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MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1955 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE SEVEN Title Scout Troop To Honored , TULELAKE Tulelake Boy bcoui iroop, no. . eligible for the highest honor In the American Legion organization tor the state of California, will be recognized at a public court of honor Tues day, December 6. The Ktncaid trophy, given to the most outstanding troop in the stale which is sponsored by a Legion Post, will be presented to O. E. (Petet Pederson, troop scoutmast er, during a dinner ceremony In the American Lesion Hall. Dinner time is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. The presentation is to be made fcy Paul Rogers, state of California district commander of the Ameri can Legicn. This Is the first time the honor has been given to a post north, of the San Francisco Bay Area, according to Pederson. Los Angeles was runner-up for the hon or. Three . hundred, eighty live troops were engiole. The troop with 66 Explorer and Scout members also won the dis trict and area plaques this ' year Horn the legion lor outstanding accomplishments including: survey ing of the Pacific Crest Trail ironi Lane oi tne wooas to urater iane The troop members attended the National Jamboree in New York in 1952, the more recent national at Santa Ana and the Philmont Scout Ranch meeting hi New Mexi co, last year. Pederson, has been scoutmaster here since 1944. Members are re- "i 'cruited from both Tulelake and Newell .- Eddie Duckett Jr., who has just been named Tulelake's 1955 Potato King will receive the Eagle Scout award. Six emergency ratings for Ped erson and hi3 five civil defense first aid team members. Michael Pederson. Steven Rudisell, Howard Clarke, Tom Proctor and Eddie Duckett, will be given. Other awards will be made to the outstanding Scout of the year by the . Veteran of Foreign Wars Post here and to Scouts in all other brackets. Some 100 honors . will be conferred. Modoc area officials Jim Har- pole, Jerry Thome and Rhon Phair, Klamath Falls are expected to be present. Accidents Kill Four ( By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Weekend accidents i n Oregon claimed the lives of lour persons, Three died in traffic and one was killed when a gun ' accidentally discharged. Leland J. Wilkinson, 17, suffered p. fatal head wound when his gun fired as he was checking a beaver trap near Florence Sunday, wit nesses reported. Richard Brown, 81, of Lyons, died at a Stayton hospital Sunday from injuries uffored--. when he -was struck bv a car on a highway nea: h 1 s home last Thursday Safe Driving Day. John B. Diamond. 21, a Navy sailor on leave from the U.S.S. Wright, berthed ai Bremerton Wash., died Sunday in a Klamath Falls hospital after being injured in a highway crash north of there Saturday. Ke was the second victim of the wreck. Peggy Ann Wickman, 19, of Glen Ellen, Calif., died earlier. ' ...... -....... ....... . ,.-.. ... . . .. . . - -V . . , - ,....'. V ' f- - .... . i f--- . '.' uy Jv f A 1 Mr r GlennMaftin. Pioneer In Aviation. Dies At 69 As Cerebral Hemorrhage Hits THESE THREE NEW MASTERS will guide Klamath County Granges during 1956. (I to r) are Dick Kruger, Malin; Alex Duncan, Merrill and Floyd Hoover, Midland. They were installed Nov ember 22 at joint installation ceremonies at Malin. . . " ' . : ;' Young GOP's Boost Ike PORTLAND Ifi Oregon Young Republicans plan to circulate peti tions soon to place President Eisenhower's name on the May. 1956, state presidential primary ballot. Tne signatures of 1.000 voteis on a petition would nominate the President for rc-clecilon. Paul Kerrigan, a student at Portland's Reed College and chair man of the Reed Republican Club. said arrangements were being made with the secretary of state for the petitions. The Oregon College League of Young Repuolicans ended Hs two- day convention earlier in the day by approving a resolution urguig that Oregon voters be given chance to decide whether 18-year olds should vote. Valdis Pavlovskls, Portland Slate College, was elected chairman of the college league. Other officers include: , George Burgess, Lewis and Clark, vice chairman; Jerry Plunkett, ..Willamette, vice chairman at large; Joyce Spill- man, Portland State, secretary; Don Brlggs, University of Oregon, Western Council representative. Next year's league convention will be held at Willamette University. 5! Sig Unander 5 Gov. .Williams' Home Guarded LANSING. Mich. Wi Gov. O. Mennen Williams' home in the state capital here has been under 24-hour guard since Nov. 26 when a telephone caller twice warned the governor's wife, Nancy, that a bomb was hidden in the building, State Police disclosed Mccday. Troopers failed to find a trace of explosives in two thorough searches. ., Mrs. Williams said she could not tell whether the calls came from a man or a woman. The voice was muffled "as If a cloth had been put over the mouthpiece," police quoted her as saying. Republican Budget Chief Resigns PORTLAND tff Ralph E Williams Jr. of Portland has re signed as chairman of the state Republican budget and finance committee. The resignation was accepted Saturday at a meeting of the executive committee of