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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1953)
It 1 ifyfovoJouardm in no 10) IpfK " r mm mm na lit 3 5 J cotes r.i.nnii no from many Li i. nation's business Lry Uila wee. rord I' proposed scrap- rifia una nni" !"- ttiiitn I me nrai mw ui in recent montlta, Out (tore attention and coin. Lh in citv much (he poll- Imi of llie Detroit Board lerce back last October. 5 p Sews "w i r FRANK JENKINS Ly (he newa In bl( and hi. On oilier 11 ' lllt iir this i on i M,r rf'ii sample of the Bluff gming off the wires up to Hits Is written: Lnt Eisenhower will be of. iannd cmne in in m. k river s eummer fciwe." The offer It expect kmc from n orgniruon iben oi commerce in Jei- ouniy. New Yor. wnicn the fumed mousana i- f ill, sites under consld. i. Pullman Inland, Include Uinan castle, which wan the sleeping car ijroon day when lycooiM Died i out In the wooda. lirrlman did up it Harrl- fcdie on upper itiematn rriman'a Ideaa were mod' Pullman built hlmaalf a ace thai waa a wow. (coon age ran lu courae 1 and came to Ita end. Pullman estate dlapoaed of i castle, which cam evtn la the hand, of iroup Lion bualneaamen who are U to offer it u m h I wall House. Vient of tlw ownera dee it u a reporter aa "com f villi lood oonununlcatlwu lit enough to permit a full oi Heard u me rreaiaent kt loafing and letting the ita take cart of thenv V ktodly thought, of eouree, mspecta mat It la not atunged by the modern I eemmunlty proateU I la at all bad da A Wanda reereaUoar am a m summer, wwt moum I there. . let, If any hltchea develop Mferton county, Maw York, k I'm In favor of having (ATE OP JEFFERSON. Out k the center of tho Pwatfta foffer lie bla pick- V eur lAunLED recreational ia If be wanta aucn a thing unmer Whit Houae. Upper Klamath Lake and tedding above Shasta dam glamoroua wltda of the and the lovellneag of Dla lake and tht North Umpqua Nt among, we can tlx him 1 almost anything hta heart ream for In the way of (capital. Pretldent ohooaea to let jwasert grow. It will be all 11 ua-and If he ahould Kraoi mat wniskers grow lux r In our climate wa'u had frtooa enough In thla area, e photographed them cop. tnouih. to be able to Drove with well documented evl- i uai no can produce a crop Meed to acare women and inw conniption flla. It brought eut . i.t.. pi advocates and It uncovered few dissenters, .Meanwhile. nrl.. off another long Hat 0f Items-lnls S?wn!flrVu,f" 40 D"ll0 dollars "ineaa annually waa And Industrial production rolled along at Ita familiar faat pace while retail merehanla continued to port larger aaJe, than a year ml?' !d. De,roU """O ' Cm. merca alatement on free trade pret. ?L !? ta Poke out for Urlff nw.iw Miin weea, "Wii ...... ,. . tI,T, Jht D,irou ''ment had K i. if "n"01 ,'rver continue to aell U we refuae to buy" " ..''J .. wnt to .... MuD,a reairicl 0ll an-l repenl I lie "Buy America Act" which require, the bulk if gorn! ment purchaaea com. i?o.S i?.? o? olr.T.r.""" "Mrdl" PrhJ Voman5aid Badly Injured A Klamath Palla woman,' Mrs. r-T'. V"- 1. waa reported badlv lnlurrf in M .... . . " mo avciueni V ' mornln near Cree-Dell aocording to word reaching here. i Cheyne had been vlaltlng in Portland and waa returning wn Mr. and Mra. Mllo Cbeyne of Portland, her aon and daughter-in-law. She haa made her home here with her daughter, Mra. Randolph went to Ui acene of the accident w.iu u aunouiance. Btata Police thla afternoon had no delalla on the accident, J. E Jackson Gets 5 Years One man waa aentenced to prl ton thla momina In otrculi Court. and two othtrt placed on probt on i. E. (Jim) Jackaon. aa. waa Eenced to five yeara In the atate lenUary on a charge of ob hg money by falaa pratenaea. Ha haa a pent much of hi Ufa eueaa iwm m one prieeo, at a4 .a, jlaaa4 fceaa iaa t- Mt, of courae. If Ike WANTS fmer White Houae. raun nave noted that refar- 10 LOAPFMn In .v.. muu,..Hj g. Proposal. If there la any f that the new President of t-'u mates will have any ume on hla hanH. in ihia fr ol the year of itaoiiinn W observed It in my read I news. h them in Ti.. Ki...it r cum. He doean't aeem nt any advantages over wimnn run of folks. During 5"' Bttleof the Bulge "tin snow and tor weather) I alwnva 1....I Li. tila ....; " n com- gv ... .iwsniB loanoie iMi T. ovl!r w,th ore. C w Whlngton Is Its aoom- P Wltimcr nlltnal. . t. l- f Ik. ydlli.0"" I " the dc Of a aummar