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By FRANK JENKINS
In its closing days as men
tioned in this space recently
the 85th congress approved a proj
ect that is long overdue pen
sions for ex-Presidents and their
widows. The bill was passed by
both houses, and President Eisen
hower has signed it. It is now the
law of the land.
Under it, ex-Presidents will re
ceive a pension of $25,000 as leng
as they live. Their widows will re
ceive pensions of $10,000. In addi
tion, there will be some trimmings.
The trimmings include office
space, free mailing privileges and
a staff of assistants.
The pensions are a splendid idea.
They will have been EARNED.
The President of the United States
carries a heavier load of respon
sibility than any other person on
earth. He couldn't be paid during
his term in office enough money
to recompense him fully (or the
responsibility that he carries on
bis shoulders.
And
When he retires from his office
He occupies a peculiar position.
He is an elder statesman. From
the day he goes out of office until
ms aeatn, ne is a part ol the gov
ernment of the United States. As
such, he is inhibited in the making
of a living. There are so many
things he CAN'T do and still live
up to the traditions of the Presi
dency. The same is true of his
widow after he dies.
So much for the pensions.
Let's look now at the trimmings.
In its fundamentals, our govern
ment is sound and reasonable. In
these fundamentals, there is little
room for criticism. It is the
TKiMMiiu: mat realty cost mon
ey. For example:
A man is appointed to do a
job. If he is to do a job, he must
have an office. If he is to have
an office, he must have a SECRE
TARY. Custom (especially in
. Washington) decrees that.
' Let's start with the office. It
must have a desk. It must have
' a chair for the man to sit in.
There must be a chair for those
. who come to the office for inter-
i views.
; So far, so good. But, as time
passes, it becomes evident that
only ONE CHAIR is an indication
that the man who has been ap-
:' pointed to the job ISN'T VERY
IMPORTANT. If he vere really
important, more than one person
would be waiting to see him.
So
A DAVENPORT is required to
make the man seem more impor
tant. In time, even a davenport
doesn't imply enough importance.
So a waiting room is added to his
office. The secretary sits in the
waiting room.
Then
In time
Just ONE secretary doesn't seem
; to connote enougn uiipuriance. ou
me aeneiiii y gets mi dssiaidm.
The assistants to the secretary get
, mini aaaiaiajna. niai t u i
MORE ROOM. So the office with
one waiting room is expanded to
5 a SUITE OF OFFICES. As time
;' passes, a suite isn't enough to
.; make the man seem important
i enough, so his quarters are ex-
i panded to include a whole floor.
'Eventually a WHOLE BUILDING
. is required to make the man who
; was appointed seem as important
) as he ought to seem.
I The trouble with government of-
: fices is that they PROLIFERATE.
- So-
The pensions for ex-Presidents
: and their widows are WONDER
; FUL.
But I hope somebody keeps an
eye on the trimmings. Especially
" the staff of assistants. Otherwise.
, nobody can tell how far this new
: departure in government might
! spread.
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WILLIAM O. KURTZ, right, principal of the Merrill Elemen
tary School, is shown receiving the Certificate of Com
mendation from the Oregon Journal for "unusual and
meritorious acts of good citizenship." Presentation was
made in informal ceremonies by Rots Ragland, left, presi
dent of Klamath County Council of Churches. The specific
field of service for which the award was made it the
educator's work with the children of migrant labor families
in his community. In accepting the award, Kurtz dis
claimed personal credit, laying that the fine community
spirit at Merrill and the cooperation of all authorities,
specially including Carrol Howe, Klamath County School
superintendent, has eliminated moit of the problems in
his area.
Highest Court
Finds U.S.
Backs NAACP
WASHINGTON (AP) The
Supreme Court opened an extra
ordinary integration session to
dayand found the government
ranged firmly alongside the . Na
tional Assn. for the Advancement'
of Colored People in urging "
delay" in the mingling of races
at ' Little Rock Central High
School.
The great maroon drapes be
hind the bench in the marble
courtroom parted about noon and
to the ancient cry of Oyez
Hear Ye the justices walked to
their scats.
