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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
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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
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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
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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
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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."