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Day's flews
By FRANK JENKINS
I'm afraid we're going to have
to talk about the cost of living
again today. Here's why:
Yesterday the National Industri
al Conference Board a private re
(arch organization) announced
that in July its index recorded a
drop of one-tenth of one per cent
in the cost of living. This, it said,
was the first drop in 26 months.
Today the federal government
announces that according to its in
dex the cost of living CLIMBED
TWO - TENTHS OF ONE PER
CENT in July to establish anoth
er all-time high.
Hmmmmmmm.
Who's right?
Who's WRONG?
Whom shall we believe if any
body? Consider this:
These cost of living "indexes"
are complicated affairs. Here's
how they work: A list of items
entering into the average cost of
living of the average American
Price Five Cents 26 Pages
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family is compiled. A record of
the prices at which these items
sell on the wholesale and retail
markets Qf the country as a whole
is kept.
At intervals (the usual interval
being a month) the figures are to
taled and an AVERAGE is strucK.
This average is then compared
with the averages over a given
Deriod of time. '
Thus the ups and downs are
computed.
This could happen:
The list of items used by the
National Industrial Conference
Board might DIFFER slightly
from the list used by the federal
department that compiles the gov
ernment cost of living figures.
That, in itself, could account for
the difference shown in July.
After all, the difference is rela
tively small. Heres what it
amounts to:
According to the National Indus-
trial Conference board, the cost of
living dropped 0.1 per cent in July.
According to the federal figures
it ROSE 0.2 per cent.
That is to-say:
According "to the NICB index,
you saved TEN CENTS on each
$100 worth of these items you pur
chased in July.. According to the
eovernment index, each siotrwortn
of these items cost you TWENTY
CENTS MORE.
That's a difference of 30 cents
on each $100 of these items pur
chased by the "average" Ameri
can family. That isn't TOO much
to holler about.
And
These indexes do have their uses.
They help,. to tell us where we are
going.
.. Ona nviro Ihnnoht;
The cost of living is a relative
matter.
ITnr AYflmnlp-
If, in the month of July, the
average American family hadTea
en LESS STEAK AND MORE
HAMBURGER it could have saved
the 30 cents difference involved in
the two indexes.
il Service
Decision Due
SALEM (AP) Oregon Public
Utilities Commissioner Howard
Morgan said Thursday he hopes
to announce his findings by Sept.
1 in action which seeks to have
Southern Pacific Co. restore pas
senger service between Eugene
and Ashland.
Morgan said he had received
proposed findings Thursday from
the three Southern Oregon men
who had brought the action
against the railroad.
The public utilities commission
er said he did not accept criticism
made by state Sen. Philip Lowry,
Medford, one of the three com
plainants, as referring to him.
He pointed out he was not in
office in the fall of 1955 when the
railroad stopped passenger serv
ice and when Lowry and former
State Sen. Paul Geddes, Rose-
burg, and Gene Brown, Grants
Pass, brought the complaint
against the railroad.
The PUC commissioner at that
time was Charles Heltzel.
Morgan said the case was drag
ging when he took office in mid
January, 1957.
Wife Beater In
Whirlwind Case
MONTREAL (AP) Ferdinand
Turgeon walloped his wife Thurs
day and within 30 minutes stood
convicted of wife-beating.
The wheels of justice moved so
fast because the 30-year-old man
did the beating in the entrance
hall of the Criminal Courthouse
in full view of two policemen.
Turgeon and his tiny. 23-year-old
wife had come to the court
house to see her lawyer. The hus
band already was awaiting sen
tence on charges of beating their
three children.
Weather
FORECAST Klamath Falls and
vicinity: Fair through Saturday.
Low tonight 48-53. High Saturday
85-90.
High yesterday 7S
Low last night 58
Preclp. last 24 hours 0.02
Since Oct. 1 ...20.03
Same period last year 15.18
Normal lor period 12.84
Fire Danger Today
man
Forest fires start readily from
matrh or gloving cinders, spread
rapidly and tend to e r o w n In
young frowth.
I (r
COLONEL JACK
Col. Jack Williams Takes
Over Reins At Kingsley
Col. Jack W. Williams assumed
command of the 408th Fighter
Group and Kingsley Field, at an
informal change of command cere
mony at the field Wednesday. He
relieved Lt. Col. Raymond A.
Thornton, former base command
er, who will become base execu
tive officer.
Bread Price
Boosted Here
The retail price of pound and
pound-and-a-half loaves of bread
will be increased two cents on
Monday morning, according to an
announcement by Kalph Hunter,
manager of Fluhrer's Bakery in
Klamath Falls.
