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O.OF 0RE.LIB3ART MEVSPAPER SECTION GEN.REF.AMO DOCUMENTS OXV. CO IP, la Tae- Day's Jews By FRANK JENKINS What of the Oregon legislature , which after US days has shut up shop and gone home? Let's put it mildly. It could have done better. But- It could have done worse. Caught in the jaws of the vise I between those who want to spend more for services that are paid for out of taxes and those who ' want to be taxed less, the mem bers of the Oregon legislature made an honest effort to hold down spending. If the effort had been less sin cere and determined, the spend ing would have been greater. The big need in Oregon is to widen the tax base. . That is to say, to GET MORE TO TAX. More industrial plants to pay property taxes and corpor ation income taxes. More new em ployees to pay moderate taxes on their individual incomes and mod erate property taxes on their homes. If that is to be accomplished, the tax climate of Oregon must be kept competitive with the tax cli mates of other Western states. If Oregon's tax climate is permitted to become markedly more rigor ous, Oregon will suffer because of inability to get the industrial ex pansion that is needed. That's the long and the short of It- Unfortunately, little was done at the legislative session that has just ended to widen the base. The added spending that was authorized was simply loaded onto the tame old base. " But- We may have been saved (tem porarily, at least) by our neigh bors. Both California and Wash ington appear to be UPPING their spending more steeply than Ore gon. - In conclusion I can't help thinking that if the Oregon legislature had wisely and carefully (and maybe prayer fully) determined FIRST what the state can afford to take out of the pocket of the people in the form of taxes and had then trimmed the requests for tax funds to FIT THE MONEY AVAILABLE under the tax struc ture determined upon, it would have put the horse before the cart. . As it is, the cart is still be fore the horse. Which is to say that the spenders still come in and tell the legislature how much they are Koine to have to have and the legislature then turns in and taxes the people to raise the money the spenders say they need. As lone as that system Is con 'firmed, taxes will continue to . RISE, v World News In Brief United Press International HERTER Secretary of State Herter confers with President Ei senhower before leaving for the Geneva foreign ministers confer ence. CANCER New York Outdoor work, drinking, illness out-ranked by cigarette smokmg as factors in lung cancer, new study shows. EAST-WEST London Mos : cow Radio accuses West of going into Geneva meeting with plan i "which has little to do with peace treaty or Berlin settlement. SHARK San Francisco Swim mine youth killed by shark after warning girl companion "Go back go back. POSTAGE . Washington Ad ministration, request for five-cent letter rate appears likely to wind up as dead letter in Congress, FISH FRY Camogli, Italy Catastrophe strikes town's annual fish fry 16-foot frying pan sinks in bay. ' TRUMAN New York Harry Truman celebrates 75th birthday today; cross-country closed circuit TV party honors him tonight STEEL New York Steel con tract negotiators trade bitter charges but agree to try for peace ful settlement. Defense Aide, Quarles, Dies WASHINGTON (AP) - Deputy 'Secretary of Defense Donald A, Quarles died today. Quarles. second ranking defense official since 1957 and former sec retary of the Air Force, died in his sleep. - Quarles was born in Van Burcn, Ark., July 30, 1894. The deputy defense chief had not been ill, so far as friends knew. Quarles had been mentioned as possible successor tor secre tary of Defense Neil McElroy, who has announced his intention to leave the top Pentagon post late this year. Quarles Was an official of the Western Electric Co. and a resi dent of New Jersey when he en tered government service. He was vice president of West ern Electric and president of San dia Corp., subsidiary which op erates the Sandia Special Weap on Laboratory at Albuquerque, N.M., for the Atomic Energy Com mission. , la 1953 President Eisenhower appointed Quarles an assistant aecretarv of defense for research I and development. Pri-e Five Cento 20 Pages Z . . - -;, .- j,y .:..:-r. - :.: . 