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"AGE 6 A HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS.' OREGON THURSDAY, JANUARY 53. l9.- FRANK JENKINS Editor BILL JENKINS Managing Editor FLOYD WYNNE City Editor MAURICE MILLER Circulation Mgr Ph. TU 4-4752 Trail i- Ih'.illis By FLORENCE JENKINS Ten days ago we were complain ing mildly concerning releases received from the Oregon Depart ment of Motor Vehicles, traffic safety division. One of the releases dealt with the death rate per 100 million miles of highway driven which had been computed through No vember, 1958. The other had to do with tb cost to the state, based on the number of deaths and that figure was the appalling sum of 60 mil lion dollars. The total cost for the year was figured through Decern ber which had ended some 16 days before the release was writ' ten. Wednesday's mail brought a let ter from Edward J. Warmoth, manager of the traffic safety di vision at Salem which explains that the release was stating that the December death rate would not be available for several weeks. This, he says, is because it is figured on "reports of gasoline gallonage sold" and other factors which reach his office five or six weeks after the end of the month. He also explains the discrepancy between his department's figure of 444 traffic deaths and the 448 total given us by the Associated Press for the year 1958. "The reason the AP figure on traffic deaths is higher than the figure we used is that Associated Press counts all deaths in motor vehicles as 'traffic' deaths," the letter states. "Our figure, which is based on uniform national def initions, dues not include those persons killed in motor vehicle accidents unless the accident oc curred on a public street or high way, while AP also includes those which occurred on private proper ty as 'traffic The cost figures must necessarily be based on the official death toll." We appreciate Mr. Warmoth's courtesy in explaining in detail and we agree with his final para graph that it Is important for all of us to realize "the staggering cost of accidents." Off-Kent IVoIcn By TOM STIMMEL A few notes from the interna tional page: Beards are becoming more in vogue in different parts of the world. In Cuba, they're a trade mark for Castro's rebellion; in Oregon, they're a trademark for the state's centennial. I doubt that the wearers have much else in common. Juvenile Officer Francis Math ews stuck his chin out for a brave start on a beard, but abandoned the bristly project temporarily. But he says he'll start it again. "Everybody in the office is go ing to have one," he said. "Gene tOlp) and me, and the three girls Rosemary, Jacquelyn and Suianne." It should be interesting. Down in New Pine Creek, one Eric Rose appeared with a facial accessory that required some ex planation. He was seen mith three days' growth of beard on one side of his face, and a clean shave on the other side. Rose explain tha' he shaves uh an electric raior and . . , "That's as lar as I got when the powr cnt off." The sporu dcJi in our office has been acoraed lor months by the chin hitters and hsndwwne handlebar of Wayne Scott. Scott started his bruh pile to promote a Little League ballpark, a proj ect that fortunately has received more attention recently. Asked for his advice to mhisker aspirants, our veteran stroked his beard thoughtfully. Then he began to scratch. That must be his an- j Back to international topics: Ha- ! wail provided the theme, if not J the material, for an interesting lift from Mrs. M.niHie I ivkv in Mrs. Betty Hromada of the coun ty clerk's office. The gift was a Hawaiian lei made with SO one dollar bills. A nice memento to re ceive at tax time. Tha Chamber of Commerce cor responds with several foreign coun trie about business conditions. Re cently it asked Brazil. Mexico. Ja pan and half a dozen oihrr na tions for their latest statistics From Viet-Nam came this thought ful reply: "We have a controlled press here, as you know, so we regret that there are no figures we can give you. Figures that are avail able are not" reliable." Ml lie League Klamath Falls (To the Editor) On behalf of the officers, per sonnel, and players of the Klamath Entered as second class matter at the post office at Klamath Falls, Ore., on August 20. 