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COUP, The- Day's lews UPBtfflAOT; o.or ou.ttBmt NEISPAPER SSCTIOJl , OeM.RCF.AN9 DOCUaEtJIS oxv. luouiE.oasa. Mi? urn By FRANK JENKINS Odd tale in the news: In Los Angeles yesterday plain clothes cops picked up a fellow who was begging on the streets and booked him on charges of vagrancy. When they searched him at the itation, they found in his pockets JR.300 in cash and a bankbook showing $500 on deposit! Why was he begging? One wouldn't know. But it's a lafe bet that it looked to him like easy money. There were all those well-dressed, well-fed-looking peo ple on the street. Surely they couldn't resist a plea of hunger. Anyway, it would be worth a try. Price Ten Cents 68 Pages KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1959 Telephone TU 4-8111 Iffl LOSS So he tried it. It must have worked the very first time. So, f resurnably, he kept on doing it. n time, it must have come to teem like an easy way to pick up a living. So runs one's guessing. Money! What a strange thing it is! Especially money that seems to come easy. Arthis point, I'd like to relate , a personal incident. Coming to work a few weeks ago, I parked at what has come to be a habitual place. As I got out of the car and started to the office, my eye was caught by a shiny object on the pavement. It was round and flat and about three-quarters of an inch in diam eter. It was a dead ringer for a half-dollar. I pounced on it. It looked like easy money. It wasn't. It turned out to be a metal bottle- cap that had been dropped on the pavement, sharp edge down and traffic had pounded it into the asphalt. I was acutely disappoint ed, of course and also a little red in the face. I looked arotlnd to tee if anybody had seen me. When one gets fooled, one doesn't like. to get caught at it: Fortunately, no one was look ing, and I went on my way. That was just the beginning. Here's the real story: . At least twice since then I've got out of the car at this same place, with my mind running on something else, and have caught myself DIVING FOR THAT PHO NY HALF-DOLLAR! Easy money! It has its appeal to all of us. Let's close this piece on a se rious note. We do a lot of complaining about taxes. Every time we get our pay check we look at the tax deduc tion on it and grind our teeth If GOVERNMENT hadn't reached into our pockets and taken out the dollars represented by the deduc tion item we'd have that money to SPEND FOR OURSELVES. Gr-r-r-r-r-r-r-r!!!!!! Wait a minute. Why are taxes so high? One reason is that we call upon government for so many SERV ICES. At the time when we call for them, these services provided by government seem to be some thing we're getting FOR FREE. So we go for them just like I dived for that phony half-dollar. Democrats May Speed U.S. Spending WASHINGTON (AP) - A Dem ocratic attempt to accelerate de fense spending appeared likely Sat urday after Senate testimony that more money is needed to match Soviet space and missile advances. Two days of a wide ranging Sen ate inquiry into the status of U.S. preparedness touched off specu lation that Senate Democrats may try to expend President Eisenhow er's defense budget. Eisenhower is recommending slightly over 40 billion dollars in defense spending for the fiscal year beginning July 1. Both he and Secretary of Defense McEl roy contend this is adequate to cope with any Soviet threat. As the Senate inquiry went into recess until the middle of next week. Chairman Overton Brooks "Sj D-La) of the House Space Com- nuuce annuunueu neanngs par alleVtr, the Senate'! will begin Monday. . -- . 4 A possible nnit - ft Democratic plafis for defense spV'nfsng came Friday as Majority Leader "ko-, don B. Johnson D-Tex recessed the inquiry by the combined Sen ate Space and Preparedness sub committees. Johnson, chairman of both groups, said public testimony so far by top defense, space and mis sile officials indicate there are de ficiencies which must be explored behind closed doors because of military secrets involved. Johnson said the next phase will cover "information as to the ag gressive forces that might be thrown against us." Referring to what he called the decision by McElroy to slash funds and forces for the various military programs, Johnson said "The key considerations that he took into account could be dis cussed only behind closed doors." Roy -Johnson, director of the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency, which handles military missile and space pro grams, said he could use an ad ditional 300 million dollars above budget estimates. He said this would speed up de velopment of powerful booster en- frinps needed to put bigger pay nad np for space vehicles and atellites. ARCHITECT'S RENDERING of Butte Valley High School at Dorris shows the recently completed addition built by Duncan Construction Company of Klamath Falls. Cost of the addition, renovating and remodeling of the existing high school building and gymnasium-auditorium was $316,300, part or which was paid by funds supplied by the state of California under the