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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (March 22, 1961)
! C0MP. Sb The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS In Washington this morning. President Kennedy asks for a drastically revamped long term foreign aid program the most sweeping overhaul, he says, since the Marshall Plan was started in 1948. His plan would include SEV EN BILLION, 300 million dollars in five year loan authority "to meet the crucial decade of devel opment abroad." The President put no ovtr-alli price tag on his program. But officials figured the five-year to tal would run SEVERAL TIMES the $7.3 billions he proposed for economic development overseas. Let's put it this way: If we had the kind of nations to spend it on that we had in the case of the Marshall Plan, I think we'd all be willing to tackle it again probably with enthusiasm. The nations included in our Marshall Plan help had been our comrades-in-arms in a great war in which human freedom was at stake. Hitlerism, if it had won, would have been as bad as com munism. In this mutual struggle to preserve our free way of life, our comrades had suffered far more deeply than we. The Mar shall Plan was designed simply to help them to get back on their feet again. Present-day foreign aid is quite a different matter. More moonshine in the news St. Petersburg, down on t h e Gulf coast of Florida, is getting ready to MAKE ITSELF OVER. In the past, it has been a re tirement haven. Its equipment for handling its senior citizen popula tion has included 3400 benches- all of them painted olive green, It has been known as "the city of green benches.' All that is to he CHANGED. The change is a part of a project I of the newly-organized Suncoast! Advertising club whose purpose! is to "alter the image of St. Pe tersburg." No more shall the city be a retirement heaven. Hereafter it is to be a beehive of industry, How? Well, the first step will be to change the color of the 3400 benches. Olive green will give way to pastel colors sunshine yellow, Gulf blue, sandrift brown, Bay green and Ocean coral. Hmmmmm. It sounds wonder ful. .,.:S. Right off the bat, that is. But the soberer second thought suggests that if the people of Saint Pete have been retirement mind ed while sitting on plive green benches in the past they won't be changed much by sitting on pastel-colored benches in the fu ture. Now Another one from Washington: President Kennedy appealed to day to labor and management to keep the NATIONAL interest in mind in their disputes. If they don't cooperate for the general good, he warned, "an impatient federal government will lake a greater hand in getting the two sides together." He was speaking to his new 21 man labor-management-public ad visory panel, which includes such figures as Henry Ford II. George Meany, president of AFL - CIO, Secretary of Labor Goldberg and 18 others. He added: "We are breaking new ground. I intend to get a look at this situation before there is a crisis. I do not want the While House to come in on a wage-price in flationary spiral at the last min-j ute." Comment? He's on the right road. Do you remember the ancient cartoon of the two mules? They stood between two fat shocks of hay. They were HALTERED TO GETHER. Every time one hun gry mule would start toward a shock of hay, the oilier would pull against him. It went on and on. They got hungrier and hungrier. Then one mule whispered in the other's ear. The other whispered back. They both grinned. Then . . . they trotted over TOGETHER, to a shoc-K ot nay ana poiisnec u on: ana men irociea .uccinv cu fl ,u cash reward the second hayshock and polishedl , . , , . t II .Johnson. 50. a janitor, had been Jf '. , u i ii iu , offered a steady $90-a-eck That just about tells the story. ard.g job and a four.vear c0. liege scholarship for the eldest of Good Fairy? Tuesday after accepting the mon CINCINNATI, Ohio 1711 Mr. jcy reward ln tne form f cncck and Mrs. James Kruse of subur-lfrom Brink's Inc. "And I also ban Cincinnati have an unusual wanted to be lair to .ny other two problem and have asked pol.ee'. 'dement, 13. and Dorance. help to solve it Kruse said Tuesday he and his wife left their apartment in dis- order Saturday, Sunday and Mon - day and on each occasion turned to find it restored to neat- im hv some unknown person. Weather Klamath Falls and vicinity Snow level lowering to near 4,000 feet tonight. Partly cloudy with occasional showers tonight a a d Thursday. High Thursday 45-50. Low tonight 13-38. High yesterday 37 Low last night 38 Precip. past 24 hours 0 Since Oct. Average for period t'r-- 153 TWO PIN BALL MACHINES were smashed to bits Tuesday afternoon by Sheriff Murray Britton, right, and Deputy Sheriff A. D. Torgerson, partially hidden. The machines were ordered destroyed as public nuisances last month by District Judge Hal F. Coe. They were confiscated from Lucky Lanes Bowling Alley Jan. 12 and were sued as nui sances by District Attorney Dale T. Crabtree in an uncontested court action. The ma chines, worth approximately $500 each, ware owned by Southern Oregon Amusement Company, 1330 Klamath Avenue. Court Sees Drop Receipts from federal forest timber sales, which provide im portant revenue to county roads and schools, will be $270,500 less than anticipated, the Klamath County Court learned Wednesday morning. The federal forest money, which allocated to the roads and schools on a 7S-25 per cent basis provided $738,000 revenue to the county last year. Supervisors of the Rogue River, Deschutes and Fremont national forests have notified the county court that re ceipts will be down to about $460,-' 200 this year. The forest money is applied against the following year's budg et. This' means that budget plan ning for the 1961-62 fiscal year will be revised. The .supervisors pointed out three' reasons why the receipts are lower this year. iney are: 1. The low market demand fori lumber. Timber companies have been cautious in their buying. 