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1 PAGE TWO HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON MONDAY. DECEMBER 29, 1958 Federal Assets Estimated At $262 Billion By Report WASHINGTON (AP)-The fabu lous Hope diamond, variously val ued at up to two million dollars, counts for zero in official totals as to what the federal government il worth. That's because it was donated without cost to the government. But despite that and numerous other unrealistic valuations, the value of federal assets was fixed In a new annual report at 262 bil lion dollars as of mid-l'J58. The actual value is much great er, but most of the items are car ried at their original cost to the government many years ago. Lumber Freight Reduction OK'd SAN FRANCl&CO (UPD The California Public Utilities Commis sion has grantea a 30 per . cent reduction in railioad freight rates on carload shipments of lumber within the state. The commission acted . Friday following the Dec. 20 reduction in rates on interstate shipments. The Interstate rate reauction gave Ore gon shippers an advantage over Northern California lumber mills on shipments. to most, California points. The PUC's permission to raise intrastate rates was temporary, with a decision to come later on whether it will be made per' manent. Former Editor Dead At Age 65 PORTLAND (AP) - Fred Mc- Neil, a former executive news editor of the Oregon Journal, died here Sunday. He was 65. McNeil, who suffered a stroke Dec. 10, had joined the Journal in 1912. He retired as the newspa per's executive editor last March In World War II, McNeil, who helped organize the Pacific North' west Ski Assn., trained Forest Service reserves who manned lookouts. California Weather United Press International San Francisco Bay Area: Fair and slightly warmer through Tues day; high today 60-65; low tonight 40-48; gentle winds. Mt. Shasta-Siskiyou area: Cloudy today; mostly fair tonight and Tuesday; 'slightly warmer. Sierra Nevada: Fair ' and lightly warmer through Tuesday. Sacramento Valley: Fair and slightly warmer through Tuesday except a few patches of early morning fog likely: high both days 58-64: low tonight 34-42; gentle winds. Northwestern California: Fair through Tuesday except cloudy in i extreme north and fog and low cloudfe on north , coast; slightly warmer inland today; high today and low tonight Napa 63-40, Ukiah 62-38; Santa Rosa 66-37; coastal winds variable 8-15 m.p.h. except southerly 10-15 m.p.h. Eureka northward. DOORS CPEN 6:30 P. M. NOW SHOWING! Tops Everything Hes Ever Done! m ' MARIE McDONAlD 'SESSUE hayakawa Starts HEW YUL BRYNNER CHARLTON HESTON raunlllng the two lowering anlagonlata ot "Tho Tan Commandments"! 7 JERRY u -, j i lit The 262 billions included 67 bil lion dollars for the 770 million acres of real estate the govern ment owns equal to all the land east of the Mississippi plus Call fornia, Oregon and Arizona. The other 195 billion dollars came under the heading of per sonal property. I his covered items other than land and buildings, ranging from $82,634.12 for record ing studio equipment for congress' men to 21 'k billions for the 25,' 164 planes of the Air Force. The House Government Onera tions Committee, which published the report, called the figures un believable. It rapped what it called mis-leading and antiquated evaluations supplied by govern ment departments for the reoort, It asked for eventual listings ac cording to true present day value rather than original cost. Among the items it reported: Because the government cot Randolph Air Force Base's 2,322 acres free from the city of San Antonio, Tex., the vast grounds are carried od the books at zero dollars. The Army Presidio, 1,366 choice acres at ban Francisco, is official ly valued at $1, despite a real world ot maybe 50 million dol lars. i The White House grounds, 18 acres in the heart of Washington, are recorded worth Sl.000. The committee said the Hope diamond win not be carried at a specinc value even though re forms are under way in evaluat ing land and buildings. It has been agreed, the con gressmen said, that the most real istic accounting on personal prop erty is to list at acquisition cost. So that will include priceless items like the diamond displayed at the amiinsonian institution. The grand total of S262.054.833.