It was the third crucial session
on school segregation within half
a decade, and specifically at issue
was: Should integration at Central
High resume forthwith, or be
postponed 2 '4 years. That was the
narrow issue but the' decision
could have profound effect on the
whole, far - flung desegregation
struggle.
The high tribunal in 1954 had
outlawed school segregation, and
in 1955 ordered it wiped out with
"all deliberate speed." Now the
big question was: "What is de
liberate speed?"
The Little Rock School Board,
through its attorneys, fought hard
for the 214-year delay granted by
a U.S. District Court judge. The
NAACP hotly opposed any delay:
crying it would be a retreat be
fore the kind of violence that led
President Eisenhower to dispatch
federal troops to Little Rock last
year.
And to the surprise of some be
cause President Eisenhower spoke
only yesterday of favoring a
slower approach Solicitor Gen
eral J. Lee Rankin urged the
tribunal to brook no delay. Rankin
is the executive branch's official
spokesman in the Supreme Court.
James C. Hagerty, Eisenhower s
press secretary, said he saw no
difference between the President's
views and Rankin's. Asked wheth
er Eisenhower himself sees any
difference, Hagerty said he hadn't
asked the President. He prom
ised to do so later.
Technically, Rankin's no-delay
brief, filed a few hours Tjefore the
court opening, was addressed to
the specific situation at Little
Rock. But it contained a general
do-it-now argument which could
apply in any situation where pub
lic opposition to desegregation is
the basis for efforts to hold off
immediate mingling of the races
in classrooms.
Eisenhower, in speaking of a
slower approach Wednesday, add
ed that he believed the Justice De
partment brief the one filed to
day by Rankin would not diverge
greatly from his own views.
Jury May Probe
Kierdorf Death
PONTIAC, Mich, m A hearing
was scheduled today on whether
to summon a grand jury to in
vestigate the human torch death of
Teamsters Union business agent
Frank Kierdorf.
Michigan Atty. Gen. Paul L.
Adams and Oakland County Pros
ecutor Frederick Ziem filed a pe
tition for a grand jury inquiry yes
terday, basing their case on the
story of Mrs. Iris Harrelson, a
40-year-old divorcee. She told po
lice her ex-husband, Leaun Harrel
son, president of Teamsters Local
614, knew of Kierdorf's burning be
fore he staggered into a Pontiac
hospital with burns over 85 per
cent of his body.
TURKEY CROP DIPS
WASHINGTON (UPI) The
Agriculture Department estimates
the 1958 turkey crop at about 78
million birds four per cent less
than in 19o7.
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IT TAKES A LOT OF PEOPLE to make any community en
deavor successful. Here are some of the willing workers
behind the promotion of the Lake County Roundup being
held at Lake view this weekend. From left, front row,
Gordon Robin, Don Hotchkiss, Marvin Butler, Lans (Skip I
Arkansas Set
To Approve
School Close
LITTLE ROCK. Ark. (AP)-The
Arkansas Senate today sent to
Gov. Orval E. Faubus for his sig
nature a bill to close the state's
public schools in event of forcible
integration.
But all attention in Little Rock
was focused on the U. S. Supreme
court.
Gov. Orval Faubus even hedged
on whether he would sign into
law immediately the program he
asked for to defy federal orders
to admit Negroes. It appeared he
intended to await the supreme
Court ruling.
'You know timing of things like
tnis can have a profound signi
ficance and lasting effect." he
told United Press International.
A reporter asked him if he had
"anything else in the hole."
I always like to have some
thing in the hole," Faubus said.
The state Senate and House of
Representatives Wednesday gave
overwhelming approval to the
school closing bills with only one
dissenting vote to the basic pro
gram. Little Rock was calm and hot
on the eve of the Supreme Court
hearing.
Mrs. Daisy Bates, local head of
the1 NAACP. arrived Wednesday
night from Washington with six of
the nine students who entered
Central High last fall under guard
of Army paratroopers. All nine
had received a $1,000 scholarship
from the Improved Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks of The
World in Washington.
Mrs. Bates said she considered
the Negro children still enrolled
as students at Central High.
Nobel Prize
Winner Dead
PALO ALTO, Calif. (UPI)-No-
bel Prize winner Dr. Ernest O.
