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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1959)
MaSPAPBJf sscuqh C02?, In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS Odd note in the news: tanniDals in the Purari Hills area of New Guinea (far down in the South Seas) raided the village of Maluari yesterday and killed ana Ait patrolman Obu, the vil lage policeman. tte have municipal problems nere m me U.S.A. But, thank for tune, tnat isn t one of them. Speaking further of Drnhtems Dr. Paul Benton, an Oklahoma cmia psychiatrist, told a pediatric society meeting in Memphis the other day that we need to turn back the rearing of children to parents instead of giving them so iiiucii expert aavice. He added: "You can't rear children hv a book of rules. Every child is an liVUIVIUUALu Going literary for a moment, George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron, said a century and a quarter ago - in his uon Juan: The antique Persians taught three useful things ' ' To draw the bow. to ride, and SFEAK THE TRUTH." whether he draws a bow or rides a horse I don't know. But I'm inclined to think that in his talk to the Memphis pediatrists Dr. Benton was speaking the iruin. f cnuaren can t be reared successfully by mass production lecnniques. The communists tried it in the early days of the Bolshevik Revo lution. They tock the children away from the parents and put cm in institutions. They had to give it up and bring parents back into the picture. Since that was done, Russia is going ahead faster. Concluding this frivolous screed- Harold Laswell, professor of law and political science at Yale. told the National Congress of Par ents and Teachers at Denver ninht before last that more than a mil lion and a half Americans suffer mental disorders which require hospitalization: that an equal num ber are mentally retarded and that out of each 16 Americans . one is afflicatcd with unmistakable mental and personality disorders. He concluded: "Adding to that the number of persons estimated to suiter from undiagnosed mental ailments, only ONE out of each SEVEN persons can be expected to be mentally normal." Price Five Ceats-38 Pages KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY SI, ftsT Telephone TV it N. flag j Jungle Jowls' Shorn Editor Loses Whiskers Little League Ball Park Work Starts "NOW AM I ELIGIBLE for a shave?"" asks Wayne Scott, sports editor of the Herald and News, as he turns the first shovelful of dirt to begin construction of new Little League facilities at the former Recreation Field in Mills Addition. Bob Bonney sharpens the razor as Scott hopefully hoists the shovel. Interested Little Leaguers look on. Despite the fact that he was threatened with a yard lens straight razor and a sharp-edged shovel. Herald and News Sports Editor Wayne Scott happily sub mitted to a shave in the middle of old Recreation Field Wednes day afternoon. The Wednesday afternoon shave culminated the long campaign when he, in company with Klam ath Falls Park and Recreation Di rector Bob Bonney, a group Herter Cautions Gromyko Not To Make Accusations Hmmmmmmmm. , That explains a lot of things WetWeather Will Continue By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The season's longest spell of wet weather, with violent storms m some areas, showed no indica tion of a general breakup today in the Eastern half of the nation. ' Severe wind storms hammered areas in the nation's mid-section and parts of the South Wednes day. One tornado struck a rural rrca in southern Iowa, injuring live memoers ot one lamily. Fun nel clouds were spotted in central and eastern Kansas. Tornadic winds lashed sections of Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri. Torrential rains caused floods in some sections of the Midwest wet belt, including Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin and Nebraska. Winds ranging up to from 70 to more th3n 80 m.p.h. swept across me midlands as thunderstorms erupted with the clashing of warm and coo! air. Hail fell in many "areas. The storms caused extensive property damage. Parts of Florida were soaked by heavy rain. Nearly 5 inches fell in the Jacksonville area and a three-hour downpour at Ruskin measured 4 Inches. In the Midwest, Lake Mills, Iowa, reported 3.36 inches of rain in an hour. Flash floods were re ported at Spencer, in northwest Iowa, after more than 6 inches of: rain. ' I GENEVA AP) U.S. Secretarv of State Christian A. Herter warned Soviet Foreisn Minister! Andret A. Gromyko in the B12 rour conference todav aeamst making "unjustified accusations'' against NATO of aggressiveness. Herter, who had not planned to speak today, suddenly broke into the debate on a German peace settlement, to challenge Gromy- ko s enarges. -k He hoped the accusations anrt invective will . be halted. Herte.