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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 7, 1959)
Kocad Aheo umpy As Mew Con eets Price Five Cent 16 Panes KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON'. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 7. 1959 Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 6286 d Said B aress M In The- Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS The congress that is assembling in Washington today faces a big problem. The problem is this: It is obvious that we shall have to spend a lot of money. How shall we get it? Shall we tax the peo ple NOW? Or shall we BORROW it and add it to the debt and leave payment to future generations? The first way is the hard way. The second way is the easy way. The first way is the way of the statesman. The second way is the way of the politician. What will the congress do? A good guess is that it will choose the easy way. .- A pointed question: . Which way do YOU prefer? . Would you rather PAY IT NOW In cash out of your pocket? Or would you rather put it on the cuff and leave it to your children to pay? YOUR opinion is important. If ENOUGH people in the United States took their pens in hand and wrote to their senators and their congressmen URGING STRONG LY the raising by taxes, instead of by borrowing, the money we shall have to spend to meet the cold war problems that face us, THE CONGRESS WOULD DO IT THAT WAY. In our country, public opinion is tremendously effective. There is no better way to express public opin ion than by SINCERE and thought ful letters from the people to their representatives in the congress. .- Maybe you're not SURE in your own mind. Paying now is hard. - Paying later always seems easi er. We're all pretty sure that times will be better in the future. - How shall we know what is right? t A bit of advice: ' Take a look at France. For generations, France has been doing it the easy way. That string is about played out. The French are being told by no less a person than General De Gaulle, now PRESIDENT De Gaulle, that they must face AUSTERITY now or BANKRUPTCY a little later. Why bring that up? Well, the only way we can judge the future is by the PAST. In France, the mistakes of the past are coming home to roost. 111 Ji S" '" ' --V. , tWJ PLANNING the chamber of commerce' "Keep Pace With Tomorrow" program, intro duced today to the chamber's board of directors are, left to right, Eugene D. Emun son, vice president of a public relations firm specializing in chamber of commerce work; Jim Wells of Montgomery Ward, general chairman of the program, and Bob Mest of Dugan and Mest, chamber president. Chamber Introduces Slate To Keep Pace With Future A "Keep Pace With Tomorrow" program being developed now to meet the business, industrial and civic promise of the future was introduced today to the hoard of directors of the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce. Its purpose, in the words of a public relations specialist who has come here to direct it, is "to develop a business building pro giam for the entire Basin" and "to get the tools to work with." The specialist is Eugene D. Emunson, vice president of the Lloyd A. Wilson Service of San Weather FORECAST Mostly cloudy with a few showers of rain oc casionally .mixed with .snow -through Thursday. Highs 38-45; low tonight 30-35. High yesterday 40 :- Low last night 32 : Precip. last 24 hours trace -. Since Oct. 1 1 - Same period last year 7.96 .-. Normal for period 5.20 - Northern California Cloudy with rain spreading southward to Central California by Thursday; snow in mountains; little change In temperatures. Southerly winds, - 20-35 miles an hour. CRATER LAKE High yesterday 28 Low last night 24 . 8 a.m. today 2( New snow In Snow depth 39 Last year 90 Roads in the park are open, Chains are advised for travel on Highway 62 and are required from Annie Springs to the rim. Skies were overcast this morning and a light wind was blowing. "It looks like more snow," was the rangers' forecast. Infant Girl Still Missing NEW YORK fAP) Mrs. Frances Chionchio, 26, is home fiom the maternity ward away from the sight of new mothers with crying babies. Her own in fant daughter is still missing. Mrs. Chionchio returned Tues day to her Brooklyn home from St. Peter's Hospital, where her child was kidnaped- from a nur sery Friday night, only 2Vi hours after birth. The - woman's uncle. Dr. John Mollica, who delivered the baby, aid he had planned to discharge her today or Thursday, but after seeing her Tuesday decided she should leave at once. 