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By FRANK JENKINS
This modern world note:
A special advisory group that has
been studying the problem reports
In Washington this morning that
the nation's airways are becoming
so crowded that there are now, on
the average, lour reported near
collisions involving the commercial
airlines every day.
The committee recommends that
a prominent person should be ap
pointed immediately to head a re
view of nil aviation problems and
draw up with as little delay as pos
sible a 20-year aviation facilities
development plan.
That is to say:
Tt is beginning to look like the
airways are going to be bs badly
crowded in the future as the high
ways are now.
It Isn't true, ol course, that the
actual air itself is becoming so
rowaed that there is no longer
room 'or the planes to get through
It without hitting each other. The
trouble lies in the big cities, where
the bulk of the air traffic origi
nates. They haven't enough air
ports to accommodate safely and
expeditiously the planes that need
to land and take off every day if
the traffic is to be taken care of.
That Is basically the trouble with
our highway system. Out in the
open country cars and trucks can
manage to get along without be
coming completely bogged down. It
is in the big metropolitan cities
that the trouble comes, so many
people are collecting in the big
cities that there just Isn t room
enough to move the cars (and
trucks and busses) that need to
be moved.
That's where the bottleneck Is.
Everyone who drives reasonably
long distances is aware of this
fundamental fact. In spite of the
congestion, it is possible to make
fniriy good time, without too great
hazard to life and limb, out in the
open country and through what we
call the "country" towns. It is
when one hits a Bigtown that the
trouble begins. ,
The shining example of that In
the West is Los Angeles. If you're
headed, say, from Palm Springs to
Santa Barbara, or from Bakers
field to San Diego, and feel that
you must pass through Los An
geles, you're in for trouble. You
, might just as well shrug your
shoulders and say you'll take a half
day off to get .through the Big
Burg. .;. - f.vr. .'.
You'll do Well If you're delayed
only a half day.
What to do about It?
I wouldn't know.
But I can offer a suggestion. If
more of us were willing to live in
the smaller cities and fewer of us
insisted in piling up in the big
metropolitan centers, tnere would
be less trouble with our transpor
tation both by land and by air
Here's another suggestion:
If more ol our industries were
willing to locate in the smaller
cities and fewer of them insisted
on crowding together in our con
gested metropolitan centers, me
would be better for everybody.
We're reaching the point In
America where we need to do a
lot more intelligent thinking on the
rroblem of decentralization.
Senate Approves
Indian Bi!l
WASHINGTON ffl The Senate
Thursday approved and sent to the
House a biJl limiting the scope of
a 1933 law which gave five states
court jurisdiction over reserva
tion Indians.
The law gave criminal and civil
jurisdiction over Indians to Califor
nia, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oregon
and Wisconsin. The bill passed by
the Senate strikes sections which
make it possible for other states
to take similar jurisdiction through
constitutional amendments.
Soil Bank Plan Receives
Committee's Top Priority
WASHINGTON WV-Sen. Aiken of i
Vermont, senior Republican on the
Senate Agriculture Committee,
voiced confidence today that "we
can get together on a soil bank
plan."
And Sen. Ellender (D-La). the
committee chairman, assigned top
priority to the soil bank In the
committee's efforts to write a new
farm law based on recommenda
tions President Eisenhower made
to Congress Monday.
In essence, the soil bank pro
gram contemplates that farmers
would be paid federal subsidies,
ranging perhaps as high as 400
million dollars this year, for vol
untarily taking land out of the
production of crops which are in
surplus and planting them to grass
and trees. The subsidies would be
in cash or in commodities from
the government's eight-billlon-dol-lar
stock of surpluses.
The aim is to "cut down on pro
duction of crops which already are
in oversupply, while establishing a
"bank'' of fertile land against a
time when Increased harvests may
be needed.
Secretary of Agriculture Benson
assured the Senate committee yes
terday that soil bank payments i
could bolster sagging farm prices
this year if Congress acts ;
promptly.
