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Newspaper Page TextU Of OREGON LIBRART C0'1? EUGENE, ORE. In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS ' I'm intrigued this morning by an item on the teletype. It goes like this: "Governor Holmes and Secretary of State Hatfield, contenders in the next Oregon gubernatorial race, have had much to say on the subject of capiTOL punishment. "Governor Holmes has come out flatly for abolition of capiTOL punishment and has asked the peo ple to vote it out of the Oregon constitution in November. He has commuted two death sentences while in office. "Hatfield's public statements have been a bit more cautious. He says he will 'carry out the man date of the people' with regard to capiTOL punishment." I'm not concerned, at the mo ment, with the views of these op posing candidates on the death pen alty. What interests me is the use of the word capiTOL when the word capiTAL is obviously called for. It couldn't have been a typo graphical error, for it is repeated three times. It was just a plain boner. Newspaper people shouldn't make boners like that. Their job is to inform the public. If they are to inform the public accurately, they must use the right words just as a surgeon must use the right instrument if his Operation Is to be successful and save the patient's life. This misuse of the word capi TOL could be quite misleading. For example: CapiTAL punishment means im position of the death penalty for certain crimes, including murder and treason. CapiTOL punishment can mean a wide range of evils. CapiTOLS are the monumental buildings lo cated in state and national capi TALS. It is in these buildings that governmental policies are outlined and embodied into LAWS. So -You see It is obvious that capiTOL pun. Ishment can be among the rug- gedest of the punishments that can be inflicted upon us. BAD GOVERNMENT is undoubt edly the worst punishment that can be imposed upon mankind. Bad government originates in capiTOLS, It must therefore be classed as capiTOL punishment. CapiTAL punishment is pretty tough, of course. But it has this ameliorating a d v.a n t a g e: IT'S OVER QUICKLY. The trap falls on the scaffold. The current is turned into the hot seat of the electric chair. The poison gas pel lets are dropped into the recept acle in the execution chamber That's that, and it's done and over with. CapiTOL punishment meaning bad government, including grinding taxation and all the evils that go along with government that isn't what it should be LASTS A LONG. LONG TIME. Sometimes It lasts for centuries. So- Gentlemen of the press and punchers of the tapes that spread the news of the world among the people for their edification and en iichtenment ' BE CAREFUL WITH YOUR WORDS. They are the tools of your trade ENTRY BLANKS Entry blanks for the Fourth of July Parade may be mailed any time through Wednesday. July 2, the Klamath Jaycccs have an nounced. Anyone wishing to en ter the parade who doesn't have an entry blank Is urged to get In touch with Rodeo Headquar ters, 5.10 Main Street, telephone TU 2-0110. ANGRY FORT WORTH. Tex. (UPI) Mrs. Myrtle Kirbie told police Thursday she got so mad thinking about her former husband that the set his haystack on fire. Mm M f m SENIOR QUEEN OF THE Klamath Basin Celebration poied with the junior queen, and six other girls at Rocky Point Resort yesterday. Of course, no one yet knows which girl is the senior queen, as that won't be decided until tomorrow night's Queen's Ball, at the Old Armory, but she's sure to be in this photo, since all the candidates for the title are. Left to right are, foreground, Mrs. and Mr. Lloyd Timmont, operators of fhe resort, who wire holts to the girls for the luncheon and outing, and candidates Ver ona Dayley, Buttons Smith, Dorothy Hessig and Judy Sutherland, and, rear, candidates Norma Struble, Susan LaVrar and Sharon Wilder, and Junior Queen Delores Cotton. The 0'k were ten to fteky Point across Upper Klamath Lake in two boats; Maury Miller r 4 tw4 D JhftSl Tto ji'tPlSB iTm 6 Borgia LtjMHBHSfW V O Price Five Cents 20 Pages Lebanese Rebs Says They Haven't Gone All-Out Yet BEIRUT, Lebanon , (API Lead ers of Lebanon s seven-k-old rebellion against President Ca- mille Chamoun say they haven't gone all-out yet and they won't give any warning when they do. If necessary, we will have an offensive," said one of the rebel leaders, former Premier Rashid Karami. "When we start an at tack, we won't tell President Chamoun in advance," his brother