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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 22, 1955)
IT mm 0 4ea " In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS What - thinkers - re thinking bout: 1 U. S. Secretary of thev army: "Despite increased hopes for peace, the military might of the United States must be kept strong and alert ... It would be foolhardy to forget the history of commu nist violence, duplicity, subversion and armed aggression." Comment first from Shake speare (Hamlet, Act I): : "O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain! My Ubles meet it is I set it down, , "That one may smile and smile i and BE a villain." i Comment No. 2 from Crom well: t "Put your trust' in God. my boy s. ana ne.&r' iuuh ruwutn DRY." t More on what thinkers are think ing: i American Bar Association Presi dent Lloyd Wright: "I am fearful of the drift down the path of pa ternalism by Americans looking .more and more to SECURITY. In dividual liberty and initiative have been threatened by emphasis on government benefits. " What he means, "although he doesn't put it into those exact words, Is history's lesson that the only GUARANTEED security is that of the slave. For weeks, we've been immense ly interested in the reactions of the Russian farmers who are visit ing; our country. It's Just as well to remember that we have other farm visitors from abroad. One of them is a young Englishman, a farmer from Park Wrotham, in the English county of Kent. He is making a four-month inspection of our Western farms as a represen tativa of the National Federation of Young Farmers Clubs of Great Britain. . Interviewed at Hollister (in Cali fornia) this morning, ha says: The American way of trying to find the easiest way to do the job interests me immensely. In your commercial potato fields, for stance, the pickers sling their empty sacks on their backs or hang them on hooks on a belt and put the potatoes directly into "In England, we'd put the po tatoes in a basket, and then TB.ANBFFR THEM TO THE BAG. That wastes time." " He adds: "English fanners could make better use of mechanization. The use your American farmers make of machines ia nothing short of amaaing." He's vastly impressed by Ameri can agricultural techniques, but he doesn't think too much of our POLITICAL farming methods. He says: "England controls markets to protect its farmers against cheap er Danish and New Zealand butter, or eggs from Poland. But you are supporting prices and GETTING SURPLUSES: then supporting prices BECAUSE of the surpluses. "It Just doesn't make sense." He offers us some pointers. For example: "American farmers could make wider use of single-wire electric fences, used extensively In Eng land to move stock over pastures while giving grazing areas a rest." He makes another Interesting ob servation. "American farmers are less tidy about keeping up their places than English farmers. I am amazed by the contrast between your farm ers' new cars and some of their farm buildings." Anyone who thinks English farm ers are backwoodsy should take a trip through England's rich farm districts, such as the Midlands. In general, English farmers., are up-and-coming, even by American standards. In their grass-farming methods, they are far ahead of us. As for the tidiness and the beau ty of their farmsteads well, we could learn a lot from them in that respect. Morse Urges FCC TV Booster Rule WASHINGTON fii Sen. Morse D-Ore Sunday urged the Federal Communications Commission to Issue regulations soon on operation of booster television systems. The systems are used to carry television to small communities. Existing rules, the senator said, "are a stumbling block to the type of inexpensive, short distance booster station needed in many small communities" such as Oak ridge, Prineville and Sheridan in Drepnn "It is the responsibility of the commission to make television ervice available to everyone and 1 'he citizens of small communities j ' if the slowness of the commission ! ; m formulatine a set of regula-' ons." he said. i I ' tear cas isr.n 1 ' TAIPEI. Formosa Police ' vied three tear gas bombs S'uidaj I to disperse 60 defiant squatters; ho had built 13 shsevs on a tublic lane In Taipei. The squatters i ted to repulse the police with Rubs and stones. . Price Five Cents 14 rages Prominent Oregonians Die In Lake GANGES. B. C. A promi nent Oregon banker and two mem bers of his family were drowned while fishing at St. Mary's Lake pear here Sunday. Drowned when their rented boat capsized were Mr, and Mrs, Bailey Stevens of Milton-Freewater, Ore., and their 5-year-old daughter, Sonia. ;' Two other daughters, Sally, 12, and Mary Louise, 9, were saved by other fishing parties who rushed to the scene in answer to calls for help. St. Mary's Lake U on Salt Spring Island. 