Herald and news., January 29, 1958, Page 1, Image 1

la The-
Day's Hews
Br FRANK JENKINS
The latest scare:
Brigadier General Homer Bou
shey, deputy director of Air Force
research and development, tells a
luncheon group in Washington the
moon will inevitably become a mil
itary base for launching space at
tacks on the earth.
He says a base on the moon
could be used to rain massive
destruction on the nations of this
terrestrial globe. He thinks we'd
better beat the Russkies to it
or ELSE.
A bit of advice:
Don't jump in the lake yet.
So many, many people know so
many things that am t so.
This may be one of 'em.
Teletype chatter:
Authorities are in sharp diagree
ment over what to do about the
current wave of juvenile delinquen
cy.
One expert says commuting fa'
thers (who live in the country and
work .in the Big Town) should
spend more time at home.
Another expert advises "psycho
drama" in which delinquents act
out their aggressions for psy
chologists to analyze.
Others say TEAR DOWN THE
SLUMS.
Timely question:
Has anybody given any thought
to a few old-fashioned sessions in
the wood shed?
reckon not.
Tnat's too practical for this mod'
ern age,
Walter Reuther tells a congres
sional committee in Washington
this morning that today's wage
levels have nothing to do with in
flationthat the economy is in
trouble only because purchasing
power hasn't kept up with in
creased ability to produce. His
idea is that all we need to do to
keep prosperity rolling in high
gear is to raise wages and cut
prices.
Cynical thought:
I wonder if he ever tried to run
a hamburger stand and make a
living at it.
Let's close on a note of common
sense.
Education Secretary Marion Fol-
som says this morning the United
States is at a serious disadvan
tage because practically all its
citizens speak only English. He
adds that Americans are weaker in
the foreign language field than any
other major people in the world.
What he means is this:
How are we going to run the
world if we can t tell the people
in foreign countries how we want
to run it?
Gwinn Attacks
Education Bill
WASHINGTON (ff-Rep. Gwinn
of New York, top Republican on
Ihe House Education Committee,
today denounced President Eisen
hower's education bill as a politi
cal scheme to get votes.
"The audacity of this bill Is
dumbfounding," Gwinn said. ."Us
real title should be the 'teacher
pay bill of 195S. and its vote
getting possibilities."
Gwinn's statement, prepared
for House delivery, gave added
impact to predictions by Speaker
Rayburn (D-Tex) and Rep. Mart
in - of Massachusetts, the GOP
leader that a school bill will have
trouble getting through the House
this year.
Gwinn, a long-time foe of fed
eral aid to education, last year
helped kill a l'i-billion-doUar
school construction bill.
Eisenhower asked Congress
Tuesday for a Sputnik-age school
ing program aimed largely at
stepping up science education. He
Requested a four-year, billion-dollar
program of federal support in
such items as scholarships, teach
ers' salaries, fellowships and lan
guage training. Matching fund by
the states would come to about
600 million dollars.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
TOKYO (UP)- Dr. Masakata
Kono reported to police today an
antique, 90 - year old pistol had
been stolen from his house. Police
promptly charged him with suspi
cion of possessing firearms illegally.
High Winds May Postpone
Army Moon Launching Try
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (ff-Hurricane-force
winds in upper
altitudes made uncertain Wednes
day the time when the Army will
fire its Jupjter-C satellite launch
ing vehicle.
The Air Force weather central
station reported high-level winds
of 140 miles an hour. Winds of
such velocity could topple the
rocket.
The new siege of bad weather,
after several pleasant days, hit
Florida at a time when the Army
was believed to be approaching
the zero hour of its effort to hurl
a 30-pound "moon" into orbit.
Attention shunted momentarily
away from the Jupiter-C yester
day when the Air Force took the
stage with a successful firing of
its Thor intermediate range bal
listic missile.
The spectacular shot on a sun
shiny day was witnessed by thou
sands of persons in this area. The
fiery Thor, with which the Air
Force plans to put i satellite into
orbit and to hit the moon, was
visible for four minutes after its
blastoff.
