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Following a custom of long
standing, ihe National S a I e i y
Council predicted this year that
400 persons will die In highway
accidents before the end ol the
Labor Day holiday at midnight on
Monday.
By mid-morning on Saturday. 21
rich deaths (about five per cent
of the predicted total) had been
reported.
How do they make these pre
dictions?
It goes like this:
They start with the statistics of
previous years, including the
deaths each year and the number
of cars Dresumably on the roads
each year. Prom these figures,
they "project a curve," as the
statisticians call it.
Then thev take a look at the
,) weather. It it looks like the wea-
thor will be bad, they ADD MORE
DEATHS. (Bad weather adds to
driving hazards.) II it looks like
the weather will be super-duper,
they SUBTRACT some deaths.
And so on. When all the adding
and subtracting is done and they
have finished all their corrections
of their projected curve, they
come up with their prediction.
What they're doing Is predict
ing AVERAGE human nature and
AVERAGE human performance.
And, almost invariably, their pre
dictions are surprisingly close to
the final result.
Here's a thought:
It' you're better than average
If you'll drive carefully, with
due respect for the rights of oth
ers, remaining alert to all trallic
conditions, if you'll take no reck
less chances (such as trying to
pass with too little clearance), if
you'll remain relaxed and unhur
ried I'll bet you can start out on this
or any other holiday when the
highways are crowded and arrive
at your destination sale and
sound.
It's easy enough to predict aver
age human nature.
But
How can one predict INDIVID
UAL human nature?
For example:
In San Francisco the other day.
somebody stole a SEISMOGRAPH
from an underground crypt in
Golden Gate park. A seismograph
is an instrument used by scientists
for recording earthquakes. It's a
bulky and complicated affair. You
don't just pick one up and drop it
in your pocket. Its uses are EX
TREMELY limited. So it would be
almost impossible to hock at a
pawnshop. 1 -
Why would anybody steal one'
The only explanation I can think
of is that In an unguarded mo
ment the OLD ADAM in somebody
overcame him and he stole the
seismograph Just toeee if he could
get away with it.
Maybe he was obeying the same
urge that impels people to try to
swim bodies of water that nobody
ever swam before or climb moun
tains that nobody ever climbed
before. Maybe he wanted to steal
a seismograph because nobody
ever stole a seismograph before.
People are funny.
You never can tell about 'em.
Another example on the oth
er side of the lence:
My friend Al Henninger of Rose
burg owns a store in Glendale.
Burglars broke into it the other
night and among other things they
carried oil the cabinet in which
the store's current accounts are
kept. Maybe they thought it con
tained the store's cash. Maybe it
was just another seismograph to
them.
Anyway, the cabinet contained
the only record the store had of
who owed what. The accounts in it
totted up to some $15,000. Cus
tomers could have FAILED TO
PAY and Al would have had no
legal recourse. Or they could have
paid less than they owed and
could have got by with It.
Did they?
They didn't!
Charlie Stanton, editor of the
Roseburg News-Review, tells the
story. He says:
"Henningcr reports the store
w ill have little, if any loss. Glen
dale people are paying their debts,
regardless of the fact that the
store lacks records. Many have
brought in their sales slips. Oth
ers, failing to keep the sales slips,
have estimated the amount they
owed. Henninger says he is con
vinced that most customers have
OVERESTIMATED rather than
underestimated the amounts they
owe him."
People are just funny mean
ing you never can tell about
em.
A former governor of Kansas, ar
country newspaper editor named
Edward Wallis Hoch, wrote a lit- j
tie piece a couple of generations
aso and primed It In his paper,
the Marion Record. It tells the
story about as well as words can:
"There's so much good in the
worst of us
"And so much bad in the best or
us
"That it hardly behooves any
of us
"To talk about the rest of us."
Forest Fire In
Baker Area Held
BAKER, Ore. i.fi A stubborn
forest fire about 30 miles north of
Baker was contained but not con
trolled Saturday.
