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PAGE SIX HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Ore. Tupsdav. January 12. I960 FRANK JENKINS Editor BILL. JENKINS Managing Editor FLOYD WYNNE City Editor MAURICE MILLER Circulation Mgr Ph. TU 4-4752 Entered as second class matter at the post oftice at Klamath Falls. Ore., on August 2D. 1996, under act of Congress, March 8. 1879 SERVICES: ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS . AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Srrving Southern Oregon And Northern California Subscription Rates CARRIER I MONTH $ 1.50 6 MONTHS $ 9.00 I YEAR 118.00 MAIL I MONTH 1.50 6 MONTHS 8.50 I YEAR $15.00 JLc;i Yi'jir By FLORENCE JENKINS The Scots are lo blame for Leap Year being declared open season on bachelors, according to the research of World Book Encyclopedia. Scotland is said to have de creed in 12S8 that ladies 'of bothe highe and lowe cstait" shall have the privilege of proposing m a r riage during leap years., If a man refused the offer, he was fined as much as one pound, unless he could show that another woman had a prior claim on his affections. ... Undoubtedly the canny Scots saw the custom of permitting women the initiative as a way to put money in the treasury and take spinsters off the welfare rolls. The ladies, however, had to give fair warning that they were out to catch a man. If the edge of a scarlet flannel petticoat wasn't clearly visible, a man was absolved from paying the forfeit. Maybe from that facet of the plot comes the resurgence of interest, from time to time, in red for women's lingerie. Along about Valentines Day is an appro priate time for stores to display all red windows featuring frills and ruffles for the gals. France is reported lo have passed a similar law several hundred years ago. The ladies of Florence and Genoa are said to have been given the privilege, too, before Columbus sailed to America. The gallant English supposedly didn't need a law to make them give the fair (hut single) sex a break. The British backed up the custom to the extent of depriving a man of benefit of clergy if he scoffed at a leap year proposal, however. Even if he didn't hurt the lady's feelings, he was obliged to present her with a silk gown as a con solation prize. It:illg-.)4IISMI Cs By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI) - Povl Bang-Jensen is dead and gone, his body cremated and the ashes shipped home to Denmark. It just could be that Povl Bang - Jensen will talk louder from the grave than ever he did as a living man You remember Bang-Jensen, of course. He was the discharged United Nations official who dis appeared last November and whose body was found, finally, in a New York park. Bang-Jensen was listed as a suicide and that was that. Or, was it? Bang-Jensen lost his U.N. job because he refused to give to the U.N. authorities the names of Hungarians who had discussed with him the Hungarian rebel lion. It was as a U.N. official that Bang-Jensen questioned the Hungarians and it was as a U.N. official that he promised to pro tect them by not revealing their names. He and they feared with reason that the Communist ap paratus would take revenge on them all if the names were re vealed. Bang-Jensen refused to sur render the names because he be lieved that Communists agents in the U.N. would instantly obtain them and as quickly secretly de nounce the Hungarians who had given him their confidence. So he was fired and now he is dead Questions now pending fire are these: Did the Communist espionage police apparatus in the United States have urgent cause to wish Bang-Jensen d?ad. and, if so, did he kill himself or was he mur dered? The Senate Internal Se curity Subcommittee may seek the answer to those questions. Sen. Thomas ,1. llodd (D-Conn.), heading one of the subcommit tee s "task forces," told United Press International that his aide: were talking to the writers of 40 or 50 letters received by the sub committee, each urging that the Bang-Jensen case lie investigated This preliminary exploration will take two or three weeks where after Dodd will decide whether to lummon up Rang-.lensen's ghost If Dodd wants another letter, I hereby contribute one just re ceived by me from Robert Mor ris, ot ;cw jersey, who was Bang-Jensen's legal counsel. Mor ris is campaigning against Sen Clifford P. Case lor New Jersey's Republican senatorial nomination. His letter to me was in response to an inquiry whether the Bang- Jensen case really was important. More Important than the Alger Hiss case, was Morris estimate. He wrote: "Yes it Is important. In (act the burden of the Bang-Jensen case is more serious than was that of the Hiss case as far as national security is concerned. What Povl Bang-Jensen was try ing to