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EUJtifJE.OtiSG. r"1"""" """" mTz IIIIIHdiimilHIIIIIII IHIIIIillllllllilHIPII II II IIMM X LJ Weather-dye Satellite Fired Aloft KLAMATH Price Ten Cents 20 Pages In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS This is the day on which the taking of the I960 census begins. Jl is also April Fools' Day. There is no connection between these events other than the fact thai a lot of tnnlish deductions will be made from the tacts and figures collected by the census tak ers. The first U.S. Census was taken in 17!M). The job was done under the clause of the Constitution which provided that a count of the people must he made within three years of the first meeting of the congress and every ten years there alter. The purpose of this first census was to furnish a basis lor taxing i the various stales and lor decid ing the number of representatives they would have. We've come a long way since then. When the census taker calls on you this lime, you must tell him ior her) not only how many persons there are in your house hold but also how many rooms there are in your house, how many halhtuhs, how many flush toilets you have, whether or not you have running hot and cold water. In addition, one out of each four households must come across with information on whom they work for. how much they gel, how they get lo work and other de tails thai will iiil a ten-page foim. Uncle Sam, you see. gels mote curious about his nieces and ne phews as the years pass. The first census hack in 17(10 was conducted by 17 marshals and 200 assistants. These men car ried quill pens and inkhorns in fheir saddlebags as they rode through the country counting noses. They counted 3.(129,214 people in nine months. The government was then too poor lo furnish the census takers with standard blanks, and they wrote down the information they collected on any kind of paper they could lay hands on. One ol them used a scrap lorn from a newspaper. The back of it con tained a part of an article by Benjamin Franklin on "The Art of Procuring Pleasant Dreams." Newspapers, you see, always have been useful in the pinches. The census is an ancient institu tion. It was taken regularly in early Rome chiefly for purposes of taxation. When the census taker came around, the Romans had to tell him not only how many peo ple lived there hut HOW MUCH PROPF.RTY THEY HAD. Govern ments have ALWAYS been inter ested in that subject. Incidentally, the word census eomes from the Latin word cen sere, which means "lo tax." When William the Conqueror took over England in low, the first official job he lackled was taking the census. He not only counted noses but made a very careful listing of the people's land and property. The taking of this first Knglish census provided the information cn which the historically famous Domesday Rook was based. The Domesday Book was the ollfcial record upon which the people's TAXES were based. So when the census laker comes around, don't feel that something new is being sprung on you. The institution of the cen- (Continued nn Page 4-A) City Schools' Annual A SCIENCE FAIR is in progress in city schools. Here Mills School pupils, left to right, Mickey Ronningen, fifth grade; Anita Witkins, seventh grade, and Susan Dippold, fifth grade, try out a working, handmade telephone hookup, ' FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, Longest Oregon Ballot Confronting Democrats By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS What may be the longest ballot in Oregon history will confront Democrats at the May primary election. In some counties it will he near ly 3'r feet long. Republicans won't hae it very much easier. Their ballot is up to 3 eel long. What sti etches it out for the Democrats is Ihe list of would-be delegates In the Democratic na tional convention. There are 88 candidates for 24 al-large delegates lo the Demo cratic National Convention. This Reports Say White Police Shoot Three Din BAN, Soulh Africa AP White police firrd lodiiy on an Af rican crowd marchinu on I his hij port city's jail. First reports said throe Neyroos were killed and three wounded. The column of blacks which leached the jail marched down West Street, the main street ol Durban, South Africa's third larg est city. As the mnh marched, shouting freedom slogans and singing, they forced other Africans in the streets lo join them. Witnesses said they saw march ers lift some byslanriing Negroes bodily and force them into the line. It was the most riotous scene Durban has experienced in the current racial crisis. Today's marches started alter a riotous day and night in Afri can settlements stretching Irom Cape Town through the Atlantic and Indian Ocean port cities of Port Klizabeth and Durban. There were casualties in skir mishes in settlements during the night and in some places houses, administration buildings and churches were burned. Buses were stoned as agitators tried to force other Africans to observe a work boycott. Three separate columns of blacks marched out of Cato Man or settlement this morning but only one got through as soldiers and police with armored cars and rifles with fixed bayonets man aged to stop or divert the others. In Johannesburg, meanwhile, police announced the death of a Negro policeman from slab wounds suffered Thursday night. It was the second police death from these clashes. At Mill another area, to the west, white police swung clubs) and rifle butts in breaking up a crowd of about 1,400 marchers aiming lo hand in their detested passbooks. The Negro marchers headed into Hermanus. a coastal resort SO miles east of Cape Town. The crowd, including some women, was warned by the police station commander to disperse. They re vised, and police charged. REJECT FISH PLAN MOSCOW a'PP Japan Thurs day turned down a Soviet plan for slashing the red salmon catch and claimed it . was technically impractical to sort red salmon from other types of " fish. The move came at a three-hour ses sion of the Soviet-Japanese fish ing negotiations, the Soviet news agency Tass said Thursday night. APRIL 1. 