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U.OF 0RS.LIB.7A.ir M?.3PAPR SECrtON OEM.IteF.ANO DOCUMENTS DXT. coup. Senate Committee Accuses Hoffa Of Paying Off Underwork! Debt Price Five Cents 20 Paget KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5. 1959 Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 6465 In The , I Day's liews By FRANK JENKINS More about the sentries at the Buckingham Palace and the rigid discipline thai" governs them while they are on duty: Last year an American girl who was touring London paused before the palace gate and, as tens of thousands of others have done, gazed in awe at the stiff and motionless guard who stood before the sentry box. Then, acting on a sudden impulse, she went up to him and TWEAKED HIS NOSE.;dent Eisenhower "without any The guard moved not a muscle. His eyes deviated not so much as a millimeter from front and center. . The guard, it should be added, was living up to the best tradi tions of his proud country and his proud organization. The Ameri can tourist was living up to the WORST TRADITIONS of Ameri can tourism. Tourists of that breed have won us an immense amount of ill will throughout the world. Here's another outof-lhe-bealen- path word to add to serendipity: MELIORISM. Can you define it without go ing to the dictionary? I couldn't when it was sprung on me this morning. Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines it as "the belief or doc trine that the world lends to be come better and that man has ' the power of aiding its better ment." A meliorist is one who adheres to that doctrine. . There are times. I think, when we could use MORE MELIORISM in this modern world. Why all this- palter about the gates of Buckingham Palace and meliorism and such? Well, these are the Dog Days. This name for sticky, hot, gen erally unpleasant weather started with the ancient Greeks. They used it to cover the summer period of about 40 days during which the dog slap Sirius rose in the sky There is an old belief that dogs were apt to "go mad" with rabies during hot weather. As a matter of fact, the scientists tell us, few er dogs go mad in hot weather than in cold weather. ' i But let's get back to Sirius, the dog star. It is the brightest star in the heavens. It is one of the stars nearest to the earth, but it is still so far away that its light takes nine years to reach the earth.; That is to say: "' If you had a space ship capa ble of traveling at the speed of light (about 186,000 miles per SEC OND) it would take you nine years to reach Sirius, the dog star, which is one of the stars NEAR EST TO THE EARTH. One more word about Sirius. " It has a companion star. This1 companion is one of the most re markable stars in the sky because the material of which it is com posed is 50,000 times as heavy as water. A cubic foot of ma terial from this star would weigh about 1500 TONS. That ought to be about enough Dog Days stuff for today. PURLOINED PLUG LOS ANGELES (UPI) The Los Angeles Fire Department to day was searching or some miss ing property: a fire hydrant. The hydrant apparently was stolen after being knocked over by ar auto. A MODERN HOME, built in 1854, ii thit log structure three milei west of Gazelle en the Callahan Road. The builder, John Neilon, one of Siskiyou County's earliest pioneers, carried his Eastern bride across the threshold in 1855. Their children. were prominent In the industrial and political life of the area for more than a half century. The old home rial been modernized and is (till in use mora then a century after it was built. Photo by MeKinney 4 MM pKfl Hearing Hears Iron Khrushchev Optimistic On Meeting MOSCOW API-Soviet Premier Nikila S. Khrushchev declared to day in a news conference that he wanted to talk peace with Presi- saber rattling.' Khrushchev told a news confer ence lasting an hour and a half that the talks with President Ei senhower were not intended to re place a summit conference but as a prelude to it, He said his visit would afford an opportunity for talks not negotiations. He gave no precise dates for the exchange of visits. He prob- bly will go to the United Stales in mid-September, he said, and President Eisenhower will come here later in the autumn. "If these two powers establish good relations," the Soviet Pre mier said, "if they cooperate for peace, there will be lasting peace on earth He said he saw real opportuni ties for Soviet-American relations to be based on peace and friend ship. "There are no territorial dis putes between our two cAmtries, nor any insoluable contradictions, nor any issues which could pre vent the establishment of a cli male of confidence and mutual understanding," he declared To a question about whether he might show Eisenhower a rocket base, he replied: "That might give a bad taste to the meeting between us." Then he went on with references to what it would look like if he went to America with a rocket peeking out of his pocket. He said he knew the United States was strong and that if he were invited to see American mil itary installations, "I would not go." . . . - "I can go as a peaceful man he said, adding that when Elsen hower comes here he would be in troduced to good Russian food. "We must talk peace without saber rattling," he declared. Famous Poet Dies In Sleep DETROIT, Mich. (AP)-Edgar A. Guest, famed poet whose works were known to newspaper read ers all over the world, died to day in his sleep. He would have been 78 August 20. Cause of death was not deter mined immediately but physicians indicated the poet