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6-1-59 In The- Day's lews 0 or OREQOil LIBRAa? lUGtM, OU. 11: ii i ; f .K By FRANK JENKINS I spent an interesting hour yes terday with Marion Weathertord, who is the Republican candidate for U.S. congressman from the Second Oregon district, which in cludes all of Oregon east of the summit of the Cascades. He is an interesting citizen and a quite unusual candidate for of fice. Just how unusual he is may be gathered from the fact that back at the beginning of his cam paign he turned down a $2500 con tribution from the national Repub lican congressional campaign com mittee. Why? Well, the contribution had some strings attached. The committee wanted him to blast the Demo crats for everything that's wrong and praise the Republicans for everything that s right. Marion Weatherford didn't want to run his campaign that way He's a Republican, but he isn't positive that EVERYTHING the GOPs have done is 100 per cent right. What he thinks of the Demo crats is best explained by the fact vhat he is running for congress on the Republican ticket. Being what he is, he wants to keep himself free to use his own judgment. He is doing most of his cam paigning on a person to person basis. He has been around to most of the industrial plants in his dis trict. He doesn't bother the work ers on their jobs. He meets them as they go on or come off shift. To each, in substance, he says: 1 m Marion Weatherford. I m a candidate for congress on the Re publican ticket. I'd like to have the lob. I hope you will be able to vote for me. Anyway, I'm ask ing you for your vote, and I d like to answer any questions you may want to ask me. I'll answer them honestly." He has rung a lot of doorbells. When someone answers, he goes through the same routine. Mrs, Weatherford accompanies him in much of his campaigning. They believe that in the modern world of politics a member of the con gress and his wife compose team. They feel that women voters particularly are as much interest ed in a candidate's wife as ir the candidate himself. Back in 1938, this person to per son technique was used by Charlie Sprague (then as now the editor of the Salem Statesman) in his campaigning in Southern Oregon. mere were seven or eight candi dates in the primary race for the Republican nomination. . In that early day, it Is probable that less than half a dozen people on the Oregon side of the Basin had ever heard of Mr. Sprague. He spent little time in formal cam paigning. He just went from house to house, ringing doorbells, greet ing whomever answered with a friendly grin, introducing himself and frankly asking for the house holder's vote. At the primary election, he got almost as many votes as all his opponents combined. Isn't that just about the ideal way to campaign for public of fice? Especially in a district such as the Second Oregon, where peo ple are still people and pretty apt to be themselves? After all, isn't that the way you d go about it if you wanted a job? You d go to your prospec tive employer and ASK him for it. and you'd answer his questions about your qualifications and give him every possible chance to , look you over and size you up. You certainly wouldn't get up on a stump and make an oration to him. At any rate, Marion Weatherford is an interesting person, and I like his method of campaigning. JOBLESS INCREASES LONDON (UPD Unemploy ment in britain jumped 30,000 to 476,000 between Aug. 11 and Sept. tf, the Labor Ministry announced today. The total included 60,000 "temporarily" unemployed. i .. . . .' - V t w & IT'S FIRE PREVENTION WEEK in Klamath County, and members of the Stewart Lenox Fire Department join with other firefighting organizations in passing along this ad v!, good this week and every week: Don't rely on Lady Luck in place of a good eveWy sitter. If fire or some other emergency should strike, children left alone at home wejuld be trapped and helpless. Shown in front of Stewart Lenox's two machines are, left to right, Chief Herbert H. McCann; Bob Holmes, first assistant chief; Frank Sny der, second assistant chief; and WilliamE. Pierce and Kenneth Holmes, firemen. Price Five Cent 16 Pages 'Janice' Hits Bahama Isles; Damage High MIAMI (UPI) Hurricane Janice lashed the Bahama Is lands with 75-miIe-an-hour winds before churning into the open sea and leaving at least one dead and uncounted damage in its wake. An unidentified sailboat skipper was believed to have drowned in Nassau Harbor when waves swamped his 15-foot dinghy. Wit nesses saw the man, estimated to be in his late 50's, swimming in the swirling waters before he dis appeared. From other parts of the city, a favorite for honeymooners and tourists, there were reports of power lines down, unmanned boats destroyed and houses and cars damaged. The center of the storm passed about 30 to 40 miles west of Nassau shortly after noon Mon day. At 11 p.m., it was located at