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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (June 2, 1963)
1 1 MBIT ITU i See Second Column fin ME MEITEI) mm In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS Let's talk about automobiles to day. Why automobiles at this particu lar moment? Well, as this is writ ten, about mid-afternoon of Satur day, the traffic fatality figures for the Memorial Day holiday wceK end are beginning to trickle in over the wires. The total at this hour is 314 California, as usual, leads the pro cession with 38 deaths. New York is next with 28. California leads! all the states in automobile regis trations, with a total of 7,229,000 cars. New York is next, with a total of 4,782,000 registered car6 It is logical to assume that where there are more cars there will be more fatal accidents. This is a changing world. It is just possible that the auto mobile has changed it as much as anything else. So let's take look at how the automobile got started. So far as known, the first self propelled road vehicle was a steam tractor built by a French artillery captain named Nicholas Juseph Cugnot. It managed speed of THKEE miles per hour It was used to drag artillery into position. That was baak in 1769 194 years ago. The British went on from there. On Christmas Eve. 1801, Richard Trevethick mounted a steam en gine on a carriage and drove it on a highway near Camborne, Eng land. By 1830, the English were operating a number of steam car riages capable of traveling at 10 m.p.h., going up and down hills and carrying as many as 14 pas sengers. In the years that followed steam coaches became common in England. Unfortunately for their progress, English rural residents objected violently to the fire-spouting monsters. The horse-drawn stagecoaches also hated them. In the IM0's, rln'gland passed what are known as the Red Flag laws. These Red Flag laws re quired that each motor carriage be preceded in the daytime by a man carrying a red flag, and dur ing the night by a man carrying a lantern. These laws, not repealed unlil IBM, slowed down automobile de velopment. These ancient cars were pro pelled by STEAM engines, which were awkward and bunglesomel when used for highway traffic. Then, in 18112. a brilliant French man named Alphonse Beau de; Rorhas worked out on paper the principle of the internal combus tion engine. In 1RR3, Gottlieb Daim ler, a German, built a one-cylin der internal cnmnuslion engine put it in a carriage and DROVE IT DOWN THE ROAD. That did it. The internal combustion engine made possible both the automo bile and the airplane. It is generally believed that the first American car was built by' Charles Duryra, assisted by his brother Franklin, in 1893. It was a small one sealer, with the en gine underneath and connected with the rear wheels by a bicycle chain. From there on. the Americans took over. Henry Ford, with his Model T. brought the price of cars down within the reach of the aver age person. Some Progress In IWA Talks PORTLAND UTh - The Inter national Woodworkers of America Western Regional Council met with lumber producers Friday in anniher round of talk in current negotiations and reported "some progress was made." The meetings with the biij six lumber producers are to be re sumed next Tuesday morning. The six firms are Weyerhaeuser. In ternational Pa;er. ("roan Zoller bach. Rayonier, 1'. S. Plywood and St. Hecis Paper. Harvey Nelson, recional presi dent of the IWA. said the current contract, which expires tomorrow, had been extended to Tuesday Taiks are planned Monday among the union's executive board, negotiating committee and advisory commiuee. The union is akmg for a wage increase of 40 cents an hour over a three-year period The six firms hae scheduled ta.ks with the Lumber and Saw mill Workers Lnion Monday. The USW. also ncsotiatint tor a three year pact, is seeking so cents an hour in vac h;kes. Weill her Klamath Falli. Tultlaha and Laheviaw A law, thowtrt or Ihuntfarshowars poi sibla today, olherwlta fair through Mon day. Hlgha loday and Monday naar 7S. Lowl tonight 37 to 41. Wittarly wind I to I milti par hour. High Friday 70 Low Saturday morning 3 High ytar ago if Low yaar ago 34 Proclp. last 24 houra traca sinca Jan. 1 Soma parlod latt yaar Tentative Date Set For Session With Mediator Members of the International Association of Ma chinists (Local 1943) Saturday afternoon called off a strike against the Klamath plant. The machinists s t r u urday and set up a picket line near the plant. Jack Bishop, Weyerhaeuser Company manager here. said the company and union representatives met Satur day afternoon and cleared up a "misunderstanding" which was the cause of the walkout. Bishop said the union and the company would meet this week tentatively, Thursday with a member of the Federal Mediation Board in further negotiations. The union has agreed to stay on the job until negotia tions are completed. A spokesman for the union Saturday morning said in a statement: "We feel that the company has failed to negotiate in good faith even A contract between the union and the