1906. under act of Congress. March I. 1879 SERVICES: ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Senrlag Smtkera Oregoa AM Norther Caufarala Falls Little League, 1 want to publicly thank the Herald and News, Buck Davidson, Wayne Scott, Jerry Jennings, and all the participants who helped make the Little League Benefit Boxing Card such a great success. I also want to thank the people who turned out and spent their money to support the affair. The show was professionally done, and I'm sure everyone received his money's worth. Special thanks to the Herald and News Sports Staff for all the space allotted to the affair. The fine publicity and advance build-up giv en was. undoubtedly, a large fac tor in the success achieved. We are now one step closer to our own Little League Ballpark. a project which will benefit the whole community. Gone Favell President, K.F. Little League Trndc IMK-li By JAMES MARLOW Associated Press News Analyst WASHINGTON (AP) When An astas I. Mikoyan visted the United States this month, talking with businessmen from coast to coast, he made a big pitch for American trade with the Soviet Union. This week ho got a public answer. This, in effect, was it: If you want to trade, let's trade, but Why don't you pay your bills first? Mikoyan, Soviet first deputy premier, is the Soviet trade boss. Hero he conferred with his op posite number, C. Douglas Dillon, undersecrelary of stale for eco nomic affairs. It was Dillon who gave the answer. Broken down, it goes like this: The two countries can trade, all right. But the Soviet Union which is extending credit to underdevel oped countries with which It trades, wants this country to let llie Russians buy here on long term credits. Thus, in talking about trading with the United Slates, the Soviet Union is acting like an underde veloped country itself although It is the No. 2 economic power in the world. Moscow can't get those long- term credits although Mikoyan laid them down as a precondition to trading for a couple of reasons it owes this country a big chunk of money, and until It pays up a law forbids further credits. The Russians could do business if they want to on a pay-as-you- go basis, Dillon said. But he noted that the Soviet Union is the only major country with which "we have been unable to reach a set tlement of lend-lease accounts" from World War II. He wasn't talking about lend- lease military equipment sent the Russians during the war. He em phasized he meant only civilian type lend-lease goods. These, he said, amounted to $2,600,000,000. He said the United States, when the two countries last discussed the matter in 1951, was willing to sttle for 800 million dollars pay- at ever a long period at low icterrsJ rare. He Mod Moscow had offered on'y syj trillions. He vxtA L-at long-term private credKj Xo a befajhing country are p.-onAMd by a law enacted as long a;o as 1304 But he added: "Sriort-lerm credits are. however, freely available to the Soviets on normal commercial terms." Certain kinds of materials those that would help kuild Soviet warmaking power cannot under American law be shipped to the Soviet Union. The government can prevent their shipment by con trols on licenses for exporting them. But the list of such embargoed materials. Dillon said, has been considerably reduced until now SHORT RIBS A a-7 (j. AV. vrViC I r- ( I swdi J "actually only about 10 per cent of all our products moving in in ternational commerce are subject to embargo. He said 900 American products need no special export license for shipment to the Soviet Union. In addition to them, he cited a long list of American products which could be shipped and which, if bought by the Russians, would help increase the economic stand ards of their people. Mikovan Views By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Editor Anastas Mikovan. a Russian deputy premier and one of the Kremlin's ton salesmen, arrived back in Moscow this week in time for the 21st special congress of the Soviet Communist Party. He was returnine from a visit to the United States, during wnich he: Commented favorably on Americans' ability to drink vodka. Commented unfavorably on U.S. foreign policy, particularly as regards Berlin and the U.S. ban on shipment of strategic goods to the Soviet Union. Reacted with considerable irri. tation when prevented from plac ing U.S. troop landings in Leb anon in the same eateenrv with Soviet deceit and butchery in crusning the revolution in Hun gary. The first and third ooints wera incidental to the main purposes of nis visit, which probably were two. Mikovan. as the Kremlin's fnr. most expert on merchandising, probably had an expansion of trade as his first objective. On? of the projects which the party congress will be asked to rubber stainn is Premier Nikita Khrushchev's ambitious seven- year plan for the economic devel opment of the Soviet Union. The announced purpose of the plan is ultimately to make the So viet union superior to the United States in everything from nroduc- lion of milk to steel. I inus Mikoyan was in the mar ket here for a wide varietv of products ranging . from entire cnenucal plants, to pipelines to credits. And thus. too. his sour reaction when the State Department blocked his project. 