- 000 as of last June 30 is 54 bil lion dollars more than the federal worth total in the committee's first report three years ago and 12 billion higher than last year's figure. The increase has been due to revised evaluation methods as well as to the rise In government holdings. LENIN TOP SELLER LONDON (UPI) - Five .more volumes of the "Complete Works of Lenin" will top Communist China's list of new books for 1959, the New China news agency said today. Negro Minister Retires As Head Of White Church STAFFORD, Conn. (AP)-Eight years ago, the Rev. Dr. Roland R. Heacock created a stir when he became pastor of the Stafford ville Congregational Church. Dr. Heacock is a Negro. The congregation at the century-old church is all white. Dr. Heacock retired Sunday. He will be 65 Tuesday. He looked out at his congregation, which has grown in the past eight years, and said: "We have exerted a strong and wholesome influence in the field of race relations, particular ly in the Christian church. ... We are glad that we had a part in this good work. In his farewell sermon, the pas- Holt Airlifts 107 More Waifs PORTLAND (AP) - A super- constellation transport arrived Saturday at Portland Internation al Airport with 107 Korean Or phans aboard. Ihe children, en route to foster homes in the United States, came under the sponsorship of Cres- well, Ore., farmer Harry Holt. This brought the number of homeless Korean children brought to the United States by Hon to 1,176. The children In the babylif! ranged in age from 1 to 11, but most of them were under 2 years old. They came from the Holt orphanage and hospital near Seoul, SPEECHLESS SENTINEL, Okla. UR - Don Wes- tad was given a question to answer and discuss during Sunday school. When it came time, he said he had forgotten what his wife told him to say. DOORS CP6N 6:30 P. M. NOW SHOWING! DYNKMsTlOM Technicolor1 Ftaturt Ati meGK.: 7:40 and 9:4 YEAR'S EVE C- W" fill ftprn -If- TECHNICOLOR NIW YlAR'S IVI ONLY ALL JUTS tOt Five Killed In Accident SEDAN, Kan. (API-Five Ark ansans, en route home from a hol iday visit to Colorado, were killed Sunday when their car and a pick up truck collided on a bridge near nere. Killed were Frank Zitzman. 62 his wife Jessie, 65; Sloan Rudy, 55; his wife Mary. 50: and Mrs. Lona O'Bannon, about 80, mother of Mrs. Zitzman. All lived at lm boden, Ark. The driver of the truck, Virgil Heckathorn, Winfield, Kan., was hospitalized at Cofleeville, where his condition was reported as fair Undersheriff C. F. Gibbs said Ice on the U.S. Highway 166 bridge may have caused the col lision. - The Arkansans had been visit ing a stepson of the Zitzmans, Hill Pitts, in Colorado Springs. Leukemia Victim Dies In States ST. LOUIS, Mo. (AP) Mrs. June Walter, 22-year-old mother of two, learned three weeks ago she had leukemia. She had one wish: to die in her native land- England. A trip was arranged by the Mil itary Air Transport Service and when she heard of it she seemed to perk up. But Saturday night she hemor rhaged and Sunday morning she died one day before she was scheduled to leave. Her Life Ends On Happy Note LOS ANGELES (AP) - Christ mas week this year was, for 100- year-old Mrs. Dora L. Richard son, "one of the most wonderful in my life." . During the week she received visits from her 2 daughters, 7 grandchildren, 13 great-grandchil dren ana is sreat-greal-grandchil dren. Saturday night Mrs. Richardson retired to her room. She died an hour later. BUY NEW EQUIPMENT WASHINGTON (UPI) - New equipment allowing air traffic con trollers to watch radar sets under daylight conditions has been or dered by the Civil Aeronautics Ad ministration. tor recalled his arrival in 1950. ". . . The e-fent was flashed across the nation in newspapers, radio and television as big news," he said. "Today many churches have fol lowed our example and called Ne gro -pastors to serve their needs ana integrate tneir membership, Eight years ago Dr. Heacock thought all the publicity over his arrival was unwarranted. He said in his first sermon in 1950: "It is a sad commentary on the state of democracy and Christianity mat when an obscure, untalented Negro minister takes over the pas torate of a tiny rural Connecticut church, that is bug news . . . . "The truth is that the Christian church should hang its head in shame at its snobbery, racism and class consciousness." Now that he's retiring, Dr. Hea cock isn't going to quit working, He plans to lecture to the Little Rock, Ark., First Congregational tnurch in March. Later he will speak at Montgomery, Ala. Dr. Heacock, a native of New Milford. Conn., plans to continue his residence here with his fam ily. Hollywood News Reviewed By Wire Service Reporter By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (AP) Not hi the memory of this report er has there been a year in Holly wood so packed with news events. One big story after another broke during 1958 to keep the news staff hopping. Hero is now the top 10 news events appear from this vantage point: 1. The Johnny Stomp'anato stab- bi-.ig by Chervl Crane. The death scene in Lana Turner's bedroom was more dramatic than any that could be' concocted for a movie. Lana's daughter was cleared in Stompanato s death, but the trag cdy Is not over. 2. Showman Mike Todd's death in a flaming air crash. It was a slunnhiR blow to his devoted wife Elizabeth Taylor, who was to write an epilogue to the story. 