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PAGE I Tuesday. March 12, 1963
HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Or.
"DENNIS THE MENACE
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Sweeping Changes Now Being Considered
On Public Land Administration In West
'Gee whiz! You mew trtt take me yifyWy
Defense Agency Stands
Behind Plane Contract
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Infor
mation about the controversial
award of the TFX contract so far
revealed by a Senate subcommit
tee will not make the Defense De
partmcnt change its decision, a
high ranking Pentagon official
said Sunday night.
' Rosewcll L. Gilpatric, deputy
secretary of defense, added that
he did not believe there would be
any change after the Investigation
was over.
The contract ton the two service
fighter plane was awarded to the
General Dynamics Corp. over the
Boeing Co. The award has been
under investigation by the Senate
investigation subcommittee.
The committee has heard testi
mony that the Boeing bid was
$415 million below General Dy
namics and its design was su
perior in some respects over Gen
eral Dynamics.
No Politics
Gilpatric, appearing on a tclcvl
sion program (Meet the Press-
NBC), told interviewers he would
swear there were no politics in
volved in the award of the con-
about $6.5 billion before completion.
The Defense Department official
added that during his Pentagon
service he had never seen pol
itics influence the award of any
major defense contract,
Gilpatric was asked whether a
factor in the award was that Gen
eral Dynamics will build the plane
in "Democratic Texas" (Fort
Worth), while Boeing would have
built it in "Republican Kansas"
(Wichita).
"That's one tiling I would take
an oatn on, that there was no
politics involved," Gilpatric re
plied.
Made At Top
He said he was aware that pol
ltlcians sometimes argue
"whether they can do more" for
their states on defense contracts
But actually he said, such major
decisions are made at the top'
of the Dcfcnso Department and
divorced from political influence
Gilpatric said the public has
been given a "confused and some
times one-sided" picture of why
the Defense Department picked
General Dynamics over Boeing
tract which will involve spendingfor the new fighter plane.
Mount Shasta Council
Denies Water Request
MOUNT SIIASTA-At its regu
lar meeting on March 8, the
Mount Shasta City Council voted
against issuing a water permit
to a resident outside the city
limits. Eugene Kulzcr of Shasta
Masonry Supply had requested a
hookup from lines now serving
the South Yard, with the water
to be used when three or four
new houses are constructed in
that area. Council decided that
area residents should annex- to
the city or form a water district.
An effort is being made to con
tact land owners in the vicinity
The existing water lino will be
covered by a main accoss road
from the freeway and should be
replaced, as it is old and inade
quate, before the freeway work
commences.
Miss Bcttc Waring, office of
supervisor of public works, was
appointed to attend a five-day
school on Civil Defense manage
ment at Alameda Naval Air Sta
tion, March 17 22. Miss Waring
has been doing work on the Civil
Defense set-up and program for
the city of Mount Shasta. Civil
Defense pays half the traveling
expenses, food, and lodging, and
council voted to foot the bill for
the remaining half.
Charles Echols, Department of
Public Works, was appointed to
investigate a complaint from El
bert K. Tate, 018 Chestnut Street,
regarding nuisance property ad
jacent to his. Ho said weeds,
Dugs, untended trees and bushes
and stagnant water, unsightly and
unsato, exist on tho property.
In other business, resolution:
annexing Needels and Hennesy
annexes were adopted, and a use
permit was ordered Issued to John
and Catherine Ginnochio for a
new business and residence, which
was also approved by the plan
ning commission. A water agree
ment transfer received from Rob
ert Laverty was approved.
A committee, comiiosed of May
or Glno Marconi and Councilmen
Howard Priddv, Herman Harr
and Dave Mi-Daniel, was formed
to have a report for the next
meeting on salaries for budget
purposes.
James P. Hennessy Jr., outgoing
president of Mount Shasta Cham
ber of Commtrcc, appeared be
fore the council to thank it for
the help and cooperation given the
chamber during his presidency.
