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u or .v::.:ori us-uar eujs.i, gas. hi frAv J PrieeFtve Cents It Pages la The- Pays lews By FRANK JENKINS Incidental information: Another Portland zoo penquin died yesterday, making 19 that have succumbed so far. Seventeen of the big South Pole birds are still alive, but at least one of them isn't expected to live. Hmmmmmm. ' Think how much better off these birds would have been if they had been allowed to STAY AT HOME DOWN IN ANTARCTICA and mind their own business. Maybe there's a lesson in this penguin incident for us Americans. President Eisenhower's pattern for a stepped-up education program goes to congress at noon today. It is tailored to meet the nation's current needs especially the need for more scientists. The plan calls for a billion dol lars in federal aid over a Deriod of four years. Included in it are 40.000 four-year college scholar ships for high school graduates particularly those with an aptitude lor science. Another 5500 scholar ships would cover graduate stu dents. Elementary and high schools would receive some of the money to improve science and mathemat ics teaching. The plan calls for no money to BUILD MOKE SCHOOLS. On the other side of the fence, Senator John Kennedy of Massa- chusetts (who is expected to be a candidate for the Democratic nom ination for President in 1960) lash es out at Ike for dropping a school tsuiLLUNU plan from his educa' tional program. Kennedy says he will introduce legislation during the current week calling for IVi billion dollars worth of school construction over a five year period. A similar measure was killed on the floor of the house of representatives last year by fi, ,,,! f Senator Kennedy Is a smart and able young man, and it isn't im possible that he may be our next president. But The prevailing opinion among our ablest and most thoughtful educators appears to be that we have school rooms enough to do ine mo. Our GREAT need, these educa tors seem to think, are STUDENTS .WHO ARE WILLING TO TACKLE TOUGH SUBJECTS LIKE MATH EMATICS, SCIENCE AND FOR EIGN LANGUAGES. GOP Seeking "Facf'Group SACRAMENTO (UP)-Republi- cans of the 3rd Congressional Dis trict will pick a "fact-finding com mittee" Friday which will in turn select a candidate to carry the uop banner against Hep. John E. Moss (D-Sacramento). Republicans met here Sunday and elected officers for a perma nent district committee, then they planned the Friday meeting which 1 will be held in Woodland. Sacramento County Central Committee Chairman George W. G. Smith was elected chairman of the district group. J. Clifford John son. Marysville, was selected first vice chairman. Johnson holds a vice chairman post with the Yuba County Central Committee. Moss was first elected to the House in 1952. If he files for re election, which is considered a near certainty, he will be seeking his fourth term. GERMANS LIKE JUICE LAKELAND, Fla. (UP)-Ger- many's traditional beer - drinkers are interested' in another and non alcoholic beverage, orange juice according to citrus market offi cials here. They report that inquir ies about frozen orange concen trate have been pouring in from West Germany since citrus import restrictions were lifted. Baghdad Pact Meeting Opens To Bomb Blast Tune ANKARA, Turkey UP) States men of the five Baghdad Pact partners met today with U.S. Sec retary of State Dulles under the creeping shadow of Russia's po litical and economic offensive in the Middle East. Less than 12 hours before the leaders from Britain, Turkey. Pakistan, Iraq, Iran and the United States assembled, one bomb blew out the rear wall of a U.S. Embassy warehouse. Another badly damaged a private bookshop called the American Publication Store near the U.S. Information Service. Nobody was hurt. The bombings apparently were timed as a demonstration against the opening of the conference. The Baghdad Pact is a major target of the Communists and Middle East neutralists. Turkish security authorities and troops combed the city through the night in an effort to round up any demonstrators. The bombings generally were blamed on Turkey's illegal Com munist movement. Leader of the pact nation Youth Rescued From Cliff In Daring Climb In Dark By Rescue Unit Members NORTH BEND. Wash. WV-Eieht and a half hours after he was trapped on the sheer face of a rugged mountain peak, a Seattle youth was plucked Sunday night trom nis precarious perch by death defying mountain climbers. Clark Phillips. 