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U.OF 03S.LI3:JART NSKSPAPEft SECriON GEN.REF.AND DOCUMSNTS DIV. EUiEME.OREG. coap. The- Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS This fascinating world note: The first DIRECT CONVER SION of nuclear reactor energy Into ELECTRIC POWER was an nounced this morning by the Los Alamos scientific laboratory at Los Alamos, New Mexico. It was accomplished by means 01 .a new-type thermocouple which cave enough power to light an electric light bulb for 12 hours be fore it was shut down and diS' mantled for further analysis and itudy. Hmmmm. What's a thermocou ple? . - A thermocouple is a means of producing electricity by bringing two different metals into contact and then cooling one metal and heating the other. It has been known for a long time, but about the only practical use made of it has been in astronomy, to meas ure the heat of stars. - The Los Alamos scientists tried a new wrinkle. For one of the thermocouple metals they used en riched uranium. For the other, they substituted ironized cesium GAS. . It WORKED. The experimental thermocouple looked much like an empty froz en fruit juice can. we are told. In this jigger an enriched uranium rod about a quarter of an inch in diameter was surrounded by ces ium gas. When the pint-size as sembly was lowered into a nu clear reactor, uranium fission heated the little rod and the gas was cooled by a "coolant" (like the water in your car's radiator). Electric energy flowed out! ; Why is that important? - It by-passes all the tremendous and cumbersome weight involved in producing power by means of a conventional atomic reactor which heats water to produce steam, which is converted into power by means of a conventional turbine. . - That is to say: - The time will presumably come when these relatively light and simple jiggers will power planes and ships and trucks and trains and maybe AUTOMOBILES. It sounds simple. But listen: The development of this simple sounding little jigger took a team of ten scientists a little more than three years. It sounds silly? Well, the first click Samuel F. B. Morse got out of his experimental telegraph instrument sounded sim ple. The first intelligible word Alexander Graham Bell got out of his first experimental telephone contraption as a result, inciden tally, of the accidental cross ing of a couple of wires sounded simple. Look what they amounted to. It may be the same with this new thermocouple. You've heard, perhaps, this sci ence fiction babble about FREEZ ING a man and keeping him alive for a million years and then bring ing him back, with all of his ma chinery working, into the world of a million years hence. One can't help thinking such an txpenence might be fun. But I think I'll pass it up and let . the future take care of itself so far as I am concerned. After all, the world of a million years hence would be a strange and probably frustrating world for a person of today to butt into Ike Departs For Augusfa WASHINGTON (AP) President Eisenhower flew off today for a golfing vacation in--Augusta. Ga. The President and Mrs. Eisen hower took, off in the presidential plane Columbine III at 10:51 a.m. P.S.T. As he boarded the plane, Eisen hower gave an affectionate pat to painting of a columbine Colo rado's state flower at the side of the entrance door. Report Claims Reds Aid Iraqi Premier CAIRO, Egypt (AP) Reports that Soviet-armed Kurdish tribes men are being shipped through the Suez Canal to Iraq aroused specu lation today that the Soviet Union is helping Iraqi Premier Abdel Karim Kassem form a pro-Communist Foreign Legion. Egyptian authorities said three Soviet ships one carrying 835 fully armed Kurds and tne otner two loaded with military equip mentpassed through the canal since Sunday bound for Iraq's big Persian Gulf port of Basra. The Kurds, though not Arabs. are scattered through Arab re- U.S. Report Shows Hike In Economy WASHINGTON (AP) - Unem ployment declined 387,000 in March to 4,362.000. Employment jumped by 1,106,000 to 63,828,000. The government, in reporting this today, said the rise in em ployment and drop in unemploy ment were both about twice the amount seasonably expected for the month. It was the biggest February-tO' March drop in unemployment since 1950. The employment rise for the month was the biggest since 1951. Seymour Wolfbein, head of the Labor Department Employment Statistics Bureau, told a news con ference that while the improve ment was partly seasonal the job picture definitely shows substan tial signs of repair from depres sion damage. ' The seasonally adjusted ratio of unemployment to the total work force declined from 6.1 per cent in February to 5.8 per cent in March. Wolfbein s holding a news con ference to Release the report was an unprecedented thing. Ordinarily, the regular monthly job reports of the Commerce and Labor Departments have simply been handed to newsmen in print ed releases. The unusual procedure pointed up the administration's gratifica tion over the developments. Administration officials from President Eisenhower on down