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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 16, 1959)
i-iA:-'E3 sscrioN : GSN.KEF.AHO tOCUSIITS CIV. mm If km Slmh JAerass 2300 AeHas ARE ERUPTED AGAIN Wednesday near Hildebrand, 30 miles east of Klamath Falls, and burned an additional 1,000 acres of pine reproduction and brush. It jumped a wide fireline with the aid of high winds. Driven by hot, dry winds, Fires Ixptode' In Three Locations Herter Sees Summit Meeting If Accord Reached At Geneva In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS Mr. K. speaking today to a throng of delegates at a meeting of miners unions in the Polish town of Sosnowiec, says: . "I give you our solemn pledge that never, never, NEVER shall! we launch ANY war against ANY country ANYWHERE at ANY time." Hmmmmmm. Wouldn't it be WONDERFUL if we could believe him? So MANY amazing things are happening. Already it is possible to have breakfast in New York and lunch in San Francisco. We're getting ready to leap off into outer space and maybe dis cover a limitless number of new worlds. - Hard-headed actuarians are look frig forward to the time when peo pie will live to be 100 and are taking steps to adapt insurance policies to this anticipated longer span of life. Limitless power from the atom seems to be just around the cor ner. A thought: Why don't the researchers and the scientists turn their attention seriously to the development of an infallible TRUTH SERUM one that would work EVERY TIME? If there is one thing this world needs above everything else, it is TRUTH. An infallible truth serum would do away with propaganda which is one of the curses of the world. Asjcommunications become more and more perfect so that every time a pin drops anywhere on earth we hear about it in a few minutes propaganda becomes more dangerous. An infallible truth serum would make possible the administration of exact justice because we would KNOW then who did it. An Infallible truth serum would revo lutionize politics by disarming the ripmaeoeues. ' ' Its possibilities for good would be illimitable. , . River Hearing Reset For Fall cam FRANCISCO (AP) A hoarimr on two applications to de vpIod power on the McCloud River and its tributaries was post poned Wednesday until September but an exact oaie was nui . The California state Water Rights Board opened the hearing in April on the applications Pacific Gas k Electric Co. and California - Oregon Power Co. to develop the Northern California river. REAPPOINTED SALEM (AP) Edwin J. Stast ny, Malin. was reappointed by Gov. Mark Hatfield today to the Itate Potato Commission for I live-year term. GENEVA (API U.S. Secretary, of State Christian A. Herter told Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko today that if arrange ments can be made here to bar future crises over Berlin and safe guard its freedom,, the United States is ready to proceed prompt ly to a summit conference. But failure to agree on a Berlin plan pending, unification of East and West Germany. Herter warned in the Big Four foreign ministers conference, could lead to a new crisis that might carry a greater danger of war than any' in the past.- Furthermore, he said, il is im possible to relax tensions, as the Soviet Union claims to wish, and to build sound relations between the United States and the Soviet Un ion if Soviet threats against Berlin are periodically to throw East West relations into an uproar. Herter appealed to Gromyko not to insist on a Berlin truce limited to a short time which is now the main Soviet proposal before Four Injured In Car Crash WEED Four persons were tak en to Mount Shasta Community Hospital this morning following a two-car collision on Dead Rock curve, about eight or nine miles north of Weed, according to Cali fornia Highway Patrol. The accident occurred at 8:37 a.m. and no details were available at, presstime. A man and wife were in each car; one of which carried an Ore gon license. The four persons had California addresses, however, of ficers said. Hospitalized were Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Swanson of Oakland and Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Barradis of San. Leandro.. Extent of their in juries was being determined at the hospital. . . , Weather Northern California .Fair through Friday except coastal fog. Few afternoon or evening thunder storms In high Sierra-Nevadas. Lit tle change in temperature. North westerly coastal winds 10-20 miles an hour except gentle variable from near Santa Cruz to Cape Mendocino. Klamath Falls and vicinity Sunny and warm through Friday. High 90-93 degrees. Low tonight 58-S3. . . . i . High yesterday 82 Low last night M Precip. last 24 hours Since Oct. 1 5.82 Same period last year 19.28 FOREST FIRE DANGER T0Dy KEEP OREGON GREEN ... flames lashed high and uncontrollably until they struck a sheer rock rim in foothills on the southern border of the Klamath Indian Reservation. The fire swept through a favorite hunting area of many Klamath Basin sportsmen, and the conference. The real need, he said, is to work out arrangements for Berlin that would continue un til unification of Germany solved the Berlin problem permanently. Earlier in the day, informed sources said the Soviet Union had eased up on its demands that East and West Germany sit in on secret Big Four talks. The Soviet maneuver had threatened serious delays in the talks. Informants said the Soviets in dicated a readiness to take part in social functions from which the Germans would be barred. Much of the real negotiations in the early phases of the conference took place at secret sessions. Pub lic sessions, at which the Ger mans sat as advisers, produced little more than speechmaking. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko threw the conference into confusion Monday after it returned from a recess by an nouncing Opposition to secret ses sions unless East and West Ger many took part. T 1 The outlines of the compromise emerged after a dinner conference Wednesday night at which Jakob Malik, Soviet ambassador to Lon don, was guest of Sir Patrick Reilly, British ambassador" to Moscow. . . The conference still remained snarled, however, over a solution for the Berlin crisis the basic issue that drew the four powers to Geneva. The West stood fast against any Soviet truce formula for Berlin granting, new power and prestige to the East German Communist government. Negotiators Marking Time PITTSBURGH (AP)-Top offi cers of the United Steelworkers of America set off today for a tour of mill towns to fill in rank and-file members on the two-day old steel strike. ' " There was no' indication of an early break in the walkout of 500,000 steelworkers. As union and management marked time, the walkout spawned growing un employment in other areas of -the nation's economy. ' President David J. McDonald of the USW planned to tour Bethle hem. Pa.: Trenton, N.J.: Phila delphia and other steel areas dur ing the weekend. Vice President Howard R Hague was scheduled lo visit Chicago and Calumet, III., and Gary, Ind. Secretary-Treasurer I. W. Abel concentrated on the Pittsburgh area. R. Conrad Cooper, industry's chief negotiator, planned a short rpt hefnrjt a mootino In Maui Vnplr 1 , it k I . u J: , win, uuscm r iiiiieKdii, uirenui of the Federal Mediation and Con ciliation Service. Industry's top negotiators will meet with Finnegan Monday morning with the union scheduled to meet with him in the afternoon. Patches of unemployment have sprung up and will grow daily in such allied industries as rail,' coal, truck, inland water shipping, iron ore mining and processing. Roughly 20.000 or more workers in these industries have been idled. . .'....,.-. ...aL. -i .j , . ........ .r " S1 . a, 150 Men Battle Blazes SALEM W Asst. State For ester Jim Walker left this morn ing for Klamath County to help direct crews battling .the blaze there that has covered some 2,000 acres. The Oregon Slate Forestry Dept. also (aid It had sent 20 man crew from the arborltum at Corvallls to the lire and an ad. ditional four-man overhead crew from eastern Oregon to help di rect the battle against the blaze that last night jumped its lines. Thought to be under control, the fire that started Tuesday was fanned Into action when the winds came up. Forestry Dept. officials said this morning. Planes : have been spraying' a twtrate Mlution at the head of the fire to cool It so fire Tlghters can close in enough to build fire lines... By NORM CARDOZA Fires in two areas east of Klam ath Falls, driven by gusty, shift ing winds, have-, slashed across about 2,300 acres of brush and jackpine since Tuesday. One fire destroyed a home. , ' But . chiefs of the Klamath In dian Agency and the Klamath For est Protective Association say the burning areas are girded with firebreaks, men and equipment. Unless high winds rise, the lines should hold. ; The largest,' in heavy brush, juniper and pine reproduction near Hildebrand, about 30 miles east of Klamath Falls, was controlled Wednesday noon after burning just over 1,000 acres. Suddenly, at about 1 p.m., a spanking wind carried sparks over a firebreak and a road. FIRE EXPLODES "It simply exploded in three areas, said Ted Tcllm, dispatch er at the KFPA agency. By 7 p.m flames had rambled east nearly two miles near the southern bor der of the Klamath Reservation The fire raced with spectacular fury across land owned by Perry Langer, a rancher. An unoccupied home owned by Langer was burned to the ground. A pump and other equipment also were de stroyed, and he lost some good tim ber. Langer and other ranchers whose land the fire touched, had no stock grazing in the area. The fire, knifing 200 or .100 feet high at times, was visible and audible for miles as it streaked to the top of a steep hill due north of Hildebrand. A rimrock, borate drops, sparse fuel and a wind shift to the south stopped it there. GOUGE FIRELINE Bulldozers and ,nyn from the Air Force, the Klamath Agency, the KFPA, the State Forestry, the Oregon, California and Eastern Railroad, the county fire depart ment and numerous logging and lumber companies succeeded in gouging a fireline along the fire's flanks. They began working at the rimrock where boulders, some as large as the tractors, hindered work. About 115 men manned the TRAVEL COMPLICATED MOUNT SHASTA Glacial water coming off ML Shasta because of continued hot weather is caus ing concern here. McBride Spring: overflowed last Sunday night. Road crews were called out at 2 a.m. Monday to remove rocks and other debris from the forest service road that connects U.S. Highway 99 with Everitt Memori al Highway. Interference from flood waters is complicating sum mer travel up Mt, Shasta, deer by the doien scampered in terror before the flames. Photographer Otto Ellis of the Herald and News was on the scene. At left, he caught an indication of the fire's fury a grove of pines exploding. In the center picture, fresh lines. They had the fire controlled, at least temporarily, late Wednes day evening. Tellin feared the lines may not hold. A strong wind was rising early Thursday, he said. The un turned country above the rimrock is extremely rugged and access is difficult. He said bulldozers were continuing an effort to bol ster weak spots in the line there, but