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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 20, 1955)
u&IISsti (See Sports) In Toe- Day's lews f , & By FRANK JENKINS Portland, in common-with most other cities o its size, is having lis mass transportation troubles. The burden of the puolic's com plaint in Portland and else where is that mere aren't misses enough, that they don't run often enough, that they don't give ade quate service to all sections of the city, and that the price is higher than riders want to pay. . Tne transport companies in Portland and elsewhere retort that the REAL trouble is that in ' these modern days people aren't willing to pay enough to make the business of public transport in the cities profitable enough. , , If the business was proiitable enough, they say, they couid and WOU1Q proviuc pusses cuuubh, iui . schedules could be ana wouia oe frequent enough and that all sec tions would be provided with ade quate public transport service. The upshot of it all is that in the : big cities there is a continuous ruexus over mass public transpor , tation. The real nub of the snus'ioB !s rihat in Western America, at least, vfare nearly everybody owns an ' Automobile, people would rather drive their own cars to and from work and to and irom their shop ' ping. .. The result of that is that in t places are becoming almost, as . nearly extinct as the passenger pigeon. " ' Getting back to Portland where popular political warcry back in i the days when streetcar fares, along with other goods and serv ices, were beginning to rise in ' price used to be: "Seven cents is too much for a five-cent ride" ' the traction company is coming up for an extension of its franchise. ' The city commissioner whose de- r partment specializes in public transportation says it isn't going to -get a franchise extension unless: 1. It is reorganised to give. local ' control (the majority of its stock ' is owned by outside interests). A .2. It sets a price at which It ' will sell out to local ownership. If it is unwilling to meet either of these conditions, the commls- ' fcloner says, he will award the franchise to outside investors, who, he asserts, are ready and able to go into the operation in Portland 7 of an entirely new mass transit ' svstem. Note, please, that he DOESN'T say that if no private outfit is wlll '. mg to do something eflective about ,-, thx situation the city of Portland -- will go into- the transit business as a municipal utility. - When that happens and it has happened In cities all over- the country the usuar result is that the city establishes fares that are too low and the city goes in the hole and charges the loss up to the taxpayers. The net result of that is that the taxpayers SUBSIDIZE the busi ness of public, transit. That is to say, ' the taxpayers' as a whole reach into their pockets and dig up the money with which to pay a part of the bills of these who ride the busses or the streetcars, or i what have you. . It, seems to me that the business of subsidization has gone about as far in this country as it ought to be permitted to go, and I'm glad to see that so far Portland isn't proposing to go into the mass transportation business, with the more or less Inevitable result that the city will pay a part of every. body's bill for riding down town and back. Late Major Grid Scores Oregon 28 Oregon State 0 ' UCLA 17 USC 7 Stanford 19 California 0 Washington 27 I Washington State 7 Ohio State 17 Michigan 0 Notre Dame 17 Iowa 14 Yale 21 Harvard 7 Maryland 19 George Washington 0 Michigan State 33 Marquette 0 Oklahoma 41 Nebraska 0 TCU 35 Rice 0 So. Methodist 12 Baylor 0 I c" J V. V I Price Ten Centa 34 Par V 1 4 r i yt - Xt . " X) 3 flliiiiaain -11111111 -far - nfflm mm niarni iiii liii nnnuTT'' immkii" m n n Miiiae! ROGER DOKKEN'S HANDS are set to gather in Glenn Steyskal's 23-yard aerial for Matin's first touchdown in Saturday afternoon's 'B' semi-final game in which the fighting Mustangs spilled the invading Union High Bobcats, 27-12, on rain-soaked Malin High' field. Bobcat defender Mickey Rielcer (30) lunges in vain to thwart Dokken's catch. The victory gives the Mustangs an opportunity for the State diadem in a game with Sileti this week. Site and time 'for the championship battle have not been announced. Tivo Slain RABAT, French Morocco Wi Morocco's era of good feeling was shattered Saturday, by a bloody political murder in the courtyard of Sultan sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef's