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Newspaper Page TextCOUP. FSire mi U.S. Pi one WMMKI rtil WIII1UUI MM m y WUUI KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE It. 195 Price FItc Cent 14 Pages Telephone TU 4-11 II No. MM U.OF OK. LIBRARY NSI3PAPEH SSCT,IOSf C EN. REP. AND DOCUU5NTS DIV. cuauE.oaca. 5 Us - i In The- Day'slews By FRANK JENKINS What about Geneva? Well, it's a good deal like an eld-fashioned Wild West poker game where each player kept a .43 within easy reach on the table. Only, in the case of the Geneva session, it's a nuclear bomb in Head of a .45. Speaking of meetings In Gary, Indiana, last night a mass meeting of citizens, angered by revelations of vice and corrup tion in their city, gave officials two weeks to clean up the town or else. The meeting was called by the Gary Crime commission and the Gary Women's Citizens Committee. The ultimatum to clean up came after Cornelius Verplank, crime commission chairman, charged that the "entire situation in Lake county i in which Gary is located is rotten and an absolute mess." The dispatches report that the 600 persons present at the meeting shouted approval of the action. It is Interesting. It is perhaps significant. But this question occurs: How did Gary get that way? It's a 'fair guess that it got thai way because the good citizens of Gary and Lake county NEGLECT ED THEIR DUTY and failed to vote FOR good officials and AGAINST bad officials. That's the kernel of the nut We must never forget that if we are to have good government in eluding economical government in this country where the people CAN run their governmental affairs if they are willing to. the people must ACCEPT THEIR RESPON SIBILITIES. . A river can't rise above its source. In the United States of America ihe people are the SOURCE of gov ernment. diet's so back,, to the..Good..BflokJpauin (Matthew 5-13' : "Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour. wherewith shall it be salted?" Paraphrasing these words ! If the people have lost their will ingness to see to it that govern ment in our country is good. HOW SHALL WE HAVE GOOD GOV ERNMENT? World News In llricf United Press International LONG Galveston. Tex. Judge puts off decision for week on re leasing Gov. Long from mental hos pital: sanity hearfhg also delayed. EAST-WEST Geneva Western powers begin writing obituary no tice for unsuccessful conference: talks in recess until Wednesday. . AID Washington Eisenhow er's foreign aid program, sharply revised by Senate committee, faces House drive for 200-million-dollar cut. RADIATION Washington Scientist says atomic fallout has exposed U.S. children to annual radiation doses twice natural amount. STEEL New York-United Steel workers Union agrees to resume talks today with four-man industry team. GUNMEN Middleboro. Mass. -' Army of police rings wooded are: in which Philadelphia cop-kjllin; brothers are believed holed up. I SCHEDULED FOR OVERHAULING is this gift steam locomotive which was donated by tie Southern Pecifia Company to the city of Klamath Fat II . Th locomotive, located on he lawn at Vaterens Memorial Park, will soon be equipped with steps and platforms so that aR Interested can visit the exhibit. It It e)Uo slated or a painting job. Property Assessment Boost Ordered By Tax Commission By TOM STIMMEL :.' A slightly different approach to Klamath County property assess ments has been ordered by the Slate Tax Commission in an ef fort to solve a dispute from nu merous taxpayers. No assessed property values will go down. Most of them will go up. What effect this will have on taxes is uncertain at the moment. but it probably will raise more than a few property tax bills. The State Tax Commission, after four personal visits to study Klam all) County's dilemma, advised the Klamath County Board of Equiliza tion to do these things: 1. Leave 1S59 property apprais als s ,nev re- 2. Raise by 17 per cent the val uations of property appraised last year. 3. Raise the valuations of all property last assessed before 1958 by 30 per cent. The dilemma was caused, Coun ty Assessor Hap Caldwell says, by a Slate Tax Commission order to post assessed valuations on an equal basis with market valua tions. This eliminated "normal conditions factors" and other rig amarole, but it created a sizeable hitir. People whose proper' was ap praised this year came to the Board of Equalization with com- plaints that values shot up 100 per cent or more after the apprais ers had been at their doors. The board liad on file 191 com plaints that assessments were too high, compared with 17 received last year. Because the assessor's office can appraise only so much prop Fund Drive Lowers Goal The United Fund-Red Cross cam- goal for 1960, announced by the Budget. Admittance and Quota Committae at a luncheon meeting of the UF board of directors Mon day; is - 1132.326 less by - $17,674 than last year's goal, which was not reached. The goal decision was reached after lengthy discussions by the committee concerning the demoral