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U.OF ORE.LIBRART NEISPAPC8 SCCTION OEN.REr.AMO DOCUMENTS DIV. Boxatvotco. COUP wiMo Mm J , v n il ; tl'.x v--' (Xc" MAYOR LAWRENCE SLATER signed a proclamation declaring Saturday, May 16, to be ' Armed Forces Day at Kingsley Field, base for the 408th Fighter Group. Looking on, left to right, are Sportsmen Pilots, H. O. Juckeland, general chairman of Aviation Week, '. Donna Kessi, Miss Aviation of the Klamath Basin for the 1959 Air Fair who will preside over festivities, and right, Capt. Quitman C. Zeagler, Air Force. Klamath Falls Asks County For Rec Aid The city of Klamath Falls tact fully suggested to the County Budg et Committee yesterday that the county lend some assistance to the city's growing recreation program. The reason the city feels that the county should help meet expenses is because people outside the city notably residents of the South Suburban area make extensive use of city facilities. Specifically, the City Parks and Recreation. Department said $17,000 of county money would be extreme ly useful. Of that amount, if grant ed by the county, the city would spend Ifi.OOfl on caoital improve ments (additions and betterments to parksl and $11,000 to hire a program director and morehelpers in organized activities. City Recreation Director Bob Bonney.'sonn to leave for a new job in El Cerrito. California, told the budget committee that people "in the county" account for much use of city parks and recreation features. He cited figures from a 1956 survey that showed "out of city usage ranging from 26 per cent for the archery range in Moore Park up to 52 per cent for the boys' Softball program and 57 per cent for the boys' baseball pro gram. Similar out of city usage was reporterf for the city's five play centers, two youth centers and Moore Park s other offerings. Bonney said that not only young people land oldsters) from the South Suburbs take advantage of city parks and the organized, su perviscd recreation program, but that people from Merrill, Malin, Beatty, Bonanza and Chiloquin also come in. . "We want them to," Bonney said. "We're delighted to have them. We're just sorry that the well's dry now. We're merely ask ing for the means to carry on the program as it has been going on. City Manager G. S. Vergeer told the budget committee, whose mem bers include the county court, that the city has proposed in its forth coming budget appropriations of $27,947 for parks and $37,946 for recreation. Klamath Falls expenditures for recreation average $2.i0 per rest dent, he said, compared with a national average of $6. Consider ing that an equal number of people outside the city use city facilities, the Klamath Falls average is cut to $1.35 per' capita. GUEST OF SOVIETS LONDON (UPI) Emporor Hailc Selassie of Ethiopia will pay an official visit to the Soviet Union next month. r WORK ON THE NEW BRIDGE across the Shasta River a mile and a half west of Montagu It moving rapidly ahead. Here, bulldozers ef the Bos Construction Company of Berkeley, r trenching and preparing the ground for the cement structure. It will be a 120 foot span with two 14-foot lanes, and will cost approximately $107,518. The old bridge at far left will be torn down. Photo by Don Kettler World News In Brief United Press International EAST-WEST Geneva The foreign ministers conference re sumes. CRASHES Baltimore Feder al investigators are sifting the wreckage of a Capital Airlines Viscount in which 31 persons died near Baltimore late Tuesday in the second of two Capital plane crashes. EDDIE-LlZ-Los Angeles Ed die Fisher and Elizabeth Taylor head for European honeymoon after wedding that followed his Nevada divorce by less than four hours. BRAIN TRUST Washington State Department wants to set up special brain trust to mastermind political, economic warfare against Communists. BLOCKADE Berlin Soviet news agency says celebrations of end of Berlin blockade are aimed at harming Geneva conference. ALGERIA Algiers French troops hold huge parade on anni versary of start of De Gaulle's rise to power: tension higher than year ago when r&htist mobs sacked government house. Draft Chief Given Nod WASHINGTON (AP) The fed eral government has approved the appointment of Sprague Carter, a Pendleton insurance man. as Ore gon's Selective Service director. Two members of a county board in Oregon promptedly resigned in protest to the appointment by Gov. Mark Hatfield. Selective Service headquarters here disclosed today that the ap pointment was approved by Lt Gen. Lewis Hershey, the agency's national director. A storm of protest to the ap pointment had been raised in Oregon. Hershey's office earlier had said, however, that it never refuses to confirm such an ap pointmcnt by a governor. At Central Ppint, Ore., James Gregg, chairman of the Jackson County