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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 27, 1963)
la Tk. Day's km By FRANK JENKINS The news today? Some of it is on the weird side. For example: Russian scientists say they have brought two histor ic Tritons (vertebrates resembling1 lizards) BACK TO LIFE after they nad Iain Irozen solid for 5,000 years in Siberia. The claim is made in a Moscow radio broadcast heard in London. The broadcast gave this ac count of the find: "Some time ago Soviet geolo gists found something resembling a lizard at a depth of about 25 lect in the frozen ground of north ern Siberia. It revived after being kept at room temperature for! some time. "Scientists finally classified it as a four-toed Triton, one of the oldest and most primitive orders of tailed amphibia that inhabited the earth in the Mesozoic Era (the dinosaur age). Judging by the state of the earth in which it was; fuund, biologists concluded that fihe Triton had been asleep for 'about 5,000 years." Pretty creepy? You haven't heard anything yet. The broadcast went on to say: "On awakening, the creature behaved exactly as it presumably acted thousands of years ago. It ran around. It ate and slept. It uas not afraid of people, willingly eating wild berries, flies and mos quitoes that were fed to it. "It died after three weeks. An other Triton was found frozen about 13 feet underground. This one also revived and lived prac lically all summer." Are the Russkies pulling our leg to use tlie British phrase for telling a tall tale? In the com munist code of ethics, lying is a creditable and patriotic thing when it serves some allegedly useful purpose such as spreading the idea that Russian scientists are supermen. But- Thcre are the entire bodies of mammoths that have been found frozen in the ground of Siberia. These finds are fully authenticat ed. The flesh of these frozen mon-i stcr beasts was so good w hen it thawed out that dogs ate it eag erly. Presumably man could have done so if his more civilized stom ach hadn't rebelled at such fare And- The encyclopedias toll us When the solid sheets of the ice of the Ice Age melted, animals and plants CAME BACK TO LIFE. Then, these accepted sci entific accounts continue, the ice sheets moved in again and the remains of these animals and plants were buried again. Presumably, what has happened before can happen again. Besides Is a story to the effect that liz ards that have remained froz en in the ice in a state of sus pended animation for thousands of years any more eerie than thei FACT that we have been able to send for millions upon mil lions upon millions of miles out Into space a man - made ship equipped with robots that are able to send back to us in robot language capable of being trans lated into modern English words, the news that the planet Venus is incapable of sustaining human life because its temperatures run up wards of 800 degrees Fahrenheit? It's a weird world and the chances are that it w ill get even weirder as time passes and rc Vcarch proceeds. Cuban Atom War Warned MOSCOW 'IT!1 Soviet Premi er iLila Khvit-:irrpv warned In. dav that Russian rockets and bombers would return lo Cuba to wage thermonuclear war if the island were attacked by "im perialists." In a major speech that lasted 1 hour and 27 minutes. Khrush chev also said the Soviets would rush to the aid of any Communisl nation that might be attacked, in cluding Communist China. He said the Soviet t'nion had agreed to pull its rockets and bombers out of Cuba, but he added: "It doesn't mean we Iclt Cuba In be ratcn by the sharks of im perialism. We will come to the aid of the Cuban people." Tit Russian premier turned a local election speech for his home district into a widc-rangnig policy statement on international affairs "We warn, that if there is an imperialist attack against Cuba or China which is threatened from Taiwan (Formosa by Chian; Kai nhck or against Vict Nam or the German Democratic Republic or any eiher socialist state, the So ict t'nion ill come lo the an of its socialist brothers against any aggression." Khrushcrev said. Weather High ytsUnfiy Low lit mfht Mtflh yitr -g Low year ago Htoh pott 14 yttrt Low put H yttrt Prccip. pnl 4 hours Sinct Jan. 1 Stmt priAd Uit yttr a i RENO FLIGHT DISCUSSED Representatives of various Eastern Oregon cities and state agencies met here Tuesday with members of the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce to discuss the petitioning of the Civil Aeronautics