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By FRANK JENKINS
Western Hemisphere note:
Our neighbor across the Rio
Grands held a presidential elec
tion yesterday. There were four
tandidates. The generally antici
pated winner Ino election returns
are available as this is written)
is Adolfo Lopez Mateos. He is the
candidate of Mexico's dominant
party, which hasn t lost an elec
tion in 40 years.
He is an attorney who worked
lip through a succession of con
gressional and diplomatic posts to
become minister of labor under
President Cortines, the incumbent
who is retiring.
Mateos' principal opponent is
Luis Alvarez, who ;s the candidate
of Mexico's principal opposition
party. He is a successful textile
industrialist from the border state
of Chihuahua. He was born in
Juarez, went to high school in El
Paso and attended the University
of Texas.
He is expected to come in sec
ond in the running, but isn't given
much chance of election.
Candidate No. 3 is Miguel Men
doza Lopez, who is running on the
communist ticket. The commies
were unable to muster enough sig
natures to get his name on the
ballot, so he is running as a write
in candidate.
He concedes he hasn't much
chance, and explains it this way:
"1 would make a better showing
in the' election if more of my fol
lowers knew how to write."
The list is completed by Leo
nardo Garcia Perez, who won the
nomination of the minority DNA
party. The No. 1 plank in his plat
form is a promise to cure the na
tion's economic ill and boost the
value of the peso from eight cents
to a dollar.
Before gelling into politics he
was a miracle healer. He used a
magic potion to treat polio, can
cer and various other afflictions.
His miracles weren't numerous
enough, and the .Mexican health
department made h i m shut up
shop. Like many another of his
kind the world over, he turned to
politics.
Interesting sidelight:
The Mexican government went
. all out this year to enforce the
DEP1ST0LIZATI0N laws. At yes
terday's election, anyone caught
carrying a pistol or a knife to the
polls was promptly clapped into
the calabozo.
"Why this dissertation on a Mex
lean election?
It's like this:
Mexico is the most hopeful na
tion of Latin America. By all the
rules of history, she has every
reason to HATE us with an endur
ing hatred. We forced upon her a
WAR OF CONQUEST. We took
from her vast areas of territory
We took this territory by FORCE
OF ARMS.
Somewhat more than a half cen
tury later, we took advantage of
a bandit foray across the Rio
Grande (by a brutal character
named Pancho Villa) and sent a
punitive military expedition clear
to Vera Cruz. A similar foray by
the French a century and a quar
ter ago created the situation that
is causing France s present trou
bles in Algeria.
Why are our present relations
with Mexico good and getting bet
ter?
One reason is that Americans in
increasing numbers are flowing
into Mexico as tourists. These
tourists are REAL Americans.
They aren't too snooty. They don't
sneer at Mexicans. They are genu
inely interested in them especially
in the younger generation Mexi
cans who are coming up through
Mexico's schools. These kids are
as smart as tacks, and Ameri
cans tend to adore them.
Also
We haven't poured too much
FOREIGN AID onto Mexico. We've
TRADED with her instead of shell
ing out alms and playing Lady
Bountiful. As a result, our rela
tions with Mexico and Mexicans
are improving steadily.
If we could apply the same wise
policies to the rest of Latin Amer
ica, the Western Hemisphere could
be built into the happiest and most
prosperous area in the world.
Fires On Rampage Over
Eastern Oregon Ranges
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lightning set fires burned
across Eastern Oregon rangeland
Sunday night as thunderstorms
followed the state's holiday heat
wave. One fire still burned out of
control Monday.
About 12.000 acres of grassland'
Sunday night in the northern part
of the Vale grazing district. John
Hunt, state fire control officer for
the Bureau of Land Management,
said that six of the seven lightning
blazes were under control.
Firefighters were slill being re
cruited to combat the seventh
fire, which had burned 600 acres
in the Huntington area. Several
wheat fields burned Sunday night.
and Hunt said there was danger
still more farms might be hit.
About 300 men, including Mcxi
can nationals from the Nyssa Ag
ricultural Camp, local ranchers
and BLM crews, were on fire
lines Monday morning.
