SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 1958
Alaska May Be State Soon,
But Whatever Happens Area
Is Important Defense Post
. By CLIFF CERNICK
Managing Editor Anchorage
Dally News
Written For I'PI
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (UPI)-In
this ace of rapidly developing mis'
tiles and attack techniques, Alas
ka's role as an advanced outpost
of continental defense has never
been more important. What's
more, it soon may ,be our forty'
Binttr state.
Release of 30 million dollars in
t
SMILING JULIA HADLEY
will greet tourists to this
area who seek ' information
from the chamber of com
merce office on Saturdays
and Sundays. The attractive
"travel secretary" will tell
travelers of the many things
to do, places to stay, etc.,
tn the Klamath area. The
chamber's "open every
weekend" policy is one of
its ways to stimulate tour
ist trade for the area.
Home Extension
. MAUN The Malin Home Ex
tension Unit held a potluck picnic
in the Malin Park Wednesday, June
11.
Those attending were Marie Dra
in. Mildred Rajnus. Lyda Kirk
Patrick, Dorothy Lindsay, Mary
Drazil, Effa Johnson, Ethel Par
rish, Irene Jelinek, Theresa Mc-
Comb, Frances Pierson, Bessie
Cornett, Gladys Halousek, Emma
Morelock, Mary McAuliffe, Clara
Scott, Elva Kniskern, Marge Con-
roy, Helen Derry, Joan Croft, Ann
Lahoda. Matilda Nedbalek and
Marie Bunnell.
The recently installed officers of
the Malin Unit who will serve dur
ing the next year are Matilda Ned
balek, chairman; Dorothy Lindsay,
vice chairman; and Marie Hale,
secretary treasurer.
Obituaries
JONES
Virgie Mae Jones, 46, a native
of Mt. View, Arkansas, and a
resident of this city for 15 years,
died here June 20. She is survived
by the widower Arthur (Pete)
Jones; ber mother and stepfath
er, Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Diess of
Klamath Falls; a daughter, Mrs.
Robert Hiney of Tulelake; a sis
ter, lilhan Brooks of Daly City,
California; a brother, Ernest Min
gus of Meyers Flat, California;
also two grandchildren. Funer
al service will be held in O'Hair's
Memorial Chapel Tuesday, June
S4, at 2 p.m. Interment will be
made in Klamath Memorial Park.
WILCHEB
Georpe W. Wilcher, 80, a native
of Springfield, Missouri and a res
ident of this city, died here June
21. He is survived by seven sons,
George Wilcher, Edward Wilcher,
C. H. Wilcher, Alva Wilcher, all of
Klamath Falls, John Wilcher of
Redding, Irvin Wilcher and Ivan
Wilcher of Coos Bay, two daugh
ters, Mrs. Clarence Lewis and
Mrs. Earl Sherrier of Cave Junc
tion. Also 27 grandchildren and 14
great-grandchildren. O'Hair's Me
morial Chapel is in charge of the
funeral arrangements.
HOLIDAY
ST. LOUIS (AP) McDonnell
Aircraft Corp. will start observ
ing United Nations Day as a paid
holiday this year, and company
executives hope the idea will
apread throughout the world.
"We believe it is appropriate
that all the people of this planet
take one day off each year to
celebrate the birthday of the Unit
ed Nations," said J. S. McDon
ell, president of the firm.
U. N. Day, Oct. 24, has been
made a seventh paid holiday in
contracts covering 15,000 union
employes of the firm, which man
. ufactufes military airplanes and
missiles.
IfLLiD
tNKAKEE. 111. lAP) -Unable
fe start his aXsabled motorboat.
KtviMke businessman was
vept over a dam to his ath
siatrday as witnesses watched
itfpfesly.
Tlat body of Robert H. Just Sr.,
0t. found about a half-mile
i?ti.im from the aVn '
turs later.
! o:) ;li juf htvl
tcti mar,euvers his boat in
tn midd'9 of tl fain-sullen
arW RivO? whe the motor
liled.
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POT ADS
- yoQ are
Federal funds to start construe
tion of a ballistic missile early
warning station near Nenana in
the interior of Alaska highjjghts
the strategic importance of this
vast, lar northern territory.