had forecast such gratifying im provements. , mm wmmmmm Reds Linked With Riots BUENOS AIRES. Argentina (AP) The Argentine government today linked Soviet-bloc diplomats with the bloody labor riot Buenos Aires last week and said at least one envoy had been or dered expelled. A government statement said similar action is being considered against other members of the diplomatic corps from countries behind the Iron Curtain. The ex pelled diplomat was not named. Argentina is the second Latin American country to act against Soviet bloc diplomats within a week. Mexico expelled two mem bers of the Soviet Embassy staff last week, accusing them of giv ing money and support to an ille gal railway strike. The Argentine government has blamed the Communists for last Friday's rioting in which 57 work ers and policemen were injured. The newspaper Correo de la Tarde named three members of the Soviet-bloc diplomatic colony and accused them of promoting labor unrest. Those named were Soviet Am bassador Mikhail Alexevich Kas- tylev: Dr. Victor Dimitriu, Ro manian . charge d'affaires; and Mrs. Vera Lestova Zalka, wife of the Hungarian ambassador. gions as well as into the Soviet Union and make up one million of Iraq's 6 million people. Many have long dreamed of carving out their own nation of the areas of north ern Iraq, western Iran and east ern Turkey which they inhabit. Observers at Port Said repor ted the tribesmen passing through the canal were Soviet citizens of Kurd ish origin, from the southernmost regions of the Soviet Union. The United Arab Republics Middle East News Agency said the Soviet Kurds were trained in guerrilla fighting. The agency, without giving a source, said more boviet ships, carrying new groups of Commu nists, are expected at Port Said en route to Iraq. There was no foreign confirma tion of the Egyptian reports. Nas ser has been waging a bitter cam paign against Kassem, accusing the Iraqi Premier of letting the Communists get the upper hand in Iraq. Kassem, with Soviet Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev seconding him, has blamed Nasser for the recent unsuccessful army revolt in north Iraq. Only a week ago Kassem hinted he might grant the Iraqi Kurds self-government a move that would meet with favor in Moscow, The Communist-trained Kurds could form the nucleus of foreign legion units which the Egyptian press said Kassem is forming. Cairo papers said their mission is to oppose Arab nationalists in Iraq who want to swing their country closer to the U.A.R. and President Nasser and. who are against the growing Communist influence in Baghdad. The 1,030-ton Soviet ship Gruzia carrying the Kurd tribesmen was closely guarded during a brief stop at 'Port Said Monday. Offi cials said they had difficulty get ting aboard to make a routine check. Egyptian authorities said the Gruzia. which came from the So viet Black Sea port of Odessa, ap peared bound for Basra but her papers listed her destination as the Far East. Another Soviet shio, the Niki- lai Brigof, loaded with 9,000 tons of military equipment, also passed through the canal Monday for Basra, the Middle East News Agency reported.. The 10,000-ton Soviet freighter Elia Teknikof, with arms for Iraq, moved through on Sunday night, the agen cy said. AP correspondent Stan Carter reported from Baghdad in dispatch through censorship that Kassem predicted three nights ago "we shall have a tre mendous revolution in the state machinery this month. '. Carter said the revolutionary leader did not elaborate on his remark, made at a Hungarian Embassy reception. But it aroused speculation that such development projects as dam and road building and other construction work which Western companies have been carrying on for Iraq might be turned over to the direction of So viet experts. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, APKII. 7, 19.i9 Price Five Cents It Pain Telephone TU 4-8111 No. SM WWW' - Fir -AS-! Adenauer Accepts Bid For President Mrs. Nicholas Takes Stand Atom To Produce Electricity, Science Reveals ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) A way has been discovered to pro duce electricity directly from atomic power, a University of Michigan scientist said today. Robert W. Pidd, Michigan pro fessor of physics, said the devel opment already has been tested at Los Alamos, N. M. Pidd predicted the development also would pave the way for in terplanetary space travel and would power satellites. The process does away with boilers, turbines, gas conditioners and generators now used in both conventional and atomic electric plants. Electric power under the proc ess is produced from a uranium carbide source sorrounded by I plasma or electrified gas made irom cesium, a meiai. A 32-FOOT CUT from one of the largest yellow pine trees on the Klamath Indian Reser vation has been donated by members of the Klamath Tribe to Collier State Park, north of Chiloquin on Highway 97. Left to right are Carl Stiles, foreman for the Bly Logging Company; W. W. Timm, park caretaker; Don Cox, truck driver, and W. E. (Bill) Stro feld, dubbed "Bull