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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 20, 1963)
CC2P. K-:frA?fc.ft SiCIION csn.sek.as'j uocum!jrs div. eu.;si.s,orso. HOSPITAL FUND SWELLS Otto Hall, econd from left, business agent for the In. ternational Woodworkers of America (IWA) Union Local 3-12, presents Jim Stilwell, general chairman of the Intercommunity Hospital Fund drive, with a check for $1,000. Looking on are two campaign directors, Mike Balsiger at left, and Dick Heniel at right. IWA Check Aids Hospital Fund The fund for the Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital contin ues to inch toward its cherished goal o beginning operations on a debt-free basis. A check was received this week from Otto Hall, business agent for the International Woodworkers of America (IWA) Union Local 3-12 for $1,000 from the memzers of this union. James Stilwell, general chair man of the campaign, accepted the contribution and pointed out that the working forces in the Basin have supported the cam paign just about 100 per cent. Stilwell also said, "With this contribution, we have pledged ourselves to a continued effort to contact everyone in this area, both present and former resi dents, in order that they might be given the opportunity to help build this vitally needed hospi tal." In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS Some interesting figures: In 1800, the work week in the U.S.A. was 84 hours. In 1909, a little better than a century later, it was 52 hours. Today, the average work week is slightly under 40 hours. The unions, seeking to spread employment, so that a larger percentage of our population may be employed, are working for a 35-hour week. Joseph Prendergrass, of the National Recreation Associa tion, predicts that within a century the average work week in America will be SEVEN hours. Hmrnmmmrnrnmmmm. In the face of these figures, it's beginning to look like one of the big jobs of the future w ill be to learn how to be hap py and contented though idle. Is all this new? The answer is NO. Herbert Hoover, one of our great thinkers, said many years ago: "This civilization of ours is not going to depend on what we do while we work, but on what we do in our TIME OFF." That's what Mr. Prendergrass and his National Recreation As sociation are thinking about when he says that within a cen tury the American work week will be down to seven hours. What he means is that if and when the American work week gets down to something like seven hours it's going to be necessary for Americans to learn how to spend a large share of their time in WHOLE SOME PLAY. Otherwise our nation will go to tire dogs. QUESTION' suggested by reading a lot of newstapes and listening to a lot of radio and TV broadcasts: How can you pass a law that will prevent tlie spread of juve nile delinquency of which we read and hear so much? Personally, I doubt if it can be done by passing a law or a whole batch of laws. The prevention of juvenile delin quency starts in the home. If the home training is right and sincere and1 honest and effec tive, there will be relatively lit tle juvenile delinquency. Grim fact: We just can t shrug FAMILY responsibilities off onto the city council and the state legisla ture When it comes to charac ter building, which lies at the rnnt of good citizenship, there is no substitute for home training. 'Man.- OF AHEflICA He also urged everyone to re examine their year end tax sta tus in the light of the knowl edge that contributions to the hospital fund are deductible. "We would prefer to have them put such funds to work "XI J ? I ! Ill )- 11 U.S. Promises Viet Nam Military Aid To Continue SAIGON, South Viet Nam (UPD President Johnson sent a personal message to South Viet Nam's new leaders today, reassuring them that U.S. mili tary aid will continue as long as necessary to crush the Com munist menace. The oral message was given to the junta leaders by Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara before he left Saigon this after noon to return to Washington at the end of an intensive two-day fact-finding analysis of the war against the Communist guerril las. Well informed American sources said Johnson's message in effect eliminates a 1965 tar get date for the withdrawal of U.S. military advisers from Viet Nam. The sources said Johnson's message avoided any mention of 1965 and set no new deadline while pledging continued U.S. military backing so long as it is needed, and wanted, by the South Viet Nam government. The original 1965 target date was announced in Washington after McNamara's last visit to Saigon in September. It be came a cause for concern and Sfudebaker Last Car In SOUTH BEND, Ind. (UPD The last Studebaker car pro duced in the United States was scheduled to roll off the assem bly lines at the South Bend plant today. The milestone car ended St years