2. Market lumber prices are low this year because of the lack of demand. 3. Some timber has been pur chased but not cut. The govern ment will not turn over forest Search On For Judge SALEM (AP) Another inten sive search was scheduled today for Circuit Judge Richard Ander-1 son. missing since Sunday in his light plane on a flight from Leb anon to Newport, his home city. Earl Snyder, state director of aeronautics, said that if it is un successful, the organized search may be called off. Tuesday 54 planes logged 128 flying hours in 76 flights. They covered an area roughly from De Lake south to North Bend and from the coast east to Blue River and Detroit Dam. Snyder said that all areas have been covered to the satisfaction of search directors except that just north of Cottage Grove and one in a logging area near New port, where the Lincoln County sheriff's office had three ground parties out Tuesday. Mstnacf Mnn Elects To Accept $10,000 LOS ANGELES (UPI (-Douglas W. Johnson, the m;in who re turned $240,000 to its rightful own er, said today a desire to be fair to all three of his sons and to Ws own home made nm ac. his sons. Rick. 16. ' "My son wants to work his way I through college." said Johnson His two younger sons were not offered scholarships by the firm. A bundle containing unmarked $in and $20 bills tumbled from a re-jBrink's armored car March 10 and Johnson found it lying in the Istrect. He returned it unhesital- mtm s.49 1.20 Price Ten Cents 20 Pages money until the timber has been cut. County Engineer Jack R. Kalin- oski said the road department has a $220,000 reserve, which will cov er the 1961-62 budget. we will not use any money from the general fund this year," Kalinoski said, "but this will de plete our reserve and put us In a balanced budget situation." Kal inoski said the county's road im provement program will go ahead as scheduled. Federal forest money provided $548,106 to the county road de Reapportionment Plan Facing Action By House SALEM (AP) The House Elections Committee came up Tuesday night with a revised leg islative reaDDortionmcnt plan and sent it to the House for action: In the Senate. Multnomah Coun- iv'c cpvpn senators would be in creased to eight. Polk County, nowi with a senator ot its own, wouia share a senator with Lincoln County. Clatsnn. Columbia and Tilla mook counties would also share one senator. Lincoln now is in a joint dis trict with Tillamook, while Clat sop and Columbia now are joined. In the House. Clackamas Coun ty's three representatives would be increased to four. A inint district, with two repre sentatives, would consist of Hood River, Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam, IMorrow and Wheeler. Those coun ties now have three representa tives. There would be a Coos-Currv district with 'w0 representatives. Coos now has one, and shares an 'other with Curry. The bill is expected to get Ke mihlican sunoort. as well as favor from eastern Oregon legislators. But most of the Democrats from western Oregon cities are expect ed to ficht it on grounds that their cities are entitled to more repre sentation. One member of the committee, Ren Philin D. Lane. D-Portland. said he would fight the bill on the TnlfGQ Pick: ingly but then had some trouble: deciding what kind of reward to; accept money or the job and scholarship. But at a news conference he called Tuesday in his tidy rented home to announce his decision, he told about 35 assembled report ers and cameramen: "I felt that the most urgent need now is a home for the family. And Brink's gave the money 10 use as we tx hi. Johnson said mat allnougn nis present work is unsteady, he still earns more than the $90 a week offered by Brink's. He was out of work and looking (or a job when he discovered the mnnev baa which had tumbled armored car. Johnson said alter receiving the reward he still thought honesty was the bes' policy, but he was quick to add: "I hope I never find any more jmoncy like that;" NiifoPAPER SECTION OSM. REF. AND DOCUiiNT E'JUEWE.OaSG. In Funds partment last year, approximately 60 per cent of its budgeted re ceipts. The department will re ceive only $345,000 this year. The road department, unlike county schools, does not get a share of property tax receipts. Kalinoski said the loss in funds may be regained if some of the purchased timber is cut or some of the proposed sales are closed. The engineer cautioned, however, that if another "dry" year follows, the county