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Newspaper Page Text! The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS How-to-stop-lhe-rccession note: The AFL-CIO policy committee headed by UAW's Walter Reu ther, issues a study saying thai President Kennedy's recovery program, even when put into ef fect, won't stop rising unemploy ment. The study adds: yif President Kennedy would adopt an AFL-CIO suggestion for a quick, temporary five billion dollar tax cut, the way would be clear for resumption of full em ployment and production." What is the suggestion? It would work like this: For a period of several months reduce the federal withholding tax, which is held out of pay checks, by enough to amount to about $100 per month per person. It is calculated that in a period of four or five months this would amount to about five billion, dol lars, which would be left in the pockets of those affected by the reduction. The reasoning is that they would go out and SPEND the five bil-! lions thus left in their pockets and this free spending would lift the nation out of the current re cession and put us all back on the high road to prosperity. It's an intriguing proposal. Sure enough, it would add five billion (or so) dollars to the SPENDABLE income of those of us who would be concerned. And it is quite certain we would SPEND it. It must be conceded that the free spending of some five billion dollars in the next few months would tend to stimulate business. Spending is what MAKES business. But There's a catch to it. The catch is this: While the tax reduction would ADD five billion dollars to the nation's total spending it would at the same time SUBTRACT five Mlion dollars from the govern ment's INCOME for that period. So. what it would amount to would be adding five billion dol lars to what is already on the cuff. Which is about 300 billion dollars. When added to what is on the cuff, this five billion dol lars will begin drawing interest, Interest on what is now on the cuff amounts to about nine billion dollars a year. This nine billion dollars is added to the cost of government. The cost of govern ment has to be taken out of the pockets of the taxpayers. Back in '1840 which seems almost no longer ago than day before yesterday the TOTAL cost of the federal government of the United States was only $9,- 062.032,204. It is now up around 80 billions. ' Which is to sav: If in the next two decades the C03t of our federal government in creases as rapidly as it has in creased in the past two decades, it will be getting up in the neigh borhood of three quarters of a TRILLION dollars. It's hard to escape the feeling that it's about time to start TAKING IT OFF THE CUFF IN STEAD OF PUTTING MORE ON, Klamath Falls and vicinity Considerable cloudiness through Wednesday with occasional snow tonight and Wednesday. Snow lev el variable from 2500 to 4500. High 35-40. Low 28-33. High yesterday . 43 Low last night 23 Precip. past 24 hours .04 Since Oct. 1 7.77 Same period last year 4.36 U.0P ORE.LIBRART NEWSPAPER section oiG oocciam bit. COUP. Price Ten Cents 13 Paget KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1961 Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 66.'2 Weallier Northern California Fair through Wednesday except show ers tn extreme north Wednesday; little temperature change. Ml, Shasta Siskiyou area Fair today, cloudy tonight, show ers likely Wednesday; little tem perature change. ECennedy Fights; n Kin Takes Mews Calmly On Winema Forest Name By RUTH KING ; I To Mrs. Copperfield, now 79,1 learned that trouble was coming The announcement that a newly it on'v another chapter in the and she rode post haste to Captain created national forest in t h en slolT ,r moe me mooocs, jdc mp , wnose lives nave ueen so aras- was ner cousin, anu Knowing mu Ucally changed by the white man. ihe would die fighting, she rode s .tlry. K-v .l--r'' lL 'v Klamath country is to be named for her famous grandmother, Wi nema, did not excite Mrs. Anna May Copperfield of Bonanza. Congo Rebels Pulling Back After Threat Mrs. Copperfield was a grown woman when Winema died. Dur ing her youth and young woman hood she saw much of her grand Kennedy Gripes About Billboards WASHINGTON (AP) Decrying billboards along new superhigh ways. President Kennedy said to 'y that if the states don't reg ulate them It may be necessary to adopt federal controls or a spe cial billboard tax. In a special message to Con gress on highways, Kennedy urged that the states be given a bigger incentive to adopt their own control programs. As things now stand, he said, a handful of large advertisers are reaping a great windfall from the new roads through signs which "tend to detract from both the beauty and the safety of the routes they line." Abandons Ship HOLLYWOOD (API-Sir Carol Reed has withdrawn as director of the film. "Mutiny on the Bounty," Metro Goldwyn Mayer! Studios announced Monday. Studio sources said the with drawal was caused by "differ ences of opinion between Rce.