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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 26, 1958)
COtf Jr. In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS Big news is scary. So Let's talk about little news to day. Here's some little news: President Eisenhower has signed Into law a bill giving to ex-Presi dents pensions of $25,000 a year and to . widows of ex-Presidents pensions of $10,000 a year. Four persons are now eligible: Former President Hoover. Former President Truman. Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. The bill includes some trim mings such as oflice space, free mailing privileges and a staff of assistants, Jlow much will it cost? The IMMEDIATE cost isn't very great. The two eligible ex-Presi-dents will cost us $30,000 a year in pension money. The two widows of ex-Presidents will cost us 520,000, making a total of $70,000. Ike will soon be eligible, adding another $25,000. So let's lump the present pen sion total at $100,000. Can we afford it? Let's sec. Every billion dollars spent by the federal government costs each individual in the U.S.A. about $6. Each million dollars spent by the federal government costs each of us about six-tenths of a cent, Each $100,000 costs each of us about six-hundredths of a cent. (This figuring is done without benefit of an electronic brain, and the exact decimal points aren't guaranteed. Mathematics isn't my specialty. But the figures aren t too far off. As one small taxpayer. I'm not going to kick about an error of a few hundredths of a cent one way or the other. Personally, I'm willing to put up my share of the cost of pen sioning our ex-Presidents and their widows. It isn't going to break me, and I think they deserve a pen sion. An ex-President of the United States can NEVER AGA1.V be an ordinary private citizen. All the rest of his life he will live in the white light that beats about the Presidency. He can't make, his living in the ordinary ways be cause throughout the rest of his life he will be inhibited by the traditions of the Presidency. What about the trimmings? Well, the clock says I have used up all the time allotted to me for today. So let's leave the TRIM MINGS for later analysis and com ment. TRIMMINGS in government are interesting things. Ike May Sign Security Bi WASHINGTON (AP) - Admin istration sources said today Pres ident Eisenhower is expected to sign the bill increasing Social Security benefits by about 7 per cent. Eisenhower may, however, ftrongly criticize provisions in creasing the federal grant contri bution to public assistance pro grams run by the states. Persons in position to know said both the President and Secretary of Welfare Klomming have strong feelings against increasing the federal share in supporting such programs benefiting the aged, de pendent children, the blind and totally disabled. But these sources said it has been decided the merits of the legislation outweigh the demer its. Though they did not mention it, this is an election year and prac tical politics is a likely factor. The principle demerit is de scribed as Ihe l!)8-million-dollar annual increase in the federal share of funds Congress voted for the federal-state public assistance program. If i. r ; '-' i J s V - ' - r . POSSIDLE REMBRANDTS ere these art students who spend a few free hours each week ttudylng at the Klamath Art Workshop under the direction of E. Nelson Sandgren, as sociate professor of art from Oregon State College. The workshop it being held on the campus of Oregon Technical Institute and offers students three hours of college cadit, or two hours credit to those attending part time. From the le't, seated, era Blanche Casey, Theresa Ganong, Violet Biranowski, Paul Guest, Helen Uran, and Agnes Oliver. Standing are Edith Warrick, Sandgren( Stephanie Bonotto and Pat CeVney. Price Five Cents 16 Pages irii -i-fc 'ft --rri)Lg,UfjJ TULELAKE JOINT UNION HIGH SCHOOL district will hold an informal opening and inspection on Wednesday from 7 to 10 p.m. of the new facilities added to the recently completed section of the Tulelake High School. Architect's rendering of the fine new school facilities, prepared in the office of Howard R. Perrin, architect, Klamath Falls, is shown. Contractor for the work was Louis Kowolowski of Madras. C. A. Maharry Alaskans Go To Polls Today To Decide Statehood Issue JUNEAU. Alaska (AP) Alas kans decide today whether the northern territory is to be the 49th state. The votes were being cast throughout the 586,400-sruare-mile territory - in precincts with such names as Metlakatla and Chilkat, Pelican, Fox, Chicken and Eagle, Badger Road, Lincoln Park. North Pole and Turnagain by the Sea. There are an estimated (S0.000 eligible voters among Alaska's 215.000 residents. When all the votes are counted and some of them won't be tabulated