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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 29, 1960)
U.OF 0S2.LI3 1m Tk Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS End of the year business note The new compact automobile that came on the market a li tie more than a year ago mad up 30 per cent of 1961 produc tion of autos in the United States They are reported to have hai some unexpected effects on busi ness in general. For example: Their manufacture requires less iteel, less rubber and less of other materials than the bigger cars that have been popular dur ing the past decade. To that extent, they are bard on the pro ducers of steel, rubber and the ether materials that enter into the manufacture of cars. They use less gasoline than the bigger cars and so, to that ex tent, they are hard on the gaso line industry. But- ' The economists tell us the sav ings in operating cost, capital cost, etc., STAY IN THE POCK ETS of the purchasers of the compacts. These savings can be used to buy OTHER TtUNUS. Thus they are good for their owners. They are good for the nroducers of the thines whose purchase and ownership is made possible by the operating savings f the compacts. So. vou see. we can't sav that the compact automobiles will be bad for business as a whole. . Conclusion: What we call "business" is a curiously complex thing. What is one man's poison becomes an other man i meat. And vice ver- From the automobile industry to the tourist industry is a natur al step because the .majority of the tourists who visit our area travel by automobile. And, in Oregon, what is coming to be called tourism is our third larg est industry. It is exceeded only by lumbering and agriculture. So let's take a look at our tourist industry. In 1936, Oregon initiated a mod est program of national advertis ing of its tourist attractions. In that year, its advertising budget was $50,000. Its tourist income was $35,000,000. In 1937. the ad vertising program was increased to $100,000, and die tourist in come rose to $40,000,000. The ad' vertising program remained at $100,000 until 1941, and in that year the tourist income was $51, 000,000. Because of World War II, tour ist advertising was discontinued from 1942 until 1946, when it was resumed with an appropriation of $150,000. In that year, the tourist income rose to $83, 500,000, The advertising appropriation re mained stationary until 1952, by which year the tourist income had risen to $121,000,000. By gradual steps the adver tising appropriation was raised until in 1959, the Oregon centen nial year, it was increased to $400,000. In that year, the tourist income amounted to $176,000, 000. In 1960, the advertising ap propriation was reduced to $350, 000 and tourist income dropped to $170,000,000. As a taxpayer, you may want to know where the money Ore con spends to advertise for tour ists comes from. The answer is interesting. IT COMES OUT OF THE POCKETS OF THE TOUR ISTS who are attracted to Oregon How come? It works like this: The money to advertise Ore- eon's tourist attractions is ap propriated by the Oregon State Highway Commission. It comes out of gasoline tax receipts. The tourists who visit Oregon by au tomobile pay the Oregon gaso line tax. In 1960. Oregon spent $350,000 for tourist advertising. The tourists who visited Oregon this year paid $3,559,479 in gaso line taxes. Which is to say: The tourists who visited Oregon this year paid in Oregon gasoline taxes about TEN TIMES as much as the ad vertising cost and in addition they left 170 million dollars in Nfcw MONEY in our state. As a business deal, that is pret ty hard to beat. Negro Wounded While Sleeping SOMERVILLE. Tcnn. (AP) - An evicted Negro sharecropper, asleep in a tent in this racially tense county's "tent city," was wounded early today by a shot from a passing car, Negro lead ers said.- Sheriff C. E. Pattat could not be reached. He was reported out en an investigation and unavail able for an indefinite period. The Rev. June Dowdy, a vice president of the Fayette County Civic and Welfare League, said Early B. Williams was wounded "in the fat part of his lower right arm. Weather Klamath Fails aad vidatty Fair through Friday. Lew Taura day alibi U-Z3; hifk Friday 4J- a. High yesterday 3S Low last light It Preelp. last 24 hoars Baoe Since Oct. 1 1. 19 Same period last year 1,00 iiss - v.' 