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SUNDAY, APRIL 12. 1959 HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREOON PAGE 3 A CITY BRIEFS i A i-1 . TRUST DEPARTMENT representative! from the Portland head office of United States Na tional Bank of Portland will conduct a public estate planning forum Tuesday evening In the Camas Room of the Winema Hotel, From left, are W. D. Hinson, H. E. Butler ; and G. M. Tretheway. The meetintj will be opened by Losier C. Offield, Klamath Falls v manager. ' U.S. National Offers Tenth Estate Forum . The fourth of United States Na tional Bank's 1959 estate planning 'forums will be held in the Camas ;Room of the Winema Hotel, start ling at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday. . Lester C. Offield, manager of the Klamath Falls branch of U.S. Rational Bank of Portland, will .preside at the meeting. Opening remarks and introductions will be tmade by William R. Bradshaw, lo cal U.S. National trust officer. '. The current series marks the! tenth year that U.S. National has ; presented this series of forums throughout the state. ; Topics to be discussed Include ."Planning for Family Protection," "Planning for Property Conserva 'tion," and "Planning for Tax Sav .ing." : Speakers will include W. D. Hin on, H. E. Butler and G. M. Trethe '.way, all trust officers from the bank's head office at Portland. ; A question and answer period ;nd social hour with refreshments "will conclude the forum, Offield stated. All interested persons are invited to attend. INVESTED as Girl Scouts recently were these former Bly Brownie Scouts, from left, Kathleen O'Brien, Linda Murphy, Shannon Briley, Judy Hague and Cindy Ward. . x Photo by Roberta MeGe. Bly Brownies Reach Full Status As Girl Scouts Check Charge Plea Delayed A man secretly indicted by t grand jury two years ago and re leased Thursday from a California penitentiary- was ' arraigned in Klamath County Circuit Court Fri day on a bad check charge. Appearing before Judge David JR.' Vandenberg was William L. -Still, 42, charged with obtaining fishing supplies, a fishing license, -gasoline and change from a worth less $50 check cashed at the Bly 'Service Center June 3, 1957. :. Still was secretly indicted Sep tember 27, 1957. He was returned :Tiere by Deputy Sheriff Dale Mat 'toon from Folsom penitentiary in 'California where he was released Thursday.. ' In answer to a query from the 'Judge. Still said he had "20 some -odd dollars" which he had been given upon release from the peni tentiary, but he said he didn't want .a lawyer anyway. The judge, nevertheless, appoint Jed David Card to represent Still .and granted, at Card s request, ad' ditional time to enter a plea. En try of plea was scheduled for 10 a.m. Tuesday. t - ANN'.l .-f lit. I I lit Chanted The Soils TV short course televised on KOTI-TV by Oregon State College and the ex tension service of Klamath County each Saturday at 12:30 p.m., will be seen for the balance of the se ries each week on Thursday from 12 noon to 12:30 p.m. PTA Convention delegates are to meet Tuesday, April 14. 9:30 a.m. at the home of Marilyn Dunn. 947 A 1 e n d a 1 e in Mills Addition to discuss the PTA con vention April 27-29. Neighbors of Woodcraft instal lation ceremony Monday, April 20, 8 p.m. at the KC Hall. The public is invited. Officers and guards are asked to be there at 7:15. Meeting Klamath Falls Lions Auxiliary -will have a regular meeting on Monday evening, April 13, at 8 o'clock at the home of Mrs. E. S. Robinson, 2030 Van Ness Street. BLY The pledge to 'the flag opened the meeting of Girl Scout Troop No. 41 at the home of Mrs. John Snodgrass, assistant leader. Mrs. William O'Brien, leader, in vested her girls in an impressive ceremony which sparkled with the 13 lighted candles. The 10 small I candles symbolized Girl Scout laws and the three larger candles were the three parts to the Girl Scout promise. Mrs. Vincil Rentle, chairman of the Girl Scout Neighborhood Serv ice Team, invested Mrs. O'Brien and