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Newspaper Page TextPAGE 2 A HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON THURSDAY. JANUARY 1. 1959 Monitors Said Opposed To Organizing Police NEW YORK 'AP)-The court- iDDoihted monitors of the Team itera Union are reported opposed to President James R. Hoffa s ef forts to organize this city's police force. The drive also drew heated op position Wednesday from Mayor Robert F. Wagner. "I want to make it clear to the people of New York that we will rot countenance any attempts at unionization by the Teamsters or any one else," the mayor said. The New York Times, quoting authoritative sources, said two of the monitors agreed that the at tempted unionization is "shock ing." They are Martin F. O'Don oghue of Washington and Godfrey L. Schmidt of New York. The third monitor. L. N. D. Wells of Detroit, who sits on the panel as the Teamsters' own rep resentative, was reported as Indi cating privately he considered the attempted unionization "poor judg ment." U. S. Dist. Judge F. Dickinson Letts has warned that disregard of recommendations by the moni tors could result in the removal of Hoffa and his entire executive board. He named the monitors to eradi cate gangster influence and estab lish democratic practices within the much-investigated union. It has been expelled from Ihe AFL CIO on corruption charges. Hoffa, himselt, seemed to be toning down the unionization drive. He said in a statement the Union would lake in "only If they come to us." In a letter to O'Donoghue, who acts as chairman of the monitors. hcnmidt said he considered the at tempted unionization a "piece of unmitigated gall. Hoffa has announced a nation wide campaign to bring all police men, firemen and other slate. county and municipal workers into the union. Henry Feinstem, a New York City employe, it leading the or ganizatum drive. Wagner told newsmen he in tends to see if aisciplinary action is in order for Fcinstein. He said Feinstein's efforts to organize the city's 24,000-man police force were a disgrace and dastardly. Feinstein is supervisor of trans portation at $8,300 a year in the office of the Manhattan Borough president. Nels Rockefeller Assumes Office ALBANY. N.Y. (AP) Nelson A. Rockefeller, the big Republican winner in a Democratic election year, took office today as gover nor of the nation's most populous state. The 50-ycar-old millionaire new comer to politics was sworn in late Wednesday night as successor to Democrat Averell Harriman in a private ceremony in the execu tive mansion. Governors-elect of New York customarily are sworn in the night policemen beiore tneir inauguration. "DENNIS THE MENACE" 'See wmiz.dad! 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French Equjtortal Nell! year may see the California Legis lature vote to raise the state speed limit, abolish cross-filing, and set up a Fair Employment Practices commission. But it is not likely to declare a moratorium on capital punish ment or repeal the death penalty entirely. Nor is it likely to abolish loyalty oaths or permit the Bible to be read in public schools. Those were some of the trends to be found in results of a United Press International poll of the 120 members of the Assembly and Senate made a few days before the 1959 general session slarts on Jan. 5. The Legislature will have a new look next year, with Democrats iirmjy m control of both houses 2nd guided by a Democratic gov ernor, Edmund G. Brown. As such, it is probable legisla tion dealing with civil rights, par ticularly FEPC. will be high on Ihe priority list. So will be a pro posal to repeal cross-filing which Democrats long have favored and most Republicans opposed. The UPI asked the legislators if ihey favored establishment of am bt.rc and, if they did. if thev would give the commission en forcement powers and make it a misdemeanor to violate an order forbidding discrimination because ot race, creed or color. Almost 50 of the legislators who replied to the poll said they fa vored an FEPC and would vote it enforcement powers. Fifteen members said they will not vote lor tbrv and 10 were undec ded Most of Ihe opposition came from ine senate. On a proposal to abolish cross ruing, an election procedure whereby a Democrat can file for ollice on both Republican and Democratic primary ballots and vice versa, returns showed 35 Democrats and 10 Republicans in favor of repeal while 15 Republi cans and only 2 Democrats were against abolition. More than 50 of the 70 legislators who replied to the poll said the present 55-mile an hour prima lacie speed limit should be n- creased. Most said they favored a flat 65 mile an hour limit. Some said it should be as high as 75 on tne irecways but held to 55 on two or three-lane roads. By a better than 2-1 margin, the legislators said tney are against any proposal to make a tail sen tence mandatory on conviction for the first time of drunk driving. a moratorium on the death pen alty, approved by the Assembly in 1957 but voted down in the Sen ate, likely will suffer the same fale in 1959. By a 35-25 margin. approve suspension of capital pun ishment and a far greater num ber said they would be against outrignt repeal. Loyalty