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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1958)
U OF ORSaON LI33ART ' EUGENE, ORE. coap la The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS This weird world note: In Oakland yesterday, a 17-year-old youth was visiting a friend. In the course ot the visit he plucked a revolver from a holster hanging on a wall, flipped out the cylinder and spun it. It was empty. He put . a cartridge in one of the chambers, snapped the cylin der into place, put the muzzle to nis ngnt temple and remarked casually: "I think I'll play Russian rouiette. He pulled the trigger once, and noining nappened. He pulled it AGAIN. That time was IT. He died instantly. Why did he do it? I wish we knew. If we knew all about things like that, we might be able to make this a better world for people to live in. Here's a happier tale: In Reno yesterday a would-be robber was literally laughed out of tne oanait business at the River side hotel casino. Officers say Mrs. Grant Ed wards was on shift as cashier when a masked bandit walked up and demanded all the $100 bills in her till. She thought it was a Joke and LAUGHED. Police say the robber turned white and fled with a bouncer in hot pursuit. I hope he got away. I hope even more fervently that the experience SCARED HIM SO NEARLY OUT OF HIS BOOTS THAT NEVER AGAIN WILL HE CONTEMPLATE ROBBERY AS A WAY OF LIFE. It just DOESN'T pay. Along with nine others, this com mandment was written on the tab lets of stone: THOU SHALT NOT STEAL. If we paid more attention to the Ten Commandments, this would be a better world for all of us to live in. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus of Nazareth said (as quoted by Matthew): "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. That simple rule, if universally followed, would cure nearly all the evils from which this world suf fers so grievously. Three Drown In Pacific NEWPORT, Ore. (API Three persons were drowned Thursday in the heavy Pacific surf after being warned by Coast Guard patrols about rough conditions at sea. Dead are Clayton E. Downs, 74, Newport, operator of the 15-foot outboard boat which capsized; Elsie M. Herring, about 50, Mc Minnville, Ore., and Edmond Ed wards, 41, a Yakima, Wash., mail carrier on vacation. The bodies of Miss Herring and Downs clad in life jackets were lound by the Coast Guard. The Coast Guard said Downs had been warned twice of rough sea conditions when he came to the mouth of the Yaquina River where the patrol boat was sta- tioned. Coast Guard Chief John L. Cathers said Downs apparently moved his boat out over the bar shortly after the second warning. Passengers in another small boat said Downs' boat capsized near the south end of the jetty at the bay entrance. Downs leaves a widow. Edwards is survived by a widow and three children. PLEADS INNOCENT LOS ANGELES (AP)-The late gangster Al Capone's attorney has pleaded innocent to a bad check charge. Trial for Abraham Teitel baum was set for Sept. 29 in Municipal Court. He was arrested last month on a complaint that he had cashed a $100 worthless check at a market. ft. - 1 -CHIlOflfJ I SWIM IjS THROUGH THE TURNSTILES at the municipal swimming pool comet the 300,000th swimmer since the pool opened May 22, 1954. Roy Dri ski It, 3130 Summers Lane, is shown as he entered the pool at 3:40 Wednesday afternoon. Shown with him are two of the oldest employes at the pool, left, Marie Anderson, attendant, and right, Mrs. Mary Ann Ellis, lifeguard. Both have been employed at the pool since it opened. Figures show that this season is a record-breaking one. The 50,000th paid swimmer for this year was also recorded Wednesday afternoon. Generally it it August 12 or 13 before the mark is passed, pool attendants reported. 4 Price Five Cents 16 Pages DON GARRETT, HERALD AND NEWS advertising salesman, gets together with Klamath Union High School line coach Jim Inglesby, center, and Oregon Tech athletic director football coach Rex Hunsaker, right, to map out plans for the coming Herald and News Football Contest. This is the third annual contest. There will be weekly prizes and . a grand prize for winners. The grand prize will again be a trip to the East-West Shrine game in San Francisco for two.' The contest will start next month with the opening of the I9S8 football season. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair through Saturday with afternoon and evening thun derstorms In the mountains. Low Friday night 55-60. High Saturday 85-90. Outlook for showers after Saturday although amounts below normal and temperatures near nor-1 mal. Highs 75-85. High yesterday Low last night 63 Preclp. last 24 hours 0 Since Oct. 1 .-...19.57 Same period last year 15.18 Normal for period .. 