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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 24, 1958)
coa? U OP 01233?! LI3I5Ait EUSSNS, QKE. la The- Day's km A By FRANK JENKINS The congress that as this is writ ten is struggling to adjourn passed a lot of laws. The congress that will assemble next January will pass a lot more laws. Next year is an odd-numbered year. In odd numbered years, most of our leg islatures meet. All of these legis latures will pass laws. City coun cils, etc., will add to the pile. We have ALREADY on our tatute books so many laws that only one of these fantastic mech anical brain computers could total them all up. Why so many laws? This, I think, is the reason: As a people, we have a pious belief that when something is wrong all we need to do is to PASS A LAW. Having done that, we as sume, everything will be hunky dory. Listen to this: Sports Illustrated magazine says in a recent article that the peo ples of the world spend the colos sal sum Of 23 BILLION dollars every year on accountable forms of public gambling and an im mense additional amount in pri vate games which can not be traced. Of this amount, the Sports Il lustrated article adds, the United States alone accounts for 15 BIL LION dollars, with .horse racing, numbers games and slot machines leading the list of major betting outlets. A. thought: - In every state of the Union but Nevada gambling is forbidden (or et least inhibited) by LAWS. But gambling goes on. All this sounds like a plea for free and open gambling. It ISN'T. It is intended merely to point moral. The moral is this: Merely PASSING A LAW isn't enough to end an evil. If an evil is to be ended by pass ing a law, the law must be EN FORCED. Laws are enforced only when they are backed by public opin ion that is so strong and so un compromising that those who fail to enforce them will be voted out of office at the next election. That's about the long and the short of it. Speaking of laws and those who make them that is to say, speak ing of GOVERNMENT a rath er unusual convention has been in cession in Tokyo during the past week. The name of it is the Pan Pacific and Southeast Asia Confer ence. The delegates were all wom en. The subjects they discussed are interesting. For example: The first woman ambassador from the Philippines, Mrs. Trini dad Legarda, asserted in a speech to the conference that Asian wom en are brought up to give prefer ential treatment to men to CA TER to them, to defer to them, to give them full authority in the homes and in the business of gov ernment. Her statement seems to have rung the bell. The correspondents tell us that the leader of the wom an's movement in Western Samoa summed up the feeling at the To kyo conference when she got up and agreed with Mrs. Legarda that Asian countries are MEN'S coun tries. Hmmrnmmmm. Asian countries are admittedly the worst governed countries on earth. The moral seems to be: GET MORE WOMEN INTO GOVERNMENT. & . -It, A ; fit. i .'aj.,: Prin Ten Cenl- Pages KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. SUNDAY, AUGUST 24. 1958 Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 6158 THIS TRIO OF BEAUTIES will reign over the 1958 Lakeview Roundup to be held during the coming weekend. Center is queen Melva Jean Anderson. Princess Phyllis Ashcraft is at left and Princess Judy Barry at right. Photo by Bennett Photographers, Lakeview Three-Mill Levy Vote Bound Again By TOM STIMMEL Klamath County voters again will be asked to approve continuation of a three-mill road levy which they rejected last May. The county court, at its regular meeting Friday, decided to place the levy on the general election ballot November 4. The levy, if passed this time, would continue for five years. It is the same levy that has been in effect for the past nine years, and is in effect now. County Judge Charles Mack said the court's action was based upon written and spoken requests that the levy reappear on the ballot, Just what the road levy has meant to the county in the nine years of its existence was ex plained by the court in these terms: .In July 1948, when the levy first went into effect, the county had a total of 779 miles of roads. Of these. 62 miles were oiled, 410 miles were graveled, and 307 miles were grad ed only. Last month, after nine years with the three-mill levy, the coun ty had 835 miles of road. Signifi cantly, of these 356 miles now are oiled, 244 miles graveled, and 234 miles are graded. Income from the levy produced approximately $1,400,000 in the nine years of its existence (the levy was passed in two five-year steps, and now is in its tenth year, end ing June 30, 1959). If renewed by voters, the levy would continue for five years, at a tax rate of three mills per year on taxable property. A new factory nows enters the picture. Judge Mack said, because the county soon is to receive from two to three million dollars worth Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair Sunday. Highs 85 (0. Low Sunday night 54-58. High yesterday 87 Low last night 62 Faubus Calls Emergency fJew Foreign Aid Meeting Of Legislature Huge 'Enemy' Force Downed SPOKANE (AP) Air Force of ficials said here Saturday 106 of the 109 mythical "enemy bomb ers" which "raided" prime Inland Empire defense targets earlier this week, were "downed" by de fending forces. An Air Defense Command offi cer called the readiness inspection exercise one of the best he had ever checked. 