Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, March 19, 1959, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE 1 A HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON THl'RSDA? MARCH lit low I "DENNIS THE MENACE" Imposing Capital Tower Erected To Honor Taft WASHINGTON 'AP1 The late i and an intricate lightning arrester Sen. Robert A Talt of Ohio, whomstem. wanted to he "Mr. President" but1 Forming a hedge around it are had to nettle (or "Mr. Republi- old English boxwoods collected by can." is now being honored as nurserymen from some historic few men have Delaware. Virginia and North Car An imposing new capital monu- olina plantations, ment a slim 100-foot pink marble Besides the tower itself and the bell tower will be dedicated April two-ton bronze statue of Taft. a 14 in his memory. major feature of the memorial is Taft'f tower, with its 27-hclLa carillon, hung in an 18-foot Krench carillon and a 10-foot chamber with seven openings front bronze statue of the late senator, and back was built al a cost of about one million lollars donated by his friends and admirers. Selections from his speeches are being cut into the marble. By order of his Congress col- The carefully tuned bells, cost ing about $70,000. were imported irom the famous Paccard foundry in the Alpine Valley village of Annecy. France. The 27 bells, ranging from the "THAT'S HOT TKtE! k'S KEN THERE AflOJT TEN MNUTES. NOT ALLVW'" Ten Passengers Killed In Train-Auto Accident XENIA. Ohio 'AP A freight North. Paulnetta Randall and train plowed into a car carrying Anna Wilvert. 10 passengers irr a tragic railroad All were 12 years old except crossing accident near here Anna who was 11. Wednesday. All 10 including eight I Six were killed outright and Gir! Scouts were killed (three were dead on arrival at a The car was dragged SO foot hospital, long the tracks The body of the W. R. Murray of Columbus, en driver. Mrs, Lmillr White. 44. was I R'neer of lh( Pennsylvania Rail found 78 feet beyond the car. .roads three-desel express freight. j . ... iHi.;, sajd the car slowed down as it and the other adult in the car. Mrs. Jeanet'e Randall. 39, were among the eight Gir! Scouts who perished The girls were returning home from a library here when they had been studying for merit badges They lived in Beaver crwk Twp.. a rural, commuter type suburb between Xenia and Dayton. approached the crossing. He thought it was going to stop, hut it kept coming, he said. The speed limit for trains in that area is 50 m.p.h. The crossing is unprotected by flasher signals and has only a crossbar railroad sign. Vaughn Lewis, superintendent of Greene County schools, com mented: "The biggest tragedy was that there was no flasher The accident happened about i light there. That's a bad crossing J'4 miles west of Xenia. and r 'the school hoard' fought Kenneth Ward, father of one! for flashers and didn't get It This Girl Scout, is an auxiliary fireman. I 's inexcusable in a populated He was helninc eather no the area bodie.. unaware his daughter was a victim, when he recognized what was left of the ear. Then he found the body of his daughter. Linda, 12. The other girls were Sharon NKRL.MAH NEW FATHER ACCRA. Ghana l;PI i Madame Nkrumah, wife of Ghana's Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah, gave birth to a bov Wednesday. The White. Cindy Moorman. Connie U miple was married in December. Laprise, Patricia Lapinski, Ann 1997. From the passion-dipped pen of ROBERT WILDER, author of "Written on the Wind"! leagues, the tower stands on dp- six-ton "G" note to the 200-pound litol grounds In all the 131 acres, smallest size, will be ready to i that comprise Capitol Hill, there1 sound the hour, toll in memonam is but one other outdoor statue, or pour out a golden symphony , That is the seated figure of of music The carillon can be ,.iohn Marshall, who served longer played electronically with pro-set than any man as chief justice of bronze tapes like a player piano. the I'mted States. or at the touch of a 30-inch piano I Sol even Franklin D. Roosevelt. : keyboard iwho served longer than any other The tower, surrounded by box president, has such a Capitol wood and a fountain-filled moat, marker lis to be flootlighted at night. I Marshall's statue was erected j But even before its official ded . by fellow members of the bar and ication. Taft's tower was being .Congress in 188449 years after eyed critically. .Some say it de- his death tracts a bit from the grandeur Taft's memorial was construct-lof the 287-foot Capitol itself. And ;ed within six years of his death I there were congressmen w ho said (from cancer. July '31. 