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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (March 13, 1963)
COUP. GBN.Rt7.AilD S0C0ISHT3 BIT. Intercommunity HospitaTTund Campaign For $725,000 Opens Tonight In Tke- Weather O.Or OBS.LTBSABT lEfSPAPCft SBCTXOX lays sews By FRANK JENKINS From San Francisco: Forty-five city health inspec tors and rodent control special ists began a house-by-house and boat-by-boat rat hunt in the Ma rina yesterday. The hunt netted one lone ro denta gray Norway rat found drowned in the lagoon of the Pal ace of Fine Arts. Isolated and unexplained, that little item sounds a bit silly, doesn't it? But wait a minute The drive was ordered after a rat was discovered DEAD OF THE BUBONIC PLAGUE at Scott and Beach streets in the citv hv the Great Bay where ships come from all over the world. Rats are carriers of bubonic Dlaeue Hie dreaded Black Death that killed 60 million people during the Middle Ages. This is the point: . If ONE plague-infested rat got loose from a ship, MORE RATS might have got loose from the ship. San Francisco has to know . Hence the rat hunt. Here's how bubonic plague spreads: A rat ... or a ground squirrel . . . or other rodent . . . gels the disease. A flea bites the rat and takes a nip of its infected blood. The flea then BITES A PERSON and the person gets the plague. If you kill all the fleas, the spread of the, plague will be stopped and it will die out. But It's easier to kill the rats. That's the job San Francisco Is tackling. A thought: Iif spite of all the tommyrot we read in the news, the world is getting better. There was a time when this bubonic plague incident could have prostrated the world with fear. And with good reason. As late as the 130O's. a form of bubonic plague known as the Black Death destroyed one fourth of the entire population of Europe. Many of us can remember the great flu epidemic that followed World War I. It was a PANDEM IC, or world epidemic. In 1918 and 1919, it spread first through-l out Europe, and from Europe it spread to America. It was grim enough, goodness knows. At its height, 'the world was dark with fear. No one knew in the morning who might be stricken by night. But the flu epidemic of that period was a mere incident when compared with the Black Death of 500 years before. Another thought: In a much milder way, AUTO MATION is spreading fear among us. What will it do to our jobs? Well, if the scientists could con quer the Biack Death, they can eventually change automation from a job-destroying monster to a friend of man. Give them time. Soviets Say Troops Leave MOSCOW UPI - The Soviet Union admitted today it is with drawing Russian Iroops sent to Cuba to prepare Premier Fidel Castro's forces against "any in trigues of imperialist aggres sors." The official Communist parl newspaper Pravda said in a dis patch from Havana that four So viet ships had left with soldiers by last Sunday. The dispatch, dated March 10, said a fifth ship, the Nakhivmov, had arrived in Havana to remove further Rus sian units. The Pravda statement was the first admission by the Soviet Union that it was removing troops from Cuba, although reports in the West had indicated a with drawal was being made. The Soviet people had been given no prior indication that a troop pullout was even contem plated. The Iroops were sent to Cuba before, during and alter last October's Cuban crisis between Russia and the United States. The Pravda statement was cou pled with a renewed threat of war in the event of any United States aggression against Castro's regime. The statement quoted a depart ing Soviet colonel as saying Rus sian troops in Cuba were deter mined to fight side-by-side with "their Cuban brothers" to tlx; "last drop of their blood" during the Cuban crisis. It said troops had moved into positions along the Cuban coast in October when war was just around the corner." Pravda did not specify how many troops had been withdrawn or would be withdrawn at this t.me. It gave no figures on the number of sokliers in Cuba or how many would remain. High yatltrday Low latt mghr High ytar a90 Low year ago High past U ytar Low past 14 yran Precis, past 24 hours Sinca Jan. I MM period last ytar It 44 10 (inn 14 (11411 trace J.U 1 it Reds Claim Ships Shot At Fishers MOSCOW (UPD - The Soviet Union charged today that a group of three' United States Navy war ships fired on a Soviet fishing trawler with dummy warheads about 70 miles east of Norfolk Va', five days ago. The charge was made in a note to the United States published to night in the government newspa