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b-i-5? 11 0? 0!t230:l LI-r.A.lf . ... rr " Premature Firing Spoils Price Ten Cents 72 Paget Gl Flier Still Held Captive In Germany BERLIN (AP)- An American flier who parachuted into East Germany was held Saturday as a pawn in the Berlin situation. An East German official Indi cated Lt. Richard Mackin would be returned to the U.S. Army only through direct negotiations with the East German satellite regime. Mackin became lost and bailed out behind the Iron Curtain Wednesday. The Communists accused West Germany of trying to prevent German unification. West German Chancellor Kon rad Adenauer said Friday the West should settle the Berlin prob lem before getting bogged down In other long-stalemated German problems such as unification. The East German Communists promptly charged him with oppos ing any move to bring together the western and Eastern German (tates. The Western Big Three who occupy West Berlin refuse to rec ognize the East German regime or nave any negotiations with it. This affects both the Mackin case and Soviet efforts to make the United States, Britain and France deal with East Germany for ac cess to Berlin. Soviet Premier Khrushchev has threatened to turn over to East Germany in six months the Soviet controls over transportation from West Germany to the isolated city 110 miles inside East Germany. The Soviet boss wants the West to get out, leaving West Berlin a demilitarized, free city at the mercy of surrounding Soviet and satellite troops. The Allies refuse to budge, say ing they will stick by their pledges to protect the 2,200,000 residents of West Berlin. But both Washington and London have suggested that the Khrushchev proposal could be the basis for reopening discussions on reunifying Germany, which has been split since World War II. Adenauer was in West Berlin campaigning for his Christian Democratic party In municipal f ledums -Sunday. ' . . ' Mackin, 27. was flying a small 1 Army liaison plane when he be came lost, crossed the East Ger man border, ran out of gasoline and had to jump feet first into the Berlin situation. The pilot, from Washington, D.C.. was held for two days be fore the East Germans admitted they had him. Then a Communist district official said, "The Amer icans will have to talk to us about the pilot." The Allies contend that under World World War II agreements the Soviet Union is responsible ' for East Germany, so the West deals only with the Soviets. But i tome foreign diplomats in Moscow predicted that the Kremlin would insist it had nothing to do with Mackin and tell the United States to talk to the East Germans. Weather. FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Mostly cloudy with few scattered shower of rain or (now through Sunday. Highs 38 44; lows 25-32. High yesterday r 51 Low last night 29 .Northern California: Mostly fair through today except low over cast near coast and cloudy near Oregon border; local morning fog bi valleys; little change in temp erature. Coastal winds variable -18 miles per hour. School Fire Toll Reaches 91 ; Spellman Celebrates Mass CHICAGO (UPD The death toll in Chicago's school fire climbed to 91 Friday night, hours after 70 of the victims from Our Lady of the Angels School were buried in crisp, cold December weather. Services for 12 more of the children were to be held Saturday. Three Roman Cntholic nuns who died with their charges in Mon day's blaze and five other chil dren were buried Thursday. Attention of the heartsick city shifted to the city's hospitals where 12 youngsters and one nun remained on the critical list, and pravcrs were offered that the de layed death Friday night of Vic tor Jacabellis, 9, might be the last in the overwhelming trag edy. A solemn requiem Mass was celebrated by Chicago's Arch bishop Albert G. Meyer at a Na tional Guard armory where 18 girls and nine boys rested in white and gold coffins. Separate funeral services were sung at numerous parish churches throughout the city for many of the remaining children. Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York assisted at the Mass held In the temporary "cathe dral," chosen because no church In the city was large enough to old the victims, their relatives nd mourners. About 7,000 persons were at the Tmory, and another 2,000 gath ered later at the Holy Innocents Shrine of Queen of Heaven Cem KLAMATH MOUNT SHASTA forms the eastern backdrop for the pro- fiosed site of the new Siskiyou County Junior College. The ocation is southwest of Weed, adjacent to the South High way residential area. Road in the foreground leads west C ICSHOPPINS J f IPAYS TIL J', yqieiSTMAg? Jfyf; Two Men Die In Gun Fight At Airport BUNNELL, Fla. (AP) - A gun battle at an abandoned airport Friday night left two men dead, two wounded and a fifth with a head injury apparently from a gun barrel. The violence appar ently stemmed from a labor dis pute. The men involved were report ed to be drivers or former em ployes of Tropical Transport Co., which hauls cement for the Le high Portland Cement Co. at near by