Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, December 26, 1953, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text0) o) Jill MB n 's lews FRANK, JENKINS k the New York stock bead lower when the Lns this morning on the Ess day after the Christ- have been a rugged Bn the Big Town. to Chicago, grains IOHEB on the board of I advance Is led by corn kith wheat close behind. es go lower, and cattle (id still. ne? ie and effect, rain prices go up, llve es tend to go down. The costs to feed hogs 'and k LESS tne leeaer can ai- Lo inr them. Eings the law of supply nd in through the back Lnf last, niorht throutrh a Eient house In Holyoke, rinno-erlno- 75 Dersons. Lara THROWN OUT OP S and caught (safely, It I by people in we street Ime 36 persons were car- lire ladders, ana au were the hospitals suffering Ike fumes. hons. including two flre- injured when flames roar oii atrtrv frame buildine Liness district in Buffalo. hipped fires, bursting out in southern uaiuornia s brlcl mountains (tlnder- lack of November ano rains) destroy 136 bid force more than 2000 torn their homes. Ming uneasiness spreads the Tehacnapi. wny: it because as this is writ- tlames are racing toward km and ALL BUT ONE of Angeles area's television lers are located on Mi. top, Iculd the famed Southland k without its TV? ultra-modern days, look- Be eye the limitless possi- for good and evil oi fsslon, we face a crisis, thought: pd must have faced a sim- ils when somebody dis- how to make lire. Fire's Uties are DEADLY, the countless millenniums tometheus (according to let myth) brought fire fm high Olympus and gave Bman beings, FIRE HAS KT TO MANKIND FAR BOOD THAN HARM. it will be the same with Ission. It WILL BE if man- common sense enough to f good instead of using it ly for evil. i Is written, the Christmas highway death toll stands somewhat less than the esti- 10. But all the returns f yet. The final total may k with or even pass the Bs the underlying cause of niRnway iaiaimes tnat oc unfalllnir rpcrnlafitv nn day week-ends? ly hs tnis: ' PNG IN A HURRY. ' Ihen somebody gets In a uiai aeaui novers low on wings over the pavement. a Stl'icttv mnriem Hnnupr9 lldn't Did bllLTlTV rinvn thora nrara AYS. People could and t amea wnen me norses PORTTniMATTT.T.V ao nn.ni. led then as now. one difference in those days the newspap- icntions facilities to be eport and tabulate the holi- fllS Mid nnn,.J ...I got frightened and ran out lUI, for nerlnil a At (frlod Ins van ' R 111 fr aRO in Klamath Falls it Kioomy day with 31 high low. yeather CAT-Klamath Falls and unsiaeraoie cloudiness night With nm inn.l littw. I'tly cloudy Tuesday. High ' 40: low Monday night SO. terdaj 38 I night : 15 t 24 hours 0 ft. I KM POTING HOURS Deeemhai 90 fft" CLOSE p ..m. 4:43 p.m. US VICTIM OF HOODLUMS Charles J. Baker, a legless Korean war vet, shows one of the artificial limbs nearly . torn from his body by a gang of six youthful hoodlums. Baker's wife, holding their baby, watched helplessly from back seat of their car. The young couple had just left an uncle's home in Los Angeles after a Christmas visit. YfVA; Pearl Named Boss Of BP A Unit SALEM, Ore. W1 Secretary of Interior Douglas McKay today an nounced the appointment of Dr. William A. Pearl of Washington State College as Bonneville admin istrator. Pearl has been director of the Institute of technology at Washing ton State College. He succeeds Paul J. Raver as the head of the Bonneville Administration. Raver resigned to become superintendent of Seattle City Light. Pearl wilt receive a salary of $14,800 a year. The new head of the biff-North west power agency is a registered engineer in uregon ana Illinois, tie is a graduate of Washington State College and was acting president of the school for a year. He Is 60. "He has had extensive experience In engineering and industry." the announcement said. "For ten years he was with the Whiting Corp. of Chicago. He started there as chief engineer in the stoker division of the company and went on to be come vice president in charge of manufacturing. - He returned to Washington State College in 1946. "Simultaneously with the Whiting service he was on the staff of the Illinois Institute of Technology as professor of mechanical engineer ing and director of tlic engineer ing shop laboratories. He also was in charge of major projects at the Armour Research Foundation.' The Whiting Corp. manufactures complete foundry equipment, cranes, railway equipment and special machinery. STRIKE ENDS PARIS Wl Interna Uoiial pas senger planes resumed calling at Paris Monday as some 2,000 air port control tower, radio and radar operators ended an eight-day strike. The strike of mail sorters at railroad stations and some post