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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 31, 1956)
U Of 0RE30N LIBRAHf EUGENE, ORE. COi? lit) Relations With Bed Mil ONE OF THESE THREE contestants for queen of the Sweethearts' Ball, to be held at the armory February 1 1, will be crowned during the festivities, to be conducted from 9 p.m. to I a.m. The ball is sponsored by the Omega1 Epsilon, Rho fraternity. Money gathered from the dance will go toward a scholarship at OTI for office machine students. The trio of beauties from left to right are Ina Ferro, Arleta Blair and LaVerne Loop. Father Gone After Tragedy PENDLETON liP Search was 'widened Tuesday for a distraught ;father who vanished after breaking the news to his wife that three of their 10 children had burned to death. The father, Chester O'Neal, left St. Anthony's Hospital here short ly after 8 a.m. Monday. Relatives and friends said Tuesday morning they had not seen him since. His wife, at the hospital where she was delivered of their 10th child Saturday, said he talked of going back to Arkansas for there ;was "nothing left for him" here. ' The family used' to-Uve at 'Si loam Springs, Ark. and O'Neal, a carpenter, also once worked at Tulsa, okla., as a cab driver, po lice said. ; An alert to police of other states had failed to turn up a report of his car, however, state Police Sgt. N. W. Smith said. . . Meanwhile the surviving chil dren were at the home of their aunt, Mrs, Donald Lusk at nearby Adams. Red Cross officials, aiding in caring for the children, said they hoped the father would get in touch with them for further plans for help to the children. The boy and two girls, ages 6, 7 and 8, who died in the fire west of here, were in the bedroom of the three-room frame house which burned while the father was help ing two older boys deliver news papers. Cattle Death Probe Planned LAKE VIEW U.S. Rep. Sam Coon has arranged for the Atomic Enerpy Commission to investigate the strance death of cattle, birds and predators on the etist slope of Hart Mountain during" a snow storm last May. according to word received here today. The inspection notice was re ceived -by the Maurice Murphy ranch at Adel trom the field head quarters of the AEC at Albu querque and Lt. Edward Johnson will make the inspection on Feb ruary 4. ; Sudden death visited a com paratively small area on the refuge during the snowstorm but! the storm did not do any damage else where although it was general over Warner Valley and Hart Mountain. The cattle grazing in a small area, numerous birds and some preda tory animals were killed in the course of a few hours. Demos Rap By FRANK W. VAILLE WASHINGTON A Repub lican contention that a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) miner al examiner is "the bird that's be hind the whole thing" brought Democratic criticism Tuesday as a congressional committee re newed its inquiry into the grant of 15 Southern Oregon mining pat ents to Al Sarena Mines Inc. The contention was voiced bv Rep. Hoffman (R-Mich) in refer- ring to Elton M. Hattan, BLM i minerals examiner who recom mended against grant of 15 of the 23 patents sought by the company in the Roeue River National For est. His adverse recommendation was upheld by BLM in 1951. Referring to Hoffman's assertion and an earlier statement by Clar ence A. Davis, Interior Depart ment undersecretary, that Hattan was "obviously hostile" to mining claims on forested lands. Sen. Neu berger ID-Ore) said Hattan was "obviously being made a goat." He defended Hattan as a "re spected resident of my state" and Mothers' March Torchlight Nijlit," the an nual Mothers March on polio, will be staired tonight from 7 to 8 o'clock In the Klamath Falls area. This is a nationwide event of the March of Dimes. All house holders of Klamath Falls who wish to contribute to the March of Dimes are asked to put their porch lights on between those hours. A mother In the city will call on the houses and col lect the contributions to the an tl -polio fund. All contributions ' are to be ttirned In at the Eagles Lodge, Ninth and Walnut streets. Abbott Set For Sentence OAKLAND, Calif., (UP) Ala meda County authorities said to day they are ready to move Burton W. Abbott to San Quentin prison as soon as he