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Day's lews
By FRANK JENKINS
From the San Francisco Chron
icte:
Under Secretary James K. Carr
of the Department of the Interior
is optimistic about the future of
the government's saline water
program which, he says, "is now
ten years old and is beginning
to show the results of just plain
intelligent hard work.
The government has built three
demonstration plants for desalt
ing brackish or sea water, and has
two more under way. It has seen
the cost of production drop from
S3 a thousand gallons, and it fore
sees the possibility of getting it
down to as little as 30 cents per
thousand gallons in a large vol
ume operation, probably using
nuclear power.
Reclamation authorities regard
the 30 cent figure as pretty op
timistic. They cite the fact that in
unusually favorable conditions
year-around climate, adjacent bigi
city markets, etc. it might be
possible to pay as much as 40
cents per thousand gallons.
As a possible source of water
in Southern California either fur
municipal purposes or for irriga
lion in the case of certain crops
it sounds interesting.
But-
Up here in Southern Oregon and
Far Northern California, we don't
talk about GALLONS when we!
(peak of irrigation water.
We talk in terms of ACRE
FEET.
Thai's another story.
There are 325.900 gallons in an,
acre foot of water. At 40 cents!
per thousand gallons, that would
be around $130 per acre foot of
water. At even 30 cents per
thousand gallons, it would still
be just under $100 per acre foot
So-
tip this way, we are going to
have to depend on stream flow,
plus storage, for our supplies of
irrigation water.
At least, for quite a while yet
Still-
We're not objecting to govern
ment research in the field of tak
ing the salt out of sea water.
We'll even go so far as to sug
gest that a lot of federal boon
doggling be abandoned and the1
money thus saved devoted to the
problem of desalting the waters
of the sea.
Fight Flares
Along Tigris
BAGHDAD. Iraq (UPl - The
first serious outbreak of fighting
since Sunday erupted today on
both sides of the Tigris River
which runs through the heart of
this Iraqi capital.
Newsmen could not check out
details of the fighting because ol
a curfew which restricted their
movements, but it was believed to
be between the newly installed
revolutionary forces and diehard
Communists who oppose them.
Bursts of automatic weapons
lire and the crack of rifles could
be heard distinctly on both sides
of the Tigris in what appeared
to be a renewal of the bloody
conflict that started last Friday.
The outbreak came shortly after
Col. Abdel Salam Aref, the revo
lutionary government's provision
al president, held his first news
conference a session that ended
in a near riot.
Foreign Minister Talcb Hussein
Chabib also met newsmen Wednes
day and had assured them that
all resistance had ended. He add
ed that total casualties were be
lieved to be "very small" since
the revolt started iat Friday and
overthrew the regime of Premier
Abdel Karim Kassem. The pre
mier later was given a drumhead
court martial and shot, along
with several aides.
However, several ho'irs later,
tlie sound of gunfire echoed
through several parts of the city.
Baghdad appeared to be return
ing to normal until the new fight
ing developed. Its calm had been
disturbed only by occasional rifle
shots, fired by young trigger
happy civilian "national guards
men." These youths had conduct
ed !; house-to-house search lor
Communists and had systematic
ally eliminated them. Communists
also were reported hunted down
in oilier cities.
The Soviet Union was not hap
py about the crackdown
Chilly Weather
Slaps Midwest
By Initnl Press International
The weatherman gae the Mid-we-t
chilly valentine today.
From Grand Forks, YD.,
where it was 4 below, to Texas'
Rio Grande Valley, where an
other Irccze threatened lender
vegetable and citrus crops, the
mercury stood low.
The cold pierced far into Flor
ida. dropping temperatures to an.
expected 28. but probaoiy not
enough to hurt the crops. I
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ESadio Contact Lost With
Youth Conservation Corps
Proposed
By MKIiltlMAN SMITH
UPI White House Reporter
WASHINGTON (UPIl Presi
dent Kennedy asked Congress to
day to set up a youth conserva-
ion corps with 15.000 members
and create a national service
orps similar to the Peace Corps
operating abroad.
In a special youth message
keyed to the theme of serving
young people better so "they will
serve their nation better" Ken
nedy also proposed an expansion
n the overseas Peace Corps.
