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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 17, 1960)
JOE IS LOOKING to the YMCA for some activities tor his age group. The various ages represented here depict those served by the YMCA program. The Herald and News will carry a series of stories attempting to answer Joe's question on what the present pro .gram offers to him and to his friends during Worldwide YMCA Week, which starts today and ends January 24. From left to right are Craig Breithaupt, Lane Polk, Lee Fun denberger, Shari Polk, Larry Smith, Jean Fundenberger, Nancy Lang, Mrs. Marilyn Breit. haupt and Paul Breithaupt. In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS In Washington, the government operations committee . of the house of representatives of the U.S. congress has just completed its annual inventory report which lists all the real and per sonal property owned by the fed eral government. The personal property, running all the way from typewriter rib bons to multi-multi-million dollar bombers and navy ships, lots up to the not insignificant sum of 103 billion dollars. The real prop erty, ranging from vacant lots here and there to the millions of acres in the public domain, is valued at 71 billion dollars and a few odd cents. That is to say: You ; and 179,300,000 share holders in the United States of America own real and personal property whose inventory value is $264,000,000,000. In case the ci phers are more than you can count, the figure is 264 billion' dollars. As one individual, your share of it comes . to $1,472.39. Sounds pretty good, doesn't it? But wait a minute. Those figures are for what you, as an individual, OWN. Let's take a sharp look at what you OWE. The funded debt of the federal government alone amounts in rounded-off figures to 290 billion dollars, of which your share as an individual is $1,617.40. So- You see As a shareholder in the U.S.A. you own $1,472.39 worth of real and personal property, but you OWE, as your share of the funded debt of the federal gov ernment, the sum of $1,617.40. Put in that light, it doesn't look very good. In fact, looked at in that sharp, cruel light, it suggests the uneasy thought that as a nation we- are BANKRUPT. Which raises this question: How did we get that way? For an answer, let's turn to the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. The village of Hamelin was plagued by rats. The Piper, clad in a gay, parti-colored suit, ap peared and offered to get rid of the vermin. His offer was ac cepted. He played his pipe gaily and the rats followed him out of town. It was wonderful. But- The rats came back. The Piper, came again. Again he played his gay and carefree tune. His tune was so lilting that this time the children followed him out of town. He led them to a mountain cave where all disappeared save two one blind, the other dumb. ' If you will substitute for the Pied Piper and his gay and lilt ing tune the SPENDERS from John Maynard Keynes on down and their siren song of TAX AND TAX AND SPEND AND SPEND, you will perhaps get a glimmering of how we got the way we are. Isn't it about time to quit fol lowing the siren song of the spenders? HITS MOONSHINE PROBLEM NEW YORK (UPD Paul E Lockwood, vice president of the Schenley Industries Inc. whisky firm, said Friday night that the South is not the only part of the nation which suffers from a moon shine problem. Lockwood said tight enforcement of existing anti moonshine laws would bring New York state about 18 million dol lars more in taxes each year. Worldwide YMCA Week Officially Begins Today A lot of news space is going to be reserved this week for a kid named "Joe." Joe is going to be a mighty active citizen. He is going to trace for reporters and photog raphers how he is served from boyhood through manhood by the Young Men's Christian Associa tion. WORLDWIDE YMCA Week be gins today, and Joe has been se lected as its symbol locally. He will describe how the Klam ath County YMCA serves young sters by providing a game room, shooting and basketball facilities, outings, and other opportunities. He will describe how "The Y" has arranged its facilities to pro vide a surprising roster of char acter-building activities for youngsters, teen-agers, adults in general, men specifically, and women specifically,' Oregon Tech nical Institute students, and fam ilies. The week, isset, aside annually to spotlight the many works of YMCA which contribute to the character-building process world fellowship; physical fitness, education, spiritual and social de velopment, and others. The first YMCA in .North America was founded in Mont real in 1851. A few weeks later, a branch was started in Boston In seven years t h e movement spread from coast to coast. To day about 2,650,000 members