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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (March 7, 1961)
In The- Day's km By FRANK JENKINS International finance note: As this is written the Bonn government of Germany is mov ing to revalue the West German mark to make it worth five per; . cent more in relation to the U.S. ' dollar. The move will increase the value of the mark from 23.8 U.S. cents to 25 U.S. cents. It is expected to help the U.S. out with its balance of payments problem. As of now (and for some time pastl the U.S. has been pay-i uig out more dollars to foreign ers than it is taking in from for eigners. As a result, our gold supply is slowly being drained away. West Germany, now VERY prosperous, is doing her Boy Scout deed to help us strike a balance. How will it help? , Well, it can help in three ways: First: It is expected to reverse the stream of speculative money that has been flowing from the U.S. into prosperous West Germa ny, where investment money is in demand and interest rates are higher than here. How will it do that? It will make marks more ex pensive in terms of dollars. In the past, the speculator who has wanted to transfer his money from the United States to West Germany has been able to buy .4.2 marks for a dollar. He will now be able to buy only four marks for a dollar, Second: It will tend to make American securities CHEAPER! for Germans. How? In the past, West Germans who have wanted to invest in American securities i have had to pay 4.2 marks for a dollar. They will now be able to buy a dollar for only FOUR marks. So- With a given sum in marks. they will be able to BUY MORE DOLLARS with which to pay for American securities. Third: The change in the value of the mark in terms of American dol tars is expected to make it MORE EXPENSIVE for American tour ists to visit- Germany. How come, you ask? It's quite simple. In the past Americans have been able to buy 4.2 marks for a dollar in Ameri can money. In the future, they will be able to buy only four marks. So their trip to. Germany will i.ust iwcm more. Presumably, when it COSTS MORE, fewer Americans will go there as tour ists. Conversely, it will cost Germans LESS to visit the United States. So, it is hoped, fewer Americans will go to West Germany to spend their American money there and more Germans will come to the United States to spend their Ger man money here. Complicated? It certainly is. But it will be easier to understand if you will remember that before you can buy anything in a foreign coun try you must first BUY THE MONEY of the foreign country with which to pay for it. A German shopkeeper, for ex ample, will no more accept your DOLLARS in payment for his merchandise than you would ac cept German marks in payment for your merchandise. Four Killed Near Drain DRAIN (AP) An automobile carrying four young men from Cottage Grove skidded on the wet pavement near here early today left the highway and plunged into a creek. All four died, It was the worst single accident traffic toll in Oregon since the seven members of the Howard; Lemon family died in a plunge into a roadside lake southeast of Eugene Nov. 1. Those who died in today's acci dent were identified by state police as: Robert H. Peters, 21. the driver. Wesley N. Johnson, 21; Michael W. Snell, 19; and Gary L. Glass, 18. The car was westbound on Highway 38. police said, and it plunged into the creek just a half mile from the intersection with Highway 99. northeast of Drain. The car submerged in the creek. It later Was taken out and the bodies recovered. The deaths raised the March highway toll in Oregon to 8. and the year's to 68 in the Associated Press tabulation. Kite Record BLOOMIXGTOX. Ind. 'AP' Somebody must have told the boys of Sigma Alpha Mu fratei nity at Indiana University to go !W a kite. Thev have flown their kite 600 feet high. And they plan to keep it up there to set an endurance record for any other fraternity to shoot at. Weather Klamath Falls and vicinity Occasional snow (ate tonight and Wednesday, High Wednesday 35 40. Low tonight 25-30. High yesterday M Low last night JO Precip. past 24 hours' ,M Since Oct, 1 J.28 Same period last year 5.56 Mew - v t ' .-; "vv v.- i '- " - ' THESE TWO ITEMS were prominent in discussions of the city council Monday night. At left is a building owned by Milt Sessler and located at the end of Wantland Avenue adjacent to the railroad. The council emended its move to condemn the building and instead ordered Sessler merely to make the building secure against bums or children. It had been declared abandoned, dilapidated and a fire hazard by the building in Liz Taylor Medics Still Holding Hope LONDON (AP) Seven doctors held an urgent conference today at the bedside of Elizabeth Taylor and a friend said later "there's still hope." The doctors made no statement! on emerging from the room where the beauteous 29-year-old film star is fighting for her life against double pneumonia. "While her condition is still very critical, there's no reason at the moment for any fresh