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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 31, 1958)
U 0? OaEGOS LIB3AHJ , COit? EUGENE, ORE, , la The- Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Foreign affairs: Lebanon has a new president to day. On the second ballot, the Leban ese parliament elected General Fuad Chehab by a landslide ithe vote was 48 to seven.) Government and OPPOSITION forces rallied be hind the 66-ycar-old army chief of staff. The news of Chehab's elec tion was greeted with joy by the trife-torn nation. The tense armed men surrounding the parliamen tary building rebels and govern ment forces alike emptied their guns into the air in celebration. The choice of a new president by the opposing factions could mean the end of the 13-week-old political crisis-AND THE WITH DRAWAL OF 10 THOUSAND AMERICAN TROOPS FROM LEB ANON. - Wonderful! : Let's now GET OUR TROOPS OUT and quit acting like imperial ists. . Mora on the Lebanon affair: Chehab's landslide election is con sidered a triumph for American trouble shooter Robert Murphy, who was sent to Lebanon to find a way to end the crisis. He is credit cd with lining up Chehab as the only candidate who woulfl be sup ported by both sides. A thought: Here in the State of Jefferson where we haven't too much re spect for striped pants and official cocktail parties but hold COMMON SENSE in high esteem let's start a movement to have Murphy named secretary of state. . In the conduct of our foreign affairs, we need more horse sense and less protocol. Back to the home front. The Institute of Life Insurance reports this morning that thrift minded Americans have made life insurance the nation's No. 1 sav ings medium. It says the number of policy holders in legal reserve life insurance companies rose to a record in!) million at the end of 1957, or 63 per cent of the nation's entire population. Hmmmmnim. - No political stuff. No gunning for votes in election years. Just plain private, free-enterprise SAVING. A prediction: Over the long pull, this, kind of saving will beat the political cradle-to-the-grave stuff all hollow. In conclusion: Nebraska stale employees are smiling these days. Their pay checks are beginning to arrive. They have been badly delayed here lately and the state's job holders have been having to 'stave off their creditors until they could get their checks. It seems the slate treasurer. Mrs. Bertha Hill, has been forced to sign the checks BY HAND. It was a slow process, and she was getting FAR behind. But the prob lem has been solved. A signature plate for a payroll check signing machine arrived yesterday and the Checks are rolling out fast. . That's the modern world for you. In these days government spends money so fast it has to buy fancy machines to sign the checks speed lly enough to keep up. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair through Friday. High Friday 8449. Low Thursday night W-SS. High yesterday 82 Low last night ..- 57 Precip. last 24 hours - 0 Since Oct. 1 19.47 Same period last year 15.18 Normal for period 12.65 Fire Danger Today HIGH Fires start readily frum match or glowing cinders, tend to spread rapidly and lend to crown in young growth. Northern California Fair through Friday except log on the roast. Little change In tempera ture. Winds near the coast mostly northwest 8-18 miles an hour. t - -1 t . v. a. - i v - - mj VlJ NEWLY APPOINTED city manager Gerard S. Vergeer Sr. it shown here as he visited with Mayor Lawrence Slater and couneilmen Monday afternoon in Klamath Falls. Left o righf, Couneilmen Oliver Spiker, Walter Fleet, Mayor Slater, City Manager Vergeer, end Couneilmen Ladd Hoyt, Floyd Wynne and James Barnes. Vergeer accepted the city manager post effective October I. He just recently resigned efter holding a similar peit in Port Angeles for the pait six years. Congress May Probe Steel Price Hikes PITTSBURGH (AP) - Increases in prices by four steel firms has started talk of price hikes for products made of steel and may result in a congressional inquiry into steel prices. Following action taken by the Armco Steel Corp. Tuesday, steel price increases of about (4.50 a ton were announced yesterday by the Republic Steel Corp., Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. and the Na tional Steel Corp. In Washington, Sen. Estes Ke- fauver (D-Tenn), chairman of the Senate Antitrust and Monopoly subcommittee, responded by say ing he is thinking about proposing an inquiry into the price increases and