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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 15, 1963)
i ill .? -V j"Tj tA n urK7!" dera.led near Poms, Calif., In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS From Washington this morn ing: The U.S.A. is producing million aires at (he fastest clip since the get-rich-quick era of the 1920s. The Internal Revenue Service, in Us latest tabulation on the sub ject, reports that 398 persons filed returns showing income of a million dollars or more in 1961. This was the largest number since 1929, when the stock market was at the peak of its stratospher ic binge and a record total of 513 taxpayers paid taxes on in comes of a million dollars or more. Hmmmmmmmmmm. Back in 1929, we thought we could get rich quick by big-time gambling in stocks which, we were assured, would keep on go ing up and WOULDN'T EVER go down because this was a rich and growing nation that would go on indefinitely producing more and more wealth. We're going now on the theory that a nation can SPEND IT SELF RICH by the simple proc ess of spending it high, wide and handsome and PUTTING IT ON THE CUFF. We are assured in these days that our skyrocketing debt can never bother us because it will all be taken care of by our sky rocketing production. Let's hope so. But history has an annoying habit of repeating itself. One of its lessons is that bad habits that have caused trouble before can cause trouble again. In a speech in Albany (N.Y.) yesterday, Governor Nelson Rock efeller declared that a major strategy of Goldwater-for-Presi-dent partisans "would not only defeat the Republican party in 11164 but would destroy it alto gether." In the same statement, he called upon Republicans every where "to unite in opposition to the radical right lunatic fringe," which he said, "is embarked on a determined and ruthless effort to lake over the party, its platform and its candidate on its own terms." Well, there IS a radical right lunatic fringe. There is also a radical left lunatic fringe. 1,1 So Let's put it like this: THE HOPE OF OUR NATION LIES IN THE HARD-HEADED, COMMON-SENSE MIDDLE. The fringes on both sides are DANGEROUS. Fires Damage Forest Lands SALEM iUPIi - Eight fires, teven of them caused by light ning, were reported on state pro tected forest lands over the week end. A blaze in the LaGrande area w as caused by a careless camper and burned about one acre. All of the fires were small and occurred east of the Cascades. The largest, on the California border south of Klamath Falls, covered a little more than an Two Oregon Youths Drown By I'nitrd Press International Two Oregon youths drowned Saturday in swimming accidents. Army Pfc. Paul Isaacs, 19, Cor vailis, drowned in the Kansas River near Manhattan, Kan. He wa& stationed at nearby Fort Riley. Dale Williams. 16. SMers, lol his life in Scout Lake west o( that Dcchutes County town. v -ft'! 5 r,t7R DOKRIa borne ot the early last mght took the form 1 - TBI i r Weal her Klimith Palls, Tutclikt ind Lakeview Fair through Tuesday except for iso lated afternoon thundersnowers in the vicinity. Low tonight 37 to 43. Hiqh Tuesday 77 to SO. Northwesterly winds S to 15 m.p.h. High yesterday ai Low this morning 45 High year ago 72 Low year ago 44 Precip. last 24 hours .oo Since Jan. 1 4.12 Same period last year 1.11 ieorai( rorkers Strike By United Press International A strike by two Northwest lum ber unions against the Georgia Pacific Corp. began this morning with a walkout by 400 gangsaw and plywood mill workers at To ledo. Earl Hartley, executive secre tary of Region 3, Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union (LSW), Wirtz Says Railroads. Unions Fail WASHINGTON (UPD-A spe cial presidential committee studying the facts in the railroad work rules dispute hopefully will submit its report Friday to President Kennedy, a Labor De-i partmcnt spokesman said today. Railway company and union representatives met today to in form the panel of their concept of the issues. At a similar meet ing Tuesday, the parties will out line for the panel their positions on the issues. A closed session of the special committee will be held Wednes day and "the report to the Pres ident hopefully will be submitted jon Friday," a spokesman said This would be three days before the original target date. The special committee was ap pointed by President Kennedy to make recommendations for a so lution to the deadlock over new work rules. Kennedy intends to use the committee's report as a basis for proposals to Congress: next Monday to end the dispute. The railroads have agreed to postpone until July 29 imposition! of new work rules which even tually would eliminate the jobs of 37.000 firemen on diesel loco motives. The unions have reject cd all proposals for arbitration of (he dispute saying most of the firemen are needed as a safety, measure. Chances that both sides would settle the dispute without outside help were dim. Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz said Sundav both railroad management and the five operating unions were assuming that the government or Congress would settle it and "there is no affirmative attempt" to break the deadlock. Wirtz, in a television interview. said there slill were "all man ners of procedures" that could be used for settling the dispute short of compulsory arbitration. He said "every single proposal which has been made in this case has been immediately labeled as compulsory arbitration." But he said this had not been true and President Kennedy's suggestion that the dispute be referred to Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg "would have permitted a form of mediation" leading to a settlement. He said arbitration would have been "only as a last resort." There is still time for media tion, Wirtz said. He said the best procedure would be for the unions and railroads to solve the matter themselves "to protect the whole institution of collective bargain ing." If arbitration becomes neces sary the dispute must be recog nized as a special case, the sec retary aid. It must be made "dead clear" that collective bar gaining still is functioning, he said. ' ill-, 2 I freight cars which were of twisted steel as they Price Ten Cents 12 Pages said more men will be off the job Tuesday. In addition to the Toledo opera tions, the LSW represents work ers at Coquille, Springfield, and Pilot Rock, Ore., and Eureka, Feather Falls and Woodleaf, Calif. An LSW spokesman said the big Springfield operation, which in cludes two plywood mills and a fiber-ply plant, would be closed Tuesday. The union has 750 mem bers in those plants. IWA Slill Working The International Woodworkers of America (IWA) kept all its members on the job at Georgia- Pacific operations today. Presi dent Harvey Nelson or the West ern Regional Council reported. The IWA represents workers at Coos' Bay, SpringfieWand Toledo in Oregon; Olympia, wash., and Woodleaf, Calif. Members at Tole do are in the woods crew and were not affected by the LSW walkout there. The plants at Coos Bay Coquille and Olympia were not scheduled to resume work after the Fourth of July vacation until Tuesday. The strike was called alter ne gotiations with the company broke down Wednesday. Company olli cials estimated 7.000 employes would be affected if all G-P oper ations in three western stales were struck. Some 21.000 lumber workers are already idle because of the con tract dispute in the Northwest but there were some hopeful signs in the situation today. Big Six, Unions Talk Representatives of the unions met in Portland with negotiators for the so-called "Big Six" bar gaining group, representing U.S. Plywood, St. Regis Paper Co., Weyerhaeuser. Crown Zcllerbach, International Paper Co. and Ray onier. It was the first time the two unions have met jointly with that employer group. All other meet ings have been conducted with one of the unions while officials of the other sat in as an observer. A strike against U.S. Plywood and St. Regis June 5 and the re sulting shutdown by the other four firms accounted for much of the idleness in the industry. The unions also are scheduled to meet jointly with Simpson Tim ber Co. Tuesday. Simpson, like Georgia-Pacific, has been negoti ating independently. New Lead In Prof umo Case LONDON (UPll-A court ruling hinted today at new sensations in the Profumo case w ith the revela tion of a mysterious tape record ing made by play girl Christine Kecler. The possibility o( further dis closures in the scandal (hat forced the resignation of War Minister John Prolumo arose when a court granted an appeal to a Negro jazz musician who was convicted of beating up Christine. The appeal was based on the argument that there was "important new evidence" in the tape recording Christine made when she was "high as a kite." Two policemen were sent by the court to take possession ol the tape recording made by Christine whose relationship with Prolumo had threatened to topple the Conservative government o Harold Macmillan. B-Podffi ix-fe were photographed this morning. At left, five boxcars ( one partially obscured I tore up part of a field as they rumbled off the tracks and collapsed against one another. Tax Cut Mulled By Drafters WASHINGTON (UPI) House lax writers today went back to their task of drafting a bill ex pected to provide a cut of be tween $8 billion and $10 billion in individual and corporate income taxes. The House Ways & Means Com mittee was set to resume closed sessions on President Kennedy's tax cut proposal alter a recess of more than three weeks while staff aides drew up a tentative measure. Chances are still considered bet ter than 50-50 that Congress will enact a tax cut this year despite the legislative tieup threatened by the coming fight over civil rights legislation. The tax reduction would be ef fective next Jan 1. Although the White House has hopes of faster action, it is doubt ful that the tax bill will be ham mered into final form and steered to the House floor for a show down vote before mid-August. Before the tax bill can emerge. the Ways & Means Committee must (1) make final decisions on (he many structural changes in the tax code which it has tenta tively approved; (21 decide whether to curb the favorable tax rales now provided on income from stock dividends; and (3) de cide how much to reduce indivi dual and corporale income tax rates. The tentatively approved revi sions would net about $600 mil lion of the $3.6 billion in new an nual revenue with which Kennedy had hoped to partly offset the tax rate cuts he proposed. Kennedy's program envisioned a net tax re duction of $10.4 billion. Working on the staff - drafted