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U Or GZZl'.l li: L 'J j 2 M i 0 . t-1-5? In The- Day's km By FRANK JENKINS More election aftermath: An early bird boom for Nelson Rockefeller for President is start ing. "Rocky for President" clubs are already springing up. lie himself is turning a deaf ear to all such talk. He is making it clear that he feels he has a big job ahead of him as governor of mvi iork. Watch Nelson Rockefeller. He has what it takes to be a big factor in our future. He is gifted with an amazing and rather indescribable charm. When he talks to people, he neither talks DOWN to them nor talks UP to them. He is just his natural self. And, in the process of being his natural self, he manages to convey clearly the impression that he is genuinely interested in the person to whom he is talking. This Quality of charm is inde scribably precious to political lead ers. FDR had it. Nelson Rockefel ler has it. He will be worth watching. Something else worth watching At this early hour, when the re turns are not yet completely tab ulated, it appears that the voters of Oregon were in a rather eco nomical mood on the first Tuesday after the first .Monday in Novem ber of the year 1958. The dispatches this morning (Thursday) report that voters in a few Oregon districts OK'd money measures on the ballot but they turned down EVEN MORE money measures. That showed up rather plainly in the state-wide voting. If that trend is confirmed when all the votes are counted it will be important. It will be important because it will be an indication that voters are coming to realize that the only way to check the RISE OF TAXES is to spend less money for the things that are paid for with tax money. A somewhat similar trend seems to be apparent in California. On the California ballot this year was a measure, regarded as one of the highly important ones, to cut sales tax rates and increase income taxes on the middle and higher brackets. The purpose of it was to take more of the tax load off the so-called "little" man and load more of it onto the back of the BIGGER man. In other words, California was proposing in this measure to move over toward the Oregon theory of so-called "ability to pay." Oppo nents dubbed it a soak-the-rich bill. California REJECTED it. On the face of the figures avail able as this is written, it was re jected decisively maybe as much as four or five to one. In Tues day's election millions of Californi- ans voted. In that many votes, a lot of "little" people must have spoken. It had to be that way. Even in California, the "big" peo ple don t run up into the millions. Californians, in their voting on this measure, said they liked the California tax system as it is; sales lax and all. Oregon might well take that verdict into consid eration in studying the adoption of a sales tax. REDS FREE PRIEST BERLIN (UPI The Rev. Hugo Hermes, a Roman Catholic priest sentenced to 16 months in an East German jail last month, lias been released unexpectedly, the Catholic weekly Petrusbaltt reported Wednesday. It said Fa ther Hermes, of Bad Koesen, had been convicted of possessing Ro man Catholic literature' provoca tive to the Communist East Ger man regime. IT TAKES WORK to prepare for a dance. Ask theie stu dent members of tha Parent-Teen-Age Danea Council who opan a monthly sarlas Saturday night with a shirt tail danca at tha fairgrounds. Starting with tha ladiat wa have, laft to right, first row, Barbara Vinton, Janica Shepard, Barbara Gallagher; second row, Ina Arrington, Carolyn Ball, Marva Mortonson; third 'row, Tom Milne, Chuck Lofsky, Fred Stilwall; fourth row; Don Mills, Bob Ellington, Jo Taechini. (Saa story, Paga 4-A. I Missing Cuban Airliner Found On Landing Field HAVANA (AP) A missing Cuban airliner seized in flight by rebels is parked on a rebel air strip and all 28 aboard are safe, a qualified source said today. The informant said this was con firmed by radio messages from the plane at the airstrip, somewhere in eastern tuba, stronghold of Fi del Castro's rebels. The plane van ished Wednesday night. The message said the rebels would turn over all the 25 passen gersincluding one American to International Red Cross represen tatives as soon as possible. Appar ently, the rebels will hold the three-man crew. Two other Cubana Airline planes have been diverted in flight since Oct. 31 by rebel gunmen posing as passengers. One crashed, kill ing 17 of the 20 persons aboard. Among the 25 passengers aboard Nationalist Supply Ships Unload Aid QUEMOY (AP)-A Nationalist supply convoy landed ammunition, dynamite and food for the Quemoy Islands today while the Commu nists were observing a no-shelling day. The convoy three LSTs escort