had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. At the height of his popularity Guest was among the most widely read men of his time. His name was. most frequently associated with the first lines of one of his most famous poems: "It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home." Guest's daily poem still ap peared in the Detroit Free Press and other newspapers up to the time of his death, despite his bad health. Often called the "poet of the plain people," he preferred to be known as a newspaperman. He was a reporter, exchange editor ind a columnist at the Free Press lefore devoting his life to poetry. m i mi t.rra CO-CHAIRMAN chairman. Steel Strike Stalemated; Layoffs Rise PITTSBURGH.' Pa. (AP)-The effects of the three-week-old steel strike continued to spready today like a contagious illness, claiming thousands more innocent victims in industries allied to steel. An unofficial tally of layoffs in industries depending on steel indi cates that nearly 100,000 workers are idle. They are furloughed men who have no current arguments with their companies and whose com panies have no grievances with them. They became involved in the dispute because their compa nies depend on steel to operate at full scale. Their prospects for regular work are remote until the 500,000- man nationwide steel walkout is settled. '. The victims include mostly coal and iron miners, railroad work ers, truckers, and other transpor tation men who handle steel. To lesser extents there have been lay offs among dock and lake boat men and those employed, by the steel plants who are 'not mem bers of the striking United Steel workers Union. Shops and retail businesses. buried deep in struck areas and with few customers besides the strikers, have been seriously af fected by the abrupt drop in in come. ' Retailers in the Gary, Ind., steelmaking heartland say the business slump already is severe. Looking ahead to darker days unless the strike is resolved the Missouri State Employment Service says that in less than a month the impact of layoffs is likely to get more serious rapidly. Officials in many other states agree. E. L. Miner, left, and Lyle Ke M f- ' - llstrom, Shrine Circus Plans Ready Plans for the arrival of the big Shrine Club-Polack Brothers Cir-I cus to be in Klamath Falls Tues day, August 11, and Wednesday August 12, were worked out by Chairman Lyle Kellstrom and co- chairman E. L. (Asia) Miner and committee members. . 4 The, circus, 1,0. play two perfor mances, afternoon and evening of each, day at the fairgrounds, is bringing several new acts and a galaxy of breathtaking beauties say advance reports from other towns where the circus has ap peared. Committee chairmen include H. B. Dexter, general ticket sales A. L. Shoupe, children's tickets Walter Weisendanger, publicity and public relations; Gary Robertson transportation and safety; Ralph Jones, ushers; George Conner, sound; W. J. Owsley, auditing com mittee and G. B. Leach,., lights and grounds. SHUNS SANITARY SEWAGE TAMPA, Fla. (UPIl Louis N. Drahgon quit after working one week for the Bureau of Sani tary Sewers. His boss wrote on his brief employment record: 'Tried, but just couldn't work with sewage." Sonoma Man Embarrassed; Pits King Against Rattler By PETER J. HAYES SONOMA, Calif. (UPD Lloyd Morain hopes the natural antip athy that a king snake harbors for a rattler will clear up "darn embarrassing situation" at his mountain retreat near here. Morain is a San Francisco bus iness advisor and on occasion world traveler. He and his wife took a trip to Africa some time ago and invited friends to use their sum mer home on weekends wniie they were gone. One day the friends saw three-foot rattle snake . wriggle under the house. And Morain noted on his return that the cus tomary heavy mouse population had dwindled to nothing. These two factors added up to ain a rattler had taken up resi dence in his summer house. "It was a darn embarrassing situation," Morain said. "We like to have guests in for a barbecue and some people are a little squeamish if they think there's a rattler around. Morain took steps to evict his unwelcome tenant. He placed an ad In the classified section of the Sonoma Index-tribune reading: "Wanted large king snake for interesting task. Price to be ne gotiated. , ." Morain explained that the king snake is the natural enemy of the rattler. It will kill the rattler by wrapping its coils around it and strangling it. Then it. swallows the rattler. The king U immune to the rattler's poisonous bite.' Mrs. Ted V. Kirtley of nearby Glen Ellen responded to Morain't ad. It so happened, the said, that M M bate Problems RiiilHinn Fkh Poses Future Question By TOM STIMMEL i Copco and the state of California met on neutral ground Tuesday to resolve final differences regarding a dam Copco proposed two-and-a-half years ago. The dam, known as Iron Gale, would be astride the Klamath Riv er approximately midway between the towns of Copco and Horn brook in Siskiyou County, just south of the Oregon-California bor der. Purpose of the dam would be "reregulation," or better control of: water flow from Copco's twin pow er developments upstream, Copco No 1 and Copco No. 2. After Tuesday's hearingjn Mills School Auditorium, the only unre solved question is whether Copco or the slate of California would build a fish hatchery on the Klam ath River if the slate thinks it needs one. Principal spokesmen for Copco were J. C. Boyle of Medford, vice president and general manager, and Malcolm Dungan, a San Fran cisco attorney. The stale of Califor