Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, August 20, 1959, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Texto.or oacLiBRiar . NEW3PAPC8 tSCTXON oea.REr.ANo mcoisxts on. nracxz.csu. . , . . con? t Im The- Day's Hens By FRANK JENKINS There's NEWS today. Big news-it's RAINING. Glory be! Why is it big news? John B. Bogart, who was city editor of the New York Sun from 1873 to 1890, explained it this way: "When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog that IS news." Around these parts, rain hasn't I. .. I ........ (..... n mrru uauuciuii cij uitcn. ridi- tically since the time whereof Ihr memory of man runneth not to the contrary thereof, the precipi tation total for the stream year, which began last October 1, has stood at about 5.8 inches. That's hardly enough to see. Continuing in the lyric vein Back in May of the year 1901 Harper's Magazine printed a lilt ing little poem entitled April Rain. It was written by Robert Love man, and it started off like this "It is not raining rain to me, "It's raining daffodils; "In every dimpled drop I see "Wild flowers nn the hills." Here in the High desert, we can share Poet Loveman's vision of wild flowers on the hills. But, now that it is raining at last, we can tee more than that. We can see (in our mind's eye lush fall pastures, with cattle wad ing around in grass maybe up to their knees. We can see FILLED-UP WATER RESERVOIRS. Over here in the high desert, water is GOLD. No placer miner ever valued the nuggets in the riffles any more highly than we value the liquid nuggets that fall from the sky when the elements are in a kindly mood. Yesterday the world was bright. If we sang at all, after seeing our monthly water bill, we were inclined to chant the ribald song that goes: "Oh, 'tain't gonna rain no mo' no mo', "Oh, 'tain't gonna rain no mo "And how in the heck "Can I wash my neck "If 'tain't gonna rain no mo'? Well- ' ' Today we can wash our necks iTiL JlMiii iinwiinnnnTTTnnnm rmnnfnrmitr u , " 1 Team Of Aviators Await Nose Cone Price Five Cents 28 Pages KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1959 Toll-phone TU 4-8111 No. 6478 V'-, . ; , '.s "it o', . r -' . 1 JV ',(.1. ' - - v . - - 7 - Gamble Pays Off, But In Reverse For Klamath Man A gamble paid off in reverse for James Cromwell Salyer, 27, in Klamath Falls Wednesday aft ernoon. He parlayed a meter violation citation that would have cost 50 cents into a $25 fine in municipal court Thursday. Cromwell used a common and usually slick trick. He transferred 8 meter citation from his wind shield to that of a car parked ahead between Fourth and Fifth streets on Main Street. - Meanwhile, inside a barbershop with a good view of the action sat police Sergeant John Kennard. He became attentive when -he noticed someone placing a meter citation on ms car. Stepping outside, he spoke brief ly to Salyer, informing him that be was an officer of the law. "I guess I've had it now," Salyer (aid. HERO SEEKS DIVORCE LOS ANGELES (UPI) World War II Congressional Medal of Honor winner Gregory (Pappy) Boyington, 56, Wednesday filed (or divorce against his wife of 13 years. The former Marine Corps pilot charged that his 40-year- old wife, Frances, caused him "grievous mental suffering." , . ,.J, :V "Si V Wot-'" M ' Ill miii.iiiii y-y-" " Te ' t -r-rr t; t . v j - .. t--" . , , tZ , 1 s -i w.. 7" 7i.! 3 - ' r -. , ?i .....j,.raii.'JKiEa FUTURE HOME of Oregon Technical Institute will be on this site adjacent to northern edge of city limits. The location has been agreed upon and ne gotiations for 150 acres of land have bcen-completod. fVern Owens, chair, man of the OTI New Site Fund, said trie State Board of Higher Education, which mutt approve the site formally, '-'ij really enthused" with the location; Owens revitalized a ite fund drive to collect $16,940 still needed toward the $40,000 Cost. Thtffcnd is over a hill from Kit Carson Way. At top lift in this -aerial, phofo look! ryj south are Pacific Terrace and Eldorado BoulevWd; 't top right Biehn Jtrerf leaves -the highway and heads south" toward Oregon -. Avenue,l:-.r;;' ' . , ': Southwest Montana Jolted By Tremors WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont. (AP) Three light tremors jolted the southwestern Montana earth quake area Wednesday night and early, today. There .was no dam age. . The shocks awakened residents..