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.1 l I ihwrfaM WKMMM WWWMMM WIOIMIIII MMMM WMIM WMM MMHII II linnnnn I TT I " Price Five Cents 14 Pages KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1959 Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 6458 la The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS Progress notes on Nixon: He carries his "peace and friend chip" message today to Novosi birsk, deep in the heart of Rus sian Siberia, the so-called Wild West of the Soviet Union. Novosi birsk is 1750 miles east of Mos cow, and is often described as the Chicago of Siberia. Not only that. His party was accompanied by two other big Russian jets car rying 100 foreign newsmen. This is undoubtedly the largest num ber of foreign correspondents ever to travel so far into the heart of Jtussia. When they get home, they ...II ...Ut .I. ....... (.an ten wuai uicy saw. On Saturday night, Mr. K (after . the history making spat) turned over his country estate to the Nixons and then played friendly host at a river cruise and a din ner for them. Mr. Nixon prevailed on -Russian officials to permit Admiral Hyman Kickover, America's crusty 'fa ther of the atomic-powered subma rine, to "see everything he want ed to see" in the Soviet's big nuclear-powered ice-breaker. Rick over's statement that "it hasn't got anything we haven't got" was permitted to be sent out by the correspondents without censorship And so on. Our Vice-President seems to have been permitted to use. on the Russians all his con cededly great talent for breaking down, suspicion and ill will and building up admiration and good will. As to Mr. Nixon, let's not lay It on too thick. To do so would sound like political puffery. Paraphrasing Mark Antony's Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him, we can say we're not seeking at the moment to elect Mr. Nixon 'President of the United States We're seeking to APPRAISE him We're making up our minds as to just how good be is. What we want above everything else is an OBJECTIVE look at him. . These are too serious times for political puffery. We're looking for the TRUTH about Mr. Nixon and about the Russians. That's why the accounts of the Nixon visit to Russia are getting such intensive reading in America and throughout the Western world. We know we mustn't permit the wool to be pulled over our eyes. This is WAR we're in even if it is cold war. Cold war can lead to hot war. Strategy is superim- portant in war whether cold or hot. One of the basic purposes ' of strategy is to FOOL your ene my in the hope of getting him into a state of false security in which you can hit him when he isn't looking and put him out of business. That may be what the Russians are aiming at now. Still- Let's watch what is going on over there with interest and not TOO MUCH cynicism meanwhile keeping our minds busy and our fingers crossed. These are dan gerous times, and we need to learn everything we can learn about what is going on. As Mr.x Nixon himself said the etner aay: it we and the Rus sians can't learn to LIVE togeth er, we 11 have to DIE together. (ST" r THE WRONG WAY to land a plane is exhibited only loo clearly in this picture of a crash belly-landing by one of -the spray planes being used to bombard' the Sulphur Springs Ranch fire north of Yreka. This Beechcraft wa piloted by Chuck Destree, Redding. The landing gear collapsed on landing and the plane slid more than 200 feet. Destree was un injured. -Photo by Betty Dow FOREST FIRE DANGER TODAY KEEP OREGON GREEN Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair through Wednesday Little change In temperature. Low tonight 42-48. High Wednesday 75- 80. High yesterday 89 Low last night 50 Precip. last 24 hours - 0 Since Oct. 1 5.82 Same period last year 10.47 Northern California Fair through Wednesday. Little change in temperature. Siskiyou County Fire Burns Through 3200 Acres Of Land By BETTY DOW YREKA An army of more than 800 men was staging a slowly victorious battle today against a raging forest fire in brush and sec ond growth timber about 17 miles north of Yreka, with hopes that it might be controlled by Wednesday night. The fire was reported by the Hornbrook lookout at about 2 p.m. on Monday, July 27, and is said to have broken out near the Sulphur Springs Ranch. Officials speculated that it was man-caused and resulted from burning debris that was fanned out of control by a 40 mile-per-hour wind that hit the area. The flames spread quickly and Oregon's Range Forest Fires All UnderlControi By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 'land no longer was considered a AH of Oregon's range and forest tires were reported under control today, but fire danger continued high in most of the state. The U.S. Forest Service said two small fires in the Blue Moun tains of the Umatilla National Forest had been ringed by fire lines. One of the blazes, on Wilbur Mountain,, charred 200 acres. The other blackened 140 acres in an area 10 miles to the northeast. Both fires started along Union Pacific . railroad tracks. The Aspen Flat fire in the Des chutes National Forest which burned more than 21,000 acres, including- 6,000 acres of mature timber was being mopped up this morning. And in the Fremont National Forest in Lake County, the Little Honey Creek fire, which burned 1,200 acres, also was in the mopup stage. The Bureau of Land Manage ment said only one of its range land fires continued dangerous to