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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 29, 1963)
Budget Cuts To Reduce Extension Agent Staff By WALT JENDRZKJEWSKI County Extrusion Agent - Two ewension agent positions . In Klamath County will be ter minated by March 1, according ; o Gene M. Lear, associate di ; rector of the Cooperative Ex- tension Service. ' .Staff members affected are I Wilbur RjI, agent in agricul I ture and Frances Hall, home ; economics agent. Reil hat been ; on the Klamath staff since Dec. : 1 of iota. Mrs. Hall has served in Klamath County aince July : 1 of 1961, and had served prior to this time in Marion and Uma tilla counties, and in the state extension office at Corvallis. Reductions in staff were made necessary by budget cut, re sulting from defeat of the state . tax program by referendum last . October. Staff reductions are be uiff made also in other counties ; across the stale. Lear notes that ;"sinco extension expenditures -are about 85 per cent for em- ployment of staff, and the bat r ance for expenses in support of these staff persons, reductions have had to he in elimination of positions and people. All other parts of t!i State System of Higher Education can make re ductions In building repairs, maintenance and construction, before reducing teaching staff." The date for termination of Check Station Kept Busy By Heavy Holiday Traffic J HORNBROOK - Rose Bowl ' rooters, familiet visiting rela ; tives and winter vacationist! ; kept the inspectors at the ; Jfornbrook checking ttalion hop ;ping this weekend. "We can relax a bit after New Year's Day," Don Douglas, ; senior inspector, said. Last Saturday 8.917 Incoming cars were checked In a 24-hour period plus 34 buses and 84 -trucks. Thli wai typical of the -week's traffic which exceeded .'the heaviest week during the '.summer months by thousands :o cart. The checking slat kin. official :ly a quarantine station of the : State Department of Agricul ture, remains open around the Barge Fire 'Burns Man , A gas explosion aboard a sal vage barge in Upper Klamath Lake resulted in iface and hair bums lo one man Saturday ; morning, Klamath falls fire- ,men reported. ;i .Injured was William 1. Rich--ardi. He was taken to Klamath yajloy Hospital, treated and re ' Jeased. I; The fire on tlie barge, docked : t lion IFront Street, damaged Itlie motor area. The craft it ; owned by Chuck Hightowor. .Firemen received tlie call at .41:58 a.m. : ' iFrlday alternoon at 3 o'clock Klamath (Falli firemen were '.tummoned to 2510 Munlclius for flue fire. There was no damage in the dwelling owned .by William It. Smith. ;Boy Scouts Set Reunion A special reunion It being ijield for present and former r members of Boy Pcout Troop 0, pelican City troop, to be held at ;lhe Eagles Lodge at 7:3(1 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 30. All attending are urged lo bring their scouting pictures. All ex-scouts and scoulers of Troop 9 are welcome. Refreshment! and fun arc scheduled. Roosevelt Eyes Post MIAMI (UP1 Elliott Ron.-e-volt, who started going lo poli tical party conventions when he was 13 and politicking for his lather Franklin 1). Roosevelt when he was 18, will run (or Democratic national committee man from Florida In It will be the first try at elec tive office for Roosevelt. 63, a Miami business consultant ipe cializing in Latin American af fairs. He has been a Miami res ident for 13 months. I: Roosevelt taid his mam res ion for seeking tlie post is his ieomirtjon that "it's time for florida to have an Important Mticn on the Democratic na tional level." ErSi. l 4 . . K . . . I the adult home economics posi tion has been announced as March. IVA. Mrs. Hall is eli gible for retirement following 30 years of service in exten sion work, and will retire as of that date. Heil't position, working with development of new crops, de veloping improved irrigation practices and moisture measure ment, servicing the seed certi fication program, and service to urban homeowners, will termin ate Feb. 1, 1X4. His plans for the future are indefinite at this time. Some adjustment of responsi bility of remaining staff mem bers w ill be needed. The home economics work with adults, and service to homeowners will luve to be reduced, he says. Less emphasis can be given to tome other phases of agricul tural work, with loss of the staff member in this area. "But we will adjust to carry on the best educational program we can, with the remaining staff. Proj. ects of greatest impact on tlie local economy, tuch as livestock production and marketing, ani mal health, teed certification, weed, rodent and insect p e 1 1 control, and soil fertility, will be carried on as actively as possible," a spokesman of tlie county extension said. clock lo he sure no vehicle bring! undesirable insects or plant diseases into California, particularly those that might menace the citrus crop. ' "We have to be particularly careful of Canadian cars be cause much of the citrus fruit the passengers carry has been imported from Japan," Douglas explained displaying a lime which evidenced infestation of disease. 