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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.
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KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. MONDAY. APRIL 22, J963
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.