offices continued into its sixth day and threatened to spread among other workers in the post offices. r rricm frra Cents IS Pairs KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. MONDAY, DECEMBER U. 1M Telephone (111 No. 2124 Yind Yhipped Forest Fire Roars Up Slopes Of Mt. Yilson; 136 Homes Burn LOS ANGELES Ifl Wind whipped flames, roaring out of control crackled less than a mile from famed Mt. Wilson observa tory Monday after presumably de stroying 136 cabins and forcing more than 2,000 persons from their homes. .... The large-scale evacuations were from residences in half a dozen communities along the foothills of the forested San Gabriel moun tains some 12 miles east of here. Menaced along with the inval uable observatory is the four -million dollar television transmitter area which adjoins it. All but one of the Los Angeles area television transmitters are located atop 5,867 foot Mt. Wilson. About 20 miles to the east anoth er forest fire burned out of control. It also is In the San Gabriel moun tains and has forced the evacuation of 300 persons. The late season fires have con sumed a total of more than 10,000 acres of timber and brush. Among those evacuated from the Mt. Wilson blaze were 40 bed patients from Pottenger sanator ium and clinic in Monrovia. Child ren at the north end of Sierra Mad re also were removed from their homes , as the flames crossed the city limits over brush-covered land. U.S. forestry officials said 136 cabins in Big Santa Anita canyon are presumed lost. Intense heat from the flames prevented an in spection party from entering the canyon. The Mt. Wilson area fire started Sunday from undetermined origin. Ashes fell as far away as down town Los Angeles and Hollywood. The fire fingers moved quickly up Mt. Wilson and nearby peaks. Fire and high winds destroyed the telephone and power lines in the Mt. Baldy and San Antonio Canyon areas. Roads were blocked and sightseers told to stay out. Between -600 and l.OOfr mehith Milk Seller Faces Trial OREGON CITY tfl Elmer Deetz, a Canby cattle breeder, was to be tried here Monday in district court on a charge of selling milk without a state license. Deetz, who sells milk in gallon jugs, has withdrawn his applica tion for a license. He applied for the license last Monday, saying he understood that the State Depart ment of Agriculture would drop the charge if he did so. But when the department continued the case, Deetz withdrew his application. Deetz has filed a counter suit, asking that the state milk control law be declared unconstitutional and not applicable to his opera tion. Earlier the State Milk Market ing Administration and the State Board of Agriculture filed suit in circuit court asking an injunction to stop Deetz' milk sales and ac cusing him of violation of milk con trol pricing and licensing regula tions. The administration withdrew'its suit later but said it might be filed again. ... -.Kt--1L. INDOCHINA WA FLARES A French soldier, his auto matie weapon at- the ready, moves past the bodies of two fallen combatants, during recent heavy action in French Indo-. china. The Communist Viet Minh rebels, in lightning Christ mas season offensive, split Indoehin in two. more than 60 pieces of equipment manned the fire lines in the tricky terrain. Forestry officials and po lice ordered residents of Monrovia canyon, Hidden Canyon and the Cold Hill section on Monrovia's outskirts, Santa Anita Canyon and some houses In Arcadia to evacu ate for safety. This Is one of the latest forest fires on record, coming as southern California's severe drought contin ues. Usually rainfall in November and early December dispels the fire danger in these timbered areas. Dam Survey Along Snake Expected WASHINGTON Wl An Army Engineers' report on recent sur veys of potential dam sites on the Snake River and Its tributaries, in cluding controversial Hells Canyon, is expected next month. Sen. Dworshak (R-Idaho) said Saturday the Corps of Engineers will send the report to Congress in January. He told a reporter: "For the first time, as a result of these investigations of additional sites, it will be possible for Con gress to have a basis for compari son and to determine which con stitute the best possible sites for development of the upper water shed of the Columbia River basin. "It would be Imprudent and con-, trary to public interest to concen-fcrate-on-vona- site1 without giving consideration to the potentialities of all possible sites for multiple purpose projects." N The one site reference, of course, was to Hells Canyon, which is at' issue in the controversy over whether the site should be devel oped as a public power site or by the Idaho Power Co. The Army Engineers and U.S. Reclamation Bureau