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6-1-59 In The- Day's ito U 0? ORE30S LIBRAS! eusese, oat. By FRANK JENKINS Let's talk today about something other than politics and war. What shall it be? How about opals? Here, at least, is an interesting opal story: An opal worth ogling at arrived in New York by freighter yester day. It is valued at $175,000. It weighs 125 POUNDS. It is named the Panther. Us owner, who is president of Panther International, says the stone, found in an aban doned mine in Austria, is the big gest known to exist in the world. He says he'll try to sell it all in one piece, possibly to a muse um. He adds: "There will be no security precautions when the big gem is unloaded. Who would be able to run away with a 125-pound stone, all crated?" Interesting, is it not? And don't forget that we have opals out here in our own high desert country. Not that big, so iar as anyone knows. And so far as is presently known not too precious. But they have their own hint of the flashing rainbow of colors that has charmed gem lov ers for centuries. Who knows what may happen? One of these days some lucky opal hound may stick a pick into a avity in the desert rock and unc'over an opal that HAS EVERY THING. That's a part of the charm of the high desert. Nobody knows what it may contain. . There's uranium, for example. Who would have supposed a few years ago that there is uranium out in our high desert? But if you'll take a trip over to Lake view some pleasant day you'll find there a multi-million dollar urani um mine that is adding greatly to the prosperity of the area. Then There's the NICKEL in Douglas county. For centuries it lay out there in the rain and nobody paid any attention to it. Finally it came to the attention of modern capital ists and with the aid of modern science they developed it and made it into a modern payroll in dustry that is adding to the wealth ot the entire Umpqua Basin. And- Don't forget the chrome and other rare minerals of Douglas and Josephine and Jackson and Siskiyou counties. So far, the re covery and the processing of these minerals have been too costly to make them a profitable asset. But who knows when modern scientific research will come up with a process that will make them EXTREMELY valuable? While you're at It. let your mind dwell for a moment on the lowly jacknine that for a century was regarded as worse than useless because it cluttered land that might have been useful for some thing else. Now it's a prime pulp wood and paper is made of pulp and the good Lord only knows what they'll be making next out of paper. They're already planning to make disposable shirts and dresses of it. Keep your eye on our mythical State of Jefferson. Its boundaries are mythical. No one knows just where they begin or where they end. The State of Jefferson is a mythical concept that has lived in men s minds for more than a cen tury. It rests upon a COMMUNITY OF INTEREST. But there's nothing mythical about the RESOURCES of our State of Jefferson. They are real and tangible. And they are I.M' MENSE. Nobody knows yet how vast they may turn out to be. ELVIS PRESLEY PARK TUPELO, Miss. (UPD Ground was broken here Tuesday for a (250,000 municipal park named for singer Elvis Presley. The 12- acre park site is near the rock V roll entertainer s birthplace. Engle, Knight Warnings Mark California Battle 1NGLEWOOD (UPD Rep. Clair Engle (D-Calif.) today cautioned the people of California "not to be misled by the prophets of des pair into believing that the state's north-south water deadlock cannot be solved." The nominee for U. S. Senate told members of the Elks Club here that "some of the very men whose positions in high office in California demand assertion of leadership have thrown up their hands, and said nothing could be done." "This is not true," he said. "Something can be done, and I Intend to set about doing it in the 1! S. Senate." Engle declared that the key to breaking the deadlock lay in pro viding enough water so tnat ootn sides can have some assurance that thev will receive a share of water to be supplied from new nrnipcts. "The trouble now." he said, "Is that we're trying to divide too lit tle water among too many peo ple" Enelc's plan involves federal aid in building flood control por tions of state water projects, and federal interest-free loans tor as ociated irrigation projects. In this way. he said. "We can make our own state funds go far ther, and build more projects in Price Five Cents 20 Paget 30 Oh Ike-Nixon Broadsides Set Republican Tempo CHICAGO (AP) Campaigning! President Eisenhower said today that from an over-all standpoint, America is the