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WASHINGTON (AP) - Sher
man Adams testified Tuesday
that if he had had more experi
ence "I believe I would have act
ed a little more prudently" in
malting inquiries on behalf of his
friend and benefactor Bernard
Goldfine.
: President Eisenhower's top aide
fometimes called the assistant
president pleaded too that "I
am ignorant of the rules and regu
lations" when told that both the
Securities and Exchange Commis
sion and the Federal Trade Com
mission violated them in response
to his inquiries about Goldfine's
affairs.
. Adams swore to a House inves
tigating committee that he never
sought any improper favors for
Goldfine, a Boston industrialist
who made gifts to him and Eisenhower.
He said he makes "legions" of
telephone calls to federal agen
cies without influencing their conduct.
After hearing Adams, committee!
chairman Oren Harris ID-Ark) in
dicated without saying so di
rectly that he thought Adams
should be bounced from his job
as Eisenhower's first assistant.
Harris said he thought Adams'
actions "were highly improper'
and that "Mr. Adams would have
to search into his own conscience
and Mr. Eisenhower should do
likewise."
Recalling that Matthew J. Con
nelly, a secretary to former Pres
ident Truman, was convicted of
conspiracy to fix a tax case, Har
ris said that was "political per
secution If there' ever was any."
Adams indicated that in speak
ing of inexperience he had in mind
the operation of the presidential
staff.
Adams, 59, has been in govern
ment much of his adult life. He
had served in the House and been
governor of New Hampshire be
fore moving into the administra
tion when Eisenhower took office.
And, though he said he might
have acted differently with more
experience, he told a House sub
committee which questioned him
more than two hours "I have no
excuses to offer; I did not come
here to make apologies."
two years ago. Adams said, he
tightened up on the contacts be
tween the presidential staff and
executive agencies to avoid "im
plications in case of instances like
this."
Committee counsel Robert Lish
an told Adams that one of his
inquiries in 1934 resulted in Gold
fine's obtaining information in vi
olation of law and regulations of
the Federal Trade Commission.
Adams said he had no knowl
edge of this result and no inten
tion of bringing it about.
Throughout his appearance on
the stand, Adams insisted there
was never any attempt to bring
White House influence to bear on
behalf of Goldfine or anyone else
and that if any mistakes were
made, they were mistakes of judg
ment or due to inexperience.
Just before he left the stand.
Chairman Oren Harris tD-Arki
asked Adams whether, in view of
all that had been brought out,
"you think that in these instances
you may have overstepped the
bounds of propriety?"
Adams replied that in retro
spect "I think a greater measure
of prudence would htAe obviated
some of the questions before your
committee I cannot wholly dis
agree with some of the implica
tions in your question."
Throughout his stay in the wit
ness chair, Adams insisted he
only routinely contacted the FTC
and the SEC for Goldfine.
And he said he received many
favors from Goldfine only inno
cently, as an old friend.
There were spots of harsh Dem
ocratic criticism.
"I went through the campaign of
1952 under the whiplash of a very
critical judgment imposed by oth
ers on persons in public life," Rep.
John E. Moss (D-Calif) told
Adams.
Adams was one of those critical
of what the Republicans called the
mess in Washington when they
campaigned to put a "clean-asa-hounds-tooth"
government under
Eisenhower.
Moss told Adams:
"1 think you nvust apply the
same rules at all times" to per
sons in public life not to set up
different standards depending on
political party.
Moss asked Adams if he didn't
think Adams' calls to the FTC
about a case involving Goldfine
"a man who has been a close per
sonal friend" amounted to im
proper influence.
"Mr. Moss, that's your argu
ment." Adams said. Adams said
ne did not think the case was
"prejudiced just because he is my
friend."
"I can say that I have made
legions of such calls," Adams con
tinued. He said it is routine for
him to seek information from
agencies for those who request it.
including congressmen.
