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t FRIDAY. JANUARY 2. 1Q59 HERALD ANT) NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGOV PAGE THREE Rebel Leader's Platform Calls For Nationalization Of American Utilities HAVANA (AP) Rebel leader1 Fidel Castro's last announced platform calls for the nationaliza tion of American utilities and eucar estates in Cuba. The bearded guerrilla chieftain published his program in 1955. while in exile in Mexico. 11 called for: 1. Nationalization of I'.S. fi nanced and operated utilities in Cuba and division of American- owned sugar estates among Cuban peasants. 2. Confiscation of all properties acquired through corrupt govern ment." 3. Distribution of 30 per cent of an industrial and utility enter prises to Cuban workers. - 4. A public housing and rural electrification program. 5. Liberation of Cuba "from the egotistical interests of half a dozen businessmen." . 6. A speed up of industrialization and increased social security. Monitors Set To Halt Move . NEW YORK fUPI) - A court appointed board of monitors set :np to watch over the Teamsters Union was prepared today to "block by legal means the union's lavowed attempt to organize New York's 24.000 policemen. ; Godfrey Schmidt, a New York attorney and member of the board, said no formal action was planned at present, but added: .' "With our court-appointed pow ers, there is no question but that -we definitely can stop this ac .tion." Schmidt described as "a pub licity stunt" and "pure bluff" Jteamster plans to begin picketing .New York City police installa tions Jan. 12. : "At this moment, the whole -thing looks like a publicity 'uliint," Schmidt said. "It's an other move by Hoffa 'Teamsters President James R. Hoffa) who is tinder a compulsive motive to throw his weight around." tin Philadelphia, the president of the Fraternal Order of Police said the teamsters' drive would be unsuccessful if tried in Phila delphia. James J. Loughran said that by today most of the lodge s 50.000 members in major U. S. cities will have received remind ers that union membership for police is against the order's constitution.) Agents Find Red Network WASHINGTON (UPD Air Force sources said today U.S. in telligence agents in Berlin have Castro never doubted he would win the victory over strongman puigencio Batista. Now 32, the husky, 6-foot 2-inch leader is a professional rebel who has been in revolt most of hi life. He has been involved in revo lutionary movements in the Do minican Republic, where Batista look refuge, and in Colombia In 1947 he joined an expedition to the Dominican Republic aimed at overthrowing the dictatorship of Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo. It was a failure and Castro es caped by soa. In 1948 Castro appeared in Co lombia before the ninth Interna' tional Conference of American States protesting what he termed 'he non-Latin influence in Latin America. He joined with a group if Colombian rebels and was cap tured. He gained his freedom, re portedly largely through the influ ence of the U.S. delegate to the conlerence, Gen. George C. Mar shall. On July 2fi, 1953, he led a bloody but unsuccessful attack on army barracks in Santiago de Cuba, capital of Oriente province at the eastern end of Cuba. for this attack he was sen tenced to 15 years in prison. Freed when Congress granted a political amnesty to political prisoners, Castro laler fled to Mexico. There he began plotting the campaign which resulted in Batista's flight to the Dominican Republic New Year's Day. He returned to Cuba in Decem ber 1956 in a leaky Mexican yacht with 81 armed followers, landing on the coast of Oriente. In the first few days after his arrival Batista announced that most of his force had been killed or captured, but Castro escaped to a hideout in (he mountains of Oriente and began his guerrilla war. He struck when and where he could, disrupting communications, burning fields of sugar cane, am bushing small army units, kidnap ing, sabotaging transportation and carrying on a propaganda war. Despite defeat after defeat, Cas tro kept up the fight. Many limes the government announced exter mination of the rebels was immi nent. But the size of his ragged army continued to grow. Arms and equipment reached him from sym pathizers in the United Mates and other countries. Operating in the rugged country around his mountain head quarters, he successfully eluded government troops sent after him. Castro's movement continued to gain momentum in spite of re peated losses and the opposition of government - dominated labor unions. The kidnaping of world cham pion race driver Juan Fangio from a hotel in downtown .Havana con vinced many Cubans" that Batista could not deal with-Castro's hit and run tactics. Fangio was re leased