Mrs. Snodgrass as Girl Scout leaders, assisted by Mrs. Ray Nel son. ; -j Promoted to Girl Scouts from Brownies were Kalhleen O'Brien, Linda Murphy, Shannon Briley, Judy Hague, and Cindy Ward. Mrs. O'Brien presented them with their Girl Scout Trefoil pins and their Fly-Up wings. There are 11 requirements that the Tenderfoot Girl Scout must meet before receiving Second Class rank. Arts and crafts, literature and dramatics, music and dancing community life, international friendship, nature, out of doors, sports and games, agriculture, health and safety, and homemak Guests for the ceremony were Mrs. James Briley, Mrs. Francis Hague, Mrs. Jaunita Nelson, Mrs Vincil Rentle and Mrs. Donald Mc- Gee. Refreshrnents were served by the Girl Scouts. pAnti-Dis.. IWins Race : CHILOQUIN In a close race to the finish, the fifth grade room 'of Ross Mclntyre won the ticket Isale contest for the third annual PTA chiliburger dinner which will ;be served Tuesday, April 14, be ginning at 5:30 p.m. The grade school students brought 'In just over $300 on the contest :which has been pictured as a 'horse race. Anti-Di-establishmen-itarianism was the name of the winning horse. Second in the race, was Mrs. Lester Hoback's fourth '(trade horse. Slug, and in third 'place Mrs. Athel Roscr's third ;grade horse. Pork Chops. 1 Highest selling students were Ir .win Miller, Connie Wampler and David Jackson. Runnersup were (Stanley Lobert and Gerry Wolff. Down the line but highest in their own rooms were Norman An Iderson and a tie between Mary Kensler and Kathy Peters. Tickets may still be obtained for 'the PTA event, but the contest for selling is over. SCOUT NEWS COURT OF HONOR WEED Over 100 persons, par ents of Boy Scouts and Weed Lions Club meirfbers and their families and friends attended the Court of Honor for Weed Boy Scout Troop 31, held Wednesday night, April 8, at the multipurpose room of trie Weed Elementary. School. A pot luck dinner preceded the honor court. One star award, two first class awards, seven tenderfoot class awards, 13 second class awards, two merit badges and numerous year pins were presented during the evening ceremonies. Michael Auman received the star rank award, presented by Dan Downey, Eagle Scout, and former scoutmaster of the troop; Jeff Reents and Jim Bob Cullcy re ceived the first class rank awards and their presentation was by Dy- sart Scnbner. Eagle hcout. Jon Scnbner, David Downey and Henry Reents Jr. conducted the candlelight tenderfoot ceremony for the presentation of those sev en awards. The 13 second class awards were presented by the scout committee, Axel Granstrom Glenn Tonkin, Zack Perry, Wil liam Auman and Max Layton. Flans were announced for the troop s participation in the an nual Scout Camporee to be held at Soda Creek Saturday and Sunday, April 18 and 19. The public is in vited to attend the camp fire cere mony Saturday night between 7 and 10 p.m. Weed Lions Club is sponsoring group of Troop 31. ; MINOR ACCIDENT Slate police reported a minor jiccident about 11:30 p.m. Friday :when a car driven by Frank Lee Saker, 1553 Dayton Street, attempt ed to make a left turn off Wash burn Way and was sideswiped by '.a car operated by James Allen Kirsch. Kingsley Field. Baker vas 'cited for failing to signal a left iturn. PTA NEWS CHILOQUIN PTA The March meeting of the Chilo- quin PTA was called to order by Mrs. Warren Lough, vice presi dent, in the absence of the president. There was a discussion of the chiliburger dinner which is to be held April 14 in the grade school cafeteria. Plans were made for entertainment to follow the dinner. Mrs. Rolland Pfeiffer and Mrs. George Hobbs are the chairman and co-chairman of the event. The following names were sub mitted by the nomination commit tee for next year's officers, presi dent, Mrs. Warren Lough; vice president. Mrs. Forrest Freid; sec retary, Mrs. William Wiest Jr. treasurer, Mrs. Gordon Kuist. The new officers will be installed at the May meeting. Mrs. Dwight Kircher made the legislative committee