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Portland Police
Trace Clues In
Child Kidnaping
PORTLAND Ml Police Hied
to Unci tile lullicr (it u kidnaped
3-yenr-old girl I'rlduy, meanwhile
miinuliiK nil oilier dura that might
loud In tho missing Int.
IJrteclivo Cnpl, Wllllnm lliowne
nld they 111 feared Ilttlo Hlierrlo
Kllni Kiider Intel been nlnhitlc-cl
Wednesday by a sex olfrnder, bill
al.io were trying lo traco the father.
In The
Mv'siws
Itv I'ltANK JCNKINX
Whu.s the . Mv.n7 (The DIU
Inllllurv news. Ihnt In. I
Watch Indochina where Man
iHlnlln'f.A.rtjouci in miinniiiK bin
Krnilri ul over Ibr border III
rrd L'lllmi . . . WiiU'h Korea
where lor nriuiy seven months
we've been negotiating hoprlully
lor truce to end wur we can'l
win.
Then
WATCH THE FAR NOP.THEP.N
TIP 01" JAPAN where Russian
troop pre unwilling on adjacent
UJ:ind" III Iho Kurllr (some (it
theni only 3' a mile from jHpunene
Mill, I Junt the oilier duy we hnd
lo yank our Flrnt Cuvalrv division
nut ol Korea nnd nend It lo north
ern Jupan to FACE these iluiulun
Hoops.
What's the pattern? Whnl's Ihe
purpo-veT
Only the Kremlin lenowM. Bui
lt you'll net out your nuip or.
preferably, your globe you enn
make pattern o( your owrj. It
vill look something like tins:
A Inrne purl ol our pwtenl
ground lorre In already tied down
In Korea (we won't dure lo move
il. truce or no truce. I We hove
one division already lied down in
far northern Jupan.
Ruimote the commleii strike In
Indochina? That will probably tie
'flown MORE of our forees Sun
roue Ihey should then strike In
Mnlnvs? Thnl will He down STILL
MORK of our strength.
Alrendv we have large forces
, tied down In Western Europe.
If T were Slnlln. It would tickle
me almost pink It I could net the
armed forcca of the United Slates
scattered no widely over nil the
world Ihnt thev wouldn't be sUong
noiiKh ANYWHERE lo meet nn
Hack. In lorce.
Then
Aller you've innde this pattern
Half clo.-.e your eyes nnd lake
nn appraising look ni it. Here is
. whnt you will nee: Our strength
will be scattered nround the whole
Krrlmeter of a circle that covers
nlf the enrlh.-
STALIN'S STRENGTH WILL HE
CONCENTRATED AT THE AXIS
Or THE CIRCLE.
He will be able tn strike from
Ihe cenler toward nnv point on the
inn. We will have to RUN
AROUND THE RIM to meet him.
It will be the old military ntorv
of short Inner lines versus long
ruler lines. We not a tn.nc of Unit
situation In World War I and attain
in World War II In both of which
Oerniany was on the Inildc looking
nut and we were on the outside
looking In. To be sure, we licked
Germany boih limes, bin because
of her Invoruble Inner lines posi
tion II took longer and co.sl more.
Stnlln already has this tnvorrd
Inner lines position. He Is maneu
vering, I'd sny, to net us scat
tered nil around the outer lines.
There Is SOMETHING NEW In
war. II runic Into the world nn
Hiroshima Dny. 11 la the ntom
jbomb. The atom bomb, plus the
long-rnngo bomber to carry It,
changes a lot of the old patterns.
Our ace In tho hole Is lo move.
In FROM ALL AROUND THE
HIM with bin bombars and de
i.liny Stalin IN THE MIDDLE with
atom bombs.
'tint Is OUR SIDE ol the mili
ary story.
Ponder this thought:
The decision to move In on Rus
sia. I the spider In the center of
Athe webi will be probably the
' gravest decision ever taken since
Ihe world begnn. We mustn't move
loo soon. We mustn't move too
Inlc. Wfl must move, If nnd when
wo move, AT EXACTLY THE
RIOHT TIME.
That decision will be loo serious
lo be modo by the Pentagon alone,
It will be a political decision, as
well as a military decision. If nnd
when It Is mnde. It will be mnde
P.Y THE PRESIDENT AND HIS
CLOSE ADVISERS.
Between now nnd midnight of tho
first Tuesday nftor the. first Mon
day of next November we will
choose nnd elect our NEXT PRES
IDENT. Our next President, It mny
be, will hnve to mnko the fateful
decision ns to when . nnd how to
use Tho Bomb.
I have Just one word to ndd:
As our next President, let's hnve
Iho best mini It is humanly pos
sible to get nnd let's hnve bnek
of him the best congress it is
humanly possible to get.
