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In The- Day's km By FRANK JENKINS , The U.S. successfully rockets a chimpanzee - manned capsule more than 100 miles out into (pace and drops it into the At lantic ocean some 420 miles down range from Cape Canaveral. As this is written, there is no report en what happened to the chimp whether or not he survived. Ships and planes are scouring the area. As he entered the capsule for his trip out into the unknown, the chimp grinned and waved his arms. Observers said he "seemedj completely at ease about t h e whole affair." That's what it is to be a chimpanzee. You aren't worried about the future. Weather Klamath Falls and vicinity Considerable cloudiness through Wednesday with some partial clearing periods tonight and Inter mittent rainVednesday. Low to night 35-40. High Wednesday 4S-5J. High yesterday SO Low last night 37 Precip today .50 Since Oct. 1 , S.JS Same period last year 2.11 U.OF OnE.LIBnARt NSS?APR SECTION GSN.RErAND DOCUMENTS OIV. tUUEJdE.OBEG. Price Ten Cents 12 Pages KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, Tl'KSDAY. JANUARY 31, 1961 Telephone TU 4-8111 No. S!8 Wenther Northern California: Rain thli morning continuing In parts of Central California this afternoon; rain Wednesday north of Salinas and Stockton; snow In high moun tains', otherwise cloudy. Ml. Shasta-Siskiyou area: Rain this morning and again Wednes day with snow level near 5,000 feet: otherwise cloudy; little tem perature change. Reservation lands MayB The six chimps from which to day's adventurer was chqsen have been in training since January 2 By FLOYD L. WYNNE Members of the forest industry heard cutting plans for the next 'calendar vear miHinpH hv rpnrp. a sum ui 10 uicuiuu, i (senlativos ot the Rogue River, Timber Cutting xplained For Program Industry and psychiatric experts, headed by Major J. D. Mosely, chief of the bio-astronautics branch of the National and Space Agency, has been conditioning them for the fateful flight, which will be a vi tal prelude to manned space travel- Among other things, they have been trained to flick levers when lights go on. If they, don't flick the lever when the light goes on, they get slight electrical shocks through the foot. If they pull the lever at the right time, they don't get the shock. It is reported that they catch on quickly and soon learn to yank the lever. It is presumed that the lights re arranged in such a sequence that when the levers are pulled messages will be sent back, tell ing what is happening in the space capsule. The chimp in the capsule, it Is hoped, will provide the first care ful measurements showing wheth er mental faculties and reflexes are affected by the weird stresses involved in taking off in a rocket and floating in space without the familiar sensation of having weight. On this answer could de pend partly whether humans can ever go to the moon or Mars or elsewhere out in space. Animals have ridden up and down in rockets before and Sovi et dogs have even been brought safely home after orbiting com pletely around the earth. .But none of these was ever before analyzed to learn whether they can think and react normally. This is one of Ihe significant ele ments in the new test preparing for maq in space. Hmmmmmmmm. Maybe before sending its chimp off into space the National Aero nautics and Space Agency should have consulted , the navy, which has been watching a three-year-j old porpoise at its ordnance test station at China Lake, in Califor nia. Porpoises can swim at high speeds with little drag friction. They can transmit and receive sounds over several miles under1 water. They can withstand deep water pressures beyond the known capability of man and other mam mals. They can swim at speeds of 20i to 30 knots (25 to 35 miles) per hour. They can jump 15 feet out Fremont, Deschutes and Umpqua national forests and the Bureau of Land Management at a special meeting held at the Winema Mon day night. Estimated sales of limber avail able to this area for the calendar year of 1961 were listed as be- lion in the Fremont Fo-est, tween 274 and 279 million board feet Joe McCracken, Western For est Industries Association, han dled the meeting and aftci all timber groups had been heard from, summarized the outlined sales for the calendar year as 36.5 million in the Diamond Lake division of