Polira Chief Harold Barnum
announced that Beale Air Force
Base personnel will be in Mount
Shasta March 18 for a series of
conferences on Civil Defense, to
Blood Bank
Plans Noted
bo attended by law enforcement
officers, and fire department and
forest service personnel. Barnum
also stated the bids for the traf
fic lights would be opened March
13.
A resolution was passed that a
plaquo be presented to Mrs. Jean
netto Rule in recognition of her
work In helping the city during
tier 15 years as city clerk.
WASHINGTON (UPI) Presi
dent Kennedy told Congress today
that immediate efforts to stimu
late the economy must be supple
mented by long-range steps to
combat unemployment.
In a broad ranging report to
Congress required by the Man
power Development and Training
Act passed last year, Kennedy
missed no opportunity to plug for
is lax proposals and other recom
mendations to stimulate the na
tion's economy.
...Our foremost manpower con
cern is the lack of adequate
growth in employment opportuni
ties," ha said. "Unemployment is
our No. 1 economic problem.
It wastcs...lives. Continued un-
der-usc of human and physical ca
pacity is costing us some $30 to
$40 billion of additional goods and
services annually. ..it means we
are not doing our best."
But the President said he ex
pected "retraining and skill up
grading will become even more
.significant as unemployment is re
duced."
In an accompanying report
which went into greater statistical
detail, Labor Secretary W. Willard
Wirtz expanded on the President's
theme.
"The lax changes and other
MOUNT SIUSTA-Mrs. Merce
des Lopez is chairman of the
Blood Bank fund sponsored by
Zl Tlieta Tau chapter of Beta
Sigma Phi. The Blood Bank will
be held at Mount Shasta Com
munity Hospital on Tuesday.
March 12, between 2:30 and 6:30
p.m.
Recognition is given to William
Smith, hospital manager, for his
work in promoting the Blood Bank
program in this area. From two
to four pints of each type of
blood, good for 21 days, is on
hand at all times. If not used,
it is returned to the Irwin Memo
rial Blood Bank, San Francisco.
and replaced. There is a 24,-hour
blood coverage, and blood can
be transported via highway patrol
irom Heckling in a matter of min
utes, and overnight from San
1' ranclsco.
Irwin Memorial Is the first of
its kind in the world and is tin-
largest medically siionsored mm-
protit community blood hank serv
ing Uoo.ooo population through 57
nospiinis in eight counties.
Blood banks borrow and loan
blood to each other and there are'
over 650 business, fraternal, and
civic organifalions which main
tain blood reserve funds by plac
ing moon on flciwsit In advance
of need. In addition the follow ine
services are available: a refer
ence library program, a consul
tation service for help in rare
blood factors, a central file (or
rare donors, blood for open heart
surgery, and an immuno hemalol.
ogy department for special stud
ies.
Tie Blood Bank Is in Mount
Shasta the second Tuesday of
each month.
WASHINGTON (UPI i - Sweep
ing changes in the rules under
which Uncle Sam plays landlord
over vast expanses of public
lands in the west may be in the
making.
Western senators, swamped by
complaints from home, have be
come increasingly critical of the
way the lands are administered
and are preparing to take a hard
look at the antiquated public land
laws. Pressure for an overhaul
also is crowing in Die House.
Most of the criticism is falling
on the Bureau of Land Manage
ment, a branch of the Interior
Department which reigns over 477
million acres of public land
Counting lands no longer owned
by the federal government but in
which it still retains mineral
rights, the BLM has responsibility
for some 800 million acres about
one-third the entire area of the
United States.
Western legislators pressured
by angry constituents are
complaining that the agency's ad
ministration often is capricious,
arbitrary and snarled by red tape.
Bible Announces Probe
Thus it hardly came as a sur
prise when Sen. Alan Bible, D
Ncv., chairman of tiie Public
Lands Subcommittee, announced
that his committee would make
a "sweeping investigation."
"I concluded it was high time
we had an investigation of the
administration of the agency and
the land laws themselves," he
said.
A hard look at the BLM and
land laws also is expected to be
taken by the House Interior Com
mittec. where another Nevadan
Rep. Walter S. Baring heads the
Public Lands Subcommittee.
