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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1954)
KlMtATII COUflTY HORARY AMI 15) IF 3 mm ABE mm The laf's lews JENKINS ... dwell lor a moment today feSE? aoing the P-! j a of January. -'""'"i.i.t this morning fc. "The oIl,-v , j Moen the (Korean peace) dis "''... .., Ampr cans come " b the - conference table. L's the red bide ot the story. ,10, U.S. lliuow""' " "off tW preliminary (peace) . ...iih the reds Tnntil they retract a charge S2j made by them against jrjtaven'l retracted anything. M 'Irresistible force meet immovable body? ,Xii so, what will happen? -his bears on the situation: h speecn . L secretary Dulles said: The ned stales uu - mist aggression by relying pri- on INSTANT MASS RE-LIATION." 'resiaeni rjiscmtu...... v..... . nniips statement, says: lilies is only stating a funda- inai iruiH. hit's that. Washington this morning, ident Eisenhower tells news '. w tanpv npw name for Te ller!) he believes his farm pro- im Is KorWDie ana pracucm. hether it is POLITICALLY 1ASIBLE in this election year, ays we'll find out about that .jj. Mint he tc onnvinnpri c auua luao nt flpvthlp sunnorts L. .iAa omnnrts in times of ticity to encourage production i low price support in wiiica u. olus to encourage consumption) RIGHT. n this statement that, regard- of its POLITICAL feasibility, believes his farm program is CUT, President Eisenhower Ins a glorious company. ii 1839, when the Civil War clouds e already gathering on me izon, Henry Clay made a lech In which AS A KENTUCK- N he declared himself against ery. A friend warned him that speech would ruin his chances become Presidcrrt. Be answered: "Sir, I would rath- be RIGHT than President." in his second inaugural address larch 4, 1865) Abraham Lincoln a: Wilh. malice toward none; with rity for all; with firmness in RIGHT, as God gives us to the right, let us strive on to 3h the work we are in. . . ." there is anything this nation ours needs at this moment more h any other thing, it is men who e tne courage and the deter- ratlon to do that which is PUT rather than that which is itically expedient. rew Okay Iter Crash Larson air force base, Ish. (.41 A hie r.i rtinKo. Ister collapsed onto its nose on wny iantung here early IQneSdflV. hllf tha nnB ......... inkers aboard got out safely Wth the. n.. k.i.1... he Information office of the , ouisrae Moses Lake, said brokp nut in tU Ui ers interior, hut it ac n..iM.- Ijxinguished. s ooor, oelow the nose, 'lammed badly as the big craft -.ed Several h.,nrira,l .--.j.. :OSC. so the nrm., u-j up through the emergeMy Information officer said the p Plane, capable of carrying i i. . ps- "ipped onto ts nose : touched the runway at top ;fS speed. Damage to the nose on was extensive. Pilot and co-pilot ride high r-j.i 7 "'"on oi tne nose of wobemaster, above the badly !6M section. 01 thc 15th Trn Car C J,,0"' as "turning to Ei an elitenaed train- int STl c use ot the ac p'tej.hlCh was not "'own im- latent lftIprev's Olobemoster 'ir iiv' T'l" bome lniStmaS h0liday BULLETIN NO CHANGE 5AR45riT . ruiss Wedne o m,k , any changes in t football's one-pla--on tvca. A., r If imV ; . M" Proposa is L ,lin9 ,he 1dk .LrB..'urn9d wn ?it?A .hl,,ie. Association. Ion.) ' ln 1Pr, e. Price Five Cent 16 Pages KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1854 Telephone 8111 Snowslides Trap Scores In Austria By RICHARD O'REGAN VIENNA, Austria I Thousands of rescue workers battled cold and deep snow Wednesday in hopes of finding the 74 persons listed as missing in the avalanche-stricken mountains of west Austria and Switzerland. The two nations plus Bavarian Germany already have counted 104 dead In the' vast thundering snowslides that began Monday and it was feared the- toll would rise even higher. Only minor slides that caused no damage were reported Tuesday night and colder weather brought the hope that the danger had passed. A Vienna weather official warned, however, that west Aus tria's average temperatures were still above normal posing the threat of more avalanches there. TOLL The tragic count of dead and in jured from the slides that followed the winter's worst blizzards was: ' Austria 79 known dead, 70 miss ing. Switzerland 19 dead, 4 missing. Germany 6 dead. i The center of the tragedy was the 12-mile Walster Valley of west Austria, near the Swiss frontier. There, hundreds of rescue skiers from Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein worked frantically seeking the dead and injured in seven villages all but wiped out by two massive avalanches. Reports from the devastated area said 38 persons are believed dead in the valley, 68 are missing. and at least 62 nave been -injured. In some villages only one or two houses remained standing. The U.S. Army loaded three big cargo helicopters with medicines, doctors and a dog team for the stricken