- said, because Gromyko's state ments could lead to creation of very serious tension in the con ference." Herter made what amounted to a rebuke to Gromyko a short time betore the U.S. secretary was to play host at dinner to the Soviet minister as well as Britain's Set wyn Lloyd and Maurice Couve de Murville of France. The dinner meeting was regard ed by many Western diplomats as certain to produce private East West discussions which could havs decisive effect on the future course of the conference. Gromyko got into his charges against me west m a speech re newing his arguments for the So viet proposal for a peace treat to oe signed with each side of divided Germany. A U.S. spokesman said Herter spoke out because of accusations by Gromyko that NATO is ure- I'.iihis ior aggressive war, tnat west Germany is militarily ag- ruMive, ana mat west German earmament is motivated by de ires for revenge. The West blasted a Soviet nro- posai ior a confederation of East and West Germany with a dec laration it is impossible to, "con federate a system of freedom witn a system of bondage." Ambassador Wilhelm Grewe of West Germany, carrying forward! tne Allied assault on the Soviet plan for a peace settlement with each side of divided Germanv. told the Big Four conference the confederation project was designed to impose political paralysis on west Germany. "The proposal of a German cen federation does not contribute to1 the reunification ot Germany," Grewe asserted, "but to its post ponement, its prevention and, over and above all this, to the political paralysis ot the Federal Repub lic." - . -Grewe said explanations of the over-all peace plan offered by So viet Foreign Minister Andrei Gro-j myko in the conference Wednes day were in some respects wel comed by west Germany. Nose Cone Retrieved tAP) tiny CAPE CANAVERAL Fla The Air Force hurled nose cone of the future 6,000 miles down the Atlantic today and re covered it intact four hours later. It was the second consecutive lime the Air Force retrieved a nose cone. iLjy t Hurricane Winds Rip Port In Texas ... Gy'ESTOS, Tex. AP t Deputy Sheriff Baddy Ewteg es. md Masts that exceeded horri- timated winds at Pmt srtiir cane force ripped parts of Gatves- up ts too m,p,h, ton today. Two fishermen sere? The Galveston Tribune said missing. . three houses were Mows dews at The storm struck from a Bute; Port Bolivar, on a slender penm. WAYNE B. SCOTT ... Now nothing makes him mad Little Leaguers from Mills School and a number of Little League officials, turned the dirt that in itiates an approved plan ts con vert Recreation Field at Vine and Owens streets into the Mills Lit tle League Park. - When asked. "But what about the Centennial?' Scott answered. i tt be onfy to happy to grow another beard say for the next Centennial. A strong advocate of Little League baseball, Scott accepted a challenge issued last July to! wear a beard until the first shov elful of dirt was turned m making a community Little League base hall park a reality for Klamath Falls youngsters. Included in the plans for the new field is the construction of two regulation sized Little League baseball diamonds, grandstands and bleachers for each, player dugouts, restrooms and the THE END of a long scratchy trail finds Herald end News Sports Editor Wayne Scott submitting meekly end con tentedly to e shave by Little Leaguers, Scoff had grown the beard with a promise to shave it off only when Little League ball perk was established. Construction to meke former Recreation Park the new Mills Little League perk brought on the shave. Here, Kenneth Pound wields a wicked three foot razor while Fred Cole provides the shaving cream, in background, from left, are Bert Smith, Recreation Director Bob Bonney and another youthful spectator. Crime Conclave Members Under Pressure From U.S. NEW YORK (APM-The power; of the federal government today! was turned upon the notorious 195?! underworld convention at Apala chin, N.Y., with 27 delegates in dicted on charges of conspiring to! baas probes ot it. Arrests of the defendants Quick ly got under way. Many already were in trouble, ana some m jail, as a result of refusal to answer questions of various investigatory agencies previously. the crackdown was the result of nearly a year's effort by a spe ctal crime-busting agency set up by the U.S. attorney general s staliation of playground equipment for pre-basebali age youngsters. The diamonds, set diagonally opposite each other, will be di vided by portable fences and a arffp f UHt.ctfintt enj-rtKftap1 Tk A,V ITiM nnnt a eight hours after a powerful two- actua! construction of the long stage Thor-Able rocket blasted 'needed facility, a large number of! aloft that re-entry and impact of loca citizens, service clubs and (hp ri was smfit,rf hv a business houses answered the call cruising near the impact area northwest of Ascension island. The cone, which carries some of the secrets for protecting the warheads of ICBMs of tomorrow was hoisted aboard a vessel, parti of the seared fleet that rendez voused near the impact area. The launching rocket, a Thor missile topped by a Vanguard second stage, roared up at 1:40 a.m. and was in sight for more than two minutes. -. ; V ? -. l47 h V : mm tip -'frfirfri 1 vv 11 ! l HKIHtHot i-ieae nil. eJ A ililliiii . rr''tHn: L -iwillDWWtllm, sit? f I - ( rmc . :.rr r .... -,, . . . for funds by creating a special Little League Ball Park Benefit Fund totaling nearly $3,000, With the cash as a start, the group in tends to enlist the volunteer aid of any and all civic-minded citizens in the community far the actual labor and construction necessary to have the park ready for play before this coming summer base ball program Is completed. The present Little Leagues In clude nearly 400 youngsters aged 8 through 12, comprising the Klamath Falls Little League, Inc., the south Suburban Little League, and a "minor'' league system. 