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COilP ui j JV U OF 0?.30M LI83ASr EUaE.NE, ORE. KM Iff! AIM In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS ' All kinds of tales are in circu lation about the cost of living in Mexico meaning, that Is, the cost of food and lodging. You'll hear one day that prices are fabulously low In terms of American dollars. As like as not, you'll be told the next day that they're as high as in the United Slates. ' All these tales are true by which I mean that what you pay will be determined largely by where you go and what you want. There are places on Mexico's west coast that are modeled quite close ly after luxury resorts in the states. At these places the prices will be roughly equal to prices at similar places on our side of the line. ' But if you go to the Mexican places including the best hotels In the larger towns you will pay much less than in the U.S.A. Let's deal first with the luxury resorts. Of these, the best known and the most heavily patronized by Amer icans is at Guaymas, some 250 miles down from the border. Guay mas has' a glamorous historical background. The Spanish conquis tadores found it early some 300 years ago for there were impor tant pearl fisheries In the Gulf of California, and these early Span iards had a sensitive nose for gold and sliver and Jewels. : Then came the missionary or ders Jesuits, Dominicans and Franciscans founding missions for the education and the civilization ; of the native Indians and the sav ing of their souls. There were pi rates in Guaymas' past English and French whose Idea was to take away the gold and the silver and the pearls from the Spanish ' after the Spanish had taken them away from the Indians. : Gold and silver and jewels and pirates are prolific producers of glamor, and- Guaymas has all of them in its past. Guaymas as a Mexican resort for Americans had its origins in a gleam In the eye of the Santa Fe railroad, away back in 1884. The Santa Fe by then had reached the Pacific Coast with its rails, and some of its brass had got as far down the Gulf of California as Bocchlbampo bay, where Guaymas sits. They were charmed with it and acquired the site where the present more or less fabulous re sort hotel known as La Flaya de la Cortes now stands. - But, for one reason orv another. the Santa Fe never went ahead with the resort project and shortly after the turn of the century the . Southern Pacific acquired it. The S.P. is said to have had in mind a gambling resort something like what later became Agua Callente, just outside Tia Juana in Baja California. People then did all their long distance traveling by rail and the S.P. is said to have had the idea that It could eam quite a few shekels by hauling At lantic coast moguls out to Quay- mas, where in beautiful semi-trop ical surroundings and in the midst of fantastic fishing they could angle by day and try their hands at outwitting Lady Luck by night. But the S.P. ran into the long Series of Mexican revolution? and among other things the revolution ists cracked down on gambling in the state of Sonora. Along about that same time Henry Ford in vented the cheap automobile, which more or less put the skids under passenger traffic as a big revenue producer for the railroads. So the Southern Pacific project went the way of the Santa Fe project. . t Eventually wealthy people ae quired the site and built the pres- ent Plays de la Cortes. Not only did they have money. They had the good taste to employ archi tects of outstanding ability, who "--lfiade a truly lovely place of It. It Is charming, and you can get your money's worth Just by strolling along its colonnaded halls and loaf ing in its sunlit patios and swim ming in its pool or sitting along its edge and watching somebody else do the swimming. It is run on the American plan, which means that meals are In cluded in the price. The cost for two people Is around $25 per day, depending on the kind of room furnished. The cost for one person is somewhat more than half the amount charged for two because of the difference In room occu pancy. At these prices it Is so popular that you have to have res ervations well in advance in order to get in. Guaymas has another distinction. No two people pronounce it the same way. There are three gener al schools