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Mew Ambassador Sought Price Five Cenls 16 Pages KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1959 Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 6291 . In The i Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS . The firing squad shootings in Cuba continue, and revulsion against them grows. What shall we do about it? Here's a thought: Until they start SHOOTING AMERICANS, I think maybe we'd better keep our hands off. Every time Uncle Sam plays the role of Aieaaiesome Maine in intcrnation al affairs, he gets his fingers burned. I think we might profitably con (ider for a moment today the case of Mrs. Anna Wasylkow, a civilian clerjt in the navy, who answered the office phone ONE MINUTE AFTER CLOSING TIME and got into deep hot water as a result, It happened like this: The clock struck quitting time. She put on her coat. The phone rang. Instead of ignoring it, she answered it. Trouble started the next day. Her immediate superior called her on the carpet for dis regard of regulations. Two weeks later, she was repri manded by the superior next high est up the totem pole and told that if she did such a thing again within a year her "repetition of the offense might result in appli cation of higher penalties." The reprimand was a black mark on her record and as long as the black mark was there she would have trouble obtaining promotion, So she APPEALED. On the first level, her appeal was denied and she was told she was GUILTY OF INSUBORDINATION. That got her dander up. So she appealed to the secretary of the navy, Mr. Thomas Gates, who quashed the charges against her and sent her back to work with a pat on the back for doing her work as a good and faithful ser vant should. Comment? Well, thank the Lord, SOME BODY had some sense. Congratulations, Mr. Gates. Continuing this symposium on human problems, a 20-year-old for mer mental patient admitted to Sacramento police last night that he shot his parents to fleam he- cause "they made me practice 10 hours a day on the accordion. He said he shot his father with a pistol as the father was sitting in an armchair in the living room. and then shot his mother in the back of the head as she fled from the room. What to do in such cases? Well, the problem has been with us a long time. Cro-Magnon man, according to records in caves in the south of France, put all imperfect infants to death, the idea Being improve ment of the race. That may have been as long as a million years aso. - More recently say a couple of thousand years ago the Spartans exposed imperfect children, along with the old and the infirm, on the mountain tops. They, too, were seeking improvement of the race. It isn't the intention of this piece to endorse these older methods. They are cited merely to prove that the problem is an old one. is,,', i. . , . jr " HEADING the Klamath County Medical Society for the coming year will be this ilate of new officers elected at a recent meeting. Shown during their Tuesday evening meeting at the Willard Hotel, seated, left to right, are Dr. William Holford Jr., president, and Dr. E. E. Howard, secretary. Standing is Dr. E. H. Evenson, treasurer. Not shown is Dr. Robert Payne, vice president. Jobless Paychecks Halted; Officials Reverse Decision Seven thousand jobless Oregon ians, including some 180 in Klam ath County, awoke to a rude shock Friday morning. Officials in Salem who had said yesterday that unemployment compensation checks would be delivered to these claimants today despite the fight over who is Oregon's secretary of state, changed their minds dur ing the course of the night. lhe action, apparently the re sult of a close count of funds on hand, was announced by Governor Mark Hatfield, who said that de- Dad Nabbed After Chase PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) - man who had his two sons in his car with him fought a running gun battle with police before he finally was captured early today after a chase that led over 100 miles of Oregon highway at speeds from 75 to 90 miles an hour. State police said George Edward Durfee, 36, Walla Walla,, defied a Umatilla, Ores, police chief who1 attempted to arrest him, ex changed shots with officers and sped through three roadblocks be fore he was captured. Durfee, i according to police, finally was halted when his car smashed into a log roadblock at The Dalles. He suffered a skinned forehead and the children James 12, and William, 5 months suf- OPEN SEASON Klamath Basin hunters nerd not put the old gun away for another few days, according to federal game officers. The root season, in boih Ore gon and California, ia