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In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS As this is written, exciting news on this terrestrial ball that we call the Earth is momentarily lacking. So let's turn to outer space. A Soviet scientist, quoted by Moscow radio today, thinks there may be oil and gas on the moon. He has been researching the pock marks on the moon's face, which have long been referred to as cra ters, and thinks they may be exits or natural gas. This would mean, he says, that in the direct vicinity of these cra ters one could expect to find de posits of oil. How to get the oil HERE where we can use it? He doesn't go into that.' He thinks the moon's oil and gas could be used as a source of en ergy on the moon itself. There are quite a few problems up there, you know. Among others, the moon HAS NO AIR. Air would have to be manufactured. So far as known, the moon has no water. So water would have to be manufactured. And so on. The Russians aren't doing all the pipe-dreaming. Americans are taking a hack at it. Scientists of the Lockheed mis tile systems division down at Sun nyvale, in the Bay area, think that in maybe a decade the space art will be so advanced that man can build a laboratory some 500 miles up from the earth. How? Well, first we'd toss up a sealed compartment in which men could live. Then we'd toss up other com partments, which would be caught up there in the wild yonder by the men on the first compartment much, presumably, as a rivet catcher on a high building catches red hot rivets tossed up to him by his assistant. These components would be put together to provide quarters for a crew of ten scientists. The cost? About two billion bucks. ???????? !!!!!!!! ???"$$$!! Wait a minute. You haven't heard anything yet. Dr. John Lyman, associate pro fessor of psychology and engineer ing at UCLA, speculates mat space travelers of the future might be QUICK FROZEN like a can of pea soup before starting on the trip to the stars. The space tourist's body, he savs. could be reduced to a tem perature of say minus 300 degrees until all chemical body activity has stopped. He adds: "At the end of a THOUSAND YEAR trip to some other world the process could be reversed, by - Inductive or inside heating, thus bringing the temperature back to normal and apparently leaving the space explorer NO OLDER physic cally than when he started h 1 s trip. Hmmmmmmmm. D'ya reckon man might be get ting too big for his britches? Price Five Cents 12 Paget KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 6. 1959 Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 6285 School Road Plan Tabled By Council The city council tabled plans for an alternate access road to River side School at its regular Monday night session when it developed that there apparently was no diffi culty in negotiating the street to the school. Fire Chief Roy Rowe, who ap parently started the exploration of an alternative route to the school with a remark about the road be ing impossible at times, told the city council that in the 10 years he had been fire chief that his department had "always gotten up the hill." He stated, after questioning by Mayor Lawrence Slater and the council, that he had been in the department since October of 1937, Foster Home Gets Custody Of Small Tot Soviets Give Orb's Travel LONDON (AP) The Soviet cos mic rocket Mechta is more than half a million miles from the earth and has practically entered orbit as the solar system's first artifi cial planet, the Soviet Union an nounced today. Alexander Topchiev, vice presi dent of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, told a Moscow news con ference that the Hi-ton projectile is now 310,700 miles beyond the moon. His remarks were broadcast by Radio Moscow. Since it left earth on Jan. 2, the rocket has traveled 497,120 miles Topchiev said. LAKEVIEW Another chapter was written this week in the lives of Otis and Norma Dewitt Wil liams, residents of Lakeview for the last three months. Their daughter, Patricia Ann, 15 months, was placed in the custody of the court here as a dependent child and has been transferred to the care of a foster home. The child came to the atlention of the court, according to officers, over the New Year's holiday. They said her mother drove with two companions to New Pine Creek, taking the child along on New Year's Day. Apparently they vis ited a tavern and neglected to pick up the baby when they left. On January 2, the child was returned by friends to Lakeview and offi cers took charge. Since December 15, Otis Wil liams, father of the child, has been in Lake County Jail. He is serving a 30-day sentence plus time equal to a $100 fine for pos session of illegal deer meat. Mr. and Mrs. Williams arrived in Lakeview at the end of Sep tember from Slick Rock, Colorado. Their arrival attracted consider able attention because they were traveling in a two-car caravan when they left Colorado and during the trip, their 2-month-old son, John Ray Williams, was