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COUP, Gunfire Hits Heart Of Algiers; Diehards Threaten Mew Uprising Price Five Cents 12 Pages KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 25, I960 Telephone TU4-81U No. 6612 U.OF OaS.LIBRARf NEWSPAPER SECTION CEN.REF.AND DOCUMENTS DIV. la The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS Political note from Washington The only woman U.S. senator believes Republican vice presiden tial hopefuls should file in the Oregon, Ohio and New Hampshire primaries. Senator Margaret Chase Smith (R-.Maine), who herself is consid- tiered A POSSIBLE CHOICE FOR THE NO. 2 SPOT ON THE GOP TICKET, did not indicate whether the would do so. But she said potential candidates should test their strength with the voters. Hrnmmmmm. In our history, the possibility that the vice president may be come President has always been strong. Washington was our first President. John Adams was his vice president. John Adams became our second President. His vice president was Thomas Jefferson. In the Presi dential election of 1800, Aaron Burr tied Jefferson. When t h e house of representatives, acting under the constitution, chose Jef ferson, Burr became the third vice president of the United States. But for the duel (in July, 1804) Jn which he killed Alexander Ham ilton, plus charges of treason aris ing out of a conspiracy to seize Mexico for the U.S. or to have the Western states secede from the Union, Burr would probably have succeeded to the Presidency, as had his predecessors. He was cleared of the charge of treason, but the scandals arising out of his duel and his alleged conspiracy ruled him out as Presi dential timber. Thus the prece dent of succession from the vice presidency to the Presidency was broken. The possibility that the vice pres ident of the United States will become the President of the Unit ed States is strong. . There is death to be considered. Three Presidents of the United States have been assassinated President Lincoln in 1865, Presi dent Garfield in 1881 and Presi dent McKinley in 1901. The strains of the Presidency are great. Subjected to these strains, men DIE. When a President dies in of fice, the vice president succeeds him. And- In recent years The idea seems to be growing that the vice presidency is a sort of APPRENTICESHIP for the Presidency. In any event, we seem to be abandoning the idea, current in the mid-years of our career as a nation, that JUST ANYBODY who is non-entity enough not to have made too many enemies and politician enough to be a- good vote-getter is an ideal candidate (or vice president and RETURN ING to the idea, current in the years of our infancy as a nation, that the vice presidency is a nat ural stepping stone to the Presi dency. .That brings us back to the sug gestion of Margaret Chase Smith as a possible choice for the No. 2 cpot on the GOP ticket. A woman President? It sounds radical, because it has rever been done. ANYTHING men tioned for the first time is apt to found radical to a lot of us. are apt to be good BUDG ET BALANCERS. They tend to abhor the idea of running reckless ly into debt without any provision (or paying off the debt. So- Maybe it's time for a woman President. Police Provide Worker Path PORTLAND (AP) - Massed pickets marched at the Oregonian building, today as they did Satur day morning, but it turned out to be a quiet demonstration. Some 350 pickets and union sympathizers, many of them women and some children, were In the closely joined double line that moved on three sides of the building. Police, standing shoulder to shoulder for a half block from the main entrance, provided a corri dor behind which employes of the struck Oregonian and Oregon Journal walked. There were cat- calls and jeers, but no violence. " . In a similar display Saturday, fistfights broke out, 12 persons were injured and five were ar rested. '.The newspapers have been pub-H-'hing a joint edition in the Ore- tnn plant since the Stereotypers nion struck Nov. 10. I HARRY BOIVIN Boivin Files For Senator And Delegate Harry Boivin filed today in Sa lem for reelection as stale senator from Klamath County. Boivin filed his candidacy in the secretary of state's office. He is a strong candidate for the presiden cy of the Senate which is tanta mount to the position of lieutenant governor since this officer is first in line to succeed the governor and acts for him in his absence Boivin first served in the Senate in 1954, but was first chosen as a representative from Klamath County in 1934 at the age of 28, served five sessions there and was chosen speaker of the House in 1937. Currently, Boivin is serving as chairman of the Interim Commit tee on Timber Taxation and chair man of the Interim Committee on Labor-Management. He has served two sessions on the Senate Tax Committee. In filing his candidacy, Boivin pointed out that "tax problems are going to be the primary prob lem facing the next session," and he added that he felt an obligation to work toward confining state ex penditures. He also noted that Oregon Tech is of vital importance to Klamath County and said, "I feel that my activities in the Legislature in sup port of this school can be of great value in the coming session." Boivin is a former member of the State Board of Education and has played a leading part in get ting OTI relocated in the Klam ath Falls area as well as having it placed under the State Board of Higher Education. In addition to