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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1954)
KLAMATITCOTINTTTIBHAHT DDv -Mild Weaftheir .WO: veer Goirfthwes i , : . -.- 4 - t , .1 I ... .& 0 (s W "-- 1 " ' . ' yciici uay w lie II TUB tawf- HinM nrl Klauc pina.n. -. Ll XL. 1 I . , , ' "ition wauifm mid wnei.ea man P fry Jill fishing skill on the Upper Lake. Cold weather, snow, II lea t all the rest of the obstacles don't seem to faze the g rugged fishing clan.' jit: 9 Day's lews 'T-FRANK JENKINS Hopeful note in the news: U.Bk assistant secretary, of state ratter Robertson and Admiral Ar lur Radford, chairman of the U.S. lnt chiefs of staff, are back from tore and say they are confident Korean1 peace negotiations will be led. They also believe the re. ease of Korean war prisoners will accomplished on January 23 fithout trouble. f That Is hopeful, if true, because ( Indicates that the commies can ee no nourishment In continuing le war In Korea, we must re. tember that it takes two to make k war and. (barring total defeat, f one side) it also takes two to TOP a war. -i.'L- v -. Financial note: There was - still a shade of lUOTAMSY in the stock market hen I New York exchange t' Us morning following two sra of advancing pricea. -. TOia.' hog market opened at an cttve pace in Chicago this morn ' lg. Prices were $1.00 to $1.25 high- r, with an early top of $26.60. laupHter cattle were steady to IgtM IB the early trade. - Why If that interesting enough to rintt .-; ,We9r i if people are hopeful noun tt bid up prices it indicates bat think the country isn't v wpot. personally, rm pret awiie that what the people think' do in this year of readjust- Of our economy is more in it than what the crystal ball iri tell us. ie livestock markets are par- lularly Interesting at this moment cause they are influenced by the ay oi supply and demand and 6t bjr government subsidies. Hog rices ve rising because fewer lgs were born last year and as b result fewer hogs are coming a toe slaughter markets now. lertt i prices are still within the kage': that consumers are willing I . and so pork is being (IT -TJP faster than it is pres- Being produced. Tta4't a sound economic reason C a . rise in prices. jeady to higher when the market pettto tn Chicago this morning, pat also is interesting because it ieana that at the moment supply ftOd demand for beef are roughly I balance. H Fortunately for the cattle in ttstry, Bo HUGE STORED SUR- LUS, ojf beef hangs over the (flUC'.There has been no cattle Ib V.'The government hasn't J Ting Up beef and stashing K keep prices up. As a tf prices are down and ve been eating a lot of snarently, we ate about Billion more cattle and fc 1953 than in the pre war. i meat is far sounder than f it away. i the farm products that oeen covered by subsidies. P" lation is not so sound. The W" aBent now has on hand, ac Irtuiig to the latest figures avall e, ; about five billion dollars orth of these products that have lea acquired in the course of the yvermment's price support pro ram; y Tttti toconsumed surplus hangs in the markets like a black oud. ? o far, we've been talking about iljr and demand in the markets. italk for a moment about TICS In the markets, -re is a surplus of cotton ier big one. To prevent the from swamping us, Sec- Benson sought to cut cotton e to approximately 17 mil res. The cotton areas yelled murder, and In response to political pressure the sen rkultural committee agreed mlng to UP the permitted acreage to a little over 31 .Ceatttned an page t) 1 LUCK W. 4U j ,U .IT 1 C... J L- xL. French Bust Up Attack ByVietniinh SAIGON, Indochina lH The French reported Wednesday the first serious clash with the Viet minh invaders of Laos and claimed the Communist rebels lost 100 killed, wounded or captured. French losses were not given. The French said their para troops clashed with an estimated battalion of Vietminh 30- miles north of Seno, the village turned into a French strongpoint Christ- mUS TiaV nflo o VlalmlnU - " uvuimiu uiv.aiuu cut Indochina in two by a thrust io me meaong Kiver border of Thailand. , . AMBUSH The paratroops, adopting Vlet- muui ittuus, amuusnea ine reDeis in the jungles Tuesday. The Viet minh alfin WAS itnripr fltta.U ffnm French fighter and bomber planes. v.. ...uuu A(5I4VQIB and bombers hammered, for the toth consecutive day ' at 'Vietminh troops threatening to attack the luiwucu jjiaui ui umn Aien pnu. American-supplied B26s dropped napalm bombs nn Vinf.mlnh frMin concentrations and rear supply uHaes ui ine area just norm of the Laotian border. French army sources reported