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PAGE FOUR HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON MONDAY. JANUARY 26. 1959 ii i ii i j T U Ii nrt i s "Sura, walking in the rain it romantic, but not whan wa're pushing your car!" Missile Weapons Fly High In President's Budget WASHINGTON (AP) - Missile weapons and space vehicles fly high in the budget proposed to Congress today or tne year start ing next July 1. The Pentagon, in asking for a t4O.04S.0OO.00O spending budget, said it would lay out 800 million dollars more for missile produc tion and missile research than tor the present year. Missile costs were not itemized separately, but President Eisen hower has said missile programs are costing nearly seven billion dollars this year. In addition to defense spending, the newly created National Aero- nautics and Space Administration would be siven a 280-mmion-aoi lar spending budget, compared with 153 millions for this year. Expenditures by the Atomic En ergy Commission, Eisenhower told Congress, are expected to hit a record $2,700,000,000 in fiscal 1960. This large amount, he said, "re flects our determination to main tain our position of world leader ship m the field of nuclear mili tary armaments" until interna tional control agreement can be reached. The budget does retlect one trend toward easing of tension in atomic armaments. The President said that m view of the Amen can offer to suspend weapons tests, the budget contained no money for such tests. The military budget of $40,945,- 000.000 is 145 million dollars mgn- er than estimated spending for the current year. Eisenhower said "it will bolster the defense of our country against oossible attack and enable our forces to respond more quickly and vigorously to any emergency." Offsetting some of the higher missile costs will be abandonment of some older, outmoded weapons types. Also, Eisenhower said, sufficient progress has been made on new weapons in development to per mit elimination of some marginal weapons still being developed. The manpower of the armed forces will be little changed at 2,520,000. It is the first year since the end of the Korean War that substantial cuts in military man power have not been proposed. Eisenhower said the Communist bloc "is following a policy of de liberately and constantly probing free world positions to test our determination to resist .... Therefore he thought it "is pru dent not to plan any significant chances in forces. Here is how the manpower and unit strengths are projected: ARMY 870.000 men this year and next; the same total of 14 divi sions and 23 other major units. The administration will ask Con gress to continue selective serv ice, now used only by the Army. navy 630.000 men this year and next. The Navy will continuue to have an average of 864 shins in the fleet, with 389 of them com batant vessels. The number of air groups operating from carriers will remain at 16. MARINE CORPS - Unchanged from the present 175,000 men, three divisions and three air wings. AIR FORCE The only man power reduction 5,000 is in the Air Force. From a present 105 wings the Air Force would be cut to 102 wings, including wings of missiles as well as manned air craft. Eisenhower promised that "the first operational Atlas missiles will be at launching sites by the end of the current fiscal year. Production of the intermediate range ballistic missiles, the Air Force Thor and Army Jupiter, will continue through to June 30, 1960, but no appropriations for buying any beyond that is planned, the budget disclosed. In addition to the Atlas ballistic missile, the Air Force will put into place this year the air-breath ing Snark intercontinental range missile. The Presque Isle, Maine, launching site will have a squad ron ot 30 bnark missiles. Eisenhower said the Army's Nike Zeus anti-missile missile is being developed at an accelerated pace." This missile, is intended lo intercept and destroy enemy ICBMs headed for American tar gets. The first Polaris submarine nuclear-powered boat armed with 14 missiles will go Into op eration in 1960. Construction of six Polaris submarines is under way. The building of three more Is authorized. The nro ect for developing a nu clear-powered warplane will get about the same spending tunas next year as this, approximately ISO million dollars. The Defense Department and AEC share this expenditure. The m tarv plans to Buy i.biu planes with its fiscal 1960 funds. Of this total, 703 will be Air Force, 668 Navy, 239 Army. The total is about 150 less man the present buying program, the difference being in non-combat types of aircraft. The Navy's shipbuilding pro gram for fiscal 1960 calls for 21 new ships, compared with 22 in Ihe present program. The budget message said that the Navy rec ommended building of a conven tionally powered, Forrestal class carrier. Until now, the Navy has been pressing for