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Newspaper Page TextMM Ul 3 Vilhnpc ( i tr:h'i-'toii.A - aV Vl jelMhlassaa3ij&'Me4 NEW OFFICERS of the Oregon Tech student body are shown above. They are (1 to r): Lcroy Pcttlt, Walton, treasurer; Robert Newbill, Redmond, vice president; Lyle Read, Corvallls,' president; and (seated) Phyllis lloycz, Lakeview, secretary. InTUe . r -i - By FRANK JENKINS . Paris: ., , "The United Nation polmel ommlllee gave Uie United Slates a vola ol confidence today by re jecting Russian charges that the U.S. la eupnortlng anll-Kremlln . plotters on Soviet toll." tit's explain. A week or so ego Moscow charged that bv our propaganda and otherwise! we are stirring up revolt to Russia against the com munist oligarchy in the Kremlin. We denied It liwilgnanUy. Now our (rlenda In the UN bark u up and tell U)e world that or COURSE we aren't doing; anything like that. wall, when vou com right down to cases, that'a EXACTLY what we ARB doing. If we weren't, we'd be eaps. Hie communist govern tnent el Russia la Imil and terrible. If we can weasrn t uppuit mn Ruula'a atooaes. we may ba able to aavt the world lrom bath ot blood. BuW- When charged with tt. we deny tt Indignantly and lire up our I rlenda to back up our denial. Isn't diplomacy wonderful? Washington! The cases of some 500,000 men who previously tailed to meet MENTAL standards Inr military service will be reopened by dralt i boarda, starting next month , . . . Congress lowered minimum mental atandards when It revised the draft ... act last summer." . 1 ? T 1 1 1 x What It means Is that under the old standard these men were found not mentally fit to light. Politics being politics, nobodv even ques tioned their illness to VOTE. Philadelphia; " , "A 46-year-old Camden. New Jer--ey man Is In Jail todav because he tried to ROB A FEDERAL AGENT." Bounds like another of these "man-blles-dog" atorles. Moscow! ' . , ' ,. ' "Joseph Vlssarlonovlch DJugash vlll better known as Ocnerallssl- mo Joseph Slitlin. premier of the soviet Union became 73 years old todsv. . ,' "The ' 8ovlet press observed ' the day with announcements , of the award of 8tslln prlr.es lor strb:nothf:nino peace .mono the PEUri.B.B. ' If thst'a what you really want. Joe, here a a tip: Disband your huge armies. Let go your Iron grip on your satel lite nations and give them back Ihclr Independence and Uielr free- dom. Call oil your secret police. Let your people think their own thoughts and speak them out loud. Bresk up1 your big "collective" fnrms, give your muslilks a few acres apiece and turn 'em loose on their own. Open the gutes of your slave labor camps and let the slaves go free. Try BEINO FRIENDS wllh the rest ol Uie world Instead of spending your all to CONQUER the rest of the world. You'd be surprised what a boost that would give to the cause of "peace among the peoples" II you'd (Continued to Page 41 '. Kirkland Steps In 0' 8kee( O'Connell steps out and Art Kirkland steps In as hend bas ketball coach at Oregon Tech ef fective Monday, Orntech Director Winston Purvlne told the Herald snd News today. . Purvlne cmphRslzod that the ahnke-up took place to Rive mora supervision to the school s vnut, In UnmurRl sports program,'. " O'Connell will keep his Job as 'athletic director but his main Job WIU be to oversee intramural sports. Rex Hunsnkcr, head football enfich, will head the basketball Jay vees, a Job that has been held by Kirkland, O'Connell hss been head basket ball coach Kir three seasons at Connell Takes Over Intramural Post Crippling Weather Moves Over Much of Br The AtsacUtrd Preaa More crippling weather In the form ol snow, rain, sleet and cold hit wide areas of the country to ils y. Fresh snow and cold struck the now-covered and chilled mid-con-tlnent. flravy rain and winds of gale force swept, ovrr much of the East ern stales and Into parts of the South. Transporatlon In hundreds of cit ies was disrupted alter nearly a week ol near record snowfslls. Severe wintry wrsther hss hit arras from the Pacific Northwest to the Atlantic Seaboard for a week and Uie winter season does not start officially until tomorrow. Hercules To Tionegla. Calif., In the far west ern ena oi jnoaoo county, isa i ine ghost town It used