1 he proposed conservation corps
would provide work and training
for 15.000 youths in national for
ests and recreation areas. It
would resemble the Civilian Con
servation Corps (CCCi of the
1930s.
The national
service corps
Canadian
Restriction Nixed
WASHINGTON (UPH - The
Tariff Commission today rejected
U.S. lumber industry plea for
restrictions on Canada s more
than $260 million a year softwood
lumber sales in the United States.
In a report to President Ken
nedy following a seven-month
tudy of conditions in the softwood
lumber industry, the commission
said the rapidly increasing im
oorts of Canadian lumber were
not caused in major part by past
anff concessions.
The commission's decision
gainst recommending tariff
boosts or quotas was unanimous.
It tied Kennedy's hands on tlie
lumber issue. Without a recom
mendation for action, he is un-
ble to apply any restrictions.
The U.S. lumber industry had
asked for tariff boosts from the
present maximum of $1 to $8 per
thousand board feet plus a quota
f 6.5 per cent of U.S. consump-
ion. which would have slashed
imports of Canadian lumber by
learly one third.
Tlie U.S. industry said employ
ment in the lumber industry and
industries dependent upon it
had dropped by 117.000 because
of softwood lumber imports in
19(51. It had said unemployment
ould increase as imports in
creased.
The Canadian industry, arguing
against restrictions during a two-
cek hearing last October, had
said that the U.S. industry's prob-
ems were not due to Canadian
lumber but rather to domestic
competitive conditions and to U.S.
laws which hobbled domestic lum
ber in some markets.
The Tariff Commission appeared
to go along with many of the
Canadian arguments.
Tlie most important cause of
the increased imports is reflect
ed in the much more pronounced
cost price squeeze' in the United
States than between the rising
price of lumber and the even
more rapidly rising price of tim
ler End purchased logs." tlie com
mission said in its 104-page report.
It said there was a limited com
mercial availability of softwood
timber in the United States, re
sulting in "Intense competition
among the buyers of such tim
ber." In contrast, it said, there was
Chamber
A resolution introduced in the'ieaislature on .Ian. 24 by the
tate legislature as the result of Klamath County legislative dele
the continuing hassle between
sportsmen and the Oregon Stale
(iame Commission over the ques
tion of holding annual antlerles
oeer hunts was unanimously en
dorsed by the Klamath County
Chamber of Commerce at its reg
ular weekly meeting Wednesday.
The action of the chamber was
in line with its continuing policy
of proceeding moderately con
cerning the dispute between the
stale game commission and a
group of Southern Oregon deer
hunters which has unified under
the title of the Oregon Fish and
Game Council in orJer to protest
the hunting of anllerless deer in
the state,
The resolution, presented to the
Ifetald
Price Ten Crnls 28 Pages
In JFK
would be a domestic peace corps,
composed of volunteers ol all ages
willing to serve in hospitals, men
tal health centers, schools, on In
dian reservations, and in city
slums or poor rural areas.
Cites Homefront Needs
Kennedy said his proposals
were designed to reduce uncm
ployment among younger Ameri
cans, boost the economy and per
mil citizens of any age to help
meet the need for homefront
services.
"Chronic world tensions have
tended to distract our attention
from those problems which have
long-range rather than immediate
consequences." he said. "But each
passing loonth makes it clearer
that our past failures to identify
understand and meet the many
problems relating to our nation's
Lumber
an increasing availability of new
ly opened virgin timber land in
Canada, mostly in eastern British
Columbia, and a less intense com
petition among Canadian lumber
mills for logs.
It said the devaluation of the
Canadian dollar from $1.04 in
terms of U.S. currency in 1959 to
set a rate of 92 5 cents last May
effectively promoted the expan
sion of (Canadian) lumber, exports
to tlie United States.
In time the dollar depreciation
"no doubt" will diminish impor
tance of promoting expansion of
Canadian lumber sales in the
United States, it said.
Tariff Act
No Surprise
PORTLAND i UPIi - G. Cleve
land Edgett, cxecutie vice presi
dent of the West Coast Lumber
men's Association, said the U.S.
tariff commission .decision today
not to restrict Canadian lumber
imports came as "no surprise. "
He said it was just the "first
tound."
