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Newspaper Page Textv.c? cas.LmAnr cohp, N2S?A?SK SECTION CEN.REF.AND DOCUMENTS DIV. ! The- Day's km By FRANK JENKINS From Washington: Senator Warren G. Magnuson (from the state of Washington) and other Western senators Wednesday urged legislation to provide (or establishment of a na tional wildlife disease laboratory. Senator Magnuson said a pro posed bill would authorize an ap propriation of three and a half million dollars for construction of the laboratory. He told the senate interstate and foreign commerce committee, of which he is chair man, that the laboratory would be used by all states in their search for ways to prevent wild life disease. It's wonderful, of course. The wild creatures are our neighbors on this terrestrial globe that we call the Earth. We love them. We are sad when we see them stricken by disease. Our nat ural and quite commendable im j)ulse, when that happens, is to use the resources of modern sci ence to PREVENT it to keep them healthy and vigorous and full of the joy of life. But even wonderful proposals call for careful appraisal. We must ask ourselves whether THIS won derful proposal is more important than THAT wonderful proposal We OUGHT to be able to have ev erything our hearts desire. May be, in some distant generation, we will be able to have every thing our hearts desire. That time, however, isn't here yet. In this still imperfect world we have to choose between the things we can afford and t h e things we can't afford. There are human beings, for ex ample. The idea is growing 'quite legit imately) that we must do more and more for them in the way of disease prevention and medical care. Modern science is showing us HOW to do more for human be ings along those lines. - ' There is pretty general agree ment1 among practical people that first things should come first, and it seems pretty clear to all prac tical thinkers that in a choice be tween human beings and the crea tures of the wild, human beings must come first. This proposed bill calls for a preliminary appropriation of only 3'i million dollars. In the vast, sprawling structure of our federal government, an appropriation call ing for only 3'i million dollars is mere peanuts. It would cost each of us only a few pennies. Bul- Expericnce tells us Many a mickle makes a muckle. A penny saved is a penny tamed. 'Every little bit added to what you've got now makes just a little bit more. Taxes are beginning to bite. The only way taxes can be re ducedor kept from getting un bearably burdensome is to spend less. If we spend what is asked for every good thing that comes along, we'll find ourselves sooner or later in VERY hot water. Bird Bath Baby Puzzles Man, Seeking Mother EDMOND, Okla. IAP) Fred L, Tanner found an alligator in his garage workshop here Wednesday night a five inch baby alligator. Tanner doesn't know where the little one came from. Neither do ntftrby Oklahoma City zoo offi cials, who said a count of alii gator tails showed all were present. Tanner also would like to know If there is a mother alligator around somewhere and if where. He said the baby seemed very happy in the backyard birdbath even if the birds aren't. A VISITOR from Oregon to her old home In Broolcfield, Missouri, Mrs. Jennie Crandall, broke into print recently when she rode in a covered wagon with a brother during parade commemorating the 1 00th anniversary of the town. Here, she is shown behind the wheel of en old ear. She is visiting five brothers end sisters all over 60 yean old. The tame picture wes printed in the Brookfield daily. Mn. Crandall is a Klamath Falls pioneer. v ) : fiimliWiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii nil bw kmmmi ninwmiMMMmiifcHwunM mm I iiiniVnll'il'n'iVni mVi i'i ii inimmaMMlllnWMiil mikwik ! iimiina iA Price Five Cents U Paget Chamber Nixes Approval Of Klamath County Daze The chamber of commerce; wished to make it abundantly clear today that it is not involved with 'Klamath County Daze," a water show variety show weekend scheduled for mid-September. Chamber President Bob Mcst ex pressed concern over the number of persons in Klamath County and elsewhere who believe the promo tion is a chamber function. The chamber's executive board was approached by the show's pro moter five weeks ago and declined an offer to participate. Mest said other civic groups have also de clined because of the "tremendous budget