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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1963)
coap. Roseburg Firm Submits Lowest Bid On Hospital O.or ORE. LIBRARY MES?APSR MCTIM. . Tli Todd Construction Com pany of Roseburg submitted the low bid of $2,090,275 during the bid opening tailing for the con struction of the Presbyterian In tercommunity Hospital at the Pelican Cafe Thursday, but the contract will not be formally awarded until the bid is ap proved by the U.S. Public Health Service. In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS The news today? It's a mess any way you look at it. Example: IsjMosn and his farm problem. There was a time when the Russian people h-ad a reason able abundance of grain. But they got tired of an all - out bread diet. They wanted milk and meat. So Kroosh subsidized milk and meat. Whereupon the Russian farm ers turned in and produced so many cattle that they ate up all the grain and now Kroosh is having to buy grain from the wicked free enterprisers here in the U.S. He's having to buy so much of it that it's taking most of his hoarded gold to pay for it. What about US? Well, during the war, we sub sidized farm production in or der to insure food enough to meet our needs and the needs of our allies. It worked. With guaranteed high prices, our farmers turned in and produced food as food had never been produced before. We kept everybody fed. There came eventually the end of the war and with it the end of our obligation to feed our allies. The obvious tiling to do was to end the subsidies. But our politicians were afraid that if the war subsidies were dropped they'd lose the farm vote. So the subsidies were continued. The result was a food surplus that was breaking our backs to provide storage for it. So- ' To get rid of the surplus We're now selling grain to the communists our enemies, who have sworn to BURY us. We need to get rid of the sur plus grain if only to provide storage for MORE surplus grain. Besides, we need the gold the Russians are paying us for the grain to help out with our balance ofpayments which is all out of whack. So much for the world. Let's get closer home. Here in Oregon, for more years than one can easily re member, a sales tax has been regarded as just one step short of SIN. Now we're in trouble because of a tax rebellion. All the things we've been wanting, and get ting, have cost a lot of money. The tax bite is beginning to hurt. Some of our newspapers, in cluding this one, are taking itraw votes on what the people , Want in the way of NEW taxes to raise the money we apparent- ly must have unless we give up lot of things. . You guessed it. -The sales tax is leading HEA- (Continued on Page 4-A) 50 Miners Trapped P.KINE, Germany (L'PD Work crows tonisht rescued seven miners who had been trapped for 23 hours ISO feet below the ground In a flooded Iron mine. There was no word of the other 43 miners, and It was fean-d they were dead. PEINE, Germany (UPD - A huge wall of watery sludge trap ped 50 iron ore miners below Want To Bet It Won't Last? COVENTRY, England l'PI -All bets were off at the Cov entry Greyhound Racetrack Tuesday night when bookies at the track staged a wildcat Mr ike The U.S. surgeon general must approve the bid before some $1.3 million in Hill-Burton and Accelerated Public Works Program funds are re leased for the construction proj ect. Dr. Don Bauer, representing the hospital board of directors, anticipated that a decision on the bid would be made by the Little Girl Hit By Car An 8-year-old girl was struck by a car and hurtled 52 feet Thursday afternoon, breaking her leg and causing internal in juries. Eunice Swearingcn was re ported in "satisfactory" condi tion at Klamath Valley Hospital today. The driver of the car, Mrs. Diana Louise Schlect, 24, 3440 Pelican Street, was treated for shock. Police cited her for fail ure to yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian. . Police said the incident oc curred at 5:13 p.m. at Espla nade and Spring streets. Officers said Mrs. Schlect was driviri south on Esplanade in her 1957 sedan when the car struck Eunice as she ran across the street from the northwest corner to the southeast corner. The girl was hurtled 52 feet by the impact. She was taken to Klamath Valley Hospital by Peace Ambulance. A witness told police Mrs. Schlect had diverted her atten tion from the road just before the car struck the girl. Eunice is the daughter of Mrs. Ruth Eleanor Swearingen of Esplanade Court. Rusk Flies To Germany BONN, Germany (UPD Sec retary of State Dean Rusk ar rived today for a series of talks with' West German officials ex pected to center on their con cern that U.S. troop strength here will be cut because of the success of a division-size air lift. Rusk appeared exasperated when asked about the possibili ty that troop withdrawals .would follow Operation Big Lift, which Thursday completed the move ment of more than 15,000 troops from Texas to bases in Ger many. "With Big Lift, there is more military power in Germany to day than Germany has ever had in history," he