In The-
Day's lews
By FRANK JENKINS
This morning it's. 1959.
And-
This morning the sun is shining
after DAYS of fog.
Could there be any better
omen?
More good news:
Cuban Dictator Batista skips out
between two days.
There's a ruckus over who will
succeed him. An effort is under
way as this is written to form a
military junta from among his fol
lowers and his cronies. That will
probably mean more fighting. If
Batista has been bad, it follows
that the people he has had around
him haven t been too good.
far
This Fidel Castro who has been
leading the revolution looks like
anything but another George Wash
ington. Still
It's always good news when a
dictator gets wnat's coming to
him. All down through history,
dictators have been responsible for
the bulk of the troubles that have
plagued this mundane sphere.
Too much power in too few
hands is bad business.
Still more good news:
Britain, the United States and
four other countries agreed today
that a yard is one yard long and
a pound weighs one pound. The
agreement goes farther. It defines
an international yard as equal to
0.9144 meters exactly the same
as a Canadian yard, but falling
just between the British and Amer
ican lengths for a yard.
The pound, also falling between
British and American standards
is put at 0.45359237 kilograms.
I suppose that clears everything
up so far as the yard and the
pound are concerned.
Or does it?
Anyway '' " '
In this cantankerous and dispu
tatious world AGREEMENT ON
ANYTHING is wonderful.
It looks like the New Year is
getting off to a good start.
Let's get closer home.
'in Klamath Falls in November
(the latest month for which sta
tistics are available) bank debits
were up 7.3 per cent over Novem
ber 1957. For the 11 months of
1958, they were up 19.4 per cent.
Bank debits are a measure of
the money changing hands.
In November postal receipts
were up 11 per cent over a year
ago. For the 11 months of 1958,
they were 12.9 per cent up. Postal
receipts are measured in dollars.
Higher postal rates tended to
boost the increase. But VOLUME
OF MAIL in the Klamath post
office is growing.
Here's an interesting one:
In November parking meter re
ceipts were up 40 per cent!
Parking meter receipts are a
measure of the number of people
coming downtown to shop. This
big up in November indicates that
our people have money and are
pending it.
Now for building permits.
In contrast with these other in
creases, building permits are
DOWN down by 6.6 per cent in
1 November and by 38.1 per cent for
the 11 months oi 1958.
That calls for explanation. Build
mg permits are for the CITY
LIMITS only. The city limits of
Klamath Falls are sharply re
strictcd. They are approximately
the same as when the city was a
village. There isn't much room
left in the city limits. In Klamath
Falls, as many people live
guburbs beyond the city limits as
within the city limits.
The population of Klamath Falls
is at least twice the figure shown
by the census. The building that
is going on whole streets and
blocks of it is beyond the city
limits. The building total for the
whole area, if it were available
would tell a different story..
World News
In Brief
By United Press International
KHRUSHCHEV Moscow
Khrushchev told U.S. Ambassador
Thompson that Russia will surpass
the United States economically in
1959. The dispatch also reports that
Serov was there.
MIKOYAN Washington U.S.
officials won't be surprised if Mi
koyan brings an olive branch next
week.
EASTERN Miami Eastern
Airlines and striking flight engi-l
eers make peace, ending 38-day
Strike: American still out.
FIRE Los Angeles Two disas
trous fires rage out of control
threatening homes of movie stay
and hundreds of others.
Price Five Cents 24 Pages
Hhornfton Musks For MA
New Year's Day Statement
May Indicate
WASHINGTON (AP) Russia.
and the Western Big Three ap
peared today to be edEine cau
tiously toward a face-saving way
out of the new Berlin crisis.
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush
chev touched off the tension with
a Nov. 10 speech demanding an
end to four-power occupation of
Berlin. He hinted that Russia
would no longer guarantee West
ern access to the city which is
located deep within Communist
East Germany.
Then in a formal nole on
Thanksgiving ' Day, he proposed
that West Berlin be made a free
city and told the United States,
Britain and France to pull out
their troops. He gave them six
months to talk it over.
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko compounded the tension
on Christmas Day. He declared
any attempt to keep the Western
troops in isolated Berlin by force
would threaten a big war im-
periling even the American con
tinent.
Today, in a New Year's Day
greeting to the American people,
Khrushchev seemed to be easing
on.
He said:' "There is no disputed
or unsettled issue that could not
be solved by peaceful means pro
viding, naturally.' all the parties
concerned genuinely desire to do
so. On our part, we can say that
we do have such desire.
