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Newspaper Page TextCC2? Price Five Cents 28 Page KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1958 Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 6074 French-Tunisian U 0? OREGON LIBHAaT EUQSNS, ORE. : . I l , - . .V. '" ' ' - : ' " " ' ! . ' ' jmf "H't ..ik. mri iifii?" niir i ib-in itimii rvT---i,,nf rum innwti m TViiitii'i'iiruiJi WOK NCARS COMPLETION on t(vi leg of the four new interceptor sewer lines of the f eity. Shown here is e trench that cuts diagonally across a portion of Kit Carson Way. jjiThis particular line will be laid to the middle of Painter Street where it completes the Seoupfiflg of the sewer leg. Construction Is by the Marshall Bessonette Construction Company of Medford. Work on the project of replacing the interceptor lines was be i gun last fall and completion of the lines will tie in with the new city primary and sec I endary sewage treatment plant now under construction on the edge of Lake Ewauna. la The- DasJews S By FRANK JENKINS New danger note: . Residents of South Florida have been cautioned to keep away from large poisonous toads FIVE TIMES THE SIZE OF BULL FROGS that have been found in the area recently. ' Dr. E. Martin Miller, professor of zoology at the University of Miami, was notified of the new menace after a Miami housewife reported that one of the creatures leaped at her the other night. Her husband killed two of them later. Earlier in the week one of them KILLED A DALMATION DOG in the neighborhood. .. Hmmmmmm. , I reckon ANYTHING can happen In Florida. And frequently does. P.S: The zoology professor says the animals are a species of pois onous toad introduced into Florida from either South America or the West Indies. Somebody brought one home as a pet, I suppose. The National Geographic Soci ety, which leans normally toward the ..weightier subjects, has come out with a bulletin on poison ivy. Among other things, it reports that about 60 kinds of birds feed on the berries of the poison ivy plant with no ill effects. Shucks! Birds can do a lot of things humans can't do. Sleeping while roosting on a limb, for example, : The bulletin goes on to say: There are no sure cures for ivy poisoning. But science has been making long strides in research laboratories. One of the newest dis coveries is a salve developed at Syracuse University. It contains zirconium and an anti-histamine drug. For some people, injection of a special extract from' the plant's juice has an immunizing effect. There are pills designed on the same principle. Geographic says The best treatment is to STAY AS FAR AWAY FROM THEJ ' STUFF AS POSSIBLE. That one makes sense. Out here in the Golden West, we don't have poison ivy. But, as so often happens, we have something just as bad, or maybe worse poison oak. There are Westerners who claim you can catch a bad case of poison oak by looking at a picture of it. One reasonably successful meth od of treatment for poison oak is to fill your shoes with lead and jump in the lake. If you don't come up, it won't bother you much from then one. Another remedy recommended by extremists is Russian roulette. Over on this side of the moun tains, we have a proud boast there's no poison oak in the high country. And no poison ivy. We have our mice. Rattlesnakes lurk in the sagebrush. And mos quitoes, nourished on DDT, are be ginning to approach the size of pelicans. But we have NO poison ivy. Coronor Post Bid Declined Keith O'Hair today declined to accept the Republican nomination for the post of county coroner. O'Hair reports that he was not a candidate for the post, and is not now. He stated that he would not sign the acceptance blank sent him by County Clerk Charlie De Lap. However, O'Hair did thank those who wrote in his name on the bal lot during the primary. "I think Dr. J. Martin Adams it doing one o(,lhe finest jobs in the office of coroner in the state of Oregon." O'Hair said, "and I would strongly recommend that he be elected to that post." In withdrawing from the race, O'Hair said. "I do not wish to be til opponent to Dr. Adams." Withdrawal of O'Hair means that Dr. Adams will be the only candidate for the post of county coroner in the November election. - . t -I Chamber Group Outlines Oregon Centennial Plans Plans for Klamath Basin's par ticipation in the Oregon Centen nial celebration at Salem in June next year were outlined at a Com merce Chamber Board meeting yesterday. Manager R. Frank Tucker an nounced that members of the State Centennial Commission will arrive In Klamath Falls Monday for a 9:30 a.m. meeting with local cen tennial representatives. To be dis cussed is this county's role in the affair,, which will commemorate 100 years of statehood for Oregon. Also at yesterday's meet, James Boyle of OTI, local chairman of centennial planners, showed a drawing of Klamath County's pro- Rebel Head Scores Junta GENEVA ! Algerian rebel leader Ferhat Abbas today repu diated the insurgent military-colonialist junta in Algiers but en dorsed Gen. Charles de Gaulle. In an interview with the .news paper La Suisse, Abbas said his rebel National' Liberation Front (FLN) the chief fighters against the French will never negotiate with any authority other than the "legal and legitimate government of France." He denounced the Committee of Public Safety which seized power in Algiers nine days ago in de fiance of Paris as a maneuver of right-wing extremists. Abbas, an exile living in nearby Montreux, is generally, expected to become the premier or foreign minister of any future independent Algerian government.