12.72 Fire Danger Today . HIGH Fires start readily from match or glowing cinders, spread rapidly and tend to crown in young growtn, Northern California Scattered thundcrshowers in mountains and chance of few light showers or thunderstorms In valleys through Saturday. Little change In temper ature. Variable coastal winds 8-16 miles per hour. Building Bill Goes To Ike WASHINGTON (API The $1 695,000,000 military construction bill authorizing future projects which was sent by the Senate to President Eisenhower Thursday, contains just one Oregon project That is construction of com munity facilities and utilities at Kingslev Field. Klamath rails, for $229,000. Appropriation of the money will be subject of later con gressional action. Although this was the only Ore gon item in the authorization bill, a number of projects in the state are included in other measures now before Congress. In this cate gory are appropriations totaling $435,000 for facilities at Portland, Oswego and Kingsley Field, cur rently subject of House study, as well as one of 10 million dollars for a Bomarc base at Camp Adair. L- I I ! T N I r 7 -A-J . i H KLAMATH Michigan Attorney General Says Torch Admitted Guilt PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) Michi gan Atty. Gen. Paul L. Adams said Fsiday torch victim Frank Kierdorf admitted on his deathbed that he suffered his fatal burns in putting fire to a dry cleaning store in Flint. Adams said that the Teamster business agent also indicated that his uncle, Herman Kierdorf, 68, was at the scene. The uncle now is subject of a nationwide search The deathbed questioning of Frank Thursday was conducted by Tony Spiel, chief of criminal investigation for the Oakland County prosecutors office. Adams said Kierdorf was asked to communicate by raising lowering his arms because he was unable to talk. The dying man al so was asked about other Team ster officials but Adams had no comment on his responses. We are viewing the statement with considerable skepticism, said Adams. "The doctor was doubtful he could communicate. But of course we will follow through with any leads." Adams said officials were skept ical "because anything he (Frank Kierdorf) gave us betore was a tissue of lies." Adams disclosed that Frank Fitzsimmons, vice president of Teamster Local 299 in Detroit, is wanted for questioning because he reportedly turned over title of a union Cadillac to Herman Kier dorf, providing funds for Kier- dorf's flight. Local 299 is the home local or James R. Hoffa, international president of the Teamsters Union. The Detroit Times said earlier Friday that Kierdorf, 56, made his deathbed confession three hours after he was converted to Cathol icism and baptized by the Rev. Edwin A. Schroeder, a Catholic chaplain. Kierdorf had insisted he was set afire by two men who lured him from his home Sunday nigh'. doused him with an inflammable fluid and ignited it. The Times said he changed his story in his last hours of life. 1 ii i tT FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1958 However, Michigan Atty. Gen Paul L. Adams told newsmen he was convinced Kierdorf was caught in a blazing trap while trying to set a Flint dry cleaning snop atire. Rackets Men Call Mobster WASHINGTON (AP) Chicago gangster Paul (The Waiter) Ricca was called for questioning today by a Senate committee probing James R. Hoffa s alleged ties with tne underworld. Hoffa, president of the giant Teamsters Union, faced a fourth day of questioning before the Sen- ate Rackets Committee. Committee Chairman John L, McClellan (D-Ark) told Hoffa yes terday reasonable men can only conclude "you surround yourself with criminals, and that you keep them there and intend to keep them there if you can have your way. Hoffa said he plans to clean up his union in due course. The Teamsters Union has pur chased Ricca's palatial Long Beach, Ind., home for about $150, 000 with the announced plan to use it as a training school for business agents But it has been unable to get permission from the local zoning authorities to use the building for this purpose. The committee wants to know who engineered the sale. Hoffa assured the committee he would reimburse the Michigan Teamsters health and welfare fund for his share of payments to Em brel Davidson, a heavyweight box er once managed by Teamster vice President Owen J. (Bert) Brennan. GIFT FOR PRESIDENT ROME (UP1) Prof. Pietro Bruno, 65, of the Pius IX Ponti fical School, said today he sent President Eisenhower a booklet written in Latin and praising America's atoms for peace program. Victory-Minded Democrats Stream Into State Capital SACRAMENTO (AP) Viclory-i minded Democrats streamed into the capital city today for their first big got together since the party's unprecedented high show ing in the June primary. The theme song was harmony, and party leaders played it for all it was