area. The aircraft, after delivering their cargo, will fly in jured out. A Swiss helicopter already had arrived with medicines, clothing and food at the village of Ludesch. the rescue headquarters at the head of the valley.. , . ; .. . RESCUE WORK ' Rescue work continued, too, In Dalaas, also in the Vorarlberg sector, where eight persons were still missing. A huge snowslide yes terday swept over tne railroad sta tion and a delayed train waiting at the platform there. Five persons died under the snow and 36 otners, some injured, were rescued. Elsewhere in the Voralberg and In the Ziller Valley of the Tyrol, hundreds of police conunuea searches in stricken villages. Countless Austrians, tourists and mountain rescue squads aided. In .Germany's Bavarian Alps, a three-day snowfall halted and no new slides were reported. Swiss authorities said the danger of new avalanches was receding but many mountain hamlets were still isolated from the earlier scat tered slides. Railway traffic was back -to normal. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Mostly cloudy Wednesday nluhti occasional snow flurries Thursday. High Thursday 28; low weonesaay nigni u. High yesterday 25 Low last night - 13 Preclp last 24 hours .01 Sini-i. net. 1 6-55 Normal for period 5.50 Same period last year . o.m Judge Shot In Courtroom WARREN, Pa. HI President Judge Allison D. Wade of Warren County was ' shot to death while presiding in his courtroom Wednes day by a man cited for non-support payments to his wife. The man, identified as Norman Moon of Connelsville, Pa., later shot himself six miles west of War ren after a bullet from a state policeman's gun halted his car. He is reported in critical condition at Warren hospital. Dist. Atty. Myer Kornreich said the shooting occurred just as Judge Wade called Moon to the bench to explain why Moon was in arrears of his support payments. Kornreich gave this description: "I saw Moon open his coat and caught a glimpse of a holster. I knew right then what was coming. "I started to run out of the court room to call the police and ItToon fired at me. I kept going. As I was eoing down the steps to the first floor, I heard four or five more shots. "Getting to my office I tele phoned the state police and bor ough police. When I got back up stairs I knew the judge had been hit. He was either dead or dying." Judge Wade, 51, was ' elected president judge in 1941 and re elected In 1951. f WARNING EMORY, Tex. iPi Sign on nearby Rains County, Tex., farm: "Attention, huntersl "TV. vim, bKma anutwt., nn mV farm who Isn't moving. It may be my nirea man." -is NEW OFFICERS of the Klamath Falls Shrine Club got together last night to talk over plans for the coming year. Pictured here, left to right, are Jerry Thomas, secretary; Bill DePew, vice president and Mark Smith, president. Ernie Bubb, treasurer, was not able to attend the meet ing. Directors for the coming year are Willard Ward, Oliver Moen, Elmer Balsiger and Jake Renie, outgoing president. ' i Porterfield Reports: Spud King Has Fine Trip East But Finds Things Are Different In Chicago (Editor's Note: This Is the sec ond of the reports from Klwanls sponsored Rex Porterfield, 4-H spud king, on his trip to Washing ton, D. C. to meet Secretary of Ag riculture Benson. This was written after Rex had left San Francisco in company with his brother and Bryant Williams.) -By REX PORTERFIELD The telephone started ringing at 6 a.m. It seemed like we had Just gone to sleep. Had a little trouble figuring out what to wear but fi nally decided to put on my slacks and Jacket. About that time, Bry ant (Williams) said, "Hurry up, boys," and then we started. By the time we got checked out and our bags and spuds checked at the United Air Lines for Chica go, we had only 12 minutes to get breakfast; - a glass of milk and one doughnut, oh yes, and some orange juice. Trying to catch these buses is more work than chasing calves. Al least you know -what a calf will do. The bus driver had trouble wilh the motor and we thought we would have to walk on, but we didn't. CHARLES H. FOSTER FosterWill Seek Office LAKEVIEW Circuit Judge Charles H. Foster announced today that he would be a candidate for election to succeed Uimself as Cir cuit Judge of the 14th Judicial District (Lake County) in the forth coming primary election on May 21. Judge Foster was appointed to the bench last July by Governor Patterson to fill the vacancy cre ated by the death of the late Hon. Chas. H. Combs. His appointive term runs through 1954. Judge Foster is a native son of Klamath Falls and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Foster of 1871 Portland Street. He was born and raised in Klamath Falls grad uating from Klamath Union High School in 1940. Since being admit ted to practice law in 1949 he and his wife and two sons have made their home in Lakeview. Mrs. Fos ter is the former Patsy Jo Larson also of Klamath Falls and is the daughter of Maudie Larson of 1218 Pine Street. Judge Foster at the age of 31 is the youngest Circuit Judge in the Slate of Oregon and one of the youngest ever appointed to the Circuit Bench of Oregon. Falling Window Hits Pedestrian SAN FRANCISCO Wl A 46 pound steel-rimmed window plum meted 19 floors to a crowded Mar ket street sidewalk yesterday, but only one pedestrian was hurt. 