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Paper Strike Continues
As Business Feels Pinch
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NEW YORK (UPI) The pre
Christmas newspaper deliverers'
strike, which has forced the sus
pension ot nine major New York
City dailies, was stalemated Satur
day, with little prospect of a quick
settlement of the 11-day-old walkout.
Business was feeling' the pinch.
By FRANK JENKINS j While retail department stores
Chicago and Los Anscles a re, were crowded with shoppers some
spatting back and forth over which; merchants admitted sales were
Day's News
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is America's No. 2 Big Burg. It
started day before yesterday when
the Los Angeles chamber of com
merce announced that the two-county
Los Angeles area now has 55.000
more people than the seven-county
Chicago area.
It backed up its claim, with the
statement that 6,450.000 persons
row live in the Los Angeles area
as compared to only 6,395,000 in
Chicago.
That brought from Thomas Coult
er, director of the Chicago Associa
tion of Commerce and Industry,
this crack:
"If it's true, they're growing only
because Chicagoans who made
their bundle in the world's most
productive market are going out
there to RETIRE," He added with
a righteous sniff: "I'm not going to
argue about it. I don't know, and
they don't either. We'll have to
wait until the I960 census. But I'm
sure we're over six and a half mil
lion now."
Hmmmmmmmmm.
I think they're both too big.
Ants live in immense anthills.
WHO WANTS TO BE AN ANT?
Shucks!
Chicago and L.A. are pikers.
Listen to, this:
According to the Pciping radio
FIVE HUNDRED MILLION Chi
nese are now living in the beehive
like "communes" that have been
decreed by China's communist gov
ernment as the proper way f o r
Chinese to live.
What's a commune?
One guesses it's something like
the pigeon-holes that were placed
in the back of old-fashioned roll
top desks, the idea being to pro
vide space where a fabulous num
ber of papers could be tucked away
and FORGOTTEN. That seems to
be what they're doing with t h e
Chinese they're tucking into com
munes. ...
I'll risk a small bet. The Chinese
who are being tucked into these
communes aren't going to like it.
They'll like it less and less as time
passes. I could go a little farther
and offer a prediction that the time
will come when both Chicago and
Los Angeles will wish they had a
few less people rather than a whale
ot a lot more.
not up to the anticipated holiday
season level.
Women's Wear Daily, a trade
publication, reported:
"Ready-to-wear sales have be
gun, to suffer under the eclipse of
fashion and promotional advertis
ing. It wis being admitted in
some retail circles that sales were
suffering more than most mer
chants would admit publicly."
The publication added that, so
far as could be determined, de
partment stores "were heading for
a loss week in sales volume, and
for many it would be a consider
able drop tn sales as compared
with a year ago.
Publishers, of course, were tak
ing a heavy loss in advertising
and circulation revenue. Editor &
Publisher said that direct business
losses to the newspapers the first
week were estimated at easily 13
million dollars.
fcvery weekday the papers
don t prr.1t, the publication add
ed, is costing the struck nine
more than $1,500,000. Big Sunday
papers mean a total of about
$3,800,000 lost."
In addition to the striking de-
liverymen, about 15,000 furloughed
employes of the newspapers re
porters, printers, pressmen and
the like -.vere idled without pay
as a result of the shutdown.
With joint negotiations dead
locked, mediation efforts in the
prolonged strike were called off
until 2 p.m. Monday. Federal me
diators, however, held themselves
in readiness to meet sooner "if
circumstances warrant."
A spokesman for the Allied
Printing Trades Cou-.icil, which
represents the newspaper craft
unions, said representatives of
other unions would meet Monday
morning with Sam Feldman, head
of the independent Newspaper
Mail and Deliverers Union.
The newspapers whose presses
have been stilled are the New
York Times, Herald Tribune,
News, Mirror, Post, World-Telegram
and Sun, Journal-American,
Long Island Star-Journal and Long
island Press, lhey have a com
bined circulation of 5.500,000 daily
and a Sunday circulation of eight
million. ' .
