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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1954)
frVj.iWi 1 1 Mn-afiim. J ft nn Ml Vo) 7 '- .1-- "' o)fi Wpfwff ra fo)fni AECAft ,-. Mn'.'x'-e iv. w .v : WASHnwreN w or. t. art . opperaselmer baa feen bus. ma a, aovernment .adviser . cry rsorrn ... vy Q : w Cfti leFagse Red Threat Over Asia told Today . LONDON Wl The United States and Britain warned Tuesday that Communist aggression threatens 1 the peace of all ol Southeast Asia and called for the organization of military alliance ot many na tions to safeguard the region from further Red penetration. .... . The decision to press for the formation of a new Southeast Asia defense-teystem was announced in Joint British-American commu nique alter a two-day conference between U.8. Secretary of State Dulles and British leaders on a "united action" program. A top ranking American official said Dulles was "very satisfied" with the meeting and felt the talks "went far towards establishing the unity of purpose which he sought on Southeast Asia defense." Dulles was leaving by plaue for Pari to line up France in what the official said might become a "Southeast NATO." BEST YET . Dulles told airport newsmen: "I bave bad the best series of talks in 48 hours that I have ever had. I think few countries have spoken to each other with great er intimacy and friendliness than has been characteristic of these talks we have had here." The communique said: "We deplore the fact that the eve of the Geneva conference the Communist forces in Indochina are Increasingly developing their activities Into a large-scale war against the forces of the French Uhion. "They seek to overthrow the lawful and friendly government of Viet Nam. which we recognize, and they bave invaded Laos and Cambodia. "We realise that these activities not only threaten those involved, but also endanger the peace and : security ot the entire area of South east Asia and the Western Pacific, A where our two nations and other friendly and allied nations have vital interests. "Accordingly, we are ready to take part with the other countries principally concerned in an exam ination of the possibility of estab- ; llshlng a collective defense within the framework of the charter of the United Nations to assure the peace, security and freedom of Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific. Bodies Found In Wreckage OOLDSBORO, N.C. K) Rescue workers probing the wreckage of a mysterious downtown explosion recovered two more bodies Tues day, raising the death toll to five. Officers feared at least two more bodies may be burled In the rubble of three stores that were de molished by the blast here Mon day. About 16 persons were Injured In the unexplained explosion which was centered In the Edwards and .Tern lean Furniture Store a half a block from the heart ot Golds- boro's business district. Two ad' Joining stores also were wrecked The dead were identified as M W. Edwards, 80, owner of the : furniture store; Mrs. Eunice Smith Collins, 34, the store's cashier; T. D. Holmes, assistant manager; and Luther Shelton Denning, 16. One woman's body was not im mediately identified. ON WENDLING STREET, Building Inspector Varn Schortgen (left) and Councilman Wendell Smith look over soma of the buildings proposed for condemnation by petitions to City Coun. cil. Tha buildings hava been described as "dangerous and fire haiards" by Fira Chief Roy Row and tha building inspactor. ISea story page 7) s ft rtXMAS- ! a,,..t...feev , n m .p.. ,---.- tMT-i'1-' 'i' SIXTH GRADERS at Fairview, Vivian Wilbanks. Joe Pynet Jolynn Zimmerman, were discussing the relative merits of a tennis ball this morning when the nine o'clock photographer dropped around. Beginning Swim Classes Slated to Open April 26 The schedule for beginning swim-1 mtng classes at the Klamath Union High School natatorium was an nounced today by Bob Bonney, city park and recreation director. Beginning classes, -which will start Monday, April 26, are only for pre-school age children who are at least three feet, eight inches tall, able to . dress : and undress themselves and are willing to ac cept supervision in the absence of their parents, and elementary school children in the first, second and third grades. According to Bonney, the course is designed to prepare non-swimmers for beginning