Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, February 06, 1956, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textcoa? I ;4 u 01 oiunox l:3:-:aht E'JjSNS, OH-. fo) 0) la The- Day's IVews la By FRANK JENKINS Disneyland. If you'vo never seen it. you haven't missed much. On the other hand, If you do see Jt you'll come away saying you wouldn't have missed it for anything. It's the honkey-tonk to end all honky-tonks. It's the county fair, the state fair, an old-fashioned "public sale in a corn belt neigh borhood. Coney Island, the Board walk at Atlantic City and the last , World Fair all rolled into one. It's built on the sound theory that if you can get a big enough crowd together and provide , enough places to spend money in small sums for things you wouldn't think of spending money for under i.i oy other circumstances you'll take in a whale of a lot of dough. I'd guess that in the quarter :. section or such a matter of South I ein California soil that comprises 1 Disneyland there are at least 8.000 places to spend money in small sums for things you wouldn't ". a dollar. Alter you've been there i for a few minutes, diving into your v pocket for another coin to buy an ! other ticket to go through another :' gate or another door becomes as automatic as reaching for a cig arette. ;You can take a trip to the 1 moon and it will be so realistic " that when you're about to land you'll wonder if there will be a ' .VWd place handy to get lunch ' "en you disembark from your i space ship. -Or you can go backwards into the past instead of whizzing for- iunj i..ln tha. fntiiro ttnA talro a leisurely ride on the ol' befo' de wah river steamer the Mark Twain. When you start out, the bell will clang and when you pull into the dock the whistle will blow. In between, the paddlewheel at the rear .will propel you slowly through water just as. muddy as 4he Mississippi and you will pass trees that look like Cyprus trees and you will see stuff hanging from the branches that looks like Span ish moss. They even have a gang .working on the levee, tossing a shovelful of dirt about every two minutes and meanwhile leaning on the handles. i On the Mark Twain, you can see all the romantic figures of the Old South except the river boat gam ' biers and you can do everything but sip a mint julep. Disneyland Is strictly moral. 1 You can take a boat trip through the tropical jungles, with the lions . roaring in the distance and the hippopotami coughing and the jack als barking and the exotic tropical birds making exotic tropical noises. The sounds will be so real that shivers will creep up your spine and you can feel the hair on the i. back of your neck beginning to stand up, but when you peer into the Jungle in the hope of seeing vne animals in me uesn iney won i fee there. The noises are tape-re-erded'-Tmd" the roars " m "the , grunts and the coughs are coming Irom loud speakers concealed in the shrubbery. s And so on, ad infinitum in f.. eluding a medieval castle with an : honest-to-John drawbridge over a : moat with water in it and in the . castle's keep a street fair merry- i. tiu-rouna as muaern as uoerace on TV. ? ) There Is no limit except the amount of money you brought ' with you to what you can do in ' Disneyland. And there's no limit to the amount of fun you can have if you go in the right kind of crowd with everybody in the right mood. S-Bo far I have spoken, with a tinge of cynicism, in adult terms. One shouldn't speak of Disneyland In adult terms. Disneyland isn't designed for adults although mil- llnne nf than, n thara nicnatrlanri is for children. f Children can still IMAGINE. In their weird hats acquired at a Strategically-placed booth at so much per they can toar to the moon. In a Davy Crockett cap. they can walk into the old block house and hear the crack of the ; (Continued on page 4) ' HteS IKE WILL RUN again in the opinion of Former Governor Dan Thornton of Colorado, who is in Klamath Falls to address a GOP dinner Monday night in the Wiilard Hotel. Thornton deft) is shown with Attorney George Proctor, chairman of ti: Klamath County Central Committee. Holmes In Race For Governor ASTORIA A radio