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I I The- Day's to By FRANK JENKINS Headed south. Over the moun tain and down the valley. Des tination San Francisco The City. . . . Baghdad by the Bay, to use the name coined by Herb Caen. Hmmmmm. . . . Baghdad. The Baghdad of history and legend was a fabulous city also. It was Baghdad by the Desert. Its most fabulous character was Haroun al Raschid, the Great Caliph. Herb isn't a Caliph. He wears modern clothes. No flowing robes. No turban. No scimetar. But the snickersnee Herb carries in his upper vest pocket (ball point, or copy pencil, whatever kind of writ ins tool he fancies) is fully as potent as the Great Caliph's jew elled scimetar. He is alleged to carry 35.000 readers in the hollow of his hand and to be able to carry them all with him from whatever newspap er he is working for to whatever newspaper he takes a notion he'd LIKE to work for. That's a lot of power. So don't ell Herb .short. But enough of Caliphs ancient and modern. Let's get back to the subject of this piece, which is Far Northern California in this Year of the Water Bucket. There's water everywhere. The little rivulets are chuckling along merrily on their way on the way to their date with the streams. The streams are moseying along on their way to their date with the rivers. And the rivers are RUSHING along on their way to their date with the sea. And Up above the 6.000-foot level, the mountains are virgin white with snow, which is frozen water wait ing for the magic touch of sum mer to come along and release it from its icy bondage so that it too can get started on its pilgrim age to the sea. Shasta, on its northern side, is a great white puffball. The Trinity Alps are pint-size versions of their European namesake. In Far North ern California this year there's a lot of water lower down and a lot more water higher up waiting to come down and do its job when the time comes. It's a great year. It's a great year because there is plenty of water. The grass in the flatland pastures is lush and green, with fat cattle standing in it belly deep. In the Far West, there is no pleasanter sight than fat cat tle standing belly-deep in lush grass. Coming over the mountain, the roadsides are a riot of color. Lu pin in flaming purple masses in the opener snots, in the uuns- muir canyon, blue and white wild lilac lining the highway. And on down in the lower valley crops looking like crops ought to look It's a sight for sore eyes. A thought in conclusion. Up here in Far Northern Cali fornia (and in ioutnem uregon) there will ALWAYS be water enough for our needs if we can SAVE UP for use in the summer the water that falls in the form of rain or snow in the WINTER Over the year, plenty of water falls from the clouds to take care of our needs. The trouble lies in the fact that too much of it RUNS AWAY TO THE SEA in the win. ter and the spring. Our problem is to SAVE IT UP until the time comes when we need it. (Continued on page 4-A) BUY FOOD ILLEGALLY BERLIN (UP)-East German Communists have stepped up a drive against illegal food purchas es by West Germans in the East ern Zone in preparation for an expected lifting of food rationing reports reaching the West said today. The Soviet Zone news agency ADN said one West Ber rMin woman was sentenced to 10 months in prison for illegally buy ing fond in East Berlin. WALTER LEE Valedictorian Bly fffw f.yM" w 5r; 1 1 NORMAN MILLER Salutatorian Bly Eft zzzt A If 7. FT , -Vd--A s' --vv, vv.i: MRS. PEACOCK, a resident of our city's Moore Park, has loving hope for that egg, which Bob Bonney, park director, cautiously pulled from beneath her warm breast for a few moments recently. The lady has been expecting for about a week. It's the first egg she has lain this year. The pro spective father was either too proud or too shy to spread his beautiful five-foot tail feathers and pose for photog rapher Don Kettler. , Keeper Says Moore Park Birds Busy Baby Sitting By JAMES PHILLIPS Al Knowles, friendly new resi dent custodian at Moore Park, re ports the park s colorful bird popu lation is busy baby sitting these days. The park has two couples of Canadian honkers as permanent guests and each has come through with a gosling apiece so far, Al said. The latest baby honker arrived only four days ago and already Mom and Pop have started teach ing him how to