'z' .hj r GOLD TIE IARS, models of Great Northern Railway's first locomotive, the William Crooks, and letters of congratulation from GN President J. M. Budd are displayed here by three GN employes honored this month for 25 years of service with the company. They are, from left, Mike G. Brunner, conductor, .2525 Eberlein Avenue; Paul P. Stafford, engineer, 517 North Fourth Street, and Francis W. LaSalle, engi neer, 2016 Wantlanef Avenue. They knew Budd when ha was superintendent of the Klamath Division early in the 1940s. Copco, PP&L Merger Plan Is Announced In Medford PORTLAND-(AP) The merger of Pacific Power and Light Co. with California-Oregon Power Co. appeared a virtual certainty to day., 'It looks as though there are no legal or other obstacles to it," Albert S. Cummins, president of California-Oregon, said today at Medford. He declined further comment, . saying only that the two firms will issue a release Fri day. . - Pacific Power officials said at Governor Approves Plans For Department Revamp SALEM (AP) Gov. Mark O. Hatfield today approved the re organization proposals for the De partment of Agriculture submitted by director James Short. Short said reorganization would go slow, with a few new positions and some internal promotions now. He said it will not add to operational costs. 'We have developed a realign ment of the staff to meet present responsibilities or duties," Short said. 'We plan to activate more fully existing authority in the field of consumer protection and service. We also propose additional per sonnel for an agricultural develop ment division to better serve the ML 'LI 9 M 1 - 1 I N2Jfi?APEa SECTION V ' ' Price Tea Ceats 20 Portland that they could not com ment, but added that the release will come Friday. Merger proposals were disclosed several months ago, and at that time both firms said studies con cerning it were underway. Pacific Power would be the surviving company, a release said then. Pacific Power operates in Ore gon, Washington, Idiho, Wyoming and Montana, and last year had gross operating revenues of about $63 million. California-Oregon op producers in Oregon." . The reorganization will make the present Division of Market Development the Division of Ag ricultural Development and ex pand its activities. It will create two positions of assistant director. One will super vise livestock industries including veterinary services and the Divi sion of Animal Industry. The other will supervise consumer and trade activities, including all food in spection except for meat. The plan also will create a De partment Audit Service, elevate business management service to a division status and add an ad ministrative assistant to the director. Pages erates in Southern Oregon and Northern California and in 1959 had gross operating revenues of about $25 million. As news of the impending an nouncement came, California-Ore gon stock was being offered by sellers at $44.25 share. It has jumped since merger talk be gan. Its low point earlier in the year was about $33. Pacific Pow- er stock stood today at an asking price ot $42.25 a share. Freezing Temps ' ' ' ' V Stay In Oregon By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Freezing temperatures gripped Oregon overnight as skies re mained -mostly ' clear and sunny today. All Weather Bureau sta tions except those on the coast reported freezing temperatures. East winds through the Colum bia Gorge sent. Portland's low down to 23. Salem had 27, Eu gene 24. In Eastern Oregon, Baker reported 15 and Burns 16. Icy spots made travel danger ous on many roads. The Oregon State Highway Department report ed ice at Astoria, Tillamook, Eu gene, Bend, Government Camp, Santiam Pass, and at the Wilson River and Sunset summits. Some patchy fog persisted in the valleys of Southwest Oregon and extensive fog and .low clouds blanketed Eastern Oregon along the Columbia River. Forecasters said a weather dis turbance would weaken the pres ent pattern, bringing cloudy skies to Northwest Oregon Friday. The Weather Bureau said there would be little immediate temper ature change. Lows of 15 to 25 tonight were forecast for Eastern Oregon, and 22 to 32 for Western Oregon in the interior and 32 to 42 on the coast. Shooting Times OREGON December 30 7:05 a.m. 4:45 p.m. CALIFORNIA December 30 7:04 a.m. 4:41 p.m. City Stork Derby Offers Gifts To First Baby Of the New Year The first baby to be born in ath Basin Grade A Milk Pro Klamath Falls hospitals in the duccrs a month's supply of milk, upcoming new year of 1961 will other gifts for the newest ar be the recipient of a host of rival include a case of 48 cans gifts from the Herald and News of Gerbcr's Strained Baby Food Stork Derby promotion. ifrom the Market Basket; a 3 When the New Year begins sift certificate for the parents to at midnight, Dec. 31, the contest will start and the watch will be gin to select the newest arrival. The gifts for the youngsters and his parents will range from a month's supply of milk to a box of SO congratulatory cigars