is sentenced. '. Abbott will appear at- 10 a.m. Friday before Superior Judge Charles Wade Snook. His attoi- neys, Stanley Whitney and Harold Hove, will present motions to set aside the verdict and lor a new trial. " Judce Snook may hear the de fense motions and arguments im mediately and make a ruling from the bench. Or he may set a new date for further argument and rulins.. If he denies the motions, he will then sentence Abbott, 27, to death twice for kidnaping and for mur dering 14-year-old Stephanie Bryan on April 28. Abbott will leave immediately for death row in San Quentin. Prison authorities said they arc making no special arrangements to receive Abbott, since 14 of the 34 cells on death row are unoccu pied. . Sheriff H. P: Gleasoh said Abbott has eaten and slept swell since a jury relumed a verdict last Wednesday finding him guilty. He spent the weekend reading his mall and playing pinochle with other prisoners. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair through Wednesday except morning fog. Lows Tues day night 0-5 below. Highs 25-30. High yesterday ' 20 Low last night -4 Prerip. last 24 hours 0 Preclp. since Oct. 1 15.35 Same period last year 3.75 Normal for period .6.75 GOP Sarena Charge said "the attacks are indeed very uniair. , Hoffman said he would "apolo gize and withdraw the word 'bird' and substitute gentleman" but otherw.e stand by his contention. He said he would "concede" that Hattan was "motivated by an ef fort to protect the Forest Service" but that the examiner "aDnarent- ly feels minerals must be shown to have more value than timber and that isn't the law." Davis, back on the stand for the second day, said he hadn't meant to Imply any prejudice in any bad sense of the word." He said that from reading Hattan's reports, however, he had gotten the Impres sion his "mind was definitely con cerned with several things which have nothing to do with the grant of mining patent."" Sen. Goldwaler (R-Ariz) ,ald Hattan's report also had "put a question in my mind." He referred to testimony that only two of the original samples taken from the 23 claims showed any mineral value and that six of the samples showed nothing although taken up House Favors Farm Gas Bill WASHINGTON tin The House voted 387-0 Tuesday to give farm ers a 60-million-dollar annual tax saving by exempting them from paying the federal tax of 2 cents a gallon on gasoline used on their farms. Proposed by President Eisen hower as one of the nine points of his farm relief program, the bill was passed by a roll-call vote with both Democrats and Repub licans seeking to claim credit. The bill now goes to the Senate. ' The tax exemptions applies to gasoline and special fuels .used for "farming -purposes." but not to fuel used on the highway. The President also asked Con gress to waive taxes on lubricat ing oil, but the House Ways and Means Committee passed over this recommendntion on .grounds the bookkeeping was not worth the inconsequential savings involved. Farmers will pay the lax when buying gasoline but can file claims with the Treasury for refunds. I he claim period was set at June 30- Sept. 30 of each year, with Initial refunds to be made for the first six months of this year. Ten Persons Die In Crash CARACAS, Venezuela tm Ven ezuelan officials said Tuesday all 10 persons including four U.S. cit izens aboard a private two-engine plane were killed when the craft crashed Saturday in the rugged Capaya Mountains. The plane disappeared while pre paring to .land at Higuerotc. a Car ribcan port 55 miles east of Cara cas. Air searchers said Monday they had spotted a plane on a mountainside southwest of Higue rote. Those aboard Included the Amer ican pilot, Capt. Charles C. Baugh an, 55: his wife. Mary, formerly of Shelbyvllle, Ky.; Malcolm J. Edgerton. 