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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (May 23, 1958)
COi? U 0? OR230S LISffA.1t EU3ESS, ORE. KLAMATH FALLS, Price Five rents M Pages OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 19S8 Trlrphon TU 4-8111 No. 607 .... wmWm M4'$mti& i'Sa . ... .u, - 2 ,S& --ii SWIIIWIMPWlWOH I I i n Ill Ml III I III !! MOT IIIMfcJM M y TOrmHi.rMlil ii lilt IIT 'jji. 'illilif I, VZS. i i mirtmrnt Storm Of Rare Violence Hits Area; Causes Slight Damage Over Basin By LAMAR HOOVER A storm of rare violence struck Klamath Basin last night, toppling trees, tearing wires, and setting small fires over a wide area. Thunder and a strong wind start ed at 6:58 p.m., and at 7:25 a peak speed of 55 miles an hour was re corded by the Civil Aeronautics Authority Station at Klamath Falls Municipal Airport. Twenty minutes later the wind had fallen to 30 m.p.h., and gusts continued until 9 o'clock. Quantities of rain and hail fell, but the amounts varied greatly from one point to another. The CAA reported only .05 inch of pre cipitation, while the nearby Copco substation, located north ot .Me' niorial Cemetery, reported .23 inch One Klamath Falls housewife, liv ing in the northeast part of the city, reported collecting two inch s of precipitation in a can. The storm brought a hectic night to Copco. "We got more local damage in that short period of time than I've ever seen around here," Truman Runyan, Copco assistant district manager, said this morning "We're still cleaning up this morn Ing, and most of the -rews haven't been to bed. All the main circuits are back, however, though some individuals are still without serv ice. One of the power company's biggest headaches was caused by a limb which went through a pow- UAW Demands New Contract DETROIT ti United Auto Workers President Walter P Iieuther Friday flatly refused to1 extend UAW contracts with the Big Three of the auto industry tor another two years and said his union's original demands still are on the bargaining table. Reuther also told a special con ference of 600 union delegates at Petroit that "we are not dropping the prom sharing plan. The conference was closed to newsmen hut Reuther disclosed his views to reporters after the session. Thursday evening's scheduled dedication of the south wing at the high school was postponed when the storm hit and the school was thrown into dark ness. Superintendent Arnold Gra lapp reports that the belated dedication ceremonies will be gin at 8 o'clock this evening in the cafeteria of the new south wing. Rocket Blast Cause Probed MIDDLETOWN N.J. tfv-lnvcs-tigators combed a Nike base near hero today in an attempt to learn what caused eight fully armed missiles to blow up in a furious mushroom of fire and death. The explosion yesterday killed from 7 to 10 persons and scat- BULLETIN WASHINGTON (LP) The Army announced today a na tionwide suspension of modifi cation work on Nlke-AJax mis siles, tered explosive warheads across a wide area of the countryside. The disaster, described by a general as an accident that "could not happen but did," was set off by a single missile that exploded from undetermined causes. A split-second chain reaction turned the entire area into a flaming pit of destruction that one eyewitness called "horrible be yond belief." .Mangled bodies and human fragments lay strewn about where - Reuther said definite strategy' a moment before men had stood, decisions on what workers will do It was impossible to set the exact If there are no settlements next death toll immediately, week are to be made later F-riday Three others were injured, one separate sessions of General seriously. Victims included civil Motors. Ford and Chrysler union ian workers at well as service councils, men. er line near the Little Sweden Restaurant on Highway 66. This threw out a good part of the south east suburban area at 7:30. By 8:44 switching had restored serv ice to most of the area, but the line had to be repaired to get power, to Hot Springs, and this took until 10:30. Other troubles affected the Pel ican City, Pine Grove and Spring Lake circuits. Minor difficulties elsewhere included fallen wires and transformers struck by light ning. The roughest personal experi ence of the storm thus far report ed was that of Floyd House and Ron C. Clawson, who were in a fishing boat on Klamath Lake when the storm began. Their boat had a sheared pin and was out of gas. By the time they were discovered it was 6 o'clock in the morning, and they were at the mouth of the Williamson River. Bob Sloan, of Harriman Lodge, and a Mr. Erickson rescued the two men. House was suffering from shock, but his condition was described as "good" by authori ties at Hillside Hospital later (Continued on page 4-A1 KLAMATH FALLS RESIDENTS were this morning working to repair damage caused by one of the worst snort thun der srorrns in the Basin's history, which struolc at 7 o'clock last night. Scenes like the above, snapped by Herald and News photographers, were common throughout the area,' The H. J. Gwinn house, above, 3957 Boardman Avenue, was straddled by two toppled trees, one hitting the house while the other fell alongside. The scene below, left, shows part of the debris that fell along Radeliffe Avenue, near the homes of Margaret Lilly and Pete Robustelli who are on a cleanup detail. The house to the right, below, is that of Al Rider, 3842 Crest Street, where a tree limb scored a direct hit on the back porch. Budget The new school budgets for both District No. 1 and District No. 2 arc printed In today's edi tion on Page 8-B. NO JURY DUTY SPRINGFIELD, III. (UP)-Alma