for the baby's father. Payless Drug will be offering the box ot cigars and the KJam KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, Flash Fire Fatal to 12 Canadians LACOLLE. Que. (UPD - A flash (ire, sparked by an explo sion in an overheated stove, razed 1 an isolated farmhouse on the Quebec-Vermont border today, killing 12 persons. ,. Marjorie Vosburg and 11 of her children were trapped in their wooden home by the fire. Her husband, Abel, and one other' child escaped unharmed. Police said the oil burner in the house apparently exploded at 2:30 m. When firemen arrived 40 minutes later "the whole thing was over," police said. Police identified the dead chil dren as Doris, 19: Ray, 17; Rob ert, 15; Phyllis, 13; Catherine, 10; Audrey, 9; Beverly, 7; Robert, 4; Caroline, 3; Leo, 1, and Dowayne, months. The father and surviving child managed to grope their way through flames and smoke into the yard which was covered with nearly a foot of snow. They were bundled up in warm clothing and taken across coun try in 10-above-zero weather to their nearest neighbor's home. Bodies ot the victims were taken to Clarenceville, Que., about five miles away. Vosburg was unemployed. Last summer he worked at a cannery here and then had done brush cut ting on roads. Besides Allan, there were three other surviving children not living at home. Royal Pair aj J H Q CIS 00 111 To Trouble BRUSSELS Belgium (AP) : King Baudouih and Queen Fabiola flew homeward from their honey moon, today as 15.000 demonstrat ing strikers surged through Brus sels, smashing windows and over turning automobiles. The king and his Spanish-born bride of 14 days interrupted their stay near Seville because of the Socialists strike against the gov ernment's austerity program. Officials of the Socialist-led Gen eral Workers Federation had crit icized the king for remaining in Spain during the crisis, Near the heart of the capital demonstrators stoned a movie theater advertising newsreels of the sovereign s wedding on Dec. 15. The demonstrators stayed clear of Brussels' neutral zone, where police riot squads were ready to break up any effort to enter. The Brussels Palace, Parliament build ings, government offices and min istries are located in the zone. Nixon Assistant Takes Back Job WASHINGTON (AP) - Herbert G.' Klein, Vice President Richard M. Nixon's press secretary dur ing the election campaign, will go back to his old job as editor of the San Diego Union. "My basic decision has been to slay in the newspaper business, Klein said Wednesday, "and with this in mind I believe that the growing Copley organization, which has 15 newspapers, contin ues to offer me the best opportu nity to follow through on many of the basic principles in which I believe." select baby wear at Bon Ba zaar: an engraved baby cup from Beach's Jewelers; a Mickey Mouse fecdine set from Wood's Drue. Klamath Theaters will give the; parents two free tickets to ei- sound of the stork can yet be ther the Tower or the Esquire plus heard will have to be awaited. $3 cash for baby-sitting fees. When the hour of midnight Big Y will present a deluxe'strikcs on Saturday, Dec. 11, the diaper bag: Miller's a 15 gift I Stork Derby begins. e THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29. I960 F Fill A NEW DISTRICT JUDGE. Hal F. Coe, 29, was appoint ed by Gov. Mark Hatfield Thursday morning. Here, Coe is shown at his desk in the Klamath Falls law office he shares with Attorney Glenn 0. Ramirez. The new judge has been a trial lawyer since his admission to the bar two years ago. He has been in Klamath Falls since May of this year. Coe accepted the position immediately end will be sworn in Jan. 9. EIGHT INJURED IZXPIO sions m . . bum BAYONNE. N.J. (UPD - A series of explosions raged through petroleum company in this ma jor U.S. oil distribution center Wednesday night and early today, injuring, at least eight persons and forcing 300 from their homes. Police and fire officials said the blaze at the Sun Gas Prod ucts Co. apparently started when an empty dump truck backed into a four-foot-high propane gas cylinder. The cylinder burst afire and touched oft a series ot eignt explosions. The truck theory grimly paral leled a viewpoint that the costly fire aboard the aircraft carrier Constellation last week at the Brooklyn Navy Yard was started when a fork lift truck struck, tank of diesel oil. ' Flames from the explosions climbed 500 to 1,000 feet into the night sky, and cast an orange glow on the Statue of Liberty, about three miles away in New York Bay. About 1,000 firemen, disaster and rescue workers were sent to fight the blaze, which destroyed the plant as well as 150 to 200 four-fool-high propane