the possibility o( a rollback to old prices. He told the Senate "it is time for the President to speak out firmly and use the great power of his office' to keep steel prices stable. He also called a subcom mittee meeting for Friday to con sider "what we can effectively do to discourage price hikes by more steel producers. The price hikes apply mostly to sheet and strip steel, which is used mainly by automobile and appliance manufacturers. But there is speculation among con sumers that the price hikes may soon spread to other types of steel. There seemed little likelihood that increased steel prices would result in an immediate increase in the prices of cars and appli ances such as stoves and refrig erators. Manufacturers of these items have steel on hand that was purchased under current prices, and they hesitate raising prices wnen sales are slow. . Some typical comments on steel prices were: Walter M. Schwartz Jr., pres ident of Proctor Electric Co. "Naturally, any increase in steel would have a tendency to push prices up." Carl L. Hecker, executive vice president of the Oliver Corp., farm equipment producer "Any increases in labor or material prices such as the steel increase must be reflected in early creases in farm machinery prices. J. U. Toague. president of the American Assn. of Oil Well Drill ing Contractors ". . . We cer tainly hale to see any steel price increase at this time ... It wi mean putting more pressure on the petroleum industry . . . U.S. Steel Corp. and Bethlehem Steel Corp., first and second larg est producers, said they are still studying the price situation. Duck Disease Hits Refuges TULELAKE -An early out- break of duck botulism on both Tule Lake and Lower Klamath Lake bird refuges is reported to have started with present indica tions that it may become severe. The disease has previously ap peared in other parts of the West Coast region. Jean Branson, assistant re fuge manager at the Tule Lake Re fuge, said today in reviewing the situation that the annual north to south migration of waterfowl, due to begin any day will add to the present bird population and thus increase the trouble. The last serious outbreak of bot ulism was in the late 1940s. The refuge staff is fighting the outbreak with water management practices. Sick birds are being picked up daily and placed in the newly improved duck hospital and pond facilities. Every possible means of prevention will be un dertaken, Branson said. Climatic conditions are partly responsible for the trouble. WRONG NAME NAMPA, Idaho (API A 13-year-old boy handed assistant store manager K.R. Ishell a $50 check to be cashed. Isbell was somewhat surprised because the check was signed with his name. The boy. awaiting probate action on charges of forgery, told police he just picked the name from 3,- 500 in the telephone directory. ""c - rr -v i si-:- fn Price Five Cents 24 Pages BIDS FOR CONSTRUCTION ef the new four-lane divided freeway through the Dunsmuir area ef US Routs 99 war opened in Redding Wednesday afternoon. Shown hers is a map of the rout of the new freeway designating the in UMW Moves To Disqualify Judge Foster LAKEVIEW A surprise move on the part of local members of the United Mine Workers of Amer ica, District 50, postponed a hear ing scheduled for 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday in Circuit Judge Charles Foster's court. At 8:45 a.m., the union mem bers, defendants in action brought last week by Lakeview Mining Company, filed a motion in cir cuit court, seeking to disqualify Judge Foster in the case. Judge Foster stated he had no prejudice in the matter but, on the other hand, had no choice ex cept to notify the Oregon Supreme Court so that a substitute judge can be appointed. The Wednesday morning hearing was a postponement of a hearing set for Monday morning at which time the union was to show cause why it should not desist from picketing the White King urani um mine owned by Lakeview Mining Company. A change of venue move on the part of the defendants on Monday morning was forestalled by the filing of an amended complaint eliminat ing the name of the United Mine Workers of America field repre sentative so that the matter could be tried as a local issue. When the defendants' attorney. Robert Welch, asked for time. Judge Foster set the Wednesday morning hearing date and granted the plaintiffs a temporary injunc tion lorbidding the union members from picketing the White King mine until the Issue is resolved. The Oregon Supreme Court