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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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San Francisco 55 84 .01
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Spokane 38 33
Stockton 57 42
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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.
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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.
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Eight Perish
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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
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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.
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earth, roughly In line witlt th
Equator. The second is 4,000 milej
thick, beginning 8,000 miles out.
The extent of the earth's mag
netic field capable of , holding
small charged particles apparent;
ly is some 40,000 miles out, ht
said.
Van Allen addressed a meeting
of the American Astronautical So.
ciety and talked with reporters;
He gave detailed information front
the Army's Pioneer space probe
fired Dec. 6.
He said the rocket reported back
good cosmic ray data almost all
the way going out and returning
earthward during the 38 hour
flight in which it shot about 63
000 miles high.
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
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study of the two radiation bands
will get highest priority next yeal;
from the new civilian space agem
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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.
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