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U.C? ORS.LISHArvY , COUP. GSN.REF.AND D03UBEHTS DIV. E'J3SM2,0.1Ea. . U The- Day's Jews By FRANK JENKINS National economics: ' '. Senator William Proxmire of Wis consin asks the U.S. senate this morning to investigate the effects of exDandins American invest ments overseas. He says recent re ports indicate heavy and substan tially increasing purchases by i American companies of foreign 'plants, .'J. He says these foreign U.S. in vestments are costing us INDUS TRIAL JOBS and are cutting a terrible swath in America's ex port market. : : . " What he means is that Ameri can business concerns are finding they ean PRODUCE CHEAPER . ABROAD than they can produce at home, bo they are buying- for eign plants. In these foreign plants. -enable them to UNDERSELL . Jgoods produced in American plants, bo, as senator Proxmire tays, they are cutting into Ameri ca's foreign trade.. mat isn t ail. iney can produce enough more cheaply in these for- ipn nlnnts in pnnhlp thpm In TM. VADE THE AMERICAN MARKET With goods PRODUCED ABROAD Foreign-built automobiles provide a wen-Known example 01 wnai is pappening. What the Wisconsin senator is .Saying is the United States is ap proaching a danger point. Because of steadily rising American prices, jve are nearing the point at which we could price ourselves out of come very desirable markets. We can't afford to price our selves but of markets. But if Amer ican prices keep on going up in relation to foreign prices, that is exactly what is going to happen. If it does happen, a lot of Ameri cans are going to be deprived of Jobs. - At this point, let's quote another senatorOregon's Senator Neuber- ger. He says that in February of this year insured unemployment for the nation as a whole was S.7 per cent while in Oregon nine per cent of covered workers were out $f work. In March, he says, the national figure was 4.8 per cent while in Oregon it was 6.3 per cent and only six other states had a. higher rate. '.' Js a remedy, he proposes a federal commission on unemploy ment problems. He adds: "Be cause i Deiieve mai uregon nas uuiuc iiiuio ueaviiv man many other states the weight of the re cession and the job losses which ' it entailed, I hope that the com mission, when established, w i 1 1 . hold hearings in my state in its efforts to discover, chronicle and iolveproblems of unemployment. I have great respect for Senator Neuberger's sincerity. But I doubt if an investigation by a federal Commission would go very far to ward the solution of Oregon's problems. What Oregon needs is more in dustrial development. We must have more industrial plants to pro vide more jobs. If we are to get more industrial plants to provide more jobs we must provide an industrial climate that will be fa vorable to the expansion of indus try in Oregon so that industrialists will be attracted to Oregon as a profitable location in which to op crate. , Federal investigating commis sions merely talk. We've had plen ty of talk in Oregon. We need ACTION. 6 Lives Saved By Coffee Break NACOGDOCHES, Tex. (AP) ! A towering old courthouse col lapsed Monday onto the modern structure replacing it, but a coffee break kept six persons out of the path of tons of rubble. Damage was estimated at $150,000. A wall of the old Nacogdoches County Courthouse, being razed. toppled onto the roof of the new courthouse. Tons of debris buried the office of the tax assessor collector, C. D. Thomas, shortly after he and five employes left for coffee. (OUP'S ON in this model tin can cookery display exhibited by Glenn Burnes, left, and .Dave West of Boy Scout Troop 7 of Matin et the Diitrict Scout Exposition Saturday at 't)he Klamath County Fairgrounds. Diitrict Scouts produced more then 50 exhibiti to ihow people whet Scouting it ell about, The exposition it held annually. Panama Arrests British Ballerina PANAMA (AP) The Panaman-i ian government held British bal lerina Margot Fonteyn under ar rest today in connection with charges that her husband was plotting to overthrow President Ernesto de la Guardia Jr. The 39-year-old ballet dancer, one of the world's greatest, was reported being held in the private office of the commandant of Pan ama City's main jail. , National Guard headquarters claimed that Miss Fonteyn's Pan amanian husband, Roberto Arias, had landed Sunday .night on Pan ama's Pacific Coast with about 10 armed men. The National. Guard, which is Big Welcome Given Lama By Followers By PATRICK KILLEN MUSSOORIE, India (UPD-The Dalai Lama arrived today at this hilltop city and was given another thunderous welcome by Buddhist followers and a group of Ameri can school children from a near by mission school. He moved into a two-story house surrounded by barbed