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Newspaper Page Text1m The- Day's km By FRANK JENKINS From Sacramento: A state official claims that visi tors to California have spent more money in the last four years than the state produced IN GOLD from 1848 to 1860. Charles DeTurk, chief of the California Division of Beaches, and Parks, said at the California Association of Convention Bureaus conference this week that the av erage California visitor spent $172 during 1959. He said the total visitor spend ing in California in that year was 839 million dollars or about TEN TIMES the value of the cold mined in the best year of the Cali fornia gold rush. Weaihpr Klamath Falls and virinitv Monday's' snow level of about 1.500 feet will rise to near 5.000 feel by Tuesday Bight. Clearing tonight; fair Tuesday with in creasing high clouds in afternoon. High Sunday 52 Low last night 55 Preeip. past 24 hours trace Since Oct 1 . 8.49 Same period last year S.96 U.OF ORE. LIBRARY NEWSPAPER SECTIOK COUP. rZff OEN.REF.AND DOCUISTfS JT. 1 ffj Price Ten Cents 14 Pages KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, MONDAY. MARCH 20. 1961 Won i her Northern California Two or three days with precipitation pos sible; temperatures near normal. Ml. Shasta Siskiyou area Cloudy through Tuesday; snow flurrie this morning; warmer Tuesday. Telephone TU 4-8111 Price Study Ready JET TRAINER Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. The gold , rush years wore GREAT YEARS in California. They were great years up here in Far Northern California and if Far Southern Oregon. They were glamorous years. We can't help touch of nostalgia when we look back on them. But If what Mr. DeTurk says is true and we have no reason to doubt it we have here in South ern Oregon and Far Northern Cal ifornia a potential resource that can make the value of the gold mined in the gold rush years look like pocket change. What is it? It's the tourist industry. In Medford the other day, rep resentatives of six Southern Ore gon and Far Northern California counties (including county courts on the Oregon side and boards of supervisors on the California side) spent the better part of a day considering projects to in crease our share of this tourist spending that in California year before last amounted to some 839 million dollars. Here are some of the possibili ties that were considered: According to the best figures WASHINGTON (CPU Attv Gen. Robert F. Kennedy has dis closed the Justice Department is investigating widespread price fixing in an attempt to "lower prices" of bread, meat, milk, drugs and other consumer products: Kennedy said Sunday that price fixing cases were being checked in 'almost every major metroiwl- itan area . . . including the city ofi New York and the state of New York, where rather important cases appear to be developing." He pointed out that an indict ment had been returned recently in Florida in connection with the bread industry and said that price fixing "is far more wide spread than people realize ... al most across the board in certain sections." "It has a tremendous effect oni the community when prices are fixed." Kennedy said. "As we've seen in the case of the electrical companies, when the conspiracy broke down, the price to the con sumer and to the Eovernment fell about 30 to 40 per cent. "I think the same thing hap pens where there is price fixing in these other areas. If we can have a vigorous program in this field, we're going to be able to lower prices in some of these important areas."- Besides the electrical equipment CRASHES ID . ftf . r m-z--mmi lr),'.''.-''M'r; ,',wji-;; - - - lV''ff jj. t s !r" rrc- 4 .