Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (May 28, 1958)
PAGE ft A HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON WEDNESDAY, MAY 28. 195S t jlUralb anb tin's FRANK JENKINS Editor BILL JENKTOS Managing Editor FLOYD WYNNE City Editor Enicred u icoond clue nutter at Uia pox offica at KlamaUi Pal la. On., on Aucuet 30, Hot, under act of Conrreai. March I. lilt SEE VICES: ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATIONS Serving Southern Oregon And Northern California SUBSCRIPTION RATES CARRIER I MONTH I SO MONTHS t .0O I YEAR 118.00 MAIL I MONTH I I SO MONTHS I 7.S0 I YEAR 111.00 Coiiiciiiiial Plans By FLORENCE JENKINS Oregon's hundredth anniversary and the attendant celebration planned for 1959 have engendered enough misinformation to fill the proverbial book. Tony Brandenthaler, chairman of the Oregon Centennial Commis (ion, brought members of his com mission and staffers Don Lonie and Floyd Maxwell to Klamath Falls for a commission meeting oi Monday. And Tony found time to come over to the office to cement further a friendship of years' standing. "We didn't come down here looking for money," he stated very flatly. "The commission wants ev cry area in the state to celebrate the birthday anniversary in some manner. We aren't telling you how. We're planning an exhibition in Portland designed to bring visitors to the state and all those visitors have to come through other towns to get to Portland 1 and they have to go back out through them. Let's give our Cen tennial visitors a celebration feel ing when they fcross the Oregon line." He makes sense. If a county wishes to set up a booth at the exposition, the space is free and allocation of space will be made about the first of September on the basis of requests received. Jim Boyle, chairman of the Klamath County Centennial Ad visory Committee, and the cham ber of commerce have prepared tentative plans for a Klamath ex hibit which will not be exhorbi tant in cost. Tourist business is big business In Oregon'. The Travel Information Department of the State Highway Department says that 52 per cent of Oregon's visitors come from or through California. Klamath Falls Is on one main arterial highway from the south. The money those people spend Is Important to Oregon and to us right here in the Klamath Basin. This year's traveling season has already started. Let's not forget we are the Far West and not forget the traditional friendliness that the term implies Every Individual a visitor meets represents Oregon to him. Our courtesy to thoso who travel this way will not only moke them want to come back for our birthday party next year but the very fact of ieing just a little extra nice to our guests will add to our own dignity and self-esteem as indivi duals and a community, those terms is really asking for trouble since they don't, and can't, know whether he has any solutions whether he could assert himself, or whether he'd be simply a front man and mouthpiece for the army And, since not all Frenchmen want to buy him at all, there's the prospect of civil war. From the pomposity of his lan guage it is clear De Gaulle has reached the point of considering himself a kind of historic monu ment: he talks of himself in the third person, as he might' about the long-dead Joan of Arc. To add to the confusion' not only in France but around the world it is not known: 1. Whether he would try to take France out of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, an event which might wreck it for keeps. 2. What kind of agreement he might try to reach with the Soviet Union independently of France's Western allies. 3. What he'd do about suppress ing the revolt of the Algerian Moslems, who want independence, or trying to work out some kind of settlement satisfactory to them Soviets Cannot Control U.S. Merchant Marine Tax I'ut Decision Fimmh'Ii Crisis By JAMES MARLOW Associated Press News Analyst WASHINGTON (AP) Charles de Gaulle has been so vogue, or J:isl confused, about what he'd do as French premier that his bid for power is like asking the French to buy a savior at mid- nipht In a conlhln. The French crisis over his ef forts to get into a spot to straight en things out is one that has truly left the exports guessing if not gasping. And no wonder. News that the Assembly had temporarily brushed De Gaulle ai'de early today by voting con fidence in Premier Pierre Pflim- lin had hardly cleared the wires in this country when a startling bulletin came rattling through This ono said that Pflimlin, des pite his victory in the Assembly, was thinking of quitting anyway, lhat, could open the door wider for lie Gaulle to become premier. But although Pflimlin submitted his resignation, it was rejected for the moment, and he agreed to con tinue in office until a new gov ernment Is ready to take over. The must notable feature of nil the interpretations of the past