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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 23, 1959)
HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls. Ore Sundav. Aucust 2.1. PAGE 7 A vm-. .-!! v i. '. S.I EZZZZZ.ZLZZZ3 a i 'r'fi'n i 1 1 1 Aviator Tells Experience Of Blast Out Of Shelter BILL MAGINNIS, Yreka, mani a circuit during the recant fire in Six Rivers National Forest. He and other amateur radio operators helped the forest service when communica tions broke down. Hani Radio Operators Aid In Combating Blaze l YREKA Ham radio operators fn Northern California and South ern Oregon are basking in knowl edge of a job well done during the Six Rivers (ire which recently wiped out about 2.500 acres of tim ber in Six Rivers and Klamath Rational forests. They solved a serious conjmu jiications problem when forest service radio systems became choked and ineffective due to re mote, rugged terrain. Two Yreka amateurs set up a radio network spreading over eight operators near Medford and oth ers from Scott Valley, Mount Slfjs ta. Redding, Montague, Yreka and ether points. ; They were Bill Maginnis and Jim Holfinger. Maginnis operates a radio-television repair and sales house. Holfinger is manager of a men's clothing store. When fire fighters ran into com munications trouble on the fire deep in the Salmon-Trinity coun try, a forest service radio man, Mel Brister, also a ham oper ator, called Maginnis. Maginnis Contacted Holfinger. The pair relayed messages for nearly 40 hours, then became too exhausted to carry on. Maginnis called' an Oregon emergency net work. He got immediate response from a Medford ham, who helped contact others. One of those contacted, Jim Mc- Credie of Coquille, was flown with his equipment from North Bend Oregon, to Yreka, then was set down by helicopter atop Orleans Mountain, near the 'blaze. His sys tem proved effective. Others involved in the opera tion were Bill Witt, Ashland; Er nest Coffell, Charles Thurston, Carl Quackenbush, Earl Casebolt, How ard Arant and Mac McElroy, Med ford; Joe Silva, Jackass Junction somewhere in the Sierra moun tains;" Jack Stewarf, Redding Jim LaPorta and Bill Sowle, Mount Shasta; Vernon" Seavers Scott Valley; Dick Stockton, Yre ka, and a woman, Geneva Daniels Montague. - ' Maginnis directed the entire oper ation from his radio shed at his home on North Street. mil REUBEN LARSON Businessman Named Aide For UF Drive ' Reuben Larson is chairman of the allied construction division for the 1960 United Fund-Red Cross campaign, Paul Cruikshank, chair man of the 1960 drive, announced. Larson has worked the past four campaigns. Larson is an officer of Crater Lake Machinery Company. He has lived in Klamath Falls since March 1949. He has been a Caterpillar Tractor Company products deal er for 21 years in California and Oregon. Larson and his wife, Opal, have two children. Their daughter, Mrs Keith Joslin, is teaching school in ' Chico, and their son, Colin, is a enior at Klamath Union High School. A native of Cokato, Minnesota Larson is a member of the Wiard Park board and the Rotary Club. He has been Sunday school super intendent for his church for sev eral years. In addition to philan thropic interest in community af fairs, Larson enjoys an occasional fishing trip. Allied construction is a new di - vision this year, though the same businesses were included, but dif ferently organized, in previous years. ' ' , All building and construction companies are a part of this di- vision. They include subcontractors tuch as electrical, plumbing and painting firms. Machine shops and ether businesses dealing in metals also are included. ' At a recent UF board meeting. Larson challenged other division chairman, assuring them his group would be the first to finish cam paign work and first over the top. This year's campaign goal Is f 132.S2S. LOS ANGELES (AP) - Test lot Al Blackburn, first man to blast out of a bomb shelter in a rocket-boosted jet plane, says: "It was a snap for me, but you should have seen the mouse," Blackburn was referring to a desert mouse accidentally caught the cave-like shelter at Hollo- man Air Force Base. N.M., at the time of blastoff Wednesday. . 