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GoldwateP Sees GOP Landslide SUN VALLEY. Idaho (AP) Sen. Barry Goldwater says " would see the greatest Republican landslide in the history of the country" if congressional elec tions were held today.1 The Arizona senator, addressing a. Republican western conference dinner Thursday night said peo pie have had enough of what he termed New Frontier fumbling and extravagance. .Goldwater looked up from his text to say of President Kennedy "We hear him talk like Church ill, then see him act like Cham berlain." Neville Chamberlain was thei British prime minister who vainly tried to appease Ger many prior to World War If. "The failure of the New Fron tier, both at home and abroad, makes it a matter not just of po litioal choice but of national and international urgency that Repub lican power be increased in the Congress, Goldwater said. An audience of more than 750 gave the leader of conservative Republicans an ovation before and after he spoke. Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon speaks to the confer ence Saturday night. It will be his first appearance since announcing his candidacy for governor of California. Goldwater, who was boomed for the 1960 Republican presidential -nomination, told a news confer ence he has no plans to seek it in 1964. In his opinion, Goldwater said, Nixon will not seek the presiden tial bid in 1964 if he wins the governorship. But if he does win. he will be the single most pow erful governor in the United States, not committed to the pres idency. Nixon has said he will not seek the 1964 presidential nomination. Rep. William Miller of New York, the Republican national chairman, said he is not discount ing Nixon as a presidential candidate. r !. I Br v 0xMWu rbimmi irfti tor wetting whistles when Charlie FRIENDS The Lamonada was miahtv aood Biehn, right and Frank Obenchain, friends of more ihi7 60 years got together to trade yarns. Both have lived in Oregon for more than 80 years. Charlie Biehn, Frank Obenchain Friends In Klamath For 61 Years Photograph Wins Award SPOKANE (API-Phil Wolcott, Eugene Register-Guard staff pho tographer, won the Best-of-Show award in the annual Washington Oregon Associated Press newspho- to contest, it was announced here Friday. Wolcott's grand prize winner, a gripping picture of a weeping Ko rean orphan girl, also won first )!ace in the portrait division for non-metropolitan newspapers of less than 50,000 circulation. The Eugene photographer also took first in the non-metropolitan sports division with an unusual basketball action picture and second in the series division with a picture story layout on Korean orphans. The awards for top pictures published in AP member newspa-1 pers of Washington and Oregon for the year ending Sept. 2 were announced at the annual meeting here of officials of AP member newspapers from ,the two states. .Wolcott will take possession of the W. H. Cowles trophy whichi goes to the grand prize winner each year. ; The list of first and second place Winners: metropolitan Division I newspa pers of more than 50,000 circula tion i : News Phil H. Webber, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, first; Vic Con diotty, Seattle Times, second. "Sports Paul Thomas, Seattlel Times, first; Charles Painter, Washington State University (pic ture published in Spokane Chroni cle and others), second. Portrait Roy Scully, Seattle Times, first; David Falconer, The Oregonian, Portland, second. . Feature Pete Corvallis, the Oregonian, first; Vic Condiotty second. I Non - Metropolitan Division (Jiewspapers of less than 50,000 circulation!: ;.'es John Bailey, The Daily Olympian. Olympia. Wash., Iirst; Wayne Eastburn. Eugene Reg liter-Guard, second. .Sports Wolcott. first; Ken Knudson. Everett Daily Herald. Everett, Wash., second. Portrait Wolcott, first; Joe Matheson, Eugene Register-Guard, second. Feature Penny Campbell, Wc natchee Daily World, first; John Ericksen, Oregon Statesman, Sa lem, second. Picture Series, which included entries from both metropolitan and non-metropolitan newspaAs, nomas. Seattle Times, first; Wol cott second. By RUTH KING 'Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable to him. ..." Charlie Biehn and Frank Oben chain are old friends, friends in fellowship and companionship and a few escapades, friends of many, many years . . . so many years in fact that today they can scarce ly put a finger upon the date when first they met in Bly. It was 61 years ago and Charlie Biehn who had learned the brick laying trade from his father was in the town to work on a build ing. In those days when there was no sports on television, the brawny youth made their own pleasures and gathered 'round to test their strength in "friendly fighting" or to pit horse against horse on a dirt track down Main Street., "The boys had come to town that day," these two old friends remembered, to have a bit of fun and in a boxing bout one chal lenger was knocked full-length into! a box of mortar . . . and thus they met. So . . . who but old friends can chuckle over the whimsies of time in its passing or brush aside without regret, "the things' that might have been." Charlie Biehn and Frank Oben chain are heading well into their 80s, Frank Obenchain at 84 and Charlie Biehn at 82. They came to Klamath County when men made $20 a month at farm work, rose at 4 a.m. from a bed in the hay to chore, then worked 'til sundown. Both are na tives of the state of Oregon and neither has been far distant in his lifetime. Here' are thumbnail sketches of two of Klamath County's veteran boosters who love to "pass the time of day" and to reminisce on meeting. Charlie Biehn of German par entage, the son of August and Elizabeth Biehn. was one of six children, three boys and three girls. He was born near Sandy which is east of Portland and by