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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (March 27, 1963)
1m The- Day's km By FRANK JENKINS From Washington: Secretary of Defense Robert S McNamara has told senators he believes ONLY HARM can come from their stormy investigation of the TFX warplane contract award. He added: 'There is a lot of harm that will accrue from this investiga tion. 1 can not see ANY good that will accrue from it." If you are an average, every day citizen, not too familiar with the technicalities of politics and legislation, you may wonder what this TFX business is all about Let's see if we can offer a little clarification. TFX is one of those fancy al phabet terms that Washington is so fond of. It means TACTICAL FIGHTER, EXPERIMENTAL. This TFX is a fighter plane so designed as to be usable by ALL the branches of our armed serv ices. The idea back of it is that such a plane would save an immense amount of money and if properly designed and built would be just as effective as SPECIAL planes built or each service. It's obviously a good idea if such a plane can be produced. So Proposals to design and build such a plane were invited. Two proposals were received. One was from the General Dynamic Corp., of Fort Worth, Texas. The other was from the Boeing Co., of Seattle. . After an exhaustive investiga tion, the job was awarded to the General Dynamics Corp. That's where the ruckus start ed. It is a $6.5 BILLION job. That's a lot of money. It . represents an IMMENSE indus trial development. The General Dynamics Corp. plant at which the planes will be built is located at Fort Worth, Texas. The Boeing Co. has plants at Seattle and at Wichita, Kan sas. Boeing had announced that if it won the contract it would build the planes at its Wichita plant. Presumably, its Seattle plant would have benefited ma teriallyby the making of parts, and otherwise. Naturally, Texas was acutely interested in getting an industrial development of such magnitude. So ... in the accepted Ameri can manner ... it called on its delegations in Washington to give their utmost to get the $6.5 billion job for their state. Both Washington and Kansas were equally interested in getting the job for their states. So the Washington and Kansas delega tions in congress came into the battle in a big way. H was an epochal fight. Defense Secretary McNamara was the umpire. He ruled for Texas and the General Dynamics Corp. As every baseball fan knows, the umpire has a tough job. . Secretary McNamara had a tough job. He is quoted as hav ing said to the chairman of the senate sub-committee that held the final hearing and made the final decision: "Last night when I got home at midnight, after preparing for today's hearing, my wife told me that my own 12-year-old son had asked her how long it would take for his father to prove his hon esty." So there's the story of this TFX ruckus that has been filling the papers and clogging the air waves for all these weeks. It's quite a story, isn't it? Job Riots Seen Threat LONDON i LTD The fester ing unemployment problem, which set off a riot at the houses of Parliament, loomed today as a major threat to Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's government. The riot by an estimated 5.000 unemployed Tuesday brought new demands from the opposition Labor party that Macmillan take firm action to case the problem. The Times of London called the storming of the government build ings "the wildest, most deter mined demonstration" outside Parliament since World War II. The Daily Mail said it was the "biggest threat to Parliament" since the anti-Catholic rjots in 1780. Nine men were arrested and more than a score were injured alter squads of 500 policemen broke up the riot and forced the demonstrators back out through St. Stephen's Gate, the main en trance to the houses of Parlia ment. The trouble underlined one of Macmillan's major problems in a long list of issues that has had his (tovernment reeling for the past five months. Weather High vtltfrday Low Jan Rtghl HiQh'vtir .90 Low voir ajo Nifli oatr H vtart Low past 14 yar Procip. patl 14 iMurt Sine. Jan. 1 Sam. parted last yaar NEW WAYS, NEW IDEAS klinq of men were present and Food Fair at the Klamath County Fairgrounds, sponsored by the Herald and News. Spectators saw Helena Kralowec, demonstrator for the Oregon Beef Council and the Klamath County Cow Belles, prepare numerous beef recipes. Door prizes Police Halt Vote March By Negroes GREENWOOD, Miss (UPI)-An estimated 100 Negroes were scat tered today by police and a po lice dog as they marched on the Leflore County Courthouse to reg ister to vote. One man was arrested by po lice for refusing to move on. Police said they dispersed the crowd because it was "blocking trallic and the sidewalks of this north Mississippi town which has been the scene of racial violence in the past several weeks. Two shotgun blasts were fired Tuesday