191.0 Telephone TU 4-8111 is one of the longest lists of office seekers in the history of ihe state. State law provides that all Ihe names must appear in one column and that in addition there must he the same number of blank lines as there are posts In he Idled in this case 24. Election officials in several counties had trouble finding paper and printing equipment to tilt this order. In Klamath County there was no commercial press or paper cut ler large enough. Arrangements were made to ha e t he ba Mots printed at Lakeview in Lake County. The Klamath County Democratic ballot will be 41 inches long and 10" 2 inches wide. In Douglas County the Demo cratic ballots will be 3fi inches long. They are so large the paper has lo be hand-fed into a cylinder press. The length has heen cut down from Klamath Falls' hy the use of smaller type lor the long list of at-Iarge delegates. The printing company which is handling the Douglas County bal lot said the paper lor the ballots makes a stack more than 1R feel high. The stack includes I5.8.W Democratic. V.l.VMi Republican. 2!).n.i0 judiciary. 2H.0.1O ballols for state measures and about the same number of sample ballols. In Multnomah County, the Dem ocratic hallot will be 40 inches long and 14 inches wide. The Re publican ballot will he :14 by 14. John U'eldon, registrar of elec tions for the county, said some voters will have as many as seven ballots lo mark. These include the party primary ballot, a ballot on the proposed constitutional amend ment to raise legislators' salaries, a school district ballot, a cily elec tion ballot, a juslice of (be peace ballot, a rural school ballot and one of 12 special lire or water dis trict election ballots. Weather Klamath Falls and vieinily Par tial clearing this evening. Mostly sunny and .warmer Saturday. High today 4B-52 and Saturday 53-60. how tonight .10-15. High yesterday 41 Low last night 28 Prcxip. last 24 hours 0.21 Since Oct. 1 7.19 Same period last year 4. .Hi Northern California Fair through Saturday exrrpt eonsider able cloudiness on the coast. Slightly warmer inland. CRATER LAKE Rich yesterday X Low last night 2' 8 a.m. today 32 New snow IB Snow depth . 126 Skiing wet The wind was calm and it was still snowing in the park this morning. Chain signs were up for travel over Highway R2 through the park and from Annie Springs to park headquarters. The road from headquarters to the rim was closed for the third successive day. Weather permitting, the road to the rim will he opened for weekend skiing and the warming hut will operate on Saturday and Sunday. Plans are for daily oper ation of the warming hut, com niencing on Tuesday, April 5. Cumulative snowfall this season is 355 inches compared with 32' inches for the same period last year. The rangers point out, how ever, that 90 inches of snow fell after April 1 In last year's season Science Fair In Wrapup Stage MARCH DEPARTED with a bellowing roar, and our man wai April-fooled a day early. The victims were (a) three bewildered daffodils wondering what it's all about, and (b) Buzz Larkin, who knows what it's all about but like most Oregonians can't yet understand why. The picture but not the flowers was planted by Herald and News photographer Don Kettler. More Trouble Wings Way Into Midwest Flood Zone By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A slorm carrying rain and snow headed inlo the Midwest's flood zone luday, adding to the woes caused by high waters. Thunderstorms broke in Mis souri and southeastern Iowa. Rain tell in eastern Soulh Dakota and Nebraska. Snow spread from North Dakota lo Nebraska. Hill City, Kan., was deluged by almost three inches ol rain. Heavy snow warnings were is sued for parts of the Dakolas. Nebraska and Minnesota. The flood front stretched Irom Deadline Today For School Vote Today is the final day for regis tering to vote in city school elec tions May 2. Measures include budgets for Ihe city high school and city elementary school districts ior next fiscal year, and selection of candidates to HI! one five year term on each of Ihe districts' boards of education. ' A public budget hearing will be conducted in the high school caf eteria April 4 the elementary budget session at 7:30 p.m. and the high school at 8:30 p.m. SO THERE! COLUMBIA, S.C. UPI - Dr. Julian Salley. irked by his wile's bragging about the hole-in-one she carded on Ihe eighth hole of the Forest Lake golf course last week, went out this week and shot a hole-in-one on the same green. The cily schools' second annual science fair is in the wrapup i