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Newspaper Page Textu 07 c?.:aj:i : Am o) Ira .t -i.m ri ,i in iw 'i i, i .i iw , ii n i n i ' n n n i r .i.n i KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY t, 19SC Mco Five tenia U Pages Telephone Sill In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS One more detail on crossing the border: Before heading into Mex ico for what will prove to be a fascinating experience you'd bet ter provide yourself with a mod erate supply of Mexican money. You won't be sunk without it as would be the case in almost any other part of the world except Can adabut it will come in bandy. American money is accepted readily enough in Mexico, but there are problems in the way of change, especially if you proffer as much as a 110 bill. Besides prices are quoted in terms of pe sos, although they are called dol lars on the price tags. Anyway, it will be well to begin to think in terms of pesos as soon as you enter Mexico. In any for eign country, it is advisable to think in terms of the money of the country. In order to think in terms of pesos, you need to carry pesos in your pocket and pay your bills with them. The official rate of exchange is 12 Va pesos for one American dol lar. Mexico's economy is quite sta ble, and the official value of the peso and its actual value in trade in terms of American dollars show very little variance. One presently buys pesos in No gales -at the rate of 13.4 to the American dollar. There are no black markets in Mexican ex change. You buy your pesos with complete confidence, unworried by the thought that maybe if you knew a better place you might get a better bargain, Mexican money is simple and easy to understand because, like American money, it is based on the decimal system. There are 100 cents in an American dollar. There are 100 centavos in a Mexican peso. The thing to renumber is that at present rates it exchange a peso is worth eight American cents. A eentavo (s therefore worth one per cent of eight American cents which is a smaller unit of value than an American can imag ine. So, being an American, you will come early to think of centavos as chicken feed that isn't worth considering. But it does no harm to watch your centavos in Mexico as you watch your pennies in the U.S.A. One accumulates quite a few of them in the course of a day. Besides, they are useful for pay ing off the Mexican youngsters who descend on you in swarms to shine your shoes. They are such engaging little devils that you can't help patronizing them. As a result, your shoes shine like an automo bile headlight all the time. Your first need will be to estab lish a unit of value in your own mind. If you're no mathematical wizard and get all snarled up ev ery time you try to multiply some thing by eight, you will find it good enough for all practical pur poses to think of a peso as a dime. If you'll follow that rough and ready system you'll get back in change a little more than you expect, which will keep you feel ing happy. It's always wonderful to be hap py. When you buy your money at the border, you'll get the bulk of it in 50-peso bills. When you make your first stop say at Hermosillo or Guaymas, if you're coming in from Nogales and are given the news as to the cost of your motel or hotel accommodations and find it will take at least a.50-peso bill to cover it you'll get a sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach. This thought will cross your mind: "Boy, at this rate I'll have to hock the car about day after tomorrow to get money enough to go home on." But when you count up on your fingers that after all a 50-peso bill is only four bucks you'll come bnck to life and the sun will shine again. That's what I mean by get ting adjusted to the new standard of money values. All this, of course, leads up to the cost of accommodations in Mexico. Of that, more anon. Suf fice it to say here that balancing what you get against what you pay you'll find the cost of food and lodging here not too greatly dif ferent from the U.S.A. Girl Bullfighter Injured Again AGUASCALIENTES. Mexico W Patricia McCormick. the girl bullfighter from Big Spring. Tex., fell on the horns of a young bull Sunday, injuring her right knee. It was her fifth professional mis hap. The injury occurred while Miss McCormick was practicing her thrusts at the Torrecillas breeding farm In Zacatecas State in north central Mexico. She was brought to Aguascallcntes to spend four days in a hospital. Only 35 days ago a bull gored Miss McCormick in the left thigh at the same breeding farm. Josephine Kittredge Seeks GOP Representative Post ' Mrs. Josephine Kittredge, a resi dent of Klamath County for 42 years, Monday announced she will enter the race for state represen tative from this district on the Re- 7 V t MRS. KITTREDGE publican ticket. Two legislative posts are at stake. Ed Geary, presently speaker of the house, has announced he will run for the state senate. Henry Semon, the other Klamath County representative, has not in dicated whether he will