per Izvestia. The newspaper said the note was handed to the State Department in Washington Tues- day. (In Washington, the State De partment acknowledged that "we received this note Tuesday from the Soviet embassy." A spokes man added, "We are investigat ing as we always do when we re ceive such charges.") The note said the incident took place March 8, last Friday. It said the ships involved were two "Boston" type cruisers and one Franks" type destroyer. The Izvestia version of the note said the American ships ap proached within five miles of the, Soviet vessel, which was identi fied as SRTR 9007, and fired two volleys from their guns, using dummy warheads. It said the volleys landed ap proximately 130 meters (426 feet) from the Soviet vessel, which the Russians claimed was fishing in the open sea. The note said the first volleys were fired at 12:15 p.m., but did not specify what time was being1 used. The American ships (thcn moved to within one kilometer (slightly more than half a mile) from the Soviet vessel and fired two more dummy warhead vol leys that landed 00 meters from the trawler, the note claimed. "By such actions American warships endangered the Soviet trawler and its crew," the notcl said. "The Soviet government looks upon the shooting at Me fishing trawler of the Soviet Union by American Navy ships as a rude violation of generally accepted norms of international law, of principles of freedom of navigation on the open sea and as an act of arbitrary rule which can lead to serious consequences. "The Soviet government slates to the American government its protest connected with the above stated provocate actions of American warships and expects that those guilty will be punished and that necessary measures will be undertaken not to allow such actions in future." The note made no mention, in the version published here, of re cent American charges that Cu ban fighter planes had fired at an American-owned shrimp boat. Western observers believed the Soviets might have chosen to publicize the alleged firing on a Soviet trawler as a counter-prop aganda move. VISITOR Mrs. U. S. Savings Bond, Emily Terrall, St. Helens, center, was in Klam. ath Falls Tuesday to promote the sle of U.S. Savings Bonds in a nationwide campaign. At left is Mike Shannon, manager of the First National Bank, South Sixth Street Branch, who served as Klamath County Savings Bond chairman for several years and, right, Mrs. Virginia McGaughey, Klamath Falls candidate for Mrs! Oregon, who was present for the luncheon meeting in the Pelican Party Room. Mrs. Terrall and George W. Mimnaugh. Oregon director of !he Savings Bond Division, United States Tree... ury Department, Portland, both spoke. Price Ten Cents SJ Pages ' a ' ' e ' ' fn La, MODEL DEPICTS PROPOSED HOSPITAL Bob Starbuck. left, engineer, and his partner John Howard, architect, both of Morrison, Howard and Starbuck, apply soma finishing touches on a model of the proposed Intercommunity Hospital which will be unveiled during the kiclcoff fund raising campaign dinner tonight at the Winema Motor, Hotel. The fund drive committee is endeavoring to raise $725,000 to provide the county's part for the construction of the proposed hospital. The remaining money to construct the $2.6 million dollar hospital will come from federal government funds. Hospital Fund Drive Opens With Kiclcoff Dinner Here The initial all-county effort to raise $725,000 for the construc tion of the proposed 141-bed In tercommunity Hospital in Klam ath Falls gets started with a kickoff dinner featuring six guest Constitution Revision Gets New lease On Life SALEM (UPH - There was a new surge of life today in a pro posed new constitution for Ore gon. It grew out of two developments Tuesday: The House Committee on Con stitutional Revision voted to press ahead in an effort to send a pack age to the floors of the House and Senate. An anti-revision plea from the Oregon State Grange met with; some round rebuttal. The kay action came when Chairman John Dcllenback, R- Medford. called the committee to gether and gave it a mid-session alternative: Step up action on the document or forget it for this session. The committee voted unani mously to go ahead. The consensus of members was that the likeliest product for floor action would be a compromise be tween the present and proposed constitutions. Controversial sections of the new one, the committee indicated. might be sent out separately to stand or fall on their own. Dcllenback said the committee decided that none of its differ AK I Ha r speakers, 6:30 tonight at the Wi nema Motor Hotel. More than 260 reservations had been received for the no-host din ner as of early this morning but the total is expected to approach ences so far w ith the Senate com mittee were too critical to be re solved. A few hours later, the House and Senate committees met to continue joint hearings, this time on the controversial executive ar ticle. Strong criticism came from Clarence Brooks of the Grange, who said his organization opposed making the governor the only elective officer. 