'The cold war in the Stale rie. Ipartment is continuing," he said. to which the State Department replied: "Fatuous." Mikoyan's second purpose here is more conjectural but may have met with greater success. A diplomatic view of the sudden pressure applied by the Soviet Un ion two months ago to the Berlin nrnhlem i thai the Snvietc were acting with an ultimate view to lorcing another meeting at the summit. There is no helipf that the Com. munists deliberately were inviting a war when they announced that in six months thev would turn air. land and sea controls of East Ger many over to the East Germans. But neither there is anv confi dence that a war could not break out over the Berlin issue. The West is determined that West Berlin remain free and that Allied forces retain their rights to remain and be supplied there. But there remains the danger that even after his visit to the Lnitcd States, Mikoyan and other Kremlin leaders remain uncon vinced of this determination. A view held by many European diplomats is that the United States refuses to recognize history. They believe the Soviet Union waited to take action in Hungary until after it was convinced the United States would not take sides. Thus, they argue, by doing nothing, we placed Hungary in the Soviet bloc for all time to come. They believe the same argu By Frank O'Neal I AM THE BfV.'KT. MOST KViKT CF All'. PejtE TO il SUlM. O COWUtDLV ORA60N11. Subscription Rates CARRIER 1 MONTH 1.50 MONTHS $9.00 I YEAR 118 60 MAIL I MONTH $1.50 MONTHS M.50 1 YEAR $15.00 ment may apply to Berlin. Again the Soviets may be waiting. When they see no visible signs of ac tion, they may believe the time is right to move again. Vols Mail Hag Young men and women in school uhder the War Orphans Ed ucation program are studying sci ence in large numbers, but at the same time they aren't overlook ing the humanities. Releasing today its first survey of the two-year-old educational program for the children of de ceased war veterans, the Veter ans Administration said that one out of every five War Orphans students has been attracted to the fast-growing field of science. One in every three, however, either had selected the humani ties or was taking a general col lege course, not yet having decid ed on a major. Of those wiio hadn't yet made up their minds, VA said, many had expressed an interest in the fine arts and Eng lish literature. At the time VA collected da'.a for its survey, some 6,000 young people had entered training und?r the War Orphans law. Since, an other 3,000 have been added to VA's rolls. Of the 6,000 covered by the VA survey, more than 1,200 had gone into science. Five hundred of them chose engineering: another 500, medicine and related fields, and more than 200, the natural sciences such as physics and chemistry. In the sciences, men outnumbered the women two to one. Nearly 2.000 others slightly more women than men chose either the humanities or general college courses with no major yet specified. More than 800 War Orphans stu dents selected "teaching, 70 per cent of them women. Nearly 600 took business administration and managerial courses, 70 per cent males. Social studies and welfare work attracted 200, nearly two thirds men. Nearly 100 88 per cent men entered the ministry. Nearly every field of endeavor in America is represented on VA's roster of War Orphans students. Proportions might change in the future, VA said, as new students enter the program and as those taking general courses decided upon majors. The War Orphans Education program is for the sons and daughters of World War I, World War II or Korean War veterans who died of service-connected causes. Generally, young men and women must be between 18 and 23 to enroll in school. They may re ceive up to 36 months of school ing, with VA paying an allow ance of up to $110 a month. QUESTION OF THE WEEK: Q The VA has just declared my disability connected to my military service, and I am eligi ble to apply for service-disabled Korean veterans insurance. How soon do I have to apply? A You must make application within one year from the date VA found your disability service connected. Ouofp.s United Press International MIAMI BEACH. Fla. Fdnar Bergen, on being forced to cancel a nightclub opening because Char lie McCarthy was late arriving by air freight: "I have never been so embar rassed. I guess this ts Charlie's way of letting me know where the talent is in this combination. I'm thinking seriously of raising his salary." NEW YORK Disc jockey Peter Tripp, on completing a 200-hour wake-a-thon without a wink of sleep: "I've