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Newspaper Page Textcot?, ufalLilJa'U t'.ClLOM la Tke- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS From Washington: Colonel John H. Glenn, Jr., the first American to orbit the earth, said yesterday he is absolutely convinced the United States will put a man on the moon. It will be a worth-while job of explora tion, he said, even though the specific benefits to be obtained from the trip can not be pin pointed at present. And- He added He doesn't think the job of find ing out what things are like on the moon can be done by in struments. If we are going to find out what we want to know about the moon we are going to have to LAND A MAN there. Colonel Glenn's statement was made on NBC's prize-winning, al ways interesting TV program Meet the Press. In his session with the questioning reporters, he was charming, as he always is. If you watched and listened all the way through, you probably fell in love with him all over again. He is that kind of person. One can't listen to hrm without liking and respecting him. He is a Great American and no one can fail to be proud that he is an American. If, in the years to come, we have enough Americans of the type of Colonel Glenn, we won't need to worry too much about the future of our country. Still Liking and admiring Colonel Glenn This small-time scribe can't help agreeing with Dr. Arnold Toynbec, who said in an address at Stanford University the other day: "This international race to the moon is only a kind of escapism. Having made a mess of things on earth, man is now looking toward the moon. It won't solve the world's political or social ills." He then added: "Personally, I think the moon can wait." Let's put it this way: Man's curiosity is insatiable. Man's curiosity has ALWAYS been insatiable. And-Always When man's curiosity about some problem that has been baf fling mankind for so long that .DMETIINQ HAS .T.0 BE-, DONE ABOUT IT, some man of the type of Colonel Glenn has been found to do the job. In conclusion: There IS such a problem. It is the PROBLEM OF POVERTY. Why does one man have mote than he needs when millions of other men are unable to obtain as much as they need? That problem is as old as man kind. It must be capable of solu tion. But, so far, it has never been solved. Why not? This thought occurs: Too often, throughout the centu ries, the solution of the problem of poverty has been approached by impractical dreamers or, worse, by DEMAGOGUES. Colonel Glenn is neither an im practical dreamer or" a dema gogue. He is a capable DOER, skilled and competent. If the problem of poverty is ever solved, it will be by that kind of men. Weather KUmatti Falls, Tulalaka an LiktvUw Vanaola cloudiniu tonight and Tuthday wtlh patchy fag again aarlr Tututay. Laws tonight Jut. Slightly w.i-mar Tuas oay, higlu HJ. Variabla oindi HI m.p.h. High vtttsroay 42 Low this morning 3) High ytar ago u Low yoar ago II Pracia. oast 14 hours Trata Siiko Jan. I 4. si Sams pariod last year 4.11 mm wm mw$ Weather AGRICULTURAL WEATHER. A slow warming) and drying trtnd tt Indicated with high ttmparaturat In tho 4C by Wednesday. Rainfall next flvd days should bo light and occur mostly alter Wednesday. Eigh well toil tatnoar a'urt II degree. Price Ten Cents 12 Pages KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. MONDAY. APRIL 22, J963 Trlrphone TU 4.8111 No. 7122 !:puv rM immmt, HLmmmntM-MlLJtUi -2 - ' - - ' , f SCHOOL CLERK ACCEPTS PETITION Dale Goode, right, Klamath County School District clerk, accepts a petition from Everett Metier, calling for a vote on a proposal for Klamath County school districts to be reorganized into one unified school dis trict. Metier is a member of the newly formed Single District Organization, the group that is proposing the reorganization plan. Another petition was filed with the city school clerk for the city elementary school district. According to Oregon law an election on the measure must be called within 90 days after the filing of petitions. Developers, Attorney General Clash Over Land Sales Laws SALEM (UPD 'Real estate posited to guarantee that the buy- developers and the attorney gen eral's office clashed today in a House Planning and Development Committee hearing over laws to regulate fraudulent land sales. At the same time, Atty. Gen. J Robert Y. Thornton revealed he I is "conducting an investigation" in conjunction with the state real estate commissioner of land de velopment plans. Thornton said the probe wasi started "about 15 or 20 days ago." He said he had invited "anyone with data or information or