, Many members of Congress
Pries Five Cents 14 Paces
John Dulles
Firmly Back
Policy Plan
WASHINGTON Ifi Secretary
of State Dulles today firmly backed
up his claim that his "brink of
war" policy effectively blocked
Red China in the Korean, Indo
Chinese and Formosa crises."
The claim, which has evoked
mounting criticism, was set forth
in a Life magazine article that
contained direct quotations from
Dulles on the-nature and success
of what he called "a policy of
"deterrence."
The interview has roused Demo
cratic criticism in Congress and
stirred up angry attacks in the
British press.
A number of British newspapers
expressed alarm and Sen. Hum
phrey (D-Minn.) demanded in the
Senate Thursday that Dulles dis
avow, the ideas expressed.
Democratic ex-Secretary of State
Dean Acheson, in a speech here
Thursday, denounced tne idea of
"hucksterism." in foreign policy,
defining it as glamorization of a
product to conceal Its failings. He
did not mention the magazine ar
ticle. ARTICLE READ
Friday, Lincoln White, State De
partment press officer, said:
"The secretary has now read the
Life article.
"He feels that the statements
specifically attributed to him do
not require correction from the
standpoint of their substance."
Principally at issue was a por
tion of the article quoting Dulles
as saying the policy of "deter
ranee" is "the necessary art" of
going "to the verge without getting
into war."
"If you cannot master it, you
inevitably get into war," Dulles
was quoted. "If you try to run
away .from it, if you're scared to
go to the brink, you are lost. . .
We walked to the brink and we
looked it in the face. We took
strong action."
POSITION
Tne- statement on Dulles' posi
tion came out in the middle of a
series of .conferences between the
secretary and several members of
the Senate Foreign Relations Com
mute. Presumably the Interview came
up in those talks but White would
not go into that.
It was assumed that the main
subject of Dulles' talk with Sen.
George (D-Ga at luncheon was
the opposition of the senator, chair
man of the Foreign Relations Com
mittee, to Dulles' plan for long
range foreign aid commitments.
In advance of the meeting George
restated his stand, saying he is
"not going to vote for any 10-year
program or any other long-term
commitments." and added:
"Congress must retain the right
to decide on a yearly basis the
amount of aid it thinks should be
provided, who will get the assist
ance and what kind of projects
It shall be spent for."
Dulles has said the administra
tion will ask Congress to vote
$4,900,000,000 In new money for
foreign military and economic aid,
some of it to replenish the pipe
line for delivery in future years.
have contended .that while the ad-
ministration program may be of
benefit in the long run. It will do
little now to help farmers whose
incomes are declining.
Ellender said that in addition
to the soil bank, his committee will
consider:
1. Improved methods for disposal
of existing surpluses.
2. A possible limit on the amount
of price support loans to any one
farm operator. This was suggested
by Eisenhower as one way of giv
ing the family-sized farm a break
in competing with big corporate
operators.
3. Which parity formula should I
be used In fixing the levels for
government supports. An older
formula, now expiring, gives a
wheat farmer 25 to 30 cents a bush
el more and a cotton farmer 1 to 2
cents more a pound. Parity is a
legal standard for farm prices said
to be fair to producers in relation
to their costs.
4. Whether the administration's
flexible price supports should be
retained or modified.
5. Whether a two-price system
should be tried for wheat, rice and
other crops: a higher price with
supports for crops used in this
country or for food, and a lower
one at market levels for those ex-
ported or used as livestock feed.
KLAMATH
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"BLUE CRUTCH DAY" will be staged by the Klamath Union High School Teens Against Polio
Saturday. County Teens Against Polio chairman Wally Wunder and Peggy Brown, president of
the KUHS Future Nurses chapter, look over a March of Dimes poster. Miniature blue crutches
will be presented to all donors to the polio fund drive in downtown Klamath Falls. The Future
Nurses, and the Pep Peppers, headed Carolyn Nancarrow, will be identified by the blue
March of Dimes armbands such as the ones Wally and Peggy are wearing in this picture. The
girl students of the two organizations will be staging the fund drive ell day Saturday,
UN Con
Israel Action
UNITED NATIONS. N.V. Ml
Unanimous condemnation of Israel
for her Dec. 11 attack on Syria
was assured Friday when four
more members of the U.N. Secur
ity Council lined up in favor of
such action.
