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la The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS There U AIR newt today. It has nothing to do with rocket hips. Or missiles. Or getting to the moon, it was made by a 56-year-old .grandfather who climbed into a single-engine glorified pud- die-jumper in Casablanca, in north ern Africa, and 581 hours and 6850 miles later set it down in Los Angeles. ; He climbed out of the cockpit and phoned his family in San - f rancisco, much as you and I would phone back after arrival by automobile at a destination 100 miles or so away from borne. - The only unusual thing about Ills trip is that he broke a world record. ; He bad his problems, of course just as you or I might have had a puncture. His greatest prob lem, -he said, arose out of the fact that the Arabs in Casablanca flavored his tea with mint. As a result, it turned rancid on him and he got terribly thirsty and a little sickish because he tried to quench bis thirst with the rancid tea. Does that forecast a time when you and I wiU climb into our puddle-jumpers and take off for the other side of the world for a week-end outing? I'm afraid not. " There are TOO MANY of us. If we all took off at once, we'd clog the airways as we now clog the highways. If one has a fender bashing incident up m the air, one has so far to fall. The air COULD get just as con gested as the highways. '.' From Washington: A four-nation committee repre senting the Organization of Amer ican States (OAS in alphabetesel began an investigation here today to determine whether the armed conflict in Nicaragua threatens the peace of the western Hemisphere. Hmmmmmm. ; What VISIONS that opens up. Wouldn't it be wonderful if when ever trouble brews -ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD a committee composed of intelligent and en-! lightened people representing in telligent and enlightened nations could get together and SETTLE the trouble in an enlightened and intelligent manner? That COULD happen, too, if there were enough intelligent and enlightened people in the world and if NO NATION EVER ITCHED FOR TOO MUCH POW ER. - The iterator power lies at the root of most ot our troubles, That ought to be enough dream ing for one day., Selah. . Debate Set On Naming Of Strauss Weather Norther California Fair through Saturday except tor fog a the coast tonight. Northwest erly winds 12-15 miles aa hour Saturday. Navy Reports Sighting Red Sub WASHINGTON AP) The Navy has reported sighting of a Soviet submarine in waters about 130 to 200 miles south of Iceland on May 29. - - The vessel was spotted on the surface by the U.S. submarine Grenadier and a Navy patrol plane, engaged in exercises in the area. The report was made public by the Navy in response to inquiries. It was noted that the Soviet sub was operating in an area common ly used by Soviet ships in entering the Atlantic from the Barents Sea. The reference to Navy exercises under way at the time may have meant the 'Russian sub was watching U.S. naval operations, WASHINGTON (AP) Against a background of reports of faked telegrams to a senator, Senate leader Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Tex) issued a warning today that any pressure tactics in the controversy over Lewis L. Strauss would back fire. Johnson took the unusual course of making a public statement as the Senate took up the hotly-dis puted nomination of Strauss to be secretary of commerce. .A vote appeared days perhaps weeks off. ; "The nomination is a matter upon which each senator votes his conscientious interpretation of the facts that are in the record," Johnson said. "The issue is soiely and simply the merits of the ap pointment. Earlier, in talking with news men, Johnson had called atten tion to the Senate speech by Sen George A. Smathers (D-Flai Smathers said he had received two telegrams urging a vote for Strauss which purported to come from Florida citizens who later nformed him they had not sent the messages or permitted use oj their names. Johnson, who has not made his own position known, refused to guess when a Senate vote on Strauss might come. The committee divided 9-8 in recommending confirmation of Strauss, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. Strauss is serving in the com merce post under a recess ap pointment, made while Congress was not in session. Strauss' nomination, submitted to the Senate Jan. 17, has stirred up the hottest fight of any appoint ment made by President Eisen hower. The Senate is not expected to reach a vote on it before the week after next. Senators generally have been predicting a close vote, with many agreeing a margin of one or two votes either way will decide the issue. If all the 98 senators vote. Strauss would need 49 or 50 to win. Vice President Richard M Nixon could break a deadlock in Strauss' favor if a 49-49 tie should develop. Sen. wuiiam Langer (R-ND) has said he will not vote for Strauss. Langer is the only Senate Republican to announce such t stand. If all the other 33 Repub lican senators vote for Strauss, he still would have to get at least nine Democratic votes in addition to the seven already announced in his favor. -Sen. Robert S. Kerr of. Okla homa Thursday became -the sev enth Democrat to announce sup port of the nominee. The other six are Sens. John O. Pastore (RI), Frank J. Lausche (Ohio), Den nis Chavez NM), Strom Thur mond ISO.