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Newspaper Page TextU 07 0RES0N LI8RART EU3ENE, ORE. COUP Thm- Day's flews By FRANK JENKINS This is the 30th day of May. It is the 90th observance of Me morial Day. Memorial Day was set apart in 1868 to honor the memory of those who died in the War between the States. It was immortalized a f;w years later by Walt Mason (up to (hen a scribbling rhymester) who produced these never-to-be-forgotten lines: "The little green tents where the soldiers sleep, and the sunbeams play and the women weep, are covered with flowers today." Here's a thought: The men (they were really boys) who sleep in those little green tents KNEW WHAT THEY WERE FIGHTING FOR. They were fighting for two things: 1. They were fighting for the abolition of human slavery in the United States of America. 2. They were fighting to keep their country UNITED "one na tion, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." If men have to fight, if men have to die, it's wonderful for them to know what they're fight ing for and to BELIEVE IN what they're fighting for. In Arlington cemetery in Wash ington today, tribute will be paid to heroes of three other wars: The Unknown Soldier (known only to God) of World War I. The Unknown Soldier of World War II. The Unknown Soldier of the Korean War. Another thought a solemn one: The Unknown Soldier of World War I THOUGHT he knew what he was fighting for. He thought he was fighting in a war to end all wars. He believed it. Believing it, he could die in peace if he had to die. What of the Unknown Soldiers of World War II and the Korean War? Did they know what they were fighting for? I wonder. Anyway Let's put it this way: If we ever have to go to war again, I HOPE WE KNOW WHAT WE ARE FIGHTING FOR. If we have to fight again, I hope It will be ONLY in a war to save our homes, our firesides and our way of live and NOT for some vague concept of world power. Mostly Mild Over Nation By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Ik was mild in most of the coun try today but it looks like show ers may dampen Memorial Day activities in many sections. Afternoon or evening showers were possible in most parts of the country except in the Far Southwest and from the Ohio Val ley into the mid and north Atlan tic Coast states. Coolest weather was in the northern Great Lakes region and New England with temperatures in the 40s. In contrast, readings were in the 80s in the Southwest hot belt. But in most of the coun try. temperatures were in the 60s and 70s except for the 50s in the mid Atlantic Coast states and the Ohio Valley. Thundershowers fell in scat' tered areas during the night in the central part of the country from the Dakotas through Texas Some storms were reported Winds of 50 m.p.h., with heavy rain and hail, hit Bismarck, N.D. Hail also pelted sections of Okla homa and strong winds lashed the Houston, Tex., area. rmr .... : ... I n 4 . V - ? t- ' n r . n 1, J ,,mimum, M.iHi.rM m n ill, i n r li WARREN WOODARD, kneeling, chairman of the Basin Celebration's Junior Rodeo Committee, receives a saddla donated by the Town and Country merchants to reward the high point winner of tha Junior Rodao, which will ba held July 6 at the fairgrounds. Town and Country mer chants Jass Houta, left, and Innis Roberts look on. Sign up spot for tha Junior Rodeo quaan contest (aga limit for which ft 14 through IS), is tha House of S h o a , 3690 South Sixth Straat. ' Nation Pays Tribute To War Heroes By United Press International The nation coupled silent trib ute to its war dead today with the" relaxation of the, first holiday of spring. , Picnics, parades, auto trips and cemetery visits marked America's observance of the holiday. Marring the long three -day weekend were traffic casualties. The National Safety Council esti mated there would be 350 traffic deaths during the period covered by the survey which ends at mid night Sunday. The figure marked an increase of 50 above the nor mal total for a non-holiday week end at this time of the year. States of-emergency were de clared in some states to meet the threat of carnage on the highways. Fair weather was forecast by the U. S. Weather Bureau for a broad section of the nation ex tending from Maine to Georgia and across Tennessee; scattered showers and rain through the Gulf states and Florida; afternoon showers through the Rockies, Pa cific Northwest and Northern Cal ifornia: hot in the desert and mild elsewhere in the Southwest; and cool and showery through the central plains. Ceremonies honoring the na tion's war dead were marked by parades, speeches, and tradition al tributes. In Washington, the caskets bear ing the unknown soldiers of World War II and Korea were placed beside that of their World War I counterpart in Arlington Ceme tery. President Eisenhower ac knowledged a nation's debt by plac ing the Congressional Medal of Honor on the casket of each of the two new unknowns. A Navy patrol plane was sched uled to fly out over the Pacific Ocean off California to drop