Water Dragon Is
On Gloomy Side
MONO, KONG Ml China's New
Year The year of Ihe Water
Dragon begins at midnight Satur
day. Under Chlnn's Lunnr Calender It
v.'t'l bo Year 4049.
Tho snges aren't too optimistic
nbout ihe yenr of the Wnler Drng
nn, which rolls nround every 12
:)enrs. They see n little hope for
nUtl-yonr, but predict Hint the 13
month cycle will and on a sorrow
ful Hole,
Urowne suld the lather was
George. V. IJolliirhldc, who sepa
rated from the mother two years
UKO and wont to Los Alleles, l)ol
larhldo now Is missing- Iroin Los
Angeles, lirowno suld.
Police were getting scores of
calls from Porllundcrs who be
lieved they had seen a man re
sembling the kidnaper. Some SO
detectives run down these clues
without success,
'ihe Kill was grubbed from her
yard In a section where four other
iillrmpts lo abduct children hud
been made In two months. In one
a boy was carried olf by a sex
uflrndor, nnd later released. Sex
nllunders were blamed for the
other attempts.
The only description of the kid
naper came from Sherries 4-yenr
old sister, Vickie, who said the
mini hud gray hair, "needed a
bath." und wore u "blue suit thul
lipped all tins way."
1 lie mother. Mrs. Jadn Z. Kuder.
21, said Vickie knew Dollurhlde by
sight, and told her he was not the
man who made off with Bhorrle.
Vickie snld the man drove her
sister away In a dark sedun.
Confessed
Murderer
Faces Life
Roy Plant pleuded utility in Cir
cuit Court yesterday afternoon to
a charge of second degree murder,
and faces a llle prison sentence.
Earlier the 42-year-old rnllrond
man hud admitted slaying Ins
divorced wlte. Luella Gertrude
Plant, at their Esplanade Court
apartment last Saturday night.
Hie slaying was not discovered
until Plant called police Wcducs.
duy nlternoon.
Judge Dnvld R. Vandcnberg suld
he would pass sentence Suturdny,
It) a.m. A llle sentence is manda
tory.
Plant, still oulwurdly calm as he
was when he related the details of
the woman's death to officers Wed
nesday night, appeared In Circuit
Court, waived grand Jury Indict
ment nnd pleuded guilty. He de
clined legal counsel, saying:
"It- wouldn't do any good. 'now
Mrs. Plant was stubbed through
the hen rl. and Plant snld ho used
a hunting knllc he grabbed up dur
ing a violent argument at the
apartment. The argument, he snld,
was over money matters nnd bills
they owed, and Mrs. Plant threat
ened to leave hhn again.
He suld she hnd lell him on
several occasions for varying
lengths ol time, und twice sued
lor divorce. She received a divorce
decree Dec. 12, but hnd returned
lo him earlier this month. They
hnd not remarried.
Mrs. Plant's body Is at Wanl'a
Funeral Home. Her son, Alvln
Himes. arrived here Inst night from
St. Helens.
British Clash
With Egyptians
By TOM STONE
CAIRO. Egypt tiP British troops
with tank support battled Egyp
tian police, for six hours In Isninllla
Friday.
British offlcals renorted 42 EgVD-
I tinn ponce and inrec British sol
I dlers killed 111 the bloodiest flght
I lug ycl In the Suer. Cnnnl Zone.
Tile British counted 58 Egyptians
and 13 British soldiers hurt in the
battle, which Ihe British Initiated
to disarm Egyptian auxiliary po
lice. The British claimed the police
wej'o lighting them Instead ol keep
ing order.
An embittered Egyptian Cabinet
whs called Into emergency session,
possibly to consider breaking oil
diplomatic relations with the Brit
ish. Aussies Faint
As Heat Gains
SYDNEY, 'Australia I More
than a dozen people collnpscd In
Sydney Friday as Ihe cltv's tem
perature soared 23.7 degrees In
live houi'N to a ten-venr record
high of 105.1 early In the after
noon. Tho furnace like lient prevented
pcoplo from seeking refuge at har
bor and ocean beaches because the
sand wns too hot lo stand on.
In tho rest of New South Wales,
whole temperatures wero even
higher, fierce bush fires have de
stroyed at least 14 homes.
In the central western vlllnge of
Trlda the temperature Thursday
reached 124 degrees, only 3.5 de
grees below Australia's record at
Cloncnrry In 1880.
In Victoria, which also lias been
sweltering In a more than week
old hent wave, the Melbourne tern
peraturo reached 110 degrees.