palace. The fact the Sultan was inside the palace laboring to iind means Diesel Units RED BLUFF. CALIF. (UP! Passenger traffic was restored to day on the Southern Pacific's line to Oregon after delays of as much as 14's hours caused by a spec tacular freight derailment. There were no injuries In the de railment at Gerber, Calif., about 10 miles south of here. Southern Pacific officials said. But the de railment, sent two big diesel loco motive units off the tracks in op posite directions, derailed four freight cars, and blocked both mainline tracks. Among trains delayed were the north and - southbound Klamath limiteds, the north and southbound limiteds,, the north and southbound Cascade and the Shasta Daylight. According to SP officials in Klamath Falls Saturday the Cas cade was delayed about nine hours Into the Klamath station. The Day'ight was running on schedule Saturday and the local Klamath was about 2"3 hours late Satur day. St-.- ..' . i '$rtL - SAFE DRIVING DAY will be observed in Klamath Fall., end over the nation, on December I. Mayor Paul Landry, seated, issued a proclamation urging the citizens of Klamath Falls to observe the day called by President Eisenhower in en Wfort to cut the highway death toll of the nation. Jerry Slunerlblds one of the signs which will be put up in Klamath Falls.. Slusttr Is the Klamath County Junior Chamber of Commerce's chair man of the drive. The Jaycees are backing the drive. In Sultan's Palace Of keeping the peace in Morocco i emphasized the difficulties this French protectorate faces. At least two of a troup of Moroc can notables who formed to pav homage to the - recently returned monarch were dead and five others wounded... Two of the wounded were not expected to recover. There were reports two more Moroccans were killed in scattered brawls on the great meadow Just outside the twlace 1 v - The- top ian-WHc(liwas Khantr!' Berdadl, an important caliph of the old religious capital of Fez, where terroiis(s had made three nttempts - on his hie previously, Recognized in the palace court' yard by his political enemies, he and , his bodyguard were beaten and trampled to death. The famed palace "Black Guard" quickly surrounded the me lee but not before the knives and guns had done their work. A spokesman for the Istiqlal (In dependence) Party blamed ine In cident on what he said was the fact the volunteer police ot his par ty no longer were responsible for the maintenance of order in the palace, as they have been since the return of the Sultan Wednesday. The responsibility had been haied with other nationalist groups. The dead caliph was a supporter SHIP CHASED SHIMONOSEKI. Japan W A South Korean navy ship chased two Japanese fishing boa is off ths Korean coast Friday but they es caped captufc, the Japan Marine Products Co. reported. of former Sultan Mohammed Mou- lay Ben Araf a and had come un invited to make his peace with Youssef. There had been scattered vio- lence in Morocco throughout the period of negotiations with the French and tnfe Sultan's expected return. But tne principal figures have made a show of attempting to keep order and tne sultan turn' self has been generally torglviug A8 JVpAOmer., opponeuas. The bloody Incident In the palace courtyard underlines the fact that despite recent developments, old nntosnnlsms run ripr in Mnror.ro." landslide, workmen were at- The violence in the palace court- '"P"ng t clear the slide yes yard was reflected In beatings and! and conditions should be Ights among thousands of Moroc cans waiting In the meadow around the palace hoping to be received by the Sultan. Housing List Office Formed An Air Force Housing Bureau at the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce will be organized in the near future announced Ed Bell, chairman of the housing division of the chamber's Military Affairs Committee, Friday. The main purpose of the bureau, which will be a Joint military, civ ilian effort, will be to receive list ings of available rental, or lease, housing in the Klamath Falls area. Bell .said a continuing survey will be kept on all housing listed. As houses, or apartments, are rented, or leased, the staff of the bureau will remove them from the list. The formation of the bureau was deemed necessary to aid the in coming U.S. Air Force personnel to find adequate housing. It will be located at the chamber of com merce. 