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ccap. IS?APR SECTION SiN.R'Er.ANO MOMENTS 0l. Price Five Cents 24 Pages KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29. 1959 Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 63(15 In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS . Foreign affairs: In .Moscow, the communist par ty is holding what in this country we would call a political love feast. It is patting itself on' the back and telling the people (who carry the burden) how WONDER FUL communism is for them. It Is painting for them such pie in the sky as cradle-to-the-grave se curity WITH NO TAXES TO PAY. A thought to keep in mind; In communist countries, the communist party is the whole works. It can throw out its chest and brag to its heart's content for there is no OPPOSITION PARTY to prick the rosy bubbles it blows. Another thought: In our own country, as of now, the Democratic party sits in the seat of power. At this moment, it seems not improbable that for tome time to come the Democratic party will continue to sit in the seat of power. .But- Let us hope that in our country the Republican parly slays ALIVE AND VIGOROUS. That it continues to challenge the policies of the Democratic party when it thinks they ought to be challenged. That, in a word, it continues to pro. vide the U.S.A. with an OPPOSI TION party. Too much power, residing UN CHALLENGED in too few hands too long, is dangerous. Even Rus sia will find that out sooner or lat er. Now back home. In California, Governor Brown (in his budget) asks the legislature for $2,188,377,635 (about 2.2 BIL LIONS) to run the state. That's an up of 133 millions over this year s spending. He proposes. 256 million dol lars in new or higher taxes, in ciuaing toDacco taxes and in creased income . taxes. - Without NEW taxes, at the rate of spending proposed, California will be 68 million dollars in the red by June of this year and 268 million' dollars in the hole by .mid summer of 1960. ;;, - Let's put it this way: ' If California is to go on spend ing at a rising rate, it must go on TAXING at a higher rate. If one is to dance, one must pay the fiddler. If we are to have more and more state services, we must have more and more taxes. : Governor Brown is at least to be commended for his willingness to face that unpleasant fact. . - The California department of fi nance estimates that if Governor Brown's revenue program is ap proved by the legislature the Cali fornia per capita burden in new and old state taxes this year will be $128.85. It makes this estimate on the basis of an anticipated pop Illation of 15,275.000 on July 1. Per capita taxes were figured at $116.- 48 last year. " That is to say: Even in swiftly growing Cali fornia, taxes are growing faster than population. - A thought for this side of the Jine: . If Oregon goes on spending more and taxing more but doesn't go on GROWING more, what will hap pen? Will laxes become so high as to discourage population? Or, worse yet, will they become so high as to drive away people who are already here? Morstad, Masten Named By Chamber As Outstanding Young Men Of 1958 Legislature's Reply Slated RICHMOND, Va. (APt-Virgin- ia's Legislature was expected to indicate today whether it agrees with Gov. J. Lindsay Almond Jr. that the state is legally powerless to prevent school integration re garded as imminent in three communities. Almond said at the opening ses sion of the emergency General Assembly Wednesday he knew of nothing he could do to avert token integration. Six closed schools in Norfolk may reopen Monday on a deseg regated basis. Arlington has been ordered to admit four Negroes Monday to a white junior high school and Charlottesville is also proceeding with plans to reopen lis two schools closed in the inte gration dispute. Charlottesville and Arlington school officials planned a last try today for a stay of integration from Chief Judge Simon E. Sobe- off of the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Baltimore. A group of Southside legislators whose districts have heavy Negro populations indicated they might reach a decision today on whether to attempt to go further than the governor proposed. They said a resolution was being studied which they felt might serve to deter any integration. Emergency legislation, other than that dealing with appropria tions, would require a four-fifths majority in the 40-member Senate and the 100-member House. In outlining his program. Al mond asked the Assembly to pro vide for state tuition grants of up to $250 each for pupils declining to attend integrated schools, and