- - v Crewman Killed, Pilot Survives available, 5,058.293 tourist visitors! and bread cases, he said. "We passed through our area in I960. According to the records of Ore gon's Tourist Information Division, minimum expenditure of each tourist visiting Oregon last year amounted to $6.24. Which is to say: If we could have induced each of the 5.058.293 tourist visitors who passed through our area last year to spend ONE MORE DAY with us. we could have added $31,563,748 to the economy of our Southern Oregon - Far Northern California region. In one year Here in our imaginary State of Jefferson, we have a peculiarly favorable situation to get tourist money. We are on what duck hunters call a FLYWAY. Most of the Eastern tourists who come West are apt to want to see the have a price-fixing conspiracy under investigation dealing with meat ... one dealing with milk . . . one dealing with other elec trical equipment also with drugs." By FLOYD WYNNE A T-33 jet, flying a target mission from Larson AFB, Washington, trashed into the Stewart-Lenox Addi tion ahottt 3:58 p.m. Sunday, killing one of the two crew men. It miraculously missed several homes, exploding and burning in a vacant lot. Both members of the crew ejected from the plane at about 800 to 1.000 feet and Mai. Maris J. Mason. 38. - - - ' ' . -j&4 nlQnrIfri'H Mace acviffnnrt Irt flio fl'li-H Rnmh Winrt n?- .'. srf - .A'JriVir- vis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, Arizona, was killed when his J i-yf ,,.,, ,:,., i ill- !" 1' The nilot. Lt. Col. John Mewha. 30. of 5fl07 Alexan- dria blreet, Tucson, Arizona, suitered a broken arm, rib and other injuries and is reported in good condition in the Kingslcy Field dispensary. The craft was en route from Larson AFB to Bealc AFB California, near Marysville. It was based at Davis Monthan AFB in Arizona, and was flying the mission as a part of the current nationwide alert. Business Picture Improves WASHINGTON (UPI The improved business outlook was seen today as ruling out any anti recession tax cut for individuals but President Kennedy still was whole Pacific Coast. To do so, ; reported in favor of new tax in they must pass through our area.; ti , stimulate investment. J. - Jim. Ft THE BURNED WRECKAGE of a T-33 jer is shown here in a vacant lot on Balsam Drive in the residential area of Stewart-Lenox where it fel Sunday afternoon about 4 p.m. In the background can be seen th jmashed garage of H. H. McCann, 4522 Cleveland. The crippled plane miraculously missed the McCann residence, hit the garage and exploded and burned in a lot surrounded by occupied homes. One member of the two-man crew was killed when his parachute failed to open, the other man parachuted safely, suffering a broken arm and other injuries. In center of photo, wearing, a. fire helmet,. is McCann, a member of the Stewart-Lenox Fire Department and an eyewitness to the crash." Oregon, Washington and British Columbia tourists tend to go south. That brings them through our area. California tourists tend j to go north especially in the sum mer, which is the big tourist sea son. That brings them across our area. b' ul,,v" UHyuiMTftU Minn A u...n have confirmed this view of White s e a t e confe,.cnt.e c.ommiUcc House thinking on tax reduction j scheduled its first session today Joint Congress Committee Schedules Jobless Hearing proposals but they pointed out that the President was not ex pected to make a final decision until April. in an effort to work out com- to encourage foreign bankers to fund and bonuses for nations invest in U. S. securities rather tlinn gold. The Senate's pending business The problem i is ito stop them Treasury Sccretary Douglas Dil- promise legislation on a key part was a bill to give federa aid to of President Kennedy's programjstalcs for development of cduca- xtended compensation benefits tional television systems. . longer-ai leasi yj ui '"' K on has said the adminis,ration in our glamorous aim uuauuiui region. The problem is how to stop them. That is the project that was under discussion in Medford the other day. Is the project worth while? Keep this in mind: If we could stop each tourist one more day. we could add 30, MILLION DOLLARS to the econo my of our region. That seems worth going after. looks for an upturn in the econo my next month. Thus far, Dillon is the only administration spokes- for jobless workers. Other congressional news making social reforms. Adminis (ration officials said the Prcsi- dent's message would propose total spending on economic and military aid of about $5 billion a year the amount provided in the budget last Hie jooiess pay measure wasi Transportation: only one ol several on which one gparkman. D-Ala, house or the other faced some possible action this week. Both man to express this specific and i houses were scheduled to meet at optimistic forecast. But White noon after weekend