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ccr HUSS.YrZR SECTION GSN.KSK.ViJ iJCCSHrS CIV. Price Tea Ceali Page Long Battle Still Rages In Louisiana BATON, ROUGE, La. (AP - Louisiana officials were at logger heads Saturday as to who was the state's chief executive since Gov Earl Long indicated he may be plotting another court battle to free himself from court - ordered treatment in a mental hospital. Lt. Gov. Lether Frazar, a .friend of the 63-vear-old ailinff ffnvernnr said he wants legal advice before formally taking over as acting governor. Secretary of Stati Wade Martin Jr.. a political enemy of Long, said he would continue to recognize Long as governor. He challenged Frazar's right to take over without formal certification of Long's inability to act. "Governor Long has been irre sponsible for some time but there has been no legal declaration of that,", Martin said. Long called for legal counsel from his lonely ward at the South east Louisiana Hospital at Mande ville, 54 miles to the east of this capital city where he and his brother, .the late Huey P. Long began thriving on peppery politics in the 1920s. State police and sheriff's dep uties overpowered the cursing, fighting governor Thursday night and rushed him to Mandeville. A physician and a psychiatrist said he suffered from paranoiac schizo phreniadelusions of persecution. Long had just skipped out on an agreement for voluntary treat ment in New Orleans. The agree ment had nullified a Texas court fight by effecting his Wednesday release from a Galveston psy chiatric clinic. He had been held in the clinic 19 days by court order. v Martin said he would challenge Frazar in court if the 54-year-old former president of McNeese State College attempted to act as governor. Frazar said he would not shirk his duty if an emergency devel ops. But he wants legal advice before formally taking over. . "Until then I will continue po kies, and carry them out, of my dose friend,' Earl K. Long," Fraz ar said. Atty. Gen. .lack Gremillion said Frazar rou'.d take over. Martin dis agreed, saying the court order that sent Long to Mandeville did not declare the governor's inabil ity to act. Long himself or some official body, Martin said, first must certify Long's inability. Frazar named Gremillion as one af his attorneys. i. Martin was ousted by Long in l.-)5S. as state insurance commis sioner and custodian of voting ma chines. Since then the two have been bitter enemies. New J-M Plant To Be Official Hex t Weekend Johns-Manville's new insulating v j . , M Ui . . Enid I u ii i iv wi ii'"bj miles north of Klamath Falls, will be officially opened on June 30 ac cording to an announcement re ceived today from W. H. Graham, plant manager. Dedication ceremonies wilt take .place at the plant at 10 a.m. and mill be followed by a tour' of plant facilities and a luncheon at the Reames Golf and Country Club. A. R. Fisher, president and chair man of the board of the Johns Manville Corporation, and Gover nor Mark Hatfield will be the prin cipal speakers. On hand also for the occasion will be many other state and local ' dignitaries. A large delegation of J-M too management is expected including J. P. Syme, vice presi dent and assistant to the chair man; K. W. Huffine, vice presi dent for production; W. R. Wil kinson, vice president and general manager of building products di vision: A. K. Highee. production manager nt buildinff ornducts di vision, H. W. Allen, director of Diiblic relations. A. C Smith, director of nlant engineering: D. E. Hillier. produc-i tion engineer, building products di - vision: R r. Seeher. manager of. schedules, building products divi sion; F. Gilchrist, public relation department: G. A. Frits, govern ment representative. Pacific Coast region: M. E. Sweeney, building products sales manager. San Fran dsce district; and R. C. Jenkins, tiuftdlnf products sales manager. Seattle district. KLAMATH THE SHASTA DAYLIGHT, ,; idJtijk. Mv4 r- tmmn Veiii.wi.ai XVI r-m& Am MSSmST i , . 1 ai.iW nJ JtlLjka made a provident assist for two women injured in a highway Occident near Berkley Springs Friday afternoon. The victims' car, es shown in this picture by Herald and News photogra pher Don Kettler, rolled to the tracks at the foot of a steep bank. The victims, Mrs. Ima Jean Reno, 29, and Mrs. Ge neva L. Folden, 38, both of Granger, Washington, were taken by the train four miles to Modoc Point where they Brown Lauds Legislature As 'Finest' . SACRAMENTO (AP) The California Legislature has ended what Gov. Edmund Brown luted as the finest and most productive session in state his tory. '' What was also the longest ses sion came to a close at midnight Friday to the pop' of firecrack era with defeat for Brown's labor reform bill. He laid part of the blame on Vice President Richard Nixon. But the new Democratic gover nor, noting success for 90 per cent of his program, didn't kick about the overall accomplishments in his freshman year. Backed by the first Democratic majority in both houses since 1889, the Brown administration compiled an impressive record in the lfifi days of lawmaking. Brown got through a billion dollar water plan, 220 million in nw taxes, increased jobless bene fits, higher pensions for blind and aged, repeal of ballot cross-filing, the