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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (March 25, 1963)
la Th- Day's km By FRAXK JENKINS From New York this moraine The average American will work two hours and 21 minutes out of each eight hour working day to PAY HIS TAXES this year, according to Tax Founda tions, Inc., a private research organization. This, it says, is two minutes more than was required in 1962. The Tax Foundation adds that by comparison it will require an hour and 24 minutes of work to meet housing and household operations costs, and an hour to pay for food and tobacco. Which is to say: If you are an average working man, it will take you only 25 minutes longer to earn the mon ey to pay for all your housing and household operations costs and all your foods and your to bacco than it will take you to earn the money with which to PAY YOUR TAXES. Let's put it this way: You w ill go to work, presumably at 8 o'clock in the morning. It will take you two hours and 21 minutes to earn the money with which to pay your taxes. That will carry you up to 10:21 a.m., at which hour you will have your taxes paid. It will then take you an hour and 24 minutes to earn the mon ey with which to pay your hous ing and household operations costs. That will bring you up to 11:45 a.m., at which time you will presumably knock off for lunch. When you knock off for lunch, you won't be even with the world. You still have to earn the money with which to pay for your own food and tobacco. Anyway, you go to lunch. Presumably you'll knock off fur an hour. So, when you get back on the job, it will be 12:45 p.m. It will then take you an hour and 22 minutes more to pay for your food and tobacco. At that time, you'll be even with the world, so far as taxes, housing and household operations costs and your own food and to bacco are concerned. And- It will be seven minutes after 2 o'clock in the afternoon. You'll have from then on to FIVE O'CLOCK to earn the money with which to pay for all the rest of the tilings you want to make life pleasant and agreeable including such things as going out to din ner and a show. And- Meeting your car payments and such other incidentals. The big thing you're apt to remember out of all this is if you didn't have to dig up so much in the way of taxes you'd have more left for the good things of life that are what we all work for. One more thought is apt to en ter your mind. It is this: If our old Uncle weren't such a frightfully extravagant old char acter, we'd have more left for these good things of life. Billionaire Does Twist LONDON i UPI Jean Paul Getty has an estimated $1 billion, but he's not above twisting with the small fry. Getty and a London newspaper the Daily Sketch I gave a party at the billionaire's suburban man sion over the weekend for a bus load of children from a Church of England home. "Can you twist'.'" asked a little girl with blonde curls. "Certainly I can," said the 70-year-old oil king. Soon the man whose vast en terprises earn him $11,200 an hour was knee and hip deep in a rath er vigorous demonstration of the dance. A dozen boys and girls joined in. Getty didn't even bother to roll up the rugs, which happen to be priceless examples of the ancient art of Persian weavers. PGE Purchases Wells Power PORTLAND iLPIi - Portland General Electric Co. has signed a 50-year contract to buy 202.000, kilowatts of electricity per year from the proposed Wells Dam on the Columbia River, the company announced Friday. The contract was signed with the Douglas County Public Utility District of Wa.-.hington. It calls (or the company to pay the PUD $3 million per year. The dam has been proposed for completion in I9S8. It would be capable of gen erating 568,000 kilowalU annually Weather Nidi Sunday Low latl aiM High yaar aga Low ytar ago H MU 14 rtart Low Mil 14 yoarl Prtci. Bast 24 hewn Sioco Jan. I lama ponod last yor nwi ii (mil 1.47 ii MP J Mfrafni ... JTI&J ? nm,,-, f 1 E-ifefc.iiC,J fM r. -' ? jR f"' , j !Jl iAI -aiMaB.w i i FIRE GUTS ROOMING HOUSE Kramath Falls firemen stand outside a rooming house that was gutted by fire which started sometime before 3:30 a.m. Sunday. The building was owned by Mrs. Leona Boyles, who discovered the fire when she returned from a dance. Two elderly roomers who were sleeping upstairs got out of the building safely. One of the men was found near collapse on the staircase by a fireman. Fire Chief Geno Gheller said it was the worst house fire in the city in years. Republican Budget - Claim Block On Spend Bills WASHINGTON (UPH-Republi can budget-cutters today claimed their economy drive has resulted in blocking, at least temporarily. four new frontier bills which would cost more than $2 billion Another result of Republican ef forts is that Congress begins its 12th work week without a single piece of major business ready for a floor vote. Rep. Gerald Ford, R-Mich., said Republicans, in economy battles so far, had: -Forced temporary withdrawal of the administration bill to avoid a scheduled $3 billion drop in the. legal debt limit. Blocked for the time being! rules committee clearance of a $237 million aid bill for medical and dental schools and their