of thought on the sub ject. One is Just plain Gway-mas, like it is spelled. Another Is Gwy mas. Still another is WHY-mas, with variations such as WY-mas. A fourth way Is the right way or at least the Spanish way but that can't be diagrammed here for the way the Spanish pronounce the letter G Just can't be done In print. You kind of clear your throat when you make the Spanish sound of O. -BULLETIN- SALEM lTi Rep. Walter Nor blad threw a stunning upset Into Oregon political plrtnre Tuesday when he withdrew from the gov ernor's race and filed for reelec tloa to Conrretu. Norblad walaea into the Capitol Tuesday morning and withdrew his filing 'or governorship. Then he filed for reelection aa congress man from the Third District. Htm $i awb Hit tp Price Fire Cent 14 Paget Arab Chiefs Of State Hold 'Summit' Meeting In Cairo LONDON 1.4 Premier David Ben-Gurion of Israel declared Tuesday the chances of preventing a war in tne Middle East have shrunk. The Israel Premier addressed his Parliament in Jerusalem in the wake of the firing of British Lt. Gen. John Glubb as commander of Jordan's Arab Legion. As he spoke Arab chiefs of slate were holding a summit conlerence in Cairo. "If war should come.'' Ben Gurion told the Israeli Parliament in one of its stormiest sessions, "moral responsibility will rest with the Soviet and U. S. governments" the Soviet because it supplied arms to Egypt and the United Freeze Grips West State; Roads Slick By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A freeze clamped down on West ern Oregon Monday night after a heavy fall of wet snow. Tuesday morning streets and highways were slick with ice. Relief was forecast, however. Grants Pass was chilled with an 16-d egree temperature which turned a nine-inch fall of snow into a hard-crusted blanket. The city had about 80 per cent of nor mal bus service Tuesday however, and most schools were open after a one-day closure. SCHOOLS CLOSE Schools -nw Grants Pass, nv Illinois Valley, wolf creek and Sun' ny Valley, were closed, though. and so were the Roseburg city schools, the schools at Mapleton, Yoncalla and Drain, and scattered rural schools in the whole south ern and central Western Oregon area. Indeed, in all of central Douglas County, only the Canyon ville. Riddle and Myrtle Creek schools were open. Ice with Its treacherous footing for school buses and children was the reason for the closures. There was gome trouble in healing some of the older buildings, tco. with such readings as 19 at Roseburg and 20 at Eugene, on top of such snowfall measurements as 15'3 inches at Glendale. HIGHWAY BLOCKED Highway 99 was blocked for a time by an earthslide at Wolf Creek, 25 miles north of Grants Pass, but it was reopened at about 6:30 Tuesday morning. The Weather Bu.eau said that during Tuesday night temperatures will climb above freezing and rain will fall. This is expected to bring at least a temporary end to the cold snap and Portland merchants, relying on that, have re-scheduled their spring opening for Friday night. They originally planned lt for Mon day evening an evening ol snow flurries and icy highways. k; I - ,:'K i , vi DORIS HODGES. 704 Cali fornia Avenue, had a difficult im getting to Fremont School this morning. The 9 o'clock photographer kept getting In the way. Doris is in the eighth grade. V ' 1 Header Tells States because it has denied arms to Israel. "Israel will not start a war," Ben-Gurion declared. "But if it should break out we will meet it with confidence and strength." SUMMIT MEETING Saudi Arabia's King Saud flew to Cairo fur the summit conference with Egyptian Premier Gamai Ab- del Nasser and President Shukri al Kuwatly of Syria. Their talks are expected to deal both with the Arab-Israeli feud and the possibil ity of bringing Jordan into their mutual military aid pact. In Karachi, where he Is meeting with foreign ministers of the South east Asia Treaty Organisation (SEATOI, British Foreign Minister Selwyn Lloyd said the sale of arms to Egypt by Czechoslovakia was "the act most likely to endanger the peace of the world since Ko rea. Jordan's 20,000-man Arab Legion, trained and financed by the Brit ish, is rated the best fighting force in the Arab world. Now that King, Hussein has ousted British Lt. ' Gen. John Bagot Glubb as the Legion's commander, the