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SUNDAY. DECEMBER 21. 1958 PAGE 4 A HERALD ANT) NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON Business News By FLORENCE JENKINS They say thera is no person hose position cannot be filled ... but Jeannle Classen, who has been with the base procurement office at Kingsley Field since June, 1957, is going to he missed. , . . Thursday was her last day and she took the time and trouble to call up to say goodbye . , . she and her husband, Harvey Classen, are leaving today or tomorrow for Coos Bay where he has accepted a position as laboratory technician at McAuley Hospital ... he has just completed the medical technology course at Oregon Tech . . , with their Z'-year-old son, Steven, they will live in a duplex at 1268 Flanagan St., Empire, Ore gon .. . little Steven will have new brother or sister along about March. Eva Taylor will take over as manager of tho Slendcrite Salon, 2223 So. 6th, on Jan. 1 ... she was formerly with the Winema Ho' tel . . . she will handle the complete line of Luziers Cosmetics in addition iO operating the salon . . . owner of the business, Alice Spencer, is moving to Lakevicw to open a Slendcrite Salon there. Western Retail Lumbermen's As sociation will hold its 1959 con vention at 'he Multnomah Hotel, Portland, Feb. 17-1. . Fourteen employes of the 13th Naval District public works office, Seattle, have won cash awards, . . . $200 has pone to Lester F. Hamilton, 530 No. 10th St., Klam ath Falls, for "Sustained superior performance ... a 20-year pin was awarded to victor J. bug' lund, 1820 Eldorado Ave., Klamath Falls. ' Hrllo Santa program is being carried on again this year by the Klamath Falls Jaycees . . . young sters may talk. to Santa this aft ernoon only between the hours of 2 and 6 p.m. by telephoning either TU 4-8128 or 4-5528. ... Jerry Jennings is chairman of the pro gram. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Smith of Portland (ho is a member of the State Board ol Education) were housrgiiests of Mr. and Mrs. V. E.i O'Neill ID Klamath Falls on Thurs day night ... the Smiths left Friday morning to drive to Ala mos,' Sonora, Mexico, and will spend Christmas (Dec. 23 to Dec. 27) at the Casa de los Tesoros with Al and Darlcy Gordon who have many friends in the Klamath Basin. . . , Christmas at the Casa is a big event with lots of local color , . . and, frankly, we're en vious , ...from Alamos, the Smiths will go on to Mazatlan for a short stay before returning home to Oregon.; Monday Is the deadline for mail ing art posters in the annual Ore gon Printing Week art poster con test . . . any art student in Oregon, enrolled in any high school' or col lege, is eligible to submit entries and compete for $50 U.S. Savings Bonds offered as top prizes in the two groups. . . . Oregon Printing Week Poster Committee's address is 921 Cascade Bldg., Portland 4. ' Loyal Saunders and Wallace Spires have purchased DeLeigh Motors (Studeoaker, etc.) and will operate the firm as Klamath Mo tors, 239 Main St. Inspectors Detain Man ' YREKA Thomas Robertson, 23, of Medford, was stopped by stifle agriculture inspectors at the Hornbrook inspection station, sus pected of a car theft from a Mod ford used car lot, early Monday morning. According lo California highway patrolmen, Robertson was detained by the inspectors when they be came suspicious of his inability to unlock the car trunk. He was turned over to the FBI (or pros ecution on the federal charge of Interstate transportation of a stolen Vehicle. Other arrests: Lena Carstrnscn, SO, Hornbrook, was arrested on charges of drunk driving and driv ing without a license in her pos session, following her collision with a vehicle driven by Cecil H. Beis ner, 64, on south Main Street and Broadway in Yrcka. Reisnor was cited for making a left turn with out yielding the right of way. David A. Snyder, 23, Yreka, was arrested by Yrcka police last Fri day, on West Miner Street, charged with petty theft. After posting bail of $100, he was re leased. Joseph L. Rantz, 49, Weed, ar rested by California highway pa trolmen, on a charge of drunk driving south of Yreka on High way 99. Floyd D. Myers, 42, Kdgewond, arretted on a charge of being drunk in and about an automobile, by California highwav patrolmen. Riley J. White. 