permission to go ahead with construction oi a sec ond nuclear-powered, 80,000-ton carrier. School Tax Requirement Clarified The county court has ordered that the Crater Lake National Park Company, park concessionaire, is not liable for school taxes in Klam ath County. The ruling simply makes N ficial an unofficial opinion of eight years ago that the company does not have to pay school taxes because its properties lie m no school dis tricts. The opinion of 1951 was written for the State Tax Commission. The county stands to lose no money because of the order, and it is not required to make any re funds. The company hasn't paid school taxes since 1948. County Assessor Hap Caldwell brought the issue to focus last year by billing the company for $5,427 in the 1954-59 tax years. The court said Caldwell wanted to test the 1951 opinion. The concession company prompt ly complied by suing the State Tax Commission to make Cald well remove its name from his school tax rolls. In its order of January 23, the court noted that the 1951 State Tax Commission opinion "is to the ef feet that since there was no or ganized school district in ... the Crater Lake National Park area at the time these lands were ceded to the federal government, and since there was no express res ervation on the part of the state to tax for school purposes ... it is ordered that the Klamath Coun ty assessor remove all such prop erty from the school tax rolls and return all school taxes lit any).- The court also mentioned a sub sequent State Tax Commission opinion, written last December 2, which said a Din had Deen intro duced in the federal House of Rep resentatives which would bring fed eral areas under tax laws for oth er lands. That bill, however, failed to pass. Siskiyou Mills Awarded Bid YP.EKA The Siskiyou Mills at Happy Camp were the successful oral bidder at the timber sale con ducted by the Klamath National Forest in Yreka on January 21, according to an announcement made by John Murray, assistant of timber sales management. Mur ray also said that the award of the sale will be made by the re gional forester at the San Fran cisco office. The timber acquired is located in the working unit of Dry Lake in the Happy Camp area, and the Siskiyou Mills acquired 15.500,000 board feet at an oral bid price of $158,575. The volume MBM of timoer pur chase included 1,000,000 feet, pon derosa pine: '2,000.000 feet, su gar pine; 300,000 feet, white fir: 13,000,000 feel Douglas f ir: and 200.000 feet, incense cedar. Appraised value per MBM were as follows: ponderosa pine. $15.85 sugar pine, $!6.o0; wnite lire, $2.25; Douglas fir, $8.65; and in cense cedar. $2.25. Bid prices for the timber remained exactly the same, with the exception of the Douglas fir, which went at $9.05. Navy Discloses New Engine Able To Land Man On Moon CHINA LAKE. Calif. (APl-The, Navy has a new rocket engine which it says can land man on the moon gently and bring him back alive. The engine was disclosed Sunday by the Naval Ordnance Test Sta tion here along with another de velopment: a safe new way of packaging dangerous fuels that scientists say will eliminate long countdowns. Douglas D. Ordahl, head of the station's missile propulsion divi sion, told a news conference "we hope to make a test vehicle within the next six months." During ground tests, the engine has developed thrusts of up to 10, 000 pounds compared with the 400.000-pound thrust of the Atlas Intercontinental ballistic missile But Ordahl said, "There is no limit to the ultimate size and po wer of the engine. Some of the test engines, Ordahl said, have burned as long as four hours, throttled down. "Current missiles burn up all their fuel in a minute or so." he said. "The new engine does not have lo burn all Its fuel at once. It can burn only what is necessary and save the remainder for later mntlrts. "We have had ennines that could f o to the moon if we had proper control over mem. ne sam. mis new angina givea us that control "It means we can change di rection and speed in flight, that we can slow down and make a feather-soft landing on the moon or any of Ihe planets, and take off again. It also means we can bring manned satellites back from orbit without damage by control ling direction and speed as they re-enter the atmosphere. Instead of kerosene and liquid oxygen, which is hazardous and dif ficult to store, the engine burns two secret fluids which ignite on con tart with each other. The fluids are fed through a valve which controls the (low into the engine's combustion chamber. This enables scientists to regulate the amount of thrust produced either bv a hand lever or hy remote radio control. These linmds can he stored in definitely without corroding their aiummum tanks." Ordahl said. "A missile using this type of fuel could he loaded at the factory and stored or years, wnen de ivcred to troops in Ihe field, it could be nreo on a moment s notice. CACKLE, CACKLE OPFl.nllSAS I limn., n... roung tiled suit for $15,000 Thurs- any against nts next door neigh bor. a poultry dealer. YOUnC Said the rnnlinniniv rn,-lr I of chickens was causing him Vs ' 'M rf. IV .A ' r Jammi I JIIU '" ft;.