involved." The show has nothing to do with the OTI Site Fund campaign ei ther, Mcst said. That drive is headed by Mike Balsiger, a cham ber director, and Vern Owens, a chamber member. "It is the purpose of the Klam ath County Chamber of Commerce to promote the economic develop ment of the Basin," Mcst said, "but it is also the chamber's res- Nikita Trip Speeds Solons WASHINGTON IAP) Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev may accomplish something . congres sional leaders are having difficul ty doing! He may speed up final adjourn mcnt of. the present session of Congress. While the exact dates for the Soviet leader's visit to the United States and for the adjournment of Congress are indefinite, there is one thing certain. Congressional leaders don't want to be in session when ' Khrushchev arrives Washington. They have no heart for a joint meeting of the Senate and the House, to .hear" Khrushchev. The absenteeism might be so notice able as to create international hard feelings. Khrushchev's visit tentatively has been set for about the middle of September. Mid-Sepjcmber also has been mentioned as the likely date for adjournment of Congress, unless a speed-up in the work schedule is effected. The speed-up now is In the mak ing, and the current adjournment target date is Sept. S, leaving a respectable interlude between the time members of Congress depart and Khrushchev arrives. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair and warm through Friday. Low tonight 55-60; high Friday 90 95. High Wednesday ' : 85 Low last night - 44 Precip. last 24 hours Since Oct. 1 5..8J Same period last year 19.57 Northern California Fair through Friday except night and morning fog on coast south of Fort Bragg. ' FOREST FIRE DANGER TODAY KEEP OREGON GREEN ponsibility to make certain that persons or organizations attempt ing to help in the development have official county sanction." It was also pointed out that the promotion had no connection with the hospital survey fund. Death Breaks City's Record Emerich Hult, 66. became the first pedestrian fatality in Klam ath Falls since April 1, 1!I57, early Thursday, morning. He was struck by a car at the corner of Main Street and East Main Street Wednesday evening. Hult. 1939 Main Street, died at 6:30 a.m. in Klamath Valley Hos pital. He was under treatment or a fractured right leg and examina tion for possible further injuries. Klamath Falls police said inves tigation showed Hult was struck by a car operated by Davis T. Eittram, 79, who lives at the WU- lard Hotel. Eittram told officers he never saw the man until the mo ment of the accident. He said he didn't know where or which side of the street the man came from Police believe Hult was jaywalk ing. Eittram received no citation. Hult remained conscious at Klam alh Valley Hospital where he was rushed by Peace Ambulance. But he was unable to give an account I of the accident. The last pedestrian fatality in I the city claimed. Merton Chan- ney Dunning, 52, South Sixth Street merchant. He was struck by car while crossing a walk at 2400 South Sixth Street. Just last week the city received a citation by the Oregon State Mo tor Association commending it for a death-free pedestrian year. The bodv. was taken tn Q'Hair's Memorial Chapel. An autopsy will be performed to determine cause of death. He leaves two sons: Iver Hult, Medford, and Sven Hult, Portland. Hult was a retired carpenter. He came to Klamath Falls in 1928 Funeral services are pending. Transfer Bill Given Okay A transfer of the Klamath Marsh to the Federal Fish and Wildlife Service a move ex pected to lend financial aid to Klamath Indian families was reported from Washington today. Sen. Richard L. Neuberger sent this telegram to the Herald and News: "For your information, Senate Indian Affairs Subcommittee to day reported unanimously to full Interior Committee my bill pro viding ealy transfer to Fish and Wildlife Service of Klamath Wa terfowl Marsh so that approxi mately $500,000 can be used to help tide over Klamath familiesJ during interim period when tim ber sales are suspended. This will assist 'in, keeping these Indians from being welfare charges of state and county ad ministration. "Kind regards, "Richard L. Neuberger, "Chairrrran, Subcommittee Indian Affairs." KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST t, 19.19 BABY OPAL, star of the Besalous elephant act which has delighted Polaclc Brothers Circus