are enrolled in 1,961 YMCA's in the United States and Canada. AT FIRST, t h e organization was primarily religious and dedi cated to young men. But today, religion plays a part only in that those who use Y facilities are encouraged to promote Christian standards. Anyone of any faith may, and is encouraged to join. A number of - other youth-cen tered organizations were gotten on their feet by the YMCA. It provided leadership and quarters for the Boy Scout organization until scouting was able to- stand alone. Dr. Luther Gulick, a Y physi cal director, founded the Camp Fire Girls. Father's Day was first spon sored by the Y. Learn-to-swim campaigns for the public were ini tiated by the Y. It operates more than 700 swimming pools and last year instructed nearly 500.000 bud ding swimmers. The Y conducts 23 college-level schools with 48,828 enrollment About 97,000 persons lake night school and informal courses of fered annually by the Y. And the Y exports American and Canadian "know how" to young people in 36 countries. BUT THE Y still places heavi est emphasis on service to youth Police Official Quits Yale U NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) Yale Universitys top campus police official resigned Saturday as city police resumed their investi gation of a morals complaint in volving some university students. A 14-year-old girl has been taken into custody. The resignation of John H. Bow ers, chief of Yale's police depart ment, was reported by New Ha ven Police Chief Francis V. Mc Manus. McManus said university offi cials had informed him that "Bow ers has resigned from the job of chief of police" even as other Yale spokesmen continued to deny it. A Yale spokesman said a uni versity announcement concerning the campus police would be made Monday, and did not elaborate. And for them, most activities are physical. The organization got its start that way in 1844 when 12 young dry goods clerks, tired of vice and corruption, power and wealth for a few, and long hours at low pay for most, resulting from the industrial revolution, met in Lon don to form a society for the improvement of the spiritual con ditions of young men engaged in the drapery and other trades. In meager spare time, young men had nothing to do, so turned to "gambling, drinking and im moral living, the 12 agreed. It would be better to provide them with swimming pools, football or basketball facilities, lecture halls and other constructive recreation al facilities. WITHIN SIX MONTHS 70 mem bers were conducting services in 14 business houses and the work required a full-time paid execu tive. In 1894 George Williams, found er of. the movement,- was knight ed by Queen Victoria for his "dis tinguished service to humanity. He died and was . buried in 1905 in St. Paul's Cathedral where he lies near two of Britain's great est heroes, Lord Nelson and the Duke of Wellington. Changes Set In Tax Laws WASHINGTON M The In- ternal Revenue Service said dav it will ask for changes lnioer, the tax laws if new reporting re quirements fail to eliminate abuses of business deductions for expenses and entertainment. The agency made this state ment in issuing a set of questions and answers dealing with the re porting procedures which went into effect Jan. 1. On Dec. 29, IRS announced it would require corporations, part nerships and individuals who own businesses to make a more de tailed accounting of expense and entertainment deductions start ing Jan.' 1. The information will cover busi ness operations in 1960 but will not be reported to IRS until firms file tax returns in 1961. "If this program does not elim inate the abuses in this area within the framework of existing laws, the service will propose such changes as necessary to permit adequate and equitable enforcement," the agency said. All the new reporting require ments apply only to employers and not employes. Most of the added data being requested in volves expense allowances paid to the 25 highest-paid officers of a corporation, all members of partnership, and the owner and five highest-paid employes of a sole proprietorship. The IRS said it was taking this approach because it believes that "if the officers of the corpora tion properly police their own ex pense allowances, they will d o the same with respect to their employes." However, it added: "At t h e time of the examination of the employer's return, we will ascer tain whether officers or employes received allowances which consti tute taxable income. This infer mation will be used in connec tion with the examination of the individual's income tax returns. Mcdonald on vacation PALM SPRINGS, Calif. UPI- David J. McDonald, president of the United Steclworkers of Amer ica, arrived here Thursday for vacation. McDonald, accompanied by his wife, Rosemary, said