1 Douglas eaid there is a heavy Influx of Vancouver visitors this year, many of tliem heading for Mexico for tlie winter. 1 While the primary duty of the Inspection elation is to check for fruit and insect disease, in spector! are trained to have a sharp eye and arc entitled to make as thorough an Inspection as they deem necessary, i In handling he holiday traf fic, every etfort has been made to keen things moving and the atmosphere has been one of courtesy and consideralion. The crew even put up a lighted Christmas tree at tlie checking station entrance. . "It makes people feel w e 1 come," Douglas taid. "a n d looks very nice at night for the first ttop in California." ' Regular shifts are not ad liered 'to during the heavy Christmas traffic. The Inspec tors were asked to take dayi off well In advance of Hie holi days so no bottlenecks would develop. IA crew of nine men man the station for each 24-hour 'period. Among those on duty the weekend prior to Christmas were Douglas, who lives in Yreka; George Michels Jr.. llornhrook; Leslie Fitrpalrlfk, Yreka; Tom Tavlor, Yreka, and Art Cribhs, ltiits. Funerals SMITH unrl Iffrvlctl lrr Ztlli 0 S1llh. Ti. will ba held In O'Halr'l Memorial Chapel, Monday, Otc. 30. at 10 am. Interment Ml. View cemelery In Aih land. Obituaries wesr Hutwtrl F. WeU. 6, riad Oar IT. No knnvhn tu'vivorl 0 Heir'e Memo, rial Cnapal will announca arrange manli, GDNt Inei ejiliatie'h Gardner. 7. dir In lelem. Dae. il. Survived by two lonn Phillip, Cerdner. Salami Oana Gardner, Kiemem Fanti daughter, Orarie Oarrlaon, Gramt P.w; 10 O'endehlldren. II great-grandchild-en. Funeral larvica w.ll ta hald lurid, Pat 31, at 13Q p m. In O Hair't Me morial cnapal. Inlermenl kiamain Memorial Park. BOGATAY'S HALF YEARLY SHOE SALE NOW IN PROGRESS Huge Savings on Famous Brand Shoes for All the Family! OMEN'S 9 WOMEN'S O CHILDREN'S Shop Now Whit Selection! Are Beit! PAGE-U HERALD AND : J - 11 jtaaauaMauaaaadaaBavaUa.dK REGAL CEREMONY Hilles M. Bedell, president of the 75th annual Touramanf of Rosos, places the crown on Rose Queen Nancy Kneeland Friday night at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium In a regal ceremony marked with pomp and pageantry. UPI Telephoto Best Yule Displays Announced ' JWNAXZA The Christmas lighting contest sponsored joint ly by the Bonanza (iarden Club and Pacific Power and Light Company, resulted in unusually beautiful displays this year. Judges were Mr. and Mrs. Bill Osborne and Mrs. Clara Bold all of Bonanza. Displays were judged Dec. 23 as follows: win dow or entrance, first, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Wooteni two second prlzet, Bob Hartley, and John Tofell: honorable mention to Don Rice, Dairy, and Mike Clark. Bonanza. Lawn display: IKirst, Glenn Huffman; second, Vemon Hubble. Junior division: (Billy Hartley, 11, who entered a decorated play house. Clouds May Block View Of Eclipse PORTLAND UPH - The Weather Bureau here held out hltlc hope today that wakeful Orcgnnians will he able to see an eclipse of the moon early Monday. The full eclipse will begin at 1:2." a.m. TST and the moon will he completely In the earth's shadow rom 2:1!H lo 3:47. It will emerge entirely from the shadow al 4:50 a m. The ellipse, caused by the earth passing between the moon ami the sun. will he visible throughout North America and from the west coast of Mouth America, weather permitting. "It doksn'l look very hopdul," a weather Bureau spokesman said Cloudy skies and periods of rain are lorecast for all sec lions o( the state. NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregoo 4 !! Kennedy Left Impression On Minds Of West Berlin BERLIN (UPI) The late President John F. Kennedy led an indelible Impression on the minds of West Berliners with his visit to the divided city and his tour of the anti-relugee wall, according to a public opinion survey released Satur day. "Indeed, perhaps never he fore has a single individual had so galvanic an Impact on (he morale of