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EU3ENE, OH. la The. Day's km By FRANK JENKINS What people want from govern ment note: A San Francisco citizen has asked that parking meters in the City PROVIDE A PLACE TO PARK YOUR FOOT as a part of the service they give in return (or the fee they charge for permis sion to park your car. He suggests that small plat forms be placed at each meter for people who want to tie their shoe laces. It's an idea. And, of course, it has some mer it. It is MOST annoying to have a shoelace come untied when you're making your way along a crowded street such as Market t a busy hour. UNDIGNIFIED to lean over In a crowd and tie your shoe. Be sides unless you've been doing the bends regularly every morn ing to keep yourself limber you may have trouble reaching that far down. If you tried it and failed, it would be humiliating. Your face would be red. I think we will all agree that it is a part of the duty and the re sponsibility of government to up hold the dignity o citizens. Human dignity is a precious thing. It must be preserved. Maybe this San Franciscan has something. Maybe government in this case city government OWES it to its citizens to provide platforms on parking meter posts so that the citizen may lift up his foot in a dignified manner and tie his shoelace when it comes un tied. It all depends on what we con ceive to be the DUTY of govern ment. At this point, another consider ation enters the picture. Tax Foundation, Incorporated a private research organization that spends its time delving into tax problems has just come up with an interesting figure. It re ports that in the U.S.A. there are some EIGHT MILLION civil work ers on federal, state and local levels. That is to say, there are some eight million civilian EM PLOYEES OF GOVERNMENT who are paid with tax money to serve the citizens in one way and another. These eight million employees of the taxpayers receive an an nual total stipend of approximate ly THIRTY BILLION DOLLARS. Tax Foundation says it takes the total income taxes of 19 average taxpayers to pay the salary of one government worker. It adds that government work ers now account for ONE OUT OF EVERY EIGHT EMPLOYED PERSONS. That is another way of saying that every eight em ployed workers in our nation HIRE a government flunkey to provide them with governmental services ranging all the way down from protection of life and property to providing platforms on parking meter posts where the citizen may put up his foot to tie his shoe laces in a dignitied manner, Summing up: If we're going to clamor for more public services, we are go. lng to have to have more govern ment employees. If we are going to have more government employ ees, we will have to pay more tax es. The dollar government reaches Into our pocket and takes for tax es is a dollar we don't have left to spend on ourselves. That's the nub of the situation Pacific Nuclear Tests Conducted WASHINGTON (AP) The Unit ed Slates conducted two nuclear test explosions yesterday at Em- wetok Atoll in the Pacilic. The tests, the sixth and seventh reported so far in the current series, were timed one hour apart. A joint announcement of the Atomic Energy Commission and the Defense Department said they occurred at 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. EST. The announcement gave no other information. w MUQA W04Ct BSAJtft go iet place an site of new Orson A. Stearns School at Crest d laArn streets. Proct, eostirf am ttistej $300,000, it enpected to. b com. UaJ mrmunA Novemba' I. Construct! mirfm"4 will be a combination asphalt tile . a. a-lyrom. Steams V Altamtt m-4 Price Ten Cents 68 Pages Coroner Says College Dean Took Own Life CORVALLIS, Ore. AP The body of George Edward Crossen, an Oregon State College dean who vanished Thursday, was found just north of here late Saturday. The 52-year-old Crossen appar ently committed suicide by tak ing poison, Benton County Coroner Joe McHenry said. Crossen had been the object of a state-wide search since his dis appearance from the Oregon State campus Thursday morning. He was dean of OSC's school of pharmacy. He was not seen again until Sgt. Kenneth Burright of the Cor vallis Police Department spotted his car about 3:04 p.m. Saturday coming into Corvallis. Burright and Jim Goodman, as sistant chief of police, said Cros sen told them he had been resting on the coast near Gearhart and told them he wanted to go home. They said he told