state's fair employment prac tices act. The chief executive couldn't quite make it on his bill designed to curb corrupt union practices. The Assembly battled over the TJ'0!" hours. The vole shifted no less than 24 times as Brown's aides and C. J. Haggerty, veteran exec utive of the .California Labor Fed eration, applied pressure (or and against the bill. A coalition of. pro-labor Demo crats and minority Republicans finally killed the measure, 50-29 by sending It back to committee. Nineteen of the House's 47 Dem ocrats voted against the bill eight switching to the CLF's side after the outcome was apparent. FOREST FINE DANCER .TODAY KEEP OBE60N GREEN Weather FORFXAST-Klamath Falls aad tWalty: MasUy fair a Ml warm tnraain today wila ekaare af al- le" er evening tkamleratarms 1,'" moaatauw. Lew IS-; kigk M- - Hiia ftatnrday , J Lew last eight . i it'South Sixth Street. Northern California: Fair laday. All three vehicles were dam UnigM and Meaday wila passible aged, the Welman auto the most iHiiiiii ar evealag thaader- itarms. Utile efcaage Ml tempera- tare, i gammer brgiaa officially at 1:M p.m. May. FALLS, OREGON. SUNDAY. JUNE 21 Ilk Jaw ' - racina toward Klamath F alii. I Wreck Near Tulelake Fatal To Former luge A former Oregon resident en route to a new home near Los Angeles died in Klamath Valley Hospital late Friday after his car west out of control south of Tule lake. ; California Highway Patrolman LWilliam Skelton identified the vic tim as Wilbur Burton, S3, former Irate Canadians I Bless' Em) Take Issue With Recording VANCOUVER. . B. C. (AP) 'Cunnel Jackson, Suhl They's re writing history up nawth again!" And successfully, too. Because if you think the American rebels won the 1815 Battle of New Or leans, you have another think coming the Canadians won it. Country singer Johnny Horton dug up the all-but forgotten battle between the rebels and the British Redcoats, grabbed his guitar and warbled himself to riches by re cording "The Battle of New Or leans. The record has sold more than a million copies but when itj reached Canada a member of the British Commonwealth well, sun. the redcoats saw red. . Canadian record distributors were swamped by mail protesting the British didn't lose the battle as Horton sings. One of protests came from Tom Pakenham, 52, of Vancouver, the great grand - nephew of Colonel Pakenham, who led the British during the battle. The letters "blasted Horton for "mutilating history" by singing how the "Bloody British:" Ran through the briars, and They ran through the Californicm Hurt In 3-Car Tangle A Hermosa Beach, California, man suffered severe cuts overt the eyes in a three csr pile-up on the Main Street underpass about 1:40 Saturday night. Harry Lawson was a passenger in t car driven by Glen Atchison, 3- Warden. The Atchison vehicle) crasnea into the rear end of anJ "'. on" h Novell Welman 52. 2140 Home Street, The impact jammed the Wel man auto into another car," one !onveB by Gordon Kelsey, S2, 212 extensive of the three. Lawson was removed to Klamath Valley Hos pital for treatment of facial cuts. Atchison was cited by city -police for being drunk la sa auto. . 1SS1 Telephone TU 44111 Na. C42C were transferred to Peace Ambulance. State Police said the 1959 car driven by Walter Folden, 38, was behind a car that went into a spin on slippery U. S. 97. Folden's car was struck in the rear by a pickup driven by Howard Johnson, 2237 Hope Street, and knocked down the grade. The wom en were reported in fair condition Saturday,. "That train sure helped everybody," ambulance operator Felix Peace said. ne ly of Eugene. He was en route to a . told Skelton that she had been fol new home in Claremont. Califor- lowing his progress through her nla- Skelton said Burton was drivingafter she Mt ight f nimi ,ne alone in a Volkswagen when he apparently fell asleep .at the wheel. Burton's wife and her mother pre ceded him in another car. The widow, Mrs. Ruby Burton, Brambles and they ran Through the hushes ' Where a rabbit wouldn't go. "Tain't so," say the Canadians. The British didn't lose the battle. It was just a strategic surren der. So Horton recorded a new ver- sion of the tune, designed to pla- cate the angry Canadian cousins of the British Redcoats. Now Horton sings, for Canadian consumption, how the British troops stormed up the Mississip pi and routed the "Blooming reb els," instead of the other way around. The record went on sale here this week. Already it appears to be a big hit in Canada. Well, let's dig up those muskets, men. i Anyone for a nice, safe French Indian war? TEMPERATURES rocketed to weather story in Klamath Falls thet the municipal pool il the stay popular for a while. IV ' - ' " .'I ' ' iiaiii "" aaw samuii - i. in i A; ;.v- v l Telephone TU 44111 Resident rear view mirror, she said that slowed down and finally turned around. ' , About 12'i miles south of Tule lake she found the wrecked car, with Burton sitting dated and criti cally injured in the road, Califor nia Route 139. Skelton said Burton apparently fell asleep and that his car wan dered for at least 190 feet down the shoulder on the wrong side of the road. This presumably awoke Burton, who attempted to bring the car back on the highway. Marks indicated that the car rolled over at least twice