board, said rancher Garry Garrett and Medford real estate man Fred Brennan had resigned in protest. "I think I'll stay on until an other five-man board is estab lished. I think I'll quit then," said Gregg. He said one other member also may quit. Gregg said he thought the ap pointment should have gone to Col. Francis Mason, who has been the assistant state director. "He was the right one for the benefit of selective service, Gregg said. 1 MP:Jy-Jj Top Weapons To Be Shown Observance on Saturday, May 16 of National Armed Forces Day is expected to bring record crowds to Kingsley Field, base of the 408th Fighter Group to view the nation's formidable weapons for air defense and to view the morning parade down Main Street. The schedule of events for Armed Forces Day follows: 10 a.m. pa rade down Main Street; 11 a.m. "Open House," begins with an Armed Forces Day prayer by Chaplain Jefferson Davis and free movies in the base theater: 11:15 a.m., fly-by of two F-101 Voodoos. At 11:30 a.m. fly-by of four F-89 Scorpions; 12:12 p.m. fly-by of one B-52 bomber; 12:32, fly-by of one B-47 bomber; 1 p.m., scramble and intercept by F-86 Sabre Jets, GCA landing and a simulated flame out landing. At 1:45 p.m. fly-by of three C-119 cargo planes; 2:15 p.m. fire fight ing demonstration; 3 p.m. picture to be given away; 7 p.m. Klamath Falls Chapter, Sportsmen Pilots of Oregon sponsored dinner at Reames Golf and Country Club. A social hour starting at 6:30 p.m. will precede the banquet. Glenn Woodmansee. attorney for tne federal Aviation Agency, Fourth Region, Los Angeles, will speak, on "The Role of the Federal Government in Aviation." He will be introduced by H. O. Juckeland, general chairman for the SPO, sponsors of Aviation Week and the second annual Air Fair to be held in conjunction with Armed Forces Day. Toastmastcr will be Tom Cro- son. Seattle, vice president of West Coast Airlines. The public is invit ed to the banquet and dance to follow. Camera In Thor Recovered By AF CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla (AP) A Thor intermediate range bal listic missile, reportedly carrying a tiny camera in its nose, has streaked 1,500 miles over the At lantic on-what the Air Force called a highly successful flight test. Thirty-nine minutes after the biastoff Tuesday a small data capsule that popped out of the nose cone near the end of the trip was recovered from the ocean. The camera, equipped with high speed film because of the 10,000 m.p.h. velocities encountered on the flight, reportedly was aboard as a secondary experiment to re cord the nose cone's fiery re-entry through the earth s atmosphere 41 & KLAMATH -20 Pages Prli-e Five Cent Chief's Message Boost Gas WASHINGTON (AP) President Eisenhower asked Congress today lor swift action to avert "serious disruption" of housing and high way construction and an "impend ing disaster in wneai. The President sent a special message to Capitol Hill declaring that in the four months since he requested legislation of these is sues, the problems have grown in creasingly critical. He called for immediate action on these measures: 1. A temporary increase in the federal gasoline tax from 3 cents a gallon to 44 cents, to head off a looming deficit In the highway trust fund which could disrupt the vast highway building program. 2. A 6 billion dollar increase in the Federal Housing Administra tion's authorization to insure home mortgage loans. 3. "Corrective legislation re vising the wheat price support and crop control program which, the President said, has lanea ut terly to prevent mounting sur pluses. This is the most critical situa lion of all. Eisenhower said, be cause the wheat problem threatens to "crash of its own weight" and destroy the whole farm program Grievances To Be Aired FORT PILLOW, Tcnn. (AP) Convicts get a chance to air their grievances before state officials today on the heels of a 14-hour prison dormitory revolt that end ed as abruptly as it began. The youthful inmates, all white pushed aside their barricades and freed two guards unharmed Tues day after prison officials promised that their complaints would be heard and there would be no re prisals. Following a series of talks with State Corrections Commissioner Keith Hampton, the prisoners sur rendered meekly to massed high way patrolmen shortly before noon) Hampton said he planned to spend the next two days investi gating the nor, wnicn n;; . ae signed to focus attention on griev ances ranging from bad food to a leged brutality. Prison officials admitted in mates sometimes were lashed . which was another of the griev ances. But we don t use tne leather strap nearly enough," one guard remarked. Girl Wounded; Trio Nabbed NEW YORK (AP) Two boys test-fired an old-.22-caliber rifle from a roof Tuesday and slightly wounded a girl sitting in a school classroom. Eleanor