If
4. i,.V"
Br FRANK JENKINS
Jual a word thla morning before
leaping oil Into Ilia muddy waters
of pollllx:
A II villi saucer hn been
POTTED BY RADAR, Hudar hits
a definite. TANGIBLE object and
bounces back.
That doe away with til theory
ol llghta reflected from mirage
ilka layer In the atmosphere.
Then are elrange and ORAVE
clays we're livinu in. In such times,
we ntad the IIKbT POHHIULE
leadership available. Regardless ol
what the pollclUaiM ml (or dul
that thought must remain upper
most the minds ol all good
Americana.
Now (holding; our noses, per
lui' we can wade Into (he politi
co itulli
O
fvhat about this loyalty oath
. bualneas?!
Tlkli U-thn eenersl Idea!
Anywhere save in the South, dis
gruntled Democrats could no home
and vote the Republican ticket. In
the one-parly boulh. Republican
are damyankees and If you vote
lor a damyankee you're an outcast
and a uariah.
It wa suspected (perhaps n o t
. without reason) that several Deep
! Couth delegeilona mlKhl so home
and, usliiK stale laws, put Elaeiv
k... r. Ilm hallliL AH A DEMO-
ITvAT. T h a I 1 what started ths
' Shooting. The "loyally oatn- was
dotignetv to neaa wet m.
: What about ths" "civil rights"
bualirtM?
Borne speaker yesterday live
forgotten now who It ws let the
cat out ol the baa; on that Issue.
In II kev Northern cities, he said,
the BALANCE OF POWER la held
bv Uie colored vote. The Demo,
crallo parly needs to keep and the
Republican parly needa to get
these key Industrial centers.
That's about the Ion and the
short ol It. As U comes uo at the
. , i . .. Mnvmllniu SVerV
naiwniu ,
lour veara. there isn't an ounce ol
sincerity on either side so iar
this compulsory "civil righte" bus
iness I concerned.
If. bv the power of morsl recti-
...... ...a'-, in lt (he world OD
to better days, we've got to (el
rid of racial Intolerances ana prJ
dicea here in our own country. We
can't command the respect and the
following and the cooperation of the
colored races throughout the world
I black, yellow and ao on) II were
Intolerant and unfair to member!
ol Ihese races here In America.
But wa can't solve that problem
bv shsdv political (maxima- evry
lour year for In racial balances
In mir hi IndU.
trlsl cities. We'll have to 10 deeper
then Ihst. ' ,
Thafa flat.
A (hi to written. It look like
Stevenson I It.
I don't doubt that he's a prelly
good man. But I think thla much
l evident from the maneuvering
that haa gone on In Chlcsao:
It Is the POLITICIANS who want
Stevenson.
They're wllliiwr to take Stevenson
to BEAT Kefauver.
I still hop the Democrat name
their best man. run him. on i
ALL OUT New Deal-Pair Deal
platform and make It a clear-cut
oonlest. I think these are days when
we need to know where we re at
and where we're going. It seem
to me from all the talk In Chicago
(hat the politicians favor Stevenson
became they think mayb they II
be able to campaign for him on
both sides of the fence.
The professional politician aren t
much Interested In olesr-eut Issues.
Whnt they went I to STAY IN
POWER.
I still think Kefauver would be
the Democrats' beat man. He has
whet It I coming to take In these
tlmes-whlch I the confidence of
the people. He ha demonstrated
that over and over In the pri
maries, where the people Imply
go to the poll end vote their
preference and the politician can t
do much maneuvering.
In the long run. a thing are
. hsolng up In this country, the
A confidence of the people I going
In he more Important than the
backing of the politician.
' Idealistic?
Of course It Is.
But we're beginning to need some
GENUINE Idenllsm In this nation
of our.
Mishap Fatal
To KF Woman
Mr. Fannl F. Wahl. 73, of 4.138
Arthur, died at Kltmath Valley
Hospital last night of Injuries re
ceived In a two-car collision ner
Keno last Friday morning.
Her husband, Charles A. Wahl,
70, remains In the hospital where
his condition was listed a only
fair this morning.
Mrs. Wahl' death
7' brings to aeven the
number of traffic fatal
ities In Klamath Coun
ty this year.
Klamath '
rive omer persona
were Injured In the ao-
i -Uani ,n m41a weal
County
v.. .1111.. " 1 1" " - " -
"",;:" of Keno on Oregon W,
In 1853 Rl lM, riou,iy thsn
Mr. and Mr, Wahl.
They were Mrs. Bessie Lola Sul
livan, 3010 Boardman; her two
children, her mother-in-law, Mrs.