The Tariff Commission rejected
the U.S. industry's plea for re
strictions on the Sim million, a
year Canadian softwood import
lumber sales in the United States
Edgett said that under terms of
the new trade expansion act of
12. the domestic industry had to
prove that previous tariff conces
sions were a major cause of dam
age to the industry through the
imports.
This," Edgett said, was vir
tually impossible."
But he said he ell the hearings
before the Tariff Commission last
year were helpful because Con
gress and other federal agencies
involved obtained a clear picture
of the harm being done to the
U.S. industry by Canadian im
ports. Canada last year reached 17
per cent of the domestic market.
Edgett said he believes ( on-
gress is aware of the problems
and will take whatever corrective
steps are necessary.
Endorses
cation and 47 other senators, calls
lor the establishment of an inter
im committee o i wiiolile to study
wildlife management, including
ihe source, volume and use of
public funds being sient on all
phases of game management. In
addition, the committee would
study Ihe planning and program
ming of public agencies involved
in protecting, preserving, propa
gating and promoting the wild
life resources of the stale.
As proposed in the resolution,
the committee would be com
posed of three senators and four
representatives.
Director Chuk Bailey of the
chamber s Upper Klamath Lake
and Recreation Committee pre
Message
youth cannot be countenanced any
longer.
The President called for early
congressional passage of his pro
posed youth employment act. This
would set up a $100 million pro
gram for establishment of the
youth conservation corps and also
provide for federal payment of
halt of the wages and related
costs of youths employed on non
profit, community services.
These local projects would in
elude hospitals, schools, parks
settlement houses and similar es
tablisbments. Asking $100 million
lor tlie first year of the program
Kennedy estimated it could cm
ploy 40.000 youths.
As for the domestic Peace
Corps, tlie President recommend
ed starling with "a small care
fully selected volunteer corps of
men and women of all areas
working under local direction and
protessional personnel."
Bigger Peace Corps
His proposal to enlarge the ov
erseas Peace Corps would bring
its strength to 13,000 volunteers
by September. 1904. It started this
vear with 4,350 members in train
ing or in service in 44 countries
and Kennedy estimated it would
have 9.000 by the end of this sum
mer.
The President also requested ex
tension of the juvenile delinquency
act for another three years, and
reiterated his recommendations
for increased family welfare ap
propriations, education, child care
and a supplemental appropria
tion for a comprehensive nation
wide medical immunization pro
gram.
Underlying Kennedy's recom
mendations was his concern for
the status of millions of young
Americans, particularly those be
tween the ages of 16 and 21. Un
employment among younger work
ers is two and a half times the
national average. During the
school months of 19t;2 there were
on the average 700.000 person; in
the 16-21 age group out ol school
and out of work.
The President also was dis
pleased that juvenile delinquency
cases brought to court more than
doubled in the past decade; that
too many children were not as
physically lit as they should be:
that while infant mortality has
levelled off in tlie past 10 years,
it still runs higher than that of
other countries sucn as Sweden.
Rail Strike
Talks Halted
SAN FRANCISCO UPI (-Fed
eral Mediator Frank O'Neill today
called a recess in negotiations be
tween Southern Pacilic Railroad
and 11.000 railway clerks who
have threatened to strike in seven
western stales.
O'Neill said talks would resume
in Chicago next Tuesday and that
he is confident the negotiators
will return to San Francisco
with an agreement in their
pockets.'
O'Neill told newsmen:
"The parties have been work
ing hard and diligently.. .c re
now at a stage where I could say
they are fairly close together
However an impasse does exist.
It is not insoluble.
Wildlife
sented the motion appinved by
Ihe membership and. at the same
time, slated that the resolution
was not oflered in reproach of
tlie game commission.
Later, Dick Green, chairman
of the same committee, reiterated
that the chamber "is not taking a
stand on whether the game com
mission is right or wrong, but is
merely of Ihe opinion that there
are some matters in Ihe areas of
game management whiih should
be studied."
