FRIDAY. JUNE 12. 1959
HERALD ANI NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
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Well Known Catholic Cleric
Killed In Airplane Crash
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HOUSTON. Tex. (AP) The.PaltorTi
crash o a plane flown by in inter
nationally-known Catholic priest
killed him and three members of
a Dallas family Wednesday.
The victims: Father Ralph J.
Piefenbach. 4S; Ray J. Lockwood.
45: his wife. Katherine, 4; and
their daughter. Patricia, 11.
Father Dtelenhaeh was a chap
lain with the late Ren. George
MRS. DON (JULIA) ZUMWALT
Fellowship To Be Awarded
In Name Of Ex-KF Woman
By RUTH KING
A Named Fellowship Gift in the
amount of $300 has been given by
the Klamath Falls Branch Amer
ican Association of University
Women and named in honor of
Mrs. Julia Doni Zumwait. a fit
ting tribute to one who has con
tributed her talent for more than
half a century to the cultural
groups of Klamath Falls.
. The gift is added to a national
fund of fellowships and scholar
ships and is to be used by an
American woman doing graduate
work at the doctorate level.
Mrs. Philip Blohm. Matin, pre
sented the gift at the Fellowship
luncheon at the Oregon State
AAUW convention held in Eugene
in May. Mrs. Zumwait. now a resi
dent of the Mt. View Nursing
Home in Ashland, was unable to
be present.
Julia Zumwait. the daughter of
Methodist minister, E. J. Mur
ray, has earned her bachelor of
Felled Tree
Causes Fire .
PORTLAND IAP)-An old in
cense cedar felled recently by
timber falters for Weyerhaeuser
Timber Co. shattered against the
ground and burst into a roaring
lire, it was reported today.
The old tree was nothing more
than a hollow shell of bark and
sapwood filled with fire, started
by a spark from a nearby fire
late last year near Springfield
Ore.
The fire smoldered there for
five months until it hollowed out
more than fiO feet of the tree
trunk, even though it did not pro
duce enough smoke to be noticed
company foresters said.
The foresters also reported at
i nearby log landing, a spark
from the same slash fire crept in
to rotten wood and bark and burn
ed underground until it reached
the. surface again, five months
later.
This, foresters said, points upi
in hollow logs or on rotten wood.
philosophy degree from Pacific
University, now College of Pacific,
before her marriage to Don Zum
wait and her arrival in Klamath
Fails as a bride in 1905.
She came from Hayward, Cali
fornia, by way of Thrall and the
Pokegama switchback by a four-
horse stage on a hot July day, to
ttnd that there wasn t a single
lemon in town to make a glass of
lemonade.
She ignored the dust and ate
butterless bread until more but
ter could be freighted over the
mountain.
Living in a new land was
challenge.
.She helped organize and was a
charter member and music direc
tor of the Klamath Falls Library
Club. She organized and was the
gu:ding star of the Delphian So
ciety, a historical study group in
the early 20s.
Julia Zumwait became a recog
nized leader in musical circles.
teaching until her recent retire
ment. For many years she was
music chairman of the Klamath
Falls Rotary Club and for the
AAUW.
For St years ah gave unstint
ingly of her time to church serv
ices. Dozens of Klamath Falls
brides walked up the aisle to the
traditional wedding march played
by Mrs. Zumwait.
She was a member of the Daugh
ters of the American Revolution
and an inspiration to the young.
Soroptimiat "Woman of the Year,"
and she disclaimed her worthi
ness. v
In 1036 a Named Fellowship
Grant was presented to the na
tional AAUW in honor of Mrs. Lu
cile (V. E.t O'Neill by the local
branch.
Steel Union
Rejects Bid
NEW YORK AP-The steel in
dustry has made an overture
quickly rejected by the union.
that the industry drop its insist
ence on a one-year wage freeze
if the union would make specific
concessions on other contract
terms.
That leaves the United Steel
workers of America and the indus
try still deadlocked less than
three weeks from strike deadline.
The industry proposed eight con
tract changes which it said would
increase efficiency and reduce
waste.
R. Conrad Cooper, chief indus
try negotiator and executive vice
president of the U.S. Steel Corp.,
said union acceptance of the pro
posals would generate new eco
nomic progress which could be
shared by the employes, the stock
holders and the public."
Immediately after industry ne
gotiators made the proposal
Wednesday. USW President Davidl
J. McDonald turned it down and
called it "industrial blackmail
"If industry continues to insist
upon this ul-conceived program.
McDonald told newsmen, such
insistence can have but one pur
pose. That purpose is plain. For
reasons of their own, the leaders
of the industry want to fore a
shutdown in steel."
Third Army in World
War II. In IMS. the priest was
assigned ts return a religious
relic, the hand of St. Stephen, to
Joseph Cardinal Mindsienly
Hungary,
Hungarians believed that no
harm could come to their country
as long as the hand of at Stephen,
their first king was in their pos
session. The hand, removed from
the royal palace during the war
was found by I S. soldiers in a
warehouse near Salzburg, Austria.
