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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 22, 1955)
THURSDAY. DECEMBER 22. 1955 HERALD AND NKWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE FIVE Vanfed Baker efurned Here Ernest t. Jensen, 35-yc-ar-old baker, warned hero . as a proba. lio.i violaio-. was returned to Klamath Falls earlv Thursday morning bv Sheriff Murray Bnt ton from Oregon State Prison In Sacm. Jensen, who is serving a prison term, was turned ox'er to the sher iff so he could app?ar in court nere. According to Biitton, after his release on probation last Jan uary. Jensen was arrested in Sa lem for passing a spurious check. He was placed on probation here after pleading guilty to a bogus check charge. Probation was granted by Or cuit Judsje Ralph M. Holman of Oregon City who was presiding at mat time in Klamath County. Judge Holman will have to return here to handle the probation vio lation. District Attorney Richard Bees. ley filed a petition for revocation 'of Jensen s probation alter it wras learned he had been arrested in Salem. He will be returned to Sa lem to finish his present sentence after Judge Holman acts in the case. County Jail records show Jensen has a long record as bad check passer dating from 1948 in St. Jo seph, Missouri. Lake Reports Minor Damage LAKE VIEW Only minor proper ty damage has been caused by wat er at Lakeview, the Herald and News reporter stated this morning. The weather bureau at Lakeview reported .78 inches of rain fell from 4 p.m. Wednesday to 4 a.m. today. The highway between Lakeview and Klamath Falls was closed sometime during last night by de bris that had washed down onto the road from a logging camp be tween Bly and Lakeview. Bullard and Deadman creeks are flooding over their banks. L. A. Decker has equipment working to divert the flow of Deadman Creek out of Its course. The fire department was called out at 2:20 a.m. today and was still working this forenoon, pump ing water, -and sandbagging the In tersection at the corner of First North and K Street. Water was reported in the basement of the J. C. Penney store and stocks have been moved to upper floors., Some water was reported in the shop of the Interstate Coop, but it had caused only minor damage. 3- V .1 RALPH GUTHRIE Wednesday afternoon loolci over the parts of Ms pumphouse that art still above water in his ranch just adjacent to the reservoir behind the Lost River diversion dam southwest of Olene. The pumphouse is located next to the bridqe which carries the Crystal Springs road over the Lost River. Guthrie said this was the highest he had ever seen the water since he had been ranching in the area. Death Toll Rises In Algeria As Terrorists Press Baitle Sun Shines In Weed Area WEED The surf was shining this morning at Weed following a rain atorm that had dumped four inches of water in 48 hours. The Long-Bell Lumber Company plant reopened this morning after being shut down yesterday on ac count of water. A washout in Main Street is be ing repaired and northbound traf fic over Highway 89 was being held at Weed this morning because the Parks Creek bridge, four and half miles north of Weed on Highway 99, was washed out yes terday. Telephone lines to Edgewood were down and the bridge between Edgewood and Weed on Highway 69 is washed out. The bridge north of Edgewood near Spada Ranch, which leads into other ranch areas, la also out. The only way Into Edgewood is the old county road off Highway 97 from Weed. People were evacuated from the 99 Ranch, three miles north of Weed at the Edgewood turnoff. Rancher Takes Stand In Suit J. F. Kelly. Klamath Basin rancher, took the witness stand in Circuit Judge David R. Vanden berg's court Thursday morning to defend his claim that he and his brother. C. H. Kelly, are entitled to $15,000 plus S5.000 legal fees in payment for a restricted easement on 50 acres of their land adjacent to the municipal airport. The city agreed to pay the Kelly brothers $6,750 for the easement, but they tyrned the offer down. Subsequently, City Attorney Henry Perkins filed the present action In circuit court. Half a dozen ranchers have tes tified that the city's offer is not fair remuneration for Uie easement which would bar any construction on the land. The Kellys are repre sented by Attorneys Richard Max well and Ben Goddard. Perkins and Attorney George Proctor, who are representing the city, presented testimony by sev eral real estate experts in an at- son was driving, and they were tempt to snow tnai tne municipal riding in the front seat with him i offer Is equitable, when the car crashed head on into I Court officials said they believed a truck which was trying to pass the case would go to the Jury late another truck. I Thursday afternoon. Stevenson's Son ' Injured In Crash GOSHEN. Tnd. m John Fell Stevenson, 19-year-old son of presi dential candidate Adlai Stevenson, was to be taken to Passavant Hos pital in Chicago Thursday for treatment for injuries suffered in a highway crash which killed two of his Harvard University class mates. The young pre-law sophomore was reported in "satisfactory" con dition in General Hospital Thurs day morning after a "fairly com lortable" nisht. - Killed in the crash 15 miles east of Elkhart were William Stanley North III. 19. Lake Forest, 111., also a Harvard sophomore, and William C. Boyden Jr.. 19. Chi cago, a junior at Harvard. Steven ALGIERS. Algeria Uf The death toll in bloody Algeria soared today us nationalist guerrillas pressed their Christmas terror offensive and the French retaliated with a big military drive. Unofficial and incomplete re ports Indicated that at least 89 persons have been killed in clashes since Tuesday. The figure waa ex pected to mount as casualty lists came in from outlying areas. The severest fighting was in the sweep of French troops to clean out the barren Nemencha Range Siskiyou Jail Reports Given YREKA The Siskiyou Grand Jury Tuesday made public a re port on the conditions of jails in Siskiyou County. The report was favorable for the Jails in Duns- muir, McCloud and Weed. The report on the Yreka Jail said; "Having visited several Jails in southern Siskiyou and receiving re ports from others, we learned that women and Juveniles were all passed on to the Yreka jail. We expected to find facilities here for them. What we found along this line was deplorable. Actually the situation ia a disgrace to the coun ty.' ' ' The committee understands that places are being considered which will- alleviate this matter, and strongly urges that it not be stale. mated. The balance of the jail was found to be excellent. The Mount Shasta jail, said the report, is in great need of atten tion. It is poorly ventilated, one cell with a door that cannot be locked, and only one toilet pro vided for three cells. The matter of providing a home for delinquents was recently brought before the board of super, visors for consideration. south of Constantine. Warplanes joined ground forces to hunt out the rebels known to be operating among the rugged peaks. First re ports from the French said 32 rebels were Killed, a numrjer wounded and 10 captured In the area'. The toll elsewhere included: 12 rebels killed In a battle with French forces near Guelma, 45 miles northeast of Constantine; 4 killed in a clash near Souk Ahras. 