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By FRANK JLNKINS
Connie still dominates the news
t lhe hour this is put together.
There are signs thai the lady
is getting older and a bit more
ieeble. But her tantrum isn't over.
Meanwhile her younger sinter Di
ane is growing up and getting
wickeaer.
Personally, I'm glad thev both
play in somebody else's yard.
Speaking of play. I saw an In
leresting sight as I was coming
to work the other morning. Three
children were having a whale of a
time Willi the discarded inner tube
of an old truck tire.
It was about half inflated, and
they were jumping up and down on
it in high glee, laughing and shout
ing. Every now and then one would
jump a little too high and would
come a mild cropper. Every time
that happened, it would set the
three of them off into new gales
of laughter.
It was a pleasant sight.
It takes so LITTLE to amuse
'em at that age.
When they GROW UP it will be
different. In their grown-up life,
NECESSITIES will cost them Ut
ile, in comparison with their earn-
in? power, but THEIR AMUSE
MENTS WILL BE FANTASTICAL
LY EXPENSIVE.
Instead of the discarded inner
tube of an old truck tire, they'll
then require a shining new auto
mobile before they can even GO
TO THE PLACES where the kind
of amusement they will insist upon
can be bad.
That recalls a good smart crack
back in the Gay Nineties:
"It isn't so much the high cost
or living that bankrupts us as the
COST OP HIGH LIVING."
I reckon that always has been
true.
As has often been remarked, this
Is a queer world, and the people
who live in it are queerer still.
One never can tell where they will
find pleasure.
There's the case of George Shep
herd, who is now a prosperous lum
ber dealer in the British crown
colony of Sarawak. He has just
made a 10.000-mile trip to London
for ONE sole purpose to drop
a one-pound note (presently worth
2.801 on the sidewalk in Bayswa
ter square.
Why?
Well, he hopes it will be found
bv some down-and-outer. He ex
plains that when he was broke
back during the Great Depression
he found a pound note in Bayswater
souare and it changed his luck.
From that moment, he -ceased to
no from bad to worse and began
lo ro from orood to Dettoj-
Now he's sitting pretty. So he's
going half around the world to
drop a pound note on the sidewalk
in the hope mat someoooy else
can do likewise. '
It's a pious impulse, and I hope
he isn't kidding himself about his
reason for making his long trek
from Sarawak (which is a little
bit of Old England that still
stretches along the coast of the
big and still wild island of Borneo
in the East Indian arcmpeiagoj
- to London.
But I can't help wondering.
The excuses that people can
dream up for TAKING A TRIP
are fabulous.
Suspects In
Murder Hinted
OAKLAND (UP Attorneys for
Burton W. Abbott have disclosed
they are investigating two brand
new "suspects" in an attempt
to clear their client of charges
he murdered 14-year-old Stephanie
Bryan.
Stanley Whitney, spokesman for
Abbott's three attorneys, said
leads on the suspects were picked
up in the past few days. He re
fused to disclose any further In
formation about the two suspects
beyond saying one lead "looks
verv interesting."
Whitney also attacked the Ala
meda County District Attorney's
olfice for "spending so much time
and efiort endeavoring to discredit
Abbott's story that it has lost
sight of the strong possibility that
another person or persons are
guilty of the crime."
Stephanie disappeared on April
28 while returning to her Berkeley
home from school. Her body was
found July 20 near the Trinity
County cabin owned by Abbott's
brother-in-law. Abbott has admit
ted being at the cabin that week
end.
Timber Area
Probe Slated
Five United States Senators will
be in Klamath Falls on November
15 for a hearing on government
timber sales policies. Richard Neu
berger cD-Orei told the Herald and
News today by telegram.
The special Senate Interior Sub
committee. Sen. Neuberger tele
erapherl. will consist of Sen. James
E. Murray. Montana, chairman:
Sen. Kerr Scott. North Carolina;
Sn. George Malone. Nevada; Sen.
Thomas Kuchel, California: and
Sen. Neuberger.
