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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1963)
Gold Supported Dollars Expect Senate Approval WASHINGTON (UPI-Th- Sen ate today was expected to approve and send to the White House President Kennedy's l'jfil proposal to back $1 and $2 bills with gold reserves instead of silver Under the House-passed bill the treasury would gradually with draw present $1 and $2 bills, now backed by silver, and replace tnem with Federal Reserve notes The change was proposed be cause the use of silver is exceed ing prrxiuction and tne price is going up. The demand for silver coins is also increasing due to the expanding economy and the in creased use of coin-operated vend ing machines. Under the proposed change, it would no longer be necessary to buy silver to back $1 and $2 bills, and the government can use the supply of silver on hand to make coins for many years. The Treas ury now owns 1,600.000 ounces of silver. ' The new Federal Reserve notes would be backed by 25 per cent gold reserve. Other congressional notes: Coffee: Senate leaders were con fident they had the voles to as sure ratification of the internation al coffee agreement. The agree ment, signed by 54 countries, is designed to stabilize world coffee prices through a strict quota sys tem on production and exports. Commission: Sen. Jacob K. .la vits. R-N.Y., urged that the Civil Rights Commission be made per manent so it can be an outlet for the "pent-up grievances" of the nation's Negroes. Javits appeared before a Senate constitutional rights subcommittee studying leg islation to extend the life of the commission another (our years. Budget: For the sixth time in 13 years, the Senate passed and sent tu the House legislation to create a joint committee on the budget, with an expert staff tu serve both houses of Congress. But there was little to indicate it has much chance of House approv al. Money: Eva Adams, director of the Mint, urged Congress to keep its hands off her monev-making operation. She appeared before a House banking subcommittee in opposition to legislation that woul! require the minting of special 50- cent coins which would be collec tor's items. One would commem orate the late Swaker Sam Ray- burn, and another would commem orate the 100th anniversary, of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg ad dress. "If one issue is authorized," Miss Adams testified, pressure will be exerted from many sourc cs for the issue of other coins." Swedes Plan Route Home ANCHORAGE. Alaska IUP1) -Two Swedes who conquered the polar route on a nonestop flight from Bodoe, Norway, to Alaska in a single-engined small plane planned to return today, but by a different route. Businessman Sigurcd Hallstrom said he and pilot Olie Ringstrand, both of Stockholm, planned to re turn by way of northern Canada and Greenland. "A change of scenery would be nice," Hallstrom said, "and there is the weather the weather is very important." Hope Seen For Africa Wirtz Tells Of Jobless WASHINGTON (UPH - Labor) Secretary W. Willard Wirtz told Congress Monday that one fifth of the nation's work force 14 mil lion persons were hit by the un employment problem last year. Wirtz testified before a Senate labor subcommittee, studying the U.S. manpower situation with spe cial attention to automation and its effect. He said monthly unem ployment figures average about 4 million, but he said these statis tics don't tell the whole story. Wirtz said "reliable estimates . . . indicate that approximately 14 million men and women were unemployed at some time during 19112." Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges, following Wirtz to the wit ness chair, pointed up a paradox between his department and the Labor Department. Wirtz is trying to find ways to reduce unemployment, Hodges said, while the Commerce Depart ment is trying to get industry to adopt technological changes that would cut down the manpower supply. The technological improvement needed to increase this nation's exports and cut its balance o trade deficit, will result in a les sening of demand for workers, Hodges said. But the effect will be short term. He said the creased exports will boost the gross national product which in turn will "help cure unemploy ment." OUR ANCESTORS ty Quincy ANCHORAGE. Alaska (UPD -' Raging flood waters of the Yukon River in central Alaska and the lower Kuskokwim River near the southwest coast forced hundreds of, residents to flee their homes fori higher ground today. Nearly 200 persons, mostly wom en and children, were flown to Fairbanks aboard Air Force planes from the