swim in the duck pond. In another few days, the family of three will waddle down to Klam ath Lake where junior will take his final exams and probably be oil on his own. The other honker couple took its offspring to the lake a few days ago. ,j Both pairs still have a. number of unhatched eggs, Al reports. The adult geese are free to fly away and never return, but they always seem to come back to their home at the duck pond after en joying short hops to feedom. In the spring and fall, there is sometimes several strange honkers in the duck pond area, and specu lation has it that these travelers are the off-spring of the perman ent couples. "This may be very likely," com ments Al, who has a wealth of bird knowledge. "The Canadian honker has a pattern of coming back from where he started. Moore Park's peacock family may have a new member soon, too. according to Knowles. Trouble is. the couple is put ting all its hope on a single egg. which was laid about a week ago. Normally, peacocks lay in fairly large batcnes. says Al. If the singleton egg isn't hatched before too long, the new custo dian is going to put it in with a batch of Bantie eggs and let a Bantie hen do the job. The Banties, as usual, are flour ishing. Knowles reports. Several chicks have been hatched this week and Al knows of at least two large nests of eggs, with the possibilities great of there being more. tylCHAEL RAVIZZA Valedictorian Chiloquin (Tv) MM Hfl 7i ri t Wa - 1 hliz 1 r 1 vVM.-V;&3 I .Ah;:.:ii; -..l ,;:; ,:1-;,,..'Wr.vJ JANET WILSON Salutatorian Chiloquin i Knowles, 33, comes here from Portland where he was employed at the Portland Zoo and grounds for 11 years, doing work similar to that he's now doing at Moore park. He and his wife. Mariorv. and their three children, 6, 11 and 14. will live at the park on a year- round Dasis. Al will be on hand to assist the public to enjoy the park any way he can, including offering infor mation on picnic spots, and ans wering questions on other facilities and services. mm f A "TV AL KNOWLES CAR SALES "You Auto Buy Now" car sales again exceeded sales for the same day both last month and last year with the report of seven new cars and 15 used for Friday by 11 members of KADA according to Ace Mlm eo Service. New car sales for the six days amounted to a 91 per cent increase over April and a 10 per cent In crease over May 1957. SYDNE KETCHUM Valedictorian Bonanza Ki''i'itiyrfiTi- on i JACK HORN Salutatorian Bonanza 4 i - . lit filiiithintxm ! I a .... It tsli wMbtot IIMWWMMMMMIMIIIUOQMaaWJWOPqolWMMH'HM'HMffOOOIIftraWBQIMfcMMMWP KLAMATH Price Tee Cenl It Paget Experts See Compromise Work Measure WASHINGTON I - Predic tions that a middle-of-the road la bor reform bill will emerge from the Senate Labor Committee were made Saturday by Sens. John F. Kennedy ID-Mass) and Irving M. Ives (R-NY). Kennedy told newsmen the com mittee s product may be one both sides will not like-rsome will think it's too strong, some too weak. Nevertheless, he said that a bill avoiding extremes is the only kind which stands a chance of be coming law. Ives concurred with Kennedy's view. He said the committee's bill probably will go further than la bor leaders want but not so far as Eisenhower has recommended. The New Yorker, senior Repub lican on the labor subcommittee, described Kennedy and himself as a "sort of center force" on the committee. He said they were in substantial agreement on the sub ject. Kennedy said he would work on a draft bill over the weekend, con fer with Ives Monday. He said the subcommittee would meet on it Wednesday and explained he hoped that group could complete its work on a bill Thursday. That would give the full com mittee 10 days in June to get the measure to the floor. It has a June 10 deadline to accomplish this. Indications from both senators were that the committee bill would include provisions on union demo cracy including some election safeguards, nn financial renortine by unions, on trusteeships' over locals, on conflicts of interest in volving union officers, on elimina tion of the non-Communist afti davit for union officials, and on repealing the Taft-Hartley law ac tion which makes it impossible for strikers to vote in a bargaining election. . ' Six Injured Tornado HUDSON, Wis. W With a frightening roar and a blast of sand, a tornado Saturday scooped up a car carrying two women, a man and a little girl. They saw it coming, but were helpless to escape the twister which sliced along the Minnesota Wisconsin border. Six persons were injured, in cluding the four occupants of the car. Many farm buildings were destroyed. Hyman Sigal, 42, St. Paul busi nessman who was at the wheel of the car which was picked up, said, "If the doors had opened, we'd have been goners." From his hospital bed, Sigal said he, Elsie Heinel, 42, Mrs. Clara Hanson. 