Maan Karami said in a joint in terview in the northern port of Tripoli. Chamoun had predicted the big rebel push would begin by yester day. But the only heavy fighting was in Tripoli, where the rebellion began. At least 10 persons were reported killed and 20 wounded there. The nation remained tense and the U.S. Embassy warned Amer icans in Beirut to stay indoors to day. This is the Moslem sabbath and a holiday celebrating the Mecca pilgrimage feast of Aid el Adha. The occasion might lead to emotional outbursts and Moslem Christian clashes, the embassy said. U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, back in New York after a week's visit to Leb anon, indicated he believed a Bought Home From Adams, Gold fine Quoted As Saying WASHINGTON (API John Fox quoted Bernard Goldfine Friday as saying that he had bought a house for Sherman Adams in Washington and had sent checks to Adams over a long period of years. Adams, President Eisenhower's top aide, promptly denied the story about the house in a letter read at a stormy session of the House investigating subcommittee headed by Rep. Oren Harris ID Ark.). Fox did not specify the period when he said the checks may have gone from Goldfine, a millionaire Boston industrialist, to Adams. But Fox indicated it was before Adams came to Washington with Eisenhower in 1953. Adams is a former New Hampshire governor. In the midst of the storm blown up by Fox's sensational charges, the subcommittee recessed until Monday. Fox agreed to return Monday for further testimony. Among other testimony before the recess, Fox told the Congress members that he got a $500,000 loan from Joseph P. Kennedy, Boston multi-millionaire, after supporting Kennedy's son John in his successful 1952 Senate race. Fox, former publisher of the Boston Post, said he got the loan for his now defunct newspaper and has repaid it. He said he decided to support the present Sen. John Kennedy ID-Mass.) because he became convinced the Republican candi date, Henry Cabot Lodge, was soft against Communism. Lodge is now U. S. ambassador to the United Nations. The letter in which Adams de nied Goldfine had bought him a house was produced by Rep. Jo seph P. O'Hara of Minnesota, top Republican on the subcommittee, after Fox quoted Goldline as say ing he bought the house. O'Hara disclosed he had written Adams Thursday, asking about this, after learning that Fox had KLAMATH U.N. observation group sent by tne security Council less than 100 men would be the only international torce required. A statement issued here by the observers agreed. It said U.A.R. aid is coming in from Syria but the 94 observers believe they gradually can stop it and then the Lebanese can solve their own in ternal problems. Premier Sami Solh said Wed nesday the unarmed observers are not enough. He said he asked Hammarskjold for an armed U.N. force to seal the 150-mile moun tainous border with Syria and the seacoast.- A spokesman for the secretary general denied that he received such a request. Beirut informants close to the U.N. said Hammarskjold is concerned with preventing West ern intervention as m halting u.a.k. intcrlerence. Chamoun said friendly countries may have to help him unless the Security Council does the job. He added that he feels U.S. forces are entitled to intervene under U.N. auspices "any place where the United States has vital interests. The United States reportedly is inclined to go along with Ham marskjold to give the observers more- time to prove themselves made such a statement to com mittee investigators. Adams' letter said nothing about the checks that Fox quoted Gold- fine as saying had gone to Adams. O'Hara had not asked Adams about that. '' Adams did dispute another statement that had come up in Fox's testimony Thursday. Adams said he had never held an interest in any Goldfine business. Adams said in the letter that he never had owned a house in Washington and that he now lives in a rented house here. Adams added: "Mr. Goldfine has never, either directly or indirectly, purchased or helped to finance the purchase of any house of mine x x x. "These statements are absol utely false." The Adams letter was written on White House stationery. Chairman Harris was asked by reporters whether the committee has any evidence tending to prove or disprove Fox's testimony about the house. "I prefer," he replied, "not to make any statement as to what we do or do not have. The chairman said the commit tee will go into ,the matter of the house further at another