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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1954)
m im Ml A UUUUUVIAi In The- Day's lews Br FRANK JENKINS There bas been another big pen itentiary riot this time in South Dakota. It has quieted down after 23 hours of turmoil and disorder. Fortunately, there was no blood shed. (The dispatches reported that the only casualty was a con vict who got hold of a bottle ol hair tonic and drank It and died as a result.) . . As these words are written. Gov ernor Sigurd Anderson has Just an nounced that he will order an in vestigation into the riot's causes. I hope, while he's at it, he does some delving into what might have happened if all the inmates of the South Dakota prison had been con structively employed at regular hours, with their earnings (less board and room and such) deposited to their account to be paid to them when discharged so that they would have a nest-egg with which to start life anew aft er having paid their debt to so ciety. I think we need to do some thinking along that line. These prison riots are getting TOO NUM EROUS. Their frequency suggests that something is gravely wrong with our prison system. Oregon's board of agriculture Is making a study to determine cost figures before setting up a price schedule for milk sold at funns in gallon jugs. This morning's dispatches say that more than 20 gallon-jug dairies are now oper ating in the slate, and some of them admit that they sell below present milk control prices. At the election next month, there will be a measure on the Oregon ballot to repeal the Ore gon milk control law. I'm going to vote against it. As I remarked in this space a few days ago, nearly everybody in these modern days has some sort of price con trol for his services, and if any body is entitled to price support it is the hard-working dairyman who works from dawn to dark, seven days a week. Be s 1 d e s, public health and PURE MILK are all bound up to gether. If the public health is to be guarded adequately, we must have strict standards of milk san itation. Proper milk sanitation costs money and a lot of it. If we permit milk produced un der Unsanitary conditions' to come into competition with milk pro duced under strict sanitation rules, the ' unsanitary- milk will run the sanitary milk a bard race. If the public health is to be protected, we must mrumo strict milK sanitation. If we are to do that. It seems to me, there must be price protection for- milk. Bui lt does Beem absurd to say to a dairyman whose milk is produced in full accordance with the es tablished sanitary standards that he can't set his own price for it to customers who come to his farm to get it. It would be more in accord with sound free enterprise principles if we enforced strict sanitation standards and let the price of milk AT THE FARM, cash-and-' carry, take care of itself. I donbt if, under strict enforce ment of sanitation rules, there would be much cut-price selling of milk at the farm. Saar Future 1 Topic Of Meet PARIS Wl French Premier Mendes-France and Saar Premier Johannes Hoffman met Wednesday rfor a talk on the future of the Saar, a question France wants set tled before West Germany is re armed. Menties France got a 350-113 vote in the National Assembly Tuesday, authorizing him to go ahead with the London accord on bringing west German troops into the Wests defense against com munism. But at the same time as the treaties are put up for ratifica tion, he wants .to be able to pre sent an agreement on the Saar, the coal bearing border state whose German-speaking people are linked economically to France. Germans regard the Saar as a part of Germany. Hoffman and members of his cabinet are having long talks with Roland de Moustier, French sec retary of state for foreign affairs, in preparation of a common stand. Mendes-France also sat in on a portion of these talks. For some time, a compromise whereby the Saar might be inter nationalized has been discussed. The French Premier and West German Chancellor Konrad Aden auer are to confer here Oct. 20 in a new effort to achieve agreement on how the area might be put un der International control. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Partly cloudy through Thursday with a few showers Thursday. Hlfh Thursday 63; low Wednesday night 37, High yesterday - 44 low last night , , ,35 Frecip. last 24 hours . .3 Since Oct. I - 7 Same period last year Normal for period -. 