WASHINGTON AP) America's and fading as in the early days
pride of the heavens soared high of shortwave,
around the world Saturday ready to "Through the marvels of scien
send anew a presidential yuletide tific advance, my voice is com-
: message of good will. jmg to you from a satellite travel-
And in the hours following Atlas' ling in outer space.
mighty blastott trom lis Lape i a- "My message is a simple one.
navcral, Kla.. launching site jThrouah this unique means I con
Thursday night, statesmen as-!Vey to you and to all mankind
sessed its boost to U.S. strength in i America's w ish for peace on earth
the great East-West struggle. land good will toward men every-
Atlas struck another propagan- where."
da blow for this country a 3.15 Eisenhower himself inine.1 re.
pm. Friday when, zipping at 7.-;porters in the office of Dresden.
000 m.p.h. over Cape Canaveral. I tja ress secretary James C. Hair.
it rehroadcast as scheduled ajcrty to hear his voice on a Pen
short Eisenhower message record- (agon-supplied recording of the
ed Tuesday and carried aloft m signal reaching Canaveral.
'T-nSr.." PmrfH f ,JT! PMcnl. high spirits.
the dramatic playback of EtaS,-, '"1 'fZ
bower s voice mrougft some static
Atlas Radio
Will Benefit
The Military
WASHINGTON (AP)-Thc new
space communications system
tested with President Eisenhow
er's Christmas message is de
signed ultimately to provide a
new aid to the military services in
worldwide communications.
David Young, space technology
coordinator for the Pentagon's Ad
vanced Research Projects Agen
cy, gave this account Saturday in
telling of plans to break current
bottlenecks in long-distance com
munications. .
ARPA directed the launching of
the Atlas which is now orbiting
high above the earth with tiny
radios and a tape recorder
aboard.
Young told a reporter that salel-
iles would be used as space re
lay stations to transmit messages
on high radio frequencies which
cannot be used in ordinary trans
oceanic long range radio trans
mission.
He indicated Die system would
also add vastly to the message
capacity now offered on crowded
oceanic cables.
The radio system consists of
two devices each a little larger Uunrris and nictures to other satel-
than an ordinary portable radio. jtes or rehroadcast downward.
Each can receive voice or tele- 0r travelling satellites would ;
grupmcnype radio, sior u on a
lape recorder, then transmit it to
a ground ..receiving station . upon
proper . command.
Two devices are carried in case
one should fail. Each was tuned
to a slightly different wavelength.
Atlas will pick up only mes
sages which are in a proper code,
thus cutting out unwanted signals.
Likewise special ground receiv
ers are set to catch only such
messages as are addressed to
them in their particular codes.
Young said that at present the
receiving stations are not placed
ideally for a worldwide relay sys
tem. It would be ideal and plans
envision this to have them all lo
cated near the equator.
Because the four Army stations
tracking Atlas in the southern
United States are well north of
tht equator while Atlas' path
travels to and fro across the equa
tor, there was a 20-hour delay aft
er launching before the satellite's
tracks happened to come close
enough to trigger the Eisenhower
nroadcasl.
fiddled wi'h glasses in one hand as
CHRISTMAS SCENE in the lobby of the Weed Hotel shows
family of walking and talking marionettes built during
the- last five years by Phil Jacobsen, manager of the Weed
Hotel. Each figure stands nearly 36 inches and is carved
from pine. They were made without use of any mechanical
tools, Jacobsen said. Clothing is all tailor-made and the
wigs of human hair. The faces and detailed features are
handpainted and each head was carved from a solid block
of wood. The life-like family Christmas scene is a unique
display among the many yuletide decorations arranged by
the various business establishments in Weed. The Weed
Hotel is a landmark, itself, and the display is e spectacular
point of interest. Photo by Lucile Gaynor, Weed
Oh, well; when that time comes
we can take care of a few of them
up here in our State of Jelferson.
But not loo many. We want no
beehives. We want no anthills. We
want no communes. We love the
depths of our big woods, with the
sunlight filtering down and lighting
up the aisles that lead. away among
the mighty trunks of the trees.