report. Entertainment was by the junior high school students who repeated speeches given at the county con test. The next meeting of the Chilo quin PTA will be held Monday eve ning, April 13, at 7:30 in the Chilo- quin Grade School gym. Entertain ment will be by the first grade students. Refreshments will be served after the meeting. Kathy Fiscus Drama Ended 10 Years Ago SAN MARINO, Calif. (AP) - It was a narrow hole, 14 inches wide. its top almost covered with weeds. Three children played around it. one pleasant spring day a decade ago. then, suddenly, only two chil dren were there. The hole was a 230-foot-deep abandoned well in a vacant lot. had claimed Kathy Fiscus, age 3. Kathy's cousin, Gus Lyon, then 5, heard her crying, and realized the sounds came from the ground. He ran for her mother. Mrs. David Fiscus knelt by the hole. Can you hear me, Kathy? she asked. Up came the faint reply: "Yes." "Kathy, Kathy," cried her moth er. Are you standing up? "Yes," came the voice, "I am.1 Mrs. Fiscus ran for help. It was the beginning of one of the nation's greatest rescue oper ations a futile one, almost from the first; an operation which the whole country watched. On a warm Sunday, 52 hours later, the golden-haired child was brought from the well dead. A na tion wept. Doctors said she apparently suf focated within two hours of her plunge into the well casing. She apparently slipped deeper into the hole after her last words to her mother. A rescue worker one of 132 who labored round-the-clock found her 95 feet below ground. The rescu ers had to cut a parallel shaft and then back their way through the well casing to reach her body. The incident touched off a na tionwide move to cap abandoned wells throughout the country. Con tributions totaling $44,139 came from all over the world for the rescue workers. . Some of the workers gave their share to the Kathy Fiscus Memori al Fund, which turned over al most $4,000 to the Society for Crip pled Children. - From the fund enough was di verted for this plaque, which is at Children s Hospital in Los An "Kathy Fiscus Aug. 12, -1945- April 8, 1949 in whose memory eternal vigilance in the field of child safety is hereby dedicated, Card Party Priscilla Club will sponsor a card party Friday at 7:30 in Fellowship Hall, 2154 Gar den Street. Meeting Child Guidance Advis ory Council will meet Wednesday noon at the Klamath County Health Department, according to Mrs. E. A. Geary, chairman. There will be an appraisal of the recent two day family mental health clinic. OSC Dinner A dinner starting at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, at the First Presbyterian Church is being spon sored by Oregon State Mothers' Club to raise funds for the club's scholarship fund. Dr. Dan Poling. Oat dean of men, will be guest speaker. Call Mrs.1 Robert A. Thompson or Mrs. H. O. Jucke- land for reservations. Cooking School A free class In beef cookery will be held at the fairgrounds from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, sponsored by Klam ath County Low Belles and con ducted by Beverly Lyons, home demonstrator tor California Oregon Power Company. Everyone invit ed. Forum The United States Na tional Bank of Portland is spon soring a free Estate Planning For um starting at 7:30 p.m. in the Camas Room of the Winema Ho tel. There will be guest speakers from the U.S. National's trust de partment at Portland. SOFTER TOUCH HONOLULU (AP) - Officials of the convalescent home on Hale Mai Lane want to change its name. In Hawaiian Hale Mai means "sick house.'' In an appeal to the city's tirban renewal coordinator they 'asked that the name be changed to Hale O. Ola. And what does that mean? "Convalescent house." VICTORIA, B.d Chamber of Commerce members, and some wives, brought a bit of home with them on their Honour Oregon tour. These costumes helped immensely to un derline the fun the visitors were having and Intended to share with Klamath County Chamber of Commerce members and guests. SOC Artists On Program For Festival Two