classes at the new Municipal Swimming Pool when it opens this summer. Classes for all non-swimmers and begin ners will bo carried on throughout the summer at the new pool begin ning on June 14. The schedule for the KUHS na tatorium includes three sessions for children each evening, and a fourth session for parents mothers on the evenings set aside for girls; fathers on the evenings specified for boys. Girls' classes will be held on each Monday and Wednesday, be ginning April 26 and continuing on the following dates; April 28, May 5, 10, 12, n, 19, 24 and 26. Boys' classes will be held each Tuesday and Thursday, April 27 and 29 and May 4, 11, 13, 18, 20, 25, 27 and June 1. The sessions are specified as fol lows: KLAMATH BASIN POTATO SHIPMENTS Shipped Same Bar Today . Laat Year 35 ears 11 cars Total for' Srann 10,147 cars 10,863 cars M5S-5I 1023-53 KLAMATH FALLS n.UON, TUESDAY, ATKIL J Session I, 6:45 to 7:30: Session II, 7:15 to 8 p.m.; Session lit, 7:45 to 8:30; session IV, 8:15 to g p.m. The 15 minute lee-way allows for swimmers to' undress and be ready to enter the pool as soon as preceding class leaves. The fee if sl.oo lor ten classes, payable in advance at the Recrea-. than Department, office at the city" ball. Classes are lira! ted.io 30 regis, rations per session. Instructor for the courses will be supervised by Ella Redkey for the girls; Martin Lougee and Charlie Santo for the boys, and will include instructors who have recently been certified. i : Rremen Kept On High Lope The city fire laddies were busy for a short time Monday afternoon when they were called to extin guish three fires in one hour's time. No damage was reported. Two of the calls were to grass fires, one In the 1500 block on Nimitz Street and the other on Kit Carson Way. California Oregon Power Com pany crews had the other blaze under control when the fire truck arrived. It was reported a trash fire at the company's plant on south Riverside had spread and was burning a Pile of creosoted poles when discovered. ROW BALTIMORE Wl Accused of bit ing off a woman's finger, 38-ycar-nld Benjamin Bell was held in $1,000 bail for grand jury action yesterday. . i , He pleaded Innocent but admit ted he and a neighbor, Elizabeth Robinson, fought after she got an gry when he stuck his finger into a pot of fish on her stove. U, UM Cross Town Traffic Plan Presented to Merchants; Truck Route "Necessary" A reoort on dans tor improve ments to the state highway system within Klamath Falls to give the town a new four-lane Sixth Street viaduct and one-way traffic coup lets for Main and Klamath and Sixth and Seventh Streets and on the proposed local bond issue to provide for a new true, route through town, waa given, to the Klamath Merchant Association Monday noon by members of the city's Cross-Town . Traflio commit tee. .-- . - "After a year and a half work we arrived at a program which la satisfactory both to the city and to the State Highway Department," It was stated by Oreer Drew ror tne committee. He added that,' bad such an agreement been reached 10 years ago, the viaduct would have been built then This agreement is on a problem of many years. - Incorporated In the plan are findings from both city and state surveys, he explained. Of first importance to the state are the one-way traffic coup lets for Highways 97 and M; , of Airport Move Gaining 3.';: A long distance caM to tha Herald and Newt this morn ing from Waltar Norblod, first district rapreMrttottva from Oragon, informed that tha nous ArnrM Serv ices CommlttM has approved 33,000 tor tha proposa4 expansion 'of tha KMsmarh falls Airport. Under currant pkms tha big wartimo field would bo used as a baso for t intercept -wodrov- "d would be permanent In- statkitlan r The meant ajarhoriiad covert, ol expenses fremofrt read I no runways to provld log for housing, lights, hos pitals,, and ether items of maintenance. Approval of this nature Is generally conceded to be final except for minor Items. Final approval will come eti the budget meetings of Congress In July. Surplus Spud Purchases For Oregon: 11 Cars PORTLAND Wl Only 11 car loads of surplus potatoes will be bought In Oregon, a federal Agri culture Department official report ed Monday, Arnold N. Bodtker. the official, said that Oregon growers already had offered more than 50 times that amount. The offers were made before the size of the government purchase was known. ' Paying $1.90 a hundredweignt, the government will buy six car loads from the Klamath Falls area, three from Jefferson County and two from Deschutes County. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Partly eloady Tae day nirht and Wednesday. High Wednesday 64. Low tonight M. High yesterday eg low last nlxht 47 Preclp. last 2t hours . a Since Oct. 1 -M Same period last year.. 11.88 Normal for period 1 . Georgescu Family Together After Long Years Apart NEW YORK Wl Away from prying eyes, Mrs. Lygla Georgescu was tenderly reunited Tuesday with her two sons who were hos tages in Romania for seven years. Government officials and crew, together with other passengers, understanding first left the big Pan American plane that carried Constant!!), 19, and Peter, IS, from London to Idlewlld Airport. Then a public health official sig nalled to Mrs. Georgescu who had waited In an office. She walked toward the plane, then broke Into a run. As she neared the craft's doorway, the older youth emerged from the cabin and embraced his mother. Then they stepped within the plane and the little family group met privately lor a few minutes. Also present was the boys' father, Valerlu Georgescu, 80-year-old oil company executive who met them in Munich Monday. After the reunion, the youths stepped from the plane and told reporters they were "proud" that No. nu first Importance to the city Is breaking the Sixth Street viaduct Bottleneck with a modern four-lane structure for the route that bandies 89 per cent of the town's Incoming traffic, the committee stated. A further part of the city-state agreement Is that of definitely es tablishing the west-side bypass. which is being surveyed now. al- inougn this major joo may not oe done by the state for several years. The viaduct and couplets will be Built in the. next fiscal year. The combined Job will come to approxi mately one million dollars. This will be financed entirely from state highway funds, with the exception of approximately 138,000 which the elty will pay as half of the cost of additional traffic signals, The cross-town traffio committee also has recommened that the city construct a truck route, through the commercial district, and a bond levy proposal will be on the May Ballot. - i The reasons for suggesting that the city construct the truck route. to supplement - the state highway routes were reported by Drew as Being: l. Klamath Falls is the fourth largest distributing center In the Northwest, and is in 132nd position in the entire United States, and so needs the separate truck route. 2. It is necessary to provide ade quate routes to get big trucks into the industrial area to further build Up this distributive business which Is so important to our economy. 1. The truck route would provide a oypaas sor tne neavy late alter noon traffic of miUworkers from the' south through town to the aoutn suburban residential areas, Tne proposed oond issue is for 4188,000 to be paid off over a 10 year - period. It would build the construction part of the truck route irom tne corner of Beconrf ud Klamath diagonallv to, Plum and aown num oak street, It is believed that state treats id that state taataa money, now being spent on the present piamath Avenue truck rout, wt laraSake'care-norf improvements on Oak and Spring Streets. Timing of construction of the city's truck route to coincide with construction work by the state could provide economies in costs, it was pointed out, J Cost of the Klamath Talis tax payer on the truck proposal would not exceed 81.45 for each 8100.00 in taxes now being paid, and that amount would be reduced In pro portion to any decrease in property evaluation within the elty, the com mittee stated. . . , Mayor Paul Landry, also, In at tendance at the merchants meeting, complimented the members of the committee and strongly urged that the truck ' route be considered to supplement the new state Improve ments. - "Klamath Palls has a rendezvous with destiny," Landry said. He mentioned the proposal by the armed forces for the jet air squad ron for Klamath Falls, which would bring an additional monthly pay roll of M0,0O0. Cross-Town Traffic Committee members present were Drew, AI Hattan, chairman;' Jim Kerns and Rudy Jacobs. Other members are Casper Moty, A. H. Buasman, Vern