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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (March 8, 1963)
cot?. GCK.rcr.Aiu soeuieirrs 8iv. Coinvord Puzzle Prizelndies To 'New High Try Your Skill On Page 8 Today U.OF 0RC.AIB8AOT la Tke- Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Oregon LEADS THE WAY AGAIN as this dispalch from Salem this morning indicates: In a rare JOINT appeal, labor and management yesterday urged the state of Oregon to pre pare to meet the growing impact of automation. They called for ap proval of a' resolution to create an interim committee to map out ways and means to meet the problems of technological unem ployment. The resolution would create a committee of legislators and rep resentatives of labor and indus try to make an overall study ol employment problems and poten tial, and to suggest programs and recommend ways to finance them. Ivan Congleton of Associated Oregon Industries and George Brown of the AFL-CIO both told the senate committee on stat3 and federal affairs it is time to start NOW. Congleton said: . "We must face the fact that au tomation is becoming serious. Let's get a head start on a prob lem we know we are going to have to face." Brown agreed. "The longer we wait," he said, "the more diffi cult it will be." He added: "The unions are not against automation and technological advances. What we are saying is that, if neces sary, we'll have to find an answer to the displacement ol tnese peo ple." It has long been conceded by sound economic thinkers that the power of the people to consume is limited only by their power to PURCHASE. There are two ways to provide the power to purchase 1. Higher wages. 2. Lower prices. The higher wage solution when unaccompanied by greater pro ductivitydefeats itself. It in creases prices as fast as it in creases incomes. So nothing is gained. What we need is greater productivity, resulting m much LOWER PRICES. If Oregon can find the answer to that, it will have done some thing fantastically valuable to hu manitv. Automation, if unaccom panied by HIGHER PRODUC TION COSTS, including higher taxes, could make it possible to bring prices down to the point where people's ability and desire to CONSUME MORE could fantastically INCREASE CON SUMPTION as to provide jobs for everybody. Somehow This problem of producing more tilings at lower prices, so that people can have more things for less money, must be solved if automation is to bring to us the immense benefits it is capable of bringing to us. Who will solve il? WHY NOT OREGON? Oregon has been a pioneer in new ideas. Oregon was the inventor of POPULAR LEGISLATION the initiative, the referendum and the recall. Most states have mod eled their initiative and referen dum laws on what has come to be known as the OREGON PLAN, which the slate of Oregon adopted in 1899 and extended in 1908. Oregon invented the gasoline (ax, which made it possible to finance vast new highway sys tems without going bankrupt. So- Who is better equipped than Oregon to find the solution of this automation to the job of produc ing fantastically more things at fantastically lower prices so that people can have fantastically MORE tilings for LESS money East Nation Floods Ease liy United Press International Some ice-gorged rivers swept toward new destruction iii the Ohio Valley today but flood threats eased through much of the East. A state of emergency was effect at Fremont, Ohio, where the Sandusky River held steady five feet above flood stage. About 500 persons abandoned their homes in the downtown area, which was closed olf to traffic. Only persons with special paes were allowed into the area. Authorities feared that ire Jjms. wedged above the Bcill i!!e Dam upriver from Fremont, might trigger extensive Poodmg in the city. Weather MiQh yastarday Low last night M19I1 yaar ago Low year ago High past u yaars Lew paw H vaart Pracip. past 24 hours Sinca Jan. I Same period last year 47 (mi) it (mil . it in Rusk Claims Reds Removing Troops From Cuban Posts WASHINGTON (CPU - Secre tary of State Dean Rusk said to day that some Russian troops are being removed from Cuba and that more Soviet ships are on the way to the island. But Rusk said he would make "assessment" now of whether the Kremlin is meeting its prom ise to remove "several thousand" forces from Cuba by next Friday. The secretary told a news con ference that Russian ships have been moving into Cuba during the past two weeks and more are on the way. He said the available ships are enough to carry out the troop removal. Rusk refused to elaborate on his statement that some troops al ready have left the island by ship. On other major subjects, Rusk said: The United States will be "very much alert" to any threats to the security of Saudi Arabia and Jordan, which may be endan gered by recent revolts in Iraq, Yemen and, today, Syria. The United States must be willing to take ''some risks" a nuclear test ban because it faced with "greater risks" of