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P MM JU No Cause Revealed In Crash of C-124 MOHKS LAKE. Wash. 11 An tlm drulli lint In Baturday'a C-134 uranh here roue to 87 Tuesday, tlx Air Korea announced tlint pro llmlnnry Inquiry hud lulled lo dis close llici cause o( lllntoiy u worat aviation disaster. The Air Force announcement, made In Washington, U, C, also Mild tho prailmlimry probo at the scene fulled to show any reason why nn order (or grounding Die big 0-124 (Jlubcinasler transports should bd Issued. There has born mich a stigges. llnii from m leant one coiiKrrimloii Bl critic of the Hermit of recent iiillltnry transport rrunhco In the I'uclllo Northwcal, Alaska mid Ko rcu. The C-IU4 crashed during a pre '.dnwti takeoff Hnlurriuy nn "Christmas Special." Out of the 110 aboard, 1U4 wore servicemen on Ihclr wuy home for holiday Jenven. Some were Junt buck from Korea. Memorial services for tho vlo tlmn were belnir hrld lie re toduv. The 87 1 h nmn to din. and the, only limned mnn to uccumb allies the ' day of tho crash, waa the only nieinber of the ISI-man crow who Mercury Dips Below Zero Mowlcb waa one of the colrieat ' spots in the nation litis morning Willi I below and the mercury hk Killed below aero In Klamath falls lor Uio firm time thin season. At about 6:16 llila morning, the AM line on the big Herald and Newt kiWrdlng thermometer curved be low tiie nolo inark briefly. At Municipal Airport, the Civil Aero nautics Administration had a low rending of even aero, Tulelake had l noove and ineinuu 4 below. Ilia winter chill itripped wide area of Eastern Oreiton, -cord ing lo an Associated Press weather roundup. linker and LiUrande ' both had 3 below. Previous low thla aeaaon for ' Klamath Valla wan 8 above on the innrnliiK of Nov. 3S, The wealherman today forrcast an'Hher frluld night for the Klam aih Country with a predicted low ,01 aero. Elsewhere In the nation Inst niKlit, a waa chilly but mild com- i hired to ihia area. Seattle and -'hicago had Iowa of 38, Loa Angcle 4ft and New York 34. AlthouKh the wealherman pre dicted inlr weather for Klamath through tomorrow barometer here began easing downward lata Innt night and were anil gradually lull. Inft la this inornliij, - Phone Dialed With Tongue SAW FRANCISCO Wt A cafe owner, hla handa and feet bound, aummonecr aid by dialing a tele phone with hla tongue after an at tractive brunette and her male companion robbed him of 34.000. Olobatta Perrato, 49, waa cloning hla Lucky Ace Cafe when a tall young woman anked to use the phone Monday night. Then, Perraao told police, an armed, masked man entered, struck him and bound him. He aald the woman reappeared and held the pistol at the man rifled a ceah box. Perrr.o struggled to the phone, knocked the receiver Irom the hook, dialed operator Willi hla tongue and shouted tor help. The operator notified police, Late Shopping , .1 .1 1 1 I r. ... I f 1. 11- M last-minute shopping will bo at 5 forded tonight by member alorea of the Klamath Merchanta Aa anrlatlnn and olhera. The etorea will remain open anil! e o'clock thla evening. BRUSHIN' UP before going out to 111 Tickets to the Suburban Fir Department's New Year's Dance, slated for Dec. 3 1 at IU4 Armory, Is Walter Sehreiber. He's getting help from Lloyd Ttudder (left) and Norman Rupert, Benefit from the dance will go for first aid wagon equipment, eiune out of the crash alive, lie waa Master Bgt. Wendell L. Burton of Tomplo, Okln. Ho waa the engineer aboard the big trana port. He died during the night at Brooke Army Hospital at Ban An tlunlo, Texan, a few houra after ho arrived there with eight other survivors of the tragedy, Bcforo he lapsed into uncon aclounness after the crash, Burton had told oflicera at the acene that the C-134's Innirumenla 'indicated the plane's operation was normal In the takeoff. The Interim report to the Penta gon was made by MnJ, Oen. Victor K. Hertrundlas, deputy Inspector gencrul of the Air Force. He waa one of five generals participating In the preliminary Inquiry that ran far Into last night. The report aald the Inquiry showed all regular maintenance checjtn hnd been made before the lakooft. it had been test-flown the duv belore the accident. Iho chief pilot, .t. William N. O'Connoll of I'orllnnd, Me., was cited as highly competent. Weather conditions, too, were given an O.K. There waa a light allow at the time. The firnt memorial service held at Larson Air Force Uase here, where a pall hung heavily over the approaching Christmas holiday, was a Cnlhollo rite in the bane theater. A Protestant memorial service wan to follow. Meanwhile, the (rim tank of Identllylng other burned victims of Uie crash continued. Much of the checking had to be done through dental records, . The number of names of Identi fied dead released stood at M. The latest congreaslonal sugges tion for a full-scale Inquiry Into me recent series oi military crann ea that have claimed- close to 300 Uvea around the Pacific! rim came from Sen, Hum (D.