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PARE 2 B HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 3. 195S Probers Perplexed (Continued from Page 1 were so great that many were told to call later in the week and even after. According to S;t. Brown, his theory on the. Mart o the ire was borne out by these facts: It was usual practice about 2:30 p.m. for boys to lake waste paper to the basement to be burned in the boiler room later by janitors. A boy's washroom is nearby. It Is a good place for a bny to steal smoke. Old examination papers also were stored near the area Brown said two hoys were the northeast part of the huildins as late as 2:40 p.m. Monday emptying waste baskets. That was two minutes before the first alarm was sounded. The boys said they tmelled somethins smoldering. But from his hospital bed James Raymond. 44. the janitor, insisted the area was clear of any rcluse or stacks of papers as of last Thursday. He doubled anything was placed there Kriday, a school holiday. The FBI stood by in the case. (uying 'it is maintaining a liaison with Chicago officials to see if there is any way we can assist. Examination of a steel 30-gallon can found near the wooden north east stairway failed to turn tin any helpful clues. Raymond said he had seen such a can before, but didn t know why it was there. While the causes of the blaze re- mained unknown, some lire ex perts came forth with explana tions for the Icrrilic speed of the blaze. So fast did it spread that dozens of children were trapped and killed in their classrooms. Kirc Commissioner Quinn said, "When a lire gets going it moves (aster than you can run." In Boston, the National Fire Protection Assn., said open doors appeared lo be the major cause of death. Association engineers re ported heavy wooden doors on the second ' floor were open, permit ting fire and hot gases to spread quickly. First floor doors were closed, the investigators were quoted as saying, protecting classrooms there. Some 1.300 students were in the U-shaped building when the tire broke out. In other developments: A lund established by Mayor Richard Daley to aid financially the lamihcs of the injured and the dead reached $23,100. Two hundred dollars was collected in Jackson, Miss. School oflicials in Chicago and other cities started checks on rules and regulations in school buildings hoping to eliminate any faults or weaknesses which might result in similar lues. Roman Catholic officials an nounced these plans for extraordi nary final rites: Archbishop Albert Gregory Mey er will sing a Solemn Ponlilical High Mass for the young victims In the Northwest Armory. Archbishop Meyer planned to ask all Roman Catholic churches in the archdiocese more than 4(10 to conduct masses while the funeral ceremony is conducted in the armory. Alter the services, the bodies will he buried in a special section of (Jueen of Heaven Cemetery known as Holy Innocents Shrine. Thursday morning a requiem mass will be said lor the three nuns who perished. The nuns, members of Ihe Sisters of Charily ol the Blessed Virgin Mary, will be buried in a triple funeral alter the mass. II J J tr " ? iigft Nation's Public Officials Seek Sterner Fire Laws t Tinted Press loternalinnal I'uh.ic officials throughout the nation today demanded more :.lringent lire salety measures to prevent school fires similar In Miat which claimed 90 lives in Chicago Monday. Chicago's most tragic school fire, which killed R7 children be tween the ages of 9 and 15, and three Roman Catholic nuns, spurred immediate investigations in most larg? cities. The Our Lady of The Angels tragedy also laid bare in many areas the recurring crises in schools lack of money to bui.d now ones and the tendency to go soil on safety measures during l.ur weather. ' It takes a tragedy like this to wake people up." said Fire Chiel Arnold W. Phillips of Indian apolis. Ind., when he was ordered to make a thorough check of all public, private and parochial schools. In mosl areas, the biggest prob- FLAMES ENGULF CHICAGO SCHOOL, Our Lady of Angels parochial school, in the fire that claimed more than 80 youngsters and three nuns. Most of the casualties were on the second floor. Solons Scheduled For Long Session new the Erin Combed For Escapees DUBLIN', Ireland IAPI The hunt was on today for 15 Irish political prisoners who escaped through a smoke screen set dur ing a prison fontba.l game. Authorities suspected the miss ing men wore being shcllercd by persons sympathetic lo the out l.iwed Irish Republican Army, which wages a guerrilla campaign lo unite British Northern Ireland with the Irish Republic. The break was made Tuesday 25 miles south of Dublin at Cur ragh prison camp, where II1A men captured by Ihe lush govern ment are held. A guard spotted smoke billow ing up Irnni under his sentry tower during a loolball game in the camp compound and tired a warning voliey. Soon more smoke rose from other parts of the com pound. Sixteen of Ihe prisoners broke through the barbed wire fence ciound the camp and wore swal lowed up in a mist hanging over Hie flat Curragh plain. One was recaptured laler and two other men were wounded by tear gas grenades. SALKM APi Will Ihe Legislature, which meets Jan. 12. hang up anolher record for length? Chances are il will. The 1957 Legislature, so lar longest, went on for 128 days. Were olten asked: Why docs Oregon's last so long, when Wash ington winds up its session in liO days? One reason is. that Washington's constitution limits Ihe length to K0 days. Oregon has no limit, so it doesn't have a target date at which to shoot. Another important factor is that the Washington Legislature has an all-powerlul Rules Committee which decides which bills can he considered. Oregon doesn't, so Ihe result is that its Legislature con siders many more bills than the Washington Legislature does. There have been several studies made to lind out how lo shorten Oregon's legislative sessions. They have come to naught. The Oregon legislators believe il is undemocratic lo give a Rules Committee such veto powers over legislation. In last year's special session, Ihe rules committees 195:i house were given the power to here! decide what could be considered. This was done lo limit the