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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (April 16, 1954)
lit JV la The! Sdicn3tdl Day s lews By FRANK JENKINS ' Denver. 7 pjn. The California Zephyr, ' which has been rolling eastward like a glittering ball, is strangely stalled. It was due to pause in the Mile High city a mere matter of 15 minutes just enough for a spot of exercise up and down the station platform. At the end of that space of time, the conductors -both rail and Pullman bellow ALL ABOARD and everybody sprints lor the car steps. - AND, maybe, a seat In one o( the Vista Domes, although that seems too much to hope for. The minutes pass. No start. The quarter hours pass. 81111 no start. The quarter hours lengthen Into half hours. Then the public address sys tem speaks up. The Zephyr,, the cultured and phonetically correct voice of the stewardess announces, Is now about 0 to take its evening bath. It will pass through an automatic washer from which It will emerge as spot less as when It departed from Oak land. Everybody sit tight and don't dodge when the water hits the wln- dows and stay away from the vestl i bules for you might get wet out there. ... This Is' a well run train. Every thing Is done for the welfare of its occupants, and we've ' all learned that if we Just sit tight and follow Instructions we'll come out all right. So we sit tight. The bath comes off as adver tised.,. The water splashes on the windows a regular Niagara of it. The Zephyr emerges, presumably prlstlnei and unsoiled. But that's aU. It stops. It stays stopped. No body knows why. It Just stands there on the tracks and rests It self. , . We spend a pleasant hour ex changing theories as Jo what it's all about. The theories vary widely. ! a hmffli slimmer vaca tion spot. Maybe the Zephyr has decided to setue a own ana speiiu the summer here. Maybe the engi- - tri irimA iIvm In Denver and he's paying her a Sunday eve ning call. And so on. Eventually everybody gives It up and tonaies on w oca. The next morning the mystery Ttmr was a freight wreck up ahead, It appears. It took eight nourg to get everymms auiipouat". and ready for use again, and as a ..! tha iraln 1 ftlttht hours late. Eight hours. What's a little mat ter of eight hours In an eon of .i a, .wjw u.uulB of nine r " "7, . ... years for the Colorado river to cut this canyon we've oeen .rav-mug througll down hubuku w -j"v" We'd all Just had breakfast, you see, and after a good breakfast human beinas are In a tolerant frame of mind. ' But as the pleasant influences of a good breakfast wore oft the stark facts of life began to take shape. We all had to pass through the God-awful transportation Institution Known as unicaiso. t. rkUaiM fnr tvhnt reason no mere man has ever known or prob .hi .,.ar win know everv travel er has to pile off whatever trans- port device be is traveling on, miim ill. .11 Vila lumraflr a.nd ntle MW some other transport device GOING IN THE SAAU5 ifiiuiiw.i, Not only that but the transport device you are going to rave w .n hii in all likelihood be half way across Chicago from the one you save puea on u. ......11 ,. n n1v Ulft llffsaW DUZ- sle known as the parmelee transfer , or you'll nave to coiiar " go it on your own. And la-Mnvuhlla, You'll have lost all your reser. vatlons, both Pullman and hotel, and will have to start In all over Oh well, e'est la guerre, as the Frencn say witn buiuk . . .hM.MaN ana when vou're travel- L i ' ' ... tn nnt. In fUlnDOS- 1 1 II 1U UUlla WW. ' Aedl super-efficient America there . - . .1... 1, ainma plenty or la gueno wi . to getting tnrougn biiiunau. The real victims of the derail ment and Its consequent loss m eight hours are half a dozen or so n.triA r.nftatTR who are Europe- bound by ship and because they cut their connections wo iron wm miss their vessels In New York. ,i n.tnra heincr what it is JIUllin'i .......... , meaning that all of us ere Interest ed primarily in ourselves mat leaves the rest of us aboard the Zephyr feeling lainy conuortauie Mails May Be Legalized PORTLAND (fl A majority of the City Council Intends to make pinball machines legal In Portland, and profitable for the city treas ury. Mayor Fred L. Peterson and sv,.nrnit.nnr William Bowes and Stanley Earl said they will Intro duce a licensing measure uiav wui earn the city $100,000 annually. i,aa vain ntm the Ci'V CoUfl ctl outlawed pinball machines, but .v.. maAhtnaa rrmttmiMl to onerate without city license while the city's ordinance was vesica in toe m.Atvi 1 Thai n a ftiinrm Court two days ago held that the city' ban waa legal. .) KLAMATH Mm Itve Ceats 14 Fao fteds Against Biea By LABRT ALLEN HANOI. Indochina : The Vlet- minh shoved tens of thousands of fresh troops into attack positions around Dien Bien Phu today. The third round of the savage battle for the French Union stronghold ap peared to be days or even hours away. Reliable sources said rebel Gen. Yo Nguyen Glap