3. The Liz-Eddie-Debhie triangle Todd's buddy Eddie Fisher con soled the widow. They even went to Grossinger's. the New York resort where Eddie had wed Deb bie Reynolds. Result: rift with Debbie amid large headlines. 4. Tyrone Power's sudden death 5. The Dominican invasion. The gift-giver of 1958 was not a prince of the East, but a general from the South, ut. Gen. Rafael Tru- jillo Jr., son of the Dominican Re public strong man, made news with his gifls ol expensive autos to Kim Novak nnd Zsa Zsa Gabor. 6. The surprise oscars for Joanne Woodward and Miyoshi tmeki. 7. The deatn o( Harry Cohn. The year took a heavy toll in film pioneers Jesse Lasky, Al Licht man, Sam Zimbalist, etc. But the most significant loss was Cohn. who had rul-d Columbia with an iron hand, his passing marked the close of the big studio era. 8. The rise of the millionaire star. This was no sudden news event, but it was the most sig 'DENNIS THE MENACE" 'THE KIDS DECIDED THAT VOU W& THE MOM WE HAVE THE MOST fUH PlMlli' W TUB HOUSE OF' Grieving Canada Father Ends Sad Journey Today VENTURA, Calif. (UPI) - A grieving father from Manitoba, Canada, ends a long, sad journey today when he claims the body of .his slain daughter whose only crime was to love her husband. Olga Kupczyk 30, married San ta Barbara attorney Frank Dun can, 29, last June. On Nov. 17 she was bludgeoned and strang led by two confessed killers who claim her mother-in-law hired them for $6,000 to get rid of the attractive nurse. Olga was seven Weather Table United Press International Temperatures and rainfall for 24 hours ending at 4 a.m. High Low Rain Albuqucrqque 54 27 1.24 Atlanta 52 45 ,.04 Bakersfield 58 ft) Boise 43 28 Brownsville 68 57 Chicago 52 37 Denver 37 22 .07 Detroit 40 20 El Centra 72 47 Fairbanks -15 -18 ,13 Fort Worth 67 38 Fresno ,55 40 Helena 38 15 Kansas City 60 31 Los Angeles 67 47 Miami 79 58 Minneapolis 39 15 New Orleans 53 41 New York 49 37 Oakland 56 49 Oklahoma City 64 35 Phoenix 63 41 Pittsburgh , 45 36 Red Bluff 57 41 Reno 46 19 Sacramento 56 39 Salt Lake City 1 35 19 .02 San Diego 66 48 San Francisco 55 84 .01 Seattle 50 43 .01 Spokane 38 33 Stockton 57 42 Thermal , 75 45 , Tucson 64 31 Washington ' . 49 43 .08 HOT REMINDER GRANITE, Okla. W-W. T. Cost, a retired minister, raises hot pep pers in his flower garden as a hob by. Says Cost: When I give lriends a hot pepper to bite into, they nev er forget me; it really sets them on fire." nificant change within the movie industry. A dozen big stars Brando, Holden, Wayne, Cooper Stewart, etc. -seized the balance of power from the big studios and could demand fantastic deals. 9. The dea'h of Richard Skelton. Few events in recent Hollywood times so touched the world as the passing from leukemia of Red Skelton s young son. 10. The Jiyne Mansfield-Mickey Hargitay wedding. Jayne did her darndest to make it a glamorous event. The Welcome Wagon Hostess Will Knock on Your Doot with Gifts & Greetings from Friendly Business, Neighbors and Your Civic and Social Welfare Leaders On the occasion of: tie Birth of a Baby Engagement Announcements Arrival ot Newcomers to Klamath Falls No cost or ohllontionl Phon. TU 2-0834 months pregnant at the time of her murder. Her father, Elias Kupczyk, 61, a railroad worker, started his melancholy journey from Canada Christmas Day along with his son, William, 32. They arrived in Los Angeles, about 65 miles south of this coastal town, Sunday wnere tney stayed with a friend before making the final leg of the trip that would end in their last reunion with Olga. Olga's mother, Eustana, suf fered a heart attack when she learned of her daughter's mur der. Her condition prevented her from accompanying her husband. "He's taking it rough," Steve Woytko, a friend, said. "But un der the circumstances he's hold ing up as well as can be expect ed. He choked up and could say nothing when asked about the