executive jand slate senator for the past four Oregon legislative sessions is the first announced .candidate for gov ernor since the unexpected death of Gov. Paul Patterson last Tuesday. He is Robert D. Holmes, 46 Democrat. Holmes, who has been prominent in both. Democratic and civic affairs. Is manager ot Astoria radio station KAST. "The tragic and untimely death of the late Gov. Paul Patterson.' he said, "has made it imperative that both political parties pay early attention to nominees for this office so that the people ot Oregon may have a chance to scrutinize the candidates carefully and be ready to choose ft new chief executive In November.',' Elmo Smith, a Republican from John Day, automatically succeeded Patterson because Smith was president of the state Senate, . He has not yet said whether he will be a candidate for the GOP noml nation.. The nominees for . governor in the November final eleetton will be seeking to fill Patterson s un- expired term, which runs through 1958. . . In 1053, Holmes was chairman of the Senate Education Committee and was named that year by the Oregon Education Assn. as its citizen of the year. He also has served on the, Ways and Means and Assessment and Taxation committees. In addition. Holmes has been a member four years of the Com mtttee for Interstate Co-operation, made up of representatives of 11 Western states. He expressed hope that his back' ground will give him "the neces sary understanding of Oregon's problems to reflect wise leader ship." ' . Holmes said he favors "a return to the healthy, vigorous two-party system that has characterized this country s success, and added: "The Democratic Party during the past decade has constantly strengthened Its position in our state and today it is united as never before and has a positive program which I believe will hasten Oregon's progress.". Holmer. who attended the Uni- versity of Oregon, is married and the lather of two sons, zo ana n, .-1 turf.. ''' 'V-- ; i SEATO Plans Maneuvers BANGKOK, Thailand Lfl The Southeast Asia Treaty Organiza tion (SEATO) will hold Its firs', international sea, air and land maneuvers near here Feb. IS to 18, the Thai government announced Monday. The Foreign Ministry said all seven members of the organiza tion had been asked to participate. In Tokyo, the U.S. Navy said only the Philippines, Thailand and the United States had thus far ac cented. The American Navy said the three-day program would Include the "combined air. land and sea demonstration" on Feb. 15, an ex hibition of military equipment in Bangkok the next day and "a pa- rade of task force units" in the TVial capital Feb. 17. The long-rumored! operation is considered the West's answer to growing leeling in Asia and else where that the alliance Is a paper tiger wimoui any teem. '"'la-. tWa ' :' '.T - 1 Vi Price Fin Cents M races Clear Weather Waited In Antarctica To Throw All Plane Into Huge Search - By 8AUI. PETT ABOARD THE U.S.S. ARNER IN ROSS SEA, Antarctica ( The command of Operation Deep Freeze hoped Monday for clear wleather to throw all available air craft into a search for a Navy plane missing with seven men aboard. Two ground search parties crossed the ice Sunday between the Little America V base and a trail post 400 miles eastward from which the missing craft took off. Jet Plane Goes Down PORTLAND Wl An F-84 Jet plane suddenly went out of control west of Vancouver. Wash., Satur day and crashed after the pilot had balled out. The pilot, Capt. Bradley B, Irish, Danforth, Me., floated down uniiv jured. He said he had no idea what caused the plane to suddenly become erratic. The plane crashed near Van couver Lake. It was near the home of Mr. and Mrs. Al Niemeyer, but no one was hurt, and there was no damage to buildings. Irish and Lt. James Shattuck. 30, whose parents live at Van couver, Wash., were on a training flight from Luke Air Force Base, Phoenix. Ariz., and were coming down for a land at Portland when Irish's plane went out of control. Shattuck landed safely at Portland. Teacher May Face Charges SAN FRANCISCO (UP) Five person, inrj.ulrmrcnri'OvrasIal elementary school teacher, face possible felony Indictments tonight when a grand jury hears charges that they received stolen property. The teacher, Lorraine Stakcr. 