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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 22, 1959)
In Tho- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS From Washington: Living costs jumped four-tenths of one per cent in June to hit a new ALL-TIME peak, the govern ment reported this morning. High er food prices accounted for most of the increase, although prices ol ALL major groups of goods and services except apparel were frac tionally higher. The cost-of-living index moved to 124'j per cent of average 1947 1949 prices. 'That is to say: i Your cost of living has moved up 24'j per cent in these 10 years. If you'll go back into your records and figure it out, you'll be likely to find that your wages have moved, up correspondingly. . But W'jre does that leave you? '. Here's where it leaves you: It leaves you in the spot of the captive squirrel that runs around and around and iround in its whirling exercise c.!?' It can put on a burst of snced, but it will still get no far her from where it Harled. All the squirrel gets out of it is the exercise. ; Who is responsible for all this? WHO IS THE CULPRIT? If we had. a pat answer to that question, we'd have it made. If there really was an actual, tangible, living and breathing cul prit, we'd lay violent hands on him and take him out and hang him to the highest tree and there after everything would be lovely and the goose would hang high for all of us. That would be SO easy. There is, of course, a culprit. The culprit is the inflationary spiral. But the inflationary spiral isn't a TANGIBLE thing. It is an intangible. You can't get a rope around an intangible's neck. The inflationary spiral is a GLAMOROUS thing. It keeps prices going up and up. It keeps wages going, up and up. As long as prices keep going up and wages keep going up, we have the ILLU SION of prosperity. Nobody wants to hang prosperity to the highest tree. So- ' We keep going around "'. and around, like the squirrel in its exercise cage, running faster and aster, but getting nowhere much Living Cost Shows Boost To New Mark WASHINGTON AP - The cost of living rose four-tenths of per cent in June to a record high. This was the largest monthly in crease in 14 months. Announcing the rise, as meas ured by its consumer price index, the Labor Department said today that all major items. in the living costs of city fanulies advanced. However, Commissioner Kwan Clague of the Bureau of Labor Statistics told newsmen the up surge of prices was "not a sign that the index is about to take off." He said the increase was large ly seasonal, due to a sharp ad vance in foods, chiefly fresh fruits and vegetables. The rise took the price index to 124.5 per cent of the 1947-49 aver age. This is six-tenths of 1 pet cent higher than a year ago. The increase will mean wage boosts of 1 or 2 cents an hour for about 600,000 workers whose union contracts have escalator clause! calling for periodic adjustments of wages to the cost of living. About 200.000 men in the truck ing industry and 100,000 workers in aircraft plants will receive a 2-cent hourly increase. About 230, 000 electrical manufacturing work ers and some employes in. other industries will get boosts avcrag ing about 1 cent an hour. The BLS also reported that the spendable earnings of factory workers take-home pay alter deduction of income and social security taxes reached a new record in the month. But the purchasing power of the pay checks declined because of the rise in prices, and was slight ly below the all-time records set in May. Veep Starts Moscow Trek i tu ) iiy swinaawiisisseagg -I- 4 w 4 k W i,w & V." , - , ' ,v.t,'.-X-' I " i !. it , Itl KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1959 Price Five Cents 28 Pages Telephone Tl' 4-8 111 No. 64r! Death Takes Ex-Governor; Douglas McKay Succumbs OREGON'S GOLDEN TRIANGLE TROPHY will be at stake this weekend when professional cowboys from all over the West gather In Klamath Falls for the 25th annual Klamath Basin Roundup Association's big show at the fairgrounds Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The trophy is put up jointly by triangla members Klamath Falls, Eugene and Prinovi lie. Each year each city adds $100 to the pot. The trophy and tha accrued cash will go to the first contestant winning the cup three times. To win, a contestant must be named best all around cowboy of the show. Wins do not need to be consecutive. Shown here admiring the tro phy are