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HERALD Am) NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON "AGE 7 A "1 UNDAY, MAY 10, 1959 lip '-Si 'r 1 fr -w rf-r,Nw-1-jt A LADY FLYER, Mrs. Gini Richardson, Yakima, one of the best known women pilots in the Northwest will be in Klamath Falls to attend the second annual Aviation Week and Air Fair at Kingsley Field sponsored by the Klamath Falls Chap ter, Sportsmen Pilots of Oregon. Mrs. Richardson of the Rich ardson Air Service, Yakima, holds twin engine rating and has flown in several "Powder Puff" derbies. She plans to fly in this year's derby from Lawrence, Massachusetts, to Spokane. She will be in Klamath Falls Saturday and Sunday, May 16 1 7, and will demonstrate the new "Bell lanca. 3 High School Seniors Win Elk Scholarships Winners of the 1959 Elks schol arships wont to three high school seniors, 'all with excellent scho lastic records. Other factors in de risions of the judges included leadership, character, attitude and abilitv. sincerity of purpose, un derstanding and appreciation of the problems of a democratic gov ernment and financial require ment. Rodger Oscar Schlickciscn, 18, Klamath Union High School, was named winner of the $1,000 schol- RODGER SCHLICKEISEN arship offered by Klamath Falls Lodge, No. 1247, BPOE, the award to be divided imo iwo yeany amounts of $500. Rodger is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Mmrhead, Weyer haeuser Road. Runnerun was Claudia Hcglund, 38, Chiloqum High School, who re- CLAUDIA HEGLUND iceived the $350 award and the third nlnre il50 award was won bv Gloria Cahan, also 18. Merrill High School senior. Claudia is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Jleglund, Chiloquin. Gloria is the jlaiiehter of Mr. ana flirs. v. . Cahan, Merrill. who Is finishing his oninr vear at KUHS after his ear Jier three years at Ely Hign Jschnnl is comnlcting his four Ivan nf academic WOrk with cholastic record of 1.2. He stands fourth in the graduating class of 414 graduates. ; He has been student body presi 'd.-nt rlnrine 1959. was president !of the freshman and sophomore classes, student body vice presi dent in his junior year, was a member of the "B" class state championship baseball team in 1956, received a scholarship to the junior English and Scientists' Sum mer Institute in 1957, and placed .second in 1958 in the state mam ematics examination and first hi vpar in KUHS. He plans to nter Oregon State College in Sep tember to major m law or engi 'riAArintf Claudia, valedictorian of the 1959 graduating class, won the Robert Muskrat sward in 1957. rarmmltlnn riven to an outstand ing student, was president ef the freshman class, vice president in her sophomore and Junior years ! J, " 1 1 -. ' I it fey 7$ . v Is L & , Vr4 and is student body treasurer this year. She will enter Southern Oregon College in the fall to ma jor in elementary education. Gloria is salutatonan of this GLORIA CAHAN year's graduating class, is student body secretary and business man ager of the three school annual, Mehema for Merrill, Henley and Malin high schools, and has placed in the oratorical division, Klamath County speech contests each of her four high school years. She plans to enter college in the fall to prepare for the diplomatic service. ' Members of the Elks scholar ship committee are Paul Deller, Wyatt Padgett, Orth bisemore and Joe Mercer. Judges of the 1959 contest were Mrs. I s a b e 1 1 e Brixner, Mrs. George ClaVk and Lloyd Seely. School Vote Results Told LAKEVIEW With returns from all but-one district, Fort Rock, complete. County School Superin tendent Anne Sprague reports mat the vote was overwhelmingly in favor of exceeding the 6 per cent limitation in the budget for the rural school district at the county wide election Monday. With Lakeview District No. 7 included, the vote in favor was 455 and against 105. The districts voted as follows:- Kelly Creek, yes no 2: Union, yes 16, no 2 LakevieW, . yes 309, no 69; Pais ley, yes 23, no 6; Silver Lake, yes 23, no 5: Plush, yes 13, nc 1; Adel, yes 17, no li; Ana mver, ves 14. no 5: New Idaho, yes 9 no 