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In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS As this is written, it looks as if this year's death toll on our nation's highways over the four day New Year week-end holiday may be smaller than expected. About mid-morning, the reported and tabulated total of hishway fa talitics stands ai 3TB. This com pares with the National Safety Council's estimate (based on prob abilities) of 390. The all-time record for a four day New Year week-end is 409. This grisly total was run up two years ago. If this year's record does show a drop, it will be a hopeful sign. It must be assumed that this year more cars were available to go on the roads than ever before, for car saturation in America is pro ceeding steadily. In addition, this year's weather was universally bad. Theoretically that increases the hazard. But bad weather also in creases driver caution. Only a madman can be expected to go roaring into a storm at high speed on slippery roads. The bulk of our people are sane, so it may be that the bad weather increased driver caution. At any rate, it sounds like dri vers may have been more cautious this year. That's about the only way, short of having a highway cop on the roads every 100 yards, that the highway death toll can be reduced. If the roads are to become saf er DRIVERS must become safer. The highway safety problem is largely an INDIVIDUAL problem. Not unexpectedly. California has the highest death toll among the states, with 41 persons killed in traffic up to the time this is writ ten. That sounds bad. But it isn't quite as bad as it sounds. Cali fornia is the second largest state. It has more automobiles than any other state. Its normal weather at the New Year season is such as to tempt more people to take to the roads. The more cars, the greater the traffic hazard. Jumping 'rom automobiles to space ships, Russia reports this morning that its cosmic rocket, which missed the moon, is begin ning to slant off into its orbit around the sun, thus becoming the first MAN-MADE planet. Question: Will it go on whirling around the sun FOREVER? In Washington, U.S.' space-consultant Homer J. Stewart says PROBABLY NOT. He thinks it will return eventually to earth, al-1 though it may take HUNDREDS OF YEARS to get back. When (and if) it does get back, he says, its return to earth will be marked by a big flash in the sky just like any other big meteorite, Somehow that interests me very little. The Russians are prouder than Punch of their achievement as thev are entitled to be. Sending a rocket " into orbit around the sun takes some doing. It also takes some brains. In Washington, where the con sress is beginning to reassemble there is much talk of what WE must do to keep up with Lizzie Lizzie, in this case being the U.S.S.R. Most of the talk has to do with SPENDING MONEY. Personally, I can't help feeling that MORE than throwing money around will be required. Martial Law Set In Cuba Province HAVANA (AP)-Havana prov ince was proclaimed under mar tial law temporarily today pend ing the arrival of Provisional President Manuel Urrutia. Urrutia was reported already in the province, but his arrival in the city itself apparently was bein delayed while revolutionary groups straighten out jurisdiction over the presidential palace. Earlier today Urrutia was er roneously reported to have arrived by plane at Havana's Internation al Airport for a triumphal entry into the city. The revolutionary leader. Fidel Castro, who rooted President Ful- Inauguration Of Governor Delay Likely SALEM (API-Postponement of next Monday's scheduled inaugur ation of Gov.-elect Mark Hatfield loomed today as a definite possi bility. The Democratic leadership in the Legislature, which also will meet next Monday, is thinking about postponing the inaugura tion. This delay would be intend ed to force Hatfield to resign as secretary of state before taking the oath as governor. Forcing Hatfield to resign would permit Gov. Robert D. Holmes to appoint the new secretary of state. If Hatfield is permitted to take the oath without resigning. Hatfield then could name his own successor. A Hatfield aide said today that he can see no possibility of plac ing the issue in the state Supreme Court before next Monday. Hat field's lawyers believe they can't go to court until some definite act takes place. If the inauguration is delayed, Holmes might resign Monday, an assistant to Holmes said. This would turn over the governorship temporarily to Sen. Walter J. Pearson (D-Portland), who will become Senate president next Monday. The Democrats, who control both houses, easily could delay the inauguration. The state constitution says that, NASSER, COMMIE HOLD MEET CAIRO (AP) Prime Minister Otto Grotewohl of Communist East Germany and President namal Ahrinl Nasser of the United Arab Republic met for the first time Sunday. Grotewohl is making his first in a nnn-Cnmmunist country as Premier of the Soviet satellite. His visit is unique in that the U.A.R. and East Germany have no diplomatic relations (Continued on Page 4) World News In Brief ROCKET