Their studies could lead to junk
ing of laws dating back to horse
and buggy days and their replace
ment with what Bible, a lawyer,
said would be "modern, stream
lined laws."
Bible's announcement came
soon after western senators had
protested an Interior Department
decision to raise grazing fees by
some 50 per cent. Bible and other
senators, under pressure from
stockmen, had asked that the In
crease be put off pending more
study.
Hike Angers Stockmen
The fees were raised after As
sistant Interior Secretary John A.
Carver Jr., and BLM Director
karl Landstrom appeared before
Bible's committee to say that fees
were "indefensivcly low." And de
spite the outraged cries of west
ern stockmen, some legislators
privately agreed that the fees
lower than those of any state
for state lands could stand up
ward revision.
However, Bible stung by the
department's failure to hold up
the fee increase said the first
phase of his investigation would
deal with administration of the
Taylor Grazing Act of 1934.
The act provides the rules un
der which western stockmen are
allotted public lands for grazing
cattle and sheep. Even more
galling to cattlemen than the in
crease in grazing lees are wnai
they consider often arbitrary cuts
in allotments.
After disposing of the grazing
problem, Bible said, the commit
tee Drobably will move on to the
general land laws including the
Homestead Act, the Small Tracts
Act and desert entry laws. All of
them, according to Bible and
other critics, are bogged down in
red tape and confusion.
Kennedy Asks Congress
For Unemployment Action
measures required to generate the
needed economic momentum are
matters of overriding import
ance," Wirtz said. "But even if
we achieve the desired over all
growth rate, we cannot rely wholly
on it as a panacea for all our
manpower problems."
Both Kennedy and Wirtz noted
that employment since 1957 has
increased an average of less than
half million new jobs a year.
Wirtz noted that employment in
creased 17 per cent between 1947
and 1962 while the labor force was
adding about 21 per cent.
Trial Starts
For Billie
Solon Urges
River Pact
OLYMPIA (UPI) - The Colum-
bin River interstate compact could
help protect tlic river's water
from possible diversion to Califor
nia, Sen. John Cooney, D-Spokane,
said Saturday.
Cooney urged the Slalen State
Government Committee to ap
prove legislation, which 1ms al
ready been passed by the Ilouso,
ratifying the seven-state compact.
We are going to need every
drop o( tins water." Cooney said
It is our natural resource. We
should protect it.
But Rep. William Klein. D-Van-
couvcr, told tho committee that
the slate could "adequately pro
tect its water under present law.
He asked the committee to kill
the bill
The compact would join Wash
ington, Oregon, Idaho. Montana,
Wyoming, Utah and Nevada into
a commission to supervise the de
velopment of the river
It will not take effect until rati
fied by tho legislatures of the
CD Council Considers
Federal Agency Appeal
SALEM (UPI) - The possibit
ity of enlisting national Civil
Defense Director Stcuart Pittman
in the battle to save Oregon's civil
defense organization is being con
sidered by the governor's Advis
ory Council on Civil Defense.
Hatfield and council members
agreed at a meeting today the
biggest reason civil defense was
under fire was that nobody un
derstood the agency's role.
The advisory group called for
strong action on the part of city
and county civil defense agencies
to fight for the governor s budget
Hatfield spent more than 30
minutes explaining the present
battle over the CD agency to
council members.
CD Under Fire
Civil defense has been under a
great deal of fire in the past sev
eral sessions," the governor said.
I feel a great deal of tins re
sults from basic policy changes
made on the federal level.
Civil defense was moved from
the evacuation to the shelter phil
osophy. The agency itself has been
shifted around under different di
rectors and is now a part of the
department of defense.
There is basis for the public s
lack of understanding."
Hatfield said people don't un
derstand that CD has changed
from its active role in World War
II to its present advisory capacity.
"We're caught on the horns of
a public dilemma," he said.
Hatfield, in an obvious switch
from bitterness shown in last
week's statements, admitted
"many legislators have sincere
doubts about civil defense."
State Faces Crisis
"It is our responsibility to pro
tect CD, so we will have an or
ganization that can protect t h e
people of the state," he said.