night into the home of the father of Negro Dewey Greene Jr., who recently was de nied admission to the University of Mississippi. No one was injured by the blasts which shattered glass- in a front door and window at the home of Dewey Greene Sr. An intensive Negro voter regis tration campaign has been under way in the Greenwood area since a Negro registration worker was wounded last Feb. 28 by a blast fired from a moving car. Today, the large group of Ne groes appeared at the Greenwood City Hall and were ordered to disperse by Mayor Charles E. Sampson. The group left and started a six-block march to the courthouse. Police met the group before it reached the courthouse and dis persed the crowd with the help of a police dog. Sea Raiders Sink Ship NEW YORK IUPD- Informed Cuban exile sources said today they had reports sea raiders at tacked and sank a Russian freighter loading sugar in Cai- barien port on Cuba's northern coast. Caibarien is in Las Villas Prov ince and adjoins the port of Isa bel a de Sagua where exile attack craft shelled a Soviet freighter March 18. Soviet Russia formally protested that attack today in note to the State Department. According to exile information. a torpedo-type motorboat operated by remote control was used to sink the freighter at its berth in Caibaricn. Its identity was not immediately disclosed. Revisers SALEM ( UPI i The House and Senate Committees on Consti tutional Revision concluded testi mony Tuesday on four legislative reapportionment plans. The committees are seeking to work out an apportionment planjlne prcsenl p,an wjlh ne IUI a HIT! BIOIC IU1I3MIUUVU Oregon's present plan provides for handing out legislative seats on a basis of population. Districts take in one or more counties. Each district gets one senator for each 1-30 ol the state s population and a representative for each be wider. ;1-M. or for a major fraction. Two other plans would move ! In practice, this Is not always 'even closer to the "one man, one workable since sizes of theivote" principle than Oregon Is ! houses are fixed at 30 and 60; now. oea.Rzr.AN9 wjcumekts div 4 mttmuwAWtW Price Ten Cent 18 Page hXA-MATH FALLS. OREGON. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 27, 19M , ) i i f il irti I : n3v.' KSv Vi-f ) jth WITH FOODS An estimated 400 women Tuesday for the openinq day Cooking School Studies Uses Klamath Basin homemakers were present Tuesday at the third annual Cooking School and Food Fair sponsored by the Herald and News to observe new ways of preparing old stancjby cuts of beef. Helene Kralowec, demonstrator for the Oregon Beef Council and the Klamath County Cow Belles, prepared attractive and tasty main courses, using new ideas. Mrs. Kralowec was making her second visit to Klamath Falls. Last year she demonstrated the use of chicken in menus for the Oregon Fryer Commission. She was assisted by Bev Lyons (Polly Pacific), home economist for Pacific Power and Light Com pany. The Wednesday afternoon dem onstrations were by Mrs. Carolyn G. Sullivan .who demonstrated the uses and preparation of sea foods. Mrs. Sullivan is ''.regional home economist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Bureau of Com mercial Fisheries. On Thursday afternoon Mrs. Lyons will demonstrate a "Pot pourri of Good Ideas." Doors of the exhibit building Wind Gusts Hit Ashland ASHLAND (UPI) - Southerly1 winds with gusts up to 55 miles an hour struck the Ashland area today as a storm front moved in from the Pacific. Limbs were reported blowing off trees, but there were no other immediate damage reports. Local officials said the 55 mph winds compared with those of 65 miles per hour which struck here during the Columbus Day storm. However, at 10:30 a.m. winds of 15 mph were reported at Med- ford, just north of Ashland. The weather bureau issued a revised forecast for the Ashland Grants Pass . Medford area at 10:30 a.m. calling (or southerly winds with gusts reaching 50-55 mph in a few places. Telephone Rate Hikes Stalled SALEM (UPI) Revised rate schedules filed by the Oregon- Washington Telephone Co. were suspended Tuesday by the public utility commissioner. Commissioner Jonel C. Hill or dered tlie firm to show at a pub lic hearing that the revisions are "just and reasonable." Eye Four members. It cannot, however, vary more than 3-1. Flexibility Eyed The latest proposal, and the one Ihe committees seem likeliest to adopt, is tlie Hansell plan. It ! would retain the basic features of exception: Sizes of the houses would be flexible. Rep. Staflord Hansell. R-Her-miston, said his plan, like the pres ent one, couki not vary by more than 3-1 in relative voter strength. but others said the variance could U.OF 0!lt.LI3nf.at COUP. HilSPAPER SECTION ISO. of the three-day Cook Schoo are open at 12. The demonstra tion will begin at 1 p.m. Draw ing fpr numerous attractive gifts will follow the demonstration. Visitors to Tuesday's cooking school who drew prizes included