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The Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS Politics: Over the week-end, Senator Karl fiundt (Republican, South Dako ta i and Representative Goorce H Mahon (Democrat, Texas! kept the ceiense controversy boiling. Mundt, in a report to his con ttituents, charged that the Demo cratic cntics-of the administration have been playing "not so power- iui pontics on a critical issue our national security." Mahon, appearing on a television program, said the United States faces "a frightening situation be cause of Soviet missile superiori ty." We home folks,' of course, under stand it all. This is an election year, and in election years we Americans do strange things. Still- 'J'his question can't help arising lit times in our minds: Is it, or isn't it, a good idea to keep telling our enemy all the time how weak and helpless we are? He just MIGHT believe it, In that event, the consequences tnuld be TRAGIC. More politics: For the past four days Demo cratic leaders (some 750 of them) have been meeting in Albuquer que to put together planks of ben efit to the West for inclusion in the structure of the Democratic na tional platform. These planks dealt with devel opment of the natural resources nf the Western states, with trans portation problems and with small business. The news services report that this purpose "was achieved quietly amid the hullabaloo which centered around the Presidential aspirants." These aspirants included Senator Lyndon Johnson of Texas, who said he isn't seeking the nomina tion; Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, who suggested that he is the man to lead the Democrats back to the White House, and Sen ator John Kennedy of Massachu setts, who said quite frankly that he came to Albuquerque in tearch of votes. Among other things, he chided those Presiden tial candidates who decline to en ter the various state primary elec tions, terming thein "people who wish to be nominated, but do not wish to meet the people." J I think maybe he has something there. ' The purpose of Presidential pri mary elections is to give the gen eral run of the people a chance to express their preferences among the candidates for the party nomin ations. How can the people express their preferences if candidates ei ther stay out of the primaries en- tirely or enter only those in which they think they have a walkaway? If the Presidential" primary sys tcm is to be of any real value, it ought to be universal. Senator Kennedy, whose home is In Massachusetts, took a crack at the Eisenhower administration, which he accused of "shameful neglect of the West." He added "Any administration which has forgotten the West is an adminis tration which neglected the na tion." I suppose that is true enough. . . . And, as Westerners we feel that over the years we haven't had EVERYTHING we might want. . Still I think it must be conceded that the West isn't doing too badly. In a recent bulletin, the Census Bu reau reports that from 1950 to 1958 Nevada had the highest population increase of ANY state 83.7 per cent. In the same period Florida where more or less everybody east of the Mississippi seems to want to go to retire had an increase of only 62.9 per cent. Arizona was up 56.7 per cent, California up 34.9 rer cent. The bulletin adds: "In the same period, New York's pop ulation increased only 10 per cent If current rate of increase con tinues, California could pass New York in 1964." Regionally, the census bulletin adds, "the Far West was the big gainer with 29.1. The North Cen tral was up only 14.9, the South was up only 13.5 and the North east up only 9.8." We're doing pretty well, thank ynu, without going all out on the political limb. Humphrey Sees Loss To Morse ' BAKER (AP) Sen. 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KLAMATH Price Five Cents 14 Pagei Chief Offers Weapons Plan WASHINGTON (UPI) Presi dent Eisenhower's proposal to share nuclear weapons with U.S allies is designed primarily to cut the time required to retaliate aeainst any Soviet air attack, it was learned today. American strategic and tactical bombers in Europe are only be tween 10 and 20 minutes flying time away from the Iron Curtain. While U.S.' air defense systems could react almost instantly to a Soviet air attack, Eisenhowers military advisers warn that West European anti-aircraft systems could not. This is so primarily because al- tnough Britain and other NATO members have received Amcri- ic&n-made weapons designed to carry atomic warheads, the war heads themselves are stored in separate installations. Time would be required to un lock the warheads, mount them on their carriers or "delivery sys tems," and prepare them for fir ing. Eisenhower, according to relia ble sources, hopes to come up with an arrangement under which (he warheads could be mounted at all times. .British planes which would car-1 y American-made atomic weap-i ons . m wartime are not ,now