Young was released without fur ther question Thursday from jury duty in an assault with a deadly weapon case when it was deter mined she was the defendant. General Tells Safety Plan WASHINGTON - I.t. Gen Eiwood R. Quesada, who heads the President's Air Coordinating Committee, suggested Friday a reduction in the number of civil ian airways to provide more space for military flights. The retired Air Force officer testified before the Senate Avia tion subcommittee at a hearing on ways to prevent collisions be tween military and civilian planes. A five-point safety program was ordered by President Eisenhower Thursday but Quesada assured the subcommittee "quite 8 few more points" are planned. In testifying that "we might well reduce the number of airways," Quesada said "the military have nowhere to go in some areas' be cause of the air space earmarked for civilian flights. CAR SALES "Ysa Auto Buy Now" sales for Thursday were reported us five new ears and 13 used cars by Ace Mfmeo Service for 11 members of the Klamath Auto mobile Dealers Association. New car sales for the five days of (he program were 106 per cent ahead of a month ago and six per cent ahead of the same days last year. Troops Hold Iron Grip On Panama PANAMA IS! Tough National Guard troops ruled Panama City today as President Ernesto dc la Guardia Jr. grappled with a gen eral strike called by rebellious students. A large student group was holed up inside the National University after a day of rioting in which gunfire killed eight persons, three of them teen-age students. Anoth er 61 persons were wounded. ' The three National Guard chiefs the students want kicked out ran ihe country under a state of siege modified martial law. But this did not prevent iiie strike from getting under way. The first to walk out at midnight were printers at three morning newspapers. El Dia, the Star-Her ald and its Spanish edition La Estrella. The riots grew out of student complaints over school conditions and resentment over the killing of a student in an earlier demon stration. Student hands armed with iron clubs, sticks and rocks roamed the city yesterday and the guards men went into action with tear gas. It soon appeared the students had lost control to hoodlums whose political alignment, if any, was not clear. Traffci in Panama City was tied up by a bus strike. The rioters barricaded downtown streets with garbage cans at every corner. Many stores closed during the fighting as windows were shat tered, cars overturned and traf fic lights smashed. Airport author ities spirited arriving passengers to Mteir hotels by special station wagons. KT nd lsnn FORECAST Klamath Fails and lctnity: Variable cloudiness Fri day night with low S7-44. Clearing Saturday, with high 70-75. High yesterday 73 Low last night 43 Preclp. last 84 hours (5 p.m.) 0 Siace Oct. 1 14.S8 Same period last year 14.89 Normal for period .. H.S9 Algiers Rebs Defy Paris ALGIERS ti What amounts to a revolutionary government for Algeria was set up Friday m de liance of Paris. It was established by a civilian-militatT'junta set up here last week. .' Catting ' itself the Ail-Aieeria Committee of Public Safety, the new group demanded rrn rf Gen. Charles de Gaulle to the helm of Ihe French government. A communique addressed to Frenchmen of tiie world said their countrymen in Algeria are firmly resolved to install a French gov-: ernmcnt of public safety presid ed over by Gen. De Gaulle to pro mote and defend the profound re form of the institutions of the Re public." The committee resolved to stay office until De Gaulle takes command in Paris. De Gaulle .has smd twice in the iast few days that he is ready to do so, but he has not been summoned. Constitution Reforms Pend In France PARIS iff The French Na tional Assembly acceded Friday to a request from Premier Pieitre I'fUmlin for urgent consideration ot constitutional reforms aimed at strengthening his govern ment against nsiMary-cmiian defiance in Algeria. The Assembly-approved its steering committee s recommenda lions to receive the cefarm pro-: nosals next ruesday. Ihe present sctieduse cans lor a vote in prm ciple Tuesday and one on the re form measure itself the following day. Either vote could be made one of confidence, on which the overnmcnt might fail. Pflimlin had to take lime, mean while, .to worry with new trouble in Tunisia. French Charge d'Af faires Jean-Pierre Senard hurried home from Tunis to report on sov- eral shooting incidents between Tunisian and French soldiers Gen. Charles dc Gaulle reported ly sent word to Pflimlin that he was still ready la take ever the government. But De Gaulle ap parently svas not immediately willing to mediate with the defiant' French in Algeria to keep the Premier in oftice. Leaders of Ihe junta which seized contra! of the North African territory May 13 lormally set up a 40-membcr All-Algeria Committee of Public Salety in effect a rev olutionary government. lis ta chairmen were paratroop Brig Gen. Jacques Massa and Dr. Ccrif Sidcara, a Moslem politician who has cooperated with Paris and held a nigh office in the last French government. Cool Weather In Midwest By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Topcoat weather was back in the Midwest today as northerly winds lanned cold air across the Ihorth central region. The nippy air headed eastward into the north and middle Atlantic states and southward into Arkan sas and Tennessee. Thundershowers brake out dur ing the night near the leading edge of the cool air mass as it moved into the Ohio Valley. Nearly 2 in ches rain doused Cincinnati in s six-hour period and about an inch fell at Charleston, W.Va. The