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Letters To The Editor HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore Monday, September 30, 1963 PACE' Preserved President Kennedy U expected to fly over the sand dunes south of Florence soon, after which he will probably say that this "unique area should be preserved for the public to enjoy." The facts are: the sand dunes area is already "preserved" be cause it is administered by the U.S. Forest Service some 19.000 acres along the coast from Flor ence almost to Coos Bay. Eleven excellent recreational areas with 272 overnight camp sites, boat ramps, access roads and other fa cilities are maintained by the for est service. In addition, there are stale parks, including Umpqua Light house of about 3,000 acres and Honeyman of 522 acres. These two state parks outdraw Crater Lake National Park. There is no van ishing seashore here and no need of wasteful duplication. The Neubergcr dunes park proj ect would also take in about 276 homes and private businesses. Al though there is a provision in the bill prohibiting condemnation of homes, this means very little. Sen ator Ernest Gruening of Alaska has declared "sooner or later the home owners would be squeezed out." Conrad L. Wirth stated plans call for returning the area to wil derness and removing all housing. Wirth, director of the National Park Service, has written, "An other thing 1 would like to see is the elimination of private hold ings in national parks." The agency can make it very incon venient for home owners, as their water supplies, roads etc., ' depend on the park officials who don't want them there in the first place. The proposed park would take in a large tract of private proper ty which now helps through taxes to support local schools, hospitals. Unlike the forest service, the park service locks up its hold ings. Only two per cent of Yellow stone is used and about the same in Olympic Park where few of the 880,000 acres will ever be visited by vacationists. If Presicent Kennedy really wanLs to economize, protect home owners, and provide recreation for the American people he will ' speak out against this needless sand dunes park. Dr. Thomas M. Hunt, Florence, Ore. Thanks i Letter from Dagmar Henry. American Field Service student'. To the Community of Klamath Falls: Hi, Pelicans, here I am back home in Germany, thinking of all of you wonderful people in Klam ath Falls, my second home town half way around the world from here. I want to say "thank you" to all of you who helped to make this year so great for me: my dear family, the AFS chapter, the kids and teachers in school and all the people of Klamath Falls. I will never, never stop being thankful for the fabulous time you gave me and all the fun I had and all the friends I made. It seems impossible to me that I won't see Klamath High's teams fighting for a long time. This coming year for me H work because I'll have a hard time in high school. I hope only for one more year! I know that I will see you again though I don't know yet when it will be. Half of my heart is and will always be with you. I love you, Daggl WASHINGTON REPORT . . Radicals Called For Grand Jury Testimony By FULTON LEWIS JR. WASHINGTON A Federal grand jury has summoned for closed-door testimony leaders of a radical new group who advocate violent revolution to establish a "genuine workers' state." Security officials reveal that Milt Kosen and Mort Scheer, for mer key operatives in the Com munist Party, broke with their su periors several years ago. The two New Yorkers accused party boss Gus Hall of ideological trea son in backing the Soviet Union in its long-simmering feud with lied China. They charged Hall with a lack of militancy in fighting the class war. They denounced the United Front policy which he favored. By the fall of 1961, Hall and the other members of the Com munist hierarchy were forced to take drastic action. They expelled the two dissidents, citing their pro Chinese sentiments. With the expulsion of Rosen and Scheer, Hall found he had lost the services of several hundred young Communists who, too, favored the Chinese approach. In late 1961, Rosena and Scheer formed Progressive Labor. They now claim 1,000 members, 90 per cent of them under 40 years of age. Approximately 330 are for mer members of the Communist Party. The Progressive Labor philos ophy has been described by Levi Laub, a dark-haired young man who led the recent tour of 58 Americans across Cuba. He says: "We consider ourselves Marxist Leninists. Whatever name you want to call us Communist. So cialistif it fits, we'll wear it. We defend the Communist Party's right to exist in the United States nMxtl our ntmpoV'Ual iaurt vill ct' now politic tl tourtl" and we're opposed to the sustained campaign against it." The goal of PL leaders, Laub says, is the "establishment of a revolutionary Socialist Party in the U.S. The aim would be for the working class, people who don't have a stake in ownership or management, to seize control of the stale." Laub testified before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee on his return from Cuba, refusing to cooperate in any way. His tes timony touched off