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SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (AP) -Baby
D, last survivor of the five
toylike girls born to the wile ot
an Air Force lieutenant Tuesday,
died at 6:40 a. m. today.
The grieving father said he and
his wife "are confident that all is
for the best and God has a better
place for them."
The parenls, Lt. and Mrs.
Charles G. Hannan, were asleep
when Baby D succumbed. Both
had been in near shock during
the night alter the deaths of the
other four quints within 9'i hours
of their birth.
"Oh, my God. They were just
like baby dolls," sobbed a tech
nician when the word spread rap
idly through the hospital.
A Lackland Air Force Base
spokesman said neither of the
parents was physically able to be
interviewed or have their pictures
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1959
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Day's lews
By FRANK JENKINS
From Washington:
The U.S. Department of Agri
culture officially declared this
morning that seven crops cotton,
rice, peanuts, tobacco, corn, rye
and TUNG NUTS are in surplus.
That is to say:
We're producing more of these
crops than we can consume, sell
abroad or give away, but we go
on subsidizing still further over
production of them.
It- doesn't make sense?
Of course not. But so many of
the things we do in these modern
days don't make sense.
More from Washinglon:
Dr. H. G. Johnston, of the Na
tional Cotton Council, reports that
cotton farmers are faced with
THREE TIMES AS MANY BOLL
WEEVILS as they were 12 years
ago which-, incidentally, is about
the time when the cotton subsidy
got started.
How come?
You've heard, perhaps, of Hie
"balance of nature" which
means, in substance, that when
there are too many,rabbits coyotes
tend to INCREASE in number and
the increased numbers of coyotes
eat up the damaging surplus of
rabbits, thus preserving the bal
ance and keeping everything
hunky-dory.
Maybe it works the same way
with boll weevils.
What about tung nuts?
I'll lay a small wager that you
didn't know you were being taxed
to pay a subsidy to encourage
heavier production of them.
By the way
What are tung mils?
Tung oil is the most powerful
drying agent known. The oil is
obtained from the nuts of the tung
tree, which originally grew only
in the Orient, especially in China
"We used to buy our tung nuts
from China, and with the money
obtained from the sale of them
the Chinese bought American gadg
ets, thus maintaining a balance
of trade.
But, in the course of time, the
Chinese weren't able to supply all
the tung nuts necessary to provide
.the tung oil we needed in the
production of printing ink, water
proof fabrics and paper and high
grade varnishes, lacquers and
enamels. So we started paying a
bounty for production of them in
the U.S.
Tung nuts arc now grown on mil
lions of tung trees in Florida,
Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana,
Mississippi and Texas. Although
we grow more of them than we
need and have to stash away the
surplus in warehouses, we go on
paying the bounty on them be
cause if we cut it out a terrific
howl would go up from these
states and a lot of votes would be
lost.
Such is our modern system.
Beck Trial Date
Is Postponed
NEW YORK (AP) Setting of
a date for the trial of Dave Beck
former Teamsters Union presi
dent, on charges of accepting
$200,000 from two trucking execu
tives, was postponed W.cdnesday
in federal court until Dec. 29.
A government spokesman indi
cated Beck would be tried early
next year.
Named as codefendants are Roy
Fruchauf. president of Fruehauf
Trailer Co., and Burge M. Sey
mour, president of Associated
Transport Inc.
taken immediately, but Hannan
authorized a statement.
"My wife and I were terribly
sorry to learn of the death of our
babies and are stricken with grief.
However, we are confident that
all is for the best and God has
a better place for them," the
statement said,
"We know the hospital and the
staff here at Lackland did every
thing they could to save our
babies. They were just too im
mature. The best medical facili
ties were available.
"We hope we can get a little
peace and quiet now."
Baby D was the fourth born.
She weighed 1 pound 13 ounces.
Pretty, blonde Mrs. Hannan, 27,
turned to her crew-cut husband,
2:1, shortly alter the babies were
born and said, "You wanted a
girl. Now you have five." The
Chief , Herter Convene;
Mull Proposal By French
WASHINGTON (AP) Presi
dent Eisenhower met with Secre
tary of State Christian A. Herter
today apparently to consider
France's go-slow approach to an
East-West summit meeting.
In a 40-minute conference at
the White House the two were
believed to have talked over ways
to settle the backstage Allied dis
pute on the timing of a meeting
with Soviet Premier Nikita Khru
shchev,
Afterward, Herter declined to
say anything about their talk,
leaving all that to the President.
Navy
Probes
Sabotage
e
Of Nautilus
PORTSMOUTH, KM. (UPD-
The FBI and naval intelligence
officers today investigated the
possibility of sabotage aimed at
this country's nuclear submarine
fleet.
Capt. Carl A. Johnson, acting
commander of the Portsmouth
Naval Shipyard, disclosed Tues
day that the nation's first nuclear
powered sub, . the Nautilus, had
sustained "apparently intentional"
damage.
Johnson said he did not know of
any other ships or submarines
being damaged at the yard, but
added that it was a "qualified"
answer.
Shipyard officials refused to
comment on reports of fires,
broken pipes and other incidents
at the yard.
In Groton, Conn., extreme se
curity precautions were in force
at the Atlantic submarine base
and the nearby Electric Boat
Yard where the world's biggest
atomic-powered submarine, the
twin-reactor Triton, is scheduled
to be commissioned Nov. 10.
