the House, said he thought the net result of the anti-American dem onstrations in Latin America Lebanon. Algeria and elsewhere would strengthen Eisenhower's hand. In a separate interview. Smith said he would "move heaven and earth to restore the authorizations to the full amount asked by the President. I think our case will be made stronger by the increased evi dence of Communist infiltration and economic penetration in South America. Africa and the Middle East." Smith said. Agreeing. Aiken said one elfect of the demonstrations has been to make all Americans conscious of the international situation. Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper R-Iowa) said there was no dis position on the part of the Senate o retaliate against souin Amer- for the Communist-inspired demonstrations. Chief Still Hard Man To Rattle NEW YORK President Ei senhower demonstrated to the sat infection of newsmen last night that he still is a hard man to rattle. The President was about to board his plane at LaGuardia Field to fly back to Washington when a flashbulb exploded as press photographers recorded his departure. Secret Servicemen and the city's ton police officials were startled and wheeled around tensely at the sound of the gun-like pop. Japanese Hold Former Yale Football Star For Murder TOKYO I Joseph P. Crowley, star Yale football back in the early 1930s, whs held by Japanese police today on suspicion of fatal ly beating his brother-in-law T. A. D. Jones Jr. Jones, a New Haven, Conn., businessman and son of a Yale gridiron great, died here May 8. Funeral services will be held to morrow at Trinity Episcopal Church in New Haven. Police Inspector Tsunetoshi Shi rakawa said Crowley was arrest ed this morning "on the suspicion of having inflicted the injuries which caused Jones' death." "We have conducted a thorough and careful investigation. . .and from medical reports and testi monies of all persons involved. suspicion had become strongest against Crowley," the inspector said. He had indicated ell along he thought the case might involve manslaughter or assault rather than murder. Shirakawa said an investigation was continuing on Frederick M Kissinger, a Maryland accountant who accompanied Jones and Crow ley to Tokyo May 5 to buy an oil tanker. From the first Crowley has de nied having anything to do with Jones death. At the police sta tion he refused to answer report ers' questions and said, "Tho whole thing is fantastic." Kissinger said, I think tne po lice have made a very gross mis take. They do not know what hap pened. Shirakawa said he will refer the case to the office of the Tokyo prosecutor for consideration of formal charges. Japanese proce dure gives police until Friday morning to do this. The prosecutor then can hold Crowley for 20 days without charge while com pleting an investigation. Economic Upturn Seen By President NEW YORK on-President Ei senhower told the nation last night that an economic upturn is In the making. . : He foresaw a future bursting with vitality and promise. "No single person and no sin gle group, however wise, can name the day or the week when the upturn will begin," the Presi dent said. The slump is not over by any means, he said. He added, how ever, that reports from the nation strongly indicate that the reces sion is slowing down. Once again he promised that de cisions on tax cut proposals will be made soon. He put so much (tress on the dangers in inflation and mounting deficits that he appeared to rule out the likelihood of White House support for a general cut in fed eral income taxes. James C. Hagcrty, his press secretary, told newsmen In re sponse to questions that the Pres ident's remarks' about an early decision on taxes should not be interpreted as meaning necessar ily that the administratfin wi'L.ad- vocate a cut. ' The President addressed 2,600 business leaders at an economic mobilization conference called by the American Management Assn. He was introduced at the con ference dinner by Vice President Nixon. The vice president told the busi ness executives at an afternoon session that political pressure for an emergency tax cut directed solely at benefiting consumers should be resisted. . Mail Rate Hike Seen Likely By July First WASHINGTON lu-The cost of mailing a letter appeared likely today to rise to 4 cents July 1. Quick passage was predicted as the Senate prepared to take up a compromise bill to raise postal rates and pay. House passage. possibly tomorrow, would send the measure on to the White House. Higher rates for first-class mail 4 cents for letters. 