transferred to the other car and the two cars became separated. The parents be came the object of a three-state sheriffs' search when officers at Eureka, Utah, found the tiny baby traveling with a single man who; had no food or clothing changes for the infant. The entourage was reunited at Lakeview on September 30 and the baby subsequently died in Lake view Hospital despite special treat ment in an incubator. The attend ing physician said the baby had been born prematurely and death resulted from his failure to respond to treatment for a condition caused by premature birth. There have been no charges tiled against the mother, the sheriff's office said this morning. and that in the 21 years, the de partment has always been able to get up the approaches to Riv erside School. He added that some times they might get up a little slower if the streets wore icv. but admitted also that this would be the case in many parts of the cuy. Mayor Slater pointed out that the street department had been in structed to put this street on the top of its priority list to be the first one to be plowed out after any snowstorms, and if the street were icy, it would be sanded by the department. After discussion on the Question. the council moved to table the mat ter of building another route to Riverside- School. Assistant City Engineer Cliff Sanders estimated that there were two possible alter nate routes, that one would cost about $5,044 and the other approxi mately $6,674. "We don't have the $5,000," the mayor said. "And it appears pret ty conclusively that the alternate road is not needed, and that there has never been any difficulty get ting up the hill in the first place.' When questioned about his earli er statement about the hill being impossible, Rowe explained that he did not mean that it was impossible to get up the hill, but rather that when the hill was icy it was almost impossible, although he admitted again he had never been unable to get up it. A large delegation from areas of California Avenue appeared in the council chambers to protest some of the assessments made for the paving of North Second Street from McKinley to Roosevelt. Several persons reported that they had only recently purchased the property and were unaware that any lien against the property was in the works, it was pointed out to them -that the persons who owned property on North Second at the time California was paved, were required to help pay part of the cost of paving California, and therefore the payment now for North Second by California resi dents was only justifiable recipro cation However, it appeared that the ti tle insurance companies had failed to Inquire of the city street- de partment as to possible improve- MARKET ASSEMBLY MEETS STRASBOURG, France (UPD Wcst Europe's six-nation parlia mentary assembly holds its first 1959 session here Wednesday. A hot debate on certain phases of the common market plan was predicted. Red Assures US Of Berlin Access WASHINGTON (API - Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas I. Miko yan was reported today to have as sured the United Slates o( con tinued free Western access to Her lin. Such a pledge would go to (lie heart of the current East-West tension over Berlin s luluie. It would signal a major concession by the Kremlin to the West's ob jections to Soviet demands to make a "lice city" of Berlin. Mikovan was understood to have told high level Stale Department, business and congressional lead ers Monday night: The .soviet Union Is delcr- incd to turn over administration East Berlin to the puppet East Ger man Communist regime, regard less of U.S.-Brilish-Krench denun- ation of the plan. 2. The Soviet Union is not try- ng to throw the Allies out of West Berlin, even though Soviet Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev, in a Nov. KREMLIN'S NO. 2 MAN, Anastas Mikoyan, left, chats with Secretary of, Stats John Foster Dulles, center, at the Stats Department in Washington. At right is Russian Am bassador Mikhail Menshikov. Mikoyan is in the U.S. for a two-week unofficial visit, but it is speculated that he may have brought a Soviet proposal for easing cold war tension. (NEA Tslephoto) Provisional President Of Cuba Puts Government In High Gear By LARRY ALLEN HAVANA (API The provisional government announced today it will dissolve Congress and the criminal courts and rule by decree until free elections can be held. The decision was taken at a meeting of Provisional President Manuel Urrutia and his Cabinet. Acting speedily alter his arrival in the capital Monday night Urrutia: 1. Named Jose Miro Cardona. president of the Havana Bar Assn. to be premier of his government: 2. Announced free elections would be held within 18 months to two years; Weather '.V FORECAST Klamath- Falls and ment hens against the property vicinity: Scattered snow showers when it was sold. It was moved by the council to furnish the title companies copies of city ordi nances which propose the improve ment work. This would be done at the time