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HERALD AND VEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
SUNDAY. JUNE 8, 1953
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' , By Jimmy Hatlo
KILLED
SAN FRANCISCO I UPI Frank
H. .Urban, 72, died In San Fran
cisco Hospital Friday of injuries
received May 28 when he wai
dragged 100 feet by a hit-run car.
Police have arrested William
Vendever, 32, Oakland, on sus
picion of driving the hit-run car.
Urban, a retired carpenter was
struck at the intersection of 7th
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By JERKY O'BRIEN
WALLACE. Idaho l-Kew of
the 3,300 citizens here are in
festive mood, but they plan their
biggest celebration in history this
week mainly (or a most unusual
reason:
To tell the rest of the country
what makes them so sad.
This fabulous Couer D'Alcne
mining district has fallen on hard
times after producing nearly two
billion dollars worth of metais
since 1883. Because of low prices
for lead and zinc, its immediate
future is darkly clouded despite a
prosperous silver mining.
When an Eastern silversmith
suggested a celebration June Il
ls in this "silver capital c-f the
world" and offered to help stage
It, Wallace seized the idea and saw
, a valuable by-product.
While most of the $35,000 local
budget will go for silver window
dressing to help morale, a vital
$6,000 will finance a junket of 50
Eastern newsmen here. Amid
dancing in the streets, parades
and miners' contests, they will bo
given the picture and told the woes
of domestic lead and zinc, the dis
trict's bread and butter metals.
Wallace miners claim heavy im
ports of unneeded, cheaply-produced
foreign lead and zinc have
knocked the bottom out of the
market. Lead has dropped to 11
cents a pound, zinc to 10. Pro
ducers say they need at least
17 and 14'i cents to operate profit
ably, y " '
Last week, the big Bunker Hill
Co., which lost $341,644 in the first
quarter ot the year and has nearly
4 million dollars worlh of unsold
lead stacked in the yards, said it
may have ;to shut down in Aug
ust and lay off 1,500 men.
. Despite the gloom, Wallace has
plunged headlong into plans for
Its 75th Silver Jubilee Festival.
"I call it 'Operation bootstrap,' "
said businessman Lee Black.
"Through the celebration, we hope
to boost morale, tell our story and
regain some of the normalcy
around here. The people are
warming up to it.""
The tough old mining town fig
ures it might as well. It got no
where sitting around crying In its
beer. It hasn't been able to get lhe
tariff relief it sought from the gov
ernment. It isn't wholly satisfied
with ' a proposed five-year federal
subsidy program.
Wallace, named for an old army
colonel who was an early settler,
has a colorful, turbulent life since
Andy Pritchard discovered gold
near hero in 1882 and Noah Ke
logg's celebrated donkey kicked up
a fuss and uncovered the fabulous
Bunker Hill mine in '85.
Wallace, Murray and others in
the district were hard-drinking.
free-living Western frontier towns.
Calamity Jane and eight dancing
girls made the circuit. Wyatt
Karp staked two placer claims
here in '84 and lost his shirt. A
grand dame named Molly
B'Damned was the toast of Mur
ray before lhe gold rush ended
and the population dwindled from
a bustling lo.oni) to loo.
The most memorable violence
dime on a spring night in 18!)!) af
ter Bunker Hill refused lo recog
nize the Western Federation of
Miners. Nearly 800 miners hi
jacked a Northern Pacific train,
loaded it with stolen dynamite,
steamed down to nearby Wardner
and blew up a million dollars
wor'h of Hunker ll i 1 1 properly,
killed three workers and lerror
ized the district.
Cov. Frank Srunrnherg called
out the National (iuard hut the one
company aailable disbanded in
stead. President William McKin
ley ordered iederat troops here
and 1.500 miners were herded into
a makeshift jail until things
quieted down.
In vengeance, a hired dynamiter
named Harry Orchard later fixed
up a bomb on a swinging gate and
killed Scuncnliergcr when he came
home lor lunch.
Wallace survived uih human
violence as well as subsequent
death-dealing smmslule.s, ilcwisla
ting floods and a stupendous forest
fire that destroyed the town and
killed ISO people in lhe region in
1!U0.
Later the nun innlormist editor
of the old Wardner Citizen, and
other editors bragged the district
was big enough and rich enough
to become a commonwealth of its
own. They warned Southern Idaho
politicians lo treat lhe Northern
Panhandle With respect lest it de
tach itself and Join Montana or
Washington.
The district stayed with Idaho
But it seceded from the Pacific
time zone and now has daylight
saving time the year around.
