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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 11, 1958)
FRIDAY. JULY 11. ma HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREfiON PAGE 5 A Park Board To Ask Voters For An Additional 2 Mills Voters may be asked to okay an additional two mill tax (or city park and recreation purposes when balloting time rolls around In November. The Park and Recreation Board Wednesday recommended the lev ies be authorized for the ballot by the city council, which must give linal consent. Meanwhile, the board authorized J)irector Bob Bonney to work with City Attorney Henry Perkins in getting the necessary papers drawn up. !f council approval ensues and if voters also say yes. then Dark and recreation tax rales would go from a present two mills each to three each. In the fiscal year just ended, two mills produced about $27,000 in revenue for each de partment. If the city's total sessea valuation should increase somewhat, as is expected for 1958- 59, revenues would also rise slight ly. Direclor Bonney pointed out to. day that park and recreation tax rates of two mills each are the same now as when the two de partments were born in 1947. He declared that more funds are desperately needed "to adequately maintain and repair all our facil ities which we are not able to do iw. Bonney said We just have to let things go now without fixing them up." Random examples cited Dy the director included paintin roofing, road and parking lot maintenance and improvement, and landscaping. "We need more personnel and equipment to do our job right, Bonney said, adding that more recreation leadership personnel is also badly needed. "We spend about J2.70 per capi ta on parks and recreation here. while the minimum national Stan dard is $6." In other action yesterday, the Park and Recreation Board: Agreed with Bonnev and Mnnr Park custodian Al Knowles that the bears be removed because nl the hazardous condition of their pens. They may be restored when adequate housing can be afforded Heard Bonney report that S 9R1 admissions to the swimming pool have been recorded in Mav and lune. bringing in revenue of S5.4in despite the unusually heavy rains ol late. In May and June of 1954 when the pool ooened oniy i5,ibb attended paying $4, 269.99. Heard that the Basin Boaters will improve a boat dock at the Moore Park lake front, usine raft, barrels and other reouisites ine parx department has on hand Heard that the Railroad Com mittee has acquired lumber for building steps and platforms at the locomotive in Veterans Park. The group is composed mostly of retired railroaders. Was notified that a pipe line has been completed to drain off seep age at Kicnmond Park. A nearby residential garage may have to be removed because of the line. Authorized a hot asphalt coat for the paved portion of the ice rink at Moore, so as to restore life to the existing blacktop and pro vide a water tight seal. The street department will be asked to do the work. V. L. PEARSON Vodka Fiend Burns Checks PH1LADKLPHIA (API - A de tective says Lawrence Nutter, 2.1, stole a case of negotiable Ameri can Express checks worth $500,000 and threw them away because they weren't vodka. Detective Vincent Heeney told this story yesterday at a hearing: Nutter took three cases from the Railway Express Agency June 2 because he thought they contained vodka. The first rase he opened was filled with vodka, which he and a friend, William McCall, 28, sam pled. Later McCall opened a sec ond case. "Take that stuff out of here. I don't want it," McCall told Nutter after rifling through the checks Nutter obediently burned them in a city incinerator. Magistrate J. Amos Harris held Nutter on $500 bail for trial. Madame Chiang Issues Blast ANN ARBOR. Mich. l'Pl Madame Chiang Kai-shek said Thursday night it is a tragedy that some "powerful minds" in the world believe Communist domination is preferable to nucle ar war. The basic issue is that of right and wrong, not mere survival as slaves stripped of human dignity. he said at a special convocation irf the University of Michigan at which she received an honorary degree of doctor of laws. These Bears Can Be Yours Locomotive Starts Trek ATLANTA (API A steam loco motive that used to travel at 60 miles an hour starts a two-mile trip today that is expected to take three days. Army engineers plan to shift the locomotive from an Atlanta and West Point Railroad right-of-way to the Southeastern Fairgrounds by Sunday. The engine, Old 290, was given to the city by the rail road lor a permanent exhibit at the fair. The engine and tender weigh more than 174 tons and are about 83 feet long. The 32-year-old career of Old 290 includes pulling the Crescent Limited from New Orleans to New York. On its final trip it will pro ceed along track sections placed on Atlanta streets. The sections will be removed and put ahead of the locomotive as it progresses. Church Aide Visits Here The Klamath Falls congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses is being visited this week by V. L. Pear son, circuit supervisor of Brooklyn, New York, it was announced. George Hricziscse, presiding min ister of the local group, in discus