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KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1958
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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.
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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.
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"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
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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.
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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."
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