1: . ...... J....... ',. "V ' " ' i ' " ' . ' ' . THE ABSENCE OF SNOW is the first thing one notices around Diamond Lake these days. The picture above was taken around noon last Monday and shows -the turn-out at the south end of the lake. The camp grounds were almost bare of snow on that date and the road into the resort was bare. A record crowd is possible on opening day of the fishing season, May 30, in the opinion of many, because of the early snow melt. Of course the situation can change. Probably .the best summation of weather In this country was made many years ' ago by a chap named Thad McHattan. Thad once fold a tourist on the oc Crowd Falls For TV Joke; 'Spaceman' Hits Filmland By RICK DU BROW HOLLYWOOD (UPI)-It started as a gag. Nobody figured it would break the heart oS a little old lady. The idea was to see how people would react if a Russian-speaking spaceman popped up in a metro politan city and also to get some publicity for next Monday's West-inghouse-Desilu TV show, "Man in Orbit." It started innocently enough. A Russian-born bit actor, Goury Po- lonsky, 60, was outfitted in a rub berized grey space suit, high Officials Hang Cop Killer LONDON (AP) Ronald Mar wood, a 25-year-old cop killer, was hanged today in Pentonville Prison while hundreds of Britons milled about the gates protesting the execution. The crowd outside stood an all- night vigit, and inside the jail prisoners rioted for half an rour demanding that the hanging be called off. The execution took place only 200 yards from the home of the man convicted of murdering a po licemanone of the few crimes that can get the death penalty un der Britain s modified capital punishment law. In the crowd of about 1,000 out side the prison were some carry ing placards reading "save Mar- wood." "revenge is contrary to justice and "is Marwood really guilty?" The condemned man's pretty 20- vear-old wife Rosalie waited in an apartment only 200 yards from the prison and read over and again the last tetter from her hus band. She had collected almost alone more than 10.000 signatures to a petition seeking clemency. Briton Departs From Washington WASHINGTON (UPD-Sir Win ston Churchill bids a sentimental goodbye today probably for the last time to this capital which he visited in times of peril and of peace. The 84-year old statesman flies to New York for two days before returning to London Sunday. The lormcr prime minister stayed at the British Embassy Thursday night after three days as the White House guest of Pres ident Eisenhower. Churchill will stay in New York with an old friend, financier Ber nard Baruch. KLAMATH shoes, a black and gold helmet that covered his face and black leather gloves. Then, at lunch hour Thursday, he emerged from the downtown Los Angeles underground garage in Pershing Square and started to ask for help in Russian from persons on the crowded streets. A girl of about 18 ran up be hind him, listened to him talk for a few seconds and kicked him in the legs. "Communist!" she screamed. Picking up about 50 followers, Polonsky stopped in front of a trolley dispatcher and asked him some questions in Russian. The dispatcher listened seriously, then replied: "You catch the P-car right here." Then came the little old lady. White-haired, and about 70, she heard Polonsky talking Russian, rushed to his side and asked if she could help him. "I am Russian too before I be came American," she said. By this time, several hundred persons had gathered around the "spaceman." Some berated him angrily as a "spy." Sharper eyes noticed English-language labels on his equipment. But the little lady stood by him. "He's lost," she explained to the crowd. "He was ejected from his plane and needs help. I'll take him home to my son and give him a good meal. She was about to hustle him into a taxi when a publicity man took her aside andi explained that the whole thing was a stunt. The old lady looked at him unbelieving, then walked slowly away. "It's not fair to do such things, she said, leaning against a store window and wiping her .eyes with a handkerchief. "I just tried to help." One Invader Still Holdout PANAMA (AP) Pamana today pulled back troops rushed to the Caribbean coast during the Inva sion crisis and reported only one member of a Cuban force which landed two weeks ago still at large. Five of the six Cubans who re fused to surrender with the others in the expedition were captured Thursday night in a swamp near lh port of Portobelo. They were being brought to join the 85 already held in Panama City jail. The government has not yet de cided whether to prosecute them in Panama courts or send them hack to Cuba for the Castro gov ernment to deal with them. FALLS, 'OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY Weather Northern California Fair through Saturday, except partly cloudy in extreme north and fog and low cloudiness on the coast. Cooler Saturday. Northwesterly coastal winds 10-20 miles an hour. Klamath Falls and vicinity Partly cloudy through Saturday. Chance of scattered thundershow ers In nearby mountains tonight. Low tonight 36-42. High Saturday 66-72. High yesterday Low last night 36 Prcclo. last 24 hours 0 Since Oct. 1 .4.94 Same period last year 14.35 Chris Herter Takes Off For Conclave WASHINGTON (AP)-President' Eisenhower will refuse to go to a summit conference if the Rus sians carry