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AN FRAN01HCO I - Two
U mountain communities In
irut California art Hearing
llclfoySeelis
Sbnnesln
later Plans
WASIIINOTON im New Bee re
r of the Interior Douglu Mc
'J ay wld Wednendty he hopee Con.
aaa will outline a weter policy
tba netlon In mora detail, and
aaa found conaroumen receptive
to a Idea.
aacKey told reporter he movant
aueht bo U to Include him
taajalon o the eltln preference
anomer provitioni ol the public
! law.
"Tba Department of the Interior
lUawa the lew," McKay said. "In
Wf converutloni with member!
W Ooaare eince I've been In
Wubinfton, I believe they are re-
to the Idea of outllnlna
1 wator policy In more de
um
j TJader exlstlni lw and reiula-
public power muit be told at
t'loweet reaaonabla ratea con-
4ol with good btulncM prac
M, Preference alio rniut be
mi cooperative and other pub-
' aodlei, iuch munlclpalltlea
JM nnrernment aaenclet.
MoXay aald Uiat In "aorne caaee
MMner have been handicapped
kf the preferential cUuae. Those
aarvad by private utilities and
aaaatUrnei a cuetomer bat no
1 aaloa ihould not be penallaed by
a) praferenco clause if there li
t akorute of power."
aapreeeed the opinion the
Ilia grid syitam" for dla
I of power In Um Paelflo
r aKnrest, In which energy from
ennavlUa Power Admlnlaua-
4 aad prrvata companies la mer-
4 tar distribution to load centers
worked successfully.
s aald such a system might be
(eyed, elsewhere to get public
la oooparatlves and muni-
rr
at new secretary said ha was
4 loiat to past toinas the first
la makHBg joa aaaaajn. m
eacafttlhr.
is Mid ke bad not decided
isOter to hold regular new coo-
ancea. but punned is auks
., (Csatfciail esi page 4)
ji. To Mark
MCA Veek
I
To point up what the TMCA baa
I offer, next wees nas oeen set
aid a YMCA week not only in
Ma region but throughout UM
rjnlled State.
The . Klamath County 'YMCA,
which operates on a Baalnwlde
aaona. has eel uo a week-long
saeduls of activities, and local
aaonla may participate Just about
whenever they wish during UuU
'sarlod.
It begin this Btindsy with aa
pan house, under tn airacuon ra
Wires of members oi we ooara oi
director... Hie open house I to
run from 1:J0 on and I tor per
otis coming from church s well
as others.
: Many member of the Klamath
Ministerial Association plan to talk
about the "Y" from th pulpit
Sunday morning.
The YMCA Is attempting to en
roll as many local folks as H can
Interest In Its membership. It
physical facilities are being de
veloped extensively, with work
underway right now In the build
ing of a handball court, a snaci
bar and a club room.
' Workmen today were completing
the laying of linoleum In a billiards
room. A mahogany control desk
la to be built. In the nesr future m
th front office.
. .;..'3rmen TeJ
:.fconU.$.Pfone
ordered the fUhlng boats back to
run, wnere iney were put unaer
confinement. They made no men.
tlon or sighting any parichutes
from the KB. ' - : '
. The U. 8. sovernirlcnt hotlv nro-
tested the Incident to Russia, de-
insnoed compensation' tor tne
"wanton and unlustitlible attack
and warned of possible grave con
sequences ifrom th "reckless
prsotlce," . ;,
Yoshlo Mlysho, S5, sstd he (nd
II other Japanese prisoners saw a
Russian Plan dive at the Super
lott nd "fire furiously."
' Moments earlier he had seen a
Ingle-engine plan and a four-en
gine gircrtit flying side ny sine
The Ingle-engine plsrt suddenly
went Into a dive, Its gun tiring,
Th four-eni In nline he laid,
filtered and began to lose altitude,
leaving a trail of smoke. It disap
peared behind Bin.
Mlysho' account mid no men
tion of lecond Russlsn fighter
Bor did he sy anything of ground
flr.
the and of (heir food supofy after
nooaa ana si toes out on their con
tact with the outside world, A three
day supply la left In lawyers Bar
ana-rorts of salmon in lb Trinity
Alp of llaklyou County.
County engineer said all avail
able snow tractor would be used
to haul In supplies over the moun
tain. Road cannot be cleared for
two weak, they aald.
