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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 20, 1959)
PAGE EIGHT HERALD ANT) NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON TUESDAY. JANUARY 20. 1959 14 ?:VERETT WILCOX, second from the right, superintendent of the Oregon State School or the Blind, was preient for a recent meeting with member! of the Klamath Falli end oketee Lions clubt and . auxiliary members of both clubs. He spoke during a luncheon session at the Willard Hotel. Left to right are Mrs. Estin Kiger, president of the Klamath Falls Lions Club Auxiliary, Mrs. Harvey Denham, president of the Toketee lions Club Auxiliary, Wilcox and Harlan Dexter, president of the Klamath Falls Lions Club. Workers Told To Return To Jobs . BUPNOS AIRES, Argentina (Apt In its toughest action so far to break a nationwide general jtrike, the Argentine government ordered all Buenos Aires transport Workers to report for work today or lace military courts. The trolley, bus and subway op erators were drafted into the army is the strike showed signs of col lapsing. It began Sunday under the leadership of followers of ex iled dictator Juan D. Peron and Communists. The two grdups had hoped to force the government to back eown on us austerity program oy R ranting another round of wage icreases. The program is de signed to check inflation and re build Argentina's economy from the chaos created by Peron to buy Workers' support. One government official pointed Out the strike already had failed In one objective: to force Presi dent Arturo Frondizi to cancel a twe-week state visit to the United Slates. Frondizi arrived In Charleston, I.C., Monday and was to fly on to Washington today for economic talks with President Eisenhower nd other U.S. officials. Frondizi said in Charleston he Was not concerned about the strike situation. He said more than 300 !itrike leaders who were arrested n dawn raids Monday had illegal y seized meat packing plants and fther businesses. "We cannot foresee the future." Frondizi said, "but I can guarantee the law will be respected in our country. Some 7.000 workers seized the government-owned Buenos Aires meat packing plant Saturday to protest plans to sell the money- losing business to private opera tors. Police and troops used tanks and tear gas to rout them. In retaliation, 62 Peronist unions called out transport workers in the capital shortly after midnight Sat urday. By Monday they had been joined by 19 unions with Commu mst leanings and 32 unions which usually take an independent line Public transport in the capital halted. Most stores and banks were closed. Utility, construction and other workers walked out. With the country partially para- lizcd, Senate Chairman Jose Maria Guido, the acting president, met BARNES ON RADAR VESSEL D. L. Barnes, (ire control tech nician third class, USN, son of Mr. nd Mrs. R. R. Barnes of Star Route. Chiloquin, is serving aboard the radar picket escort vessel IJSS Forster, operating out of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The For Iter, a unit of the Continental Air pefense Command, patrols the area between Alaska and Hawaii In support of our nation's Distant farly Warning defense line. - SAVE - Amana Plan WAY ' FOR BETTER LIVINQ End the spending of holi days and Sundays working in the kitchen. Save approximately 1 week's food bill out of every 4. Oregon Food Plan, INC. 401 So. 6th Ph. TU 2-4401 3. until early today with Interior Min ister Alfredo Vitolo and top mili tary leaders. The drafting of Buenos Aires transport workers took effect at 6 a.m. From that hour any trans port worker who failed to report lor worn was subject to punish ment by court-martial. There had been reports earlier mat tne government was consider ing outlawing the Peronist and Communist parties which regained legality only last May, after Fron dizi had taken office. Major Proposals Given On Fiscal 1960 Budget WASHINGTON (UPI) Here is a summary of major proposal! in President Eisenhower'! fiscal I960 budget: Tales -r Raise gasoline tax Hi cents a gallon to pay for rising costa ot highway construction Boost aviation gasoline tax 21 cents a gallon and impose a new tax of 4 i cents a gallon on jet fuel passing both on to consu mers. Extend present corporate and excise tax rates another year to June 30, 10. No income tai cuts this year but a promised re