tell us was that the secre tariat of the United Nations and our foreign intelligence had been penetrated by the Soviets and he was standing by to give us proof. He was let down badly. "But in my opinion, even more serious than the security aspect was the fact that in letting down a devoted friend of the United States, we were establishing an other precedent of the West tram pling on a good man, who spoke lor the cause of freedom, to ap pease evil men who never will be appeased." Morris knows as much as any man outside the FBI about Com munist activities in the United States. He knows much more than he wrote to me about the Bang-Jensen case. Tin- Lighter Side By DICK WEST WASHINGTON (UPI) It looks like the nation's hair styling ex ports have given up trying to make American girls look like Italian boys. 1 got a peek at the latest hair fashions at a "sneak preview" of spring and summer styles for 1900 as drafted by the National Hair Dressers and Cosmetologists Assn. This is the outfit that dictates Hie way ladies should arrange their hair. Since men, as onlook ers, have vested interest in the matter, I felt it my duty to sec what was in the wind. On the whole, it was an en couraging premier. Mrs. Pat Nix on, wife of the vice president, was there, as were the wives of a goodly number of senators. So were about a dozen beautiful mod els. The association announced that one of the new hair styles had been named the "Pat-Tress" in Mrs. Nixon's honor. I couldn't tell what her present style is because her hat was too big. We had a $6 chicken lunch and ion settled back while the mod els showed us what the associa tion's official hair fashion com mittee had cooked up for the coming months. It seemed lo me that the com mittee is getting conservative. I saw nothing that resembled an Italian boy or even a French poodle. That Italian boy ad was one I never could understand. If an American girl wants to look Ital ian, I say she ought to look like an Italian girl, say Gina Lollobrig-ida. I also was happy to note that the recent upswept, or Swiss Alp. hair style, which required that all locks be piled precariously on top of the head, is being toned down. To quote from the association's press release, "The top will have natural height to suit the indivi dual. Hair will be dressed in a natural flow of soft draped waves, drifting with its natural growth direction. Its silhouette will be less bouffant than in previous seasons, with an almost total ab sence of forced support of backcombing." I don't know exactly what this means, but on the models it look ed good. As for color, the associa- ion has decreed that "the brownette has definitely returned to the fashion scene." Some of the ladies in the au dience, most of whom were pro fessional hairdressers, hadn't got ten the message yet. 1 saw one coiffure that was tinted, so help me. pinkish-orange. "What color is that?" I asked a lady sitting nearby. "Pink champagne," she said. Shuddering. 1 inquired whether female hairdressers dressed their own hair. "Heavens, no!" she exclaimed. 'We wouldn't want our customers o get the idea they can do it themselves." This thought occurred Monday night after watching a repeat of a Father Knows Best episode on CBS-TV. At the show's conclusion ihc announcer made the comment about the use of a canned cacoph cny but he said nothing about our having seen a repeat. If a men tion of canned laughter is essen tial, shouldn't the audience also be told about reruns. LlMld-LLfJIM' IN'lll By JAMES MARLOW Associated Press News Analyst WASHINGTON (AP) For the third time in 13 years the United States and the Soviet Union are trying to settle the Soviets' lend- lease debt lor American help dur ing the war. But don't read too much into an agreement, if there is one. The two sides talked about it in 1047-48 and again in 1951-52, without success. They started talk ing again Monday, but this time under different circumstances. Premier Nikita Khrushchev, when he was here last September, made a pitch lor trade as part of better relations in a number of fields between the U.S.S.R. and the United States. He was told a lend-lease settlement might re move a major obstacle, and the new lend-lease talks are a result of his urging. So there may be a settlement If there is, trade between the two countries should increase a bit, but probably not on a large scale lor a good while. Agreement on trade doesn't nec essarily mean agreement on other big issues such as disarmament or the Soviets' demand that the Western Allies get their troops out of Berlin. It has been past Soviet practice to haggle on each issue individually, as if none was relat ed to any other. During the war this country pro vided the Soviet Union with $10, 800,000,000 worth of military and civilian