- Abbas told La Suisse De Gaulle "in many ways is an example for our" own resistance. I believe that the general has in mind the higher interests of - France and that he can inaugurate a new era of equal cooperation with the form erly colonized peoples." College Rodeo To Be Held Here The big West Coast Intercollegi ate Rodeo to be held at the Klam ath County Fairgrounds Saturday and Sunday, May 24 and 25, will be launched with a parade of con testants down Main Street Satur day beginning at 10 a.m. The parade will form at the cor ner of Second and Klamath, and will consist of contestants from Oregon Technical Institute and other college entrants from Ore gon, Washington, California and Idaho. The parade is not limited to con testants, however, according to OTI rodeo director Harald Peder sen. Any group of horsemen in the Basin is welcome. A trophy will be awarded by parade judges for horsemanship and behavior to the best junior group entered. 'Progress Pathways1 Theme Of Fourth Of July Parade The Ingenuity Season is upon us, and many's the brains will be racked, much the midnight o i 1 burned, in frantic effort between now and 8:30 a.m.. July 4. when the 1958 Klamath County Parade finally forms up at Second and Klamath streets, an hour and a half prior to its short march into local history. "Pathways to Progress" is the theme which seems general enough to provide plenty of variety in this kickoff event to the first skies graced by artificial satellites. Anyone who wants to join in the fun and who has not yet re ceived an entry blank is urged to secure one from the parade chair man of the sponsoring organiza tion, the Klamath Junior Chamber of Commerce, who can be reached at Box 407. Less anonymously, the chairman is Wayne Plaisted, who is being assisted by Amos Burnett and Les Snively, eaoh bearftig the impressive title of parade co director. The entry blank is a model of simplicity. Iti completion putt one in the running for no les than posed booth that would go on dis play at Salem. It would be built by OTI students for some $500 and require no manpower on hand. The booth would feature lighted displays of important Klamath ac tivities, including industry, agri culture, OTI and Crater Lake. Boyle said OTI is considering the possibility of becoming host for the National Inter-Collegiate Rodeo finals in mid-June, 1959, which would tie in with the cen tennial. Such competition would be the only national Variety slated for Oregon next year, he added. Chamber directors passed a motion supporting OTI if it under takes the project. In one other centennial matter, Chamber Director Leo Morstad reported on state - wide Junior Chamber plans calling for a cov ered wagon tnlin from Indepen dence, Missouri, to Independence, Oregon, via the old Oregon Trail, Two wagons already arranged for will represent Klamath County but there is a need for more, said Morstad. Tucker reported that beginning May 31, the chamber offices will remain open all day Saturday and Sunday to supply tourist informa tion until the end of the season It was also reported that over four million persons will soon have seen the chamber-produced TV movie. Wish You Were Here, which depicts the recreational op portunities in Klamath County. The film has been shown in 18 Western. Midwest and Southern cities, with cities in 19 eastern states still to be contacted. Since February this year, 59 new members have agreed to join the chamber of commerce, it was re ported. Auto Talks Resume Today DETROIT Iff) Tensions and un certainty, mark the renewal today of talks between General Motors and the United Auto Workers Un ion. During a recess yesterday, the company and union joined hands to battle rebellious skilled work ers at a National Labor Relations Board hearing. But tension mounted when GM fired a hot replv to a statement by UAW President Walter P. Reuther accusing GM negotiators of failing to show any indication "they are ready to begin bargain ing." Only eight days remain before the current three-year contract expires. Vice President Louis G. Scaton, head of the GM bargaining team, said Reuther's statement "is fan tastic in view of the fact that only last week the UAW settled major agreements (in the aircraft indus try) for considerably less than what General Motors has put on the bargaining table. 