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Newspaper Page TextU.Or ORE. LIBRARY lEfSPAPCS SECTION oouscruao ooctwtm mi. cow. la The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS , From Pasadena: Police reported this morning that Bruce Thomas, age 23, demonstrat ed to two friends how to play Russian roulette. He out one rartriHg In tho chamber of his revolver, placed the weapon against his head and pulled the trigger. He died instantly. It's tragic and I'm aware that tragedy should never be treated flippantly or cynically. But - ' When people insist on doing things like playing Russian roul ette, and LOSE isn't it perhaps just as well, everything consid ered? , Agricultural note: I The European corn borer de stroyed more than 100 million bush els of the 1938 corn crop, accord ing to an estimate of the U.S. department of agriculture. The corn borer loss in 1957 was 180 million bushels. Hmmmmmmm. Let's be openly cynical this time: ( Is the corn borer a pest? Or in these days of subsidized ver-production designed to w i n corn belt, votes is it a BLESS ING? Let's close this regrettably sar castic screed with a thoughtful look at the financial plight of the itate of Michigan. Michigan has no money on hand with which to pay its bills. So, this morning. Governor Williams held up about 325 checks totaling more than $100,000 for payment of the salaries of the members of the legislature, the justices of the supreme court and the judges of the circuit courts. He said the $5,000,000 payroll scheduled for May 7 for 28,000 other state employees, including himself, will not be met unless emergency funds are provided. Where could the emergency funds come from? Well, there was a plan to con vert the veterans trust fund out of which veterans' .pensions and other benefits must' be paid, IF PAID, into cash to meet the state's fiscal crisis. The legislature declined to, do that. So the payroll can't be met unless some other source of "emergency" funds can be found. What' wrong? It's quite simple. Michigan has been spending too much and taxing too little so the inevitable time has arrived when the state has NO MONEY with t which to pay its bills. -' Michigan's plight at' least drives ..home the lesson if you're going to SPEND you've got to TAX. Government - provided services don't come for free.' Firms Make Rival Claims SAN FRANCISCO (AP)-Pacific Gas & Electric Co. and the Cali fornia Oregon Power Co. are making rival claims for use of McCloud River water for electric power developments today at a Kate Water Rights Board hearing. ' Both contended they need the water to meet requirements for additional power in the areas they serve. California Oregon Power Co. operates in Southern Oregon and parts of Northern California, PG&E in California. The hearing was expected to continue several days, after which the board will take the dispute under submission. A decision will i come out of the board's head quarters in Sacramento. California Oregon Power Co. proposes to construct a series of dams, conduits and powerhouses on the McCloud River system. PG&E wants to divert water from the McCloud to the Pit River and run the water through its power houses on the Pit. .Both rivers are in Siskiyou County, tributaries of the Sacra mento River, above Shasta Dam. Both power company applica tions have been protested by local Interests. v v i If L Q y STUDENT IO0Y OFFICERS (or 4ho fall term et Klamath Union High School are, from left, Bobba Taylor, yell leader; Mikol Thurston, president; Jerry Wiekersham, secretary; Dave Saks, second vice president; Francis Kenyon, business manager; Rod Sperlin, third vice president, and Stove Binney, first vice prasidant. They wara alactad from a field f 20 candidates during alactions Thursday and Friday. Solons Vote Erasure Of Exposition Fund By JAMES C. ANDERSON . SACRAMENTO (UPI) The Assembly voted 56-20 today to wipe out the automatic 20 million dollar a vear fair and ftvnneitinn fund. The vote was a victory for Gov. Edmund G. Brown who supported the bill introduced by Assembly man Thomas M. Rees (D-Los An geles). The measure now goes to the Senate for further considera tion. "This is a g o o d bill for fiscal responsibility." Re e s said. "It does not destroy the fair system but it does say that the Legisla ture shall pass on their appropria tions." The only argument against the measure came from freshman leg- PHIL QUISENBERRY Copco Boosts Lakeview Man The promotion of Philip C. Quis- enberry to the post of district man ager of the Lakeview-AIturas dis trict of California Oregon Power Company is announced by Copco headquarters at Medford. He fills the vacancy created by the recent death of A. B. Wilson of Alturas. Quisenberry, whose home is in Lakeview, will remain there