The other seven members prev
iously had urged a strong condem
nation of Israel for the raid in
which 56 Syrians and six Israelis
were reported killed near the Sea
of Galilee.
In summing up the round of
speeches which began Thursday,
Council President Victor Andres
Belannde of Peru noted there was
unanimous agreement the attack
must be condemned as a violation
of the Syrian-Israeli armistice and
of Israel's obligations under the
U.N.. Charter.
He also declared the council was
agreed that Israel must be warned
that further Incidents such as last
month's would bring stern meas
ures of punishment. As president
of the council, Belannde addressed
an appeal to Israel and Syria to
try to resolve their differences
through peaceful means.
Navy Reveals
Satellite Site
WASHINGTON tB The Navy
and Air Force announced Friday
the launching site for the earth
satellite project will be Patrick
Air Force Base, Cocoa, Fla.
The two services said the base
was selected "on the basis of
operational requirements for lartje
rocket launchings. and is suitable
to the scientific nscds of the pro
gram." The base has a firing ranpe for
rocket and missile tests which ex
tends southeastward over the Al
lantic.
The statement recalled fl prev
ious announcement that test fir
inns of the components of the satel
lite would be earned out first.
although exact launching dates
have not been determined.
It added that a complete "Van
guard" satelite unit "will be
launched' after flight tests of the
components Indicate that there is
a pood chance of putting the satel
lite into orbit.
The satellite Inn, to be part of
the International Geophysical Year
in 1957-58, was announced by Pres-
ident Eisenhower last July.
Under the program, several sat
ellites are to be fired into the lower
fringes of space. It is expected
that they will orbit around the
earth at altitudes of several hun
dred miles for several days or
weexs.
NOT THE LAST
CHICAGO (t Persons who are
superstitious probably are a little
more cautious today -Friday the
13th. There will be two more Fri
days falling on the 13th of the
month in 1956 in April and July.
Last year there was only one, in
May, and only one Jc 2954, In
August;
FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1956
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FOItECAST Klamath Falls add
Vicinity: 4artly cloudy Friday
nlffht; increasing cloudiness Satur
day with occasional rain. Low Fri
day night 27-32; high Saturday 40-45.
Hifrh yesterday - 40
Low last nijfht 19
Prccfp. last 24 hours trace
Precip. since Oct. I 12.17
Name period last year 3.27
Normal for period 6.57
National Spud
Group To Meet
WASHINGTON W Tlie execu
tive committee of the National Po
tato Council will meet here Jan.
19-21 to select ft director to suc
ceed William L. Case who resigned
recently to rejoin the Agriculture
Department.
Case has been assigned to the
department's sugar branch dealing
with an International sugar agree
ment program. Prior to serving as
a director of the council, Case was
with the department's food and
vegetable branch.
The council, which represents
various producing areas of the
country, sponsors programs de
signed to help stabilize prices and
supplies of potatoes.
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CLARENCE REYSON, 1754 Derby Street, a "gas "rockey" at
a South Sixth Street lervice station, woefully ponders what this
day, Friday the 13th, has in store for him. Not a superstitious
man by nature, Reyion's only comment was "however , ."
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The freakish weather pattern
over the eastern third of the nation
the past several days showed little
change today.
Although the deep storm center
off the AtUmtic coast moved north
ward. unscpisonabJo cold weather
continued in much of the South
east. More rain, freezing rain and
snow fell in Northern areas.
Temperature changes in the past
24 hours were minor, with readings
3to 8 decrees lower in most of
tho Eastern and Southern sections.
There was a little warming in
Florida, which has 'reported mil
lions of dollars damage to -growing
vegetables from the near-treezing
weather..