road de partment would nave to sacri fice." floor. Another member, Rep. Ed Whelan, D-Portland, also is ex pected to oppose it. The committee said it would ask the House Rules Committee for permission to introduce a bill to revise the boundaries for the representative subdistricts in Multnomah County. Rep. Edward N. Fadcley, D- Eugene, attacked House Republi can leader F. F. Montgomery of Eugene for his cynical disre gard" of the constitutional pro vision for legislative reapportion ment by population. Fadelcy said the plan approved Tuesday night by the House Elec tions Committee, which is essen tially Hie same as the plan pro nosed by Montgomery, "does not pretend to follow the precise out lines of the Constitution. "Instead, the majority of the committee allowed a smoke screen of phoney issues to cloud their decisions. And Montgomery did not once speak up for Lane County, and the additional scats it is entitled to by recent popula tion growth." Fadeley said the committee also disregarded advice by Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton. He added that Montgomery and the committee had "sold out the Constitution and Lane County.' He called on Gov. Mark Hatfield either to support or disavow the plan. Truce In Congo May Be Upset LEOPOLDVILLE, Congo UPI Diplomatic sources warned to day that the return of U.N. spe cial representative Rajeshwar Dayal to the Congo might upset the delicate truce between U. N, and native forces. Several diplomatic represents lives here were said to have urged their governments either to delay the return of the Indian of ficial or to press for the early appointment of a successor. Dayal's policies have been de nounced repeatedly by key Congo officials. Premier Joseph Ileo de scribed him at a press confer ence Tuesday as an "impossible man." No fighting has been reported between U.N. and Congo troops since native forces overran the ports of Banana and Matadi two weeks ago, but Maj. Gen. Joseph Mobutu has warned that "blood will flow" if the United Nations tries to recapture the cities. u amp KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. Added To Laos WASHINGTON (UPI) Piesi dent Kennedy has ordered a new increase in U. S. military aid to Laos and may ask members of the eight-nation SEATO pact to in tervene to save the country from threatened Communist domina tion. High officials said today, how ever, that the President still clung to the hope that diplomatic pres sure would persuade the Russians to abandon their large-scale air lift of military supplies to the re surgent Laotian rebels. So far, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev has ignored repeated U.S. pleas for cooperation in end ing the civil war and helping cre ate an independent and truly neu tral Laos. Kennedv's decision to step up military aid to Laos was taken reluctantly, ollicials said. But, they said, he had no choice in the lace of the continued deteri oration of the military position of the central government, headed by Premier Boun Oum. May supply Troops If the United States decides to Amendment Needs 3 More States WASHINGTON (AP)-The 23rd Amendment, granting the presi dential vote to citizens of the Dis trict of Columbia, may become part of the Constitution within a week or 10 days. This was the prediction today of citizens' committee whose pro motion work so far has helped to get 35 slate ratifications. Approval by only three more states is needed to get the neces sary three-fourths of the states for the amendment which Congress submitted last June 16. Citizens' committee officials said the last three approvals could come within 10 days iro;a among Ohio. Kansas, New Hamp shire, and Rhode Island. In addition to these four crucial slates, there are two others. North Carolina and Texas where ratification has a fair chance. Ratification by the 38th state would enfranchise upward of 400, 000 new voters. The District, in corporated in 1802 as the national capital, has a population of 763, 056. An estimated 53.9 per cent are Negro. Persons of voting age 21 and over are estimated at 492,000. This figure includes possibly 50,000 government employes who already vote absentee in states where they retain a legal residence. Spy Trial Nears Jury LONDON (AP) A Jury today convicted three men and two women of filching top royal navy secrets for the Soviet Union. LONDON (UPI) Britain's big gest spy trial in a decade was expected to eo to a jury of 12 men in the Old Bailey today. If British justice moves with its traditional speed, three men and two women will know by night fall whether they will go to prison on charges of stealing NATO se crets for Russia. The FBI in Washington has identified two of them as Ameri cans. On trial and subject to maxi mum prison terms of 14 years if convicted are Peter J. Kroger, 50, bookseller, and his wife, Helen, 47, whom the rBI identilied as Morris and Dora Cohen of The Bronx, N.Y.; Henry F. Houghton, J5, and his fiancee. Ethel Eliza beth Gee, 46, former employes of the Portland naval base; and Gor don Arnold Lonsdale, .17. a mys tery man accused of being the master spy. Tuesday was Lonsdale s day in court. He did not want to testify his own defense, but he did make a statement in an attempt to clear the Krogcrs. Besides a radio capable of transmitting to Moscow buried un der the kitchen floor, the Kroger cottage in suburban Ruislip con tained all sorts of suspicious things. There was a cigarette lighter with a false bottom, a can of tnleum powder with a false section, equipment for turning the bathroom Into a darkroom and $2,563 found in the attic. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1961 US Aid Ordered seek SEATO intervention, officials said, it probably will propose that forces be supplied by the three Asian members Pakistan, 1 hai land and the Philippines. The other five members of the South East Asia Treaty Organiza tion are tile United States, Brit-i am, f iance, Australia and New Zealand. Kennedy and his aides also have been increasingly worried by po litical erosion in Laos. The West ern-backed Boun Cum govern mcnt has been putting out feel ers for a compromise with the Red-letl Pathet Lao rebels which Washington considers might well be fatal. Kennedy met again Tuesday, the second time this week, with top military and diplomatic advis ers to discuss the Laotian situa tion. Secretary of State Dean Rusk later conferred with the British and French ambassadors. Ministers Meet The White House conferences covered discussion of the position on Laos to be taken by Rusk at the annral meeting of SEATO for eign ministers which begins Mon day in Bangkok. Rusk leaves Thursday at mid night for Bangkok. Authoritative sources said the stepped-up military assistance to Laos would include heavy artil lery in preparation for what might be a last-ditch defense of the capital city of Vientiane by central government forces under General Phoumi Nosavan. SEATO Group Eyes Threat BANGKOK, Thailand (UPD- Military advisers to the South East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) held two important con ferences today cn the Communist threat to Laos and other impor tant Southeast Asia areas. The military leaders approved a three-day agenda which called for "immediate examination ' of the Laotian crisis. Although their immediate attention was focused on the trouble in Laos, their dis cussions covered each country in this strategic area. SEATO military men are confi dent that they have the power and ability, to hold Laos and other im portant areas if the diplomats call on them to use force if necessary to prevent the spread of commu nism. Reliable sources told United Press International that some mil itary men feel that the diplomats have not called the signals on Laos properly up to this time. Howev- these same sources said some of the diplomats do not believe the record of the free world mili tary men in Laos is anything to brag about. U. S. Secretary of Stale Dean Rusk and other SEATO foreign ministers will meet here next week to make the necessary politi cal decisions. Well-informed observers said al though there was no immediate indication whether the views of the military men or the diplomats will cany the most weight when the final decision is made, a tougher and more positive atti tude may be in the making. Tax Committee Tries New Move SALEM (API The House Taxa tion Committee got ready Tuesday night for another attempt to get its income tax bill through the House. The committee voted fnTnal ap proval of a slightly revised ver sion of the bill, which the House defeated 30-27 two weeks ago. The only change in the hill Is to permit deductions for charit able contributions when they total more than 3 per cent of income. The only other deductions permit ted would be for extraordinary medical expense and casually losses. The bill would levy a net income tax on all income, reduce rates, and provide for a $20 tax credit to replace the $600 personal ex emption. ... By restoring the charitable dc-, duction, the committee hopes Ut gain the four more votes it needs to send it to the Senate. But the Senate is expected to give It a chilly reception. Telephone WILDLIFE WEEK can best be symbolized by this view of two dear enjoying tho natural resources of the area. "Multiple Use Balanced Conservation Planning for the Fu- . ture" is the theme of the nationwide celebration of this week. In view of mounting demands of en increasing population, it is essential that all our natural resources be utilized for as many purposes as possible. It should be a national philosophy to use only the surpluses of renewable natural resources. Revamped Aid Plan Asked WASHINGTON (AP) - Presi dent Kennedy asked Congress to day for a drastically revamped long-term foreign aid program the most sweeping overhaul since the Marshall Plan started in 1948. It would include $7.3 billion in five-year loan authority to meet "the crucial decade of devclop-l ment" abroad. The President put no over-all price tag on fiis program. But of-1 (icials figured the five-year total would run several times the $7.3 billion proposed for economic de velopment loans overseas. For the coming year, the pro gram would equal the $4 billion sought by former President1 Dwight D. Eisenhower for foreign aid. Stevenson Reply To Gromylro Blast UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) Adlai E. Stevenson's sharp con demnation of the new Soviet at tack on U.N. . Congo operation