them he was all right, and that he got into his car and headed home. Police checked his home and of fice a few minutes later and found that he had not returned. Patrolman C. E. Downing found the body in the car on the Cem etery Hill Road about & miles north of town at 3:40 p.m. Down ing said Crossen was slumped across the car seat sideways. A suicide note was found in the back seat of the locked car. A vial of fluid was found in a nearhy ditch. McHenry said indications arc that it was suicide." McHenry said he thought the death was caused by poison and that his office would do a chemi cal analysis. Crossen had left his office on campus about 10 a.m. Thursday, telling his secretary he was going to the airport and would return in an hour. When he had left home at 9 a.m., he had told his wife he would be back for lunch. Russia May Attend Talks WASHINGTON (AP) U.S. offi cials interpreted a new note from Moscow Saturday night as indi cating that Russia will take part in nuclear test talks at Geneva beginning Tuesday in spite of a threat only last Wednesday not to do so. The new note once more pressed the United States for a full and clear-cut agreement on- suspend ing all nuclear weapons tests. But as it was read here it docs not make such U.S. agreement a pre condition of Soviet attendance at Geneva. If this interpretation is correct, it means the Soviets are abandon ing their threatened boycott at the Geneva conference, which would constitute their second turnabout within a week. The day before they made the boycott threat, they had notified the U.S. government they would be present. U.S. officials were still puzzled about the reasons behind such So viet maneuvering but were in clined to think that Premier Khrushchev's government had tried a squeeze play hoping to force the United States to accept a test moratorium rather than see the Geneva meeting killed before it began. TIMBER SOLD GOLD BEACH (API Sale of 10 million board feet of timber to the Oceanview Timber Co. was an nounced by the U. S. Forest Serv ice Friday. The timber in the Siskiyou Na tional Forest sold for $96,195. ii;, ' ir, i .i.d-fr .,, . i -i i win ayiucfe iae ennoren to coma irom areas now 1m m Wt'y i In the county school sys- KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FATHER HAPPILY CLUTCHES 3-year-old daughter lost in woods for five hours near Swan Lake Thursday night. Triumphant searchers, Including 14 county jail prisoners, are shown participating in dad Howard Commons' relief and joy. Searchers, under Sheriff J. M. Britton, strung out In 300-yard Una with flashlights. Little Brown haired, blue eyed Jeanette was found peacefully asleep, her head on a bough, by Deputy Del Summers, standing to right of Commons. Except for being cold, she was none the worse for wear; in fact, she had nothing but smiles and gay laughter for all the folks who turned out in her honor. Photo by Sheriff J. M. Britton U.S. Asking For Release Of Engineers HAVANA, Cuba (AP) The United States decided Saturday to deal directly with Fidel Castro's rebels for the release of 10 Amer ican and two Canadian engineers held in the hot mountain jungles of northeastern Cuba. U.S. Ambassador Earl E. T. Smith ordered U.S. Consul Park Wollan to attempt to make con tact with the rebels from Moa. the north coast city where a band of 200 rebels kidnaped the men Thursday, night. Emissaries of the Moa Mining Co. went into the mountains Fri day but apparently failed in their attempt to win release of the men. The engineers were working on a company building site. In Washington, the State De partment said it had a report that the rebels would release the men soon. Press Officer Francis Tully said the report had come from sources in the United States pur porting to represent the Cuban rebels. A Cuban driver for the Moa Co., who had been taken along by the kidnapers, has returned and re ported the captives are unharmed and are being well cared for. He said he also was advised the rebels will release them soon. Mrs. John Schisslcr, wife of a California engineer, quoted a rebel as saying the men had been taken in reprisal for direct U.S. military aid to the Cuban govern ment. The rebels charged that the United States had permitted Cu ban armv planes to use the Guan- tanamo Navy Base airport for op erations against them. They also charged that the planes had re ceived fuel from the base supply Smith denied these charges. LUCKY COW LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP)-Con-ley Standafer Jr., IB. was killed by lightning while milking a cow in a barn. The cow wasn't hurt and the harn was undamaged. ig SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 1958 Brussels Police Arrest Ballerina For Shoplifting BRUSSELS (AP)-Olga Lepe- shinskaya, once Stalin's favorite ballerina, was caught shoplifting in a Brussels department store, police said Saturday. The star of the Bolshoi Ballet now appearing at the Brussels World Fair, Miss Lepeshinskaya is ranked only behind Galla Ula Nova and Maya Pliselskaya among Moscow's famous bal lerinas. Police said she was slopped on leaving the store Friday by a store detective, who had been tipped off by a customer. She pleaded to be allowed to at tend ballet rehearsals, but was hustled off to a police station, then to the Palace of Justice for ques tioning. Police said she finally admitted taking an umbrella, two pairs of gloves, cuff links and some tape. Unlike the celebrated case of a Soviet woman athlete convicted of shoplifting in London in 1956, this one seemed unlikely to cause an international incident. Store officials indicated they would not take any action. Miss Lepeshinskaya was once known as Stalin s favorite balle rina. Miss Lepeshinskaya is due to leave next week on conclusion of th- ballet's fair schedule. A fair theater management spokesman at first said Miss Lepeshinskaya attended Friday night's performance. Later he cor rected this and said the star did not perform. She is due to appear Saturday night. Two years ago an international incident developed after Nina Ponomareva, Soviet Olympic dis cus thrower, was charged with shoplifting five cheap hats in Lon don. An athletic meet was canceled in London and after hiding out for days in the Soviet Embassy, the attractive athlete finally appeared in court. She denied stealing the hats but was convicted of shoplifting. She was released on payment of court costs. The Soviet government stood be hind Nina and only a year ago awarded her the Order of Labor Red Banner. Budget Approved Voters of School District 1. the Klamath Falls Elementary School District, Friday passed the vised 1958-59 district budget of ; $1 , 189.156. and authorized the rais ing ni noi,iot.ui in laxes lur mis period. The vote on proposition one. calling for the tax levy, was 905 yes, 364 no. The vote on proposition two, the budget, was 932 yes, 338 no. The number of voters was small er than the 1.500 plus recorded in the May S election which de feated the original budget of SI. 215.618, but was considerably higher than that at similar elec tions in recent years. The Board of EaucatiM M Dis trict 1 will meet in epeeial mssiea Monday evening at 7:30 t can vass the vote and to close out the past budget year. Meeting place is the Klamath Umoi High Schovl building. KI)LCAT(I IT mr. MOSCOW IL'PII - A rom i American educators traay krarui a two-week tudy of higher at a linn in the .viet Union. Tha lt cation, which rrived by air Fri day night, ineurieaPi'WM ry David "Hinse of t-aalvn College, President raafc U-iriy ol Kansas I niera, W Presi dent Herbert Ws of Indiana University, Telephone TU 4-8111 Solon Alleges House Probe Impropriety WASHINGTON (AP) Rep. Thomas B. Curtis (R-Mo) Satur day night accused House investi gators of "procedural impropri ety" for allowing Bostoq financier John Fox to testify publicly ahout relationships between Sher man Adams and Bernard Gold fine. Curtis said a House Commerce subcommittee investigating the Adams-Goldfine case has not com plied with a House rule requiring secret sessions when a committee hears testimony which may tend to defame anyone- Fox, former publisher of the de funct Boston Post, has testified among other things that Goldfine, a Boston millionaire, told him he bought a Washington house for Adams, President Eisenhower's chief aide. Fox also quoted Gold fine as saying he had given Adams checks regularly before Adams came here with Eisenhower in 1953. Fox's testimony Thursday and Friday met with denials from Adams, Goldfine and the White House. They said Fox uttered ma licious lies. When the hearing resumes Mon day, Fox is due back for more testimony. Chairman Orr-n Harris (D-Ark) has not said yet whether he will go along then with a request by Goldfine's lawyers that Fox he heard behind closed doors. The subcommittee rejected such a re quest last Thursday. Curtis said in a statement, It absolutely essential that