time hut declined to elaborate. He de cided also to characterize the testimony of Fox. Weather FORECAST - Klamath Falls and vicinity: Clearing Friday night. Fair and warmer Saturday. Low Friday night 32-40 with chance of local frost. High Satur day 70-75. High yesterday ' 81 Low- last night 47 Prcclp. last 24 hours Since Oct. 1 18.58 Same period last year 15.04 Normal for period 12.21 FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE ; '"' ' N mill miyiw t pt - '"""j' - iii mi mi m m-Tr w- A SILVER DOLLAR SPECIAL SALE got under way in Klamath Falls today, sponsored by the local merchants association, to tie in with Saturday's events. The sale will extend through tomorrow, a big day which will begin with the Kiddies Parade, extend through the Lumber Jackaroo! and wind up with the Queen's Ball. Wearing their silver Dollar labels are, left to right, Lewis Wayburn, president of the Klamath Merchants Association; Kathy Gallagher, Venture Club chairman for the Kiddies Parade: Frank Kennedy, vice president of" the Merchants Association; and Warren Parr, president of the Basin Celebration Council. (See story on Page 41. Aid Program Faces Fight WASHINGTON (AP) The House passed and sent to the Sen ate Friday a bill authorizing a $3,675,592,500 foreign aid program. Just ahead of that action the House Appropriations Committee voted only $3,078,092,500 to finance the program. The House action by voice vote was on a bill merely giving the program legal sanction, subject to actual appropriations. It was a compromise between different measures that previously Jiad been passed by the House ana the Sen ate, the differences being mainly technical. Betore the vote on final passage, the House refused 238 134 to send the bill back to com mittee. The House will decide next week when it considers the actual ap propriation bill whether to in crease the financing to a figure closer to the amount authorized. The Appropriations Committee cut 872 million dollars from the $3,950,092,500 asked by President Eisenhower. The authorization measure is a compromise between separate bills, passed earlier by the Senate and the House. Its biggest items are $1,065,000,000 for military as sistance and 810 millions for eco nomic defense aid to allied na tions. Normally, it would have faced easy sailing in the House, hut de velopments last night altered that picture. Probers Say Dead Union Leader Embezzled $250,000 WASHINGTON (AP) Senate rackets probers accused William L. (Big Bill) Hutcheson, dead president of the Carpenters Un ion, Friday of embezzling a quar ter of a million dollars of union property and willing it to his heirs. Hutcheson 's son. Maurice L. Hut cheson. who succeeded to the union presidency, sat poker-faced in the witness chair as he heard the al legations. Maurice Hutcheson had just re fused himself to tell, the Senate Rackets Investigating Committee whether he had used union lunds in a plot to avoid indictment in the Indiana highway scandals. Nor- would he tell the commit tee whether he had "an arrange ment" with James R. H o f f a, Teamsters Union president, under .which Hofta was to have per formed tasks for Hutcheson "in return for your support on the question of his i Hofta ) being oust ed from the AFL-CIO." This was the closest the com mittee came to asking Hutcheson about allegations hy Kennedy that Hutcheson and Hoffa had con spired wilh Max Haddock, a Flushing. N.Y., publisher, and oth ers to fix a grand jury in Lake County, Ind. That grand jury re fused to indict in the Indiana high way scandals but a jury in In dianapolis indicted Hutcheson and two other union officers. Hutcheson and two other Car penters Union officials are await ing trial on charges Ihey made an illegal profit of $78,000 on, a $20,000 investment in lands sold to Indiana for highway rights of way. They also arc charged ith splitting the profit with three state officials. Indicted along wilh Hutcheson were Frank Chapman, union sec retary trsurer, and O. William Blaier. carpenters' cond vice president. Blaier appeared before the com mittee yestersfcy, but declined to answer i;0-';'s O) the Q$"J) 27, 158 Cor Makers, Auto Workers Rift Wider Now Than Ever DETROIT (AP)-The Big Three car makers and the United Auto Workers appeared today to be far ther apart in their efforts to reach a new agreement on wages than they were at the start of negotia tions three months ago. The 1955 contracts expired Me morial Day weekend and for the past month members of the union have been working