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u.c? cjr.Li2A:;f t;o.iSPA?3 SECTION G.-i.nsF.AND cocuuz.-irs DIV. la The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS This modern world note: First Deputy Premier Mikoyan. when he returned to Moscow from the United States, was welcomed by a crowd of Russians who were in a holiday mood and GREET ED HIM IN ENGLISH and asked his son about Marilyn Monroe. Languages! - They're SO important in this modern world in which NO SPOT ON EARTH is much more dis tant in time than the average county scat used to be from the average American. ' All aulhoritics agree that Rus sians are going in for English s'aidy in a big way. It is probable fhat not one American in 100 thousand has even a rudimentary knowledge of the Russian 1 a n guagc. This tends to HANDICAP us in our relations with Russia. Another language incident: Congressman Porter of Oregon . is in Cuba as an observer of the disturbances there. The dispatch es report that he is in more or less constant contact with Fidel Castro, the leader of the Cuban revolution. He shares press con ferences with Castro. He was a guest the other night at a party in Castro s hotel suite. He has been invited to attend (lie trials of the Batista adherents who face war criminal charges and see and hear at first hand what is going on. He is not at tending. "Although I'm a lawyer," he explained to the correspondents, "I don't speak Spanish. So there would be no point in my attend ing the trials." . When young Charles Porter' was going up through the Eugene school system not too many years ago, it never occurred to him that the time might come when Span ish would be IMMENSELY use ful to him. . But That time has- arrived. He prob ably wishes fervently that he had spent more time in language study. In this modern world when distance is being annihilated that time will come to MANY an American. In the older days, lan guage study was admittedly frill. '- In these days, it is coming to be a necessity. One more thought: Where language study is of fered, it tends to be offered in the high schools and the colleges That is good. But it would be FAR BETTER if language study began far down in the grades perhaps as early as the second srade.-.- ' '.'-... If reasonable fluency is to be achieved, a foreign language must be learned when young as one acquires fluency in one s own tongue. i Miners Trapped mm By Swollen River j TiMnnaTTTinnMnfnTinmnfTirrrriMiwHWBBBBMiiMBB Price Five Cents H Pages PITTSTON, Pa. (UPI) Hope for 1! coal miners trapped under ground by a flooding river col lapsing Into their tunnelingt faded today as the waters barred en trance to the mines "for at least 48 hours, If then." Daniel H. Connelly, stale deputy secretary of mines, said rescuers can make no search for the en tombed men until water from the ire - clogged Susquehanna River can be blocked off. PITTSTON, Pa. AP) - Crews tried today to stop the rain- swollen Susquehanna River from pouring its freezing waters into a nearby anthracite mine where 12 miners were either trapped or drowned. Thirty-three other miners es caped a watery tomb when the Mark Names State Aid : SALEM AP Secretary of State Howell Appling Jr. today named Harold F. Phillippe, for many years head of the state de partment's accounting division, as assistant secretary of state. - Dale Mallicoat, administrator with the Tax .Commission, was named Appling's administrative assistant. The selections were made to fill the vacancies created when Gov. Mark Hatfield, former secretary M state, took his key aides with him to the governor s office. Floyd J. Gould, assistant di rector of the audit division, was moved into Phillipe's spot as di rector of the accounting division : Appling didn't appoint the di rector of the elections division to replace Freeman Holmer, now state director of finance and administration. Phillipe, 56. has been head of the accounting division for 29 years. He started in state service in 1923. Mallicoat is 41. He has worked for the Tax Commission since 1952. Citizen Feted By Lakeview LAKEVIEW W. H. "John" Buell received the award as sen ior citizen and Erwin "Frosty" Abramson for junior citizen of 1958 at the annual banquet of the Lake County Chamber of Com merce held Tuesday evening at Van's restaurant. The occasion was also the installation of the new officers of the chamber for 1959. Senior Citizen Buell, now re tired from the banking business, was formerly manager of the lo cal branch, and assistant vice president of the First National Bank of Oregon. His civic activi ties include membership on the fair board, three years as chair man of the Rotary Club junior auction sale, director and past president of Rotary, honorary member of FFA, and past chair man of civic defense activities for the county. He has also been active in United Fund work, and was chairman of the fund drive last year. Abramson's activities include di rector of the chamber of com merce, president of 20-40 farmers president of the county lair as sociation, Thomas Creek school board member, past master of the Thomas Creek Grange, chairman of the Lake County Agricultural Conservation Committee, vice president of the stock growers association and