the subcommittee. . .adhere to the House rules in the conduct of its present and future hearings." He is not a member of the subcom mittee. Pakistanis Try Kashmir Entry RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP)- Policc haltled for five hours Sat urday with more than a thousand Pakistani volunteers attempting a peaceful invasion of Indian-held Kashmir. More than 210 volun teers were reported injured but they kept coming. The clash occurred on the road to Srinagar at Chinari. Police charged repeatedly with batons and threatened to fire on the green uniformed volunteers, none of whom carried weapons. The vol unteers defied the police by lying in the road and daring the police lo hoot, The march started with more than 300 volunteers moving to ward Kashmir. They pushed a thin police line back inch by inch until 1,500 police reinforcements arrived and started hauling the marchers away bodily. More than 1. 000 volunteers had arrived by the time police rein- lorcements came and more were still trekking in. Police first tried to head off the march Friday. They hauled away nundreas ( volunteers and ar rested exe of their leaders. The vilunteers are members of the Kashmir liberation movement While tli anvcrnmiwt js sympa thetic with the dims of the move- nv tt. ;wmutvr4 but week that "i Pirili (0 lasamir was 6W-a. Tex. 'I. I'll Tl s Society of P,naith r'a.rk Methodist Church neerl ;ls for a pet .r.st. Volun i"r included Mrs. EtheL Lynns. Mrs. E. H. Wolf and Mrs. Vjf, rire Fox. The cnrOMants are ex pected to be dogs and cats. Ms Claim To Pom US Military Airplane Fight Rages In Lebanese Port Cities BEIRUT. Lebanon (AP)-Bitter fighting raged Saturday in the Lebanese port cities of Tripoli and Sidon. Beirut was quiet during the day but darkness brought a flare up of scattered shooting. As the revolt dragged through its 50th day in this little Middle East nation. Prime Minister Sami Solh declared the U.N.-observer group sent here is not equal to the job of halting what he termed in creasing infiltration. Lebanon's government has charged the United Arab Republic is smuggling arms and men into the country. On the fighting fronts, rebel forces attacked government troops in a battle that lasted through the night and into Saturday morning in Tripoli. Reports from the coast al city said eight persons wore killed and about 20 wounded. Rebels using mortars and hand grenades attacked army positions. setting fire to one of the city's main squares. In the southern seaport of Sidon troops and rebels fought what an army communique described as a heavy battlc.lt said one captain was killed and casualties on the rebel side were unknown. Solh said in an interview with The Associated Press that the smuggling of arms and infiltration have increased since U.N. observ ers arrived in Lebanon June 12. Solh reiterated that he believes a U.N. police force is necessary o halt induration. He said he had old U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold a police force is needed when the U.N. official visited Lebanon this week, but that he did not hand a formal request to Hammarskjold. Solh earlier had told The Associated Press he had asked Hammarskjold for a police force. he Prime Minister said his gov ernment had expected the U.N. to help Lebanon more because we are surrounded by hostile Sy ria and Egypt and are fighting foreign elements inside our coun try." : i - We thought the rebels would slacken their terrorism if the IhN. arrived," Solh said. "But on the contrary, they have Increased il while arms smuggling and infil tration across the frontiers have increased. Fear Cubans Kidnap Tars HAVANA, Cuba (AP) Twenty- nine American sailors were re ported missing Saturday night aft er a picnic trip off the U. S. naval base at Guantanamo in southeast Cuba. U. S. Embassy sources in dicated there was a possibility the sailors had been kidnaped by Fidel Castro's rebels. Search parties began hunting the area but reported no trace ol the sailors. (The National Broadcasting Co. said in New York its Havana cor respondent reported the American servicemen had been seized by rebels.) The sailors were due back at the base by 7 p. m. A bus in which they wore travel ing for the picnic in the Cuban countryside was found on a road east of the city of Guantanamo A State Department press offi cer in Washington said the depart ment was checking into reports of the incident in an effort to sec what has happened to these