two weeks written or verbal has been the lack of positiveness not only on whether De Gaulle could take or be given power again but vrat he'd do if he got it. De Gaulle has wrapped himself in such a fog first by his silence in recent years, and more latelv by his fuzzy statements that no one not in his inner councils could rbim to know what he had in irird. He's opened up twice in the past week: first at a news conler ence and then In a written slate--mint issued yesterday. The words tiiat came forth were so arrogant, rompnus and vague lhal they locked mystical. De Gaulle appears hypnotized pnd so do his followers, or they iretend to he by the memory that he was the rallying point for the demoralized French in World War II and could he again now. In short, he's been asking the French to buy him on face value, without any clearly stated pro gram, policy or proposed solution for the multiple dilemmas of the French republic which has seen its army in ellect revolt. For the French to buy him on By SAM DAWSON Eisenhowers decision against any tax cutting now indicates he believes that the recession is about over or that the forces of reces sion have been contained, as Gen. Eisenhower might put it. And the new foe to be guarded against is a renewal of the infla tion that has sheered off so much of the purchasing power of the dollar. Those who think otherwise may still have their day in Congress and some predict that the excise taxes on autos may be cut to help sales of that beleaguered Indus try's product and on freight rates and passenger fares to help the faltering railroads. Warm weather has brought a number of hopeful signs to back up the President's apparent view that the worst of the industrial slump is over. Outdoor jobs have opened up and cut the rise in un employment. A number of indus tries have reported the first quick ening of new orders after a long decline. Steel mills are operating at a belter rale than at any time since January although some of the new orders may be to beat the price rise which seems sure to come after wages go up July 1 J he price rises, if they stick. will do their bit toward pushing along the new inflation which many observers fear will follow the slump. Advocates of individual income and excise tax cutting now have irgued that If would stimulate consumer buying and thus put men back to work. Corporate in come tax culling and easier de preciation allowances, proponents say, would help business hold it; profit margin without price hik ing. The argument against tax cut ting and the one the President seems to have accepted is that rapidly increasing government spending means a growing Treas ury deficit and federal debt. A tax cut now would only make thi, worse. This would set the stage for future inflation, since the gov eminent would be pumping more money info the economy than it Was taking out a move roughly comparable with running the printing presses. The most heartening things dur ing the industrial recession have been the continued high level of consumer spending and the rise in farm income. The public hasn't bought durable goods in the amount that their makers would have liked, but hasn't cut back on spending for services and for the soft goods. Corporations, with their produc tive capacity built up sharply in the last few years, have cut back on the purchasing of capital goods new plants and equipment. So the recession has been largely confined to these two sec tors: capital goods and consumer durables. The President appears to be saying that the recession in these lines seems now to be contained and that the general economy doesn't stand in need of a stim ulant like broad tax cutting. The thing he seems to fear more is a mounting federal def icit, because that could mean more inflation to come. An alternative might be a cut back in government spending. But that continues to mount at all lev elsstate and local as well as fed eral. And the end, at least for the taxpayer, Is not in sight. Small, Autos ' By JACK RUTLEDGE MEXICO CITY (AP) - - Those little European cars are not hurt ing the sales of U.S. autos in Mexico. You see lots of European models darting in and out of the increas ingly heavy traffic, but the Fords, Chevrolets and Plymouths still dominate. There are several reasons. All car imports are on a quota basis, and American companies, which have long led Mexico's market, are holding to their per centages with government back ing. Mexicans like the flashy Ameri can car, the gaudier the better Americans may complain of flair auu nns, Din. Mexicans asK tor more. Power and 'driving range are important in a country where service stations are sometimes 100 miles apart and many major highways circle 10,000 foot mountains. Also the larger car is preferred by many who like to pack a family of 10 into the machine for a picnic or a tripThousands are converted into buses and