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U.OP ORE. LIBRARY IEISPAPER SECTION 0E5l.REr.AM0 DOCUHEHTS 01 V. COUP. CUGSN,0JlEa. . a a. Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Up in Salem the other day, the problem of fraudulent and mis leading advertising for subdivi sions and land schemes came be fore the planning and develop ment committee of the house of representatives of the Oregon legislature. Attorney Genera Robert Thorn ton and Oregon Real Estate Com missioner Robert Jensen both sup ported bills they have drafted to haJt operations of what Commis sioner Jensen termed "marginal and unscrupulous subdivides. " The proposed laws would out law misleading statements and require bonds by developers to assure that promised improve ments would be made. Violation would be punishable by a $5,000 fine and year in jail. Attorney General Thornton told the committee he had been study ing the problem for more than a year. The principal trouble with desert land promotions in Cen tral and Eastern Oregon, he said, is that the people concerned arc not familiar with the area. Peo ple not familiar with the lack of water and the isolation of the legion are apt to be defrauded in large numbers. He added: "A review of exist ing laws shows there is noth ing we can do to restrain these operations at the present time." He was referring, presumably, to a subdivision project in Lake county. Lake County Judge C. W. Ogle was present at the hearing and told the members of the committee that Lake County hasn't yet recovered from a simi lar development clear back in 1909, more than half a century ago, and urged adoption of the proposed law. Kilos of the newspapers of that long-ago period reveal that this Lake County development of 1909 was quite a project. People were pouring in from all over the country. They were full of enthu siasm. The future looked bright. The prevailing water table was within six to 12 feet of the sur face. It looked like a great new country in the making. Its re moteness from markets seemed to the new settlers to be its only handicap. Lakeview, to be sure, was w ith- ing a reasonable distance and Lakeview was the northern ter minus of the Narrow Gauge rail road coming up from the south But the new settlers whether rightly or wrongly got the idea that the Narrow Gauge's rates were too high. These high rates, they said, meant prices for their products that were disappointing ly low. They had another outlet, of course, for their products branch rail line coming down from the Columbia river to Sham ko. But Shaniko was a long way off. It took five days to get there with a team and wagon and five davs more to get back. That meant too much loss of .time. So they turned to Klamath Falls, which by then had become the northern terminus of the Na tron Cut-off which was the ori ginal name for what is now the main line of the Southern Pacific. That seemed to them an ideal ..outlet for their products to the markets of California. But there was no road 10 Klam ath Falls. So they tackled the Klamath county court to build a road across the Klamath Indian reservation to their area. They figured that with such a road they could get to Klamath Falls and back in v three days each way a. saving of lour days over the round trip to Shaniko. Then Misfortune struck. The water table in their valley began to drop. Without sufficient water, there could be no big crops to haul to market. So the proposed road was never built. What of the present? Well, Ken McLeod. one of whose hobbies is water tables, tells me the water table over there is RISING AGAIN. It's a strange world, isn't it? You never can tell what will happen next. Teeners K.!l Two Officers FAIRFIELD. Calif, 'll'l' - A pair of tecnaged Sacramento boys whose brief crime spree left two law officers dead and a third man wounded were in serious condition today at Solano County Hospital here. The suxvls were identified as Richard Price. 18. and Jack Sikcs. 16. Their wave of violence started Friday with a bungled holdup at tempt at Lodi, Calif. It ended less than an Iwur later 24 miles away near Rio Vista when the bojs. driving a stolen California high way patrol car. rammed into a roadblock at high speed. Hta(lior Hi9tl yeltenfev Lew bit Right High year ege Low veer age High pail 14 veers Lew pen 14 veers Precis., pest 14 hours Since Jen. 1 Seme period last yeer 4v Imtl It (Hill 1.17 III Id U.S. Jets Chase Planes Back To Russia After Alaskan Violation WASHINGTON (UP1 Two Sn-1 vict reconnaissance planes vio lated U. S. territory over Alaska Friday but Hew back to Russia when American jet fighters were sent up after them, it was dis closed Saturday. The United States protested harply to the Kremlin, demand ng the Soviet Union "take all necessary measures to prevent any repetition" of the air viola tion, the first of its kind. The