is expected to act in naming a judge to take Judge Foster's place, but until another judge is named and a hearing held, the temporary in junction against picketing remains in force until it is set aside. The dispute arose after the min ers union voted to strike on July 20 and established a picket line at the mine on Monday, July 21. Shortly thereafter, threats of vio lence against miners who con tinued working were reported to the management of the White King and three men were arrested upon complaint of- the Lakeview Mining Company. These men, Davcy Graham, Lawrence Bays and Arnold Holmes, were ar raigned before Justice of the Peace O. C. Gibbs on July 23 on charges of vagrancy and threat ening bodily injury to employes of the company. Jury trial for these men was slated for today in Lake County Circuit Court. Grace, Rainier To Attend Ball NEW YORK UP1) Prince Rainier III of Monaco and Prin cess Grace have accepted an in vitation to be guests of honor at the fourth annual Imperial Ball at the Hotel Astor Dec. 4, it was announced Wednesday. It will mark the first time the royal couple has returned to the United States since their marri age in 1956. ilfl KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. New Dunsmuir Freeway Bids Opened The Division of Highways opened bids in Sacramento on July 30 for the construction , of a new four- lane divided freeway on U.S. High way 99 between 1.0 mile, south of the Shasta-Siskiyou County line and the Sacramento River Bridge in Dunsmuir. Five bids were re ceived. The low bid of M, 140,558 was submitted by McCannon- Wunderlich Company and Wunder- lich Contracting Company of Palo Alto, California. H. S. Miles staled that this is the first full freeway to be built in northeastern California. This Hype of facility differs from previously Reds Try To Keep Mideast Tension High WASHINGTON (AP) U. S. of ficials said today the Soviet Un ion is trying to keep tensions over the Middle Hast crisis at a high pitch, probably to maintain pres sure for a summit meeting. The latest evidence ot the So viet propaganda drive was seen here in a Moscow, charge made last night that the United Stales and four members of the Middle Eastern Baghdad Pact are plot ting an attack on the new Iraq Republic. White House press sec retary James Hagerty called the charge ridiculous. Other officials said it seems to be part of a pattern with Soviet Premier Khrushchev's own charges, made recently in letters to President Eisenhower. Khru shchev has contended that the United States and Britain have al ready committed aggression . in Lebanon and Jordan and are plan ning to broaden - military opera tions in the area. . Khrushchev, in making those charges, said the Western powers had brought the world to the brink of war. He contended that only a meeting of the heads of govern ment could deal with the situa tion. Western officials said they act ed to forestall the possibility that the pro-Western governments of Lebanon and Jordan might be overthrown by a quick revolt like that in Iraq. Meanwhile, the United Slates. Britain and France were trying to reach a common understand; ing on their replies to Khru shchev's latest note about a sum mit meeting. Klamath Falls Names City Manager The city of Klamath Falls stepped into a new era late Wednesday night when Mayor Lawrence Slater announced that Gerard S. Vergeer Sr., 52, Port Angeles, Washington, had been hired as city manager. Vergeer had visited with t h e mayor and city council in Klam ath Falls Monday afternoon and attended the council meeting Mon day evening. His acceptance of the post came in a telegram to Mayor Slater. He resigned as city manager of Port Angeles a few weeks ago after serving in that post lor six years. Prior to that had served for a year in Baker, Oregon, and at Milton-Freewater for six years. In his 13 years in city manage ment and administration Vergeer has installed the city manager sys tem in two places, Baker and Port Angeles. Klamath Falls adopted t h e council - manager plan of govern ment at the pfimary elections this year, and since then the mayor and council have been processing applications (or the post. Earlier, Vergeer reportedly had been hired hy North Bend as city manager from a file of 47 applica tions. However. Vergeer informed the Klamath Falls City Council that he had never officially ac cepted the North Bend offer. He aid he had submitted an appli cation for the position there, but had been on a trip to Ketchikan. Alaska, for the past several