His statement, made to the
Mutual Broadcasting System, was
Weather
FORECAST Klamath Falls and
vicinity: Variable cloudiness with
a few snow flurries today and
Friday. Some sunny periods
Gusty winds, decreasing tonight,
Partial clearing tonight. Colder.
High both days 32-37. Low tonight
18-23. .
High yesterday 34
Low last night 27
Northern California Fair
today, tonight end Friday except
fog In the valleys. Snow flurries
in high mountains. Cooler. Coastal
wind northerly 12-25 miles an hour.
CRATER LAKE
High yesterday 50
Low last night 24
8 a.m. today 24
Trace of precipitation
Snow depth 22
Last year 94
Roads in the park are open
no chains required. From park
headquarters to the rim there was
considerable Ice this morning and
the sanding crews were working,
There was a fairly strong northwest
wind blowing and the skies
were partly cloudy this morning.
MR. 1959 arrived at 3:46 Thursday morning to become the
iscond baby born in ths new year, and the first boy born
in tha year. Here, Mrs. Millard Ward, 2338 Eberlain,
groats tha nawast arrival to tha Ward family, Brian Millard,
who weighed in at 8 pounds 7 euneat. Tha Ward's have
daughter, 4-yaar-ald Kara". Sua.
Crisis Ease
interpreted as a possible olive
branch offering.
It came on the heels of polite
but firm U.S. - British - French
notes to the Kremlin Wednesday
rejecting his Berlin proposal. It
was almost as if the propaganda
wise Khrushchev already was try
ing to start a graceful retreat.
Khrushchev's right hand man
and trouble shooter, Deputy Pre
mier Anastas I. Mikoyan, is ex
pected in Washington next week.
U.S. oft icials look forward to
Mikoyan's visit to see if it mieht
lead to further easing of the ten
sion, possibly even to agreement
on high level Big Four confer
ences.
Up to last night, the Russian
people had no inkling of Mikoyan's
impending visit. Apparently, the
Kremlin was anxious to keep the
Russian people from knowing that
Mikoyan had applied for a visa.
There was some speculation
here that the Soviet government'
might try to make it appear Mi
koyan was invited, so as to avoid
any appearance .of weakness on
the part of the Kremlin.
President Eisenhower issued a
blanket invitation to Soviet lead
ers early last year to - come see
for themselves what America was
like. ; .
The similar ' tlS.-British-French
notes, delivered to the Kremlin
Wednesday:
1. Declared the Western Big
Three were in Germany by right
of victory in World War II; if
Russia demanded full-, control of
Berlin, which the Soviets cap
tured, the West could demand
back the one-third of East Ger
many which it captured and then
turned over to Russia under ear
lier agreements for occupation
rights in West Berlin.
2. Repeated a Sept. 30 offer to
hold a Big Four conference on the
whole German question including
Berlin's future, German reunifica
tion and over-all European secur
ity. An early Soviet response was
requested.
3. Assumed Khrushchev did
not mean to issue a six-month
ultimatum because that would be
like negotiating with a gun at the
West's head and the Big Three
flatly refused to submit to that.
4. Contended Russia is legally
responsible, under 1944 and 1945
agreements, to administer East
Berlin and to guarantee the West
free access to West Berlin.
CELEBRATES 109TH BIRTHDAY
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UP) -
Josh McCord celebrates his 109th
birthday today. McCord, who lives
on a pension with his 102-year-old
third wife, Missie, was born into
slavery and worked as a "yard
boy" until freed at the end of the
War Between the States.
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KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. THURSDAY. JANUARY 1, 1959
SHOOTING HOURS:
OREGON
January 2
OPEN
7:06
CLOSE
4:47
CALIFORNIA
'January t
OPEN CLOSE
7:04 4:44
Two Autoists
From Oregon
Death Victims
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dawn of this new year brought
death to two Oregon motorists.
Mrs. Barbara Eaton, 27, Port
land divorcee and mother of five,
died when thrown from her car
on Portland's S. W. Barbur Blvd
Charles Griffith, 66, of near Al
bany, died in a hospital this morn
ing after being injured New
Year's Eve on Highway 99 three
miles south of Albany.
Theirs were the first highway
deaths reported in Oregon since
Monday.
Griffith's death is charged to
1958, It brought to 478 the number
killed in Oregon traffic accidents
during the year in the Associated
Press tabulation. It was the 35th
fatality in December.