Men on inowshoe will carry the
supplies when the tractors csn go
no tanner.
Relief espedltlons are underway
to many other communities Isolat
ed by the atorm In the Yreka,
Mill., are.
Pacific Area Red Cross hesd
qusrlrrs hare said spot checks
showed 740 families 2,M to 1,000
were routed from their homes
by rising wster from the week-end
storm, A spokesman said 614 fam
ilies have been unable to return.
although the r.rlsl Is past 'and
the water sre subsiding..
Storm plagued Western Oregon
wss hit by a tornado Tuesday
which ripped off roof and ahat
tared window at Corvallls. Lash
ing rain accompanied the twister.
Several highways In the stata were
still blocked by flood waters, but
wsters sre subsiding and repairs
are beginning.
Part of the town ol Orlck, Calif.,
la still under water, although elec
tric power wee restored Tueaday.
The towns of Requa, Calif., and
Klamath Olenn, Calif., arc still In
undated. Divers are (till searching for a
Northwestern Psclflo locomotive
which wss pushed by a slide Into
the Eel River nesr Scotia Bluff,
killing three men. They failed to
locate the bodies or the engine
Tuesday. '
Highway M ha been reopened
to controlled traffic while work
men clesr away the remains of a
big slid between Redding and
Dunsmulr.
More rain was expected In the
northern regions 1st Wednesday,
extending southward Thursday.
Troops, Jets
Batter Reds
SEOUL (l Allied Sabre Jet pi
lots shot down seven Communist
MIO Jet fighters snd dsmsged
three others In battles high over
Northwest Korea today, the U. 6
Plfth Air Force said.
Two V. 8. Jet aces, Col. Royal
N. Baker, McKlnney, Tex., and
MsJ. Robinson Rtsner, Oklsboma
City, each was credited with his
elchth MIO destroyed.
U. B. losses, If any. will be an
nounced in a week-end summary.
Today's baa waa one of the big'
I est In several month. V. 8. pilots
destroyed eight MIO last Wdos
dv tr .rnosvla one dar atao
tack aa the froaea Kastarn Prosn
whist toe peipmg radio Boaaiea
an MeaniraMe defease line of
tunnel acroea th Korean Penlr
aula,
-The. atoadcast -asserted thou
sands ef Red acldlers, working
nncVerground by Um plight day and
night, carved out th tunnel net
work which "already proved Itself
sn Impregnable defense line never
before seen In the history of war."
Thirteen Japan-based Bit Super
forts stemmed 1J0 ton of bombs
on a Communist troop snd supply
center near Hemming, (0 miles
north of Wonsan on the Korean
Bast Coast last night. Crewmen
said th area was ripped by ex
plosions, probably from ammuni
tion stockpiles.
North Korean troops forded the
ice-choked Nam River lest night
and early today and Jabbed at
three Allied positions near Ken
song on the Eastern Front.
Companies
SALEM 11 ' The Power com
panic took both olfensive. and do
lenslv roles In the Oregon Legis
lature Wednesday with legislation
aimed at the 30 per cent surcharge
On electric bills and to make it
easier to build Pelton Dsm.
Rep. Monroe SweeUand, Mllwau
kie, who la 'Democratic nations!
committeeman, Introduced bis bill
to require public hearings before
the power companies are allowed
to add extra charges to repay
them for added cost of generating
power In steam plants.
Three Oregon companies Port
land Oenersl Electric, Pacific Pow
er and Light and Mountain States
Power are charging 20 per cent
extra on their llfht bills because
the recent wster shortage made It
necessary for them t etart their
stesm plsnts going.
The other power measure, which
weuld allow court appeals from
deolslons of the State Hydroelectric
Commission, wss resdy for intro
duction under the sponsorship ol
Portland 1 0enersl Electric Co. :
Th commission refused to let
POK build the Pelton power proK
ecv on we mnuiHa ,,,
the State Fish Commission said It
would hurt fish lite.