'The Grange is not ready to surrender the people's right to choose their officials," he said.- He said the secretary of state and treasurer should remain elec tive. Senate Committee Chairman Waller Pearson reported,. "There is nothing done by these two that couldn't be done by anyone," and added that the change would make the governor more respon sible. Sen. Ted Hallock, D-Portland, questioned whether Brooks was speaking for all the Grange members. The developments came a few days after Senate President Ben Musa attended a joint meeting of the committees. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. 300 before this evening, accord ing to Dave Hanaman, develop ment director of the hospital board. A preliminary phase of the fund drive has been underway since early this year under the director ship of James F. Stilwell, cam paign general chairman, and his associates. Stilwell's commilte? has sought financial support from local industry and businesses and the degree of their success will be the subject of a report by Milwell during the overall kick off drive tonight. Five speakers, other than Stil well, will comment on the devel opment of the hospital program and the vital part that the new- institution will play in the future of the Klamath Basin. Rev. Robert Groves, First Prcs bytcrian Church, will talk on the lu'story of the local hospital movement and is to be followed by Dr. George Nicholson, who will discuss the proposed hospi tal from a medical point of view. The value of the institution to the entire Klamath Basin will be the topic of William D. Ganger of Tulelake. Gail J3rotherhood, Klamath Un ion High School student and par ticipant in the state oratorical contest for the past several years, will represent the youth of the county in discussing the hospital as a vital instrument in further ing the growth and development of the county. Dr. Charles M. McGill. modi cal director of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, Tacoma, Wash will congratulate the residents of the county for their part in striving to establish a new hospi tai in tne area. George Callison, manager of the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce, is to emcee the pro gram which will feature the un- (Continued on Page 4) Rail Peace Hopes Fade CHICAGO (UPIi-Tlie nation's railroads and five rail unions re sumed battle across the negoti ating table today in their long standing "feathcrbedding" dis pute. The fight between the railroads and five on-train brotherhood: over job-c u 1 1 i n g work rules changes could wind up in a crip pling nationwide rail strike. Even though hopes for an early settlement appeared dim, it ap peared likely that the quarrel would be dumped on the White House doorstep before strike stage is reached. The railroads had an edge last week's Supreme Court ruling that they have the right to put into effect work rules changes which would eventually eliminate up to 80.0110 jobs. The roads In sist they need these new work rules to eliminate "featherbed ding" their term for work which is not performed or is not needed. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 13, 1963 St orm's Deat JFK Sees Dire Future If Opposed WASHINGTON (UPll - Presi- dent Kennedy said today the American economy could turn downward if Congress gives the "wrong answer" to his proposals to cut taxes and increase the federal budget and national debt. He called upon businessmen and others who are opposed to his economic program to "accept the lads of life of our economy" and help meet problems of this decade caused by a lagging economic growth, increased labor market and automation. "I do not speak as a partisan," Kennedy emphasized in remarks to a meeting of the Advertising Councjl here. The errors of a Republican administration and a Democratic Congress during these crucial years have been acknowledged by members of both parties," he said. The President referred to the years 1957-1960 "which produced two recessions from which the economy never wholly recovered He said the economic history of that period "clearly