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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 9, 1959)
Oft',8 HERALD AM) NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON FRIDAY. JANUARY 9, 1959 Gunshots Killed 9, Wounded 57; 1958 Termed State's Vorst Year Br THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Gunshot accidents killed nine hunters and wounded 57 last year ?n Oregon. The Oregon State Game Com ir,ission listed that total today, and called it a bad record; prob auly the worst the state has ever had. Three of the nine who died were killed by their own guns. The others were shot dead by other hunters. The gunshot toll was only part ol the 1958 hunting tragedy. At 'cast eight hunters drowned, three were killed by (ailing trees, one tied m a tall and another suc cumbed after having been lost two days in the woods. At least ten hunters died of heart attacks, presumably due to unaccustomed exertion. The Game Commission centers Its attention on gunshot accidents is the hope of finding patterns that will point the way toward lessening them, in future years. It is in the process now of an alyzing them. It says of the fatal dccidcnts, this is what happened: Harold Dwaine Billineton, 15, was out with a .22 caliber rifle July 1 southeast of Lyons. He saw a snake go under a shovel blade and he used his gun butt to turn ever the shovel. His gun fired as he did so. Martin E. Taylor, 23, walked in to brush on Suavies Island with 1 .22 rifle Sept. 10. A shot was heard, he staggered out and died. Frank Elmer Lane, 15, was shot fatally Oct. 4 when a gun fired et another boy was checking its safety catch. Laurence V. Stalford, 41, was shot near John Day Oct. 18. His two sons, 17 and 18, had -each filed at a deer. One of the bullets k.lied him. Ammon Crice, 59, died Oct. 24 .hree days after being shot by a ftllow hunter near Salem. A man slaughter charge was filed in his (i a til. Gilbert Eugene Blackburn. 58. was hunting elk near John Day. Another hunter saw something move and lircd. Blackburn, ob scured by falling snow, was killed. Ervin Hosford, 64, hunting deer near Corvallis Nov. 15, was in i.e line of fire when two' hunt ers shot. One bullet felled him. Thomas Keller, 16, was hunting elk near Seaside Nov. 29. Another hunter was charged with firing re shot that fatally wounded him. Fred King, 14. set out Dec. 21 with his .22 caliber rifle and his dog. He was found late that day dead from his own gun which fired apparently as he crawled through a fence near Crescent in Kiamath County. It was duck hunting that claimed the lives by drowning. One oierturned boat cost three lives Oct. 14 James Cline, Hal Fur man and the latter's son Hal Jr. ali died in Upper Klamath Lake Two young men died crossing Ne tarts Bay Dec. 24. The others died in separate mishaps. Oddest of the year's casualties were those due to falling trees A windstorm in mid October killed Enoch I. Mcarz, 43, near .Mitchell and Dean Ryan, 40, near Vale, when it brought trees down ci. their camps. A November windstorm toppled a tree on Ches ter McCracken in Wallowa Coun y- . The number of hunters who died of heart attacks is uncer tain. In 1958 as in other years, several died in their camps soon alter the deer season opened Others died after being stricken while in the field. The Game Com mission, regarding these deaths t.s only indirectly due to the sport of hunting, makes no attempt to jist them. SHOOTING MAD CATANIA. Sicily (UPI) - An- rcnio Giufrida, 36, pulled out pistol and started shooting when a truck accidentally overturned his fruit stand Thursday. His four shots missed the truck driver, but one hit Alfio Strano, 35, breaking His collar bone. CONTINUOUS SHOWS SAT. 4 SUN. From 12:45 OPENS TONITE 6t3B Ends SATURDAY! VlEandthe CblPMEC STARTS 3337 ikEEnirjlli wmw 111 DAN OHERLIHY RHONDA FLEMING "f'y'r 'BSjixk. ..... 