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carp. X Day's Sews Weather Klaaush Falls aad vicinity Fair lesay. Highs IMS. Lews U-M. High yesterday 4$ Lew last Bight II Precis, last 14 hours Nose Sums Oct. 1 l.lt Same period last year l.M Weather Northern California - Fair to day except for local eleudiaess sod fog. Mt. Shasta Siskiyou area Fair today aad slightly colder. By FRANK JENKINS This k the first day of the New Yer. What will the new year be UkeT . WeU- . j , In general It will be what we make it. Price Tea Cents it Pages KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, SUNDAY, JANUARY 1, 161 Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 6J7S Economic progress doein't just n happen. It it MADE TO HAP PEN. ... The economists tell us that hu J. man beings cannot live without food, clothing and shelter. Here In Far Southern Oregon and Far Northern California we have ALL ef these fundamentals. From our rich toil we get food, in wide variety. We get fiber for clothing. For shelter, we get building materials from trees. , And In addition We have WATER. . Water in abundance if we handle It wisely and prevent its theft by others w ho covet it. Water not only nour ishes our crops, including our trees. It provides us with power for the processing of our raw ma terials. So, you - - Here in Far Southern Oregon and Far Northern California we have ALL the basic essentials plenty of crops and livestock for food, plenty of fiber tor clothing. plenty of building materials for shelter, plenty of power for pro cessing our raw materials. And Not only do we have enough of I these essentials for OUR OWN USE. We have a vast potential SURPLUS of them for export and sale to others. It is out of export and sale of what is in surplus in one place to what is wanted and needed in other places that opportunities for growing trade and commerce arise. Is anything- else needed? Well . We could use more MARKETS But- Our markets are EXPANDING. Already there are IS million peo ple in California. The population of Southern Arizona is expanding explosively.. The whole Southwest is growing. Much of this growth is due to RETIREMENT. Re tired people want to get away from winter. Retired people pro duce little and consume much. The Southwest is a natural mar ket for Far Southern Oregon and Far Northern Californla.VD get the Markets if w eaa produce what the markets want at a price! they are willing to pay, We have another resource i tourists. Far Southern Oregon and Far Northern California lie midway between the far south and the far north on the Pacific Coast The Southerners travel north in summer and the Northerners tra- . vel south in the winter. Tourists spend a lot of money. It is NEW money in the areas where it is spent Our problem is to stop them sk they go through. No region m the West has brighter prospects for growth and development than Far Southern Oregon and Far Northern Cali fornia. But it won't Just happen. It is our job to MAKE it happen. Let's keep that m mind in looking for ward to 1961 and all the other new years that will follow it. POWER FAILURE A major power mi tag blacked out meet of the Klamath Bull Saturday afteraeea fer several hour when a buss bar Mew eat at the Cepee aula sabetatiea ta Klamath Falls. The Mew-eat cat the Basil's power supply by Mt.Mt veHs and caused aifftealty la reset ting circuits which were Warily loaded. . Not affected by the disruption were Chllequia, Fert Klamath, Labevlew aad AHaras which were fed power tltrwgh the Chllequia statioa. The W,tet volta ef power from the Ceoee plant were not salflcieat to car ry all masr etreaMs which aate matkally kicked off wbea switches were thrswa. Cspce said employes we at is work tan mediately replaciag boraed-eot equipment at the substatlea, bat the work leek several bears. Escape Car Is Located EUGENE (AP) An automo bile, identified as the escape car used by two men who broke out el the Oregon State Hospital Dec. 26, was found in Eugene today. One is an admitted rapist. Policeman Kenneth Behrend dis covered the abandoned car at the corner of 15 th Avenue and Law rence Street. He identified it by the license plate. The escapees are Chester Wayne fledrick, 25. of Portland and Ver non Wesley Strosb feak- li-rove. IT WAS CAKI TIME for the Klamath County Court and the many friends of Commis sioner Ed Gowen, left, Friday afternoon. Gowen, 71, was feted attar 12 years of serv ice en the court. The rest ef the court seems more interested in Gowan than in the caka. They are, from left, Judge R. R. (Bob) Walker, Commissioner elect Earl K. (Kan) Allison