-' snd the studio." LEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo (AP) President Joseph Kasavu bu's 'government today joined: with two other anti-Communist1 Congo forces in a united front against leftist rebels.' As they signed a military agreement, the rebels were reported withdrawing a spearhead pointing toward Leo poldville. U.N. spoiler planes reported Antoine Gizenga's leftist soldiers pulled out of the base they set up m Luluabourg, leaving their ad vance units stranded. Thus the military threat to Ulis capital seemed to have faded away at least temporarily as suddenly as it began. The soldiers from Stanleyville, where political heirs of slain Con golese leader Patrice Lumumba have their headquarters, occupied Luluabourg last Friday after traveling halfway across the Con go. Luluabourg lies about 500 miles east of Leopoldville. Ad vance units had pushed 100 miles or more toward the capital. U.N. reports said the rebels ap peared to have lost heart after being ordered off the Luluabourg airport by Ghanaian soldiers of Ihe United Nations. In addition a U.N. spokesman said, they seemed to have become suspici ous of negotiations going on be tween their own officers and of ficers of Uie Luluabourg garrison. The airport incident started Monday when a detachment of the original Congolese garrison turned up demanding a share in the guard duties. The airport was then being manned jointly by Ghanaian U.N. soldiers and a detachment of the Stanleyville soldiers. The Ghanaians refused to let units of both Congolese factions stay at the airport. "So they requested them all to leave," the U.N. spokesman said. The military pact signed today brings together the squabbling anti-Communist leaders in the Congo at least for the time being. An agreement signed in Elisa bethville, capital of the secession ist province of Katanga, provides badly needed aid for Kasavubu's disorganized forces. It was signed by Premier Jo seph Ileo. who represented Kasa vubu's Leopoldville government; Albert Kalonji. leader of the mul ing state of South Kasai. and Ka tanga President Moise Tshombe. to beg him to submit peacefully and return to the reservation and to warn the whites of danger. But her mission failed and momer ana rememoers sun ner ireacnery ana war lonowea. rilv'-OvSTAV A uuwuig duuum iwu auu hci gican ",ne savea aieacnams me, tvHVv?,;ATa -.r o mi s. v.uuuci iiviu i i-kaitcu. r.wA:v:fiur.xT:i papers, when as ambassador for; Indians were ready to scalp him, EsjXTrWfWv in JJCUilc sue idiicu lu Washington, D.C., to testify about her first-hand knowledge of tlieMeacham, 5 r -"V"v 14" rW eranamouicr win nun i ita viv:uiffli7'Aihr i. o them." She referred to Col. A. B. fcY'AWAX'A U.S. Army, present for 15&?AK -council near the lava fMUml I Bv EDWARD COWAN I WASHINGTON (UPI) - Presi dent Kennedy asked Congress to day to cancel a scheduled one cent cut in gasoline taxes and raise other levies, chiefly on heavy trucks, to get the federal highway program out of financial trouble, The President said In a sDcciallwav buildinc prom-am on sched- message that "our federal pay-jule. as-you-eo highway program is in The President took critical aim peril." He said the $41 billion su- at - billboard advertising and perhighway program would fall raised the possibility of a federal Modoc Indian War. From childhood Winema was known to her tribe as "Woman of the Brave Heart," and as Wi nema. To her husband, Frank Rid dle, a white man, she was Tobey. She was wise in the ways of men, both red and white, and sought peace between them instead of war. Winema had little formal school ing, none beyond the first grade, Mrs. Copperfield recalls, but she learned rapidly, inspired her daughter and three sons to learn and taught her grandchildren "to spell small words, like cat and dog." Because of her wisdom and her