the next day and praised the rebels for their treatment of If '5 f - CITY BRIEFS Nurses .Meet The Licensed Practical Nurses will hold their regular meeting Monday at 7:.W p.m. at the county library. All members are urged to attend. In Pasadena The Ross Ragland family went to Pasadena for the Tournament of Roses and the Rose Rowl game, stopping in San Francisco on the way south. Puhlir Card party will take place Saturday, stalling at 8 p.m., sponsored by the Midland Home Kainomics Club, at the Midland range Hall. served. i ;t'4.;f n I OFFICERS OF PONDEROSA LODGE 220, A.F. and A.M., recent installation. Left to right are, front row, Harry C. Grant, senior warden; Donald B, Orrell, worshipful master; Wilbur A, Lewis, junior war den; and Robert H. Baker, secretary; second row, William J. Barnett, senior deacon; Clem Lesueur, chaplain; Alex Kozak, junior deacon and Larry Baraboo, senior steward; back row, F, L. Telenga, tiler, Deans Sacher junior steward and Joseph F. Lovell, marshal. are Tea shown following their treasurer: G. Marion Freighter Runs Aground SEATTLE (AP) The 7.600- gross ton freighter P&T Adventur er ran aground on Foulweather Bluff in Puget Sound during snow storm' Thursday night but her crew of about 40 were in no apparent danger. Two heavy-duty lugs, the Shan non Foss and Wedcll Foss reached the scene during the night. They were standing by to pull the 439- foot Liberty ship into deep water during high tide at about 10 a.m. Friday. The Coast Guard said the vessel jammed hard aground at 8:20 p.m 40 minutes before an 8.5-foot high tide. An official for Pope and Talbot lines, operators of the freighter, said the vessel was bound for Port Gamble after several loading stops at southern Puget hound ports. She was to sail for the East Coast Jan. 4. New Provisional President Anti-Red, Pro-American United Pres International 1 26 he was named to the bench in Manuel Urrutia Lleo, 58-year-old provisional president of Cuba, is strongly anti-Communist and pro- American. Cnmnared to the romantic chief of the revolutionary forces, Fidel Castro, Urrutia is a personality that can be drawn only in shaded grays. Until 1957 he was not lden tified with the rebel movement that brought him to power today, Dark, stocky, moustachioed, Ur rutia is a native of Las Villas province and a graduate in law at the University of Havana. At found a network of Soviet radar and radio jamming equipment surrounding that city. They said the jamming mightl wreak havoc with any future at tempt to operate an airlift to lave Berlin from blockade. Even if the jamming could be offset by counter-measures, the sources' said they seriously doubt ed whether an airlift alone could again save Berlin as in 1948-49. Thev said the cargo demands would be at least two and one- half times greater, A spokesman for the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the same time indicated the United, States would favor armed ground convoys as a method of penetrating any fu ture blockade that might be im posed against the former German capital. A high Air Force official said that even in 1948 the Russians had considerable jamming equipment around Berlin. He said the loss of "a couple" of American planes at that time may have been due to jamming operations, although ac tual cause of the crashes was uncertain. Snow Storm Hits State Train Hits Auto; Killing Four SALISBURY, N. C. (UPD - A Southern Railway train struck a station wagon loaded with women nH rhi dren Thursday n l g n t, killing four of the occupants and iniurinc three others. Officers identified the victims Mrs. Scvdcll Nichols, 45, of Spencer, N. C; Mrs. Helen El lenhnrs 34. Gerald W. Mclntyre, 3- and Kaihv Mclntyre, 5; all of Woodleaf, N. C. Injured were Mirtha Nichols Mclntvre; Anne Mclntyre, 2: and Mrs. Bill Mclntyre, 25. Officers . trfontifieH Martha Mclntyre as the driver of the late-model sta tion wagon. TURNCOAT RETURNING unvr. KONG 'UPD "Return- coat" ex-Sgt. Richard Cordcn, of Providence. R.I., left for home Thursday night aboard the liner President Cleveland. Cordcn. who "chose Commu nism" at the end of the Korean War. changed his mind after five vears in Red China because he found it increasingly difficult to get an education. He left Commu nist territory Dec. 19. him. Batista called Castro a Commu nist and a criminal. Communists around the world hailed Castro and ' Cuban Reds supported the rebel cause. But the rebel chief denied he was a Communist. He pointed out that most of his fol lowers were members of the Roman Catholic Church, which strongly opposes communism. Castro, son of a wealthy sugar planter, describes himself as a moderate. Friends say he is a man with driving political ambi tions whose rebel movement is basically middle class. Born at Colonia Biran on Aug. 14. 