equipment. After the war the United States wrote off the military equipment and concen trated on getting paid for the civil ian goods still in Soviet hands. The value of the civilian 'goods was pegged at $2,600,000,000 by this country. After the two previous talks the United Stales had scaled down its claim to 800 million dol lars. The Soviets offered 300 mil lion. There are various legal restric tions on trade with the U.S.S.R Some go back to before World War I, because the Communists have never paid on loans made to the Russian government before the Soviets took over. The result is trade between the two countries is in tiny terms. compared with their economies Last year the United Slates ex ported 3'i million dollars worth of goods to the Soviet Union and imported about 17'a million dol lars worth. When Khrushchev met President Eisenhower last fall at Camp David he was reportedly very up set over American restrictions on trading with the U.S.S.R. He was said to feel the Soviet Union was being treated like an outcast Undersecretary of Slate Douglas Dillon said last September Khrush chev was told nt Camp David that if the Soviet Union is reasonable about paying off on its lend-lease debt it may pave the way to eas ing American restrictions. He said the Eisenhower admin istration may ask Congress pro vided there is a settlement to remove some legal prohibitions against dealing with the Soviet Union and to extend more favored tariff treatment. But one of the main roadblocks lo any big increase in trade with the U.S.S.R. soon even if there's a settlement is that goods that American purchasers want from abroad in substantial quantities and which the Soviets have avail able, are already bcig supplied by free world countries. SHORT RIBS By Frank O'Neal THE KlNfcVS 1 I WHAT'. H0W DO Y0O KNOW? .( WEN' ) v rv 'M PEINi ue:d r-r ramm BV THE XK KNIvHTJ WNi) 1 UL U SUE -O FEEL ASTE5. Veep f.'niididalcs By SAUL PETT NEW YORK (AP) - This is the time of year when no one wants to be vice president of the United States. Surely, somebody must want to be vice president. Of course, even if a man wants the job, he must, by tradition, act like he isn t interested. The psy chology of this is easy to under stand. Did you ever hear of an unmarried woman campaigning to become bridesmaid? If you really want to be vice president, you have to start by denying you're a candidate or ac tive candidate for president. Then, alter a decent interval, you have to be persuaded to become an ac tive candidate for president. Al most any amount of persuasion will do a nudge from your moth er or a letter from your old scout master is enough. You make your big announce ment and insist you're in this fight for the top nomination, and only the top nomination, to the bitter end. And you start fighting, and just before the bitter end, just be fore they close that last door at the convention, you succumb to an unselfish glow of party harmony and national duty. You rush up tu the speaker's platform and, in a burst of sweaty rhetoric, ask your delegates to vote for the oth er guy, who then will agree that you're the best man for the vice presidential nomination. The timing has to be perfect. If you jump too soon, you indicate weakness. If you wait a moment oo long, you won't even be able to get a traffic ticket fixed in the r.ext four years. That's just practical politics. A man who begins with a modest ambition has nothing to trade. If he starts out publicly wanting only to be vice president, he may end up secretary of interior or utility nfielder for the Washington Sena tors. That's practical politics and I'm against it. After all, being vice president is still a pretty fair job. It pays $35,000 a year and $10,000 in expenses and you make your own hours. And despite all the jokes, the chances for advance ment are good; of our 34 pres idents, eight were vice presidents first. Personally, I'm opposed to all coyness in politics, especially for the two biggest jobs. If a man wants either, he ought to say so. As a taxpayer, I resent thinking I may be imposing ' on someone by making him president or vice president of the United States. In fact, I think there ought to be a constitutional amendment to eliminate campaign coyness. If a man really doesn't want to be president, he ought to be obliged by law to make a Sherman-like announcement and then be ruled ineligible. If he doesn't want to seek the office but will accept a draft, he ought to have to say so. If he wants the job and will take it under any circumstances he can beg. borrow or steal, he ought to have to say that, too. And if he thinks he's too good to be vice president, he should say so and then not be allowed to change his mind when nothing bet ter comes along. After all, any personnel director will tell you you can't expect much of a performance from a sore loser or anyone who has to be pushed kicking and screaming into the job. Editor Boyle is on vacation this week. 