Martha Wang, Jennie Fiegi, Mrs. Swiss Typhoid Fever Claims Foreign Victim ZERMATT, Switzerland (UPI)1 The typhoid fever epidemic that broke out in this Alpine resort claimed its first foreign victim today. Frederick Smith, 25, died in a suburban London hospital a month ,, .. , , it-1 after his return from Zermatt. He' .h .hir faiam nmnnr il,n I ,..i Jm Droi,.i i. Zermatt women died. The epidemic has made a vir tual ghost town of Zermatt and individual travelers have carried the disease to many other West ern European countries and to the United states. Two such cases were reported in St. Moritz, the ski resort in the Engadine Mountains in the eastern part of Switzerland. A third case is under study to see if it is typhoid and a fourth case was proved to be another disease, St. Moritz Health Officer Dr. Ru dolf von Plants said. Two more suspected cases were admitted today to the temporary hospital set up in Zermatt's school bringing the number there to 43. An army spokesman predicted about "half a dozen'; others would be brought in during the day. More than 100 persons have been hospitalized here hut most have Living Costs Jump WASHINGTON (UPI) - Living costs tied an all-time high in Feb ruary as prices (or citrus fruits and fresh vegetables continued to climb, the Labor Department re ported today. The department said the price index rose by one-tenth of 1 per cent last month. That put it at 106.1, a figure reached only one time previously. That was last September. The department's Bureau of La bor Statistics said higher prices for apparel also contributed to the increase in living costs. The index was 1.2 per cent above a year ago. Food prices rose by Ihrce tenlhi Reapportion Plans The plan proposed by the Con - stitutional Revision Commission would do away with the necessity of drawing all districts along county boundary lines, making it easier to shape districts so that there would be the same number of voters per legislator It would permit a variance in voler strenglh no greater than 2-1. The Bi-Partisan League to Re lain Equal Representation would go even further, tightening up the criteria for districts so that one voter's strenglh could not ex ceed another's by more than 1-10. Other Highlights Pollution: A tougher pollution control measure was en route to the House after getting a 25-4 ap J and a sprin- I went to a number of the visitors, from Pacific Power and Liaht Comnanv jinrl nrl went to a number of the visitors, from Pacific Power and business firms. The free cooking school, in the exhibit buildinq, will continue through Thursday. Left is Bev Lyons (Polly Pacific), home economist for PPSL, and Mrs. Kralowec, center. Right are interested guests. Dick Owens, Mrs. E. Dunham, Barbara Colwell, Harriet Estcs, Mrs. Don Ambers, Mrs. J. Atkin son. Mrs. Isabel Doyle, Viola Swift, Ruby A. Hanson, L y 1 e Johnson, Mrs. Annis Fitzgerald, Bess Fraser, Lucille O'Brien, Mrs been moved to other hospitals. The few remaining tourists con tinued descending to the valley below by the tiny track railway which is Zermatt's only commu nic'ation 'with the outside world. . The town's largest night club, which can hold 600, had only 31 ., . , . ', '.. lollrlsls cha-chaing to an Italian uand Tuesday night. i lib jn tcio mic living I tlfc iu the 125 Swiss army medical corps men who are disinfecting, taking blood samples, and searching for possible sources of the disease. Four Italians who had vaca tioned in Zermatt were being treated for typhoid fever in Mi lan, Italy, health authorities re ported. None of the cases was considered serious. The spread of the disease to St. Moritz, another of Switzerland's famous ski resorts, threatened even more damage to the Swiss tourist industry, already expected to lose approximately $5 million as a result of the closing down of Zermatt at the height of the season. Health authorities in St. Moritz said the outbreak apjieared to be isolated, but warned all visitors they would not be admitted to ho tels unless they signed a declara tion they had not been in Zermatt. of 1 per ccnl in February, largely because of the higher fruit and vegetable prices. Prices of oranges and orange juice concentrates ad vamed sharply. Prices of most vegetables, es pecially lettuce and cabbage, in creased substantially in the wake of freezing weather in the produc ing areas during December and January. But banana prices dropped as supplies returned to normal fol lowing the end of the East and Gulf Coast dockworkers' strike. Prices of green beans also fell as Ihe Florida crop was supplement ed by shipments from Mexico. lproval by Ihe Senale Tuesday, Vets Loans: The Senate Mili- iary Affairs Committee approved a bill to expand eligibility for loans to all veterans residing in Oregon. National fiuard: A measure In permit appointment of a second assistant adjutant general for the stale s Military Department was approved by the Senale Military Affairs Committee. O.MSli