chairman of the Lake County DU'l sa'e committee tor the past two years. Carter Fetsch was master of ceremonies for the -dinner at which were served 129 members and guests. He presented the re tiring officers and introduced the new roster, with Jay Sorscth tak ing over as president The intro duction of Dr. Garth Thornburg, president of the Lakeview Mining Company, marked representation of the county's newest 'industry, the mining and milling of uran ium ore. Introduced by Richard Proeb- stel, manager of the local branch, John Sell, a vice president of the First National Bank of Oregon, was here from Portland as fea tured speaker of the evening. Ore gon is booming. Sell stated, and particular areas marked in this progress are Tne Dalles, Klam ath Falls and Lakeview. He pre dicts a IS per cent increase in tne gross business of the state during 1959, with the Centennial celebration a big factor in the tourist business. rushing river suddenly ate a hole into the Knox Loal Co. tunnel at nearby Port Griflith just before noon Thursday. We never heard the water come in at all." one miner said. "It was just there. Seven nivn, some aided by a map of the complicated miles ol ancient coal tunnels, got out oy climbing an air shaft several hundred yards upstream from the hole. Twenty-six others wandered through the maze of tunnels in waist-deep water for seven hours before a rescue team found and brought them to safety up the air shall. A little diesel engine kept push ing coal cars into the whirlpool of water and ice chunks that marks the seemingly bottomless note. But the cars, and the tons of baled hay also used to plug the breach, vanished in the swirl ing waters. The tracks of the Lehigh Valley Railroad parallel the river, and a cliff rises almost vertically be hind the tracks. Worried relatives and towns people watched quietly from the edge of the cliff as the crews worked hour after hour to stop tne now of water. Until k is, said mine Sunt Kobert Orovcs, rescue crews won't be able to begin pumping out the mine. The mine, he said will have to be cleared before the search begins for the 12 missing men. The water pouring into the mine also posed a serious threat to the economic life of the Wyoming Val ley in northeast Pennsylvania. After years of working, the an thracite vein under the valley is honeycombed with interconnect ing tunnels. The Port Griflith accident forced nearby mines to close immediately as water swirled through the tunnels. There were fears that mines down the valley might have to be closed, throwing hundreds of miners out of work. - Luckily, Joseph Stella, 35 a mine surveyor, was with some of the seven men who escaped right after water started coming in. I had a map of the mine m my hand when the water came through, he said. Me and some others followed the map to reach the air shaft. Another of the original seven was Joe Solus. 43. "It just suddenly came in on us," he said of the break. "At first 1 was panicky, then 1 thought about the air shaft, and headed for it, and got out." KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1959 Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 6300 Castro Tribunal Condemns Officer HAVANA. Cuba APi The defendant in Havana's first show case war crimes trial was con victed just before dawn today and sentenced to death. A three-man tribunal of Fidel C a s t r o's revolutionary ofliccrs lound Maj. Jesus Sosa Blanco. 51, a career army otliccr, guiy on five counts of murder, homi cide, robbery, looting and damage. The verdict was returned alter a trial of almost eight hours and mere than four hours of delibera tion by the three judges. A crowd of 17,000 shouting, jeering Cubans who had jammed Havana's Sports Palace for the start of the trial had gone home hours before. Only about 300 news men and armed, bearded guards from Castro's forces heard the verdict as it was read out in the sports arena. Sosa Blanco's counsel. Cant. Aristides Dacosta, had said he would appeal a conviction to a five-man Superior Court provided under the new legal code put in effect after dictator Fulgcncio Batista's overthrow Jan. 1. The higher court has not yet been named. Dacosta had challenged the le gality of trials under that code, contending that all crimes charged to Sosa Blanco were allcged'y committed before Jan. 14 and that the death penalty did not exist then. The Cuban Constitution of 1940 barred capital punishment. It was modified by decree Jan. 15 to per mit executions for war crimes. Dacosta's argument also applies to the estimated 1.500 Batista partisans arrested since the dic tator's overthrow, and to the 250 or more persons already executed by Castro's firing squads. Sosa Blanco's trial was the first of three Castro had announced for the Havana Sports Palace to jus tify to the world his speedy mili tary judgment of Batistans, some 2du of whom have already been executed. Another trial was scheduled to "YOU HAD BETTER BELIEVE I'M in there punching (or the Little Leaguers," 'promises Oli ver Sanderville, right, Klamath Agency, as he lands a blazing right hand to the head ol Chuck Steuteville, Henley, in a rip-roaring crowd pleaser on the big amateur tight card held in the Klamath Auditorium Thursday night. The