Lawrence, 57, inventor of the
atom-smashing cyclotron, died in
Palo Alto Hospital Wednesday
night after an operation.
He died after surgery for ulcer
ative colitis, from which he had
been suffering for several weeks.
He entered the hospital Aug. 12.
His condition had not been be
lieved serious.
At the time of his death. Law
rence was director of the Radia
tion Laboratory at the University
of California at Berkeley. He won
the Nobel Prize in 1939 for devel
oping the cyclotron.
Earlier this year, Lawrence had
gone to Geneva for talks with sci
entists from the East and the
West on means of detecting atom
ic tests. He had to leave the talks
and return home because of a
bronchial condition.-
Lawrence leaves his wife. Mary.
They had six children. John, Mar
garet, Mary, Robert, Barbara and
Susan. -
Lawrence produced a "gadget"
he called the cyclotron about 1930,
when he was a 29-year-old asso
ciate professor at California.
This "gadget" was to become
the machine which sends two bil
lion electron volts into solid mat
ter separating the millions of min
ute particles which form all mass.
PLAN HUGE WATER TANK
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (LPIi-The
Atomic hnergy Commission an
nounced Wednesday it is planning
construction of a 325-foot water
tank, the highest in this country,
to store water for additional fire
protection at the atomic installa
tion here'.
Weather
FORECAST - Klamath Falls
and vicinity: Fair through Friday.
Highs 75-80. Low tonight 40-45.
High yesterday 83
Low last night 51
Prcclp. last 24 hours ...... 0
Since Oct. 1 20.03
Same period last year 15.19
Normal for period 12.89
Fire Danger Today
HIGH
Fires start readily from match
or glowing cinders, spread rapidly
and tend to crown in young growth.
Compassionate
Judge Grants
Prisoner Wish :
MOUNT SHASTA ''Judge, can't
you gimme 60 days, too?" is the
sales talk used by Charles E. Mil
ler, of Oklahoma City, to get
Judge John Kinstry to not hold
him for a short 10 days while his
partner receipted for the 60-day
joit. He got his wish.
It all started with Curtis Fair-
child, also of Oklahoma City, being
charged with drunken driving, and
Miller accused of being drunk in
and about a car. Both pleaded
guilty; both claimed no funds. A
jail term was indicated for both.
While drunken driving jail sen
tences are set at 60 days, the less-
charge is only a 10-day of
fense. But Miller was dismayed
with the prospect of 50 days wait
for his friend and chauffeur, and
asked that he be given the same
term.
The explanation offered by Judge
Kinstry, who has before shown
Solomon-like insight and compas
sion for unfortunates, is that had
the lonesome Miller gotten into
more serious trouble durine the
j 50-day wait, the judge would have
Dccn partly responsime lor not
granting the two friends a stay
together.
Verbal Road Bout Held
By TOM STIMMEL
Three Klamath Falls contractors
had a spirited verbal bout with the
county court and County Engineer
William R. Canton Wednesday on
the subject of roads.
Specifically, the contractors
wanted to know:
1. Why private contractors aren't
invited to bid on county road jobs.
2. Why county road crews work
on public roads that don't belong
to the county.
3. Exactly how much docs it
cost the county to build its roads.
Canton, the veteran engineer,
who soon is to retire, was the ob
ject of most of the questions, and
he provided most of the answers
given.
His questioners were Don Miller
of W. D. Miller Construction Com
pany, Herbert Graham of Graham
Brothers Oregon Ltd., and Ray
Byrnes of Asphalt Paving Com
pany.
Miller opened the session by ask
ing if he could bid on rock the
county needs to complete work on
roads in the Stewart Lenox Addi
tinn in Klamath Falls. He said he
could sell the county rock for less
than the county now spends to haul
from its quarry. He said he hadn't
been asked to bid on the job. hut
decided now was the time to bring
up the subject. Canton agreed to
discuss a bid Thursday.
