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la The Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS Today s GOOD news: THE END OF THE LEBANESE CRISIS SEEMS ONLY A MAT TER OF TIME. The teletype adds: "That is the opinion of observ ers today (Thursday) as the oppo tition appears to be warming up to the mediation of American troubleshooler Robert Murphy." Who is this man Murphy? - He has been our pinch hitter lor at least a decade. He was with our armed forces when we made the ticklish landing in North Afri ca in World War II. When it looked like Guatemala was going lo be grabbed by the communists as sure as shootin' it was Mur phy who was sent in to save the situation. He saved it. And so on down through the years. Wherever there is a fire, he is sent in to put it out. He puts the fire out by talking com mon sense to everybody. As- a dip lomat, he wears striped pants only in situations where striped pants are a part of the NECESSARY ftage setting. He has the common touch when ever the common touch is needed. A thought: Wouldn't it be wonderful if a man like Murphy could be named secretary of state? That brings up something else. I suppose you've heard or read the talk to the effect that' our up per bracket intelligence people (spies is the rugged word) were caught flat-looted by the ruckus in Iraq that they had no inkling it was coming up. An American BUSINESS MAN named Salem Bader says this morning he told our Central In telligence Agency TWO MONTHS AGO all about the impending Ira qui coup. He says he wrote direct ly to CIA Director Allen Dulles, but was relused an appointment with him. He adds that Assistant Secretary of State for Mid-Eastern Affairs William Roundlree also refused to see him. Mr. Bader is president of the United States Arab-Asian Institute which represents AMERICAN BUSINESS INTERESTS in the Middle East. That is interesting. To me it seems important. For YEARS American business men have been referred to dis paragingly by what might be termed the ultra-liberal element of our intelligentsia. In these circles, business men have been looked upon as money-grubbers whose sole purpose is to take money out of the pockets of the rest of us and nut it into their own pockets These ultra-intellectuals have been leaning toward the doctrine that public business must be conducted wholly bv PROFESSIONAL GOV ERNMENT PEOPLE that busi ness people have no place and should have very little voice in the BUSINESS OF GOVERN MENT. Well- If what Mr. Bader says is true Here is a case where profes sional government people flubbed their job. They flubbed it so badly that the government of the United Slates was caught flatfooted by a development that for days seemed almost certain to involve our coun try in a war in which we have no business to be involved. The danger of involvement is not yet entirely past. If what Mr. Bader says is true, they were warned in ample time. But. since the warning came from a business man, it was disregard ed. These professional government people even refused to listen to the warning! I hope this whole business is gone into fully by the senate for eign relations committee, to which Mr. Bader says he has reported the whole affair. 1 think it is high time that honest American busi ness people shall cease to be re garded by professional government people as suspicious characters. BOY ELECTROCUTED KOSCIUSKO. Miss. (UPI I Sam my Howard, 14. was electrocuted Wednesday while using an electrically-charged rod to chase fish ing worms from the ground. Telephone TU 4-8111 Talks Virtually Assured, But Many Problems Left Price Five Cents 32 Pages KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. THURSDAY, JULY 24. 1958 No. 61. 2 WASHINGTON (AP) - Swift House passage was expected to day for a compromise defense reorganization bill hailed by Pres ident Eisenhower as meeting most of his specifications. The Senate was set to act soon afterwards, sending the bill to the While House and almost certain approval by Eisenhower. The bill, approved yesterday by Senate-House conferees, embodies much but not all Eisenhower sought in the way of authority to reorganize the Pentagon. Compromise Defense BUI To Win House Approval Storms Cause Wide Damage WEED Severe electrical storms between 7 and 8 o'clock last night caused extensive damage in the Weed. Dunsmuir, Castella and Gazelle areas with numerous re ports of power outage and dis ruption of telephone service. Hail the size of quail and pheas ant eggs destroyed the entire grain crop in the Gazelle area, accord ing to the Mount Shasta Weather Bureau, and water was standing six inches deep in the fields this morning. Rain starting about 7:30 p.m. measured V inches in ap proximately an hour's time. Lightning