Speaking for all of the wholesale
bakers in the area, including
Morning Fresh and Langendorf
United Bakers, Inc., representa
tives here, Hunter stated the price
raise has been forced by increases
in labor and manufacturing costs.
"We are the last in the area to
raise prices, Hunter explained.
Eugene prices rose on August 21
and Portland retailers u p p e d
prices on August 18. Bread prices
in California have been higher for
the last 60 days and the state of
Washington increased prices ear
ly in August."
The price of sweet rolls also
goes up from 35 to 39 cents a
package on Monday, Hunter
said.
One bright spot in the price
picture, he stated, is that dough
nuts will cost the same next Mon
day as they do today.
CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU
JONESBORO, Tenn. (UPI)
Police figured they had ample
evidence to go on when Ihey ar
rested Howard Gibbs, 76. for
shoplifting.
When apprehended, they said.
he was carrying two cartons of
cigarettes, four watchbands, two
pipes, four pairs of eyeglasses,
25 assorted drill bits, a pocket
knife, a ring, a safety razor and
a marriage license.
Denmark Cancels Visit Of
U.S. Nuclear
Grounds It Too Dangerous
COPENHAGEN (AP) - Den-
mark Thursday barred the U.S.
atomic submarine Skate from vis
iting Copenhagen. The country's
leading nuclear authorities ex
pressed fear of radiation perils in
case of a collision in the harbor.
But neighboring Norway prom
ised an official welcome when the
Skate docks Saturday at Bergen,
her first port of call after a cross
ing under the north polar ice. The
Skate will visit Oslo from Mon
day to Wednesday. Then it had
planned to go to Copenhagen.
A member of the Danish Atomic
Energy Commission told The As
sociated Press the commission
chairman, famed Dr. Niels Bohr,
concurred in the decision to bar
the Skate. The great nuclear
physicist was a member of the
brain trust behind the first U.S.
atomic bomb.
A Norwegian naval source
called the Danish decision utter
nonsense. But the Norwegian
health director, Karl Evang, sent
I two health inspectors to try to con-
tact the health officer of the Skate
before the submarine docks at
Bergen.
Evang said this step was
planned long before the Danish
decision was taken. He added that
.Norway simply wants "to know
as much as possible so as to be
'able to take our precautions.
W. WILLIAMS
Colonel Williams, a veteran of 17
years service, recently arrived
here from Ladd Air Force Base,
Fairbanks, Alaska, where he
served a three-year tour of dutviother nations which "have tested
as commander of the 5060th Air-
craft Control and Warning Group.
A native of Munday, Texas,
Colonel Williams received his bach
elor of science degree in electrical
engineering at the Agricultural and
Mechanical College of Texas, prior
to entering the service at Camp
Wolters, Texas, in 1941. He com
pleted the aviation cadet training
program in August, 1942, at El
lington Air Force Base, Texas, and
later attended such military
schools as the Air Command and
Staff School, the- Armed Forces
Staff College,- and the (manpower
course at George Washington Uni
versity. A command pilot. Colonel Wil
liams flew experimental type air
craft at Wright Field, Dayton,
Ohio, during World War II. Some
of the 118 duferent types ot air
planes that he has flown during
his military career are the f ocke-
Wulf 190, the German first-line
combat plane; the Japaneze Zero;
the British Lancaster; and near
ly every type of United States
fighter, bomber, cargo, trainer and
experimental aircraft built during
and immediately following World
War II.
Separated from the service in
1946, Colonel Williams was em
ployed as a test pilot by the Re
public Aviation Corporation, where
he flew and tested the experi
mental XF-12 aircraft, and later
by the Howard Hughes Aviation
Corporation, where he tested the
XF-11 experimental aircraft. Colo
nel Williams has over 5,100 fly
ing hours of which 160 hours are
in jet type aircralt.
Following his return to the Air
iForce in 1947, Colonel Williams
served a two-year overseas tour of
duty with the 19th Bombardment
Group on the island of Guam in
the Pacific.
Colonel Williams was accom
panied to Kingsley Field by his
wile, Elizabeth, and their four
children, Jackie L 15; Jane A.,
13; Jack W., 11; and Virgil R.
6. The Williajns are presently
staying at Kingsley Field until
they can find a suitable residence
in Klamath Falls,
Submarine On
The Norwegian Defense Minis
try asked its research institute
for an opinion on the possibility
of danger. The institute s chief re
search officer said he had no in
formation that would prompt the
institute to advise against the
Skate s visit.