The chamber then approved an
other proposal of Bailey's that a
li-t of seven recommendations
which developed from a series of
meetings in which representatives
ol Ihe Cattlemen's Association.
'ocal deer hunters, and the game
commission took part be submit
KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON.
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A ONCE FAMILIAR LANDMARK This view shows the
front entrance of fhe beautiful White Pelican Hotel
which once was located at the corner of Main and Es
planade. It provided the finest hotel accommodations
between San Francisco and Portland and was highly in-
Budget, Tax, Constitution Proposals
Await Oregon Legislators' Decision
SALEM (UPH -f. The 19S3 Ore -
gon legislature embarked on ttsland contradictory tax proposals,
second month today with senti
mcnt still fluid on major budget
tax and constitutional issues.
The lawmakers convened Jan.
14 amid ceremony and the chal
lenges of combing through a rec
ord $405 million general fund
budget, raising new revenues to
keep services at tlie old level, and
revising a century-old constitution.
In one month s time, commit
tees have begun to delve deeply
into some 100 acency budgets.
Navy Sights
Stolen Ship
CARACAS. Venezuela UPP
U.S. Navy units today sighted a
Venezuelan freighter hijacked by
Communists in the Caribbean.
Venezuela alerted warships to
close in on the freighter.
Informed sources here said
American flying boats sighted the
1.126-ton Anzoategui hound lor
Houston, Tex., at the time of its
capture.
The ship was reported to nave
been sighted on a line about half
way between the Venezuelan state
of Falcon and Puerto Rico.
Venezuelan warsh'ps were be
lieved steaming out to intercept
it. However, there was the pos
sibility that U.S. warships might
do tlie job.
The Anzoategui was hijacked by
members of the anligo'-ernment
national liberation lorces who
claimed in a radio message to be
pursuing "peaceful political ends,
The message bore nine signatures
of men in the raiding party which
seized the freighter and said all
aboard were safe and unharmed
indicating the hijacking was ac
complished by surprise and with
out violence.
Management Resolution
led with Ihe endorsement of the
chamber.
The recommendations were:
I. That a better svstem for
checking deer kill be devised and
lhat a credit card type of hunt
ing license be studied for sub
sequent use in the stale.
2. That the question ol holding
anllerless deer hunts be re
examined. Local sportsmen's
groups are urged to ceoperate
with the game commission to
work out each local problem.
3. The third resolution includes
eight topics which the chamber
recommends be discussed at in
formal hearings to be held once
annually between the game com
mission and sportsmen In differ
ent areas of the state, such as
Klamath Falls, Bend, Baker end
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 14. 19M"
5; 1 . i
lmore than half dozen major
and the proposed constitution that
took two years to write,
The answers have not yet
emerged.
The only measure to become
law so far is the legislative pay
bill, raising lawmakers' salaries
from $600 a year to $3,000 a year
plus $20 a day in expenses tor
the first 120 days of a session.
Tlie greatest interest and emo
tion so far centered on the un
expected: A Sunday semi - blue
law to close most businesses to
save a day for tlie family." It
provoked a flood of mail, strongly
against the idea.
It was still a toss-up how Gov.
Mark Hatfield would fare with his
program. Tcamwwork between Die
Republican governor and the
Democratic legislature started out
more smoothly than usual in the
face of a common revenue prob
lem. The session was grinding on at
a steady but unexciting pace. Sen
ate President Ben Musa said he
was hopeful it would stay under
150 days, but said it would prob
ably be longer than the 100 days
suggested earlier by House Speak
er Clarence Barton.
Here is how major business
was shaping up:
Budget The Ways and Means
Committee was carving away at
smaller agency budgets for some
minor savings, while hearings
continued on the big requests like
higher education. Chances were
the legislature would make some
subtractions, add some new pro
grams, and leave tlie final budget
not far from Hallicld s $405 mil
lion proposal.