said. "Let it go at that until Sunday." Aides said Rusk would devote about a third of a speech in Frankfurt Sunday to the ques tion of the IU.S. troop commit ment in Europe and the match ing defense commitment by other members of the North At lantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Today, Rusk unexpectedly added Defense Minister Kai Uwe Von HasseL to the list of German government leaders he will see. RETAIL SALES UP WASHINGTON (UPD - Re tail sales in the United States for the week ended Oct. 19 to taled an estimated $4.8 billion about one per cent higher than the previous week and 6 per cent more than the same week a year ago. ground today. Rescue workers drilled a ;irinch shall and made contact with seven of the imprisoned men, but there was no word of the other 43 miners who were feared dead. The men became trapped by an earth slide Thursday night at the Lcngedc-Broistedt mine, 10 miles south of Peine in West Germany's province of Lower Saxony. A full shift of 129 men went to work in the mine at 2 p.m. Thursday, and all were there at 8 p.m. when tons of watery sludge, mud, and rocks cascaded into the lOO-yard-dcep pit. Seventy nine men escaped, struggling to the surface through tubes of the mine's ex haust and ventilation system or climbing rope ladders lowered from the surface. Electric System Out The mud slide short-circuited surgeon general sometime with in the next two to four weeks His announcement came lale yesterday after a brief meet ing of the board in which It agreed to accept the bid as submitted by the Roseburg firm. While the bids and specifica tions are under study in Wash ington, Gordon Todd, general superintendent for the bid win ner, told the Herald and News yesterday that his company would begin preparations to start construction as soon as word is received that the con tract has been formally let. Before the contract is let, the bid needs approval from the hospital board of directors, the Stale Department of Public Health and the surgeon general. Harry Palmer, representing the State Department of Public Health, met with the members of the hospital board and con curred with them in accepting . the proposal of the Roseburg company. Palmer also lauded the Klam ath Basin for its part in contrib uting to the success of the proj ect. "I do not know of another case of its type in our experi ence working with hospital boards," he said. "For our office, it has been a great pleasure to have worked with you people of the Klam ath Basin on this . project. I think you are going to come out with the very best possible hospital," he said further. The Roseburg firm underbid four other construction firms, including H. Halvorson, Inc., Spokane, Wash.; James S. Hick ey, Portland, Ore.; Ott-Atwater, Seattle, Wash.; and W. H. Shields Si Anderson - Weslfall, Roseburg, Ore. JUBILANT BID WINNER Gordon Todd (center), general superintendent and secre tary of the Todd Construction Company of Roseburg, beams ecstatically following the announcement that his firm was the low bidder for the construction of the Pres byterian Intercommunity Hospital, during the bid opening at the Pelican Cafe Thurs day. Joining Todd in his delight are Boyd Sanderson (left), administrator of the pro posed hospital, and Bob Starbuck, of the Morrison, Howard and Starbuck architec tural firm. The Roseburg firm submitted a bid of $2.09 million, lowest among five bidders. Cigarette And Sales Taxes Favored By Residents Here Overwhelming support for both a general sales tax which provided for income and prop erty tax relief and for a ciga rette lax was expressed in the tabulation of the first 266 ballots returned in the recent inquiry conducted by the Herald and News. A total of 193 of the 266 bal lots called for enactment of a In Germany; 7 Alive the mine's electric system and stalled elevators that might have saved all the miners in minutes, a spokesman for the owners said. The management of tin llsedcr Mine Co. here in Peine organized rescue opera tions. Rescue teams drilled through the night to bore a six inch hole down to the 60-yard level of the mine. "They could hear noises down there," the spokesman said. A field telephone was low ered. Seconds Idler, a voice crackled up to the surface on the phone: "There are seven of us down here. We can't see any others." The spokesman said the lower level of the mine Kill was flooded this morning and said that if the missing men were at the bottom "they are prob- VISION IN THE FUTURE An architects Morrison, Howard Presbyterian Intercommunity upon completion during the million structure will begin Weather Klamath Falls. Tulelake and Lake view: Clearing and colder tonight with lowi 74 to 2S. Saturday partly cloudy and a little warmer. High J!. Westerly winds five to IS miles per hour. High yoslerdey 51 . Low this morning 40 High year ago 47 Low year ago 33 Precip. last 24 hours .32 Since Jan. I 7.41 Same period year ago 14.S8 general sales lax providing for income and property tax relief, and 157 of the 266 favored a cig arette tax. Only 48 of the 266 cast a bal lot for no