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HARMELEN. HoUand (UPI
Two speeding express trains col
lided at a rail junction when one
of them ran through a red warn
ing signal today, killing at least
87 persons in Holland's worst
railroad disaster.
The official state radio an
nounced about seven hours after
the crash that 90 wero dead, in
cluding three who died after be
ing taken to hospitals.
"It is feared the death, toll will
still rise," the official bulletin
said.
At least SO persons were in
jured seriously enough to . need
hospital treatment and scores
more received cuts and bruises.
Obscured by Fog
Officials said a heavy fog ap
parently obscured the warning
signal, and one train slammed
into the other at the junction near
here.
The trains were jammed with an
estimated 500 persons, most of
them returning from weekend hol
idays. The accident scene was a
rail crossing near this village 25
miles from Utrecht
Officials said the six-coach Lee
uwarden - Utrecht - Rotterdam
Express went past the warning
signal and plowed into the second
coach of the Amsterdam-Rotterdam
fast train at 9:19 a.m. local
time. Witnesses said the impact
was heard miles away.
Trains Slam Together
The trains collided at a junc
tion where the main track from
Rotterdam splits off at a 45-degree
angle, with one line going north
east and the other east
The train coming from Rotter
dam was to take the northeast
track to Amsterdam while the oth
er train coming from Utrecht was
approaching on the east line. But
at the fork the train from Utrecht
slammed into the side of the other
train.
Nearly seven hours after the
crash authorities announced that
all victims, including dead and in
jured, apparently had been re
moved from the wreckage.
The injured were taken to hos
pitals in Utrecht, Gouda, Woer
den, Amsterdam, The Hague, and
Rotterdam.
Dutch Premier Jan E. De Quay
and other high government offi
cials went to the scene immedi
ately. - The nine coaches were so bad
ly shattered that officials said it
might take two days to clear the
tracks of wreckage. Searchers
were unable to find any trace of
the engineer of the electric loco
motive of the Leeuwarden Ex
press. Some of the cars plunged
down a 10-foot embankment
Finds Pure Chaos
M. Slager, editor of a Harmelen
newspaper, said he found "pure
chaos" when he arrived on the
scene 15 minutes after the crash.
"There was only one ambulance
on hand," he said. "As fast as
emergency workers could get the
victims out of the wreckage they
were laid down in the fields.
There were dead and wounded ev
erywhere." One of the first doctors to reach
the scene shook his head and mut
tered, "Terrible, terrible, terri
ble." The thick blanket of fog that
lay over the low country delayed
physicians andMurses seeking to
reach the disaster scene.
Passengers who escaped serious
iniurv crawled through the shat
tered windows and doors of the
wrecked coaches and gathered in
a nearby field.
This was the third crash in
three years on the same stretch
of Holland's electrified railway
system. The worst previous Dutch
railroad disaster happened in 1918
when 42 persons were killed, ac
cording to railway officials.
Sukarno escapes
new death try
MAKASSAR, Indonesia (UPI
President Sukarno escaped a third
attempt against his life when a
hand grenade exploded Sunday
night in a crowd outside a sports
arena, killing 3 persons and in
juring 28.
The 60-year-old president un
hurt but obviously edgy after the
explosion, went on with his speech
in the arena and ripped into The
Netherlands for its refusal to
hand West Irian (West New
Guinea) over to Indonesia.
A government spokesman said
several persons were arresiro as
"Dutch agents" in the assassina
tion attemDt He chareed the in
cident was designed to break the
spirit of Indonesia and was an
example of the "cruelties and
immorality of Imperialists.
Makassar is in southwest
Celebes, one of Indonesia's big
gest islands and i major strong
hold of rebels who rose up against
the Sukarno government in 1953.
58th Year
THE MAIL CAME THROUGH Special mail dispatched by dog sled from Hoodoo Bowl
to Sisters Saturday afternoon cam through, but not exactly en schedule. The mail sled, drawn
by huskies ran out of snow after moving soma 21 miles to the east, then completed the rest
of the run on wheels, over a detour. Pictured here are the huskies at they arrived in Sisters.
The sled man at the left has been identified a s Art Christensen, owner of one of the dog rac
ing teams. He handles a bag holding letters ad dressed to many parts of the world.
TV translator
tests underway
on channel 11
A television translator to re
broadcast programs from- Port
land stations is expected to be in
full-time operation in about 60
days, Don Ries of Ries Radio and
Television said today.
Tests -of Channel 8 reception,
using Channel 11, were started
this past weekend, and will con
tinue through January 12.
The tests are for the purpose of
previewing translator television,
and testing for the best possible
transmitter location. The picture
quality will improve with the final
installation, Ries said.