7 cents for air mail and 3 cents for postcards would become effective July 1 it f resident Lisenhower signs the bill before the end of May. Grad uated increases in rates tor other types of mail also are provided. The bill also would boost the pay of 500,000 postal workers as of last Jan. 1 one of several features which had led to some predictions Eisenhower might veto the bill. Raises would range (rom 7'i to 10 per cent. A Republican senator reported today that Postmaster General Summerfield strongly endorsed the measure at a White House conference of GOP leaders Mon day. The senator, asking that his name not be used, saw this as a strong indication Eisenhower would sign .the bill. Senate staff experts said the added revenue from rate in creases in the bill now is figured at 575 million dollars "annually at full effect instead of the 530 million announced when the con ferees completed their work last Wednesday. They said also the pay raises for the 500,000 postal employes would total about 265 million do lars a year instead of the 257 million figured last week. However, the pay boost retroactive to Jan. 1 so that the total cost in the first full year of operation is estimated at about 390 million. fell Ll 1 in Safe E Mrs. Davis' Toes Removed KEITH O'HAIR LLOYD DiLAP Write-In Vote Successful For Two, Canvass Reveals An official canvas of the bal lots cast in last week's primary election revealed Tuesday that both Lloyd DeLap and Keith O'Hair had emerged as success ful write-in candidates. DeLap was a belated write-in candidate for the post of coun ty treasurer on the Democratic slate while O'Hair was not an Soviet Bloc Holds Meet MOSCOW ifi-The leaders of the Soviet bloc are gathering in Mos cow for their first summit confer ence in seven months. Communist party chiefs of all the Warsaw Pact nations and their Asian Communist allies began a meeting of the Council of Mutual Economic Assistance yesterday. . Chiefs of government, foreign ministers and defense ministers meet Saturday as the Political Consultative Committee of the Warsaw Pact, the Kremlin's counterpart of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A brief announcement in Izves- tia, the Soviet government organ, did not give the purpose of the meetings. But it was assumed the whole range of political, military and economic relations within the Communist bloc and between the bloc and the West is on the agenda. Solidarity among the Communist nations and relations with Yugo slavia are expected to be a major item in view of the recent Krem lin-led denunciation of President Tito's regime for continuing its independent course. Warsaw Pact members are the Soviet Union, Poland, East Ger many, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania. The Economic Council meetings are being attended also by Com mumst leaders of Red China. North Korea. North Viet Nam and Mongolia. The Asian delegates also may a'.iend tho Political torn mittee's meeting, although this was not specified. - Tito reportedly sent Moscow a letter last weekend saying Yugo slavia will not join the Soviet bloc and warning that further at tacks on Belgrade can damage Soviet prestige. Lebanon To Receive Tanks WASHINGTON Wl The United States is assembling a shipment of light tanks for delivery to Leb anon this week. Officials said the tanks are be ing collected from stocks in Ger many and will be sent to Lebanon by ship. The tanks are destined lor tne pro-Western regime of President Camille Chamoun in his govern ment's efforts to put down rebel lious attackers. They were requested by Leban on along with police-type equip ment like gas masks and tear gas grar. Officials said Chamoun's gov ernment appears to be making progress in its efforts to maintain order in Lebanon. Secretary of State Dulles said Chamoun s com ulaint of interference by the United Arab Republic appeared to be based on solid evidence. The United States sent 18 huge C124 transport airplanes to Frank furt. Germany, last baturaay. The officials said these big Globemasters, capable of carrying 200 persons or 35 tons, were not for use in airlifting tanks to Lebanon, but could be used to evacuate Americans from either Lebanon or Algeria if the need should arise. Washington is closely watching the virtual insurrection in Algeria by French military leaders who took over control and called for a French government ncaded by Gen. Charles de Gaulle. JOHN DAY, Ore. (Jfi Mrs. Bruce Davis underwent surgery Wednesday ' for removal of the toes of her right foot, frozen Wnonth ago as the lay in mountain snows ior tnree oays oesiae a wrecked plane. A week ago her left foot was amputated. Mrs. Davis. 