12 trophies provided it is mailed in. Final date for return is June 25. The trophies will be awarded at the end of the parade. Besides the grand prize (or the best all around entry, there will be a trophy for the float best adhering to the theme, and three others for floats in various categories commercial, organization and com munity. Other trophies will go to the best musical group, the best mounted group, the best costumed group, the best matched pair of horses, the most humorous entry, the most unusual entry, and the best marching group. So the little gray cells and the unused muscles should be put to work. There are no restrictions to ingenuity, except tat give-aways will not be permitted, for reasons of safety and good order. This is the second signup now in progress ftr the rodeo cele brationis. Registration for the ro deo queen and junior queen is now underlay at Herman'! Mens Store, 826 Main Street. Fighting PARIS tffl Fighting between French and Tunisian forces erupt ed in Tunisia Thursday, heaping new North. African troubles on Premier , Pierre Pflimlin's gov ernment. President N'abib Bourguiba said in Tunis the fighting broke out after. French planes dropped a bomb Wednesday on the airport at Gafsa, im south central Tunisia 25 miles from the Algerian bor der. , . The French had accused Tunisia of trying to provoke a clash with F rench troops at a time when the government in Paris is trying to regain control of neighboring Al geria from French rightists. Bourguiba said in a radio Droaa- cast four French planes were or dered to leave the Gafsa airport, one which Tunisia demands the French evacuate. Subsequently they were fired on by Tunisian security forces and one bomb was dropped on the runway, he added. The fighting started Thursday morning between French troops stationed at Gafsa and Tunisian security forces, Bourguiba said. He did not indicate how extensive the fighting was. French troops and planes have been technically restricted to their bases by Tunisian orders since the bombing of a border village in February touched off a crisis between France- and its former protectorate.. Bourguiba said French ana lu- nisian troops also were face to face at another trouble spot, Re- mada, south of Gafsa and not far from the Libyan border. The Tu nisians charged Tuesday that French soldiers left their base at Remada and kidnaped six Tunisi an soldiers. They were later freed. Bourguiba again demanded that Mail Bill Set For Final OK WASHINGTON I The House passed and sent to the White House Thursday a bill to raise the cost of a first class letter from 3 to 4 cents and on airmail letters from 6 to 7 cents. The House vote was unanimous 379-0. The rate hikes will take effect Aug. . 1 if President Eisenhower signs the bill. The measure also carries wage increases for post office workers aggregating 380 million dollars a year more tnan Jiisennower proposed. . The House sent the compromise measure to the White House by roll call vote after brief discussion. The Senate passed it Wednesday 88-0. The bill provides for an over-all increase in postal rates of an esti mated 550 million dollars annually- - .. . The compromise bill does not contain the Senate provision per mitting military personnel having Army post office or fleet post of fice addresses abroad to send let ters free. House conferees insisted on elimination of the provision. As a revenue producer, the bill falls about 150 million dollars short of what the President want ed, while the raises it provides for 520.000 postal employes total 220 million dollars more than Ei senhower proposed. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Variable high cloudiness through Friday. Low Thursday night 46-52; high Friday 75-80. High yesterday 80 Low last night 55 Precip. last 24 hours 0 Since Oct. 1 14.80 Same period last year 14.89 Normal for period 11.17 THE ENTRY BLANK for the I95S Fourth of July pared penes impection at a meeting between, left to right, Bob Beach, awards chairman of the Basin Celebration Council, and Amot Burnett and Wayne Plaisted of the Jaycees, the parade sponsoring organization. Plaitted is parade chairman, and Burnett, parade co-direefor. A third Jaycee, and second eo-direetor, Im Snively, was unable to attend the meeting. Erupts all French troops clear out of Tunisia. He said he hoped this couia ne worked out in a friendly manner "but we fear that we will no longer find anyone in authority with which to discuss the prob lem." . t A conservative leader, mean while, lent a hand to hard-pressed Premier Pflimlin by going off to see Gen. Charles de Gaulle, who has offered to assume full power in France. The leader, Antoine Pinay, was reported urging De Gaulle to use his enormous influence over insur ant military men and French colonials in Algeria to bow to Paris' authorities. Armed Gangs Face Military In Panama PANAMA Wi Five p e r s o n s were killed and at least 61 wound ed Thursday when National Guardsmen opened fire and hurled tear gas grenades in an effort to curb rampaging students, and hoodlums. The government de clared a five-day state of siege modified martial law throughout the country. Four youths were reported dead at two Panama City hospitals and another body lay in. a downtown section