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'. I : ' - ... . : ' r i u.. i- M Persons Aboard In Las Vegas Crash LAS VEGAS, Nev. 141 Clouds shrouding a snowy mountain peak hampered air and ground parties struggling Friday to reach an Air Force transport .plane which crashed with 14 persons aboard while enroute to the Nevada atom ic, bombing range Thursday. IThe Air Force said there was little chance any survived the crash. Names o( passengers, which Included both military and civilian personnel, were withheld pending notification of next of kin. J Wreckage was sighted at about the 9,000-foot level on Charleston Peak in the same range, where Bad Storms In Nation ' By Till ASSOCIATED PRESS Snow and rail fell in Western Stuies Friday but violent storms which lashed broad areas of the nation this week appeared ; dim inishing. Tlie windy, snowy, cold weather was blamed for at least 13 deaths. Nine persons were missing and ' presumed . dead. Four other per sons were reported snowbound In lhe mountains over Boulder, Colo., which was hit by an 18-inch snow fall Monday. . . The Arctic air which has gripped the Northern Rockies and North. ern Plains for several days ap peared nearly broken Friday morning. The Weather-Bureau re ported only' a few areas, reporting below zero temperatures. Temperatures In the icy belt climbed as much as 20 degrees compared to Thursday morning, However, readings through the area as far south as soutnern Col' orndo were in the Wis or lower. But It was colder in the South with temperatures In the 30s as far as the Central Gulf States. Readings were 20 to 30 degrees lower in the Southeast. , The coldest November weather In Montana's history, with tem peratures : more than 30 'degrees below zero - in some- areas also " was felt in Wyoming and Colorado Heavy snow hit the Western slopes of the Rockies Thursday, l 3torm from Alaska struck the Pacifia Coaat, bringing rain- along ,Uie coast southward into Northern California end miow as rar as! as Idaho. ' u 1 ' '"' " Snowfalls . ranged from 2 to 0 Inches in tlie Pacific Northwest. Traffic was snarled in many cities, Seattle reported traffic "hopeless ly stalled" Thursday, - with some oars standing three to five hours before being able to move on tne snow-slick streets. Two deaths were blamed cn the storm in the Pacific Northwest. A Loy from Portland. Ore., slipped from tlie snow into a creek and drowned. Tne second death was in a traffic accident in Bremerton, Wash. Earlier, a five-year-old- Idaho cirl fell through tne Ice on the Blackfoot River and was believed drowned. More Info Probes Slated COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. W ttt Rep. John E. Moss (D-Callf) .said Friday nis House subcomlt- tee on government information plans further Investigations into reports of intimidations and re' prisals of news reporters by fed eral officials. ,. "I am speaking about flagrant episodes where federal oiiicials lvave tried to intimidate reporters by improper use Oi the FBI or other investigative agencies,' Moss told The Associated Press Managing Editors Assn. conven tios.. lie said In his prepared speech the subcommittee hearings to date already have uncovered a "Dan gerous and surprising concept an assertion by government de partments that thev intend to pro tect the public by not Idling the people know what Is going on. Along with stua.'ii'g complaints of intimidation ana reprisal Moss sild the committee also will "look into the refusals of information to Congress, and the effect of this withholding upon Air, oilcan busi ness, industry and the sciences." Hearings resume next January Tlie laws should be cAanged, the California congressman declared, to clarify the many variations of interpretations oi laws and claimed inherent powers of the agencies. He said witnesses have testified their departments have kepi in formation from the public for 100 years ar.d they could not sie any icason to open their records now. Others claimed there were no laws specifying thai information has to be made puolic. "For the first time I beard as sorted a very strong lnnerem ilcht within the executive branch ot government to keep Information from the people. 