Moscow Soviet rocket 341,550 miles from earth early today starts into orbit around sun. MOON Washington American scientists predict next Soviet space goal will be to orbit the moon. MIKOYAN Washington Sovi et Deputy Premier Mikoyan fas cinated with such capitalistic gadg ets as doughnut and popcorn machines. CONGRESS-Washington Ei senhower faces mounting Demo cratic demands for a stronger space program and less emphasis on economy in government. CUBA Havana Castro, in Cam aguey on triumphal drive length of Cuba, orders end of general strike. KIDNAP New York FBI joins search for baby kidnaped from Brooklyn hospital 2V4 hours after birth. HOLIDAY New Year s holiday traffic fatality toll expected to fall under estimates. WEATHER Cold Wave hits eastern two-thirds of nation. gencio Batista from power on New Year's Day and proclaimed Urrutia the provisional executive, was making a leisurely but vic torious approach to the capital through the eastern provinces. Tens of thousands in cities, towns and villages turned out to cheer wildly as Castro and his mo torized columns made their way from the Oriente province center of their rebellion which overthrew the dictatorship of Fulgencio Ba list a last week. The progress was slow: Cama- guey, 300 miles from Havana. Sunday night; tonight, Santa Clara, scene of the decisive de feat which forced Batista to flee, 140 miles further along the march: Tuesday, Matanzas, 50 miles from the capital. Castro and his men were ex pected in the capital Wednesday afternoon for one of the greatest welcomes in Cuban history. in a prelude, Manuel Urrutia. named provisional president by Castro, was flying from Santiago de Cuba this morning to take the central government reins in Ha vana. A big 'welcome was ar ranged for him, with government offices closed so employes could participate. The people of Havana awaited Castro with full stomachs for the first time since the collapse of the Batista government and the dictator's pre-dawn flight to Ciu dad Trujillo. The rebel chieftain, now com mander in chief of Cuba's armed forces, ordered an end to the paralyzing general strike which had closed the nation's stores. business and industries and tied up transport and communications. He had said he would call off the strike when he was convinced Havana was safely in the hands of his men. There were still some scattered Batista holdouts, but reports from his commanders in Havana assured Castro the sit uation was fully under control and nothing could upset his hard won victory. There were immediate signs of a return to normalcy in the tense excited city. Newspapers began appearing again. Stores flung open their doors to do a landoffice business selling foodstuffs to hungry Ha vaneros. Taxis and buses resumed operation. Industrial workers be gan preparing to return to their jobs. Castro s bearded soldiers pa trolled the streets with rifles, pistols, and machineifuns, guard ed government buildings and banks and roamed the lobbies and corridors of hotels, on the) alert for violence. The security situation was en hanced by the rebel high com mand's order to the thousands of jubilant young militiamen, many of them self-appointed, to turn in their guns. .Most of them appar ently obeyed. Only a few were' seen armed .on the street. The hunt continued for rem nants of the Batista government Jails were filling with ex-govern ment officials and persons brand ed by the rebels as "enemies of the Cuban people." niiTnrim.T. TO VACATION MAnnAKEfH Morocco (UPI) Sir Winston Churchill and his wife will arrive here Jan. 12 for a three or four-week vacation in the sun, it was disclosed today. Heavy Storm Lashes Basin BANS COSMETICS NEW DELHI. India (UPI) State Education Minister Sardar Harbans Singh Azad has ordered that women teachers in Jammu and . Kashmir states must not wear cosmetics in the classrooms. He called cosmetics the growing menace of fashion. SHOOTING HOURS: OREGON January C OPEN CLOSE 7:0$ 4:52 CALIFORNIA January 6 OPEN CLOSE 7:04 4:46 KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1959 Price Five Cents 18 Pages Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 6284 Dash Continuing By Cosmic Rocket MOSCOW (AP'-The Soviet Un-i ion s cosmic rocket continued its headlong dash toward a solar or bit NEW FLAG is unfurled by President Eisenhower. The new American flag contains a field of seven staggered rows of seven stars'each. Here, the President formally dedi cates the new flag and the admittance of Alaska as the 49th state. Looking on, left to right, are Interior Secretary Fred Seaton, and Alaskan Democratic Senators-elect Ernest Gruening and E. L. Bartlett. (NEA Telephoto) Klamath Falls appears to havei been in the direct line of a heavy snow and wind storm which start ed Sunday afternoon, dropping 14 inches ol new snow at craier L.ane National Park and extending as far south as Redding, which got seven inches of snowfall. Approximately four inches of snow was measured here on the level, with drifts reported m some areas and only a trace of snow in others which were exposed to the wind. Neither state nor city po lice