filing for reelec tion to the post he now holds, Boi vin also filed as a delegate candi date to the Democratic National Convention. African Mob Kills Police DURBAN, South Africa (AP) - Nine policemen were herded into a native hunt and beaten to death by an enraged African mob Sun day night. Police reinforcements, rushed to the clash scene in suburban Cato Manor, managed to restore an un easy peace. Armed patrols roamed the area. First word of trouble came when a radio operator at Cato Manor police station received a message saying: "Oh God, 'they are stoning us. Come and help us." A strong police detachment was rushed to the area as thousands of residents in the town barricaded themselves in their homes. At the scene they found nine police bat tered to death and one severely injured. An unofficial account said po lice had gone into the suburb to investigate the murder of an African. Rocket Ship Flights Noted EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) Two models of the sleek X15 rocket ship have now made powered flights, zooming to speeds in excess of 1,400 miles per hour. Saturday's test run was the first since one of the Xl5s had an explo sion and fire in the engine com partment during a trial flight Nov. 5. Test pilot Scott Crossfield of North American Aviation was at the controls. The X15 was taken aloft under the wing of an eight jet B52 bomber. It was dropped at 45,000 feet and flew under its own power for nine minutes after reaching an altitude of more than 60,000 feet. Lady Senator Hails Oreqon As Veep Test WASHINGTON (AP) The only woman U. S. senator believes Republican vice presidential hope fuls should file in the Oregon, Ohio and New Hampshire prima ries. Sen. Margaret Chase Smith (R- .Maine), who herself is considered a possible choice for the No. 2 spot on the GOP ticket, did not indicate whether she would do so. But she said potential candidates should test their strength with the voters. Mrs. Smith said Vice President Nixon is virtually assured of the presidential nomination and the only major choice for the GOP convention will be his running mate. She said that if vice presiden tial hopefuls would file in prima ries it would give Nixon a chance "to determine who would be a popular running mate with him and would add strength to the Republican ticket." it would give the public a degree of some voice in the selec lion of the vice presidential nomi nee ultimately to be made by Vice President Nixon," she said.' "Nor would it tie the hands of Vice President Nixon on his com plete freedom to choose his run ning mate. In fact it would facili tate any possibility of his indica ting at the national convention the persons acceptable to him and then letting the delegates in a semi-open convention select his running mate." Solons Mull Housing Bill WASHINGTON (UPI)-A House subcommittee opened week long hearings today on a bill aimed at averting a nose-dive in home building this spring by giving the industry a "billion-dollar shot-in- the arm-." - . -. Chairman Albert Rains (D-Ala.) of the banking subcommittee pre dicted a substantial decline in home building in the next few months unless Congress provides additional mortgage credit. His measure would set up a special billion-dollar fund for the purchase of FHA and GI loans on lower-priced homes. It was certain to get stiff op position from administration wit nesses. Summoned to give the ad ministration case were top offi cials of the Housing and Home Finance Agency, Federal Housing Administration, Federal National Mortgage Association and Veter ans Administration. Rains said builders in some areas were finding it impossible to go ahead with construction plans "because of the scandalous ly high discounts being charged by lenders in connection with FHA and GI loans." A SMORGASBORD was served to more than 400 members and guests of the Klamath Production Credit Association in the Klamath Auditorium Saturday, January 23, before open ing of the 26th annual meeting. Entertainment was by an ac cordion trio from the Robertson Accordion Studio and r -.iff, kv "HOLD ON THAR, PARDNER." Ross Ragland exhorts a prospective YMCA member, Friti Hayes, who is aboard "Old Paint," the Y's famous membership roundup cayuse. Ragland is roundup boss this year. The roundup begins Tuesday, Weather Klamath Falls and vicinity Mostly cloudy with occasional showers through Tuesday; patchy morning valley fog. Low tonight 30-35; high Tuesday 40-45. High Sunday 4! Low last night 32 Precip. past 24 hours trace Since Oct. 1 1.80 Same period last year 2.46 Low in area, Chiloquin 28 Northern California Scattered showers today diminishing tonight; partly cloudy Tuesday except showers in extreme north; snow level 4,000 feet in extreme north and 6,000 feet in south; little change in temperature. Drilling Holds COALBROOK South Africa (AP) A high speed drill today bored steadily toward 440 men trapped deep in a coal mine since Thursday. Fresh rockslides clogged the main shaft with tons of earth, halting underground rescue ef forts. Mine officials ordered an emergency shaft sunk to try to get food and air to the men if they are still alive. Managers of the Clydesdale colliery, where the massive rock- fall occurred, rushed the drill here from an iron mine in the northern Transvaal. The drill which bores a hole 15 inches in diameter, penetrated 80 feet within a couple of hours, then struck a rock formation. En- ineers estimated it would take 40 hours