the Umpqua, 69.2 mil lion in the Rogue River; 85 mil Chimpanzee Takes Space Rocket Ride CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) The United Stales successfully rocketed a chimpanzee-manned space capsule more than 100 miles into space today and dropped it! in the Atlantic Ocean 420 miles down range. There was no imme diate report on whether the chimp survived. The capsule overshot its intend ed target by 130 miles, indicating that the Redstone booster rocket had not performed as planned. Ships, planes and helicopters raced to attempt recovery of the one-ton space chamber and its passenger, a 37'4-pound male pri mate designated simply No. 65. The majority of the recovery forces were stationed in the in tended impact area 290 miles down range. But other craft were placed on both near and far sides of the mark in case the capsule missed it. There was no immediate word on how near the bell-shaped cap tion damage on today's flight. The Van Allen radiation belts starl at a much higher altitude. Sen. Boivin Announces Tax Measure PORTLAND (API Senate President Harry Boivin, D- Klamath Falls, said Monday he and five other legislators would introduce a bill to permit properly taxpayers to pay reduce income taxes. The plan provides that a prop erty taxpayer could use his prop erty tax to offset up to 10 per cent of his Income tax. For instance, if a person pays sule fell to any of the recovery $100 property tax and owes $1,000 ships. I income tax, the income tax would The launching was a cr ucial i be reduced to $900. forerunner of a plan to send an American astronaut on a similar ride into space, hopefully within two months. The 60-foot rocket blasted off at 11:55 a.m. and roared away at a speed of 4,200 miles an hour. Six of the seven astronauts were spectators at the launching. If the chimp comes through the flight unharmed, one of the human space men may travel the same route within two months. Ships, planes and helicopters waited in the planned impact zone in the Atlantic Ocean northeast of Grand Bahama Island, ready to recover the capsule in which the chimp rode. The 37!i-pound male ape of the water, merely using their grinned and waved his arms when! lulling several sales ot reserva iion timber: 62 million in the Deschutes Crescent division, plus 27 million by the Bureau of Land Management and another 5 mil-! lion in the Deschutes area. McCracken opened the meeting by pointing out that a year ago, representatives of the forests had agreed to provide additional cut ting to fill the gap during the Klamath Indian termination pro ceedings. "We owe them a debt of grati tude for their performance," he informed the group. "The three nations! forests and BLM made or exceeded their estimated cut while Ihe Deschutes ran into right-of-way troubles, but still of fered 60 per cent of their esti mate. The plan outlined a year ago has been largely fulfilled. McCracken also explained that a decision was pending on the possible formation of a new na tional forest. He stated that J. Herbert Stone, regional forester for the U.S. Forest Service, was in Lakeview explaining the pro posal to residents there and would meet with Klamath Falls people Tuesday. Superintendent Ashley Poust, Deschutes Forest, and Charles Oglcby, timber stall man, ex plained the cutting plans for that forest unit. Ogleby explained that the al lowable cut is- 140 million of which 98 million would be'pon derosa pine and the balance oth er species. However, he cautioned that the actual cut during the coming cal endar' year would probably' be only about 110 million. Sales fori the same period will run about 150.1 million. He also explained that the for est plans to sell 56.9 million in the Crescent District. Ogleby also informed the group that as of July 1 last year there were 125 million feet of timber under con tract in the Crescent area, and 287 million under contract in the whole Deschutes Forest, Sales listed and approximate timber content were as follows Highway 97 Mistletoe, 1.2 mil- Browns Mountain, 20 mil Boivin said, "Everybody's talk ing about the need for property tax relief. Let's do something about it." He said the bill actually would not reduce slate income tax rev-j cnues by as much as 10 per cent. His co-sponsors are Sen. Ben lion; Musa, D-The Dalles, chairman ofilion of which 15 million is pine the Senate