latitude 26.5 north, longitude 76.1 west, or some 250 miles east of Palm Beach, Fla. Miami weather forecasters said no U. S. coastal areas were in immediate danger. They said the storm was moving northeastward at 15 miles an hour. Some decrease in for ward movement was reported and the storm was expected to under go a slight increase in intensity. Gale warnings were ordered up along the southeast coast from Cape Hatteras, N. C, Southward to Vero Beach, Fla., for north easterly winds 20 to 35 miles per hour near shore and up to 50 miles an hour further out. Small craft from Vero Beach southward to Miami and in the northern Bahamas were advised to remain in port. Hunter Death Said Suicide YREKA (UPD George L. Duff, 64-year-old carpenter of Tustin, was freed last night of a charge of having murdered his old friend, Walter Odell Ramsey, 60, of Lem on Grove. Duff was.freed by Judge Philip Toleman of the Happy Camp, Cali fornia, Justice Court after Sheriff A. B. Connor reviewed laboratory reports and announced that Ram sey died of self-inflicted wounds. Ramsey's body was found Sep tember 22 near Happy Camp in the back of a station wagon. He was shot twice through the head with a Luger pistol. Duff maintained that he and Ramsey, business agent for the San Diego District Council of Car penters, were on a hunting trip when Ramsey started drinking heavily and acting strange. Duff said Ramsey became quite intoxi- cated and fired several shots at him, but missed. Duff claimed he then fled from their camp, leav ing Ramsey by himself, drunk and shooting. After he returned home, Duff did not bother to notify au thorities of the incident. , Sheriff Connor considered t h e possibility of murder because one of the shots went through Ram sey's jaw at a downward angle, indicating that it was not fired by him. But Connor decided that the wounds were self-inflicted after laboratory reports noted that since Ramsey was heavily intoxicated, he could have shot himself through the jaw at a downward angle. NAMED MINISTER KARACHI, Pakistan (AP Sar- dar Abdur Rashid Khan, former chief Minister of West Pakista today was named foreign minis ter of Pakistan. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, Plane Flights veruemoy Breach WASHINGTON (API A State i Department spokesman asserted today that Communist plane flights over Quemoy constituted a "provocative act" out of line with the Red cease-fire. Press officer Lincoln White said that therefore the antiaircraft fire by Chinese Nationalist batteries against the Communist aircraft this afternoon was not in the slightest a break in the cease-fire by the Nationalists. White went out of his way at a news conference to try to counter Red complaints that the United States had gone ahead convoying Nationalist supply vessels to Que moy since the. cease-fire was in stituted by the Reds. Yet he would not say flatly that all convoying had now actually been halted. He implied it had been or was about to be. The Red Chinese complained Monday that after the seven-day suspension of Communist attacks on the offshore island was an nounced a U.S. warship escort of Nationalist supply craft had op erated as usual. I want to make it perfectly clear," White said, "that the first convoy to Ouemoy alter the cease-fire announcement was well under way when the announce ment was made." The United States is expected within a day or two to quit con voying Nationalist Chinese supply ships. The order to the U.S. 7th Fleet is to be based on the absence of Communist shelling not on the condition laid down in Red China's offer Sunday to cease firing for one week provided U.S. convoy op erations halted. Officials drew that fine line Race Leaders Plan Meeting LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Gov. Orval E. Faubus and segre gationist leaders, fighting against time, plan to confer shortly on plans for opening private all-white schools despite an adverse federal court ruling. Their target date for putting the schools into operation is mid-Octo ber, the same time the 8th U.S Circuit Court of Appeals is sched uled to take its next action in the tangled Little Rock case. School officials have said Oct. 31 is the absolute deadline for begin ning classes in some form if : year's accredited school work is to be accomplished. Monday the appeals court ex tended its order that prevents the city's four closed high schools from being leased and operated as private institutions. But on the heels of the order, Gov. Faubus expressed confidence that the Little Rock Private, School Corp. could successfully set up a high school system without use of the public school buildings. And Dr. T. J. Raney, president of the private school corporation, said the schools would be opened "as soon as we get rolling." The governor indicated he and Raney would meet soon, perhaps within the next few days. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1958 Peace of distinction to emphasize two points: 1. That Red China started the trouble with six weeks of almost continuous bombardment of Que moy, and could ease tensions any time, without conditions, simply by stopping the shooting. 2. That U.S. convoying has been strictly in international waters. and nobody tells the United States what to do on the high seas. Officials were gratified at the Red Chinese offer. But they were not unaware that it contained a number of diplomatic-propaganda nookers. A determination to avoid getting snagged on any of them explained why the United States was taking its own good time about ordering a suspension of the convoy. That was clear in a State De partment statement welcoming the Peiping bid. Noting that no firing would mean "no further necessity for the convoy," the statement said: "This question is being giv en careful consideration. Couniy United Fund-Red Cross Drive Well Over Two-Thirds Of $150,000 Goal The Klamath County United Fund-Red Cross drive for 1059 reached $104,407.10 at last week's Thursday report luncheon, so it is well over two-thirds of the way to the $150,000 goal. As the drive en ters its final stage, Paul Cruik- shank, associate chairman for awards, is kept busy calculating the names of establishments which have qualified for special awards of one kind or another. The principal award to be giv en as a result of the campaign are of two types the Oscar and t h e Distinguished Citizenship plaque for each of which there are definite requirements to be met. The junior award is the Os car, which is awarded to employes of any establishment having at least 75 per cent of their number giving, with the per person giving averaging more than that of all employes within the division con cerned. Obviously, the Oscar stan dards within a given division would constantly fluctuate as firm after firm reports. An establishment turning in Its report early in the campaign might qualify for an Os- Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair through tonight; In creasing cloudiness Me Wednes day. Highs near 70; low tonight 30-37. High yesterday 71 Low last night 39 Prcclp. last 24 hours 0 Since Oct. I . 0 Normal for period 0.78 Same period last year 0.21 Fire Danger Today HIGH Fires start readily from match or glonlng cinders, tend to spread rapidly and tend to crown In young growth. Telephone TU 4-8111 Pope Pius XII Condition Uncertain CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (AP) Vatican sources said to night there had been a slight de terioration In the condition of Pope Plus XII, battling to sur vive a stroke. The sources said members of the Pope's household reported that a urinary difficulty, said to have been cleared up this morn ing, hud returned in the evening. CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (AP) Pope Pius XII continues to show improvement, an official medical bulletin announced today. The bulletin, third released since the 82-year-old head of the Roman Catholic Church was felled by a cerebral stroke Monday, indicated the pontiff s tremendous continu ing resistance to the inroads of illness. For the first time since the stroke partially . paralyzed the Pope some 26 hours before, there was cautious expression of hope that he could recover. The bulletin, read in the square outside the Pope s summer resi dence, said: "The condition of His Holiness, in general, continued to improve throughout the night. His senses appear to be completely lucid ,r - i I f i I car for which it would not be eli gible on the basis of the same giving, later on. The senior awards are the "Out standing Citizenship" plaques, which are presented to the em ploye groups winning them at the annual awards banquet, held in February. The award for outstanding citi zenship is based on the concept of the "Fair Share" which sets the standard for individual giving in the drive at one hour s pay per month lor 12 months, ror an em ploye group to be considered for tnis award, its total giving must be $200 or more, the employer must provide a withholding plan, and the previous years' payment records o the group cannot show more than a 10 per cent loss from tne total pledged. The employes of a given firm meeting these requirements, whose pledges total at least 65 per cent of the amount which "Fair Shares" from all employes would aggre gate, are considered ""outstanding citizens." Owners and managers are not considered as employes in this calculation. Last year, the employes of the following Klamath County firms qualified for these' awards: La Pointe's, Petyon and Company, Mcdo-Land Creamery, East Side Electric, Riverside School, J. W, Kerns and Oregon Technical In stitute. Thus far, all of these establish ments except OTI have definitely re-qualified for an award. Reports from OTI are thus far incomplete but they indicate that employes of that institution will very likely quality again. In addition, two