In standard language used to
Heavy Rains
Soak State;
Floods Low
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Heavy winds raked the Oregon
coast Wednesday in the wake of
heavy rains that sent Western
Oregon rivers surging upward.
There was no immediately se
rious flood threat, though, and
there was a temporary letup to
the rain.
The Rogue River, most serious
ly threatening of any of the state's
major streams, began to fall
slightly Wednesday morning after
cresting at Grants Pass only 6
inches under flood stage at 2:30
a. m.
From Monday to Wednesday
morning Grants Pass was drenched
with 4.11 inches of rain. The
Rogue stood at 5.20 feet when
the rains started and climbed to
21.39 feet by Thursday morning.
Some roads had water over
them but traffic was going
through. There were a few tern
porary traffic delays from slides
which were being cleared away,
A number of trailers in low-
lying country around Grants Pass
were towed away as a precaution
Tuesday night. Only one home
there reported any flooding and
that water was runolf from sur
rounding slopes. A few lawns
were damaged by silt washed
down from hills. Two minor irri
gation ditch breaks were sand
Sagged. The Coquille River was 6 feet
under flood stage when the rain
ended and the sun came out Wed
nesday morning.
The Umpqua River and its
tributaries were up, too, but
there appeared to be small
chance of flooding. The south
Umpqua was forecast to crest 4
feet below flood stage at Winston
Wednesday afternoon.
The heavy wind early Wednes
day sent a tree crashing down on
the Jim Andrews home west of
Roseburg. It crashed through the
roof of the two-story structure.
Neither Andrews nor his son, the
only occupants, were home at the
time.
The heavy rains washed snow
from mountain passes and cleared
it from highways. At higher ele
vations snow fell, Timberline on
Mt. Hood reported 8 inches.
The rain began to taper off at
most points around 8 a. m. and
by mid-morning the sun was shin
ing in many parts of the state.
Indian Timber
Cutting Listed
TACOMA (ff Nearly six mil
lion dollars worth of timber was
cut on Pacific Northwest Indian
reservations in 1957, the Bureau
of Indian Affairs Teports.
Don Foster, Portland area di
rector, told the Columbia Basin
Interagency Committee here Tues
day that a total of 257.466,060
board feet valued at $5,939,737 was
cut under contract on seven reser
vations. Foster said that despite the de
pressed market 64 new contracts
were negotiated. These provide
for a cut of 102.168,000 board feet
with an estimated value of three
million dollars.
The bureau report showed that
133 forest and range fires were
controlled, with total damage es
timated at $24,792.
Here is a breakdown of the tim
ber yield by value on the reser
vations: Colville, $1,644,826; Klam
ath, $351,414; Northern Idaho,
$58,797; Umatilla, $172,451; Warm
Springs, $962,167; Western Wash
ington, $1,016194, and Yakima, 51,
733,587.
Food Prices
Hold Steady
NEW YORK (ff Whole'sale
food prices, as measured by the
Dun & Bradstreet food index, held
steady this week after a four-
week upsurge.
The index remained at $6.52
unchanged from a week ago and
5.8 per cent higher than the $6.16
figure in the year-ago week. The
index is at its highest level since
a similar $6.52 figure during the
week of April 19. 1955.
report successful shot, the Air
Force said the Thor "flew its
prescribed course and landed in
the preselected impact area.
Five of the nine Thors flown
from here have performed well.
Maj. Gen. Bernard A. Schricver.
head of the Air Force Ballistic
Missile Division, told a Senate
committee recently the Thor will
be used as the first stage of a two
stage vehicle being prepared to
put up a recoverable satellite by
spring.
By addition of a third stage, he
said, unmanned reconnaissance of
the moon would be possible at
what he called a relatively early
date. ,
Originally, the Thor was de
signed strictly as a war weapon
to deliver a nuclear warhead 1,500
miles at a speed of about 7.000
m.p h. More than a dozen of the
weapons now have been set aside
for use in space research.
Many experts believe the thor
oughly tested Jupiter-C has a
much better chance of launching
a satellite than the Navy's Van
guard rocket, which has failed to
perform.