'The mouse staggered out stun ned and shaken but he was defi nitely alive," Blackburn said. "I think he must have heard the la boratory people saying, 'let's grab him and check him over,' because he got right up and scampered off." . - Blackburn used the mouse inci dent to minimize the dangers of his feat in an interview after re turning to his home here Thurs day. That mouse was exposed to the full blast and noise of the boost- Blackburn said. I was pro tected inside the plane and the plane was out of the shelter in less than a second." Blackburn, 36-year-old test pilot for North American Aviation, dded: "When I first started preparing for the test, my first reaction was that the shelter would be a mightly tight hole to get out of. Knowing that the blast would be confined and that the noise would be reflected back on the pilot, we had a number of 'apprehensions as to how rough it was going to be. . But as the program went along GRANGE NEWS ' POMONA VISIT A number of Pomona Grangers drove to Fort Klamath Tuesday, August 18, .for an 8 p.m. visita tion to Fort Klamath Grange. Honored guests were Rosa Meek er, state ceres; u. W. Barleen, county deputy; Francis Flowers, Klamath County Pomona master Clyde Caldwell, Shasta View Grange master, and James Flow ers, Midland Grange master. Sheldon Kirk, Fort Klamath master, and his staff of officers presided. Rosa Meeker, ceres; Bill Novotny, assistant steward, and Ada Barleen, lady assistant stew ard, presented and retired the flag. Visitors each introduced them selves and their grange units. Shel don Kirk delivered a short pep talk concerning attendance at grange meetings. Grangers learned that Malm Grange will sponsor a picnic Sun day, August 30, at Malm. All gran gcrs and friends are invited. During the lecturer s hour, Ada Barleen and Mary Lou Caldwell of Shasta View Grange presented two comic skits. Mayme Cammock Klamath County lecturer, led community sing. Several members offered sugges tions for the good of the order. Haster Sheldon Kirk then turned the meeting over to Clyde Cald well for closing ceremonies. During the business meeting, members postponed the scheduled October 12 visitation at Merrill Grange to October 16 at Shasta View Grange because of harvest. Visitation will take place at 8 p.m. Visiting members were Mr. and Mrs. Wes Johnson, Poe Valley Grange; Mr. and Mrs. Don Mack cn and Dolores Macken, Malin Grange; Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Mee ker, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Novotny and Zetta Sullivan, Lost Riv Grange; Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Cald well and Mary Lou Caldwell, Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Barleen and Mat- tie Breen of Shasta View Grange and Mr. and Mrs. James Flow ers, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Cam mock,' Francis Flowers, Bob Cra po and Kathryn Smith of Midland Grange. May Gray and Cecil Brown Fort Klamath Grange served a host potluck dinner. i Next visitation will be. at Bly Grange September 18 at 8 p.m. became obvious that we were not going to have any problems." Blackburn had undergone 14 such blast-offs earlier at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., identical except that they were out in the open. The shelter take-off was made to prove that planes can be protected from sneak nuclear ai lark and still be ready for a quirk counler-hlow. Blackburn's supersonic FlOU was airborne after a take-off of less than one inch the distance the plane moved before- breaking the shear-bolts that held it in the shelter. The booster rocket, attached be low the tail of the plane, built up a pressure of 130.000 pounds of thrust almost equal to that de veloped by a Thor intermediate range missile. Four seconds after blast-off the jet was doing 275 miles an hour and the booster dropped away. In another few sec onds the jet's own engine was pro pelling it faster than sound more than 750 miles an hour. Blackburn said the tremendous acceleration creating pressures four times that of normal gravity and extremely high noise level had no effect on his ability to manage the plane. Blackburn, president of the So ciety of Experimental Test Pilots, said the test proved his contention that tomorrow's missiles can and must be manned. He added: "If we were to put men in mis siles to make the necessary cor rections there would be a lot few er failures." ' Pair Charged With Murder SAN ANTONIO, Tex. APl-A couple was charged Thursday with starving their 2-month-old son to death. "I hope God forgives you for what you've done," said Justice of the Peace Albert Trevino as he set the bonds for Manuel Quesada. .V, and Francisca Martinez Ques ada, 39, on murder charges. Dr. Robert Hausman, county medical examiner, said the couple's baby, Juan, died of mal nutrition Wednesday. Detective Frank Caslillnn told of finding the body of the baby wrapped in a cotton blanket. He said a city health nurse took; milk to the mother for the baby and urged medical attention. Then mother said she had no money to pay, a doctor. "Although they couldn't afford; a doctor for the child." Caslillnn i testified, "I noticed a large 21- inch television set in one of the rooms." The parents are accused in thell complaint of "voluntarily killing, Juan Quesada" by neglecting him and refusing to give him enough I food. The Quesadas told police they gave away 8 of their 11 children. born in the past 13 years. Two I others are staying with a grand mother. Armed Gang Of 15 Men Futilely Try To Free Con NAHANT, Mass. (AP)-A gangl of 15 men, some armed with clubs and lengths of pipe, burst into the Nahant police station early Friday a wild but futile attempt to free a prisoner. The gang fled when a patrol man struck two of them with his revolver and fired a warning shot. A short while later the seven became prisoners themselves on charges which included inciting a riot, attempting to free a prisoner, assault, assault and battery, and drunkenness. Four of the gang were caught at a roadblock and three at the Lynn hospital where two had gone for treatment of bruises suffered in the scuffle. in the police sta tion. Police Chief Banjamin Lam phier said the gang tried to liber ate Donald Stinson, 27, of Swamp- scott, who was locked up on drunkenness charge. Patrolman Albert Badger ' said he wsts alone in the police station wnen the gang drove up in three automobiles. He said he had time to utter only the word "Nahant" into the police radio before the. men backed him against a wall. Patrolman Joseph Flynn, driv ing a cruiser, heard the one-word message and the sound of several voices coming over the radio. He sped to the station and found three men tampering with the door of the cell which held Stin son. Flynn herded the trio upstairs only to be pushed against a wall by the others. As one man threat ened him with a club, he said, he pulled out his gun and struck two of them. As the men were fleeing after Flynn fired a shot, Badger sound ed an "assist" alarm over the po lice radio and help came from surrounding communities. Red Intelligence Agent Was Dispatched To Cuba Construction Sill Okayed WASHINGTON (AP)-The Sen ate gave speedy, unanimous ap proval Friday to a $1,428,178,700 bill providing funds to build ar mories, aircraft shops and hun dreds of military construction projects in this country and over seas. Passage was on an 89-0 vote, Sen. John Stennis ID -Miss) floor manager for the second big defense money bill, said each of the projects was "essential to the maintenance of our military strength at home and abroad He won unanimousapproval of addition of $143,176,000 to the funds previously voted by the House, including 86 additional Na tional Guard projects in 30 dif ferent states. They will cost some 13 million dollars more than the budget recommendations for the current fiscal year. Even so, Stennis noted the total still was more than 135 million dollars under President Eisenhow er's budget requests of $1,563,200,- 000. There were no Senate opposition speeches or efforts to trim down any of the many additions made by the Senate Appropriations Committee. ' The bulky measure now goes back to the House with a Senate- House conference committee ex pected to Iron out differences over the Senate increases later. MINNEAPOLIS (AP) A U.S. intelligence spokesman reported today that Moscow sent a Soviet intelligence officer to Cuba last May to guide local Communists on how to penetrate the govern ment of Fidel Castro. He also said the Soviets are secretly training more and more Latin American Communists on how to set up Communist dictatorships. This word was given out by Gen. C. P. Cabell, deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, in a speech prepared for a meet ing of the American Legion's Na tional Security Commission. Cabell declared that Kremlin tactics have run full circle from missile rattling to smiling faces, but their goal remains Commu nist rule of the world. Cabell named the Soviet intelli gence officer as Vadim Kotcher- gin. He said Kotchergm was sent to Cuba under a false name, os tensibly as a member of a trade union delegation, and has since returned to Moscow. While in Cuba, Cabell said, Kot- chergin's- assignment was to give guidance to Cuban Communists. "Primary targets for Commu nist penetration in Cuba are the agrarian reforms, trade unions and the army," he said. He said Red Chinese propagan dists also are setting up a news paper in Cuba. . LARGEST OF KIND World's largest laminated wood arches support the roof of the Memorial field house at' Union College, Schenectady, N.Y. They measure 254 feet from tip to tip. Chos. J. Cizek TAILOR Suits t Sleeks Made Order rfaaf Fit Guaranteed 119 SOUTH 7th Windy Plants Send Out SOS BERLIN. N.H. (AP)-An SOS signal appeared ta flash from atop 1,000-foot high Mt, Forist Thursday night. A Boy Scout reported to police he saw a light spelling out the distress signal. 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