The wet belt extended over New
England southweslward into Ohio
and the Virginias.
Bnlow-f r e e z i n g temperatures
were reported from northern New
England southwestward along the
Appalachians into Mississippi arfl
Louisiana and Northwestward into
Colorado and western Montana.
Yesterday was the fifth straight
cold day in the Southeast. High
readings were near freezing in
northern parts of Mississippi. The
top at Tampa, Fla., was 50.
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No. 3373
Group Heads
Toward Site
Of Discovery
QUITO, Ecuador The arrival
of a ground search party at a
campsite In rugged Auca Indian
country was awaited today to iden
tify four bodies believed those of
missing American missionaries.
There was no report on a fifth
missing evangelist.
A U.S. Air Force helicopter
crew which remained at the scene
reported by radio telephone the
finding of the bodies last night.
Its messages did not Identify any
of them.
An Air Force spokesman in 'Pa
nama in touch with the searchers
said If the bodies were Identified
as those of the missionaries they
would be buried at the scene. He
added that ' two "American-looking"
men whom alf searchers had
sighted earlier In two canoes wun
four Indians had been Identified
definitely as Ecuadoreans.
A searcn lor tne froiostam mis
sionaries began last weekend after
they disappeared In an area on
the eastern slopes of the Ecua
doran Andes, They had flown In to
Christianize the Auca tribesmen.
The helicopter, after finding the
bodies, combed a seven-mile area
around the camp but saw no sign
of life.
MEMBERS NAMED
Members of the missionary party
were Peter Fleming, Seattle,
Wash.; Nathanlal Saint, Huntingdon
Valley, Pa.: James Elliot, Portland
Ore,; .Reward MeCulley, MilwaU'
kee; and Roger Youderlan, Lans.
ins. Mich.
Entries in Fleming's diary, found
at the base camp. Indicated tne
missionaries were lured to tne
Curaray River by signs of friend-
shin from some of the tribesmen.
They apparently were seized Sun
day Just after radioing: "Here
come a group of Aucas we have
not known before."
Abraham Vanderpuy, president
of the Inter-Mission Fellowship of
Ecuador, said the missionaries had
worked since last septemDer to
make friends with the Acuas. The
diary gave this description of their
first meeting, on Jan. 6, with the
tribesmen:
"Today Is a great day , for
Christ's evangelists. This morning
we had our first contact with the
Aucas. The beach (on the Curaray
River) is 200 yards long. Edward
McCully was at one end. Jim Elliot
at the other, and Roger Youderlan,
Nat Saint and I were in the center.
NO FEAR
"From time to time we shouted
words of the Auca language which
we had learned. Suddenly we
heard a loud masculine voice from
the other side of the river and Im
mediately three Aucas appeared.
Two women and one man waved to
us from the opposite river bank.
My heart leaped . . .
"The man probably was about 20
years old. One of the women was
perhaps under 20 and the other
ahout 30. They were completely
nude.
"They showed no fear of us , , .
and we were able to take many
excellent pictures of them."
The missionaries had made many
flights over an Indian village on
the river and lowered gifts to the
tribesmen. The Indians were evi
dently pleased by the gifts, and
the Americans landed on a beach
along the river Jan. 3 and put up
a prefabricated hut In a tree as an
advance camp.
MOTHER RESTING
HOLLYWOOD Iff) Pianist Llb
erace's mother was resting - in
a hospital today after collapsing In
her homo from what Dr. Alexander
L. Stearns called "overfatigue."
The physician said Mrs. Frances
Llberace'a condition 1 was very
good.
SHOOTING HOURS
CALIFORNIA
January 14
OPEN CLOSE
7:04 , 4:54
January 15
Last Day of Season
OPEN CLOSE
7:03 .,4:58
Telephone 8111
Minute Holdup Plan
Related By O'Keefe
'.BOSTON W) Joseph J. "Specs"
O'Keefe, 47, key to the FBI's
breaking of the Brink's SI, 218. Ill
robbery of six years ago, went be
fore ( grand Jury Friday after be
ing quoted as saying the fabulous
robbery had been planned a year
and a half.