1: Vernon, yes 22, no 3. In the Rural School District Darvin Robnett was reelected to a three- vear term for Zone 4, and J. P Bean was reelected to a three- year term for Zone 5. The vote throughout the county was also favorable in the election to exceed the 6 per cent limita tion on 1959-60 district levy. The vote, with the board member elected, is as follows: Kelly Creek, yes 10, no 1, Mrs. Buna Faris elected; Union, yes 18, no 0, Ralph Patrick and Mrs. Joan Stewart; Lakeview, yes 303, no 76, Jonn E. McDonald; Paisley, yes 25, no 4. Mrs. Barbara Nelson; Silver Lake, ves 24. no 4. Kenneth Em ery: Plush, yes 14, no 0, Barry Tavlor: Adcl. yes 19, no 10. John Murphy; Ana Kiver. yes it, no 2. Mrs. Fernette- weaver; new iriaho. ves 10. no 0. brwin ADram son; Vernon, yes 21, no 4, William Rogers. For Hire Killer To Be Gassed VENTURA. Calif. AP) Luis Mnva. the third member of a trio condemned to death for the mur der of nurse Olga Duncan, was formally sentenced to the gas chamber Thursday. Moya, 22, admitted that he and Augustine Baldonado, 26, kid naped and strangled Olga after being promised $6,000 by her mother-in - law, Mrs. Elizabeth Duncan. Sentences of the three will be appealed ts the Slate Supreme Court, Irrigation Water Supply Hindered By Bad Snow Pack An extremely ' poor snow pack, coupled with one third normal pre cipitation in April, will produce only fair water supplies in Klam ath Basin for the 1959 irrigation season, according to a report re leased today by W. T. Frost, snow survey supervisor tor U.S. De partment of Agriculture, Soil Con servation Service and Oregon Ag ricultural Experiment Station. Lands served from reservoired water supplies will have a satis factory irrigation season but all others will have late season short ages. Water content of the mountain snow pack is only half normal and is 39 per cent of the 1958 pack. Snow remains only at the high elevations with snow melt pro ceeding at an above normal rate. watershed soils beneath the snow pack are well wetted but elsewhere they have been drying out faster than usual. Total water stored in Upper Klamath Lake, Gerber, and Clear Lake reservoirs is normal for this date but is only 77 per cent of a year ago. Most small reservoirs and stock ponds are -only partial ly tilled. Next year's water outlook will depend in part on carry over supplies remaining a'ter this year s operations. Water uiers are urged to make the most efficient use of their water supplier to in crease carry over amoun'.s. Forecasts of the April-Ssptember runoff of Sprague and Williamson rivers and of inflow to Upper Three Fur Thieves Nabbed By Tipped-Of f Officers TRENTON, N.J. (AP)-Tipped-off police hid out of the way Thursday night while burglars robbed almost a million dollars in gems and furs from the hotel apartment of banker-socialite Mrs. Mary1 G. Roebling. Then, the burglary complete, detectives arrested two of the gang as they stepped out of the hotel elevator ladened with the loot. A third was arrested outside in a getaway car. New York cops had been tailing the burglars since Feb. 2 and had followed them here by car Thurs day afternoon. Detectives waited- patiently while the burglars went about their business in Mrs. Roebling's lavish apartment in the Hotel Hii debrecht. Arrested were Morris Hess, 35. and David Lerner, 47, both Brook lyn, and Alexander Spica, 47, of Manhattan. They were held on charges of breaking, entry and larceny. Among the loot they carried in a cardboard box was a mink coat valued at $10,000; an emerald necklace ($140,000), a ruby, neck lace ($100,000), and many other Scientists Tell Findings ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., (API A scientist indicated the huge ring of radiation around earth may not be such a barrier to space explor ation after all. He said a recovered rocket cone which carried a packet of film shows the earth's radiation girdle may be made up of protons, not electrons. If that is true, he said, it may be easier than previously believed to devise shielding to protect space pilots from radiation. The information came from Dr. John Lindner, senior