mighty-mitet (all 90 pounds total) were even more entertaining in their after-the-fight antics trying to collect a shower of coins wearing pillow-size gloves. Photo by Kettler 33, the Firemen Rescue Mother, Son OLEAN, N.Y. (AP)-A motor- boat launched from a train res cued a mother and her son from the floodwaters of the Allegheny River. Volunteer firemen rode Pennsylvania Railroad freight train Thursday as close to the farm of Mrs. Berth Lemon, 55, and her son Roland, 18, as they could get. PUC Chief Appointed SALEM (AP)-Jonel Hill, administrative assistant to chief justice for the past five years, was appointed by Gov. Mark Hatfield today as state pub lic utilities commissioner. He succeeds Howard Morgan, who resigned Jan. 12 with the change from the Democratic to a Republican state administration. Hill's appointment will become effective as soon as the Supreme Court finds a new administrative assistant. Meanwhile, Gordon Hei ber will continue as acting public utilities commissioner. Hill was a combat infantryman in Europe in World War II. He was taken prisoner twice, first by the Germans in Hurtgen Forest, and then by the Russians in Poland. A native of Mankato, Minn., he studied law at night at St. Paul College of Law while holding down a full-time job. Upon graduation, he became a member of the editorial depart ment of West Publishing Co., law book publisher. The new commissioner came to Oregon in 1951 to prepare the in dex for the new state law code. After holding that job two years, he was named to the new position of administrative assistant to the chief justice. Weather FORECAST Klamalh Falls and vicinity: A few shnwers through Saturday. Low tonight. 28-33; hitfti Saturday 45-50. " High yesterday 45 Low last night 28 Prccip. last 24 hours- 0 Since Oct. 1 . 2.21 Same period last year 8.61 , Northern California Fair to night and Increasing cloudiness Saturday with rain from Santa Rosa and Chico northward. Warm er tonight. Southerly coastal wind 20-35 miles an hour. ' CRATER LAKE High yesterday 39 Low last night 28 8 a.m. today 34 New snow 1 In. Snow depth 33 Last year 100 Year before 08 Skiing Good An inch of wet snow fell on hard-packed surface making good skiing, the rangers reported. Skies were overcast this morning: wind calm and It was not snowing. Highway 62 Is open with chains advised. Chains were required to day frmn Annie Springs to the rim. It is anticipated that the Pwarming hut will be open on Sat urday and Sunday. Mt. Shasta Highway 99 and Ev crrtt Highway: No chains required with 70 inches of snow at 9,300 feet. Skiing good, clear. Massive Wave Of Cold Knifes Eastern States By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A massive cold wave knifed across the Easlern half of the country today in the wake of win ter's most severe and destructive weather, which left a heavy toll of dead and homeless. Storms abated, and floods in some areas appeared easing. But the punishing blows from the vio lent midwinter snow, sleet, and rain storms and floods left many sections staggering. Conditions were in the disaster stage in some of the flood-stricken regions. - At least 88 persons were dead from floods and other effects of the storms in 14 states from New Mexico to the Eastern seaboard. Damage to property was in the millions of dollars. No estimate could be made of the human mis ery and suffering in the flooded sections of Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Kentucky and India ana. Although the influx of cold weather appeared lessening the flood danger in some of the five states, thousands remained home less. The cold also added to the suffering. Downstate communities still were threatened by further damage and evacuations. Thousands of workers were idled in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Vice Charge Jails 4 Women As Police Follow Up Expose New York as steel mills, coal mines, and other industries shut down because of floods. Roads were inundated, curtailing travel. Hundreds of schools remained closed. A state of emergency was de clared in many sections of west ern Pennsylvania and some Ohio; cities. A dozen coal miners were either trapped or drowned when over flows from the swollen Susquehan na River poured into an anthra cite mine near Pittston, in north east Pennsylvania. Thirty-three other miners got out. Twenty-six cf them were rescued after wan dering through the tunnels in waist-deep water for seven hours. while seven others escaped by climbing an air shaft. The threat of serious flooding in Pittsburgh passed, but the swol len Ohio River menaced down- tream areas as it surged into Wheeling, W.Va., Stoubenvillc and possibly East Liverpool, Ohio. The flooding Allegheny River and its tributaries caused heavy damage in western Pennsylvania, Ohio reported 12 persons lost their lives in the floods, the worst in the state in 25 years. Other storm-related deaths included 13 each in Illinois and Wisconsin; Iowa 8, Indiana, Texas, and Mich ican 6 each: Kansas, Kentucky and New York S each; New Mex ico 3; Oklahoma and Missouri 2 each, and New Jersey and Penn sylvania, 1 each. Lost Sight To Return SAN FRANCISCO (AP)-Buddy Thornhill, 7, who has undergone u eye operations, is going to see clearly possibly within two months. Dr. William J. Ferguson Jr., a specialist who treated the Natch ez, Miss., youngster for glaucoma here, told newsmen that Thursday. Mrs. Louis A.