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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 29, 1963)
la T1m- Day's Sews By FRANK JENKINS Interesting news: The U.S. Forest Service is ad vertising for sale an estimated two million tons o( old pine stumps in an area including a million and a quarter acres on the Winema, Fremont and Des chutes national forests. These stumps are the remains of trees that were cut for lumber some two or three decades ago. It is estimated that by the time this two million ton sale is com pletcd an additional 2.700.000 tons of old pine stumps will be avail able in the Winema-Frcmont-Des-chutes national forest area. From there on, a large vol ume of stumpwood is expected to become available each year from the logging operations of the past several decades. Why is tills so interesting? For an answer, let's go back to 1952, when some 3,000 tons of Ponderosa stumps from old cut tings on the Deschutes forest were harvested by the Hercules Pow der Co. and brought to Klamath Falls, where a pilot plant for the extraction and experimental processing of the chemicals in the old stumps had been set up. These chemicals included ros in, turpentine, pitch and tar prod ucts obtained in the past by tapping pine, cypress and other resinous trees and processing the sap. Rosin is one of the more important of these products. It is used in the preparation of synthetic resins like ester gum, bakeliles, paints and varnishes, soap, as a sizing for paper, and in polishes and waxes. Over the long past, these have been known as "naval stores." The Hercules pilot operation in Klamath Falls was designed to lest the feasibility of securing these products from old slumps, rather than by tapping the trees and processing the sap. It apparently proved unprofit able because of low resin prices prevailing at that time. This situation apparently has changed probably due to deple tion of pine stumpwood in the Southeastern states. The U.S. De partment of Agriculture, in a re cent report entitled "The outlook for Naval Stores," notes: "Ponderosa pine in the Western United States might provide a new domestic source of stump wood for naval stores. Interest in tlus possibility is increasing as supplies of Southern pine stump wood diminish.'" The Hercules Powder Compa ny operation at Klamath Falls a decade ago was not designed as a commercial plant. It was in tended solely as an experimental project, lis purpose was to find out what commercial products could be obtained from old Pon derosa pine slumps. The commu nity was told in advance that when (his purpose was achieved the pilot plant would be closed down. The investment was somewhere in the neishborhood of a million t two million dollars, and when he conditions, as did some subur the experimental studies werejban schools. Portland State Col completed it was regarded asilege also shut down, having been highly successful. Rural schools in Polk and Mari- Not only was resin obtained in t commercial quantities from thejconallis schools were open old Ponderosa stumps, but a wide range of other chemical products. So- H is intensely learn that the Forest Service is piannuiK .... - - "' derosa oine stumpwood in LAHGh, . i quantities over a long period of . ... , i . . This initial sale of stumpwood u. '' 7 .7" i it it an. nouncea. oi a muiii-imiiiuii wiwi chemical distillate plant some wnere in me a,.',;,,"" tract will require the successful IJKlUt I !' J-I'U" .11... .... .. pended at least a quarter of a million dollars for detailed design and specifications for a pine dis tillate plant The REALLY interesting pail . . ,, i . , of the project lies in the tact tnal WOOD CHEMISTRY appears to l i n k., i ,,!, ii i oe miaiij oiiviii . . dustrial picture in this regiun. France Kills British Bid For Market BRUSSELS. Belgium 'l'PI -Britain's bid to enter the Euro, pean Common Market today end ed in failure, scuttled by Presi dent Charles de Gaulle of France. , France icnored a last-ditch ap peal (mm the United Suites in be. half of Brita.n and brhed aside thc Washington warning thai! WASHINGTON 'I'PI'-Agricul-banning Britain from tlw market lure Secretary Orville Freeman couid imperil the Atlantic alii-has dcunaled Jackson. Josephine ance. and Tillamook counties in Oregon Talks amonj the forcian minis as disaster areas eligible to re fers of the six market nations ceive emergency assistance to re co'.Iapsed in failure after a sene pair rain and flood damage. Sens. of "crisis meet.n.v .vmn.iay and today. Weather Mlflh ytittrdiy Lew Uit night High year a 94 Low yur 19 High pjtt 14 years Low ptt 14 years Prtcip. Mtt 14 hours Sinct Jin. 1 Sam period lail yaar V Jl 3 nsi 11 m tract .11 UJ WJf f it - POET DIES Robert Frost, four-time Pulitzer Prize win ner