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COM? U Or OREGON LIBRARt IUCBSE, ORE. fo) an Ike Agrees To Mussim Proposal MRS OT KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6. 1958 Price Five Cents 20 Pages Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 6143 ! The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS What about the big "summit" meeting in the U.N. Security Coun cil that Russia turned down? Let's not worry too much about It. It would have turned out to be just another big propaganda show and there's already too much propaganda in the world. And too little common sense. What's wrong with the world Including us? I wouldn't know, but here's a faint: At a convention in Buffalo the other day, a sociologist told his hearers that American youth's no tions about romantic love lead to come pretty foggy choices in mat rimonial prospects. In his talk, he cited a survey made among mar riageable 20-year-old women in 12 cities on their ideal husband pro' totypes. These were their preferences: Perry Como, William Holden and Bock Hudson as top three. Presi dent Eisenhower and Tab Hunter tied for fourth place. Tony Curtis and Elvis Presley tied for fifth and Marlon Brando, Jeff Chanc ler, James Dean, Senator William F. Kennedy, Jerry Lewis and Vice President Nixon shared sixth place. Let's talk about the stock mar ket. It's more realistic. In particular, let's talk about what happened when the Federal Reserve Board hiked the margin requirement from 50 per cent to 70 per cent. (As a result of the hike, prices on the New York Stock Exchange faltered yesterday. but swung upward again this morning.) PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) The sketchy story that Teamsters Business Agent Frank Kierdorf gave after he stumbled into a hosmtal. burned almost trom neaa to foot, began falling apart today. At the same time, police had a warrant for the arrest of Kier- dorf's uncle, Herman Kierdorf, ei ther a vengeance-bent hunter or Business Agents Story Crumbling the fear-shaken prey of an anony mous telephone threat. Herman, a former Teamsters business agent, disappeared alter swearing he would get even with the people who his nephew said set him afire and lelt him, pain- wracked and nearly naked, on a hospital lawn. While the 56-year-old Frank clung to a thin strand of life in police-guarded hospital room, Prosecutor Frederick Ziem said: "The man had prior medication before he ever came to the hos pital. Furthermore, there is no evidence to back up his statement that ne rouea m tne grass to put out the flames. Ziem based his conclusions on the. word of a pathologist. Dr. Richard E. Olsen, who said he found traces of a salve on Kier- dorf's neck and face that was not administered at the hospital The new loopholes in Frank s story only piled higher the multi- tude of unanswered questions. Why did he leave home Sunday night with two strangers? He said they told mm it was union busi ness, but he later admitted he was wearing only a robe over trous ers and an undershirt, Who are John and Roger? He has mentioned both in delirious mumbling but refused to talk about them later. What was he loading into the black Packard in which he was taken from his home? A neighbor told police she saw him put what First What's it ail about? What does this "margin" busi ness mean? Why was It done? In more generally understand able language, "raising the mar gin" means requiring a larger DOWN PAYMENT on purchased stocks. In this case, it meant rais ing the down payment from 50 per cent of the purchase price to 70 per cent. The purpose was to CHECK SPECULATION. Let's now take a sharp look at speculation. Americans are natural specula tors. If you see a vacant lot that seems to have possibilities of be coming more valuable you buy it (if you can raise the money) and hold it for a rise in price. If you are a business man (and if it looks like prices will go up) you Increase your inventory that is, you buy more than you need at the moment in the hope that prices will rise and you will make speculative profit. If you need a shirt and it looks like me price of shirts will go up you buy TWO shirts. And so on. Americans are born speculators. They always have been. As long as they stay AMERICANS they always will be. Is that bad? It all depends. If you become so obsessed with the idea of buying low and selling (Continued on Page 4-A) Farm Forces Set To Push Revised Bill WASHINGTON (AP) Disor ganized House farm forces rallied for an effort to ram a compromise farm bill through the House to day. It would oermit cutting price support levels on cotton, corn and rice but allow planting ot more cotton and make changes in pro grams for the others. The bill was scheduled for showdown vote postponed from Monday, when it came to the floor under take-it-or-leave-it procedure requiring a two-thirds vote for passage. If that fails the bill could be broucht ud later under more lib eral voting procedure, but House lparfors have said that is unlikelv. They urged passage of the bill so 'looked like pillows into the car. a Senate-House comerence can work out final terms. Although the bill goes far in the direction of lower price supports demanded by Secretary of Agri