Artists Display Work At Art Center Work of two well known Oregon artists, Ruth Curtis and Dcmctrios Jameson, will be on exhibit at the Klamath Art Center today from 2 to 5. The exhibit, sponsored by the Klamath Art Association will be on display at the Art Center in the Mountain View Housing pro ject. Ruth Curtis is an Oregon ceram ist. Her work was sold for sev eral years in Klamath Falls at the former Art Center in the late 1940s and 1950s. She is a graduate of the University of Oregon and her workshop is located in Elmira near Eugene. Demetrios Jameson, painter, teaches at Oregon State College, Both Mrs. Curtis and Jameson will teach at the Klamath Falls Summer -Workshop, July 20 to Aug ust 14. The workshop will con tinue for four weeks this year In stead of two. . The two artists will be present for the Sunday exhibit to which the public and those interested hi the workshop are invited. Miss Helene Robinson of Ash land has had an extensive expe rience as a soloist, ensemble play er and accompanist. A native Ore gonian, she won the state high school contest in piano and held Firemen's Ball Tickets On Sale WEED Tickets for the annual Weed Firemen's Ball are going like firecrackers and plans are spark ing for a bigger and better "hot time in the ole town" on Saturday night, April 25. The Northern California "Hotten tots" music makers are already warming up for the event sched uled for St. Michaels Hall. Special award for the Fire-Ball this year is an Argus C-2 8mm camera with flash attachment, slide viewer and one roll of colored film. It will be presented at midnight The Weed Volunteer Firemen of the Shaslina Fire Protection Dis trict are sponsors of the ball and will use the proceeds to assist the unit welfare fund. WALLET LPCati78 ! Mate St. Polio Attacks Show Increase WASHINGTON (AP)-Polio has struck more victims so far this year than it did during the cor responding period In 1958. The Public Health Service says there were 207 paralytic cases the week of April 4, as against 113 a year ago. There have been 298 cases of all kinds of polio this year, compared with 205 last year. OSBORN HOTEL EUGENE, ORE. M. f. B. trlr Jm "'1T if. Prrlitri Thoroughly Modem Dependable Coverage MAYFLOWER AUTO INSURANCE VERN W. EMLEY anitil ltala Ram rflr fltattlt Vfuk, Offlrc rh.n t.mt tMl . ft Never Before Such HOG WILD DEALS! You'll find we really make it E-A-S-Y to LIVE BETTER BY FAR IN A BRAND NEW CAR! BASIN MOTORS LINCOLN MERCURY EDSEL rv Me. i r the Phi Beta scholarship in piano at the University of Oregon where she was a piano student of Aurora Underwood. She received the master of mu sic degree at Northwestern Univer sity in Illinois, where she played a graduate recital at Lutkin Hall. Her postgraduate work has been done at the University of Southern California, where she' is a candi date for the doctor of musical arts degree. Before coming to Southern Ore gon she was head of the piano de partment of Arizona State College in Flagstaff. The program to be presented by ENTERTAINER Helen. Robinson, pianist teacher and acting head of the mu sic department at Southern Oregon College, and Louis Clayson, music instructor at SOC, will b. guest artists at the annual spring music festival of the Klamath Women's Library Club en Monday, April 13, in the city library club room. Miss Robinson and Louis Clayson will include compositions of th. classical, romantic and modern periods of musical history. It will be presented as the annual spring music festival of the Klamath Falls Women's Library Club Mon day in the city library. On The Record KLAMATH FALLS BIRTHS BOYS ABRAMfl Born to Mr. ind Mrs. Joa Abmmi April S In Klamith Val ley Hospital a boy, weighing 8 lba., 2Vi oza. HOCKHOLT Born to Mr. and Mm. Jim D. Rockholt April S In Klamath Valley Hospital a boy, weighing S lbs.. 14 or. SCOTT Born to Mr. and Mrs. Law rence W. Scott April S In Klamath Val ley Hospital a boy, weighing S lbs., ozs. SEXTON Born to Mr. and Mrs. Jack L. 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