Defense Department said the invaders penetrated 30 miles inside U. S. territory. They were over American soil for about a totted PLAQUE PRESENTED William B. SweetlanrJ, Herald and News publisher, Is shown being awarded a plaque by Vlnce Bousquet, left, vice president of the Sierra-Cascade Logging Conference, for winning second place in a forest news contest conducted by the group. The award also consisted of a $50 cash prize. First award in the division was won by Les Shaw, Lake County Examiner, for a series of seven articles on government timber appraisal and pricing policies. First award In the division for newspapers with over 50,000 daily circula tion was won by Jefferson Yohn, San Bernardino Sun, a former teacher at KUHS. Roman Police Probe Opera Star Death ROME (LTD - "I cannot re member. . .the pistol is not mine. 1 didn't have one. . . How is Fran ces?" Police Saturday were trying to piece together the confused re marks of a gravely wounded American businessman in an ef fort to shed light on a double shooting which took the life of a California opera singer. The shooting behind the sound proof walls of a fashionable Via Vencto hotel was discovered Fri day and made front-page head lines in the Roman press. Dead from (our bullet' wounds was Frances McCann, 42-ycar-old wife of John William Rodgers of Altadcna, Calif., and a mother of lour. . Gravolv wounded In the head Legislators Determined To SALEM (UPI i Sixteen men and two women have reached a turning point: they have decided they can. and will, do tlie job of giving Oregon a constitution for the next century. This is tlie consensus of their chairmen Sen. Waiter Pear.-on. a Portland Democrat, and Rep. John Dellenback, a Medlord Re publican. Pearson and Dellenback feel growingly confident that tlic House and Senate Committees on Constitutional Revision will put out a product this session. And they are hopelul that through committee "Icamwoik" it will win Ihe two-thirds Hiu.se and Senate vota needed to be test on Price Fifteen Cents 58 Clerks, Southern half an hour and set off a "scramble" by U. S. fighter pilots! at Alaskan bases. The Pentagon said that FI02 jets "intercepted" the planes but no shots were fired. Asked why the U. S. fighters did not fire on the Russian planes a Defense Department spokesman said: "When the interception was made, the Soviets were clearly on a course which would take them out of U. S. air space." The F102 "Delta Dart" lighters used in the interception are su personic, and could fly at twicel was her impresario. German-born American Ernest Boxmann, who lives in New York. Italian police said they believed it was a murder-suicide attempt, but admitted that several details left tliem puzzled. When Boxmann emerged from unconsciousness at a Rome hos pital, police said, he told them there was blank in his mind but insisted that lie did not shoot either Miss McCann or himself. "Tlic pistol is not mine," police quoted Boxmann as saying in broken sentences. "I didn't have one. I am left-handed and I don't know who might have fired the shots. "I am unmarried. I feel lonely. How is Frances?" to voters for ratification in 14. Pearson, a bluntly outoken In surance man and former stale treasurer and Senate president, and Dellenback, an articulate at torney w ith a quiet sen-e of hu mor, discussed the new document in an intc.-view lasting more than an hour. They said as Ihe committee members have dug into the job, pride and enthusiasm have begun to replace an earlier feeling of disinterest and distrust. Tlie mem bers, they said, have begun to realize a new constitution could be the mo-t imxrtant achieve ment of this session. Instead of taying doubllully. "I don't know," they now are Pages Soviet the 4(i0 mile-an-hour maximum speed at which the department said the Russian planes flew. There was no description of the Russian planes other than that they were reconnaissance types. This would usually imply that they were not heavily armed. Radar tracked the Soviet air craft streaking back to Russia A State Department spokesman told newsmen it was "the first clearly established incident of a Soviet overflight of the United Slates." There have been reports that Russian planes from Cuba have flown over Southeastern United States but Defense Secretary Rob ert S. McNamara has emphatical ly denied all such claims. A Defense Department spokes man said the Russian planes were spotted on radar approaching southwestern Alaska. They came in from the west southwest over Kuskokwim Bay. about 200 miles north of the Aleutian Islands They flew at an altitude of from 17.000 to 33.000 feet and at speeds of 400 to 4(i0 miles an hour. The U.S. interceptors did not sight the "invaders" visually but caught them on their radar screens. One of the Russians doubled back almost directly west, Hying over Nunivak Island en route back to