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Ellingson Mill Burns
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Destroying Equipment
Flames roared through the
Ellingson Lumber Mill on Lake
Ewauna Saturday night and
reduced the plant and thousands
In The-
Day's lews
By FRANK JENKINS
The news today?
-iVs this is w ritten, it's a mish
mash. In Caracas. Nicaiaugua's
President Bctancourt urges
American nations to join in
'definitive action to END
Cuba's communist regime."
That. Venezuela's foreign min
ister told reporters, means
ARMED INTERVENTION, if
necessary.
That could lead to WAR in
the Western Hemisphere. It
could lead to WORLD WAR.
When war starts, nobody knows
how far it may spread. The
shooting of an Austrian arch
duke down in the Balkans start
ed World War I.
B u t, President Betancourt
pointed out, Castro's Cuba is a
base from which it is designed
to spread communism through
out the Western Hemisphere.
That, he adds, mustn't be per
mitted. From there the news bounces
to London, where a pubkeeper
has a problem that is getting
him down. His problem is a
customer who calls for his half
pint of bitter beer, downs it
and then EATS THE GLASS.
He has reached the point where
he is eating two or three glass
es a night.
The pubkeeper says he can't
stand the expense. The custo
mer says if he can't eat his
glasses, he'll take his business
elsewhere. There the situation
rests at the moment. The cus
tomer says he started eating
glasses back during the war.
Now, adds, he has to have 'em.
What a man!
WHAT A STOMACH!
The clicking wires have just
reported that H may have been
a DUM RUM bullet that killed
President Kennedy.
What's a dum dum?
Dum dum bullets have (heir
jackets stripped back from the
point to uncover the lead core.
That makes Uiem more deadly
because the soft point of the
bullet SPREADS when it
' strikes and thus shocks and
tears cruelly.
Such bullets are used in hunt
ing large animals. Their use for
military purposes has long been
forbidden by international law.
Which is to say:
The nations can get together
to outlaw dum dum bullets be
cause their use is cruel and in
human, but CAN'T get togeth
er to outlaw nuclear bombs.
Back now to Dallas, where
Mrs. J. C. Tippit, widow of the
"3
loliceman who was shot to
Vileath while trying to capture
President Kennedy's assassin,
thanks the nation for its com
forting words and its generosity
in her time of grief.
She says:
"We so appreciate the words
of comfort we have received
and for the fund that has been
set up for us."
She refers to the J. C. Tippit
Memorial Fund, which con
tinues to swell. On Saturday
morning, uncounted contribu
tions fill nine mail sacks at the
Dallas police station.
Counted funds are already
over the $50,000 mark. In
reply to questions, the Internal
Revenue Service says outright
gifts are NOT TAXED accord
ing to their value. So, presum
ably, she will be able to keep
rhe bulk of the gifts that are
pouring in to her.
We are reminded of the verse
generally attributed to Gover
nor Hoch of Kansas and writ
ten about a half century ago:
"There's so much good in the
worst of us.
"And so much bad in the best
of us.
'That it ill behooves any of
us
"To talk about the rest of
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of dollars in equipment to a
twisted pile of smoking rubble.
Flames leaped hundreds of
feet in the air and Klamath
Falls Fire Chief Geno Gheller
said by the time firemen ar
rived the mill was a "ball of
fire."
The mill is owned by Elling
son Timber Company, but the
land is owned by Modoc Lum
ber Company. The mill was to
have been razed to make way
for Modoc's industrial park de
velopment. A value on the loss
was not immediately estab
lished.
Equipment in tlie mill was
auctioned off last week and
workmen had been removing it.
But at least half of the equip
ment still remained in the build
ing as the fire broke out, short
ly before 9 p.m.
The fire apparently broke out
in the south wing of the build
ing, but quickly spread to the
rest of tlie mill.
All available Klamath Falls
firemen were called to the
scene, but were hampered in
their efforts to subdue the blaze
by a lack of water. The city
water supply to the mill had
been shut off, and the only wa
ter available to firemen came
through a single hose laid a
quarter of a mile to South Sixth
Street.
It wasn't immediately known
if tlie mill and its contents were
insured. The mill had been in
President Continues
To Call For Economy
WASHINGTON (UPD Presi
dent Johnson notified all gov
ernment department and agen
cy heads Saturday that he will
expect their help in carrying
out the pledge of "prudence and
economy" he made to Congress.
He asked them to submit pro
posals to cut extravagance and
save money next year.
The President said in a mem
orandum that public faith in
free government is strongly in
fluenced by confidence "that
public servants are alert and
efficient in conserving the na
tion's resources entrusted to
their care."
