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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.
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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
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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
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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.