recesses. final Eisenhower Spn .inhn .1 Wanuaiy. said his hous- Civll Rights: Sen. Joseph S. ......... .... ... ..., . MJi,.H a .Irnnn nig subcommittee would start! . . ' ., ' V.,, , , u , iivn Mollis uiii uiiuui 3vu uy wiu administration would be intro- Americans Freed By 'Leopard Men1 By WILBUR G. LANDREY ian U. N. patrol which moved LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo 1'"' Kindl1 200 mi,cs sway to the (UPH - Six members of Amcri-town r, KaonK Sunday to drive can missionary families have bcenll"? u,c ''""u ,,U!" -iiit-ii. released to United Nations forces I sent to the chaotic Kivu Province to drive out fanatic "leopard 1 1 k i men" who have threatened to kill Mil VCWUIC jail whites, the U. N. Command announced today. CLIPS GARAGE The plane clipped a garage, be longing to H. H. McCann, 4522 Cleveland, smashed through a play house and a storage shed at the car of his lot, and exploded and burned in a vacant lot owned by- W. R. McConron, Route 3, Box 235. McCann, a volunteer for the Stewart-Lenox Fire Department, said he was standing in front of his home in the driveway with his 10-year-old son, Hadlcy Jr., and Jim Hope, 23,uiiloading a pickup. I heard an explosion," McCann said, "like you hear when a jet breaks the sound barrier, and I looked up and spotted the plane. 1 saw the canopy fly off, and two men come out. i "The plane appeared to climh. ind then veered toward us, drop-l pint; sharply. I screamed at the (umily in the house to get out,' McCann said. His wife, Edna, and a 20-year-old daughter Peggy, were in the house. The plane missed the house by about IS feet, passing just oven the head of the three in the drive w ay. It sheared off the far end of. come out. One parachute opened at about 500 feet, the other man fell in an arc toward me. As soon as I saw the body hit, I hollered for my wife to call the base and ran directly to the man." Still shaken by the experience, Klingcr told of finding Mason's body badly broken. "As the man hit, the parachute was blown open by the wind, and I cut the chute strings to prevent him from being dragged," Klingcr said. "I grabbed him in my arms and asked him 'are you alive?' but got no response. I thought I detected a slight pulse beat for a second or two, but it might have been my own," he continued. It wasn't more than 10 seconds from the time the body hit that I was there." he said, indicating that the hody had struck only about 70 tccl from whero he stood. HELICOPTER USED 'It "was about 45 minules be fore they came to get the body. Within about 10 minutes, the pilot came up to the house. He had a broken arm and said his ribs hurl. The other man was all a garage adjacent to the house, smashed up and obviously dead. .(mashed a play house behind the We covered him with a blanket. It Car Mishaps Kill Four In Oregon Bv THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Weekend automobile accidents killed four persons in Oregon. A collision east of Oregon City Sunday fatally injured Tony Wayne Rchbcin, 3'j-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Rehbein oi Sandy. Three others were killed in sep arate crashes Saturday. Edward W. Henson. 43. Grants Pass, was headed south on the Pacific Highway near Grants Pass, but somehow got into the northbound lanes. He was killed in a headon crash with another car. Mrs. Thclma Monta, Grants Pass, driver of the other car, was injured critically. Major w. Rarey, Pnncville, was killed near Prineville when ht drove into a cable stretched across a logging road to serve as a gate. At La Grande. Curtis G. Hiatt of La Grande was killed in the plunge of an automobile from US 30 at a curve on the western out skirts of the city. The Associated Press list of! automobile fatalities in Oregon now is up to 27 for the month, and 89 for the year. three days of public hearings on legislation designed to improve Im-ici t i-nncnnrt nl inn ffir I llo nq. House economic advisers have Besides the unemployment com-.tion's cities and towns. next 10 days. Clark said he and Dredicted a new advance rouldlr...; km ktv, !,.. ,. u ... n..i.. other Democratic liberals had becin in the sorine and was likelv '.,..j i Li thic i iuv niannnrf in mt,-nn,. drafted the measure and sent it by midyear. Inn rnmnrnmke lrcislation