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r COi? U o? 0RSG0N LIBRARY EUGENE, ORE. ! The- Day's News By FRANK JENKINS There are two interesting little (ales in the news this morning. They are curiously inter-related. Here is Tale No. 1: The department of agriculture announces that American farmers are producing the largest crop in history this year. Overall crop production will be up seven per cent from last year. Cotton is up six per cent over 1957. Soybeans will hit all-time new highs. All wheat and barley crops are of record size. Corn and hay crops are expected to be at least the second largest in history. Oats, potatoes and sugar crops (beets, cane, etc.) are far above aver age. And All this is being done on THE SMALLEST ACREAGE IN 40 YEARS.. All that should be good news. But IS IT? One wonders. All over America the ware houses are bulging with earried over surpluses from former years. These surpluses hang over the ag ricultural markets like a dark thundercloud. Inevitably, this ques tion arises: What will an all-time record crop do to PRICES? That remains to be seen. Nobody knows. Here is tale No. 2: The senate has given final con gressional approval to a compro mise four-year extension of the ration's RECIPROCAL TRADE bill. The measure gives President Eisenhower most of the tariff-cutting power he has asked for. It is assumed that he will sign the bill into law. Why is that related to our record breaking crop of this year? It's like this: American farmers have demon strated that they are the most ef ficient producers of food in the world. Over the world as a whole, there isn't food enough to go around. Millions of people are hungry. Consider this fact: If American farmers who this year will produce the biggest crops in history on the smallest acreage in history could dispose of their supplies to the peoples who are hungry, everything would be rosy. That can come about only by means of TRADE. Trade is a two-way street. Be fore people elsewhere can buy the food we are able to produce in such abundance, they must be able to sell to us the things they pro duce in abundance. If we are to sell, we must also buy. That is the first law of com merce. , Ike To Sign Trade Bill WASHINGTON (AP) Compro mise legislation to extend the re ciprocal trade program for four years was ready today for Presi dent Eisenhower's signature. Sec retary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks called the, bill the best yet." The program, started 24 years ago, permits the United States to negotiate agreements to cut tar iffs on imports in return for simi lar concessions from other na tions on American goods they ad mit. As finally passed by the Senate yesterday 72-18, the compromise comes pretty close to what the President wanted. Its central pro visions are these: The program will be extended four years, a longer extension per iod than ever before. Eisenhower asked for five years. " i,. "I ' JTRAMSTKKS YESES' -T4 St m ; . if ( if. PICKETS on foot or in cars were stationed in front of the sight local retail lumber yards this morning for the third successive day in the strike of Teamsters Union Local No, 911 against the operators of Klemath Falls retail lumber yards. Local branches of interstate trucking firms were not expecting pickets, but have received instructions to ac cept no more freight pickup orders. The work stoppage which is extending throughout the 1 1 Western states is permitting the delivery of shipments on hand, Over-the-road and local pickup and delivery by common carriers il expected to be almost at a standstill by Wednesday morn ing. At this time, deliveries of milk, bread, beer and other Staples have not been affected. -t Price Five Cents 12 Pages Science Tells Of Radiation Death Curbs BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - The possibility of a double-barreled protection against death from atomic bomb radiation was re ported today. The promising preventive de scribed as having achieved dra matic results in protecting mice from radiation death consists of combining the wonder drug strep tomycin with bone marrow cells, both given by injection. Researchers Howard H. Vogel Jr. and Donn L. Jordan of the Atomic Energy Commissioner's Argonne National Laboratory told about it in a report to the first International Congress on Radia tion Research. The congress, at tended by some 700 scientists from both sides of the Iron Curtain, is being held on the campus of the University of Vermont. Explaining that symptoms of acute radiation sickness in mam mals result primarily from injury to the gastro-intestinal and to the blood-forming system, the scien tists said the dual treatment ap pears to work this way: The streptomycin controls gen eralized bacterial infections dur ing the period of intestinal dam- age and thus