Hunt said Ihe humidity is low
snd the fire crews were anticipat
ing more trouble Latex Monday
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KLAMATH
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ADMITS SCARE LETTER
William Stanley Whales,
34, an out-of-work farm
hand, is shown in London
after he confessed he had
written the letter which
touched off fears "crazy"
American pilot might drop
a hydrogen bomb off the
coast of England. Whales'
letter was addressed to
Soviet Amb. Jacob Malik
who made it public.
Reds Keep
Threat Letter
LONDON (AP) - The Soviet
Embassy so far has failed to turn
over the original letter purporting
to be from a U.S. pilot tnreaten-
ing to drop a nuclear bomb near
the British Isles.
Receipt of the letter, regarded
by U.S. and British officials as s
hoax, was announced by the So
viet Embassy last Thursday.
A Foreign Office spokesman
said Monday the Russians showed
the British the original but hand
ed over only a photostatic copy.
British security police asked for
the original last Friday so that
they could study paper, ink and
handwriting in an attempt to
identity the author.
William Stanley Whales," a for
mer Royal Air Force bandsman,
admitted Sunday he lied when he
confessed that he wrote the let
ter.
Reds Release
Plane Crew
LONDON (AP) - Moscow Ra
dio said the nine-man crew of a
U. S. Air Force transport plane
forced down in Soviet Armenia
June 27 was freed on the Soviet
Iranian frontier Monday.
The broadcast said the airmen
were handed over to a U.S. mili
tary representative at the town of
Astara.
It gave no further details.
The U.S.S.R. announced on June
28 that the C118 military trans
port had been caught by Soviet
fighters inside the Soviet Armen
ian border and forced to land.
The U.S. Embassy in Moscow
had since been negotiating at high
level lor the relurn ot the men.
NO RIGHT OF WAY
OREGON CITY (AP)-The right
of way along the Portland Trac
tion Co.'s interurban line would
revert back to heirs of the original
owners if a suit filed here Thurs
day is successful. The suit con
tends that in discontinuing passen
ger service, the company violated
terms of the original right of way
deed.
Holiday
Death Toll:
Traffic 364
Drowning 182
Miscellaneous 93
from new thunderstorms. Fire
crews have ben alerted in the
Burns and Baker grazing dis
tricts, which escaped lightning
strikes in Sunday's storm.
Some ligntmng strikes were re
ported in national forest areas.
but U.S. Forest Service officials
said there were no major fires.
Smokejumpers were flown into
the Applegate area of the Rogue
River Valley this morning to ex
tinguish one blaze. Most of the
Southern Oregon jumpers were
flown to fires in the Mt. Baker
area of Washington.
Temperatures in Oregon Sunday
were high before thundershowers
hit, mostly in the southern part
of the state. Grants Pass had the
state's high with a 99. followed
by .21 inch of rain Sunday after
noon. Medford had 98, The Dalles
and Salem 95, Eugene and Pendle
ton 94.
The Weather Burcru said near
normal temperatures are expect
ed in the stale despite thunder
storm activity in the Blue Moun
tain and Cascade vicinity.
FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, JLI.V 7, 195
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Goldfine Case Turns Into
Cops-And-Robbers Drama
As Events Blasted Clear
WASHINGTON (UP1) Thel
Bernard Goldfine case suddenly
turned into a cops-and-robbers
drama today.
In quick sequence:
The chief investigator for the
House influence investigating com
mittee was caught planting a
'hidden microphone" at the hotel
door of one of Goldfine's aides.
A spokesman for Goldfine said
that the hotel room of Mildred
Paperman, Goldfine's secretary,
had been "ransacked" and that a
number of important financial
papers had been stolen. Roger
Robb, attorney for the Boston mil
lionaire, said the papers had a
bearing on Goldfine's testimony
before the subcommittee investi
gating Goldfine's relationship with
Presidential Assistant Sherman
Adams.
The sensational turn of events
came a few hours after Goldfine
and his entourage plus a new
public relations adviser returned
to Washington for the resumption
of Goldfine's testimony Tuesday.
Goldfine complained to the FBI,
the U.S. district attorney's office,
and the Washington Police De
partment, which sent detectives to
the scene.
Goldfine complained to the FBI
about secret recordings made in
the middle of the night by sub
committee 1 n vestigator Baron
Shacklette and Jack Anderson, an
assistant to columnist Drew Pear
son.