We love the vast sweeps of our
high deserts at the hour when the
sage is tinged with purple and the
horizon mountains are inky - blue
against a crystalline sky. We love
our trails where a man can be
alone with his saddle horse and his
pack mule and yet never FEEL
alone.
Here in our Slate of Jefferson,
we want just enough company but
not too much.
Giant Brain
Guards U.S.
Soviet Paper
Blasts NATO
MOSCOW (AP) Pravda com
plained bitterly Saturday that the
North Atlantic Treaty Organiza
tion has no business concerning it
Self with Berlin.
The NATO Council of Foreign
Ministers issued a communique in
Paris Tuesday saying that all the
NATO nations are behind the
United States, Britain and France
in defiance of the Soviet Union
over Berlin.
The Western Big Three have re
jected Soviet demands that they
withdraw their troops from occu
pation of West Berlin by next
June 1. In making the demand on
Nov. 27 Premier Khrushchev also
said the Russians will give the
East German Communist regime
control over the 110-mile allied
supply lines that connect West
Berlin with West Germany if the
Allies remain. '
Fighting Erupts
tn ROK Assembly
SEOUL (AP) Fighting broke
out in the South Korean National
Assembly Saturday when guards
tried to remove bedding of opposi
tion Democrats who were staging a
(itdown strike.
One Democrat was seriously
hurt -in the 10-minute fight which
smashed furniture and overturned
the speaker's rostrum. He was
hospitalized.
,The sitdown began rriday in
protest to a bill by President Syng
man Rhee's Liberals to amend the
National Security Law.
The Liberals say the changes
are needed to deal with increased
communist espionage. The Dem
ocrats contend the changes would
curtail press freedom and human
rights.
TITLE CHANGED
SALT LAKE CITY (AP)-Char-Kte
Sheffield, 22. the MUs United
States for 1958. had a new till; Sat
urday. She became Mrs. M. Rich
ard Maxfield Friday.
KINGSTON, N.Y. (UPI) A!
giant mechanical brain is now
guardirtg parts of the United
States day and night against ene
my aerial attack.
The Air Force Friday look the
wraps off this astounding electron
ic machine and let newsmen
walch it order a rocket off the
ground 1,500 miles away. The
rocket passed up a decoy and in
tercepted a mock "enemy" plane
heading for America's East Coast.
It was a true pushbutton war
fare, the mark of how machines
are replacing humans.
The setting was befitting a sci
ence fiction yarn. It was the
darkened inner laboratory of the
International Business Machines
plant at Kingston, N.Y., M miles
north of New York City. Covering
an area bigger than a basketball
court was the brain, row after
row of eight-foot panels with flash
ing lights and more than 60,000
tubes.
Far down the coastline at Cape
Canaveral was the Bomarc rocket
that the brain controlled.
On a circular glass radar screen
with the outline of Florida's lower
peninsula imposed were moving
white blips showing two planes out
over the Atlantic heading toward
Canaveral.
Then came one of the few hu
man decisions: The planes were
determined "hostile."
The brain asked Cape Canaveral
the readiness of its Bomarc rock
et, continued to trick the plane.
Then came a second human ac
tion: A young IBM engineer
named Jack Coleman pushed a
button marked "fire." In war
time, a general would make that
decision.
Instantly the brain took over. It
rechecked again the course of the
planes, launched the Bomarc and
headed it straight for the nearer
one an unmanned B17 drone.
No matter what evasive action the
drone took, the brain outthought
it and changed the rockets
course.
Then one final human interven
tion. It was decided tn pass the
B17 and destroy a faster F80
plane to the north. It was the first
time a Bomarc was recommit
ted" from one target to another
after launching.
Within six minutes of firing, the
Bomarc reached the F0O. Had it
carried a nuclear warhead and a
proximity fuse, it would have
b'asted the drone from the sky.
As it was, the F80 was purposely
aliowed to survive though it
danced crazily in the shock waves
from the passing rocket.
Caril Given
Life Sentence
LINCOLN, Neb. (UPI) Caril
Ann Fugate, 15, was sentenced to
life imprisonment in the slate re
formatory for women Saturday for
aiding mass slayer Charles Stark
weather in one of his 11 confessed
murders.