18. was numb with cold, rain soaked and ex hausted when taken from the 2,500 foot level of Mt. Si, 25 miles east of Seattle. A two-inch sapling to which he clung throughout his long ordeal while resting his feet on small notches in the rock, kept Phillips from plunging 1,000 feet to his death. He had slid into the position at 1 p.m. when rotten rock gave way as he jumped for a narrow ledge on the side of the 4,190 foot moun tain. "He couldn't go up. ahead or back," said Ome Daiber, moun taineer who plucked Phillips from the mountain perch at 9:30 p.m. "He couldn't have lasted through the night." Phillips was with two other youths when he became trapped. The dangerous situation made it impossible for them to help him and they made their way down the mountain and called for help. Daiber and Clifford Plouff, both members of the Mountain Rescue Council, and 17 other mountain- eers formed a rescue team. Ef forts to set Daiber and Plouff down alongside Phillips with a he licopter failed and they Were forced to start . from a lower point. It took two hours to reach Phil lips, with Plouff injuring a knee Nixon-Red Meet Studied WASHINGTON Wt-Vice Presi dent Nixon and Soviet leaders ap parently would like to meet. They might do so on Nixon's scheduled European tour next surrlmer and fall. The vice president reportedly received no formal invitation to visit Russia during a surprise 42 minute meeting Friday with de parting Soviet Ambassador Georgi Zarubin. But one result of that unusual conference is increased specula tion that the U.S.S.R. wants to know a lot more about Nixon's thinking than they could learn through the Zarubin talks. Top Soviet leaders might like to get a good look at a man who may be president and who won his political spurs by pounding away at opponents on the issue that they were soft on commu nism. Nixon, in turn, apparently would like to get his own personal im pression of Nikita S. Khrushchev and the other Soviet leaders with whom: he would have to deal if he became president. Nixon intends to take off for Eu rope in late August or September. In the minds of some of his friends, the trip might have two advantages in his expected bid for the 1960 Republican presidential nomination: 1. It would round out his per sonal acquaintance with ' world statesmen. 2. It also would telescope his congressional campaign role. It would permit him to make some High-level speeches as the cam paign closed, without being re quired to hammer away daily at the Democrats. Nixon recently has shown a dis position to temper the sort of cam paign attacks he made in the 1954 congressional battle. Some politicians reason that Nixon is looking beyond the Re publican nomination to the 1960 presidential campaign where he probably would need Democratic oles to get elected,. along the Soviet Union's southern frontier held little hope that they would hear from Dulles any flashy new offers of American aid. The American secretary of State, sitting in for the first time as an observer at the pact Coun cil of Ministers, was reported ready to hear criticism of the scope and scale of U.S. and other Western aid programs. Such crit icisms already have been voiced in the preliminary meetings of the pact's economic committee by the Moslem member nations Tur key, Iraq. Iran and Pakistan. They consider British-American contributions inadequate to meet mounting Soviet challenges in the region. A spokesman for Dulles has said the United States will not heed the urging of the Middle East members and accept full membership In the pact. So far it has only joined the alliance s mil itary, economic and antisub version committees. Dulles feels that full American membership in the pact would lower American stock still further with Egypt, Sy i ;:!' "i:it KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 27. 