The FBI turned the complaint
over to the Justice Department lor
determination whether federal
laws have been violated.
Chairman Oren Harris (D-Ark.)
called his investigating subcom
mittee into emergency secret ses
sions to consider what he de
scribed as the "very serious" inci
dent involving the hidden micro
phone. He summoned Shacklette
to appear before the group at an
afternoon session.
Harris, shown a copy of a story
about the "ransacking" of Miss
Paperman's hotel room, said
"The integrity of the committee
is at stake here and we have
simply got to find out about it.'
Watch Out Mankind1. Navy
Now Announces Electronic
Robot With Human Brain
WASHINGTON (AP) The Navy
announced today the partial de
velopment of an electronic robot
it says will be able to match some
of the functions of the human
brain.
It calls the robot a Perceptron.
At least another year will be re
quired to complete the first full
pilot model, the Navy said, but its
principle and concept already
have been demonstrated success
fully by using a large electronic
computer.
When it is uilly developed, tne
machine is expected to be able
to perceive, recognize and identify
its surroundings without any hu
man training or control. It differs
that it does not have to be fed
facts and figures in advance.
Among the potential uses to
which such a robot eventually
may be put, the announcement
said, are these:
New-type automatic landing
systems and automatic pilots for
Deluge Hits Texas Again;
Fort Worth Feels Tornado
DALLAS (AP) Flood-creating
deluges up to 12 inches and
violent and damaging winds
struck Texas during the night. The
slorm-breeding cool front stalled
over the slate Monday, threaten
ing more damage.
Winds of tornadic force dam
aged homes in Tyler and Dallas.
Fort Worth lost a church steeple
lo lightning.
An estimated eight inches of
rain hit Dcvine in south-central
Texas and flooded the small town
Sunday night. Several automobiles
were submerged at an underpass,
and several sections of Ihe town
were under four feet of water.
Some homes were evacuated, but
no casualties were reported and
damage was not estimated.
The 12-inch rain struck Hannibal
in central Texas. It sent the
Cosque River and Barton Creek
surging out of their banks, flooded
Ihe Stephenville city park and
damaged several stores.
Cloudbursts
Landslides In
YAKIMA (AP) - Rock and,
earth slides touched off by moun
tain cloudbursts early Monday
closed the cross-state White Pass
Highway 30 miles east of here and
the Stevens Canyon road in Mt.
Rainier National Park.
Four slides rumbled across the
White Pass roadway in the Tciton
River canyon near Trout Lodge.
State Highway Department
crews had the debris cleared lor
one-way traffic by 8 a.m. and nor
mal travel was expected to be re
sumed later in the day.
Men and equipment were sept
U the scene from Yakima after
No. 1613
Shacklette and Anderson were
discovered early this morning with
a microphone at the bottom of the
hotel room door of Goldfine's new
publicity man. Jack Lotto, former
New York newspaperman.
Harris said Shacklette was not
assigned to the Goldfine case and.
in any event, was "certainly not
authorized" to plant microphones
at hotel room doors. He promised
to "find out about all the facts
The Boston millionaire, who
showered favors on Adams and
passed out Christmas checks
without partisan favor to White
House and congressional workers
faced searching questioning by the
subcommittee Tuesday on his Ii
nancial affairs.
Meanwhile. Massachusetts Tax
Commissioner Joseph P. Healey
disclosed in Boston that all of
Goldfine's personal and corporate
tax affairs are under investigation
by the state. He also disclosed
that Goldfine has not yet tiled a
state income tax return for 1956:
did not file a 1955 return until
June 2, 1951!: and had requested
and received a 90-day extension
to July 15 to file his 1957 returns.
Harris was reported to have
tried late in March to fire Shack
lette from his $14,800 a year job.
only to be blocked by other sub
committee members.
Shacklette was understood to
have conducted the bulk of the in
vestigation for Harris' subcommit
tee inquiry into the award of Mi
ami. Fla.. television channel 10.
This was the case that led to the
resignation of Federal Communi
cations Commissioner Richard A
Mack.
The episode of the hidden mic
rophone" was revealed after Lotto
had called a midnight press con
ference to make public letters he
said Goldfine had received from
several governors thanking him
for bolts of cloth the textile ty
coon had sent out during the 1955
Governors Conference. Lotto nev
er got around to that.