23. Tulelakc. ar rested by Tulclake police, charged with driving with a suspended operator's license. He was sen tenced to pay $315 fine or 63 days In jail. ' Funerals ERQL'IAGA Funeral services lor Frlix Er quiaga, 59, resident of Lakeview since 1915, will be held from the Ousley-Osternian Chapel in Lake view, Monday, December 22, at 2 p.m. Final rites and intcrmr.it will be In Sunset Park Cemetery. He died Decemoer 19. Mr. Krquiaga. employed since his arrival in Lake view as a sheepherder for Fitzger ald and Hotcnkiss. was a native of Spain. One sister, llvinf In that country, survives him. LAwv BUS THOMPSON Back home to Klamath Falls , , , Mr. and Mrs. Bus Thompson have moved back into the Audley Apartments where they lived years ago. . . . Bus is now a salesman with Dugan & Mcst and they are glad to be nome ... he sold Chevrolets at Prineville for some three years and then operated his own business, Bus Thompson Mo tors, at Lakeview until early this year when they took a whirl at living in Reno . . . still selling Chevrolets . . . which seems to be a habit with Thompson. Bids will be invited soon by Ci vil Aeronautics Administration, procurement branch, 5651 W. Man Chester Ave., Los Angeles (Box 90007) for construction of stan dard Vortac Facility at Klamath Falls . . . project involves erection of a prefabricated building on con Crete slab; road construction, fenc ing: installation of underground cable and associated work. o The board of directors of Ham ilton Funds, inc., has announced the 'regular quarterly dividend of three cents per share from ordi nary income, on both Series H-C7 and Series rl-DA shares , . . divi dend is payable Jan. 31, 1959, to shareholders of record on Jan. 2, 1959. . . . H iiold Huher, Hamilton president! pointed out that during the past year Hamilton's dividends were within a half-cent per share of the previous year and the per- share value is now higher than before last year's market drop . . . sales of the new Hamilton invest ment plans are now running about 150 per cent ahead of this time last year . . . total net asset value of Hamilton Funds, Inc., is now in excess of $96 million. , Public Utility Commissioner Howard Morgan has granted an amendment to the motor contract carrier permit of Harlan E. Car ter, Eugene, authorizing transpor tation of live poultry under special or individual agreements unre stricted in the state of Oregon . . , the applicant's permit previously was limited to and from points in Oregon to the Swift & Co. plants at Eugene and McMinnvillc . . . Swift, among others, is discon tinuing the processing of poultry because it docs not wish to re model plants to comply with fed eral regulations relating to poul try processing plants, the com missioner announced . , . federal regulations have been changing, with resultant confusion among most of the processors, we are told. New York Life Insurance Co. will pay in 1959 record high total dividends of approximately $111 million, an increase of 4.5 per cent over 19.i8, according to B. M. Downle, CLU, general manager of the company s Eugene general of fice ... he also announced that in 1959 the company will continue to credit its policy owners with interest at 3.15 per cent per an num on dividends left on deposit but will pay interest at 3.25 per cent under supplementary con tracts . . . dividends to individual life insurance and annuity policy owners will vary according to in dividual policies, of course. I.oren D. (Hud) Cnod, Portland.1 has been informed that his story will he presented by Alfred Hitch cock over TV today (Portland will CPA il at Q-!M n m 1 gemrlinr. In Lillian Crist of ' J.' Henry Helser & Co., Portland .1. W. Kerns Oreg. Ltd.. 734 So. 6th. is seeking at least 25 men who will grow beards . . . registrations are being taken now and through the first two weeks in January from clean-shaven men who will compete for a top prize of a Norge automatic dryer and other big prizes, according to Ben Krrns, promotion minager of the firm. . . , "We think it is only fair that all of Ihe contestants start from scratch," he said, "and we plan the awards for our annual open house and pancake day which will be held as usual in March" . . staffers at Kerns have prom ised to set an example (although not competing! as a tie-in with Oregon's 1959 Centennial. 