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U OF 03S3DJTIIS3AIU 6-1-5? In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS At 7:01 Saturday morning, a British jet airliner took off from New York's ldlewild airport for London on the first commercial (fare-paying passengers) jet flight from the United States. It is a British Overseas Airways plane named Delta Bravo. It carries 28 passengers in addition to the crew. At about the same time, a BOAC sister ship named the Delta Char lie took off from London and head ed for New York. 11 carried about 40 passengers in addition to the crew. The two ships are expected to greet each other in mid-Atlantic. By radio, of course. In pressur ized jet airliners, whizzing through the upper air at half or two-thirds the speed of sound, there can be no such thing as the passengers gathering on the decks and waving to each other as the ships pass. ' In a way, that's too bad. It docs away with a colorful experience. But one can't have everything. The eastbound plane, because of prevailing favorable tail-winds, is expected to set its wheels down in London in about six and a half hours. It will be a non-stop flight. Because of the prevailing head winds it must encounter, the west bound plane is expected to take somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 or 11 hours. It will make one stop in Newfoundland. That's pretty fast! What does it all mean? It means a lot of things. It means, for one thing, that the world is shrinking. In an effort to realize how much the world is shrinking, let's drop back about a century when horse power was HORSE power. Let's forget the rest of the country and deal in terms of our own Far West. One of the famous fast trips of the early Far West was made by one Juan Flaco (Thin John, when rendered from the Spanish into English) who rode from the Pueblo of Los Angeles to Mon terey in the reputed time of a lit tle better than four rfays. General Kearney's expedition had got into trouble with the Spanish Dons, and was getting the worst of it. ' Juan Flaco rode to Monterey for help. He didn't ride one horse all the way. At least one horse was shot from under him. He wore others out. Each time he lost a horse by hostile bullet or exhaustion, he had to hunt up another horse. That made his time all the more re markable. Back in those days, in the West as elsewhere, travel TOOK TIME Because travel took so much time, people traveled relatively little. It was not uncommon in those days for people to live out the span of a lifetime without ever getting more than 50 miles from home The world is changing. The time is not too far off when those who don't get ALL OVER THE WORLD in the course of a life time will be the uncommon ones That brings me up to the point 1 really wanted to make when 1 started this piece. In the town of Riddle, in Doug las county, in our own Southern Oregon, they're putting French into the curriculum of the high school. It isn't going to be just BOOK French. Gilbert Gordon, the Instructor, plans to teach CON VERSATIONAL French, so that in (he time to come his students will be able to make their way among French-speaking people. He points out that nearly 80 million people speak French as a first language and more than twice that many speak' it as a second langugc. The time will come when Amer "ryins will travel over the world 'as freely as they now travel over their own state. When that time comes, they should be able to speak the languages of the people they will travel among. It's high time for our schools to begin to teach foreign lan guages, and I'd like to congratulate the school authorities of Riddle on the progressive step they have taken. I hope more of our schools fol low the example set by up-and-coming Riddle. Noisy Prisoner Yells Head Off MONTREAL (AP)-Benoit Cinq Mars, a lawyer, was walking past a court house jail and heard shout ing. "Y'our prisoners are usually quieter than that." he told a guard. "One of them is yelling his head off." The noiFV prisoner turned out to be Sheriff L'lric Laurencellc. He had been locked in a cell when door blew shut. Rescue Crews Locate SALT LAKE CITY (API - De termined rescuers fought their way in darkn&s Saturday to a 17-year-old hiker who lay cold and Injured near the top of a jagged, 9.ooo-foot mountain. They reported Douglas Chap man of Salt Lake City not badly hurt but unable to make the ex hausting climb back down the mountain. They called for a bas ket stretcher. With C h a p tji a n was Lcroy Franke. 16. of Salt Lake City, who stuck it out with the injured youth ter he took a 20-foot tumble whi'hng on the mountain Fri-V- member of the partv. Kit Sa!lobach. 