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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1963)
II. or ORE.UBIUHY IIEIiFAPBR SEC1IOS cojip. PREPARING FOR BIG EVENT All was hustle and bustle at the Klamath County Fairgrounds on Saturday as youngsters prepared quarters and animals for the 4-H, FFA Livestock Show and Sale which gets underway with judging today and concludes with th In The- e Rotary sponsored sale on Tuesday evening. In view at left, the girls do the cleaning as the boys look on. Left to right are Jim McClurg, Pelican Hams; Angie Bonotto, Lucky Lambs; Susan Negus, Lucky Lambs, and Jeff Weaver, North Klamath Beef Club. Center view, John Foster, Henley, directs his hoq away from the weighing pens after he had been checked in. They were the hardest to handle. Far right, four young ladies qet their animals bedded down and watered Dean, Tom Vveaam, Karen Dean and Diane Vanderhott, Grove Ciub. Left to right, are Wendy all members of the Pine Day's lews Wealhor By FRANK JENKINS As this is written, word has just come from Washington that acceptance by both sides ot BINDING ARBITRATION of the two key issues involved has ap parently killed the threat ot a na tionwide railroad strike w h i c h has been hanging over the coun try for months. Late Friday, Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz announced the ac ceptance of his proposal first made on August 2 that the ques tions of firemen's jobs and train crew makeup be submitted to an arbitration board made up of rep resentatives of the railroads, the five on-train unions and two PUB LIC members. This board would make a final decision. BINDING on both par ties, only on Uie firemen's jobs and the train - crew makeup. Throufihout the battle over what the railroads call feather-bedding there has been general agree ment that if these two thorniest problems could be solved the par lies could AGREE on all lesser issues without great difficulty. Throughout the long ncgotia lions. COMPULSORY (binding! arbitration has been the chief issue. That raises this question: What is compulsory arbitra tion? Let's put it this way: The jury system is compulsory arbitration. Individuals, or cor porations, or partnerships disa gree. They can't settle their dis pute among themselves. So- Somebody sues somebody The disagreement goes to court. A jury decides it. There mav be appeals. But when all the courts clear up to the U.S. Supreme Court, if it is carried that far have had their say, the final decision MUST be accepted What is that but compulsory arbitration? How did the jury system get started? It is an interesting story. The jury svstem was established England by Henry II. grandson of William the Conqueror, in the late 1150's. Prior to that time, both civil and criminal cases had been decided through the oath, the ordeal or the duel. The court would order one of the litigants to muster a body of men who would swear to the justice of bis cause and whom. it was believed, God would pun ish if they swore falsely. That was the oath. Or, the judges would condemn the accused, under the supervi sion of a priest, to carry a red hot iron, or to cat a morsel of' bread or to be plunged into a pool of water. If the iron did not burn him. or Ihe bread choke him. or the water REJECT him so that he could not sink, then Divine Providence was adjudged to have granted a visible sign that the accused was innocent. The duel, or trial by battle, was a Norman innovation based on the theory that the God of Battles would strengthen 1 h e arm of the righteous and so the winner of the duel would be in nocent. Or. if he HIRED a cham pion, and his champion won the duel, he would be innocent. If his champion lost the duel, it was a sign that the accused was guilty. Weird, isn't it? Rut. after all Is it much different from our modern system of settling labor disputes? Probing question: Klamath Falls, Tulelakc and Lakeview Fair through Monday nd continued warm with htqhs 14 -11 Sunday and Mon. day. Lows tonight 40 SO. Westorly winds t-ll m.p.h. In aftornoons. High Friday IS Low Saturday morning SO High year aoo 7S Low year ago 43 Precip. past 24 hours Since Jan. 1 Same period last year til S J Weather AGRICULTURAL FORECAST Full sunshine today ind Monday. No . rain. Soil moistur lessat continuing h'gh. Soil ttmptraturo remains in high tH at iqht Inches. Haying and tlald work out look continues txctlltnt. Price IS Cents 52 Pages KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 18, 1963 Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 7523 escue Ends In ttempt Death For County Man A Keno construction man, Wil liam Lown, 41, lost his life about 1:43 p.m. Saturday in an at tempt to rescue a youngster ap parently in danger of drowning in the waters of Lake Ewauna just below the Link River bridge. The body of Lown was recov ered by Don Crownover, diver of the city fire department, about p.m. Mrs. Charles Marshall, 3113 Hil- yard. and Gladys Delaney, Chilo- quin. both eyewitnesses to the tragedy told this story: A young ster began jelling for help. He was out in about the middle of Lake Ewauna. (Police later iden fied him as Steven Michels, 11, of 40 Pine Street.) They said that Lown came run ning from beneath the bridge un der construction at that point and dove into the water without re moving his clothing. He swam to the boy but when he attempted to help him. the youth panicked and began fight ing. Lown went under six or