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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.
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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.
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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. ,
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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'.