staff mem ber of Space Technology Labora tory, Los Angeles, at a meeting of the Seventh Region of the In stitute of Radio Engineers. Lindner said the information about the Van Allen radiation belt was obtained from the nose cone of a rocket fired four weeks ago from Cape Canaveral, Fla. He said radioactive particles which make up the belt registered on a pack of film carried in the cone He said the cone reached an altitude of 50 miles. Lindner in dicated that that was deep enough into the fringe of the Van Allen radiation belt to give a good in dication of its makeup. New Spud Mart Under Probe TULELAKE The possibility of opening a new market for Klam ath Basin potatoes is being inves tigated by the Tulelake Growers Association and the Klamath Po tato Growers. Some local shippers sent spuds Into Texas and Chicago this year. and local groups are eyeing these markets, if a favorable rate re ductlon can be obtained. Cliff Jenkins, manager of the Tulelake Growers Association, said that there has been a lot of jock eying of freight rates in the last few years, to the detriment of the Klamath Basin. Idaho producers have more favorable rates into the Bay - area and Los Angeles than local growers. Representatives of farmers' groups plan to try to arrange c meeting with railroad represents lives in the near future. PLYWOOD SHEATHING Low Prices Oh Other Grades t"x4'xB' 25 Sheets or mora $4.00 o. CASH & CARRY David A. Richardson Co. Spring Lakt Read 'sjrti'"' Klamath Lake are set at 81 per cent of normal. Inflow to Gerher and Clear Lake reservoirs, however, is expected to be only 20 per cent of the 1938-52 average. Smaller streams heading in low elevations will have extremely short flows this season. Statewide. Oregon's 1959 irriga tion season water supply out look is only fair to poor except on those streams with irrigation res ervoir facilities. Reservoirs hold an average supply of water but will be seriously depleted by ex cessive irrigation water demands this summer. April precipitation fell way short of . normal. Stream flow will drop off rapidly during the next month unless unusually heavy rainfall occurs. In this area the following or ganizations cooperate with the Soil Conservation Service in the snow survey activity: California Oregon Power Com pany, Langell Valley, Klamath, Poe Valley and Lakeview Soil Conservation Districts, Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station, Oregon State Engineer and State Watermaster, U.S. Indian Service, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Na tional Park Service, Talent Irri gation District, Medford Irriga tion District, and U.S. Corps of Engineers. The next report on water supply conditions will be released by the Soil Conservation Service at the close of the irrigation season, about October 10. gems. Police said the total was nearly $1,000,000. I really don t know what the total value would be," said Mrs. Roebling, 52, often listed among the nation's best dressed women. I will have to check with my in surance man. Her swank apartment was In the public eye only a few weeks ago when Edward R. Murrow brought his "Person To Person" television show there to interview the wealthy widow. Mrs. Roebling is president of the Trenton Trust Co., one of the slate's largest banks, a director of at least 24 companies, and re cently became the first woman member of the New York Stock Exchange. She is the widow of the grana tin of the builder of the Brooklyn Bridge. Reconciliation Rumors False HOLLYWOOD (AP) Eleanor Powell says 'rumors that she is considering a reconciliation with Glenn Ford are false. "I know nothing about a recon ciliation and my decision to obtain a divorce remains unchanged," she said. Rumors of a reconciliation cropped up when a temporary ali mony hearing scheduled for today was postponed. She said the di vorce proceedings will continue as soon as a - decision is made on terms of the settlement. A spokesman for the family said Miss Powell and Ford have been living in separate suites at op posite ends of their Beverly Hills home. Their son, Peter, 14, is staying ""with Miss Powell's mother. Nation Mourns Dead Cardinal BOGOTA. Colombia (AP) The government Friday ordered three days of national mourning for Crisanto Cardinal Luque, dead at 70 of a heart attack. The cardinal, whose censure was a major factor in the down fall of Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pimlla two years ago, was strick en Thursday while at lunch. His death reduced to 72 the membership of the College of Car dinals. Cardinal Luque was Colombia's first prince of the Roman Catho lic Church. He received his red hat at the 1953 consistory. Born Feb. 1. 