1.73 -41 Latourette Rules On I(F Legal Tangle While Andrew Joseph Bushman, 54-year-old alleged sex offender, still languished in the county jail Wednesday after seven months of legal battling, new complications were added to the case. Chief Justice Earl Latourette of the Oregon Supreme Court, who was confronted with a series of motions and counter motions in volving the constitutionality of the state change of judge law, tossed the issue back to Judge David R. Vandenberg for a decision. Late Tuesday the case was brought before the Klamath Falls jurist again. Judge Vandenberg upheld a mo- lion filed by Defense Attorney George Proctor to strike an affi davit of prejudice which was filed by District Attorney Frank Alder son. Alderson stated in his affida vit that Judge Vandenberg was prejudiced against the district at torney and a fair trial could not be obtained in his court. In allowing the motion to strike the affidavit of prejudice. Judge Vandenberg said the law under which it was filed had been re pealed In 1947. Therefore, the court held the affidavit was Irrelevant and Immaterial. Vandenberg then overruled a de fense motion opposing a change of judge in the Bushman case. As a result, if Bushman is ever actu ally tried, the action will be heard by Circuit Judge Ralph M. Hoi man of . Oregon City who has a general assignment in Klamath County. Proctor said Wednesday that he still maintains the change of judge law is unconstitutional. He Is plan ning further moves in the case. According to Proctor, under the change of judge action, his client has been denied his constitutional right of a speedy trial. Bushman has been indicted three times on the same set of facts. ' Circuit Court Clerk Charles De- Lap said Wednesday that he had been notified by Judge Holman that an indictment returned by the county grand jury against Lenton Holmes, 18-year-old Arkansas cot ton picker, had been dismissed. According to DeLap, Judge Hol man dismissed the Indictment on a motion of Defense Attorney U. 3. Balentine when it was found that Holmes had pleaded guilty in Klamath Falls Municipal Court to a charge of vagrancy based on the same facts included in the grand jury indictment. Holme was in dicted on a charge of entering an automobile with intent to steal. Sheriff Murray B r i 1 1 on said Holmes will be returned to the city Jail to complete a 30-day va grancy sentence. Dock Strike Mushrooms LONDON HI Britain's mush rooming dock strike spread to Southampton and Glasgow Wednesday and a wildcat bus man's walkout crippled teeming London's surface transport sys tem. More than 2,000 Southampton longshoremen downed tools in a one-day token stoppage supporting the 30,000 men already out in Lon don, At Glasgow, 1,000 dockers staged a lightning strike following a local dispute over pay rates for handling certain types of cargoes. The London waterfront stoppage became virtually complete with 3.' 500 men joining the strike at Til bury, near the mouth of the Thames River. Portland Warehouse Fires Set By Confessed Arsonist PORTLAND Wl An arsonist Tuesday night started two fires causing losses that may run half a million dollars, and police early Wednesday arrested a youth await ing trial on charges that he set three other blazes Sept. 1. William D. Browne, chief of de tectives, said Richard Ray Kidd, 20, signed a .statement admitting he started last night's fires with a cigarette lighter after drinking six to eight quarts of beer." The blazes, near the downtown Willamette River waterfront, were only six blocks apart. They sent flames leaping high over the low er business district. Most of the city's fire equipment was pressed into action. Nine fire men suffered minor injuries or were overcome by smoke. Thousands of persons watched as firemen battled to keep the blazes from spreading to other valuable business properties. The two big fires were preceded by a minor blaze in a downtown rooming house. It was quickly con trolled. Kidd insisted he had no thing to do with that one. An hour later the first of four alarms sounded for a fire which virtually destroyed the warehouse and showrooms of the Western Door and Plywood Co. five blocks away. This blaze, fed by paint, turpentine and oils, raged fur hours. Once, firemen climbing to pump water Into the building were en dangered when ladders propped against a wall caught fire. Guests were evacuated from a hotel next Price Fin Cents-M Face ; KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1954 Telephone 8111 No. 2941 DA To File Charge On Curley Coon son said he will file a homicide charge late Wednesday against Florin M. (Curley) Coon. 51-year-old barber, whose wife was found Tuesday apparently beaten to death in the Greer Hotel. - Alderson announced the charge wnuiri h fnpri after an autODsy performed by Dr. George H. Ad- ler, county