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I coif tUSSHS, ORE- lit The- Day's lews Price Five Cents 28 Pages KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY. AUGUST 7, 1958 Telephone TU 4-8111 By FRANK JENKINS Two questions: 1. What of Nasser? 2. What of the Arab world? Let's take Nasser apart first. He started little. He wants to be BIG. His easiest road to big ness is to become the ruler of the Arab world. That is his present objective. He will stop at nothing to ACHIEVE his objective. But If we are to deal with the Arab world, the Arab world must have a LEADER. It's hard to deal with a mob. Maybe Nasser is the man we need. Our job is to find out. How are we to find out? Keep your eye on this man Mur phy. For days and days he has been gunning for an interview with Nas ser. He cooled his heels in waiting rooms. But he finally got his in terview. It lasted four hours. Com ing away from it, he told the re porters: "Our four-hour discussion was very thorough, very friendly and, from my point of view VERY SATISFACTORY." Robert Murphy is a PRACTICAL diplomat. He talks common sense, and people listen to him. What of the Arab world? Well- We'd rather have the Arabs run ning the Middle East than to have the RUSSIANS running the Middle East. And- We don't want to run it our selves. That would be imperialism. We Americans (meaning the American people) want no truck with imperialism. It isn't our dish. Changing the subject The Federal Prison Bureau re ports this morning that more U.S. adults were in prison at the end of last year than EVER BEFORE IN HISTORY. Hmmmmm. Is that bad? Or is it good? Maybe, as a people, we're get ting worse and worse and because we are getting worse and worse more of us are landing in jail That would be bad. But It MIGHT be that our courts and our law enforcement agencies are getting BETTER AND BET TER and as a result more of us who ought to be in jail are getting clapped into jail. That would be on the good side. I swear I wouldn't know. I'd like to go along with the theory that our law enforcement processes are becoming steadily more perfect, so that more of.w who ought to be in jail are gutting put where we ought to be. But, reading the news from day to day, it is hard to escape the conclusion that a whale of a lot of people who ought to be in jail are keeping out of jail. AF Launches 18th IR6M CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. (AP) w. The Air Force has launched its 18th Thor intermediate range bal listic missile on an apparently successful test run 1,500 miles through space. The Thor, which will give the first moon rocket its big push was fired from a tactical launch ing pad yesterday as the latest (tep in an accelerated program aimed at making the missile op erationai by December. The 65-foot Thor will provide the first stage vehicle for the Air Force's three-stage moon rocket which reportedly will be launched Aug. 17. The Thor launching ran smooth ly, in marked contrast with the last shoot July 19 when the mis-l sile exploded shortly after take off. r i . r i ' GROUND WAS BROKEN and the foundation was poured Monday afternoon at the Ma tin Migrant Center for a building, the Migrant Christian Center, which will be the center of activity at the migrant camp this fall. The 30 by 32 foot structure, to be built by a work group of young people from the churches of Stockton, California, will be completed with money and materials donated by people and organizations of the Klam ath Basin. The project is being sponsored by the Klamath Basin Council of Churches, f resent 'for the initial work at Malin were, left to right, Gomer Jones, representing the Council of Churches, Bertil Shogren, who with Bill Kurtz, (not shown I will act ai con struction coordinators, the Rev. Ethen Whitman, pastor of the Malin Presbyterian Church and Buz Karnes, Acme Ready Mix Concrete firm, Klamath Falls, which donated the concrete. Nine Escape Washington Reformatory MONROE. Wash. (AP) Nine inmates at the Washington State Reformatory overpowered two guards Wednesday evening and made their escape in a series of stolen cars. Three nf them were reported in the Tacoma area early Thursday. The State Patrol said one. Har ry Harris, was spotted on a Ta coma street shortly after mid night. The others, also believed to be escapees, were later seen running from a car which had been stolen in Seattle, a patrol spokesman said. Later Tacoma police rushed to a house in Tacoma's North End where Harris and two men were reported to have taken refuge. They had fled before the officers arrived. Two were traced to the southern part of the city where another car was stolen. Ernest Timpani, reformatory superintendent, received a report early Thursday that three other of the missing inmates had been seen in the Ulympia. area. Timpani identified the escapees as: Roland Ostcrman. 