Keith Rice, president of KBRA, left, and Charlie Read, vice president. Shows here are slated at night on Friday and Saturday and a day show on Sunday if weather permits. Ticket office is open in the lobby of tha Willard Hotel. Senate Nod Seen For Fred Mueller WASHINGTON (AP) Indica tions are that the Senate will con- aider the nomination of Frederick H. Mueller as secretary of com merce without the bitter contro versy that flared over his prede cessor, Lewis L. Strauss. President Eisenhower nominal ed Mueller formally Tuesday for the post in which he has been acting since the Senate rejected Strauss. He had been undersecre tary. x Mueller, a popular official who doesn't stand on ceremony, is generally regarded in the Senate as an almost exact opposite to the controversial Strauss. WHY NOT NOW? WASHINGTON (AP)-President Eisenhower has proclaimed the week beginning October 4 as Fire Prevention Week. WASHINGTON (UPII Vice President Richard M. Nixon sets out tonight on a historic mission to Moscow that calls for a "little summit"1 meeting with Soviet Premier ' Nikita S. Khrushchev and a goodwill tour deep into Si beria. J Much of the substance of Nix on's conference with Khrushchev Sunday will be .determined today when the vice president meets with President Eisenhower at the White House. But it was known that Nixon, In his meeting with Khrushchev, ex pects to scan the entire spectrum cold war problems the Berlin crisis, the (..erman situation, the atomic tests stalemate, disarma ment, trade and a variety of oth er subjects. He probably also will touch on the question of a " Big Four summit meeting. While he will speak with full authority, Nixon will not be em powered to negotiate any cold war problems with Khrushchev, Rather, he will reaffirm U. S policy so that the Soviet leader will know first-hand where this government stands and why. It was stated on highest authori ty that Eisenhower would not be surprised if Khrushchev takes ad vantage of Nixon's visit to trans mit some new proposal. In that event, the President would expect Nixon to show only friendly inter est before communicating with the White House for advice and instructions on how he should react. Eisenhower, however, has not prepared any important message lor Nixon to give to Khrushchev. Debt Prevents Tax Cutting, Chief Tells Nevs Conference WASHINGTON (AP)' - Presi dent Kisenhowcr said today there must be. some payment .on the huge, national debt -before "any tax reduction can be justified. . . The President, at a news confer ence,, identified himself as tne source of news dispatches Tues day saying, among other things, that he sees no real hope for any tax cut during his last 18 months in office. . Eisenhower, in those news dis patches, also said the chances for any summit meeting with the Rus sians had grown increasingly dim. At his meeting with reporters today the President said sub stantially the, same thing, but add ed that he still does have hope for progress at the foreign min isters talks in Geneva. , 1 William McGaffin of the. Chica go Daily News called Eisenhow ers attention to tne series ot news dispatches Tuesday which expressed Eisenhower's views on many subjects but did not name the source. When McGaffin started to ask a question. Eisenhower interrupt ed and said that If McGaffin want ed to know whether he had had a group of newsmen in to dinner, the answer was yes. McGaffin then called it a good idea because, as he put it, the procedure increased the flow of news. Eisenhower thanked him but took exception when McGaf fin protested that what he termed only a chosen few newsmen had been invited. The President called the pro cedure an experiment, adding he probably will do it again. On the point of taxes, Eisen hower was asked whether he be lieves a reduction is impossible. He replied that the government should start to pay off the big national debt. Estimates , ane,, he said, that . interest qn. the debt in the, (iscal year starting -a ycur from, now will total, about $8,700,- ooo.ooo. . . : When you have to pay. out that much i in interest alone, the Presi dent said, it is the better part of w isdom to start whittling the debt a tax cut can be justified in the luture. ; And payment on the debt has not yet started, he observed. The news conference ranged over these other topics: POLITICS 7 , Eisenhower de clined to assess New York's Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller as a .pos sibility for the presidency