"For this reason, we must
Bandit Works
On Wrong Day
LINFORD, England (UPD.
A young man waving a gun
walked into the post office
here Saturday and demanded
money.
"This is Saturday," Post
mistress Iris Brown told him.
"We haven't got any money
on Saturdays. You've come on
the wrong day."
The youth turned around,
walked out and roared off on
a motorcycle.
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1962 SWEEPSTAKES WINNER Depicting Christ as the symbol of world peace,
"Peace On Earth" was judged ths outstanding entry in last year's Herald and hiews
Christmas Parade. Ths beautifully tufted blue and whits float was sntsred by St.
Paul's Episcopal Church and represented the work of the Episcopal Young Churchmen.
Thousands of paper napkins were stuffed Into ths wire frame of the globs and around
ths bed of ths flost.
operative for about a year and
a half and has frequently been
the scene of fires.
The flames were visible for
miles and a crowd of hundreds
of spectators gathered at the
fire scene.
Firemen hadn't determined
the cause of the blaze late last
night, but there was specula
tion that a cigarette discarded
by one of tlie w orkmen w ho had
been removing equipment may
have smouldered for h ou r s,
then flared up.
The flames melted steel roof
ing of the mill as they raced
through the large building.
A tall sawdust burner adja
cent to tlie mill was surrounded
by flames, but didn't burn. The
mill is a few hundred feet from
the city sewage treatment plant,
but that installation wasn't
threatened at any time.
A Suburban Fire Department
truck also arrived at the scene
to aid city firemen, but was
returned to its station when the
shortage of water became ap
parent. Flames were confined to the
mill itself, firemen said, only
because there was little wind.
Without w ater, they said, a wind
could have turned the fire into
a disaster.
Firemen were still at tlie
scene late Saturday night,
watching over the glowing em
bers of the mill.
work hard to reduce the costs
of government, not only for the
sake of tlie savings to be made,
but also in the interest of vin
dicating the people's confidence
in the institutions of democra
cy," Johnson wrote.
He instructed the top ranks
of federal departments and
agencies that he w ants them "to
assume personal day-to-day re
sponsibility for making your
agency a model of good man
agement and economical admin
istration." Johnson underscored the word
"personal."
Tlie President called upon of
ficials to press ahead vigorous
ly with manpower control and
utilization programs developed
in response to a directive by
the late President John F. Ken
nedy Oct. II, 1!N2.
He told the department and
agency heads to hold employ
ment "at or below the person
nel targets established in re
sponse to President Kennedy's
statement to the Cabinet of Sept.
23, 1963."
Kennedy's statement at that
time was aimed at meeting
demands from congressmen who
opposed his tax reduction pro
gram unless government spend
ing were reduced.
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partly cloudy Monday. Hi.h today
and Monday 41 to M. Low toalgnl 11
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Law Saturday morning 11
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Decision Near dd
Flitcraft Says Session
Accomplished Its Job
"We've done everytliing that
we could do in the time avail
able." That was the manner' in
which Rep. George Flitcraft
summed up the action of the
special session of tlie legisla
ture just prior to his leaving
for Salem and tlie reconvening
of the session on Monday.
He indicated that he felt that
the session had accomplished
about what had been asked by
the governor and that little else
would be done with the excep
tion of hammering out some
clarification of the Boardman
issue.
Questioned whether the cuts
made in tlie 11)63-1965 budget
were temporary or permanent
in nature, Flitcraft said he felt
they were permanent, that the
tax measure defeat, in his opin
ion, was flat mandate for less
spending in government, and he
added. "I also felt, inasmuch as
a great deal of stress was
placed on the issue of educa
tion, that the vote was against
increasing the cost of educa
tion." "I can't sec," he said, "how-
people here constantly go on
voting for higher school budg
ets and yet expect us in Salem
to cut them down. If we are to
have economy, it must be econ
omy at all levels, local as well
as state."
Flitcraft also pointed out that
the cut in basic school funds
would not take place in the cur
rent school budgets, but would
be reflected in the 1951-1965
school budgets.
He labeled the effort at a cut
in legislators' salaries as "only
a sham." As a member of the
House Ways and Means Com
mittee, Flitcraft said three bills
to cut legislator salaries were
introduced into that committee,
but none of them ever got
out. "All Hie Republicans, with
one exception," he said, "voted
to pass them out. We even tried
to get them out on the floor
but were unable to get the 40
votes needed to pull them out
of committee."
He added that the Taxation
Committee finally authored a
pay cut bill but only after the
Democrats in the Senate had
held a caucus and declared they
would approve no pay cut bills
for the legislators.