men. The Navy in Washington had no comment. Guantanamo Navy base, on the southeast tip of Cuba, is in an area that has been the center of the revolt led by Castro against the government of President Ful gencio Batista. Thursday night Cuban rebels seized 10 American and two Cana dian engineers at Moa, in north east Cuba. They still arc being held. Explorer III Demise Told CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (API-Explorer III, the Army's 31-pound satellite launched March 26, prob ably died Friday night or early Saturday, the Smithsonian Astro physical Observatory said Satur day night. However, there is a possibility the 80-inch tube, 8 inches in diame ter, may still he in orbit though its days are numbered. A Memphis, Tcnn., Moonwatch team observed a pale orange light to the south at 10:31 p.m. KDT. Friday night. This sighting, corre lated with one at Wichita. Kan., the day before, indicated the satel lite was now circling the earth in 88 minutes. This 88-niinute time would be what Smithsonian scientists call a critical period. Completing a glo bal circuit in this lime would mean "4" 'eVfllite had lallen low enot.i into the atmosphere so that it e)on O'lld burn up from lnctn Moscow Says Over Soviet Union Frontier MOSCOW (AP) A U.S. Air Force plane with nine men aboard was forced down by Soviet fighter planes Friday night inside Soviet territory, the Soviet Union said Saturday night. The Soviets re ported the plane burned and the crewmen were seized. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko was said to have as sured U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson the men are alive. A note handed by Gromyko to Thompson protested what the So viets called a crude violation of their frontier. They said the plane had crossed the Soviet Armenian border and had flown up to 105 miles inside Soviet territory. They said the plane traveled almost 50 miles more before it was forced to land. The protest note said the plane was a four-engine military craft of the U.S. Air Force and that its crew wore U.S. military uni forms. The U.S. Defense Department in Washington said Saturday night Fiscal Year Deficit High WASHINGTON (AP)-The gov. ernment is due to wind up this fiscally unhappy year at midnight Monday with a deficit of 23 to 3 billion dollars. High administration officials predicted this Saturday, Looming ahead for fiscal 1959 beginning Tuesday is the even more dismal prospect of red ink aggregating 11 billion dollars, or perhaps close to 12 billion. This would carry the federal budget farther off balance than in any year since World War II, not excepting the period of the Korean War. The business upturn which the administration expects this fall could improve the budget outlook, but not substantially. The lag in payment ot corporate income taxes would delay much of the effect of a recovery until fiscal 19fi0. Even for the bookkeeping year now closing, however, officials acknowledge that present gucstes may be wide of the mark by as much as a lew hundred million dollars. It will be two or three weeks before the final vouchers can be tabulated at the Treasury. The business recession was the chief villian in transforming fiscal 195S from what the Eisenhower administration expected to he its third successive year of balanced budgets into the start of a new period of deficit financing. Income tax and corporation tax payments have dwindled with the drop in personal income and business profits. President Eisen hower's original estimate of $73,- (00,000,000 in receipts this fiscal year has shrunk to roughly 70 million dollars. Spending is ex pected to be in the neighborhood of 73 billion dollars. Racketeers To Be Called WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate rackets probers predicted Satur day they will unmask in hearings starting Monday a criminal com bine wielding great power in bus messes and labor unions. Sen. John L. McClclian (D-Ark) said hearings by the committee he heads will show a continuing tie between what the senator called an American criminal syndicate and the deported gangster Charles 'Lucky) Luciano in Italy. Some McClellan said, call it the Mafia He said he has subpoenaed 100 witnesses, including many rack eteers and gangsters, for hearings here which will run off and on for months. McClellan said President James R. Hoffa on the Teamsters Union, with whom the committee has tangled previously, may be heard next month. The