stage. Mills and Fremont Schools are oiicnng incir snows iree in me public Friday night, and River side School's display will be open to the public Saturday during Ihe 50th anniversary reception. Other city schools, including Klamath Union High School, al ready have had their fairs. As soon as each school's fair is complele, the top 10 per cent of displays Irom each will be massed for a regional fair at Fremont Junior High School all day and from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday. April 8. and from 2 p.m. until 9 p m. Sat urday, April 9. Displays in four divisions pri mary, intermediate, junior and senior will be judged, and the! top 10 per cent of those will hel sent to the state science fair, tn be( sponsored in Portland by the Ore gon Museum of Science and In dustry soon. Senior division win ners there will receive scholarships. 3 f' the Missouri Hivcr Valley on the west to New York on the east. More than fi.000 persons were homeless. The death toll rose lo 10. II in cluded three in Nebraska, three in Missouri, Iwo in Illinois and one each in New York and South Dakota. Rain hampered the fight against the flood in eastern Nebraska. One dike gave way in Hooper. Neb., on the Elkhorn River, but Iwo others were being built. About nine blocks of Hooper were inun dated. Many of Ihe 850 residents moved out. Emergency dikes built hy townspeople and l.'iO Midland Col lege students held firm in Scrib ner. Neb., on 'he swollen Elkhorn. The three big rivers of U. S. flood history the Missouri, Mis sissippi and Ohio were on the rise. Sherilf John Fichter of Adams County on the Mississippi in Illi nois ordered 2tK) persons lo gel out of their homes in Ihe levee district northwest of Quincy. The Burlington Railroad hailed service through Canton, Mo., on Ihe other side of the Mississippi, oecause of high wain. Rivers and streams began to recede in western Pennsylvania. Hardest hit was Mcadville. where an overflow from French Creek covered sections of the city with icy water that was hip deep in some places. The Allegheny and Mononga- hela rivers spilled inlo several low streets in Pittsburgh. The Ohio River reached a crest Ihere. The theme this year is "Prod ucts of Education." Judges for the regional fair junior and senior divisions are Harold Hendrickson, Altamont Junior High School: Earl Graham, Henley High School, and Dillard Shipler. Bonanza High School. Primary and intermediate judges are Ronald Wilkerson. Peterson School; Charles Hale, Malin High School, and Blanche Montgomery, Stearns School. David J. Davis, assistant prin cipal of Mills School, is regional coordinator. PASS TAX CUT WASHINGTON (UPH-The Sen ate passed and sent to the White House Tuesday night a bill reduc ing the excise tax on night club and cabaret checks from 20 to 10 per cent. The measure was approved by voice vote without debate. The Treasury opposed the hill nn grounds it would cost the govern ment 20 million dollars a year in revenue. Whopping Fortune SAN FRANCISCO ll'PII Two spinster sisters lived in obscurity here for more than three-quarters of a century with a lorliine of nearly seven mil lion dollars. The sisters, Killlh and Lucy All.vnc, were declared Incompe tent in 1958 hy reason of illness and old age. When Kill 111 died May 11 at Hie one of 1.1, she left most of a three million dol lar estate In charity. Lucy. 8., has property valued at $.1,6110.0110, according to ap praisals filed in Superior Court by the guardian of their estates, the Hank of California. She is gravely III at Children's Hospital and in a ?oma much of the time. The two estates hold many properties jointly. The mtal hold, ings are made up largely of slocks, bonds and San Francisco real estate. Compromise Offered On Bill WASHINGTON API - A new compromise was proposed today in the Senate dispute over proce dures for registering Negroes un der Ihe voting referee section of Ihe House-passed civil rights bill. Sen. John J. Carroll 'D-Coloi offered Ihe compromise. It sound ed like a compromise t hat Repub lican Leader Everett M. Dirkscn of Illinois said earlier he would support. Howev er, Soul hern scnalors made plain they were not ready to accept it. Carroll's proposal would retain Ihe House provision for uncon tested proceedings by court-ap pointed relerecs empowered to register Negro would-be voters who complain of discrimination by local officials. ; " ' " ' MOSQUITOES will be lured within this lamp-like trap, if plans work well. Four trapi are to ba set in the area to count mosquito types and numbers, preparatory to control plans. J. 0. Vertreas, county agent, gets an explanation from two authorities, Fred Lewis of Corvallis, left, and tavern Miller of Portland, right. Midwest Storm Viewed By Space Weatherman CAPE CANAVERAL, Fl.i. (API A robot space weatherman was hurled inlo cubit around the earth today and within hours apparent ly had photographed Ihe storm known In be moving into Ihe Mid dle West. Scientists at the National Aero nautics and Space Administration and the Weather Buicau wanly avoided any direct statement that they were gelling hack any suc!i dramatic proof of outstanding success. Hut Dr. Harry Wcxlcr. duel scientist of the U.S. Weather Ru lean, told a reporter be believes signals Irom the satellite's cam era transmitter "will show a pic ture o( Ihe Midwestern slorm