70, and Mrs. Edgerton, 60, of Stamford, Conn., and New York. Baughan, a native of Georgia, came to Venezuela in 1947 to help develop civil aviation. Edgerton is a member of the New York stock brokerage firm of Green. Ellis & Anderson. Mrs. Edgerton served tlfree terms in the Con necticut House of Representatives. The Edgertons were on a South American vacation. Removal of the bodies from the wreckage was to begin Tuesday.. on claims which have produced be tween $30,000 and $40,000 in gold in various mining operations since . . as tne hearing recessed. Davis was Demg examined by William 1 H. Coburn, committee counsel, con- v- K-urei in oenau 01 tne sarena ! company. The department official said that ! never at any time was he i Ells worth! urging anything more than that we get a dependable assay" and settle the long-standing appeal. A Joint House-Senate subcommit tee inquiring into the Depart ments 1954 action heard Davis last Thursday testify. In effect, that he had no alternative under mining law but to take the action which he did as department solicitor at that time. Democrats have been critical of the grant on the ground it gave the company title to valusble tim ber stands. Republicans say the Democratic criticism is an attempt to "smear" the Eisenhower ad ministration with an .eye to this fall s elections. KLAMATH Price Five Cents 13 Pages NOME, Alaska Alaska's National Guard commander died in a Nome hospital Monday night a few hours after his heroic rescue from a barren mountainside on which his plane crashed Friday with four aboard. Brig. Gen. John R. Noyes. S4, succumbed to Injuries and frost bite suflered In the subzero cold below the Arctic Circle in three nights and four days of exposure. The West Pointer s three com panions, all National Guard offi cers on an inspection flight with him, almost miraculously survived the or den 1 of the crash and the bitter cold. National Guard officers reported all were in good condition Tuesday, although one was reported to have suffered severe frostbite. One of the men was rescued from the wreckage with Gen. Noyes. The other two were found as they hiked along the tortuous 25-mile route to Nome in search of aid. Noyes had suffered head in-1 juries, cuts 'and "nearly frozen face, arms and legs," the National Guard said. . Rescuers reported the "general Women Battle For Child SAN JOSE, Calif. (UP) Judge H. G. Del Mutolo nearcd argu ments In Superior Court here to-dayon- whether a California- court has Jurisdiction in (the guardian ship case of S'i-year-old Susan Smith, formerly , of Portland. The child's aunt, Mrs. Ellen Hightower of Los Gatos. Calif., has petitioned the court to be named her guardian, but Susan's mother, Mrs. Marjorie Smith of Portland, is fighting for custody of the little girl. The Judge called for the juris- diction arguments yesterday alter Mrs. Smith's attorney said Mrs. Hightower took Susan from her Portland home without the moth er's consent. The attorney maintained that her action was "child stealing" un der Oregon law and a felony sub ject to a 25 years imprisonment. He cited several other cases in which the children were from other states. Judge Del Mutolo also ordered a transcript of last Friday's tes timony in which Mrs. Hightower related how she brought Susan to California last April after Mrs. Smith was arrested in connection with the bomb-slaying of her hus band. Kermtf. Mrs. Smith, who was acquitted of the' murder charge,' said she received custody of Susan from an Oregon court in 1954 when she and her husband were divorced. They were later remarried and Mrs. Smith claims custody as the surviving parent. Mrs. Hightower, who has two adopted children, contends that Mrs. Smith Is "unfit" to take care of Susan. Lillebo Gets Viaduct Award SALEM l.fi The Oregon High way Commission awarded an $899,964 contract Monday lor con struction of the South Sixth Street i?rade project in Klamath Falls on the Klamath Falls-Lakeview High wav. The contract was awarded to Tnm Lillebo. Rcedsport. who sub mitted the lowest ol seven bids. The bids were opened Dec. 20. but the award was held up while an anpanmant ti.ac nraflarl Kaltl,an,1 ho m,ihrn D0a,a Ra.iro.H .nri the commission The steel and reinforced con- cnu. structure will be 836 feet Ilor.g 77,,, commission also awarded a tts ten r-nntrar-t m nurhin Bm Eugene, for grading and topping .Si miles of the Bumpier valley Highway, 15 miles southwest of Biker. Skating Prospects Reported 'Good' Prospects are good for skating at the Moore Park rink Wedne.; dny night. Recreation Director Bob Bonney announced today. Snow was 'removed and the base frozen Monday nitiht, and today's temper atures should produce a finished coat of ice. He said that melting snows off the hill behind ihe rink have ham pered the making of ice on the rink, and definite announcement will be made in tomorrow's paper about the condition of the Ice. Crash FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 31. 