and Commissioner Frank Ganong. Goven Ends 12 Years Of Service la Court :-. .'). - ' .. Klamath County Court businesldon't 'standi on'reremony." .'' came lo a hall Friday tfS&M as steady stream ofsfrawds and well-wishers dropped m say farewell to Ed Gowen, ing IS years ef service on court - . . The farewell reception bet' 1 p.m. and lasted until. nVliwk with tha mtirfk. packed the entire time, flbehrfy Judge n. n. (Bob) .walker, missioner Frank Ganong Commissioner-elect E. K. (1 Allison presented Gowen wil copper plaque honoring him I for faithful service." He was given a pair of binoculars by J er county employes. The tion was organised by Virginia Ritchey, court secretary, "I never expected anything like this,'' Gowen said, when the doors swung open and be confronted a giant cake and table with cookies and coffee. "If I hadknown about this, it would have been 'busi- this afternoon. I Nu:.Armed Sub On Patrol CHAR TON, S. C. (AP)-The nuclear armed iwered and nuclear- ine Patrick Henry is sliding ilently beneath the stir face of Atlantic Ocean today. ready ta h her powerful Polaris ml illes at any aggressor. The big ib was sent to sea on a war y basis Friday, join- ing her s! sub, the George Washington, doubling this na tion's striking po,wer from under- sea launcmng 'try I SeakSsiiiig v ' ' I- i ........ I . By GIT W. VaRMER If Klamath County and Klamath Falls citizens are accurate fore casters, 1961 should be a stimulat ing year for business and indus try with few challenging prob lems. City and county government of ficials are optimistic about 1961 prospects while businessmen are generally more conservative in ' their outlook. Lumbermen, after a; disastrous year, are hopeful their sales w ill pick up. Here are the results of exclusive Herald and News interviews: Mayor-elect Robert E. Veatch; and City Manager G. S. Vergeer are enthusiastic about new con-gen said 1961 "will be a good struction in the metropolitan area.year for commercial building," They mentioned the destruction of: but added that "it's hard to tell the Pelican Theater and the con- PJ"U4ft 'Vtung lot on thej . m. ft Judge Wker ' said Gewns ii one of at men he's ever worked with and said his exneri- teTKThe problems of Klamath County wouldNbe sorely missed. Gowen was eWed to the court in 1948 after 'speeding most of his life as a salesmen. He was born in Klamath Fills April 24 and was a salesman for Van Riper Brothers aM the Pal ace Market hi KlamauvfiUs and In a general store In Chiloquin. We served with the Army in World War ' I. ;: , In 1923.. Gowen i married Blanche Gooding of SeaUle.who was teaching school in Chiloquin. They have one daughter, Mrs. Don Horsley of Bonanza. - Gowen's future plans are built around "enjoying life," as be al ways has. Ht intends to use his new binoculars to search for bucks during the hunting season, fish during tne tisning season ana to watch the county court, While Gowen was receiving his farewell, . Allison, the new com missioner, was meeting the peo ple he will be working with. He received a present too a shiny desk nameplate which was placed on his desk, fittingly enough, by Gowen. Allison will be sworn in officially along with other elect ed county officers Tuesday morn ing at 10 a.m. in the circuit courtroom, s .- The courthouse was "coffeeing" on two floors in a holiday spirit Friday. A goodbye party was held in circuit court in the morning for the retiring bailiff, Julian R. Abbott His successor, Fred H. Heilbronner, was on hand for the festivities. ! site, an addition to Safeway'slpccts 1961 to be the beginning of downtown store (with parking), the new $70,000 restaurant to be erected by Arthur Rickbeil near the Rickfalls Apartments, the ex panded courthouse and new juve nue home as progressive steps. "I would like to see a ground along Upper Klamath Lake - and an ' artificial skating rink," Veatch said. Vcrgcer said he would hope for closer city- county cooperation to give the area a community outlook. He also said Klamath Falls will nev er have a "truly bad" year due to Its diversified economy. City Building Insrwctor Verne Schort - about residential construction." The Klamath County Court ex- Business Code To Be Offered In Legislature EAI.PM (4D1 A nnn. imerpial. codci governing.