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la The. Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS I wonder if you read the laics In the papers the other day about the Russian budget. And, if so, I wonder if you were as much con fused as everybody else includ ing, probably, the Russians. The story, as given out in Mos cow, went something like this: The Soviet government proposes to spend in 1959 the ruble equiva lent of about 177 BILLION DOL LARS. This more or less fabulous sum. will be expended for indus try, research and social welfare (what is referred to in these days as cradle to the grave security.) Nothing is saia about military spending. The Kremlin communists are quite secretive about that, go-' Ing on the theory that the less said about it the belter. Their ex penditures for military purposes are presumed to be tucked away somewhere in the 177 billion total. So much for what the commies propose to put out. Let's take a look now at what they propose to take in. 1 It amounts to a sizeable chunk of dough. They estimate their income at about lflO billion dollars (mean ing the ruble equivalent thereof) which will not only balance their budget but will leave them a SUR PLUS of some three billions. And- They add They'll accomplish all this with out levying any direct new taxes! Pretty neat, is it not? But wait a minute. This Russian fiscal system is a good deal like an iceberg. All one sees of an iceberg is what sticks up above the suriace of the water. What sticks up above the surface is a very small part of the total. It's much the same with the Rus sian fiscal system. A lot of it is HIDDEN. For example: In Russia, the government owns everything. If there were a General Motors in Russia, the government would own it. If there were a Ford Motor Company, the government would own it. If there were an A.T.&T. in Russia the government would own it. And so on down the line. Rus sia's communist government takes in all the money and it spends all the money. And- It keeps the books. So, you see, it has the Inside track all the way' around. : A word now about Russian taxes"." One would think that in a coun try where the government owns everything and takes in all the money and pays all the wages there wouldn't be any taxes just like Papa and Mama, who own the house and pay all the bills and give the cnildren .an allow ance. Papa and Mama don't charge the children for the privi lege of living in the house. In Russia, it's different. Russia DOES charge the children. It levies taxes on them. It takes the taxes out of their allowance. In Russia, the government has another cute little trick. It sells bonds to the people. It doesn't really SELL them. It TELLS them. It tells them, how much in the way of bonds they must buy or else! Even that isn't all. It pays them no interest on their bonds And- When the bonds mature The government decides whether or not it will pay back the prin cipal. So far, In most of the cases that have come to light, its deci sion has been that it won't pay that Ivan can keep his bonds but the government will keep the money. So- You see It isn't too hard for the govern ment of the U.S.S.R. to show a balanced budget or, if it chooses to put it that way-to SHOW A SURPLUS. If you wonder how the Soviet government does all these miracu lous things it claims to do, the answer is really quite simple. It does it with mirrors. Accident Deaths May Miss Record Price Ten Cents 54 Faces KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SUNDAY. DECEMBER 88, 1958 Telephone TU 4-811 No. 637' i f t 1 , jr f v- if i ' ' ...... M, " I ' 7T fS 7 ' 5. X 7f, V MT. SHASTA The two mil linn dollar Mt. Shasta Ski Bowl, which was originally slated to open In October, welcomed ski ers for the first time Saturday after 18 Inches of snow were recorded there. 1 j ' f;V ? THIS IS BOX CANYON where construction of a dam for recreation and flood control is contemplated. At top is a view of a portion of the canyon where the Sacramento River emerges to Canterra. Below is the actual dam site where the river enters the canyon and makes a jog. The proposed dam site is located about five miles southwest of Mount Shasta. A report to the California Legislature on feasibility of the project is expected when It convenes January 5. Photo by Peggy Walsh Box Canyon May Become safe- SO,W A3o Authorities Cease Search; Say Balloon Landing Hoax Police Hold Yreka Man For Murder Water Recreation Soot DUNSMUIR Word on Xbe feasi-iLegislature when it convenes Janu. oiiiiy, oi box canyon uam as a ary s, recreation and flood control proj ect is being awaited by recrea tionists in southern Siskiyou Coun ty. A team of experts from the Cali fornia Department of Water Re sources surveyed the proposed dam site early this month with the view of either recommending or rejecting a detailed study to the CARACAS, Venezuela (AFJ .or Venezuelan authorities Saturday night called oil search for the transatlantic balloon Small World. They said they were convinced re ports it had landed in Venezuela Friday were a hoax. Venezuelan planes had searched IB hours for tne balloon, which loft the Canary Islands for the West Indies two weeks ago. Us whereabouts had been a mystery since Its radio went silent a week ago. Before returning to Caracas, the searchers landed at Piarco airport in Trinidad, near