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FRANK JENKINS
Editor
BILL JENKINS
Managing Editor
FLOYD WYNNE
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School Figures
By FLOYD L. WYNNE
Since voters will be casting their
ballots on the elementary school
budget tomorrow, it's a good time
to compare some of the facts on
school budgets and enrollment.
First let's compare enrollment
with budget.
In KUHS, seven years ago the
enrollment to begin the 1951-1952
school year was 1,1!I7. This figure
moved to 1,267 the following year
and gradually increased until the
number of enrolecs in 1957-58 year
was 1,588. This represented an in
crease of 391 students in seven
years, or an increase of approx
imately 33 per cent in seven
years time.
Now let's glance at the KUHS
budget for the same period of
time. In 1051-52 school year the
budget was $508,860. It jumped
only slightly until M55-56 when it
began climbing rapidly. The
KUHS budget turned down recent
ly was for $809,261, an increase ol
approximately $:ion,0()0 in seven
years. This in effect was a M per
cent increase.
A 60 per cent increase in the
budget in seven years while the
enrollment was showing a 33 per
cent increase.
In other words to bring it down
to a per student cost., for the
1951-52 KUHS school year, it cost
$425 per student to rjin the school,
and in the recent budget, presum
ing enrollment remained the same,
the cost per student would have
been $509, or an increase of $84
per student.
On Ihe elementary scene, the en
rollment rose from 2,299 in 1951-52
to 2,535 for the year just ended
this represented an enrollment
increase of 236 pupils in seven
years. By the same token, the
budget has risen from $799,489 in
1951-52 to $1,215,618 which was re
cently turned down. An increase
of about $416,000 in seven years
So for the elementary schools in
Klamath Falls, their enrollment has
Increased only 10 per cent in the
past seven years, but their budg
et has increased approximately 50
per cent.
Per student cost figures show that
for the 1951-52 school year, it cost
$348 per pupil, but in Ihe current
budget it would have cost approx
imately $480 per pupil, or an in
crease of $132 per pupil in sev
en years.
Now, lei's compare the county
system, taking the high schools and
the elementary budgets combined.
Enrollment wise, the county had
4,371 students enrolled in 1951-52.
This compared with a total of 5,129
in ths year just ended, or an in
crease in enrollment over the sev
en years of 758. This represented
roughly a 17 per cent increase.
During the same period, our
county budget was increasing from
$1,646,383 in 1951-52 to a figure of
$2,053,000 for 1958-59. This is an
increase of approximately $400,000
for the seven years.
On a cost per pupil basis, it cost
$376 to educate a student in the
county schools in in.il-52, as
against a cost of approximately
$400 per student for the coming
school year. This represented an in
crease of only $24 per student
cost in seven years.
Now. let's contrast these figures
a little more clearly.
On per pupil cost basis, for the
coming year it will cost approx
imately $400 per pupil in Ihe coun
ty, against $509 for KUHS and
$480 at the city elementary schools.
On enrollment basis, the county
handled a combined total of 5.129
last year against a combined to
tal for KUHS and elementary ol
only 4.123.
Rudget wise. Ihe total county
budget is $2.0j3.0O0 against a com
bined budget lor KUHS and ele
mentary, of $l.7,00O.
In other words, based on lasl
year's enrollment figures, it would
cost the county only $86,000 more
than the city lo handle 1,000 more
pupils.
Let's contrast also, the enroll
men! at elementary schools in the
eily in the past seven years. Conv
paring the figures of 1950-51 with
those of 1957-58. they show that
Conger School stayed exactly the
same at 205 students, Kairview has
increased 150, Fremont elementary
is down 54 pupils, .Mills has in
creased 131 when you include the
currrnt 109 at Pondcrosa School
with Mills total. At others. Peli
can has jumped upward 79 pupils
Riverside has increased 39, Hoose
veil is up 85 and Fremont Junior
High shows an increase of 50.
Facts and figures can some
times be confusing, but these are
the facts and figures on schools
for your information.
