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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 30, 1963)
COUP. TOfs TlMtiU Power Ik II U.OF ORS. LIBRAE! NEWSPAPER SECTION Klamath falls LINE WOULD START HERE This view shows the Round Butte Dam which is under construction on the Deschutes River near Madras. It will cost about $60 million and should be completed sometime in 1964. The offer of PGE made to Bonneville Power Administration Tuesday would contemplate a 500,000 volt intertie line beginning at this dam and extending to the new PPL pover substation south of Klamath Falls. In The J Pay's lews j By FRANK JENKINS This is another day when there's no doubt as to what's the big news. It's the black-balling of Brit ain lor membership in the Euro pcan Common Market. You may ask: What is this European Common Market? It's a trade organization com posed of six Western European countries West Germany. Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Lux embourg and Fiance. These six countries joined some years ago in a mutual trade agreement. It was a FREE TRADE agreement. They abolished TRADE frontiers. In this "common" market, trade flows as freely from one country to another as from one Ameri can STATE to another. It has been IMMENSELY sue ccsslul. It has brought to these six countries prosperity such as they had never even dreamed of before. Watching what has happened in these six Common Market coun tries, Britain came to the conclu sion that she needed to join the lodge. She is physically separated liom them by a body of water not much wider than San Francis co Bay, if one measures from north to south instead of from cast to west. So she applied for membership. Her application was turned down yesterday. How.' Each member of the Common Market has a veto. When they passed the box yesterday for the voting. President Dc Gaulle of France dropped in a BLACK mar ble. The other five dropped in while marbles. That did it. Britain was turned down for membership in the Common Mar ket. Why? Nobody knnus for sure. But it is suspected that another French man got delusions of grandeur. The French hove a habit of that sort. Napoleon, of course, is the shining example. It just could be that Dc Gaulle wou d like to be another Napoleon. In their per sonality, the two have much in common. Some diplomats profess to be iievc the French are starting a long process of lessening U.S. and British influence on the continent. Willi the idea ol making France lop dlig in Europe. That was Napoleon's idea, too. The big question: WHY ARE WE CONCERNED? We arc not necessarily con cerned on Britain's account. Brit ain can survive. She has her own organization of states her com monwealth, composed of former -tfntish colonics. The British Com monucalth has a sort of Common Market of its own. Tlie trouble is. as we see it. that this is the FIIiST BliEAK in the Western Alliance. As this is written Old Kroosh hasn't been heard from on the subject. But you can safely bet jour bottom dollar that he is rubbing his hands and grinning from car to ear. Another question unsKiken as yet. hut in the minds of every body: Wiil Dc Gaulle finally set oiei on Kroosh' s side'.' If? improbable hut you never inn tell what a Fierclinidii with delusions of grandcir will do .V century and a half a,o. Nap-iico-ij ar.d Alexander I o! Itussia t'"t; to;ether on a raft ir, the middle ol the iNiemen river at Tilsit and for two weeks had the time of their lhes riiuding up the worId( and parceling It out between' them. These despots are dangerous. "iV" !TS' Hiqh yesterday Low last nighl High year ago Low year ago Htqh past 14 years Low past 14 years Precip. past 24 hours Since Jan. 1 Same period last year SI (Kill -7 (19571 Elimination Of Teaching Jobs Urged To Pare Cost SALEM 'I'Pl'- Elimination of 99 new college teaching positions ,lo save $1.7 million was advo lealed Tuesday by Legislative Fis cal Olliccr Kenneth Bragg. The proxsal would add 344 new faculty members to the higher ed ucation system by 1114-65. instead of the 443 sought both by the gov ernor and the Board of Higher I Education. I It would give the system a pro portion of 17 students to one teacher, instead of the Ifi.l to 1 ratio proposed in the governor's budget. Bragg said he doubted the qual ity of higher education would be Building Constitution Of Future,' Says Sprague SALEM iUPIi-"Wc are draw ing a constitution for the next 100 years, not the past 100 years," former Gov. Charles A. Sprague said Tuesday. J Sprague, who served as gover- nor from lli'W to 1!H3. addressed the organizational meeting of the joint Senate - House Constitutional Iievision Committee. He said of the proposed new loiMitiition drafted