Board to establish a commercial passenger air service linking Eastern Oregon cities with Reno. Observing a chart of the proposed flight are, left to right, Joe Sawyer, manager of the Klamath Falls Municipal Airport; Don Haarkenson, Public Utilities Commission; Bill Maddron, State Board of Aeronautics and representative of the Eugene Chamber of Commerce; Roger Ritchcy, State Board of Aeronautics, Administrative Services. Reno Air Link Supported By DICK BRIGGS The proposed establishment of a commercial airline service link ing Eastern Oregon cities with Reno moved a significant step fur ward at the Reamcs Country Club Tuesday afternoon, as represent atives of the Eugene, Redmond. Medford and Lakeview Chambers of Commerce met with members of the Klamath County chamber and pledged their support to the plan. The meeting had been arranged several weeks ago by the local chamber's aviation committee as another in a series of attempts to urge the Civil Aeronautics Board to allow the setting up of a com mercial airline flight connecting certain cities in Eastern Oregon with Reno. In addition to the cities repre sented at the meeting, two mem bers of the Slate Board of Aero nautics and a representative of the Public IWi'ir-s Commission were present to back the project Other endorsements arrived ear lier through the mails from Giants Pass. North Bend and both the Reno Chamber of Com merce and the city of Reno. Record Cold Hits East Ry L'nited Press International Below zero temperatures set more records in the bast today, adding to the misery of the long, cold winter. For the ninth time this year, Pittsburgh recorded a new low. and for the 10th day in the steel city the temperature dropped be low zero. It was 9 below- in Pitts burgh today, compared with the old record of 3 below in WM. The mercury also dropped In 32 below at Somerset, Pa., and 27 Mow at Erie. Pa., today. New records included Burlington. Vt.. 21 below, Columbus. Ohio. 11 be low : Toledo and Cleveland. Ohio. 10 below. Akron. Ohio, 9 below ; Indianapolis, Ind., 7 below; Syra cuse and Rochester. N Y., 3 be low, and Eric. Pa., 4 below. Readings above zero of 2 al Charleston. W. Va.; 9 at Raleigh. N.C.; 18 at Macon, (la., and 26 at Tallahassee. Fla.. al.sn were new ""'"" f"f AaW Study Of Downtown Business Area Slated By Planning Commission , study of the Klamath Falls downtown busines area will be the main project lor the next 12 to IS months, the county plan ning commission decided at its Tuesday nisht meeting in Ihc council chamber at city hall. The commissioners unanimous ly agreed to recommend to the county court that such a study be a joint undertaking between tne city and county planning groups Rod Bell and Dick Hicks, rep resenting the downtown mer chants association, addressed the commissioners Tuesday night and a.sked that the commission put llic study on Us work a year. ;da this Bell said the downtown mrr - chants were concerned over thej possible decay of the downtown. business area and Iclt that 17 J mi) (inn tract Ml 4.10 Price Ten Cents 14 Pages West Coast Airlines, which for the past 10 years has sought to ob tain a franchise to provide the Ore gon-Reno air service, offered its support through vice president Tom Croson in charge of public relations. Following a three-hour program and discussion period, the group decided that those cities inter ested in promoting the between states flight would add their en dorsement to a petition being pre pared by the state Board of Aero nautics and the Public Utilities Commission. The petition would Clerks Set For Court Order Fight SAN FRANCISCO l'PI- The Brotherhood of Railway Clerks was expected to go to court today to fight a restraining order which prevented a scheduled strike by the union against Southern Pacif ic, the West's largest railroad. The walkout in seven western states was set to begin at 6 p.m. PST Tuesday, but SP attorneys obtained a 10-day restraining or der from Superior Court Judge James O'Keefe in suburban Red wood City. James Weaver, chairman of the union's 11,000-mcmber SP unit, said attorneys for the brotherhood believe tlie surprise action was invalid "in toto" and would be vacated. "It's a good idea for people to stay off the rails if they don't want to get hurt," Weaver added. "The minute we got out of court, we'll be gone." Tlie railroad apparently felt tor- tain the order would stand. It lifted tlie freight embargo which war ordered Tuesday when the union announced the strike dead line. The union official