day. That' was ' the Lava Butte fire northeast of Fort Rock in Lake County. It had burned some 20,000 acres of grass land. The Jordan Valley fire in Mai heur County, which raced over 16,500 acres, is being mopped up threat In western Oregon, no new fires had been reported in the past 24 hours. However, the Weather Bu reau said fire danger was rising. Jumbo Halted On Mountain Trek LE PLANEY, France (AP) - Jumbo the traveling elephant headed slowly back home today, her handlers' attempts to re-enact Hannibal's historic crossing of the Alps foiled by a landslide everybody overlooked. British historian John Hoyte started climbing with Jumbo a week ago to prove that Hannibal could have taken the 7,300 - foot high Clapier Pass in his elephant assisted invasion of Italy in 219 B.C. Other historians believe the Carthaginian used lower passes near the Mediterranean. After covering 72 miles and climbing from 726 feet to 7,150, Hoyte discovered on arrival here Monday that the pass had been blocked for some time by a slide. The historian said he hoped to find another route through which to maneuver Jumbo back to her home in the Turin, Italy, zoo. by 10 a.m. Tuesday had consumed more than 3,200 acres, 2,200 acres are brush and grassland and 1,000 acres contain valuable sec- ond growth timber. The California Division of For estry has .400 men on the fire lines the United States Forest Service 235 men, with an additional crew of 100 prisoners from San Quen tin due to arrive sometime Tuesday. State Forest Ranger A. Roy Bengard and forest service control officer R. A. James are directing' efforts to corral the rampaging blaze. The fire is reported 50 per cent under control but the possibility of holding present lines is listed as only fair in view of predictions that a brisk wind is due for the area this afternoon -The flames are threatening. mors second growth timber west of Cot tonwood Mountain. Consolidated efforts are being made to control the fire line in Rancheria and Ditch Creek to protect valuable timber stands in that area. In addition to manpower, there are seven air tankers bombarding the hot spots of the open line with borate solution in an effort to keep the flames from spreading into other second growth timber stands. ' ' . The State Division of Forestry is employing a helicopter to move fire fighters into critical areas to quell slop-overs or hold other hazardous points. In addition to the aerial opera tion, eight bulldozers are attempt ing to build fire lines through rough heavy cover. Six forestry division pumpers are being used to hold the present fire line, One spray plane, 'a Beechcraft piloted by Chuck Destree, Redding, crash landed at Yreka yesterday afternoon when its landing gear folded up. The plane skidded 200 feet. Destree was uninjured, Bengard and C. A. Yates, forest supervisor, again warned residents of Siskiyou County that fire condi- Bull Creek Forest Fire Still Rages EUREKA (UPD- The raging Bull Creek forest fire in southern HumDoiai Lounty spread over 1.500 acres today and was report ed out of control in more than 20 per cent of the fire line. The blaze, about two miles west of the 13,000 - acre Bull Creek- Dyerville redwood groves, more than doubled its area Monday be cause of 22 to 40 mile per hour gusts of wind, low humidity, and high temperatures. The California Division of For estry said if there were more high winds late today the area would be in serious trouble. The fire, which started Sunday spread westward into green fir timber land today as more than 300 fire fighters battled the blaze It burst out of control on the Rain bow Ridge Road and Bull Creek Road intersection, eight miles west of U.S. 101. Various spot fires around the main blaze, one of them covering 80 acres, were controlled. Another fire, centered in the Ferndale-Fortuna area about 25 miles south of Eureka, was spot ted by Bear Creek Ridge by an air patrol plane late Monday. Vol unteers with seven tanker trucks battled the 50-acre fire. V 4- r . v V i -I H t Willard Charles McKinney 'Foes, Not Friends Says Foreign Aid Slash Speaker WASHINGTON' (API-Rep. Ot- to E. Passman (D-La I told the House today that some nations receiving U.S. military and eco nomic aid "would likely shoot at us, and not with us, if war should come." Passman made the statement in debate on a $3,186,500,000 foreign-aid appropriations bill cut $1.243,4!I5,000 below the amount requested by President Eisenhow- An appropriations subcommit tee headed by Passman drafted endangered by our arbitrary, un warranted slash of nearly 20 per cent." Passman, saying "we cannot buy friends," numed Yugoslavia, Poland and Indonesia as coun tries receiving aid but w h i c h "would likely shoot at us" in event of war. Passman said "substantial wind falls" have been reaped from the aid program by the printing and publishing industry, the motion picture industry, the shipping in dustry, bankers, manufacturing the bill. He urged the House to iterests and colleges and univer- . OFF TO CAMP, these boys gathered Friday at YMCA headquarters on Pine Street with loads of equipment they used on an overnight campout at the Y's Camp Tofton on Denny Creek. Theirs was the last YMCA-spontored outing of tl)e year for boys. Families will be Invited to participate in a camping program at Lake of tha Woods ver Labor Day weekend. Freeze Hits Oregon Area By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Freezing cold today swept over central Oregon