reported any accidents caused by weather this morning. California Oregon Power Com pany reports a brief interruption of electric power service Sunday night. Starting about 8 p.m., the interruption ranged from 10 to 45 minutes over more than half of the downtown Klamath Falls area and is said to have been caused by weather. There was no system wide trouble reported. Bus service from the south over Highway 97 was delayed as much Cold Weather Grips East By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The winter's coldest weather, powered by 40-mile-an-hour winds, rolled eastward to the Atlantic Seaboard today. The arctic out break covered most of the east ern two-thirds of the nation. The icy winds hit 6fi miles an hour near Hartford, Conn. Near blizzard conditions were forecast for parts of New York state in the lee of Lake Ontario. The cold air spread southward into Gulf coastal areas. Readings in the 20s and' 30s penetrated northern Florida. Temperatures were in the teens or lower in northern Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. A vast area of subzero cold ex tended from the Rockies and Great Plains into the Appalachi ans. The coldest spot was Hibbing, Minn., with -39. as two hours this morning because! of snow which fell to a depth of 14 inches at Dunsmulr and 18V4 inches at Mount Shasta. The snow followed a record low of the sea son of 15 degrees at Mount Shasta and 11 degrees at Weed. Weather has closed most of southern Siskiyou County schools, the exceptions being the elementa ry and high school al Mount Shas ta and Dunsmuir High School. Frank Asbell, head of the U.S. Weather Bureau office at Mount Shasta, was predicting heavy snow fall throughout today, but stated it was difficult to make an accurate forecast as the weather bureau teletype broke dovyn last night Snow in Klamath Falls was ac companied by heavy winds which resulted in at least one freak ac cident on South Sixth Street. At the Suburban Trailer Court. 3249 South Sixth, a brand new 45- foot aluminum porch which had been put up by Eli Ross for shel ter for his trailer, the first in the line, was picked up by the wind and dropped on top of the trailer and pickup owned by Mr. and Mrs. Robert- L. Schlotfeldt nearby.- The heavy sheet of aluminum weighs approximately 300 pounds and must have gone straight up in the air as it failed to knock over the metal stovepipe on top of the Ross' trailer. "We were just sitting there, about 7:30 p.m.," Mrs. Schlotfeldt reported, "when there was this sudden crash over our heads and then we heard the heavy metal flapping around." The men were able to lift the sheet aluminum off the trailer and lay it on the ground. 'At Weed, winds up to 60 miles an hour were reported during the night, drifting snow to six-foot depths. LongiBell division of Inter national Paper Company is operat ing the plywood division today but the mill, factory and sash and door operations are closed. Downtown business establishments are open ana schools are closed. Highway crews are workinc hut mere was one-way traffic only this morning, between Weed and Mount Shasta. Chains were manda tory on Hiehwav 99 from Weed tn Redding and from Weed to Gren. ada on Highway 97. Chains were advised for travel from Grenada to Yreka and mandatory from Yreka north. ianeview reported about one nch of snow and continued snow flurries and overcast skies this morning. It was still snowing, also. in the Drews Valley area, but the wind was keeping most of t h e roads nearly bare. The Fremont Highlanders antici pale good skiing in the Warner Canyon ski area for the coming weekend and are working to get notn lows into operation, accord ing to Jimmy Howard. A telephone call Irom Medford reported heavy rains in that area this morning. t I W14 I 'F r - m m a m m at . Officers Seek Kidnap Victim NEW YORK (UPD-More than 100 detectives swarmed through tenements in Brooklyn today in search for a girl kidnaped from her hospital bassinet less than 2'i hours after birth. Their search was concentrated in an area surrounding an aban doned tenement where two boys Saturday night found a Christmas wrapped parcel containing a blan ket and kimona believed to have been the garments worn by tiny Lisa Rose Chionchio when she was taken from the fourth floor nurs ery at St. Peter's Hospital. Also being sought was a heavy- set, bleached blonde, about 30, be lieved to have taken the seven pound baby from the hospital about 11:45 p.m. e.st. Friday. Doctors said the infant required special feeding, but probably could survive without any food lor 72 hours from the time she was tak- provided she was not aban doned in the cold. Aside from the garments found in the abandoned tenement three miles from the hospital, police were without clues. Twenty wom en resembling the suspected kid naper were rounded up and ques tioned Sunday, but later released, .4 4 SEARCH FOR THE DRIVER of this fully loaded tractor - trailer bearing an estimated $40,000 worth of perishable foods, is a current pro,ect of Klamath Fall. City Pol.ce ' . r vi L ..... .1.11 Lintirinnad Un(4in mnrni nd authorities of surrounding areas, me searcn w.. ..... .....