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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore.
Sunriav, Dec. 13, 1fl59 .
BOY SCOUTS of Montague Troop 51, sponsored by the
Montague Rotary Club, presented plaques of appreciation
to representatives of business firms that contributed large
amounts of lumber for new tent frames at the scouts' Lake
ef the Woods camp. Grant Hosford, left, receives a plaque
or) behalf of the Sharp Lumber Company of Yrelca and Mr.
and Mrs. Douglas Whitfaker accept for Fruit Growers Sup
ply of Hilt. Making the presentation are Scouts Fenley
Crawford, left, and Dennis Dutra. Photo by Betty Dow
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LARRY AMUNDSON is now
associated with John H.
Houston as a local repre
sentative of the Equitable
Life Assurance Society of
the United States. He is a
veteran of 22 yean with the
U.S. Marine Corps and left
active service with the rank
of major, coming here from
North Carolina. He lives
with his wife and 9-month-old
daughter, Heidi, at 4303
Onyx Avenue.
Area Man's Body
Found In Woods
BONANZA The body of a local
man, John T. Brndshaw, B.I, was
found early Saturday morning In a
wooded area near here.
Bradshaw, who had been re
ported missing 'by his wife Fri
day evening, was said to have
been despondent.
Chief of Police Louis Van Sipc
laid that a hose, believed to have
been connected to the exhaust of
the dead man's car was found
near the vehicle.
Cookie Bake Held
TULKLAKIC The Business and
Professional Women held their an
nual cookie bake and recipe ex
change Monday evening. Decem
ber 7, in the high school. Presi
dent Mrs. II. F. Kanitz. reported
that around 20 women attended
Mrs. Dorothy Manccau gave a
demonstration of Christmas
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MERRILL Dave Irving, district
governor of the Lions Club, paid a
surprise visit to a dinner meeting
of the Merrill Lions Club held
Monday, December 7. Other guests
attending the meeting were Ber
nard Millet. Ron Mills, Wendell
Moore and John D. Moore, all of
Merrill, and 20 members of the
Tulelake Hotary Club.
A challenge to a donkcv basket
ball game Irom the Merrill Volun
tccr Fire Department was read
the game will be played at the
Merrill High School on February 3
Sight conservation chairman
Robert Dragoo reported that glass
cs had been purchased for one
child. Four more children will
have their eyes checked this
month.
Appointed to the commun tv
Christmas tree committee were
Lloyd Deboy, Don Harris, Jim
Shuck and Bob Graves.
Don Crawford, scoutmaster, re
ported on the Christmas tree gath
ering by the Boy Scouts. The trees
are now for sale at the Goodyear
Store.
President Cliff Ongman renort-
en on a cum visitation to the Dor-
lis Lions Club on December 2 by
23 Merrill Lions Club members.
I he Merrill club returned home
with the Leo the Lion trophy.
All Shook Up
l-WIULANU (AP) A sailor
home from the Navy reached over
and kissed his wile Friday.
It shook him all up.
His wife too, for the car he was
driving veered over and banged
into a concrete building pillar.
I he sailor, Russell Harlan John
son, 30. Portland, escaped inlurv
His wife Shirley, also 30, suffered
a chin cut.
Up In The Air
IAII'1.1, I'ormosa (AP) Miss
Feng Hsiiiying, 18. and Cant
Cheng Ching-licn. a Nationalist
uninesc paratrooper, were up in
nie air in approaching their mar
riage Saturday.
They parachuted from an Air
Force C46 transport for the nup
tials, the best man and 12 other
Imony also parachuted
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Paper Strike Status Quo;
No Date Set For New Meet
PORTLAND IAP) Federal sol (or another meeting.
Mediator Elmer Williams said
no progress was made toward
settlement of Portland's news
paper strike in a meeting between
management and the striking
Stcreotypers Union Friday.
Williams said no date had been
Slick Roads
Cause Wrecks
A weekend snowstorm turned
Northern California and Southern
Oregon roads to ribbons of ice
but police reported remarkably
lew accidents.
