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.
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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.
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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.
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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 To
Speak Here
Sig Unander, Oregon state treas
urer, will .spenk to real estate
brokers and salesmen of Klamath
and Lake counties at a noon lunch
eon meeting In the Willard Hotel,
Thursday, December 8.
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. Smith.
20. Beale Air Force Base, as he
walked along the highway eight
miles east of Sacramento. Smith
suffered a broken leg and possible
internal injuries.
The Patrol said Mrs, Roach did
not stop and soon rammed Into a
vehicle driven by John W. Chris
tiansen. 23. Sacramento.
At this point. Page Harper, Sac
ramento, stopped the woman and
called the patrol.
Mrs. Roach was booked In jail
on charges of felony hit-run, felony
drunk driving, driving without
lights and driving without an oper
ator's license.
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