culture Benson, final action was put over from Monday because of administration Republican opposi tion. They have been driving for a vote on provisions of the Senate passed iill, which Benson has en dorsed. Also lined up against the House bill were Midwestern dairy state members disgruntled because no milk chanees are provided, city members suspicious of all farm legislation, and diehard foes of any reduction in government price supports. When today s vote was scnea- uled. House Sneaker Sam Ray- burn (D-Tex) declared that House failure to pass the bill would mean nn farm legislation this session. The Senate bill wouia lower price support floors to levels fa vored bv Benson. It also would abandon the old parity concept of calculating support levels in ia vor of a new method based on average market prices. Parity is a standard, nasea on k THE CHAMPIONSHIP PLAQUE which awaits the winner of the big, five-day double-elimination Pacific Northwest Bab Ruth Regional which begins this afternoon at Gem Stadium is displayed to a group of the coaches by Jack Kemnitzer, tourney director. From left to right, Parria Dolph, coach of the Oregon entry, Kemnitzer, Ron Jones, Could they have contained explo sive material that accidentally seared him? Would that mean the men with him were friends? Was he burned either venge- fully or accidentally because of union business? At first Frank said yes. then he said no. Both f rank and his uncle Her man are ex-convicts with Team sters Union connections. Frank is business agent for the 2,000-mem ber Teamsters Local 332 in near by Flint. Herman quit only last week as business agent for De troit Joint Teamsters Council 43 and as an aide to International Teamsters President James R. Hoffa. Both were reluctant witnesses before the Senate Rackets Com mittee, For the first 15 hours after staggering through a hospital door at l a. m. Monday, Frank even refused to tell who he was. Finally, at the urging of Her man, he told a story of two men he did not know tricking him out of his house Sunday night, taking him at gunpoint to a wooded area, dousing him in a fluid, and set ting him afire. He said he rolled in the grass Foreign Aid 1909-14 farm prices, designed tol" pui uui p vb the farmer a lair once tor " j duiu his commodities in relation to the cost of things he must buy. The House bill stuck witn tne parity system, and rejected the market price theory ot me senate bill. But it also would provide for a gradual reduction in price sup ports and increased planting al lowances for cotton, corn and rice in line with Benson's policy of less government in agriculture. The House price support cuts, however, do not go as deep as those proposed by the Senate. Then, at the urging of one of the men who said he wanted to avoid murder, they drove him to a hospital and dumped him on the lawn. Herman, 68, told police that 15 minutes before he learned Frank had been burned a strange voice told him on the telephone: "You're next." Ziem let Herman leave the hos- View Defeat WASHINGTON (AP) - Oppo nents of increased foreign aid spending all but conceded victory today to Senate leaders fighting to restore most of the funds cut by the House from a foreign aid money bill. ' Two opponents suffered a strong setback yesterday when the Sen ate Appropriations Committee ap proved $3,518,092,500 in . foreign aid spending after restoring 440 million of tho 597 million chopped out by the House. Sen. Henry Dworshak (R-Idaho) said attempts will be- made to knock out the increases when the bill comes up for Senate debate next week. But he noted that Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas and Sen. Wil liam F. Knowland of California. the Senate's Democratic and Re publican leaders, teamed up to get committee approval of the in crease. Dworshak called that "a diffi cult combination to beat." Sen. Richard B. Russell (D-Ga) said he too would oppose the in creases on the floor as he did in the committee, but added "the chances do not look too bright." Even with the increase, the bill falls 432 million dollars below Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair and continued warm through Thursday. Highs M-95; lows 55-60. High yesterday 85 Low last night ..... 61 Preclp. last 24 hours . 0 Since Oct. 1 ...19.57 Same period last year .. 15.18 Normal for period 11.70 Fire Danger Today HIGH Fires start readily from match or glowing cinderi, tend to spread rapidly and tend ' to crown in young growth. Northern California Fair through Thursday night except scattered thunderstorms In the Si erras and night and morning coast al fog. Little change in tempera tures. Winds along coast mostly northwesterly, 8-18 miles per hour. Bulletin DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) Aus tralian wonder runner Herb El liot clocked a fabulous 3:54.5 In the mile Wednesday night during a race that saw three other run ners all belter John Landy'i listed world mark of 3:58. nital after he helped talk Frank sf, : t . ii u; jdaicu, turn io72 iiuiiiuii icaa wan Then he diiappeared. All America Chiefs May Meet RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) Secre- tary of State Dulles said Wednes day indirect aggression threatens another world war "this time with even more disastrous conse quences." World events now show "disturb ing symptoms such as preceded and forecast World War 11" Dulles said in a speech prepared for a luncheon given for him by the American Chamber of Commerce in Brazil. Dulles spoke to the American business community just before flying with Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek to Brasilia, the nation's capital - under - con struction 600 miles northwest of Rio. It was the secretary's last stop on his 2H-day visit to Brazil. He was to fly back to Washington Wednesday night. Dulles and Kubitschek were re ported near agreement that a summit conference of the presi dents of the 21 American peoples should be called to knit together the strained ties between the United States and its Latin neigh bors. The first gathering of American presidents since July 1956 would launch "Operation Pan Ameri can." a drive to strengthen inter American relations, informants aid. The drive would include a full-scale attack on economic un derdevelopment in Latin America Dulles at a press conference re- Iterated the U.S. position that pri- den of development and U.S. gov ernment aid is limited. The prospect of a summit meet ing to be attended by President Eisenhower caused some surprise. Since Kubitschek began pushing the idea in June, Washington had taken the position that the foreign ministers could accomplish more than the heads of state, who would Chief Seeks Price Curbs WASHINGTON (AP) President Eisenhower said Wednesday American business is going to have to curb price increases or consumers are going to rebel. The President coupled this re mark at a news conference with an equally emphatic declaration that labor, too, must use restraint about wage increases be bound by more formality and protocol. One source saia tne Laun-Amer-ican ambassadors in Washington would meet with U.S. officials, probably in September, to discuss a summit meeting, ii an n na tions agreed the confab should be held, the Organization of Ameri can States would make the preparations. The presidents are expected to agree on broad policies ana gen eral orinciules only. Then techni cians and economists would be as signed to draw up a program of action to carry out the presidents recommendations. In conferences with Kubitschek and Foreign Minister Francisco Neerao de Luna since ne arrived Monday, Dulles reviewed world af fairs and inter-American relations But the Brazilians apparently got no promise of dollar help In the two economic fields in which they want it most coffee and oil. Dulles told his news conference the United States will continue to Congress itself approved in a pre vious authorization bill. Knowland told the committee the President realized that he couldn't anticipate any more, and said the administration could live with the amount voted. As approved by the Appropria tions Committee, the bill carries 580 million dollars for the econom ic development fund created last year to provide long-term, low-in terest loans to underdeveloped nations. The House voted 300 mil lion for this fund. than the working man whose in come, he said, steadily lags be- vate capital should carry the bur-1 hind rising cost of living. sit in on price-stabilization talks Eisenhower gave his views when; by the coffee nations. But he said the U.S. government doesn t agree with the producers who contend the United States can stabilize coffee prices The secretary reportedly gave a firm but diplomatic no to hints that the U.S. government help fi nance the operations of Petrobras, Brazil's state oil monopoly which so far tots been a dud. asked if. in the light of recent steel price increases, his adminis tration has any plan to combat inflation. He did not answer the question directly but said no one should be more concerned about inflation Wagon Race Tops Rodeo A four-team chuckwagon race is the scheduled highlight of the Al- turas rodeo slated for this Satur day and Sunday according to officials. The race, as wild and woolly as they come, will feature four local rigs and drivers and promises the spectators their money's worth. Another rough and tumble is planned for both days in the wild horse race. The rodeo will be kicked off at 11 a.m. Saturday mornira? with the traditional rodeo parade. The show will get under way at 1 o'clock on both days. A barbecue is scheduled . Satur day evening staged by the Lions Club, benefits to go to the swim ming pool fund. A dance will be held Saturday night on the elemen tary school tennis courts. In addition to the regular riding roping events there will be five horse races per day as well as special events. coach of tha Montana squad, John Paxton, assistant coach of tha Klamath Falls host team, Don Plarski, manager of Montana and Ray Kahut, manager of Oregon eye the covated prize. Not shown are representativas of Wyoming, British Columbia, Washington and Idaho, tha other entries in the tournament. Pacific Northwest Clubs Vie For Regional Crown Pension Bill At Showdown WASHINGTON (AP) - The House faces a showdown today on a bill to require public reporting of employe welfare-pension funds. A major battle was forecast over efforts to exempt plans handled by employers. Rep. Albert