company had expired May 31. Bishop said he thought the walkout was prompted by a union misunderstanding as to the in tentions of the company to nego tiate further on a new contract. The company had been willing to negotiate further, but was await ing word from the Federal Medi ation Board as to the availability of personnel to sit in on the nego tiations. Bishop explained. As a result of a meeting of the union Saturday afternoon, the Ma chinist went back to work and the plant started operations about 4 p.m. The walkout went into effect Saturday, after the machinists agreed to strike during a union meeting the previous evening. The move caught Weyerhaeuser Com pany officials completely "un awares," but in spite of its sud denness "the company remains opens for business," Bishop said. Local 1943 is seeking a 10 per cent wage hike for its 145 mem bers, and additional benefits which neither Bishop nor Norman Briggs, Weyerhaeuser represen tative, wxxild discuss. Briggs said that the union had held meetings w ith Weyerhaeuser officials, twice last month but the sessions did not resolve the dif ferences between the two sides. Members of the local union are all employed at the plant her. In addition to the central plant. Weyerhaeuser operates lumber camps in various parts of Klam ath County. The present strike has no con nection with the dispute between six lumber producers and the In ternational Woodworkers of Amer. ica. Western Regional Council, which are negotiating in Portland. Weyerhaeuser and five other lumber manufacturers have made some progress in current talks with the IWA, a news service reported Saturday. The IW A is seeking a wage increase of 40 cents an hour over a three-year period. The six firms are also scheduled to meet Monday with the Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union, which is seeking a Sarcc year contract and a 60-cent hour ly wage boost lor its members. . At the Weyerhaeuser plant. 9 JO a.m.. Saturday, alut 10 mem bers of the machinists' union had lormed a picket line on Weyer haeuser Road, in front of the credit union ollire, and stood near their automobiles chattJig jovial ly with one another as they bided their time until 10 o'clock, when Uiey, among others, were to re open negotiations with the com pany. In the middle of the road was a saw horse forming the prop for a sign which announced in stcn- cilied letters that Local 194,1 a on strike against (he timber com pany. Three similar sitns were propped in front of the wind shields of as manv automobiles parked on the ea-4 shoulder far-! ing the road. : In commenting on the reason j for the strike, one of the pickets,- said simply that the union sought 10 per cent increase m hourly wages for its members. In addition, it alo demanded that the company pay to those terminating employment with the lirm the amount credited to their respective pension funds, the picket said. Weyerhaesier cred- l.jl 1.00 Price 15 Cents 48 Pages Falls Weyerhaeuser Company c k the plant at 6 a.m. Sat on non-cost items." its each employe of the machin ists' union with a specified amount to be applied to a company pen sion plan, although the worker con tributes nothing from his check toward the program, he explained further. Another of the union members stated that the picket line would be maintained in four-hour shifts, 24 hours a day until the differ ences between Local 1943 and the company wre resolved. From four to eight pickets would form the line-in each shift, he said. Navy Admits Thresher Not In Photos WASHINGTON (UPIl - The Navy backtracked Saturday on its announcement that the sunken hull if the nuclear submarine Thresher had been located. It ordered an underwater search to resume. Nullified was a flat announce ment earlier this week that the Thresher had been pinpointed by photographs about 220 miles east of Cape Cod. Mass., where the sub went down with 129 men aboard on April 10. Saturday's statement said: "De iled analysis of underwater photographs taken Thursday . . . determined that none could be dentilied as showing the Thresh- nr." The earlier announcement had said that eight of alxiut 500 photo graphs taken by the oceanograph- research (onrad had shown parts of the Thresher, includin a portion of its "sail." diving rud der and a split in the hull. In Portsmouth, N.H., a naval court of inquiry Saturday heard Dr. .1. Lamar VYorzcl of the Con rad testify that none of the photo-r-mph. definitely was of the Thresher. He said that ooe previously thought to be of the submarine actually was of a weight on the bottom of the camera which took the undersea pictures. Another shot, Worzel said, could have been of any object on the ocean bot tom but could not be identified as the sunken sub. Woriel. told the court that he had ahsolutely no means of ident ifying the sub from any of the l.jOO pictures he had taken. ;6arton Ncmes Members To Interim Board SALEM 'UN' Home Sieaker Clarence Barton Friday named him-lf and Reps. Ros Morgan, rteulah Hand. Stafford Hansell nd Shirley Field as House mem bers of the Emergency Board ' The board of legislators approve