As the years passed, the district
simmered down to the staid busi
ncss of turning out more metals
than almost any other place on
earth.
The Sunshine Mining Co. be
came the world's largest silver
producer, the Bunker Hill the big
gest lead-silver mine. At the gov
ernment price of 9014 cents
ounce, the district produced 14
million ounces of silver last year,
much of it for U.S. coins.
For . all its silver, perhaps its
most celebrated product is plati
num blonde actress Lana Turner,
born here 36 years ago.
Original plans were to invite her
back as Jubilee guest of honor
mere were published rcDorts
King Crosby, other stars and even
Mrs. Dwight Eisenhower would
probably cornel Now the nearest
thing to a celebrity expected is
bteve Allen's dog, fitted with
special silver collar and commis
sioned to guard the local teen
aged queen.
But it's a celebration tha
doesn't really need celebrities. Wal
lace has a storied past to recall,
a present metals slump to forget
and, as the climax of a hannv
folksy five-day spree along small
town lines, an old 16-acre silver
mine to raffle off.
Top TiMlMr
Today, 40-year-old Ruth Winter
of Detroit finds herself winner of
the General Federation of Wom
en's Clubs' senior teacher award
for 1058.
By RICH THOMAS
DETROIT (UPI) - Ruth Win
ter has taught English and journ
alism for 13 years at Detroit's
Denby High School. And she's tak
en pari in countless educational
and human relations activities. But
her first reaction on learning she
had been named the nation's sen
ior teacher of the year was to
say she didn't deserve it.
There are thousands of teach
ors right here In Detroit who have
earned the honor just as much as
I have, she said.
A jovial, well-dressed unmar
ried woman of 40 . . . Miss Win
ter says her first love is teach
ing. She's turned down writing of-
lers and school administrative jobs
lo slay with her students.
"I'm sold on today's youth 100
per cent," she says. "My students
today are in many ways more se
rious than ever before and by and
large they're doing a first class
job.
. Miss Winter was cited for her
"most oulslanding altitude toward
her students" in the award she
won ... and a little dog dancing
about her six room apartment in
dicated her students thought she
was okay too.
"That's 'Chips'," she laughed,
waving at the toy collie pup.
"My students decided I wasn't
doing so well after my own dog
died last November. They gave
me 'Chips' for a Christmas pres
ent, stie said.
Miss Winter says the main thing
worrying her students right now is
Hie job situation.
But she says there's some iiood
in this. "A lot are thinking about
college now. and they wouldn't
hnvo planned to go if times were
better," she says.
One thing worrying Miss Winter
is what she calls "all these peo
ple wanting a Russian education
for American society."
She says, and we quote, "Our
society is based on intelligent, in
dividual citizens and its foolish to
want the disciplined kind of educa
tion the Russians give their chil
dren.
"The Russian system," she says,
"gives students no choice in their
courses, but it's important that
our children learn how to choose.'
Miss Winter feels the real chal
lenge is, as she says, "to get each
child to work up to his capacity,
And this, she says, will only come
about when American parents and
communities as well as the schools
place a greater value on know-
edge than they do now.
Miss Winter's apartment is (urn-
shed with color-splashed, content
porary things. When she has the
time, she likes to "cook and put
ter around the house," as she
says.
She's well dressed, but she
doesn't own a single sack, shift or
sheath.
I have a hardtop convertible,"
she says, "but I draw the line
at styles like that."
Tax tills
By GEORGE J. MARDER
United Press International
Tax cut hopes die hard.
Expectations that Congress may
still cut automobile taxes appar
ently still linger in parts of the
country.
They may be cutting into car
sales.
This is indicated by letters to
lawmakers from potential car
buyers asking what's the real low-
down on tax cuts should they
hold off making a purchase on
the outside chance that auto sales
taxes may be cut?
Those hopes are completely out
of line 'with the congressional
(acts of life, apparently fed in
part at least by the inability of
politicians and government offi
cials to say a flat and irrevocable
no.
The official administration pol
icy on tax reduction is , , . not
now.
In most official statements, it's
put this way ... no present in
tention to ask for tax cuts , . .
subject will be kept under constant
review.
To those unfamiliar with Wash-
ingtoncse, ... a language of its
own, that seems to mean maybe
little later. ,
It doesn't mean that at all.
It means no . . . period.
The fact that the subject will
be kept under review just doesn't
mean a thing.
Of course, the government is
always keeping tax policy under
review. If conditions change so as
to warrant a change in policy, of
course the government would do
something about it.