'I think she would be better off mentally if she were away from the atmosphere of seeing other new mothers and crying mfants. Mollica said. Mrs. Chionchio has one other daughter, Gerardette, I. Her hus band, Frank, 28, an attorney for the Port of New York Authority was with her when she left the hospital weeping. DESIGNER SUGGESTS WIGS LONDON (UPI)-Designer Ted dy Tining, who designed the lace panties that won headlines for American tennis player '"Gor geous Gussie" Moran, today pro posed varicolored wigs as the ac cessory the woman tennis player should wear in 1953. Francisco, a firm specializing in chamber of commerce work. The chamber's board of direc iors met Emunson at today's noon meeting; selected Jim Wells, man ager of the Klamath Falls Mont gomery Ward store, as general chairman of the program: and adopted a public statement ex plaining the purpose of the "Keep Pace With Tomorrow" program. Emunson explained that the pro gram would be conducted for seven weeks. The first four weeks would be concentrated on "edu cating the people on what tr chamber of commerce is and what it needs;" the last three weeks would be devoted to a cam paign "to meet those needs." This community has outgrown its chamber of commerce," Emun son explained. Te chamber needs a new program of work to Keep pace with a growing com munity. That purpose was explained in some detail in the public state ment approved by the board. Excerpts from the statement: "All of us believe in the Klam ath Basin we have a splendid history and we can have a still greater future but that future will depend largely upon the or ganized activities of the present. The 'Keep Pace With Tomor- low program (is) a plan for united, continual and expanded ef- iort (toward) still greater achieve ment. Material prosperity, al though important, is not the only objective. We are also thinking of Ihe broader meaning of the term as to civic progress and a better community. ... The . . . program will be im mediate and long-range in char-i acter. It will be based upon the best thinking and ideas of our people. It will require the counsel and assistance of the chamber's members and other civic-minded citizens." During the next few weeks Emunson told the board, a series of conferences will be scheduled to plan and execute the program, Under Wells, as general chair man, the program will be divided into four major divisions prep aration, education, special pros pects and business groups. Division chairmen and sub-chair men will be announced later. Nunn's Term Commuted Dirksen Wins Senate GOP Leadership WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Republicans today chose Sen. Ev erett M. Dirksen of Illinois to be their floor leader for the new ses sion of Congress. He defeated Sen. John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky 20-14, with all 34 Republican senators participat mg. By a similar 2014 margin Sen Thomas H. Kuchel of California was chosen whip or assistant floor :cader. The Dirksen victory was a de feat for the group of self-styled progressive or liberal senators led by Sen. George Aiken of Vermont. Emerging from the two-hour closed-door session, Aiken smiled and said the results "were the democratic processes at work." Conservative forces were quar- terbacked by Sen. Styles Bridges of New Hampshire. Kuchel was the candidate of the liberal group and his election should give them additional pres tige in legislative actions. Reelected without opposition were Bridges as chairman of the Senate GOP Policy Committee, Sen. Leverett Saltonstall of Mas sachusetls as chairman of the Con icrence of All Republicans and Sen. Milton Young of North Da kota as secretary of the conference. Kuchcl's opponent was Karl Vlundt of South Dakota, advanced at the last nour by the conserva tive group. SALEM (UPI) Gov. Robert D. Holmes today commuted the death sentence ,of Billy Junior Nunn to life in prison. Nunn was convicted of the first degree murder of young Alvin Lacret of Klamath Falls. His conviction was upheld by ine uregon supreme Court. The boy's parents later aucs-' tioned the right of the governor to commute sentences, but the governor's right was upheld by the supreme court. Nunn had been scheduled to die March 18, but an executive order of the governor postponed the exe cution until June 26, 1959. In his commutation, the gover nor said that the imposition of capital punishment ' does not pre vent the commission of murder and ... is contrary to the teach ings of Christianity which are the foundation of our government. 'It is the obligation of govern ment to be civilized even in the exercise of its obligation to pro tect society, the governor said. The commutation order noted that the supreme court had de creed that it was the governor's tesponsibility to determine when his commutation powers should be used. mi mi 1 1 in itn i fa iniwnii' ii it t,i-,nti'U ., " a are these I f x -' I fit V i EVERETT DIRKSEN Its:" t'i.J JOSEPH MARTIN Revolutionist Says Cuba To Steer Clear Of Commies By LARRY ALLEN HAVANA, Cuba (API Fidel Castro, Cuba's revolutionary hero. indicated today Ihe island's pro visional government will steer clear of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and other Com munist countries. The newspaper Diario de la Headon Crash Fatal To Six World News In Uriel CONGRESS Washington Congress convenes. Republicans go into the new session with leader ship battles rocking their mem berships in both houses. MARTIN Washington Rep, Martin, Mr. Republican in House for 20 years, bows out as leader with laughter in voice and tears m eyes. ALASKANS Washington Alaska's new senators participate in rare Senate ritual to determine length of their terms. CUBA Havana Urrutia cabinet, at first formal meeting, studies problems of reconstruction and reform confronting victorious rebels. WEATHER Undated At least 68 deaths have been blamed on the weather this week. High winds battered the East for the second day Tuesday but the fore cast for today is for subsiding winds. WELL-DIGGER Bakersfield. Calif. Rescuers dig for well digger trapped under tons of loose gravel in deep wen. Democrats Plan To Salute Harry WASHINGTON (AP)-The Dem ocratic party is