There was political talk too
when Rep. Charles A. Wolverton
iR-NJ) commended Adams for ap
pearing voluntarily before the sub
committee "when he could have
pleaded his position not to do so."
Wolverton said that "in this re
spect he set an example that in
my opinion should have been
shown on the part of certain sen
ators who were named in other
matters considered earlier and who
refused, despite invitations to ap
pear before the subcommittee."
This was a pointed reference
although Wolverton did not name
them, to three Democratic senators-
whose names appeared sev
eral times in testimony about rep
resentations to the Federal Com
munications Commission in a Mi
ami television channel case. The
senators were Estes Kefauver of
Tennessee, George A. Smathers
and Spessard L. Holland of Flor
ida.
Adams told reporters as he left
the Capitol he would discuss with
presidential press secretary James
llagerty the possibility of holding
a news conference later.
Counsel Lishman contended a
violation of law stemmed from
Adams' 1954 telephone inquiry to
the FTC about an investigation of
a Goldfine mill for alleged mis
branding of the content of a fabric.
As a result of the call. Lishman
said, Goldfine learned the name
of a complainant and also that the
matter might be settled if the mill
would agree to chance its lanels.
He said that giving this informa
tion to Goldfine was in violation
of law and regulations.
Adams replied:
"So far as I am concerned, he
got information supplied by the re
sponsible official. I made no spec
ial request. I am ignorant of the
rules and regulations of the com
mission. . . I had assumed quite
obviously that what he got he was
entitled to under rules and regu
lations." Under questioning then, Adams
testified that had he known of the
rules "my decision might have
been different" in interceding with
the FTC for Goldfine.
In earlier testimony, Adams had
acknowledged he received a rug
and a coat from Goldfine and let
the textile magnate pay hotel bills
for him in Boston, New York and
Plymouth, Mass.
Adams came before the com
mittee with a 1,500-word prepared
statement, but frequently depart
ed from a reading of it to fire off-the-cuff
remarks. Accompanying
him to the hearing was his wife,
Rachael.
IB The-
Day's lews
By FRANK JENKINS
I think the feeling of most of
us, following the appearance of
Sherman Adams before the house
investigators this morning, is on;
of disappointment and disillusion.
He is too NAIVE to hold the of
fice of first assistant to the Presi
dent. He testified, for example; "If I
had had more experience, I ne
lieve I would have acted a little
more prudently" (in his deIing-s
with this man Goldfine.)
He has had a lot of experience.
He was a member of the New
Hampshire house of representa
tives, and served as its speaker.
He served as a member of the
V S. house of representatives. He
served a term as governor of New
Hampshire. His service in those
oflices should have taught h i m
that when somebody showers cost
ly gifts on an office-holder that
somebody WANTS SOMETHING.
Besides
Adams holds an A.B. degree
from Dartmouth college. As a
graduate of Dartmouth away back
in 1920. when the classics held a
much larger place in college cur
ricula than they do now, he must
hive been familiar with the Aene
id, in which Virgil makes Aeneas
say: "Timeo Danaos et dona fer
entes" (I fear the Greeks when
they come bearing gifts.)
If his education had done him
any good, he should have recalled
that line when the Goldfine per
son began to pour gifts on him
when he reached a position of
great power and influence.
If you are to hold the office of
first assistant to the President of
the United States, you must KNOW
ALL THESE THINGS. Otherwise
you will expose your country to
scorn and contempt.
And-
You will bring grief and sorrow
and shame upon the President
whom you serve.
Our government is so FRIGHT
FULLY complicated.
It has sd MANY favors that
can be given.
For example:
Suppose you are the first assis
tant to the President of the United
States. Suppose you have a friend
who is a shrewd speculator. As
- first assistant to the President you
will be more or less familiar with
more or less everything that is
going on in the government
Just one little word dropped in
conversation about an impending
decision by some governmental
egency such as the Secunt'es Ex
change Commission, the Federal
Trade Commission, the Federal
Communications Commission, the
Interstate Commerce Commission-
can mean a golden opportunity
to turn a quick buck in a big busi
ness deal.
