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:
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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. .
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