the time he could follow the cows home from pasture in 1886, the family had moved to the Klamath Basin. , His father came to build a 40 foot square wall around the 14x16 jail house, for the purpose of ex ercising the prisoners. They had just started to build the old court house. They had brought their belong ings for a new home with them in a horse-drawn wagon across the Green Springs grade and even tually "bent their efforts to rais ing cattle and horses in the Swan Lake Valley. Charlie grew up with buckarooing as his goal, for "if you couldn't ride a bronc in thosel days, you didn t amount to mucn. He spread his wings at 21 and "came to town" to be a jack of all trades. He swamped in the woods for $2.75 for a 12-hour day and drove a six-horse freight team and a stage coach across the mountains. The latter job took seven long davs a week and left "no time for courting. He married Zora Anderson and began his trade of brick laying . . . laid brick on brick to help build the fine Elks Temple where he still goes through the door as one of its oldest members. He helned build the Stevens Hotel and many other buildings in the city bear the mark of his mortar trowels. He made 30 cents an hour, paid four-bits for a workshirt, mostly blue, and a dollar for a dress shirt. His first auto, a 1914 Model T, drew envious eyes up and down Main Street. Not too long ago he won a "kitty," a fat one of $500 because he is a faith ful member of Klamath Falls Lodge No. 1247 and misses few meetins. Mr. Biehn has six sons, Roland, Marion. Harold. Robert, Martin and Howard. Castro Cleans Up Havana By Closing Gaming House HAVANA (AP) The last of Ha-i vana's gambling casinos closed quietly today within minutes after Prime Minister Fidel Castro had announced his government is cleaning up the city, once wide open. Addressing a huge rally at Ha vana's Square of the Revolution, Castro promised measures to re habilitate Havana's prostitutes and drive out white slave rack ctcers. He warned dealers in the vice they face stiff penalties and told them to "go to Miami if they want. We will even pay their plane tickets." This was greeted with cheers. The scene at the gambling ca sinos was more sober. Players immediately started leaving when told of Castro'a order. In the days of the Fulgencio Batista dictatorship, Havana had about 25 gambling casinos. They were a prime attraction for both tourist and American underworld figures who operated them with a cut of the profits going to gov ernment officials. The casinos were closed in the first days of Caslro's regime early in 1959 but were reopened on a Frank Obenchain has spent his lifetime close to the soil near Bly except perhaps when there has been air between him and a saddle. He still lives on the ranch homesteaded by his parents, Madison and Minnie Obenchain, when he was 4 years old. They had come from the Rogue River Valley after he was bora in his toric Jacksonville. He went to school each summer at Bly unless the money to pay a teacher "ran out." Teachers in those days were paid $30 per month and "found." eating with the families of students and fre quently sharing a bed with one or two daughters in. the house hold. It look four days to drive a team to Jacksonville to trade and six days to return with a load, of fruit, flour and coal oil. Frank Obenchain can point, out the route of the old immigrant trail across the meadows, he can tell tales of the times he was thrown toward a summer sky by a maddened bull and when he fell from a stumbling horse in the days when a doctor was sum moned by a rider on horseback from Klamath Falls, and how he could have died" had others not Known how to help him. He still knows intimately the trails where the deer cross to water and the best places to cast a line. The original 400 acres of his father's ranch have now grown to more than 2,000 and hundreds of white faced cattle roam the land within the natural rimrock bar rier of the valley. He took his bride in a buck- board to the home he built for her with lumber from the old Al Fitth Mill at Bly in, the days when his vision did not encom pass electricity in the farmhouse nor automobiles stirring dust by the front gate. The hand-sewn beams in the old barn are slifl sturdy and the same creek as of old cuts through the ranch acres. Three sons. Matt Frank Jr. and Harry, have fol lowed in their father's footsteps and they too ranch and ride for the cattle. A daughter, Marie Obenchain, teaches music Klamath Falls. Frank Obenchain smokes a cher ished pipe among things familiar near Bly, and only when he and Charlie Biehn of Klamath Falls get together do the two, as both say, "swap lies." Fir Lumber Standards Get Study EUGENE i API Revisions which would lead to a uniform grading standard for Douglas fir logs in the Pacific Northwest are under study of the logging industry. Homer Hildenbrand. Eugene. secretary of the Northwest Log Rules Advisory Committee, said Friday that a new "seven-grade log rule" has been referred to member bureaus and agencies and will be acted upon at the next meeting of the committee. This meeting will be in Eugene next February. Hildenbrand said the new grade rules have been proposed to re place two sets of rules now in use. One set has been used by the Columbia River Log Scaling and Grading Bureau, he said, while most other bureaus use a set of grade sfandards called the "uniform rule." Almost all tim ber transactions are based on one of the two sets of rules, he added. The new rules would place all Douglas fir logs in one of seven grades, he said, eliminating end uses such as peeler or saw logl from the titles. What is now considered a No. 3 peeler under the Columbia River scale would remain a No. 3 log in the new grade system while the uniform rule's No. 3 peeler would be assigned grade 4 under the new rules. The Columbia River Log