of domestic automotive production by the company, which started in the highway transportation field making cov ered wagons. It came in the same year other automakers were posting records as the best year ever. Studebaker closed the plant to photographers and planned no fanfare for the event. "We're still making and selling cars," Special Commission Finds Many States Make It Too Tough WASHINGTON iUPI '-President Johnson and a special commission agreed today that many states make it too tough to vote. Johnson, accepting a report suggesting w ays to encourage a greater turnout in U.S. elections, said "in many cases it is easier to enlist in the armed services than to go and vote." The commission report ob served that some states make it easier "to get a hunting or fishing license or a pistol per mit than to register and vote." At a ceremony for presenta tion of the report. Johnson an nounced that he would extend the life of the 11 member com mission until next March 30. He also planned to send a copy of the report to each of the 50 state governors The commission did not recommend new federal laws, but directed it suggestion to wf building this community," he commented. The fund drive is now in ex cess of $1,100,000 and must sur pass the $1,500,000 mark to en able the hospital to begin oper ations without a huge debt to be repaid from operating income. a serious issue in this country. He flew into Saigon Thursday accompanied by Arthur Sylves ter, assistant secretary of de fense for public affairs, and Wil liam Bundy, assistant secretary of defense for international se curity afairs. Together with U.S. Ambassa dor Henry Cabot Lodge, McNa mara plunged quickly into a round of briefings by American military and civilian officials in Saigon. It is generally conceded that the fight against the Com munist Viet Cong is going bad ly at this time. - Here's How, But Why Try BONN (UPD - East Ger mans who lost their prop erty when they fled to the West can apply for compensa tion, the West German Refu gee Ministry announced today. But it won't do them any good, the ministry added, be cause no such compensation will be paid. Produces U.S. Plant a spokesman said, "and we're not really ending production." Automotive production in the highly diversified company now will be carried on at the Hamil ton, Ont., plant. In the move to Canada, about 6,000 Studebaker white collar and hourly rated workers will be thrown out of work at the South Bend plant, the firm's only U.S. carbuilding outlet. However, Studebaker officials have maintained the nameplate will not die in this country. In stead, they said, dealers will re ceive cars built in Canada. Parts and other necessary items also will be supplied to dealers. the states. It suggested a sweeping set of 21 proposals for state action along with activi ties by the schools, private or ganizations, and business. "I call upon both political parties, the governors and offi cials of each state, and all citi zens to join this effort," the President said. Only through concerted action can we secure for all tlie right to vote without unnecessary or unreasonable re strictions." The President also plans to confer early next year wiih Sen Soessard Holland, D-Fla., spon sor of a constitutional amend ment out!ain2 the poll tax. Johnson expressed the hope that there would be sufficient stale ratification by next year to out law the tax. He said he was bothered by the fact that less than two thirds of voting age Americans participated in recent presi aiiV.j. .1 Bitter Cold Continues To By I'nitrd Press International Freezing drizzle iced high ways and triggered traffic deaths across the Southern Plains today and bitter cold broke temperature records again in the Midwest. A freak storm dumped 20 indies of snow at Kalkaska, Mich., during the night. Temperatures fell below zero from Montana to Maine and dropped below freezing along Ihe Gulf Coast. The mercury dipped to 18 degrees at Nash Woollier Klamath Falls. Tultlak. and l.aa vitw Cltaring and caloar tonight, lowt 2t to 13. Mostly fair and mild Saturday, h'ghi 40 ta'4l. Light wfltar ly winds. High ysstarday 41 Low this morning 14 , High vtar ago SI Low vaar ago II Procip. past 14 hours -M Smco Jan. 1 Samo period last yaar U.H Thousjmds By JOSEPH B. FLEMING United Press International BERLIN (UP1) West Berliners began the first mass visiting on the other side of the wall today. Thousands more were held up by Communist red tape. Communist guards wearing Russian-style fur hats and toting sub machine guns passed the West Berliners swiftly and quietly through the five crossing points for holiday visits with friends and relatives. The number of visitors was smaller than expected because of snarls in issu ing passes, and the Red police outnumbered both visitors and greeters on the East Berlin side of the barrier. Those that got through in the first