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By FRANK JENKINS
More about France which is
presently the world's hotlest trou
ble spot:
Adlai Stevenson tells the grad
uating class at the University of
Michigan that the United States
can help keep France (rom found
ering during the next six months
ty extending IMMEDIATE ECO
NOMIC AID during the present
governmental crisis.
Hmmmmmm.
Let's take a look at the ledger.
In the past 13 years we have
poured a little better than 11
BILLION DOLLARS into the
French economy. By doing so. we
have helped to keep taxes down
in France. That is to say, during
these 13 years Americans have
paid HIGHER taxes so that the
French would be enabled to get
along with LOWER taxes.
Has it paid off?
1 wouldn't know.
But, as nearly as one can
Judge by reading the news, Amer
icans seem less popular in France
than they were 13 years ago.
That tends to confirm the belief
that ONE CAN'T BUY FRIENDS.
The French meaning the REAL
French, not the French politicians
are wonderful people. They have
proved that over tne centuries.
everybody else
They can be spoiled by too
much indulgence.
Price Five Cents 14 Pages
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. TUESDAY. JUNE 10. 1958
Telephone TU 4-8111
Algeria Resists De Gaulle
PARIS (AP) French insurg
ents in Algeria threatened a break
with Premier Charles de Gaulle
Tuesday as he strove to untangle
France from a snarl of domestic
and foreign problems.
A communique from the All-Al
geria Public Safety Committee op
posed his plan for local elections
in Algeria within, a month and
demanded a housecleaning of po
litical parties in France.
The communique was met with
official silence here. But it was
unofficially reported to have stir
red up a deep suspicion that the
A Kenan rightwingers want noth
ing less than one party rule in
France.
The committee formed after
the May 13 revolt in Algiers still
holds extensive power in the
French North African colony de
spite De Gaulle's notice to its
leaders to relinquish their ruling
role.
The committee, which had de
manded De Gaulle be restored to
power, has shown impatience be
cause he had left its leaders on
the outside in the reorganized gov-ernment.
The committee insisted that Al
geria be bound tighter to France
witn one currency, one postal svs
tern, one rail administration and
one electric administration.
Some of the measures demand
ed by the Algerian insurgents
would impose a tremendous strain
on French finances at a time
when De Gaulle is attempting to
ease the threat of inflation and
balance France's unfavorable for
eign trade.
PORTLAND (AP) Police
ordered shotgun squads out Tues
day when a report came that a
leopard was loose ' in the Park
blocks, the center of Portland's
Rose Festival this week.
The leopard, which had been
, ... , ,,. . .. . , i brought from the city zoo to go
I think this might be a good u:ui n. j,-i.-
time to quote Lincoln's statement festjva, show waJ recaptured
Leopard Loose In Portland
The public was scarcely aware
that "you can not help men
PERMANENTLY by doing for
them what they could and should
do for themselves.
Going on with the news:
Senator Henry I Scoop) Jackson
of the state of Washington pro
poses a six-month suspension by
the United States of above-ground
nuclear tests after the current se
ries in the Pacific is completed.
He says the move would facil
itate negotiations with Russia for
an OVER ALL ban on future
tests of nuclear weapons.
It sounds wonderful.
But here's a thought:
Suppose we ban nuclear weap
onsmeaning atom and hydrogen
bombs and such. Suppose the Rus
sians ban them also. Suppose if
you can stretch your imagination
that far they keep their word and
do away with atom and hydrogen
bombs.
Would that end HORROR war
I wonder.
There would still be left poison
gas, nerve gas, germ warfare and
all the other scientific horrors to
consider. Suppose the commies
tricked us into doing away with
nuclear weapons and then over'
whelmed us with gas and germ
weapons,
It's so terribly hard to do busi
ness with somebody whose word
you can t trust.
without use of the shotguns and
without injury to anyone.
The leapord got out of its cage
in a big tent erected on one of the
Park blocks, which stretch along
side the city's business district.
of the incident, for the leopard
slipped out of the tent only briefly,
then went back. .
Children in Shattuck elementary
school across the street appar
ently were unaware of it, for no
faces appeared at the windows.
The leopard, after padding
around inside the tent for .some
15 minutes, finally went back into
its cage, responding to the urging
of Russell Loel of Sydney. Aus
tralia, recently hired by the zoo
as a bird expert.