Weather-
FORECAST Klsmsth Falls and
vicinity and Northern California:
Light mow clarrled tonight and
tsmerraw. Low tonight tl. Ugh
tomorrow 41,
1
High yesterdey ...V tl
Lew isat night ...i..-. - U
Preelp yesterdsy .1
Preelp . Ince Oct, 1 -...1.11
Same period last year lt.tS
Normal far period U t.M
(AddiUesal Weather ea Pag 4)
Rght Bills
Pits Phre Csata-U Pagae
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EIMNHOWEK INAUtoUKATCD Uwight 0. Eisenhower is
inu9uratd president at Chief Juilic Fred Vinton administer
th oalh of oHiee in cepitot ceremony. Harry Truman, out go-
Red Leaders
Found Guilty
" NEW YORK I A Federal
Court Jury Wednesdsy found 13
New York Communist leaders
guilty of coosplracy. .
The Jury of aut men and six
women reached a verdict after re-ceivina-
the case last Thursday.
Ha xm "'
B. .VBa .Cotmsrtsalst leaders
war charged with eoospirlns; to
teach and sdrocsta the overthrew
of th U. S. government. .
The Jury foreman. Mis Lucille
Collette, a muslo teacher, an
nounced the verdict after 41 hours
of deliberations:
"We find the defendants guUty
ss charged!'' .
They could receive maximum
sentences of five years In prison
and fines of tlO.000.
Th defendsnte, all from the
New York area and all second
string leaders of the Communist
Party, are:
Alexander Blttelman, (t; George
Blake Charney, 4g; Elisabeth Our
ley Flynn, 60: Betty Gannett, 44;
Victor Jeremy Jerome, 54;
Arnold Samuel Johnson, 40;
Clsudls Jones, it; Alexander Leo
Trachtenberg, 65: Louis Weinstock
4k; William wolf wemstone, u;
Pettis Perry, 54; Jacob Mlndel,
71; Albert Francis Lannon, 43.
Judge Edward Dlmock told
the Jurors the verdict was "amply
Justified by the evidence" and
thanked them for "the exhibition
you gave of careful study and the
knowledge you showed."
The government claimed the 13
stepped into th shoes of 11 top
party leaders who were convicted
and sentenced -to '.prison on the
same charges more, than .three
years ago. --
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MIMONT SCHOOL boyi Tommy Fredrlcltion tUft), 212
Wihingtn, and Harvey llevinK (right), 335 Bread, mappid
by th ipell photegrphr. tMi morninii
mm ikfimm 1
KLAMATH PAIXI, OREGON,
Problems of Presidency
Move in on Eisenhower
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By STERLING F. GREEN .
WA8HTNOTON I Problems
of the presidency began crowding
in upon Dwlght D. Elsenhower
Wednesday before he scarcely had
a chance to drsw a long breath
after the inauguration whirl.
RifleShot
Injures Vonian
A .22 caliber rifle bullet, fired by.
a little boy, sent his mother,' Mrs.
Rita Cloutleri In her late 20s, .to
Klamath Valley Hospital shortly
after noon, suffering from a wound
Ip the left side of her body
Mrs. Cloutler, according to re
ports was Inspecting the rifle and
laid It aside for a moment on a
davenport at her home at -1411
Nlmlts. It was accidentally dis
charged when picked up by her
small son, four or. five years of
sge. '
Mrs. Cloutler was . rushed . ' by
Kaler's ambulance to surgery ,but
her condition was not known at
press time. -.
Oregon State Police are Investi
gating. ...-.;.
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY tl, IMS
I ing president it at left. Richard
I right.
'
First and foremost was whether
be could set Senate approval tor
Charles E. Wilson' to be hi secre
tary of defense. The White Bouse
said Eisenhower (UH Intend to
nominate wuaoa..
Tl:-t"tainally M
the. sahjaet eraxrt jxj(aatBse,
tbf new Pi pWeut had wltaj !Ms
attorney gefstraWeslgnate, Her
bert Brownell, Jr. .
But other matters were pressing
In and got discussion from James
Hagerty, White House preea sec
retary, in a meeting with news-.
men. . . .
Hagerty told them:
1. Elsenhower intends to hold
regulsr news conferences in the
question-and-anser style followed
In the Truman administration. No
date has been set for the first one
but It probably will be held next
week. . . - r .
2. The new President Is thinking
too of making regular reports to
the country by television and radio.
This is somethlnar still in the idea
stage but the thought Is that they
might be made about once a month.
2. The tune-lor Eisenhower's
state of the onion message will be
decided at a meeting c; the Presi
dent with congressional leaders.