tax increases, some sparking their ballot with pun gent comments about taxes and legislators in general. Regarding their viewpoints on the budget and the recently dc- i ably dead." Sandwiches Sent Down Rcscuers lowered sandwiches and water to the trapped men and concentrated on widening the six-Inch hole so rescue cap sules could be put down to bring the still-living miners to the surface. "We're okay and the atmos phere is good," one of the trap ped men reported lo the sur face by phone. The seven below ground re ported that there was watery sludge in the 60-yard level side shaft in which they had taken refuge, 40 yards above the bot tom. But they apparently found a dry place in one of the small er shafts coming off the main shaft at the 60-yard level. Four teams of drillers were trying to widen the pres ent narrow hole to about four feet to lower the rescue cap sules. r artist's sketch provided by and Starbuck depicts the Hospital as it will appear summer of 1965. The $2 emerging in McLoughlin Price Ten Cents 16 Pagci fcated tax proposal, 1.14 of the 266 declared the need for a dif ferent lax. 126 thought the bill was poorly written and unfair and 1 12 thought the budget w as loo large. 102 thought the tax Increase was too much. Regarding suggestions as lo what to do next, 100 suggested a new tax program be devised, 72 were for a combination of budget cuts and new, smaller tax increases; 55 were in favor of making a full $60 million cut in the budget, and 49 were for keeping the budget as is, but raising revenues another way. The trend in Klamath County is quite signilicant because the voters in this area turned down the recent tax proposal by al most a 9-1 margin whereas the statewide result was about a 3-1 defeat. However, tlie trend toward both the general sales tax and a cigarette tax coincided with views expressed by voters in polls conducted by other news papers throughout the state. In Mcdford, for example, out of a total of 917 ballots, the ma jority were for a cigarette tax and a sales tax, in that order. The majority of those casting ballots in the Mcdford poll in dicated that the bill was defeat ed because the tax increase was ton high and the budget was too large. A number of the ballots re (Continue o flge ;4A Heights following a ground-breaking ceremony to be conduced by Congressman Al Ullman Saturday, Nov. 2. Other dignitaries to appear at the site dedication are Sens. Maurine Neuberger and Wayne Morse. Gov. Mark KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. Viet Mam Truce Being Explored LONDON (UPD-The govern ments of South Viet Nam and Communist North Viet Nam are apparently making exploratory contacts that could lead to a truce in the divided country, diplomatic sources said today. There was no official confir mation of the report. The United States has given massive financial and military backing to the South Vietna mese government of President Ngo Dinli Diem in its struggle against Communist guerrillas who are armed, equipped, and given shelter by President Ho Chi Minh of North Vict Nam. DST Ends On Sunday By United Press International Daylight saving time, not long ago a touchy topic in Oregon, comes lo a peaceful end for the year Sunday. This was the first year in three years that Oregon had uniform time throughout the late spring, summer and early fall. A 1961 legislative act permit ed five counties to adopt fast time. They did. So did some others, although they weren't supposed to. This resulted in confusion in 1961 and 1962. So voters last year approved daylight time for the entire state. They had it ending in the last week of September. The 1963 legislature took care of the rest extending it until the last week of October to conform with other slates that moved up the clock. Sometime Saturday night resi dents are supposed to move the clock back an hour, NOW IB THE HOUR) TURN BACKTHfe Clwvr r FRIDAY. OCTOBER 25, 1963 Diplomatic sources said the current moves were believed to be aiming at some sort of truce arrangement with possible wid er ramifications Diem's brother and chief adviser, Ngo Dinh Nhu, was said to favor the con tacts. Ho Chi Minh has made nu merous public offers to discuss a truce but the Diem regime has never accepted. One of the immediate effects of any arrangement between the Saigon and Hanoi regimes would be lo restore economic links and permit the flow of food from the fertile South to relatively unproductive North Viet Nam. The reports of truce moves were viewed with caution in Western diplomatic quarters, in the absence of authoritative con firmation. Communist sources, although not confirming the reports, said such a development would "make sense" in terms of stated Communist policy that settlements should be sought by the regimes of the divided por tions of a country. This is also the Communist position in rela tion to East and West Ger many. Viet Nam, formerly part of French Indochina, was par titioned at the 1954 Far East conference in Geneva. France, which had suffered military losses capped by the fall of the stronghold of Dicn Bien Phu to