armed. Under the Eisenhower plan, however, such planes would be armed at- all times. . . . Indians Convene Legal Workshop SEATTLE (AP) The first legal workshop concerned solely with problems of jurisdiction in civil and criminal suits involving Indians was held here Saturday. One of the main proposals brought before the Indian tribal judges and council members was state assumption of civil and criminal jurisdiction on some res ervations. The change has been requested by nine of Washington's 41 tribes and is being considered by tribes in other states. Seventy-five delegates from 26 tribes in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska at tended the workshop. UNUSUAL EGGS are shown here shortly after they were collected by George Brown at the Gooding Poultry Farm. Brown reports the eggs appeared with numerals six and eight clearly imprinted en them. The gourd like egg in the center was another unusual product of Saturday's egg col lection rounds. i U.OP ORE. LIBRARY NSiSPAPca section - OEN.REF.AMD DOCUMENTS MV, COOKXSOSS2 TUNISIA " FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8. 1960 , Telephone TU 4-8111 BULLETIN TUCSON, Ariz. Wl Convict author Caryl Chessman today was denied a stay of execution, scheduled Feb. 19 in the San Quentln prison gas chamber. Judge Richard Chambers, chief justice of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, also refused to Issue a certificate of probable cause for appeal. This would have granted Chessman a hearing before the full Court of Appeals In an ef fort to reverse U.S, District Judge Louis E. Goodman's re fusal to grant a writ of habeas corpus. Chessman now Is expected to appeal again to the U.S. Su preme Court, which has consid ered the case 13 times. Should this effort fail, an ap peal for clemency probably will be made to California Gov. Ed mund G. Brown. Weather Klamath Falls and vicinity Partial clearing with a few snow flurries tonight; partly cloudy Tuesday. Highs 42-48; low tonight 30-35. High Sunday ..' t. 48 Low last night 34 Prccip. Inst 24 hours , Since Oct. 1 .r. .. 2.95 Same period last year 3.10 Low In area, Chlloquin 32 Chomult six Inches new snow and snowing heavily. Northern California Occasional rain tonight and Tuesday with hea vy amounts in Sierra tonight; snow level lowering to 5,000 7,000 feet Tuesday. Southerly winds, 30-45 m.p.h. on coast from Point Arena northward. CRATER LAKE High yesterday ' 34 Low last night 25 8 a.m. today 27 New snow 5.5" Snow depth 72' Snow this year 202.5" Last year 198" Reported snowing at 8 a.m. to day. Skiing conditions crusted. Chains advised on south and west oad. Chains required from Annie Springs to headquarters and from headquarters to riin. COUP. (tEBANONj (sYRIAJ No. 6624 Mystery Sub Being Hunted BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) Argentine warships and planes searched today for mystery submarine believed lurk ing off the coast of southern Argentina. Newspapers claimed the sub marine has been bottled up in the Golfo Nuevo. a strategic 30-by-40- mile inlet 650 miles southwest of Buenos Aires. There was no in dication of its nationality. Navy Secretary Gaston Clement confirmed that a widespread hunt is under way but described some of the press reports as "absolute ly untrue." He refused to discuss stories saying the submarine had been hit by depth bombs dropped by planes. The navy secretary complained that the sensational treatment of the operation "has created a false atmosphere." The official cold water did not dispel public curiosity. Thousands flocked to the beaches around the gulf to wait for action. The newspaper Democracia said the trapped submarine had been damaged and two other sub marines quickly moved " into the area to divert search forces so the crippled craft could slip away. It said. the. unidentified sub marines were nuclear-powered The submarine sensation first developed a week ago. The Ar gentine destroyer Cervantes and two patrol ships reported locat ing a submarine in the gulf but it got away. More Argentine warships, in cluding an aircraft carrier, were rushed to the area. Clement told newsmen that naval electronic devices had de tected strange objects, presum ably submarines, several times lately. But he likened some of the current newspaper accounts to, the stories of Jules Verne, the French science fiction novelist. Parking Group Sets Meeting The newly-formed Klamath Falls Park and Shop corporation will meet Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. for a no-host dinner at the Chuck Wagon Cafe. Stockholders will discuss plans. They hope to get the first seg ments of their parking facilities operational by April or May. The corporation has posted ear nest money for a building at 734 Klamath Avenue, occupied by Clyde's Towing and Storage serv ice. Final action should be taken at the meeting, the corporation announced. The organization plans to acquire land in the downtown sector for parking areas. Patrons