It was Lotto who also announced
that Miss Paperman's room had
been ransacked.
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aircraft . . . automatic reading of
the printed or written word .
responding to verbal commands
. . . automatic language translation
either in written or vocal form , . .
automatic unearthing of scientific
and other information buried in
library books . . . and even rapid
fire recognition of musical com
positions, with all. the accuracy of
a music critic.
The Navy says the new system
closely parallels, by electronic
means, the "selective recognition
or 'similarity' functions of man's
mind."
It would operate in much the
same way lhat the human eye and
certain brain areas work together
to provide the human function of
recognition.
Dr. Frank Rosenblatt, research
psychologist at the Cornell Aero
nautical Laboratory, Inc., work
ing under a contract with the Of
fice of Naval Research, came up
with the Perceptron concept.
A wholesale grocery firm's
building and several homes were
heavily damaged in lylcr.
Damage was estimated at sev
eral thousand dollars when the
Arcadia Park section of Dallas
was hit by what residents de
scribed as a small twister. Small
outbuildings, ca.oorls and TV an
tennas were damaged.
the Polytechnic Methodist
Church on the campus of Texas
Wesleyan College at Fort Worlh
was damaged about the same
time when lightning knocked off
one of its four concrete steeples
Lightning struck another fort
Worth church, but no damage was
reported.
Lightning also hit the St. Mary's
Cathedral in Austin in centra
Texas, knocking stones from the
100-foot tower through a tile roof
of the sanctuary. About a half
dozen homes in this area were
damaged. Lighlning struck the
Austin police station with minor
damage.
Touch Off
Mountains
logging company workers relayed
word of the slides.
In Mt. Rainier Park, the Stev
ens Canyon road linking the Ohan-
aperosh and Paradise Valley
Longmire Breas was covered in
several places with giant bould
ers, rock and dirt to a depth of
10 lect.
The cloudburst hit in an area of
sheer rock chimneys, which
loosened tons of debris and sent
it roaring down over the road
Park Superintendent Preston
Macy said the mule would be
closed at least until Tuesday.
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FIREWORKS BLAST KILLS ONE Fire Inspectors, background, examine scene of fire
works warehouse explosion in Portland, Oregon, which razed several nearby homes end
shattered windows as far as 22 blocks away. At least one person, a little girl, was
killed and more than 20 injured.
Weather
FORECAST Klamath Falls end
vicinity: Mostly fair through Tues
day except for scattered thunder
storms. Low tonight 46-55. High
Tuesday 77-83.
High yesterday 87
Low last night 59
Prcclp.. last 24 hour .0
Since Ort. 1 19.01
Same period last year 15.04
Normal for period 12.42
FIVE DAY FORECAST
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Western Washington and West-
ern Oregon: Cooler over interior
Tuesday but temperatures aver
aging near normal with maxi -mums
for Western Washinetnn
mostly 75 to 85, and Western Ore
gon 80 to 90 except near normal
with 60 to 70 on (he coast. Pre
cipitation less than normal.
Eastern Washington, Eastern
Oregon and Idaho: Temperatures
averaging above normal with
maximums mostly 80 to 90. Scat
tered afternoon thundershowers
mostly over the mountains.
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) Five-
day wealher forecast for Northern
California: No precipitation: tern
perature near normal; normal
minimum - maximum Sacramento
58-92, Red Bluff 68-99, Eureka 52-
61, Santa Rosa 49-82, Blue Canyon
57-77.
Red Infiltration
Predicted Agafti
In Guatemala
GUATEMALA (AP) Gualemal
?ns are being warned lhat Com
munists are again trying to bore
from within.
Four years ago Col. Carlos Cas-
lillo Armas and a ragtag libcra-i
lion army threw, out this hemis
phere s only Red-dominated gov
ernment. Hundreds of Guatemal
ans followed president Jacobo Ar
uenz Guzman into exile.
A palace guard shot President
Castillo Armas to death last July.
Now President Miguel Ydigoras
Fuentes charges lhat the exiles
he let return in recent months are
active again, agitating "in Ihe
slreet, among workers and even
in Congress."
Ydigoras Fuenlcs said his gov
ernment will deal with the Com
munists as their activities might
require.