'Anti-Party' Out Of Woods MOSCOW (UPI) Russia's Communist leaders appeared Sat urday to have decided that there will be no more punishment for members of the ami party group" led by ex-Premier N. A. Bulganin, who have been deposed from high official positions and "banished to outlying areas. The communique issued at the close of last week's session of the Communist Central Committee as sailed the "despised group of re actionaries, but made no men tion of further action against them. It appeared Bulganin will be al lowed to retain his seat on the Central Committee atad his post as chairman of the Economic Council of Stavropol, capital of a territory bordering on the Cauca sus. i Western observers were in clined to believe that other mem bers of the "anti-party group" also will be allowed to retain their present subsidiary posts. I he committee communique bracketed three other deposed leaders with Bulganin ex-Premier G. M. Malcnkov, former Deputy Premier L.M. Kaganovich and former Foreign Ministers V, M. Molotov and D.T. Shepilov. It charged that these four men and their supporters tried to pre vent implementation of the course worked out at the 20th congress of the (Communist) party on all the most important questions of domestic and foreign policy." The councils of elders of the two houses of the Supreme Soviet, Russia's parliament, met Saturday in the Kremlin to lay plans for the legislative session that opens Mon day. Plea Entered By Ex-Solon WASHINGTON (AP)-A former Oregon congressman has asked the courts to erase a 1955 finding he was of unsound mind. A. W. Lafferty, 83, a Portland attorney, made the request in U.S. District Court here. Lafferty said he was deprived of due process of law when the district court here made the find ing. ' In his petition, Lafferty said the 1955 hearing was made without his knowledge, and he was given no chance to appear. Lafferty told a newsman he was arrested here in March of 1955, but had no memory of it. The next thing he knew, Lafferty said, he was in St. Elizabeth Hospital. Later that year, Lalfcrty said. he was transferred to the state hospital at Salem, Ore., confined several months and then released .Lafferty represented the Port land district in Congress - from 1911 to 1915. Lafferty said his arrest oc curred in a hotel lobby here on March 14, 1955. The confinement to the Washington, D.C., hospital followed, he said. It was in April of that year said Lafferty, that he became aware of being in the hospital. After being transferred to Sal em in July, Lafferty said, he fi nally was released Oct. 4, 1955. Judge Orders Investigation PORTLAND (AP) A pre-sentence investigation has been; ordered in the case of a Eugene attorney who pleaded guilty to a federal Income tax charge. The plea was entered here Fri day by John W. Pennington, 46, charged with assisting in the pre paration of false partnership in come tax returns in 1952 and 1953. Judge William East ordered the investigation, and then disqualifed himself. The judge said he had known Pennington a long time. The government charged Pen nington in 1952 reported $22,918 income, when it actually was $29, 244. In addition, the government said, Pennington helped prepare return in 1953 that showed $26.