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COUP. New York -Colombia Bound Plane Crashes In Jamaica, Taking 37 Lives KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, I960 Plice Five Cents 20 Pages Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 6609 U.OP ORE. LIBRAS? NEWSPAPER SECTION OEN.REF.AMD DOCUMENTS MV. CUaNEOtU nnwonnongt8wfo3flara u i il ft'noi 11 im n iiwoooftwwwwn nwwifl In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS Todavs headline news, at the hour when this is written: Another airliner crashes. . Russia fires a missile into the Pacific, which is probably de signed to say to us: "We could . have fired it at YOU just as easi ly." .... Senator Kennedy says he'll buck the Humphrey tiger in the Wisconsin primary election .... other assorted politics the daily pepper and salt dash of scandal, from Las Vegas, Holly wood and way points. Hmmmmmm. Let's fall back on the common place. And . What could be more common place than taxes? Question: Where will Uncle Sam get the budget dollar with which to pay the bills called for by the next budget? He has four sources to draw on. INDIVIDUAL income taxes will provide 52 cents of it. Corporation taxes will provide 28 cents. Excise taxes (another name for sales tax) will produce H cents. Nine cents will come from "other revenues." Note, please, that 52 cents of every dollar the federal govern ment spends will come out of your pocket and the pockets of 180 mil lionither individuals in this coun try. The thought will occur to you, of course, that a LOT of it will come from the pockets of the fil thy rich those whose incomes are so swollen that Uncle S takes 91 cents out of each net dollar they get. That's true enough, but there are comparatively FEW of these filthy rich. If our old uncle took EVERY DOLLAR these superlatively well heeled ones get, it would amount to only a mere drop in the bucket. The bulk of the money our admit tedly extravagant federal govern ment gels out of individual in come taxes (which account for 52 per cent of the federal govern ment's income) comes put of the pockets of what we commonly re fer to as the COMMON people. President Lincoln, who was one ef our great phrase-makers, is al leged to have dreamed one night that he was in a crowd when someone recognized him as the President and exclaimed in sur prise: "Why, he looks like a very common man!" Whereupon, according to the dream, Mr. Lincoln answered "Friend, the Lord loves common people. That is the reason he makes so many of them." Our old Uncle loves comi people, too. He loves them because there are so MANY OF THEM TO TAX. In conclusion, one more ques tion: .Why are taxes so high? The answer is simple: BE CAUSE GOVERNMENT SPENDS SO MUCH. As long as government spends too much, taxes will be too high. Sam Survives WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. (AP) A little monkey named "Miss Sam" today survived a 48.900 foot rocket flight in rehearsal for hu man space travel. HOSPITAL SURVEY was assured Wednesday with receipt of this $100 check from J. C. Lemire of Acme Concrete. The check put the Hospital Survey Board of Governors over he top for their $8,750 goal, and the survey should begin soon. Board members, from left, ere the Rev. Robert Groves, Loren Palmerton, Bob Mest, Greer Drew, Lemire, and Ed Geary. (See Story on Page 4-A. I Survey Drive For Hospital Completed The drive for an $8,750 hospital survey fund has been completed and a formal letter of acceptance to get the survey stalled is on its way to Stanford Research Insti tute in Menlo Park, California. The Hospital Survey Board of Governors included in its regis tered letter a check for $4,375, half the cost of the survey that is to require four months and is to de termine precise hospital needs of the Klamath Basin now and in the future. THE BOARD ANNOUNCED at a brief meeting in the chamber of commerce office yesterday com pletion of the long-standing fund drive. The final amount was reached with a clinching, $100 check from J. C. Lemire of Acme Concrete Company. Greer Drew, board chairman, ex pressed thanks to all concerned for their efforts in the survey drive. Included especially were or ganizations, clubs, and particular ly youth groups that raised money for the fund. One youth group, Satan's Chauffeurs, sponsored two dances to support the drive. Simultaneous with receipt of the last donations was agreement on a letter of clarification from Stan ford Research Institute regarding use of survey material. At least 40 copies are to be provided by SRI, for use largely as the board of governors decides. BOB MEST, a board member and immediate past president of the chamber, suggested the sur vey board remain intact "to meet anticipated problems." Stanford Research outlined in its letter of proposals these survey ob jectives: 1. Estimate the number of hos pital beds and other facilities need ed here for the next 10 years. 