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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 15, 1958)
U 0? 0HE30N .LIBRAR? E'JjENE, ORE. COi? am rsi WM 1) m. mum ninirfi In The- Day's lews ' ' By FRANK JENKINS '. There ja good news today. r The Klamath Indian reservation purchase bill has passed both Bouses of the congress. It is now el the White House. ' President Eisenhower's signature is regarded as certain. . That is splendid news for the Klamath Basin and for all of Ore gon. It is splendid news because it insures that this great resource will be administered in such a way that it will be kept producing trees 1 end FIBER perpetually. It insures watershed protection. The future of Southern Oregon end Far Northern California is 'all bound up in adequate and per petual supplies of fiber and water. Fiber and water are our GREAT NATURAL RESOURCES. , Upon them depends our future. This is a good time to give some ' credit for this really important ! achievement where the credit is ; due. Chief credit should go to the Management Specialists, for they were the first to realize the de fects of the original termination act. They were the first to pro pose form of government pur chase of the reservation lands. Their study of the problem of liq uidation convinced them that if this great body of timber was thrown on the market at auction to the highest bidder the inevitable re cult would be tat the Indian owners would fail to receive a fair price for their property. At the same time, they realized that disposal of the Klamath res ervation timber under the original law would be likely to result in ultimate great damage to this tre mendously important asset. So they suggested purchase of the lands by the federal government. Senator Neuberger of Oregon agreed with them. So he introduced a bill providing for federal pur chase of the timber, which would be added to the national forests. Later on. Secretary of the Inte rior Seaton offered an alternate proposal that private enterprise be given an opportunity to pur chase all or a part of these tim ber lands at the appraised price. Under his proposal,, the govern ment would buy the lands not pur chased by private operators. This appealed to Senator Neu berger as a reasonable solution of the problem, and he withdrew his own bill and introduced the de partment of the interior bill. In considerably amended form, this is the bill that has just been approved by the congress. GREAT credit is due to Sena tor Neuberger. He has worked un ceasingly to bring about the en actment of the bill that has just been approved. He has made its final enactment his MAJOR inter est. He' FORGOT POLITICS and devoted his efforts to the welfare of his state and its people. That is STATESMANSHIP. In this session of congress, Sen ator Neuberger has joined the GREATS of Oregon. He has done a splendid job. He has had effective help from ell the members of Oregon's del egation in congress: He has had help from Congressman Clair En gle of California. He has had help from a wide range of influential people in Oregon and elsewhere. As a result, an excellent piece of legislation has been enacted. PLANS AUTUMN VISIT ' BONN, Germany (UPD Greek Premier Constantine Karamanlis will visit West Germany next autumn, the government said to day. ROYALTY LOOKS AT LETTUCE in garden raised by Arlie King, kneeling, who wet named Garden King of the I9S6 Klamath Junior Fall Fair. He will compete again this year In several divisions. Arlie has had seven yeers in 4-H gardening, knows when to water, when to hoe. With him, left to right, are his father, second from left, Willis K. Kinjg, Mrs. I. W. White end Mrs. Cryitel Cheype, both judges of-garden vegetables and . flowers. Fair goers will tee more than half a hundred exhibits in these divisions. All Passengers Feared Dead; Search Dropped For Air Crash Victims SHANNON, Ireland (AP) - All hope was given up Friday of find ing any survivors among the 99 persons aboard the giant Dutch airliner that crashed in the At lantic off Ireland's west coast. The Canadian destroyer Crusad er announced the search was being abandoned after a scouring of the area where the KLM airliner Hugo Degroot crashed Thursday failed to show any sign of life. By midafternoon 35 bodies had been recovered. Evidence piled up that the Su per Constellation, carrying 91 pas sengers including 52 Americans, either exploded or hit the sea with terrific force. Pieces of wreckage were found Much Money Figured In Death Case WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate rackets prober Robert F. Ken nedy said today a good deal of money figured in the presumed death of Dave Probstein, Indian apolis businessman who vanished in 1955. Kennedy, chief counsel of the Senate Rackets Committee, ex pressed that view in the wake of testimony that Probstein was threatened and given an ultima tum shortly before he disappeared. The committee said it planned to question today the men linked with the reported threats and ul timatum to Probstein. They were identitied as Gus Zapas, Indiana Teamsters official, and Allen M. Dorfman. The threat and ultimatum story was related to the committee yes terday by Betty Starrett, an Indi anapolis secretary. She was a sur prise witness in the committee hearings on relations between Probstein and James R. Hoffa, president of the Teamsters Un ion. Miss Starrett also said she had heard Zapas1 threaten to kill Prob stein. But she said that was Zapas' normal way of speaking. As for the alleged ultimatum. the blonde secretary said three Chicago men. met with Probstein in May 1955 and ordered him to deliver