.My stand is still the same as
last Sunday, namely. I recommend
voting for the school budgets. 1
don't think they are the best budg
ets possible, but laced with the
prospect of not being able to be
gin standardized schools on timr
in September, the voters appear
to have little or no choice but
to approve the budgets as they
stand.
Mojisiiri' of
SlHM'PNK
By HAL BOYLE
NEW YORK (AP) One way
a movie star measures success is
by the time he has to spend with
lawyers.
"Bill, you're really getting up in
the world," a lawyer said to actor
William Holdcn recently. "Your
first contract ran to only 21 pages.
Your latest one is over 100.
Another measure of stardom
now is the distance an actor
travels each year.
Holdcn, an Oscar winner and
one of America's golden top 10
boxollicc draws, estimates he has
traveled 600,000 miles in the last
five years.
I'll do 150.000 this year," he
said during a luncheon pause here
on his way to the West Coast. The
day before he had been in Paris,
the day before that in Home.
Bill, whose latest picture, "The
Key," was made in England, says
the movie industry has changed
basically since he became an
overnight star in "Golden Boy,
That was 42 pictures and 20 years
ago.
Then a star could get by on
acting talent and personality.
Now, under many profit-sharing
deals, he not only has to act in
the picture he has to go out and
heat Ihe bushes to sell it, both
here and abroad.
Most of my traveling hasn't
been to do location work." said
Holdcn. ' It has been in the ex
ploitation and promotion end of
the business-. But it's necessary-
because 58 per cent of our gross
today is from foreign markets.
With the possible exception of
Bob Hope, Holdcn has no rival as
a world ambassador without port
folio for Hollywood. Friendly as a
wink, Bill gives foreigners the
same impression as he does the
folks at home that here is that
nice boy next door, grown a bit
older, but still doing his best to
make the neighborhood a chum
mier place lor all.
Despite his wide roving, Holdcn
has managed to maintain an air
of privacy. How?
"The public doesn't concern it
self with me except in my line of
work," he said. "I don't think they
are interested in me personally.
"A majority of people think me
pretty dull."
He is anything but that. But he
maintains an interior remoteness
behind his friendly, casual man
ner. He looks at the passing mo
ment from a distance inside him,
almost as if the world were a
motion picture and he sitting in
the audience watching it roll by.
"I concern myself with the par
ticular personal problems every
one has to," he said. "But I'm not
afraid of anything. I enjoy life."
What are the rules lor survival
in Hollywood? Holdcn grinned.
"If 1 really knew the answer to
lhal, I'd set up an ollice and sell
Ihe information lo other people
sparingly."
Hidden says his goal is very
simple.
"It's to retire. I'd like to make
:i contribution of some kind to
this business, and then get out of
it.
"I don't like acting. I never did.
Acting with me has only been a
means lo an end an end 1 don't
even know."
Falls. Other producers of building
materials, including sawmills and
plywood plants, have felt the ef
fects of the building slump but
slowdowns and closures in these
are less dramatic than the lack of
activity at the shiny, large factory
in Klamath County.
The plant is ready to go to con
vert lodgepole pine, the "weed"
tree of the West, into liberboard
to be used for construction pur
poses and interior finishing. Lodge
pole logs have been stockpiled be
side the plant and the company
has a contract with the Forest
Service for most of its raw mate
rials over a 15-year period. When
Ihe factory gets into full opera
tion on a live-day, three-shift bas
is it will employ 250 workers, a
substantial new payroll for the
area.
Members of the Portland Cham
ber of Commerce Agriculture Com
mittec. who ' were conducted
through the plant while on a tour
of Southern Oregon recently, were
impressed by the immensity and
modernity of the plant which will
grind lodgepole wood into fibers
which will be matted into insulat
ing board sheets.
Lodgepole pine has had almost
no commercial value in the past,
but construction of the mill has
given it a value of about $1.60 a
cord on the stump. Some private
landowners, as well as the Forest
Service, will be able to sell their
"weeds" at approximately that
price. With lodgepole running
about 20 cords lo the acre,
once useless growth will have a
value of about $32 an acre. Of
course, one plant will make but a
small dent in the vast supply of
lodgepole in the West, but it is
another big forward step in utiliza
tion of our timber resources.