Taxation Committee; and 5 million white fir; Fall Riv Sen. Robert F. White, R-Salem; er, 9 million, mostly ponderosa and Reps. W. O. Kclsay, D-Rose-jpine. burg; Sidney Leiken, D-Roseburg, Little Walker Mountain, 30.7 and Raphael R. Raymond, R- million; North Deer Creek, 8.2 Helix. I million, mostly Shasta fir and Musa said he thinks the bill has hemlock; Moore Creek, 18 mil lion of which 7.7 million is pon derosa pine and 10.3 million Doug las fir and white fir; South Ice Cave, 15 million, mostly ponder- ecome MewMathnal Forest Regional Forester Says Plan Being Considered 1 - J f mri t , I r ; f TIMBER SALES PLANS for the coming calendar year and cutting information for both the fiscal and the calendar years were outlined to timber representatives at a special no-host dinner at the Winema Hotel Monday night. Shown here, standing, left to right, are Ashley Poust, Deschutes forest supervisor; County Judge R. R. Walker, and seated, left to right, Ross Youngblood, Bureau of Land Management, Medford; Howard Hopkins, Rogue River National Forest, and Joe McCracken, Western Forest Industries Association. .' ' .' - v:? ...-.:, ,' y i p ' " j S3 'I ' ' ' -- !9WK.-r v-Ui Vi ,' ",,s f - . - I J , I '- ( r EARL KARLINGER, district ranger for the Klamath District of the Rogue River Na tional Forest, explains cutting end sales plans for this area for the coming calendar year. Karlinger replaced Darroll Frewing who is stationed in Klamath Falls handling the timber of the Klamath Indian Reservation. J. Herbert Stone, regional forester for file U. S. Forest Service, informed Lakeview residents Monday night that a proposal is being consider! for the estab lishment of a new national forest from the Klamath In dian Reservation lands. Stone staled that headquarters for such a forest would be in Klamath Falls, and would consist of the en tire existing acres of the Klamath District of the Rogue River; part of the Silver Lake district of the Fremont, the Crescent district of the Deschutes, and all of the Indian Reservation with the possible exception of a part of the Bly district which would be added to the Fremont. Stone explained that the new forest would consist of 900,633 acres, would have an allowable cut of 90 million feet. He Didicatcd that such af forest would necessitate ad justment of adjacent areas. At present the Rogue River covers 886,493 acres but would be cut to 620,592; the Fremont Is now 1,254,608 and would become 1,217,292 under the new proposal while the Deschutes would drop from its present size of 1,659,370 acres to 1,587,698 acres. The estimated timber harvest was listed by Stone as 90 mil lion for the new proposed forest, 135 million for the Rogue River, 127 million for the Fremont and 136 million for the Deschutes, giv ing a total allowable cut of 488 million in the combined areas. Stone also slated tha: the tim ber harvest from the reserva tinn lands to be included In the new national forest would bring an estimated p40,fl00 in addition al 25 per cent funds for the conn lies. Hatfield Bill To Abolish Welfare Commission Is Introduced In House SALEM (AP) Gov. Mark O. a good chance in the Senate. Boivin's announcement added more conius.on 10 me tax picture, las nr ana wnne nr; soutn ice Hatfjed-S bi aD0lsh the state tails for nower and their fins for he was placed in-the cansule at1"" -a.x ommiuceave m.mon, mosuy ponuer-j ... Wcfare Commission was stabilizers. 16 a.m. Observers said "he seemed!SlemtcrJs-Ha',erD J' "' D-,osa Plne ,an msl'y rcloSB"18Iir,troduced in the House today. at ease about the whole thing." """, "u " "' "uu,er ,'d' u " &'."'"' Medical men picked him Mon-fe D-Madras-mtroduced their Lower Jack Creek. V m.lhon; day from a group of four males a income tax- been i '- What the navy wants to know Is that if porpoises can do all these things with nonchaiant ease and aplomb why can't man learn from the porpoise how to make his naval contraptions, such as submarines and torpedoes and Po laris missiles, perform even bet ter than they now are able to per form. ' But- You ain't heard nothin' yet. The porpoise makes peculiar sounds with its vocal apparatus and two females who had trained for the job. The choice was based on his physical condi tion and mental attitude. The slender, 83-foot Redstone soared smoothly from its pad, (Continued on Page 4) bright trail of flame tracing