de spondency," said the friend, Su zanne Cardozo. The doctors believe she's maintaining at least a little of the improvement she showed this morning. Queen Elizabeths physician. Lord Evans, attended the doctors' conference. He arrived at Miss Taylor's hospital, the London Clin ic, shortly before the star s par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Tay lor. Their expressions reflected; the gravity of their daughter's condition. At one point, Miss Taylor roused from a coma and whis pered: "I want my mother." Liberals Hit Selection , WASHINGTON (AP) - Liber als open fire today on President Kennedy's nomination of Charles M. Meriwether of Alabama as a director of the Export-Import Bank. There was every sign that Mer iwether would be confirmed, pos sibly without a roll call vote. But senators of both parties asked for time to speak against him. Sen. Wayne Morse, D-Ore., said . had notijcd Kc'nnedy his intention of opposing confirma tion. Sens. William Proxmire. D Wis., and Jacob K. Javits, R-N.Y. planned speeches critical of Meriwether. Mark Battles Budget Cuts SALEM (AP Gov. Mark O. Hatfield said Monday that a legis lative Wavs and Means subcom mittee was guilty of "irresponsible fiscal procedure in ordering an 18 oer cent reduction in me De partment of Agriculture's budget He said it was not sound liscal procedure "to demand certain cuts without indicating w here they should be made or without pro- iding any measurement for mak ing them." Hatfield added that he was sur prised tlut the subcommittee's chairman. Sen. Francis Zicglcr, t-Corvpllis. would order the cuts in view of the fact that Zicpltr chairman of the Legislative Interim Committee on Agriculture "( i-phic In havp anv nf our igcncies br a party to this irre - uonsible fiscal procedure," Hat - lield said. The reduction amounts to $500. wo for Ihe biennium. Hatfield took a slap at the press for playing up chaiges against U.OF ' 411 Ie UGENE.OREa Price Ten Cents 12 Pages TO hum Canal Footbridge Branded Unsafe A footbridge that spans the A'appcared abandoned, lacked main-lwas Canal from Division Street to Ala- meda was labeled as'unsafe and , . .... . .. dangerous for children at the rcg-l ,..u,.uu ,t,fa M.iuib ""- city council. persons had been making fires in- City Manager G. S. Vergeer in-!side Ule building. The fire depart formed the council that the hand-impi aHdnH a rennrt that it con- rail of the bridge had been torn off by vandals and the underpin nings of the bridge were bad. He stated that it was a decided haz ard for the children that now cross over it to reach Ponderosa School. Vergeer stated that he had stud ied the history of the bridge and determined that it was construct ed by tiie federal government in 1945 at a time when the area was used for federal housing and access was desired to the Mills Addition area. He reported that Oregon Tech took over the bridge in 1958 with the housing. The Bureau of Reclamation s po sition, he told the council, is that it is not their concern, but he recommended the council either ask OTI to live up to its agree ment on the bridge or ask the bureau to tear it down Vern Sehrrtgen, city building in- spector. sa d the city had done some minor repairs to the hand rail and the underpinnings four or five years ago. Vergeer interjected that the city had a responsibility to s a f e- guard the public Councilman Walter Fleet moved to barricade the bridge, but after further discussion amended the motion to read that the Bureau of Reclamation be asked to remove the bridge as a hazard immed iately or have the owner main tain it in a reasonable condition. However, City Attorney Henry Perkins advised it is definitely not a city responsibility. The council continued its clean-lot up drive, eliminating two unde sirable buildings, locking another and granting a six-month stay of condemnation in another case. Biggest discussion c e n t e r e d around a building owned by Milt Sessler, Midland. This building is located adjacent to the Southern Pacific railroad tracks at the end of Wantland Avenue. Schortgen reported the building Chancellor John R. Richards ofleral seashore area on the coast the state System of Higher Edu- cation. These charges, dealing with Richards' activities on behalf Scaton, a Republican, supported of the United Nations, were madclthe proposal, while the Kennedy at a Senate Education Committee. (administration does not support! Hatfield said they were wildjthe plan. I charges and that the press was1 not fulfilling its responsibility in publishing Ihem. He said tliat. at this stage, he and Washington's Gov. Roscllini are opposed to a move by which legislature made a mistake in 195J California would obtain Bonneville when it set up a fiscal 'Committee power. Hatfield said they wouldjlo ride herd on state spending, icmain opposed until there was) "as I predicted," he said, "the "c ""d"m " " . '""'"'ronimatcf wants an increase ,have Per ns L1", Mme appropriation. That money coul I power is exported to California, Any kind of an intertie. heiscarch. !6ala - s"10 n0' lcave urcKor' ithout a power supply. Oregon 'does not want to be just a bridge'ihe iru B whether the leciv tor delivery ot power ana De leu oui. Hatfield reaffirmed his support! of the proposal to establish a fed ORS.L.IBRART 5PAPER SECTIOi .REF. AND DOCOMEHTS E inanpp had annarent fnnnda- ,. , . ,,,, ,. ,,;,:.. IllUIl dilU WcK dil dUiOLmc iiuio- ., ... . , . dni-c Hp riMwrlpH pvirtpnrp. that sidcred the building a fire hazard. Sessler was on hand to protest the action, saying he had a car- pentcr look at it and told the council "he said the construction! Farming Population At Civil War WASHINGTON (UPII - - The government has estimated U. S. farm population totaled only aooui 15.635.000 in April 1960 about the same as it was during the Civil War. The estimate, showing I960, farm population down to a record low 8.7 per cent of the national total, was released simultaneous ly by the Agriculture Department and the Census Bureau Monday. The Agriculture Department at the same time estimated 1960 net farm income at $11.6 billion, up about 3 per cent from 1959. The new population estimate chops about 25 per cent from previous government estimates of ;arm nonulation. If figures had been prepared with methods used in the past, the 1960 farm popu lation would have been shown at about 20.8 million, or about 11.3 per cent of the total population. In the past, persons were list ed as farm residents if they told census takers they lived on farms. The Agriculture Department said this led to the listing of millions persons who lived in rural see- tions but were not really farmers. The new plan counts only per sons living on places which the bureau classifies as farms. In ad- dition to dropping persons who do nut farm at all, this also ex cludes those on very small "farms" which do not produce enough to be officially classed as farms under a new census bu reau definition. The bureau's adop- near Florence. He pointed out that former Secretary of the Interior Hatfield said he disagrees w','l Ihe statement by Rep. Durno. n - Ore., that the park would be un desirable. Hatfield still believes that the he better sicnt on legislative re As to his plan to reorganize the state government, Hatlicld said atur might accept it will come , Tuesday when lh Senate vote on whether to create a department of commerce. COUP. lb mm Jfefe; KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, iispsiriedl spector and the fire inspector. At right is the footbridge that spans the A Canal in the vicinity of Alameda. It is used by children going to Pon derosa School which can be seen in background. The council instructed the Bureau of Reclamation to have the bridge torn down or repaired immediately. real good, that there wasllBj,fl t?ll1fl nnthine wronc with the founda- nun. , , : . ,. ,, , , which the building is located is one of the cleanest in the city, that he had torn down some oth er shacks around the building, and he had boarded it up, and locked it a number of times, only to have it broken open. (Continued on Page 4) tion of a tightened "farm" def inition in the 1959 Agricultural census excluded some 232.000 plots of 10 acres or less previous ly counted in farm statistics. Even if the old population esti mating method had been used, it would still have produced the low est estimate since government records were started in 1910. Farm population reached a record high of about 32 million in about 1916, Agriculture Dcpart-i ment officials said, and has been declining ever since. The drop has been especially rapid in recent years as farms have become big ger, fewer and more highly mech anized. The Agriculture Department' also estimated that net income for the average American farm resi dent in I960 was $986, up slightly from the 1959 figure of $965. Income per farm rose about 5 per cent $3,240 for each farm counted in the 1959 agricultural census. USDA says realized gross farm income rose to an estimated $37.9 billion in 1960, up more than $400 million from 1959. This fig ure includes cash receipts from farm marketings, payments from the government, and the rental value of farm homes plus the va ue of foods consumed on the farm. The value of home-produced foods declined about 8 per cent during I960. The Agriculture Department report say farm inventories rose in 1960 for the fourth successive year. Preliminary reports indicat ed that the value of crops, live stock, and other items in farm inventories increased $.'155 million last year. Burglars Steal ll1. Cyarcito iwlliy CXClCISC SAN ANTONIO. Tex. (AP) - Burglars who broke into a junior high school here didn't get any loot, but police say they got a lot! of exercise. Police said burglars removed a1 kylight and dropped into a rest room, only to find an inside door locked. They crawled back out. scaled a poich, jumped to a gym nasium roof, forced open another skylight, climbed to a basketball backboard and dropped into the gym. They didn't find anything worth stealing, so they played basket ball awhile and left. TUESDAY. MARCH 7. 