by an interim committee, "we provided a solid foundation and a sturdy frame, and allowed the legislature wide latitude. "We have adjusted ourselves to Oregon's century-old constitution, tl's like bvind in a crntiirv old I house. It's bolter to build a new I house than to remqlcl a room or 'construct an addition." j He said there was rn partisan- .ship in drafting the proposed new idocumenl. ! Sprague explained the work of the legislature is now more com- iphcated than formerly He said fallen he was governor the general fund budget was $25 million, and le compared that to the (405.3 Wo Sledding Edict Given No sk'ihng will lie allowed on city streets, the Klamath Falls Paiks and Recreation Depart ment announced Wednesday. "Tlie department had doMgnat ed three unMi;rrisod areas on whuh sledding will he allowed," Garv W nudum:, department direc tor, said. The areas, who h are maiked by signs, are at Birth Street and El dorado Avenue: on the we-t side of tlie West Side Bypass across from Conger ScIkoI and at Moore Pa?k near tlie cncesvi(,n stand. Tie Moore Park area will tie lighted and will Ime a warming tire frun 6 to 8 o'clock tonight. 4 , ,V ijs Price Ten Cents 14 Pages aulle's impaired by the reduction. He said this is particularly true since tnere simply arc not enough qualified teachers avail able." Bragg, who works for the legis lature, spoke to the Ways and Means subcommittee on educa tion. Tile subcommittee is consid ering the governor's proXsed &J1 million lor higher education in the next biennium out of a total gen eral fund budget of $404.1 million. Two Years Ago The 16.1 ratio was the standard set two years ago for the current biennium. In actual practice, how ever, a student enrollment boom million budget proposed for the 13-OTi biennium. He said "we hac had a suc cession of governors who asked 'give us relief.' " . He lermcd "reallv suncrior the judicial articles in the new con stitution, and lauded "a number of refinements." Thursday the joint committee w ill begin a section by section re view of the proposed constitution. 14 Aboard Plane Crash NORFOLK. Va. U'PH-A Navy plane with 14 persons aboard fell into the Atlantic Ocean today and ;a Coast Guard rescue ship report ed sighting bodies in the wreck a,. No immediate trace of surviv ors was found. The plane crashed about 125 miles northeast of Cae Henry. Va. Two life rafts and other de bris were spotted earlier today by Coast Guard aircraf and ships. The Coast Guard culler Abse eon reported to the raval air sta tion here that bodies and wreck age sere sighted but that no signs' of lile were reported. The Absecon and the suhmarinc Carp were the first vessels to ar rive at the scene. Considerable debris was being picked up in the area. The Abse con reported picking up insula tion from the interior of the plane, a new Eieetra turbo-jet as signed to antisubmarine patrol. Tlie Carp retrieved magnetic air detection gear from tlie rear of the plane. "Rut there has been no positive sighting of bodies at this time, the Absecon reported 45 minutes i alter ftarting the search. Portland General Electric Com pany olfered Tuesday to build a 180-mile power intertie between the Columbia Basin and California lor use by both private utilities and the Bonneville Power Admin istration. The offer was contained in a letter to Charles F. Luce, Bonne ville Power administrator, in re sponse to an invitation he had addressed to all major utilities of the region last November asking for intertie proposals. Deadline for receiving them is ncjt Thurs day. Thomas W. Delzell, PGE board chairman, said his company's pro posal calls for a 500,000 volt al ternating current line extending from PGE's Round Butte hydro electric project now under con struction on the Deschutes River near Madras, to a new Pacific Power and Light Company substa tion east of Klamath Kails. The PPL interconnection would be supplemented later by a tic directly between PGE and Pacif ic Gas and Electric Company w hich proposes to construct a 500. 