still open through next Friday, : January 23. The daily bag limit and pos session limit is 25 birds. A current hunting license Is required but no migratory bird stamp is needed to shoot the edible, meaty little birds which abound in the area. Cubans Hail Reb Warning To America lhans astro Indian Loan Plan Mulled WASHINGTON (AP) A loan program to tide withdrawing members of the Klamath Trib over until tribal assets have been liquidated is under consideration by the Interior Department. Sen. Ncuberger 'D-Orel said today he was advised by Roge1- Ernst of the Interior Department that credit regulations have been approved to permit non-interest loans to members ol not less than one-quarter Indian blood This would cover some 1,65!) members planning to withdraw from the tribe as the government ends its supervision. , Congressional approval, how ever, would be required lo make loan money available to 253 other withdrawing Indians of less than one quarter Indian blood. Loans would be made from tribal funds and be secured by pledges of bo--rowers' interest in tribal property to be sold. Ncuberger, chairman of the Sen ate Indian Affairs subcommittee, cairl hn tine acbat,tho nnurlmnnt livery of compensation checks had i ,,) jratt r naroium Wi-.. been stopped effective from 8 a.m. iati0n lo Congress for early '"""J- acton. The state employment office in Klamath Falls had received an or der on Thursday morning from R. F. Baxter, slate supervisor of unemployment benefits, counter manding his order of the day be fore which had stipulated that no checks dated January 13 or later were to be delivered to the job less. Yesterday morning's commu nication directed the local office to "pay as usual," and inquiries in Salem revealed that the unemploy ment compensation commission had found sufficient' resources a' continue payments through the, end ot trie week. However, Jack E. Benner of the Klamath Falls employment office was awakened at midnight by a phone call from Salem, where of ficials were again examining the question. Apparently it revealed that the commission did not have sufficient resources to meet to day's checks. As a consequence. Benner said the local office will operate exactly as usual, except that checks will not be delivered to claimants. This means that persons drawing unemployment compensation are expected to observe their usual report days and to fill out what ever forms are normally required The checks are being made up as usual, but they will not be de livered until funds are made available. The blockage of funds is due solely to the fact that no legal de cision has been reached in the con troversy in which Governor Mark Dulles, Mikoyan Hold Meet In Try To End Berlin Woes fered only minor cuts and bruises Durfee was taken to the Uma- Hatfield and Howell ADoline. his tilla County Jail at Pendleton, (appointee as secretary of state, are cnargea witn assault wun a aeau-i0pposed to Attorney General Hob ly weapon. He said he was rush ing the children to a doctor at The Dalles, but police say a doc tor who examined them could find nothing wrong with either. Police Chief Louis "M. Colcord of Umatilla said he stopped Dur fee after the Walla Walla, Wash POOR BACHELORS ' MANILA (UPI) Bachelor po licemen in the town pf Caloocan near Manila paid dearly today for their single blessedness. A fund eV,nri Pnliro Dpnartment fired them because "they don't havelman sped through town at about I authority of either of the two men families to support. '75 miles an nour. appoimea secretary ui sune. ert Y. Thornton and David O'Hara appointed secretary of state by Robert D. Holmes, former gover nor. The secretary of state must sign warrants for withdrawal of funds deposited with the state treas urer. and the treasurer, Sig Unan der, has refused to' recognize the Test Results Still Pending CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) The Air Force has taken anoth- shot at the intercontinental range barrier wun Atlas, tne most powerful missile in the U S arsenal. - - .