'I'm very lucky, very, very lucky," said Edward J. G. Bar bara, 68, who sustained a broken shoulder when the window bounced into him from the sidewalk. John Kort, 42-year-old window washer, said the frame snapped its hinges as he opened it. Draft Call Asks 18,000 Men WASHINGTON im The Army Wednesday issued a draft call for 18,000 men ln March. The March quota iathe same as that previously announced for Feb ruary, when the Selective Service call was reduced from the 23,000 level maintained since last July. Including the March quota, 1, 643,000 men have been drafted or earmarked for involuntary service since the resumption of selective service la September 1950. Jet Fiahter Crashes Into Homes In Long Beach; Six Die In Flaming Holocaust LONG BEACH, Calif. Wl Shroud, ed in rain clouds,, an Air Force jet fighter plane rocketed into a Signal Hill residential district late yesterday, demolished two homes and exploded, set fire to a third home and damaged a fourth. Six persons died - and lout were ' in jured, two so' seriously they 'may not recover. In addition, an elderly man, hor rified at what he saw, suffered a heart attack and died. The hurtling plane ripped out tel ephone lines and broke gas mains that erupted Into geysers of flame. Blazing jet fuel cascaded over what an instant before had been a quiet neighborhood in the oil producing Who Said There Was A Recession? NEW YORK Ml Newlyweds Porfirio Rubirosa and Barbara Hutton are scheduled to fly to Palm Beach today in the privacy of a chartered 88-passenger Con stellation. An Eastern Airlines spokesman said yesterday that the former Dominican diplomat and his heir ess wife hired the plane at a cost of $4,500. The spokesman said the party will include Rubirosa's sec retary and a domestic. The plane will carry a regular crew of six pilot, co-pilot, flight engineer, a steward and two stewardesses. Deer Causes City Confusion OAKLAND, Calif. lffh-A small buck deer came to the city from the hills yesterday,, mashed a chicken coop, freed the chickens, kicked a newspaper photographer in the face and wound up in the zoo. Seymour Snaer, San Francisco Examiner cameraman who accom panied police to the scene, went to a hospital with a severe lip cut. The frantic householder, Mrs. Ad ele Giobbla, 76, rounded up her chickens after police finally cap tured the deer. area, which is completely sur rounded by the city of Long Beach. The pilot, Maj. Robert A. Blair of Omaha, Neb., was among the dead. A boy perished ln the street where he was playing. "There were flames everywhere. m the houses, spread across the street and shooting from gas mains," said Mrs. Dorothy Mc cormick, who said she was almost knocked off a chair in her home by the blast. , The F86 Sabre jet was one of two returning to the Long Beach Municipal Airport from Williams Air Force Base, Ariz., -when they were enveloped in dense clouds. Both -jets raced out to sea, then swept in under the clouds. One made it to the airport, but Maj. Blair's craft sheared off the top of a fir tree in front of a home for convalescents. This house was not damaged, but next door the home of Mrs. Shirley Roberts was de molished and she and her infant son Douglas were killed. The plane exploded with this Im pact and disintegrated into a 200- foot roaring path of flame as it lashed crazily into two other homes. The jet's blazing fuel drop ped onto a fourth residence and burned part of it. The other dead were Mrs. Shirley Ledbetter, 25; Stephen Louis Shoup, 11; Mrs. Grace Miller, 63, and Ernest G. Bailey, 72, who suffered the heart attack. The injured are "Edward Ledbet ter, 24, and his son, Edward Lynn, 4 months, both critically burned and not cxDected'to survive Mrs. Nancy King, 18, who occupied the other half of a duplex with the Ledbetters, and her daughter, Sherry Lynn King, 2y2 months. Korea Talks To Resume FANMUNJOM W U. S. Envoy Kenneth Young said Wednesday I allied and Red Liaison officers will meet Thursday in the first step to ward resuming talks to set up a Korean peace conference ap parently on Red terms. The communists asked Monday for the low-level meeting but only to discuss a date for reopening preliminary talks broken off Dec. 13 by the United States. The Allies replied Tuesday with a note asking that the staff officers discuss both date and conditions for resuming the conference. The' Reds answered with a new note Wednesday. . When he first announced that the officers would meet Young said they would discuss the conditions. He did not release the text of the Red note, but paraphrased it this way: "(The Reds) agree to a meeting. ..to agree on the. date for political discussions regarding a political (peace) conference. KLAMATH BASIN POTATO SHIPMENTS ft hipped Tola? Same Par l.ail Vear 56 cars . 