2. Estimate costs of a new hos pital. ' . .- . 3. Describe alternate means of financing a hospital. To determine these needs, SRI proposes to: . ' , , 1. Examine the types of serv ices, and trends of services, of fered here now. 2. Examine records to "estab lish the residence, age, fength of stay, sex, and disease or major requirements of patients." 3. Determine changing patterns in the practice of medicine here. 4. Learn what hospital services outside Klamath Falls are used by Basin residents. 5. Study hospital needs not met here. 6. Forecast the population and economic base of the Klamath Ba sin. 7. Compare hospital services here with those in similar com munities. The proposal said construction costs would include original costs and initial operating deficit of a new hospital, but would not in clude an architectural study or site location study. Thirty copies of the survey will be provided by SRI. Kennedy To Run In Wisconsin MILWAUKEE (AP)-Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass) announced today that he will run against Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey in Wiscon sin's presidential preference pri mary April 5. His decision sets up tne first direct test between the two major candidates for the Democratic nomination. 5r 1 uJ. r t 5, HI ''! t ' it WHAT CAN BE EXPECTED in the first half of i960 in sale offerings of timber from gov ernment agencies was explained to timber operators of this area at a dinner meeting last night at the Winema Hotel. Arrangements for the no-host affair were made by Western Forest Industries Association. Shown at the head table, from left, are Perry Skarra of Portland, assistant area director in charge of resources, Bureau of Indian Af fairs; Clayton Weaver of Lakeview, supervisor, Fremont National Forest; Howard Hopkins of Medford, timber management officer, Rogue River National Forest; Vondis Miller of Roseburg, supervisor, Umpqua National Foreit, and Joe McCracken, Portland, executive vice president, Western Forest Industries. Also seated at the head table were Ross Young blood of Medford, district manager, Bureau of Land Management; Ed Gowen, Klamath County commissioner, and Klamath County Judge Robert R.Walker. Operators Hear Timber Cutting Plans As much as 276 MM (million) board feet of timber on govern ment land which can be consid ered available to operators of the Klamath Basin will be sold during 1960, it was shown in recapitulation of detailed figures presented to local timber operators and other interested persons last night. Operators were warned, how ever, that the market is highly competitive and means of getting the cut timber out must be con sidered in any, successful Jong range planning. The national forests and the Bu reau of Land Management a 1 1 have increased the volume of tim ber, to be sold this calendar year to relieve the tight timber situ ation faced by Kalmath Basin op erators during the final termina tion of the Klamath Indian reser vation, the government officials explained. In 1962 it is hopefully expected that from 60 to 70 MM board feet of timber will be avail able from what is now known as the reservation, in addition to 20 to 25 MM available from retained Rock Bird Man Must Serve Life TOPEKA, Kan. (UPD-Robert F. Stroud, 69, better known as the "Bird Man of Alcatraz," was told Wednesday he must serve the re mainder of his life in prison. Stroud, who has been in prison the past 50 years, went to federal prison in 1909 for killing a bar- lender in Alaska, and he slabbed a guard at Leavenworth Federal Prison in 1919. Federal Judge Walter A. Hux- man said Stroud failed to establish a legal cause for release. Since he has been in prison Stroud has raised and cared for large flocks of birds. He became so well known for his hobby that he was the subject of a biography, "The