State School Aid Program and part from a Siskiyou County Joint Union High School District bond issue. An additional program is contem Rescuers Find No Trace Of Iceberg-Struck Ship HALIFAX. N. S. (AP) Three rescue ships reached the spot where the Danish ship Hans Hed 16ft struck an iceberg off Green land and found no trace of her, search and rescue headquarters said Saturday. The U. S. Coast Guard Cutter Campbell and two other ships reached the area where the small German trawler Johannes Kruess had been searching fruitlessly through the day in stormy seas. The Hans Hedtoft carried 55 -pas sengers ana a crew of 40, -y Search headquarters said the three ships had to plow through heavy ice and rough seas to reach the spot, about 37 miles south of Cape Farewell, at the southern tip of Greenland. It did not name the other ships. There were growing fears that the Hans Hedtoft had sunk. She had lost reported Friday that her holds were filling and she was slowly sinking. A U.S. Navy radar patrol plane circled above the 20-foot waves in the North Atlantic and found ho trace of the ship or lifeboats. Ice packs were closing in from the north, adding to the hazards for other ships steaming north from the North Atlantic shipping lanes to join the search. In the van were the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Campbell and the German fishing vessel Poseidon. Several other vessels were en route but with little hope of reach ing the scene before darkness closed in again. ' Denmark's Greenland Depart ment said there were 55 pas sengers and a crew of 40. The U. S. Coast Guard reported 130 aboard. The ship was registered to carry a maximum of 60 pas sengers and 40 crewmen. The Greenland Department said the Hans Hedtoft carried three light alloy metal lifeboats that could accommodate 100 persons. Each was equipped with hand- operated radio transmitters. There were, in addition, four rubber life- raits able to carry 24 persons each. The rafts were equipped with Sarah Beacon radios send ing out a continuous beacon signal None of the ships in the area re ported hearing such signals. there was only silence after the Danish government - owned ship New Support Slash Farm Income Deeply WSrjSt30,V. MP) - Farm income may be cut hundreds of millions of dollars over the next few years by new changes in fig uring agricultural price supports. Secretary of Agriculture Benson announced the changes in a sur prise administrative action late Friday. President EisenHower had told Congress in a special farm mes sage Thursday that price supports were too costly and were encour aging production of, farm sur pluses. The change was expected to have repercussions in the Demo cratic controlled Congress and in some larmer groups. Cotton producers were the first affected. Their income from the 1959 crop faced a potential cut ot almost 60 million dollars. Other product which are likely to feel the impact thu year in clude tobacco, peanuts, rice and dairy products. The development may well in fluence thu year returns from such other crops as soybeans, cot tonseed, flaxseed and dry beans. In 19fi0 and following years. It could affect Income not only from , ' ; . IOil't.iU -Ju.y yS sent out Us last signal late Firday. In Copenhagen, King Frcderik IX summoned Premier H. C. Han sen to report on the progress of the search. Then Hansen called his Cabinet into extraordinary session. . It was snowing heavily when the 2,875-ton Hedtoft hit the ice berg. Four hours later she ra dioed: "Slowly sinking and need immediate assistance. Snow flurries persisted Saturday and seas remained high, the U.S. Coast Guard reported. But winds began falling off, a hopeful factor. Visibility varied widely, ranging up to 8 or 9 miles, then lowering to a mile in the rise and fall of the storm. . The 650 ton Kruess reached the area only about an hour after the Hans Hedtoft sent its last SOS. But the wind was 60 m. p. h icy waves were 20 feet high and fog cut visibility. Then darkness fell. The German trawler combed the area through the night. Just be fore daylight there was still no trace of the missing Danish ves sel. , The Kruess radioed the ap proaching IT. S. Coast Guard cut ter Campbell: Have searched, nothing found or seen, no lights, or lifeboats or ship. "Plenty ice from northwest...We must go. We are becoming ice bound. ..It is dangerous for the ship and we can do no more. The Campbell radioed later. when about 50 miles from the scene: No further contact with Hans Hedtoft. Trawler Johannes Kruess still searching. Conditions poor due to weather and darkness. No evidence of (Danish) motor vessel sighted. Trawler reported ice clos ing m from northwest, however, continuing search. Navy aircraft arrived at 4:30 and searching area.'