"We face a crisis here. If cor
rection is needed in civil defense
it cannot be achieved by abolish
ing the agency.
"It is time for us to mobilize
public support and understand
ing." Members of the advisory coun
cil denied recent newspaper re
ports that CD communications
were inactive during the Colum
bus Day storm because a radio
technician was on a fishing trip.
"Civil defense communications
were working," Hatfield said. "I
know. I sat right in this room
and watched them work with
highway, State Police, National
Guard and other state agencies."
Advisory council members were
considering the possibility of hav
ing city and county officials take
the battle to save civil defense
to the legislature.
Committee member Bill Hed-
lund urged public hearings be
held before the full Ways and
Means Committee.
"We can't get anywhere with
the subcommittee," lie said.
EL PASO, Tex. (UPJ)- Billic
Sol Estes, who came up for trial
today on federal charges of
bilking finance companies to build
a bankrupt $150 million farm cm
pire, can never find an Impartial
jury in West Texas, his defense
attorney said in U.S. district
court.
John D. Cofcr of Austin, Tex..
brought three huge boxes of news
paper clippings into court to back
lus contention that publicity has
denied Estes the right to an im
partial jury.
Coier asked Federal Dist. Judge
11. Ewing Thomason to grant a
delay in the trial, and barring
that, transfer the case 500 miles
cast to San Antonio, Tex.
A private survv conducted by
attorney Jack N, and of El Paso
shows this border city is pre
judiced against Estes, Cofer said.
Thomason dismissed prospective
jurors until 2 p.m. MST, and be
gan hearing testimony on Cofer's
motions.
The judge overruled a routine
motion to dismiss the lG-counl
indictment against Estes.
Estes, dressed in a dark suit
and tic, strolled casually into
court and winked at newsmen, but
refused to comment on the case.
Ruins D. McLean, chief of the
U.S. Justice Department trial di
vision, came to court prepared
for immediate trial and an
nounced "ready."
His staff brought nine law
books, slacks of files and note
books that covered half of their
work table.
Color carried only a slim brief
case. Then alter court convened
he sent his son, Hume, into the
hall to bring in the huge boxes of
School Race Candidates
Listed For Modoc Area
ALTURAS County Superintend
ent of Schools Clara Eddy report
ed Wednesday, March 6. t h c
andidates to run for school board
elections in Modoc County on
April 6.
By school district they arc:
Alturas two to be elected;
Winona Fisher, incumbent, Wini
fred Hickson, Hugh Mercer, can
didates.
Arlington one . to be elected ;
no candidates.
Cedarvillc Union two to be
elected; Don Coops, incumbent,
candidate.
Davis Creek two to be elected;
June Brunnemcr, incumbent, Rob
ert Grivel, incumbent, candidates.
Delmorma one to be elected;
Robert Mackey, incumbent, can
didate.
Eaglevillc one to be elected;
Edna Bceman, incumbent, David
P. Tidwcll, candidates.
Lake City Union one to be
elected; Delbert W. Joncse, can
didate.
Fort Bidwcll one to be elected;
Nora Conlan. Merrill G. Sweeney
Cecil Vermillion, candidates.
Newell Union two to be elect-
member states. Washington nnd
Oregon arc the only states that newspaper clippings on the Estes
have not approved the agreement, lease.
Convicted Kroegers
Face Sanity Hearings
Korsythia is an Old World genus
of the olive family, according to
the Lncyclopaedla Brltannlca.
SAN FRANCISCO (L'PD-Mrs.
Iva Kroeger, agreeing with her
husband that she is "sick," set
tled down today to wait for the
second phase of her murder trial,
determination of her sanity.
'Mrs. Kroger, 44, and her hus
band, Ralph, til, were louud guilty
first degree murder Fridav
niht by a jury of eight women
and four men. They were charged
with strangling invalid motel own
er Jav AincMMi and his ex-wile
Mildred.
Mrs. Kroeger's sanity trial, be
fore the same jury, begins
Wednesday. Kroger, a former
ranch hand wlio says he prefers
the gas chamber to prison, is not
involved in the sanity trial. He
entered a straight plea of innocent.