for repeal of the compulsory school attendance law. He pro posed the Assembly, after acting on this legislation, recess pending tormulation of a long-range pro gram by a commission he will ap point. Awards Go To Local Man, Rancher From Poe Valley Leo Morstad was presented with the Distinguished Service Award tor 1998, and Mauley Masten Jr. with the Outstanding Young Farm er Award, at the annual awards banquet of the Klamath Junior Chamber of Commerce, held last night at the Willard Hotel. Morstad, operator of Leo's Cam era Shop, was cited by the DSA nominating committee as the man between the ages of 21 and 36 who had "contributed the most in un selfish, loyal and faithful com munity service" during the past year. The citation noted that this service extended back several years. "Our selectee while being active GETS INSURANCE VALDOSTA, Ga. (UPI)-E. L. Turner, 95, received $5,000 from an insurance firm because he ' lived past the paid-up date of bis insurance policy. ' World News In Brief United Press International MISSILES Washington Sen ate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson opens .a sweeping inquiry today' into the status of the na tions space and missiles pro grams, i WAKE-A-THONS New York Disc jockey Peter Tripp achieved his goal of staying awake for 200 hours in a combination scientific experiment and publicity stunt for the March of Dimes. However, a Florida disc jockey also has re mained awake for more than 200 hours and says he will try for the 22D-hour mark. COMMUNISTS Moscow Communist congress meets for third time, has developed into a show of Communist unity. PAGE BOY Washington Northern Democrats wonder what to do with Negro youth left on Capital doorstep by Chicago con gressman. GERMANY Paris Western Big Three prepares to renew offer to Moscow for meeting on Berlin and Germany. FIGHT New York Cham pion Floyd Patterson will defend his title against Sweden's Ingemar Johansson, in the United States in June. The exact date and site will be determined within 30 Ways. Probers Seek Space Facts WASHINGTON (AP)-The Sen ate asked defense leaders today for the facts "with the bark off" on the nation's military might and outer space program. Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Tex), opening public hearings with a prepared statement, said his watchdog Senate Preparedness subcommittee wanted a plain, unvarnished and unadorned" ac counting of what has happened to tnc nation s preparedness pro gram. we are not interested in de fense as an 'issue,' " Johnson told military leaders. "We want to know where we stand and this is a question to which there should be a clear-cut answer. "We are not concerned with rosy optimism or with finding scape goats. We want the facts with the bark off, if you please." Johnson said his group wants to una out: - - . v "First, is the United Stales do ing everything it reasonably can and should do to insure the de fense of this country and the free world against military aggression? Second, is the United States doing everything it reasonably can and should do in the exploration of outer space? Johnson asked witnesses during the first two days of the hearings to dispense with prepared state ments. Hearings today and Friday will be open, but the subcommittee plans to hold classified sessions at an unlimited number of com munity and civic endeavors has at the same time established himself in his own business," the citation read in part. "Much ingenuity and enthusiasm as well as skill have helped this business grow from a small start to a successfully re spected business house. There is a dedicated wife who has helped in the business and a son and daughter." Morstad, 34, was born in Cali fornia, but attended Klamath Union High School for four years. Serving in the Air Force during the war, he was a troop transport pilot and a base photographic offi cer. Immediate past president of the Jaycees, and a past vice presi dent of the Merchants Associa tion, Morstad is a board member of the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce, the United Fund and the Modoc Area Boy Scout Coun cil. He is also affiliated with the Klamath Celebration Council, the Klamath Kurbstone Kowpokcs and the newly formed Boy Scout Ex- p 1 o r e r committee, while lie is credited with an active role in forming the Camera Club. The nominating committee's ci lation was read bjt Jack Doug lass, last year's recipient of the award, who also presented the plaque to Morstad and an orchid corsage to Mrs. Morstad. The award to Masten was made by Phillip Blohm. last year's Out standing Young Farmer. He point ed