cylinders. The Jire was declared under con trol about two hours after the first explosion, but burned (or several more hours. The 300 persons who fled their nearby homes were allowed to re turn early today, but officials planned to inspect every building to make sure none was in danger of collapsing. They said most of the damage appeared to be glass breakage. Stanley Buchalski, plant man- certificate in their children's de partment: a sterling silver baby cup from Rickys; a pair of Little Yankee shoes from the House of Shoes: a baby blanket from the ! Fashion Villa, and three weeks free diaper service for "in town" baby, or three dozen gauze dia pers for "out of town" baby from Cherub Diaper Service. The stage is set and the New Year fast arriving, whether the Telephone Wmmt hi Rip ager, of Chester. N.Y., was criti cally burned when flames' con sumed the one-story office build ing where he' had been resting when the blaze started, The other injured were all In good or satisfactory condition. ' Mine Blast Kills Pair KINGWOOD. W. Va. (AP)-A mine explosion that sounded like a "great gust of wind" brought irageay weanesoay upon me near by community of Newburg. , Truman Burke and James Tarleton, both about 24 and resi dents of Newburg, were trapped deep within the Sanford Phillips coal mine when a gas explosion brought down tons of slate to block their route to freedom. Rescuers from this area as well as from Morganlown found their bodies shortly before last mid night. . Federal and slate mine inspec tors planned to enter the mine today to investigate. The mine, operated by Sanford Phillips, is located about 13 miles southwest of here. It had been idle for several days because of the holidays, bul employes entered Wednesday to bring out some loose coal. Ku Kux Klan Leader Quits Racial Battle OLDSMAR, Fla. (AP) - Bill Hendrix, grand dragon of the Kuj mux Man s southern Northern knights for several years, is quit - ting the klan because "I see no way to. stop racial Integration and it looks to me like the best thing to do is to accept it." He told The Associated Press Wednesday night, "I cannot agree to go outside the law to maintain segregation." . - The general contractor, twice an unsuccessful candidate for gov ernor on a platform of segrega tion, said ne would not "agree to such things as bombings and burning schools. But that's what the klan is going to have to turn to unless It agrees to go along with the laws," he said. TU 4-8111 No. 6570 Hal F. Coe, a young attorney who came to Klamath Falls in May of this year, was notified by Gov. Mark Hatfield this morning of his appointment as Klamath County district judge. The appointment will run until the next general election in November. 1962. It was made necessary by the untimely death of Judge D. E. Van Vactor on Dec. 14. ' . Coe, 29, learned of his appointment via a telephone call from the governor. He accepted the position im mediately "with great pleasure." "The office . of district! judge demands honesty and fairness and I will admin ister the law as I see it with impartiality and justice for all citizens of Klamath Coun ty," Coe said. The new judge will receive writ ten confirmation of his appoint ment within a few days and will take an oath of office on Jan. 9. As district judge, he will be re sponsible for handling a tremen dous docket of misdemeanors and traffic cases and will also con duct preliminary hearings in fel ony cases. Coe and Robert B. Kerr, 33, were recommended jointly to the governor by the Klamath County Bar Association last week. A poll of 45 local attorneys resulted in 19 votes for each man. Both men at that time indicated that they were interested in the posi tion and would accept it if it were offered to them. Coe is a Democrat and Kerr a Republican. Alter graduating . from North western College of Law in Portland in 1958, Coe worked as trial lawyer with the Posey and Wilson law firm in Portland. While in law school, he was a law clerk for two years for Cir cuit Judge Martin Hawkins in Portland. He received his bache lor, of arts, degree, from Oregon iikite college in corvallia. At the age of 29, Coe will be one of the youngest district judges in the state. He has, however, been a trial lawyer for two years. Since May, he has been in part nership with Glenn D. Ramirez. Their law office is located at 432 Main Street. . .... "I have always been interested in a judicial career, Coe said, "By accepting the district judge position, I will be giving up a good practice. But I welcome the opportunity to serve." The district judge is elected for a four-year term. Judge Van Vactor, before bis death, had served for eight years and was due for reelection