and unofficial poet laureate to the nation, died at the age of 88 early today. He is shown relaxing in his study last year. UPI Telephoto Poet Robert Frost Dies At Age Of 88 BOSTON (UPO-Robert Frost America's unofficial poet laureate whose warmth and honesty bridged the gulf between nations torn by cold war hostilities, died early today at the age of 88. Authorities at Peter Bent Brig- ham Hospital said the craggy. white-haired poet a friend of President Kennedy and a "friend ly rival" of Soviet Premier Ni- kita S. Khrushchev succumbed at 1:50 a.m.. EST. Frost's death, apparently caused by blood clots which entered his lungs, ended a seven-week battle against a series of critical com plications which arose from ma jor surgery to remove a blockage of the urinary tract last Dec. 10. Up until then the elderly poet, Snow Whips West State; One Killed PORTLAND (LPli Western Oregon's biggest snow of what has been a dry winter snarled tralfic. closed schools and con tributed to at least one death The sun broke out over the Portland area today and chilly east winds whipped down the Co lumbia Gorge over a snowfall that measured from two to six inches in the city. The snow ranged throughout Western Oregon. All Portland public schools closed because of hazardous traf- on counties closed but Salem and A rash of traflic accidents was reported. Orville William Lapliam. 50, . , ' . Boring, was dead on arrival at a interesting to;, ." . . . hospital after a two car collision Snerjt-S ojcers Mjd joy roads , ....... .i . ana snow coninouica in me acci s hur( none critically, when a car struck ' . , ., 1 ' " Wash. , and rolled down a 200-foot 'embankment. Bradley Smith, 21, Portland 'suffered facial injuries when his , . , Service station attendants , downtown Portland ran two hours behind in putting on chains be fore the evening tralfic rush Mon- dav. .. .1. ,;A .. I lie wrauit-i man MIU IVdlUII ., ' ' "ow would con inue ,r Southern Oregon today, with freez mo lomnralure nipr Hie slalp ing temperatures over tomsht. Another storm front is approaching from the south and is expected to move inland late Wednesday but this one should bring rain west of the Cascades, Oie weather man said. The snow was a blessing to ski resorts which have suflered Irom lack of it this winter. Timberline Lodce reorted six inches of new snow, but its total was still only 14 inches. Mt. Bachelor near Bend had 18 inches of new snow with a 53-inch total. Disaster Areas Designated wayne .Morse ana .viaurine Ncu iberger said today. Price Ten Cents 12 Pages V winner of more Pulitzer Prizes than any olher writer of verse. had enjoyed relatively good health. But shortly aftek- the operation. he suffered a heart attack which left him near death. His recovery from the heart seizure was fur ther complicated by a series of pulmonary embolisms, blood clots. which threatened to fill his lungs and cut off his breathing. Frost's four Pulitzer Prizes stand as a monument to his poe tic genius, and in the waning years of his life he became a symbol of international good will. Death came a littie less than two years after Frost's unprece dented appearance at President Kennedy's inauguration. Few who watched the ceremonies on that bitter cold January day in 1961 will forget the sight of Frost, de feated by the sun's glare from reading a poem specially written for Uie occasion, recite from mem ory his lamed work, "The Gift Outright." Frost and Interior Secretary Stewart M. Udall spent 10 days in the Soviet Union, last Aug. to Sept. 9, as part of an exchange program belween this country and Russia. C so I .J HANGING STAR This Syncom active repeater com munication! satellite will be launched by the Federal Space Agency sometime after Feb. 13 in the first try at achievinq a 24-hour orbit 22.300 miles ebove earth. The satellite will girdle the globe once in 24 hours, tame as the earth's rotation, and thus appear to be hanging in ipace. UPI Telephoto Radio Relay Star To Hang In Space CUT, CANAVERAL (UPD Amcrica plans to lire a new communications satellite next week at one of the mo?t ambi tious goals in space an orbit so hi:h it will seem to hang in tlie sky in virtually one spot. Tlie lyvprnind "pa.e switch board" is named Svncom. It is tlie fifth, smallest and most un usual satellite built bv this na tion for tlie tavk of relaying ra dio siznals between stations on earth. Its creators are touting Syn com as the forerunner of a corrv paratively simple three-satellite svstem that could girdle the I globe with "live" television, tele JFK Calk For Legislative Salary Bill Gets Senate Okay, 17-12 SALEM lUPI) The Senate passed and sent to the governor for signature today the controver sial legislative pay bill. Senators voted 17 to 12 to adopt the measure, and also