THURSDAY. JULY 3. 1958
HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
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Hawaii Set
For New Bid
HONOLULU (LTD - Hawaii
statehood advocates, spurred to a
fighting pitch by the White House
and Sen. William F. Knowland
(R-Cahf. i, today girded them
selves tor one more big, bold bid
for acceptance into the Union
this session of Congress.
Chief among the plans taking
shape was the selection of a new
bipartisan delegation of state
hood fighters, headed by Gov
William r. (Juinn, to descend on
Washington probably early next
week.
Statehood Commissioner Lorrin
P. Thurston said Hawaii's re
newed campaign would be based
a lot on the guidance and think
ing of Knowland.
. Thurston said the California
senator in telephone conversation
Wednesday expressed the belief
Hawaii this year still could drum
up almost the identical support
in the Senate that Alaska got in
her successful drive if a vigorous
eflort were made during the ap-
proximate month of life in the
cession.
"Mr. Knowland said the
enemies of Hawaii statehood are
. basically the same who opposed
Alaska," Thurston said, "and that
once they found they are out
voted they would quit."
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Knight States Newspaper
Report Sheer Nonsense'
WINING ACCORDION PLAYERS at recent Lewis & Clark College Music Festival In
Portland are these Klamath Falls youngsters. All are Leona Robertson accordion stu
dents. Music competition is conducted annually at the festival among some 700 students
from the entire Northwest. Left to right, the musicians are Connie Race, R. G. Eudaily,
Laila Wakkuri, Mickey Holland, Rollin Eudaily, Bobby McClurg, Peggy Matson and Tony
Portnoff.
CHICAGO (AP) Two parking
tickets were hung on Gov. William
G. Stratton s limousine Monday
night by Chicago's champion tick
et writer, detective Jack Muller.
Muller, a detective assigned to
a North Side station, was off duty
when he spotted the governor's
auto parked, he said, in a zone
marked "no parking at any time"
in Madison St., in front of the La
Salle Hotel.
"I knew whose auto it was,"
Muller said, "and returned to
hang a ticket as soon as I found
a legitimate parking spot for my
own auto.
Leonard W'ertz. a state police
lieutenant and Stratton s chauf
feur, said he had left the car while
running an errand in the La Salle
Hotel, where Stratton was staying
Muller, 35, and a policeman
since 1946, said he ticketed the
governor's car for violating state
tegulations against parking in vio
lation of a sign, and parking with
in 20 feet of a crosswalk.
WWI Shell
Still Lethal
LYNCHBURG, Va. (UPD-The
old artillery shell that a student
bounced playfully on the pavement
could have blown a local gram
mar school to bits, the National
Guard reported Wednesday.
Forest School Principal Mal
colm H. Burgess said the shell,
rusty relic of World War I,
had been in the school building
at least two months, taken there
by a pupil who found it in a
house his family had moved
into.
A school bus driver had seen
the boy bouncing the shell on the
walk outside the school. Burgess
said, and had taken it from him.
The local National Guard unit
examined the shell and announced
it was "definitely live."
Nine Gl's Being Held By
East Germans As Hostages
SACRAMENTO (AP) Gov
Knight says there is "absolute!;
no truth" to a report that he
dictated a switch of presidents on
the State Public Utilities Comiras-sion.
Knight yesterday described a
published report that he directed
Peter E. Mitchell's removal as
PUC president and the election
of C. Lyn Fox in his place as
sheer, utter nonsense. '
Knight also denied discussing
the PG&E rate case "with any
one at any time."
Any suggestion that I even so
much as discussed this matter
with a representative of any
utility company, directly or indi
rectly, is also nonsense, Knight
said.
The story appeared in the San
Francisco News.
In San Francisco, PG&E Exec
utive Vice President Robert H
Gerdes denied his company had
attempted to put any pressure
directly or indirectly on the gov-
Texan Purchases
'Small' Ranch
MIDLAND, Tex. (UPD-Texas
e i 1 m a n Len MeCormick has
bought a ranch more than halt
the size ot Rhode Island.
Attorney Edward Lee said
Wednesday that MeCormick,
former Washington Redskins foot
ball star, purchased the 320,000
acre Fowlkes Brothers Ranch ir
Presidio and Brewster counties
for a price he wouldn't reveal.
Lee said the ranch, primarily
for sheep and goals, is one of the
12 largest individually - owned
ranches in North America.
Editor's Note: Nine U.S. soldiers
held by the East German Commu
nists since June 7 were permitted
to appear at a news conference
Wednesday in Dresden, East Ger
many. An Associated Press cor
respondent was the sole Ameri
can reporter present.
By SEYMOUR TOPPING
DRESDEN. EAST Germany
(API "They are holding us as
political hostages.
It was an angry cry from Maj.
George E. Kemper of Escondido,
Eleventh Nuclear
Blast Set Of
WASHINGTON (UPD Another
nuclear blast the 11th
nounced test in the current Paci
fic test series was set off
Wednesday at Bikini Atoll.