of the Woods," by Alfred D. Collier who with his brother, A. M. Collier, provided land for the park where the Collier logging museum is located. Photo by Ken McCloud State Park Given Log A new addition to Collier S'.ale Park was brought in from the lor es! on April 3 when a 32-foot yel low pine log. 5 lect ll'j inches in diameter, was taken to the park to be placed near Douglas fir and sugar pine logs in the logging mu seum, largest in the West. The big log. donated to the museum by the Klamath Indian tribe, was cut on the reservation by Ernie Winkleman, under the supervision of Carl Sliles, foreman for the Bly Logging Company owned and operated by Grant E. March and Grant U. March, both of Klamath Falls. Ellison Henderson and Bob Ken nedy donated equipment and time. nocharge was made by (he logging company for transporta tion and Don Cox, truck driver, worked on .Hie project without pay. The tree was the only yellow pine in a stand of lodgcpole pine, three-quarters of a mile south af Sand Creek on the rim and three- quarters of a mile west of high way 97. It contains enough lumber to build a good-size house. The sled upon which the huge log rests was reconstructed by W. E. (Bill) Strofeld, oldtimc logger, who has put much of t h e old logging equipment at the park in shape to be admired by visi tors to the museum. ; INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Minnie B. (Connie) Nicholas calmly went on the witness stand shortly be fore noon today to tell her story of the fatal shooting of her wealthy, married lover. Worn by 15 days in court for her murder trial, the pert, little bru nette showed no emotion as she started her testimony, less than two hours after the defense opened its case. Let's just say I'm wearing down I'm tired," the 44-year-old double divorcee told newsmen as the defense opened its case. Over state objections, Phil Clif ford, one of the reporters who in terviewed Mr?. Nicholas two days after the shooting, testified her right eye "appeared to have been struck. The defense contends Forrest Teel, was shot in a violent strug gle with his mistress of 15 years. Tfle state contends she shot Teel deliberately because he had cast her off for a younger woman. Clifford said Mrs. Nicholas told him: "I only meant to scare him. You don't shoot the man you love. Mrs. Mary Popcheff, a general nospitai nurse, testified Mrs. Nicholas "appeared to be con fused" Aug. 2, the day she came out of a coma from swallowing 75 sleeping capsules. That was the day police and newsmen inter viewed her. , When she1 was asked whether she contemplated another suicide attempt, Clifford said she replied, I won t have the chance, unfor tunately. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair through Wednesday. Low tonight 26-34; high Wednes day 60-68. ' High yesterday 63 Low last night 27 Prcclp. last 24 hours 0 Since Oct. 1 4.36 Same period last year 14.20 Northern California Fair through Wednesday except for near the coast from Point Reyes to the south night and morning; little change in temperatures. Coastal winds northerly, 10-20 miles an hour, Point Arena north ward. CRATER LAKE High yesterday Low last night 8 a.m. today . No new snow i -Sno-v depth . Last year BONN. Germany AP Chan cellor Konrad Adenauer today reed to run for the presidency ot West Germany, a decision that imans his retirement from active polilies. The surprising decision was an nounced by Kugene Gerstenmaier, president of the Humlestag or low- house of Parliament, at a news conference. Gerstenmaier said the ruling Christian Democrats, who nom inated Adenauer, have yet to dis cuss their choice as Adenauer's successor as chancellor. The post of president in West Germany is largely a ceremonial one. Adenauer. 83. the only govern mem chief postwar Germany has hud. himself presided at a meet ing of a special committee set up by the party to choose a presiden tial candidate. His decision means that Adenau er will retire from active politics next July, when the second term of President Thcodor lleuss ex pires. Ilcuss is. ineligible to run ugain. Ludwig Erliard, the economics minister, is considered the most likely choice of the Christian Dem ocrats to succeed to the chancel lorshin. The sudden'turn of events caugnt West Germany by surprise. It was known that Adenauer had urged Erliard to accept the presidential nomination while the chancellor prepared for the federal elections in 1961. Adenauer is serving his third term as chancellor and had bpen expected to seek a fourth. It was considered possible that Adenauer might continue to play an important role in format ion of West German policy, particularly in the foreign field. Informants pointed out that while the constitution bars the president from partisan political activity, it does not keep him from sitting in Cabinet meetings and exerting influence within inner banks of the government. Asked whether Adenauer would influence foreign policy, Gersten maier waved a copy of the con stitution and said reporters might seek an answer themselves. Erhard, a roly-poly onetime pro fessor, has been the architect ot West Germany's economic revival Irom the ashes of World War II. Erhard has been West Ger many's economics minister since Adenauer picked him lor the post 194!). His program of ' Social Free Enterprise" something new in this land where tight govern ment controls are the tradition had Adenauer's backing. In l!io7 the old German leader named his economic czar vice chancellor and heir apparent. ..... 