1hst Is a new concept of law," Moss said. . He told the editors that apcncles testifying at the previous hearings dlsplaved a great vnViauce of opm :ons on just what right the public hss to information room federal government activities and the in terpretation of law. But the pattern clearly demon strated, lie laid, that the emphasis was on "freezing rather than the freeing of ."information." Diminishing actress Carole Lombard was killed in a 1942 crash. During atomic bomb tests, the Charleston Mountains often pro vided points of vantage for mem bers of the press witnessing the tests. RESCUE TEAM An arctic rescue team from March Air Force Base, Calif., climbed through the snow towrrd the wreckage. The team included two medical specialists. - The rugged range in the high plateau country, was whipped by high winds and intermittent snows. The wreckage, sighted by search planes through a rift in the clouds yesterday, lay on a high slope next to 11,910-foot Mt. Charleston, 27 -miles northwest of here. Tlie aircraft had been due at Groom Dry Lake, 50 miles, north of the AEC's Camp Mercury, after leaving Burbank, cam., 225 miles southwest of here. ROUTINE, MISSION , , : Air Force headquarters in Wash ington, D. C, said the aircraft, be lieved to be a C54, carried Air Force personnel and "some civil ian consultants." It was not dis closed how many of each. The mission was described as "rou tine."- An AEC spokesman in Albuquer que, N. M., said the AEC had no embargo on information about the crash and had no special interest in it, indicating that no atomic scientists were aboard. - A Nellis spokesman said the transport took off from Burbank shortly after 8 a.m. yesterday and routine radio contact was made with Nellis some time after 9 a.m. That was the last heard from the plane. An unidentified airman at the Nellis rest camp on Mt. Charl eston reported bearing a crash about 10.. Foreign Aid Total Listed WASHINGTON U!The United States has provided more than 51 billion dollars; in foreign aid In the. last. 10 years, a Commerce Department repoit shows. Of this total. v0 billions was in the 'form of grants and the other 11 billions as loans to other na tions. Some of this help went to Russia - and other nations now hi the Communist orbit. Tills was be fore the .cold,, war set.4n. ' - ' The study showed that ' the' '40 billion, dollars in grants was di vided into $25,686,000,000 for eco nomic, technical and like aid and $14,603,000,000 for military help. Western European countries and tnelr dependencies received $33 409,000.000, or nearly two thirds of the $51,336,000,000 spent on foreign aid from mid-1945 tnrough mid 1955. Of this, $24,737,000,000 was in the form of gifts. Tlie area also received credits totaling $8,672, 000,000. Dulles Leads West's Policy GENEVA MWohri Foster Dul les, who has had his ups and downs as American secretary of State, emerged clearly during the Big Four foreign ministers confer ence here as the director of West ern strategy In the struggle with Russia's V. M. Molotov. His role contrasted sharply with the one he played 18 months ago when Britain and France split with tlie United States over making peace in Indochina. Dulles then attended only the first few sessions of a big foreign ministers confer ence on the Far East. He finally disassociated himself and the Unit ed States from the agreement which ended the long war In Indo china at the cost of leaving Viet Nam half Communist and half free. There was no disagreement of the West over issues in the meet ing just concluded here. Tlie course of Western policy general ly followed the lines charted bv Dulles In close cooperation vith British Foreign Secretary Haroid MacMillan and French Foreign Minister Antolne Plnay. At 67 Dulles turned in a grueling volume of work each day. When the conference recessed, as It did on two occasions, he undertook some extra f e n c e-mending for United States Interests In Europe. He visited Generalissimo Fran cisco Franco. 8panish chief of state, in Madrid, and talked with Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito at Brl oni. Cancer Hits Dolly Varden ST. LOUIS I Dolly Varden. famous in America and Europe, was reported critically 111 from cancer today in City Hospital. Miss Varden, new Mrs. Ray mond O'Dell, 84. had her own pri vate railroad car when she fol lowed the tan-bark trail. She Is In a three-bed room in the hospital. Sne came to St. Louis mure than 50 years as?o ;iftcr her retirement Irnm circui life. For the past 10 years she lived b-hlnd an antique More Jusi south of the downtown area. It was there a Roman Catholic priest found her slumped In a r-hatr. hail-conscious, a week ago. Her husband had died last August. r7Tvfl? rvV7fiYc Four Price Five Cents 16 races Abbott Alibi Denial Told By Witness OAKLAND.' Calif., (UP) A surprise prosecution witness who upset Burton W. Abbott's alibi faced a relentless cross-examination today from xttoraeys, defend ing tne tuDercuiar accounting stu dent on a murder charge. . The witness was William Rus sell, currently unemployed but once a typewriter repairman for the Berkeley public school system. His testimony appeared to be the most severe setback the defense has yet received. Abbott, . 