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PAGE 2 A HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON SUNDAY, JANUARY 11, 1959 International Geophysical Year Scientists Set Traps For Nature By ALTON BLAKESI.EE Associated Press Science Writer NKW YORK AP - Over a luncheon table, Germany'! Dr. Julius Barlels searched a mo ment for the right words: "We set out traps for nature. Then when nature dues something, we often learn her secrets. To Bartels. professor of geomag netism at the University in Goct tingen, this was the essence of the IGY, the 18-month International Geophysical Year which just end ed. It brought the greatest single hunt in history for knowledge about earth, sun, weather, and the new province of space into which humans are eagerly reaching. The traps for nature were tend ed by 30.000 scientists and volun teers from 66 nations in a huge cooperative effort. And nature is yielding a treasury of secrets, fome of them totally unexpected. But the full wealth of meaning and significance must wait until 'sci entists analyze the literally mil lions of observations. The sun, our life-giving star, Was one main focus of IGY. For every minute of 18 months, the sun was under constant watch by 100 observatories around the world. And the sun obliged, stag ing the greatest tunspot activity since 1773. Special rockets soaring up for brief glimpses discovered that flares shoot out great bursts ol X-ravs. X-rays always are beam ing out of the sun. It's the added X-rays from flares which appar ently cause radio fadeouts on earth. For the very first time, rockets reached above obscuring clouds during an eclipse of the sun, learn ng that the solar X-rays stem from the sun s corona or atmos nhere, not its disk. The sun wears a bright X-ray riaio. Other rockets, looking into space with eyes tuned to see only ultra violet light, found that some stars are wrapped with nebulous radia (ion not explainable by the energy the stars are thought to possess. This rocket astronomy, developed by Dr. Herbert Friedman and associates of the Naval Research Laboratory, will greatly enrich knowledge of the heavens. Stock Market Posts Record In First Full Trading Week NEW YORK (UPD Stocks rose to new record highs in the first full week of 1959 in the most ac tive trading since the Thanksgiv ing week. The industrial average closed at 592.72 a new record high, up 5.13 points on the week and at 98.76 per cent of the 600 level. In other words, it has only to rise 1.24 per cent to make 600. That would mean a doubling of the average in 30 years. It closed at exactly 800 on Dec. 31, 1928. At 592.72. industrials are 1,338 per cent above the low of 41.22 set on July 8, 1932, the bottom of the Great Depression. Rails are 1,136 per cent above their low on that day which was a mere 13.23. Rails closed this week at 163.58, up 3.86 points and a new high since Aug. 20. 1956. Utilities closed at 91.77. up 0.55 points and a new high since June 30, 1930. The composite average set a new record' at 206.27, up 2.36 points on the week. The - market rose on Monday and Tuesday, by small amounts. The Tuesday rise was the seventh in a row and these seven sessions added $11 billion to the value of all listed shares. Then profit-taking hit with a vengeance on Wednesday. It knocked industrials down 8.22 points and other groups corres pondingly. The decline attracted Investors who seemed to have Testimony In Beck Trial 'Conflicting' TACO.MA, Wash. (AP.) -Contradictory testimony was intro duced in the Dave Beck income tax evasion trial Friday by a Teamsters' Union attorney who described himself as "a messen ger boy" who never advised union officials about Beck's borrowings. The testimony came from Sam Bassett. attorney for the Western Conference of Teamsters, was in conflict with that given earlier by Teamster official Frank Brewster. Brewster testified he had relied on Bassett's advice concerning Beck's debt when it first became known to them in 1954. Beck, charged with evading pay ment of $240,000 in income taxes, has admitted borrowing $370,000 from the giant Teamsters union he once headed. Bassett