Kroeger said Sunday he feels
his wile is "sick" ami should be
scnt to an Institution. Mrs. Kroe
ger shared this opinion but added
a twist of her own.
"Poor Ralph's so contused," she
said. "I do believe he's as sick
as 1 am."
Mrs. Kroeger charged after the
verdict that the jury had been
"paid off." She said "the insur
ance company" had bribed the
jury to prevent her from collect
ing for injuries she claims to have
suffered in a UWI accident.
"If they send me to the gas
chamber," the talkative grand
mother said, "they'll have some
thing to think about on Easter
Sunday. 1 am the mother of God.
I haven't done anything."
II Mis. Kroeger is adjudged in
sane, she will be committed to
an institution. II she is found
sane, sJie and her husband will
(ace a penalty trial together, to
determine If they will be sen
tenced to hie imprisonment or
death.
Board Okays
PSC Library
EUGENE (UPI) The Stale
Board of Iliglier Education's build
ing committee I inlay approved
construction of a new five-story
library for Portland State College.
The building committee recom
mended architects go ahead with
plans for the library. It would be
located two blocks south of the
lone Plaza and occupy more than
half a block on S. W. Harrison
St. between 10th and Park Avc-
cd; Niilo M. Hyytinen, incumbent,
Claude W. Cross, candidates.
South Fork Union two to be
elected; Dorothy Williams, incum
bent, Robert L. Flournoy, candi
dates.
State Line one to be elected;
Carrol H. Cloud, incumbent, can
didate.
Willow Ranch two to be elect
ed; Ethel Pointere, incumbent,
Faye Still, incumbent, Edgar S.
McElwain, Neva Morton, candidates.
Modoc Union High School three
to be elected; Ray Bishop, in
cumbent, Bob Savage, incumbent,
Barbara S. Jobe, Karl E. Olson,
Adrian Holloway, candidates.
Surprise Valley Union two to
be elected: Lester S. Dagsen, Wil
son Gorzell, candidates.
County Board of Education, su
pervisorial district No. 1; John
W. Flournoy, incumbent, candi
date.
County Board of Education, su
pervisorial district No. 4; Flor
ence E. Bushey, incumbent, can
didate.
Arlington and the Newell dis
trict will also vote on a tax in
crease at their elections. Arling
ton win vote lor an increase
from .80 to $1.20, while Newell
will vote on a tax increase from
.90 to $1.25.
nucs.
If the legislature approves funds
construction is scheduled to start
next winter.
The library would supplement
Portland State's existing library.
The present one has a sealing
capacity (or only TOO of the
school's 5.500 students.
The now library would be
planned to eventually rise to 11
stones. Enrollment at Portland
State may reach 20.000 in 20
years, officials have said.
MOKU.L l'TA TO MK.KT
MKItRIM. IWKKSTS AND PA
TRONS will moot March 12 at
the elementary school (or tlicir
regular meeting at 7:30 p.m. A
paneldiscussion will be held con
renting questions parents
about icltool problems.
School Bans
Three Books
PENDLETON. Ore. (UPD
Two books, including a Pulitzer
prize winning novel, have been
banned from English and litera
ture classes at Pendleton High
scnooi.
Principal G. Don Fossatti said
the books were "East o( Eden"
by John Steinbeck and "Brave
New World" by Aldous Huxley.
He said they were withdrawn aft
er a proicsi was made Dy a
spokesman for the Pendleton
Evangelical Ministers Association.
The matter came to light when
a high school teacher. Don
Shawc. questioned II action a:
being taken by "minority forces
of censorship."
The high school administration
said the decision was consistent
with high school policy, which
holds that literature which may
offend parents or students ami
whose use is not clearly justifi
able is not to be assigned.
Shawe said, "My stake in this
is that there may be a passionate
partisan of Sleuibeck or Huxlev
somewhere in the (oolltiU ridges
of the Blues i mountainsi who will
be glad and probably miserable
have I to know what is, in fact, going
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