The managment hopes the plant
will be able to start operation in
Ihe fall. It could open now, but
building has hot yet revived suffi
ciently to assure sustained opera-
lion. The company does not want
to start and then have to stop
again or run on a short work
week.
Klamath County will have to
wait a while longer for this addi
tion to its economy, hut one ol
these days the J-M plant will be
humming and wilh it the other
mills and factories which supply
so large a share of the nation's
building materials from Oregon's
forests. The presence of the long.
new structure is assurance of this
revival. Corporations are pretty
certain of success before they in
vest 10 million dollars and more.
Wood' CiiiricrHIn
From the Portland Orcgonian
A orcelul reminder of Ihe ef
fect of the recession on Oregon's
wood-using industry is the brand
new 10 to 12 million dollar Johns
Manville insulating board plant
which sits idle beside Highway 97
few miles north of Klamath
Soviets Tougher
By JAMES MARLOW :
Associated Press News Analyst
WASHINGTON (AP) The So
viets are gelling tougher and
nastier and in a way that shows
disregard for what the world
thinks. A few months ago they
were breaking their backs to win
a propaganda war.
By their recent actions they've
handed the West made-in-Moscow
propaganda for use against them.
They're loo smart not to know it.
This contempt for world opinion
is the most startling aspect of the
changes taking place in Soviet for
eign policy.
They spent months trying to
convince the world they wanted a
summit talk and an end lo nu
clear testing. Then, deliberately,
they all hut blew up any chance
(or the talk or an agreement on
testing. Their latest performance
was last night.
Meanwhile, but again deliber
ately and savagely, they shocked
Ihe world by announcing the exec.
ulion of lmre Nagy, the former
Hungarian premier, and some of
This is the background of what's
happened although no one yet ha;
pretended to know all the an
swers why:
Last fall the Soviets made t
smashing propaganda follow-up on
their blazing Sputnik successes by
proposing a summit talk to Pros
ident Eisenhower. The Eisenhow
er administration was slow react
ing and for a few months the So
viet Union had a clear edge.
Then the administration began
answering and the proposals and
counter-proposals became a tug
of-war too complicated for the av
erage man around the world to
follow. Because both sides began
arguing details, neither made
propaganda hay.
The Soviets said they wanted
summit talks, willy - nilly. The
United Slates said it wanted pre
parations for such talks. Last
April Moscow agreed to the West's
ambassadors should try to work
out preparations for the summit
meeting.
The two sides remained miles
apart. Neither yielded any ground
But on June 11 Premier Khru
shchev startled the world with a
letter practically abandoning hope
for a summit meeting. He blamed
the West, of course. But Eisen
hower was able to hit back: "The
whole tiling has been a great set
back to my hopes."
In short, the Soviets put them
selves, no matter what they
claimed, in the position of being
blamed for knocking a summit
conference out the window.
At the same time the Soviets
were working the other side of the
street too, making more propa
ganda with their plea for a ban
on nuclear testing. The West took
Ihe posilion that before a ban
there must be a foolproof way of
preventing cheating.
More argument. Finally, it was
pretly well agreed the Soviet Un
ion and the West would send sci
entists to Geneva to discuss ways
of policing any nuclear test ban
that might be agreed on later.
This country all along refused
to commit itself to banning tests
before the scientists met. Some of
the American scientific team were
on their way to Geneva last nighi
when the Soviets rammed in an
other torpedo.
They threatened to scuttle Ihe
Geneva conference of nuclear ex
perts unless the United States
says a ban on nuclear tests is
needed. This would require the
United States to cave in on a point
it has adhered to all along: let
the experts talk, first.
But if these talks are now out
the window, this country can
dump the blame on the Soviet Un
ion and accuse her of hypocrisy
both on the summit talks and on
wanting nuclear testing banned.
The way all this has been han
dled is what's extraordinary. A
few months ago the Soviets were
running pretly smoothly. There's
nothing smooth about them lately.