prevents the early death usually seen in mice after exposure to heavy doses of atom ic neutrons. Wen, by the 10th day after ex posure, when streptomycin alone no longer offers protection, the bone marrow takes over, stimu lating the blood-producing system. I he researchers said that when each of the materials was used individually, only limited protec tion was achieved. However, when the two were combined there was "a dramatic protection from death." He's Here And Then He Ain't. Thank Heavens DALLAS (AP) Nobody was whooping it up in the Neighbor hood Bar. Then a khaki clad stranger stepped through the door of the tavern. -. - "I'm here," he shouted, and made sure nobody overlooked the announcement by riddling a coin machine and a beer sign with buckshot. No one was injured and the stranger fled in an old-model car. but it took a while for things to get quiet again. Locate The Man With Part Of Hi Ear Missing IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) -It may be fairly easy to identify the man who slashed wiltord Ham mon nine times with a knife. Hammon told police from his hospital bed that a man sneaked up behind him in the dark as he was helping a sick friend from a car. The assailant hit Hammon be hind the ear and then cut him twice each on the stomach, face and chest and three times on an arm. In the scuffle, Hammon marked his attacker well by biting off the top of one ear. - KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, - KIPPY THE POODLE joins in some barrel-rolling with Baby Opal, star of the Besalou Elephants, in the Polack Brothers Circus which opened this afternoon at the Klamath County Fairgrounds, under the sponsorship of the local Shrine Club. There will be evening performances today and tomorrow at 8:15, and another matinee tomorrow at 2:15. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair through Wednesday. Highs 80-85; low Tuesday night 42-48. High yesterday 85 Low last night 57 Preclp. last 24 hours 0 Since Oct. 1 .19.57 Same period last year ...15.18 Normal for period -.. . 12.74 i . Fire Danger Today ,; . ' HIGH " ' Ffrcs start readily from match or glowing cinders, tend to spread rapidly and tend lo crown in young growth. Northern California Fair and warm through Wednesday. Winds along coast northwesterly, 10-20 miles per hour. , U.S. Shoots New Missile HONOLULU (AP) The U.S. blasted off a guided missile with an atomic warhead Tuesday from Johnston Island. The flash lit the skies so that it was seen by many in the Hawaiian Islands, 700 miles to the northwest. A civil engineer in Honolulu, using four methods of reckoning, estimated the explosion of the nu clear warhead occurred at a height ol at least bo miles. The warhead apparently was put aloft on an Army Redstone rocket. That was the type missile used in a similar test at Johnston Island on Aug, 1. Ihere were varying estimates on the altitude reached by the war head in the first test. Some ex perts believed it blasted off at slightly more than 40 miles in the air, far above any previous known level for a nuclear explosion. The firings are reported to be part of the effort to develop an ami-missile missile, such a mis sile using a nuclear warhead would be detonated against enemy inter continental ballistic missiles while they were in space. U. S. Pacific Command head quarters announced the explosion occurred at 12:30 a.m. Hawaii time. In Washington, the Atomic Energy Commission put out this terse explanation in a statement The test detonation of a nu clear warhead in a missile oc curred above the Johnston Island area in the Pacific today. The test is part of the Hardtack nu clear weapons test series. Chief Warns KF Motorists Police Chief Charlie Howard to day warned motorists traveling South Sixth Street that his depart ment was going to "crack down" on those who fail to observe the pedestrian crosswalks at the inter sections of Shasta Way, Lark and Martin streets. . Howard pointed out that these crosswalks are amply marked and lighted, but that many motorists have not been yielding the right-of-way to pedestrians at these points. "For safety's sake." How ard said, "we're Eoinn to crack down hard on all motorists who fail to observe these crosswalks and who do not slay within the speed limit on South Sixth." TUESDAY, AUGUST 1!, 1958 1958 Circus Yith Four Performances By LAMAR HOOVER All the magic lures of circus wizardry came to Klamath Falls today with the 1958 Polack Broth ers Circus, which is presenting tour performances at the fair grounds under the sponsorship of the Klamath Falls Shrme Club. There was. a matinee today at 2:15, with another scheduled for tomorrow at the same time, and there will be 8:15 performances to day and tomorrow. The three A s of the circus: Ani mals, acrobats and aerialists, form a solid nucleus, amplified by the