-. - The 80-foot war" rocket roared through a mass of IcV hanging clouds on what appeared to be a beautiful , start Thursday night, but hours later there still was no word on the results of the spec tacular test. . An announcement from Wash ington was expected on whether the giant rocket matched the first ocean spanning 6,000 mile success last Nov, 28. ' The fiery blastoff was the 18th in the nation's ambitious' ICBM development series which reached a high point Dec. 18 when a 4t4 ton Atlas "chatterbox" satellite plopped into orbit around the globe. ! - The Atlas moon, which relayed back President Eisenhower's "peace on earth" greeting during the Christmas holidays, now is si lent and is expected to burn up in the earth's atmosphere within the next five days. Thursday night's missile gleamed in the rays of floodlights for about a half hour and then thundered toward space at 11 p.m The Atlas, with three engines blazing out 360,000 pounds of thrust, knifed through the clouds with a brilliant white glow and disappeared in 50 seconds. That was the start of a 16,000 m.p.h. flight through space, reach ing the target area in less than 30 minutes if all went well. HAVANA. Cuba AP Cuba hailed rebel leader Fidel Ca: today for his warning against U. S. meddling in the revolution ary war crimes trials. Newspapers gave it front:nace play along with a declaration by Asst. secretary of State Roy Ru bottom that the United States is not going to intervene. Both Castro and Provisional President Manuel Urrutia said Cuba wants cordial relations with its big neighbor to the north, but not at the price of halting execu tions because of American criti cism. Fresh shootings brought the death roll of the firing squads to 200. Raul Castro, younger brother of the civil war victor, said four mass graves had been found in Oriente province with bodies of 182 persons killed by Batista's followers. The government announced it will press for the extradition of deposed President Fulgencio Ba tista and return of the aircraft in which he and his close associates fled to the Dominican Republic New Year's Day. The revolutionary military in telligence service charged Batista was trying , to " organize an , ex peditionary force in the Domini can Republic and in Guatemala to attack Cuba. Castro warned Thursday against any U.S. intervention to stop ex ecutions ordered by military courts for murder and torture during Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship. If the United States comes here, we will make trenches in the streets," the rebel leader told the Havana Rotary Club. The State Department said in Wash ington that American policy was "strictly noninlervcntional in Cuban domestic affairs. Noting some U.S. congrcssion WASHINGTON (API Anaslas, I. Mikoyan and Secretary of Slate Dulles met today for talks on the East-West deadlock over German unification and the luture of dis puted Berlin, Their discussion could lead to an early, hiqh level East-We ;l meeting on lhe whole range of German problems. Today's session the second dur ing Mikoyan's two-weeks visit lo this country was described by diplomats as strictly a probing operation with each ot the veteran antagonists of the cold war seek' ing to discover possible weakness es or concessions in the policies of the other. Mikoyan, No. 2 man in lhe Sovi et Union, arrived at the State De partment in a Soviet Embassy limousine. On a nearby corner half-a-dozen Hungarian pickets displayed their nation's flag with a black rihhon of mourning. The leader was Fer- enc Nagy, Hungary s last non Communist prime minister who has been in exile since 1947, Masked Thief Robs Grocery By TOM STIMMEL A bold bandit masked tn a wom an's stocking robbed an East Main Street grocery of $1S Thursday evening and escaped alter shutting the proprietor in a meat cooler. City police said the bandit'': method of operation was similai and his description "fairly close' to that of a stocking-masked rob tier who stole $107 from a gasoline station Sunday evening. Police already have questioned several suspects, and have alerted other points by teletype, but so far they haven t located the, man who walked into Fran's Food Store. 147 East Main Street, at 6:17 last evening and conducted his business with professional aplomb. The bandit rang up the letter al protests to the executions. Asst. "M" and the figures "$7.70" on Secretary of Stale Roy Rubottom lhe cash register and withdrew said. "We are not going to inter-1 $169.2!), most of it in 20, 10 and vene in what is essentially Cuba's five dollar bills, halt dollars and affairs." quarters. To avoid misunderstanding, the ny ,rra"cs. u,rDm.; lne ing to his wite on the phone when the man entered the store. There wore no customers present. The man walked up to the coun ter, separating him from Durbin leveled a pistol at Durbin's head, and ordered: "Hangup!" Durbin told police he thought the man despite the gun and stock ing mask was joking. Another quick motion of the gun and an other command: "Hang it up, get your hands up, and head for the cooler," convinced Durbin there was no joke. Durbin marched toward the cool er, got in as ordered, and said the bandit followed him in. Don t hit me in the head." Dur bin pleaded. Okay, the bandit agreed, "but don't leave the cooler." The bandit