legislation embodying tcntativel decisions, the committee will tudy the measure item-by-ilem and line-by-line before rcachingi its final verdicts. This alone may take two weeks. Zelma Ochiho Draws Seven Years, Fined Zelma Joan Ochiho was sen tenced to seven years in the slate penitentiary and fined $1,500 by Circuit Court Judge Donald A. W. Piper at 10 a.m. Monday alter Mrs. Ochiho pleaded guilty to manslaughter Friday in the gun slaying of Florence Baker Huitt. Mrs. Ochiho's first degree murder trial last week ended with a hung jury. She was charged with the fatal shooting of her first cousin, March 1!), at 616 Commercial Street. The maximum sentence Mrs. Ochiho could have received on the manslaughter charge was 15 years and $5,000. The stale ac ccptcd the lesser plea after the weeks trial in which Sam Mc- Keen, assistant district attor ney, kept bringing forth evi dence which he said showed that the shooting was premeditated. Mrs. Ochiho s defense was built around the claim that the shoot ing was accidental and that Mrs. Ochiho had no motive for shoot ing Ster "good friend." COUP ' .Vti A KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, V 4 TANKER RESTS ON FLAT CAR A tanker, one of 21 freight cars derailed near Dorris Sunday night, lies in a field among five other freight cars. In the background is a railroad crane, or "hook," which was moved to the scene of the derailment early today to remove the wreckage from the tracks. SP officials speculated that the wreck age would bo cleared by this afternoon, when trains would resume their regular schedules. Tougher Cuba Boycott Urged WASHINGTON (UPIl - Sen.) Karl E. Mundt, R-S.D., called on the Kennedy administration today to tighten what he termed its "half-hearted" economic boycott of Cuba. Mundt recommended a four-; part program of action "far short! of war" which would deny U.S. ports to ships of any country let ting its vessels trade with Cuba and would use the foreign aid program to reward nations join ing in an anti-Castro ctfort. He also proposed that the Or ganization of American States and NATO be asked officially to halt trade with Cuba and that similar requests go to every other nation outside Communist domination. Mundt, in the latest in a series of Republican Senate speeches on Date Set For Contract Award The Work Saver Body Com pany of Seattle will be awarded an $(183,280 contract for repair, extension and remodeling of the Klamath Falls Post Office, the General Services Administra tion indicated Monday. The firm's bid was the lowest of six opened in Seattle June 21. The Brosterhous Construction Company. Klamath' Falls, sub mitted the second lowest bid ot $959,875. Howard R. Perrin, architect. said plans call (or a two-story annex on the Walnut Avenue side and one-story additions at t h c rear and Oak Avenue, side. The new lacilitics will double the building's Interior space, the parking area and tru7k ramp. .- MONDAY, JULY 15, 1063 Cuba, said that the number of trips by free-world ships to Cuba had increased since January and that the "volume of Soviet-bloc shipping to Cuba seems to be ris ing." He conceded that there was a "virtually complete embargo on U.S.-Cuba trade" in effect since February 1(162 and that most Latin American countries were sharply curtailing their own Cu ban trade. But Mundt said a provision of the Foreign Aid Act denying as sistance to countries whose ships carry arms or strategic materials to Cuba was not being enforced Promised Dy I'nllrd Press International Negro leaders in Cambridge. Md., planned "peaceful" demon strations today and segregation ists and intcgrationists alike com menced new moves to tip the na tion's racial dispulc in their fa vor. Integration leaders in Cam bridge promised their demonstra tions would remain within the bounds of limited martial law clamped on the town last week after bloody racial rioting. The town's white leaders requested a meeting with Gov. J. Millard Tawcs as soon as possible to dis cuss white-Negro tensions. A Negro leader announced over the weekend that the demonstra tions would resume but promised they could be "welUlisciplined and peaceful." However, Mrs Gloria II Richardson, head ol the Non-Violent Action Commit It ' tm f m 1 g i I I In the center photo, an empty boxcar lies twisted where it from the track In the other picture, workmen survey the Telephone a ams as to NATO-type aid to NATO countries. Thus, he said, the aid restriction is "virtually inapplic able." The other present restriction, Mundt said, is an order of last February barring U.S. government-financed cargoes lo foreign ships that have traded with Cuba since Jan. I. The GOP senator called this a "half-hearted program." He 6aid the number of trips made by free world ships lo Cuba "actually was lower in January, one month before the administration's order went into effect, than in any month since then through May." By Negro tee, said if nothing happens within a week or so we are going to have to court arrest." Culm Sunday Cambridge and Savannah, Ga., scenes ol racial violence last week, were comparatively calm over the Sabbath. Alxiul 450 Negroes sang "free dom songs" Sunday in the shad ow of a monument to Savannah s Confederate dead in downtown Forsyth Park. Three young Ne groes were arrested for staging a "wade-in" at nearby Savannah Beach. A Negro leader called olf a protest march because, he said, police b.