who shop in the stores of participating mer chants will be allowed free park ing for minimum purchases of a size not yet determined. The plan has been successful in many cities across the nation, cor poration members say. It has shown ability to pep up business district commerce grown a little sluggish due to downtown congestion. Burglars Accept Police Challenge CLOV1S, N.M. I Burglar les in Clovls have averaged one a day since the first of the year. So Saturday night Clovis po lice and sheriff's officers de cided to patrol the streets and stake out obvious targets. There were six burglaries Sat urday night. One occurred at a cafe, 50 feet from the Clovis police sta tion. Another happened at a busi ness that had been hit on twe previous Saturday nights. A third break-in netted a .410 shotgun and a pistol locked In the dog catcher's wagon, parked in front of the police station. imWllHM jlCHANDERNAGORl YANAONEfIPONDICHERRY!KARIKAlMAHE INDOCHINA) French Realm Dissolving Under Nationalism Fever By TOM HENSHAW AP Newsfeaturcs Writer The day of the great overseas empire is drawing to a close and the French are taking it hard est of all. That's one of the reasons behind the recent bitter events in Algeria The past 20 years have been filled with frustration and bitter defeat for France and particularly for the French army. First, there was defeat in World War II followed by the forced choice between fighting on with De- Gaulle or submission to the pup pet Vichy regime, a choice that bewildered many French soldiers. Then there was withdrawal from the Middle East mandates and the humiliating loss to the ragged Com munist forces of llo Chi Minh that cost the French their hold on Indo china. Now, it's the long, drawn - out FRANK, F. GANONG Ganong Files For New Term County Commissioner Frank F. Ganong filed for reelection for a two-year . term on the county court today. Ganong, 34, seeks continuation of a position to which he was ap pointed a year ago. In a prepared statement, Ga nong said he was particularly in terested in a 10-year road plan sur vey for the county and in greater local control of welfare policies. Ganong is a Democrat, as is Donald McGee of Bly, who on Fri day announced his candidacy for the two-year commissioner's post. County Judge Bob Walker also has filed for reelection on the Democrat ticket. Two Republi cans, Bill Canton an(i Ralph Hill, also have filed for county judge. The third incumbent member of, the court, Republican Commission er Ed Gowen, has not yet an nounced his intentions. His posi tion is sought by two announced candidates, Vac Kalina of Malin and Paul J. Hackett of Poe Valley. Ganong accompanied his candi dacy with this statement: 'I am grateful for the oppor tunity which was given to me to serve on the county court by ap pointment to till the vacaii'" caused by the resignation of Charles Mack. "The experience I have gained in the year that I have been on the court will, I believe, enable me to give valuable service to the residents of Klamath County in this last year of my present term and in the ensuing two-year term if I am returned to the court by the voters. "Chief among the projects in which I am interested and which I would like to be in a position to carry to completion is a 10 year road plan for Klamath Coun ty. A successful plan of this kind includes a road inventory, road numbering, a review of those roads presently classified as coun ty roads for possible vacations or additions, and the establishment of an orderly and economical schedule of maintenance and im provement of roads to meet pres ent and future needs. "I am also very interested In pursuing through our local welfare commission our efforts to bring a greater measure of local control over welfare policies and proce dures in this county." I mi IIII1MIIIMI H fight to suppress the will-o-the-wisp Nationalists in Algeria, virtu ally on the doorstep of metropoli tan France itself. The French army fell it's time to make a stand, time to score a victory, and the only battleground remaining is Algeria Back in 1939, the French empire rivalled that of Great Britain. Par is controlled more than four mil lion square miles of overseas col onies, protectorates and mandates. Now, France rules less than a million square miles and exercises limited control over another three million and its hand is slipping a bit more with each passing year. Here's what has happened to the great overseas empire that was French in 1939: Lost; Syria and Lebanon The two Middle East lands, mandated to France by the League of Nations alter World War I, gained inde pendence during the second great war. Syria has since joined Egypt in the United Arab Republic. French lndo-China Laos be came independent in 1949 with Cambodia and Vietnam following suit after the lndo-China War in 1955. Vietnam is split into the Com munist north and the free south. Morocco and Tunisia The two North African nations were quietly granted their freedom