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Question for todav:
What's a SUBSTRATE?
Did you ever hear of one?
Well, neither did I until the
mail the other day brought to my
desk the latest bulletin of the
Klamath County Chamber of Com
meree. The bulletin contained this
item:
"Some Chamber of Commerce
activities are out of this world.
For example: At the request of
the USAF School of Aerospace
Medicine at Brooks Field, Texas,
we are arranging for the procure
ment and shipment to the school
of 20 to 30 pounds of LAVA.
"The school needs it, the re
quest says, as a soil SUBSTRATE
for its experiments concerning
the planet Mars! So we're send
ing the lava."
Webster's Unabridged Diction
1 ary defines SUBSTRATE as "a
substance acted upon, as by an
enzyme." It defines an enzyme
as "any of a class of complex
substances that accelerate (cata
lyze) specific TRANSFORMA
TIONS of material."
Quite interesting. But it sheds
no light on why the U.S. Air
Force wants some lava for use
in its Mars experiments. So we
turned to the World Encyclope
dia, which tells all about lava
and how it pours out of voltanos
and runs down then- sides and
finally cools and hardens, form
ing a crust of rock. It concludes
with Uits cryptic sentence:
"Lands that once were covered
by lava are often VERY FER
TILE after the lava is broken up
into fine soil."
???????????????
Maybe the USAF scientists
want to grind up some lava so
that some GOOD SOIL can be
created on the planet Mars in
which event we might be able in
tlie course of time to provide
another New World to which the
people of this world might cmi
grate when conditions get too
rough to be endured as did our
forefathers when Columbus dis-
covered the New World of the
Western Hemisphere.
It's a screwball thought, of
course. But in these modem days
almost ANYTHING is possible
Anvway
If lava is what is needed for
such a project, we can furnish it.
We have an inexhaustible supply
of it here in the high country.
Gaitskell Death Staggers
High yiittnfty
Low Utl niehf
High yir 190
Low ytr a 90
High put 14 ytan
Low put 14 year
Prccip. put 14 houn
Stint Jan. I
Samt period tatt ytar
Sunrlit Monday
Sunwt Monday
nun
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I.ST
Weal her
Klamath Falls, Tulelake and
Lakeview Partly cloudy tonight
and Monday. Not to cold. High
today near 40. Lows tonight
eight In Lower Klamath Basin to
near 15 In Klamath Falls. Light
southerly winds.
Price IS Cents 4s Pages
KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, SUNDAY. JANUARY 20, 1963
Telephone TU 4.8111 No. 1042
New Blizzards Chill
Nation; Crops Freeze
By United Press International
A vicious onslaught of wintry
weather Saturday brought blizzard
conditions, heavy snows and frigid
temperatures to much of the na
tion from California to the Ohio
Valley.
For the third time in five weeks
frost threatened vegetable and
citrus crops.
Warnings of severe thunder
storms and possible tornadoes
were posted for central Louisiana
and southern Mississippi.
The entire slate of Texas, where
Rio Grande Valley crops suffered
extensive frost damage just one
week ago, braced for a major
storm. Snow and below-freezing
temperatures were expected
throughout Texas.
A modem tragedy as ricscrilied
for us by the San Francisco
Chronicle:
"It is a shocking and depressing
thing to learn that San Francis
cans, whether from sloth, indiffer
ence or ignorance, have brought
about the atrophy of their mus
sels. Not only have mussels mart
niere vanished from the local
menus, but, a salivating survey
by tliis newspaper reveals, the
petite and succulent bivalve is
nowhere available in the city's
markets for simmering in a tinc
ture of olive oil, discreetly spiced
and garlicked."
What has become of the mus
sels?
Here's at least a possible an
swer: As all convivial-minded con
vent ion-goers are aware, a lady
named Mary Ann McCarty once
w enl down to dig some clams. She
didn't have much luck. As re
cited in the famous ballad:
"She dug up ALL the erslcrs
in San Francisco bay, but she
couldn't find a Gee Dec clam.'
It just could be. you know, thai
in the process of digging up all
Die "ersters" in her celebrated
search for some clams. Mary Ann
may have dug up all the mussels
also, and in the process may have
so disturbed their natural habitat
that they were never again able
to establish themselves.
