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Newspaper Page TextU.C? 0-.LI3."AnT NSa3?APS3 SSCTIO'I EUGEJis.oasa. - CC2?. la The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS In this space yesterday, the ten dency of tourists to rush through Oregon at high speed, with rela tively few slops, was discussed. Hov do we know they do? ' Research carried on in 1958 by the traffic engineering division of the Oregon highway department indicates that in 1958 the average ' length of stay per tourist car was S I days. The average number of miles driven in Oregon last year per tourist car was 472. If you are going to cover 472 miles in 3.8 days i including the intervening nights) you're going to have to keep moving. You may' ask:' . Why try to stop them? The answer is provided by the name research, which turned up these figures: The average number of persons per tourist car. in 1958 was 3.2. The average expenditure per per con per day was $6.16. The aver age expenditure per day per car was $19.71. The computed num ber of tourist cars visiting Oregon in 1938 was 1.803.465. Put it this way in round num bers. If each of these 1,800.000 ''tourist cars could have been in duced to stay ONE DAY LONGER lat $20 per car) the addition to Oregon's economy would have been 36 MILLION DOLLARS, t That isn't hay. Let's carry these figures a little farther. . The research by the traffic en gineering division of the Oregon highway department indicates that 4.1 per cent of Oregon's tourist visitors last year came from Cali fornia and 23 per cent from Wash ington. That amounts to 66 per cent of Oregon's total tourist trav el. It can be assumed that prac tically all the California visitors drove across our State of Jef ferson. It is a reasonably safe as sertion that the bulk of Oregon's Washington visitors drove on into California, crossing our State ofi Jefferson en route. To be on the safe side, let's assume that a million tourist cars from Central and Southern Cali fornia and the state of Washing ton drove across Southern Ore ton and Far Northern California last year. At $20 per day, assum ing that we could have induced all of them to spend an additional day in our area, that would have mounted to 20 MILLION dollars That isn't hay in our part of the country. . Demo Leader, Eons, Dead SALEM (AP) David C. Epps. $1. Oregon Democratic Party chairman, died in a Salem hospi tal Monday night. Epps, chairman of the party ince January. 1958, was ad mitted to the hospital Sunday after a recurrence of hemor rhaging ulcers. He was born July (. 1907. in Portland. He had been active in state politics more than 20 years, and was a delegate to national Demo cratic conventions in 1940, 1952 and 1956. At the 1952 convention he was the first Oregon delegate to twitch his vote from Estes Kefau ver to the 1952 nominee. Adlai Stevenson. ' Epps, who owned furniture stores in Sweet Home and Leba' Hon, was the Democratic nominee for secretary of state in 1946, los ins to Robert S. Farrell Jr. His first real taste of politics came in 1938 as a campaign worker in the race for governor. North, East Heat Wave Relief Seen United Press International Forecasters promised relief from a muggy heat wave in the North and East today but said hot. humid weather would plague residents of the South and Southeast. Temperatures in the ' 90 s and over 100 across the East and South took a toll in lives and crops, created water shortages in some communities and sent mil lions of persons fleeing to the comforts of air-conditioned build ings. Two heat prostration deaths were reported in New York City, one death in New Jersey was at tributed to the heat and a coro ner ruled that a Hamlet, S C.. woman died as a result of a 102 degree temperature. A canning firm shut down in Weldon, N.C., throwing SO per sons out of work, because the hot, dry weather had destroyed the stringbean crop. North Carolina's tobacco crop was threatened by the plant-withering heat. In the Finger Lakes area of New York State, Mayor George E. Keenan declared a state of emergency in the city of Corning after a three-million-gallon reser voir ran dry. A ban was placed on laundering clothes and sprinkling lawns and the Corning glass works was asked to turn off its air-condition ing plant. The mayor said most homes had a limited supply of water for drinking and other es sential needs. In New York City, two Manhat tan firemen