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Newspaper Page Textlife I n in The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS If, for ANY reason, you're feel ing on the glum side today, I'd like to oiler a suggestion. Look at the calendar. THIS IS DECEMBER .7. ' December 7 is PEARL HARBOR DAY. So . No matter how low you may be in your mind You'll be feeling vastly bettor than you were at this hour 1 years ago. Remember this: Fourteen years ago today, we woke ud AT PEACE. We went to bed that night AT WAR, There are problems today. There are problems always. But, if we can find a way to maintain PEACE WITH HONOR all of our troubles will be com' paratively little ones. Speaking of trouble Up at Wenatchee, In the .state of Washington, a black cat named Buttons has been having it. Four days ago, Buttons took it into her head to try out her claws on a 40-foot-high power pole. So she started climbing. - It was fun. Her claws, dug into the soft wood of the pole, and she went, up and up. Just like shooting fisb. She kept at it until she got clear to the top. Then her troubles began. -. She was afraid to come down! Her trouble lasted more th,in 100 hours. Then a warm-hearted service lineman for the electric company came to the rescue. The pole -Buttons was clinging to yowling lustily, meanwhile car ried a 110.00 volt power line. The lineman wasn't too anxious to come in contact with It. So he rigged himself a lasso, shinned up a nearby pole und from the top of it he LASSOED Buttons. He gave a sharp yank on the, rope and Buttons dropped free of the high tension wires and fell to the ground unharmed. So It all ended happily. Troubles can very, very often end happily if somebody just has ingenuity enough to GET AROUND THE TROUBLE. Speaking still further of trouble, do you remember the tale of the frog that Jumped into a milk can full of milk? The frog was in a bad way. But It didn't give up. It started KICKING kicking being a part of the nature of frogs. It kept on kicking. It wound up sitting on a lump of butter its kicking had churned! The moral is obvious. Coast Storm Damage Told By THE' ASSOCIATED PXESS The coastal Pacific Northwest added up the costs Wednesday of a violent wind and rainstorm that took three lives Tuesday and caused major damage in wide areas of Western Washington and Oregon. ' The storm dealt its heaviest blow at Washington's Puget Sound re- gion. Water traffic halted, trees and utility poles toppled and pow er lines broke as winds with gusts up to 68 miles an hour raked the area. The wind damaged homes and other buildings .and accom panying heavy rain caused minor flooding problems. ' - Oregon's Willamette Valley had winds with gusts up to 57 miles an hour and freezing rain was re ported in the Columbia River gorge. Storm victims were two elderly Tacoma sports fishermen and a Colton, Ore., . sawmill operator. Alf Ericksoh, 73, and Barney , Sather, also 73, drowned when their 16-foot outboard boat filled with water in the high winds in the Ta coma -Narrows. The bodies of both men were being sought. Orville Bradford, 50, was killed when a 200-foot tree fell on his track two miles north of Colton. The high winds forced the Wash ington State Ferries system to suspend lis Puget Sound opera tions for several hours, and also: Tore a' seaplane loose from its moorings on Lake Washington' and blew it across the lake where it sank: Pulled the tanker Cahaba from its moorage on Bainbridge Island In the sound; ' (l?) Felled trees and utility poles in Seattle and other cilies. Snow fell east of the Cascades In Washington S t a t e, blocking roads and closing schools. A three-inch snowfall in Spokane County closed 11 schools and forced closure of the highway be tween Spokane and Davenport. New Courtesy Driver Named The courtesy driver lor Wedncs dy is the holder of Oregon li cense number 3F-9168. announced the Safety Committee for the Klamath County Junior Chamber of Commerce today. The license number of the winning automobile pirked Wednesday morning Is 3F-916D. By calling 4062 by 11 a.m. Thursday and Identifying him elf the owner of this license number can win S10 In the Jay rees safe driving contest. The Jayceei said that the hold er of this number can win (10 by railing 4062 by 11 a.m. Thulsda The holder ol the number picked Tuesday did not call in