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By FRANK JENKINS
I suppose you followed, at least
to some extent, the auckus over
the appointment of Lewis L.
Strauss 'formerly a member of
the Atomic Energy Commission!
to be secretary of commerce in
President" Eisenhower's cabinet.
Why the battle?
I wouldn't know. But Strauss
leans toward the conservative side.
He doesn't believe much m ex
tending the role of government in
business. He believes in less gov
- ernment in business, rather than
more government in business.
The senate, by a narrow margin,
refused to confirm his appoint
ment. Presumably, that means
that by narrow margin the sen
ate of the United States believes
that more government in busi
ness is a good political issue for
I960.
Personally, I doubt it.
What do you think?
The chief of the U.S. Forest
Service (Richard E. McArdle) told
delegates to the Citizen's Confer
ence on Northwest Forest Re
sources at Reed College in Port
land the other evening that he is
opposed to turning large additional
areas into single-use wilderness
areas.
He added:
"The Forest Service is FOR a
certain amount of wilderness and
intends to preserve and protect its
existing) wilderness areas
But there is a question of balance.
The national forests can't absorb
II the pressure for more timber,
although we have doubled the cut
and tripled the volume sold since
1950 We must not overcut
the national forests. Allowable cut
is a ceiling, not a floor, and we
will continue to practice sustained
yield."
What he means is that if the
national forests are to go on try
ing to meet the .demands of the
existing (and growing) lumber and
fiber industries for timber and at
... the same time art to bt compelled
by legislation to set apart large
additional areas as WILDERNESS
ES, in which NO industrial devel
opment will be permitted, there
will be trouble.
There will be trouble because if
that happens there will be a DROP
In the earning power of people
living in the regions that depend
. on the national forests for timber
enough to keep m production the
industries that use timber as raw
material to keep their plants in
operation.
At the same conference, George
Henderson, vice-president of t h e
First National Bank of Oregon,
told his hearers that three out of
each ten persons in the Pacific
Northwest owe their livelihood to
the wood products industry
One more word about wilderness
areas. If we maintain them. I hope
we maintain them as WILDER
NESSES, pure and simple. No
roads. Either roads constructed by
the national forests or half roads,
half trails permitted to be pio
neered by jeeps or other rugged
vehicles. '.. ,
Just TRAILS.
Trails to be used by wilderness
lovers who are devoted enough to
the wilderness to be willing to ne
gotiate it with bark packs or sad
dle and pack outfits.
And
No landings by amphibious
planes on its lakes or by puddle
Jumper planes on its open spaces.
Just pure WILDERNESS.
If that is done, our existing wil
derness areas will be ample to
meet the demands made upon
Ulem.
THE LAST TRIP for this dent
the beck of a pickup. The sturgeon, nicknamed "Wilma," had been a featured attraction
at the hatchery for two decades. The fish wet attacked by vandals last Thursday and
tucevmbed to five inch gash en the tide. Several smeller sturgeons still remain at the
hatchery. Photo by McKinney
FALLS. OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE S3. ISSS
Terminal Building Bid
Given To Local Firm
The city council awarded a lo
cal firm the bid for construction
of a new terminal building at the
municipal airport during its Mon
day night session in city hall.
Bids for construction of the new
structure had been opened and
tabulated at 1 p.m. in the council
chambers . Monday. Five general
contractors bid on the project
Low bidder was the Brosterhous
Construction Company, 1341 Elm
Street.
The bids were divided into a
basic bid with two alternates. The
alternates were d) omitting pum
School Board
Reaffirms
Carlson Vote
By NORM CARDOZA
Charles T. Carlson, assistant su
perintendent of Klamath Union
High School, lost the prmcipalship
of the school by a two to one vote
of the District 2 Board of Directors
Monday evening. Margaret Sheri
dan cast the dissenting vote. E. D.
Hickman, board chairman, ab
stained from voting, and John
Voth, convalescing from surgery,
was not present.
Carlson also tost 13.300 in annu
al salary. He did not indicate
whether he will remain in the
school system as a science teach
er or leave the district.
Still to be resolved by . the
board are-Carlson's duties as as
sistant superintendent, a title he
still holds; who will succeed him
as principal, and what the new
man's salary will be.