stu dents. Delayed a vote on a $1 billion youth employment bill. Forced a rewrite of the mill tary pay raise bill that is expect ed to cut the cost of new bene-l fits. Other congressional news: Foreign Aid: Gen. Lucius D. Clay will be called to testify on his special loreign aid review com mittee's proposal for a $1.5 billion cut in the foreign aid program this year. Clay reported to the Howe Gets Fiscal Post Rep. Carrol Howe has been named to the legislative Fiscal Committee, a continuina erouo which will have the task of keep- ng an eye on the financial oper ations of the state. Rep. Cornelius Bateson of Sa lem was selected chairman of the interim group. .Also included in the group were representatives hatherine Musa, The Dalles: Clarence Barton, Co quille: Richard Eymann, Marco- ia; William J. Gallagher. Port land, and John Mosscr, Washing ton County. senators on tne committee in clude Walter Lelh, Salem, vice chairman: Ben Musa, The Dalles: Alfred Corbctt, Portland; Andrew J. Naterlin. Newport: John Hare. Hillsboro, and Boyd Ovcrhulse, Madras. In the past, the committee checked on the governor's recom mendations for budgets in such fields as welfare, education, pub lic employes retirement and state investment policv. Aide Blames Press For News Management WASHINGTON 'UPI' - A top administration information officer charged today that "some of the press" has raised a "great fog bank of cliches" which obscures the real issue in the dispute over alleged government "news man agement." Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs Robert Manning said the basic problem was the "built-m conflict" between the government's necessity to conduct some business in private and the public's "right and need" to know what is behind policy decisions. In testimony prepared for the Hou.se Government Information subcommittee. Manning flatly re jected the idea that a govern fft Price Ten Cents 14 Pages President his committee thought the United States was trying to do "too much for too many' through foreign aid. Women: Mrs. Caroline Davis, United Auto Workers women's di rector, told Congress it is the fed eral government's job to insure that women get equal pay on the Red-Haired Model Found MADRID UP1 A red-haired London model,' whose disappear-1 ance stirred a political storm Britain, spent Sunday night in a Madrid police station "to escape from reporters" and then turned up today in an apartment filled with British newsmen. The downtown apartment was Christine heeler s latest way-sta tion in her hide-and-seek chase with the press. Miss Kcclcr, 21, left Britain two weeks ago shortly before she was to testify in the trial of her for mer boy friend, a West Indian Last week. War Minister John Profumo, faced with mounting ru mors, told the House of Commons he knew iMiss Kcelcr, but had nothing to do with her disappear ance. She was first discovered in Ma drid Sunday night in the apart ment of an American realtor. Dick Zeidman. Then she vanished again. A British Embassy spokesman said Miss Kceler "gave herself up to Spanish Police. The spokes man said he did not know why sne went to tne police, as no charges are known to be outstand ing against her either here or in England. Spanish official sources said later that Miss Keelcr went to a police station in downtown Madrid after leaving Zcidman's apart ment Sunday night. 'She" said she was penniless and tired and asked to speak to the police chief," the sources said. "She said she wanted to es cape from the chase of reporters." Miss Keelcr was traced later in the day to an apartment owned by a British correspondent here A team of reporters was in the apartment and refused to let oth er newsmen in. But Miss heeler appeared on a balcony outside the Hat and was clearly identified by persons who knew her. ment official might be justified in moments of crisis in lying to the press. He said that if the ollicial couldn't tell the truth, he should "button his lip." . Defend News Policy Manning and Assistant Defense Secretary lor Public Aflairs Ar thur Sylvester were called before tlie subcommittee, headed by Rep. John E. Moss, D-Calif , to defend the administration's news policy. Both have been under lire for alleged restrictions on the flow ef news from their departments dur ing and after the Cuban missile crisis, but Sylvester has drawn most of the criticism. U.Or 0RE.LI83AST MEISPAPER StCTIOM SM-REfoAND DOCUMENTS DIY. Cutters job. In testimony prepared for de livery before a education and la bor subcommittee she said "hurl dreds of thousands of women are still receiving less pay . . . than the man doing the same job." TKX: Sen. Jacob Javits, R-N.Y. said the judgment of Defense Sec retary Robert S. McNamara should not be questioned during the Senate's investigation of the TFX fighter plane contract award, Javits, a new member of the in vesligations panel, said the issue "whether in our government: the military or the civilian de cision is paramount." Aid: Sen. George S. McGovern D-S.D., has recommended . the United States consider withdraw ing military and security commit ments in Western Europe. "The defense of Europe is first and fore most a European responsibility,' he suid. Now