Germany Moves
To Re-establish
Passenger Lines
HAMBURG, Germany (AP) -
West Germany is moving to re
establish Germany's prewar luxu
ry passenger fleet.
The 29,500-ton Hanscatic. big
gest passenger ship since the war
lo fly the German colors, will
cave July 21 on her maiden voy
age to New York.
In less than a year, the Hanse-
alic will he moved to second place
by the 30,500 - ton Bremen, now
also being reconditioned.
The Hanscatic is the former
Empress of Scotland, bought by
he Hamburg-Atlantic Line Irom
Ihe Canadian Pacific Steamship
Co.
The Bremen, due lo make her
debut next June, is the former
Pasteur, bought from France by
the North German Lloyd.
California Tops
Traffic Roster
SAN FRANCISCO (L'PIl- Cal
ifornia once again topped all
states in the number of highway
fatalities and rolled up a stagger
ing total of drownings over the
July rourth weekend.
At least 34 persons died in ac
cidents in California from 6 p.m
Thursday to midnight Sunday
night. The total for the Memorial
Day weekend, the same length ol
lime, was 3d.
And 17 persons drowned as per
fect summer weather drew thou
sands to beaches and lakes.
Three died in a plane crash and
11 were killed in other accidents
lor a total of 65.
CHRISTMAS IN JULY
DENVER (API When It was
Independence Day all over Ihe
nation the Darrel Lents had
Yulctide celebration, complete
with gills and a lighted Christmas
tree. The reason? The Lents' four
daughters ranging in age from 3
to 13 never have spent Christmas
with their gr .ulparents, who are
visiting here iio'.
Fireworks Blast Probed;
No Cause Discovered Yet
PORTLAND (AP) Investiga
tors still had not determined Mon
day the cause of the explosion of
a fireworks warehouse here early
Saturday.
The blast killed a 4-year-old girl
in a nearby house, inflicted miw :
injuries on at least 26 other per
sons, and damaged several scores
of homes in a southeast Portland
suburban area.
Crews began removing debris
from the sue of the Signal Fire
works and Specialty Co., where
an estimated 20 tons of fireworks
detonated with a blast that rocked
Ihe entire city in early morning
darkness Saturday.
A two-block area around the
warehouse site still was roped off
Sheriff Francis Lambert said
Oregon Highways Free O f
Death, But 72 Drown To
Darken Holiday Weekend
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Oregon experienced a tragic
Independence Day weekend on the
water, but apparently escaped
death on the highways in the long
three-day holiday.- J ,
Twelve persons drowned" as 90
degree heat drove thousands to
swimming areas a n o fishing
streams. Two oilier deaths pushed
Ihe Oregon toll to 14 by midnight
Sunday, when the counting ended.
Not one traffic death was re
corded in the holiday period which
began at 6 p.m. last Thursday.
The deaths other than drowning
were those of a California youth
crushed by a huge rock near Odell
Lake Sunday, and a 4-year-old
deaf mute who died in the thun
derous explosion of a fireworks
warehouse in southeast Portland
early Saturday.
Two of the drowning victims
were Portland sisters, swept away
while wading, hand-in-hand, in the
Columbia River near Sauvie Is
land. The sisters were Slielba Ann
Scroggins, 15, and Connie Scrog-
gms, 11. They were holding hands
while wading with five other
youngsters. None of the seven
could swim.
Their mother, and a brother.
Ronald, 21, saw the girls slip into
deep pool. Ronald and other
adults jumped in, hut were nut
able to reach the sisters.
Roger Braman, 20, Eugene,
drowned Sunday morning in the
south lork of the Willamette River
16 miles above Oakridge. He was
(ishing with a companion, who told
stale police Braman tell into the
stream and was swept away. The
body was recovered.
Another drowning in the Eugene
area look Ihe We ot Walter A.
Chaffee. 12. son of Mr. and Mrs.
Alvin Chaffee, Route 2, Vcneta,
Sunday. The falher said Ihe boy
disappeared suddenly from a raft
the imming area at Fern
Ridge Reservoir. The body was
not recovered until too laic.
Richard Roy Lander, 25, Riddle,
drowned in Ihe South Umpqua
River near Myrtle Creek Sunday
evening. He went under while at
tempting to swim across the river.