75 miles east of Constantine; 10 rebels killed at Guenlis, also in northeastern Algeria; and 15 rebels killed in two clashes near the Tunisian border. Other scattered fighting ac counted for the remainder of the estimated total. The French an nounced no casualties of their own. Extreme nationalists circulated handbills threatening death to any Moslems who fail to resign their government posts before the French general elections Jan. 1. Wholesale resignations would ham per the harassed French admmiS' tration. Several lesser Moslem of- ficials already have quit their posts, and others were expected to follow suit. The nationalists also passed the word through the native quarters in the larger cities to increase acts of terrorism during the Christ mas season. Storms Bring Emergency State In Three Counties high winds from small Irees. The Oregon which whipped roofs buildings and toppled Highway Commis sion said It was raining Thursday in all mountain passes, and the snow-melt was feeding swiftly into streams already too full to take it. Forshaw Jury Picking Begins YREKA Selection of a Jury be gan Tuesday morning for the trial of Albert Edward Forshaw, 54, of Vancouver, B.C., breeder and rais er of horses, charged" with involun tary manslaughter resulting from his being involved in a fatal acci dent resulting In death to William Gordon Green, S9. horse trainer employed by Forshaw, British Columbia. A plea made for a dismissal of the Indictment was denied by Judge James E. Allen November 10. Scene of the accident was south of the Klamath River bridge, where the automobile driven by Forshaw, and m wnicn Green was a pas senger, collided with a car driven by John Richard Savage, 48, of Montague. Both Forshaw and Savage were injured and were hospitalized for some weeks following the accident. Civil action to recover $50,000 and hospital costs brought October 26 by Savage, is pending In the U.S. District Court in Sacramento. The case was first filed In the Mount Shasta Judicial district. 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The wall Is lrom IS to 30 feet, in height In that area. Two to three feet of water Is standing in the roundhouse and part of the Southern Pacific shops. Section personnel have been evac uated from their homes in the rail road yards. The Shasta View subdivision of Dunsmuir is completely isolated. The county road from the north has been completely washed out. The bridge over the Sacramento south of town has Deen bypassed by the river, but Is still standing, although closed to traffic. ' Castle CraRS bridge between Dunsmuir and Castella. has been declared unsafe and closed. The river had dropped this morn ing two feet from its. crest in the middle of the night but the local weather bureau , forecast another storm late today. Traffic was mov ing both north and south, with con trolled areas set up because of water and slides. My THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Swiftly rising rivers and huge masses of mud and rock cut scores of highways from Washington into California Thursday. stranding travelers in scores of cities and driving hundreds of persons from their lioines. A state of emergency was de clared in two California . counties and one In Oregon. At least two persons were dead. In Grants Fass, Ore., the county oivil defense director. Lloyd Havnes, took charge and put an embargo on all non-essential trav el and on all phone calls not con nected with the emergency. Seven Duffs wiin 280 south-bound passen gers -were stranded there when the Rogue River burled the Pacific Highway 10 feet deep at Savage Raplos Dam. Whole communities were evacu ated In northern California where the floods from torrential rains and cascading snow-melt were hitting hardest. In Oregon dozens of fam ilies were evacuated as water from surface runoff and rising streams lapped around their doors. The Chehalis River In Western Washington was tour feet out of Us banks at Grand Mound and two thirds of the side roads in that area were under water. In Central Washington Situs Creek was ris ing six (inches an hour and water and mud ran over highways in a dozen placea. The' eight-inch snow pack in. northeastern Washington All but disappeared In the warm ing rain and Spokane street inter sections were three and four feet under water In many ' parts of town. The only rail line between Seattle and ' Portland, was closed bv a massive earth slide 10 miles north of Vancouver. Buses took train passengers around it. The South ern Pacific's Portland-San Fran cisco trains similarly were halted by aof tened roadbed near Duns muir,. Calif. In northwestern California the entire population of Klamath some 300 persons was evacuated as the Klamath River swirled over the land. It waa northern California's worst storm in IS years and a state of emergency, waa declared in the j coastal counties of Humboldt and Del Norte, both of them cut off from ground travel. The Weather BHieuu said the Pacific storm moving in toward Oregon had divided Thursday, eas ine the situation in the northern part of that state. But heavy rains were forecast to continue in South ern Oregon and Northern and Central California. . The first reported storm death was of Victor Clarence Flury. 33. killed by a falling tree while using a bulldozer Wednesday night to cleai another felled trej from the highway at Sexton Summit In Southern Oregon. The second was in a highway accident southeast of Eugene. The body of an unidentified man was pinned in a car hanging by its rear bumper lrom a washed-out bridge across Salt Creek. The stream hampered rescuers. 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