its course as it raced across a clear blue sky. As the hot rocket pene trated the cold layer of air in the upper atmosphere, a puffy white contrail appeared in its wake. -ape observers saw what aix- : ,L. u.. i . k. 1 Jl is suspeirieu uiai tiy llllclll Ul .nivu iu uc idpsuie ncpdiduun these sounds 'he porpoise c a n about 140 seconds after launch at COMMUNICATE with its fellowsjan altitude of approximately 35 and under water, at that. In 'miles. other words, that porpoises can, A 63-loot parachute was to pop to reverse an economic down- talk to each other. out near the end of the flight and turn. Republicans Maneuver To Stop Kennedy Plans WASHINGTON (AP) - Anyisce that there would be "no ill hance President Kennedy may digested stuff rushed through Con- have had lor a congressional hon-lgrcss. eymoon vanished today as Ik-pub- The Illinois senator said that if licans maneuvered to slow down (Kennedy's recommendations for a a program he said was needed It is reported from China Lake that the navy has an expert LISTENING In the porpoise. An- food for peace program, establish mcnt of a peace corps and a con servation corps and aid for dis ,drop the out on, bell-shaped cap-! With some conservative excep- tressed areas all were accepted sule gently into the waves. 'tions, Democrats called Kennedy'siby Congress, budget balancing The capsule also was equipped Slate of tk Union message a would eo down the drain. alyzmg the sounds it makes withi""" 'vc "mhm.t. rauio beacon, realistic challenge to tne Amcri-i sen. inruston B. Morton, K-Ky., its vocal chords. Trying to find flashing light and underwater can people to face up to their Republican national chairman. out WHAT THEY MEAN. nomD to make sure that the cap-'problems at home and abroad, i said Kennedy's address, delivered Maybe, the thinking goes, if Ihe', e . anrt ", J. i..A v... .ii iu. found. CV I idii iiiiu uui nun, an tin A part of the governor's broad program to reorganize the stale government, the bill would set up a public 'welfare division with-jgram in a stale department ot social services. The governor would choose the department head, nnvnmnr Hal field has demand ed resignations of four of the sev- Pni DpODDillCI members of the commission, 1 harging they failed to follow hisLaCJ Jq Qeath Hatfield in his efforts to move out, the governor will get some the slate Public Welfare Commis-jsupport from Democrats, who sion from Portland to Salem. iu.., j.tt t iinvG ii ii i ci ill n ui ujiuiiirii, luu. The Joint Ways and cle boundaries correspond with ei ther the proclaimed national for est boundaries or the boundaries of administered units. Therefore, administrative units under which these lands are organized will in no way affect the total timber harvest. The forester said it would cost about $137,000 annually to run the new forest unit, but indicated that the increase in the administrative overall costs would be consider ably less than this amount. Stone was in Klamath Kails Tuesday afternoon to explain this outline for the proposed National Forest to members of the Klam ath County Chamber of C o m-merce. No name has been selected for the new national forest, but it was indicated that it could not be called the Klamath since such a national forest already exists in California. He listed the annual income by counties of the 25 per cent fund distribution as $742,837 for Klam-j ath County at present with an In crease to $851,475 estimated for the future. ' Other annual income to county estimates included Jackson from, $466,545 to $500,078; Lake County Irom $405,007 at present to $519,-! 30O, and the Deschutes from $407,-! 857 to $408,000. other - countics would be boosted from $154,733 to $237,257. The total distributed to counties from these timber cuts would be increased from the present $2, 176.979 to $2,516,110. Spaak Quits NATO Post PARIS (AP)-Paul-Hcnri Spaak today submitted his resignation as NATO secretary-general to return to Belgium and lead his Socialist party in Uie next national election. The 62-year-old Belgian leader had been secretary-general since 1957, when he succeeded Lord Is- may of Britain. He said he hoped to leave his post at the beginning of March. He had been under Socialist pressure to return home follow, ing the month-long strike in Bel- ninm whir'h hi nariv ttA nnrl Stone told the group that lands j whic,h