Zetta Sullivan, and a alster-tn-law,
Helen Zetta.
Mrs. Wahl was trapped In the
wreckage of their ear for several
minutes and was bleeding profuse
ly when taken out.
Her husband told State Police
that he was driving on the Wrong
side of the road and didn't have
enough time to pull back Into the
firoper Isne when he ssw the enl
iven car coming. The two vehicle
mashed head-on.
Earthquake
Cost Rises
To Millions
TRHAOIIAPI, Calif. (TV- With
10 person dead and more thsn
it Injured, Southern Csllfornls
Tuesday began counting the cost
of the second strongest earth
quako in Uie state's recorded his
tory.
Focal point of the desth and
ruin was this farming community
ol 3.000 on the edge of the Mojave
Desert, which caught the full fury
of the bucking, rumbling upheav.
at Ills I struck In the dark hour be
fore dawn Monday.
But here, as In Oliver stricken
sreaa. off cla a said It wa too ear
ly to nut a dollar algn on damage
which appear certain to mount
Into millions,
Bclenusla calculated that the
quake, felt from Sun Francisco to
the Mexican border, centered In
I lie rugged Tehacnapi Mountain!
10 mllea south of here.
Ten persons, nine of them chll
dren, died In this town as the walls
csme tumbling down. The eleventh
wss oruslied In the collspse of a
truest house roof at a nesrbv rsnch
Twenly-flva person required hos
pitalisation.
BDNINKRHES HIT
Virtually every large business
building here wa damaged The
main aireet, deep In rubble, looked
like a scene from a bombed out
city.
Ilia Red Cross reported 91 bust
ness houses suffered melor daw
sue. with 24 per cent a total loss.
Fifteen homes were destroyed. S3
severely damaged snd nesrly 100
Incurred minor damage.
About 100 persons took shelter at
a Red Cross station In a city park
Monday uigiit. out tne renei or
ganisation ssld there are ample
The HP's Sen Joaquin route
Isn't eipecled to reepen for at
least Iws daye because af the
quske, the local office announced
today. The route between Bakers
field and Los Angeles, windlnr
and with many tunnels, was'
closed. Passengers are being
placed en buses at Bakerafleld
for Los Ancelee, The 8P coast
rout I open, however.
facilities (o care for homeless.
Gov. Earl Warren declared ef
ler an Inspection of the scene late
Monday that It would not be ne
cesssry to declsre a state of emer
gency. At the nesrby women's stale
prison 417 Inmates apent the night
n tents on the grounds after or.
flclsls declsred the aix major
hulldlnsra unsafe.
At Arvln, a community of 8.000
II mile west, damage in tne oust
ness section wss almost as severs.
the ally's mam. atrsel waa mass
of WTeckege." 'The fronts were
knocked out of almost all build
ings. Water, power and a aerv.
Ices were temporarily cut off. But
despite the destruction, no Sertoli
Injuries were, reponeo.
ROADS BUCKLED
Road feeding Into and around
the Tehachapl area were buckled
and blocked by landslides but by
nightfall all but one. main highway.
Stale 118 through Walker Pass,
had been cleared. Cavelns blocked
lour uoumern racuio naiiroao tun
nel which officials aatd couldn't
be cleared for dava.
In score of other communities,
from the Coast to the Nevsda bord-
er. windows cracked, chandeliers
fell, cornices toooled and nigh ten
sion lines parted In showers of
narks.
In Los Angeles, where many
sreaa were without Dower during
the morning, water sloshed out of
swimming pools. Water and oil
staraee tanks sDranff leaks. There
wss a tire in a refinery at usaers-
fleld and an explosion In a relinery
at Long Beach. The most common
loss reported: erockery.
Dr. Beno flutenberg. director ol
the itelamolofflcal laboratory at the
California Institute of Technology
In Psssdens. said-aftershocks of
the great nuake. probably of lesser
Intensity, will continue lor two or
three years.
Convention
Timetable
Evening session 6 p.m. PDT.
Pre-show musical program:
"Salute to the South."
Oovernor Dever opens the
session.
Invocation: The Right Rever
end Charles Street, Suffragan
Bishop of the- Diocese of Chlca-
gVi'rglnla Paris: "Lead Kindly
Light." ..
Addresses: India Edwards,
vice chairman of the National
Committee and director of the
women's division, Mrs. Frank
lin Roosevelt: U.S. Delegate to
the United Nations.
Virginia Paris and chorus:
"Ood Bless Amerlcs."
Resolutions: Report of com
mittee on permanent organisa
tion. Appointment of committee to
escort the permanent chairman
lo tne rostrum.