also ruled out further negotiations with Federal Mediator Frank O'Neill, who has been conferring with both sides since Feb. 6 in an attempt lo avert the oft-postponed walkout. Weaver said he still was willing to talk to O'Neill, but commented, "We're not going lo negotiate un der this restraint." complete study of the situation could lead to steps preventing loss of business and a resulting economic blight in the area. The proposal was aired at the last city council meeting and council members along with city planning commissioners already1 agreed that such a study should be implemented. In other business, the county planning commission voted to rec- ommend to the county court an amendment to tlie county subdi-lsiich vision ordinance. The amendment would read that before the county accept aiit would cost the county in excess subdivision plat any lands thatiof $20,0(in to segregate the ap- are classified as reforestation lands must be declassified before the plat is accepted. Such declassification requires pavmcnt In Hie county of all lamounla of unassessed back adite recover (he $20,000. U.OF ORE.LIBSART HEfSPAPM IKIWl 'oeii.RCf want request that the CAB authorize es tablishment of the proposed flight. Jim Montcith, president of the chamber, opened tlie meeting by welcoming the 29 guests and mem bers of the chamber and then turned the session over to Los Liston, chairman of the aviation committee, who emceed the re mainder of the program. I The program featured the com ments of Joe Sawyer, manager of the Klamath Falls municipal airport; Don Haakcnson, mem ber of the Public Utilities Com mission; and Roger G. Ritchcy. member of tlie State Board of Aeronautics. Sawyer, who had indicated that some members of the CAB were receptive to the Reno flight pro posal when he discussed the mat ter with them Informally In Port land last year, told those present that "we must be unilicd if we re going to got tlie Reno flight." He suggested that the various chambers circulate qucslionaires to businessmen, ranchers, and oth er segments of the population re questing information as to how frequently they would use a Reno (Continued on Page 4) Flu Cases Said Rising By l'nited Press International A massive outbreak of influen za covered 29 slates today and kept thousands of students and workers home in bed. The U.S. Public Health Service! (HSi said the danger of Asian flu is expected to wane by the mid die of next month but many areas in the eastern half of the nation reported rising sickness rates. The Communicable Disease Center at Atlanta said Asian flu has been positively identified in 16 states. Other forms of influen za and kindred ailments felled residents of 1.1 other states. Nearly 4.0H0 new cases of flu were reported in nine Alabama counties Tuesday, putting the stale total well over 10.000 Health authorities said the out break shows no sign of reaching a peak. The current cold wave is expected to push Alabama's flu total still higher. valorem laxes in excess of forest fees and yield taxes already paid If the county continues to ac cept subdivision plats on refores tation lands it will continue loi lose all tax monies on these lands." Ken Rlackman, planning consultant, said. "It costs the county approxi mately $4 30 a lot to segregate! and keep books on subdivided lands," he said This would mean that u a case as the Bly Mountain sub- division i7.(i0 acres of which are Iclassilied as reforestation land proximate 5.000 lots in this sub-' division. L'ndrr the present reforest al ion law the county could not tax these lands and would have no way CO'iP. w ami WtW$ KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 27. 1063" Wildlife Hunters Creation of an interim commit tee to study the management of Oregon's wildlife resources was virtually assured Tuesday night at a two and one-half hour hear- ing held in the stale house by the Senate State and Federal Affairs Committee. It was also equally certain tlie the State Game Commission would pick up the tab of $35,000 for expenses of that committee out of current budget funds for the commission. Sen. Hairy Boivin. Klamath Falls, chairman of tlie hearing, expressed complete satisfaction with the testimony and indicat ed that the hearing had cleared the air and paved the way for es tablishment of the study. Nearly 200 angry hunters at-! tended tlie session and , re affirmed their previous stand that Oregon's deer herds are van ishing and that protective mea sures should be taken. C. E. Milhorn of Bcatty. state president of the recently formed Oregon Fish and Game Council, told the committee he found 12 sets of deer tracks in a survey of snowy areas last year where a few years ago there would have been 300 to 400. Aaron Forest of Alturas, Calif., said the California game agency CD Budget Cut Sparks New Battle SALEM (UPII - A $52.97l aim n .