sev en times but managed to keep pushing the youngster to the sur face. Three other men came to the resuce from the Veterans Me morial Park side of the lake. They grabbed the youngster but were unable to find Lown who had disappeared. Meantime, the Chiloquin wom an had sent Ron Boothby, 2919 Summers Lane, to sound the alarm. He called the fire department. The rescue squad arrived and recovery operations began imme diately. Sheriff Murray Britton and a boat crew conducted dragging op erations while three skin-divers from the city fire department, crownover, Ed Hadley and Har old Eilts donned scuba diving gear and conducted an under water search. According to the police report Michels was a beginner swim' mer, and was swimming in the area with a buddy. He was hold ing onto a board and it slipped beyond his grasp. At tins point he began yelling for help. Lown was an employe of the W. D. Miller Construction Com pany. Lown is survived by the wid ow, and a son, Robert, 5610 Cot tage, Klamath Falls, police re ported Saturday night. The body is at O'Hair's Memorial Chapel. ,na ,,nMmAnl. ..I ing. Police reported that the son and Mrs. Lown were near the scene of the mishap and that the son attempted to launch a boat to assist his father. Both were taken to City Center Motel where sedative treatment was ad ministered. Meredith Set To Graduate Cubans Say Three U.S. Agents Shot .4 U K El rrf Hi 1 I If If f 1 e nsis uiivoiv si lailroa n WASHINGTON (UPl) - Secre- tary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz struggled Saturday to avert a new crisis in the four-year-old ailroad dispute that could upset tentative labor- management agreement on his arbitration set tlement plan Wirtz conferred with union and arbitration of the key Issues employment of firemen and size of train crews was removed when the policy-making commit tee of the firemen s brotherhood authorized union President H. E. Gilbert to enter into an arbitra tion agreement. Approval was granted by a margin of three to railroad spokesmen as a newlonc, a union spokesman said split developed over how to han die secondary issues i n the snarled work rules bargaining. But another barrier to binding RIVALRY RENEWED Pacific Power and Light and Pacific Northwest Bell Tele phone employes this year have renewed their annual rivalry over United Fund collec tions. The firm that collects the most money each year gets to keep the beanpot trophy, shown here, which was won last year by the Pacific Power and Light em ployes. Shown here holding the pot are, left to right, Osmund Rice, PP&L shop fore man and vice chairman of the fund drive; Bob Steele, Pacific Bell deskman and tele phone drive chairman, and John Jardine, chief switchman for the telephone company. Youth Admits Vandalism! Cost Exceeds $2 Million OXFORD. Miss. (UPD Jame3 H. Meredith, who broke Missis sippi's century - old tradition of segregation, is due to graduate Sunday despite a last - ditch at tempt to have him expelled from the school he could not be slopped from attending. Barring some final hitch, the 30-year-old Air Force veteran will receive a bachelor of arts degree in political science and become the first Negro graduate in the history of the 115-year-old Uni versity of Mississippi. The bitter resentment that has dogged him at the school flared again the past week when Gov. Ross Barnett tried to have Mere dith's degree withheld. Barnett claimed anti-segregation remarks made by Meredith violated a uni versity order prohibiting students from making public statements about the school's racial crisis. Tlie slate college board, in a What is a strike but a DUEL7 6-5 vote, decided Thursdav to let It isn't waged with swords and snears and battle axes, as were the duels prior to Henrv II and' the jury system that he intro duced into England, but it is a test of endurance, nevertheless. The jury system succeeded the duel in Henry H'i England, as a means of settling disputes. Mavbe in our time, it will suc ceed the strike as a means of settling industrial disputes. Meredith graduate as scheduled rather than risk having the uni versity lose its accreditation with the Southern Association of Col leges and Schools. Talley Riddell, chairman of a special subcommittee which in vestigated Ihe matter, said law yers had done "everything possi ble'' to find a local way to "get rid" of Meredith but w ithout uc-cess. HAVANA (L'PIi - The Cuban government announced Saturday it had executed three persons it said were agents of the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency sent here to organize military espion age and sabotage. The executions were carried out by a tiring squad in Las Villas Province at dawTi Friday, but the announcement did not say when they were tried. The government said the three men were members of an infiltra tion group captured July 22 in Cayo Verde, a 6mall key in the province's northern coast. It did not say what happened to other members of the group. The men were identified as Ro lando Matheus Paz and Manuel and Francisco Marrero Castilo. The announcement said the group was sent to Cuba in a CIA boat and transferred to a small boat which took them to Cayo Verde where they were captured by revolutionary forces. It said they carried weapons, material ior secret writing, money and a list of former big land own ers and ormer members of the army during the regime of ousted dictator Fulgencio Batista. It said Matheus Paz had been recruited by a CIA agent who used economic pressures and blackmail which included getting him (ired from his job in the United States several times. After that, the announcement said, the agent said he could solve his economic problems if he decided to work as py. SACRAMENTO. Calif. (UPD - Two teen-agers were arrested Sat urday after one of them admitted setting a $2 million fire that de stroyed the Stanford Junior High School. Police detectives arrested Bob Reese, 17, at his mother's home before fire crews had finished mopping up the blaze. They said Reese admitted starting the fire at the school which he formerly attended. They said Reese implicated Wil liam Crawford. 