Father Diefenbach. was found
ing pastor of St Theresa Cath
olic church here.
The priest's four-seater plane
crashed shortly after taking off
from a small airport.
The Lockwoods were flying with
htm to Galveston for a visit with
a relative.
The couple is survived by an
other daughter. Ann, 17.
The plane crashed on a prairie
about half a mile south of Andrau
Airpark, from which it had taken
off.
The bodies were crumpled to
gether behind the plane s engine
The Rev. Thomas M. Cemon.
friend of Father Diefenbach and
pastor of St. Michael's Catholic
church, administered last rites
over the bodies.
Father Diefenbach. a native of
St.- Louis, was reared in Waco and
Dallas. He came ts Houston from
Beaumont in 1940.
ROIERT R. HARVEY
J Penney Aide Gets New Job
Toilers Leave
Work Project
ONTARIO. Or. AP Workers
who returned through picket lines
to an overpass construction proj
ect near here Wednesday, march
ed back off the job the same day
on orders from their employer.
foremen vern Glidden had led
the five men, pile drivers and
carpenters, through the picket I
lines thratvn tin hv k tVu-tlanitl
and Astoria- locals of the Pile
Drivers Union.
Pacific Concrete, the employer,
immediatetv ordered the men off
the job. Then after a meeting of
the board of directors the firm
issued this statement through Otis
Jordan, a vice president, that
read:
Our bargaining rights are still
in the hands of the Associated
General Contractors. We have not
condoned the action of our super
intendent in Ontario.
"In fact, we have instructed
him and the individuals not to
cross any picket lines in the fu
ture. In fact, we have called back
the superintendent at result of
this."
Transient Killed
By Freight Train
CANBY. Or. (API A transient
woman farm worker was killed
Thursday by a freight train as
she walked along a track just
north of here.
Dead was Mrs Richard S
Thompson. 4$, who cam from
She Southwest.
Fred Abelle. a sheriff's deputy,
said she had poor hearing and
apparently did not realize the
train was coming.
He quoted the locomotive en
gineer as saying she did not look
up and see the train until it was
upon her.
Scientist
To Dig Hole
BIRMINGHAM. Ala. (AP1-A
Navy research scientist wants to
dig the deepest hole ever dug
Where? He doesn't know. He is
looking for an easy way through
the earth's crust.
Dr. Gorton G. Lill. head of the
geophysics branch of the Office
of Naval Research, says a tot of
scientists are excited about the
hole he wants ts drill, perhaps 6
miles deeo.
Ltira project ts known as the
Mohse Project. Simply explained
he wants to drill as deep into the
earth as possible for samples of
natural history not now available.
Lill is among scientists attending
the "Undiscovered Earth" confer
ence of the Southern Research
Institute.
The Mohoe Project will cost be
tween to and 11 million dollars.
Lill wants sample of 1,000 feet
of mantle beneath the earth's
crust. He believes this will answer
many questions of the earth's
origin.
For instance:
Have the oceans always ex
isted? Are the continents actually float
ing or shifting?
Robert R. Harvey and his family
will leave Klamath Falls soon or
Caldwell. Idaho, where he will be
come manager of a J. C. Penney
Star. Thus will end an eight-year
term as assistant manager of the
Penney Store her.
He will !ik in the store where
Klamath Falls Penney Manager
Frank Hales sot hut first crack at
managing a Penney store in 1950
Hales subsequently took charge of
the Penney Store in Astoria and
was transferred to Klamath Fells
not long ago.
Hates said this ef Harvey: "He's
done a whale of a job here, and
we're ll happy for him." Hit pro
motion resulted from recommends
tions by Hales and other Pen
ney executives.
The store In Caldwell is is the
company's medium-siiefj classifi
cation, Harvey said he is excited
by the promotion. He wilt accept
the new position June 23.
Harvey, who is living at IMS
Eldorado, is a member of the
Liana Club and the United Fund
Board of Directors, and of Ma-:
sonic Lodge Unit 1 of Oregon
City. He attends the Klamath Fails;
Methodist Church.
His wife. Marion, is-a member
' the local chapter ef the Amer-j
leas Association of Iniversityl
Women. Roosevelt School Parent
Teacher Association and is c lead
er of Bits Bird Camp Fir Girls
Th Harvey cam ts Klamath
Fall from Oregon City. They fcavai
three daughters. Carolyn, S; Ann.
1, ni Margaret, 1
Wife Of Actor
Granted Divorce
LOS ANGELES AP Actor!
Jack Beutel's wife got a divorce!
Wednesday after testifying her
husband "no longer wished to be
married.
Gloria Bailey Beutel. . added
"He would go away with his
friends and wouldn't come in sisttl
S or 1 a.m. He wouldn't tell me
where he'd been.
She said Reutcl, 39. locked her
out ef their home more than one
of taa
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