the spread of nuclear weapons, per haps into irresponsible hands. A large part of Rusk's news conference was devoted to the Floor On Debated By Dairymen SALEM (UPI)-A divided dairy industry debated a bill to put floors under milk prices Thursday night amid threats of a milk price war. Nearly 300 dairymen, processors and distributors attended the hear ing before the House Food and Dairying Committee. In one camp were producers, the dairymen who have the cows. In the other were processors and distributors, the men w ho buy the milk, process it, and pass it on to retail outlets. The dairymen asked the legisla ture to enact another law like the temporary 1961 law that expired at the first of this year. "We are going to have a full scale milk war within a short time after the legislature adjourns unless something is done," said Junction City dairyman Howard Gibson. "The artillery is already moved into position." He said there is a serious likeli hood that a milk price war would bring an attempt on the part of tile teamsters u ion to organize milk producers. The bill before the committee would provide for state control of he prices paid to the dairymen The dairymen said this is neces sary to prevent cut-rate competi tion in a market dominated by milk surpluses. OLD-TIMERS The Annual Oregon Pilots banquet planned for Saturday night at Reamei will honor "Old Timeri," pilots who flew prior to Dec. 7, 1941. Thii view shows soma of the old-timers of the area. Tha oc casion was Nov. 19, 1938, when Boy Scouts of Troop 44, Tulelake, were given plane rides in this five-placa Waco cabin plane as reward for scout work. They have bean identified, left to right, as Hermit Turnbaugn, Tom Frey, 9tt ate am& Trice Trn Cents 16 Pages test-ban issue. The administration being criticized both by the Russians and by some scientists and members of Congress who feel the United States has already made too many concessions. Rusk said the Russians have so far been unwilling to discuss what he called the "fine print" of the on-site inspection issue. These in volve the areas that would be in spected, the make-up of inspec tion teams and what kind of data would be collected. He said these arc the critical issues because 200 or more in spections a year with inadequate machinery would be worse than seven or eight good inspections. Rusk said he is confident that "series" of sneak Soviet under ground tests could be detected under tnc system promised by the United States, although the Sovi ets might get away with "very small scale tests." But the risk of this, he said. must be measured against the "major risks if the arms race continues." In discussing the Middle East Rusk said the United States had only "fragmentary" information on today's revolt in Syria. He said the 600 U.S. citizens in Syria appear to be safe. Milk Price "A stabilization law is neces sary for Die Grade A dairyman to stay in business, said Frank Rood of the Oregon Dairymen's Association and the State Board of Agriculture. The price controls, under the bill, would be set for market areas. The measure also provides for refcrendums on market pools and a quota system. Processors and distributors re torted that the bill would fail to solve anything since it would con trol only about 40 per cent of the milk market. It would not have any effect on cooperatives or out-of-state producers. They said the state would be flooded with cheaper milk from Washington, Idaho and California Legislation is desirable, they said, but not unless it includes milk supplied by cooperatives and out-of-state dairvmen. Both sides, however, were hesi tant to consider a federal milk marketing order that might ac complish some interstate control. Attorney Mclvin Goode, speak ing for a group of distributors from Portland to Klamath Falls, said the bill would amount to discriminatory subsidy to produc ers, and not even all producers. Robert A. Fish of the producer distributor group, Oregon Dairv Industries, said the 1961 law fact created new inequities. pi'i.rri if il infjTfetWT r W n! , ..r..L I.'.' WINNERS Mike Holland, Exalted Ruler of Klamath Falls Lodge No. 1247 BPOE, right, presented scholarships to three senior high school students, during the Thurs day, March 7, meeting in the Elks Temple. Winners this year, left to right, were Alex Sapiens, Bonanza, winner of the third place award of $150; Richard Houck, Henley High School, who received a check for $350 as second place winner, and Donald H. Christy Jr., first place winner, Klamath Union High School who received a check for $1,000. Pro-Nasser Syria After BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPII - A pro-Nasser military junta seized control of Syria today in a swift ind bloodless coup that threatened the peace of the entire Middle East. There were no confirmed reports of fighting, and no reports of cas ualties. The only information about events inside the neighbor ing country came from broadcasts by the Damascus and Aleppo ra dio