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coap In Th Day's lews U OP OREGON LIBRART EUGENE, ORE. By FRANK JENKINS Culled from the teletype: Official Washington is said to 6e concerned over a report that Egypt has admitted up to 150 '9; 834 ?): 30345' 69 3i0 "3.?3 arms from Czechoslovakia. The teletype,' like other robots, gets muddled at times. But I doubt if the foregoing report is any worse muddled than a lot of the stuff that official Washington gets "concerned over" from day to day, The current ruckus over what State Secretary Dulles said In a recent Life magazine Interview and what General Rldgway says In tlie current issue of the Satur day Evening Post, for example. Secretary Dulles is a good man. General Rldgway is a" good man. But by the time the politicians get through hauling them over the coals for campaign purposes they're made to look like either morons or traitors. ' Speaking of politics I'm amazed to find myself In complete agreement for once with a couple of left-wing Democrats Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota and Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon. In a senate agriculture commit . tee hearing in Washington the oth er day, both of them assailed the ("government's pork buying program as a miseraoie iaiiure. Let's put it !lke this: The trouble with the pork market Is a surplus of pigs. But The more the price of pigs Is kept up by artificial manipulation of the market that is, SUBSIDY buying the more the corn belt farmer will be Inclined to CON TINUE to produce a surplus of Pigs. In time, the surplus will become unmanageable. That Is not Intended as a slam at the hog farmer. It's just human nature. It goes for all lines of business. The automobile industry, for ex ample, is presently plagued by a surplus of cars. Because of this present surplus, most of the manu facturers are cutting back produc tion.. But You can bet your bottom dollar 'that if the government started BUYING UP THE SURPLUS CARS at a price that would leave a profit the manufacturers would go rigni on producing a surplus, And In the course of time This accumulating surplus of cars, hanging like a dark thunder cloud over the markets of the fu ture, would wreck the automobile business. Big KF Polio Events Slated Saturday marks a day with three Important March of Dimes events scheduled, announced Jay Kroksh, campaign chairman today. Beginning at 8 a.m. the Klam ath Union High School K Club and the Student Builders will man a "Toll Bridge" at the corner of East Main and Main streets. The members of the two school clubs will solicit contributions from mot orists stopping at the stop sign there. They will man the bridge until 5 p.m. and will collect the dimes drive funds in special polio buckets. Jim McGee, Ki Club member. Is chairman of the Toll Bridge event with Don Keller, president of the Student Builders, acting as co chairman. The second big event will be the Block of Dimes staged by the Klamath Falls Exchange Club. The civic club will man a block-long-tape on Main Street between the J. C. Penney Store and Waggoner's Drug Store. All the proceeds of this event, will go to the March of Dimes, announced Wes Guder lan, president of the club. The day-long polio events will be climaxed by a big Teens Against Polio dance In the Klamath Falls Armory Saturday night from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. with music by the Starlighters band. The high school in the county which has sold the most dance tickets per capita will name a dance queen. She will be crowned by Teens Against Polio chairman Wally Wunder at the dance. The dance is for adults and teen-agers with all the funds col lected going to the anti-polio drive. Grocer Foils Holdup Try SALEM W A market operator was wounded In foiling a holdup attempt Thursday night. Police said the gunman was captured. Dean McFarland, 52. the market operator, was wounded in the chest when he crabbed for the trun and wrestled with the would-be thlef.1 His wife and a neighbor eventually heard the commotion and Joined the scrap. The gunman was dis armed and held for police. Sgt. Bvron Hazelton of the state police Identified him aa William Grady Cope. 53. Portland. McFarland was taken to a hos pital. Attendants said his condition was fair. Hazelton said Cope told of being foiled in another holdup attempt earlier In the evening. The ser eennt quoted Cope as saying he took a bus to Salem earlier in the day, took a pistol from a