coroner, snoweu mc woman, Lily Nyqulst, Coon, 60, came to her death as the result of injuries to the brain and cer tain abdominal organs. if,. ntn -una fniinri dead in the hotel room after her husband had called Dr. Adler and said she was very drunk. Coon told Dr. Aoier he was going to take his wife to Hilllside Hospital Immediately for treatment for alcoholism. While he was waiting at the hos- nital fn- Knnn nnri his Wife to aD- pear. Dr. Adler said he was noti fied by Police Chief orviue Ham ilton the woman was dead n4 netuHua T? TJ. Ariltlns. who Investigated the case, said he had been informed by jjr. Aaier that the woman died sometime early Tuesday morning, several hours before Coon phoned for med ical aid. that he and his wife had been drinking heavily and that tney en snaoH fn a florht. Conn said the woman fell on the floor and he lifted her to the bed. When police were called to the hotel by the manager of the place, they found the woman's nude body lying on a bed. The body was cov ered with bruises and black and blue marks. Chief Hamilton said as soon as a warrant is served on uoonne will be transferred from the city to the' county JalL . . y . - . , . . 1 - Bahamas Brace For Hurricane xta-vtt pin tm The southeast ern Bahamas braced for hurricane winds today while food and cloth ing was rushed to stricken Haiti in the wake of the storm. Hurricane Hazel, with lessened winds up to 80 miles an hour over a small area near the center, whipped through the Windward Passage between Cuba and Haiti ami rnntinued north - northeast ward toward the southern Baha mas and the open sea. It was lum bering along at six miles an hour. Gales extend outward 75 miles in all directions. At 5 a.m., F.ST, the disturbance wis just south of Great Inagua expected to move into the Inagua Nayaguana and uaicos xsiana areas during the day. Th storm nnnarentlv lost some of Its strength in its passage be tween Cuba and Haiti, but the weather Rurpnit said it should re gain some of its intensity now that it had left the mountains oi nam and eastern Cuba behind. door. Windows of a large furniture store across the street were crack' ed by the heat. Flames ' leaping from the building blistered the paint on parked automobiles. Just after As3t. Fire Chief Eddie Buatwright announced this fire was under control, someone in the crowd shouted that another olate wns under way six blocks away and only a block from the first fire. Many of the firemen with equip ment were rushed to the scene. They found a three-story ware house and an adjacent two-story building occupied by a sawmill equipment manufacturer on fire. They climbed to the roof of an adjacent vacant furniture store building in an effort to protect it, but within minutes that was in flames, too. Firemen, aided by fireboatn in the river, worked Into the early morning hours before controlling the blazes. ' Loss in the Western Door fire was tentatively set at 3240.000. Owners of property destroyed In the second big fire made loss estl- I mates ranging up to 1250.000. On Sept. 2 Kidd, an accountant, confessed to police that he set thiee fires the previous night, In cluding a 1100,000 blaze at a fur niture company warehouse. He was bound over to the grand jury but was released pending trial when Municipal Judge John Mur- chison reduced his bail from 10,- 000 to 33.000. After his first arrest Kidd said he set the fires after drinking "20 to 25 beers" and that ha was sorry. v t, .i " mi ' --""r- i " intin iii i .ii 1 Vnti r-i i iiM.iai'iii'oiir.Mffaaarasaa U. S. CONGRESSMAN and Mrs. Sam Coon, were quests ell day Tuesday at coffee hours in Klamath Falls homes. Here they chatted briefly with quests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Ryser, 2224 Main Street, in mid-morning. (I to rl Mrs. James Barnes, co-hpstess, Mrs. Coon, Mrs. Ryser and Congressman Coon, Fort Klamath Hosts Republican Voters' Rally; Coon Explains Indian Bill Action The C.I. Clubhouse at Fort Klam- ath was crowded to capacity Tues day evening when the Wood River Unit of the Oregon Council of Re publican Women sponsored a vot ers' rally, at which U.S. Congress man Sam Coon was principal speaker. , , . Mrs. Claudie Ldrenz. president of the. unit,, opened the meeting and Raymond , Loosely was master of ceremonies and introduced can didates .and their representatives. Among those present who spoke briefly were Troy Cook, candidate lor county ' Commissioner; Eva Cook, running for county treas- urerj-Mrs.- V;-- K. O'Nell, . 