The one that got eventual
House okay, he said, provided
for a 20 per cent cut. 'This
was a 20 per cent cut of a 500
per cent increase," Flitcraft
said, terming it a "big deal."
"I feel the salaries should
have been out back at least to
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$150 a month." Flitcraft said,
"but nothing will be done this
session because of the Demo
cratic stand taken in the Sen
ate." Looking ahead, Flitcraft said
that tlie Interim Taxation Com
mittee is supposed to study the
state's tax picture prior to the
1965 legislature and come up
with some concrete proposals.
However, he said, the makeup
of the committee is such that
they will have extreme diffi
culty even considering any new
revenue concept such as a sales
tax or other measures.
Concluding, the Representa
tive for Klamath and Lake
counties said he felt little mare
would be done at the session
which reconvenes on Monday
with the exception of clearing
up the Boardman situation, and
that the session should be ad
journed prior to mid-week.
Many More
Visit Grave,
White House
WASHINGTON (UPI (-Ordinary
Americans by tlie thou
sands paid prayerful tribute to
the late President John F. Ken
nedy again Saturday at his flower-banked
grave and in tlie
black-draped public rooms of
the White House.
Silent crowds waited in near
freezing weather outside the
Executive Mansion and stream
ed up the slopes of Arlington
National Cemetery across the
Potomac Kiver in Virginia to
show their respect for the as
sassinated Chief Executive.
White House police said 10,
443 w-a'ked through the historic
East Room, where Kennedy's
body lay in repose a week ago,
and saw the simple, black cata
falque (hat bore his coffin. An
estimated 9,000 others filed past
Friday, the first day Uie White
House was again open to the
public.
There was no exact count of
the throngs (hat filed past his
grave or viewed it from afar at
Arlington. An Army spokesman
estimated the crowds exceeded
20.000 before the cemetery gates
closed at 5 p.m. EST.
Hundreds gathered outside the
cemetery gates shortly after
dawn, even though tlie ceme
tery did not open until 8 a.m.
Area Churches Ready
Annua! Parade Entries
By JUNE A. JOHNSON
Tlie third annual parade to
focus on the religious signifi
cance of the Christmas season
u less than a week away, and
Die Gurry of creative activity to
construct entries is Hearing its
peak.
Twenty decorated floats spon
sored by churches in the Klam
ath Basin Area will depict
scenes Irom the Biblical Nativi
ty story, carolers and choirs,
and themes pointing up o u r
Christian heritage and customs.
In most instances, teen-age
youths are taking the active
role in planning and construct
ing the float entries with sup
port from adult members of the
congregations.
However, some groups have
drawn their entire member ship
into the enthusiasm of the proj
ect. Those with artistic abili
ty are engaged to draw the
sketches, men handy with car
pentry tools supply the frames
KLAMATH FALLS, OHKGON.
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WORDS OF SYMPATHY The Whits Houta has been swamped with mail sines ths
death of President Kennedy. This is a scene in the mail room of ths Executive Man
sion Saturday. Pamela Turnure, Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy's press secretary, said that
about 189,000 letters and 50,000 wires have come in so far for the President's widow
and family. UPI Telophoto
Explosion Believed
Of Jet Crash; 118
STE. THERESE, Que. (UPD
Police Saturday investigated
the possibility that an explosion
might have caused tlie crash of
a Trans - Canada Air Lines
(TCA) DCS jetliner in a storm,
killing all 118 persons aboard.
Investigators sloshed through
a snow-coated quagmire trying
to piece together details of
Canada's worst air tragedy. But
they would not even reply to
questions of whether a bomb
might have been aboard the
and backdrops, women sew the
costumes, and the young people
are delegated to gather greens
and stuff colored apcr or nap
kins into chicken wire frames.
The parade, initiated in 1901
by the Herald and News, gives
all churches in the community
an opportunity to work cooper
atively to present the real sig
nificance of Christmas to t h e
public.
The award for the entry
which best carries out tlie mes
sage of Hs (heme has not been
emphasized in Die past; but
with the add 1 1 Kin of second and
third place trophies and cash
prizes this year, the spirit of
competition is expected to be
increased.
The original sweepstakes
prize, a brass and walnut per
petual trophy appropriately
shaped like an open book, was
awarded last year to St. Paul's
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big American-built jet, which
was just five minutes out of the
Montreal International Airport
Friday night when the crash oc
curred. Two of the 111 passengers
were Americans, both from the
New York City area. Seven
crewmen also died in the crash
20 miles north of Montreal.
The U.S. citizens were iden
tified as Mrs. S. Hankozszky of
P.O. Box 72 Port Washington,
N.Y., and R. Kerne of 1491
East 18th St. Brooklym.
