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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 :
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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.
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worn on the breast by bishops.
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