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In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS In this Sacramento valley trav elogue. It was mentioned that Red Bluff is beginning to feel the stir rings oi change. For some three generations it has been the capi tal of a glamorous cattle coun try. Its life has been built around the cattle business. But alone the Pacific Coast IN DUSTRY is on the march. It be gan at Los Angeles. Already it has reached the Bay Area. It is moving steadily northward. For some reason, it leap frogged over Red Bluff and made itself felt first at Redding. Now it is back-tracking picking up the Tehama county area that it skipped over. Red- Bluff is a charming town. It always will be a charming town. But each year it loses a little of its character as a cattle town and takes on a little more of the character of a coming industrial town. That change is due to be felt by all of us up this way. Well, change is of the essence of things out here in the Far West. It has been going on steadily i for the somewhat more than a century that the Far West has been American. And it hasn't hurt anybody yet. There is Redding, for example. It started out as a roaring gold camp, a source of supply for the miners all around it. It was only a hop, a skip and a jump from Old Shasta, and Old Shasta was one of the Big Camps. It's now a ghost town a REAL ghost town, where the tourists come to look nostalgically at the deserted old buildings and to dream of t b e days of old, the days of gold. The change in Redding since then has been startling. Redding is now a modern, bustling, growing town where industry is EVERY THING and gold is nothing. The change hasn't hurt Redding. There have been other changes In these parts. Orland, for exam ple. When U.S. Reclamation came along and provided the Orland area with water an orange boom followed. It was, held then that the sweetest and tastiest and al together most delicious oranges in all of California would be grown in . the NORTH. Orange groves were put out in every direction. Orland thought of itself as the or ange center of all of California's north. It didn't seem to work out that way. The frost came oftener than it was expected to come. The or ange crops weren't as dependable as it had been expected they would be. So, in the natural course of r events, orange, growing began to fall into disfavor, and the Orland area began to turn to cattle to DAIRY cattle. Now it is one of . the finest dairy regions in the en tire Sacramento valley. Some of the orange groves remain, but most of them are gone. In their place are fields of alfalfa and , irrigated pastures, and 'wherever you look there are dairy cows. Change hasn't hurt the Orland country, and it hasn't hurt the town of Orland, which is the cen ter of it. Orland is a comfortable and pleasant and prosperous town. Change, you sec, isn't the ogre we are inclined to picture it, We don't LIKE change, of course, because it means that we must give up the ways and the things we are familiar with and take on ways and things that arc new to us. But change isn't even half bad. In the long run, it is good for all of us. These towns down here in the upper Sacramento valley are proving it. - BULLETIN - JERUSALEM, Israeli Sector (AP) Security agents and police have cracked one of the largest spy networks yet discovered In Israel, the government announced today. . A communique said more than 7 0 Israeli Arabs who were working under the orders of "Egyptian' Syrian Intelligence" have been ar rested so far this fall and con fessed. Argentine Coup BUENOS AIRES (AP) Presi dent Arturo Frondizi crushed an attempted palace coup Wednesday - night and- oil workers postponed nationwide strike. The threatened strike had sparked the political crisis. The oil workers are opposing a govern ment plan to get foreign help in developing Argentina's national ized oil industry. The coup was led by Vice Presi dent Alejandro Gomez, according to official reports. He denied it. Deputies and senators of the rul ing Intransigent Radical party early today called for his resigna tion. His impeachment by Con gress was threatened. As Frondizi struggled to' solve the labor unrest which has caused a crisis endangering his 6-month-old regime, Argentina's powerful armed forces rallied to support the embattled chief executive. Gomez, a tough politician, had claimed military and political sup port for a move to form a national coalition movement. Frondizi, weakened by a bout with flu but Ifuoyed by a swift vote ef confidence from his military forces, ordered his ministers to make a supreme effort to settle a strike of oil workers in Mendoza Province. This strike, which started two GETTING READY for the fourth annual Stockmen's Day Friday at Oregon Tech are two students and an instructor. Left to right are Richard Schluter, student; Al Geiss, instructor, and Earl Tiede, student. The day will be open to everyone interested in the agriculture program at Oregon Tech. It will open with a tour of the barns and inspection of livestock at 9 a.m., including other exhibits with an afternoon demon stration at the abattoir, lunch in the cafeteria and a beef barbecue at 6 p.m. Grim Account Of Tragedy Given By Sole Survivor REDDING (UPI) - The appar ent sole survivor