establishments have qualified lor the first lime during the present drive. These are the Safeway store at Eighth and Pine streets and the Big Y Market. Cruikshank is hopeful that more firms will qualify before the end of the drive. It Is possible that the next, report meeting, set lor Wednesday noon at the Pelican Cale, will reveal the names of "jl j i j l i f CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE Marion T. Weatherford talked over campaign strategy with his advisers in Klamath County at a luncheon meeting Monday. Here the Arling ton Republican, left, shares a laugh with attorney Dave Card of Klamath Falls, center, chairman of the advisory meeting and alternate vice chairman of the Klamath County Republican Central Committte, and Mrs. Raymond Loosely of Fort Klamath, a central committee member. Weatherford presently is on the second of three scheduled tours through the immense Second Congressional District. Weatherford, Congressional Candidate Disagrees With Agricultural Secretary By TOM STIMMEL Marion T. Weatherford is an Oregon wheat farmer, a Republi can candidate for Congress, and a man who disagrees with Ezra Taft Benson's ideas about acreage allot ments and farm prices. In fact, Weatherford said, if he were in Congress and a new clam or arose for the agriculture secre- y other employe groups meeting the standards of 'outstanding citizen- ship.' Council Outlines Meter Policy One parking problem failed to materialize but a flood of other parking difficulties descended on the city council at its Monday night meeting in city hall. The parking troubles that did descend were those dealing with the issuance of parking tickets by Ihe recently installed "meter maids." Complaints were received by the council from such groups as doc tors; federal, stale and county employes: maintenance men on emergency calls and delivery trucks. It developed that there were a number of groups who had been receiving favored treatment in past years as the result of decisions by prior councils which were not known to the present council. The complaints were studied and the council outlined these ground rules for "meter maids" to follow, effective Monday, October 13. Doctors They are expected to pay lor parking in the metered zones at or near Klamath Valley Hospital. Whenever any doctor has an emergency call at the hospital and receives a parking ticket, he may mail the ticket to the Traffic Violations Bureau, city hall, with a notation to the effect that the vio lation was caused by an emer gency, and sign his name Federal, state, county and city official vehicles They will be permitted to park one hour free in one hour metered zones, 30 minutes in 30 minute metered zones, but lickcts will be Issued to any of these automobiles parking beyond that limit. Maintenance vehicles such plumbers, steamlitters, electricians Repairmen doing emergency tary's scalp, he would join the re-, hellion. , The reason is because Benson's support program doesn't meet bas ic problems, the candidate said, especially where wheat and grain farmers are concerned. Why, he doesn't even have a wheat man on his staff." Weatherford expressed these and other views at a news conference during his second trip to Klamath f alls to support his candidacy against Democrat Al Ulhiian, in cumbent Second District congress man. This morning at 6, Weatherford expected to be at the Weyerhacus- mill, shaking hands, meeting people, and further promoting his theory that a candidate should meet the voters. For Weatherford, this is an im mense task. The 18-county Second District he hopes to represent cov-' ers the eastern two-thirds of Ore and is considerably larger than the six New England States. Yet he has been over it once, is on his second trip around, and h r i ,- u T U helore election. He says he hasn't missed a town (his trip this time included i1 ore Hock and Mauiler) and once Weyerhaeuser is visited, there will be just one lumber mill in all of Eastern Oregon he won't have visited to greet workers, ihe candidate, who spent many! months in Washington working with the Department of Agriculture on agricultural legislation, said he does agree with Benson's objec tives to free farmers from govern mental controls and to provide bet ter markets, but he disagrees on tile soil bank and flexible price supports. He docsn t agree with the Dem ocrats' high, rigid supports, cither. Instead, lie suggests a commodity- by-commodity program, a "one-at- time approach to specific crops. Something like the sugar pro gram, he said. Did you ever know we had a sugar program? We do, and it works very well. It works because the program was tailored for that commodity not lor every crop farmers grow. Benson didn't listen to producers, said the stocky candidate who will become 52 this Thursday. And wealhcrloro docsn t think farmers should listen to Benson's statistics showing "they never had it so good as the secretary