35, is the wife of a Fresno, Calif., orchestra leader When their plane, which he was flying, crashed in clouds .April 21 he set out for help. After a three day and night ordeal he reached a ranch house and hours later an Air Force helicopter found the plane wreckage and picked up his wife. Her pelvis was fractured and her feet were frozen. Dr. Martha van der Vlugt, whose husband,Dr. Jerry van der Vlugt, handled the surgery, said that Mrs. Davis was, as she had been right along, "in real good spirits." Davis, who suffered rib frac tures in the crash and frostbitten feet on his hike, continues at the hospital principally to be near his wife. He has been planning a hospital benefit program to be held when both he and his wife have returned to good health. He said it was to repay the people of John Day for their friendliness and help. Grange Makes Price Study WASHINGTON OB The Na tional Grange said Wednesday farmers have gotten comparative ly little in the increase in retail food prices. It said a study of price reports show that the great bulk of the increase in food prices during the past 10 years has been in costs of labor employed in the transporta tion, processing and distribution of farm and food products. It said that federal income taxes have gone up more than farm prices. The grange said that during 1957, the farm value of a desig nated quantity of food referred to1 by the Agricultural department as the market basket increased $15, but that the cost to the consumer had increased $31. . . It said that In the case of bakery and cereal - products) the farm value moved up 40 cents last year but that the consumer cost ad vanced $5.85. In the case of milk, it said, producer prices have gone down but consumer prices have risen. "The facts are that ever-increasing costs of moving food from the farm through the supermarket or corner grocery have pushed gro cery bills to new highs," the grange said, adding in a state ment: i "Even so, the average return for an hour of work bought more food during 1957 than ever before. The amount of working time re quired to buy a pound of meat in 1957 was 19 minutes, compared to 30 minutes 10' years earlier." Food prices were said to be 15 per cent higher than the 1947-49 average, compared with 20 per cent for all consumer goods combined. avowed candidate but drew enough write-in votes for county coroner to put him on the November ballot DeLap was opposed most closely by Eva Cook for the Democratic nominee as treasurer. Mrs. Cook polled 4,234 votes to secure the Re publican nomination, and had she polled more write-in votes than DeLap on the Democratic ticket, she would have been the only can didate for the, office in November. However, DeLap had 419 write- in votes as against only 310 for Mrs. Cook on the Democratic bal lot, and the two candidates will vie for the county post In No vember. Dr. J. Martin Adams swept the Democratic nomination for coun ty coroner, the post he now holds by appointment, and camo with in nine votes of gaining the nom nation on the Republican ballot by write-in. However, although he was not an expressed candidate for the post, Keith O'Hair polled 181 write-in votes to gain the Repub lican nod for county coroner, and will oppose Dr. Adams in the fall. With the exception of changing the vote totals slightly, the offi cial canvas of the votes failed to change any of -the election re sults, according to County Clerk Charlie DeLap. NY Cracks Down On Litterbugs NEW YORK iiP-The City Sani lation Department is cracking down hard on litterbugs. After a five-week educational campaign, 1,300 sanitation patrol men took to Uie streets yesterday and handed out 892 summonses within 5'i hours. The biggest batch 220 went to janitors and property owners ac cu.ed of having improper or in sufficient receptacles for reluse. Among the 892 tagged was post al clerk Erwin Ferber. As he watched a store owner argue with a patrolman over a summons. I'erber chewixi idly on a bit of a matchbook cover. He shook his head sadly at the storekeeper s fate and the bit of paper fell to the sidewalk. Before the bit hit, Ferber was given a summons. Bird Snarls City Traffic CHARLOTTE, N.C. (UP) - Whatever it was. it tied up traf fic on a busy, four-lane boulevard and it bit a policeman. "I was coming up Wilkinson and this bird was in the middle of the road flopping aroun.1," said Coun ty Policeman Stan Noel. "I turned around and stopped because peo ple were having to drive around it and I was afraid there would be a wreck." Noel said he tried to push the bird out of the road with his foot and was bitten on the leg for his pains. He finally got it off the road and covered it with a blank i:t. "When I first saw it, I thought it was a duck." said Noel. "When I turned around it looked like a goose. It was about the size of pelican but it's got a long, pointed bill and webbed feet. It sounded like a crane and had real beady eyes." The county dog truck, alerted to pick up "a vicious, pelican," look the bird to the children's nature museum where an attendant iden tified it as a loon. YeHnq Writer Way Id Like To Be Banker COLUMBUS. Ohio iP In composition titled, "What I Would Like to Be Right Now," read by School Supt. Harold H. Eibling at a Columbus school board meeting a 9-year-old wrote: "I would like to be a father of two children and be president of bank. Because I like kids and banks. To be a president of bank you have to have i good record, and no time in the pen i'ou would have to go to a banker :ollege (sic) and to be a lather il l natural and easy.!' NEW CAR SALES "You Auto Buy Now" car ales Tuesday exceeded the comparable day a month ago but did not come up to the rec ord of last year. The three