Caril, warf'Diit composed, looked
directly at District Judge Harry
Spencer, her hands clasped be
hind her, as the judge pronounced
sentence.
Spencer read the sentence after
overruling Caril's .motion for a
new trial.
"No prejudicial error was com
mitted," Spencer said. He made
the ruling after a week's study of
evidence presented in the four-
week trial.
The judge commented specific
ally ct.i a charge by Caril's attor
ney, John McArthur, that the girl
had been denied a fair trial be
cause a member of the jury had
made a one dollar bet that the
girl- would get the electric chair.
The bet, apencer said, was "a
reprehensible act and cannot be
condoned. Yet, he said, the
question here is Whether it pre
vented the girl from having a fair
trial."
He said the court concluded
there was so indication that the
juror, W. A. Walenta, was moti
vated in any way by the bet. He
added that evidence in the case
was conclusive, and that no at
tempt was made by Walenta to
influence other jury members to
impose the death sentence.
Weather
FORECAST Klamath Falls and
vicinity: Clear today with a high
of 42-47; low tonight 27-35.
High yesterday 45
Low last night .....34
Northern California Partly
cloudy and slightly cooler today.
Coastal winds with small crafl
warning for southerly winds 20-30
miles an hour, Paint Reyes north-
u-arfl. "
CRATER LAKE
High Friday 46
Low Friday night ......28
8 a.m. Saturday .30
There had been no precipitation
In the 24-hour period ending at 8
a.m. on Saturday, according to
park rangers. Roads were clear
and bare on Saturday. Wind was
calm and skies overcast. Patches
of snow remained in the shade,
compared with snow depth of 73
Inches on the same date last year.
State Gunman
Is Arraigned
MEDFORD, Ore. (UPI) An
Oregon gunman, who was cap
tured by three San Jose State
College students, was arraigned
in district court Friday on
charges of assault with intent to
kill and assault with irllent to
commit robbery.
The gunman, Jerry E. Golden,
29, Ashland, was jailed in lieu
of $50,000 bail.
Police . said Golden admitted
shooting Ray- Reid, .32, Mcdford,
in a tavern Thursday because
Reid complained about Golden
playing the same lune over and
over on the juke box. Reid is
presently recovering.
Golden then robbed the bar
tender and fled in his car, but
the vehicle struck a telephone'
pole. The three students, who
stopped to give aid, captured
Golden when he pointed a gun
at them.
Star's Niece
Slay Suspect
HASLEMERE, England (UPD
Police said Saturday they are hold
ing a beautiful niece of horror ac
tor Boris Karloff. in connection
with the slash-slaying of her two
sons in the family home here.
Detectives are stationed at the
hospital bedside of Diana Brom
ley, who is recovering from a
throat wound suffered at the same
time that the throats of her sons,
13-year-old Martin and 10-year-old
Stephen, were cut.
No charges have so far been
filed against Mrs. Bromley.
An inquest in the case of Kar
loff 's slain . great-nephews is ex
pected to open here Tuesday.
The bodies ot tne Doys were
found Thursday night, a few hours
after they had returned from
boarding school to begin their
Christmas vacation. They were
found by their father, 47-year-old
government official Thomas Brorn
ley. The first thing Bromley saw
when he entered his country home
here was a bloodstained cricket
bat in the hall. Startled, he began
n search which located Martin's
body jn the garage and Stephen s
in a bathro.om. Both boys were
clad in pajamas.
Two women who lived nearby
found .Mrs. Bromley wandering in
the garden,, sobbing. She was
bleeding from a freshly-inflicted
wound in her throat. -
Mrs. Bromley is a daughter of
Sir John Pralt, a brother of Kar
loff who was once an official of
the foreign office. The actor's real
name is William Henry Pratt.
i ' SHOOTING HOURS:'.' i
1 OREGON v
December 28 J
OPEN CLOSE
. 7:02 4:40
CALIFORNIA
December 22
OPEN CLOSE
7:01 . ' 4:37
NOT TOO ATTENTIVE
STAMPS. Ark. (AP)-Mrs. John
Shewmaker's first . grade pupils
listened attentively as she told the
story of Christmas. Then the
teacher gave time for a question
and answer period.