of a Shasta Lake boating accident gave a grim ac count Wednesday night of swim ming and floating to shore m icy waters, then stumbling and craw ling in the darkness to safety. hack Keener, Redding, inter viewed in a hospital bed, said a small pleasure craft manned by Jack Potter, Anderson, flipped ov- Probers Fail To Receive AF Report WASHINGTON (AP) Air -Force Secretary James H. Douglas re fused today to give House investi gators a secret Air Force report on the management of its ballis tics missiles program. He said his refusal was in the public interest. A summary of the report was furnished to the investigators. This said delays and procurement deficiencies had resulted in exces sive costs,, but that the over-all management of the program was good. Douglas was called before the House Government Information subcommittee to answer com plaints by Comptroller General Joseph Campbell, fiscal watchdog of Congress, that the Air Force was flouting the law by refusing to make the report 'available to government auditors. Defending the Air Force posi tion, Douglas said it was the tradi tional practice of military depart ments not to make public internal advisory reports such as the one by the Air Force's own inspectors. He cited a presidential . state ment Aug. 12 that heads of execu tive departments may keep appro priate information confidential in the public interest. Douglas argued it is important that the Air Force management have the benefit of inspections "capable of stern, impartial self analysis and criticism." "If these reports are released outside of the department, it is only human to expect that there will be a tendency on the part of those making inspections to soften criticism, avoid doubtful matter, and generally be more re strained," he said. These and other considerations. Douglas said, compelled him to conclude that "the public interest would best be served if I did not furnish the comptroller general" a complete copy of the report. weeks ago, is paralyzing the rich oilfields, in Mendoza at the foot of the Andes Mountains. Frondizi called the Mendoza strike a Communist-inspired in surrection and declared Argentina under a state of siege Tuesday. Hundreds ot Communists, Peron istas and others were arrested. Frondizi crushed the coup bid with the support of the secretaries of the army, navy and air force, and surrounded the government palace with armed guards. His administration gained a breathing spell when the oil work ers at 2 a.m. put off for 96 hours their 48-hour nationwide strike which was to start last midnight. Labor bosses agreed to huddle again with Interior Minister Al fredo Vitolo who played a key role in putting down the Gomez at tempt and keeping Frondizi on top. Vitolo, also acting deicnse min ister, assured Frondizi that the army was sticking by him. In a communique following a Cabinet meeting late Wednesday night - Vitolo announced that all ministers pledged their support to the president. Vitolo said Gomez had told the Interior Ministry the coup was planned. The vice president claimed the ibl lb r er in waves about 130 yards from shore Tuesday night. Potter and another man still unidentified today are presumed drowned, Keener said the three clung to the overturned craft until their combined weight caused the boat to sink. They stripped off their clothes and started for shore. The other men outdistanced him Keener said. He had to roll over and rest about every 50 feet the frigid water. Once ashore, Keener started walking barefooted through the heavy brush around the lake. He lay down once beside a log and pulled dry leaves over his naked body but the leaves failed to in sulate him from the cold. Keener said he got up and start ed walking again but his feet be gan to bleed. He completed most of his six and a half-mile shore side trek crawling on his hands and knees. . With a 'fisherman whom he fi nally ' siotted, Keener began searching nit- the , darkness before awn lor nis two companions. Neither he, nor a sheriff's search party by late Wednesday were able to find them. Treasury Man To Testify TACOMA. Wash.' (AP) - Treas ury Agent Claude Watson was ex pected to take the stand today in the federal court trial of Dave Beck Sr., former Teamsters' Union president, who is charged with evading payment of $240,000 in in come taxes for the years 1950-53. Watson testified during the final ten minutes of Wednesday's ' ses sion. He had time only to relate an encounter he had with Beck in 1943 when the 64-year-old labor leader had tax troubles which were subsequently settled out of, court. Watson, 65, a onetime railroad brakeman who still holds a Broth erhood of Trainmen union card, said Beck told him he always kept $1,500 cash on hand. Most of the court action cen tered about Morse B. Lake, vice president of the Seattle-First Na tional Bank, and Beck's relations with the bank. Lake, who has been on the wit ness stand since Tuesday, told the jury that Beck knew of the in vestigation of his financial affairs since it was begun by the Internal Revenue Service five years ago. Crushed government could not control the military, that he had , military backing and that urgent measures were necessary to meet the situa tion. 