1M en route. Rolling rocks presented a constant danger in the inky blackness, with rain pelting down almost constantly. Daiber said Phillips' feet and legs "were so numb they had lost all feeling and his hands were al most completely immobilized. It took the youth more than a half hour to regain use of his feet and he warmed his hands by keeping them inside Daiber s shirt. He was inched back down the mountainside to a point 700 feet below where a fire was bum and shock treatment -given. He was soon sent home in good condition. Venezuelan Situation Still Tense CARACAS, Venezuela W New tension gripped strife-torn Vene zuela today amid reports that supporters of ousted dictator Mar cos Perez Jimenez might be readying a counter blow. Apprehension increased as the ruling junta went into emergency session last night and armored cars appeared on the capital streets. The junta proclaimed its armed forces were in full control. But peace and order remained in peril until all diehard supporters of Perez Jimenez were rounded up throughout the country. . Authorities breathed more easi ly, however, over word from an other ousted strongman exiled Juan D. Peron of Argentina that he would leave Venezuela as soon as' possible." Peron, who took refuge in the Dominican Embassy after last week's uprising, said he expected to leave tomorrow, probably for the Dominican Kepublic. There, dictator Rafael Trujillo has al ready provided a haven for Perez Jimenez. - . . . - Former political leaders driven from Venezuela during the Perez Jimenez regime began flocking back. In the vanguard was Jovito Villalba, chief of the Union Re publicana Democratia party, who claimed victory in the 1952 presi dential election. Perez Jimenez chased him out of the country and declared himself elected. Villalba came from New York. Stepping from his plane, he said in a nationwide broadcast he was proclaiming a truce among the nation's political parties. Venezuela must now build a strong, expanding, economy, he declared, "so we don't have to depend only on petroleum or alms the United States might give us." Villalba accused the United States of supporting dictators like Perez Jimenez, but he praised the American ' people "who have placed themselves at the fore front of the world because they worked harder than anyone else." Another arrival was Gustavo Machado, Communist party chief exiled to Mexico in 1950. As the exiles returned, lesser officials in the Perez Jimenez re gime continued their hasty exits. Prosecuting teams in Caracas set up trials for more than 200 former police accused of tortures and brutalities. BULLETIN NEW YORK Wl Heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson agreed Monday to defend his title in Eng land in late June. The opponent will be Joe Erskine, the British Empire champ. If he defeats In germar Johansson of Sweden in a Feb. 21 match. ria and other Middle East oppo nents of the alliance. Dulles' plane was diverted to Istanbul by a blizzard. He came on to Ankara after a five-hour delay. On arrival he read a state ment praising Turkish concepts of collective defense and the goals of the alliance and said the Unit ed States "looks forward to a fruitful continuation of its associa tion with the Baghdad Pact." Turkish Premier Adnan Men- deres was on hand to welcome the visiting leaders at their opening session in the new Parliament building in downtown Ankara. Newsmen and photographers were admitted to the conference opener. Also attending the conference are British Foreign Secretary Sel wyn Lloyd, Iraqi strongman and former Premier Nuri Said, Irani an Premier Manouchehr Eghbal and Pakastini Premier Firoz Khan Noon. Bread and butter Issues of American and British aid to the four Moslem members of the alli ance, as well as plans for strength ening the collective defense ot the - jii it WILBER WOMER rides "Old Paint" this year as roundup boss of the' 1958 YMCA Membership Drive, which starts with a 6 a.m. kickoff breakfast tomorrow, Tuesday, in the YMCA Headquarters. Womer said that 12 crews, called ranches and 100 ranch hands, will enroll members In the Klamath County YMCA. In addition, the ranch hands will seek support for the YMCA. The YMCA it a United Fund organization. ' Ten Bids Received For Enterprise Conversion Ten bids were submitted to the Klamath project manager. Bureau of Reclamation, last Thursday in response to the invitation for bids on the removal of the Enterprise power plant equipment and build ing and the conversion of the sub structure into a canal drop. The bids are being reviewed by the regional office at Sacramento and- notice of the award will be forwarded from that office to the Klamath Falls project manager, D. A. Gray. Bidders and the amounts were: Donald F. Hastings, 4410 Carlton Way, Klamath Falls, $9,322.49; H. A. Sample, 2976 Hope Street, Traffic Death