1956 Telephone 8111 Injuries .(ill Commander had been unconscious from the time of the crash. Noyes and Maj. Robert Kolb, the plane's pilot and an Army ad visor with the National Guard, were rescued from the wreckage by three bush pilots and a drug gist who carried them to the plateau-like top of the mountain against which the plane crashed. After a paramedic team dropped, to the scene Monday, Noyes and Kolb were' kept In the wrecked ; plane, which provided some pro tection from the winds and cold, until a doctor reached the plane. Kolb suffered only minor injuries and some exposure. Noyes' twisted body remained In the same position It took Friday when the plane crashed and slid 300 feet down the icy slopes of the barren mountainside. The plane crashed on the return flight from Shlshmarcf, a native village on the opposite side of the peninsula that Juts out toward Siberia. The two men riding with Noyes and Kolb, Sgt. Richard August of Nome, the mechanic, and Maj. Francis Slegwart, commander of the Alaska National Guard's 1st Scout Battalion here, started the long walk from the crash scene to Nome Sunda, two days after the plane crashed. They were spotted from the air and Intercepted on the ground shortly after a Civil Air Patrol plane piloted by Phmip Lancaster of Nome located Noyes' downed craft. ' .' i Slegwart. was uninjured. August was suffering extreme exposure. Lancaster and his flying com panion Martin Olson landed their ngni crau at tne top ot tne piateau- ime mountain and were soon Joined by Bill Munz, another bush pilot, and Nome druggist Boyd Harwood, in another plane. Two paramedics summoned by radio administered first aid to Noyes and Kolb. Then, with a slip meaning a tumble of yards, the three bush pilots and Harwood started a tor tuous Journey to the summit of the mountain with the injured men on stretchers. ' From the top of the mountain the two injured men were flown to Nome. , Ike Approves Highway Plan WASHINGTON (Jl President Eisenhower Tuesday Approved a plan to finance his highway con struction program through pay-as-you-go taxation. He abandoned his earlier plan for financing it with bonds. House Republican leader Martin (Mass) announced the President's decision. He said it was made in recognition of a practical situa tion in Congress refusal . of the Democratic leadership to accept the bond program. Martin said after the GOP con gressional leaders' weekly confer ence with Eisenhower that the President decided to yield on the issue because he wants the high way construction program to get under way. In response to a question Mar tin told a news conference at the White House he believes the new program has a "good chance" of winning approval in Congress. Martin made it clear that the new program means higher taxes to finance road building. He added It would be up to the House Ways and Means Committee to decide just how to raise the money. Healy Reveals Secretary Race sai..;m i.ti a race lor tne Republican nomination for secre- lt"ry. "e loomed Tuesday after William E. Healy announced he would be a candidate. Healy, who resigned two weeks apo as assistant secretary of state. 'aid he would contest the bid of Slate Sen. Mark Hatfield, Salem, for the nomination. Healy, 51, lives in Salem. He joined the state department in 1947 after managing the Ashland Cham ber of Commerce and working for trade magazines and neuspapers in Washington state. The only Democrat to announce his candidacy for secretary of state Is Monroe Swretland, Mil waukic, Oregon's Democratic na tional committeeman and sate senator. NKVADA t'OM.FXTS CARSON CITY, Nev. Nevada collected a record $4,750,144 in revenue from the gambling In dustry in 1905. the 8tate Tax Com mission announced today. That more than doubled the record ol $2,203,483 set In 1954. The big Jump resulted partially from an increase in the tax rate. No. 3383 J i LtAK l.r.llll.. Sen. Harry Baivin Boivin Plans To Run Again Another well known hat will be tossed into the political arena within a few days when Senator Harry Bolvln announces his