34, and the latter's 6-year-old daughter, Rosemary, all of St. Paul, were driving three miles east of here when they saw the funnel approaching. Sigal threw the car into reverse, hoping to outdistance the oncom ing twister. He backed up at speeds , up to 50 miles per hour. "1 saw I wasn't making head way, so I stopped the car," he said. Sigal shut off the ignition, set the emergency brakes and, with the passengers, lay on the floor. They clung to whatever was available as a brace. Then they waited. DOUGLAS FISK Valedictorian Malin 7 NANCY DtMERRITT Salutatorian Malin FALLS. OREGON, Sl'NDAY. MAY Weather FORECAST: Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair Sunday with chance of afternoon or evening thunder showers. High Sunday 75-80, High Monday 65-70. Low at midnight 49 High Saturday . 65 Killer, Thief Escape State Penitentiary WALLA WALLA m - A tatooed bad man from Spokane, whose record includes murder, riot and escape, and a Seattle robber made their way to freedom from behind the Washington State Prison walls Saturday. One of the convicts hid in a scooped out compartment in a bar rel of lard, with a shield and a thin covering of lard over him. The other escapee hid in an empty but smelly fish crate. The escape was made by James Frazier, 30, a Spokane felon serv ing life for the murder of a King County grocer, and Ray C. Carl son, 36, also colorfully tatooed and serving time for armed robbery. A Walla Walla resident, Willie Pryor, told police after the escape he had picked up Frazier and Carlson at nearby College Place and had driven them to Milton Freewater, Ore., 12 miles south of here. Frazier has been an irregular resident of the prison since he was sent there in 1953 to spend the rest of his 'life behind bars for the robbery slaying of Nunzio Salle, a Riverton- grocer. He escaped once but was recap tured. He was a leader in the 1955 riots at the prison after which for a time he was lodged in the Yakima County jail along &ith a number of others who took part in the prison uprising. Saturday -morning Frazier and Carlson managed to secrete them selves in the barrel of lard and the fish crate, which was loaded on a truck driven by John E. Jen sen, a trusty. The barrel and crate were destined for the minimum security building outside the main walls. Once outside the walls Frazier and Carlson forced Jensen at knife point to drive them into Walla iValla. There they bound Jensen's hands and disappeared. Both men should be e'aslly rec ognizable. Frazier has a tatooed skull and crossbohes and a rose on his body, is lean and long jawed. Carlson has a panther and some bluebirds tatooed on his body. Arms Runners On Probation BROWNSVILLE, Tex. W-Thir-ty-four men who pleaded patriot ism as their justification got off with suspended sentences Satur day for conspiring to take a boat load of arms to Cuban rebels. U.S. Dist. Judge James V. All red imposed varying terms of pro bation after lecturing the group about the danger of involving this country in another nation's inter nal affairs. He also freed the chaplain for Ihe band of Cuban-Americans, the Rev. Ignacio Mosqueda Avila, set ting aside a jury conviction. Judge Allred said he was rec ommending that the men not be deported because of the convic tion, as would have been possible for some who are not citizens. TERRY BEYER Valedictorian Henley JUDY WOODRUFF Salutatorian Henley If-1 ' ;i 25. 