"What makes cows give milk?"
asked one boy.
Magazine Editor
Jailed By Turks
ANKARA. Turkey (AP)-A spe-
cial press court has sentenced
Yusuf Ziya Ademhan, chief editor
of the opposition news magazine
Akis, to 16 months imprisonment
for publishing articles allegedly
nsultins to Premier Adan Men
deres.
The magazine was ordered
closed for one month. The court
decisions are subject to appeal,
The sentences followed a retrial
after an appeals court overthrew
a 40-month sentence tor Ademhan
and three-month suspension for
Akis handed down earlier on the
same charge.
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Pilot's Strike
Grounds Line
CHICAGO 'AP) A strike 'of
pilots grounded American Airlines
planes Saturday and sent thousands
scurryr.ig for other means of
travel.
The strike of 1.300 pilots went
into effect at midnight against the
nation's biggest air passenger car
rier.
Negotiations between the - air
line and the Air Line Pilots Assn.
broke down with no further meet
ings scheduled
The walkout started while the
holiday travel rush was buildkig
toward a peak.
An American Airlines spokes
man in Washington, where the
line normally has 120 Inbound and
outbound flights each day, said
the walkout "fouled up plans of
thousands of people who had res
ervations w"h American.
The pilots finished trips
had begun before midnight.
came throuah garbled "but it
didn t hurt the message any, Ei
senhower said. Hagerty supplied
the full text.
Eisenhower said perhaps televi-sion-in-space
would be the next
astounding invention. He laughed
when a newsman suggested presi
dential news conferences might oe
held that way.
"Where would you people like
to be then?" Eisenhower joked
back.
The 85-foot Atlas was' not ex
pected to slip hack into eyeview
from the continental United States
until Saturday.
ARPA scientists indicated lhey
wanted more precise information
on Atlas' travels before they try
a new recording. They hoped for
solid 72-hour orbit data sometime
Saturday which will allow accurate
predictions of the satellite's future
path during its estimated 20-day
mte.
As of latest word the east-bound
Atlas was rounding the globe ev
ery 101 minutes, 14.4 times a day,
at heights from 114 to 928 miles.
Communications experts saw in
Atlas a pioneering stride toward
systems carrying large amounts
of information to any point on
earth. The present radio wave
lengths are already overcrowded.
Land wires and oceanic cables
are busy and expensive.
The scientists hope to open up
a new communication field by
beaming signals line-ot-sight up to
satellites in the comparatively
spacious high frequencies, ine
satellites would then relay tne
that
U.S. Ready
To Make Bid
Hoffa Denies
Union Bribe
LOS ANGELES (AP)-James R
Hoffa denies the Teamsters Union
has offered a New York attorney
$133,000 if he would iiuit as court
appointed monitor over Teamster
affairs.
"Nothing has been authorized by
me. said the Teamster president
Friday. "There is nothing we
have offered in the way of a settle
ment.
The attorney, Godfrey Schmidt,
store their information, as does
Atlas, and release it over the, .de
sired. spot on earth.- i
One quick effect of Atlas on the
international scene . was to.
strengthen the West's hand in the
coming showdown with Russia
over the future of Berlin,
A CHECK from Nalley's, Inc., was presented on Friday af
ternoon by Clayton George, left,, Nalley's representative
from Eugene who had assisted in setting up the Nalley's
fioiato chip bag redemption program carried en for the
ast six weeks, to Jets House, right, president of Parents
and Patrons Club. The gift from Nalley's goes to help de
fray expenses of the KUHS band to San Francisco where
it will participate in the half time activities for the third
successive year.
WASHINGTON (UPD-The Uni
fed Slates was reported ready Sat
urday to oiler Hussia a firm guar
anlce against any increase in
German military might if the
Kremlin will agree to reunifica
tion of Germany under free elec
tions.