At the hearing he said. "Empha
sis probsbly will be on need for
equal access bv all lumber oper
ators to federal timber holdings."
He pointed out the Klamath Falls
hearing date Is tentative, and that
the committee's program now calls
for "approximately five hearings
of one day each in Oregon and a
umilar schedule In Washington
State."
Fries Fire Cents It Pages
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OPAL THE ELEPHANT wain't too much Inclined to perform in the heat for Terry Greanleaf
(left) and his brother, Keith. Opal, pachyderm iter of the Polack Brothers Shrint Circus,
"sat down on the job." The educeted elephant if shown with the boys and her trainer, Peggy
MacDonald. The big show closes at the fairgrounds with night performance Saturday.
Rescue Teams Still Probe
Ruins Of Ohio Town After
Blast Claims Lives Of 27
ANDOVER, Ohio im Tired res
cue crews, pushing aside black
ened beams with crowbars and
diamine into ashes with shovels,
continued to search the wreckage
along Andover's explosion - torn
square today for more victims.
Officials said lhe death toll from
the -blast -and fire which hit this
email farming community Wednes
day night may rise above the last
(figure. 21. At least 21 persons were
injured.
A number of queries about miss
ing persons indicate two or uiree
more bodies might still be undis
covered in the debris, the oliicials
said.
Bodies of 19 victims had been
positively identified by early to
day. '
Two bodies lying in a garage
Rolling Log
Kills Trucker
LAK3VIEW Paul LeRoy Pe
terson, 47, Alturas. was killed al
most instantly Thursday, August 11,
at noon when a log rolled on him
while unloading a truck at the Ray
Lumber Company pond, three miles
west of Lakeview.
Peterson, traffic manager of Mo
doc Transport Company, had been
hauling for the Ray Lumber Com
pany the past year and was haul
ing the logs from the area west of
Paisley.
Kerr .Mortuary- of Alturas
handling funeral arrangements. Pe-1
terson is survived by his wife.
DONALD WOOD, who it ont ef tha owners of the North En
trance Union station, postd for tha photographer this morn
ing. Ho livts at 2550 Reclamation and will ba interviewed over
KFLW tonight at 10:15.
U3ed as a temporary morgue still
were unidentified.
The cause of the explosion, which
centered in the Gateway Restau
rant, where many of the victims
had sought shelter from a storm,
remained a mystery. One theory
is that it -was caused by either
escaping fuel gas or by sewer gas
backed up toy clogged drains.
Among the latest dead identified
bum tsiianeil A. icirkhnn. .tit. an
airline mechanic from Ingram,
Pa.- his son John R., 13; ana
daughter. Margie, 8. Kirkhan's
wife Margaret was missing and it
was believed Her ooay may oe
buried in the ruins.
Among those who filed through
the makeshift morgue in seercn
of relatives was William Cutllp. of
nearby Williamsfield, a lumber-
jack.
Walking slowlv out of the garage,
he said quietly, "I hope thai. I will
never again have to see what I
saw this morning."
He had just picked out the bodies
of his 16-year-old twin daughters.
Arlene and Darlene. wno naa oeen
waitresses in lhe restaurant. He
identified them by their shoes.
Other identined dead:
Frank Fellows, 82, Cleveland; his
wife Barbara, 45; their adopted
son Richard, 8; Donald Koces, 10.
a neighbor of the Fellows lamuy:
Mrs. Evelyn Marie Labus. North
Hldeevllle. Ohio: Forrest Biesler-
veld, 16, Andover; Tom Brown, 32,
Andover; Thomas ' Kennen, .
Pittsburgh; George A. Schroeder.
24, Pittsburgh; his wile Shirley, 2:1:
their son George, Jr.. 2; Cecil
Polndexter. 33, Massillon. Ohio:
Helen Jones. 34, Andover: Barbara
lOlfut, 19. New Lyme, Ohio.
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST
TTT'
Rough Cattle
Shipped Here
Twenty-six carloads of range cat
tle, one of the largest strings of
horned cows left In the area, ar
rived In Klamath Falls about 3
a.m. today at. the Southern Pacif
ic stockyards.