in Weed started sev eral fires in and about the town. The Weed Fire Department was called out to three different resi dences, which had the definite smell of smoke about them, but it was thought that the heavy down pour had caused the fires to be put out. An electric motor in the frozen food freezer in the Safeway Store caused extensive smoke dam age to the store. The lightning in the Weed area was most severe between 7 and 7:30 last night, and Ihc storm was reported to be one of the worst seen in that vicinity. Rain measur ing one half inch tell in mat pe riod. Crews from both Copco and the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph were out all night and are still on the job trying to bring service to the areas. - C o n c o reported transformer strikes with power out all night on Highway 99 south of Weed, and the Liberty Avenue district in Weed was without power. This is supplied by the International Paper Com pany. Floyd Dill, manager of the PT & T in Yreka, staled that 200 telephones were still out in Weed this morning, and that three tele phone cables were damaged by lightning. A crew was coming from Redding lo help restore service. The Castella area was without telephone communications this morning, and north and south Dunsmuir were also without serv ice. Highway 99 was temporarily closed during the night on account of the storm. In a statement issued shortlv after the conferees approved the bill, Eisenhower said: "Except in relatively minor respects, the bill adequately meets every recom mendation I submitted to the Con gress on this subject. It is my conviction that the armed services committees of both houses have done a praiseworthy job. . . . and that the result (or America will be a more efficient and more economical national defense. Essentially the bill accomplishes whf '. Eisenhower advocated to clarify the command of the Presi dent, through the secretary of de- tense, over Army-Navy-Air Force- Marine task forces in the field. But Congress, traditionally in sisting on preserving the identity of the separate services, did not give the defense secretary all the peacetime power Eisenhower ad vocated to tighten organizational control over the services. More over, Congress wrote in some pro visions which it described as safe guards but which. Eisenhower has criticized as possibly obstructive. The measure does reduce Ihc powers of the service secretaries and the individual military chiefs. The bill provides a clear-cut command system for the kind of torces most olten used in modern wars teams composed of select ed elements of one, two or more services. Once a service commit ted units to such a force it could not withdraw them without ap proval of the secretary of defense. And task force commanders would report to the top, without going through individual service secre taries. Johns-Manville Announces Plans For Opening Plant Because of improving demand for insulating board products Johns-Manville is making plans to open its new plant north of Klamath Falls some time later this year, W. H. Graham, plant manager, announced today. He could not give a definite date for start-up of production, but indicated it would be near the end of this year. The plant was completed last April but was not put into operation because of unfavorable con ditions in the building products market. Employment at the plant is expected to reach 250 men with an annual payroll of more than one million dollars. In order to service Pacific Northwest markets promptly, Johns-Manville for the past year has warehoused at the plant insulating board products manufactured in the company's plant at Natchez, Mississippi. Actual construction of the plant Knowland Is Against Meet On Red Terms hegan in 1956, with groundbreak ing ceremonies held on August 19, 1956 at the site 22 miles north of Klamath Falls. ' . Completed in April of 1958, the plant construction was handled by the George A. Fuller Company of New York. The completed plant consists of six general groups of buildings comprising a total of 337, 000 square feet of floor space. The entire plant is protected with a complete system of inside sprinklers and -outside fire hy drants. Johns-Manville will use todgepole and jackpine at the plant in the On'ihe other hand. Congress de-!mnufa;ture, of softboard, a prod clined to give the defense secre lary authority to transfer or abol ish the military roles of the serv ices. To calm fears that the Ma rines, the Navy's air arm or the National Guard might be abol ished or drastically changed, .pro visions were written into the bill to require congressional approval of any major change. Eisenhower also had complained of a provision written in by the House that would permit a service