and the 14 prue was Increased to 110 lor the Wednesday number. If the holder of Wednesday's number does not call in, the prlre will be UiCTcaoed to li lor Thursday. f f tlf FOOTBALL WAS THE TOPIC of conversation as these five gentlemen gathered following Tues day evening's Owl Hoot recognition dinner at the Willard Hotel for "football coaches of Klamath Falls. Shown seated from left to right, John Schubert, president of the Owl Hoots, Bill Hammer, line coach at the University of Oregon and the evening's guest speaker, and Rex Hunsaker, head coach at Oregon Tech. Standing are Dino Obisso, Sacred Heart Academy grid coach and John McSinnis head man of the Klamath Union High School football pro gram.' Approximately 150 attended the dinner in honor of Hunsaker, Obisso and McGinnis. Ike Prepares Economy Talk GETTYSBURG, Pa.- (UP) . President Eisenhower -today start ed drafting his report to Congress on the ooommg economy; He called from Washington his top economic advisers, Arthur F. Burns and Gabriel Haucc Burns is chairman of the President's Council " of Economic Advisers: Hauge, a presidential assistant on economic matters. Burns and Hauge' were' ready to report to the President on latest economic developments and help lay the groundwork for his annual economic report to Congress, due in January. Mr. Eisenhower, steadily im proving from the heart attack he sintered in Denver Sept. 24. us busy with a series of messages he will send the lawmakers, including a report on the state of the union and a proposed budget lor the uew fiscal year - White House Press Secretary James C. Hagei ty said the Presi dent would, conlmue with Burns and Kauge discussions he 'started ruesday on the military budget with Defense Secretary diaries E. Wilton. Wilson announced after a 90-min-ute conference with Mr. Eisenhow er Tuesday that, the administra tion will try to hold defenbe spend ing next year to about $34,500,- 000.000. This is the same goal the Pentagon Is shooting for in the current iiscal year. Hagerty also announced that Mr. Elsenhower ln.d accepted the re signation of Morcheod Patterson as U.S. representative in negotia tions looking tovard establishing an International atomic energy agency. Patterson submitted his resigna tion Dec. 3 along with a progress report on his negotiations. Snowbound Men Found On Ridge YREKA (UP) Two telephone Company employes were rescued early yesterday after they Were snowbound for eight hours in a shack atop 5800-foot-high Humbug Ridge. The men. Sam Love and Wally Broce radioed for help from a repeater station where they hud been doing repair work after their jeep went off the road during a violent snowstorm. Neither man was injured. Seven volunteers; using four pieces of equipment, battled tiie drifting snow for seven hours to travel the seven and one half miles to the shack. t 1 I Or11- CHRISTMAS SEALS were offered 10 downtown thopperi Saturday afternoon, December 3 In the First National Bank of Portland, Klamath Falls Branch, by Heft to right) Diana Den ton and Judy Hamaker. The young saleswomen are members ef Girl Scout Troop No. 41. The colorful little seals help fight T8 and are messengers of courage and foresight. Democrat? Gain Two Seats In N. California Election SACRAMENTO .(UP) Demo crats claimed two more seals in the stale Legislature today in the wake of special elections in differ ent Northern California districts. The election, of Stanley Arnold. Susanville attorney, to the stale Sennte from the First District boosted the Democrats up to 13 seats in .the upperhouse", against 22 for the" Republicans. That is the largest Democratic representation In the Senate since the heyday of Gov. Culbert L. Olson, Califor nia's only Democratic governor in the last 50 years. Democrats continued to' ahow gains in the lower house, as well. with the election of attornev Thomas MacBrlde to the Eighth Assembly District seat in Sacra mento County. Idaho Miners Charge Union KELLOGG, Idaho Wl Stlikc- bound north Idaho mining opera-, tors claimed Wednesday that union shop demands of the , Mine-Mill union are against the law of the state. - j The operators took but newspaper advertising-space- to say -; - "We refuse to violate the law .so the strike tocs on." The union struck the so-called "16 operators" lost Au. ;!4 and liOO men walked off the job to support