the Repub lican State Central Committee. Some political observers saw this as the first step in Williams' campaign for the post of Oregon Republican national committee' man. Jess Gard, Portland, now holds the post. He has not yet announced whether he will seek re-election, BALTIMORE ( Glenn L. Mar tin, one ot aviation's pioneers, died here last night. . The 69-ycar-old founder of the Glenn L. Martin Co. was stricken Timberland Tract Purchase Told ALBANY. Ore. Wl Purchase of a timberland tract near here for $1,460,000. was announced Sun day by the Willamette Valley Lumber Co. of Dallas, ore. C. H. and Helen Watzek of Portland were listed as the seller::. The 8,068-acre tract, known as the Roaring River Tree Farm, was re-seeded and planted in trees during and after World War II by Watzek. His firm, the Roaring. River Logging Co., had logged the area earlier. by a cerebral hemorrhage yester day morning at Olenarm, his big farm on Maryland's Eastern Shore. He died at University of Maryland Hospital in Baltimore. Behind him stretched a fabulous career crammed with aviation "firsts." On Aug. 1, 1909, he piloted the first airplane ever to leave the ground under Its own power. Nearly half a century later his gigantic company was picked by the government to make and launch the first man-made earth satellite. In between, he was credited with being the first to develop a sue. cessful parachute which could be opened by the Jumper at will, complete the first air mall flight, and make the first extended flight over ocean water. His company claimed the con. Don't Take Chances with Colds- - RELIEVE SUFFERING ONE SURE WAY THAT Does More Than Work on Chest structlon of the first multlpassen- ger airplane, twin-engine bomber, torpedo and dive bombere, super cargo ship, ground-to-air guided missile and many other innova tions. Martin built his first plane In an abandoned church at Santa Ana, Calif. It was a flimsy con traption of bamboo and wooden frame covered with sailcloth and powered by an automobile motor. In later years he boasted that he finished it in the flickering light of a lamp held by his mother, she nad encouraged mm through early experiments which led a family friend to call him "a wild-eyed, hallucinated visionary." She later accompanied him as his only pas senger when be coaxed the shud dering craft aloft. For the first few years his "fac tory" was a shoestring operation supported in part by prize money earned as a barnstorming pilot and famous atunt filer. He oven orked u a villain in a Mary Plcklord movie to get money. In 1917 he went East (or a abort fling as an executive of the Wright Martin Corp. In New York, then struck out (or himself again in Cleveland, In 1929 he brnt the Middle River plant at Baltimore, later added an other at Omaha, Neb. His com pany announced last week (till an other will go up near Denver, Colo. The firm's annual payroll, is now 92 million dollars. Martin resigned as president of his company in 1949. He stepped down as board chairman three years later but remained a direc tor and principal stockholder. . He was born in Macksburg, Iowa, and while still a boy, moved with his family to Liberal and Salina, Kan., then to California. He was a bachelor. 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Unander's address will outline the Important facts in the develon ment of Oregon, give an inside view of the problems and costs of our state government, and relate the planning, necessary to proper ly assimilate the million increase in population expected in Oregon in the next 20 years. Other speakers on the day-long real estate education program are; Charles Paine, president of the Portland Realty Board; Max Tay lor, classified advertising manager, of the Orcgonlan; Rasnor O. John son, Oregon state real estate com missioner, and Victor P. Morris, dean of school of business adminis tration, University of Oregon, Eugene. Plane Rides Just "Joker MONTGOMERY. Ala. Wl A slate official says Alabama Gov. James Folsom's remarks about using Air National Guard plancf for football trips is Just a joke, but Pentagon officials apparently don't think so. State Finance Director Fuller Kimbell said. "It's all a joke." But officials at the Pentagon and hifih Air Force spokesmen have suggested an investigation may be broadened into the report ed use of National Guard planes to fly Folsom and friends lo foot ball Junkets. They've also hinted that a bill may be presented to the state for the use of the planes on sucb oc casions in the past. Folsom told reporters last week every Alabama National Guard plane would be ordered to Jackson ville. Fla., on Dec. 31 when Au burn plas Vanderbilt In the Gator Bowl. Pointing out that he Is commander-in-chief of the Alabama Guard, the governor said it would be a "special weather mission" that would include a landing In the morning and a take-oil late that night. Wild Driver Hits Walker SACRAMENTO (UP1 Mary Sue Roach. 38. was held in Sacra mento Jail today on four charges. Including two felonies, as the after math of a wild driving spree. The Highway Patrol said Mrs. Roach was driving her automobile east on U.S. 40 Inst night when she struck Pvt. William O. 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