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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1963)
coa?. u,OF oaE.M3SART EUa&HE.O&EQ. O mm m AvtaDM (La S)a)s ocfc In The- Day's Aews By FRANK JKNKLNS Question: What docs one do on the days when there isn't anything thrilling in the news? The answer: One makes do with whatever there is in the news. There is always something interesting on the world-ranging news wires. For example: The stately white oak that in spired Joyce Kilmer to write his world-famous poem Trees is dy ing of old age and will soon he cut down. It stands on the campus of Brunswick, New Jersey. 11 is be iicved to be nearly 300 years old. If so, it sprouted from an acorn somewhere in the mid-15O0' say about 1550, something like a half century after Columbus dis- covered America. H was a half! century old when the Plymouth colony was founded. Pretty old? Well, yes as oak trees go. But it is a mere sprout in com parison with the hoary sequoias in the Giant Forest in Sequoia National Park in California, many of which are SEVERAL THOUSAND years old. It is now against the law to cut any of these fabulous giants down, but one of the largest and oldest of them which was cut down before the law was passed dated back to 1305 B.C. lis age was established by counting the rings in its trunk. It is believed that the General Sherman tree in Sequoia Na tional Park may be 3.000 to 4.000 years old. If so, it was a husky tree when the Pyramids were built. But let's gel back In the Joyce mm m Kilmer Oak. Legend has it tolTOCl1 R f V as a boy in New Brunsw ick and I 9J m 1 1 later as a student at Rutgers in 1905-06, Kilmer used to sit under it. It is believed that it was from the old oak on the Rutgers cam pus that he got his inspiration1 lor his world-famous poem, which reads: I think that 1 shall never see; A poem lovely as a tree, A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flow ing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, BuL only God can make a tree. What f.f Joyce Kilmer? He was a soldier in World War I. His best war poem. The Peacemaker, was written at theUnrfer the treaty. All are part of front. Not loo long after writing; the safeguards upon which the i;it. he was killed in action Joint Chiefs conditioned their ap while as a sergeant of infantry prnval of the pact, on a reconnaissance mission. The Defense Department said. His wife Aline, daughter of the meantime, that a "bill of particu poct Ada Foster Murray, is re-liars" on safeguards to be provid membered as the author of sev-ied after ratification of the treaty eral volumes of verse. Her best-was now being prepared and perhaps Candles that;should reach Congress "in about! ii? . jJJJ t 1 A BUSY PLACE The livestock building at the Klamath County f-airgroundt was a beehive of activity Monday morning as youngsters took care of their intriei in the 4-H, FFA Livestock Show and Sale which rjni through Tuesday, concluding with the Weal her KlimaHi Falli, Tulalaka and Lthtvitw: Ganarally fair through Tuesday, c A I again lenighl, lows is la as. SNqhlJv warmar TuMrtay. htohj Tl ta M. Wail, any wind l ta u m.p.h. Hi9h yettertlay y Low thia morninf at High yaar ago aa Low yaar ago at Preop. Bail 24 hours oa mca Jan. I a. II Mint ptriuo lair year 1 3 Lumber Strike Messrs Final Settlement Two Unions Ratification PORTLAND, Ore. il'Pli-Tlie lengthy Pacific Northwest lum ber strike was a step closer to complete settlement today. Announcement was made here Sunday afternoon that members of Hie International Woodworkers of America and the Lumber and Sawmill Workers' unions had rat-i ified a three-year contract nego tiated with the Big Six employ ers Bargaining Association last Tuesday night. Harvey Nelson, president of the Western States Regional Council ot the IWA. made the announce ment but would not disclose the actual vote. However, he said the proposed pact was approved by a big majority. Picket Lines Down Picket lines against two struck Big Six members plants the U.S. Plywood Co. and St. Regis Paper Co. were removed. Some 6,400 men were scheduled to start returning to work at the compa nies today. The strike in Oregon. Washing- Air Chief Endorses WASHINGTON (UPI) Gen Curtis E. LeMav told the Senatel today that from a military stand point, the limited nuciear test ban contained "net disadvantag es" to the United States. The Air Force chief of staff said, however, these were offset by "political advantages" if prop er safeguards were maintained. LeMay and the nation's other three military chiefs endorsed the treaty with some concern about Russia's "big bomb" lead but ap- parcntly were satisfied that future safeguards would be pro vided. LeMay, Air Force chief wlw did most of the testifying, told senators of three committees that most government officials more less" agree with the Joint Chiefs of Staff that the treaty must be accompanied by safe guards against Soviet test cheat ing. Gen. Earle G. Wheeler, Army chief of staff, reminded the law makers that President Kennedy: had stated that nuclear labora tories and underground testing would be maintained as part of an active development