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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.
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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,
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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
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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.
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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.
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