oaths, opposed by most Democrats when they were voted, will stay on the statute books. By about 2-1, legislators said they would oppose repeal of all loyalty oams aunougn Assemblyman John A. u uonnell (D-San Francisco) said he will introduce such a bill. Legislation to permit selected portions of the Bible to be read in public schools was opposed bv a 3-2 vote. Legislators were even more emphatic in opposing an oft defeated bill to make it a mis demeanor to sell crime comic books, to children. They also said they would oppose bills to censor girlie magazines. In the field of narcotics enforce ment, almost 50 legislators said they feel stiffer penalties are need ed. By a 5.1 vote, they said a mandatory jail sentence should be meted out to violators on the very first offense. Sentiment was al most evenly divided on a proposal to exact the death penalty from persons convicted repeatedly of peddling narcotics to minors. Series Of Fires, Blasts Claim Lives Of Eleven By THE ASSOCIATED PHESS A series of fires and explosions across the United States took the lives of 11 persons, including six small children, Wednesday night and today. Six persons, including a family of four,, perished in a fire that swept a three-story building in the northside of Rochester, N.Y. Five others escaped. The dead in cluded two five-month-old infants and a girl, 2. Three children, the oldest 7 and the youngest 4. burned to death when fire roared explosively through a one-story frame house in Quilcene, Wash., a small com munity about 30 miles northwest of Seattle. An explosion in a missile orn. pellant plant at Indian Head, Md.. killed two workmen a half hour before the new year started. Two . other workmen suffered third degree burns and other in- lunes. The four were the only ones in the building. The explosion and subseauent fire virtually destroyed the Navy Propellant Plant 30 miles south of Washington. At Baltimore, fire swept through a storage building at a state men tal hospital, but was checked be fore it could spread to patients' quarters. A spokesman for the institution. Spring Grove State Hospital, said 35 patients were moved out of the building three weeks ago because the structure was considered a firetrap. Two members of a vol- unteen, fire department were injured. A Japanese freighter collided with a string or oil barges In the Mississippi River south of New Orleans. Explosions rocked the area and the freighter and two barges -were set aflame. The fire was swiftly checked by firefighling tugs. Two men aboard the freighter were injured. Thousands fled and scores of homes went up in flames in two devastating brush fires in the hills ringing Los Angeles. One fire, in a terrifying surge to the sea, laid waste to a nine mile stretch of Topanga Canyon, destroying 80 homes. The other raced through the Hollywood hills to the outskirts of the rich residential community of Beverly Hills. rbout 2,000 men battled the I touched off In th blazes, boUi believed to have been brush by a firebug. REGISTER NOW FOR J. W. KERNS YHISKERINO BIG PRIZES FOR THE BEST WHISKERS 3 Children Die In Fire QUILCENE, Wash. (AP)-Fire roared explosively through a one story frame house here Wednes day night, burning to death three children; two girls and a boy. The three victims, children of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Smith, were Jacqueline, 7; Gordon, 5, and Bil- lie. 4.- Smith, 33, a logger, suffered first degree burns attempting to rescue his children from the blaz ing home. Another Smith child, Bennie, 10, was awakened by the flames and was able to fight his way out of the small house. Smith and his wife, Ella, were visiting neighbors about half a block away when the fire broke out. Quilcene is a small unincorpo rated community 30 miles north- Iwest of Seattle. May 1959 bring a full measure of good luck, health, and prosperity to you and your family, and to all those you hold dear! Our sincere thanks to all of you for mak ing 1 958 such a fine year for all of us at Western Thrift. Our New Year's Resolution is to continue to bring you the finest merchandise at the lowest prices and to serve your health needs to the best of our ability. TT T I 'BESSES 1- Headquarters For Your Drug Needs us 'Main Se. Dial ' Death Claims Oldest MD FORT WORTH. Tex. (AP)Dr John, B. Cummins, who at 100 was the nation's oldest practicing phy sician, died here Wednesday night. Dr. Cummins kent regular nffiro hours and made house calls day or night until Sunday when he fractured a hip and ribs in a fall. Death was attributed to the fall and old age. A native of Tennessee. Dr. Cum mins worked his way through col lege and did not start practicing medicine until he was 3a. He hplH degrees from Britt College, Spen cer, icnn., and Bowling Green Normal in Kentucky. He later re ceived medical degrees from the University of Nashville, now Vnn. derbilt University and the Univer sity of the South (Scwance). He began his practice in IB97 in Indian Territory, now Okla homa. He had practiced in Fort worth tor 55 years. He was a member of Ihe Tar rant County Medical Society. The state group named him "general practitioner of the year in 1950. 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