1809. he became a bishop in 1931 and Archbishop of Bogota in 19o0. $40,000 Granted For Sewage Aid PRINEVILLE (AP) A federal grant of some $40,000 has been anoroved to aid in building a sew age lagoon system here, accord ing to word received Wednesday by Jack Kalinoskl, city superin tendent. The grant was approved by the Oregon State Sanitary Authority. Toial cost of the lagoon con struction will he $215,000 and the system will afford sewage dis posal for a maximum of 8,000 per sons. The present city sewage svstem capacity if about 2,000 persons. j 't' Stout-Hearted Pioneers Determined To Live In Wilderness Of Alaska Editor's Note: Earlier this year, approximately three dozen Detroit residents left in a caravan to trav el lo Alaska where they planned to start a new life as homesteaders. The group, known as the 59crs, arrived at Anchorage on Good Fri day, March 27, and most of them since have gone up the Susitna River from Anchorage to pick out homestead sites. Martin Hecrwald. UP1 Seattle bureau manager, flew to the remote region to get on-the-scene interviews. By MARTIN HEKRWAI.D TALKEETNA. Alaska lUPi) -Detroit's 59ers, some of them tem porarily stranded across the frozen Susitna River and others wailing to cross, remain determined to carve a living out of the Alaskan wilderness. This reporter and United Press Movietone cameraman Parris Em ery flew into this tiny community of about 100 population to get a first hand report on how the 59crs are progressing with their plans to homestead the virgin land near ly 4,500 miles from home. At the time of this dispatch, the two dozen 59ers who decided to make the Susitna Valley their home are frustrated by the big river which is just beginning to break up, making it unsafe to cross by foot, impossible to cross by boat. About another dozen of the original group ol 37 decided to slay on the Kenai Peninsula, south of Anchorage. Fourteen of the group here crossed the quarter-mile wide Sus itna with three house trailers about a week ago when the ice was strong enough to support the trailers and the bulldozer which pulled them. The fourth and fifth trailers started to sink through the ice as the next day's thawing began to make the ice mushy, but the modern-day pioneers managed to save the trailers with the help of townspeople. If anyone in the group was thinking about giving up the whole idea and returning to Detroit, the feelings didn't show. Enthusiasm expressed for Alaska matched the brightness of a cloudless day with temperature in the 50s and Mount McKinley, tallest in the nation at 20.300 feet, towering snow white above other peaks about 60 miles to the north. 'We haven't become discour aged yet," said Mrs. Eleanor Ru bino, who with her husband, Nicholas, gave up good jobs to come here. They have a son, Nick Jr., 10, who thinks everything about Alaska is just great. "It's been hard, believe, me," Mrs. Rubino said, "but we'll man age somehow. We might have to live in tents for a while, because now we can t move our trailer across until the river freezes again next fall. And we probably will have to melt snow to do our laundry and face a lot of problems we Haven t even dreamed of yet. But you can't beat the Alaska peo ple. We've never known anyone as friendly and helpful. What about schooling for- the Rubino s son, when the family is settled across tne river? Janitor Returns To Science Men ALBUQUERQUE. N.M. (AP)- An atomic physicist has called the use of scientists for janitorial services a ridiculous and flag rant waste" of highly trained per sonnel. Jack Padcn, a civilian