recently com pleted a survey of the middle Snake and the Clearwater, which branches from the Snake at Lew iston, Idaho. "I believe it Is important to have maximum water development In the upper watershed of the Colum bia Basin, where flood waters can be controlled," Dworshak declared. "In the past, such projects have been concentrated in the lower ba sin where it is difficult to control floods." The Reclamation Bureau's report says a Snake River dam at Moun tain Sheep would be justified re gardless of whether the proposed federal or private dams are built upstream in the Hells Canyon sec tor. The report says a Mountain Sheep dam. 50 miles upstream from Lewiston, would be Justified in connection wun eitner a private or a publlo power dam at Hells Canyon. ( Army Engineers are expected to report on the feasibility of pro posed Clearwater River projects, mainly Bruce's Eddy and Penny Train Wreck Toll Drops AUCKLAND, New Zealand 11 Authorities reported Monday that 11 persons previously unaccounted ior auer New Zealand's tragic Christmas Eve railroad wreck have oeen louna sale. The announce ment trimmed the possible death ton to lob. Officials previously had listed tne proDame toll as 168. The re- visea ngures on the disaster now stana at: Persons on the train 278 Known survivors 123 Bodies recovered 114 Missing 41 The announcement came as New Zealand scientists said measuring Instruments being erected on the summits of volcanic peaks here may warn of future disturbances like the one - believed to have caused the wreck, 290 miles south of Auckland. The train, the Welllngton-Auck- lana mgni uxpresa crashed after a flood which swept down a gorge from a crater lake atop 9,125-foot Mt. Ruapehu washed Ant rat). way bridge. It was speculated that a wall of the crater gave way or M.n vuiinuiv gases naa Dlown toe water out. REPLACEMENTS LONDON ifi Four thousand American servicemen at ti n. Air Force bases In Britain will be re- piacea oy Britlsa civilians within the next 6 to 12 months, an Air rorce apoKeeman said Monday, The airmaa Ml return e America, fpxXxr- i;:tlli .i, 'i w ' i " ' bodies have been recovered and ueuu TCAI Akin TD AIM WOtCK KILLS 15$ I U an officially estimated 41 persons are missing in the wreck of this train which plunged into Wangehru River near. Wellington, N. Z. The train fell into the river after a bridge spanning the gorge either gave way under the weight or was already washed away. Five of the train s nine cars, carrying passengers . to Auckland to see Queen Elizabeth, fell into the river. Road Wreck Kills Driver An Ill-starred honeymoon trip through the Klamath Basin ended in death Sunday for James A. Mo Dougal, 55-year-old Walla Walla, Wash, rancher. His bride of four days, Eva Crys tal McDougal, was seriously injured when their car nit an lay patch on Highway 87 and turned over three times. McDougal 'g death was Klam ath County's 20th traffic fatality in 18&3. The rancher was hurled 65 feet into a grain field neajr Worden, 17 miles south of Klamath. Falls. The accident happened at Id a.m.' Sun-' day. According to state police. McDou gal and his wife were driving on their honeymoon to Mrs, McDou gal's former home in Oakdale, Calif. Mrs. McDougal was a school teacher there. The couple was mar ried last Thursday in Walla Walla. Mrs. McDougal was taken ' to Klamath Valley Hospital In a Kaler ambulance. She suffered chest in juries and cuts and bruises. McDougars body is at wards Funeral Home. Klamath County 20 Traffic Fatalities For 1953 43 Survivors Picked Up From Icy Waters After Sea Pounds Ship To Bits Weill Denies Fight Story ' NEW YORK W) Al Weill, man ager of 'Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano, said Monday he hasn't agreed to a Marclano-Nar-dlco title fight in Miami Feb. 24 or "any kind of a fight for Rocky yet." Weill called the Associated Press over a story from Brockton, Mass., Rocky s hometown, which quoted Marciano as saying he was going to defend his title against Nardlco in Miami, Feb. 24. Rocky was quoted" as saying "I'm going ,to New York Thursday to sign for the fight." "He must have been misquoted or misunderstood," said Weill. "Rocky don't know who he's going to fight next. He may not even fight in Miami. I ain't closed for any fight. "I've been talking to Jim Norris (president of the International Box ing Club) on the phone," said Weill. "We've mentioned Nardlco, Dan Bucceronl and Don Cockell as pos sible opponents for Rocky down there in Miami but we ain't settled anything." NEW YORK W Forty-three, persons, forced to lifeboats when their ship split apart In the storm tossed Atlantic, were aboard two rescue vessels Monday. - - But raging winds still whipped the sea into such fury that