'Team spirit, reflecting strong leadership, produced an exception al 106 kill out of 109 intruder aircraft in operations at Geiger air force base here this week," sard Col. Norval K. Heath, director of tactical evaluation for the ADC. Six air force generals. Royal Canadian air force fliers and other high ranking officers attended a critique session on the readiness exercise at Geiger Saturday. Among the top brass were Maj. Gen. Hugh Parker, western air de fense force commander from Ham ilton air force base. Calif., and Brig. Gen. Charles R. Bond Jr., 25th air division commander from McChord air force base, Tacoma Jordan - UAR Peace Likely AMMAN, Jordan (AP) The long frozen relations between Jor dan and the United Arab Republic seemed to be thawing Saturday. Premier Samir Rifai, who runs Jordan's government machinery. told a news conference Jordan is willing to consider making friends with the U.A-R. if President Nas ser extends a friendly hand first. Rifai, who became Premier last May, also said he would be willing to meet with Nasser if Nasser is agreeable. Relations between Egypt and this desert country, which is al most completely dependent on out side help, began to cool a year ago when Egyptian propaganda guns trained on Jordan's King Hussein. They called for assassination of the young King and the overthrow of his monarchy. Diplomatic relations with the U.A.R. in which Egypt by then had merged itself with Syria were severed when Husseins cousin. King Faisal II, was slain the coup which overthrew the monarchy in Iraq July 14. 'Jordan also broke relations with the revolutionary regime in Iraq, but Rifai told his news conference Jordan is willing now to resume relations. Before the coup Jordan and Iraq were federated in the Arab Union. The union dissolved with the coup. of property (assessed value) now included in' the Klamath Indian Reservation. "If the tax levy pass es, this new property will help car ry the load," Mack said. With the new property, the coun ty also will absorb some 765 miles of roads on the reservations. These roads must be maintained, and im proved where possible. This, too. would be measurably assisted by passage of the three-mill levy, Mack said. County Engineer William R. Can ton noted that the costs of improv ing the county roads is consider ably less than the cost of improv ing state roads. It costs the county about $12,000 a mile to prepare and oil a road. The last state highway project executed by contract for comparable work cost $43,283 a mile. Canton said. . Incorporated cities in the county also receive a share of the three mill levy now in effect, Mack said. During the past fiscal year, those receipts were: Klamath Falls. $20,983: Merrill. $658; Chiloquin, $408; Malin, $323, and Bonanza, $197. . BORDER DISPUTE MEET KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) Pakistan officials announced the border dispute meeting between the prime ministers of India and Pakistan has been advanced 24 hours to Sept. 9. I---; jjf? VL"' " . J tj ' I " ' ' ' l .- ' -'v.-, pe: y .;u . j n t vy- - iit fl fci J iinn i V ' " t -- r im-innin Chief Signs mmm mil The Klamath Indian Reservation purchase bill is now law. the bill which began as Senate Bill 3051, and was later compro mised by a joint Senate-House committee, went to the President last week, and Sen. Richard Neil- berger reported by phone to the Herald and News Saturday morn ing that it had been signed. In reporting the signing of the measure. Senator Neuberger said, The people of Oregon, Indians and non-Indians alike, will always be grateful to the President and mem bers of the Senate and House who have adopted the statesmanlike policy of being willing to au thorize a 90 million dollar federal investment if necessary to prevent priceless human and natural re sources from being exploited. . "This legislation will assure fi nancial justice to Klamath Indian tribe, and it will protect the vast pine forests and vast wildlife marsh of the Klamath River watershed. 