lth R.ot" rel oP on It, wSlnat,!' Southern Ori Northern California as the rb,e 08n nothing better Tbomaa Harold Hoaa. tl af aaernu, ' waa piacta on prooatMo for five yeara on a than charge dating back to las!. Rupe waa piaoea on pronation Dee. M, 161 and picked up again for violating the probation order Jan. 1 of this year. Judge 'David R. Vandenbarg or dered hla original eenttnet ra voked and again placed him on pronation, Donald R. McKle. W. waa nlaced on probation for a. period of three yeara, for wrHlng bad checks. Ht had earlier pleaded entity to tht charge of obtaining money by falsa pre lenses, ho aamnieaiy wroie three bed checks here last month. one in Reno, three at Salem and others in Texas and New Mexico. McKle waa ordered to pay off tna tnree cnecia nere, amounting to some .Ilia. In 11 daya, and will be allowed to go to Washing, ton where he said ht haa a lob, Edgar Murray Manner, 2S. was arraigned on two recently-returned Indictments, charging embeaale- ment and larceny by embesale ment, both charges growing out of hla employment last year by the sewing Macnine service and E chanie, Attorney Harold Merryman was appointed to represent him on both counts, and Matsler la to plead to tna indictments next Wednesday morning. ) Destroys gly Plane Ul!oVed J'T,4 pUnt 8tu" C million rfii " v"iod at KCn.i"' -vara. lUM P WMIUl i Dill .. -PUIMI Batlfl It Li in a Ml . . Teacher Gets Dig Answer POST, Tex. W Mra. Johnnie Hamilton waa telling her grade scnooi class about ueorge waan. Union, whose birthday la Sunday. "If you had cut down the cherry tree," sne asked one nine leuow, what would you nave saia, 'Timberr-r-rl" came the reply in a booming voice. Party Raided Minors Held PORTLAND m Police, federal narcotics agents and state liquor commission agenta raided a South east Portland house Friday night and arrested x persona, irciuuiua 14 Juvenllea, most of them high school students. . The adults were charged with disorderly conduct and were or dered held tor the liquor commis sion, The Juveniles, . seven boys and seven girls, were taken to Juvenft headquarters. Three other JO-year-olds. were picked up In a car parked outside the house, They ware charged with being minors In possession of liquor. Police said a noisy party was In progress when they arrived, several of those In the house eluded police, tht officers reported. COMMIES CHILLED .TOKYO Iff A heavy amwstorm today chilled a Oommunlat cele bration of "AntMJolonlsatlon Day." ami aoo (Led milled around the national Diet (Parliament) for a whU and than went home. Ike's Slap At Soviets Approved WASHINOTOIf im Ouli-h eon. gross lonei approval was forecast ivoay lor President Elsenhower's 'nuleiment of ftuuls'a mass "sub jugation of free peoples" through perversion of World War II agree A resolution. ananui-l tw ri' aenhower and awaited on Capitol Hill since he promised It In his Feb. 3 State of the Union mes sage, wns made public yesterday by the President: It rejects the Soviet Union's In terpretation of the understandings presumably tho-e made at Yrlte aa a llcennc for fie subluxation of free neooles. It nrnAU mi m hope for ultimate aeU-novemment oenina tne iron Curtain In line "with the pledge of the Atlantic vnerter " ViKNOTH , The resolution waa not aa strong an some KepuDiiCfliis had wanted, but few seemed Inclined to choi lenire the President on the Ismi. Most Democrats were ready to go along with It, too, It did not criticise the administration of Democrats Franklin D. Koosivell or Harry S. Truman, nor did It repudiate agreements made at Yalta or elsewhere during those administrations. The Republican President also accepted the principles of the At Untie Charter, authored by Roose velt with British Prime Minister Churchill. The Atlantic Charter, actually a Joint declaration of the two lead, era, was composed of notes they screed upon aboard 'ship in the nuanira ucean in Augual, mi. RKIHTS They recognised, among other things, the rtghta of all peoples to choose their own lovernments and agreed on restoration of self -gov. eminent for those who .had lost it The charter waa never drafted as a formal document and had no legal force, although it caught on aa a declaration of the west's principles. While Senate Majority Leader Taft of Ohio arranged to handle the Elsenhower resolution In tht Senate, most congressmen turned weir tnougnts to tna apparently increasingly critical situation in Indo-china. Prance la carry tne the Alllea' fight against Oommunlat loreea were. . Sen. Mansfield - (D-Mont) a member af the foretell relations committee, called for heavy new atall'-iiisji af tnSJtary emifrmesa to bast: ang. B eawad burry wf aaassnapa1 ka wavsraeaea a taf dloiomat. aa well as Roaalan of. floers, had bat opera tmg la China and ""nfiwinii Cars Hit, Man Fined SIIO Vernon Thomas DuBois. 