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CO MP, nspapcr sctrrioa CEN.REF.AMD DOC'lLdTS DXV. WOEHE.OBEC. Staie Of The Union PJlost Prosperous WASHINGTON (AP) President Eisenhower told a cheering Con gress today his new budget will call for a $4,200,000,000 surplus. Eisenhower announced in his State of the Union address that the budget for the fiscal year be ginning July 1 will propose ex penditures of $79,800,000,000. This meant, with his prediction of a surplus, that he anticipated revenues would be about 84 billion dollars. Eisenhower said he wants the predicted $4,200,000,000 excess of revenues applied as a reduction of the national debt. THE PRESIDENT said that he prefers not to call it just a debt re duction but "a reduction in our children's inherited mortgage." These figures had not been in cluded in the prepared address, distributed to newsmen in ad vance of Eisenhower's speech. The President added them as interpolations in delivering his speech. To save time, he cut out In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS For people who are willing to undergo the agonies involved in doing a little serious and construc tive thinking, there's an interest ing story in the news today. It concerns the politicians (es pecially the Republican politicians) and Vice-President Nixon, who at the moment looks like a shoo-in for the GOP nomination for Presi 'dent. Some of these politicians, the story says, are saying that Nixon "ought to identify himself as something of a liberal" IN ORDER TO WIN THE PRESIDENCY OVER A DEMOCRAT. A question: WHAT DOES NIXON BE LIEVE? My personal opinion is that whatever he BELIEVES IN is what he ought to STAND FOR. William Shakespeare, who lived and wrote some 400 years ago, put it about as well as it can be put when in Hamlet he causes Polonius to say to Laertes: "This above all: to thine own self be true, "And it most follow, -, as th night the day, 1 "Thou canst not then be false to any man." Pretty high-brow, you say? Wait a minute. How do you judge your friends, your neighbors, your associates, the people you come more or less generally in contact with? When you come to the conclusion that they MEAN WHAT THEY SAY, does your respect for them grow? Or do you respect most highly those people who merely say WHAT THEY THINK WILL BE MOST POPULAR? I'll offer a guess that if you amount to a hill of beans you have more confidence in sincere people than in people who are not sincere. So-' . Personally I hope Mr. Nixon doesn't "iden tify himself as something of a lib eral in order to win the Presi dency over a Democrat." I hope he stands for what he be lieves in and lets the chips fall where they may. In conclusion, a word about Ike who as this is written is deliver ing to the congress his message on the State of the Union. This newspaper is printing ' a reasonably comprehensive resume of what he is saying. You should read it, even if it is pretty long. But you should keep in mind how such documents are habitually put together. They an! designed- to con tain a little candy for everybody. If Ike's message on the State of the Union is worth reading . '. . and heeding ... it will be be cause President Eisenhower sel dom says for public consumption anything he doesn't believe in. Potential Buyer Not Honest, But Truthful RICHMOND (UPI) A pros pective customer Fred Conger was showing a used car Wednes day may not have been honest, but he was certainly truthful. During a demonstration ride, the well-dressed client asked Con ger to' stop at the Civic Center branch of the Central Valley Na tional Bank. . "I'll get some money and be right out," he told Conger. He got the $1,500 by telling the bank manager he had a gun and a hand grenade. He came right out and farced Conger to drive him away. Police got the story from Con ger when they let him out of the locked trunk of the used car which was found parked in a lot tome (our blocks from the bank. in delivery some parts of the pre pared address although the full text remains as official. Eisenhower asked the Demo cratic-controlled Congress for har mony and cooperation in his ad ministration's final year which he predicted will be the most pros perous in the nation's history. In the next-to-last State of the Union message he will deliver, Eisenhower renewed the major legislative proposals hanging over from his past requests, promised a balanced budget and sketched a generally hopeful outlook for better relations with the Soviet Union. Then, to a joint Senate-House session whose members are su premely conscious that 1960 is an election year, the President pledged to dedicate himself to a close and constructive association with them. . PLEADING IN effect that they not waste time in scrapping, he said: "Every minute spent in ir Prominent Citizen Killed By Tucson Deputy Sheriff TUCSON, Ariz. (UPI) - Wil liam Burns shouted "halt!" to the fleeing prisoner and then drew his service revolver ready to fire it for the first time in the line of duty in his seven years as a sheriff's deputy. Yankee Lad Makes Aircar For Only $4 ANCHORAGE, Alaska (UPI) - The Curtiss-Wright Corp., one