turning off a hydrant for the third time were attacked Monday night by 25 teen-agers. One was hit on the head with a garbage pail and one stabbed in the arm. A youth reported to police for turning on a fire hydrant in the Bronx was blamed for tossing a "Molotov cocktail", from the top ot an apartment house into a group of neighbors cooling off on a front stoop. Five persons were burned, one seriously. Ninety-five-degree weather in Indianapolis, the hottest there since Aug. 5, 1956. made a soft drink machine one of the most popular gathering spots in the Chrysler plant.. A dozen men were standing around the machine when it exploded, killing one and injuring 10. The mercury soared Monday to 102 degrees at New Bern. N.C.. 101 at Wilmington, N.C., and Bat timore, Md.. 100 at Fayetteville. N.C., and Washington. DC. 97 at Louisville. Ky., 96.1 in New York City, 95 at St. Louis and Kansas City. Mo., and 91 as far north as Burlington, Vt. -v Price Five Cent 1 Pages KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY. JUNE 30, 1951) mot! ess jet ciane Hits Schoolhouse Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 6434 - "VOW a lKibk. M4 440$0w ' NAHA less U S Air Force jet lighter hurtled into the corner of an Oki- nawan schoolhouse today, then sprayed fiery fragments over a residential area. A control center set up by U.S. military authorities said 21 per sons were killed and 100 injured. Rescue teams were seeking more bodies. It was not yet known how many of the dead were school children. The plane struck the roof of the school's sixth grade classroom, where a class was in progress. The teacher was hospitalized. All of the victims apparently were Okinawans. Police said that FOREST FIRE DANGER TODAY KEEP OREGON GREEN DEDICATION CEREMONIES (or the now Johns-Manvilte in sulating board plant north of Klamath Falls were held Tues day morning with Governor Mark Hatfield giving th signal which put the huga plant into operation. The gov ernor was introduced by publisher Frank Jenkins of the Johns-Manville Herald and Nawi. A. R. Fiiher, chairman and president of Johns-Manville, pointed out that th nw plant makes Klamath Falls on of 32 communities in th U.S., Canada and abroad where Johni-Manvillt operates plants and mines. Governor Officiates At Opening Ceremonies Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Mostly fair through Wednesday. Highs 78-85; low to night 50-55. High yesterday 72 Low last night 41 Precip. last 24 hours 0 Since Oct. 1 5.82 Same period last year 18.58 Northern California Fair through Wednesday, except In creasing log along the coast. Northwesterly winds, 10-2 miles a hour near the coast. Governor Mark Hatfield came here today from Salem to offi ciate at opening ceremonies for the first manufacturing plant to utilize lodgcpole pine on a major commercial scale. Formerly con sidered a useless weed tree, this abundant natural resource is now being transformed here by Johns Manville into insulating board pro ducts. , Governor Hatfield gave the sig nal which put into operation an entirely new type of Industry ip the state's economy, - Notables from city and state, federal forestry, land and Indian affairs agencies, along with A. R. Fisher, Johns-Manville chairman and president, W. R. Wilkinson vice president and general man ager of the Building Products Di vision, and other Johns-Manville officials attended the plant open ing in the morning and a luncheon which followed at the Reames Golf and Country Club. W. H. Graham is manager of the new plant. An open house for the general public was held at the plant this afternoon. A. R. Fisher noted that with the opening of the new plant Klamath Falls became one of the 32 communities in the United States. Canada and abroad where Johns-Manville operates plants and mines. "This new plant," he said, "will serve the rapidly growing West ern market of the United States. In addition .to Oregon this market includes California, Washington, Idaho. Montana. Nevada. Arizona. New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming and other areas.. "We hope that our operations here will rhake a significant con tribution to the community and to the Northwest. And we hope that as a new industrial neighbor we will also establish a- sound basis for a pleasant and rewarding com munity relationship." The plant is located 22 miles north of Klamath Falls on High way 97. It is the