on the Republican ticket. NIXON' VISIT , As' for Vice President Nixon's imminent visit to Russia he leaves later in the day Eisenhower said the vice president is not going to the So viet, Union in the role of negotia tor of East-West differences. The trip, the President went on. is a good-will gesture in connec tion with the opening of a U.S. exhibit in Moscow7. . . As for protests by Soviet Pre mier Mkita a. Khrushchev re garding a presidential' proclama tion expressing hope Snviet-domi nated countries will win their freedom, Eisenhower noted thai "FAWNSIE," a two-weak old black tail fawn, eagerly drains liar formula of fresh and powdered milk, fad to har by Mrs. Mary Marker of MeCloud. Tha fawn, run over by car en Highway 89 recently, hat been ralaaiad nar U.S. Ferpit Sarvica lookout station. Congress had passed I resolution instructjng -him tp: issue the proc lamation. BOIILEN U.S.,' Ambassador Charles E. . Bohlen is one of the fine men in the Stale Department, Eisenhower' said. He paid that tribute in attempting to clarify his remark at a news conference last week that Secretary of State Christian A. Hcrter had told him was giving no thought at this bme to assigning Bohlen to serve a key adviser on Soviet af fairs. The President said nothing as to whether Bohlen eventually will become a policy adviser on Sovi et affairs. CIVIL RIGHTS - Eisenhower said once again that progress in the field of civil rights cannot be made entirely through the enact ment of laws. There must be much dependence, he added, the education process and on ac ceptance of moral responsibility in that area. He made that comment when told tpat Roy Wilkins. head of the National Assn. for the Advance ment of Colored People, had said Negroes may have to support the Republicans because the Demo crats in Congress have come up with a big fat zero in the civil rights legislation field. SALEM i API Douglas McKay, 66, long-time Oregon political fig ure and President Eisenhower s secretary of the interior from lti.Vl to 195. died today. He had been hospitalized nearly two weeks with a heart ailment. He resigned from the cabinet in 1956 in an effort to unseal Wayne Morse from the United Stales Senate. Morse had been elected as a Republican but switched to the Democratic Party The effort to defeat Morse ailed and the loss was the only one McKay ever met in a career that took him through city and state olficcs to the Oregon governoi ship. He suffered from a heart ail ment for months. On June 12. he w.ilked into the hospital and his condition worsened steadily, kid ney comations arising. He was in a coma the last 24 hours. As secretary of the Interioi McKay helped to formulate the Eisenhower administration's part nership plan for development of hydroelectric ' power,, looking' to private industry to build powci dams and Ihe federal government multi-purpose dams. This was a subject of heated controversy the Pacific, Northwest and was one of the issues in the 1956 sen atorial election which he lost. Wrapped up in it was McKay's championship of Idaho Power Co 's plan for three dams in the Hells' Canyon reach ot the Snake River and his opposition to a fed eral high dam. It brought charges from political foes of "giveaway" of natural resources, a charge which friends indignantly denied. At his death he was chairmnn ol the U.S. section of the U.S. Canadian International Joint Com mission for water resource de velopment. ' - McKay was horn in Portland and was graduated from what is now Oregon Slate College. He built a prosperous automobile agency here; holding It 1 until he joined the President's cabinet in 19.13 when he turned it over to his sons-in-law. He served in France with the ill st Division in the First World War as a lieutenant and was gravely wounded. Although much of one shoulder was shot away, he regained such use of it that he 4 & 'DOUGLAS McKAY Extremely Dry Conditions Create Plague Of Blazes Fawn Survives On Penicillin, Loving Care McCLOUD U.S. Forest Serv ice personnel recently found a tiny fawn, only a few days old, bruised and cut, on Highway 89 near here. She had apparently been hit by a car. The fawn was taken to a ranger station where a doctor determined there were no broken bones, but had lost control over her hack legs. Forced feeding, rest and "tender-loving-care" soon brought improvement in the animal's con dition. She 1st probably the only fawn in Siskiyou County to have had penicillin shots! Department of Fish