-' Vc . Toxic Stock-Killing Weed Invading Southern Oregon THESE THREE SENIOR STUDENTS at Yreka High School will be guest speakers at the January 27 meeting of tile Yreka Business and Professional Women's Club at the Yreka Inn. Carol Peterson of Montague, left, will talk on her summer of 1958 in Ger many as an exchange student. German Vesko of Austria, canter, is an exchange student under the American Field Service at Yreka High School and will talk about his native land. Patty Swickard of Yreka, right, will speak on her last summer's trip to New York and fhe United Nations which she won with her essay on Americanism, sponsored by the Rtbekah and Odd Fellow lodges. ' One-Way Street Change Rejected By Yreka Chiefs YREKA The Yreka city plan ning commission and the Yreka Chamber of Commerce rejected last week the conversion of Miner Street to one-way traffic. This top ic had been revived through the concern of Yreka City Council over the growing number of vacancies on Miner Street. One recommendation made by the commission to the council was that traffic spaces on the north side of Miner Mreet from Broad way to Third Street, be removed, and regular parking meters, tak ing one to five cents on half of each of the two currently metered city lots, be installed. Charles Cooley, councilman, who also occupies a seat on the plan ning commission board, was asked why the issue had been revived. He replied that the council was concerned over the growing num ber of vacancies on Miner Mreet, Trustees OK Rule Changes YREKA - The Yreka Elemen tary School District trustees ap proved three minor changes in fire safety measures, recommend ed by Yreka Fire Chief Charles Schultz, at the Jackson Street School. Schultz indicated that the fire department found everything satisfactory at the school, except for the three changes, after a re cent fire drill at the school. The changes recommended by Fire Chief Schultz included the in stallation of an alarm bell in the school's band room; placing of two small fire extinguishers in the cen ter corridors of the school build ing; and the provision of two wool blankets in the kitchen for use to smother possible cooking fires. Other business taken up by the board was the passing of a reso lution to bar the slating of out-of-county games without the approv al of the board. Robert Reynolds, Yreka Elementary School District superintendent, stated that parents objected to elementary school chil dren making the long trips re quired to participate in these games. Funerals RICE LAKEVIEW Funeral services were held in Lakeview Saturday January 24, at 2 p.m. in the First Presbyterian Church for Adrian F. Rice, 57, who died here on January 22 following a long ill ness. The Rev. Alfred Russell of ficiated and arrangements were made by Ouslcy-Ostcrman Mortu ary. Burial was in the Alford Cem etery at Harrisburg on Monday at 1 p.m. Mr. Rice was torn August 4, 1901, at Harrisburg, Oregon. On June 28, 1930, he was married there to Merle Hughes. He is sur vived by the widow and a son, Gordon of Salem, and one grand son, Larry. Also surviving is a brother, Harry, of Eugene. The family came to Lakeview eight years ago. S1VERSIND CAN BY Caroline Siversind, 77,i Orland, Glenn County, California, mother of Conrad Siversind of Can by, died in Orland on Tuesday, January 20. She was a native of South Dakota. Funeral services were held at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon, January 24, in the Lu theran Church of Orland with in terment in the Masonic Cemetery. Mrs. Siversind is also survived by .two daughters, Mrs. Vernon Lewison and Mrs. Paul Bootn ot Orland: four sisters. Mrs. John Dragseth, Mrs. John Johansen and Mrs. Alvin Jacobson of Orland, and Mrs. Paul Johnson of Colum bia, Louisiana: and a brother. Tom Norby of Bookings, South Dakota. HOWARD ALTURAS Funeral services were held from Kerr Mortuary Friday afternoon, January 23, for Ed Howard. 