27, is accused of kid naping and murdering 14-year-old Stephanie Bryan of Berkeley on April 28. Her body was found near his mountain cabin in Northern California. Abbott has claimed he was at the - cabin on April 28. But he claims he left his Alameda home for the cabin at 11 a.m. on that clay and was well on his way when Stephanie disappeared in Berkeley about 4 p.m. But in direct testimony" yester day, Russell put Abbott in Berke ley about 3 p.m. on April 28. Russell said he entered a dough nut shop near Stephanie's school about "five, or 10 minutes to three." . . - "Did you see anyone you know," asked District Attorney J. Frank Coakley. "Yes." the witness replied. "I saw Mr. Burton Abbott sitting there." He said Abbott was wearing "out door clothes a brown leather Jacket and Jeans., The Jeans were washed but not now. They were clean," . Abbott left about 3:15 p.m., with Russell right behind him. Russell saw turn get into his car and drive north on Telegraph Avenue toward ihe University of California cam pus, Russell said. Aobolt was studying accounting at UC. . Abbott flushed briefly when Rus sell first testified to nis being in the coffee shop at the crucial time. As Russell continued, Abbott be gatf to- take notes. . n:. ) Russell- stuck to Ms tory during" initial cross-examination.- He said h knew Abbott because he had seen him ' "two or tnrce times a week" in tlie doughnut shop- In the past year. Russell was preceded to the stand by Navy Lt. and Mrs. Allen Hill of Berkeley, who witnessed a struggle between a young girl and a "person" - on tne tunnel road, about 15 minutes after Stephanie last was seen. They told a story of hearing the girl scream from a car which had skidded to a stop across the high way from them, and of seeing her "frightened" face In the left rear window before the driver's arm pulled her from sight. Mrs. Hill testified that the girl appeared to be wearing clothes similar to those worn by Stephanie on the day she disappeared. Light Rain Hits Crater Light rain was falling at Crater Lake National Park this morning and there waa a low overcast, ac cording to the ranger station's re port. Six Inches of new snow fall dur ing the 24-hour period which end ed at 8 a.m. today bringing the total on the ground to 28 inches compared with 18 Inches on this date last year. Maximum temperature Thursday was 33 degrees: minimum last, 18. and temperature at 8 a.m. today was 32 degrees. Highway 62 through the park is open with chains or abrasive snow tread tires advised. The road from Annie Springs to the rim wos open for a few tiours Thursday afternoon and then closed on account of snow. The rangers hope to reopen the road this afternoon and keep It open for the weekend. The warming hut will be open for tne weekend, weather permitting. There la no skiing In the park. SHOOTING HOURS OREGON November 19 OPEN CLOSE 6:33 4:42 December 10 OPEN CLOSE 6:5' 4:34 .CALIFORNIA California Season Closed Until Dec. 10th KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, .-a sr-, , . - -2 KLAMATH FALLS SNOW REMOVAL CREWS of the cify 'itreet department, under the direc tion of Assiitant City Engineer Ted Fellion, were hard t work Thursday night at Sixth and Main streets when Herald and News photogra pher Don Kettler braved th snow to take this picture. Mayor Paul Landry Friday praised the efforts of all the crews who have worked day and night to clear the city's streets. The. Civil Aeronautics Authority officials et the munic ipal airport reported 18 inches of snow on the level Friday morning. i - - Snow Removal Work Pushed Mayor Paul' Landry issued a re minder Friday to all residents of Klamath Falls to please park their I cars off the streets wherever pos sible to aid the snow removal crews of the city street department. The snow crews, under the di rection of Assistant City Engineer Ted Fellion, have been working day and night all this week to clear the i city's streets the mayor said. Lan-1 dry -also . lauded: tlie-. work- of all the snow crews .this, year.' . w ,-.lf ih& apMr- plows block' -drive-' .ways while pWwiiig- the J streel.t, the mayor asked the city's resi dents to bear with the crews. He said that with the staggering