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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. ,