fraudulent orucslionable deal ings" to contact his olfice. Thornton refused to specify what tracts were under investiga tion. He indicated the probe was concentrated in the Eastern and Southern Oregon areas. Two members of the House committee. Reps. Bob Chappel, R- Portland, and Ken Maher, R-Port-land, visited I -a Pine tract and other areas Sunday. The clash between the real es tate industry and attorney general is over drafting of a proposed law to protect unwary buyers from being defrauded in purchase of desert lands. The real estate people agreed to "full disclosure provisions which would require complete de scriptions of the land and area to be .provided before the pur chase was completed. Thornton wants strict "buyer protection" provisions such as are included in California law. Part of this would be the re ouiremcnt for a bond to be de er was really getting what the seller claimed he was getting, and to guarantee completion of prom ised improvements such as water and sewer systems The real estate industry feels 1 ", ! V -rVjaAV 'A r: r . . " ' ' . " .t'lHr f Ay! J 5 ti f. ., , ri ' ' a' ?:' 4,'- JSV f I . . : ; t ,. ' I It ih-eawm' 'W iial '-eWX Musa Calls CD Agency Over Funds SALEM 'UPIi -, Senate Prcsi- Idcnt Ben Musa, acting as gover nor, telephoned the head of na-l tional civil defense today to de mand clarification of matching fund availability, if a three-member civil defense agency is ap Musa, governor while Gov. Mark Hatfield is at the Western Governors Conference in Arizona talked for more than 15 minutes with National CD Director S. L Pittman. Musa told newsmen later he was sending a transcript of last week s discussion' with Regional CD Director Charles Ralls to Pitt man for review. Ralls last week met with Musa and Ways and Means co-chair men Sen. Ward Cook and Rep. Ross Morgan. During that discus sion Ralls first indicated federal matching funds would not be al lowed, then later said they might be. if Oregon cut back its present 18-man CD force to the proposed three person agency. Musa said the House-approved civil delense appropriation was still sitting on his desk, and would not be forwarded to a Senate com mittee until "we get definite word on the availability of matching funds. "Then I w ill decide if we want t( expand on the House ap proved i bill," he said. "I'm not being critical of the House or the Ways and Means Committee," Musa said, "But we don't want to take action on this until we know where we stand There have been conflicting re ports from state and lederal CD officials over whether Oregon would still be eligible for federal aid under the drastically reduced civil defense organization approved last week by the House. Petitions Ask County Plan Vote 22 -Orbit Shot Readied CAPE CANAVERAL. Kin. ' UPl I Technicians today install a bell-shaped space capsule atop an Atlas rocket in preparation for the planned orbital flight of astro naut Gordon Cooper Jr. next month. It was still undetermined exact ly when Cooper would ride into space aboard the capsule he named Faith-7 on what would be the longest orbital voyage ever taken by an American 22 orbits. 21 Released By Castro; Flown Home Thornton's ideas are too restr Live and would be a burden on legitimate developers. The attorney general, represent atives of the industry, and the state real estate commissioner met for more than 10 "hours Thursday and Friday in an at tempt to hammer out an agree ment. Thornton saia loaay he would agree to excluding tracts of less than 50 lots from the rigid re quirements. Real estate spokes men did not indicate this would satisfy their objections. Committee Chairman Edward Whelan, D-Portland, called for an oUkav hearing wixlnesday'. " Demands for laws to protect the public stemmed from speculator development of vast areas of des ert land in sales made to people outside Oregon. Informed sources said today that "around May H" was still the best possibility. The launching had been set for May 7. But Project Mercury offi cials called a postponement last week when potential troubles were discovered in a set of nine gyro scopes inside the suvcry Atlas rocket. The gyros were pulled out for an intensive check. A firm rescheduling of Cooper's flight will be made within a few days, it was reported. The "mating" of the capsule to the top of the 80-foot Atlas was one of the most critical steps. The capsule, which has been here for many months undergoing checks while the flight was post poned time and again, was hauled out to launching pad No. 14 early today. Then began the delicate, tricky job of hoisting it to the top of the red