H. Bosch (R-NV) predicted success for his proposal to exclude from the financial re porting requirements management run funds known as "level-of-ben-efit" plans. These are the programs set up by an employer who guarantees a definite amount of benefits to the employe. Management, em ployes or both pay the costs of various such plans. As the bill now stands it would require administrators of all plans to make available to the partici pants a description of the plan and an annual report of its financial operations. Copies would be filed wiui me secretary oi laDor. the bill Is designed to cut down abuses brought to light by the Senate Rackets Committee. Rep. Ludwig Teller (D-NY), the bill's author, predicted It would pass but told a reporter he was not prepared to say whether the Bosch amendment would be adopted. Ar L CIO President George Mcany sent telegrams to House members urging passage of the bill and rejection of efforts to ex empt some plans. Bosch also sent letters to each House member contendine his proposal would not exempt plans wnicn are sunject to anuse. Bosch said the financial reoort- Ing requirements for level-of-ben- efit plans would get into confiden tial information which - unions Babe Ruth League teams from Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washing ton; Wyoming and British CoIum- hia, as well as a host team from Klamath Falls, the American League All-Stars, enter the first round of play this afternoon at Gem Stadium in a big five-day tournament for the Pacific North west Regional Championship. . The teams, all champions from their individual areas, are com peting for the regional crown as the stepping stone to entry in the Babe Ruth World Series, which is scheduled for Vancouver, British Co.umbia, August 19-23. The first game in the opening round, scheduled for 4 p.m. today, will see the state of Oregon Cham pions. Atlas Sheet Metal of Port land, meeting North Vancouver, the top team from British Colum bia. The second contest, which will start at 7 p.m. after the official opening ceremonies at 6:30, pits Kellogg, the Idaho titlists, against Wyoming. In the final and feature game of the first day s play at 9 p.m. the American League All-Stars, the Klamath Falls host team, will tan gle with Kalispell, the champions from Montana. Concurrent with the tournament in Klamath Falls, like tourneys are being held in Amherst, Massa chusetts; Albany, New York; Mid dlesboro, Kentucky; East Point, Georgia; Joplin, Missouri; Tulsa, Oklahoma and Wmslow, Arizona All divisions of Babe Ruth play are pointing toward the World Se ries in Canada. Klamath Falls, in Its third year as a member of the national Babe Ruth League program, was chos en as the site for the 1958 Regional meet after having finished fourth in state competition during its first year, first, the second year, and second this year. The Klamath County All-Stars were beaten by the Oregon team. Atlas Sheet Met al in the state tournament at Fort- land last weekend. The official opening ceremonies Drior to tonight's first game will include a welcome ny councilman James Barnes, presentation of the winner of the. "Miss Baba Ruth of 1958" contest winner, by Judge Charlie Mack, the introduction of all the players entered in the tour nament and flag ceremony featur ing a Color Guard made up of members of the Army, Navy and Marines. Jack Kemnitzer. of the Klamath Falls Park and Recreation Depart ment, is Regional Tournament di rector under tho supervision of John Laxson of Portland, Babe Ruth Regional director, and Floyd Markham, also of Portland, the Oregon State head. Neither of the latter two will be able to attend the opening of the meet. Other offi cials here for the tournament in clude, Les Tinseth. Montana state director, Joe Tucker, Idaho. R. H. Dutcher, the Wyoming director, G. S. Hockley, from British Colum bia and George Wyse, tho Wash ington representative. The Klamath Falls Babe Ruthl League is headed by James Stil- well, president, Dick Gallagher, vice president and Barbara Galla ghcr, -secretary-treasurer. Admission prices for the tourna-l ment are $3 for general admis sion season tickets, which entitle the holder to see all the games and $1 for individual session gen oral admission. Box seats are $1.50 and reserved scats are $1.25. U.S. Laws Ban Firemen From Dousing Flame SOUTH SALT LAKE, Utah (AP) The box car standing in the nearby railroad yards was lab eled "Fireworks." It was smok ing. But firemen couldn't break in because it was a government ship ment. They waited 10 minutes before a special agent showed up to open the car yesterday. They doused a small blaze In one wall of the car, then took a closer look at its car go. The car contained about eight dozen 500-pound bombs, several bargaining efforts. boxes of detonators, some small might use against management inarms ammunition and some nitro glycerin. Aides Pleased U.N. Assembly s Hassle Site WASHINGTON (AP)-Presldent Eisenhower said Wednesday that he will head the U.S. delegation to the prospective emergency ses sion of the United Nations Gen eral Assembly on the Middle East if he finds his personal presence necessary or desirable. There has been speculation on the part of some officials here that