a strong wind could blow sparks over the rim. Two forest service planes from Yrcka and one from Lakeview dropped about 12 loads of borate solution on the fire's head yester day. "It helped a lot," Tellin said TRAIN BLAMED The fire apparently started from a locomotive along OC&E tracks near Hildebrand. When it jumped the road Wednesday, it burned four poles of a 66,000 volt Cali fornia Oregon Power Company line, but Copco crews detoured power through various circuits. averting a power -blackout in a large area. A second fire in similar ter rain and vegetation roared out of control Wednesday six miles north east of Beatty. Klamath Indian Agency crews had a triple ring around the fire Wednesday morn ing, and pumper trucks were wet ting down -the interior' of the burn. The fire burned over about 300 acres of pine reproduction and brush. The fire started Tuesday from a lightning strike. Whirlwinds and gusts gave firemen trouble Wed nesday. Barring whirlwinds and severe gusts, the line should hold, agency personnel believe. Little merchantable timber was de stroyed. ! . About 30 men and several bull dozers controlled the fire. V. p?'-'-''f4r. " FIRST WITNESSES to this (ire on the Greet Northern Rail way bridge traitle across Lake Ewauna Thursday morning said the (ire started at a wooden 'shed beneath the draw bridge at left canter, above. North winds shot the lira toward the south hore and kept the pall of bleck smoke r 1 PPS Ci Brl .. '"!r!rirC!fri'!l i" NWIUjjllHH W UU M IHfl W W W l M WSWWWWgWl IMBWigU)UWWtnyUOWMIIlllIMIl Wis 'wwwwMyiaiMHiiiMiW .minds KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 16. 1959 Price Five Cents 24 Pages- Telephone TU 4-8111 : No. S44i Railroad Trestle Set Ablaze; GN Crews Salvage Drawbridge By TOM ST1MMEL. The Great Northern Railway trestle across Lake Ewauna burst suddenly into fire this morning. spitting orange bright flames above the water's edge and billow ing great clouds of black smoke into the sky. ' . The fire completely wrecked that portion of the trestle between drawbridge in the trestle's center and the south shore of the. lake. Neither the cause nor the loss of the fire could be determined immediately. But the fire, cut off the railway's link lo its Whiteline Yards on the south shore that serves Weyerhaeuser Timber Com pany and other industries. For almost an hour firemen could do little more than join a small crowd of spectators ' who watched . the remarkable blaze, Creosote - coated timbers burned the crisp fury of a thousand campfires and deepened the color of incredibly black smoke. STIFF WIND . , . A stiff wind from' the north west whipped the fire on and sent smoke southward in a sharp 45 degree angle with the sky. . But men were able to reach the fire from both ends with port able pumping equipment and with in an hour the fire was under control from both ends, although it continued to burn furiously over the water. 1 Cal Butler of Lakeview was called to drop 500 pounds of borate crews dove into heavy smoke along a new firebreak to cool hot spots and to control "slopovers." The photo at right gives an indication of the size, density and inflammability of brush that chokes the area. over the sizzling center that could be reached only from the air. Great Northern crews moved three water tank cars onto the trestle from' the north side and with this water were able to save the drawbridge and the re maining section of trestle. Late a Weyerhaeuser portable gasoline pump was installed on the south end and water was shot into the flames. ... The alarm was sounded almost, exactly at 8 a.m. by several per sons, among them two transients who said they had just crossed the trestle, John Kristensen, who gave his address as Maupln, Oregon, said he and a buddy, Paul Meyers, had just walked across the trestle School Board OKs Budget DUNSMUIR-A tentative budget of $238,495 was adopted by the Dunsmuir Elementary School Board at the regular July boifrd meeting. This will mean the school will have a balanced budget, Roger Ellis, principal, said, "if- we can keep within it." He said the budg et did not provide; for an addi tional school bus nor adequate re serve funds. at a low angles At this and of the fire, fad by craosotad timbers, may ba seen rails that curved under intense heat. Tha fira was under' control by 9 a.m., an hour after it started. Photo by Floyd Wynn when Meyers turned back and saw the fire. . . . , "We didn't see smoke, we saw flames," Kristensen said. He said the flames were under the wooden shed at the foot of the drawbridge, near ' the center of the trestle. The shed houses drawbridge lift machinery. CALL SOMEBODY . ,i 'I said' we'd better call some body," Kristensen reported, "and I Wjent up to "a pione."-- iHenry C. Sanders, n Greal Northern employe, said he was in the office on South Sixth Street when he got a call. "I walked out back, and I could see black smoke. It was - really rolling out," Sanders said. "It was just 8 o'clock." Firemen from the city, the coun ty, Stewart-Lenox and Kingsley Field answered a call, but. they could do little until the portable pump arrived. In the meantime GN had moved its tank cars per ilously close to the searing blaze on the north side. i . , . By B a.m. creosote had largely been burned out and the pall of smoke changed in color from deep black to grayish white. Steam rose from either end where firemen got water on the trestle. Great Northern moved a 16-man crew to the south side to sever track connections to prevent fur ther heat damage to the tracks. The crew had just come off the Hildebrand forest fire and had had -no rest, Sanders said. r ' ' . ?'t! .'.V