and district headquarters will be Lake- view instead of Alturas as it was previously. Norval E. Estin of Al turas has been promoted to the position of assistant district man ager and he, will be in charge of the Alturas office. Another change involves Leonard B. Vertrees, district accountant at Alturas, who is being transferred to Medford as a traveling account ant. Quisenberry was born at Med ford and started his career with Copco 24 years ago int Klamath Falls as a powerhouse operator,; service dispatcher and estimator. Following service in the Navy from 1944 to 1946, he was trans ferred to Lakeview in 1947 as as sistant manager of the district. He has been active in civic affairs and is a past president of Lake County Chamber of Commerce and has been named as first senior citizen by that group. He has served as president of the Lake view Rotary Club, was for three years with the Community Chest and last year served as Chief Whitetail of the Order of the An telope. He is currently chairman of the Lake County School Re organization Committee. Mr. and Mrs. Quisenberry have two daughters, Susan, a freshman at Oregon State College, and f el ice, a senior at Lakeview High School. The Lakeview-AIturas Copco dis trict serves 3,500 customers in Southern Oregon and Northern Cal ifornia and the new district man ager will divide his time between Lakeview and Alturas. BULLETIN OWASSO, Okla; (AP) Little Richard, coon hound imprisoned nearly six days in a narrow crev ice of a limestone bluff, was re ported rescued alive today. There was no Immediate word on his condition or details of the rescue. J itftn-Hnn't Jt Trl am islstor Paul J. Lunardi (D-Rose- villel, whose Assembly district contains nine state-supported fairs. Lunardi argued that the 77 dis- doing a good job. The fairs and exposition funds is dear to the hearts of many legislators in both houses because it provides from horse racing rev enues a guaranteed $65,000 a year to -72 district and county fairs plus larger amounts to (our other fairs and $30,000 to the Cloverdale Citrus Fair. In many cases, the fairs have not been able to spend all the money they get. At the end of the fiscal year, the Department of Fi nance estimated the 77 fairs would have cash reserves totaling $7, 801,963. Under the Rees bill, the auto matic handout would stop in I960. The fairs would hang on to their cash reserve and would get the $65,000 in the fiscal year starting July 1. But in 1960, they would have to come before the Department of Finance and the Legislature and justny their budgets. And with the state in a period of deficit financing, many fairs would prob ably have a tough time getting $t5,ooo lrom the lawmakers. Although his bill has run into some strong opposition, mostly from so-called "cow county" leg islators, Rees insists it will not hurt the fair program. ' "My bill in no way will hurt any legitimate, well-run fair," he said. "But the governor and we are saying that fairs should come to the Department of Finance and the Legislature the way all other agencies do and justify their budg et. "Some of the present practices of fairs are shocking, especially when you consider they re spend ing the taxpayers' dollar." Brown, in his budget message to the Legislature, urged abolition of the fairs and exposition fund. "The fund is perhaps the out standing example of the effects and dangers inherent m the spec ial fund method of financing,", he said. In addition to the $65,000 a year guarantee to 72 fairs, the Cow Palace in San Francisco gets $250, 000 as does the Los Angeles Coun ty Fair at Pomona. The National Orange Show in San Bernardino receives $150,000, the 38th District Fair in Los Angeles is down for $125,000 and the Cloverdale Citrus Fair receives $30,000 Lake Victim Body Found WEED The body of Burl Bar andun, 39, McCloifd, who lost his life about 3 o'clock Sunday morn ing in Dwinnell Lake Reservoir near Weed, was found Tuesday just after noon. The victim had been out in a boat in stormy weather early Sun day morning with two companions, Duane Knutson and Richard Kin kead, also of McCloud, when the boat capsized. All three men were clinging to the boat when Baran dun let loose. The other two float ed safely to shore. Three divers, Manuel Castaneda and Leonard Slaybaugh, both of Weed, and Morris Woods, Yreka, found the victim's body about 125 yards from the shore in 25 feet of water in the northern end of the lake. An extensive search had been carried out by the Siskiyou Coun- ti sheriff s office under the direc tion of Sheriff Al Cottar since early Sunday morning until yesterday when the body was found. Mr. Barandun is survived by the widow, Jacqueline, one son; John Frederick, one daughter, Sandra Lynn, all of McCloud; his mother, Mrs. Minnie