43. also - faces Immoral conduct charges to be filed today with the Board of Education. Her arrest In the stolen property case uncovered her past as a call girl and an 18-year-old love affair with Dr. Rodney A. Yoell. socially promi nent San Francisco physician. DIst. Atty. Thomas C. Lynch said the Grand Jury would be asked to indict Miss Staker, Rlnaldo (Red) Ferrari, 44; Dorothy Ryan. 56; Mildred F. Hoffner, 52; and Marie Gilford, 61, on the stolen property charge. Miss Staker's attorney. Emmet F. Hagerty, said she was in se clusion near Bakersficld and would not be present for the Board of Education hearing today. However, he planned to give the board her statement "setting forth her posi tion that she feels she has been a good teacher." Miss Staker has been offered "moral and financial" support by individual members of the Parent Teachers Association of McKinlcy Elementary School, where she taught fifth and sixth grades. Can't Stood 'Em Says Girl Queen BALTIMORE ,tijpi Everybody thought it was a fine choice when Dorothy Wlesnlewska, 18, was named queen of the St. Caslmir Church oyster roast; ' But the contest committee was thrown Into something akin to con sternation at the queen's pro nouncement when she was told that one of her first duties would be to swallow an oyster raw. Said the queen; "I can't stand 'em." She was allowed to retain her crown anyway. Former Colorado Governor Sure Eisenhower Will Run Former Governor Dan Thornton of Colorado, here to address a Republican dinner meeting said Monday he is firmly convinced that President Eisenhower will run again. "Five weeks ago I would have said 'no.' M Thornton declared. "I am not basing by opinion on any thing I have been told. I am con vinced the president will see another term from what I have observed." Thornton also predicted the de feat of Democratic Senator Wayne L. Morse by "some good Oregon Republican." "The death of Oovernor Paul Patterson was a great tragedy to the state of Oregon." the Colora doan declared. "But Oregon has faced such tragedies before and has always been able to surmount them." Thornton added that selection of a candidate to oppose Senator Morse la strictly an Oregon af fair. I KLAMATH But they found no trace of It. The plane, a De Havilland Otter, was flying Friday from Marie Byrd Land to Little America with some members of a trailblazing party whose vehicles had broken down. It made its last voice radio contact 67 minutes after takeoff. An SOS signal believed from the plane was heard Saturday. Bad weather hampered an air survey. The trail party left Little Amer ica in mid-January to mark off a route to the proposed site for an observatory 650 miles away. But the breakdown of their tracked vehicles stopped them 250 miles short of their goal,. Among the seven men aboard the missing plane is Alvah G. Ed wards, construction driver first class, of Lakebay. Wash., near Tacoma. He. was one of the mem bers of the trail blazing party that had been picked up by the plaue. Big Yinner Back In School NEW YORK (fl As he would on anv other school day, 14-year- old George L. Wright III returned to the classroom Monday even though he won $100,000 over the weekend. The young ukulele player, who won television s biggest quiz prize Saturday night, planned to leave St. Agnes High School a little early, however, for a business conference at the Chase Manhat tan Bank. There he and his lawyer, to gether with producers of "The Big Surprise" TV show, will discus." terms of the trust fund to be set up with George's TV winnings The government will get the big gest slice of the $100,000. Federal and state income taxes aro ex- yccred' to whittle George's' "net winnings down to about S25.01X). The actual figure will depend on whether there are to be any char itable gifts and other factors af fecting taxes. The freckle-faced youngster also has other decisions to make be sides how to handle his money. Since winning the prize, and even before, he has been sought by tele vision, movies, recording com panies and the theater. He won