villages of Ruby, Koyukuk, Campion and Galena on the Yukon. Emergency rations and medical supplies vuie from Galena to another river village, Nulato. At Koyukuk, the water was ris ing so fast that Air Force heli copters were forced to pick up evacuees with canvas slings be cause the helicopters had no dry ground space to land. At Galena, tile ice-choked ukon was within live leet of spilling over a dike protecting the Air "It's America, all right! I can se the 'one-hour parking limit' signs from here!" Highway 97 Proposed As Pan American Link A resolution that U.S. Highway 97 be designated as the Pan American Highway, linking Fair banks, Alaska, with Mexico City, Mex., has been referred to a special committee by the Unit ed States Delegation at the Ninth Pan American Highway Congress, which was in session from May 6 through 18 at the nation's capital. The committee will decide which of various proposed routes I be designated as the official highway spanning the length of the North American Hemisphere, according to the Okanogan Cari boo Trail Association of Tacoma, sponsors of the route via U.S. 97. The information that the Pacilic Coast Highway was being con sidered as the official route con necting three nations tne United States, Canada and Mexi cowas disclosed in a telegram from Grant Mickle, chairman, U.S. Delegation at the Pan Amer ican Highway Congress, to W i 1- ham Bugge, 'Washington Stale director of highways and mem ber ot the executive committee. Earlier this year, the Klam ath County Chamber of Coin. mcrce endorsed the route through Mamath. Falls as the official Pan American Highway upon the recommendation of the Tacoma organization. , Highway 97 presently links Fairbanks with Weed, Calif., and if approved as a part of the inter national highway it would be ex tended south to include Reno, Las Vegas, Kingman, Phoenix, Tuc son and Nogalcs and other cities in Mexico through to .Mexico City. ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (UPI Hopes revived today that the 31 nations of Africa might lay the groundwork for a single, unifying organization at their summit meet ing beginning here Wednesday. The African countries now are generally divided into two group ings: the "Casablanca powers" and the "Monrovia group." Each has introduced a draft charter for an African organization at prelim inary meetings here. But Monday night Senegalese E- ; i;niLtn- IViorlnit Thiam spokesman for the 31 foreign min- C .1. DofAffl isters, said they had agreed to ilCLUI U present an tiniopian arau 10 mc summit as the main basis for discussion. Tlic heads of slate will attempt In combine it with the Monrovia Kennedy Jet Pair Attend Conference Forrest F. Hawley, supervisor of special education for the Klam ath Falls public schools, and Dr. Everett Pecry. director of special education for the county schools, will attend the 87th annual meet ing of the American Association on Mental Deficiency in Portland, Mav 21 to 25. The opening general assembly of the convention, scheduled or 9:30 a.m., Wednesday, May 22, will include a special message hv Dr. Stafford L. Warren, spe cial assistant to the President of the United States. The title of his message is "Implementing Rec ommendations of the President's Panel on Mental Retardation." In the Education Section of the convention, one of the papers uill he read bv Roy lAscrlind speech therapist in the Klamath Falls elementary scnoois nuin 1954 to 1957. Aserlind lett Mam ath Falls to be speech and hearing consultant for the Montana Stale Board of Health. He is present ly an instructor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. WASHINGTON L'PI Presi dent Kennedy's jet transport Ai Force No. 1 set a Moscow-to-Wash inston record of 9 hours, 53 min and Casablanca group versions. Iflutcs and 52 seconds today, cuttin 'District Meet there is progress, he sain, a new meeting of foreign ministers will he called to work out final details! after submitting the charter to their governments. Thiam said the process seemed complicated, but explained: "We arc not magicians. Africans are responsible people. What charter of this imjwrtance has been draft ed in one meeting?" Shasta Offers Teachers' Jobs MOUNT -SHASTA - The Mount Shasta Elementary School board of trustees has voted to offer contracts to all presently cm ployed teachers. One resigna tion, from Mrs. Pearl Lamb, has been received. She will be re placed by Mrs. Kathcrine Mar tin, who is now teaching in Fort Jones. At a recent meeting live boaid set the salaries for summer school teachers at !50 per month. Superintendent I. W. Kcl soc presented preliminary figures