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U OF OSSSOS LI33A3 EU3EN2, ORE. Mr ' rm- Price Five Cent 1C Page KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1958 Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 401 SB 10 - t 'i .' at . . II if). KLAMATH FALLS LODGE No. 1247 BPOEIks honored charter members of the lodge at a dinner meeting January 30 in the Elks Temple. Present were seven of the remaining 13 members. These were among the 73 men who heard the rituals of the lodge 47 years ago in 191 I. C. B. (Buz) Larkin emceed the program arranged by C. M. Gilmore, loyal knight. Dinner was served to 300 members before the meeting. Left to right, seated, are Major C. H. Underwood, Wilson Wiley, Bert Hall; standing, same order, Perry O. DeLap, Guy Merrill, John Martin and William (Bill) Houston, lodge secretary for 1 6 years. la The- Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS President Eisenhower breakfast ed this , morning at a downtown Washington hotel with the mem bers of the Republican national committee. The breakfast led off a highly po litical day. Vice-President Nixon, as this is written, is scheduled to address a similar gathering of GOP brass at a luncheon at noon. During the morning cabinet mem bers will submit to questioning by the party leaders at a closed meet ing. During the afternoon high-up party men will speak in the cap ital city about the prospects and the problems of the 1958 political campaign. This, you know, is an election year, with control of the congress at stake in the November voting. Ike told his hearers there are no secret weapons in politics. The ingredients of success, he said are GOOD CANDIDATES, faith in a good cause and HARD WORK. He added: When we have all three, we have the formula for victory." Then he gave them the ,word with the bark on Thrusting out his 'chin, he said he has COMPLETE CONFIDENCE in EACH of his cabinet officers, thinks ALL of them are doing a fine job and has no intention of replacing ANY of them That is to say: He ISN'T going to fire Secre tary of Agriculture Benson who is regarded by weak-kneed Repub licans as a liability rather than an asset m the coming campaign Let's put it this way: Secretary Benson has honesty and courage. In his own mind, he is certain that the tough and knot ty farm problem must be solved the RIGHT way if it is to be solved at all. and he is equally certain that the right way is the HARD way. t He doesn't hesitate to say so. T It is interesting to learn that 'Ike is going to back him to the finish. In his pep talk at the breakfast this morning. President Eisenhow er made a couple of good cracks. Warning against letting the kind of campaign program he had outlined be drowned in "dismal wails of despair" from the demagogues, he defined a demagogue in these terse words: "A demagogue is a person who ROCKS THE BOAT HIMSELF so as to persuade everybody that there's a terrible storm on the water." Admitting that the political prophets think the odds are run ning heavily against the GOP, he said: "These calculations overlook this decisive element: What counts isn't necessarily the SIZE OF THE DOG IN THE FIGHT the de ciding factor is the SIZE OF THE FIGHT LN THE DOG." YindsDelay Satellite Try CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Wt High winds swirling 8 to 10 miles directly overhead grounaea any -plans for launching an earth sat ellite today and might continue to do so for several days to come. Winds up to 230 miles an hour surged across central Florida and the Bahamas area at altitudes of from 40.000 to 45.000 feet. They were part of a high-altitude jet stream, a river of high winds ex tending virtually all the way from the Pacific Coast. What missile men worried about was not so much the great veloc ity of the wind.' as the shearing effect of swift changes in wind direction and speed. COSTLV CATCH ATLANTA (UP -Night watch man Emmett Beeks routed two nocturnal prowlers at gunpoint from a drive-in restaurant, but waited until the place opened vittvt mnrninff tn renort to notice, He delayed phoning, he said, be- cause he had no dime, Heavy Guard Young Killer GERING. Nebr. Wl Charles (Little Red) Starkweather, the bantam sized killer who always wanted to be somebody, began the last lap of his trip back to Ne braska Friday to answer for 10 brutal slayings. Lancaster County Sheriff Merle Karnopp said that while riding lrom . Douglas, Wyo Thursday night Starkweather orally admit ted 11 killings, 10 in Nebraska, and one in Wyoming, where he was captured Thursday. Riding in a convoy of cars bristling with guns the little out law and his eighth-grade steady. 