-.-.rr- Ing by lack of a description of the driver, unaccounted for since December 31, of whom police have only the nam. and address: Marshall Shirley, Portland. Further particular, wire expected to be received shortly. (See Story on Page 41 Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Intermittent mow through tonight with partial clear ing and a few snow flurries Tues day; warmer. Low tonight 28-33; high Tuesday 37-42. High yesterday 35 Low last night 11 Preclp. last 24 hours to S p.m. T Since Oct. 1 1.82 Same period last year 7.92 Normal lor period 4.87 Northern California: Partly cloudy with showers tonight and snow flurries In mountains. Gale warnings along coast for southerly winds, 30-50 miles per hour, innt' at to southwesterly and dccreai Ing tonight to 15 to 30 miles an hour. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Traffic 37B Fires 60 Miscellaneous 113 Total I 549 The count of traffic deaths dur ing the New Year's holiday neared its end today with indications that the four-day toll would be smaller than expected. Delayed reports of fatal tratlic accidents that occurred up to midnight Sunday were expected to add a few deaths to the tabula tion. . Several times during the long holiday the rate of deaths had in creased to a pace that indicated a new record for a four-day New Year's holiday was in the mak inc. The record is 409, set during the 1956-57 holiday. The National Safety Council had estimated a toll of 390 lives for the 102-hour weekend which be gan at 6 p.m. (local time) Wednes day and continued to midnight Sunday. Traeic as it was, the toll this New Year was something to be thankful for, the council said. We are thankful that the toll stayed below our pre-holiday esti mate," a council spokesman said. The Council noted the swift pace of deaths on the highways Sun day as the homeward rush oT mo torists reached the peak of travel. The upturn was similar to the toll on New Year s uay alter a rela tively safe start. CRATER LAKE High yesterday Low last night 8 a.m. today New snow Sledding Tonight On KF Streets Sledding has been scheduled for Washington, Wifford and Manzani ta streets from 4 to 8 p.m. today, it was announced by Bob Bonney. city recreation director. Bonney pointed out that guards will be on duty at the dosignatea streets only during the hours men tioned. He urged all parents to keep their children from sledding except during these hours and on the desicnated streets. Motorists were also cautioned to be extremely careful when ap proaching the sledding Intersections. 24 14 24 .14 in Snow depth In Chains are Tequired for travel In Crater Lake National Park to. day. The road from park head- Quarters to the rim was closed this morning and the rangers re ported little chance of Its being re opened today. South and west en trance roads are open and In "very poor" shape. It was snowing and blowing when the rangers report ed this morning. Temperatures had moderated somewhat from Saturday night however, which had a low of one degree below zero and a reading of 16 degrees at 8 a.m. on Sun day. Twenty-seven cars visited the park, bringing 117 visitors on Sat urday: 48 cars on Sunday with 222 visitors. ' CHARGES WITHDRAWN BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) The stale prosecutor has with drawn charges ot antistate activ ity against a group of pro-Soviet Yugoslav Communists indicted last month. The action apparently was taken to avoid the impression that Yugo slavia, now st odds with the Soviet bloc, is persecuting pro-Soviet ele ments. .J Prediction . To Fall Short today in man's greatest con quest of space. Its radio signals ceased as the 2 -ton device now called Mech- ta idrcaml went past an estimat ed 3.0.960 miles in its plunge away from the earth. It had then been in flight 62 hours. Resources for feeding the radio equipment had become exhausted, the Soviet news agency Tass said. The program of observations and scientific investigations of the rocket has aeen completed," an announcement said. This predicted the rocket will finally enter an orbit around the sun Wednesday or Thursday. Mechta is due to take 15 months go around the sun, traveling elliptically, The Russians calculate this or bit would have a maximum diam eter of 214" million miles. The rocket would get no nearer the sun than 911. million miles. The sun averages 93 million miles from earth. The name Mechta was applied o the rocket today by Pravda the Communist, party newspaper. When it was announced last Satur day that the rocket was headed toward the moon, it was called Lunik, a combination' of Luna (moon) and Sputnik. Scientists here figured that It was travelling at a maximum peed of 1.52 miles a second when it passed the moon Sunday at distance of 4,700 miles. Results of radio transmissions between the rocket and ground stations will be published as soon as they are analyzed, Tass said The 62 hours of radio communi cation enabled observations to be made of the rocket's movements and on the work of. the scientific instruments aboard. The actual number of days that