Ihe body was recovered Monday.
A youngster wading in the South
Sanliam Itiver, five miles east o.'
Lebanon, drowned alter falling
into a pool. He was Harry Allen
Anderson, 15, visiting from Lin-
Raft Lehi Cracks Up As
Fourth Float Try Bobbles
SAN PEDRO, Calif. (LTD -
Skipper DeVere Baker, 42. made
repairs on the raft Lehi IV today
after failure of his newest attempt
to float across the Pacific.
Baker, who has had three olher
rafls which bohbled like aimless
corks in four attempts at floating
like Kon Tiki, estimated it would
tnke another four days lo get tht
12-ton raft olt the beach.
The skipper and a four-man
crew set oul Saturday intending
In float lo the Hawaiian Islands
by Ihe Japanese current. Eight
miles out came one of the almost
inevitable accidents which have
plagued Baker's rafts.
The 28-by-18 foot raft, costing an
estimated $.10,000 to huild, broke
.- double tow rope and banged Into
Ihe yacht Crest which had been
lowing it to Santa Catahna Island,
there were some unexploded fire
works scattered in the area. Crews
began carting off debris Monday.
Oregon bans fireworks use, ex-
cent at licensed public exhibitions,
but storage at the warehouse was
legal.
The girl killed was the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. William Howe Jr.
The parents managed to escape
from their home with another
daughter, 3 years old. The house
was set ablaze.
Howe said he searched the burn
ing structure several times before
being chased away by flames
without finding the 4-year-old girl
Her body was discovered later
under debris in her bedroom.
Of the 26 persons admitted to
hospitals here, the last were re
leased Sunday.
coin, Neb. He was wading with
his twin brother, Harold, who
managed to reach shore.
Ken Mayer ot the Lebanon Fire
Department rescue squad recov
ered tne Body.' '
Lewis Jackson Jr., 21, Seattle,
a nonswimmer, drowned while
wading in Ihe Sandy River near
Troutdalc, east of Portland. He
was visiting Portland friends for
the holiday.
In a boating accident south of
Newport on the coast, three per
sons reached safety but a fourth
drowned when a 14-foot outboard
powered boal was capsized by a
large wave. The craft had been
missing and lost in the fog Satur
day. The boat cams upon a crab boat.
tne ueorge E.. of Newport, skin
pered by Ed Erickson. He told the
four to follow a line of crab pots
back to the harbor, and notified
the Coast Guard.
A Coast Guard patrol rounded
up four olher boats, but missed
one occupied by Donald F. Crosby,
27, Portland, and three compan
ions. The boat drifted ashore and
capsized. Crosby failed to reach
Ihe beach.
The survivors were identified
as Robert Nucse. 29. and his wife,
Barbara, 28, of Grcsham, and
Evelyn L. Gospodnctich, 24, Port
land. The youth crushed by an over
turning rock was William DavM
DcLay, 17, of Indio, Calif. He had
been visiting in Springfield with
Ihe Gordon Miller family, and took
Millers daughter, 17-year-old
ludy, on an outing to Odell Lake
Sunday. '
Young DcLay climbed a huge
rock, camera in hand. The rock
slipped, pitching the boy to his
death as it roiled on him.
The other five deaths, four by
drowning, occurred earlier in the
holiday weekend.
The victims:
Marlin Fisher, 46. and his 19-
year-old son, Allan, both of North
Bend, and Andrew Young, 40.
Oregon City, in a boating accident
off Florence.
Sally Jenkins, 14. Sweot Home,
drowned while swimming in the
Santiam River near Sweet Home.
Mary Beth Howe, 4, Portland,
died in the explosion of a fire
works warehouse in' southeast
Portland early Saturday.
about 20 miles off the Southern
California coast.
Despite a hole above Ihe water
line, Ihe yacht attached a new
rone to Ihe Lehi, relused Coast
Guard assistance and lugged the
rait back to Los Angeles Harbor
where it was tied up.
The Lehi' 20-foot square sail.
ihe raft's only means of propul
sion except for a dingy's outboard
motor, was damaged during the
abortive attempt to get underway.
Now, Baker said, he plans to
tow Ihe rafl 150 miles oul, avoid
Catalina and catch the Japanese
current.
