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ALTHOUGH HE NORMALLY operates the Men's Hand
Laundry, Philip Duffy did a landslide business Tuesday
while making like a Viennese gondolier at the intersection
of Eleventh, and Klamath streets. The rains came , . . and
Strong Storm Hits
Pacific Northwest
: By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A powerful storm shattered the
calm of the Pacific Northwest's
extremely mild winter Wednes
day, leaving in its wake one man
dead, at least seven persons in
jured and untold property dam
age. ,
The rain-sodden storm, moving
swiftly in from the ocean at mid-
la The-
By FRANK JENKINS
President Eisenhower is asking
congress to extend the reciprocal
trade act for five years as a
"powerful force in waging peace."
This, will probably raise in your
mind two questions:
1. What is the reciprocal trade
agreement act? ,
2. Why is it a potentially powers
Jul force in waging total peace?
Let's see if we can answer your
questions here.
Under the reciprocal ' trade
agreement, passed during t h e
Roosevelt administration, the Unit
ed States grants tariff conces
sions to nations that are willing to
RECIPROCATE by granting tariff
concessions to US. Its purpose is
to encourage both imports and ex
ports. It is potentially a powerful force
In waging peace because it pro
poses TRADE rather than AID.
That's about the size of it.
Let's be careful not to say that
extension of the reciprocal trade
agreement act is good JUST BE
CAUSE IKE IS PROPOSING IT.
President Eisenhower isn't al
ways right. He is only human. He
makes mistakes from time to time
even as you and I. But TRADE
RATHER THAN AID is a good ob
jective. People in general RESPECT
their customers. But they have
basically very little use for Lady
Bountifuls.
For too many years, the United
States has been playing Lady
Bountiful over too much of the
world.
It hasn't bought us much.
You can't BUY friends.
Wore on juvenile delinquents:
Three Burlingame teen-age girls
have been arrested in Santa Mon
ica after. a wild chase at speeds
up to 100 MILES PER HOUR.
The girls confessed stealing a
car in Sunnyvale. They bought 12
gallons of gas in Los Alamos
but neglected to pay for it. The
gas station operator alerted -the
sheriff's office, and the chase was
on. Ut must have been quite
chase, because Santa Monica is
a far 'piece from Los Alamos.)
The three girls were turned over
to the juvenile authorities.
Hmmmmmm.
It looks like another case of too
little wood shed.
Wreck Leaves
Eight Orphans
KELLOGG, Idaho m Eight
children waved goodby Wednes
day when their parents left their
Pines Creek area home 10 miles
southwest of here for a short trip
to a nearby town. Now the chil
dren are orphans their mother
and father killed in a traffic ac
cident. Clarence Larson, 41. and Donna.
34. were killed outright when their
panel truck went out of control,
toppled end over end and came
to rest against a telephone pole.
The mishap occurred a mile from
their home shortly after Wednes
day midnight,
Days News
day, raked coastal areas with
winds up to 135 miles an hour and
inland areas with gusts to 60
m.p.h. and higher. There was a
110 m.p.h. gust at Mount Hebo,
Ore.
The death blamed on the storm
was that of Randolph W. Myrick
61, Tacoma, a lineman for Ta-
coma City Light.
Myrick and Graydon Bailey, 35,
were on a utility pole trying to
repair power lines blown down
when both touched a hot wire.
Myrick was electrocuted. Bailey
suiterea burns ana shock,
In Seattle, seven persons were
cut by flying glass as the gusty
wind took out a number of store
rront windows. A nroken power
line draped itself over a car,
trapping Donald Luke, 32, of Se
attle, until Seattle City Light
crews treed him.
The 55-foot fishing vessel Cross
Sound, with three men aboard,
radioed the Coast finnrrt at the I
height of the storm she was found-;
ering off Gravs Harbor. Winds un'
to 81 miles per hour whipped the
ocean.
Later the Cross Sound reported
she was all right and with two
Coast Guard cutters dogging her
wake, the vessel headed out to
deep water to ride out the storm.
The Weather Bureau at Seattle
said the storm extended roughly
from northwestern Oregon to the
Canadian border. By nightfall it
was losing its punch and Thurs
day it was expected to have left
the area.