55 cars Total For Sfw 5472 cars 6115 cars 16,13-54 I95S-M Portland Gets Wet Snowfall By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Wet snow fell in the Portland area early Wednesday and the Weather Bureau said more could be expected at-night and Thursday morning. But other Western Oregon com munities have forecasts of rain and continued cold. Occasional snow is predicted for areas east of the Cas cade Mountains. Most of the snow which fell in Portland melted almost as fast as it hit the ground but it whitened higher elevations for some time. Nearly all Oregon weather sta tions recorded below-freezing tem peratures Wednesday morning. Burns with 9 above zero was the coldest point. Other low readings: Bend 10, Lakeview 11, Ontario 22, Pendleton and Hoseburg 24, Salem 27, Eugene 28, Portland 30 and New port 31. Things quieted down after we got to the airport just a lot ot planus going everywhere. We got on the plane at 8 o'clock and took olf at 8:15. The plane is a big one with a lot of people on it. They must know that everyone has trouble catching these planes and don't have ' time to eat, be cause we hadn't been out long when the stewardess brought us some hot rolls and milk, then pretty soon some fruit. The sun is shining today (Sun: day) so I don't think Jim is turned around on his directions. The cap tain announced It was 15 degrees above zero in Chicago' and the wind was blowing. Gosh! Jim and I sure got a break. The captain came back and took us up in the cockpit while we were up in the air. Tnis plane holds 4200 gallons ol gas. They started out with 3300 gallons am thought they would have about 1000 gallons left when we lauded. There are so many gauges up there that three men have to ride to know what is going on. I would sure hate to pay the gas bill. When we got back to our seats we had dinner. These gals can sure cook, but we were the last to get it. 1 spilled some today. The flying has been perfect to day. It has been clear all day and we have' been able to see all these rivers the teachers have been trying to tell us about. I'll be able to tell them about them now. When we started to land ln Chi cago the clouds were hanging over the city and it sure was something to fly through them. The 4-H Boys and Girls Founda tion met us at . the plane and brought us in to the Conrad Hilton Hotel. There are 3,000 rooms ln it. We are staying on the 23rd floor in room 2363. . The place we eat is what got me. First we started in and then they told us to go Back and check our coats. (It's snowing). Then a lady who was talking on a pink phone met us and took us to a. table. A colored lady brought us water and a woman with blonde hair in front and' black in the back brought us a menu. Cows are awful high here. Steaks are as high as $5.35. I sure would liKe to sell them their meal. When I told Bryant I thought the pink phone and the two-tone hairdo was a dllly, he called the girl over and told her I was irom Klamath Falls, Oregon, and a lot of the stuff about being the world's champ spud king and that I wanted an autographed menu from her and the one talking on the pink phono. When the lady who was using the pink phone brought us the menus, Bryant asked her how the gal got a two-tone . job on her hair. She said it was done with a tooth brush. What a deall Rain, Snow, Hail Plaster Sunny Clime FAIR ELMIRA, N. Y. W Police Sgt. Bernard P. De Member was invited this week to address a Parent-Teacher Assn. meeting on traffic safety. Yesterday he arrest ed George P. Clapp on a charge of speeding through a school zone. Clapp, program chairman of the PTA group, was the one who had Invited De Member to speak. LOS ANGELES Ifl California . was shaken by an earthquake and showered by rain, hail and snow yesterday in a spectacular combination of natural phenomena. The quake, rated by seismolo gists as a major shock, jolted cit ies from the Mexican border to Sacramento, 500 miles north. There were no injuries, but electric wires were snapped and plaster shattered in numerous buildings. A crack was opened on the 24th floor of the City Hall here, and an inside wall of a bank building was cracked in Bakersfield. Tele phone lines were broken at Teha chapi, where 10 lives were lost in the destructive 1952 quake. A 12-inch gas line over the Teha chapi Mountains between Taft and the Ridge Route was broken but operations were not affected. HEAVY SHOCK The Caltech seismograph record ed the quake for more than a min ute, beginning at 3:34:08 p.m. Seis mologists said it was of 5.75 to 6.25 