gantry and then lowering it into place atop the Atlas. Sources said the basic part of the connecting should be com pleted late today. After that, it will be a matter of making the detailed connections and checking the entire assembly. The plan calls for Cooper to blast off from Cape Canaveral during the morning hours and re turn tor a landing in the Pacific Ocean on the evening of the fol lowing day. During -the trip, he will spend nearly 45 minutes over Commu nist China and Tibet. The newly formed Single Dis trict Organisation Committee Mon day petitioned live Klamath Coun ty School District and the Klam ath Falls Elementary School Dis trict to order an election to be held on a plan for a single school district county-wide. The reorganization plan would entail the absorption of Elemen tary District 1 into the county dis- U.S. Studies Troop Shift To Thailand France Eyes Monroe Idea YOUNGSTER HAS GOOD DAY This lucky young angler proudly displays his 14-inch catch from Howard Prairie Reservoir on opening weekend of trout season. This fin. family fishing spot was crowded with young boyi and girls despite the 14 inches of snow on the banks. Th. D.ad Indian Road was clear of snow and the anglers, many of whom brought camping trailers, had no trouble getting to th. lake. NEW YORK (UPD French President Charles de Gaulle aims at a "Monroe Doctrine for Eu rope, Joseph W. Gngg reported today. Grigg, chief European corres pondent of United Press Interna tional, came here from Paris for ah address at the annual break fast for UPI Regional Editors and Publishers Associations. The representatives of UPI sub scribers, meeting at the Waldorf- Astoria Hotel, also were told that "unknown years of struggle" are in prospect in South Viet Nam, where the United States has thrown in 12.000 fighting men and is spending more than $1.5 million a day. That was the report of the UPI Saigon bureau manager, Neil Sheehan. The two foreign corres pondents came to New York to report on two widely separated areas of news interest. The UPI breakfast was the opening of the annual . convention' of the Ameri can Newspaper Publishers Asso ciation. Merriman Smith, UPI White House reporter, was master ol ceremonies. . HOMESTEAD AFB, Fla. (UPH Twenty-one Americans held prisoner in Cuba flew to freedom here today and six more went to South America, apparently clear ing Fidel Castro's dungeons of American citizens. New York attorney James B. Donovan, who arranged the re lease of the Americans and flew here with them, said three Ameri cans and three Americans of Cu ban birth chose to go to South America when they were released instead of coming here. This was not immediately ex plained, and these men were not identified here. One of the 21 who arrived at this air base south of Miami was a patient, identified as Richard Allen Pecoraro, 30. He was taken off the plane first, and the others walked off the plane under their own power. None of the 21 was a resident of the Far West. Donovan, the red-faced New Yorker who has-arranged the' re lease of about 6,000 Americans, Cuban-Americans and (heir de pendents in the past year, was last off the plane. He announced before leaving Havana that he had also arranged for 1,000 more Cuban-American refugees to come to the United States this week by boat, proba bly Wednesday. Austin F. Young, Miami, an American adventurer who helped Castro In the beginning of his fight against former Dictator Ful gencio Batista, was the "long termer" of the group which ar rived at this base south of Miami. He had been in jail only six days short of four years, and originally was condemned to die for "acts! against the state in Cuba." His sentence was later commuted toi 30 years. Reds Launch Satellite; New Space Effort Near Women See The Monster LOCH NESS. Scotland (UPD- "L'p til now we have been skep tical alwut the monster, but it's there all right," Mrs. Hilda Hitch ing said of the Loch Ness monster Sunday. She claimed she and a friend, Mrs. Vera King, spotted the mon ster while driving along the lake's east shore, and stopped to watch the creature cavort about 400 yards out. She said she could see the monster's three humps clearly. "We watched the monster in the still waters of '.he. Loch for two minutes. It moved very slowly, with scarcely any wash and grad ually submerged leaving hardly a ripple on the surface, she said MOSCOW (UPH The Soviet Union today launched a new un manned earth satellite in a move observers believed may be in preparation for sending a new cosmonaut, possibly a woman, in to orbit soon. The official Soviet news agency Tass said the