If he makes It to Iho Islands,
Baker hopes to eventually lloat
from the Persian Gulf to Central
America. He believes persons in
fthe Middle East made Ihe trip
on raits in prcnisionc aayi,
Lost ManT
Found After
Desert Search
PRINEV1LLE (AP)-Dazed and
exhausted from hours of exposure
to 90-degree heat, an 85-year-old
Pnneville man was rescued by his
son and a helicopter pilot Sunday
(rom lonely desert country near
Powell Butte.
Frank Brown had driven inle
the area Saturday morning, head
ing for a ranch. His car became
stuck on a back road and he tried
to walk to the Prineville-Redmond
highway.
He got about four miles before
collapsing from the heat on a high
ridge.
Relatives notified authorities
and a search started Sunday.
Horsemen and airplanes entered
the search and Brown's son; Bus
ter, went up with pilot Bob Griffith
in a Coast and Geodetic Survey
helicopter used by survey teams
in the region. The son Is employed
by the survey.
They spotted Brown Sunday
afternoon, landed the helicopter,
and flew the elderly man to a
Pnneville hospital. Attendants re
ported his condition improving
Sunday night.
California
CC Opposes
Tax Measure
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) - Aa
official of Ihe California State
Chamber of Commerce told a leg
islative committee today the
chamber is unanimously opposed
to Proposition 17, the initiative
tax measure.
The official was James Mussat-
ti, general manager of the cham
ber. He appeared before Joint
Legislative Committee on Taxa
tion. The chairman is ' Sen.
James. J. McBride (D-Ventura).
Proposition 17 would reduce
sales and use taxes from 3 to 2
per cent. It would also change the
tax rate on personal incomes from
the present 1 to 6 per cent scale
to a new scale ranging from 1-2
to 46 per cent.
"The adoption of the reckless
and ruinous tax scheme set forth
in Proposition 17 , , .would create
serious linancial and economic
problems in California," Mussatti
said. "Simultaneously, it would
work havoc with state credit as
related lo selling bonds for vet
erans loans, schools and col
leges." ..- ,--. -
Mussatll said adoption of that
initiative would "seriously slow"
the slate's economio growth since
it would discourago business de
velopment. "The full effect of revenue
shortages caused by Proposition
No. 17 would start In 1959-60,"
Mussatti said. "In that year, the
shortage would run 84 million dol
lars. In 1964-65, the deficiency
would be over 200 million dollars."
One result of the measure would
be to drive higher income tax
payers "to a more tolerable clim
ate." Leader Asks
Hawaii Move
LOS ANGELES (UPI) -Edward
S. Shattuck, Republican national
committeeman for California, has
asked Democrats to join in a bi
partisan move to press for Ha
waiian statehood.
In a letter to Paul Ziffern, the
state's Democratic national com
mitteeman, Shalluck predicted the
statehood hill would pass both
houses of Congress by substantial
majorities if it gets out of com
mittee. "Will you join me in advocating
immediate bipartisan action for
passage of Ihe Hawaiian state
hood bill?" Shattuck asked.
'The bill is now on the Senate
calendar and should be called up
by the Democratic majority at any
time. Similar legislation is pend
ing before the House Interior Com
mittee and could be acted upon
at any time the Democratic chair
man and the Democratic majority
would bring it up for action."
He asked Zilfern to urge Demo
cratic members of Congress from
California to help bring the meas
ure out of committee.
Hatfield Will
Wed On Tuesday
PORTLAND (AP)-The wedding
of Secretary of Stale Mark Hat-
lield and Antoinette Kuzmanich
of Portland will take place here
Tuesday night.
The ceremony will be in the
Hinson Memorial Baptist Church.
The couple was together here
over the weekend as Mrs. B. F.
Johnson gave a wedding rehearsal
dinner .it her home Saturday
night. A.so on hand at the re
hearsal were Dr. J. Herbert
Smith, president of Willamette
University, who will be Hatlicld'l
best man.
Hatfield, who is Republican
nominee lor governor, lormeriy
was a political science proiessor
at Willamette.
Bulletin
WASHINGTON, (UPI)
President Eisenhower to
day signed into law the bill
to make Alaska the 4ft h
(tat.