Taxes The House Tax Commit
tee was struggling with prosah
for sales taxes, new income tax
laws, and a cigarette lax. Senti
ments clashed, but appeared like
ly to settle in the end on a broad
er income lax base, without rant
cal new features, plus a cigarette
Ontario. The subjects Include re
sults of the annual deer popula
tion Inventory and the population
trend by unit; results of deer
ange forage survey with indica
tion of trend; report on inter
state deer herd conlcrcnce; pro-
ixised recommendation by the
game commission lor 'ocal unit
by unit big-game hunting regula
lions; correlation of range for
age estimates, deer population in
ventories and long-term estimates
and planning; game commission
recommendations for increasing
the area and productivity of big
game winter forage units where
the need is critical; research
needs for local areas; report ol
linancial conditions as it relates
to the needs of tlie game commission.
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srrumental in influencing fhe course of development of
Klamath Falls. Complete story of the White Pelican Hotal
will be found in the Progress Edition which will be pub
lished on Sunday, Feb. 24. Plan now to order extra copies
to send to friends and former residents.
tax. Numerous tax bills of lesser
impact were being studied
Tax Election There was feeling
tlie legislature should not send a
tax program to the people, but
proposals were being considered
to speed up a tax election if the
people themselves refer tax meas
ures. Constitution The legislature
was lukewarm about approving a
new constitution and sending it to
(lie people, and its outcome this
session was uncertain.
Education Education from first
grade through college was the
subject of many a wrangle be
cause it s where most ol the
state's money goes. Higher educa
tion was fighting for more money
ugainst legislative threats of cuts.
Grade and high school financing
was still to be taken up. A re
vamp of the entire busic school
fund was proposed by tlie legisla
tive fiscal officer.
Consumers fiCgislators seemed
reluctant to tell bakers what size
loaves to bake, but a bill was in
troduced to make labeling clearer
so the housewife won't be duped.
Other measures to protect con
sumers included one to require
clearer statement of interest
atcs. Permits for purchasing liq
uor could be on their way out.
Milk Milk producers asked for
another round of price protection,
but the industry was divided.
Military Civil defense was un
able to protect itself. A Ways and
Means subcommittee voted to
abolish the state agency. Scandals
were being aired in the state mili
tary department.
Labor Another struggle was
shaping up over whether private
firms should he allowed to write
workmen's compensation insur
ance. Meanwhile, labor requests
poured in, including such meas
ures as minimum wage, greater
jobless benefits, and an anti-
trikchreaker bill.
Health and Welfare Strong sup
port for better measures to con
4. Dccommcnds that similar
meetings be held throughout the
state should 19)3 legislative ac
tion he planned by the game com
mission or other groups on the
subject of an increase ol license
lees or a request for general
lund monies, and, also, matters
pertaining to the reorgan zation of
the Oregon Fish and Game Com
mission.
S. Itecommcnds organization of
a strong, unilied local sportsmen's
group to speak (or the sportsmen
of the area and, also, be rcpre
scnted at the annual formal hear
ing of the Stale Game Commis
sion in Portland.
8. Recommends that pressure
he brought to bear to obtain
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trol sex deviates was evinced in
Ihe wake of the rape-slaying of
Portland child. A program to ex
pand local mental health facilities
was in tune with President Ken
oedy's mental health message.
Highways' A bill to reduce
weight-mile highway use tax for
heavy trucks reappeared, but this
time it was supported by the gov.
crnor, the highway commission.
and a special Illinois road study.
Student Dies
In Car Flip
A 19-year-old OTI student was
killed and his passenger injured
about 5 p.m. Wednesday when the
automobile in which they were
riding went out of control on a
curve on Old Fort Road and over
turned, Oregon Stale Police have
reported.
Dead is James risk Carter, a
freshman mechanical tech stu
dent of Palo Alto. Calif., who
was killed instantly when the car
lie was driving flipped over and
pinned him under it.
John Strange, 17, Portland, pas
senger in the automobile and also
freshman student at the col
lege, received cuts and bruises
and was taken by Peace Ambu
lance to tlie Klamath Valley Hos
pita!, where he was reported In
satisfactory condition Thursday
morning.
Witnesses of the accident aaid
Carter's vehicle was southbound
when it began to slide after turn
ing into a curve about 7-10ths of
a mile from the summit of tlie
road.
The car swerved lengthwise
along the highway with its rear
sliding along the right shoulder.
It then crossed tlie road, climbed
an embankment, and overturned,
according to police records.