'The success of our project can be credited to- no one man nor group," stated Scott. "It has taken the wholehearted support of a lot of people to bring us to this point and it is going to take the help of lot more to make the park a thing of which the community may well be proud. Recreation Field, a city prop erty, will remain in the hands of the city after the improvements planned are completed, although the name will be changed to Mills Little League Park, The field was originally donated to the city by the members of the local Rotary Club. Summons Set For Jim Hoffa WASHINGTON AP1 The Senate Labor-Management Com mittee says if wants to hear first hand James R. Haifa's views on in-, any retaliatory strike threat. Hoffa, Teamsters union presi dent, denied Wednesday he had threatened a nationwide labor walkout if restrictive labor laws! are passed by Conzre-ss, He was quoted as making such a threat in a sneeci! Tuesday at Browns ville, lex. The committee said it wanted to question Hoffa in mid-June about correplion and will ask him then under oath about plans for1 any such strike. Hoffa told newsmen there nev er would be a nationwide strike of the Teamsters Union. However, 3 story in the current issue of Lile magazine quotes him as say ing, "We may eventually have to do what labor unions do m Eu rope and call general strikes." while Hoffa was making his de nials, the AFL-CIO, from which the Teamsters have been ousted, opened a major attack on the Senate labor hill. The top policy group of the AFL-CIO said it wants federal legislation to help unions curb! corruption but will fight any move to hamstring unions, it said the Senate bill which it once support ed now is unacceptable because! of its amendments. The federation's opposition ap parently focuses on a "bill of rights" for union members and picketing and hot cargo boycott nans aildea in amendments. office, with teams of agents work ing across the nation. The Apalachin delegates came from many cities, and authorities since have been struggling to peg its purpose. The general opin ion is that it was for tightening or altering control over a vast empire of rackets. All 63 persons who attended the conclave were named in the in dictment but only 27 as defend anis. ,. . . . The remaining a! were tabbed: as coconspirators. The reason for! this was not immediately made! clear. Usually such action is for lack of enough evidence. Some-! times these named as coeonsnira-i tors have mdieated willingness to cooperate with, or testify for, the prosecution. that spread destruction from near the Mexican border east to this coasleE city. Two men who went to rftn-k their fishing hues near Galveston remained unreported Eate in the! morning and were feared! drowned. I The wind fore down an over sized sign, called a "spectacular" on Galveston's Pleasure Pier in the Gaif of Mexico. Pier authori ties said engineers inspected the! sign Eisree months ago and de-i clared it would withstand winds ot from 175 ts S rs.p.h. the winds blew a tanker aground, sank a fishiite vessel virtually destroyed three homes and caused widespread lesser de struction in Galveston and imme diate vicinity. Some residents said the storm descended in what they called a Dig, Macs, rumbling cloud. One resident on a Peninsula; near Galveston declared "it def initely aas a tornado. f he i ' it coming." said Mrs. ferry ts. ipson of Port Bolivar, It sounded like a jet Diane. A house was picked up and s hsase! near where 1 live was moved m teet. Weather bureau mea officially docked winds at Galveston at gj m.p.h., well over minimum hurri cane force. On Bolivar Peninsula nearby winds were estimated at 188! m.p.h. The wmd blew railroad cars elf the tracks at Galveston, The Continental Grain Co. dock at , Galveston was partially de-! slroyea. Port Bolivar was without pow er or telephones tor 3 time. At Carrae Springs, Soft mtfes west sf Galveston, winds unroofed! the city hall. Same sections of the city were without power Uses for a time. At least 30 power poles m me area snapped. .Near Cuero, ISO miles west of Galveston, what were described by witnesses as "twisting winds' blew down power lines and trees. sate jus! northeast of the island city ef Galveston. World IVews In Itrlef United Press Mfrttatfsita! BAPTtSTS-Loutsvtlfe World! population growth outstripping! uinsttan missionaries efforts. Baptist convention told. JEALOUSY Swannanona, N.C. Coed attacked with hatchet by jealous ex-roommate may be dis figured for life tf she lives. HOUSING Washington Back ers of Democratic housing toll brace for House fight over pro posals to cut public housing. LABOR Washington AFL- CIO ready lo open fire en many provisions of Senate-passed labor bill it previously endorsed. Mass Killer To Die Friday PKCOm, t.ffeb.