Job of clearing tlie streets it is Im possible for tlie snow crews to dig out every driveway. KF Gets Four Inches Of Snow Four inches of new snow fell In Klamath Falls last night, accord ing to CAA records at the airport, bringing the total on, the ground to 18 Inches where no clearing has been done. Snowfall stopped at 2: 15 a.m. today. - Warmer temperatures were re ported all over the state this morn ing and snow packs were reported breaking up over the Oreensprlngs and the Willamette Pass. It was raining this morning over the" Wil lamette and foggy over the Oreen sprlngs. Motorists were advised to carry chains but traffic was going through with abrasive snow tread tires. ' , Highway' conditions were Im proved on 97 south, but chains were required eajly today over Mt. Hebron and were advised over Dor rls hill. North on 97, snow was reported falling over the Warm Springs cutoff and chains were re quired, according to the Triple A office. Chains were also required at Government Camp, Tlmbcrllne, Santlam Pass and the McKenile Puss. Highway 66 to Lakcview Is well sanded and 'travei was going through without chains. There was no morning report on East Diamond Lake road. State Property Tax Said Off PORTLAND W Income tax collections are running heavier than expected, and so there will be no slate property tax in Oregon this year and probably none r.ixt year, Gov. Paul Patterson said Thursday. . He made the prediction at the annual meeting of the As.sn. of Oregon Counties, which was coii sldcring resolutions Friday. Offi cers also are to be elected. Thursday R. H. Baldock. ftta'.e highway engineer, told lh,? associa tion that a national highway bill Is essential If damage to the na tion's economy Is to be svoided. What plan of financing may be used is secondary, he said, t-i an early , start. He urged county, Judges and commissioners to ask the state's congressional .iiemhen to try to help get a bill passed. Forrest Cooper, counsel lor Ihe public lands committee, as id that a congressional study committee on reassessment of the Govern ment's policies on shsrlntr reve .nue, reflects Midwest snd Eastern I views. The West, he said. Iscks ; adequate representation on the j committee, t FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18. 1955 -1 1 r A -Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Mostly cloudy with oc casional clearing and a few snow showers through Saturday. Highs 38-43; tow Friday night 26-33. IllEh yesterday 32 Low last night ,. 25 Precip. last 24 hours ... .15 Frccip. since, Oct 1 2.21 Same period last year 1.34 Normal for period ., ...2.01 County League HoldsWeeling The Association of Oregon Coun-, ties meeting in Portland Thursday considered a resolution asking the Oregon congressional . delecrntlon for early pussnge of a .federal highway program. The resolution was submitted by the roads and highways commit tee. It urges a compromise in current proposals for the federal highway construction program and that the appropriations be made when Congress reconvenes In Jan uary, 1956. County judges and commission ers make up tlie membership, The annual banquet of the group was held Thursday night. Klamath County officials in at tendance, at the meeting included County Judge U. E. Recder, com missioners Ed Gowen and Jerry RaJnus: County Clerk DeLap and County Engineer Bill Canton. ' '. ' ' ' t I' 1 , 1 -r,1 HARRY MONROE, proprietor of Monroe't Boat Workt end Moorage at 928 Front Street, wai caught by the 9 o'clock photographer this morning feeding hit flock of domestic duett end a couple of "gate crashing" wild mallards, one of which it perched on the pail. Monroe, who hai about 20 to 30 do mestic fowl, daily feeds tome 20 to 25 wild Canadian honkeri that can't resist his free lunch. The honkers, daily visitors for several years, this year brought their children. Telephone 8111 Scottish Rite Plans Opening The new. Scottish Rite Temple on Walnut Street between Sixth and Seventh streets will be of ficially dedicated Sunday, Novem- rr. rinrfn.lm. ...mni.U. I will begin at 2 p.m. and the public Is invited. . Leslie. M. Scott, 8cotttsh - RItel Sovereign brand Inspector General lor Oregon,1 Will attend the :pen- Ing.'