izing affect on donors and UF work ers fey "unrealistic" goals which have not been reached in several years. The new goal is less by $23,624 than the $133,950 total that the 12 UF agencies asked for. The re mainder will have to be made up hy the agencies unless collections far exceed the goal. Some agencies will receive con siderably less than requested. Frank Ganong, chairman of the goal-setting committee, told agen cy representatives that allotments are based on last year's distribu tion percentage rather than on this year's agency requests. Ganong said the committee is confident that this year's goal will be reached "because of dynamic events that have taken place dur ing the past year." He did not de scribe the events. The committee also voted to turn down requests from seven agencies seeking inclusion in the UF pro gram. These are organizations not providing direct community serv ice. Until the local UF organiza ion comes closer to meeting fi tancial needs of community serv- ce organizations, other agencies vobably will not be admitted, Ga long said?' erty on the spot each year, some way had to be found to raise un apprised property to current mar ket values. This was done, with State Tax Commission approval, by raising assessed valuations of all such property mot personally appraised this yean by a blanket 17 per cent. Still the protests were heard, notably from the Hot Springs and Hillside sections of Klamath Falls Officers Stalk Police Killers In Yood Area MIDDLEBORO. Mass. (AP) More than 300 heavily armed 'po lice, today stalked two ' alleged police killers in a swampy wood land after gunfire forced the pair to abandon a man they had held captive . for 10 , nearly foodiess days. . Objects of the concentrated manhunt are John Coyle, 23, and his brother, William, 21, both of Philadelphia, known to be armed with five pistols and three belts of ammunition. For more than three hours early today it was feared that two col iege girls had fallen hostages to the desperado pair, until the girls were spotted by police at a road block in Bourne, where Cape Cod begins. The girls Priscilla Jury, 19. of Wayne, N.J., and Elizabeth Mc Kay, 19, of Glen Cove, N.Y. had been reported missing by three girl companions with whom they are sharing a summer cottage on vacation from Green Mountain Junior College at Poultney, Vt. They had not been seen since 2 p.m. Monday, some time after Ihe Coyle brothers had escaped into the woods under gunfire fol lowing, a holdup.- -v '' - Police quoted them as saying they had driven to Provincetown on the tip of Cape Cod on a sight seeing tour and were not aware police had listed them as possible hostages of the Coyles. The manhunt was one of (he biggest in Massachusetts history. It includes scores of state and local police, some two dozen FBI agents, law enforcers from Phila delphia, agents of the Massachu setts Natural Resources Commis sion, an Air Force helicopter, a Barnstable County plane, and bloodhounds. Police got on the brothers' trail Monday after they robbed a high way liquor store of $112 and fired a shot into the counter. - The chase led down a dirt road. Scores of shots were exchanged before the pair fled into the woods. As police approached their abandoned car, William Sedgwick. 49. of the Roxborough section of Philadelphia, stumbled out half starved and exhausted. He stammered out the story that the Coyles kidnaped him in Philadelphia June 6 and drove him as a captive in his own car to Massachusetts. During the 10 days, he said, he was given only two bologna sand wiches, some marshmallows and sips of a soft drink. Most of the time, he said, he was tied and gagged on the floor in the back of the car. "I hadn't eaten in a week," he aid. "At night we slept in the voods. They took turns so orx ould watch "me." v A. where property was reappraised on the spot. More meetings were held, more midnight oil, burned, and today's answer arrived. It amounts to leaving the board's action for property ap praised this year and last un touched, but raising the rest of the county from a blanket 17 per cent to 30 per cent. Caldwell estimated this order will affect about 12,000 of the coun ty's 16,000 property taxpayers. Men and machines must go through those 12,000 statements and make the changes and Cald well says it will take at least three weeks with night work. Each of those taxpayers must be notified of the change, and each must be given an opportunity to protest if he thinks his assessed valuation is unfair. For the assessor's office and the Board of Equalization, it looks like a long summer. What this will mean in taxes varies with each property owner's statement. Overall, taxes will be slightly lower this year because the county ' budget is slightly low er. The amount of money to be raised by taxes is less. Klamath County has what is known as a "posted ratio" which determines how much actual value shall be considered assessed val ue. The ratio is 20 per cent- assessed valuations are 20 par cent of actual valuations. So if you get a notice of a new assessed valuation, multiply that figure by five to determine the county's idea of your market val ue. If you think the result is more than your property is worth to day, you may say so. Dance Music Sparks Drive The community's formal effort to get.