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Newspaper Page TextC01P. o .. ceN.iiEF.AN3 oosiuisais Diy. Wiftffiiff nam O t.Or ORS.LXBRART ISfSPAPER SECTION '1 la Tks- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS Welfare state note: Dr. Kdmund Atkinson, of Lon don, writing in the British Medi cal Journal, relates the fascinat ing history of a patient who from the age of four had been as bald as an egg. When the normal age or shaving arrived, no whiskers appeared to be shaved off. Nor did any hair appear on his pate, which remained as bare as a bil liard ball. The patient was naturally hu miliated. He wanted hair on his head. For 11 long years, he pes tered Dr. Atkinson, who tried out on him every known form of treat ment for total baldness. All to no vail. He remained hairless. Then About a year ago He heard about a new antibiotic. He consulted his physician about it. The physician shrugged h i s shoulders and said WHY NOT It might work. So they headed for the state health service, which gives free medical service to all Britons who need it. The health service supplied the antibiotic. Let's allow Dr. Atkinson to take the story from here. He says: "To my amazement, in five weeks hair was sprouting widely and in two months he had a good growth. In three months he had a crop of hair of which anybody could be proud. Now he cycles past me in the street with his hair streaming in the wind and a seraphic smile from ear to ear." H Wonderful!!! But . There's a catch to it. In order to keep his hair, the man has to take two tablets a day. This par ticular antibiotic doesn't come for free. The two tablets a day 730 of them in ordinary years and 732 in leap years cost the state medical service the rather tidy sum of 52 pounds per annum which comes to about $150 in American money. All to. keep hair on ONE MAN'S head. We must assume that the British government could afford to keep hair on ONE man's head even if it does cost $150 a year. BUT According to the latest estimate of the U.N., the population of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is 51.681.000. Let's assume that half of them are men, which would amount in round numbers to about 25 mil lion males. Let's further assume that half of them are bald or fearing baldness. That brings us down to 12'i million prospective applicants for anti-baldness treat ments at $150 per year each. I'm never very sure of my deci mal points, but if my mathemat ics are within shooting distance of correct that would come to about i a billion, 800 million dollars just for anti-baldness treatments alone You may say: ALL men wouldn't apply for the treatments. Pooh! Pooh! You would there ,by imply a crass ignorance of male human nature. There isn't ANYTHING that a man fearing baldness won't do. Why, I myself, back in the years when baldness first began to threaten, paid a State of Jefferson barber $40 for a series of anti-baldness treat menls! Besides In Britain, which is a welfare state, the cost of these anti-bald ness treatments is pungled up by the GOVERNMENT. SO ... if a loyal Britisher's first thought was that $150 a year for anti-baldness treatments is a lot of money to stick the government for . . . you can bet your bottom dollar that (Continued on Page 4-A) HARRY E. PELTZ WW " .Tk. T . 1. - Four More Toss Hat In Ring Four more candidates filed into the torrid race for the three posi tions of the county court just prion to the 5 p.m. filing deadline Friday in the county clerk's office. Harry E. Peltz, Republican, filed (or the county judge post, El wood Sine, Democrat, for tlfi two year commissioner term, and two Republicans, q Walt Wiescndangcr Price Ten Cents 58 Pages MURRAY "RED" BRITTON Britton, Two Others File For County Sheriff Job The entry of three last minute candidates in the race for county sheriff, including that of the incum bent Murray "Red" Britton, swelled the list to eight and indi cated a lively battle in the pri mary. Filing late Friday for the office, in addition to Britton, were Har old Sligcr and Walter Thorne, both Boy Genius Big Success In Business PALO ALTO UPI Meet Steve Allen, 18-year-old business and electronics genius who heads a 12 man firm here which grossed $100,000 last year and may bring in some $600,000 by 1961. Steve, who lives in nearby Ath- crton, assembled radios before he could read and began building color TV sets at 12. While his eighth grade class mates listened to pop records. Steve preferred to study electron ics at home. He began to think about quit ting school. "There was no incen tive to stay," he complained. "I could see I