The 100 cows were loaded at By
can Marsh Thursday and stopped
here for sorting and bang-testing.
Accoramg to hod Clark ot Ben
son BoDine and Clark Livestock
Commission Company, North Port
land, who represent the ZX Ranch
in the sale, this was the last busi
ness transaction of Buster Vaughan.
foreman for the ZX at its Pais
ley headquarters.
Clark arranged for the sale of
the cattle to- Carstens Packing
Company in a telephone call to
the ranch headquarters. When he
called back to say when he would
arrive, he was told of the fore
man's death which had occurred
that day.
Six carloads of the critters will
leave tonight for the Spokane
slaughter house and six for Ta
coma where they will be slaugh
tered at the Carstens plant.
The remainder are going to
Moses Lake feed lots to be corn
fHttencd before slaughter. They
await the results of the tests and
shipment will be made over the
weekend.
Woman Dies
In Wreck
SAN MATEO UPt Mrs. Hester
D. Bonnot, widow of tt well known
California biologist, was killed In
stantly yesterday when she drove
her automobile into (he side of an
express train
Witnesses said Mrs. Bonnot ap
parently did not see or hear the
train or crossing signals when she
drove her car across the Southern
Pacific main tracks .at the 25th
Ave. crossing. They said she had
her head down at the time.
Police Spt. Earl McKinnon said
Mrs. Bonnot was thrown out of the
car and struck a telephone post 75
feet away. The train was the Del
Monte Express.
Mrs, Bonnot was the widow of
Dr. Paul Bonnot, a member of the
California Fteh and Game Division
for 2S years. He died four years
aso when he suffered a heart at
tack while conducting a research
project on abalone.
Mrs. Bonnot Jived In Menlo Park.
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North Carolina Battered
CAPE HATT'ERAS. N. C. (UPi
Hurricane Connie smacked against
the North Carolina coast today and
headed north toward the heavily
populated Eastern Seaboard while
far to the southeast another tropi
cal storm reached full hurricane
strength.
Tne new hurricane was Diane,
still 1150 miles east of Miami.
Highest winds already were up to
Eo or 90 miles an hour.
Connie bored Inland at More
head City, N. C in midmorning
with winds officially clocked at
about 100 milts an hour, but un
officially they were said to have
been considerably beiow that short
ly after they hit the coast.
The storm pushed tidewater far
inland, however, and atreams flood
ed their banks at scores of points.
Thousands were homeless.
NO MAJOR DAMAGE
An amateur radio operator re
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A SHOWER BATH really put Ksfa, 10-year-old performing
bear with the Polaclc Brothers Shrine Circus in tha pink. Tha
sagacious bruin it pictured with her trainer Herta Klauser. Tha
girl started working with bears in Austria and has toured tha
world. .
Potato Growers Facing
Problems With 7955 Crop
CHICAGO W! Potato, growers,
were told Thursday thev muit fig
ure how to dispose of a bumper,
400 million-bushel crop.
Earl L. Butz, assistant secretary
of agriculture, told a National Po-
la to Council nieetin the growers
themselves must find the answer),
io a piooiem inai inieaieiii. io
put many of them out of business.
Growers from 21 states, which
produce three-fourths ot the po
tato crop, reported that many po
tato growers, especially smaller
ones, would be driven out of busi
ness by low prices due to the bia
yield oO million bushels more than
last year.
Pacific Northwest growers re
ported tnese conditions. i j
Idaho Acreaue uo. good crop.!
Low prices will force losses onl
Wcatlier
FORECAST Klamath Kalis anil
vicinity: Fair through Saturday.
High Saturday 8H, low tonight 48.
High yesterday . 9'!
Low last night 54
Preclp. last 24 hours .
Since CM. 1
Same period last year .
Normal for period
Miners Vote
End Strike
EAST HELENA. Mont.