Because of the territory's im
portance in the nation's global de
fense picture, Alaska's military
nave never made a secret
of their strategic mission, which
is:
To provide early warning of
an air auacic.
To intercept and destrov en-
emy bombers seeking to flv over
Aiasna on the way toward tar
gets m Canada and the United
States.
To strike immediate counter
blows using strategic air com
mand planes from Alaska bases.
The importance of Alaskan bas.
es for use in this global strategy,
as contrasted with NATO bases,
is accentuated bv the fact that
Alaska is American territory.
Alaska has six major military
installations. Elmendorf Air Force
Base near Anchorage is the head
quarters for the Unified Alaskan
command under Lt. Gen. Frank
Armstrong. The other large bas
es are Ladd and Eielson near
Fairbanks; Fort Richardson near
Anchorage; Fort Greely Arct
ic training post about 90 miles
from Fairbanks and a Naval base
on Kodiak Island.
The development of missile
weapons has heightened Alaska's
role in the global defense pic
ture because of Its proximity to
the Eurasian land mass. Range
will always be an important fact
or in warfare and it is cheaper to
send an aircraft or missile 500
miles than 5,000 miles.
Economically, Alaska has paid
for itself many times over since
the United States purchased it
from Czarist Russia in 1867. Min
ing, fishing, and the timber and
fur industries all flourish.
In 1956, the territory's natural
resources produced approximately
$161,846,000 worth of raw materi
als. No complete figures are avail
able for 19d7, but economists ex
pect the figure to remain about
the same.
The biggest economic news In
Alaska during the past year, how
ever, has been the possibility of
developing oil fields. A total of
30 million acres already has
been leased or covered by offers
to lease out of a possible 84
million acres believed favorable
for petroleum development.
ROBBED
CHICAGO (API Don Parker,
34, a deaf mute of Denton, Neb.,
came to Chicago with $775 to buy
an auto.
Parker told police in a written
complaint Friday night he started
drinking with five new acquaint
ances. After a few drinks he re
ported they took him to a South
Side room and robbed him of all
his money, including $300 he had
in his socks.
Farmers Vote,
To Maintain Wheat Curbs
WASHINGTON (AP) Farm
ers voted Friday for the sixth
straight year to keep a somewhat
ineffective federal clamp on wheat
production.
A referendum held in 38 com
mercial producing states resulted
in 165,868 votes for controls on
the 1959 wheat crop and 32,342
votes against curbs. This was a
majority of 83.7 per cent, far more
than the necessary two-thirds.
Unofficial returns showed the
program was approved in Oregon
1,492-218, in Washington 2,855-1,251
and in Idaho 3,434-803.
The outcome was no surprise
to farm officials and leaders even
though the program has been un
der attack on the ground it has
failed to prevent the accumula
tion of what may turn out this
year to be the largest wheat sur
plus on record.
The alternative freedom to
produce at much lower prices
was generally looked upon as even
less inviting.
The program Imposes market
ing quotas on individual farms
and assesses penalties on excess
sales. It is designed to limit sales
to the production on 55 million
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ROSEMARY RAYMOND, 14,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
W. M. Raymond, 1413 Ava
Ion Street, has entered the
Junior Rodeo Queen con
test, tryouts for which will
be held this afternoon at
the fairgrounds. A student
at Klamath Union High
School, Rosemary is a mem
ber of the Junior Broncs
4-H Riding Club. She has
been riding for eight years
and will take part in the
tryouts astride Simone, the
chestnut sorrel horse she
trained herself.
KF Publisher
Wins Honor
At Meeting
CORVALLIS (AP)-Frank Jenk
ins, veteran publisher of the
Klamath Falls Herald and News
and president of Southern Oregon
Newspapers at Roseburg and Klam
ath Falls, was given the 1958 Amos
t,. voorhies award Friday at a
publishers conference here.
High praise was given Jenkins
as Alton F. Baker, publisher of
the Eugene Register-Guard, pre
sented the award at the dinner
meeting of the Oregon Newspaper
rurjiisners Assn.
Baker, who won the same award
in 1955, referred to Jenkins as the
"one-man industrial committee
for Southern Oregon." He paid
tribute to Jenkins' contributions in
promoting techniques of news
paper production.