voted to appropriate $1,225,000 to finance the legislature through June 30. Both bills first wcie introduced in the House. The pay bill passed the House 41-18 after heated de bate. Senate action on the measure seemed almost routine compared to the hassle which developed m the House. Sen. Al Flegel. D - Roscburg moved for passage. Sen. Glen Stadler, D - Eugene, Slate Sen. Harry Boivln, Klam ath Falls, was one of the three Democratic senators who voted against the salary bill. All nine Republican senators voted against the bill. Boivln indicated that he want' ed to support his committee which had recommended a month ly salary of $150 plus the per diem allowance of $?0 per day while the legislature was in ses sion. voiced opposition and said pay in creases should be adopted in step form $15 a day expenses and $1,500 a year salary this session. and then to $3,000 a year and $20 a day expenses next session. Sen. Thomas Mahoney, D-Porl- land, said prolonged debate would not change anyone's mind, and called or an immediate vote. The measure which now goes to Gov. Mark Hatfield for signature, calls for a $3,000 a year salary and $20 a day expenses for not more than 120 days. In other senate action today. phone and ailin communications. Syncom, a brother star" and a first cousin if not to tlie famed "Tel "Relav" satellites, is scheduled to lie launched Feb. 13 alxiarn a Delta rocket toward a circular orbit 22.3KI miles above earth. Tlieie is a reason for this ex act altitude. It is a "magic num ber." This is the point in 5)ace Uiat scientists alternately refer to as the "synchronous oibil" uhusi the name "Syncom"' or "24 hour orbit." A satellite this high up travels at a sed th?t matches, or is synchronized wu!i. the ro tating speed of the earth below KLAMATH FALLS. OKKGON, Mahoney submitted a bill request ed by tlie Oregon Bar providing a death sentence shall be stayed if an appeal is taken. The bill also prescribes the procedure for stay ing of sentences in other cases in event of an appeal. Sen. Vern Cook, D-Grcsham, in troduced a bill to increase the maximum on veterans' home loans from $13,500 to $15,000, and iarm loans from $30,000 to $40,000. .Mahoney also introduced a bill which would create a 14-member Special Session Talked If Vote Kills SALEM (UPI i Gov. Mark Hat field said Monday he would have to consider the possibility of call ing a special session if voters re ject tax increases expected to be enacted by the current legislature. Hatfield made the comment at a press conlerence when asked if he agreed with House Speaker Clarence Barton. D-Coquille, that cutbacks might have to be made in basic school support. Barton proposed basic school support should be cut if voters rejected tax increases. Barton termed it the only fair way to have everyone share in cutbacks. Hatfield said as governor he would first have to consider the question of cutbacks in state serv ices., and might have to call a special session. He said he would be in a better position to judge the "trend" of current revenues after the end of the month. Hatfield has not yet announced where the $1.7 million in cutbacks announced last week will be made. Hatfield said he felt the sugges tion of Sen. Allred Corbetl. D Portland, to finance classroom construction from tuition fees "only postponed" the question. We ought to face up to the real question and vote on the bond program I recommended." He said we will make a pitch for a special in-scssion tax elec tion during committee hearings on tax bills. Hatfield, referring to tax bills already submitted, said the key part of his legislative program had already been introduced. He said "it depends on the liming whether he would com Zinc Stocks Spark Query WASHINGTON (UPIl - Senate stockpile investigatois wanted to know today why the government bought millions of tons of lead and zinc during the mid 1930s that nobody wanted. Recalled for the second day of testimony before the Special Sen ate Stockpile subcommittee was Dr. Arthur S. Flemming. director of the Office of Defense Mobilisa tion lODMi from I!l5.)