This tlieory isn't guaranteed.
It is merely offered lor what
it may be worth.
Ferry Boat
Dead Sought
SEOUL. Korea 'UPI Patrol
boals swept the subsiding seas
south of here Saturday, seeking the
bodies of more than 1(10 persons
who drowned Friday when the
overloaded (errv boat Yon Ho
capsized in the Yellow Sea.
Early Saturday, only 10 bodies
bad been recovered and there was
only one known survivor. Scores
of victims were believed to have
gone down with the ferry.
The exact number of dead
probably will never be known
There were 12.1 prisons aboard
the Von Ho which had a rated
capacity of BS when it left the
provincial town which gave it its
name, but it look on or dis
charged passengers at six stops
before going down
The survivor. 22 year - old Suh
Jung Soo, said the ferry capMcrl
suddenly and sank swiftly when
a squall hit. Suh. who was in the
upper deck cabin, escaped by
breaking a window sml scram
bling nut.
Negro Takes
Examination
OXFORD, Miss. (UPD-Negro
James Meredith took another
semester-end examination at the
University of Mississippi Saturday
but said he didn't know how he
had done.
"You can't tell about those
things." he later told reporters
with a smile.
Saturday's exam was in politi
cal science. He took the first of
his semester-end tests Friday-
three-hour and 15-minule quiz in
Colonial history.
How he makes out in these
tests may determine whether he
remains or flunks out at "Ole
Miss.," where he was admitted
last fall after 14 hours of bloody
rioting.
Meredith had four hours lo
complete his political science lest
Saturday, but he handed in his
paper about 45 minutes early
Others had finished ahead of him,
but several students were still in
the classroom when he left.
Two of Meredith's classmates
described the quiz as "tough . . .
very tough." They said most of
Hie problems were discussion
quest ions.
By Sunday morning the arctic
air was predicted to cover the
eastern third of the nation. Near
blizzard snows swept across the
plains from Texas to Illinois and
six inches or more of new snow
was forecast for parts of the area
by morning.
Many Mishaps
At least 10 deaths were blamed
on weather-related mishaps. There
were five deaths m Colorado,
three in Maine and two in Texas.
Sunray, in the Texas panhandle,
had a lempcrature of 12 below
Saturday, and it was five below
at Dalhart and four below at Am
arillo. In central Texas snow fell
on ice formed by freezing rain,
making driving hazardous.
Winter crops in Southern Cali
fornia and Arizona also were
threatened by sub-freezing read
ings.
The arctic blast drove temper
atures well under the zero mark
from the Rocky Mountains to
Iowa. Butte, Mont., had a reading
of 44 below. It was 28 below at
BismarcK, N. D., 25 below at
Rapid Cily, S. D., 17 below at
North Platte, Neb., and eight be
low at Des Moines, Iowa.
By contrast winter vacationers
in Florida basked in 70-dcgrcc
temperatures.
Just five weeks ago Florida's!
citrus and vegetable crops were
hit by the coldest weather of the
century.
Strong Winds
Winds up to 40 miles an hour
whipping up snow slowed down
drivers on the highways in Wis
consin. Illinois, Iowa, Missouri
and Nebraska.
Forecasters said the snow would
become heavier Saturday night
liefore gradually diminishing Sun
day. Most of the Midwest will
have to cope with colder temper
atures Sunday and Monday, they
said.
The mercury at Fori Worth,
Tex., fell 32 degrees in six hours
Saturday, dropping to the 'teens.
Temperatures dipped to freez
ing for the sixth consecutive day
in Southern California where the
state's citrus crop suffered $3
million damage several days ago
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British Politics
Fight Seen
For Labor
Party Post
GAITSKELL DIES British Labor Party Leader Hugh
Gaitskell who died Friday of a virus infection which
affected his lungs and heart, is shown here with Clement
Attlee, left, when Gaitskell assumed leadership of the
Socialist party. Today that party is engaged in a power
fight within to see who fills the vacancy left by the
death. UPI Telephoto
Longshore Strike
Peace Predicted;
Other Hopes Dim
By lulled Press International
A presidential inquirer was
more optimistic than ever" Sat-
lu-day that the 27-day East Coast
dock strike would be settled dur
ing the weekend but prospects
were gloomy for an early end to
other major U.S. walkouts which
have idled more than 100,000 persons.