of America's most important firms, spent thousands and thousands of dollars, several years of research by top scientists and the use of intricate and delicate machines to build a wheclless car that would float on air. Craig W. Vetter, 17, an average American high school student with average grades, spent $4, a little spare time and a conglomaration ol junk, including a chain saw engine, an old tractor radiator fan and some plywood, to do thei same thing. The amazing thing is that both succeeded. Curtiss-Wright recently put its car of the future on display in New York's Rockefeller Center. It rose on furious jets of air, swirled leaves around it and truly was a sight to behold and a credit to American industry. Young Vetter's infernal ma chine is a tremendous compli ment to the ingenuity of Ameri can youth in the young state of Alaska. -. ' Vetter became interested in the aircar, called a Ground Effect Machine (GEM), when he read an article in a science journal on the possibility of using such a device m the army of the future. "1 figured there was a real need for such an invention in Alaska," Craig told United Press International. "It would be near perfect since it can skim over the lightest of snow and even ice." Craig's machine, which works on a five horsepower motor, has undergone such successful test runs that officials at Elmendorf AFB here have permitted him the use of its workshop. NEW PAYOLA PRESSURES DALLAS, Tex. (UPI) Lee Segall, the boss at radio station KIXL, says his disc jockeys are being submitted to new pressures. They now are getting letters warning "if you don't play our records, well send you payola." KLAMATH KURBSTONE KOWPOKES are following tradition in assisting with the I960 New March of Dimes by soliciting merchandise from local merchants to be auctioned the evening of January 12 for benefit of the fund drive. Announcement of auction plant was made by Richard J. Smith, attorney, right, Klamath Falls chairman of the drive. Others, left to right, are DeWitt Ferguson, Don Yanderhoff, "Red" Ellis, Bob Wilson and Lou Hamblin. relevant Interbranch wrangling Is precious time taken from the intel ligent initiation and adoption of co herent policies for our national sur vival and progress." The address was broadcast by all major radio and television net works. As for legislation, he asked, as he did in the last session, for new enactments in the field of farm laws, civil rights and school aid, and , for continued foreign aid. Eisenhower told the Congress nfbmbers that "recent Soviet de portment and pronouncements suggest the possible opening of a somewhat less-strained period" in relationships with the rest of the world. But he said this country must keep its defenses strong, and de clared that is their present con dition. In that connection, Eisenhower reported that U. S. ballistic mis siles in test firings are now hit Burns, 62, gun in hand, raced out the courthouse after his es caping prisoner, screaming for the man to stop. Then he pointed the . revolver to the courthouse lawn and fired a warning shot The sound of the explosion Wednesday was answered by the dull thud of a body crumbling to the pavement. It was Dominic Pagliuca, 51, a well-known' civic leader and businessman who dropped mortally wounded. "My God!" said Burns, his face paling to a deathly white. "I fired into the lawn. The bullet must have ricocheted." Pagliuca, affectionately known as Nick to his Inends and the blind children he has helped, was hidden behind a tall hedge when the shot was fired. The bullet skipped from the ground and struck him near the heart. He died on the way to a hospital. A native of New Rochelle, N.Y., Pagliuca moved to Tucson in 1944 and set up a chain of shoe stores. He soon became beloved for his open-hearted charity work and his cencern lor the blind. A coroner's jury later in the day was called to consider Pag- liuca's death after the prisoner, Lichi Galvan, 25, was recaptured and held on charges of attempting to escape plus the original charge of illegal possession of narcotics I never would have shot at all if anyone had been in view," said a grief-stricken Burns. Other witnesses testified Pag liuca had been at the city plan ning and zoning commission on business and had just stepped out on the pavement when killed. The jury ruled the killing "by acci dent and misfortune." Reds Purging Undesirables TOKYO (AP) Red China is waging a mass purge of "counter revolutionaries and undesirable characters who have wormed their way" into the Communist Party. An Tzu-wen, onetime confiden tial secretary to Mao Tze-tung, has confirmed widespread specu lation that the 27,000 peasant com munes and party committees are being overhauled from top to bot tom. An, a member of the ruling Communist Party Central Commit tee, sounded the call for mass ac tion against "right opportunists and "individualists" in the Peiping Peoples Daily. A translation of his article in the Dec. 17 issue reached Tokyo today. ting targets the size of airports at distances of more than 5,000 miles. INITIAL REACTION tended to be guarded. Many congressmen said they wanted to