was accomplishing more on my own than I could in school." He left school in his junior year. His 12 employes at the Allen Manufacturing Company include a post-graduate engineering stu dent. He started the firm on funds he earned repairing television sets. One of the projects the young manufacturer works on are sensi tive parts for a TV camera to be used in an outer space missile. Steve said, "I'm happy with what I'm doing. I'm working on developments in physics and elec tronics that may be important, want to pioneer and develop and expand in a field with tremen dous potential." His work leaves little time for social life and hobbies. "I'd like to find something else to do and do more socially. But inadvertently I've created a social vacuum for myself," he admitted. Steve said his firm might do $300,000 in business this year and hopes to "double or triple the vol ume each year." But "if things level off, I'll probably get tired and sell the whole business, he said. ELWOOD SINE and P. J. McEntirg, for the four year commissioner term. The last minute filings brought to 21 the number of candidates who have filed for the county court. The complete list: For two-year commissioner term: four Demo crats: Frank Ganong, Donald Mc Gee, Ray Brackman and Elwood KLAMATH HAROLD SLIGER of whom filed on the Republican ticket. Complete list of candidates for the office includes five Democrats and three Republicans. Democrats are Murray "Red" Britton, Dale Smith, L. W. Harroun, Arthur Bry ant and Fred Calfee. Republicans: Dale Mattoon. Harold Sliger and Walter Thorne. Sheriff Red Britton met expec tations late Friday afternoon when he filed for reelection on the Dem ocratic ticket, posting his candi dacy a few minutes before 4 p.m. Britton, now 47, is serving his ninth year in the office. He was appointed sheriff in January, 1952, following the death of Sheriff Jack Franey, was elected to the office in 1952 and reelected in 1956. On his declaration of candidacy. Britton pledged to "run my office in a firm but humane way." Britton began his law enforce ment career in 1941 as a special deputy under Sheriff Lloyd Low He enlisted in the Navy In Sep tember, 1942, saw service in the South Pacific. He was wounded in the Marianas in June, 1944, awarded the purple heart. He was discharged in 1945 In January, 1949, he was ad vanced from special deputy to reg ular deputy under Franey. A resident of Klamath County for the past 30 years, Britton is married. He, his wife, Mary, and their five children live at 925 Washburn Way. In a prepared statement, Brit ton said, "I welcome voters and any interested persons to make an inspection tour of my office and (Continued on Page 4-A) Portugal Visit Mulled By Chief WASHINGTON (AP) - Presi dent Eisenhower hopes to visit Portugal on the way home from the summit meeting in Paris, the White House said Saturday. Press secretary James C. Hag crty reported this after Luis Es teves Fernandes, Portuguese am bassador, personally extended a formal invitation to the President to visit that country. The ambassador told reporters the President was pleased to ac cept. He added the date would have to be determined by the du ration of the Paris meeting which begins May 16. How long the Pros ident would stay also was not known, the ambassador added. WALT WIESENDANGER W Y ' ' "it" 5U 1 " J For County Court Posts Sine; one Republican, James Barnes. For four - year commissioner term: five Democrats: Earl K. Allison, Wilbur Harnsbergcr, Ce cil Fitzgerald, George Overmirc and W. "Baldy" Evans; five Re publicans: Paul Hatchelt, Vaclav Kalina. O. D. Recdcr, Walt Wiesen danger and P. J. McEntire. I FALLS, OREGON, SUNDAY. MARCH 13, 1960 Rites Slated In Portland For Senator PORTLAND (AP) - Memorial services for the late Sen. Richard Ncubcrger (D-Orc) will be held here Sunday. There were indica tions there will be an overflow crowd. Neubcrgcr died here Wednesday near the end of his first Senate term, from a cerebral hemorr hage. Funeral services were held Thursday. Sunday s memorial services, which will start at 2 p.m., will be held at Temple Beth Israel here, A covered area is being set up on the grounds of the temple. The temple will hold 1,100 persons. A public address system will carry the service to the covered area outside the temple. Oregon's four members of the U.S. House will attend the memo rial, as well as 12 members of the U.S. Senate, who are flyin; into Portland on an Air Force jet from Washington, D.C., Sunday They include Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Orc), Sen. Lyndon Johnson (D-Texas), the Senate majority