going to salute former President Harry S. Tru man with a nationwide party fund- raising show on his 75th birthday, May 8. The Democratic National Com mittee said Tuesday that details haven't been worked out but that Truman had agreed to make his Dirthday the occasion for the mon ey-raising show. It probably will take the form of a closed circuit telecast over a theater or hotel ballroom network. KENTON. Ohio (API-Six Ten nessee men were killed early to day in the headon collision of heir auto and a gasoline tank tiuck on U.S. 68, about two miles north of here. . The highway patrol and funeral homes where the bodies were tak en said the victims had been iden- lilied tentatively as residents of Cleveland, Tenn., and vicinity. The identifications were listed oS'. Floyd Clark, 22: Herbert Go ings, 41; Richard Kelly, 28; Hor ace Boyd, 24; Robert D. Lee, 31. and John B. Gibson, 32? The patrol idcntilied the driver of the tanker as Albert Fohl, 24 of Tiffin, Ohio. He was taken to a hospital for treatment of lacera-i lions. The truck was traveling south, the auto north. U.S. 68, a two- lane highway, was clear and weather conditions were reported good. Marina quoted Castro as saying in an interview it is his personal opinion 'Cuba should not maintain relations with any dictatorship. The newspaper said Castro had been asked about relations with other countries and especially the hoviet Union, as he continued his slow trip to Havana. Communist propaganda has praised Caslro and attacked the regime of the fallen rulgencio Batista Castro also lashed out against dictatorships in an interview tel evised in Havana, saying they are a menace lor America. Diario de la Marina also quoted ( astro as saying a rebel law con (iscating all British goods in Cuba still is on the bonks but is subject to ratification by the provisional government. Castro did not say this would ho done, however, explaining that lie docs not wish to make state ments indicating he is interfering with the government of provision al President Manuel Urrutia. Caslro ordered the confiscation Civil Rights, Leadership Split Solons WASHINGTON W-The new 86th Congress convened today already torn by wrangling over Republican leadership posts and the ground rules for a looming new battle on civil rights. The bang of gavels in Senate and House chambers at noon i EST I launched the session before packed galleries gay with the bright dresses of admiring women ioik ol tnc members. But beneath the normal hearts and flowers atmosphere, collective blood pressures were seldom high er lor an opening session. House Republicans were split right down the middle as the re sult of a scrap Tuesday that saw Rep. Joseph W. Martin (Mass) ousted as party leader alter 20 years at the helm. Named to re place him was Rep. Charles A. Halleck llnd). And senators of both parties were, taking sides for a possibly prolonged battle over that body's rules. The issue: whether to make it easier to cut off filibusters the endless debate that backers of more federal protection for Negro voting rights have contended is the main weapon used to defeat such legislation. Only House Democrats, tightly under control of Speaker Sain Rayburn (D-Tcx), were without any raging feuds for the moment. Rayburn, who has served as speaker longer than any other man, was chosen again at a party caucus Tuesday. It put him in the presiding chair of the House for a ninth two-year term. Actually, the party only nomi nated. But the overwhelming strength of the Democrats made today's election by the House it self only a formality. Sen. Lyndon Johnson of Texas was reelected Senate Democratic leader at a party meeting just be fore the Senate convened. He has held the post since 1953. Johnson- described the comer- SHOOTING HOURS: OREGON January I OPEN CLOSE 7:06 4:52 CALIFORNIA January 8 OPEN CLOSE 7:04 4:30 Lawyers Prepare Briefs To Aid Mark Hatfield Filibustering Rally Slated WASHINGTON (AP) - Oppos ing sides rallied their forces today lor a fight over the Senate s fili- uustcr rule. But there was talk of a compromise maneuver aimed at averting a showdown battle. Renewed '.alk of a compromise came Tuesday night with a report that Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Tex) might try to step in quickly with a proposal de signed to forestall a long and deci sive clash. His heavy Democratic majority in the new Senate al ready is badly split on the fili buster issue. But if Jonnson had any such plan, he was not broadcasting it. lie told newsmen after meeting Tuesday nignt with Northern Sen ate Democrats he expected no voles today on the merits of the lilibuster controversy. The target of the impending bat tle is Senate Rule 22, which re quires the votes of 66 senators, or two-thirds of all 08 members, to choke off a. filibuster and force an ssue to a vote. ARRIVING AT STEARNS SCHOOL, and moving to their new classrooms 'pupils who have completed the bus trip. In all, Stearns School will have 120 pupils transferred from the old Summers School, 40 from Altamont. At the same time, 60 pupils will go from the Twyla Ferguson School to Peterson School. The shift of pupils teethe new Stearns School began Monday, withfh Peterson exodus on Tuesday. SALEM (AP)-Gov.