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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 10, 1955)
o HF H AIT "- P" 0 0 KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 19. 1S Telephone 1U No. 31JS TU-TA BUD, nlne-monthj-old black lab. will be handled by Kaihy McDonald at the September 3 American Kennel Club dog show at the Klamath County Fairgrounds. Bud is owned by A. J. Moiling, 1929 Worden Avenue. The annual dog show is sponsored by Klamath Dog Fanciers, Inc. In The- Day's lews Br FRANK JENKINS In Geneva which so recently vas the site of the epochal meet ing of the heads of state of the U.S.A.. Britain. France and Rus sia another conference has just opened. It is the United Nations conference on peaceful uses of atomic energy. At its opening session, it lis tened to a message of greeting from President Eisenhower. In his message, our President called atomic science the newest and MOST PROMISING TOOL OF ALL lor the betterment of human life. Those are strong words. But they are undoubtedly true. 11 we (meaning by that ALL the people on earth I have the common, ordinary horse sense to make of atomic science the SER VANT OF MAN instead of the DESTROYER OF MAN there is practically no limit to what atomic science can do in the. way of betterment of human life on this globe. Naturally enough. I suppose, we think of atomic science in terms of power to run machines. That is tremendously important. Ma chines do the drudsery that for merly had to be done by aching human backs and human arms. With the DRUDGERY done by machines, human minds will have the time in which to create new things for the betterment of man kiraj. Atomic science opens up vast new frontiers along that line. Let's consider for a moment such a simple thing as healing our homes. Suppose you could drop into a Jigger In your basement if you're old-fashioned, or your utility room if you're more modern) a lump of uranium about the .size of a peanut and go on getling heat from it for years. That, would be wonderful. Well, it's strictly within the limits of probability. At a NOT TOO DISTANT TIME. Speaking of heat, at the instant when it explodes (splits) the ura nium 235 atom has a temperature of TWO HUNDRED TRILLION DEGREES CENTIGRADE. That's a lot of heat. All we need to do Is to learn to control It dependably. That we can do If mankind can learn the trick of living at peace Instead of GOING TO war. So You see Ike isn't talking through his hat when he says atomic science is the newest and most promising lool of all for the betterment of uman liie. Speaking of power And coining closer home The bureau of reclamation and Copco have agreed on a draft of a contract for the further develop ment of power from the surplus vater of the Upper Klamath Basin after it runs over the shelf at Keno. This draft o( a new contract is the first siep toward full develop ment of the power potential ol the Klamath river - the No. 2 power stream of the American Pacific coast. Five iurthcr steps remain belorc the multi-million-dollar development of the Klam ath's power can becm. They are: 1. The contract must be sicned. 2. It must be sanctioned by the federal power commission. 3. It must be sanctioned by the Oregon hvdro-elfctnc commission. 4. It must be s.inrtinned bv the Oregon public utilities commis sioner. 5 It iml-t tie .uu wed by the California public un.iar, uimmi--sioii. It and vhrn tnc.-e .-up- ate all t;-ken. a new na ul ar ciopni' -in rud progics.- in the Kianiath Ba Ml will be bcgimiuis. . And The water of the Klamath river will have been committed to COM PLETE BENEFICIAL US3. If we can get the water of our great river committed to complete bene ficial u-e. we need no longer tear that somebody wiil atcal it from us. Body Taken From Beach CRESCENT CITY, Calif. (UP Searchers early today retrieved the body of Dr. Fred W. Holmes from the base of a 2000-foot clili overlooking Ihe choppy Pacific wa ters thai claimed four members of the prominent Phoenix family. Positive idcimncaium of the body was made by Dr. Howard Holmes, the victim's 'brother. The body was finally brought out at 1:30 a.m. after the rugged terrain had frustrated searchers for four days. A party of climb ers aided by a pack horse succeed ed in hauling the body up the sheer face of the cliff after similar ef forts fa iled yesterday. (Early story on page 19) Pair Facing Court Trial SACRAMENTO (UP Troy Hess 18, signed waivers here today to return to Salt Lake