Barandun, Etna; three brothers, Leonard and Virgil, both of Etna, Homer, Roseville; one sister, Mrs. Margaret Burns, Mc Cloud. Girdner's Funeral Chapel of Yreka will announce funeral ar rangements. ' An autopsy will be performed according to reports from the sheriff-coroner's office. KLAMATH Prii-e Five Cents 20 Pages AN EMERGENCY SHIPMENT of 50,000 board feet of lumber is being loaded here by Consolidated Freightways for shipment to Portland. Monday, an urgent call went to members of the industry for donated materials to complete the monster exposition building of the Oregon Forest Products Association at the Centennial grounds. Klamath Basin Pine Mills, Modoc Lumber Company, Ellingson Lumber Company and Weyerhaeuser responded in this area, donating the lumber, while Consolidated agreed to furnish trans portation to Portland. Les Springer of Consolidated Freightways, shown operating load er, reports the shipment left Monday evening and arrived Tuesday morning at the pavilion site. The entire structure is being constructed of laminated one by fours. President's News Conference Clamps On Senate Labor Bill Requested By Chief Executive WASHINGTON (API-President Eisenhower called on Congress to day for tightening of the Senate's labor control bill at three points. Eisenhower told his news con ference that the measure passed by the Senate has very definite weaknesses. . . He said he is very disappointed with it. ' .... The President said.ne believes the House should write in amend ments to (1) curb secondary boy cott, (21 outlaw blackmail picket ing and (3) clarify the no-man's land area where the authority of; the National Labor Relations Board and that of the states is cloudy. Eisenhower was asked if he feels it necessary to have such amendments in light of the bill of rights for rank and file labor that . was voted into the Senate measure. Eisenhower replied that as it first was offered by Sen. John McClellan (D-Ark), he thought the bill .of rights proposal was a fine thing. But he said a compromise which finally was adopted was not a real substitute for the kind of thing that should have been done. The substitute was sponsored by Sen. Thomas Kuchel of Cali fornia, the assistant Republican leader, and backed by a group of Republicans who have been re garded -as friendly to organized lahnr. This was Eisenhowers first Washington news conference since March 25. He dealt with these other topics: Herter-Dulles Eisenhower said that from the onset of John Foster Dulles' illness last February, both he and Dulles were in agreement that Christian A. Herter should be named secretary of state if it he- Weather Northern California Fair through tonight except overcast on the north coast; cloudy In the north with occasional light rain near the coast from Fort Bragg northward and over the Interior from Redding northward Thura. day; slightly cooler Inland. South. westerly and westerly winds, 12-25 miles an hour. Point Reyes north ward tonight and Thursday. Klamath Falls and vicinity Mostly cloudy and mild through Thursday. Highs 58-64; low to night 36-42. High yesterday ........ M Low last night I Precip. last 24 hours 0 Since Oct. 1 ...... 4.S8 Same period last year .. 14.15 Visit To India Nixed By Puppet TOKYO (API Red China's pup pet ruler of Tibet, the Panchen Lama, today rejected an invita tion to visit India tor peace talks with the self-exiled Dalai Lama. Indian Prima Minister Nehru, who granted the 23-year-old Dalai Lama asylum after hit flight from the Chinese Communists, had tug-, gested the meeting as a move to end the Tibetan rebellion. The Panchen Lama stood by the claim of the Chinese overlords that his holy colleague had been kidnaped. Nehru, has branded at a lie Communist claims that the Dalai Lama it a .captive. FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1959 telephone TU 4-8111 No. 6382 1 ; ? pi, came necessary for Dulles to re sign. When Dulles was forced to re sign earlier this month because of cancer, Herter, who had been serving as acting secretary, was his immediate choice for the job, the President said, provided his ilccum nna up lu lug vuiucii. Eisnnhowcr reported his . views on this - roattar -when -told there had been some speculation that Herter was his reluctant choice and ''that Hertcr's prestige had been damaged because the Presi dent waited four days to appoint. him after Dulles stepped down. Eisenhower remarked there had been a lot of unnecessary and un- Ministers Report Solidarity PARIS (AP)-The four Western foreign ministers, meeting to uni fy their positions before the com ing East-West conference, reached "large areas of agreement" in to day's opening sessions, an Ameri can spokesman said. The spokesman said the sessions went smoothly, although minor areas of disagreement cropped up. He told newsmen that on the basis of progress shown today, U.S. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter may move up his de parture for Washington from Sat urday night to Friday night. "In fact," the spokesman said, "we covered more ground than we expected." The American spokesman told newsmen at a briefing session that the four-power working group of experts will meet tonight to re word certain sections of their orig inal proposals to their chiefs. The revised sections are to be ready for further discussion by the min isters when they meet Thursday. There were no details on what sec tions are to be changed. The over-all concept of the West's "package plan" will not be changed the spokesman said. The package plan includes the Western approach to problems of Berlin, Germany and European security. The British have been urging that a Western proposal on Ber lin be separated from the other proposals to make an East-West deal possible on that divided city if nothing else can be achieved It was understood that the for eign ministers agreed today not to separate the Berlin question from the other issues, although no delegation member would say so on uie record. Action Finished OnOretechBill SALEM (AP) The Senate com Dieted legislative action Tuesday on a bill appropriating $2,412,836 to operate Oregon Technical In stitute during the next two years. The amount is 1300,000 less than was recommended by ex-Gov. Robert Holmes. The cut was made because vocational courses will be eliminated, and OTI will become strictly a technical school. It cost $2,300,000 to operate the school in the present biennlum. profitable speculation. He added that he wanted to announce the appointment of Herter a day ear- lier, but that Herter was traveling and the announcement had to be put off 24 hours. As for the talk of delay, Eisenhower noted Dul les' grave illness. He said that1 wnen you are losing a public serv ant nf nines', stature yqu' don t try Iff- hmd1 ji wedding until the other man in this case Dulles- has left the house. Iraq The United States is very concerned about Iraq and the pos sibility of complete Communist domination of that Mideast coun try. Eisenhower said he doesn't know whether he agrees with Al len W. Dulles, chief of the Central Intelligence Agency, that the situa tion in Iraq is the most dangerous in the world. But he added it cer tainly is not an easy situation. Nixon-Summit He and Vice President Richard M. Nixon never would attend any summit confer ence with the Russians simultane ously. Eisenhower said. That wouldn't be feasible because of the nature of the American gov ernment and the necessity for the President to avoid being out of the country for any length of time. In reply to another question Eisenhower said he had not meant to imply any probability that Nixon might take over for him during part of any summit meeting. There are no present plans lor that, he said. Montgomery As for remarks by his old. comrade in arms, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, that the American leadership un der Eisenhower has become sus pect, the President suggested to newsmen that they read today's British newspapers on that mat ter. 1'; 'niiwi''' '' " I ' ji- ;) u lag V t RESULTS OP MANY MONTHS WORK It proudly displayed by Tex Harvard of McCloud. He and his wife, Marian, have worked since lest November on this amphibious trailer house. When completed and furnished it will weigh 2,700 pounds. It i 22 feet long, eight feet wide, w.ith the hull of 14 gauge metal. Bottled gat will operate the rofrig. erator, stove and lights. The interior is constructed of maple plywood panels. Tex da. ligned the trailer, end hopes to complete it in time for hit vacation. Photo by Don Kettle Three Per Cent Tax Set For 1960 Ballot SALEM (API Oregon's Senate Taxation Committee voted Tues day night for a three per cent sales tax that would be referred to the people at the general elec tion in November, 19tX). It also scuttled House-passed proposals for a tax of three cents a package on cigarettes and 15 per cent on other tobacco. And It rejected the House bill to revise income tax rates and eliminate most deductions, in stead, the Senate committee amended the present income tax law by merely reducing the $600 personal- exemption to $500. Four members of the commit tee favored the plan. Sen. Monroe Swcetland (D-Milwaukic), the lone dissenter, said he would fight the plan on grounds it vio lates the constitutional provision that revenue bills must, originate in the House. The Senate plan provides that if the people vote for a sales tax, then the personal income tax ex emptions for single persons would be increased to $1,500, and for married persons to $3,000. The ex emption for