head to appeal to Congress if he objected to a change in military functions. The wording finally worked out requires changes in riles to be submitted automatical ly to Congress, where , either chamber could veto them. The final compromise permits a service chief or secretary to go to Congress direct with any defense recommendation that seems neces sary to him. Eisenhower had said this section invited legalized in subordination uct used extensively as insulating and acoustical materials in build ings. JM has purchased 360.000 cords of timber in the Fremont National Forest and 90.000 cords in the Rogue River National For est from the U.S. Forest Service prior to actual construction of the plant. Total cost of the plant and ini tial timber needs is approximately 12 million dollars. Graham was named manager of tne new plant in May, 1957, com ing to Mamath Falls from Natch ez. Mississippi, where Jie was man ager of J-M s insulating board plant. Earlier this year on March 1R, just prior to completion of the full plant, Graham announced that the plant would not begin immediate operation because the lower level of general business conditions has resulted in a temporary reduction in the demand for building prod ucts. . Estimates of the number of men to be employed at the J-M facility has ranged from 250 to 400. Gra ham indicated in his Thursday morning release that the plant capacity is expected to reach 250 when at lull operation. Opening of the new J-M plant for operation has been taken as anoth er indicator of the rising strength of building products markets, and improved lumber conditions. WASHINGTON, UPI - Senate Republican leader William F. Knowland protested today that a Middle East summit meeting on terms laid down by Soviet Pre mier Nikita S. Khrushchev won d ! result in "another Munich" for the West. The Californian particularly ob jected to Khrushchev's demand that Indian Premier Jawaharlal Nehru participate in the proposed meeting at the United Nations. Knowland also suggested that President Eisenhower might con sider calling in former Presidents Herbert Hoover and Harry S. Truman for advice on the Middle East crisis. Of Khrushchev's summit terms, Knowland told a news conference: "We cannot idly stand by and let him say who will attend the con ference and how it will be con ducted. If we do, the United Na tions' effectiveness would be se verely damaged and it could well go the way of the League of Nations." He also criticized Khrushchev's insistence that no votes be taken or resolutions adopted if the chiefs of state meet. "We cannot sit back and let the Soviet Union unilaterally change the provisions of the U.N. Charter," the GOP leader said. In another development. Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey iD-Minn.) said the U.S. should insist that Israeli Prime Minister David Ben- Gurion be included in any sum-J mit Middle East conference. Humphrey said "we would be anything but realistic if we did not insist on including Israel. He also urged that the U.S. insist that President Carnal Abaci Nas ser of the United Arab Republic attend the conference. Nasser is reported willing to do WASHINGTON (AP) An his toric summit conference in the U. N. Security Council sremed al most certain today, but U. S. offi cials said several problems still must be ironed out before final agreement can be achieved. Soviet Premier Nikita Khru shchev snapped up last night Western proposals that a summit meeting on the Middle East crisis be held within the Security Coun cil. He announced he could be in New York next Monday. But au thorities here said that date for the opening was too early.- President Eisenhower and Sec retary of State Dulles were con sulting with British and French leaders on a prompt reply to Khrushchev's conditional accept lance. Pending these consultations, it was not at all clear that his conditions would be fully met. Furlher negotiations between the Soviet Union 'and the Western powers are inevitable. The belief was strong in diplo- New Revolutionary Iraqi Government Not Pro-Red Administration spokesmen have been passing the word here that this government wanted no part :of the kind of summit conference now shaping up. It has been made plain that the U.S. is being drag- god into a conference by circum- Air Triggers More Storms By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The clash of cool Canadian air and warmer breezes from the Gulf area triggered more storms today as wet weather continued in vast sections of the nation. Scattered showers and thunder storms which held sway in the Eastern portion of the . country dissipated and only a few Ihun dershowers remained principal ly in Ohio and in the lower Missis sippi Valley. UAW Seeking