City to face robbery charges. His companion, Mike Sterling:, 21, agreed to do so later. Detective Sgt. John Kenealy said the two men, arrested here Friday on vatrraticy and concealed weapon charges, were wanted in Utah for the robbery of a Safeway grocery. Kenealy said the two men also had been implicated in the robbery of an elderly Arizona woman near Elko. Nev., and the rape of the woman's rt'urse. Implication in the latter event was made by Hess' wife, Drucilla 18. Red Bluff. Kenealy said. She has filed a divorce suit against Hess and informed Red Bluff police her husband told her of the Elko event. Kenealy said he did not know (he name of the two Nevada victims. The two men allegedly took S40 from the women in their parked car. Then tiiey dragged the nurse from the car and attacked her, Kenealy said. 1ULLETI.N WASHINGTON P A bill authorizing California and Ore gon to negotiate a compart for apportionment of waters of the Klamath River has been signed by President Eisenhower. ? t V ' . . .... ' - .. - ; . ' V,. 0 - AN INTREPID reporter-phofographer teem forsook the one horie lhay and climbed into a revolutionary contraption called an automobile to cover thit fire. It may look out of the past, but happened only yesterday. The auto it a 1916 Pierce-Ar-row. owned by Julian Eccles, old-car fancier. He took Herald SN FRANCISCO UP Gen.' George C. Kenney. Allied ir com-, mander in the Southwest Pacific in , World War II, said today any na-j lion that holds U. S. citizens! as prisoners should be attacked aU! er 48 .hours ot warning. 1 Kenney spoke - at a press con ference with. John Alison, president of the Air Force Association, at ; ihe opening of the association's' convention here ! "It ii the duiy and obligation ot, this country to make a great clamor' when American airmen are imprisoned by China or Russia in the future, he said. WAIT THEN STRIKE He urged a -return, to President Theodore ; Roosevelt's1, policy on nations taking American prisoners. "Wait 48 hours and then strike." Teachers Get School Course WEED Teachers, from the Weed schools completing a ..two weens course of summer school ing under the direction of Chieo State College, Chico, mciudcMrr,. Lois Mardahl, Mrs. Orlando Rui falo, Mrs. Hazel Cates. Mrs. Ger ald Moore, and Joyce Bast ot the Weed Elementary Sc ool nnd Mrs. William Hughs of the Weed High School staff. They have been enrolled In the course, conducted in the Grenada elementary school since August 1. entitled School Administration and School Law which covered adminis tration on the local level, and rela tionships of federal, state and local control and various other topics. The course was open to. persons having a bachelor's degree or a valid state day school service cre dential. Cloud Seeding Contract Renewed 'FRESNO (UP) Renewal of a one year cloud seeding contract with the Weather Modification Company of Redlands had been approved by the Kings River Con servation District; directors. The company has conducted, cloud-seediug operations l'rom Jan uary through lust April in an effort to increase precipitation over the Kings River watershed. The renewed contract calls for expenditure of $30,000 from Novem-! ber to April 195-3. The directors paid d6 evaluation was made ot this year's operation because of its brevity. Sl'B STOCKHOLM W Swedish na vy vessels searched Tuesday fori an unidentified submarine report-! cd just north of Sweden's Baltic island of Gotland but found noth-, ing. It was the fifth mystery un- , dersea craft seen in the area since; ; mid-July. . I '3 f Kenney said the Army was justi fied in tring its men who uuonnea on fellow prisoners while in Red prisons but discouraged similar prosecution of airmen who broke down under brainwashing. These arc methods that can break- anybody,' K?nny said. "Therefore the Air Force should not treat returning prisoners like- the Army and try them. But airmen should b treated individ ually on whatever b.isis of actions they took while enemy prisoners," ne said. TORTURED He said tl.p United Slates was wrong in tiiiening action while Americans remained imprisoned. Alison, agreed. "They underwent physical' and mental torture while their country look no direct action," Aiison &aid. "We as a nation are guilty." Alison, hn executive of tne Norlh rup Aiation Co., said Russia was outproducing the United Stales in jet aviation. Yesterday a leading aviation ex pert rebuKed the aviation industry lor being "laggardly" in failing