friendship for the whites, and the confidence of the Modocs, she became an interpreter, seeking always to bring about a peaceful relationship between them. She knew, too. every crook and cranny of the lava beds where the Indians were to make their last stand against return to the Klamath Indian Reservation. She knew where to find underground! water for the warriors and where to hide guns and ammunition but she hated war, Sho was in Yreka when she the peace beds. Winema was, as is her daughter, Anna May Copperfield, deeply religious. She became teacher and a missionary people. She lived out her Yai-nax, Klamath Reservation, and died of influenza about 1918. She is buried at Whiskey Creek in Sehonchin Cemetery at Sprague River. Her grave is marked only by a "very small stone," her granddaughter said, and her peo ple rarely go to pay her homage. Mrs. Copperfield cherishes a picture of her illustrious grand mother, gowned in a fitted dress of the time, her hair piled high upon her head. Her son, the late Jcif Riddle of Bonanza, father of Mrs. Cop perfield, wrote the story of his mother in "The Indian History of the Modoc War. 'She has today," says her granddaughter., "many, many de scendants, living here, but all have lost the way of the Indian. They know nothing of the wicki up, the foods provided by nature. the baths in the Ice - rimmed streams, nor the religious rites and the prayers of the old days, MRS. ANNA MAY COPPERFIELD Rusk Questioned On Arms Policy WASHINGTON (AP-Secretary of State Dean Rusk faces con gressional questioning today on reports he favors shifting away from a policy of "massive retal iation" and advocates a big build up in conventional military forces. The buildup by the Uniledl States and its allies is said to be favored by Rusk to meet the dan ger of bnishfire war and lessen the risk of a nuclear conflict. Conventional forces would be used to combat any Communist military aggression that might be staved off without use of nuclear weapons. Massive retaliation, as enun ciated by the late Secretary of; Slate John Foster Dulles, would put primary reliance on nuclearj weapons as means of combatting Communist aggression. Rusk's views were given in a secret paper to Secretary of De fense Robert S. McNamara. Rusk's appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Commit tee today was scheduled several days ago. Informants said Rusk favored holding oil the use of nuelearl weapons until a communist at tack reached a more massive level than would have triggered atomic retaliation under the Li senhower administration's policy In defense language, this is known as raising the atomic threshold High officials made clear that the U. S. government still plans to draw on its atomic arsenal if necessary against Communist at tacks abroad. A story in Monday's Washing ton Star described Rusk's posi tion as this: "1. Use of the big missiles and bombers carrying atomic weap ons should be confined to deter rence of attacks on this country and deterrence of nuclear black mail " "2. Attacks on Europe should be met with conventional, non- nuclear weapons unless the ene my started to use nuclear weap ons. "3. Military actions outside Europe should be handled by our troops, rather than those of our allies, and we should use non nuclear weapons in meeting such aggression." Fatigue, Flu Attack Hospitalize Hatfield PORTLAND (API-Gov. Mark O. Hatfield is in "very good con dition today w ith normal tempera ture and blood pressure," Dr. Ralph Purvine, his physician said. He said that the governor is "suffering more from fatigue than Ihe flu." Hatfield was taken to Univer sity of Oregon Medical School Hospital Monday evening after being forced to go home at noon . "There has been no complete diacnosis vet," Dr. Purvine said The covcrnor had an excellent night, slept well, and had a satis- factory breakfast today." He explained that the governor: was brought to Portland to as sure him a complete rest. He said be thinks the governor will stay in the hospital until Thursdav or Friday. In the mean time, he is getting nis complete annual physical examination. Khrushchev Plans Visit MOSCOW (AP The Soviet iovernment has let Ihe Soviet neoole know that Premier Khrushchev is thinking of a re turn visit to the United Nations and the possibility of a' meeting with President Kennedy while in the United States. Films of two of the President s news conferences were shown on