in 1956. Since then they have been chief sources of succor to the National ist rebels in neighboring Algeria French India Pondichcrry, Kar- ikal, Chandernagor, Mahe and Yan aone, tlin tiny enclaves that re mained of the once great French power in India, were ceded to In dia without fanfare a few years ago.' French Guinea The West Afri can land voted overwhelmingly to become a republic in the constitu tional elections in 1958 even though the rest of French Africa chose to keep its (ics with France. Cameroon The former German colony, under French trusteeship and mandate since World War I, was granted independence last January 1. Lately, it has asked French help in suppressing rebel lion. Losing: Togo Another former German colony mandated to France in 1919, Togo is scheduled to receive its in dependence next April 27. Mali The federation of what was once French Sudan and Sene gal is now a member of the French Community but has given indica tions it will ask for complete in dependence possibly this year. Slipping: French West Africa The one time administrative union of Da homey, Niger, Ivory Coast, Mauri tania and others now controls most of its own internal affairs as members of the French Com munity. French Equatorial Africa Ga bun, Middle Congo, Ubangi-Shari and Chad also are members of the French Community, which De- Gaulle has promised independence for the asking. Madagascar The huge island off the cast coast of Africa also is a member of the French Community under the name of Malagasy Re public. Firmly Held: Other French Africa The Como ro Islands and French Somaliland voted to remain Overseas Terri tories. The island of Reunion, near Madagascar, is an Overseas De partment with representation in Paris. 1 French America The West In dies Islands of Guadclupe and Martinique and French Guiana in South America are Overseas De partments. St. Pierre and Miquc Ion, islands near Newfoundland, am Overseas Territories. French Oceania Tahiti and New Caledonia remain Overseas Terri tories while New Hebrides arc ruled jointly by a French and Brit ish condominium. Priests Given Jail Sentences BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP- A Communist court today sen tenced six Roman Catholic priests and two theology students to pris on terms ranging from 2'i to 7 years for activities hostile to the slate. Cuban Crowds Applaud Russ Super Salesman HAVANA (AP) - Soviet super salesman Anastas I. Mikovnn made appearances at both ends of Cuba's social scale Sunday. Ho was thunderously applauded on both occasions. The Soviet deputy premier made Hie second public address of his Cuban visit to a meeting of the National Federation of Tex tile Workers. Sunday night he at ttMded a concert of the Havana Symphony conducted by Soviet Composer Aram Khachaturian. Mikoyan's speech to the textile workers included the usual Soviet boast of missile strength coupled with assurance of the Soviet Union's desire for peace. Those who talk of war." the Soviet leader said, "know that if we can send a rocket to the moon with such precision, we can send a rocket with the same precision to any point on earth." But "war is . against our wishes," he added. "We want peace, peace forever." Mikoyan got another big hand as he outlined the rise of the So viet Union under communism and declared, "the Cuban revolution can accomplish miracles, too." Mikoyan was followed by Er nesto Guevara, leftist president ot the National Bank of Cuba, who told the crowd the Cuban revolu tion will go forward. "If we can't put Sputniks on the moon, we can plant our revo lutionary ideas on the moon," Guevara declared, Mikoyan's appearance at the rally was not announced in ad vance. It apparently was designed to lend prestige to the union's head, Jesus Soto, who is looked on as a Red sympathizer. Soto is leading a purge of anti-Communists in organized labor. At the concert Mikoyan beamed from a mezzanine box, acknowl edging the applause of the large crowd. The audience included a number of revolutionaries, among them Guevara and Prime Minis ter Fidel Castro's younger broth er, Raul, minister of the Cuban armed forces, and their wives. Fidel was not present. Solons Battle Investigations WASHINGTON (API Sens. Ev erett M. Dirksen (It-Ill) and Allen J. EUcnder (D-La) have launched separate fights to reduce the 3,696,000 that Senate committees want to spend on investigations The Senate takes up the money requests today. Chief target of Dirkscn, Senate Republican leader, is the $425,001) proposed to finance continued operations of the antl monopoly subcommittee headed by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn). Dirkscn contends that subcom mittee hearings on pricing prac tices in the steel, automobile, asphalt roofing and bread indus tries have served only to harass business men and have, produced no legislation. Just Practicing ATLANTA, Ga. (AP) - One of the Atlanta police department's new police dogs got his first man. He bit a