73, who died in an Alturas hospital on January 21 He had been ill for several years. Howard had been employed as a ranch hand in Modoc County for more than 30 years prior to his retirement. He was well known among cattle ranchers in the Al turas area. He has no known sur vivors. Interment was in the Al turas Cemetery. California Weather United Press International San Francisco Bay Region partly cloudy today with high temperatures 55 - 60: variable cloudiness tonight and Tuesday witn little change in temDerature: low tonight 45-52; northwest winds 10-20 m.p.h. Northern and Central Califor nia: Fair and variable high cloud iness in central California through Tuesday, but cloudy in the north with occasional rain north of Ft. Bragg and Redding; little change in temperature; coastal winds southerly 12-25 m.p.h. Pt. Arena northward and west to northwest 7-15 m.p.h. elsewhere. Mt. Shasta Siskiyou area ciouay witn occasional snow through Tuesday: little change in temperature; rain below 3,000 icet. Sacramento Valley: Cloudv through Tuesday and occasional rain likely in the Reddinn area little change in temperature; high Both days 50-60; low tonight 40-50 variable winds 7-15 m.p.h. Northwestern California: Cloudv today tonight and Tuesday and occasional rain Fort Bragg north ward. Little change in tempera ture: high today and low tonight at Napa 60 and 46. Ukiah 60 and 45 Santa Rosa 60 and 42: souther ly wind 12-25 m.p.h. near coast FLOODS THREATEN WINDSOR LONDON (L'Pl) - Scattered Hoods in the nearby Thames Val ley turned the playing fields at Eton into a vast lake today and threatened tha gardens of Wind sor Castle. IN GERMANY WEED William I. Westfall. Army specialist 4, 20. son of Mrs N. Ellison, Weed, recently arrived in Germany with the 504th Infan try Formerly assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division at Ft. Brace North Carolina, the unit is now a part of the Eighth Infantry Divi sion in Main . CRASH KILLS THREE AMMAN. Jordan tUPlI A Jor danian airliner carrying 14 per sons crashed 10 miles west of here Thursday. Three persons were Kineo ano tnree were in jured. J. Henry Helser & Co InrfMmrM Mnfr l:tubllbef ifcta Offlcts la Prlaclplt WM Cfttt Cltlti Ernest Bussey- 253$ Vine An. TU 4-5041 Klamath Foils and was seeking a means of keep ing the business in Yreka's down town section, instead of having a large number of shopping centers develop on the outskirts of town. It was felt that one way to keeo shoppers in the downtown area was to provide easy parking and free flowing traffic. Different opinions expressed by various members of the chamber of commerce disclosed in part that there was no more of a traffic problem on Miner Street than on Broadway; that the majority of merchants was satisfied with the traffic as it was: that the mer chants needed all the traffic thev could get; and by making Miner Street a one-way lane, it would mean closing off one end of the street. It was also pointed out that Yreka is not ready for one-way streets but it was proposed or recom mended that city lots be opened up to regular metering, which would remove parking off the south side of Miner from Broad way to Oregon, which in turn would implement the traffic flow and widen the street. Another phase discussed was a complaint that the parking spaces were too narrow now to handle the new wider cars on the diag onal parking system. That in park ing the wider car of today in a diagonal parking space, it was al most impossible to get out of the vehicle. Still another complaint was reg istered by-C. H. Barchus, chair man of the planning commission, who offered the opinion that the 10 cent meters on the city park ing lots were much too expensive tor tne average shopper, as in some instances they might j'ust want to run in for a small pur chase. He said in part that the 10 cent fee charged was all right for those who required a half-day or better parking space, but for those who just wished to run a short time errand it was too much. At the next scheduled meeting of the planning commission, it will read and discuss proposed new city zoning and land use ordinanc es. The meeting will be held on February 28 at 7:30 p.m. at the city hall in Yreka. Group Names New Officers FORT JONES-The Fort Jones Community Service Council met January 21 for the purpose of electing officers and reactivating the organization. The purpose of the council is to coordinate the efforts of the vari ous civic groups in working togeth er on projects for the good of the community. The rehabilitation of the build ing, formerly used by the Fort Jones Elementary School and re cently purchased by the town of Fort Jones, is the primary inter est of the council at the present time. The building is undergoing ex tensive repairs and will be used for a civic community center. It will have offices for the justice of peace, chief of police, county library and meeting rooms for the city firemen, Federated Woman's Club, Boosters' Club and for pri vate parties. A kitchen will be in stalled to take care of banquet rentals. All work on the building is being done by volunteer labor. Officers elected by the council were Mrs. J. H. Stanton, presi dent; Calvin Veale, vice presi dent; Mrs. Robert Reynolds, secre tary-treasurer: and Mrs. Margar et Wallace, publicity chairman. Representatives from local or ganizations on the council are, Burton Booth, Fort Jones City Council; M. R. McGinnis, high school: Richard Berry, firemen; Carl Mello, school board; Mrs. J. H. Stanton, Federated Woman's Club; Mrs. Robert Reynolds, PTA; Calvin Veale, Boosters' Club; Glenn Davis, Boy Scouts; Francis