a dispiriled peo ple as did John F. Kennedy on Hie morale of West Berliners in his few hours visit June 2S, 1!HW." a report by the Bad Godesberg Institute of Applied Social Science said. The institute has been mak ing surveys of Berlin morale and opinion for teveral years. Its latest report said Kennedy raised Berlin morale to unprec edented heights. The President's death shocked and deeply grieved Berliners but the soaring mo rale worked hy his visit sur vived, the institute's survey in dicated. When the Communist wall was erected on Aug. 1.1. irtR.1. Berlin morale underwent its greatest crisis aince the l!HS4n blockade. Fifty per cent of West Berliners said the situa tion was "very serious," the survey said. Bui a few weeks after the Kennedy visit only three per cent considered the situation "very serious." As to the visit Itself, the in stitute said. "It is difficult to imagine an event that would have (he same urgent impact" Moke Rtiervationt Now No Cover Charge! Plan Now to Attend! New Year's Eve PARTY Starts Early Monday Evening! Favors Entertainment Noise-Makers Round Table Dining Room Open till . . . ? WINEMA MOTOR HOTEL 1111 Main Sunday, December 21, 1963 i i m ' i. V ' rr ,1 on West Berlin's 2 2 million citi zens. Kennedy's ringing words "lch Bin ein Berliner" il am a Ber liner) at the city hall square that now hears his name were a "magic formula, " the report said. Seventy-six per cent of Berliners interviewed could re member the statement. West Berliners were asked at tlie same time lo rate world fig. ures in a "popularity poll." Kennedy scored a record plus 4.3 on a scale ranging from plus-five to minus-live. West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt, the previous champion, had never topped 3.8. French President Charles de Gaulle rated 1.7 while Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev drew tlie iciest re jection West Berliners have ever given a world figure, minus 32. Accident Takes Lives Of Four niTZVILLE, Wash. (LTD Four persons were killed Friday when a car apparently trav eled through a stop ign and craslied into a pickup truck south of here, according to the Washington State Patrol. Killed were Hale E. Wright. 1, Council, Wash, who was alone in the pickup truck: James E. Wrcnchy. 113, Dermis ton, Ore, his wife. .Marietta, 47, and Jerry W. .Mnreland, 21, a sailor assigned to the I'.S.S. Frontier at San Francisco. The Wrenchvs and Morcland were riding in the Wrcnchy ve hicle. There were no survivors. I r HSSri c,v. w State Agencies Told To SALEM a'PH - Slate depart ments have been advised to sub mit priority restoration requests for presentation to an Em ergency Board meeting Jan. 24, the Finance and Administration Department revealed Saturday. When the lno.OOO-acre Board man project was turned over to U.S., Japan Negotiations Deadlocked TOKYO (UPI) Negotiations for tiie reduction o( U. S. air strength in Japan appeared deadlocked Saturday wilh the Japanese unwilling either to lorego the protection of Ameri ca's might or to help pay for it. Ncgotiatons between U. S. and Japanese military authori ties on the subject have been going on here quietly since Oc tober. It nuw appears probable that they will be adjourned w ithout decision until early next year. The Japanese object specifi cally to the withdrawal of America's K102 jets from this country, arguing that it would create a gap in Japanese air defenses. The Americans suggest that the Japenese either buy some F102s of their ow n or pay part of the cost of keeping U. S. fighter squadrons in this country-Foreign Olfice sources said Japan has not given a definite reply to these plans because both entail the disbursement of a large sum of money. Japan was reported reluctant lo buy F102s because they are becoming outdated. The sources said the fighter planes would prove useless be cause this country is fully oc cupied by the training of pilots (or tlie F(W and F104 fighters already included in its plans. FIRST FEDERAL SAVERS HAVE EARNED MORE THAN ONE MILLION DOLLARS IN DIVIDENDS THIS YEAR. Look tlie Veterans- department by the special session of the legislature, I'JOO.OOO that had been tpent by the ttate to develop the project was refunded to the general fund from lurplui veterans' funds. Gov. Mark Hatfield will re view agency restoration re quests, and submit recommen dations to tlie Emergency Board. The Emergency Board, made up of legislators, must give iti approval before any of the $900,. Negro Awaits Decision On Return To Georgia SPOKANE (UPI I - The first major decision on whether a Georgia Negro will be returned to be executed or will be al lowed to go free is expected aft er a federal court hearing be ginning here Monday. The case is that of Charlie Will Cauthen, 26, who was ar rested in Warden, Wash., this summer on a fugitive from jus tice warrant. Cauthen was convicted Feb. 23. 