the length of his visit was Indefinite, "" """ IIIIIIIIIMB WWII mi llIUMIIIIWWMMIWWflOOC& KLAMATH Price Ton Cents 54 Pages Background Of Lawyer Being Probed NEW YORK (AP)-Authoritics are piecing together the tangled background of Julian Andrew Frank, the heavily insured young lawyer suspected of setting off a suicide bomb in a plane that crashed with 34 persons aboard. The Manhattan Dist. Attorney's office Friday pictured Frank as man enmeshed in financial dealings that could have wrecked his promising career. Friends saw him as a tall, lean man with a pretty wife and two handsome children who lived in an expensive suburban home, a man who could be as happy-go-lucky as he could be darkly brooding, and a man with a hor ror of planes and a strange pre dilection of death. The district attorney said Frank, 32, was facing investiga tions of two complaints alleging embezzlement one involving a Manhattan real estate transaction and the other regarding a loan for a hospital A complaint lodged last March alleged that Frank had misused $20,000 from a property sale he engineered for a client, pocketing part of the money himself. The New York Bar Assn. was notified of the matter. The criminal investigation was held up after Frank had posted $20,000 to await the outcome of legal proceedings. About a month ago, attorneys John J. Fallon of Kansas City, Mo., and Daniel P. Reardon Sr. of St. Louis complained that they had not heard from Frank since they turned over to him several thousand dollars as an advance fee for a $900,000 loan he was to obtain toward a two-millon-dollar expansion project at Christian Hospital. Conviction on the charges could have cost Frank his right to prac tice law. Insurance man Edward Boyd Jr., a friend in Frank's home town of Westportj Conn., .de scribed the young lawyer as young man in a hurry" with a dynamic personality. He said Frank often had expressed a fear of, flying. 'Look, I m going to gel killed in an airplane," Boyd quoted Frank as saying. Boyd said he eventually talked Frank into buying a half-million- dollar insurance policy in Novem ber. Frank also had a $100,000 accident policy taken out last April, another $100,000 accident policy taken out in November, and three accident policies of Satur-I62'000 each takcn out in Decem' Schools Open For Negroes PORT ELIZABETH, South Afri ca (AP) A new phase in South African education starts this year as the government opens three state-controlled colleges for Ne groes. This means the end of independ ent higher education for non- whites and the end of integrated education. From, now on non- whites will be barred from the two universities Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and the Univer sity of Cape Town which had previously accepted them. The government will allow only Negroes in the three new colleges at Alice in Cape Province, Ngoya in Natal, and Turfloop in the Transvaal. A separate college for Eurafricans, or mulattocs, will be opened in Cape Town later, African students will be sent to the college which caters to their ethnic or tribal grouping. The ef fect is not only to segregate whites from nonwhites but also to separate the various nonwhite groups. Two Prostitutes Paid For 'Shave' SEOUL, Korea (AP) Two Korean prostitutes whose heads were shaved as punishment for sneaking into a U.S. Army bar racks have been "compensated in full for their Injuries," it was an nounced Saturday. The United Nations command said in a statement that the two women Kim Ae-Soon, 37, and Kim Cung-Ja, 21 "have ex pressed satisfaction with the amount received." Two American sergeants c'.ipped the hair of the two women on orders of their commanding offi cer after they were caught in the barracks of a U.S. tank company 14 miles from the North Korean border. FALLS, OREGON. SUNDAY. JANUARY 17, I960 Guess Not DALLAS, Tex. (LTD Mrs. Leah Medlork, 70, told Judge John F. Mead Jr. it was time for her to get a divorce. She testified Friday she hasn't seen her husband. Gene, since he left for World War I In 1918. "I heard about 20 years ago he was in California, but I don't guess he's coming back," she said. She got the divorce. Masked Thief Kills Worker; Captured PARAMUS, N.J. (AP) - a' masked gunman killed a salesman and wounded two other employes rnday night when he bungled a holdup at a big department store and tried to shoot his way out. He was captured by the store's security officers alter a plucky customer had landed a blow on the gunman's head with a can of cleaning fluid. Several hundred shoppers were in the store, one of five suburban branches operated by Bamberg er's New Jersey, of Newark. The holdup and shootings were at the basement credit counter, in an isolated area not crowded at the time. The gunman, Edward Lehman, 30, was charged with murder