sing Mr. Pearson's visit pointed out its twofold purpose is of train ing and teaching. "Since Jehovah's Witnesses con stitute a preaching society," Hri cziscse said, "the first phase of the week's activity is to provide careful training for the local wit nesses. Our concern is to equip every one or the preaching fellow ships of Jehovah's Witnesses in the practical use of the Bible as a help in fortifying the spiritual mo rale of people in our community. The public is invited to meet with us at the local Kingdom Hall, 833 North Ninth Street, on Saturday evening at 8 o'clock for this in struction." Hricziscse also announced that the second or teaching phase n( the program will be emphasized through the week as the local min isters personally contact the citi Jens of Klamath Falls in an effort to stimulate greater attention to to day's pressing need for religious education. Mr. Pearson will climax the en tire week by addressing the public at 3 Sunday afternoon on the sub ject. "Meeting the Needs of Life Seekers. Hricziscse said. P1CARD PLANS NEW DIVES CASTELLAMARE DI STABIA Italy (UPI) Prof. Auguste Piccard, famous explorer of ocean depths, will make a series of dives off the coast of California late this year. His son, Jacques, said today his father had reached an agreement with officials of Ihe Scripps Foundation of San Diego, Calif., to give him aid for his new plunges. TOLEDO. Ohio (API Want black bear? Two black bears? They can be had for the asking provided the taker has a strong cage and knows how to handle bears. The bears are the property of Mrs. Catherine Jacobs of nearby awanlon, widow of carnival own er W. B. Jacobs, who died last Friday. Ed Steusloff of the Toledo Hu mane Society said if no new home is found for the bears by Sunday they will be shot. The Toledo Zoo has all the black bears it wants and Steusloff said the cages at the Human Society are not strong enough to hold the bears, a male and female weigh ing 500 and 3O0 pounds. TIGER LEAVES JACKSONVILLE, fla. IAP A 300-pound royal Bengal tiger leaves by plane today to meet a new mate at the Baltimore .oo The tiger, on loan from the Ring ling Bros, and Barnum 4 Bailey Circus, will join Duchess, whose precious mate died recently of heart attack. Hick'ry-Dick'ry; Cat Ends Case IUKA. Miss. ll'Pll For about month, Mrs. Sue Vinson was continually having to chase the cat from atop the radio. And the radio had been emit ting a strange squeaking sort of static. Finally Mrs. Vinson removed the back panel from the radio, with the cat an interested on looker. A mouse ran out, the cat pounced and the case was closed. FIRST TIME SPRINGFIELD, III. (UP1 -I Mike Gibbons, 38. shot a hole-in-one Thursday while playing his first round of golf. Canada Seeks ike Assassin OTTAWA d'PIi Royai Cana ' dian Mounted Police today tried to unravel the claim of a taxi driver that he had dropped two men believed to be armed near golf course where President Eisenhower was playing. About 30 extra constables were called in to beat the heavily wooded Hunt and Golf Club Thursday after cabbie Nicholas Skowronski, 27, said the men had alighted at either end of the course. No trace of the men was found. RCMP Inspector H. S. Cooper, in charge of security during Ihe President s three-day visit, re mained non - committal on Skow ronski 's story. Skowronski. in a stuttering voice, told Cooper that one of the men was carrying "a leather case about four feet long," which "could have contained a rifle." The other had "a leather holster in his belt," he said. White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty, who briefed n'.-.vsmen four hours after the in cident, said Cooper gave "not too much credence to the story, Bellowing Cattle Ball Up Traffic SADDLE RIVER. N. J. (AP- The law got a call that 18 short horn steers had departed the Pruiksma farm and were clutter ing up the four lanes of Route 17, an old motorists' trail into New York City. The bellowing cattle were ball ing up traffic. Stale police at Ramsey called or help from nearby police. The cowboy cops cut the steers out of the herd of cars and cor raled them by the side of the rood. Henry Hudson discovered the island of Manhattan in 1M19. Former Star Asks Damages LOS ANGELES (APt- Former movie star Mae Clarke demands a million dollars damages from the company which produced a television horror show featuring the film rrankenstein. She had a leading role in the lilm, which was made 20 years ago. She said the television pro gram included a portrayal of her as a has-been broken down, poverty-stricken . and slovenly. Miss Clarke. 48, asked the dam ages for invasion of privacy. De fendants arc Paramount Televi sion Products, Inc., and Ottola Nesmith, who, the actress said, impersonated her on Ihe telecast. FISHY CHARLOTTE. N.C. t UPI I The coastal fishint town of Morehead. N.C, is being .represented in this years Miss North Carolina pa, gcant by ifiss Bonita Fish. GOOD! lis WANTED Experienced TRUCK MECHANIC Apply Buck Steinman ot Juckeland Motors, Inc. lUh & Klomoth . TU 2-2581 MOVING? your furniture It in good hand with.. Bend-Portland Truck Service Phone TU 4-4138 -1445 Oak. 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