Toll Mounts By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS One weekend traffic death and another early Monday brought Oregon's traffic toll for the month to 27. That is one death a day since the New Year began. The latest victims' are Russell Wayne Baker, 41, of Empire, and Edwin B. Tobies, 58, of Spokane. Baker was killed Saturday when the car his wife was driving col lided with another on the Coast Highway eight miles, north of Coos Bay. His wife, Dora Lee Baker, 30, suffered cuts, bruises and a broken arm. The other driver escaped serious injury. Tobias died at an Albany hos pital early Monday from injuries suffered in a Jan. 20 headon col lision that also claimed the life of his wife, Mabel Irene Tobias, 55. She was killed outright when the car she was driving and one driven by Mrs. Hazel Marie Mor rison of Portland and Eugene collided. Another traffic death was con firmed by Portland police Mon day. They reported that John Churchill, 83, Portland, died in a Portland hospital last Thursday from injuries suffered in a Port land traffic accident Jan. 5. nations, are expected to dominate the four-day talks. The common interest binding the six conferring nations togeth er clearly was their resolve to re sist the threats and thrusts of So viet communism. This resolve was expected to overshadow inter nal strains and stresses to be tackled, although not necessarily settled, during the closed sessions These problems include: 1. Iranian discontent with the amount of military and economic support provided by the United States a subject Dulles discussed over the weekend in talks in Teh ran with Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi and other government leaders. 2. Iraqi demands for Baghdad Pact support for the Arab de mand that Israel be pushed back to the frontiers recommended by the U. N. in 1947. Dulles and British Foreign Sec retary Selwyn Lloyd reportedly intended to say they are not plan ning any new initiatives on the Palestine question but prefer in stead to support any moves under taken by the United Nations. Telephone TU 4-S1U No. 4006 Klamath Falls, $11,216.25; George K. btacy Company, P. O. Box 853, Klamath Falls, $12,809.50: Charles I. Cunningham, Box 425, Oakdale, California, $12,861.50: Pin niger and Watkins, 1430 Klamath Avenue, $12,905; Wesvern I. Neff, Box 188, Lewiston. California. $13.- 145; Bessonette Construction Com pany, .Box 709, Medford $13,300; Patterson Cotiatrucbion Company. 2074 Earl, Klamath Falls. $14,217.- 15: Louis Kowolowski, Madras, $14,- 865 and Ben R. Wilson, P. 0, Box 113, Tulelake, $18,875. The power plant is being re moved as a result of its having Deen abandoned by the Enter prise Irrigation District following a damaging fire in 1956. Besides removing the generator and tur bine and the corrugated metal buildings housing the equipment, the work will include excavation, removing damaged concrete, com pacting sand and gravel backfill, grouting beneath concrete slabs, installing flatvalve weep assem blies and placing reinforced con crete floor slabs and walls. The plant is located at the head of the C Canal which is oper ated by the Klamath Irrigation District. The work must be com pleted before the beginning of the next irrigation season. Salem Man Quits Board PORTLAND m The execu tive board of the Young Republi can Federation of Oregon picked a new state chairman Sunday af ter admonishing the recently re signed chairman. Jack Miller, Salem, the former chairman, was taken to task for announcing his resignation public ly before notifying the board. Mil ler resigned to become manager of Secretary of State Mark Hat field's campaign for Republican nomination for governor. The board accepted the resig nation, but said that could not be construed "as an indorsement, expressed or implied, of the can didacy of Mr. Hatfield." The board then praised Hatfield and state Treasurer Sig Unander as eminently qualified men. Unander also is seeking the GOP nomination (or governor. Named to succeed Miller as chairman was Joyce Spillman Portland. Tanks Slated For Wrecker Use PATERSON. N. J. W - A con struction and demolition firm plans to use five U.S. Army sur plus tanks to spark frontal as saults on old buildings. The firm of V. Ottilio and Sons acquired the 45-ton tanks last week and took delivery on two of them Sunday. They will be put to their first use in demolishing