Workers have voted to end
, ,
week strike and return to work
Monday nt more pav in the Amor-
lean Smelting & Relining Co. plant
here
Albert Yurlcic. nciillntinR
chairman of the International
Mine. Mill & Smelter Workers Un
ion ilndi, said Friday the vote
was unanimous to accept a new
, ., , ; , , ,
contract. Since the first of July
240 men have been on strike.
The new dally pay ranges (rum
$15.13 to $18.03. The old ian?e was
114.21-17.11.
ported Irom a pot inland and west Hurricane force winds lanned out
i,l Morehead Cilv that he may haveiahoUi to miles east of center and
to close down beciu e tne top ol :
the tower where his equipment was I
located was about to blow away. !
Morehead City appeared to have;
escaped major aillMgc ana no III-:
juries were reported. I
T.ie Red Cro.s ho.i.ed 14.000 last
night in shelters alonu the North!
Carolina coast and another 6100 at
Mvrtlc Beach, S C.
The Miami Weather Bureau
passed control of Connie to
Washington weathermen but picked
right up on Diane.
An adrlsorv said Ulane had
reached lull hurricane force with
winds uo to 90 miles an hour. That
was almost precisely the path (ol- "ware breakwater,
lowed earlier by Connie. The new course of the alorm was
TO WEAKEN expected to bring hurricane winds
Connie was centered about 60ito Southeastern Delaware by
miles west of here, headed on a.l j late tooay or tonight, weather ob
"erratic" cbur.se toward t.ie north ' servers in Washington said.
mani small growers. Some pota-
toes being plowed up.
Oregon Acreage up. Generally
good orop. ;
Wathlneton Growers face worst
prospect In history. Increased
lacrpaxc. Onlv. 10 Dcr cent of nor-
raj shipments have been made
so far.
Butz said. "Government pro
grams only slow down progress in
industry. Tiiey merely preserve
the status quo. They end in regi
mentation and control and these
are not good."
Butz recommended the growers
accept a proposal by the council
lor a program to promote con
sumption. California
Protests Tax
SACRAMENTO UP The
Leauue ol California Cities today
Coined California counties in a pro-
"hest against tax assessment In-
'.; ;?! creuscs in 14 counties.
In a letter lo the Board of
i Equalization, the league said if
' : the assessment increase goes
y through as scheduled Monday, a
I O number of cities would "be com
Ipletclv nimble lo balance current
I budgets."
The leauue aid the increase in
n assessment standards would mean
ian ultimate reduction in raxes paid
' state-.- lHraesl single property tax-
payer, and hence a tnreal to
iHv Kovi-iimicnts.
The bonrd was
scheduled toj
"equalize
s-.e.'isment rales Mon -
(ay bv Inrcing 14 counties io Doo.s.i,r,0 w. on tne w4y Dlu:u t Hua
tne vu lues tney now put on pp -
erty wi'hin tne counties, xne
threatened rate Increase nas
protested by the County Su-
perv sors Association, the County
,AmeMmH Association, the 14 coun-
i tien Involved, and Sen. Ben Hulse
i R-EL C e n t r o. president pro
temimic of the Senate and a 11-
nance leader In state government.
By Hurricane
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Force of the storm is expected
to "weaken gradually after another
six nouis, ine auvisury nuiu. mere
wes no lurther Indication of accel-
eratlon.
-j-,, wea'.hi r forecast was tor
i1Pavv rBn and high tides in the
storm's path north
Alth3U';h the noon forecast was
optlmiMic. all interests along the
coa-l to New England were cau
tioned to maintain an alert.
Hurricane Hags were hoisted
"om me Virginia capes to me uei-
Rhee Claims No Control In
Riots flaring Over Truce
Team Reds; National Shot
By MCF AT FROMSOS I boat. He said the guard spotted
aaa BILL SH1.NN them trying to steal canned milk
SEOUL A South Korean from a barge,
was shot and killed Friday and The guard's action, he said, had
riots continued in rising tension no connection with any anu-truce
over President syngman Rnee s
demand that pro-Communist truce
inspectora get out ot Korea by
Saturday midnight. Two other Ko
reans were wounded. '
An Informed source aald, mean
while, that Rhea advised the U.S.
government ha could not control
South Korean -demonstrators un
less U. 8. troops guarding truce
team personnel put away their
weaoons.