murder." ' Kupczyk buried his head in his hands and sobbed audibly at the mention of his daughter's name. It was not known when , last rites for Olga will be held, but the slain woman's father probably will be here when her mother-in-law, Mrs.' Elizabeth Duncan, 54, and Augustine Baldonado, 25, and Luis Moya, 25, are formally ar raigned on murder charges to morrow. The county grand jury returned murder indictments against all three on Friday after listening to testimony detailing how Olga's slaying was planned and carried out. The grand jury returned the in-1 dictments after considering the day-long testimony for less than 15 minutes. The senior Mrs. Duncan was pictured as an overly ' possessive mother whose fear of losing her son to a younger woman motivat ed her to first complete a bold' plan to have her son's marriage annulled and then hire the two men to kill Olga. The young attorney who form erly was so devoted to his moth er has refused-to visit her at the jail since murder charges were leveled by authorities Dec. 21, the day Baldonado broke down and led officers to a shallow grave wnere uiga was buried. "She would have to be .insane to be involved in this," Duncan said of his mother after the grand jury indicted hor. Clean out the-sugar bowl . . . bring those dimes and dollars in . i . your ideal money earns more here! Your Savings Earn 3 Here! OPEN YOUR Use our on-the-premises parking lot ond our conven ient 'drive-in window! i I ' StsSj, t 1 10,000 Eight Perish In Accidents By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS On the highways, Oregon's long Christmas holiday epded as tt be gan on note of death. Seven persons perished in high way accidents, and a child died of an overdose of sleeping pills. Injuries suffered in a two-car accident Christmas night took the life of Mrs. Julia Brown, 58, in lillamook bunday night. Earlier, Harry Gipson, 72, Sal em, died Saturday of injuries suf fered when he was hit by a car in Salem Christmas Eve. Several of the holiday victims were children. Edward Thomas Lewis, 2, and Stephen Lewis, 8 months, both died in a traffic accident near Woodburn Christmas Day. Police said their father's car was hit by a truck. Both children were thrown out of the vehicle. In Portland, another child was thrown out of a car and crushed He was Dale Falkenberg, 4 months, of Portland. Other traffic fatalities included: Mrs. Elsie Monnin. 64, Cres cent City, Calif., killed when a pickup truck plunged 280 feet down a cliff near Grants Pass Saturday. And Mabel Clark, 54, Stockton, Calif., killed in an accident near Bend Christmas Day. The victim of the sleeping pills was Connie O Conner, an 18-month-old Hood River tot police said got the pills from her moth er s purse. The highway deaths ran Ore gon s I9a9 toll to 446 persons, in cluding 33 this month, in the As sociated Press tabulation. Dancer Booked On Drunk Charge HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (AP) -Police booked actor Dan Dailey, b-toot-4 song and dance man, on suspicion of drunk driving Sunday alter his car struck another wait ins for a traffic light. Officers said they had to hand cuff Dailey and that he refused to take an intoximeter test. Dail ey blamed the accident on the fog. The actor suffered a cut lip in the accident, police said, and Ralph McCarthy, 26, driver of the other car, was shaken up. Yale Pathologist Reports New Drug Halts Pregnancy NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -I Successful use of a simple drug which reverses pregnancy in dogs was reported today by a Yale pathologist. "The drug, known as malucidin, does not cause abortion," said Dr. Leon F. Whitney of the univer sity's medical school staff. When injected, the drug causes the pregnant female dog to reab sorb the embryo into her blood stream, explainea Dr. Whitney. Ht describes Pis studies in Vet erinary Medicine Magazine. He said the drug was used on m:.u bitches between the 10th and 42nd day ot pregnancy and was successful in all cases." The gestation period of a bitch Is 61 days. .In an interview, Dr. Whitney said, "From a practical stand- poim, when the drug in , injectible form is made available to the vet erinary profession, it should be a boon in the elimination of unwant Tues. & Wed., Dee. 30 & 31 it. "ATT I LA" IN COLOR CAST of THOUSANDS! Cartoon and Short ARCH THEATER BLY ACCOUNT NOW -Bum HLniTIPTH FRLL It tK. O.I C I K . i Two Bands Of Radiation Hampering Space Travel WASHINGTON (AP) Man won't have to worry about radia tion in space flights