lpft snahhlinB and had. The result of the caucus makes certain that the governor can't expect solid support from his par Boy, 17. Held Ways and Means Committee introduced a bill to- Hav In inr-t-pacp rilipc' aharft nf for major parts ol his pro-1: 1 r ,n i . ,iiiiiuvi iccimn iiuiii iu iu m uii But, Montgomery pointed', f.,: ,n , a lOpcr cent cut. The counties now get nothing. Governor Hatfield favors the in creased share for the cities. A memorial asking Congress to adopt a proposed constitutional amendment to abolish the Elec toral College was introduced by Rep. Ray Doolcy, D Porlland. Sen. Vernon Cook, D-Tioutdalc, sponsored a bill to make all pub gram. Montgomery saio. He a'ldcd that he won't "try to passenger were Influential Republicans too kilo a joint session of Congress shove the governor's program sharp issue with the Prcsident's'Monday, "echoes' the cynicalldown 'heir throats." licics. The bill was sponsored by Reps. Robert L. Elfstrom, R-Salcm, and" LOS ANGELES (APt-A boy, W O. Kclsay, D-Roseburg. 17. admitted dropping a boy, 8, Rep. r. F. Montgomery. R-Eu- Monday night from a hotel roofijc agencies hold meetings open gene, snid today alter caucus ,0 nis ,calh on ,he gjdewalk jVe lo the public, and to require noti-i of Hou-e Republicans that thcyi , . , , rmHH 'firalion of newsnancrs. radio andl are uniled-but that some of them ' . .Ilelevision before mcetines are1 don't lil.e parts of the governor's ruira was Lni.siupucr wayncia nrocram who arrived here rnday with his; ' pr0Rram' , , , , , This anti-sccrccy bill wouldn't The Republicans in the House parents and younger brother from' . . m.infnr ,h ni,rmv are n.mg j luo:i: aan juse, i-diu. of hearing complaints about per governor wucie (jusjiuh. o,iuW. poM(.e (jhristopher and his some don't like parts of his pro- u (h Brian 5 wcre watchjnfi television in the hotel lobby when coming to the Forest Service from the Reservation contained 3.S bil lion board feet of merchantable! saw tinVicr and 970,000 cords of pulp species. He also indicated that the tim ber management working circle incorporating these lands will be formed which will result in the highest combined annual allow able cut for all national forest lands affected. He also explained that it is not necessary that the working cir-1 ly split. Spaak, who headed Belgium's first Socialist government in 1938, was generally regarded as the party's best hope of patching up Socialist differences before tin elections, which may come as soon as April. The Socialists are now tlie No. 2 party in Belgium, with 84 seats in the House of Rep resentatives to the ruling Catholic party's 104 members. If the So cialists wcre victorious, Spaak would become premier. Frigid Weather Leaves Ice Choked Waterways sonnet The Joint Ways and Means Committee entered a bill to let the 17-ycar-old invited Clirisloph-;t,e govCrnor fix salaries of state er to go up on the roof to play. ,0fjcias, and allow the Civil Serv- Carelully trained for this ven- contention that the U.S. economy brashness" of his presidential ture. the chimp was to punch was in serious trouhle and needed camoaicn. "At the same time," Morion aid. the s)cech "blends it with 'timidity and excessive caution." Morton said there was no need land re-entry into the almophere.iAmerica's position in the world. for America "to face the world A similar Project Mercury cap- Others accused the President of at large with a national counte- sule. empty except for instru, injecting partisanship into thelnance steeped ;n gloom and r mcnts. was fired into the same hluenrint he drew for the critical doubt." thought that if man can learn toj?Cneral area last Dec. 19 and wasldays he saw ahead. 1 Morton also questioned how talk with i porpoise maybe manrct0vered by a waiting ship in 48 Sen. Everett M Dirksen of llli- Kennedy intended lo remain with can learn to talk with a chim-imjnutes. It was not damaged. Inois. Senate GOP leader, signalledjin the budget presented bv for panee. In that event, all thatl t0 f u,e astronauts watcbcdls slowdown bv callinc for cxten- mer President Dwicht I) Kien. ouid need to be done would bejioHay j blastoff from the air. Don- sive committee hearings on most hower and also provide stronger so i,m, nn me cmiiiii oui in , a I a i-lavton was at the contra snf the Dronosa s Kennedv said he detenses hnsnita In orfnm The