dependents would then go back to $600. The sales tax revenue would be used for general fund purposes. with any surplus being used to increase basic school aid to local districts to a maximum of $140 per census child per year. Basic school aid now is $105. The people have rejected sales tax proposals six times, the last time having been in 1947. The senate income tax proposal would amount to a 10 per cent average increase. The House bill would achieve a 9.6 per cent boost by eliminating all deductions ex cept -for medical expenses and contributions. The House bill also would have adopted a-rate schedule of one to seven per cent. The Senate version would retain the present three to 9.5 per cent schedule. - The House also did and the Sen ate Committee did not approve Gov. Mark Hatfield's plan for a one per cent tax on gross income in order to bring in many tax payers who now pay no tax. The committee am not take final action on the bills, as it wants to get them printed first. Committee members voting for the amendments are Chairman Ward Cook (D-Portland). Boyd R. Overhulse (D-Madras), Donald H Husband (R-Eugene), and Harry D. Boivin (D-Klamath Falls). Absent were Ben Musa (D-Thc Dalles) and Anthony . Yturri (R Ontario), but both were reported to be in favor of the plan. The sale tax measure was placed .. by amendment into the House cigarette lax, except that Officer's Son Crash Victim Walter M. Thome HI, 20-year- old son of City Police Sgt. Wal ter Thorne, was killed last night when the pickup truck he was driving went out of control near Beatty. State police said the youth ap parently died instantly. , A passenger , in nis trucK, .iea- nor Hutchenson. 20. ot Beatty. was admitted to Klamath Valley Hos pital with injuries not conclusive ly determined today, she had been given X-ray examinations and was reported in fair condition. State police said the pickup went out of control after leaving a curve just west of Beatty. The truck ap parently skidded to the left shoul der and rolled sideways several times. Officers believed the truck had rolled over Thome's body, which had been thrown to the road, al though the youth's body ,was al most 40 feet ahead of the truck when it stopped rolling. State police received the call at 11:30 p.m. The girl was brought to Klamath Falls by a passing motorist shortly alter the accident. Thorne lived with his parents at 1717 Siskiyou Street, Klamath Falls. I the cigarette tax was removed. This originally was Gov. Hat field's cigarette tax bill, and it till hAar ih ioni the re quest of Gov. Hatfield," even though it now is a sales tax bill that Hatfield vigorously opposes. There is some question whether the Senate with 19 Democrats and 11 Republicans would ap prove the committee's program, because most Democrats have long fought sales tax proposals. it the senate does pass it. there then would be a close Question of whether the House would pass it. The House has 33 Democrats and 27 Republicans. The committee acted only a few minutes after representatives of organized labor vigorously at tacked sales and cigarette taxes. HOLLAND (BUD) RILEY Fire Chief Said Better WEED - Rolland (Bud) Riley. 47, fire chief of the Weed Shastina Volunteer Fire Department and Weed police commissioner, was reported to be in satisfactory con dition in Mount Shasta Commu nity Hospital this morning accord ing to his physician. - , : Riley received second dearea bums over one-fourth of his body in a switchboard explosion at tha Weed Branch of the Long-Bell Lumber Company about noon on Monday. His face, hands, arms, neck and right side were burned. Harvey E. Gilman Jr. was also y burned in the exploion but' wa " released from the hospital. 1 Riley. Gilman and two crew. men were working on the switch board during the Monday noon plant shutoff and were attempting i to dismantle one of the main switches in the power plant when the explosion occurred. Riley is an electrical foreman with the Weed division of the paper company. Schools Note Flu On Wane Attendance in schools through out the city is moving back toward normal, following a severe out break of influenza during the past three weeks. At its peak, tha epidemic caused 860 elementary school students to miss classes last Friday and near ly 700 Klamath Union High School students to stay home one day a week earlier. . . By Monday the figure had dropped to 508 for elementary schools and 230 for the high school. The district office is no longer compiling the daily figures since indications are the crisis la weu past. But at a joint meeting of tha boards of directors of School Dis tricts 1 and 2 Monday, officiali said they expect a lower than av erage attendance for sometime us come as a result of late flu cases. --rt'BTqepr.vfrrp ''"""Tt ij!tVH V7.