program la week. I Prire Ten Cents 12 Pages Announce Of Contract ton. Northern California and Mon tana began when the struck the firms June 5. Other members of the Big Six ale Weyerhaeuser, Crown-Zeller- bach, International Paper and Rayonier. They had not been struck. Nelson said announcement of a referendum vote by union mem bers on a contract negotiated last Thursday with the 196-member Timber Operators Council Em ployers Bargaining Association would be made Aug. 27. The pro posed pact is expected to be ap provedby a big margin. Karl Glos, executive vice pres ident of the TOC, said in Seattle Saturday that the wage increases1 included in the contracts this year would result in lumber prices being increased. He also said the competitive situation of U.S. producers would suffer in comparison to that of Canadian producers. Glos said that the wace in creases could raise lumber prices by $3 per 1,000 board feet in three years. Montana Strike Ends a sirme against St. Rccis at Linby, Mont., ended Saturday night when LSW members voted to accept the contract reached last Tuesday night. The vote paved the wav for an early return to work in the woods and mill operations of the J. Neils Lumber Co., a division of St. Re gis. Some 1.000 men were idled by the strike at. Libby. A strike against Menasha Plv- wood Corp. at North Bend, Ore., also ended Sunday when mem bers of LSW local 663 ratified a wage agreement. Maintenance workers relumed to work this morning and about 4oO others are scheduled to go oacK to tne plant and woods oper ations after their vacation ends Sept. 2. They had been on strike since July 31. Still unsettled is a strike against the big U.S. Plywood plant at Anderson, Calif., where 600 men are out oi work. Local issues have been blamed for holding up settlement there. Fires Burn Brush Land By United Press International Two large fires were racing out of control in the grass and sage brush land of Eastern Oregon to day. The largest had burned about 3.000 acres some 25 miles north of Vale by mid-morning, accord ing to Kenneth Burkholder of the Bureau of Land Management in Portland. He said about 130 men. aided by trucks, other heavy equipment and a helicopter were battling to save a number of ranch buildings in the area KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON', t COUNTY NETS $359,247.34 Jim Stoop (centerl end Jim County Commissioner Frank Ganong Friday afternoon in the Klamath County Court. The check, to go into the general fund, represents the county's share of O&C land grant timber sales, 50 per cent of which is divided among 18 Eastern Oregon coun- Ties, ine cnecK was nana carried trom Madtord by the two Judging At Fair Highlights Year For 4-H, FFA Youths By RUTH KING i The first day's judging on live-ithe sheep and swine divisions. It was a bit nippy at the fair- stock resulted in the tagging of grounds Monday morning as the second day of the 28th annual 4-H and Future Farmers of America Junior Livestock Show and Fall rair got under way beneath a sunny sky.; There w as a medley of squeals and grunts, bleats and bawls, as more than 400 head of prime live stock were fed, watered, sheared. washed, combed, trimmed. milked, blocked, and led to the judging arena or bedded down to await a turn before the judges. It's worth an early morning trip to the fairgrounds and a tramp through the livestock barns to witness the industry, the compe tence, the expectancy of the hun dreds of boys and girls w ho take part in these fairs. Most of them are larm reared. few live on acreages in the city's suburbs, some raise their animals on a single lot, but re gardless of home - place or age. they have one goal, to raise a fine animal and to have that animal score high enough to win a trophy or a ribbon or honorable mention during the three days of the jun ior fair Supporting these young exhibi tors are their parents, many of them right in there pitching, en couraging and watching ... the club and chapter leaders and jun ior leaders who give hundreds of hours of time to bringing club activities to a high standard. There are the boys and girls nhose interests lie in gardening and forestry and entomology and other 4-H Club work whose ex hibits are equally important to the success of the fair. Their work is also on exhibit at the fairgrounds. --H"- ' - . - ' -V--'-" ':'" s P' ' '' i ::.'. . : ftttl.l.la-lW.t : ,...;.