to be. . The Hercules Powder Co. stump crew Is moving In. Ttonesta once was a booming tumrjer town, the aecond largest In Modoc county, but that waa several yeara ago when the Shew Lumber Co. waa operating there. After the Shaw outfit moved out It waa re duced to just a couple of families. But now about 45 men, a mobile unit housed In trailers. Is moving In and prooaoiy will stay all win ter, according to George Bosserdet, Hercules msnsger at the Klamath Fslls pilot plsnt. The slump crew obtains material for experimental work at the com- psnys chemical derivation plant here. It moves to Ttonesta from California's Sierra valley. Children To Attend Party Children of members of the Elks lodge are to be feted Sunday after noon with a Christmas party at Uie armory, starting at 2 p.m. Homer Snow, famous as one of Uils country'a authorities on ma rine anlmala. will lead Uie enter tainment, bring two trained seals, a pelican and penguin. Snow re cently was the subject of an article in a nsuonai magaune concerning bis work with sesls. Santa Claua will be present ' at the party to hand ut candy and fruit. The party is an annual af fair of the Klamath Falls Elks lodge. . , Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity and Northern California! Cloudy today. Occasional snow flur ries tonigni, rarnai clearing Sat urday, High today IS. Low tonight tt. High Saturday St.' High temp yesterday . 27 Low last night 13 Pieclp last 14 hours 9 Since October 1 . 8.98 Same period normal S.9S Same period last year S.J1 '(Additional Weather en Page 41. OTI (this Is his fourth year.) Tast year the Owls finished with a 14-12 record and copped second place in the ' Oregon Collegiate conterence behind Vanport. In three years O'Connell's teams have won 30, lost 20. , , i ,The Owls have played six games this season, winning four. O'Con nell will be the headman for the Southern Oregon series tonight and tomorrow night, however. Klrkland's junior varsity basket ball teams nave lost ' Just one game last season and four games this season, Kirkland Is also assistant to Hun saker In football. Purvlne stressed the fact 'that As OTI Hoop Chief; Nation Today The stormy, frigid weather of the last week has csused 2t deaths. Chicago, with more snow Uils sea son than for a normal winter of lour months, was battling a serious transportation problem. Slmilsr sit uation were reported In a number of Midwestern cities. In Washington, hit bv heavv enow and Ice, District of Columbia com- muaioners osnned aU cars without skid chains or snow tiros from op erating along 1M mile of heavily traveled streets. Two vigorous storm centers were reported by the U.8. weather bu reau today, one In Uie vlclnllv of Chicago, Uie second near New York City. The storms brought rain and snow over wide areas from the Mississippi valley eastward to the Atlantic coast. Snow fell over much of ths Clrrst Lakes region and Uie upper Mis sissippi valley and In northern New England. ' Rain pelted areas to the eouth and east, with.. yy falls 111 -the Middle Atlantlo stales, and In some sections of the AtlsnUo Sesboard. Southeast winds of nearly 40 miles an nour. wun ousts ol gsle force, were reported in New York Cltv. Temperatures rose In the rain oeit. u new York It was 53 early today, a climb of more than 30 oegrees m 24 hours. But there were sub-rero readings again today In Uip northern plains, with a low of 2S below at Bis marck, N.D., and -22 at Miles City. Mont. The' aub-sero blasts moved east ward and a cold wave was pre dicted for most of the north cen tral region tonight and tomorrow, Voman Dies Of Exposure EVELETH. Minn., HI An Evel eth housewife was found deed of exposure Isle yesterday, 34 hours slier ahe and her husband became lost In deep woods on a search inr meir urst cnristmaa tree. The body of Mrs, Arne Mskl, 42, was found In an Improvised Jean- to by firemen from nearby Vir ginia. They had taken a sled into the woods to rescue her. Mskl, 40, was treated at Uie hospital for se vere frostbite, The Makls were married six months ago. Dr. J. Arnold Malmstrom, deputy 8t. Louis county coroner, said the couple drove their car onto a side road 40 miles north of Eveleth late Wednesday. They walked into the woods and became