Moore, Harry Bolvin and Bin Meade, v KILLED DATCHET, England 11 Exiled 28-year-old Prince Nicholas ot Yugoslavia was killed in an auto mobile accident as he drove through this Buckinghamshire vil lage Monday, The prince waa a cousin of ex king Peter and the younger son ot Prince Paul, regent for the young king before World War II. Be also was a nephew of the Duchess of Kent, the former Princess Marina of Greece. their father, a naturalized Ameri can citizen, had refused to spy against the United States In their behalf. ' The Georgescu case broke Into headlines last year when the father disclosed to the State Department that a blockmall attempt has been made by a member of the Roman ian legation. The boys, ' rosy cheeked and healthy looking, smiled constantly during their impromptu meeting with the press alongside the plane. The pair spoke little English, ex cept for constantly repeating "thank you very much." Their father translated for them. Constantin said that they had beard through friends that their father had told on Radio Free Eu rope and Voice of America of his refusal to apy. Asked for their re action. Constantin said; ' "We are very proud of what you have done arid never lost faith that you might ever commit an act of betrayal In order to save us. We knew you and are proud ox you." - UU """" stf". '-t .. : -J 9 9 WYNN HESCOCK, 14-year-old member of Fort, Klamath Boy; Scout Troop No. 34,. received the first, eagle scout award in : the history of. that group. Presentation of the award, the highest in scout work, was made at a recent meeting of the ? roup in Fort Klamath. Jack Smith,. Klamath Falls, scout ield 'executive, officiated.. The eagle scout badge was pinned on young Hetcock by his father, Cubmaster Wilbur B. Hes cock. To qualify, the youth earned 21 merit badges represent ing skills' in 21 separate fields of achievement, and proved that he had learned to care for himself and others. Mrs. Hes cock was presented a miniature eagle scout badge for Jiar assistance to her son in his scout work. Harry Orchard, Domb-Pfot Slayer, Dies In BOISE, Idaho iff) ' ' Harry! Or- chard, 88, who blasted a trail of I vlenco' through the ."West which nan m tne iwa oomo-swying m a, former- Idaho 'governor, died ;iuoj m,w law jeor I tamtam ' j .', v , t tenWary, ; -v ; ; Vi .' 1 .-Orchard eutOved tne other-prin- etpala of one Qf-thoiaUon-'a-griM iDoort William tU. (Big BUI) Haywood. William M stonui sua iisrvnvo uai i uw. When ha confessed that he planted- the bomb which killed Rank .Bteunenberg, Orchard im plicated officers-of the militant Western - Federation of Miners, Haywood and an associate were tried for murder and acquitted. A similar charge against a third fed eration official was dropped. Orchard waa sentenced to the gallows; but bis sentence was com muted to life imprisonment. He suffered a stroke last spring and was confined to bed for the last three months of his life. He lapsed Into a coma last -Thursday. Bteunenberg was a prosperous sheepman who had twice been elected governor on the Demo cratic ticket. During labor vio lence In the rich Coeur d'Alene mining region of North Idaho in 1899, he angered the Mine Federa tion by asking for federal troops. Orchard was working m me Coeur d'Alene mines at the time. but escaped the "bull pens" into which the recalicltrant miners were herded. He hiked over the bills into Montana. When he planted the makeshift bomb, which 8teunenberg touched off by opening his gate on Deo. 80, 1906, Orchard Was posing as Thomas Hogan, s sheep ouyer. Actually, his name was Albert E. Horsley. He was born and reared in Ontario, Canada, but left his wife and child and came west under the name of Orchard. He confessed to the Bteunenberg murder and a host ot other kill ings, attempted killings and ex plosions in Idaho, California and Colorado. ' DIAMOND CROSS LENA posed yesterday for the cameraman along with her last titter of II ;Weimaraner puppies. Owned by A. 1. Bold and Robert- Bay, this is Lena' third litter,' her . first eomprisina 16 puppies end the second 1 1.- The picture wet taken at 2136 Darrow, , . 