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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
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derosa oine stumpwood in LAHGh,
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quantities over a long period of
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nouncea. oi a muiii-imiiiuii wiwi
chemical distillate plant some
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tract will require the successful
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pended at least a quarter of a
million dollars for detailed design
and specifications for a pine dis
tillate plant
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of the project lies in the tact tnal
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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
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Low yur 19
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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
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ana snow coninouica in me acci
s hur(
none critically, when a car struck
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Wash.
, and rolled down a 200-foot
'embankment.
Bradley Smith, 21, Portland
'suffered facial injuries when his
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Service station attendants
, downtown Portland ran two hours
behind in putting on chains be
fore the evening tralfic rush Mon-
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' ' "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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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