wains us now that the wrong answer" to the economic proposals he has made would spell downturn loi the American economy as a whole. Major questions which Congress must decide, lie said, involve the limit on the national debt, the size of the federal budget and the desirability and extent of federal tax reduction. He warned that "an unrealistic debt ceiling or budget cut today1 would lead to a slowdown in de fense contracts, a stretch-out in federal payments,, cash drain on business, "and ultimately another recession. Boards Study School Plan The details of tfie gerrymander plan for the division of the coun ty into two school districts to solve some of the county's school problems will be discussed at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 13, in the city administration build ing. The Joint School Boards Assoc! iliou unanimously adopted t h c plan at its Feb. 28 meeting and will be hammering out some of the details tonight. One of the details that needs further clarification is a plan for the division of assets between the boards because of the boundary changes. At the last meeting, Superin tendent of County Schools Cliff Robinson said agreement on some of these smaller items should be easy since the three boards fi nally were able to come together on a solution to the overriding problem. Gas Survey Completed California Pacific Utilities Com pany announced today that It had completed the line survey in the north section and the Pelican City area and will extend their high pressure natural gas line to serve industrial and commercial firms as well as the residential section in this vicinity. Materials have been ordered and construction is expected to begin in approximately 30 days. This is the first step in the company's $400,000 expaasion program for I!3, according to E, Mullis, dis trict manager. He said that it is the company's primary objective to expand Its facilities and service as rapidly as possible to enable many more res idential, commercial and indus trial firms in this area to enjoy the economy and convenience of nat ural gas. Telephone I . M '.I , t RAMONA SOTO Legislature Klamath Indian Queen Miss Indian America, Ramona Soto of Klamath Falls, lovely young memlier of the Klamath Tribe whoso Indian nnmo is 01- sombumwas, is to lie honored by the state of Oregon in Salem Tues day and Wednesday, March 19-20. Arrangements for her several public appearances arc being made by State Sen. and Mrs. Harry Boivin. Miss Soto's trip to Salem is sponsored by the Herald and News, and she will be accom panied by Ruth King of the Her ald and News staff. Ramona, now attending Sheri dan College in Sheridan, Wyo., is to give the Lord's Prayer in the Indian sign language at the morn ing session of the Senate, March 19, and will repeat the impres sive prayer before the House of Representatives the following day. She will he introduced to Gov. Mark O. Hatfield on Tuesduy when a group of young people from the Warm Springs Reserva tion will be present, will attend n tea during the afternoon as an honored guest, will visit the Chemawa Indian School and will lie an overnight guest of Secre tary of State and Mrs. Howell Ap pling during her stay in the state capital. Luncheons, a dinner and a press conference are also being arranged for her. Since she was named Miss In dian America last August, the young woman, daughter of Mrs. I'lorinda Soto and Joseph Soto, and sister of Elnathan Davis, all of this city, has made numerous public appearances. She came to Klamath Falls this week from the Iloopa In dian Reservation in California and is scheduled to appear at the All American Indian basketball Tour nament at Chiloquin on her re turn from Salem. She will leave early in April for three weeks in New York state and in Oklahoma, continuing to tell the story of her licoplc and her goul, to study law for a professional career to aid the Indians. She graduated from Klamath Union High School in 1962 and won a scholarship when appointed to Iter national honor. She is an accomplished pianist, has been an official hostess at the five-day In dian Arts Festival at La Grande and was honored by the Klam ath Basin lust fall at a reception TV 4-8111 No. 7087 h Toll Mounts lit!: w-r To Honor in the First Presbyterian Church. She was sponsored at Sheridan by the Klamath Reservation Jay- cces who continue to be interested ill her accomplishments. She com poled wilh beautiful girls of 12 tribes. Mrs. June Poitras, a Klamath, now living in Portland, has been invited to participate in Ramona's appearances. Tax Return Bill Ready