0 Prison He said he was paid for all of them by the federation In its ven aetta against mine owners,' non union workmen and public officials who opposed its views: Haywood, aecTetsry-treasurer of that fMlm-fttlMt. .wM krvastatl 'la Denver. Anaetea at the same ttma -aMM ..uU.. . O. A.. PetUbone, director, Mf the mine union, Darrow, later to be .America's most famous defense lawyer. came from Chicago to -assist ' in their defense, The trial' drew worldwide' atten tion as a spectacular crisis in thajl struggle between capital and la bor.,. ,. , .-. ..'. Haywood and Pettlbone were acquitted. The' charge against Moyer war dismissed, i After his Imprisonment, Orchard became associated with the; Sev enth Day Adventist Church. The church published a book by the prisoner In 1963 which it claims has . converted other convicts to Christianity. , .. . Orchard raised bees and poultry during much of his prison career. Dog Lover Can't Stoop to Aid In Mailman Trouble GALVESTON.'- Tex. MV When the postman constantly failed to stop by the mailbox of a Galves ton woman, she -called 'the post office to find the' reason why. i She was told that her dog had driven the mailman away but that he would deliver her mall If she tied up the dog. , sne agreed to tnis. Ana so yes terday the postman stopped at her house . . - But he wasn't too happy about the situation.- . - r . .. The dog was tied to the mall box. ; . on atomic matters for, security Teaaona mciuaing accusations: that he sought to block i develop- ' nani aT the hydroaen bomb. He declared be wui fight tne The noted physicist, sometimes . eatted the man who built tte A- . baton, disclosed the charges htm-. ;. seif Tuesday by making public an change -ol letters wito Ma).oen, i KiD. Nichols, general manager of , the Atomic Energy Commission. Stories about the charges bad been published by New York morning ' newspapers. ,, ' . There was no immediate com ment f rom the AEO. . Nlehola' . letter aald la suectfio allegations of subversive ae'Jviues had been leveled against Oppen he inter. One was that he battled. against construction of the H bomb. even after former Preat. : dent Truman approved It. . .' The letter, -dated Hst Dee, S3, ' advised Oppenhelmer: - It was reported runner . that you were instrumental in persuad tag other scientists, not to work ' on the hydrogen bomb project and . that the opposition to tne Hydro- gen bomb, ot which you are the , most experienced, most powerful ' and most effective member,, . definitely slowed downaits develop- merit. . . . , - The commission has no -other recourse, in the discharge ol na obligation to protect the common defense and security, but to sua peiid your clearance (to have atomic information) until tne mat ter has been resolved, 'Accordingly, your employment on Atomic Energy communion work and your eligibility, for ao cess to restricted data are hereby suspended.'' ..:t a-'-. In reply, Oppenhelmer wrote' a 43-page letter on March 4 which he called "a summary account of - relevant aspects ofi my iue." In the letter, the scientist took up each of the allegations raised to . Nichols' letter inciuoint, the - statement that he had argued against development of the hydro- gen bomb In - oppenhelmer aaia he as weu as the entire general advisory com- . Imlttee on atomie- matters, made ae t sea ievaa aetenuats, argueo. J aualiial th rr,U.-haa4til Jim U. - weapons, wntco tne ecieniisi re ferred to as a "crash program.' He said the committee submitted a report to the AEO stating that "such - a program might- weaken rather than strengthen the position of the United States."-, , , i Boat Blast Victim Sought - FLORENCE, Ore. tfl Search continued here Tuesday for Bob Willis, M, who was blown through tho roof of a fishing boat when It , exploded . at the Sluslaw River mouth. ' ft Victor Watklns and Ernest Ta tum, also of Florence, were seri ously burned In the blast. They clung ' for fmore than art hour: to the side of the shattered boat be fore being rescued. , t ; . Tatujn suffered bums ' on the head, face and hands. Watklns was badly burned on the legs. - ' They said the blast occurred shortly after the boat had been tied to a buoy so engine trouble could be repaired. ' The explosion was seen by Mr, and Mrs. R. R. Raymond of Flor ence who were on shore. They noti fied police, who in turn notified the Coast Guard and other rescue agencies. - ': f : Another fishing boat, the Otter, manned by Walt and Ernest Fos- , sick, rescued Watklns and Taium. They were brought here for medi cal treatment. The damaged boat was towed to the Florence hurbor. , ... 1