most modern insulating board production cen ter in the1 country as it embodies over 20 years of Johns-Manville experience in operating similar plants in olher sections of the United States and Canada. . The plant was designed by Johns-Manville 's General Engin coring Department, under the di rection mf Grge S-- Smithvico! president of Johns-Manville Pro-' duct Corporation and director of engineering: A. C. Smith, chief plant engineer: and E. T. Haw kins, project manager. Design was based on requirement specifica tions from Johns-Manville's Build ing Products Division. ! . s : i : " - fit, I wmm'f V ?mmm Child Killed In Accident YREKA Linda Peters, 10, died last night hi Siskiyou County Hos pital of injuries received in a high way accident about 1 p.m. Mon day near Hornbrook on a county road, according to California High way Patrol. Four others are In serious condition in the hospital The child and a sister, Priscilla Peters, 16, and Marcia Farns- worth. 11. were riding in the bed of a pickup truck driven by Lil lian Peters of Hornbrook. thought to be the mother of two of the girls. Nola Farnsworth. 31, thought by officers to be Marcia Earns worth s mother, was a passenger in the cab of the pickup. The pickup was towing a sedan operated by Andrew Peters, 21, of Yreka. The sedan went out of control, whipped around the pick up and overturned both vehicles. The girls were thrown out of the pickup which rolled over upon them, oificers said. Only person uninjured was Andrew Peters. Ambulances from Hilt and Yre ka and a passing station wagon whose driver's name was not known to California Highway Pa trol, took the injured to the hoc pital. All four have major injuries officers said. r. -it til GOVERNOR MARK HATFIELD arrived by Air National Guard plana this morning at Kings, ley Field and is shown with 2nd Lt. John Gentile, Honor Flight commander, and Col. Jack Williams, Kingiley Field commander, both at laft, impacting tha Honor Flight at th bat. Th governor arrived at 8:55 a.m. and at II a.m. officially dedicated th Johns Manvilla insulating board plant north of Klamath Falls, in th prtnc of A. R. Fithr, resident and chairman of th Johnt-Manvil! board of directors, other eicutivi from tha New York headquarters and invited guests. Photo by M.Sgt. Charles lnntt Architect-engineer (or the plant was the firm or Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill of Portland, San Fran cisco. Chicago and New York. The general contractor was the George A. Fuller Company with branches in San Francisco and other cities, and headquarters in New York. The plant is operated by Johns Manville's Building Products Di vision. Employment is about 250 with an annual payroll of $1,250,-1 000. ' . Und 'a long-term contract with the government, Johns-Manville will take about 50.000 cords of lodgcpole pine a year from the Fremont and Rogue River nation al forests. The operation provides one of the first major commer cial uses for this type of timber and makes a significant contribu tion to the economy of the area. While the white man previous ly has found little use for lAdge pole pine the Indians years ago did use the trees as poles for their lodges, giving rise to the name for the timber. It is said that the poles were highly valued by Indians in the treeless plains and became a form of currency, one pole being worth one horse. Insulating board is a product resulting from the formation of tough pulpwood fibers into sheet form by wet processing, then pres sure and heat. The thousands of tiny air spaces trapped in the sheet together with the wood fib era themselves create a structural board material with good insulat ing and noise reducing values. Insulating board products which are manufactured in the new plant are natural finish building board. decorative ceiling panels and wall plank, insulating board sheathing. acoustical panels and roof insula tion, including a new roof deck product which provides roof plank in. roof insulation and inside fin ish in one operation. Located on approximately 290 acres, the plant consists of six giv :ral groups of buildings with 285 900 square feet of floor space The buildings are all of perma nent, low-maintenance construe tion.