three big Arab powers would like to have it under a unified command on their side. They have already of fered to replace the subsidy of some 22 million dollars a year which Britain has paid tor the Legion's support. BRITAIN REACTS Britain reacted sharply to the Glubb case and a smarting setback in Cyprus, the Mediterranean is lnnd colonv that is headquarters for her Middle East ground and air force:!. Prime Minister Eden's govern ment recalled the 15 top British officers who had served in the Arab Legion under Glubb. And it an nounced it would use military forces as necessary to end the kill ings and bombings on Cyprus, where a compromise offer of re stricted self-government to leaders of a union-wlth-Greece movement broke down. The British Monday began Jam ming broadcasts by tne Atnens Radio to Cyprus, shutting olf a flow of words which they said helped to Inflame the Cyprlots against their rule. In 'reprisal the Athens Radio announced Tuesday it is suspending the relny of Brit ish Broadcasting Corp. broadcasts in Greece. The old Arab-Israeli struggle went on in words and deeds. In Jerusalem the Israeli Foreign Olfice accused Egypt of "massing fighting forces Inside the Gaztt strip and the Sinai Peninsula" and condemned what it called the in creasing belligerency of the tone of public anti-Israeli pronouncements by Nasser and other Egyptian lead ers. No Traces Found Of Boy No trace had been found Tues day of Alvin Decker. 10, missing Trom his home here since last Thursday. Sheriff Murray Britton said that a search of all freight cars which left the Great Northern yards here the day the boy disappeared failed to reveal any trace of him. Acting at the request of Britton. Great Northern Railway officials nad all open cars on a tram that left here an hour after the boy disappeared searched at Westwood and Oakland, California. The boy was traced to the rail road yards by two bloodhounds brought here from Los Gatos, Cali fornia. The dog's trainer, Russell Cone, said after the dogs followed a trail to the railroad yards that he believed the boy left town on a freight train. Tuesday morning Sheriff Britton alerted authorities in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, to be on the lookout for young Decker. He has a grand mother living In that community. Friends of the Decker family have started a fund to defray the expense of the bloodhound search. House Committee Okays KF Funds WASHINGTON iff Six Pacific ' North est Air Force items are In- in a 2 billion dollar mill Ul V COhnll uCiiurt nUll'iui it liCl'i but approved Monday by the House Armed Services Committee. The items are among 32 tn the bill and are subject to a final vote on the entire measure. They Include: Geleer Field. Spokane. Wash.. 12.82", 000; Glasgow. Mont , Air ! Force Base. S2.470.000; Klamath Falls. Ore., Municipal Airport, SI - 130.000; McChord AFB. Tacoma, Washt. $1 514.000; Paine AFB. Everett. Wash , 4. 127,000; Greater Portland. Ore., area, 113. 508. 000. J KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, MARCH - -'''i" - r ' t3td 1 rraiWiiiillPMft . rmr mrn la, nn KLAMATH FALLS AIR FORCE COMMANDER, Col. Samuel C. Grashio, arrived in Klamath Falls Monday. He will be the commander of the U. S. Air Force detachment at the Klamath Falls Municipal Airport effectiva April 4. He was named to the post by Brigadier General Monro MacCloslcey, commander 28th Air Division, Hamilton Air Force Base, California. The 28th Air Division is the parent organization of the Klamath Falls base. Col. Grashio Homed Colonel Samuel C. Grashio. for merly deputy base commander at Puiue Field, Everett, Washington, has been named base commander of the U.S. Air Force detachment at Klamath Falls Municipal Air port effective April 4. The air colonel was named to the Klamath Falls command by Brigadier General Monro Mnc Closkey, commander 28th Air Di vision, Hamilton Air Force Base, California. The 28th Air Division is the parent organization of tne Klamath Falls base. Col. Grashio entered the Air Force as an aviation cadet in Sep tember, 1940 from Spokane. Wash ington where he was attending V fr-- RICHARD BEESLEY Beesiey Files For DA Post District Attorney Richard Bees ley announced Tuesday tnat he ha: filed his declaration of candidacy i for Klamath County prosecutor on1 the