'-Weather
FORECAST Klamath Falls and
vicinity and Northern California:
Intermittent nnow or rain through
tomorrow. Low tonight 25, high to
morrow 38,
Low lant night 25
High yesterday 35
Prcclp Jan. 24 11
Precip since Oct. 1 10.38
Ssmo period Innt year 10.111
Normal for period 6.25
We)lP Sill
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1,0
ts 12 Pairs .n?' oHKUOS. FRIDAY, JANUARY :
Prlre live Cents 12 Pairs
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IT SO HAPPENS THAT KLAMATH FALLS has had snow on the ground steadily now for 56 days (since Dee. 1) and
there's still ft heckuva lot of it, as these pictures show. The upper shot is of the city's snow dump, where the stuff,
dredged off the streets, is piled. Center picture is of the LeTourneau Tournapull rented from Ned Putnam to assist
in tho street clearing work. Lower left; Donna Colahan, aged 5, constructs, a snowman in her yard at 1003 Upham. And
the lower right picture shows how well the city's "shovel off your sidewalks" law is being obeyed on a downtown street.
rV"" wKKliON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1S2
been Like This For
Telephone 8111 No. 272.1
56 Days!
Strong Winds,
Rain Forecast
In North
SAN FRANCISCO lifl The sec
ond in a chain of three Pacific
norms ts scheduled to hit Northern
California Friday. The third Is due
Saturday.
The Weather Bureau said the
storms will bring strong winds,
rain and. above 5,000 leet. snow.
Fourteen Inches of snow lell
Thursday at Donner Summit in the
High Sierra raising the total pack
to 204 Inches.
The Red Cross declared Reno
and Washoe County, Nevada, a
disaster area as the result of last
week's blizzard.
This action wax taken
so Red j
U.N. Pleads
Dropping Of
Air Issue
By ROBERT B. TUCKMAN
MONSAN, Korea tfl Allied
truce negotiators suggested Fri
day that the thorny question of air
field construction be set aside tem
porarily and staff officers start
work immediately on other details
of policying a Korean armistice.
Chinese MaJ. Gen. Hsieh Fang
promised to study the proposal and
reply later. He did not say when.
"Basically, this is another effort
of the U.N. Command to achieve
a realistic armistice as rapidly as
possible." said Brig. Gen. William
P. Nuckols, Allied spokesman.
The issue of whether the Com
munists have the right to build and
repair military airfields in North
Korea during an armistice has
deadlocked truce supervision ne
gotiations since Jan. 9.
Friday MaJ. Gen. Howard M.
Turner askeH the nu tn rhnn
ZZZ TCr "".kT.
one of three possible courses of
action:
Continue subcommittee discus
sions wnne stall ouicers siari:
work on points already agreed upon years. Soda Springs has more than
to principle. 200 inches. .
Call a temporary recess until As the storm moved across th.
the staff officers complete their Sierra, scattered reports ol damage
work. came in. Dozens of homes and
Turn over the airfield issue to buildings were wrecked in the Lake .
the staff- olficers lor discussion ITahoe areav collapsing. under heavy
after they agree on other points, (snow. A theater and several homes
i "We are willing to accept your were smashed at Meeks Bay.
recommendations as to which of Just north of San Francisco on
the alternative actions the sub- the Sausallto lateral to Golden
delegates should pursue." Turner; Gate Bridge, a small landslide
said. "We submit this course ofPar"y closed the highway. The
action in a sincere desire to make ! Northwestern Pacific overnight
progress in these negotiations and passenger train to Eureka was de
bring them to a successful con-1 layed three hours by a slide north
elusion in a minimum amount of
time."
Rear Adm. R. E. Libby emerged I
Irom a stormy two hours and 40 ;
minute sessjen of the prisoner Ex
change subcommittee to tell news
men: "we caught neu."
There was no progress, but Nuck
ols said "at least the communists
began today to talk about speci-
tcs ratner man broad generali
ties."
Both subcommittees agreed to
xreea lo
meet aeain at 11 a.m. Saturday
or 6 p.m.
PST Friday in Panmun-
join.
CAA Okays
WASHINGTON Ml The Civil
Aeronautics Administration Fri
day authorized construction o air
port facilities In nine states.
The action authorizes local air
port Authorities or other groups
involved to procure such things as
steel and other scarce materials.
No allocation of monev is in
volved. The money for the work,
depending upon conditions, may be
wholly local or may be a corn-
nation of local funds and
nmnev
previously allocated by
the Civil
Aeronautics Administration.
The projects include:
Pendleton. Ore., terminal build -
i tinn nnn- Dnrtiand t ire ppu'
tnxiwnvs at Portland International
Snow vs. Ice On Sidewalks
Causes Split In Opinion;
Chief Says "Clean 'Em!
Bv WALLACE MYERS
The city of Klamath Falls right
now probably has more law break
ers per capita than any munici
pality since Sodom and Gomorrah.
These many criminals are per
sons who are breaking the law by
falling to clear the snow from
their sidewalks.