-oke up an attempted march by a white segregationist group Saturday. If everyone can't march, we will not march, said tlw Iiv. Andrew Young. Young referred to a march by white egivgationists who got1 TU 4-8111 No. 7194 mwmm A burned out axle on have caused the derailment train northbound to Klamath ly nine miles south of Dorris, about 9:15 p.m. last night, the local office of the SP Members of the train that a burned out "journal," or axle, on a freight car carrying salt jumped the track, whiplashing 20 other freight cars in the train into a field on the east side of the tracks and onto the west distance from U.S. Highway 97. (t Most of the derailed cars were flung into the open field cast of the tracks; many of them were contorted into masses of twisted steel. The impact of the cars sud denly upon one another gether lengthwise, crushing as they slid from the track. One metal boxcar, thrown i about 40 yards from the railroad was twisted as a pretzel and had several jagged holes, about four feet wide, punched in its sides. tanker car was in a field where it had flipped upside down and at midnight last night an other tank car that had been un set was spilling inflammable liquid along the tracks. The possibility that the liquid would be set fire brought the Dorris Fire Department to the scene but the threat had appar- ntly been eliminated by early this morning. No railroad employes were in jured, although one man who was iding inside a boxcar with two companions received possiDie back injuries and was t r a n forrcd by Peace Ambulance to the Klamath Valley Hospital, where he was reported in satis factory condition early Monday. He was Wilbur Richardson, 44, of Alturas, who said he ob served one of his friends leave the wreckage, but not the other. Members of the train crew were unsuccessful in their search for the alleged missing rider and doubted that he had been caught beneath the tram. Later this morning, one other person was Injured as 200 rail road employes souglit to remove the wreckage that was delaying southbound trains linking Port land lo Oakland, Calif., and ons Leader three blocks before police stopped them. It was one of the first pro tests of its type during racial turmoil in the nation, dominated mainly by Intogralionist demon strations. Kight Arrested In New York, eiglvt members of the neo-Nazi National Renais sance Parly N(RP) were arrest ed Sunday on charges ranging from conspiring to commit a not to anarchy when a huge cache of guns and ammunition was uncov ered. The arrest came after sev oral NKP members attempted to hand out hate literature outside a Bronx diner, scene of Integra- tmnist picketing and some vio lence for the past week. Gov. George C. Wallace of Ala bama testified before the Senate Committee on Commerce on President Kennedy's proposed civil rights bill. came to rest about 40 yards damage to three other cars. Weather AGRICULTURAL FORECAST Generally fair this week with below normal temperatures. High 75 to IS and low 15-45. Showers likely Friday or Saturday. Haying outlook, good through Thursday. Eight - inch soil tem perature M degrees. it is a freight car was believed to of a Southern Pacific freight Falls from Dunsmuir, near railroad disclosed today. crew speculated late last night side of the railroad, a scant folded five of the boxcars to two of them accordion-like others northbound from Califor nia. Injured was Charles Butler of Eugene who suffered a possible leg fracture at the scene of the de railment and was removed to the local hospital where he was listed satisfactory. A spokesman for the SP at Klamath Falls said that the de bris was expected to be cleared from the tracks about 3 p.m. to day, and thereafter trains would proceed on schedule. Early this morning, the local SP station was teeming with pas sengers from the Cascade train which arrived here about mid night and were held over here lending the removal of the de railed train. "There are so many people in the station that this is reminis cent of the years of the last world war," he said. The spokesman was unable to estimate the damage caused by the wreck, but it is consider able," he said. Other railroad representatives were unable to say how many freight cars comprised the train or to speculate as to how fast the train was travelling at the lime of the derailment. Each area of track along the railroad is posted with a designated speed limit for its particular section, it was said. Ruling Gives Southern Pine Plywood Rate WASHINGTON (UPD-The first commercial standards and specifi cations for the production of ply wood from Southern Pine timber have been set by the Department of Commerce. The announcement clears the way for manufacture of plywood Irom southern pine on a commer cial basis. Georgia-Pacific Corp. started construcuon the first mill at Fordyce, Ark., in June. U. S. Plywood has announced plans . a mill in cooperation with South ern Pine Lumber Co. at Diboll, Tex. Pine plywood will be inter changeable with widely - used Douglas fir plywood, according to T. M. Orth, who served on the standards committee. Test runs to prove the feasibili ty of using pine logs in mass production of plywood were suc cessful at plywood milts in the south and at Douglas fir plywood mills onfcb West Cotlt.