and Game points out that it's illegal to pos sess game animals in captivity. After the small animal's injuries were treated, she was released near a forest service lookout sta tion. There she can be fed and yet range with other deer in the forest, By JO DEF.LY LAKEVIEW Extremely dry conditions and lightning storms have combined to create a plague of fires throughout the Lake Coun ty area, it was reported this morn ing by officials of both the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management. The Fremont Forest area has been hit with 25 fires in the past two days. A number of other fires have been battled by the forest service and officials of the Hart Mountain Refuge report Ihey have corralled another huge blaze hi their area. Despite the rash of fires, as of this morning, all were reported inside firelines. However, the weather forecast for the next 24 hours for the area calls for 70 per cent dry lignining storms which could pose a severe menace to present fires as well as' new blazes. The newly inaugurated process of spraving the flames with a borate solution Is being credited by all officials with making the fires much more easily controllable. The forest service was keeping a tight line around a blaze at the north end of the Paisley dis trict Wednesday morning. It was located in tha Dead Indian area about two miles west of Summer Lake on the rim area. The blaze was reported to be a holdov'er from yesterday's lightning storm Two borate drops have been made on thus fire. Some men are on the line with additional equipment be ing sent to the scene. The fire is small, reported to be confined In about one acre, but officials said it was in a bad timbered area and they were concerned about it The fire in the Hart Mountain vicinity started in Post Meadows, according to Antelope Refuge of ficials. Cause of the fire is not known, but they reported that it has covered from 4.000 to 5.000 acres and is heading south into the mountain area. About 20 refuge men were on the fire, but officials asked the Bureau of Land Man agement to send them additional aid this morning. This blaze currently being patrolled mainly by borate spraying planes. Meantime, the BLM reports they are mopping up a fire which is west of Adcl and north of Vm yard's ranch. They report that tie Alkali Lake fire is out, and that they have pulled the crew off the Windy Hollow ranch fire which consumed about 1,000 acres. Another fire is reported in the Fort Rock vicinity in a lava flow area. It has covered about 1,000 acres. Officials report thay are not fighting It since It is in an im passable area, but are patrolling 11 and letting It burn out. , Traffic Halted By Accident WEED A one-car accident a mile south of Weed, between the Pinehurst Motel and Dom's Drive- in. at 6 p.m. Tuesday blocked the northbound traffic lane for more than an hour. There were no in juries. , ; . , Jesse D. Vaughan, 34, of Re seda, California, was northbound n his Chevrolet Carryall, pulling a 40-foot house trailer. Investigat ing officers presume he was tra veling too fast and when he ap plied the brakes as he approached a curve the trailer whipped, Hip ping both the trailer and the car. Both vehicles landed upside down, almost completely splintering the trailer. With Vaughan were his wife and three children. One little boy had a scratch on one leg, but did not require medical care. Officers cited Vaughan for driv ing without a valid operator's li cense and he was in jail this morning awaiting arraignment be fore Judge Kenneth T. Stone this afternoon. Vaughan Is an unemployed car penter and apparently was seek ing work. He is also a minister of the Assembly of God Church and the local church is caring for his family. Talks Stalled By Rejection Of Proposals GENEVA (AP The United States today accused Russia of trying to hold West Berlin for ran soin and declared the West will not become an "unwitting accom puce in this deal." U.S. Secretary of Slate Chris tian A. Hertcr- made this accusa tion in a crucial Big Four confer ence session alter Andrei Gromy ko had once more -rejecled t Western effort to get him to cut his price for a truce in the Berlin crisis. - j Gromyko said the Weslern pro posal for continuing the big power conference during the period of a Berlin truce is not a basis tor negotiation. , He renewed an assurance that the Soviet Union would not take singlchandcd action against West Berlin during the truce or dur ing subsequent negotiations