wire barricades, and Indian army com mand tents were installed to pro tect him against any Communist attempt. Bayonet carrying rifle men lurked in the mountain un derbrush nearby. A second ring of barbed wire was set up on the rim of the estate. Mussoorie, 140 miles north of New Delhi, is 6,500 feet up in the foothills of the Himalayas. From his bedroom window the young god-king could see the snow capped peaks of his native Tibet on the horizon. He chi.se this place of exile be cause its climate is suited to one accustomed to the chilly heights of Tibet. It was built many years ago bv the British as one of the hill stations where they sought relief from the heat of New Delhi. On Thursday the Dalai Lama will meet Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru for the first time since Nehru granted him asylum after he fled the Chinese Communists and made a month long trip to safety- Informed sources said 1,000 In dian security guards ware on duty near the. house and in the .moun tains nearby to protect the Dalai Lama from any possible Commu nist assault, v World News lit Brief United Press International IKE Augusta President Ei senhower offers Russia a new plan to reach disarmament ac cord at a step at a time. The first step calls for an instalment plan for limiting nuclear weapons tests. HERTER Washington Chris tian A. Herter goes before Senate Foreign Relations Committee. EAST-WEST London Church ill breaks two-year silence to warn of danger over Berlin; Moscow says U.S. whips up war tensions. LABOR Washington Senate starts voting on labor reform bill with Sen. Kennedy predicting "safe margin" for his bill. , DALAI Mussoorie, India Dalai Lama arrives in exile to tremendous reception by thousands of hill folks. CASTRO Princeton, N.J. Fi del Castro says Cuba will give all aid short of war to any force seek ing to liberate Dominican Repub lie. ALGERIA Algiers Rebel ter ror still keeping Algerians from polls in third day of municipal elections. TALLULAH Washington Those dahling congressmen just aren't going to do a thing about that bill Tallulah Bankhead wants them to pass. Panama's army and police, said Arias and his band were fleeing. Other reports said he had trans ferred from the motor launch in which he and his wife had been cruising and had landed near his family's large cattle ranch 75 miles west of the capital. There was no immediate offi cial reaction from the British Em bassy, which had been busy until late Monday with the visit of Prince Philip. Miss Fonteyn for more than a decade has been the top star of Britain's Royal Ballet and is a Dame of the British Em pire, the female equivalent of knighthood. in London, the Foreign Office said it had not received a report from the British ambassador in Panama. The British government is expected to intervene on Miss Fonteyn's behalf, however, for her British citizenship was not affect ed by her marriage to a Pana manian. , Dame Margot had been in Pan ama for several months with her husband, Panama's former am bassador to Britain. -The couple had been cruising aboard the fish ing launch Nola in the gulf of Panama since last Tuesday. Over the weekend De la Guar dia's government had ordered, the arrest of her husband. Arias, son of former President Harmodio Arias, was charged with trying to organize an attack on the National Guard garrison in Chorrera, about 20 miles outside the capital. t His wife sailed into Balboa un detected before dawn Monday aboard the Nola. Newsmen were unable to locate her, but it was known she spent some time at her father-in-law s home. National Guard officials refused to say when or where she was arrested. Herter Given Senate Nod WASHINGTON (AP) - Chris tian A. Herter won Quick and unanimous approval of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to day' to succeed John Foster Dul les as secretary of state. The committee acted after hear ing the 64-year-old Herter. who has been chief aide to the cancer stricken Dulles, say the U.S. air route to Berlin will be defended but not necessarily at the risk of nuclear war. Committee "Chairman"?. ""Wil liam f uibngbt (U - Ark) an nounced that the nomination of Herter would go before the full benate later today if possible Quick confirmation would allow Herter to take office before leav ing this weekend for the Western foreign ministers meeting in Par- Herter had told the committee he did not believe atomic and ,hydrogen bombs would be justi fied in the early stages if war de veloped over Berlin. : Briton Backs Chiefs Plan LONDON (AP) - British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan has written Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev supporting President Eisenhower's proposal of a ban on nuclear weapon tests below an altitude of 30 miles. Sources close to the British gov ernment said Macmillan told Khrushchev Britain would, prefer a more comprehensive test ban. But he said if that is impossible, it will back limited agreement of the type proposed by America and Britain last week at the Geneva conference on a nuclear test ban. The Soviets took a negative atti tude initially toward the Western proposal, terming it a deviation Irom the agreed purpose of the conference. But Western delegates at Geneva believe that Moscow's final word on the proposal is still to be heard. r. v?. ; J.' !