17, had hd down to summon help. Chapman and Franke were I ' 4 I v.. I BIDDING FOR REELECTION with a two day visit to Klam ath and Lake Counties was Governor Robert Holmes, Democrat. Here, Governor and Mrs. Holmes are shown at an open house held for teachers at the Winema Friday afternoon. Ill IB noimes nirs Called 'Straw-Snapper' By FLOYD L. WYNNE I don't think any elected of ficial at any government level has ever upheld all the laws," snapped Gov. Robert Holmes when asked about the charge by Mark Hatfield that he had not complied with state law requiring a visit to each state institution once every 90 days. "My opponent is snapping at straws," he continued during an nterview at the Willard Hotel Fri day afternoon botween a busy round of coffee hours and tours. 'It is ridiculous to expect a gov ernor to spend an important part of his time visiting such institu tions, he commented, the law was written at the insistence of Gov. Oswald West, father of the State Board of Control, back in W12. The number of state instil u lions in 1012 was considerably dif ferent than it is today." "Further' Holmes pointed out, "the reason my opponent can make such inspections is that the office of secretary of state was whittled down in 1955 to nothing more than that of state auditor and building custodian." The Democratic candidate for reelection placed himself at odds with two recommendations that have already been made by legis lative interim committees. While such committees have rec ommended that the state adopt an additional cent - a - gallon gas tax increase, Holmes said, "the federal government says it mav have to ask Congress for sub sequent increases in gasoline, lires, etc., in order to complete their highway program. If we increase gasoline taxes, it may be like adding tax on tax in a 'merry-go-round' of taxes." "All fieurcs on the highway pro gram," he continued, "are based on estimates. No one yet knows for certain what the program will actually cost. The other point of difference was on the question of bonding the Local Brakeman Loses Arm, Leg A Klamath Falls railroad brake man, J. B. McLclland of 1933 Del Moro Street, lost an arm and a leg in a switching accident in the Southern Pacific yards at Dorris t nday. McLelland, 36, fell from a car at about 5:30 p.m. He was ad mitted to Klamath Valley Hospital, went under surgery shortly after ward, and was reported in fairly good condition Saturday. Hospital spokesmen said his con dition had improved slightly since his admission. E 1 d r e d Hansen, chairman of Lodge 557, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, said the accident oc curred during a routine switching maneuver known as "dropping cars." McLelland, who has one child, had initiated divorce proceedings aeairut his wife last week in Dor ris. alone on the mountain nearly 17 hours. The rescue party reached them just before dawn, guided through the dark by a spear 0f light from a World War II searchlight set up at the foot of Mt. Olympus. Reporting by walkie-talkie, the rescuers said Chapman had head cuts and a face so swollen he could not see and therefore could not walk. The Air Force dispatched a heli copter and a C47 cargo plane to drop the stretcher and other supplies. The night temperature droppertjed a broken leg. Another man nearly to freezing, numbing ii lMa4 Ml fee) and rolled against lightly clad boys. nJH in evfd him The three decided ' m ham, Friday, a ttali h is) 19 ni nanii state for approximately 156 mil lion dollars to complete an educa tional construction program. Holmes said. "The next Legis lature will most likely be faced with a request for 40 million dot lars for an educational institution building program and 20 million dollars for other institutions. 1 don't think any Legislature would appropriate such amounts. At best. perhaps hall. It cannot be done from what funds we can appro priate from the general fund. 1 nave instructed my Depart ment of Finance to study the is sue. I will probably recommend to the Legislature that we bond over approximately 10 years to get the program done." When questioned why he found himself in conflict with the rec ommendation of a Legislative In terim Committee, he replied, "The vote was 5 to 3 in the committee. and committees do not necessarily always come up with the exact right answer." Holmes indicated he did not see any possibility of holding the line mi tax increases without going into the bonding program. When queried about the 516.000 deficit in his primary campaign, he said, "The primary and gen eral campaigns are not separate. This has been the standard way or years. Financing is more dif (Contlmicd on Page 4-B) GOP Hopeful Arrives Here Marion T. Weatherford. Repub lican candidate for Congress, ar rives in Klamath Falls today for a busy round of activities. His plans are to talk to as many people in Klamath County as pos sible during his three day stay. A noon luncheon has been sched uled for the Empire Room of the Winema at which a number of Klamath Falls businessmen will complete plans for Weathcrford's Klamath County campaign. Dave Card will chairman the meeting. A Women For Weatherford Com mittee will be holding open house Monday afternoon from 2 to 4 p.m at Republican headquarters, 1037 Main, and everyone is urged to lake Ihis