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U OF ORSOO.N LiBSART EUaSNS, ORE. cci? jjll Price Five Cents 24 Pages KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 19M Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 609S In The- Day's lews Tornado Hips Path By FRANK JENKINS Foreign affairs note: Nikita Khrushchev is expected to call the communist central com mittee into session soon to com plete the "downgrading" of For mer Premier Bulganin. Mean while, a London newspaper says that ex-Premier Malenkov, previ ously in exile, may have been slain on Khrushchev's order. When you take a political beat ing in Russia, you TAKE A BEAT ING. Speaking of Russia, the Nation al Industrial Conference Board comes up today with this statis tic: An average New Yorker need ing an average new suit has to work just a shade more 'than three days to earn it. But, when he needs to blossom out in a new outfit, his counterpart in Russia has to work about 37 days. ' And The board finds It takes somewhat better than 25 days to earn enough to buy a radio in Moscow, whereas in New York a radio set can be bought with about one day's pay. That's one reason why so few Americans move to Russia. In Washington this morning, the owner of a St. Louis TV station tells house of representatives in vestigators he saw nothing im proper in sending certain "items" to Federal Communications Com mission members while they were in the process Of making up their minds whether or not to give him an improved TV channel. The items included letters, telegrams and TURKEYS. Well- In private business the giving of little items that might come in handy to people you want to do business with is fully sanctioned by custom. But The Federal Communications Commission has immensely valu able little pieces of paper to GIVE AWAY. That changes the picture. Business note: Iron Age Magazine, which is the bible of the steel industry, says heavy steel ordering for June de livery is JAMMING steel mill schedules. It relates that some ateel buyers are having trouble getting mills to accept orders for June delivery and some buying will spill over Into July. It adds: "Steel producers are expected to RAISE BASE PRJCES SIX dot lars a ton on July 1." That's inflation for you. In inflationary periods people buy MORE than they need on the theory that the price will go up later. In deflationary periods, people buy LESS than they need on the theory that the price will be LOW ER later. Of Hbrrtr Througb HI Dorado, (anuses Festival Queen To Be Named PORTLAND- (AP) A 10-foot-high artificial rose will unfold at Multnomah Stadium Wednesday night, disclosing inside the new queen of Portland's Rose Festival. She will be one of 11 girls, representatives of 10 public and one parochial high school. ' Five judges will pick the winner after each contestant gives a 2'-4 minute talk. The queen will be placed in the big rose. The 10 runncrsup will climb into seven-foot-high roses. All the roses then will be opened. The coronation is one of the high spots of the festival, but Tuesday night thousands lined downtown streets for the Merry- , khana Parade. The night parade was discon tinued mare than 20 years ago, but was brought back for the festival s 50th anniversary. EL DORADO. Kan. (AP) A tornado devastated 40 square blocks of a modest new residen tial area of El Dorado late Tuesday. At least 13 persons were killed and 49 injured. Lt. Col. W. W. Goodvin of the 137th Infantry Reg iment of the National Guard, who is in charge of the searching op erations, said he feared other bod ies might be found in the rubble. The commander of the Kansas turnpike highway patrol unit, Maj. Lloyd a. Vincent, said his men were unable to account for the occupants of two automobiles which the twister apparently swept off the toll highway at the northeast edge of El Dorado. Searchers found a 13th body m the ruins Wednesday and it was identified as that of Miss Bessie Diaz, 28. She was found in the rubble of her home. Five of the injured in the El Dorado hospital still were in criti cal condition. They included an unidentified woman about 23. She was unconscious. Maj. Vincent said all he could find of the two cars were their motors and pieces of their fend ers. El Dorado (pop. 12,000)' is 35 miles northeast of Wichita. Prin cipal industries are two refineries, neither of which was damaged. The tornado swept away four main electric power lines, plung ing the city into darkness. Tele phone lines were severed and the municipal water mains were brok en in several places. While doctors worked feverishly by the feeble light of candles end flashlights at El Dorado's only hospital. National Guard troops from nearby Augusta and El Do rado's own unit were called to help civilian officers patrol the streets. Looters swarmed into the strict en area as soon as darkness ell. At least three persons were ar rested for rifling the debris. As the tornado passed on Its way, a reporter said, "A heavy black cloud clung to the eastern horizon. Over the city there was a fleecy cloud, white