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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 22, 1963)
Friend Says R. Baker Not Worried WASHINGTON' (L'PI' - For mer Senate official Robert G. c Bobby i Baker target of a wide-ranging investigation of his "outside activities," was said today to feel he is going to come out "all right" when the dust settles. This was reported in a dis patch by Kenneth Srhetbel, Washington correspondent for the Puerto Rican newspaper. El Mundo, who interviewed one of Baker's close friends. The friend, who asked not to be identified, told of a chat he had with Baker. It concerned the current investigation into Baker's outside business inter ests while he held the $19,600-a-year post of Senate Demo cratic secretary. Baker resigned under fire Oct. 7. Since that time he has refused to comment publicly on the reports of his many activi ties other than to file a formal deniel in a law suit and to en ter a disclaimer in an action in volving his alleged non-payment of District of Columbia in come taxes. "I'm in good shape on in come taxes," Baker was quot ed as saying. "They can't get me there." Baker has claimed he was an official of the feder al government thus he did not have to pay D.C. taxes. Dis trict tax officials said Baker was a federal employe, not an official, and owed the taxes. Tlie friend said Baker be lieves "the press is not doing me justice some of the stor ies are unnecessary." Baker was quoted as saying that "some vicious stories. . .make me sick." He said his lawyers had advised him against com menting directly on any of the reports, however. Baker gave no clue as to whether he might "name some names" when he is called to testify before Senate investigat ors, but he did tell his friend, "when things unravel, I'll be all right." He also expressed the hope that he could remain in Washington. The friend said that if Baker had lost any sleep over his problems lie did not show it. He appeared calm and self-assured as usual and spoke quietly. The widow of Baker's one time partner in a plush $1.2 million Maryland motel testi fied before a closed-door ses sion of the Senate Hulcs Com mittee Thursday and was said to have opened up "certain avenues" of information for the senators. Sen. B. Everett Jordan, D N.C., chairman of the commit tee, passed that word to news men after the committee ques tioned the widow, Mrs. Ger trude C. Novak, for three hours. Mrs. Novak also partici pated in some Baker transactions. British Officer Gets His Bull MANCHESTER, England (UPD A policeman became a matador and got his bull on the rainy streets of Manchester Thursday. Policeman Johnny Oliver won the bullfight by bringing the bull to its knees with a lieadon tackle. The bull had escaped from a local slaughter house, charged through three miles of streets, knocked down and injured a woman and terrified women and children. The 500-pound bull was corn ered between a truck and a po lice car. Oliver moved in and grabbed it, tw isting its head un til it dropped to its knees. The bull, which had been hit by a truck, died before humane officers could get to the scene to destroy it. HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls, Oregon Friday, November il, 1963 PAGE 3 A r - -J, i. -SO - 1 AT IT, AGAIN The Flying Wallendas performed their human pyramid act in public for the first time since they fell while performing 22 months ago, killing two members of the troupe. i During their current stand in Fort Worth, Tex., they are using a net for me iiiii nine. un elephOtO Lady Union Official Asks Vage Law For 'Bunnies' WASHINGTON lUPI'-Alady union official has told congress men that tlie scantily clad wait resses in the bunny clubs should be covered by the min imum wage law. Myra Wolfgang, of Detroit, Mich., vice president of the AFL-CIO Hotel and Restaurant Employes Union, gave a House labor subcommittee a descrip tion of the problem that ran that gamut from A-cup to G-, string. The subcommittee opened hearings this week on legisla tion that would bring restaurant workers under the $1.23 an hour minimum wage if the bulk of their income is in wages. Mrs. Wolfgang urged further exten sion of the proposed new cov erage to employes whose pay is mostly in the form of tips. "Your proposed exclusion of tipped employes will give legal ized impetus to a most danger ous trend in our industry," she said. "I am referring to tlie evil, evil wage practices of the bun ny clubs, the key clubs and even some posh cocktail lounges whose owners require wait resses to work for no wages at all, for gratuities alone. "If you exclude tipped employes from the umbrella of minimum wage provisions, you are helping to foster this im morality, you are lending au thenticity to a no-wage policy. "You will be as guilty as tlie erstwhile magazine publisher who insists that applicants au dition for waitress jobs in swimsuits and leotards and when lie hires them (says' there will be no weekly pay check. "I also object to this practice as a spokesman for thousands of competent, experienced wait resses. The employer who hires an attractive girl and pays no wages does not ask the appli cants if they know the differ ence between a manhattan and a martini he asks them for their bust and hip measure ments. "The criteria is not experi ence and politeness, but wheth er the applicant wears an A cup. a B-cup or how she looks in a G-string. "Evidently the wages of sin arc not always death, but in this case, only exclusion from the fair Labor Standards Act." Chairman James Roosevelt, D-Calif., told