000 volt transmission line be tween its Feather River plants Design' For Europe Bg raised tlie ratio to one teacher for 17.6 students. The governor and the Board of Higher Education envision return ing to the lower 16.1 to 1 ratio. "The issue," said Bragg, "is whether there is a direct relation ship between . . . the qualily of education . . . and the number of students per teacher." He praised a budget item call ing for $43.000 for "institutional research" on ways to improve the management of higher education and to increase coordination be tween the academic and business ides of the higher education sys tem. He said better management would oien the way to increase use of such new techniques as educational or closed circuit tele vision. The problem is getting the pro fessors to recognize a cliange ol tins magnitude." he said. Other Highlights Local Sen. Alfred Corbctt. D Portland. said Oregon's laws force the legislature to go into "unnec essary detail in local affairs." He made the remark as he announced he has agreed to co-sionsor a bill to let Multnomah County employes be paid every two weeks instead of monthly. Judiciary The Senate Judiciary Committee agreed lo introduce 15 bills. One would add a third judge in die Multnomah Department of Domestic Relations, one would in crease mileage allowances, and another would increase circuit judge salaries from ilO.jOO to S13.500. The others were of a housekeeping nature. Constitution Former Gov. Charles Sprague said a proposed new constitution offers "a solid foundation" for tlie next century. Air Force Frees Man MOUNTAIN HOME. Idaho il'PI 'Airman Geraia M. Ander son. 25. was a Iree man today after 10 months' imprisonment by the Air Force for a double slay ing another man had conlesscd. Anderson was released at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday Irom the Mountain Home AFB stockade shortly alter the Air Force announced it was dropping a double mardcr charge against him. The Air Force announced in Washington. D.C. today it would ('isehaige Anderson soon because of the "unusual circumstances" surrounding his case. Rep. Ralph Harding. D-ldaho, said. Anderson had applied for a hardship discharge. The Air Force said it believed Anderson was innocent of the 'tabbing Heaths here last April of Mrs. Nancy Joy Johnson, 22, and iher son, Danny, 2. and the Oregon border. In addition to its leg of the line, PGE would install 300.000 KVA of substation capacity at the Round Butte site and have the interconnection facility ready for operation by late Hkio, Delzeil added. The Bonneville Power Adminis tration would be offered half the transmission line's capacity so that the government could ex cliange power with California sys tems units own account. The PGE proposal also contemplates that Bonneville or some other agenev would construct a Columbia Riv- er-Kound Butte leg of the tic line, and would lease 50 per cent of its capacity to the company. It was suggested that origin of this line would be at the John Dav dam- site or Big Eddy near The Dalles. Unit cost to tlie government for leasing its share of the PGE line would be set at a level no higher than BPA would incur if it were to build a line of its own, the company official said. Part of the PGE proposal would prevent the intertie from bleed ing Pacific Northwest firm power supplies into California systems KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, Mttt I, - ." ' I 1 .1 T 1 I, ' , 1 1 OFFERS NEW CONCEPT French President Charles de Gaulle Tuesday vetoed Britain' entrance info the European Common Market and promulgated his own "grand design" for Europe which includes close coopera tion with Russian interests and exclusion of both Britain and United Slates. UPI Telephoto Break Seen In Soviet, Red China Relations WASHINGTON ( UPI i Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara told Congress today there was in creasing evidence that the Com munist unity of Russia and Red China had been "fractured per has irreparably." "Although wc may draw some comfort Irom this failing out bc twecen the Communist giants," he said, "the world situation remains lierilous, nevertheless." McNamara made the assess ment in his annual report to the House Armed Services Committee on the Matin of U.S. military power. He presented the lW-page summary at a closed session. A censored version was made pub lic by the committee. Tlie defense secretary assured the lawmakers the United Slates was "fully capable" of destroy ing key Soviet targets "even af ter absorbing an initial surprise attack. " He said this country had about djfl bomhers on 15-minulc ground alert aMl more than 200 Atlas. Dark Future Faced By School Aid Plan WASHINGTON UPH - The prospects of President Kennedy's big new sch'Tol aid oiogram have been summed up in a single short sentence: "II hasn't jot a prayer." That assessment, Irom a con gressional aide seasoned in past selmol hill bailies, was widely shared by lawmaker? alter their first look at the President's mulli-billion-dollar education plan Tues day. The g'oomy oullook (or the leg islation api'lied generally to the form in wlmh it was sent lo Congress: a single catch-all bill enjoying a preference by virtue of public status, whether or not proposed regional preference leg islation is passed by Congress. Such legislation has been sought as a prerequisite for federal in tertie