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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-
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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.