strongest military power in the world. Plugging anew for election of a Republican Congress, the Presi dent hit out once more at what he termed the dominant, radical wing of the Democratic party. iisennower attributed spend thrift principles to that wing, call ing on the country's voters to re ject them in the November elec tion. The President took part in a coffee klatsch with a group of Re publican women as he made ready to go on nationwide television and radio tonight for a major cam- Red Premier Vetoes Talks MOSCOW (UPI)-Premier Nikita Khrushchev said Tuesday night the Soviet Union would not par ticipate in any joint East-West plan to help underdeveloped coun tries. and accused the West of of fering aid only to enslave and ex ploit those countries. Khrushchev spoke at a Krem lin banquet honoring Maj. Gen, Abdel Hakim Amer, vice presi dent and minister of war of the United Arab Republic, who is vis iting here as a guest of the So viet Union. Khrushchev spoke for 45 min utes, chiefly on the perils of Western economic aid in the Mid dle East. He also said Russia op poses an international police force for the Arab countries be cause it would be "an interna tional gendarmerie controlled by the United States . . . intended to enslave the Arabs." Khrushchev, looking tanned and relaxed from a vacation in the south, denounced Anglo-American nolicies in Lebanon and Jordan and said they were stupid polit ically as well as economically. Hobo Genius Sells Songs LOS ANGELES (AP)-A miss ing inventor, found early this month in a hobo jungle, has signed a contract involving not his in vention but two songs he wrote. They are "Through With Me and "We Lived When We Loved, composer-inventor Elmer Meukel said. He added that Billy Eck- stine will record the first one, written 14 years ago. Four companies have expressed interest in his invention, a device supposed to help prevent plane collisions, Meukel said. Ihey are also interested in another of his inventions, one that tells when a missile misses its target, he re oorted. Meukel left his home here last summer for Spokane, Wash., where he hoped to borrow money through a brother. He got no loan, broke a leg while train-hopping and wound up in a Reno, Nev., hobo jungle, where a reporter found him Oct. 4. a shorter span of time." We can do it, he declared, "provided the outgoing state ad ministration doesn't run the state government so far into the red that it becomes necessary to use up the investment funds just to meet current bills." Engle's opponent in the Senate race is Republican Gov. Goodwin J. Knight. Sweden Pins Testing Site STOCKHOLM. Sweden (AP) Swedish scientists say the current series of Soviet nucle.it test ex plosions is being held in the Bar ents Sea 1,350 miles north of Mos cow. Markus Bath, an assistant pro fessor at the seismic laboratory at Uppsala, worte today in the newspaper Dagens Nyhetcr that measurements at four stations In Sweden pin down the tests to the same area where Russia held tests last year and early this year. The spot is about 40 miles west of tl central coast of Novaya Zomlya, an island between the Russian coast Md the Aryic Ocean. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1958 In Air paign speech capping a six-day coast-to-coast political tour. An aide to Eisenhower said the TV-radio address will be fairly combustible, indicating the Presi dent intends to sail into the Demo crats again. In "operation coffee cup" dur ing the morning, Eisenhower was asked about the chances of an other major war breaking out, and about the comparative mili tary strength of the United States and Russia. The President replied that Rus sia always has had more foot sol diers than this country does, but he added: 'Never before has the United States been as strong (militarily) as it is now." Then he went on to assert: "On the overall I would say that America is the strongest power there is." Eisenhower urged party work ers throughout the country to "get out to every house down the block" in a hunt for votes for Republican candidates for Con gress and other offices. HARTFORD, Conn. (AP)-Vice President Nixon today called a rising economy the greatest sin gle factor m what he predicted may be a surprising election vic tory for Republicans. Campaigning in New England, Nixon told a news conference here he believes Democratic prospects reached their peak two weeks ago and that the GOP is moving in to carve out some upsets in sena torial and House races. "If we can keep the pressure on, we are going places, Nixon said. "The President has given us momentum, and the pollsters may be in for a surprise on election day. Nixon has been predicting that the current quarter of the year economically will be "the best in American history." This forecast obviously is based on the estimates of some govern ment economists that the national output of goods and services may reach a 430-biuion-dollar rate in the quarter. "The rising economy has be come the major single factor in the Republican upturn, particular ly in the East and the Midwest in the industrial states, Nixon said. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Partly cloudy through Thursday with scattered showers tonight, and a few over mountains Thursday except snow above 5,000 feet. Low tonight 28-34; high Thursday 45-50. High yesterday 54 Low last night 36 Prccip. last. 24 hours Since Oct. 1 0.34 Same period last year 1.41 Normal for period 0.73 Northern California Showers extreme north portion today and chance of scattered light showers as far south as Salinas and Stock ton tonight; otherwise fan- through Thursday; cooler In north today and In central area Thursday. SALINAS (UPD Gov. Goodwin J. Knight charged today that the Democratic party has deserted' its members in California. Knight, Republican candidate for U. S. Senate, urged Democrats to vote for Republican candidates because their party no longer rep resents them. In some northern states it (the Democratic party) is dom inated by a radical wing. In the south, it is dominated by a super reactionary wing whose members dominate the key positions in the u. a. benate. said the governor. In a speech prepared for deli. very before a group of his suppoM ters here. Knight said Democrats wno vote tor KepuDiicans, are not deserting their party. Their party is deserting them. Knight said he is running for of fice "on a record of unquestioned integrity, statewide perspective, and long experience in federal af fairs which he compiled as gover nor. TRADING STAMP PRIZES NEW YORK UPI) Members of the Sales Executives Club are all set to cash in on the trading stamp craze. One million stamps said to be worth up to 55.000 were given away in drawings at the club's weekly lunch Tuesday. idiisim Airliner. Jet Smashed Near Famed Anzio Beach ANZIO, Italy (AP) A British! airliner and an Italian military jet collided four miles above Italy today, killing all 30 aboard the passenger plane. Wreckage of the British Euro pean Airways four-engine turbo prop plane was scattered lor more than a mile near this fa mous World War II battlefield 30 miles south of Rome. The military plane exploded in the air. Seconds before that the Italian pilot parachuted, landing in the Mediterranean. A fishing boat picked him up. He was taken to a hospital in grave condition. The airliner's dead included Jane Buckingham, London model involved in a romance in which she had pictured actress Eva Bar- tok as trying to take over an In dian prince who is mine. The prince, 27-year-old Shiv of Palitana, is in Naples and Miss Buckingham, 22, was presumably en route there to try to patch things up. . The BEA Viscount airliner was on a flight from London to Naples and Malta. The collision came 15 minutes before the plane was due Soldiers Aid German Boy BALTIMORE (AP) Young1 Klaus Kaemmerer, his mother by his side and some 500 American soldier buddies rooting for him in Germany, was ready today to have his deformed heart repaired. The 5-year-old curly-headed German boy and his attractive young mother were reunited at Johns Hopkins Hospital late Tues day. Today, Klaus goes under the skilled knife of Dr. Alfred Bla- lock, surgeon-father of the "blue baby" operation Klaus needs. Dr, Blalock will attempt to repair a congenital defect In the young ster s heart. Klaus was flown here last week from Frankfort, Germany. Hop kins doctors delayed the operation until his mother could be brought here too. When Mrs. Sigrid Kaemmerer entered the hospital after her ar rival by plane, Klaus was busy playing with blocks. He said noth ing at first, just looked. But a smile of recognition slowly formed. It widened into a broad grin as his mother took him in her arms. Mrs. Kaemmerer will stay in the hospital near her son without cost. The Kaemmerers have three other children in Germany and little money. A trip to this coun try would have been unthinkable without help. But they had plenty of help. Father Jailed For 3 Deaths ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) Wher ever Robert Jamison went death seemed to follow. In New Jersey In January, 1957, his 18-month-old stepson died Jamison, 21, told authorities at South Toms River the boy choked on a cookie. Jamison moved to Idaho, to a Pocatello suburb. In August his 6-week-oId daughter died. A coro ner said pneumonia