know more spe cific details of Eisenhower's leg islative proposals. Senate Democratic Leader Lyn don B. Johnson of Texas said ho agreed that interbranch wrang ling takes "precious time from cooperation to promote the peace and prosperity of the nation." "I hope the administration will take further steps, and review the past and recognize that coopera tion is a two-way street," Johnson added. Sen. Everett XI. Dirksen of Illi nois, the Senate GOP leader, ealleo it "a great message from a big man with a big heart, one of the most substantial messages that in 25 years I have heard pre sented to the Congress." Eisenhower got an ovation when he came into the House chamber KLAMATH -24 Pages Price Five Cents Poodle Entertains Chums; Fete Was Howling Success BIRMINGHAM, Ala. CAP) It all started when Mozart Coleman got a toy piano for Christmas. Mozart started tinkering with the piano. He liked to show off. And to show off, it takes a party. So Mozart gave a party and it was a tur piece irom tne con ventional. Mozart is a French poo dle and all his guests were French poodles. And if you don t think the party was a howling success, you re barking up the wrong tree, Mozart is the pet of Mrs. John Mean January Is Predicted WASHINGTON (UPI) For a while it looked as though . the high westerlies had reformed and would let us have a moderately decent January. But they backslid with re sults already bitterly apparent over much of the country. In stead of balmy and benign, Janu ary promises generally to be mean and miserable. The high westerlies are the lofty rivers of air which appear, by the way they flow, to dictate the weather pattern of the north ern temperature zone. These air currents normally move in gently undulating courses from West to East. Sometimes, however, they get diverted for un known reasons into an abnormal zig-zag system which carries them far to the North and deep into the South as they make their way across the continent. When this happens, warm trop ical air clashes with cold polar air and we get what Dr. Jerome Namias calls "a vigorous winter." According to Namias, chief of the weather bureau's extended forecasts section, the high west erlies went wrong early last fall. SHOOTING HOURS DUCKS, GEESE OREGON January 8 OPEN CLOSE 7:35 4:50 CALIFORNIA January 8 OPEN CLOSE 7:34 4:51 Uismy heii&ei iy (Presided where the joint session was held Mrs. Eisenhower and Mrs. Rich ard M. Nixon, wife of the vice president, sat together in one of the galleries which were all filled to capacity. MRS. EISENHOWER had herself received a standing ovation when she arrhed a few minutes before the Prisidcnt First applause for his speech came when Eisenhower said he remains determined that the United States shall become "an ever more potent resource for the cause of peace." The President also rejected criticism that the Soviet Union's development of superthrust rock et engines threatens America in the military missile field. The U. S. program in that field "does not suffer from our present lack of very large rocket engines. which are so necessary in distant space exploration," Eisenhower said. HE ADDED this country is FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1960 Telephone TU 4-8111 S. Coleman. Like his illustrious namesake, Mozart plays a mean piano. He was the life of the party. The occasion, announced earlier this week, created quite a howl. The Birmingham News received some complaints and additional complaints were voiced on a radio piogram that permits telephone callers to air their opinions. But at least one caller spoke in Mozart's behalf. 'Perhaps he has a talent which should be cultivated," an unidenti fied woman said. Wednesday's party was the high light of the poodle social season. Some of the guests arrived in chauffer-driven limousines, Cherie and Missey (owned by Mrs. Charles Greer) arrived in mink coats, ue-ttcd at the waist, I -Mill el vet collars vonae mim lownea oy miss Susan Shook) wore a wing collar, black tie, red barrette and a red evening cape.- Cagey Johnson (owned by Craw ford Johnson Jr.) wore earrings of net and roses Pierre (owned by Mrs. Luther Williams) came in his birthday suit. All had their nails tinted. The prize for the best behaved poodle went lo Cherie. She re ceived a barrette tied with red velvet bows. Vonde Hum was the best behaved boy. He got a foot ball. The guests ate dog candies from an antique silver bowl. All had a dog-gone good time. Weather Klamath Falls and vicinity Cloudy with occasional snow through Friday. Low tonight 24-30; high Friday 32-38. High yesterday 37 low last night i 22 Prcclp. last 24 hours trace Since Oct. 1 1.06 Same period last year 1.87 Low in area, Klamath Falls ... 