Hoppers Loose In Colorado
DENVER (AP) Eastern Colo- been working on some of the fields
rado's 110-million-doIfar bumper
wheat crop faces ruin by the
state's worst grasshopper inva
sion in 10 years.
Nearly nine million acres of
rangeland and cropland in 16
counties are already infested. The
blight extends into western Kan
sas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Wyo
ming and Montana.
The crisis is nearing rapidly in
Colorado's eastern plains where
hungry hoppers already have
gorged on 10 per cent of theland's
wheat.
A horde of full-grown hoppers
could clear an acre of wheat in
36 minutes," State Agriculture
Commissioner Paul W. Swisher
said today. "The insects have
for a week.
When you figure seven hoppers
per square yard it becomes a crit
ical problem."
Young grasshoppers now num
ber from SO to 400 to the square
yard in Colorado. Soon they will
develop wings and begin to mi
grate
Officials of the states affected
are pressing for swift action, both
by the federal government and
landowners.-
Farmers have been urged to go
ahead with spraying programs
and not wait for government dis
aster help.
Experts say that if the hoppers
aren't exterminated by mid-June
it may be too late to save the
crops
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Labor Bill Rou .
Hares In Senate
WASHINGTON (API A roar
ing controversy erupted Tuesday
over the Senate labor bill, des
cribed by its makers as aimed at
corruption in labor unions but pro
nounced completely ineffective
by Secretary of Labor Mitchell.
In the wake of Mitchell's criti
cisms:
Sens. John F. Kennedy ID
Mass) and Irving M. Ives (R-NY)
sponsors of the bill, made, a point-
by-point reply at a news confer
ence. Kennedy said Mitchell'!
statements were "inaccurate and
misleading." Ives labeled them
uncalled for, utterly so.
Republican leader William F.
Knowland of California said he be
lieves most Senate Republicans
will back some "necessary and
desirable" amendments. Know-
land also told an informal news
conference he expects the Senate
Republican Policy Committee to
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DISCUSSING UNITED FUND PROBLEMS at their regular board meeting were these mem
bers of the organization. Standing, left to right, Walter (Bud) Franklin, A. D. (Debl
Addison, Vince Bousquet, and Bob Beach. Seated, same order, Margaret Sheridan, presi
dent Ralph Herpmesch and 1958 campaign chairman Richard Laudenschlager. Princi
pal topic of discussion "was the recently announced move of the American Cancer
Society to, withdraw from the UF campaign.
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And In California, Too
Gondoliers In
Venice Strike
At Motorboats
VENICE, Italy (UPD The van
ishing gondoliers of Venice met
today to discuss a proposed strike
against their enemies the motor-
boat drivers who threaten them
with extinction.
The threatened strike was thei
latest move in a colorful but
deadly serious battle for survival
by the boatmen who have helped
make the city of Venice and its
canals a magnet for romantic
tourists.
Changing ways of life, and the
motorboat, have reduced the num
ber of gondolas from 10.000 in the
16th century to a mere 437 today.
At today's emergency meeting,
the gondoliers will decide whether
to strike or fall back on some
spectacular demonstration to em
Dhasize their plight.
The gondoliers complain, that
besides stealing passenger traffic
from them, waves caused by the
speedy motorboats cut by two
thirds the life span of their ex
pensive light craft.
"We are not trying to have mo
torboats outlawed." a gondolier
spokesman explained over the
roar of, a passing motorboat.
"What we are seeking is just
peaceful coexistence."
SACRAMENTO (AP) Hordes
of hungry grasshoppers, now
feasting on lush mountain vegeta
tion, will move into California's
valleys soon in what agricultural
officials say could be one of the
state's worst grasshopper years.
Robert W. Harper, chief of the
State Agriculture Department's
Bureau of Entomology, said today
early predictions of a good grass
hopper year are holding up. And
a good year for the hoppers is a
bad year for the farmers.
The hoppers haven't started to
move yet because heavy spring
rains gave them plenty to cat in
the mountains and foothills, Har
per said.
But when that is finished, they'll
move down the gullies toward the
valuable croplands of the central
valleys.
Harper said it will be several
weeks, before the extent of the in
festation can be fully determined
but that all signs pointed to a se
rious outbreak. State and federal
aericultural officials are workinc
to lay down' barriers to halt the
migrations into the valley.
Kern County is experiencing a
grasshopper outbreak along a
mile front east of Arvin and Edi
son where the insects already are
seeking greener pastures.