Flagler Beach. Pickets for the Teamsters union a week ago began patrolling the plant in an effort to gain recogni tion. Some of the drivers for the transport company are union members. The dead were listed as Howard Glisson of Bunnell and George Jones, about 30, who lived in a trailer at the old airport. Hospitalized with gunshot wounds were Alex Faircloth of Or mond Beach and Robert Drake of Bunnell. Faircloth was reported in critical condition from stomach wounds. Asst. State's Atty. H. T. Cook and Sheriff Homer Brooks were questioning the fifth man involved, listed as Sidney McCraney. etery where 21 . of the victims were brought for final burial. There, as gusly winds blew bit terly, Bishop Raymond P. Hill inger offered a final prayer over the collins and weeping relatives huddled together for comfort. One bereaved father was de nied the comforting release of tears. Stanley Burda, 37, had un dergone an eye operation Monday, the same day his daughter, Bev erly 13, was killed in the fire Doctors had warned him that excruciating pain and possible damage would accompany any tears he might shed at the tu ner .M, and Burda struggled to obey the warning. A short distance away were the newly turned graves of the three nuns and a statue of the smiling Christ surrounded by the figures of three little children. Inscribed on the base of the statue were Christ's words "Suffer the little children to come unto Me and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of God. Mourners contained their Brief during the requiem Mass, but at the close, as National Guardsmen escorted the tiny coffins and fam ilies out, tears began to flow pro fusely. Three women required first aid. fathers wept openly, and several National Guardsmen were forced to leave their posts because, as their commander put it, the com bat veterans of World War II and the Korean War "Just couldn't take it." FALLS, OREGON. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1958 Siskiyou Decides Upon Junior College Plant j By LUCILE GAYNOR WEED A decision to go ahead and build a iunior colleoe Dlant in Southern Siskivnu Cnuntv on a budget limited 'by the funds which are available or expected to become available is announced by the Siskiyou Junior t College Board OI ITU51QC5.. - - ' - --' - ,'John Mantle, manager of Inter national -Paper Company's Long- Bell division at Weed and president of the junior college board, stated tlfct simple, frame 'buildings, ca pable of housing up to 200 stu dents, will form the nucleus of the junior college. Under what the trus tees called their "austerity .pro gram, the college facilities are expected to be built for $160,000 and to be ready for entering fresh men in the fall of next year. The board has authorized Dr. M. J. Greenshiclds, college presi dent, to proceed with the plan ning. The money will come from current and anticipated surplus from the district's general fund, plus whatever help from other sources can be secured. James Mallory, president of the Weed Chamber of Commerce, de clared that the local chamber is solidly behind the new plan. If it isn t possible to have a large, full-scale junior college as originally planned, we will support the smaller set-up," he said, "be cause it is a step in the right Weed Fight Suspect Posts Bail WEED Willie Vess, 26, of Bur- ney, appeared voluntarily in Weed Justice Court on charges of viola tion of 702 of the Welfare and In stitutions Code, contributing to the delinquency of a minor by permit ting minors to fight. He posted $300 bail and his preliminary hear ing has been set for 2 p.m, on December 17. Vess is the seventh person in volved following investigation of the pitched battle last Monday night staged hy four Weed High School girls. The five young men and two women were charged with contributing. The women arc moth ers of two of the girl fighters, The warrants were issued when Mrs. Martha Miller, mother of one of the girts, signed a complaint. Her daughter received a painful black eye and cuts and bruises and spent Monday night in Mount Shasta Community Hospital. Time for the hearing will be the same for all of the persons for whom warrants were issued. Two of the young men who are said to have escorted two of the girls to the scene of the fight are juve niles, officers said. Investigation of the fight put on by the teen-age girls is being con tinued by Weed Police Department, Searchers Sight Plane Wreckage MADRID (AP) - The twisted wreckage of a Spanish airliner, missing since Thursday night was found Saturday only JO miles north west of the airport it was trying to reach. All 11 persons aboard were dead. to the old rifle range. Simple frame buildings to house 200 students are planned at a cost of approximately $160,000 to stay within the available funds. Plans call for the jun ior college to open in the fall of 1959. Photo by Gaynor (direction and will fill a county educational need." Mario J. Clampi of San Fran- cisco, well known architect who has worked with the board since the inception of the junior college idea, has assured the members that he will