in the 4925lh Test Group (Atomic) at Kirtland Air Force Base, was the complainant. He says that until recently sci entists and technicians making anywhere from $7,510 to $11,835 a year had been stuck with jan itors' chores because of a man power cut. He said he complained to Sen Dennis Chavez (D-NM) and the group now has its janitor back. Lumber Company To Build Plant LYONS (AP) - Plans for con struction of a new green veneer plant here werfe announced Wed nesday by T. G. Frcres, president of Freres Lumber Co. The new plant, to be built near the present site of the Frcres Lumber Co. band mill, will be in production. by Sept. 1, Freres said The plant will have a capacity ol 7 million feet of Mi inch veneer per month, Freres said. It will employ about 40 men. It wilt be housed in a building 490 feet long, he said. No estimate of construction cost was given. JOB SLIPS AWAY KILL DEVIL HILLS, NC (UPI) Mayor V. T. Chears lost his job when R. H. Cook drew out of a hat a slip of paper marKca mayor. Th two had tied at 64 votes each in Tuesday's election and had agreed to draw for it. Hastings Barber Shop 4643 So. 6th Neat ts State Liquet Stare OPEN MON. Thru SAT. 1:30 A.M. te 7:00 P.M. Howell C. Haitinft formerly ef Town t Country end HI way lafber Sheet llnctrely invitee your petronesje. ADULTS - $1.25 CHILDREN $1.00 Ladies HoireuHing A Specialty! yreayfaptse e I yea.eljyjg; I'm told Alaska offers a won derful correspondence course.' Mrs. Rubino said, "and Nickie yill get along all right. In fact he's looking forward to school by mail." The 59ers have been so con cerned with getting everyone to gether across the river, to the east from here, and making plans for summer that they haven't, made definite winter plans. The tem perature in the region, on the cold side of the moist curtain which protects the coastal areas, mav dip as low as 50 degrees below zero. 'One thing is sure." said Bob Watkins, a bachelor who has grown a full beard and mustache since arriving in Alaska. "We'll have to stick together and help each other or we won't survive. But we plan to stay together, and I ininK. we will. Watkins explained that most ofl the s.lers.- decided on the Susitna Valley, although the original nlan called for homesteading the Kenai I'emnsula, because land in size able, farmablc quantities is less available on the Kenai. Asked if they had any advice to give others planning to home stead Watkins replied: leu them to travel as lightly as possible. We found we carried much too much food and equip nient with us. We just as easily could have bought our food, even our house trailers, right in An ohorage. We would have been money ahead if we had brought virtually nothing but ourselves. One family even brought its 24 inch TV and hi-fi sets. Frankly, we didn't know as much as we shouli have about Alaska. We made a lot of mistakes." SCOUT NEWS MERRILL CUBS MhKltlLL Awards were pre- scntcd to Merrill Cub Scouls of Pack No. 7 during a regular pack meeting and potluck supper held at the Merrill Recreation Hall on Ap ril 30. Receiving awards were Chris Kandra, Mike Icenbicc, lion badge: Rodney Millet, wolf badge; Robert Watson, two silver arrows: Kirk Watson, lion badge, one gold arrow and three silver arrows; Mike McKoen, lion badge and gold arrow: Mike Keck, Roy Miller, Colin Pope, Mike Ratlilf, Donald White and Craig Fleck, one silver arrow. Den inspection for neatness and percentage of attendance was won by Den 3 led by Mis. ferry wat- son. The next scheduled pack meet ing will be May 28. This will be he last pack meeting until Sep tember. Cubmastcr Randall Pope lhanked all who participated the recent Cub Scout Exposition and announced that those boys who sold 10 tickets or more for the exposition will receive awards at the next pack meeting. Austrian Jewel Termed Missing NEW YORK (AP) Arch duchess Marie of Austria report ed Thursday that one of the few surviving pieces .of the Austrian crown jewels is missing. The Archduchess, 24, described the antique gold, pearl and ruby brooch as priceless. She said she wore it Tuesday night at a ball in the Ambassador Hotel. A scarcn of the