a riot on Thursday, Sept. 12. There were at least eight Pro gressive Labor members on the Cuban jaunt. All assumed leader ship positions. An undercover agent for the FBI and CIA, Barry Hoffman, testified that PL mem bers conferred with Chinese and North Vietnamese Communists while in Cuba. They had no eon tact with the Russians, whom they considered to be soft, ac cording to Hoffman. Several "elder statesmen" of the far left youth movement were on hand for the HUAC hearings. They included at least two top ranking young Communists who quit the party for PL. Jacob Rosen (no relation to Milt Rosen) led a U.S. delegation to the Moscow Youth Festival in 1959. There he dipped the Ameri can flag in salute to Nikita Khru shchev and later toured Red Chi na. Identified under oath as a leading young Communist, Ro sen took the Fifth Amendment when given an opportunity to deny the allegation. Since joining Pro gressive Labor, Rosen has been active in North Carolina integra tion activities. Freddy Jerome, a 24-year-old son of V. J. Jerome, cultural com missar of the Communist Party, USA. The younger Jerome was also identified as a top young Communist and he too invoked his constitutional protec tion against self - incrimination. Jerome is now active in PL af fairs in Manhattan. He is running the campaign of a PL candidate i Bill Epton, an admitted former Communist) for the City Council and editing the movement's offi cial magazine. Progressive Labor. Both Milt Rosen and Scheer have been called before a Brook lyn grand jury. So have other PL leaders who helped organize the Cuban trip. Soft-voiced John Williams, num ber one economizer in the U.S. Senate, won a typical victory the other day. He spotted in the fine print of an appropriations bill a provision that would permit the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, to pay $30,000 sal aries to a select group of anony mous employes. This is some $10,000 higher than officials of any other department may earn under civil service reg ulations. Williams got Sen. Lister Hill. Democratic floor manager for the bill, to agree that the pro vision would be dropped in a pend ing joint Senate-House compro- 11 a O & EXPERIENCED PLUM CANNER One of Modoc County's most avid wild plum cannen is Fred Ash, who pits, washes, cooks and $sals all of his preserves. Now 88 years old, he averages 60 quarts a year, but says he use to can 175 quarts each season before he "slowed clown a little." Vild Plum Time Keeps Alturas Pioneer Hopping Young Runaways Trade Wedding Vows ALTURAS When the leaves begin to turn to their autumn colors in Modoc County, It is Mo doc wild plum time. One of the most avid, enthusiastic and busi est men in Alturas during plum season is 88-year-old Fred Ash. He pits, washes, cooks and seats all his own preserves for the year. He says that when he used to own the old Sessions ranch in Fort Bidwell. he would put up some 175 quarts of preserves but noAv that he has "slowed down a little," he can only average 60 quarts a year. Ash came to Modoc County in 1901 to work on the Fort Bidwell ranch he later managed and then owned. He was on the first board of directors of the Modoc Coun- ty Fair "in the days when all the board members chipped in $25 apiece and the supervisors would give up $500 for prizes . and was an active member of the Surprise Valley School Board for years. 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He keeps nouse ana win proudly display his culinary work as he serves a buckaroo stew for lunch for his wife, Ethel. He maintains that the ' wild plum preserves with any Modoc wild game, such as deer or birds, is about the finest and tastiest ad dition you can have to a meal The Modoc plums arc a delicacy on many taoies curing the holi day season. The plums grow wild through out the county and wild plum pickers in the fall are almost as thick in the hills as the deer hunters. Ash says he doesn't set around well enough to pick his own plums, but between his fam ily and friends he is well sup plied. He has nine living children 18 grandchildren, 32 great-grand children, and two great-greatgrandchildren. "And if vou add that all up it comes to 61, which isn't bad for an old fellow," he says proudly. EDITOR'S NOTE Seven years ago, on April 19, 1956, Mary Lee Davis was a flower girl at the resplendent marriage of Grace Kelly and Prince Rain ier of Monaco. She was 7 years old. Saturday, in a strange se quel to that man-age, the same Mary Lee, now 15, was mar ried to an 18 year-old Philadel phia youth. The following is an account of that marriage, as contrasted with the ceremony In Monaco In 1956) By MIKE PEAItY United Press International DES MOINES. Iowa UPH The bride wore yards and yards of pink and the pretty little flow er girl wore swiss organdie em broidered with daisies at the story-book marriage in Monaco seven years ago. Saturday that same flower girl, just 15 years old, tremulous, and wearing a simple tweed shift dress, gave her hand in another, but far different, storybook marriage. The world watched, gawked and smiled when the flower girl's aunt, the radiant movie star Grace Kelly of Philadelphia' and Hollywood, became the Princess of Monaco