parked car, and then first tried to hold up the Aronson Grocery. The proprietor of that store. Toby Aronson, said bis wife managed to dip out a back door. The gun man noticed her disappearance, became nervous and ran away without getting any money, Aron son said. I fir " . ' v. . ' uu-LflKEoPUDS Hipp bjK TULELAKE POTATOES, donated by local growers left Hatfield by truck Thursday afternoon, destined for distribution to Yuba City flood victims. The 400-sack truck shipment was hauled by Paul Ruttman, left, of the Ruttman and Alcorn Trucking Service, free of charge. Mrs. Otto Haynes, center, suggested the idea of "sharing spuds" with residents of the flood area, Potatoes were left at the Sunny State, Northwest Produce and Elbee Potato cellars. The shipment, scheduled to arrive today at Yuba City, will be distributed by the Red Cross. Charles Blumenthal, local manager of the Elbee Potato Company is at the right. The truck carried a banner announcing type of the cargo. Abbott Jury Fails To Reach Verdict; Tries Again Today OAKLAND, Calif. (UP) The Jury charged with determining whether Burton W. Abbott was the "sexual psychopath" who mur dered a teen-age Berkeley school girl resumed its deliberations at 9:55 a.m.. PST today. There was no apparent prospect for an early verdict in the ll-week-old case. Seven men and five wo- YMCA Groups Plan For Veek A full program has been planned by various groups at the Klamath Falls YMCA for National YMCA Week, which begins Sunday and extends to January 28. Beginning Monday, events open to the public have been planned for each day of the : week, with the climax occurring on January ,d, wijcii wis imwA ueiibci at uiv gon Technical Institute will be opened. As a YMCA week feature, there will be a dally five-minute broad cast at four p.m. Sunday through January 28 on .station KFJI. Hi-Y and Tri-Y groups will hold open house activities Monday. On Tuesday, there will be young peo ple's meetings, and athletic events at Fremont Junior High and Alta mont School gymnasiums. '' On Wednesday, the YMCA health service and other activitly groups give public demonstrations at the YMCA building. The official open house and tour conducted by the Y Men's Club will be given Thursday. Refresh ments will be served and several special activities are planned. A normal day at the Y is planned for Friday, with all events, such as young people's meetings and recreational activities open to the public. In addition to the opening of the OTT center on Saturday, there will be a Gray-Y activities at the down town YMCA building all day. According to YMCA officials, more than 1,000 boys and girls annually use the facilities at the headquarters at 122 Pine Street. In addition to the members, there are a large number of non-members served by the facilities and activities. An effort Is made to provide something for all youth, with re sponsibility scaled according to ability. And. YMCA officials say. no young person is turned away If he earnestly desires to partici pate in the activities. Season's Heaviest Snow Blankets Half By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The season's heaviest snowstorm in the eastern half of the nation draped a welcome blanket of white across the parched farm lands of the Southern Plains and Midwest, then moved into the Atlantic Coast today. Snow fell during the night and morning from the lower Great Laes region eastward to the Mid Atlantic states southward aa far as West Virginia and Maryland. Early reports indicated fairly heavy falls, with 4 inches reported at Baltimore and 3 Inches at Phil adelphia. The storm headed into New York and the New England region. Snow measured up to 10 Inches in some areas hit by the mid January storm yesterday. The storm center, weakening as it moved from the Gulf northeast ward along the western slopes of the Appalachians, dumped snow over most of the Ohio Valley and the Mid-Atlantic states. There was rain, sleet or freezing rain is the Carolinas and Virginia. - Traffic was disrupted In many cities and driving conditions were hazardous on the snow-sllckened highways. But to farmers in areas where there has been little precipitation this winter the snow was hailed men are deliberating Abbott's fate. The Jury hearing the trial of the 21-year-old accounting student re ceived the case shortly after noon yesterday. It was unable to reach a verdict in five hours and 23 minutes of deliberation and was locked up for the night. NEAR CABIN Nobody expected