Bird Man of Alcatraz." He is now being held at the fed eral prison hospital at Spring field, Mo. ,W"lyg. rw trust lands being handled by the U.S. National Bank of Portland. REPRESENTATIVES of the four nalional forests, the Bureau of Land Management and the Bureau of Indian Affairs made reports at a dinner meeting at the Winema Ho tel arranged by Western Forest Industries Association. Joseph Mc Cracken, executive vice president of the association, "and Wayne Gas kins, association forester, came from Portland to represent the association. M.eCntcken was. chair man of the meeting. In a general breakdown of fig ures making up the 276 MM total, the Umpqua National Forest is Weather Klamath Falls and vicinity Mostly cloudy through Friday. Low tonight 25-35; high Friday 34-40, High yesterday 37 Low last night 28 Precip. last 24 houra 0 Since Oct. 1 1.80 Same period last year 2.20 Low in area, Chcmiilt 15 Northern California Intermit tent rain :(onifht. Variable cloudl ness Friday with scattered show ers. Snow In the high mountains through Friday with snow level 500-700 feel. Little change in tem perature. Diminishing southerly coastal winds tonight, becoming 12-25 miles an hour Friday. Cattlemen Set To Name Prexy RED BLUFF, Calif. (UPD - F'red H. Dressier, of Gardner ville, Nev., will be named Presi dent of the American National Cattlemen Association during the Red Bluff bull sale here Feb. 4-6. Dressier, first vice president of the group, was Nevada's first "Cattleman of the Year" and has been active in numerous livestock groups. His home ranch is in the Carson Valley of western Nevada, but his herds also range in three Cali fornia counties. Antelope Desert Unit Bid Only Indian Timber Offer Only one of four sustained yield timber units of the Klamath In dian Reservation received an ac tual bid at the opening in the In dian Sales Office, 139 Soulh Sev enth Street, Wednesday at 2 p.m. This was the first test of Ihe sale of sustained yield units to private bidders prior to pur chase by the government under the terms of a bill passed by the last Congress appropriating 90 mil lion dollars for such purchases. The four units up for bid were Antelope Desert, North Marsh, Modoc Point and Sycan. Crown Zellcrbach Company, Port land, was the only actual bidder, submitting an offer of $1,642,182 for the Antelope Desert Unit. This bid was $6,000 more than the acceptable minimum price listed for the unit. The Antelope Desert unit con- sists of 91.541 acres, most ef it in lodgepole pine pulp. 1 . . it:' ' I expected to offer for sale approxi mately 53 MM board feet during 1960 on lands which may be con sidered tributary to the Klamath Basin. Vondis Miller, forest supervisor, stated that the forest will have a new interim allowable cut on the Diamond Lake ranger district of 50 MM board feet for year, start ing July 1. Of this, an average 25 MM could be hauled east. How ever, because of the emergency, the forest has -located-additional volume to be sold in the area immediately tributary to the Klam ath Basin. Jack Hogan, staff timber offi cer for the Umpqua, displayed a map showing areas where the tim ber will be offered for sale and can be hauled to the east from (he Diamond Lake district. Clayton Weaver, supervisor of the Fremont National Forest, said that the annual sustained yield cut on the East Klamath Working Cir cle of the forest is estimated at 47 MM board feet. He introduced Jack Saubcrt, his timber manage ment officer, who gave details by district. FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR I960, the Fremont National Forest expects to sell in areas trib utary to this basin a total of 51 MM board feet of timber. Of this, 48 MM will be sold before July 1, 1960. This timber is located in the Bly, Paisley and Silver Lake ranger districts. Ashley Poust, supervisor of the Deschutes Nalional Forest, staled that forest has a 34 MM annual allocated cut on the Crescent ran ger district of the forest's entire allowable cut. The forest has con centrated sales in the southern part of the forest to help out dur ing the present critical situation, he explained. Chuck Ovcrbay, staff timber of ficer for the Dcschules, presented chart showing specific areas where sales are expected to be held. The timber sale plan Is fixed to the point that 62 MM or 70 MM board feet will be offered for sale (Continued on Page 4-A) The