new tontract, demands which include the union shop. Federal Mediator Edward Dan iels recessed negotiations indefi-nalL-Iy Tuesday afler Mine-Mill turned down a management sug gestion that it drop the 'union shop demand The company statement Wed nesday said the union shop would b? "compulsory, unionism." It added: 'Section 44-'702 of Die Idaho Code declares that any agreement be tween an employer and an em ploye which requires the employ to join a union in order to hold his job is contrary to puYilc policy and is not enforceable in the courts of Idaho. The union demands such an agreement." ' There was no immediate union comment. H. J. Hull, a spokesman for the operators, said Tuesday that oilier contract issues could be settled If the union shop demand was with drawn. . James DauRherly. representa tive of the International Union of Mine. Mill and Smelter Workers, rejected the suppesiion and said the union wants "equality" in the district. - HI MacBrlde's election b o o s t e'd Democratic representation in the Assembly to 33 against 44 Republi cans, with three seats vacant. Since the 1953 session, the Repub licans have lost nine, seats in the Assembly while Democrats hava picked up six spots and three vacancies remain in the lower house. Final but unofficial figures from the Eighth Assembly District gave MacBride 12.702 votes. Republican James A. Phillips, a one-time As semblyman from Alameda County, polled 8725. while Democrat Jesse Fluharty trailed with 5307. Nearly complete unofficially' re turns in the First Senatorial Dis trict in Lassen. Modoc and Plum as counties, showed a vote of 8286 for Arnold: 5727 for Don E. Flour noy. a Republican; and 1411 for C. C. Cal Cook, a Democrat. In a separate election in Sac ramento County, a proposal by the Sacramento Municipal Utility Dis trict to issue 85 million dollars in revenue bonds to finance a devel opment of the Upper American River was approved by an over whelming margin. Tne final vote was 41.399 for the measure, with only 5175 against it. Harriman Gets TammanyTa? GETTYSBURG, Pa. m James C. Hageriy, White House Press Secretary, described New York Gov. Averell Hhrriman Wednesday as the firsr, man in -history, to bL "nominated'' for the presidency by Tammany HhII. Hagerty spoke out at a news conference v. hen asked if he had any comment on Harriman's blast at administration foreign policy in an address to the combined AFL and CIO in. New York Tuesday. The press secretary making It, pin in he was speaking for him-sell end not lor the Presidentreplied. "For a man who isn't a candi date it seems to me very &urpris intr that he t Harriman) allows him pelf to be put n a candidate's position by the leader of Tam many Hall. "That is the first t.me I've heard as far as I've known in the history of our country or let ting Tammany Hall nominate someone as a candidate for Presi dent." Harriman ha a expressed willing ness to accept the Democratic prestdonitial nomination next year. Tammany leader Carmine DeSnpio pfiid in Washington recently that Hnirimnn will be more than a "token'' candidate. Hazcrty said it was to DeSapio's Washington state ment that he was referring. onument In Pearl Harbor Today HONOLULU (UP i The first monument to all the Navy men who died during Ihe Pearl Harbor attack was dedicated here today on the 14th anniversary of the Dec. 7th sneak assault.- This ceremony and a 15 minute memorial observation conducted by Navy personnel aboard the sunken battleship. Arizona. In the placid waters of Pearl Harbor was the only events to mark the day ! in 1941 which gave the United States its battle' cry of "Remem- only Pearl Harbor anniversary ber Pearl Harbor" in World War observance In Honolulu. II. j LAST SlfiN The Navy Club unveiled the The Arizona's rusting super memorial a simple bronze plaque structure Is one of Ihe few scars mounted on a two-ton lava rock on Fnrd Island within a stone s throw of "Battleship Row" where Japan ese planes concentrated their hea viest attack and killed more than 2000 Navv men. A IM.AQI'K The plaque weighs about 300 pounds and depicts a woman sym - bolizmg peace holding a ship and a palmlesf above this Inscription: In reverent recognition of dl- vine guidance and to eumal mem ory oi those who gave Ik.