out their threat to turn East Berlin over to the East German Communists. He will take the same stand if the Soviets sign a separate peace treaty with puppet East Germa Any such one-sided Soviet ac tion in the next few weeks un doubtedly would wreck the Big Four foreign ministers conference due to begin in Geneva Monday This American attitude became known authoritatively a few hours before Secretary of State Chris tian A. Herter's scheduled take off for pre-conference strategy talks with the British and French loreign nuniaiers. Herter himself already - has served notice that the Russians must match concession for con cession to end the danger of war. Even as Herter arranged to leave, the three Allies were re ported already arguing with the Soviets over where to ait to dis cuss the German deadlock. In Geneva, Soviet diplomats In sisted the talks take place around a round table. Wester diplomats were noiaing uui 4 or square table. Despite pressure for a summit talk regardless of progress in Ge neva, Eisenhower was reported insisting the foreign ministers first must make concrete gains in casing the Berlin crisis and other German problems. This means, informants said, that mere agreement at Geneva on a time, place and agenda for a summit meeting would not be enough to convince him that conference with Russia's Nikita Khrushchev would be worth while. 8. 1959 casion of a sunny buf chilly summer day "Stranger, in these parts it can't warm up until the snow goes off the hills and the snow can't go off the hills 'til it warms up." It has also been said of this, and many other countries, that "if you don't like the weather around here just wait five minutes." At eny , rate, this is how the south nd of Diamond Lake looked at noon last Monday..! This paper assumes' no furthec responsibility the rnattet. From, her on .out 'you take yo'ur o'wn'ehonces weotherwiie. ' ' '.;; - -- Ciiy To Proceed With Plans For New Airport Terminal Klamath Falls is going ahead with its plans for a new munici pal airport terminal, including a second floor restaurant and coffee shop. Mayor Lawrence Slater and City Manager G. S. Vergcer, returned from Los Angeles early Thursday afternoon, and the mayor immed iately called a session of mem- ..70lbers of the city council, Sports men's Pilots, aviation committee of the chamber of commerce and others. The group elected to proceed with the terminal after Mayor Sla ter outlined the results of conver sations held with FAA officials in Los Angeles. Slater said that he and Vcrgcer had met with FFA Chief Charles Winiger of the Air Force division of the 11 western states and his staff on Wednesday morning, and reached agreements on all major points m dispute regarding the terminal structure. Earlier conversations with the FFA had developed that they would not participate in second floor construction. However, Sla ter reported that the FFA had agreed to go along with the sec ond floor arrangement when it was pointed out to them that the proposed restaurant space on the ground floor was bciig eliminat ed from the plans. Architect John Howard had changed the plans in accordance with earlier instructions and had cut out 1,750 square feet from the ground floor and substituted this space In the second floor. Howard also gave tne group an estimated cost of $102,000 for con struction of the finished unit. The building was initially authorized on the strength of a $50,000 fed-, eral grant, matching another $50, 000 by the city council. FAA requirements call for the finished plans to be in the Los Angeles FAA offices no later than Mav 15. They also require that bids be opened on the actual contract let prior to June 30, In order to quali fy for the federal matching funds. In Thursday's meeting the as Family Plans Nevada Stay RENO, Nev. (AP) Although their forgiving home town wants them back, a young family that disappeared from Minnesota four months ago plans to stay in Neva da until the father works out his financial problems. Debt-ridden Earl Zrust, 30, his wile and their five children were found in Reno Thursday by a fi nance company which repossessed their automobile. The family had left Silver Lake, Minn., without trace. Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 6391 sembled group still agreed that the second floor restaurant was, necessary, and if not built now would have to be added later at greatly increased cost. After weighing the facts, it was agreed to proceed with the term inal as revamped. However, Mayor Slater cau tioned that there was still no as surance that the bids would ap proximate the estimated cost of the building. "We won't know for sure wheth er we are or are not building a new terminal until we open the bids," he said. 5-Cent Letter Doom Seen WASHINGTON (UPI) The administration's request for a nickel stamp on first class letters appeared likely today to wind up as a dead letter in congress. There was no noticeable enthus iasm among congressmen for the administration proposal to raise the four-cent rate for regular let ters to five cents and boost air mail letters from seven to eight cents. One Republican member of the House Post Office Committee, Rep. H. R. Gross (Iowa) predict ed flatly "there will be no rate bill passed this year." Gross said he would not support any postage Increase this year on top of the 60-million-dollar an nual rate hike Congress voted last year. i The administration proposal which would, raise 35 million dol lars a year, is a key part of President Eisenhower's plan for balancing the budget in the 1960 fiscal year which starts July 1 The narrowly balanced budget he sent to Congress assumed that postage rates would be increased. Without them, his budget would show a 275-million-dollar deficit instead of a 70-million surplus. Eisenhower did not spell out any details of the increases in his Budget Message. The propos al for a penny hike in Tegular and air mail rates, submitted in a letter from Postmastor General Arthur E. Summerfield to Speak er Sam Rayburn (D-Tex.) late Thursday, gave no explanation tor tne iiw-aay wait. CREAM PUFF PUNCHERS SWANSEA, Wales (UPD-Two husky young men who staged fight in a public garden here were under arrest today for de stroying public property. They were hitting each other with daffodils. $230.000 Project School Addition To Begin A Eugene contracting firm, Vik Construction Company, was award ed a contract last night for build ing an addition to the Sacred Heart Academy and an addition to the rectory for Sacred Heart par ish.. The entire project will cost just under $230,000. The Vik concern, represented by Trigvie Vik, had submitted the low bid at the bid opening in the office of the architect, Howard R. Perrin, Thursday afternoon. The building committee met with Msgr. T. P. Casey of Sacred Heart par ish last night and made the award. Vik's basic bid on construction of a two-story masonry auditorium, three standard classrooms, one science classroom and audio-visual facilities for the Academy was $207,272. Alternates No. 2 and No. 4 were accepted which add a mas ter program clock system at $990 and glare-reducing glass at $1,058. The Vik bid on the rectory ad dition was $20,105. A two-story ma sonry addition to the present rec tory will add approximately 1.401 square feet of area to that struc ture. The addition to the Academy covers a ground area of approxi mately 18,138 square feet. Other bidders were G. L. Bai lantyne and Brostcrhous Construc tion Company, both of Klamath Falls, Riverman 'and Sons and Girl Makes Vain Attempt To Rescue Shark Victim By JAMES J. HEALY SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) A "huge grey shape" swirled through the water near the Gold en Gate Bridge Thursday ana killed an 18-year-old college stu dent swimming just 40 yards off shore. Albert Kogler, a student at San Francisco State College, was pulled from the water barely alive by a daring girl who ignored his screams of warning. But Kogler, one arm hanging only by a tendon and his back and chest slashed to ribbons, died three hours later despite emer gency surgery. Local authorities were sure the killer was a great white shark, very rare In the chilly bay area waters. ., ' ' " -.The girl, who swam ashore and then returned to help Kogler, was Shirley o Nelll, also 18 and a stu dent at the same college. Army M.bgt. Leo Day, who wit- nessed the rescue said. It was the greatest exhibition of courage I have ever seen, or am likely to see in my whole life. Before being placed under seda tives Shirley sobbed out her story of the sudden attack. She said she and Kogler were swimming at Bakers Beach, about two miles west of the Gold- Gate Bridge "when a huge gray shape swirled out of the wa ter." I heard Albert scream, 'Go back, go back, it's a shark!' Then blood gushed in the water." As she headed for shore, Miss O'Neill said she saw the shark's tail whip across the surface of the FBI Informer Tells Of Red Infiltration CHICAGO (AP)-An FBI In former whose 15-year pose as a Communist brought him insults, a beating and the scorn of ac quaintances, says the Reds have infiltrated the United Packing house Workers Union throughout the nation. Joseph A. Poskonka, 57, of Chi cago, threw aside his disguise Thursday when he told the House Robbed Grocer Donates Food CHICAGO (AP) A grocer gave two big bags of food Thursday to the destitute family of an unem ployed laborer who was caught stealing $200 worth ot tood trom his store. Recinicnt of the food was Mrs, Nancy Brown, 20, mother of two small bovs. Her husband, Adolph, 22, was in jail after he was seized Attempting to haul away a cart load of groceries from a store operated by John and