weeks and that he had not given North Bend officials an answer despite their announcement that he had been hired for the post. Vergeer Informed North Bend by THURSDAY. JULY 11, 1958 terchanges and the under-erosiingi involved in the construc tion. It is estimated that completion of the new route will be sometime late in I960, In Redding constructed freeways in this area in that none of the adjacent proper ties will have direct access to the highway nor will there be an inter sections at grade. The typical road way will consist, of two 12-foot lanes for each direction of traffic, with the northbound lanes seDarat- ed from the southbound lanes bv a median strip varying from 10 feet to in leet in width. Ten-foot wide shoulders will be built on the out side of the traffic lanes on each side. Another feature is the con trasting types of pavements to be used. The traffic lanes will be con structed of Portland cement con crete pavement, while the shoul ders and the ramps of the inter changes will be of an asphaltic type pavement. The difference in color will both aid in safer driv ing and give a pleasing appearance.- Six bridges will carry the free way over local streets and at three of these, interchanges will be just soum oi Little Castle Creek at Cas tle Crags Drive, another will be slightly south of the Dunsmuir city limits, and the third will be lust south of the Sacramento ' River Bridge in Dunsmuir, An interesting feature ot this con struction will be an extensive in stallation for underground drain age. Alter ground exploration, a plan -was developed to control an ticipated ground water under road way fills. In the area to be oc cupied by roadway fills between Oak Street and - the Sacramento River Bridge, over 300 vertical wells will be drilled. These wells will be 24 inches in diameter and up to 40 feet in depth. They will be lined with gravel surrounding a perforated metal pipe core. The wells will serve as collector basins and escape hatches for surplus ground water which might other wise produce unstable : foundation conditions. The wells and surround ing area will be tapped by 2-inch diameter horizontal pipe drains drilled in laterally from positions along the lower edge of roadway f'U- - . . ' Horizontal drains will also be drilled into the fate -of Toadway cuts to minimize the possibility of slides which sometimes develop be cause of excess water. All told there will be approximately 13 miles of horizontal drains. In order to relieve the present ly overloaded storm drain system in Dunsmuir, all precipation fall ing on the freeway roadbed within the city will be carried in a storm drain along the center line of free way, a small portion flowing to Yew Tree Creek and the remainder to the Sacramento River. Ellis C. Engle has been named as resident engineer for this proj ect. It is estimated that it will take two years to build, with the com pletion date late in 1900. telegram yesterday that he was accepting the Klamath Falls posi tion. Vergeer. his wile Kathleen, and one son. Bob, 13, expect to arrive in Klamath Falls about mid -August. He will officially take over the city manager assignment here on October 1, but wishes to get G. S. VERGEER SR. i settled so that his son can be en rolled in school this fall. Mayor Slater, In announcing the appointment, stated, "we have carelully studied the qualifications of Mr. Vergeer, even tn the ex tent of sending two couneilmen Waller Fleet and Oliver Spiker, to IN Telephone TU 4-8111 No. C138 state Meet '? r,esTep MUIIY Ldn SACRAMENTO (AP) Califor nia s Republican chairman pre dicted today the GOP state con vention this weekend will sidestep any position on the flammable "right-to-work" issue. In fact. Alphonzo E. Bell. Jr. of Beverly Hills said he looked for a "productive and harmonious" session at the state capitol. "We will demonstrate on Satur day and Sunday that there are many more issues which unite the Republican Party than divide it," the outgoing chairman said in a statement. The "right-to-work" neutrality has been proposed as a compro mise between the disparate views of Sen. William F. Knowland, Republican candidate for gover nor, and the rest of the GOP ticket. The Republicans' 1956 stale platform endorsed the right of organized labor to negotiate union shop contracts. The initiative on the November ballot would out law the union shop in California Knowland has made the right to-work", measure a key plank in his campaign.' Gov. Goodwin J. Knight, GOP nominee for the