SALK.M (UPI) - The House1 Tax Committee Tuesday night completed work on a "one shot $11 to $12.5 million revenue bill which would require employers to make withholding tax payments monthly instead of quarterly. l no accomplishment was a turning point in the 13 legisla ture. It was the first revenue measure to be completed during the session. When the final amendment was made to the hill (HB1076I, Chair man Richard Eymann, D-Mar cola, asked the committee to hold it for release in a package with other revenue measures being con sideied. Kingsley Job Added To Bill Congressman Al Ullman anl Senators Wayne Morse and Maur inc Neuberger announced today that the administration has in cluded $213,()(o for Kingsley Field in Klamath County In its military construction bill. The request has the approval of the Bureau of tho Budget and now must go before both the Armed Services and Appropria tions committees for approval. If tlic Kingsley Field appropri ation is approved it will go for construction of operation mainte nance and medical facilities, Ull man and the two senators ex pressed pleasure that tho admin istration la recognizing the needs at Kingsley. Weill her Klamath Falls, Tulelake and Lakevlew Increasing cloudiness tonight with few showers of rain or snow late tonight and Thurs day. Not so cold tonight. Low 22. High Thursday near 42. Thousands Flee East High Water By United Press International Violent thunderstorms raked Uie flooded Southland today and a blustery March storm dumped heavy snow across Nebraska and Iowa. Thousands were homeless. The death toll mounted. An airline pilot reported a tor nado near Indianapolis, Ind., dur ing the night. Warnings of severe thunderstorms, damaging winds and hail were posted alone an 80-mile-widc swath deep into the Heart ot Ohio. Soaking rains across the South sent rivers and creeks spilling from their banks. More than 30, 000 persons fled the rising waters in the Virginias, Kentucky, Ten nessee and Alabama Tuesday. Trains Stranded Three Southern Railroad passen ger trains were stranded in east Tennessee by flood waters and muds slides during the night. A tornado ripped through two small south-central Alabama com munities late Tuesday, damaging buildings. No injuries were report ed. The twister came at the tail ' end of a rash of tornadoes that swept through the South Monday and earlier Tuesday, killing at least live and leaving millions of dollars of property damage be hind. A federal task force was due in eastern Kentucky today to survey llood damage termed the worst in the depressed area's history. President Kennedy was expected to name 20 Kentucky counties as major disaster areas. Rip Houses Apart The Appalachian floods ripped houses apart, swept cars into swollen streams, uprooted trees and covered highways with tons of mud. The Cumberland and Guyan- dottc, the Tug and Tennessee, Big Sandy and Sequatchie were just a few of the rampaging rivers which caused millions of dollars of damage across the flood belt. At least 13 deaths were attrib uted to torrential rains, floods and near-blizzard snowstorms Tuesday. Five persons died in West Virginia alone, three suffer, ing heart attacks while battling surging flood waters. A family of four drowned when their home was swept into the Sequatchie River near Jasper, Tenn. Kansas, Alabama, Kentucky and Virginia reported one death each Tuesday. Three persons were missing and presumed drowned in a canoe accident on the swollen Jackson River near Covington, Va. Painter Held For Slaying LAKEVIEW-Robcrt Lee O'Con nor, 26, itinerant painter, was arraigned in the district court of Judge Richard Moffct Wednes day morning on a reduced charge of second degree murder in the death of Mrs. Theresa Arzncr, 64, Lakevicw. O'Connor, apprehended in Bend late Thursday, March 7, had first lieen charged with first degree murder in the case following the finding of the body of Mrs. Arz ncr on a county road four miles from here. An autopsy revealed that Mrs. iVrzncr actually died prior to mid night on Wednesday. March 6, although her body was not dis covered until Thursday morning. Bail on O'Connor has been set at $23,000 and he remains in jail here. T. R. Conn is to be appointed his defense attorney by tho circuit judge, Chnrlcs Foster. O'Connor has said little about the incident beyond his initial claim that the woman jumped or fell out of his pickup. The autopsy revealed that the woman suffered multiple fractures and authori ties speculated that she had been run over at least once and per haps repeatedly. No date has been set for the trial. !