- 640 income. The government said the real income was $35,205, Exhibit To HOUSC Display By AEC PORTLAND i.P)-Thc Atomic Energy Commission is building a huge display (or the Oregon Cen tennial Exposition. The Centennial Commission says the display, which will cover 10,000 square feet, is being built at the AEC installation at Oak Ridge, Tenn. Details of the display have jiot been released. Fully Automatic Clnr ELEGTROLUX TARKEL TWEET Ph. 4-7167 2550 White St OOKIES"97 Delicious onytimt ... for after school snacks, dinner dessert, eve ning refreshments. - ' ' - - ' ' ' -A' A : v . ' ov J-fX ;i f " r. 'J U ' A CHRISTMAS TREE, modernistic in design, was shown at t meeting of Shasta Valley Gardeners Club, Montague, by Mrs. George Soderholm of Chico. Cone form was made of heavy stiff material in a- shade of pink. Bells were small paper doilies, rolled into bell shape and centered with tiny Christmas ornaments, glued or tacked to large cone which was topped with cluster of bells. Attractive for buffet or hall table. Photo by Betty Dow Police Book KU Students Four Klamath Union High School boys were picked up by city police Friday night and booked on charges of disorderly conduct. Two teen-agers, Jack Sunitsch, 2001 Lakeshore Drive, and Thomas Sander, 230 Donald Street, told of ficers they were stopped at South Sixth and Klamath Avenue by four hoys who picked a fight with them. Sunitsch had received a black eye, broken front tooth and his clothing was torn. From the Jescription given of the car, Sgt. Walter M. Thome picked up the ooys at South Seventh arid Klamath Avenue and took them to the station. On arrival there, Sgt. Thorne found , an oral complaint had just been made by Connie Mitchell, 524 Fulton, who said that high school boys fitting the same description had broken the glass window in her car door. She in dicated the glass had been broken by a stick hen she refused to lower Ihe window to talk with the boys. Sgt. Thorne said that Gary Wayne Burt, 17,-844 Riverside, admitted, while they were talking, that he had broken the glass in the car window. He is being held for ju venile authorities. The other three boys are 18 and bail -was set at $100. Gary Kran- enourg, 156 jay street, was re leased during the night when his parents posted bail. Randy Martin, 200 Gage Road, and Raymond Puckett, 2219 Oregon Avenue, were still in the city jail at noon on Saturday. City police say the four boys deny beating up Sunitsch and San der. SPECIAL DISPENSATION NEW BERLIN. Wis. (UPD-The Holy Apostles Roman Catholic Church plans to go ahead with its fish fry next Friday even though Pope John XXIII has granted per mission for Catholics to eat meat that day. The church had made its Plans for the nost-Chrisfma.: fist, fry before the Pope announced the special dispensation. WAKE N. 7 700 TTi JJ Li i Li 1 1JI tXJ 11 YEAR RESEARCH DEEPER, SOUNDER SLEEP BEAUTYREST! Important news! After 11 years of research . . , with scientists making 60,000,000 sleep recordings of actual people . . . the facts are in! Simmons "Wake Up Beauti ful" Beautyrest ' gave longer periods of d e e p, unbroken sleep than any mattress test ed. Order yours today! HE n: tttt IN IK 3 ! lllflt 1 HMt IT "T " Chart ot tlttpar en Btautyrst show rapid daictnt Into bonofitial Slocp Sragai 3 and 4. Soma ttaaptr on other mutt roues ipont mora time in Light Sleep Stago 2. mm 19S E. Main Obituaries WEAHUNT Silas Wesley Weahunt, 60, native of Roswell, New Mexico, resident of Klamath Falls for eight years died here December 18, 1958. Sur vivors include the widow, Bessie of this city; daughters, Alda Bedard of San Jose, and Virginia Salsbury of Albuquerque, New Mexico; a son Sydney of Lampasas, Texas; a brother, Charles of San Jose sis ters, Irene Pearson of Hong Kong China, Pearl Mulford of Green For est, Arkansas, Essie Hendrix of Vi- salia, California, Ambie Hendrix of Fresno, and Sue Houchin of Vallcio; also five grandchildren. Funeral services will take place from the chapel of Ward s Klamath Funeral Home on Monday, December 22 at 3 p.m., Pastor Otis Bell of the First Christian Church officiating. Con cluding services in Klamath Memo rial Park, Wounded Man To Stand Trial PENrtCTON, B. C. (AP)- A wounded man who testified at a murder