Seattle City Light was swamped
with trouble calls within minutes
after the storm struck. Hundreds
of calls reported downed wires
and utility poles.
The Washington State Ferries
canceled the Edmonds-Kingston
and Mukilteo-Columbia Beach fer
ry runs shortly after nightfall.
Service was resumed Friday.
Ihe storm also disrupted phone
service at a number of Western
Washington cities, including Seat
tle, Aberdeen, Tacoma, Shelton
and Bremerton.
The Northern Pacific Railway's
communications from Seattle to
the east, south and north were cut
off by storm damage.
Wind damage forced a number
of radio stations off the air. One
Seattle television station shut
down because of a power failure.
The highest recorded gust, a
whipping 135 m.p.h. blast, was re
corded at the Naselle Air Force
station, 2,000 feet high in the foot
hills between South Bend, Wash,
and the Columbia River.
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Congress Showdown Seen
On Space Research Project
WASHINGTON, W Congress ap
pears headed toward a showdown
battle over civilian vs. military
control of outer space experi
ments. A decision by Secretary of De
fense McElroy to set up a Pen
tagon Advanced Research Proj
ects Agency brought open opposi
tion today to over-all military di
rection of space developments.
McElroy said the ARPA, which
is to work on antimissile and out
er space projects, will be official
ly set up "in a day or two." He
said he wants it in existence be
fore funds are voted for it.
While they did not immediately
challenge McElroy's decision.
Chairman Russell (D-Ga) and
other members of the Senate
Armed Services Committee said
the secretary's action is not going
to be accepted by them as any
final determination of who will
supervise the race to space.
"This is a matter on which Con
gress must have full information,"
Russell said. "This is too vital a
matter to be disposed of by some
administrative order."
Russell said he is opposed to
putting direction of the program!
came . . . and came, Duffy is pictured in the boat at upper
left while heading for shore to pick up a quick fare in the
person of Wally Spires, salesman at Juckeland Motors. The
center picture was taken on Owens Street near the inter
section with White Street. In the foreground the pressur
ized drain water surges up through a manhole from which
the cover has been lifted. The flooded' condition in the
IV1UIHM iW
Price Five Cents 24 Pages
Chiefs Cite
Red Threat
To Mideast
ANKARA tfi- The Baghdad
Pact powers said Thursday "Com
munist imperialism is increasing
its efforts to dominate the prized
oil-producing Middle East
In a communique winding up a
meeting of ministers, the allies
and a U.S. team led by Secretary
of State Dulles asserted Russia
is directing these attempts by ex
ploiting the fear of war, economic
distress and regional tension.
The communique said Commu
nist "infiltration" and subversion
continue to be a menace and call
for constant vigilance and in
creased solidarity.
The communique listed these
declarations by the council, con
sisting of British, Turkish, Iraqi,
Iranian and Pakistani ministers
Creation of a combined military
planning staff to serve as a nu
cleus for an eventual unified com
mand.
A recommendation to hold com
bined military staff training exer
cises soon.
Appointment of Turkish Lt. Geh,
Ekrem Akalin as director of the
combined planning staff for 1958,
with American Air Force Maj,
Gen. Daniel S. Campbell as his
deputy.
The ministers in their four-day
meeting expanded the Middle
East alliance's military planning
staff and heard U.S. pledges of
10 million dollars more in aid and
"mobile power in great force" to
meet any aggression.
HIGH FINANCE
SAN JOSE, Calif. (UP) - The
U. S. government took $4,743,206
in taxes and interest from the
$9,946,135 estate of Gertrude
Achilles, and now admits it made
a slight error in figuring the bill.
The estate, officials said, owes
Uncle Sam another 67 cents.
in the hands of the Atomic En
ergy Commission as Senators An
derson D-NM l and Gore (D-Tenn)
have proposed. They too have op
posed military control.
Sen. Kefauver (D-Tenn) pro
posed a separate Cabinet-level
department, saying, "The peace
ful, conquest of space is highly
important and must not be over
shadowed by military projects."
McElroy has contended he al
ready has sufficient authority to
establish the ARPA. Some ques
tion of that was raised in House
debate, however, and the House"
voted specific authorization to es
tablish the agency while at the
same time prescribing limits on
its operation.