Soviet Premier Khrushchev- having turned down a Security Council summit session might suddenly decide to attend the General Assembly meeting which he proposed in a letter to Eisen hower Tuesday. Most informed officials, however, think Khrush chev actually has no intention of coming. Eisenhower told a news confer. ence that he has no plan at the moment to go to New York for the General Assembly meeting. He also said that he knows of no general intention on the part of other heads of government to go there. But he reminded reporters that each of the 81 national delegations can be headed by the head of a government, and he said positively that if he finds it necessary or desirable, he will participate. Officials were privately pleased that the fight between the Soviet Union and the Western powers will come in the Assembly rather than at a summit conference. Secretary of State Dulles among others was known to fear that a Mideast sum mit meeting would very likely do more harm than good. Khrushchev himself could head the Soviet delegation to the emer gency Assembly session if he chose. Some officials speculated that he might do so, but most thought he would not. They Inter preted a letter he sent Eisenhower yesterday as backing completely away from the whole summit con ference idea at this time. His bewildering switch in pol icy, the latest in a series of twists and turns over the past three weeks, had officials guessing. Most said that he probably had finally rejected Western proposals for a summit meeting in the 11 nation U.N. Security Council on the insistence of Communist China. He conferred in Peiping late last week with Mao Tze-tuna and other Red Chinese leaders. In a 10-page letter to Eisenhow er, Khrushchev denounced the Security Council as an instrument of the United States, asserted that Red China should be brought into tho U.N. and told Elsenhower that Khrushchev was instructing his ambassador in New York to ask at once for an extraordinary meet ing of the General Assembly. the President gave his reply in a statement last night, saying that the General Assembly is com pletely acceptable" to him. Eisen hower added that ho was Instruct ing Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge to seek Security Council action at once on a United States resolution to put the immediate Middle hast problems before the General Assembly. In New York, the Council was called to meet Tomorrow after noon. U.N. sources expressed con fidence the Council would act dur ing the day, which under U.N. rules would clear the way for an Assembly meeting starting Friday. Reds Purge Talks WASHINGTON (AP) Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, prin cipal bellwether in an on-and-off campaign since last December tor summit conference, now ap pears to have wrecked any chance for an early hcads-of-government meeting. This is the view of Western dip lomats in the wake of the Soviet Premier's latest message to Pres ident Eisenhower, calling instead lor a special meeting of the U. N. General Assembly. Here is a summary of summit negotiations that began anew aft er U. S. troops landed in Lebanon in mid-July. July 18 Khrushchev accused the United States and Britain of aggression in the Middle East. Pointing to danger ol a general war, he called tor a five-power summit meeting July 22 at Ge neva or elsewhere. July 22 Eisenhower, bowing to British insistence, wrote hhru shchev he would accept a sum mit meeting within the U. N. Se curity Council if it was generally desired. French Premier de Gnulle accepted the principle of a summit meeting but said it should no out side the United Nations. July 23 Khrushchev expressed willingness to attend a U. N. sum mit Catherine if India and Arab nations also were represented. He suggested July 28 for a starting date. July 25 Eisenhower wrote back that July 28 was too early and that the ground rules, including ime and place and other nations to be invited, should he arranged by the Security Council itself. He also said the real issue for a sum mit conference to discuss was the threat to the independence of small Mideast nations a refer ence to Soviet efforts to over throw pro-Western nations. July 26 Britain's Prime Minis ter Macmillan, in a note to Khru shchev, backed Eisenhower's pro posal. De Gaulle again celled for a meeting outside the united Na tions and away from New York, July 28 Khrushchev accused Eisenhower and Macmillan of stalling and went back to his orig inal proposal for a five-power con ference in -Europe, perhaps at Moscow. Aug. 1 Eisenhower replied to Khrushchev, proposing a meeting of the heads of government of the 11-mcmber Security Council to begin about Aug. 12. Aug. 3 Khrushchev, turning up at a surprise conference in Pei ping with Red China leader Mao Ize-tung, issued a joint commu nique with Mao demanding an im mediate summit conference of the big powers to discuss problems of the Near East and Middle East. Aug. 5 Khrushchev, in a new letter to Eisenhower, rejected a Security Council summit confer ence and demanded instead an emergency session of the 18-nation U.N. Goneral Assembly. He said he hoped a summit meeting would not be delayed indefinitely but made it clear he wants It outside the U.N.