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Hitchcock
Enters Race
For House
OSWEGO (ff Phil Hitchcock,
who gave Douglas McKay a tussle
for the Republican nomination for
United States senator two years
ago, said Wednesday he will try
for Walter Norblad's seat in the
U. S. House of Representatives.
It was not an unexpected an
nouncement.
Hitchcock, whose home is in
this Clackamas County town at
the south edge of Portland, said
he feared the Republican Party
would lose the First District un
less it has a candidate "who can
vitalize the party into successful
activity.
Norblad now is Oregon's only
Republican member of Congress.
Hitchcock said Republicans lost
the Second and Fourth districts
1956 after several years of
slipping majorities and said the
same pattern was evident in the
First District. But, he said, he
was convinced that he could carry
the election against any Demo
cratic opponent.
Thus far there has been talk
that Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thorn
ton may seek the Democratic
nomination. Other probable Dem
ocratic aspirants are Jason Lee of
Salem and Don Matheny of
Brooks.
Norblad was first elected In
Jan, 1946, at a special election
and has been reelected consist
ently since. His home was Astoria
at the time of first election but
it now is Stayton, in Marion Coun
ty-
Hitchcock, in a statement, im
plied Norblad had not been on the
job enough. He said the campaign
issues included need for greater
attention to affairs of the district
and "the importance of every
congressman's being consistently
on the job." He said he would
seek a committee assignment, if
elected, which would deal with
problems common to his district.
Norblad's major committee post
is Military Affairs, on which he
is senior Republican member and
which has taken him on a number
of trips abroad.
Last fall when Norblad returned
from Washington, there already
were rumors that - Hitchcock
might run against him. Through
the fall Norblad traveled exten
sively in his district and devoted
considerable time to advocacy of
governmental economics.
Hitchcock, a one-time state sen
ator from Klamath Falls, now is
on the staff of Lewis and Clark
College as director of church re
lations and foreign student ad
visor. He was in the race for the Re
publican U. S. senatorial nomina
tion to oppose Democrat Wayne
Morse in 1956 and refused to with
draw when Douglas McKay re
signed as secretary of the Interior
to make the same race.
Parking Meter
Sparks Hassle
DECATUR, "ill. (ff Earl Carrier
of Oshkosh, Wis., bought himself
$1 worth of trouble for two cents
yesterday thanks to a parking
meter which scorns pennies.
But he got his two cents back,
at least.
Police gave this account:
Carrier put two pennies in a
downtown parking meter that reg
istered only nickels. When he re
turned to his car a $1 parking
ticket, was attached. Carrier
stormed into the police station,
complaining he never heard of a
meter that didn t take pennies.
But police said the fine stuck.
The irate Carrier then demand
ed his two cents back, saying if
he paid the fine he was due the
pennies. Not so, said tne police.
Carrier went to the city treas
urer's office and .again pressed
for his two cents.
Treasurer Walt Griffin wearily
gave in and plumped two cents
from petty cash into Carrier's
hand.
"It wasn't the two cents," Car
rier later told newsmen. "It's the
principle of the thing." ,
Aerial Target
Hits Building
L1BERTYVILLE, 111. W
"Thank God I had gotten up to
go into the bedroom."
Mrs. John Redden, 51, described
her feelings after an Air Force
aerial gunfire target crashed into
the two-story Redden apartment
building, showering plaster on the
kitchen table where she had been
having coffee yesterday.
No one was injured. Also in Ihe
building were her husband, 50,
and daughter, Mrs. John Bassick
Jr., 26. and Mrs. Bassick's son
Steven. 3.
Six feet long and weighing 15
pounds, the target struck with a
noise that sounded like a "bomb"
to Mrs. Redden. It punched
through the roof and knocked two
holes, one 18 inches in diameter,
in the kitchen ceiling.
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EUQBNS. ORE.