No date for the conference has
been set. The message, which Ei
senhower will deliver tn person, is
expected to set out his legislative
program at .least In broad terms.
4. Elsenhower has not yet been
briefed on the appeal of Julius and
Ethel Rosenberg, convicted spies,
for commutation of their death
sentences. - The. Rosenbergs, hus
band and wife, were convicted of
Dessina- atomic secrets to Russia.
Their appeal Is one of the matters
left by president Truman Tor El
senhower. 5. There Is nothing to announce
at this time on the question of off
shore oil lands. One of Truman's
last major acts waa to declare this
oil to be a naval reserve. States
which claim the oil hope Eisen
hower will xeverse Truman's or
der...
Fatal Disease
IlitsTacoma
TACOMA I Five children, all
under six months of age, have died
within the past month ss a result
of what at first appears to be Just
a slight cold, but develops so rapid
ly that' Within 24 hours they are
dead, Dr., Frank James, Pierce
County coroner, said Wednesday.
This mskeg more- deaths from
this-sort of Infection than In the
entire two previous years. Dr.
James said.' He added he fears It
msy hav reached epidemic pro
portions.
He warned that parents who
notice sniffles, upset stomach or
other type of upper respiratory in
taction in a youngster, particularly
those under a year old, - should
have a physician Immediately
treat the disease with anU-blotlc
drugs.
'At first appearance, the oeatns
look like accidental smothering,"
Dr. James ssid, "but -a post
mortem in each of the five recent
cases has revealed that the babies
suffered from a deadly comoln-
a of Vitus pneumonia with a
superimposed pneumococclc pneu
monia of the epidemic type.
'In small babies who nave not
yet developed resistance to Infec
tion, this 1 a deadly thing Indeed.
It will kill within 24 to 44 hours."
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Nixon, new vie president at
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Change Mulled
InMilkCosts
PORTLAND Wl The State
Board of Agriculture wants milk to
cost less when purchased in stores
than- wnen delivered to homes n n
can find facts to Justify thei r dif
ferential. Marshall Dans, a-'board
TJaasr ssiai J the Poarcrs tottt
laUv program to th milk advisory
committee. Tne committee,.
up of producer, distributor and
consumer interests, was appointed
by th board ' recently to help
formulate proposed amendments
to the state's milk control law.
The so-called store-door differen
tial long has been a point of dis
pute between consumers snd cer
tain distributors. So tar the board
baa refused to allow a lower store
price on the ground that retailers'
and distributors' handling prices
are similar.
'The board's legislative program
Includes proposals to:
Enlarge the state's milk market
ing areas to reduce the number of
hearings necessary to change milk
price regulations.
eaaxe the mimmums established
by the board the maximums as
well.
Require producer-distributors to
produce at least 75 per cent of their
milk rrom their own herds.
Authorise the board to levy fines
of up to (too for violation of milk
control regulations.
Authorise the board to, fix salar
ies of the administrator, and other
employees,: , .
The recommendations are to be
presented, to .committees of . the
Legislature Jan, 27. - W -.
Coast Guardsmen Relate
Dramatic Rescue Story
MANILA I Choppy seas surged
over the rubr raft. Three Amer
ican Coast Guard mens, chilled to
the bone, . braced against the icy '
waters. - .. ,
The raft bobbed and drifted in
side a treacherous reef. Land wss
perilously nesr the unfriendly
coast of Communist China. There
was safety there from the anin-y
seas and winds but danger, too,
of almost certain Imprisonment or
death. . . .
We were so cold -we ' didn't
csre- who got us, Just so 'they had
fire to keep us warm," says Lt.
John Vuklc. . . .
Then, in midnight darkness, the
U. S. destroyer Hnlsey Powell
picked its wsy expertly through
the reef and plucked the frozen,
bedraggled men to safety. , . .
That ended TVS hours of misery
for Vuklc, of Pittsburgh, the pilot;
Joseph Miller, Jr., chief- aviation
machinist's mate, of Long .Beach,
Calif., and Robert F. Hewitt, nvia.
tlon structural mechanic, third
class, of 8an Diego.