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HATLO HAT TO 3 V 223 BOCMWOOO PK J5K...1 &Wk Pair Killed In Air Crash NEWHALL (UPI) Tw were killed Monday night jn ingle engine private plane that :rashed in a rainstorm sft parently striking a power line. ihe victims were identified as Ralph B. Ellis. 37. Northl and Houston F. Stokes, 38 Bail Gabriel. ' Sheriff's deputies described tha plane as a Beech Bonanza owned by the Ellis Construction r. North Hollywood. '' Officers said they believed tha craft hit a powerline about four miles north of Castaic while at. tempting an emergency landing because of the stormy weather, lucre is no airstrip in the area. They said the crinoled niani then traveled about three milei before crashing on a hill near mgnvvay aa. Legal Chief Raps Judge On Ruling WASHINGTON (AP) - Atty. Gen. William P. Rogers told the Supreme Court today that a Geor ia federal judge "fell into gross and manifest error" by ruling parts of the 1957 Civil Rights Act are unconstitutional. The case is Ihe first to be filed under the act to protect voting rights of Negroes. As a measure Tin AlmmiiH By United Press International Today is Tuesday, Jan. 12, the 12th day of the year, with 354 more days in I960. The moon is approaching Its full phase. The morning stars are Venus, Mars and Jupiter. On this day in history: In 1939, the followers of Fidel Castro executed 75 persons at a single grave in Cuba. In 1737, John Hancock, Ameri can patriot and statesman, was born. In 1932, Mrs. Hattie Caraway of Arkansas became the first woman in any state to be elected to the U. S. Senate. In lS.ifi. the FBI announced it solved the Brink's robbery. A thought for today: Henry Wallace said during World War II: The object of this war is to make sure that everybody in the world has the privilege of drinking a quart of milk a day. lllilS United Press International MOSCOW. Tenn. Mrs. Cloteal i. Morton, expressing surprise over her election as mayor of this small town by a 71-51 vote: "I didn't think the people in Moscow would vgje for a woman." Dave Brubeck Raps Officials SAN FRANCISCO (AP)-Dave Brubeck is passing up an esti mated $40,000 in bookings because he refuses to drop a Negro musi cian from his jazz group for a Southern tour, the San Francisco Chronicle said today. The jazz pianist had planned about 25 performances, but cut the bookings to 10 as Southern colleges and universities learned is quartet is not all-white. Eu- ene Wright, a Negro, plays bass. Brubeck said he felt the can cellations do not reflect Southern tudent sentiment, but that of state-aid-conscious officials. 'The students know my group. I'd be selling those kids short to go down South with an all-white group," he asserted. Brubeck said the University of Jacksonville, Fla.; Vandcrbilt Uni versity, Nashville, Tenn.; and the University of the South, Se wanee, Tenn., accepted the inte grated quartet. of the importance he places on it, Rogers arranged to argue the ap peal personally in his first formal argument before the high tribunal as attorney general. In an advance brief, Rogers said Judge T. Hoyt Davis of the Macon, Ga., U.S. District Court went beyond the facts of the case in dismissing a government com plaint. The complaint charged that vot ing registrars of Terrell County, Ga., discriminated against quali fied Negro voters who wanted to get on the voting rolls. Davis ruled that parts of the act were unconstitutional because they gave the attorney general the right lo file injunction suits against individual citizens as well as state officials. He said Congress exceeded its constitutional powers. Appealing directly to the Su preme Court, Kogers contended the Georgia suit sought to enjoin state officials the voting regis trars of Terrell County and not private individuals. In his brief, Rogers said "It is a primary obligation of the courts to determine the constitutionality of a statute within the actual con text of the facts involved It is not the function of the courts to con jure up remote, hypothetical situa- GET YOUR SHARE $1,000,000 In Prizes - Hurry! Ph. TU 4-8484 Evenings tions to which the statute conceiv ably might be applied and if so applied might be unconstitutional. Charles J. Bloch of Macon, coun sel for the registrars, argued in support of Judge Davis' action. "If the statute is so broad in its scope as to be unconstitution al," he said in his preliminary brief, "the attempt of the Justice Department to narrow it, to amend it and to save it by alleg ing 'under the color of office' doesn't save it." 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