stations. But a group calling itself "the National Council of the Revolu tionary Military Command" claimed initial success and in creasing pledges of support. It imposed a curfew throughou1 the country and ordered all air and seaports closed. The junta, apparently led by Brigadier A b d a 1 1 a h Jabrini, promptly expressed its friendship for President Gamal Abdel Nas 'Defender' Plan Offered WASHINGTON (UPII - Presi dent Kennedy asked Congress to day to set up a system for ap pointment of public defenders to represent people who can't afford lawyers to defend them in federal criminal cases. "Whenever the lack of money prevents a defendent from secur ing an experienced lawyer, trained investigator or technical expert, an unjust conviction may follow," the President said. Kennedy sent the House and Senate a draft of legislation which he said would "diminish the role which poverty plays in our fed oral system of criminal justice.' French Johnson, George Yost, Bill Barks, the lexr two unidentified, Gean Mitchell. Andy Naylor. Edwin Scott and Bob McClymonds. John Coulion is barely visible in the cabin of the plane. An interesting program is planned including three speakers on different periods of early day activities at the local airport. Elbert Stiles is general chairman of the program KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, Military Junta Controls Swift, Bloodless Coup ser of the United Arah Republic. as well as for the Arab revolu tionary regimes of Iraq, Yemen and Algeria. Left Union In 1961 Syria was a part of Ihe U.A.R. until a revolt by another group of Syrian army officers took the nation out of the union Sept. 28, 1961. Jabrini is strongly pro-Nasser Fake Attack Story Told ATLANTA (UPII An Ameri can pilot said Thursday when the Cuban invasion failed a plan was proposed lor a fake attack on the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo to give United Slates forces an excuse to enter the fighting. I don't think it was taken se riously," said Albert C. Persons, 47-year-old Birmingham,, Ala., weekly newspaper editor. It was transmitted to Washington as a suggestion for a way to save lllis thing (the invasion! by whatever authority, I don't know." Persons, a World War II flier. said in an interview he was re cruited for the April, 1961, inva sion and was in Nicaragua organ izing air strikes against Cuba when it became obvious "the thing had fallen completely to pieces. At that point, Persons said, one of the American pilots (unidenti fied! suggested that two or three planes already painted with Cu ban markings fly to Guantanamo and strafe runways or other sec lions of the base. "By a fast prc arrangement" with Guantanamo. Persons said, base personnel would be removed to safety be fore the staged attack. 1 FRIDAY, MARCH 8. 19(13 !jein and was right-hand man to Egyp tian Col. Abdel llamid Serraj who ruled Syria during the Egypto-Syrian union. Last month Jabrini was appoint ed chief of the Syrian Military Intelligence and Counter-espionage Agency. Arab sources said he is a strong nationalist and anli Communist. But there was no immcdialo in dication he would take Syria back into tlic U.A.R. More likely, there is more trouble ahead elsewhere in the Mideast. Observers believed that the Syr ian coup a month afler a similar takeover by the army in Iraq is Ihe second in a chain of im- pending Mideast eruptions among the Arab lands which Nasser would like to lead in one Arab nation. Other Nations Involved The pressure now is expected to mount on Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Jordan's King Hussein and Saudi Arabia's King Saud op pose Nasser bitterly and have been engaged in fighting him openly and secretly. Man Charged In Lakeview Road Death A first degree murder charge has been levied against a Sparks, Nov., man in the dealh of Mrs. 'Theresa Arzner, 64, Lakeview. Being held in the city jail at Bend for transfer to Lakeview for arraignment on the first degree murder charge is Robert Lee O'Connor, 26, whose last address has been listed as 2301 Crater Way, Sparks, Nev. The body of Mrs. Arzner was found Thursday morning lying on a county road about four miles west of Lakeview. An autopsy conducted Thurs day showed that the woman had suffered a broken neck, frac tured skull and other Injuries and apparently had been hit by a vehicle of some kind. Investigating authorities ob tained a description of the man she had been seen with the pre vious night in Lakeview and of the pickup he was driving. An all points bulletin resulted in O'Connor being picked up near liend by the slate police. Sgt Bruce Lattin of the state police, Lake County Sheriff Don Woodruff a;ia Lake County District AtUir ney thick thaloupka went In Bend to interrogate the man. Sergeant Lattin says O'Connor admitted being with the Arzner woman Ihe previous night. Blood was found in the pickup and Ih wrist watch of the woman also found In the vehicle. O'Connor told police he had lieen drinking and