1961 Kennedy In I II III fcIUliU On Schools WASHINGTON (UPD - Presi dent Kennedy today stood firm on his insistence that federal aid to parochial and private elementary and secondary schools would be unconstitutional even though a congressional leader has come out against him on the issue. The President's stand was re ported by Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield after Ken ncdy'i weekly breakfast meeting! with Democratic congressional leaders. A newsman asked Mansfield if Kennedy had expressed any con ccrn over the fate of his aid-to- education program in view of the controversy over whether paro chial and private schools should be included along with public In stitutions. 'His position remains the same, Mansfield said. He added that the question had been dis cussed at the meeting. House Democratic Leader John W. MrCnrmaek. Mass.. has bro- jkcn witn Kennedy on the issue. He insisted the other day that it would be constitutional for the federal government to provide long-term, lower-interest loans for construction and renovation of pa rochial and private school build ings. McCormack attended today's White House session. Members of the hierarchy ofl the Catholic church in this coun try, leaders of Kennedy's faith, have said they would oppose the school bill unless parochial and: private schools are included mi the federal aid program. They! have disputed Kennedy's stand that such aid would be In clear violation of the Constitution. Mansfield told newsmen that "what remains to be done is for Congress to take up this and oth er legislation in due course Bosses Told Jaycee Role 0. W. "Corky" Corbclt of Burns, one of the National Junior Chamber of Commerce's 10 vice presidents, was the featured speaker during the annual "Boss- Night dinner sponsored by the Klamath Jaycecs in the Wi- ncma Hotel Monday night. Corbett, elected at St. Louis last June, told the assembly of about 40 Jaycecs and their employers and guests of the Jaycecs' role in introducing young men to com munity leadership. Awards for service to the or ganization were presented to Ra dio KLAD. Television KOTI and the Herald and News during the evening. A film concerning Hie Jaycee movement in Oregon was shown. Holdup Victim LOUISVILLE, Ky. (APl-Lawr- encc Kerr, a policeman who has a second job as assistant manager uf a neighborhood theater, may lie a bit redfaccd today. He was held up for $521. Telephone T LeopdWl Sudan President Pulls Out Forces; American Task Force Turned Back WASHINGTON IAP) - Tk United States called off the send ing of a naval task force to the Congo area today after being in formed that the United Nations did not need the force. Tiie Navy announced that the four ships which had been head ing toward the Congo since Mon day were turned around this morning because "their presence is not required by the U.N. in Congo waters." Four shius including a destroy er and two i.mding ship transports with 500 Marines aboard were ordered Sunday night to change course as they were headed for a goodwill visit to Cape Town. They were instructed instead to head for the Gulf of Guinea, off I the Congo. One other destroyer proceeded on toward Cape Town. But this morning, the Navy said the four ships had been "ordered to reverse course and continue the goodwill visit to South African ports." Asked whether the ships would go into Cape Town, as originally scheduled, the Navy said that the next port ot call has not been decided. LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo (API Reinforcement for the United Nations garrison began arriving in Leopoldville today aft er Sudanese U.N. soldiers in a1 humiliating defeat were forced out Of the vital port of Matadi by the Congolese army. Arrival of the troops coincidedl with Sudan's announcement that it is withdrawing its 400 men from the U.N. force in the Congo. Su danese President Ibrahim Abboud accused the U.N. Command of carelessly deploying the Sudanese contingent at Matadi and failing to provide proper 'reinforcements! for the outnumbered garrison. The United Nations is trying to. negotiate its way back into the port city down the Congo River, and the reinforcements bolstered its negotiating position. Emergency arrangements were made to airlift 600 soldiers from Tunisia to the Congo Wednesday A U.N. spokesman said the van guard of 3,000 soldiers India Is Vl See You In Siberia MOSCOW (AP) Premier Khrushchev today invited U.S Ambassador Llewellyn Thompsonj to meet him In Siberia Wednes day to deliver a personal mes sage from President Kennedy. Embassy sources said Thomp son will fly to Siberia Wednesday but declined to disclose his exact destination. It is assumed he will meet the Soviet premier in Novosibirsk for exploratory talks on Improving Sovie'-American relations. This Is where Khrushchev has been busyj with an agricultural meeting. It is the same town that former Vice President Richard M. Nixon toured two yean ago. JAYCEES AND THEIR BOSSES gathered congenially Monday night at the Winema Hotel for the annuel Jyceti' '.'Bosses Night" dinner. The