had rushed up at least 40,000 unbloodled regulars to bolster his badly battered force In the low mils encircling tne xonuita plain and along Its fringes. With these reinforcements and replacements for the thousands killed by murderous French fire In the past five weeks came 6,000 or more youthful rebels Just out of training camps.' It appeared certain here the Viet- mlnh in their next all-out assault would outnumber the defenders at least 6 or 8 to 1. The Communist-led reinforce ments went Into forward trenches to relieve units of the four divisions which have spearheaded the hard fighting around the fortress since the first Vietmlnh push March .13. The veterans fell back a short distance, presumably to rest up tor Plane Missing Near Eugene SALEM Ml A dozen planes began searching Friday for a Cali fornia flier missing since Monday between Eugene and Newport, less than 70 airline miles away. . . ' The State Board of Aeronautics ordered the search when. It learned that R. W. Hall of Bakers field, Calif., had not arrived at his destination. Low clouds and rain were in his path over the Coast mountains. The search started in clear skies. The board said (t understood he had been visiting relatives some where-in Idaho arid was planning surprise visit to his mother and daughter, whose names were not known here, at Toledo, Ore. He flew from The Dalles' Monday, closed his flight plan by radio at Eugene In late afternoon, and aald he was continuing to Newport on the coast. He was not heard from again. . His plane was a single engine Ercoupe, No. NS334H. . Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair through Saturday. Low Friday night 37; . high Sat urday 72. High yesterday , 69 Lew last night ........ 37 Preclp in last 24 hours . ,. M Frcclp. since Oct. 1 12.57 Same period last year 11.66 Normal 8.86 KLAMATH BASIN POTATO SHIPMENTS Sklppet f Sua Day Tdr Last Ynr 30 con f con, Tatal for Saaaan 10,274 con 10.900 ear 1IU-54 10M-M , . ""Vf ff (- . 4 V "V W ORIiOM STATf HIGHWAY limits from the effects of the "-..S-5V'v'"-i FALLS, OUGON, nUOAT, ATKIL 1, 1IH Telephone IIU the next anticipated massive charge. . The stoutly defended French for tifications faced more critical mo ments today as the garrison force tried to drive out Vietmlnh troops entrenched on the northern section of the main Dien Bien Phu air atrip. The French, lunging at the Infiltrated units with bayonets, grenades and machine guns, routed them yesterday from about half the trenches they had dug and blasted with high explosives on the pocked field. But the rebels still clung to dug outs only 2,400 feet from the heart of the French bastion. These split Shoulders Convicted KANSAS CITY WV - A federal court Jury has convicted Louis Shoulders, the veteran police offi cer who. broke the Greenlease kid naping case, . of lying about the Handling of tne ransom money. A half year ago Shoulders, who spent more than a quarter of a century on the St. Louis police force, was hailed as a hero alter he arrested Carl Austin Hall. Hall and - his partner, Mrs. Bonnie Brown Heady, were executed for kidnaping and killing 8-year-old Bobby Greenlease. Yesterday the federal Jury found Shoulders guilty of lying about his handling of two money-stuffed suit cases found in Hall's room. Shoulders waa charged with com mitting perjury in testimony early this year before a federal grand Jury. He maintained the suitcases were brought Into the police station IS to 20 minutes after Hall was booked. The government said they weren't brought in un til-more than an nour later. Of the $600,000 ransom money paid to Hall by Robert C. Oreen- lease, wealthy Kansas City auto mobile dealer, $303,720 still is missing. The former police lieutenant was granted 15 days in which to file a motion for a new trial. Sentence was deferred pending possible fil ing of .the motion. The maximum penalty is five years imprisonment and $2,000 fine. Shoulders was the second person convicted as the result of a grand Jury investigation into the missing ranom money. Elmer Dolan, pa trolman who aided In the arrest of Hall, also was convicted on a perjury charge. Dolan, suspended by the St. Louis police force, has filed a motion for a new trial. While waiting for the verdict, Shoulders remarked: ' "If this Jury Is out more than an hour I'm fried. It wouldn't take them that long to give me an acquittal." When the Jury returned its ver dict after 2'4 hours of deliberation, Shoulders displayed no emotion. "See, I predicted It light, didn't I," he' said. "That's what I thought would happen. What else can I say?" Shoulders resigned in anger from the St. Louis force last year after the police board began an inquiry into Hall's arrest.. The kidnaping of Bobby Green lease took place In Kansas City Sept. 28. He was killed the same day. H1f!!,V JT V a, Ai .fV l--T CREW cleans up the sides of winter slides. Of Perjury Ne. 2811 ien Phu the east-to-west network of defense