to make the younger generation cons cious of the impact of the air age on their own lives. Hew Honor Camp Slated SACRAMENTO UP A $318,533 contract lot' construction o a new Yoyth Authority honor camp at MU Bullion eight miles from Mftt'i pona whs. awarded today by the Department of Public Works. The contract awarded to Alva Ha; kncy and' ons, Bakerstield. calls for construction of a number of fv im and metal buildings in cluding a total of 31.000 square feet of floor space to provide accomo dations for 80 boys and 22 em ployes. When completed the" camn will replace the existing camp at Coarse Gold in Madera Codnty. The department also announced It had opened a low bid of $209,300 for s round improvements for 14 wards at Porterville State Hospital. The bid was submitted by the L. B. Wells Construction Co., Vlsalla. C'lltrrs TICKETS Keith O'Hair, general chair man for Polack Brothers Shrine Circus engagement here, an nounced Wednesday that free tickets for the children's mati nee Friday can be obtnined In many sections of the Bnsin h eluding: Bill Lorenz Store, Chllo fjuln: Walker Brothers Shell Station, Merrill; Mervyn Wilde Store. Malin; Virgil Baron's, Tulelake. and Sycan Store. Bly. The tickets were donated by Klamath Falls business and pro fessional men. A and News photographer Don Kettler and reporter Joe Riqert to this fire on the O'Connor ranch on Spring Lake. The fire was set by the O'Connor's to burn off old brush and improve the land for pasture use. Rigert, right, and Eccles survey the smoke from the old vehicle, - 9 Vc!ntr$cM 4- J ' . " ! 5V t f THESE TWO CHILDREN were collecting bottles this morning in hopes of obtaining funds to ride some ponies. They are Eugene McComas, loft, 2363 South Sixth Street, and Mavis Bates, 2339 South Sixth Street. They will be interviewed to night at 10:15 o'clock on station KFLW. Police Find Body Of Man Shot To Death In His Car DALY CITV UP The body ofi a man tentatively Identified asirrnnvaiinn tr. Ran nvBnniu.t tain Ross Hall, 38 r i c&iiu, whs tuiuiu on the Coast Highway today with a bullet hole in the head and both hands bound by the victim's neck tie. ' ' -- Policeman Phillip La Bruzzo found the body slumped In the front, seat of a 1053 club coupe. Had's empty wallet was found on the ground. There was a gunshot wound in the head and a .45- caliber revolver, with two shots fired, lying on the floor. Predator Kill Funds Gaining SALEM Ml A total of $150,000 will be speTit In the next 12 months to kill predatory animnls in Ore gon, the Slate Agriculture Depart ment said Wednesday. Thirty-two counties will conlril nle 4120,440, and the department $23,500. The total Is $16,000 more than In the last fiscal year, The killing is done by hunters hired by the state. Douglas County will spend MV 000. more than any other county. Lane Is ne:it with $7,500. followed by Coos and Klamath, $6,000 each. ..' it lsmt .WAtart ,Mto 1 1-1 if tK Yi I V v. VfH v, 3 His employers at Mars Metal Hall checked In last night alter two-week business trip. The fm$ said he worked for them both In .Frcsiiu jnd San Franctsco. Hall's former wife, Evelyn, 34, secretary for a San Francisco in surance adjuster, told San Fran Cisco police she had not seen Hall lor four months. They were di vorced three years ago. Last May, Hall was arrested on a check charge and sent to San Francisco Hospital for psychia tric examination and released. The charge was dismissed. He formerly worked as a BUbpena server., for a detective agency in San Francisco but the firm said he was fired over the check matter. Bathing Suit Leads To Suit CHARLESTON, S.C. M-Claudia A. Hamilton says she went swim ming in a new bcthing suit and suffered mortification and humil iation, Ahock, permanent Injury to her nerves and "psychic injury to her personality." The suit, from the waist down, became trnn.sparcnt, she claims tn her suit for J20.000 against the Glamor Shops, Inc.. of New York. Crowds spotted he: risintr from the sea in flsemi'nudc, stale, she claims, and a friend rushed to knock her back into the water to cover her form from Raping males. She s;iid fche was forced to v.tIIi Ihe gauntlet up the .slmnd rnca.wd in a towel for protection from the lecr.i of ihe public. . ." xperts Find 'i-r w ' $ Mr if Klamath Falls Area Bad But Curable It didn't lke luiiu for three j tr.oiqmlo experts lo discover rea sons for Ihe bug problem in Klam-; ath Falls. "We found mosfjuiio breeding ! jireii.s In a Rood muny places." revealed L. J. Oijden, eulomolo , jii.