1153 at the it might set a bad precedent, and age of 63. lead to cluttering of Capitol Hill. In all of the District of Colum- of friends of other distinguished bia. where there are 94 outdoor senators seek similar monuments statues, only five honor senators in the future. and two of them became presi- The Taft Tower is just one of i dents, a National Capitol Parks three-part memorial project spokesman reported planned by the Taft Memorial President Kisenhuwer and form . Foundation, headed by Rep. B. j er President Herbert Hoover are Carroll Reece 'R-Tenn1. among those scheduled to partici- The others are a fund for edu pate in the tower's dedication rational scholarships and an in next month. jstitute for government to supply The tall, slender fluted shaft 1 lecturers, publish books and con 13 feet wide. 32 feet long and 99.fi duct research in bipartisan fash feet high is faced with 8.000 ion consistent with Taft s ideals cubic feel of Tennessee pink mar- Neither of these projects is yet hie It has a stainless steel roof. I under way. French Scholar Reports Discovery Of New Gospel; On Par With 'Sea Scrolls' NKW YORK (AP) A document I cut in limestone cliffs about BO known as the "Gospel of Si. miles from Luxor. Written in the Thomas." discovered in Egypt. Coptic language, the treatises contains 114 savings attributed to were divided among 13 leather .lesus many of Ihcm previously; bound, papyrus hooks. unknown a r rrnch scholar re- t ullnian. a visiting professor at ports. the seminary this year, said many hMstcnif of the document was 01 the sayings lound in the troa disclosed Wednesday night by Dr. Oscar Cullman, professor of early Christianity at the Sorbonne in Paris, in a lecture at Union Theological Seminary. The document. Cullman said, is "comparable in importance to the Dead Sea scrolls and of even greater significance to students of Ihe New Testament." He said the document was one A" !- ! if tm a HBO OH firefighter Combats Biaze ! CRYSTAL CITY. Tex 'API -M. M. Kinley, w Id-famous oil well firefighter, has a special in terest in an oil well fire near here. He owns part of the well. ! The well in the Torch Tield, I named for Kinley s firefighting exploits, exploded Tuesday as drill pipe was being pulled from th hole. Driller Joe Whitaker waj burned as flames shot 150 feet TK'KF.T DEMAND GREAT I BELGRADE, Yugoslavia ' L'PI) The demand for seats at th April 2 Louis Armstrong concerts I w as so heavy among jazz-starv ed Yugoslavs today that black mar keteers were getting $10 for a U ticket. THE HAIRIEST OF THEM in a beard-contest at the laft, A! Proytz, 87-year-old of Klamath Falls, curliest; of Klamath Falls, oddest tri ALL are these four men who stomped most of the opposition J. w. Kerns company building luesaay nignr. iney are, irom Dorris resident, whose beard was judged longest; Ray Plank Spencer Clark of Klamath Falls, best trim, and Louis Lappert m. Photo by Don Garrett MARCH IS 0LDSM06ILE MONTH We have over 20 NEW ONES SO Get out of the or dinary and into the OLDS The door's Wide Open! DICK B. MILLER CO. 7th t Klamath Ph. 4-4154 ties could be traced word tor word in the four Gospels of the New Testament Matthew, Mark. Luke, and John. One hitherto unknown saying (juotcd by Cullman was; "Jesus said: If those who lead you say to you: behold, the king dom is in heaven, then the birds of heaven will precede you; if they say to you thai it is in the sea. ol 44 treatises found in L9J by then the nsu will precede you. Rut jKjjyptian peasants in ai old tomhjthe kingdom is within you and it , ., - js outside of you." WAXED AND COMBED, this fine example of sartorial splendor won for Clinton Pierce of Klamath Falls the grand prize a Norge clothes dryer at beard competition sponsored by the J. W, Kerns Company, and judged at the company's building, 724 South Sixth Street Tuesday eve ning. Photo by Don Garrett NOW You can hove them in WHITE Hie "All American" choice mt the most comfortable "on vour ttet all doy" iemi-drety working or walking hoe. available In tiies 4 to 12 AAAA to D An almot "team tree" ihoe in Bott-soft leather de ngned to give you im mediate comfort without "break-in" . . . choote from red, white Of black. 11 95 sitei ever 10 . . . 