'It is an epochal milestone along the highway of sound conservation practices." The measure authorizes the sale of Klamath Indian Reservation tim ber to private buyers on a basis of requirement that it be managed un der sustained yield principles. That portion of the offered tim ber not purchased by private in terests would be bought by the fed eral government for inclusion in the national forest system. It also dispenses with the serv ices of the Management Specialists and provides that no timber sales will be authorized prior to April 1, 1959. LITTLE ROCK. Ark. (AP) Gov. Orval Faubus Saturday called an emergency session next week of the Arkansas State Legis lature to try to block further ra cial integration at Central High School. The legislators may be asked to close the big school entirely, as a last resort against what Faubus called illegal federal interference. Faubus told a news conference that information he has received indicated that violence in the event of renewed integration at Central would be even greater this time than a year ago. Riots outside the school last fall shocked the nation and led President Eisenhower to send federal troops to Little Rock. During the past year of crisis here, Faubus often threatened to call on the legislature for special anti-integration measures. But he kept putting off the actual call for one reason or another. Finally, in midafternoon, Fau bus solemnly announced he had summoned the lawmakers to special session next Tuesday one week before Central High is sched uled to reopen. In his call, Faubus said in part: "Because of the grave concern of the people of Little Rock and the general public in this matter. and the great desire to combat by legal means the forcible integra tion of the Little Rock high schools and to avoid the almost certain disorders that would ensue, it is imperative that the . people be given an opportunity to act. . . It is the responsibility of the chief executive, under the consti tution and law of Arkansas, to preserve the peace and good order of the state. This has been and will continue to be my firm position." Faubus told newsmen he would have liked to delay his call until the Supreme Court makes its next scheduled move in the case. That appears to be nearly a week away, however, and Faubus de clared: "There is no time to do that." Although ho wouldn't discuss the nature of any bills he has mind, Faubus said: "It is my hope and my expec tation that the legislature will act on the bills before Sept. 2. Faubus accused integrationist of a clever plot through legal maneuvering in the U.S. Supreme Court to spring a last-minute trap on Little Rock school author ities and thus force the re-entry of seven Negro students when Central reopens Sept. 2. The gov ernor said he would not stand still while time runs out on him. The high court is being asked by the National Assn. for the Ad vancement of Colored People to erase a conflicting series of lower court rulings that have at this point stayed a renewal of integra tion at Central for at least 30 days. The NAACP wants the high court in effect lo direct renewed integration of the seven Negro stu dents when Central reopens. Congressional Adjournment Drive Gains WASHINGTON (AP) - A con gressional adjournment drive picked up speed Saturday night with Senate passage of the 3'-. bil lion dollar foreign aid appropria tion sought by President Eisen hower. The Senate beat back two at tempts by Sen. Allen J. Ellendcr (D-La) to cut a'total of 150 mil lion dollars out of the' bill. It then sped the measure to the House, which had approved 440 million dollars less than the Sen ate voted. A quick conference of representatives of the two cham bers was arranged to try to reach compromise. Eisenhower has said the House cuts would entail "reckless risks with our national security." Lllender delivered a two-hour attack on the foreign aid program as Senate and House leaders went forward with attempts to bring the nam congress to an end Saturday nigni. Sen. Richard B. Russell (D-Ga.) chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, also assailed the foreign aid program as having become "a permanent part of our government. An effort to loo 100 million dol lars off the military aid section of tne bill was defeated by a roll call vote of 45-36. Then the Senate vot ed 41-36 against a move to cut 50 million dollars from the 790 dollar provision for economic defense support. Another big money bill still stood in the way of final adjourn ment. Ihis was a $6,103,456,900 in dependent offices appropriation to finance a variety of federal agen cies, including the Veterans Ad ministration. This one passed Con ln'gress earlier, but was vetoed by President bisennower because it included a 589 million dollar civil servce retirement fund allotment which the President said was not necessary now. Funds Voted Ike WASHINGTON (AP) Con-1 gress early Sunday voted Presi dent Eisenhower $3,298,092,500 in new funds for foreign aid to friendly nations. The Senate passed by voice vole and sent to the White House a compromise measure which car ried 652 million dollars less than the amount Eisenhower asked originally. The House had acted shortly be fore, also by voice vote, after re jecting on a 186-38 vote a motion to defeat the bill. It took representatives of the two