-. .... t- . (An KLAMATH Price Five Cents 14 Paces i t MMSfV !!II!WS'y-wa-i S" .TT';-- ifcn 1 TT- - , r Iff-miiiir Hi iW Tr-"'eii SITE OF THE GREENHORN DAM proposed by the city of Yreka is shown here. View, ing it is C. M. ''Pete" Potter of the water company. The Yreka City Council adopted a resolution et its last meeting for the issuance of $550,000 in- Yreka Water Works bonds. It is expected that bids will be received April 30, end contracts awarded on May 14, with construction slated to start as soon as possible. ' Council Backs Development of a platted area in Mountain View Addition to Klamath Falls received a big boost from the city, council Monday night. City Manager G. S. Vergeer Sr., reported that property owners in a six block area had put up $4,039 in water deposits to assure Oregon Water Corporation installation of water in the proposed area. He pointed out that only one local property owner objected to the move. He also asked the city to appropriate $280 for the eight lots which it owns in the area, and the council approved the move, swelling the money available to $4,319. . A month ago. Oregon Water Cor poration manager Glenn Bowen in dicated that it would take approxi mately $5,000 In cash advances be fore his company would go ahead with installing water service to the area. ., Vergeer indicated that while the amount was a bit short, a discus sion was underway with the water company in an effort to get the project started. .. ' City Attorney Henry Perkins men suggested that the council au thorize the start of sewer district proceedings since they take at least 90 days to comclete. He point ed out that if they started sewer proceedings now, those who de sired to build in the area would have sewer this year. The council authorized the move, and instructed the city manager to proceed on the sewer plan for the six block area. Two San Quentin Convicts Holding Pair As Hostages SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (UPI)- Two San Quentin prison trusties fled to a nearby fishing pier to day and seized a man and woman hostage at knife-point in a desper ate bid to obtain i speedboat and escape across San Francisco Bay. The man was released to act as a messenger between the convicts and the dozens of prison guards and police who waited in a tense impasse 100 feet away. "Don't come any closer or we'll slit her throat," one of the con victs yelled at the guards. Associate Warden W. D. Achuff of San Quentin said it was 'first reported that only the woman was grabbed by the fleemg convicts. About two hours later Achuff said a man also had been seized and he was acting as an intermediary, shuttling back and forth between the two sides. The drama was taking place on the Marin County Rod and Gun Club pier about a mile north of the prison. San Quentin is about 12 miles north of San Francisco on the west side of San Francisco Bay. The two convicts were identified a Billy Joe Wright, 26, Trinity FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1959 f Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and fvtcinttyr 1'Mr through Wednesday with variable high clouds Wednes day. Highs 70-75; low tonight 32-40. High yesterday - 67 Low last night 37 Precip. last 24 hours 0 Since Oct. 1 4.36 Same period last year 14.34 Northern California Fair through Tuesday night; partly cloudy Wednesday with showers likely from Ukiah northward. Coastal winds variable 8-18 miles an hour. . Snark Starts Test Flight CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (API A blazing Snark intercontinental guided missile . streaked over the horizon today on the start of a round trip test flight. The missile is the first truly in tercontinental weapon that will be in the hands of V. S. troops. The launching, conducted by veteran Air Force crewmen from the 556th Guided Missile Squad ron, was aimed at a trip 900 miles down the Atlantic range. The weapon used on today's flight logged a similar round trip without a hitch several months ago. The shoot was part of the close out phase of development for the Snark which is expected to be de ployed at its first operational site in Presque Isle, Maine, in the next few months. About 