audiences in years past, is due to do her cUver act again this year at performances August 11-12. She will balance on one foot for Mack McDonald, left, beside a human handstand by Peggy McDonald, Matinee and evening performances will be at 2:15 and 8: 1 5 at the fairgrounds. Ike-Nikita Talks Will Cover World, With Berlin Problem Chief Subject WASHINGTON AP What will President Eisenhower and Premi er Nikita Khrushchev talk about when they exchange visits? Ber- lin, that's for sure. If it were not for Berlin, there probably would albe no meeting at all now, And three" of the four main problems they discussed the last time they met at the 1955 Geneva summit conference are still pressing points of , conflict: Ger man reunification, American bases overseas, and disarmament. Geneva solved one of litem. One thing discussed there in 1955 was improved: cultural and scientific exchanges between the United Slates and the Soviet Union. The two men ,are playing down the idea they will negotiate. Amer ican Allies understandably may feel uneasy for fear of deals when the two giants, the United States and the Soviet Union sit down to gether, It is to allay such feats that Eisenhower is going to Europe to talk with the Allies before he meets Khrushchev in September. But the two leaders are not meet ing to play beanbag. There is no doubt this meeting with Khrushchev was forced on Eisenhower by the Soviet Premier who precipitated the Berlin prob lem, never yielded, and at the same time kept talking of wanting to meet the President, Khrushchev had threatened to force the Allied troops out of Ber Solon Introduces Recreation Bill WASHINGTON AP) - Sen, Richard L. Neuberger Wednesday introduced a bill to establish a federal recreation service His bill calls for a service to Prvide advice a"d technical data on .operation of recreation, pro grams for public and non-profit groups. Woman Survives Lightning, Describes Fear Of Storms CLEVELAND, Ohio (API They say lightning never strikes twice in the same place. But after you've been hit once, you don't like to depend on what they say. Until a holt of lightning struck her down on a golf course green July 29, Mrs. Gordon Wetzel of nearby Mentor always enjoyed thunderstorms. Now, lying In bed at Euclid- Glenville Hospital, the 33-year-old mother of three wonders whether she ever again will enjoy hearing the rumble of the summer thunder- shower and watrhing the tree tops bend and Fway. I know lightning couldn't pos sibly strike me twice," she said. "It couldn't possibly. -"But maybe I'll, be afraid now. I'll know when I see lightning again or I hear thunder if I hear it clearly." Mrs. Wetzel's hearing was im paired by the lightning bolt that glanced off her body and raveled the head of the 7-iron which grounded the electric current Her clothing was ripped apart zipper metal twitcd, and part of iier synthetic fiber shorts melted. "And my hair is still awful,1 KM; l lin. If either side used force In this case, it could have meant war. For - weeks the Allied and Soviet foreign ministers discussed the problem. They broke up Wednesday. The result of all their talks was zero. It seems no accident Eisenhower announced Monday two days be lore the talks ended that he had HerterSays isss Eased GENEVA (UPD Secretary of State Christian A. Herler flew home today, convinced that the 10-weck foreign ministers' confer once here had eased the Commu nist threat to West Berlin. Hertcr made no formal state ment before his converted Boeing 707 jetliner took off for Washing ton at 4:20 a.m. e.d.t., but he is known to feel that the Russians have tacitly withdrawn their Ber lin ultimatum. Foreign Minister Andrei Gro- myko. whose turboprop IL-18 left for Moscow 13 minutes, before Herter's departure, read a part ing speech which said the confer ence "performed useful and not inconsiderable work" and ex pressed hope that further negoli ations might produce more tangi ble results. Gromyko also said the coming exchange of visits between Presi dent Eisenhower and Premier Ni kita Khrushchev proves "the cli mate of international relations is getting markedly warmer and belter." Hertcr Is scheduled to land in Washington at 4:30 p.m. e.d.t. with first-hand information about the tentative, agreement-on new disarmament talks which saved the foreign ministers' conference from total failure. she added. "It's all singed and matted. I'll probably end up with a crew cut. Bothering her also is what she will tell her three daughters Joanne, 12, Jill Alice, 9, and Judith, 4 when she goes home. which she hopes will be next week. -She doesn't want them to fear lightning, and one of the girls was afraid of storms even before her mother's accident. 