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HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10. 1958
Top Priority Given 2 Dams
By River Project Group
SALEM (AP)-The Willamette
River Basin Project Committee
gave first priority among basin
projects for the immediate con
struction of Green Peter and
Blue River Dams.
. The action Tuesday in the form
of a recommendation now goes to
Congress.
. Plans for the Green Peter Dam
on the South Santiam River and
the Blue River Dam on the Mc
kenzie River were completed.
Construction now awaits a con
gressional appropriation.
Blast Rocks
Cult Building
LOS ANGELES (URI) - A
tremendous explosion followed by
fire roared through a religious
cult building early today, killing
eight persons and injuring at least
two children, the fire department
reported.
Some 14 children were sleeping
in the building at the Fountain of
the World when the blaze erupted
with a roar and spread debris sev
eral hundred feet in Box Canyon
in Ventura County about 20 miles
northwest of here.
Sheriff's deputies and firemen
expressed the belief that the ex
plosion might - have been caused
by a bomb.
! The building was destroyed,
. 'A brush fire was touched off
:by the flaming wreckage which
shot through the pre-dawn dark
ness like walls of fire.
' Firemen said the brush' fire
quickly spread across the dry
area and blackened about 60 acres
within hour. They hoped to bring
it under control sometime in the
morning.
Linda Lee Baker, 9, was in crit
leal-condition at Northridne Hnsni
tal Aid her sister, Keela, 7, was
among those missing.
Sheriff's deputies said they did
not yet have identities ot the dead.
Mrs. Dorothy Ham, who lives in
the area, said she was awakened
shortly before 2 a.m. p.s.t. by a
loud explosion and screams from
the cult center.
About 100 cult members live on
the Fountain of the World grounds
firemen reported. The group was
said to believe in simplicity and.
good fellowship and members wore
long robes but refused to wear
shoes.
Wife Saves
FrirnKs Life
' PALM DESERT, Calif. UPI-
Rudolf Friml, 79, composer of
such operettas as "Vagabond
King" and "Roso Marie," today
credited his wife with saving his
life when a glass-topped table he
was sitting on broke and inflicted
a aeep gash In one of his legs.
"My wife saved my life," Friml
(aid. t was helpless after that
table gave way."
The wound took 23 stitches to
close.
Mrs. Kay Friml said she heard
her husband's cries Tuesday in
the living room of their home and
found him lyin amid splintered
glass with blood gushing from
his leg.
She quickly attempted to stop
the flow of blood by twisting a
towel around the leg into a crude
tourniquet and then drove her
husband two blocks to a doctor.
The physician, Dr. Charles B.
Alexander, said the two-inch cut
on the upper thigh caused by a
large glass fragment barely
missed severing a major artery
and hitting the sciatic nerve.
The next recommended priority
includes funds for Hills Creek and
Cougar dams on the MrKenzie
River.
Listed next in order of urgency
were funds to initiate planning for
Fall Creek Dam on the Middle
Fork of the Willamette and Holley
Dam on the talanooia.
Surveys also were asked for the
Yamhill Basin, the Rickreall and
Luckiamute Basins in Polk Coun
ly, Mary's River Basin. Thomas
Basin and Horse Creek Rasin. All
basins reported a shortage of
water and urged a speed-up of
water storage lacility construc
tion. Chairman Glenn Hogg of Polk
County said his section's lack of
water is acute, adding it "is al
most impossible to get satisfac
tory underground water even fpr
domestic use because of salt seep
ing in. . . ."
There are only 8.000 acres un
der irrigation in Polk County and
ail streams supplies arc exhaust
ed. Hogg said lhat until storage
facilities are built there can be
no more irrigation in the county.
Col. Walter L. Winegar, new
Portland district engineer for the
Army engineers, accounted for
the $111,5(11,000 appropriated for
basin work during .the current
fiscal year.
' He reported the Hills Creek
Dam, a $12,220,000 project, 40 per
cent complete: the Cougar Dam,
a $5,170,000 project on the South
Fork of the McKenzic River. 23
per cent complete; and $470,000
worth of bank protection work on
tne Willamette and principal trib
utaries fully completed at 134
locations for a total of some 60
miles of revetment.