One woman received minor in
juries when her car smacked a
truck and tractor on the point
facing Lake Ewauna just south of
the city limits at 10:30 a.m. Sat
urday.
A 19."3 sedan operated by Lor
raine Alice Clark, IB, of Klamath
Falls, received severe damage
The truck was slightly damaged,
state police said.
Investigating officers said the
truck was southbound and pulled
wide of a snowbound car parked
at roadside.
The Clark car skidded when it
swerved to give the truck more
room, they said. No citations were
issued.
Another collision occurred at
4:02 p.m. at the corner of Old
Midland Road and O'Connor Road
at 4:02 p.m., stale police reported.
No injuries resulted, they said,
and no citations have been issued
A 1959 sedan operated by Archie
Wilmer Milligan of Dorris skidded
on an inclined turn as he struggled
to avoid hitting another vehicle
which failed to stop at a stop sign
officers said. ,
His car struck a third car driven
by Harry Lewis Webber of Route
3, Klamath Falls, police reported.
Damage was not major.
State police also received a re
port of an accident involving a
truck near Sun Pass north of
Klamath Falls Saturday evening.
but details were not available. Of
ficers said no injuries were re
ported.
City police investigated a minor
accident involving cars driven by
Clarence A. Peterson of 2432 Or
chard Avenue and Freddie Lee
Ward of 130 Martin Street at 11:44
a.m. at Owens Street and Vine
Avenue Saturday. No injuries re
sulted.
They also received a report of
a collision between cars driven
by David R. Steinbock of Klam
ath Falls and Carl E. Yancey of
4009 Homcdale Road at 9:20 a m
at the corner of Orchard and Di
vision streets.
Yancey was slightly injured, of
ficers said. No citations were is
sued.
Grand Jury
Indicts 4
LAKEVIKW Four secret indict
mcnts were returned by the Lake
County grand jury at its meeting
last week. The new panel is made
up of Walter Lightle, foreman: Ha
zel H. Snow, Arthaleen Samples.
Colleen D. Maw. George B. Bow
ers, Constance Hoe and Helen B
Michaelson.
Judge Charles H. Foster has an
nounced a term of court for Jan
uary and February with about 10
cases to come to trial. The new
jury list is made up of Raymond
B. Dooley, Shirley E. Start, Ross
Foster, Elizabeth Shulls, William
Cannon, Eugenia M. Myers,
Charlrs F'ultz. Leonard Hammer.
Ann F. Gray. Mildred E. Morgan.
Ethel Louise Steward, Raymond J
Poore, Lawrence S. Quenell, Frank
E. McUee. Patricia Weekly, Mel
vin J. Walsh, Archie Osborne,
Magdalene M. Merrill, Nick Gaw
rnnski. Carl W. Lange, Ann E.
Davidson, Hoy E. Peterson, Mel-
vin L. Johnson, Bertram William
Becker, John F. Scoville. Allen
Byington. II. E. Caudell. Velma
Simpson, William H. Castle, and I
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nal combined when the strike be
gan Nov. 10 and since have boen'eartnqual!e .iarred an arca reat'h-
publishing a joint edition at The
Oregonian plant with non-union
employes.
There was a disturbance at the
picket line Friday afternoon. The,
Portland Intcrunion Strike Com-
mittec said that a woman picket,
had been struck by an automobile
leaving the building. Portland po.
lice said that an arrest had been
made at the scene. They said de
tails of the incident and names
of the persons involved would not
be available until later Saturday.
when the arresting officer's re
port is typed.
In another development stem
ming from the strike, two men
were fined $75 each in Milwaukie
Justice Court after being convict
ed of assault and battery.
.Mike Rovito and Marvin C,
Mayo, former truck drivers for
the Journal, were accused of at
tacking two Journal distributors
with hoses on the night of Nov. 22.
The strike committee Friday
night presented the fourth' in a
series of television programs to
tell its side of the dispute.