and held without bail. Police said he told them he had come here a few days ago from Phoenix, Ariz. He claimed he was a University of North Dakota- graduate and has a master's degree. When men at the Bergen County prosecutor's office remarked that he did not look remorseful, Leh man replied: "What do you want me to do, put on. an act?" Authorities said the gunman had entered the store, at the center of a big highway shopping plaza, just before 6 p.m. He headed for the lower level and the credit depart ment, Vaulting over the counter, with a - handkerchief -tied across This nose and mouth, he waved a pis tol and said: "This is a holdup. Nobody move." A sizable amount of cash was in the department. John Blanch, 49, of Cedar Grove, credit mana ger, grappled, with the bandit. The gunman fired. Blanch fell with bullets in the chest and shoulder and a scalp wound. Leo Zaritsky, 47, of Rutherford, was at work in the adjacent fur niture department as a partlime salesman. He rushed over. The gunman fired a single shot into Zaritsky's head. The salesman died where he fell. Another salesman, Fred Cram er, 41, of Great Notch, tried to grab the gunman and was shot in the arm. Charles Jony of Rochelle Park had just bought a can of cleaning fluid and heard the shots and commotion. Rushing in that direction he came upon the gunman and swung the can down hard on his skull. Security guards and other sales men jumped on the bandit, knocked him to the floor and grabbed his half-empty German automatic. KLAMATH FALLS on a cold, clear night looks like this from the hill above Seventh Street. Bar branches and a snowy slope at right give winter's affect, but ths blur of Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 6f05 Law Officers Press Search For Weapon BATON ROUGE, La. (API- Officers Saturday pressed the search for the blunt-edged weapon used in the fatal hacking of science Prof. Margaret iRosie) McMillan. Authorities Friday gave the core of their case against Dr George H. Mickey, 49, brilliant dean of the Louisiana State Uni versity Graduate School here, ac cused of the slaying. The murder weapon was be lieved to be a tire tool or a blunt ax. Deputies spent hours Friday near the lonely lane six miles south of the LSU campus where Dr. McMillan, 39, an assistant professor of biology at Louisiana Siato Universiiy in New Oilcans was killed. The deputies searched pastures, ditches, and the Missis sippi River bank and piled up items for further examination. Chief Criminal Deputy J. B Kling Jr. and Dist. Ally. J. St. Clair Favrot said flecks of fresh blood on Dr. Mickey's car and holes in his alibi were the basis lor the arrest warrant. Their statement said if they had not presented the matter to the East Baton Route Parish grand jury, "we would have been dere lict in our duties." The defense indicated Dr. Mick ey is sticking to a claim that he was at home with his family Sat urday when Dr. McMillan was killed. Favrot quoted Mickey as saying he had gone with certain out-of- town people to catch a plane dur ing the crucial period about 6 p.m. until midnight and the alibi was "found to be without any foundation." The statement by Kling and Favrot said the blood on Dr. Mickey's car was "of the same type as mat ot me deceased, Parking Plan Gets Okay PORTLAND (AP) A pro posal for a $21,512,000 off-street parking development in downtown Portland drew approval here Thursday night from Downtown Portland Inc. The group, made up of down town properly owners banded to gether to improve the city's core area, suggested it be financed through a bond issue secured by a special assessment district. The district would encompass the downtown area. The bonds would be paid off with parking revenues. If that is not enough then an assessment in the district would make up the difference. This, said Downtown Portland President Edgar W. Smith, is the first step in the group's aim for a revitalized downtown core area. The city would own the facili ties, but lease Ihem to private op erators. This would provide an estimated 11,010 parking spaces. Nixon Opens Drive With Cuba Warning MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Vice President Richard M. Nixon warned the Cuban government Sa'urday it cannot expect continued American investments unless it makes U.S. business interests wel come. He told a news conference the U.S. government has no intention of interfering in Cuba's internal affairs but if it confiscates Amer ican-owned property without com pensation "Cuba must expect some reaction." Discussing Russian Premier Ni- kita Khrushchev's recent an nouncement that the Soviet Union has a mighty new weapon, Nixon said he has no idea what it might be but there should be no alarm in this country. "I would like to point out we have striking power of