Republican ticket. The filing was made in the olfice of Secre tary of State Earl Newbry. Beesiey was named district at- tornev bv the late Governor Paul Patterson following the resignation of Frank Alderson last July. At that time he was a deputy under Alderson. Before romine. to Klamath Falls Beesiey served as an assistant tc Attorney General Robert Thornton. uiul atiurnev is a gran j uate of Michigan State University I and the Detroit College of Law. He It World War II veteran, la mnrrloH anrl ht An nr. In commenting on his candidacy, BppIpv said- "If I am nominated and elected I will, during mv term of ollice. i-'v '-; - J i i V : continue to discharge the duties of district attorney in a manner com - patible with the best Interests of tne people of Klamath County and In accordance with the laws ol the ' state of Oregon " , ' , 195 air Gonzaga University. He was sent to the Philippines as a fighter olrcrnlt pilot in November, 1941. JAPANKSK PRISONER 'Atler the Jnpnnese attack on the Philippines Immediately following Pearl Harbor, Col. Grashio (ourM as a lighter pilot until his capture by the Japanese on Bataan April 8, 1942. He attended flying school and served In the Philippines with Lt. Gordon Benson, a lormer Klam ath Polls resident who died In a Japanese prison camp later in the war. Following his capture Col, Gra shio spent 3BI davs In a Japanese prison camp In the Philippines. On April 4, 1943, he and 10 other Americans escaped lrom the Japa nese and spent seven months with the Filipino Ruerrlllas before he was picked up by a U.S. Navy submarine and taken to Australia. A short tour In New Guinea ended his overseas tour during World War II. He then returned to the U.S. and was stationed with the casualty branch of the War De partment until the end of World War II. During this time Col. Grashio made War Bond lours and contacted relatives ol men still In Japanese prison camps. EXKCl'TIVK OFFKJKR After World War II, Col. GrashiD was named executive oflicor of Gelger Air Force Base, Spokane and in 1947 he received his bach elor of arts degree In psychology from the University ol Washing ton. His next assignment iound the air officer named as deputy group commander of the nir base group at March Air Force Base, Cali fornia. In 1948 he was sr-nt as a I United Nations observer tc Pales tine. He returned to the states af ter this assignment end was ap pointed Air National Guard instruc tor at Spokane. Cnl. Grashio held this post until 1951 when he was sent to Air Dniensr Command Headquarters, Colorado Bpiings, Colorado tt? chlc.f of the tactical inspection division of the inspector general's office for that air com mand. AMI ADVISI.lt In July. 1952 Col ornshlo was assigned tc '.be Italian Air Force as a tactical air adviser, remaining in this post for two years. He then spent some time as chief ol the air delt-nse section at headquar ters. II. a. Air Force. Europe. On his return to the U.S. he was , assigned to Paine Field and then ! assigned to Klamath Falls, He will be the fighter-interceptor group commander and tne base comman- der of the Klamath. Falls base I when the group and he base are ! lllc'ally activated at the conclu- ; sion oi ine construction perioo. ( C?l. Gra.'.hio. a -cr.ior pilot, j ears the Distinguished Service Cross, silver Star with one oak leaf cluster, the Bronze Star and the Presidential Unit Citation with I thr"" lr"' clusters He Is a - rer1)lar Air Forte officer. new b' commander Is cur- rently In Klamath Falls seeking a t aunaoie nome lor his wile and ' family. Cnl. Ora.shlo and Mrs. ! Grashio iDevonla) have five j children. Patricia, 19; Judith Ann, 14; Samuel Edwin, 11: Mary Beth, I 10. and Celene, 4 years old. No. 3411 reaiTs Crazed Man Holds Three In Chase PHILADELPHIA P gunman held a priest and two policemen hostage Tuesday in a stolen patrol car during a two state chase that ended with his capture by one of his police priso ners. The gunman, Joseph Madura, 32, told a reporter he wanted 10 die but couldn't commit suicide be cause of the teachings of the Ro man Catholic Church. Reporter George Thompson of The Philadelphia Daily News, who alerted authorities to Madara's plan, said Madara apparently hoped to become involved in a shooting fray near City Hall In the hope he might die from a police bullet. NAVY