construction, but failed of passage last year. "We would propose that the lease from PGE to BPA on the capacity of the Round Buttc Klamath Kails line would limit transmission of power and ener gy outside the slate of Oregon only to that which is surplus to the needs of all consumers in the Pacific Northwest area," Dclzcll said. "We feel that this is a proper protection for the region and would be effective even if the regional preference bill now be fore Congress should fail of en actment." Approximately a half-million kil owatts of surplus BPA power could be transmitted over its share of the line. PGE said its economic study of Uic intertie indicated it would pay out benelicially both to com- (Continued on Page 4) Titan and Minuleman missiles on launchers along with 144 Polaris missiles in submarines ready to retaliate. "Allowing (or losses from an initial enemy attack and attrition en route lo largo, he said, we calculate that our forces to day could still destroy the Soviet Union without any help from the deployed tactical air units or car rier task forces or Thor or Jupi Icr intcrmcdialc range ballistic missiles." McNamara said President Ken nedy's recommended $53.7 billion defense budget would strengthen U.S. preparedness even more while Russia and Red China "struggle for power in the Com munist camp." He declared that "the deslruc tion of freedom and free nations is still the ultimate objective" of both Communist xiwtrs, although 'each is seeking to altain the ob jective in Its own way, and to capture the spoils for itself." I combining 24 new and old school aid plans. Parts of the Kennedy program seemed sure to become caught in the bitter congressional (ighl between supporters of public and parochial scliools. The two sides lined up quickly. The National Education Associa tion heartily endorsed the hill; a representative of the National Catholic Welfare Conference said it "had something for everybody, everybody except those children whose parents have elected lo send them to private schools." POSSIBLE TIE TO HERE The proposal of PGE to Bonneville envisions a power inter tie line from the Round Butte Dam to this new PPL power substation adjacent to the company's service center just off US 97 south of Klamath Falls. At present, these lines carry 230,000 volts of power. Ron Spani, assistant power superintendent, is shown here with substation network in background. Telephone nores m French Veto Denies British Entrance By PHIL NEWSOM I PI Foreign News Analyst For good or evil. President Charles dc Gaulle has seized the initiative in Europe. And by power of the veto he already is exerting the "third force" he foresees for a new Europe of his own grand design. with both British and United Slates influence reduced to zero. The Dc Gaulle concejit calls for a Europe stabilized and dominat ed by France and Germany work ing in close collaboration, and living in co-existence with the So viet Union. The leadership would he French. France, not the Unit ed Slalcs, would be Europe's siiokesman in Moscow. There was gloom Tuesday In Brussels where France's five partners in the European Com mon Market were forced against Iheir will to accept De Gaulle's determination that Britain be ex cluded from the European com munity. And there was gloom in Urn- don where Prime Minister Har old Macmillan's covernmcnl faced the unpleasant truth that 15 months of negotiations to enter tlie Common Market had failed and loll them with no alternative. Faces Great Ptoblems For the Western alliance, its unity shaken as it had not been since the end of World War II. there also were massive prob lems. Policies which had been key stones for nearly 20 years seemed about to be changed, new alli ances about lo lie formed. For in a world of power poll tics, Dc Gaulle was determined to forge his own power bloc and devil take the hindmost. What makes De Gaulle? From Paris, UPI correspondent Joseph W. Grigg reported: "Dc Gaulle never has made any secret of his 'grand design.' Plane Crash Kills Eight KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPH-A Continental Airlines Viscount crashed and exploded in flames Tuesday night while attempting to land at tlie downtown municipal airport. All five passengers and three crew members were killed. The crash was Inc first fatal accident involving a commercial airliner in the history of the air port and of Continental. An earl ier Continental crash, which killed 45 persons, was blamed on a bomb. The 11.1 million, four-engine Viscount crashed into a dike on Ihe south side of the airport, near the partially frozen junction of tlie Missouri and Kaw rivers. Wit ness said the plane, which can carry 59 passengers, broke Into pieces