SHERIFF MURRAY BRITTON, left, deputizes members of the Klamath Falls Moose Lodge
No. I 106 in readiness for the big time the Mooie plan Saturday night, February I, at the
bowlers banquet and taxi dance to be held in the Moose Hall. Guests will be "tapped"
during the evening as "jailbirds" and a Dutch auction will put them in or out of the pok
ey. Funds from all this hilarity will go to the March of Dimes. Music for dancing will be
furnished by the Moose orchestra. Members of the Moose committee: Jack Insley, Klam
ath County March of Dimes chairman; Linda Carver, 6, a recovered polio victim, George
Paris, chef of the Blue Ox Restaurant and others will appear at 6:45 tonight on KOTI-TV
to further the drive. Left to right, other than the sheriff, are Fred Hawks, chairman of
.the Moose party, Dave Thomas, Mitch Mitchell and Dean Barker, on the Moose committee.
Probers Hear
FCC Chairman
WASHINGTON Wl Chairman
John C. Doerfer of the Federal
Communications Commission de
scribed his agency Wednesday as
"independent" of the executive
branch of government.
He testified before a House in
vestigating committee looking into
six federal regulatory agencies to
see if they are carrying out 'the
intent of Congress.
Doerfer made no reference in
prepared testimony to a commit
tee staff memorandum saying
FCC members have accepted im
proper broadcast industry favors
Outside of the hearing :. Dqexfer
has criticized the report as mis
leading. Chairman Moulder (D
Mo) of the special inquiry group
said in advance of the hearing
that he did not expect the matter
to come up "at this stage" unless
Doerfer himself raised it.
The FCC head told the commit
tee there are areas of relation
ship with the executive depart
ment. But he and other commis
sion members denied there is dic
tation from that course. They took
the stand it is rather a matter
of negotiation.
After Doerfer finished his state
ment, Rep. Mack ID-Ill) wanted
to know about the division of
broadcast channels between gov
ernment and other use.
Commissioner T. A. M. Craven
said he is the liaison man with the
Office of Defense Mobilization on
the allocation.
Mack asked if Craven feels
there is any dictation from the
secretary of defense to set aside
certain frequencies. 1
Craven replied there has never
been any directive, that thre has
been, generally speaking, a state
ment of needs.
Ike Arrives
For Funeral
OLATIIE, Kan. Iff President
Eisenhower, forced to skip fog
bound Kansas City, landed at the
Naval air station here Wednesday
en route to his brother's funeral.
The President's plane, Colum
bine III, touched down in clear
weather at 11:27 a.m. (CST) after
circling for 27 minutes over Kan
sas City, Grandview, Mo., and
Olathe.
An emergency motor caravan,
composed largely of Navy auto
mobiles, was assembled to drive
Eisenhower into Kansas City where
funeral services were to' be held
in the afternoon for his elder
brother, Arthur.
The press plane, which normal
ly lands an hour ahead of the
President, was forced to circle the
Kansas City area for an hour and
20 minutes while officials were de
ciding where the President would
land.
Earlier, at Washington, the
President had flown by helicopter
from the White House to National
Airport for his trip west. It was
his first use of the new service
for such a short hop.
BEING OF SOUND MIND
MARTINEZ. Calif. 1UP1- Eli
Stewart, a ranch hand who died
New Year's Day at the age of
79, left his $900 estate to his
friends. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Mof
fatt, with this stern instruction in
his will:
"I don't believe in tombstones
and I don't want no $50 suits to
be buried in. I have not had one
in 30 years. If anything is left where he is being treated for lac
after funeral expenses, I want you erat ions about his head. He is do-
to drink it up.
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klaMaTh falls, Oregon, Wednesday, January 29, 1958
Weather
FORECAST Klamath Falls and
vicinity: Rainy periods through
Thursday with some partial clear
ing. High Thursday 42-48; low
Wednesday night 30-36.
High yesterday 33
Low last night 29
Prccip. last 24 hours 1.01
- Since Oct. 1 9.91
Same period last year 7.05
Normal for period 6.72
CRATER LAKE
High yesterdny 32
Low last night -.. 27
8 a.m. today 32
New snow .. .u - 20V4
Snow depth 145
Last year : 72
Precipitation at the park during
the 24-hour period ending at 8 a.m.
today was B.fV Inches. Highway 67
Is open, but in bad shape and
chains are advised. Chains are re
quired for travel from Annie
Springs to park headquarters and
the road from Headquarters to the
rim Is closed today. It was snow
ing heavily In the park this morn
ing and travel to Ihe park for
pleasure was not advised.