. Otlior:. Scottish, Rite and Ma sonic loaders and members from all over Southern Oregon are ex pected to be In attendance. ;The completion of the remodel ing of the building marks the end of many year's planning for the lodge. $125,000 was spent ror the building and the remodeling. Arthur W. Schaupp is president of the board of dlrectom of the i building -association. Howard R. Perrln was the architect and How ard Burkhard was tlie contractor. Dulles Speech Secretary of Slate John Fos ter Dulles will make a IS min ute radio report to the nation tonight on the results of . the recent Big Four meeting in Ge neva. ' The broadcast will be heard over KH.H, Columbia Broad casting Company, tonight at 7 o'clock. I I EnsinadBt-C Plows Into SEATTLE M A chartered airliner loaded with GIs home ward bound for the holidays crashed atop a snow-covered hill Friday Just minutes alter a mid night takeoff, and at least 27 per son? died as 11 exploded and burned. Forty-seven others Including the three-man crew survived. The four-englned DC4, a non scheduled ah liner chavtered to the Army by the Peninsula Air Trans port Co. of Miami Springs, Fla., carried 68 servicemen who came home from the Far East only Thursday. They were bound for separation Rain Breaks Northwest Cold Spell By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Whiter threw a heavy fall of snow on much ot the Pacific North west Thursday night, then prompt ly began washing lt away with lain. . The unseasonable cold spell was broken.' But tlie - snow which started Thursday afternoon created traffic snarls from Vancouver,- B. C. south to Portland. At Seattle It was called the worst tratflc upset In the city's history. - While this was going on, Ore gon's Willamette Vsllty expert? enced a virtually complete power failure 800,000 kilowatts - dropped off tlie Bonneville lines whose ef fect, was felt for hours-despite ear ly restoration of service al most points. . On the eastern side of the Cas cades there was snow and moder ating temperatures. 1 The storm that brought snow to Washington and northern Oregon, started rain falling at late after- noon Thursday. In some areas it was freezing ram before tne warm ing took hold. The icing got first tentative blame for the power fail ure which struck from Portland i pA,ilt. In Ttvuil. anri' tin anft ftnwtl the coast from Tillamook to Coos Bay. f - . , . 1 Two persons lost tneir uvea thu ne mursaay snow. vn. vci Packer. 10. died wnen a car sum- ded and overturned at, Bremerton, and Jiinruy-Fris...7, aUd-into Port land's Johnson Creek and droWnod. When Friday dawned, thawing Was general In Western Oregon and Washington except - where east winds whipped through the Colum bia Gorge. Freezing rain fell there but the wind died dewn and tem peratures then went above freezing-. ...... , The storm had put t Inches of snow on Spokane. 5 at Toledo, Wash., 4.5 at Portland, 4 at Seattle and 3 at Pendleton Ike Checks Dulles Report GETTYSBURG, Pa. 1 i- Presl. dent Elsenhower checked word-for-word Friday the report Secretary of Slate Dulles will give the Amer ican people Friday night on the Geneva tour-power stalemate. In his temporary quarters in the Gettysburg Postofflce, .the Presi dent, pencil In hand, 'went over the text, marking In suggests changes and voicing his approval of other language. Dulles Joined Eisenhower at 11:30 a.m. for the final consulta tion on the all-Important report on the post-Geneva International sit uation. Eisenhower had been at work on other matters for - more than an hour. , A small crowd stood In the chill and waved a greeting as the Pres ident walked up the steps to hl.i temporary oiflccs. Elsenhower had a cheery smile and a brisk "good morning" for reporters as he hur ried Into the building. Before meeting with Dulles, El senhower conferred with Shcruion Adams, his chief deputy, on sov- eminent business, with Dillon Anderson, his special adviser on national security matters, and Andrew Goodpasture, White House staff secretary. - . i CAB Proposes Plane Devices WASHINGTON The Civil Aeronautics Board has proposed that all airlines be required to In stall flight recording devices or their planes. The recorder would provide In. formation on the time of the flight, vertical acceleration, air speed, pressure, altitude and direction- Information oi great potential val ue to CAB Investigators. The CAB has asked the airlines to comment by Jan. la on the proposal. Sledding Okay On Manzanita City - Recreation Director Boh Bnnney announced today that sled ding would be conducted on Man zanlta Street tonight from 4 to I o'clock. The ski and sled tows st Moore Park and Conger Hill will be op erated tomorrow all day, weather conditions permitting, Bonney said. fountain points In the Eact and for a re union with their families al Thanksgiving. j . . . i . -. .: ONE OF TWO The ill-fated plane one ef nearly