1958 Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 6077 Chief Seeks Science Talks With Moscow WASHINGTON if) President Eisenhower called on Russia Sat urday to start scientific talks at Geneva in three weeks on ways of policing a nuclear weapons test ban. ' The State Department instantly backed up the President s pro- posal by naming three top flight U.S. scientists to meet with a Rus sian team and probably represen tatives also from Britain, France and Japan. The Red Chinese might sit in on the Soviet side. Eisenhower's proposal was made to Soviet Premier Khrush chev in a letter delivered in Mos cow by the U.S. Embassy Satur day morning and then released by the White House. Radically differ ing from many other Eisenhower- Khrushchev letters, this one was free of accusation and criticism. Eisenhower seemed to try hard to make his proposal agreeable to Khrushchev. He said the talks could begin in three weeks, produce a progress report in 30 days and a final re port within 60 days. Khrushchev in a letter May 9, agreeing to such talks, had warned against stalling. Saying the experts from our side" will be chosen on the basis of special competence, Eisenhow er r;Jdcd; "We assume that the experts on the side of the Soviet Union would be similarly chosen on the basis of special competence, so, as to assure that we get scientific, not political, conclusions." The three experts announced by the State Department to represent the United States are: Dr. Ernest O. Lawrence, Nobel prize winner and director of the University of California Radiation Laboratory. Lawrence in the past has associated him self with Dr. Edward Teller and AEC Chairman Lewis ' Strauss in favor of continuing atomic and Hydrogen weapons tests. Dr. James Brown Fisk, execu tive vice president of Bell Tele phone Laboratories and since 1952 a member of the President's Sci ence Advisory Committee. Flat Roofs Set For Park MEDFORD Wl The sharply pitched roof of the high snow coun try will be abandoned here in the next buildings to go up at Crater Lake National Park. Instead, flat roofs will be called for. . The idea is to save labor and get more daylight into the build ings. Park service officials said snow slides from the steeply pitched roofs and it is necessary to keep clearing it away from under the eaves to make room for more. - The new roofs will be designed to support a snow load of 50 pounds per square inch. Windows usually were covered hy the snow in the old buildings. The new buildings will be two and three stories high to get daylight into living quarters. Bids will be opened on the buildings June 24. There will be nine buildings to house personnel, as well as an entrance station, a covered entrance lo the adminis tration building and two comfort stations. JAMES R. CHANCE Valedictorian Merrill I .'.Oh J'- STEPHEN HOBSCbS Salutatorian Merrill De Gaullist Seize 3 Corsica Cities; French Civil By GODFREY ANDERSON PARIS tfl , De Gaullist insurg ents and paratroopers following a pattern set in rebellious Alger iaseized control ol Ajaccio and two other towns in French Corsica Saturday. Their action set off talk of civil war in France itself. Premier Pflimlin called an emergency meeting of the French Parliament for Monday to deal with the new threat. In a extra ordinary radio broadcast to the nation after Saturday midnight he promised all-out action against the leader of what he called the Corsican mob. Pflimlin accused the group that set up Algeria-type public safety committees in Corsica of sedition He said similar seditious cle ments on the mainland threaten France with civil war and called for all Frenchmen lo rally around the legal government for the de fense of the republic. An emergency Cabinet meeting Saturday night branded the Cor sica uprising as armed insurrec tion. Pflimlin saidi the government will take all legal action possible against leaders of "the Corsican public safety committees. Ihe Premier drew a distinction between the public safety conv mittee movements in Algeria and Corsica. He said there is some "popular emotional justification' for them in Algeria which is lack ing for the movement In Corsica He made the statement despite reports trom Ajaccio tnat the up nsing there was led by civilians and military olficcrs from Ihe.Al gerian military-civilian junta. The dissidents in Algiers have called for similar moves in metro politan France and other French areas. There were unconfirmed reports that the Corsica movement lead ers landed in a military plane from Algiers at 5 a. m. Saturday. De Gaullist supporters in Alger ia Saturday established a strong man triumvirate sworn to restore Gen. Charles de Gaulle to power in all of France. A De Gaulle political leader, the parachute general who started the generals' revolt in Algeria and an Auto Workers Pay Boosted DETROIT Wl The automotiv