-.i7.' Flemming now is president of the University of Oregon. In testimony Monday. Flem ming came under heavy fire for purchase of low-grade chromitc ore in 10.56 by the government depot at Grants Pass, Ore. The investicators said that about $25 million worth of the: ! chromitc ore was bought by the lovemmcnt at more than twice Ihe world market price. Flemming denied that political pressures were involved in the purchase. Subcommittee Counsel Rich- i mond Coburn placed in the record Dear Art" letter liom the late Douglas McKay urging Flemming In extend the program. McKay, interior secretary in the Eisenhower administration, was Republican candidate lor the U.S. Senate in Oregon at the lime. The letter said extension of the ore purchase program "means so much to the industry in tate ..." One week later. Flemmine rcc. ommended that the program he extended for two years past theiadelphia bus. trolley and subway- June 30, 1M7, expiration date, de spite opposition from several gov ernment mining experts. TUESDAY. JANUARY 29, 19C3 interim committee on criminal law and procedure, and appropri ate $30,000 for the study. Two proposed constitutional changes were submitted. One would change residence require ments for veterans' farm loans. and the other would provide an office holder would lorfeit his of fice upon a pleading of privilege against self-incrimination concern ing matters related to his public oflice. Tax Hikes mute death sentences if the capi Lai punishment issue went to the voters. "I cannot commute on a temporary basis. I cannot post pone a decision," he explained. The governor said "all in volved" are greatly concerned in protecting the future of the task assigned to the Oregon Primate Center, and "the future and career of a very brilliant scien tist, Dr. Donald Pickering." He said "we are closer to re solving" the dispute at the center. Third Tax Plan Eyed SALEM (UPP-A third major income tax proposal was an nounced Monday by Rep. John D. Alosscr, Jt-Beavcrton. The Mosser bill calls for a flat per cent rate of tax. increased personal exemptions, changes in tlie treatment of deductions, and elimination of special treatment lor capital gains. The proposal differs widely from the tax plan of Senate Presi dent Ben Musa. D-The Dalles, and the administration's net receipt tax submitted by Rep. Victor Ati yeh. R-Bcaverton. Mosser explained tint because of the personal exemptions and dependency credits, the lower in come taxpayers would have an encctive rate of tax much belowjmary election dale the 5 per cent rate while those with higher incomes would an- proach the S per cent rate. I Doctor-Slayer Seeks Freedom COLUMBUS, Ohio (UPli-Tlic case of Dr. Sam Sheppard, con victed of murder in tlw bludgeon slaying of his pregnant wife, Marilyn, took a surprise turn on the eve of his latest bid for free dom. Shcppard's Boston atlorney, Lee Bailey, said Monday night the doctor is engaged to a Ger man divorcee. Tlie slate Pardon and Parole Commission today was scheduled to act on Shcppard's application for commutation of his life sen tence for tlie lr4 slaying in the couple's Bay Village home near Cleveland. Bailey said Slieppard became engaged to Mrs. Ananc Tehben- johanns. 12, of Dtisseldorf, Ger many, after a courtship by mail. He said the correspondence be gan three years ago alter Mrs Thh.nini,.nn, ,lut mn,i,r of a nlne.V(,.irfld rf-.htcr. became inlereed in Sheppard's case. More Labor MnMArf VAAfl Will COI 66ll B United Press International Tlie strike widened today against two Cleveland newpa pers and win! talks were sched uled in the New York dailies walkout as the nationwide wave Ihisinf labor unrest showed few signs of subsiding It was possible the Kansas City bus drivers would join Phil elevated operators In walkouts affecting hundreds of thousands of commuters, Tt'lrphone Stouble OFF TO NEW ZEALAND Mr. and Mrs. Walt Mclntyro are shown here as they boarded Qantas Airlines Flight 53 1 from San Francisco to the South Pacific. As official Klamath Falls Sister City representatives, they fly to Rotorua, New Zealand, via Sydney, and will return via Fiji Islands. May To September Vote Change Urged SALEM UPIi "This willl L;iuuiy iui. uuvtn un Kit; mi inuiii n.. a .1 t ;i of the election period," Rep. Jake Bennett said Monday as he urged support of a bill to move Ore gon's primary election date from May to September, The Portland Democrat testified before the House Elections Com miltce. "This is the people's bill," he said. He said the change would elimi nate "long drawn-out campaigns,' reduce the "almost prohibitive cost, and let public officials spend more lime tending to the people's business instead of cam paigning. Bennett said the committee would have lo work out an alter nate way of electing delegates to presidential nominating conven tions. .1. I). McDonald of tlie Oregon AFL-CIO endorsed the proposal. Stale Elections Director Jack Thompson, however, said a "mas sive revision" of Oregon's elec tion laws would be required to implement change in the pri- He said it would take a long time to draw im the channos more than the present session. Mrs. Tcbbenjohanns visited Sheppaid lat,t week at the Mari on Correctional Institute and be came engaged. "We hope to marry as soon as possible." the blonde Mrs. Tcb benjohanns said. "There is a great interest in the Sheppard case in Germany. I intend to write, il necessary, about this shocking affair. In my country, American justice