out that Masten, who attended Henley High School, had been ac live in 4-H work since 1936. After service in the armed forces dur ing World War II, Masten went Diplomats Plan Meet HAVANA. Cuba (AP) - Cuban Foreign Minister Roberto Agra chiefs of Latin American diplo matic missions in what may be an attempt to settle a growing dis- pin over diplomatic asylum. ine legal processes against the so-called war criminals in the Havana area continued at a near standstill. In the port city of Man zanillo Wednesday a general striKe was held to molest the ac quittal of a soldier in ex-dictator Fulgencio Batista's army. Lead ers of the demonstration charged the revolutionary forces were get ting too lenient. No new executions were renort- ed Wednesday, although 32 per sons are known to be under death sentences in various parts of the country. The unofficial total of those executed since the rebels took power ,s 257. Ihe sharpest criticism of the revolutionary government to date from Cuban newspapers has been brought on by the government's apparent intention of trying to get Hold of some 40 or 50 associates of Batista who took refuge in Lat in American embassies in Havana. Latin American diplomats pri vately make no bones that they believe the new government is not living up the letter of its com mitments under inter-American treaties on the right of political asylum, that cardinal right of Lat in American politicians which gave Fidel Castro refuge in Mex ico at one time, for example. The revolutionary government, after permitting around 40 refu gees to leave the embassies for foreign parts, abruptly said it take part in the ninth Stockton on February 7. THESE OUTSTANDING McCLOUD High School musicians will annual racmc music v-nnic at me toueqe ot the racitic in From the left are Rosalie Baldi, Vicki McCollum, Margaret Casselli, Sandra Miller. Jo Ellen Long, Pat Hogin, Pat Goates, Kathleen Dragoo, Sam Mangone and Paul Hamilton. The clinic is sponsored by the Pacific Music Camp under the direction of David T. Lawson, assisted by Dean J. Russell Bodley, Arthur Corra and Horace I. Brown, Guest conductors will be Dr. Kurt Herbert Adler, San Francisco Opera Company; Jester Hairston, composer-arranger and choral director; and Irwin Hoffman, director of the Vancouver, British Columbia, Symphony Orchestra. Photo by Ray Kit Civil Rights Bill Authored wantpH In kIiiHv Ihp rnct nf (tip into the dairy business with his cases on an individual - basis. father in the North Foe Valley Ugramonte has indicated this Gunman Slays Texas Lawyer EL PASO, Tex. - (AP) A gun man killed El Paso attorney Theo dore Andress at International Air port here Wednesday night, threw his empty pistol at the body, and strolled away. An unidentified witness, react ing to the screams of the lawyer's wife, grabbed Dr. Harold Eidinoff inside the airport' terminal a few minutes later. The witness held Eidinoff, middle-aged operator of an apartment house in Grants, N.M., until a patrolman arrived. Police Chief Howard Jones said Eidinoff was wearing a bullet proof vest. He was charged with murder. Chief Jones said Eidinoff, once a physician here, and Andress had been involved in legal disputes dating back to 19o4. area. "Theirs is now one of tho.most outstanding operations 'in, Oregon," Blohm 'aaid. Masten. 32, is married and has two children. He has maintained his interest in 4-H work, and be longs to the Farm Bureau, the grange and the Elks. He is a member of the Klamath Grade A Milk Producers and of the Oregon Dairy Association. The awards followed a banquet at which Rex Dye served as mas ter of ceremonies. Jaycee District Vice President John Heilbronner pave the invocation, and Warren Parr, president of the local or ganization, "was in charge of the presentation of "Key Man" awards to Jaycee members. Vice President Amos Burnett presented one "Key Man" award to Les Snively, for his work as chairman or co-chairman of both the Fourth of July and Christmas parades. Vice President Ted Rose made a similar presentation to Fred Holmes, and Parr made an award to O. E. "Tommy" Thompson. The guest speaker was Gerald Korzan, professor in agricultural economics at Oregon State Col lege, who spoke about the relation ship between agriculture and busi ness. Korzan said that the states total agricultural income was 395 million dollars, with expenditures of 301 million dollars. He said that an economist at Harvard had esti mated that one third of the U.S. population earns its living as result of American agriculture. ' Seven pupils from, the Lcona Robertson School played accordion music during the banquet, tor