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C02P U OF OSSCI3N LIBRARY EUGENE,' ORE. (M'J mm Wrodi -4 J& ;) if -: .. few n a Mm LL nm tea K "ft try MARCH OF DIMES EVENTS highlighted last Saturday in Klam ath County. A polio dance at the armory Saturday night. was the climax of the anti-polio fund drive for that day. In the top picture Carolyn Hunt, Henley High School freshman, was crowned queen of the dance by Wally Wunder, left,' county Teens Against Polio chairman. Jay Kroksh, March of Dimes chairman for Klamath County, looks on at right. Bob Bartlett, KFJI announcer stands in rear.' The dance was broadcast by that station. In the lowep picture young Klamath Falls residents look over the Exchange Club's Block of Dimes held on Main Street between Eighth and Ninth streets. Left to right were Bill Palmquist, Jean Palmquist, Bill Canton, Exchange Club member; Eddie Cotten and Bob Rutter, club member. Klamath Couniy March Of Dimes Drive Progresses Many Weekend Evenis Held Klamath County residents went all-out last weekend in their drive 10 raise, funds for the March of Dimes anti-polio campaign, an nounced Jay Kroksh, drive chair man, today. Friday members of the b.S. Air Force from the Klamath Falls air base manned a polio booth at the corner of Eighth and Main streets. The airmen collected 75 dollars under the direction of M-Sst. Edward Vanish, chairman of the event. The booth featured pictures of polio victim Mlchaei Galen Overby, 5-year-old son of T-Sgt. and Mrs. Warren L. Over by, an airman stationed at the rise. Michael received aid from the National Polio Foundation when he was struck by the dread disease several years ago. The Klamath Falls Exchange "jUub staged the Block of Dimes on Jfain Street between Eighth and Ninth streets Saturday. They cov ered a tape with contributions stretched between the two streets. "The amount collected in this event was $285. Another big collection event ton the polio drive was the "Toll Bridge" staged by the K Club! of Klamath Union High School. I The athletic club members manned this bridtre at the corner of East Main and Main streets all day Saturday. They collected funds from motorists stopping 'at the intersection. Jim McGee. chair man of the event said the club collected S386 in their "Polio j Buckets." Tiie climax of the weekend polio drive events was the polio dance held at the Klamath Falls Armory Worst Blizzard Hits Goose Bay ST.' JOHNS. Nfld. W Five thousand American and Canadian airmen at the Goose Bay air base in Labrador are still digging out after the worst blizzard in the his tory of the base. Thirty-six inches of snow fell there Jan. 13-19. bringing the total for Januryso far to a record 58 inches. The previous high mark 56 inches for all January wni re corded in 1952. Winds piled drifts 15 feet high across the lO.OCO-foot runways. An emergency strip was kept open but only one plane flew in during the storm. The U. S. Northeast Air Com mand said no one was Injured and "prompt corrective action" kept property damage to a minimum. ' 1 ' - Saturday night. The dance was put on by the Teens Against Polio workers in the county's high schools. The teen-agers collected $610 for the drive at the dance. Henley High School won the Tight to name the dance queen by selling the largest number of tickets per capita. The freshman class at the school sold the largest number of tickets within the school and the queen, Carolyn Hunt, was picked from that class. She was crowned at the dance by county Teens Against Polio Chairman Wally Wunder. The Teens Against Polio chair man for next year's anti-polio drive will be picked by Henley Hign scnool because they won this year's ticket sales drive, Wunder announced. The tickets for the dance were taken by the KUHS Ski Club and music was by the Starlighters band. LEARNING TO USE GUNS SAFELY Is one of the many useful subjects taught members of the Gra-Y Fun Club, the 9 to 12-year old division of the Klamath Falls YMCA. Bruce Campbell, left, Is instructing Jesse Barker in the correct use of a BB air rifle. The Klamath Falls YMCA is hold ing many special events this week in observance of National YMCA Week, Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Clearing Monday night but increasing rloudiness Tuesday. High Tuesday 35-40, low Monday night 28-27. High yesterday ...... .. 45 Low last night 29 Precipitation last 24 hours .27 Since Oct. 1 ... 14.79 Same period last year S.55 Normal for period 6.23 Lost River 'Near Normal' Last weekend's heavv rainfall ap parently did not extend to high enough elevations to produce new Hoods on the Lost River, J. Pitts Elmore. Klamath Reclamation Protect manager, said today. He added that the situation was "almost normal." Water is now being pumped from the Tulelakc Sump back through the Lower Klamath urea to - the Klamath River, he said. Some of this water, and irrigation water, made the land adjacent to U.S. Highway 97 from Worden to Mid land appear flooded, but he said that the surplus water was not due to the weekend rain. Crater Lake Has Big Snow ' Thirteen Inches of new snow fell at Crater Lake National Park in the 24-hour period ending at S a.m. today bringing snow depth to 125 inches. This compares with 69 Inches in 1955, 123 Inches in 1954. 