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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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