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.
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!!!!!!!!
???"$$$!!
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?
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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
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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.
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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.