VETERAN Police said Madara was a U.S. Navy veteran and had been under treatment for a mental condition. Part of the pursuit through Philadelphia was at a weird, leis urely pace with the stolen car and a dozen other vehicles stopping for red traffic lights. At another point on the way from Philadelphia to Bristol, Pa., the pace stepped up to better than 70 miles an hour. - The Dally News said Madara Indicated to Thompson on the tele phone that unless a doctor and priest were summoned according to his wishes, someone might be hurt. Madara said he planned to go to a plaza adjoining City Hall in the hope of doing away with himself. Thompson tipped the police, but Mudiu'a suipiUed a detective and nolicemnn sitting In a patrol car I near the plaza, disarmed them and took tne wneei oi tne car, Father John Lynch, whose church is in central Philadelphia, had been summoned to the plaza and Madara forced him Into the car, too. Other police discovered what had happened but, fearing for the safe ty of the three hostages, were un able to do more than chase the stolen car. CAR STOPPED When the stolen car stopped at one point, Father Lynch was let out. He got in another patrol car and started broadcasting appeals to Madara. Then Thompson was put on the police radio, and finally Madara'a estranged wife was summoned and she broadcast an appeal. ATter crossing a bridge into New Jersey, police said he fired twice at New Jersey troopers but missed each time. Police held their fire. Then, with pleas from Father Lynch and his wife still being broadcast, he came back over Ihe bridge, drove Into Philadelphia and to his wile's home. As he started to leave the car, the policeman, Edward Wlther snoon, grabbed and disarmed him, taking Madara's pistol and the two he had seized. Telephone dill r nu? 1 if I Is ,! ' jP j THE OREGON WHEAT COMMISSION met in Klamath Falls for the first time In its nine year history Monday. Commissioners said that although Klamath Falls was not e wheat producing center, they were meeting here because actions of the commission could aid growers of other crops in solving their problems. Shown, in front row from loft, are Chairman Marion T. Weatherford of Arlington, Ralph MeEwen Jr., of Athena and Donald McKinnis of Summerville, In the back row are William J. Enschede of Hilliboro, state director of agriculture James F. Short and Vice Chairman Paulen Kaseberg of Wasco. For story, see page four. Ike Proposes Curbs In Letter To Russia WASHINGTON (UP) President Elsenhower today proposed to Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganln a ban on future production of nuclear weapons. The President said In a new letter to Bulganln that the United States is prepared, under certain conditions, to work out safeguards "so that future production of fis sionable materials anywhere In the world would no longer be used to Increase the stockpiles of explosive weapons." Mr. Eisenhower said that this step, combined with his atoms for peace program, "would reverse the present trend toward a con stant Increase In nuclear weapons overhanging the world." PEACEFUL USES ONLY "My ultimate lope is that all production of fissionable materials anywhere in the world will be de voted exclusively to peaceful pur poses," Mr. Bisennower said. This was the main feature of Mr. Elsenhower's letter inviting Bulganln to consider new East A erased Wesl disarmament ateps stressing cuiuoi oi me ' nuclear tnreat to the world. Mr. Eisenhower also: 1. Again rejected Bulganin's pre vious offer of a 20-year American Soviet friendship pact. Mr. Eisen hower did not refer to the pro posal directly. But he said his previous view remains "general ly" as expressed In January. He said, however, that he will con tinue to study the problem to see If any "useful new steps" can be taken. INSPECTION TEAMS 2. Insisted that adoption of his "open skies" aerial Inspection pro posal, combined with ground In spection teams, would "lead to a reduction of armaments, the les sening of tensions, and the bright ening of the prospects of a durable peace." Bulganln on Sept. 19 had proposed use of ground inspection teams at key points. The President said Oct. 11 that he would be prepared to accept this. 3. Proposed that arms limita tions be sought primarily, though not exclusively, in terms of con trols