-Wyo . He aald In wanmngton he would ask the Air Force to consider establishing a corps of csreer master mechan ics to maintain Air Force planes. Bome of the 39 survivors con tinued In serious condition at three widely scattered military hospit als irom ruget sound to Texas At Madlgan Oeneral Hospital at Port Lewln, Wash., it was dis closed mat one of trie crash sun vlvora was back In the Institution after being out only long enough to come to Moses Lake and board the lii-iaied plane. He waa Master Bgt. Hoyl Oreen or coiumbus. aa. He had apent a month in Maoigan. "I'm allve,'j he commented, "and thals luck enough." Roy Mattson Services Due Funeral services foe Rov Erlck Mattson. 41. who died following a heart attack near Tulelake, Dec. 30. will be held Wednesday, from me Merrill Presbyterian Church. nie Kev. ueorge Milne will offlcl ale. Vault entombment and Inter ment In the IOOP Cemetery, Mer rill, with Merrill lodge No. 306 Loyal Order of Moose In charge. Mattson. a resident of Merrill for the past six yeara waa employed by Uie California Oregon Power Company and waa al work neir luiciaxe wnen ne collapsed and aieo. Surviving are hla widow. Mrs Carrie Mattson, two sons. Dennis ana uuane and one daughter rnyws. all of Merrill; alx brothers, Hllding, Malin; Algote, Kodlak, Alaska: Iver, Coouille: George and Clarence. Merrill: three slaters Mrs, Don Barnes and Mrs. Ilnel Chapman, Merrill and Mrs. Bert Johnson, Tulelake and ma moiner, Mrs, Betsy Mattson, Tulelake. The body Is at Ward's Funeral Home. eg) Prlc rivt Cent 12 Paget KLAMATH FALLH OKECiON, TUEHDAY. DECEMBER 23, 1952 Telvphons 8111 No. 2014 Realtors Try To Revive Heights Plan, An effort to breathe a- back into the Kicioro' resldciuiul developip- proposed to the Clty( 4& night by reul estate m4 and Al Bchineck, the Int. ber of Uie Cltv Piunnlnu .nnii slon which has financed Wclirnln ury work toward re-plnttlng the proposed restricted residential sec lion. . A week ago Henry Perkins, city attorney and a lending property owner In tho so-culled Eldorado Heights district, declared tlint the project la dead. A lew property owners, he said, hadn't agreed to come into tne plan lor repiHlling and developing the district, and in addition someone wouiu nave to tnko the lead III getting six es tates probated and a guardianship established lo continue the project. It is necessary to get all the property In one technical owner- ship In order to re-plat, lay 0t nr.ublc building lots and contour streets, aa planned. me logical ownership is mat oi the city, and Perkins, owning a considerable amount of the prop- erty, put his land In the city s name over a year ago, 41 OTHKKS He also attempted to get all of the outer 42 owners lo ao uie same. Most agreed. But some dldnt. Those, plus the complicated heir ships o( other properly, apparent ly have stymied uie development. Last night Bloan and Bchineck asked It there Isn't some way In which the elaborate plan can't be revived, out rerains man t give them much encouragement. Tlie city's residential future. Sloan said, lies in that part of town, and he aald he had talked to aeveral other real estate men who believe the project shouldn't be Junked. Perkins aald he dldnt feel like putting any more money and elfort into the Eldorado Heights. but that he might be willing lo sell his lot aa a whole or Individ ually to anyone wanting to try to make a go of the development. SchmecK said he might be able to find a buyer. v Al uresenl the pUCUngf of Uie five additions lumped under the name of Eldorado Heights calls primarily for 34-Ioot frontage lots and a grid symem oi aireeu. wnicn doexn't take into consideration the contour of the ground, lite general plan la to lay out contour streets and lota ot a minimum oi ou-iuvi frontage. PRELIMINARY A preliminary plat already has been drawn to accomplish