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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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,
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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