seek re election. Mrs. Kittredge says she had been promised support Irom many county residents in her first try for public office. The prospective candidate has had many years of business ex perience. Before her marriage to Oscar Kittredge, prominent Basin cattleman, she was employed for five years In a secretarial capacity bv Balsiger Motor Company of Klamath Falls. Alter marriage, Mrs. Kittredge assisted her husband in handling (he business affairs . of his live stock 'interests. "I can promise the voters," Mrs. Kittredge said, "that If I am elected state representative, I will be able to devote all the time necessary to carrying out my du ties. I believe there is a place for women in our state government, I am anxious to participate in any endeavor which promotes the inter ests of Oregon." Mrs. Kittredge for many years has been an active worker in the Republican party. She has gone to Washington twice as Oregon's rep resentative at the annual Republi can Women's National Conference. Last year she was among 100 Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinHy: Mostly cloudy through Tuesday with occasional rain, sometime) mixed with snow, and gusty southerly winds. Low Mon day night 33-28, high Tuesday 35-39. High yesterday 29 Low last night, 19 Prcclp. last 24 hours .... .02 Since Oct. 1 15.64 Same period last year . H 4.09 Normal for period t 7.87 3. s 4 r A WRONG PULL ON A LEVER railed this dump Truck bed and jammed it under the Esplanade Street railroad underpass Saturday afternoon. It was reported that tht driver of the truck, proceeding down Esplanade towards Main Street, inad vertently pulled the lever which raised the dump body prior to driving under thi underpass. With the body raised, the forward part of the dump body struck the underpass and was torn off the truck jamming it under the underpass structure. Traffic was partially blocked for soma time and the dump body was in tensively damaged. Damage ts tht underpass was slight. No. 3405 OOP leaders selected to remain there for a post-conference on gov ernment affairs. Mr. and Mrs. Kittredge have three children Bill Kittredge with the U.S. Air Force, Travis Air Force Base. California; Pat Kit tredge. with the United States Armv in Japan, and Roberta Kit t red ere, who Is employed at Why tars in Klamath Falls. Case Bribe Probe Gets New Life WASHINGTON Ifl A special Senate committee Monday called new public hearings In its investi gation of a $2,500 campaign con tribution rejected by Sen. Case (R-SD). A second Senate commit tee decided to ask for about 3O0. 000 to finance a much broader inquiry. Sen. George (D-Ga) announced that the special committee would resume public hearings Monday afternoon and would look for any "general pattern" related to the proffer of an oil man's money to Case during the Senate gas bill fight. In a separate action, a three member Senate Elections subcom mittee announced it had approved a budget of approximately $300,000 for an Investigation it plans of any Improper attempts by "selfish interests" to influence federal elections and legislation. However, Chairman Gore (D Tenn) read a statement agreed to by the subcommittee members say. lng: "Should the Senate decide that some other committee should undertake this study, this subcom mittee will abide by such deci sion." . . ' . t ' There has been talk of broaden' lng the George committee's author ity, or of creating a new and larger committee, equally divided between Democrats and Republi cans, to undertake a broad invest!. gation. The resolution creating the George committee instructed it only to Investigate the Case inci dent. The George committee was not specific as to what witnesses would be heard at its suddenly called public hearings. George said Donald R. Ross, who resigned last week as U.S. district attorney for Nebraska, may be one of the witnesses. He gave no reason for the decision to call him. George said the committee also will call back to the witness stand Howard B. Keck, president of the Superior Oil Co. of calllornla, and Elmer Patman, a lawyer for the firm. In previous hearings, the com mittee developed that John M Neff, of Lexington, Neb., a lawyer lobbyist for Superior Oil, left 26 $100 bills with friends 01 case tor the senator's campaign fund. Testimony was that Neff got the money from Patman who testified it came from Keek's personal funds. -MM 1 3-1-1 I STARTING ON THE TRAIL, Lakeview Explorer Post 112 is shown ready for their overnight hike to Butcher Flat on February 1 1, Left to right are Forrest Jones, adviser, Roy Jones, Ted Pauck, Cook Laird, Alan Bach, Lloyd Gillmor, assistant adviser, Allen Henien and Robert Shot well, post committeeman. The five explorers and their advisers camped in an area where there was three feet of snow. They built a lean-to for shelter for the night, and dug snow from nearby spot for their campflre. . Sewer Report The report on proposed ad ditions and Improvements to the Klamath Falls sewerage system compiled by John 8. Cunning ham and Associates, Portland, has been