lost as aarsness fell. Mskl started a fire against the subsero cold and set up a shelter or branches. At daylight yesterday he wanted to continue to find the way out. But Mrs. Makl said she couldn't move. The husband gathered wood for the fire. left his overcoat to shield his wife and started to hunt for meir. car. took him most of the day. Then he drove Into Virginia and sounded the alarm. Mskl directed firemen In where he had parked the car. Three of them Clayton Pierce. Walter Coombe and August Koebensky then pulled Uie sled, laden with blankets, four miles Into the Woods tracing Mam's tracks In the anow. -The found the lean-to. The fire waa out. Mrs. Makl was dead, O'Connell's atenninor out as head cage coach came as no result nf administration dissatisfaction of his ability. . Rather. It was done to focus more attention on a last-growing Intra' mural program, Purvlne said, The director pointed out that some "80 or 90 persons 'take part In the bowling program, 350 stu dents participate in Uie games pro gram at uie student union building and that 20 or more teams enter the Intramural basketball program. Growing complaints from intra mural athletes that "they haven't had adequate Instruction" led Ore gon Tech ollioials to put O Connell on tne jod. rrlee FWs Oai ..see U.N. Planes Cut Tracks In Korea SEOUL. iH Allied fighter planes swept serosa northwest Korea In misty weather today and blasted out gsplng cuts In Communist rail lines. V. 8. fifth air force Shooting 8tars. Thunder Jets and 'Mustangs, and murine Corsairs scored cuts south of the big rail centers of Sln- anju and Kunu. r American Sabre- Jets thundered northward to their Mlg hunting grounds along the Yalu river but were not challenged. The quiet of the ground fronts was broken by two small, sharp lights hi the earlw rrornlng hours near the Punch Bowl on the East ern front. Attacking Red units twice tried to probe Allied lines and were twice beaten back. The first attack came about mid night. Forty Reds msde the attack out gave it up alter uiey nao been under fire half an hour. Four hours later another bunch of Com munist Infantrymen tried again, and again pulled out after fighUng half an hour. Elsewhere along the freeeinr 145 mile front, the U. S. eighth army said In Its evening communique, there was "no significant activity." B-26 light bombers strafed, bombed and fire-bombed Commu nist vehicles Thursday night. Pilots reported more than 110 damaged ol 2100 alghted. Naval airmen said their bombs exploded convoy of eight trucks In a burst of flame and smoke, towering 800 feet into the air. Tax Scandal Suspect Eyed WASHINOTON. (B Hennr The Dutchman) Orunewald relused to day to testify to a house committee Investigating tax scandals. Orunewald said he was acting on advice of his attorney. "The Dutchman." a myster'ous man-about-Washlngton. wss called before a house ways and means subcommittee for questioning as to whether he knows snytning aoout an alleged S500.000 "tax fix" shake- down attempt. He and his attorney: William P, Maloney, have been sparring with Uie committee for days over when snd under what circumstances Orunewald would testily. Maloney. a former justice depart menl lawyer now in private prac tice, had insisted Orunewald should not give testimony except in a pub- lie hearing, "ine committee mem bers wanted to talk with Orune wald behtnl closed doors before holding any public session. They got Orunewald and Maloney before them behind closed doors this morning, but Uie lawyer In sisted on a public hearing even in the face of threats of contempt ac tion against Orunewald. Cold Slows Spud Hauls Cold weather Is still slowing ship ments of potatoes from here, though steady stream or cars has been counted out by the stale department of agriculture's office So far this month. However, yesterday s 55 cars one of Uie biggest das's this month was about half the 'Moments which were going outbound at the end of November. According to spud Inspection tig' ures, November so saw 99 cars checked out. Meanwhile, spud prices are re ported sUll running at an extreme ly ravoraole 3.o to S4.28, with some cartoned shipments for mill' tary use reportedly higher. Strange Animal Poses Mystery POTTSVILLE. Pa.. Wl