And so the only "if" in the ad
ministration's stand against tax
cuts now is a new major slump in
the economy.
It business suddenly gets worse
between now and the time Con
gross quits in August, that prom
ise to keep the subject under re
lew will mean something.
Otherwise it's just words.
And some blunt words on the
improbability of t a x cuts were
relayed to lhe lax-writing House
Ways and Means Committee be
hind closed doors a couple of
eeks ago by Secretary of lhe
Treasury Anderson.
The treasury official said there'd
be no tax reduction requests from
the administration this session
And he had no its, ands, or buts
about his remark. It was just a
flat no on tax culs,-ind that's all
In Congress, too, the hopes die
hard. Individual lawmakers wore
pleading with the leaders to give
them some hopes to take back to
constituents.
1 h e y found few tax cutting
straws to grasp at.
Chairman Mills of the Tax Writ
ing Committee was asked if he
couldn't promise there'd be an out
side chance that the House would
get -to vote on a tax cutting bill
this session , , . couldn't he even
describe it as a long-shot, he was
asked?
The realistic Mills mumbled
something about not wanting to
leave an "improbably" impression
like that around.
Mills finally shut off the ques
tions by saying his committee
now . considering some tax aids
only to small business. After that
bill, he wasn't even going to call
the committee to meet on tax
measures. No meeting, no tax re
duction bill.
And the committee chairman
hoped the lawmakers would
spread the word to their constitu
ents so they wouldn't hold off pur
chasing on a futile hope that, sales
taxes were coming down. ,
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By JOHN CONSIDINE
United Press International
When it comes to the ancient
game of checkers, the modern
electronic "brain" isn't in the
same league with good human
players.
That's the concensus following
a recent four-hour and 15-minute
contest between "704" an Inter
national Business Machines elec
tronic processing machine and
eight human players.
Semi-secrecy veiled the 704 con
test. Photographers were not al
lowed to bring their cameras into
the laboratory at Glendale, New
York, where the tournament took
place. An IBM spokesman
plained that security regulations
would have required long clearance
processes.
The human players were in one
room of the building while 704
and its attendants were in anoth
er. The two were linked by tele
phone. On the wall of the play
ers' room were eight checker
boards in blue and .white.
Moves made by the human con
testants were telephoned to the
machine room. Operators fed the
situations into the machine .
and 704 answered by spitting out
cards. The plays were telephoned
back to the game room.
Before start of the "match" 704
had . been "instructed" in about
30.000 checker plays and situations
These were fed into the machine
by tape. When a play came up
the machine searched its "mem
ory" for similar situations.
Then 704 rejected choices which
had turned out badly in the past
and made moves which had turned
out well.
Whcp play ended, at the sugges
lion of the machine's operators
704 had another 10,000 checker
situations.
The human players wound up
the evening with eight victories
The machine earned two tie
games.
None of the machine's losses
was a rout. On two occasions the
machine made triple jumps . .
many double leaps were achieved
After one unorthodox move
turned out well for 704, a player
commented, "It doesn't play the
book.
A scientist replied, "It doesn't
know enough to play the book."
As the long "contest" neared an
end the machine played slower
and slower.
It has gone beyond its mem
ory, Doctor A. L. Samuel, man
ager of the IBM laboratory at
I'oughkeepsie, said. "It's .down
in a region where it never has
played before."
Playing games with lhe comput
ers is not a trivial pastime. Pro
gramming 704 for checkers and
other games "provides insight into
how the machine can learn and
develop new solutions based on the
knowledge gained from solution ot
earlier problems."
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UNITED NATIONS. N.Y. Leb
anese foreign Minister Charles
Malik, on alleged interference in
his country by the United Arab
Republic:
"The only sin of Lebanon in the
eyes of the I'AR is not that it
has really done or is likely to
do any harm to any Arab coun
try, but that it is independent
and follows a policy of friendship
oward and cooperation with the
Western world."
CONNERSVILLE. Ind. - Dr
Otto Miessner, founder ot one col
lege school of music and director
of another for nine years, on a
state board of education edict
that he go back to college to
qualify for a permit to teach
grade school children:
"I'll be damned if I will go
hack to a university using my
textbooks and say 'Will you
please enroll me in a beginning
class for music teachers'."
Jordan To Klamath Soroptimists
Head Students observe 20th Birthday
McCLOUD-Robert Jordan was W "W " " ' J
At Thursday Meeting
elected president of the McCloud
nign scnool student body June 2.