nia was represented chiefly by Ralph Scott, from the attorney general's office in San Francisco. The chief examiner for' the Fed eral Power Commission, Edward B. Marsh, came from Washington, D.C. for the hearing. These men, with assisting attor neys and two dozen spectators, were scattered across the front rows of an otherwise empty audi torium for the one-day hearing. Copco and the California Depart ment of Fish and Game already had prepared an 11-page agree ment resolving differences that arose over the proposed "Iron Gate Development." The Department of Fish and Game initialed the project, in ef fect, by claiming that unregulated water flow from, Copco develop ments on the Klamath River con stituted a "public nuisance. . It even filed a suit in Siskiyou Coun ty Superior Court to support its contentions. Copco answered by , proposing Iron Gate to regulate flow. The development would be a two-stage dam project across the river be tween two massive rock pillars lOOj feet high. Dams here, the utility said, would restrict fluctuations to a maximum of three inches in elevation per hour. The first stage dam would be approximately 60 or 65 feet high; the second stage would come later. The purpose would be to contain the river's flow, but pressure there could be used for a power devel opment later. The state agreed on these mat ters, and Copco agreed to a slate demand that it build an egg trap ping station on the river this be- her son, Dick, had a king snake. A few days ' later Morain slopped by to see young Kirtley who, at the age of 13, is some thing of a reptile expert. He owned three king snakes, five gopher snakes, one striped racer, one baby boa constrictor (that might reach 13 feet on maturity, he said) 12 garter snakes, a spectacled cayman alligator and a few salamanders. Morain and the boy soon agreed on a- price of $6 for a 46-inch king snake, figuring $1.50 a foot. The businessman took his pur chase home in a shoe box and released it down a ral hole in the kitchen floor. Morain himself isn't .bothered by snakes, except at night. Some years ago, he said, he saw a rattler looking through a hole in the floor at him. He killed it with a shovel. But whether the king snake he sent in under the house carried out his assignment Is still un known. "I'm certainly not going to crawl under the house to investi gate. It's too narrow anyway. he said with a grin. But I do know that some snake ii still under there. There's no sign of mice around here. But we can't tell whether it's the rattler or the king snake.' Meanwhile, until he can get some positive- proof, Morain treads lightly.- He also keeps long stick handy,- just in case it develops that the rattler escaped his executioner and decides to join a Morain barbecue some evening. Hate herv cause construction of a dam would obliterate trout and salmon spawn- ling grounds, Thcse matters were reached in!i(lpnt . ' the Teamsters Union, the written agreement, signed July 27, and the hearing was scheduled here Tuesday. At the hearing, however, Scolt insisted that Copco also build a fish hatchery if the state finds that a hatchery is practical on the riv er. Copco regarded this develop ment as a rider tacked on at the last minute. "The state wants an open end on the agreement," one official said. Scott made I lie proposal during yesterday's afternoon session. He said the Department of Fish and Game was studying the Klamath River now to determine whclher a hatchery would be practical or) the river. It might be found, he said, that river waters would be too toxic for a hatchery near Iron Gate. "When will these studies be fin ished?" Examiner Marsh asked. "Probably in a year," Scott ans wered. "Then what will you ask for later?" Scott said the state would need cmier a naicnery on ine river, or on a tributary of the Klamath, or enlargement of an existing hatch ery, such as that at Mount Shasta. "Any way you're going to ask Copco to establish, to build, that hatchery?" Marsh determined. "That is correct," Scolt said. That aspect of the agreement. therefore was left unresolved, so Marsh set an August 31 deadline for Copco briefs on the question and a September 10 deadline for reply briefs. The hearing closed with a whopping 73 exhibits in Marsh's briefcase. Earlier Boyle sketched Copco's "long-ranged proposals for further development of its upstream stor age facilities. He said the com pany is viewing Aspen, Round and Long lakes as an ultimate 750,000 acrefeet storage area, .with an out let tunneled through mountains to a potential generating station on Howard (Wocus) Bay of Upper Klamath Lake, off the Geary Ranch. The three-lake program is may be five or six years away, Boyle said, but power companies think in long-range terms. Church Objects, Gunsmoke Looms Over Gunsmoke WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. lft-The Gunsmoke street wrangle is head ed for a showdown. The members of Bible Missionary Church, locat ed on Gunsmoke Street, are un happy about the street name and think Joylight would be better. But the. folks over on Maverick Street like Gunsmoke and object to any change. The county board decided think over the matter. TV CENSUS WASHINGTON (UPI I The Census Bureau reports that 86 out! of 100 households has a television set, and eight of every 86 have two or more. In 1950, there were sets in only 12 of every 100 households. UNCONSCIOUS, Donald Bovey, Weed, lies betide hit motorcycle after it skidded on looia gravel about four milei northwest of Mount Shasta latt Saturday afternoon. The youth wet taken to