Farley, Cub Scouts; Mrs. Ernest Smith, Brownies; Dr. F. M. An drews, 4-H Clubs. Representatives are urged to at tend all meetings the thidr Mon day of each month, and are asked to arrange for an alternate if it is impossible for them to attend. The public is invited to attend meetings and participate in dis cussions and planning. PORTLAND (AP) - A poison-i ous stock-kiiiing weed, Halogc.o... is invading Southeastern uregun. Bureau of Land Management range conservationist George D. Lea warned Sunday. In the Bureau ot Land manage ment's annual report. Lea said the Oregon State Highway Depart ment, the state Department u. Agriculture, and county weed con trol committees are cooperating with the BLM in trying to dis- iner and control the new lnies- lalions before they spread. State Supervisor irgil Heain ssid good progress was made in rebuilding federal ranges in tasi ern Oregon grazing districts dur ing the year, and maintenance work was completed on 87 live stock and big game water developments. Bureau receipts . from June through December were $13,135. 808. comDared with operating costs of $3,293,535 during the same period. Heath said the receipts were from timber sales, grazing fees, mineral land leases and gen eral fund receipts. Timber sales were nearly 2.10 million board feet above those of 1957, bringing in approximately 5 million dollars more than a year ago. Yet the average per thou sand feet dropped nearly $2 from $28.71 per thousand in 1957, to $26.78 in K58. Heath said the total volume of limber sold was in excess of the 1958 plan because it contained 115 million board feet of dead and down timber not included in the sustained yield allowable cut. Total revenue from the O&C and Coos Bay Wagon Road lands for 1058 was $24,767,379.22. In his year end report, Heath said field work in the forest in ventory of O&C land is nearing completion and during the 1958 fiscal year, 27,166 acres of cut. over, burned, or other poorly stocked forest land was reforested. County Gets Mouse Check Klamath County has just re ceived a $2,000 check from the fed eral government in payment of a loan for mouse control last win ter. The county court said it had au thorized a $10,000 loan to the gov ernment and actually lent $8,000. The federal government previously had repaid $4,000. The remaining $2,000, the court said, was spent for poison used on county proper tv. irrigation ditches, etc., and s considered not returnable. The mouse epidemic cost t h c Klamath Basin some six million dollars in crop damage. People 50 to 80 . COPY DOWN THIS NAME AND ADDRESS NOW . . . . . . and write today to find out how you can still apply for a $1,000 life insurance policy to help take care of final expenses without burdening your family. Mail a postcard or letter, giving your name, address and year of birth to: Old American Ins. Co 3 West 9th. Dept L2536B Kansas Cily, Missouri There is no obligation and no one will call on you. You can handle the entire transaction by mail. Adv. Installation Held By Masons CEDARV1LLE Surprise Val ley Lodge No. 235. Free and Ac cepted Masons, held a closed in stallation of officers in the Masonic temple in Cedarville on Saturday afternoon, January 17. Milan Briles of Cedarville was installing officer, assisted by Har old Parman of Lake City as mas ter of ceremonies. Installed were worshipful master, William Min-I to: senior warden, Jack Powers junior warden, Jerry Grove; treas urer, Ben Cambron; secretary. Charles Sauusberry; senior dea con, Gordon Ash: junior deacon, John Espil; senior steward, Rob ert Reeve; junior steward, Fran cis Page; chaplain, Chris Hansen:; marshal, Henry Bccman, and til er, Elmer Hill. Retiring master, Herman John son, was presented with the past master s pin. Recognition was giv en to Heath Stanley for 13 years of service as secretary. A banquet was held at the Mo doc County Fair Restaurant after the installation. A program of music was - provided by the Sur prise Valley High School chorus under the direction of Johnson. DAM ENLARGED MONTAGUE The Morton Reed Ranch of Montague has enlarged a small dam on their property, The addition to the structure in creased its storage capacity frofn 12 acre feet to 23.5 acre feet, This dam is 14 feet in height, 1171 feet long and has a spillway 8 leet deep and 50 feet wide. Both the original structure and the ad dition were designed by the Soil Conservation Service engineers, who assisted the Shasta Valley Soil conservation District. GRANGE MEETING MALIN The Malin Grange will noid an open meeting on Tues day, January 27, starting' at 6:30 p.m. with a potluck dinner. The meeting will be held in the com munity hall. Visitors are welcome and there will be special entertainment. The HEDFORD CONVALESCENT HOME For tht aged, convalescent, ambulatory or btd patients. 24 hour nursing cart, spec ial diets at needed. 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