for a week Alaskans are expected to have approved ad mission into the Union by a mar gin of at least 2-1. Under terms of the admission act signed in July by President Eisenhower, such a vote will mean that a 49th star will be add ed to the nation's flag next year. A presidential proclamation creating the newest and largest state and the first to be ad mitted since New Mexico and Arizona entered the Union in 1912 probably will be issued in late December or early January. In anticipation of approval of the three statehood referendums, Alaskans also were voting today in a primary election to nominate candidates for the first state of fices. Republican and Democratic candidates for Alaska's first two seats in the U.S. Senate were as sured nomination without opposi tion in the primary. The two Democratic senatorial w-'T-'''' I-. :w , 1 KLAMATH T I hopefuls who have no party con test in the primary are Alaska's long-time nonvoting delegate to Congress, K. L. (Bob) fiartlctt of Juneau, and Earnest Gruening of Juneau, former Alaska governor who served 13 years as appointed territorial chief executive. In a Nov. 25 general election, if statehood is approved, Gruening will oppose Republican Mike Step ovich of Fairbanks, the last ap pointed governor of Alaska. R. E. Robertson of Juneau, a lawyer, is unopposed for the GOP nomi nation to face Bartlett in Novem ber. There are also Democratic pri mary contests for one congres sional seat, for the governorship and for secretary of state. Repub licans have only one candidate for each of the three posts, and they are assured nomination. The first of the three proposi tions in the special referendum balloting is the key to statehood. On that ballot, Alaskans marked an "X" to indicate yes or no to the question. "Shall Alaska im mediately be admitted into the Union as a state?" If a majority says "Yes." it appears the other two propositions will be approved by a similar margin. One of the other calls lor acceptance of the territorial boun daries as the boundaries of the new state. The last one accepts for the new state 103.350.000 acres of public land, and reserves to the President the right to make mil itary land withdrawals in periods of national emergency. r-"v 1 FAI LS, OREGON, Tl FSDAY. At GI fjrt'it.'ij-'af" C i. rw. i. it or: Tyjg School C.tw..Ur Open House Official onen house is being held on Wednesday from 7 to 10 p.m Pacific Daylight Saving Timci at the new Tulelake High School, ac cording to Ihe invitation issued by E. L. Coyncr, superintendent of Ihe Tulelake Joint Union High School Dislrict. There will be student guides to show guests the new school facili ties. The attractive lobby is dec orated with birch paneling and acoustical tile ceiling. A trophy case is set in a glass wall over looking a patio which is to be land scaped at a later date. The building, constructed by Lou is Kowolowski of Madras, general contractor, consists of two main divisions. The administration suite includes a general office, princi pal's office, nurse and teachers room and a large vault for student records. At the right of the main entrance one enters Ihe gymnasium. The large room contains a regulation size high school basketball court wilh provision for folding bleach ers on either side. With Ihe bleach ers folded, there is space for two additional practice courts.' Volley ball and badminton also may be played in this area. At the far end of the auditorium is a large multi-purpose area which can servo as a stage with a full set of stage drapes, installed on tracks, which may be pushed forward to close the proscenium arch, allow ing the area to be used lor class room purposes. I here is also a well-equipped kitchen with cold storage and automatic dishwashing facilities, cafeteria space and a student snack and lounge area. The gymnasium section also con tains locker rooms, toilets and showers and public toilet rooms for men and women adjacent to the lobbv. Ceramic tile in color has been used. There is auarrv tile in the entrance corridor. Maple flooring covers the gymnasium and other flooring is vinyl asbestos I tile over concrete slab. I At the extreme south end of the I corridor is a large room with vated seating which can serve as a music and band room with prac-l tice rooms. It is also suitable for speech, drama and additional class- room space. The entire project received careful planning by the board of trustees. Earl Parsons, Richard Moore. Dean Callas. Paul K. Chris-, ty and W. G. Rcinmiller. The board held numerous and long consulta tions with the district superinten dent and Howard R. Perrin. Mam ath Falls architect who drew plans and specifications for the job. One of the interesting structural nroblems encountered was an un I'. I . . . Jp- . rr mllui: L. ? : i: o o i. ! f I i r 'j l r, . c, a. stable soil tondilion at the school lound lying on Ihe pavement in site. The gymnasium was built onithe Bronx. a foundation of 134 treated wood The Sanitalion Department piles, each of the piles being 40'haulod the shark away, feet in length Fire resistant fin-1 The air had begun to clear ishes were used and the structural when the Bronxites sensed some desisn meets the earthmiakr-resis-l thing further amiss. tant requirements for all Ca::fornia Crhnni hmiriiniK The new school occupies approx - imately 20.800 square Icet and eo . including site development, t total ot $417 359 95. ST 26. 