- and Harry F. Byrd and A. Willis Robertson, both of Virginia. Senate Democratic Leader Lyn don B. Johnson of Texas told newsmen he probably will an nounce his stand at about the time the Senate reaches a vote. Asked if he thought Strauss will win Johnson said "I'll let the Senate decide on that." Klamath Falls and vicinity Partly cloudy through Saturday. Low tsalgal 40-45; High Saturday (7-74. High yesterday 74 Lew last light 41 Preclp. last 24 hours 0 Since Oct. 1 5.17 Same period last year 16.16 SF Granddad Batters Flight Mark LOS ANGELES (AP)-The fly ing gaanaaao. Max Lonrad. says he learned on his record non-stop iiigiii irwii Airica 10 laiuornia that:- "Mint tea makes me ill." A tired but happy Conrad said it with a grin Thursday after the 56 hour 38 minute. 7.638-mile hop irom lasaoianca, Morocco. But it was no joke, he admitted when he took a swig of the tea and became nauseated over lonely expanse of ocean near Cuba. "I didn't take any food only a thermos of coffee and tea." said Conrad, who makes his living de livering airplanes around the world. "The Arabs put mint in the tea and it became rancid. Boy, I was sick." - But Conrad. 56. recovered and piloted the single engine light plane into Los Angeles, via Cor pus Christi and El Paso, Tex., and Phoenix, Ariz. "I had 18 gallons of gas left and I could have made it to San Francisco," he said. "But I heard everyone was waiting for me in L.A., so I came on in." The first thing Conrad did after taxiing his little plane across the expanse of runway was ask for a drink of water. "Oh, boy, this is good," he said, taking a long gulp. Then he ducked into a tele phone booth and broke the news of his arrival to his daughter, Molly, 21, at the family home in San Francisco. He also has six other daughters, three sons and two grandchildren. MOONSHINE OUTLAWED TALLAHASSEE, Fla. UPI The Florida Legislature has- ap proved a bill making possession of more than one gallon of moon thine whiskey a felony and pos session of less than one gallon a misdemeanor. ACTRESS LEAVES HOSPITAL LONDON (UPD Actress Kay Kendall, wife of Rex Harrison. left a London hospital Thursday night after several days treat ment for bronchitis. A spokesman said Miss Kendall was expected to return to Paris this week end to resume work on a film she was making with Yul Brynner. Segregation Hearing Opens ATLANTA. Ga. APl-The first major court suit seeking to knock out segregation in the Atlanta public schools, Georgia's largest school system, opens today in U.S District Court. i The case will be heard without a jury by Judges Frank A. Hooper and Boyd Sloan. Both have ruled against segregation in recent cases. The suit originally was filed Jan. 11, 1958. by 10 Negro par ents on behalf of their 27 children, but legal action and counter action delayed the case. The 10 parents are asking an injunction to prevent the Atlanta board of education from operating schools on a racially segregated basis. They do not seek entrance for any child in any particular white school. If the injunction Is granted it then will be up to the Negroes to ask admission to specific schools, indicating the possibility of fur ther legislation. Berlin Termed Spy Center In Red Play GENEVA AP Secretary of State Christian A. Herter accused rnissia today ot proposing ns West Berlin free city plan as a "waystation" on the road to an nexation of the city by Commu nist East Germany. Herter also told the Big Four foreign ministers conference Com munist East Berlin "is the site of one of the heaviest concentrations of subversive and spying activi ties in the world." He charged East Germany has a spy network of 26.000 officers and more than 200.000 agents and informers. Soviet Foreign Minister At-drei A. Gromyko retorted with a de nial of the accusation that Rus sia's ultimate aim is Communist annexation of West Berlin. He also said he could make long de tailed charges of subversion and espionage based in- West Berlin but thought prolonged argument on this point might hurt the con ference work. In a possibly significant action. Gromyko then asked Herter, Sel wyn Lloyd of Britain and French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville to come up with con crete proposals on two points of their original package plan tor a German settlement a package Russia has rejected. These points, he said, are a pos sible declaration against using force in settlement of disputes and the creation of a zone of lim ited forces in central Europe. Herter asked Gromyko on what basis he wanted to discuss those proposals. Gromyko indicated he wanted to break the Western link between these two proposals and a proposal for German reunifica tion with which they were asso ciated in the , original Western package. Herter said he was glad Gro myko was turning to the Western peace plan but Gromyko stated that was not his intention; he only sought detailed information on the two points. In a strongly worded speech to conference session at the Pal ace of Nations, Herter told So viet Foreign Minister Andrei Gro myko the Western powers will not abandon two million West Berlin ers or impose any new status upon them against their will. The Big Four went into semi public session after -spending most of their fourth week here in se cret talks at villas of the various ministers, Post Verdict KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. FRIDAY. JUNE 4. 