denied giving Brewster advice about the loans, lie said the first he learned of Beck's bor rowings was when George Kach lein, lormcr Beck attorney, asked Bassett to look over an accord and satisfaction agreement between Beck and the union for $200,000. Bassctt said he presented t h e agreement to Brewster but d 1 d not make any recommendations. Brewster signed the agreement, Bassett said. Government attorneys presented a number of amended agreements, each raising the $200,000 figure, and asked Bassett to explain them. "I was just a messenger boy between Kachlein and the Western Conference," Bassett replied. Bassett also said he had n o t advised Brewster concerning an audit of the Western Conference books. He told the court he sat in at a meeting at which the audit was decided hut had made no spe cific suggestions to Brewster. barrels of money lo buy common stocks. By the close Friday all the Wednesday loss was recovered and more. This week's market was a real contract with the first one of 1958 In that week sales averaged only 2.230,680 shares daily. Prices de dined with the industrial average finishing off 3.88 points and rails oil 3.37. This week's sales totaled 20.837.601 shares and averaged 4.167,520 shares daily. If the 1959 daily average is kept up the sales lor the year will cross the billion sharo mark, a level hit only in 1929. Market news generally held to the favorable sides. American Telephone reported earnings for 1958. Industry stepped up produc tion with steel output at a 15 month high, auto output well above the previous week and a year ago, and most other statistics making a favorable year-to-year comparison. Foreign developments brought out no untoward incidents and the market completely ignored the new Soviet planet rotating around the sun. Cold weather throughout most of the nation swelled sales of heating oil and gas and sent consumers to the stores for win ter clothing. i Wall Street took President Eisenhower's address on the state of the nation in stride since most of his statements had been anti cipated. Wall Street remains skep tical that the budget can be balanced. About the only untoward inci dent was the practical end of plans to merge the nation's two biggest railroads Pennsylvania and New York Central. This brought some modest selling into Pennsylvania Railroad late in the week. American Telephone & Tele graph was the outstanding per former of the week. It reached a new high since 1930 at 240'4 and closed the week at 239& up 14 '4 points from last week s close. Stockholders will vote on a three- for-one split in the issue recently proposed by the directors. Du Pont, a recent favorite, had a big spill on Wednesday and closed down lt points on the week. Copper and aluminum shares improved. Alcoa rose nearly 5 points and Anaconda gained more than 4. Louisville k Nashville gained 5'4 points and Norfolk & Western 6'i points to feature the railroads. Oils were mixed with Kerr McGee up 5. HIGHWAY WILT TOKYO IAP Communist China has built a 6.336-mile high way network in Fukien province the coastal area facing Formosa, Peiping Radio said today. Another 5,000 miles arc planned for this year. There were more indications that the earth actually swims in the far outer reaches of the sun's atmosphere. ' Rockets flying 50 to 150 miles up found the earth's atmosphere 10 be perhaps 10 times denser at high altitudes than had been ihought, with strong daily and seasonal variations factors in fluencing weather. Paced by Russia's astoundin: putniks, man zoomed into the space age. The dog Laika aboard Sputnik II indicated humans could tolerate the strain of rocket take-off, and the peculiar weightless state of space flying. But a huge surprise was discov ery through U.S. satellites of two Ireat and hazardous bands of radiation ringing the earth at alti tudes of 1,400 to 8.000 miles. They're deadly enough to block space flights, unless man is pro tected, or can pass through auick- ly, or dart through what seem to be holes in the radiation above the earth s poles. This radiation appears to consist of , atomic particles streaming from the sun, then