James T. Marr, executive sec
retary of the Oregon AFL-CIO,
said that the public was being
short-changed by the struck news
papers. He said the joint publiea
lion had a reduced circulation
and was charging double rates
for classified advertising.
Representatives of unions in
volved in the strike urged can
cellation of subscriptions.
The newspaper will reply to the
unions later, a spokesman for
management said.
The Stcreotypers Union and
management both have stated
that one of the principal issues in
the dispute is how many men it
would take to operate a new plate
casting machine which The Ore
gonian says it plans to buy.
John's Wife
Is Star
Of Tour
NEW DELHI, India (API-At
tractive Barbara Eisenhower has
turned out to be a star attraction
in each of the five nations visited
thus far on President Eisenh'ow
er's goodwill tour.
In the absence of Mamie Eisen
howcr, the President's wife, Bar
bara has been treated as the un
olficial First Lady even though
she is not making the trip in that
role.
Unaccustomed to so much lime'
light, Eisenhower's daughter-in-
law has developed into an effec
tive goodwill ambassador with
her wide-eyed approach and en
thusiasm for the people and things
around her.
The crowds that have turned out
Italy, Turkey, Pakistan, Af
ghanistan and India frequently
craned their necks to see what
Barbara looks like after catching
a glimpse of the President him
self. Nearly always they arc amazed
at her height she's 5 foot 8. They
alfo are impressed by the trim
figure of this 33-year-old mother
of four.
Barbara usually attends official
dinners in simply styled evening
gowns. She wore a royal blue out
fit with a baby !)lue stole at a
Uttering New Delhi dinner Thurs
day night.
In Karachi she wore white. In
Turkey she chose green and. in
Italy a champagne-colored num
ber.
Barbara has yet to appear twice
in the same daytime outfit. She
lavors two-piece suits which she
t lips off with a mink stole.
The effect of all the attention
howered on Barbara has been to
push her husband, Maj. John Ei
senhower, into the background.
But he has been busy serving as
an aide to his father and Hnnsn'l
seem to mind as long as his wife
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Jars PNW
SEATTLE (AP) - A sharp
ing nom victoria, u.t;., to Seattle
Friday night, but apparently did
no major damage.
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iiim shock occurred at
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a fcw minutes. Dr. Frank Neu-
mann' University of Washington'
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.i. auuui si on me .wercaiihaps consult with cgunty govern
scale of 12. imcnts who have never operated
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Juan Island area where there are'
several major faults.
The only damage, according to
police reports, was broken win
dows at Port Angeles and Marys
ville, Wash.
"The first shock registered on
the seismograph as a very, very
sharp impulse," said Neumann.
Sleet, Rain
Stings East
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sleet and freezing rain stung
parts of Pennsylvania and New
York Saturday.
The sleet and rain marked the
northern edge of a layer of warm,
moist air which hung over most
of the nation east of the Missis
sippi Valley. Low-hanging dark
clouds, fog and precipitation rang
ing from drizzle to snow occurred
in wide area of the eastern United
States.
Snow fell in an area from the
upper Great Lakes eastward into
upstate New York and New Eng
land. An inch of new snow piled
up at Burlington, Vt.
Elsewhere, rainy weather con
tinued in the Pacific, Northwest
Wind gusts up to 40 m.p.h.. whis
tled along the Washington coast
Portland and Salem. Ore., both
reported about .50 inches of rain
in a six-hour span.
The rest of the nation had most
ly clear skies.
Man Injured
In Accident
YREKA-Fre'derick Gale Noah.
35, of Grants Pass, was treated
and released from the hospital
after a one-car accident about 7:30
a.m. Friday one mile south of the
Klamath River bridge.
Noah, driving an Oregon-Ncvada-California
Fast Freight truck and
trailer loaded with groceries and
Christmas merchandise, was north
bound on Highway 99 when the
rig went out of control on a curve.
The truck tipped over and the
trailer, still attached. Went ftvpr
the bank. Groceries SDilled ovpr
ine highway and traffic was halted
temporarily.