that, and, the city haa apent (through uie Planning commission) arouna S4.000 on It. One other land proposal csme belore the City Council last night, that concerning the 16.43 acres In Hillside Addition now owned by the Veterans Administration. Tne land waa acquired in 194B as VA hosollal alte. Recently the Veterans Adminis tration announced the land is sur plus, that a hospital won l be con structed here, then reversed itself In a day or two and decided to hold on to the property to let the Incoming Republican administra tion decide wliat to do with it. However. VA'a San Francisco of fice noUfted Mayor Bob Thompson the property might be acquired by the city lor park and recreation me if no outer ledcrai agency wants it. Thompson haa written for rar- tlculars. VA has over 316,000 in vested In Uie property. Engle Protests Power Switch WASH1NOTON I Rco. Englc D-Oallf Monday protested a pro posal to deliver Shasta Dum power to nevada consumers tnrougn ex changes with private companies. uiiRie aald ne was iniormed a meeting to consider the irorjosnl will be held soon by Uie C lorado River commission of Ncvao He wrote to the California Pvbllc UlillUes Commission requesting Uie right to appear as a protest witness at any hearing held on the matter of uie commission, which presum ably would have to approve the proposal. "Tlie transfer of Central Vallcv Project power from NorUicrn Cali fornia where power reserves are short and moving it across state lines a distance of about 700 miles will be seriously detrimental, not only to California. , . but. . . the district I represent," he wrolo. "If the negotiations with the Nevada interests are completed, thtre will be no public power It-It for preference customers under the verv shadow of Shasta nam it. self; Redding in particular, and the Irrigation district and municipal It lea In Uie Northern Sacramento Valley." Kngle said Northern Colifornla communities should be given first right to buy Shasta Dam power. "Those eltltw and other prefer. ence customers should not be blackjacked Into undesirable con tracts by a political conspiracy be tween Nevada politicians and the representatives of the Interior De- paruncnt," Engle said. CASUALTY LIST "WASHINGTON (iB The Defense Department today Identified 9 casualties of the Korean War, A new list (No. 717) included in killed, 43 wounded. 3 Injured acci dentally and I jnlsalns, THE NEWEST PIECE OP EQUIPMENT to be put to work at snow-clearing on city streets is this Hough Payloader rig with snowplow attached, shown being demonstrated by Frank Steele, city street superintendent, , Sportsmen To Feed Birds . Tlie Klamath Sportsmen's Assoc Istloii began today It's annual "Op eration Ulrdfeed," with which in cooperation with other local indlv- uals It hopes to provide winter feed lor Uioussnds of game birds in tne njnrnain area. Under Chairman Virgil Davis a com mu ice began today to put out - smaii cnange - cartons, properly taggeo, to gamer up as mucn out side llnancial support as possible. But more than monev la needed for the sportsmen, according to rrcs. j una nooson. A lot of clover screenings, feed- room sweepUigs and other appro priate bird feed is being tossed away each day, Hobson thinks, and ne wouio use to see some oi it under proper direction lor birds ui consume, If they will only call us' be said, ''we'll come, and et H Distribution Is under the direr. tlon of Jim O'Donshue. and rx-r- sons wishing to participate In the program are asked to call him at 8603 nights or 4197 davs. O'Donn. nue is a recognised expert on bird me in tins region. The feedings must be done nron- erly so that birds will learn where 10 una lood without fall. Intermit tent teeaers only disrupt the feed- tng program, and sometimes csn cause serious harm to birds under certain conditions. consequently, in some areas wnere Icedmg Is already under way, O'Donshue may not wish to nave another feeder starting to work, and may turn some persons The results of last vear'a feed. tag plan appeared fairly obvious this year, association officers not. ed today. Despite a fair take in uie fields this oast pheasant and quail season, a heavy population of upland game birds is easily nn. Uced on local fields since 'heavy snows have driven them down from cover. Local merchants were helmr asked today to cooperate In the venture oy merely placing coin car tons In convenient locations. Churches Plan Eve Services