A bill designed to "phase out" stale aid fur the Oregon Mu seum of Science and Industry passed tlie Senate and went to Ihe governor. It provides 120.000 for the first year of (lie 1063-65 bicnnium and $15,000 the second year. Of Beef William Cunningham, Mrs. V. Hutchins. Mrs. William Tubach, Peter Richter, Mrs. Vesta Slilcs, Mrs. Freda Stone. Mrs. F. Nider, Mrs. Bob Ewing, Mrs. Don Echer, Rae Tawler, Mrs. R. Aschcnbach, Arlene Yea- kel, Connie Strroop, Mrs. Ray Ew- ing, Norma Murphy, Faye Ford, Jo Ann Schultz, Hilma Salisbury, Mrs. G. H. Hill, all of Klamath Falls; Mrs. Hazel Drazil, Malin, ind Mrs. Dan Berry, Merrill. Business firms donating prizes included PP&L, Market Basket, Tulelake Horseradish Association, Paylcss, Cascade Home Furnish ings, J. W. Kerns, Klamath Falls Creamery, Nybaek's Flower Fair, Hapco, Klamath County Cow Belles, Big Y Market, Ore gon Food Stores, William's Mar ket, Coca Cola Bottling Company. The KUHS Home Economics girls who assisted Tuesday were Dixie Hooker, Kay Wonsen, Bon nie Dickey, Brenda Thompson, Sharon Biggs, Pam Ferrcll. Frances Stewart, home eco nomics teacher, was also present, Wealthy King Reported III NICE. France (UPI) - King Saud of Saudi Arabia, whose an nual income is estimated at $.'100 million, today was reported "se riously ill" from a variety of ail ments. Reliable sources reported there is no immediale fear for the 61- year-old monarch's life, but they said his troubles are complicated by a disinclination to follow doc tors' advice. A dozen physicians were ready to rush to his side if necessary to treat the effects of ailments saio ui include a weak heart, a bad liver, a blood condition and asthma. An oxygen tent was rushed to the monarch's closely guarded holel suite last nighl. The sources said many of the 170 persons in Saud's entourage were seen crying and kneeling to pray in the corridors of the hotel where he has reserved an entire fkior and part of another. A spokesman for the royal household said oxygen was brought in be cause of the King's asthma. U.S. Notes 'Disappear' WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Federal Reserve Board announced today that it is investigating the "unexplained disappearance" of $7.5 million in treasury certifi cates from the San Francisco Fed eral Reserve Bank. A spokesman said it appeared they may have been "accidentally destroyed." The spokesman said the certifi cates, which actually are short ' 'rm R"vcrnmcnl IOUs - were first discovered missing last Aug ust. He said the board, the Treas ury Department and the Secret Service had been investigating since then. He said none of Ihe cerlilicales, which are completely negotiable have been cashed. "It's an unexplained disappear ance and the conclusion is that they have been accidentally de slroyed," the spokesman said. Telephone Liqht Company and 'Fast Action Douses Fire At Hospital Quick actum by the citv fire department and staff members at the Hillside Hospital averted a possible tragedy at the hospital today, March 27, when a fire sprang up in an empty room on the second floor. Firemen arrived at the hospital shortly before 9 a.m. minutes alter Hie call and had the fire quickly under control. Nurses were throw ing water on the blaze and a doc tor was using a fire extinguish er when firemen arrived. The fire started in an unused smnll room behind the autoclave room lined for sterilizing instru ments. Two nurses, Mrs. Pat Fen imore and Mrs. Emma L. Kinney, who were working at t h e auto clave discovered the smoke and alerted other hospital personnel. Fire Chief Genn Gheller said there was no electrical wiring in the room and no other sources of possible heat. He said the fire will be invesligaled by the stale arson squad which will be in Klamath Falls today to investigate another fire that started in a closet in a room at the Willard Holel Annex late Sunday nighl. At the hospital, firemen dis covered several burned milk con tainers which had apparently been stuffed under the lloor and boards piled on top of them. A bottle containing turpentine was also found in an adjoining room. Mrs. Phyllis Robustelli, hospital supervisor, said there were about 42 patients being cared for at the hospital. Sen. Yturri Hospitalized PORTION!) (UPh-Slale Sen. Anthony Yturri, R Ontario, re mained irt good condition at the University of Oregon Medical School Hospital here today. He entered tlie hospital Sunday. A hospital siMikesman said tests were not completed. The spokes man added that no serious prob lems in the case had developed. HIS I LAMATH iriERAL MINERAL DISPLAY Members of the Klamath Mineral Club currently have a dis play of Montana and Copco agates in the window of the . National Bank. The display will remain there through Friday, March 29. Harvey Hayden, president of the -group, indicated another display will be let up for sometime in April. This view shows the agates in their natural as well as finished