One of the It men named by the
FBI Thursday as participants fn
the biggest cash haul in the na
tion's history, O'Keefe has been
described as the "leak" In the
case. Authorities who refused to be
named say he decided to "talk"
because he didn't get his share of
the loot.
Six of the gang were taken Into
custody Thursday by the FBI in
swift raids. Two others are still
at large. O'Keefe and another man
are serving prison terms. The 11th
member of the group is dead.
PLANT CASED
The Boston Traveler quotes
O'Keefe from unidentified
sources as saying that prior to
the holdup the gang entered the
Brink's waterfront building night
after night through a garage after
everyone but the watchman had
left.
The gang removed locks from
every door In the Joint," the ac
count continues.
The locks were taken directly
to a keymaker in the employ of
the gang and a key was fashioned
and tne locks returned in a matter
of minutes.
On these occasions, O'Keefe was
quoted as saying, . several of the
gang would remain secreted In the
building In trucks to observe the
watenman.
The men In the trucks would sig
nal when the coast was clear for
the return of the lock being worked
l.
O'Keefe said Joe McGinnls, one
of those arrested, was not in on
the actual holdup.
'We met him late," he said.
INSIDE WORK
Seven of us, Including myself.
did the actual lob Inside," he con
tinued. "One man was outside in a
Ford, and two others were In the
truck that was used.
O'Keefo told how the men
entered the money cage, "We had
keys lor everything."
Crater Skiing
Report Given
Skiing at Crater Lake National
Park In Klamath County and at
Warner Canyon Ski Area In Lake
County is expected to be excellent
this weekend.
Four and one-half Inches of new
snow fell in the park in the 24-hour
period ending at 8 a.m. today,
bringing snow depth to 103 Inches
Snow depth on this date last year
was 61 Inches and on January 13,
1992, was 144 inches.
Maximum temperature Thursday
was 32 degrees; minimum, 14, and
15 degrees at 8 a.m. today. Highway
62 is open through the park with
chains advised. The road from An
nie Springs to the rim is open, with
chains or abrasive snow tread tires
required.
The warming hut will operate this
weekend, weather permitting. Good
weather is in prospect, according
to the rangers. A thin, high overcast
this morning was lifting.
New powder snow on top of a
solid pack at Warner Canyon has
made skiing very good. The tow,
snack bar and warming! hut are
all expected to operate this week
end. FBI Reveals
Arrest Details
BOSTON IP The roundup
Thursday of six Brink's robbery
suspects was completed by a crew
of 30 FBI agents In 90 minutes.
None of the six men was armed,
and only one Adolph "Jazz" Maf
fie offered any resistance.
When approached by two agents
Maffie tried to push them away
with the comment: Tin not going
with you."
"Oh yes you are." said one of
the agents as he slapped handcuffs
on Maf tie's wrists. He was arrest
ed at his North Quincy home
When the federal men arrived
Maffie's son called police to try
to keep the FBI agents from taking
his father away.
The boy telephoned that someone
was trying to put handcuffs on his
daddy.
A police cruiser sped to the
Maffie home and the FBI agents
had to. show credentials before
they could take their man away.
Anthony Pino, 48. who success
fully fought deportation to Italy,
and Vincent J. Costa, 41, were ar
rested together at Pino's home.
Michael V. Oeagan. 47, of Milton
was arrested on the Boston water
front while he was at work as a
longshoreman.
Joseph McOlnnls, 52, was check
ing the stock in his liquor store
at Egleston Square. Roxbury dis
trict, when two FBI men quietly
led him to their car.
Henry Baker. 49. was finishing
lunch at his home when he was
arrested.
The FBI apparently had been
watching the moves of every man
before the arrests. The agents
knew exactly where to find them
when the order for arrests was
Issued.
Boston police knew nothing about
It until after the men were in FBI
custody.