1926. Castro went to a Catholic tboarding school and later high school at Belen. He attended law school at Havana University and was a politically active student leader. Following graduation from the university, he set himself up in private law practice and married Mirtha Diaz Balart, sister of a government official. They have one son. Castro does not drink but smokes 8 to 10 cigars a day. He gets by with 2 to 3 hours sleep a night, according to associates. His diet is simple, mostly dried beef, rice, beans and bananas. He reads a great deal of poetry. His father, who disapproved of Castro's revolutionary activities, cut off his son's allowance when he was in school. He died In 1956, leaving a half million dollars. Fidel received $80,000. An older brother, Ramon, takes care of the family plantation with Ins mother. A younger brother. Raul, is one of the rebel chief tain s aides. The family also in cludes two sisters, a stepsister and a stepbrother. SEATTLE (AP) Icy road con ditions were reported from wide areas in Western Washington after a driving snow storm lett tne region under a cover of white Thursday night. Snow was reported from Vancou ver, B.C., to Vancouver, Wash., but the State Patrol reported no seri ous traffic accidents because of the weather. Winds which accompanied the snow reached 46 miles per hour at Rellingham, 37 at Hoquiam and 36 'on Whidbey Island. The Weather Bureau here pre dicted scattered light snow flurries with occasional sunny periods for Western Washington Friday with maximum temperatures between 32 and 37 degrees and minimums between 15 and 2o degrees. Weather Table United Press International Temperatures and rainfall for 24 hours ending at 4 a.m. High Low Rain Albuquerque 29 10 Atlanta 42 35 ,19 Bakersfield 63 37 Boise 40 - Boston 35 33 .54 Brownsville 55 42 .14 Chicago 36 27 .06 Denver 52 13 .03 Detroit 42 30 .21 El Centro . 71 38 Fairbanks -12 -20 T Fort Worth 55 35 Fresno 60 31 Helena 48 -16 .15 Kansas City 33 27 Los Angeles 72 54 Miami 78 73 Minneapolis 29- 11 .01 New Orleans 49 40 New York 41 38 1.03 Oakland 59 49 Oklahoma City 40 26 Phoenix 59 35 Pittsburgh 44 34 .54 Red Bluff 58 33 Reno -57 33 Sacramcnlo ' 47 38 Salt Lake City 45 24 .01 San Diego 69 59 San Francisco 61 48 Seattle 43 28 Spokane 35 14 Stockton 48 32 Thermal 70 38 Tucson 61 32 Washington 44 37 .88 Oriente Province, which Was to become the heartland of Castro's movement There, a little more than a year ago, alter 31 uneventlul years as judge, Urrutia handed down opinion that shocked the Batista government and caused rejoicing throughout rebellious Cuba. As chairman of a three-judge panel sitting in Santiago, he stated that 150 youths brought to court on charges of rebellious action should be released since there was no peaceful means left to Cuban citizens to defend their constitutional rights. Ho was over ruled by two other judges, but he had established himself champion of liberty. The government soon forced Ur rutia to resign from the bench. In November, 1957, he and his wife and their two sons fled to New York, where he set up a Castro headquarters. Castro later announced that Urrutia was his choice for the presidency of Cuba, choice ratified by other revolu tionary groups in . Cuba. LAST TIME STINKENBRUNN, Austria (AP) This is the last time the name Stinkenbrunn, which means stink ing well, correctly appears In a newspaper dateline. It s now tust Brunir Stinkenbrunn dates back to the 13th century. A local well's wa ter had a bad odor and a sour taste from nearby lignite deposits. Now the coal is gone ana tne wa ter's pure. Refreshments will hi Two Siskiyou Supervisors Report On Capital Meeting YRKKA Supervisors W. C. Ealy and S. C. Jackson, represen tatives of Siskiyou County to the lalifornia State Supervisors Asso ciation, reported recently to the hoard on recommendations made by the association in Sacramento, that the state medical-aid program expenditures be cut back and in dividual counties given more free dom in general county relief. Ealy. a member of the associa tion's board of directors, stated that the move to reduce its medi cal care program by Si.ouH.noo an nually for the needy, aged and blind was brought about by a tele gram sent to the welfare board last week by the association. After receiving word from de partment personel that Ihe pro gram was running out of funds, the board voted the curtailment of tranquilizers, hormones and doc tors' injections. Mrs. Carolvn Nixon, acting wel fare director for Siskiyou County slated Tuesday that her orders so far are only the elimination of vita mins and food supplements, but she expects later that injections and hormones will be added to the eliminated items. Ealy said "it was specifically urged that the welfare board "bring expenditures