communications on the norttt and posed the most serious threat to the fortified plain since the Viet mlnh first struck. The foothold on the airstrip was won this week after Vietmlnh night raiders blasted craters with nitro glycerine. Rebel troops then rushed in ana furiously hacked out a sys tem of connecting trenches. The Vietmlnh also kept up their steady digging around the outskirts of the Dien Bien Phu plain today. relentlessly pushing their web of trenches and foxholes closer to the French barbed wire barricades. Glan was believed to have roun- ed up his reinforcements by beat ing the Jungles throughout northern inuochlna, Apparently he even drew on the regulars who have been fanning out in repeated scat tered attacks against the French and their Vietnamese allies in the vital Red River delta, about 150 miles to the east. The French gave no Information on the numbers of defenders they still have at Dien Bien Phu after the five weeks of pounding. The high command here said only that none 01 the fortress' six main de fense positions bad suffered any food or amrrmnition shortages. Tito, Turkey Pact Planned ANKARA. Turkev (ypi Yuo-niv. la's visiting President Tito has greed tentatively to form an out- ngnt military alliance with Turkey, NATO's easternmost member. He plans to press Greece, another NATO neighbor in. the Balkans, .to juiii m uie uiau. The decision was announced last night by Yugoslav Foreim Minis ter Koca Popovio aa a climax to the state visit here by the Commu nist leader who haa defied Moscow and leagued his country with the West. -...- , "Popovlc Said Greece's' approval la necessary for the alliance since the three Balkan neighbors, in their pact signed Feb. 28, 1953, agreed to consult each other on military matters, - Gilchrist Scout Troop Formed GILCHRIST The newly organ. lzed Boy Scout troop No. 35 at Gilchrist, held its first meeting last Monday evening at the Gil christ Methodist Church. Approxl mately 40 Scout and Explorer age boys from the communities of Chemult, Crescent, Shevlin and Gilchrist attended, many accom panied by their fathers who had been Invited as special guests for this first meeting. Mr. David N. . Fredrlckson, scoutmaster, talked briefly on the alms and purposes of scouting. Several members of the Troop Committee also spoke briefly on different aspects of scouting. Rev. W. N. Byars. pastor of the Gil christ Methodist Church, which in stitution is sponsoring the troop, welcomed the scouts and their leaders and pledged the help of the church in making the troop a suc cess. Preliminary plans were made for the organization of patrols and after being served doughnuts and punch by the troop committee, the boys were dismissed, to meet again next Tuesday evening at 6:30 p.m. 1 ilia. - i Highway 97 north of the city fone A' 1 j. -v, STATE COMMANDER Thomas P. Campbel (center of back row) Veteran, of Foreign Wen, Portland, was present for the joint installation of VFW posts of Klamath Falls, Merrill and Malin held here recently. With Campbel are officers of Pelican -Post No.' 1383. Rear left, Danny Peck, quartermaster and right, Truman A. Nelson, chaplain. Seated II to r), John Zumwalt, senior vice commander; R, Jimmie Jones, commander and Al P. Butkosky, junior vice commander. .. i -. . : Photo by Ferebee Reds Pressure Yest Nations BERLIN (ffl Russia has taken new formal action to pressure the West Into recognition of satellite East Germany as a fully sover eign state. It told all non-occupa tion powers with missions in Ger many they would have to deal di rectly with the Soviet Zone's Ger man regime instead of Russian occupation authorities. . The official East German news agency ADN reported Thursday night Soviet High Commissioner Vladimir Semyenov had sent iden tical notes to this effect to the 10 governments not in Vie Moscow orbit wth missions in Germany. The new order means officials of these missions could get visas to travel in and out of East Ger manyor by car or train to Ber lin, which Is surrounded by the Soviet Zone only from the East German yovermncnt. , .v i. The' Russians'- announced March 25 they were granting "full sover eignty" to the East German re gime even though they would con tinue to keep Soviet troops in their zone. The Western Big Three promptly refused to grant such recognition and declared the West German Republic was the' only legally constituted government in Germany. . . t .. Main Canal To Be Filled Irrigation water will start flow ing Mondavi according to U.S. Bu reau of Reclamation officials, 8 a.m. has been set as Uie time for opening the headgates from the Upper Klamath Lake into the can al, near the Fremont bridge. A warning has been Issued by the IUSBR to residents along the main canal to keep children away irom canal DaiiKs. About 40 second fect of water will be turned Into the main ditch. This will cause the water to rise anoroxlmatclv a foot a day for several days, soaking ditch