Going on with the list-
Suppose a friend possibly a
friend who has shown you many
favors, asks you to make an ap
pointment with the head of some
government agency with which he
wants, or needs, to do business.
Suppose the head of that agency
who wants to keep his job and
knows that the President has the
appointing power misunderstands
your interest in the introduction
and jumps to the conclusion that
he'd better give your friend an
important tip on what to do and
DOES give him an important tip
and he acts on it and MAKES
A LOT OF MONEY.
All these things COULD happen
It is to KEEP THEM FROM HAP
PENING that Presidents have first
assistants. The first job of a first
assistant to the President of the
United States is to know so much
about the complicated business of
the government that he will be
able to PREVENT such things
from happening.
It is shockingly apparent after
this morning s, hearing that Mr,
Adams lacks a lot of the qualifica
tions of a first assistant to the
President.
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SALE
NEW YORK (AP)
Men's vicuna coats, a fea
ture of the Sherman-Adams-Bernard
Goldfine investiga
tion, went on sale Tuesday
at R. H. Macy's Depart
ment Store,
The price $299. "Usually
$599," said the ad which
also informed: "It takes the
shearing of approximately
1,200 Peruvian goats to
make one coat like these."
Reds Execute Leaders Of
Hungarian Revolt Of 1956
Britain To
Tell Plan
For Cyprus
LONDON (AP) Britain went
doggedly ahead with preparations
to announce its new plan for the
future of Cyprus today despite ad
vance Greek and Turkish rejec
tion.
New violence and bloodshed
were feared on the east Mediter
ranean island. British troops, re
inforced by paratroopers flown out
from England, were on the alert
to meet new trouble.
The plan was to be announced
by Prime Minister Macmillan in
London and Gov. Sir Hugh Foot in
Nicosia.
It is expected to provide some
measure of self-government for
the British colony, a cooling-off
period that the Greek and Turkish
governments would be asked to
help sponsor and perhaps a prom
ise of a self-determination plebis
cite in the future in which the is
land's Greek majority presum
ably would vote for independence
as a prelude to joining Greece.
The population of. Cyprus in
cludes about 500,000 persons of
Greek extraction and 140.000 of
Turkish descent. The Greeks have
been waging a sporadic guerrilla
campaign for Enosis union with
Greece while the Turks demand
that Cyprus be partitioned between
the two communities.
Britain gave both the Greek and
Turkish governments an advance
look at the new plan. An inform
ant close to the Athens govern
ment said the Greeks would turn
it down as not going far enough
The Turkish parliament earlier
adopted a resolution declaring
Turkey would accept nothing but
partition.
Fourteen Greek Cypriots and
two Turks were killed in weeklong
rioting last week by Turks in Ni
cosia and other Cyprus cities. A
tense, uneasy peace was finally
restored by virtually round-the-clock
curfews.
The curfew was lifted yesterday
morning, and there was no new
outbreak. But Greek Cypriot fam
ilies began moving from homes in
Turkish sections in fear that new
attacks would follow announce
ment of the new British plan
VIENNA, Austria (AP) The
execution of lmre Nagy, one of
Hungary s premiers during the
1956 revolt, provoked a wave of
shock and surprise in Yugoslavia
and the Western world luesday.
Three of Nagy's aides died with
him. Chief among these, was Gen.
Pal Maleter, arrested by the Rus
sians while negotiating for with
drawal of all Russian forces from
Hungary.
In Yugoslavia experts on Soviet
affairs predicted Moscow will use
the case for new blasts against
President Tito and as a clear
warning to all satellies that the
Kremlin means to be tough.
These experts expressed belief
that Janos Kadar, communist boss
in Hungary since Nagy's trial, was
so implicated by the trial that he
can not long remain in power. He
was a member of Nagy s revolt
tossed government at one time.