trial Saturday learned Friday he will have to stand trial himself on a charge of attempted murder. Attending his preliminary hear ine on a, stretcher, John Morri son, 44, continually interrupted the proceedings' with comments and doggish barks. He was warned by the magistrate to be quiet. Morrison was shot down by a posse near Tonasket, Wash., Aug. 16, after the wounding of Mounted Police Cpl. Ralph Browne near Summerland, B. C. Browne said at the hearing he was wounded while examining persons halted at a roadblock during the search for the slayer of a woman fruit pick er. Olin Lee Bragen was scheduled to go to trial Saturday, accused of killing the woman, Anita Budde, at Kaledon. B.C., Aug 4. Morrison was a witness. The trial of Morrison was set for the British Columbia spring court session in Vernon. UP WONDERFUL! You Con - WONDERFUL PROVES Full or Twin 5iie Mattress Matching Bex Springs else . ONLY and $1 Klamath Falls and Lakeview mmmnm Ammo Erupts In Blaze THE. DALLES (API - Flames Friday destroyed Red's Trading Post here. Boxes of ammunition the store went off like giant firecrackers. Firemen were handicapped by lack of water, but kept flames from spreading to nearby gas and propane tanks. No one was injured, despite the exploding ammunition which crackled and popped and kept a large crowd well back from the flames. Damage was estimated at $65,- 000 by Frank Stovall, the store's owner. He said the fire apparent ly was started by a stove in the rear of the building. The entire contents of the store mainly used furniture were destroyed. The store was two miles west of here. Strike Vote Kept Secret MIAMI, Fla. (AP) - Striking Eastern Air Lines machinists vot ed Friday night on a new contract but kept the result secret pending the company's, settlement with flight engineers. Both unions stopped work Nov. 24 over wages and rules. The en gineers also disputed a company proposal that they take basic pilot training to serve on jet airliners, expected to start operating in 1960. ' Six air lines said "no show" res ervations are hampering their ef forts to take up the slack in Florida-bound traffic caused by the Eastern Air Lines strike. A spokesman for Delta Air Lines said planes are carrying only an average 70 per cent of capacity because many travelers make multiple reservations for a seat. He said travelers who seek seats on a stand-by basis almost always get on board. ' Delta and five other lines Cap ital, Northeast, Northwest, Trans World, and National predict a to tal inbound Florida passenger vol ume of 176,160 for December. Eastern claims it normally han dles 177,000 passengers to Florida in December. Symphonist Takes NW Job OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) Piero Bellugi, director of the Oakland Symphony Orchestra, has accent ed a position as director of the Portland, Ore., Symphony, the Oakland orchestra announced Fri day. ' Bellugi, 34, left New York Fri day by air for a guest conducting tour ot ms native Italy. Harry R. Lange, president of the Oakland Symphony Assn. said he confirmed the acceptance by Bellugi in a telephone conver sation with the latter's business agent in New York, Siegfried Hearst. Hearst told him, Lange said, that the Portland group had ac cepted only Friday an offer Hearst had made last November. Bellugi, who has won wide ac claim here since he took over the symphony last March, will hence forth be available here only on a guest conductor basis, Lange said. We've been selling de pendable bed ding tor over 38 years! $J50 $79.50 $1 DOWN Per Week Ph. TU 4-3134 rsp.niinirRS . - A ' jr In GARY R. GREGORY, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam Gregory of Dorris, has been stationed at Fairchild Air Force Base, Spokane, Washington, for the past 18 months as an assistant crew chief on a B-52. Firm Seeking Exemption JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) The Georgia Pacific Alaska Co. Fri day asked for a 10-year state tax exemption on a huge mill it plans near here. The Portland, Ore., firm