expenditures from the C 2 million emergency fund between adjourn ment and the start of the next session. It alo approves college construction pians. mr ffi MACHINISTS STRIKE WEYERHAEUSER Five members of Local 1943 of the Inter national Association of Machinists form part of a picket line in front of the Weyer haeuser Company, after the union went on strike against the firm, effective 6 a.m., Saturday. The union seeks a 10 per cent hourly wage boost for its members and fringe benefits. Strikers did not carry placards. They posted signs announcing the strike on a sawhorse in the center of Weyerhaeuser Road, and on a tripod and parked auto mobiles nearby. ope's did Extremely -Poor VATICAN CITY. Sunday. (UPD Pope John XXIII, cling ing tenaciously to life early on this Pentecost Sunday, roused from a deep coma for brief mo ments of consciousness, the Vau can announced. Though on the threshhold o.' death with no hope of surviving the illness that was draining the last of his tremendous physical forces, the 81-year-old pontiff lived on. A communique at 9: 40 p. m. EDT said his general condition remains stationary. 'His pulse is good. His temper ature is about 3ft degrees centi grade (1004 fahrenheiti," the an nouncement said. "He is assisted by professors Valdoni and Mai- zoni. Pietro Valdoni and Piero Maz- zoni are two o.' the doctors in constant attendance on the pontiff. Vatican Radio had said earlier there were "signs of an increased weakness, also in mental facul- Klamath Merchant Suffers Injuries In Wild Shooting Frank Bogatay, owner of Boga- tay Shoes. 617 Main, and a prom inent Klamath rails business man, was shot twice late Satur day afternoon by a woman in the store. Bogatay was shot in the right shoulder and in the thumb when the woman. Velma Lucille Banu elos. 61, Worden Road, fired sev en shots 4om a .22 caliber pistol at Rogatay. The incident occurred in a slor- ge area of the store, at alxiut 5.2 Saturday afternoon. Klamath Falls police did not know the exact cause of the Inoting late Saturday night They were interrogating the woman at the police station. In charge of the case was Lt. Archie Huff Eyewitness reports of the in dent Included that of Gene Yates, a clerk at the store. Yates and Millie Lenninger. office man ager of the store, furnished police with statements following the hooting. Report of the shooting indicate that the woman bore a grudge against Bogatay, who last year was president of the Klamath Merchants Association. B'.gatav had been receiving threatening tel ephone calls ar.d letters as result of an action by the aso ciation which put Into effect Day light Saving Time m Klamath I Fills. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNK 2, 1963 Condition ties" of the Jl-year-old pontiff, but the Vatican press office said word from the papal sickroom early today was that the Pope was still gallantly fighting the deadly effects of his illness. The Pope was suffering from a stomach growth with complica tions of peritonitis and anemia. The growth was widely reported to be cancerous and doctors gave him pain-killing drugs during the day as he slipped into and out of consciousness. A Vatican radio announcer in tearful voice called on the faithful to join in prayer for a Pope "who is showing us simply and mag nificently how to die." It was clear the Pope himself was -ap proaching death in serenity. The Pope showed that during a period of lucidity Saturday when he told a Vatican official, "I could observe my death step by step. Now I am gently moving toward the end. The woman had entered I h e -tore and i.-ied to see Bogatay. j While details have not been clar- ififed. it is believed she talked briefly with Bogatay in the stor age room and then started firing the foreign-made pistol which she apparently had in a pocket. Lieutenant Huff said that po lice had found seven empty car tridge cases and five bullet holes in various parts of the storage room. Bog.-itay apparently saved his life by dodging around storage shelves in the room and finally came out into the main room of the store, pursued by the woman. He told others to gel out of the way of his assailant and headed (or his car in the hack of the store to go to the hospital. In the meantime. Yates chased the woman around the corner of Main Street and South Sixth and caught her at the corner of the First National Bank. He held her and took her back to Hie store un til polite came. Yates disarmed the woman hy taking the pistol from her pocket. He did not know at the time whether it was empty or not. Rogatay was taken to the hos pital in an ambulance. His condi tion late Saturday night was pro nounced satisfactory, follow ing ex tensive surgery. .til j Twice during the day he re- riauieu consciousness to murmur the words ".lesus, .fosus," to bless those around him and to tell them he considered his life a sacrifice or world peace, the church and .'or Christian unity. And he recalled the words that Christ spoke before He raised Laz arus from the dead: "I am the Resurrection and the Life." He lapsed for the third time into unconsciousness Saturday