without con tracts at General Motors, Ford and Chrysler plants. The union held bargaining ses sions with all three companies tejitay buti ne progress was re ported. "Company negotiators gave no indication they were ready to make a new otter. The UAW rejected the compa nies original proposals to extend the wage formula of the 1955 con tracts for two years. These pro Republicans Ask Extension Of Expiring Farm Measure WASHINGTON (AP) - Repub licans pressed today for emer gency extension of expiring farm laws after House defeat of a proposed new multibillion-dollar catch-all farm bill. With big city Democrats lining up with Republicans,' the House yesterday refused to consider a Democratic-backed omnibus measure which its critics causti cally labeled a bread tax act. it might help the prosecution pending against him. Several oth er witnesses also pleaded the Fifth Amendment in balking at answer ing committee questions about the alleged jury fixing conspiracy. Committee counsel Robert F. Kennedy refused to make, public evidence which he said prompted him to ask the witneses whether they had discussed with Hoffa some plot for "fixing the case" before a Lake County, Ind., grand jury. Kennedy said the evidence Is available, however, if Indiana law enforcement officials want it. In Indianapolis, Gov. Harold W, llandley said he will study the hearing transcript before con ferring with State Attv. Gen. Ed win K. Steers on whether to take any action. The Lake County grand jury investigated the road scandals last year but returned no indictments County prosecutor Metro Holo- vachka announced at the time he had found the grand jury lacked jurisdiction. An Indianapolis (Marion County) grand jury then indicted Hutcheson. Blaier and Chapman along with some Highway Com mission officials on charges of bribery and conspiracy. Max Raddock, publisher of the Trade Union Courier in Flushing .N.Y., pleaded tne Filth Amend ment in refusing to say whether he had paid Holovachka alter the Lake County grand jury refused to return indictments. In Crown Point, Ind., Holo vachka said there would be no comment until he had read hearing transcript. Committee of ficials said he had been invited to testify, but had not replied. Joseph P. Sullivan of Whiting, Ind., a part-time assistant to Holo vachka and lawyer for Lake Coun ty Tcamslers. acknowledged it was he who made restitution of $78,000 to Indiana 0 land OnrjQi case. i Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 6106 posals were withdrawn on expira tion of the old contracts. The union is preparing or i showdown later this summer when the companies start production of 1959 models. It reported yesterday that 65 of its 231 locals in Big Three plants have completed votes authorizing strike action whenever UAW President Walter P. Reuther decides on it. The vote so far was given as 77,664 in favor of strik ing and 5,853 opposed. Reuther enforced a no-strike policy on union members. Production was reported back to normal yesterday at the Chrysler missile plant near Detroit. Reu ther squelched a three-day wild cat strike at the plant by threat ening to place an administrator over Local 1245. The local repre sents 450 of the 8,500 employes at the plant. The 214-171 vote which killed the bill came on what usually is a routinely accepted motion to clear a measure for floor consideration. The complex, many-featured bill included proposals for new three- year price support and control programs for wheat, cotton, rice, feed grains and milk. The wheat and milk programs would have provided new ways of financing controls. Opponents said the cost of these would be passed on to consumers. The House action was an im pressive victory for Secretary of Agriculture Benson, whose opposi tion was credited with lending weight to the stunning defeat dealt House farm bloc members seeking new agriculture legislation. Of the House action, Benson declared: "I regard the decisive defeat of this omnibus bill as a vote of confidence in American agriculture and in the efforts of (hose who are dedicated to return ing it to a sound basis. I sincerely congratulate Ihe members of the House for, this act of statesman ship." House Republicans, meanwhile, organized an effort to continue lor another year administration backed laws which expire next Tuesday unless Congress votes to continue them. They had Demo cratic support as well. Extension of both the school milk program and the program of farm surplus disposal through foreign sales and aid had