on "armaments rather than on men.1 The President said Initial action towards agreements could be tak en at the forthcoming five-power disarmament meeting in London. But he said these steps toward disarmament would take a long time to work out with other na tions as well. MILITARY STRENGTH In the meantime, the President said, the United States and Russia would have very extensive mili tary strength, Including stocks of nuclear weapons. "I wish to make It clear that, so far as the United States Is con cerned, we would continue to hold such strength, not for aggression, nor for narrow national purposes, but as a contribution toward world stability in this transitional period," the President said. Mr. Eisenhower's letter was friendly In tone, although he paid practically no heed to Bulganin's earlier proposal of a friendship pact. Weather FORHCAST Klamath Falla anil vlrlnlfy: Fair through Tuesday nl,rhl. Increasing hlrh cloudiness Wednesday. Highs 32-38. Lows Tuesday night 15-20. High yesterday 27 Low last night 2 Prerlp. last 24 Hour, 0.11 Preclp. since Oct. 1 11.84 Same period last year 4.35 Normal for period 8.32 Red Cross Bloodmobile March 6 OTI, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. March 7 - Elks Lodge, 4-8 p.m. The President sought to skip over Bulganin's treaty proposal and get the correspondence back, on the disarmament track. He said his special disarmament adviser, Harold E. Stassen, will be prepared to develop a program to carry out disarmament steps. The White House announced at the same time that Stassen will leave for London Saturday for a week of preliminary talks before the U. N. Disarmament Subcom mlttee meets later on this month. "In my judgment our efforta must be directed especially U bringing under control the nuclear threat," the President said. Dulles Urges Protection ForSEATO KARACHI, Pakistan Ml U. 8. Secretary of State Dulles called Tuesday for the creation 'pf mill, tary "forces In being" to protect the more exposed SEATO nations from the threat of Communist ag gression. Dulles warned the first closed session of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organlnatlon's meeting of mreign ministers that the old So viet policy of violence has only been "held In reserve," not aban doned. The American secretary said as a result of the Soviet switch in tac tics, "there is less danger of war tlian when violence and threats were being utilized." But he de. clared that the v--t has found no evidence Moscow Is actually aban doning force in favor of other methods. NEED FOR FORCES "There Is a need," he declared, 'for forces in being in countries which are subject to probability of attack so they can be assured an aggressor would not march in and pick them up for nothing." other delegates to the three-day meeting of the eight-nation alliance Interpreted Dulles' statement as a suggestion for the creation of local SEATO forces such as the North Atlantic Alliance maintains in Eu rope. He added that the "forces li being" should be backed by strategic striking power "suitably located." The conference onened earlier Tuesday in the old SInd Assembly palace with a public session in which the eight foreign ministers put much emphasis on a need for combating Communist subversion and for improving economic con ditions in the Asian member na tions. SEATO members in addi tlon to the United States are Pakis tan. Thailand, the Philippines, Aus tralia, New Zealand, Britain apjt France. Dulles In his opening statement called on the eight nations to for mulate a unified fight against Red subversion In Asia and to develop "wholesome societies Immune from Communist Infection." SOVIET SHIFT The Soviet shift from emphasis on threats and violence, he saiif, "was forced by ohesion of the nations of the free world in de velopment of collective security." But the Western world, he con tinued, has found no evidence that Moscow actually la abandoning lorce in favor or other methods. There has been no real reduction . In the rale of Soviet military prep arations, he declared. But Russia had added the new tactic of economic penetration and "a campaign of attempting to turn free nations against one another by stirring up historic grievances," Dulles continued. "It Is hard to believe that they will ever succeed," he added. 131 I