Michael Enifanio. John, 27, explained wny ne gave the food lo Mrs. Brown: "I'm human and I got kids of my own, I wouldn't want to see them go hungry. I can't judge the children for what the father does." Enifanio, father of two boys. Is white, the Browns are negro. Long-Necker Awaiting Mate SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) r-This has all the earmarks of a love story. The hero is a pillar in tne com munity. Everybody looks up to him, His name is zoo Beau, ana he's lonelv. The heroine Is due to arrive next month from Africa. Officials at Fleishhacker Zoo claim she's a real catch, acquired in trade for two Users and a camel, They're hoping that Zoo Beau takes one look and falls head over heel ia love. At Once Thompson and Georgeson, Inc., both of Portland and Louis Kow olowski of Madras. Work is to start at once and completion date for the school will be within the 1959 calendar year so the facilities can be put to use after the Christmas school holi day. The rectory addition is to be completed about September 1. Subcontractors on the schookand rectory additions are the same. They are: reinforced steel, Soule Company, Portland: glulam beams. Timber Laminators, Ontario; acoustical tile, Barnard's, Med ford: chalk and tackboard. Allied Builders, Portland: millwork, 01 sen, Eugene; aluminum sash, Mercer Steel, Portland; hollow metal doors, Reuter, Portland; metal locks, Brown Steel Com pany, Portland; sheetmetal work, Kimes, Klamath Falls; roofing, Henris Roofing. Klamath Falls; lath and plaster, C. D. Ewing, Klamath Falls; ceramic tile, S. Goodman, Yreka; floor covering, Gilkinson, Medford: painting. Rop er and Roper and KC Paint, Klam ath Falls: mechanical, Friesen Welman, Klamath Falls: masonry, Moore & Son, Klamath Falls; glass and glazing, Russell Glass, Klamath Falls: miscellan eous iron, Joe Fair, Klamath Falls: electrical, East Side Elec tric. Klamath Falls. v water several limes as it repeat edly slashed the screaming youth. The attractive student said she had just about reached shore when she heard Kogler cry, "Help me! She ran from the water to Joe Intersonine, a fireman fishing nearby. He tied a fishing line about her waist and she plunged back into the surf. In a hesitant voice she said that upon reaching Kogler, "one arm seemed to be hanging by a thread." "I grabbed him around his back, but it was all bloody and I could see his insides," she said. "He kept screaming and yelling so I finally told him to lie on his back and relax. - . "He did that, though Jhe -pain must have been awful, and If he hadn't I would have never been able to get him back," she said. Meanwhile other spectators had called police. Patrolman Harry Paretchen, first on the scene, re alized no ambulance could travel on the sandy beach. I saw a Coast Guard boat off the beach," he said. "I fired three shots, then waved my arms for them to send a helicopter or a truck." A short time later, a Coast Guard weapons carrier rolled onto the beach. Kogler was placed on the bed of the truck and rushed to nearby Letterman Army Hos pital. .Doctors performed emergency surgery, but the shock and the loss of blood were too much for the youth, who died shortly after the operation. Drops Pose; Un-American Activities Commit tee of the years abuse he suffered - from persons who thought he was communist. He hasn't been able to find job in two years. His voice was choked with emotion as he told of being fired. how irate neighbors smashed win dows in his home, and of the In sults his wife, children and 1$ grandchildren suffered during his pose as a Red. Poskonka was identified as a top Communist leader in the Pack inghouse Workers Union at House Un American Activities hearing in 1952. Shortly after that, he testified, he .walked into a tavern owned by a relative. Someone pointed me out to a soldier as a Commie and the soldier walked over and punched me in the jaw and knocked me down," he said. Rep. Edwin E. Willis (D-La). acting chairman of the committee, told newsmen Poskonka had been thoroughly investigated by the FBI and according to the FBI his testimony was thoroughly reliable. A flood of emotional relief en gulfed Poskonka's wife. Antoinette 5.i, now that he has dropped his disguise. I was worried. I was ashamed. How would you feel If people thought your husband was a Com munist?" she said. Poskonka told the committee I thank the United States for giving me a chance to serve the government. Now maybe I'll be able to get and keep a job without the Red stigma attached to one." He read into the record a list of union officials who he said were Communists. FIRE RAZES DISTRICT MANILA (UPI) - Authority said today four Filipinos were killed and six others were miss ing in a fire which gutted the commercial district of Roxas City Wednesday. About 600 families were left homeless.