ed by a patrol vessel was the third to land supplies this week. The other convoys also took ad vantage of no-shelling days on Sunday and Tuesday. Roads on Quemoy were like an American parkway on a holiday, with soldiers and civilians utilizing the lifting of gunfire to get a bit of sunshine. The Communists have said they will do no shooting at supply areas on even-numbered days of the month. They have not promised to exempt other areas, but today no shells fell anywhere. Red mainland batteries bom barded the islands with 5,700 shells Wednesday and Nationalist guns returned the fire. That ex change ended shortly before mid night. The Nationalist Defense Minis try claimed the counterfire de stroyed 17 Communist guns, 8 ar tillery positions, 5 pillboxes, an ammunition depot and a military barracks. Rough weather in the Formosa Strait cost the Nationalists the 320-ton freighter Yung Hsin and its cargo of supplies. The ship sank off Northern Formosa when tis main engine broke down and the hull cracked on a voyage to Matsu, off Red China's coast 150 miles north of Quemoy. A naval vessel rescued all 19 crewmen. The Nationalist high command warned again that the Commu nists might use poison gas against the offshore islands. Gen. "Tiger" Wang Shu-ming, chief of the general staff, said the Communists "may be paving the way for adopting such inhumane weapons" in charging that the Na tionalists fired poison gas shells against the mainland Monday. The Red charge was swiftly de nied by Nationalist and U.S. au thorities. NEUBERGER TALKS PORTLAND (AP) Oregon should adopt billboard control legislation and lead the nation in providing attractive highways for vacationing tourists, Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Orc) told the Oregon Roadside Council Wednes day, i the DC3 which disappeared neunesaay nigni was an Amen can listed without address as Rnh ert Montgomery. He was believed io De a sailor or .Marine flying iu me u.a. naval case at (iuanta namo Bav. Ten women were on the pas sengcr list. The plane carried a crew of three: pilot Armando Piedra. skin diving champion of Cuba; copilot ouido homy; and steward Amado Cantillo, son of the military chief of Onente province. The plane was on a flight from Havana to Guantanamo, with stops scheduled at Manzanillo on the southeast coast and Holguin. All the stops were in Oricnte prov ince, the stronghold of activity by rebels led by Fidel Castro. The plane left Manzanillo at 4:30 p.m. but never arrived at Holguin, about 70 miles to the northeast. Although government soldiers hold Holguin, rebel bands are ac tive throughout the area. Castro has embarked upon a systematic campaign to disrupt transportation in an effort to ov erthrow President- Fulgencio Ba tista s regime. Castro also opposes President - elect Andres Rivero Aguero, a Batista choice, who is to take office in February. The first plane to disappear was a Cubana DC3, which was seized on a flight from Cayo Mambi to Moa Bay, site of an American owned nickel and cobalt mining enterprise. It had 14 persons aboard, including the crew of three. The plane was landed at Can- anove and eight of the passengers were allowed to return to their homes. The crew and a soldier passenger were reported still be ing held. , Last Saturday night four rebel gunmen seized a four-engine Vis count turboprop plane on its 45- minute flight from Miami to Vara dero Beach, 87 miles east of Ha vana. All but three of the 20 persons aboard were killed when the gun men forced the pilot to attempt a landing. Crises Mark U.N. Opening UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) The 13th U.N. General Assem bly opened in the midst of two international crises. It has passed the halfway mark without taking action on either one. The Assembly started off last September-amid predictions that it would plunge, at once into debate on the tense Middle East and would put out a callfor a cease fire in the Formosa Strait. . Action on the Middle East has been limited so far to a progress report by Secretary General pag Hammarskjold, who is setting up a small observation-liaison staff in the area to try to keep trouble from erupting, particularly in Jor dan. The Formosa crisis was taken out of the U.N.'s orbit when the Warsaw talks began between U.S. and Red Chinese ambassadors. So far the Assembly has taken no steps on any political question except disarmament. And there the mam spotlight has been on the Big Three talks at Geneva. The proposal for a U.N. standby force, put before an emergency Assembly session last August by President Eisenhower, has wound up on the shelf. Hammarskjold finally dropped his proposal that the Assembly endorse principles under