- Foundations and floors are concrete. Building frames are steel with Johns-Manville corru Okinawa AP A pilol-.bO of the less seriously injured ere school children playing near the school. The blazing wreckage set fir to 30 nouses. Thousands rushed hysterically o the scene aflcr a broadcast that 150 had been killed and 300 hurt. Tne milling crowds hindered th emoval of the injured to hospitals by military ambulances. It was one of the worst military disasters since World War II on Okinawa, biggest U.S. base in th ar East. There were immediat political repcrcussiorfs in Tokyo. The Japanese Socialist party, long critical of American administra tion of the former Japanese is land, said it would bring the mat ter up in Parliament. Lt. Gen. Robert W. Burns, corn mander of the 51 h Air Force, ex pressed his "deep personal sym pathy" for the victims and their families. He planned to fly to Ok inawa for a personal investigation. An explosion occurred aboard the Floo Super Sabre jet soon aft er it took off from Kadcna Air Base, eight miles from Ishikawa. The pilot, Capt. John G. Schmitt Ir. of Chalmers, lnd., parachuted to safety. Capt. Richard Rousscll of Lock- port, La , an eyewitness, said the empty plane headed for an unin habited hill, veered sharply and finally crashed into a corner ot he Miamori Elementary School. Sheering off from the school build ing, it burst into a shower of flam ing metal which scattered over th green-tiled roofs of the surround ing residential district. Strauss Quits Cabinet Post gated Transite (asbestds-cement) roof deck and sidcwalls. Roofs are insulated with Johns-Manville insulating board such as is manu factured m this plant. Over the board is laid J-M 20-year built up roofing. Walls are insulated with J-M mineral wool blankets. Work is made easier for em ployes throughout the plant by the use of the most modern methods ol materials handling, governing the movement of heavy mate rials through all stages of manu facturing, storage and distribution. The system of handling mate rials iwith mechanized equipment eliminates the drudgery and back- breaking work, and guards em ployes' health in connection with hauling, pushing, carrying, lift ing and stacking of materials. In creased production and better op erational efficiency also result. WASHINGTON (AP Lewis L. Strauss today formally re signed as secretary of commerce the Cabinet post for which the Senate refused to confirm him. The resignation is effective at the close of business today. It was announced at the White House which made public an exchange of letters between Strauss and Presi dent Eisenhower. Eisenhower said he was accept ing the resignation with personal sadness. And he again paid warm tribute to Strauss, who has been serving by presidential recess ap pointment since last November. Referring to the criticism of Strauss in the Senate, Eisenhower wrote him; "I have frequently ex pressed my conviction that the charges leveled against you were totally unjustified. These could have destroyed a less sturdy in dividual. "But I know that in your heart you cannot fail to take with you, as you leave office, a profound satisfaction in the extraordinary services you have rendered to the country, and which, over the years have been acclaimed by eminent leaders in American life." In his letter of resignation, Strauss told Eisenhower that the recess appointment under which he has been serving will not ex pire until the present session of Congress ends. In view of the recent action of the Senate rejecting the nomina tion which you have made in the regular course. It seems to me that 1 should resign formally now in order that the functioning of the Department of Commerce may continue unimpaired," he wrote. Pat Signs Top Budget SACRAMENTO (UPD Gov Edmund G. Brown today signed into law a record breaking budget of S2.224.944.533 to run state gov eirment for the next fiscal year. Brown cut $1,168,110 from the budget as it was submitted to him by the Legislature. He deleted $500,000 for purchase of a campus site for the state uni versity at La Jolla and also cut out $120,000 for surveys and stud ies of the possibility of extending the proposed South Bay Aqueduct into San Mateo County. He reduced by $189,000 the amount of state money to process veterans' claims and rights and trimmed another $150,000 from funds for county veteran service officers. The governor also cut $209,000 out for state aid to local mosquito abatement districts. Brown deleted money for the La Jolla site because he said the board of regents had agreed to purchase the property with funds