mass visiting permitted since the wall went up in Au gust, 1!. moved quickly. Com munist guards, in an obvious holiday gesture, dropped their usual controls and cleared the visitors in about a minute. This is from 29 minutes to an hour faster than normal. By 1 p.m., 2,740 pedestrians and 683 automobiles had crossed the border. The cold morning scene was drab and depressing as the West Berliners lined up to have their documents checked. Few of the visitors were met at the crossings because no one had been certain how long it would take to go through the border formalities. "Just as grubby as tlie last lime I saw it," one elderly man whispered. At least 23.000 other West Berliners were blocked by the pass shortage. They waited to get credentials inside and out side the issuing offices in West Berlin schools. Other applicants were told not to try for passes today. A few East Berliners stood around watching the visitors cross the border. They showed little emotion. The Eastern guards were obvi ously under orders to avoid trouble. They barely glanced at the packets of fruit, coffee, chocolate and other gifts every visitor carried. Western correspondents and television cameramen, who often are bullied by the Com munist police, were treated courteously and cooperatively in a somewhat obvious show of Christmas spirit. Like many of the West Ber liners, Elga Sagte, a 21-year-old girl in a big white fur hat and red ski jacket, said she had sent a telegram to her mother in East Berlin. "I don't imagine she got it," Elga said, as she got into one of the taxis East Berlin offi cials had assembled around the dential elections and less than half of the eligible electorate participates in congressional elections. "It is disturbing that our na tional record of voter participa tion compares unfavorably with other democracies," Johnson told the commission. Most sections of tlie report were adopted unanimously. The commission, headed by Director Richard M. Scammon of the Census Bureau, was set up by the late President Ken nedy March 30. Its report, orig inally scheduled for Nov. 2. was delayed almost a month because of Kennedy's death. Study Voting Problems Kennedy's order directed the commission to studying voting problems outside tl jurisdic tion of the Civil Rights Com mission, which is concerned with discrimination against Ne groes and other minorities. ville, Tenn , and a chilly 48 at Miami, Fla. A 62-year record was shat tered at Chicago when the tem perature dipped to 9 below a new mark for the date. It was also the eighth consecutive sub zero day at Chicago, a record for December. The temperature fell to 4 be low at Pittsburgh, Pa., break ing the old record set in 1884 by eight degrees. Records for the date were also set at Dayton, Toledo, Columbus. Akron and leralii an Price Ten Cents 20 Pages Oberbaum Bridg crossing point. One elderly couple said "it smells the same as ever" as they climbed the unpaintcd. narrow stairs to a sister's small apartment in a patched-up build ing still showing the scars of World War II. The man asked correspond ents not to use his name in quoting him because "I want to come back again over Christ mas." The sister did not know they were coming today. Their meet ing, when she opened the door, was almost painful in its emo tional intensity. First there was a look of blank astonislment, then shock, and finally joy. Then came the embraces. Until the agreement for the passes was reached this week between East Germany and West Berlin, only foreigners and West Geimans not resident in Berlin had been allowed to visit East Berlin. P.O. Will Open This Saturday Tlie Klamath Falls Post Of fice, 734 Klamath Avenue, will be open Saturday for mailing packages, picking up parcels and the sale of stamps. Postmaster Chet Langslct an nounced that the office will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. No other service than those three will be offered. Shooting Hours OREGON December 21 Close 4:40 p.m. CALIFORNIA December 21 Close Open 7 p.m. Open 7:01 a.m. 4:37 p.m. Voter apathy was one target of tlie commission but most of its attention was given to state laws and practices restricting the right lo register and vote. "Many election laws and ad ministrative practices are un reasonable, unfair and outmod ed." it said. "They obstruct the path lo the ballot box, disfran chising million' who want lo vole. "An unexpected business trip or a broken ankle can deprive a citiz.cn of his right to vole. He may lose his vote by mov ing across Ihe street. And he may discover that became he failed to vote to years ago he cannot vote now." The commission cited figures showing heavier voter turnouts in other countries. It said state turnouts in the United Stales ranged from 25.5 per cent of the civilian population of voting age in Mississippi to 80 8 in Idaho Cincinnaii, Ohio, where the temperature ranged from 4-14 degrees below zero. The lowest temperature in the nation was 35 below at Bemid ji, Minn. It was 26 below at In ternational Falls. Minn., and Devils Lake, N.D., Madison, Wis., recorded 17 below, Sub urban Chicago 15 below and Rockford, 111., 15 below. At Duluth, Minn., where the high Thursday was 6 below, the mercury (ell to 18 below today. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON', Journey Foreign Aid Bill Snags Adjournment WASHINGTON UP1 -Congressional leaders today aban doned plans to adjourn Con gress tonight, called on scores of members who already have left town to return, and said they plan to keep the lawmak ers here until a contested for eign aid bill has been linally passed. They acted under the prod ding of President Johnson who told Democratic leaders of House and Senate at a White House strategy session it was imperative not only that they finish work on the aid measure but that they send it to the White House minus a House approved curb on use of gov- Prison Life Vill End For Honeck MENARD, 111. (U'PD When Richard Honeck walks through the gates of Menard State Pris on today he will become a free man for the first time in this century. Honeck, 84, will leave behind 64 years served as a "a lifer" and "the loneliest person in the country." For many years no one cared enough to even drop him a Christmas card. Several months ago the story of Honeck's long and lonely prison life appeared in print. As a result he received 2,000 letters the first he had re ceived in over 50 years. Among them was a note from a wid owed niece, Mrs. Clara Orth, 62, San Leandro, Calif. She said she would be glad to care for him and the ma chinery was put in motion to seek the release of prisoner numher 12742 if California would agree. Thursday night California stale parole officials agreed to permit Honeck to live with his niece and her son, William, a disabled war veteran. About 10 o'clock Warden Ross Randolph went to Honeck's cell to tell him. "He smiled, but there were no tears," Randolph said. "He learned to control his emotions years ago." A reporter will lake Honeck by car to St. Louis, where they will board a Trans-World Air lines flight for San Francisco tonight. To Vote in the 1960 election. Urges Vote Campaigns It said the most obvious way to combat voter apathy was through the register-and-vote campaigns conducted by politi cal parties and by civic, busi ness, labor and other groups. But it also urged tlie press, ra dio and television to assume re sponsibility and said these me dia "hoid tlie key to adult edu cation." Tlie report also criticized schools lor "not doing the job." "The teaching of citizenship In our elementary and second ary schools needs major over haul," it said. "A trip to t h e firehouse and a slide down the fireman's pole are now many times substituted for realistic instruction in government and politics. . . "It small wonder that we are a nation of cynics when it come lo our politics." Set Records In Midwest Hazardous driving warnings were posted for Oklahoma, where icy roads were blamed for1 at least five traffic deaths. State police said' U.S. 77 be tween Norman and Lexington was "untravelable." Freezing rain, sleet and fog also covered parts of Texas eastward into Alabama. Numer ous traffic accidents were attri buted to the weather in Texas and West Texas airports were "socked in" bv fog. FRIDAY. DKCKMKFK 2, l!Hi3 ernment credit in the proposed sale of' surplus U.S. wheal to Russia. This posed a tough lask for House leaders, who apparently were exacted to turn around enough home bound House members to reverse a 218 to 169 roll ' call vote by which tlie House only last Monday had ap proved the trade curb. After only 288 of the 435 members answered an opening quorum call at the start of what was supposed to have been the year's last House session Demo cratic Leader Carl Albert took tlie floor to announce the new plans. He appealed to those present to cancel their plans to go home, and called on those who already had left town to return. Both chambers were operat ing on a "hurry up and wait" basis as House and Senate ne gotiators Iricd to work out an agreement on the disputed bill. The major controversy hinged on a House-adopted amendment Jbarring the Export . Import Band Fund Still Short LalMar Jensen, director of the Klamath Union High School band, said today the fund for the band's trip to the East- West Shrine Game in San Fran cisco Dec. 28 still needs $500. Jensen said $3,000 is the goal of the fund to finance the trip for the band and $1,200 was raised in the band's fruit cake sale. Another $500 was left over from last year's sale and dona tions total between $800 and $!oo. He urged those wanting to contribute to the fund to send donations to him at Klamath Union High School. fANTA'f HELPER $AYf SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS 0) THEY HELPED TOO Camp Fire Girls of Lekani-ki-Nani group, seventh grader at Roosevelt School, led by Mrs. Charles Houston, made envelope dolls, and Hi-O-Tan members of the sixth grades at Peterson and Stearns schools dressed dolls, to bo giv en to the Christmas Clearing Bureau. Tha dolls will go to small girls in tha county who otherwise might be overlooked by Santa. Mrs. W. E. Brown is leader of th Hi-O-Tan group. Front row, left to right, are Mary Miller, Kerry McFall, Laura Olson, Bonnie Brown, Janita Amidon. Back row, tarn order, Debbie Hilgers, Kathleen Walsh, Susan Ginty, Laura Houston and Alexis Cummings. Three inches of snow fell at Muskegon, Mich., Thursday, pushing the month's total to 63.4 indies. Many rural schools were closed and secondary roads were clogged with blow ing snow. Some schools opened but shut down in mid-morning because not enough students showed up. The weather bureau said lo cally heavy snow squalls would occur in the Muskegon area again today, perhaps making Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 7(w9 Bank from underwriting credit for U.S. wheat sales to Russia and other Communist countries. The Senate rejected tlie amendment in passing the ap propriations bill Thursday. Before the White House con ference, legislative leaders had planned to wind up the first ses sion of the 88th Congress some time today. If tlie deadlock per sisted over the wheat amend ment, they had intended to shelve the problem until Ihe next session convened Jan. 7. A number of senators and House members already had headed for home as the longest continuous peacetime session of Congress neared its end. IGDCq Border Treaty Signed Between U.S., Mexico - WASHINGTON a'PIl Presi dent Johnson today signed treaty with Mexico settling the long-standing Chamizal border dispute involving land at 1 Paso, Tex. Johnson In signing the formal ratification of the treaty recent ly approved by the Senate, said the agreement demonstrated "that old and distasteful prob lems can be solved when men of honor try and see each other's viewpoint." Johnson, a Texan himself, signed the document in the treaty room on the second floor of the White House. The agreement provides for the transfer of 437 acres of American territory to Mexico and an accompanying transfer of under 200 Mexican acres to this country. Dispute over the land along the Rio Grande River consti tuted, according to Johnson, a 810 Youngsters Call Santa Santa Claus received telephone calls from 394 more youngsters Thursday night during the wind up of a two-day "Hello Santa" program, sponsored by the Klamath Jaycees. This brought to 810 the total number of calls made in two nights, an increase of almost mill PHt " " 'ifw; December the month of the largest snowfall in Muskegon history. January, 1962, recorded 63.4 inches. "This past week has been one of tlie most miserable I have ever seen," a Muskegon mete orologist said. The weather bureau said a storm centered in (he Pacific Northwest will cause "wide spread precipitation" as it moves over the Rockies and across the northern plains Saturday. Weather LONOHANOI OUTLOOK Cool night and mild diyi r tx ptcltd to continu through Christmas. S m t snow flurriti or showtrt art tortcast for ttvo first of tha wHk. House Republicans made it clear they would try to force tlie Senate lo accept the wheat sales amendment, although the Senate rejected the proposal Thursday, 52 to 32, before pass ing its bill. The Senate vote on passage was 60 to 25. The House version totals $2.8 billion while the Senate bill would provide $3.2 billion. The late President Kennedy asked $4.5 billion, and President John son has urged the legislators to vote at least the $3.6 billion au thorized by Congress. The difference in the money totals seemed likely to be worked out with a final com promise of about $3 billion. "thorn in-the side of our rela- tions with Mexico for nearly a century." Johnson expressed the hope (hat the Chamizal treaty would be a model for settlement for further problems in this hemis phere and the rest of the world "with similar tolerance and trust." The pact was ratified by the Senate on a vote of 79 to 1 last Tuesday. Designed to settle a boundary hassle that has shad owed relations between the two nations for almost a century, it returns to Mexico a section of land lost when the Rio Grande changed course in 1664. The section, known as the Chamizal or "thicket," lies mostly in El Paso, Tex. Mexico was awarded a decision in the case by an international arbi tration board in 1911, but the United States refused to abide by the finding at that time. 100 over last year's figure. The program, conducted an nually by the Jaycees, allows youngsters to call Santa and tell him what they want for Christ mas. Calls were received from boys and girls ranging in age from 2 to 12, according to Jaycee Chairman Jim Floyd. Wa