1958 At - rb!.v't; c ; us x.: in a a t : i t t c of Tulelake was inspector. The building area totals approximately 20,800 square feet. The building has fire resistant finishes and is structurally de signed to be earthquake resistant as required for school buildings in the state of California. Total contract price, including site development, was $417,359.95. Detective Claims Unionist Linked With Underworld WASHINGTON (AP) A St, Louis police detective today de scribed Teamster Vice President Harold Gibbons as a cop-hating associate ot underworld charac ters whose labor activities have been filled wilh violence. "Practically every strike he has been involved in has had occa sions of violence and destruction of properly." Detective Capt. Thomas L. Moran told the Senate Rackets Investigating Committee. Moran said Gibbons tells St. Louis Teamsters to regard police as strikebreakers on the side of management. Moran testified that Gibbons "seems to have more than a tick ing acquaintance with some of tne leading underworld figures." He specilically mentioned John Vitale, reputed head of the Italian crime syndicate in St. Louis, and Joe Costello, who has been de scribed as Ihe leading fence or dealer in stolen property in St. Louis. Moran. head of the St. Louis po lice bomb and arson squad, testi fied as Ihe committee turned to Gibbons in its continuing probe of the Teamsters and their president, James R. Haifa. Before Moran testified, the com mittee charged that Ihe officials of Teamsters Local 688 literally sold the local secretly to Gibbons. But Lawrence J. Camie, the Weather FORECAST Klamalh Falls and vicinity: Fair through Wednes day. High 80-8r. Low tonight 4S.55. High yesterday 87 Low last night 57 Prccip. last 24 hours 0 Since Oct. 1 20.03 Same period Inst year irt.lrf Normal for period 12.87 Fire Danger Today HIGH Firm start rpadilv from nialrh nr clnwintr rinders. tiurearl ranitllv! land lend to crown in young growth, i Northern California Fair through Wednesday, except for coastal In?. Utile temperature ele-lrliange. Ca.islal winds 8-18 miles an hour. R-.-y RnciHpflf HI WIIA lCIUClltJ Q-.-lJ , , (JICACU WVCI C!J...X! riSn Jlllia MUM NEW YORK (AP) A fishy sit uation in a Bronx neighborhood has caused its residents to won- ;der, wilh bated breath, what next first it was a .mo-pound, nine- 1001 snarK. ,-iiu oown me ncny jaw and teeth removed, it wasltional Forest but all were small. Hanging from a nearby lamp nosl. 3o feet flhtive the siiewa k. an eight-font porpoise was found Mon - day night. Once again, the Sanitalion Dc- Ipartment went to the rescue. Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 611.0 fc.aTlllU Uit-S . tc c or local's former president. Insisted mat S3ii, oiw he receiver, lor step. ping out as president .when Gib bons took over in 1!)49 was sev erance pay. No sale was involved. ne swore. "I didn't sell that union and I eouldn t sell it if I wanted to, Camie said. He acknowledged that the es crow agreement under which he drew $36,000 in three $12,000 an nual installments made no men tion of severance pay. Camie testified he and other local officers and directors were offered a choice of remaining on me jon alter Gibbons took over. or quitting and collecting sever ance pay equal to the salaries they would have drawn for the remaining three years of their lerms. The committee's chairman, Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark). pro duced figures subpoenaed from tne union which showed, he said, that the cost of getting the officers out was $78,410. The local, he said. didn't even have enough money in Hs treasury to pay Camie s $36,000 share. McClellan said Ihe rest was borrowed. Control of Local 688 was the springboard from which Gibbons took off on a rise to power in the union. He now is executive vice president of Ihe International Teamsters Union No. 1 lieuten ant to President James R. Hoffa ;ind boss of St. Louis area Team sters affairs. Robert F. Kennedy, committee counsel, said in advance of Ihe hearing (hat this phase of the committee's inquiry would center on what he called goon squad vio lence, misuse of funds and abuse of power in St. Louis area Team ster affairs. Control Of Hy TIIK ASSOCIATKI) PRESS Smoke mushroomed up from scores of forest fires