Wallowa-Whitman forest officials
said the fire in the high Elkhorn
Mountains has been held to 30
acres, but was not completely un
der control. They said the water
shed was damaged, but there was
no loss of commercial timber.
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THE BIGGEST FRESHMAN CLASS In Klamath Union High School's history principal Charles Carlson is standing in the left
was registered Friday. Th big class is pictured here in Pelican Court. KUHS I Regular classes at the school will begin Tuesday.
LA Heat Wave
Breaking Up
LOS ANGELES 11 The siz
zling Southern California heat wave
thai has boosted temperatures
above the 100 mark for four days
in a row is beginning to break,
the Weather Bureau reported Sat
urday night.
The high mark in the Los Angeles
Civic Center Saturday was 103 but
Weather Bureau forecasters said
sea breezes are beginning a cool
ing trend that will continue through
the Labcr Day weekend. The fore
cast for Sunday is for a high of
56 here and 30 at the beaches.
Warm air ilowlng from Texas
and the Gulf of Mexico and hot
desert winds brought the heat that
started Wednesday with a high ol
101. Thursday the mercury hit 110
lo set an all-time record for Los
Angeles. Friday the maximum was
108.
Saturday temperatures at some
beach areas were as much as 20
degrees below the marks in the
downtown Los Angeles district.
But as the heat continued in the
plus-10O range Saturday the Los
Angeles County coroner's oiiice re
called off-duty personnel.
Holiday Death
Toll Mounts
Bv THE ASSOCIATED PRKSS
The nation's three-day Labor
Day weekend holiday death toll
mounted steadily Sunday as traf
fic accidents swelled the fatalities
total.
At 1:30 a. ni. Eastern Standard
Time, Hi traffic deaths were re
ported in an Associated Press sur
vey. Drownings took 19 lives and
miscellaneous causes claimed an
other 17 to bring the overall vio
lent death toll to 177.
The National Safety Council ob
served that the rapid rate of traf
fic deaths was running far ahead
of calculations used bv the council
in estimating a few days ago that
4U0 persons would die in i runic
mishaps in the holiday period from
li p. ni., local time, Friday lo mid
nient Monday.
The council also wis alarmed
by a comparison of the toll with
the fact that at noon Sunday in
last year's Labor Day weekend
traffic deaths totaled only 120.
Mill Razed
By Flames
LEBANON The Lebanon
area's third mill fire in lo days
destroyed the Lebanon Wood Prod
ucts Mill early Saturday. Bob Car
rion and Charles Nugent, the
owners, estimated the loss at $30,
000.
Three drying kilns, the sawmill,
boiler, machine shop and two
lathes were destroyed. A truck and
tractor were pulled from the area
and escaped damage.
The Lebanon Wood Products
Mill has operated here for 11
years, and employed four per
sons. It manufactured plugs for
paper rolls.
CLARENCE "BUSS" BUSSMAN, 2219 Radcliffe, of Bustman'i
Seed Store, 9th and Klamath, wat busy taking care of hit fish
tanks Saturday morning when the 9 o'clock photographer
came by.
Fishing Accidents Off
Pacific Coast Claim Eight
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The death toll In fishing acci
dents off the Oregon and Wash
ington coasts Friday has risen to
eight. In addition, one man was
missing and three persons were
reported seen floating out to sea
in their disabled boat with a dis
tress signal flying.
Most of .the accidents occurred
In treacherous, choppy shallows at
the mouth of the Columbia River
where several salmon fishing
derbies are In progress. Five died
there in the same, general area
where five others drowned last
Sunday.
The most recent apparent vic
tim was Tom Winlield. hometown
not determined, who was thrown
into the water when a boat crashed
into a Jetty near the entrance ol
the Chinook, Wash., harbor Friday
evening. A companion. Paul Mil
ler, route 5. Olympia, wai rescued.
The olher victims were: (Albert
L. Cooper. 37, Portland; Robert
A. McQuinn, 72. Long Beach.
Wash.: Mrs. James W. Rinkle.
about 29, Los Angeles, and Charles
Major, 8, Vancouver, Wash.