opportunity to meet Mr and Mrs. Weatherford. Plans for his three day slay in clude tours to a number of the industrial spots of the county, plus visits to clubs and other groups coffee hours and open house at fairs. IRAN GETS TV TEHRAN, Iran UPI The Shah of Iran Friday night inaugu rated Television Iran, the first commercial television station the Middle East. The station will be managed by Vance Hallack, 44, of New York. Lost Hiker Chapman's plight became known about 3 p. m. (MSTi when Sallen bach stumbled off the mountain and told a service station oper ator the story. Sallenbach didn't see Chapman fall hut said he thought it hap pened while the boys were rolling rocks over cliffs. Sallenback was so distraught by the experience that he wandered past blocks of homes, with tele phones before he stopped at the station. At least three would-be rescuers were injured in falls. One collect- tarn tnucm cVmta Maim V -fBSWiF J9 f(. KLAMATH 56 Paget Price Ten Cents- Trans-Ocean Jet Travel Has Begun NEW YORK (AP) A British jet passenger plane from London arrived at ldlewild Airport at 12:15 p.m. (PST) Saturday in the sec ond phase of a historic two-way Atlantic crossing marking open ing of commercial jet passenger service. NEW YORK (AP) A British Comet IV airliner left ldlewild Airport for London Saturday on the first commercial jet uignt irom the United States beating an American airline in getting serv ice started. The roar of its four powerful engines partly muffled by noise suppressors, the British Overseas Airways Corp. plane took off at 7:01 a.m. It carried 28 passengers, a crew of eight, and eight extra crew members. The nonstop trip was expected to take about 6's hours. With the reported favorable winds, the Comet, named Delta Bravo, could break the record of B hours. 16 minuies for the At lanlic crossing. Piston - driven planes require about ll1-.. hours. The flight was the first cast ward hop for a commercial jet with fare-paying passengers. A ister ship, the Delta Charlie, took off from London at 8:55 a.m. bound for New Y'ork, to inaugu rate officially commercial travel by jet across the Atlantic. The Delta Charlie lclt London while an American Boeing 707 jet was waiting at the London Airport to undergo noise tests. Both jets already have passed the tests necessary for use of ldlewild. ' The Port of New Y'ork Authority opened the field to jet passenger plane use Friday. Pan American World Airways had widely advertised that the l'.oeing jet would start the world's first commercial jet flights across the Atlantic Oct. 27. But the BOAC began arrange ments lor Delta Charlie's flight Friday night after the landing clearance was given in New Y'ork. BOAC officials used the tele phone to round up persons' who had booked for the first trans atlantic jet flight.. Many applica (ions were filed years ago. About 40 made the trip. Heavy Hawaii Voting Seen HONOLULU (AP) A record 130.000 voters were expected to turn out Saturday for the Hawaii primary election. Politicians are walclung lor hints of which parly is likely to represent Hawaii in Congress should the territory be admitted as the 50th state next year. Observers also look tor signs of whether the Democrats are likely lo continue the domination of the territorial Legislature. They took over four years ago after more than half a century of unbroken Republican rule. For the first time a third politi cal party is on the ballot. This is the Commonwealth Party, which advocates commonwealth status for Hawaii. This primary is the first since reapportionment which split precincts and increased the num ber of representatives to the ter ritorial Legislature by eighteen seats. The two houses of the Leg islature have a total of 76 scats. The most important race at stake is for delegate to Congress Democrat John A. Burns, incum bent, is faced with intraparty competition from Honolulu attor ney Kenneth t. oung. Hums is favored to defeat Young, as he did in the 1956 primary by 15,000 votes. . The Republican nominee for del cgato is Farrant L. Turner, until recently territorial secretary. He is unopposed. Also unopposed is Edgar A. Brenner for the Com monwealth Parly nomination. Both major candidates for ma yor of Honolulu are unopposed with incumbent Neal S. Blaisdell on the Republican ticket and for mcr city and county engineer Wil liam C. Vannatta on the Demo cratic. Sheriff Duke Kahanamoku, 68-year-old former Olympic swim mer, seeks the Republican nomi nation for the same office he has held continuously since 1935. Opposing him in the Republican nflmarv is Gabriel S. Cavaco, 47, who is trying for the second time to unseat Kahanamoku. YANKS 4, BRAVES 0 Behind the combined slx-hlt pitching efforts of ilarler Don Larsen and reliever Ryne Du ren, the New York Yankees Sat urday defeated the Milwaukee Braves 4-0 In the third game of the World Series. The victory was the Bronx Bombers' first In the annual faH classic and gave them a chanre to rven Mil series today at two eamim apiece. For cnne;ilre dHiti on yesterday's fi J e a pre (anse svy hi fft',t tnid nis- f lw ftt FALLS, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5. 