20 miles from Victoria. Police said tne family was on a one-day trip to the lake from lodge here. BOAT OVERTURNS The boat overturned in deep water near the shore. The entire family clung to the boat and shouted lov help. . Mounted police said the three victims apparently were unable to hang on until rescuers arrived, and sank, shortly before help reached them. Police said both Mr., and Mrs. Stevens were reported to be strong swimmers. The two daughters saved were unable to swim. An inquiry mto the drowning was scheduled later Monday, but was expected to be adjourned after the bodies had been formally laenti lied. The two younir survivors will be taken back to Milton-Freewattr by another American lamily, staying at the lodge with the Stevens fam ily. DETAILS VAGUE Police said few details of the ao cidenl were available but it wa3 understood Steven3 was standing in the boat and fly casting when it overturned. Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Edwards of Victoria were the first to reach the scene and pulled the two girls to safety. . . - Edwards dove into the water sev eral times in' search of the other three but 'was unable to locate Ihem. The bodies were recovered early Monday. Fire Charge Term Given YREKA A 39-year-old Happy Camp mill worker is In the Siski you County Jail at Yreka after pleading guilty to discarding s liehted cigarette which started a forest fire which cost $85,000. Archie Sneaden was sentenced Saturday by Judicial Judge Philip Toleman, Happy Camp district, to six months In tall lor discarding a lighted cigarette In the forest, 90 days suspended sentence tor smok' ing in the woods and two years probation added to the six-months sentence. Sneaden was- arrested Thursday by Harry Arheart, regional U. S. Forest investigator, and Thome West, special investigator for the forest service, after two of snead en's friends had reported that he was responsible for a forest lire which started August 13 about two and one-half miles up the Klamath River from Happy Camp. Ralph L. James. Klamath Na tional Foiest fire dispatcher, said the fire burned 620 acres in the Klamath National Forest, destroy ing approximately two million board teet of timber valued at 150.000. More than 260 men and much heavy equipment was used to fight the fire which was brought under control on August 14. James aid. There are still 19 men on mop up work at the site of the lire, he added. One man, Vernon Keller, of Happy Camp was injured in the fire fighting when a tree, knocked over by a piece of equipment, tell on him, breaking his shoulder. He was hospitalized at Medford. Sneaden told the court that he and a companion. Dick Southard, -vere swimming in the Klamath River. With another man. iirwin Hill, they were walking through the woods when he dropped behind and lighted a cigarette. He said they had been drinking and he remem bered dropping his cigarette. When they got to a cabin they noticed a fire had started but none ot the three men reported It The fire was reported by a ranger station lookout shortly therealter. Weather FORECAST Klamith Falls and vlclnitr: Fair IhrourH Tuesday, f High Tuesday 80; low Monday ' uiKht 44. Huh ye&leriUr ... 8X Low Ut nil lit . 41 Prerip. last 24 hour .nce (Hi. 1 l.M Samr period lat year 14. M or ma I for period . 