'Rumors circulated Frondizi would be asked to resign. Vitolo's communique said he ar ranged a dramatic face-to-face meeting between Gomez and Frondizi at the president's home. Gomez repeated to the president what he had told Vitolo, and Frondizi accepted the challenge. The president returned to his office, from which he had been absent because of flu since Nov, 1, and called in tho military members of his Cabinet. They ex pressed whole-hearted support for rrondizl. In quick succession oth er members of the Cabinet and the Intransigent Radical - party members in Senate and Chamber upheld the president. Frondizi, 49. was elected presi dent last Feb. 23 and took office May 1. He is the first constitu tionally elected ' president since the ouster of Dictator Juan Peron in 1955. Gomez, SO, Is also a member of the Intransigent Radical party, He first came into prominence when he was picked as Frondizi's running mate. He is the son of a railway telegrapher and proud of his backgrouund as a teacher. M Mr SHOOTING HOURS: OREGON November 14 OPEN 6:24 CLOSE 4:50 CALIFORNIA Nerember 14 OPEN CLOSE (:21 4:48 School Aides Quit Board LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) Five - members of the embattled Little Rock School Board resigned Wednesday night to clear the way for a quicker solution to the im passe in the integration situation hsre. ; , The mans resienafirin.i tiiihmct of widespread rumor forvlhev past several days, came as no surprise. Before' the resignations, the board paid off the contract of School Supt. Virgil T. Blossom, frequent target of segregationists and Gov. Orval E. Faubus as the author of the Little Rock plan of gradual integration, Amis Guthridgc, an attorney and member of the pro-segrega tion Capital Citizens Council, said he would file a suit seeking to block the action on Blossom's con tract. That is a clear piece of collu sion between the board and Vir gil Blossom, who has always dom inated that board, Outhndge said. The resignations, effective at midnight Friday, left Dr. Dale Alford, an outspoken segregation ist who has consistently voted against the board majority on in tegration matters, the only re maining member. Legal Aide Orders Probe WASHINGTON (AP) - Ally. Gen. William P. Rogers said today he has ordered a grand jury in vestigation of whether the recent arrest of Negro ministers in Bir mingham, Ala., violated their civil rights. Rogers said he did not know ex actly how soon the grand jury will begin its work. He said that it will be as soon as possible. The federal grand jury will be convened at Birmingham. Rogers told a news conference his call for a grand jury investiga tion followed the refusal of Eu gene Connor, Birmingham's com missioner of public safety, to dis cuss the matter with FBI agents. Rogers said Connor also had in structed members of the Birming ham Police Department not to dis cuss the case with 1B1 agents. Rogers also announced the Jus tice Department is considering recommending to Congress the en actment of new civil rights legisla tion, some of it bearing on the school desegregation controversy. Indictments Dismissed PORTLAND (AP) - Judge James W. Crawford dismissed vice indictments against Clyde C. Crosby, Thomas E. Moloney and Frank E. Malloy Wednesday in Circuit Court. The dismissals camo on a mo tion by Assistant Atty. Gen. Arth ur G. Higgs. Presiding Judge Charles W. Redding previously dismissed a similar indictment against Joseph P. McLaughlin of Seattle because the indictment facts failed to constitute a crime. All four were Indicted In the Portland vice probe of March 1957. Price Five Cents 24 Pages UA W Strikes Paralyze Industries Lines Of Pickets Surround International Harvester PORTLAND (AP) The 52 members of the United Auto Workers Union at Jnlcrnatlonal Harvesters Co.'s Milwaukie plant, south of here, will complete this week's work before joining the national strike. Roscoc V. Knight, bargaining chairman for the local, said today the men will not report for work Monday if the strike Is still on. They are parts handlers and warehousemen. CHICAGO (AP) - A strike of some 36,500 United Auto Workers Union employes today shut down International Harvester Co. plants throughout the nation. , Picket lines were reported or derly as the strike went off at 7 a.m., local time, in 15 plants. Efforts lo avert the walkout failed Wednesday night after fed eral mediators met with manage ment and labor officials. Union and management repre sentatives planned another session today. The UAW gave the go-ahead for the strike after the company re jected a union package proposal for a new contract to replace the one which expired Aug. 1. Since that date UAW members have continued to work under an ex tension of the old contract. Duane Greathouse, UAW vice president and director of its agri cultural implements division, said Harvester had rejected union de mands for a contract similar to that granted in the auto industry. Specific union demands have not been spelled out. A Harvester spokesman said the principal stumbling blocks are un ion insistence on retroactivity to Aug. 23 of any new agreement conditions and inclusion of em ployes in company parts depots and transfer .houses. The company, he said, insists on dealing locally with nonproduction employes in such depots. Both the union and Harvester were in agreement on the amount of the annual improvement wage a 6V4 cents hourly wage boost or a 2Vi per cent increase, which ever is greater. The company said production and mainteasnce employes now receive an- average hourly wage of K.S."