leader, and Sen. Paul Douglas D 111). Johnson and Douglas will speak at the memorial, as will Gov. .Mark Hatfield, former Gov, Robert Holmes, former Gov, Charles Sprague, E. Palmer Hoyt, the publisher of the Denver Post, Dr. Frederick Steiner of Portland and Rabbi Emanuel Rose of Tem ple Beth Israel. The delegation of senators is scheduled to arrive at Portland International Airport at 1 p.m., Sunday, and then will be taken to the synagogue in National Guard cars under police escort Weather FORECAST Occasional rain or snow today. High today 45-50; low tonight 28-33. High yesterday - i 47 Low last Bight -V .11 Northern California Generally sunny Sunday: little change in temperatures. Statement Given On AF Strafing NAHA, Okinawa (AP) The U.S. Air Force acknowledged Sat- usday that two Ryukyu Islanders, wounded gathering scrap on gunnery range, apparently were victims of accidental strafing by an American jet. An Air Force spokesman issued the statement as tension mounted over the incident Thursday on Ie Shinia Island. "Since there are no known eye witnesses other than the victims it cannot at this point be proven conclusively, but there is every indication they were injured by strafing," the spokesman said, Reich Traffic Stats WIESBADEN, Germany (AP The Federal Statistical Office reports 13,515 West Germans were killed in traffic accidents last year, a rise of 13.3 per cent over 1958, despite an increase of only 6 per cent in the number of ve hicles. More than 400,000 persons were injured, the statistical office said. " f. J. McENTIRE For county judge: two Demo crats, Bob Walker andBill Cres well; four Republicans, Ralph Hill, Bill Canton, Al Vincze and Harry Peltz. The number of filings was the largest in history for these coun ty court posts, and Indicated that (Continued oa Pagg 4-A) RONALD E. PHAIR KF Grocer To Campaign For Congress Ronald E. Phair. 4850 Shasta Way. prominent Klamath Fall; grocer, filed for the Republican nomination for U.S. congressman from this district in Salem late Friday. Phair is unopposed in his quest for the Republican nomination in the primary, and will face the in cumbent Al Ullman in the fall election for the congressional post Phair was recently singled out for honor by the Junior Chamber of Commerce for the Senior Citi zen of Klamath County award. He was recently elected presi dent of the United Fund and will chairman the 1961 drive. He has served six years on the United Fund and was vice president last year. ... Also active in Boy Scout work Phair is a member of the board of directors of Scout Region 11 including the Northwest states and Alaska; is a ni. nibcr of the local Scout Efc-scutlvc Committee, active iii the latent Explorer Scout pro gram and a member of the long- range planning committee of the area. He was presented the silver beaver award recently for out standing adult participation in scouting. He has three sons who have earned Eagle rank. Phair is a successful gro cer, Having develop the Big Y Market, first at the Merrill-Lake-view Junction, and later at its present location on South Sixth Street. He recently sold his grocery interests. This is the first venture into politics for Phair, who was not available for comment. Worker Suffers A-Radiation OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (AP) An Oak Ridge National Laboratory employe suffered overexposure to atomic radiation while working on a scientific cleanup job, the Atom ic Energy Commission said Sat urday. The unnamed employe is under going tests, a spokesman said, but the results so far indicate he was not harmed significantly. He was not burned. The accident occurred Tuesday while the worker was cleaning a cell used for handling radioactive materials. Reservoir Ground Fracture Now Under Investigation A ground fracture at the Clear Lake Reservoir, which was dis covered on August 1 by an employe of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has caused some discussion among residents of the area. . This week, Clifford D. Lawrence, civil engineer for the USBR, is sued a statement on the fracture: W a t e r is escaping in a ground crack on the southwest shore of Clear Lake in Modoc County, Cali fornia, about 45 miles southeast of Klamalh Falls. Since the time of discovery, the bureau has observed the crack at regular intervals and has had a geologist examine the opening. Clear Lake is one of three stor age reservoirs for the Klamath Reclamation Project. It stores wa ter for irrigation in Langell Valley, The crack in the alluvial materi al of the shoreline extends away from the present water line about 330 