which he could summon troops from member governments for use in case of trouble. Army General Vetoes Duel LONDON (AP) ' Field Mar shal Viscount Montgomery turned down today a challenge to a duel with an infuriated Italian eager to avenge the honor of Italy. me controversial British mili tary leader published his memoirs! this week and was particularly scathing about the fighting quali ties of Italian troops. Monty, informed by newsmen of the Italian's offer to settle mat ters on the field of honor, said he would be "delighted to receive the challenge. But I shall do nothing about it except frame it, he added, and stick it on the wall. The field marshal was openly intrigued oy tne challenge. With what weapons? he In quired politely when a reporter told him of the challenge. London newspapers said the gauntlet had been thrown down in Rome by Vincenzo Caputo, de scribing himself as "national president of the Italian National ist Assn." The challenge, said Caputo, had been sent in delensc of (he pros tige of the Italian nation and of the honor of its army, unjustly outraged by defamations founded on falsehood and lies. In his memoirs, Montgomery said Italian troops were unrelia ble when it came to hard fiehtins" and described Italy's change of sides in world war II as "the biggest double-cross in history.' REFUSED . , . CAVE JUNCTION (API- Voters hera refused 64 to 39 to change the town's name to Cave City and retained Carroll Banks aa mayor Tuesday, Price Five Cents-24 Pages ! l ,' - 5 x V ; : , i J . - i OREGON NURSES ASSOCIATION members conducted a membership workshop Novem ber 5 in the Klamath County Library as part of a workshop program throughout the state with greetings brought by Mrs. Naomi Miller, seated left, president of District No. 8 ONA. Seated at right is Florence Chase, registered nurse in charge of the program and membership chairman, No. 8. Standing left to right are Rex Dye, chairman United Fund campaign, one of the speakers and Loree Phillips, Medford, membership chairman of District No. 4 ONA. (See Story on Page 4-AI Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Scattered showers through Ih i s evening. Partly cloudy Friday. Low tonight 35-42; high Friday 46-52. High yesterday 59 Low last night ...... 44 Prccip. last 24 hours 0 Since Oct. 1 0.34 Same period last year 1.92 Normal for period 1.37 Northern California Fair through Friday except low clouds and occasional drizzle from Eureka northward. Patches of night and morning fog on coast. Little teni pcrature change. Coastal wind north to northwest 10-20 miles an hour except variable 16 miles an hour from Cape Mendocino north ward. , . ' . .. . J t Pope Chats With Press VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pone Jonn xxm received some 500 rep resentatives of the world press in jovial special audience today and urged them to write truth fully. The Pope chuckled as he com mented on reporters' efforts to piy into the secrets of the con clave that elected him the 262nd pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church Oct. 28. "The efforts of the press have been formidable, but the silence (of the conclave) has been even better," said the 76-year-old pon tiff. The newsmen laughed with him at that. Seated on the throne in the Vati can's Clementine Hall, Pope John spoke in rapid French, without notes, and with considerably less formality than his predecessor, rope Pius ah, used in his au diences for the press. Frequently he looked up from the microphone and smiled broadly at his listen ers. I am still a novice at this job of universal fatherhood," he said, using the familiar first person singular instead of the "we" popes normally use. I will confess to you, ho con tinued with a smile, "that reading as I do all the newspapers, I even find it agreeablo to read all those stories about myself. , .and those allegedly revealing the secrets of the conclave put me in a truly good mood for the entire day. The Pope criticized articles which "can be construed as ad vice to us on how to run things You must remember that we stick to the traditions and rules of the church. The Pope said he hoped his list eners would not feel insulted at his urging them to report truth- tully. This, he said, "was intended i a fatherly or even better as brotherly advice aimed at help ing you in your work." The Pope concluded the audi ence by giving his blessing to the newsmen. Churchill Given Award By French PARIS (AP) Premier dc Gaulle kissed Sir Winston Church ill on both cheeks today and awarded him the Cross of Libera tion, the highest decoration of the World War II Free French forces The medal is in the shape of Dc Gaulle's personal symbol, the Cross of Lorraine. Referring to the French leader's prickly per sonality and demands on behalf of France, -Churchill once said the Cross of Lorraine was the heav iest cross he had to bear during tha war. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. THURSDAY. NOVKMBKR s 19.1 Stranded Men Await Rescue ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Twenty-one men, marooned when violent polar storm broke their ice island in half, awaited rescue today as howling winds tore at their tiny, exposed floe in the Arc tic Ocean. The Alaskan Air Command, ready to make its rescue move as soon as the storm abates, said the 21 men on the International Geo physical Year station were in no immediate danger. The ice island, known as Drift ing Station A, broke in two Sun day.-The, island was 960 miles northeaster Burrow, Alaska. and OJO . milcA': uilhwest , of .. Thula, Greenland. The 21 men were on the camp site half of the island when it broke apart. .The rescue was com plicated because the 2,000-foot air craft runway was on the other. half of the mile-long, mile-wide floe. . Before the rescue could be com pleted, the H Air Force men, nine scientists and Father Tom Cun ningham, a noted Harrow expert on the polar regions, had to make a dash by small boat across a mile and a half of open water to the runway half of the island. The huge ice floe, 10 feet thick, was first manned as a floating arctic scientific station in the spring of 1957. ft has served as a base for a variety of scientific observations. The Air Force men marooned on the island were identified as: Capt. James F. Smith, com mander of the station; S. Sgt. Richard Van Nalta, Decatur, 111.; Sgt. George Coleman, San Anto nio, Tex.; S. Sgt. T. A. Boger; A.l.C. Bcaupre: A.l.C. C. 0. Williams; A.l.C. R. E. Wise; A.l.C. MacNeel; A.l.C. George B. Marcus: A.l.C. J. M. Cecil; and A.2.C. Sprague. The civilian scientists were iden tified as George Cvijanovich, chief scientist; Arnold Hanson, a Uni versity of Washington meteorolo gist: Jorge Scholten of Argentina's Antarctic Institute; Thomas Stet son of the Woods Hole Occano- graphic Institute, Mass.; and four others identified only as Ncaufer, Williams, Johnson and Wallcn barger. The name ot the 21st man re ported to be on the floe was not known. Cold Weather Grins Nation By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Freezing weather nipped much of the West and Midwest today, Temperatures dipped into the 20s in Casper, Wyo., Bismarck, N.D., Omaha, Neb., Helena, Mont, Drs Moines, Iowa, and Duluth. Minn., and into the low 30s in Denver, Minneapolis-St.Paul, Chi cago, Milwaukee, and South Bend, Ind. The lowest reported was one be low zero In Big Piney, Wyo. Wind gusts of 45 to 65 m.p h churned waters in most of the Great Lakes during the night. Brisk winds carried the cold air into the East. lhe cool air was expected to move into the Atlantic states dur ing the day after Wednesday's comparatively mild weather. But winds were expected to diminish sharply in the Northeast as the storm center north of the Great Lakes moves farther into Canada It was cool m most other parts ot the country except In the East ern sections ahead of the advanc- ng cool front and in Darts of the Pacific Coast, Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 6225 SHOOTING HOURS: OREGON November 7 OPEN 6:18 CLOSE 4:55 CALIFORNIA Nerember 7 OPEN 6:12 CLOSE 4:56 Retirement End Sought PHILADELPHIA (AP) The president of the American Medical Assn. today called for the scrap ping of compulsory retirement. Dr. Gunnar Gunderson made his plea in a speech at the open ing session of the three-day annual meeting of the National Gerontolo gical Society. Gerontology is the study of old age. 'We have seen, he said, a growing tendency to create em ployment policies calling for ar bitrary retirement at 65 or 70." One reason for this, Gunderson said, is that "our young people are accepting the idea that retire ment from productive work at 65 or earlier is a desirable goal. Their ideas about retirement are pretty vague centered around fishing or similar pursuits, which now provide them with diversions from their work-a-day lives. But, he added, when man ac tually reaches retirement the life of case has lost its attraction. Instead, he discovers that pro ductive work is the heart of life, the doctor said. He wants the ground under his feet in the form of a job. Mass Killer To Testify LINCOLN, Neb. (AP)-A return to the stand . for mass-killer Charles Starkweather, 19. was scheduled in District Court 'today in tno lirst-degrco murder trial of his former sweetheart. Caril Fugato, 15. He faces cross-examination by tne dctenso on his story that Caril was his willing accomplice and not