1958 Telephone TU 4-8111 Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair Sunday. Illghs 80-85; low Sunday night 40-45. High yesterday 75 Low last night ; 45 Northern California: Fair except fog on coast; little change In tern, peratures. Coastal winds mostly northwesterly, 8-16 miles an hour. Polish Talks At Impasse WARSAW, Poland (AP) The United States and Communist Chi na held the sixth session of their Warsaw talks Saturday in an at mosphere soothed by calming statements from President Eisen hower and Secretary of State Dul les. There has been no public Chi nese reaction to the statements from top American leaders in which they indicated a willingness to evacuate Nationalist troops from the off-shore islands and re frain from any move supporting an attempt by Chiang Kai-shek to reconquer the mainland. wncmer cnincse delegate wang Ping-nan would respond in this meeung un American wnoassa- oor jacoo Beam seemea proo-iing l-ii duu,. ,m.-,c wi-iu uuiira "eie.the administration on other issues inai some way oui oi ine impasse might be found. Jeep Mishap Kills Youth A 15-year-old Dorris youlh was killed and his companion seriously injured early Saturday when their jeep overturned while on a hunt ing trip. Authorities said Byron (Butch) Wilson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wood row Wilson. Dorris, was killed in stantly when the jeep overturned in the vicinity of Oklahoma Flat 10 miles east of Dorris. His companion, Donald Dysart 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Dysart, Maedoel, apparently was thrown from the jeep. He wan ad milted to Klamath Valley Hospital with a possible fractured leg. California Highway Patrolman Virgil Winkleman said the acci dent occurred at about 6:30 a.m Saturday when the jeep the boys were driving came about broadside on the country road, went off a curve and overlurned. Winkleman said preliminary in vestigation did nut reveal what caused the jeep lo go out of con-, irol. He speculated that thc driv er may have been blinded by ear ly morning sun glaring against thc jieps straight, dusty windshield VWnklcman said he did not yet know which boy was driving. Dysart fired the hunter's tradi lional alarm, three rifle shots, and then alone and with a critical ly injured leg jacked the jeep Irom the body of his buddy. Wil son was dead when Bill Baldwin, a rancher living nearby, rushed lo answer the alarm. Winkleman said Milt Armstrong of Dorris, a hunter returning to town, brought Dysart and Wilson back to Dorris. Both boys were sludents at Hill Military Academy in Portland Leasing Plan Said Invalid ST. LOUIS (AP) The federal government said Saturday Ihe Little Hock School Board s leas ing plan for opening the city's high schools on a segregated basis is invalid. The eovernment said this in a motion filed with the U.S. Hlh Cir cuit Court of Appeals. Filing as amicus curiae, Latin lor friend of Ihe court. Ihe government sup ported the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People, which has asked for an injunction forbidding the leasing ot tne schools to the Little Private School Corp. Thi 25-naee hnet saia: "It is now as nlain as day that there is no alternative to compu ance with the law, and that no schemes or devices for operating public schools on a segregated basis can hope to succeed. Thc government said it was high time for ihe courts 'to call a halt to any further dilatory and obstructionist actions which have no legal sanction hut which can nonetheless cause delay and pro duce needless lurthcr litigation." The government asserted u s. District Judge John Miller had the power to grant an injunction against the school boara prevent ing the leasing to the private or ganization. Thc NAACP has peti tioned for this injunction. Judge Miller ruled that only a (hree-judge court had jurisdiction to issue such an injunction. A three-judge appellate court meels in St. Louis Monday to de cide whether to make permanent Ihe temporary rcstrc-iamf erder issued last week at Omaha by Judges Harvey M. Johnson and Joseph W. Wcarlrough. JiuUa .!inson. Woodrough and Iff Man', ( Matthes will 'VkfTtl 'H IB: t judge court. No. 8197 Demo Solons Hike Taxes, Nixon Says PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Vice President Richard Nixon told a cheering crowd of Republicans here that a vote for Democrats in the House or Senate is a vote to raise taxes. It also is a vote "to cheapen your money and to stifle the new investment and enterprise which means more jobs and more prog ress for the American people,' Nixon told a bargain priced $49.50-a-plate Republican fund raising dinner here Friday night The vice president was sched uled to leave for Washington, D.C by plane at 8:45 a.m. The speech levelled a few shots at former President Harry a. Iru man, Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore) and former Democratic presiden tial candidate Adlai Stevenson. Then Nixon reiterated his de fense of the Eisenhower adminis tration's policies on Formosa and the offshore islands. Nixon commended Truman for his support of President Eisenhow- er in tne Lebanon and QUemoy Lrisis - But he sajQ tne former pl-csidcnt had been misrepresent and distorting thc record of Nixon said Stevenson had sug gested a plebiscite lo allow the people of Formosa to choose thc kind of government they want The vice president said there would be more justification for such an election in Red China, Hungary and other Iron Curtain countries. Nixon noted Senator Morse had called for the impeachment of President Eisenhower and Secre- lary of State Dulles for their con duct of foreign policy. Such an impeachment resolution, Nix on said would get one vote that of .Morse. Turning to the problems of Ihe offshore islands, Nixon said turn ing Quemoy and Malsu over to the Communists would not bring peace. A policy ot lirmness when dealing with the Communists is a poace policy. And a policy of weak ness is a war policy," he said He said that (he six years of tne Eisenhower administration have been Ihe six best years in America s History. un national aclense, Ihe vice president said there are some who arc assailed by the fear that Russia is too strong militarily or will outstrip us. 'I sit in the high councils of the nalional administration," Nix on said. "Those who sell Ameri can defenses short just don't know what they are talking about." 1 Those who say Russia is going to outstrip us in military science just don't know how good Ameri cans are," he added. Pipeline Blast Injures Trio HOBBS, N.M. (AP)-A high pressure pipeline carrying gaso line exploded in Hohhs Saturday, touching off a raging fire with flames many feet high. The blast heavily damaged five houses. Three men were injured, two of them critically. Clyde Mason of Odessa, Tex., district superintendent for Phil lips Petroleum Corp., said it was either a six or eight-inch pipeline which exploded. Houses as far away as 200 yards were scorched. Alter the explosion, at mid morning, hysterical mothers in Ihe neighborhood swarmed into the streets searching for then children who had been playing outdoors. The two men who were critical ly hurt were seared over 90 per cent of their body, Lea General Hospital said. They were D. A. Hardin, 19. and M. R. Dodson, 31, both of Hobbs, Douglas Alcxan der, 34, suffered shock. A 3-year-old boy Stevie, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Gaslnn. was blistered on the head by the Hashing gasoline when the explo sion occurred. A fence near which he was standing was blackened by Ihe heat. More than two hours after the explosion, the fire slill burned fu riously. It was uncomfortably hot as much as 700 feet from thc blazing pipeline. Dinner, Lunch To Fete Senator Sen. Richard L. Ncubcrgcr (D- Orel, guest of honor at a dinner schcrluM for Wednesday night, also will be honored at a luncheon that day. Al Condrey, chairman of the luncheon sponsored by the Demo cratic Central Committee, said the no-host luncheon in Neubergcr's honor will be held from noon un til 1 p m. at the Winema Hotel Wednesday, October 8. Condrey said reservations may be obtained by calling him at TU 4-7494 or Mrs. Loyd DcLap at TU 4-3710. Physicians Give Ike Clean Slate WASHINGTON (AP) President Eisenhower's doctors Saturday pro nounced him in excellent health. The announcement at the White House came shortly after the President completed his annual head-to-toe physical check up at Walter Reed Army Hospital. Ine terse medical report said: "The President underwent a complete physical examina tion, which included barium stu dies of the gastro-intestinal tract and appropriate laboratory tests, at Mailer Heed Army Hospital on Oct. 3-4, 1958. "The results of these all-inclu sive studies show that the Presi dent continues to maintain an ex cellent state of health." The report was signed by Mai. Gen. Leonard D. Heaton, Waller Reed commandant, and Maj. Gen. Howard M. Snyder, the White House physician. In reply lo question. Mrs. Anne Wheaton, associate White House press secretary, said thc finding of excellent health was made aft er examinations which took into account all of the three major ill nesses Elsenhower has suffered during the last three years. Eisenhower was stricken in 1055 with a heart attack and in 1956 with ileitis which required major surgery. Last November he suf fered a minor stroke which af fected his speech for awhile. Ihe stroke occurred within two weeks after he had undergone his annual checkup last year. Thc doctors then said he was in "an excellent state of health." Asked specifically whether the checkup this weekend dealt with Eisenhower s recent medical his tory, Mrs. Wheaton replied: "Everything complete." The report was issued while Eisenhower was still at the hos pilal after an overnight stay. He had lunch there and planned to play golf this afternoon at Burning Tree Cub in nearby Maryland. Eisenhower recovered so quick ly from his stroke last November that in December he was able lo attend a NA10 conference in Paris. Last March 1 the doctors an nounccd that Eisenhower had made a complete recovery from the stroke. Saturday's medical bulletin was much briefer than after Eisen howcr s head-to-toe examinations in the past. Asked why no detail was provided this time, Mrs, Whealon replied: 1 think that is the way the President wished it to he an nounced and Ihe doctors also." Yank Soldiers Board Vessel BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) With tensions still mounting in Leb anon, about 1.