Several churches plan sneclal Chrstmns Eve services tomorrow evening. Among those which have an nounced such services are the First Congregational. First Methodist, First Presbyterian, St. Paul's Epis copal and Zlon Lutheran. ' First Congregational is to have a candlelight and carol service, 11 p.m.; First Methodist has pro grammed a similar service to begin at 8 p.m.; First Presbyterian Is to present Its choir at 11 p.m., directed by Andrew Loney Jr., in a program of eight anthems, a solo and carols with the congregation; St. Paul's Eplscopnl Is to have a candlelight and carol service with choral Eucharist at 11 p.m.: Zion Lutheran plans a candlelight and carol service for 7:30 p.m. Armored Vest Saves Soldier SEOUL Kffi The : Armv said today a soldier's armored vest fended off 10 Communist automatic rifle bullets and a closely explod ing reo grenone. 'ine soldier. Pic. Tom Miles of Decatur. III., was helping a wound. ed buddy during a recent action wnen a Red iniantryman ran ud and began firing. The impact of 10 slims across Ills chest at close range knocked Miles down, but they didn't pene trate his armored vest," the Army said. Miles wan still on the nround when a hand grenade exploded just a lew icet away, in spite oi tms he "recovered himself" and 'killed his Red assailant with a burst from his carbine, the Army added. I Six Escapees A t Large; One Taken In Portland WALLA WALLA. Wash. l Six tough, patient convicts who scooped out If tons of dirt in bor ing a 200-foot timnel under the Washington State Prison walls were hunted throughout the Pacif ic Northwest today. Seven made the spectacular es cape early yesterday morning. One, Ralph Courser, 45, sentenced In Seattle on a robbery charge last July, was wounded and captured In Portland, Ore., six hours later. The hunt centered In the Port land area, where police believed at least three other escapees head ed with Courser In a car stolen from Walla Walla. Courser was alone when he was spotted by Portland; police, who shot him In the necki as he tried, to nee on loot. The aix convicts still at large Wert, describe y prison officials - "nnnA-Ai- - ttrtA '-m.vimnm ha. t' dangerous' and .rmaximum ae- Authorities at the penitentiary aald the escapees must have. worked for months digging out the dirt a cupful or nanaiui at a time. The tunnel, about IS Inches in diameter, began in an ash pit near the prison powernouse ano came out near a guards' tower on the north wall. The dirt was scattered each day with uie ashes and carted away. The entrance was beneath steel plates used In uie ash pit. Postoffice ' Service Up A smooth, steady flow of mail has speeded up local postal service tremendously mis year, accord ing to Postmaster Chet Langslet. despite a small increase in mail volume over a year ago. The main clog In local mall serv ice Isn't uie lnside-postofflce serv ice at all, but the parking problem of thousands of patrons trying to lind an area to put tneir auios while hauling their mall Into the postal windows. But oy tne time tne montn is out tills year. Langslet figures his of fice will have handled U00.OOO (M letters. The highest day's local outgoing mall so far this season haa been 81.409. Last year Uie biggest day was 112,000. But Ulls year the dally count has been consistent, running between 60.000 and 80.000 each day, and hence the Increased overall volume so far. The counts do not include par cels, which are more ouncuit to count because of sub-mailing of fices In Uie suburban area. Former KF Man Dies Word has been received here of Uie death in Oakland, Dec. 30, of former Klamath Falls man, Frank s. Fish. while here he was connected with the Big Basin Lumber Co., leaving nere in mo lo become atiuiated with the lumber business in Westwood. In more recent yeara he has been with the Joe Kent Lumber Company, San Francisco, as a lumber broker. Mrs. Fisn, the former Winnie Wampler McLemore will accom pany uie body to Fisns former home in Racine, Wis. Her father. A. M. WamDler and two brothers Paul Wampler, Fort Kiamatn; and Albert (Mickey) Wampler, live here. A third broth er Lewis, lives elsewhere. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity and Northern California; ralr except night and morning fog through Wednesday. High 36, low tonight 0, High temp yesterday l,ow last Mint a -1 ,. . .01 , .4.78 4.11 ...m..6."8 Preclp last 24 hra .. Ntnee Oct. 1 .. Normal for period Same period last yr Courser remained in a Port land hospital. His wound was not serious. Police questioned him again Tuesday, but said he denied knowledge of where the other es caped convicts were. Police had reports that two of the others were seen at hotels In Portland. These were Identified as Harold Coe, 22, serving a life sentence for murder; and Glenn Wahl, 34, who was serving time for assault. A hotel clerk, shown pictures of the two men, said he believed both were at the hotel for a time last night. Later the two men were reported seen trying to get rooms at two other hotels. At each they left with out fl-ettlnflr roAms. Police also said another hotel clerk reported seeing men who re- semoiea Marry new and bob Cam eron, who also escaped the prison with Courser. Police said, however, that there waa nothing definite to go on, for the identifications were made In hesitant, tentative fashion. Prison officials said uie escaped Inmates were night workers in the unguarded powernouse inside the walls, with ready access to the ashpit. They said there were only a few hours during any 24-hour period In which they could have done the digging; during a period of months. They said' each cupful of dirt had to be mixed with ashes to avoid detection. Wsrden John Cranor said the men must have entered the tunnel for the getaway between the 6:30 a.m. breakfast hour, when they are taken out of the powerhouse. and an 8 a.m. checkup. Thev prob- aoiy nao tneir cnance during tne change of Uie guard at 7 a.m. a was semi-dark and murky at that hour. The warden said the tunnel outlet was close enough to a tower so that the guard should have had a good chance of hearing uie men emerging, but the tower guard said ne aian t near a thing. Cranor said in a report Tuesday for the State Department of In stitutions that much of the prison work has had to be done by In mates since the prison's early days. He said he recommended to the department that the powerhouse be placed under guard constantly and that the custodial and maintenance crew at the prison be Increased to relieve the Institution officials of dependence on inmate labor. "This Is probably the onlv orison In the United States operated! In this manner." he said. Night guards were placed in the powernouse Monday nignt. Ship Due From Korea SAN FRANCISCO Wl The last troop ship due here from Korea before Christmas arrives Tuesday with 2.858 soldiers Including the only quadruplets ever drafted into the Army. The Quads are the Perrlcone brothers Anthony, Bernard, Carl and Donald of Beaumont, Tex. They served with Uie 73rd Tank Battalion of the 7th Infantry Divi sion, i The troops are aboard the trans port Oen. William F. Hase. The Army said all will be bound for dis charge or reassignment centers near tneir nomes oy Wednesday, Truck Tax Retroactive To Nov. 4 SALEM I Trucking compan ies that operate in Oregon were saved an estimated two million dol lars when a Circuit Court decision here Monday set Nov. 4 as the date for higher taxes. The state had contended last Jan. 1 was the date. The decision, by Judge Rex Kim mell, was that Oregon's weight mile truck tax la relroacUve until Nov. 4 ot thla year election day. The tax, a license fee based on weight and the number of miles traveled on Oregon highways, will increase highway department rev enues by an estimated tl.900,000 annually. II Uie tax bad been retroactive to Jan. 1, penalties and Interest would have brought uie truckers' back tax bill to about two million, Moe Tonlcon, attorney for the truck ers, said. The Portland-Pendleton Trans port Company, representing many of the truckers, brought the case Into court, contending that the tax should go into effect Dec. 1, the day the results of the Nov. 4 elec tion were certified. RILED But Judge Kimmell ruled that the effective date was Nov. 4. the day Oregon voters rejected a truckers' - referendum measure which would have abolished the weight-mile tax program. The weight-mile formula was made law at the last session of the State Legislature. It was to go Into effect Jan. 1. But the truckers suc ceeded in delaying the effective date by referring the law to the voters In the general election. Their measures, designed to abolish the tax and prevent future weight-mile tax programs, were de feated by large margins. Then Charles H. Heltzel, public utilities commissioner, acting on advice of Attorney General George Neuner, ruled