OnlV mitral nntlvitv irminrf i-iia Bien Phu, the last remaining French fortified position in north western Indochina. Brakevelt Death Learned A resident of Klamath Falls since 1026. GllKl.nf .Tnanh T)ab-a.,Ait owner of the Wpsf iriomaih nMl eery on the Keno Highway died .mil. o at nuisiae Hospital follow ing a brief Illness. He was 64-years- uiu mm a native or .Belgium. Mr. RmlrPVnlt pama tn th1B try in 1910 and In 1017 enlisted in the U. s. Army, serving two years at San Diego training carrier pig eons for the service. He was identified with the lum ber industry for 18 years in this locality, and 14 years ago pur chased the business he was operat ing at the time of his death. He also has farmed in flip Venn. riia. trict for 10 years. , He was a mpmhpt tit fiapt-arf Heart Church. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Verna BrnlrpvpH Iflomath Valla. one dauehtpr. Manmrlptp nalrpl I veil, Salt Lake City; four sisters, oerina siamDroek, Detroit, Mich., Eliza Pleters, Portland, Marie De Roest and Emerance naluav. Rpl. gium, and one brother, Alfons Brakevelt, David City. Neb. O'Hair's Memorial Chapel is in charep nf funeral sprvfppc tn hp announced later. Ewauna Mill Site Fire Threatens City firemen were called to the site of the old Ewauna mill at the edge of Lake Ewauna early this morning where a fire had started near the boiler room of the old plant. The fire anparentlv started in oil-soaked sawdust from an elec tric cutting torch which was used by workmen in dismantling the old plant. The property was purchased re cently by the Modoc Lumber Co., from the Hercules Powder Co. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Partly cloudy and mild through Wednesday night; cloudy and cooler Thursday with occasion al showers. Low Wednesday night 32; high Thursday 40. High yesterday ..... 4 Low last night 27 Precis last 24 hours Since Oct. 1 (.31 Normal for period - .4 Same period last year f.ll KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1954 Price Five Cents 14 Pa(t . Telephone 8111 . Sale Lashes Death Valley Scotty Dies In Desert Castle At 81 Ending Legend Of The West STOVEPIPE WELLS, Calif. (Pi Death Valley Scotty died last night in his beloved castle, a three-million-dollar showplace la the desert wilderness. Scotty, 81, was California's most famous prospector since the gold rush, and the adventuresome and mysterious tales of his gold strikes were legion. Yet the only treasure he Is known to have come by was the wealth 01 his Itge friend and benefactor, AiDen Mussey jonnson, umcago insurance executive. Johnson kept him in style. Dr. E. Vasse Wallace, of Las Vegas, Nev., said Scotty died of a gastro-intestinal hemorrhage. Wal lace said he had been treating Scotty whose true name was Wal ter Scntt for the past five years. , Wallace said he was summoned yesterday afternoon - and found Scotty in grave condition at the castle, 173 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Hoyle Takes RC Post TOLELAKE Burton J. Hoyle, manager of the Tulelake Experi ment Station succeeds Hugh B. Mul lin Jr., as chairman of the Tulelake branch, Klamath County Red Cross cnapter lor mis year. Mrs. Mary Sweasy will serve as secretary-treasurer and the Rev. MarvJs J. Keyser will be home service chairman. -.i--r.' , 1 ' The Tulelake branch conducts its own annual membership campaign. This year's will open March 1 with Mullin assisting" in the drive. Branch activities are coordinat ed with those of the Klamath Coun ty Chapter but are independently operated and planned at the com. munity level. - The Tulelake branch has active ly supported the bloodmobile pro gram and sponsors the annual trip to Merrill each year. Water safety is also an important phase of the program here with Tule lake giving strong financial support to the summer lessons. First aid classes are given with Tulelake in structors in charge. The branch op erates on an all-volunteer basis. Mullin has served the past two years as branch chairman and has directed two successful member ship campaigns. KLAMATH BASIN POTATO SHIPMENTS Shipped Today Sam Day Lait Year 60 ears 57 cars Total For Season 4762 cars 5578 cars mS-M ,lBSt-6S V. J. JOSEPHSON retired following 35 years of continuous service with the Great Northern recently and last night was honored by e banquet held at Jen-Eds. He came to Klamath Falls with the GN in 1928, served less than a year as cashier and was then named agent. He is shown here (left) with Mrs. Josephson, E. F. Oviatt, GN superintendent, admiring the watch which was presented the outgoing agent, d M. W. Fester, new agent. Foster, a GN