feet up the shore to the record high water mark of the springs of 1956 and 1958. It can be seen only a short dis tance into the water. It is gener ally less than three inches in width but some openings are up to 18 inches. Depth has not been Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 6353 ublic Official Given Roastin By Grid Club WASHINGTON (AP - The Gridiron Club capped 75 years of kidding public figures Saturday night with a jubilee dinner that dipped into the past and wound up scorching I960 candidates of both parties in skit ami song. President Eisenhower, Vice President Richard M. Nixon, Cab inet members, most of the Su preme Court, congressional lead ers, governors and ambassadors were among the 5(H) guests of the newsmen's club at the Hotel Stat- ler-Hilton for the annual fun. The ribbing did not spare those present, including several Demo ocratic presidential candidates. There were songs about Eisen hower's travels and golf. Nixon's claim on the White House, "Poor Boy" Humphrey. Kennedy's new haircut and wealth, and Johnson's love affair with the west." Among the Democratic hopefuls present were Sens. John F. Ken nedy of Massachusetts, Stuart Symington of Missouri and Lyn don B. Johnson of Texas. Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota was campaigning in Wisconsin. Symington and Sen. Everett Dirkscn, Illinois Republican, made the speeches for their re spective parties. Their talks were off the record in accordance with Gridiron tradition that "reporters are never present." Republicans were kidded with a scene laid in the Peace and Pros perity Travel Bureau." Demo- ocrals got joshed as participants in a "big city rumble showing rival gangs fighting for the pres idential nomination. The debate over military preparedness was satirized with a mock cloak-and dagger skit showing how Central Intelligence supposedly gathers its information from "a sewer in old Vienna." , .. Stocks On Hand Show Decline WASHINGTON (AP) - The Ag riculture Department reported Friday that stocks of potatoes held by growers and local deal ers on March 1 totaled 56,290,000 hundredweight, or 9 per cent less than a year earlier. The stocks by major stales in cluded: Maine 19,000,000 hundred weight, Minnesota 3.700,000, North Colorado 3.100.000, Oregon 2,300, 000 and Washington 1,050,000. Sign of Spring OKLAHOMA CITY W If spring be near, can baseball practice be far away? Not for Ilcrshcll Alstalt, a former pitching ace for the Oklahoma Slate Prison who spent last season on the out side. Alstatt, 24, pleaded guilty to a burglary charge Friday. An accommodating judge sentenced him to seven years. Alstatt asked to be sent up as fast as possible. "A baseball player always gets fidgety when spring Is near," he explained. "I pitched for the Oklahoma convicts for three years. Won 17 games In 1958." determined beyond three to four feet, due to silt and debris. Water can be seen to enter at the edge of the lake and flow along the crack for about 50 feet before it disappears into the lava rock area beyond the lake edge. Flow is cslimatcd .to be between one and three cubic feet per sec ond. Accurate measurements of water levels and inflow over a pe riod of several months indicate that seepage losses from Clear Lake are no greater now than in the recent or distant past. The possibility of an earthquake opening up the crack has been considered but no evidence has been found to support it. This crack does not extend above the high water mark. One possibility is that in 1958 1958 when lake water rose to the highest levels in history, it opened the crack by piping the soft silt into the porous bedrock. The USBR will contiiflc to ob serve the situation throughout next summer when the lake will be sev eral feet lower. At that lime It will be decided if it is practicable to attempt to stop the leakage. The crack is not located in a dam or dike and therefore a das gcrfflis cgpdition docs not exist. Finch Jury Hung; April Retrial Seen LOS ANGELES (AP)-Tlic long, sensationul Finch murder trial a saga of suburban sex and vio lent death ended Saturday with a crashing anticlimax. The jury after eight days of deliberation was unable to decide whether Dr. R. Bernard Finch and his pretty mistress, Carole 1'regoff, coldly plotted and cal lously murdered his socialite wile. The judge discharged the panel of five men and seven women and the district attorney said there will be a retrial. The wealthy surgeon broke down and sobbed when the jury was polled. licd-hairod Miss Trcg off, cx-modcl who became his re ceptionist and then his sweetheart, also was in