the Venezuelan Orinoco delta wnere the balloon was reported to have landed. Airport Capt. William Lead in. formed the Venezuelans that Trini dad also had called off the search for lack of substantial evidence that the balloon had landed, The mystery of the balloon's fate with four Britons three men and a woman aboard, grew Satur day night with conflicting reports as to its whereabouts. A day-long air search brought no trace of the quilted plastic bag its occupants in the jungle swamps of eastern Venezuela where an amateur radio operator reported it had grounded. Carl Agustini, civil aviation di rector of Trinidad, expressed fear the Small World might be con fronting problems in Midatlantic if meteorological reports are con sidered. Airmen who skimmed over the mangrove swamps at the , mouth of the Orinoco River in planes and helicopters expressed doubt the quilted plastic air bag carrying a crew of four had dropped in tnat region. Arthur Cooke of The London Daily Mail, which financed the aerial expedition, said the last message he had received from the balloon was during the Christmas holiday giving a position in the midatlantic. Cooke said in Trinidad Saturday morning that the message was garbled but that the balloonists had reported they were preparing a Christmas dinner. The hunt centered at the mouth of the Orinoco River. Weather. FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Partly cloudy through Sunday. Low tonight 30-35; high to day 40-45. High yesterday 43 Low last night 34 Northern California Few snow flurries today; fair and colder to night, followed by Increasing cloud- iness and warmer. Snow level 3,000 feet. V CRATER LAKE Maximum Friday . 31 Minimum Friday night 22 8 a.m. Saturday 22 New snow Friday night 17 In Snow depth Saturday 31 Same date last year :. 31 Total this season 88 Total 1957 season 201 The road from park headquar ters to the rim was closed tern porarlly Saturday and Highway 62 was extremely narrow. Park ran gcrs said the road from Annie Springs to park headquarters would also be closed temporarily If there was a heavy Saturday afternoon snowfall. Chains are mandatory for travel In the park, Skiing conditions reported were nowder snow. Cars rould not get to the rim on Saturday for trail skiing and the warming hut did not nocn on Saturday morning. The forecast was for more snow. Construction of the Box Canyon Dam would stem the headwaters of the Sacramento Hiver -where it enters a narrow canyon about five miles southwest of Mount Shasta. Use of the canyon walls would auow a imi loot aam to Back up lake about two and ore-half miles into a mountainous area. It would provide about 10 miles of recreational shoreline, Chairman Pat Hanratty of the Box Canyon Committee for Southern Siskiyou county said. Plans are to ask the State to restrict the shoreline for public recreational use, he said. Engineers have estimated a dam at this spot would provide 40 to so per cent control of tha river water through Dunsmuir, thus pro- viding this .community with flood control. The dam level would be kept constant during the summer months and lowered during the rainy winter months, Hanratty ex plained. State men who will issue the feasibility report are Roberl E. Foley, supervising hydraulics engi neer of the division of resources planning; Carl Plumb, senior hy draulics engineer; and Ed Dwyer, recreation planner with the Board of Water Resources. CHICO A preliminary hearing will be hold here at 2 p.m. Janu ary 9 for William A. Cameron. 22. of Yreka, a Chico Stale College freshman, charged with killing Mrs. Vivian Malnne. 50, in a trail er court here the evening of Dc cember 22. Cameron, son of Mr. and Mrs Alexander F. Cameron of Yreka. is married and has a sevcn-monlh oia son. his wile and baby were living with him in the trailer court while he was attending college authorities said. Deputy District Attorney Lloyd H. Mulkey Jr. said that an autop sy proved that Mrs. Malone had severe bruises on her arms and a slight concussion, bolh of which the coroner said had happened be fore her death. Officers who arresled Cameron said his clothing was covered with blood. They had found Mrs. Ma lone's body in the bathroom of the expensive two-story trailer house. Her throat had been cut, they said, and her body slashed. The dog also was found with its throat cut. Officers said Mrs. Malone was the wife of Air Force Master Scrceant Roy Malone who was serving in England. v Mulkey said Saturday that Cam eron could receive the death penal ty under a California law which makes death mandatory when tor ture is proved in murder. Cameron was taken to DeWitt State Hospital at Auburn where he was examined by psychiatrists Mulkey said. He was then taken to Sacramento lor a lie detector test, results of which were not revealed. The events prior to Mrs. Ma- lone's death were reconstructed with the aid of statements from Glenn Becker, 22, a resident of the trailer court who was said to have been on a shopping expedition with Cameron on Monday afternoon. Becker reportedly told officers lie and Cameron slopped at the Malone trailer house for a djink and Cam eron refused to leave when urged to do so by Becker. Becker was quoted that he left the two alone in the trailer house. J. Everett Bar', Yreka attorney, has been retained by Cameron's family. - r 1 -. . By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Traffie 451 Fire 86 MltrHlanrnut 75 Tolal 6 It The traffic death loll climbedl faster than pre-Chrislmas holidav estimates Saturday as millions of weekend travelers toured the country's highwavs. The National Safety Council said the loll was ahead of a rate which would produce the l2(( deaths it predicted for the four-day holiday period. But it added there was a "glimmer of hope" the rising number of auto fatalities might fall short of the all-time holiday high of 706 set in a similar Christ mas period two years ago. As usual, speed and careless driving were blamed for most of the killer-accidents. Generally fair and warm wealh er egged on some motorists to push down on the accelerator. The council said it based its hopes that no new record was in I he making on midnight figures which showed this year's toll at 345 deaths. At a comparable pe riod in 1336 the death count was .184. The NSC said early Saturday morning figures indicated there was a slow-down in the death rale. At the start of the holiday fatalities rose far above a record- breaking pace. "These figures are certainly the first glimmer of hope in an other wise bleak picture. The council hopes we have slopped this ad vance of human slaughter on tha highways. We hope we now have a chance to avoid hitting the all time high of 706 dead in 1956," the spokesman said. An AP survey for a nonholiday period, from 6 p.m. Wednesday, nee. 10 to midnight, Sunday. Dec. 14. showed 341 persons died in traffic accidents, 106 in fires and Hto in miscellaneous tvDe acci dents, a total of 552. EIGHT CONSECRATED VATICAN CITY (AP) Pope John XXIII Saturday consecrated eight bishops, including Vatican Secretary of State Domenico Cardinal Tardini. Primitive Man Survived; Maybe We Can WASHINGTON IAP) - Primi-i rive man was less equipped to survive than a skunk and it's a wonder he ever made it, an an thropologist said today. Dr. Leslie A. White of the Uni versity of Michigan, in a report prepared for the 125th meeting of the American Assn. for the Ad vancement of Science, dedared: "Man's prehuman ancestors, and primordial man himself, were relatively weak and helpless as compared with many of their mammalian and reptilian neigh bors. "They were neither as strong as some species nor as fleet as oth ers: and they had few protective devices like the turtle, porcupine, rattlesnake, or even ... a pro tective odor like the skunk. It is something of a wonder that the first men were able to survive at all in the struggle for existence." The scientist spoke of this in leading up to his main theme that "The entire human race is in bondage to its culture." Defining culture as the "langu ages, tools, customs, beliefs and so forth" that grew out of primi tive man's development of articu late speech. White said: "Once culture got under way, mail was provided with a means of adjustment and control that made life much more secure for him. A million years of nature, and mastery over many otherpe cies." However, he said, "Great cul tural advance has . . . brought misery and servitude for a major ity of the population." "Primitive peoples were free and equal, however meager and crude their cultures may have been," he declared. "The great masses of agriculture and domes tication of animals reduced the masses of Egypt, Mesopotamia and elsewhere to serfdom or slav ery. . . . The industrial revolution and the conquest of steam created an industrial proletariat whose lile was one of unremitting toil, squalor and malnutrition." And today, he said, the very ex istence of man is threatened by "the very culture that has achieved so many triumphs for him in the past." "We are confronted today," he said, "with the greatest crisis in human hislory. This crisis is not to be defined in terms of the strug gle between Christian capitalism and atheistic communism. "It consists in the threat and prospect of the self-destruction of civilization, and perhaps of the human race, In thermonuclear holocaust." But White added: "There is. of course, a possibil ity that global self-destruction may b averted; the threat of ex tinction may or may not prove to be stronger than regional rivalries and national sovereignty. . . ine time of decision is probably near at hand. SHOOTING HOURS: OREGON December 29 OPEN CLOSE 7:05 4:4J CALIFORNIA December 29 OPEN CLOSE 7.04 4:40 Icy Highways Responsible For Wrecks Icy highway conditions were re- sponsible for two automobile ac cidents resulting in the hospitali zation of one person, it was re ported by state police, Saturday. Shortly after 11 a.m. Saturday. a two-car accident on Highway 69 east of the Lakeview Junction was reported. Jack Harold Free man, 18, Malin, who was west bound on 66 stated he met thrca easlbound vehicles which threw slush on his windshield, making it impossible for him to see. He lost control of his vehicle and it slid onto the shoulder of the road and then ac ross the highway into the path of an easlbound car ' driven by Robert Embree, 44, Route 2 Box 814, Klamath Falls. The Freeman automobile was to tally demolished and a passenger, -Ronald Kalina. 