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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.
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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
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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.
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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.