that the tax was re troactive to the first of the year. Neuner based his opinion, he said, An tha ffrv4irur P tVia tn law Judge Kimmell, in his ruling, cited the Suite Consututisn. which says mat a reierendum measure snail take effect and become law when it is approved by a majority of the votes cast thereon. . . ." A spokesman for the attorney general's office said It had not yet been decided whether Judge Klm mell's decision would be appealed. The Legislative Highway Interim Committee has recommended how ever, that the effective date be set as Nov. 4. Illness Fatal To Mary Kirk Mrs. Mary HUl Kirk. 65. life long resident of Klamath County died early this morning a:-Hillside Hospital following an illness of long duration. She had been suffering from heart trouble. Mrs. Kirk, whose family has been actively associated with Interests of the Klamath Tribal Council and with civil service work was born on the family ranch at Williamson River. Surviving are his widower Seldon Kirk, a daughter, Leila Kirk of Klamath Agency; a son, Friedman Kirk, Chlloquln and two grandchil dren, Frieda and Oris Kirk, Chilo quin. The body Is at Ward's Funeral Home. Arrangements will be an nounced later. PHIL NESLIN, (left), brother of Sam (right), the Oregon Woolen tycoon, if here from Ashland for the holidays with Sam end hit family and Phil it bit fed up with being mil taken for brother Sam. So they pinned tag on Phil: "PUaie spare the insults. I'm not Sam, I'm Phil." Hysterical Passengers Leap in Sea BEIRUT, Lebanon Ul Hours of horror aboard the stricken liner Champollion ended late Tuesday with removal of uie last passenger and crewman. There wy no official estimate of how mat- died", but Uie reports ranged froif at least 14 to perhaps 30. Captain BaltaJI, the Beirut har bor pilot, announced that all per sons had been taken oft by i p.m. Lebanon time about 40 hours aft er the 12,548 ton liner grounded on a reef off the Lebanese coast about four mUes from Beirut. The ship carried 328 persons. In cluding a crew of 220. Many of the passengers were pilgrims en route to the Holy Land for Uie Christmas observances. In the confusion there was no way of determining the precise number who drowned or were beaten to death by the heavy waves. There were reports that 70 fear crazed persons leaped Into Uie sea and 20 drowned. ' THOUSANDS Thousands of persons who lined' the shore watched as a number of the passengers were battered to death by heavy waves against a shoal only five yards from safety. Captain Baltajl's launch was the last craft to leave the Champol lion. carrying 40 passengers and crewmen. But before that a small lighter that had made two successful trips overturned on a third Journey only a, hundred yards from the beach. " Rescue squads dived into the frothing surf and saved as many persons as they could. There was no way of determining bow many died, A heavy wave caught the lighter, carried it straight up and flipped it over In, a complete somersault. Many occupants clutched at empty air. A dozen heads bobbed in the water around the small craft. There apeared to be no central organization directing or coordi nating the rescue work. One report said panic broke out ' on the ship Tuesday morning and about SO persons leaped overboard. At least ten bodies were washed up on shore. They were blackened with the oU that spewed out when Uie ship split apart with a crack of six feet or more appearing atop the listing hulk. Some of tne passengers were hysterical as they were brought ashore. FAINTED ; One woman, asted What hap pened aboard the liner, cried out "dont ask that" and fainted. The liner went aground only 500 yards off shore. A heavy storm and misinterpretation of shore sig nals were believed responsible. Crewmen said a new beacon at Beirut's International Airport had been mistaken for a light at Uie entrance of Beirut harbor. The British cruiser Kenya was among vessels that were present at the scene of operations. The BriUsh Admlrality in Lon don was advised by Uie Kenya that Uie rescue operations had been completed. (The Kenya said "all passengers and crew of the Ss Champollion have now been landed. The Kenya anchored four cables (almost a half mile) to seaward of the wreck and acted as a communications link while pUot boats and surfboats took off passengers and crew with great skill in heavy surf.") SHOOTING HOURS DECEMBER 24 Open .7:04 JLM. Close 3:3? P.M. 1