and beauti ful. "It looked like a shroud." The tornado was the second dis astrous storm of the month. A twister in northwest Wisconsin killed 28 persons and seriously in jured 117 June 4. It was 5:45 p.m. when the tor nado hit El Dorado. Trooper Bob Lemon of the Kansas highway patrol, on duty seven miles south at the city, saw it urst. "I followed it to El Dorado as fast as I could drive." he said. "I warned the EI Dorado police by radio that the storm was coming. I don't imagine I gave them a five-minute advance warning if I gave them that much.". Another witness, Nancy Kersct) ner, a secretary employed at ra dio station KBTO, saw the tor nado strike the city. She said: "It hit the Oil Hill district southwest of town, then skipped into the thickly populated residential sec tion. I didn't realize at first that it was a tornado because it was a pale gray color instead of the Railroads In US Said Going Into Decline Early Warning Station Planned WASHINGTON (AP) The Air Force said Tuesday it plans to begin construction in Alaska this summer of an early warning sta tion for detection of interconti nental missiles. Delegate E. L. IBob) Bartlett said 30 million dollars have been released to begin construction, but total cost of the facility is esti mated at approximately 250 mil lion dollars, including equipment. Bartlett said he was advised the Air Force expects to award sev eral contracts soon to take advan tage of the present construction season. No location was disclosed in the Air Force announcement, Bartlett said, ljut there has been frequent speculation that such a facility was contemplated along the north ern stretch of the Alaska Rail road. WASHINGTON (AP) Sen George Smathers (D-Fla) said Wednesday that the government must either take over the rail roads or give financial aid to the sick and declining industry. His arguments opened Senate debate on a far-reaching bill to help the carriers through loan guarantees, tax relief and other aids. Meeting early to take up the bill, the Senate faced a possible mgnt session to complete action if possible in a single day. A bill to curb labor abuses is scheduled for debate Thursday. Smathers, chairman of a Senate Commerce subcommittee which heard testimony from more than 100 witnesses, said there is reason to believe the recession "is as much a railroad recession as it is a general recession." He said a healthy railroad sys tem is "absolutely essential to the defense and to the economic vital ity of the nation. - The railroads, he said, are In a worsening financial condition and even competitors agree "they are in trouble. "The situation is so serious that one large Eastern railroad is afraid that it may, at any time, bave to skip a payroll," Smath ers continued, in February, 1957, the Class 1 railroads realized a $47.5 million profit, but in Febru ary, 1958, the same railroads lost $10.7 millions." Some features of the transpor tation measure follow administra tion recommendations. Others pro posed -by the Senate Commerce Committee have drawn adminis tration fire. The administration has recom mended the government guarantee up to 700 million dollars of loans to help railroads obtain new plant and equipment. black I had been told tornadoes always looked." The color wasn t the only od dity. Police said the twister ap proached the city from the north west, then swung sharply east and cut a U-shaped track. Tornadoes usually come out of the southwest. Residents mobilized quickly lor the job of helping the injured. finding the dead and cleaning up the .rubble. Before midnight, bull dozers prowled the streets, push ing aside the debris. A temporary morgue was set up in tht 4-H Club's building. There lay 11 bodies. The other victim died in the hospital. El Dorado s -hospital quickly was jammed past capacity. Ham pered by lack of lights, doctors sent critical cases and those with bone fractures to three hospitals in Wichita. Portable generators were dis patched from Wichita to El Do rado by the Boeing Airplane Co., and McConnell Air Force Base and Wichita's National Guard unit delivered mobile search lights. These provided emergency lights at the hospital. An office was set up by the Red Cross, which arranged shelters for the homeless. A blood donors' of fice was established at Wichita. Seven of the bodies were found in the yard of the Skelly School, which was demolished. Richard Tarrant and three oth er coaches were working out with about' 30 boys on two baseball teams when they lighted the tor nado. Said Tarrant: "It was the big gest one I ever saw and I've seen quite a few. We rounded up all the boys. The ones who had bi cycles we told to get on 'em and get out of there go home. Then we put the others in our cars and took them home." Fifteen minutes later Tarrant went back to the school, where they could have taken shelter, and found it in ruins. State Trooper Lemon said the tornado crossed over a golf course at the west edge of the city, then dipped into a ravine where it hit the Towanada addition, a new de velopment of houses. The