"Now, to prevent this thing com -
ing up again." Miller said, "is what we can to force them to ac
there any way, when the county icept you fellows, instead of the
is working near our operations, for county," he said, "but when they
us to get an opportunity to quote don't, we have to do the work."
prices?" Canton agreed. "Always, when it
Byrnes followed that question by lis possible, we send them to private
citing the rock paving on Quarry j contractors. Why, every day some
Street, which lie said the county! body calls me and wants us to
hauled from Poe Valley, "at icast put in a driveway lor. . . ."
20 miles away " "We can't live on driveways,"
"We have a plant right on that Byrnes snapped,
street rifht there," he said, "but Canton was almost an exclusive
you didn't ask us to Hid on It, 1 target on the subject of road ex
conk) have given you a bid for
rock herein town for less than it (Continued on Pag 4-A)
Thornton, Marcus Partin, Louis (Red) Withers and Ernest
McKinney; back row, same order, John Dick, Preston
(Pete) Johnson, Chick Chaloupka, Glenn Harvey, George
Carlon, Erwin Abramson, Ben Vernon and Ed Garrett.
Bennett Photo
Fun-Packed
For County
LAKEVIEW Gala bunting street
banners wave a welcome to visitors
to the 39th annual Lake County
Fair and Roundup which will pro
vide a fun-packed weekend through
Labor Day.
On Friday. 4-H. FFA and open
class activities start at the fair
grounds. At 8 p.m. Friday the an
nual Lake County historical pag
eant will present the history of
mining in the country from 1848
to 1958. Entertainment will include
pre-pageant and- finale activities
and oldumers whose residence in
Uoose L,ake valley dales back to
1900 will be given special honor.
Queen's dances will be held Fri
day night, starting at 10 p.m., and
Saturday and Sunday nights in the
Memorial Hall of the courthouse.
Music will be furnished by Herb
Cary and his Dixieland band of
seven members and a girl vocalist
from Alturas.
Fair activities continue through
Saturday afternoon. The roundup
opens at 8 p.m. on Saturday under
lights in the rodeo grounds. Allen
Catterson of Burns is bringing the
stock which includes 45 bareback
buckers, 35 saddle broncs, 20
calves, 15 steers and 15 Brahma
bulls. Famous names among the
broncs are Tar Baby, Tumbleweed,
Oregon Cougar and Draft Dodger.
One of the bulls. Pale Face, has
never been ridden in six years of
performance. Saturday night is
Family Night.
Lumberjack Field Day opens atl
I p.m. on Saturday in the arena.
There is no charge for this activity
or for the fair.
Following the parade of horses
to the grounds, the Sunday and
Monday arena performances open
at 1:30 p.m. A new section of
horsemanship contests will include
cost you just to haul it in from
Poc Valley.
Now, if you elect to pave Quar
ry Street, I'd like to bid on it,"
he-challenged the court.
I feel that we re entitled to take
bids luuder the law) when it's
feasible and when private contrac
tors petition the county to pave
roads, County Judge C. M. Mack
said, emphasizing it as a personal
opinion.
I d like to, you bet, Byrnes
said
County work on public roads was
the next topic. These are roads the
county has paved in subdivisions
and such places, but are not county
roads.
Byrnes again had the floor, and
he said such roads were the busi
ness of private contractors. "I'm
opposed to this, not as a contrac
tor so much as a taxpayer. 1 don't
believe the county should be in
the private construction business."
"We're forced to, under the law,"
interjected Commissioner Jerry
Rajnus.
"Well, under the same law, you
can operate a sawmill if you want
to," Byrnes said, "but you don't
do it."
Mack explained that "that busi
ness started 30 years ago." It is
I the policy ot this court, he said.
i to prepare streets for subdivisions
before the subdivisions are occu-
j pied whenever possible. "We do
Weekend Set
Fair Visitors
four top contestants from the sen-
ior and junior horsemanship 4-H
clubs which were organized in the
county this year. About 50 young
people are members of the clubs
and the top four were picked prior
to the opening of the fair. The
senior contest will open the round
up program on Saturday night and
the juniors open the Sunday per
formance. A new contest lined up this
year is a team performance in
which a two-horse work team can
win a prize of $50, Jim Ogle is in
cnarge oi entries.