a hostage when 10 persons were killed in Nebraska and Wyo ming last January by gun. knife and clubbing. Caril stared fixedly at Stark weather Wednesday as the red haired confessed slayer disputed her story that she was his hostage. He avoided her eyes as he said she was with him when he killed three members of her family and then told how he shot 17-year-old Robert Jensen of Bonnet, Neb., to death. It was for Jensen's death that Starkweather was convicted and sentenced to death and it is in this slaying that Caril is accused of aiding and abetting him. starkweather said there were several occasions during the mur der spree when Caril could have left him and that twice when he left their car as they drove west ward from Lincoln he left Caril in possession of loaded guns. NEW MAYOR 1IERMISTON (APi-The town's mayor elect is attorney William H. Belt, who unseated Mayor Frank Wells by a two to one ma iority. City Recorder Mathilda 'Russell was reelected. Hatfield Changes By PALL W. HARVEY JR. SALEM tin Gov.-Elect Mark llatlicld said today he plans no wholesale housccleaning of state officials when he takes office Jan uary 12. He said he hasn't decided what changes he will make, but an aide said he is certain to replace three key officials. They are John Richardson, state director of finance and administra tion: Public Utilities Commission er Howard Morgan; and James Johnson, director of motor ve hicles. Hatfield also is sure to replace some members of the state fair commission, because he is dissatis fied with some phases of the oper ation of the fair. Richardson, Morgan and John son were appointed by Governor Holmes. A source close to Hatfield said that Richardson has done a good job, but that a governor must have his own man in that key, powerful position. Hatfield considers Morgan and Johnson to be such key political lieutenants of Governor Holmes that there could be no place for I hem in a Republican administra tion. Hatfield said he and his wife would leave for Los Angeles Fri day to get a vest. They will re turn here November 13. When he gets back, he will start working on his inaugural message, and will confer closely with Rich ardson on making up the new budget. Governor Holmes offered Hat lield full -cooperation in drafting the new budget, and Hatfield was quick to accept. llatlicld also is searching for a new secretary of state to succeed himself. He is looking for a man who could gain enough popularity! to win election two years from now, and thus hold the office for the Republicans. Hatfield didn t seem worried today about the prospect of having to work with a Democratic Legis lature. However, he wonders whether the Democrats will proceed with their state government reorganiza tion plans now. A Democratic Legislative Inter im Committee proposed that the governor be granted sweeping powers to reorganize the govern ment. But it's a serious question now whether the Legislature would want to give this power to a Re publican governor. A big question is the future of Warner Nunn, Hatfield s assistant, Nunn was assistant public utili ties commissioner, then state mo tor vehicles director, and then as sistant to Hatfield. So Nunn could end up as a successor to either Morgan or Johnson, or as the gov ernor s administrative assistant Travis Cross, another Hatfield assistant, will go on the gover nors staff, either as administra tive assistant or executive secre tary. Cross handled public rela tions for the State Board of High er Education before joining Hat- lieid s starr last year. Miss Leolyn Barnett, Hatfield s receptionist and private secretary, wil go back into the governor's office, where she served from 1942 to 1056. Hatfield had a meeting with di vision heads in the state depart ment today. Such meetings are scheduled weekly, but they have been few ana far between while Hatfield was on the campaign trail. mere still are many election post mortems here; Governor Holmes, saying hell never run for office again, thinks Hatfield won because the people blamed Holmes for the business recession in the state. Other Dem ocrats said that Hatfield had a better campaign organization. Hatfield's friends think their man Won because of his personal ity and popularity. llatlicld said that two Demo cratic acts led directly to his get HONEST POLITICIAN CONWAY. Ark. (AP) - C. E. Cotton, successful write-in candi date for Faulkner County asses sor, said ho voted for his opponent in Tuesday's general election "be cause I always vote a straight Denfccratic ticket." Police Nab Youths During Fawhes Fete LONDON (AP) Guy Fawkes caused the biggest commotion Wednesday night since he tried to blow up Britain's Parliament 353 years ago. British children