106 Inches In 1953 and 162 inches in 1952. Maximum temperature Sunday was 33 degrees; minimum, 18, and 20 degrees at 8 a.m. today. "A fairly good number" of cars visited the park over the stormy weekend, the ranger station re ported. Highway 62 is open today but It is narrow and slippery. Chains are needed for travel through the park. The road from Annie Spring to park headquarters is open, with abrasive snow tread tires or chains required. From headquarters to the rim the road is closed today. It was still snowing this morn ing when the ranger station re ported. Skiing is poor. More Cable Cars Go Oh Block SAN FRANCISCO (UP) Six more of San Francisco's venerable red and gold cable cars have been put up for sale. The city called for scaled bids yesterday on the half-dozen veter ans of the Hyde and California St. Lines. The cars will be sold to the buyers offering the highest bids before Feb. 14. City purchaser Ben G. Kline "aid the used cable car market Is Improving. One ancient car brought $3040 in the last auction compared with a few hundred dol lars in earlier sales. Price Five Centa It Pages Cattle" Props Flood Curb Measures Get Credit WASHINGTON (UPi Lt. Oen. Samuel Davis Sturgis Jr.. chief of the Armv Corps of Engineers. estimates that federal flood control projects saved 100 million dollars in property damage during the recent-California floods. He pointed out that the national flood problem, despite "substantial progress." Is far Irom Being solved. Potential average annual damage along the nation's rivers and tributaries is estimated at about 900 million dollars, he said. "About 54 per cent of this is pre vented on the average each year by federal works," Sturgis added. But he warned that minimum flood protection is not yet available in many areas. In testimony before a senate Pubic Works Subcommittee . last year, Sturgis said: 'Even after we nave completed the projects now under way and those authorized, there still will remain a residual average flood loss of about 200 million dollars." The Engineer Corps also is the government's principal flood fight ing unit. Current law permits the engineers to draw on an emergen cy fund of 15 million dollars for work of this nature. The fund was depleted by the disastrous floods in New Engbwd . and California and the corps now is using "other monies" until congress votes a new appropriation. Railroad Wreck History Listed In Top Category NEW YORK (UP) The 10 most serious major railroad dis asters in the United States: July 9. 1918, Nashville, Tenn., 101 killed. Nov. 1, 1918, New York subway, 97 killed. Aug. 7, 1904, Eden, Colo., 96 killed. March 1, 1910, Wellington, Wash., 96 killed. Dec. 19, 1876, Ashtabula, Ohio, 92 killed. Feb. 6. 1951, Woodbridge, N.J., 84 killed. Aug. 10, 1887, Chatsworth, 111., 81 killed. Sept. 6, 1943, Shore, Okla., 79 killed. Nov. 22, 1950.' New York com muter train, 79 killed. Dec. 16, 1943, Lumberton, N.C., 72 killed. OPTIMISM CAIRO. Egypt (fl U.N. Sec retary General Dag Hammarsk jold said Monday his meeting here with Prime Minister Nasser ha confirmed his "continuing optim ism" that the Arabs and Israel ultimately will settle their Pales tine conflict. Hammarskjold ar rived here Saturday on a round-the-world tour. v n$ ft " V .- , KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY Vtk V JIM MISFELDT Carvalcade To Be Held Here The third annual Carvalcade will be held Saturday and Sunday In the Klamath Falls Armory under tne sponsorship of the Toketee Lions Club, announced Jim Mis fcldt, chairman,' today.' The public will be Invited, with no admission charged, to view the new 1956 automobile' models of fered by 11 auto dealers of Klam ath Falls. The show will run from noon to 9 p.m.' Satui'dMvand Sun day. - The new cars will be displayed against a modernistic decorative background put up by members of me civic club. Each automobile dealer will have representatives to explain the var ious features of the cars and to distribute Information pamphlets. A grand prize of four top grade passenger car tires will be awarded each day, Mlsfeldt stated. Misfcldt has named the follow ing members to head the various committees: Jim Lear, publicity and adver tising; Howard Hall, decorations: Don McKenzle, music; Bruce Bink- ley, host committee: Ray Ledbet ter, parking, and Barney Cava naugn, program. Norblad Asks 70-Mile-Hour Speed For Cars WASHINGTON lPh- Automobiles would be limited mechanically to top speed of 70 miles an hour if Rep. Norblad ,(R-Ore) has his way. Norblad said he Is exploring the possibility of legislation to prohibit manufacture of automobiles cap able of speeds over .70 miles an hour or to require governors which would hold speeds to that limit. "While the National Safety coun cil spends a good portion of its budget stressing that speed is one of the- greatest killers on the high way. . . manufacturers of domes tic and foreign cars are year by year making greater speeds avail able to the motoring public," he said. BL'ILDI.'P SEOUL Iffl South Korea's joint chiefs of staff chairman Monday called upon the United Nations and