- Thornhill, prac tically in tears, added: "You know what Buddy is doing right now? tics chasing a balloon in our ho tel room." His mother said that Buddy, whose real name is Hugh, could detect only light previously but now could see colors. Buddy may never need another operation. Dr. Ferguson said. The youngster's right eye was taken out in a previous operation. Buddy s trip here with his par ents was financed by Natchez residents. Imu tTX ran.Hai - HONORARY LIFE memberships in the community Concert Association have baen pra . tented to Dr. and Mrs. George I. Wright by the association executive board, Dr. and Mrs. Wright, Klamath Falls pioneers, have supported tha concert association for many -years and have attended most of the musical events in the city. The presentation was "made by Andrew Lonay Jr., director ef music education in Klamath Falls schools, i NEW YORK AP) Detectives posing as out-of-town professional men raided a well-furnished Man hattan apartment Thursday night and arrested four women on vice charges. Five businessmen found in the apartment were not arrested. The raid was led by first ucp. Police Commissioner James R. Kennedy, who is heading a police probe into the call girl racket touched off by allegations made on a nationwide radio program Monday night. Kennedy, who entered the apart ment in the raid with five detec tives, said the establishment had been operating for about six months, furnishing girls at fees ranging from M .to $100. Charges were mode on the CBS radio program, presented by com mentator Edward R. Murrow, that some big business firms have employed prostitutes to entertain prospective customers and help to swing deals and make sales. Murrow and others connected with the program have declined to give authorities the sources of mlormation for the program, on which persons identified as prosti lutes and businessmen spoke anonymously. Kennedy, digging into the vice situation in the city, came up with a phone number and a coded con versation which opened the door to his detectives. The raid was on a $250-a-month three-room apartment at 412 West get under way this afternoon, but it was not known how the slow progress of the first hearing would affect Ihe schedule. Nearly 400 loreign newsmen were in Havana at Castro's invi tation for the demonstration of ha justice. The revolutionary chief told a news conference Thursday thut tne trials and executions will end "as soon as possible and the soon er the better. Only the most no torious criminals are being select ed for trials before revolutionary ' tribunals." The bearded leader, who now is chief of Cuban armed forces, repeated his estimate that "not more than 400" persons will be executed for the 20,000 murders he claims Batista's dictatorship perpetrated in its six-year reign. Police Seek NY Kidnaper NEW YORK fAP)-Police today had one clue a woman's hand writingin the kidnaping of en ailing, 23-day-old child from a West Side apartment Thursday. It was the city's second baby abduc tion this year. A specimen of the kidnaper'i handwriting was obtained in the form of a note written at the mother's request before the latter left on a wild-goose hunt for a nonexistent Bronx apartment. In the note the woman kidnaper said to be pregnant wrote that she represented to be her name, address, and telephone number. Police assumed the name was fictitious after finding that the Bronx address was a fake. The phone number turned out to be an unlisted one and that of persons not possibly involved in the case, police said. In view of reports that the kid naper is an expectant mother, the handwritten note was to be used in a canvas of hospital records and medical offices. Police and the FBI had teamed up in an all-night search of the area around the Manhattan apart ment from where John Tavarex disappeared - with a woman his mother had met just two days ago. The grief-stricken father broad cast - a radio and TV appeal for the baby s return. Authorities described the worn-. an being sought as 5 feet 2, weigh ing about 160 pounds, having brown hair with blonde streaks, and "obviously . pregnant." They said she was wearing a darK blue coat and black shoes, and prob ably was Cuban. They said shal was wearing a slave braclet chain on her left leg. World News In Brief United Press Internationa! MINERS Pittston. Pa. Twelve men are trapped in a mine tunnel flooded by the Sus quehanna River. WEATHER Flood emergen cies hit Pennsylvania and Ohio, drive 20,000 persons from homes. LIVING COSTS Washington The government monthly cost- of-living report says living costs dropped slightly in December for the first time since last August. KIDNAP New York Volun teer baby sitter kidnaps 23-day- old boy after sending mother on wild goose chase. LIMOUSINE Washington -House's gift of $11,000 new lim ousine to Joe Martin appears to have become political issue. REPUBLICANS r- Des Moines Republican National Committee rallies behind statement of what party stands for. Bank Robbed Of $50,000 SAN PEDRO. Calif. (UPI)-A smooth-working