22 CRATER LAKE Nine inches of new snow fell in the park In the 24-hour period end ing at 8 a.m. today, bringing snow depth to 36 Inches. It was snowing hard this morning and temperature was 25 degrees at 8 a.m. Chains are required for tra vel over Highway 62 through the park and from Annie Springs to the rim. Northern California Rainy through Friday. Travelers warned to beware of heavy snow in the mountains tonight. Snow level be low 3,000 feet in the Siskiyous, but above ,7,000 feet In the southern Slerra-Nevadas tonight, lowering to 5,000 feet Friday. . Probe Ordered For Mart Bandit A pre-sentence investigation has been ordered for Donald Martin Thompson, 36, following his con viction recently in Mcdford for having robbed a supermarket there on September 7. Circuit Judge Edward Kelly was to have sentenced Thompson Wed nesday afternoon, but said he would delay sentencing until the investigation is completed. Thompson, who was apprehend ed by city and state police in Klam ath Falls, has also been accused of robbing more than a score of supermarkets in Oregon and Cal ifornia. No new date was set for the sentencing. pressing forward with development of engines with tremendous thrust, and said spending for space proj ects will be practically doubled to about a billion dollars a year In his lengthy address, carried nationwide on television and ra dio, the President spoke of record prosperity in 1900 and also called for vigorous new efforts to check inflation. He expressed gratification over settlement earlier this week of the marathon steel dispute, and said both management and labor must make every effort to increase productivity and thus avoid price increases. To the newly convened Congress sprinkled with presidential hope fuls, Eisenhower noting he is be ginning his last year in office appealed for harmony in relations between the White House and the Democratic-controlled Congress. "EVERY MINUTE spent in ir relevant interbranch wrangling is precious time taken from the in No. 6597 Telephone's Curbed FRESNO, Calif. (UPD-Tcen-agcrs are renowned for their long telephone conversations, but 13-year-old Helen Jackson must be some kind of champion. The Pacific Telephone Com pany Is suing Mrs. Myrtle Jack son for $1,642 in toll charges which Helen was responsible for during the 1958 Christmas vaca tion. The company's records show that Helen made 462 long dis tance calls to Los Angeles. She made as many as 20 calls a day some costing as much as $35 and called one family 123 times. The calls were placed to eight families, most of whom have children near Helen's age. She gave the numbers of other Fres no subscribers, but the company traced the calls to the Jackson home. .. . Mrs. Jackson, a widow, said she is not able to pay the bill- but she put a chain and lock on the telephone and she's keeping the key. Ex-Emissary Given Credit NEW YORK (AP) David J. McDonald, head of the United Steelworkers, today credited for mer ambassador Joseph Kennedy with an important role in settling the steel strike. He . was interviewed on a tele vision program, NBC loday. McDonald said Kennedy, father of Sen. John F. Kennedy ID Mass), was one of the "most in fluential" men behind the scenes in bringing about a contract agreement. The older Kennedy, McDonald said, "did a great deal down in Wall Street to bring about this settlement. He talked with the bankers time and time again, and we were in constant touch with one another." McDonald said he thinks Vice President Richard M. Nixon de serves "some credit" for the set tlement, adding: "I think Mr. Nix on brought both the industry and the union face to face with the facts of life." Hey Kids Sledding Today A heavy blanket of snow ruined ice skating in Klamath Falls Thursday but opened up other sporting areas. The Parks and Recreation De partment ic going to supervise sleighing for youngsters on three blockcd-off city streets from 4 un til 8 p.m. today. ' . The three areas are Manzanita Street from Pacific Terrace to Kit Carson Way, Washington Street from First Street to Third Street and Wilford Avenue from Delta Street to Upham Street. The department is going to pro vide roaring wood warming fires at each terminus. Sandburg Birthday FLAT ROCK, N.C. (AP) Dis playing good health, and the usual quick wit, Carl Sandburg passed his 82nd birthday at his home In this western North Carolina mountain community. A reporter came to call Wednes day on the occasion of his birth day. The white-haired Sandburg, with a gleam In his eye, put a sheaf ol telegrams on a table and said, "There's a small seg ment of the American popula tion who don't hate me." telligent initiation and adoption of coherent policies for our national survival and progress," he said. The President, who has had to work with a Democratic-run Con gress the last five of his seven years in office, remarked that nevertheless "we have weathered the storms." And he pledged in his final year to "devote my full energies lo the tasks at hand, whether these involvo travel for the promoting of world under standing, negotiations to reduce international discoid, or constant discussions and communications with the Congress and the Amer ican people on issues both domes tic and foreign." The President's State of the Un ion message sketched the admin isi -at ion's 1960 program in only broad outline. The details will be set forth in his Jan. 18 budget message which he announced for mally today will call for bal-l anced spending and income in the new fiscal year, starting July 1. Government Aides Agree To