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."
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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
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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. Powers will
be eligible for retirement in 14
Powers, 41. was heard by mil
lions of radio and television lis
teners as the "voice of Mercury
control." He is public affairs di
rector for the Manned Spacecraft
Center in Houston.
Quick! There's an S 55 Merc.
Car-spotters don't have time for second looks. An S-55 Merc is
liable to have one of those big Marauder mills up front (up to
425 horses). So look quick., .for the S-55 emblem on the rear
fender panel. Of course, if you happen to catch one standing
still (extremely rare), you can tell an S-55 by its lush, leathery
sports-bred interior. Very elegant (in a masculine way). And
very suggestive of what happens when this cargoes var-o-p-o-m.
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'm a way.
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