1939. of the murder of Elijah Melvin Perkins, a white service station operator from Griffin. Ga. He escaped from the Pike County jail at Zebulon May 25. 1959, and was working on a farm near Warden when the Air Force Pilot Dies In Crash EPHRATA. Wash. (UPI -The pilot of an Air Force helicopter was killed Friday when his craft crashed and burned six miles south of Eph rala, Wash. Capt. Robert Gorier, 34, Springfield, Mass. died while flying a local mission from Lar son Air fr'orce Base near LMoscs I-ake in central Washington, an Air Force spokesman said. Gor ier was alone in the helicopter, which normally carries a crew of two. 1 A board of inquiry was ap pointed to investigate the crah. "U1W7 J lre people who look ahead looking forward to December 31? Because they save for what they want- where saving really pays off! Look-ahead people know where they're going . , . know how they'll get there, too. They plan in advance, then count on regular savings to make those plans a reality. They count on us to make saving safe, profitable, convenient. Right now they're looking forward to December 31st. That's the day they'll receive high-profit earnings on their hard-at-work funds. Would extra income next year look good to you? It's yours to . look forward to when you look ahead and start a savings program of your own right here. Come in soon. Current Rale ahead... look to Submit Priority Needs 000 can be used to restore au sterity cut! resulting from tlie Oct. 15 tax referendum. Finance and Administration Director Freeman Holmer ad vised agency heads "special consideration will be given to those items where the smallest allocation will accomplish the greatest gain in tlie preserva tion of essential public serv ices." Agency heads were ordered to submit their restoration requests by Jan. 8. Federal Bureau of Investigation caught him. Cauthen claims he is innocent of murder, but the question of guilt or innocence is not being taken up by the court. Five attorneys acting in Can then's behalf have asked for an order releasing him from the Spokane County jail. The con tend he was denied due process of law in his Georgia murder trial. In their petitions for release, the attorneys claim Negroes were systematically excluded from juries in Griffin County, that a confession was taken from Cauthen while under coer cion and without legal aid and that when an attorney was ap pointed for Cauthen, the attor ney failed to pursue all legal avenues to defend his client. Train Proposal Protested SAX FRANCISCO (LTD - I The California Public Utilities Commission Friday protested hy letter to the Interstate Com merce Commission against the proposed discontinuance of Southern Pacific's Shasta Day light train between Oakland and Portland. The railroad has proposed to halt its tri-weckly winter service Jan. 20, but still plans to run the train between June 10 and the first day after Labor Day. The California commis extra income 4 Holmer said "it is planned lo present the entire list of re quests to the Emergency Board for their consideration together with tlie governor'! recommen dations as to which request! should receive allocation! at thi! time." Helicopter Pilot Slain In Viet Nam SAIGON' (L'PIi - A L'.S. Army first lieutenant was killed Saturday by Communist guerrilla fire which ripped through the cockpit of the HU IB armed helicopter he was piloting over tlie Mekong Delta, an American military spokes man said. The spokesman said t h e craft was with a flight of armed helicopters escorting command helicopter carrying a senior American military ad visor on an administrative mis sion. Tlie incident occurred some 55 miles south southwest of the capital near the village of IMo Cay. According lo the spokesman, no other military personnel aboard the helicopter were in jured and the co-pilot took con trol of the craft bringing it back to its base in Saigon. sion said discontinuance would force passengers to ride the Cascade at night or take other forms of transportation. It asked (hat the ICC delay discontinu ance and hold public hearings in San Francisco. Per Year - w ; NEWSPAPERS 1 1 1 SELL THE MOST! I FIRST FEDERAL KfSl 'aa1ti'najm 617 MAIN STREET O iCy r aft u ji iti rffrvnww mat!! a7 I Kib I o E'7! SHOES