been provided in the omnibus bill. The Senate has passed separate legislation extending both pro grams. It also adopted an emer gency resolution to extend the school milk program for 60 days until Aug. 31. Cool Wave In The East By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A late June cool wave expand ed into Eastern sections ol the country today but some warming was in sight in the chilled Mid vest. The cool belt extended from east of the Rockies to the Atlan tic Coast, excluding the extreme southeast part o' the country. Showers and thundershowers continued during the night near the frontal area separating the cool and warm air masses, but diminished mostly to light falls. Some showers were reported northward along the coast as far north as southern Maine, but were ending as ll cool air continued to t)i ooco ewes 'Id Jet Crashes In Try For Record; All On Board Die WESTOVER AIR FORCE BASE Mass. (AP) A jet tanker plane attempting a transatlantic speed record crashed and exploded sec onds after takeoff early today, killing all 15 aboard. Observers said the giant KC13S jet tanker apparently hit high ten sion wires about a mile and a half from its takeoff runway. I he explosion disintegrated the plane into hundreds of pieces, the largest of which was described as no bigger than a chair. Among the victims were six newsmen who were to cover the flight of four Air Force planes at tempting to break records for air- craft speed in crossing the Atlan tic in noth directions. Also on board was Brig. Gen. Donald W. Saunders. Athens, N.Y. airborne commander in charge of tne operation. Ihe plane was the third of the four-plane flight to take off. The first two made record flights to London, with the best time of the two S hours 22 minutes 29.68 sec onds. The fourth plane was on the run way ready to take off at the time of the crash. That flight was can celed. Some five hours after the crash and with the first light of dawn, rescue workers found 14 bodies scattered over a wide area. The 15th body was jammed in the wreckage. Eyewitnesses said all the bodies were burned. Parts of the flaming wreckage set fires to trees and brush hun dreds of yards away. Ihe crashing plane gouged out a big section of a crpss-state highway the Massachusetts Turnpike knocked out electric power over a wide section when it struck high tension wires. A 10-mile stretch of the highway was closed because of the dam age. he Air Jorce immediately un derlook an investigation to deter mine what caused the crash of the stratojet, a sister ship of the ci vilian Hoeing 707. However, This One Mode It As NY -London Time Cut By JAMES F. KING , "BRIZE NORTON AIR - BASE, England (AP) A U.S. Air Force jet tanker set down at this Oxford shire air base Friday after mak ing the fastest-ever New York to London transatlantic flight. It was followed by a second huge KC135 stratotanker which also flashed over London in faster time than any previous mark for the route. The tankers had planned to take off on a London to New York rec ord attempt after a brief stopover here. This plan was abandoned because a third tanker in the flight crashed earlier as it was taking off from Westover Air Base in Massachusetts, killing 15 persons. A lourtn tanker scheduled to make the flight was canceled. The first record-breaking tanker took exactly 5 hours 22 minutes 29.68 seconds to make the 3,337 mile flight from New York to Lon don, the Pentagon in Washington announced. House OK's Tax Surcharge Cut; BUI Sent To Chief WASHINGTON (AP) The House passed and sent to Presi dent Eisenhower Friday a com promise lax bill repealing half a billion dollars a year in tax sur charges on freight transportation costs. The roll call vole was 365-9. The bill averts a drop of $2,115,- nno.000 in federal revenues due July 1 by extending for another year Korean War increases in the corporate income tax rale and other excises on new automo Explorer III Due To Die; Army Terms Flight Success By JACK STILLM.N IIUNTSV1LLE, Ala. (AP) Ex plorer HI is due to expire today. The Army said it has performed above and beyond expectations. Some time late today the 31 pound, 80-inch tube will descend into the earth's atmosphere and disintegrate. It will burn in the intense heat caused by friction, for it was not designed to take such punishment. The satellite, launched March 26 at Cape Canaveral, Fla trans mitted more complete information on cosmic rays than was thought possible, the Army said. One reason was because of its highly elliptical orbit. Its farthest point from earth was 1.700 miles. Its closest point was 117 miles in its early stages. As lime wore on. it was drawn closer to the earth's atmosphere. Army scientists estimated the atmospheric drag would finally cause its destruction late today. It will have traveled more than 32 million miles. When and where this destruc tion will come is not known. The Army's third satellite was launched into such a wobbly and off-center orbit that it nearly hi'Oied the atmosphere at its per igtQ or c'Ocst point to earth. f Kazimierz Machowski. 