the Soviet Union. The other proceeded northwest over a pctimsula-llUe string ol islands, including Nilson Island. The Whittj Itousc said President Kennedy who was in Palm Beach, wasbeing kept informed of the situation. He reviewed the text of thes protest before it wasj dispatched. The note was delivered to the Soviet Foreign Ministry in Mos cow by U. S. Ambassador Foy D Kohler. Sen. E. L. Bartlctl, D-Alaska said the incident underscores the need for stronger defenses in his state. "I am alarmed and I only hope Ihat this was an accident." he commented. He noted that U. S. planes have inadvertently violated Soviet air space on several occa sinns. At the height of the Cuban crisis last fall, two American re connaissance planes Hew over Russian territory because of what the Defense Department called navigational errors. 41 Aboard Lost Plane LA PAZ, Bolivia (LTD - A search resumed al dawn Saturday for a four-engine Bolivian pas senger plane which disappeared on a 200-mile flight over the rug ged Andes Mountains. Forty-one persons, including two Americans and two prominent Swedes, were aboard the airliner. The b i g DCB, en route from Arica, Chile, to Uiis Bolivian cap ital city, should have landed Fri day at 1:27 p.m. EST. It carried 36 passengers and a crew of five Ihe Americans aboard were identified by Lloyd Aereo Boli viano Airlines as Robert Mac Cormack, an attorney, and Leon Bernstein. (No hometowns avail able. I saying, "maybe we can do it aft er all. Dellenback said. Key Decision Made Members themselves made a key decision this week. In sep arate meetings, tlie House and Senate committees each voted unanimously to push ahead with tlie intent of producing a new constitution. Tlie committees, meeting jointly three limes a week, already have completed hearincs on seven of tlic 14 articles in tlie proposed new constitution that was written by the Commission on Constitu tional Revision during the past two years. Of the seven remain ing, only tiie judiciary is controversial. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. 4- - V Jr. jfc if BRIDGE WORK UNDERWAY These two views were taken Friday of work being done at the south end of the west side bypass to Klamath Falls In preparation for tha bridge that will span Lake Ewauna and carry bypass traffic on to a junction with Riverside Street. Top photo shows the pillars being erected adjacent to Conger Avenue and up the side of the present bypass grade that joins Main Street. Lower photo shows piling work being done at the far side of Lake Ewauna where the bridge will be connected. The work is being done by Tom Lillebo, Roedsport, at a contract cost of $861,000. Tri-Nation Federation Pact Agreed CAIRO, U.A.R. (UPll - Egypt Syria and Iraq have reached acrccmenl in nrinviula- on a M eration of t.T? three nations, was announced Saturday night A conimuniure said there was "agreement on points of view" of i such a federation and Ihat the Syrian ana Iraqi delegation; would go to their respective cap itals Sunday to consult their gov ernments. The two delegations have met with U.A.R. President Gamal Ab del Nasser most of the week. The communique said alter con sultations with their governments at home the Syrian and Iraqi del egations would return here to con clude the talks. Informed sources said the three were expected to announce a "high powered" committee to halt the unity project for sub mission to voters in all three countries. "In Amman, Jordan's King Hus sein pledged "unlimited" cooper ution with such a federation. He said he was confident Jordan would join an Arab unity plan anil added, "we hope this unity will take place as soon as possible." i Hussein also denied reports Jordan's stability was threatened because of recent revolutions in Syria and Iraq. I Nasser met with Ihe Syrian and Iraqi delegations following a se ries of communications with Bagh dad and Damascus aimed at ham mering out details of the unity statement, informed sources said. Though details of Ihe proposed federation were secret, the au thoritative Cairo daily newspaper Al Ahram said a "federal union" was discussed during Friday's uinc-hnur session. Whether Jordan would be ad mitted to such a union was not clear. Syrian officials said Jordan was not a "liberated" nation and did not qualify. Baghdad Radio and Syrian officials said the new Yemeni regime and Algeria would be cliuiblo. Give Oregon New Constitution This Ami the committees, taking it section by section, have ten tatively completed rewriting lour articles and are midway through a fifth tlie legislative article. No final votes have been taken on any of the articles. "We want to cet the feeling, the thinking of tlie group." the co-chairmen said. Pearson and Dellenback anieed tlie final product won't can't be just what everyone wants, but they think it will be acceptable. They said it will be somewhere between the commission's propos al and the present century old constitution. A few highly contro iversial sections probably will be SUNDAY. MARCH 17. 