Housing Unit
Bids Opened
Gresham Construction Company
of Santa Clara submitted a basic
bid of $1,135,470 for construction of
an additional 76 housing units to
be built for Kingsley Field mili
tary personnel at the 10 a.m. bid
opening today.
Two bids were opened by George
Meyers, purchasing and contract
ing officer, 408th Fighter Group.
Kingsley Field. The other basic bid
came from Baldwin Contractors,
Marysville, California, and was in
the amount of $1,156,000.
Accompanying the basic bids
were seven additive alternates for
fireplaces, lavatories, television,
ceramic tile, hardwood floors, lath
and plaster and washers and dri
ers. The bids will be reviewed by
the Air Force headquarters before
ar, award is made.
Howard R. Pcrrin was architect
for the original 220 housing units
and for the 70 additional units for
military personnel.
Auto Crashes
Parked Bus
A series of mishaps resulted in
a chain reaction of events which
put Billy T. Smith, 21, of Eugene,
in Klamath Valley Hospital.
Shortly before midnight, Tues
day, a Garibaldi Brothers cattle
truck approached an intersection
on Highway 97 just above Chilo
quin. The pavement was slick with
ice and snow and when the driver
of the truck, Robert C. Smales,
saw a snowplow ahead he careful
ly applied his brakes. Despite his
caution the truck and trailer went
into a skid and flipped over block
ing the highway. Smales was not
injured, but traffic was blocked by
the wreck.
A bus headed north with 14 pas
sengers aboard stopped to wait for
the truck to be righted. Smith,
who had intended to take Highway
99 north but had missed the turn
off, hit the back end of the bus
with his 1956 coupe. He s'ruckhome in trousers
with such Impact that the bus was, man's job.
shoved 10 feet up the pavement. That wasn't enough for the vil
Smith's car was totally demolished lagers of Humbnci, who didn't be
and he was taken to tho hospital licve the sex change story. Not
by the Peace Ambulance Service
'scribed as being in good condition.
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Court Denies
Nunn Appeal
SALEM Iff Billy Junior Nunn
sentenced to die in the gas cham
ber for the sex-murder of 14-year-old
Alvin William Eacret in jack-
son County, failed Wednesday in
his appeal to the state Supreme
Court.
He committed a perverted sex
act on the boy, choked him with
his hands, and then used the
boy's own belt to strangle him to
death.
The murder was committed
April 19, 1956, and Nunn was ar
rested two weeks later in Alturas.
Calif... . , :.
Nunn, after the high court de
cision becomes effective three
weeks from now, will be taken
back to Medford where the circuit
court will fix a new execution
date.
Then he can appeal to Gov.
Robert D. Holmes, who so far in
the year he has held office, has
commuted all death sentences to
life imprisonment.
The governor opposes capital
punishment.'
Nunn's appeal was the first
under a 1955 law providing for
automatic Supreme Court appeals
for all persons who are sentenced
to death.
The court also ordered the
Klamath County Circuit Court to
try the personal injury damage
suit of Nathan J. Newell against
Claude E. Taylor, Dean V. John
son and J. I. Schlegcl. Newell
was injured in an automobile col
lision, and Circuit Judge David
R. Vandenberg had dismissed the
case.
Board Halts
Milk Giveaway
HARRISBURG, Pa. Iff The
State Milk Control Commission
says it's sorry, but it must prevent
milk dealers from giving free
milk to babies.
The commission yesterday fined
two Sunhury area dealers $50 each
because they had donated milk for
a period to the first babies born
in that area in 1958.
"Our hands are tied by law,"
commented Commissioner Simon
K. Uhl.
The law limits a dealer to dis
tribution of only one free quart
of milk to a prospective customer
in a six-month period.
"Technically new babies don't
drink fluid cow's milk anyway,"
Uhl commented.