He said after the robbery the
gang drove directly to a Roxbury
district house, separated, and met'
there again next morning by agree
ment. Then the money was counted.
The men agreed that all new mon
ey was dangerous. They agreed
It and anything else considered
dangerous should" be destroyed.
This was done.
O'Keefe said he was robbed of
his share by Adolph "Jazz" Mat-
fie. o Keefe said he turned his
end" over to Maffie to bold for
him.
"I got gypped. I never got It.
It was the last I ever saw of It."
O'Keefe said he continued to
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New Dispute
In Sarena
Case Opens
WASHINGTON Wl A new line
of dispute was open Friday in
the big fuss over 15 mining patents
granted a private company on land
Sa the Rogue River National For
est of Southern Oregon.
Sen. Scott (D-NC), chairman of
a special Senate-House committee
which Is looking into the Interior
Department's handling of the pat
ents, got out a, statement Thurs
day accusing the department of
deciding to grant the patents "be- ,
fore' the field reports ever reached
Washington."
In reply, assistant Secretary ol
the Interior Clarence A. Davie de
clared "that Just Isn't so" and
classed Scott's charges as "ridicu
lous." '
INSUFFICIENT MINERALS
The mining patents; once turned
down on a finding that the land
contained Insufficient minerals to,
Justify mining operations, wertl
granted In 1054 after Al Sarena
Mines Inc. appealed and new as
says of the land had been made.
Democrats are trying to tag the
grants to the Mobile, Ala., firm as ,
a "giveaway," contending the pat
ents, give Al. Sarena title to. Umber ,
far more valuable than what ilia
company paid for tho patents.'
Republicans maintain the Demo
crats, in an effort to develop cam
paign material, are trying to
"smear" the administration. They '
also have protested Scott's- han
dling of the hearing, which is in
recess until Tuesday.
The proceeding wnsn't In session
Thursdny either but Scott stirred
things up with his statement ques
tioning whether the department
was- aware of the results of the
second set of assay tests when it
granted Al Sarena's applications!
ASSAY REPORTS
He said the report on the assays
were mailed on Jan. 5, 1954, in
Spokane, Wash., by the mines bu
reau office there.
"The very next day," he said:
the department's decision "was
written and handed down in Wash
ington" by Davis, then depart
ment solicitor.
The decision was 17 pages long
Scott said. He added he thought
it "a physical Impossibility for ths
case to have been studied and con
sidered carefully as It should have
been In Washington."
Dnvts-'conccried he could not say
without a careful check of the
files when the information on the
results of the assays actually
reached the department."
"I do know, however," he de
clared, "that we had word on what
the results of the assays had been. .
The opinion was' based on this re
port." "It Is ridiculous to say mat we
wrote the opinion before we had
the information. That Just Isn't so.
This case had been pending be
fore the department for five years
and the appeal was held In Wash
ington for 8 months without any
action."
MORE TO SAY
After discussing the mailing of
the assav report from Spokane,
Scott had this to say:
"This is a very concrete evi
dence that the Interior Depart
ment, for some as yet undisclosed
reason, was In a mighty big hur
ry to hand over these public lands
to private ownership.
"The testimony taken thus far
reveals that private ownership of
the national forest land in ques
tion was granted on the claim that
It was mineralized land and land
that would be used for mining
precious minerals.
"Yet no mining has taken place
on the land since 1943. At the
same time, however, the present
private owners of the land have cut
over $100,000 worth of timber from
since they gRlned ownership in
1954 at the price of five dollars
per acre to the government."
Siskiyou Asks
Disaster Funds
YREKA, (UP) The Siskiyou
County Board of Supervisors has
asked for $M5,000 in federal dis
aster funds to repair and replace
bridges and roads washed out du
ring the Christmas week floods.
The board notified the finance
office when it applied for the funds
yesterday that the original dam
age estimate may be revised up
wards at a later date.
More than 100 families In the
county have applied for emergency
disaster aid and the Red Cross'
Siskiyou County Advisory Board
scheduled a meeting Tuesday to
consider their applications,