1963 Pacific J , .in ...i ? "... . at ;' Subversion Theme Set For JFK Talk SAN JOSE, Costa Rica tUPh- Costa Rican Foreign Minister Daniel Oduher said Saturday the Alliance for Progress cannot pros per in an America infected by Cuba-swnsored Communist sub version. There were indications this theme will be driven home to President Kennedy w hen he meets here Monday with the six Central American presidents. Kennedy's Central American colleagues have made clear Ihcy want action, not words, in the face of tlic Com munist menace. "As long as Russia occupies Cuba we cannot concentrate on tlie urgent task of improving the economic and social conditions of the Latin American people," Odu her said Saturday "The presence of the Soviets in this liemispherc eparated out to be judged on their own, they said. The key point, Dellenback said, is that tlie committees' product will be better than Oregon's pres ent constitution, and will provide a modern enough legal house for the state to grow soundly In for the next 100 years. On tlie knottiest sections, the committees are taking two ap proaches. One, compromise, was illustra ted tlus week when the commit tees considered the present bien nial seHsioiia of the legislature versus tlic commission's proposal for annual sessions. Tlx vote hit a midpoint: Biennial sessions, Telephone Sett 4 puses an imminent threat of sub version and military action de flecting our interest from the constructive task of reforms en visioned by the Alliance for Prog less." He called for a new meeting of hemispheric foreign ministers to lighten tlic isolation of Cuba. Oduber, who will be coordinator of the President's conference, said 250 Costa Rican youths are pres ently in Cuba receiving training in subversion. He said nothing can he done about this situation long as Mexico continues to serve as a gateway for Fidel Castro's Communist Cuba. (Cubana Airlines maintains two (lights weekly to and from Mexico City. Mexico, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile and Uruguay retain diplomatic relations with Cuba.i with optional annual sOMsinns if tlic legislature wants. The other approach, separation. could be used (or a few major conflicts such as Hie death pen These may be offered to the leg islature, and tlic people, separate from the single iwkage that will contain tlie rest of the constitu tion. Pearson artel Dellenback termed tlie executive article, which would make the governor tlie only elec tive officer, tlie nvist controver sial part of the commission's iirotKisal. There ore arguments on both sides, Pearson said, and no mat ter wlwit Uie committees do there, will be a hue and cry from one nm , TU 4-8111 No. 7090 i SP Strike Threat Ends With Signing Of Pact On Automation Problem SAN FRANCISCO (UPI-South-l crn Pacilic Railroad and the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks agreed Saturday on a settlement of tlicir automation dispute that "unique in railroad history." The agreement ended what has been for two months the constant threat of a strike by the 11,000- member brotherhood. A walkout would have tied up SP traffic in seven states. Federal Mediator Francis A. O'Neill, in announcing the unex pected settlement, said it was the first time any railroad contract has provided for a system of! natural attrition." For five years SP and the union have been haggling over what should be done by men displaced by automated equipment. The current round of contract nego tiations came to a head Feb. 6, with the union's determination to strike. Rut at that point O'Neill step ped into the picture and manag ed to keep the talks stumbling along, despite working under the handicap of a day-to-day strike throat. "This lengthy dispute is full and finally settled," the untiring me diator said. "The main problem in automation is solved. O'Neill told newsmen that the negotiators signexl a contract on 175 of tlie issues, and that second document, to be sent to President Kennedy, spells out five issues! to be arbitrated. Arbitration proceedings should begin next week and with luck. lie completed in a matter ot hi days.l said O'Neill. Negotiations had reached an impiLsse last Wednesday when Kennedy proposed that uiuesolved Hopes Fade For Soviets To Quit Cuba WASHINGTON (UPD - Amer ican hopes for large-scale removal of Soviet troops from Cuba by mid-March faded Saturday. It ap peared that no more tlian 3,500 will have left the island by Sun day. Slate Department officials said the United States would continue to press for the removal of the estimated 14.000 Russian troops and military technicians still on tlic Island. But there were no plans for immediate representa tions to Moscow. Officials were