Yugo Army
Drafts 'Girl'
BELGRADE. Yugoslavia iff-A
peasant girl who changed sex is
going to serve in the Yugoslav
army.
Marija Djolan, 20, an unmar
ried girl from the village of Hum
bnci, in Bosnia province, recent
ly underwent a sex-change opera
tion. Marija became Marijan
Ihe male form of the name, came
and took a
until Marijan vis. drafted for reg
ular service in the army and ac
cepted did the neighbors believe
that she is he.
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Telephone TU 4-8111
No. 4008
Racketeer
Teils Solons
Of 'Gifts'
WASHINGTON (ff - Labor
racketeer Joey Fay acknowledged
Wednesday he and his wife have
received more than $100,000 from
his Newark union local since the
day he went to prison as an ex
tortionist in 1947.
The precise amount was not im
mediately pinned down in hear
ings by the Senate Rackets In
vestigating Committee. Real es
tate deals Fay had with the union
were involved as well as direct
payments.
Fay said his parole officers
have approved the share he re
ceived after getting his 1956 pa
role from Sing Sing (N.Y.) Prison.
In indignant tones, Fay rejected
a suggestion that the money he
received from the union seemed
an unusual reward for a man who
had gone to prison denounced as
betrayer of unionists and a
'ruthless, grasping thief."
That description came from
committee counsel Robert F. Ken
nedy, questioning Fay in the Sen
ate committee's investigation of
the International Operating Engi
neers Union.
Fay had risen to power and
wealth in the union when convict
ed of shaking down contractors
on a New York' City water proj
ect for some $360,000.
In response to questions, Fay
told the senators his wife received
$67,800 in salary and Christmas
bonuses of $500 a year from the
Newark Local 825 while he was
in prison. She also was given an
automobile the committee valued
at $2,272.
Fay denied this was because,
as Kennedy suggested, members
of the local would have feared
"for .their lives and livelihood" if
they had dared to protest. Ken
nedy said those were the words
used bv Nw York District Attv
Frank Hogan in the trial in which
Fay was convicted of extortion,
Terms of Fay's parole forbid
him to engage in union affairs.
Mine Cave-In
ROUNDUP. Mont, (ff A mine
cave-in crushed four men to death
beneath an estimated 15 tons of
rock late yesterday. Six others
escaped injury.
The tragedy occurred inside the
horizontal tunnel of the Mountain
Queen coal mine about 32 miles
east of here. It is leased to the
Atomic Energy Commission plant
at iianiord, Wash.
An investigation was started im
mediately by federal, state and
union officials.
One of those narrowly missed
by the thundering rockfall was
Jack Boyle of Roundup, president
of the Mountain States Mining Co.
which owns the mine.
He was one of 10 men working
to clear rock from a slide Sunday
or early Monday. Nearly 30 other
coal miners were near the mouth
of the tunnel when its roof of
sandstone and other rock began
to fall.
'Look out," cried Adolph Paul-
us. lie, Mike Uolop, George Metz-
kcr, Len Miller, Dwight Harmon
and Boyle dashed for the tunnel
entrance.
They made it, although flying
rocK broke Boyle s head lamp.
But the rock killed Martin Mez-
narich, 54; Frank Nose, 45; Jim
Molnar, 48; and George Larson,
about 50, all of Roundup. It re
quired five hours to recover their
bodies.
Ed Nicholson, manager of the
mining company, said it was the
mine s first fatal accident since
the firm took over in 1954.
Presidential Disability Bill
Said Approved By Leaders
WASHINGTON iff House
leaders were reported Wednesday
to have agreed upon a bill to per
mit a vice president to act as
president in case of a chief ex
ecutive's disability.
A special subcommittee of the
House Judiciary Committee was
hurriedly called into session after
the draft of the bill was prepared,
It has been tne subject 01 nigni
level, closed-door conferences (or
about two weeks, following a two
year study by the subcommittee.
The bill would provide that the
vice president "shall discharge
those powers and duties (of the
office of president ) as acting
president" under either of these
circumstances.
If the President himself certifies
in writing to Congress and the
vice president that he is unable
to discharge the powers and duties
of his olficc.