trapped in the eann s magnetic Held. Radiation leaking down from the trap could cause the auroras, and perhaps cause some heating of the carin s aimospnere another fact useful in understanding weather. IGY observations changed the picture of the shape of the earth's magnetic field out in space, and inuicaie me eann olten wheels through curious magnetic clouds, Rockets and satellites measur ing space dust indicated that 3,000 tons of meteoritic dust fall daily upon the earth. The Russians said it might be as much as a million tons a day. Vanguard the little Branc fruit-sized satellite turns out to be one of the most useful space voyagers. Swinging far out in a hichlv laiiniui omit, it is so nrec se n its journey that it is being used in piace oi stars to get accurate navigational "fixes" on earth, and to check guidance instruments and devices at missile test centers. mining lainy soon are weather satellites which ran track hurricanes, take a global view to tell man what is coming in cli mate, urougnts or Moods, he n de- termine whether the earth is warming or cooling. Telescopes mounted nhnarH sal. ellites will fathom mysteries of stars, planets and universe. And man's next great communications system probably will be a ornnn ot special 'satellites relaying mes sages from earth back to any uiner piiice on carin. . To all this, it was the IGY which opened tne door. Society Planning Centennial Lunch An Oregon no - host Centennial birthday dinner, to be held in the Winema Hotel on Saturday. Febru ary 14. is being planned by the Klamath County Historical Society. Dinner time has been set for 6:30 p.m. in the banquet room. Tickets will be $2 per plate. Paul Ucllcr heads the society as 1959 president . The public is invited and Anna- belle Newton, dinner chairman, ex pressed the hope that organizations of the Klamath Basin will take part in the dinner to assure the state Centennial Year of Oregon a success. An interesting program is planned with an out-of-town speak er who is familiar with all phases ol Oregon history. A Centennial birthday cake will be an appropriate part of the dec orations, marking Oregon's admis sion lo the Lmon on rcbruary 14. lt'4P which gives it the right to be known as the Valentine slate. Guests will be greeted by host esses gowned in authentic cos tunics ot that period. Since only 125 persons can be accommodated in the Winema ban quet room, reservations should he made early by phoning. TU 2-4181. TU 4-7618 or TU 4-5704. line Ready To Get Planes Wim Arjain WASHTMr.mv fAm A : .- iu - mnuil- can Airlines prepared Saturday to bci us pianes oacK in the air as Union rhlPfc nnllinroH in nn.ii.u iu atl uii ail agreement to end the bi gairlinc's ii-nay puois strike. Anticipating speedy ratification, American began recalling rur loughed employes and made nlans to resume nn,Mntinne Cunrl..., Federal mediators said although mere was a cnance of a hitch they didn't expect any. A Settlement in nrinr-inln nt lhn disntltc between American anH ii,r Air Line 1'ilols Assn. was an nounced Friday by federal media tors. The union promptly summoned us 4-man master executive com mittee to meet here Saturday lo aw on the nsreement No details were announced ncnH. ing agreement on specific con tract language. American's strike invnlvoH proximately 1.500 pilots and co- puois ana resulted in the furlough ing earlier this week of some ?n jotlfl other employes. . 1 he chief issue was wacns Pt-iv Strike Dilots' Dav ranpivt frnm tjnn to $1,600 a month. The new con tract was expected to boost them to a ton rate of about inn a month for senior pilots on new jet airliners wnicn American hopes to put in service shortly. In the past three months, strikes nave grounoea lour ol tne nation s five biueest domestic irlinn Capital Airlines was idle fnr 17 "i uciooer ana ,ovcmner as a result ot a mechanics walkout. on .Nov. 23, Trans World Air lines WHS forced nilt nt nnnrvitinn when its enninri rreus timrii it resumed flights on Dec. 8 after tne aisptite was settled. On Nov. 24. Eastern Air Lines was struck by flight engineers and mecnanics. r.asiern didn t aloft until .Ian 1 The