21. commit ted from King County for burgla ry; Elvin Gilroy, 19, King County, second degree assault: Jon Era- mst, 22, Chelan County, second degree assault: DeWayne Dunlap. 19, Clallam County, second degree burglary. Robert Jacques, 23, Spokane County, second degree burglary; Donald Frazier, 27, Y a k i ma County, car theft; Eldon Spur geon, 23, King County, robbery; William Brown, 18, Cowlitz Coun ty, grand larceny and Harry Har ris, 20, Pierce County, grand lar ceny. The men first attacked guards Robert Fifield and Lester Sain. Timpani said. After beating them down with their firsts, the prison ers then broke through the ceil ing of Cellblock No. 1 to gain ac cess to a light well. Next they climbed through the light well to the roof and appar ently let themselves down the 30- foot reformatory wall with a rope. Timpani said the escapees com mandeered a reformatory car and drove to Snohomish where they abandoned it. Apparently the inmates then split up. Timpani said one man broke into the home o a reform atory guard in Arlington. Marshal Clyde Parker confirmed the break- in . and said the man attacked Mrs. Dorothy Bain when she re fused to give him weapons. Student Pilot Lands Aircraft; Escapes Injury NORTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) Edward Waugh, 23, a student pilot, was coming in to land at North Brunswick Airport when a man on the ground noticed the left landing gear was broken. Several bystanders waved fran tically to Waugh to stay aloft. Airport employes got a jeep and then motioned to Waugh to land. As he came down, one man drove the jeep down the runway along-,! side the plane while two others held up the left wing. After touching down safely, the plane veered sharply, breaking the propeller. But everyone, in cluding Waueh. escaDed without a scratch. He ha? five hours solo time. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity; Fair through Friday. Highs 84-90. Low 50-58. High yesterday .1 88 Low last night 59 Precip. last 24 hours 0 Since Oct. 1 19.57 Same period last year 15.18 Normal for period 12.11 Fire Danger Today HIGH Fires start readily from match or glowing cinders, tend to spread rapidly and tend to crown in young growth. Northern California Partly cloudy through Friday. Scattered Thursday thunderstorms in Sierra Nevadas spreading to northern mountains Thursday night and Fri day. Fog on coast. Cooler Friday, Pension Bill Passes House By Voice Vote WASHINGTON (AP)-Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass) today hailed House passage of an employe pen sion and welfare fund disclosure bill as assuring legislation in the Held at this session of Congress, The House passed the measure by voice vote late yesterday after turning down a proposal to elim inate employer-run plans. The Senate cleared the bill 88-0 April witn Kennedy as its chief spon sor. I welcome the House action because it means we will get a Dill tnis session, Kennedy told a reporter. "But the Senate version is a stronger bill and I hope we can restore at least a part of the benate language. Normally a Senate-House con ference is named to compromise differences between the two houses, but Kennedy said it is possible the Senate will just ac cept the House bill as the best it is possible to get this year. The key House test was on an amendment to exempt those plans under which management alone or -through an insurance company guarantees a fixed level of ben efits to the employes. These make up about 90 per cent of the total in effect. The others are controlled by labor unions or are jointly ad ministered by management and labor. Both versions of the legislation would require fund administrators to file with the secretary of labor comprehensive reports on the makeup of each plan plus annual data on its financial operations. These would be open to the pub lic. The Senate bill would give the secretary subpoena power to in vestigate the accuracy of the re ports. He also could seek federal court injunctions where necessary to enforce the act, and could pre scribe the form of the reports. The House bill would merely direct the secretary to receive the plans and make them available in a public reading room. Bulletin DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) Al bert Thomas of Australia defeated fabulous Miler Herb Elliott by 25 yards Thursday night and set a new world mark of 8:32.0 for two miles. The listed world mark of 8:33.4 was set by Hungary's San dor Iharos In London May 30, 1955. 