Mrs. Eaton, an entertainer, was
returning with George W. Gibson,
39, from a New Year's Eve en
gagement at Lebanon, the coron
er s office reported, She was
driving the car which hit a guard
rail then carromed into a light
pole on the center island, throw
ing both from the car. Gibson suf
fered a leg fracture.
Griffith's northbound car had
stopped south of Albany, state po
lice said, and was hit by another,
also northbound, driven by James
Hoskins, 19, Corvallis.
The accident occurred at 9:45
p.m. and Griffith died at 8:45 this
morning.
Mrs. Griffith suffered minor in
juries as did Hoskins and two pas
sengers, Charles Arnold, 19, Cor
vallis,' and Donna Scarborough,
15, Tangent.
World Forgets Troubles
ToGiveVelcomeTo.959
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
As midnight rolled around the
earth, most of this old world for
got its troubles momentarily to
give a hearty welcome to 1959.
Some scaled mountains, lit bon
fires, honked auto horns, tossed
crockery from the windows of
their homes and tried to shimmy
up greased lampposts all ex
pressing in their exuberance
hopes for a healthy and happy
new year and a year of peace.
Revelry was noticeably absent
in revolution-torn tuba.
Places of worship were not for
gotten around the world as people
welcomed 1959 with prayer.
Both sides of Ihe Iron Curtain
joined in the merriment. It was
party time in Moscow, Russia, as
well as in Moscow, Kan.
In a New Year's message, So
viet Premier Nikita Khrushchev
said, "It is my conviction that the
prospects for preserving peace in
1959 are good.
President Eisenhower observed
the evening quietly with relatives
and friends at his Gettysburg, Pa.,
farm.
In Japan, old and young, rich
and poor, led by the imperial fam
ily, welcomed 1959 the year ol
the wild boar with traditional
worship at Shinto shrines and Bud
dhist temples throughout the na
tion. An unexpected snowfall threw a
mantle of white over Tokyo.
Parisians greeted tha new year
Attorney General Declares
Hatfield Must Resign Post
SALEM (AP) - Oregon Atty.
Gen. Robert Y. Thornton ruled
Wednesday Gov. Robert D.
Holmes should appoint the new
Secretary of State to replace Re
publican Mark Hatfield.
Both Hatfield, who becomes
governor Jan. 12. and Holmes
contended they had the right to
make the appointment.
Thornton said Hatfield should
resign as secretary of stale be
fore becoming governor, which
would permit Holmes to make the
appointment. .
Holmes, a Democrat, previous
ly announced he would appoint
Republican David O'Hara, 71-year-old
retired chief of the state
elections division, as the new sec
retary of stale. Thornton is a
Democrat.
Hatfield said he doesn't have to
resign, and thus can name his
own successor after he becomes
governor.
Hatfield, who first said he
didn't feel bound by the ruling
and would seek to upset it in the
courts, later said he would with
hold comment until he consulted
Lamar Tooze. a Portland attor
ney and his private legal counsel.
Gov. . Holmes asitea mormon
for the opinion in order to end the
doubt and contusion over ine is
sue. But, since Hatfield says he
isn't bound by it, nothing is
settled.
Hatfield said he will confer with
his attorneys immediately.
Thornton ruled lhat Holmes
Burns Hospitalize
College Student-
An 'Oregon Stale College senior,
Raymond Zalunardo, 21, Is in
Klamath Valley Hospital with se
rious burns on both legs to the
knees and both arms to the el
bows. He is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Antonio Zalunardo, 2301 Rod
cliffe Avenue.
The youth was still in shock this
morning and unable to tell details
of the accident.
It is believed he may have fall
en into the open ditch of natural
hot water that parallels the South
ern Pacific Railroad tracks in t h e
city limits.
City police report that Zalunar
do arrived at his home about mid
night with his clothing drenched
and suffering burns. He was tak
en to the hospital by Peace Am
bulance. Temperature of hot wat
er in this locality varies up to
210 degrees Fahrenheit.
by leaning on their aulo horns as
they drove down the brightly lit
Champs Elysees. They exercised
an annual privilege horn blowing
is illegal any other time.
Booming chimes of Big Ben wel
comed in 1959 in London and sent
thousands of revelers into wild
Auld Lang Syne celebrations
around the boarded up statue of
Eros in downtown Piccadilly Cir
cus. Greased lamp standards defied
determined efforts to scale them.
Rings of policemen around Eros
stood firm against repeated at
tempts to brush the bobbies aside.