the Jury to reach its verdict quickly. The Jurors had to consider the testi mony of 106 witnesses and 299 exhibits presented during 48 trial days before deciding whether Ab bott should lose his life, be Jailed, or set free. Abbott was accused of kidnaping and murdering 14-year-old Stepha nie Bryan last April 28. Her purse and brassiere were found in the basement of his Alameda home on July 15. Her body was found near his mountain cabin five days later. As the jurors tiled from the courtroom to begin their dellbera tlon, the impassioned words of Dlst. Atty. J. Frank Coakley were still ringing in their ears". '' VERDICTS POSSIBLE He asked that Abbott be exe cuted1 lest "he sink his fangs in some other unsuspecting child." "Are you going to set him free to sing again his siren song of sex?" Coakley asked. The jury had a choice of bring ing In four verdicts on each count of kidnap and murder: The gas chamber, life Imprisonment with out hope of plrole, lesser degree conviction, and acquittal. Jailors reported Abbott was "in good spirits," although he had ap peared nervous and shaken by Coakley's closing remarks. "I have no idea what kind of verdict the Jury will return," he said. He previously had expressed con fidence that he would be acquitted. SHIELDED EMOTIONS Abbott said he tried carefully to shield bis reactions during Coakley's final argument. The prosecutor called him a "sex psychopath," a "fetishist," and "deviate." - He said his attorneys, Stanley Whitney and Harold Hove, had "warned" him not to show any visible reaction. "I don't blame Mr. Coakley for giving way," he said, referring to the prosecutor's breaking down once toward the close of his argu ment. s "It was very emotional. My lawyers and I all feel the way he does (about Stephanie's death), but I don't see why he is trying to pin It on me. His entire argument for the past three days has been conjecture, speculation and emo tion not one fact. Of Nation as welcome relief to dry farm lands. In Texas a state official described the snow as worth "mil lions and millions" to farmers suf fering from winter drought.' In St. Louis, where there had not been measurable precipitation In 47 days, the longest drought In the area s history, snow measured more than 2 inches. Four deaths were attributed to the storm in Missouri. In nearby southern Illinois, where lands also were in need of moisture, the fall was to a depth of 8 Inches In some places. The heaviest snowfall In several years around 10 inches hit Cin cinnati yesterday. Some schools closed, the city airport was shut down and traffic was snarled. Seven Inches of snow fell In sec tions of Pennsylvania. Falls in most other areas ranged up to 5 or 6 inches. Snow diminished over most of the mid-continent during the night with only flurries reported this morning across the upper Great Lakes, parts of the Ohio Valley and the Northern Plains. A belt of rain and snow ex tended from the Central Plateau region to the west slopes of the Rockies. Light rain fell In the Pacific Northwest, f . t , ; ' Price Five Cento 14 Par KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. FRIDAY, JANUARY M, 195 Telephone 8111 No. 3379 Sarena Case Recesses; More Probjng Set On 'Giveaway' WASHINGTON W A top Inter ior Department official gets his chance next week to answer on the record Democratic charges that the department "gave away" valunble Oregon timber lands un der the guise of mining patents. The House-Senato inquiry into department handling of the patents obtained by Al Sarena Mines. Inc., In the Rogue River National Forest was in recess Friday. But Sen. Neuberger (D-Ore), acting chairman, announced that Clarence A. Davis, undersecretary of the interior, would be a witness when the hearing resumes next Thursday. It was Davis, then department solicitor, who issued Instructions in 1953 for the taking of new as say samples from the 15 disputed Sarena claims in order to settle the company's appeal from the Bureau of Land Management's denial of the patents. Davis ap proved the patents after the new assay was made. Democrats have criticized the decision and the instructions, which called for the samples to be taken by the Bureau of Mines and sent to an assay firm "mutually ac ceptable" to the bureau and the Sarena firm. REAL OBJECTIVE When a mining claim is patented the holder gets title to the timber which stands on the land. Sen. Scott (D-NC) maintains the tim ber was the real objective of the Sarena company all