- ftiPlH--i Charles Starkweather's last chance to escape the electric chair apparently died Wednesday night when Gov, Ralph G.- Brooks rejected a 'plea- by - Hie mass killer's girl accomplice far a stay! oi execution. Caril Fugate, IS, sentenced to Hie imprisonnnt for murder m connection with Starkweather's rampage, appealed to the gover nor to delay the execution so she could meet with him tn death row in an effort to clear her name. The governor's refusal meaits Starkweather, ffi, must go to Ms! death in the eieetrte chair at i a.m., p.s.t. Friday In a tetter to the governor, Carif said she wanted fa talk with her former boy friend so he could! at least confess to a minister that I am innocent" ' "I believe there is a chance he may tell the truth about what happened," Caril wrote. In a written reply, the governor said such a meeting would hi against stale law. He also said Paper Toilers Strike Vote Set Sunday WEED Xegatiatieas for new contract between Lsmber and Sawmill Workers, Local 2KB, and, the International Paper Caatpa ny are schcdalnS ts aegis tosssr row morning in Portland, The present contract expires sa June t, and the uraoa has pre sented a request for sis change in the contract, in addition to in. diistry demands. N. H. Blaakenshlpi, bssjsess agent for the local, reported that Ihe group has called for a strike vote on Sunday, Slay 24, at 2:38 p.m. is the Sons ef My Msmari a! Hall. BtankensWp said that "Lartbef and Sawmill Workers, Local 23ffi, sit! take strike action to back de mauds on the following issues: "Health and welfare, eteht and one-half cents per hour or $tS per month, open end trust. "Twenty five cents per hsuf across the board wage increase. 'Bracket adtetmenl an aamer mis jobs. "Four cest differential for swing shift and seven cents for graveyard. "The union has asked for six changes in the contract,"' he de clared, "in addition to the iate try's demands. Local 2907 has bo merous inequities in 3 wage seats dne ts autsmaftan and change at job csirtent tferoaghoet the opera tion. The work load nss increased in the major partiaa ef jobs with never a thought for a wags tn crease for the affected empSsyss. "Health and welfare is a must far BBS," BlaakeasM stated "la ell major companies today there exists some form sf emelsyef paid health and welfare plans," in 1MB, ftestth ana welfare was bypassed because of promises hy top company sffieisto that fcestth and welfare would be negotiated tnts year, he conttnaea. , "tn the Northern Catifaral Dis trict Council, ths major perfiSB of the contracts now have teslSh and welfare under the lumber m diistry health and welfare ftsnd. commonly known as the Hasard Trust," the statement eaaetuded. John Mantfe, general manager of the Weed SperatioB. reported thai he was not aware sf tBe request for a strike vote, f Auto Companies Nome Small Cors NEW YORK f APS Ford Motor Co. has wm a race with Gsryifef Corp, to naming its new smaB ear the Falcon ust 30 mfastes isetor Chrysler tried to get ft. Neither company kaew the eth er was interesied in the name. Both had asked the Automobile Manufacturers Assn. ts look fttfs the availability of ths name. Whits Chrysler was making its final de cision. Ford called bj and regis tered the name. The Chrysler ear will be called the Valiant, while General Motors he believed Starkweather, whaSBlans 3 small ear labeled th was the slates chief witness; against Caril, has had ample time to reveal any information he! might have. Corvair, All three cars, ts meet competition of Imported and American economy cars, g the market this fall. County Tax Decrease Slated Wcallier Northern California Fair through Friday but considerable fog and low cloudiness on eoast in 'until J arrived in Klamath Falls, the moraine. Northwesterly to,1 Promptly phoned Beany and my 'Shuddo Stood lit Bed Says Sprague Man Dale B. Smith, Justice of the peace of the Sprague River jus tice court at Biy, reports sad tale. ' Saturday, while fishing just north of Realty erf the Sprague ttivcr, f left my tackte box there," he relates. "I didn t notice if , was missing northerly coastal winds IJ-I5 miles an hoar. Klamath Falls and vicinity Fair through Friday with variable ; loss was confirmed. "So 1 went to Joe's and replen ished my tackle. "Arriving at my parking plare too late, I noticed the meter maids had beat me there, "i clnrifft 1ft IRR iha UnvftlntM cloudiness. Low tonight K-; Wgh.bttt discovered that I had left my NEW OFFICERS for the Ounsmuir High School for nxf yesr art from the left, Jerry Baldo, vice president; Karen Lee, head cheer feeder; Murrey Crowe, president; end