duction "in the reasonably loresee able future" if budget stays bat anted. Defense $40.3t5.OO0,(KiO for de fense, about si45.bO0.0tH) more than fiscal 1959, with heavy emphasis on missiles and defenses against missile attack. Slight cut in Air Force manpower would be only change in active duly personnel Space National Aeronautics and Space Agency would get szltu.ixiu, 000 next year and $45,000,000 add ed to this year s $153,000. Long- range projects include manned space flight, missile shots to the moon and planets, and worldwide network ot weather ana commu nications satellites. Postal rates Another $35,000,000 increase. Specific: proposals will come later. Farmers A $779,000,000 drop in farm aid, bringing it to $6,000,000, 000. Advance conservation author izations reduced; legislation prom ised to cut price support outlays Water projects No new starts; 'ne hour theme1 Drive-in Cleaners Now Open 2041 Radcliffe At So. 6th & East Main Ordering Somtimtft . " r-. ITS THERE IN HOURS.,. AND COSTS YOU LESS I What a- bargain! For example, a 25 lb. package from Eugene to Klamath Falls costs only $1.30. Fast! As little as 3 hrs., 50 minutes travel time. 1200 Klamath Ave. Phono 2-4616 stretch-out! of existing projects vhere possible. Nevertheless, on ill-time high spending total of U.IUQ.UUO.OUU. , Education $150,000,000 for loans U college students and grams to -tales under science-keyed defense education program; $75,000,000 ad ded to this year's $40,000,000. No mention of aid for school construc tion. Aid of $181,000,000 proposed lor school districts alfected by fed eral installations, with increased state-local participation stressed. Federal subsidies Increase state local-private participation' in slum clearance, purine assistance, dis aster relief and other programs. Eliminate Federal aid to states for vocational education and waste treatment facilities after I960. Interest rates Encourage pri vate lending by raising interest rate ceilings on veterans and FHA housing loans. Boast interest rates on rural electrification, college housing and ship mortgage loans to cover government costs on them. Aviation A four-year program to share costs of building runways and control towers but withdrawal from airport grants in the future. Foreign aid Total of $3,498,000.- 000 with overall reduction of $383, 000,000 from this year. Military aid would drop by $462,000,000 hut economic aid would rise $79,000,- 000 wfth increased emphasis on repayable "development loans." Housing No authorization for new public housing. A sis-year $1,350,000,000 program of grants for urban renewal, with states and cities called upon to pay more, plan better and obtain private fi nancing. Veterans A $110,000,000 drop from last year's $5,!UQ.0tH).0ua pen: sions would be granted on the oas is of need. Pension program would be modernized "in light of social developments and changes." Atomic energy No weapons deht to $285,000,000.00 by June 1 Request will be made to boost per manent debt limit by S2.0O0,000.0u to that figure. itests buHepteH- rnnttniiAH pmohas- u on peaceiui uses 01 nuclear pow er and development of nuclear driven naval vessels; no step-up in plans for developing an atomic plane. j Debt limit This year's 118,900. 000,000 deficit will increase public! witfflta ' Dependable Coverage MAYFLOWER AUTO INSURANCE VERN W. EMLEY Beftltniblf Bitt, Bom olllct Siltlle W.h. Offlca Pkan. 5-3:33 tool S: Ilk NOW OPEN! The New WestJnghouse Laundromat Store 225 So. 6th St. Across from. Bank of Klamath Falls OPEN 24 hours 0 day - 7 DAYS A WEEK! -NT WASH V DRY 25 1QC COIN OPERATED - SELF SERVICE i far more risibility, too. Then N. I t$L 1 HINCTV-KIOHT HOLIDAY tPOHTSEDAN Tmk four turn ml ihm whmml at your locml mirthoiiifl MOBI OmIKT Outer's DICK B. MILLER COMPANY, 710 Klamath Ave. TUNI IN THI "NIW MM SHOW" STARRING PATT1 AGI IYIRY WIW ON AIC-TV m ...... .i. ..m ...A,i.i.,....i.., . "I 1 I I II I I 111 Blitz Country isn't all Mountains. One man claims it includes New York. He carried a couple of cans of Blitz along with him on t trip and drank them in the Waldorf Astoria. Ai the Beer of the Bright Cascades gurgled down his parched throat he was in deepest Blitz Country for sura . ' If you'd like to explore Blitz Country yourself, pack in to wherever Bliti is sold. Or six-pak into your refrigerator. Open the door, open a Blitz. 7 Blitz Country! Vilslil I