shower belt was fairly wide spread in the Northeast from Vir ginia northward to New England but rainfall was mostly light PeronCeded Amnesty Pact BUENOS AIRES Wl Argentine courts will have to decide whether exiled dictator Juan Peron can come home under a polilical am nesty bill signed into law last night. President Arturo Frondizi ful filled an election pledge by sign ing the bill after the Chamber of Deputies adopted It overwhelming ly, me senate naa already ap proved the measure. irondiz) and the Congress which his supporters control were elect ed Feb. 23 with Ihe help of Peron's followers. The new law provides an "am ple and general amnesty ... for all political crimes . . . acts com mitted with political ar labor pur poses, or when it can be deter mined that someone was brought into court and charged with com mon crimes because of aolilical or labor reasons." After Peron was ousted by military forces in September 1055, he and a number of his lieutenants were charged with various com mon crimes. The government made clear it will be up to the courts to decide whether these charges were valid or were made for political reasons. Peron said last week in the Do minican Republic that he was ready and eager to return to Ar gentina il Congress let him. Some sources have said the military leaders who ousted Peron will try to prevent his return. Firemen Try To Contain Raging Blaze LONG BEACH, Calif. (UP)-A , 15-miiiion-dsUar eil refinery fire ' which claimed two livos continued io send flames and dense black smoke skyward todav, but firemen hoped to bring it under control by p.m. PDT. The blast-ripped Hancock rastal lation fire was being permitted to burn itself out. Firemen said they had contained the blazes within the lank farm area of the 10-acra plant of the 25 million dollar refinery. Water pressure dropped briefly this morning, but a defective pump was repaired quickly, and firemen were not hampered. Most of their activity was directed is ward a tank of tetraethyl lead. The tank of explosive, poisonous gasoline additive was sprayed with water to keep it coal, and iuoiiiiit:i sum ai mic illuming they hoped to save it. The 4,200- barrei tank is hath under and above ground and near the fire. Fire officials said their policy. once the dozen blazes were re stricted io the Hancock ares, was to let the fire burn itself out. They compared the blazing tanks to deep fat fryers as they watched the flames burn savagely an diets of gasoline," Naplha and fuel. oil. Control ef' the fire tonight de pends on wind and water, accord-' ing to Fire Chief Lloyd cotson ot Signal Hill, where the refinery is actually located, he said the flames probably waald continue to burn into Saturday. Some of them shot 309 io 588 feet in sir ss the tanks exploded. ds ef flame and smaxe spread out, creating a huge pan cake of greasy smoke ever sur rounding communities. A mm oi black filth was left on structures, signs, cars, plants everywhere the wind carried the smoke. The refinery was almost dc stroyed by the fire, which broke out Thursday afternoon. Flames were carried from tank o tank by nvuiets ot Burning on. Firemen from bignal Hill, Long Beach. Los Angeles Ceanty, the Air Force, Forest Service and nearby communities so far had succeeded in containing the lira to the refinery area. Firemen threw sp a cartam ot water around the perimeter ot the Maze and soaked down anmstest. cd gas and butane tanks, A dozes fires burned thrssigh the night, lighting up the sky for miles, 'the glow was spotted 25 miles away: Fire officials said the blaze might be Controlled today. The main unrrir w.ic 11 S nOll.ftnllnn tank containing tetraethyl lead. A fire official said the material was poisenans and would pose severe threat if the material was spread. Firemen wet dawn in tank to keep it cool. Missile Test Termed Great WASHINGTON W Assistant Secretary of the Army Dewey Short Friday described last Sun day's l.lioo-milo flight of the Army's Jupiter missile and recov ery of its nose cone as "the great est break-through yet in missiia development. Appearing . before the Haass Armed Services Committee which, he formerly headed as a Repub lican congressman from Missouri, Short told his one-time colleagues; The lieriormance oi the Jupi ter demonstrates that we have thrust, accuracy and the ability to bring a warhead back from outer space on target. II Is the greatest breok-througri vet. it is mare sisnifkant than nil the Sputniks, Explorers and other developments put lagelher." ' rrinsr. - ..A T. 5 U A U I c u C U O O L ARTIST'S RENDERING of the new M.unt Shatia High School building which is under construction was mada in tha office of !h architect, How ard R. Perrin, 1121 Main Street, Klamath Falls. A contract for construc tion ef ihg 37,202 square toot structure was awarded recently to Sirftjle- ton (ontrruction Company ot eureka. Dies were opjna3 in tha otfice ef Of. J. E. Hurley, superintendent of Siskiyou Un'on High School District at schools in Northern California for which Perrin's office has drawn plans and specifications. Tha Bulla Valley High School at Oorris is under con struction by Duncan Construction Company of Klamath fValls and Louis Kowolowski of Madras was awarded a contract for construction of tha new hiah school at McCleud and is just ceraplatina th ntw Tuielak HisSf School building. The Tulelake construction includes an administration w'njj Yreka from six general contractors who bid en tha job. Th completed I gym, music and cafeteria facilities. Plant ar underway at Perrin's flij structure will cost in excess of $600,000 and is on of a series of new high for new shop for that school) also.