3 Tankers Collide; 15 Seamen Dead NEWPORT, R. I., (UPI) Two tankers, one loaded with a mil lion gallons of gasoline, crashed in flames in thick fog today, kil ling at least 15 men and injuring 36. At noon (9 a.m. p.d.t.), five hours after the collision, nine bod ies were found entombed below decks in the larger of the two ships. Six other men died when they leaped into the fiery sea af ter the collision off Fort Adams. Of the injured, 31 were held in hospitals for treatment and five were released. Several of the hos pitalized were reported in critical condition from burns. The ships, the 10,000-ton S. S. Guilfoil out of Philadelphia, and the coastal tanker S. S. Graham, collided in a half-mile channel at the entrance to Narragansett Bay. The collision occurred within sight of the still-beached wreckage of the Norwegian freighter Vebte ville, which ran aground last Sep tember. The Guilfoil skipper, Capt. M. Eden, Port Arthur, Tex., perished with his ship which went aground off Fort Adams. Flames and smoke spewed from both ves sels five hours after the collision, punctuated by a rocking explosion. The Graham burned fiercely at Secretary Forming New US Middle WASHINGTON ( API-Secretary of State Dulles is due back from Brazil today to speed work on de velopment of new U. S. policies for the Middle East. These may aim at neutralizing the area in the cold war. State Department officials said efforts are being made to develop practical proposals by which the unstable, strategic area could be insulated from the Soviet-Western power struggle. Some referred to the Drocess as trying to .find way to bring about a disengage ment of the great powers in the Middle East. Dulles left here Sunday on flying trip to confer with Brazil ian President Juscelmo Kubit schek. He was expected to report promptly to President Eisenhower on his return. Official sources in Rio de Ja neiro said Dulles and Kubitschek agreed on a summit conference of the 21 American presidents to be held later this year, although a for mal communique made no mention of such a meeting. Detailed plan ning reportedly was left to the Washington ambassadors of the various nations in this hemisphere. But of more immediate import is the preparation of a set of U.S. proposals for dealing with Middle Eastern problems. Ihe U. N. Security Council meets in New York today to ar range for an emergency meeting of the U. N. General Assembly. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev suggested this and Eisenhower accepted it instead of. an imme diate summit meeting within the security Council. Eisenhower told a news confer ence that he would go to the As sembly if he found it necessary or desirable. Preliminary Hearing Today For Divorcee INDIANAPOLIS (AP)-A month i ago Connie Nicholas thought she would be dead today by her own hand. But instead she will go to court in an ambulance to face a charge of murdering the wealthy, married sweetheart she was los ing to a younger woman. The attractive 42-year-old di vorcee will be released from the prison ward of General Hospital long enough for a preliminary hearing in the shooting just a week ago of Forrest Teel, 54, ex ecutive vice president of the gi ant Eli Lilly & Co. drug firm. Expert Views Space Travel IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP)-A re search biologist said today a prop erly shielded man should be able to travel with no immediate harmful effects through the in tense radiation discovered by Ex plorer IV. But he would die if exposed to it over a period of time, James W. Osborne. 30. assistant profes sor in the radiation research lab oratory at the State University of Iowa added. Osborne commented in an inter view on the report of a fellow sci entist, Carl E. Mcllwain, univcr sity physicist, on preliminary find ings of decoded space radiation information from Explorer IV. Mcllwain said the Information showed radiation intensifies at around 1.200 mites ahove South America represented an exposure level of about 10 roentgens per hour. the southern tip of Rose Island in Newport Harbor. At one time, the heat was so intense that fire boats could not get near the ves sel and it had to be towed off the shore. The Graham carried a crew of 12. . Navy Chief Petty Officer Thom as Wright of the Newport Naval Base reported that a crew from the Navy oiler Salamone found the nine bodies below decks. He said the vessel still was burning at noon. Engineer Melvin J. Wroten, aboard' the