in Oregon today and the threat of afternoon winds made early control uncer tain. Hundreds of men were on the lire lines all the way from south western lo northeastern Oregon. There were three main trouble spots: The Galicc Ranger District of the Siskiyou Nalional Forest northwest of Grants Pass: the De troit District of the Willamette National Forest near Detroit, and the Sparta Butte area of Ihe Wal lowa-Whitman National Forest. A rash of new fires dotted IhciCascadia. On most of them, forests ol northeastern Oregon; and southeastern Washington this right." He added, though, that morning alter another in a series the situation remained fluid be ol lighlning storms. More than 30 cause ol the dryness o the for were counted in the Umatilla Na-lests and Ihe possibility of winds The lighlning set a half dozen i stubble fields afire, loo, but there j was small damage. An abandoned' house and barn burned in one of them. The Canyon Creek lire on Ihe Breitenbush River above Detroit was burning in country so rugged - no hu dozers coll Id be used. II fwas flaming along a front a half. in Ihe Wallowa-Whitman Forest, jmile widf and t..-o miles long, a blaze in pine saplings was pushed "It will be - situation." by winds Monday night over Iwhcn the af 'nd comes 1650 acres before it was controlled. Faubus Disputes Integration Rule LITTLE ROCK. Ark. (AP) I Gov. Orval Faubus today told the Arkansas State Legislature that the federal government can never constitutionally enforce integra tion in public schools. He asked the power to close Arkansas schools against any such mandate. In a speech urging the special session of the Legislature not to surrender on the issue, Faubus de clared: "There is no clear-cut federal statute regarding the integration of the schools. If there were, it would be unconstitutional, for the authority to control public educa tion has never been delegated by the states to the federal govern ment. Arkansas' legislators gathered amid back-slapping for the histor ic special session. But the reunion air of the sweltering chamber was more solemn than light. Spectators jammed the galleries for the open ing of the great states rights de bate. ' In urging no surrender, Faubus said: This battle for states' rights and constitutional government is not of our choosing," he said. "The issue has been forced upon us and wc must either defend our rights against those who would usurp them or else surrender." Faubus asked for a bill that would empower him to close the stale's public schools specifically Ihe current case, Central High School against forced integration. Faubus has said the measure is necessary to avoid a repetition of the rioting that occurred outside Central High a year ago when Negroes first were admitted to its classrooms. The proposed bill provides for a school district election within 30 days of closing a school to decide whether to keep it closed or to integrate. Faubus' address came 48 hours in advance of a special U.S. Su preme Court session. The high court is expected to decide wheth er to grant Central High a breath ing spell in integration, or direct immediate reentry of Negro stu dents to its classrooms. The School Board Monday night postponed the reopening of Cen tral to its 2.000 students Irom Sept. 2 to Sept. 8 to allow a little easing of the time pressure on both the Legislature ana tne su preme Court. Faubus in his legislative mes- sage asked a further postpone- . ' ' .. . school hupt. Virgil Blossom an- ' ', , ; 7T,m u ofll,i M nounced tJt three more Negroes jX.&lTt5$ w i teTcfis. ."SJCwjjj ST ed Central High School last year P " . b"' ' " P a" Pd s" under federal troop protection are exnected to apply tomorrow. One Negro girl, 14, sougnt ad mission to Mall High School, a swank new institution in a neigh borhood of predominantly better quality residences occupied by whites. Thug Slays Lebanon Aide BEIRUT. Lebanon (AP) A gunman today shot and killed Ab dullah Nurallah,, secretary of the Lebanese industrialist organiza tion, in one of Beirut's traffic jammed streets. Nurallah was snot while leaving his car near a friend's oflice. Nurallah resigned a year ago as secretary of the Najjada party, a Lebanese paramilitary organiza tion now joined with the rebels. Meanwhile, U.S. troops and tanks took up positions next to rebel outposts along the road be tween Beirut and International Airport. The aim is to stop sniper fire along the roadway. This is Ihe closest any members of Ihe U.S. armed forces have erne to rebel lines. An announcement issued by the military command said Ihe Amer icans set up tank strong points at Ihree places to guard against snip er lire and other harassment. It was understood some Ameri can soldiers had their rifles stolen from jeeps while driving through Lebanese crowds. State Fires up today, said Robert Auldcr