construction was com menced on a street, and would alert the company to possible liens against the property in the area. Assessment rolls were approved for the North Second Street paving, as well as three other paving proj ects on Mesa Street, Manzanita and Hawthorne and Van Ness. In annual reports, Verne Schort- gen, building inspector, reported that total construction permits in 1958 totaled $1,743,996. This was compared with $2,191,546.20 in 1957. However, Schortgen pointed out that in 1957 there was over $719, 000 in building and remodeling public buildings as. against only S408.000 during 1958. Deducting tne riiffprpnpp it wnnlri make 19S7 Ann 1958's total figures very close to gether. December building figures for 1958 showed an improvement over 1957. Figures for December, 1958 were $50,821 against $43,730 for the prior year. In his annual report, Fire Chief (Continued on Page 4) and periods of partial clearing through Wednesday. Highs 30-35; low tonight 25-30. High yesterday 40 Low last night 27 Precip. last 24 hours 0.06 Since Oct. 1 1.88 Same period last year , 5.18 Northern California Partly cluudy tonight; rain beginning in north early Wednesday, spreading to central state by late Wednes day, except snow In mountains. Colder tonight. Winds along coast southwesterly or westerly, 15-25 miles an hour, Increasing to 35 miles an hour Cape Mendocino northward Wednesday. CRATER LAKE High yesterday , 26 Low last night 23 8 a.m. today 24 New snow 4 In. Snow depth 42 Last year 91 Chains are advised for travel from south or west entrances through the park and are required from park headquarters to the rim. That road has been reopened this morning. Skies were partly cloudy this morning. Total snowfall so far this season Is 141 Inches compared with 225 Inches on this date last year. SIX ENLISTEES IN THE REGULAR ARMY under the "guaranteed school" program took eff Friday for Ft. Ord and basic training. Shown at Klamath Falls airport art, left to right, Don Drake, Rogar Kauble, Darryl Chaffee, Sam Moss, Reginald Powall and Bob Schroader, with Sgt. I.C. M. W. Buess, local Army recruiter, who cema to sea them off. Upon completion of basic training, Drake will attand a madical laboratory procedures I basic I school; Kauble, an ordnanea school to ba detarminad later through aptitude asts; Chaffea, aircraft maintenance lantryl school; Moss, guided missilas alectrie maintenance repair school; and Powall and Schroadar, motor maintenance helper school. All six scored high in mental acceptance examinations given at the main recruitin-j sta tion in Portland. S. Summoned his new cabinet into a post-midnight meeting; 4. Rescinded the martial law proclamation and curlew exten sion decreed earlier by the pro visional government s ' military cnicl lor Havana province. Urrutia flew to Havana rom Camaguey following a talk with ridel Castro, leader of the upris ing that ousted Dictator Fulgencio tsatista. Castro continued his victory pro cession toward Havana with 3,000 of his guerrilla warriors and new supporters from Batista's military lorccs. tie is expected in Havana Wednesday. Urrutia said the rohcl chief pre fers to remain -outside the cabinet m oiuer mai. ne may ooserve de velopments. . .-.,-,- .... . The President named additional cabinet officers bringing it to 11 members, but still had to appoint ministers of defense, commumca tions and interior. Urrutia also announced his gov ernment would not allow gam bling, which under Batista had grown to a multimillion dollar business carried on largely by American interests. Some elements of confusion re mained in the government setup that probably will' be clarified when1 Castro arrives. The only framework of government in the first few days after Batista s fall was provided by radio announce ments from the rebel leader In Santiago, at the other end of Cuba, The brief period of martial law in Havana province had been de- Detectives Comb Records NEW YORK (UPI (-Detectives seeking kidnaped infant Lisa Rose Chionchio inspected hospital ma ternity records today for the names of women with histories of mental illness whose children re cently died at birth. They were operating on tne tne ory that a mother frustrated over losing her own child had abducted the tiny infant at random from a nursery at St. Peter's Hospital in Brooklyn last Friday night, less than 2'k hours after ber birth. Alarms already were out for two women resembling the heavy-set blonde woman seen leaving the hospital with a "bundle" under one arm shortly before the Chion chio infant was discovered missing. Sought were Mr. Betty Jean Benedicto. .31. ' 8tockton. - Calif., who was convicted of kidnaping baby under similar circum stances in 1955; and a New York woman, a recent patient in a mental hospital, who was report ed missing from her home last Sunday. Neither woman, however, was regarded by police as a genuine tusnect in the mvstery. . The latest clue uncovered In the search was a baby s diaper ac comnanied by a cryptic note, found Monday in the, women's