worth. Democratic legislators and nominees 100 of them were called to start things off at a dinner meeting tonight on the eve of the two-day slate convention. Sen. Hugh M. Burns ID Fresno), Senate president pro tern, and Assemblyman William A. Munnell (D-Montebello), As sembly minority leader, arranged the meeting to discuss November election campaign strategy and convention business. Burns and Munnell, in a joint statement, predicted unity will prevail within the party in con trast with the open split among Republicans. Other spokesmen said that if there is going to be a convention fuss, it will be over proposed opposition to Prop. 17, the sales income tax initiative on the No vember ballot. The general expectation Is that the delegates will come out 2 Reformatory Escapees Caught After Wild Chase MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (API- Two escapees from the State Re- lormatory were caught late Thurs day night after their car crashed as they attempted to elude pursu ing ofticers. Elvin D. Gilroy, 19, was knocked unconscious in the crash, the State Patrol reported. His com panion. Jon Emmest, 22, ran oft into the fields but surrendered Eisenhower May Disdain Nikita Reply WASHINGTON (AP)-With a U. N. General Assembly session already called, President Eisen hower may decide against making a lormal reply to his newest let ter from Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. Khrushchev suggested the As sembly meeting Tuesday in a note which rejected earlier proposals for a summit meeting of the U. N. Security Council. Eisenhower ac cepted the idea promptly in a pub lic statement, and the Council or dered an Assembly meeting which starts late today. Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles were reported to have the possibility of a reply un der consideration. But State De partment officials said- various other points raised by Khru shchev might be adequately dealt with in the General Assembly de bate on the Middle East situation. In his Tuesday letter. Khru shchev assailed United States and British military intervention in the Middle East, denounced the Security Council as a tool of the United States and demanded im mediate withdrawal of troops from Lebanon and Jordan. The emergency meeting of the General Assembly, probably starting next week, could provide a forum for indirect reply to Khrushchev's charges. Dulles arrived in Washington yesterday after three days of con ferences in Brazil. He started in tensive work on V. S. proposals which the President may make personally to the Assembly for dealing with the Middle Eastern crisis. Strike End Hope Viewed PORTLAND (AP)-With hope for a settlement in the offing. labor and management Friday I resumed negotiations aimed at ending a construction tieup throughout Oregon and Southwest Washington. The oneratina engineers union and fhe Associated General Con tractors met for nearly 12 hours Thursday, and after the session federal mediator LcRoy Smith said: "Proposals were- exchanged which narrowed the gap some what but no. agreement was made." The AGC has offered a 25-ccnt an hour wage boost, retroactive to April 1. plus a 15-cent increase Jan. 1 and a 5 per cent raise in January of 1960. Earlier this week, however, the union turned down the proposal which the AGC had termed its final one. The tieup began when union pickets appeared at a few jobs laic last month. It spread swiftly when the AGC ordered its mem hers to cease operations. About 25,000 men have been idled. against No. 17 as well as the parochial school measure, No. 16 and "right-to-work," No. 18. No. 17 appeals to some Demo crats with strong labor leanings and there may be a fight in its behalf. The measure would cut the sales tax from 3 to 2 per cent and raise state income taxes in the higher brackets. The Republican convention last weekend took no position on any ol the three controversial initia tives. Seeking to capitalize on Ibis. the Burns-Munncll statement de clared: "We believe that the delegates to tne Democratic convention wi! prove their political leadership by taking a forthright stand on each of the major issues of the day.' Atty. Gen. hdmund G. Brown, Democratic candidate for gover nor, addresses the convention Saturday. Delegates also will get a chance to look over Gov. Robert B. Meyner of New Jersey, a prospective candidate for the Democratic presidential nomina tion in 1960. Meyner is stopping off at the convention on coast-to-coast tour. Telephone TU 4-8111 himself a short time later. 