man for some 20 years, has bean in Klamath Mi tkmviHf Mme)nd was recently a telegrapher. He said the colorful old desert rat was conscious until the end, and died quietly. Alv his bedside was Mary Liddecoat, president 4f the Gospel Foundation of Califor nia, who had been Scotty's con stant companion during the last two years. Johnson, actual owner of the cas tle, conveyed the property to the gospel foundation upon his death about six years ago. He provided, however, that ScoUy was to live there the remainder of his life, if he desired, and a suite, was maintained for him, said Walter Webb, business representative of the foundation. Scotty leaves a widow. Josephine Scott, 71, who has been living in Long Beach, Calif., for the last 18 years; a son. Navy Lt. Walter P.' Scott, 39, who is stationed at the naval air station at Oak Har bor, Wash.; and two grandchildren, Walter P. Scott Jr.. 13. and Kath leen, 13. Mrs." Scott told' a reporter that she and Scotty had lived apart during most of their marriage. A free-handed spender and a high-flying entertainer, Scotty be came one of the legendary figures of California's romantio history. Indian Plan Meet Called CHILOQUIN With! an eve to. ward a probable Indian-managed reservation,-, an educational pro gram is schedule at the Vouui Center here Thursday, 7:30 p.m. A panel of speakers will discuss business opportunities In trie event the reservation is turned back to Klamath Indian government. Guest speaker for the evening is Supt. A. J. Diehl. Mrs. Andrew Ortis will be chairman of the session. Joe Mil ler Jr. will discuss cattle raising, Friedman Kirk forestry. Other speakers, not named, will speak on irrigation, farming and other sub jects. . A question-and-answer period will close the program. Tule Kiwanis Officers Named TULELAKE L. K. (Bud) Mes is the new Kiwanis president here, installed last night in a session at the Sportsman's Hotel. He succeeds Keith Templeman. Wlllard Ward, lieutenant gover nor for Dist. 15, handled installa tion ceremonies and also ushered In Lee Sonnenberg, vice-president, and E. Webb Bowen, secretary treasurer. New directors are Grant Long more, Leo Roath and Stan Reed. The Tulelake Kiwanis held Ladies Night in conjunction with the Installation. Italy Rich Farm Land Said Inundated LONDON W Winter gales lashed the Adriatic Sea into a boiling torrent that burst through .dikes in the Po River delta of northern Italy Wednesday freezing temneratures put a thick coating of ice over most of the rest of Western Europe. In pre - dawn darkness, the Adri atic waters poured inland, 3 feet deep, inundating five villages near Rovigo, scene of disastrous floods two years ago, in November 1951. The waters gushed over hun dreds of acres of rich farm land and marooned shivering villagers on their rooftops. Hundreds were moved to higher ground. In London, Berlin. Frankfurt, Brussels and Paris workers went cautiously to work along the ice bound roads and streets, and hud dled shivering in their warmest winter i furs and woolens as tem peratures slumped to the lowest mark for over a year. The Po delta floods followed hard on the heels of northern Italy's worst snowstorm in 15 years. It blocked hundreds of miles of mountain roads and left scores of villages isolated. WINDS HOWL The winter storm lashed the whole north Adriatic. Winds howled through Venice, piling up snow drills in st. Mark's square, 'ine gale ripped down a 50-foot high bridge crane in the dock area of Trieste. t .v , 1 v v Freak weather hit' thg '"sunny1 French Riviera winter playground for Eurooe's rich. There was six inches of snow, at' the resort of St. Raphael. u Only in near-Arctic Greenland and in Sweden, where the worst blizzard in years swept Stockholm over the weekend, did tempera tures rise. Rustler On Wanted List WASHINGTON Wl Chester Lee Davenport, 31, a cattle rustler who has repeatedly escaped from police in . the Southwest, wrs added Wednesday to the FBI's list of "10 Most Wanted Men." Davenport made his latest break last July 4 from the Oklahoma State Reformatory at Granite, where he was serving 25 years for disarming and robbing an Ok- lahoiha police officer in 1951. ine fugitive is oi medium height, stocky, and has brown hair and eyes. He has a scar on his left forehead, and a tatoo of a nude woman on bis left forearm. He often wears expensive cowboy clothes. He goes on the "Most Wanted" list as a replacement for Thomas E. Dickerson, convicted robber sought for a series of holdups in the Washington, D.C.. area and captured by FBI agents at Verdun ville, W. Va., on Dec. 21. m PAYDAY and big smiles