12. i3 CRIME MEETING GENEVA tf More than MO delegates from 60 nation mev here Monday to copMder tnteni&tionai action to reduce crime. Thev alto plan to set agreed standards tor the treatment of prUocers. KLAMATH . XL y-ycm '. ,x GRAND CHAMPION MARKET LaMI of tht 4-H and FFA Fall Fair it held by (he owner, Sana Wait, left, of Merrill. Reserve champion wai won by Louisa Ratliff, alio of Merrill. Other win nan will ba announced. , TOP PLACING IN THE DAIRY DIVISION fudging of breeds af the 20th annual Klamath Junior Fall Fair want to (from left) Alvin Born, Olana Dairy Club, who showed the champion Hoi st ein; Sharon; Hobson, Merrill, and har champion Guernsey; Carol Roiling, Olena, with tha champion Jersey ribbon and Virginia Scala, Midland Dairy Club, who showed tha champion dual purpose cow. Judging will continue today and tomorrow and climax with a barbecue and auction sale Tuesday night, (Story on Page Four). . " 1,000 Die In Morocco Riots By CARL HARTMAN CASABLANCA, Morocco Xt Prnrn trrniii: anri FVirpion I.p. gionnaires uing tanks and tighter pianes oiasiea oacic at reDei oanas Monday alter a bloody weekend ot raids, riots and guerrilla tighUng left an estimated 1,000 dead In North Africa. Sporadic noting was reported all over Morocco, although appar ently most of the incidents were small outbreaks of nationalist vio lence. I Dependable casualty lipures arei lacking. One Paris newspaper put ;he death toll at 1,341. Semioiliciai figures, admittedly conservathe, gave a total near 600. Experienced reporters in North Africa said a. loll near 1,000 v. as more likely. Probably the exact number killed never will be known because the rebels carried av ay many of their j dend before the French could count them. While both Morocco find Algeria! still seethed, French Premier Faure ard Foreign Minister Pmay. heading a cabinet "Committee of Five," opened a week of talks with' Moroccan leaders at the Fiencn, resort oi Aix les Bams. Tneir aim) is a scheme of greater self govern ment for the turbulent protector-1 ate. ! French tank.; launched a inajoi j operation iMonaay morning against: the rebel tribesmen who massa. cred about 80 French at Ouedj Zm. a mining center in the Tadlai region soutn of Casablanca. ' Authorities fear that the French I residents of Morocco may launch I reprisals as thev did last month when a oomb killed seven French.1 men in Casablanca. The official count of casualties. Mill Incomplete because of inter-, rup'.ed communications in omci sections, said more than 210 were1 dead in Morocco 90 European civilians. 2u French and native troops and more than 100 Moroc can rebels. In the ConsUntine area f Al geria, the government announced) toll was MA ' terrorists ' and 6 j French. In.AlgMii Frtftvii troops rounaW FALLS. OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST tt, IMS til ? 5 f f - ..." Ing up suspects rased nine villages in the area of Oued ZeniUi, center of the weekend disorders. Many of the rebels had been pursued in to the3- villages. : Despite the widespread violence. U.S. air bases in Morocco appar ently escaped unscathed over the weekend. , Mot of . the large cities In Mo Three Die In Mine Accident SHENANDOAH, Pa. Three men were killed and eight injured Monday when the 100 foot high steel and frame Kohinoor coal breaker collapsed. Twenty-six mrn were working In the breaker only one operating I Monday because of a hortage of i coal when the top of the breaker collapsed and r.-- of wood and' twl.sted steel roared down on the men working below. Ordinarily 150 men would be working in the breaker but coa) shipments were delayed by the floods which washed out railroad lines and roads in disa.stei-stricken Eastern Pennsylvania. The dead were Identified ax John O'Boyle. and Anthony Ma lick ! of Shenandoah, and Peter Rudy of ! Mahanoy City. ' I The injured, most in a Mate of shock, were removed lo Locu.st i Mountain Hospital Just out Id e ' Shenandoah. Joe Ryan, who wat landing on a bank near the brfMlt.fi . said he heard 'ror and mm scream-, ing." Rvin tried to telephone for help, but the telephone lme had been cut by the flying debris. He leaped into an automooile and raced into town for help. Men at the scene amid the in cessant rain of the past week may have weakened the structure. Shen andoah and the surrounding area have been drenched bv some nine or more inches of rain. . gfcl g-.rS 3 v-. rocco and Algeria were silent un der a tight curfew. ' In Morocco the fighting con tinued mainly in the hills and the approaches to the Atlas Mountains. The countryside around Marrakech was lit by numerous Incendiary fires last night. Jet fighters pa trolled overhead. Tanks clanked through the countryside. In Algeria, the well-coordinated strikes resembled the hit-and-run guerilla warfare which laid waste to French Indochina. The rebels smashed military