aft ernoon shortly alter 4 p.m. Vati can Radio reports sMike of "no change" but said his temperature was rising. It fluctuated between 101 and 101.5 degrees and there were fears he would die if it went higher. A U'am o: doctors more than 40 hours before had despaired for the Pope s life. The last rites of the Catholic Church were adminis tered to him hy his confessor while he calmly told grieving rel atives and prelates clustered around him that he was prepared to die. Crowd Keens Vigil The world prayed for the Pope Catholics, Protestants, .lews. Buddhists. Outside in St. Peter's Square a crowd of 20.000 persons had gathered by midnight. It was a silent crowd, with only the shuffling of feet and subdued voices. So soft was their conversation that it sounded like a gentle wind. Many listened to transistor radios to hear the lat est news as they looked up at the third floor window maikmg the bedroom of the Pope Vatican Radio stirred a rionle of excitement in the crowd once hy announcing, erroneously as it turned out, that all visits to the sickbed of the dying iontiff had been cancelled. Later, the press office explained that the visits had ceased only because the cardinals and prelates had gone to get some rest. Dix-lora Retire Briefly Even the Pope's team of di mr reurea orietiy lor a nap as ine stout neart nt the pontiff beat inio me new nay. The l'oiie's family remained bv nis oeosirie. NAACP Chief Under Arrest JACKSON, Miss. (LTD - Roy Wilkins. executive secretary of tlie National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People '.Y.vr.P, was arrested Saturday while taking part in an anti segregation demonstalmn. Wilkins, who arrived in Jackson late Friday from Now York to boost a desegregation campaign, was picked up Saturday afternoon moments after he began picketing the nowntown area. Telephone w orkers' Comp Killed I SALEM (UPI Two last-minutciale threatened late Saturday night conference committee deadlocks, intensified hy general hard feel- ings between the House and Scn- Income Tax Bill Gets Final Okay SALEM (UP1I Two last-minute increase in the state Income lax was on its way to the governor's office Sunday after finally having cleared the legislature. Passage of the income uix measure climaxed a 14-day dead lock. A tax commission spokesman said the bill raised the state in come tax 2B per cent, hut that the out-of-pocket cost to the aver age taxpayer would range froml 3.5 to 6 per cent because of a change in handling federal income tax deductions. The Senate approved the tax hike 22-8 alter it cleared the House 35-24 in a dramatic vote tally that was climaxed by a lst- minute switching of voles. The -final tally showed six Re publican and two Democratic sen ators voted against the hill. In the House five Democrats and 19 Re publicans voted no. As tlie roll was railed. 3.1 rep resentatives voted against the measure. Then several Democrats switched to A yes ote. With the measure one vote short of passage. House Tax Committee Chairman Richard Eymann, D- Marcola. charged the Republicans had vot(d to sjiend money, but re fused to supKirt the tux hike needed to finance the spending. At that point Rep Victor Ati- yell, R-Portland, switched his vote to yes. assuring passage. As soon as Ativeh switched several other Democrats reversed their no votes. In all, three Republicans OTI Building The building program for Oregon Technical In stitute in 19H4 has been assured according to final votes in both the House and the Senate, Klamath Coun ty legislators said Saturday night. The Senate passed 20-6 a bill authorizing the allo cation of $3,445,000 for "completion of educational and general plant (administration building), physical education, physical plant building, Instruction shops building, library, radioactive isotopes laboratory building, landscaping, roads, walks, etc.," Sen. Harry Hoivin said Saturday night. Prior to the report by Senator Hoivin, Hep. Carroll Howe said that the bill had passed the House Saturday morning with only three dissenting votes. The OTI building program was included in an om nibus bill calling for other higher education campus construction and improvement. The bill stipulates that OTI will he ready for occupancy by the fall of 1904. Highway Deaths At Record Pace By I nlled Press International Americans died at a record pace on the highways Saturday as thel long Memorial Day holiday week end entered its most dangerous hours. Ideal dtivinc weather lured mil lions to tlie highways and the re- Lull was an ever-mounting death loll. The death pace "f nearly five an hour ran aheurt ot tlx' four-day Fourth of July weekend of I!K1, when 50!) traffic deaths set a record for a summer sea son holiday. Drirwnincs aNn claimed a larce number of lives and others per ished in onating and airplane mis haps. The hiuhwav death rate of 4 7 per hour was far ahead of the 11 Memorial Day weekend, TU 4-8111 No. 7157 n House Vot e to prolong the 111(13 legislature at least another day. The Oregon House killed the land seven Democrats who first voted no, switched to back tlie in come tax hike. The new