tears. Newsmen could talk to neither. but Dr. Finch's attorney said his only comment was: "I'm terribly disappointed." Miss Trcgoff's attorney said she said nothing. "She just cried," he aid. A possible clue as to how the voting went was this: A source in the district attorney's office, ask ed earlier this week what would happen if there was a hung jury, aid the practice is to have a re- rial if a substantial majority oi the jurors favors conviction. If a substantial majority favors acquittal, he said, the case usual ly is dismissed. Later in the evening one of the jurors told a reporter for the Los Angeles Times that the panel by a 10-2 majority voted Finch guilty ol second degree murder and Car ole innocent by an 8-4 count. The split was 10-2 on Dr. Finch's murder charge, 8-4 on his con spiracy charge. It was 8-4 on both of Miss Trcgoff's charges. It was nearly two hours before the defendants left the court house to bo returned to jail. Dur ing this period, they were clos eted with their respective attor neys in the jury room of an ad jacent court. A guard said Miss Trcgoff broke down completely and that Dr. Finch was trying to comfort her. The pair had to move through a huge crowd of spectators en route to the station wagon that look them the two blocks or so to jail. Miss Trcgoff was slill cry ing, her eyes downcast. Dr. Finch was pale but composed. His eyes were stern looking. The often-dramatic trial, one of (he most intriguing murder cases of modern times, has been a na tional conversation piece since Barbara Jean Finch's body was found eight months ago sprawled on a neighbor s lawn. The handsome surgeon claimed his wife's bullct-ln-the-back death was accidental. Miss Trcgoff said she was but an innocent bystand- The state called it murder, callously plotted and ruthlessly performed. Dist. Ally. William B. McKes son said: "I would say we are obligated now to retry the case. We are convinced that these per sons should be put on trial under the charge as returned by the grand jury with returned indict ments charging murder and con spiracy. The fact this jury has not agreed docs not change our opinion." Dr. Finch's attorney, Grant B. Cooper, said a retrial might take several weeks. The trial that end ed Saturday started last Dec. 8. The slate's coprosccutors both were disappointed at the outcome. Would they like to handle the re trial? "I would," said Fred N. Which- . """4t- Crack In Shorelint of Clear Lak ello, mild-mannered deputy dis trict attorney from suburban Po mona. "I don't know," said harsh voiced Clifford Crail, one of the district attorney's top cross-examiners. Dr Finch's attorney. Grant B. Cooper commented: "I'm terribly disappointed." "Are you staying with it?" a reporter asked. "I suppose I will, but there's a serious question of economics." A little later he added, "You know I have a hell of an overhead." Cooper got a $25,000 retainer and $350 per trial day for a total lee of about $45,000. The doctor had to pledge most of his assets to lake care of the fee. Miss Tregoll's fees were not dis closed, but were estimated at about $20.iwo. ROBERT M. REDDING 6th Hopeful Seeks Post In Salem Robert M. Redding, 2337 Cali fornia Avenue, became the third Democrat to file for the two slat representative posts from Klam ath County when he posted his candidacy with the secretary ot statc's office on Friday, iitvrt, day LAiV of filing. .-'- This brings to six the numbor of candidates competing for the rep resentative posts. Democrats .who previously announced for the 'of fice were Carl Yancey, incumbent. and Walter Turner. Republicans who have filed are George Flit- craft, Carrol Howe and John Smith. Redding, 28, has been a prac ticing attorney in Klamath Falls since May, 1959. He graduated from Willamette University in 1953, and the Willamette Law School in 1957. He was admitted to the Oregon State Bar in 1957. Married with one child, Redding was born in Oregon. He spent two years working for the attorney general of Alaska and with the Alaska State Highway De partment. Ho served two years in the Navy during the Korean Conflict, is an active private pilot, and continues to serve in the Naval Reserve. Outlining his viewpoints on tax ation, Redding said, "I believe wa can have more economy in state government. I believe the state docs not differ from private busi ness in that it must operate within sensible budget. "We can hold the line in the Legislature to a large extent by requiring state departments to ef fect economics in administration. If this is dono, sensible services can be provided without excessive taxation."