outposts, then tied. But the French fought back effectively. In Morocco, some raids were ominously similar to the Mau Mau massacres which have ripped Britain's Kenya colony. Worst hit wan the little Morocan mining town of Oued Zem. about 100 miles southeast of Carab)anca. There 4.000 supposedly friendly Berber tribtmen pourrd down from the hills shoot inn i burning and mutilating men, women and children. The outbreak at Oued Zem wai only one of many. -BULLETIN- Klamath Form! Prntrcllvr As sociation worker, and all available fire fltlilcr. In the Blr area were rushing to llie acne of a forest lire whiih wa, first rep-irled burn ing at the fiinl nf Oearhart Moun tain at 1I:4J this morning. The fire was believed burning in the Ilfmlrig ('reea area anil the last report at pre,, time today tnrilrated that tile fir- mav de velop Into a hl blar. MASS MEETINGS THE HAGUE. Netherlands ' Some 4 S60 American Jehovah's Wltne.- .-.es prepared lo return home by plane Monday after taking part in one of the biegest mass move ment through .urope since World Way IL :3 ... ... I Stunned Survivors Teleahea fill Na. 11H Thornton, Patterson Air Opinions SALEM :.r Gov. Paul Patter son and Attv. Gen. . Robert Y. Thornton reiterated over the week end their conflicting opinions on an Investigation of the State Liquor Commission. Patterson issued a -statement in Portland saylng'"there are no sec ret tacts or Hidden documents" in the probe . of bribery charges aRalnt commission employes. Thornton replied Sunday tha-. Patterson's statement didn't tell the whole truth. The attorney gen eral contends that "seirel evi dence" exists in connection with the Investigation by two Portland attorneys hired by the commission. REIT'S AI. ' ' He said that he asked the gov ernor twice and both times had bepn reiused lor depositions he said had been taken by the investi gators. Thornton recently was denied a court order to give him testimony unri depositions made oeioie me investigators, Robert Maguire and Howard Bobbin. On Friday, Multnomah County Dist. Atty. William Langley an nounced that he would have the grand jury investigate tile liquor commission. Patterson has prom ised Langley "all co-operation and help." STATEMENT Patterson said in his statement. "I simply will noi. be a party to unauthorized investigations that the attorney general may desire to make in Multnoman county, Lin coln County or any other county." The governor added that tt would be a usurpation of power for Thornton to conduct a personal In vestigation of the liquor commis sion. ' - . " Thornton replied' that the whole thini boils down to whettier or hox something has- taken place which requires an investigation. "The governor 'hiust have thought so. Ha appointed a, private attor ney to investigate and bypassed the attorney general's office with out even consulting us, mormon Said. ' . The . controversy stems troni an investigation of commission em ployes earlier this year. . Floods Slow il Service NEW YORK I Hum wash outs, caved-ln bridges and BUiuten tracks Monday crippled Eastern railroad service at many polnta. It will lake weeks to lesion the Hood-wrecked linos. The Lackawanna Railroad said one M-mtle stretch between Scran ton and Stroudsburg, Pa., was breached at 106 points by land slides, ruined bridges and wash outs up to 150 feet deep. Tnree weeks win ne neeaeo w restore the line. The Erie Railroad said Its main line between Port Jervis and Nar- row-ibur?. N. Y was wrecked at four major points by 80-foot-deep washouts that will require the building of temporary bridges. The Pennsylvania Railroad ' re ported It expects to restore service wltliln two days along a oi-mue run oetween Trenton, N. J., and Phll lipsburg. N. J. Tne New York Central, by var ious detours and switches, had most of Its schedules operating. Inmate Robs Prison Guard SAN QUENTIN iL'Pi San Ouentin ofliclala admitted todav It wa "kind of embarrassing" when an Inmate robbed a guard of 103 and disappeared into a crowd of fellow prisoners. A lull scale search was on for the "triistv" who held up correc tional officer H. A. Bain with a knlf and disappeared In the "big yara" yeotardaj. Bln said he was on his way to take a prisoner to the visiting room when a convict wearing a pillow rlln for i mask Jabbed a nlne-lnch knife Into his side ard said, "Give me