Good Reception
The receiving and transmitting
antennas being used on Awbrey
Butte for the test are not designed
specifically for translator use.
However, the transmitter is trans
mitting full power and good re
ception has been reported from
several locations in the Bend area,
on regular VHF hook-ups or rab
bit ears.
Persons who have been picking
up programs on the Grizzly Butte
translator on UHF can bring in
the local translator by changing
lead-in wires to VHF, Ries said.
The first translator unit arrived
last week, and John Monson of
Video Utility Corporation, Seattle,
was here to assist with the test
preparations. Ries says that when
enough sign-ups have been re
ceived, with payment of $12 per
family for the first year of serv
ice, the translator can go into full
time operation. The license appli
cation has been filed.
Education TV Possible
If interest is sufficient, Ries
said, educational channels from
Portland and CorvaUis may be re
broadcast via UHF translator, to
provide school districts with edu
cational television programming.
School board
meets tonight
The District No. 1 School Board
will meet tonight at 7:30 in the
library at the junior high school.
The session is open to the public.
High on the agenda will be a
discussion of current crowding of
school facilities. The board will al
so open bids on fuel oiL
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Historic "first'
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Mail gets through
-by wheeled sled
The mail came through Satur
day, but it took 16 huskies and a
wheeled sled to get it from the
high Cascade snow line to Sisters.
Occasion' was the transportation
by dog sled of ' "special mail"
from the Hoodoo Bowl to the Sis
ters Post Office. In the bag tf
mail brought from the Cascade
snow fields by dog sled were hun
dreds of letters addressed to all
part of the world. Each letter
bore a special cachet, in red ink,
with the notation:
"From Hoodoo Ski Bowl to Sis
ters, Oregon, by dog team."
Oregon postal historians said it
was the first delivery of mail by
dog sled in the history of the
state. On arrival in Sisters about
6 p.m. Saturday, the mall was
formally accepted by Postmaster
President's
father is
back home
PALM BEACH, Fla. (UPI) -
President Kennedy's father, for
mer Ambassador Joseph P. Ken
nedy, 73, returned to his home
here today from St Mary's Hos
pital at West Palm Beach.
Accompanying the elder Ken
nedy on the five-mile ambulance
ride were, his wife, Mrs. Rose
Kennedy, and a niece, Anne Gar-
gan.
Officials at the hospital said
Kennedy probably would be con
fined to his home for several
months. His doctors said he was
eating well, was in good spirits
and had made enough progress
to carry on his recuperation at
home.
Kennedy has been partially par
alyzed since he suffered what
doctors called a "slight stroke"
Dec. 19. He became ill while
playing a round of golf at the
Palm Beach Country Club and
collapsed at his home.
The paralysis remains and Ken
nedy still is unable to speak, doc
tors said, but he has been sit
ting up in a wheel chair for sev
eral days.
CENTRAL OREGON'S
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Nellie Bembry ana" dispatched to
nearly every state in the Union
and to many foreign countries.
One of the cachet-bearing let
ters from Hoodoo was addressed
to Jean Saubert, member of the
National Alpine Ski Squad now in
training in Switzerland. Jean is an
Oregon State College student who
received much of her training on
Mid-Oregon Cascade snow.
The mail was moved from Hoo-
do Bowl to Sisters by the husky
teams of Will Koogler, Reedsport,
and Art Christensen, Jefferson.
Not until noon Saturday did the
team move east from Hoodoo.
First 12 miles of travel, over
snow, was excellent, but when the
snow ran out, trouble was en
countered.
Wheels were obtained and plac
ed on the dog-drawn sled, and the
mail rolled into Sisters. Heavy
rain fell over most of the route,
slowing travel.
Because of traffic danger on the
wet highway, the dog team came
into Sisters over the old.bantiam
route, unsurfaced and rough in
places.
Speaker named
for PTA meeting
A special program is planned
for the meting of the Reid
Thompson PTA tonight at 7:30
P.M. in the Thompson School au.
ditorium. Burton Bcrger, Oregon
Civil Defense information spec
ialist, will be guest speaker.
Berger, a member of the Ore
gon State University staff, is con
sidered an expert on prepared
ness. A survivor of the Bataan
death march, he was a prisoner
of the Japanese for years.
In his talk, Berger is expected
to discuss the effects of radia
tion, as well as outline survival
techniaues.
In a brief business meeting, the
PTA members will discuss plans
for an early kick-off campaign for
the annual hobby show.
WEATHER
Cloudy tonight and Tuesday;
high 34-J; low 23-JJ.
BU
DAILY NEWSPAPER
County, Oregon, Monday,
Belgian airliner forced down
along Soviet-Turkish border
Western U.S.
hit by bitter
new storm
Sy United Press International
A bitter new storm enveloped
parts of the West today with up
to 36 inches of road-blocking snow,
blizzard . conditions, and deep
freeze cold.