In Rome, Italians set off fire
works which is illegal and
threw pots, pans and dishes out
their windows a custom even old
er and equally illicit.
In Warsaw, rock V roll vied
with cha-cha as Poles celebrated
In Brazil, office workers dumped
shredded waste paper into
jammed streets.
In Cherryville, N. C, musket
fire crackled as a custom reached
its 150th year. Bangor, Maine, cel
ebrated with a huge bonfire of dis
carded Christmas trees.
In Colorado Springs, Colo., fire
works were shot off the top of
Pike s Peak by the AdAmAn Club
which adds one new member each
year.
In ' New York City's Times
Square, an estimated 300,000 per
sons cheered the new year with a
blare of horns and squeal of
noise makers, s
Telephone TU 4-8111
No. 6281
wes
should remain as governor until
Hatfield resigns as secretary of
stale.
The attorney general said that
the constitution clearly nrohibils
anyone from assuming the oilicc
of governor while he holds anoth
er office.
Before Hatfield can cecome
governor, Thornton said, he must
submit his resignation to the gov
ernor; a successor must be ap
pointed by Holmes: and then Hat
field must turn over his funds and
records to the new secretary of
state.
After reading the opinion, Gov.
Holmes said:
"Both Mr. Hatfield and 1 arc
duly elected state officials and as
such are bound to follow the rul
ing of the attorney general. I
therefore expect his resignation
in writing at an early date.
Airline Strike
Terminated
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Eastern Air Lines and the car
rier's flight engineers have settled
a 38-day-oId strike, easing condi
Hons for post-holiday travelers.
The line announced in Miami,
Fla., shortly after the New Year's
Eve accord was reached, that
service would resume Friday on
North-south routes. 1
Eastern said other routes on its
124-city system will be in opera
tion as quickly as equipment can
be made ready and personnel is
back to adequate strength.' The
line normally carries about 25,000
passengers a day.
Meanwnne, tne situation re
mains static at American Airlines,
struck by 1,500 pilots and co-pilots
Dec. 20. No negotiations are in
progress and none are scheduled.
Eastern has recalled 16.000 em
ployes, furloughed after the line
was struck Nov. 24.
A major factor in the Eastern
dispute was pilot training for en
gineors.
Company officials said in New
York that the agreement follows
a National Mediation Board rec-l
ommendation, that the company
withhold pilot training for its 78
engineers who will fly in jet air
craft. The training agreement cov
ers the period of the new contract
to April 1, 1960 or until the gov
ernment orders new crew qualifi
cations. - .
An Eastern spokesman said that
the carrier expects to have enough
planes in the air by the weekend
to take care of a New York-Florida
crush.
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MISS 1959 arrived at Klamath Vallay Hospital at 1:28 this
morning. Sha It Pamela Ann Fostar, born to Mr. and Mrs,
Harry Fostar, Box 155, Dorrli, California. Sha joint
2-yaar-old tiitar, Chyrlena. Weight, 6 pounds IO'i ouneai.
Government Troops Told
Cease Fire Immediately
(11 DAI) TRL'JILLO, Dominican
Republic (AP) President Fulgcn
rio Batista of Cuba arrived by
plane today as a self-exile from
his civil war-torn country.
Aboard the plane were 40 other
persons including members of his
family and high officials of the
government and army.
FULGENCIO BATISTA
HAVANA (API-President Ful-
gencio Batista fled Cuba today in
the face of mounting rebellion.
Orders went out to government
troops for an immediate cease-fire
on all fronts.
But further bloodshed threat
ened.
Rebel leader Fidel Castro de
clared a shift irr the government
that accompanied Batistas exo
dus constituted a coup d'etat in
accord with Batista and th
war operations will be continued,
"The triumph of the revolution
must be absolute, tastro pro
claimed.
Batista flew to the Dominican
Republic with his military high
command and top aides, leaving
military junta to pick up the
pieces of his dictatorial regime.
The junta named justice Larios
Piedra, 63, senior member of tne
Cuban supreme court, as provi
sional' president , and then dis
solved itself
Piedra ordered the cease-fire a
few minutes after taking office.
He proposed to form a govern
ment that will "re-establish peace
and tranquility in this Island na
tion, torn by two years of civil
warfare. He appealed, for rebel
cooperation and asked "wisdom
on the part of all."
But nartisans of mael casiro,
the bearded, 32-year-old guerrilla
chieftain, refused to accept Piedra
as provisional president.