'I didn't feel the lightning hit mt, she recalled of that after noon at the 15th hole of Lost National Golf Course. "I didn't leel anything until 1 woke up so short of breath 1 thought maybe it was my heart. I couldn't under stand what had happened." Her arms and legs "started to feel heavy so heavy I couldn't move them, she remembered Then came scaring pain. The fingers of her left hand were roasted and split open. The hand now is in a cast on which h'er husband, circulation manager of the Painesville Telegraph, has printed: "I love you. "I like to think it wai God's plan." said Mrs. Wetzel. "But I'm still dumbfounded." Telephone TU 4-8111 invited Khrushchev' here and later would go to Moscow to talk with him. If there were no arrangements at this minute for these visits, Khrushchev might have been try ing right now to make good on his Berlin threats. At least, with the break-up of the ministers' talks, the West and Moscow faced a showdown. That showdown has - not' been avoided ultimately. But at least it has been delayed some months while Eisenhower and Khrushchev get a chance to talk it over, Khrushchev comes here in mid- September, Eisenhower, goes to the Soviet Union later. Therefore. Eisenhower can't lose anything and might gain something since he knows and Khrushchev knows the Russians have the West in a dangerous spot on Berlin to try to get a peaceful solution with the Soviet leader. . But Khrushchev is a tough trad er. If lie yields on Berlin, he will want, concessions from Eisen hower, on: Berlin or something else. , At this moment probably neither man knows how much he will de mand or yield. The two men have the whole world to talk about, but there is no indication either is ready yet or, to put it another way, feels he has to talk business if it means yielding much ground Centennial Issues Plea PORTLAND UPI Chamber nf Commerce officials throughout the state have been asked to stir interest in the Oregon Centennial Exposition, which is facing finan cial problems because of poor at tendance. H. Quenton Cox, exposition managing director, launched the state-wide appeal. tk&si A 9 VALLEY OP THE GIANTS, novel based on Shasta Valley history, was written whilo , author Peter 8. Kyne owned and lived in this attractive country homo on the south side of U.S. Highway 99 near Mount Shasta. The old house, built in 1 859, It today the horn of Mr. and Mrs. Don C. Cort. Photo by McKinnty Ike Takes To Air i Over Labor Issue WASHINGTON IAP President leorridors, it is a "toucher" bill Eisenhower joins battle tonight with a divided and quarreling Con gress over the future shape of legislation to curb labor racket eering and abuses. With the labor controls issue coming to a head in the House next week, Eisenhower arranged to go belore the nation at 6:30 p.m. EST tonight over major ra dio and television networks. He is expected to urge stricter controls over labor unions than the House Labor Committee has proposed and the Senate has passed. Announcement of his plans im mediately stirred up demands among some House Democrats for equal air time to voice their dis agreement. The networks, how ever, were reserving a decision until they hear what Eisenhower has to say. Also scheduled for tonight is a radio speech by AFL-CIO Presi dent George Mcany on labor leg islation. Meany will speak at 9:45 p.m. (EDT) on the NBC network. AFL-CIO officials said Meany's speech was arranged sometime before the White House announced Wednesday that Eisenhower would speak tonight. Not since the tumultuous days of 1S47, when the 80th Congress en acted the Taft-Hartley Act, has Congress been so bitterly at odds over labor legislation. With tensions mounting, the House Rules Committee opened wide the door Wednesday to a free-for-all battle when the issue reaches the floor next Tuesday. The committee, which decides how legislation is to be handled, decreed no limits on the amend ments or substitute proposals which can be offered or on par liamentary moves that can be made. The week-long battle starts Tuesday. "It's going to be a Donnybrook," wryly commented Rules Commit tee Chairman Howard W. Smith (D-Va). "Everybody can get down there on the floor