to reach the area where the men are trapped. Tuesday Breakfast Opens YMCA Membership Drive A chuck wagon breakfast will kick off the seventh annual YMCA membership roundup in Y head quarters Tuesday at 6:30 a.m. Old Paint will be there, as he always is, and so will Roundup Boss Ross Ragland and 10 "ranch owners" each wilh 10 hands who will range around Klamath Falls until February 2 in search of new members. They hope to renew at least 500 memberships and get 500 new ones. If they do, they will cele brate their victory with another breakfast the morning of Febru ary 2. The ranch hands will come armed with this information: The YMCA is an organization of people, not a building or a club. Membership can be held only by individual-, not corporations, clubs or other organizations. Even fam ily membership is based on enroll ment of each niember. To be a member, a prospect must sign an authorized applica tion in which he indicates belief in or sympathy for the associa tion's purpose. Members of a 1 1 faiths are invited if they endorse the purpose. They must contribute something in dues. It might be as little as a nickle. The amount de pends on the conscience. Those who are renewing mem bership must indicate how much they will contribute in dues. Once a person is a mcm-bcr, he has preferential access to all Y programs. For instance, Y members are given first reserva tions for a week at the YMCA Diamond Lake camp for boys each summer. .Members also receive special rates for all privileges on sale. Certain programs cost nothing for members. They also are given the double vocal quartet of Malin High School boys, directed by Don Miller. Shirley Bunnell, upper left corner, played in eidental music during registration and the luncheon hour. KPCA directors and speaker Fred P. Hahn, Spokane, are at table at upper right. opportunity to participate in the world services program and to serve as volunteers. In addition, members are welcome at all other YMCA branches. The membership roundup is an important facet of Y financing. The organization is supported in part by. United Fund. But over halt of its budget must come from other sources. Much comes from sale of special privileges such as use of sports equipment and in structors. The remainder is made up of membership receipts and business rentals. The Y is proud of its ability to support itself in large part, and to do so without fund drives in addition to United Fund support. Membership, says Secretary Paul Campbell, is the means of insuring development of an effec tive YMCA program for boys anil girls, youth and adults "Ranch owners" are Paul Barnes, Fred Hayes, Bill , Ward, James Creswcll, the Rev. Dallas McNeil, Mildred Fundenberger, Earl Kent and Sam Raymond. East German Bishop Quits BERLIN (AP) Bishop Otto Dibelius, under heavy fire from the Communists, announced today he will retire in 1961. The head of the Lutheran Church in Germany will be years old in May. East German Communists have been attacking him heavily for his stand that a good Christian need not obey all the laws proclaimed in East Germany. Army Firmly But Censorship Imposed ALGIERS (AP) - Armed die hard French rightists held out to day behind makeshift barricades in the heart of Algiers. Dawn found the capital quiet but tense in the wake of Sunday night's lighting and panic that left 19 persons dead and 153 wounded. The army seemed firmly in con trol, except for two pockets where about 1,000 insurgents were holed up. The uprising against President Charles de Gaulle's self-determination policy pilted Frenchman against Frenchman in Algeria, al ready bleeding from a five-year revolt of nationalists. A stiff military censorship was imposed on outgoing news dis patches, but there was 119 objec tion to calling Sunday's rising a fight to keep Algeria French. Trucks of paratroopers lined Avenue Pasteur along the western flank of the barricaded areas. The holdouts showed signs of their all night watch as they silently stared at passersby who hurried along in the bleak dawn. Despite a military order ban ning assembly of more than three persons, groups gathered around the barricaded area and stared grimly at the insurgents who had hoisted tattered French tricolors. Here and there merchants who shuttered their windows when the rioting broke out Sunday night be gan to open their stores. . The three Algiers morning daily newspapers, all censored, sold quickly. They printed dispatches reporting minor demonstrations of sympathy in Oran and Constan tino. Inside the barricaded area re bellious groups sang a rousing Marseillaise. 1 tie Government Building on Forum Hill, scene of Sunday night's clash, looked like an armed camp. Stcel-hclmeted police and riot squads spread out army ra tions in the lobbies and corridors. The Echo d'Alger said in a front page editorial that "French blood has been spilled climaxing the dis illusionment of which we are drinking the bitter chalice for so many years. Alain de Sengny publisher of the newspaper, took part in Sunday's demonstration The army said that among the victims were 8 policemen killed and 80 wounded. Leaders of the rebellious Frenchmen, who had counted on army sympathy and support, ad milled they were fighting a losing battle. The supreme commander of the French forces in Algeria stood stoutly behind De Gaulle and warned "the mutiny will not win." A band of several hundred in surgents held out on the grounds of Algiers University in the center