- vii'tsiaily every kind- of business transact tion, will be introduced In the Oregon Legislature, Sam Haley, legislative counsel, said Friday. This ISO-page bill probably will be the longest at the session, which opens Jan. S, Haley said. It was drafted by the National Conference of Commissioners of Uniform State Laws. It has the blessing of the American Bar As sociation and the American Law Institute. Its purpose is lo modernize business and banking laws, and to have uniform commercial laws throughout the country. Sue states have adopted it. They arc Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Rhode Island, Ohio, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Jn the Oregon Legislature, the bill will be sponsored by the state Committee on Uniform State Laws, headed by James C. Dez- fendorf, Portland attorney. ' The authors of the code say it will help businessmen and bank ers by simplifying the laws af fecting them. They also say that consumers would get increased protection. Shooting Times OREGON January 1 7:H a.m. 4:30 p.m. January t 7:05 a.m. 4:30 p.m. CALIFORNIA January 1 7:04 a.m. 4:44 p.m. January I 7:04 a.m. 4;44 p.m. Ye&B' 'a long range road program. Thej Roads Advisory Committee is peeled to submit a detailed plan for road development. Several im portant highway projects will be started including extension of the camp-'Westslde Bypass across the Link River, completing of the Lake of the Woods Highway to Medford, additional construction on the Dia- mond and Silver Lake roads, and completion of the grading of the Adel-Nevada statcline road. Traf fic lights will be installed at Sum mers Lane and South Sixth Street. 'The courthouse and juvenile home iare county projects. A new commissioner with new ideas, E. K. (Ken) Allison will take office Tuesday and the year will see the first activities of the County Park Commission under ?e E&ira Federal Roosevelt Down Appointment PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP Kennedy Saturday gave to a rights, Robert C. Weaver of job of directing the Federal Agency. The appointment of Weaver to the topmost position ever held by a Negro in the executive branch of the gov ernment was announced by Kennedy at a news confer ence. Weaver was at his side on the sun-bathed dIUo of the Kennedy home. Weaver, 51, now is vice chairman of New York City's housing and redevelopment board. Long a civil rights champion, he is chairman of the National Associa tion, for the Advancement of Colored People. He has a doctor of philosophy degree from Harvard. In response to a question, Weaver said he favors the idea of "open occupancy" and non-discrimination in housing. He made that reply when asked whether he favors a requirement that to be eligible for FHA insur ance homes should carry no re striction against sale to Negroes. Weaver said he did not care to go into detail on that now, but went on to say he is against any discrimination in housing. Another question was what Weaver thought would be the re action of Southern Democrats to his appointment as boss of the teaerai housing program. With aj smile, he called , that - premature inquiry. - : . - V It will coit Weavers $1,500 'bi salary reduction to take, over retrtioni of the '41-fcral- housing program. His NewYork position pays in. MS annually compared with $21,000 in the new, position. Kennedy also said at the .news conference that he has offered a federal job to Franklin O. Roose velt Jr., son of the late president. but that Roosevelt informed him that he has other obligations. Kennedy asked Roosevelt to think it over and confer with him again in New York next week. Kennedy refused to say whether he is considering Georgia's Gov. Ernest Vandiver for secretary of the Army or some other position Lakeview Wildcat Well Hits 3,300-Foot Level LAKEVIEW - A wildcat oil drilling operation begun here Dec. 13 already has reached 3,300 feet in depth, said George Dabney, field superintendent for Humble Oil and Refining Company, Fri day. . Dabney said the company is not yet ready to disclose details of its plans here. He said, how ever, that the "J. D. Leavitt No. 1" well probably will be sunk to the 10,000 to 12,000-foot level. . Four crews of five men each are working around the clock at the drilling site along Lakeview- Alturas Highway four miles south of here. They are employed by Sun Drilling Company, contrac tors for the job. si fair Lloyd Hankins. "We're looking forward to 1961." ex-,County Judge R. R. (Bob) Walk er said, we believe In a pros perous future for Klamath Coun ty." Bob Kent, president of the chamber of commerce, and Bob Beach, president of the Klamath Merchants Association, agree that business was down slightly this year but expect it to bounce back, 'The Park and Shop system will increase downtown parking," Beach said. "Our business was olf this year but other areas in the state were hit harder. Kent mentioned improvement of