United States to strengthen the ROK armed forces In the same proportion as the Communist build up in North Korea. E M r Channel Islanders Can Now Own The Dogs They Want; If They're Males 8ARK. Channel Islands il'i A dog limit law, long' observed on Sark. has been exposed as a legal ghost. , Musty archives have given up a secret 136 years old, and a man who coveis a Corgi, fancier a Chihuahua no longer is dogged by the threat of Jail. In fact, no reason exists why any of Saik's 500 dwellers can't dash out forthwith and purchase a dog. And it all came to light by accident. ' Not long ago a nose count of the island's dog population was taken, and it developed there were 75 of them. Officials recalled that un der a law passed by the Sark parliament in 17A5, the maximum number of dogs was fixed at 40 one for each of the original 16th Century settlers. The future looked grim, and there were sad faces in the audi 23, 1956 Telephone gill No. S381 - Eyed Agriculture Group Plans Quick Help WASHINGTON (UP) The White House and the Agriculture Department agreed today to ex plore the possibility of some form of immediate, emergency price supports lor cattle and hogs. The action was announced by the White House after a meeting with the Iowa congressional dele oration. The emergency Rteps will be studied in the next few days and a report made back to the White House. The congressional delega tion said lt does not believe that legislation will be needed. Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagcrty said It was the consensus of the meeting that there is urgent need for "Immediate action" In Congress on the Elsen hower farm program plus emer gencv steps that can be taken by tho department without new legis lation. Sen. B o r k e B. Hlckenlooper R.Iowa i said that among the Im mediate ememencv steps discussed were "some types of support alia Droductinn limitations." 14n Bnlrt ttlA IOWA ffl'OUD mouKiib that some form of price supports for beet and hogs could bo put into effect . Immediately without new legislation under current laws providing for the support of non 4itorahlft-. DOrishable. Cattle and hog producers have boen caught between tumbling prices and rising costs. Disease Hits Cattle Herd PORTLAND im State officials warned cattlemen Saturday that the feared disease, mucosal, has nppeared In another herd of cattle In Eastern Oregon. It struck 22 of a herd of 42 purebred Hereford yearlings and killed 19 of them. The herd is owned by Orvllle Cutsforth, Lex ington. Previously, the disease, which has caused a serious problem In some Midwest areas, had struck 22 of 104 yearlings at the Squaw Butte Experiment Station in 1954. The Cutsforth herd was stricken in July, but the disease was diag nosed only recently. Dr. A. G. Beagle of the federal Department of Agriculture said not much was known of the dis ease. A virus Is blamed. Symptoms include frothing at the mouth, inflamed nose, eroded areas in the mouth, loose hooves and loss of weight. Weather Ballooi. Reaches Oregon vdkosiika. Jnnan (UP) A huce weather balloon entered the United Stntes at Hie Oregon-California border today alter a jet stream flight Trom Japan that took Just a -little more lhan two days, the U. S. Navy announced. The balloon was launched from the Oppnma Naval Air Facility near here Saturday. The balloon, which Is carrying meteorological equipment In a boxlike gondola, carries an auto matic device which will release the box by parachute after six days. ence when parliament convened to consider the problem. . Then up stepped Hilary Carre, the island's Greifler. or Chancel lor of the Exchequer, still dusty from research In the yellowing sta tutes of long ago. He had great news. lt was true that a 40-dog law was passed in 1785. But the records plainly showed that It had been repealed quietly In 1820. It still is the law, Carre said, that only one person on the island is permitted to own a female dog. Under a statute dating back to the middle of the 1500 s, Uiat right belongs at present to the heredi tary Dame of Sark Mrs. Sibyl Hathaway. Mrs. Hathaway owns a French poodle named Bella. How did Mrs. Hathaway take the news? "I", she said, "am going to start breeding poodles." Junior Says Crack San Diegan Going 71 Around Curve By ALEX KAHN Unltrv Presa Staff Correspondent LOS ANGELES (UP) Police Impounded the speed tape today of the ill-fated commuter train that hit a curve too fast during its en gineer's "black out" and plunged off the track killing 29 persons In California's worst rail tragedy. The crack San Diegan, loaded with servicemen and weekenders homebound for San Diego, slammed into the curve "with un due speed" last night, the Santa Fe Railroad announced officially. Dlst. Atty. Ernest Roll called for a "full and complete" investigation of the disaster, In which 142 per sons were injured. About 45 remained hospitalized today, many in serious or critical conouion wun amputations ana bodies crushed when the dlesel powered train whipped off the curve and upset near downtown Los Angeles, grinding some bodies to shreds. 