Layoff Pay DETROIT AP) Negotiators lor the United Aujo Workers Un ion say they are prepared to dis cuss a union proposal to broaden layoff pay benetits at the resump tion of contract talks with the big Ihree car makers today. Ken Bannon. director of the UAW's Ford department, said the union is seeking to increase sup plemental unemployment bene fits to 80 per cent of take-home pay for 52 weeks lor laid-off workers. At present, maximum benefits are 60 to 65 per cent of take-home pay for 26 weeks. The union contends General Mo tors and Chrysler can increase layoff pay benefits without adding to labor costs. The companies have funds totaling more than 150 million dollars to provide weekly benefits lor laid off employes. The UAW held bargaining talks with all three companies yesterday. i)W a. WHS ff i 3 E . i r fsrstt' r r t r : ill ? iCwTr..... MFt t.l.. I. AttjdW.T am, j ikt r swgr&-witufMBi '-toy Editor's Note Talbot Patrick, editor-publisher of the Rock Hill iS.C.) Evening Herald, arrived in Baghdad two days before the July 14 revolution overthrew the mon archy. Here is his report on the politics of the new revolutionary government, written for The As sociated Press. Bv TALBOT PATRICK (Written for The AP) BAGHDAD (AP) Iraq's new revolutionary government, by ac tions even more convincingly than by words, has shown that it is not pro-Communist. The first day of the revolt. Iraqi newspapermen told me re peatedly later, Communist leaders proposed to the army officers leading the rebellion tnai a ra tional Guard or militia be lormcd to help in possible defense of the new government. The proposal, I was told, was turned down flat. During the first two days of the revolution. Communist and anti Western slogans were red-painted on many walls and houses. Signs were put on the front of Rnlish-owncd stores and lirms: "Don't buy from foreigners." By the Ihird day, the army offi cers who led Ihe revolution were bringing into the government, as Cabinet ministers and in other im portant positions, mature men of known ability and recognized po sition. Most of them had records of opposilion to the former re gime. Then the army issued an order that anybody caught painting up Communist slogans would be court-martialed. Under army di rections, the red paint of the Com munist slogans was blanked out with green paint. Censors in newspaper offices blanked out from Ihe reports and editorials they read all pet words and phrases of the Communist line, according to Iraqi newspaper acquaintances. Although Ihere now is the cen sorship of newspapers, local news papermen look forward to a lime when the new government feels more safely established. They hope then for more freedom than under Ihe royal regime. One newspaperman told me that he was in effect putting his head in a noose if the revolution should fail by writing for the issue then preparation that the revolt meant the coming of freedom for the people of Iraq. What was said to me repeatedly in different ways was pointed up by the comment, of one man who drove me by the burned-out Brit ish Embassy: "That's where this country was ruled from for 38 years." Iraqis who were interested and sympathetic observers of the new revolutionary government said the new regime definitely does not intend that Iraq become a part of the United Arab Republic of Egypt and Syria. There is a strong conviction that eventually there will be a single Arab nation, but not one dominat ed by Egypt, as the U.A.R. is. Solons Urge Full-Mideast Discussion WASHINSTON (AP) Influen tial senators urged the Eisenhow er administration today to force a full discussion of all Middle East problems in any meeting .with Nikila Khrushchev. There was general agreement among Republicans and Demo crats that a summit meeting with in the United Nations Security Council is almost certain to ma terialize quickly as a result of the Soviet Premier's conditional agreement to attend. but mere was a wiae. range ot opinion on the timing, the partici pants and conditions. And there was pessimism about effective re suits. Sen. Mike Mansfield (D-Mont) said the United States cannot af ford to hedge on its previously stated willingness to go to the summit for a Middle East discus sion. "We must do something affirm atively to -seize the initiative and to show the world that we want a settlement of all the Middle Eastern problems, not just the question of Lebanon alone," Mans field said. . v Sen. Styles Bridges (R-NH) sug gested a "Monroe Doctrine" for Ihe Middle East, With the United stances mainly i British pressure 'Stales declaring it. will resist and the need to deal somehow with the Mideast crisis. The reaclion of numerous mem bers of Congress lo this attitude was reflected in me comment