fully-loaded Graham, said "it was like a stick of dyna mite. It was awful and it was beautiful and, oh my God, I lived through it." Wroten was the last to leave the Graham with Capt. Karl An derson, Chester, Pa. He said the fire flashed along the port side of the ship, then gasoline-fed flames licked to the starboard side where the men were attempting to launch a lifeboat. "We all ran forward," he said, "and dove into the water. By the time the lifeboat hit, it was all aflame. But most of the men were calm and all but one boy wore lifejackets. I got to him a few minutes after we were in the water." East Policy Administration officials report ed there was no hint from Mos cow that Khrushchev had any in tention of attending. Should the President and the Soviet Premier both show up, other leaders, in cluding British Prime Minister Macmillan, would almost certain ly attend. That would set the stage for a summit conference parallel with the big Assembly gathering. At his news conference. Eisen hower .saui the United States is approaching the prospective As sembly meeting with two pur poses in mind. He expressed hope that the Soviet Union would co operate in carrying out positive proposals which this country would make. The initial purpose, he said. would be to "show that we had acted within the spirit of the Unit ed Nations" in putting troops into Lebanon in mid-July to support that nation's independence. The second purpose, the Presi dent said, would be "to put all our emphasis on constructive things to help the peoples of this area, to help them develop them selves, and to bring about a peace not only by the advances they make but by their certainty that we are doing it. . . for that rea son." Asked specifically about the idea of neutralizing the Middle East area, he replied that in an ticipating a summit conference we certainly were prepared to discuss such a thing." Dulles, in his preparations for the now discarded summit meet ing, had sought to focus attention on what he calls indirect aggres sion against independent nations by Soviet communism. In Drug Case Then she will go back to the hospital. She is recovering from effects of 75 sleeping capsules she look after shooting Teel while sit ting in his car. Prosecutor John G. Tinder is prepared to demand a charge of first-degree murder for what he calls "a deliberate killing, pre meditated and conceived in the spirit of malicious revenge." Mrs. Nicholas said she shot Teel accidentally during a scuffle after he came out of the apartment of auburn-naired Laura L. Mowrer, a 29-year-old secretary at the Lilly plant. "I now know what I must do and" it is something that 1 have given mucn thought to, she wrote in an unmailed note to Teel dated July 22 and released by police. "Life without you would have no meaning. My only fear is that I might fail." Another part of the letter said: "I am still not angry with you, just hurt and heartbroken. I am sorry that you failed me after all this time. ... We have never had reason to feel cheap about our love for one another." Teel, an $80.0O0-a-year execu live with a wile and 14-year-old son, had been go'inz with Mrs. Nicholas for 15 years and paying her apartment rent for the last three years. She said he promised to marry her in im after his son tommy finished high school Other letters written by the divorcee as early as July 3 to her ex-husband and a woman friend told of her suicide Dlans and carefully outlined disposal of her possessions ana the funeral ar rangements Including crema t ion In a blue negligee and scat- tering nor ashes over the run- Iways of Indianapolis airports. A urn U JUBILANT MISS BABE RUTH OF 1958, Margaret Gallagher, is surrounded by her court immediately following the announcement by Judge Charlie Mack, shown at right, of her victory in the contest. Miss Gallagher won the coveted title by selling the most tick ets to the Regional Babe Ruth Tournament now in progress at Gem Stadium. Among the awards she won is a five-day all-expense trip to the beautiful Sahara Hotel in Lai Vegas, through the courtesy of the Sahara publicity director Herb McDonald. The girls, from left to right, are Delores Lummus, Bunny Leavitt, Miss Babe Ruth, Sue Phair, in back, Ton! McKibban, and Vicki Fairchild, The girls were commended by tourney of ficials for the wonderful job they had done. House Ready To Check Off Major Items WASHINGTON (AP) The House was set today to check off two more major items on its end- of-session work list a bill to extend the reciprocal trade pro gram and a record peacetime de fense money bill. Quick House approval was ex