All the West can do now is wail
to see what happens next.
HHp Asked
Klamath Falls (To Ihe Editor!
The Cemetery Research Commit
tee of the Genealogical Forum of
Oregon would like the following
information:
Name of cemetery town or
country; location of cenielery
highway number of description for
locating: land purchased or do
natedby whom and the date: his
torical sketch of cemetery: names
and dates of earliest burials: con
dition of cemetery open or
closed, maintained or neglected;
name of cuslodian if one is em
ployed; where records of ceme
tery are kept stale archives
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resumption of terror, death and'0rcso,n hislorical "xicty. church
bloody purges. or other source.
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the Oregon Interment Association,
in either Lake or Klamath County.
1 have been asked to try and gel
as much of this information as
possible. As many of Ihese ceme
teries do not have custodians,
much of this information will have
lo come from the old-timers
Please let me hear from any one
in Lake or Klamalh County who
can answer any or all of the above
questions about any cemetery, be
it private, family, reservation,
(raternal. church, municipal, as
sociation, clc.
John N. Lee.
superintendent. Klamalh
Kails City Cemeieries.
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Porter, head of the V S. Interna
iion.il Geophysical Year Satellite
Committee, on the Nay's failure
to launch a Vanguard satellite to
day: "It's too damn bad!"
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Iran, attending a fashion show
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you newspapermen think."
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Seem Better
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (AP)
Eight atomic plant workers, ex
posed accidentally last week to an
overdose of deadly radiation, show
no ouiwaru ill eiiecis.
"Specialists who are kecnins 11,0
men under observation say that
iheir biggest problem is makinj
the men see the need to stay m
the hospital," an Atomic Energy
Commission spokesman said yes.
tcrday. He added lhat the men
are walking about, but confined
to their rooms.
Five of the eight suffered hon
marrow damage in the accident.
Rone marrow is the body s blood
building tissue.
The men were exposed at an
atomic plant June 16 in a radia
tion accident described as the
worst in AEC history.
Doctors expect to keep the eight
men under oDservation for at
least two weeks more.
Lady Reneges
On Ike's Gift
MILAN. Italy (AP)-A wealthy
young British-German divorcee
has withdrawn her offer to give
President Eisenhower an old and
perhaps valuable painting. The
well-known amateur artist of lHtiO
Pennsylvania Ave. apparently was
not much interested anyway.
Mrs. Katherina Williams, a 29-year-old
brunette, cabled the Pres
ident yesterday that art experts
had questioned the authenticity of
her painting.
The woman offered the painting
to the art-loving President, she
said, to inspire him in his leader
ship of the free world. She said
it was the work of the Italian
Renaissance master Correggio,
was called "II Giorno" (The Dayi
and showed the Madonna .and
Child wilh St. Jerome.
When "II Giorno" showed up in
Ihe Parma art gallery, Mrs. Wil
liams said her painting was a pre
liminary sketch for the museum
piece.
In her Milan hotel, she ex
plained that some experts now
had expressed the opinion the
painting probably was the work
of one of Corregio's imitators.
Mrs. Williams had said her pic
ture was appraised by an Ameri
can expert at $100,000. She said
she had made a down payment to
the owner, the Countess of Ost
hcim, who still has the painting.
Missing Boat
Found Safe
TOKYO (AP)-The missing sail
ing yacht Thespian, carrying Hol
lywood aclor-magician John Cal
vert and four olher Americans,
was found nearly becalmed off the
coast of South Korea today. Its en
gine had broken down.
All aboard were reported in
good condition by the Japanese
coast guard vessel Isuzu, which
took Calvert s two-master in tow.
They were due at Fukuoka, in
southern Japan, tomorrow.
Calvert left Kcelung. Formosa.
June 16, expecting to reach south
ern Japan about a week ago. He is
a round-the-world work-and-
play cruise and was booked for
appearances in Japan. When he
did not answer radio calls, the
Japanese ordered a search of the
Last China Sea.