was seen today as a waniing that the Kennedy administration won't shrink from a cold war. slugging match in tho General Assembly. Any hopes that world tensions might be cased by avoiding de bate on cold war Issues In the assembly faded Tuesday when So viet Foreign Minister Andrei Gro myko renewed the Soviet attack on Secretary-General Dag Ham marskjold and U.N. actions in the Congo. "We had hoped at least that the Russians would suspend the coldi war for a while," Henry Ford Cooper of Liberia told a reporter, 'but Gromyko's biting attack oniand reconciliation. Hammarskjold and the United Na lions opened it all up again." Speaking at Ihe beginning of a new assembly debate on the Con go, Gromyko once again accused Hammarskjold of organizing the murder of Patrice Lumumba, de manded the secretary-general's replacement by a three-man di rectorate, and called for an endun the weeks to come. c A SUCCESSFUL TEST of the new Dorris fire truck Tuesday wai celebrated by the city's volunteer fire department. The truck holds 800 gallons of water and can pump 750 gallons per minute. The pump drew water 10 feet high and pumped that mucnj water for Vh hours to complete one phase of the test. The city accepted ihn rig. Cost of the basic package was $11,300. The fite department hai another smaller pugjpar purchased in 1 950. An old pumper the new one replaces iijor tale. TU 4-8111 No. 0641 snow --vt? Aly?rr ln a special message to Con gress, Kennedy said, It will both befit and benefit uc to take this step boldly. For we are launching a decade of development on which will depend, substantially, the kind of world in which we and our children shall live." Kennedy said the 1960s offer a golden chance to put more than half of the peoples in underdevel oped lands on their own feet economically and the rest closer to the day when they no longer need aid. But without this massive out side help from the United States and other, free industrial .coun tries, he said, resulting chaos abroad would cost even more and wouia do disastrous 10 our na- Issues Sharp to the U.N. Congo operation with in a month. Non-Communist delegates es pecially from Africa and Asia were openly impressed with Stev enson's immediate reply. He said Gromyko spoke "in the worst and most destructive traditions of the cold war." The U.S. delegate .said Gromy-i ko's "insensate attacks" on the! secretary-general imperiled the! very survival of the United Na-j lions as an effective operating In strument for peace and progress." By demanding the U.N. with drawal from the new African na tion, Stevenson said, the Soviets were trying to substitute anarchy for "constructive efforts of tho world at large to achieve peace Since the assembly session re sumed on March 7, Stevenson! and Gromyko had been sparring lightly in public exchanges while negotiating In private lo see if they could agree on dropping cold war items from the assembly agenda. Tuesday's sharp ex change pointed to stormy sessions V-':', -rmnn i,.M. - Weather Ml. .Shasta-Siskiyou Area Show ers and snow through Thursday with snow level 6,500 feet drop ping to 4,000 feet late today; cool er. Northern California Showers by this evening as far south as .Stockton andYoscmite with snow In mountains; cloudy tonight with showers in extreme north and flurries in mountains. tional security, harmful to our comparative prosperity and offen sive to our conscience." The President hoped to over come opposition in some congres sional quarters both to the money amount and to his loan systems which would bypass congressional appropriations procedures. Key legislators rebuffed Eisenhower on similar counts in the past. Kennedy proposed: 1. Lumping most existing eco nomic aid programs into a single -new agency whose boss would re port directly to the secretary of state and the President. ' 2. Five-year authorization for the new aid agency plus five- year authority to borrow from the Trcasurv to make loans for coo. nomic projects abroad, $900 mil lion m me iiscai year starting . next July 1 and $1.6 billion an nually for the following ' four years. The loans would run up to SO years, at no interest or at low rates of perhaps up to 2 per cent, ' and would be repayable in dol lars. ' . . i 3. Arms aid, now running about $2 billion a year and administered through the Pentagon, would be separated from the annual foreign aid package and placed in the military budget. 4. Carefully tailored programs for each country receiving aid, based on over-all needs and local resources rather than unrelated projecLs, with special favor to ward those nations undertaking social and economic reforms. S. Emphasizing loans repayable in dollars, doing away with most of the loans repayable in local foreign currencies now handed out by the DLF. Encouraging other industrial nations to share more of the aid burden. For the fiscal year beginning: July 1, Kennedy said that while he would stick with Eisenhower's $4 billion spending request he would shift sharply the use of the funds, including transferring $200 million from military to economic aid. Foreign aid officials said it will lie a couple of months before they figure out exactly how they want lo revise the Eisenhower program. Ufrlflfll ) I