banks slowly. It was estimated It would take a week for the water to traverse the distance between the headgate and the Lost River diversion dam. In 1953 the headgates were opened on April 13. AIR ARRIVAL GENEVA. Switzerland Ifl Two four-engine transport planes of the Soviet air force arrived here Frl. day with the seven-man advance guard of Russia's delegation to tho April 26 big power conference on Asian problems. Defender Of Dien Bien Phu Criticizes French Leaders By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Col. Christian de Castries, French hero of the siege of Dion Bien Phu, threatened a week ago to 'resign his commission, advices from Indochina confirmed Friday. The fiery, 50-year-old cavalry man was pictured in an NBC broadcast from New York as dis gruntled over; 1. The failure of the French government to push through his scheduled promotion to brigadier general, 2. The French cabinet's discip lining oi Marslinl Alphonse Juln March 31 (or Juln's failure to meet Premier Joseph Lanlel to explain his public criticism of the projected six-national European Defense Community (EDO, A cable exchange with Hanoi, the French military headquarters for North Indochina, brought word from Associated Press Correspond ent Larry Allen "that's correct." He messaged that an AP story on the subject April 10 was stopped by censorship. NBO said it had learned of the threat from an unimpeachable Remodefi fig, New Building Add To City Businesses Building Is booming In Klamath Falls. New construction and re modeling will bring in four new businesses and Increase facilities at two more. Under construction at the com er of East Main and South Sixth Streets is a Western Oil and Burn er Co. service station. Tne tri angularly shaped lot, bordered by isaai Mam, boutn Bixth and Kad- cllffe, will accommodate six open pumps. . , ? iV Customers will have access to the pumps from three sides, and the - no paraing- restriction aireaay in operation on Radcllf fe and South Sixth will make possible extra- wide driveways, Storage tanks with a capacity of 32,000 gallons have been, installed underground, i . The service station which will coat aeout M0rwUVb located as we juncture or itaaciuie ana South sixth streets. . Jack Brosnan, 210 Martin, has announced tentative plans to open his drlveln type ice cream store located between Division and Mar tin Streets on Main Street, about June 1. The frame structure will cost about $7,000. Brosnan's request last fall that his property be reioned from a Zone 2 residential to a Zone 2 business rone ultimately led to the rezonlng of the area on both sides of Main from the canal to the inter section of East Main ana Martin Streets. .On the remodeling scene, at 1816 Main Street, L. P. Brockman is completing work on his concession stand to be ready to open when the new Municipal Swimming Fool opens May 22. Last month, Brockman proposed operating a concession stand on his property adjacent to the pool, and asked exclusive rights for three years and in return offered the city five per cent of his net Income for three years. After care. ful consideration, Brockman was given the Tight of egress and in greas access to customers over city property without the obstruc tion of a fence, for a period of three years. A Swimming pool Committee recommendation ad vised that any other applicant be given the same privilege if he meets the same requirements. Work on the, concession stand will cost an estimated $2,500, Brockman ald, and includes ap plying rustic cedar siding which will be stained to match the swim ming pool building. The Interior will be white with green flooring. Brockman saya he will Introduce to the Klamath Basin "snow cones," a shaved Ice confection with flavored syrup, and will of. source and "De Castries himself gave approval for use of the statement." ' President Eisenhower gave De Castries some verbal pats on the back last month for-his defensive skill and the broadcast said this gave "a slight bit of an Interna tional hassle" to the situation. Elsenhower told a Washington news conference March 24 that, If he were the field commander In Indochina, he would give De Castries the stars of a general. Elsenhower also wrote a letter to French President Rene Coty com mending the colonel's defense of Dien Bien Phu. A week later the French defense ministry recommended to Premier Joseph Lanlel's government that De Castries be promoted. But the government announced April 7 the promotion would have to wait until the end of the siege. Emlle Hugues, secretary of state for Information, told reporters that, by French tradition, such promo tions cannot be made while a battle in which the officer is engaged is atill to be won or lost, , 1 V '( fer a wide variety of food conces sions. Remodeling at 119 Main, the former location of Long's Apparel, will accommodate a new bakery, Zim's, scheduled to open around May 1. ' . operators of the bakery are Mr. and