that Europe is stronger, the defense burden should be shifted to them, lie said Ike's Son To Resign WASHINGTON (UPI)-Lt. Col John S. D. Eisenhower, 40, son of the former president, has submit-. ted his resignation from the Army alter 19 years of military service An Army spokesman said today the resignation was submitted last week at Carlisle Barracks, Pa., where Eisenhower had been ex pected to begin studies next Au gust at the Army War College. Eisenhower has been on extend ed leave from the Army since April, 1961, to assist his father in the compilation of his official pa pers. The spokesman said in response to inquiries that Eisenhower will receive no separation pay or pen sion rights. The minimum period of service to qualify for a mili tary pension is 20 years. Eisenhower, born Aug. 3, 1922 in Denver, graduated from the Military Academy at West oinl in 1944. He served as a secretary to the general staff of supreme head quarters when his father com manded the D-Dav invasion of Europe in World War II. Later he was lirst operations chief and then chief of intelligence for the 3rd Infantry Division in Korea Manning said that "the obliga tion of a government official is to tell the truth or, if security dictates, to button his lip." He said he knew of no one "inside or our outside government who disputes this." "I suppose many might accept the slogan: 'Better misled than dead' a slogan which does not represent State Department pol icy or mine, and which I fondly hope will not lie jerked out of context," he declared. He added that in his view "falsehood is un necessary." Built-in Conflict Manning said the "dilemma" which sparked the news manage- COUP. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, Rookie Fireman Saves Roomer Typhoid Haunts GENEVA lUPD - The tinkling! of sleigh bells does nothing to still the fear in the ski resort of Zermalt, now haunted by the threat of spreading typhoid fever. Even the bells themselves arc heard less often. Fewer and fewer people appear on the streets each day. This is giving the village, with its smart hotels, decorated shops and fes tive eating houses, something of the air of a deserted Hollywood movie set. Very few guests range the echo ing corridors of large hotels which are operating with absolute-minimum staffs. The dining rooms are almost empty and guests beds go unmade until late evening. Only at night does the village come alive, when the few un daunted skiers dance and drink. This appears to be a forced gaiety, as the faces reading the skimpy medical bulletins become more serious each morning. Several shops have closed "for reasons beyond our control." At first many tourists particu larly the young did not under stand the seriousness of the situ SP Railroad, Clerks Settle Final Issues SAN FRANCISCO lUPD-South- crn Pacilic Railroad and the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks have ended their five-year dispute over automation with binding agreement on final issues. A three-man arbitration board announced the settlement Satur day after three days of public hearings. The board included h.K Schomp of SP, Lester P. Schoene of the Brotherhood, and Stanford Law Professor J. Keith Mann, a neutral appointed by President Kennedy. Four key issues in the settle ment included: Positions abolished during an emergency will be re-established and filled within 30 days of the end of the emergency. Agreement on job security provisions. Establishment of w a 1 1 i n gi time" compensation and per diem allowances for out-of-town work. Job retraining opportunities without reduction in pay or se niority. The settlement concluded a dis pute which had threatened to tic Police Hunt Missing Coed CORVALLIS (UPI) - Police to day were extending their search (or an Oregon State University coed who disappeared Thursday night. Edna Pemberton, 21, foster daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Kraft, Corvallis, was last seen when she left home for a Cor vallis theater. She was driving a 1950 tan i Chrysler I coupe. Her father said she was dis appointed that she was unable to begin practice leaching today. She also faced the possibility of having to postpone her wedding this summer, he said. She is en gaged to David Rcggiani, Oak land, Calif., an OSU graduate now attending Navy officer candidate school at Newport, R. I. ment dispute "might be more bluntly described as a built-in conflict between the easier way of conducting certain important governmental business or deli cate diplomatic negotiations in privacy, and the right and need of the democratic public to know the lacts and policies on which the national business is being conducted." "Such a paradox exists, and it lies at tlie center of the ques tions before this committee to day," he added. Manning said it was difficult to offer "specific guidelines" to gov. ern handling information "in pe riod of high crisia" but "certain MONDAY. MARCH 25. 