20 bases are planned for the Snark. County, and William D. Werner, 24, Fresno County, both burglars. They had been working as trus ties in a rock quarry outside the prison walls. Off-duty Guard W. Gastoni spotted them fleeing on foot toward the rod and gun club a mile and a half away at about 9:15 a.m. p.s.t. A gun club member said the convicts pulled a knife on the woman as she was fishing off the pier. The woman hostage was be lieved to be a Mrs. Theresa Lopes, San Rafael. Mrs. Caroline Lato. Mill Valley, Calif., who was on the pier at the time, said "I saw these two men running down the pier, and then they stopped where this woman was sitting down, fishing. They grabbed her fish knife from a pile of gear and put it to her throat. Then they jerked her by the hair and pulled her up to her feet. They told the rest of us not to come near or they'd slit her throat, The men dragged the protesting hostage to the end of the pier, and called back to the prison guards. who had by then arrived on the scene: "Tell them to get us speedboat right away or we'll kill her." v Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 6375 3S . v. in Bids Planned For Dam Site YREKA Yreka city councilmon took the first steps to procure the funds for the Greenhorn Dam con struction by adopting a resolution for the provision for the issuance of $550,000 Yreka Water Works bonds. According to City Clerk. Alton Taylor, bids will be received April 30 and contracts will be awarded on May 14. Construction will start immediately at that time. After about two hours discus sion, the council also adopted the new zoning ordinance and land use map for the city of Yreka, the' zoning plan designed for fu ture growth of the town. Mayor James Cummings also ap pointed Leo Purinton as a mem ber to the Yreka Recreation Com mission for a two-year term, re placing Mrs. Pearl Lecam. Pur inton owns and operates the Sis kiyou Airways at the Montague Municipal Airport, but resides in Yreka, Duties Assumed By Alaska Chief JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Wil liam A. Egan, rushed to a hos pital hours after being sworn in as Alaska's first elected governor, Jan. 3, took over the full duties of his office Monday. The 44-year-old Democrat, far below his normal weight but op timistic, returned to Juneau t week ago. He had been given only a 50-50 chance for survival after being flown to Seattle for an emergency abdominal operation, m. i i 'iuisx.r THIS TRIO OF COMING collectors wet among throngs ef display of the Klamath Stemp and Coin Club Saturdey. stamps, one of the largest ever teen in Klamath Fells, wet Week. Visitors received wooden nickles et mementos. In titters Devid, Barbara and Pennw Welrath. Council Reverses Zone Law Changes An irate group of home-owners descended on the Monday night city council session for the second successive week, voicing vigorous protests to a proposed change of zone for their areas, one on Owens Street and the other along the south side of Shasta Way between Sixth Street and Washburn Way. After hearing the discussion and cataloguing the objections by per centage, the council moved to amend its established policy and outlined a new procedure for mak ing zone changes in the future. At the request of individuals, the planning commission had rec ommended both changes. Howev er, the council declined both pro posals at the end of two hours discussion. - The move to change a portion of Owens Street from residential to industrial was opposed by an additional petition presented Mon day night. When added to the pre vious petition, it was determined that out of 61 property owners within 200 feet of the zone, 35 objected to it. . It has been the council s policy in the past that unless 50 per cent of those residing within 200 feet of the zone change object to it, It becomes effective, i. However, during the course of the discussion on the Owens Street proposal, Norman Hansen, whoi said he represented 1225 Owens, argued that the burden was on the wrong people. He questioned why property owners must rise to the detense ot their own prop erty every time a person wants to change the zone. He wanted to know why the person request ing the zone change should not be' required instead to get 51 per cent of the persons involved to favor the move before it would be approved. The council discussed this view point, and concurred - in it. I think it's a reasonable approach, Mayor Lawrence Slater said. "Pre vious councils have gone under the old procedure, but it does seem to me that the burden of proof is ( on the wrong people, When you1 want to change some thing, the person wanting the change should show proof that the marjority want the change. The council set future policy of the zone