45. on whose property the plane crashed, said: "I heard the plane taking off as I was lying in bed. In a very little while, I heard a terrific ex plosion. I ran outside and it was brighter than daylight from the burning plane. The heat from the wreckage was so terrific it wasn't possible to get near it. Wreckage was all over the countryside. No body could have lived in that crash." Westover Air Force officials said the plane had made a nor mal takeoff and was airborne. They added that it broke ground at the exact point of prediction on the runway and appeared to be flying normally. It skidded across the Massa- chusctts Turnpike one of the state's busiest highways before blowing up with a roar on tho Machowski property. Patrolman Richard Haslam, 34, Chicopee, was one of the first on the scene. "I radioed headquarters," he said, "that there was no need for any ambulances. Nobody on board had a chance." The civilians killed in the crash were: Daniel J. Coughlin, 31, Boston, Associated Press newsman. Norman Montellier, 37, New York City, United Press Interna tional newsman. Glenn A. Williams, 41, Bethes da, Md., associate editor of U. S. News and World Report. Robert A. Ginsburgh, 63, also associate editor of U, S. News and World Report, who joined the magazine in -Washington, D. C, after retiring as an Air Force brig adier general and aide to four sec retaries of defense. James L. McConaughy Jr., chief of the Washington bureau of Time and Life magazine. Robert Sibley, 57, Belmont, Mass., aviation editor of the Bos ton Traveler. William Cochran, representing the National Aeronautical Assn. William Enyart, also represent ing the National Aeronautical Assn. The flight time figured to an average speed of about 644 miles per hour. The previous New York to Lon don record of 6 hours 16 minutes was set by a Royal Air Force Canberra bomber in August 1955. Fifteen men, including eight ci vilians, were on the first tanker. The crew members included Lt. James J. Jones, Lebanon, - Ore. Col. Harry Burrell, the 40-year- old flight commander from Oma ha, Neb., who rode in the first tanker, told a reporter: It s hard to be very happy about the record when a thins like this has happened. After all, that plane was manned by my men. 'We had no news of the crash until we landed. I can't imagine what caused it. To my knowledge that is the first one of these planes that ever crashed. With better winds, we might have knocked another 20 minutes off our time." biles, car accessories, liquor and cigarettes. The House completed congres sional action on the tax compro mise in spite of renewed grumbl ing over the fact Congress has not cut other excises, particularly, the 10 per cent federal tax on rail, bus and airline tickets. "Who comes first: People or freight?" demanded Rep. Harold R. Collier 'R-DD in short debate preceding House approval of the compromise worked out Thursday between Senate and House. Explorer I went Into an orbit of apprqximately 1.500 miles at ' its farthest point, and more than 200 miles at its closest point to earlh. The Army says it is ex pected to circle the earth for seven years. Explorer II ended in a blazing. premature end when it fell back inlo the, upper atmosphere. four separate signals were transmitted from Explorer III. They told scientists about tho temperature and the frequency of meteorites and cosmic rays. Ihe satellites batteries died two months ago, but the informa tion transmitted was much more complete than that received from Explorer 1. The thiid satellite's high-powered transmitter could be trig gered to transmit its information to the Smithsonian Observatory at Cambridge. Mass., at a given time. The satellite stored up Its in formation on 55 inches of mag netic tape as it completed lis or bit, and relayed it to earth only when called upon to do so. The Army says scientists now know that cosmic radiation at higher altitude is considerably more intense than had been anticipated.