Mount Shaita Community Hospital, where ha was reported to be recover inq satisfactorily. The three men attempting to aid Bovey are unidentified. Photo by Richard Barney Report Says $3,000,000 Spent From HeaSi h Funds WASHINGTON iAPi The Senate committee investigating rackets charged today that James R. Ilotfa paid "a long-standing debt to the Chicago underworld" with lliree million dollars of Teamsters Union health and. wcllare lunds. The committee in a report to .lie Senate, said lhat Holla, pies- personally swung Ihc deals to please the underworld and bene fit the family of Paul Dorlman. It said Dorlman is the man who introduced Hoffa to "Midwest mob society." In, Chicago, members of the Dorfman family were not avail able for comment. The committee said Midwest Teamsters Union members paid dearly for the deals since 1950. in drastic reduction of health-welfare insurance benefits and inflated charges for the insurance. The committee also filed two other reports with the Senate on its 1958 investigations, alleging: 1. That the brothers Max and Louis Block, who since have re signed as olficiols of the Amalga mated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North A m e r i c a. "milked the treasuries" of two New York locals. The report said they got $241,000 out of the lo cals' treasures for olher purposes 2. That the A & P stores' eas tern division "participated in an elaborate .consnirncv" with M.-iv Block to force m ono A P or.-,. ployes inlo his union under a 45, hour work week contract instead of the 40-hour week rival unions demanded. In New York, E. L. Reynolds, A1P eastern division president said full cooperation had been giv en the Senate committee in sup plying information about company relations with the union, in which Block was a former power. The records submitted," Rey nolds said, "clearly demonstrated that A&P's negotiations with the union were fairly and ethically conducted in strict 'accord with all state and federal regulations." The, three reports followed one filed by- the committee Tuesday charging that Hoffa will "destroy the decent labor movement" in Geneva Meet Ends Today GENEVA (UPI) - The Big Four foreign ministers' confer ence ends in failure today after 10 weeks of talks that brought the East and West no nearer - agree ment on outstanding problems in Europe. Russia and the West pledged themselves to resume foreign ministers' talks on Germany, Ber lin and European security at some unspecified time in the fu ture. The actual dale and place will be arranged through diplo matic channels. Western sources said the choice a dale presumably will depend on the results of Hie "Big Two" talks between President Eisen hower and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev this fall. The foreign ministers meet to day for a final, probably lengthy session of the conference, at which each of the four ministers and their West and East German "advisers" would make closing statements (or the record. U. S. Secretary of State Chris tian A. Hcrtcr flics home Thurs day morning. The other Western ministers planned to leave either tonigt)t or Thursday. V...-... j . Si. h this country unless someone curbs him. The reports, filed by Chairman John L. McClcllan (D-Ark), break A jam that has delayed an official statement of findings in the com mittee's far-reaching investigation last year. The senators still have not agreed on what they learned from a politically tinged 1!)58 investiga tion of Walter Reuther's United Auto Workers Union, and there was no indication of when they might agree. In its blast at Hoffa, the com- mil lee said "there docs not ex ist in the record of the committee a more shocking or flagrant story of betrayal of union members and ihcir families." Ike To Urge Labor Bills WASHINGTON (AP) Presi dent Eisenhower will make a nationwide broadcast Thursday night to urge the enactment by Congress of effective labor con trol legislation. Eisenhower will speak from his office at 7:30 p.m. (EDTI over the major radio and TV networks. Press secretary James C. Hag- erly said the White House had asked for 15 minutes on the net works "to permit the President to talk to the nation on the need of the Congress to enact this year effective labor reform legisla tion." Eisenhower presumably will ask for legislation much like that of the Landrum-Griffin bill, which has been offered in the House as a substitute for the bill dratted by the House Labor Committee. At a news conference last week, the President spoke favorably of the , measure sponsored by Reps. PliU M. Landrum (D-Ga) and Robert P. Griffin iR-Mich). Union leaders call this bill muclj' toudher' thari' the or!e reported by (he House committee. The AFL- - CIO is strongly opposed to it. Eisenhower is known to want, among other thing, legislation outlawing blackmail picketing and tightening up laws on secondary boycotts. He has been represented as re garding both the House committee bill as well as the bill already passed by the Senate as inade quate to correct abuses disclosed by the rackets committee headed by Sen. John L. McCIellan (D-Ark). - FOREST FIRE " DANGER TODAY KEEP OREGON GREEN Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair and warmer through Thursday, Low tonight '44-52; high Thursday 85-90. 4- High Tuesday 84 Low last night I : 43 Preclp. last 24 hours 0 Since Oct. 1 5.82 Same period last year 19.57 Northern . California Fair through Thursday except night and morning fog and low clouds along coast; little change In temperature. -.-'.'?' i 1 Im 7 t . - V A, -V- Jk. A A A A.