oi Humphrey, a member of the Sen ate Foreign Relations Committee. "This administration s negative approach will weaken and under mine our position, ne said in an interview. , , SHADES OF PAMPLONA, that it an elegant rodeo clown! And it is none other than Slim Pickens, who, with Billy Kftn will do tha clowning at the three-day Klamath Baiin Roundup which starts tomorrow. Tha calibrated Pickens may weer the togi of real to rero, but he doesn't have the sword. That would be unkind to the krulls, and it's the bulls that' ere supposed to be unkind to Slim. City Searched For Convict RICHMOND (UPI) A concent rated search of the North Richmond area was underway today after police recovered a car stolen by escaped San Quentin convict Hen derson McCoy. An anonymous caller telephoned police at li:30 p.m. Wednesday and reported Ihe escape car was parked in downtown Richmond. The car was undamaged. Police alerted San Quentin au thorities, who rushed four car loads of guards lo Richmond to help local police and Contra Costa County sheriff's deputies in the search. McCoy, 30. a Negro, entered the nrison in January. i:iv, on a Los Angeles narcotics cnarge. tic was sentenced to serve up to 10 years in San Quentin. He would have been eligible for parole in another year. He was a model prisoner. U f Ui r.nnnnrntiira alii. , , , , H'LflUAC ill ma v.iuiiv. on ... ... repemion oi lasi year s casn ... j u. , : . iu .. . ,, Hull. lie wan Kinri, a crisis in me remagon. ,rjn, n u.nrl..H m.lsidn the t u; . ii I I il.i iSi""1-1" - mt-riliwmir, II WdS It-dllll-U Uldi : - ieft uialle hill !n Ho Ihe Secretary of the Treasury Ander- , F McCov was working Wednesday in the garden at the home of Bal B. Silt tie. superintendent of the prisons lurniture laciory. lie knocked on Ihe hack door ana asked Mrs..Suttlc for some clean ing rags. ' When she turned In got them he followed her into Ihe house. "I don't want lo hurl you." he said, brandishing a knife, "but I am leaving. Senator Asks Debt Increase WASHINGTON (AP)-Sen. Stu art Symington (D-Mo) called to day lor another increase in the national debt limit to cover big ger defense spending. Symington, in a speech pre pared for floor delivery, said that if this is not done, there will be Wcsil her FORECAST Klamath Foils and vicinity: Fair Friday except for late afternoon and evening thunderstorms. Low Thursday night 32-S7. High Friday M M. High yeterdy M Low lal nlehl 57 Prerlp. last 24 hours 0 Since Ort. I 19.42 Same period last year ... 15. 18 Normal for period 12.58 WORKS HARD AT IT INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (LTD Stale oncise tax olficer Joe D. Rice. 34. protested his arrest for drunken driving Wednesday be cause it is part of his job lo pose an a tavern patron and "I had just made 10 or 12 investiga liom." son already has sounded out key members of the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance com mittees on a further boost in the debt ceiling. It was underslood also that Sen. Harry F. Byrd iD-Va). Fi nance Committee chairman, has agreed some increase probably will be needed, but has urged Anderson to hold the limit to 285 billion dollars. The secretary has indicated. however, that his request may he for 290 billion, in billion above Ihe temporary ceiling of 2U0 billion approved by Congress in Febru ary. Under the hill passed in Febru ary, the permanent debt limit re verts to 275 billion July 1, 1959. Symington said that Ihe admin istration's decision not to ask for an increase in the 275 billion ceil ing last year caused a disastrous stretchout of defense spending last fall. This not only lessened Ihe na tion's military strength hut also helped bring on an economic re cession, he said. Symington recommended thai the administration act now to seek any lurther boost in Ihe debt limit, but said ha feared it may nol do so. "It may again wait until the Congress adjourns," he said, "and Ihen again try by referring lo the debt celling to blame the Con gress for administration failure to carry out the defense programs. without limit any Soviet aggres sion against Ihe independence of the nations (here. Bridges, head of Ihe GOP Policy Committee, told Ihe Senate any such declaration should state that "we welcome the emergence of the Arab people as masters of their own destiny and that they can count on encouragement and aid from this country. Sen. John Sherman Cooper (R- Ky) said in an interview that Khrushchev must be called to ac count for "beginning the mass shipment of arms into the area. for his tactics of subversion and infiltration that threaten the inde pendence of the nations of the area. Sen. Hubert Humphrey 'D- Minnl said Ihe United States has lost the propaganda battle thus far because of timidity