received, announced Mayor Paul Landry, today. The Civic Affairs Committee of the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce and any Interested individuals are Invited to attend the reading of the report at the regular city council meeting to night at 7:30 In the council chambers of the city hall, Mayor Landry said. Mountains Get Big Snowfall SALEM Ml Oregon's Cascade and Siskiyou mountain passes were buried under the heaviest snowfall of the. season Monday. Snowplows battled hard to keep the .roads clear. - . Santlam Pass reported the most snow, 20 inches in the 24 hours ended at 8 a.m. Monday. All of the passes reported It was still snowing hard during the morning. The Highway Commission said chains are required at the follow ing places: Government Camp, 6 inches new snow: Tlmberllne 8, Wilson River Summit 5, Warm Springs Junction 3. Detroit 4. Siskiyou Summit 18, Green Springs Summit 16, Santiam Pass 20. Willamette Pass 4, Bly 8. Chemult 12, Lapine 2, and Seneca U. Frozen Bodies Found In Boat LONDON (UP) The frozen bodies of six -Norwegian sailors were found in a lifeboat In the North Sea today as the bitterest winter of modern records contin ued to lash Europe- The death toll since Feb. 1 shot up to 749. The lifeboat with Us grisly cargo was found a short distance from the spot where their ship went j down off the south coast of Norway ! last week. The sailors survived the sinking only to succumb to the i bitter cold. Shortages of coal, food and mcdi-1 cine plagued the continent. A hard shell of ice blocked inland water ways and coastal harbors and deep snow clogged highways. Italy, with 412 dead, reported several communities northeast of Rome cut off from the rest of the world. Supplies of medicines, flour and sugar were seriously low. In England, 3fl hours of blizzards turned roads Into ribbons of ice and snow. The Automobile Associa tion said driving conditions were the worst in memory. The Thames River was frown solid for the second time this winter. In Denmark, farmers moved bed ding into their stables so the hest from their animals would help keep them warm. Revelers Die In Jammed Ditch LA PAZ. Bolivia i Twentv- eigm persons suuocaiea in uhun j K .. , ... minoay iwm mi 01 masked revelers. The victim-, were Indians taking part in a traditional lirst-8undayol-Lent masqueiafie, Dancinp their way home on a , dark street near the La Par erne tery, the masked leaders of the ( procession failed to see the five j foot ditch in time to stop. Ihr j crunh behind pushed them In ar.d j the noise of the revelers drowned out the cries of the victims, in- eluding five children. Several thousand had partici pated in the celebration, held usual near the cemetery ' Blamini, a truck for obscuring their vision, the survivors burned It as ambu lances carried away the dead and Injured. Eisenhower To Vacation Until THOMASVILI.E, Ga. (Pi Pres ident Eisenhower decided Monday to prolong his vacation until Friday or Saturday. James C. Hngerty. White House press secretary, told newsmen, KF Cattlemen Plan Meeting The annual meeting of the Klam ath Cattlemen's Association will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Willard Hotel. Topping the agenda will be the election of officers and discussions of various issues vital to cattle men, Association Secretary Ray Petersen announced. Following the meeting, a joint cocktail hour and banquet will be held with the Cow tJelles, begin ning at 6 p.m. Speakers at the meeting will in clude Henry Oerber and Bill Goul dfn. who will report on the recent American National Cattlemen's As sociation convention; Garland Mca dor. president of the Oregon Cat tlemen's Association, who will dis cuss freight rate cuts on meat; Ed Coles, secretary of the state association, who will report on the outlook for cattle and cattlemen; Don Hotchklss, second vice presi dent of the state group, who will discuss beef promotion plans. Also, other state officers attend ing the meeting will discuss their various spcclatties, Petersen said. He added that the Cow Belles would hold their annual meeting at 2 p.m. the same day at the resi dence of Mrs. Irwin Campbell, two miles east of the Y on the Lake view Highway. Transportation from the Willard may be arranged bv telephoning Miriam Gerber, 3826. Rain Foils In Midwest Belt By TIIK ASSOCIATED I'ltCSS A rain belt extended today from the northern Gulf states through the Middle Atlantic States as far north as southern Pennsylvania. Rainfall was limited for the most part to Icps than a quarter inch although some sections of South Carolina reported as much as half an inch. Cold air moved through the Northern Plains wllh snow flurries occurring In Minnesota and the Da kolas. Sections of New York State and northern Michigan also experienced snow flurries. At Least Poets Steal In Boise BOISE. Idaho m -ohn Zeltnc of Nampa. Idaho, discovered the hubcaps were missing from his car and found this note, apparently left by the thief: "Roses are red, "Violets are blue. "Oldsmohiles are nice "And I like your hubcaps, loo." Detective Follows Murder Suspects Across Pacific LOS ANGELE3 'UPt A New , . . . . 