learned one major thing, You can't stay awake alone. You need someone there to keep you awake, to keep telling you, 'i'p, boy. up. SANTA MONICA. Calif Air. craft manufacturer Donald W. UOUglas. notins that the Thnr in. termrdiate range ballistic missile is now in full production: "The production I inp ic nnu- herc. But it didn't ha norn over. night. The Thor was 30 months trom drawing board to deploy ment." JACKSONVILLE. Fla. - Disc jockey Dave Hunter, awake for more than 200 hours, comments on a medical journal article that said sleep may not really be nec essary: "You know, there may be some thing to that." They'll Do It Every Yh OI4. W4ITEU-OU- .' WILL VOU WQAP OPAU. THE LEFT OVERS OP THE FILET, MIGMOM ? TH4MKEW WE'LL T4KE IT HOME TO LITTLE POOCMIE, OUR DOG IP OUR MOST DOESNT MIND JSvHOST DOESNT mind ) j ?sMocf 2,0 UcA a pupp HERE TO EAT SL:a r 5 J Zni? 1 s ManOLE4VETWEOLO) J esiSthi r M4N HOME " J America And Cuba Exist !n Reciprocal Trade By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS American advertising terms run through Cuban Spanish. Cuban sugar sweetens American break fast food. Trade between the United States and Cuba runs more than 400 mil lion dollars annually on each side. These are examples of an in terchange built un between the two "countries since the Spanish- American War of 1898 freed the lush island from Spain. Close ties are dictated by geo graphic, historic, and economic facts of life, whether a Fulgencio Batista or a Fidel Castro is top man among Cuba's six million people. Among these facts: The United States buys about half the six-million-ton sugar crop that is Cuba's mainstay. Cuba is only 90 miles across the Florida straits from Key West, Fla. American motor cars, TV sets, household appliances and machin ery are among products flowing the other way. Private interests in the United States are estimated to have more than a billion dollars invested in Cuba. The biggest of these is the American and Foreign Power with about 221 million dollars in Cuba's major power company. Cuba and the United States are partners in a military aid pact. The U.S. Navy maintains an im portant Caribbean base at Guan- tanamo Bay, near the island's southeastern tip. Baseball is a year-round sport. Havana's club finished last, a notch behind Buffalo, in the In ternational League in 1958. Such Cuban players as outfielder Min nie Minoso of Cleveland, pitcher Pedro Ramos of Washington, and shortstop Willy Miranda of Bal timore were starring on Ameri can diamonds. American tourists contribute to the Cuban economy. They kept coming throughout the two-year civil war that toppled the Batista dictatorship New Year's Day. A semitropical climate makes the island a vacation paradise even during revolutions. The dollar and the Cuban peso rate as equals. A driver's license showing American citizenship has been the only thing needed to get into the country. A gleaming monument on Ha vana's Malecon Boulevard bears the inscription "Liberty dearly bought is fondly cherished. white steps lead up to 73-foot marble shafts which support a bronze American eagle with wings pread. It is Cuba's tribute to the United States for American help in 1898. It remembers the Maine. This U.S. battleship was destroyed Dy an explosion Feb. Id, 1898, while on a good will visit to Ha vana harbor. The blast, which the United States blamed on a Span- Gallen Dress Shoe Sale Big Shipment Just Arrived Priced From.$399 to $99 All Styles and Sizes Clear (mom bar - j j gt mora iMMai t ncMKaanf Time n.-. . TIP" THE MOST UAD HIS EVE ON THAT HIMSELC-. IP POOCMIE EVER S1ES IT. WE'LL MAVE TO FIGHT HER OLD MAN FOR IT" ish mine, killed 268 seamen and toucned on the war which crushed the Spanish fleet, freed Cuba, and gave the United States possession of Guam, the Philippines and Puerto Rico. Spain contended the explosion originated within the ship. The United States kept rein on Cuba for a decade. Maj. Gens. John R. Brooke and Leonard Wood served in succession as U.S. mili tary governors. Then Tomas Estrada Palma, highly regarded as a Cuban pa triot, took over May 20, 1902, as the first president of the infant republic. After a four-year strug gle, he resigned. The United States resumed ac tive control. William Howard Taft served briefly as provisional gov ernor. Then the job went to Charles Edward Magoon. Alter a three-year term in which the scourge of yellow fever was vir tually eliminated, Magoon gave way in 1909 to a Cuban chief ex ecutive, Gen. Jose Miguel Gomez. Cuban democracy rarely has run smoothly. The record is dotted with armed coups. Graft and cor ruption thrived. Sticky-fingered politicians picked up fortunes on customs deals, government con tracts, sugar quota