Mothers March
Mothers will march tonight
between 7 and 8 o'clock to take
part in the nationwide plea for
funds in the March of Dimes
"Survival Is Not Enough," cam
paign. Those wishing to donate
please leave porch lights , on.
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON,
Yacht Supported By Union
Funds Related To Probers
WASHINGTON W) Senate In-1
vestigators developed testimony
Thursday that the yacht used by
union boss William E. Maloney
and friends has cost the union
members around $130,000 includ
ing pay for a non-union skipper.
Maloney, international president
of the Operating Engineers Union,
was absent as the rackets invest
igating committee dug into his
handling of union funds. He was
asked to be present but sent word
he was ill. ; .
. But staff investigators told the
committee Maloney and othqt "Un
ion executives' haJe been eotef-
tainiiig. their wives and guests on
this 47-foot yacht since 1949.
The yacht "Half Moon" is listed
as a craft for coastal inspec
tion" on the union's books, the in
vestigators said.
Bullet Sets Off
Dynamite Blast
LEBANON, Tenn. (UP)- Two
teen-agers "just shooting at
tilings," fired a bullet Wednesday
into a truck load of dynamite,
setting off a blast that killed one
of the youths and shook a three
mite area.
Glenn C. Gully, 15, Lebanon,
was killed. Charles Pruitt, 17, his
companion, was seriously injured.
Pruitt said the two were "just
shooting at things and we saw this
trailer.
"I don't know what was in it
We shot at it four or five times."
"I fired the last shot and then
I don't know what happened. The
next thing I knew I was crawling
around and calling for Glenn.
The boys had fired into a trailer-
truck loaded with 1,500 pounds of
dynamite.
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IRVIN D. KERR, newly appointed superintendent of the
Lava Beds National Monument, replaces Robert R. Budlong
who has been promoted to the position of management
assistant in the park service's region four office, San
Francisco. Announcement of Kerr's appointment was made
by Lawrence C. Merriam, regional director, region four,
National Parle Service, Department of the Interior. Mr. and
Mrs. Kerr are living in park headquarters at the monument.
upper right picture was snapped on Adams Street near
the south end of the viaduct. Measurements tabulated
by the local office of the Bureau of Reclamation indicate
that more than a half-inch of rain fell Wednesday, with
the runoff being aggravated by warming weather and por
tions of a recent snowfall still on the ground when the
rains came. In addition to many street portions being in
HfiTl IHH
THURSDAY, JANUARY S, 1958
But ' the captain himself, a
leathery faced man named Cecil
F. Braund, said all he ever saw it
used for was trips around Miami
Beach, where the boat is docked,
and to New York and Washington.
The committee swung to Ma-
loney's union stewardship after
getting a fresh refusal by Chicago
contractor Stephen A. Healy to say
whether he had paid bribes to
Maloney for favored labor con
tracts. Healy was threatened' with
prosecution for contempt.
The Committee sought from the
69-year-old ,Healy an- answer to
the question .whether Items" on His
firm's books totaling $228,923 re
flect bribe payments to Maloney.
Maloney is president of the In
ternational Union of Operating
Engineers whose members oper
ate cranes, bulldozers and other
construction equipment. The union
has contracts with Healy's com
pany. A row flared between Sen.
McNamara (D-Mich), a commit
tee member, and Healy's New
York lawyer, Jacob Grumet, when
McNamara demanded that the
committee "castigate" the Amer
ican Bar Assn. and lawyers who
advised clients to plead the Fifth
Amendment, if it is going to crit
icize those whp plead it.
McClellan produced a copy of a
contract he said was awarded to
the firm of S. A. Healy Co. by the
11th Naval District for tunnel con
struction for the San Diego, Calif.,
aqueduct.
MAN THE PUMPS!
SAN FRANCISCO (UP) The
State Board of Equalization re
ported Wednesday that California
breweries last year sold 203,245-
076 gallons of beer more than
enough, at 12 million gallons per
ship, to float 16 battleships.