In Washington, ben. Mike Mans
field (D-Mont) predicted that the
executions will bring a new wave
of resistance in the satellites
Britain's foreign office said
Nagy, Maleter and the others "de
serve the respect of all mankind."
Socialist Robert Bratschi, speak
er of the Swiss parliament, said
the executions opened a new gap
between East and West,
In addition to the executions,
prison terms were meted out to
five others close to Nagy
Moscow broke the word first in
what looked to Vienna observers
like the start of a new Kremlin
purge of Titoists in the satellites
;ecking some independence from
Moscow's domination. ' Foreign
diplomats in Belgrade viewed the
execution of Nagy as a direct
Kremlin slap at the Yugoslav
President.
Budapest radio said Nagy and
Maleter refused to make full con
fessions to the people's court bench
of the Supreme Court, which tried
them secretly in Budapest. The
dates of the trial and of the execu
tions were not made public.
All nine were charged with or
ganization of a plot aimed at
Texas Hit By
Tornadoes
DALLAS (AP) Overnight
cloudbursts, measuring up to 10
inches flooded great areas of
southwest Texas Tuesday.
Hardest hit were the adjoining
counties of Uvalde and Bandera
Flooding streams also menaced
the Austin area.
The State Highway Patrol re
ported residents of Sabinal, s
town of 2.000 in Uvalde County,
were preparing to evacuate their
homes.
Utopia, a small community of
200 in the same county, was
drenched by a 10-inch cloudburst.
Another deluge of 6.6 inches fell
at Kmppa, also in Uvalde Coun
ty.
Bandera County was isolated
with most highways reported un
dcr water.
The torrential rains resulted
from an inflow of moisture with
the tropical storm Alma, which
went inland below Brownsville,
Tex., early Sunday.
The downpours followed a day
of tornadoes, hail and rain Mon
day.
overthrowing" the Hungarian gov
ernment. Nagy also was convicted
of "betraying the motherland
and Maleter of "organizing a mili
tary uprising."
Budapest radio said Nagy,
Maleter and Joszef Szilagyi de
nied the charges "but later under
the weight of incriminating evi
dence they made partial conies-
sions." Szilagyi and Miklos Gimes
were Communist journalists
executed with Nagy and Maleter
The most prominent of the five
men sentenced to prison was Zol-
tan Tildy, Hungary's first post
war president, who was given 5 to
12 years.
Weather
FORECAST Klamath Falls and
vicinity: Fair and continued warm
through Wednesdny. Evening tliun
dcrshoucrs likely in mountain
areas. High Wednesday 82-87. Low
tonight 50-55.
High yesterday 83
Low last night 61
Prceip. last 24 hours 0
Since Oct. 1 - 16.68
Same period last year 15.01
Normal for period 11.91
Moscow Blows Summit
Talks Out Of Water In
Withering Blast On Delay
WASHINGTON (AP) The
United States, Britain and France
surveyed the wreckage today of
their efforts to set up a summit
conference through secret diplo
macy.
Moscow blew them out of the
water by making public a letter
from Soviet Premier Khrushchev
denouncing their attempt as need
less foot-dragging.
The State Denartment blasted
back by publishing the West's
major presummit proposals, hith
erto kept secret.
When the smoke cleared, things
were right back where they were
two months ago, before the Soviet
Union agreed to try it the West's
way. The Soviet Union was de
manding a heads of government
meeting. The west was insisting
on adequate preparations on lower
levels first.
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko started things off in
Moscow. He called in Ambas
sadors Llewellyn Thompson of the
United States, Sir Patrick Reilly
of Britain and Maurice Dejcan of
France. He told them he was
making public Premier Khrush
chev's June 11 letter to their gov
ernment chiefs as well as other
top-secret material they had been
discussing in Moscow.
The Soviet ambassadors in
Washington. Paris and London'
were called home, meanwhile, for
consultation.
In Washington, the State Depart
ment rushed out with its side of
the story three documents total
ing about 2.000 words which set
forth the West's position during
thr Moscow meetings.