and scratch and fight and wave their arms. Eisenhower is expected to try to rally public support for a measure sponsored by Reps. Phil M. Lan- drum tD-Ga) and Robert P. Grif fin (R-Mich). It would outlaw all form . of . jujcopdaty boycotts-and provide jail sentences for union of ficials who deny rank and file un Ion members the exercise of their rights. In (he lexicon of congressional Justice Views Tax Evasions WASHINGTON, (UPU - Asst. Atty. Gen. Malcolm R. Wilkey said today the Justice Depart ment Is investigating "wholesale" racketeering,, perjury and Income tax evasion by members of the Teamsters Union. Many of the inquiries grew out of disclosures in the 30-month-old Senate Rackets Committee inves tigation. The department turned up the other cases on its own. Disclosure of the Justice De partment action came on the heels of two stinging rackets com mittee reports linking Teamsters President James R. Holfa with crime, corruptions and commu nism. A grand jury has been re viewing Hoffa's testimony before the rackets inquiry for eight months for possible perjury ac tion. Wilkey, head of the Justice De partment criminal division, said certain Teamsters' activities were of "more than academic inter est." He rejected any thought that the department was "going after" the Teamsters. He said "wholesale violations" by certain unidentified Teamsters officials "have been called to our attention." . II .'v . -".J than the Labor Committee's sotu ened-up rewrite of the bill passed by the Senate in April with only a single dissenting vole. And. by the same tuken, it is still tougher than the relatively mild version backed by the AFL CIO, and which will be offered as a substitute on the floor by Rep. John F. Shelley iD-Califi. While House battle lines were being drawn. Teamsters President James R. Hoffa met Wednesday night with some 150 officials of his union for an nth-hour strategy session over the impending legisla tive showdown. llolfa. hit by grave charges emanating from the Senate Labor-Management Committee, had nothing to say about the meeting. It has been no secret, however. that Teamsters' representatives have been hosts to many House members at a scries of breakfasts lo present the Teamsters view point. Legal representatives of both the Teamsters Union and the AFL CIO also were active during the six weeks of the Labor Commit- tee's bill-drafting sessions. Chairman Graham A. Barden D-NC) publicly accused labor's representatives of trying to "take over the chairmanship and run the committee." Daylight Time Faces Session SEASIDE, Ore. (API - A reso lution to put labor behind the movement , to put Oregon on day light saving time, with a commit tee recommendation it be adopted was scheduled to come before the Oregon state AFL-CIO convention here today. The' chairman of a committee which considered several resolu tions on the subject, W. L. Vinson of the Electrical Workers' Union. said Wednesday his committee acted favorably on the move. Labor unions in Oregon always in the past have rejected the day light lime and the move this year to reverse the stand is expected to meet stiff opposition on the con vention floor. ' ,, ; ,,. . Five resolutions' favoring day-' light time wore introduced at the convention this year, which indi cates a growing trend in the la bor movement away from past op position. ' Another resolution expected to come before the convention today, and also expected to create a ma jor fight, is. a resolution by the Culinary Alliance. The resolution urges the Team sters Union be invited back into the AFL-CIO and it ends with a plea to the Oregon AFL-CIO to work toward this end on a nation al level. ; ?. James T. Marr, executive sec retary of the state AFL-CIO, voiced strong opposition to the - move to bring the Teamsters back into the body at this time. - Marr, a delegate to the conven tion that ousted the Teamsters from the national in 1957, said conditions that led to the expulsion have not changed, The Teamsters were dropped for corrupt practic es. ; Kimble Is Nimble, Bags Bugs, Bonus CHESTERTOWN, Md. (AP) L Christine Kimble is nimble so she caught 8,140 lightning bugs this summer. It paid off, too, for the 11-year-old girl. She got nearly $25 for turning the bugs in to the biology department of Washington College, where they're used for scientific research. - And as champion bug collector who beat 76 other children at the game she collected a bonus of $10.