INVITATION
MOSCOW (UP The Soviet gov
ernment has Invited U. 8. Ambas
sador Charles E. Bohlen to visit
the atomic plnnt near Moscow, it
wii reported today.
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1955
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At Florence, on Ihe Central Ore
gon Coast, a body tentatively Iden
tified as that of Uno Ekblom, 40,
of the community of Tiernan. Ore.,
was lound on the beach Saturday
moj-ning.
His wrecked boat was found later
on the Siuslaw River Jetty. He had
been missing since Friday.
To the north near Grays Harbor.
Wash., heavy surf broke up a
small trolling boat and three per
sons were downed. They were C.
W. B'a'ichard, 41, Ling Beach.
Calif., and Mr. and Mrs. O. R.
Will'?, Tacoma.
The Coast Guard was searching
for a boat reported in distress off
Nehalcm Bay, 30 miles south ol
Astoria on the Oregon Coast.
Melvln Kehoe and his wife, of
Pnrtlnnri tnnrli.H Ih.u h.H I
14-loot skiff, with three persons
aboard, drifting helplessly out to
... in thm trto if nl.A- s ,d .....
flat strung between two rishlnK
poles apparently was a distress
signal.
The boat, he said, was trying
to cross the Nehalcm bar from
the ocean side whin It was caught
by the wind and turned back to
sea.
A search by Coast Ouard cutters
and a helicopter tailed to turn up
any clues of the boat. Harbor
checks of the area from Neskowln
to Nehalem were made but no
boats or persons were reported
missing.
Norwegian Ship Reported
Free Of Pack Ice; Plane
Rescue Of Crew Held Off
ALESUND. Norway i A smalljto Copenhagen. Tt Is under charter
Norwegian ship, trapped lor at to the Royal Danish Trade Depart-
least two days in Greenland pack
ice, was reported iree Saturday
niirnt ana en rouic to Denmark A department spokesman said In
under lis own power. : loopenhasen a message from Capt.
The U.S. Air Force, announced: Kurt Nakken. shipper of the Jo-
earlier that planes from its Thule.
Greenland, base were trying to!
rescue me da persons aboard the
tun-ion seal catcner jopeter.
A spokesman for Peter Biandal
and Co., owners of the ship, said
the company received a message!
reporting that the Ice was break- mand at St. Johns, Nfld., saftl
ing up enough to allow the vessel earlier a message from the skip
to continue Us voyage. j per reported the Ice had tilled tho
The Jopeter was reported carrv-1 vessel to a 45-degree aiiRle and ho
Ing 19 passengers and a crew ol 16
lrom . Danmarkhavn, Greenland,
Streamliner
Strikes Auto
The Southern Pacific's stream
liner, Cascade, running '20 minute.-,
lale al ti5 miles an hour, crashed
into an automobile owned by P. D.
Mead. Klamath Falls druygist,
near Cove Point at 11:55 p.m. Fri
day, Mr. and Mis. Mend had potion
out of the car which had stalled
on the railroad tracks a few nun-1
utcs before tne streamliner
una. shed Into the vehicle.
The San Francisco-bound train
was delayed 50 minutes while an;
cmcTRrncy crew tried to pull the!
demolished automobile from the
pilot on the dicsel engine.
According to Trainmaster Hur-,
vcy Teal, the automobile was vir-j
tually wcldrd lo the engine by tho i
lorce of the collision.
"To sepm-ate the automobile
from the engine," Tal explained,
"we finally had lo chain the car
to the rails and Mien back, the
train away from it."
Mead gave thr following explan
ation of Ihe accident:
"Mrs. Mead and mvself were re
turning hoin a reception al the
home of Attorney and Mis. Rich
ard Maxwnll at Cove Point. A?
we reuhed Ihe railroad crossing
we niHrie a wrnnsf turn and the
lronl whoH-i of our itutomobile be
came caught between the rails.