was respon sible. Then in September Jamison's other 18-month-old son died in California. Jamison said the child had fallen down a flight of stairs. but Alameda police weren t cer tain. Before they concluded their In vestigation Jamison had gone to still another state Washington. It was there, in BelUngham, that Jamison decided to return to Ala meda where police had issued an all-points bulletin for him, his wife Nellie Mae, 20. told officers. Instead, Sheriff John D. Ross said, Jamison came to Santa Bar bara. Calif., where he was arrest ed and, the sheriff declared, ad mitted he was lying when he said his stepson had died in a fail in Alameda. He allegedly said he slapped him. Rebs Ignore U.S. Demands HAVANA (UPD - The rebels showed no sign today of willing ness to yield to U.S. demands for the immediate release of two Americans kidnaped Monday from the Texas Company's Santiago oil refinery. Kenneth D. Drewcs, Jolict, III., and Charles R. Bennett (no U.S address) were snatchid along with seven Cubans. They were the first foreigners kidnaped by the rebels since June, when they made off with about 50 Americans. They were released only alter protracted negotiations. Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 6212 at Naples. Within three hours. Italian po lice had recovered all 30 bodies. BEA in Rome said its plane was flying at 23,500 feet. Rome s Ciampino airfield re ported weather in the area was clear. The shattered British nlanc crashed into an Italian artillery testing ground and only about 200 yards from an explosives dump. Losimo Haggialemam. 33. of nearby Nettuno, who was picking mushrooms, said he heard an ex plosion. Looking up, he saw flames and then bits of wreckage fell around mm. One wing was about 600 feet from the smashed part of the fu selage. Part of the tail was 1,000 feet away. The airliner carried 25 pas sengers and a crew of 5. Witnesses said the military plane continued its flight for a second after the collision, then nosed over as the pilot, Capt. uiovanm savorem, bailed out. Crash crews were rushed from Rome's Ciampino airfield lo this small fishing port where British and II. S. troops landed in World War II. mis was tne latest in a scries of crashes involving commercial and military planes. A collision Nov. 1, 1949 between an Eastern Airlines plane and P38 fighter near Washington D. C, took 55 lives. A United Airlines DC7 and a U. S. Air Force F100K jet trainer collided and exploded over the Nevada desert last April 21. For ty-nine persons were killed. Last May 20 an Air National Guard jet trainer collided with Capital Airlines Viscount near Brunswick, Md. The death toll was 12. Two civilian planes a United Airlines DC7 carrying 58 and a TWA Super Constellation airliner with 70 aboard collided over Ari zona's Grand Canyon June 30, 1956. All aboard both planes were killed. UN Pressing U.S. Shift UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UPD Pressure mounted on the United States today to amend its dis armament resolution in the United Nations main political committee. The U.S. delegation referred all suggestions to the State Depart ment for final decision. Similar action was taken by Britain and the other sponsors of the 17 power resolution. There was increasing belief among diplomats and observers that neither the western resolu-i tion nor the two others ori the floor could receive the command ing vole needed to make it effec tive. Best estimates were that the western proposal, which calls for early agreement on "suspension" of nuclear tests, would receive a bare two-thirds majority. The 12-power Afro-Asian rcsolu lion calling for "immediate dis continuance" of nuclear weapons tests was rated at not more than 30 to 33 of the 81-member votes, Warden Babies Pooped Pelican, Thought Crane FORT WORTH, Tex. (AP)-Two men found a big white bird with long bill, skinny legs, some black feathers on its wings and a band on one of its legs. They took it to Game Warden Louis Claymer, who thought it was one of the almost-extinct whooping cranes and had been in jured. I babied that bird something awful," said Clymer. "That ras cal alo half a gallon of minnows. . . . He bit me too." But when Warden Swede John son, something of a bird expert. showed up, he declared it wasn't a whooper at all. Just a while peli can. It wasn't even crippled. Clvmer said. "He was just pooped out lrom liying. "He'll have to find his own min nows from now on," said Clymer, rubbing his bitten hand. October 23 OPEV 5:59 CLOSE 5:15 CALIFORNIA October 23 OPEN CLOSE 5:54 J:14 MM SHOOTING HOURS: OREGON r-'T """to' m . .. " "'-- i , , FIFTEEN ARMY HELICOPTERS spent the night at Kingsley