-, i- auction sale Tuesday night. In these views, at left, a panoramic shot shows the var ious activities around the pens. Center view, Leith Johnson, Matin Beef Club, tugs her entry along as Stan Johnson looks on. Far right, the wjihup area was one of the MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1963 Representatives of the Harrison, present a check in gran( anti reserve champions in Annual Living Costs KF Families Families in Klamath Fa I Island other forms of health insur spent an average of S3.5I0 for current living expenditures I960, Max D. Kossoris, western regional director of the U.S. De partment of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics reported when he released one of the advance reports from the bureau's sur vey of Consumer Expenditures in; 1960-61. Ill addition. Klamath Falls fam ilies made gifts and contributions of $223 and put $253 into various types of life insurance and re tirement funds. They averaged SS68 in income and other person al taxes and had an average in crease in savings during the year of $162. The combined share of the three basic categories of living expen dilures was slightly more than half of the total current con sumption expenditures of Klam ath Falls families in 1960. Food represented about 23.9 per cent of total expenditures, shelter (in cluding fuel and electricity) 17.6 per cent and clothing about 10.0 per cent. Medical care accounted for 5.7 per cent of the average expendi tures. About one-quarter of the medical expenses was for premi ums for hospitalization, surgery Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 7524 rf J ' -V ' - -' t II Bureau of Land Management, the amount of $359,247.36 to BUM representatives. I (Continued on Page 4) $5,510 ance, which was carried by three out of every four families. Eighty six per cent of the fam ilies in the survey were automo bile owners who spent 15.9 per, cent of their total expenditures on their cars, The advance report on which this information is based is one of the first in a scries that will ultimately cover 66 metropolitan areas and smaller urban places where the Bureau of Labor Sta tistics obtained detailed expendi ture information from represent ative families and single con sumers for 1960-61. The surveys were conducted primarily to ob tain data for use in revising the Consumer Price Index but will be widely used in formulating eco nomic and social policy and in marketing and academic re search programs. Advance reports similar lo that for Klamath Falls are now avail able for Gallup, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle in t h e West, and for 24 cities in other parts of the U.S. Copies of the Klamath Falls report, as well as for the other areas surveyed, mav be obtained from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 630 Sansome Street, Room 802, San Francisco 11, Calif. cTS, s s i i f t-' Went her AGRICULTURAL FORECAST wirn iimptriurt a in tit below witonil. Highs n ta 5 and lows U la 4. Nt precipitation. Slowly improving drying coitdiliont. Haymt and field work out look ood to txcilltnt. Eight-inch toil l,mMrturt Death Toll Reaches 12 In Oregon By United Press International Twelve persons lost their lives in accidents in Oregon during the weekend. Ten died in traflic and two drowned. Two other Oregon residents died in out-of-state traffic accidents. Thomas McGrath. 13, Beaver ton, was killed in a two-car colli sion on the Wilsonvillc - Hubbard Highway near Aurora Sundav afternoon. Three other persons were injured. Anthony Naglich, 4", Portland, was killed when he leaped in front of a moving car on State Highway 213 near Portland early Sunday. State Police called it a suicide. Mrs. Martha Gcelan, 63. Auro ra, drowned in a small lake across tlie Willamette River from Ncwberg early Sunday. Her body was recovered. Traffic accidents Saturday took six lives in the state. Jimmy Holliday, 9, Rose Lodge, was killed when he was struck by a pickup truck on State High way 18 near his home in Lincoln County, and Iva Ludwick, 58, Stayton, died m a two-car acci dent on State Highway 22 near Slayton. James Moulton, 40, Vcneta, was killed in a one-car crash on Slate Highway 126, 10 miles east of Springfield. David Coursey, 26 Eugene,- lost his life when his motorcycle collided with a car at a Eugene intersection. Sirs. Helen Krochek, 54, and her son. Robert, 22, both of Spo kane, were killed in a two-car, head-on collision on Interstate i about 20 miles south of Roseburg. Willie Lown. 41, Keno, drowned in Link River at Klamath Falls while attempting to rescue 11-ycar-old Stephen Michols Satur day afternoon. The boy was taken to safety by Lown's son, Robert. Mrs. htta Aphis, 48, Springfield, died in a one-car crash on U.S. Highway 30 west of Rawlins, Wyo., Saturday night. Her hus band. Earl, 53, and son, Bobby. 30, also were in (he vehicle but were not injured. East Germans Hold Americans BERLIN 'UPD - East German police held four Americans, in cluding a girl, for two hours at gunpoint Saturday when they were on a tour of East Berlin. They were picked up without ex planation and released without be ing interrogated, one of them re ported today. It was believed they were ar rested merely because they were near the border when disorder was feared because it was the anniversary of the death of a ref ugee considered a martyr to the wall. , 14 J, t t PflC3 busiest spots of all at animals were scrubbed and brushed in anticipation of the iudging that was to follow, Monday's schedule included judging and showmanship. A Rotary. sponsored barbecue will precede the auction sale Tuesday night. Go vernment Summons Union, Management WASHINGTON (LPD - Rail Union and management negotia tors were summoned lo a show down meeting today in a govern ment effort lo break the impasse over ground rules for settling their long dispute. Assistant Labor Secretary James J. Reynolds said he was calling