-,t w j til the US, Public Health iScrvire. as he ssu alted at a couple of the ni.eci v . Oyden and bin co-worker. F. C. Ha mist on, nre n..MMinir La Verne Miller, supervisory Manila rian of I Ihe vector control program of the j Mni hoiiid ol henlth, in a survey j of Ihe Kliiiimlh Falls urea. Tiie ci'v h.id requested the jrrv ice of Miller in mi eitort lo find a method ol alleviating tlr riow it:u nuiquito prolem here. The m oup exprt-t to linuli li-. Hid' iod Hiul Rivr leport of u li.. ' Vrii found iimnii v. i:h sua 'je.' ion Im runt i o procriun. io Bnb Bunuiy. fiirecloi of (he t it i en fitt ion dcpt ri infill . Oden ilmi the VVc.-l side of Upper Kluiuuth l.Hte wan a particularly bad breeding area lor Ihe mosquitoes. "This is where the Aedes-dor-ati type is bred." he revealed. "They ere the ones responsible for the recent troubles at Moore Park." i He pointed out thai such land Storm Could Lash Out Anywhere On Eastern Seaboard HATTER AS, N. C. im Hurrl-, cane Connie, her m i 2 h t y list cocked at the Carolina coastline, 1 held off the blow Wednesday. The , destructive storm lolled offshore and Kept o user vers guessing wnere she would strike. Tne whote east coast was alert to her danger. The Weather Bureau in an 11 a.m. advisory placed the storm renter 226 miles southeast, of Myrtle Beach, S. C, and said there was little movement and probably would be little for 12 hours. The peak wind may have drop ped from 133 to 125 miles an hour, the bureau said. Any wind over lb miles an hour is hurricane force. WARNINGS Hurricane warnings were hoisted from Myrtle Beach, vacation spot where Hazel came ashore last year, to the Virginia Capes. Tne bureau said the future path of Connie is uncertain, but winds prooably would reacn gale force on the North Carolina coast Wednesday night and hurricane tiorce by Thursday morning with tne center likely to head lor Cape Lookout, southwest of here. The entire eastern seaboard. Valley Water Supply Low MEDFORD Wi Three Jackson County Irrigation districts are fac ing a critical shortage of 'water, and unless it rains soon, at least one of the districts will be out of supply. The districts are Medford, Rogue River Valley and Talent. Medford and Rogue River Valley have been unable to get full canal capacity from lake reservoirs in the moun tains, the managers said, and by the end of the month. If the short age continues, they will be able to deliver only one - third the amount of water now being de livered, i Adding to the seriousness Is a scheduled water supply next week by orchards that have had only one Irrigating. Officials said orch, orchards that have had only miM.i. ..ia -Any more until the situation im proves. The local weather office said no rain is expected In the near future. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Continued fair and warm through Thursday, Hiyh tomorrow 90, low tonight 53, , High yesterday - fl Ijw last night H 55 Freclp. last 24 hours H .... .0 Since Oct. 1- 7.0 ' Last year I4.&S Normal for period 12.43 Crop Duster Course To Be Offered REEDLKY UP Reedlev Col loRe announced today it will be come the second school in the na tion to offer courses of training; for crop dusters. The adult evening section of the college will offer a class beRin ninR Sept. 12 for commercial pilots vho desire to learn safe and effec live aerial nppllcntion of auricul turnl materials. Topics will include ahplane care and service. Insect control, seeding and fertilizing, weed and brush control, customer relations, and plant disease con trol. The course is patterned after a program which has been offered previously by Texas A it M. Mosquito Problem In which is flooded and allowed to dry is particularly favorable as a breeding area for the insects. "A big brood iron, there could filter all over Ihe town." he added. Another favorite breeding loca tion for the bugs was noted in the Suuih Suburli.n srrtion. There the group, including Mux Ri a den, county health MHiitnititn. found a pasture on Cret SI reel near Bnardman Avenue where In eially millions of larvae were in a breeding stane. HarnMon dipped out a cupful of waler that contained more than :i00 of the tluv larvae, which will be adult- w Uhi.i live days, "It i- Itnpo-.'-iblc to estimate how many mosquitoes are here." id Ourn. hut the figure would hf astiomtmical They could Mood the whole town." He tre. eel th.il lhi shows why I' i inioi tani io go beyond Ihe n'v limits when attemitinu o con tiol the Inject.