14-year-old Canl Fugate, pulled out of Gering for the 375-mile trip to Lincoln at 9:41 a.m. The journey was made by car because the swaggering author of Nebraska s most shocking crime Two Injured In Bus Crash EUGENE UPI Two Greyhound bus passengers suffered minor injuries in a three-vehicle acci dent Thursday morning 40 miles east of Oakridge on the Willam ette, Pass. A mechanic, sent to work on the damaged bus, died apparently of a heart attack. Velma Zensen, 51, of Eugene, suffered a bumped head and knee and Helen McGarity, 44, of Doty Washington, received a cut elbow from the accident. Bott received treatment in Oakridge. Later, Milton T. Bowman, Eu gene Greyhound shop superinten dent, died as he was working on the damaged bus. He was dead on arrival at the Oakridge clinic shortly after 5 p.m. Thursday. State police reported the two injured women were among 38 passengers on the bus. A state snowplow operated by Helmar Watilo of Salem, slid Into the path of a Pacific Intermoun- tain Express freight truck, which was forced into the ditch. Watilo and the truck driver. Richard Roderick of Portland, got out to inspect the situation and the Greyhound bus appeared. The bus driver, V. V. Pindall of Portland, said he saw the two men fall onto the road attempt ing to miss being hit and he crashed into the rear of the plow to avoid hitting them. HOLE TRUTH FORT WAYNE. Ind. (UP)-Liq-uor store owner Bernard LaMonte told police he was no expert on guns and couldn't identify the weapon used by a young bandit who held up his store. "I don't know much about pistols," La Monte said, "but this one had a hole in the end so I didn't argue." Indian Delegate Opposed To Federal Land Purchase WASHINGTON OP A Klam ath Indian Thursday said Con gress should reject two major plans for federal purchase of the tribe's reservation in Oregon. Wade Crawford of Chiloquin. Ore., said he opposed both the plan of Rep. Ullman ID-Ore) and the alternate administration pro posal, put forth by Secretary of Interior Seaton. . Crawford is a former superin tendent of the reservation. He said that both plans would mean lower prices paid to Indians when the reservation's main re source, a huge stand of Ponderosa Pine, is logged. Lower prices would result, he said, because the timber would be logged on a sustained yield basis. The administration proposal also contains the provision that the federal government would purchase reservation assets if in dustry bids are insufficient. in his testimony here to House Interior Subcommittc, Crawford said that no private , timber firm would buy the Klam- alh stand at rurront nrire nnri'ha aiH men log it on a sustained yield 'basis under government control. r-x " I Accompanies To Nebraska spree is afraid of flying, officers said. As the cars pulled out of Ge ring Starkweather was riding in the back seat of one car. He was flanked by Sheriff Karnopp and Capt. Harold Smith of the state safety patrol division of criminal investigation. Starkweather was shackled about the ' ankles. He also wore handcuffs fastened to a restrain rog belt. Caril rode in a second car with Mrs. Karnopp as matron. The girl still looked shaken up by her experience. Sheriff Karnopp said Stark weather was "cool as a cucumb er and without remorse as he told his story of the 11 killings including that of Robert Colvert Lincoln filling station operator, Dec. 1. "I always wanted to be a crim inal, but not this big a one", . . the sheriff said Starkweather told him. Starkweather will go to trial in Lincoln despite his confession, Nebraska law requires a jury trial in all first degree murder cases and the jury specifies whether the penalty shall be death in the " electric chair or life im prisonment. Both Starkweather and Caril have been charged with first de gree. murder. Caril's status was a little un certain. She claimed she was an unwill ing hostage on the tour of terror Charles, too, insisted she had no part in the savage killings that ended with Starkweather s cap ture Wednesday in badland coun try near Douglas, Wyo. Lincoln Police Chief Joseph Car roll said he does not believe Caril was a reluctant companion she had too many opportunities to escape. "It looks to me like she's try ing to wiggle out of it," he added. Starkweather's return just about coincided with the first of five separate funeral services sched uled in the space of 25 hours Fri day and Saturday for the nine Ne braska murder victims counted since Monday. Triple services for "Mr. and Mrs. Marion Bartlett and their two-year-old daughter, Betty Jean, were held at a Lincoln mortuary Friday. Starkweather's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Starkweather of Lincoln, set about arranging for an attor ney for their son. Lincoln Atty. Frederick H. Weg ener, former county attorney here and a 1954 rival of Gov. Anderson for the Republican nomination as governor, said he had not com mitted himself to serve as coun sel but added: "What kind of a human being would 1 be if I turned my back on those parents." Crawford termed as "astound ing" a part of Ullman's bill which would pay the Indians for their 'and over a 20-year period. Under that provision, he said, the gov ernment would get all the income from timber sold grazing lands leased. "Then after 20 years we would be paid for it," Crawford said. Crawford said the original 1954 act. which defined the method for ending supervision over the tribe. was a "wonderful law and what the Indians want. Boyd Jackson, another member of the tribe, told the committee that the 1S54 act "will result in chaos for the Klamath Basin and totally inadequate compensation for members of the Klamath Tribe." He said the tribe's official posi tion "is one tf support of the principle of federal purchase. If such a plan cannot be creat ed. Congress