Is It mountain Hon, a bear, a hugh wild dog, or something else? . . uame warden John Spencer Is trying harder than ever today to find out, after getting a fresh crop ot reports from uneasy Schuylkill oounty residents that they have seen mysterious wild animal on Uie loose. By the accounts of many persons, the animal prowls. mostly at night In Uils oastern Pennsylvania re nlon,' roaming woods .and farm lands, popping out on highways, and letting fly with odd sounds out side cabins and barns, Frank Bosack, owner of an In dependent coal mine nearby, said a watchman at his mine had been frightened by the animal and now stands guard with a rifle. The watchman reported that the strange beast first appeared In the mine area about two weeks ago, and since then, has come buck nearly every night. He and others have examined tracks In mud and snow but "can't figure them out." Allies KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21. 1SS1 ..tA:.' 5 ct ; v! (i P i rf saT LITTLE SALLY WENZ (above), 3-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Wenz, appears to have found her Christ mas tree. She doesn't appear belligerent but we imagine she's ready to offer strong argument to any other claimant. Fate Of Eleven In Ship ' ASTORIA. A The fate ol 11 Per sons, missing In a fire which swept a ehlp anchored in the Bsnnb, ot the Columbia river, still waa jwt determined. - '" '' One hundred three others, includ ing 23 passengers and SO crew members were rescued by the coast guard shortly alter names whipped uirougn tne mia section of Uie Danish vessel, Erria, early yesterday. ' - Crewmen said the fire atarted from sparks from a shorted elec tric cable, a few minutes later a bold was on fire. Survivors said - crew members ran from cabin to cabin pounding on doors and ordering passengers to lifeboat stations. Pour of the eight lifeboats were lowered, the first wllh women and children and the others with men. Three boats burned ana one was not luunched. The coast guard station, omy a mile, away, rushed tugs to tne scene to pick up uie uieoosta. One survivor, E. L. Blythe of Silver Moon Mystery Eyed '"fncnsHO. Mo.'. UB Who or what Is behind Uie SUver Moon Mys tery? Baffled authorities, seeking the answer acknowledge they have made little progress in solving a series ol weird events at Uie Osark farm community- of Silver Moon neni here. Here are some of the things that have occurred: Peed has been stolen from barns and tossed over the fields. Motor car tires slashed, parts from cars, anti-lreese drained lrom radiators. . - -' - "Switches" cut off cow's tails. . n 1 1 1, turned out of pastures. -A harness was stolen from one barn and returned mysteriously later. rimer, Allen. Sl-vear-old bachelor farmer, reported he had been stripped, bound and gagged twice in three davs. Friends found him tied to his bed both mornings with belling wire. ' inlrf piiihorllles both incidents occurred as he went to his barn to milk the cows. He said he knew of no reason for the attacks by three men who threw a gunny sack over his head bound him and car ried him into his house. County Prosecutor George Henry says he Can find no reason for the strange events. ' But the farmers in tne area are hoping for a quick solution to the mystery ol silver Moon. Crater Ski Outlook Good Sling should be good 'on Crater lake ski slopes inis weeaena, .ac cording to Ranger ' Paul Turner. who reported 83 Inches of snow pack Willi a top 10 Inches of powder slightly crusted this morn- The ski tow,' Turner said, 'will: operate Sunday, Monday ana i-ues-day, weather permitting. The warming hut will also be open. All roads are open today, but a heavy snowpack .has made chains required, ' r mm I; :! Missing Fire Unsolved PprUand. said "there was no panic, but moat of the passengers le'i their luggage behind. Some of theni were In night clothing and over coats."4 .. The 463-foot boat., bound for Liv erpool via New York, was towed late yesterday out of the channel. It was listing at a 25 degree angle. Coastguardsmen who boarded the fantau briefly yesterday, said there was no sign of life in the smoking red-hot mid-ship secuon. The missing were believed trapped there or drowned. -John Ray, 11-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Ray