your billfold." Bain reached into his hip pocket and the robber, thinking th guard was armed, said "None of that. Drop it on the deck. Don't hand it to me Bain, who w.s not armed, dropped the billfold to the floor and the holdup man scooped It up ard ran Into the crowded yard. Asvoriate Warden Louis Nelson aaid the prison had little In the wav of a description to work on m the searuh for the man. but he suspected the thief haa plenty of experience and probably was serv ing a robbery conviction in gan Quentin. "This Is kind of embarrassing." Nelson said, "This ia. grand larceny." Survey Destruction By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ' The 1 1 o o d-darnd Northeastern states ' struggled Monday to get back on their feet, with President Eisenhower taking s personal hand in the agonizing task. With human misery and destruc tion spread over a six-state region, and the death toll near 200, the President announced in Denver I he will make .an aerial Inspection OI tne .devastation . luesaay ana confer later in the day with stale governors on the staggering Job of rehabilitation. Sl'RVET ' ' ' An. incomplete survey by the American Red Cross showed that 34.169 families were driven from homes, most of which now lie in soggy warptd mud-glutted ruin. - Sanitation hazards, debris-Uttered streets bodies of dead live stock, shattered store fronts a massive, grim specter of blighted fortunes and lives confronted scores of communities. Over all covering thousands of square miles was a dismal, slimy sea of mud, fresh-cut ravines and waste. APPEAL Elsenhower appealed to people everywhere In the country to "pitch in and help" a drive for relief funds by the Red Cross. which' Monday had 260 experts busy surveying critical family needs. In Washington, the Small Busl' ness Administration declared all of Connecticut. snd nine counties in Rhode Island, New Jnr3ey and New York' as crucial disaster areas, el (tible for emergenoy loans. Similar action had previously been taken for eight counties In Pennsylvania and five in Massa' chusetts. The known dead already nun bered IBS. , As additional victims were discovered, it appeared the final count, would go well above this figure. Pennsylvania and Con' nectlcut, the states hardest hit. es timated as many as 130 persons were still missing. The latest count since the be ginning of the floods last Thursday was: Pennsylvania, tw; Connecti cut, U; Massachusetts, 13, Rhode Island, 1; : New Jersey, 6; New York, 4; Virginia. 3. As the rampaging streams ana river receded to normal levels, astonished citizens surveyed the heart-breaking devastation. It was so vast that only the broadest estimates of the damage could ue made, but these ran lo billions. HOMES WRECKED Homes were wrecked or com pletely gone, Faotories were dam aged, soma beyond repair. Bridges were down and roads washed out, with asphalt surfaces churned up. : Health hasards were a major problem. Flood survivors in most places were ordered to boil drink ing water. Emergency antityphoid serums were flown Into isolated communities by helicopter. Dry ice wss an emergency Item and supplies were commandeered to. refrigerate vital food supplies where regular refrigerators were still without electrio power. On too of all their other prob lems, many flood survivors looked ahead to an uncertain future with their regular Jobs gone, at least temporarily. BUILDINGS WEAKENED Some buildings that first ap peared to have survived the floods were found ao weakened that they had to be condemned. In Torrington. Conn., once a thriving industrial city of 28,000. dozens of stores were smashed and factories put but of order. Bridges were gone and vital supplies were flown In by helicopters using a schoolyard for an emergency land ing field. The flood took three lives mere and left many others homeless. Emero-encv aid . stations were set up to house and feed the victims. Normal lite was orougnt 10 a standstill in Putnam. Conn., where floods and uncontrollable magne jtum fires had combined to wreck the town. : "We're done. This valley Is dead." a veteran textile worker commented to an Associated Press reporter who managed to gel to the stricken community. WORST TRAGEDY The worst single tragedy oc curred hear Slroi.d?buig. Pa where Brodhead Creek swept over a summer vacation camp and