tornado soared back into the air, only to crash again in another, similar housing area. Then it disappeared. Forty minutes after the El Do rado tornado, another hit Pontiac community seven miles away but did no damage. Quick Release Of 9 US Airmen Pledged By Reds s4fci VERNON EKEDAHL, left, and TOM HORN Tom Horn Transferred To, Portland Office; Tue Refuge Has New Manager the last seven years, has been pro- TULELAKE The announcement of a change in administrative per sonnel of the Klamath-Basin Na tional Wildlife Refuge with head quarters at Tulelake, was made today. Tom Horn, refuge manager for Mosquitos vs. City Race Close PORTLAND (AP) The annual race between mosquitos and city control crews is running mighty close, Dr. Thomas L. Meador, city health officer, says. Usually crews keep ahead of the hatch. But this year, a mild winter and a warm, wet spring, favored the insects. What's worse, he says, there have been too many days when spray planes couldn't take to the air. The result may be an increased need this year for mosquito repellent. 4 I Pun I Moonwatchers Fold Because Of Funds Lack PORTLAND (AP)-The Oregon Moonwatch team is going out of business because of lack of money. Robert Boardwell formed the team a year and a half ago with seventh grade students from Grout School here. Their duties were to track American and Rus sian satellites. It was one of the only Inter national Geophysical Year obser vation teams in the country made up of school children. Boardwell said the project had been a big drain on his own pocketbook providing meals at his home for some of the 60 to 70 teen-agers, gasoline for transporta tion, re-seeding the trampled lawn, refinishing the floors, and even replacing a broken chandelier. In addition, t h e Boardwell sidereal clock needs repairs, some borrowed equipment has to be replaced, and some new telescope stands are needed. This will cost about $500 and the team has only $18. he said. The youngsters who started with the team will be high school fresh men this fall. BULLETINS VIOLENCE NICOSIA, Cyprus Wl Turkish Cypriots smashed and set fire to Greek shops and other establish ments Wednesday in another flare up of violence. The death toll rose to seven since rioting began Saturday. A Greek Cypriot city garbage man was shot to death in the municipal market while the mob was setting fire to shops. Four other Greeks and two Turkish Cy priots have been killed in the five days of fighting. Eleven fires were reported, the largest at St. Luke's Church in the heart 01 tne Turklsn quarters. Police said the puilding was de stroyed. T" , - " ' - FALSE WASHINGTON (UPI) The White House said today that Pres idential Assistant Sherman Adams will prove that chaises against him by House Investigators are completely talse. White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty also told re porters that Adams has the com plete confidence of the President." The charges against Adams stemmed from a House subcom mittee investigating alleged in fluence on federal regulatory agencies. Investigators said mil lionaire industrialist Bernard Goldfine obtained special favors because of his friendship with the presidential assistant. FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Partly cloudy through Thursday. Low tonight, 46-44. High Thursday 65-70. High yesterday 63 Ijnw last nlcht 45 Prccip. last 24 hours 01 reaches Lebanese rebels from the Since Oct. 1 16.68 iU.A.R. Lebanon had complained Same period last year 14.99 Normal for period 11-77 (Continued on Page 4-A) TAKING ADVANTAGE OF the summer reading program at Klamath Falls City Library re, seated from left to right, Leo Tumor, Sheryle Book, Jan Ellen Larson, Rex Turner, Becky Jano Howie, John Book and Jori Rice. Timethv Schmaek. Pannv Hawio and Rhonda La Stivtrs art looking ovar the stock on the shelves behind. (Story on Paga ,4 A.I Weather moted to assistant regional refuge supervisor, regional office, Port land.1 With Mrs. Horn and their daughters, Nancy and Margery, he will leave at once to take over his new duties, Horn will be succeeded by Ver non Ekedahl, who for 10 years has been manager of the Sacra mento area refuges with headquar ters at Willows. Ekedahl has been associated with the Fish and Wild Life Service for 23 years, being pre viously in charge of refuges in Idaho and Montana. He will be ac companied to Tulelake by Mrs. Ekedahl. The couple has three grown sons. During Horn s administration here bird depredation control has been largely eliminated through an expanded grain farming program that provides feed for migratory water fowl. Previous to tms teed- ing operation which entices birds to marginal lands on tne reiuge, farmers suffered heavy crop dam age. i The rebuilding 'of approximately 27 miles of dikes, which includes rip-rapping and road surfacing within refuge boundaries is about completed. This project included installation of concrete water con trol structures. Mr. and Mrs. Horn and their daughters will live at 2(24 N.E. 44th Street Portland. During their residence here