' Board members must pick a suc
cessor by July 1, when a
new school year begins. George
Flitcraft and Dr. James Noel, the
two board members who voted to
demote Carlson, mentioned that
they waited until the last minute
to bring the long-brewing action
to a head in deference to Carl
Both said Carlson had been
warned as early as a year ago
that criticism against his adminis
tration had been mounting. Last
March, they said. Carlson was in
formed that if the "situation" did
not improve to the satisfaction of
the board, he would resign as
principal and step down to class
room status or leave the system.
Carlson, they said, agreed. Board
members agreed to hold up action
until the end of the school year
to' give Carlson a chance to re
sign and to find a position else
where if he desired.
Weather
FORECAST Klamath Falls and
vicinity: Mostly fair with variable
high clouds through Wednesday.
Highs 78-84; low tonight 48-51.
High yesterday x.... 85
Law last night 48
Preeip. last 24 hours .. 0
Since Oct. 1 . 5.74
Same period last year 17.12
Northern California Fair
through Wednesday except in'
creasing tog along the coast; little
change, ia temperatures. Coastal
winds northwesterly, 12-25 miles
aa hour.
FOREST FIRE
DANGER TODAY
KEEP OREGON CREEN
sturgeon at the Mount Shasta
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ice brick and using SCR brick,
and 2 omission of a 30 kva
transformer sub-station.
Brosterhous' basic bid was $102,
000. Other bidders and their offers
were Vik Construction Company,
Eugene. 1103.506: Starr Builders.
Lebanon, $107,500: Thompson and
Georgeson. Portland. $108,396. 'and
G. L. Ballantyne, Klamath Falls.
$109,700.
In addition to his initial bid.
Brosterhous indicated he would
add $2,725 for the substitution of
brick for pumice brick and sub
tract $3,641 for taking the trans
former out of the project.
In announcing the award of the
bid Monday night. Mayor Law
rence Slater pointed out that sev
eral items' had to be added to the
basic bid plus alternates. He
enumerated them as appoximateiy
$3,750 for tearing down the present
terminal building, $3,000 for furni
ture for the new structure, $7,000
in architect fees as well as other
money for contingencies that
might arise in construction.
In all. Mayor Slater said that
construction would total $120,000.
"The city has budgeted a total of
$110,000," he said, "including the
$50,000 federal matching funds.
This, however, is $10,000 short.
The council, mayor and budget
board have unanimously agreed to
borrow an additional $10,000 from
the city property fund. This would
make a total of $40,000 borrowed
from this fund.
"This money." he continued,
"will be repaid to this fund at a
rate of $5,000 per year for eight
years, plus an interest of approx
imately three per cent.
"It will not cost the property
owners any tax dollars," he em
phasised.
Slater indicated that the council
was faced with a choice of either
adopting this procedure and build
ing the terminal or losing the $50,-
000 federal funds.
Earlier in the day. at the after
noon bid opening, Charles Drew,
district .director for the Federal
Aviatioa Aaencv. indicated - that
hhc ' Klamath Falls terminal was
possibly the last terminal building
in which the federal government
would participate.
The award of the bid calls for
completion of the building within
180 days. That would make a ten
tative completion date of January
U 1960.
flavor Slater indicated that bids
would be asked later in demolition
of the present terminal building.
Artist's Wife.
Alice Ketcham,
Dies In Shasta
MOUNT SHASTA Mrs.
Alice Louise Ketcham, model for
the mother "Alice" in the cartoon
feature "Dennis the Menace," died
Monday night of a brain hemo
rrhage while motoring through
Northern California.
Mrs. Ketcham, 41, of Carmel
Valley, was stricken while
accompanying Sgt. and Mrs.
Jv.mes Williams of Fort Ord,
to Fort Lewis, Wash., from where
he was to go overseas. Mrs. Ket
cham was to have driven back
to California with Mrs. Williams
She was taken ill near Castella
and brought to the Mount
Shasta Hospital where she died
four hours later, at 11:30 p.m.
Mrs. Ketcham had obtained an
interlocutory divorce in March
from cartoonist Henry, (Hank
Ketcham, Carmel Valley. Ketch
am has used his family, including
son Dennis, now 13, as models for
his cartoon strip, "Dennis the
Menace."
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FIRST BANK to contribute to the OTI New Site Fund cam
paign was First Federal Savings and Loan Company of
Klamath Falls. Here, George Mclntyre, president, hands a
$1,000 check to Vern Owens, campaign chairman. Work
ers hope to make all their rounds this week and present a
financial report next Monday, Owens said.