sufficient quantity and quality that no weap on we can conceive of is sufficient to destroy our retaliatory power, even in a surprise attack, or re duce Khrushchev's fear of what might happen if he starts some thing." Nixon opened his campaign for the Republican presidential nom ination Friday with a warning against any cieiensc cuts and a pledge to continue the Eisenhower policies and build upon them. "The policies of the Eisenhower administration nave Been con structive," he said. "They have worked, and they are firm foun dations on which we can build. If elected, I promise I will try to implement and build upon them." His stand was enunciated Fri day night at Gainesville before an audience at the University of Florida which frequently ap plauded his statements on such issues as civil rights, national de fense, and federal aid to educa tion. Nixon's appearance on a uni versity panel program was billed as nonpolitical, but Saturday's ac tivities in the populous Miami area were strictly political. The chartered plane carrying the vice president and his party on his first trip since he became an official candidate arrived in Miami shortly alter midnight At Gainesville the vice presi- dent used his strongest words in urging that there be no cutbacks in manpower because .of an an nouncement by Soviet Premier Nikfta Khrushchev that the Soviet Union is so strong it will cut 1,200,000 from its forces. He said that "under no circum stances should the United States and its Allies reduce their strength." He said Khrushchev no doubt had reasons for the cutback and that Khrushchev may have been influenced by some internal prob lem such as the need to relieve Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity Snow flurries Sunday. Highs 28-33; low tonight 0-15. High yesterday 26 Low last night .. 17 Northern California Increas ing cloudiness Sunday and rain spreading to Santa Rosa and Red Bluff. Coastal winds variable 5 15 miles an hour, becoming southerly 15-25 miles an h a u r from Cape Mendocino northward. ' light including beams from a searchlight emphasizes the city's unconcern for winter's grip. The time exposure was taken by Don Kettler. V manpower to accomplish the So viet seven-year plan. Or, Nixon added, the cutback may stem from the strategy that ground forces are no longer needed be cause of new-type weapons. The crowd which almost filled the 10,000-capaeity university gym nasium gave him his biggest hand when he said: "Whatever we may think on the question of civil rights, I think the great majority of Americans will agree there is no moral justification to denying any Americans the right to vote." Budget Funds For Oregon Announced WASHINGTON (AP) Rep. Walter Norblad iR-Orel said Satur day he was informed reliably that the President's budget message to Congress Monday will contain these items for Oregon: For Department oi Agriculture research: $1,767,930. For the Forest Service: $36,249, 800. For the Bureau of Reclamation: More than six million dollars. The agricultural research item is an increase of $9,573 over (lie cur rent year lor plant and animal di sease, pest control, meat inspec tion, state experiment stations and other expenses, Norblad said. - The Forest Service item is an increase of four million over the current year, he added. ' He gave this breakdown of rec lamation projects: Crooked River $2,235,000 for construction and ichabilitation. Rogue River-Talent project $2,450,000 for construction and re habilitation. ' Klamath project in Oregon and California $868,000 for construc tion and rehabilitation. Rogue River Basin project $200,000 for rehabilitation and bet terment. Vale-Bully Creek $173,000 to start construction. Norblad said the budget also will contain funds for continuing stud ies of the Columbia River Basin, the Crooked. River project exten sion,' the Umpqua River project, the Monmouth-Dallas project. . j He said provision would ue made for feasibility studies of the Evan! Valley and Illinois Valley divisions of the Rogue Basin project, the Red Prairie and Birch Creek di version unit of the Umatilla proj? ect, and the Walla Walla project of Oregon and Washington. ; In southwestern Oregon the study of the upper Lost River stor age unit of the Klamath project will be continued, he said. ; Welfare Checks Returned By Pair OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) Ev erett Moody, 84, and his wife, Blanche, 78, returned their Janu ary relief checks to the county welfare office after learning they had inherited $123,000. ; The couple had been on relief 17 years. .: They were advised Friday they will receive $80,000 as the residue of Ihc estate of Mrs. Moody's half sister, Mrs. Alma A. Crowley; Oakland author, and $43,000 ad ditional willed to them by Mrs, Crowley's son, Robert.