some records and money by the first week of June "or else. Probstein disappeared June 6, 1955. Miss Starrett said she overheard the ultimatum in the offices of the Aldor Insurance Agency of Indi anapolis where she worked. She identified the three men as Dorf man, Phil Goodman and Alvin Baron, all of Chicago. The witness said Probstein once heard the Aldor agency, which she described as closely connect ed with Teamster members in In dianapolis, She said Baron and Dorfman, an insurance man linked with the Teamsters in past testi mony, were associated in the agency. Goodman was identified as a lawyer. In questioning Miss Starrett about the alleged ultimatum, Ken nedy asked: "Was any money mentioned? "In the amount of $6,000," she answered. Hoffa has testified he scarcely knew Probstein, but nevertheless made a loan that helped Prob stein establish a new taxicab firm in Indianapolis, called the State Cab Co. scattered over several miles. Life jackets had been ripped to bits. The plane, en route to New York, had climbed into a violent storm. A KLM official said what ever occurred came suddenly, pos sibly an explosion. An undertaker said the condition of the first bodies brought ashore indicated an ex plosion. Ships and planes of five nations were in the area about 100 miles off Galway Bay. Ships were pick ing up bodies and wreckage. One body recovered was that of a boy wearing a uteDell. A spokesman for KLM, an nouncing the search for survivors was being given up, said, "Noth ing further has been seen today in the area." He said that in the event of some special circumstances de veloping there, a further search may be carried out, but at the moment there is no possibility of this arising." bmall ships which picked up bodies were heading toward pic turesque lialway Bay. The deaths of all 99 including 51 Americans would be the high est toll of any single-plane com mercial accident. The American built Supef-Constellation was the first commercial plane to go down at sea on the North Atlantic route flown by more than five million persons since World War II. KLM began an investigation to find out why the plane crashed without even a radio report of trouble. Flight 607E from Amsterdam to New York was last heard from 35 minutes after taking off from Shannon Airport for Gander, Nfld., after a refueling stop. Capt. F. A. E. Roelofs radioed that it was fly ing normally at 16,000 teel. then silence. Some 10 hours later a British airline pilot saw spots on his radar screen. A Royal Air force patrol plane flew over and sighted wreckage. The French trawler General Le Clerc sped to the scene and picked up eignt bodies. The British tanker B. P. Dis tributor picked up another three bodJfs plus a -passport, personal papers and other flotsam. Twelve other ships hurried into the area. The search continued through out the night. "It was an eerie scene lit by our flares, said Flight Lt. Keith McDonald, pilot of the plane that first spotted the wreckage. 1 Mine Selects Union Agent LAKEVIEW (AP)-The Lake- view Mining Co.'s White King uranium mine has recognized Lo cal 87 of the Operating Engineers Union as bargaining agent for their employes. Recognition of the union by the company ended the question of what union would bargain for the workers. The United Aline Work ers had sought recognition. The company resisted, and in court ac tion got an injunction against picketing. G. P. Henne of Portland, busi ness agent for the Engineers lo cal, said the Operating Engineers had a large majority of the work men as members before opening talks with management. The agreement was reached after a week and a half of negotia tions. Henne said the engineers will represent all operation and maintenance personnel both at the mine and at the reduction plant KLAMATH Price Five Cents 16 Pages y w' - v'j e p - i hr n , id -. 111 wirj V -LJa : mr - - :t 'fer r -f fin v TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS is an attractive award in any language, and on August 14, U.S. Savings Bonds in that amount were presented to two Klamath Falls men by Sterling W. Galloway, left, regional manager for the AC Spark Plug Division of General Motors Corporation. Bill Davis, center, operator of the Tidewater Flying A Service Station, 2101 South Sixth Street, received his $10,000 Series E, U.S. Savings Bond as national winner in the GMC's AC Spark Plug Division's sales promotion contest. Bill Cooley, right, Balsiger Oil Company, as wholesale salesman serving the station, received a dupli cate award. In addition, each man was given a check for $1,875 to assist in payment of income taxes on the awards, there were 1,001 dealer prizes in the national contest with duplicate prizes for the wholesale salesmen: The other 1 ,000 dealers received 1 7-jewel Benrus "Citation" wristwatches. Davis didn't have a cash register on which to ring up the first $10,000 he ever received in one day, so Bill Glodowski and Howard Amidon of Amidon's Business Machines, loaned the cash register to record the amount. (For additional pictures and story, see Pages 3 and 4.1 Photo by Ellis U.S. Reserve, Board Alters Money Policy WASHINGTON (AP) The Fed eral Reserve Board, showing deepening concern over the threat of inflation, has reversed its re cession policy and moved toward tightening the money supply. The change in direction the first since last November came with the announcement that effec tive today the discount rate at the San Francisco Reserve Bank would go up from 1 per cent to per cent. The discount rate represents the interest charged Federal Reserve member banks borrowing money from the reserve system. A boost