An Informed source said Gen.
L. L. Lemnltier, United Nations
rommander. in a Thursday confer
ence with. Rhee, charge d and
Rhee heatedly denied that the Ko
rean demonstrations were govern
ment inspired, .
It has been common anowieoge
that South Korean officials In the
past have ordered "spontaneous -demonstrations-
supporting other
Rhee objectives'.
The source said Rhee told Lem
nltier the United States also must
promise to help in peaceful evic
tion of Communist members of
the Neutral Nations Supervisory
Commission.
At Panmuniom u. 8. Mai. uen.
Harlan C. Parks told a stormy
Military Armistice Commission
session that "illegal" activities by
Polish and Cxech NNSC members
had provoked South Korea s seem
ing demonstrations. :
An 8th Army spokesman aaia a
U. S. soldier guard aboard a ship
in Inchon Harbor had llred his
carbine at three Koreans i
Savage Fire
Rips forest
ROSEBURO 11 Valuable felled
timber and around 60 acres of
standing -forest' were destroyed in
a two-dav lira controlled Tnursaay
afternoon. 60 miles, south of here.
Tfa Kl-a traUAd. but one
crew of loggers and a. county fire
patrol Temalnea at the acene, timn
daylight Friday, mopping up and
watching to prevent any new ouv
break. -Wavhe -Miller, dispatcher
tor the Douglas Forest, Protective
Assn.. -'aald' an .estimated nan-
minion bo&rd iaet of cut timber
a m ' . . i 1 m ' hi
wera DiaCKtnao, ana aisa annua '".
threatened -for. a time. At Inchon, Lt. B. D. Johnson.
Th flra started Wednesday enl"teciitlve officer of tha Army port
land being. logged by tha Triangle command, said tttere was "abso
rnrlnr fio.: Canvonvllle. Miller lutely no truth" to tha report h
said,, gasoline-operated power saw! American., aboard a patrol craft
eaurht fire, and the flames spread
over. so. or to acres oeiora neug
checked.
Ambassador
Dies In Crash
BANGKOK. Thailand, 11 A
car-truck crash JViday killed U.S.
Ambassador John K. Feurlfoy,
1 41, a diplomatic trouble shooter
i who starred in settlement of Gua
temala's , 1IS4 eivil war.
A man wno inteo. ib apuiu
cars, Peurlfoy and his -year-old
son Daniel, perished when his
Ford Thunderbird collided head-on
with a truck on a narrow bridge
138 miles south of Bangkok.
The ambassador's other son
Clinton Peurlfoy, 1. ' injured
critically in the smashup, which
came near the beach resort of Hua
Hin. on the Gulf of Siam.
The - tall, - handsome ambassador,
who celebrated his 48th birthday
on Tuesday, -came to Thailand last
Hm-amh, .ftr hrllli.nt service in
Greece and Guatemala. A career them, but were unable to speak be
hii.i k. h.n hi. irovernment caure of the language barrier, he
service in 1035 as a KSO-a-month.sald.
elevator operator In the Senate Of- He declared shot.1 then were
flee Building in Washington. fired from the patrol boat and the
He had arrived in the resort three were hit.
Thursday with his wife, Betty Jane ! Identified the man killed as
and their two sons for a 10-day Shim Han Kyoon, 33. The others
holiday. This morning he took the were Identified as Kim Keun Han.
boys to a nearby police training j 1, wounded In the thigh, and Ko
ba:e to watch Thai paratroopers
in an air-dropping operation
Reports received In Bangkok
i.u th. .-..irf.nt nrurrd as the
,jjjn
Strike Stills
Radio Outlook
OREOON CITT i.H A strike
of AFL electrical workers put sta
tion KOON here off the air at 8
a. m. Friday.