Kaplan, 12, was treat ed at a hospital for a minor bul let wound of the back. Robert Ryan and Paul Edercr, both 16, were arrested on charges of felonious assault and violating the weapons law. Ederer s father, William, 52, who owned the rifle, was arrested on a charge of violating the weap ons law. Fidel Castro , Gets Warning PANAMA (AP) Panama's government has told Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro to watch his tongue if he has hopes of getting back 86 Cubans who invaded Pan ama in an abortive attempt to a revolution. Foreign Minister Miguel Moreno Jr. Tuesday rejected a request for repatriation of the Cubans made by Cuban Under Secretary of State Eric Aguero. Moreno told Aguero that the possibilities of repatriation were not helped by Castro's criticisms of President Ernesto de la Guar- dia's government for getting the help of the Organization ot Amer ican States against the invaders Honduras Rebels Said In Might TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) About 500 Honduran reb els were reported in flight today after an unsuccessful attempt to seize Gracias, an old trading cen ter near the Guatemalan frontier The government said civilians helped troops rout the armed band when it attacked Gracias, the capital of Lempira state, on Mon dav nicht. The attack on Gracias was the latest in a series of attempts to spark off a revolution since Pres ident Ramon Villeda Morales came to power 18 months ago, TEACHER CONTRIBUTIONS NEW ROCHKLLE. N Y. (AP) The 170 seniors of the College of New Rochelle voted Tuesday to contribute t200 apiece aller gradu al ion for use in raising teachers' salaries. FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, Taxes, Congress Urged "Because the secretar.V of agri culture is required by law to an nounce a continuation of this thor oughly discredited program by the 15th of May. in January I urgently recommended corrective legisla tion." the message said. "The deadline set by law is now rnly two days away. No such leg islation has been passed." - In advance of actual delivery of the message to Congress. Eisen hower told his news conference about it in outline. The country's rising prosperity will be damaged, Eisenhower said, if the Federal Housing Ad ministration's program is allowed lo lapse for lack of the six billion dollar additional insuring author ity he asked in January. More thousands of men will be GEORGE CALLISON Newscaster Named Aide To Chamber George Callison, familiar to Klamath Basin radio listeners as a reporter and newscaster for two years, has been appoinlM assi tant manager of the Klamath Coun ty Chamber of Commerce. Callison's appointment becomes effective next Monday. He now is completing his last week wilh KFJ1 where he has been news director since his arrival here June 1, 1957. The new assistant manager re places Ed Brotherhood, who left here last December 1 to become manager of the Coos Bay Cham ber of Commerce. R. Frank Tucker, manager of the Klamath Chamber of Com merce, announced Callison's ap pointment today. 1 feel that Mr. Callison's wide background in the public relations field will prove most beneficial to our organization, Tucker said. "He has made many friends in the Klamath Falls business community during his two years as KFJl news director and 1 am confident that his association with the chamber of commerce as assistant manager will prove to be mutually highly beneficial." . Callison, whose wife Helen is well known in the Klamath Basin as Welcome Wagon hostess, lives at 1180 Crescent Avenue. The couple has twin daughters, 12-year - old Sheila and Sharon. , The family came, to Klamalh Falls from Miami where Callison was news director for WGBS-Itadio for three years. Prior to that time. Callison was news director and chief announcer for KVOA-Radio in Tucson, Arizona, and news direc tor and program manager for KVOA-TV there. Weather Northern California Cloudy with light rain through Thursday; possibly a few scattered thunder storms over the mountains; cooler inland. Coastal winds southwest erly, 15-25 miles an hour. Klamath Falls and vicinity- Variable clouds through Thursday with scattered showers or thun derstorms In mountains through tonight. Low tonight 42-48; high Thursday. 61-70. High yesterday 86 Low last night 4.1 Precip. last 24 hours . 0 Since Oct. 1 4.!4 Same period last year 14.78 Sun Explosion Impairs Radios SACRAMENTO PEAK OBSER VATORY. N. M. (AP) An cxplo-f sion on the sun, described as one ol the strongest radio flares ever recorded, kicked up a magnetic storm in the earth's atmosphere Sunday. Now it Is dying out. Astrono mers say they expect the last of it Thursday. Harry Ramsey, chicl observer 3l this mountain lop observatory in south central New Mexico, said, "The solar flare was about 100 ism miles in length and 50,000 miles wide. 