Specialty Gas Products Com pany, 114 Sansome Street, San Francisco, presented sustained yield management plans which had been approved and requested that the time for the opening of bids be extended to April 20. In making the request, the com pany, through Robert E. Maloney, president, stated that tax prob lems had not yet been solved, and the extension was necessary. They expressed interest in both the North Marsh and the Modoc Point units. Both units are heavily limbered end highly valued. The North Marsh unit carried a minimum price tag of $11,047,376 and the Modoc Point unit $3,784,618. The North Marsh consists of 45, 893 acres of which 22,545 acres is reserve sawtimber and 12,262 acres is virgin sawtimber. The bal- (Continued en Page 4-A) Son, Daughter-ln-Law Among Victims Of Latest Tragedy KINGSTON, Jamaica (API A Colombian airliner bound from New York to Colombia buckled Us landing gear and exploded in selling down al the Monlego Bay airport early today, killing 37 of the 46 persons aboard. Seventeen of the dead were Americans, among them a son and daughter-in-law of Sen. Homer E. Capehart (U-lndl. They were Thomas C. Capehart and his wile KANSAS CITY (AP) A Trans World Airlines Constellation with 29 passengers landed safely toil a v niter circling this area for more than two hours because of a mal functioning nose gear. The plane came down at the Olathe Naval Air Station, south vrst of Kansas City at 9:26 a.m. I'ST. Nancy, both 36, of Indianapolis, on a business trip to Bogota, Co lombia. Two Dutch and two Australian Asian Flu Will Spread WASHINGTON (UPD - The Asian flu epidemic now rampag ing in 13 states and the District of Columbia will spread to other parts of the country during the next few weeks. That is the forecast of U.S. Public Health Service officials who are closely following the epi demic's progress. , They said today the flu virus is so widely "seeded" across the nation that further outbreaks are inevitable. "We look for a large number of flu cases in the next month or said one official. "But the incidence probably won't be as great as it was in the 1957 Asian flu epidemic." At the peak of the 1957 epidem ic, more than seven million Americans - were down with the flu at one time No official estimate has beon made of the total number of cases in the United States at the present time, but the figure is be lieved to be well in excess of one million. One million persons have been estimated afflicted in the Los An geles area alone. The epidemic has been labeled responsible for nine deaths in Los Angeles Coun ty. There are major outbreaks in several other parts of California. Texas also has been hard hit, wilh outbreaks centered around San Antonio, Corpus Christi, Houston, Auslin and Brownsville. More than 35 per cent of the school population is on the absen tee list in Brownsville. Visit To Hawaii Mulled By Chief WASHINGTON (API-President Eisenhower was quoted as saying today that he would like to visit the newest U.S. state, Hawaii, on his way home from the Soviet Un ion and Japan next June. Sen. Hiram Fong (fl-Hawaii) had breakfast wilh Eisenhower at the White House and invited him to come to the 50th state. Eisenhower will tour the Soviet Union for 10 days starting June 10. The White House announced Vednesday that the President had accepted an invitation to stop in Japan en route back to Washing ton. He expects to arrive in Japan about June 20. SUSTAINED YIELD UNITS of the Klamath Indian Reservation were up for bids Wednesday afternoon at the Indian Sales office in Klamath Falls. Here, Earle Wilcox, far right, pre. pares to open the only actual bid received, while others prepare to tabulate all bids, Lett to right, others are Rollo Moore, Klamath Agency; Conrad Shetland, in charge of Klamath Agency and Indian Sales office, and Sam Benge, Portland Bureau of Indian Affairs office, passengers and five members of the seven member Colombian crew lived through the crash and (he resultant fire that ravaged the Iwo-million dollar Super Constella tion for two hours. The plane, operated by the Avi am a Colombian Nalional Airline, had made an unscheduled stop at .Miami for repairs to a faltering engine. It was 10 hours overdue HARLAN BOSWORTH Copco Veep To Address JC Banquet Harlan Page Bosworlh Jr. has come a long way since he won the Distinguished Service Award given by the Klamath Falls Jun