Government Surplus Truck
Given To Fire Department
WEED Sen. Randolph Collier.
Vreka, presented the key of a
government surplus fire truck to
Rolland Riley, chief of the Shaslina
Kire Protection District Volun
teers, Monday night, following a
dinner for the volunteer group and
numerous honor guests, held in
Lou's Lounge.
Senator Collier was one of
three senators who. several years
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United Press International
HERTER Washington Secre
tary Herter goes before the na
tion on TV tonight: will strike
hopeful, but realistic stance on Ge
neva conference..
LONG Baton Rouge, La. Gov.
Long bids for freedom from men
tal hospital; public hearing on ha
beas corpus petition set for Fri
day.
NUCLEAR Washington Ex
perts say more atom tests needed
to fill gaps in knowledge of what
an H-bomb war would do to the
world.
VANGUARD-.Cape Canaveral
Vanguard III carrying weather sat
ellite fails to achieve orbit.
ANIMALS-Washington Con
gressmen watch animals being
paralyzed by new secret weapons
developed by the Army.
Local Merchants
Planning Bazaar
Plans for the Klamalh Mer
chants Association Bargain Carni
val Street Bazaar were completed
at the merchants' meeting Tues
day morning at the Chuck Wagon.
The bazaar will be held Friday.
July 3, with booths on the side
walks in front of all downtown
stores. Most of the members pres
ent indicated they would partici
pate in the event and hours were
set from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on an
optional basis.
Christmas decoration plans were
also discussed as well as the dis
tribution of a new shipment of
Centennial coins which are now
available.
Noel Flynn is chairman of the
Bargain Carnival Street Bazaar.
Things Won't Be The Same
At Shasta Fish Hatchery
By J. O. McKINNEY
MOUNT SHASTA There was
a catch in Ihe voice, and mist in
the eyes of Mrs. Carl Hill Sunday
morning while she watched a dead
fish being loaded into a pickup
truck to be taken away for burial
She is Ihe wife of the superintend
ent of the state fish hatchery here,
and the fish was a-giant sturgeon
slashed by a vandal on June IS
But to Mrs. Hill, and the others
at the hatchery, H was almost like
losing an old friend. The big fish
had been an inmate of the hatch
ery lor 19 years. It was the chief
attraction ' among the countless
thousands of fish Ihere. Many peo
ple never had any other opportun
ity to see a sturgeon.
This ne was a fine specimen.
Aiwut eight feet in length, its
weight was estimated to be be
tween 125 and ISO pounds. Twice
k had bten taken In th Califor
nia State Fair and it attracted
thousands of visitors to the plant
When the sadistic crime was dis
covered Thursday evening, the Ush
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ago, promoted the appropriation
of funds for purchase of 100 gov
ernment surplus trucks for Califor
nia state-wide civilian disaster
units.
This truck is one of the 100 as
signed to various cities in the
state and was placed in Weed
largely through the efforts of the
organized civilian disaster unit,
here, and the active volunteer fire
department. It will be available
not only in the county for fires and
local emergencies, but also for
emergency calls outside the dis
trict: The truck was driven to Weed
Monday by Mcl Reiley. field rep
resentative for the California Dis
aster olfice at Sacramento.
Socakins la Ihe croun of iver 50
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' Jpeople. Senatoc Collier termed the
added equipment here as increased
insurance to the community of
Weed and surrounding area and
expressed his gratitude at being
instrumental in its placement in
the county.
Harold Robinson, director of Cal
ifornia Disaster office in Sacra
mento, elaborated on the state
wide fire net program and praised
Collier for his efforts in helping
obtain this surplus fire equipment.
Harold Bowhay, chief of fire
services for the California Disas
ter office in Sacramento, accom
panied Robinson to Weed for the
presentation of the truck. He said
the truck is to be used to answer
multiple fire alarms. It is on call
fi.r use anywhere in the state and
ran also be used for training pur
poses.
The truck is a CMC 6.10. with a
l.ono gallon-a-minute pumper and
will be added to the Volunteer
Department and the International
Paper Company.
The purchase of this truck was
possible through the federal and
state money-matching program.
According to Bowhay. property
valued at the two million dollar
figure has been saved throughout
the state under the fire program
using the government surplus
equipment, which has been equally
distributed state-wide instead of
original placement in target areas
such as Los Angeles, San Francis
co and San Diego. The trucks are
assigned to localities on a mutual
aid agreement.
was Ihoncht to be dead. It was
still alive Friday morning, and Dr.