Roundup events include bronc
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Biggest Fire
Controlled
The Goose Egg Butte fire, big
gest this season in the Klamath
District of Rogue River National
Forest, was brought under control
at about 3 o'clock yesterday af
ternoon. About 100 men, four planes,
many trucks and 25.000 gallons of
"wet" water (water with deter
gent added) were brought into
play to knock out this fire some
27 hours after it was first, sighted
Tuesday noon.
We feel very fortunate that we
were able to control this stubborn
fire with the loss of only 10 acres
of timber," Darrcl K. Frewing,
manager of the Klamath District,
said this morning.
Goose Egg Butte is located in
the Seven Lakes recreation area,
in virgin timber, 10 air miles west
of Fort Klamath.
The Forest Service, which still
had 40 men engaged in mopping-up
operations at the scene of the
fire Thursday morning, 45 hours
after it first began the fight.
played the major part in the cam
paign. However, the Indian Serv
ice was the first to spot the fire,
and it largely assisted the fire
fighting operation from Klamath
Agency air strip, keeping the
planes loaded with the needed wa
ter. Other elements engaged in the
battle included a former Navy
bomber from John Day, which
supplemented two Forest Service
bombers throughout the fiEht. The
ex-Navy plane flew in with a load
of borax solution, thon reloaded
many times with new charges of
"wet" water, both at Medford and
Klamath Agency.
Mercy Air Service of Medford
used a twin-engine Bcechcraft to
supply up to 80 men on the fire
line with drinking water, hot
meals, lunches, bedrolls and sup
plies.
Beating Charges
Under Scrutiny
VENICE, Italy 'UPI) Police
today investigated charges of as
sault against two British sailors
accused of beating and severely
injuring an American tourist Mon
day night.
American Henry Bunkerly, 50
of New York, was reported still
in a coma as a result of head
injuries. Police said Bunkerly's
relatives reported a ll.BOO sap
phire and diamond ring which he
wore hud disappeared following
the beating.
MOVIE COUPLE TO WED
HOLLYWOOD UPH Actor Ty
Hardin, 28, and actress Antlra
Martin. 23, who recently post
poned their marriage plans on the
advice of their agents, plan tn he
married Saturday at the Little
Brown Church in the San Fernan
do Valley,
Plane Crashes;
All On Board
Are Rescued
MINNEAPOLIS (AP)-A North
west Orient Airlines DC6B with 61
persons aboard crashed in a farm
field moments after takeoff today.
All passengers and crew mem
bers got out alive before the big
plane was consumed by flames.
At least 49 persons, among them
the 4 crew members, were taken
to hospitals. Most of them, includ
ing Rep. Don Magnuson ID
Wash), suffered minor cuts or
bruises. '
The four-engine plane apparent
ly developed trouble just after
clearing the runway. It struck a
wire fence, tore a path through a
cornfield and smashed into three
farm buildings. The wreckage was
on fire as passengers struggled to
Nationalists
Might Decide
To Hit China
TAIPEI, FORMOSA (UPI)
The Chinese Nationalists warned
today they will bomb the Chinese
mainland "if necessary to halt
the shelling of the Quemoy Islands
oy the communists.
Gen. (Tiger) Wang Shu-ming.
chief of the Chinese general staff,
made the statement, the first by
a ranking government official al
though there have been other
hints of drastic action. The inces
sant shelling went into the sixth
straight day today.
Wang made the statement amid
predictions of an early invasion
attempt of the offshore islands by
the Communists possibly within
the week.
The official Central News
Agency said the conditions were
favorable now for an attack a
full moon, high tide and a con
centration of Communist navy as
sault, boats and marine amphi
bious forces at the north end of
the Formosa Strait.
Where misht the Communists
strike' was the big question. Red
artillery pounded the Quemoy
area without letup for a 16-hour
stretch ending at 1 p. m. today.
There alto was sporadic, shelling
ot Kaoteng in tne Matsu offshore
island group 120 miles to , the
norm.
The Central News Agency said
me iiomniunisis naa movea m
two marine divisions from Chu-
san, where they recently held
amphibious exercises, to Shan Til
ao, a coastal village just north of
the Matsu group. Wednesday the
Defense Minstry said the Reds
had 4,000 to 5.000 assault boats
converging on the Quemoy group.
