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By FRANK JENKINS
Up in Salem the other dav
Representative Clinton Haight of
Baker county arose in his plate in
the room where the Dlannine and
development committee of the so.
called lower house of the Oregon
legislature was meeting and, with
his tongue stowed carefully in his
cheek, made what the legislative
reporters describe as an IM
PASSIONED PLEA for his bill to
establish lepus townsendi as Ore
gon's official animal and artem-
isia tridcntala as Oregon's state
flower.
. . It might be lust as well to
explain here that lepus townsendi
is the scientific name of the jack
rabbit and artemisia tridentata
is the Sunday name of the shrub
that we know as sagebrush.
The beaver I castor canadensis
is Oregon's present unofficial ani
mal, and the Oregon grape I w hich
the books describe merely as one
of the fruit -bearing flowers i is
Oregon's official state flower.
Representative Haight told his
colleagues that Oregon's unoffi
cial animal "cuts up fields, gnaws
down trees and dams streams."
And, he added, "let me remind
you that many beaver coats are
made of the hide of lepus town
sendi." "Besides," he went on, "what
' other animal than the rabbit lays
' eggs on Easter?"
What of artemisia tridentata?
Over on this side of the moun
tains, at least, we'll agree that
the sage is a wonderful shrub.
Especially along toward evening,
when the sun slants low along the
horizon, casting its rays across
the wide flats. The colors at that
hour have to be seen to be be-
lieved. We have a warm spot in
our hearts for the purple sage
"and the riders thereof.
Over thisaway, Clint, we're all
' for your idea of artemisia tri
dentata as our state flower.
But
There's a road - block, I'm
afraid, in the way of making ar
temisia tridentata the state flower
of Oregon. Our neighbor state of
Nevada is known as the Sage-
. brush State. Its official flower is;
I the sagebrush. Two sprays of the
grayish - green sagebrush arc
" shown in the upper corner of the
Nevada state flag.
One fears there might be an
unholy ruckus if we tried to steal
the sagebrush from Nevada.
A word here i lo Representa
tive Haight.
He just MIGHT be spoofing.
If so, he comes by it honestly
! Away back in 11)08, his father
Clinton P. Haight, fresh out of the
law school of the University of
. Oregon, landed in Canyon City
; with the idea in mind to hang
' out his shingle as a lawyer,
But, unfortunately for his de
sign to become a legal eagle,
half interest in the Blue Moun
tain Eagle came up for sale about
that time. He bought it. Later on,
he bought the whole works. He
had a talent for pithy humor, and
in the course of time he be
came one of the nation's most
noted paragraphers.
There were times when about
half the contents of the Reader's
Digest would be extracts from
the editorial column of the Blue
Mountain Eagle. One suspects
that the Digest's editor would
have liked to fill up his whole
pocket magazine with more of
Editor Haight's stuff and call it a
day secure in the knowledge
that in such an event he would
make a hit with his readers.
Here's a thought, Clint:
' Your father was also known
," as one of the nation's leading
, authorities on the coyote
! which he professed lo regard as
j Ihe cagiest and perhaps the most
! intelligent of the animals. If you
' have trouble with the legisla-
i lure over lepus townsendi, maybe
you could induce the boys to
switch to cariis latrans, of the
family of canidae.
But there's possible trouble in
that quarter also. South Dakota
is the Coyote State. One can't
just go barp.ing around stealing
one's neighbors' emblems. That
would lead to trouble, and
one way or anotner, there are
troubles enough in the world al-
ready.
Anyway
This word in conclusion:
If the sagebrush, lor reasons
already cited, is out of the
question and you can't endure the
Oregon Grape as the state flower
of Oregon, how about the TUM
BLE WEED?
Over on this side of the moun
tains, we could go for the tumble
weed. Tumble weed and jackrab
bits go together like ham and
Visits Canada
SALEM UPI' Rep. Juanita
Orr, D-Lake Grove, will visit the
legislative assembly at Victor.a,
B.C., Monday as Ihe guest ol the
Honorable Margaret Hobbs. M. L.
A., of ReveUtoke. B.C.