mother, Yolande Mayfield, 40 founds made by the porpoise HIF4V k nn - ,an frthnr nH Imih in TM K TO THF POR- var'ous levers during the jolting immediate corrective measures. POISE and Jisten while the por-minu, rJde J, sh"w rrac- 0h" f;01' members objected wis. talks ha,-k That wnl,ld!,lons ,0 ,he Mast-o". the five. strenuously to whal they called Breath- expedite the iob of getling'T'05 of ecne ''Rhtlessncss. Kennedy's down - grading of; information from (he porpoise That success the further; Pace! of a F106 jet. Walter Shirra rode;would submit to Congress in the That would really speed up tncjwith him. next two weeks. Dirksen said that acquisition of space knowledge. There was no danger of radia-lif they could, Republicans would ) tion, medical care for Ihe aged ana expanded lorcign aid pro-; grams. ice Commission to do it lor state employes. A seven member parks and recreation advisory committee would be created by a new bill by Sen. Jean Lewis, D Porlland. It would advise the state parks su perintendent. There are 31 Democrats and 29 was .writing a letter at a desk Republicans in Ihe House. j The older boy lold police he Montgomery said some don'tjsaid to Christopher on the roof: like the reorganization plan, and "let's look at the scenery." some think the governor's budget' "They leaned over Ihe parapet." is too big. Sgt. P. R. Brooks'said in describ- But he added that most Rcpubli-Jing Ihe 17-ycar-old's account. "He cans will support Ihe governor s said, men we started wrestling, A bill lo require examinations tax piogram. j around. The boy was hanging 0r voluntary patients as soon as This calls lor gross income ver llle irte of ,ne r(mf ni 'they enter state hospitals was tax ol one per cent, reduced per- 'c' him go.' sponsored by Rep. George Annala. sonal income taxes, and replace-l "We asked him why and he D-IIood River, at the request of ment of the personal property tax doesn't have an answer; Ihere's no the Stale Board of Control. with I tax on net business in-jrcspon.se to that question." I Its ournose is to oermil screen- The 17-ycar-old, identified hy ing of these voluntary patients, police as John B. Raleigh of Los'so IhfSl'-hose w!io aren't mentally Angeles, was booked on suspicion III can be turned away. Now, they come The end result would be lo leave total state revenue un changed. He said the GOP will supportjof murder. Ihave tc be held for 30 days. By THK ASSOCIATF.D PRESS Despite a warming trend over much of the nation the past two days, the icy grip of prolonged frigid temperatures is threaten ing to choke off traffic on major waterways in the Midwest and Northeast. Inland waterways from the Mis sissippi to the Hudson were caught in the tightening stranglehold of ice as the cold spell entered its 13th day for many areas. The Hudson was frozen solid from West Point northward to day with a convoy of four vessels locked in ice reiwrtcd to be 18 inches thick. The convoy has been battling its way from Albany since Friday on the 150-mile trip lo New York City. Riverboat men waged a losing battle against the ice-choked Mis sissippi near Cairo, III. Throe ice jams, two five miles long and one eight miles long, have all but halt ed traffic on the big river, A barge official said it would take 50-dcgrce temperatures and rain to break the jams. The reading early today was It. One Mississippi towboat captain described thf)lce situation is the worst he'd seen in 28 years. At Grand Haven, Mich., Coast Guard ships struggled to free a cutter locked tight in Lake Mich igan ice. Three other ships were freed from dense ice field Mon day. One of them, the Milwaukee Clipper, has been ice-locked three limes in as many days while car rying passengers and freight from Milwaukee to Muskegon. Mich, Army engineers at Pittsburgh reported traffic at a standstill on the usually busy Allegheny River. Traffic was reported moving but slowed on the Monongahela and the Ohio. Temperatures remained below freezing from the middle Missis sippi Valley northward with sub zero reading. in northern Minne sota and northern New England. Elsewhere a warming trend pushed the morony above freez ing from the Rockies and south central plains eastward to t h e middle and south Atlantic and Gulf states. West Palm Beech, Fla., report ed a high of M with International Falls, Minn., reporting a low at minus la, "7 1 o