where troops were firing heavily. One hospital listed 60 wounded persons, apparently in cluding some children. An American Canal Zone police man on riot duty at the boundary line, Richard Meehan, was hit by a stray bullet and was hospitalized with a minor wound. The U. S. Embassy instructed Americans to stay out of downtown Panama City, a broadcast said. - The government blamed the casualties on snipers and said un scrupulous politicians provoked clashes between troops and stu dents. ' , Troops -were deployed through out the city to curb rioters armed ...UU .1,.U. A KtllBP Gl dents who began the' demonstra - lions to protest' against school conditions seemed to have lost control to hoodlums. New Diplomat Laws Outlined WASHINGTON I Vice Presi dent Nixon says American Dip lomats in Latin America should get away from the white-tie cir cuit and talk more with persons at the grass roots level He mentioned students, labor leaders and press groups which he described as "the wave of the fu ture" in Latin America. In giving his views yesterday on what can be done to improve U.S. relations with other nations in the Western Hemisphere, Nixon said Communist influences were only partly responsible for the mob vi olence directed at him during his recent tour of South America. He said the demonstrations stemmed also from economic troubles and a belief among some Latin Amer icans that the United States sup ported dictators. Speaking at a National Press Club luncheon, Nixon said he found that American policies had not been adequately presented. And he suggested that U.S. diplo-, mats work more closely with pri vale enterprise in Lalin America to convince the people there that American policy is not aimed at making "the rich richer and the poor poorer." THIS SPACIOUS and completely modern cafeteria is just one of the many, highlights within the newly completed south wing addition at the high school. Talking over the day's operations with the cooks and other cafeteria personnel are Arnold Gralapp, super intendent, left; and Charley Carlson, principal. The new wing will be dedicated begin ning at 8 o'clock this evening. Lebanon Complains To UN About Arab Interference BEIRUT, Lebanon lff With renewed fighting raging again in Lebanon, the government decided Thursday to complain to the Councilman's Wife Dies Mrs. Helen Spiker, 68, wife .of Oliver W. Spiker, city council man, died at the family home, 420 North Fifth Street, about 1 p.m. May 21. She had been ill only a short lime. Mrs. Spiker had been a resident of this city for - 44 years. . . She was a native of Morenci, Michigan. Mrs. Spiker was active in numerous social groups, includ ing Aiona Chapter, .wo.. 61, urder i0' l!!!..E!.?te.rn Slar- vinR 5erved at. one time as matron; was a member of Zulcima Temple, No. 13, Daughters of the Nile, Naomi Shrine, No. 5, White Shrine of Jerusalem, Prosperity Rebekah Lodge, No. 4, the Klamath Falls Womans Library Club and the Klamath Falls. Garden Club. Survivors include the widower Oliver W. Spiker, Klamath Falls two half brothers and five half sisters, all living in the East. Funeral services will be held from the chapel of Ward's Klam ath Funeral Home at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, May 24. , , . Fair Weather Prevailing By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The ' nation's weather pattern showed only minor changes today. Generally fair weather prevailed in most of the country, with scat tered showers in Western and Northern areas. The shower belt during the night extended from widely separated areas in Montana and Wyoming eastward to the western Great Lakes region. Light showers also were reported in southern Utah and parts of Colorado. The wet weather was expected to move into parts of the upper and middle Mississippi Valley and eastward into the Great Lakes re gion and Ohio Valley. Scattered thundershowers also were indi cated along the Gulf Coast. - United Nations Security Council that there is massive lnterler ence" in -Lebanese affairs by the United Arab Republic. The United Arab Republic com promise neighboring Syria and Egypt. The decision was announced aft er a midday cabinet meeting. A note is expected to be sent to the security Council Thursday night. Lebanon thus becomes the sec ond Arab state ever to complain to the security council against another Arab state. The first was Sudan, which also complained against the Egyptian government in a border squabble. The new fighting involved gov ernment , forces and a splinter Moslem sect around the historic village of Baalbeck throughout Wednesday. A, band of Shute Moslems stormed the town- Wednesday morning but were driven out later in the day. Fighting continued out side Baalbeck, which contains one of the best preserved Roman ruins dating from the time of the Emperor Nero. The village Is Leb anon's most famous tourist attrac tion. The neavy combat forced Mitch ell Harris, an American, to leave his home in Baalbeck for a near by village. Harris, a longtime res ident of Baalbeck who was born Buffalo, N.Y., slayed