buildings on Southard St. in Trenton, where a low cost hous ing project will be erected. The idea of using Army tanks In peacetime demolition work first occurred to Carmen Ottilio, an of ficer of the firm, when he was serving with the 208th combat engineers in Europe during World War II. Klan Chief Planning 2nd Rally MARION. S. C. UT-Ku Klux Klan leader James Cole, whose last rally near Maxton, N. C, was shot up and dispersed by armed Indians, says the KKK will gather "not less than 5,000 Klansmen" for another rally in that area with in a month. "We don't expect to be broken up again. Cole said at his home here. "This time there will be more Klansmen than there will be Indians and I dont expect trou ble from the Indians." Hundreds of Lumbee Indians, incensed by reports that the Klan's planned rally near Maxton Jan. IS was intended as a warn ing to them against race mixing, converged on the group of about 50 Klansmen with warwhoops and gunfire. No one was seriously hurt. but state police had to rescue the Klansmen and pack them off home in their automobiles. The 33-year-old Cole who calls himself a Southern Free Will Bap tist minister is under indictment in Robeson County, N. C, site of the meeting, on charges of incit ing riot. He has announced he will fight extradition. 'Klansmen from all over the South are pretty upset." Cole de clared. "I've had offers of 3,000 men from Texas (for another Ro beson County rally) and offers of men from Kentucky and South Carolina. "It will be the greatest rally the Klan has had." At Pembroke. N. C, Simeon Ox endine a leader of the Indian demonstration against the Klan and son of Pembroke's Indian mayor remarked when told of Cole's plans: "He said that, did he? Well, we'll just wait and see." Cole also said a top Klan of ficial from Virginia identified by a Robeson County source as James F. Milligan of Newport News visited him this weekend to discuss plans for another Max ton rally. At Newport News, Milligan said full-scale Klan meeting is planned in that area within the next three weeks, with Cole to attend. US To Pay For Jap Death TOKYO Wl-The United States will pay the equivalent of $1,748 Wednesday to the husband ol the Japanese -woman GI William . S. Girard. killed on an Army tiring range. Anikichl Sakal. 47-year-old fa ther of six children, refused to accept a payment of consolation al money" last September during Girard s manslaughter trial. He said he did not want to talk about money so soon after the death of his wife, Naka. Later, at the urging of neigh bors, Sakai submitted a claim for 800,000 yen ($2,224), Japanese an thoritles scaled it down to 629,396 yen ($1,748) and the U. S. Army approved the payment. In Japan victims of accidents usually are paid sympathy mon ey, regardless of who was at fault. Lt. Col. Joseph L. Haefcle of Lacona, Tex., chief of the Army claims service for the Far East, will present the money to Sakai Wednesday, one day before the first anniversary of Mrs. Sakai's death. She was shot while collecting scrap brass on the firing range at Somagahara, where Girard was guarding a machine gun. Japa nese insistence on trying the 27-year-old GI from Ottawa, 111., cre ated an international furor. He got a three-year suspended sentence last January and subsequent was discharged from the Army. Riots Flare In Cyprus NICOSIA, Cyprus (UP) -More than 1.000 Turkish Cyprlots bat tled British police and troops with stones and bottles today but final ly were dispersed with tear gas. The demonstration was timed to coincide with opening of the Bagh dad Pact meeting in Ankara where Cyprus Governor Sir Hugh Foot has flown for talks witn uriusn Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd The Turkish minority on Cyprus is violently opposed to demands by the Greek majority for union with Greece. They apparently felt the governor was leaning too far toward the Greeks. The mob moved through the street shouting "down with Foot!" They ignored their leaders' plea to break up and clashed with police lines. Some shop windows were broken and coffee stalls over turnked in the melee. No major injuries were reported although Assistant Chief Constable Stan Burns was cut on the check by a flying bottle. Pranksters Set Cross On Fire BEND (jfi A burning cross atop Pilot Butte, visible through out Bend Saturday night, was blamed by police Monday on Drankstors. State police said they did not know who the pranksters were but were conlint'.ing their investi gation. The 18-foot-high cross was made of 2 x 4 lumber, wrapped in oil soaked sacks. Weather i . i ' .' FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity! Increasing , cloudiness Monday night. Few showers Tues day. Low tonight -J0. High Tues day 40-46. High yesterday M Law last night Tl Preclp. last U hours . 