Ho Chi Minh's forces earlier that year, turned North Viet Nam over to the Communists and South Vict Nam to the re gime of which Diem was prime minister. Helpless Ship Survives PORTSMOUTH, Va. (UPII Tcn bearded, bleary-eyed sail ors, some weak from seasick ness and a diet of peanut but ler, pulled into port here today after five days of helpless buf feting aboard a disabled ship in Hie hurricane whipped At lantic. Tlie trip was tiring, they said, but they were not scared. "After we rode out the first night we got confidence and from then on we weren't wor ried at all," said Chief Warrant Officer Walter F. Ganey of Nor folk, commander of tho decom missioned destroyed escort USS Fogg which broke away from a tow vessel last Saturday. He said' the ship, which was on Its way to a mothball fleet In Orange, Tex., when Its tow line parted about 60 miles off O. Hatfield, who 'indicated earlier that he would attend the event, has announced that he will not be here be-, cause of other commitments. Residents of the Klamath Basin whoso contributions have made possible the con-. struction of the hospital are invited to attend. Telephone TU 44111 No. 7611 By CARL VINES United) Press International CHARLESTON, S. C. (UPI) Hurricane Ginny ; aimed its 100-mile-an-hour winds at the Carolinas" coastline today, forcing thousands to flee to higher grounds.' A noon (EDT) advisory located Ginny 65 miles southeast of Charleston and the weather bureau said the center of the storm likely would move inland to night between Myrtle Beach, S. C. and Wilmington, N. C. . -t. .... ... Police with loudspeak ers toured the low - lying ocean areas around Char leston, urging residents to get out by noon. Thous ands heeded the warning, packed a few belongings, and headed for inland shelters. A siren screamed steadily at Folly Beach, jutting out into the Atlantic just south of Charleston. "This means get the hell out," a Civil Defense spokes man said. Gale force winds and pound ing surf hit all along tlie coast line. Extensive flooding with tides up 8 feet above normal was forecast for portions of the South Carolina coast. Ginny, the season's seventh hurricane,- sprang up off the North Carolina coast Sunday night, backtracked slowly to the south and menaced the Florida mainland before turning again to threaten the Carolinas. The noon (EDT) advisory said the storm was moving on a north northeast course at 8 miles per hour and would con tinue on this course for tlie next 18 hours. Civil Defense officials at Charleston said that evacuation of about 10,000 persons on Is lands and beach fronts in the path of Ginny was nearly com pleted shortly before noon. The refugees headed for 27 high school building shelters in the North Carolina coast was a tight one. The only leakage that developed during tlie day long battering by 40-foot waves was in a forward compartment. This was promptly sealed off. "It was choppy out there all right," the 49-year-old veteran sailor told newsmen shortly be fore sitting down with the nine others to their first warm rueal in five days. "You might call it tough fishing." i Except for a brief period when the Coast Guard cutler Chilula was attempting to at tach a towline to tlie drifting ship Tuesday, none of tlie crew ventured on deck. "We didn't get any sleep ei ther," said Boatswain's Mat F. G. Renker of Chlckamauga, Ga. "How could you when you had to fight all tha time just to slay In tlie bunk." Weather AGRICULTURAL FORECAST Hirvttt outlook good on Saturday and Sunday and only lair tha lint of tt wMk. Hard frttit likely tonight and Saturday night. the greater Charleston area manned by Red Cross person nel. About 8,000 of the persons are residents of beach homes and others lived in homes they feared would not stand up to the stiff winds, AH counties within 100 miles of Charleston were advised to close schools by noon and get school buses off the highways, as soon as possible. Residents of resort islands and other low - lying areas around this historic seaport city boarded up their homes and headed for inland shelters. Police and firemen moved up and down Folly Beach, Isle of Palms and SuUivans Island in loudspeaker trucks urging about 10.000 winter residents of the Islands to move to higher ground. Shooting Hours OREGON October 26 Opel Close 7:00 a.m. 6:15 p.m. CALIFORNIA October 28 Open Close 7:01 a.m. 8:08 p.m. Hurricane The crew spent most of the tirru, in tllA fticfihliwl fthin'tf wardroom, seated in chairs which slid from one side of the room to tlie other as tho 306 foot ship rolled as much as SO degrees. They could not play cards be. cause there was no light and tiie crew found It impossible to use the one-burner stuve. "We had peanut butter on bread and sometimes on crack ers and we had jelly and dry cereal," said Renker, who cele brated his 39th birthday aboard the vessel. "Yes, that's what I got on my birthday. I had pea nut butter and jelly." The Fogg was hauled Into Its mooring at 3 a.m. EDT today by two Navy tugs which took it into tow Wednesday after ships and planes spent two dayi searching (or tha craft.