tha! Mrs. Arzner had jumped out of the pickup. The accused man will be tians- ported back lo Lakeview today an.1 tie arraigned there on the murder chaige, Lattin said. telephone NEW YORK (UPli-Publishers and the striking printers union agreed today on terms put forth by Mayor Robert F. Wagner for settlement of the 91-day-old New York newspaper strike. The settlement, reached three months to the day after the strike and shutdown started, must be ratified by the membership of the International Typographical Union. expected to be only a formality Also to be resolved were several other issues, including strikes bv tile stereotype and mailers un ions. Thus, it was not believed the papers could resume publication before ncxl midweek at the earliest. ( Meanwhile, the newspaper strike in Cleveland entered its 1411a week today with the key printers union and the Cleveland Press and Cleveland Plain Dealer still locked in a stalemate. Money emams Ihe chief point of conlen tion in thai dispute and almost. progress was reported alter negotiations Thursday. Terms of Settlement The New York settlement, pro viding a two-year contract effec End New York State Urged To Meet Impact Of A SALEM (UPD In a rare joint appeal, labor and management urged the state of Oregon Thurs day to prepare to meet the grow-l ing impact of automation. They called for approval ot a resolution lo create an interim committee lo map out ways of meeting Ihe problems of techno logical unemployment. Ivan Congleton of Associated Oregon Industries and George Brown of the AFL-CIO bolh told the Senate committee on state and federal affairs it is time to start now. 'We must face the facl thai automalion is becoming serious," Congleton said. "Let's get a head start on a problem we know we are going to have lo face." Brown agreed. "The longer ws wait," he said, "the more difficult it will be." He said the unions were not iigainst automation and technolog ical advances. "What we arc saying is if that is necessary ... we II have to linn iin answer to the displacement of these people. Sen. Ted Hallock, D - Portland sponsor of the measure, said the problem is here now. He said farm and lumber employment, for example, have declined severely "You cannot turn back the clock," Hallock said. The resolution would create a committee of legislators and rep resentatives of labor and industry to make an over-all sludy of em ployment problems and potential. The committee would be charged with suggesting programs and rcc ommending ways of financing them. Proposed Elementary School Budget Asks Increased Funds The budget prepared by the elementary school board's budget committee for the 1963-64 fiscal year totals $1,389,179 or $!KM07: above the previous year's figures. The biggest hikes this year came in instructional costs, at $94.3-Hi, or up 37.71.1 and capital outlays at $31,897, or up $26.5(14. Estimated total lo be levied for this fiscal year is $723,573 com pared to last year's $716,378 levy. Receipts and net cash bal ance for the district arc estimated at $723,490 aimosl $95,000 more than last year. A $24,294 increase In salaries for principals, supervisory per sonnel and teachers accounts for the bulk of the $37,713 increase In instructional costs III year. Improvement of sites, remodel ing and purchasing new equip ment in Ihe elementary district is the reason for the big jump in capital outlay. A $1,400 ground improvement TU 4-8111 No. 7083 lic with a return to work, brought a variety of changes in-j volving money and automation: A $12.27 money package with $6.51 the first year and $3.76 the second, including a $4 wage in crease each year. A common expiration date for all of the newspapers' union con tracts, providing all unions agree. Vliis would be about the second week in March and avert threats! of strikes during the ad-heavy Thanksgiving and Christmas sea sons. A 35-hour work week in the second year of the contract, com pared to the present 36'i hours. Introduction of outside tape (automated operation of linecast- ing machines) with the union to get a share in increased produc tivity. The ITU struck last Dec. 8, de manding a package of $38.37. The1 settlement agreement was an nounced by Wagner at 6:25 a.m. after night-long meetings. Yet to be worked out are some secondary issues in the ITU con tract, and the strikes by the ster- cotypcrs and mailers unions. The utomation Hallock stirred particular com mittee Interest when lie described a recent program in the Portland area for training wu iters under the Federal Manpower Retraining Act. Me cidlcd selection of the waiter category a "farce," and said it indicated how disorganized Ore gon s present efforts were. Hallock noted, however, the sev eral thousand dollars spent re training one man under the fed eral program was a drop in the bucket compared lo the sum the stute would have to pay In uncm ploymcnt and welfare money if he were left untrained. Hallock said alternatives of vol notary cooperation between state