glitter of sparkling cos tumes and bright lights, rhythmic music and the merriment of clowns. Aerial events, each daring and suspensefui in its own way, are the Aenalovelies cavorting aloft in graceful unison, the Rose Gold Trio in startling adventures aloft, the Ronnie Lewis' Trio performing precariously on lofty swaying lad ders, the Swing High Girls in sweeping dives and plunges, Prin cess Tajana displaying extraordi nary temerity on the swinging trapeze, the Sikorskas spinning and whirling while suspended by their teeth, and the Flying Pala- cios in breathtaking aerial somer saults, passages and catches. Skill and comedy are blended by the George Hanneford Family, the straight bareback riding of Kay Frances and George Jr. coun- terpointed by lommys zany equestrian antics. In the animal category are Jan et's Pet Revue with its clever canines, prancing ponies and mis chievous monkey; Jcnniers beats, their repertory of tricks enlivened by Ethel Jennier's sprightly pre sentation, and the Besalou Ele phants, moving swiftly with Kippy the poodle under the direction of Mac and Peggy Macuonald. Big Ovation For Sub Crew PORTLAND, England (AP) The crew of the U.S. submarine Nautilus arrived Tuesday for i hero's welcome after an epic voy age under the north polar icecap. Blaring bands, bagpipes and cheers greeted the big atomic- powered submarine as she was docked. In fleeting sunshine, the crew reached land for the first time since leaving Pearl Harbor, Ha waii, on July 23 for the first voy age under the arctic ice by way of the North Pole. The bands played John Philip Sousa's "The Stars and Stripes Forever. Men and officers of the Royal Navy, U.S. Ambassador John Hay Whitney, U.S. Navy men and om cers,' the Earl of Selkirk, and hundreds of spectators roared out a greeting. Men of the Nautilus shouted and waved as they ended their 8,145- mile journey. For the captain of the Nautilus Cmdr. William R. Anderson, of Waverly, Tenn., it was the second landing. Last week he was flown by hell copter and airplane from the wet deck of his sub to the While House where he received the Le gion of Merit from President Eisenhower. Telephone TU 4-8111 Opens Today In the acrobatic field, the Origi nal Gutis engage in fast-breaking capers reminiscent of the slap stick era of Mack Sennctt, the Six Frielanis climax all manner of cycling stunts by riding all on one Dicycie, tne victorias and Mellt- ta ahd Wicons exhibit equilibristic expertness with tall slender perch poles, and the Wazzan Troupe Duuas amazing human pyramids as a prelude to their tumultuous Arab tumbling. An interlude of refreshing nov elty is provided by the Bizzarro Brothers, a trio of newly imported musical clowns from Italy, and further mirth derives from the numerous appearances of Gene Handows comedy brigade. Japan Plane Feared Down TOKYO (AP) A Japanese airliner carrying 33 persons, in cluding one American was lost and feared crashed in Japanese coast al waters. All-Nippon Airways said aboard its missing DC3 were 3 crewmen and 30 passengers including one non-Japanese listed as Howard Kreiss. The Japan Broadcasting Corp. reported he was with Kreiss & Co., Los Angeles. The lost airliner reported at 8:37 p.m. Tuesday night about 100 miles southwest of Tokyo, that it had trouble with its left engine and was returning to Tokyo Inter national Airport. A half hour later, it asked per mission to land at Kisarazu Air Base, 35 miles southeast of Tokyo, on the shores of Tokyo Bay. mere were no further mes sages. Civil aviation officials said they feared the plane went down onshore. A U.S. Air Force amphibian plane started searching coastal waters. Five Japanese Coast Guard boats began a sweep of the area from Shimoda near where the plane 'first encountered trouble to Tokyo Bay. U.S. Begins Of One Marine Battalion BEIRUT 'AP) - The United States began the withdrawal of one battalion of Marines from Lebanon Tuesday. Sweating Leathernecks of t h e 2nd Battalion of the 2nd Division began moving their heavy equip ment to the b e a c h shortly alter the announcement Tuesday. They will begin embarking early Wed nesday. Saeb Salam, rebel -leader in Beirut, said he welcomed "this symbolic step" but emphasized it fell short of rebel demands for a complete withdrawal. The 1,700-man force was the first U.S. unit to land July 15 at the request of President Camille Chamoun. who feared a pro-Nas ser uprising similar to the one that overthrew the govern ment of Iraq July 14. Adm. James L. liolloway, com Indian Eisenhower UN Address Mideast Foreign Policy WASHINGTON (AP) Presi dent Eisenhower will go before the United Nations emergency Assembly Wednesday for a major address outlining the United States program for the Middle East. The White House said Eisenhow er plans to fly to New York Tues day night, leaving Washington