the $100,000 by correctly Identifying the song, "Me and My Shadow" and singing a chorus of lt. Benson Gets Time Offer NEW YORK il The Columbia Broadcasting System has olfered a half hour of television network time to Secretary of Agriculture Benson because of his criticism of a recent program. CBS president Frank Stanton al so offered equal time to two Ben son critics. Sens. Clinton P. An derson (D-NM) and Hubert H. Humphrey. (D-Minnl. Benson, who said that Edward R. Murrow's "See It Now" pro gram on Jan. 26 gave "a distorted Impression of ftirm conditions," was invited Sunday to air his views next Thursday from 10:30 to 11 p.m. lEST). In WashinRton Benson said he appreciated the chance to reply but would have to check his sched ule belore saying whether he would be able to accept. Anderson, a former secretary of agrictiliure. and Humphrey had aked CBS for time equal to Ben son's if the network granted the secretary's request. They were of fered the same half hour on the Thursday following Benson's time. , "I am certain Oregon Republi cans will produce a man who will defeat Wayne Morse." he added. On the national level. Thornton said he believed there was an even chance that the Republican would take control of Congress In November. "I am wiiiing to stand on the record of the Eisenhower Admini stration," he continued. "This has been an administration for the lit tle people the working nan. More people are employed at higher wages today than at my period in the history of the coun try." "Two out of the three dollars represented by this tax cut." he I explained, "went to individual taxi payers." I Thornton Is slated to speak at ; 8:15 p m. Monday In the Pine I Grove Room of the Wiilard Hotel. I His talk will be preceded by a social hour and buffet dinner. ! The affair was arranged by the Klamath County Republican Cen-! tral Committee, I FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY . 195 in ' k ' POTATOES FOR PINEAPPLES was the theme of thit picture taken thii morning at the air port. The occasion was the departure of the chamber of commerce flight for Hawaii. Pictured here (left to right) are C. M. Gilmore, Jim Patterson and Karl Dehlinger showing a few of the prime Klamath Basin spuds they will, they hope, trade for the fruit of the tropics on their arrival. : ; . : i -BULLETIN- PITTSBURGH iff) The Inter n all on a I Union of Electrical Work ers announced Monday it has ac cepted a federal proposal for a new basis of neKotlatloni to end the 113-day WcRlinghouse Electric Corp, strike. . . Baby Born Aboard Plane HONOLULU. Ut -An Air Force doctor says he relied on "back woods obstetrics" and scissors to deliver a premature baby in a military plane 11.000 feel over the Pacific. Mrs. John Garnett and her 4 pound. 10-ounce daughter were "doing fine" Monday at the Arm Tripler General Hospital here. Mrs. Garnett, wife pf an airman from an Antonio, Tex., started the 700-mlle flight Saturday from Johnston Island to Honolulu when she developed premature labor pains. There is no incubator on Johnston where her husband Is sta tioned. Lt. Col. John A. Norcross. Silver Springs, Md., who happened to be aboard, said the mother "was In labor seven hours but had no trouble at all. It was her third child. I did more worrying than anyone else. "It was strictly backwoods ob stetrics. The baby was seven-month baby and the problem was keeping lt alive. It looked awlully blue ana couldn't breathe by itself. I gavel It artificial respiration all i the, way. the doctor held the child lor the last 35 minutes of the trip and crewmen rigged an incubator around his hands with a. curtain an oxygen mask and thermos of hot coftce. Maj. John Caufleld of Yoivicrs, N.Y., the pilot, turned on ell the plane's heat, which resulted In a lot of perspiration for the adults. Europe Co!d Eases Today j LONDON (UPl A warm front: descending on Europe from the I southern tip of Greenland brought j renei inapy irrjiil a wcpr-ioiib cihu i wave that took at least 171 lives. Cause of death ranged from traf fic accidents on icy roads to suffo cation from faulty heating devices. At least eight seamen were feared lost In a storm off Portugal. France had the heaviest loll with 40 dead. There were 32 deaths In Italy. 