They were crew members of a
Coast Ouard Mariner amphibian
that overturned In heavy seas,
burned and ssnk Sunday after
picking up 11 of IS Navy airmen
shot down off Swatow. a Red China
port, by Communist shore . bat
teries. : i
Vukic told their story at -Sang-
ley Point Naval Base southeast of
Manila today. All three were- bat
tered and bruised. Hewitt had a
back injury. Vuklc sported a black
eye.. ---
The other five crewmen .of the
Mariner wer kllktV. Ewv Navy
JO"o n
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Intelligence
SicIitinjS
' By WnXIAM C. BARN ABB J
A V. S. ADt BASK. Northern Ja
pan lV-Myterlou flying object
rotating clusters of red. wnne
and green lights" have been '
sighted over Northern Japan by
American airmen, the Air Force
disclosed Wednesday night '
Intelligence report placed th
sightings close to Russian territory ,
in the Kurlle ''"- and
they added: .-
"There are too many Indication
of the presence of something ... to
be considered an observatlos of
nothing." And they discounted the
possibility the sighted object ware
mere "reflections of light." .
REPORTS Col. Curtis R. Low, commander
of the. Northern Division of the
Japan Air Defense Force, aald the .
flying cluster were seen by fighter
pilots and ground personnel aad
tracked on radar. Ke re
leased official intelligence report
on the sighting to the Associated
Press. r
The reports wen similar to the.
describing "flying saucers" to the
U. S. One said the tights appeared
to hang motionless at times, and
at other times disappeared, wrm
blinding speed. ,
Col. Donald - J. - M. Blakeatoe.
World War II ace and commander
of an escort fighter wing, took de
tailed observations on one rotating
duster and tried. In vain to Inter
cept it to a Jet
MANY PERSONS
Sightings were made by many
persons at many points over North
ern Japan Dec. 2t. On Jan. I a
rotating cluster was spotted by two
figmer puou and waa tracasa aa
radar.
The report was stoned by U. CoL
Russell Powell, tntelligesc officer,
V. 8. Air Force.
The alert ting uocuri d aver the
frosen. Ice-locked reaches of North
ern Japan, a land tense wtth ooa-
Reports On
unM air nmwnwo vj near
dying Roaaiaa fighter, gani ; ' -
wusMTt mimmt aa e swi
east of rrokkstoe, Japan's nosasern- '
The Russian Jaland ef ftekhalra
is only 30 miles north of Hokkaido.
The Reds have dosena of air I
on Sakhalin and th Kuril.
CcuucHfes Necr
129 Thousand ;
WASHINGTON (F) Announced
V. 8. battle casualties in Korea
reached 12SJ7I Wednesday, an In
crease of 250 since last week.
The Defense Department's week- .
ly summary based on notifications
to families through last Friday
reported:
Mew Total
2042
M,St
BJIlt
, I2M71
22.S7S
MSl
KUIed In Action
Wounded -
Missing
Total
Battle Deaths
Current Missing ;
Following Is a breakdown nf the
casualties by services:- -
New Total
Army , .. . '101,022
Navy . ." .j -1,777 .
Air Force . 1.407
Martoe Corps ,.- : .24.746
airmen were killed and tour are
missing and presumed dead.
The other seven were taken to
Formosa, from where the Coast
Guardsmen were flown to Manila
and the seven Navy men to Oki
nawa, their home base.
. Vukic said his crew spotted a
half-inflated, half-burned llferaft
holding the 11 Navy survivors at
4:20 p.m. Sunday.
He set the big amphibian down
on the rough waters without trou
ble while other planes circled over
head. "The survivors were so physical
ly exhausted they had to be assist
ed Into our plane they couldn't
stand up," Vuklc said, Hours later
Vuklc knew Just what that meant.
. On the takeoff, the Mariner
lurched and a wing dipped Into the
sea.
"My seat broke and that's the
last thing I remember. The next
thing I knew I was In the water.
My left eye was full of blood and
my right eye was blind."
Vuklc and six other men msde
it to a llferaft but couldn't Inflate
It.
The planes overhead dropped
more rafts. Vuklc, Miller and Hew. .
Itt clambered aboard one.
"The three of us tried to paddle
back to the others, but we could
not make It. We paddled with our
hands and feet. Finally we got so
tired we Just eat down and tost
sight of the crew and plane." .
About p.m.-they spotted th
rescue ships. - '' .. :
The Powell deftly mnuvred
Into position snd picked them up.
Aboard, they found the seven Navy
men already bad been rescued. ,