policeman. Patrolman Jack Scott said he and his partner answered a call Sunday and were sitting in their squad car when Patrolman J. F. Harrison drove up with a dog named Riff. The dog leaped up at the window and bit Scott on the hand. Premier U Nu Faction Gets Burmese Support RANGOON, Burma (AP)- Formcr Premier U Nu's support ers held a wide lead today in early returns from parliamentary elections to end military rule in Burma, U Nu's so-called Clean faction of the anli-Fascist Peoples Free dom League (AFPFL) had cap tured 59 seats so far in the 250 membcr Parliament as opposed to 11 for the AFPFL's Stable wing. The Communist-line United Front (NUF) and the inde pendents had taken only one scat each. It appeared certain that U Nu would again head the govern ment. The AFPFL, which had ruled Burma since it won independence from Britain in 1947, split two years ago. As a result of the factional feuding that followed, U Nu handed over the premiership 16 months ago to a housccleaning military regime headed by Lt. Gen. Ne Win, the army com mander. Since both factions insisted on retaining tho AFPFL title, the designations Clean and Stable were used In the election cam paign. The Cleans claimed sup port of the masses, while the Stables were backed largely by businessmen and industrialists. I Mikoyan's aciivities had been cloaked in secrecy since he was driven out of Havana Saturday morning under heavy escort. An army officer in Matanzas, 50 miles east of Havana, reported seeing the Soviet leader riding with Raul Castro. The Soviet news agency, Tass, reported that Mikoyan and Raul visited the Cienaga de Zapata swamps near Matanzas, which arc to be drained and planted in rice, and a boarding school for 40 homeless children at a country estate seized from ex-dictator Fulgencio Batista. Archeologists Uncover New Scroll Find TEL AVIV, Israel (UPI) Archeologists hoped today they may have uncovered another .ache nf Dean Sea Scrolls in an obscure cave once used as a hide nut by rebels against the Romans. They reported finding fragments of parchment scrolls, believed to have been written about the same time as the Dead Sea Scrolls. The new scrolls are the first found on the Israel side of the Dead Sea. Experts said they give promise of mere such finds in the area. Dr. Yohanan Aharon! said he believes there are at least three' more hidden nearby. The fragments found last week were dug out of caves overlooking Hie Dead Sea three miles north of Massada. To reach the caves, Aharoni's team used ropes to scale 660 feet of sheer limestone rock cliff, part of the side of Nahal Tse-Elim Canyon. Aharoni said two fragments are from the book of Exodus and their text and size show they were part of Phylacteries. One comprised verses one to ten of Chapter 13 and the other verses 11 to 16 of the same chapter. Another fragment of papyrus on which Hebrew script were visible has not yet been unrolled. It was believed to be part of a letter. Qumran, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found, is ahout 43 miles from the. caves Aharoni's party explored.', Many Report Meteor Light SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) Most experts believe a light that flashed across western skies early Sunday was a meteor, Hun dreds saw it, most of them in Utah, Idaho, Montana and Wyo ming. Amateur astronomer Floyd Rickorcs, Hollywood,. Calif., said he tracked a red ball in the sky for nearly five minutes, after a bright flash lighted the room." lie said tha ball was brighter than anything else in the sky and he guessed It was several thousand miles up. "It seemed to stay stationary between two stars for three or four minutes," he said, "then took off with fantastic speed and dis appeared." Richard Below, piloting a West ern Airlines plane 11,000 feet over southwest Montana, said tTie light was "fantastically bright. It lit up everything in the cockpit and the cabin and the entire sky outside." . In the campaign the Cleans prom ised to preserve and continue the military regime's cleanup of corruption that plagued the pre vious parliamentary regime. The Stables claimed a victory for them would insure stability of the future government. Foreign policy was not an Issue. Both AFPFL factions espouse a neutralist line. It will take a week to complete tabulation of the vote since com munications from outlying dis tricts are slow. , U Nu easily won election to the Chamber of Deputies. His 26,369 voles were more than four times the combined total of his oppo nents. The Cleans took all nine scats in Rangoon, and Stable faction leaders U Ba Swe and V Kyaw Nyein were defeated. Top leaders of the pro-Commu- nist NUF also suffered defeat early in the balloting. U Nu declared Sunday that the "whole country owes a debt ol gratitude" to Ne Win for the way the elections were conducted. "Ne Win is a man without any political ambitions," he said. The new Parliament Is sched uled to convene April 1 to elect a premier and cabinet.