'I nrn familiar with the Casrade
schedule and believed tt had al
ready Rone by, I ook the jac.c
out of the car and Ktaiird to raise
the wheels of the nutomolnW to
ihe level of tl-e track.;. I intended
lo push Ihe automobile to the side
of the (racks alter it had been
I "CKra tt," cou'a "..
, ycconipiiMHa me uain amvra.
Mead's automobile was earned
W ya. rl s down (he i iglit of wa v be-
lore 'lie Cascade was brought
a stop. Tile pharmacist said the
car v.as a totM loss.
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FORECAST -Klamath FalU and
vlrfnlU: Fair through Monday. Or
raflional high rloudi, Ihundrritorma
tn mountain!.
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Low Friday night S9
Telephone 1111
foreground in the dark coat.
mcnl, a Danish government
agency
peter, reported that the little ship
was in no danger. He quoted the
Norwegian captain as saying U.S.
! planes had dropped rescue equip-
nient on the Ice near the ship with,
out being asked for It.
The U.S. Northeast Air Conv
was considering abandoning ship,
A later radio message said the
ice .slackened its push and the Im
mediate danger had lessened.
The Air Force said the Jopeter
sent out distress signal. Friday.
-BULLETIN-
One soldier was killed and five
injured early Saturday morning
when their southbound ear Jailed
to make a eurve at Nine-Mile Rock
north of Weed. Dead was Marvin
J. Seltler, 21, of Kansas City, Mo.
Three of the others suffered head
Injuries, one was said minor and
the last had been released. No de
tails of the accident were avail,
able at press time. They were
from Fort Lewis, Wash.
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DISCUSSING THE PAIRINGS for the eighth annual Herald and Newt Invitational Tennis Tour
nament now being held at Moore Park are three persons connected with the net meet. Tour
nament Director Harry Todd, right, points out starting times to Alice Wanee, center and
Let Wanee, both of Sacramento. Mrs. Wanee won the national senior women's tennis title
in 1949 and breeied through her first match here in play yesterday. The tournament continues
today and closes with finals tomorrow.
Low Humidity, Hot
Temperatures Build
Up To "Powder Keg"
By THE ASSOCIATED PKIKSSlby
Two major forest fires roared
relentlessly through brittle-dry
mountains in' California Saturday
night as new brush fires seared
the sun-baked foothills.
One of the most stubborn Sierra
forest fires in years had ruined
5.000 acres of commercial timber
Fighting In
Gaza Area
Breaks Out
JERUSALEM i Sharp light
ing broke out again Saturday along
the Gaza demarcation line between
Kgypt and Israel. It came just as
the trigger-tense area was begin
ning to hope for an effective cease-
tire.
Alarmed by what he called the
very serious events. MaJ. Gen. E.
L. M. Burns, U. N. truce super
visor, renewed his appeal to bolh
sides late Saturday night to put an
end to Ihe shooting. He set a dead
line of 5 p. m. Sunday for firm
answers.
Israel promptly announced ac
ceptance of Burns' proposal in a
letter to bo delivered Sunday
morning. But a Foreign Ministry
spokesman declared "It goes with
out saying that If the other side
continues its aggressive actions Is
rael reserves the right to self de
fense." Heavy artillery and mortar fire
shook both sides of the border of
the 6x30-mlle Gaza Strip for most
of the day.
Egyptian military spokesmen al-
charged that Israeli armored
forces made two smashes al out
posts on the Egyptian side.
SCALED DOWN
But a claim by an Egyptian
spokesman at Gaza that 22 Israe
Us were killed in ona attack was
later scaled down.
The Gaza spokesman Saturday
night claimed only that there had
been "numerous" Israeli casual
ties in. the atlaclt on an outpost
near Gaza In the northern part ol
ine strip, am he said two of the
four Israeli half-tracks in the at
tack were destroyed.
One Egyptian was wounded In
the ether attack on a refugee camp
at biuureig near Gaza, lie said.
An Egyptian spokesman In Cairo
said an Israeli uarshlp was sight
ed on Gaza Saturday morning, at
auoul the time these attacks were
being reported. Gaza reports said
the warship withdrew without In
cident.