slarling point. McClellan said, will be an effort to cut through mystery still surrounding an assemblage raided last Novem ber by police at Apalachin, N. Y me police hinted but never proved that mobsters and others had gathered to carve up rackets left without a boss by the killing of Albert Anastasia. Some nf those at Apalachin were evidently re putable businessmen. McClellan said the hearings will swncn irom tnc Apalachin meet ing to a study of nangsler opera tinns in the garment industry in .New ork, hiranton and Pittston, Pa.: then to Detroit and Chicaso. Next, he said, they will cover olb er cities from coast to coast. St. Louis, Mo.. East St. Louis, III., Cleveland, Miami. Los Angel es and n Francisco had been named as among the cities whose underworlds were under scrutiny FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Partly cloudy Sunday and Sunday night with chance nf after. nnon showers. High Sunday M 72. Fair and warmer Monday Mich yesterday . Low last night 31 Craft Flew it had received a report that a transport type aircraft, believed to be a CU8 with nine persons aboard, was unreported on a flight from Nicosia, Cyprus, to Teheran, Iran, by way of Turkey. The C118 is a military version of a Douglas DC6A four-engine transport. (The department said it had n further details immediately.) Thompson, asked for comment, said he had no details or informa tion other than the statementi made in the Soviet note. Embassy sources, who said tha plane may have lost its way on a flight to or from adjoining Turk- . ey, said there was no indication of the type of plane or its mission. There was no indication wheth er the plane was forced down by guntire alter pursuit. But it was learned later thai Thompson asked Gromyko: , "Are the men alive?',' : The foreign minister repliedi "Yes." . (In Wiesbaden, Germany, head quarters of the U.S. Air Force in Europe said it had no knowledge of any of its planes being missing and referred further queries to the U.S. State Department. (In Washington, the State De partment press office said the de partment had not yet received tha Soviet note. The Soviet Foreign Office usually presents its notes in Russian and they are translated at the embassy in Moscow before being transmitted to Washington. (At the Pentagon, a spokesman said no report had been received of the incident up to late afternoon but that a request for report had been sent to the Air Force m Eu rope.) The Soviet protest, also broad cast by Radio Moscow, charged that the plane came across the border south of Yerevan, capital of the Soviet Armenian Republic, which is a scant 10 miles from the east Turkey border. Yerevan is about 40 miles north east of Mt.. Ararat, in Turkey, traditional resting place-of Noah'i ark. ; , The Soviet note said the plane flew over the border about 8:30 p.m. 1 ' Crash Probed WESTOVER AIR FORCE BASS Mass. (AP) Ten teams of special ists began a thorough investigation Saturday of a jet . Stratotanker crash that took 15 lives early Fri day on a planned sneed flight to London. The groups met separately and then went on to the scene of the crash a cornfield about a mils and a half from this air base. The specialists include such teams as flying safety research, structures and dynamics, explo sion and fire pattern, power plants, fuel systems, electronics, flight operation, survival and oxygen, maintenance and hydraulics. Meanwhile, special memorial services were planned for Sunday morning at the base chapel for the dead which included six news men. The Air Force headquarters in Washington Saturday sent a mes sage to Benjamin M. McKelway, editor of the Washington Star and president of the Associated Press, expressing regrets at the death of Daniel J. Couglin, 31, nf the Boston Associated Press staff, one of tha victims. t: i DOROTHY HESSIG, 16, of Beswick, Saturday night wai named Senior Rodeo Queen of the Klamath Basin Cele bration. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Louis Heitig of the Double Heart Ranch, Dorothy will be a senior at YreU High School next year. She was alio the "All around Cowgirl," an honor given her in Montagu where she was queen of the Junior Rodeo in 1956, Dorothy's princesses were Lorraine (Buttons) Smith) 17-year old Beatty entrant and Norma Struble, 16, of Dorris. Lorraine is the nieca of Mr. and Mn. Dallas Given Sr., and Norma is tha daughter of Mr, and Mrl. Dale Struble. 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