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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 5, 1959)
r i - i'lV. WflTr-L. T r-sJ 'f-.-'fjr-: i JKsisSSr-l ' fcX I ' V:v: 'l r&h k x - v3? A JUMBLED TWISTED MESS of boxcars and wheels was strewn for a considerable distance down Southern Pacific tracks at the Worden elevator when a hot box derailed portions of a freight about 8 p.m. Friday. Photographer la The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS As this is written, the highways ef America are full of cars. The National Safety Council predicts that 45 MILLION of them will take to the roads over the Fourth of July weekend and will travel NINE BILLION car miles. It adds the grim prediction that the traffic death toll in the United States from 6 p.m. Friday to mid nieht Sunday will probably be somewhere in the neighborhood of JSO, with another 13.000 persons uffering disabling injuries The moral that is normally drawn from these statistics is that the SP Freight Spills Cars At Yorden Don Kettler viewed the wreck scene from an overhead van tage point in the elevator. The' stretch of torn out track and piled up boxcars still presented a confused tangle to cleanup crews. In upper portion of photo, at left, another train can be seen taking the spur detour built around the wreck during the early hours of Saturday. At 8:30 a.m. Sat urday, traffic was flowing again over the route. Far right, is a closeup view of the scene, clearly exhibiting the) torn up condition of ears and track bed. No estimate on damag was available. Price Ten Cents 54 Pages KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. SUNDAY, JULY 5, 195 Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 6438 Traffic, Drowning Fatalities Mount Twenty one cars of a northbound Southern Pacific freight train were derailed at Worden at about 8 p.m. Friday. No one was injured, but there was considerable damage to freight cars and contents. J The cars were part of a 100-car freight train and were derailed just as they were passing the Wor den elevator. Later inspection led automobile 'is a KILLER be- f speculation that a hot journal " eauseof the speed' that itiriialies possible, a deadly and merciless killer. ,,' Hmmmmmmm. 1 wonder. Among" those who will read this piece will be many who can re- rail a day when cars were icw and far between and horse-drawn hides were numerous. In that lurind of our 'nation's history, there were no WEEKENDS. The economics of those days forbade non luxuries. The MACHINE., witn 1H fabulous capacity to multiply human effort and GET THINGS DONE FASTER, had not yet come Into universal use. The-ob ol malt ing a living had to be accomplished hv strong backs and busy nanas with only a few rudimentary tools to help. Consequently, Sundays and big national holidays were about all the time that could be spared from work. But- In those bygone days The dus'ty country roads on the Fourth of July would be FULL of horse-drawn vehicles and the dusty afreets of the county-seat towns would be simply CRAWLING with them. Don't think those days didn't have their traffic jams. They did Unless you've driven say a dozen Long Ends First Seige Of Campaign LAKE PROVIDENCE, La. (AP) Gov. Earl Long, who defied his doctors' orders not to take the stump . for, . reelection, completed his first day's campaigning here Saturday night. Aides said he left for his farm home in. Winnfield, 125 miles The freight pulled both 'load-1 southwest of here, to rest for the box may have been the cause of the wreck. Portions of one wheel were found with considerable dam age to the axle of one car, lead ing to speculation' on the hot box. Tvo Newest States Mark Ovm Holiday ed and empty cars. Some of the loaded cars that were tumbled from the track contained cement and other supplies, while two cars that were derailed but remained upright carried truck trailers, A special crew surveyed the; damage and began construction of a spur ' line around the wreck scene. They utilized portions of a spur line that existed to one of the huge elevators at Worden, completing this line back to the main line and around the wreck. The southbound Cascade was held for three hours at McCredie Springs and the northbound Cas cade was delayed about six hours,. but work on the bypassing spur was completed and traffic was flowing by the scene at 8:30 a.m, Saturday. weekend. ' Long attended the Miss Louisi ana beauty contest here, and told the crowd, "you've heard I was 'dead, and you've, heard I was nutty. I just wanted you to judge for yourself what a nutty man looks like." The 63-year-old governor just four days ago was flat on his back as a heart case. Just eight days ago he left a mental hospital. He came here from Lake Ar thur. Doctors had warned Long that the rigors of this Fourth of July campaign opening might prove loo much for his ailing heart, hit only last Wednesday by what was ALASKA JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) The land of the midnight sun Saturday hailed the- Jthf star in the tion'i flag. Throughout Alaska, whose stale- hood is symbolized in the tirsl change in the American flag in 47 years, gala ceieorauons were scheduled honoring Independence Day and the Star ,. : Spangled Banner. , The 49th stale, a member of the union since Jan. 3, began observ ances of Independence Day Fri day with a legal holiday to pro vide residents and visitor a three- day weekend of pageants parades and fun-making. y" HAWAII "Honolulu ap Hawaii i combined an observance of the na tion's Independence Day Saturday with a celebration of its own state hood. The . dual observance was ac companied by a loud .mixture of political oratory and fireworks. , Gov. William F. Quinn headed a statehood celebration that sa luted 600 "Fighters for State hood" men and women who worked for years to make the is land chain the 50th stale. The ceremony included a parade by a Navy band and a combined armed forces honor guard and a fly-by of jets of the Hawaii Air National Guard. Railroad officials could not bedescribed as a slight