- Among the unsettled issues in U.S. Offers A-Ban Plan GENEVA (AP) The United States today put forward an American plan for a controlled suspension of nuclear weapon tests. The plan was submitted to the three-power nuclear test confer ence by Ambassador James j. Wadsworth. head of the American delegation. The Soviet Union sub mitted a draft treaty of its own to the conference at the opening session Oct. 31. A communique issued after to day's 90-minute session said: "The delegation of the United States submitted a working paper outlining a treaty on discontinu ance of nuclear weapons test ex plosions, including establishment of an effective international con trol organization." The text of the working paper as not made public. However, the American plan is believed to contain 15 points. Up to now the conference has remained deadlocked on the ques- lon of priorities with the argu ment between East and West re olving around rival agendas. With today's meeting, however, t ie delegates moved into a con sideration of issues of substance, conference source said. At some time they will have to come back to the question of an agenda. The Soviet Union wants the con ference first to agree on an Im mediate and permanent suspen sion of atomic and hydrogen weapon tests. The two Western powers maintain the delegates first must devise an agreed inter national control system. ' 7 Children Die In Fire FORT WAYNE. Ind. (UPI) - Seven children in one family died today when lire swept the home of Mr, and Mrs. George Gam mons. The parents escaped with their lives after tossing their 4-year-old daughter Connie Sue, only surviv ing child of the family, through window. Gammons, 34, and his wife, Au drey, 31, were taken to Lutheran Hospital. Connie Sue was taken to the same hospital where all three were reported in fair con dition from shock and cuts. Mrs, Gammons also sustained third de gree burns. The fire was blamed on a de fective oil stove. The dead children ranged in age from 7 weeks to U years. Four of them were boys, three girls. They were identified as George, 11: Chester. 9: Irona. 7: Alvis, 5 John, 3; Carolyn, 1, and Georgia Ann, 7 weeks. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. the negotiations, which have been under way since midsummer, are increased pensions, longer vaca tions and piecework operations. Of the some 36.500 UAW mem bers, 13.200 are employed in four plants in the Chicago area. Other plants are in Canton, Rock Island, Rock Falls, and East Molinc. III.; Indianapolis and Fort Wayne, Ind.; Louisville, Ky.; Memphis, Tenn.; Springfield, Ohio; and Stockton and Emeryville, Calif. Union Withdrawal Eyed By Largest Trade Craft ST. LOUIS (AP) Action on a resolution empowering leaders of the huge Brotherhood of Carpen ters and joiners to sever ties with the AFL-CIO was put off until Fri day. The delegates vote on the seces sion resolution had been sched uled today. It was reset because the measure had not been reported out of committee. The resolution to sever the 839,- 000-member union, the world's largest craft union, apparently will have little opposition. Police Seek Ex-Convict For Kidnaping RED BLUffF, Calif. (UPI) Police- Chief IMaron-L.. Clay to day issued ah all points bulletin for capture of an Oregon ex-con vict suspected of staging a bizarre kidnaping of a railroad section hand, apparently with armed rob bery as a motive. Clay identified the suspect as Don Kennedy Majors, 32, a pa rolee from the Oregon State Peni tentiary. , The chief said Majors had a long criminal record. The officer - said Majors was identified as the principal in the kidnap and robbery of Dodie Lee Champion, 37-year-old Dunsmuir section hand. Champion stumbled into the Red Bluff Police Station early on Oct. 27 to tell of his abduction and that of a companion, Jesse Ezcll, about 24, Anderson lumber worker, in Sacramento. He said they were halted by an armed abductor on a street corner and forced to drive him to Red Bluff. The rail hand said that the man robbed him of nearly $100 and locked him in the trunk of his car after binding his wrists with black tape. When Ezcll failed to appear for Work at an Anderson lumberyard, officials believed he had been kidnaped by the assail ant. . However, last week Eiel tele phoned from the San Francisco Bay Area to his former employer to make arrangements to get his final paycheck. Clay said .Ezcll was being sought as a material witness. The chief said Majors was iden tified through fingerprints in the victim's car. 18.', oft! i '"'!' jSi M . if ALTAMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL hat been observing American Education Week with a three-day open house, which ends tomorrow. Coffee Is served visitors bv a volunteer group of PTA hostesses. Shown gathered around the coffee table are, left to right, Mrs. Carl Proebitel, third grade teacher; Mrs. 'J. M. Parsons, PTA hettesii Mrs. J. R. Dalton, Mrs. Wallace Britton and Mn. Web Van Meter, guests: and Mrs. Mary Gunderton, second grade teacher. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1958 Auto Production Halted At Chrysler Corporation DETROIT (AP)-Chrysler Corp-i oration's automobile production was paralyzed today by a strike of 8,000 office workers represented by the United Auto Workers Union. The strike grew out of failure to arrive at a new contract. Picket lines forced Chrysler to close all eight assembly plants. Chrysler said 17 supplier plants remained in operation, some ot them only partly. A total of. 48.800 workers were idled by the strike. Chrysler has a total of about 95.000 employes. 70.000 of them members of the UAW. Most of the Chrysler automotive operation is in the Detroit area. Those not on strike were sal aried employes who are not mem- Some 1.200 of the convention's 1.000 delegates have signified their approval by signing copies of the measure. Such action would be a powerful endorsement of Maurice A. Hutch eson, general president of the union. Hutcheson is under indict ment in Indiana's highway scan dals and has been under fire by the Senate Rackets Investigating Committee. The AFL-CIO Executive Council has notified Hutcheson it wants to question him about corruption charges made against him by the Senate committee. Last week Hut cheson advised the council , he could not appear at the time be cause of convention preliminaries. As the convention opened. Hut cheson mailed to the council a copy of his statement to convention del egates. In it Hutcheson denied any misconduct. Including charges he conspired to bribe an Indiana rlght-ot-way omcial. in 1953 Hulcneson putien me Carpenters out of the old AFL in a dispute with George Mcany, now president of the AFL-CIO. over inter-union jurisdictional fights. In less than a month the Carpenters re-enterea uie Atu In Washington. AFL-CIO sources had no cr.mment on the Carpen ters resolution. Hutcheson, who succeeded his father, the late "Big Bill" Hutche son as president of the union in in 1952, was reelected to tho $35, 000-a-year job Wednesday without epposition. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Rain becoming showery tonight and Friday. Colder. Low tonight 32-37, high Friday 38-43. High yesterday 50 Low last night 43 Prccip. last 24 hours 0 Since Oct. 1 .0.47 Same period last year 2.16 Normal for period 1.77 Northern California Occasional rain through Friday. Colder. Southerly to southwesterly coastal winds 12-25 miles an hour from Point Arena northward tonight and from Monterey northward Friday. STRAUSS SWORN IN WASHINGTON (AP)-Lcwis L. Strauss was sworn in today as secretary of the Department of Commerce at a Whito House cere mony. He succeeds Sinclair Weeks, who resigned to return to private business. S0 Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 6231 bers of the union, employes en gaged in government defense proj ects, and workers in air condition ed factories and such. ' Negotiations on a new contract came to a halt Tuesday when the UAW white collar workers walked off their jobs. . . . No dalo for a resumption of ne gotiations has been set. The office workers' portion of a new Chrysler-UAW national con tract was left unsettled in Octo ber when UAW President Walter Reuthcr left the Chrysler negotia tions to join the UAW talks with General Motors. A total of 16 plants employing 24,000 men were shut - down Wednesday. These included all eight auto and truck assembly plants in Detroit and Evansville, Ind.: Newark, Del., and Los An geles. The UAW international appar ently was ineffective in a request to strikers to abstain from picket ing at the time of shift changes so as to keep plants operating. Main strike issues bore on seniority rights, union demands for wage eqiuty on various jobs, and a wage progression demand. Chrysler said the pay on the va rious jobs ranges irom $319 a month for messengers and mail boys up to $903 a month for pro ject design men. Forty per cent of the salaried force is paid more than $500 a month, the .company said. - Tension Eases In West Reich BERLIN (AP) West Berlinera breathed more easily today be cause the Russian bear and its East German followers appeared fnr thA moment to have, more growl than bite. , The tipott came m a news con ference Wednesday by -Premier Otto Grotewohl of Communist East Germany. Several hundred correspondents attended. Most of them expected some sort of a dramatic foliowup to Nikita Khrushchev's demand that the Western Allies give up West Berlin, a capitalistic thorn buried 110 miles inside Communist ast Germany. Many correspondents thought Grotewohl had been tapped by the Soviet premier to announce that the Russians were giving the East Gormans control over Allied Mili tary traffic into West Berlin. The Allies prefer Russian control be cause this permits them to avoid recognizing the East German re gime. Grotewohl strode into the con ference room 10 minutes late. He said he knew the correspondents expected something sensational but wouldn't get it from him. Firm President Shoots Robber CHESTER, N.Y. (AP)-A bank robber and strongarm thug who was leading a wildcat strike against a cable company was shot dead by the company president to day, state police said. They said the company presU dent, Malcolm White, told them he shot Alfred F. Dugan with a .31 caliber German automatic when Dugan rushed at him with one hand in his pocket as though reaching for a gun. . ) I i