two doaen that took off from Boeing Field Thursday during the day and night .with an estimated 1,000 GIs who had come back on rotation aboard the transport Gen. Howie. . . ' Witnesses and passengers said at least one, engine was sputtering before the plane hit. , Also aboard as a passenger with his family was a reserve pilot for the Florida airline. He was Ed-' ward McGiath, lis. who was re ported missing and presumed to - be one of the unidentified dead. Mrs. McOrath, and their three young children, Mary Ellen, 4: Tommy, 5, and Richard, 8, sur vived with hardly a scratch. Mrs. McOrath said her husband had Joined tlie airline only a month ago after quitting tne flying- Tiger line. She wandered dazed through the milling crowd at the trash scene searching every face for her hus band. Finally, In the home ot a nearby resident she let berselt and her children be. cared for until ambulances arrived. - The crash was the aecond In the West in less than 2i hours. Four teen persons including some atom ic scientists, were aboard a CM which crashed In Nevada. Thurs day. ATOP KILL ' - The crash here came brief min utes after the plane left Boeing ', Field on a flight to Chicago, and.' then to the East. The ship fell . atop a hill In a suuth Seattle resi dential district, broke into pieces and burst into flames, the bulk, of Ihe. biasing wreckage skidded . against the rear of a house where :' a mother and her five children were sleeping. They escaped unin jured. - ". Eugene Casey, 10. of Chicago, one of the survivors, said he was seated on the left side of the plane near the emergency door when it. hit. ' . - Casey, In a hospital suffering -shock and severe bums, said the takeoff had been delayed by a. snowstorm which had covertd the- Seattle area during the day. As lt nested the, crash site, he said, the "whole ' plane started Jarring. I saw wires snap. "I don't know how I got out. I walked right, through the. lire '"I crawled and the man In lront of me was streaming. ! waa vniairatd I'd fall down, I wouldn't B.ibe able to go on. - 'Bom GI stumbled down and I 'grabbed htm, I itaite scrnm- inr.-l.''. - ...-t -.-V' Casey said he started walking? and crawling to t nearby bouse. "I didn't think I'd make it. I never screamed or prayed so bard in all my life."- ' 7orst Plane Crashes Listed By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS -The worst U.S. commercial plane disaster occurred Oct. 6 this year when 6 died In the crash of an airliner on Medicine Bow Peak near Laramie, Wyo., on a New York to San Francisco flight. On June 18. 1993, the worst air disaster in history claimed the lives of 129 U.S. servicemen when a 0134 crashed near Tokyo. On June 34, 1950, 60 were killed when an airliner bound from New York to Minneapolis plunged Into Lako Michigan. The crash of a nonscheduled transport In Elizabeth, N.J., on Dec. 16, 1951, took 66 lives a few minutes after the plane had left Newark airport en route to Flor ida. A P-38 fighter plane collided witb an airliner near Washington, D.C.. Nov. 1, 1949, killing 65 aboard the airliner. The fighter pilot was in jured. on June 7, ins. a Miami-nouna transport crashed Into the Atlantic shortly after takeoff from Ban . Juan, P. R-. killing S3. Boxcar Lack To Be Aired WASHINGTON Wi The nation-; wide boxcar shortage and com- ' plaints of railroad discrimination against certain sections ot the country, will be aired before a Senate subcommittee when Con gress reconvenes. Chairman Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.) said Friday he will nair.o a subcommittee of the Ben ate Interstate Commerce Commit tee to conduct the Investigation. He said he would name the group immediately alter Congress meets In January. During the last year, the sen stor said, he has received a "con stant flow" of complaints from xhlppers In all parts ol the conn iry. Contrary to the frequent sea tonal complaints which accom pany the harvest season, Magnu son said letters Indicate the box car shortage is a year around problem. The mo-it recent complaint came Wednesday wnen 6cns. Morse and Neuberger, Oregon Demoorats, ac cused the Southern Pacific Rail road of discriminating rgalnst lum ber plants In Western Oregon where It operates as the sole car rier. They aald the Interstate Com merce Commission had failed to take any action to correct the situ ation. Lumber plants In the area, Morse and NeuDerger said, are operating at "25 to 50 per cent of capacity" because ot the car shortage. - , Mi ii ! 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