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No. 4009
More Time
For Trade
Plan Asked
WASHINGTON M - President
Eisenhower asked Congress Thurs
day for a five-vear extension of
the reciprocal trade program with
increased power for him to ne
gotiate tariff .cuts. He said it is
essential to America s vital na
tional Interests
vln a special message,1 Eisenhow
er said of the trade program
"I,will strengthen- our econo
my, which is the foundation of
our national security. It will en
hance the economic health and
strength of the Free World. It will
provide a powerful force in wag
ing total peace."
The requested legislation is ex
pected to stir up one of the major
controversies of this Congress ses
sion. ;
The, administration ran Into
trouble in lining up a Republican
sponsor for the bilb Rep. Reed
of New York, senior Republican
on the House .Ways and Means
Committee, is the party man to
whom the administration normal
ly would look for sponsorship of
the measure.
But Reed declined to put his
name to it.
Rep. Kean (R-NJ) agreed to
take on the task.
The committee has set hearings
to begin Feb. 17.
The trade program dates back
to the Franklin D. Roosevelt ad
ministration. Under it, the admin
istration can lower tariffs on im
ports in return for concessions by
other countries as to their tariffs
on U.S. products.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
ABERDEEN, Scotland (UP) -Inhabitants
of the remote island
of Foula in the Shetlands received
supplies and mail including
Christmas cards Wednesday for
the first time since they were cut
off by storms 47 days ago.
AF Scientist Says Space
Full Of Mental Hazards
NEW YORK (If) An Air Force
scientist says man may find space
crawling with these mental haz
ards: Marching squirrels, tiny rocket
ships that fire pellets, and little
men who swing on space ship in
struments.
Reporting today to a meeting
nf the Institute of Aeronautical
Sciences, experimental psycholo
gist George T. Ilauty told of three
pre-space-flight experiments.
One of these was conducted by
McGill University scientists of
Montreal, Canada. They wanted to
find out what happened when you
shut off sights, sounds and other
sense stimuli. They closed male
volunteers in cubicles for 48 hour.
Soon one subject reported: "A
procession of squirrels with sacks
over their shoulders marching
purposefully across a snow
field. ..."
Another said he saw a miniature
rocket ship shooting pellets at his
arm.
In addition to having hallucina
tions, the volunteers became ir
ritable and were unable to con
centrate on complex Ideas.
The volunteers were amused by
Ihe visions at first but later com
m mm
undated Wednesday, some of the suburban streets were
made temporarily impassable and numerous families were
faced with flooded basements. USBR records indicate that
the Klamath Basin has had more than 10 inches of rain
since October of 1957, or more than four inches in excess
of the normal six-inch fall registered between October and
February. Photos by Kettler and Ellis
Young Killer Slays
10 Before Capture
By JOE McGOWAN ,
DOUGLAS, Wyo. Wl A young
gunman sought in a wave of 10'
savage killings was run to earth
Wednesday in the badlands of
eastern Wyoming.
Charles Starkweather, 19, and
his brunette girl friend, Caril Fu-
gate, 14, were captured after nine
persons in Nebraska and one. in
Wyoming had been slain in a
three-day period.
The girl told officers she feared
Starkweather, red-h aired and
wearing rimless glasses, wouia Kin
her.
Automobile glass shattered by
bullets in the wild chase that led
to Starkweather's capture nicked
the gunman's ear.
Sheriff Earl Heflin said: "It was
his own blood that got him. He
thought ha was shot deader'n hell
when he saw that blood
"He thought he was bleeding to
death."
Detective Lt. Eugene Heninger
of Lincoln, Neb., spent two hours
talking 'With Starkweather in his
cell and said the bandy gunman
had promised to write and sign
a formal statement.
"I feel we have him tied to the
nine deaths In Lancaster County,
the filling station operator (Rob
ert Colvert, 21, of Lincoln, killed
Dec. 1) and the man killed in
Wyoming," Heninger said.
He agreed to sit down and give
written statement when other
Nebraska authorities arrive. I
think I will get a written confes
sion." Heninger said Starkweather
gave no motive other than to say
that "I got mad at people," that
people were acting funny and
that when he thought they had
heard of him on the radio during
the search in Lincoln he became
frightened. Heninger said the
youth was. cooperative.
There are very deliniteiy no
other bodies not yet discovered,"
Heninger went on. "Parts of his
story do not jibe.