-' full measure devotion to their country this monument is dedicated humrj; ly to their sacrifice In defense of our freedoms." The Navy Club bought the nlaotie j w i l h voluntary contributions I from its members throughout the KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON', WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1055 Price Fire Cents S Pages Telephone 8111 No. 3346 Navy Plane Plows Into Residences RICHMOND, Va. I A Navy i Jet fighter, whose pilot was flying I blind in a hooded cockpit, brushed j against an escort plane high over; Richmond Wednesday, then dove . into a fashionable residential area where it exploded and burned. Two homes were " set afire, a housekeeper suffered burns and an Infant was rescued by a nearby : workman. There were no other re ported injuries. The pilot made a safe parachute landing after ejecting himself from the crippled Banshee Jet at 20,000 feet. Lt. Edward R. Bristol of Virginia Beach, flying the escort craft, made it back to his Oceana, Va., station. There the Navy disclosed the crash was caused by a colli sion in flight a fact of which the downed pilot apparently was un aware. The Navy said one of the planes clipped the other's tall con trols. -UNSCATHED Ens. Robert Ammann, 22, landed unscathed 15 minutes after the ball out, unaware of the havoc his air craft carried with it out of the cold overcast skies. 4 "I was flying at 20.000 feet when something went wrong," said the Dallas, Tex., pilot. "I don't know what happened. The plane was un controllable and I bailed out.T It was an injection seat. It took me IS minutes to land." ' The plane smashed into a con crete driveway between the homes of Benjamin Dentils III, an oil com pany executive, and Thomas Wal ton, a food service executive. The explosion and flare of flame Ig nited the houses and scattered wreckage of the plane for 100 yards or mere. In a matter of moments flame and smoke enveloped the Dennis home occupied at the time by Mrs.' Dennis, the housekeeper and her four children.. Three children were quickly shepherded to safety. But the youngest month-old Charles .was in his . nureery crib on the second, floor, and when the frantic motner ru.ineo Daca names aireiay licked up the stairway,. , YELLED FOR HELP ".''' "I rushed out and yelled for help." Mis. Dennis said. Leland McCauley, a brlckmason employed nearby, heard Mrs. Den nis cry. i McCauley shlnnied up a drain pipe to a lower level roof, smashed a window with his fist and felt Ills way' through the smoke to the baby's crib. He climbed out Ihe window and handed the baby down to safety. McCauley was given first aid for 'minor cuts oh his hand. The Dennis', housekeeper, Pearl Johnson.. 36. was in the kitchen T hen the plane hit and tried to get out. Her clothes caught fire, she said, and "I fell and banged my head and I just didn't know what happened." She was hospital ized for her burns. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair through Thursday except fog Thursday morning. High Thursday 37; low Wednes day night 15. High yesterday . 36 Low last night 14 Preclp. last 24 hours S3 I'rerlp. since Oct. 1 6.62 Same period last year 1.61 Normal for period 3.16 Dedicated United States and territories. Club National Commandant Charles R. Topp. Davenport, la., headed a delegation of about a dozen members here for the dedication. The dedication ceremony was held one hour alter a brief Navy memorial service on the super structure ol the Arizona where 1102 crewmen have been enlombed since the attack. For Ihe past sev- I eral years, Ihe Arizona memorial i service traditionally has been the remaining oi ine auacs ana ine bitterness ol 14 years ago, The attack Is all bill forgotten here. American-built destroyers of ihe new Japanese Sell Defrnse Force frequently call at Pearl Harbor and thPir crewmen swim ashore ' on liberty without causing any ! more attention than American i sailors. The rising sun flag flutters from Ihe Japanese consulate and from the bows of Japanese merchant ships loading and unloading cargo here. Just tew days ago Vice Admiral Kou Hagasawa. chief of Japan's Maritime Sell Defense Force, Inspected Ihe honor guard at Pearl Harbor. He was escorted bv U. 8. Pacific Fleet Comminder Admiral Felix B. Stump. SHOOTING HOURS OREGON December 8 OPEN CLOSE 6:53 4:35 CALIFORNIA California Season Closed Until Dec. 10th Police Chief Gives Warning Klamath Falls Police Chief