taxis. Mexico is one of Detroit's better foreign customers. In 1956 Mexico bought some 46,q0 cars, trucks and buses. For economic reasons the quota has been cut sharply. This year it stands at around 35,000 cars. General Motors, Ford and Chrys the 1959 Legislature. A number of additional meetings are still to be held, Rep. Al Flegel, chairman, said. The committee has held a series of meetings in various parts of the state and last week held three-day meeting at Salem, at which time the committee mem bers agreed on a number of pro posals. Having heard of what was termed as inequities in the alloca tion of motor vehicle funds be tween counties, the commit tee found the problem so complex that it will request the Highway Department and the Motor Vehicle Department to join in a study so that information on this subject can be available to a subsequent highway committee. Roughly the complaints from number of counties is, that trucks and other motor vehicles are reg istered in one county yet run most of the mileage in another. The county in which the vehicle is reg istered gets the benefit in alloca tion of funds. The committee feels that the Parks Division of the Highway De partment has done an excellent job, chairman Flegel said. One suggestion the committee expects to make is establishment of more roadside rest areas along highways, At the suggestion of State Sen ator Anthony Yturri, Ontario, member of the committee, the committee will also ask the High way Commission to authorize the purchase of land to establish more state parks in Eastern Oregon. The public utility commissioner will be requested by the committee to prepare legislation repealing the flat fee option for log trucks. Members of this committee and the 1957 Legislative Highway In terim Committee felt that this amendment adopted in 1949 to the weight-mile tax law works in fav or of the big operators and to the disadvantage of the smaller oper ators, In addition the committee feels that to provide protection for Ore gon log haulers a "certificate of necessity, should be required for common and contract log haulers operating in Oregon. This would bar unfair competition by out-of- state haulers coming into thi state at such times when hauling is at a low ebb in neighboring states due to winter shutdowns or strikes, The committee, according to chairman Flegel, will also request ler all have large assembly plants ll?eP!'bliC "tn,ities, cmm,'ssiner's here. They get about threa-fourths the quota. Studebakcr, Rambler and Packard account for much of the balance. European makes trail. Fiat, as sembled here in its new plant, probably accounts for 5 per cent. Volkswagen is next. Mexican dealers beg for more cars. "We could sell nine times as many as the quota allows," said a Ford representative. But the government, to save its dollars, says no. The duty -amounts to around 110 per cent. Any of the lower-priced three cost almost as much as a small Cadillac in the United Stales. The official import total actually is deceptive. Mexico really buys more than 35,000 cars. One news paper recently estimated that 45,- 000 more are brought in 'annually by individuals through special privileges or by smuggling Mai' Capitol cns By JAMES D. OLSON The Legislative Highway Inter im Committee is nearing the com pletion of its studies and will soon begin preparation of its report to Pogo -""Sf6V IWTATIN' NtNAPAVlB.MSU Tl.KIN' Heeg v,f rr. i thatsuv- t a3ut th woaj J Out Ev0 ffiUNXtp &QA.'C0 5N.PWT V I l-OVB- tre (Sir LiKg tXM tuiu arfin J Y iruouar THI9T.' JUO,. HANNy. S J SOU WAS MOSTlV - - TTW- I PLS05B3-TO staff to draft legislation for a new definition of fixed load vehicles and a new licensing procedure Members of the committee de cided not to attempt to tamper wun ine scnoot tnis law, even though most of the members felt that some changes should be made in thq law. However, the educa tion program for school bus op erators by the Department of Ed ucation and inspection program be inginaugurated by the Motor Ve hide Department will be in full swing by January 1. Members of the conlmittee felt that these two programs should be given an op portunity to work for a time to determine if they will obviate the necessity of amending the law, from evidence taken by the committee at its hearing, chairman Flegel said, most of the complaints stem from the inadequacy of some of the school bus drivers. ' The committee will not have an other meeting until July, it was announced NANNV Mit YOta IY9 POP' ffl "4-V SHI NOT Otiy MAKFS I , rrW If WYfSPCP.