of Vancouver. B. C. said he and a number ol others were trapped In Uie ship's lounge by the flames. The adults shoved him through a port hole but were unable to climb through themselves. He said he saw two of Uie men's hair catch fire. ' The boy was one of two persons injured. He suffered a heel Injury. A crew member was knockd un conscious in a fall. Both were re leased from the hospital after treatment. The remaining survivors were housed temporarily at tne John Jacob Astor hotel. The Red Cross provided clothing and food. The replacement value of the ship was set at . S3.000,000 by George J. cmeicn, traiuc mana-a-er for the East Asiatic line. He said, however, that there would be some salvage even If the ship had to be scrapped. ' Steel Talks "Collapse" WASHINGTON. Wl-Steel labor negotiations collapsed today and the . dispute was referred to Presi dent Truman as being in a com plete deadlock. - Cyrus S. Chlng, federal media tion service director, ended his el forts to negoUate a settlement. He told reporters he waa sending the case to the White House as hopeless leaving it up to the president to decide on the next step to try to avert a threatened New Year's Day strike in the vital steel industry,- - .., Mr. Truman apparently has two sources to tase. One Is to invoke the Taft-Hartley act, with Its provisions for an 80- day court injunction pronioiung walkout, i This, however, would probably shelve the unsettled steel dispute until March, with the possibility that John L. Lewis may be threat enlng a nation-wide coal strike then. His second course would be to refer the steel crisis to the wage stabilisation board for a recom mended settlement. However, it was considered high lv unlikely the board could com Dlete this nrocess before CIO Presl dent Philip Murray's Jan, 1 strike deadline. r SHOOTING HOURS .' Dacsmbtr- 22 Open 1:s ' Close 3:37 5 Tekesbem Sill No. 2SS4 Thousands Said Left Off Red List MUNSAN. Korea. Ul The Allies today demanded the Reds account for more than 1000. American and other missing U.N. soldiers and "an unbelievable number" of South Koreans not listed as prison ers oi wsr. The demand was made In a stiff. ly worded note. It was handed to Red liaison officer in Panmun- jom shorUy after Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway appealed to Commu nist chieftains to open the gates of North Korean prison campa to the international Red Cross. These develoomenu came as the Allies offered to give up aU is lands off Uie North Korean coast in a move to hasten agreement on an armistice. - The Allied note demanded e com plete explanation of "wide discre pancies" between tne number ot Allied prisoners listed by the Com munists and the number tne Allies asnert the Reds may bold. Tne note did not relect the Red list of 11,558 prisoners. TUESDAY LIST The U.N. note today said more than 1000 of the O.N. personnel named as POW's" in earlier broad casts by Communist radios "are missing from Uie roster submitted" j Tuesday. 1 Other new names nave Been used since then on Red China's official Peiping radio. They were broad cast witn purported unnsunas greetings from Allied prisoners to tne touts at nome. The official Red roster named 3198 Americans, 1219 other -U.N. soldiers and 7142 South Koreans. The Allies said they hold 132,472 Chinese and North Korean prison ers. Friday s u.rt. note , aid not say how many of the unaccounted, for 1QOO ware- Americans. The truce subcommittee on ex- change1 o prisoners will meet Sat urday for the first time since Tues day. Tne question oi wnat happened to the missing men un- oouDtecuy wui oe tne Key wat session. - Living Cost Index Soars WASHINGTON, Wl The govern. merit's cost of living index rose another 0.S percent to a new peak in November. As a result, approximately a mil lion and a quarter railroad work ers wUl get a pay boost of four cents an hour. Their wage scales are tied to the rise .and taU ol the Index. The association of American rail road estimates that each cent an hour increase means for the car riers about an extra 30 million dol lars a year. On this basis, begin ning January 1, the railroad work ers would begin receiving addition al pay at the rate of 20 million dollars a