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HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls. Ore.
Sunrlav, January SI. IPSO
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(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
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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.
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