and lack of planning. He said it was time lo take the initiative. Sen. William F. Knowland of California, Ihe Senate Republican leader, said the Soviet Union should not be allowed to dictate Ihe terms of the proposed Secur ity Council conference. Rep. John M. Vorys of Ohio. senior House foreign Aiiairs Committee Republican, opposed acceptance of the Khrushchev summit bid. matic quarters here, however, that the obstacles will be over come and the conference opened within two or three weeks. The While House and the State Department withheld comment on the Khrushchev letter pending a careful study. The proposed gathering of the heads of the 11 governments rep resented on the Security Council would bring Eisenhower and Khrushchev face to face for the first time since the Geneva sum mit conference in July 1955. It would also give Khrushchev, com munism's ebullient No. 1 sales man, his first opportunity to visit the United States a trip, he has long wanted to make. One of the things that top U.S. officials dislike about the whole project is that it would also give him an unparalleled forum for airing his charges of aggression in the Middle East against this country and Britain and peddling The principal difficulties still in Ihe way of arranging the proposed meeting, as defined by officials here, are these: 1. Khrushchev's acceptance mentioned specifically the attend ance also of Eisenhower, British Prime Minister M a c m i 1 1 a n, French Premier de Gaulle and Prime Minister Nehru of India. But Paris dispatches said it was unlikely that De Gaulle would at tend. While favoring a summit meeting in principle, he has pub licly announced his opposition to such a meeting at the U.N. at this time on the ground that it would be a propaganda battle royal. The question raised by his attitude is this: If De Gaulle flat ly refuses, as French diplomats predict he will, will Khrushchev come anyway? 2. Khrushchev said that invita tions to participate must go to Prime Minister Nehru and the governments of the Arab coun tries. But neither India nor most of the Arab states are members of Ihe Security Council. They could participate as nonvoting guests if the Council invites them as interested parties, but even this would change the nature of the meeting that the Western powers envisioned that is, an extraordinary session of Security Council members. 3. In his letter to Eisenhower Khrushchev renewed his charge that the western powers have committed aggression in the Mid dle East. Eisenhower previously had rejected the accusation, and it seemed clear he is determined not to go into the conference in Ihe role of a defendant. In general, officios said, the attitude of the United States is that the composition and ground rules of the meeting still must be worked out. Some authorities speculated that this might be done within a week; others thought it would require a little more time, assuming that all of the problems can in fact be solved. Bank Manager Told To Make Up Lost Funds LONDON (AP) A branch bank and its manager were ordered yesterday to make up tha 15,72(1 pounds ($44,012) which a paint salesman lost on investments the .manager recommended. Railton Woods. 38, told a court he wanted lo put his money to work but had no business experi ence. He consulted Manager Jo seph Johnson of his bank and both firms Johnson recommended shortly after went bankrupt. "Having seen Johnson," Ihe judge commented, "I believe that in his muddlcheaded way he hon estly believed the advice he gave." But the judge awarded a damage verdict anyway. Canine Helps Save Master ATMORE, Ala. 'API A dog's tracks led searchers lo where 75 year old retired physician. missing three days, was lying in a ornlield about two miles from his home. Dr. Nicholas Thomas Stallworth. who has siillered several strokes and is unable lo speak or write. could not tell what had happened. He was in fair condition. A sister said the physician ap parently sustained himself by eat ing raw corn. He failed lo return from a Sun day walk with his rocker spaniel. The dog was found by a passer by as It came out of the cornfield veslerday. The dog's tracks were followed to where Stallworlh lay. u - la' ... iua a i BABE RUTH BOOSTERS Working together to help make the upcoming Babe Ruth League Regional Tournament one of the biggest events on the 1958 local sports scene are Barbara Gallagher, left, and Beth Chase, right. Mrs. Gal. lagher is the secretary of the Klameth Falls Babe Ruth League and Mrs. Chase is campaign 'manager of the sex tet of young ladies who are competing for the title of Miss Babe Ruth of I9S8. The winner of the contest, to be decided on the basis of ticket sales, will reign over th tourney which will run from August 6-10. I