-.. uu S . suunmicu 10 a nays ana means subcommittee Tuesday and sparked ' an immediate outburst from subcommittee members. Sen. Alfred Corbctt, D-Portland, charged the new budget "indicates they are still thinking in Victorian terms." Sen. L. W. Newbry, R-Ashland, commented, it looks like w e asked the wrong people to revise the budget." The alternate proposal was asked by the subcommittee after it rejected the governors $410,65 request for the civil defense agen- Freeman Holmer. director of the Department of Finance and Ad ministration which prepared the alternate plan, admitted "the De partment of Finance does not recommend this." The proposal would replace the present 18-man civil defense agen cy w ith a 3-mcmber staff working out of the governor's office. It calls for a coordinator, sccre-! lary. and communications expert. Half of the governor s requested $410,675 budget would have been paid by federal matching funds.- Holmer admitted he did not know if the federal government would pick up half the alternate $52,974 amount. "If you don't know, who does?" Asked Hep. Beulah Hand. D-Mil- waukie, subcommille chairman. Corbctt asked "what is the priority function of civil defense supposed to he?" Sales Tax Plans Eyed SALEM i I'PI i Two authors of sales tax measures appeared before the House Tax Committee Tuesday night to detail their plans. Hep. Joe Rogers, Itlndrpcnd- rnce, explained nis tnree-way taxl$i lor adults ana students over nlan: Let the voters decide il Ihey want any tax hike, a sales tax. or a net receipts tax. Hep. Don McKinnis. D-Summer- villo, proposed a sales tax pro cram that would funnel money directly to county assessors for a proerly tax nlKcl. Apiiearing at tlie same meeting were two opponents oi saies lax proposals. Joe Spenncr. a farm laborer from Stayton and C. H. Brooks, Oregon State Grange, voiced opposition. The attitude of tax committee t.wmiicii indicated tney na noi favor any sales lax program. Alter Tuesday night's hearing. Committee Ch?irman Richard Ey- mann. IKMarcola. announced an other public meeting will be held' at 7 pm. Thursday. Eymann said at that meeting committee memhers will n issc.i to indicate the type of plan they favor to rais needed revet iui. Study Seen Assured As Protest Vanishing Deer "shocked tlie slate" earlier this month when it admitted its man agement policies were not work ing. Ralph Rcnner of Lakcvicw, for mer fish and game commissioner, said. "Through my fields, a few years age, some five to six thous and deer migrated. Last year I saw one doc. Rcnner said he resigned from the commission because it refused to heed his warning. Lawrence Hoiton, Klamath County rancher, testified that at one lime he noticed a terrific decrease in the amount of the! deer herds, that formerly he had seen up to 240 at one time, but now there were just a few to be seen. R. C. Burgess, a former BLM manager from Southern Oregon, said the open winters of this Single Education Proposed To Legislature A bill to consolidate the State Board of Education and the State Board of Higher Education into a single body was introduced into the House today by Representa tives Stafford Hansell and Joe Rogers, both Republicans. The bill was suggested by Gov. Mark Hatfield in line with a study on the needs of education. However. Rep. Carrol Howe, Klamath STatlc nvnro.Eixl nniwci """." r formerly superintendent f vi.ii, r,,iu system for many years, said that a single state board of education was not the answer to tlie prob lems of either higher education or public education. He said, "The board of high er education is an administra tive board and must carry out this function regardless of any oilier duty. The State Board of Education is a policy-making board over the regulation of pub lic schools and community col leges and has no reason to be an administrative board over ci ther." Howe explained, "Community colleges have a local administra tion and board. The only duty of (lie state scliool superintendent in tliese schools is tlie approval of courses and distribution of money according to the formula estab lished by the legislature." Howe said he appreciated the governor s concern