1(58 Price Five Cents It Pages Telephone TU 4-1111 No. 1411 1-' XX.- a. ' ? PONY EXPRESS mail it stamped, authentically, by B. K. Swartz, curator of the Klamath County Museum, on a postal o)eik used by the ether of Klamath Falls, George Nurse. Riders will leave Saturday, promptly at 9 a.m., in a cloud of gunsmoke and a rattle of hooves from Kit Carson Way and Portland Street. Camera hounds and spectators are wel come even urged to attend. Pony Express Postage Processed On Old Desk By NORM CARDOZA Some of the mail that speeds north from Klamath Falls to Port land via the pony express that will start from here Saturday morning will be processed on a postal desk used by George Nurse, the founder of Linkville, which grew, - eventually, into. Klamath Falls. The desk was reclaimed recent ly by Mrs. Eleanor B. Hancock j Parade Th meters en Main Street from Spring to Second Street will be hooded beginning at 1 1 a.m. Saturday, and no cart will ba permitted to park on Main Street from then until after the Elk parade which begins at 2:30 p.m. Any cart remaining on Main Street after that time will be towed away, according to Archie Huff, acting police chief. The Elk parade will form at Spring and proceed down Main to disband et Third Street. Ike Chooses Navy Leader WASHINGTON (API President Eisenhower today nominated James Henry Wakelin Jr.. Law renceville, N. J., scientist and re search expert, to become an as sistant secretary of the Navy. Wakelin, 48, a - Republican, would succeed Fred A. Banti whose elevation to the post of un der secretary of the Navy was confirmed by the Senate Thurs day. Since 1954. Wakelin has headed his own research consultants (irm at Princeton, N. J. He previously was director of the Textile Re search Institute at Princeton. A native of Holyoke. Mass.. Wakelin served as a lieutenant commander in the Navy in World War II. Prior to the war, he had been director of a research group on synthetic rubber for the B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio. After the war. he joined the staff of Engineering Research As sociates. Arlington, Vs.. and be came its director ot research. Buying Spree Proves Costly SEATTLE, '"Wash (API Rich ard O. Haynei viewed his daugh ler's new possessions with mixed emotions today. ' ( Daughter Charlotte, 12. was ec statically happy. That was good . The $215 37 drubbing Haynes' bank balance took was. another A month ago Charlotte ex pressed the wish that on her birth day she could go into one of Seat tle's largest department stores with her mother's charge s-plate and buy anything she wanted for a full hour. Good idea decided Haynes, an insurance company executive, and his wife, figuring the tab 'would come to $50 at the outside. They had their little girl, the youngest of two daughters, misjudged. When the appointed hour came around Wednesday, Charlotte ran into the store with the charge-a-plate and started buying. The store clerks had been alerted. A busy hour later Charlotte had $215.37 worth of new toys, clothes and stuffed animals. Mrs. Haynes had fun watching the piiceedi'igs. Haynes was figuring out his new bank balance, with mixjri emo tions. World News In llricf of Klamath Falls, the niece of George Nurse. She donated it to the Klamath County Museum. The desk was branded with time's mark, so Larry Schogrcn. a local cabinet maker, restored it to serv iceability. " Persons who want to send let ters on the ride may purchase pony express stamps at the mu seum between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. through Friday. The mail will be stamped with Linkvilfe, Jefferson cancellation marks. The desk has probably seen as much real history of Klamath Falls as any historic object the museum contains. According to the History of Klamath County, a monster book published in 1941, Norsj built) a one-room tf jte on the banks of Link River in 1867, Here a scattering of pioneers in the area traded and bought ne- i v J'..,'C ': ' J a:- 3 MORI THAN 2.500 ILKS have already registered for the annual convention of the Ore. goo State Elks Association which continues through Saturday. Here, two Ellis from Baker start the first day of registration. Left to right, Glenn C. Nelson, state tiler from Baker, and Orville Miles, district deputy grand exalted ruler for Oregon Northeast District, Baker, register as Bob Puckett, Klamath Falls, member of the registration committee checks in. Business sessions get underway at 9 a.m. with a special "Eye Clinie" program held at II a.m. Father Requests