He said he was headed lor
Washington, where he has a broth
er named Leonara. Me am not
mention a city or town."
He said Starkweather had em
phatically denied sexually molest
ing Carol King, 16, who witn ner
friend Robert Jensen, 17, was shot
to death in Lincoln.
Heninger said Starkweather told
him he had killed Marion Bartlett,
57, his wife Velda, 37, mother of
Caril Fugate, on Tuesday. He did
plained that they interfered wilh
their sleep.
Researchers made the experi
ments to determine if there is a
background activity as well as
normul sensory activity in the
brain.
In another experiment, Hauly
and R. Payne confined 30 volun
teers in cockpits and put them
to work for 30 consecutive hours.
They had to regulate and. control
certain occurrences using dials
and buttons on instrument panels.
While allowed 20-minute breaks
at mealtimes, they were not per
mitted to sleep.
Much to the surprise of re
searchers, the subjects reported
hallucinations and illusions
Some were simple and poorly
defined, said Hauly for instance
the instrument panel kept melt
ing and dripping to the floor."
Other subjects reported were
well-organized phenomena such
as: "On several occasions, the
(instrument) showed a hippopota
mus smiling at me."
Another said he spent a good
deal of time brushing away little
men who kept swinging on the air
speed indicator and preventing
him from reading 1U
not mention Infant Betty Jean,
also slain. He told the Nebraska
detective he had spent most of
that day at the C. L. Ward home. '
C. Lauer Ward, 48, his wife Clara,
about 46, and Lillian Fencel, about
60, their housekeeper, all were
shot down.
The girl, in a state of shock
after fleeing Starkweather's . car
before the final chase leading to
his capture, was sheltered in the
living quarters of the sheriff and
his wife on the second floor of the
jail. - i
Two P0SSibIe reasons for the
wave of slavines came to lieht
Thursday.
At Lincoln, Neb., his father, .Guy
Starkweather, said: "He is to lose
his sight within a year, because
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SfateVeafher
'Highlights'
PORTLAND IDTwo tornadoes
and high winds were highlights of
Oregon weather in 1957, the U. S.
Weather Bureau said in its an
nual summary Wednesday.
The tornadoes, however, did
only slight damage as they swirled
briefly April 12 near Sandy and
in Gilliam and Morrow cqunties.
High winds also raked the state
in 1957. The highest carried gusts
up to 100 miles an hour and were
recorded at Mount Hebo on the
coast and in the Columbia Gorge.
The bureau also said In Its re
port that it got pretty hot and
pretty cold last year in the state.
Arlington recorded the highest
temperature, 106 degrees July 4.
Seneca was the coldest spot re
ported 43 degrees below zero
Jan. 26.
It also was pretty wet in some
parts of the state. Valsetz record
ed the 24-hour high, 6.17 inches
Dec. 19.
Weather
FORECAST Klamath Falls and
vicinity: Snow, showers and partial
clearing periods through 1 Friday.
Low Thursday night 20-28) high
Friday 34-40.
High yesterday 37
Low lust night 25
I'rccip. Inst 24 hours 0.47
Since Oct. 1 10.38
Sifme period last year. 7.05
Normal for period 6.79
CRATER LAKE
High yesterday 23
Lew last night 20
8 a.m. today - 21
New snow 8
Snow depth 144
Highway 62 Is open through the
park with chains advised; very
narrow. The road Is open, with
chains required, from Annie
Springs to pnrk headquarters. The
rnnd from headquarters lo the
rim Is closed today but Ihe rang
ers hope to have it reopened for
weekend skiing. The temperature
dropped Wednesday afternoon,
making Ihe new snow lighter than
that ol the previous day and pre
paring for good weekend ski con
ditions. There was a low overcast
this morning and Intermittent
snow,
TOMAHAWK
Four Inches of new snow fell
last night on a three foot hard-
packed surface In the Tomahawk
Ski Howl 24 miles northwest of
Klamath Falls on Lake of the
Woods Road. The parking area
has been plowed and is In good
condition for visitors. Facilities
will operate on Friday from 1 lo
4 p.m. and on Saturday and Sun
day from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. There
will be an Instructor on duly and
ski school will operate all three
days as will the tows, Poninllft
and restaurant.