12.95 A j 4 AS CHARGE THEM if jSy on approved if " VanOrman's the ihee store known for "Quality" ond "Fit 527 MAIN Boy In Gray Put To Rest Viva Beards' May Echo In The Basin Contents of the document, Cull man said, were disc oed hv Dr. ..D i . .u o ... Henry Charles Puech, professor of . Btk ,0 . Bc? ? " early Christianity at the ColleHebe f ra" ng ,lhryB o( 8cntr ol France in Pan,, who ,. pub'"d K' h"'s l,eH ,,,.,iva Util .hem sometime this vear !. Not 0 n ' has ''Card 2?HL iiuii nievni c uwuvwe iwuuuii Discovery of the treatises has lav John Sailing to rest today in hut the content, of the document has "e!!cd handsome pT,K ,or .iS .u . .1. v....... r,... Jj..c. uZ u k. some of them IM wmt ut ui uir mwww 11 M""" j waunn wmt fTfTl imic nui in. t 1 1 ihill country he lovtd and called previously disclosed, home for 112 years. I nlike the canonic Go.vpcls. he Funeral services for the old, said, the 'Gospel of Thomas ' Contederate. next-to-last Civil War does not sive any personalized in vcteran. will he held here and at formation about Jesus. tl... BUI Cllinn-e rullmin Mb) n nta Imm L j ' i.:j. . .u. j day nicht the north. I. Those h,ch are word for '"ld y - chore for thousands of local males Clinton Pierce of Klamath Falls, for instance, won a big Norge electric clothes dryer during beard judpins competition spon sored by and held at the huildinq YOUNG SHOP Fvcn a ticklish wile Sailing's death Mondav of pneu word the ;anip a in the canonic monia lett Walter Williams. 1 16, i Gospel. j Houston. Tex., another of the boys I 2. Those which provide inde in grey, the only survmna Civil pendent ariants 'n the savincs m War Ptcr;in th rannnip Cusnrk Across a spray of red and white 3 Those not found in the canon flowprs near Sailing's caske that. Ia ribbon with the words "Mv church fathers JUNE ALLYSON JEFF CHANDLER auuaiiEimi e,.tt.rr.M SANDRA DEE CHARLES COBURN MARY ASTOR PETER GRAVES CONRAD NAGEL Pierce displayed a full dress crop of whiskers, ramrod proper and thick as a field of Iowa corn. Runncrsup were A Proytz of Dorris. who is 8? years old: Ray inlie Gospels in any form, hut which r . ' c!r ' , l,ouis Lappeit of ISM Gary Street. i- k. . -1 . -n ' .. t ,. .iiuamaui r ems, WQlUmi and Ml family completely unknown ' Mt ' n rK Sailing ha, lain in ,tate since Cullman, said the June Institute "'' '5 ,,"?. TnH inJir', 'early Tuesday BUM thousand in Zurich purchased one manu-' nmm2 n T Tl. Sffl. persons filed by & bnjth. copper Up and the others are now in ? " ?m ; Sailing, who dug saltpeter in; "The Cootie manuscripts were southwest Virginia mines for the t written in the third or fourth cen manufacture of gunpowder, wasjtury. but go hack to Greek origi dressed in the crisp uniform of an nals which are much older," Cull honorary Confederate general iman said. NOW SHOWING coots orisi s jo r m LejejeaBjMeHBjeHpHHHaMiK?9VH MR-'- GEORGE NADER-JOANNA MOORE I RRiflN KEITH VIRGINIA FIELD LET YOUR HEART GROW YOUNG AGAIN! The Adventure For The Whole Family To See! Pulitzer Prize Winner ZOE AKINS' Greatest , . ' Animal W:lit wry! yj e7' Wl K. 111W DAVID LADD CHILL WILLS PATRICE VVYWORE MATUM AT 7 IS tmd 10 OS TheLittle Savage orxxT hoc f SHOWN AT 1 40 ONIY raor. and so did riank t-appert jot a 24 inch barbecue and imple ment set and Clark won an elec tric travel iron Possibly the most exciting prize went to tommy Ueexes of Klam iath Falls OTI sweetheart. Ann ! Martin, ran her fincers through his whi-kers and ludged them soft Mi Then she cave him a frrend ly nuzle. He also won a nag of ifrrtilijcr. Judges were A! Carpenter. iOeorcc Clark and Lewis McDan 'iel The competition drew about AO contestants and M spettalprs. Kntertainment as prodded by the Krater Koids. a local barber shop quartet Consultant Mulls Traffic Patterns DUNSMVIR - Tralfic patterns! and traffic dcnsi'y are being de termined in DuflSAHuT Wcdnesda by Hobart Pritchard. planning con sultant of the Hahn and will Company. Traffic count meters were placed I at various locations throughouj the community Tuesday The data gathered will be used to prepare a Istreet development plan This is the final phase of Dunsmuir's planning commission work for the fiscal year The planning commission ha, completed a nmtlf land use plan so far this year and a zoning ordi nance has been presented to the ; city council for adoption Tin: COM IN i it MONROE. Wis I JM City ot ficial, were reported confident tn iday that voters, snowed in twice thi, month, would approve pur chase of the town, lint now-plow. 1 Al n o. Two-piece all wool bosket-weave fabric with pert bow trim, slim skirt. Blue. 7-14 14.98 b Silk and wool blend two piece suit with fully lined jacket, back pleated slim skirt. Blue flecked with white. 10-14 17.9