along. He says the firm has cut a lot of timber but has done little mining. Republicans deny the "give away" charge which they say Is Democratic fishing for. an - issue to use in the coming campaign, They any the department had no alternative under mining lawa but to grant the patents upon a satis- Roberts Jailed For Robbery ALBANY, Ore. Wl Robert Lee Roberts, 33, accused of the $8,001 robbery of the Linn County treas urer's office, was Jailed here Thursday. District Judge Wendell Tomp kins set bond at $15,000. Roberts, who said he was from Sweetwater, Texas, was charged with armed assault and robbery. Sheriff George Miller brought Roberts to Jail from Coos Bay, where a tavern-spcnding-spree by Roberts brought him police atten tion. Jailed on a drunkenness charge, he was found lo have $1,879. Police said he told of win ning $8,000 in a Reno dice game. A search is on for more money and a second man. Several court house employes said they saw two men run from the courthouse after the robbery Tuesday. The sheriff said Roberts had been identified by several of them as one of the men. When arrested, Roberts had a car. Police said he told them a stranger in Eugene bad asked him to drive It to Reno, where it had been rented. The sheriff said Investigation has indicated someone other than Rob erts had rented the. car there. The investigation is continuing. Eisenhower Talks Tonight WASHINGTON un President El senhower starts his fourth year in office Friday still facing the big decision on whether to seek reelection. He addresses "Salute to Eisen hower" dinners tonight in his first appearance before a Republican party group since September. His remarks, to be piped by closed cir cuit television to an estimated 60, 000 persons at fund-raising dinners in 53 cities, are not expected to shed any definite light on whether he will run again. At least one national radio net work. ABC, will broadcast the event ."live" to the public. The broadcast is scheduled about 10:20 p.m. EST. The Republican National Com mittee forecast a turnout of 2.000 here to hear talks by Elsenhower, Cabinet members and others. Sen. Goldwater of Arizona, who heads the GOP Senatorial Cam paign Committee, said he thinks national Republican organizations will net about 2', million dollars from the $100-a-plate dinners. State and local organizations would get the same amount. Sen. Knowland of California Is listed as the speaker for a dinner at Palm Beach, Fla. Vice Presi dent Nixon will speak in Chicago. Secretary of Defense Wilson in Los Angeles, Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey in New York, Secretary of Agriculture Benson in Houston. Tex., and Postmaster Oeneral Summerfleld in Portland, Ore. factory showing by the company. (William Shafer, assistant to the minerals staff officer of the Bu reau of Land Management, said the law provides that to patent a claim an applicant must show he has made a valid discovery and has done $500 worth of develop ment work on the claim. (Once this is shown, he said, the department has no alternative under the law but to grant the patent. "VALID DISCOVERY" (A "valid discovery." Shafer said, has been defined by the courts as a finding of minerals "under such circumstances and of such character that a reasonably Reservation Termination Pact Studied Tom Walters, chairman of the management specialists board named by Interior Secretary Doug las McKay to supervise termina tion of the Klamath Indian Reser vation, said Friday a contract for appraisal of tribal assets will probably be awarded within the next 10 days. Termination is set by law for August, 13. 1958. Based on a survey conducted on tne reservation by Stanford Re search Institute, Palo Alto, Cali fornia, the managment specialists have recommended to McKay that the appraisal contract to awarded - to mr-Timaenwuea low oiaaer. MEETINQ In the meantime, Watters and the two other management special ists. W. L. Phillips, Salem, and Eugene Favell. Lakevlew, were meeting Friday with Klamath Agency officials to discuss tribal guardianship problems. The ses sion was called by Reservation Supt. A. W. Galbralth. At a meeting In Klamath Falls Thursday, according to Watters, the specialists and representatives of the tribal council discussed plans proposed for handling the af fairs of Indians who elect to remain with the tribe after termination. STANFORD RESEARCH This session was attended by H. E. Roblson, Stanford Research Institute representative; J. C. O'Neill, attorney