recreational facilities, mosquito and algae control in Upper Klam alh Lake and development of way side park and picnic areas as top priority projects for the chamber. Turns President-elect John F. Negro crusader for civil New York, the high-level Housing and Home Finance in the new administration. The president-elect said he has a poli cy of not commenting on possible appointments in advance of their announcement. FBI Branded Meet Opens CHICAGO (AP) - Delegates from throughout the country held the first of three, weekend ses sions in a neighborhood meeting hall Friday night in what has been branded by the FBI' as a Communist-directed youth movement. Flashing credentials at a-guard- ed .door, the delcgalea4rastAbf tVm under 30 giiuid at an unassuming hall bovVrf'llBg alley on 'the NorthwesMMi Es timates of the number attending ranged from 30 to 78. Newsman were barred. Pickets, who identified them selves as members of the Fighting American Nationalists, marched outside watched by po lice. In a keynote speech released to the press, Mrs. Alva Buxenbaum, 23, of Philadelphia, heaped scorn on FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and called on the youth of the na tion to ignore his charges of Com munist direction. The tall derrick Is skeletal land mark by day and glowing beacon by night, and the object of con siderable curiosity to local resi dents. The company abandoned an other well at Grasshopper Flat 22 miles north of here recently. That shaft was started in July and went to 14,000 feet in depth, Though the area is volcanic, geologists believe oil and gas may lie beneath the thick layer of sur face lava. No oil exploration has taken place in the area before. The nearest similar project was con siderably further north. Nearest producing wells are in Washing ton and Central California. We have all the natural ad vantages here," Kent said, "and we want to have facilities ready - for the summer of 1962 when the Century 21 Exposition in Seattle will bring tremendous numbers of tourists to the Klamath Basin Basin economy will be founded on . a stronger basis in. 1961 George W. Mclntyre, First Fed eral Savings and Loan manager, said. He observed that inventories in all lines of business are at a minimum but said there should be a gradual rise in the spring. "The Kennedy program may ease credit and bring more mon ey into circulation," Mclntyre said. . Klamath lumbermen don't share the rosy view of the new year held by other businessmen. Both Ned Putnam and Bob Ellington, taste THREE COUNTY ASSESSORS are shown here during Friday's mooting ef the execu tive committee ef the State Association of County Assessors. The mooting was host ed by Clyde R. (Hap) Caldwell, center, Klamath County ossossor. Bob Kline, left, Lin coln County assessor, is president of the association and Glenn Horn, right, Jefferson County, is secretary-treasurer. The group discussed pending legislation and met with state representatives Carrol Howe and George Flitcraft during the afternoon. FBI Nebs Man Ferf Kidnaping InCoH I 1 ' L MO ANCHORAGE, a, CAP) A stocky H-yeaiv itum, nabbed biW-agenti yl iSworking.at, a restaurant near under $$00,008 boi na, m held lasartay in the kidnaping of w. thy Saa Die- go sportsman i An the D'Allessio. Richard Amado Hcrrtra Clava- sillo was the seventh person to be arrested la the cise.. The FBI said Clavesillo was a brother-in- law of one of the other six and used to work for another. He of fered no resistance. Officers here did not say wheth er Clavesillo had any of the $200,000 ransom which was paid before D'Allessio was released. In Los Angeles, however, FBI agents said all but about $18,000 has been recovered. Others arrested in connection with the case were Robert James Gorman and his wife, Ruby Elaine Gorman of Monterey Park, Calif.; Frank Marrone and Selma Clark Marrone of Los Angeles; Richard Lee Hoffman of San Die go and LeRoy Thomas Garvigan of South Gate, Calif. . Clavesillo was identified as Gar- vigan's brother-in-law. Officers said he formerly worked for Mar rone, who once owned a night club here. He was arrested at a restaurant in Spenard, a little town south of here. Magistrate Hugh While set bond for Clavesillo on a federal charge of flight to avoid prosecution. Po lice in San Diego said a Califor nia charge of kidnaping will be filed against him after he is re turned there. Allessio was kidnaped Nov. 22 and released unharmed Nov. 23. He and his brothers operate the Calientc, Mex., racetrack and the I Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego. owners of logging operations, fore-! see