to car-bill ' In' -ivc homeowners a taxi'0 lnc Justice Department fori Congress would not pass a gen-iry out Kennedy's emergency feed break for expenses incurred for rra! tax relief measure without grain program with more limitediordinary and necessary home re- The Americans members of the leaving are World Grace! an urgent request from Kennedy, enforcement authority than he The idea behind the lower taxes originally asked. would he to put more take-home pay in the pockets of tens of mil lions of working Americans. Pre sumably they would buy more goods and services. The House program today in cluded possible action on extend ing the Sugar Act; authorizing special dividends from the GI life insurance fund; and a measure duced in the Senate within thelTeslimony of Chicago. They had been prevented by the Kivu gov ernment from leaving the area plagued by terrorist attacks. The U. N. said that in addition tudy. Set Today UNITED NATIONS. N.Y. (AP) Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko was expected to open a new debate on the Congo today in the U.N. General Assembly with to the Americans, six Belgians charges that Belgium, Secretary- ana a uuicuinan aiso are uein pail's. The bill calls for up to $750 annually in deductions from tax-! able income. Aid; President Kennedy planned to send Congress Tuesday a new foreign aid program including a five-year, $7 billion development ' HJ I' ' ii'WM.iWMW)P-ePiii t Am&ss&&u j Budget Hike Asked flown out. Other American 'and European while residents in Kivu have decided to stay, the U. N. added. The Americans leaving are Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Vinton, Lyn wood, Calif., their 8-monlh-old son Frederick Jr., and Mrs. Carl An derson of Chicago, and her twin daughters, Elaine and Sally. U. N. headquarters here re- General Dag Hammarskjold and Congolese President Joseph Kasa vubu arc conspiring to dismember! (he chaotic central African terri tory. Gromyko's newest lurgct was the decision by Kasavubu and all other Congo political leaders ex cept Soviet-backed Anloinc Gizcn ga to junk the unworkable federal government plan left by Belgium and replace it with a confedcru- PHOTOGRAPHS SECRET SUB . . . ceived a brief "all is well" radio WASHINGTON UPI Presi- mcssaKe ',orn ,ne 200-mnn Malay-1 lion of semi-independent slates. dent Kennedy today proposed in creases totalling nearly half billion dollars in the federal bud get for the 12 fiscal year starl ing July I The largest increase which he recommended to Congress was $442,429,000 in the Agriculture De partment budget, primarily to strengthen research, watershed, forestry, conservation and school lunch programs, and to reimburse the Commodity Credit Corporation for 19(il-62 losses on faiui price! support operations. garage, splintered the storage .shed, then exploded and burst into names. The debris was lying within 25, feet of another home. McCann assessed the damage to his properly at about $2,000 and said he had insurance. The storage. shed had a big tent, washing ma may not havo been 45 minutes.' Klingcr conceded, but added, "It corned about that long." a ncncopter irom Kingsiey Field arrived within a few minutes and picked up the injured pilot and flew him directly to the Kingsley Field dispensary. Klingcr said it was obvious as chine and other equipment stored he watched the plane that the pilot in it, he said. A garage on the vacant lot where the plane came to rest had been torn down only a few days ago. Kenneth Brown, 12, 41111 Balsam Drive, also told of hearing an ex plosion and then watching the canopy fall off, and the two men eject from the crippled plane. Ho said, "One parachute opened, but the other man fell straight down." ENGINE DEAD Lee Klingcr, 4147 Douglas, a Navy Aviation Radioman Gunner, in WWII, was chopping wood be side his house when he first saw the jet. "Us engine was dead, Klingcr said. "I saw it make a turn. It was coming from the south, head ing northwest at about 800 to 1,000 feet. ' I saw the plane come apart,' he continued. "First the canopy! was ejected, then I saw two men was trying to head it toward the open area away from the homes, but that just after the two men ejected, the plane veered and dipped sharply into the residential area. Klingcr was emphatic