-SHItTAKWMYL 'AiH-M-iafMl Travis AFB (To the Editori- This is an open letter to the pub lic. It is our sincere desire to show our appreciation to everyone who made our stay in Klamath Falls such an enjoyable one. Our job, as crewmembers in the Strategic Air Command, is of ne cessity an arduous one. There are many times that one wonders if it is all worth the effort. The reception given this crew left no doubt in our minds that our efforts are recognized and appreciated. We especially wish to thank verv much the members of the King- ley All! hire Department, the liaison oincers aim an tnose won derful people who stood so polite ly in line just to see the inside of the B-;iii. Their enthusiasm and j cooperation was truly amazing. ok.iiii our neep manks to every one. We sincerely enjoyed o u i stay and hope that someday it might he our privilege to return ('apt. Slanley De Fail, I'SAF. (llOll'S By United Press International PARIS Premier Pierre Pllimlin. following his resignation as head of the French government: "Until a new cabinet is formed. I shall keep my full powers in the government and its responsibilities." . By ELMER C. WALZER UPI Financial Editor NEW YORK UPI) This indication that Russian sources are buying up stocks in Wall Street has brought up the ques tion of whether the Soviets could obtain control of our merchant marine. The answer to that is an em phatic, big fat "no." It couldn't be done, and here's why: Back in 1916, the U.S. passed a law the Shipping Act of 1916 providing tor a U. a. Merchant Marine. That law, as amended in 1918, provides that if a foreign country buys control of a regis tered U. S. merchant ship or ships, the ship or ships will be seized by the U. S. government. And this goes in peace or in war. Currently, we are consid ered in a state of emergency and the rules are much stiffer. They mean business. Paris In The Spring Is Paris In The Spring PARIS (UPI) - Paris in the spring. . .a rain - washed night and the moon bright beneath silver ceiling of clouds. Lovers arm in arm along the lelt bank of the Seine, oblivous of everything but themselves the standing room only signs out for the red - nosed clowns and the lush and leggy chorus girls in the Folies Bergere and the Lido. (But so few cross the broad Pont de la Concorde over the Seine to the National Assembly. "Apathy?" smiles the police officer with the radio chattering in nis command car. Ah, no. The Parisian is very well be haved. Why should he come here when he can read about it in his newspaper, eh? This doesn't explain why the well-behaved Parisian requires so many police around his legisla ture. But the lovers are kissing now. still oblivious. The civilians watch. The police watch. The journalist watches. It hardly seems possible that behind the scaffolded columns few yards away the future of the nation is being decided in the duel between Premier Pierre Pflimlin and General Charles de Gaulle. Paris in the spring. . . It's different with American manufacturing corporations. A oreigner might conceivably ob- ain inrougn purchase of stocks in the open market. His controll ing interest could be hidden in Swiss or other sources until the lime came to exercise it. Back in 1916, the first world war had been in progress for two years and the stock market had resumed operations after a shut down. Many ships sought haven in U. S. registry. To keep these ships in our merchant marine, 'he U.S. passed its shipping act. Today the U. S. Merchant Ma rine is the second largest in the world and there isn't a chance for foreign nations to get it through purchase. Of course, an American or other national can build a ship here and place it under foreign registry. Many do because it's much cheaper to sail a ship that way since U.S. wage scales are much higher than foreign for ship personnel. If Russia or any other alien acquired controlling interest in a stock of an American steamship company, the ships and the stock would become liable for forfeiture to the government, the companies subject to fines and responsible individuals subject to fines or imprisonment or both. The steamship companies have a hard time trying to trace own ership of their stock just as do other corporations. Foreign per sons or corporations could make purchases through Swiss or other free foreign banks and keep their identity secret. But they couldn't take over the ships once the gov ernment found out about their transactions. It isn't that way with non shipping corporations. With those Russia or any other alien could if he- had the money buy con troland actually take over. This is the. problem facing the U. S. Government right now. The Securities & Exchange Com mission might be able to inter vene, however, on the grounds the U. S. laws jere violated by the alien because he didn't regis ter his holdings with the com mission. Under the securities laws, any person who holds 10 per cent. of any class or any equity seourity which is registered on a national securities exchange must file cer tain reports of its holdings. It is difficult to spot the fore eigners holding stock to this ex tent, but if they should try to exercise control of a corporation, the Securities & Exchange Com mission could crack