houses nearly five hours to reach agreement after the Senate voted $3,518,092,500 to provide the President with what he called "more ammunition to wage the peace." This was 440 million dollars more than the House had voted in making cuts which Eisenhower said would take "reckless risks with our national security." Advance predictions had been that the conferees would reach agreement quickly, but they did not reportedly over a difference of 20 million dollars. At one point during their deliberations, they called a 20-minute recess. The 20 million dollars was the difference between the House split ting halfway with the Senato on a 440-nnllion-dollar difference or giv ing in more than halfway to the senators a question of prestige. The (our GOP Senate conferees were reported holding out for 240 million dollars of their 400 million increase while Houso conferees were said to be adamant on agree ing only to a 220-million-dollar in crease. The final result thus was a vic tory for the House conferees. The aiiicrenco between the two ver sions was split down the middle. Police Arrest 6th Escapee MONROE, Wash. (AP) The sixth of nine inmates who strong armed their way out of the state reformatory here early this month has been apprehended in Califor nia, Reformatory Supt. Ernest Timpani said Saturday. Timpani said Dewayne Emmett Dunlap was arrested in Fresno, Calif., Aug. 16 under the name of Emmett Cameron. He was iden tified as Dunlap in an FBI check of his fingerprints. Dunlap faces forgery and auto mobile theft charges in California. He is now in custody at San Francisco. Senator Says Reds Ahead WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo) said Sat urday the Russians are at least two years ahead of the United States in the development of inter continental ballistic missiles. Replying lo a speech two days ago by ben. Leverett Saltonstall (R-Mass), Symington labeled as incorrect any assertion that this country has programs for produc ing more than 130 of these long range missiles by 1962. lhat is not correct and it is very, very dangerous to our na tional security to assert that it is correct," said Symington without referring to Saltonstall by name. Saltonstall had described as er roneous a report, recently placed in the Congressional Record by Symington, indicating the United States will have only 130 lCBMs in 1962 compared with 2,000 Rus sian intercontinental ballistic missiles. ARMS DUE JAKARTA. Indonesia (AP) - Six more Globemaster loads 'of American arms for Indonesia are expected to arrive this week. RC Plans For Emergency; Training Course To Open GLASSIC-HARDWOODS (smooth as glass I will be used in constructing the Klamath County booth at the Oregon State Fair which opens later this week at Salem. Two four foot by eight-foot panels, one of "calico" ash (shown here) and one of walnut, are the gifts of Andy Honzel, whose Klamath Hardwoods, Inc., opened on the Weed Highway in July, 1957. Forty men were employed at that time and the payroll has steadily grown until there are 160 regular employes at this time. From using only one or two spe cies last year, there are now 27 species of hardwoods as well as fir and pine available. The business is being built on diversification and the plant has the only sander in the area capable of producing the "glassic" finish shown here. In the picture are, from left, Herb Smith, one of the plant employes, Honzel and Ed Brotherhood, assistant manager ef Klamath County Chamber of Commerce, who accepted the gift on behalf of Klamath County. Phots by Ellis i In preparation for a joint Civil Defense-Red Cross disaster drill scheduled for September 15, Mrs. Edna Dakin, canteen chairman of the local Red Cross chapter an nounces a training course for mass care feeding will start Mon day, September 8. The class will meet in the lecture room of the West Presses For Summit WASHINGTON (AP) - The Western Big Three, moving fast while the Soviet Union is in a co operative mood, pressed Moscow again Saturday for a new try at arranging a summit conference. The United Slates. Britain, and France made public identical jcrt W. Long of Kingslcy Field, ine class win ne limited to 24. who will be members of the local county library at 9:30 a m The course consists of 10 hours of theory, plus a six hour field ex ercise in the preparation and service of food under a hypotheti cal disaster situation. In case of a major emergency, these trained nod workers may be called upon as needed to work either through the Red Cross or Civil Defense. Classwork will include instruction in the preparation and service of food Irom mobile, indoor and out door feeding facilities, sanitation aspects of mass feeding, and de contamination of food in war caused disasters. Mrs. Dick Miller Sr. of 1100 El dorado Street will teach the group the five two-hour lecture course; included in the course will be planning menus and computing amounts of food needed for