323 Main Street.! In other business of the housing commercial division of the Mili tary Affairs Committee it was an nounced that Rudy Jacobs. . local ! merchant, will Mead the commer cial side of the sub-committee and Don Sloan will aid Bell with the housing. Dionne Quint In Hospital MONTREAL in Marie Dioiine. 21-vear-old quintuplet who was own land in the same burns as studying at a Quebec convent, has j part of the cooperative project, become ill .igain and Is in a hos-j At present the Weyerhaeuser re pltal here lor observation. : search stall Is experimenting with In North Buy. Ont., Ohva Dionne. rather ol the nulnluplets, said Saturday he had been in' formed Marie's health Is "run down" and that she Is sulierlng from loss of appetite and loneli ness. It was the second time In 16. months Marie had left the Roman j Catholic convent for the same rea sons. , While It was reported that she, will be kept under oD-eivmon ioi a month m Notre Dame l'Esper. p.nce Hospital, where Marie's sis ters. Cecile. and Yvonne, are train Jig as nurses, the hospital would not confirm she had been admit ted. Marie's family said she left the cloister of the Servants of the Blessed Saciament In Quebec City, where she hus oeen studying (or religious ordcis, and traveled here with a surse. KLAMATH Rain Clears Major Roads In Oregon Northern California and Oreeon highways cleared off with yester day's rain to the point where chains were not required on any major passes yesterday afternoon. Oregon State Police officials said luuay. ; . However, temperatures were dropping, and heavy snow is fall- inir nn Willnmetr Page Tf wac probable that chains would be re-1 quired today. State police said. They advised that chains should be carried, regardless of what routes autoists follow "because a lot can happen in 24 hours.'1 It was raining at 5 B.ni; yester day on the Siskiyou Summit route of U.S. 99 and the Greensprlngs Summit on State Sign Route 66. and state police officers said that the rain might turn to snow and make the highways slippery ueiore sunrise. U.S. 97 at Chemult was renorteri turning slushy by a state police patrolman at about 4:30 p.m., but this route could also freeze before morning. California Agriculture Depart ment Inspectors at the Dorris In spection station reported that northbound truck drivers reported that U.S. 97 and 99 to Redding were wei out not icy at S p.m. yester day. However, inspectors said that the;" temperature' was droonina steadily over the four hours prior id o p.m., ana uiat the highway would probably ice up befoce-ww, rise... t. Santlam FssJlelr-a?'i',a:m. yesterday was reported as need ing chains, was reduced to a one way road for short distance due Improved today, according to the Oregon State Motor Association. Word received from the Crater Lake ranger station at 4 p.m. yes terday said that State Sign Route 62 was' open, but chains were re quired. The road from Annie Springs to' the rim was blocked, and the warming hut will be closed today. Snow was falling yesterday morning. In Klamath Falls, it rained most of the day yesterday. According to unofficial Herald and News tem perature readings, high was 41 and low last night was 30. Snow removal was being aided by the rain, but officials reminded all auto owners to park off the street if they could to aid the work. Weyerhaeuser Plans Seeding Twenty three hundred fire scarred acres of private land will be grass covered next spring as a result of cooperative efforts Of Weyerhaeuser Timber Company and the .United States Forest Serv ice, ' A United States Forest Service plane furnished under a coopera tive agreement will spread 14.000 pounds of grass seed furnished by ' Umber company on the Weyer- haeuser properly ill the Dcnilng Creek and Round Butte burns ncar Bly. Oregon. "Depending on weather." snld Tom Orr, chief forester at the tim ber company's Klamath Falls bianch, "the project will start No vember 28, and It Is hoped to con serve, the soil and hold it until tiees can be regrown." Many acres of forest land were laid bare by last summer's fire, on both Forest Service and Weyer haeuser holdings. The Forest Serv- ice Is seeding 3.700 acres 01 lis 1 nine tree seeains. wnen fnouEn seed Is available, and if the expert ment proves feasible, tree seed will be planted on the-areas. Weather FORECAST Klamath FalU and vlrlnltri Cloud with rain earlr Sunday otherwfe partial clearlng wlth si-altered nnw or rain thow er Sunday. Partly rloudy fiundar nltht and Monday, Cooler Hunriar and Sunday nlfhl. Ilirh both dari 33-43. Low Sunday nltht 27-32. Illrh yesterday 41 Low last night 30 HI.CDD1NO CI.OSKO City recreation director