The plane crashed with explo
sive force in a muddy field dur
ing a driving rainstorm.
Investigators said no piece of
tlie wreckage was bigger than
an ordinary office desk.
The disaster was the second
worst in the history of com
mercial aviation involving a
single plane.
TCA officials challenged (he
theory that the piano exploded
in flight but this possibility was
undergoing investigation by no.
lice because of the extreme frag
mentation. There also was the
Shooting Hours
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Cause
Killed
possibility of explosive deprcs
surizalion. Experts from both the Cana
dian and U.S. governments led
the investigation, made doubly
difficult by deep mud an the
sudden onslaught Saturday
morning of tlie season's first
heavy snowfall.
Among them were two spe
cialists from the U.S. Civil Aer
onautics Board (CABI George
JL Baker, flight operations ex
pert, and pilot - engineer Jack
Sanbourn.
Road Toll
Pace Still
'Average'
II V t'nllrd Press International
The nation's Thanksgiving
weekend traffic death toll
neared the 370 mark Saturday
night, but the pace was even
with that for a normal Novem
ber weekend.
As (lie worst hours of tlie long
holiday weekend approached
the death pace ilk-Teased to 4 6
an hour, exactly tlie rate for a
non-holiday weekend.
A United Press International
cotuit at 11:30 p.m. (EST)
showed at least 368 persons
killed In traffic lines ths
Thanksgiving weekend began at
6 p m. Wednesday. Tlie holiday
period ends at midnight Sunday.
The breakdown:
Traffic 3fi
Fires 20
Planes 11
Miscellaneous Sft
Total 45
Weather
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Legal Haze
Still Hangs
Oyer Issue
SALEM (UPD - While Atty.
Gen. Robert Y. Thornton says
a grave question exists as to
the constitutionality" of the spe
cial bill to once again pull tlie
Boardman chestnuts out of the
fire, he does not declare tlie bill
is illegal.
Ills four-page opinion request
ed by Reps. Sidney Leiken, D
Roscburg. and Richard Eymam.
D-Marcola, was submitted to
lawmakers Nov. 22, shortly be
fore the special session of the
legislature recessed because of
tlie assassination of President
Kennedy.
The bill is scheduled for a
vote Monday when the legisla
ture reconvenes.
The opinion deals with one of
two Boardman bills before tlie
legislature the one which would
transfer the project to the Vet
erans Affairs Agency, and ratify
the H.6 million, 77-year lease of
tlie 100,000-acre site to the Boe
ing Co. of Seattle, Wash,
Cnrbelt Asks Second Ruling
During tlie recess Sen. Alfred
Oorbett. D-Portland, requested
Thornton's opinion on a compan
ion measure Miich would freeze
property tax values at the site
for the life of the lease.
Thornton's first opinion noted
"we can see no constitutional
bar to the use of actual 'sur
plus' money now in the veter
ans' bond sinking fund."
Thornton noted the state's
lease with Boeing holds the
company "harmless against cer
tain adverse claims by third
parties. This office has ruled on
several occasions that the state
cannot enter into such agree
nicnls...in a 1 1 probability the
Oregon Supreme Court, if con
fronted with this question, would
hold these provisions of the
lease would not be binding upon
me state, but would not on
that ground invalidate the en
tire lease."
Use of Funds Questioned
Thornton's opinion continues.
'The principal constitutional
question which we believe arises
under the bill in its present'
form is the validity of authoriz
ing a n d ratifying the expendi
ture of public funds to subsidize
industrial development, and for
the benefit of a specific private
corporation.
No doubt there are other
firms which would be interested
in receiving low-rent lands, tax
exemptions, or other preferred
treatment..
"We are therefore confronted
with a bill which singles out one
corporation and grants to it a
privilege which is not available
to any other."
Thornton said he could find
no case "in which this precise
question" has been passed upon
by the Oregon Supreme Court.
Ruling Divided
He cited cases In 18 states
where such actions were ruled
unconstitutional, two where they
wee held constitutional, and
two others where courts had
"deckled the question both
ways."
Thornton then noted "in view
of the split of authorities in this
matter...tlie question is a close
one.
"It Is our opinion that a grave
question exists as to the consti
tutionality of the bill, but. ..the
question cannot be settled until
the highest court of our fiate
speaks on It."
Thornton Mien suggested the
bill either should be referred to
the people, or voted upon by the
legislature, and if passed by the
legislature, be given an immedi
ate court test "so that ths Boe
ing Company and all Oregon
citizens and her legislators and
public officials may know where
they stand."