Address. Speaker Sam Ray-
burn of Texas, permanent chair
man of the convention.
Recess until 10 a.m.,. PDT
Wednesday. i
Wednesday's program:.
10 a.m. PDT
Invocation: Dr. Alfred Dlman.
executive secretary, Chicago
Baptist Association.
Address: (Rep. Thaddeus
Machrowlct of Michigan.)
Resolutions: Report of com
mittee on platform and resolu
tions. 1 ' r " .
Roll call bv atRtes for speech
placing In nomination candi
dates for President of thai
United States,
8PRAGUE NAMED
SALEM M t-oharles A. Sprague
Salem publisher and ex-governor
was appointed Tuesday by Gov.
Douglas McKay to the State Capi
tol Planning Commission.
mr4
Fries Firs Cents U Psae KLAMATH PALLS, OREGON. TUESDAY, JULY 22, 152 Telephone III! No. 2878
South
Council Gels
More Street
Repair Bids
The Bobco Paving Company ol
Klamath Falls, recently set up In
business, wss low bidder on city
street repslr work In bids opened
by the City Council last night. It
ass the second time bkls for the
work had been called.
That firm' bid wa (48.670. The
only other bid was that of the
Asphalt Paving Company, also of
Kiuinslh Fslls, 847,480. The bids
were referred to the Street Com
mittee. About a month ago when bids
were celled on the work. Asphalt
Paving Company was low st 881,
100, but thst cost figure was re-
incled by the City Council as too
ilgh.
The work repairing city streets,
although extensive this yesr, can
be accomplished In a few weeks.
City Engineer E. A. (Taxil
Thomas presented to the Council
two estimates of the coat of re
pairing roads In Moors Park, as
requested last week.
ASPHALT RESL'RFACINO
One plan, at 81.171.05. would in
clude asphalt penetration resurfac
ing of some 4,000 feet of the two
entrance roadwaya to the park
plus spot patching on the olher
paved roadwaya.
The second plan, coating sn estl
maled 88.884. 84, would email plsnt
mix resurfacing of the main road
ways. The Park Board last week asked
the City Council to do something
about fixing up the Moore Park
pavement, and Alfred Collier. Park
Board member, pointed out Uu
the city 1 lo get about 821.000
more than usual this year from
Klamath ' County to spend on
lreet ainrlr. .. ' '
Collier sl.no tg member of the
County Budget commutes wnicn
budgeted the money, some 181,000,
tor the city.
The money comes primarily from
the proceeds of sle ol O C
limber.
QUESTION
However, some question arose as
(o whether the city could spend
that particular extra money, since
It is not figured in the city budget.
City Attorney Henry Perkins said
last night there seemed to be no
reason why la shouldn't be spent.
The whole problem was referred
to Thomas, Perkins snd the Street
Committee for more study.
Other business transacted by the
City Council last night Included:
Approval of 818,400 worth ol
building permit.
Receipts of a request from the
Planning Commission that- the Ore
gon Highway Commission be re
minded that the 8. 6lh viaduct Is
the No. 1 priority trafflo problem
here In Uie Klamath Falls vicin
ity. The project replacing the
viaduct had been placed In lower
priority In a recent survey of
Klamath Falls highway needs
made by the Highway Department.
Approval of request by the
American Legion that 7th between
Main and Pine be closed for
American Legion convention
square dances next Saturday, Mon
day and Tuesday.
Freight Car
Prospects Up
The availability of freight cars
for shipping out this coming har
vest looks pretty good at least,
from this distance report the
Southern Pacific snd Great North
ern. But ths picture can change
rapidly, depending on the demand
for railroad cars In othor areas at
harvest time.
In some past years freight cars
have been very ahort in the Klam-ath-Tuleleke
area when, crops are
ready to move.
One -factor which might compli
cate matters about that time Is the
current steel strike. If the Work
stoppage Is over soon and pro
duction looms ss . expected, a
tremendous demand for railroad
cars In manufacturing areas of the
East may work to the disadvan
tage of shippers on the West
Coast.
However, this srea apparently Is
going to be better off than in past
years for storage space, particular
ly for spuds. A number of new
spud cellars, some of them big
ones, are being built In the south
end to relieve storage pressure.
The only large grain 1 storage
facility going up this year Is the
23,000-bushel elevator being erected
at the Paclflo supply cooperative
building, adding to that firm's pres
ent capacity, .
About 83.000 acres of bnrlcv Is
being grown In the Klamath Basin
this year,; plus some 14,000 seres
of wheat, ' 10,000 acres of rye snd
17,000 sores of oats, according to
estimate of the County Agent's of-
floe.