Field en route to maneuvers in California from Fort Lewis. The first six to arrive, shown in the photo, came in at 5:20 p.m., with the other nine arriving at 7 o'clock. The 68 officers and men, belong ing to the 57th Transportation Company, spent the night in local motels; the Sportsmen Pilots provided them with transportation. Supper and breakfast were handled by the airport cafe. The whirlybirds left in two shifts this morning, eight at 7:36 and seven at 8:45. Airport manager Harold G, Jones reported the copters had made refueling stops at Portland and Redmond, and were due to stop at Redding and Moffett Field before putting down for lunch at Stockton. A 16th helicopter was detained for repairs ai Portland and may pass through Klamath Falls today. The outfit is expected to come back through on its way home in about a month. Red Chinese Get U.S. May Resume TAIPEI, Formosa AP Sccrc-, tary of State Dulles and President Chiang Kai-shek held new crisis talks today as a fierce artillery duel raged between Communist and Nationalist big guns. On tins second day of Dulles visit, the United States warned Red China it will resume escort-1 ing supply ships to Quemoy if that becomes a military necessity. But Atomic Blast Lights Dawn ATOMIC TEST SITE. Nev. (AP) The first blast of a scheduled atomic trlpleheader lit up the molded, predawn sky in a bril liant yellow flash today. The yellow gradually dissolved into a pink afterglow visible for several minuces in Las Vegas some 90 miles away. The blast, from beneath a bal loon 1,500 feet above Yucca Flat, was described by the Atomic En ergy Commission as about half nominal in yield. That means it had the power of about 10,000 tons of TNT or about half the de structive force of each of the bombs dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War 11. Home Buying Given Boost WASHINGTON (UPD A gov ernment - authorized reduction of down payments on medium-priced homes financed through federally- chartered savings and loan as sociations was seen today helping counteract any tightening ol credit. The Home Loan Bank Board announced Tuesday night that Ihe associations may write mortgage loans up to 90 per cent of a house's appraised value. The limit had been 80 per cent. Thus, a buyer who is financing a $15,000 house will he able to borrow up to $13,500 instead of $12,000. The down payment may be. therefore, as little as $1,500 instead of $3,000. The amended rules become ef fective Thursday. The new ceiling will apply on loans up to $18,000 in an eflort to funnel money inlo linancing of low and medium priced housing. Harold P. Braman, managing director of the National League of Insured Savings Associations, hailed the ruling and said it "could result in expansion of home construction by 10 per cent or more annually. " Schools Plan To Expand LITTLE ROCK. Ark. (AP) -Alter running into early registra tion difficulties at its new all white high school, the Little (lock Private School Corp. planned lo start expanding enrollment today. W. C. Brashears, superintendent, said junior students will sign up. Sophomores will register Thurs day. There are no teachers or facili ties for juniors and sophomores. The school building, a former orphanage, isn't large enough lo handle three grades, and only 14 teachers have been hired. Seniors, who expected to start their studies Tuesday, were dis missed two hours alter reporting because of what school olficials called a registration mixup.. Many students were coKQcd about courses, Brashears said The seniors were would begin today. told classes Ihe Reds stepped up their bom bardment of the Qucmoys, raining nearly 1,000 shells an hour on the offshore stronghold. The Nationalist Defense Ministry said their guns on Quemoy an swered the Communist barrage but gave no figures on what AP Correspondent David Lancashire on Quemoy called a shell-for-sliell return. The Defonso Ministry tally of Red shelling was 5,293 shells be tween noon and 6 p.m. making 8, 37fi rounds for the past 12 hours. The Communists shattered their cease - lire Monday with more than 11,000 shells fired on the Is land. Lancashire reported nine civil- lans have been killed and seven wounded during the three days of I communist shelling. Dulles and his aides held three meetings with Chiang Tuesday, 45-minute session this morning. and met tonight for another state dinner to be followed by talks, Ihe first announced result of Iho conference was a statement authorized by Dulles and issued by U.S. Ambassador Everett F Drumright warning that U.S. war ships may return to escort duty to Quemoy. The escorling was halted after the Reds first pro claimed a