left over from their current fiscal year budget. Not All The People Want Statehood HONOLULU (UPD The tiny. Isolated Island of Nllhau was heard from Monday and Its resi dents showed conclusively that not everybody la the Hawaiian Islands wants statehood. The Island's 88 votes cast Saturday arrived at the county seat Monday by slow boat: They were four to 1 against all three proposals on the statehood ballot. The island is privately-owned and populated almost entirely by pure Hawaiian. They not only rejected statehood but abstained from voting for any federal of fices. The final count in Saturday's plebiscite gave statehood the "yes" margin by almost 18 to 1. Tree Crushes Timber Faller Alfred John Musshafcr, a tim ber faller for Putnam Logging Company, was killed Monday af ternoon when he was crushed be tween two trees. He was declared dead on arrival at Klamath Valley Hospital. Musshafer's partner, Orville Ben nett, 1418 Wilford Avenue, said Musshafer had felled a tree in the Buck Lake area and was trimming and bucking it when a tree behind him uptooted and fcU. . Musshafor was cnished between the two trees. "I was working off away," Ben nett said, "and I got an uneasy feeling right away. I don't know why. We usually stay apart for maybe an hour. But I yelled and got no an swer. I thought ne mtgnt nav gone to the truck, but I went back anyway. Then I saw where th tree fell." Musshafert 39, 495 Division Street, was married and the fath er of three children. Nike Missiles To Ring Athens ATHENS (AP) The Greek gov ernment is going to ring Athena with Nike missile bases to pro tect the capital from air attack, an Air Ministry spokesman said today. Greek officers and men ar already in the United States train ing to use the surface-to-air anti aircraft missiles, he said. Con struction of the bases on moun tains overlooking Athens is due to be completed by the end of 1960. , World News In llricf lolled Press International CRASH N a h a. Okinawa Flaming U.S. Air Force Jet hits schoolhouse: nine children report ed killed: more than 60 injured. DEFICIT Washington End of fiscal year today finds Uncle Sam with record peacetime defi cit of nearly 13 billion dollars. RAPE Beaufort, S.C. Young white Marine faces death sentence following conviction of raping Ne gro woman: jury fails to recom mend mercy. LONG Covington, La. Gov Long suffering from nervous breakdown complicated by mild stroke and heart trouble, psychi atrists report. RACKETS Washington Sen ate Rackets Committee unfolds career of Benjamin Dranow. who seems to have trad business of being Hoffa friend. Writer Confirms Reports Warren Called Him 'Liar1 WASHINGTON fAP) Earl Mazo. writer of a book 'about Vice President Richard M. Nixon, said today that Chief Justice Earl War ren had called him a "damned liar." Mazo confirmed reports that Warren, in a personal exchange at a cocktail party, had taken angry exception to parts of Maze's book. Warren was reported to (eel that the book promoted Nixon at Warren's expense. Warren had no comment. Mazo said the whole affair was really "just a misunderstanding because he hadn't read the book." The writer said that after things cooled down he and Warren had a long talk and parted good friends with a cordial invitation from Warren to visit him. In answer to questions, Mazo specifically confirmed that at one point Warren told him: "You are a damned liar. It la a dishonest account to promote Nixon." That was reported as Warren's rejoinder to a contention from Ma zo that he had written an objec tive, honest report of political af fairs involving Nixon and Warren Warren's complaint, in part, was reported to have been that the book represented Nixon as the victor over Warren in the 1950 political contest in California in which Helen Gahagan Douglas ran for senator against Nixon and James Roosevelt opposed Warren for governor., Nixon defeated Mrs. Douglas and Warren won the gubernatorial election. Warren's refusal t comment was relayed to newsmen who in quired at his Supreme Court office about a copyrighted Washington dispatch on the affair in the Min neapolis Tribune and th Des Moines Register. iVyTW' fin THI CHAMPION saddle bronc rider at tha National Inter eolUgiatq Rodo in Klamath Falls July 3, 4 and S will win this seddl shown by Opal Baert, laft, and Linda Nilai, who, work for th Klamath Falls Creamery, en of th local firms' who is donating a trophy.