Help For Slayer Of Daughter PHILADELPHIA (API A fa ther, sick with grief over the sense less slaying of his 3 year old daughter, today wrote an open letter to the people of Philadel phia offering to help the 15-year-old honor student who confessed the slaying. Anatol Holt, 31, mathematics Instructor at the University of Pennsylvania, expressed thoughts of his tortured mind in a copy righted article in the Philadelphia Bulletin. Dear people of Philadelphia." Holt wrote, "I write to you this morning at the rise of dawn, still in the midst of a tormented wake. the most terrible grief which has ever seared my soul. "Yesterday afternoon I lost the most precious thing that life ever gave to me a 3'j year old girl child. She was murdered at three in the afternoon, in the basement of a house only a few doors away from ours. "Had I caught the boy in the act, i would have wished to kill him. Now that there is no undoing of what is done, I only wish to help him. Let no feeling of cave-man vengeance- influence us. Let us rather help him who did so in human a thing." Holt, in his 1.300 word letter, said his letter was motivated by an irrepressible wish to con- tribute my share of understanding to what has taken place in the hope of thus slightly increasing our understanding of one an other." The letter was wnttea Jwt a matter of hours after the girl, Becky Holt, was found stuffed in a toy closet to the basement of the home of her teen aged slayer. The boy, Edward Cooney Jr., ad mitted the crime after confessing to his priest. He led authorities to the closet. "I don't know .why I did it. I don't know, why." Cooney cried. You will understand, the pro fessor wrote, "that I am not lec turing to you for the pure joy of sounding wise. I am hurt to the depths of my being and l cry out to you to take better care of your children. He wrote further: "The point I am arguing goes, of course, well beyond the question of children s education. Our habit of thinking in terms of villains and heroes extends well beyond our family manage ment, but expresses itself in po litical attitudes and to conduct of foreign affairs. "It is very hard to admit, but there are simply no villains on whom to blame it all. There are simply lots of human beings, all with a similar set of fundamental drives, all needing control and love in order to function In society. "And some of these human be ings have had, their basic drives so profoundly inhibited often by being overwhelmingly goodies for much longer than health ana san itv will nermit that the problem of their control poses a most seri ous problem for society, tnus ma ing police departments and armies an anhappy, weighty necessity un til we can, as a race, grow some more, and make them less weighty accordingly." Cooney told police he strangled the child whea she, resisted his advances. cessities. Nurse also built a hotel across a road from the store. Follow ing the Modoc War, other set tiers built in the area and insti tuted Linkville. ' During the battle Linkville' be came a center of Army activity, Newspaper correspondents from all over the country made head quarters of the hptel. The town petitioned for a post office in 1874. That is when the little desk went into action. It was used - for many years. Other collection points for mail will be at Jones' Office Supply, 629 Main Street, at Dick Reedcr's Store on Fifth and Main streets and at Roberts Hardware and Sporting Goods in the Town and Country Shopping Center on South Sixth Street. The pony express stamps are on sale at those loca tions for a dollar. They'll be post ed and cancelled on the left cor ner of envelopes. ' Provided the envelopes also car ry regular four cent stamps, they'll be dropped at the Portland Post Office when the last rider in the long chain arrives Monday. Mod ern machinery will take over and forward the mail. The stamps must be purchased before Saturday morning. That is when a delegation from the local Klamath Kurbslone Kowpokes are going to collect the mail. They will whisk it out to the intersec tion of Kit Carson Way and Port land Street where John Owens, president of the Klamath Ridge Riders Club, will be waiting on a last horse at 8 a.m. sharp to run the first lap of the 311-mile gal lop. , By United Press International ADENAUER Bonn, Germany- Adenauer decides to remain as West German chancellor; may be trying to stiffen Western bargain ing at Geneva. EAST-WEST Geneva East West efforts to settle Berlin prob lem hit new snag; Gromyko lorccs talks into open session STRAUSS Washington Bitter Senate fight over Strauss nomina tion enters final phase with out come in doubt. MINISTER San Antonio, Tex asBaptist congregation takes at titude that pastor who confessed involvement with woman will be better preacher for having "bared his soul. OAS Washington Four-na tion committee begins special in vestigation of arrricd conflict in Ntrarasea:' , i . . , GERMANS Geneva East German delegation headed by Ul- orient leaves for Moscow; Russia may set final Berlin Kremlin meeting. BONN. Germany (API Konrad Adenauer held fast under pres sure today