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COOKING EXPERT Mrs. Bev Lyons, home economist
for COPCO Division of Pacific Power and Light Company
will be coordinator and co-director of the Third Annual
Herald and News Cooking School. She will work with
Mrs. Ruth King, Herald and News food editor, on the
three-day school, starting Tuesday, and will conduct the
final work session Thursday. The school will be held at
the fairgrounds Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Doors
will be open at 12 noon, and there is no admission charge.
Door priies and awards will be given. Klamath Falls
merchants and distributors will have displays.
Rails Bargain To Void
Oregon Full
SALEM (UPD - Railroads
promised to protect the jobs of
all present brakemen here Fri
day if they can win repeal of
Oregon's full crew law.
The railroads said they are will
ing lo have such protection writ
ten into a new law.
The offer from the railroads
was made al a meeting of the
Senate Committee on Commerce
and Utilities. The committee is
considering a railroads-sponsored
bill to require only five crewmen
on mainline fright trains over 40
cars instead of the present six
crewmen.
Oglcsby Young of the railroads
handed the committee a proposed
amendment containing the job
protection clause.
Under the amendment the sixth
crewman, or third brakeman, po
sitions would be eliminated one
by one whenever a present brake-
man dies, retires, resigns, or is
discharged for cause.
A railroad spokesman said it
would be the only such attrition
provision written into a law in the
nation. Most attrition agreements
are reached through labor con
tracts. At two lengthy hearings, the
railroads have argued that a
sixth crewman is costly and no
longer needed for safety. The un
ions have replied the sixth crew
man is necessary for safety, and
Swiss Fight
Typhoid Tide
By United Press International
Health authorities in the United
States and Switzerland tried Satur
day to stem the spread of typhoid
fever, by isolating suspected vic
tims and searching for more pos
sible carriers of Ihe sometimes
filial disease.
Swiss medical officers prepared
to move 33 suspected typhoid
cases from a temporary hospital
in tlie Alpine village of Zermatt
to facilities in the valley below.
This was the first step in eradi
cating an epidemic in the town
which already has affected more
than 100 persons. The moving
lopcration should be over by Sun
day, w hen the task begins of test
ing blood samples Irom about
3.000 villagers and foreign work
ers in Zermatt.
Tile New York City health de
partment said one young woman
was hospitalized at the Cornell
University medical center with
typhoid apparently contracted in
Zermatt. A spokesman said the
victim "is recuporatinii nicely."
Although the department did
not identify her, she was believed
lo be Mrs. Henry Saltan. 23, the
wife of a New York investment
broker and a finalist in the 1958
Miss Iowa contest. In Sioux City.
Iowa. Mrs. Salran's father said
she was stricken while skiing in
Switzerland.
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Crew Law
protested that a change would
cost nearly 200 brakemen their
jobs in Oregon.
. Only a few other states require
six crewmen.
The railroads also offered an
amendment to make the law re
fer to diesel trains instead of
steam trains. There were no dies
els wnen tne present law was
written 50 years ago.
China Said
Pushing Line
NEW DELHI (UPD - Prime!
Minister Jawaharlal Nehru told
parliament Saturday the Chinese
Communists have moved 2.000,
troops up to the India-Tibet bor
der and said they may be plan
ning new aggression.
Nehru, speaking before the lower
house, said Peking had sent a se
ries of notes to the Indian govern
ment in the past few weeks and
that they "have become sharp and
provocative, some actually scurril
lous."
While Nehru spoke Chinese Com
munist Foreign Minister Chen Yi
in a statement broadcast by the
Communist New China news agen
cy, renewed the attack on India
with a charge India was stepping
up its war preparations "with
imperialist military aid."
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APRIL GOAL FOR WASHBURN WAT PROJECTS Two
bridge construction projects under way at the northern
and southern limits of Washburn Way are expected to
be completed before the end of April, according to
information from Winston Kurth, assistant county engi.
neer. In photo at left, workmen resume construction of a
bridge which will provide a direct route to Kingsley
Field by way of Alameda Avenue. The bridge, located
at the northern extent of Washburn Way, it being
Janitor
JFK Paints Dire
Picture
Cut Mot
By MKRRIM.W SMITH
I'I'I White House Reporter
CHICAGO i UPD President
Kennedy took his call for a $10
billion tax cut to the people Sat
urday and warned the alternative
could be a decade of depression.