television Monday night, includ ing newsmen's questions to Ken ncdy on whether he would meet Khrushchev if the Soviet premier visits the U.N. General Assembly opening next luesday. Kcnneny eplicd onk that he naan l ncara vet whether Khrushchev was coming The showing of the films wasi an unprecedented gesture. It also was the first time that the Soviet people learned that a new Khrushchev visit to the United Nations is possible. iCo&iiiri! C lean-Up Hits Roadblock The clean-up campaign of theithe subject of some cabins owned city council ran into a temporary six-month roadblock at the regu lar Monday night council meet ing in city hall. by Frank R. Weaver, 031 South Fifth Street. The cabins are locat ed adjacent to Portland Street. One of the buildings was owned The council had ticketed eighth Arthur W. Jolly and the other buildings for condemnation pro ceedings, but wound up with only two in the process of being torn down and the others getting from six montiis to a year's period of grace. The public hearing on the con demnations was well attended two by Weaver. Weaver informed that he had a to a carpenter the council land, told the council, We have Farmers . . . This advertiser got the desired results after several calls on this two-line Want Ad. iy- 4-.. M of Klamath addition, and was "1""' "Tne cllhin5 cre m 8 near stale oi condemnation wncn fought for years to have some thing done about the blight on our street. 1 represent the prop erty owners of the area, and we welcome eradication of this eye sore." Weaver blasted the area prop- chance to selieriv owners, sayinc. "You bouiiht and he could lyour homes at a cheaper price see no reason to condemn thelbccause those cabins were there. buildings. He agreed they were di lapidated and an eyesore, but and now you want them out of there. You have vcrv little to pointed out he would suiter fi-icomplain about." it was on lot 5. block 'nancial loss if they are con- If you have hay or olher feed, livestock, machinery or any other items for sale the handy way to convert it to cah is through the Herald and News Want Ads. ft's easy and inex pensive. Just telephone 4-8111. or stop in at 1301 Esplanade. A Want Ad writer will be glad to help you word your ad. Pay cash, or pay your telephoned ad In five days, and receive 50 cents discount. owned by U.S. National Bank. R. H. Lung, trust officer, ap peared and indicated he had no objection to tearing down the one structure, but stated there were other buildings on the lot which were in acceptable condition. The ( A building on lots 9 and 10, block 77, Klamath addition, pres ent home of the Fritsch Bakery, also was an object of condemna tion. Schorlgcn said, "The build ing lacks maintenance, is ex tremely dilapidated, termite In fested and the foundation is rot ling out in places." The building is owned by War ren Poole, 10 Lawrence Street. Poole informed the council thai he was aware of the condition, and that it housed a "going con cern" while the other buildings tt.kn-4 Vnali-h rirutful ,h. nm.il in rdrr when me lwin8 condemned were vacant res- i .u. i r.,ni:idenccs Ul llrt: IHWWl.T n,av,n grant appreciate the council's ef fort to clean up the city," Poole I bought them, weaver said.gj,,, (o answcr Weaver, "and I have improved them somci ,,,.:i mj each year. They are getting bet- six.monih delav in the s8kI- "but ' hard ,0 H 8 bus ter and better, and I see no rea- . . and'.alcr ln Uie "KS5 overnight. son to condemn them. ; .. , Uered ,m, . He ,aid the bakery had been Vein Schortcen. building in-i.inn m authorize continuation of 'he for 27 years, and that Louis council stated it had only the onejspeclor, stated that the buildingsindpmnatjon ni-oceedines with a rrilsch. the owner, would not structure in mind, and Lunclwere not safe structures nor fit Uii.nwiih delav in carrvina it move his business, but would agreed that if would be t o r n for habitation. !out. Weaver would either haveCose il oul- down. Residents of the area appeared to have the cabins torn down orl Fritsch said, "I hate to Condemnation activity ran Into to support the condemnation. Ibrought up to code within thai I its first delay when it took up Lawrence Wesllund. IMS P o r l-six-monlh period i (Continued on Page 4) be Dr. Purvine gave his report to press conference at Salem. There will be reports issued at the governor's office at 9:30 a.m., 3:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. daily. asolomie Tqji Demands Increased Levies To Meet Cost Of Federal Highway Program "when our slump-ridden economy needs greater, not less, construc tion activity," Kennedy said in his 2,500-word message. Administration officials said Kennedy was not proposing "anti recession measures but was merely ti-ying to keep the high five years behind its 1972 target date unless it gets $900 million more annually. 