magnitude on a scale of 10. In Berkeley, University of Califor nia seismological equipment re corded the quake for 15 minutes. In most localities, the quake was evidenced only by swaying chan deliers and rattling crockery. The epicenter was placed by scientists as the Garlock Fault, between Tehachapi, Mojave and Fort Te jon. The storm In southern California accompanied by thunder and light ning, brought more than half an inch of rain to Los Angeles and nearly an inch and a half at some beach communities. .Snow glazed the mountains and even the foot hills above Altadena and La Cres centa. Hail pelted Glcndale, the Palos Verdes peninsula and other sections, and lightning caused some minor damage. SNOW HITS Snow on the Ridge Route north of here stalled 125 cars and closed that highway. Three snowbound families were brought in from the Ridge Route by highway patrol men. In mountain recreational areas, Crestline reported 10 inches of snow, Idlewild 8, Lake Arrowhead 6 and Big Bar 5. The storm, starting Monday, was the first of 1054 and followed one of the driest years in Weather Bureau history. :'' Klamath Wins Donor Contest Klamath County won the Decem ber "Bottle Buster" award issued monthly by the American Red Cross for contributing the most blood by county count in the state. "Take" here was 491 pints, with Lincoln County coming in second with 401. This county also ranked sixth in the counties of the Portland region, participating in the blood donation program In the last six months oi 1953. The count is made according to goals set on county population and assigned by regional headquar ters. Klamath county collected 79 per cent of the assigned quota, which according to Virginia Dixon is a good showing because of the widely scattered population. Some coun ties ln the state dropped far below the given quotas. TrnniK flash In Indochina HANOI, Indochina () French army headquarters reported fresh skirmishes Wednesday with Viet- minh troops around Dlen Blen Phu. Fighter planes and bombers ham mered at rebel concentrations there on the northern border of Laos for the 201 straight day. French-Viotminh troops killed 11 of the Communist-led rebels in a clash five miles southwest of Dien Bien Phu, the heavily-fortified plain in the Thai country of north western Indochina. French army sources have re ported 12,000 troops of the Viet- minu s "iron Division wo. si, re inforced by a thousand men from two other divisions, pressing closer steadily to the plain ln a wide en circling movement. Chains Needed On Some Roads SALEM Wl Motorists should carry chains because oi packed snow at Timbcrllne Lodge, Ochoco Summit and Brothers, the Oregon Highway Commission advised Wednesday. Tse commission reported i c y spots at Government Cnmp, San- tiam Pass, Willamette Pass, une mult, Bly, Lakeview, Mcacham and Basque. All other points reported either bare pavement or sanded snow. Deer Move Into Lava Beds Area In Search Of Winter Food; Browse Supply Okay By RUTH KING TULELAKE Deer coming down into the Lava Beds National Monu ment for winter feed from the high er areas, are moving in orderly numbers, according to Trevenon Wright, Alturas, assistant game manager of the California State Department of Fish and Game. - The animals appear in good flesh and are moving into plenty of browse that should see them through the winter unless snow gets extremely heavy. Motorists traveling Highway 139. particularly at night, are amazed at the number of "eyes" along the right-of-way in the lava beds area, but as yet there is no heavy con centration of animals except in the Doublehead and Clear Lake dis tricts, because of the mild winter. No count has as yet been made of the interstate deer herd. Wildlife officials working out of Alturas are at present, concerned with the antelope count to deter mine the reasons for the heavy kid loss that has been cutting down numbers in the past two or three years, Wright stated. An aerial survey is now under way with two additional men on the staff. About one-third of the wide area in Lassen. Modoc and Siski you counties has been covered but it is yet too early to determine the results, according to Wright. Potential Increase among ante lopes is l3; to 2 kids per doe but this has dropped to about 2 kid per female. The young die after birth. A number of reasons, predatory animal kills, type of range, en croachment of livestock and over Grazing were all mentioned by Wright for the drop in numbers of mature animals. Counts on deer and antelope arc also being made ln Oregon and Nevada. A .' ... . WITH THE WORD that it w mowing in Portland thii morning we couldn't rotitt the tempta tion to lend the photographer out to get a picture of a nice tunny scene here in the Klamath Basin Banana Belt. So he came up with thit shot of the Upper Lake looking over the Car-Ad-.Co plant. (At least it was sunny then.).