Spud acreage - Is around 18.000:
alslke clover tor 'seel 12,000 alfalfa
hsy 20.000. other types of hay
36,000, plus, small plantings ..of
onions,, peas, and, flax,. -, ; ;
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmt- I III . nil ismsii mwismil isi m ill .mis ills mi 1 1
Rebels Over
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BODIES OF TWO MURDERED men are shown above ss they were found in Crater Lake Nation
al Park yeiterday afternoon. Ths body at. left it- thst of C. ,P. Culhsne and .right ;it A. M.,
Jones. Neither man hsd shoes on snd only one pair of shoes has been found. That pair (out-,
lined by the Hsrsld snd News artist) may bs seen in the left foreground. Ths lower picture
shows, (I to r) Frank -Eberleinr Klamath Falls business associate of ' the two rmurder victims,,
Cratsr" Lake Chief Ranger, Lou' Hallock and Ira J. Kennedy,'. Detroit,1 Western sales manager,"
for United Motors Service, firm in which both Culhsne and Jones were executives. "
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Ike Selects ;
Campaign Boss
DENVER liH Gen. Dwight D.
Elsenhower named Oov. Sherman-
Adams of New . Hampshire Tues
day to his Republican presidential
campaign . staff aa a sort of chief
of staff.
Shortly after the . appointment
waa announced at Elsenhower
headquarters here, - Governor
Adams told newsmen in Concord,
N, H., that he would leave soon
for the new eslgnment,' . ,
Adams said he would act as a
liaison officer between Elsenhow
er's own campaign staff and the
headquarters of the- Republican
Nstlonal Committee, headed by
Arthur F, Summerfleld of Michi
gan. . .'..
Adams said New Hampshire Sen
ate President Blaylock Atherton
would assume 'the governorship on
a -temporary basis. . ,
Olympic
Bulletins
. .THREE FIRSTS
' HELSINKI American track and
field ' athletes scored three more
firsts In Olympic Gamea competi
tion today, breaking two records
and -tying another.
Sim Iness of Southern Csllfornls
heaved the discus 188 feet. 6.8S
Inches to shatter the mark of 178
feet, z Inches made . by Italy's
Adolto Consollnl In the 1948 Games
In Londcn. Consollnl waa second
with 176 feet, 6.37 Inches. v
" A few minutes before the discus
was completed, Mai Whitfield of
Columbus, O.. retained his Olym
pic R00 meter title with a record
equalling time of 1:49.2. -I.
Bob Richards, the 'L' Verne,
Calif,, preacher, won the pole vault
championship when he cleared the
bar at 14 feet, 11.4 Inches, a record.
Don . Lax of Illinois waa second.
(Early Olymplo story .In sports
section),
'rGirilMghts.
Fire Flares In
Rogue Woods
A pair of forest fires on the
Rogue River national forest flared
up briefly lnte yesterday, but
were brought under control by this
morning.
One blaze, according to reports.
burned the Red Blanket Mill, 20-
miles north of. Mt. McLoughlin,
while the other, about seven miles
north of the peak, burned a quar
ter of an acre of timber.
The mill fire also burned some
timber,. It was reported.
Weather
FORECAST Klamath Falls and
vicinity and Northern Callfornlai
Partly cloudy Tuesday night and
Wedneaday. Low tonight 45,
tomorrow 77.'
High temp yesterday
Low- last night ................... ....
Preclp yesterday
Since Oct. 1 : ...
Same . period - normal
Sama period ' last yr
.high
83
48
17.11
1J.87
14.84
Stevenson
May Accept
Nomination
By JACK BELL
CONVENTION HALL. Chicago.
im Angered Southerners rebelled
Tuesday against a "loyalty
pledge" adopted bv the Democra
tic convention and challenged the
iTuman-- rair Deal ' Democrat lo
throw them out of the party's
conclave. .
The great North-South battle.
pivoting about disputed "civil
rights" proposals, roared to new
heights of bitterness.
But simultaneously there came
word that the man around whom
this convention might unite Gov.
Adlai Stevenson of Illinois had
ssid he would accept the presiden
tial nomination u it Is offered.
Up to now, Stevenson's personal
noes to talk of his candidacy have
had little- effect on the draft move
ment running his way.
DEVELOPING
In the light of the develonina
situation, Rep. Gene Cox of Geor
gia told reporters It was possible
that the name of Sen. Richard B.
Russell would not be put before
tne convention.
Cox contended the "loyalty rule'
action was. In effect, tossing the
November election to the Republi
can ticket of Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower. -
Russell himself said only:
1 "It Is necessary for me to await
the - course, of events before I can
make ahy statement."