about 6 p.m. Press Secretary James C. Ha- gerty said the President will ad dress the Assembly Wednesday morning, probably shortly after it convenes at 10 a.m. EDT. Eisenhower will stay overnight at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. He plans to fly back to Wash ington shortly after speaking at the special Assembly session. In announcing the President's Selwyn Lloyd, John Dulles Hold Meeting UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) Secretary of State Dulles and British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd meet today to coordinate their strategy for the U.N. Assem bly debate on the Middle East opening tomorrow. Dulles also was looking over the situation at U.N. headquarters to decide whether President Eisen hower should bolster the Ameri can position by a personal appear ance before the emergency As sembly session. Both the Soviet Union and the West were pressing for maximum support in the 8l-nation Assem bly. Spokesmen for the so-called neutral nations were holding back until they got a fill-in irom both sides on the concrete measures they would propose. Both the Soviet Union and the United Arab Republic are putting prime emphasis on demands for immediate withdrawal of U. a. troops from Lebanon and British troops from Jordan. Asian diplomats said the Asian African group of. 28 nations big gest bloc in the U.N. would also press for the troop withdrawals to be followed by consideration of. long-range plans under U.N. di rection for improving economic and social conditions in the Mid-, die East. - Both U.S. and British diplomatic sources stressed the need for a program that would deal with the broad and fundamental problems of the Middle East. But specific details were still lacking. some u.N. diplomats said the prospect of a Soviet attempt to gain recognition for Red China at the emergency assembly appeared to be dimming. The Soviet Union will probably launch its usual verbal attack on Naionalist China but will hold back on a challenge to the Na tionalist Chinese credentials until the regular Assembly session opening Sept, 16, these diplomats said. Senate Plans Merger Probe ST. LOUIS (AP)-The St. Louis Globc-D e m o c r a t says it has learned the U.S. Senate Rackets Committee will investigate a 1949 union merger from which Harold J. Gibbons emerged as a power in the Teamsters Union. The newspaper said the com mittee has subpoenaed Lawrence J. Camie, who quit as head of Teamsters Local 688 in St. Louis Gibbons succeeded him. Local 688 merged with Gibbons United Distribution Workers I changing 688 from a local of 1,000 to 7.000 men. Since the merger, Gibbons has become an international vice pre! ident and right-hand man to Teamster President James R Hoffa. Withdrawal mander of the 15,000 U.S. Marines and troops in Lebanon, announced the withdrawal. He indicated this was the beginning of the pullout ol U.S. forces. (Diplomatic officials In Wash ington said the battalion is the only unit scheduled for withdraw al under present plans.) The American action was obvi ously intended to influence the debate on the Middle East begin ning Wednesday in an emergency session of the U.N. General As sembly. The soviet Union, President Nasser's United Arab Republic and other Asian and African na tions are demanding the immedi ate withdrawal of the U.S. forces from Lebanon and the 3,000 troops Britain has sent to Jordan to pro tect the government of King Hus sein. Bill Ready Plans Major On American plans, the White House gave out no information regarding the na ture of the proposals he will make for political and economic stabili zation of the Mideast. Hagerty's announcement came shortly after Secretary of State Dulles arrived in New York to take charge of the U.S. delegation plan ning for the emergency assembly session. The decision for the President to go to New York apparently grew out of recommendations from Dulles. The secretary of state said as he boarded his plane for New York that he would report back on the situation he found there and the decision on Eisenhower's action would be made at that time. At the airport Dulles said he foresaw agreement in the Gen eral Assembly to establish what he called practices and con structive developments in the area which wilt make peace and wellbeing more assured." The secretary said he probably would confer with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd and other visiting foreign policy chiefs during his stay in New York as operating chief of the American delegation. Dulles was reported planning to meet Tuesday night with Special Ambassador Robert Murphy who was due to reach New York in late evening on his return from a trouble shooting mission which took him to Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Israel, the United Arab Re public and