pected for compromise versions of both bills. The Senate was. likely to act on them soon. A Senate-House conference com mittee agreed to extend the trade program four years and to give the President authority to cut tar iffs up to 20 per cent during that period. This is somewhat less than President Eisenhower requested, but he appeared likely to go along A separate conference group voted to recommend 39V4 billion dollars for defense in the current fiscal year. This is about 800 mil lion more than Eisenhower asked. In a heavy work day yesterday, the House: 1. Defeated a farm bill which would have lowered some price supports. Speaker Sam Rayburn (D-Tex) said that as far as he is concerned that ends any hope for tarm legislation at this session. 2. Voted 286-108 to boost the fed eral debt limit to 288 billion dol lars. The permanent ceiling now is 275 billion, although Congress earlier in the session boosted that temporarily to 280 billion. The House bill would set a new per manent top of 285 billion, and would authorize the 288 billion ceiling until June 30, 1960. This would be the highest peacetime limit ever. 3. Passed by voice vote a bill requiring public reporting of em ploye pension and welfare plans, whether administered by employ ers or labor unions. A somewhat different bill has passed the Sen ate. A conference of both houses may be needed to work out differ ences. In approving the four-year ex tension of the trade program, the conferees split the difference be tween the original House and Sen ate versions. The House, in line with administration requests, had voted for a five-year extension with authority to cut tariffs an other 25 per cent in return for similar concessions from foreign nations. The Senate had passed a three-year extension with a 15 per cent limit on additional tariff cuts. The conferees cut out a Senate provision to limit cuts in any one year to 5 per cent. On one important point, the compromise retains a House amendment that would permit Congress, by a two-thirds vote on both House and Senate, to over ride the President if he rejects Tariff Commission recommenda tions for import quotas or higher import duties to protect a home industry. Springfield Fire Checked SPRINGFIELD, Ore. (AP) Flames burned out three business firms here Wednesday causing damage estimated at $250,000. firemen said the blaze started in the McKcnzie Building Supply tirm and spread quickly to the Nalley's Inc., potato chip factoryn.he and the G. and M. Manufacturing Co., which made plywood prod ucts. A brisk wind and temperatures in the 90s helped spread the lames. Loss to the Nalley firm alone was estimated by manager Ken Itadahaugh at $200,000. For a time firemen feared a big tank of vegetable oil in the po tato chip plant would explode as the oil burned fiercely. There were no Injuries. Fire equipment from nearby communities helped fight t h e blaze and control a fire that start ed in a huge pile of logs 500 yards away from the main fire. Klamath Falls Advances To Second Round BR Play By WAYNE SCOTT Herald and News Sports Writer Klamath Falls, the host team in the Babe Ruth Regional Tourna ment now in progress at Gem Sta dium, moves into the champion ship bracket of today's second round of play by virtue of a land slide 26-2 victory over Montana in the feature game Wednesday. The hF club will face Idaho at 9 o clock tonight in their second game of the five-day tourney. Idaho dumped Wyoming 14-2 in the first round The Oregon state champion Atlas Sheet Metal squad from Portland also moved into the championship bracket after whipping British Co lumbia, 9-2. Oregon will play South King County, the Washington state representatives, at 7 o clock this evening. Washington was awarded their slot in the championship bracket because they drew a bye in the first round. At 2 p.m. today Montana and Wyoming met, while the third los er, British Columbia draw a bye lor a days rest. Although the tournament got un der way at 4 Wednesday afternoon, the official opening ceremonies were held just prior to the first night game. Klamath Falls Park and Recrea tion Director Bob Bonney emceed the affair which was highlighted by welcoming address by City Councilman James Barnes. An Air Force Color Guard performed the flag-raising ritual which featured not only the hoisting of the Ameri can flag and our national anthem but the raising of the British flag and the playing of the Canadian national anthem in honor of the visiting team from Vancouver, B.C. The British flag was donated for the ceremony by Mrs. Amy Smith, who explained that the banner was over 50 years