'Who spoke on behalf of State Represen tative Ed Geary; National Repub lican Commltteewoman Olive Cor nett, who spoke for U.S. Senator Ouy Cordon; Wyatt Padgett, who spoke briefly and played the tape recording of Senator Cordon's speech before a veterans' group in Fortland last Friday; Roy Mur phy, who outlined the qualifications of Governor Paul Patterson, and Floyd Wynne, alternate chairman of the Klamath County Republican Central Committee, who exposed half-truths which have been ut tered ir. criticism of the Eisen hower administration. COLONEL SWIGART Death Claims Col. Swigart A well known auctioneer of Klamath County, William Franklin Swigart, 64. died Tuesday noon at Hillside Hospital. He was born at Maquon, Illinois, In 1890. Col. and Mrs. Swigart had re' turned a month ago irom Rocfca way where he had operated a rid ing stable business for two years. On his return he stated there Is no country like the Klamath ceuntry Moving to Klamath in 1918 from a cattle ranch in North Dakota, he engaged in the auction business and bought and sold livestock for several years. In 1938 he started a skating rink on South Sixth which he operated lor tour or live years, moving it later to the VFW Hall. He became ill this week at their home, 5718 South Sixth, and cause of death was a cerebral hemor rhnge. Survivors include the widow. Alma Swigart, a son Paul, of Can non Beach, and two grandsons, Terry and Rocky. Funeral services will be held from the chapel of Ward's Klam ath Funeral Home, Friday, at 10:30 a.m. Interment will be In Klamath Memorial Park. Mrs. Swigart will return with her son to the coast lor an extended visit. Oscar Klttredge, who has en tered the political field for the first Urns by filing for the post of state enator on the Republican ticket, stated: "I could make a lot of campaign promises, but if elected, some of those promises might have to be reconsidered after the legislature convenes. I would rather tell you that I will Insure equal represen tative to every person in the 17th District. I am deeply Interested In education and will strongly support Oregon Tech, Another plank In my platform is pvactlc: I and economi cal stale government wnn a view to eliminating waste and lnetflcien- cy that takes too much of our tax money." A thorough discussion of the mea sures to be voted on at the Novem ber 2 election was conducted by George Proctor, member of the Klamath County Republican Cen tral Committee. Sam Coon. Renublican Congress man, seeking reelection, told the audience the Washington side oi the Klamath Indian separation bill. The final bill, he related, was in troduced by the Interior and In sular Affairs Committee and re vised in a meeting of the Klamath Indian representatives and their attorneys with the Indian Commis sioner and the Assistant commis sioner. Alturas Man Shoots Self ALTURAS Paul Robinson, 48, died at his home in Lake City, about 5:45 a.m. Wednesday. Ac cording to Sheriff Buck Server of Modoc County, death was caused by a self-lnfllcted bullet from the man's 30-30 rifle. He was not known to have been suffering from 111 health and no reason for his action nas Deen niven. according to the sheriff s office. Robinson was the son of the late B. B. Robinson of Cedarvllle, who died last June 16. His grand father Kressler and a man by the name of Bonner established the first trading post and the flr3t bank at Cedarvllle. Formerly a supervisor In his own district before the redisrict ing of Northern California, Robin son was a candidate In the Novem ber election for county supervisor at Surprise Valley. i Survivors include the widow, Dorothy and a daughter, Mrs. Flovd Smith, both of Lake City: two sons. Irwin, stationed at the Air Force base at Hamilton Field and Bsey of Lake City; also an older brother, Basil Kressler Rob inson, owner of the Big valley ranch in Lake County. Funeral services aro in charge of the Kerr Chapel of Alturas. SHOOTING HOURS Y California OPEN CLOSE October 14 S:45 5:29 "It was only then that I ranged for a hearing before the House committee," he recalled, "The three Klamath Indian rep resentatives, Jesse Kirk, Boyd Jackson and Wade Crawford, were present and Indicated the bill met with full approval, so the legisla tion went through in that form. 