settings. Til 4-8111 No. TOM ieds Proles Exiles' Bi Cuban Pm MOSCOW (UPD The Soviet; Union today lodged a formal pro-; lost with the United States against Ihe "piratical attack" by Cuban exiles on a Russian ship at a Cuban port last week. The official Soviet Tass news agency said tlie note charged the ittack look place March 17 against the Soviet ship Lgov at the Cuban port of lsabela de Sagua. It said that Cuban rebels, whom Ihe Communists call "counter revolutionaries," approached the ship in a launch and fired several bursts from a heavy machine gun. At the time, spokesmen for the Cuban exile group known as "Sec ond Escambray Front Alpha 66" claimed credit for the attack against the Soviet ship, but said it occurred about dawn March 18. (President Kennedy said at his news conlerence last week that such attacks could cause more harm than good.) The note forwarded to the U.S Embassy here said the govern meat of the U.S.S.R. expects "the government of the United States to take resolute measures for pre venting similar provocative actsi in future," according to Tass. The Soviet note said that with-1 out the U.S. government's "ma terial support" and the supply of American weapons and ships, "the handful of traitors" to Ihe Cuban people who have taken refuge on the territory of the United Slates could not have en gaged in provocations of this kind. Pass quoted the note as saying the United States is in fact lead ing matters to "a dangerous ag gravation" of Hie situation in the area of Ihe Caribbean and throughout the world. It said Ihe Soviet government declares that the responsibility for Five Injured In Accidents ALBANY. Ore. (llpfi Five per sons were injured Tuesday in two collisions at an intersection south of here where traffic signals were switched earlier in the clay. Ihe accidents occurred within half an hour of each other. Highway Department officials said traffic signals at Ihe inter section of Highway 34, between Lorvalhs and Lebanon, and High way (WE, were changed. Previously, cars traveling on Highway !i!!E had a blinking yel low signal warning of the inter section. Cars on the Corvallis- Lebanon highway were required to slop by a blinking red light. This was switched around Tues day because, highway officials said, of more traffic on Highway 34 than on MR. Injured seriously In Ihe first ac cident were Mrs. Sarah Uodd of Halsey and her two children, June. 5, and Robin, 6. Hurt in the second collision were Jessie Ilutlei, 21, Albany, and her sister-in-law, Kerry But ler. Salem. 1 f SPLAY REStHTED T SSSlUdsSsUssflHabsW Weather Klamath Falls, Tulelake and Lakeview Continued mostly cloudy with rain or snow through Thursday. Southerly winds 10 . 20 m.p.h. with stronger gusts, l ittle change In temperatures. Low to night 35; high Thursday near 50. Ma the actions of Cuban "counter revolutionaries," including their attack on the Soviet merchant ship, rests entirely with the gov ernment of the United States. Encouragement of these actions by the United States "is contrary to the agreement reached be tween the governments of the U.S.S.R. and the United States on the adjustment of the crisis in the area of the Caribbean," the note said. Cuban exile spokesmen in Mi ami and New York said at the time that opponents of Premier Fidel Castro shot up a Russian freighter and a nearby Soviet army camp in twin attacks. Engravers Make Peace With Papers NEW YORK (UPI l - Publish ers and striking photoengraver; came to terms early today, all hut ending a newspaper shutdown of almost three and one-half months in the nation's largest city. The presses were ready to roll, and it was virtually certain that Ihey would be turning out paers tonight. The papers had their stalls on telephone alert, and 5.7 million readers looked forward to regaining their prime source of Information. Jubilation prevailed at City Hall early today as a weary but h?p py Mayor Robert F. Wagner an nounced Ihe peace pact. One detail remained: Halifira- lion of the agreement hy the 320 members of the Pholoengravers Union. But Frank McGowan, pres ident of Pholoengravers Iical 1, scheduled a ratification meeting for 4 p.m. EST bxlny, and pre dicted his men would vole yes within an hour. Waller N. Thayer, president of the Herald Tribune, said that if this were done his publication would be on the streets tonight with the Thursday morning edi tion. The other idled morning pa persthe Times, Mirror and the News have indicated they could publish within a few hours after pickets were withdrawn. -' - KU Scheduling Ideas Desired Parents of KUHS students who have ideas or suggestions for remedying the academic sched ule problems at KUHS are. asked In send Ihem to Mrs. Ted Hyde, 1320 Pacific Terrace, Klamath Falls. - A committee of parents will meet Friday with school officials to discuss further alternative plans to a proposed split sched ule program to he instituted at the start of Ihe 1063-M school term. LUB : ik