income lax is backed by a one-shot speedup of with holding tax collections if needed. and carries a provision that any surplus in excess of $10 million would be applied as a property tax offset, The capital gains tax was lib-1 eralized, and the corporate excise tax increased, as part of the package. Main features of the new in come lax measure: Removal of the federal in come lax deduction. Head of household gets joint treatment Students entitled as dearnd ency credit. Blind get full extra credit. Senior citizens (over 65) get one-half extra credit. Flat $22 tax credit for person al and dependency deductions. Unlimited medical deduction above 5 per cent of income. r ive per cent optional stand ard deduction. Fractional rates from to ' er cent. Rase broadening via a $5 fil ing fee or 1 per cent of adjusted gross Income or the tax which-i ever Is higher, The measure represented a complete victory for the Senate, as the House-favored net receipts! and cigarette taxes were refused by the Senate Program Okay when a record 4",2 persons died traffic. An :.in p.m. F,I)T tally hy Unit rd Press International showed 341 l-rsons dead in traffic accidents since the start of the lnz-honr hoi iday at ft p m. Wednesday. 'Ine breakdown: Traffic 341 Drowning M lloating 7 Plane II Miscellaneous 7fi Total 500 California led the nation with 42 traffic deaths. New York had , Ohio, Texas and Pennsylvania Is! each, Missouri 13, Oregon and Illinois II each and Kansas 10. California also led in drown ings with . New York state had 7 and Michigan, Pennsylvania and Texas S each. Won flier AGRICULTURAL FORECAST M uilly llr nait ttvtral dyt xctpt ehne for Htrnoon or vtnlnj ihowr r thundtrihowtrt ttiMCliIfy loday. Hitjh temperature Laws, 17 to . Hay ing outlook, qood except for pouiblt teat tared ahowert and morning dew. 'three-way" workmen's compen sation bill, 25-34. On the bill rode millions of dollars in business for insurance firms and benefits for injured workers. . , With its death, the badly split legislature pulled itself together and concentrated on a handful of business remaining before it could adjourn late Saturday night. The big higher education budg et hung in the final hours on a dispute over whether the state's tuberculosis patients should be concentrated at the Stale Hospital at Salem, or shared with tlie Uni versity Hospital at Portland as they are now. A conference com mittee tried to iron out the dis pute. BULLETIN SALEM, Juno 1 UTI) Thn Oregon Srnale Saturday night receHicd until 1 p.m. Sunday, throwing the legislative utMlim Into IU 140th day. Srnat? and Hoiine ronfrrcft were deadlocked over higher ed uratiun aalury hills. The Hniifte It expected to re reM abort ly. Another conference committee debated whether to give college teachers and state employes the extra J1.3 million ordered by the House, or remove it, as the Sen- late wanted. Rut most of the activities, and moods, of the final day swirled around the "three-way" bill. Ten sions were high. Legislators were tired, restless, jumpy, and bitter over some of the fighting. The House at first refused to provide the two-thirds majority needed to get the measure before it without waiting several days. The Senate retaliated by threat ening to go home until Monday, and insisted the bill at least be brought to a vote. The House buckled, put the bill to a vote, and killed it. During the debate, House Speak er Clarence Rartnn threatened to have a lobbyist expelled from tlie gallery for sending notes to legis lators telling them how to vote. Rarton likened it to tamiicring with ( jury. The "three-way" hill dragged into its whirlpool many other pieces of legislation. It brought the culmination of heavy pres sures that have been brought to licor for ninths, and even years, and would he again. After the vote. Rep. Victor At- iyeh, R Beavevton. told the House lie voted lor the hill because it has "done damage far beyond the scope of its contents, due to its effect on other legislation. It lias ilt-iriyed adjournment, and contributed almost havoc to the orderly process of the legisla ture. " Measures for a sales tax and for registration of lobbyists died more quietly tluin tliey lived. Three college construction bills passed -asily in the final hours. One will ask the voters next May to okay a $30 million bond issue for college instructional buildings. Only 12 5 million wouid be used next biennium. A companion hill adds II 1.5 mil lion in general funds for the lata- i5 period. A hill providing for a special ax election, if voters want one. made its way through the legisla ture. It the voters refer a SMI million compromise tax program, tlie election would be held about mid-October. A bill providing an extra circuit judge each for I-ane and Washing ton counties got through. tiov. Mark Hatfield finally got a government reorganization tid bit. Both nouses approved group ing agencies into a Department nt Commerce with five divisions: banking, insurance, corporation, real estate and planning and de velopment. It will get a trial rua for four years. Then the legisla ture will have to act again. I