which the great powers might hold on the future of Germany. But this fell short of what the West has demanded . guarantees for West Berlin until. Germany is reunified. ; ' ' Herter's ransom charge was made- in an unusually sharp peech, It was based on his argu ment that Russia wants the West to agree to a system ot negotia tion on Germany's luture which would leave it free to crack down on West Berlin if it (ailed to get the kind of German settlement it wants. Gromyko has proposed an 18- month moratorium in the Berlin crisis. During this period East and West German representatives would negotiate on German unifi cation and a peace treaty. The West proposed continuation of the present conference at a lower was able lo be vigorously active in one of his favorite pastimes. horseback riding. He served in ihe Second World War as a cap lain and major at Camps Murray and Adair in Oregon. McKay's political career start ed with election as Salem mayor in 19.13. After a two-year term he served in the Oregon state senate Irom 1935 to 194:1. His leadership there pushed him into state prom inence and he was elected gov ernor in I94R. His selection as Eisenhower's secretary of the Interior in J953 was generally credited to his strong interest in hydroelectric power development and wildlife conservation. It was during his service in the cabinet that the Mission 66 program for improve ment and expansion of the Na tional Park Service was adopted. In 1917 he married Mabel C. Hill of Portland who survives as do two daughters and seven grandchildren. A son, Douglas Jr. was killed in an automobile ac cident while a student at Oregon State College. The daughters are Mrs. Wayne Hadley and Mrs. Lester Green. McKay's family background was deeply rooted in Oregon. His grandfather, Malcolm McKay, came to this area with Hudson's Bay Co. in 1341 and was a store keeper at Fort Vancouver. McKay showed leadership ear ly and was president of his col lege freshman class and lajcr was student body president: He worked his way through school as a jani tor and at qdd jobs. His first business experience after World War I was in sell ing insurance, in Portland. He soon turned to automobile sales there and in 1927 came here and established his own dealership. He was a -member of the Pres byterian Church and affiliated with a large number bi fraternal and service groups.- FOREST FIRE DANGER TODAY KEEP OREGON GREEN Weather Northern California Fair through Thursday but a few show ers and thunderstorms over high mountains and possibly in the mountains around Salinas. Fog and local drizzle oa the coast. Variable coastal winds 10-20 miles an hour. Klamath Falls Mostly fair and Thursday except noon or evening and vlrlnlty warm through Isolated after- thunderstorms nver mountains. High both days W-tM degrees. Low tonight 3S-6.1 High yesterday . 91 Low last night ' S3 Prrclp. last 24 hours Since OcL I 1.12 Same period last year ... 1M2 Seven Killed In Air Crash ANDOVER, N.H. (AP)-An Air Force plane crashed in flames and all seven crewmen perished early today. 1 Officers at Pease Air Force Base from which the plane was flying on a routine training mission said all seven bodies were recovered. The ' Air Force listed the vic tims as: '.. v, Capt. James H. White, Cam bridge, Mass.; 1st Lt. Harold C. High, Dululh, Minn.; 1st Lt. Dean H. Holzworth, Wotiand,. Wyo.; Sgt. Marion C. Ackcrman, Vevay, lnd.: A.3.C. Phillips K. Daret, Nor man, Okla.; T.Sgt. Owen Q. Combs, Bloomlield, Ind and T. Sgt. Jake Schmidt, Riverton, Wyo. The craft was identified as a KC97 propeller-driven tanker plane. The crewmen of a companion plane flying a mile to the rear and a state trooper an the ground snid they saw the plane plummet in flames through an overcast. The plane struck down near a saw mill on the farm of Bud Key- ser about a mile and a half south level, and rejected the all-German of the village of Andover in south- committee plan. 1 central New Hampshire.. J - ; V" H1' TJ ' I'M? lf.:w..., -. &i " - A. 4 wi x" -yfl "NOW WHO'S THE FISHERMAN" proudly boasts Jam.i Rosean, Waad, ion of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Rotean as h dis plays tha first fish ha aver caught. Flouting tho fish baforo his older brothers, Jamet strikes a proud pose. Tho fish was caught in Dwinell Dam on July 12. The youngster it also tha grandson of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Oorlaqut, former Klamath Fells residents now living in Mount Shasta. 1