19. Malin. was in- jured. Kalina was removed to Klamath : Valley Hospital by Peace Ambu- lance and was treated before be ing released. At 2:55 Saturday aflernoon, John Henry Crosson, 47, 435 Cottonwood Street, Vacaville, California, suf-' Icred severe nead lacerations when struck by a car driven by Donald Clemens Macken, 46, Or inda, California, one mile north of Collier Park on Highway 97, the slate police staled. pilols..wi.h little prospect that the K,k S" 5? Airline Strike Negotiators Resume Talks By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Negotiations continued Saturday between Eastern Air Lines and its striking . flight engineers and American Airlines and its striking two big carriers will get back in business soon. In Miami Friday night, federal mediator Warren Lane said of the Eastern strike: "We're right at a stalemate. There's no progress that I can report." ' In Chicago American officials awaited word from the Air Lines Pilots Assn.-on a seven-point for mula worked out by mediators and already agreed on by the company. Beyond asking clarification on some points of the proposed set tlement, the pilots union cava no indication ot coming to an imme diate decision. son had climbed oack to the shoul der of the highway. Macken, southbound, was unable to stop at ine scene 01 me accident, and when he hit his brakes his car skidded onto the shoulder carry. ing crosson nacK into tne ditch. ... Crosson was taken. ' to Klamath . Valley Hospital by Chiloquin am- .' ouiance, 111s condition was report-. ed as good Saturday night,''' Police report that Highway 97 was extremely icy at the foot of Snrlner rraoe Uill Mnrlitnrt 1- four other vehicles slidin off th I road while attempting to stop at the scene of the original accident. Europe Adjusts Currency To Revive Financial Health LONDON (UPI) Britain an nounced external convertibility for the pound sterling Saturday in a move timed to coincide with a new devaluation of the French franc. , , , i' . . West Germany, Ihe Scandinavi an countries and the Netherlands announced parallel moves for Iheir own currencies at the same time. ' Ail were scheduled lo go into effect when markets open again Monday morning.- All these moves together formed part of a conversion program de signed to restore financial health In Western Europe. "External convertibility" still did not mean that anyone hold ing pounds sterling will be able to change them into any other currency. ' " .-' - v ' . It still fell short of "tolal con vertibility" of sterling. , But it did mean that any for eigners holding sterling as result of commercial transactions will be able henceforth to exchange it in London for dollars or the cur rency of their own countries. It was' a major step toward complete convertibility and re storation of sterling as second only to the dollar as Ihe currency for international trade. Cuba Warns Of New Drive HAVANA, Cuba fAP)i Civll.' k- ians were warned Saturday In kMn -V clear ' of. tebcl' positions as tha 5;. government proclaimed an all-out drive; to; wipe out the 'insurgents. Army planes are reported to al- i' ready have bombed the outskirts v - of Placetas on the ma;n highway -east of ' Santa Clara, where the rebels are tightening a - ring ' around the capital of Las Villas ' Province. ' : ' The two-year rebellion faces its ; bloodiest turn as government tore- : es struck at heavily populated con centrated districts which until now have been kept out ot the range of gunfire. Chamber Proposes Survey For Ho spital An informal meeting lo deter mine the Klamath Basin's hospital needs and what can be done about them will be held Monday with representatives from a survey group. The exploratory meeting, ex plained Chamber of Commerce Manager R. Frank Tucker, will be to discuss "the possibility of making an appraisal study of hospital needs. Matters to be included 1n the discussion will be the community's present hospital needs, its possible future needs, how many beds a new hospital should have, where it would be located, how it would be financed, and other matters. Visiting Klamath Falls for the discussion will be Dr. Mark Blum- berg, head of the Medical Eco nomics Division of Stanford Re search Institute in Palo Alto and William Royce, 'director of the institute's Portland area office. Tucker said the institute repre sentatives would com at their own expense to discuss a hospital need survey whether they or another group could conduct a survey, how much it would cost, what it should be expected to in clude and what it could be ex pected to determine. Mecling with the representatives will be members of the Klamath County Court, Klamath F a 1 1 1 Mayor Lawrence Slater, represen tatives of the Community Council, the Klamath County Medical Association, and other civic lead ers. A community hospital program is one of the chamber of com merce's three major projects for 1959. Tucker explained that the Monday mecling, scheduled for Ihe Winema Hotel at ft: 30, is to get the program started. pmffmmfm' !!" ' ' "" 1 HOSPITAL NEEDS were given a thorough review at the Friday meeting of the Rotary Club et the Willard Hotel. Here, left to right, Charles A. Bailey, program chairman! Eston "Mike" Baliiger, vice president, end Bill Decker, speaker of the day, look et a hospital survey made for e Washington city. Decker cited the need for e new hoipitel In Klamath County and called attention to the special Monday meeting at tha Winema et 6:30 p.m. to get details on tha cost and extent of a posiiblo hospital survey by Stanford Reieerch Institute.