flow ers. And a flower-laden raft was to be launched at St. Louis to drift down the Mississippi. At Chicago, the body of Samuel Cardinal Stritch was due to ar rive by plane for burial Tuesday in the city he called "home." Hundreds of policemen, civic lead ers, church dignitaries and laity joined in silent tribute to the pre late who had led the Roman Catholic archdiocese since 1940. Elsewhere in the nation, the In dianapolis Speedway, baseball, golf tournaments, or lazing in the sun were the order of the day. Casting a shadow over these ac tivities was the needless highway slaughter. Unemployment Drops In Basin Two hundre'd eighty persons claiming unemployment payments from the Klamath Falls office of the Oregon State Employment Service went back to work during the week ended May 29, Guy E Barker, local manager reported Thursday. Construction workers accounted for 133 of the re-employed, while 80 more were in the lumbering ana togging industry. "Unemployment has dropped rapidly during May," Barker said. "Employment is expected to con tinue its present rate of increase through June. Barker said that a survey just completed showed that potato farmers paid $400,000 in wages to migrant workers in 1957. This amount does not include wages paid to regular workers employed on a monthly basis. In Memoriam In memory of 350 Ameri cans who will die In traffic accidents this Memorial Day weekend. Price Five Cents 16 Pages nam tnmymnm. fmm .-"ev y.j.wy.'w'? m wsyrfliiyp mjm win n tm Ul . J'.... J ixe:.: ;&fe, a 1 1 r-il lr :' THE COURTHOUSE LAWN, behind the Memorial Shaft, was transformed into a miniature field in Flanders for this morning's Memorial Day services, sponsored by tha Allied Veterans Council. The photo, taken at the beginning of the services, shows the model of the Tomb of the Unknown Sub Sinks On Hitting Ship; No Injuries m HONOLULU (UPIt- The sub marine Stickelback, rammed amidship by the destroyer escort Silverstein, sank to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean Thursday night but till 82 crewmen escaped. No one was injured on either vessel. - The Silverstein knocked a four foot hole in the Stickelback's pres sure hull frame about 1:30 p.m during naval maneuvers. The Stickelback later surfaced and tied up alongside the destroyer. First radio reports from the doomed submarine said the for ward battery and control room were flooded. Another message said the Stickelback had a 20-de- gree list to port and a downbow of 15 degrees. But the submarine surfaced on its own power and the crew trans- ferred to other vessels which sped to the scene. The repair ship Greenlet began towing the submarine back to dry dock at Pearl Harbor but at ' p.m. the Stickelback turned over and slipped beneath the waves. An immediate' investigation was started to learn the cause of the collision, second major accident involving I he Silverstein in the past week. Last Wednesday, locker full of depth charge launch cr cartridges exploded aboard the Silverstein, injuring five crewmen. The Silverstein, a 306-foot-long vessel that normally carries a crew of 20 and travels at a top speed of 24 knots, was launched in November, 1943 at the Boston Navy Yard. It was grounded on a coral reef outside the entrance to Pearl Har bor on Oct. 31, 1944 during a train ing exercise. Scores National (First Games). Braves 7, Pirates 4 Cincinnati 10, Phils 1 Chicago 3, Los Angeles 2 American (First Games) Cleveland 7 Kansas City 1 Boston 2, Baltimore 0 Senators 13, Yanks 8 IDe Gaulle To Take PARIS (AP) Socialist leader Guy Mollet left Paris Friday to meet Gen. Charles de Gaulle amid predictions the World War II hero may take over as premier Sun day or Monday. If the Socialists swing to De Gaulle, his approval by the Na tional Assembly is assured. Mollet, a former premier, talked for a long time with President Rene Coty. who throughout the day has been urging political lead ers to accept De Gaulle or face civil war. Mollet appeared grave as he set off to see De Gaulle along with the Socialist leader in the assem bly. Maurice Deixonne. Wartime Premier Edouard Da ladier told a meeting of his fellow Radical Socialists after talking with Coty that if all went well. De Gaulle wouid be invested as pre mier Sundjy or Monday. Daladier said the general had no intention of coming to the as sembly himself but probably would iend a deputy. The usually well informed inde lendent newspaper Le Monde said hat De Gaulle's program, as be, r,g explained by Coty, Includtv .he demand of full powers for at KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1958 Herald News City Editor In Memorial Day Address By LAMAR HOOVER The red poppies and white cross es of Flanders' fields, backed by model ot the Tomb of the Un known Soldier behind which Old Glory hung at half mast, formed the background this morning for the annual Memorial Day services held at the Memorial Shaft on the courthouse lawn. A small gathering heard Floyd Wynne, city editor of the Herald and News, proclaim that new cour age for the struggle which lies ahead for the lovers of freedom could be gained from the honored dead of America s wars. We can view this hallowed roll and fcrventiy pray that no more names will ever need be added to it." Wynne said in his memorial address. "But we know that our prayers may well be futile. 