in discount rates normally goes hand in hand with a general in crease in interest charges. . Thus, the reserve board action yesterday held broad implications for anyone planning to go into debt to buy a factory, an auto mobile or a living room rug. The general feeling in financial circles was that only a worsen ing of the economic picture could make it cheaper to borrow money. With the discount rate boost tak ing effect in San Francisco, sim ilar increases by the other 11 re serve banks are expected to fol low, although there may be some time lag A board spokesman said the de cision to switch policy direction was -influenced in part by an in crease in inflation sentiment which has been reflected in a rising stock market. He said another factor was the apparent bottoming out of the recession. When He Says Pretty Good, He Means Not Good NEWTON, Iowa (UPD Jerry Alward, 13, Newton, wrote his parents from a Boone, Iowa, sum mer camp that he is having a "pretty good time." But Jerry added. "When I say pretty I mean I'm not doing so good." Jerry said he was doing flips on the trampoline, missed, hit a steel bar. bounced off. fell on his back and hurt his feet, his ribs and both arms. Then, his sleeping bag, pillow and clothes got soaked during a rainstorm the next day. He moved his air mattress too close to a fire and burned a hole in It. Jerry said he dropped his glasses in the river while return ing from a two-day canoe trip at the YMCA summer camp. "My left foot's big toe is broken and on my right foot a bone fur ther up," he wrote. "And without any glasses I'm not doing so good." Jerry added a post script. "Forget about taking me home a day early for the junior Olym pics because probahiy I won't get the) cast off for five weeks. And bring the other air mattress." FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1958 . I'ORECAST Klamath - Falls and vicinity: Fair through Satur day. Low Friday night 48-54. Highs 86-93. Outlook through Wednesday fair and continued wnrin. High yesterday 85 Low last night 59 Precip. last 21 hours 0 Since Oct. 1 19.57 Same period last year 15.18 Normal for period 12.78 Fire Danger Today EXTREME Explosive conditions. Fires start readily from sparks, burn fiercely and tend to crown generally, . Northern California Fair through Saturday except scattered thunderstorms afternoon and eve ning hours In Sierra Ncvadas and fog on coast. Little change in temperature. Northwesterly winds 10-20 miles an hour near coast. Construction To Resume PORTLAND (AP) The voting wasn't finished, but construction workers were getting back on the job Friday in Southwestern Wash ington and at scattered points in Oregon. The five-week strike and lock out appeared at an end. Only the formality of completing the vote at The Dalles, Hells Canyon, Med ford and Klamath Falls remained The lead of Portland area work ers, who voted Wednesday 528-211 lo accept the settlement terms reached with Associated General Contractors in a meeting with Gov. Robert D. Holmes, was ex pected to be followed. What those terms were was not disclosed. They are- expected to be made known after oil workers have ratified them. The final vote will be Saturday at Klamath Falls. Some men started back to the jobs Thursday in the Eugene area several hours ahead of the time they were to vote. New Rocket Roars Aloft CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) An advanced research rocket has been fired from the Air Force Missile Test Center to probe the earth's atmosphere. The huge missile roared alolt last night. Hashing on and off in a brief climb through Ihe cloud lilled Florida sky. The rocket's type was not made known immed iately. The Air Force announced the rocket was a test vehicle lor the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Officials said Ihe missile Is being used in a program of atmos pheric sampling to gam basic re search information. Scientists hope the missile will shed lignt on such problems as manned space flight and an in tense field of radiation 600 miles up in space. Telephone TU 4-8111 Senate Debate In Prospect Over U.S. Surrender Plan , . BULLETIN WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate overwhelmingly voted today to bar the use of any gov ernment funds to pay anyone to make a study of any plans for a United States surrender. The action was taken by writ ing an amendment Into a supple mental appropriation bill after a furor blew up over a report that such a study had been un dertaken. WASHINGTON (AP) -A new fury of Senate debate was in pros pect today over reports that the Pentagon has been studying pos sible circumstances under which the United States might surrender in an atomic war. The subject set off a veritable storm of criticism in speeches last night. At one point an at tempt was made to close the gal leries to the press and public be cause of the seriousness of the topic. Rut it wasn't done. Ihe United Slates has never lost a war and the legislators were indignant that the military should be having even the slightest thought of any American surrend er. Sen. Richard B. Russell (D-Ga) LOOK AT 'EM! This quartet of sleek and curled Angus will be looked over by Don Peter, sen, farm adviser of Merced, California, who will judge beef entries at the 23rd an nual 4-H and FFA Junior Livestock Show at the Klamath County Fairgrounds August 17, 18 and 19. An even tteven 100 head of beef cattle year, according to Francis Skinner, Klamath County 4-H agent. Earl Wilson, second from left, has been leader of the Malln Beef Club since Hector was a pup, still is. Ro tarians who went on inspection tour prior to show dates are, center rear, Rub. Larson and, second from right, Dick Newman. Young exhibitors, left to right, are Kathy, Wilma, Wanda and Richard Clai'Hi Matin Beef Club, who have fed and petted beautieii.