The driver's injuries consisted of
cuts about one hand and bruises
according to California Highway
rairoi otticers.
OBITUARY
KIRK
WEED James Edcar Kirk, fifi
died here early Friday morning
He was a resident of this commu
nity tor the past 36 years . and
owned and operated the Weed Bar
ber Shop in the Court Club Build
ing. Funeral services were held
Saturday in the Latter Day Saints
Chapel in Mount Shasta. Flake
Willis, McCloud, officiated. Sur
vivors are his widow, Neva; two
brothers, Carl and Leslie, and a
sister, Mrs. Florine Thurston
Junction City, Oregon, and a step
son Kenneth L. Silva, Chico. In
terment will be in the Lane Me
morial Park, Junction City. Up
ton's Mortuary, Weed, in charge of
transportation.
ROYER.
John Charles Royer, 88, native
of Lawrence, Kansas, resident of
Klamath County for 31 years, died
here December 12, 1939. Survivors
include the widow, Ruth E. of this
city; daughters, Mrs. Ethel Crum
rine and Hazel L. Royer of this
city, Mrs. Grace V. I'eery of Win
chester, Washington; a brother,
N. A. Royer of Four Mile, Ore
gon; nephews, Olin Royer of this
city, Albert Royer of Florence,
Oregon, Fred and Charles Royer
of Coos Bay; also 10 grandchil
dren and 13 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will take place
from Ward's Klamath Funeral
home on Tuesday, December 15,
at 1:30 p.m.
Funerals
POSPISIL
Funeral services for Joseph Pos-
pisil. husband of May K. Tospisil
who died December 11, 19."i!). will
take place from the chapel of
w ard s Mamath Funeral Home
on Monday. December 14, at 1:30
p m., Dr. E. M. Causey of the
First Baptist Church officiating.
Concluding services and vault en
tombment in Klamath .Memorial
Park.
Gia Hat A taaiirlful
PEARL RING
BEACHS JEWELERS
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Local Control
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ously in a thoroughly documented
statement road in the presence of
Miss Jeanne Jewett, state adminis
trator, and other state welfare de
partment officials.
THE COUNTY HAS no control
over its budget, or even the hiring
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riisn rtPi-. i .h. ,.if-P. r.
fice here, he said. He suggested
(hat j( state wclfare department
people are having troubles with
- their budgets, "they should per-
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ible and unsatisfactory county pub
lic assistance pqogram that seems
to proceed from crisis to crisis
with a complete dependency on
the state administration to deal
with each minute detail of the pro
gram.
Mrs. Frank Johnson, a county
commission member, said t h e
county would not have run out of
general assistance (welfare) funds
last September if the state depart
ment had told it how funds were
calculated and allocated. Mrs.
Richard Smith, commission chair
man, said her relations with the
state commission "would be much
more pleasant if I functioned as
a rubber stamp."
Dr. W. P. Wilbur of Lakeview
said the county commission there
has no money, that he sent a pa
tient to sit in the welfare office
Thursday because the welfare de
partment couldn't hospitalize him'
and that the existence of Lake-
view's hospital established 23
years ago was in jeopardy.
Dr. Conn and other Klamath
Falls doctors emphasized that
their dispute with the State Pub
lic Welfare Commission had be
ginnings earlier than the curtail
ment of funds that brought dissen
sion to action. But the matter of
budgeting the medical care pro-1
gram was discussed for hours.
Miss Jewett said the per case
cost of medical care in Oregon
ranked high in the nation and
therefore the health budget was
carefully controlled.
Said Dr. Keizer, "Ninety - per
cent of this discussion is hovering
over the fact that there was in
adequate provision for medical
costs."
THE KLAMATH MEDICAL so
ciety presented a five-point plan
for exploration including employ
ment of a county physician and
establishment of a county hospital
predicated on local control and
including care and consultation on
a chanty basis
After the doctors had presented
their case entirely, the legislative
committee chairman, Mrs. Grace
Peck of Portland, a veteran legis
lator and a frank talker, agreed
with the doctors in part but also
chided them like a mother scold
ing a child.