'The cause ot freedom is ever thus, calling forth a supreme ef fort in man to preserve, protect and defend it. Wynne concluded with an af firmation that the cause of free dom, for which our heroes died will.'someday triumph in all cor ners of this earth, and man will truly be free and equal, subject only to God." The ceremony opened with the playing of "The Star Spangled Banner" and an invocation, inl"u"'"J. ?"?,,". ". which the Rev. E. J. Glover read;? of World War I -and Auxi the prayer of St. Francis of As- Chief Asks Safe Holiday Driving "If we can hold the line for the remaining day of May and especi ally over the holiday weekend, the accident experience for the first five months and particularly the month of May will be most en couraging," H. G. Maison, super intendent of the Oregon State Po lice said in a letter to all state police district offices. Maison told state police that the anticipated heavy travel over the memorial weekend will mean a higher accident potential. "This will demand careful plan ning to allow for extended patrol coverage over the principal high ways during this exceptionally crit ical and prolonged holiday period," he said. least one year. During that time Parliament would be limited to one brief session of perhaps a month. The powers granted De Gaulle would be used primarily to reform the governmental setup and re store peace in Algeria. A revised constitution would be submitted to the electorate in a referendum. Fi nally, De Gaulle would pledge not to stay in power after his one year mandate was up. Le Monde said De Gaulle was not opposed to meeting with the leaders of'lhp political groups and even submitting himself to their questions. It said he insisted he have not only their pledges of sup port but a clear majority in the assembly before he presented him self before that turbulent cham ber. The 67-yar-old World War II hero waited at his country home 150 miles sway after agreeing to take the helm of state, but on his own stiff terms. Former Premier Guy Mollet. whose Socialists hold the answer to whether the National Assembly will accept De Gaulle, arrived and stayed longer than the leaders of other political parties. Soldier, left foreground, over which the Stars and Stripes hangs at half mast. To tha right of tha Memorial Shaft are the wreaths which were presented later in the ceremony. A small group of spectators stands beyond. sisi, "Lord make me a channel of Thy Peace," and called for remembrance, as a source of Christian power. This was followed by a recitation of Lincoln s Gettys burg Address, delivered by Ar thur Epperson, Klamath Falls in surance man. ' After Wynne's speech, wreaths were laid at the foot of the Memo rial Shaft by individuals and rep resentatives of organizations. The ceremony closed with' a sal ute to the dead, fired by a squad from the 408th Fighter Group, Kingsley Field, the playing of Taps, and a benediction by the Rev. Mr. Glover. The following organizations pre sented wreaths: Herbert Applcgate Camp, Span ish American War Veterans, and Auxiliary; Pelican Post 1383, Vet erans of Foreign Wars, and Auxi liary; Lost River Post 4056 (Mer rill), Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Auxiliary; Bloody Point Post 6147 (Malin), Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Auxiliary; and Klamath Post 8, American Legion, and Aux iliary Merrill Post 80, American i L8'. Auxiliary; Malin Post "" " ," "yV, Diwfy Powell Chapter 12. Disabled American Veterans, and liary. Catholic Daughters of America; Daughters of- the American Revo lution; Daughters of American Col onists; Fraternal Order of Ea gles; Gold Star Mothers; Indepen dent Order of Odd Fellows: Klam ath Falls Post, Ground Observer Corps: Loyal Order of Moose 1106, and Women of the Moose; and Ml. McLaughlin Council 2255, Knights of Columbus. Navy Mothers Club; Neighbors of Woodcraft; Prosperity Rebec ca Lodge 104; Pythian Sisters; Royal Neighbors; Sons of Norway: and Rose Croix Chapter. Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Ma sons. Voiture 222, Forty and Eight placed a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Individual wreaths in honor of Orville Gerrue and Con J. Mc- Aulifte came from their families The services were sponsored by the Allied Veterans Council. The atmosphere at the Presi dent's Elysee Palace was less tense. But the politicians were somber as they left alter hearing Coty outline the program De Gaulle had laid down Thursday night. The Socialists, who. fear De Gaulle as a potential dictator, were reported planning to send Mollet or former President Vin cent Auriol to confer with De Gaulle at his country home. The Socialists 97 votes in the National Assembly can send De Gaulle to the premiership. While