Mrs. Wolfiang that while her testimony was "pro vocative," he did not "intend to allow these hearings to be come an investigation of bunny clubs and key clubs and the like." Mothers-To-Be Snub Pickles Pickles are passe for preg nancy, a noted anthropologist said today. Speaking before a meeting of the American Anthropological Assn. which is holding its 62nd annual conference in San Francisco Dr. Steven Polgar of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America said that in a study he conducted in the Bay area into the eating habits of pregnant women only nine per cent named pickles as their favorite food. Polgar told the group that 30 per cent of the women inter viewed named fruit juices as their most popular food while expecting. Meat and fish polled a close second place. He said on a national level pickles ranked in fifth place as the food most craved by preg nant women. Wallendas Perform Act Twice FORT WORTH I L'PI - The audience fell silent: the aging man barked commands, and the "Flying Wallendas" dclicd death again in their famous "human pyramid." Twice Wednesday seven members of the German troupe mounted the high wire and piled gingerly atop each other until the three-level stunt was completed. They plan 21 per formances here. The pyramid crumbled just 22 months ago in Detroit and two Wallendas were killed. A safety net hangs mutely be neath the performers here a new innovation. The Wallendas' act was origi nated by Karl, 58, in 1954 in Germany. After the Detroit tra gedy, the performers fell dur ing rehearsals at Sarasota. Fla. During a runthrough here Tues day night, someone accidentally switched off the lights while they were on the wire. The Wallendas froze. The lights were quickly re stored, and the aerialists climbed down from their 35 foot high perch. Karl said the "human pyra mid" will be discarded after this circus. An estimated 5(52.000 private dwellings in the U.S. were hit by fires during 10(i2. Average length of life in the U.S. has increased about 29 years since the middle of the 19th Ccnturv. Alabama Jury Wants RJK As First Witness By United I'rrn International A Washington-bound Alabama grand jury looking into Justice Department participation in the slate's racial troubles wants U.S. Atty. Gen. Robert Kenne dy to be its first witness. The Dallas County (Selma) grand jury said Thursday it hoped to question Kennedy first when it opens hearings Monday in Washington on the question of whether Justice Department officials encouraged improper and unlawful integration activi ty in tlie Deep South state. The hearing was moved to Washington alter Justice De partment officials offered to talk with "representatives" of the panel. Earlier tlie depart ment got a court order to halt subpoenas for a hearing in Ala bama issued by tlie grand jury to several attorneys in tlie de partment's civil rights division. In a related development, a federal grand jury in Birming ham said Thursday it would in vestigate the controversial ride given integration leader Slartin Luther King Jr. in a Justice Department automobile. This incident touched off the Dallas County investigation. Federal District Court Judge Clarence W. Allgood issued a statement saying that Justice Department authorities had agreed to appear before the panel to explain the incident. Other developments: New York: About 500 persons gathered on Manhattan's West Side Thursday night to protest alleged police brutality and en gaged in a shoving match with policemen. Sticks and stones also were hurled from nearby apartment house rooftops. Syracuse, N.Y.: student civil rights group called on Syr a c u s e University officials Thursday to refrain from sched uling athletic events with seg regated schools. Council Okays Modern Languages VATICAN CITY I L'PI '-The Ecumenical Council, in the first final action on any major issue since it was convened more than a year ago, today over whelmingly approved tlie use of modern languages instead of Latin in most forms of Roman Catholic worship. Tlie council fathers voted 2.158 to 19 in a final vote pre- Porcupine Bounty Noted Some $300 in bounty money is still available to porcupine hunters who present tlie noses of their quarry at the county clerk's office, the Klamath County Treasurer's Office re ported today. The amount is all that re mains of $2,000 which was al located for tlie special fund earlier this year. Tlie county will set aside another $2,000 as bounty money next spring. The county pays 50 cents for each porcupine nose presented at (he clerk's office. An eradi cation program of tlie mammal was started here some years ago because such animals de stroy large numbers of valu able timber annuallv. ceding promulgation of the dog matic constitution by Pope Paul VI in a ceremony expected next week. Tlie pontiff will act on tlie document at public session. An open volo at that time by the council fathers is considered a formality. Last week tlie council con cluded a document on social communications, but compared to tlie dogmatic constitution on tlie liturgy, that is considered a secondary decree. Tlie document on liturgy has seven chapters. Its general aim is to modernize the forms of One of the chapters allows for the use of modern languages to replace Latin in baptisms, con firmations, confessions, com munions, marriages, holy or ders (ordaining of priests) and extreme unction. CAR WASH and WAX sp.ci.1 $8.00 Monday thru Thursday 9 till 5 Sparkle Car Wash 4023 So. 6th BREAKFASTS - HEY FELLERS... They're flyin' low! 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