bandit who held up the Bank of America branch for nearly $50,000 Thursday and escaped in a car driven by a confederate was sought today by ponce ana tne mi. The bandit, playing the role of a prosperous merchant, gained entrance to the commercial sec tion of the bank reserved for deposits and withdrawals of $1,000 and up by flashing a check made out in four figures. Once inside the merchant sec tion, which is blocked off to the public by a locked door, the bandit handed a note to teller Thomas Setka, 23, which read: "This is no toy. Don't give an alarm. Empty the drawer and give me all the money. If you sound the alarm it will be your last one." The bandit indicated he had a gun under his coat. Setka handed over $49,307 and the holdup man escaped out a rear door and into a car driven by a confederate. About 30 employes and 15 cus tomers in the bank failed to realize what was going on until after the bandit fled. End Ave., near 81st St. Police and detectives, who made a telephone date by using a password, got into the apartment easily. The raid was pulled a few hours after an Internal Revenue Service spokesman confirmed that some business firms have attempted to use call girl expenses as deduc tions on income tax returns. "Such deductions, when spotted in a tax return, are of course dis allowed," the spokesman said. "You know, we never get an argu ment on that one." Such attempts, the spokesman explained, have not been made openly, but usually under a head ing such as "business entertainment." Star Apparently Defies Law By JAMES J. HEALY children aboard. The extra sup United Press International plies would not be necessary for SAUSALITO, Calif. (UPI) Film the three-day trip down the Cali tar Sterling Haydcn, his four fornia coast. children, and the crew of his 98- Last week, Haydcn was award- foot schooner were believed to be led custody of the children in Young Murderer Judged Insane PASADENA, Calif. (APt - An 18-year-old boy who . killed his younger brother, describing him as an inferior person who had to die, has been judged insane. Bruce H. Ginn was ordered com mitted to a state hospital for treat ment Thursday. Five of six psy chiatrists who examined him des cribed him as mentally ill. The boy had not spoken to his brother, Edward, 14, for more than a year at the time he shot him last November when they were alone In the house. He (aces I a murder trial If he recovers. somewhere on the bounding main today, but the question was, which way were they bounding' Haydcn, 42, sailed from San Francisco Bay Sunday supposedly headed for Santa Barbara. But his former wiife believes he may have taken Ihe children on a South Seas film-making cruise, despite a court order forbidding it. Mrs. Betty Anne de Noon Hay den said through her attorney she has asked the Coast Guard to make a search for the schooner. Wanderer. With a fair wind, it should have arrived in Santa Bar bara late Tuesday A Santa Barbara pilot told United Press International he flew 100 miles up the coast Thursday morning and did not sight Hay den's vessel. Haydcn, veteran sailor, purchased and refitted the Wanderer espe cially for his "dream voyage" to Ihe South bens, u was learned that before leaving Sunday, he ordered an extra 100 pounds of meat, nearly 30 gallons of milk, and an extra 50 gallons of 'fresh waler stowed aboard. Including himself, there are eight men, live women and seven bitterly contested battle with his lormer wife. The children are Christian, 10; Thor, fl; Gretchcn, 8 and Matthew. However. Superior Judge Emil Gumpert denied Haydcn tho right to take the children on the voy age. Gumpert said he thought the shin, which was built in IBM, was too old and that members of the crew lacked sailing experience. Hayden told United Press inter- nati6nal before the decision was handed down that he had gone into hock "ud to my eyeballs in the film-making venture to "do something honest" for television. He said he had mortgaged everything but the ship in order to make the trip, which includes stops at Tahiti, the Marquesas, the Thursday Islands, Bangkok and Hong Kong. Mikoyan Home; Hits U.S. Chiefs MOSCOW (AP) - First Dep. Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan re turned home today from his visit to the United States. A group headed by Dep. Foreign Minister V. V. Kuznetsov greeted him at the airport. Mikoyan declared in Copenhagen Thursday night that verybody In America wants the cold war to stop except the State Department. J Pickup Perks Up Patrolman's Parental Passion DUNSMUIR-Bill Cooney. Duns- muir police officer, had his first maternity case on Sunday night. Travelers from Oregon finding - the arrival of the stork Immi nent appealed for help. Hurried arrangements were made at property owned by Vern Myers, just south of town. ; "Wm AMnnJ !h to 11 f, ,t fj til trailer just in time," Cooney laid. There it was. tne loveliest utile brown foal with white blaze and white socks." It was named "Pickup on the spot. Mother, Mozette, and father. Golden Chance, members ot a sia horse caravan en route to Fresno, are both registered quarter horses, Owner 0. Y. Mankins and hit assistant, 6. A. Endsley, ex pressed their appreciation an! left .Officer Cooney big fat t gar.'