"It might be wonderful if you
could give your services for noth
ing, she said, "but I don't think
you have a right to be so charita
ble. I don't think welfare recipi
ents should be put on a basis
where they must accept charity.
They are good people, most of
them have paid taxes in the
past. . . . The basis is need. There
arc taxpayers willing to pay this
bill. I don't think you'd ever sell
outright charity to the legisla
ture. "The State Public Welfare Com-j
mission is not infallible," she said,
"but it doesn't have horns."
Roads Dangerous
Say State Police
All routes in Klamath County
and in Northeastern California are
slick and dangerous, state police
said Saturday night.
They advise all motorists to car
ry chains, especially over the
Green Springs route to Ashland,
the Willamette Pass and Highway
39 to Lakeview.
The California Highway Patrol
advised drivers to keep chains on
over routes approaching Klamath
and Lake counties.
The little republic of San Marino
claims to be the oldest state in
Europe, dating its beginnings to
the Fourth Century.
Con9ratulaioni t Jamai C. Chanca wha ltd oil Company fint-ytar aoanrt in nrv.
ica ana1 lalol oattormonca duiing Novambar.
Sta Mr. Chance for information obout Standard'! euhrandina, portfolio of life
cidtnt and lickn.n insurance including tha ntw Multi-Purpoie Plori, the iww. '
att idao In panonol financial planning.
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He Acts Like
But Senator
Edltor't Note: This is the
season when presidential hopefuls
beat the bushes and prowl the
prairies, talking, watching, count
ing, wishing. Associated Press po
litical writers have been traveling
with potential candidates, taking
a close-up look at the men who
could wind up in the White House
Here Arthur Edson, 15 years an
observer of the Washington scene
reports on three eventful days in
the life of a man who insists he
isn't a candidate, Sen. Lyndon B
Johnson.
By ARTHUR EDSON
MARSHALLTOWW, Iowa (AP)
Of all the coy presidential aspir
ants who flit around the land, none
is harder to figure than the tall
ambitious, hard driving Texan.
Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson.
Johnson acts like a candidate
He hustles from spot to spot, in
his own twin-engined, six sealer
plane, like a candidate. His words
are the words of a candidate.
He even smiles good like a can
didate should.
But publicly and privately John
son will assure you that he's no
candidate. Since he's making no
effort to win the Democratic presi
dential nomination, he savs. he
hasn't a chance.
Johnson s own explanation of
what he's up to seems true
enough. He's the Democratic lead
er in the Senate, responsible for
legislating for all the people. He
should see what's happening out
side of Texas, and he often does
when Congress isn't in session.
But as you watch and listen and
wonder, a few impressions fall in
to place. !
No man is more skilled at count
ing the political house than Lyn
don Johnson. .He's such a shrewd
and careful political leader that
even Republicans in the Senate
sometimes speak of him in awe
and in envy.
Johnson is proud that the lights
in his office burn late as he and
his staff check and recheck on
how other senators plan to vote.
Assassination
Plot Bared
HAVANA (UPI) - A new plot
to assassinate Prime Minister Fi
del Castro has been uncovered!
and 15 navy men arrested, reports
from Santiago de Cuba said Sat
urday. The reports came even as a
military court sat in the trial of
revolutionary hero Maj. Hubert
Matos and 39 other officers on
charges of treason for protesting
alleged Communist infiltration in
the Castro regime.
Dispatches from Santiago said
15 Navy men attached to the Pun
ta Blanca naval district in east
ern Cuba have been charged with
plotting to kill Castro during his
visit to the capital of Oriente
Province Nov. 30.
Details of the alleged plot and
its discovery were not disclosed
However, it was understood that
the conspiracy was actually dis
covered on Nov. 30. 1
The dispatches speculated that
Castro had advance knowledge of
the plot when he visited Santiago
to commemorate the landing of
his invasion forces and the begin
ning of the revolt against former
dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1956.
