HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls. Ore
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
Two policemen climbed the
mountain and found two U.S.
Coast and Geodetic Survey men.
The surveyors had set down
their lantern beside a bush.
Windblown shrubs In front of
the lantern caused what appeared
to be the flashing signal.
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