Brief announcements by the
Atomic Energy Commission and
the Defense Department gave no
details as to size of the weapon
success of the test.
At Tokvo the Japanese Central
Meteorological Board said its su
persensitive instruments recorded
the blast as of "small" category.
Nixon Rioters
Wan-cats Issued
CARACAS. Venezuela (UPD
Warrants have been issued for
the arrest of five men who took
nart in the attack on U. S. Vice
President Richard M. Nixon's
automobile during .his visit to
Caracas last May, police reported
todav.
Police said a sixtn man, al
ready in custody, has admitted
participating in the May 13 at
tack which dented Nixon's car
and broke the windows during the
motorcade from the airport to the
city.
SAP NEWS
ST. ALBANS. Vt. Wl Frank
lin County Agricultural Agent
Ralph C. McWilliams reported the
"best san run in years" despite
the fact that "squirrels have been
tapping the plastic pipelines used
to speed the flow ot sap." He sug
gested that farmers "tap a couple
of trees and let the squirrels take
the sweet stuff from them.
NO IMPORTS
MONTPEL1ER. Vt. Wl U.S
Sen. Georee D. Aiken (R-Vt.) dis
closed that plans for a $2,710,000
federal building in Burlington were
delayed when it was discovered
that Minnesota red granite was to
be used in the building. Vermont
is known as the "Granite Capital
of the World."
Calif., spokesman for nine U. S
Army men held prisoner by the
East German Communists.
Kemper, a tough lean-Jawed 43-
year-old artillery officer, made his
accusation at an eight-room grey
stone villa in Dresden where his
group is under house arrest.
Eight Communist newsmen and
this reporter were called to the
East German Foreign Ministry in
Berlin and driven to Dresden
four limousines.
It was the first chance the nine
Americans had to tell their story
They fell into East German hands
when their helicopter strayed
across the Iron Curtain June 7.
During a tense news conference
some of the Americans yelled
"kidnapers at East German of
ficials who insist U.S. government
policy is responsible for the men's
prolonged imprisonment.
Kemper, dressed in green army
fatigues and combat boots, said
before a battery of Communist
newsreel cameras:
"They are holding us as political
hostages. We are being used as
tools. We are not being told about
what Is going on in the political ne
gotiations over us.
Kemper said his group surrend
ered voluntary to East German po
lice after their helicopter got lost
in a thunderstorm and ran out ot
gas.
He disclosed that the East Ger
mans promptly turned the Amer
icans over to the Russian, army
They spent the first night in
Soviet camp but the next morning
the Russians returned tnem to the
East Germans.
Kemper's statement was the
first evidence of direct Russian
involvement in the heli copter
case.
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Legislative analyst A. Alan Post
said a year-long study by his of
fice has shown the PUC's admin
istrative setup could be more
efficient, but that the commission
and staff were found to be "hard
working and dedicated."
Sen. Richard J. Dolwig (R.
Redwood City), committee chair
man, said a second hearing will
be held in San Francisco next
month to hear testimony from
persons who have complained
about PUC procedure.
Well-Wishers
Aid Family
SUN VALLEY, Calif. lArl -
Manv well-wishers have bright
ened'the lives of Lyle Hill, his
wife Virginia and their eight chil
dren.
They were so destitute that Hill
and his wife talked ot putting tu-month-old
Mike out for adoption
Two older girls ran away last
Sunday to prevent it, taking Mike
on a 28-hour trek through the San
Fernando Valley and Hollywood.
News of thjir exploit brought of
fers of help to Hill, an unemployed
carpenter. He has been ottered
three jobs.
The mailman brougnt iuu let
ters, many containing guts ot
cash.
Three youngsters from West
wood, near Beverly Hills, brought
$26.18 they collected in their
neighborhood.
A church pastor nrougnt ioou
and clothes.
Five of the children went to
stay temporarily with neighbors.
Among them were sanara, it.
and Genevieve. 13, the sisters who
started everything by running
away.
Hill hones to Una a Digger
home their rented residence has
only one bathroom and reunite
the familv.
Wherever the home is, sam nm,
Mike will stay.
crnor or any other state official
Gerdes said he learned of
Mitchell's impending resignation
and rumors of Fox' election from
newspaper stories.
Fox, asked if Knight had any
thing to do with his election as
PIC president, said: "That's a
question you'd better ask the
governor.
"Absolutely ridiculous," said
Commissioner Theodore Jenner,
who until recently was one o(
Knight's secretaries, of the re
port. Commissioner Matthew
Dooley commented "Absolutely
not."
Mitchell said he is standing on
his statement to the press when
he resigned last Monday That
he wanted to devote more time
to matters pending before the
commission.
He said the commission had
considered changing presidents in
July rather than January because
it is the start of the fiscal year.
Knight said he had been in
formed by PUC members that
they were considering rotating
the presidency earlier.
All the commissioners' were
here for hearings by a Senate
committee on the organization ot
the PUC.
Marvin Blanchard of the Stale
Finance Department, who has
been studying the commission's
work, said he will recommend 69
changes.
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