4 THE KLAMATH FALLS Woman's Library Club will feature the Oregon Centennial Year of 1959 at the Monday, January 12, meeting in the city library. The meeting will begin promptly at 2 p.m. Jim Boyle, OTI, who heads the Centennial plans in Klamath County, the speaker, will be introduced by Mrs. George Clark. Mrs. Walter Badorek, above wearing a costume 100 years old, loaned by Mrs, G. H. Hancock, Klamath Falls pioneer, will sing a medley of old tunes with Mrs. George Mclntyre at the piano. OPEN TONITE 6:30 P.M. Continuous Shows Sat. Ij Sun. from 12:45 P.M. JVrrWTI I fl'rn IrfS O HHN SUON SANOUKE ENDS SATURDAY! MONEY WOMEN annTMNS COIOR KIDDIE MATINEE ' SAT. MORN 9:10 A.M. uSf yAf hum Jut Bring 1 Dondta Brood Wroppor Show Starts t:SJ "HONEY CHILE" And 4 Cartoons Out At Noon STARTS SUNDAY! THIS IS A TRUE STORY! Ta Decks f Jk)J m t Ran -ZJ P i RED je DANDRIDGE CRAWFORD DAYS THAT HOOK'-"""Tt" THE WOHLDI VICTORY SNATCHED Y-' - Flynn Claims Aided Rebels NEW YORK (AP)-Actor Errol Flynn flew in from Cuba Thurs day and scoffed at denials Dy some rebels that he took part in me mountain campaign of viclon ous Fidel Castro. He alighted at Idlewild Interna tional Airport wearing a blue blaz er witn red buttons, blue slacks and carrying a black walking stick. Around his neck he had a black bandana decorated with a number of emblems. Flynn said Castro told him the "emblem was to be the new flae of Cuba when he gave it (the ban dana) to me." The actor said he left Castro Saturday night. Castro made a triumphant entry into Ha vana Thursday. As for reports he was not in the revolutionary campaign, Flynn said: J think it is envy and am mosity. I was the first one there before anyone gave this guy a hope. Flynn said he was in Cuba for two months, most of the time with the Castro forces. The Cuban lead er told him, Flynn said, "that from the morale point of view it 'his being there) helped. Being an American of some prominence this helped these men who had been fighting for 54 years." Hynn reluctantly showed the bandage on his right leg which he said covered a wound he received in the Castro campaign. It i like asking me to show my navel," he said. The actor did not disclose how he had made contact with Castro. He said he received his wound late in December at central Palma sugar mill in Oriente province when a bullet hit a post and then his leg. A few years 'ago, Flynn said, "I became intrigued by the idea that there was an idealist and a fighter" and that since then he had made arrangements to meet Last ro. "This has been a fascinating thing for men," Flynn said. "It is a victory by the people which is outstanding." ' GOOD MEDICINE PARIS (UPI) The newspaper Pans-Presse published a poll to day indicating that 78 per cent of the voters consider President Charles de Gaulle's austerity pro gram unfair to the working man- rut 57 per cent agree it s the medicine -France's tottering econ omy needs. "DENNIS THE MENACE" Wuy of tOOPcf ou rw tav era muniec Dehimis if foi LIKE SPINACH. CARHOTS AND (XTS OF S000. FRESH VVIX,' TO EXTEND DRAFT WASHINGTON (UPI)-A bill to extend the draft another four years will oe the House Armed Services Committee's first order of legislative business this year. A committee spokesman said the bill was expected to pass. The present draft bill expires June 30. SEAMEN STRIKE ENDS ROME (UPI) Italian ships were able to leave for foreign ports today at the end of a one day strike by Italian seamen. PHOTO FINISHING 8 Jumbo Size Prints Only Western 32 Thrift 7th & Main Fire Claims 16 Victims BOSWELL, Okla. (AP)-A pile of ashes and two freshly turned gravesites were all that remained today of Oklahoma's worst resi dential fire. The blaze snuffed out It lives early Thursday. Services were held in the afternoon for the Ne gro victims at the Oberlin Com munity Cemetery 11 miles south of this southeast Oklahoma town. The remains of nine victims were buried in one casket and seven in the other. Booker Gardner, husband of one victim and father of 10 more, was among the 80 persons attending. Killed were his wife, 38: 10 of their children, ranging from 6 weeks to 15 years: three orphaned nieces and two nephews. Gardner, a 45-year-old laborer, had been coon hunting with an other nephew, John Stewart, 15. overnight. He did not learn about the predawn tragedy until several hours later. Women consult physicians mora often than men, especially at the ages of 15 through 44, repprts the Health Information Foundation. GOOD REGISTER NOW FOR J. W. KERNS WHISKERINO BIG PRIZES FOR THE BEST WHISKERS HOOT MON! DO YOUR LAUNDRY ANY HOUR tk't OF THE DAY OR NIGHT and SAVE 50 ON YOUR FAMILY WASH EVERY WEEK! It's New! It's Sensational! It's Revolutionary! Westinghouse .Auuvbiomai STORE 225 So. 6th - Across from Bank of Klamath Falls WASH Pr machine load (9 Ibi.) 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