Sen. Wayne Morse, D-Ore.,
chairman of President Kennedy's
board of inquiry into the lone-
shoremen's walkout, which has
halted cargo movement on the
Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, said he
hoped to announce an agreement
by Sunday midnight.
However, the New York City
newspaper strike went into its sev
enth week with publishers and
printers union officials reporting
Ihcy were still far apart. More
meetings were scheduled in the
eight-weck-old Cleveland, Ohio,
newspaper strike but there was lit
lie immediate hope for an end to
the walkout of Teamsters and the
American Newspaper Guild.
Speaking at Philadelphia. Pa
Friday night presidential Press!
Secretary Pierre Salinger called
the Cleveland and New York
newspaper strikes "intolerable"
and urged an impartial study of
newspaper economics before some
of the struck publications arc
forced out of business.
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FROM FAR AWAY These items of Maori culture are on display for Sister City
Week. They were loaned by the New Zealand Consulate in San Francisco. Klamath
Falls and Rotorua, New Zealand, are sister cities. Rotorua will be visited this month
by Mary end Walt Mclntyre who will carry greetings and congratulations on Rotorua
having attained city status. The exhibits will be in windows at the chamber of com
meree and First Federal Savings and Loan. Left to right ere Betty Trumpower,
George Callison, chamber of commerce, and Cliff McDonald of New Zealand who
has spent several months in the United States as a visitor. Artifacts, left to right, are
a Mere Mere, a Maori princess, war club, ceremonial spear and a Tiki, a good luck
figure. Miss Trumpower wears a skirt made of flax.
Rotorua Likened To Klamath
Rotorua. New Zealand. Klamath
Falls' sisier city, is in many ways
similar to Klamath Falls, even
though it is 7.000 miles away. Both
cities are known lor their natural
hot water weils. scenic country
side and as a sportsmen's para
dise. The main industries of both
lies are timber, agriculture, dai
. beef and sheep farming and
as a tourist center. Klamalh Falls
as built on Klamath Lake and
Rotorua on Lake Rotorua The
Kiamath Indian have many an
ient and beautiful legends as do
Hie natives of Rolorua the Maoris
The Kntnrua Spa and township
is Ki (eel above e level and
is the renier of an extensive ther
mal region covering an area of
approximately 150 miles by 20
miles. Tlte curative properties of
the thermal waters were known lo
Hie Maoris long before the ar
rival of Europeans, and it was
natural that this area should have
developed as a modern tourist
re-rt and health spa. Kxtonsive
government gardens include me.
dieinal baths, swimming pools and
well kel tennis, bowling and cro
quet lawns. Other t-)orts in Roto
rua include rugby football, sv im
ming. track and tire very poplar
race tracks.
Tlie population of Rolorua has
jumped from s.nno in 1935 to over
21.0TO in ir As for their indus
trial development, in lfTiO there
were 120 manufacturing and trade
factories licensed within a five-
mile radius of the downtown area,
and in IWiO they had increased
120 per cent to a I o t a I of 20H.
For the year ending in March.
HM). 313.7B5.0On board leet ol
timber was milled in the Rolorua
Forestry District.
Tlie tourist industry has played
a vital part in Rotorua's progress,
just as in Klamalh Falls. The
New Zealand center of Maori arts
and crafts, thermal wonders ami
mineral baths, beautiful lakes and
abundant fishing is becoming
more and more opular with all
oversea visitors.
BERLIN (UPI) Soviet Pre
mier Nikita S. Khrushchev aald
Saturday as many as 130 Russian
missiles are ready to be launched
at the United Slates In rase of
ar.
The American Imperialists
know that we w ithdrew 40 rockets
om Cuba," he told Fast German
steel workers at Eisrnhuctten-
sladt. "But we have set up 80,
probably even 120 rockets In other
pieces."