From orange cove in Fresno
County south through Tulare
County vast grasshopper areas
have been reported along the Si
erra foothills.
The Army is planning to lay
down a barrier of bait material
in the Camp Beal area of Nevada
County, where the hoppers are
threatening permanent pasture
plantings.
Harper says outbreaks of up to
100 grasshopper per square yard
even had been reported as far
north as Shasta and Siskiyou counties.
Bulletin
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) An
Argentine airliner with 22 persons
aboard crashed off the coast of
Brazil Tuesday. . .'..
The local office of the line,
Aerolineas Argentinas, said it was
not known whether there were any
survivors.
The airline said there were 16
passengers and 6 crewmen aboard
the four-engine plane. Two of the
passengers were cniiaren.
The plane took off from Rio's
international airport at 6:54 a.m.
for Buenos Aires. It had arrived
earlier in the day from Europe,
The airline said the plane
crashed near the island of Ilha
Grande, about 75 miles southwest
of Rio De Janeiro.
Macmillan Asks Arms Cut
BALTIMORE (AP) British
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan
called today for a start toward
building world peace through a
"litle by little" approach to dis
carding all big weapons atomic
and others.
Macmillan's speech was pre
pared for commencement exer
cises at Johns Hopkins University,
where President Eisenhower was
to introduce him as "a great free
world leader." Both were given
honorary degrees by the school.
Macmillan said the Western
Sputnik To Be
In Clear View
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP)
With clear weather, early risers
should get a spectacular view of
the rocket-satellite of Sputnik HI
before dawn this week, Smithson
ian Astrophysical Observatory re
ported Tuesday.
The rocket, and Sputnik III, it
self, will be at the low point, or
perigee, only about 130 miles
above the earth, in their early
morning passages. The rocket will
be visible Wednesday mostly in
the southern United States.
Both satellites will be traveling
outh southwest to north northeast.
Later this week flic visibility will
extend northward, taking in all
parts of the United States.
Bomarc Missile
Test Success
CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. (AP)
Another Bomarc missile, the na
tion's key air defense weapon, has
streaked over the Atlantic in an
apparently successful test.
The Bomarc launching yester-
aiy was the latest in a series to
develop the ground-to-air inter
ceptor lor operational status.
More than 40 of the Boeing mis--itles
have been fired from the Air
Force test center sine the pro-
trim began. .
world alliance has served its pur
pose well and must .be continued
as a shield against Communist
aggression.
"But I am not without hope,
he said, "that we may succeed
little by little, if not all at once.
in making some progress toward
the relaxation of tensions in the
world."
Macmillan said it would be fool
ish to exDect anv summit meet
ing to bridge the gap between
East and West.
Spy Charges Threatened
BERLIN (AP)-The East Ger-
man Communists hinted today
that nine U.S. Army men ar
rested after their helicopter made
a forced landing behind the Iron
Curtain might be treated as spies.
The East German army news
paper Die Volksarmee said that
Maj. James R. Zeller, Mount Joy,
Pa., "and his inquisitive team
have learned we. . .will not toler
ate that our borders be overflown
boldly to carry on espionage."
"The air space over our terri
tory is our air space and flying
spies will be treated as such," the
newspaper said.
American officials say the U S
helicopter, belonging to the 3rd
Armored Division in West. Ger
many, got lost in a thunderstorm
Saturday, strayed over the East
German frontier and ran out of
fuel.
The East German regime last
night called on the United States
to open direct talks with it to ob
tain the release of the Americans
The United States insists
dealing with the Soviet Union on
such matters since it does not
recognize the East German gov
ernment as a legal government
Even the de facto recognition
inherent in dealing with the East
Germans on the fliers would be
a major political victory for the
Reds.
. Despite the statement of the
East Germans and a similar
statement from the Soviet Em
bassy in East Berlin, the U.S.
Army persisted in seeking re
lease of the men through the Soviet
army garrison in East Germany.
SCHEDULES
Reminder
Radio and TV program
loqs for the entire week
were cqrricd in Sunday's
magctiiic section of the
Herald and News. Readers
are urged to retain this
section for reference
throughout the week.
These oroqram loqs will
be carried thereafter in
the Sunday magazine
section.
United Fund Board Scores
Cancer Group Withdrawal
The withdrawal of the American
Cancer Society from the United
rund organization was roundly
scored at the Monday noon
meeting of the UF Board of Di
rectors at the Willard Hotel.