sages for Mrs. Morstad and Mrs Masten were provided by Bill ana Rita s. THE OUTSTANDING YOUNG FARMER AWARD for 1953 was received at last night' Jayce awardi dinner by Stanley Masten Jr., left, from Phil Blohm, right, 1957 winner. Mrs. Masten, canter, was on hand for the presentation would be to determine if some could be charged as common criminals, not entitled to political asylum abroad. WASHINGTON (AP)-Sen. Paul H. Douglas I D-lll ) and 14 other senators joined today to introduce a sweeping civil rights bill aimed at insuring racially integrated schooling. The measure is the same bill Douglas sponsored without suc cess in the last session of Con gress. It would authorize 200 mil lion dollars of federal funds for a five-year program of grants to secd integration. In a Senate speech prepared for its introduction, Douglas called the bill meaningful and construc tive, but said "the results of our recent efforts to curb the fili buster have undoubtedly dimmed the outlook for the passage of such a measure." Douglas led a campaign this year to cut from 68 to 50 the num bi.r of senatorial votes required to choke off a filibuster a method Southerners have frequently used kill civil rights legislation. In stead, the Senate changed its rule to require a vote of two-thirds of the senators present and voting. Under grant provisions of the biU, funds would be available to local communities that wish to comply with the Supreme Court's school integration order in cases where, as in Georgia and Virginia, the state threatens to cut off funds or close the 'schools. Turn on your porch lights tonight, 7 to 8 o'clock, for the Mother's March on Polio. Pickets Close 2 WTC Plants By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The roving pickets of the Inter national Woodworkers of America today closed Weyerhaeuser Tim ber Co. plants at Springfield Ore., and Raymond, Wash., idling some 1,480 men, Meanwhile Weyerhaeuser plants at Klamath Falls and Aberdeen got back into production after a two-day shutdown. That put some 1,100 employes back, to work at Klamath Falls and 420 at Aber decn. Pickets left the Klamath Falls operations of Weyerhaeuser Timber Company about 1 p.m. on Wednes day and the plant started full op eration again on the night shift. Pickets from the Coos Bay area left Klamath Falls and Aberdeen announcing they were moving on to "greener pastures." They showed up next at Springfield and Raymond, Ike Seeking Farm Aid Cut WASHINGTON (AP)-President Eisenhower today renewed witn fresh emphasis his call for lower price supports to cut costs of fed eral farm aid and encourage greater sales. In a special message to Con ess,' he said price support pro grams are excessively expen sive and crop control programa don't control. Citing the big accumulation of surpluses and the large outlays oE federal funds on farm programs, the message said "the need to re duce the incentives for excess pro duction has been explicit" in the three special messages on agri culture which he has previously sent. Eisenhower said expenditures under present programs go large ly to a relatively few big farmers. Dispatched to Congress alone with the message was a memo randum from Secretary of Agri culture Ezra Taft Benson giving pecitic details regarding opera tion of present programs partic ularly Uiose affecting wheat, to bacco and rice and outlining pos sible changes in farm laws. Liscnhower took notice of Dem ocratic proposals for changes in larm programs and cautioned against adopting some of them. Difficulties of the present pro gram should not drive us to pro- Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Snow early tonight. Windy with snow drifting tonight. Partial clearing with a few snow flurries tonight and Friday. Low tonight 32-38. High Friday 32-38. High yesterday .. 44 Low last night 27 Prccip. last 24 houra 0.21 Since Oct. 1 S.02 Same period last year f .91 Northern California Light rain tonight with snow In the mountains above 5,500 feet. Clear ing Friday. Little change In tem perature. Southeasterly coaital winds 30-50 miles an hour north of Point Arena. CRATER LAKE High yesterday .....25 Low last night 9 8 a.m. today 19 New snow 1 In, now depth 63 Last year 145 Year before 72 Skiing Very Good Highway 62 la open, chains ad vised; chains required from An nie Springs to the rim. very light southeast wind blowing and It was snowing lightly this morning. MT. SHASTA SKI BOWL Six inches new snow brought the snow pack 10 127 inches; ski ing excellent; roads open to the lodge, chains rcqi'ircd; visibility ?l) per cent; all facilities operat ing this