wera in order at Superior-Troy laundry this morning when the photographer caught Estin Kiger and Anna Eccles at the desk. Four Charged Murder Try; Case AHer 5 DETROIT m Charging four persons with assault with intent to kill and conspiracy, police Wednesday cracked open the five year old attempted assassination of CIO president Walter Reuther. Wayne County Pros. Gerald K. O'Brien and' Detroit Police Conv missioned Donald Leonard an nounced the charges and the ar rest of two of the four at 5:30 a.m. (EST). '"I am convinced the shooting of Walter Reuther In 1948 has been solved," O'Brien said. He said a -similar attempt on the life of Victor Reuther, brother of Walter In 1949, is still a mystery, Arested were: Carl Renda, 35, a key witness at the Kefauver committee hearing in Detroit. Clarence Jacobs, 48, of Tecum- sen, Ont., who once jumped bond when accused of illegal entry Into the United States. Also named In the warrant was Peter Lombardo, 50, already serv ing sentence at the Terre Haute, Ind., federal penitentiary. The fourth person named in war. rants issued Tuesday by Record ers' Judge John P. O Hara, was Santo (Sam) Perrone, 56, father- in-law of Renda and a frequently questioned suspect accused by the Kefauver commltteee of being "a gang-leading strike breaker and enemy of . organized labor." rerrone is oeing sougnt oy po lice. O'Brien said he was con- No Trust Here, Also, No Teeth GALLUP, N. M. Ml A Navajo woman from Springstead trading Post, Ariz., lost her false teeth recently at a Gallup bus depot. She advertised for the teeth on a Navajo language program, offer ing a reward. , Sure enough, a set was found. Now the problem is that the find er refuses to ship the teeth to the loser until she sends him' the re ward. The loser, declines to send the reward until she tries out the teeth. Maybe it can be settled by the time corn on the cob is again in season. Xmas Tree Fire Touched Off PORTLAND Wl The Hollywood Boosters,- an East Side community gro, was all set for its annual burning of Christmas trees Wed nesday night. The burning came off all right but ahead of schedule. Pranksters got Into Holladay Bowl, where the trees were plied, and started a fire early Wednesday morning. Within seconds a mountain of evergreens was blazing. the flames leaped skyward 100 feet, Usually thousands watch the spectacular tree burning. But this time only a few firemen and po licemen were on hand. MYSTERY LONDON UPI The Bank of Eng land, lt was reported Wednesday has given birth to twins. A New castle business man who declined to permit the use of his name said two new one pound notes he re ceived when he cashed a check at his bank recently bore the same aerial number R24A936968. In Reuther Police Crack Year Hunt vlnced Perrone was "in Detroit" within the last 24 hours. The warrant naming the four al so had four "John Does" Indicat ing further arrests in the assassina tion attempt against Reutner, ... O'Brien did not give out full de tails of the arrests and filing of the cnarges. - a , "We have evidence as to what actually happened. : This is the so lution but it may go further. There may be other involvements." The warrants against the four men and the "John Does" con tained two criminal counts. One charged assault with intent to mur der, and the other conspiracy to assault with intent to murder. The attempted killing of Walter Reuther and the attempt also on the life of his brother Victor a lit tle more than a year later defied years of investigation. Each of the two CIO unionists was shot at his home by a would- be assassin who fired a shotgun through the window. Whether it was. the same man on both occasions police could nev er say. Reuther was shot April 20, 1948. Victor was shot May 24, 1949. Walter lost part of the use oi an arm as a result. Victor was blinded in one eye. At the time Walter blamed 'Communists, management or a crackpot." Nothing came out of theory. Walter Reuther's top union Job then was the presidency of the CIO United Auto Workers. He is still UAW president. ' Within the past two years Walter nas also become president of the CIO. Bonney .Named To Combined Recreation, Park Position Another step toward consolida tion of energies was taken with the appointments of Bob Bonney as park and recreation director; Bert Stott as Moore Park superinten dent. The move was discussed at the regular monthly park board-recre ation committee meeting Tuesday, and was accepted almost unant- BOB BONNEY , mously by the group. Formerly, Boniiey was employed as recreation director and Stott au park superintendent. The new ar rangements will