changes on the pat tern of 51 per cent in favor. They then denied the zone change re quest when Councilman James Barnes moved to do so. Discussion then turned on a re quest to rezone the area along Shasta. Way from residential to commercial. Chet Hamaker, who had requested the zone change, pointed out that the council was now changing their rules of pro cedure. "Last week, unless 50 per cent objected to the move," he pointed out, "the zone change would have been approved, but now you've changed it around to make it 51 per cent must be in favor before it's granted." The council agreed mat it naa changed its policy from the pre vious week, but agreed that the final authority rested with the council, . and in view of the dis cussion, felt the move was proper. Hamaker was given an oppor lunity to attempt to obtain the 61 per cent in favor, but declined It, pointing out that he had been on the project ever since he pur chased the property in January. Mayor Slater questioned him at length and brought out that the property was residential and that Hamaker' had known this when he purchased it. Hamaker stated he had received an indication irom the planning commission that the area would probably be rezoncd. The council then moved to deny the rczoning. The moves ended two weeks of heated discussion which had con sumed more than four hours of council deliberation. Another near-stalemate devel oped in the council over the ques tion of a liquor license for the Pastime on Klamath Avenue, The license application had been held over from the previous week. Mayor Slater stated that the pol icy of the Liquor Commission has been to make an applicant wait six months once a request was denied. "Only a little over five months have elapsed." he said. "There were three applicants be fore, perhaps we'd better wait and see if the two others appear again this time." When it appeared that the coun cil was about evenly divided on the license request, the Mayor en tertained a motion that it be de ferred for another week, and the council concurred. A request to purchase a 20 foot strip behind their present resi dences on North Fifth Street was approved for Jack Madden and two others at an appraised cost of $2 per foot, $400 in all. Hey, Tallulah, Precious Pals To Shun Bill By TOM NELSON WASHINGTON (UPI) - TalllK lah, dahling, there's simply dread- iiii news irom your precious friends in Congress. They're not going to do a bloody thing about that bill you did so want them to pass. it isn l that the House Ways Means Committee pays no atten tion to the views of an actress the stature of Tallulah Bankhead. You 11 recall that your testi mony on unemployment compen sation last week got an attentive audience from the committeemen, the dolls. Nor does the committee feel you sabotaged your own case, al though you must admit that at times you didn't help much. for example, it did the cause ot liberalizing unemployment com pensation little good to talk about actors who drive up In their Rolls Royces to collect . their weekly jobless pay checks. And to remark that every thing's gone sky-high" when you were told that benefits range up to $45 in. New York Well, dahl ing. The problem Is that what you want to do provide for recipro city of eligibility between states, to help unemployed actors gets into the area of states rights. The feeling on the committee is that this business of reciprocity is a field that Congress should leave to the states. When you began testifying last Tuesday, you complained you had not heard the previous remarks of the committee members "so 1 don't know whether you are "for us or agin us." It's sad, dahling, but they're agin you. i U.S. Incomes Show Boost WASHINGTON (UPI) - Half of the nation's families had incomes above $5,050 in 1958 a $20 in crease from 1957 's median family income, the Commerce Depart ment reported today. But the increase was more than canceled out by rising prices in the early part of 1958 so that pur chasing power of the families, de clined slightly. h Averaging developments for the years 1947-57, the department said that real, after-tax income per family has risen about IVf per cent a year. , One reason for the steady im provement was the growing pro portion of wives who work. The report also showed there was no' change in 1958 in income distribution. Fourteen per cent of all families and single persons had incomes under $2,000 and five per cent fell into the $10,000 or more category. The bulk of the income units fell in the middle categories 22 per cent in the $2,000-$3,999 group, 25 per cent between $4,000 and $5,999 and 17 per cent earning W,000-$7,999. visitors to the second annual The display of rare coins and In ebtervance of Notional Coin deep study are brother and
