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... 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."
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. 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.
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Larson air force base,
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Ister collapsed onto its nose on
wny iantung here early
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Wth the. n.. k.i.1...
he Information office of the
, ouisrae Moses Lake, said
brokp nut in tU Ui
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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.
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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."
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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.).