The guarantee might well in
clude i Western agreement to go
to the aid of Russia if it should
ever be attacked by resurgent
German militarism, which the
Russians profess to fear.
High officials said they believe
that mounting unrest in Soviet-oc
cupied East Germany has reached
the point where a serious explo
sion is dciimte possibility.
They thought this might force
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush
chev fo agree fo reunification on
Western terms if Communist fears
of German military might could
be set at rest.
The Washington visit next
month of Khrushchev's right-hand
man, Deputy Premier Anasta's I.
.Mikoyan. is eagerly awaited to
see whether It will produce some
sign that Khrushchev is ready to
extricate himself from the Berlin
crisis and talk seriously about
solving the German problem.
Secretary of State John roster
Dulles was reported to be pre
pared to revive the offer made to
the Russians late in 1055 at the
Rig Four foreign ministers' con
ference which followed the Gene
va summit meeting.
Mexico Torn
By Explosion :
MEXICO CITY (AP)-A myste
rious explosion ripped through a
crowded deluxe bar and - restau-
rent Friday night, killing five persons-
Including an American wo-
man.
Police tentatively identified the
American victim as Betty Arnold
of Houston, Tex,
Among the 13 critically injured
was Richard Herrin of Houston,
believed to have been Miss Ar
nold's escort. A card among his
effects bore the name of Betty
Arnold. '
The other four dead were em
ployes of La Ronda, a popular
tourist attraction in the hotel and
night club district of the capital.
said police Gen. Luis Cueto. Two
other Americans, one a woman
secretary in the U.S. Embassy,
were injured slightly. '
Police were investigating the
possibility that a bomb had caused
the blast. A party of Cubans was
among the patrons. Supporters of
both President Fulgencio Batista
of Cuba and rebel leader Fidel
Castro live in Mexico City.
First intimations that the explo
sion that wrecked the bar might
have been caused by gas were
discounted by police.- They said
asserted earlier the money is 'there was no likelihood of a gas
owed him for legal fees for rcprc- leak in that part of the restaurant,
senting insurgents who temporar- .,
ily kept Holla from taking ollice
a year ago, and for a year's serv
ice as one of the union's three
monitors.
A newsman asked Hoffa why
Schmidt claimed he had been of
fered a bribe.
Do you know Godfrey
Schmidt?" he asked. "Well, there
Is your answer. He said he had
not seen Schmidt in several
months.
Schmidt was quoted in a copy
righted story in the Minneapolis
Tribune and Des Moines Register
as saying:
"The members of the Holfa
group have tried to put a gloss on
this offer by calling it a settle
ment. But it is a flat bribe to get
me out of the case and I have
rejected it."
Mine Explosion
Kills 2 Airmen
NICOSIA. Cyprus (AP) - Two
British airmen were killed and a
third wounded Saturday by a mine
which blew up their Royal Air
Force water truck in eastern Cyprus.
It was (he first serious Incident
in the island since a ceasefire
was proclaimed Nov. 22 by EOKA,
the Greek Cyprlot terrorist move
ment fighting British forces in
demands (or union with Greece.
Mom Accused
Of Conspiracy
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP)
The mother of a local lawyer
has been accused of paying two
men $3,000 in a conspiracy to kid
nap and murder her son's wife.
Canadian-born Mrs. Olga Dun
can, 30. has not been seen since .
Nov. 17. She and her husband,
Frank Duncan, 30, separated two
weeks after their marriage last
July. Duncan has said he believes
she is still alive.
Charged with conspiracy to com
mit murder and kidnaping are
Mrs. Elizabeth Duncan, 54, Au
gustine Baldanada, 25, and Luis
Moya. 22. Bail for them was set
at $100,000 each. All were already
under arrest on other charges.
i Mrs. Elizabeth Duncan is in jail
at nearby Ventura, charged with
fraudulently obtaining an annul
ment of her sen's marriage te
Olga by posing as Olga In court
proceedings last Aug. t.
Moya and Baldanada were ar
rested earlier this week after po
lice impounded a car they rented
from a woman acquaintance. De
tectives said they found trace ef
what they believed to be humta
blood en the upholstery.
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