(100 U.S. soldiers marched aboard a transport ship Inday and prepared lo sail for Germany. They are the first Army men to leave Beirut by ship. The troops are expected to sail for Bremer haven Sunday or Monday, leaving about 5,900 American servicemen behind. The hist of the U.S. Marines who arrived in July left earlier in the week. An Army spokesman said 7.10 Army men had been air lifted out of Lebanon to date and Ihe airlift is continuing. As thc troops began moving out. Phalangists set up barricades in their sectors of Beirut to keep out government tanks and to enforce their general strike against Leb anon's new regime. Mediation efforts to ease the new tensions were speeded up. Phalangist leader Pierre Gemay el was reported meeting wilh for mer rebel leader Sach Salem at Ihe home of President Fuad Che- hah CHAPERONS for this year's royal court of tha Klamath Basin Potato Festival to be held Friday and Saturday, Oc tobar 24-25, at Merrill ara Mn. James Hammond, laft, and Mrs. Joe Fotheringham. They were in Klamath Falls making preparations to deck out tha quean to ba alactad 1 at tha Queen's Ball in Merrill, October II, and mombers of her court. Thil year's contestants who compete on the baiis of tickets sold to the queen's danea, are Myrtle Barnei, Merrill; Jean Pettigrew, Tulelake; Becky Short, Henley; Helen Collins, Malin, and Sharon Jackion, Bonania. t She added that Eisenhower wanted the report confined to "an over all picture of his state of health without any detail. Ihe press secretary was unable to explain this. The new finding of excellent health came as the President, who will be 68 Oct. 14, is prepar ing for an extensive role in this year's political campaign in which thc Republicans hope to capture control of Congress from the Dem ocrats. Planes Guard Supply Drop TAIPEI, Formosa (AP) Na tionalist Sabrejets mav now flv close escort for airdrop missions lo Quemoy to guard them from Communist jet fighters, a Defense Ministry spokesman said Saturday. Four Communist MIG17s at tacked transports parachuting supplies to the besieged offshore island Friday, forcing one crip pled C46 to land. The Nationalist Defense Ministry revealed Saturday Ihe MIGs also strafed Quemoy. ihis can be stopped, said Rear Adm. Liu Hoh-Tu, the De fense Ministry spokesman. "We are not going to sit there and wait Mr thc transport planes to be shot up again." U. S. - built F86 Sabrejets were flying high altitude cover for the low-flying transports, Liu said. When the MIGs suddenly swooped on the slow cargo planes from the nearby Red China main land, it took the Sabrejets too long to get down and the MIGs had fled. , "You might say our airdrop. planes were almost unescorted," Liu said. "Maybe we'll have to change our tactics to prevent low altitude sneak attacks like Fri day's by having some of our planes fly at low altitude too." Thc admiral emphasized that Ihe main job was lo protect the transports so they can deliver badly needed cargo to Quemoy. He said he was not hinting at Na tionalist bombing of the MIG bas es on the mainland in hopes of stopping the communist fighters at their source. Family Dies In Explosion INDIANA, Pa. (AP)-An unem- ployed coal miner, his wife and five of their seven children per ished Saturday in an explosion-triggered fire. The victims were identified as Clair Kinter of nearby Mine, 24; liis wife, and the couple's children, Peggy, 14, Virginia, 13. James. 7. June, 6, and Ruth S. Another daughter, Elizabeth, 13, escaped without injury and the final member of the family, Lin da, 10, was rescued by an Erie, Pa. man who was visiting a neigh bor of the Kintcr's. Linda was admitted to Indiana nspital in critical condition with burns of the entire body. Elizabeth told Fire Chief Bruce Phillips of Clymer that her father was using kerosene from a five gallon can to start a fire in a coal slove used for cookjng in the kitchen of their home. Thc girl said she went down stairs to get some wood, leaving Linda in thc kitchen with their fl her. The rest of the family was sleeping. She added: "I heard an explosion. I looked up and there was smoke and fire. I crawled out the coal chute and ran to Ihe neighbors." When Clymer volunteer firemen irrived at the scene, the six-room two-story brick house was a mass of flames. '