for the tribe; William Ganong Jr. attorney for the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce, and W. A. Welst, sec retary to the management special ists. The following tribal executive committee representatives also were present: Boyd Jackson, Wer nle Foster, J. L. Kirk, Elnathan David, Mrs. Dorthea McAnulty, Dlbbon Cook, secretary, and Dice Crane. Also present were three tribal members Delford Lang, Leonard Moore and Bert Hamilton. Earle Wilcox, Klamath Reserva tion forest supervisor, and Superin tendent Galbralth also were present. jzp if , . jj, j ' lliill3fcMMMMMiMaialilrtli"tll BY BUYING A TICKET TO THE POLIO DANCE, Klamath County District Attorney Richard Beeiley registers hit support of tha March of Dimei. Tha Taent Against Polio division of the dimes drive in all tha county high schools is staging tha danca with all tha proceeds going to tha anti-polio fund. Tha danca is for adults and teen-agers. A danca queen will ba crqwned during tha event. Sha will be picked from tha county high school sailing tha most danca tickets per capita. Sailing tha ticket to tha district attorney wara Marilyn Nancarrow, laft, and Sharon Taylor of Klamath Union High School, j , .. v prudent man, not necessarily a skilled miner, would be Justified in expending time and money de veloping a claim, with the reason able expectation of finding ore in paying quantities.") The committee recessed Thurs day after hearing George B. Hold- erer, a staff engineer, testify that m Ms opinion tne Sarena proper ties "could not be operated profit ably with values less than $20 per ion." Assay results from 142 samples taken for the claims at varying times, he said, ranged from $7.70 a ton to zero. "The, property certainly could not be operated now at a profit, nor do I believe that it could ever have been operated at a profit, even in the days when labor was said to be $4.70 a shift, which it has not been for many years," he declared. Holdr-rer. who formerly worked for the War Production Board and the Defense Minerals Production Administration, said he has been "connecting with almost every pnase oi mining over a period of so years." Tower Island. Ship Collide BOSTON (UP) A Military Sea Transport service vessel, the Sag- ltta, reported today It had collided with the Texas tower radar Island off Cape Cod. The ship said It was taking water. The 5200-ton Sagltta radioed that it was .."listing seriously" aa a re sult of the oolllslon and Us 4a Civil ServteAt o r .' m e m b t i -were "standing- by the lifeboats."' The Sagltta said It was taking In water in its No. 2 hold. It struck the Texas tower on its starboard side. The tower Is staffed by 82 en listed men and officers of the Air Force. The Coast Guard cutters Ever green and Spar were speeding to the scene. Also en route was a plane from the Coast Ouard Air Station al Salem. The coast guard said It would take the cutter Spar 3-i hours to reacn tne scene on George s Banks. The Texas tower reported to the' Navy that personnel aboard the tower were in no "immediate' danger. The three-legged Texas tower radar station was turned over to the government about six weeks ago, first of a series of 40 off-shore "eyes and ears of the nation s air defense. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Mostly cloudy with oc casional rain and snow through Saturday. Highs 38-45; low Friday night 25-32. High yesterday 44 Low last night 27 Preclp. last 24 hours ... .... 0.16 Preclp. since Oct. 1 .....14.17 Same period laat year .. 3.51 Normal for period 6.03 fife v ..f s ft 1 JIM ARNOLD, janitor at The Riverside School, wat caught sweeping snow off the tide walk this morning by the 9 o'clock photographer. Plane Crashes Into Houses WADHURST, England Wl A blazing plane crashed into the main street of this centuries old village Friday and set lire to four build ings. - ' . ' '. - First reports said "heavy cas ualties" were feared, but Inquiries showed only four injured persons admitted to hospitals. Two of them wore firemen injured when their fire truck overturned while racing to the scene. The fate of the crew of the plane, believed to be a Royal Air Force craft, was not immediately known. F. Pickncll, a Wadhurst post man, said "I could see the plane was in difficulties and was wob bling. It swung to the left and then to the left again and then crashed. I saw a big cloud of black smoke come up." Plcknell said a grocery store, a fruit shop, the Queen's Head Ho tel and a bungalow