-OTr off the hill and down town was launched quite early this morning with a breakfast, a sales pitch and dance music ren dered by an early-rising combo. The session took place in the Willard Hotel where about 100 busi ness and community leaders heard from Vern Owens these facts about moving OT1: The school will remain in Klam ath Falls "providing the commu nity provides a site." The State Board of Education has picked the site it wants, 130 acres surround ing the hard-top race track at the end of Eberlein Avenue off Ala meda. The OTI New Site Committee has options on the land desired, of which about SO acres is owned by the State Highway Commission. The idea is to buy all the prop erty (including that owned by the state) and thus "keep our bar gain with the State Legislature." This will cost an estimated $50, 000. This morning's breakfast, well attended, was to get the campaign underway. Volunteers had promp ter cards and receipts in their hands before they left their ta bles. To make donations even easier than normal, the committee has set up accounts in every bank hi town, and Merrill. Donors and so licitors both may stop in any bank and leave money. Owens emphasized that everyone is welcome to contribute by the simple process of stopping at any bank and donations from a dollar up are accepted gratefully. Overhaul Old 2579 is about to get a new coat of paint and be made avail able to the public. The steam locomotive, donated y the Southern Pacific Railroad to the city of Klamath Falls some time ago. was the principal topic of discussion at the Monday night meetms) of the city council. , Members of the original Loco motive Committee appeared at the council in response to a request -by Mayor Lawrence Slater and appealed for action to preserve the engine and make It accessible to the public. Al Condrey opened the discus sion by pointing out that the mem bers appeared as individuals In terestefl in the engine. A. L. Shoup, 1331 Worden, ststed that it "was a sad state of af fairs." He pointed out that the engine needed fixing up. and sug fested ladders on each side of the cab with some sort of platform. S C. Selby, 2349 Wantland, point ed out that the engine is no a museum piece and a valuable piece e machinery. Ha ststed that the A KLAMATH FALLS MAN who has contributed muck to the recreational movement in America, O. D. Matthews, left, receives the Plaque of Appreciation from Alfred Collier, honorary member of the National Recreation Association. FOREST FIRE 0AN6ER TODAY KEEP OREGON GREEN Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Partly cloudy through Wednesday. Low tonight 42-4$; high Wednesday 72-77. High yesterday 77 Low last Bight 36 Precip. last t4 hours ... Since Oct. t $.42 Same period last year 1.M Northern California Fair through Wednesday except high ff the coast during night and shorning; little change In tempera, tares. Coastal winds northwesterly, 12-25 miles an hour. 8 Indicted For Violence HENDERSON, N.C. fAP) A Vance County grand jury indicted eight men, including four union officials, on charges of plotting dynamite violence in the bitter textile strike here. The jury returned the Indict ments Monday. Boyd Payton of Charlotte, Caro- linas director of the Textile Work ers Union of America, was named with three other union officials. They are Lawrence Gore, a member of Payton s staff: Charles Auslander, chairman of the TWUA Joint Board at Spray, N.C; and John Martin, vice presi dent of Local 578 at the South Henderson plant of the struck Harriet-Henderson Mills. Four strikers named in the in dictments were Calvin Ray Peg- ram, Robert Edward Abbott, War ren Walker and Malcolm Jarrell. Each was freed under, $15,000 bond. The indictments charged the men with conspiring to dynamite a Carolina Power it Light Co. sub station transformer which feeds power to the mills; dynamite the boiler room at the South Hender son mill; and destroy the main office building at the South Hen derson mill. Set For gift engine was becoming rusty in places and needed to be entirely repainted He also indicated that the paint needed for the job would be do nated. Lumber for the steps and platform would also be donated, he said, by a prominent business man in Klamath Falls. However," he concluded, "we need skilled workers to build the steps snd the platform, and will ing hands to do the painting." The council moved to utilize funds from the Veterans Memorial Park to underwrite cost of build ing steps up both sides of the en gine, and three foot square plat forms on each side of the cab. Further steps were taken, also. to provide assistance at the paint ing, and ' investigation was launched' to determine the cost ef a link chain fence around the ex hibit. The movement for