satellite, named Cosmos 15. carried scientific ap paratus "designed to continue re search of outer space." It said all systems on board the satellite were "functioning normally." Speculation has been widespread here that another manned space shot was imminent, possibly by a woman, but there has been no of- , ficial confirmation. Western observers speculated that the Tiext Soviet space project might rocket a man and a worn an into space together, or might involve the link-up of two separate capsules in orbit. , Informed sources said they did not know when the Soviet Union might launch its next space shot but in the past two years the Rus sians have chosen the spring and summer months. Today's satellite was the 15th such vphiclp nut tin since the Rus sians began the program designed to facilitate manned space flights It was the fourth Soviet Sputnik launched this year, all within the last five weeks. In West Germany, The Bo chum Institute for Satellite and Space Research said the new So viet satellite seemed intended to simulate the conditions for a manned space experiment in the near future." (Institute Director Heinz Ka- mainski said signals picked up from Cosmos 15 indicated the satellite had a "measurably greater" transmission range than others in the Cosmos scries.) Cosmos 15 carries sccnlillc ap paratus "designed to continue re search of outer space," Tass said. Tass said the Sputnik's initial period of revolution was 89.77 minutes. Its maximum distance from the earth was 230.39 miles and its minimum distance was 107.43 miles. Change Set For Sign At Junction Livestock Pellet Mill Burned In One Of 3 Suburban Blazes The cause of a fire that gut ted what was believed to be the first pellet mill constructed in Oregon remained a mystery to day, after county firemen bat tled flames for more than three hours before dawn this morning in an effort to save the building at tlie O'Connor Livestock Company, Rte. 2, Box 868, Spring Lake Road. ,. The fire was one of three which damaqcd or destroyed buildings in the suburban area and Swan Lake Valley during the weekend, it was reported. Jack O'Connor, part-owner of tire firm, said he observed flames roaring through the inside of the structure about 3;30 a.m. and instantly ocean removing heavy equipment away' from the build ing. As he sought to save the ma chinery, flames burst through the roof of the lOOxlOO-foot mill, used to produce feed for livestock in nellet form. Most of the eciuio- meni located near Hie building was moved away irom me blaze, including several wagons which hnH rnnnhl firp hut wore lowed by firemen to another part of the grounds ana savco. A truck loaded with hav and countless qthcr ileitis of untold TULELAKE Many months of work ..on . a proposal , to - h a y.o u Highway sign cliangcd at uic junction of U.S. 99 and U.S. 97 at Weed have culminated in suc cess, according to biswyou coun ty Suervisor Eai'l Ager. Agcr advised the Herald and News Monday, that in a recent meeting with California State Sen. Randolph Collier, he had been as sured that the directional sign on U.S.' 97, placed by the California Stale Highway Depart ment, will be changed to read U.S. 97 to Portland, rather than U.S. 97 to Klamath Falls, its pres ent form. The sign on Highway 99 also reads U.S. 99 to Portland. Time of the proposed change was not announced by the sena tor, who has worked consistently with the Siskiyou Board of Super visors and Agcr to accomplish the change. The Klamath County Chamber of Commerce through Deb Addi son, chamber roads and high ways chairman, has also sought the change which is expected to influence northbound traffic to travel Highway 97 with the as surance thai the highway does not terminate at Klamath Falls. WASHINGTON (UPI) - High U.S. officials said today the United States might send military lorces into ihailand it there is a collapse of the Geneva agree ment guaranteeing the neutrality ol Laos. This possibility was disclosed after President Kennedy met with the National Security Council. The White House said Laos was the subject of the session between Kennedy and his top advisers but did not elaborate. The officials emphasized that no decision had been made about sending troops into Thailand, which borders on Laos. They said that future U.S. moves in the situ- tion' would depend on develop ments in Laos. According to a dispatch from Vientiane today, pro-Communist Prince Souphanouvong has tenta tively offered to withdraw his forces to the positions they held1 before striking against Neutralist troops on the Plain of Jars in a move that touched off the present