heidc, lorest supervisor directing operations at Detroit. Nearly 300 men were fighling the Canyon Creek fire whose po tential lucl is some (' Western Oregon's richest timber stands. Not far away the Dry Creek fire had covered 75 acres on the divide between Breitenbush and the North Sanliam River. Four bulldozers and 150 men were working on it. Aufderheidc said Sunday's light ning strikes brought some 40 fires to the Detroit area, some of them still showing up, and about 30 at he all said, "we are making out 'pushing the fires beyond control lines, Because of the wind threat, another hundred men arc to be i brought in lo the Canyon creek and Dry Creek fires Some 40 smoke jumpers have been dropped on lires scattered! through the Willamette Forest. tigni miles nonnwesi oi npana, The key measure prepared for Ihe lawmakers by Gov. Orval Faubus would present him the power to close any school should Ihe federal government seek to in tegrate it by court order or physi cal force. The school would remain closed until voters balloted within 30 days on whether to integrate or keep its doors shut. A third measure would permit student of a closed school t carry his state aid allotment witk him to another district. The U. S. Supreme Court on Thursday will hold an emergency session to deal with Little Rock'l riot-marked school racial prob lems. State Trying To Maintain Segregation HARRISONBURG, Va. AP) Virginia's last-ditch legal maneu vering to avoid mixing of the races in public schools shifted to day to a federal courtroom in this Shenandoah Valley town. Atlorneys for the Charlottesville school board planned to ask Judge John Paul to declare valid a new school district created under the board's local, pupil assignment plan. All 30 Negro applicants to Ihe city's white schools, which open next Tuesday, live in the new district. Two developments darkened hopes of legally averting racial integration without having to re sort to Ihe state's declared policy of closing integrated Schools. The State Pupil Placement Board denied the applications of all Negroes seeking entry to White schools in Arlington and Newport News. At Norfolk. Federal Dist. Judge Walter E. Hoffman instructed the city school board to re-examine 151 applications from Negro pu pils which it turned down last week. There appeared little hope of resolving any part of the conflict here in the light of Judge Paul's earlier statement that the new Charlottesville school district ap- P.. .... . ym 1q jgnore ft anJ wh(m he Imnrln mint! nssionmpnis tlie assignments himself. While Judge Hoffman has said he would not take over assign ments in Norfolk, he made it plain yesterday what he considered im proper grounds for denying Ne gro applicants. He ordered the school board to re-examine the 151 applications and report back to his court Friday. Hoffman particularly stressed IS applications which he said were turned down solely because of the racial factor. He advised the board that should they assign one or mora Negroes to white schools and feel the need of relief from a recent Virginia Supreme Court of Ap peals injunction enjoining the board from carrying out its local pupil placement plan, it could ask him for such relief. Safety Council Makes Estimate CHICAGO (AP) The National Safely Council estimates 420 per sons may be killed in traffic acci dents during Ihe long Labor Day weekend. That is 70 deaths more than might be expected to occur dur ing a non-holiday period this time of the year. The council says the toll could he cut if every driver would re duce normal speed by at least 10 m.p.h., concentrate on a safe rath er than quick arrival and not drive after drinking. The holiday driving period ex- lends Irom 6 p. m. Friday to mid night Monday. Uncertain The control is on uncertain one however, said Forest Service men confronted wilh a forecast of winds of 18 to 25 miles an hour lale in the day. Two hundred men were working to strengthen .the lines. The force fighting the Bunker Creek (ire 35 miles northwest of Grants Pass was douhled Monday night and II. C. Obye. lorest su pervisor, said there was hope the 150-man force would get control today. The blaze, discovered early Sun day after a lightning slorm, had covered an estimated 70 to 120 acres by Monday night and then Ihe wind came up. This morning 200 acres, mostly in heavy brush hut near virgin limber, were with in Ihe lire area. More than a hundred men were fighling other Josephine County fires and were reported to have control of them. Men can be pulled away from some of them to day, Obye said. A sagebrush fire covered 2,000 acres seven miles northeast of Durkee in Eastern Oregon after a Monday lightning storm. Although it was reported controlled. It still had many hot spots insid4 the lines. These were regarded as dangerous If strong winds IhoT.d blow. 1