71 MILES PER HOUR Charles Nerpel, a United Press Photographer, on the scene today taking daylight shots of last night's horror, heard train officials say that the type, which keeps a contin uous record of the train's speed and Is required equipment, regis tered 71 miles per hour at the 10'degree curve where a 35-mile per. hour limit Is imposed. Police Chief William H Parker ordered the tape impounded, to be turned over to the Interstate Com merce Commission. . ' Roll said a full report will be made to the Orand Jury. An in quest will be held next week ICC Safety Inspector Horace E. Otlbert, Los Angeles, said Investi gators from the Washington office probably will be assigned to an investigation "which will take about two to three weeks to complete, BODIES UNIDENTIFIED Meanwhile, eight of the 29 bodies m the county morgue still re- - l.malned unidentified. Three- boye. 14 women and 12 men were in stantly killed In the wreck and the mangled conditions of the bodies made Identification extremely dif ficult. Santa Fe President Fred Gurley blamed the crash on "excessive speed on a curve." "We are unable to understand how the accident occurred," he said. "There was a seasoned man at the controls and H is an incom prehensible thing." The two-car, self-propelled Die sel units, with power plants under each coach, were Just minutes into their 125-mile, two and one-quarter hour run to the south. Both the engineer and his fire man, Homer Smith, were in the front control cab of the Budd Co. ears, which are 80-foot long. 53-ton stainless steel carriers which have been in use for the last three years on the run. Hie jammed passenger cars shoe around a curve at what the rail road officially termed "excessive speed." The train swayed and pitched then crashed over on its side. Engineer Frank Parrish, 61, of San Bernardino, Calif., Bald he 'Just blacked out." "I remembered passing the 35- mile-per-hour btock signal in the yard and then I blacked out. I came to as the train was flipping on its side, he said. SCENE OF TERROR A scene of terror followed as the surviving passengers tried to it 1 fpy JlL A W 1 ' , , V"! . '' - ' ilv'.V':-;v:.;;;;V t - l , F.t v-- ' V IDA'S TAILOR SHOP at 125 North Eighth, was the site for the 9 o'clock special today when the Herald and News camera man caught Mrs. Ernestine Zanbonin (left) of 2303 Darrow and Mrs. Joe Reginato, 3047 Boardman, about ready to start the day's work. , claw their way out window that were high and small. Servicemen aboard the train kept the panic from getting out of hand, survivors reported. The sailors, soldiers and marines called for quiet and with the dis cipline of a military operation they broke out flashlights, found win dows they could open and began lifting out the injured. Police, meanwhile, flashed an alert terming the accident a ma jor disaster and . calling for all available ambulances and doctors. A temporary morgue was set up in a vacant lot a short distance from the overturned train. The bodies, some torn to pieces, were taken to the field to be tallied by Coroner E. A. Wlnstonley and his deputies. Tlie scene of carnage waa un paralleled In Los Angeles history. The train had slid about 150 feet on its side before coming to a stop and was a misshapen mass. REMOVE BODIES Arms and legs stuck out grotes quely from the wreckage. Trained coroner's aides used slings to pick up the remains and take them from sight of the rescuers. First reports to police said as persons hart been killed from IBS persons on the passenger manifest. count based on the number of tickets sold for the run to San Diego. The toll estimate was revised & few hours later by a coroner's estimate to 47 fatalities and then revised downward. It might be days before we can Identity everyone killed," Cor- oner winstanley said. "I am ord ering an Inquest as soon as all the reports are In." He said the counting of dead was difficult be cause some of the bodies were so badly torn. The railroad s statement that un due speed was responsible (or the accident was confirmed by the re- -ports of survivors who agreed they thought the train was going "too fast" a moment before lt over turned. - - v FBI AT SCENE : The Federnl Bureau of Investi gation sent a detail of agents to the scene to check into the crash. presumably for federal agencies interested. Joyce Little of San Diego, said. "We were going fairly fast. It felt like the train was going around a curve. It lifted to the right and then to the left. Then lt flopped over on its side." A graphic picture of the wreck came from Neal Brutsche, 13, of Arcadia, Calif., who was on his way to a military school at Carls bad, Calif. "We were going around some turns and banking pretty much almost to a 45-dcgrce angle," the boy said. "I didn't think anything about the turn until the seats start ed coming out and people were being thrown at me." . PRAISES SERVICEMEN Like many of the other passen gers, Neal paid tribute to service men in the overturned car for helping those who survived the dis aster to get out of the cars. Father James F. O Orady of St. Mary's Church in Los Angeles was one of nearly a dozen priests and ministers who arrived at the scene of the accident within minutes and began comforting the injured and intoning last rites for the dying. ,