critical situation. The Vientiane dispatch said Souphanouvong's of fer appeared to be a major con cession to Neutralist Premier Sou-l vanna' Phouma. The meeting between Kennedy and the TJational Security Counot I today was held amid reports that the United States might soon or der units of the 7th Fleet into, the Gulf of Siam to add psycho logical pressure to U.S. diplo matic moves. trict and the dissolution of the KO district. Under Oregon state law the electorates of District 1 and the Klamath County School District must have an opportunity to vote on the proposal within 90 days after both school boards have been petitioned by more than 100 quali fied voters in the two separate dis-, tricts. In the petitions to the county and elementary board of directors. Uie Single District Organization stated: "The single county unit has been discussed, along with other plans of reorganization, by the Joint School District Association and the Klamath Falls Citizens Com mittee. Our newly formed Single District Organization is composed of persons living in the city, from the suburban area, and from the county area. W'e are all interested in the best plan of education for all the children of Klamath County for the present and for the future. 'The Single District Organiza tion requests that the Board of Directors of School District I and the Klamath County School Dis trict sliall act on our petition with utmost dispatch." Everett Metier, a member of the newly formed group, said that the organization is composed of about three dozen committee mem bers. "We feel that a substantial ma jority of city and suburban resi dents support the single district plan and we know we have some support in the rural area too, Metier said. i Metier promised a block by block campaign before the propos al is voted on. In order for the measure to pass, a majority must be obtained in both the city and county districts. The votes of the suburban residents would be counted in with rural Klamath County votes. Metier also added that the Sin gle District Organization is in fa vor of the annual budgets of all three school districts. , .: Bolt Slays 7 Sheflands EUGENE (UPI) - Seven Shet land ponies at the Ken Jensen Circus at the Lane County Fair-j grounds were electrocuted Satur day evening. Police said the ponies were standing in a large puddle of wa ter and chained to a metal trail er which contained an elephant. The trailer had a 110-volt line plugged In and it apparently shorted across the metal trailer and grounded through the ani mals, a spokesman for the circus said. An eighth pony standing on a bale of dry hay was not hurt. The elephant also was not injured. Board Calls School Meet A special meeting of the board of directors of the Union High School District No. 2 has been called for 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 22, by John D. Voth, board chairman. The meeting will be held in the school administration building. 47S South Alameda Street. On the agenda vill be a discus sion of the building program and the resignation of two teachers and the election of a third, Ray Hunsaker, city school superin tendent, indicated that the board might also discuss today's filing of petitions by the newly formed Single District Organization call ing for an election on a proposal for the consolidation of the three city and county school districts into a single district. value located in the building were destroyed. O'Connor and firemen were unable to speculate as to how the fire started. The posr lility that it occurred due to . -,ne fault in the electrical system was dis counted when O'Connor stated that the electricity had been shut off before the fire started, as was done nightly. O'Connor staled that the mill was the first of about eight sim ilar structures which had been constructed in the state during the past eight years. About five ol (Continued on Page 4) f-j" '. - (fill fc ' : ' 'Virr iT,nlllCWr?Ti7 - --' ' - -r- 'jltSSm-1 'alJB , OUT TO TRY THEIR LUCK Howard Prairie R.iervoir on th. Dead Indian Road was busy plac. on th. opening of trout season thit pit w.elc.nd. Th. hearty trouter was drawn to this rainbow trout haven from nearby Klamath Falls, M.dford, Ashland and from points at far afield as Roisburg. Almost everyone caught fish, accord ing to reports from itat. police and tat. gam. men. Ther. war. 1,700 cart ch.ck.d in at th. Jackson County Park on Saturday and almost as many Sunday. Most anglsrs launched boats, but th. ihor.l w.r. lin.d with bank fiih.rmon as wall. Although most of th. ihor. fish.rm.n eauqht fish th. boater, got th. bigg.it hrul.