Big Three Saturday announced pay Increases for 173,000. salaried employes and nonunion hourly paid workers. Ford, Chrysler and General Mo tors have contracts with the Unit ed Auto Workers which provide cost-of-living, allowances and 'an improvement tactor pay increase lo UAW members. The companies traditionally make the same bene fits to employes not represented by a union. Ford granted 45,000 salaried workers a $10.40 quarterly cost-of-living increase and a 2'4 per cent improvement factor pay boost, effective June 1. A Ford statement explaining the improvement factor increase said those covered by the announce ment will receive the 2i per cent or $10.50 a month, whichever is greater. . Under the cost-of-living distribu tion, eligible salaried workers get a $5.20 quarterly adjustment for each .5 upward change in the cost-of-living index. The May 22 index will provide a $10.40 increase to a total of $126.40 for the June-August quarter. General Motors said the pay in creases would apply to 10.000 non union hourly paid workers and raises are effective May 29 and June 1, respectively. Chrysler Corp. announced at the same time its 24,000 salaried employes not represented by un ions will receive increases dice live June 2. KATHERINE STAUNTON Valedictorian Tuleleke, California PATRICIA HAVLINA Salutatorian a ftalufeda). Calif'nia I . I v- t. -I j L :O.J Insurgents War Looms Algerian physician-assemblymah, made up the three-man supreme junta. They vowed to fight "unto death" for De Gaulle's return. In addition to the action at Ajaccio, capital of Corsica, there ere reports of government build ings being seized at Corte, near paratrooper air base, and at Calvi. The raid on the prefecture build ing in Ajaccio was led by French Assemblyman Paul Pascal Arrighi, right-winger known for his pro- Gaullist views. Several hundred persons, aided by French paratroopers, helped seize the building. Reports from Corsica said they imprisoned the area governor. Another blow to the harassed Pflimlin government came . in a Tunisian official report that trench forces in southern Tunisia nd Tunisian troops were- fight ing. Announcement of the develop ments in Algeria came shortly after a lawmaker friend of Pflim lin and wartime De Gaulle aide flew to Algeirs on what he called a personal mission. Cleric Hovers Near Death ROME 14) Samuel Cardinal Stritch was still in grave condition Sunday morning and very weak, but he passed-a restful night and got some sleep. His condition took a turn for the worse Saturday night and he was given viaticum, the Roman Cath olic Church's sacrament of Holy Communion for the dying. Two priests from Chtago House, where Cardinal Stritch had planned to make his Rome resi dence, remained all night praying for the cardinal in the hospital room next to his. The 70-year-old archbishop o Chicago and proprefect of the Va tican's Congregation for Propaga tion of the Faith suffered heart damage and was placed under an oxygen tent. Prayers for the dy ing were recited for him. He had been given extrerne unction, the last rites of the church, on Monday when he suffered a paralyzing stroke. He also had been given the last rites after amputation of his right arm on April 28 just after he arrived to take up his new duties at the Vatican. He had appeared to be making satisfactory recovery from that operation. I He celebrated, mass May 18 first time since the amputation- St the College of St. Mary of the Lake, known also as Chicago House.- i -: ' ' u The next day he suffered a cere bral thrombosis that partially par alyzed his right side and left him able only to whisper "yes" or "no." News Forces Form Merger NEW YORK Wl Two of the na tion's largest news agencies. Unit ed Press Association and the In ternational News Service, Satur day announced a consolidation to form a new service called United Press International. A joint statement said the con solidation agreement was signed on May 16 but that a public an nouncement was delayed to per mit formation of plans for the physical changeover. The merger brought to an end more than 50 years of three-way competition in the news field be tween The Associated Press, old est of the three, .and the UP and INS. KAY HAMILTON Valedictorian Butte Valley, Dorrii 4t .J.J 'j t .....iv -iiti. JANICE RILEY Salutatorian Butte Valley, Dorrii Photos by Guderian and Ferebee