"Cuba Is not the most conveni
ent place to base rockets," the
Communist leader said In his
most anti-Western speech since he
arrived for the Fast German
Communist Party Congress last
Xionday. "We have better places
than Cuba."
Karlier, Khrushchev said the
United States had been poised to
invade Cuba with 300,000 men hut
was deterred by the "powerful
elub" of Soviet military might.
LONUO.N i UPI i A power
struggle inside tlie Labor Parly
for the leadership left vacant by
the death of Hugh Gaitskell
threatened further chaos Satm--
day to an already troubled Brit
ish political scene.
Gaitskell, 56, died Friday night
just when the Socialists appeared
to be within grasp of victory in
the next elections because of the
troubles besetting Prime Minister
Harold MacmiUan's Conservative
government.
There was no automatic succes
sor to Gaitskell and his death
apparently greatly diminished La
bor s chances for success. Some
of his friends said he was worth
a million votes to the Socialists.
The Labor Party is deeply di
vided into left and right - wings
and it was Gaitskell, a conserva
tive Socialist, who held it togclli-
er. There was a possibility the
Conservatives might take advan
tage of tlie confusion now reign
ing in the Lalwr midst lo call a
snap general election.
Critical Issue
Complicating Labor's trouble
was the convening on Tuesday of
tlie House of Commons to face
critical issues which will test the
loyalty of the two Labor wings
and tlie Conservative government
itself.
M.P.'s of both parties were full
of doubts and uncertainties over
MacmiUan's fight In take Britain1
into tlie European Common Mar-1
ket over French opposition.
Many were angry over growing'
VV.. i i M - I7ri''''
KICK-OFF FOR VISIT Mayor Robert Veatch, seated at right, siqned the proclama
tion making Jan. 20-26 Sister City Week in Klamath Falls. Left, seated, is Mrs. Walt
Mclntyre who with her husband left Saturday for San Francisco, from where they will
fly to Rotorua to help celebrate attaining city status. Standing, left to right, are mem
bers of the chamber of commerce Rotorua Committee, Mrs. Marshall Cornett, Mrs.
Fred Hoilbronner, Will Solis, Walt Mclntyre, World Wide Travel Service, Charles
Griffith and Robert Kyle, city manager.
Oregon Legislature Faces
Long, Hard Session Ahead
Five Killed
In Crackup
OROVILLE, Calif. (UPH - The
bodies of five airmen killed
the flaming crash of a helicopter
into a huge rockpile of gold dred
ger tailings were recovered Sat
urday.
The IMS helicopter, en route
from Uealc Air Force Base near
Marysvillc, Calif., to the Tilan
missile site at Chico, Calif, crash
ed and burned in rocky terrain
thiee miles south of Orovillc Fri
day.
The bodies of two of Hie five
men aboard were thrown clear
of the wreckage and rescue teams
were unable lo recover the other
three bodies until alter midnight
because of the heat and danger
ol explosion.
Tlie victims were identified by
die Air Force as:
Capt. Richard L. Rirch. t h e
pilot, originally from St. Anthony,
Ida : Staff Sgt. Loyd R. Kuebl,
the crew chief. Wolsev. S.D.:
tail Set. Edward U. Ilavis. 28.
I'oitland, Ore.; Airman I.C. Clar
ence A. Williams Jr., 30. Tampa.
Fla . and M Sgt. Charlie Cowart,
42, Waycross. Ga.
An investigative (cam from the
Air Force was probing Hie char
red wreckage for clues as In what
caused the ctash.
Witnesses said the helicopter.
one of two flying from Bcale AFB.
di)ed when its engine coughed,
but apiieared to recover. Then the
rotor blade fell off, cutting the
tail off the craft and sending it
nose first into the rock piles. It
exploded and started burning on
impact
unemployment. Even aome
the supporters have been
openly hostile lo his decision to
accept President Kennedy's pro
posal to abandon tlie Skybolt det
errent and accept the Polaris
missile.
There was speculation the con
fusion into which tlie Labor lead
ership had been thrown would
prompt Macmillan to call an elec
tion. Under law he must hold one
by October, 1!)64, but he is able
to call one at his own discretion
if he thinks his lories can win.