Gromyko told Thompson he was
making public Khrushchev's letter
and policy statements because the
Western press had distorted the
Soviet position on a summit.
Gromyko said he wanted to set
the record straight.
The Khrushchev letter deplored
the diplomatic talks in Moscow
The Premier wrote: "In some of
these meetings we have only
marked time, and in some cases
we have even moved backwards.
"It is high time that both sides
act with full sincerity to clear up
their positions on the main ques
tionDo both sides really want a
summit conference?
Pulles Says US
Troops Hay ie
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Beef Price
Sees Dairy
Cows On Sale
Crash Kills
Former Prexy
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -
Former President Nerou Ramos
and 18 others were killed last
night in the crash of a Rrazilian
airliner which hit a pine tree as
it was landing at Curitiba, 400
miles southwest of Rio.
Also killed were Gov. Jorge La
cerda of Santa Catarina state and
Congressman Lcoberto Leo.
Another congressman, Jose
Lome Rodrigues, was among the
eight survivors. He was seriously
injured.
The twin-engine Convair of the
Cruzeiro do Sul Airline was end
ing a flight from Porto Alegre to
Curitiba, the Parana state capital
in a coffee-growing area. The air
line said the plane struck a tall
pine only a few yards from the
edge of the airstrip.
WASHINGTON (AP)-The Agri
culture Department reported Tues
day that beef cattle prices at the
highest levels in six years arc
encouraging some dairymen to
send milk cows to slaughter.
In some areas, the agency said
returns from the .slaughter market
are more favorable than returns
from production of milk. Prices of
the latter have declined this year.
largely reflecting lower govern
ment price supports.
This movement of some milk
cows to slaughter is causing the
production of milk to level off at
about last year s level, the depart
ment said. Improved production
practices were said to bo prevent
ing a decline in milk output.
"In a number of states where
milk production competes with
meat animal enterprises, milk
output apparently has been re
stricted," said the department in
a dairy situation report.
"The importance o this factor
in restricting milk output the rest
of 1958. however, cannot be finally
concluded from the first five
months because during much of
the early part of the year severe
weather prevailed in many areas
of the country. In 1951 and 1952.
when meat animal prices also
were high, compared with milk
prices, production of milk aver
aged 2 per cent under 1950.
"But in that period supplies of
feed grains and roughages were
not so plentiful as currently," the
report pointed out.
WASHINGTON (AP) Secre
tary of State Dulles said Tuesday
the United States would use mili
tary action under certain condi
tions to prcseve Lebanon's inde
pendence. Dulles told his news conference
the U.S. 6th Fleet in the Mediter
ranean is watching the crisis-ridden
Lebanese situation..
said fleet elements, includ
ing Marines, could take appropri
ate action.
He said it may be necessary
to enlarge the U.N. peace-watch
force in Lebanon and give it
greater mobility.
Mentioning that U.N. Secretary
General Dag llammarskjold and a
U.N. security force are in the
area, Dulles said any proposal by
llammarskjold in this connection
would be supported by the United
States.
He added that this includes phy
sical support.
Dulles said there are other con
tingencies under which the United
States might send military support
to Lebanon, but he declined to go
into them, excusing himself from
his news conference at that point
on grounds he bad to go to Wash
inglon's National Airport to greet
Ihe arriving Philippine president,
Carlos P. Garcia.
On other points during the news
conference, which Dulles had
asked be limited to a half hour
so he could welcome Garcia, the
secretary said:
Russia apparently wanted to
break off diplomatic talks with
Big lhree ambassadors on prep
arations for a possibje summit
contcrence. mat. he said, is his
inference from the Kremlin's dis
closure Monday of the hitherto
secret papers of those meetings
amid charges of heel-dragging by
the West.
He would not predict whether a
summit conference is possible this
year.
The communists' execution of
former Hungarian Premier lmre
Nagy indicates another step in So
viet reversion toward brutal, ter
roristic methods practiced under
Joseph Stalin.