'A .,h MAY 13, 19..9 Telephone TU 4-81 1 1 No. 6393 jobless, the President went on. unless new revenues are provided to keep the massive highway build ing program going. He noted that the existing high way bill permits no more con- siruction in any year than the funds available will pay for in hat year. Costs now are outrunning the in come from highway -user taxes. and Eisenhower has requested nat the federal gasoline levy be boosted from 3 to 4'5 cents. Con gress has seemed little disposed to comply. Some legislators have ndicated they would prefer to meet the costs for a time from general revenues. r.isennower. committed to a balanced budget in fiscal I960, ig nored the latter possibility in his news conference remarks, and emphatically renewed his appeal hat the budget be brought into balance. As for the wheat surplus prob lem, the President said it is worsening instead of improving The government will have 3'j bil lon dollars invested in surplus wheat by mid-year, he said, and action must be taken speedily to revise the program. Winds Of Ice Belt Superior United Press International Icy winds up to tl3 miles an hour battered the Lake Superior region Tuesday night and a light snowlall powdered sections ot the upper Midwest. The mid-May snow across parts of North Dakota, Minnesota and upper Michigan was borne on northwesterly winds averaging 30 to 31) miles an hour. Overnight readings hovered near the freezing mark in North Dakota, northern Minnesota and upper Michigan. South of the wintry weather, mild readings in the 50s and 60s prevailed across the southern Great Lakes. Showers and thun ;, dcrstorms occurred across middle Mississippi Valley and in the Southeast frum the Ohio and Tennessee- valleys to the eastern Gulf region. Rain soaked parls of Tennessee and Mississippi. Scattered show- ors dampened the northeast into southern New England. Snow flurries were expected to persist Wednesday in the northern Great Lakes as the cold air pushes across the northern plains and upper Mississippi Valley. Scattered showers and thunder storms were seen for the Ohio and Tennessee valleys, southern New England and the South Atlantic states. Freight Rate Dip Granted By PUC SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Re duced rales on railroad carlot shipments of lumber within Cal lornia were made permanent by the Slate Public Utilities Commis sion Tuesday. The PUC granted lower intra state rates on an interim basis last Dec. 26 after the Interstate Commerce Commission approved lower interstate rates. Northern California lumber mills :nd producers asked the intrastate eduction to meet competition of Southern Oregon mills shipping to Southern Calilorma lumber yards. Ihc Southern California yards supported the in-the-state rate re duction, but truckers opposed it contending they would operate at a loss if they matched the lower railroad rates. U. 02 "NUTS IN MAY" i.tha title of the all-school play to b. prtianted In th W.ad High School gym Friday, May 15. The four students in tha east are Carla Roisetto, laatad right, who plays Cornelia Otis Skinner, famoui actress; Sally Welch, seatad, who playt Ethel the maid; Damien Ronetto, far left, is to be Alden, Cornelia's huiband; and Karl Vidricltsen, standing, plays Michael, the Skinner's teen-age ion. Mn. Marjoria McCraeken, ttanding right, it tha Weed High faculty play director. Curtain tima is 8 p.m. Photo by Don Kettler Blasts Russia Propaganda 1 VI At Geneva Meet WASHINGTON (AP)-Presidcnt Eisenhower said today the Soviet In ion seems to be pushing a propaganda drive in seeking ad mittance of lted satellite nations to the Geneva foreign ministers conference. Eisenhower told a news confer ence he is very hopeful the Rus sians will abandon any such prop aganda tactics so the conference can get down to fruitful negotia tions. Eisenhower had been asked to evaluate the Soviet efforts thus far to win seats at Geneva for Communist East Germany. Po land and Czechoslovakia. Those eftorts have kept the foreign min isters conference from getting to discussion of- real problems. Eisenhower replied it is very difficult to find out what is going on behind someone else's fore head. The U.S. government, he con tinued, has always been for fruit ful negotiations, and against us ing such conferences as prop acanda platforms. But the situation in Geneva. Ei senhower said, seems to have some of that propaganda in it. During the news conlcrence, the President discussed these other matters: Khrushchev No one has con-j tacted him, Eisenhower said, re-j garding the possibility of a visit by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush chev to the United States. A reporter noted that Vice Pres ident Nixon will visit Moscow this summer to open a U.S. trade fair. The newsman asked whether the President would be favorable to the idea