Before Gaitskell's death the La
bor Party had been running
ahead in public opinion polls and
an anti-government trend set in
several by-clcctions last year. Po
litical commentators agreed Mac
millan could not call a general
election until some dramatic
event changed tilings.
They believed success of Brit
ain s bid to cnler tlie Common
Market provided the main chance.
Now tlie Common Market nego
liations appeared close to disaster
because of French President
Charles De Gaulle's opposition to
Britain s membership.
Big Question
Tlie big question was whether
the Labor feuds could be hidden.
Gailskell welded tlie party togeth
er by his personal prestige after
it fell apart in the mid-1950s over
such issues as nationalization of
industry, nuclear disarmament
and Britain's approach to Euro
pean unity.
He convinced tlie left - wing
that I,abor the working class
parly musl modify its Socialist
principles so as lo win the sup
ixirt of the growing middle
classes. He convinced the right-
wing, mostly influential trade
unionists, to cooperate with the
left-wing intellectuals.
colleagues through what may be
one of Oregon's longest and most
significant sessions.
Monday afternoon, Republican;
Gov. Mark Hatfield was inaugu
rated for his second term m color
ful ceremonies in the packed
House chambers, and laid his leg
islative program before the law
makers.
In succeeding days. Hie legisla
ture's biggest problem flooded in
to the House in tlie form of 102
basic budget bills.
They reflect the governor's pro
posed $405 million general fund
spending plan for tlie l3-65 bien-
nium. Tlie legislators must decide
Pay Raise
Draws Fire
SALEM (UPI) - The 1963 Orc-i
gon Legislature, its main subjects!
before it, setlles down Monday for!
some hard work after an opening'
week keyed to ceremonies and
organization.
The opening last Monday was
marked by pageantry and by po
litical organization that went
smoothly according to script,
without any serious surprises.
Senate President Ben Musa, D-
The Dalles, and House Speaker
Clarence Barton, D-Coquille, were'
elected as expected to stoer their
where to add or subtract from
the budget, and how to raise the
additional millions needed to fi
nance it.
The core of tlie governor's tax
reform and tax increase program
a catch-all slate Income tax bill
was being circulated for signa
tures as the first week ended.
Meanwhile, the Senate presi
dent's tax alternative a modifica
tion of the governor's proposal
was introduced by his wife, Kath-
crinc Musa, in the House.
Aside from money matters
what could be the . legislature's!
most meaningful work constitu
tional revision was formillv In.
Irodured In the House Friday In
brand new constitution drafted
during the past two years.
The joint House-Senate commit
tee on constitutional revision held
its organizational meeting Thurs
day. It will begin studying the
proposed new document in earnest
this week following a joint ses
sion of the House and Senate
Tuesday to hear tioin the Oregon
Commission on Constitutional Re
vision.
A bill to st legislators' pay at
$3,000 a y,- pkis $20 a day In
expense (tiring the ession made
Its appetrfvice. .solidiy sponsored
by more(trtan hal! Ulc memfcors
Sex Crime
Bill Ready
SALEM tUPli - Tlie leglsla-1
turc's pay bill introduced Thurs
day was termed "preposterous"
and a "travesty upon the pocket
book of the taxpayer" by Rep.
Robert F. Smith, R-Burns.
The bill Inlroduccd would pay
legislators $3,000 a year plus $20
a day expenses while the legisla
ture was in session.
"The proposal lo allow legisla
tors W.400 per bieimium through
per diem and salary is twice that
necessary to meet the expenses
of the average legislator," Smith
said.
When you consider Hie fact
that many legislators hire their
wives as secretaries, this means
$10,440 per biennium," he said.
'Certainly I am in favor of in
creasing legislators' salaries to
meet expenses, however, this pro
posal I feel would allow profes
sionalism to creep inlo a slate
which has been incorrupt.
the form of a resolution on
PORTLAND (UPI) Rep. Wil-
lam Gallagher, R-Portland. told a
packed audience at Beaumont
School Friday night, that legisla-
ion dealing with sex offenders
will be introduced into the Ore
gon Legislature Monday.
He said tlie bills are the result
of a study by a subcommittee on
sex offenders of the Interim Com
mittee on Social Problems.