0.17 Since Oct. X -88 Same period last year Normal for period . 7.05 6.59 CRATER LAKE ' High yesterday S2 Low last night K t a.m. today -...-. 27 New snow - ........ 3 Snow depth , 117 Last year til There is a low overcast and fog in the park today and It was snow ing intermittently during the tore noon. The roads are open; chains advised for travel over Highway 62 and required from Annie Springs to the rim. Skiing Is only fair because of the heavy new snow. Sea Storms Plow Into Jap Ships TOKYO Wl Two hundred seventy-one persons were dead or missing Monday in 18 Japanese shipping tragedies caused by two days of storms. Topping the list was loss of a ferryboat with 170 persons aboard in the Inland Sea. The Japanese Coast Guard re ported 11 other vessels, including fishing craft, were sunk; five are missing; two capsized and two washed away. The bodies of 11 persons have been recovered In these cases; 90 others are miss ing. An extensive air and sea search continued. The 496-ton ferryboat Nankai Maru radioed the single word "Danger" yesterday about an hour after leaving Komatsuijama, Shikoku, on a 38-mile crossing of the Kii Strait and the Inland Sea to Wakayama, Honshu. Winds of 50 miles an hour built waves six feet high at the time. One rescue vessel found a life buoy and a white tool box be lieved from the ferry, which was owned by Nankai Steamship Co. The Maritime Safety Board said it was almost certain that the boat sank south of Numashima Island. ' - One of many ferries that cross the strait, the Nankai Maru car ried 141 passengers, including at least 10 children, and a crew of 29. The No. 3 Shofuku Maru ran aground and capsized about three miles off Kushlmoto, 100 miles south of Osaka in southern Japan. Five crewmen swam ashore but 22"Oths were believed lost. Thirteen1- other persons were missing in the sinking of a 35-ton fishing boat off Fukushima. A 17 ton fishing boat capsized off Ito with nine persons rescued . and eigne missing. A small boat sank off Shizuoka with one missing, and two other vessels with eight aboard were un accounted for. Enqle Foe Seeks Support SACRAMENTO (UP)-Republi- can Curtis W. Tarr, Chico, was rounding up support today for his campaign for the congressional seat now held by Rep. Clair En- gle (U-Ked Bluff). Tarr was installed as the favor ite for the GOP nomination in the 2nd District here Saturday when he won the endorsement of an unofficiial Republican fact finding committee. An equipment firm executive, Tarr defeated Edward Brent, Red ding; Fred H. Nagel Jr., Susan villc; Chapman Wentworth, Duns muir, and Carl E. Bush, Para dise, for the committee's nod. Engle, who has represented the state's largest congressional dis trict since 1942, will run for the U.S. Senate. Navy Pushes Launch Vanguard Rocket CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. 1P The Navy is busy in another effort to get its temperamental Van guard rocket off the ground in the next few days. Unless it performs quickly, the Army's Jupiter - C missile may be the first to shoot up a U.S. satellite. Informed sources disclosed that bad weather and a frustrating se ries of mechanical bugs in the complex Vanguard spoiled several attempts to lire it last week. The first Vanguard blew up on its launching pad here last Dec. 6. Theso failures have thrown the U.S. satellite program far off schedule. If a goal set by Presi dent Eisenhower had been met, three or four tiny American "moons" would be in orbit now and the Vanguard would be set to launch bigger satellites in March. Cape Canaveral, satellite ta20 insert after 3rd graf: March. A curtain of secrecy surrounded the latest attempt. Facts were not made known to the public until last night. The Air Force fired a Snark mis sile 5,000 miles to Ascension Is land off the African coast Satur day. Informed sources said the missile "landed In its assigned Im pact area." At the same time, the Navy was busy with the Vanguard. It was learned that a launching of the rocket was only a few minutes away Saturday when the attempt Hunt For Lost Scout Carried On WILLOWS, Calif. (UP)-An Ah- Force helicopter joined an inten sive search today for 12-year-old Boy Scout Dennis Wurschmidt, lost in rocky, snow-covered grind' stone canyon of Mendocino Nation al Forest for two' days. - - Dennis became separated from his companions Saturday on an outing in the canyon at the 4,000 foot level. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gervis Wurschmidt ot Willows. The troop had set up camp in Alder Springs, a - meadow about 40 miles west of Willows and 130 miles north of San Francisco. Dennis got lost while playing with his fellow scouts. Fears for the boy's safety arose that afternoon when a blizzard blew up. Glenn County Sheriff Lyle Sale said the blizzard "was so bad you couldn't see five feet ahead." It snowed all Saturday night. ; Clearing weather Sunday ena bled 500 men to take part In an all-out searcn, aided by blood hounds and two airplanes. All the searchers were residents of the area and familiar with, the ter rain. Up to 3 feet of new snow cov-' ered many areas. The bloodhounds, led by Russ Cone of Los Altos, Calif., led searchers Sunday to two candy -wrappers, possibly discarded by the missing boy. Shortly after, the dogs lost the scent. From one of the planes. Sher iff's Capt. Dale Nolta sighted tracks in the snow. He returned to the site by auto, but the tracks turned out to be those of searcher. I Temperatures . were hovering around the 30-degree mark. Sher iff Sale said the boy would be all right if he- managed to find shelter in the boulder strewn gorge. Hotel Fire Claims Five DES MOINES. Iowa 'UP)-At least five elderly men were killed early today when fire swept through a three-story hotel just off the downtown business district. About 14 or 15 other men were rescued from the upstairs windows and about 20 others fled to safety, firemen said. The fire broke out in a first floor cafe and quickly . spread through the two upper stories .ot the brick building housing the walkup Olympia Hotel. The interior of the building was entirely burned out and firemen described it as a "total loss." Three of the bodies were found in second-floor rooms and the oth er two on the third floor. - District Fire ' Chief Bob Burns said firemen were probing the charred ruins to determine wheth er there were any other victims. The victims included Joe Inger soil, 69; Melvin Allen, about 75: Orien Immel, 62; and Everett Dean Martin, 75. The fifth victim was so badly burned he could not be identified immediately. . . Bums said the fire apparently started in the cafe on the first floor and shot up through the up per stories. The cause of the blaze was not immediately determined. Burns said a basement fire broke out in the building Jan. 18. The flooring of the cafe had been torn up for repair. COSTLY RECOVERY MOBILE, Ala. - (UP) Jack Brunson enjoyed his clock radio and electric iron again today, four months after they were stol en. But it cost him money to get them back. Brunson found two pawn tickets in his mail box and recovered his property after paying $8 on the loan obtained by the thief. Attempt To was postponed. As one delay continued to run into another, the conviction grew that the Vanguard must fly soon in a matter of a very few days or the Jupiter-C may take oft first, carrying a 29.7-pound satel lite. ' The Vanguard still is experi mental. Its second-stage guidance "brain" never has been tested in flight. All components of the Jupiter-C have been flown and were reported to have performed well. Authorities close to the Vanguard project said heavy rains a rari ty at this season in Florida were troublesome during last week's firing attempts. Defective minor parts were found in the rocket during the countdown checks and had to be replaced. Something went wrong with the 6.4-inch satellite, so that it stopped sending out its radio signals. One of Florida s worst winters has interferred with efforts to step up the U.S. missile and rock et programs. Rain washed out an attempt to fire a Thor inter mediate range ballistic missile. Friday, water In underground conduits caused a power failure. Maj. Gen. Donald N. Yates, commander of the test center, said recently that there are 12,000 parts in the electronics system of a missile. About 37.000 items must function correctly if it is to fly a true course.