Ethiopia. Commie Jets Buzz Formosa TAIPEI, Formosa (UPI) Eighteen waves of Communist Chinese jet fighters flew around and over the Nationalist Chinese island group of Quemoy today but did not fire a shot or drop a sin gle bomb, the official Central News Agency reported. .. . . Lt. Cmdr. H. W. Chellow, spokes man for the U.S. Formosan De fense Command, noted that all U.S. planes patrolling the strait separating Formosa from the Red- held mainland, are armed and un der orders fd fire back if attacked. Premier Chen Cheng said he be lieved the Communists were pre paring an attack. When they do we are not going to take the blows Impassively," he told the Control Yuan, supervisory body of the government's execu tive branch. We are going to return blow with blow." The Quemoy group is just off the Chinese mainland about 100 miles southwest of Formosa. The Central News dispatch from Quemoy said the Communist jets, mostly MIG 17s, flew 80 sorties in the area in 11 hours. It said 12 of the planes flew directly over the Island but escaped Nation alist antiaircraft fire. Informed sources said the Com munists apparently were flying photo reconnaissance missions over the area. Before the flights began, Com munist shore batteries bombarded Quemoy with 51 shells at dawn but the Defense Ministry said the shelling caused no damage. f..' I A GIRL'S BEST FRIEND in this instance is a Hampshire lamb being given an affectionate embrace by 15-year-old Donna Nicholas of Susanville. She'll enter the lamb in the Lessen County Fair and Livestock Show which begins a five-day run in Susanville Wednesday. Her entry 1$ a part of the 4-H club projects. y Report Says Conferees Reach Accord WASHINGTON (AP) Senate- House conferees were reported Tuesday to have reached agree ment on a compromise bill cover ing sale of the Klamath Indian Reservation timber in Oregon. Rep. Al Ullman (D-Ore) said the agreement would be brought before the House Wednesday for a vote. The bill amends existing proce dures for sale of the tribal assets to require that the vast timber stand be offered first to private interests. The government woulo buy remaining stands, paying up to a maximum of 90 million dol- ' lars, for inclusion in the national forest system. The compromise bill, Ullman said, provides that a condition of private purchase would require management of the timber "ac cording to sustained yield proce dure so as to furnish a continuous supply of timber." Conferees accepted language of the House bill requiring such man agement to continue in perpetuity rather than for 100 years, as set out in the Senate version. House language also was ac cepted, Ullman said, postponing until April 1, 1959, the sale of the timber to be offered under the bill to permit a reappraisal of its ' worth. Purpose of the bill is to amend sales procedures originally ap proved by Congress in 1954 in en acting the bill for ending federal supervision over the Oregon tribe. In a joint telegram to the Her ald and News by both Representa tive Ullman and Senator Neuber- ger stressed that the prolonged conference "has produced a bill which will serve the best interests i of the Klamath Indians and the entire state of Oregon." Their joint telegram continued. First and foremost, we are as sured by high officials of the For est Service that the great Klam ath pine forest will be adequately protected under the compromise language adopted in the confer ence." "Secondly, the 90 million dollar authorization is retained to add the timber to the national forest, should that be necessary, and to pay the withdrawing Indians. This is a generous sum." The telegram also said, "We think the review of the original Klamath appraisal will foe helpful, and that it may uncover some in ¬ justices against the Indians which should be subsequently corrected." Although the bill calls for the dismissal of the Management Spec ialists, the conferees made it clear that this action was not intended to reflect on the integrity or use fulness of their service, but be cause of the substantial comple tion of their work." Late Tuesday morning. Senator Neuberger told the Herald and News by telephone that the report of the House and Senate confer ence committees, composed of five members from the House and five from the Senate, was unanimous, all 10 voting for the bill as amend ed by the conference committee to add the words, "according to sustained yield procedures" to the continuous supply language of the House bill. The conference committee report went to the House this afternoon. where, under the rules it will lie over for 24 hours. The House is expected to vote on it Wednesday, The bill will go to the Senate on Thursday. Senator Neuberger says he ex pects it to be approved by both the House and the Senate in time to get to the White House by Fri day. V