where only days ago the mercury climbed toward 100 in blistering sunshine. Bend had an early morning low of 29 degrees. The cold air was carried inland Monday, forecasters said, by an upper air disturbance that also caused a few light showers aong the coast. The chill was expected to move out almost as swiftly as it came although some low readings in eastern Oregon were looked for tonight. The warming trend was to be gin in western Oregon late today and move eastward. Monday's high temperatures in Oregon were mostly in the 70s, although a few cities such as Med- ford at 83 and Lakeview at 86, were warmer. Low readings early today in cluded 32 at Redmond, 41 at Baker, 42 at Salem, and 44 at Eugene. will continue that way throughout the remainder of the summer They requested that people travel ing through or living adjacent to forests in Siskiyou County exercise extreme precautions. Principal Named At High School Klamath Union High School has a new principal. He is Willard Charles McKinney, 40. of Fari bault, Minnesota who has been a principal or an assistant principal in Minnesota public schools since 1946. McKinney was notified by phone Monday night during a meeting of the high school board of educa tion. He was picked from a field of 25 applicants progressively weeded out of the running at a series of special meetings of the board during the past two weeks His closest competitor was an applicant from Colorado. Board members said they had difficulty choosing between the two. McKinney will begin work as soon after August 1 as possible He will receive $9,400 annually, pro-rated monthly, meaning that he will receive pay this fiscal year only until June 30 when hi contract will expire. McKinney is married and has three children ranging from 5 to 12 years of Sue. He was graduated from a high school in Montevideo, Minnesota, in 1936. was graduated from Augsburg College with e bachelor of arts degree in 1941 from the University of Minnesota with a master of arts degree in 1950 and from the University of Minnesota workshop for superior and talented students in 1958. He entered the Army as a pri vate in 1942 and was discharged a captain in 1946. He taught, mathematics and scl enco a year-prior to entering the service in a junior high school Following discharge he was assis tant principal and mathematics teacher of a public schools system in Litchfield, Minnesota; was prin cipal of St. Peter Public School system, Minnesota from 1951 through 1956, and has been princi pal of the Faribault schools system since. upnom tne subcommittee s ac tions despite objections by the President. On the other side of the argu ment. Rep. Silvio Conte IR-Mass), a member of Passman's commit tee, protested a cut of $300,000,000 from the $1,600,000,000 the Presi dent asked for direct military as sistance to Allies, the military aid program, Con te said, has made available to the United States abroad some 250 operating bases, supports ground forces of more than 5,000.000 men and maintains 30.000 aircraft and 500 naval vessels, This program, he said. "Is now sities. Quick Action On Highway Noted LOS ANGELES (AP)-When a truck loaded with 12 tons of gravel started to roll down an embank ment onto the Harbor Freeway, policeman Norman Judd leaped not to safety, but into his patrol car parked in the path of the truck. He slammed on his brakes. The truck smashed into the car's grill. It shoved the car Climbers Face Tough Grind YOSEMITE (UPII - A moun tain climbing team, led by a con queror of El Capitan's sheer face, is attempting to scale the un tamed, southeast side' of 1,952-foot Washington Column here. Warren Harding, 34, West Sac ramento, leader of the 3,604-foot El Capitan ascent, and Chuck Pratt, Berkeley, were laboring slowly up the column's rugged granite cliff They were reported more than half the way to the top after two days' progress and expected to complete the climb in two or three days, barring mishap A support party consisting of Glenn Denny, Bob McKnight and Steve Roper are supplying the climbers -"With food, pitons and rope from a 400-foot elevation base camp. Washington Column is ringed by loose granite for the first 500 feet but from there up it is almost sheer, with numerous overhangs, The column has been scaled many times, by-easier routes but' the southeast side has never been mastered. - " "- Search For Missing Boy 'ushed Today GRAND CANYON, Ariz. (UPD Rescuers pressed the search to day for a boy from Georgia miss ing in a desolate gorge of the Grand Canyon, but they had little hope of finding him alive. The bodies of the boy's hiking companions, another boy and a Roman Catholic Priest, were found Monday. A note scrawled in the sand near the bodies read: "Help. One may be dead. Fall of 100 feet upper ravine." Walter J. Mahany, 16, and Rev. Eugene A. Gavigan, 30, assistant pastor of St. James Cathedral, Savannah, Ga., apparently were ictims of exposure and the icorching heat of the mile-deep canyon. They entered the canyon Friday. . Still missing was Manson Owens, 16, son of John M. Owens Sr., Savannah, a Southern Bell Telephone Co. supervisor. Relatives of the boys in Savan nah said the trip with Father Gavigan had been planned for months, with the boys earning ex pense money by performing odd jobs. The priest was an experienced camper, they said. The National Park Service headquarters ordered the search Sunday when hikers returning to the rim reported hearing cries of help. , ? seven feet. Both stopped short of tions are extremely hazardous andrthe busy freeway. Officials credited Judd's action with preventing a possible major smashup in the five traffic-jam mod lanes. He had stopped to question the disabled truck's driver. Siren May Be Rocket Answer NEW YORK (AP)-A New York firm has been awarded a govern ment contract to study the pos sibility of using a siren to speed up rockets of the future. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration awarded the $85,000 contract to Acoustica As sociates. The problem concerns solid-fuel rockets. At present such rockets contain a mixture of gases trapped in tiny pockets of a rubbery ma terial molded to the inside of the rocket chamber. When an electric spark touches off the rocket, the gases mix and burn. The siren's sound waves would speed up the mixing of the gases as they seep from the rub bery base. Thus the higher the power of the siren, the faster the rate of burning and the faster the speed of the rocket. Western Allies Determine To Stay In West Berlin GENEVA f AP) The Western Allies today were reported deter mined to remain in West Berlin as long as Germany remains di vided. Diplomatic informants said a re vised Western proposal being drawn up for the Big Four foreign ministers' conference would de mand once again that the Soviets pledge not to take unilateral ac tion against West Berlin at any time in the future. Over the weekend British For eign Secretary Selwyn- Lloyd had been reported pressuring his allies to accept a Soviet pledge for a limited time. But Lloyd was said today to have agreed with U.S. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter that Western policy on the issue ot protection for West Ber iin should stand unchanged. Both the Soviet Union and the Western powers were rewriting their rival proposals for breaking the Berlin crisis. Each side obvi ously hoped the other would come up with new concessions. The Big Four ministers planned no meeting today. But the three Western ministers met and were reported tn have sought some new formula for resuming stalled East-West disarmament negotia tions. Diplomatic sources said this problem probably would be taken up with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko before the Geneva Conference ends. Gromy ko is said to have indicated an interest in the disarmament ques tion in private talks. There have been no disarma ment negotiations since 1957 when the Soviet Union denounced the U.N. Disarmament subcommittee on the grounds that it was one sided. It was composed ot the United States, Britain, France, Canada and the Soviet Union. borne Western diplomats are now thinking in terms of a larger group made up of three members each from the East and the West with a neutral chairman. l ne Big t our conference on Germany may be entering its linal phase. If neither side gives ground on the Berlin issue the conference may end by the mid dle of next week or sooner. Roseburq Editor Awarded Honor ROSEBURG (AP) A citation for service in the advancement of forestry in Oregon was pre sented here today to Charles V. Stanton, editor and manager of the Roseburg News-Review. The presentation, on behalf of the Oregon committee of the American Forest Products Indus tries, was made by Ray Martin of the Martin Bros. Container and Products Corp., at the Kiwanis Club luncheon.' Cited were Stanton's work in helping establish the park depart ment of Douglas County, his ef forts for enactment of conserva tion legislation, and his editorials in support of wise management of timber, game, water and other natural resources. PHONY MONEY FOUND TOPLITZSEE, Austria (UPD- Divers Monday recovered a case containing $840,000 in forged Brit ish bank notes from Toplitz Lake. The notes were part of a great quantity forged by the Nazis dur ing World War II in an abortive plot to flood Britain with fake money and ruin its economy. No Artichokes,; . So How Can The Horse Compete? NEW YORK (AP) How can you expect a horse to run without artichokes? The horse Is named Jamin. He is 6 years old and he has eaten artichokes all his life. They seem to agree with him. too, because, as every sporting Frenchman knows, Jamin is the trotting champion of all France. He came to the United States to run in the $50,000 International Trot at Roosevelt Raceway on Long Island Saturday. . The artichokes 150 pounds of them came in on the plane with Jamin last week. They were im pounded for inspection by the De partment of Agriculture. But when a truck came to pick them up for Jamin, they were missing. None can be found here because they're out of season. Jamin has had to live for a whole week on oats and hay. His trainer-rider, Jean Riaud, gave him a workout Monday. He was gloomy about the results. "He ees, 'ow you say, sloggishf Not good. No artichokes." Food for two Italian trotters who came over on the same plane was impounded too, but no one seems to care beans about them. They eat artichokes too? , Nope. Beans. mm J ' - M i -J, ADMIRING a seal modal of tha huge Cunard liner, tha Quean Mary, in tha British booth at the Oregon Centennial Exposition and International Trad Fair era Mr. and Mrs. Jaek Pattan, Klamath Falls. Thay left their 5-month-old ton, Randy, with hit grandparents whila thay visited tha exposition. Patten is a warehouse foreman for Wayarhaautar Timber Company, and his wifa i a former employ of tha Herald and News. . Photo by Art Commercial Studios, Portland 1 . s I