1 7h .nri rip v. nnertnr lodv , , , ! vmcht to lenm the identity of tv.n : crew members aonarrt a steam - Mini wno miiea a ro vne. an wo - Jr. o..,i. c . i.i. .w f man on the South Sea island ol Detective Inspector James B. Pinlay of the New Zealand Po lice Department's Criminal Inves tigation Bureau disclosed yester day he had chased the two kur- pected murdrrers across the Pa- I nfic. He said nine members of the crew of the steamship Wait- pinnta were under suspicion In the I 2? laVJn ?' MrN- A!u ","1""' " " ouTp'--" are we Kilters, nr naia Finlay flew to Vancouver, B C nP boarded the ship last week. Prolong Weekend menmvhllc, "there Isn't a thing to It" in commenting on a report Elsenhower hud decided to an nounce late Friday, after the stock markets close, whether . he will seek a second term. The President has indicated he will disclose his political plans around March 1, possibly at a news conference. In response to questions, Hagerty said Monday he was assuming Ei senhower's next news conference will be Feb. 29 in Washington. The press secretary declined to say, however, whether the President's answer to the big question would come at that time. Eisenhower arrived In Georgia last Wednesday for a vacation at the plantation of Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey. Hagerty said the President has decided to pro long his stay a few days because he is getting a lot of good, from a health standpoint, from his vaca tion. . Eisenhower and Humphrey wont hunting (or auatl - again Monday, ftftfora stirrtlng otf the President signed eight secondary bills and asked Congress for a supplemental appropriation of $278,678,590 for the fiscal year ending June 30. The money ia to pay salary Increases tnc lawmakers voted for govern ment workers in the executive, leg islative and judicial branches. Hngerty said a supplemental fund was anticipated in the current bud get. He called the request "more or less a bookkeeping" step with "no new money involved." Elsenhower got back Into hunt ing tugs after a restful Sabbath. Elliott Files For Lake Post LAKEVIEW Thomas Elliot this week filed his declaration of candi dacy for the Republican nomina tion to succeed himself as Lake County sheriff. Elliott, upon his discharge from the service, became deputy sher iff In July 1046 and In 1048 he was elected sheriff and was reelected for a second term. He was elected president of the Oregon Btate Sheriff'a Association this year and last year served on the executive committee for that association. Flood Too Much For Escapees STANTON, Ky, 11 Three year-old escapees from the County detention home dldn1 Powell t reck-; .caped.l waded tern of on with a flood when Uiey escaped Jailer James Crowe through waist-deep backwaters the Red River to nab the wet and chilled youths who had splashed ahead of him. One boy said he would gladly return to "that warm jail cell," His request was granted. ESCAPE CASABLANCA, French Morocco tpi Sixty Moroccans serving terms for minor offenses escaped from Casablanca civil prison Mon day. Police quickly rounded up five of them but there was no trace of the others. Finlay waa expected to ask Imml- nriir.iai. tn nrir.ni inv I grallon olllcials lo prevent any members of the ship s 35-man , ,,.,. .he vessel wh.le , dnrked The steamship Is 1 . . . . , , ... , i scheduled to start Its return to the I c,,,i, D .... Flntay said the island woman was beaten to death when two crew members tried to force her daughter, Aussie, 14, to iccom pany them from her home to a villa on th Island. Mrs. Vaka- tjnl attempted to keep the men (rom taking her daushter. The body was dumped In ROon and was not recovered until the ship sailed Dec. 27. The i ntpamsnip wag 100 lar ai sea mr authorities to order It back to Harotonpa, so Finlay was assigned to the case. Europe, Alaska, Oregon, California Get Bad Weather By TIIK ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON Lfl Dwindling food stocks brought fresh misery and Uie spectre of famine to ice-enshrouded Europe Monday. Vege table prices rocketed as spring crops rotted under a three-week fall of snow. The known death toll rose to 676 In the worst winter in living memory. The Seine River was frozen from bank to bank 25 miles south of Paris. The Thames was iced solid outside Windsor Castle, where Queen Elizabeth II was week ending after her three-week tour of tropical Nigeria. . . In Rome, potato prices doubled to nine cents a pound. Olive Oil hit an all-time high of 90 cents a quart. Fog horns moaned out over the North Sea as fresh arctic blizzards reduced visibility to a few yards. Road patrols reported traffic con ditions in Britain the worst ever and warned motorists "keep off the roads unless you absolutely must travel." The death toll by country: France 159, Turkey 72, Italy 88, Yugoslavia 70, Britain 51, Den mark 35, Germany 32, Greece 30, Holland 38, Austria 21, Spain 19, Portugal 17, Switzerland 12, Bel- glum 13, Sweden 6, Poland 4, Norway