were "well ablaze." The aircraft struck the root of the store and broke up," he said. There are pieces of the aircraft all over the place." Miss Barbara Glob, living near by, said "there was a blinding flash and a crash. Half the plane was In the hotel garden. There was Just a mass of flames. It was worse than any bomb." 1 i n mi tnlii ii r ' i JLtA Solon Urges New Policy For Nation WASHINGTON GB Sen. Mans, field (D-Mont) called Friday for a full-scale congressional review of what he described as Secretary of State Dulles' "diplomacy of the brink." In a speech prepared for the Sen ate, Mansfield said this country must revise Its foreign policy to meet a Soviet diplomatic offensive already in "high gear" or face the loss of "countless millions or our citizens and hundreds of billions of dollars." ' Mansfield, a member of the Sen ate Foreign Relations Committee, said the need for review is pointed up by the Life magazine article quoting Dulles as saying that ad ministration policy prevented war In Asia three times. HAMMERING AWAY Democrats have been hammer ing away at the statement, attrib uted to Dulles in the article, that "the ability to get to the verge without getting Into war is the necessary art." Dulles himself has backed away from it, saying he would not have put it that way for publication. While most Senate Republicans rallied to the support of Dulles In the controversy over the article, one. Sen. Jenner (R-Ind), criti cized him in the Senate Thursday for what Jenner called a "soft pol icy" toward Russian expansion. And Sen. Sparkman (D-Ala) sug gested to reporters that President Elsenhower who at a news con ference expressed complete faith In Dulles should read the Life article. Elsenhower said he hadn't read it. Chairman George (D-Ga) of the Foreign Relations Committee en dorsed Mansfield's proposal tor a review of international policies. George said in an Interview ha regards Mansfield's summary of world conditions as "sober and dis passionate." DISCUSSION "Foreign policy la going to ba' discussed In here until the elec tion," George said, waving a hand In the direction of the Senate oha'mber. "I OtinkTt will be a good thing because there are some sec tors of foreign policy that need a more complete review than they have ever been given by Con gress." George said he was alluding to the administration's plan to ask for a long-range commitment on for eign aid, a move to which ha has announced opposition. Mansfield said "the wheels of review" of American foreign pol icy "have begun to turn both here and abroad" as a result of tha magazine article. It Is long past due," he de clared. 'For three years we have lived on borrowed time in foreign re lations," Mansfield declared, add ing "I have failed to find one major new approach to the situa tion abroad In the last few years." GIMMICKS There are, he said, "advertising gimmicks; there are new words; there are louder words which few er and fewer people heed." But these gimmicks and words, he continued, add up to the con tinuance of policies devised long before the Eisenhower administra tion took office, and they are now "dressed up in 'the diplomacy of the Brink." " It doesn't help matters, he said, for President Elsenhower to "Issue disclaimers after the words of his subordinates, civilian and military alike have dona the damage." Crater Skiing Said Improved Skiing was Improved at Crater Lake National Park today over yesterday's report of "poor," ac cording to the park rangers. Light snow was falling and no accurate forecast of Sunday conditions was possible. Two and one-half Inches of new snow fell during Thursday night bringing snow depth to 104 inches compared with 69 Inches on this date last year. Maximum Thursday temperature was 34 degrees; minimum last night. 28 and at 8 p.m. today, 27 degrees. Chains are advised today for travel on Highway 62 through the park and chains or abrasive snow tread tires are required on the road from Annie Springs to the rim. Weather permitting, the warming hut will be open this weekend. Polio Dance Tickets are now on sale over Klamath County by the Teens Against Polio for the Polio Dance Saturday in the Klamath Falls Armnrr. announced Wally Wunder, teens' chairman. The dance Is for adults and teen agers with musie by the Star lighters. All proceeds wilt go to the March of Dimes drive. A dance queen will be selected from the eounty high school sell ing the most tickets per capita. She will be crowned at tha danca. . .