and burst into flames. The wreckage burned fot almost an hour. Tlie bodies nf the victims, all hul three lound inside the wreck age, were taken to an airport hangar. TU 0-8111 No. 7051 pmam. To Common It Is a Europe which stretches Irom the Urals to the Atlantic, independent of any outside direc tion or tutelage, particularly from the United Stales. "It is a very long-term vision one he certainly docs not expect to come about this year or next or perhaps even for five or 10 years. But he is convinced that sooner or later the Soviets will break with lied China and turn lo the West. When Ihcy do, he wanta to be ready to negotiate! with them. It is indeed a long-term vision, for De Gaulle is 73 and he has but three more years left in of fice. As De Gaulle has pressed his own nuclear and European poli cies, tlie rift he has opened in Western unity has been compared Rain Freezes On Snow As Winter Chills State PORTLAND (UPD - Freezing rain fell on top of packed snow today as Western Oregon reeled under the winter's worst weather. A howling east wind piled snow- drilts up lo four feet deep in the Portland area. Freezing rain was reported this morning at Salem, Albany, Eu gene and Astoria and was fore cast for Portland. Slate police said Interstate 5 (Highway ttOi was haaurdous all tlie way to tlie California border. Portland school officials changed their mind early today and kept schools closed as the new filorm front piled from 2 to 4 more inclies of snow on tlie city All Salem public schools were closed as were tliose In jnany other areas. A silver thaw was reported in Lincoln County and schools there and those in Tillamook County shut down. Eastern Oregon lilt The snow spread east of the Casi-ades with Klamath Falls, lakeview and Redmond getting tlie most amounts. Baker had a low of 7 below at 4 a.m. Eugene and Salem reported alxiut 4 Inches of new snow over' night. Medford had some rain Tuesday night with icy conditions this morning. The weather man Snow Removal Aid Requested Motorists have been requested to keep their cars off Main, Klam ath and Pine streets alter m I d- night tonight in order that snow clearance can proceed unham lered, according to Police Chief Charlie Howard. Cars should not be parked on any of these three streets from Second Street to the underpasses on both Esplanade and Main Street between midnight and 6 a m., Howard Indicated. Weather Klamath Falls, Tulelake and Lakeview Mostly cloudy with pe rVI of snow or freezing rain tonight and Thursday. Wind be coming westerly 10 to 20 m.p.h. Little change In temperatures. Lows tonight 15-20. Highs Thurs day 30. in importance with the split be tween the Soviet Union and Red China. As indignation cooicd down to the simmering point it was pos sible that the rift might prove neither so deep nor so important as it now seemed. Sees No Hann De Gaulle was described as confident that neither tlie Com-, mon Market nor the Western al liance would suffer. French sources also pointed out that Brit ain ban from the Common Mar ket need not be permanent. UPI correspondent Karol Thal er reported from London: 'De Gaulle is seen here as a statesman driven by an almost Napoleonic ambition and deter mination to align Europe under French leadership." said tlie moist, warmer air over running the colder drier air would result in "quite a bit- of snow," turning to freezing rain and later to plain rain. Rain was forecast west of the Cascades Thursday with a thaw ing out expected. The live day outlook was for heavy amounts of precipitation from three to flva inches in Western Oregon. Mountain passes got heavy amounts of snow which brought smiles to ski resort owners. A house fire at Grosham Tues day night claimed the life of Mrs. Mildred DarnMIe, 46. East winds of 40 mph and freezing tempera tures hampered firefighters. Foir persons were injured In Portland sledding accidents Tues day. Negro Plans To Return JACKSON, Miss. (UPI)-James II. Meredith, 29, said today he has decided to return to the University of Mississippi for tlie spring semester. The Negro, whose entrance Into the university last fall was greet ed by rioting which left two dear and hundreds injured, made his announcement at a news confer ence here. "Many things have taken place in recent months and I see signs that give me hope that I will be able to go to school in the future tinder adequate, If not Ideal, con ditions," Meredith said. His decision came a few days after he had completed his aca demic work for his first semester of study at the previously all- white university. Meredith skipped one bf his final examinations and has been report ed in deep scholastic difficulty, but his grades have not yet been re vealed.