of the capital and in the adjacent Rue Michelet for a last-ditch stand after police and troops broke up mobs of demonstrators that swelled to 20,000. The diehards defied an appeal from De Gaulle to lay down their arms. uen. Maurice Challe, supreme French military commander in Al geria, clamped martial law in the lank Officer Informs KPCA Managerial Ability Needed By RUTH KING Changes taking place in the structure of farming and the ad justments necessary to meet those changes are pointing up the need for increased managerial ability, said Fred P. Hahn, secretary treasurer of the Federal Interme diate Credit Bank of Spokane. Hahn was present for the 26th annual membership meeting of the Klamath Production Credit Asso ciation. He spoke Saturday, January 23, before an audience of more than 400 ranchers and their wives of Klamath, Lake, Siskiyou, and Northern Modoc County and guests o the association in the Klamath Falls auditorium. The meeting fol lowed a noon luncheon. In reviewing the changing agri cultural picture throughout the United States, Hahn cited fewer and larger farm units, greater crop specialization, increased mechanization, improved market ing practices and a growing trend toward integration as some of the factors to which farmers and live stock men must adjust their oper ations If they are to control farm ing and build sound, efficient pro grams. He discussed also some of the problems and responsibilities of the credit banks and production credit associations in providing ag riculture with sound, economic credit and reviewed trends in the money .market qf the last few years. , "The increased demand for mon ey in the last year," Hahn said "boosted interest rales l their In Control, capital and imposed censorship on all outgoing news dispatches. There were nn reports of trouble outside the city of Algiers. The Paris government banned public meetings throughout France and "all manifestations in public places" to prevent demonstrations bv, supporters of the Algerian rightwingcrs on the mainland.) The French rightists set up a three-man junta led by Pierre La Gaillarde, a Parliament deputy. Wearing the uniform of a reserve paratroop lieutenant, the bearded six-foot LaGaillarde barricaded himself in the university with sev eral hundred youthful followers. Navy Releases Giant Balloon, More Readied ABOARD USS VALLEY FORGE (AP) The Navy today launched the largest balloon ever sent aloft from a ship. This carrier released a sheer, thin skinned plastic bag buoyant with helium, at 5:32 a.m., EST. The balloon, inflated to two mil lion cubic feet, stood more than 200 feet tall and had an inflated diameter of 173 feet. It was an awesome sight as the balloon rose grandly, silently, smoothly, straight upward into placid blue sky. Ship's personnel jammed cat walks and other safe deck spaces to watch the launching over a warm Atlantic 2,000 miles east of Puerto Rico. Impressive as it was, the launching was only a preliminary test run for the main show, pos sibly Tuesday. Then two balloons five times as big 10 million cubic footers will be sent up to 22 miles. They will carry 2,500 pounds each, the heaviest scientific pay- load ever carried so high. : In the payoff launchings Tues day, scientists hope one or mora of the identical unmanned bal loons will carry loads of photo graphic film to about 120,000 feet to record primary cosmic ray im pacts over the Atlantic. A tracer balloon 120 feet high was sent up Sunday to get infor mation on winds at 120,000 feet above the test area. Physicists and technicians hope the balloon or balloons launched Tuesday will stay at altitudes of 22 miles for 48 hours or mora with their suitcase-size packs of film. Their goal is to get the first de tailed tracking record of extreme- ly powerful primary cosmic rays. These cannot be photographed from the earth because they dif fuse upon striking the atmos phere. The waterproof gondalas will be picked up by destroyers and sent to the University of Chicago lab oratories. highest peak in a quarter of a century. Reasonably good business conditions and a fairly high level of economy would not seem to suggest any appreciable lower in terest rates in the near future." Reviewing progress made by the intermediate credit bank and pro duction credit systems, Hahn said that nationally, on June 30, 1959. there was only about $3,865,000 of government capital remaining in 41 out of 459 PCAs, and in this district all PCAs are entirely mem ber owned. Of a capital of $106, 800,000 in the 12 credit banks, PCAs now own $20,500,000. In this district the three PCAs own $1,702, 310 of the bank's $7,296,475 capital. The Klamath Production Credit Association loaned a total of $5,741,000 in 1959 plus $1,663,831 additional advances, leaving a sur plus of a million and a half in potential loans in the treasury. The local association had as of December 31, 1959, 572 members. Lee Holliday, Kcno, and Wilbur Harnsberger, Henley, were reelect ed to serve on the board of direc tors for three-year terms. M. A. Long was reelected to serve anoth er term as president of the board at a meeting immediately follow ing the membership meeting. Long presided at the larger session, Randall Pope, Merrill, replace Lee Holliday as vice president. Other directors are A. R. Camp bell, Klamath Falls, Bill Williams and John Winthers, Summer Lake. Don Krider, secretary-treasurer of KPCA, John Winthers, Pope, and Stanley Masten gave progress reports.