they have been opposing De Gaulle steadlastly at an almost continu ous party caucus, there were re ports they were weakening. Hanging over the meetings and over all France was the grim re minder from French insurgents in Algeria that the army there is ready to move if De Gaulle's road to power is blocked. Extra police guards were or. dered to the Champs Elysees alt er tracts were distributed all over Paris calling for both De Gaullist and Communist demonstrations at the same time. This could only spell trouble. ' All public demonstrations In Pa Telephone TU 4-8111 Unknown Dead Of Two Wars Laid To Rest WASHINGTON (AP) - The un knowns of World War II and Ko rea began their final journey Fri day to perpetual honor beside their comrade of the first World War Two Caissons, each drawn by six horses, bore the bronze caskets on the solemn march from tho Capitol to the tomb of the un known in Arlington National Cem etery across the Potomac River. For these last rites, the mili tary mustered all its resources of solemn pomp. And nature provided a glorious day, sunny but cool, 'With Wash ington's thousands-of trees fresh ly green from a belated spring. Representing the nation In the funeral procession were Vice President Nixon, Cabinet officers, Supreme Court justices and more than 200 Medal of Honor winners. Marching units of the five serv ices and 15 jet planes contributed military honors. The order of the day lor the jets was "Missing Buddy" formation a flight with a symbolic gap for one plane that was left behind at the base, draped in black. A saluting battery on the Wash ington Monument grounds marked the solemn march with a gun ev ery minute, 80 in all. When the caskets were lifted from Lincoln's catafalque and a duplicate set up under the great, dome of the Capitol, solemn pub lie mourning took over alter more than two days in which Americans, alone, in groups and by organiza tions, had paid their own tributes, About 28,000 streamed passed since Die lying in state began Wednesday, paying the national equivalent of a neighbor's visit when death strikes in the family. Weather FORKCAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair through Saturday with some afternoon cloudiness, Highs 70-75; low Friday night 40-45. High yesterday 7.1 Low last night 46 Over ris have been banned since the outbreak May 13 of the uprising in Algeria. But the police kept hads off the massive leftist dem onstration two days ago and Thurs day night's exhuberant De Gaul list demonstration. There was a demonstration at the Lycec i school) Billion by 300 teen-aged students Irom the fair ly well-off families of the district They gathered in front of the closed gates of the school and de manded that it he opened. It is closed by a strike of anti-De Gaulle teachers. Coty asked De Gaulle Thurs day night to become premier. The general said yes if Coty could ar range it on De Gaulle's terms. They conferred alter Coty warned the assembly that the na tion's choice in the 17-day crisis had narrowed down to the general or civil war. Coty and many Frenchmen feared civil war threatened be cause two militant factions ap peared ready to fight: (1) the army supported rightists determined to end what they consider Parlia-; ment's shilly-shallying, and 2 the. militant Communists who benefit Itom weak parliamentary rule. ' rilJimmy Bryan George Amick Second And Johnny INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Jimmy Bryan, America's top ranking pro fessional auto racer, won the 42nd 500-mile race Friday, a terrific battle marred by a wild 12-car crackup that killed veteran Pat O'Connor. The wreck, biggest in the his tory of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and involving more than third of the starting lineup. came on the third turn in the first lap. O'Connor's death was the track's Giant Jetliner Is Launched LONG BEACH. Calif. (AP) - The Douglas Aircraft Co. pre pared to realize a dream today and unloose its prize peacetime bird. This is the day for the launch ing of the gigantic Douglas jet passenger airliner, a craft that can carry up to 176 passengers and cross the nation in just 4 hours. The company rates Its top speed at 600 miles an hour. The company said it had poured 250 million dollars of private cap ital into development of the jet liner, the Douglas DC8. For years the Douglas company had been making preliminary studies for a jet passenger air liner. Just three years ago Donald W. Douglas, board chairman, issued the directive that converted the ideas into the beginning of a firm project. Today .the company has orders for 138 from 17 commercial air lines, ranging from 40 for United Airlines to one for Trans Carib bean Airways. Douglas said the 138 jetliners will have a value of some "700 million dollars. The DC8 is the first big jetliner I to emerge from the Southern Cal norma aircrait plants ana ine sec ond such craft to be developed in the nation. The other is the Boeing 707, already being flown. The Douglas and Boeing planes are pure jets without