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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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