stay with the project even though it has now ceased to be "attractive from the standpoint of dollars Dr. Greensliield will seek pre liminary slate approval of the bas- building plan before Ctampi starts on plans and specifications. The plan calls for three buildings to house administration, multi-purpose classrooms and science labor atory lecture rooms. The architect has suggested a minimum of window area to re duce heat loss and glare, unit heating and the possibility of col ored concrete floors. He urges standardization of construction to allow for future additions if neces sary. Simplicity of design will re duce supervision by the architect. The buildings are to be located near the eastern boundary of the South Highway residential area. This will provide least costly ac cess to utilities, construction of shorter roads and greater accessi bility from the town of Weed. The district officials indicated that they will have to ask for help along th'e way. The budget submitted by Dr. Greenshields in cludes $83,000 for 9,304 square feet of buildings which is less than one sixth the area of the original plans. Utilities are budgeted at $15,000 and equipment at $50,000. The physics lab alone. Dr. Greenshields said, will cost in the neighborhood of $15,000. The college will have no physi cal education facilities under the proposed set-up and the plan pre supposes use of the Weed High School gymnasium. Dr. Greenshields assured the board that it could finance the operation of the school out of avail able state and local funds, support ing a faculty of eight to 10 in structors. He hopes there will be sufficient money left over to build up the ' library and other equip ment. He urged the hiring of in structors with a master's degree or better at possible average sal aries to start at $6,000. He also suggested they be recruited from anywhere In the United States In stead of just in California. THIS IS SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7 PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (UP1) The rusting hulk of the Battleship USS Arizona rests below the surface of Pearl Harbor as a symbol of the 3,478 servicemen who died in the Japanese attack 17 years ago Sunday morning. The 1,102 Navy men still entombed in the shattered vessel gave their lives for their country in a matter of minutes. Now, 17 years later, their coun try has shown its gratitude for their sacrifice with several mil lion words and a rickety wooden platform. In 1946. the Navy launched a campaign to raise funds by public subscription to preserve the Ari zona in concrete and steel as a lasting memorial. A special Ha waii territorial commission pledged Its support a short time later. But Sunday's memorial services will be conducted on the tiny wooden platform built around the battleship's mast, which still shows above the water off Ford Island. To the Navy, the Arizona is still in "sentinel commission." Each day sailor raises the flag at Tclrphons TU 4-8111 No. 6251 SHOOTING HOURS: OREGON December I OPEN 6:52 CLOSE 4:37 CALIFORNIA December I OPEN 1:4 CLOSE 4:35 Radio Station Head Goes To Spokane H. J. (Bud) Chandler, for many years manager of KFLW prior to the station s recent sale to the tu lor Corporation, has been named general manager of a new 5,000 watt radio station just authorized bv the FCC for construction in Spokane by Christian Services, Inc. The new station's operating for mat, according to today's news re lease, will be, the world s latest news, most inspiring music and greatest message." lt will join the group of stations now operating in the nation's larger cities and around the world with an Inter denominational Christian empha sis. Chandler, scheduled to supervise construction of the new station starting January 2, issued the fol lowing statement to the Herald and News: "As a family, we're deeply hum bled but very thrilled to have been given this unusual responsibility. We regret, of course, the neces sity of leaving our many friends and pleasant associations after 12 years in Klamath Falls. I person ally want lo thank T. B. Walters, mv present employer, for his very considerate release which made acceptance of the new assignment possible." Chandler Is a past president of Rotary here and a past president of the Oregon Broadcasters' Asso ciation. The family has been active in Christian work at Bible Bap tist Church In Klamath Falls. dawn and lowers it at dusk. Among the 40 dignitaries and service organizations, representa tives attending Sunday's service will be Lrnost Gamm of Itazen, Ark. His son, Yocman 2-C Wil liam Ficlden Gamm, was one of the men who went down with the Arizona on Dec. 7, 1941. Pearl Harbor still bears other scars of the "Day of Infamy Near the Arizona lies the remains of the battleship USS Utah and 58 members oi her crew. Buildings at Hickam Field and Schofield Barracks have been pre served with pockmerks of shrap nel and shells as reminders of unpreparedness. In all, 8 U.S. ships were sunk 12 were wisasly Jamaged, and 188 planes were destroyed most of them on the ground. Army's