only one of the domestic Big five lo escape any shut down was United Air Lines. The WalkoulK ftprmiKlv rticrnnl ed transportation facilities during the Thanksgiving and Christmas nonnays Quick Drawer Hits Self Again LEXINGTON. Ky. (Api-Bruce Black may not draw fast, but he sure shoots fast. That's the trouble. The 23 year-old quick-d raw practitioner was hospitalued Fri day for the second time within a year lor a bullet wound in the right leg. "DENNIS THE MENACE" ' Hi ! I'M NOT LOCKED IH THERE ANYMORE . I SOT OUT THE WINDOW' Yreka Grade School Gets New Look As Town Center YREKA The old Fourth Street Grammar school in Yreka is beginning to take on a new look as the result of work per- tormea by members ol several organizations, who are in the pro cess of rehabilitating the old building into a Yreka Community Center. Dimes Drive Underway In Yreka Area YREKA Leonard N. Kohn of Mount Shasta, Siskiyou County chairman of the March of Dimes campaign, announced January 5, the appointment of Robert J. Oh- Itind of Yreka as the chairman for the Yreka area, which includes Montague, Grenada, Hilt and Hornbrook. Ohlund said that the campaign is already underway, and will continue on through January. He also slated that this year the foundation has taken on the ad ditional chore of fighting virus diseases, arthritis, birth defects, as well as polio. Plans for the campaign will in clude placing of contribution cans in the various stores and business establishments throughout the Yreka area, a Block of Dimes. and a mothers house-to-house march, with assistance from local civic organizations. Olson further stated that "The people of the Yreka area can look back with pride at recent -March of Dimes campaigns when we do nated over $10,000 annually through the March of Dimes radio auction. Let us not slow our progress to ward medical progress and public education, at a time when there is still much help needed." A meeting nf interested runriy. spnlfltives frnm V a r i n n c fit.,, groups was neia on January 6 in the nffiro nf J .an WnrtnrA kla,viMh National Forest dispatcher, who nas oeen one ot the main instiga tors nf the nrniprt Ho ic n mom bcr of the custodial committee. During the meeting the group dis cussed various plans, and decided that a board of directors be chosen, hvlaws aHnntoH thornhu estaDiisning a permanent organi- .uiuii to improve ana maintain the old school building. Morford reported on work by memDers ot tne Yreka Kiwanis Club, Yreka Girl and Boy Scouts and the Teen flnh Thnvo am - portion of the groups that hope to use tne recreation center as a meeting place. MnrfnrH stnlpH thai lha Pn Scouts have completed the financ ing and repair ot the three big outside doors of the building. Girl Senilis havn (.nmnlnlorl uinrli- in several rooms which included the nanging ot fireproof curtains. Members of the Kiwanis Club have undertaken the job of re pairing the sanitation facilities. The Teen Club has raised $300 toward the wiring and painting. MnrfnrH rnmmpnriVH tli Toon Club members, and said the com munity Should sunnnrt the vnnno. sters as they had taken on a big oro cct in re urbishin? the anri . torium. Those attending the meeting last Tuesday evening included Mrs. J. Deter. Girl Scnllt 1-nnrncnntatiirA. L. B. Hastings, representative for the Boy Scouts: Mrs. Rosalie Friedman Vreka rlmnntarv School PTA: Thomas W. George and P. M. Vizzi, Yreka Rock and Mineral Chin- Devtpr Tnwnvitlp Teen Club; and Floyd Tavlor T. M. Deter and Morford of the custodial committee. Senator Backs Educational TV WASHINGTON (AP)' - Demo cratic Sen. Warren G. Magnuson introduced a bill Friday to author ize an appropriation up to a mil lion dollars to each state and ter ritory for the construction of edu cational television stations. A similar measure proposed bv the Washington senator passed the Senate last session but died in the House. Arrest Driver; Too Few Chains MOUNT SHASTA- Howard L. Washenburgcr of Milwaukie, Ore gon, was given a citation January 5 by California Highway Patrol officers when his truck, loaded with shingles, overturned at the McCloud River Railway cross ing north