Danish Premier Hans C. Han
in acted on the recommenda
tion of his atomic advisers, who
warned against "disastrous conse
quences" in the case of an acci
dent involving the vessel.
One commission member, who
refused to be named, said the ad
vice was given Thursday by some
of the top nuclear experts run
ning Denmark's atom station at
Risoe, 30 miles from Copenhagen.
Kofoed Hansen, a leading tech
nician at the Risoe atom station,
said that, from a security point of
view, it was "of no useful purpose
to place such a vessel virtually in
the center of Copenhagen" with
its population of 1,200,000.
He added that the Skale could
be expected to contain huge
amounts of radioactivity after her
long trip across the arctic.
Hansen said the danger of an
accident was greater in the sound
the narrow strait between Den
mark and Sweden through which
the Skate would pass because of
heavy maritime traffic.
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WASHINGTON (AP) President,
Eisenhower announced today the
United States is ready to suspend
nuclear weapons tests for one year
starting Oct. 31, provided Russia
meets two conditions.
The conditions are if the Soviet
Union agrees to maintain its cur
rent ban on nuclear tests, and fur
ther agrees to negotiations looking
toward a permanent ban.
The White House said Great
Britain also stands ready to join
in a one-year suspension of weap
ons tests under the same condi
tions specified by the United
States.
Eisenhower stressed in a state
ment that the United States is not
proposing that nuclear tests foi
peaceful purposes be halted.
Referring to technical talks on
policing a ban, concluded at Ge
neva this week, Eisenhower said
"The United States, taking ac
count of the Geneva conclusions.
is prepared to proceed promptly
to negotiate an agreement with
Weather Still
Holds Warm
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A westerly warm air movement
continued to swelter over the
Northwest again Thursday as the
area s record and near-record heat
wave showed no signs of abating
Temperatures were, in the 90s
and 100s again even on the generally-milder
west side. Salem had
95 and it was 93 in Portland.
Seattle's 87 degrees was only
two degrees short of the all-time
record for Aug. 21 set in 1917.
It was 102 at Pasco, 101 at
Ephrata and 100 in downtown Spo
kane to name the hottest eastern I
Washington points. Omak, Yakima
and Walla Walla all registered 99
and it was 98 at Lewiston and
Pendleton.
Indian Tea May
Be Mental Cure
DANIA SEMINOLE RESERVA
TION, Fla. (AP) An ancient In
dian medicineman s herb tea may
prove a new weapon against men
tal illness.
Josie Billy, 74-year-old medicine
man at the Big Cypress Reserva
tion, says Indians have used it for
treating mental illness for years.
Billy has sold sample gallons
to the Upjohn pharmaceutical
house in Kalamazoo, Mich, for
tests.
"We're very interested in Jo
sie s herb tea, said Dr. Jack
Hinman, who is supervising tests
for Upjohn.
Florida Indian officials also arc
watching developments.
f -.'.-?f- t .
IT'S NEWS when John Lawrence Zumwalt celebrates his
first enniversary. He is one month old today and it also
marked the occasion of his first visit to the Hereld and
News where his father, Charlie Zumwalt, heads the make
up department of the newspaper. Little Johnny is the
Zumwalt' first child.
nuclear weapons for the suspen
sion of nuclear weapons tests and
the actual establishment of an in
ternational controls system on the
basis of the experts' report.
"If this is accepted in principle
by the other nations which have
tested nuclear weapons, then in
order to facilitate the detailed ne
gotiations, the United States is
prepared, unless testing is re
sumed by the Soviet Union, to
withhold further testing on its part
of atomic and hydrogen weapons
lor a period of one year from the
beginning of the negotiations."
1 he President s announcement
reflected a major shift in U.S. nu
clear policy.
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FRANK STANKO- .
Stanko Takes
Fresh Post
The promotion of Frank D. Stan
ko, assistant i dean of men at Ore
gon Technical Institute to be dean
of men at that institution, was an
nounced today by W. D. Purvine.
director of OTI. Stanko will fill
the vacancy created by the resig
nation of John H. Hobson in June
of this year.
Stanko joined the OTI staff as
assistant dean of men in 1956, aft
er four years of teaching, coach
ing and counseling experience in
high schools in Colorado and Wy
oming. He received his bachelor of
science degree from Colorado
State University, where he com
pleted graduate study for his mas
ter s degree in guidance and coun
seling in August, 1956.
Stanko's family resides on the
Oregon Tech campus, and includes
his wile, Betty, and four chil
dren, Frank, 5; Mary Thercse, 4;
Michael, 3; and Stephen, 1.