which we know is on lodav's wealher map." The immediate aim ol the whole project is to develop a system lor observing and forecasting such major weather movements. Asked if he himself had seen a visual representation ol the sig nals radioed hack Irom Ihe satel lite. Wcxlcr said he had seen some of them. He added lliat he leels when properly reconstituted they would be very uselul lo meteorologists as indications o' cloud cover as sociated with ma.ior storms. As to whether the reports com ing hack from the new satellite vcrc actual pictures, Wcxlcr said: "li s a question what you mean by a picture." But he repeated that he leels "we are getting very line results that will he lied in with this slorm that occurred in Ihe Midwest luday." The scientific package went up on Ihe nose of a huge Tlior-Able rocket just alter dawn. The robot weatherman was boosted inlo orbit trom this mis sile testing station at 6:40 a. m. NASA in Washington promptly reported the flight itself was suc cessful. Shortly alter noon. Wcxlcr said signals coming hack wercp0ac0, as well as Ihe interest of enough lo let us know that there is something good there." Radio orders had been sent out lor the now satellite tn lake pic tures of the earth cloud cover as it swung it'.erhcad, and In transmit them back. Dr. T. Keith Glennan. NASA di rector, told a reporter information had been received, but Ihe agency was not yet certain whether it consisted of photographs of (he cloud cover. "Wc are hopeful that Ihey are pictures." he said, "but whether they arc we do not know at this point." He added. "I don't waul any nonsense about pictures until we know whether or not wc have pic tures." Dr. Hugh Dryden, assistant di rector of NASA, lold a reporter it was hoped that pictures of the cloud cover might be available later in the day, at which time Ihey would be released by the White House. Dr. Abe Silverstcin. director of space (light projects for NASA, said the satellite had achieved an orbit fairly close lo the one orig inally planned for it, which would be a circle of about 380 miles Irom the earth. Silverstcin added lhal the satel lite was injected inlo ils orbit al an angle within three one - thou sandths nf a degree of that planned lor it. The space agency said the orbit actually achieved would lake the satellite 4.'!5I2 miles from the earth at its nearest point and 4K8.28 miles at its farthest point NASA said all the experiments were "currently working and we expect to obtain data from it Asked whether the satellite had A 7 ' '"'7 ' ' 7: ' & ' Sri iX : I obiained any picture inlormation, Silverslein said, "We do not have pictures yet that you could con sider lo be pictures, but we ex pect lo have them." He explained that the ground stations have interrogated the i satellite but it takes time to in crprcl Ihe results, lie said lliat I "all we have yet are some dots, ibui there's a good chance wc might have pictures today." j The new satellite was olficial- jly names Tiros I. I II carried cameras designed tn photograph the earth's cloud cov er and relay them hack, providing data which scientists hope will help in iurecasts ot such greater weather nhcnnmpna nc hiii-ri. I,.. Strife End Gets Backing From America I'NITED NATIONS, N Y. 'API The United Stales today threw its support behind a resolution In have the U.N. Sccurily Council call lor an end of Soulh African racial segregation policies. But reports circulated that Britain would kill the proposal with a veto. A vein would most certainly mean an emergency meeting of the 82-nalion (jeneral Assembly In lake up Ihe situation which has erupted into violence almost daily for more than a week. U.S. Delegate Henry Cahnt Lodge led off this morning's meeting ol Ihe council with a dec laration that events such as Ihe racial si rife in Soulh Africa might he more dangerous to peace than some international disputes. He appealed In the Soulh Af rican government lo reconsider its racial policies in (he interest of juslice. It is nut loo late lo reverse Hie tide in South Africa," he asserted. Lodge s.pokc as some council members said they had been in formed by Britain that the resolu tion, sponsored by Ecuador, would be vetoed. Sir Pierson Dixon, the British delegate, simply lold newsmen: "I am not revealing my intention." Lodge called the resolution "constructive." As the showdown in Ihe council neared. violence continued in South Africa. One Negro was shot dead hy police Thursday night, three others were wounded, and live policemen were injured. Sporadic clashes broke out iround Johannesburg as police chased bands of Negro demon strators who stoned trains, street cars and private automobiles. The Soulh African government lias challenged the right of the U.N. lo intervene. Its delegate, Hcrnardus Gcrhardus Fourie, was to lead oil today's debate in the Sccurily Council. It was expected lie would insist again that Ihe race troubles are an internal matter. CLEMENCY REFUSED SPRINGFIELD. III. lUPl) Gov. William Stratlon Thursday denied executive clemency lo Ba sil (The Owl i Bangharl, notori ous prohibition era gangster and convicted accomplice of the late Roger Touhy. Banghart and Touhy were im prisoned for Ihe 1033 kidnaping of John (Jake Ihe Barber) Factor. Both escaped Irom Stateville Pen itentiary in 1042 but were recap tured a month later. ' y:r'