of Khrushchev's coming to this country to open the Soviet fair to be held in New York later this year. And. the reporter went on, would that open the door to the possibility ot Khrushchev's at tending a summit conference in the United States. After saving no one has talked to him about such a possibility, Eisenhower remarked that it is up to the Big Four foreign min isters to pick a site tor any sum mit session. As to whether he would wel come the Kremlin s No. 1 man to the United States if Khrush chev requested an invitation, Ei senhowor replied with a smile that UCIlIIO kalla,- liicl waif unit on that one. Message Eisenhower announced that later in the day he would send Congress a special message dealing with problems in the fields of housing, highway con struction and disposal of and cur tailment of wheat surpluses. In all those fields, he added, legislation is badly needed. Appointees For the third week in a row. Lisenhower pictured himself as rather baffled as to why the Senate is delaying con firmation of some of his key nom inees for federal posts. He made that remark when asked whether he thought the op position in the Senate, mainly among Democrats, is assuming some sort of pattern. Eisenhower went on to say that the delaying tactics and what he called attacks on the integrity of his nominees must have more be hind them than mere searching in to their competence. Spending Eisenhower enthusi astically welcomed a question as lo whether he has less concern now than earlier in the year about what he has termed reckless spending proposals in Congress. with a smile, ne saia ne naa started to think reporters were1 avoiding that subject. Making it clear he still wants the budget balanced, Eisenhower said the country is in the midst of a business upturn and yet some people are thinking of the idea of a balanced budget as sometning evil. Actually, Eisenhower went on the nation ought to be trying to build up surpluses and reduce the national debt. He labeled as un conscionable the fact that interest alone on that debt totals eight bil lion dollars annually. Eisenhower said the federal gov ernment has a duly to preserve a stable economy. He said that If all Americans don't demand sensible, reasonable action from labor, busi ness leaders and Congress, then each American is going to be hurt. Missiles As for complaints that money is being wasted in develop ment of duplicate missiles, Eisen hower said need to avoid any waste in such areas is ona of the most critical concerns of everyone in the administration. In his opin ion, he said, progress toward cut ting expense in that field is being made through the elforts of the new space agency and the Defense Department's program chiefs. Chris Herter Plans Move To Open Talks GENEVA (AP) The Western foreign ministers showed signs to day of becoming fed up with the Soviet Union's insistence on add ing more Red nations to the Geneva conference. U. S. Secretary of State Chris tian A. Herter planned to use his power as today's chairman to try lo open the East-West debate on German issues for which the con ference was called. Aides said privately they were not sure he could pull off this maneuver unless the Soviet cam paign suddenly cased up some thing they did not expect. A French spokesman said "we think this afternoon's session will be wasted" on further argument over Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's proposal to give Poland and Czechoslovakia seats at the conference round table. Herter, France's Maurice Couve dc Murville and Britain's Selwyn Lloyd all turned down the pro position Tuesday. The Western ministers offered Gromyko a compromise, however: To let the two Communist nations and Italy and probably ne or two other Western slates enter the parley at some later time.;' But Gromyko said through a spokesman the success of the con ference was hinged to bringing in the Polish and Czech foreign min isters as full members at once. He demanded "a positive deci sion" and made clear he wanted it today. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin told newsmen last night: "The Soviet Union will in sist on a positive decision on this problem. We consider that the success of the whole conference will to a large extent depend on the decision." Strike Parley Breaks Down NEW YORK (AP) Negotia- lions aimed at ending a six-day-old strike of nonprofessional work ers at six hospitals have broken down. The next move is appar- cntly up to the courts. Five of the six hospitals go to court today to seek temporary in junctions against the strike. The sixth hospital has already been granted an injunction. The hospitals involved are Len ox Hill, Beth David, Beth Israel, Bronx, Mount Sinai, and Brooklyn Jewish. Local 1109' of the Retail Drug Employes Union called the strike in a move to ojitain recognition.