desire to return to Salem. Bolvln said he will make a for mal statement later on his Demo- cratlc candidacy for senator from the newly formed Eighteenth Legis lative . Dlstrlot which comprises Klamath County. Until the districts were reorgan ized. Senator . Bolvln represented the Seventeenth Legislative Dis trict which included Klamath, Lake, Deschutes, Jefferson and Crook counties., Bolvln left for Sacramento Tues day with Dr. John Watterman, psychiatrist for the Oregon State Board of Health. They are mem bers of an Interim committee named at the last session of the Legislature to study criminal laws applying to sex crimes. They will confer in Sacramento with officials of California Criminal Identifica tion Bureau. "When I return to Klamath Falls," Boivin said, "I Intend to make a formal statement con cerning plans for seeking reelec tion. " Boivin was elected to the senate In 1954 to complete the unexpired term of former Senator Phil Hitch cock who resigned. Boivin served from 193 to 1941 as a state rep resentative. He was speaker of the house during the 1937 session of the Legislature. ROOF COLLAPSES KARUIZAWA, Japan tft Eight feet of snow on the roof today collapsed a miners' sleeping shack, killing 14 and seriously Injuring five more. Eleven were pulled un harmed from the wreckage. or? 1 'ft'r -S. 1 LYLE STEERS, left, 4627 Boardman Street, and Dele Hanlcins, 1926 Wiard Street, repairmen for the telephone company, came in out of the cold this morning for a warm cup of coffee and ran right into the lent of the 9 o'clock photographer, The mercury hit a low of minui four degrees before the lun came up today. Not frozen, however, were the men's tendency to ham it up. ' China Major Problem WASHINGTON President Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Eden met again Tuesday with Red China's "war if neces sary" threat to Formosa appar ently a prime topic in the second day of their talks. Both leaders had their Far East experts with them at a White House luncheon, attended also by Secretary bf State Dulles and British Foreign Secretary Selvyn Lloyd. The presence of Walter S. Rob ertson and Sir Hubert Graves, both specialists on the Orient, empha sised that Far East questions were up for discussion. Dulles acknowledged to report- Judge Denies Chessman's Corpus Writ SAN FRANCISCO Wl Federal Judge Louis E. Goodman Tuesday denied the petition ol Caryl chess man for a writ of habeas corpus that would free him from death tow in San quentin Prison. In an ll-page opinion. Judge Goodman said that Chessman "has failed to sustain the allega tions of his petition;" that "there la not. a scintilla of verity in the allegations made In the petition." Chessman, so-called "red light bandit,", convicted of kidnaping and rape, based his petition on u convention that the transcript of his appeal from his 1948 convic tion in Los Angeles was prepared fraudulently. LINDBERGH LAW Chessman was sentenced to death under California's Little Lindbergh Law. which makes kidnaping a capital crime U the person ab ducted suffers bodily harm. , During an eight-day hi a tag which ended Jan. 25, Chessman attempted to prove that the tran script was prepared fraudulently, through collusion between the pros ecuting attorney, J. Miller Leavy and the substitute reporter who transcribed the court notes. He also contended he had been denied due process In not being allowed to bn present at the Los AnReles court hearing when the transcript was accepted by Superior Judge Charles W. Fricke. RIGHTS INFRINGED The U.S. Supreme Court last October ordered the hearing be fore Judge Goodman. Its purpose was to determine whether Chess man's constitutional rights had been Infringed. In rejecting Chessman's petition, Judge Goodman terminated- the stay or execution which had been issued before the start of the hear ing. Chessman was convicted on Iwo counts of kidnaping with bodily harm, both of which were punish able by death, and of IS other counts, including robbery and sex perversion. His next step, presumably, will be a new appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco. 11 the outcome there is unsatisfact ory, he can turn once more to the U.S. Supreme Court. era, after two hours of talks with Lloyd earlier at the State Depart ment, that "we talked about both" Middle and Far East problems. Red China's Premier Chou En. lal cast his shadow on the Eisen hower talks, called to deal with Russia's new diplomatic offensive and particularly the troubled Middle East, by making a speech broadcast over Peiping Radio. Chou lashed out at "prolonged dragging out" of U.S. -Red China talks at Geneva and declared his regime is "actively preparing" to conquer the Nationalist-held Island of Formosa "by means of war if necessary." Relations with Communist China, including Britain's reported dealre to ease existing Western trade con trols, figured prominently among the key topics to be tackled in a review of policy in the Far East. Kisennower ana earn got on 10 a seemingly good start yesterday on three days of talka on how to deal with the Russians in the Middle East and elsewhere. AGREEMENT ' They agreed in assessing recent Soviet maneuvering on the diplo matic, economlo and political front. And Eden pledged Britain' full support to .Elsenhower's in sistence on "deeds, not words," aa evidence of Russian willingness to ease tensions, ' ' But the first day also turned up divergence of views on the Middle East, Some diplomatic of. ficlals said, however, that these differences are minor and should be narrowed even further at to day's session. Elsenhower took part In two of the three U. S. -British conferences yesterday. On doctor's orders he lit parsing up the night gatherings. Elsenhower ana Keen are ex- pected to switch attention to the Far East once tney go as far as they can In fashioning a common policy toward the Middle East'. The Britisn are sam to oe mora reluctant than they have been about backing unyielding U. B. op position to seating Red China in the United Nations. Elsenhower will try to nail ' down British support on that Issuer,. '. . , BRITONS' PART ' ; For their part, the British would like to ease the West's embargo, against shipping nonwar goods to Red China. They argue, in the face of strong opposition from segments of Congress, that such goods are being shipped now to Russia but are banned in the China trade. They point out that the Korean fighting, winch led to the embargo, has been over for three years. Britain recognizes Red China while the United States does not. Kroksh Lists Contributors Letter contributions to the March of Dimes are continuing to come into campaign headquarters, said Jsy Kroksh, drive chairman, today, ' Kroksh urged anyone who hasn't mailed his contribution yet to do so even though the drive is al most over. "Every dime helps In the battle against polio," he said. "The war against the dread di sease still goes on." The following firms. Individuals and organizations have mailed their contributions: Clyde Meade, Harold A. Camp bell, Oregon State Nurses Associa tion, Dlst. No. 8, Harold B. Ashley, Orlgsby Smokehouse, Moty and Van Dyke, Association of Machin ists. Women's Society of Christian Service, Klamath Lutheran Ladies Aid. Fred Fletcher, C. R. Cunning ham, Dr. E. Dletsche. A. E. Albert, Fort Klamath Civic Improvement Club, clem and Syl via Lesueur, Bob and Shirley Per kins, Stell 8. King, A. M. Buswell Co., David M. Klme. Lucille R. Caley, Mrs. E. N. Eagle, Local 1279 Painters Union, Asphalt Pav ing Co., and Mary Henzel, Sub-Zero Snap Grips Oregon j By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The coldest night of the winter brought temperatures as low as -28 In the Oregon mountains early Tuesday and more cold was In prospect ior eastern uregon ana Washington Tuesday night. The lowest marks reported were 28 below at Seneca and 25 below at Meacham in the Oregon Cas cades, but subzero weather was general east of the mountains. Baker, in Eastern Oregon, had -22. In Eastern Washington It was -16 at Ellensburg, -12 at Ephrata and Omak, -11 at Spokane. -12 at Yakima and -5 at Walla Walla. It was below freezing at most Western Oregon and Washington points, with Olympla reporting 12 above, Portland and Belllngham 13 Salem 18. Seattle 20. The forecast was for continued cold Tuesday night In both states, with temperatures rising to nor mal or higher by this weekend. By coincidence; lt was compar atively balmy in Alaska. Anchor age had 35 above and Fairbanks 14 above. The only sero repoi 1 from Alaska was Nome's 4,