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V w mm t 9 HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls. Ore. Sunrlav, January SI. IPSO PAGE 9 A (P H AMBER Comments by GEORGE T. CALLISON Amstont Mgr. KLAMATH COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE U.N. Observations Work began this week on the long-awaited survey of hospital fa cilities and needs of the Klamath Basin by Stanford Research Insti- ('Mute. Dr. Keith Duke, SRI econo- arrived in Klamath Falls Editor'! Note: This is another in the scries of articles on the United Nations submitted by the U.S. stu dy class of the Women's Society of First Methodist Church with Mrs. T..l, .n Hr -rranninff fnr rreu llldlllll.il. the needed local help, began the mist. J-M Sales, Earnings Set Record , Johns-Manville sales and earn ings set new high records in 1939 A. R. Fisher, chairman, announced today in issuing the audited fig ures for the year. Net earnings in 1939 were $31, 616.000 or $3.74 per share of com mon stock on an average of 8,451.- 462 shares outstanding. In 1958 earnings were $23,374,000 or $2.83 per share on an average of 8,255, 117 shares. Sales were $377,562,000 in 1959, Compares with $331,743,000 in 1958. "These records," Mr. Fisher dates, "were achieved despite the adverse effects of long strikes at two of our plants and the general flowing down of the national econ omy caused by the .prolonged itrike in the steel industry. "Our fiber glass business grew rapidly during 1959 and contribut ed substantially to earnings and sales. "We continued our program of diversification and expansion with the acquisition of a Perlite business." Before taxes of all kinds Johns Manville earnings in 1959 were $62,754,000, which was $14,684,000 more than in 1958. Dividends paid in 1059 totaled $16,685,000 or $2 per share, com pared with $14,345,000 or $2 per chare in 1958. All taxes in 1959 amounted to $31,138,000, of which $21,830,000 were levied on United States and Canadian income. In 1958 taxes were $24,696,000, including $16,850, 000 levied on income. - " ' The payroll, including employe benefits, in 1959 was $150,417,000, compared with $135,704,000 in 1958, Wage increases in United States and Canadian plants and mines during 1959 averaged 6.8 cents per hour, or 3.8 per cent. Depreciation and depiction in 1959 were $16,783,000, an increase of $1,002,000 as compared to 1958. Expenditures for additions . to and improvements ' and replace ments of Johns-Manville properties amounted to $17,083,000 in 1959, compared with $12,514,000 in 1958. It is anticipated that capital ex penditures in 1960 will amount to approximately 35 million dollars, The printed annual report to stockholders will be available about February 11. preliminary task of gathering sta tistics. Mark S. Blumberg, M.D., who made the original survey pro posal, is expected in town this weekend to begin his phase of the research. While no exact date for conclu sion of the survey can be given, the work is expected to take ap proximately four months. Dr. Duke says that although every survey has its own individual character istics, the general pattern calls for about two months of gathering data, and the final month for pre paring and printing the report. So we won't have the answers right away, but we should have the completed survey by about June 1. March will be an impor tant date for members of cham bers throughout most of Oregon and Washington. On that date, the National Chamber's 1960 Aircade for Congressional Action will be in Salem for one of its nationwide series of discussion-type meetings on the major legislative issues af fecting business and how business men can work more effectively in the political party of their choice While most of the one day ses sion is given over to panel discus sions and qticstion-and-answer pe riods moderated by Arch M Booth, executive vice president of the National Chamber, the keynote (and only) speech of the day will be delivered by Erwin D. Can ham, president of the U.S. Cham ber and internationally known edi tor of the Christian Science Moni tor. The Klamath County Chamber hopes to get at least two car loads of local businessmen to make the trip to Salem for what prom ises to be an exciting and re warding experience. Area .Ranchhand Chessmans Out; Fires Attorneys A ranchhand charged with two first degree murders strongly urged in circuit court Friday that his two court-appointed attorneys be replaced. Michael Joseph, a small man with a bristling mustache, an rounced in atorrent of words dis agreement with his attorneys on trial defense procedure. The appointed attorneys, Rich ard C. Becsley and P. K. Puckctt, confirmed in more courtly fashion they and Joseph had been unable to reach procedural agreement. Joseph's trial was to have begun Monday morning. Faced with this development in a tense hearing, Judge David R Vandenbcrg acceded to Joseph's and the attorneys' request that they be relieved of court appoint ment. The judge now must appoint two other attorneys to represent the 52-ycar-old defendant. The judge also moved the trial date back to March 14, at 10 a.m Joseph is accused of shooting Okey Eugene Richards, 34, and Harry Deman. 56, on the Lang ranch near Chiloquin September 20. Still nearer is February 3 next Wednesday the date of the first of a planned series of "President Reports'' luncheons scheduled by the chamber this year. President W. H.