rest room of a Coney Island sub way station. creed Monday by Maj. Camilo Cienluogos, Castro's army-navy chief (or the province, during a dispute with a rival group or reb els over possession of the Presi dential Palace. The rival group, which calls it self the Revolutionary Directorate, is made up mostly of students They had seized the palace right after Batista fled while numerous armed bands were roaming Ha vana. Castro's partisans later restored order in the city but the Revolu tionary Directorate continued to hold the palace and some Batista guards as bargaining points for voice in the provisional govern ment. V. - Oienf oeens ho threatened- f e- sumption of the general strike, and the student group buckled. cleared out of the palace and formed an honor guard for Ur rutia when he moved in. Havana generally was returning to normal. Businesses were open again and services were restored alter the general strike Castro called to consolidate support for Urrutia. Swift military trials were prom ised for more than 1,100 persons jailed since the rebels took power. They include civilians, more than 600 members of Batista's national police and 500 army aviation men. Batista had jailed fliers for refus ing to attack towns harboring reb els; the. fliers now jailed presum ably are accused of carrying out those attacks, which hit civilians as well as rebel soldiers. Five Batista followers are known to have been already executed. SHOOTING HOURS: OREGON. January 7 OPEN CLOSE 7:0$ 4:52 , CALIFORNIA . January 7 OPEN CLOSE 7:04 . 4:50 27 note, suggested withdrawal of all Allied troops from the city. 3. The Soviet Union simply loels the time has come, 13 years alter the end of World War II, to give Berlin a new status. 4. The United States. Britain and France, in replying last week to Khrushchev's note, were remiss in not coming up with some counter proposal which might have provid ed the basis lor negotiation. 5. The Soviet decision to hand Fast Berlin over to East Germany by next May in no way implies a pcace-or-war ultimatum: contin ued free access to Berlin, 110 miles inside Fast Germany, could be arranged, and a role may be lound for thn United Nations to piny in guaranteeing this. We 63-year-oin nimoyan, second n Kremlin power only to Khrush chev, laid these cards on the table replying to questions at a" e!t" clusive dinner given for him by Eric Johnston, president ol tlic Motion Picture Assn., of America. Johnston was apologetic after ward for inviting some newsmen and letting olhcrs shiver outside his swank headquarters In 15-de- grcc temperature. He said the five invited were "personal friends." Hovering outside also were about 50 anti-Communist pickets, refueces from Iron Curtain coun tries. Sparked by former Freedom Fighters in Hungary s anoruve 1957 revolts they brandished plac ards, shook fists and screamed in cadence: "Mik-o-yan the mur-der- er!" Mikoyan and his party, arriving lor the dinner in a Soviet Embassy Cadillac, paid no attention to the pickets. Neither did the 48 other guests, about equally divided be tween State Department officials, congressional leaders, selected newspaiwrnien and business executives. Mikoyan conferred fur 95 min utes with Secretary of State Dul les at the Slate Department Mon day, primarily about Berlin. After ward, he said he will talk about Berlin and other tension topics with President Eisenhower on Jan. 19 or 20. He is due back in Washington Jan. 19 alter visiting several American cities. It was learned ho will fly at 8 a.m. EST Wednes day to Cleveland to confer with industrialist Cyprus Eaton. The American millionaire recently conferred in Moscow with Khrush chev and Mikoyan. After Cleveland. Mikoyan goes Thursday lo Detroit and Friday to i nicago, with stops later at San Francisco. Los Angeles, New York. Boston and Philadelphia. An expected Dallas visit was tenta tively ruled out. Maine Solon Joins Meeting Of Rebellion World News In Ilrief Murder Suspect Held For Court ALTURAS An Alluras man, James Boswoll. 58, has been bound over to the superior court for sec ond degree murder, according to District Attorney Paul Baker. Boswell had been held by the Alturas Police Department on sus picion of assault with a deadly weapon after David Davidson, 35, was shot during a Christmas party at the Davidson home on De cember 26. Davidson died January 3 in a Reno hospital where he was being treated for gunshot wounds, Bv United Press International CUBA Havana Revolution ary government has weathered its first inner crisis. Urrutia now is attempting to cement relations with (he rival faction. MIKOYAN Washington Dul les optimistic that talks with Mik oyan may lead to casing of ten sions. WEATHER Undated The arctic cold wave has relented In the Southwest and Middle West, HOUSE Washington House Republicans claim enough votes to unseat Representative Martin as party leader after two decades In control. LABOR Washington Ray- burn's call for anti-rackcis legis lation hailed by Senate Republi cans as move "long overdue." BALLOON