agencies or between labor and management would never work. Do you think you would live long enough . , Do you think I would live long enough. . ?" he asked dryly. The Stale Labor Department said its own programs now amount to "little beginnings on a small scale. . .piecemeal attempts to hit a particular area. It said a sludy could "point the way lo public and private pro grams that can ease the transi tion," The department added the 1965 Oregon Legislature probably will face the decision of whether lo match federal retraining funds. Hallock noted wide support for the measure from labor, manage ment, groups and news editors around the state. Referring to Congleton and Brown, he added, "you have heard today something very un usual and very wonderful una nimity between the AOI and the AFL-CIO." project at Luetic O'Neill Ele mentary School accounts for the $1,995 slated for ground improve ment of siles this year. Conver sion of tlio Riverside School heat ing plant from coal to natural gas, or oil accounts lor the $17,6971 tab for remodeling in the district and the $12,205 for new equip ment is spread around the various schools lor new departmental I equipment. The largest allotments will be $1,375 for new lockers at Roose velt and $1,300 for new floor cleaners at Mills. All oilier expondilurcs cate gories rose from between $2,307 and $8,523 except attendance and health service costs which arc at $5,456 this year and down just a few dollars. This year's cost for plant op eration, $113,198. is up $8,523 com pared to last year and the fixed c harges cost, at $96,440, Is lip $6,9116. Weather Klamath Falls, Tulelake and Lakeview Fair to partly cloudy and mild tonight and Saturday, Lows tonight 23-30; high Satur. day SS, Light variable winds. The weekend will be sunny and mild with a few clouds at times. No precipitation is indicated. signers latter is affiliated with the ITU. However, Federal Mediator Ste phen Schlossberg said he felt cer tain the other unions would quick ly accept terms within "the gen eral settlement area" announced by the publishers and printers. Amory Bradford, Publishers As sociation spokesman, said his pa per (the New York Times), could be on the streets "within a mat ter of hours" after the pickets had been removed. "We invite all unions to join us in bringing to an end the pro longed period of Die strike," he said in a statement for the pub lishers. Bradford said the settlement would not force any of the city's newspapers out of business. We would not have accepted it," he said, "if we thought it would force any papers out of business." Publishers were to meet with the printers and with representa tives of the other unions as soon as possible, probably later today. Expects ITU Approval Asked if he thought the union would approve the contract, local printers boss Bertram Powers said, "I do." He saw "no insurmountable problems" remaining. He esti mated that several days" would be required to finish. Wagner said that if the con tract terms are accepted, con tracts for all the newspaper un ions involved "will be negotiated at the same time in the future." He said the effective date of the Iwo-year contract would be the day the unionists actually return to work. Nine of the 10 unions Idled in the dispute are without contracts. One, the New York Newspaper Guild, had accepted a new con tract with the publishers Oct. .31. Powers said he was "not com pletely happy with the economic issues but I guess no one really is." He later said, "We think we should have gotten more money." New View Slows Rail Clerk Talks SAN FRANCISCO (UPD- Ne- gotiations between the South ern Pacific Railroad and the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks are being slowed because they deal with an "entirely new con cept" in union-railroad relations, according to Federal Mediator Frank O'Neill. However, he said Thursday that he still hoped a settlement in the lengthy dispute over automation would be reached by Saturday night. 'This is a brand new program lhat tliis railroad and this union are embarking upon," O'Neill said. "They have to be extremely careful. . .This is not a simple wage case. . .It is an entirely new concept." ' The cost of administration for fiscal 1963-64 is set at $34,037 and maintenance of plant costs, at $60,781, took a $3,993 jump. Other categories that rose a few thousand dollars were: pu pil transportation services, $27,853, up $2,509; and food services and student body activity, $17,629, up $2,307. The serial levy fund of $41,230 has not been earmarked except for $17,500 toward the purchase of a new school site. The school lunch fund expendi tures have been estimated at $92,800 compared to $91,000 last year. The 22.43 acres purchased near the new OT1 site is for future school development. The land was acquired from Tha Superior Homes Corporaiton. It Is located Strike in the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of Section 30, Township 38 south, Range I EWM. 1 1