-, which some times travel ns Jh r as fic miles Irum their breeding aiea. "The bet way lo gel rid of these would be to get rid of the water," observed Ogden. "But if you can't do that you have to treat thm with chemicals." He Mud that log canals and drainage ditches al.o weie favor able to Inflect breeding. where three 1054 hurricanes which killed more than 250 persons and caused upward of iy4 billion dol-, lars damage, girded for an even tuality and kepi a watchful eye on Connie's progress. Indications were that Connie would hit not far from the point Hazel came to land last Oct. 1& to sweep northward through the heavily populated east clear to Canada. Most hurricanes blow themselves out shortly after they reacn land. But alter Hazel, no chances were being taken. HIGH TIDES Towering waves and high tld already pounded the North Caro lina shore and hard tropical show ers pelted residents and vacation- 1 era moving to safety away from uir ueacnes. ueacnes took on ft - deserted look of winter. , The entire east coast from Sa vannah, Oa., to Provincetown, Mass., was under hurricane aiert. Rough seas were reported all along ne area. Crowded automobiles, piled tilth. with belongings, moved away from the Carolina beaches. High water lapped protective sand dunes and beach front homes long before the storm arrived. Two men already have died In directly as a result of Connie. ineir Navy plane crashed at Nor folk, Va., as they sought to evac uate 11 to safely Inland. Air Force, Marine and Navy planes all along the eastern sea board were put In hangars o flown lnliyid to safety, Navy ships nut to sea tfl ride out Ihe storm rather than be battered against docks. The supcrcarrler Forrestnl. still unfinished at New port New. Va., was made as se cure as possible in her berth. RADAR TOWER A hundred miles oft Cape Cod, construction workers labored through the night trying to secure a 10-mllllon-dollar radar tower ba Ing built at sea. A coast guard cut ter stood by to take them otf the lowering structure. The American Red Cross hurried 41 hurricane disaster experts to strategic points along the coast, Connie generated Into a btff ?l"tm "J V., ., u ' tr out In the Atlantic. She soon vea?i until tfhp got to Lontr Island before smashing ashore and into New England, killing- 68 oeraons. Hurri cane Edna hit the Cape Cod area, eastern Maine and parte ot Car." nda. kill me 12. i Hurricane Hazel came later to wreak havoo from the South Car ol iha coast all the way into Can Litterbugs Fined In Dunsmuir Area DUNSMUIR Two litterbURi were fined In Dunsmuir Judicial court this week. Robert C. Harris and Lloyd K. Roa were both found guilty of dumping trash adjacent to a coun ty road near Molt and fined 11 each by Judge A. A. Smith. Both men were ordered to clean up the trash under the supervision of a forest servlco employe. PERSISTENT PIKEVILLE, Ky. WV-It took S4 years for Mrs. Joe Hunt to get through high school, but not be cause she was slow in learning. Mrs. Hunt, 49, wife of a Del barton, W. Va., coal miner, toolc ?.0 years off to get married and rear a family of eight children. She finished high school last May. With alr.io.st a full summer's col leae work at Pikcvllle Junior Col lege hchjnd her, she is starting on i four-year course which will lend to a high school teacher's certifi cate. ' If these ditches were cleaned and the water kept moving you wouldn't have lo worry too much," he revealed. Oxrtrn said that the whole pro gram of control depend on map ping the breeding areas and treat ing them rather than spraying for the mosquitoes where they appear. Ho also told of the possibility of disease cuused by the insects. Mosquitoes have been known to spread encephalitis, or .sleeping sickness, to human being aa well I as animals. "We found pool.-; Unit were posi tive with the virus in Montana." he said, "althoush there were no , cases reported there." Osdcn and Harmston have been coniinmg their activities mostly to the Pacific Northwest in their i .studies. Their office Is located at Logan, Utah. The two men are particularly concerned with government reels n.aMim and h Titration project, I which often become breeding areas for the bugs. Miller asked them to help him with his study of the Klamath Falls area. He has been helping local commumtieH throughout the state with their mosquito problems. Hti major concern is with vec tors, or disease-carrying insects. X