29 In Britain, 20 In Germany, II in Denmark, eight each in Holland and Portugal, seven in Sweden, five In Switzerland, three In Austria and two In Yugoslavia. The warming weather brought new perils. Pipes that froze and burst throughout Britain In the record cold began spewing forth water today as the ice melted. Officials reported 50.000 plumbers working overtime. Water shortages developed In many areas. Skating There will he Ire skating to night from 7 to 10 p.m. t th Moore Park rink, Recreation Director Bob Bonnry announced toflny. II aUo Mated thai a table trnn.6 eLon will be held at 9:30 tonight In the KtudenU' Union building at OT1. Suspect Sought In Brutal Slaying Of Seattle Couple BAKERSFIELD, Calif. Wi An ell-noinls sheriff's bulletin Mon day asked authorities to arrest fur questioning the young man travel ing companion of a Seattle, Wash., couple brutally slain with a hatchet ana then run over with tneir own onlnntnlilla Citnriau . The victims' dog standing in the road led tn. discovery, of the bodies ol James Askew, 60,, and. his wife, Mary. 43. John Oralne of Norwnlkv Calif., a gas plant employe, told sheriff's deputies he was . driving along lonely 'tide road 18 miles north of here wl en the dog. refusing to get out of ' .ie way, forced him to stop. He fou id the bodies under the car. Core ler Stanley Newman said Suspect Held In Death OAKLAND (UP) Police held William E. Short, 41, today In con nection with the death ol Emma Jerry Jenniwts, SI, whom Short admitted gagging with a washrag "because she talked too much." The Alameda County coroner's office reported the woman died of suffocation. Numerous bruises and cuts were found on her body but 'none was considered serious cnounh lo have caused death, the coroner raid. short told police Miss Jennings was a frlrnd of his common law wile, Eiiia Jean Faulkner, 50. and Unit she had been living with the couple for several days. Inspector John Connolly said Short told him the three had begun ; drinking Friday night. Bhort told Connolly he grew annoyed Willi I Miss Jennings because she kept I yakkinn and yakklng." He said he told her to "shut up," but that she continued to talk. Finally he gagged her with me washt'ng, Short said, but later re moved it. The woman 'continued to "yak." and he shoved the gr-g back !nio her mouth. Short relnled. He put her or. a bed and then wt-nt to liM'p with Ml.1- Faulkne;-. In th? morning he said he found the woman dead with the gag still in Her mouth. California Fire Losses Critical SAN FRANCISCO UP More ttian 307 113 acre of timber. Kiasa nnd bru.'h cover in national forests In Caliiornia were destroyed by; fire lust year during an 18-dny period front Auttust to September. it unv rprvirlprl tnrlnv KeKionnl Forester Charles A.' Connaimhlon called last season the mon critical in 3l years. He said 436 fires started in the 18 day period beginning Aug. 27. ConnauKhton said lumber com p:mies contracted to cut 1, 001,000. OOfi board fet of timber in 1955. while another 1.3 billion board (uet were sold under new contract. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls anil vlt-lnitv: Partly cloudy throuuli Tuesday with patchy low fog Inj mumlng. High Tueday 40-45, low tonight 1H-2.1. Illsh VPntrrdav .1.1 l.nw nlghl . .. 5 I'rcclp. last 24 houra ... T Klnce Oct. 1 13.3.1 Same period laut year W.3.HS Normal for period Telephone 8111 the Askcws had been struck sev eral times on the head, apparently with the butt of a hatchet, and their throats had been cut with the blade. No weapon was . found at the scene howev.or, . . - The Askews .. apparently were slain In the car,'t)ien removedand placed 'on "the paveme'nf and run over wun tneir own macnine. Tho coroner said they may have picked up one or more hitchhikers who Mien to rob them. Sheriff s officers sought all hitchhikers in the area for questioning. Later the sheriff's office Issued the all-polnts bulletin for Donald Wyclsknln, 22, formerly or Bis mark, N.D.. nfter Seattle police reported he left there last Wednes day morning with the Askcws. Seattle oilicers said Askew had "wad