attorneys for both sides to an alternoon session to seek agreement on procedure for sub- milting the key issues to arbitra tion. Both the railroads and the unions have agreed to submit the two main issues size of train crews and firemen's jobs to binding arbitration. But the unions insist on negotiating secondary issues before arbitration begins. One source said there also might be disagreement over the scope of the issues to be arbi trated. The unions have indicated they want to narrow problems that the proposed six-man arbitra tion board would decide. Attorneys for the five rail op erating unions were drafting their version of the arbitration agree ment, including a timetable for settling all issues. A spokesman said the draft might be completed today. The agreement on Labor Secre tary Willard Wirtz arbitration Tito Reveals He'll Visit U.S. In Fall BELGRADE (UPI) Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito said to day he hopes lo meet President Kennedy in the United Slates tins all. Gov. Edmund G. (Pat) Brown of California told UPt after a 40- minute meoling with Tito that the Yugoslav leader said he thinks he will attend the United Nations General Assembly session in New York this fall. . Brown said he asked Tito if he hopes to meet Kennedy then. He auoted Tilo as replying, "Yes, I hope to see the President." 'But it will not be the first time I have met him," Tito said, I met President Kennedy when he came here in the early 1950's with Sen. (Owen) Brewster (for mer Republican senator from Maine) and Sen. Wayne Morse D-Orc.)." Tito Praises Pope Brown quoted Tito also as prais ing Pope Paul VI. "We have very good relations with the Vatican. Tlie Pope is for peace and so arc we," Tito told Brown. Tlie California governor, on a long European tour, told Tito he came to Yugoslavia from Italy where he received a medallion from the Pope in Vatican City. Brown, a Roman Catholic, quoted Tilo, born a Roman Cath olic but now an atheist, as saying, "I also have received a medal from the Pope." Brown said he asked Tilo if "we can expect a better interna tional understanding." "World Situation Good" Tito, according lo Brown', re plied, "Yes, the world situation is good but we can still do much to improve our relations. Brown said Tito talked politely and in general terms about Yugo slav concern over possible U. S. dropping of "most favored na tion" trade status for Yugoslavia, 5 ' V plan was the first breakthrough in the four-year-old deadlock over imposition of new work rules that would eliminate 32,000 firemen's jobs. But management sources said the clash over procedures could upset the arbitration plan and re new tlie threat of a nationwide rail strike on Aug. 29. Both sides previously had agreed to hold off any strike action until that date. Wirtz said tlie new dispute was 'obviously a critical one." He urged both tlie unions and car riers to come to an immediate understanding on procedures. Rescuers iners HAZLETO.V, Pa. (UPD-Three coal miners, trapped more than 300 feet down a mine shaft for six days and nearly given up for lost, were contacted through an air hole Sunday night and report ed in good condition. Police said rescuers shouted In tlie men through a hole six inches in diameter. One of tlie trapped men said two of the miners were unhurt while the third was injured slightly. The hole was drilled Sun day in a last-ditch effort lo find them. Authorities at the Fcllin Coal Co. mine, which is about three miles from here, were expected to boro a hole 28 inches in diam eter today in an effort to drag the men out of the shaft. They plan to slip steel pipe casing in ine noie alter it is bored and then lower ropes and straps to the miners. 'This rescue operation still is going to be a rough one," police said. Before any attempt to bring the men up a microphone to re cord their remarks, as well' as food, water and ftlankeLs, proba' bly will be lowered to fhem. The three involved were Daft'd Fellin, 48, who operated the mine with his brother, Joseph; Louis Bove, 42. Pattersonville, and Hen ry Throne, 28, Hazlelon. Sunk Years Go Tlicy were working deen in tlie old shaft, which police said was sunk many years ago, when the thundering cave-in occurred last t uosdny. Police here said the unidentified miner wlio was contacted report ed that ho and his two compan ions heard the roar of the cave-in in time to jump from tlie main shaft to a gangway stemming from it. The collapse, apparently caused when wooden beams shoring up ine walls and ceiling of the shaft gave way, clogged a 100-fbot-long section in the middle of the mine with coal and rocks. Authorities said tlie space in which tlie men were trapped was located about 331 feet from the entrance of the steeply sloping shaft, which is 380 feet Jong. Hope Almost Gone Weary rescuers had atmost lost h-jpe of finding them. Accumula-' lions of gas, which had hampered rescue operations, made officials pessimistic that tlie three would be found alive. By the end of tlie week, federal and slate officials indicated they felt there was little chance of res cuing them. Several officials sug gested filling in the pit. i .-.