cease-fire. There were indications Iho Na tionalists had hoped for a stronger statement saying convoying will be resumed immediately. Park Dedicates Bench To Baruch NEW YORK (AP)-U's official now. Ihe bench in Central Park long used by Bernard M. Baruch as his informal headquarters has been formally dedicated to tho 88-year-old adviser to presidents. Ihe Park Department placed a plaque beneath the bench. It reads Elder Statesman's Bench Re served for Bernard M. Barurh Baruch said ho will welcome others to his private bench. HST Says Policy Blunder, Bluster WILMINGTON. Del. (AP) Harry S. Truman sought to label Eisenhower-Dulles (oreign policy today as ono of "blunder, bluster and brink of war." The former President also dubbed Vice President Nixon the "chief hatchetman" for the Re publicans. He said Nixon is try ing to help the GOP candidates by using verbal garbage. Truman said this and more of Eisenhower and Nixon as he car ried his Democratic campaign from Pennsylvania into Delaware. In an address prepared for a Democratic rally, he spoke scorn fully of Eisenhower's claim of run ning a "sound government." "A 'sound' government to the Republicans, ' the 74-ycar-old Democratic campaigner argued, "is the kind of government in which the President makes nice sounds while the vice president snarls." And he added the Republicans can't make up their minds wheth or to aim Iheir campaign "at the reactionaries tint their money or the liberals lor their votes. Nixon, Truman said, admits the Republicans ore doomed to inevi table defeat unless they charge that the Democrat? "are dedicated to socialism at home and warmon gering abroad." The voters, he said, "are not soing to fall for that kind of ver bal garbage again." Truman was in top campaign! Warning Convoys The U.S. Taiwan (Formosa) Defense Command's spokesman said no orders to resume convoy ing have been issued because dur ing the 15-day cease-fire Quemoy was stockpiled with food and am munition enough for a winter's siege. Walter S. Robertson, assistant secretary of state for Far Eastern affairs and No. 2 American in the talks, took pains at a news con ference to deny rumors of a rift during the session. The rumors were reported cir culated, by low-level Nationalist of- uciais wno tear tne united Mates wants Chiang to reduce his gar risons on the otfshore islands. Robertson said that In the face of the renewed Communist offen sive "I doubt whether the Presi dent or secretary would recom mend reducing troops on the off shore islands." President Eisenhower's and Dul les' criticism of the manpower maintained in the Quemoy islands garrisons was strictly from a mili tary point of view, Robertson as serted. Observers anticipated that at Ihe most the meetings would pro duce a better understanding, and a joint declaration of continued cooperation. Robertson denied that the off shore islands were being held by the Nationalists as a base for fu ture invasion of the mainland. "There isn't anyone above the intelligence of a military moron who thinks for one moment these islands arc a base for an attack on the mainland," he declared. The forces are there m strength (aTioiit 100,000 men) not for an offensive but for defensive purposes." y Until the Reds ended the cease fire, Dulles reportedly had hoped to get Chiang to withdraw a large number of them as evidence he did not plan to use the islands as tho jumping-off point for an inva sion. Dulles had hoped this would induce the Communists to make their cease-fire permanent. form at a rally In New Castle, Pa., Tuesday night. Ho got a welcome there earlier in the day that ri valed some of his 1948 campaign appearances. Ho is flying into New York this afternoon to do some extra campaigning for Dem ocratic Gov. Avcrell Harriman in his vigorously contested race for eelection against Nelson Rocke feller. In his speech Tuesday night Truman again charged that Pres ident Eisenhower had surrend ered to the Communists" in reach ing an armistice in the Korean fighting. "We are paying the fiddler right now for doing it," he said. Truman has contended he could have made the same agreement on the same terms years before. But he didn t do so, he said, be cause tho knew what would hap penRed Chinese troops would be freed to exert pressures else where. The ex-President - took note of differences between Sun. William F. Knowland iR-Califl, candidate for governor of California, and GOP Gov. Goodwin Knight, seek ing Knowland's Senate seat dif ferences President Eisenhower has sought to patco 00 e "In one slate," 'fc-uiaun said, "the Republican canrfy&te for the Senate is not even supporting t Republican candidate for gov- nor.' v