one of the rescue ships-was unable to proceed. Crewmen of the wrecked Swedish freighter Oklahoma, had drifted for hours in lifeboats on the icy, roll ing sea before being picked up Sunday. The freighter, split in two by sledgehammer ocean waves, was believed to have gone to the bot tom. But the search for the wreck aire continued.' : f uue aramatic rescue operations Mrs. Weber Dies At 68 A resident of Klamath Falls for the last .10 years, Mrs. Anna Web- native of Virgen, Lirol, Aus tria, died in Hillside Hospital late Saturday night Dec. 26. She had oeen 111 for the past two months. Mrs. Weber, aged 68, came to America to make her home when 17-years-old. The family home was at 2720 Crater Ave. Surviving are her widower, Jo seph Weber, this city; her mother, Mrs. Mary Wurnitsch of Austria; five nons. John, Fred, Joe Frank and Harold all of Klamath Falls; three daughters, Mrs. Victoria Lambing, Portland, Mrs. Edith Caster and Freda Kurre, this city; three sisters, Mrs. Mary Howard, Klamath Falls, Mrs. May Rainey, Oakland, Calif., and Mrs. Kate Cetto Lead, S. D.; two brothers, Joe and Antone Wurnitsch, Oak land, Calif.; also nine grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, Dec. 30, 10:30 a.m from Ward's Klamath Funeral Home. 520 Die In Road Wrecks By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The nation counted a toll of 712 accident deaths . during Its 1953 Christmas holiday weekend. The final tabulation Monday list ed 520 traffic victims, 81 who died In fires, and 111 victims of all other types ol fatal accidents. '- Lives lost on the streets and high ways exceeded a pre-hollday esti mate by the National Safety Coun cil. The council had calculated that 510 fatalities would occur .during the 78-hour period between 6 a.m. (local time) Thursday and1 mid night Sunday. This year's traffic toll fell short of the 1850 record of (45 for a three-day Christmas period. The greatest Christmas traffic death to tal ever recorded was 656 during 1852'e four-day holiday.' Neverthe less, It meant one death every nine minutes during the holiday this year. The rate of deaths in traffic dur ing the Christmas weekend wa more than 60 per cent greater than tho average dally toll of 102 for the first U months of the year. Idaho Slots To Nevada BOISE. Idaho m With only four days of legal life left In the state, more than 700 of Idaho's 3,600 slot machines were reported Monday en route to Nevada, their last refuge in this country. The State Supreme Court has ruled the slots illegal -and they have been ordered out as of mid night Dec. 31. Sonje counties which clamped on an Immediate ban were caught up In legal controver sies. , , Operators' In Bannock and Bon- nevllle counties got, court Injunct ions to prolong the slots' life until Dec. 31. Two deputy sheriffs who raided a. slot club In Bannock County were arrested. . They said they staged the raid before a copy of the court order was received. hampered bv a heavy sea, were completed by the U. S. Military Sea Transport ship Bluejacket and tne Finnish freignter orion. Both ships then continued toward their European destinations. But the Bluejacket went only about 15 miles before huge waves made it pull up to ride out the storm. Hove to due to mountainous seas and severe storm," the ship messaged the Military Sea Trans port Service in New York. The Bluejacket was first on the scene after the Swedish freighter Oklahoma sent out distress signals. The. American vessel took 36 of the survivors aboard and reported all were in ornnrl' cnnriiMnn. - . .. The Seven -on- the Orion could also be assumed to be unhurt. Coast Guard spokesman said. The 43 survivors. Including one stewardess, were , the entire crew of the Oklahoma and the only per sons aboard her. The Coast Ouard said all are believed to be Europeans. A message from the Bluejacket quoted the Oklahoma's skipper. Robert Kutschbach, as saying the vessel broke in two about midships. Efforts to find the ship Mater were unsuccessful. Kutscnbach messaged the ship's general freight agents, i"umess-withy It Co., of New York, that it had probably sunk. However, a Coast Guard spokesman said the search would continue today. Kutschbach gave the position of the Oklahoma when she spilt as about 400 miles oft Newfoundland, The 5, 900-ton vessel was headed irom Sweden to Baltimore with a miscellaneous cargo. , The Inst survivors were taken from the fourth life boat around 3:45 a.m. Sunday, nearly 12 hours after the Oklahoma radioed it had split. A spokesman for Furness-Wlthy said the Oklahoma was owned by the Transatlantic Steam Ship Co Ltd. of Goteborg. Although details had been received yet, he said, the ship's crnck-up was pre sumably due to the stormy weatner. Key