42 23 32 .19" 4 . 188 Roads are free of snow and no chains - needed. . Skies . went-. blue and beautiful this morning and It was a lovely day In the park. Cleric Raps Filth Books Observers Say Dulles Better JUPITER ISLAND, Fla. (API- John Foster Dulles, beginning his second week of Florida conva lescence today, seems improved to observers. Joseph M. Green, his aide, said a week of relaxation in sunshine obviously has been a good tonic for the secretary. . Dulles is resting at the Jupiter Island home of Undersecretary C. Douglas Dillon after a hernia operation and radiation treatment for cancer. LOS ANGELES (AP)-An Illi nois churchman believes there is a definite correlation between juvenile delinquency and obscene literature. The Rev. Arthur Zahniser, vice1 chairman of the Commission for Social Action of the National Asn. of Evangelicals, said Monday: "The commission is convinced that pornographic literature is contributing to juvenile delin quency. We feel It may also be one of the factors which trigger emotionally warped individuals in to committing many of the sex crimes reported throughout the nation." Zahniser, here to attend the as sociation's convention, is a pastor in Evanston, 111. SELF-IMPROVEMENT CANON CITY, Colo. (AP) Hope springs eternally for those within prison walls. Warden Harry Tinslcy says Colorado Penitentiary convicts have swamped special classes at the institution. The studies deal with self-improvement. World IVcws In Uriel United Press International OSCARS Hollywood Susan Hayward and David Nivcn won Oscars for best actress and actor. Wendy Hiller and Burl Ives for best supporting actress and actor. Gigi was chosen best picture of 1958. IKE Washington J- President takes off for a vacation at Au gusta. Ga. DULLES Washington Dul les is expected to decide by April 20 whether he can resume duties as chief allied negotiator in cold war. RACKETS Washington Sen ators open investigation of . juke box racketeering as practiced in Hofta s borne town ot Detroit PROHIBITION Oklahoma City Oklahomans decide today wheth er to drink or not to drink legally. Mlli 1 1 f't f fill t(LSi KF Was Small Community When Tutor First Began RETIREMENT after 47'i years in public school rooms as a teacher, 40 of them in the city system of Klamath Falls, is being looked forward to by Mrs., Justin S. -(Agnoss) Lageson, canter, third grade teacher ct Pelican School, where sh is adored by 29 girls and boys. Mrs. Lageson receivid her Retired Tescher's pin during the spring meeting Saturday of the Oregon Education Association in the Winema Hotel. The presentation was mad by Arnold Gralapp, right, superintendent of city schools. Mrs. Lageson will retire at the clost of the 195? school year. Ltft is Andrew Loney Jr., leaving to accept position en tht faculty of the University of Portland tftc-r strving for several years as director of music in the city elementary and high schools. i ' By RUTH KING The south suburban district be yond the railroad tracks was all in wheat, the Tulelake country was under water and Klamath Falls was listed as a town of 4,200 popu lation when Agness Lageson came to Southern Oregon to teach. Mrs. Lageson who Is credited with more years in the city system than any other teacher on rec ord, recalls many amusing inci dents in connection with the years she has listened to small fry halt ingly read those first sentences in a first grade primer. Her long years of service here also include 21 years in an ad ministrative capacity as principal of Mills School. But the school room is her first love in her pro fession. Just half s century ago, come May 23, hi 1909, she graduated from high school in Nebraska. She was 17 years old. That fall, she went into the classroom with no further training, to teach in a little country school. Two years gave her confidence and her next mqve up the ladder was to a school in the small town of Wilbur, Nebraska, near Lincoln, the state capital. She stayed four years before the urge to "go West" caught up with her. She wrote to cities in several Western states where no college degrees were needed to qualify t ; as a teacher and discovered that Oregon and New Mexico were the least exacting. Her next move was to buy a Rand & McNally, map for each slate. -showing the population. Ala- magordo, New Mexico, needed no teacher so she wrote to Klam ath Falls, The Dalles and to Til lamook, in Oregon. Tillamook's list was filled and she had do cided in favor of the northern Oregon town when she received a telegram saying she had been hired in Klamath Falls. Pay that first year was $70 per month for nine months in a class room at Riverside. She taught also in the old