President Ralph Hcmmesch, in
announcing the move, said. "As
we have been expecting since the
announcement of the American
Cancer Society's national policy
last fall, they have given us no
tice that they will no longer be a
part of our United Fund.
The national policy told them
they had to withdraw from all fed
eration by 1060 so their state action
Oldster Making
Sure Coffin Will
Be Comfortable
STANSTEAD ABBOTS. Eneland
(AP) Archie Miller disclosed
Tuesday he has been napping in
his coffin for 33 years and is satis
fied that his last long rest will
at least be comfortable.
Miller is 92. Every afternoon he
goes to a shed where he keeps
the coffin and gives it a polish
ing. Then, if drowsy, he crawls
in for a snooze.
The coffin is solid oak and cost
23 pounds about $100 when
Miller bought it.
1 even had my photograpn
taken in it, he told a reporter.
Wanted to see how I'd look when
the undertaker lays me out.
I came into the world a bit
rough, as one of nine children
Now I'm making sure I go out
respectable with an oak coflin
with solid brass handles and ev
erything."
Storms Still
Pester Nation
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The nation's weather pattern
showed only minor changes today
after another night of storms in
east central sections and showers
in most of the Eastern half of the
country. '
Mostly dry weather prevailed iy
the Far West although light rain
continued in the Pacific Northwest.
Tornadic winds and severe thun
derstorms struck the northern
half of Indiana last night as vio
lent weather hit Midwest areas for
the second straight night. Strong
winds, hail and heavy rain were
reported in central Illinois and
sections of Ohio and Kentucky.
A small tornado skipped across
the Marion, Ind., area, uprooting
trees and knocking down power
lines. No injuries were reported.
The thunderstorm belt extend
ed through Ohio and extreme
western parts of Pennsylvania
and New York.
Weather
FORECAST Klamath Falls and
vicinity: Partly cloudy through
Wednesday with scattered after
noon thundershowers over moun
tains and possible thunderstorms
at night. Low tonight 40-45. High
Wednesday 62-68.
High yesterday . 59
Low lust night .... 42
Preclp. last 24 hours T
Since Oct. 1 16.68
Same period last year 14.96
Normal for period 11.75
came a year earlier than ex
pected. However," he continued.
' it is doubtful if our budget com
mglee could have accepted them
again this year anyway because
of their flagrant use of funds.
"The American Cancer Society
has been offering to use their
funds to subsidize any local can
cer unit that will withdraw from
federation. They are offering to
match the funds raised by a
United Fund for as many years as
it may take the unit to raise the
same amount of funds locally by
their own drives. The same Junds
that they are offering is the money
tncy nave pleaded tor from the
public in the interest of cancer
research.
Hemmesch explained the UF's
stand on the issue further, sav
ing, "We all agree that research in
cancer is most vital and therefore
we have honestly tried to support
American Cancer Society, and now
to find that great amounts of mon
ey have been held in reserve to
subsidize local units in a battle
against the local federation is most
revolting. It is no wonder why the
large national health agencies do
not want any citizens groups con
trolling . their budgeting and expenditures.
Many local United Funds are
finding ways of channeling their
health dollars directly to research
institutes where somewhere be
tween 90 and 100 per cent goes
into research rather than the 20 lo
30 per cent when administered by
many ot tne national health agencies."
Hemmesch concluded, "There has
lo be a better way for people to be
able lo give for research in the
health field than through the or
ganizations that seem to be more
interested in fighting among them
selves, fighting federation and ac
tually pulling the wool over the
eyes of the giving public."
.Margaret Sheridan, chairman of
the budget committee, reported that
a three man committee had al
ready been set up to conduct c
searching study of the problem.
The three members of the com
mittee are Chct Clark, chairman;
Ron Phair and Hollin Cantrall.
Mrs. Sheridan pointed out that
the American Cancer Society and
research into the cause and cure
of cancer were two separate
things.
She outlined the fact that in 1957
the American Cancer Society and
its divisions and units spent 11
million dollars for research, and
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Duck Stamp
Boost Souqht
WASHINGTON (AP) The cost
of hunting ducks will go up from
$2 to $3 if the House acts favor
ably on a bill passed by the Sen
ate on a voice vote Monday.
Under the terms of the measure
the price of duck stamps ' would
go up and all of the proceeds
except printing and distribution
costs would go into the purchase
of wet lands as wild fowl preserves.