-? Approval To Be Mere Formality WASHINGTON (AP) The Klamath Indian Reservation tim berlands sale bill awaited Presi dent Eisenhower's signature Fri day. It sped through both houses of Congress Thursday at a pace con trasting sharply with progress on it last month. The House passed it first, sent it to the Senate and that body which had liked it from the out setquickly approved and sent it on to the White House. There was no indication when the President would sign it. This usually follows congressional ac tion by several days. In any event it was an administration bill and presidential approval is regarded as a formality. Under terms of the bill, private business gets first chance to buy, at the appraised price, tracts of the rich Ponderosa pine timoer which grows on three quarters of a million acres of the Klamath Reservation. Private offers must include agreement to cut on a sustained yield basis to assure a timber sup ply in perpetuity. Enough must be sola to pay io Indians withdrawing from the tribe their share of the tribal assets. In a vote last spring, 77.3 per cent of the 2,133 enrolled .mem bers of the tribe said they wanted to take their sharo and strike out on their own. The bill provides that after pri vate interests have had their op portunity to buy, then the federal government will buy whatever still must be sold to pay ott the shares of those withdrawing. There is a limit of 90 million dol lars on the amount the govern ment will invest. It would add the purchased timberlands to the na tional forests. An appraisal last February list ed the Klamath timber's value at $118,391,610. This may not be the proposed tacking onto a $3,594, 000,000 supplemental appropria tions bill a rider that would nulli fy any surrender study contract and bar any payments in connec tion with it. Russell, chairman of the Sen ate Armed Services Committee, said most Americans would rather die than see their country under the yoke of another power. At the White House, press sec retary James C. Hagerty said President Eisenhower "certainly wouldn't agree to any talk about surrender of the United States. Hagerty said Eisenhower had- or dered an immediate investigation of the reports about the surrender study. But even as the furor raged there was no solid confirmation that the Pentagon was undertak ing any special surrender study, A spokesman would only say that it was standard military practice to consider all eventualities, even those unlikely to arise. The rumors apparently traced balk lo a study begun in .1951 by the Rand Corp., an independ ent, nonprofit organization which engages in national security re search. Rand, which has a con tract with the Air Force, analyzed the ways in which other countries have surrendered in the past. final figure as another appraisal is planned. Until passage of the bill, an ear. lier law in force would have re quired sale of the timber on ad journment of this session of Con gress. Fear that this would result in forced sale at whatever prices could be obtained, with much clear-cutting by the buyers, led to the change contained in the bill now awaiting the President's sig nature. Early in 1957. Congress pushed back an even earlier deadline in order that liquidation of the tribal assets could be put on a more orderly basis. In the course of discussions of what should be done, T. B. Wal ters, one of the management spe cialists assigned to the termina tion study, told a congressional nearing that the federal govern, mcnt ought to buy it. He said. as had others, that quick sale would be a disaster. Sen. Richard L. Neuberger ID- Ore), chairman of the Senate sub committee on Indian Affairs, was joined by Sen. Wayne Morse (D- Ore) m offering a bill calling for federal purchase. West Efforts To Stabilize Mideast Fail UNITED NATIONS. N.Y. (AP) Jordan's rejection of a plan to station U.N. forces on her soil so British troops could pull out threatened today to hamstring Western efforts to stabilize the Middle East. The American and British dele gations to the U.N. Assembly's emergency session on the Middle East hoped, however, that Jor dan's turndown was only a token gesture. "A lady never says yes right away," one Western official said. - Plans were also under way for another trip by U.N. Secretary Dag Hammarskjold to the Middle East during which he could try to persuade King Hussein's govern ment to admit a U.N. force to his threatened kingdom. Jordanian Delegate Abdcl Mon- em Rifai jolted the Assembly yes terday by declaring his govern ment would not agree to permit cither U.N. observers or military units on Jordan territory. What Jordan needs and asks for," he said, "is material assist, ance to reinforce its own army and security forces." Such a refusal could torpedo ef forts by the United States and Britain to put through a formal proposal for replacement of their troops in Lebanon and Jordan with U.N. contingents. Both the West and the Soviet Union had been in tacit agreement that U.N. units of some sort should take over. Rifai's declaration brought swift response from Omar Loutfl of the United Arab Republic. "Does ihe Jordanian government prefer the British troops to con tinue occupying Jordan?" h e asked. The United States continued sounding out delegations on a ten tative resolution which would em body the main parts of President Eisenhower's six-point plan to bring peace to the Middle East. will be in the judging ring this