in 1962. The position pays $10,000 a year. Coe was born in Burns but has Daring Young Man Beats Freight, But Not The Lav DECATUR, Ga. (AP)-A daring young man who drove his car five miles down a railroad track, over trestles and a bridge right in front of a fast freight train, will spend the next six months safely in jail. . "I'll be swan if I know why we didn't run over him or why he didn't run off a trestle or some thing," marveled train engineer J. B. Broom. Police who rnshed to the scene and arrested Theron ' Luther George Jr., 18. also had words of praise for the young daredevil's skill in negotiating the track and trestles in the early morning dark ness without a mishap, with Broom's train whistling impatient ly behind. But DcKalb County Judge Os car Mitchell was not so impressed. When I asked him what was his excuse he just said he was guilty and didn't have an excuse," the judge commented in passing sen tence Wednesday. ftrnnm said hft first, snnlted the L,r ijnIf anno the Soahnarrt Air Line tracks ahead of him at u am Tiiihiv 11. loft wh.l (running on the crossties between the tracks and its right wheels on the dirt right-of-way. Every time the driver came to a trestle he pulled all four wheels up on (he crossties and bumped on across, the engineer said. "If we'd come on that guy any where else along there we'd have overrun him sure. We happened to see him on a straight stretch, but after that we lost sight of him because of all the curves and hills and 1 didn't make more than seven or eight miles an hour because 1 was afraid I'd overrun him," Broom said. I Broom said every time his train Weather Northera California Fair through Friday; warmer la Saa Joaquin Valley. Mt. Shasta-Siskiyou area Fair with Utile temperature change through Friday. P$t spent the majority of his adult life in Portland. He and his wife, Betty, and three children live at 1120 California Avenue. One of the new judge's favorite recrea tions is skiing. NASA Chief Quits Post WASHINGTON (UPI)-T. Keith Glennan. chief of the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis tration, submitted his resignation today and said the United States is again "pre-eminent in the con duct of research and develop ment." ... Glennan's resignation is effec tive Jan. 20, the date President elect John F. Kennedy enters of fice. Glennan will return to the presidency of the Case Institute of Technology at Cleveland. In a letter accepting the resig nation, President Eisenhower said that NASA in its 27 months of existence had "compiled a record ot achievement of which every American can be justly proud." Because of the organization and program you have helped to create, Americans can look-for, ward to a remarkable future In space exploration," the President wrote Glennan. '1 ., He added: "It is hard to realize yet inexorably true that the near future will hold such won ders as the orbital flight of an astronaut, the landing of instru ments on the moon, the launching of the giant Saturn, and the recon naissance of Mars and Venus by unmanned vehicles." Glennan submitted to the Presi dent an 11-page summary of NASA accomplishments sine its creation Oct. 1, 1958. Glennan said that his agency had set up an organization cap able of handling science and tech- . nology for space exploration and exploiting space technology and vehicles for beneficial use. went over a trestle he looked down, expecting to see the wreck age of the car on the highway below. 'We crossed three trestles in all and he wasn't down there un der any of them." Creeping' along in the darkness so as not to smash into the rear of the car, Broom said after crossing an overpass "we saw him standing there right in the middle ot the tracks and laugh ing at us and waving bis hands. So I laughed about that time, too, and got out to see what had hap pened. "I didn t get a chance to talk to him much because the cops came up about that time," he added. Police had . been tipped - previously that a car was run ning down the track, its head- - lights on and horn blowing. : ihe engineer said when the po lice were leading George off to jail he shouted for Broom to get a cable and pull his" car off the tracks. I reckon he was afraid a train might hit it," Broom said.- Solved! Another Herald and News read er has solved ' a problem through the Want Ads. TAKE ovtr Mymtfiti en 14 Mtrcury l-Ow hardtop. On ewntr. TU 2xxxx. It took six days to get results for this car advertiser, but a two-line ad six days is only KOO-and there's a 50c dis count for cash payment, Use the Want Ads tor your own needs. A want Ad writer will be glad to help you word year ad. Just telephone TU 44011 or drop hi at 1301 KsplanaaV. 1 I