Jack Tucker, local veterinarian,
was called in. He administered an
tibiotics and antiseptics to the
wound, and sewed up the slash
a good five inches long, three inch
es deep. It exposed the backbone.
The big fish was confined in a
circular pool, but it was unable to
remain upright, A net was
wrapped about the wounded giant
to keep it right side up. and a
check was kept on Its condition. It
appeared to be gaining strength.
But the shock was too great. It
d-ed, and was buried on the
giound where it had been an at
traction for nearly two decades.
Two other smaller sturgeon are
in the same pool. They have tried
to get away from the place since
the outrage. Whether or not they
will be retained has not been de
cided by the Department ot Fish
and Game. They may suffer the
tame fate.
(See Earlier Story Page 4.1
Official Fears Plot For Escape
BULLETIN
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (I PI)
Federal officers launched an all
out tear gas and bulldozer offen
sive on 106 mental patients at the
U.S. Prison Medical Center to
day, succeeding in freeing five
guards held hostages for 16
hours, city police reported.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (API-
Rioting prisoners all men
tally unstable and torn con
sidered das per at war a re
ported attempting to hammer
their way to freedom today
through a 36-inch brick wall
at the U.S. Medical Center
here.
The 106 inmates seized
five guards at hostages Mon
day night when they took
over three buildings in a sec
tion of the prison known as
10 North, and were hold
ing them at knife-point.
Guards, state troopers and city
policemen formed three separate
rings around the "10 North" wing
of the federal prison system's gen
eral hospital, known as the "coun
try club" because it looks like one
from the outside.
The officers, armed with riot
guns and gas grenades, were
spaced only 20 feet apart to guard
against the possibility of a break.
But the officers made no move
toward the whig. Dr. Russell O.
Settle, warden of the center, or
dered his staff to avoid provoking
the rioters.
The "10 North" wing is a pris
Satchmo Ails;
Pneumonia
SPOLETO. Italy f AP) Ameri
can jazz king Louis Armstrong
was rushed to Spoletos civil hos
pital today, suffering from an at
tack of pneumonia.
Italian doctors who examined
him immediately after the attack
early today said that he had suf
fered a heart attack. But an ex
animation by specialists at the
hospital showed, U)at the 56-year
old Negro musician bad pneumoh
i.' .
The New Orleans-born trumpet
er had come to Spoleto to partici
pate in the Festival of Two
Worlds, directed by American
composer Gian-Carlo Menotti.
The specialists said Armstrong's
condition was not grave.
His wife was at his bedside.
Armstrong told Italian doctors
who first examined him at his ho-
el early this morning that he felt
a sharp pain In the left side of
his chest. That led the doctors to
believe that he had suffered a
heart attack.
Marilyn Monroe
Undergoes Knife
NEW YORK (API Film star
Marilyn Monroe underwent gyne
cological surgery today at Lenox
Hill Hospital.
There was no immediate further
explanation of the surgery.
The actress has twice experi
enced miscarriages. On Aug. 1,
1957 she underwent surgery at
Doctors Hospital here following a
month's pregnancy. She lost a
second unborn child Dec. 17, 19S8,
while at work on a movie in California.
PATIENCI PAID Off for these three Dunsmuir youngsters
awarded '
$80.30 which they
muir. Left to right are Wayne Youtiey, Jerry Yates, Devid
who mode the presentation
on-type building with barred doors
and windows and individual cells.
it is divided into three wards.
each housing about a third of the
lot inmates.
Homosexuals are in one ward,
young asgressives" in the second
ward, and "older aggressives" in
the third. All are neuro-psychiat-ric
patients and they ate among
the most dangerous of the hos
pital's 1.046 inmates.
Of the center's inmate popula
tion, 239 are trusties. About 60
per cent of the 787 patientt suffer
mental illnesses.
None of the rioters has been
identified by the warden.
Chris Herter
To Outline
Geneva Policy
WASHINGTON (AP)-cSecretary
of State Christian A. Herter today
showed no optimism to inquiring
congressmen about chances for
agreement with the Soviets suffi
cient to justify a summit meeting.
This was the summary given
newsmen by Chairman Thomas
E. Morgan ID-Pa) of the House
Foreign Affairs Committee after
a two-hour closed -door session
with the secretary.