of all ages ever since have marked the event with an annual barrage of firecrackers and back yard blazes on which Guy is burned in effigy. Wednesday night in London's Trafalgar Square; more than 90 youths and girls were arrested in violent firecracker riot which took more than 100 bobbies two hours to quell. In nearby Paddington, a fire cracker lobbed through a shop door landed on a pile of fireworks and exploded the lot. The shop was burned out. In suburban llampstcad, police fought 2,000 people setting off fire works and chanting rock V roll. At Lewes. Sussex County, 65 peo ple were arrested for exploding lireworks In the street. The traditional custom of burn ing an effigy of Pope Paul V who reigned at the time of the Weighs In Staff ting enough money in the closing stages of the campaign. He said that after Holmes' nub. Iicity staff accused Hatfield of us ing his religious activities to get votes, the money started rolling Then, a few days before the elec lion when Sen. Wayne Morse called Hatfield a "liar" in connec tion with the fatal auto accident in which Hatfield was involved as youth, the money rolled in even 1 A faster. Consequently. Hatfield said, he ended up without a campaign def icit, tie said he appreciated these contributions because many ot them came in amounts of a dol lar or less. Gov. Knight To Remain n Politics SAN FRANCISCO (AP)-Scara of the Republican party rift still were being laid bare as Gov.-elect dmund G. Brown headed for a Palm Springs vacation today after uemocratic sweep. Republican Goodwin J. Knight. whom Brown will replace Jan. S tne first Democrat governor since 1942, offered his hand for a smooth transition. Then he fired nother shot at Sen. William F. Knowland, the man Brown wal loped. Knight, still fuming because Knowland switched to the gover nor's race, said he was staying in politics despite his own thump ing defeat by Democratic Rep. Clair Engle in the race for Know- end s Senate seat. "Just because Knowland ruined things for the Republican party California in 1958." Knight snapped, "is no reason why I ihould get out of politics. Knowland said he had no im mediate plans other than to re- ume work as assistant publisher tne Oakland Tribune. Around him Brown could see a state Democratic victory still growing in proportions. It ap peared Brown would have a Dem- . ocratic lieutenant governor as well as attorney general and possibly a treasurer and controller. An es- , timatcd 80,000 absentee ballots could figure in- the ultimata out come. Brown already was assured a Democratic-controlled State Leg islature, first such in 69 years. California's delegation in Con gress swung from 17-13 Republl. can to 17-13 Democratic A Demo cratic victory in Vice President Nixon's former district helped turn the tide. Proposition 18. an initiative which would have banned the un ion shop, went down to defeat. Also defeated were propositions which would have . imposed pro perty taxes on parochial and pri vate schools of less than college landing and have revised taxes. The tax measure would have re duced the state sales tax and' in creased income taxes in the higher brackets. Pilot Killed In Accident TOWN CREEK, Ala. (AP)-An Air Force C45 crashed in rough country two miles west of this northwest Alabama village late Wednesday night. The pilot was killed and three other airmen were injured. An official at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, where the twin-engine craft was stationed, identified the victim as Lt. Col. Ralph W. Mitchell, 36. Atlanta. Ha was attending the Air University at Maxwell. The injured, taken to a hospital at Sheffield, were listed as Lt. Col, Fred P. Wright, 40, Millcdgeville, Ga.; Lt. Col. Stanley H. Bear, 37, York, Pa.; and Sgt, Archie M. Golson, 46, Birmingham, all pas sengers and stationed at Maxwell. pro-Catholic Gunpowder Plot ran into opposition. There were running fights between-rival fac tions. A mob of 2,000 youths ram paged through a street In the south coast resort of Worthing, smashing shop windows with bricks and milk bottles, attacking police and overturning cars. Boys many with "Teddy boy" duck- t?il haircuts and Edwardian clothes dragged barricades across streets to stop cars and buses. Thousands thronged the streets in the university towns of Oxford and Camhridgc. More cars were overturned, more people hurt. In Glasgow, - Scotland. Police Chief Tom Kelly called it the worst Guy Fawkes Night in mem ory. An 11-year-old boy was killed when he tried to retrieve a fire work from under the wheels of nn automobile. Nine people were burned in other incidents. The nation's tally: 1 dea4, at least 300 injured, some 33t ar rests, and thousand at daUan damage. !