The vehicle was registered to
P. B. Carter Jr. of Palo Alto.
Tlie body was Liken to O'llair's
Memorial Chapel where funeral
services are pending.
Carter was the third trallic
fatality in Klamath County this
month and the 10th since the
first of the year.
Bond 81
Approved
SALF.M (UPli-Tlie Senate Tax
Committee Wednesday approved
a House-passed bill to authorize
$10 5 million in bonds for self-
liquidating college buildings such
as dormitories.
Tlie bill has been sped along tn
allow an early construction start.
The system's request (or $18 mil
lion more will be considered by
tlie legislature later.
Weather
Klamath Falls, Tulelake and
Lakevlew Partly cloudy tonight
and Friday with early morula;
fog again Friday. Lows tonight
25-30; highs Friday 45. Hinds
light and variable.
Star Shot
Into Orbit
Wednesday
CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla.
UPH The United States installed
its new Syncom communications
satellite in a difficult "hanging"
bit a!ove earth today, but lost
contact wilh it.
The 150-pound Syncom. designed
relay radio and telephone con.
versations between North Ameri
ca and Africa, rode into tlie sky
aboard a three-stage Delta rocket
launched at 9:35 p. m. PST
Wednesday.
But more than five hours later.
the first signs of possible troubles
appeared.
At that point, a small rocket
inside the satellite itself was fired
stabilize Syncom in an orbit
about 22,300 miles above earth.
The maneuver itself apparently
as successful, according to early
information, but within 13 seconds
thereafter tracking stations on tlie
ground suddenly lost radio con
tact with Syncom. That was at
about 3 a.m. PST.
Scientists managed to get a
reading from a radio beacon on
board Syncom about one hour
later. Then they lost contact
again. . -:
Four hours later, ground sta-;
lions were still trying to reestab
lish the vital link.
A spokesman for the federal
space agency said the causes
could still be normal "maybe it
(Syncom) was a little too hot to
start wi'.h, or It could be facing
Iri the wrong direction. We will
know more a little later."
In December, the United States
launched another communications
satellite, called Relay, and had
trouble with it. In that Instance
Ihe difficulty proved to be a run
down battery, and the satellite re
sumed normal operations when
the power supply was built up.
Syncom s orbit, about 22,300
miles above earth, left it In a
position where its forward speed
almost matched the rotational
speed of earth.
The net effect is that, to an
observer on earth, the Syncom
satellite appears to hover more
or less in one spot In the sky
instead of actually circling the
globe in customary satellite fash
ion. Syncom readied the 22,300-miIe
peak about five hours or so after
was launched. At that point
the rocket was fired to stabilize
the satellite at this altitude. :
Scientists said information ra
dioed from the satellite indicated
Ihe rocket was fired at 5:42 a.m.
EST. and that it performed "as
planned."
It was the halfway point tn one
of the most ambitious space ex
periments ever attempted by the
United States. StiU ahead, how
ever, was two weeks of maneuver
ing the small satellite to a final
resting place high above me
Atlantic Ocean between the Amer
icas and Africa.
Jet Wreck
Investigated
MIAMI (UPD Government
investigators today examined the
twisted metal to determine if a
jelliner was spinning out of con
trol or falling In pieces when It
crashed Into the Kvergladcs Tues
day, killing 43 persons.
Charles Collar, chief Investiga
tor (or the Civil Acionautics
Board (CAB, would not concede
that the Northwest Orient Air
lines 720B jetliner was in pieces
before It smashed Into the spongy
swamp during a rainstorm.
You Jump to one conclusion
like that, and then you get to a
tlieory right away," Collar said
afler viewing the crash scene.
"Pretty soon, you're looking for
evidence to back up that one the
ory. We want open minds at this
stage. We re looking for any sort
of evidence."
While seven learns of investi
gators divided up the work at the
crash scene 43 miles west of
here, an FBI team had a grim
mer task identifying the bodies
of the victims.
Late Wednesday, hearses be
gan bringing the victims of the
crash, most of them In shapeless,
zippered rubberized blankets, to
tlie county morgue at Jackson
I Memorial Hospital here.