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He said that as part of the con
templated international agreement
me united Mates would be pre
pared also to suspend nuclear
weapons tests on a year-by-year
basis subject to determination at
the start of each year that:
(A) The agreed inspection sys
tem is installed and working ef
fectively; and
(B) Satisfactory progress is
being made in reaching agree
ment on and implementing major
substantial arms control measures
such as the United States has long
sought."
The implication seemed to be
that the United States is willing
to renew the proposed initial 12
month suspension on a year to -year
basis while negotiations look
ing toward a possible permanent
ban are being conducted.
The President said. U.S. negotia
tors will bo ready by Oct. 31 to
open negotiations with Russia and
perhaps other Communist bloc
countries, together with Western
allies of the United States.
Truck Strike
Outlook Dim
SAN DIEGO. Calif. (AP)
A
federal mediator says negotiations
in tne western freight truck tie
up, going into its 11th day,, have
brought no prospect of settlement.-
- ..-., ...
"We made absolutely no nroe-
ess;"; said. George Hillenbrand of
&an franctsco, referring to the
second day of mediation talks
Thursday. ,
The talks resume Friday, with
Hillenbrand and two other medi
ators going between representa
tives of the Teamsters union and
the trucking firms.
ine teamsters struck for in
creased pay in California's Cen
tral Valleys Aug. 11, and the
trucking companies in 11 Western
states shut down in retaliation.
Estimates of workers laid off
range up to 100,000, but M. S. Vi
daver of the Central Valleys
Teamsters Council challenged
that figure. He said only about
16,000 men were out as a result of
the dispute.
Flash Floods
Catch Cattle
United Press International
Floodwaters eased off in
the
Wewoka and Seminole, Okla., are
as today, ending an Impromptu
rodeo in which residents stood on
bridges and roped cattle swept
down rain-swollen Wewoka Creek.
Scattered showers continued
Thursday in the southeast and east
central sections of Oklahoma, but
no further flooding was reported
About 30 families returned to
their homes in the area after
being forced to flee by flash floods
triggered by a 9-inch downpour at
Wewoka and a 6-inch rain at Sem
inole Wednesday night.
Although some cattle were lost.
residents managed to rope most
of the animals as they drifted
down the creek and drag them to
satety.
The heaviest shower Thursday
was 2.38 inches reported at Mc-
Alester, Okla. Texas was hit by
its lourtn straight day of rain
City Hall On
Tottery Basis
EAST ST. LOUIS. III. (AP)
Signs have been posted at three
entrances of the City Hall declar
ing it "unsafe." But City Build
ing Commissioner Robert Keeley
says they don't tell the whole
story.
Keeley said the roof and third
floor are in danger of collapsing
and the "first lloor could easily
drip into the basement."
The 60-year-old building is in
fested with termites, the roof
leaks and the walls of the base
ment are full of cracks.
"The building is full of vermin.
The plumbing is in poor condition,
the electrical system overloaded
and the old boilers are absolutely
dangerous," said Keeley.
He hopes the building will last
until Feb. I, when the city is to
move into a remodeled building.
VISITS WITH PREMIER
DUBLIN, Ireland (UPli-Pre-mier
Eamon de Valcra received
Lions International president Dud
ley L. Simms and his wife Thurs
day. Simms owns a chain of
stores in West Virginia and Ohio.
A BIG CHECK for $100,000 is here being handed to re.
corder Mrs, Rosie Keller by Mayor Lawrence Slater. The
money it from the federal government' and is for the pur
pose of offsetting a portion of the construction costs of
the city of Klamath Falls' new primary and secondary
sewage treatment plant. The residents of the city appro
priated $800,000 for the sewage plant, but when second
ary treatment requirements were set up by the state,- it
was necessary to apply for the federal funds to complete i
the project. Both the primary and secondary plants are
under construction now. The four main interceptor sewage
lines have already been replaced.
Mexican Government Set
Under Old Rule To Strip
American Owner Of Ranch
MEXICO CITY (UPI) -Mexicoi
has invoked a 41-year-old constitu
tional provision to take the 650,-000-acre
Cananea Ranch from the
American family which has owned
it for 57 years.
An expropriation decree signed
July 31 by President Adolfo Ruiz
Uortines was published Thursday,
when it appeared the ranch s own
ers would refuse a government of
fer amounting to about $4 an acre
for the vast property straddling
ine U.S. Border
William C. Greene Jr.. sxt of
the founder of the Cananea em
pire, was closeted Thursday night
with his lawyers. He would not,
comment immediately on the
Bomarc Hits
On Test Try
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. AP)
A Bomarc interceptor missile
has proved again that it is ready
to Decome a part of the nation s
air defense system.