10. 1636 Gary, was fined a total of 1110 in Municipal conn tooay on ini tio cnargea resulting irom col lision between his car and a City Police, vehicle at 8. 6th and Broad laat night. ' He pleaded guilty to reckless driving, waa fined 1110, and to having no operator's license, pay. in- am. " ' . i i DuBois' IMS Oldamoblle sedan skidded and went broadside Into the front of a 1950 Ford coupe used as s police trafflo car, dam aging both extensively. Patrolman Jim Howard waa driving the police vehicle. Alu arrmLMl far reckless drlV- inr laat nliht was a 21-year-old OTI student, Raymond Coady, who after a cnase tnrougn auw raai tlon during which police said Coady ran through four atop signs. u. waa drlvlna a 1M3 Ford and reportedly was chasing another oar, which got away. A police car chased Coady about 10 minutes be fore catching mm. Price rive Cowta-ll Paget' KLAMATH PALLSrOREOON, SATURDAY. FEBRUARY tl. 1U . Telepbeiw IlTT Ne. tsaa I , - .. n r A ,.v . ANT AMOUNT 0 WOtDS couldn't dt.eribt tht foy that roi9ntd In Malin'i roolino (action last night like thla picturt by tht Harald and News staff photographer does. Caust for tht unbounded hilarity was Malln's 38-35 uptet, win oven Sacred Heart in tht lemi-fineU of tho Klamath County cage tournament. (Story in sports taction). Morse Seeks. Trial Rights ' . WaJsJOWOTOW m IJan.' Marap ana-Ore) tart a aa r right to couneal. who aautd abject to quaaUons and cross-examine any other witneeaea making accuaa- In Introducing a wltnea" ses' ' "bill of rights" measure. Morse vesteruav said persons ac cused of disloyalty, subversion or Communist tactics ahould have adequate assurance by law" of a chance to oetena wenueives. The bill would also require wit nesses to slick to tht subject- un. der Investigation. LS6CGlUG7Stllrlt ase Tough Issues Await Solons aiTiru un Threatened with the bluest deluge of bills In' his tory. Oregon's 41-dsy-old "g lature atlll Is confident It can wind up Its work In another 60 days, u.uin made rood orosress this week with hlghwsy and liquor leg islation, the lawmakers guarantee eood snow next wees. Hera's the schedule for next nk. and It doesn't Include un- expeoted subjects mat migni en velop: Monday The Senate will vote on the bill to divide Multnomah, Marlon and Lane Counties Into representative districts. It also would have legislative candidate run by numbered positions in ou tride where there are two or more to be elected. -'. .- Tueadav The explosive Issue of whether to keep on giving raolng receipts to the fairs gets Us tlrat teat in the House, which will vote on a resolution for an Interim com mittee to make a two-year study of the problem, Wednesday The Senate Elec tions Committee hold fts . first hearing on the bill that would pre vent if. 8. Sen. Wayne L,. Mora from running aa an Independent for re-election In 1066. v Thursday The Welfare Sub committee will hold a hearing on the most controversial Issue of all old kg pensions, The hearing will be on bills to make publto the names of welfare recipient, and In measures to tighten -tna law which reaulres relative to support wK tar reolptsnta ,. -. '; ', .i Dyche Funeral Here Monday Funeral services for William Kelly (BUI) Dyche, pioneer log. ger who died here yesterday, are to oe conauciea Monany, . from Sacred Heart Church. Recitation of the Holy Rosary will take place from the chapel, of Ward's Funeral Home Sunday, 8 p.m. Burial will M in tuamau Memorial Cemetery. Dyche, 76, waa a native of Kan- ia and for many years was known throughout the West in log ging end lumbering circles. His family moved, to Wsshing- ton when he wss young, and when the Spanish-American war broke out Dyche Joined the RoughR16 ers crew Demi recruited by col. Theodore Roosevelt, He wss dis charged In 1899 and located In Ida ho, where he helped construct the Fsclllo and Idaho. Northwest rail road. But the main work of his life was in logging, from Wyoming to Oregon, and he