morning. U.S. Mating Many Thors SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) - America is mass-producing one of its most reliable missiles in a form so, simple that crews can fire them in volleys on 15-minute notice, even from mobile bases. The missile is the 1,500-mile Tl'or, a combat-ready weapon that also is a workhorse in space re search. It can carry a nuclear warhead known as the "County- buster" and is stockpiled at bases in this country and abroad. But because of its limited range, the future -of the Tlior is uncertain. This picture emerged today after Ihe first press tour of the Thor pro duction and testing facilities here and in Sacramento, Calif. Newsmen Wednesday saw parts of more than a dozen Thors on an assembly line at the Douglas Aircraft plant hore and 17 finished missiles in a storage area. At Sacramento they saw a de monstration that a hangcred Thor can be made ready to launch by quickly trained crews 15 minutes after the order to fire. At the factory, officials showed how the Thor and its launching equipment can be packaged for airlift to' any part of the world. At the Sacramento site, they dem onstrated how a squadron of Thors can bo hauled from a landing strip to a hastily rigged launch site. Tlia SnrinnfinM chitlrtnwn frllpri 1,000 men, but did not Immedi- grams, which would involve us in atclv affect 250 emoloves-who srcaier irouoie. ar' members of another union- in the pulp plant there. The Ray mond shutdown idled 280 men in the plant and 200 in the logging operation. The pickets are protesting the firing of a truck driver in the Coos Bay operations of Weyer haeuser. The Weyerhaeuser mill at North Bend and logging opera tion at Allegany both are closed by pickets. This will have to be settled by the Coos Bay local," said James Dicey, first vice, president of the IWA international. . He said the matter had not been referred to the international's headquarters, nor was it likely to be. . . . "The employer can be picketed wherever he has an operation," Dlccy added. , , Tax Hike Meets Opposition SACRAMENTO (UPI) - Trouble loomed today for Gov. Edmund G. Brown's proposal to increase state taxes by $256,600,000 a year. Opposition to the governor s program came from key commit tee chairmen in the Senate, from Republicans and some Democrats in the Assembly and from loBDy- ists for organized labor, the oil industry and other groups. Support for the governor came largely from lower house Democrats and a sprinkling of senators. - The governor's tax proposal part of his program to balance a record-breaking $2,188,377,635 state budget by June 19, 1960, did win warm praise from some Demo cratic leadership in the Assembly, notably Assemblyman William A Munncll, State Central Committee leader in the lower house. Munncli said the governor pro posed an economy budget a conclusion generally shared by most legislators. , "And the tax . program is fair to everyone because it spreads the tax burden over all segments of the economy, he said. One influential voice raised in disagreement was. that of C. J Haggerty. secretary-treasurer of the California Labor Federation IAFL-C10) who said his powerful union would fight Brown's propo sal (or higher beer taxes and new taxes on cigarettes and tobacco products. It is shocking that In his tax program the governor should slap consumers for another 70 million dollars in sales taxes in the form of cigarettes, tobacco and beer levies," Haggerty said. "The AFL- CIO will fight these additional tax es with all the strength it can muster. In addition to proposing a to bacco tax and higher beer taxes, Brown Wednesday asked the Leg islature to approve a severance tax on oil, higher personal income and inheritance taxes, larger bank and corporation franchise taxes and additional revenue from horse race players. Haggerty said his" union Would back Brown's program on the se verance tax, bank, corporation and personal income taxes. Oil company lobbyists also indi cated they would oppose the gov ernor on taxes. The Western Oil and Gas Association, representing most of the oil companies toper ating in California, said the pro posed 2 per cent tax on oil prod ucts inevitably would be passed on to the motorist and would boost the cost of cooking and heat ing gas m the home. Sen. James J. McBrida (D-Ven tura), chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee and senior member of the upper house, he said. 