Moon Rocket Shot CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) The Army fired its first space probe thousands of miles into the ky Saturday but Hours later cal culated that the goldplated vehicle would travel barely a quarter of the distance to the moon. Pioneer 111 had been equipped I to send back a signal when it passed the moon. Had it been completely successful it would have gone on to slip into orbit around the sun. Instead the Jupiter rocket that was the first stage of the launch ing vehicle cut out 3.7 seconds prematurely, and the probe failed by about 1,000 m.p.h. to attain the 24,900 m.p.h. velocity required to reach or go past the moon. The Army's jet propulsion lab oratory built the instrument filled space cone, a 13-pound forerunner to future satellites. It was only 23 inches high, weighed 13 pounds. and was 10 inches in diameter at the base. Dr. William Pickering, director of JPL, estimated the cone would reach a peak altitude of 64,830 miles and would fall back to earth about 3 p.m. Sunday. This would be 6.470 miles less than the distance attained by Pi oneer I, launched by the Air Force Oct. 11. No- one was wishing the Army bad luck, but since its first space shot was less than perfect some Air Force officers could not con ceal their relief that Pioneer 111 had not outperformed Pioneer I. If Wernher von Braun had put Second Thor Rocket Shot In Eight Days CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. (AP) The Air Force fired its second Thor rocket in eight days Friday night in a bid to establish it as the country's Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile. lt was the 21st firing of the fiery, 55-ton weapon that is de signed for a 1.500-mile range bul has proved itself capable of reach ing as far as 2.400 miles. The firing schedule has been stepped up since Secretary of De fense Mcblroy reported a decision will be announced in December on whether to make the Thor or the Army's .Jupiter the top IRBM. Friday night's missile blasted off beautifully, trailing a gigantic Dan ot name. After 2'4 minutes, it disappeared from view toward the southeast. The Thor is so close lo perfec tion it is expected to become op erational this year. One already! has been assigned to a Royal Air Force unit in England. It was used as the first stage of the Air Force moon rockets, one of which reached 71,300 miles into space. Malin Boy Scout To A Malin Doy has been selected to be the Pacific Northwest rep resentative on the 12-member Re port to the Nation Committee of the Boy Scouts of America, which will meet with President Elsen hower in February. Edwin. Stastny Jr., a member of Post 133 sponsored by the Ma lin Volunteer Fire Department, has been chosen for the honor from among candidates from all the councils within Region 11, which includes Oregon, Washing ton, Idaho, Alaska and western Montana. The 17-year-old Explorer, a jun ior at Malin High School, has been active in the Boy Scouts since February. 1950, when he became a cub. He is Ihe son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin J. Slaslny whose po tato ranch is on the Malin Star Route. The Report to the Nation is the annual report made to the Presi dent of the Uniled States on the activities of the Boy Scouts of America, of which he is honorary president. One outstanding boy from each of the 12 Boy Scout regions is named to the commit tee, which makes ils report during Hoy Scout Week, February 7 to 13, The visit to the President takes place whilo ihe boys are on a two week trip to the East Coast, which also includes a visit to New York City, an appearance on tele vision and a visit to the Boy Scouts national headquarters. When the Modoc Area Council nominated Stastny for regional representative it had a solid basis for its choice. He was Ihe Modoc Area Council's representative to ihe Scouts Jubilee Jamboree in England during 1957, when he also attended the National Jamboree at Valley Forge. Stastny has been an Explorer Scout since 1955. He received the silver award in 1957 and was awarded the Vigil honor, Order of the Arrow, last July. He holds two bronze palms, one gold palm and one silver palm, as well as the Emergency Service Explorer Award. He has also received the Boy Scout God and Country Award, through the Malin Com munity Presbyterian Church, of which he is a member. Among the many other entries on Stastny's scouting record, which of course includes the progression from cub to webelo, from scout to eagle, are service as a den chief, as a junior assistant scoutmaster as a erew leader, as secretary o' the Order of the Arrow Lodge, anc as a leader in Junior Leaders Con his satellite around the sun the first try, a(te three Air Force failures to reach the moon, there would have been no living with him," one officer commented Von Braun, head of the Army missile science team, estimated in Washington that Pioneer III would remain In flight (or about 38 hours from the 12:4S a.m. launching here Saturday. Pioneer I stayed aloft 44 hours. Von Braun guessed that the probe would re-enter the earth's atmosphere