became well known in the trade for many inventions and Innovations he made to facili tate the work, Dyche came. to Klamath Falls In 1033 and worked as logging superintendent for the, Algoma Lumber Company for 36 years. He broke his back In a household . cioent several years ago and had to retire from active work. -. A well-known outdoor writer, Jim Stevens of Seattle, did an. article on Dyche last year, terming him one of the "very best of aU his powerful Western Arlbe" of king loggers, and Dyche waa urged by an Oregon State College authority on Jogging history, Walt McCul loch, to write hla memoirs. He had made a atapt . -... of his experiences down on paper, I!5iiTJSfd. S,r w 8ee them published. In book form. AobinNews NotWanted MOUNT CAnjmrr "m ' Af10l Sit vara doesn't mind neighbora teUmg- him about the first robin or spring Just ,ao they don't interrupt while he's 'mowing we jawn. ... , . ... ' Seama tha arajui arnimji !.--- homa aUyed grten all winter. Wll..1, 4- ' . I . . . ..wiv .iii. wvnt -riant on growing, . " , "It waa eattlnv mi or nnniwii vora ssld Frldaxaa ht hauled out tho mowtr. .. -y HAUf SCARBROUOilv ' Circuit Court nraeedinai involv. ing the Palmerton Lumber Com pany nave oeen recessea nntu Tuesday at 10 a.m., and the mil will remain shut down until then and in ail prooaouity longer. , i On Tuesday, W. A. Spangler, act ing aa temporary receiver for the company. Is to tell Judge Willism O. Esst whether It. would be teas- Ible to reopen and operate' the lum beproducln facilities in receivers amp, :i :$ "" .,Sil?.Vtt'; v'" i IDRIC SCHORTOIN Death Claims Basin Pioneer Final rites for Edrlc (Ed) Schorl- gen, 67. who died Thursday are to be held - Monday, 2' p.m., from Ward's Funeral Home, with the Rev.' David F. Barnett of the First Presbyterian Church officiat ing. Commitment will be in Klamath Memorial Cemetery. Sohortgen was the son of a fam ily that had pioneered in the Klam ath Basin. He was two years old when the family came here In 197, and became a booster of the coun try's natural beauty and wildlife.1 For many,' years he' lived on the snore oi upper bj amain use. . i He Is survived by the widow. Jes sie Schortgen,'. to. whom he Was married Nov. JO. IMS, in corvai lis; ' two. children,' Earl Albert Sohortgen, , Vallejo, Calif., and Mrs. .Betty ' L. . Ward, Klamath Falls; four' brothers, '' Nicholas Schortgen, of Kent,- Wash.; Earl Schortgen of San Francisco; Vern Schortgen of Klamath Falls, and Ray Schortgen of Medford; a sis ter, Belle sleutel. of Harrlsburg, Ore.,.- and. three . grandchildren, Judy, Larry and Robert Ward. -.Schortgen was a member of -the Carpenters Union, -Local No; 190, and the Klamath Sportsmen As sociation. ,-.-! Judge East said kt would, also ear : arguments Tuesday - on whether the current temporary re- ceiversnip snouut be luted. The mill has now been down a week. and soma 170 employes are laid Oil. ' , . 1 Yesterday afternoon Attornev vkk aaaxweu concluded present Uon of all the testimony be had at hand in support of his case, and asked for a continuance of at least a wees: so ne can get depositions from certain Eastern witnesses. aiong -wiw. some , records , not readily available here. He also has asked for a statement of the ft- nanciai and physical status of the Palmerton mill, as of the date it waa taken over by the temporary receiver,' Feb. . 14, ' and Spangler wn iu migni taae until - the middle of-March. An Inventory is uww unaff Waco. SUIT'S AIM - : The court proceeding, which went on most of this wk im-h. nically is a hearing on an- order k snow cause whether Spangler should be appointed receiver for the firm, but the hearing is bring ing out the issues of an 'equity suit filed by Loren L. Palmertoni former president and general man ager of the company, against the Palmerton Lumber Company and Its present management, headed by Don A. Weldler of Chicago. Weld ler is half owner of the local firm, and the Palmerton family owna the other half of the prop. -v. ncuuer naa control of to corporation's voting stock and is chairman of th Ivuh i di rectors. . . : Palmerton haa alleged ' mlsman- Bc.ucin si tne company, that it 5a?.ben. i-un to the red to the detriment of the local firm and for the benefit of the Weldler Lum ber Company of Chicago, lumber wholesaler. ... The - allegations of mismanage mS, nd have been denied. Since the temnorarr receivmhin was