Rebel leaflets circulated in Ha
vana demanded that the job go
to ex-judge Manual Urrutia, now
behind the rebel lines after a long
exile in the United States, until a
general election can be held.
Otherwise, tney said, uuoa is in
for a general strike and more
blood-letting. The bulletins men
tioned noon today as a deadline.
Despite this, Piedra strove des
perately to form a new govern
ment with the aid of Mai. ben.
Eugclio Cantillo, new boss of the
nation s armed forces.
They appealed to all Cubans to
keep calm and prevent disorders.
There were widespread fears that
vengeance-seeking rebels and reb
el sympathizers minht start a
lethal hunt for their enemies who
served Batista.
Other military men. civilians
and women and children were
leaving Cuba. One plane brought
53 to Jacksonville, Fla. Included
among this group were 16 army
officers, including two generals.
Another plane landed at New
Orleans. There were 35 persons
aboard, some in uniform. Thera
also were women in this group, j
There was no immediate reac
lion from the rebel radio to Ba
tista's dramatic move, i
There were fears in Havana that
fighting would spread to this cap-
BULLETIN
nAVANA (AP) Throngs rioted
in Havana today, looting and burn
ing. One plush gambling casino
was sacked and the newspaper
Tiempo plant set afire.
ital once Batista's flight becama
generally known.
It is estimated that rebel leader
Fidel Castro has 5.000 partisans
in Havana, many of them well
armed.
There was fear they might start
a hunt for many persons connect
ed with the Batista government
that they long have marked for
death.
The short-lived militarv iunta
was headed by Gen. Eulogio Can-
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$2.2 Million
Exchanged
In Land Deal
ALTURAS The biggest land deal
in the history of Modoc Countr
was consummated this week by
Jim Kennedy, realtor and owner
of Judy Realty Company here.
The deal, which dwarfs anv oast
similar transaction in the area, in
volved a consideration of $2,200,000
and is said to have been a cash
deal.
In the transaction, the Galvin
Family of Santa Barbara bought
the vast holdings of N. H. Mon
roe & Sons, the Winema Farms
and the Ash Valley Ranch. ;
The land on these three mnrhm
was sold for $1,800,000 and the nth.
er $400,000 was paid for cattle,
hay and equipment. All machinery
went with the ranch sale.. -
The Galvin Family . InHimlori
plans to run approximately 5.000
head of cows on the three ranches.
Plans include spending several
thousands of dollars in improve
ments which will Include tha ro.
seeding of the Winema Farms to
grass. The land on the three ranch
es will all be leveled and every
possible acre put into hay produc
tion. The Galvin Familv already haa
tremendous ranch holdines near
Santa Barbara including the Ran-
uiiu oan L,uis ney.
Negotiations had been carried nn
for several months between Ken-
nedy and John T. Collins, com
pany official and attorney Robert
i-aincart oi ban f rancisco.
The N. H. Monroe & Sons ranrh
is comprised of 5,500 acres at the
home ranch and 18,000 acres of
range land on Madeline Plains at
Bailey Creek. The Winema Farms
has 5,500 acres under irrigation
and the Ash Valley Ranch contains
iii.ooo acres.
John Ward, ranch sunerintendent
for the Galvin Family, will take
over active operation of the com
bined ranches on February 1. N. H.
Monroe will serve the new owners
for one year in an advisory cans- -
city.
Monroe, a well known cattleman
and rancher in Northern Califor
nia, went to work on the corpora
tion ranch in 1921 as a hay con
tractor. In W38. he was made man
ager of the ranch by Frank Mc
Arthur and in 1940 formed a joint
venture with McArthur and oner.
ated the ranch on a lease basis.
In 1947, he exercised an option
and purchased the entire corpora
tion ranch. He immediately sold
half of it, or 5,500 acres, to tha
Shuck brothers of Tulelake. This
was later sold to Winema Farms.
During the time Monroe ooerated
with McArthur, the ranch ran as
high as 4,000 head of cattle. The
Monroe ranch also has extensive
range rights which extend to Ash
Valley. All of the range on the
Monroe holdings has been nut un.
der fence.
Both Winema Farms and the
Monroe ranch are located In Pit
River Valley, about five mile
north of Likely. The property la
improved and well equipped and
practically all of the 11,000 acres
are under Irrigation. Winema
Farms is almost 100 per cent la
grain while two-thirda of tha Mon
roe ranch Is In hay and a third
Mn grain.