into line with the funds available," for the medi cal care program. Jackson, who is a member of the association's welfare commit tee, reported that another altera tion recommended (or the aid pro gram involves "a single method of payment for services direct to the vendor for the medicine, and not through the recipient." Jackson also said that another recommen dation was made that "recipients staying in public medical institii t inns should have their grants paid directly to these institutions sub United Press International stantially in the manner done prior : Fair to July 1, 1957." nstallation Prosperity Robe kah Lodge 104 will have its 1959 public installation of new officers tonight, January 2, at 7 30 at the lOOF Hall. All Rehekahs, Odd Fel lows and friends are invited. Neighbors Of Woodcraft will meet at Ihe KC Hall Monday at p.m. Evangelist Vaughn L. Ilaydrn, Lodge Grass, Montana, will open a series of meetings al the Gospel Mission of the United Holy Church of America, 251 Commercial, on the corner of Walnut and Commer cial streets, on Sunday, January 4. at 7:30 p.m. Those with sick and afflicted in Ihe home are in vited to take them to the meet ings. Midland Grange Home Eco tunnies Club will meet Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. at the home of Alice Hoover on Del Falti Lane. All la dies are invited to attend. lative restrictions are binding them. A special commitlee has been appointed. Jackson slated, to set up a detailed recommendation sometime next year on the 30 per cent increase in aid-to-needy chil dren case loads in the state over the past year. Jackson received notification last week of his. re-appointment to the State Board of Health to Crippled Children's Service gen eral advisory committee for 1959. Supervisor . A. Barr, a mem ber uf Ihe state association's water committee, reported that his com mittee was assured on Friday December 19. during a meeting with Governor-elect Edmund G. Brown in Sacramento, that "he was going to try to get a fair water program." According to Barr, Broun made no definite promises, he seemed agreeable and receptive 'to upstream devel opment in the northern water surplus counties. The Legislature had been urged earlier by the board of directors of Ihe supervisors association to extend for four years rights pres ently held by the state to 45 mil lion acre-feet of water necessary for Ihe development of the Feath er River project and other water development plans. California Weather San Francisco Bay Area through Saturday: small craft warnings for northerly winds 20 35 m.p.h. today and tonight; high today 57-62; low tonight 40-47 ex- cent 50 in downtown San rran cisco and Oakland. Mt. Shasta-Siskiyou area: Scat tered snow flurries through Satur day; slightly colder. Sacramento Valley: Fair through Saturday; colder north portion today: high both days 46- 56; low tonight 28-38; northerly winds 10-20 m.p.h. Northwestern California: Scat tered showers north of Garbcrvillc and partly cloudy south portion through Saturday; cooler inland; high today and low tonight Ukiah 55-35, Santa Rosa 57-33, Napa 58- 36; small craft warnings on coast for north to northwest winds 20-35 m.p.h. with locally stronger gusts. Jackson said that, in addition his committee had reached the de cision that the counties should he freed from legislative standards in the administration of county general relief programs. That Ihe boards of supervisors should take on the responsibility for the stan dards, and not specify which legis- POPULAR MECHANICS NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) City high school authorities report adult classes in auto mechanics for women are so popular they are sotting up advanced courses. GOOD! p3f Measures Sought For War I Yets WASHINGTON (UPD The new Congress will be asked to enact legislation to pension all needy World War I veterans at age 70. Fred J. Hollcnbeck, naliona commander of the" Veterans of World War I, Thursday night an nounced his group would press for the new legislation rather than push a bill it backed in the expir ing 85th Congress. That bill, would have pensioned all World War 1 veterans regardless of need at age 60. - Office Space Available Inquire DREW'S Mansrore 733 Main RESUMES PLANE MAKING LONDON (UPD Britain, which recently declared itself out of warnlane business, has reversed its field and started work on a new jet bomber capable of car rying an atomic bomb to any tar get in the world. Saturday Night DANMOORE HOTEL 1217 S.W. Morrison St. ' Portland, Oregon All Troniiont Gua.ti. All thou who comt rtturn. Ratal net foe high, net low, free Garage, TV's and Radio's. Reputation for claanlinats. Rtiarvatiom by L.D. Fona rofundad on raquait upon arrival. 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