U.S. Senate, and other, party candi dates for statewide office oppose the legislation. Knowland hasn't indicated whether Jie'U actively seek to bring fhe open shop issue before the convention Saturday. He has said only that his support for the rtght-to-work law will continue whether the parly writes it into its state platform. Knight, on the other hand, in lends to file a minority report it the convention comes out- in favor of the union shop ban. The do-nothing course was sug- gested several days ago by Re publican ' Lt. Gov. Harold J. Powers. He said "right-to-work" should 'be kept out of the state platform because it's up to the voters to decide In November. Bell offered the same reason for steering clear of the controver sial matter, adding "Republicans will concentrate on those matters which will unify the party this year. Most Republican candidates are fearful of alienating the consider able labor vote, and support from among majority Democrats, with any party stand in favor of "right to-work." Alty. Gen. Edmund G. Brown. Democratic candidate for governor, is strongly opposed to any such law. More than 700 delegates are expected for the convention. On Sunday, the Republican State Cen tral Committee will elect officers for the next two years and draft plans for the campaign. Port Angeles to interrogate people of the community on Vergeer's capabilities. "We assurpd ourselves that he was a man well qualified for the post, and a man who was thor oughly familiar with the many problems that arise when a city changes from one form of govern ment to another. "Initially, we had not budgeted or planned tn be in a position to hire a city manager before October 1, but Vergeer appeared to fit our needs so well that we were able to make the commit ment earlier. However, because nf budget limitations this year he will not officially begin work before October 1." Mayor Slater indicated that Ver geer would start at a salary of Jin.noo a year. This, he said "is in accordance with our Infor mal promise to the city manager committee and the people that we would make every attempt to get a thoroughly qualified man for that figure. At Port Angeles, Vergeer was recently installed as president of the Rotary Club. His activities also include president nf the Nortnwest City Manager's Association, past commander of the Port Angeles Coast Guard Auxiliary, and chair man of the Industrial Committee. Port Angeles Chamber of Com merce. Vergeer is familiar with Klam ath Falls, having visited here he fore. A married daughter, Mrs. David Egge, now of Seattle was formerly employed at the First National Bank here. Another son, Gerard Jr. is manager of a gro cery store In Everett, Washington. Lebanon Named President BEIRUT (AP) Gen. Fuad S h e h a b was elected president Thursday by a resounding vote of rebel and government deputies in Parliament who see in him a hope for peace in Lebanon. As Beirut celebrated with a wild flurry of gunfire. Saeb Salam. rebel leader in the capital, voiced a sobering note. He told the As sociated Press "we will continue to fight on until our demands are met." Two major demands are the withdrawal of U.S. troops and the immediate resignation of pro- Western President Camille Cha- moun. Chamoun issued a prompt re ply to one of these demands, tell ing newsmen he intends to stay in office until his term expires Sept. 23 He made the statement after talking with Shehab. ' Shehab was elected with the strong backing of the opposition National Front, of which Salam is a member, and over the bitter protests of Premier Sami Solh. A compromise choice to end the long rebellion against pro-Western president Camille Chamoun, the 56-year-old army commander in chief was elected on Parliament's second ballot. Shehab got a whopping 48 votes to 7 tor his only rival, middle- roader Raymond Edde, One ballot was blank. ' Rebel leaders applauded She- hab's election while Solh boycot ted the meeting in Parliament. Solh denounced the election as un constitutional and declared it was held in "an atmosphere of terror and pressure." Just before Parliament met National Front Deputy Nessum Majdalani told newsmen his group had met with Shehab Wednesday and the general had agreed to their conditions. These conditions include the im mediate resignation of Chamoun, Money Bill Moves Back Into House WASHINGTON (AP)-A record peacetime money bill to give the nation's defense forces a stronger space age punch moved back to the House today with unanimous Senate endorsement. , , Winding