Or ville Hamilton today warned all motorists that vehicles packed at hooded parking' meters would be towed away. He said that because motorists violated the regulation against parking at hooded meters (meters with bags covering them), snow removal operations last night were seriously hampered. Violators would pay not only a tine but also towing and storage charges, he said. He added that it would cost approximately $7.50, depending on the amount of the tow bill, to gel cars returned to violators. - He added that the crew install ing the hoods made their rounds about an hour ahead of lime so that drivers already parked would have time to move before their cars would be towed. Blood Donors Give 187 Pints - Klam&th County blood donors gavcim pints, o( 'Chmi.ina&.Oiit:' blood In the first day operation of (lie Red Cross : Bloodmobile on Tuesday, December 6. The blood mobile staff continued receiving bltod today at the armory from 10 a.m. to 2 p m. Results of to day's program are expected to bring the contributions close to the 400 pint goal for this trip. Virginia, Dixon, executive sec retary of the local chapter, said that response was good to the 50u letters mailed to persons In the community, which asked tor a pint of blood to be given as a Christmas gift. Many of the letters were to those who had donated blood be fore but not in 1955. SHOPPING DAYS LEFT , Htlp Fight T- L.Guy Christmas Seals-J : 1 : f W feuiMBJ.-- 'if 1 C IMS CHRISTMASX MEETINGS I9SS A l Ho FREMONT SCHOOL STUDENTS James Pratt and Jean Wear paused for the early morning photographer this morning on their way to school. James and Jean are both in the eighth grade at Fremont, Reds Arrest Two U.S. GIs In Germany , BERLIN, tin East Berlin Com' nnmisls, exercising new Soviet' grunted sovereignty, . announced Wednesday they have arrested two Americau soldiers. The two were not identified, and the U.S. Army could not Immed iately confirm the announcement broadcast by the East Berlin Ra dio. SPECULATION But ' it raised speculation the Communists would use the two soldiers as an example, put them on trial. before one of their courts, and thus demonstrate that East Berlin, as the Russians declared last - week, Is no longer occupied territoiy. The Communist - East Berlin netvspnper. Be Am Abend, said however East Berlin police had turned the Americans over to SO' Viet militurv authorities. The Bi also did no-, name the soldiers, but it used a picture of a uniformed American holding his hand over his lace, with the cap tion; "one of the gangsters.'' The radio snid the two were ar rested afler beating a male caba ret performer , unconscious. The performer wus Identified as Wer ner Lferck. The radio announcement was later, confirmed by the official East German news agency ADN. ADN salci the two soldiers at tempted to flee by jumping into a laxi and ordering the driver to take them to the East-West sector boundary. The driver agreed, and drove them until he found two Communist policemen, . LEAVING BAR ADN said the Incident occurred at 3:45 a.m. as Llerck and his wife were leaving a bar in East Berlin. The soldiers had also . been In the bar.-. ADN said. The East Berlin Radio said the two soldiers made "provocative' remarks to Llerck as they were leaving the bar, Llerck replied that thev were on "territory"! ot tho Fast German "Republic" and that he forbade' such .utterances.- , , v This angered one of the soldiers, and he beat Lierck , Into uncon .sccusncv,, - . , State To Ask Reyes' Death CORVALLIS lfl The slate seeks the death penalty for Martin B. Reyes, on trial here for first degree murder. Reyes, 23, of Seattle, Is accused of shooting James R. Applegate here the nlRht of Oct. 24. The state contends Reyes shot Appel gate while trying to take his auto mobile. Reyes had escaped from Ihe Lane County jail earlier in the day and was fleeing from police at the time. In questioning prospective Jurors at Tuesday's opening session. Dlst. Atty. Sidney B. Lewis Jr. indicated he would ask death In ihe state gas chamber and questioned each i juror about his views on capital punishment. Twelve Jurors were seated tem porarily Tuesday. ' I it. ik I. . F - 1 Tri-Comer Fight Looms : For Position LONDON Lfl Pipe-amokinr Clement Attlee, the mild-mannered Socialist who directed creation of Britain's welfare state, resigned Wednesday