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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (March 25, 1954)
THURSDAY. MARCH 25, 1954 HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE THRCT Freight Firm Holds Meeting Completion of a quarter-century of. motor Ireighi service is cele brated April l by Consolidated Frelghtways, Inc., the west's largest trucking company. A system-wide sales conference Is being called in Portland, to be held at the Multnomah Hotel, March 29, 30 and 31. More than 175 terminal managers and sales representatives are expeted to attend. , doing to Portland for the meet ing from Kiamatn Falls will be Merton Lang, manager, and Ole Hoemhlldt. sales representative. Consolidated Frelghtways nowj operates 63 terminals and ware houses in 11 western states and pro vides direct motor freight service to nearly 900 communities with reg ular service over 19.000 miles of routes. The company also operates a regular truck mail route between Portland and Seattle under contract to the Post Office Department. Gunmen Aid Prison Break ROCHESTER, Tf. Y. Wl Two gunmen bluffed their way into the Monroe County Penitentiary early today and engineered the escape of two prisoners. The four made their getaway in a guard's car. The escaped prisoners were iden tified by prison officials as James Compton, 30, of Du Bois, Fa., and Cohocton, Ohio, and Anthony Mendolla, 45, of Rochester. Compton was serving a one-year term nn a bad check charge and Mendolla a similar term for petit larceny. Police, who listed the four as "dangerous," threw up road blocks over a wide area of western Mew York and said they might be head ing for Canada. The gunmen entered the peni tentiary about 12:30 a.m. after tell ing Clyde Jefferds, 63, chief night guard, that they had cigarettes end a newspaper for Compton. They gagged Jefferds and tied his hands, then walked him down a corridor and into the turnkey's of fice. One of the- men ' took the jail keys, opened a cell block door and confronted James Marshall, an other guard. Marshall quoted the gunman as saying, "Okay, I'll take over now." Marshall was forced to release Compton and Mendolla from their cells and then was taken to the turnkey's office, where he also was bound and gagged. The four fled In Jefferd's auto before the two guards could free themselves and sound the alarm. Flying Broadcasts Bring Complaints McKEESPORT, Pa., if) Police Chief James Lizes says he Is get ting complaints that the Rev. Kirk Wetzel, an evangelist, Is disturbing the peace by flying over town and broadcasting sermons and vnymns every afternoon from his plane. The chief doesn't know whether he has the right to charge the minister with disturbing the peace. "Maybe I'll ask him to cooperate," Jie says. Wetzel, who has been a licensed pilot since 1931, said: "I'll try to be reasonable but I can't stop my work. I really ques tion If I disturb anyone at that hour anyhow." y r I 7 0 PFC. CHARLES A. RICE, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Rice, 124 N. Laguna, is home on leave from Ft. Ord, where he recently completed an eight weeks course in supply school, graduating as an honor student. Rice is now attached to Co. I of the 63rd Infantry Regiment. Man Faces Old Prison Charge SACRAMENTO, Calif. W Traf fic tickets led to the discovery that Moses Bryant, 47, escaped from the Alabama state road camp 21 years ago. Bryant, married and the father of two, was taken into custody on four warrants charging eight traffic violations. Police learned, through a check of fingerprints, that Bryant, also known as Willie B. Brown, was wanted in Alabama. He said he was sentenced to 24 to 30 months for a burglary he did not commit and 'that he fled the camp in 1932. Alabama auth orities inquired by telegram yes terday whether he will waive ex trudltlon. "I'm going to fight it," he said. "I don't want to go back." CONFERENCE CARACAS, Venezuela Wl The 20-natlon Inter-American Confer ence, having hurdled thorny Issues of communism, commerce and colonialism, moved Thursday to ward completion with a lone com mittee still trying to clear its agenda. The Judlcal-Polltlcai committee began consideration of a revision and clarification of the principles of diplomatic and ter ritorial asylum. Rubi, Babs Mot Happy ' NEW YORK Ut POrfirlo Rubl rosa says his 77-day marriage to heiress Barbara Hutton amounted to "a very boring life." - The suave, 45-year-old Domini can diplomat held a news confer ence yesterday, said rich women are "too difficult," and added: "If she had led a normal life, I would have been very happy. But she wanted to stay home all the time. She liked to stay in' the house all day and I like outdoor sports, "I am very active and I like to go out at night. She wanted to stay home and read books. This Is a very boring life." After two months of wedded life, Rublrosa said, they both realized that his fourth marriage and his wile's fifth was on the rocks. The polo-playing Rublrosa cleared up the following -odds and ends surrounding the much-publicized marriage: Alimony: "I never wanted any. I signed papers before and after the marriage. It is settled." ; Gifts: '"All she gave me was a photograph of herself and this I have returned to her." Reports he had . a roving eye during their honeymoon In Floiid.'U" "I never went out with any ladies in Palm Beach." , . Marry a poor girl next time? "Never again will I marry a woman of wealth. Perhaps it is better that I marry a poor girl. This is what I will do." What does It take to marry a rich woman? "It taker nothing special to ?et them. They are like everybody elsf." Marriage in general? ' "Don't marry too young. A man should be 35 before marrying. I was 23 when I began. It was too early." . . . ., Huge Fish Stage Bloody Fight LADTJNA BEACH, Calif. 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