said in Eugene last week. work will be permitted to park adjacent to the building where they are working without charge by inserting a card under t h e windshield wiper indicating where they aro working. However, it was emphasized by the council this Police Lieutenant Archie Huff pointed out today that the "me ter nHilds" duties Include mure than just patrolling (he parking meters, "Too many people have the Idea," he said, "that all they do Is give meter tickets. They arc qualified to assist any per sons driving or walking with di rections or other Information. They have all had first aid training and can give Immediate assistance at any accident scene and handle the situation until a patrolman arrives. "They have also been versed In the recreation and scenic spots of the area so Ihey can assist tourists," he continued. "Yes, and they carry change, too, for the motorist who doesn't have a nickel for the meters." Huff slated, "Their duties are those of serving the public In any capacity for which they have been trained." applies only in emergency cases not routine repair work. Delivery trucks No double parking will be permitted on any streets. Delivery trucks will dc required to-use alleys or loading zones. If they use metered spaces they must pay the meter fees or receive citations. Ihe council point cd out that this revoked an agree ment which was In effect permit l ling delivery trucks to park free I up to 11 a.m. Instead, Weatherford produced statistics prepared 'by the House Committee on Agriftilture show ing, from 1S52 to 1957,, 11 per cent moro farm production, six million dollars less farm Income, 25 per cent more profit for the middle man, prices down 16 per cent, net income down 19 per cent, purchas ing power down 23 per cent, and farm debts at a record high. On other subjects the candidate. who wears a silver tie clip em blazoned with a wheat stock, was equally outspokon: Formosa and the Far East "I agree with Vice President Nixon who said foreign policy should be judged on whether or not it keeps peace, the issue is not so much the Matsus or Quemoy or For mosa, the basic issue is that it's our front door stop. Our trip around the world (last spring) re- minaed us now close those areas are." OTI "I'm very much interested in strengthening and expanding the school. Supplies, machines and ontiinmonfr m-A anoiiaUla Mrnm ttia federal government) because of its outstanding progress In the nu clear field." OTI already has courses to qualify for this aid, Weatherford said. He added that he was a school mate of OTI Director Winston Pur vine and "I probably know more about what he's doing than any other candidate." Weatherford said little about his opponent, Ullman, emphasizing he was running "a positive campaign. not a negative campaign." He did remark, however, that "I'm not proud of his voting record." Of 75 Ullman entries in the Congres sional Record, he said, 33 were on the Hell's Canyon Dam. Weatherford, traveling with his wife, intends to go to Bend to morrow. Before departing, he left this thought: "I'm very much con cerned about the trend in this country toward Socialism. That's not a long step from Communism. That concern is the only reason I m running. POINT WON HOLLYWOOD (AP) Jayne Mansfield, voted "the girl we'd most like to defend in court" by members of a UCLA law fratern ity, is returning the favor. She'll open her Sunset Boulevard man sion to the Nu Beta Epsilon rush ing party Wednesday night. In addition to these regulations, Ihe council granted discretionary authority to Archie Huff and R. N. Bud) Adkins, police lieutenants. or their designee to handle park ing ticket complaints in the ab sence of Police Judge Clarence Humble. Alter a discussion of meter ac tivity, it was decided by the coun cil to have the meter maids cease meter patrolling as of 5 o'clock each evening instead of 6 o'clock as previously enforced. Prefacing the discussion, Mayor Lawrence Slater said, "There are some difficulties which must be ironed out. It is time to evaluate our instructions to the meter maids. We have contacted Mcd- ford, Salem, Eugene, Portland and other cities to see what their pol icy has been. "Our ordinance makes no dis tinction," he continued. "There have been some ground rules we were not aware of, however, and a simplified policy must be set up." The parking problem that failed to materialize was the question of permitting parents to load and unload school children at Sacred Heart Academy between Jefferson and Washington on North Eighth Street. Last Monday night the council received a petition signed by 73 persons asking them to rescind this action since it deprived some downtown employes of a place for all-day parking. However, Monday night, one of the petitioners, Bud Fitzgerald, 1415 Oregon Avenue, withdrew, and no one was present to press their request. The council declined to take any action on the petition and rejected it.