should declare a two-year moratorium on the term- ination of control and let a pro gram be created by the govern ment, the tribe and tne puonc, The hearing win De resumea I here Feb. 17. Ike Outlines Campaign For GOP WASHINGTON IS) - President Eisenhower told Republicans Fri day they can campaign on a "five years of prosperity platform de spite the current business reces sion. The President told a breakfast sponsored by the Republican Na tional Committee that the econ omy will pick up later this year because it "remains basically strong and the American people remain basically confident. This is a period of consolidat ing the gains of recent years," Eisenhower said. "Many people are paing off .installment debts. Many businesses are trimming in ventories. The economy is catch ing its breath for a new advance after the fast expansion of recent years." Eisenhower spoke to the gather ing shortly before his takeoff for golfing weekend at Augusta, Ga. The meeting was closed but ex cerpts from Eisenhower's address were released for publication. Reporters in the corridors out side could hear periodic rounds of applause during Eisenhower s pep talk. Sources present said that at the conclusion of his talk Eisenhower got up from his seat to say that he has a "great Cabinet" and would not change one member of it. ' Eisenhower, did not predict a Republican victory in the congres sional elections next November, but he said: "We all know that the political prophets have already got out their short pencils and made a lot of mathematical calculations. , . 'But these calculations over look the decisive element: What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight its the size of the fight In the dog. Eisenhowers prescription, fol lowed much the same line as his Jan. 20 Chicago speech in which he hit at "pessimists" who say America is weak, and asked the people to push out their chins and say the country is strong and will grow stronger. POOR RISK .HONOLULU UP)- - A public relations man for Pan-American Airways walked into the United Press bureau Thursday night with an announcement that his company will offer low-cost in surance to passengers against bad weather during their Hawaii an visits. He was wearing a rain coat. NOTICE The Klamath Falls Park and Recreation Department will make daily reports on the Ice skating possibilities at the fol lowing times. 1. KFLW 1 p.m. Basin Briefs 6 p.m. Sports News 2. KFJI 5 p.m. Bob Green News I. KLAD 4:15 p.m. Recreation Announcements 4. KOTI-TV-:0S p.m. After Weather Report Due to present weather con ditions the department was un able to predict when skating might be resumed. ,h J jo h "GEE DOC, I CAN'T OPEN ANY WIDER,", young Bobby Smith, second grade pupil at Fairview School tells dentist H. Melvin Amsberry. As part of National Dental Health Weak, Sunday, February 2 through 8, the Klamath County Dental Society, in cooperation with the county health de partment, is sponsoring a tooth brushing contest among all second grade classes in the county. Two winning classes, one from city and the other from county schools will be' selected on the basis of their effort toward better oral health. The winners will be given an escorted tour of the im mediate area of the Basin and a tour of the roundhouse, courtesy of the Southern Pacific Company. The tour of the roundhnma i scheduled for Tuesday, February 4 at I p.m. Photo by Kettler 'i i i - "fZ A -GIANT STEP toward giving loeai Teen-agers an opporruniTy to vent a normal desire for speed and automo-batics gathers momentum as the Klamath Junior Racing Associa tion, whose officers are pictured above in consultation with Francis Mathews, juvenile au thority, formulates plans and specifications for the newly formed organization to compete in supervised auto racing on the adult Klamath Racing Association's quarter -mile dirt track. From left to right are shown KJRA secretary, Richard Mick; Buff Runnels, presi dent of the patron KRA; Dave Blevins, prexy of the teen group, Mathews and Jim Hakanson, treasurer of the new club. In the background can be seen Tony Bonotto, vice president of the juniors. (See story in sports section). ' Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Mostly cloudy with occasional snow showers and a few clearing periods through Sat urday. Low Friday night 26-32; high Saturday 36-42. High yesterday 33 Low last night 27 Preclp. last 24 hours 0.13 Since Oct. 1 10.51 Same period last year 7.05 Normal' for period . 