If a commission on presidential
inability determines that he is un
able to discharge those powers
and duties.
The legislation would create this
commission of eight members, six
of whom would have to agree on
any determination for it to be el
fective.
NevVictims
Of'MadDocT
Killerround ;
LINCOLN, Neb. (ff Lincoln
police reported Wednesday after
noon three more persons h a v s
been found slain, bringing to nine
the total killings uncovered in
this area since Monday.
Police said the slayings of the
three occurred at a residence in
the south part of Lincoln.
They Identified thn dead as Mr.
and Mrs. C. Laucr Ward, and their
maid. The Wards were a prom
inent family.
Police said the three were killed
by shotgun blasts.
Ward, a graduate of the Univer
sity of Nebraska in the early 1930s,
was president of the Capital Steel
and Bridge Co.
Police urged all citizens to re
main away from the Ward resi
dence.
Fred Ward, a cousin, discov
ered the tragedy when he entered
the home about 11:45 a.m. (CST).
Police Intensified search for
Charles Starkweather, charged
with murder in connection with
six previous deaths. He and a 14-year-old
girl companion have been
sought since the d i s c 0 v e r y of
bodies 'of her mother, stepfather
and baby sister Monday night.
The girl, Caril Fugate, a junior
high school student, also is
charged with murder.
Police reported a 1956 black
Packard sedan apparently had
been stolen fron the Ward home.
It carried 1957 Nebraska plates
No. 2-17415.
Ward had been on the board of
trustees of the Bankers Life In
surance Co. of' Nebraska.
He was a member of the Ne
braska Bar Assn.
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Mmrce fnntml
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runps Okayed
The transfer of $10,000 in county
funds to the rodent control fund
of the Klamath County Agent's Of
f i c e was approved Wednesday
morning by members of the Klam
ath County Court. . . , .
Agent Charley Henderson ad
vised the court that the funds are
needed at this time for the pur
chase of poisons to be used dur
ing the early spring baiting of the
mice invested fields of the county.
He pointed out that the $110,000
recently made available from the
state emergency board will' be
used for reimbursing the mice In
fested counties at the rate of 40
eentjt -ear. acre far -land baited.-.,
It was further explained that the
county funds, as well as the state
funds, will be employed on a per
centage basis, and that the funds
will be returned to the sources of
origin if it is not necessary to poi
son to the extent anticipated.
Henderson said that it will prob
ably be necessary to bait between
70,000 and 100,000 acres, and that
between 500,000 and 600,000 pound
of bait will be required in Klam
ath County alone.
He pointed out that there Is
presently no indication that the
mice will have died off by ground
breaking time.
U.S. Mothers
Leave China
HONG KONG (ff-Three Amerl- '
can mothers who spent three
weeks in Red China with their
prisoner sons left for the United
States today.
The mothers are Mrs. Jessie
Fecteau of Lynn, Mass.,. Mrs.
Mary Downey of New Britain,
Conn., and Mrs. Ruth Redmond of
Yonkers. N.Y. Accompanied by
Mrs. Downey's son William, 25,
they are flying home via Manila
and Honolulu.
The mothers made no statement
before leaving. Red China's Pre
mier Chou t;n-lai turned down a
plea to release their sons but a
spokesman held out hope for clem
ency if the prisoners "behave
well."
Members of the commission
would be the vice president as
non-voting chairman;, the speaker
of the House of Representatives,
the president pro tempore of the
Senate, the secretary of state, the
leaders of the two major parties
in the House of Representatives,
and the corresponding Senate
leaders.
jk. chairman, or
majority of
the members of the commission,
could convene the commission if
it was thought there was cause
for it to act.
In the event there was no vice
president, the official next in line
of presidential succession would
replace him on the commission
ind as temporary successor to the
president in case of need.
A finding that a disabled pres
ident had become fit to resume
oflicc would be made by the pres
ident or the commission under the
same procedures as a finding of
disability.
The proposed legislation was
understood to have the backing
of House Speaker Rayburn (D-
Tex), who for a long time opposed
any changes In the existing legal
situation.
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