The swift missile roared across
the Atlantic Thursday and zeroed
in on a pilotless B17 drone bomb
er at a range of about 250 miles.
The Bomarc was triggered when
someone pushed a button at a
computer control center in Kings
ton, IN. Y., 1,500 miles away.
It was the third time this month
that the Bomarc had been fired
successfully within the SAGE air
defense system.
SAGE, which stands for Semi
automatic Ground Environment,
is composed of a string of radar
stations and electronic computers
across the country. The system,
which went into effect June 27,
can spot an enemy air attack and
begin retaliation in seconds.
Test Run On
Room Sets Scotland Yard
On Ear; Bobbies On Run
LONDON (AP) The boss at the
Tower of London contessed to
Scotland Yard today he set off the
burglar alarm to see how well
England's crown jewels are being
guarded.
"I'm delighted with the test,"
said Brig. Leslie Frederick Ethel
bert Wiclcr. "It worked extremely
well."
Brig. Wiclcr is resident gover
nor of the ancient tower over the
Thames River and the man re
sponsible for safeguarding one of
the world's most fabulous collec
tion of jewels.
"Why didn't you warn us, sir,
that it was only practice?" asked
a Scotland Yard sleuth.
'What's the use of having a
test," snapped the brigadier, if
it s not carried out properly?
It was carried out properly, all
right.
Shortly after breakfast the re
corded voice on an automatic
burglar alarm boomed out in
Scotland Yard: "Intruders have
entered the jewel house at the
Tower of London."
At the tower, alarm gongs
clanged like engines racing to a
three-alarm fire.
Scots guards jumped to action
posts, scores of yeoman warders
lumbered to emergency stations,
the flying squad roared out of
Scotland Yard, radio cars dashed
lo the tower, police boats churned
down the Thames, bobbies cor
doned off tower hill, a 16-ton steel
cage clanged down around the
jewels.
It wii IhA hliceNt. (rare lince
leapt, Peter Blood stole the royal
Mexican seizure of the family
property.
The expropriation decree directs
the Finance Department to set a
value on the Cananea land and to
pay it immediately in cash to
the person or persons showing a
right to it." ,
It provides the Agriculture De
partment shall take over the land
and break it up into small ranchea
and farms "to satisfy the needs
of landless peasants in Sonora
State."
The Cananea Ranch was found
ed in 1901 by the late Col. Wil
liam C. Greene. He acquired a
tract of land extending along both
sides of the border between Mexi
co and Arizona from Douglas al
most to Nogales.
Only the Mexican acreage is af
fected by the expropriation order.
The land is senu-arid. usable for
the most part only as cattle
range. The Greenes now have
about 37,000 beef cattle on the
Mexican side of the line.
The constitution of 1917 forbade
foreigners to own land within 62
miles of the border. Ruiz acted
under this clause in ordering ex-
ropriation of the land, although
; had not previously been in
voked.
Missouri Mules
Lose To Iowa
SEDALIA, Mo. (AP) For a
while there was gloom at the Mis
souri fair. A mule from Iowa
was named grand champion,
A loyal Missourian, Claude Ad
ams of Lamar, soon set things
right. He bought the mule yester
day and made him Missouri's
own.
Freckles, the winning mule, was
entered by John Irving, Mt. Ayr,
Iowa, and Lynn Byerly, Glidden,
Iowa.
Crown Jewel
ice from the tower nearly three
hundred years ago.
All the Jewels which include
the priceless Cullinan diamonds
and the Koh-I-Mor diamond
were safe, of course. But, in re
vealing what happened, the gov
ernor let out a secret of the se
curity arrangements surrounding
the gem collection, viewed annu
ally by more than 300,000 persons.
When Brig. Wieler broke an elec
tric eye beam, the burglar alarm
went off at the tower and in Scot
land Yard.
Back at the tower the governor
was happy.
It s been a perfect morning."
he said. "Now excuse me, please,
I must show a party ot Middle
East sheiks the jewels."
Capt. Blood, a daring robber,
almost got away with them.
Dressed as clergyman, he and two
associates gained entrance to the
jewel house back in the 17th cen
tury. With a few well-directed blows
they knocked out the guards and
pocketed some of the gems. They
dropped half their bounty though as
they galloped off on waiting
horses.
They were overtaken and all but
one ruby were recovered. Later
this was found In the pocket ot
one of the gang.
Two hundred years later a wom
an got her hand through the steel
bars and the glass and tried to
yank eut one of the many-jeweled
crowns.
Guards caught her. They found
her hand badly cut and the crawl
slightly scratched.