Dulles will consult with the
Justice Department to try to work
out future passport policy, now
that the Supremo Court has ruled
he has no authority to deny pass
ports on the basis of an inquiry
into an applicant s beliefs and associations.
Lebanon To
Ask UN Aid
KILLED
ATLANTA (AP)-A 14-year-old
boy was injured fatally last night
sliding into home plate during a
junior baseball game. Charles M.
Cumberworth, athletic director for
Atlanta American Legion Post I,
said Robhy s head apparently
struck home plate.
UNIT
LONDON (AP) Princess So-
raya, divorced wife of the Shah of
Iran, arrived from America Tues
day to spend a few days in Lon
don. She and her mother came
from the liner Queen Elizabeth
to London by the boat train.
Gov. Holmes Speaks On Railroad Panel Here
WARSAW (AP) The 115 mu
sicians of the Philadelphia Or
chestra arrived in Warsaw Tues
day with loud complaints about
the "intolerable runaround"
they're getting in Poland. The
orchestra, which has been a sen
sational success in the Soviet Un
ion, Romania and Austria, com
plained of fifth rate hotel rooms,
long waits for meals and general
ly impossible conditions during
three davs in the Polish prov
inces. So far Warsaw wasn't much
better.
Unity of railroad labor and man-l
agement in facing the problems
now confronting Ihe industry was
the dominant theme at last night's
open meeting on "The Future
of American Railroads." part of
the 1958 Northwest Association
meeting of the Brotherhood ol
Railroad Trainmen, now being
held in Klamath Falls.
A good crowd nearly filled the
Pine Grove Room of the Willard
Hotel to hear Gov. Robert D.
Holmes and labor and manage
ment officials discuss various rail
road problems.
Holmes, who has been called to
Washington, and therefore will not
he able to participate in today's
closing sessions of the convention,
confined his remarks largely to
the matter of freight rates, and
the importance they have for the
West, distant as it is from the
great markets of the East.
Holmes scored the "destructive
effect" of the percentage rate in
creases of recent years, which he
said amounted to 123 rer cent since
1947. Since these inc eases are ap
plied uniformly across the coun
try, they heighten the competitive
advantage of thVnearer suppliers
of the Eastern markets.
Thus, in 1947. Ihe Western apple
grower may have been at a dis
advantage of 50 cents a box in
supplying the New York market,
against a grower in Virginia. To
day, he must pay nearly $1.25
more per box in shipping charg
es. The result is that traffic and
production decrease, since the
West cannot absorb its own pro
duction, as witnessed by the fact
that 70 per cent of Western rail
road traffic is easthound.
Holmes advocated joint action by
the Northwestern states to com
bat the percentage increase of
rates, and cited the success with
which the Southern Governors Con
ference had met a similar threat.
The other speakers were more
largely concerned with internal
problems of the railroads, though
these often have a direct impact
on the public at large.
J. W. Nisbett, commerce coun
sel of the Association of Western
Railroads, referred to one of the
more immediate points of public
interest, in speaking of the rail
roads' tax problems. This is the
excise tax on transportation, be
gun as a war measure to keep
people off the trains, but still fa
effect today, though it has been
pared from 15 to 10 per cent. A
parallel tax, of three per cent on
freight, again started during the
war to reduce traflic, also persists.
Repeal of these taxes has been
recommended in the report of a
Senate committee headed by Sen.
George A. Smathers of Florida.
and railroad labor and manage
ment are united in the hope that
the Congress will pass legislation
in this sense.
This unanimity was emphasized
by W. P. Kennedy, president of
the B. of R. T., who said that
in this, as in other matters, "man
agement and labor must work to
gelher to preserve the industry."
Kennedy cited numerous instan
ces where joint work is necessary,
as did J. W. Corbett. vice pres
ident for system operations of the
Southern Pacific, and Harry See.
national legislative representative
of the B. of R. T. These three
speakers enlarged on the remarks
made during their talks at a press
conference on Tuesday morning,
as will be reported in a later is
sue of the Herald and News.