The revolutionary tribunal sit
ting in judgment on Matos recess
ed at 2 o'clock Saturday morning
after a three and one-half hour
statement by the major.
He told the court that missing
Army Commander Maj. Camilo
Cienfuegos had shared his con
cern over Communist infiltration
in the revolutionary army and
government.
Matos was arrested in mid-October
after writing a letter of res
ignation to Prime Minister Fidel
Castro because of his opposition
to the steady leftist trend in the
revolutionary government. He was
then serving as military comman
der of Camaguey Province.
JAMES C. CHANCE
Merrill, Oregon
INSURANCE COMPANY
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Candidate,
Denies It
"We're busy with our homework,"
Johnson says.
But Johnson doesn't have to stay
up late at night to discover this
(act of political life: Since the
Civil War, the door of the Whit
House has been locked tight
against all Southerners.
Johnson knows it, and Johnson
resents it.
His resentment shows up in
such comments as this one made
while he was speaking up for ad
ditional civil rights legislation.
"We must purge ourselves of all
bigotry, whether it's against a
majority or a minority, whether
it's against a class or a section."
Here Johnson paused significant
ly. "And I'd like to emphasize
'section.' "
Johnson probably will go to th
national nominating convention
next summer with a good lineup
of Southern votes, as well as oth
ers he will pick up in the Moun
tain and Western states.
The convention should be a hum-
dinger.
If it should come to an uproar
ious stalemate, a man of great"
persuasive powers, who knows
when to move and when to lia
low, might make great progress.
A hundred-year tradition might
be broken, and then Lyndon John
son could stride as a full-fledged
candidate up the path that leads
toward the White House.
But now it's foolish to butt one's
head against a tightly locked
door. If his great friend and teach
er, Speaker Sam Rayburn, wants
to start Johnson - for - president
clubs all over Texas, why not hu
mor him? And there's no harm
traveling about meeting the folks,
is there?
It turns out a lot of folks ara
curious about Lyndon. He had
overflow crowds wherever h
spoke in Iowa and Kansas.
Here, in a Republican strong
hold, he drew 350 to a dinner in
the Tallcorn Hotel. It was tha
largest Democratic turnout her
in history.
When speaking to service clubs,
Johnson takes the high road, with
a ..few. cleverly constructed de
tours. He speaks of the great need for
responsible leadership in this
country. Then he mentions how,
as majority leader, he never op
poses anything merely because
it's proposed by a Republican
president.
"If this proposal is good for
America," he will say, "it's good
for the Democratic Party."
Only a dullard could fail to un
derstand here that before them is
a shining example of responsible
leadership. At these meetings h
refers to President Eisenhower of
ten and kindly.
But at political meetings John
son can become almost as free
wheeling a critic as Hairy S.. Tru
man. True, he remains pleasant
in his attitude toward Eisenhower,
but now he may get in a few
jabs.
He will be talking about the So
viet Union's Nikita S. Khrushchev,
how forceful he is, how deter
mined. "I didn't see a man who
needed a siesta in the afternoon,"
he will say.
This is a not too gentle remind
er that Eisenhower sometimes
sleeps during the day, and the
impression left on the audience is
that Johnson, who had a heart
attack of his own in 1955, will
never be caught napping.
Here in the farm belt Johnson
naturally hits hard at the farm
policies of Secretary of Agricul
ture Ezra Taft Benson. But ha
also blames the administration for
high interest rates, for a lag in
missiles, for What he calls the dis
repair of our foreign alliances.
"The Republican party," he
says, "has already settled for sec
ond place in the world." ,
In nearly all of his speeches '
Johnson slips in a sentence that .
comes out about like this:
"Let's keep our eyes on tha
stars and do the possible."
It s too early to say what's pos
sible or impossible. But no mat
ter what he says, you can bet that
Lyndon Johnson has his eyes on
the political stars shining so tempt'
ingly over the White House.
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