year. - The bureau of labor statistics. which keeps the tally, said its in dex reached 188.6 percent ot the 1935-38 base level. It said that in creases for miscellaneous goods and services and' in prices ol iresn fruits and vegetables was mainly responsible lor the rise. The bureau said the Nov. 15 In dex was. 10.8 percent higher than in June. 1960, before the outbreak of the Korean war, and 6.9 percent aoove novemDer,' ivou. FUN-LOVING Sam Neslin operator, couldn't resist a visited this morning ... . ;Yuletide greeting in holly., Isolated By Big Storms PIERRE. S.D.. W-Oov. Slrurd Anderson said todav he mar oall lor leaerai aid if ine nowbewm situation In South Dakota becomes : mora crIUcal. The slate has been buffeted fee mere thaa two weeks by bilasarda whlrlt save choked roads and Iso lated many ranches and email commimlUc behind drifts as deep aa la leei. Tnere are zs Inchea ef anew on the level. Hardest hit are the villages of Keyahapa, Millboro and Clearfield -In Tripp county near the Nebraska border. These communities with a total population of 100, were Iso- tlaterl for twn .vmekt hana nt 'blocked roads. None has railroad service. A bulldozer pulled a truckload of groceries Into Keyahapa Wednes day, the first vehicle to reach there since December 5. AH three ' of the viUages are about 100 miles southeast of Pierre. Uie atate'a capital city. Private flying servlrea here and -at Winner, only U miles from the three swooned earn inanities, re ported they are far behind wllh mercy flights. High winds and swirling snow have made lakeoffs impossible. MONET NEEDED Gov. Anderson said he Is writing the community facilities service of the federal security agency -to ask the condition of the disaster emer gency lund. Such monies were made available for distress cases in the roaring blizzards which lashed South Dakota in January and February of 1648. . Anderson said current reports show the situation is now a crit ical as it was at that time. He u .i . i. . . o,u uw, iv is sxgravaiea oy eacn succeeding storm, which has come with regularity since December S. Hardly a day of that period has passed without high wind and fresh snow. Tram service has not, however, been crippled for long periods aa It waa tw year aao. Trams are getting through, but seldom en schedule. A Chicago and North Western passenger reached Pierre from Huron late yesterday bears late for the trip of .about 1M miles. It waa nulled bv twn' ateam locomotives, pushed by a oiesei unit. . Main highways have been anen only DeriodiAlly. Swirling snow whipped by brisk winds fill' them in soon alter plows have passed. isolated rancnes ana tne remote villages have been most seriously affected because . county road equipment is inadequate to clear tne wind-hardened drifts from side roadsJ -j. . . PLANES CRIPPLED '. . Air service into Pierre has been ': crippled badly because plows have been unable to keep pace with uivmfiiK nw.. .tiling ui netween runway banks set up by previous plowings. . , "It's pottinc the people back Into the horse and "buggy days," said one Pierre Implement dealer. "We're selling bozsleda faster than at any time since tracks be came common. They move out as oyick as we can unload 'em. . Stock aales pavillion operators report an unusually heavy demand for horses, largely missing from the South ' Dakota scene alnre farms and ranches were mechan ised. . . Despite howling snowstorms and severe temperatures for the past is days, no deaths attributed to the weather have been reported. State officials say also the loss ef livestock has been surorlsingly low. as tramped tn the snow are signals for airmen to tend at re mote farms and ranches for emer gency errands. The fliers earrv food, fuel and medicine. Livestock men -have also called for cotton seed cake for cattle which are un able to forage in the deepening drifts. Stores To Open a swi-j.ii Meet all Klamath .Falls stores will be open again tonight, Friday, until 9:00 p.m. for Christmas shop ping. Merchants have been open the past three Friday evenings to accommodate big crowds. Tonight will be the final evening opening of the season. . (above), Oregon Woolen Store gag when the photographer So the genial Sam "Xramed" a , r ? M 'Vvi. ai i i i I .