In his ob servation that the parachuto did not open. "It was draped over a telephone line." ho said, "and ib was obvious it had not opened. The ejection scat ws3 about 30 feet away f'.om the body, and I don't know whether he was still in it when ho came down and was thrown clear, or it fell separate ly," he said. Klingcr Is employed at Klncs- ley Field where he works for the Carroll Construction Company. No one was yet permitted to talk to Lt. Col. Mewha at the Kingsley Field dispensary. Ho was under sedation and the attending uocior would not permit him to be disturbed. A board of qualified officers has been appointed to investigate the accident. Navy Clerk On Trial Public To See Missile Base CAPE CANAvkflAL. Fla. (AP) LONDON 'API A royal navyiPortlond base where Houghlonl Asked just who the men were. The public will net its first close clerk told a jury today he photo- worked. Houghton said: "I did not know ; looK at this missile and space cen- tin I f..:lJ f. J graphed secret plans of a nuclear! "uw. "P 'ur who they were but I had every submarine after Communist8 meeting. Houghton a,d H J in ii iiimv.vi.iini sians." hoodlums beat him and threatened Other budget increases asked hls mistress by the President: him savagely. They threatened next time to get his mistress and I Henry F, Houghton, 53 one of :t0(lcrcndant, KM EMM Gee, Inlerior nenarlment-S40.668.000llive defendants charged with , ' nnv , p.' cused of giving documents on . . ,- . l. tlnrt In It... ft., .carina 1 ' . ' J I .. , 1. ..U..:n .1..... ....11 to construct transmission lines ior .i ".- . tor on Armed Forces Day week end, May 20-21. The Air Force an nounced Sunday that Cape Cana veral gates will be opened those HlIVS tnr a nnnjnn r1pi,,n.lUn..nU Houghton and Miss Gee arc ac- hv Drivate cars ' Poles, Re claimed he deliberately took the photographs out of focus so they would be useless to his tor mentors. The submarine is the Dread-, A GLITTERING NEW CUP today rests in the Klamath Union High School trophy case. Here Pelican captain Bruce Brlckner aeeepts the award denoting the KU quintet the 1961 Oregon State basketball champions from Dr. Lawrence Winters, Portland, piesident of the Oregon School Activities Association. The Pell won the crown with thrilling 66-64 victory over Medford Saturday niqht on McArthur Court. It is the third basketball title in the history of the school. the Bonneville Power Administra tion, provide school buildings for Indian and Eskimo children and expand operations of the National Park Service. United States Information Agen-inought. built by the British with cy-ll million to expand pro- American knowhow. Its reactor is grams in Africa and Latin Amcr oi me type installed in tne Amcri- lica with additional personnel and can Skipjack class. increased broadcast facilities. In-! Houghton tcstilied his troubles Inrmation activities in Africa started in February 1958 when land base. 'antisubmarine warfare as well as Thp mhnrs a.-,-,KnH r r:nrnni P' of Britain's first atomic A t.n.dlp 37- Ppior kvn,.r submarine, the Dreadnought, to 50. and his wife. Helen, 47. The ''" '' '" " K" ' FBI has idenlified the Krogcrs as "K r'"t''- Morris and Lola Cohen, American ",,lio "-atiKmiUpr In the Kroger ionic anu saiu ii was ueuiiieo on would be doubled and those in La tin America stepped up by 60 per cent. i-it iypnx U hn Inrmprlv ivtA in New York. IMoscow. Houghton said he stalled off the The defendant said the ring rina from time to time bv eivinc wanted details of homing torpc them pamphlets and papers they1 an(l a (lcvic0 sllins lrail to; could have obtained in ordinary! publications. But when they threatened Miss (lee, he said, "I, contact man he knew only as "Nikki" demanded details of sub mislead submarine torpedo crews. "I said I couldn't get It," that "It was not there. Actually, I did not attempt to," Houghton said. Loot Is Problem WASHINGTON (API-The thief who robbed George Triousopoul ous is going to have trouble spend- nig cue tool. The wallet, stolen Saturday. contained five bills. They were loo ruble notes in Russian revolution ary money of 1917 which Trinuson. ouloiis had carried ai souvenirs since he came to Ine UnlterJ States 40 years ago. ' marine warfare research from the icgardcd that as most serious. V