19ti3 Threat Resort ation because of the lack of re strictions on people coming into the village, which is cut off from the world by towering mountains except for one small railroad. Local authorities appeared not to understand either, apparently confusing early typhoid fever cases with victims of an influenza epidemic also raging at the time. Many foreign visitors told this correspondent they believed the authorities tried to obscure the situation to lull tourists into a sense of false security thus cut ting the already severe financial loss to the hotel industry from which Zermatt earns its living. Local authorities indignantly deny this charge. They say they took all precautions as soon as it became necessary. The local medical association charged Sunday night, however. that "insufficient and inadequate action by authorities aggravated the typhoid-fever outbreak, which has caused 2 deaths and sent more than 100 persons in the United States and Europe to bed. Zermatl's doctors demanded an investigation by the Swiss Medi cal Association. up the nation's second largest railroad and its 50.000 employes in Oregon, California, Nevada Utah, Arizona. New Mexico and western Texas. The, 11,000-menibcr union a it A the railroad settled most of the issues in the agreement .March 16 and agreed to submit the oth ers to binding arbitration at the suggestion of Kennedy. France Faces Labor Strife PARIS (UPI i - President Charles de Gaulle, his hopes of European economic leadership plagued Dy growing labor unrest, faced the threat today of a pos sible nationwide strike by Fran ce's 2-million-man nationalized la. bor force. The stage was set Sunday when union leaders of 200.000 striking coal miners rebuffed a govern ment offer that would boost sal arics 8 per cent over a 6-mnnlh period. No new negotiations were sched uled. Hundreds of strikers turned out in sub-freezing weather today to reinlorce picket lines in the min ing towns of northern France They defied government efforts to get the mines running again. Railway, utility, postal and air line workers also are pressing wage demands and threatening to extend nuisance walkouts. Some observers say a general strike may be in the offing unless the government switches tactics The nationalized workers are an gry about De Gaulle's efforts to keep production costs down by keeping wages in nationalized in dustries below the average of pri vate industry. The government claims its ac tion is necessary to forestall in flation and keep prices level. set principles" must be applied with "flexibility" in each case He said: "Foreign policy in the United States must be evolved by open public discussion of proposed pol icies, of the objectives of those policies and in most cases of the means to he used to attain those policies. . ." "Once a policy has been pub licly enunciated, those responsible for carrying out that policy may require certain interludes of pri vary in which to get tlie job done. . .' "Truth is an essential. Quite aside from the issue of morality, falsehood is unnecessary. . ." Telephone I ,r. ", ' H. PARK ARNOLD Park Arnold To Address Youth Event Guest speaker (or the annual Kiwanis Youth Awards Banquet, Wednesday, April 3, is a former president of Kiwanis International and outstanding figure, II. Park Arnold, Glendale, Calif. The annual banquet, honoring a boy and a girl from each of the It high schools of the Basin area will be held at the Winema Hotel it 7 p.m. Arnold is a veteran of 39 years in Kiwanis. During that time, he lias served as the president of the Kiwanis Club of Glendale, lieu tenant governor and governor of the Culifornia-Ncvada-Hawaii Dis trict of Kiwanis International and on numerous district committees. On the trail to the presidency of Kiwanis International, he served a one-year term as treas urer and two two-year terms as a trustee of the international or ganization. Arnold is a retail lumber deal er' and precision marchinc parts president of Hie Southern Califor nia Lumber Association, a mem ber of tlie Advisory Council of Hie Salvation Army for Glcndule and the stale of California, and is, chairman of the Executive Com mittee for the Buy Scouts of America. The title of Arnold's talk will he "What Are You Doing Willi My World?" He will also present all-around Imy and girl medals to a boy and girl from each of the 11 Basin high schools. Also scheduled on the program will be vocal numbers by Wini fred Favcll from the hospital ben efit musical "Eliza and the Lumberjack," the installation of KUIIS Key Club and OTI Circle K Club officers (both Kiwanis sxnsorcd organizations , and Le gion of Honor presentations to 23, 33, and 40-ycar members of the Klamath Falls Kiwanis Club Meet To Mull Split Schedule The issue of split and extended academic schedules at Klamath Union High School will be a topic ol discussion following a Parents and Patrons mecling at the KU cafeteria tonight. I'hc meeting will get under way immediately following the Par ents and Patrons session. All per sons interested in hearing a dis cussion of (lie split schedule issue are invited In attend. h" n .4' it KING TO VISIT Kinq Hunan II of Morocco hurries past honor guard at Casablanca before boardinq the liner USS Comtitution for an official visit to tho United States. The 33-vear-old kinq it scheduled to meet with President Kennedy on Thursday. - UPI Talephoto , TU 4-8111 No. 7097 Three Klamath Falls young rookie fireman, Don Crownover, 24, saved