The award is named for the
president of the G. ..ts Pass
Courier Publishing Co.
Newsmen from all parts of the
state attending the 71st annual
meeting of the ONPA will return
home after Saturday's concluding
session. .
DAY CAMP
The first session of the Camp
Fire Gins day camp at Moore
Park will be extended to Monday
June 23. This will be a makeup
for the session canceled by the
rain on June 19. The second week
session wili begin on June 24 as
scheouleu.
Lightly,
acies, which is about 30 per cent
less than the postwar peak.
But increasing yields per acre,
reflecting better , crop practices,
have largely offset reductions in
plantings. Furthermore, present
law does not permit any further
reduction in total acreage allotted
under the program.
Influencing the referendum's
outcome was the fact that the
1959 crop would be supported at
an average of about $1.81 a bushel
if quotas were approved and at
about $1.20 if they were rejected.
This may well be the last refer
endum on wheat quotas as they
now stand. The Eisenhower ad
ministration has recommended
cnanges that would grant farmers
more freedom to produce if they
accepted somewhat lower price
supports. The administration con
tends markets would take much
more if prices were lower.
Critics disagree with the admin
stration proposal but they, too,
have been casting about for a
more effective method of stabiliz
ing supplies and prices. Congress
may act before the time comes
to vote on quotas on the 1960 crop.
HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
Fremont Forest Summer
Work In Full Swing Now
LAKEVIEW Summer work is
again in full swing on the Fre
mont National forest with sum
mer crews starting work during
the past week at the various work
centers, according to Clayton Wea
ver, supervisor.
District Ranger Henry McCor-
mick of the Thomas Creek District
now has a 12-man crew stationed
at the newly completed Thomas
Creek Work Center on Shoestring
Creek! Verle Cook of New Pine
Creek is foreman of the crew. Don
ald Wilson of Portland has as
sumed duties as Shoestring look
out for the summer. John Wood,
Lakeview, is the Dairy Creek fire
man, and Raymond Cox, Lake-
view, is tne Lakeview fireman.
On the Warner Ranger District
Ranger Clyde Peacock reports the
opening of the work camp on the
warner mgnway 'near Camas
Prairie. The camp was moved last
fall from Vernon Springs and set
up on the new site. Ed Kudrna
is the foreman of a 12-man crew
at this camp. As yet none of the
lookout stations on the Warner
District have been manned, but
Lake Street
Work Starts
LAKEVIEW Excavation of des.
ignated Lakeview streets prepar
atory to grading, curbing and Day-
ing planned for this summer was'
started by a crew of four men
and dirt moving equipment. The
project includes about one - half
mile of F Street South, under
State Highway contract, and
about one mile of town street
under town contract. The two proj
ects will take from six weeks to
two months.
A bid submitted jointly by Rus
sell uison construction Company
of Pendleton and Bechtel Broth
ers of La Grande in the amount
of $82,364 for the town portion of
the work had previously been ac
cepted. The Russell Olson Com
pany also holds the state highway
portion of the contract with Lake
view sharing costs.
Curt Denmark is foreman on the
job for Bechtel Brothers who are
doing the excavation, grading and
curb pouring on both jobs, and
the paving will then be done by
the Pendleton company.
Funerals
CALDER
Funeral services for Charles E.
Calder, 64, who died in this city
June 19. will be held in O'Hair's
Memorial Chapel Monday, June 23,
at 2 p.m. the Rev. Bob Greene
officiating Interment will be made
in Klamath Memorial Park.
OPERATION
Rr.nnMiNc.TON m iapi a
1 700-pound lioness, Delilah, ap
peared to be recovering Saturday
after a cacsarean operation which
saven ner ire nut nnr rhnr nf the
cub delivered.
The operation, rare in the an-
r.ms oi lion captivity, was per
formed ThnrsHnv at Millpr Parlr
Zoo where Delilah is caged. ,
nffipiflle HariHoH unnn nnnrifinn
after prolonged labor brought the
five-year-old lioness to a critical
condition.
STRIKERS FIGHT
LYALLPUR. West Pakistan
(APJ Police opened fire on strik
ing textile workers today. In
formed sources said 16 persons
were killed and 20 injured. Police
claimed there were 5 dead and 7
injured.