propel ters. The comoany said delivery of the DC8s to airlines is scheduled to begin the middle of next year and passenger service over United States routes will start before the end of 1959. GM Rejects Union Appeal DETROIT (AP)-General Mo-I tors' contract with the United Auto Workers expired today as the company rejected a last-minute bid by the UAW to work out a temporary agreement covering 300.000 GM workers. The UAW then centered its at tention on Ford and Chrysler in hopes of working out new agree ments with both companies before current three-year contracts run out Sunday midnight. GM, like Ford and Chrysler, food steadfast through weeks of negotiations on its offer to extend the current agreement for two years. UAW President Walter P. Reu thcr told newsmen he was "disap pointed but not b i 1 1 e r" over failure to agree on a new GM contract. Reuther, weary after a lasl- mitiute bargaining session that ran all day and up to the mid night expiration time, obviously was unhappy as he disclosed that for the first time in 21 years UAW members at GM would have to work without a union contract, WINNERS of this year's faculty cups at Klamath Union High School wara graduating seniors, Charles Edward Carl ion and Suianna Goaller. Names of students who typify the best in character, attitude, service, scholarship and leader ship are engraved on these cups retained at tha school. Names of two students, a boy and a girl, are placed on tha cup each year. Both students will continue school next fall. Suzanne will go to Oregon State Collage to maor In science education, specializing in chemistry. She it the) daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Fred Goeller. Charles, son mi (Mr. and Mn. Cjiarlas T. Carlson, will also attend OSC'f study engineering, Wins '500'; Boyd Third 48th. Only driver hurt besidea O'Connor was rookie Jerry Un ser of Long Beach, Calif., who suf fered a dislocated shoulder when his car flipped over the retaining wall in the mass smashup. O'Con nor uvea in North Vernon, ma. The big wreck, worst since a 7- car smashup in 1930, eliminated two fastest cars of the time trials driven by Dick Rathmann of Mi ami and Ed Elisian of Oakland, Calif. Elisian spun trying to get around Rathmann and the bunched field piled up the tragedy speedway officials had feared for years. George Amick of Venice. Calif.. a high ranking driver on other tracks, drove to a tine second place finish in his first Indianap olis start. He was driving an al most unbelievable 144 miles an hour late in the race. Johnny Boyd of Fresno finished heart-breaking third. He was less than 100 feet behind Bryan for the lead when he had to make an extra pit stop with a worn-Out tire, with 20 miles to go. Old timer Tony Bettenhausen took fourth place, the first time he ever finished the 500 without relief in 12 attempts. Fifth finisher was Jim Rath mann of Miami, who was second last year. The disastrous first-lap crash al so knocked out the cars of Bob Veith, Paul Goldsmith, Art Bisch, and Len Sutton. i Four other cars which returned to the race alter the big pileup were driven by Johnnie Parsons, 1950 winner: Paul Husso, bho Templeman and Mike Magill. Only 14 cars finished the race. one of the highest elimination rates since only 8 were running at the end of the 1951 race. Bryan, a big, cigar-chewing Ari zona cowboy, got a flurry of kisses from movie star Shirley McClame when he pulled into the victory cir cle. He was stone deaf, tempo rarily. . O'Connor, a handsome Indiana- born Irishman, was killed on his fifth start in the Memorial Day classic. He was the first driver to lest the new high speed Monza racetrack in Italy last year. Dick Rathmann. the second- breaking qualifier, said the big pileup came when Ed Elisian's brakes locked, -causing nts car to spin in the backstretch, coming out of the northeast turn. O'Connor's pretty widow, who saw his body carried into tha track (hospital, kept repeating, "I can't Understand it." They have lii-year-old son, Jeffrey Scott. "I know nothing of the crash," Bryan said as he sat In his Be lond Special-Sam Hanks' 1957 winning vehicle, "but I know it was bad." The average speed of the race was 133.791, second best in his tory. Hanks' 1957 record was 135. 601. The race was run In sunny. warm weather which had been ex pected to produce new speed rec ords. But the big pileup at tha start of the race kept the yellow caution light about halt an hour. After that, Bryan moved out in to his lead and held it almost constantly. More than 150,000 persons watch ed tha race. Bryan won t know how much he won until the victory dinner Satur day night. He and the car prooaniy picKea up over $100,000, including prizes from firms manufacturing acces sories used on the car; The total race purse will be over $300,000. Bryan picked up S20,B50 in lap prizes alone $150 for each lap he led. Other leaders during the race included Amick, who picked up $3,900 for pace-setting, Bettenhau sen, who got $2,700 from that source, and Boyd, who led $2,550 worth.