down on their failure to register their hold ings with the commission. . They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo WELL-VOU'LL BE SEEING ME PEP- MWEMT MOW, BABV BIGDOME PERSUADED ME TO COME WITH "THIS OUTFITHE'S A &f?E4T S4LESMSn--T,4LKED me INTO 4CCEPTINe-ST4RT MONW AS SALES MANAGE f HE'S BEEN TI?yiMG TO GET ME FOR YEARS" NOW TH4T HE'S GOT THE JOBJ COMES THE TOUGH F5JRTOF LITTLE WORK ;1 Basin Youths In Honor Group James Tacchini and W a 1 1 y Sweek, both of Klamath Falls, and Len Dobry, Malin, have been pledged into Theta Delta Phi, scholastic honorary fraternity for men at Southern Oregon College. Tacchini, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ermelindo Tacchini, 2170 Ogden Street, was named the fraternity's historian for the coming year. Sweek is the son of H. J. Sweek, 171 Alameda Avenue. The new president of the fra ternity is Jim Flora, a former resident of Klamath Falls, where he was employed by the Weyer haeuser Timber Company. ' i-V' J v . RccU DcCTFDINir-i 1 ONLV TIME l DifrVMic r-r I t2rrj CWCD DEO. SIXMONTH5TO HIM U . , . .j?S4r GET ON THE T4KE A JOB W "-Es nmnwbk, CHOW LINE A VV4S WHEN THE 0 S4VS-4LL THE S4LES- v L HERE-"A SHERIFF PUT fj MEN GET THAT TITLE-. FT-nr HIM ON THE 'T,5 BISON , O IN I " ' I ...1 -nlr- oaJ A 1 JJlMa - " Listening to the euy fjify (.(?tIT' 2 twf JH k WHO'S 8EEN OUT OF WORK VV"rii0 L. - J U-ZjL4 FOR MONTHS TELL HOW rf JsJlAP'!?S?ia. J -'rACTl H4RD HE WAS TO GET"" 'SairigoSsiay -tA - yRSr wmd hatlo at w-o, School Reneges On Diplomas PARIS. Ky. (AP)-North Mid, dletown High School handed out diplomas to 22 seniors, then took them back. The next day the class returned tor linal examinations, ft wasn't an oversight. Bad weather and a flu epidemic forced North Middletown to extend the school term, but it couldn't work out a satisfactory date for commencement .exercises after fi nal examinations. Officials decided to give out the diplomas unsigned. Seniors who pass will get theirs oacn signed in an informal cere mony Friday. Home Extension CRESCENT-GILCHRIST , CRESCENT The Crescent-Gil- christ unit of Home Extension met Thursday. May 22, at the Crescent Community Club for an all day session on the demonstration of outdoor cookery. Mrs. G. W. Ox borrow and Mrs. E. B. Stum baugh, project leaders, showed the group how to build an inexpensive broiler on which the members broiled chicken, hamburger, ka bobs and dessert. Dinner was served at noon with Mrs. Jesse Kersten as hostess. Twelve members and four guests, Mrs. A. R. Pinney, Mrs. Lattimore Freeman,. Mrs. Carl Buckley and Mrs. David Fredrick sen participated in the cooking activity. A business meeting fol lowed the dinner with the chair- fnan, Mrs. Elton Hight, in charge. The next meeting will be June at the Community Club. LOVES PICKLES , CHICAGO (UPI) A man who has a yen to plant pickles as well as eat them wound up a 291 mile pickle planting jaunt here. Thorn Koutsoukos, 27, who had his.- name changed to Johnny Pickleseed, covered Indiana and Illinois on his pickle planting spree. Asked why he made the trip he replied: "I've always had an ambition to be a deliverer of dills." PIGEON REPELLENT BOSTON (AP)-Boston Univer sity has purchased 300 pounds of mothballs to chase pigeons from Bu Field (once Braves Field). ADAH'S Beauty Salon TOWN & COUNTRY Call 2-5671 or drop in! I j N V fQj LANDSCAPING? iooir for SEEDS and BULBS FERTILIZER HAMMOCKS in the YELLOW PAGES "Farewell to 31 For the Lake! EVERYTHING for the PATIO CHEF! 1.98 ; - pr. 1.25 Bar-be-cue Aprons riftin or fncy cartoon drtlcns, ill itytfi Bar-be-cue Mits Save on burned fingeri ind short temppn Barbecue Gift Sets 4.98 Apron, chrf'i ht and several other fadrrti Outdoor Chefs Hat 1.75 West Point" Next week 600 West Point cadets will graduate. Tradi tional ceremonies which close their four years of in tense discipline are featured in a picture story in the June I Family Weekly IN THE SUNDAY ?feralianiieUr$ All color, Alt tliti. Dress Pop up! Dozens of other borbecue neces sities that make outdoor cooking a pleasure. Come in today! Beach Pillows Fancy trlpet In fr-rcn, blue or red and while, I.atex foam rubber filled. Sail rlolh. MM Feel The Towel! Look At The Size! BAR-B-BOWL BRAZIER inches high with 16 inch odjustable grill. Hinged "fold awoy" legs. 3-year burnout re placement guarantee! 5.98 Patio Chef Set 4-pc. long hondle aluminum set for salt, pepper, water to control flame and barbecue sauce pan. All done up in a fancy gift pack-oge. BEACH TOWELS Compare the fine beach lowela! More color, larger site, finer quality meant longer llf to year towel! Large Size 36x67 2.98 - Giant 36x74 - 32c Kiddies Size 28x54 - 1.98 Klamath's Specialized Department Store II) II II STORE 1.98 ' Hamburger Broiler Chrome plated, long handle for . outdoor cooking. Holds 6 targe ,-) hamburgers. 3J9 I Tf- - ' --4p27 For the Backyard 721 Main Phone TU 4-4561