in the mat ter of financing education, but added that he felt a single board Indian Hoop Tourney Set CHILOQU1N The annual Paci fic Coast Elimination Basketball Tournament will open Thursday, Feb. 2B. at 4 p.m. in the Chilo quin High Sujiool gymnasium. Tournament play will continue through Saturday. Sponsors are tlie Reservation Jaycees. Teams from Chico, Calif., and the Bcatty Lakers will tangle for the opening game. Two Chiloquin High School teams, the Red Fox es and the Carol Shadleys, will toss for the first ball at 6 p.m. Reno and Portland will play at 7 pm. followed by ToppenishJ Wash., and the Warm Springs Magpies. Afternoon gale prices will be 12 years and 50 cents for children under 12. Evening prices will be $1.50 for adults and students, 60 cents for children under 12. Semifinals will be played Fri day night. March 1. at 7 o'clock Finals will be played, starling at 7 pm. Saturday. March 1 All net proceeds will be turned over to the high school athletic lield lighting fund by the Jaycees who have assumed responsibility for tlie lighting program. Winner and runnerup teams of tlie Pacific Coast Tournament will be seeded in the National All Indian Basketball, Tournament, March SI. 22 and 23 which draws some of the best teams from the West and Midwest. Michel McNoise, 1907. queen. will reign through the Pacific Coast Tournament and t h e Queens' Ball March 16 which will determine this year's royal' ruler and her court Telephone area were to blame for the lack of migration of the interstate lierd. He said It has been so warm that tlie deer did not need lo mi grate and that they simply scat tered where hunters couldn't find tliem. Both the hunters and Rollin Bowles, commission chairman, said they would welcome an im partial legislative committee to look into the commission's activi ties. "We have no objection to it whatsoever," Bowles said, "this committee would do a consider able service lo the people of Ore gon. Bowles even reluctantly agreed that if the stale can't pony up $35,000 for Hie two-year interim study, it could come out of the commission's $10.5 million budget. Alan Kelly, president of tlie might actually force costs to a higher level than under the dual system. He said, A lay board could not possibly devote the time lor study of the problems of the public schools and still carry out the administrative function. As a re sult there would be a greater growth in bureaucracy as the board was compelled to rely more upon tlie advice of paid employes lor decisions affecting school dis tricts, and there would be a re sultant loss of controls at the local level. The result there would be less money at the classroomlstate level." Ways, Means Eyes Budgets For Leaks Rep. George Flilcraft. member of the Joint Ways and Means Committee currently studying all budgets, said today in Salem that tins committee was taking a thor ough look at budgets, and "indi vidual items in those budgets on a line-for-line basis." Flitcraft said, "There is no budget figure set as an objective, but we are going to ascertain whether each request for funds has a real and urgent need for the coming biennium He also indicated that there was no significance to be drawn from the fact that the budget for the State Engineer's Office was re turned to the committee alter il had been cut more than $100,000! and passed by the House. Flitcraft also indicated that the report that this joint committee will cut as much as $20 million from the governor's budget is mere speculation, and that there is no substance to tlie report. A plug for Klamath County's potatoes was engineered in the1 legislature today when Jteprc- sentatives Flitcraft and Carrollagemcnt relations for Oregon, FAITHFUL rIDES The continuing affort to brine dot artists to Klamath Falls en the Community Concert Aisociation programs calls (or the combined work of many volunteer helpers. Some of those assisting with the membership drive now under way have worked since the aisociation was organised in 1936 with the eld of Malcolm Epley, then managing editor of the Evening Herald end the Morning News. Four Klamath Falls women, left to right, Emilia Haldeman, Gertrude Toll, Mary Van Vector end Dorothy Swenion, ere among those who have offered membership tickets end served in other capacities for more than 20 years. The 1963-1964 membership drive closet Friday, March I. See Story on Page 4. TV 4-8111 No. 7075 Izaak Walton League of Oregon, said a study would be acceptable but the money shouid not come. from