The police reportedly began
shooting after they arrested the
union president and the workers
tried to free him. The strikers
stoned the police, wounding two
officers. 1
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they will be shortly. Mrs. Glen
Turner of Lakeview will be the
Drakes Peak lookout: Ken Peat
ross, Oklahoma, will be on Abort
Rim, and Gerlad Liljl, Michigan,
will man Crane Mountain. Bill Ov
erton, Lakeview, is the Lakeview
fireman for the Warner District.
On the Drews Valley District a
15-man timber stand improvement
crew began work under foreman
John Saunders. Malin, on June U.
Ray Van Meter of Malin is the
lookout on Dog Mountain; Ralph
Turner of Portland is on Straw
berry Lookout; Joe Russell of Bend
on Fitiwater Lookout; Roy Hon
stadt, Lakeview, on Cougar Peak:
Eugene Snell, Lakeview, will be
in charge of the State Line fire
crew, and Roche Allard, Lakeview,
will be the fireman at Dog Lake.
Work crew members on these
and other districts on the Fre
mont Forest are for the most part
college students who will work for
the summer season and return to
school in the fall. Ranger Don Al
len on the Drews Valley District
reports students from West Vir
ginia, Kansas, Iowa, Louisiana and
Oklahoma. Last season the Drews
Valley District had a number of
foreign students working at the
Dog Lake Work Center. Two of
these men, Winston Loh and Kheng
Song, both of Singapore, Malaya,
have returned to the Fremont For
est for the summer and will be
employed on engineering work.
Both of these men have been stu
dents at Phillips University in
Enid, Oklahoma.
City Worker
Suffers Burns
Roy L. Tidwell, 35, Wocus, KUHS
librarian and a summer employe
of the city recreation department,
was admitted to Klamath Valley
Hospital for observation Friday
morning after he was burned about
the face and arms in a propane
gas explosion at Gem Stadium.
Tidwell and two co-workers had
called the city fire department
some minutes before the explosion
when they first smelted escaping
gas. The department immediately
dispatched two trucks to the stad
ium and advised the South Subur
ban Fire Department, which sent
three more.
While the trucks were on the
way, the three men found the point
where the gas line was broken.
Tidwell was searching for the
valve to shut off the gas at the
tank when the gas exploded, blow
ing him from one room to another
of the building housing the tagk.
Cause of the explosion was un
known, but there was speculation
that it was set off by a pilot
light in the structure located at
some distance from the break.
One of Tidwell's fellow workers
kept the resulting fire to a min
imum by playing the stream of a
garden hose on the building. When
firemen came they shut off the
tank and quickly extinguished the
blaze.
WANTS AMERICAS' UNION
RIO DE JANEIRO (UPD-
President Juscelino Kubitschek
has called on the United States
to launch a new "Marshall Plan"
to cure Latin America's "econom
ic anemia." In a radio speech
Friday, Kubitschek declared also
that "A union of the Americas is
essential for our survival," but
did not indicate just what sort of
union he meant.
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JUDY SUTHERLAND, 17,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Oscar Capellen, Sprague
River, is another candidate
for Senior Queen of the
Klamath Basin Rodeo. Try
outs will be held this after
noon at the fairgrounds.
Judy is a graduate of Bo
nanza High School and has
been riding for 10 years.
Her horse is named Tarzan.
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Medical Care
SACRAMENTO (UPI- Public
hearings will be held next week
by a legislative interim commit
tee in Los Angeles on the contro
versial $29,000,000 medical care
I'rogram, enacted by the 1957 Leg
islature.
Committee Chairman Sen. John
A. Murdy (R-Newport Beach) said
Friday "we should have plenty of
testimony on the alleged ineq
uities in the program" at the Los
Angeles hearing.
The California Medical Associa
tion previously approved the prin
ciples on which the program was
eslablished. which include recipi
ents' free choice of physician, fee
lor service, and allowing the in
dividual doctor to decide for him
self whether or not to accept the
patients.
CM. A. now contends that the
programs administration causes
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WARNING
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Labor Party leader Hugh Gaits
kell Saturday warned against send
ing American ana uruisn troops
into Lebanon. "We cannot have
another Suez." he said.
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