Wednesday, City Police Chief Or
ville Hamilton nnd City Atty. Hen
ry Perkins called attention to a
city ordinance requiring snow to
be removed from all sidewalks
within 24 . hours after falling.
The chief said the city was a
mass of danger spots and he might
order some arrests: the city at
torney said persons who suffered
injuries because of uncleared
walks could sue responsible per
sons. Both these viewpoints were
duly reported in the Herald and
new.
We haven't had a minute's
peace since. The Korean war, po
tato price ceilings, taxes and Bub-
Die uancer Lily si. cyr s court
room performances have all taken
a back seat in the. news gallery.
There hasn't been anything like
since the last armada of Flving
lit
I Si
Saucers sailed over our village.
Area
Cross National Headquarters could
reimburse the local chapter for
some of the $4,000 It spent in feed
Ing and housing persons who were
stranded thero last week.
Rail and highway trafflo over
the Sierra to Reno still was limited.
The main highway routes wer.
closed U.S. 40 at Colfax and U.S.
50 at Kyburz. The Feather River
Canyon Highway 24, was open to
Qulncy. ;
Through traffic was crossing; be
tween the Sierra and Reno via Red
Bluff and Susanvlllc.
Between Susanvllle and Rene,
cars were being convoyed and
ihere was no assurance the road
could be kept open.
Chains were required on U.8.
routes 99. 97, and 199 . over the
Siskiyou Mountains Into Oregon.
Rail lines were harried. Southern
Pacific canceled plans to send Its
City of San Francisco and overland
across the Donner Summit route.
The SP said the westbound over
land left Ogden Thursday night
and will arrive In Oakland Friday,
making it the first through train
to travel across Donner since snow
closed the line 12 days ago.
Western Pacific passenger trains
were operating In the Feather Riv
er Canyon.
The weather bureau at Sacra
mento said there was little Immed
iate danger of flooding by major
rivers.
Creeks and streams were on the
rise all over Northern and Central
California, particularly In the val
ley area around Merced and Fres
no. A few families were lorced to
move to high ground.
Rainfall in the past 24 hours has
been very heavy In some places.
Oroville, In Butte county, reported
3.10 inches. Fresno had 1.75, Sa
linas 1.45, Red Bluff 1.33 and Santa
Barbara 1.09.
San Francisco, drenched by. the
heaviest downpours since way back
in the '80s, already has nearly 23
inches, with the normal rainy sea
tafaTTfor the Tear is "around ai
fainiau lor mc year is around u
son scarcely half over. Normal
incnes,
San Luis Obispo reported 2.70
inches in Thursday's rainstorm.
in the sierra, snow was packed
hioher than It ho. hn i
of San Rafael.
! . .
Hobo Admits
Nine Slayings
SACRAMENTO. Calif. ifll A
; ,j , j.. .A ,
fl'"T noiw. wung-
ing in ms county lall cell on
! vagrancy charge, calmly wrote a
confession that he killed nine men
in two and a half yers.
Then Lloyd Gomez told surprised
officers Thursday, "I'm getting
tired of living this way. I'm getting
:weak, I guess."
Gomez gave robbery as the
motive but said his total loot was
less than S65.
Undersheriff Harry Knoll said
the accuracy of Gomez' descrip
tions left little doubt that he was
telling the truth. .
Authorities last fall undertook a
statewide search for a man they
suspected of from seven to 12 trans
ient slay ings In hobo Jungles.
MISTAKE
PENDLETON l The Pendle
ton Jaycee distinguished service
Inward bnnauet Jan. 14 went into
I Ihe red. Chairman Norman Gorfkle
told Jaycee members.
I "However, it wasn l tnrougn any
jiauit ol our own, uonwe .
. "When we went to pay the bills
we innnn inp imiMer wh uimiKiui
more per meal than the price of
By phone and by foot, we've
had a steady and sizzling stream
of steamed-up citizens. Comments
may be roughly catalogued as Ap
pinuse or Applesauce.
There's an argument here: to
paraphrase an author of many
uest-sellers, "To clear the snow or
not to clear the snow, that is the
question."
One taction says the law should
be rigidly enforced, that the snow
should be removed from the walks.
Their opponents say some snow
should be left on the walks, that
it's safer to walk on snow thnn
on ice. (They claim that In many .
places where the snow has been
removed a thin and treacherous
film of ice remains on the walks.)
Both sides have limgers. Soma
attribute their lameness to skid
ding on Ice, others to pulled mus
cles suffered wading through knee
deep snow.
Police Chief Hamilton Is having
no truck with either faction. After
all, the chief haa an oath to live
or to ... '
He solemnly swore to enforce
the laws when he took office.
Andthe law says the snow must
be removed from the sidewalks.
Next question, please. '