ior Chamber of Commerce in 193 He has been invited to deliver the main address during Ihe an nual Jaycees awards banquet Frl day, beginning at 6:45 p.m., in the Willard Hotel. Bosworlh, vice president of the California Oregon Power Company and assistant to the general mana ger, is considered a top authority in power production from atomic energy. In accepling the Jaycees invita tion, Bosworlh did not specify his topic. He was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1901, and attended schools there. He also was gradualed with a degree in civil hydraulic engineering from Cornell Universi ty. He is a member of two national scholastic societies. During military service through the war years, Bosworlh distin guished himself as commanding of licer of various Army engineering groups. He was appointed chief en gineer, respectively, of the SHAEF military mission to the Netherlands, Ihe British Army of the Rhine and the U.S. Forces, European Theater, all entailing huge respon sibility. He emerged from military service a lieutenant colonel in 1946. Decorations include three battle stars, the U.S. Legion of Merit, the Order of the British Empire, the Netherlands Order of Orange Nassau, and Ihe Belgian Order of Prince Leopold. Bosworth began work with Cop co in 1923 as a surveyor. He has since participated in engineering most of the company's big projects. He was named manager of Ihe Klamath District in 1942, a post he held, excluding the war years, until January 1947. He was then transferred to Medford from Klamath Falls and was named as sistant to the general manager. If 155 I , . r?. . ... J Of Senator when it reached Montego Bay, a popular Caribbean resort on Ja maica's north coast 550 miles smith of Miami, about 2:35 a.m. The weather was good as it headed in for a landing. But wit nesses said the left landing gear collapsed as the plane hit the run way, and Ihere was a terrific ex plosion, followed by two other blasts. The blazing plane skidded o a point about 200 yards from the old airport building. Ihe plane captain, J. Duque, was among the survivors. None of those who got nut appeared to be seriously injured. riiis was the fourth fatal crash of a commercial airliner in 1960 nd raised the airliner death toll lor Ihe first three weeks of the row year to 163. At least 16 others have died in the United States in private plane crashes since Jan. 1. Some of the passengers aboard the Colombian plane Avianca'e Flight 671 were booked for vaca tions or business pursuits in Ja maica, popular with winter fun- seekers. Others were heading on to South America.. All 42 persons aboard died when a Scandinavian jet liner crashed on a hill near Ankara, Turkey, on Tuesday. Last Monday, a Capital Air lines plane crashed in Virginia, killing 50 persons. On Jan. 6, a Nalional Airlines plane exploded in the air near Bolivia, N.C., killing 34 persons. Major military air crashes have claimed 29 lives 27 American and two Canadian this year. The latest was the crash Tuesday of a U.S. Navy plane on snow capped Karanfil Dag Pink Mountain 15 miles northwest ol Adana, Turkey. All 16 aboard per ished. ' i Phone Calls Said Bogus The phon calls some local resU dents havejbeen receiving from a person who claims the calls are in behalf of the Klamath County Civil Defense office are phony. says Joe Searles, county CD direc loi. When he received several inquir ies from local people who received such calls, Searles called state CD headquarters in Salem and found that neither the slate' nor the county was responsible. The anonymous caller asks all sorts of personal questions, Searles says. He advises residents to refuse such information and to call his ffice, TU 2-3524, if they receive suspicious phone calls. If such a program is undertaken officially by the CD office, the public will be notified well in ad- ance, Searles added. Flee Reasons Told By Editor MIAMI, Fla. (AP) Jorge Zayas says he was "a sitting duck m Cuba" because of his blunt criti cism in Avance, the newspaper he published, of Prime Minister Fidel Castro's regime. , Zayas enlisted Ecuadorean dip lomatic help in fleeing - here Wednesday from Havana. ; Caribbean head of the Inter- American Press Assn.'s Press Freedom Committee, Zayas left Avance rather than print footnotes which his pro-Castro employes in- istcd on attaching to articles crit ical of government policies. ,