6.85 CRATER LAKE High yesterday 25 Low last night 21 8 a.m. today , 25 New snow 4 Snow depth 147 Laat year 69 Weather was reported clearing this mornintf in the park. Snow had completely ceased by 11 p.m. on Thursday. Highway 62 is open tbrouiui the park and In good con dition." Chains are required . f o r travel from Annie Springs to park headquarters and the road was still closed this morning from headquarters to the rim. Crews were working on the latter road, starting at 4 a.m. today. In an effort to get it punched through for weekend travel. The warming hut will be open on Saturday and Sunday as soon as the road is open. Prospects are for excellent skiing the rangers said. TOMAHAWK Tows, Poniallft and the restau rant will operate from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. The parking area has been plowed and is in good condilion. Skiing very good. Ski instruction is avail able both days. WARNER CANYON Four feet of hard packed snow with six inches of powder snow. Weather Is clearing and excellent skiing is expected for weekend. Tow will operate 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Warming hut and snack bar will be open. n? o n v 1 i, lO l.S. Working To Defend Against fCBM WASHINGTON Wl The United Mates disclosed today it is work ing on the development of nuclear counterweapons designed to de stroy intercontinental and other aggressive missiles. The disclosure came in the 23rd semiannual report of the Atomic Energy Commission to Congress. Referring to its previously an nounced weapons tests at Eniwe tok next spring, the AEC said: "The forthcoming series will ad vance the development of weap ons for defense against aggression whether airborne, missile-borne, or otherwise mounted. The government previously has hinted at work on atomic rockets and antiaircraft shells designed to pulverize airplanes, and has an nounced development of atomic depth, charges to knock out sub marines. This was the first offi cial mention of efforts to neutral ize missiles with nuclear war heads. Presumably, in the forthcoming Eniwetok tests, the AEC would mount an A-bomb or an H-bomb as the warhead of an actual mis sile to test the effective scope of the blast at theoretically mtercep tive ranges. On other phases of its work, the AEC reported: 1. "Important gains" were made in the last six months in the field of nucicar weapons, especially small weapons for defensive pur poses, and weapons designed "greatly to reduce the radioactiv ity remaining after detonation." 2. Maximum exposure to radio active fallout from last year's "Plumbbob" tests in Nevada by localities near the site were all below the acceptable level. These localities included monitored sta tions in Arizona, California, Ne vada and Utah. 3. Average levels of radioactive strontium a potential producer of bone cancer in the bone struc ture of Americans has increased during the past year. But the av erage is still far below the rec ommended maximum acceptable level, the report indicated. 4. The use of radioactive iso topes is saving industry an esti mated 500 million dollars annual ly representing "the equivalent of a 7 per cent yearly dividend on the more than seven billion dol lars in tax money that the federal government has invested on atom- Strong Campaign Expected To Cut Ike's Tariff Power WASHINGTON 'n-A powerful congressional move shaped up to day aimed at stripping President Eisenhower of important parts of his tariff authority. This challenge developed in the face of the President's urgent plea for added powers to negotiate fur ther tariff cuts under a proposed five-year extension of the recipro cal trade agreements program beyond next July 1. If transformed into law, this move by critics of the program would in effect give Congress a key check on the President s trade agreements authority. It would deny the President au thority he now has to ignore Tar iff Commission recommendations for increased import duties where the commission finds such boosts are needed to protect American industry from serious harm. As some leading members of the President's own party in Con gress blasted his recommenda tions. Eisenhower's most ardent backers conceded he was in for a fight with the outcome highly uncertain. Aligned against F.isenhower's proposals appeared to be a major ity of House Republicans and a growing number of Democrats. On Weapons ic energy plant and equipment be- tween 1942 and 1958. Radioactive isotopes are ray- emitting atoms which . industry uses in the form of gauges, flaw detectors and other applications. 5. Also, in the agricultural use of isotopes, "gains continued to be made in broadened knowledge and improved management of crops and livestock, and of dis eases and pests that alflict both. "Research pointed the way," said the AEC, "to better use of fertilizers, insect and weed kill ers, and growth regulators, and benefits were in sight from widen ing experiments with plants and animals. 6, .''Considerable- progress" - has been made in the diagnosis and localization of brain tumors with Uie use of radioactive iodine and more recently, there also have been encouraging results with cer tain other radioactive materials in this use. In these more recent studies, radioactive arsenic has shown particular promise. Defense Fund Bill Approved WASHINGTON 10 The Senate Appropriations Committee ap proved unanimously Friday a $1, 410,000,000 emergency defense money bill. Only one major change was made in the measure as it passed Ihe House last week. Chairman Hayden (D-Ariz.) said the Senctc group knocked out all reference to the advanced research project agency the Pentagon is about to set up. Hayden said, however, that 10 million dollars would be made di rectly available to Secretary of Defense McElroy for use in any such agency. Some Democratic senators have advocated voting as much as one or two billion dollars more now to step up missile arid bomber production, but Hayden said the