left the cooler, shut the door, and rang up his $7.70 "sale" on the cash register. Durbin said his captor returned to the cooler three times, each lime opening the door to assure Durbin he still was in the store. Then he left, Durbin has no idea when, and the store was empty. A small boy, identified by po lice as Kenneth Free, 137 Morti mer Street, came in the slore to (Continued on Page 4) As the two men met lodav Dulles wanted lo know primarily whether the soviet government is prepared to enter into serious negotiations later this year look ng toward an eventual German siillomciit. Mikoyan presumably was anx ious to find out whether the United -Hates has any counter proposals to make lo recenl Soviet demands for withdrawal of Western forces from West Berlin and for an early start on writing a German peace treaty. Mikoyan told a New York news conference Thursday his country still wants a summit conference on world problems. He said the West cannot sidesten one forever He expressed interest in Dulles' talement Tuesday that free elec tions were not the only way to reunify Germany. But he contend ed that Dulles "did not come up with a constructive alternative to the Soviet plan. Dulles modified his news con ference remark a bit, saying through a spokesman that free elections aftord the most natural and practical method. But his mention of possible other meth ods his first, such suggestion in years could introduce a degree of flexibility in the U.S. position in case the Russians seriously want to negotiate. State Department officials said Mikoyan s cross-country tour ap pears to have been a great suc cess from the Soviet viewpoint. But they have found little evi dence of a real Soviet willingness to make any concessions to solve the East-West dispute over Ger many. Dulles cleared his calendar to resume the talks in the afternoon if necessary. The two will dine to gether tonight. Mikoyan is scheduled lo talk with President Eisenhower and Dulles at the White House Saturday. Some U.S. authorities said that if he had any startlingly new proposition to put forth he might spring it at that lime. But many in the Slate Department Believe that he probably had no such sur prise to produce. Solons Push Naming Aide To Havana U.S. Navy canceled previous plans for 3,000 U.S. Marines en route to maneuvers near Puerto Rico to stop at the- American Navy base at..-Uuamanamo Bay,- tuna, Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Partly cloudy tonight. Sat urday cloudy probably followed by rain and strong southerly winds. Low tonight 30-38; high Saturday 46-52. High yesterday 45 Low last night 32 Prcclp. last 24 hours 0.01 Since Oct. 1 2.21 Same period last year 8.46 Normal for period 5.81 CRATER LAKE High yesterday 4' Low last night 31 8 a.m. today 38 No new snow Snow depth 32 Last year .: 107 Snow is wet for skiing In the park. Skies were heavily overcast this morning and It was misting. Roads are open and no chains re quired. Chains were advised this morning, however, from park head quarters to the rim on account of ice on the highway. The warming hut is expected to be open on Sat urday and Sunday. Snowfall so far this season totals 132 Inches, com pared with a total of 263 Inches on this dale last year. The wind was calm this morning. 1 TOUR LATIN AMERICA LONDON (UPI) - The Duchess of Kent and her daughter Princes'; Alexandra fly to Mexico City Feb. 11 to start a tour of Latin Amer ica, it was announced at their residence, Kensington Palace. U.S. Reveals i MMscovery WASHINGTON ' 'AP) - United Slates has achieved a sig nificant breakthrough in develop ment of a small atomic device for production of electricity The White House announced the spectacular development, . termed a major achievement by Atomrc Energy Cpmmission officials. Newsmen were told of it after President Eisenhower had con ferred wilh John A. McCone, the AEC chairman. AEC officials, displaying a mod el at a news conference, said the device is capable of powering the instruments in a satellite, for ex ample, for at least a year. They said it would take 1,450 pounds of batteries to produce thy electrical energy the new device can power without batteries. The device generates heat, us ing a radio isotope polonium in this case and has no moving parts. The device so far has been test ed only on the ground. But AEC officials made it clear that it could be put into satellites shortly. They said it also has other potential uses, such as in the field of navi gation aids. Comparing the device with pres ent means of electrical power di velopmcnt, AEC officials said the 4 14 ton Atlas which this country recently put into orbit around the earth