Mrs. Gustav Zimmerman, for merly of Sun Valley, California, Tne ztmmermana have taken a three-year lease on the property, owned by J. F. Magulre. .. The bakery will feature specialty pas tries, including Daman, cotiee cake; a full line of cookies, pies ana oreads, catering lor parties, birthdays, weddings and special occasions. - Zimmerman has bad 34 years of bakery experience,. : Castleberry's Drugs, at 530 Main la getting lace lifting and a new name.. When remodeling la; con- pictoot tne drug store win oper ate under '' the name, "Mead's Drags,"' owned and operated by P. D. Mead. Years ago the store was called "Magill's Drugs," and ran a close second to the old general store in popularity rating. In more recent years it was operated by Tom Laird, Ralph Montelth, and for the past four ana a naif years By Mead. Mead is remodeling and redec orating the - interior with light- wood fixtures, wall cases of birch. Work Includes rearranging and improving the prescription depart ment, construction of a mezzanine lor office space. Tne exterior la- cade will be remodeled to include open type windows. Farther down Main Street, at the Wlnema Hotel, 1111 Main, remod eling and redecorating on the main floor will accommodate a lounge in addition to the improved and beautified banquet room. A change in personnel in city hotels will establish Mrs.. Carroll (Beth) Chase aa hostess; Clare (Dead Spterlrig as manager of the bar. Both have been employed at the Wlllard Hotel. Formal opening will be in about two weeks.' I -'v1 , -N RHINO UP THE TANK this morning before starting a roof ing job at 1330 Main street was 0. R. Phillips and Kerlneth Ducat. . ufcss Prior Consulting Br MARVIN L. AREOrTBMITH AUGUSTA, Oa. Wl President Eisenhower pledged today that a fair ahare" of-' American troops : will be maintained in Europe as long as a threat to the security of ' the western nations exists, -'. In a six-point message to 'the prime ministers of six Western Ew -ropean countries, - the president . sought to assure French ratifica tion of the European Defense Com munity (EDO) project by pro-nis. mg in effect that rearmament' of West. Germany would not be per mitted to endanger France. France long has sought such tor. mal assurances before Joining in . the creation of a slx-natlon army ' designed as a bulwark against any Russian aggression. The proposed EDO has been ratified by Belgium, West Germany, Luxembourg and tne Netnenanas. only .Italy ana France have yet to act. : IKE PLEDGE The President also pledged con tinuation of efforts to provide for sharing with U. S. allies more in- formation about the use and, the effects of the hydrogen bomb and atomio weapons on military ana civilian personnel.. A;- - Elsenhower said in his message that the essential elements of the position he outlined had been dis cussed with both Republican and Democratic leaders in Congress. In Washington, there were indi cations of a. feeling among soma lawmakers, however, that the President should go further as to ; consulting Congress. f , j Chairman Saltanstall (R-Mass) and Sen, Russell (D-Ga) of the Senate Armed Services Committee told an AP reporter they had not ' been informed of any promise to retain U. 8. troops on the continent : indefinitely. . ' , Saltonatall said he thought the administration should clear with Congress any new long-range com mltment. ":. -: .': ;';-!-'-'. .-. . INTERVIEW . ' ' . Elaborating on this later m a CBS interview, Saltonstall said El- - aenuower's pledge "nugnt Be a very wise thing to do," and added: But I think it would bo even wiser to get some resolution lor some statement from Congress saying we agree. That would make appropriations easier.' It would clear the air with the people all over the country.' t Saltonstall also said "the whole European situation has been' dis cussed with members of Congress,, but tlirpromlse Wev,otn troops' in there indefinitely has not been discussed with Congress since the commitment has been made." TO QUESTION Saltonstall said later in an Inter view he would ask' Secretary-of Defense Wilson to learn the- "offi cial nature of the commitment." At the State Department, offi cials, said the administration had consulted .in advance with leaders of both parties in the Senate and House, They would not name the leaders. . These officials took tho position that the President's pledge in no way prevents the United States from either reducing or increasing 'the number of troops on the Eu ropean continent. They said the policy statement. In their view goes no further than previous American pledges on maintaining, troops in Europe. - 1 In an administration statement of policy, he messaged all six na tions from his vacation headquar ters here that: 1. The united states will continue to maintain In Europe, including West Oermany, such . American troops "as may be necessary and appropriate to contribute lis (Continued on page 4) . .a. ' 0 a . ' X I X r -J,