Bob Bon nry said the ski tows and sledding areas of Klamath Falls will be closed until further notice. FALLS, OREGON, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20, IMS SHOOTING HOURS OREGON November 20 OPEN CLOSE 6:33 4:42 - November 21 OPEN CLOSE 6:35 4:41 CALIFORNIA California Season Closed . Until Dec. 10th Minor Floods Hit Oregon By THE ASSOCIATtD PRKSS Minor flooding plagued Oregon Saturday as ram and melting snow- caused a number of smaller streams to-overflow. A number of. points reported about two inches of rain in 24 hours ending Saturday morning. The run-off . was increased by mow melting from the cold spell earlier in the week. Water stored by the Southern Oregon Plywood, Cqrp. at Sweet Home poured over retaining walls end coursed eight', inches., .daep Uon the main street of the busi ness district. Some business firms had an inch of water on their floors. i ' In Poi tland Johnson Creek spilled over its hanks, and water was four incnes deep on some streets in the southeast part of the city. In the hilly southwest nisinct a concrete retaining wau at a residence collapsed. Utility pole guy wires weie snapped and a basement caved In. Astoria measured a. 14 inches of rain, Corvallls 2.0?, Albany 1,90, Portland 1.82, Eugene 1.61, New port 1.56,- North Bend 1.4V and Sa lem 1.43. Temperatures remained high throughout the state. The only points with sub-freezing marks were Lake view at 3ti, Pendleton 29 and Tne Dalles 2S. Some minor flooding occurred along the lowlands of the Willam ette River. The river was expected to crest overnight at Harrlsburg at 14 feet, two feet over flood stage. It also was expected to go up to 19 feet at Jefferson, where flood stage Is listed at 13 feet. Only minor damage was expected there. Elmer Fisher, river lorecaster at Portland, said the crest would be 19 feet ot Albany early Mon day. That ,1s a lout under flood level. The crest at Salem .is ex pected to be 16'2 feet about 7 a.m. j Monday. The flood stage there is 20 feet. 4. 2Zj mmm""' ( XyV. """"1 JACK CASHIN, 804 Lincoln Street, pauted in hit mow shovel ing Saturday morning when the 0 o'clock photographer came , by, Cithin wti clearing tome of the mow ewey from hii ear. No. S331 Stevenson Drubs GOP By JACK Ml XL CHICAGO IM Adlil E. Steven- ion led a Democratic assault Sat urday against what he called "special interest government In Washington," which he said offers a shaky peace, deceptive prosper ity ana no progress. Flanked by party leaders who voiced the same theme, the 1952 Democratic pres'deniial nominee who wants to be its 1956 standard bearer, tore into the Republican campaign slogan of "peace - prosperity-progress." in a speech prepared for a $100- a-plate roast beet dinner, Steven son said there Is a "spiritual un easiness" among people that . the Eisenhower administration has "settled for too little" in meeting world and national problems.- He said that despite President Elsenhower's efforts at the Geneva summit conference "the cold war is still In a deep lrecze" with the free nations' security system "de teriorating" and "a safe and ord erly world. . .still a distant goal." PROSPERITY PLATEAU He said that "today most Ameri cans dwell upon the plateau of prosperity which the Republicans -.nneriiea irom us out, no con- tended that the well-being ot 20 Telephone 8111 Peace Policy million Americans on farms "is wnen i came to I was stand sinking while the Republican cheer ing outside screaming 'get the pe- leaaers snout: . . -ttveryming u uHw um, kci v pevpra om. booming but the guns.' 1' I He paused, then satd in a choked Stevenson said oe agrees with OOP! leaders that "moderation Is. the spirit of the times" he added "But we best hike, care lest we confuse moderation with medioc rity, or settle for half measures to hard problem!-'. A democratic so ciety can't stand still and the world won't stand Mil. . . Moder ation.' ye3. Stagnation. No. As ihe history of nations reminds us, noth ing falls like success, Sen. Estes Kciauver or Tennes see, who wore the air or a man Mely to formally challenge Steven son for the nomination, agreed largely with his potential rival's theme. In a prepared speech, ne called the OOP's handling of for eign' affairs a "failure." Former president Hniry S. Tru man predicted an "overwhelming" victory for the parly In 1950 presi dential and congressional elections. NEUTRALITY Truman, maintaining a new at titude of neutrality hi the presi dential nomination contest after previously having repeated several times