if he learns how to dodge two radiation bands circling the earth, according to a cosmic ray expert. Dr. James A. Van Allen, bead of the physics department at the University of Iowa, based that prediction on findings from the latest Army and Air Force space probes. Van Allen said the earth is like a marble in the hole of a huge doughnut which in turn is encir cled by another doughnut. Both bands seemingly trap high energy particles from the sun. He said the first band Is 2,000 miles thick and extends from 1,400 miles to 3.400 miles above the Cabinet Post Erasure Seen WASHINGTON (AP)-Congress will be asked to drop the Post master General from the cabinet and put the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission into it. Reo. Charles O. Porter (D- Orc) said Saturday. Porter said ne would introduce such legislation, which he said drew favorable reaction from constituents and Oregon newspa pers. He said he believed the duties of the Postmaster General "have become increasingly mechanical and administrative" and too often a matter of political patronage. The proposed measure would re duce the Postmaster General to an assistant secretary of com merce. The head of the Atomic Energy Commission, he said, is much more responsible for our very ex istence" and should be raised to cabinet stature. 'I believe," he, said, "that planned development and use of atomic energy is crucial to our economic future and to our very survival." MOROSE MOOSE BLAINE LAKE, Sask. OB - Fred Larosse and his father testify that moose are not exactly friendly in the water. They were crossing Shell Lake when a swimming moose cap sized their boat. ed puppies." Beyond that." he stated. "based on the piesent state of our knowledge, I should not want to go." Malucidin was discovered bv Dr. Ivan Parfentjev, a former member of Yaie's microbiology department. He produced the drug I rum spent brewer s yeast. Malu cidin has been used as an anti biotic to destroy bacteria and fun gi in the blood and to treat dogs wi:n certain skin diseases. Dr. Whitney said the drug af fected pregnant bitches only when shot directly into the blood stream, and then only when given in large doses. How malucidin accomplishes its result, and how the embryo is absorbed into the blood stream, is still more or less of a mystery, he said. PRE INVENTORY i SALE i Bell & Howell and Keystone; MOVIE CAMERAS 12 PRICE O 8MM 3 LENS TURRET Reg. 179.95. Vi PRICE O 8MM BELL & HOWELL fl.9 lens. Reg. 129.95. O BELL & HOWELL Mag. Loaded Model 172. 2 turret mount, 2 fl.9 lens. Reg. 277.85 'i PRICE O 16MM BELL & HOWELL 2 turret with fl.9 Lens. Reg. 244.95. ' PRICE ...... O KEYSTONE 16MM Mag. Loaded. Model K55. 2 Turret. Reg. 275.00. Vi PRICE :. 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If you assumed the high energy particles were trapped by the earth's magnetic field, he said, you could assume there were radiation-tree passageways sim liar to the hole of a doughnut extending through the earth's! magnetic poles. Dr. Hugh Di-yden, deputy direc tor of the National Aeronautic); and Space Administration, said a study of the two radiation bands will get highest priority next yeal; from the new civilian space agem cy. Dryden said during a television interview the amount of shielding needed for man to survive in space flight will be based on sucb, explorations. - In another scientific develop; ment over the weekend, President Eisenhower announced he was creating a new federal council foe science and technology. The group" will work for better planning ot scientific programs and the redue tion of duplication in scientific studies. .': Centennial i Group Meets I PORTLAND (AP)-The Oregon' Centennial Commission meets here today to set a salary ioi the new manager of the Centen nial Exposition. The new director is H. Quentonf Cox, named last week to succeed Floyd Maxwell. Maxwell Sunday said that ha' has asked the full commission t give him a full hearing at its next regular meeting Jan. 12. i "I now ask the right. . .to da. fend my two years of planning organization and management of the Centennial Exposition befort a full meeting of the commi sion," he said. J Maxwell said only six of tha 'nine members were present when he was ousted from the job by 4-1 vote. a. ACCOMPLICE Z FULTON, Ky. W) Farmer Otis Lecornu couldn't understand how; his goat always got out of its pasj ture. One day Lecornu hid behind a tree. The goat climbed onto: stump in the field and started baa ing. 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