of Mount Shasta. The Oregon man did not have his semi-trailer equipped with chains in a mandatory zone. The driver thought chains on his truck sufficed. He was not injured. New Officers Selected By Artists Group YREKA Mrs. Calla Lukes of Fort Jones was chosen as presi dent ot the Siskiyou Artists As sociation for the coming year. Other officers elected to serve with Mrs. Lukes included Mrs. Lucile Townley of Montague, vice president: Mrs. Barbara Thomp son, yreka, secretary; hen True love, Grenada, treasurer; Mrs. Margaret iMeg) Chandlee of Ash Creek, historian: and Mrs. Betty Dow of Montague, publicity director. The slate, was presented to the members by Mrs. Roy Dunham of Yreka, who was chairman of the nominating committee. She was assisted by Mr. and Mrs. Sedg Nelson of Montague, and Mrs. Mae Stevens of Yreka. Plans for the installation of new officers will be made soon. The ceremony will take place during the March meet ing. Also during the meeting, which was conducted by Mrs. Dunham vice president, Mrs. Lukes told the group that Ernest Van Harling scn of Sacramento will appear as guest speaker for the April meet ing. Van Harlingsen is the director of West Coast Public Relations for Mr. Grumbackcr. Mrs. Chandlee was unable to be present to give a report on her inquiry as to whether the artists association would be able to secure Mrs. Dunham announced that the artists association will meet at 2 p.m. on Sunday, February 1 for its next meeting. 4-H NEWS MERRY COOKERS MERRILL The Merry Cookers met at the Merrill Recreation Hall and made hot cocoa and served it with crackers. Kathy Brooks and Mrs. Lisk were absent. Janelle Wil son suggested each girl bring an apron. Our next meeting will be Janu ary 13. We plan to make cookies. We also plan to hold all of our meetings at the Merrill Recreation Hall. We have two new mem bers, Nancy Kandra and Mary Van Meter. Janelle Wilson, News Reporter Anglo-Egyptian Talks Resumed CAIRO (AP) - Five British of ficials arrive in Cairo by air Sat urday to resume financial talks with Egypt which may ultimately lead to a resumption of diplomatic relations. The talks on clearing up finan cial repercussions of the 1956 Suez war had broken down earlier. Stamp Act TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - Elm- hurst Elementary School has found an economical way to get out notices for Parent-Teacher Assn. meetings. On the day of each meeting, as the pupils leave school, teachers rubber stamp their hands with the notice, P.T.A. tonight. Altar Society Introduces New Officers MERRILL New officers wer introduced by retiring president Mrs. Don Ratliff during a meet ing of St. Augustine's Altar Soci ety held Wednesday afternoon, Jan uary i, at in parish hall. The new president is Mrs. Lea McKoen. Other officers are Mrs. Joan McAuliffe, vice president; and Mrs. Jim Shuck, secretary- treasurer. Plans were made for the servina of breakfast to Holy Name Society members and families following the 8 a.m. Mass on Sunday. Janu ry 11. The breakfast committea includes Mrs. Jim Shuck. Mrs. .lack Hickey, Mrs. John Madden, Mrs. Joan McAuliffe and Mrs. Wal ler Wilson. Members were reminded that dues are due. The secretary was instructed to purchase necessary bookkeeping supplies. On display was the new paschal candle holder recently purchased (or the church by the Altar Society. Prior to the meeting, 20 mem bers enjoyed a potluck luncheon. Hostesses were Mrs. Mike Noonan, Mrs. Don Ratlifr. Mrs. Robert Pet rik, Mrs. Lee McKoen, Mrs. Bill Gasser, Mrs. John O'Ncil, Mrs, Johnny O'Ncil and Mrs. James Graham. The next scheduled meet ing is Wednesday, February 4. be ginning with a 1 p.m., potluck luncheon. A pectoral cross is a golden cross worn on the breast by bishops. awawja. today nimmmssmm j ilBIMSIo AJ V SttnnNG DAN RHONDA EFREM O'HERLIHY FLEMING -ZIMBALIST.jr. TV fWw - - 1 DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD! of the most infamous, dialolically cunning 1 D ' crime in the annals of maritime history! fln oilkmW sum- .ir mmi h jWm . . - .xmm-J-J l jT vVpr' st, XLj FEATURE JAMES MASON-DOROTHY DANDR1DGE -BR0DER1CK CRAWFORD fA