'I refer to direct payment pro gram!, which could soon make virtually all farm people depend ent, for a large share of their in come, upon annual appropriations from Ihe federal Treasury. "l refer also to various multiple price programs, which would tax the American consumer so as to ptrmit sale for feed and export at lower prices." ' ACTIONS PROVE IT NEWCASTLE, England (UPD mother said in court she would not buy her son a flick knife for his' eighth birthday so he put a half-nelson on her and struck her. "I'm sorry to have to bring him to court because he s a nice little chap, she said. Names were withheld because of the boy's age. KF Ice Is Nice; Fog-er Worser In'MerrieOld1 LONDON (AP) - Thirty auto- mobiles piled up In one crash Wednesday night as Britons groped their way home through the worst fog of ,the winter.' The blanket of most over much of southern England also caused a train wreck. Only one person was injured. Planes were grounded and trains were hours late or did not run at all. . , IT FIGURES MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) Sign on a movie theater marquee here: Adam and Eve. , Going steady. Articles From Magazine Put In Evidence At Trial said he thought Brown had "lived up to his promises of economy. But he said he did not look with favor on the oil tax, the horse rac ing tax and added in respect to the beer and cigarette tax propo sals "I can only say that many fiscal experts question the wisdom of regressive taxation of this na ture. Before his budget-tax program is finally enacted, it must win ap proval of the Senate Finance Com mittee headed by- Mcunde ana by the Senate Revenue and Tax ation Committee whose chairman is Sen. Nelson Dilworlh (R-llcmet). Dilworth said flatly he is against boosting state taxes. Sen. Hush Burns of Fresno, president pro tempore of the up per house, praised Brown's pro gram as lair, cquitaoie ana in evitable." "This program is needed to maintain our present level of serv ices." Burns added. Assemblyman Jesse M. Unruh (D-I.OS Angeles), head of the low er house Ways and Means Com mittee, warmly praised Brown's budget-tax message. "This is the tightest state budg et I have seen since I've been in the Legislature, Unruh said. "No body likes tax Increases, but this seems to mo to be a fair across the board taxation which it ab solutely essential." SAN FRANCISCO (UPD-Arti-1 cles from the China Monthly Re view were placed in evidence by the prosecution Wednesday in the sedition trial of three American publishers of the Shanghai Mag azine. The defendants. John and Syl via Powell of San Francisco and their former associate editor, Juli us Schuman of New York, were accused of printing lies that aid ed the Communists and hindered the Americans during the Korean war. . Assistant U.S. attorney James Crews Save Trapped Boy LOS ANGELES (UPD- A 12- year-old boy, trapped for nearly seven hours under a two-ton sec tion of concrete pipe, was rescued early today by heavy equipment and delicate work by police and firemen. Officers agreed that Perry Luth III was saved by the softness of the dirt. It allowed the huge drain pipe to push him into the earth. The boy was reported missing Wednesday night irom his west Chester District homo. His father, joining scores of searchers, heard his faint cries for help. Preliminary examination Indi cated Perry suffered a broken les. shock and Dossible Internal Injuries. Rescuers estimated thatl another hour under the crushing B. Schnake read excerpts printed in i52 trom tne magazine to the federal court jury Wednesday. The excerpts said: .Not content with wiping out entire cities and towns by napalm (jellied gasoline) bombing, mas sacres of military and civilian prisoners and campagns such as Operation Killer. Americana have resorted to one more bestial ity in their frantic efforts to con quer the Korean people and ex tend their aggression . in Asia..." One of the main arguments ia the case is whether or not the United States used germ warfare during the Korean struggle. Schnake read the following ex cerpt from the magazine: 'Proceeding in a vein which sur passes the savagery of Hitler Ger many and Hirohito Japan in tn last war, the American invaders, by systematic spread of smallpox, cholera and plague germs over North Korea, have shocked and horrified the entire world." The government has branded the charge a 'seditious lie. The defense has said it would attempt to prove during the trial that the charge is true. FREE RIDES BRANTFORD. Ontario (UPD Starlings are slowing the clock on the post office here oy naing uie hand down Irom five to 25 mh utes past the hour and then hop ping on again for the rid up from 2!) to five minutes i m hour. Their rides last tram 3 minutes oa the minute kanl It four houri on the hour hand. weight might have killed him i