men are, from loft, Corky Corbett, Burns, National Jaycees vice president, the ipeeker; Lei Offield, manager of a local bank; Hal Loibla, a Jaycee and Oftleld't employe; John Heilbronner, club pfeii dent, and jrer Drew, past Jaycee. , $ V TU 4-8111 No. 6628 sending probably will arrive within a week. The United Nations called up its reinforcements after a week end of bitter street fighting be-l twecn U.N. and Congolese soldiers in Matadi ended with the surren der of the 135-man Sudanese gar rison A U.N. siwkcsman reiterated the U N. intention to put its sol diers back into Matadi. The United Nations has about 16.000 soldiers in the Congo. A cease-fire hung over the key port while negotiations proceed ed (or the return of the U. N. forces. The Congolese defiantly demanded that they be consulted on the nationality of the U. N troops sent there. A U. N. spokesman warned that 'if the United Nations fail to get back by peaceful means, it is em powered to use force as a last resort if necessary." Five men of a Danish supply. unit wore the only U. N. person nel remaining in Matadi follow ing the surrender and evacuation of the 135-man Sudanese garri son and a nine-member Canadian Committee Okays Reapportioning Bill SALEM (AP) A House rcap-ICapiiol Planning Commission, said portionment bill with support of Republicans and Eastern Oregon Democrats was approved Monday by the House Elections Commit tee. The bill that came from the committee headed, by Rep.. George Annaia, D-Hooa i Jdver, snowea little change from the plan which received unanimous support of House Republicans Eastern Oregon would lose only one seat, and that would go to Clackamas County, which now has; three. There would be some other small changes The plan would lump Hood River, Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam Morrow and Wheeler counties Into one districti with two representa tives. Wasco and Hood River now have one and the other four share one. Polk and Yamhill counties, which each now have a senator, would share one under the bill. Washington County would get an extra senator for a total of two, This plan, which would be a great victory for Eastern Oregon if passed, is expected to draw opposition from legislators repre senting populous areas. The Constitution calls for re apportionment every 10 years, based on population, and some had expected Eastern Oregon to suffer. A bill that would have the slate sell land jt htd acquired for Capi tol Mall expansion was aired Monday by tiie Senate Stato and Federal Affairs Committee. Foimcr Gov. Charles A. Spraiue vice chairman of the Weal her Northern California Fair to day and tonight; cloudy Wednes day with rain north of Eureka by tonight; warmer in north to night. Mt. Shasta-Siskiyou area Fair today; cloudy tonight; rain likely Wednesday with snow above 4,000 feet; warmer. communications unit Sunday. The withdrawal came after more than 24 hours of battle in which two Sudanese were killed and 13 wounded. Twelve Sudanese were missing. The withdrawal of the Sudan ese, announced on the eve of re sumption of the U. N. Gen eral Assembly's 15th session, dealt a blow to Dug Hammar skjold. The secretary-general has been making strenuous efforts to build up the U. N. Congo forces and appeared making some progress, with India offering 3,000 combat troops. Abboud, in pulling out his Su danese contingent, charged "Unit ed Nations decisions were vague, weak and helped to spread dis-. order." Amid the continuing mililSry and political confusion, the U. N. headquarters reported one suc cess. It said tiie emergency air lift of food to hundreds of thou sands of refugees in South KSsai Province had cut the famine death rate 75 per cent and the worst was over. he thought it unwise to sell the land. Spragui predicted the land be tween Union and D streets would. if sold, bring less than the state had invested in It. The committee also connidcrfd another bill that would appropri ate funds and initiate a program of expanding the Capitol Building. The bill would require the secre tary of state, state treasurer, the Board of Control, and Land Board to move out of the Capitol Build ing. These moves would help fill up the new Labor and Industries Building, and this would have the effect of preventing the proposed move of the stato Public Welfare Commission from Portland to Salem. The welfare move would be stopped because there would not be room left for the commission offices. A bill introduced by Sen. L. W. Newbiy, R-Ashland, would re strict picketing on farms during planting and harvesting seasons. Only employes of the farmer would bo permitted to picket and this would be permitted only in labor disputes involving wages. hours or working conditions. Newbnr said the bill was not designed to stop organizing or picketing but only to prohibit picketing by a third party. Sen. R. F. Chapman,' D-Coos Bay, introduced a bill that would appropriate $150,000 for a state board of intermediate) education. The seven-man board would have charge of the state commu nity college program.