Restudy Water Level WASHINGTON (AP) - Govern ment officials agreed Wednesday to restudy water level require ments at the Tule Lake, Calif., Whdlifc Refuge to determine whether modifications will be per mitted. ' . Paul T.. Quick, in charge o( wildlife refuges, said the Bureau of Sports Fisheries and Wildlife will inform officials of the Tule lake Irrigation District today. whether any change in the exist ing regulations would be possible without endangering the nesting grounds of ducks on the Pacific flyway. The Interior Department, accus ing the district of having failed to maintain proper water levels in 1959, announced Dec. 11 that it would take over operation of the district's pumping and drainage system Feb. 14 unless the district gave assurance that it would comply with wildlife regulations in tile future. . At the start of an all-day con ference requested by district otti- cials, Under Secretary of Interior Elmer F.- Bennett refused to en tcrtain any challenge of1 the de partment's right to resume oper ation of the pumps, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project He told district representatives they could go to court if they had any doubts as to their obligation, under a 1956 contract, to operate the project under rules prescribed for the protection of wildlife. Maurice Stranlz, manager of the district, said the district could not maintain as high a water level as required in the early spring and in the fall without risking damage to agricultural lands from floods. Present regulations require maintenance of varying water elevations in the Tule Lake sump area from March 1 to Dec. 1 each year. Strantz objected principally to water level increases ordered in the early spring and during the fall hunting season, but he said the summer requirements also cost the district extra expense for dike maintenance. Quick said the bureau of sports fisheries would try to determine whether it could relax regulations regarding the earliest part of the spring and late fall, but said a jjpassMa ... tt L. . aBMnMMW ADMINISTRATION of the Inter-Agency Council changed hands January 6 when a new corps of officers took charge. The luncheon meeting at the YMCA drew 35 persons repre senting local civic and service agencies. The group, follow, ing luncheon, was broken down into four groups for dis cussion and suggestions on programs for the coming year. Left to right are Betty Cote, Klamath County acting li brarian, secretary-treasurer; Wilbur Womer, district man ager, Social Security Administration, president, end Julius Giuntoni, Oregon State Employment Service, vice president end program chairman. The reported scheduled spending figure is a peacetime record about 81 billion dollars. Eisenhower said that despite the long steel dispute, marked by a 116-day strike and then a back-to-work court order, the budget for the current fiscal year ending June .10 will show a surplus of about 200 million dollars. THE MESSAGE contained no real surprises in the field of legisla tion. Among other things, ha called for continuance of foreign aid to bolster the free world against communism; for enact ment of the civil rights program he recommended last year, par ticularly with respect to protect ing the right to vote; new farm laws also recommended previ ously to replace "an oulmoded system which has failed to pro tect farm income" and a school aid program with federal incen tives to encourage state and local Continued on Page 4A) ' uniform water level of 4,034 feet as suggested, by the district would not be satisfactory. Present regulations call for a water level range generally six to nine inches above 4,034 feet. Fish and wildlife service offi cials explained that the pre scribed water levels were de signed to maintain marshy areas for duck nesting in the spring and lo permit access to hunters later in the year. Quick said it is recognized that the prescribed levels cannot be maintained precisely, but could vary in accordance with flood or draught conditions. However, he said, he was not in a position to define the area of deviation that could be permitted. . " Fire Razes NW Stores STANFIELD'l Ore. (AP) - Fire destroyed a short block of stores in this Northeastern Oregon town early today with loss estimated at $60,000.' Described by firemen as a total loss were the Stanfield Cold Stor age and Market, the Stanfield Tav ern and the Stanfield branch of the Umatilla County Library. The blaze was discovered about 12:15 a.m. in the rear of the Stan field Cold Storage and Market where it apparently had been smoldering for some time. Mrs. Minnie Hardester, operator of the Stanfield Tavern next door, said she smcllcd smoke shortly after midnight and shortly found the blaze. , The 80-foot block of buildings was built, about 1910. It was of wood construction, except for a concrete tile front. SYMINGTON SETS TALK MONTGOMERY, Ala. (UPD- Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo.h a potential candidate for the Demo cratic presidential nomination, will speak here Jan. 25, the day before Alabama's delegates to the Democratic national convention are selected. 1 r