'Later," he added, "each one of those three men came and person ally thanked me for getting the legislation through just as they wanted It." Coon told the group of his pleas ure at receiving personal mail from individuals . in his district. .adding that his letlarer trdm Ore gon usually average about 25 a clay. During the question and answer period that followed his talk, the question of the transmission line which would have brought Bonne ville power to Southern Oregon and lar jsortnern California, arose. "The state of Washington is now getting more than 70 per cent of the power produced by Bonne ville," he declared. "Oregon is getting less than 30 per cent of it In a very few years, Washington will be getting 83 per cent of the power and Oregon less than 17 per cent. It Is pretty obvious that Washington does not want to turn over any part of the share it Is receiving to any other state," he concluded. A social hour following the con clusion of the talks, with refresh ments prepared by the women of the unit. Tonight, the Republican congress man will speak at 7:30 p.m. at Alta mont school gymnasium, sharing the plulform with State Senator Brown, of Grants Pass, who speaks i: "The Truth About Neubergcr." Thursday evening he will appear at the Bonanza Library at 8 p.m. at a nonpartisan voters' rally spon sored by the Bonanza Farm Bu reau Women. A thorough . discussion of the measures to be voted on at the November 3 election was conduct ed by Gcorgo Proctor, member of the Klamath County Republican Central Committee. Voters Favor Democrats In Alaskan General Election JUNEAU, Alaska Ifi Alaska swung strongly Democratic Tues day in Its general election which in recent years has proved an ac curate indicator of national trends. The political pendulum, which went the other way In 1952, swung back to give E. L. Bartlett an In creasingly wider margin for re election as delegate to Congress and assure his fellow Democrats overwhelming control of the legis lature. The political divisions In which Anchorage and Fairbanks are lo cated apparently elected a solid 20 Democrats to Uie legislature. It Is a complete reversal from their election of 17 Republicans and 3 Democrats in 1952. On unofficial returns from 91 ol the territory's 263 precincts, but including almost all the large I ones, Bartlett had 8.275 to 3.180 for i Mrs. Barbara Dunock, a Repub lican member of the legislature from Anchorage. That boosted his 1 slice of the vote to 73 per cent, 1 compared with 56 per cent he I polled In winning the 1952 election Irom Robert Reeve, an slrline op erator. , Citing the claim that "As Alaska ! goes, so goes the nation," Bartlett predicted in a midnight statement that the mounting Democratic margins Indicated a national vic tory for the party next month. "On the basis of early returns, I which have maintained a consis i tent pattern Irom Uie atari, it Is Man, Wife Terrorized By Gunfire How a Medford automotive deal er and his wife spent a night of terror under gunfire on the Klam ath Indian Reservation near Beat- ty was revealed Wednesday by state police. Police Sgt. Earle Tichenor said two men, one an ex-convict and the other a 22-ycar-old Beatty res ident, are held in the county jail on charges of assault with intent to kill In connection with the case. The suspects are James Clinton Anderson, 32, recently released af ter serving 13 years in Oregon State Prison, and Wayne W. Scott. ranch worker. Complaints against the two men were signed by Albert Bianey Mcnasco Jr., of Medford. Here are the highlights of the harrowing story told by Menasco to Sgt. Tichenor and District At torney Frank Alderson: Sunday at about 3 a.m. Menasco and his wife were driving along a dirt road near Beatty in a pickup truck. Menasco noticed another pickup with two men and a worn- i In it following nis car. When Menasco stopped to ask directions, he said one of the men in the other car yelled "Let's get them I" Menasco speeded away un der a hall of bullets. At the foot of the hill, he said one of the'rear tires on his truck was punctured by a bullet. He and his wife leaped from the truck snd took reiuge behind a log In a clump of brush. He declared the men kept firing into the brush until dawn, Once during the night, Menasco, said, the other pickup left with one of the gunman and the woman. He said the man who remained at the scene started yelling to the Menascos to "Come out." "We kept very still," Menasco explained, "Finally after daylight the truck with the two other per sons in it returned. They picked up their companion and drove away." Sgt. Tichenor said Menasco got a good look at one of his assail ants and later identified him as Anderson through police photo graphs. Sirt. Tichenor said a statement was obtained from Scott Implicat ing himself and Anderson in the shuotlng affray. Last July, Anderson figured In shooting at the Halfway House in Bly. He was reported to have slashed the throat of Alfonso Tor res, Mexican lumoerjacx, wno is held In the county jail on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon. Anderson said he attacked Tor res with a knife after the Mexi can critically wounded Leon Jen kins, Weyerhaeuser Timber