After this morning's closed meet
ings of the B. of R. T. and of
the Ladies Auxiliary, i joint
meeting is being held just after
lunch, at which the committees
will make their reports.
Alter the reports, there will he
addresses by Sec; W. J. Weil,
general secretary-treasurer: W. J
Mackhn and E. B. Miller, regional
and district directors, respective
ly, of the Railroad Retirement
Board: and Clilton ifildcbrand and
Eugene Herat of the legal aid de
partment of the brotherhood. The
meeting will close with a question
and answer period, the selection
of a site for next years meeting
election of officers and a finan
cial report. The benediction will
be olfired by the Rev. C. O. Tre
main, of the Free Methodist
Church.
The entertainment committee will
take over beginning at 6 p.m. to
day, with a wind-up at Ihe air
grounds auditorium. It will be
"hospitality hour" u 7 o'clock
when a Western ranch pit barhe
cue will be served. Weil, Corbett
Kennedy and R. R. Robinson, su
perintendent of the Shasta Division
of the Southern Pacific, will speak
during the meal. The convention
will end on a note of eaietv. with
dancing to thhi.music of the Star-
lighters from p.m. to 1 a m
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Leb
anon will ask for a U.N. security
cordon along the Syrian frontier
and Mediterranean coast, a Bel
ruit newspaper said Tuesday.
The usually reliable L'Orient
said Lebanon will ask U.N. Sec
retary General Dag llammar
skjold to set up "a cordon of sc
curity to be installed all along the
sea and land frontiers to keep out
mi ill rat ions of men and arms com
ing from Gaza and Syria."
llummarskiold is expected to ar
rive in Beirut Wednesday night
An advance U.N. team is here In
check on arms smuggling but it
has power only to report back to
the u.N.
L'Orient did not disclose the
source of ils information and it
could not he officially continued
immediately.
Meantime the Lebanese Cabinet
was reported to have instructed
Foreign Minister Charles Malik to
ask for another U.N. meeting on
Lebanon.
Crash Kills
Crop Duster
LAKEVIEW A cron'dusling
plane that nose dived to the ground
and burned on I ho Fred Nelson
ranch, one-half mile southeast of
the Westside Store, took the life
of a Chiloquin man, about 7:30
p.m. June 16.
Dead is Luwis T. (Bud) Bick
ers, 31, lifelong resident of Chilo
quin. spray pilot for Paul Ort
wein of Lakeview. ' Bickers was
spraying grain on the Roy Peter
son ranch, 14 miles west of Lake
shore shortly before the crash.
Eye witnesses said that Bickers
was flying at a low altitude esti
mated at 100 to 150 feet, when he
apparently attempted to gain alti
tude. The craft faltered and dived
traight down, striking the ground
with terrific force and bursting
into flames. Police were prevent
ed from removing the victim's body
lor two hours by intensity of the
lire. The pilot had been flying in
Ihe Lakview area for about three
months.
Civil Aeronautics Administration
nfficials are expected today to in
vestigate the accident.
Bickers is survived by the wid
ow, Mrs. Marie Bickers, daugh
ters, Phyllis and Susan, of Chilo
quin: parents. Mr. and Mrs. Wil
liam B. Bickers, Modoc Point:
brothers. James A. Bickers of
Prinevillc, and William C. Bick
ers, Grants Pass, and a sister,
Mrs. Susan E. Thompson, Phoenix,
Oregon.
The body will lie taken to
Klamath Falls by Ward's Klam
alh Funeral Home from the
Ousley-Ostcrman Funeral Home in
Lakeview.
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man, right, and Bob Wilion, about the prime ribt he will dish up tonight for the mem
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grounds. Wilson It proprietor of the Blue Ox, where Paris is chef, Chapqien is entertain
ment chairman for the convention. The auditorium will be decorated In 9estern irptif
for the barbecue. Dancing will follow the dinner.
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