Vice President Aiben W. Berkley
withdrew Monday night ss a can
didate. However, Averell Harrtman, also
bidding for the nomination, said he
would stick it out.
Sen, Estes Kefauver also showed
no signs of pulling out. .-"
-The loyalty rule, slammed
through In the early hours of Tues-
aay, la aimed to require that
delegates pledge to do all they can
w gei ine convention s nominees
on the ballots hi their states as. the
(Controlled sn Fsge 4.)
McKay to Talk
To Local GOP
Gov. Douglas McKay, guest
speaker during the Oregon State
Legion Convention this coming
weekend, will visit the Republican
picnic to be held at Collier Park,
Sunday, July 27. Time of his ar
rival will be announced later.
Trie annual picnic is being spon
sored by the Wood River Republi
can Women's Council. Chlloquin, as
sisted c-y ine Kjamatn county He-
puuican uentrai committee.
nans lor the program and en
tertainment will be worked out at
a meeting tonight of the program
mittee at Chlloquin.
Those attending are asked to
take picnic lunches snd table serv
ice. Ice cream, soft drinks snd col-
lee will be furnished.
;'i tx I
I Special j
;MRS. SALLY MILLS. Mtsnd Mri. Edna Thoma wsrs caught.
. in jovial mood this morning at ths Old Fort Tavern at Fort
: KlamathOrsgon-by. tha 9 o'clock eamaraman. '
Killer Of
Pair Leaves
Blind Trail
By WALLACE MYERS
FBI a sents her today ware try.
ing to feret out the trail of the
person or persons who robbed, and
with methodical brutality, mur
dered two General Motors execu
tives In Crater Lake National Park.
The vlctima were C. P. Culhsne,
93. Detroit, Mich., and A. M. Jones.
56, Concord, Calif, Culhsne waa
general sales manager for United
Motors Bervlce, a General Motora
subsidiary, and Jones waa mana
ger of that flrm'a Berkeley branch.
cuihane and Jones, en routs lo
Union Creek fishing cabin, en
tered Crater Lake Park a little
after 1 p.m., Saturday. About three
miles Inside the park's South en
trance, the two men slopped their
car off the highway at a scenic
observation point affording a view
of prectpttioue Annie Creek Canyon.
From that point, the two men were
evidently forced to back In the
woods on the opposite aide of the
highway and were robbed and shot
through the htad. ,
FOUND
Bodies of the ' two men were
found by Charles Kasllng, Crater
Lake Trail Chief, about 2 p.m. yes
terday, , . ; ,
Thla reporter and 'Crater Lake
Chief Ranger Lou Haliock, accom
panied by Herald and News Pho
tographer Don Kettier, raced to
the scene in a matter of minutes
after the bodies' discovery.
Our- first .reaction was shocked
anger at the mute picture of cold
blooded, systematic murder.
Both men . had been brutally,
gagged with an undershirt torn In
half and Rightly secured by their
own. cravats. The two men had ap
parently been shot to death while
seated before two small pines only
a few feet apart.
Their hands snd feet were not''
bound. .
Both men still had their wallets
but there was no currency in either. '
Both men were known to nave been
wearing wrist watches snd these
were missing. In addition, both -men's
shoes had been removed and
Culhane's shoes have not yet been .
found. Jones' shoes, good quality I
brown wlngtlps, made by an Eng
lish bootmaker, were a short dis
tance from the bodies.
8HOES "
Jones' shoes were size m B.
Cuihane, although the smaller la
stature of the two men, had a
(Continued ea Fags 4.1
Petitions Out
PORTLAND (A Petitions wers
circulated here Tuesday, asking
Gov. -Arthur B. Lanalie of Wash-'
ington to commute to life in pri
son the death sentences of Utah ,
and Turman Wilson.
The Camas. Wash., brothers are
under sentence to hang at the
Washington ; state prison. Walla
Walla, Aug. 15 In the kidnap-slay-ing
of JoAnn Dewey at Vancou
ver more than two years ago.
ine petitions are sponsored oy
the Committee for the Commuta
tion Brothers' Sentence, headed by
the Rev. Allen C. Lambert, pastor
of the Hoyt Street Methodist
Church here.
The Rev. Mr. Lambert said tne
number of petitions to be circu
lated would be decided at a meet
ing Thursday night.
The petition said that, many per
sons had expressed belief in the
Innocence of the brothers and "to
execute men while there Is any
doubt as to their guilt is a viola
tion of the most fundamental hu
man rights and a crime against
society."
Execution or tne Brothers nas
been postponed three times pre
viously. -
Wilson Mercy)