.' The Navy Superconstellation was sent 1,000 miles from Argentia, Nfld., lo circle over the area and try lo direct the search ships by radar. The continuing search was be ing directed from the Royal Cana dian Air Force search and rescue center in Halifax. Figures May all these crops but fr6m wheat. corn, oats, barley and sorghlim grains as well. - r The net ton invnlved a revision in the department's formula for determining oaritv orices of farm products, which -fe 'prrf.dstandJJ ards declared by law- to hc iSirT1 to farmers in relations to prices charged them.. Under farm law, price supports for most products are based on the parity prices. This new form ula had the effect, officials said, of reducing parity prices about 3 1-3 per cent and the actual price supports for most supported rod ucts from about 2.25 to 2.75 per cent. In times of surplus supplies such as at present, price supports tend to fix market prices. Usually any reduction in supports is reflected in a somewhat similar reduction in market prices. The prospect of lower farm re- 'urns is based upon the assump tion that market prices will con tinue to be determined largely by price supports and the further as sumption that the revision In the parity formula will be kept in effect. Construction Firm Finishes School Project The remodeling of the original Butte Valley High School and gym nasium and the construction of a 12,100-square foot addition to the facilities was completed recently by Duncan Construction Company of Klamath Falls for the Siskiyou County Joint Union High School District. The projeot was developed as a result of cooperation ana planning between the office of Dr. J. E. Hurley, district superintendent, the division of school planning and the omce o( Howard K. Perrin. archi tect, Klamath Falls, who drew the plans and specifications and super vised the construction. A. V. Humphrey of Dorris was the job inspector serving under we district inspector, Carl Yates ot Yreka. The project consists of a one- story structure including a class room wing containing a general of fice, principal's office, nurse's and teachers' room, two restrooms, lob by, corridor and two science and one homemaking room. This unit joins the original high school build ing and the gymnasium-auditorium and includes the addition of a one story unit on the north' side of the gym. . Connecting these units with a covered passageway is a second unit which includes kitchen, music cafeteria and office, a metal and auto shop with office and class room. Also included in the con tract was renovation of the gymna sium building and renovation and remodeling of the original-class room unit. This renovation was extensive and consisted of new vi nyl tile flooring, moving of par titions, installation of acoustical treatment and redecorating. This unit, as remodeled, includes four classrooms, a commercial unit with workroom, library and book- room and corridor and two student restrooms. All new construction was of wood framing for exterior walls, interior partitions and roof structure. In terior room finishes generally con sists of gypsum wall board with plywood and hardboard wainscots Engine Bears Ex-Fireman's Body To 4 pi 7' iAr' HISTORY WAS MADE whan this fire engine bare the body of Arthur Tappan, a re tired city fireman with 31 years' lervice, from Sacred Heart Church to Klamath Me morial Park. plated for this year which will include installing a ceiling in the gym with new acoustical treatment and new lighting and ventilating systems. Also included is site improvement adding tennis courts and a Softball and base ball diamond. This work is to be provided for by Stats Aid Funds for which $58,266 has been allocated. The rendering pictured is from the of fice of Howard R. Perrin, Klamath Falls architect, which prepared plans and specifications for Siskiyou County Joint Union High School District. Hatfield Would Replace State Tax Commissioner SALEM (AP)-Gov. Mark Hat-, field said Saturday he would re place state Tax Commissioner Carl Chambers- with a "man schooled in accounting and appraisal pro cedures." He said Chambers, who soon will be 65 years old, is retiring He has served on the commission since 1947. He was Umatilla County judge before that. When the new appointment is made. Hatfield will have replaced all mree tax, commissioners. ,, The governor already has ap pointed Dean Ellis, Tax Commis sion lawyer, and Charles H. Mack. Klamath County judge and former assessor, to the commission. "We'll have the strongest, most well-balanced ' tax commission in the history of the state." Hatfield said in an interview. His appointment of Mack, he said, will end "the open warfare between the commission and the county assessors." Gov. Hatfield indicated that his budget would exceed the 299-mil-lion dollar budget proposed by ex-Gov. Robert O. Holmes. He said the Holmes budget omitted such necessary items as the unemployment and social se curity taxes that state depart ments have to pay. That budget Dulles Plans Major Talks WASHINGTON (AP) Secre tary of State Dulles will fly to London, Paris and Bonn this veek for conferences with Allied leaders on German issues, includ ing Berlin. Dulles will begin his far-ranging trip on Tuesday. The State Department announc ing the trip Saturday indicated that Dulles took the lead in setting up the consultation, which probably will involve talks with Prime Min ister