up an overtime session the Senate voted 71-0 last night to give the Pentagon $40,042,181,000 for the armed forces during the iiscai year that began July l. The House earlier voted about .IS'-i billions. Unless it unexpected ly approves the more than l'i bil lion added by the Senate, the bill will go to a joint conference com mittee. That group's compromise version will, in turn, require ap proval of both houses. Sen. Dennis Chavez (D-NM), floor manager for the bill, said it would assure the nation enough power to deliver a knockout punch in a big war or to handle not one but several brush wars at a single time." He said the extra money added by the Senate would permit a step up in missiles, aircraft, nuclear submarines and other major cate gories of military hardware. As cleared by the Senate, the bill earmarks more than 18 billion dollars for the Air Force, about II V4 billion for the Navy and Ma rines, about 9 billion for the Army and the balance for interservice activities. The Senate total is $1,200,000,000 more than President Eisenhower originally asked, ' but includes money for some items he has re quested since then. this aiot cCAaonrooots AIM MMtTPOSTAL CAROj THESE POST OFFICE ISSUES will become familier to every one beginning tomorrow, August I, when the new postal rates go into effect. At top is the new three cent stamped postal card with Statue of Liberty design in purple. Below it ii the new five cent air mail (temped post card with red eagle in flight design. Lower left, the regular lavender four cent Lincoln portrait stamp for use on first class letteri. Lower right, new seven cent air mall stamp with white silhouette ef a jet airliner en a blue background for use en air mail letters. General immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops, and sweeping civil service reforms. Earlier Thursday rebel leader Salam had said he hoped Shehab'a election would "open the way for cooperation of all the Lebanese people." Shehab's election will not auto matically solve the strife which in 83 days has brought this Riviera of the Middle East to the brink of economic ruin and result ed in the landing of 10,000 U. S. troops in Beirut. But observers felt the general a taking control could provide a breathing spell during which peace and order might be re stored. There was an atmosphere a hope and expectancy among the Lebanese people, who have lived amid intermittent bombing and shooting for almost three months. British Head Slates Date For Meeting LONDON (AP) -'Prime Minis. ter Macmillan asked Soviet Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev Thursday to atlend a summit meeting on the Middle East Aug. 12 in New York or elsewhere. He pro posed discussions both informally and under United Nations aus pices. He said he would personally at tend the Aug. 12 meeting and add ed: . "I have no reason to suppose that the President of the United States would not be willing to go either to Geneva or New York." The prime minister read to the House of Commons the text of a letter which he had arranged to ha,ve delivered to the soviet pre mier in Moscow only a short time before. He suggested that perma nent representatives on the Secur ity Council which, would Include Nationalist China should decide on the meeting place. "If this meeting is agreed I shall be there on Aug. 12," he add ed, "I hope you will be there too. So far as I am concerned New York, Geneva or any ether place generally agreeable will do. . Both Conservatives and Labor itcs in the commons cheered Mae millan's announcement. In Washington, the While House indicated President Eisenhower agrees fully with Macmillan. The U.S. reply to Khrushchev, the White House said, is not expected Thursday. At the United Nations, it was announced that U.S. Dele gate Henry Cabot Lodge was go ing to Washington for conference Firfay on the summit question. The British leader told Khrush chev the conference he had in mind certainly would allow "lest formal meetings of heads of gov ernment" to be arranged, in ad dition to the sessions of the whole U-nation Council. Whipping Urged By County Judge TAMPA. Fla. (AP)-A count judge urges the use of a whipping post for wife beaters, juvenile de linquents and nonsupport of fenders. A public whipping at the door of the courthouse would have the greatest deterrent effect on these offenders," Judge L.A. Grayson says. The judge said wives should be given a chance to use the whip on husbands convicted of nonsup port and wife beating. Si