is leader of the Labor Party. , ', A three-cornered tight for the top post in the British opposition party appeared shaping up among the deputy leader, Herbert Mor rison, 61; 48-year-old Hugh Glt tkell end Aneurln Bevan, U, fiery Welsh leader of the party' left wing. NO CHANCE , : Bevan -was given almost no chance, however, against Morri son or Ositskell, both followers of Attlee's moderate policies. Morri son's age could count against him. Election of successor may come within two weeks. . Characteristically, the 73-year-old Attlee almost tiptoed out ef the party leadership he hid held for 30 years a record In modern -BrlHsh politics. He handed in his resignation at closed meeting ot Labor mem bers of Parliament which listed less than half an hour. His col leagues saluted him with "for he's a jolly good fellow." Attlee wss visibly moved. Hii lips quivered. Age end 111 health were respon sible for his retirement from the minority leadership Jri the House of Commons. The man who served as Britain's prime minister from 1045 to 1951 had found direction of the party's opposition to the Con servative government an increas ing burden in noetit months. Let bor's detest In the general election may have speeded his decision. - SLIGHT STROKE Last summer he suffered a slight stroke. He recovered, but found himself more and more fatigued as he conducted the party's parlia mentary battles, often through all night sittings ef the House. It was generally assumed Attlie would tocept in earldom arid move up to the House of Lords. He may become leader of the party in that more leisurely chamber. Attlee's retirement from labor's top post came eight months after his longtime political adversary and wartime leader in the coalition government, Sir Winston Churchill, quit the chieftsinshtp ef the Con servatives at the age ef so. Blast Kills 25Genn:ns-i FRANKFURT, ' Germany. A mysterious explosion . destroyed a : five-story apartment house in the center of Frankfurt at dawn Wednesday, 'killing 36 of the 12 sleeping occupants. - German criminal police said they were investigating the possibility the terrlflo blast was set off bv a political maniac. Among the dead was the Slovak bom architect-owner- of the building.. Police said lesser possibilities were that dud aerial bomb from the war exploded under the build ing, that gas seeped from a city mam into the Basement, or mat a " tenant had unlawfully tried to tap the nearby gas main. The apartment house, completed two weeks sgo, had a coal-fed steam heating system. Police first suggested gi.i from this system v.'as the cause of the blast, but later minimized this. All tenants of the building were Germans. . It was the worst disaster In West Germany's vast postwar rebuilding program. six hours alter tne blast mat tered the building like a block buster bomb, the damaged wall of an adlolnlng building threatened to collapse on 150 Oermin ind Amer ican -rescue workers. Thev ran from the debris but soon resumed work. Seven Injured persons S men. 1 women and i children were res cued from the wreckage. One, a 12-year-old boy, was rarrled out on i stretcher liter being buried six hours. Another of the injured died later In a hospital. The bodies of four men. three women, and i child were dug out by midday. Special investigators a r r I v e d from Wiesbaden to open an In quiry. Crater Reports New Snowfall The ranger station it Crater. Lake National Park reported both Highway 12 through the park and the road from Annie Sprlnas to the rim open today. Chains are advised on the former and this morning chains or abrasive snow tread tires were required on the latter. Five Inches of new snow fell In the 34-hour period ending at I a.m. today bringing the present snow depth to 10 Inches compared with 31 Inches on this date last year. Maximum temperature Tuesday was 2 degrees; minimum last night, IT, and it I i.m. today. II degrees, Westber wis clear and without wind this morning. Skiing Is reported good. Elsewhere in the area, traffic was going through without chains with Icy spots reported on high ways to the south and eist. Chiins were required for travel over the Sintlim Piss this momlng where snow wis adding depth to the four Inches which fell during the night. During the morning- hours, chains were also required ever Highway 2, the Warm Springs cutoff.