Bridgetown, Bar bados Crew of balloon "small world" says storm forced them to crashland 1,000 miles from Ca nary Islands. DULLES Washington Dulles confined to home with virus in fection but ailment reported not serious. ROCKET London Russian rocket estimated 500,000 miles In space. DAILY NEWS Chicago sale of Chicago Daily News to Sun- Times puts ownership of city's four major dames in nanus ot two owners. KF Man Burned Seriously As Petroleum Can Erupts A Klamath Falls man was very seriously burned and his family imperiled, when a can of petro leum product he was apparently using to start a fire exploded in his hand, just before 11 p.m. Mon day. Opie'(Hay) ward, 25, was in Klamath Valley Hospital Tuesday morning wilh burns on the chest, face and arms. Fire Chief Roy Rowe said that these were third degree burns, though this could not be officially confirmed at the hospital, where authorities said that he was doing "fairly well." According to Iiremen, Ward was in the kitchen of his two-room dwelling at 1723 Oak Avenue. when the product he was using Caught on fire and the can ex ploded. ' Firemen were not able to determine immediately what product Ward was using, but they reported having heard indirectly from Ward that it was kerosene The second room In the dwelling docs not have an outside door, so Mrs. Ward, who was with their two sons in the other room at the time the explosion occurred, had to make her way through the flames, with Stanley A., 2'i, and Richard N., 13 months, in her arms. She reached safety with only second degree burns on her right wrist end on small section of her left hand. The children were uninjured. Ward was able to make his way from the house despite his injuries; a neighbor took him to Klamath valley Hos pital. Another injury indirectly result ing from the fire was sustained by Thomas Runft, 22, who lives in an other building on the same prop erty, which is owned by Neil A Lasher. He dashed from his house to givd a fire alarm and returned to find that his front door was locked and he had no keys. Wor ried about his three children locked in the house, he broke window to get in and had foot cut by falling glass. He was taken to Klamath Valley Hospital by Peace Ambulance and released after treatment. Actually the fire did not spread even to the Joe Birdwcll real dence which is In the same build ing as the Wards'. However, there was considerable damage to the Wards' property, nearly all of which was destroyed by lire or damaged by smoke. Mrs. Ward and her two chil dren spent the night at the neigh boring J. H. Kochlcr residence. Ward, a service station employe, Is the sole support of his family of four. WASHINGTON (AP)-Scn. Mar garet Chase Smith of Maine joined a meeting today ot Repub lican senators in rebellion against a Senate parly leadership they contend Is out ot touch with the times. The group, headed by Sen. - George D. Aiken of Vermont, is backing Sen. John Sherman Coop er of Kentucky for GOP floor lead er over Sen. Everett Dirksen of Illinois. It supports Sen. Thomas II. Kuchel ol California for party whip or assistant leader in suc cession to Dirksen. Kuchel has had some support for whip from among senatori backing Dirksen for floor leader. But Sen. Barry Goldwatcr (R- Ariz) said today he was withdraw ing his support from Kuchel be cause of the California's associa tion with the Aiken group. with Mrs. Smith s arrival the Aiken group mustered an attend ance of 11. They need 18 votea to win since the Senate has 34 Re publican senators. In addition to those present, the insurgonts counted on the vote of Sen. Thrust on B, Morton of . Ken tucky, Cooper's colleague, or the " floor leader's post. Morton has said he would support Dirksen over any one but Cooper. They also claim the vote of Sen. Alexander Wiley ot Wisconsin, who has been unable to attend any of the meetings. in addition to Aiken and Mrs. Smith, the following senators were present: Frank Carlson of Kansas: Jacob K. Javits of New York; Cooper, Kuchel, Prcscott Bush of Con necticut; Hugh Scott of Pennsyl vania; Kenneth B. Keating of New York; Winston L. Prouty of Ver mont and Clifford P. Case of New Jersey. . . ' The Aiken group apparently wai not minded to challenge the re election of three veteran Republi cans leadership posts. Anti-Red Forces Gaining Strength TAIPEI, Formosa (AP) - Antl- Communist forces are gaining strength In the vicinity of Lhasa, capital of Tibet, and in the border area between the provinces ot Kansu and Sinkiang, the Formosa provincial government newspaper Hsin Shcng Pao said today. The newspaper said that mora than 10,000 armed guerrillas were operating in southern Tibet. V'-LV; r , - i I I h VERY SERIOUS BURNS resulted for the father and sole' support of a family of four in this blaze which occurred at II p.m. Monday at 1723 Oak Avenue. Firemen taid Opit I Ray I Ward, the injured man, was apparently using a pe troleum product to start a fire when an explosion occurred. Ward's wife and two children escaped through the flame.