near Madagascar off the east coast of Africa Sunday afternoon, and he said it would disintegrate from air friction. Secretary In Hospital For Check WASHINGTON (AP)-Secretary of State Dulles entered Walter Reed Army Hospital Friday night for observation of what doctors diagnosed as "an inflammatory condition of the lower colon. The State Department in an nouncing this Saturday night said Dulles' doctors thus far have found "no evidence of any recur rence" of the intestinal cancer for which Dulles was operated on two years ago. Dulles plans to remain in the hospital for two or three days for treatment. Physicians were said to be giv ing nun intestinal antiseptics. He was put on a bland diet. Only a month ago. on Nov. 3. the 71-year,-old Dulles was pro nounced in excellent health on the second anniversary of his cancer operation The State Department press of deer, Lincoln White, told news men that Dulles felt "intestinal discomfort" Friday afternoon. He phoned his physician and was ad vised to come to Walter Reed, where he was operated on pre viously. White said Dulles is resting fair ly comfortably, There is no evidence at this a'K W&s0" Formosa Lifts Export Bans TAIPEI, Formosa (AP) The government Saturday lifted the ban on the exDort of citronella. an oil used in the manufacture of soap, perfume and insecticides, Formosa is the world's largest producer of citronella. which is I derived from a grass-like plant. I EDWIN STASTNY JR. Photo by Ferebee Studio fcrenccs and Explorer "Citizens Now Conferences" for three years. Active in the 4-H Club, of which he has been president, he has also served as a member of the stu dent city council and as modera tor of the Westminster Fellowship, whose paper he has also edited. He is editor of next year's three school annual and a member of the student council and the boys chorus at Malin High. He is a past president of the Future Farmers of America Chapter at his school, and has participated in football, basketball, baseball and track since entering high school. Stastny likes to construct things out of wood and metal. Four years ago he received an electric train set of an engine, three cars, a iransformer and about eight feet of track. He says that, with the help of his family, he has now 'No solid parts will hit the earth," Von Braun said. Von Braun blamed a faulty set ting of a small fuel valve in the first stage for the improper mix ture that produced the shortened burning time. . He called it a "90 per cent suc cessful launching." . . Eieht hours after the launching Pioneer III was more than 42,000 miles away from the - earth but had dropped to a velocity of 3,718 m.p.h. , At a simultaneous news confer ence here, officials were some what more optimistic. Maj. Gen. John B. Medaris, head of the Army's missile ord nance command, said that "cer tain tolerances" were allowed ia the assigned goals for the probe. He said it would take further tracking and computing to deter mine how far into space the 23-inch-long, 10-inch-wide, cone might venture. Asked whether the nrobe even tually would fall back and burn up in the earth's atmosphere, Me daris said this was highly ques tionable." Medaris said the failure of the probe called Pioneer III to achieve the planned peak velocity was due primarily to the fact that the booster engine of the Jupiter first stage cut off three second too soon. , - High Court Reverses Murder Guilt SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) The California Supreme Court has re versed the second degree murder conviction of Nellard R. Berve, Bellflower, beauty shop operator and alleged abortionist. The high court upset the convic tion in a four-three 'decision Fri day because Los Angeles Superior Judge Joseph M. Maltby allowed into evidence a confession given by Berve, who was found guiHy in June, 1957 of the death of Mrs. Mary M. Pettit. The disputed confession was tak en by police shortly after Berve 2lj&5& stemmed from an infection re sulting from the use of unsteril ized instruments during an abor tion. . ' . The majority opinion held that "uncontrovertcd" evidence showed that Pettit had kidnaped Berve. taken him to a house where other relatives were waiting and then beaten him with a , rifle butt, shoved his. head through a win. dow and threatened him and his parents with death unless he con fessed. Meet Ike built this up to the point that he is at present completing a model layout containing two engines, more than 15 cars, numerous ac cessories, and over 150 feet of track. He is planning on entering some branch of engineering, possibly ag ricultural engineering, upon com pleting his education. Stastny Is well known through out this area, where he has ad dressed a number of service clubs telling about his trip abroad last year. He Is enthusiastic about the help scouting has been in his own de velopment. Locally, scouting Is supported by money raised in the United Fund-Red Cross drive. All who support this drive can be proud of the recognition which the Modoc Area Council Is receiving la the person of Edwin Stastny Jr. I