Central School for two years and for I'-i years in San Leandro during World War II . Teachers here, who "made good" the first year received 15 raise the second and the third years. Principals received tni. Mrs. Lageson was at one time the highest paid teacher in the city sys tern with a monthly pay check of $2C5. Agness Lageson has never com plcted one full year of college but she is within a summer term of receiving her masters degree Through the years she has gone to summer school and studied with extension and correspondence courses. (Continued on Page 4) H, f Shark Shot Said Success CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) Airmen of the first strategic Snaik missile squadron were at the controls Monday night when the first operational version of a Smirk guided missile roared aloft on the start of a 5,000-mile inter continental range flight. The Snark, the first U.S. Inter continental weapon capable of spanning oceans, streaked off with a flash of power on a trip that wound up near Asccnsio Island eight hours later. The firing was conducted by the 55Gt h Strategic Missile Squadron, which will man the unit opera tionally in Presque Isle, Maine, in the next two months. It was the first shoot of an op erational version of the silver coated weapon over full range by a military crew. It was learned that tho test was highly successful. 60P Urging PM Genera! To Be Boss WASHINGTON (API-Conserva tive Republicans were reported urging Postmaster General Arthur E. Suminerfield today to seek the GOP national chairmanship. The party's National Committee, meeting here Friday and Satur day, will name a successor to Meade Alcorn, who is resigning to return to his private law prac tice. The committee also may vote to hold the GOP presidential nom inating convention in Chicago in the week beginning July 25, 19H0. A site subcommittee, headed by State Chairman Ray Bliss of Ohio, meets here Wednesday. It is un derstood to have such a recom mendation in mind. The Chicago Tribune reported without qualification today that that city and date had been select ed, but named no source for its story. It said formal announce ment will be made later this week after a conference of GOP leaders with President Eisenhower. New York and Philadelphia also have made strong bids for the convention, however, and the for mal decision, at least is up to the full national committee. Summerficld's name was in jected into speculation over the chairmanship after it had ap peared that Sen. Thurston B. Mor ton of Kentucky might have no active opposition for the post. Sen. Barry Goldwatcr of Ari zona and Rep. Richard M. Simp son of Pennsylvania, chairmen of the GOP campaign committees of the two houses of Congress, have objected ' publicly that Morton could devote only part time to tho committee chairmanship because of his senatorial duties. They were understood, however, to be among those who would find Suminerfield- acceptable for the post, despite his Cabinet chores. Zealand Crusade Tires Graham . 7 Comprise Space Team WASHINGTON (AP) Many were considered and seven were chosen. Barr'"g the U.S.S.R. doing it first, one oi these seven Ameri cans is likely to be the first man to orbit the earth in space. Tho selection of the seven-man team of "Mercury Astronauts was announced Monday by tne National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Their names are still a secret, but they will be made pubulic soon, possibly later this week. They were picked for America s first manned satellite experiment, Project Mercury, from a carefully selected initial list of 110 highly qualified military pilots. Both phy sical and mental fitness were measured intensively. The number was held to 7 instead of 12 as originally planned so that each team member could take full part in all phases CIIRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) Billy Graham arrived to- uay for the windup of his New Zealand crusade, reportedly a bit exhausted" from the pace he has been keeping. "Billy has been warned that overwork may cause a recurrence of his eye trouble, said Lelghton f ulc proiect Ford, a member of the Graham. They will have a hand In the team. "He probably will rest up awhile before returning to tlje United States in mid-June." Graham hurriedly left Athletic Park in Wellington Monday night after preaching to some 17,000 persons. He was reported not feel ing well. engineering and scientific develop ment of the space vehicle, lhey will handle test flights at moder ate speeds and altitudes, getting ready for the supreme test, an 10.000-mile-an-hour orbiting flight 100 miles or more above the earth. -1 v the van or r5.- :f - ii i ' ' i J 1 Z i Him i . twrf.ih, im Ji 1 AN OREGON HISTORY SHOWCASE, tho Van of History, drew its usual big crowds when it anchored in front of the J. C. Penney Store on Main Street Monday morning. The mobile museum, on tour of doiens of Oregon cities, will close at 5 p.m. Thursday end leave for Ceve Junction Friday. The Van eontaini items of local as well es statewide in terest.' It is espocially popular with students. 1 J