Others elected were: Carl Long,
vice president; Donna Franklin,
secretary: Stpnhanv Mpmpn trpne.
urer; Mary Wright, commissioner
oi social aitairs. '
Klpptinn rnmmittpn mnmhore
were: Paula Kririav WanHa War.
ner and Dennis Wellman. Assisting
at the polls were Louie Tallerico,
Mrs. Frances Hogin, Mrs. Marg
aret Anistrom and Don Kersten.
Awards were presented at the
final student body assembly ol the
year on June 6 to outstanding stu
dents in athletics, citizenshin and
scnoiarsnip.
Crescent Club
Holds Meeting
Pimmnnilv fMiih hall lie raanlip
monthly meeting Monday, June 2,
in ine ciuo wiin me presiaeni,
V. R Khimhanah in rharon Tho
financial report was given bv Ted
St. Thomas, treasurer. Charles
Shotts, building committee chair
man, announced a committee
meeting to be held at the eluh.
June 9. .
Mrs. Carl Buckley, editor of the
Crescent Bulletin, announced that
the weekly will now be published
on Thursday instead of Friday.
Mrs. Krnpsr. Hardman Mrs
George Wilkinson and Mrs. Arlo
Harris served refreshments after
the meeting. The next meeting will
be July 7 at the club.
The Soroptimist Club of Klamath .birthday candlelighling ceremony.
Falls observed its 20th birthday
anniversary at the regular Thur
day luncheon at the Winema Ho
tel. Two members, Clara Shaw
and Ida Odell, who participated
in me lounding of the club in 1938,
were present at the meeting.
President Naomi Frpnph pallnH
Or the rtrPsiripntc whn hart cr-i,orl
during each year of the club's life
iu laKe Dan in top trarlitinna
Railroaders Plan
June 14 Meeting
The 46th annual PPnvpntinn nt
the Great Northern Railway Vet
erans Association is expected to
draw 1,100 active and retired rail
roaders and their wives to Min
neapolis on June 14.
Highlight of the nnJ npA.
gram will be the evening banquet
at the Hotel Radisson. Master of
ceremonies will hp r a d......
Great Northern's vice president-
personnel.
Total mpmhprchin nf tha
ation is 4. 3.14. with t A7i nt thnt
I number retired. All members have
nao a or more years service with
Great Northern.
RAIN INSURANCE
PRINCETON. N..I. (UPI)
Princeton University's class of
'38 has literally insured its reun
ion against rain. Under terms of
a $13,500 policy with Lloyds of
London, tne 22i returning mem
bers of the class will each re
ceive a reimbursement of the $00
reunion fee if next Saturday's
Alumni Day parade Is called off
for any reason other than "inter
national catastrophe." The insur
ance policy was decided on after
rain washed out the class s rain
ion in 1053.
LETTER DELIVERED
CHICAGO (UPI) A letter
bearing a Cnhfcarta nnn a
dressed lo the "Hotel Dirtv
Word" Chipapn hao hMn
0, uttu UC1IV
ered to its intended receiver.
Postmaster Carl Kphrnprior a
he letter, which came from Co
lumbus, Ga., waS delivered to the
Sherman Hotel.
Me.SSagPS WPrP rparl frnm niitia
Cornett and(others who were un
able to be present by reason of
being out of town.
ThUrsdatf Was alcn Caplr Hrace
day at the club. Members' attire
ranged all the WAV frnm twin n.
sembles reminiscent of the 1920s
worn Dy Dena Backes and Thelma
Henry and a burlap bag dress and
hat designed anrl wnrn hu M-,i-
Bothwell to a high-style trapeze
mess moacieo Dy Suzanne Hamil
ton of Marvin's.
Alice Lamm, nrnpram chairman
of the day, was assisted by char
ier memocrs and other life mem
bers including Rose Poole, Ger
trude Moore. Cnrat &ahr Pnth
Ray and Jennie Southwell. With
me am oi a blackboard and
promptings from committee mem
bers. Mrs. Lamm and Mrs Kahn
reenacted the visual presentation
of the club's projects which they
had put on at a Spokane Soropti
mist convention in 1941.
The .Tune 12 mpplinr will ha the
last business meeting of the year.
On June 19 there will be a joint
installation dinner mpptiW with
the Venture Club in the Empire
noom oi me winema Hotel. Invi
tations have hppn cpnt tn Km-rmti-
mist clubs of Bend, Ashland and
Lakeview. The social hour will be
at 6:30 p.m. and dinner at 7 p.m.
' People Read
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.land, a time to
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However, that should not be taken
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For instance, the folks who know
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