allocations. Foes say Batista salted away up to 400 million dollars. The ebb and flow of Cuban poli tics is reflected in the arrival and departure of Cuban dignitaries in the United States. It has been a haven for many when they were out of favor with the ruling ad ministration. One long in exile in the United States was the present provisional president, Dr. Manuel Urrutia. A source of friction in the days ahead may be the provisional gov ernment's review of concessions granted foreign companies by pre vious administrations. Castro has announced that "burdensome" concessions will be revised or thrown out. The revolutionary regime has minimized the re-emergence of the Cuban Communist party. Out lawed by Batista, it claimed to support Castro in the revolution. The party is estimated to have a hard core of 8.000 to 10.000 mem bers. Infiltration of the Cuban Con federation of Labor, which was a tool of Batista, is an obvious hope of the Communist leaders. . BOATS . 25 Off on Fibreglass, Cloth, Resins, Paints, Expert Advice CALORE SPORTS CENTER 17 Ml. So. Klamath Falls, Hiwoy 97 Kamp's Vinyl Springolators US' By Jimmy Hatlo rWE SURE JTTP4CT A LOT OF) I DOG OWNERS I WONDER Tj 1 WHO THEV TAKE THE SILVER- 1 1 V. WARE THEV SWIPE i- j V HOME TO.' ' A Vool Growers Election Set PfVRTT.ANn (APlThe CUIh an. nnal rnnventinn nf the Nalinnal Wool Growers Assn. heads into its tinal session today with elec tion of officers. Mnv Helenatee helieire thai Harold Josendal of Casper, Wyo., will be elected president. Las Vegas is believed in line to get the 1960 convention, despite a spirited bid by Denver. The only other matter to be artpri llnnn hv the rnnvAnlinn ic resolutions. A large number will De orougnt up tor delegate action. All are expected to pass. How ever, some controversy may de velop over the lamb promotion campaign. Principal speaker at today's session is Alexander Johnson of the Wyoming Agriculture Experi ment station. At Wednesday's meeting, Mrs. O. T. F.vflns wa elerteH nt-nci. dent of the women's auxiliary. Irene Young, who has served as editor of the organization's offi cial publication, the National wool urower, announced she was retiring as of March 31. Jack F. DeMann of Murray. Utah, who has been assistant editor, will re place her. Wednesday's final speaker was u. k. stracKbeln of Washington. D.C., chairman of the Nationwide Committee on Import-Export Pol icy. He urged a tariff on wool imports. FREE DELIVERY SERVICE s S Yes! Western Thrift Now Give's You Free Delivery Service on Prescriptions, Drugs and Cos metics in Klamath Falls! Ask your doctor to phone us your prescription. Usually we can have it at your door by the time you arrive home! With (art, prtclilen and inttgrlty, our Phar- Biaeltt fallows your Doctor's wriltan ordar txactfy to h leHar. Bring your prescription ) vs whtra you can always depend upon gttting "Jus) What your Doctor OroVarf." DEPENDABLE PRESCRIPTION SERVICE L PHONE TU 4-3563 7th and Main 'tnu&iZl Hmarrs Ff Tour Drsq Nwd T Aide Blasts Proposed Tax LOS ANGELES (UPI) spokesman for the oil and gas in dustry warned today that Gov. Edmund G. Brown's proposed tax on the oil industry would be passed onto the consumer. Felix Chappellett, general man. ager of the Western Oil and Gas Assn., said a state severance tax on oil and gas production would increase taxes on motorists and cost of residential gas. This is a tax on the consumer not a tax on the oil industrv " he said. "A basic fact of life is that all taxes must be passed on, one way or the other, and the consumer pays them all. "If a severance tax is added to the taxes already levied on oil production in California, the total tax will be completely out of line with the tax in other oil producing states where there are severance taxes." Chappellett said property taxes in those states Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma were lower or non-existent. He said oil taxes in this state now are comparable or higher than in those states. "The entire tax concept on oil in California has always been based on property taxes levied by counties," he said. "If a sever ance tax is considered necessary, it should be in lieu of all or part of local taxes." Airplane Search Resumption Set ONTARIO. Ore. (AP) - A search for a missing Vale, Ore., pilot was slated ' to Vesume to dayweather permitting in an area northwest of here. Earl Snyder, Oregon Aeronaut ics Board director, said a wom an reported a plane flew low over her isolated ranch home Tuesday the day John Miller vanished on his flight from Reno, Nev., to Vale. Some 26 flights were made Wednesday by Oregon volunteer pilots. Sixteen pilots from Boise, Idaho, also took part in the search. Ph. TU 4-3563 1 Com I