-elect Mark Hatfield's lawyers were preparing briefs today In support of Hat field's contcnlion that he, and not Gov. Robert D. Holmes, can ap point the new secretary of state. They were handicapped, though, by not knowing what kind of briefs will be required for the Supreme Court action they plan to file. The briefs are to be. filed next Monday. They can't be filed until Holmes or the Legislature takes some specific action. . The trouble is that Hatfield's lawyers don't know what form this action will take. So they are having to draft several dilfcrent kinds of briefs in order to answer anything that might happen. Hatfield's suit might be against the Senate if it delays the inaugu ration. Sen. Walter J. Pearson (U- Portland). who will be president of the Senate, said that the upper house will delay the inauguration un ess Hatfield resigns as secre tary of state before he takes the oath. Or Hatfield's suit might be against Rep. Robert B. Duncan D-Medford). who will be speaker of the House. Duncan could hold up the inauguration by refusing to announce the election results. The suit could be against Holmes if he refuses to vacate the office. And there are several other forms the suit might take. -he Hatfield lawyers, in order to get the quick decision they want, plan to be ready for any kind of action. It appeared almost certain to day that the inauguration, sched uled for 2 p.m. Monday, would be delayed until the Supreme Court rules. However, plans for the inauguration are going ahead. The basic question is whether Hatfield or Holmes can appoint the new secretary of state. This hinges on whether Hatfield has to resign before taking the oath. There is no indication that Hat field and Holmes might get to gether and compromise the issue. The governor s ollice said it has received no such peace overture from Hatfield. Pearson suggested that since David O'Hara. whom the gover nor has said he would appoint, is unacceptable - to Hatfield, then Hatfield should propose that Holmes appoint somebody else. The stakes are big. Hatfield wants to appoint a Republican secretary of state who would have a chance of getting elected In 1960. The Democrats want to keep Hatfield from achieving that aim. Delay of the inauguration wouldn t be the first time it hap pened. In 1843, ex-Gov. Earl Snell had to wait two days to be inaugu rated while the Senate was dead locked over election of its presi dent. That gave ex-Gov. Charles A. Sprague two extra days In office. y when Britain was selling arms to the government of Fulgencio Ba-lence as highly harmonious with no usta. discussion of such matters as Sen- The Cabinet of Urrutia worked late rules on which the Democrats far into Tuesday night preparinglare divided :nt.l TMrlrcnn , a new constitution for the interim, period Until elections are held in 18 to 24 months. The basic law will replace the 1940 constitution of Batista. The work of weeding out rem nants of the dictatorship gathered speed. Urrutia appointed Luis Orlando Rodriguez, his minister of Interior, defense minister also. Rodri guez' first order created military police to enforce order. Another order forbids any militiaman or any person carrying arms . to drink alcoholic beverages. Shots were fired just outside The Associated Press office early today, apparently by armed mi litiamen pursuing some Batista supporters in an automobile. A single monolithic revolution ary party may be one result of the revolution, despite Cuba's tra dition of fiercely narlisan politics. Abolition of all existing par- tics, reported under considera tion, would pave the way for some such party reorganization. All can didates in the Batista elections of 1H54 and 1958 also may be banned from political life. Dirksen won Ihe Senata.- GOP leadership over Sen. John Sher man Cooper of Kentucky by a 20-14 vote with all 34 Republican senators participating. By a similar 20-14 margin Sen. Thomas H. Kuchel of California was chosen whip or assistant floor leader. Kuchel, who won over Sen. Karl Mundt of South Dakota, was the candidate i for a eroun of senators who oppdsed election of Dirksen as leader. On the other side of the political fence, Democratic Leader Johnson was reported ready to take the play away from a bipartisan group of civil rights advocates who want a rules change to make it easier to kill off filibusters. Local Trucker Pleads Guilty PORTLAND (AP) - Dean O. Miller, Klamath Falls trucker, pleaded guilty Tuesday to oper ating a truck across the Oregon California border without a cer tificate from the Interstate Com merce Commission. He was fined $300 by U. S. Dis trict Judge William G. East. Father Dies Trying Rescue BRANDON, Minn. (AP) A father and his five children died today in a fire that swept their wo-story home here. Mark Kelly got out of the house after the fire began, but lost his life when he went back in and sought to rescue his children.. Dead were Kelly, about 38; three sons, Jim, 16, Dennis, 12, Pat, 14; and two daughters, Mary Lee, 10, and Peggy, 3. , Mrs. Kelly fled the burning house. Neighbors restrained the mother from re-entering. Police Chief Charles Rossum said the fire victims likely suffo cated. All the bodies were recov ered. , 5 gift fTTH" - r - HEADING for tha new Orson A. Stearns School at Lavarn and Crest ware these itil dents from Peterson School. Students numbering ISO war transferred by bus to the new school. Here, in foreground, Peterson Principal Art Millard directs the loading pro ess. Pupil Danny Nelson is all le'or the move, loaded down with books and luppliw.,t'.