the outdoor feeding exercise, which will be supervised by M.Sgt. Rob- notes they had sent the Soviet For eign Ministry Friday. The notes politely but firmly re quested a reply to their July I letter which had called for renewal of prcsummit diplomatic talks Moscow. These talks had a short life? this summer after a quarrelsome start. Red Cross canteen and members of the Catholic Daughters. Call Mrs. Edna Dakin, canteen n! chairman, TU 4-3235 or Ihc Red Cross olfice, TU 4-4125 for further information and registration There will bo no charge for in struction. Airport Funds To Be Hiked 200 Chinese Nationalists Killed By Reds TAIPEI, Formosa (AP) Na tkmalist China Sunday acknowl edged 200 military casualties from the record shelling of the Quemoys Saturday night by Red Chinese guns. Eleven civilians were re ported killed and 18 wounded. The defense ministry said 41,000' shells raked the strategic islands off the Red mainland for two hours with the heaviest bombard ment in their history. The ministry originally estimat ed that the Red batteries had hurled 50,000 shells at the Nation alist bastions. There was no breakdown of killed and wounded among officers and men of the Nationalist gar risons, and military damage was not disclosed. Sixty-five . civilian homes were reported destroyed. The defenders kept watch on land, sea and air Sunday against any hostile sequel to the bom bardment. But the front seemed quiet. Radio Peiping said the Commu nists launched the bombardment because they sighted a National ist transport carrying a larca number of reinforcements. A Japanese-language account recorded in Tokyo said the vessel was head ed toward the Communist-held is land of Amoy. Tho unprecedented shelling taised alarm here. The Chinese Nationalist stronghold has been on an alert through most of August and ,has been braced for a Red attempt to invade the offshore is There were fears the t e r r i f i e shelling was a prelude to an in vasion of Quemoy, most important of the Nationalist offshore islands. The Defense Ministry said the shelling had ended at 8:30 p.m.. but there was no hint that any Democratic Sen. Richard L Neuberger Saturday night advised invasion activity had followed. the Herald and News by telegram that the state's apportionment for federal matching funds under the Federal Airport Act of 1958 will be increased by $543,741 to a total of $1,475,868. The senator added that the $543,- 741 will be applied for each of the next four years, 1959 through 1962, inclusive and is contingent upon the President's signing of the bill which has recently been passed by Congress. This should help to provide Oregon with an airport construction program more In keeping with the needs of jet age and requirements for improvement of airports in smaller communities, Neuberger said. Neuberger and Oklahoma's dem ocratic senator, Mike Monroney, were co-sponsors of the bill. BULLETIN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) A mighty JupUer-C rocket blazed ulofl early Sunday carry ing the Army'i Explorer V sat ellite toward a possible orbit far out In space. The newest satellite was launched on the same mission as Its highly successful predeces sor, Explorer IV to study an In tense Held of marvkilllnff radi ation starting 480 miles above the earth. Hoffa Plans Defense Move WASHINGTON (AP)-President James R. Hoffa of the Teamsters Union, saying "I intend to meet squarely charges of corruption," announced Saturday creation of a citizens' group to weigh accusa tions made against some of his associates by the Senate Rackets Committee. The committee chairman, Sen, John L. McClcllan (D-Ark), ex pressed skepticism about the val ue of the move. "The test of the good faith and power of this Hof- fa-appointed commission is: Can and will it move against Mr. Hoffa himself," McClellan said. Hoffa said this group "composed of three outstanding citizens . . . shall guide us and assure the membership of our union a strong, honest leadership, while at the same time preserving fairness and due process for each individual so charged. He said he has named as mem bers of an antiracketcering coin Former, Sen. George H. Bender (R-Ohio), who during his 14 years in the House served as chairman of an antiracketecring committee. y -ti l r yi- yC I FEEDING THOUSANDS of persons when disaster strikes in any form, is a gigantic task as hat been proven in past instances when the American Red Cross took over. This year a training course in preparation for such an event is to be taught and a disaster drill is scheduled for September 15. In preparation, this foursome grabbed shovels as start of work to ready spot for disaster drill. Left is M. Sgt. Robert W. Long who will super vise the outdoor feeding program. Others are: Otto Smith, Red Cross disaster chairman, Mrs. Edna Dakin, canteen chairman of the local Red Cross chapter, and M. G. (Buster) Gordon, Klamath County Civil Defame chairman. !