in a distance of 132 feet. It stopped right side up. . Burton apparently had been thrown from the car and dragged between it and the highway. His skull had been fractured, his face severely cut, his right arm, right hip and some ribs broken, and he suffered chest injuries. The victim was taken to Klam ath Valley Hospital by Tulelake Community Ambulance. The acci dent occurred about 11:45 a.m. (Standard Time) and Burton died at' $ 30 (Standard Time). I Mrs. Burton told Skelton her husband was en route to a new job as chef for Thrifty Drug Stores in Los Angeles. the 90s end kids rushed to the swimming pool. That's the the lest few memorable days. The jam evident her attests meit popular place In town. Weather reports Indicate it'll Foreign Ministers Recess Conference; (Deadlock (Unbroken Br JOHN M. HK'.IITOWKR GENEVA (AP) - The Big Four foreign ministers Saturday re cessed their conference until July 13 without breaking the East-West deadlock on Berlin. Western officials forecast a new Soviet drive for the summit fol lowing the failure of the talks. They said Soviet Premier Khrush chev is trying to frighten the resicrn powers into a summit conference instead of offering con cessions on Berlin as a lure to the West. U.S. Secretary of Stale Christian A. Herter and other Western dip lomats are reported to have de cided two weeks ago that this was Khrushchev's strategy. Western interest in breaking off the nego tiations here dates from that time. The West came to Geneva be lieving it held one trump rard Khrushchev's desire for a summit meeting. In Herter's view, the foreign ministers' conference took a bad turn about two weeks ago when Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko proposed a one - year timealimit on Western occupation of West Berlin. The West de nounced this as a Soviet ultima tum. The negotiating line followed here by Gromyko is regarded by the Western leaders as having borne out their estimate of Snow Slide Sweeps Five Into Crevasse T1MBERLINE LODGE, Ore (AP) An avalanche swept five persons, three of them Boy Couts. into a crevasse near the summit of snow-capped, 11,245-foot Mt. Hood Saturday. All five were pulled from the crevasse after they were ' dug free by rescuers. They were bur ied by the slide, above the 10,500 foot level of the peak some SO miles east of Portland, Ore. Sheldon Elwood of the U.S. For est Service said one of the boys, Don Draper, Vancouver, Wash.. was not responding to artificial respiration and a rcsuscitator was being air dropped by t Civil Air Patrol plane. Elwood identified the other two scouts as Tom JlcCune, who he saia suiterea snocs. ana dim noi ling, both of Vancouver. He did now know their ages. ' He said the two men, who joined the scouts on the mountain side, are Ed Smith, Oregon City, Ore., and Don Berzer, Cornelius, Ore. All except Draper were brought down to Timberline Lodge, then taken to hospitals in the Portland area to he examined. They were reported "reasonably all right." "Berzer was on one end or the other and he saw the avalanche coming, anchored himself with an ice axe, and waited until he thought it was past," Elwood said. "A second wave came and swept them loose from their perch and Into the crevasse," he said. He said they fell 2 feet. Bud Martin, manager of the Timberline Lodge ski resort, said the crevasse was in the chute above Crater Rock, an outcrop ping at the 10,500-foot level. It has been three years since the last serious accident on the peak. Khrushchev's strategy. They think probably means the Soviet Premier considers the Western position weak and feels he doesn't have to bargain away anything to get a summit conference. One reason for such a conclu sion would be the obvious split in the Western camp between Presi- li-nt Eisenhower and British Plime Minister Harold Marmillan. Eisenhower has taken the po sition that nothing produced so far by the Geneva conference jutifies a summit st-ssion. Mac- Yest Berlin Policy Firm, U.S. Claims WASHINGTON (AP) - The I'nited States served notice Sat urday the Western powers are standing ficm on their West Berlin policy in the face of Soviet threats and protests. . The Western powers' responsi bility for "the difficult position of the courageous people of Westat Gromyko s villa. Berlin" has been and will remain our primary consideration" inj dealing with Russia on German problems, the State Department said. .... The U.S. statement was issued by the State Department shortly after the Geneva foreign minis ters' conference on Germany re cessed until July 13 after six weeks of fruitless talks. The statement said the United Slates believes the two million West Berliners "share our confi dence that with patience and de termination we shall find solutions which will safeguard their securi ty and weliare." The Western powers have atead f!,lly held to what they say are their rights to remain in tne com munlst-encircled German city and to have free access to the city The Soviets set off the crisis by demanding that the Allies get out The U.S. declaration was issuer1 as Secretary of State Christian A Herter headed back to Washing ton for meeting with President Eisenhower Sunday and further -intensive consultations. Mother Tells About Recue Of Daughter ATLANTA (AP) - "I was pray ing that I could stop him and I did." That's what an attractive sub urban Hapeville mother told police Friday after she deliberately crashed her small sedan into an other car and rescued her 7-year old daughter from a would-be ab ductor. Mrs. R. E. Carroll told detec tives she could see her daughter, Sally, fighting to get out the window. 