still reluctant to discuss specilic ligures without other intelligence to coordinate with aerial surveillance reports. But they said that roughly 2,000 Russian troops had left Cuba by Friday and the Russian passenger ship Nakhimov, expected to leave Sunday, could carry as many as 1.500 more. It was loading all day r riday. Oflicials acknowledged that this could be considered bare fulfill mcnt of Premier Nikita Khrush chev's Feb. 18 promise to remove several thousand troops by the middle of March. Al Uiat time U.S. authorities said lliey hoped llassia would call home the bulk of their 17.000 troops and tech nicians in Cuba. group, mat is wny the article could be treated separately. "It may lie desirable, it may not," Dellenback said, "but there's so much good in tho rest, let's not risk it all for one or two extremes." Pearson and Dellenback believe that tliosc who support the more extreme version eventually will come around to tlie thinking that a compromise on some points would be far belter than nothing. Pearson, a member of tlio re vision commission, said its job was to write a model constitu lion. He said tlie commission re plied Its document would not go through the legislature untouched. W hen the legislative committees Weather Klamath Falls, Tulelake and Lakeview Partly cloudy and continued cool with a few snow flurries through Monday. High today 40; lows tonight 22-28. High Monday 45. Westerly winds MS m.p.h. nspi issues be placed in the hands of a three-man arbitration panel. Southern Pacific embraced the plan, b it the brotherhood accept ed it only conditionally. Since then both sides have been at tempting to iron out which issues should be presented to the panel. Up to now tlie brotherhood has been steadfast in demanding that Southern Pacific retrain for other rsitions within tlie company men who lose their jobs tltrough auto mation. Tlie company has been equally adamant in opposition, calling such a plan inefficient in that it would create unnecessary work and retard progress. The agreement, as outlined by O'Neill, amounts to this : If an employe dies, retires, re signs or is promoted, the com pany is given an "attrition cred it." It tlien has the option of either doing away with tlie job, filluig the position with a man whose job it considers obsolete. or putting another employe in any other job it wishes filled. - But when tlie company changes a man it cannot lower his salary, even though tlie job he is being moved to might call lor a lower wage, said O'Neill. O'Neill added that if the com pany finds it necessary to termi nate an employe because of auto mation Uiat employe will receive 70 per cent ot his base pay for tlie first year, and 60 per cent during the next three years. O'Neill refused to discuss the ; five issues to be sent to arbitra-: tiou, but !t appeared to involve retraining provisions. A striko by tlie brotherhood would have tied up 8,000 miles of Southern Pacific track in Cali fornia, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, , New Mexico, Utah and West Texas. The company estimated that approximately 50,000 workers would have been idled. In January, 19fi2, and again in August tlie union threatened a walkout over tlic same issues. But both limes government me diation efforts forestalled a tieup. 33 Survive Plane Fall MEMPHIS. Tcnn. (UPI) - A- Navy transport with 33 persons -' aboard crashed and burned in the backyard of a residence during an emergency landing attempt at the Memphis naval air station here Friday night. There were no fa talities. Only three persons all reserv ists bound from St. Louis to the air station for weekend training were hospitalized for minor in juries and 13 others were treated for burns, cuts and bruises. Tlie tw in-engine transport came down within 30 feet of the Lloyd Pills residence. Jack Huffman, who as watch'ng television in the Fills residence at the time, said he heard a sound "like wires crackling." "I got up and looked out of tlie window and saw the plane in the back yard," he said. A neighbor, Mrs. Mary Crew, was peeling onions in the kitchen sink. "The lighls went out and I saw a big puff of fire," she said. "I called to my husband that something had happened. He. yelled back at me to get out of : tlie house." - Session get through, their product then will have to be wcigneo as a whole, Dellenback added. Pearson and Dellenback said the chances of House and Senate passage will depend on the prod uct and on the committee mem bers. If tlie nroduct is made accept-: able, the committee members then . w ill have to do a selling job. ; Questions will have to be ironed : out in individual discussions, they : said. : The committee members thenv - selves represent most blocs In the two houses. If they put on a di partisan, team operation," Pearson and Dellenback said, a new constitution could go through. I f