--"Bill" Graham instituted the report luncheon idea . in re sponse to a request from several of the members for further oppor tunities to meet, find out what's going on, air any complaints any one might have, discuss any mu tual problems and, in general, en joy an informal get-together. The meetings are purposely scheduled for the .Wednesday noon, following the monthly chamber board meet ing so that the very latest infor mation will be available for every one who attends. The first meet ing on Wednesday noon, Is sched uled for the Empire Room at the Winema Hotel. Any chamber member who is interested, is wel come to attend. While the chamber's Tourist & Convention Committee is stepping up the frequency of its meeting; in preparation for -the not-too-far- off summer season, the chamber TV film, "Wish You Were Here, produced two years ago, still making the rounds, still telling the story of Klamath's . wondrous vacationland. One print of the film came back from Tacoma, Wash ington, just as this was being writ ten. Other prints are presently in such widely separated points as Raleigh, North Carolina, Steuben ville, Ohio, El Paso, Texas, and Los Angeles, California. As stated oftentimes before, the Klamath story does have a ten dency to get around. ALCOHOLISM JOHANNESBURG (UPI) - At least one person out of every 30 men, women and children in the South African European population is an alcoholic, according to an estimate by officials at "North- lea," a treatment center for alco holics located just outside Johan nesburg. A figure used by U.S. researchers is that roughly one of every 36 Americans is an alco holic. In our previous articles we have tried to show that, in spite of ob stacles and weaknesses, the Unit ed Nations has justified its exis tence by making real progress in carrying out the purposes f o r hich it was formed. One of the U.N.'s latest endeav ors is to ameliorate the pitiful and dangerous condition of the multi tude of people who may be called efugees, that is persons who have iled racial, religious, or political persecution, many of them ex pelled from their countries by war have lost their citizenship, and are unable to return to their homes because of enemy occupation. The U.S. aroused by the magni tude of this problem, on July 1, 1959, adopted a program known as World Refugee Year. Secretary Dag Hammarskjold has cited esti mates that, since World War II, 40 million men, women, and children have become refugees, and that in 1959 fifteen million are still with out permanent homes. Of this num ber two million qualify for U.N. aid. The World Refugee Year, however, Is planned to help ah efugees, whatever their status, World Refugee Year was in- sDired by four Britons who launched the idea in a British poll ical magazine. The idea caught on in Britain and that government agreed to sponsor the plan in the United Nations. The resolution call ing for a "further world - wide effort to help resolve the world refugee problem" was enthusias tically approved and was passed by a vote of 59 to nine. Fifty two nations, 70 nongovern mental agencies, and individuals around the world are joining in an intensive drive to help these home less refugees. Each of the par ticipating countries is planning its own program, and some have al ready given definite pledges of money!" homes, relief supplies transportation, and other forms of Basin Briefs Ella Edwards, Quartz Valley won the Betty Crocker award in home economics at Etna High School. Only one of these awards are given to a school each year, Mr. and Mrs. W. Montgomery Greenview, returned January 20 from San Jose where they visited Mr. and Mrs. Ian B. Hunter and family, and from San Leandro where they visited Mr. and Mrs Sinclair Davis. Mrs. Gail Thompson returned to her home in Oro Fino January 24 from Visalia where she had been visiting -her daughter and son-in-law. Mr. and Mrs. Merle Burr, Green- view, enjoyed a visit irom meir son,. Paul, over the weekend. aid. Refugees are also encouraged to solve their own problems through voluntary icsettlcment or integration into the countries where they now live. The plight of these displaced people is very tragic. We think of Arabs displaced from Pales tine, of Central Europeans, of Chi ncse, Tibetans, and especially of Hungarians who escaped across the border. Of the 200.000 Ilungari ans who escaped, only about 5.000 who wish to emigrate remain in Austrian camps; about 20.000 es caped into Yugoslavia and all are now settled, including the ill and the amputees. In Korea and Viet nam, thousands sought asylum when the countries were divided into Communist and non-Commu nist zones. In the four years of the Algerian war, it is estimated that around 180,000 Algerians, nearly all women and children fled into Tunisia and Morocco. Hundreds ot tast ucrmans are still fleeing .into West Germany- daily. One difficult and often heart breaking problem is that of the aged and physically handicapped refugees who have no one to take them in. Some hospitals and old age homes have been built f o r these people with the help of U.N, funds and other contributions. Stu dents from many countries, under church-sponsored programs, have been spending- their summers as volunteer laborers to build refu gee housing. In 1958 the Nobel Peace Prize was won by Father Pire of Belgium for his work in helping to rehabilitate this group of people by promoting the build ing of five European villages where they could lead a more normal life than in displaced per sons camps. Objectives of the WRY program has included finding countries that would admit refugees and grant them citizenship; placing them in jobs or training them to become self-supporting; promoting adop tion of refugee orphans; and pro viding better food and medical care for those who remained home less. When the