16, as an accomp lice. Crawford, like Reese, was charged with ar son and burglary, but he denied that he was involved. Fire Chief Thomas A. Diese said that except for the school cafe teria and five portable classrooms, the 30-year-old school was a total loss. Sacramento schools superinten dent F. Mervyn Lawson said the two-story brick building had been built for $330,000 but would cost $2 million to replace. He said it had been insured for the full replace ment value. Goldwater Avers Treaty Dangerous MADISON, Wis. i UPl i Sen. Barry Goldwater said Friday night that Senate ratification of the proposed nuclear test ban treaty may send the United Stales down a one-way path to a Soviet-controlled non-aggression pact. "Once the journey has begun." the Arizona Republican said, "it would be hard to turn back." He said that the treaty carries unacceptable risks and that the Oregon Program Fund Announced salkm (UPl i Receipt of a $1.2 million Ford Foundation grant to support the Oregon Program was announced Friday by the State Department of Education. The money will be used by lo cal schools, colleges and the State Department of Education cooper ating under the Oregon Program in efforts to improve Oregon Edu cation in (he public schools. Dr. Leon P. Minear, superin tendent of public instruction, said improvements in education result ing from the program "will result in a more eflective use of the tax dollar." Communist desire for a non-ag gression pact is aimed at "storm ing the bastions" of American freedom. Goldwater spoke at commence ment exercises at the School of Bank Audit and Control oiierated jointly by the University of Wis consin and the Association of Bank Audit, Control and Obla tion. Every responsible member of the government knows full well" that the test ban treaty "envi sions a non-aggression pact be tween the NATO nations and tlie military alliance of the Soviet em pire, the Warsaw Pact nations," Goldwater said. He said the United Stales stands on tlie brink of such a pact "with high hopes and high heartiness, with the clink of con vivial glasses raised in Moscow fresh in our ears, with Khrush chev's grin and Dean Rusk's smile fresh in our minds. "Tlie terrible truth is that it is tyranny and barbarism with which we propose to share tlie earth, permitting the world to be half slave half free and giving tyranny a protected sanctuary from which it can erode or at tack tomorrow." Detectives said Reese at first told them he broke into the school when he heard someone inside calling f help as he was walking through the school yard after mid night. He said he was coming from parly at which he had been drinking beer and wine. Reese also admitted trying to get into a safe. Firemen said the school office had been ransacked Fire officials said someone had set the fire in three sections of the school building by piling tables, chairs and other combustible mat- rials together. Investigators said Reese had turned in the alarm. Detectives said Reese was a California Youth Authority Parol ee who was first arrested at the age of 8 and had a record of vandalism, fighting, robbery and burglary. They said Crawford had no record. Prison Gates Clang Shut On Jimenez Driver Hurt In Mishap Donald Ellingson. about 4."). of Baker. Ore., sustained serious nead injuries Saturday evening when the car he was driving ran off the road and sheared off a power pole on Lakcshorc Drive. State police reported that El lingson, who was alone in his late model car, apparently drove off the road and plowed into the power pole, severely damaging the front end of the auto. Ellingson underwent emergen-y treatment at Klamath Valley Hos pital w here he was taken by Peace Ambulance. The mishap occurred when El lingson apparently failed to make a curve on tlie highway about one-half mile out from tlie city limits. SAN JUAN DE LOS MORROS, Venezuela (UPl I Prison gates clanged shut Friday night behind ex-President Marcos Ptrcz Jime nez, first refugee ex-chief of a Latin American state ever extra dited from a nation where he had sought asylum. Authorities in the United States surrendered Perez lo Venezuelan police Friday to (ace trial on charges of embezzling about $13.3 million while he was in power. A chartered Venezuelan DCS flew Perez, under heavy guard, from Miami to Palo Negro Air port, where he was transferred In a wcon-heavy police convoy for the 27-mile drive to the fed- oral prison here. Police and troops by the dozen aimed with pistols, rules, car- b'nis and submachine guns, con voyed Perez to tlie prison oi stood guard along the route. The cx-prcsident was greeted bv cheers and shouts of "Viva Perez Jimenez!" in each village I'g tlie route from tlie airport b1.:' there were no disorders. Newsmen were not allowed to talk to iPcrcz