old. The winner of the Miss Babe Ruth of 1958 contest, Margaret Gallagher, was announced by Judge Charlie Mack who made the presentation. Among the honors be stowed on Miss Babe Ruth was a five-day, all-expense trip to Las Vegas, where she will be the guest of the Sahara Hotel through the courtesy of Herb McDonald, pub licity director for the fabulous re sort spot. At the close of the proceedings Bonney personally thanked all who Eisenhower Envoy Says Nasser Parley Friendly CAIRO (AP) Showing no out ward resentment at the Initial snubbing he got from President Nasser, special U. S. envoy Rob ert Murphy said today their four hour conference was "very friend ly, very satisfactory." Nasser kept the U. S. deputy undersecretary of state waiting until midevening yesterday before he would receive him. But Mur phy said they had a "very thor ough, very friendly, very satis factory conversation ranging over a large number of subjects." President Eisenhower sent Mur phy to the Middle East on the heels of the U. S. landing in Leb anon to help work out a political settlement among the Lebanese and to survey the U S. position in the area. The American diplo mat flew today to Addis Ababa, Ethiopian capital, and goes to Greece tomorrow. 'I feel personally I now have much belter appreciation and understanding of the problems here," Murphy said. "It was a very satisfactory evening." Asked by Egyptian reporters his opinion of Nasser, Murphy re plied, "I have a very high esti mate of his ability and knowl edge. I have a very satisfactory appreciation of him. In neighboring Jordan, char tered planes of the Jordanian air line were flying British troops from the port of Aqaha to Am man to reinforce Ihe 2,500 Tom mies bolstering King Hussein's regime. had worked to make the Babe Ruth tournament a possibility and introduced tourney director Jack Kemnitzer, and regional director Bill Wells of Portland. - (For details concerning the ball games see sports on Page 12-A.) Injuries Kill Human Torch PONTIAC, Mich. (AP)-Human torch Frank Kierdorf died Thurs day shortly after Michigan Atty. 'Gen. Paul L. Adams said the Teamsters Union official became a human torch while trying to set fire to a cleaning shop at nearby Flint. - Death came at 12:35 p.m. for the 56-year-old Teamster business agent. He had lapsed into a co ma while Adams was holding a series of news conferences that shattered the union official's story he was set afire by two strangers. There still was no trace of Kier- dorf's uncle, Herman Kierdorf, 68, who helped police worm a story out of his nephew, then vowed re venge for the burning and disap peared. Kierdorf. burned over 85 per cent of his body, told police that two men took him at gunpoint to a wooded spot, doused him with a fluid and set him afire. At Detroit, Inspector Glenn Ben nett of the police arson squad said a laboratory analysis of the rem nants of Kierdorf's clothing showed nothing but water had soaked them. If Kierdorf had been drenched with a flammable fluid, Bennett said, the laboratory tests would have turned it up. BAD ALL THE WAY CHICAGO (UPD-Charles Daley encountered double-trouble when he tried to hold up a cashier Wednesday. When he pulled a gun on Mrs. Dorothy Castel, she responded by pointing one back at him, where upon Daley leaped through a win dow and was promptly nabbed by a passing patrolman. One British source said about 500 men were being flown in. Men in the first planeload said they had come by ship from Aden, the British colony at the southern end of the Red Sea. They were the first major con tinent sent to reinforce the para troopers flown from Cyprus to Amman July 17. While the Arab nationalist lead er was administering his meas ured snub to the United States, his top military leader was off in Saudi Arabia on a surprise mis sion to King Saud, whose country produces vas. amounts of oil for the West from American-devel oped wells. Informed sources said the Pres ident of the United Arab Repub lic was angered by three recent American actions in particular: 1. Landing of U.S. troop rein forcements in Lebanon alter the election of Gen. Fuad Shehab as a compromise president and Mur phy's statement on arrival in Cairo that there are no present plans for an American withdraw al from Lebanon. 2. Washington's insistence, in agreeing to a U.N. Assembly ses sion on the Middle East, on keeping alive its charges that the U.A.R. is fomenting trouble in Lebanon. 3. Secretary of State Dulles' statement that Nasser li not true Arab nationalist but a powor seeker using subversion, intrigue and Soviet help to extend til do main. Tl