Morgan said Herter s report on
six weeks of negotiation with the
Soviets at Geneva added up to
this "There was a complete
deadlock."
Secretary Herter will outline his
views on the Geneva meeting in a
nationwide television-radio report
to the American people tonight.
He is reported ready to proclaim
an allied "no retreat" stand in
future talks with the Russians on
the deadlocked Berlin issue.
The address will be heard lo
cally at 6:45 p.m. on radio station
KFLW.
President Eisenhower is under
stood to have approved the main
points of Herter't address during
a White House meeting Monday.
With Eisenhower's full backing
he is reported ready to tell the
American people:
1. The United Stales, Britain
and France have reached rock
bottom in the concessions they
will offer the Soviet Union in order
to settle the Berlin crisis.
X. The Kremlin must rescind its
ultimatum-like deadline for an
end to Allied rule in West Berlin
if a new round of foreign minis
ters' talks in Geneva is to avoid
the same deadlock that caused
them to recess Saturday.
1. President Eisenhower is de
termined to shun any summit
meeting with Soviet Premier Ni-
kita Khrushchev unless the Geneva
talks first make readily apparent
progress in blocking out a rea
sonable settlement of the Berlin
quarrel.
Top State Department officials
said Herter't main emphasis will
be on a United Allied determina
tion to stand pat in West Berlin
despite the Soviet campaign of
threats and intimidations.
THIEF HAS BALL
SAN FRANCISCO (UPM A
thief broke into the athletic de
partment of George Washington
High School during the weekend
and had a ball.
In fact, he had US of them
footballs, basketballs, golf balls,
tennis balls, toft balls and base
balls. '
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had found a year previously on
in the form of eheckt to the youngttert.
One inmate was seen holding a
knife to the back ot a hostage. A
rioter told the center's control room
by telephone: "Don't try to come
in here or your men will get hurt."
Another inmate said in a second
call, "We mean business."
Questioned by Settle on what
started the riot, the man said:
"We have our demands almost
ready but we will call you."
That was at 10:20 Monday night.
Nothing since has been . heard
from the prisoners.
There has been no sound at all
from the wing. There are no
lights. The prisoners smashed the
lights when the uprising began.
Only one newsman. Jim Bill
ings, city editor of the Springfield
Daily News, was allowed inside
the center.
'There is no rioting in the gen
eral sense no shouting and all
that," Billings reported.
He said officials were "sitting
around, sweating out" the riot and
added, "There is not much any
one can do except sweat."
The 100-foot-long, one-story con
crete wing is divided into three
cellblocks and is separated from
the rest of the center by a bar
red door.
First indication of the riot came
when a guard peered through that
door in a routine check just be
fore "lights out."
The guard told Dr. Settle he
saw inmates milling in the long
corridor. The five guards in the
wing were stripped to their,
shorts. Some inmates were wear
ing the officers' uniforms. An in
mate was holding a knife against
the back of a guard.
Probinq Lads
Given Payoff
By PEGGY WALSH
DUNSMUIR A treasure hunt
paid off on Friday when Judge
A. A. Smith gave David Dains,
10; Jerry Yates, 10, and Wayne
Youtsey, 16, all of Dunsmuir,
checks totaling $80.30.
David got $65.30 because that is
what he dug up last June 13 while
digging a play fort on the western
outskirts of Dunsmuir. He en
earthed the first $60 in one wad of
small bills buried about two feet
deep.- The money was in good con
dition except for being dirty.
His two friends started digging
too. David found a five dollar bill
and three dimes. Jerry found two
fives and Wayne one five. By that
time word had gotten around and
all the neighborhood children were
wielding shovels along with quite
a crowd of adults.
The hillside in back of the 900
block on Castle Avenue was well
spaded in the next four days but
no more money was found. If
there is anymore, it will be hard
to find because the area is jn
the path of a new freeway and
now under tons of (ill.
The boys reported their treasure
to the police. In compliance with
the law, it has been held for a
year and duly advertised.
Police said there had been two
unsolved robberies in the months
prior to the find but there was
no way of linking the money with
these robberies or any other ille
gal activity. They could not con
jecture why the bills and coins
should be buried in an unmarked
spot, without containers, and in
an area close to homes and play-
ins1 children.
last Friday when they were
the western outskirts of Duns.
Daint and Judge A. A. Smith
Photo by Waltb