behind after his wife fled to Beirut three days ago. Mrs. Harris, who comes from an Francisco, said she left when the fighting got too intense. "Our home was right in between," she said. "At times we had to lie on the floor to escape firing." N'EST-CE PAS? PARIS (UP) The moss circu lation newspaper Paris Presse has summed up the confused po litical situation this way: "The Assembly has confidence in Monsieur Pflimlin who has con fidence in General Salan who has confidence in General de Gaulle who does not have confidence in the Assembly but who is waiting for the Assembly to place its con fidence in him. NEW CAR SALES Fourday sales of new auto mobiles during "You Auto Buy Now" Week conducted by 11 members of the Klamath Auto mobile Dealers Association were just about equal the number of cars sold a year ago and more than double a month ago. Com pared to like days In April, new car registrations,, reported by KADA members through Ace Mlmco Service, were up 131 per cent; compared to like days of May 1957, registrations were down 3 per cent. Chief Orders To Probe Air WASHINGTON (1 President Eisenhower Thursday ordered his air coordinating committee to make a .ipecial study aimed at eliminating midair collisions "to the maximum degree." The White House &nid Eisenhow er's action was prompted by the collision in Maryland Tuesday of an Air National Guard jet and a commercial airliner. That crash took a dozen lives. At the same time, Eisenhower arranged to confer later in the day with two House members who are members of a committee investi gating the Tuesday crash. Rep. Prince Preston (D-Ga) said he and Rep. Cliff Clcvengcr iR- Ohio) got word from the While House I hat Eisenhower would see them. Preston and Clevenger are the top members of a House Appro priations subcommittee which was rebuffed by federal air officials Wednesday night on a subcommit tee stopgap plan aimed at halting civilian-military air crashes. The leubcommittee voted to take KUHS Plans Wing Opening Everyone is invited to attend the dedication ceremonies beginning at 8 o'clock this evening in the cafeteria of the new south wing at Klamath Union High School. The event will include several addresses, a tour of the building, and refreshments. Arrangements for the program have been com pleted by members of the Par ents and Patrons organization. Master of ceremonies during the occasion will be Jack Linman, chairman of the high school board of directors. The invocation will be delivered by Merlm Bleak, pres ident of the Parents and Patrons. Scott Warren, past chairman of the high school board of directors, will outline the history of the south wing project. Charles Carl son, high school principal, will elaborate on the facilities within the wing and the manner in which it will tie in with the overall school program. Howard Perrin, architect for the work, will speak on the structural highlights of the building; and Ar nold Gralapp, superintendent of city schools, will introduce the present and past members of the school board. The dedicatory address will be given by Mrs. Victor O'Neill, Klamath Falls chairman of the State Board of Education. Blasts Rock Nike Plant MIDDLETOWN, N.J. Iff) Two explosions rocked the Nike guided missile base here Thursday. First reports said there were several dead and 25 injured. A truck driver at the base said he was knocked from his truck by the force of the first blast. Henry Lutz Jr., the driver, said there was a second'blast four minutes later. He said (he blast appeared to have been in a Nike launching pit. "Buildings on the base were shat tered," he said. The base is one of 10 in north ern New Jersey designed to guard the New York metropolitan area. The base is equipped with the Nike Ajax. The missile is designed to bring down planes flying at altitudes up to 60,000 feet. REGISTRATION All prospective voters are re minded that they, must register not later than Monday, May 26, in order to vote during the June 27 Klamath Falls elementary school budget election. The law requires that all persons must be registered at least 30 days prior to the date of the election. Committee Collisions the issue directly to Eisenhower, Preston said a White House aide, Jack Anderson, came to his of fice Thursday morning with word of the appointment. ' Eisenhower s air coordinating committee is headed by retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Elwood R. (Pete) Qucsada. Administrator James T. Fyls of the Civil Aeronautics Administra tion meanwhile, was telling a Sen ate Commerce subcommittee "we are not going to solve this prob lem overnight. Military-civilian collisions have taken 61 lives in a month, spur ring new demands in congress for new air safety measures. Pyle said a new control system lo be put into effect on all major U.S. airlines will require that both civilian and military planes fly by instruments with safety spaces be tween them. "This will reduce our exposum to a minimum," Pyle told i Sen ate Commerce subcommittee en aviation headed by Sen. Mlk Monroney (D-Okla).