on next year's budcet. Tile board directed that a policy statement he drawn excusing teachers for jury or witness duty in court with no pay loss. The policy will be voted on at the next meeting. nearly three hours off the Russian mark. It was the second record in ai many trips for the President s Boeing "07. On the trip to Moscow Irom Washington Sunday, the jet piloted by Col. James B. Swindal, 4fi, set a trip record n 8 hours, 38 minutes and 42 seconds. Air Force No. 1 had to buck considerable headwinds on the re turn trip and landed at Andrews Air Force Base in a driving rain, hut it was still far belter than the 12 hours and 21 minutes it took a Russian Tl'114 turbo-prop plane to bring Premier Nikita Khrushchev to Washington in 1959. The President's plane took Atom ic Energy Commission Chairman Glenn T. Scaborg to Moscow to sign an agreement on an informa tion exchange. Upon arrival in Washington, the jet had to quick ly refuel and fly to Patrick Air Force Base. Fla.. to bring astro naut L. Gordon Cooper to Washington. Daughters of the American Rev olution will hold a district meet- intf nil Wednesday. June 5. in Roscburg. beginning at 10 a m The meeting and luncheon will be at the Harris Cafe. 6.14 S. E. Cass. Members may call Mrs. Will Wood, recent of Eulalona Chapter, for transportation. Rummage Sale Members ot tlic Sons of Nor. way will sponsor a rummage sale from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Clyde's Towing on Saturday May 25. Used clothing, appliances, and other household articles will be available. For pick-up ot rum mage donations call Mrs. Ray Taylor. TU 4-9970, or Mrs. Olga Overen. TU 2-5749. Yukon Floods Force Hundreds To Leave Homes Force installation there. Air Force Lt. Col. Richard Por tillo, Los Angeles, supervising the operations of five 1121 helicopters and four C 123 transport planes, said massive chunks of ice and debris were tearing up homes and boa(s along the river. The refugees were housed in a rail-banks school under the care of the Red Cross. Radio stations broadcast picas for volunteer help to take care of the smaller chil dren. Fairbanks Civil Defense di- rector Leonard Lobben said the ukon was rising at the rate of one foot in 12 hours at Galena. Predicted rain threatened to make flooding worse. On the lower Kuskokwim, Bethel Civil Defense Director Robert Gib son said the water had reached "an unprecedented dangerously high" level. Townspeople at Bethclj were beginning to move to higher! ground and a number of small homes at Napaskiak and Oscar villc, just below Bethel, were al ready inundated. In both rivers the flooding was caused by huge ice james that blocked the flow of water to the ocean. HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Kails, Oregon Tuesday, May 21, 13 PAGE 3 Malin Auxiliary Makes Wreathes MALIN The May meeting of the Malin American Legion Auxil iary at the home of Pat Ottoman was devoted to making wreaths lor the veterans graves in the Malm Cemetery. During the business session. members voted to donate $10 for child welfare in the IMalin area. Martha Brothanek, rehabilitation chairman, reported that cookies had been sent to Camp White at White City for hobby lair day Nomination of officers was held, and Bess ircCulley was named for the president's office for the sec ond year. Others nominated were Lucille Gray, first vice president; Josephine Johns, second vice president: and Anna Schmidl, secretary-treasurer. Powers Said On Way Out HOUSTON iUPH Col. John A. (Shorty! Powers, reported to lie on the way out of the Project Mercury team, is expected to ar rive in Houston today instead of going to Washington with space hero L. Gordon Cooper. Powers would not confirm or deny a story in a Houston news paper (The Chronicle) Monday that said he intends to resign. He said he might make an announce ment by Friday. Powers said from Cape Canav eral Monday that he does not in tend to go to Washington or to take part in any of the festivi ties arranged (or Cooper. Instead, he said, he will arrive in Houston sometime this evening. Tlie newspaper story from Cape Canaveral quoted high officials as saying that Powers intends to an nounce his resignation soon. In Houston, officials at the Manned Spacecraft Center were not surprised when asked about the report. One spokesman said he had heard the rumors, but nothing olficial. Powers, an Air Force officer. has been on the Project Mercury assignment for about four years. A spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis tration said the normal tour of duty is three years. 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