make Bonney re sponsible for all park and recre ation work aft an administrative of ficer, is I nee the objective., are Uie same. Stott, who has for many years demonstrated an avid Inter est in Moore Park and in animal Heavy Rain Falls Over Coastal Area By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A normally mild winter day was over Oregon Wednesday. The northwest corner remained unusually wet, though, and there were patches of local fog in the southern interior of Western Ore gon. Nehalem. on the coast in nnrth. em Tillamook County, suffered Tuesday from river flooding and umniius remained under water Wednesday. And to the north, As toria continued to be soaked by persisting rain that in 24 hours measured 2.22 Inches. Elsewhere in the state the sun came through the clouds in many uicus. xemperaiures were moder ate. COLDEST POINT ' . Early Wednesday the coldest point reported by the Weather Bureau was Burns at 28 degrees. In far Eastetn Oregon at Baker the minimum was 36 degrees. The rain was heavy northward from Astoria. It slackened to the south and Newport, on the Central uregon coast, nad only .13 of an inch in the 12 hours to 4:30 a. m. ' In that same period, Astoria had 1.10. Nehalem's flooding stemmed r from a combination of rain, wind and tide. At the peak of the tide Tuesday a high wind joined in backing up the Nehalem River. Water at that time closed the main street and Just to prove lt could be ' done. Ken Dillard. a logger. scooted along it In his boat. FLOODED The store at the corner whern the Coast Highway comes down irom Manzanlta and turns on Main Street, had 7 i2 inches of water In lt Tuesday. But Wednesday lt was dry again and there was no water on the street. Lowland farms, though, were flooded and from Nehalem aoross the river to the mountains waa an unending lake. The rise was not unexpected and there were no re ports of livestock losses. Nehalem Wednesday was getting only moderate, intermittent rains and the wind had lessened. Canada-Cold Hits Midwest By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Northerly winds blew another batch of arctic air from Canada Into the upper Mississippi Valley Wednesday and temperatures drop ped below zero In 1 North Dakota and Minnesota. The cold air headed southeast ward into northern sections of Il linois and Indiana. However, read- -ings in most other parts of the country continued above seasonal levels. It was 8 degrees below aero early Wednesday in Grand Forks, N.D., -4 at Alexandria, Minn,, and zero at Billings, Mont. Light snow or snow flurries fell through most of Michigan south eastward through Ohio and West Virginia and eastward through New York State, Pennsylvania and Southern New England. New falls generally were 1 to 2 inches. The only other wet spot Wednes day morning was Western Wash ington where rain continued. Falls during the past 24 hours measure nearly 2 inches at Astoria, Ore., and nearly 1 12 Inches at Seattle. Skies were mostly cloudy over tlie northern half of the country and generally clear in the southern half. , and bird tile, will have more time and energy to devote to developing the tremendous possibilities at Moore Park. Mayor Paul Landry, chnlrman of the park board, says the move was . made "In the interest of trying to get more out of the people's dol lar." Park and recreation money will be kept separate, but equip ment and manpower will be pooled. Bonney's new position will be on a trial basis only, for one year, be ginning Jan. 1 with a (50 increase In pay. His salary will be paid by both departments, $300 from the recreation department; $150 from the park department. Bonney came to Klamath Falls Dec. 10, 1950, as recreation direc tor. HighllRht of his career, he says, is the successful bond elec tion for the Municipal Swimming Pool. Bonney has also done ex- ' tensive work In promoting planned city recreation among young peo ple and adults in Klamath Falls. Hp considers the new Job consoli dation 'a step forward, since through closer cooperation and collaboration between the recrea tion and park departments, " the city will be able to dispense bet ter service to the community." Primarily, the local recreation program has been one of Improve ment and development of facilities to carry out a recreation program, and utilization of other facilities, such as the schools, at the dispos al of the department. The new park and recreation di rector is also director of the North west district advisory committee of the National Recreation Assn., and is on the recreation committee of the governor's committee on chil dren and youth.