The Egyptian reports of the two
attacks were not confirmed here,
either from Israeli or U.N. sourc
es, though both sources sulci there
was heavy firing from artillery and
mortars from both sides.
Burns' appeal was renewed while
embittered Palestine Arabs In Khan
Yunis, south of Gaza, were still
searching for bodies in Ihe debris
of a military encampment blasted
an Lracl raid last Wednesday
night.
BUDIKS FOUND
Egyptian spokesmen at Gaza Sat
urday placed Palestinian Arab cas
ualties In that attack at 39 killed
and 13 wounded. Four or more
bodies were behoved to be In the
ruins of a pclice station there,
Gaza dispatches said.
Israeli sources have estimated
that 40 were killed and 40 wound
ed on the Egyptian side, including
both Egyptians and Palestinian
Arabs.
nightfall near Kings Canyon
National Park 50 miles east of
Fresno and was still spreading.
Forestry officials said it had
hla1f.nl il .j ,
in Sequoia National Forest thus
fur and was not yet near recreation
al areas of the park where build
ings exist.
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An even bigger fire had scorched -5,000
acres by 8 p. m. about
miles northeast of Eureka in the
northern part of the state. State
loresters there said. "We'll need
a break in the weather to control
tills one."
The Alexander Lumber Com
pany's mill and camp on Pine
Creek were destroyed. Twelve cab
ins, a cookhouse, bunkhouses and
trailers burned along with the mill.
Gordon Neil, a company partner,
declined to estimate damage.
A third forest fire threatening
the famed Rockefeller redwood
grove broke out late Saturday
about 50 miles south of Eureka.
In a few hours it burned over 100
acres nf lnnonl niror fir mH .ri.
wood.
A new big brush fire burst out
at 5 p.m. In the sun-seared, al
most barren hills near the famous
New Idrla quicksilver mines in
San Benito County.
Two hours later 3.000 acres of
brush had heen reduced to ashes
and the fire was "really running
wild" according to state forestry
omciais.
It started In wild country 15 miles
northwest of Coallnga in Fresno
County. . -
GAINING V
All the fires gathered strength
from ideal conditions the hottest
temperatures of the year in many
cases and very low humidity.
Eldon Ball, forest supervisor who
estimated the loss at the Sequoia
lire, said he was being "optimis
tic" In predicting it would ba
under control by 10 a.m. Sunday.
Ball had about 600 men and 100
pieces of equipment in action, in
cluding 30 Zuni Indian lire special
ists. C. E. Mctcalf. a deputy state
forester, said Kings Canyon and
Sequoia national parks did not ap
pear in serious danger, but added:
"At tills stage of the gam, your
guess is as good as mine." . v
- Both the Sequoia flra and the
blaze near Eureka started Friday.
Flames could be seen for 20
miles near Vacavllle as a brush fire
moved over 500 acres of dry grass
and brush. Three summer cabins
were destroyed Friday night.
A fire near San Diego was South
ern California's biggest brush blaza
of the season,' James Fenlon, a
slate forest ranger, said more than
6.000 acres were blackened and
that a house, three house traileri
and a cabin were destroyed.
'Copter Rescues
Man In Canyon ,
REDDINO. Calif. W A heli
copter and four "smoke Jumpers"
dropped into a remote mountain
canyon Saturday to rescue a se
riously Injured fisherman.
Leon Head of nearby Central
Vallcv slipped off a ledge and fell
100 feet Into the Pit River Valley
near Montgomery Creek 40 miles
northeast of Redding.
His brother, Lenn, notified the
Forest Service.
Four "smoke Jumpers" from
Cave Junction. Ore., parachuted
into the canyon to help lift Head
Into the helicopter piloted by Jack
son Hughes, a San Francisco pilot
working lor the Forest Service.
Hughes put the helicopter down
on floats, took off the injured man
and delivered him to a parking lot
near Mercy Hospital at Redding.
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