an elderly roomer's life in what Fire Chief Geno Gheller called one of the worst house fires in the city in years. Trie home of Mrs. Leona Boyles, 220 South Fourth Street, was gutted by flames that apparently started near a wood pile in the cellar before 3:30 a.m. Sunday. Mrs. Boyles and a companion discovered smoke pouring from the house when they returned from a dance at the Ragles Hall at about 3:20 a.m. Two elderly roomers who were sleeping upstairs at the time got out of the house safely when city firemen arrived a short time after. The men, Frank Charles, employe, and Jim Stafford, halation at Klamath Valley Injured firemen were Jim Brown, cut hand; Bill Campbell, pulled leg liga ments, and Kenneth Free, a sprained wrist and eye in jury. They were also treat ed and released at Klamath Valley. When Mrs. Boyles got home and discovered the smoke she ran into the house to call the fire de partment, but the phone wouldn't work and the dense smoke drove her out. Her companion. Mrs. Lena Orcwilcr, 233 Homedale Road, drove to the police sta tion, a block away, and blew the car's horn until the desk ser geant 'came out. Crownover was with the first fire truck to arrive at Die scene. When they drove up people out side the building were hollering. There arc two men in there. there are two men in there. Several firemen rushed into the building, but were repelled by the inky black smuko. Crownover came out and put on an air mask and rushed back into the house. He said his flash light was almost useless, pene trating just a few feet ahead Inching his way forward Crown over started up the slaircasel and found Charles on the first landing motionless, clutching the banister and gasping for breath. The fireman guided Charles to safety. Crownover said later he! didn't know how Charles made it Ihat far, "you just couldn't breathe in that smoke." The rookie fireman dashed back into the house to search for the second man he thought was up- lairs. Stafford, the other roomer, had already made it down to the street, however, unknown to Crownover. When Ihc fireman go" to Ihcl second floor he gftped around feeling with his hands on the beds and floor for the mun he thought was there. Then Crownover's light failed and he lost his direction. He couldn't find his way back to the staircase. Finally he found a win dow and jumped four or five! feet down on a roof, Shortly after Crownover got nut of the building, tlie fire that had been raging between dou ble walls surged through with an explosion that rocked the build ing and sent a table radio crash ing out a window past the heads of two firemen and almost against the wholesale warehouse 50 feet away. Two other firemen escaped in jury when the first floor collapsed under their feet dropping them down lo their shoulders. Firemen had the blaze under control in 2'i hours and Chief I Weather Klamath Falls, Tulelake lid Lakeview Variable cloudiness through Tuesday, Gusty southerly winds US m.p.h. Little change In temperatures. Low tonight 22. High Tuesday near SO. firemen were injured and a 68, a retired Weyerhaeuser were treated for smoke in Hospital and released. Gheller, utilizing all his men, shifted crews to give the first men on the scene a break. The men did a good job on a hard fire, the chief said. "The double walls and roof made it difficult to fight," he added. Firemen had to tear at the walls and roof with their axes to get to the hidden flames once the ini- ial blaze was quelled. They weren't able to leave the scene until 7 a.m., at least an hour aft er the fire was under control. Seven Die In Weekend Accidents By United Press International Seven persons lost their lives in Oregon traffic accidents during the weekend. Out-of - state acci dents killed a Portland man and a University of Oregon student. Willis Waters, 68, Fort Jones, Calif., was killed in a three - car collision on U.S. Highway 99 half a mile south of Ashland Sunday aft ernoon. Mrs. Thelma Wclker, 46. and iJcrry Hobbf, 19, both of Gresh am, died in separate one-car ac cidents in Multnomah County Sun- day morning. Mrs. Joan Atkins, 28, Burns, was killed when a car in which she was riding collided with an other car on U.S. Highway 20 at Hlncs Saturday night. Mrs. Annie Mesorvc, 53, Port land, was killed in a two - car crash in Portland Saturday after noon. Theodore Stringficld, 3, Princ- ville, was killed early Saturday when his loaded lumber truck plunged off U. S. Highway 26 and overturned 15 miles cast of Prine- ville. Richard Butlcrwoith, 23, Al bany, died Saturday from injuries suffered in a three-car accident at Albany Friday night. In addition, a University of Ore gon student was killed and two others critically injured when their car collided head-on with a dicscl truck and trailer on U. S. Highway 99 one mile south of Or land, Calif., Sunday. Killed was John Lcc, 20, Bur- lingame, Calif. Mark Smith, 21, Los Altos, Calif., and Rowcna Po lak, 20, San Rafael, Calif., were critically injured. They were en roulo to the Eugcno school from their homes for the resumption of classes after spring vacation. Lcroy Rundberg, 36, Portland, was killed early Sunday when his car overturned on a city street at Spokane. i-