clamped on the lumber plant and a restraining order issued to prevent further operation of the plant as of Feb. is, Weldler and his attorney, Jim Desendorf of Port land, have made several attempts to have the receivership and re straining order .vacated. So far they have been unsuccessful. . ' FIRST ORDERS .. . Tne receivership ante .nrt r- training order were Issued by Judge East, from lumu - .inrf Bast dismissed the first complaint " . Bse ana allowed . an amended complaint to be tusd. Desendorf has argued- that when the original complaint, upon .which the redeiver'ship and restraining orders were based, fell the orders subsequent to it should also have been vacated.. , , All testimony so far heard hn been presented by the plaintiff, and witnesses ,so far heard have Included Weldler.- Palmerton. oth. er officials and former offloals of the company, an accountant and lumber salesmen. Palmerton was ousted aa general manager of the iirm in aaay oi ' ivo. Judge Saat tentatively set March 4 as the date-to begin trial on the merits of the suit proper, in -all probability One case eventually will reach tho state Supreme Court. ,i 1 Benson Calls For Support Of fanners DBS MOINES, Ia. UP) Secre tary of Agriculture Benson called upon farmers Saturday to help him and the- Congress build strong form programs reaulrinc a mini mum .of government price sup- iritis. . . - The new OOP farm chief said he will never be euiltv of hand Inn down "ready-made programs," ad ding: Programs must be built with the assistance of farmers and those who are working with them. Let's build strong front the grass roots' the type of pro trams which farmera want the tlnd that will not bring serious re grets and disappointments later.'' STABILITY . In a speech prepared for the 16th annual Nctlonal Farm Institute, the secretary sought to assure nro. ducers that the Elsenhower ad ministration will do everything pos sible to bring stability to a farm price decline-which, he said, had been inherited from tht preced ing administration. Benson said farm markets, have become stabilised. He called upon farmera themselves to help keep them stable by making; full use of existing price support programs. . Benson assured farmera that he believes in price supports. He pointed out also that he la under oath to give ''sound administra tion" to all price support laws now m enect. Be asm ue present laws "are we combined judgmeuta of am- two great political parties." "But I aay to yon tn ail atneer- wna me, that prW -a' -aiaaU ate aaramuuro ssrona;, no sauo. SOTOD rMG?AMS V;:,w: ' Benson said the Eisenhower ad ministration proposes, with the aid or larmera, weir lead era and Con gress, to "build farm programs wat are- oasic ana sound." -Taking notice of recent sham debates in Congress over declin ing agricultural prices and the new administration's treasures to rem edy the situation. Benson said be could report that "the agricultur al interests of the nation are be ing made a first order of busi ness by your senators and con gressmen.'! . BadVeaflier Hurts Both North, Sooth' Bv The A seriated Press Numbing cold descended today upon a vast section of the natloa'a northern midland is the wake of the wlnter'a worst anowatorm. Temperatures of aero to 16 below were forecast for tonight la at least six of the 11 states which nave felt m varying degrees the fury of the four-day biluard. Winds kicked up as the cold front moved eastward. Oal winds, with gusts scaling up to 60 rauea an hour, roared acroaa New York state Saturday. iney nit tne western pert of the state first. The wind ranged from 16 to 66 miles per hour, with gusts of between 60 and 60. In Roches ter a 62 mlle-an-hour blow felled trees, tore down utility wires and ripped tht roofs of some build ings. ' STORM AREA Diminishing winds permitted res idents of we storm area, particu- ;ly In deeply snow-blanketed portions of South Dakota, Nebras ka, and Minnesota, to dig out of drifts that stalled hlghwav and plane travel and In many comma. -nitiea forced the closing of schools and businesses. But we winds trailing the re ceding storm, now mmn fan Canada at the bead of Lake Su perior, were sun an mjiea aa hour or more-strong tnough to utten ify the suddenly fallen tempera tures. The Weather Bureau re ported gusts of 67 miles aa hour were recorded -during the height of the storm over Nebraska, Iowa. South