session to consideration of tax reduction bills and a handful of emergency matters. But the members didn't like it. Very few Oregon legislators like to entrust their pet bills to a Rules Committee Another factor in Ihe length of Oregon's sessions is that the law makers have a tradition of giving the public ample opportunity to tell what they think about legis lation at hearings beJore legisla tive committees. Sometimes, this is carried lo the point of ridicu lousness. Olten. the testimony is repetitious. But. still, il is democracy at its best when you let Ihe public give the lawmakers advice. Still anolher I actor is that the financial allairs ol the govern ment are getting so complicated that il takes the legislative Ways and Means Committee longer lo investigate the budgets ol each slate agency. The state budget now is 14 limes as large as it was 15 years ago. To help solve this problem, eachllhe Legislature probably will adopt a setup whereby an interim committee could do Ihe money spadework before t h e session starts. The Legislature is taking steps In require earlier introduction of hills. All bills recommended by interim committees will be drafted when the session opens. Long sessions are a severe strain on Ihe health and pocket books of the members. They only get $H01 a year, regardless of how long the session lasts. The 1943 session lasted 59 days, and that's the last lime there was a session shorter than 80 days. The sessions lasled llfi days in 1951, 100 in 1953, 115 in 1955. and 128 in 1957. Almost every legislator will agree lliat something will have to be done to shorten the sessions. All they'd like lo know is: How? em was the condition of Ihe old er and obsolete school buildings, emphasized by the fact that Chi cago's" fire brnke nut in a 411-year-old building which had one fire escape. The example set bthe Chicago 'ire threaiened the closing of at least one school. In Sioux City. Iowa, an inves tigation was made of the 63-year-oid Cathedral Parochial firade School "with an eye to ordering the school closed as a fire haz ard." according In Capl. Philip Kemmish, head of th? Fire De partment Prevention Bureau. In New York City. Fire Com missioner p'dward F. Cavanagh Jr. ordered an immediate base-menl-to-roof inspection of the city's 1.500 public, 'private and parochial schools. New York Gov. Averell Harri man in Albany called for a com plete review of recently complet ed fire inspection report? covering all private and parochial schools in the state. .the folly of permitting cnmbtisli. Immediate fire, inspections f,ble trash to accumulate in any all schools also were ordered in ! buildins and the danger of com Atlanta: Boston: .Memohis andl""-"!11' interior finish. Birmingham. Safely Director Louis Rosen Ind.: El Paso. Iberg of Pittsburgh and other safe. ly officials from Ihe Steel Citv were lo travel lo Chicago Thurs. You Are Inviied To Tune In Of Oig'istfiitus KOTI-TV Thurs. - 8 p.m. Presented By La Inhale's Nashville. Tenn. Ala.: Indianapolis Tex.: Milwaukee, and throughout Georgia. In Boston, where one of the na tion's most disastrous fires killed 4t-3 persons at the Coconut Grove nightclub on Nov. 28, 1942, lircmen were ordered to make particular checks of storage space for trash and inflammable materials. Percy Bughee, general manag er of Ihe Nations Association, also day to learn more ahoul the cause of Ihe Our Lady of The An gels lire. Pittsburgh voters in 1953 reject, ed a referendum proposa. which would have financed gradual re placement of obsolete buildings. Although hundreds of new schools have been erecled across Fire Protectivelthe nation in recent years, con- Boston, saidjstruction of many has also been the Chicago fire "re-emphasizes 'turned down by voters mm HOLIDAY FRUIT ICE CREAM not Yva cum uuu maim m im mm State Intends To Prove Guilt In Dynamite Case ATLANTA. Gn. 'API The stale says it intends lo prove that George Allen Bright "not only par licipated in Ihe planning but that he was Ihere at the lime" Ihe Jewish lemple was dynamited in Atlanta. The statement by Tom Luck, as sistant prosecutor, highlighted the second day of Ihe trial of Bright, one of live defendants in the bomb ing case. The others will he tried laler. Luck told the Superior Court jury in his opening statement Tuesday Ihe stale expected In show that the 31-year-old Bright was a member of a group of peo ple who had violent anti-Semitic lee,ings and formed ah organiza tion lo create unrest. The assistant prosecutor said he intended to show thai Bright par ticipated in a conspiiacy which planned violent acls and that Ihese acts culminated in Ihe dv- namiling of the lemple Ocl. 12. Luck also said Ihe state planned tn prove that Bright possessed vi olently anti-Semitic literature and exhibited anli-S e m i t i e feelings gainst Rabbi Jacob M. Roths child, head of Ihe lemple. Rothschild testilied thai lie spoke on Judaism at a Raptist church May 28 at Ihe invitation of Ihe church. At the end of Ihe meeting he inviied questions from listeners. He said Bright was in the and ience and asked him to give Ihe number of Jews in Ihe world. He lo.d Bright there were about 13 million. Bright contended there were several million more. Roths child said he commented that Hit ler had killed six million Jews in Kurnpe and that Bright objected to that statement. K K K K K ft K R K R R 1 Dead, 3 Hurt As Cars Collide REDMOND, Ore. (API - One man was killed and three injured S when a pickup truck and a carljf collided Tuesday on a county road lour miles north of Red- M mono:. The victim was Otis F. Easton. 64. of Redmond. Ihe truck driver. The three injured, occupants ol Ihe car. were Mrs. Harold John son, about 50: her 5-year-old son; and Mis. Ralph Denton. 43, all ol Redmond. Beautiful Gifts For The Budget Minded Santa 7A-, 'A WINDOW 11(11. K A hole in a window at the George llillis' Refrigeration. Inc.. 203 Riverside Strcei. was discov ered eariy Monday morning. The hole was apparently made by a rock, city police report. 0 M lb Leather Billfolds Saddle goot, 2 pockets, tool design remov- $$ able 8 vue pass case. Plu Tax gold 00 New Fancy Hankies Exquisite embroider ed & lacey styles. 3 to a gift box. 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