no was lor Stevenson, said that the people are dissatisfied with the change they ttot in the Repub lican administration alter 20 years of Democratic rule. Gov. Avcrcll Htrilman of New York, who said he isn't now an "active candidate'"' for the party presidential nomliiutlon, also fired at the Republicans. . Harrlman, who expects to b? New York's "lavorlte son" candt date, voiced high prnh tor Tru I man, Stevenson a.'d Kcfuuvcr. Id "".'i DC-4 Pilot Speaks From Hospital Bed - By PAUL VTULLS ' . SEATTLE W Propeller fait ure was blamed Saturday by the pilot lor the midnight crash here two days ago of a chartered DC4 that claimed the Uvea of 37 ot the ?4 aboard. In a dramatic hospital room news conference. William J. Mc Dougall, 40, Miami. Fla., told ot Ihe desperate cockpit struggle tc keep the big four-englned plane aloft with its load of Gls back from the Far East. . . , McDougall said without' hesi lancy the crash, two minutes aitet takeoff from Seattle's Boeing Field, was caused by inability to "feath er." the malfunctioning propeller en ihe No. 4 engine. He explained that feathering: propeller means turning its blades with the edge to the wind like a knife. Tills must be done before power can be cut off from the -engine In this case the outside engine on the right or the "prop" will windmill. Instead of feathering, McDougall -said, the No. 4 propeller blade: turned flat, offering great resis tance to the airstieam, and caus ing the plane to yaw with loss of control and altitude. ENGINE SHAFT He said he was convinced the propeller itself had tailed, but add ed there was a possibility the en- ' fine's shaft could have snapped, leaving tne -prop" without any control, v McDougall, in his first public statement since the Peninsular Air Transport Co. DC4 cracked up and -burned, said he blacked out when the big plane plowed into the hack yard ot a South Seattle hillaida home. i voice as tears sweanvfa eown nu face: - r ' "i 8td everyiSing in my power? i everything." ,. McDougall met newsmen im mediately after giving a tull ac count to the five Civil Aeronautics Board investigators here checking: Into every angle of the crajh. The dead included 28 servicemen just back on rotation and a re serve pilot for the Miami, Fla., company, Edward McOrath, as, Boston. . The survivors were 40 OIs. the plane's Ihree-man crew and Mrs. j McOrath and her three small children.' The McOraths were deadheading" to Miami. SOLDIERS ' Nineteen of Ihe soldiers were dis charged from hospitals Friday and continued homeward Friday night. Most jeit oy tram. Twenty-one stilt were hospitalized at Seattle's Ft. Lawton and will remain there over the weekend. Only one, Cnl. J. S. f Thomas of Philadelphia, was list- ed as critical. The Peninsular company said In statement Issued here Saturday l that in 11 years nf operation cov- ering 17 billion passenger miles it , never before had suffered e pas- ; cenger fatality. i McDouqalls theory of what caused tl.c crash was backed up : by the co-pllol, Fred Hall, 30, Ml- . ami, who lay in the hospital bed alongside. The pilot, wno said tins was his list fatal accident in 32 years of ,' flying, declared he and Hall made at least three Inspections and full - wnrmup testa of the plane before . takeoff,. "Everything checked out OK and we were not overweight or over loaded." he said. NORMAL TAKEOFF The tkootf was normal, he re ;tcd. At between 300 and bfiO feet . Ihe plane had gained speed ot ) 135 miles an hour. Ho ordered the co-pilot to make j the first reduction from takeolt power. This is done by changing the angle of the propeller blades, ' "I immediately felt a surge on ; No. 4 engine," McDougall said.' "1 quickly ordered that tho No. 4 pro peller be feathered. The 'prop' ; started to leather, then unfeath- ! ered." Hope Rises For Survivors LAS VEGAS. Nev. (Pi Pov slbillly that some of the 14 men who crashed In a plane atop frigid Mt. Charleston may have survived wai raised Saturday night by a pilot who said he saw a fire near the wreckage. MhJ. R. A. Wlndollcr of Ncllls Air Force Base near here report ed that while flying an F100 Je". lighter over the wicckagc on Ihe ll.DlO-fool mounutn shortly be fore dusk he spoiled a fire about 50 fee. from remnants ol the air craft. "It looked like a small bonfire," he radioed his base. "It looked like two people were around the fire." It was known that none of the irscue teams, fighting freezing temperatures and waist deep enow (n reach the crash scene, was with in mile ol the site, : . . V