Dakota and Minnesota. new snow -The wind scoured the' new fan of snow, ranging up to li inches at Huron. S. D and 13 at St. Cloud, Mum., into formidable drifts that kent at-honi .hiL home, forced businesses to dose for lack of customers, and even buried highways so that enowplow ' crews couldn't find tbem. 8imllar discomforts wert fett fat -Wyoming and Colorado ' a day earlier, where the - storm began developing Wednesday. It was to .these states the only atoms deaths nine-were reported. Ftva were uc mis oi tranie accidents aad loor. all ht Denver, attrtbated fa "wwnw a wo anew. TORNADOES m Hotel Cheaper Than Alcatraz WASHINGTON (Pi Senate de Deters reached bipartisan agree ment yesterday that stern Alca- traa Prison costs more to house a prisoner than would a plush, big city hotel. Sen. Langer (R-ND), saying it now costs twice as much to feed and house a prisoner at the island prison in San r-rancisco nay as a any other federal prison, iigureo the governm-m .com- noara in mates "In the Waldorf Astoria cheaper.'' We could board tnem cneaper in the Waldorf Astoria, or the Statler or the Mayflower," added Sen. Magnu:on iD-Wash). ' . The subject came up - wnen Lancer, chairman of the Senate prison subcommittee, was getting senate approval oi o.w iot in spection of- 33 Institutions oper ated by. the Federal Bureau of prisons. Langer said ne ana ms two subcommittee members visit the prisons unexnecteaiy ana un- answancea. sometimes at tnree or four o'clock in the morning. Chief llamsd. MOSCOW im Marshal Vaaull Sokolovsky has succeeded Annv Oen. Sergei Shtemenko -as) chief of staff of the armed forces of tho Saturday. Sokolovsky haa been first depu ty minister of the armed faeces. since March 30, 1M9. . sntemenko became chief of staff Nov. 13. 1946. when he re nlaced Marshal Alexander Vasilevsky, the. present minister of war. Sokolovsky is a full member of the central committee of the Com munist Party. He was the cantor or Berlin and became a hero of the Soviet On ion for bis work in that campaign. He was decorated as a knight commander of the British Empire by Marshal Lord Montgomery In Berlin in 145 and became chief of the Soviet military administra tion in . Germany in November. 1946. He gave up that Job in early 1948 lust before thai end nf the nr. lin blockade. . - - House Clerk McCordDies SALEM 'l Blaine McCord, 70, chief clerk of the House Rules Committee for 23 years, died sud denly Saturday In hla hotel room here.'.' : r McCord was a key man in the House organisation, since all bills introduced had to clear through him for checking as to form and content. He first became chief clerk of the House Rules Committee in 1(31, and served ever since. . Survivors are the widow, and a daughter, Mrs. Charles W. Spear, Coda Bay. - Weather FORECAST-Klamath Falls and vicinity and northern California! Fair through Sunday. High Saa dsy 46. Lew Saturday night M. Hlgh yeaterday IS IM US alght.-..-.. II The heaviest tan au m ai.. bam where tour nrnimunlHra m the northwest were leaned by de structive storms veaterdkv aiji sippi and Louisiana felt Uv ur in lesser degree. -.- . -,. ..... i(er Red Army Allies Blast Enemy Center SEOUL-' A) Allied ' fighter- bombers blasted a Communist communications center near the south bank of the Yalu River boun dary of Manchuria Saturday and screening U. 8.. Sabre Jeta downed two MIO-15S. . ... ... The U. 8. Fifth Air Force re ported that three other MIOs prob ably were destroyed and two dam aged.. The raid on the Red communi cations center at Manpojin was one of two heavy strikes during the day protected by' the sleek, swept-wlhg Sabres, Fighter-bombers earlier pounded a big Red sup ply area north of Pyongyang, apex of the old "Iron Triangel" on the Korean Central front. ' Assessment of gun camera film from the Sabres resulted In the Air Force boosting the figures from an earlier announcement of two MIOs probably destroyed and one damaged. There were two dog fights. - The Air Force aald 42 Sabres and 60 MIOs wert involved in the air battles,.. Thirty - two F-V Thunder Jets hit the eommunlcationa center. Pi lots reported destroying 16 build ings and damaging eight, -Numerous flrea erupted and secondary explosions Indicated hlta on gaso line or ammunition stores. - , It waa on of the deepest pene trations Into North Korea madai by fightar-bombera- of the 49th Wing.. ... , ... ; ... n n A