day's ales of new cars to date re ported by members of the Klamath Automobile Dealers As. soclatlon show cumulative In creases of 117 over April and 18 per cent over May 1957, for the same days. Safety Probe Set By Solons WASHINGTON W - Congress, reacting swiftly to the latest aerial collision of a military plane and a civilian airliner, plans to open two investigations Thursday into air safety. Subcommittees In both the Sen ate and House scheduled hearings Tuesday a short time after a Maryland National Guard jet and a Capital Airlines plane collided over the Potomac ' River Valley near Brunswick, Md., killing 12 persons. Announcing hearing plans, Chairman Mike Monroney (D- Okla), of a Senate Aviation sub committee, said the Brunswick crash "points up again with tragic clarity the urgency of a single con Irol of our space." Declaring both military and civilian planes should come under one direction, Monroney said: "We can no longer await Ihe snail-pace consolidation of the various air traffic control pat terns. The present dangerous situ ation requires immediate correc tive legislation." Monroney said his group also will investigate the April 21 colli sion near Las Vegas, Nev of a military jet and a United Airliner that killed 49 persons. French Open Drive To Win Back Algeria PARIS uT) Premier Pierr Pflimlin today held a new leas on political life to try to solve the dangerous crisis brought on by military-rightist power seizure in Algeria. He promised to take all stepi to restore the Paris regime's au thority over the insurgent French in North Africa. Gen. Charles de Gaulle stiU stood in the wings awaiting lha call which the National Assembly didn't givo him yesterday. Th Assembly's smashing 475-100 vote continuing the government' emergency powers in revolt-torn Algeria appeared to be a deliber- ale rebulf to the world war 11 hero's bid for power. Had the Assembly wanted to return the wartime resistance leader to office, it could have paved the way by voting against Pflimlin. Instead the Premier got support from virtually all elements in tht Assembly except the extreme right. It was one of the biggest majorities ever won by a postwar French premier, apparently dm to the deputies' fear; of Da Gaulle's olfnr to head a strong man government. Priimlin told the Assembly ha would leave day-to-day control of Algerian affairs in the hands o( Gen. Raoul Salan, amy com mandcr in the North African ter ritory. The government put Salan in full charge after an Algiers mob of French settlers and sol diers a week ago defied the Paris appointed civil officials- and de manded' De Gaulle take over the government. Pflimlin said Salan had at times acted with government approval and at times under the pressure of events. He said the military chiefs in Algeria had "fulfilled the need to safeguard national unity, public order and republican legal ity." The Premier added that his gov ernment would "take all steps in the coming days to assure the complete return to legality" a return to Paris control in Algeria. He did not indicate how he might achieve this. Salan himself continued to pact fy the Algiers mob with pro-De Gaulle sentiments. Addressing a rally of French settlers and mili tary tnen in Algiers now a daily occurrence he hailed-the general as an inspiring leader whose words "have raised in your hearts an immense hope of grandeur and national unity." Red Radio Tells Orb's Progress LONDON W Moscow radio to day said the carrier rocket of Sputnik III is now leading the ar tificial satellite by two tenths of an orbit as they whirl around the earth. This means that the rocket. which had less initial velocity than the Sputnik, is spiraling in toward the earth and will be destroyed by friction with the atmosphere while the satellite is still aloft. The broadcast said both objects completed their 77th circuits of the earth this morning. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Variable high clouds and a few Isolated afternoon and eve ning thundershowers through Thursday. High 75-82; low Wednes day night 44-50. High yesterday ...7 Low last night ...47 Prcclp. last 24 hours Since Oct. 1 .I4.8e Same period last year H..14.8t Normal for period 11.14 i tsfl ! t-'''y"';-!tI!IttIt"VXv"A , . -Sfi- 3k i.j -...w,-.-. , . ; Hi ni inn, TWO OUTSTANDING girl graduates of the 1958 senior class of Klamath Union High School were preiented with $ 1 00 scholarships by the Roosevelt PTA at a meeting in the school Tuesday. Both girls, who have made excellent scholastic records during their high school years and in addition have taken part in numerous extra currlcular ac tivities, will major In elementary education, Virginia Walkley, left, at the University of Oregon, and JoAnn Geiis, right, at Oregon College of Education, Monmouth, Cen ter it Mrs. Paul Dollar, teacher member of the Roosevelt PTA Scholarship Committee. Other member, of the committee include Mrs. Neil Black, parent member, end Gerald Clement, school principal. y