'Passenger care are payingl more than their fair share" of the i with arguments in favor of his! cost of the 41,000-mile highway network, Kennedy said. He re quested higher taxes on diesel fuel, tracks over 26.000 pounds. tires, inner tubes and rubber used for retreading. Kennedy said Congress should continue the gasoline tax at Uie present level of four cents a gal lon. It is scheduled by law to drop to three cents on July 1. The President declared he was wholly opposed to cither stretch ing out or cutting back the highway program. He also said it should not be financed by borrow-. uig or charging tolls, but should be kept on a pay-as-you-go basis by increasing highway "user" taxes. Congress authorized the system of limited-access, multiple-lane highways in 1956. The federal government pays 90 per cent of Hopes Soar For Algerian Peace Iravis Cross, the governor siie cost, the states in ner rent nor's work is proceeding without interruption. Gerald Frank, chairman of the Advisory Committee on Planning and Development, is presiding in Hatfield s place at an economic conference of business, industrial and labor leaders. Warne Nunn administrative assistant, will pre side at the governor's cabinet meeting. Gov. Hatfield will sign the bill today to issue $10 million fori higher education dormitories and other structures. Cross said all of the gover nor's engagements have been can celed through Friday. He also said that the reins of the office won't be turned over to Senate President Harry Boi- vin. Under a 1959 law, when the governor is incapacitated, he can vacate the office temporarily. Cross also announced that the hospital had been instructed not to give any information about the governor's condition. All of this information will be handled by Cross "so that only accurate in formation will be given out, he said. Hatfield was taken ill less than an hour after he held his weekly news conference Monday morning at Salem. Reporters in attendance said he had looked fine at the conference. Hatfield left his office and went home, and then was rushed to Portland by car late in the afternoon. He was admitted to the hospital about 7 p.m. Ac companying him on the trip here were his doctor and Mrs. Hatfield. The illness of the 38-year-oldi governor came in the midst of the legislative session, and in the midst of wrangling between Hat field and the Oregon Public Wel fare Commission. Any slowdown would be unwisethese . tax increases, Kennedy saia, u snouia noosi me gasoline tax to 4' j cents a gallon. Noting that former President Dwight D. Eisenhower had unsuc cessfully sought a 4' j -cent gaso line tax, Kennedy said: "Tlus is clearly acceptable and would have my support. However, I pre- ler not to raise taxes on the gen eral consumer at this time, and to emphasize a fairer allocation of the burden among those who use the highways. The President said it was "only fair" 'that nearly all the proposed $300 million in new levies "would come from the heavier trucks." He said "even this increase would not charge heavy trucks their fair share of the cost of this program." levy on billboards if the states do not control their placement more. strictly. Kennedy's message bristled tax proposals and against alterna tive financing plans which have been advanced in the past. He said $000 million year could be provided for the high way program by Congress pre venting Uie reduction in the gaso line tax. Ho calculated the value of his other lax proposals at $300 mulion a year. , Kennedy proposed these in creases in existing taxes: Diesel fuel, from four to seven cents a gallon. Trucks over 26,000 pounds, an nual license fee of $5 per 1,000 pounds instead of the present $1.50. Motor vehicle lues, from eight to ten cents a pound. Inner tubes, from nine to ten cents a pound Tread rubber, from three to ten cents a pound. If Congress refuses to enact PARIS (AP) Hopes rose today for a swift settlement of the cost ly six-year-old Algerian war as. President , Charles de Gaulle and Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba wound up their crucial talks on a confident note. After a day of closed-door meet ings in De Gaulle's heavily guard ed chateau in suburban Rambouil let, the two leaders said in a com munique Monday night Uwy agreed possibilities exist lor rapid and positive" settlement of the bloody conflict. Bourguiba, who leaves today, will stop off at Rabat for the fu neral of Morocco's King Moham med V. While there he is expect Bulletin TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) - New Jersey Slate Police said to day they have captured the al leged killer of 4-year-old Edith Kiecorius. A state police spokesman ald man using the name of Fred Thompson was picked up at a chicken farm near I.akchurst when he applied for a Job. The spokesman said the man Hdmltted killing the blonde girl In a tenement room In New York last Wednesday. V ed to report on his talks to Ferhati Abbas, chief of Uie nationalist Al gerian regime and other leaders of Uie National Liberation Front (FLN) also attending the funeral. Bourguiba's contact with Dei Gaulle may set Uie stage for di rect negotiations between the French president and the FLN which could end the Algerian con flict which has disrupted France's economy and military planning. The war has cost France $1 mil lion a day, tied up 400,000 of her; troops and claimed the lives of 13,000 French soldiers. Bourguiba and De Gaulle put out their guarded, but hopeful communique after more than four hours of discussions. The Tunisian president is well equipped for the delicate mission of bringing France and the rebel leaders together. With the Algerl ans' political and military head quarters based In Tunis, he has the confidence of most rebel lead ers and also of De Gaulle. ln their joint communique De Gaulle and Bourguiba said they reviewed the Algerian situation in the light of recent developments One recent development was the French national referendum in January which gave De Gaulle a free hand to implement his policy of self-determination for the Al gerians. The rebels have guard edly approved this as a channel for eventual settlement. Cuba Accuses U.S. Of Plot For Invasion HAVANA (API-Fidel Castro's government launched an all-out attack on President Kennedy's administration today and charged anew the United States is plotting to overthrow the Cuban strongman. The blistering attack was con tained in a lengthy note sent Mon day night to Latin-American for eign ministers. It was to be dis tributed later to the Organization of American States and the United Nations. The Cuban note recalled the in vasion charges Castro burled at the Cisonhower administration' a few months ago. Washington de nounced those charges as a cover up to divert the Cuban people's attention from economic troubles at home. Foreign Minister Raul Roa charged the United States with plotting a twofold plan(to bring down the Castro regime. The first phase would be an at tempt to overthrow Castro before the conference of Western Hemis phere foreign ministers in Quito May 24. If that fails an alternative plan woidd create conditions for indi rect military aggression master minded by the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency. This would be masked by a declara tion of war against Cuba by Guat emala, Nicaragua or Peru that would permit Ihe setting up of a beachhead on Cuban soil. An ar tificial provisional.- government then would be set up in Cuba and probably receive direct military aid. Twin Gypped MANCHESTER, England (AP Jean Holland Kclsall celebrated her 21st birthday today. And 63 years from now her twin brother Jimmy can do the same. Mrs. Kclsall was born at 11:20 p.m.. on Feb. 28. 1940. Brother Jimmy arrived three hours later on the Leap Year day of Feb. 129. t l"Wv",-l','",IBl' ...Hit BIG CASH prizes will be offered each week, (or the new Herald end Newt COINWORD puzzle contest. COIN WORD it 'a game that combines the fun of working a crossword with a chance of winning a minimum of $ 1 00. It will ttart In the Herald and Newt thit Friday. The idea it simple. The game it challenging. The prizet are big. r 1 i : - i a : HI -y,"""V Just work out the COINWORD crostword puzzle that will appear each Friday, utt at in the regular crossword . puzzlet you tee every day. All of the wordt will have tome of their lettert already filled in. Full detailt will be given tomorrow. - AM.''lWrtH . Y I?