Charles D. Hoffman, business
manager of Portland local 4. In
ternational Brotherhood of Elec
trical Workers, said the walkout
was ordered after Erwln Adams,
station manager, had refused to
ter.ognlze the union.
He faid the union was certified
Aur. 1 a, the agent for seven
lechniclans and announcers after
winning an Oregon elections divi
sion collective bargaining contest.
He said Fred O. Scherer, state i
labor election, examiner, rest-1
firmed the certification Aug. 10
after hearing an appe,l bv Adam,.
The station manager said he had
10 days under the law to appeal
the examiner' second action, but
that the union refu-ed to wait unlll
his attorreys decided what the sta
tion should do.
Holfman accuser! Adam, of stall
ing and said the union had watted
long enough. He said the station
was paying "very substandard
wage,."
team demonstration.
The Korean national police in
sisted, however, that the three Ko
rean fishermen were hit by fire
from a U.S. Army patrol boat
guarding Wolmi Island, NNSC
team headquarters.
The 8th Army, which earlier had
said no "American weapons had
been fired at Wolmi," confirmed
that a Korean died of gunshot
wounds. The spokesman said two
wounded companions found in a
boat that drifted into the U. S.
Army anchorage at Inchon had
been hospitalised.
PROBE '
The spokesman said tha wounded
men were found at 4 a.m., an hour
after the ship guard fired. He said
investigation continued.
At Panmuniom, U.S. Ma. Gen.
Harlan C. Parks told a stormy
Military Armistice Commission
session that "illegal activity" by
pro-Communist Polish and Czech
members of NNSC had provoked
the South Korean protest demon
strations. South Korea charges the Poles
and Czechs have been spying. It
wants Swedish and Swiss members
also to leave.
The NNSC has defied South Ko
rea's ultimatum. .
In recurring riots and demon
strations since Saturday 22 U.S.
soldiers and about 100 Koreans
previously had been reported in
jured, none seriously.
wolmi, NNSC truce team head
quarters, has been a hot spot. U.S.
soldiers used tear gas and tire
hoses - earlier this week, to turn
back Koreans trying to storm a
causeway leading to the island,
now ringed with machine guns
manned by American soldiers.
Parks assured that the United
Nations Command would "make
every effort" to protect NNSC
members.
CAN'T SHIRK
Earlier Maj. Gen, Jung Koolc
Rok, senior Communist delegate,
had said the U.N. Command "can
never shirk the responsibility" for
ouimui- 5j nranuen - uy
claiming you cannot Interfere in
what the Syngman Rhee clique la
aoing. t i j -
Parks, senior An led delegate,
said, ;4The U.K. Command do.
not exercise control over the ROK
..4 I o-A1rnn manl !
had shot three Koreans..
Kim Chung Hung. South- Korean
national director, insisted that the
three were hit by shots" from the
American patrol boat. Kim in
sisted an American officer, whom
he would not name or identify bv
position, had told him the fire cam
from a U.S. Army patrol craft.
Before reporting a U.S. .lap
guard had fired on three Koreans
trying to steal milk from a barge,
the 8th Army spokesman had
given this account:
BOAT DRIFTS
"At 4 a.m. today a boat with
three wounded Koreans drifted Into
the Armv anchorage at Inchon.
They were taken to the Army boat
pier, one dying en route. The
others, with leg wounds, were hos
pitalized. 'An investigation determined that
no American weapons had been
fired at Wolmi, The investigation
Is continuing."
A Korean police spokesman said
the patrol boat threw its search
ebts on the three Koreans wnue
they were Irving to remove their
boat from Wolmi as tide went out.
The three men put up their
hands when the lights fell upon
o"- i"'. " ... ..,
ANGIE VACENT. a candidate
for Lumberjack Quean, it
poniored by the Mount Sh
ta Rotary Club. Mii Vecenr
it competing with four other
queen candidate! in a popu
larity contett. The winner will
be announced at the Corona
tion Ball, Saturday, Auquit
13, at the Lumberjack Fieita
in McCloud, ,
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