The Red Chinese navy also
moved 40 more motor torpedo
boats Into the Straits area and
shipped in more than 300,000
heavy artillery shells to the shore
batteries almost ringing Quemoy.
the agency said. It quoted reports
from the mainland.
U. S. concern over the situation
was obvious. The Navy announced
Wednesday night it had ordered
the carrier Essex with 80 planes
aboard, and four destroyers to
leave the Mediterranean and re
inforce the U. S. 7th Fleet
charged with guarding the For
mosa Strait. The fleet now has
four carriers and about 300 planes.
U. S. officials in Washington
still were keeping an open mind
on the possible use of American
forces in the Quemoy - Matsu
crisis.
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A FISH STORY with the fish to prove it. Mayor Lawrence
Slatar managed to pull in this 35 pound Chinook Salmon
last weekend while on a fishing trip out of Astoria. He re-
?ortt that it took almost an hour to land thit whopper,
o make certain that nobody would doubt hit itory, ha ar.
ranged to have the fish thipped to Klamath Fall inttead
of canned at it the usual procedure. The 35 pounder it
the largest talmon caught in the Attoria vicinity In the
past tix years. The thovel? Well, it happened to be handjj
to better illustrate the tize of the prize catch, , r
safety through a hole in the air
liner's side.
Eleven of the 57 passenger!
were Army men, most of Uiem
en route to Fort Lewis, Wash., for
assignment overseas.
Airline officials said it was not
clear what caused the trouble.
Magnuson was not seriously
hurt. He is no relation of Sen.
Warren Magnuson (D-Wash).
Smoke filled the plane as pas
sengers crawled through a hole
torn in the fuselage where a wing
broke off during the big plane's
mile-long skid through a cornfield
west of Wold-Chamberlain Field,
the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport.
It had just taken off, at 3:40 a.m.
on a flight to Oregon and Wash
ington. The flight had originated in .
Washington with stops at Pitts- ,
burgh, Cleveland, Detroit and Mil
waukee. "It's a miracle any of us got
out alive, it seemed so bad," said
Mrs. E. C. Wiegand, 48, Sandusky,
Ohio, who was traveling with her
husband and three children.
Flames consumed the airliner's
interior after all aboard escaped.
Rescue workers found men, wom
en and children standing in the
tieid, many of them dazed.
One crewman tossed a babv
through the fuselage hole into the
waiting arms of its mother.
An airlines spokesman said the
plane was airborne when it
clipped a fence rimming a con
struction project beyond the run
way
It bounced three times and slid
along the ground for a mile,
wrecking a garage, granary and
shed on the Jerry Christian farm.
The plane came to rest only 30
leet irom the Christian house,
about four blocks from the Met
ropolitan Stadium on Minneapolis'
southern outskirts.
The plane landed on its left side,
making it impossible to open the
door there. But the crew directed
passengers through the fuselage
hole.
Among the hospitalized were the
four crew members, Capt, Jamea
Wilkinson. Seattle, pilot; V. J. Mc
Ginnis, Seattle, copilot; A. R.
Mteike, Minneapolis, engineer;
and Marge Gallagher. Seattle.
stewardess. , ' . -
Most of the Injured were taken
to Northwestern Hospital here.'
Others were taken to Ancker Hos
pital Jn St. Paul and to Veterani
Hospital near the field.
TV Quiz Shows
Probe Continues
NEW YORK (AP) DisL Atty.
Frank S. Hogan said today there
is not enough evidence to warrant
presentation of allegations of fixed
quiz shows to a grand jury, but
his investigation is continuing.
"It is fair to indicate that this
is not a burgeoning scandal," Ho
gan told newsmen.
He said, however, his office had
received many telephone calls
complaining about quiz shows.
FIREWORKS PLANT EXPLODES
TAIPEf, Formosa (UPI) Twen.
ty-three persons, most of them
teen-age girls, were killed and 13
other persons were injured Tues
day when a fireworks factory ex
ploded in Chiayi in central For
mosa, reports reaching here
Wednesday night said.