tlie commission s budget. "We feel we've been blessed with a fine program and we'd like to see it sustained and im proved," he said of the commis sion. He termed the Southern Oregon herds an "acute local condition that could bo handled within the existing framework. Other witnesses, however, said the Southeast Oregon deer de pletion was too critical to wait for a two-year study. They sug gested a ban on shooting does or young deer, or even a complete! closed season. Some action on this score was assured Wednesday morning when Rep. George Flitcraft along with a group of other members of the' level where children are affected There is a real need," Howe said, "for a belter definition of the functions of these boards es penally in the field of teacher education. Hie supervision of spe cial subjects is a job to be car ried out by the public school dis trict and the county superintend ent's office where districts cannot provide their own supervision. The attempt to provide special sub ject supervision by tlie state sim ply will not work unless large amounts ol money are taken from district funds and placed at the Howe presented each member of the House with a 10-pound sack of Klamath potatoes supplied by Louis Kalina of Matin. Sen. Har ry Boivin did the same In the, Senate chambers. Strikebreaker Law Questioned SALEM (UPII - Labor and management bumped heads here Tuesday on whether an "antl strikebrcakcr" law for Oregon would be advisable or even legal. George Brown of the Oregon AFL-CIO and oilier labor witness es said it would keep undesirable elements out and improve labor management relations. Brown said it was legal and successful in eight states that have il. W illiam Lubersky of Associated Oregon Industries and other man agement witnesses replied it would weigh the bargaining scales in favor of labor and harm currently good labor-man- Hoard Weather Klamath Falls, Tulrlake and Lakeview Fair and cool again tonight, lows 23. Increasing cloud iness with brief showers possible Thursday. Highs Thursday near SO. Generally light winds. Angry House introduced House Bill 1458 which would prohibit tlie commis sion from declaring more than one ' open season of not more than 16 days for hunting deer and eik. The bill w ould also provide that "a person shall not hunt for, nor kill, any deer which has unforked horns or elk which has not: at least spike horns." The measure would expire Jan. 1, 1966. and would in effect, pro vide protection against doe killing and special season shoots for the next three-year peiod. Also, Senate Joint Resolution 7, introduced in the Senate by Sen. Harry Boivin, chairman of the State Local and Federal Affairs Committee, seemed assured of passage. Under its provisions, the $35,000 for the interim study would be financed out of funds of the State Game Commission. Boivin's proposal has the sig natures of 12 Senators and 38 Rep resentatives. At the conclusion of the Tues day night hearing, Senator Boivin said a study would help resolve a controversy between two groups of honest and sincere men. Also present at the hearing from Klamath County, although not testifying, were Ted Hyde, rancher, and Joe Smith, member of the game commission. Kidnaping Count Aimed M French PARIS tUPH French security agents were accused today of kid- naplng a French terrorist leader Herds Irom West Germany in the same way Israeli agenis seized nazi Adolf Elchmann In Argentina In May, tm. Police said ex-Cot. Antolne Ar- goud, 52, was betrayed by his friends in the terrorist Secret Army Organization. He was found beaten and bound hand and foot In the back of a truck near Notre Dame Cathedral Tuesday. An anonymous caller telephoned police, they said, and told them Argoud had "betrayed" the move ment and that lie could be found very close" to police headquar ters. The truck was just a block away. Argoud himself and several Par is newspapers said he was kid naped. The government of President Charles de Gaulle made no com ment on tlie reports. Argoud reportedly told police !he French Secret Service seized him from his hotel room in Mu nich. Germany, and spirited him to France, leaving him bound in' the truck. Ho said, according to the re ports, that his kidnapers brought him to France in this way to avoid diplomatic recrimination over a French arrest on German territory. Observers noted this theory fit ted in with general doubts that tlie OAS would Ict the bearded ex-colonel, with his vast knowl edge of OAS doings, fall into the hands of police alive.