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GENEROUS cash prizes provided by the California Ore
gon Power Company and the Tulelake Garden Club will
90 to winners in the 1 958 home lighting contest sponsored
by the garden club. Mrs. John Takacs, chairman, left, is
demonstrating to Mrs. Chester J. Main, center, and Mrs.
Eugena Smith effectiveness of native greens as door
decor. Judging will be the evening of December 21.
Jury Resumes
Deliberations
TILLAMOOK fAP) A circuit
court jury resumes deliberations
today in the second decree mur
der trial of a woman charged with
Killing ner new-born baby.
The jury began deliberations
late Tuesday, and then adjourned
for the night at 11:05 p.m.
The state has charged that Miss
Lelani Batke, 21, Tillamook,
stabbed her new-born son' 17
times before leaving his body in
oox in downtown Tillamook.
In his closing argument Tups.
day, defense attorney Warren Mc-
Aiinnimee said Miss Batke was
an extremely religious woman
who had helped support her moth
er since she was nine years old.
Mcniinnimec said that no per
son with those qualities could
have killed her own child.
Miss Batke earlier had testified
that she gave birth to the child.
uui saia sne mougm 11 was born
dead.
Dist. Ally. John Hathaway said
in 111s closing argument that Miss
Batke alone had possession of the
imam irom the tune of Is h rth
until she left it in the downtown
area six days later.
ANOTHER TERM
SPOKANE (AP) Joseph Kin-
per, a former Eucene rnsiHont
Tuesday was named to another
term as president nf th Knnirn.
Chamber of Commerce.
Kipper came here to 1953 from
Eugene, where he
dent of the chamber of com
merce. He is nianarop nf
Sears, Roebuck and Company store
here.
Water Supply
Threatened
EUGENE (AP) Emergency
measures to combat a pollution
threat to the water supply at Eu
gene were ordered Monday night
by Ihc city Water and Electric
Board.
It authorized the purchase of a
large chlorinator lo be used to
increase the chlorine mixture of
the water.
The chlorine increase was re
Commended by W. 11. Berkeley,
assistant superintendent of the
utility's water operation. The pol
lution threat conies from sewer
arainage into the McKenzic Riv
er.
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KF Fire Chief Comments On Condition Of School
A report by Fire Chief Roy
Rowe on the condition of River
side School in regard to fire haz
ards was read at Monday eve
ning s meeting of the board of
School District 1, the elementary
district. Action on the report,
which is being published separate
ly by the Herald and News, was
to be taken after the board has
also received a report from the
state fire marshal s office.
A representative of the state
marshal's office was expected to
be in Klamath Falls Tuesday, at
which time he would make an in
spection of the building, accom
panied by representatives of the
school board, by Superintendent
A. L. Gralapp and Chief Rowe.
The board s intention in postpon
ing action until after this second
report has been received is lo
make sure that all authorities are
COMIC INTERESTED IN CLUB
PHOENIX. Ariz. (AP) - Come
dian Jerry Lewis is negotiating to
acquire a half interest in the K0K0
Club, a fashionable night spot
here.
Proprietor Sol Tropp said he
plans to go to Hollywood next
week to wrap up final arrange
ments with Lewis' attorneys. He
said the deal would have been
closed by now if Lewis hadn't be
come ill recently.
satisfied with the Improvements
which will be made. ,
Other matters" discussed by the
District 1 board Monday includ
ed: Refinements to be worked out
in the agreement between the city
and the school district regarding
Conger Park.
The school safety and traffic
controls program; a report from
the administration and its attor
neys will be submitted to the
board later.
The setting up of a procedure
for the handling of moneys belong
ing to the student bodies of the
individual schools was also dis
cussed, but final arrangements
were to be worked out- later.
Together with the board of Dis
trict 2, the high school district.
the elementary board heard a
statement that applications for
participation in the insurance pro
gram of the two boards are still
being received from interested
agents.
The boards also agreed on a
tentative date for an organization
meeting of the budget committees,
the date set being January 5.
The high school board discussed
a proposal for purchase of t w 0
lots located across MonClaire
Street from the high school
grounds, between Alameda Avenue
and Cross Street. It appointed a
committee consisting of John Voth !
and James Noel to examine the
proposal.
The board also approved addi
tion of the names of two persons
to the substitute teacher list:
Clarence Hill and Tom Murdock,
It authorized Superintendent A. L.
Gralapp to attend a meeting 01
school financing, in Portland De
cember 13.
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