will be required for the solar orbit will be 447, scientists said. This is 82 more than it takes the earth to go around the sun. Dr. G. M. Clemence, scientific director of the U. S. Naval Ob- sevatory in Washington, said that some time in March or February the earth will pass between the rocket and the sun. The earth has an elliptical or bit around 'he sun, the same as the rocket will have, but It is tight' er. It takes the earth only months to make the full swing. The nearest nolnt of the earth' orbit to the sun is about 9M mil lion miles, the farthest 94V4 mil lion miles. The earth is now trav eling away from the sun, having reached its closest point Jan. When the Soviet rocket starts awav from the sun. it will swing away faster than the eartn, ana then the earth will pass between the rocket and the sun. The earth and the rocket will be several hundred thousand miles apart and they will not be that close again for another two. or three centuries. As the racket moved further Into space, the gravitational null of the moon and the earth was less ening and. the pull of the sun's gravity was increasing. soviet newspapers Sunday were filled with comments on the per formance and predictions of new space ventures. But there were no further details on the rocket it self, its launching site or power. On a Moscow radio broadcast Prof. Boris Kukarkin. denutv chairman of the Soviet Astronom ical Council, mentioned the possi bility of a space ship soaring out side the entire solar system. Red Deputy, John Dulles Hold Meeting WASHINGTON (AP) Soviet Dep. Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan reported today he discussed the Berlin problem and Germany with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. After an hour 35-minute session with Dulles, Mikoyan said they also talked over disarmament and trade problems. On leaving the State Department Mikoyan said he has arranged to meet in two weeks with President Eisenhower after a tour of Amer ican cities. He is reported planning to visit Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Dal las and Los Angeles. Speaking through an interpreter, Mikoyan described the meeting with Dulles as "a useful talk." The Russian leader, who ar rived from Moscow Sunday, smiled broadly as he arrived at the State Department. Seven Hun garian Freedom Fighters, carry ing placards reading "Go Home Mikoyan," shouted insults as he walked up with Soviet Ambassa dor Mikhail Menshikov. Mikoyan and the ambassador pressed through a crowd of about 100 reporters and photographers. Arriving in Dulles' outer office, they poied for pictures with Dul les, seated on a divan. 'Very glad to see you," Dulles said, shaking hands with Mikoyan. Once seated, Dulles put hut arm behind Mikoyan on the back ot the divan and the two men launched into a friendly conversa tionall about the weather. . Airline Company Slashes Pay Roll WASHINGTON (UPI) - Ameri can Airlines cut about 20,000 non pilot employes from its payroll to day when company and union of ficials failed to agree on a con tract to end a 16-day strike. Federal Mediator Leverett Ed wards, meeting with both parties, told United Press International he couldn't tell about the possibility of a 'settlement being near. C. R. Smith, president of Ameri can, said the non-pilot employes who have been kept on the pay roll during the strike were dropped because "no sound prediction can be made" as to when the strike will end. American is the only major U.S. airline still grounded by a wave of labor trouble that hit air car riers during the past several months. Vest Germans Reject Bid ; BONN, Germany (AP) West Germany today rejected the So viet Union's proposal to turn West Berlin into a demilitarized free city and called on Moscow to re store the city to its place as capital of a united Germany. In a note delivered in Moscow, the West German government stressed the four-power responsi bility for- German reunification and backed up the previous rejec tion of the Soviet proposal by the Western Big Three. Berlin's future can be discussed only within the framework of the whole German question, which ii indissolubly bound up with - the problems of security and disarma ment, the note said. The note said pointedly that the Soviet proposal would place isolate ed Berlin at the mercy of the Communist East German regime. Recalling the Communist at tempt to blockade the city in 1948, the note said the "presence of Western troops in the city was welcomed by the inhabitants." It is not the West German drive to the East, as the Soviet Union claims, that is responsible for the situation but on the contrary the Soviet thrust to West, the Aden auer government said. ;t 11 v.! IN SWEARING ceremonies were conducted in Klamath County Court Monday morn ing by County Judge Charlie Mack. Hare, Mack is shown administering tne oath to, left to right, District Judge D. E. Van Vector, County Treasurer Eve Cook, and County Surveyor Lyle-Smith. Not present for the ceremonies were Commissioner-elect Robert Walker of Merrill, District Attorney Arthur Beddoe and Circuit Judge David Vendee u... S
