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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
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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.
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