carried 20 pounds of bat Isrics which lasted only 18 days The officials said the new device in contrast, could generate powc for at least a year. WASHINGTON (AP)-Concres- sional pressures mounted todav (or the prompt naming of a new U.S. ambassador to Cuba, where he revolutionary government savs it plans more executions. Demands for a new ambassa. dor lo replace Earl E. T. Smith who resigned last Saturday came with strong congressional criti cism of the executions as develop- ments pnea up on several fronts: 1. The State Department as sured Congress it is standing pat on its policy of not interfering in the affairs of its neighbors. It de nied charges (he United States had given military heln to ousted Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. permission was given to Batista's wife to visit her sick daughter in the United States. 2. The Navy ordered a task group that includes 3,000 Marines diverted from an intended stop at Cuba "to avoid any misunder standing. " 3. Rebel leader Fidel Castro said he wants good relations with the United Slates, but cautioned against any U.S. intervention in Cuba. Castro vowed 200,000 gringos (U.S. citizens- will die if Marines are sent to Cuba. 4. Batista charged executions by Castro's rebels are "perverse attempts to justify their crimes." He denied he used torture meth ods during the revolution. The call for prompt naming of a successor to Smith, who was in disfavor wilh the rebels, was spearheaded by Sens. Wayne Morse (D-Orc) and John Spark man (D-Ala) after Asst. Secre tary of State Rdy R. Rubottom talked with congressional leaders. "The most important thing we can do now," Morse said, "is to get an ambassador there. Steps are being taken quickly to accom plish that end. That will give us a direct line of contact with the Cuban government to make clear our point of view." Morse said negotiations on the ambassadorial level would be much better than formal notes from this government. Sparkman agreed that the im portant thing is to speed up the appointment ot a new ambassa dor. He added he feels any dras tic action n0Ainnt thft new ffnvprn- Thelment ."would be premature at this time. Sparkman, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Latin American subcommittee which Morse heads, said "we should continue to use our good offices to persuade the new government to pursue a course of moderation and judicial procedure." Rubottom met with the Senate and House Foreign Affairs sub committees in closed-door sessions. World News In Brief United Press International MIKOYAN - Washington-Dul les , and Mikoyan get down - to brass tacks in discussions on whether there is any- hope for uniting Germany and ending the arms race.- CUBA Havana The mass exe cution of Batisla supporters has led to congressional demands for . U.S. action to halt the shootings. QUEEN London Queen s at torneys may get into open court to block publication of intimate fam- ly secrets by former castle su perintendent. SLAYING St. Louis Hus band charged with mutilation slay ing of wife when missing earrings ' were found by police in coat pock et. ! 1 " i p. rL i vi AUATM FALLS FIRST NEW FIRE TRUCK since 1952 ar rived this week, and three city firemen, Jim Brown, Bill Ackermaf) and Ralph Edwards, volunteered to hefp in the unloading, which took place at the ramp off South Sixth Street in Thunday morning's freeiing rain. Photographer Don Kettler recorded these stages of the operation: I. Aelierman, standing, and Edwards pried up the lix-ineh blocks which, along with steel U-bolts extending through the floor of the car over the axles, held the truck in place during its journey from the Elmira, New York, factory, 2. Edwards guided the manufacturer's field serviceman, Ralph V, Vantuyl of Seattle, as he drove the truck out of the boxcar and onto the ice-slick ramp, while chilly Fire Chief Roy Rowe watched. J. Chief Rowi end Vantuyl were in good spirits once the truck had reached terra firma. 4. Edwards was the first to examine the gleaming control board of the new machine. Known as No. 7, the new truck is a "triple combination" (pumper, tank and hose earl, with a pumping capacity of 1,000 gallons a minute. The fire department has two more pumpers with the same capacity, and one 500-gallon unit, for a total 'i capacity of 3,500 gallons minute. The fifth unit it the aerial truck, and the department also carries a pickup and a sedan on its roster. The new truck replaces an unusable ladder truck, dating from 1931, for which the city received trade-in credit of $1,100. Other economies brought the net cost of the truck te $14,525 approxi mately $2,000 lest than list price. ' ! i ':