improve ment began several weeks ago when councilman inquired as to why the engine exhibit had not been opened to J public on a Basin Man Given Award The National Recreation Associa tion of the United States has rec ognized the outstanding contribu tions of O. D. Matthews, 324 North Sixth Street, to the recreation movement in America by award ing its Plaque of Appreciation to him. This plaque notes that he has had an active part in planning and carrying out to successful comple tion nearly all of the major struc tures now used in the Klamath Falls park and recreation program, Parks and recreation in the com munity have quadrupled ' and a long range program set up during his service. i, .. . ' When finances were lacking he got the Jobs done.'Tte has brought back ideal and information which helped to create the program from the regional conventions of the as sociation and from his study of parks in other communities throughout the United States. As a freewill offering to the pub lic and at his own expense, he has for many years maintained Mat thews Park on the Sprague River as a picnic park. This honor is also recognition of the worth of the Klamath Falls park and recreation program. Indian Bureau Opens Bids PORTLAND IAPI The Bureau of Indian Affairs said Monday bids were opened for two projects on the Klamath Indian Reservation. Beaver Excavating Co.. Gresh- am, entered a low bid of $83,305 for 8.25 miles of roadway on the Bray Mill-Lone Pine road some six miles northeast of Chiloquin. Harney Homes Inc. Burns, en tered a $37,847 low bid to build a reinforced concrete, ISO-foot bridge over the Sycan River on the Ivory Pine road some three mile north of Beatty, Ore. THE BARE TRUTH SEATTLE UPI) Mrs. Ethel Adams, wakened by a burglar. chased him into the street Mon- lay and stood yelling for help a- ie fled, until her daughter rushed Hit of the house and shouted 'Mother, you don't have . an) clothes on!" Railroad Exhibit regular schedule. Following (he scheduled addi tions, it was the council's expec tation that the exhibit would be open daily. In other council action, the Green River Ordinance was given a reprieve and a vote of confi dence. Several weeks sgo, Jim Watkins had appeared before the council on behalf of the Watkins Products Company asking the council to scrap the ordinance so that Watkins salesmen could con duct house-to-house soliciting. At last night's session. Mayor Lawrence Slater, who was absent on an Air Force trip to Colorado Springs addressed a letter to the council pointing out that be bad asked the Klamath County Cham ber of Commerce's Board of Direc tors to study the request. In his letter. Mayor Slater stat ed that the chamber had studied the request and had unanimously recommended that the ordinance be retained as U Is. The council voiced Its approval, and Joined m discussing possible Tail Gunner During AUG Encounter WASHINGTON lUPI) Corn-ion Honshu. munist jet fighters attacked a U.S. navy patrol plane over the Sea of Japan near North Korea Mon day night. They shot it up in six firing runs and seriously wounded a crewman. The' Defense Department said the, badly damaged U.S. plane, through the skill of its pilot, man aged to reach an Air Force base m Japan. The attack occurred at 7.000 feet over international waters about 85 miles east of Wonsan. North Korea. The navy P4M Mcr cator under heavy attack, dove to within 50 feet of the water to es cape. The department said radio mes sages from the crippled plane in dicated two jet fighters participat ed in the attack. The planes were identified only as MIG jet fight ers with red star markings on the fuselage. Skies were clear and ceiling unlimited.' There was no indication wheth er the pilots were Russian, Chi nese Communists, or North Ko reans. The North Koreans are estimat ed to have about 500 MIG jet fighters with many based at Won san. The Navy forwarded a report of the attack to the State Depart ment for a possible formal pro test. The announcement said the P4M was on a routine training patrol It was based at Iwakuni, Marine air facility on the inland sea of Japan's Honshu Island. The announcement said skillful handling by Lt. Comdr. Donald Mayer, the pilot, enabled the bad ly damaged plane to be brought safely into Miho Air Force base Anti-Reds Stage Riot TRIVANDRUM, India UPI- Anti Communist demonstrators defied killings and mast arrests by Communist-directed police in Kerala State today and staged huge new protest demonstrations in an effort to unseat the Red government. Police arrested 88 persons, bringing to nearly 1,000 the total number seized since members of India's ruling Congress Party and other actions began their anti- Communist campaign In the state last Friday. Up to today, 10 persons had been shot and killed and more than 50 injured by Kerala's po licemen. Local members of the Con gress Party charged that Com munists in disguise were stirring up violence and giving police an excuse to shoot anti-Red demon strators. In spite of the threat of more