Sen. Warren G. Magnuson ID-
Wash) told the Senate that about
five million dollars now is raised
annually by duck stamp sales.
But he said about 80 per cent of
the amount goes into the policing
of duck hunting and other admin
istration. '
Under the new bill the interior
department would get direct ap
propriations for these activities
and the stamp funds would go into
land purchases.
Magnuson said the measure
would clear the way for the Fish
and Wildlife Service to acquire
77,000 additional waterfowl acres
in the Puget Sound area, in cen
tral Washington near Wenatchee
and Toppenish in the northeastern
part,of Washington state.
explore the bill further at a i
meeting.
Sen. Pat McNanwa (D-Mlcni.
Labor Committee member and
member of the Plumbers Union,
got out a statement saying he ob
jected strenuously to a provision
that would require use of secret
ballots in the election of union of
ficials. He said a federal law of
this kind would violate "the very
essence and meaning of democ
racy.
McNamara also criticized a sec
tion seeking to prevent a person
convicted of certain felonies from
holding union office until one year
after the restoration of his civil
rights.
Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Arlz),
another committee member, said
a statement that the bill will
not cure the abuses exposed by
the Senate Rackets Investigating
Committee headed by Sen. John
Mcciellan (D-Ark). He said he
was surprised that McClellan "has
loaned his assistance to the pas
sage of. a measure that falls so
for short of his own recommen
dations." McClellan has endorsed
the bill.
'This bill is a feeble sham and
it is being recognized as such by
Americans who expected better
trom the senate, uoldwater saia.
Planes Seek
Missing Flier
SPOKANE (AP) A big air
borne search got underway Tues
day for a light plane piloted by
a Bremerton man- that disap
peared on a flight from Spokane
to Portland Monday.
More than 40 Civil Air Patrol
planes took off in an attempt to
find a trace of the plane piloted
by Bill Tappe, about 35.
The Civil Aeronautics Adminis
tration said Tappe left at
10:30 a.m. Monday on a planned
2 hour ' and 15 minute flight to
Portland. He arrived here Sun
day, night from Seattle.
it was believed he planned to
fly to Portland via Pendleton-The
Dalles because he requested
weather information for the Ore
gon points Monday morning.
A jet plane from Geiger A I r
Force base here searched for the
single engine, red and white air
craft late Monday, the CAA said.
ihe pilot flew from Spokane to
Pendleton and Walla Walla and
return but sighted nothing.
Tappe, described by the CAA
as a "conscientious pilot who was
in tne nana of closing out his
flight plan with a nosition reonrt."
has been piloting his own plane
for 10 years. An industrial paint
er, Tappe was on a business trip.
Swiss Women
Oppose Vote
Golden Rule Crew In Jail
HONOLULU (AP)-The entire
crew of the pacifist ketch Golden
Rule now is in jail.
James Peck, 43. was jailed yes
terday for 60 days for violating
probation. He was the last of five
crewmen who defied a federal
court injunction against sailing to
Eniwetok to protest nuclear weap
ons tests.
Peck, formerly of New York
City, had his probation revoked
yesterday by Federal Judge Jon
Wiig after he failed to report to a
probation officer and then told the
judge he had no intention of obey
ing the terms of his probation. He
said he could not conscientiously
go along with them and felt mor
ally obligated to take the same
position as the other four crew-
members. Like tne outers. Feck
was given a year's probation
which forbade his leaving Hawaii
on the Golden Rule or sailing to
Eniwetok.
Three of the crew were jailed
last week for trying a second tirnt
to sail to Eniwetok in defiance of
Judge Wiig'i injunction.
mtntJLditrmimm mew-smi i ilWlil tin neat ml m
AN ON-THE-SPOT SURVEY of the KFJI hill area where Clyde Cloud was reportedly
beaten by a Klamath Falls patrolman is being made by a circuit court jury which was
empanelled late Monday afternoon to hear the long delayed trial. Members of the jury
were taken to the scene by bus late Monday afternoon in order to familiarize themselves
with the eree prior to the presentation of'arguments in the trial of John Wilson accused
ef assault with dangerous weapon. (See Story on Pago 41,
LUCERNE. Switzerland (AP) 1
A committee of women was or
ganized Tuesday to oppose and
listen to this, men the granting
of voting rights to women.
Switzerland is the last country
in Europe where only men can
vote. The government wants to
Rive women voting privileges.
rhere II be a referendum come
autumn.