Mrs. Horn has served as chairman of the Tule lake Recreation Commission f o r four years and has taken active Interest in numerous other com munity affairs. Nancy has ap peared frequently before Klamath Basin groups as a musician. BERLIN (AP)-East Germany today promised quick release of nine u.a. Army men and their helicopter if the United States acta in a "normal and reasonable man ner. The statement, an editorial in the , East German Communist party newspaper Neues Deutsch- land, did not specify what the communists would consider nor mal and reasonable." The conciliator editorial, which carries the weight of an official pronouncement, appeared - after Secretary of State Dulles told news conference the United States would negotiate if necessary with tne tast Germans tor release of the eight Army officers and one sergeant whose helicopter strayed into East Germany last Saturday and ran out of gas. Neues Deutschland reported Dulles' statement in an 80-word dispatch including his contention that such negotiations would not imply diplomatic recognition of the satellite regime. But the edi torial made no mention of the sec retary's observation that the men in a sense had been kidnaped, and that you must deal with the kid nailers when people are kidnaped The Red newspaper conceded that the helicopter might have gotten over East Germany acci dentally and said the men in the plane had behaved correctly after landing. "But violation of the air space of the (East) German Democratic Republic remains," the editorial continued. "Therefore the matter must be settled as is customary between civilized slates. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the German Democratic Republic is ready to negotiate over the further settle ment of this matter. lt has informed the United States accordingly. The United States government only has to act in a normal and reasonable man ner and the incident will bo cleared up quickly." Previously the Western Allies have insisted on dealing only with the Soviets as the occupiers of East Germany, contending that the East German government is an illegal regime which they do not recognize. , In another conciliatory move, the East German Ministry of De fense repudiated a suggestion by its army newspaper Volksarmee that the Americans might be tried as spies. The ministry said the editor of the paper had been dis ciplined for his "wrong and mis leading suggestion, and that the men were guilty only of violating East German air space. The East Germans also an nounced they were ready to ne gotiate for the "speedy return" of a Belgian pilot forced down by Communist fire May 29. Highway Mess Made By Caps OLATHE, Kan. (AP)-Can you imagine what a mess 50,000 card board milk bottle tops can make on a highway? Johnson County officers had that to contend with yesterday after the rear door of a transport truck came open and several car tons of bottle tops spilled out. The driver was nagged down near Paoola in the next county. He tried to turn around to go back alter the boxes that didn t break, but his truck went into a ditch. It took two tow trucks to pull him out. Meanwhile, the deputies were patiently kicking the tops off the CRASH ST. MARIES, Idaho IJT T h e wreckage of a light plane carry. ing a Bremerton, Wash., painting contractor and another man was found 30 miles south of here Wednesday. Both men apparently were killed instantly. The plane crashed in the St. Joe National Forest and skidded about 100 feet. The bodies were jammed in the cockpit of the four-passenger plane. The plane, piloted by Phil Tappe, 45, took off from Spokane Monday on a flight to Portland by way of Pendleton and The Dalles, Ore. It apprently was far off course because of bad weather. The other victim was believed to be Harlan F. Tcer.,27, also of Bremerton. Another man was witn Tappe when he landed at Spokane Sunday night. WATCHDOG The U.N. Security Council de cided Wednesday to rush an in ternational watchdog teem to strife-torn Lebanon to seal off its borders with the United Arab Re public. A threatened Soviet veto failed to materialize. The Soviet Union simply abstained instead of kill ing the plan by a negative vote. the observer group would have the mission of guaranteeing that no arms or other military aid Old Fashioned Cook On Way Out, Says Benson Quick Thinking Pilot Credited In Sea Landing RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) With three engines burning, an Argen tine airline pilot coolly followed emergency procedures for a trick landing in the surf off a Brazilian island Tuesday. The DC6B slid aground on the sandy bottom and the 16 passen gers and 6 crewmen waded ashore just before the four-engine plane burst into flames, only one per son was seriously injured. Alerted by the pilot's emergen cy radio calls, the Brazilian Air Force had helicopters on the scene within minutes of the crash to fly the survivors ashore from Una Grande, an island about 75 miles southwest of Rio. The Bra zilian navy also stood by to help. Aerolineas Argent inas said the plane had