The President made a d i r e c I
appeal to "the will of the people"
to back his economic program in
speech before 1,400 civic and
airline dignitaries. In effect he
went over Congress' head in call
ing for action now to find jobs
for the nation's "tide of man
power." As is often his custom, the
President eliminated large por
tions of his prepared address in
actual delivery.
Among the deleted portions was
the somber forecast warning that
unless the manpower situation is
solved "I must warn you this na-
tion faces a decade of chronic
troubles and recession charac
terized by the economic waste
and human tragedy of unemploy
ment."
He said instead that the coun
try faces "serious problems" be
cause of the "tide of manpower
which is going to be hitting our
Busy Week
Predicted
For Solons
SALEM (UPD - The Oregon
Legislature will get off to a fast
start this week with hearings
Monday on medical care for the
aged, truth - in - lending, and
farm picketing.
Civil Defense will come up
again Monday night when a Ways
and Means subcommittee has
planned another work session to
resume consideration of its pro
posal to chop the budget for the
state CD agency.
Several bills of some substance
made advances last week. A few
others came to the end of the line.
The House Planning and Devel
opment Committee voted to let
the controversial Sunday closing
bill die in committee. The Senate
killed increases in minimum pay
tor teachers.
The House refused lo approve!
a memorial endorsing the social
security approach to hospital and
nursing home care for the aged
The Senate passed and sent to
the House measures calling for a
study of automation, providing for
certification of psychologists, and
asking the federal government to
keep hands off legislative appor
tionment. TTV "4
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON'.
Meld
If Tax
Passed
labor market in the next five
years."
When Kennedy alters his text in
this fashion it is White House
policy to stand behind the orig
inal text as well as the actually I
delivered version as long as there
is no substantive change in mean
ing. There was no such substan
tive change Saturdays.
The President left no doubt of
his belief that even though there
is no single magic solution to
the nation's economic troubles
the most important action the
country can take now is to "re
lease the brake of wartime tax
rales which are now holding
down growth at Ihe very lime
we need more growth to create
jobs.
icn ouiion dollars more in
lax savings, in the hands of
American consumers and
vestors, as 1 have proposed to
the Congress, will be multiplied
many limes in new markets, new
equipment, new jobs, new pay
rolls, and men still more con
sumption and investments," he
said.
The lime for a tax cut, the
President said, is how when
inflationary pressures at bav and
there are no major international
crises.
The President flew to Chicago
ostensibly to dedicate the city's
new 0 Hare international Air
port and also lo give a political
boost lo his strong ally,. Chicago
Mayor Richard J. Daley.' Daley,
one of the nation's most powerful
Democrats, is up for reelection
April 2 and even though he is
rated a shoo-in for a third term
he was grateful for White House
help.
Confetti, ticker tape, Boy Scout
bands and Scottish bagpipes
greeted the President and Daley
on their trip into the Loop. It
was an old-fashioned Chicago po
litical rally and police estimated
that more than 1 million persons
7s0,000 along the route from the
airport and 400,000 to 500,000
more lining downtown streets
saw the President.
Goulart Okays
Commie Meet
RIO DE JANEIRO (UPU-Jubi
lant sponsors Saturday said about
400 "foreign personalities" will at
tend an anti-United Slates Com
munist congress as the result of
President Joao Goulart's go-ahead
It was announced Friday that
Goulart "will not interfere in any
way with the week-long hemi
sphere congress whose theme isi
"peace and freedom from world
domination by Yankee imperial
ism."