And so some of the good house
wives got together and cooked up
a propaganda campaign against
this half baked notion of votes
lor women.
Two of the main Ingredients:
If women vote like their husbands
their ballots aren't needed any-1
way. If they vole against their
misnands their ballots cancel each
other,
Red Leaders I
Maneuver For
Top Position
By THOMA8 P. WHITNEY 1
AP Foreign News Analyst -
Signs from Moscow indicate that
Nikita Khrushchev may have
pulled the rug out from under his
chief Kremlin rival Mikhail Sus
lov preparatory to purging him.
Suslov is a secretary of the So
viet Communist party's Central
Committee, outranked only by
First Secretary Khrushchev him
self. He is also a member of the
Presidium of the Central Commit- ,
tee, the group of top committee
members which wields the real
power. ;
At least until recently he head
ed all the propaganda and cultur
al work of the Kremlin, was a
leading party theoretician and had
charge of the Kremlin's relations
with foreign Communist parties.
Some evidence indicates that
Suslov on occasion has managed
with some success to organize op
position in the Central Committee
to policies ot unrusncnew '
The signs that Suslov may be
on the way out are too clear to
be missed i
1. He has been absent front
public appearances of the Krem
lin leadership since May 16.
2. Particularly important was
Suslov's absence from the recent
Communist summit meeting,
which demonstrated beyond any
doubt that he had been removed
from his former task of conduct
ing relations with foreign Commu
nist parties. .
3. On May 17 it became known
that the head of the Central Com
mittee's Section on Propaganda
and Agitation, F. V. Tantinov,
had been replaced by L. F, Ilyl
chev. Since this was the key Cen
tral Committee section under Sus
lov and Konstantinov was Suslov's
protege, this indicated a fall in
Suslov's authority.
4. Khrushchev, speaking In Bul
garia June 3, made an all-out at
tack on theoreticians and an
equally vigorous defense of the
practical politicians. Ostensibly '
the vitriolic condemnation of emp
ty theoreticians was directed at
Yugoslav President Tito. But the
real target may have been Suslov,
the theoretician, as contrasted
with Khrushchev, the practical
politician.
S. The Central Committee on
June 8 took the seemingly unnec
essary step of rehabilitating the
already rehabilitated leading com
posers Dmitri Shostakovich,
Aram Khachaturian and others
who were attacked as formalists
in February 1948. This may well
be a veiled attack on Suslov, since
Suslov under Andrei Zhdanov was
largely responsible in 1948 for the
implementation of Stalin's policy
of putting Soviet creative artists
in a steel vise of communist par
ty control.
DISPLAY
PORTLAND (AP) A 40-foot
trailer filled with Oregon histori
cal material will begin a tour of
tV,A -lata ahnnl Aiitr 1 a- a nnrt
of publicizing the centennial year.
Anthony Brandenthaler, chair
man of the Oregon Centennial
Commission, said the trailer, now
being built especially for the proj
ect, will be outfitted by the Oregon
Historical Society.
Faithful Dog Wins Burial
With Full Honors In Italy
BORGO SAN LORENZO, Italy,
(UPD The mayor of Borgo San
tarenzo ordered burial with full
honors today for Fido, a flea-bitten
brown and white hound who
remained faithful unto death.
When Fido was a small dog he
accompanied his master, Carlo
Soriani, to a bus stop and would
meet him there In the evening.
Soriani was killed Dec. 29, 1943,
in a wartime bombing of Florence.
For nearly 14 years the dog
waited for his master, trotting to
Ihe bus stop every evening, wait
ing until the last bus had gone
and then trotting unhappily home
Fido's faithfulness caught the
imagination of all Italy. 11 earned
him a go d medal and a monu
itticnt from Italy's dog lovers. Six
months ago the Communist may
or unveiled a life-size ceramic
clalun nf Fido in the illa
square. '
In recent weeks tne trips to the
bus stop grew more and more In
frequent. The old dog was decrep
it and sick and the one-mile walk
often proved too much for his
aching old legs.
Monday afternoon tne faithful
dog set out on his walk to the
bus stop for the last time. Chil
dren returning from school found
him dead on the white, dusty
road, a few hundred yards from
the house where he lived with
Sorlani's widow.
Old age at least had stopped
his broken heart.
The mayor gave immediate or
ders for the hound to rejoin his
master In death. Fido will be
buried just outside the wan if! the
small cemetery of Luco U Mugei
lo where Soriani rests.