failure. reached for an estimate on pos sible damage. Last big train ' de'railment for the Southern Pacific was in March of 1958 when the Cascade Limited jumped the track near the sum mit of the Cascade Range. In that accident, 197 passengers -miracu lously escaped death, But he shrugged off warnings and in .midmormng left Baton Rouge on a 65-mile plane trip to Ville Platte. July 4 is the traditional1 opening dale of Louisiana's gubernatorial campaign. The Democratic . prim- try tantamount to reelection is Dec. 5. Ike Lays Cornerstone For Capitol Extension WASHINGTON KAPi ' Prcsi-1 dent Eisenhower, laying the cor nerstone of a 17-million-dollar ex tension of the Capitol called on all Americans to join the never ending task of preserving free dom. JJnder ' a beaming, Fourth ol July sun in 83-degree weather, Ei senhower spoke from a temporary stand erected on the east front of the Capitol. A crowd estimated at 3,000 persons was present. Above the President, two of the new 49-star flags fluttered in the mild breeze. ' Eisenhower had flown by heli copter from his Camp David, Md. mountain retreat to officiate at the third cornerstone laying in the 166-year history of the Capitol. The President said that in the world collision of ideas between freedom and despotism, "freedom is neither won nor held in a climate of spiritual stalemate. (Continued on Page I A) Red Deputy Makes Vital Trade Appeal SAN FRANCISCO (AP) The Kremlin's current traveling sales man made an important bid Satur day for expansion of U.S.-Soviet trade." He met informally and in private with a number of West Coast business leaders. Reporters were barred from First Deputy Premier Frol R. Kozlov's activities. Kozlov requested a day of free dom from newsmen and photog raphers, saying he wanted rest from questions. It was possible that Kozlov also sought a degree of privacy in his discussions with the business leaders he was to meet. The man who may one day suc ceed Nikita Khrushchev as pre mier of the Soviet Union laid heavy stress on trade upon his arrival in California. ' ' . In an exchange with Gov. Ed mund G., Brown at Sacramento, Kozlov noted that Brown might one day be president of the Unit ed States and said the chances lor American-Soviet trade might then be improved. This Tiigh opinion the Soviets seem to have of Gov. Brown's po litical standing and influence may be one of the reasons why Koz lov decided to visit Sacramento. city skipped by First Dep uty Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan on a similar barnslorming tour of the United States earlier this year. In addition to this, San Fran cisco's mayor has been offering his city's facilities for a prospec tive summit conference, should one be agreed upon. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Traffic 1 Drowning US Miscellaneous Total 29 269 The July 4th holiday traffic death toll rose slowly i Saturday The slow rale of climb In the morning brought this comment from the National Safety Council: "This is definitely encouraging. The weather was dry and warm in most areas, and millions olj cars were on the roads. But .one of the worst accidents occurred on water a new area of concern in view of the. rapid growth in the ranks of boating en thusiasts. A cabin cruiser and a car ferry collided in Lake Michigan near Muskegon, Mich. The cruiser, 24 feet long, sank to the bottom in 18 feet of water. Two persons drowned Alvin Kerniey, 49, owner of the cruiser and his wife, Dorothy, 43. Four other persons were missing. A freight train struck and killed three men on a railroad track near Danville, Va., late Friday night. Earlier, a head-on collision of two cars near Lunenburg, Vt., killed three persons. The council estimated that 350 Americans may lose their lives in motor vehicle accidents m tnc 54-hour holiday period that began at 6 p.m. (local time) Friday and will end at midnight Sunday, The NSC prediction was con siderably higher than the 310 auta fatalities for the Memorial Day weekend, also a Saturday-Sunday affair. For comparison. The Associated Press made a survey during a 54 hour non-holiday weekend of Juna 20-21. Some 240 highway deaths were reported during that period. The 340 auto deaths over the Memorial Day period were 4 more than the 262 fatalities mad in another AP survey in mid-May. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Mostly fair and warmer with some high clouds today. High 78-8S; low 44-52. High Saturday 7 Low last night 49 Northern California Fair today with some cloudiness later, Little change in temperature. 49-Star Flags Go Up, Down By Hundreds WASHINGTON (AP) A new Old Glory sporting 49 stars flew proudly over the Capitol Saturday proudly and very, very often. ; Flags went up and down on spe cially erected poles like red, whit and blue yo-yo's. .... This . fast and furious activity was because about 1,800 request came in from individual and or ganizations wanting one of th first new banners to fly ever th Capitol the first day the 49-star flags became official. To meet these requests all re layed through senators and repre sentatives Capitol architect J. George Stewart erected four tem porary flag poles at the lower lev el of the dome. On each bole new flags went up and down as fast as teams of Cap itol policemen and workers could hoist and lower them. The early rate was about one per minut per pole. . . ! ' But the very first 49-star tiag in flutter in the spotlights over th Capitol was up for 12 hours and (Continued on Page l A) THf TRADITIONAL FOURTH OF JULY parad look mor than en and on half hours lo pan in review Saturday (long Main Street. Pared honors had not yet been decided by pri time. Photographer points in th parade. Far left, into sight, center, Sandra and Don Kettler snapped that th 4-H WrangUrs treopd Karen Edgar seem delighted with th prospect ef being hauled eft te eav by en of th visiting cavmn from Grants Pass. Far right, lciltd lassies pared with th Rainbow Girls float. Hug crowds thronged th downtown street for th long parad which drew compliments from th viwrs.