'All I could see were men with flashlights," the patrol quoted Emmest as saying, "so I figured I might as well give up. The capture came a short time after officers spotted the car. stolen in Everett, on the western edge of the city. The vehicle spun out of control in the ensuing chase and crashed about five miles out on the Memorial Highway, lead ing to Anacortes. Gilroy was identified by Mrs. Dorothy Bain, wifo of a reforma tory guard, as the man who broke into her Arlington home late Wednesday night d e m a n d ing weapons. Mrs. Bain said he struck her when she refused his request. Meanwhile, Superintendent Ernst Timpani, reported no furth er word Friday concerning the seven other escapees still at large. He said all law enforce ment agencies in the Northwest are on the lookout for the men who have been described as potential ly dangerous. None ol the in mates was believed armed when the escape was made Wednes day night. The missing men are: Rolland Osterman, 21, commit ted lor second degree burglary, and E. L. Spurgcnn, 23, convicted of robbery, both from King Coun ty: DeWayne Dunlnp, 19, commit ted from Clallam County for sec ond degree burglary: Robert Jacques, 23, committed from Spokane County for second de gree burglary; Donald Frazier, 27, committed from Yakima County for auto theft; William Brown, 18, commit ted from Cowlitz County for grand larceny, and Harry Harris, 20, committed from Pierce County for grand larceny. Gilroy was committed from King County for second degree assault and Emmest from Chelan County on the same charge, Security Bill Hearing Open WASHINGTON (AP)-The "' Son: flfA PinnnpA Cnmmlllno InH.iv opens two days of public hear- ings on tne social security bill a far-reaching measure which may hold the key to when Congress ad journs. The bill, which passed the House 375-2 July 31, would increase So cial Security insurance payments 7 per cent and boost payroll taxes to pay for the higher benefits. It also would increase by 288 million dollars a year federal grants to the states for public as sistance programs such as the needy aged. Many other revisions of the Social Security laws also arc included.' Chairman Harry F. Byrd (D- Va), who has been uncnthusiastic about handling so comprehensive a bill in the adjournment crush, nevertheless told a reporter he thought his committee might send the bill to the floor bv the mid dle of next week. ' Many legislators still arc hop ing the 1958 session can end by Saturday, Aug. 16. Ihe speedup may operate to prevent much Senate change in the House version. For the 12 million persons now on the insurance rolls, the bills would increase payments from a range of $30 to $108.50 a month to $33 to $118. The payroll tax would be in creased next year by one quarter per cent each on employe and em ployer to a rale of 2' per cent. The wage base on which the tax is paid would be raised from $4, 200 to $4,800. The bill also would advance the dates for future tax increases. I MiMiiTtf ii rifim-Trr HI-ir1 - M-"" - ""-"i n r'irii iriim;iini OTiryiiiin nwfrtai PLANNING OF TONIGHT'S DANCE was suspended for a few moments while committee members admired the Babe Ruth Regional first place plaque. The free public danoe, which is to be held from 8 to 1 1:30 p.m. at the Old Armory, will honor Klamath Basin's young people at well as the Babe Ruthers, Music will be by the Starlighters. Left to right are Judy Cullimore, Rodger Schlickeiten, Shocky Hungate, and Barbara Gallagher, retary of the Babe Ruth League, . . General Assembly Calls For Emergency Meeting UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) The U.N. General Assembly begins an emergency special ses sion on the .Middle East late to day but won't get down to real business until next Tuesday or Wednesday. Belore adjournment, the Soviet Union was expected to make its usual fruitless move to seat Com munist China in place of the Chi nese Nationalist delegate. ' The special Assembly session was called by unanimous vote of the Security Council last night on a compromise resolution. The res-' olution got both the U.S. and Sov iet votes by avoiding specific mention of (1) the original U.S. charge of indirect aggression by the United Arab Republic in Leb anon and (2) the Soviet demand for immediate withdrawal of U.S. forces from Lebanon and British forces from Jordan. But Soviet Delegate Arkady A, Sobolcv, after dropping his reso lution, said the main purpose of the emergency session still should be to devise measures for the troop withdrawals. U.S. Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge told the Council the special session should deal wilh broad and fundamental problems of the trou bled area, going beyond stop-gap measures to stabilize the immed iate situation, lnlormed sources said the U.S. delegation was work ing hard on a far-reaching politi cal-economic program for the Middle East which it plans to submit. With the Middle East consigned for the moment to the General Assembly, the big powers still were working for propaganda mileage with cross demands for a summit conference. Lodge and Britain's U.N. rep House Ballots On Aid Bill WASHINGTON Wl The House moved toward a final vote today on a billion-dollar blueprint of federal aid to help strengthen the American educational system in today's scientific world. The bill easily passed its first test yesterday with a 265-108 vote to take it up lor action. Opponents had sought to block it. Backers said its central purpose was to encourage improvement in the quality of education, particu larly in those aspects most im portant to national dofense. The four-year program would provide scholarships, student loans, expansion in graduate study and matching grants to the states nor science teacning equipment and help in guidance of able young students. The Senate will vote on a simi lar bill probably early next week. Rep. Carl Elliott (D-Alal, au thor of the House bill, said he would support amendments to bring it more in line with what President Eisenhower said ho wanted. These include reducing the num ber of scholarships from 23,000 to 10,000 a year and stipulating they shall be based wholly on need. The bill now provides that the first $500 of each scholarship will be an award, with up to $500 more given on the basis of need. Juvenile Held For Injuring Mom CORNING (UP1) - A 13-year- old youlh was held by juvenile officers today on charges that he shot and critically wounded his ."i0-ycar-old mother when she re fused to leave his room alter an argument in the family home. OHiccr Robert Chapman, who investigated, said the victim, Mrs. ?,dna C. Gmce was paralyzed from the waist down when struck Thursday night by a bullet fired from the boy's .22-calibcr rifle. Chapman quoted the boy as ad mitting he shot his mother when she refused to leave Ihe room. "I put a bullet in the chamber and pulled the trigger," Chapman said the boy told him. resentative. Sir Pierson Dixon, chavged Soviet Premier Khrush chev with first accepting and then rejecting a Security Council meet ing of heads of government to dis- . cuss the Middle East. This hap pened after Khrushchev visited Peiping last week and "future historians someday may know why," Lodge said. British Prime Minister Macmll. Ian messaged Khrushchev that ha still was anxious to take part in a summit conlerence to end the cold war. And Sobolev told newsmen he thought ;the Assembly's Mid east session might be a first step mwura a summit conlerence on all major issues dividing the Kremlin and the Western Allies. Trans-Polar Trip Made By Atom Sub WASHINGTON (AP)- The United States announced Fridair the atomic submarina Nautilus has completed history's first trans polar underseas voyage across the top of the world. The dramatic announcement came at a White House news con ference where President Eisen hower personally presented cita tions to the youthful skipper of the submarine and members of its crew. The citation hailed the voyage under the Arctic ice cap as pio neering a submerged sea lane be tween eastern and western hemis pheres. "This points the way," the President said, "for further ex ploration and possible use of this route by nuclear-powered cargo submarines as a new commer cial seaway between the major oceans of the world." The Nautilus has added to its list of historic achievements, Ei senhower said, "by crossing the Arctic Ocean from the Bering Sea to the Greenland sea, passing sub merged beneath the geographic North Pole." The Nautilus was skippered on the voyage by Cmdr. W. R.. And erson, 37, of Waverly, Tenn. Anderson was picked up by Hell copter at Iceland, Thursday night and then flown to Washington for Friday s White House ceremony. "My very, very best congratu lations," Elsenhower told Ander son after pinning the Legion of Merit Medal on the commander's uniform. The President asked Anderson to extend his congratulations to the members of the Nautilus crew. Secretary of the Navy Gates said the award was the Navy's first of the kind in peacetime. Operating under tightest sec recy, the Nautilus left Pearl Har bor in Hawaii at 2 a.m. July 23. The voyage north and across the polar area was completed at Ice land the morning of Aug. S two days ago. Six Inches Good As Mile, Man Loses License ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) It was only a six-inch trip, but Ken neth Kline will remember it for at least two years. . His driver s license was sus pended for that period yesterday and he was forced to pay a $200 fine when his conviction on a drunk-driving charge was upheld. Kline, 31, was arrested last March 1 by Patrolman Dominick Secero. Sccero said he had warned Kline not to drive. Kline claimed he had merely stepped into his car and had intended to let his sister take the wheel. His car had moved only six inches when he was arrested, he said. But County Judge Milton A. Fel ler ruled that, as far as drunken driving is concerned, six inches is as good as a mile.