- . The shocks, coupled with a driv ing rain, hampered euoris 01 searchers to renew the hunt for possible additional victims of the Monday night quake, which touched off major landslides. The tremors were the latest in a series that has continued since the major shock and sent small landslides down the mountain slopes. ' Ground parties, aided by skin- divers, want to search above and below Hcbgen Dam, hard hit in the Monday night shocks. Searching crews are made up of men from the Civil Defense or ganization, sheriff's office, U.S. Forest Service and volunteers. They said they would not at tempt to dig into the 50-million- ton landslide below Hebgen Dam until the comparatively slight tre mors subside. Bodies- of eight quake victims have been recovered from the dev astated mountains and canyons. Reports from survivors indicate the toll may rise to 12. They told of seeing a car with a man and woman and a crippled boy buried by an avalanche. A woman reported by Sheriff Donald Skerritt to be missing and presumed drowned was found alive Wednesday night. Grace Miller, about 60, whose lakeside home was washed away in a wave of water propelled by a landslide, had walked 15 miles .to a ranch. Coroner Charles E. Raper says he believes the body of Mrs Thomas Stowe of. Sandy, Utah, is in the Madison River. He re ported the family car and her be longings have been found in the stream. Her husband was killed FOREST FIRE ' OANGER TODAY .. , KEEP OREGON, GREEN Elephant Charges. Crowd; Twenty Reported Killed Weather Northern California Consider able cloudiness through Friday with scattered thunderstorms in the high mountains. Possibly a few sprinkles or very light showers in valley and coastal areas. Little change In temperature. ' Coastal winds northwesterly 15-25 miles an hour. ' - Klamath Falls and vicinity Occasional showers through to night. Partly cloudy and warmer Friday. Low tonight 48-56; high Friday 70-75. High yesterday ... 71 Low last night X 47 Precip. last 24 hours (to 5 p.m. Wednesday) ....... 0 Since Oct. 1 '.. 5.82 Same period last year ..... .. 19.57 VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif., (APIFrom out ot the vast Pacific heavens, a small apsule dangling from a para chute was expected to drop slow ly toward the ocean today. And waiting in Hawaii was a team of fliers with a seemingly impossible assignment to go out and try to catch it betore it hit the water. The capsule went aloft Wednes day, fixed in the nose of the Dis coverer VI satellite, which is flashing around the earth once every 95 minutes in an egg- haped, north-south orbit. This afternoon. (!6 hours alter the launching, the capsule was to be kicked loose from the 19-foot satellite. And, for the second time in less than a week, a squadron of Air Force CI 19 Flying Boxcars was set to take off from Hawaii and try to execute an almost incredi ble eaten. Each plane was equipped with a recovery net a trapeze-like affair. The project is aimed at solving the re-entry problem how to get man in space and, once he's there, get him back. Although the odds against sue cess seem overwhelming, the Air Force hoped to have more than the highly remote chance of sight ing the capsule during its descent. The capsule was equipped with a radio which was supposed to send signals, to give the recovery team an idea of its whereabouts. Such a recovery was v planned following the successful launching of Discoverer V last week. But the radio in the falling capsule evidently broke down. Nobody got a signal from it. The capsule, pre sumably, tumbled into the sea Discoverer VI is expected to re m-ain in orbit at least a month. It comes within 138 miles of earth at its closest approach and goes as far out as 537 miles. Discoverer VI 78 feet long in cluding its first stageshot sky ward from this West Coast mis sile base shortly after noon Wednesday. The first stage, which foil away after a few minutes, as a Thor medium-range missile ing a potent new kerosene fuel. The second stage was a 1.700- pound vehicle produced by Lock heed Aircraft Corp. Lockheed and an Air Force offi cial said after the launching: The successful orbiting of two Discoverer satellites in less than week marks a tremendous for- ard step in the scientific study of space vehicles and their applications." The Discoverer had no animals in its capsule. But the capsule is the type expected to carry mon keys aloft later in the tests. Arid Basin Gets Relief As Rain Falls IKANDY, Ceylon (AP)-A mad dened temple elephant charged a crowd of 200,000 at a ' religious festival Wednesday night. Twenty persons were reported killed in the crush and thousands injured. Several persons were reported missing. It was feared some had fallen .or jumped into Kandy .Lake nearby,-; , ; .. ; , The elephant was one of more than 100 ' participating with dancers and drummers in an an nual Buddhist- pageant called Perahera. The 1 animal became infuriated when it stepped on burning coals which had dropped from a flam- ! THOROUGH JOB SHELBY,- N.C. (AP) - Two youngsters were given torches Wednesday and told to burn out wasps nests under the eaves of a barn on the D, D. Latlimore farm near here. They did. The barn also burned down.