been held up in Rio last week by mechanical trouble while on its way to Europe. Com ing back from London, it devel oped engine trouble after leaving Rio for Buenos Aires and the pi lot was unable to make it back to an airport. pavement. broom. They didn't have a Airplane Shot Up By Student LA GRANDE (AP) - The quiot of a dormitory at Eastern Oregon College was pierced slightly by a model plane flitting around the campus. The students, cramming lor final exams, went back to their books. But back came the plane. As police finally pieced it to gether later, one student then ran out onto a fire escape and fired twice at the plane with a shotgun. He failed to connect. The student returned with a second gun, a .22 caliber riffle. He fired six times at the plane, but the little craft sped away. Police were called by the plane s owner. They found two holes in the craft. French Boss Dedicated To Algeria Poll PARIS (AP) Premier do Gaulle today was reported deter mined to override defiance by the Algerian insurgent junta and bold local elections in Algeria next month. De Gaulle called a Cabinet meeting to examine procedures for the voting which he promised during a tour of Algeria last week. While in Algeria he sought to re - establish government control over the area. He told the mili tary-civilian junta which seized power there May 13 that he per sonally would direct Algerian af fairs and the junta should confine itself to working for integration of the Algerian and European populations. These orders and the promise of elections were defied yesterday by the All-Algeria Committee of Public Safety. This combination of French colonists and army leaders insisted in a resolution that De Gaulle should not carry out the elections. - -The. resolution also called for elimination of French political parties on which De Gaulle has based his Cabinet and substitution of a government of public salva tion, a right - wing dictatorship permitting no opposition. , Political circles in Paris felt the resolution presented the most ser ious challenge to De Gaulle sinca he became premier June 1 as a result of the military - civilian seizure of power ih Algeria and Corsica. , . The resolution was sent to Da Gaulle with the approval of Brig. Gen. Jacques Massu, paratrooper leader of the Algiers junta. It originally was marked "approved by Gen. Raoul Salan, military and civilian commander for Al geria for De Gaulle. But the Premier apparently' cracked his whip and Salan quick ly disavowed the resolution. In opposing local elections, the resolution reflected the fear of the French colonists that the voting will end their control of the local governments in Algeria. Re-Cap & Gown To Be Published CHICAGO (AP) The 19.13 graduating class of the University of Chicago is getting its yearbook 25 years late. The depression kept the class from publishing one at graduation. It will be issued at the class' 25th reunion Friday. I he university s annual is en titled, "Cap It Gown." The 1S33- I 'ISA edition will bear the name "fte-Cap & Gown. No Pencil, So No Tickets SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) The Scottsdale Town Council wanted to know why there hadn't been any parking tickets issued in this central Arizona resort town in two months. A councilman asked Town Mar shal Henry Cooper if Scottsdale had ordinances covering parking lot violations. "Sure," said Cooper, "lots ol 'cm." "Well," the councilman asked, "why no citations?" "Because," Cooper replied, "I haven't been able to get a mark ing pencil." -- r WASHINGTON (AP)-Secretary of Agriculture Benson said the old fashioned cook is disappearing from the American kitchens. Housewives, he said Wednesday, no longer want to cook chickens, clean fish, squeeze oranges or even peel potatoes. Instead, Ben son said, they prefer prepared ready-to-cook foods. The prepared foods, he contin ued, are revolutionizing tht food Industry with new ways of produc tion, new methods of processing, packaging and retailing develop ing almost daily. Benson made his observations in a talk prepared for a luncheon meeting of the Washington Food Group, a food industry organiza tion. "It is remarkable," he said, "how the food industry has suc ceeded in reducing kitchen tasks, through build-in maid service. "Even with all these conveni ences, American consumers get their food for a smaller percent age of the average family income than is true most anywhere else in the world." In fact, the secretary laid, food is a much better buy now than it was a generation ago when the housewife did all the chores con nected with the preparation of foods. i I eLaaf ii 'miiB Vi timrrmrr it rniim - 1 i STRAPPING IN British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan straps himself into the seat for a helicopter ride from the White Mouse lawn in Washington to Johns Hopkini Univoriity in Baltimore, where he participated in commencement exercises. The chief executive gave up his customary seat in the plane to his guest to that' Maemillafl might have a better view frohi the window.