Harold Macmillan of Brit-' ain. President Charles de Gaulle of France and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of West Germany. V7. ' Ml did not include the almost 30 mil- lion dollars worth of buildings requested for higher education and slate institutions Hatfield said he wants to in elude a reasonable building pro gram wnnin me budget, Asked if he would favor Holmes' proposal to submit a bond issue to the people for building con struction, Hatfield replied: "My first inclination is to In clude the building program on a pay as you go basis. Hatfield said he would try to have his budget and tax recom mendations ready in a week He added that he no longer is airaia mat tne Legislature, con trolled by Democrats, might pass ine tioimes unance program be fore his own is ready. "l will have a realistic budget. We won't rush into it lightly, and t won t yield to political pressure to hurry it up. I don't want to have to call a special session of the Legislature," he asserted. Hatfield still wants a conven tion called to write a new state constitution. This is better, he said, than to have the Legislature draft one, as was proposed in the House mis week. A constitutional convention could do a better job because it more broadly would represent the people and varied interests of the state, he asserted. Gov, Hatfield, opposing a move to put the slate police under civil service, said he wants to "protect the outstanding state police sys tem in Oregon. It is the envy of most states because It has been kept out of politics." Hatfield noted that some oppo nents of State Police Supt. H. G Maison describe the system of having an appeals board of three officers as a "kangaroo court. Maison appoints the whole board, which hears appeals from officers who are dismissed or .-reprimanded. ' . Hatfield said the doesn't believe it is a kangaroo court. But he added that criticism would be alleviated if the chairman of the appeals board were the chairman of the civil service commission The other two members ttili would be police officers. V . f - , '" . ' I YUV i,;" yi ( I 1 ' i!iLfil By LAMAR HOOVER A good-looking, smooth-talking footer took an estimated $1,000 to 2.000 out of the Safeway store at Eighth and Pine streets Friday evening, thanks to the persuasive power of a .38 Luger he aimed at Assistant Manager Robert Coats. Safeway authorities said the exact amount stolen would not be known until a full audit had been completed. The audacious bandit had been shopping" at Safeway for nearly an hour, picking up assorted items such as potato chips and finger nail polish, before he went up the back stairs to the manager's office, where he approached Coats from bcbind. It was about 7:20. "This is a stick-up," the bandit said, in classical vein. "Turn around, and don't look at me." The robber was holding the gun at trouscr level. Feel this gun," he ordered Coats. Now hear it cock," he added, pulling the safety. "If you want to live, you 11 do as I tell you The bandit told Coats the "place is covered by an accomplice Coals followed the instructions of the bandit, who watched him from the window opening out onto the store from the managers office, The assistant manager went to the very front of the building, where he collected the contents of t h e tills at three check stands, and emptied the safe located at the entrance. The Safeway employe placed the money in shopping bags, which he then carried to the bandit, who met him in the shopping area of the store. The robber consolidated the money into one sack and walked out of the store. Coats immediately phoned city police and gave the alarm. There were about eight customers in the store, some of whom had noticed the bandit during his extended stay. Indeed, one customer, nolle ing what seemed to him rather peculiar behavior, called the man to the attention of the clerk on duty, before the robbery had actu ally taken place. . j The bandit reportedly attracted the attention . of two .employes of the store as well, when-he gave one of them a "dirty look" for- no apparent reason. , He was variously described as being from 35 to 45 years of age. but in other details witnesses tend ed to agree upon a description. His weight was estimated at 100 to 200 pounds. He had a long, pointed nose and prominent, high cheek bones. He was clean shaven and had a round adhesive bandage on his right cheek. He was clad in dark blue trousers with a blue and white checkered shirt, covered by a tan or light brown trench- coat style raincoat,, with a hat, ap parently of plastic, of similar col or. The gun was reportedly an au tomatic of World War I type. Neither the description of the criminal, who made no attempt to conceal hii face, nor the mode of operation, suggested that this crime was linked with the three Nursing Home Fire Kills Nine GLEN ELLYN, 111. (AP)-Fire which ripped through the Glen Ellyn Acres nursing home Friday took the lives of eight elderly pa tients and led to the death of a volunteer fireman. Passcrsby, firemen and nursing home employes risked their lives to save 12 other