at the airport or at the prison. The cx-presidont. who spent eight months in a Miami jaill while his attorneys fought in vain to prevent his extradition, ap lioared haggard, sloop-shouldered nd baggy-eyed when he arrived here Friday night. is a former chief of state, he will have special privileges our ing his trial, which is expected to begin laic this year and continue into l!M. A serial tiiree-ccll "suite' walled off from the rest of the prison has been prepared for him at San Juan Penitentiary and an army orderly will serve1 him breakfast in bed. He will not be required to wear prison uni form or to conform to the usual prison routine. and the 140-member committee adjourned subject to Gilbert's call. Endorsement of arbitration by the firemen s leaders was a dras tic switch from their long-stand ing opposition to third-party de cision making on new contract terms. me action Rives Gilbert au- Ihority to approve an arbitration tormula if he finds it "prudent and the ground rules are satis factory to him. Wirtz hailed the union's quali fied acceptance as "a key de cision in the preservation and strengthening of private collec tive bargaining." He termed it "momentous private statesman ship. Tlie policy-making bodies of the other four unions involved also must approve the plan but their acceptance was considered likely in view oi me nremen s decision. However, a snag developed over timing of negotiations on tlie oLh- er issues in the controvesy that would not oe submitted to arbitration. The railroads were reported oo- poscd to the union's demand that these issues be handled before arbitration begins on the make up of train crews and use o.' firemen. Management sources said the hassle could upset tlie Wirtz plan and renew the threat of a nation wide strike Aug. 29. Wirtz, who hailed the carriers for their unqualified acceptance of his plan, said the procedures should be straighened out at once. "I am sure that there will be the exercise ot fullest good faith- from all parties in resolving this question and that with this good faith it can be worked out," he said in a letter to the union chiefs. Government officials indicated they would not relax until both sides had buttoned up the settle ment procedures, in the battle over rules changes that could eliminate the jobs of 37,000 diesel locomotive firemen. The two main issues to be sub ject to arbitration, according to Wirtz, are: The extent and speed of elim- haling diesel engine firemen and the procedures and help for these men once they are jobless. The size of crews on trains. This is known as "crew consist" issue. The issues which would be ne gotiated demands by the railroads: Interdivisional service, which would require crews to extend their runs beyond one railroad di-vision. Road crews would be re quired to do yard work and yard crews would be required to do road work. Makeup of crews for self pro pelled machines. Adjustment of tlie basic pay system, from the present combi nation of mileage and hours. : Union demands which would be subject to negotiation: Broader overtime rules. Higher pay and work guaran tees. Paid holidays. The question of living ex penses for trainmen when re quired to be away from home. Protective conditions in the event of mergers. Brown Meets Pope; Invited To State Articles Filed SALEM 'UPD -Articles of In corporation were on file Saturday for Southern Oregon Medical Foundation, Klamath Falls, signed by Everett E. Howard, Donald Uaucr and Gerald J. Nicholson. Articles were on file for Kkim ath Basin Farms signed by Lawrence A. Geraghty, S. C. Masten, and George 11. Proctor, CASTLE GANDOLFO, Italy 'UPD Gov. Edmund G. Brown of California Saturday met Willi Pope Paul VI and invited the Po lo visit his slate. A spokesman for the Governor said the Pope threw out his arms in a wide gesture which seemed to indicate "who knows?" The Pope said he was happy lo receive the invitation but did not say if he would accept, the sxikcsman added. Brown, a Catholic, shook hands with the Pope rather than kissing his ring as is tlie customary practice (or Catholics received in papal audience. He gave the Pope a book entitled "Beautiful California," w hich is well illustrated with color photographs of the golden stale. The Pope told him he would look forward to reading it. Tlie spokesman for Brown said tlie Governor had found the Pope a much more striking figure than his photographs indicate and had dcscrilied him as a "very kindly" man. After leaving Castcl Gandolfo. located in the Alban Hills 17 miles southeast of Rome, Brown went to Rome to meet with Ital ian foreign trade minister Giu seppe Trabucchi. Brown suggested to Trabucchi that Italy might W3nt to consider setting up an automobile assem bly plant in California. Ho said California now had Vine million registered atitos and the market there was "inexhaustible" since the present 18 million population is expected to climb to 25 million in 10 years. Trabucchi expressed interest In the suggestion and promised to look into it further. He also sug gested that Italy and California might exchange trade missions, and Brown agreed that it was a good idea. Mill Damaged MOLALLA (UPD - Fire de stroyed the Molalla Feed Mill here Saturday and caused some sso.000 damage. Firemen fought the blaze for ivu hours. Defective wiring was given' as Lhe cause of tlie blaze which ap parently started from a machine room and engulfed the rambling two-story structure. i