another slow year in that in dustry. "Railroad rates on inbound logs are double that in the test of the Northwest," Ellingson said. "We can't compete with areas that can haul logs for half of our rates," Ellingson said the recession in lumbering would be "over-all and inclusive." - - - t Putnam drew the lame conclu sions but had different reasons. "Building and construction peo ple have wages set way too high," Putnam said. "The build ing trades are hurting the lumber business." He said the demand for timber Is down because peo ple can't afford to build. In bis capacity as director of the South Suburban Sanitary Dis trict, Putnam envisions "no radi VU WASHINGW dent Eisenhower U.S. diplomatic; telligenco advist cuss reports of movements into from Communist Information of Red military threats bad been re layed to the State Department by the U.S. embassy in Vientiane at midday. However, It was no clear, officials indicated, what the Communists' intentions were or whether this was massive inva sion. ,i ; , One possible move would bo an appeal lo the United Nations Se curity Council for emergency ac tion to meet the developing crisis Another possible' countermove would be some redeployment of U.S. military power in the Far Pacific-South China Sea area. Officials repeatedly cautioned. however, that whatever was de cided upon would depend upon the size and purpose of the Commu nist operation. ' The White House declined to disclose in advance who was at tending the session with Eisen hower.. But reporters saw Acting Secretary of Stats Livingston T, Merchant and Allen Dulles, direc tor of the Central Intelligence Agency, enter the executive man sion. . - -.-.-. - The department of defense also was represented but it could not be determined immediately who spoke for that department. Before the White House confer ence Eisenhower' kept in . close contact by phone with officials of the Slate and Defense Depart ments and the CIA. cal changes" In the new year. His goals are to insure satisfac tory 'installation of sewers, re pairing of torn-up roads and the paying off of accrued debts, t A railroad man, Al Kusler, man ager of Southern Pacific in Klam ath Falls, says his business is dependent oh the lumber indus try and is similarly depressed "We anticipate a better freight business in 1961,". Kusler said, "partially due to our 'piggyback' or van-on-tiatcar service, rnts is economical for the truckers and keeps the heavy rigs off the high ways." Kusler said passenger business is poor and the trend will continue. The 40Mb Fighter Group at Kingsley Field anticipates anoth-l er "outstanding," year tor the lo tftiuiar and is- sktmiA todis- CoiamuaUt troop hdrtber Lass MrcVVig Nam: 'these reported AgeDDGif. 'm- ,1M tfaawr oaftontMa , . Meeemed to aotot out me series'' - M its which this viewed the sil To FC3 7cs.:l Cost $4 Mlllfea WASHINGTON (AP) Eight' concrete slabs that look 19m tow- ering bookends lounging in a rough circle. .That's the design picked for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial. But the choice may run Into controversy in Washington, which ; likes its memorials with a figure : of the hero sitting, standing, or ; perched on a horse - Francis BkhDe, chairman of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memo-; rial Commission, announced Frt- ; day that a Jury of five had picked ; the design by two New York ; architects, William F. Pedersen and Bradford S. Tifney. , The July,, beaded by Pietre Belluschltbian of the School of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of TecliiMlogy, was not unanimous, and the design still must win approval from the Ma-' tional Capital Planning Commis-' s km, the Fine Arts Commission, the National Capital Parks Com mission, and Congress. , The commission said the me- - mortal would cost $44S4,36 and take a year to build. It would be located between the Jefferson and Lineou nwmorials. . cal Air Force Installation.- " . . ' "Wo intend to continue our xeo - ord as the outstanding F-101B ouU fit in Air Defease Command." Col. Rupert C. Welch, base coo mender, said. ' "Statistics pro that we hold this distinction."! A new' armament electror building is due for completio 1961 and it is rumored thf will bo named for 1st Lt. Clatf E. Peoples, a radar observer lost bis life in April of this ; Lt. Col. Carl H. Leo, corrf er of the land Fighter-Inter Squadron, will attend the A College in Washington, D.f So, although I960 was f par year for the ares, ( phrase can . be borroW President-elect Jack F. I The Klamath Basin it I movi forward Id the Ms.,' (, 4 If I
