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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These laws, not repealed unlil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-
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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.
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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.
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