and fairness is usually praised. Naturally I was very disap pointed in the verdict and I am convinced of his innocence." Asked what convinced her of Sheppard's innocence, she said: "Not one particular thing in the case, but the whole case makes me feel he is Innocent." Sheppard's brotlier, Stephen, said he served as a go-between in the correspondence. Prisoners are allowed lo write only lo rela tives. "She would write to me and I would write to my brother and then relay his letters to tier," lie said. Stephen said his brotlier and Mis. Tcbbenjohanns "hope to stay in Ohio with his Ifi-year-old son, Samuel. They would llien bring her daughter over from Germany. But she is will ing to go wherever he goes." He said no date has been set for Die wedding, "but she is will ing to marry him while he Is in prison, but he believes it would not be fair to her." Maury Koblentz, chief of tlie state Corrections Division, said Slieppard would not be allowed to marry as long as he was a prisoner, in accordance with Ohio prison policy. TU 4.81 II choo The committee did not take any gcllOU . Tax Rep. John Mosser, R- Beavcrton, announced a tax plan calling for a flat five per cent1 stale income tax rate, with revi sions in exemptions and deduc tions. The legislature already has I wo major income tax plans be fore it. Governor Gov. Mark Hatfield said if voters turn down tax hikes, he will have to think seriouslyl about a special session of the leg islature. Pay Tlie House-approved legis lative pay bill won approval of the Senate State and Federal Af fairs Committee at a meeting that lasted six minutes. Resources The Legislative in terim Committee on Natural Re sources agreed that Oregon's re source agencies need some con solidation, but not as much as the, governor proposed In his message calling for a natural resources de partment. Dam Tlie House Planning and Development Committee approved a memorial asking Congress to change the name of the John Day Dam on the Columbia to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Dam. r 1 ' V-; V 3 ,-; A -JM r ""1 ' , rr faiff""iniiirn" " '"i" hi n COURTSHIP BY MAIL Or. Sam Sheppard, convicted wife slayer, announced his engagement to Ariane Tab benjohannt of Duueldorf, Germany. The attractive 32-year-old wealthy blonde divorcee, shown above, It an route to Columbus, Ohio, for t hearing she hopes will be instrumental in gaining Sheppard's release on parola. The pair had a three-year courtship by mail. f UPI T.lephofo Weather Klamath Falls, Tulelake and Lakeview Mostly cloudy through Wednesday with snow flurries again late Wednesday. Little change In temperature with gusty winds at tlmrs. Low tonight 20. High Wednesday 38. Aid Plan Seeks Classroom, Lab Funds WASHINGTON (UPI) - Presi- dent Kennedy today offered Con gress an education package that -would double present federal school aid spending. He said it would give every American a chance to learn more, earn more and live better. ' . The President asked for a catchall school aid bill that would provide new assistance about equal to the $R5 billion already being spent on education each year by the federal government The bill carried with some no table concessions nearly every education request Kennedy has made since taking office two years ago. It also carried most of the controversy, including the bitter public-parochial school dis pute, that killed off the entire Kennedy education program in the last Congress. Tlie legislation outlined in Ken nedy's education message would help pay for new classrooms, laboratories, libraries and shops; provide higher pay and better training for teachers; and open new sources of funds for college students. Unofficially, its total cost over three to four years would be about $5 billion. Tlie program was tailored to meet some of the congressional objections that have dogged school aid proposals from both Demo cratic and Republican presidents. These changes may get some parts of tlie program through Congress. But it carried little promise for an end to tho church-state fight for aid to grade and high schools. Kennedy asked for a four-year. $1.9 billion program to help public schools build classrooms and raise teacher pay. The program was smaller and cheaper than in 1961. Unlike past requests, he did not give his reasons this time 4 b seeking no direct aid to private and parochial schools. However, Hie President made it lear he regarded Congress as duty-bound to face and resolve the religious dispute as well as others facing school aid proposals. "We can no longer afford the luxury of endless debate over all tlie sensitive questions raised by each new proposal," he said. "Tlie federal government . . . has clearly not met its responsi bilities in education," the Presi dent said. To Wed