to his surprise deci sion to keep his job as West Germany's chancellor instead of moving up to the presidency. mere was criticism from Ger mans on both sides of the Iron Curtain: uneasy silence among Western diplomats at the Big Four foreign ministers conference in Geneva. Socialists and other political foes of the 83-year-old chancellor in Bonn were reported busily try ing to mobilise enough opposition in the Bundestag, the Lower House of Parliament, to unseat him on vote of no confidence. This could not be done, how ever, without the assistance of de fectors from the powerful ranks of Adenauer's Christian Democrats. But the Christian Democrats. after hours of wrangling, bowed late today to Adenauer j decision. Party sources said his followers gave up the struggle to make him change his mind. A Socialist viewpoint was ex pressed by West Berlin's Mayor willy Brandt, who is visiting ill Copenhagen. Brandt said "I con sider the circumstances around the nomination of the presidential candidate disgraceful." Several leaders of that party urged Adenauer at a closed meet ing to revert to his original plan and run for president as a sur thing candidate in a Federal As sembly election scheduled July 1. Participants said concern was expressed that the prestige of the Christian Democrats, a Catholic center party, would be seriously damaged by the frequent changes of mind about who was going to be the candidate for the presiden cy, a largely ceremonial position that Adenauer had intended to strengthen. First there was Heinrich Krone, the party's parliamentary floor leader. Then there was Ludwig Erhard, 82-year-old economics minister who ranks second only to Adenauer in personal popu larity. In Washington vice cnanceuor Erhard said "I have never laid claim to the chancellorship as long as Dr. Adenauer is chancellor." terms at Judge Slates Long Hearing GALVESTON. Tex. (API-Pro bate Judge Hugh Gibson today set a sanity hearing for Louisiana s Gov. Earl K. Long for June 18. Judge Gibson's formal order said the hearing is "for the best interests and protection of Earl K. Long as a mentally ill person." The governor's wife earlier signed documents asking that Gib son hold a hearing aimed at com mitting Long for mental treatment. Her action came after the gov ernor showed signs of wanting to leave John Scaly Hospital here, where he started mental treat ments Saturday following a hush hi'sh trip from Louisiana. The hearing is set for Id a m (CSTi in the Galveston County Courthouse annex. Mrs. Long's petition asked that the governor be committed for 90 days or less. Gibson earlier com mitted the 63-year-old governor to the protective custody of the bos pital. , The hearing June 18 will follow Texas law in that Long can be present and be represented by attorneys. Judge Gibson appointed three Galveston attorneys to represent the Louisiana governor, but he said Long still may name his own attorneys to represent him at the hearing. Cancer Group Maos Plans . BOSTON (UPJ)-The American Cancer Society began mapping plans today for an intensive anti- smoking campaign with particular emphasis on teen-agers. , In New York, Timothy V. Har nett, chairman of the Tobacco Industry Research Committee, labeled the campaign a "one sided propaganda effort." The campaign, approved Thurs day by the society's board ot directors, will be ' designed to "bring to the attention of physi cians and the public and particu larly teen-agers facts about can cer and smoking." Dr. Howard C. Taylor, .-hair-man of the society's special com mittee on tobacco and cancer, said a committee of statisticians, social scientists and communica. tion specialist would handle the campaign which he called "a to tal educational . effort." The society's staff has been di rected to prepare plans and esti mate costs for the program. aimed at "modification of the smoking habit in a community," Taylor said. Clerk's Office Notes Big Fee The largest recording fee ever collected in the county clerk's of fice was received Thursday. Coun ty Clerk Charles DoLap said the fee amounted to $290. The fee was paid for recording a mortgage involving the Oregon Washington Telephone Company and the Peoples National Bank of Seattle. DeLap said fees are paid on the basis of the number of pages in a transaction. The fee Is $1.50 for the first page and $1 for each following page. VJU Pfrf. v - . A..' iii i n u it i -ifffTW ". n miujjiu 11 1 1 11 "1 FUST DAT activities at the annual convention of the Oregon State Elks Association in. eluded this secretary-manager's meeting which was held in the Camas Room of the Wi. noma Thursday evening. Left to right, W. Brown, vice chairman District I, Ledge 2SB, i Pendleton: Bill Van Nuys, secretary of Eugene Lodge 3S7; Clarence Humble, president of the Oregon Non-Profit Organisation, Klamath Falls Lodge 124'; T. T. Turner, ONPO ex ecutive secretary, Grants Pats Lodge 1514; Harold Harp, secretary Oregon State Elks Association, Tillamook Lodge 143; Angus Newton, past president ONPO, end J. H. "Bunk" 1 Moore, first vice president Oregon State Elks Association, Prineville. - -