of bills" cstlinntcd to con tain 51.00Q. Coroner Newman fiid here that no money was found In the slain couple's effects. Seattle detectives said wycls- kala had gone to Seattle from Bis- mark to seek woiiC and was liv ing with a brother, Robert, a Boe ing aircraft employe. . The brother. Robert, . said Don ald, a painter, was going to help the Askews drive south In ex change for a free ride to Los An geles to look for work. Donald wvclskaias wire Betty and 2-year-old daughter live with the Wife's parents In Grilfin, Ga. 1I.Lr.GAL MANILA Wl The National Bu reau of Investigation says oight syndicates here are remitting at least two million U. S. dollars monthly through Illegal channels to Hong Kong, Communist China and Formosa, , mmiwuwa"MwiiMTin r- : v.-v-v Y--tz: vtvvs4' V-.J KUHS SOPHOMORES Gleude Thornton, (left) of 532 N. 4th; and Ted (.undgren, 509 N. 3rd, were eeught by the nine o'clock cameraman oh their way to school this morning. !fV Bus Driver Faces Storm In Rescue By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The sun broke through over Tex as Monday, ending at least tempo rarily the icy ordeal clamped on the Texas Panhandle and south plains by the state's worst snow storm In half a century, . "Boy, oh boy, that sun looks good," a Plainvlew newspaperman said after fighting his way to the office through 30-lnch snow and drifts up to 9 feet. Plainvlew wat the hardest bit of Panhandle cities by the mammoth blinard that began last Wednes day and rose to a roaring climax Friday night and Saturday. , Lubbock, 'Amarlllo and a score of smaller cities also were virtual ly paralysed Sunday by the accu mulated snow. Milk and bread trucks managed to break through to Olton, the first deliveries since Friday. The storm claimed at least 23 lives In Texas and New Mexico. It subsided Sunday night as winds lessened and heavy snows began to lessen. t The U.S. Weather Bureau in Chi cago said today that the storm front, or what remained of it, seemed to be headed northeast ward. The Texas-New Mexico area "should have a respite" from the storm with above-freezing temper atures bringing about a general thawlng-out, the bureau said. The storm, ranked by Texans as the worst in 50 years and tabbed as the worst ever by New Mexico cltlnens, made most roads Impass able and caused the closing of several schools. Classes in Plain View, Amarlllo, and Lubbock were canceled today as the three Texas cities pushed cleanup efforts. Elsewhere In the nation, fair weather prevailed today - except for an area of precipitation stretch ing from eastern Kansas in a southeasterly direction to the Gulf and Atlantic coasts. - Light snow fell In Kansas, Ne vada and Utah. Thundershowcra pelted sections ot Tennessee and Georgia, TUCUMCARI. N.M. iH' The howling blizzard heaped waist high drifts of snow and sent tem peratures plunging to 10 below. Through it bus driver John Her ron, 38, struggled, for t'A hours, seeking" help."-"'3-,"." ' J ' Behind him were the 18 pas sengers in his bus, many of them praying that he w o u 1 d get through. The bus had' slipped from the highway into a drift. For five hours, Herron had waited for help then he set out. He collapsed a few yards from a service station at nearby. Olen rlo, N.M. He had strengUi enough to whistle and was rescued by men from the station. Help was started on Its way to the bus 13 miles away In one of the worst storms in recent years In this state. 1 Snowplows and tractors broke a path to the bus, taking food and water and fuel to keen the bus heaters going during the night. Early yesterday, after 21 hours of MIC WWGI ,,a " " " moved, brought to vucumcari and then set on their way. Herron Is in a Tucumcarl hos pital recuperating from snowbllnd ness, frostbite and exhaustion. He Is reported In good condition. "I prayed all the time" said Mrs. Henrietta Roosevelt of San Francisco, one of the passengers. "We were really praying for him," reported Mrs. Laura O'Toole of Santa Barbara, Calif. Barely able to speak above a whisper, the bus driver told how he stumbled and fell three or four times "but kept getting up. I was afraid to stop because I thought I wouldn't go on then."