patients, two of whom were injured seriously and hospitalized. Scene of the tragedy was a Du Page County landmark built In 1934 and modeled alter an Italian villa. His Grave " Alio mauiaiii caiu i-uc wpai t- ment paid special tribute to the memory of a companion of 31 years' service Friday morning. For the first time in the department's history, one of its engines served to bear the body of a former men bo? to its final resting place. Thiviyas Ike department's last died,n 65. ill ,m January zo at tne age oi liehtlv over a year after his $ retirement. Firemen served as pallbearers at the requiem mass celebrated by Msgr. T. P. Casey at Sacred Heart Church. Fourteen department members, headed oy uniet ttoy Rowe, accompanied the (lag- draped coffin aboard truck No. 5 tsi il i i i ni- m... m ID Itittilltiin mviuui mi rain, incic military rites were performed by Pelican Post 1383, Veterans of For- ign Wars. A volley was fired by an honor guard from Kingsley Field. Mr. Tappan, who' served In the Navy during World War I, worked as an electrician and served as a volunteer fireman before joining the force on July 1, 1927. He re tired on January 1, 1958, ' Mrs. Tappan survives, as do two s ODCh dren: Mrs. Marcella Bcnas- sini of Portland and Harvey Rand of New York City, "stocking mask" robberies which were recently committed in Klam ath Falls. These robberies were committed on January 11 at Dur rcll's Flying A Station, 1130 Main Street; on January 15 at Fran't Grocery. 147 East Main Street; and on January 21 at Idella s Gro cery, 2846 South Sixth Street. In all three instances, the head of the bandit was covered by a woman's stocking. In the two in stances where the victims were able to furnish some further de scriptive details, these roughly coincided, giving a picture of a shorter, slighter and younger man than the one who perpetrated riaay s crime. Integration Stay Appeal Gets Rebuff WASHINGTON (AP)-Chief .I.i. tice Warren refused Saturday ti delay the admission of four Ne groes to a white junior high school in Arlington, Va. The four Negro pupils are sched uled to enter Stratford Junior High Monday morning. Counsel for the school hoard had asked the chief justice to is sue a stay. They contended it was not to the best interest of stu dents and teachers to oermit transfers in the middle of a school year. Warren took the board request under consideration about U a.m. lie had promised prompt action on the request and announced his decision less than three hours later. Warren said the school board had not shown a need for extra ordinary action and: "The motion' tor recall and stay of the man date of the U.S. Court of Appeals lor me 4tn circuit is denied, RICHMOND. Va. (AP) Sen ate supporters ot Gov. J, Lindsay Aimona saiq mey believed they had enough votes to pass Saturday his program to ease the impact of school integration. ... In Norfolk, school, officials said "everything is in readiness" for integration Monday of sin schools closed last fall. The Almond program granting tuition payments ta .thnu wtm don't want to attend integrated schools and repealing compulsory school attendance already has passed the House of Delegates. It now is before the Senate FI- nance Committee, whose member ship includes most of the senators who had been seeking stronger ac tion than Almond sought from the special session. Arlington school officials said plans were complete for enroll ment of the Negro- children and that no trouble is , anticipated should a delay be denied. To maka certain no incidents occur, police will block off an area of a half mile surrounding the school Mon day morning. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls aat vicinity: Fair tonight and Monday. High 40-48: low tonight 20-2S. , High yesterday 4 Low last night Lit Northern California: Fair through today with slightly ris ing daytime temperatures. ' CRATER LAKE High Friday Low Friday night 21 a.m. Saturday .. 2J New snow Trice Snow depth Saturday C4 la Last year .... .'. 147 Year before .:.. tt Saturday was a beautiful day In the park with clear skies, calm wind and deep powder saow for skiing. Chains advised for travel on Highway 12 and required Item -. Annie Springs to the rim. Ml. SHASTA There was ne new saew at Ms. Shasta Ski Bowl on Friday night and all facilities were operating aa Saturday. 'Chains were net being required for travel from Meant Shasta to the ski bowl ledge. Snew pack was 13S Inches and skiing good to excellent. Temperature at 1:30 a.m. Saturday wae 24 de grees. Early morning fog burned off and visibility was unlimited and wind nearly calm. ' Hopeful Cancer Discovery Mads AUSTIN. Tex. (AP) A Uni versity of Texas research team searching for cancer causes haa developed a chemical compound which greatly slows down growth of tumors in mien, Drs. Charles G. Skinner and) William Shive and scientist George F. McKenna and T. . J. McCord developed the compound, called S-Carbamylcysteine, da scribed as similar te the amine acid glutamine. It was described, as the "most promising " of three) agents produced at the university. f r