car ried away 40 persons, mostly women and children. Nine persons survived to tell of the horror when the flash flood collapsed a building in. which the campers had sought refuge. The others were dead or missing. Brodhead Creek, fed by torren tial rains and the collapse ol mountain dams, rose 26 to 30 feet wltliln IS minutes. It devastated parts ol Stroudsburg. a Pocono Mountain resort center. Fortunately, most other camps In the flood areas were above the torrents, or the campers were able j to reach saiety wnnoui major tragedy. MOTOR CARAVAN Among these were so youngsters from a camp at Bsmtam Lake. Conn., who were fished from the floods Friday by molorboats. Ite Uet ed families welcomed them bark ,o New York yesterday alter fathers and uncles iormed a motor caravan to bring them home. One father hired a helicopter and flew Into an isolated camp at East gtroudsbt:rg to bring out his two children and four others. jExreoi for hemr tut off by Impassable roads, things w-re "completely normal" with the camp and Us 400 campers, he reported. The first repair efforts went to restore utilities and open roads into the flooded districts. By yes terday many places at last had electricity and gas again and tele phone circuits were opened. Drink ing water was still a gene sal problem, however. Most railroads were operating through tha flood sections but in many cases had to skirt hard-hit cities and avoid weakened or washed out bridges. The Lackawanna Railroad, which Berves New York. New Jersey and flood-stricken areas around Stroudsburg and Scranlon in Pennsylvania, has restored serv. .ce on some of its lines. Major repair work, however, will hold up the return of trains to Stroudsburg and Scraiiton. In western Massachusetts scores of highways were, still blocked. Two communities. Charlton and Southbridge, could be reached only by boat or helicopter. Southbridge wa still without gas, water or power. Ike To Fly Over East Flnnrl Araac I IVVU ft I VUaaf DENVER W! President Elscn' hower will make a six-state aerial inspection of Eastern hurricane and flood dttmage Tuesdny. The President personally an nounced Monday his plans to' take a look at the damage which has taken many lives and caused much property destruction. Elsenhower told newsmen at the summer While House that he will leave Denver by plane and arrive in Harllord, Conn., to confer with E. Roland HHrrlman, chairman of the American Red Cross. Gover nors of the flood ravaged states also have been invited lo attend, Elsenhower appealed to people everywhere In the country, to "pitch In and help" the Red Cross In a drive for relief funds. ADDRESS PLANNED The President had planned to leave Denver Tuesday morning for wasnington. tie is returning east to address the American Bar Assn. convention in Philadelphia Wednes day. , The flood damage . situation caused him to change his plans, however, and advance his depart ure lime to this evening so he can take a look from the air at the hurricane and flood destruction. He will fly on to Washington after the Hartford conference, ar riving there about noon, and will keep ills Philadelphia speaking en gagement Wednesday, STRICKEN AREAS Elsenhower plans to fly over stricken areas ol ennsylvania. New Jersey, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and the Fori Jervis area of New York. The chief executive plans to use his plane as an office nt the alr- pori. Val Peterson, Federal Civil Detense administrator, will , be present at the Hartford meeting. James C. Hagerty, White House press secretary, said that Eisen hower has given Peterson "in ci ted a blank check" lo provide emergency relief funds for the stricken areas. EMERGENCY FUND Hagerty said there now is about 12 million dollxrs in the President s emergency fund. Meanwhile, El.sennowcr awaited the arrival of Lewis L, Strauss, ehalrman ol the Atomic Energy Commission, for a ilrsl hand re port on the Geneva atoms-for-peace conference. 8lrauss was expected to arrive at llie Denver White House from Washington about 5 30 p.m. He headed the American dele gation at the Just concluded Ge neva sessions. -! .,f '; T ST '! i.' 1 BOB ABBEY, 4759 South Sixth Street, will move into hit new home at 1821 Worden Avenue in about three weeks thui the imile. He is to day's subject (or the 9 o'clock special. V X ill I 1: m v K