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constructed by the Inter-City Construction Company
of Eugene at a cost of $29,504 and is scheduled for
completion about the end of April. As workmen of the
Eugene construction firm were driving pilings into place
to support the Alameda Avenue bridge, employes of
of the county road department were laying dirt fill
(photo at rightl to build the second of two approaches
to the overpast near Laverne Avenue at the southern
end of Washburn Way. The approach work, slated for
SUNDAY. MARCH 24, 1963
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BLAST SCENE San Jose Mayor Robert Welch, second from left, talks with police
man who had been gathering up women's purses from debris of drug store after
boiler exploded in the basement of the building killing three persons and injuring mora
than 100 others. The building was shared with the J. C. Penney store and both estab
lishments were crowded with shoppers when the blast occurred. UPI Telephoto
Anti-Red Cubans Form
Underground Republic
MIAMI i UPI '-Delegates of 22
anti-Communist groups in Cuba
set up an underground government
and declared a state of war
against the regime of Fidel Cas
tro, according to information re
ceived here by private sources
from Havana.
The report of the meeting and
of Dr. Carlos Marwiez Sterling's
designation as president of the
"republic of Cuba in arms" was
confirmed by UPI Friday night in
a telephone conversation with
Marquez Sterlin in New York.
Red .Pull-Out
Unconfirmed
WASHINGTON (UPD - Tile
United Stales has no firm evi
dence as yet thai Russia has
pulled any of its estimated 5,000
combat troops out of Cuba, of
ficials said Saturduy.
Some may have been among
the "approximately 3,000 Russian
troops" which President Kennedy
reported Thursday had been
evacuated since Feb. 18, tliey
said. On the other hand, those
pulled out may have been drawn
entirely from among the 12,000
military technicians and training
personnel which Soviet Premier
Nikila Khrushchev had In the is
lands up lo a month ago.
Officials said aerial recon
naissance shows that all installa
tions the four battalion combat
force has been using are still in
tact. And none of their heavyi
equipment has been removed.
They cautioned, however, that
aerial intelligence would have to
be supplemented by other in
formation coming in by slower
means, presumably from agents
within the island, before a final
determination can be made.
Telephone
Jose
The rexrt coincided with an an
nouncement in Havana that gov
ernment lorccs had annihilated
three anti-Castro rebel bands oier-
ating in Mutanzas Province which
lies to the east of Havana.
A Cuban refugee who arrived in
Miami from Havana Friday said
anti-Castro rebels ambushed and
killed 130 members of a militia
unit in Las Villas Province last
week.
Reports on the secret meeting
said the delegates met as a na
tional assembly "in a place of na
tional territory," proclaimed Mar
quez Sterling president and de
clared war ."against the Commu
nist occupation" of Cuba.
The delegates also said they
would abolish the constitution of
1940 once the Castro regime is
overthrown. In the meantime, they
said, the "people should elect dele-
gates to a constituent assembly."
The delegates then voted ap
proval of a "provisional statute"
which would serve as the basis for
a provisional government.
In addition to naming Marquez
Sterling as president, the dele
gates selected ministers of for
eign affairs, interior, war public
health and finance. But their iden
tities were kept secret.
Spring Brings
Sunny Weather
lly United Press International
The first weekend of spring Sat
urday brought sunny skies and
warm temperatures to most of the
nation and signaled an end to one
ol the worst winters on record.
Exceptions to the bright, balmy
conditions occurred along the
West Coast w here a slorm brought
rain to California and Oregon and
scattered rain and snow to the
western Rockies.
completion in May, it proceeding ahead of schedule and
will be finished and ready for traffic about the second
week in April. The project of laying more than 18,000
truck loads of fill for the approaches to the overpast
began about Dec. IS and will be completed a a cost
to the county of approximately $150,000, Both projects
were financed through federal, state and county matching
fundi.
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Blast
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INVESTIGATED Ricardo
Mello, former J. C. Penney
maintenance man, is shown
as ha appeared at the San
Jose police station where
he is being held for investi
gation of homicide in con
nection with thn boiler
room blast in the store
which killed three people,
UPI Telephoto
Volcano Toll
Set At 1500
DENPASAR, Indonesia (UPD
four-mile high cloud of black
smoke towered loday over vol
canic Mt. Gunung Agung in silent
token of Ihe disastrous eruption
last Sunday in which 1,500 persons
may have perished.
Authorities here notified civil
defense headquarters in Jakarta
that 400 persons are' known dead
and another 1,100 are believed to
have burned to death while pray
ing when lava raced down the
volcano's slopes.
