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.
In 1948 he retired In Alturas
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where he still carries on a busy
life with his pluming, lodge work
m the Odd fellows, and taking
care ol nis yard work. Last year,
however, he had to hire a boy to
do the lawn mowing. 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.
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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
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