Seal ing and Grading Bureau became a member of the Northwest Log Rules Advisory Committee at its most recent. meeting in Aberdeen, Wash., earlier this month. The committee is composed of representatives of the various Pa cific Northwest Grading bureaus and public agencies interested in timber. HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls, Ore. Sunday, October I, 196P 63 Page T A "dennis mfe Menace" Wefc Sconl Af Jan Plea To End Atom Test Ya Member the sun went vow over thb?e ? Wett, it's cown' up am Small Gross-Big Net SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) - Pa cific Telephone and Telegraph Co. said Thursday it made a larger profit on smaller revenues in the three months ended Aug. 31. President Carol O. Lindeman re ported to shareholders that net income was up to $41,427,000 or 38 cents per share from $.18,819,000 or 36 cents a share in the same period last year. Operating reve nues declined to $270,209,000 from $288,335,000 a year ago. Lindeman saidthe results in cluded the company's operations in Washington, Oregon and Idaho only through June 31. Operations in those states were taken over July 1 by the new Pacific North west Bell Telephone Co. TOKYO (UPI - Russia today coupled rejection of Prime Min ister Hayato ikeda's appeal to end nuclear testing with a veiled threat that the presence of Amer ican bases in Japan would sub ject this country to attack if nu clear war broke out. The rejection and threat camel in two separate Soviet notes a message from Premier Nikita Khrushchev and an official state ment issued by the Kremlin. Khrushchev's note was one of the most threatening he has made to date to the pro-Western Japa nese government. Khrushchev's message to Ikeda was delivered to the Japanese Foreign Ministry through the So viet Embassy here. The Kremlin statement was handed to the Jap anese Embassy in Moscow which forwarded it to Tokyo. The Russians have detonated at least 15 nuclear devices in Arctic and central Asian proving grounds since it unilaterally abrogated the moratorium on such tests. A sharp increase In 'radioactivity has been reported in the northern hemisphere. In a brief statement, it rejected as false Khrushchev's note In which he accused the Ikeda gov ernment of "attempting to create an artificial barrier to closer re lations with Moscow by demand ing the return of the Kirile Islands and other Russian-held islands near Japan. The Japanese statement said Russia had gone back on its pledge in 1956 to settle the ter ritorial dispute and conclude a peace treaty after the resumption of "normal diplomatic relations between Tokyo and Moscow." It said the rejection of Ikeda s appeal to end nuclear testing was evasive and designed to inflame world opinion against the West. It (Russia) is trying to evade responsibility by saying that the resumption of nuclear testing by the Soviet Union was forced on it to salvage mankind from nuclear warfare," the Japanese statement said. Both Soviet notes contained the oft-repeated . Soviet protests against Japan's close military, diplomatic and economic ties with the United States and its cool at titude toward Moscow. HUNTERS Private camp sites with water, good deer areas. Also camp sites with modern facilities and meals available. TU 4-4749 Recognition Demanded MOSCOW (AP) Justice Wil liam O. Douglas of the U.S. Su preme Court called today for quick U.S. recognition of Outer Mongolia and its immediate entry into the United Nations. The U.N. Security Council is considering Mongolia's applica tion. The United States has said it would not oppose Outer Mongolia but Nationalist China has threat ened to veto the application. Returning from a two-week camping trip through remote Out er Mongolia, Douglas said he found Mongolia's intellectuals starved for contact with the West." He said tha claim of President Chiang Kai-shek of Nationalist China that Outer Mongolia is part of China is absurd. It's just as silly as it would be for London to claim the United States has rio business in the Unit ed Nations because it is a British colony," he said. "It's a terribly big country, very beautiful and very rich," he said in an interview over a cup of cof fee. "They are self-sufficient in oil and gasoline and have vast deposits of iron, coal and feldspar. He said he and his wife traveled in Russian jeeps and stayed either in rest homes or ghers herders' tents. He described conversations with intellectuals who have learned English in the 1,500-student uni versity or in the language institute. Douglas said he saw little evi dence of Soviet control. Reg. 1.45 King Size lAI3 (o)(o)' 22 i i 1 1 r 1 I Meal Ticket I J Ufa u sjprJMMHMiiVMH ' Alcoa Aluminum FOIL I I 12"x25' I I reduced scale to keep hotel em ployes and croupiers at work. At the end only about five were lett and they operated in government run hotels. Castro told the crowd that gam bling made "even workers vic tims" but he was more concerned with the rich and the "exploiting elements." Announcing the closing, he said six million pesos had passed through, the casinos last month. That is about a million dollars at the free market exchange rate. The purpose of the rally was to celebrate the first anniversary of the organization of his1 Committees for the Defense of the Revolution an intelligence network now reaching into the tiniest hamlet. Tear Gas Used ORAN. Algeria AP Riot po lice used tear gas Tuesday night to break up crowds of youths who had gathered in the center .0 the city to shout "Algerie Francaise" Algeria is French. Several persons were injured and more than 2 dozen demon strators were arrested. pit Opn Evtningt GUITAR INSTRUCTIONS PH Eirdlniit9 novli progress! Lean By Note 1 Chord Method $. Hit "MUSIC MAN" for ttuaant rantala er purchaM your guitar frflm large llc Hen. 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