The swift lava flow is believed
to have destroyed the villages of
Pura, Besnkih, Pnhnangka, Kcd-
ampul and Uatu Ringgl.
Hesuklh is, or was, the site of I
Bali's most sacred Hindu sanc
tuary, where a religious celebra
tion held only once every 100
years took place this month. The
fate of the temple was not known.
Weather
Klamath Falls, Tulelake and
Lakrvtew Partly cloudy and
mild today; high near 55. Increas
ing clpudiness tonight and Monday
with showers on Monday. Low to
night 30-35. High Monday near SO.
Southerly winds gusty 8-18 m.p.b. .
lisped
Three Die
As Boiler
Explodes
SAN JOSE. Calif. (UPD-Police
held a former J. C. Penney Com
pany maintenance man for inves
tigation of homicide today in con
nection with a deadly explosion
that left Penney's downtown San
Jose store a hollow shell.
Three persons were killed and
71 injured when the store's boiler
blew up during the late afternoon
ush hour Friday. By today, eight
of the injured were reported in
critical condition at local hospitals
and five were in serious condition.
The blast, which occurred at
:51 p.m. in a sub-basement, tore
upward through the Thrifty Drug
Store and Penney's Department
Store, co-tenants of the four-story
building at San Jose's major
downtown intersection. First and '
Santa Clara streets.
Police Chief of Detectives Bar
ton Collins identified the mainte
nance man as Ricardo Mello. 27.
of San Jose.
Mello was informed at noon Fri
day that he was fired as of 4 p.m..
Collins said. Officers were unable
immediately to learn why he was
tired.
Under questioning, Mello admit
ted he opened a vent on the boil
er lo "nurse" a defective burner
and then forgot to close the vent,
Collins said.
Mello took a lie detector test
"and flunked part of it," Collins
said. The parts he "flunked," ac
cording to Collins, concerned tam
pering with tho boiler and wheth
er he was angry at the company
tor tiring mm.
Collins said investigators found
the thermometer on the boiler
"frozen" at 270 degrees, the max
imum reading.
Officers said no formal charges
had been filed against Mello pend
ing further interrogation.
The interior of the building
was wrecked. Every window in
every floor shattered, raining
glass on the packed street and
sidewalk below. The explosion
threw store window mannikins out
into the street, many of them ly
ing in puddles of shattered glass
in a bizarre footnote to the trag-
edy.
The dead were identified as Ver
non P. Hinton, 41, San Jose; Mrs.
Marie Straight, 55, of suburban
Campbell, a clerk in Penney's
basement; and Mrs. Florence
Caballern, 45, of San Jose, a shop
per in Thrifty's whose body was
pulled from the weckage five
hours after.
An eyewitness said the blast
lore a hole 20 feet wide in the
middle of the Thrifty Drug's main
floor, and shattered the ceiling for
50 feet in all directions.
In the adjacent Penney's store,
the concussion blew down a 30
foot section of a w-all. Most of
the merchandise in both stores
was ruined, and the basement was
flooded by water from broken
mains,
Kenneth Ditrich, relief manager
of the Thrifty store, said he was
throwA five feet against a wall
by the force of the blast. He esti
mated that there were 50 people
shopping in Thrifty's at the time.
But he said that had the ex
plosion occurred a half hour la
ter, his store would have been full
o! persons eating at the counter,
part of whiAi was demolished.
Immediately after the blast, all
available ambulances from
throughout Santa Clara County
were rushed to the scene. The
fire department sent out three
alarms, although this was mostly
a precautionary measure since
there was practically no fire from
the blast.
Toxic Tuna Can
Found In Store
BERKELEY (UPD-Condusive
results of tests on a can of tuna
pulled off the shelf of a Saratoga,
Calif., store will bo available Mon
day, according to State Health di
rector Malcolm H. Merrill.
He said Friday that preliminary
tosts on the swollen can indi
cated presence of a toxic sub
stance which has the character
istics of botulism.
The canned tuna bears the same
code as the contaminated tuna
which apparently caused the death
of two women in the Detroit asf
last week.