The blast followed the weekend
storm which plastered the Middle
West with up to 18 Inches of snow.
The storm still had parts of the
midlands paralyzed today. Scores
of schools were closed, traffic
crawled through frozen slush, and
transportation was still crippled.
The latest storm swirled over
Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and
North Dakota.
Snow Measured
Up to 36 inches of fresh snow
was measured in high mountain
areas. Colorado's Loveland Pass
was closed and snowslides made
Berthoud Pass hazardous. Colo
rado highway patrolmen stopped
motorists on U.S. 6 at George
town. On Loveland Pass, highway
crews tried to clear away snarled
traffic to let tie snowplows
through.
The storm closed 25 schools in
eastern Colorado and in six dis
tricts of the Big Horn Basin of
.Wyoming, Airports ,were closed
down temporarily at Casper and
Cheyenne, Wyo.
In the north, midmorning tem
peratures dropped to 13 below at
Minot N.D.. and 10 below at
Havre, Mont Pierre, S.D., meas
ured icy wind gusts of 52 miles
per hour.
Midwest Roads Clogged
In the Middle West, another
new storm hit Michigan's Grand
Traverse area. Snow was meas
ured at 10 to 14 inches and all
secondary roads were clogged.
An Indiana political leader,
George H. Bowers, died with his
wife in their flaming home near
Valparaiso as fire trucks tried to
break through snow-drifted roads.
In Wisconsin's snowlands, seven
Boy Scouts and their five adult
leaders were nearly overcome by
carbon monoxide fumes in their
cabin near DycksviUe.
But while the West and Mid
west froze, Los Angeles basked in
record high temperatures in the
mid and upper 80s.
The weekend storm was Diamea
for at least 50 deaths across the
nation's eastern half. There were
15 weather deaths in both Illinois
and Wisconsin, 9 in Michigan, 6
in Iowa, 3 in Massachusetts, and
each in Missouri and North
Carolina.
Search launched
for family of 8
RFATTT.R (UPI) A Coast
flnnrd search was launched today
far a Washington family of eieht
mluinff in a small boat in the
San Juan Island area following
reports Sunday that Canadian au
thorities found the boat.
Missing since the day after
Christmas are Mr. and Mrs.
James Hendron and their cnu
Hren. affed one to 14. who set out
from Stuart Island in a 16-foot
dory.
Coastguardsmen said the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police identi
fied n hnat found washed ashore
rimr 27 northeast of Victoria on
Tadboro Point as the Hendron
boat Found amid the wreckage
was the body of a child, which
the RCMP said may be that of
3-year-old John Hendron.
It was not until Saturday that
It was known the Hendron family
was missing. A school teacher on
Stuart Island reoorteu to the
Coast Guard that the Hendron
children had not come to class
since before Christmas.
DOW-JONES AVERAGES
By United Press International
Dow Jones final stock averages:
30 industrials 709.98. off 5.86; 20
railroads 146 65, up 0.05; 15 utili
ties 124.43, off 0.03, and 65 stocks
240.52, off 1 11.
Sales today were about 4 65 mil
lion shares compared with 4 63
million shares Friday.
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AndlwinduP...KERSPLISH!
PERT CHEERLEADER Linda White, 4-year-old daughter of
Mrs. Ruth Ann White, 1135 E. Ninth, goes through intricate
cheerleading routine during Bend-Prineville Jayvee basketball
gams last weekend at Bend.; Linda is "mascot" for Jayvee
rally squad. . . ' -
'Spring weather
in mid-Oregon
seen near end
Bend's January ' temperature
early this afternoon appeared to
be creeping to a record high for
the month, but forecasts indicate
the premature "spring" weather
is ncanng an end.
The five-day forecast calls for
highs In the 40's during the pe
riod, lowering to highs ot 35 to 25.
Lows are expected to range be
tween 10 and 20 degrees by Wed
nesday.
Just to emphasize that "spring"
is near an end, the weatherman
predicts periods of snow in the
five-day period.
On Sunday, really spring-like in
the Deschutes country, the temp
erature moved up to 60 degrees,
only six below the all-time Janu
ary high recorded at uie uena
station in the past 30 years. From
that high, the mercury dropped to
32 degrees at sunrise this morn
ing. Mild weather was general over
Central Oregon Sunday and it lur
ed many golfers to winter-tanned
"greens." Goiters playing on tne
Bend course Sunday reported
ideal temperatures, but soft turf.
result of the disappearance ot
frost from the damp ground.