ballroom failed to produce the brooch two by four inches, with a large center pearl, three dropped pearls and a circlet o( 16 small and four large rubies. Traffic Violation Total Reported SALEM AF) mere were 15.1)70 traffic violation convictions In Oregon during April, the state Traffic Saiety Division reported Thursday. It was a slight increase over April, 1958. There were 249 convictions for drunken driving, causing suspen sion of driver s licenses. The department reported 201 suspensions for other violations. and 192 for repeated Involvement in accidents and violations. Driving with suspended licenses resulted in additional suspension (or 105 drivers. PASS OPEN BEND (AP: McKcnzie Pass reopened Friday at 4 p.m. after being closed through the winter bv snow. The last of (he heavy drifts on the pass in the Cascades have been plowed off the Bend-Eugene route, stale Highway Department officials said. MOO. "rMtir fijQItX8l!D eaa.sire t$ffiit&lM6f&l&t)m00, It ii r.'" . t, sjv $.tM jfw,' -.A V- ,i i.iV to FIRE CHIEF ROY ROWE questions Bryant Martindale, a rasU dent of 415 Princeton Street, who raportad tha fire that took the life of George C.'.ne, 76. Tha fira was caused by ax plosion of a coal oil cooking stove, Martindale told tha fir chief. J Photo by Sheriff Murray BrittoR Total Amount Smoked Linked To Cancer Study NEW YORK (AP Anotheri medical report, linking lung can cer with smoking, says the total smoking a person does is the im portant factor, not the period of consumption. The new report, covering a sev en-year period and involving 500 lung cancer victims, was an nounced Thursday by the U.S. Public Health Service and the American Cancer Society. Eight of the patients were non- smokers. Nineteen smoked pipes or cigars. Most of the 473 cigarette smok ers had smoked at least 9.125 packs in their lifetime. This averaged out to a pack a day over a 25-year period, or two packs a day for 1214 years. 'The total number of packs smoked during life is the import ant variable, and it makes no dif ference whether the total effect was accumulated over a short or long period of time," the report said. The study was made by Dr. Herbert L. Lombard and Dr, Leonid S. Sncgireff of the Massa chusctts Department of Public Health. The report also said the study aoes not prove causation (but it is nigniy suggestive and no evi ' ON DESTROYER Jack R. Gathwright of Klam- ain fans, electronics technician seaman in the Navy, is serving anoarn me destroyer uss Brad ford operating with the U.S. Sev enth Fleet in the Western Pa cific. He is the son of Mrs and Mrs. Lloyd R. Gathwright of 2523 Patterson Street. We've Caught Fire! IN MAY Let Us Put You Behind The Wheel of a BIG, BEAUTIFUL 4-DOOR OLDS SEDAN and It's fully equipped NOT stripped! Burn the profits! Similar "Fire Sale" price on New Cadillacs and Hillmant and Safety-Tested Used Cars! Never Before Such Deals.1 ic Never Before Such Trades.1 DICK B. MILLER Co. 7th & Klemath dence has been presented (hat dis proves such an hypothesis." Those starting to smoke whlla young, the report said, are slight ly more liable to lung cancer than those smoking the same total aft er a later start. Timothy V. Hartnett, chairman of the Tobacco Industry Research Committee, commented that "in spite of persistent experiments" no convincing laboratory or clini cal evidence exists to prove that cigarette smoking causes cancer. His statement added: 'On the other hand, there have been, and continue to be, pub lished accepted scientific studies challenging the premise that often-cited statistical surveys show a causal connection between smoking and lung cancer." - BUCKHORN MINERAL SPRINGS ' AihUnd, On. Rilav health. r t Rnmfort. and hoipiullty amldjt pleat ant urfundinss. HOT MINERAL BATHS It Rhrumatlim. Arthritis, Naa rltli and Nervouinen. CARBON DIOXIDE VAPOR BATHS for Hljh and Low Hlood Presiure, slnni. ana akin Kruptloni. LODGE AND LIGHT HOUSEKEEPING CABINS at Reasonable Rates. Wrlta for Reservations PHONE LONG DISTANCE Buekhorn Mineral Spring! DR. HERMAN WEXLER, DC, Director 220 Buekhorn Springs Road Ashland. Oregoa ITS OLDS! 66 fh. TU4-41S4 C3