- The loss was figured at $:i(H. ing torch. It wheeled about and charged, and the crowd ran screaming in panic, seeking shel ter in nearby buildings, atop walls and in trees. Two mahouts clung to the ele phant's tail and trunk. They final ly stopped it, and chained it to a lamppost. But the noise of the surging crowd set the beast' off atfain and it broke loose, smash ing shop fronts and trampling ob stacles in its path. Police finally shot and killed the animal on the street. . The Perahera pageant centered on the Temple of the Holy Tooth one of Buddhism's 'most sacred spots. The temple houses a tooth supposed to have come from the jaw of Buddha, who founded the religion 25 centuries ago. The temple is in one of Kandy's business sectors, surrounded by fhops and near the popular Queen's Hotel, ' . A similar incident occurred dur ing a Buddhist procession five days ago near Colombo and 100 persons were injured. Firemen in Klamath County were in high spirits Thursday over an unseasonably heavy storm that in an evening's time whisked away extreme fire danger and even dropped visible quantities of snow on high peaks. By 8 a.m. parched Klamath Falls had soaked up an inch and a quar ter of moisture the first measur able amount to fall since spring and the first appreciable amount since winter. 1 Klamath Forest Protective Asso ciation celebrated the rainfall by again making available permits to travel closed areas. The permits will be offered at least until fire danger rises again to extreme, Fishermen, hunters, loggers any one who has a reason to use closed roads can get them. Lookouts on Calimus. Yainax and Shake Buttes recorded snow falls ranging from a trace to an inch in depth. The rain began in most areas in Klamath County about 8 p.m. Wednesday. Indications were that the storm touched a wide area including all of Klamath County - Firemen, expecting people to fire up oil stoves to break the chill gave words of advice. Make sure oil has not seeped into the stoves during.summer. It sometimes does. When that happens, and a stove is lit, it sometimes explodcsi Bull Halsey To Be Buried n Arlington WASHINGTON (AP) The na- tion today buries one of its great naval heroes, Fleet Adm. William . Halsey. Final military tribute was pre pared for the pugnacious "Bull" Iliilscy, whose 3rd Fleet outfoxed the Japanese Admiralty and sank the best of its fighting ships in World War II. His body lay, with honor guard, . in Washington National Cathedral. It was brought here Wednesday from Fishers Island, N.Y., where he died Sunday. The retired ad- -miral was 76. Gathering for the Cathedral services and the burial in Arling ton National Cemetery this after noon were the chief civilian and military leaders of the Defense Department, government officials, many personal friends and some of those who served with Halsey in the great days of the mighty acific campaigns. At the cemetery gate, the casket would be transferred to a horse drawn caisson. Troops from each of the military services awaited to march the final way with Halsey, with a Navy band measuring the slow pace and a cannon shot counting off each minute on the way to the gravesite. There, on a hillside, the admiral would join in deatll his father and mother. Navy Capt, William.. F. Halsey Sr. ' and Mrs. Halsey are buried beside the place chosen for their famous son. . j , - Youth Admits Forest Arson EUREKA, Calif. (UPI) A youth confessed Wednesday night he set a forest fire that cost an estimated $500,000 so he could get a job as a fire fighter. ' . Roy McGoin Jr., 17, Orleans. son of a resort owner, told au thorities he set the fire in an abandoned mine on' his father's . property Aug. 11, The fire spread over ?,700 acres of virgin timber in the Six Rivers National Forest and was not brought under con trol until Wednesday night. McGain, held in the Humboldt County Detention Home here, made his confession to Deputy Sheriff Gus Fritz and Juvenile Of ficer