Bases BuildUp For Defense SAIGON. Indochina W French fighters and bombers plastered the Communist - led invaders of Laos Monday and French ground defend ers of the little Indochlnese king dom hastily strengthened key bases. The French were reported eon ntntratinsr south of Vietminh-held Thakhek, on the Thailand border. French reconnaissance units mov ing north from their base at Seno reported they had been unable to make contact with the rebel forces who lunged across Laos last week, cutting Indochina In two for the first time in the seven - year. - old war. HEAVY LOSS The French announced they had lost two companies of their own and North African troops in the Vletmlnh attack. The scouting units reported, however, they were rounding up soldiers oi tormer gar risons in the area who had fled into the jungle at the Vletmlnh ad vance. The Vletmlnh radio, meanwhile, claimed that the "greater part" of the Laotian troops under French command had deserted and joined the Red force. The radio claimed also that the 10-mile invasion had been carried out by the 'Xaotion national libera tion troops," but French sources in Saigon said the Invaders were Vletmlnh regulars from, coastal North Annam, possibly supported by some Laotian regional elements. SUPPLY PROBLEM The French also were faced with a major supply problem. The rebel advance cut the Mekong- River sup ply line as well as road routes to the Laos government seat of Vientiane. The capital and other strategic towns in the northern part of the kingdom now must be supplied by air. NO COUNCIL There will be no meeting of City council tonight, according to announcement by Mayor Paul Lan dry. The next regular meeting will be Monday, Jan. 4. Five Plead In Court Five persons indicted last week bv the County Grand Jury appeared Monday before Circuit Judge David R. Vandenberg. Charles Jack Bender, 17-year-old confessed house prowler, pleaded) guilty toj.-burgljiry In.-, dwelling, Judge "Vandenberg "set Jan. 4 ion passing sentence. Bender, who came here from California, told the -court he com mitted 11 burglaries in Klamath Falls. He said he couldn't remem ber how many houses he prowled in California. Bender Is a parolee for the Preston Home for Boys In California. William shoemake, 31, pleaded guilty to a bogus check charge. He was placed on three years pro bation. Ulysses Ford, charged with for gery, entered a not guilty plea. Trial was set for Jan. 21. Edward Laahs, 23, pleaded guilty to embezzlement. He was placed on five years probation. George Wilson Small, charged with a sex offense against his 13-year-old daughter, was given until Dec. 30 to employ an attorney. Ousted Judge Loses Card WASHINGTON Wl The State Department reported Monday It has recalled the diplomatic pass port of Judge William L. Clark, the recently ousted chief Justice of American courts in West Germany. The department said Clark, while vacationing to the Canary Islands, gave up his passport to an Ameri can counsel general. In turn, he was given a regular passport which is valid for over seas travel until Jan 28. Paul Farrens Dies Sunday In San Francisco Hospital Paul Farrens, one of Oregon's leading attorneys, died at the Un. verslty of California Hospital at San Francisco Sunday. He had undergone extensive surgery and on Friday was reported to be past ' RELEASED . BERLIN 11 The Russians haye released another - 1,463 Germans held-hv the Soviet Union since the war, the German Red Cross In Berlin disclosed. Monday. , KLAMATH BASIN POTATO SHIPMENTS 8m D7 List Tctr 57 ears 15 ears TUI rr leaion 43Sf cart 4427 cart M-M 1S31.S1 yi- PAUL FARRENS the critical stage and on his way to recovery.. He was 65 years old. A native of Iowa, he was grad uated from Grlnnell College, Grin nell, Iowa, and, the University of Michigan. He came to Oregon about 40 years ago and for some 30 years was associated with the legal firm of Dey, Hampson and Nelson in Portland. He came to Klamath Falls In 1944 and was the senior member of tho law firm of Farrens tt Max well at the time of his death. , He was a member of the Board of Governors of the Oregon Bar Assn., BPOE 1247, and Klamath Lodge No. 77, AF tl AM. Survivors Include the widow, El len Farrens, who was with him In San Francisco; his mother, Mrs. E. T. Farrens, Clarlnda, Iowa; pne son, William Farrens, Port land; two daughters, Helen Far rens, Portland, and Mrs. Jean Rey nolds, In Japan with her husband who is with the armed forces there. Mrs. Farrens, Bill Farrens and Richard B. Maxwell are expected nome from San Francisco this eve ning. Funeral service will be held Wednesday, at 2:30 p.m., from iLall"s Klamth Memorial chapel Those wishing to do so may send contributions to the Shrine Hospital In Portland.