killings, men, women and teen-' agers formed processions throughout the state again today, waving flags and shouting "down with communism. Others picket ed government offices and state- operated schools. The situation has become so critical that Sadiq All, secretary of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's Congress Party, rushed to Trivandrum, Kerala's capital, to investigate. All was reported armed with authority to order local congress party leaders to call off the demonstrations if he discovered they were responsible (or the vio lence. steps to expand the ordinance to include all house-to-house solicit ing, even by charitable groups. It was pointed out t(D weeks ago by City Attorney Henry Perkins that the ordinance did not gov ern charitable drives by non-profit organizations. In other action, Noel Flynn. op erator of Payless Drug Store, ap peared on behalf of the Klamath Merchants Association to request permission to erect booths on Main Street on Friday, July 3. These booths would be In the Centennial vein, he outlined to the council, and would probably be erected adjacent to the business establishments. The council granted approval on the condition that any booths erect ed would be taken down the same evening so as not to interfere with the crowds taking in the Fourth of July parade. Building permits for Ihe week, listed by Building Inspector Verne Schortgen, totalled $53,74$, and in cluded three new residences, two for, single family and on duplex. Wounded The tail gunner was wounded when his gun was knocked out on the first of six runs made by the attacking planes. Mayer, a Naval Academy grad uate, lists his home as both Ny ack. N.Y., and Litchfield, Conn. His wife and four children are with him in Japan. His parent live at Litchfield. Mayer is 35. He graduated from the academy in 1946 and became a naval aviator three years later. iqil Ends As Gunman Surrenders CHARLESTON. 111. AP) A berserk gunman who had held his half-sister hostage while a force of lawmen ringed his house laid down his arms and walked out without gunfire today. Kenneth E. Adkins, 22. also re leased his half-sister, Mrs. Myra Jean Kennedy, 34. of Paris, with, out harm. The end of the tense vigil around the white frame house came after Mervin Beil, a lawyer, talked with Adkins for about 10 minutes explaining his rights. It came also as the force of law men were loading up for a blast on the house with "tear gas. Au thorities said they felt Adkins was giving them a run-around and might keep the community in tur moil for hours. Adkins had held his half-sister hostage, demanding the life of a policeman he hates in exchange for hers. I will shoot anyone who triea to apprehend me," Kenneth Eu gene Adkins, 22, wrote in a pencil- scrawled note he tossed out a window. - "Police Chief Smokey Bauley-ol Charleston said Adkins threatened to kill Myra Irene Kennedy, 34. of Paris, III., if officers tried to rush the bouse. 1 , We'll wait him out," Pauley said as more than 100 state troop ers and local policemen settled down four doors away from the one - story borne. Adkins was armed with a rifle and shotgun. Adkins demanded that Charles ton Police Capt. Logan Cox be brought to the home, saying he would kill him and then shoot him self. Cox said Adkins apparently was angry because of the numer ous times the officer had locked Adkins up for assault and disor derly conduct. The scene of the siege was a quiet residential street on the north side of this east central Illinois city of 9,000 population. A crowd which at one time reached several thousand, was kept two blocks away. There were no lights. Police feared search lights would alarm Adkins. At various times police and clergymen ventured to the door to try to reason with the gunman.' One said softly that the "Lord will help you in your troubles." "Maybe so." replied Adkins. Sheriff Dean Bishop and Mrs. Kennedy's husband, Edgar, ap proached the house as the hours wore on. "For God's sake, let Jean go." Kennedy cried. "I want Cox," shouted Adkins. The husband asked, "Jean are you there?" She said yes, and there was no more conversation. The long wait began about C:30 p.m. Monday when Pauley went to the house owned by Adkins mother on complaints Adkins was creating a disturbance. Shark Girl Wins Award PITTSBURGH. (UPD-Tbe Car negie Hero Fund Commission to day awarded a silver medal and $750 for educational purposes te s 19-year-old California state col lege coed who saved a classmate from drowning after he had been attacked by a shark. -' The silver medal presented to Shirley O'Neill was the first such award by the commission la 1959 and only the fourth since 1955. . . ; Miss O'Neill waa credited with saving Albert C. Kogler In Saa Francisco bay last May 7. Ha died later the tame day of injur ies inflicted by the shark. Kogler and Miss O'Neill were swimming at Baker's Beach when a shark suddenly attacked the youth. The young heroine went te) Kogler's aid and towed him 1J4) feet to shore through swells 'twe feet high. i - ?