B. Temperatures plummeted to 4 degrees in West Oermany and newspapers warned of Increasing food and coal shortages. More schools were closed down for lack of heating. - Nearly half the 270-mile sire ten of the Weser Rlvor Iced solid. The Still Snowing At Crater Crater Lake National Park had almost continuous anow over the weekend and it was still snowing hard when the ranger station re ported this morning. - Seventeen inches of new snow in the 24-houT period that, ended at a a m, today brought snow depth to' 150 Inches. This compares with 74 inches on this date last year, 136 Inches in 1954, 120 inches in 10.1.1 and 203 Inches in 1052. Maximum temperature Sunday was 20 degrees; minimum last night 15, and 25 degrees at 8 a.m. torlny. - Travel was negligible over the weekend, but despite snow, 11 cars bringing 13 skiers and 26 sight seers, visited the park Saturday. Drifting snow closed Highway 62 In the early morning hours today, but it was expected to be open this afternoon, the rnnger station said. The road from Headquar ters to the rim will remain closed today. Travel Into the park Is not ad vised today, according to the rang er station. Worker Buried In Sawdust Pile The Klnmalh Falls fire depart ment waa colled out early this morning to aid In digging out a man trapped in a sawdust bin at the Ellingson Lumber Company. The man firemen said this morning that their records did no'. show his full name was taken to Klamath Valley Hospital, where he was treated and released. The department was called when a bollerman who was attempting to aid the victim was unable to dig him out of the bin. i, . a i. ,, I (.. ' & - ... f ,T 1r&'lj0li,-t-'-S ! . . T ' ,, I f r ,4 4 V ' 'y ' 1 A SHORT BREAK before school opened was being taken this morning by Judy Van Cleve (left) of 2344 Oak and Barbara Stubblefield, 209 Martin, when the nine o'clock photographer happened by. Both girls are enrolled at KUHS. Rhine froze over for 18 miles be tween Oberwesel and Bingen. French Agricultural Minister An dre Dullln reported that 31'j mil lion olive trees had been killed by Ice In southern Prance. The en tire wheat crop of eastern Prance has been destroyed. Farmlands In Turkey and Yugo slavia were flooded. By I'NITED PRFSS Onle-driven snow drifts para lysed Anchorage, Alaska, today and heavy rains and howling winds pounded Northern California. Winds up to 75 miles an hour -swept the remains of recent record snowfalls at Anchorage, piling up street-wide drifts. The storm coincided with near sero temperatures and a two-hour power failure which put most of the city's furnaces out of opera tion yesterday. All schools were closed today and work crews were called oul in force with orders to keep only main thoroughfarea open. The storm, which started Saturday morning, was expected to continue through this afternoon. i Southward along the Pacific Coast, rain was predicted from Seattle to Central California. The downpours were reminiscent of the area s disastrous Christmas week storms and floods. Three inches of rain pounded a small community north of San Francisco in 11 hours and minor flash floods and mud slides were reported at Ban Rafael and Kent field. . , In the mountains, weathermen measured 17 Inches of new snow in Northern California and 20 Inches at Mt. Baker Lodge, Wash. Bad weather let up In the East, but the Weather Bureau warned that heavy rains might touch off floods along the Ohio River below Cincinnati. , There was already flooding on part of the lower Ohio and its tributaries in Kentucky and Tenn essee. The rising waters were fed by a weekend storm which also dumped eight inches of snow on Boston, and six Inches on Concord, N.H., before going out to sea. Elsewhere, rains and showers pelted the Northern Cult states and moved Into, .the Middle Atlan tic area as far north as Southern Pennsylvania. Monroe, La., got ft 1.13-Inch dousing last night and Lufkin, Tex., measured 1-09 inches. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A winter storm rolled down from the north, dumping rain and snow on Oregon Monday. Rainfall exceeded one Inch along the Oregon coast. One of the heavy snow falls of the season was reported In the Cascade and Siski you mountains. Snow also fell cast of the mountains into Idaho. The snow cut highway traffic between Redding and Yreka, Calif. Sunday, and in Eastern Oregon, drifting snow closed Highway 30 for a time. 8rowplows managed to keep most of the mountain passes open for traffic. Snow was continuing a Santiam Pass where 20 Inches had fallen by Monday morning. At Roseburg, heavy rains inun dated a number of areas with surface water. Rivers In the region were not yet rising, however. Baker waa one of the coldest spots In the state Monday with a temperature of 56 degrees. Lake- view reported 27 and Kiamam Falls 29. Most other points had above freezing temperatures. All points reported precipitation with Newport and Norlh Bend having IV, Inches of rnln. The rorecast was lor more ram in Western Oregon and occasional snow or rain in eastern sections. - . 7J ft.