He said there was a "lack of
communication" and "jealousy"
between law enforcement agencies.
The representative said a bill
providing for civil commitment of
persons found to he sexually dan
gerous also would be introduced.
He said it would provide a civil
procedure similar to that of com
mitting a mentally ill person to
an institution.
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IN eacn ikwsc. j
Bills spyinsorr lv interim leg
islative dommilttfca or private in
dividual began to filler Into the
two house. They ranged from
measures on the death penalty,
lobbyists and forests to liquor per
mits, social problems and banks.
Labor laid out its program at
a meeting of labor leaders.
The intricacies of the legislative
procedure were discussed at an
all - day orientation conference
Tuesday.
Most committees held organiza
tional meetings to get ready lo
start work on tlie bills that will
flow in in Increasing numbers in
the next few weeks.
State Tuition
Hike Opposed
SALEM (UPI) - Rep. Richard
L. Kennedy, D-Eugcne, said Fri
day he opposed an increase in
student tuition at stale-supported
colleges and universities to pay
lor higher faculty salaries.
Hie proposal was made by the
American Association of Univer
sity Women at a meeting here
'I1mrnday.
Nikita's Morale Campaign Sags
Under Rash Of Commie Escapes
BERLIN : UPI '-Soviet Premier
Nikita Khrushchev'! campaign of
sceches and personal appear
ances lo raise sagging East Gcr-i
man morale sullered a setback,
Saturday when two more Commu
nist border guards escaped lo the
West.
Other Communist guards fired
inlo West Berlin in a vain at
tempt to stop one of tlie escapes,
the lirst time they have done so In
some months.
Khrushchev and East German
party chief Walter Ulbrichl
skipped Ihe filth session of the
East German Communist Party
congress and traveled do miles
east of Berlin to the sleel city of
Eisenhucltensladt, which until re
cently was named Stalinstadt.
While they were gone, an East
German border guard risked
death by crawling through the
barbed wire barrier and escaping
to West Berlin in a haii of ma
chinegun bullets from his former
comrades.
A few hours earlier, anollier
guard hud escaped undetected.
Their flights brought to six the
number of successful escapes
since Khrushchev's arrival Mon
day. Another six refugees have
fled to West Germany.
Saturday's first escape took
place under cover of darkness.
Hut the second guard, a 20-year-
old youth, fled at midday. He
wriggled through Jumbles of
liarlied wire marking tlie border,
then ran inlo a railroad switching
yard, picking his way through ice,
snow, and tlie wilderness of tracks
is machine pistol shots rang out.
He was almost across the yards
liefore Hie fire began, however.
and was not hit by any of the bul
lets fired at him. West Berlin po
lice from a nearby railway tta
lion jumped into the yards to es
cort tlie guard to safely, hut were
not forced to fire at the Commu-I
nista to protect him because of
his distance from the bolder.
Financing
Plan Eyed
SALEM (UPI) - A method of
providing bonds to finance higher
education instructional buildings
without a vote of the people was
being explored by Rep. John Moa
ner, R-Beaverton, and Sen. Alfred
II. Corbett, D-Portland.
The plan would require
amending of existing statutes to
provide a specific allocation of
money from tuition to pay for in
structional buildings, laboratories
and other facilities, and an in
crease in the bond ceiling now in
effect.
Mosser and Corbett explained
that existing law calls for a spe
cial student building fee which
goes Into a fund for paying off
dormitory and student union build
ings.
Their plan would finance in
structional buildings in the same
way.
They cited "avoiding the ex-
pease of a statewide election"
and the possibility of getting the
program underway without having
to wait for an election as advan
tages to their proposal.
Tax On Ncf
Proposed
SALEM (UPI)-Jlep. Victor AU-
yeh, R-Beaverton, said Friday he
would introduce a tax bill to off
set Inventory taxes by levying a
one per cent tax on the net In
come of all business firms.
Tlie measure will call (or the
lax to be collected by the state
tax commission along with the
regular Income tax. All funds
from tlie special levy received by
ihe commission would be remitted
to the counties In proportion to
their assessed "dollar amount" of
Inventory tax, he said.