and consort to the dashing Rainier, one of the last monarchs of Europe. There was a little sadness mixed with hope Saturday when Mary Lee Davis became the bride of her 18-ycar-old sweetheart, John Paul Jones Jr. of Philadelphia. in tne street corner chapel of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. The brunette Philadelphia school girl, looking very much a teenager beneath her little black hat and black veil, was married in just five minutes by the Rev. M. R. Casady. She gripped her young hus band's hand at the altar as her father, the groom's parents, and two other couples watched. Then she faced reporters outside the church at the noisy, busy inter section of 9th and High Streets. There were tears on the cheeks of the groom's father, architect John Paul Jones Sr. The eyes of the groom's mother seemed red. Others in the marriage party were smiling. The couple fled their Philadel phia homes a month ago so they could be together. They lived in a cramped Des Moines apartment- John working as an encyclopedia salesman and Mary Lee as a cot- boss became suspicious and called police. The parents, members of prom inent Philadelphia families, hur ried to Des Moines, talked to the youngsters, and gave their consent to a wedding. Have Insured INVESTMENTS Through Equltlbtt'l Living Iniunnct John H, Houston Serviet Sinct 1921 FINAL DAY TUESDAY SPECIAL FALL SHOWING IRWIN STERN FINE FURS m Bcauiirui new iur acceisgry piecei , and fur coats 1 Furs rtstyled In latest fall fashion rtasonabU prices Exceptional trade-in - allowances, free estimates 525 Main ar TUESDAY SWEET ADELINES, 8 p.m., meeting, VFW -Hall. AMERICAN LEGION AUX., Unit 8, 8 p.m., business meeting. Legion Hall. KLAMATH COUNCIL PTA. 1 p.m., meeting, lecture room. Coun ty Library. MERRILL CHAPTER WOTM, 8 p.m., initiation, Merrill recrea tion hall. Officers wear formals. MALM HOME EXT. UNIT, t nm . meetinc. "Color in the Home" lesson, Malin Park Com munity Hall. Year books distributed. PAST NOBLE GRAND CLUB, Prosperity Rebekah Lodge, 12:30 D.m.. notluck. Alma Cofer, 933 High. VMCA SWIM. 7:15 to 8:15 p.m. rental period; 8:20 to 9:20 p.m. general public swim. WOTM, 8 p.m., Moose Heart chapter night, Moose Home. Bring gifts for Moose Heart, Moose Home. Wear formals. MIDLAND GRANGE HOME f vt iivit 1 n m meeting home of Nellie Motschenbacher. ALLA MAGE SKI CLUB, I p.m., meeting, county library. Old and new members, neiresnmenis WEDNESDAY PLAYERS' CLUB, 7:30 p.m. meeting. Legion Hall. YMCA SWIM, 7:15 to 8:15 p.m. handicap swim; 8:20 to 9:20 p.m. adult women swim. MIDLAND GRANGE, 8 p.m., meeting, Grange Hall. Ballot No. Stub To be torn off by member of election board SAMPLE BALLOT Special Election for State of Oregon To be held on Tuesday, October 15, 1963. Mark a Cross (X) or a Check (,) in the Voting Square After the Word "Yes" or After the Word "No" REFERRED TO THE PEOPLE BY REFERENDUM PETITION Title and Statement of Purpose I PERSONAL AND CORPORATION INCOME TAX BILL Purpose: To Increase state I revenues. Abolishes federal tax deduction. Lowers personal tox rates. Provides minimum tax. Increases corporation rates. Effective on or after January 1, 1963. ESTIMATE OF FINANCIAL EFFECTS: If Ballot Measure 1 (Chapter 627, Oregon Lows 1963) is opproved by the voters, it is estimated that the increase in state revenue over that which would be provided by existing low from personal income taxes will amount to about $24,750,000 per year or $49,500,000 for the biennium and the in crease from corporate excise taxes on income will amount to about $350,000 per year or $700,000 for the biennium, based on present levels of income. The Ballot Meas ure also authorizes a possible "speed-up" of personal income tox poyments withheld by employers that would permit an increase in 1963-1965 revenues by $14,000,000, without increasing the tax liability of the personol income tax payer. If Bollot Measure 1 is defeated, expenditures in the 1963-1965 biennium will need to be reduced by approximately $60 million belcw the level of appropriations made by the 1963 Legislature, or other revenues must be sought, or some combination of revenue increase ond expenditure reduction totalling approximately $60 million must be made in occord with the requirements of Article IX ond XI cf the Constitution of Oregon. STATE OF OREGON, COUNTY OF KLAMATH SS. I, Chas. F. DeLap, County Clerk in ond for the above named County and State, hereby certify that the foregoing is a true facsimile of the Official Ballot to be furn ished the Electors at the polling ploces In the various precincts of the County on the 15th dov of October, 1963 Soecial Election, soid ballot being prepared by the Secre tory of State of the State of Oregon. Witness my hand and the Seal of said County this 27th day of September, 1963. Chas. F. DeLap Ccunty Clerk, Klamath County, Oregon , 9-30-63 10-4-63 wm mm Jit HdjiZ.l. HIWIIH Wm l Our United Way Campaign opens today; It's the campaign that will bring new life, new help and new hope to many people. One gift works many wonders w T First in Oregon Over the Top - $148,311.00 "VMin rikiECT uaiibm VAiin ein rump uMinr dav urn kjmmvu iiihy i w wr i wwn mm annnb nvvnii i " hn mvn in I