BUSH BREAKS FALL
NEW YORK (UPD John
Maestre. 8. a patient In the pedi
atrics ward of Mary Immaculate
Hospital, accidentally tumbled
from a sixth-story window at the
hospital Sunday but survived
with only minor bruises when he
landed in a bush.
Ten Cents
Five sleek deer
wander info Bend
early in morning
Deschutes deer apparently be
lieve the garden season has ar
rived in Bend. . . ,
Possibly misled by the mild
weather, five of the sleek animals
wandered into Bend in the pre
dawn hours this morning and were
reported from the 1000 block on
Federal street, apparently looking
over garden sites of the past year,
In the group were one fine buck.
two does and two yearlings.
. Not in the least disturbed by
barking dogs, the deer stopped for
a long look at the Roy D. Crowell
lawn and shrubbery, at 1004 Fed
eral, then started moving toward
Newport
The barking ot dogs awaxenea
residents of the neighborhood
around 4 a.m. The deer had
aroused the dogs.
27 feared dead
in ship sinking
DOVER, England (UPI) -The
2,811-ton Yugoslav freighter Sabac
collided in the fog-shrouded h.ng'
lish Channel today with the Brik
ish freighter Dorington Court and
sank with the feared loss of most
of Its 33-man crew.
The bodies of 16 of the Sabac's
crewmen were plucked from the
icy waters of the channel. Anow
er 11 men were missing. Six men
were rescued.
All members of the 6.233-ton
Dorington Court were safe, ac
cording to the reports. The 473-
foot vessel Is ownea oy t, o u r
'Line, Ltd., of Londoa
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TEMPERATURES
High yesterday, M degrees. Lew
last night, 32 dtgms. Sunset
today, 4:44. Sunrise tomorrow
7:39.
No. 27
Plane sent
into capital
of Armenia
ISTANBUL. Turkey (UPI)
A Belgian airliner flying along -the
tense Soviet-Turkish border ;
with a defective radio compass
was intercepted and forced down
by Russian MIG jet fighters to
day. .
The Sabena Airlines plane with
27 persons aboard was ordered '
into Yerevan, capital of Soviet
Armenia, by the M1GS. It had
been en route from Tehran, Iran,
to Istanbul.
There was no indication that
the MIGs had fired on the air
liner. And there was no imme
diate information on the condition
of the 19 passengers and crew of
eight who were aboard.
The incident occurred near the
border between Turkey, Iran and
the Soviet Union, the same gen
eral area where two U. S. Air
Force planes were lost in 1958.
Airport authorities here said the
French-made Caravelle was 19
minutes out of Tehran on the
850-mile flight to Istanbul when it
reported Us radio compass was
inoperative.
(At Tehran, officials reported
that at least one American- and
Farhad Masoudi, editor of the
Tehran English language news-'
paper Tehran Journal, wera
among the passengers. The Amer
ican was identified only as How
en.") Gelazig Airport in eastern Tur
key said the last contact with the
plane came after pilot Freddy
Moreau radioed: "I have to fol
low MIG fighters. I believe they
are taking me to Russia."
He had said earlier, according
to airport authorities here, that
he would try to fly to Istanbul
even though his radio compass
was out Iran and Turkey are
both members of the Western-
allgnod Central Treaty Organiza
tion.
lieved the plane never entered
Turkish air space.
Airport officials said they be
(At Brussels, a Sabena spokes
man said the nlane had been inter
cepted by the Soviets while on its
' normal course.")
Airport officials said the pilot
at one point reported he w a
over a large city in a mountainous
region. Turkish air force authori
ties said this could have been
Yerevan, which lies, about 10
miles north of the Turkish border.
Moscow Radio did not mention
the incident in its 2 p.m. news
bulletin.
The Belgian government In
structed its ambassador to Mos
cow to try to get the plane and
its passengers released as quick
ly as possible. The Turkish gov
ernment contacted the Soviet am
bassador as soon as the plane re
ported losing radio contact and
asked him for any uitormation
that might be available from Rus
sian sources.
Skier makes his
way to safety
A young Junction City skier re
ported lost in the Santiam Cas
cades Sunday made his way to
the Hoodoo Lodge about 8:30 p.m.
as groups were being organized '
for a search of the snow-Bianxetea
area.
He was Dale Diar, 17. Tired and
without skis, he was guided to the
bowl area by lights that reflected
from low storm clouds.
The youth apparently lost his
directions while doing some cross
country skiing in the high coun
try and became confused in fog
il,.! anul th mnnnfains. He
was headed In the direction of
Lost Lake when he spotted the
flow of Hoodoo lights and headed
in that direction.
Without skis, the youth made
slow progress through the deep
snow, 72 inches deep at the bowL
Oregon State Police were alert
ed and with volunteer searchers
were preparing to go Into th
mountains when the young skier
came into the bowL