committee decided to go along with McElroy's request. Committee approval sends Ihe money bill on to the Senate for action, perhaps early next week. However, mixed in wilh the hos tile comments were some expres sions of support, particularly in the Senate. The President, in a special mes sage, appealed for broad new au thority to lower U. S. tariffs by 5 oer cent a year during the next five years. These reductions would be in return for similar trade con cessions from other nations. In his message, Eisenhower told Congress: "We can either receive the benefits of reciprocal lower ing of trade barriers, or suffer the inevitable alternatives of increas ingly high barriers against our own commerce which would weak en our economy and jeopardize American lobs. "In particular, it is essential to enable us to meet the lutest form of economic challenge in the free world presented by communism." Legislation to carry out the broadened trade program was in troduced in the House by Hep Kean Hl-NJ) and Chairman Mills ID-Arkl of the House Ways and Means Committee, as well as by Rep. Frelinghuyscn iR-NJ. The last extension of the Recip rocal Trade Act, in 1955. squeaked through the House by a single vote, 193-192. Union Boss Faces Quiz On Slayings WASHINGTON H Senate rackets investigators served no tice Friday they want to ask un ion boss William E. Maloney whether he knows anything about two gangland-style killings in the early 1930s. . They did so by accepting in evi dence a staff memorandum men tioning Maloney's name in con nection with the cases. The vic tims in each of the killings were men with whom Maloney had tan gled in his rise to the presidency of the Operating Engineers Un: ion. Accepting ' the memo in evi- dence. Chairman McClellan ID- Ark) said he noted that it was based on newspaper reports and talks with people in "government agencies." The document, he said, will "serve as a bill of particulars for Mr. Maloney to know about" so that he can answer the questions raised when he is well enough to testify. Maloney is in a Miami hospital and his doctor says he is suffer ing from heart trouble. The killings ' mentioned in' the staff memo were those of Dennis Bruce Ziegler, slain on a Chicago street February 24, 1933, and Ar thur Huddell, shot in a Washing ton, D.C., restaurant May 20. 1930. Both men were major figures in the Operating Engineers Union. The senators turned to Ma loney's career in the union after days of examing the rich re wards he has received since, be coming its president. Winding up that phase, staff aides related that Maloney has three Cadillacs and an Imperial automobile, bought for him by the There was testimony Thursday that he has drawn hundreds of thousands of dollars in expense money as well as his $55,000 a year salary. ; Third Russian Orb Predicted : NEW YORK Mf The New York Times said Friday the Soviet Un ion is preparing to launch a huge rocket, probably in an attempt to lift its third artificial earth satel lite, according to reports believed to be reliable. The Times' Washington dis patch said the Russians, in their preparations to launch the huge rocket, were reported to have be gun at least one count-down. In the count-down, begun long in ad vance of the established time for launching, every working part of the missile is checked until a final state of readiness is de clared and the switch or button pressed. The Times said it was estimat ed by experts in Washington that the Soviet launching will be at tempted within a few days, pos sibly within less than a day, if the count-down is satisfactory. The consensus of the experts, it was reported, "is that the Soviet will try to raise into orbit nround the earth a vehicle that is substantially heavier than the first two satellites." 'Scrap Heap' Jet Completed DALLAS OB Rob Kamcnsky of North Hollywood, Calif., has a T33 Shooting Star for sale despite government regulations prohibit ing private civilians from owning military jet aircraft. He built it himself from about 30.000 spare parts picked up dur ing a three-year, international scavenger hunt. The plane looks so authentic ijovernment Inspectors accused him of swiping it when they saw it, he said. Kamensky, a used plane parts broker, said he picked up parts in junk heaps from Alas ka to the Sahara Desert. He got interested in the project when a Chicago banker told him he wanted a jet for his own use. Kamensky knew where he .could find a fuselage and a wing in Ne vada. The rest he figured would be easy. But the task, including frustrat ing chases on false leads and long struggles against government red tape, took him three years and thousands of miles. He bought five used engines to provide two good ones. The banker sold out after put ting $130,000 Into the venture. But Kamensky says his craft, despito ils fuel consumption of 240 gal Ions an hour, offers advantages for instance a speed of 550 miles per hour. The plane was assembled in Phoenix, Ariz. BAN BANNED LONDON (UP -British cin emas today abandoned efforts to ban smoking in theaters. Eric, Rhodes, director of a company that tried it for six months and lost business, said ruefully, "the Englishman still guards jealously this right to do as he pleases." t