drive was inaugur ated Secretary Hammerskjold said: "The World Refugee Year cannot solve all refugee problems, but during the next 12 months this special effort can help a large number of refugees to reach much longed-for goal to cease be ing a refugee and can relieve the distress of others." The existence of this horde of homeless people, living of neces sity a restricted, subnormal life cannot but be a menace to the safety of the world and a threat to peace. Therefore this effort of the U.N. is one more move to elim inate the cause of war and "cre ate a climate for peace." SAN FRANCISCO AP - Caryl Chessman's last-ditch ct'orts to escape San Ouentin's gas cham ber Feb. 1J his eighth date with death go now belore the U.S. 9lh Court of Appeals. The 38-ycar-old convict-author, Caryl's Bid For Freedom Rejected By District Judge Aide Named By Hatfield PORTLAND (AP) - Tie ap pointment of Ira C. Keller to head committee to assist the state Department of Planning and De- elopmenl draw new industries to Oregon was announced Thursday The appointment of K e 1 l'e r, president of Western Kraft Corp. ol Portland and Albany, was by Gov. Mark Hatfield. It was an nounced by Gerald Frank of Sal em at a meeting here of the governor's Advisory Committee on Planning and Development, which Frank heads. Others named are E. C. Sam- mons, U. S. National Bank presi dent: Paul B. McKee, Pacific- Power k Light Co. president; Robert B. Pamplin, Georgia-Pa cilic Corp.; and Glenn L. Jackson, California-Oregon Power Co. vice president. Frank also reported 19 promi nent Oregon businessmen will accompany Hatfield East March 21-25 for luncheons at New York. Boston and Chicago to sell mid western and eastern industrial ists on locating industry in Ore- on. convicted In 1948 in Los Angeles of lovers' lane terrorism, gave no tice of appeal Friday immediately .liter U.S. Pi.-t. Judge Louis E. Goodman rejected Chessman's petition for release from slate custody. Judge Goodman said he could find no merit in any of Chess man's appeals for a writ of habeas corpus, but he suggested broadly that the condemned man might seek Ulh hour relief from I he Calilornia Supreme Court and Gov. Edmund G. Brown. Goodman described as "impres sive Chessman s argument that his U'j years on San Quentin's death row constituted "cruel and unusual punishment." The judge also noted that Chessman empha- i.cd he is facing execution under a law that no longer is on Cali- lornia's statu'e books. The State Supreme Court's ma jority approval would be neces sary for Brown to exercise clem ency because Chessman had two prior criminal convictions. Before his 19-18 kidnap, robbery and sex perversion conviction he had been found guilty of robbery. Judge Goodman had not been asked to grant a stsy of execu tion, but he said nevertheless he was not ordering a delay. Regarding the clemency aspect. Chessman himself insisting he is innocent has not asked (or com mutation of- his sentence. He seeks either a new trial or release. Brown said last October he would not commute the sentence. He commented that "the evidence of his guilt is overwhelming" and said Chessman had not shown re morse, i One of Chessman's attorney), George T. Davis, told Judga Goodman it was strange "that a man can he sent to death for crime no longer punishable by death." But Deputy Atty. Gen. Arlo E. Smith challenged the statement. Smith described it as "one of ihe long-standing misstatements of law foisted on the public by Chessman's counsel." lie added that if Chessman were retried now he would he subject to the sama penalty as in 1948. Chas. J. Cizek TAILOR Suit! & Slacks Mad to Order Parfccr Fit Guaranteed 119 SOUTH 7th Egg Producers Plan Group Plans for organizing a new state wide Association of Independent Egg Producers-Distributors will be made at a meeting Tuesday at Roseburg, followed by a second meeting at Corvallis on February Ivan C. Hoyer, former public re lations and news director for Ore- on's centennial wagon train, will outline the structure and the bene fits of the association to eggmen attending each of the meetings. Charles Fisher, slate agricultur al extension agent from Corvallis, will moderate both meetings. Andrew Carnegie, steel magnate and philanthropist, established nearly 3.000 libraries. OSBORN HOTEL EUGENE, ORE. J. E. Eirler Jo Earky Jr. Proprietor Thoroughly Modern Clifford Hammer, Greenview, was taken to the Siskiyou County General Hospital at Yreka Janu ary 28. VAGRANT THOUGHT BUFFALO, N.Y. (UPI) Words can have different meanings de pending on whether they're used by land or by sea. At a luncheon honoring officers of the U.S.S. Ma con, the ship's skipper,' Capt. Jo seph C. Wylie Jr., spoke of the importance of. tramp - steamer trade to the Great Lakes ports. Mayor Frank A. Sedita thereupon mentioned his many years as a city judge and said he never ex pected to see the day when "we'd advocate attracting tramps to the city of Buffalo." ALPHONSE AND GASTON NORWICH, . Conn. (UPI)-Din-ncr was delayed two hours for 150 guests because each of the event's co-chairmen thought the other was arranging for 'the food. Newspaper SPOT ADS are inexpensive repeated daily $1.16 WANTED PROPERTY APPRAISER Oregon Revised Statutes require graduation from col lege, with major course work in business administra tion, forestry, agriculture, engineering or allied field, or a satisfactory equivalent, combination of exper ience and training, and can pass the state examina tion. Starting salary $342.00 per month. If you meet these qualifications and want to work, contact . . . 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