Co, employe, in the Halfway House barroom. Set. Tichenor says Anderson served 13 years In the state pris on for manslaughter. Aid The United Fund Drive Give to help help to live. Support health, welfare and character building a r e n c Ik a through your Un 1 1 ed Fund. Klamath County's second Unit ed Fund Red Cross drive tarts October 20. not too soon to forecast a Demo cratic victory In Alaska which easily could assume a landslide proportion," Bartlett said In statement issued here. ". . . Alaska almost always has pointed the way the nation will vote In November. This makes it fairly sure the Democrats will or ganize the national House of Rep resentatives by some 30 to 40 seats." Prominent Issues In the Bartlett Dlmock congressional contest were over which party has done the most for the statehood cause and which has done best by Alaska In allocation of federal funds. Mrs Dlmock also appealed for election or a Republican to support Presi dent Elsenhower. Both candidates supported Im mediate statehood for Alaska, Bartlett contended the Republican administration had let down the statehood cause. Mrs. Dlmock ar gued that the Republicans had drafted the best statehood bill ever and countered that the Democrats never had enacted statehood dur ing their long national regime. Legislative candidates also brought In the federal Issues, and the Republicans asked for support on the basis of the territorial legis lation they put through in the last session. In the contest for two other ter ritorial offices, labor commission er and treasurer, the races were nip-and-tuck, with tha lead Chang Ids hands often, . Caribbean Town Swept Into Sea PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti Ml Mounting unofficial reports of death and destruction from hurri cane Hazel put the toll -at Aux Cayes alone, the major town on this Island republic's stricken southwest peninsula, at 300 dead and 350 injured. Aux Cayes has a population ct 20,000. Previous reports said Jere mle, the peninsula's second-rank-, ing city, was almost entirely swept into the sea. Jeremle's population is listed at 11,138. The population of the town and surrounding district is at around 68,000. A radio report from Marfrano rubber experimental station in the area hit Tuesday said- two men from Jeremle reported: The prison hospital was1 swept away. Homes of nuns and priests were washed Into the sea and the bank damaged. Most of the small er homes in the town vanished un. der the pounding of the hurricane driven waters. The two men gave their report after struggling to the rubber sta tion over a mountain path. There was no official estimate of the dead or injured, or of prop erty damage. The two survivors from Jeremle urged that a special appeal be sent to President Paul Magllore for help. U. S. STATION The settlement of the Martrano rubber experimental station of the U. 8. Department of Agriculture was washed away. The only connection with Jere mle was by the footpath that wound over a mountain. Roads were impassable. A steady rain hampered relief work Wednesday and Impeded communications. The Marfrano station ltaeu re mained intact and the supervisor's home is still standing, the message said. It was transmitted by radio SCIPA. 8CIPA is a Point Four agency, the Inter-American Coop erative Agricultural Service. Jeremle is 16 hours Irom Port- au-Prince on the north coast of the Peninsula over a narrow moun tain road that is dangerous in the' best weather. It ranks as the sec ond city on the peninsula, Tight behind Aux cayes, a bustling port of 20,000 in the fertile Torbeck plain, where sugar, rum, coffee, cocoa and rice are shipped to world markets; . AMERICANS MAROONED Flvo SCIPA employes, including three Americans, were marooned in Damiens College five miles north of Port-au-Prince Tuesday while establishing radio communi cation with' Aux Cayes. The Americans were SCIPA Di rector Edwin Astle, Business Man ager Malcolm Jensen and exten sion specialist George Vanden berg, a radio ham. The water tosb around the col lege while they were getting in touch with Aux Cayes, from which news remained meager. While rain flooded Port-au Prince streets, the government mobilized flat-bottomed boats and other equipment for rescue work at Damiens and nearby Croix des Missions. TYPHOON TOKYO Wl The raging typhoon mat capsized and Bank five fer ries Bt Hakodate Sept. 28 took a confirmed death toll of 1,218, with 196 still missing, the Japanese Na tional Railways said Wednesday. mmm mm umtwmv &,rmjfa 8 A ROBERT TRIVITT, 510 North Seventh, wet on hit vay fo Fairviev School this morn ing at the early morning photograph; cam by, 1