'I could see my baby and that's all I could see," she said. "He started off fast and I rammed him as hsrd as I could." Detectives identified the youth from papers found in his wallet as Raymond A. McMahon, 17, of Chicago. They said he came to live with his grandmother for two months. The detectives said he fled on foot after the collision. Blood hounds were put on his trail but he was not (ound. The Georgia Stale Patrol and authorities in neighboring states were alerted in the belief he might be heading for Chicago. Detectives gave this account: Sally and her sister, Susie, t. weis visiting a friend when a car pulled up and a youth asked the girls: 'How about pushing this button and helping me start the car?" Sally walked over and the youth grabbed her. He yanked her screaming into the car and sped away. Susie ran shouting for her mother. Mrs. Carroll obtained a descrip tion of the car, told the neighbor ts call police, jumped Into her on small sedan and went in search of her' daughter. She said she spotted the car parked about a mile away and "1 could see the girl fighting to get out of the window." When the ether car started off Mrs. Carroll crashed her car into it, Sally hi flung iota the street mulan believes, as he has all along, that failure here makes meeting at the summit even more necessary. Reviewing the six weeks of ne gotiations here. Western authori ties insisted that Herter, British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd and French Foreign Minister J'auriee Couve de Murville had gien away nothing of substance to the Russians. They did not want to re main here any longer and watch the Russians try to whittle down the Western position on Berlin without offering any concessions of their own. The Western decision to break off the negotiatior . was made firm Friday after Gromyko in troduced new compromise pro posals for a Berlin settlement, Herter. Lloyd and Couve de Mur ville docided that in spite of some revised language, the Soviet pro posal was just as unacceptable as the earlier one. In their view, Khrushchev and Gromyko had not changed their insistence on forcing the Western powers out of Berlin and this was the crucial issue. A final formal session of the conference was held Saturday morning1. The five-minute meeting confirmed the three-week recess agreed on earlier in a secret talk Strauss Vote Jolts Office Top Command WASHINGTON (AP) t The his. torie Senate vote of no confidence in Lewis L. Strauss has given a new jolt to a Commerce Depart. ment high command already be set by uncertainty. The 49-44 Senate vote rejecting . Strauss as secretary af commerce came as the secretary's office faced a prospect of personnel cuts by Congress. High officials said SI employes out of a total of about 300 in the secretary's office have bees put on notice that their jobs may . be abolished on June 30. These no tices went out after the House voted to cut S440.0O0 from the $2,- 940,000 Presideat Eisenhower asked for running the office. Earlier this week the Senate Ap propriations Committee voted te restore $260,000 but the question la still up in the air; but even so, some 25 employes would have ta be fired. There was speculation that with Strauss on bis way out the House might now be willing to provide more salary money. But it was un likely the amount finally voted would exceed the Senate figure. Many Senators felt thst Major ity Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (D Tex) furnished the vital momen tum that brought rejection of Strauss' appointment. Johnson had kept his position oa Strauss a secret until the final hours of the months-long nomina tion battle. Then, Senate partici pants said, he went all out to Una up the vote against him. Some of Johnson's colleagues professed to see in this what amounted to an exchange of Strauss' political scslp for less Democratic opposition to John son's policy of trimming spending bills to avoid presidential vetoes. They said that Johnson slse demonstrsted to Democratic liber als that he was willing to stand with them on what they regarded as a vitsl Issue, and also that ha was not reluctant to take a strong stand against President Eisenhow er. Theater Fall Brings Injury r ASHLAND. Ore. (API A Port land maa was in critical conditio Saturday after a fall from the pent. house of the new three-story Shakespearean Theater here. Frank B. Wheat, an employe at an automatic sprinkler firm, was inspecting a sprinkler system in. stalled recently in the theater by his firm. i , Workmen on the level below - said they heard im outcry aa Wheat, about 40. fell. Ha landed on the mam atage. after first striking an abutment of the second floor stag- ; Wheat was rushed to Ashland General Hospital, then transferred to Sacred Heart Hospital la Mad- lord. There was no axpUaatiea af why he fell, but workmen spstu. laled that he may nave I coma by beat i JaaJaBallaiaaaaua'aalaaaU WrTPnTPsaaaaBFaaBajfssjBajT