The 02-ton yacht was only slight
ly west of its course when nicked
up 23 miles from Chcju Island,
off the tip of Korea. .
With Calvert aboard the ship
were his molher-in-law, Mrs. Con
stance Conrad Lowe: Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph A. Iverson. Holly
wood: and Army Specialist
Thomas E. Jones, Black River
Falls, Wis.
Calvert's wife, actress Ann Cor
nell, had flown ahead to Japan
with their infant son, who was
born in Formosa.
Michigan Celebrants Fete
Opening Of Largest Bridge
STRAIGHTS of MACKINAC
BRIDGE, Mich (AP) Michigan
started a solid 72 hours of merry
making today as it dedicated the
world's longest and costliest sus
pension bridge.
With parades and fireworks,
thousands touched off the three-
day celebration at the Straits of
Mackinac, where the new bridge
joins Michigan's two peninsulas
lor the first time since the Ice
Age.
Star of the show is "Mighty
Mae" the five-mile-long bridge,
built in 3'i years at a cost of 100
million dollars. ,
Its 7,400-foot suspension' span is
longer than any other in the
world.
The bridge connects Michigan's
two .peninsulas at a point where
Ihe Straits of Mackinac join Lakes
TV "Heroes'
In Gun Duel
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Doc
Holliday and Marshal Charles
Clay 'stage a gun duel daily in
front of the Last Chance Saloon at
Frontier City here, and never gel
a scratch. Their bullets are
blanks.
But Sheriff Bob Turner said the
two quick-drawing artists got into
a light last Saturday night that
wasn t any act and two teen
agers got hurt.
He said Holliday (who is really
R. J. Mythen) and Clay banged
Ihe two boys on the head with
their fancy sixguns, then threw
them in the hoosegow at the
amusement center.
Mythen and Clay pleaded inno
cent to charges of aggravated as
sault and battery. They said Mike
Bennett, 17, and Don Ellegard,
18, became disorderly.
Their attorney Hubert Gibson
said (jokingly) he'd like a change
of venue "to the court of Judge
noy nean, tne law west of the
Pecos."
This Only Confuses
The Neighbors Again
CHARLOTTE. N. C. (AP -Neighbors
of identical twins Rich
ard and Robert Galloway, 7, at
last had a means of telling them!
apart when Robert turned up two;
weeks ago with a broken left .arm
in a sling. 1
Then Richard had his turn.
Results: identical plaster casts.'
idental left slings identical
twins. 1
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Open for business since the
start of the deer hunting season
last Nov. 1 (minimum lee, S3. 2d
one way), the bridge has awaited
warm weather and tourists for
its formal dedication.
Two Michigan Republican poli
ticians Postmaster General
Arthur E. Summerfield and Army
Secretary Wilber M. Brucker
got the ball rolling yesterday.
Gov. G. Mennen Williams and his
Democrats will run the show pret
ty much from now on.
Construction of the bridge, cli
maxing 70 years of dreams, was
a major engineering feat.
Because of swift, treacherous
currents and fierce winds that
whip through the area at veloci
ties up to 78 miles an hour, skep
tics for years have said no such
bridge could be built.
But Dr. David B. Steinman, its
designer, says the bridge not only
is safe it's the safest in the
world and can withstand winds of
infinite velocity.
Nearly 3.500 men helped build
it and five died in construction
accidents.
Michigan looks upon the bridge
as a big tourist attraction and
expects to foster industry and
business growth in the sparsely
populated Upper Peninsula.
General Might
Return To Isles
PHOENIX. Ariz. (AP) Gen.
Douglas A. MacArthur has an in
vitation to return to the Philippine
Islands and receive a rousing wel
come from the citizens that ha
liberated in World War II.
The enthusiastic reception was
promised yesterday by Philippine
President Carlos Garcia, himself
a wartime resistance leader. Gar
cia and the retired general met
in Garcia s New York hotel
suite briefly before Garcia left for
Phoenix to continue his tour of
the United States.
Details of the meeting were dis
closed in Phoenix by Philippina
Ambassador Carlos P. Romulo.
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