Nan eee Burnt, secretary-treasurer. The group is looking ever the minutes of ths student body meetings in preparation to taking office next falL Peggy Wait Friday M-M. High yesterday Lew last eight . . Precfp. last 24 hours SiBrt Oct, I fountain pen at joe's. . n "Maybe this tale would touch sj'the heart ef some fisherman and Jh. might C.O.f). my tackle hog to " iBIy. There will be en ample re- .iwgr! forwarded immediately. t mtum mum etwei eeaa. Counly taxes will be lower a Iff tic bit lower this year. This may be expected Irom the 1939-60 county budget formally ap- proved by the county court today. Just how much lower tax bills will be is not yet known. But it is dciinite that taxes will be! lighter in almost all cases. The court approved a taxmt budget ef i!,t,I36 submitted by the county budget committee. This compares with 3 budget of i,233, 002 last year. Actually the county will spend more money than that. Anticipat ed expenditures from ail depart ments total $2,892,993, and that is higher than the amount spent fast year $2,54.!B7, But, because of varying lac- tors, the amount of money that must be raised by taxes fs $t,H3, ?3Sor J89.248 less than last year. The new budget is a product of months of work by the county! court and the three lay members of the hudeet committee, R. P. Elftngson, Lester Ollieid and Bill Faivey. These major Items are! included, or not included, m tt There are virtually no salary raises for county employes. The assessor has been given five new appraisers and one addi tional office girt te speed reap- pratsai of county property. Building for the future has beee looked upon favorably. The budg et includes , $53,000 toward con struction sf a new juvenile home t$3l,otii more than requested! and ttjO.OW toward construction of new wing on the courthouse. The traurthoBse addition sinking funf now contains $2S2,W0 toward en expected cost ot M30.W0. The Budget else includes $!4.S1S toward construction of s new bant on the fairgrounds, 4.Sl more Rfonosed remodeling of the; third floor of the courthouse Ms a second circuit courtroom, to; cost $8,009, wa rejected. So was a new building for the agriculture experiment station, to cost $I2,M9, A request from the city of Klam ath rails for $17,000 toward park and recreation expenses was re jected. The county had assigned Sh'SZ'3 toward a community hospital sur vey, but withdrew the amount when It was advised the msney could not legally be used for that purpose. The county has budgeted $3,333 toward a stale line information booth planned by the Klamath! Counfy Chamber of Commerce, A short wave radio network for use of the sheriff's office and the! road department has heea ap proved, and probably will be in use by mid-July. Ts meet the cost, lha budget includes $7,819! from the sheriffs account ts ga with $11,000 from the current road department budget, litis will be matched by $18,300 from the fed eral government en condition the ties, Klamath, Umaluia and Cons. The largest departmental budg et is that sf the road department and it amsssts is i2,333. Eves so, this is 32 919 less than last year and $4S,530 less than resjasS" cd. The budget now gees ts the as sessor's otfice where a millags levy will be determined. From that millage levy, tax bills will be made and posted. Because all property now gse on the books at market value, ths miUage rate will be lower than last year. Because the amount sf money to be raised m lower M last year, tas, bills wilt be fewer. tit tfsubt, however, are the tax bills for property reappraised last year, netaosy tn the Hot ssprfngs and Eldorado sections si Klamath Kails, These may be tower or they may be higher, officials ssM. t the assessment i considerably higher than last year, Use MB may be larger. the present budget ss withtB $31 of the six per cent limitation. TW means a county Is permitted ta increase Its budget by six per cent each year without a special elee- netwsrk is used ior etvil defense ties., and Klamath County mm t purposes. The library hook bodge! was cut $S,0M to .?3o. and $7,108 for re placement of fhe bookmobile was rejected, j Fends for the Board sf Equaliza tion were raised $6,s ts $7,158. Anticipated costs of boarding prisoners at the county jail wero increased from $11,800 requested ts J27.9W. The county assumed the state's share s$3JWi ef one deputy dis trict attorney's salary because the state bo longer is paying it. This resulted from as art ef the Leah tature that fffii oaiy tarw within ta sf being exactly six per cent above Its budget of 185S-S9. Some more semMeclraieat as pects of the budget; The amount the estmfy plans to spend is $2,S5S,SRI. From this is subtracted the amsuei el Income fhe asaity expects from sources other than property taxes, $t,?38, 376, The remainder, $t,fO,7SS, m the amount ts be raised through levies on property. Income will be hitter by sem $337,988. the budget eommitte (ousd. The biggest single factor here ts an extra $S3,0G8 expected ; ram the county's share of Oregon nd CsWwsic ttaKKar aaic