Wendell Cyphers. Within an hour after the fir began spreading McGain was hired as a member of one of the fire fighting crews. The men ara paid $1.77 an hour from the tima lliey start until they return home. Authorities estimated that tha cost of putting out the fire was $330,000 and approximately $170, 000 worth of timber was destroyed. Woman Swallows Mouse; Causes Much Commotion DENVER (UPI) A Denver woman who swallowed a live mouse last Friday said today she never would have gone to the hos pital if she had known it would have caused so much "commo tion." Mrs. Florence Hill said she has been deluged with telephone calls and stacks of mail from all over the country, most of it wanting to know if the story were actually tru. "If I were a young person, it might be different," she said in dignantly "but a woman 67 years old isn't going to be telling lies like this." - BABY DROWNS IN WASHER DUARTE, Calif. (UPI) An 18 month - old girl drowned Wednesday after falling head first Into an idle washing machine while her mother was hanging out the wash. Little Elsa Marie Bar ney was found in the machine among staking clothes by her motbtr, Mrs. Patricia Barney. M. 'T wnnlH haua haan a litltp mnrp up all the publicity I have been given." The "publicity" started the day after her pet dog. Boots, awakened her from her sleep with his growl ing." She looked up and saw a two inch mouse jumping around near her bed. She said it was standing on top of her clock. She opened her mouth to scream and the mouse jumped in and wiggled its way down her throat. The next day one of her friends persuaded her to go to Denver General Hospital. Mrs. Hill said she stayed at the hospital for 12 hours. Doctors ad mitted' they were amazed at her story but said they had no reason to doubt it. They kept her hos pitalized but when she suffered no ill effects they sent her home. The next day she said her tele phone started ringing. "I find the entire afiair hideous and at the same time comical," the widow said, "but I never want to see another mouse again as long as I live." D 1 I l I ' ' ' . r . -, Vv J k ' , , , , , . , , ' . ' 'i 1 . ; , ' - - ' ' . , -.', k i "" i i I New Supersonic Fighter To Be Introduced Friday A SONIC IOOM will be a part ot tha program scneouiea for Kingsley Field on Roll-out Day Friday, August 2 1. Hera is one of tha F-I0IB Voodoos currently stationed at tha . ma r i I . -It f . J...: iL- IS Ona OT ma r-IUID TOOOOOl burTitTiy iianauva ! field. 20 of these planas will stage flyovers during tha day's activities, and ona of them is slatad to perform sonic boom, tha shock felt when a supersonic plana moves i .i i f i ti 1.1!. !-..:i.J l- 4L- oeyono Tna speea or souna, ins puonc n tnvitva m ins celebration which marks tha official Inauguration of tha F-IOTi at Kingsley Field. ' The formal "Roll-out" ceremony and introduction of the F-101B Voo doo, McDonnell Aircraft Corpora tion's supersonic interceptor, to (he public in the Klamath Basin will take place at Kingsley Field Fri day, August 21, according to an announcement by Col. Jack W. Williams, Kingsley Field base com mander. The "Roll-out" program is de signed to acquaint the public in this area with the F-101B Voodoo the newest version ot the world's most powerful interceptor. It has the greatest combination of speed and long-range of any operational Interceptor in the Air Defense Command. Kingsley Field will hold an open house beginning at 1 p.m. with sialic displays of the F-101B Voo doo. The public is invited to in spect this all-weather fighter in tprceptor which recently replaced the battle-tried F-86L Sabrejcls at Kingsley Field as part of the Air Defense Command's current pro gram to improve and increase its arsenal of interceptor aircraft. The F101B Voodoo is a two-seat Interceptor. Although performance data on the Voodoo Is classified, an earlier, version, an F-101A is credited with speeds of more than 1,207 miles per hour. Operating under all-weather con- The following Is the time schedule of events that will lake place at Kingsley Field on Fri day, August 21, 195 m conjunc tion with the "Roll-out" cere mony: 1:00 p.m. "Open House" -Kingsley Field open to the public. 1:1$ p.m. Parade, review and presentations. 1:37 p.m. First flyby of 20 F-101B Voodoos. 1:42 p.m. Second flyby of 20 F-101B Voodoos. 2:15 p.m. Aerial demonstration begins. i 2:45 p.m. Sonic boom demonstration. dilions, the Voodoo has two pri mary missions the identification of unknown aircraft, and their da- (Continued on Page t-A)