said the exemption would provide a major incentive to build a 50 mil lion dollar pulp and newsprint mill on nearby Douglas Island. The firm said the mill, which would go into production in 1965, would employ 750 persons. Some would be engaged m woods opera tions. Georgia Pacific already has a preliminary grant for 7V4 billion board feet of timber in the Ton gass National Forest. The application was made to the Territorial Board of Admini stration, which earlier granted a 10-year state tax exemption to Pa cific Northern Lumber Co. of Portland, which plans to build a mill at Wrangell. Undersecretary London Bound ATHENS (AP) - William Roun- tree left by plane for London Sat urday on his way back to Washing ton. The U. S. assistant secretary of state stopped here for two days after touring the Middle East for almost two weeks. The Greek Information Ministry issued a statement saying Roun tree's visit here had no specific purpose. He discussed the Middle East and .the Cyprus problem with Greek officials, the ministry said. 8 8 ym stop Nothing Like Furniture for Chistmas . . . The gift that keeps on giving for years As. and vJitJFlj r Another I b 1 p- ' C Mt-TL. TT jf h"' "' ' fflllfll sjg"'B ( Jt ' ic'1 iUllvJIL TJjfi- lOT x 15" ulie, but- M JBt I SScfW n toflfd. A 1 Wk-W blr thole, of (icil. fg If orI Sals priced " Kiddies Wicker Chairs 2" MUSICAL ROCKERS '8" SAMS0N1TE Famous Somsonite all metal tablet come tn squores, rounds, Save on theiel Give a Swing Rocker! Bilrwell SWING ROCKERS Early American Pictures, Wall Racks, "Whar-Nor" Shelves Choose from our huge assortment! S HASSOCKS A big variety of sixes, styles and shapes; some with legs, soma with storage space. Lots of col. ors, too! $95 if from TABLE LAMPS FLOOR LAMPS cm $495 fr;m $Q95 These are just a few of our gifts for the home . . . sale priced in our December Storewide Sale! Terms, of course! LUCAS FURNITURE 195 E. Main OPEN fsLBsVSsl9rfLSst.BASsVBt-MkLasLM.M Mother Cited For Murder EUGENE, Ore. (AP) A first degree murder charge Friday was filed against a woman whose three children were found dead in a drainage ditch. The complaint against Mrs. Donna May Rutledge, 27, Eugene, charged her with killing her only son, Mark, 5. The hoy was found drowned in the ditch Thursday. Beside him were the bodies of his sisters, Dar lene, 4, and Tammia, 2. "I got three kids. They're over there in the ditch. I killed them," Mrs. Rutledge told police who foumi her wandering through a field. Police said her husband, Don ald Rutledge, was seeking worlc in California, and had rented a house for his family in Downey, Lower Rates Now In Effect WASHINGTON (AP) Lower railroad lumber rates from Ore gon to Southern California and Arizona went into effect Saturday, according to a report from the In terstate Commerce Commission. The commission said its power to suspend the reductions, an nounced last April by the South ern Pacific Railroad, ended Satur day. The Southern Pacific previously refused an ICC request for a vol untary extension of the suspen sion. When the rate reductions were first announced last April the ICC suspended them, then held lengthy hearings in San Francis co and in Portland. Truckers, wa ter shippers and Northern Cali fornia lumbermen protested. Some Arizona mills also protest ed. The. railroad said the reduced rates were necessary to allow it to compete more favorably. The scheduled reduction aver age about 20 per cent and range up to as much as $7.50 per 1,000 board feet on heavy shipments, Oregon interests estimate ship pers in that state will save several million dollars annually and will be better able lo compete in ma jor lumber markets, particularly Los Angeles. Potato Shipments Seasons 1957-58 1958-59 Daily Truck Ore. 7 3 Daily Rail Ore. t 1 Daily Truck Cal. 15 12 Dail yRall Cal. 18 : 10 Daily Total 41 26 ORE. & CAL. Monthly Total 741 571 Season Total 2930 2540 years! SOFA PILLOWS CARD SETS - folding tables and chairs. The K ovals king site or regular! ft K $ from 34 95 1 ft Ph. 4-3134 EVENINGS