Johnson said the damage to the
Nautilus, the first submarine in
the world to sail beneath the
North Pole icecap: involved the
cutting of a number of electrical
cables but did not extend to the
vessel's nuclear reactor.
Fate Of Agency Settled,
Hints Secretary Of Army
. WASHINGTON (AP)-Secretary
of the Army Wiiber M. Brucker
hinted today that the fate of the
Army Ballistic Missile Agency,
deeply involved in the space race
with the Soviet Union, was settled
nt a White House conference to
day. Brucker was a late and not
previously announced partici
pant in a meeting between Presi
dent Eisenhower and his top space
advisers. The session was set up
to solve the problem of how to
push the United States into strong
er competition with the Soviets in
the outer reaches.
Emerging from the talks some
time alter the others had left,
Brucker was asked if there had
been a decision on the missile
agency and its crck team of
space experts headed by Wcrnher
von Braun.
He first replied that was a mat
ter ip the province of the Presi
dent. Asked if that meant there had
been no decision, Brucker an
swered: "I didn't say that."
About the same time the White
House said Eisenhower probably
will make a statement about the
Hannans are the parents of two
boys.
Making a desperate effort to
save the last survivor was Capt.
William D. Munroe. He worked
almost constantly with the one
child throughout the night at
Lackland AFB Hospital, called the
largest and finest Air Force hos
pital. Baby B, so designated to indi
cate order of birth, died at 5:40
p. m. Tuesday. Baby A died at
6:10 p. m. Baby E died at 9:25
p. m. and Baby C at 10 p. m.
The births, a 42-million to one
medical rarity, represented the
third set of quintuplets in United
States medical history and only
the 47th in all recorded annals.
They were three months prema
ture. Baby A weighed 1 pound 9 ounc
es, B weighed 1 pound 13 ounces.
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While the two were in confer
ence, the French government an
nounced its approval in principle
for an East-West summit meet
ing, but approached it as business
for next spring.
Eisenhower is understood to
have proposed a summit session
of the Western powers early next
month in Paris, preliminary to a
possible session with Khrushchev
in the first 10 days of December,
British Prime Minister Harold
Macmillan and West German
Chancellor K o n r a d Adenauer
were reported ready to accept
Eisenhower's plan but the Paris
announcement in effect reaf
firmed French President Charles
de Gaulle's reluctance to hurry
the matter.
Eisenhower and Herter ap
peared confident, however, that
backstage talks would iron out
this hitch within the next few days
while the President golfs and
rests in Augusta, Ga.
Mainly to reassure De Gaulle
however, Eisenhower has ex
pressed readiness to fly to Paris
for the Western strategy meeting.
Diplomatic authorities said such
a parley could set a date for a
Khrushchev meeting and agree on
the issues the West wants to dis
cuss. ,
De Gaulle is known to be luke
warm about the proposed Khrush
chev parley, .even though the So
viet boss told Eisenhower during
their Camp David talks that no
deadline would be placed on any
Berlin settlement.
Eisenhower hopes to persuade
De Gaulle that a new arrange
ment spelling out Allied rights in
West Berlin would not have the
effect of weakening the present
Allied foothold there.
SHOOTING HOURS
DUCKS, GEESE
. OREGON
October 22
OPEN
6:25
CLOSE
5:20
CALIFORNIA
October 22
OPEN , ' - : CLOSE
6:23 , 5:15
meeting after he arrives in Au
gusta, Ga. The President left di
rectly after his space conference
for a five-day golfing vacation
Specific questions' before the
White House conferees included
the disposition of the agency and
specifically what to do about the
Huntsville, Ala., project for devel
opment of the Saturn booster,
huge cluster of eight rockets with
l'i million pounds of thrust.
That is half again as much
thrust as anything the Soviet Un
ion is known 'to have and would
hurl bigger payloads farther into
space.
But the Pentagon does not need
that much push for military rock
ets, and has been pulling back on
supporting the program.
There has been talk that Saturn
support might be shifted to the
civilian National Aeronautics and
Space Administration, and NASA
at one time made a direct bid for
the whole Huntsville operation.
The Saturn program has been
sultering from malnutrition. Word
has come that its funds have
been cut from 135 million dollars
to 70 million.
Baby D, the strongest, was
weighed several hours after, her
birth. The others, because of (Heir
NEW YORK (UIM) The highest number of multiple births
accepted by medical authorities Is six children to one mother,
according to "The Guinness Book of Superlatives," although there
have been reports of seven children being born.
The reference book's report on multiple births says:
"There are two unsubstantiated reports of septupled. Five
girls and two boys were reputedly born at a single birth at
Hameinam-Weser, Germany, on January 9. 1600, but the evidence
rests mainly from the raising of a statue In 1818. A less unreliable
Instance was reported from Jbadan, Nigeria, in 1918, 11 years after
its alleged occurrence In 1907.
"The highest multiple births which are medically accepted
are those of sextuplets In four Instances in which there were no
survivors none of them was in the United States. There are
only three examples of quintuple! births with all five surviving.
Here It lists the Dionne births In Ontario, the Dlligenll births
In Argentina and the birth of five boys in Turkey in July, 1944,
"The highest multiple births in the United States have hern
quintuplets In six Instances. The earliest was at Mars Bluff, S.C.,
three boys, two girls in 1776, and the most recent In 1948 In Ken
tucky two boys and three girls but In no case did any survive
beyond Infancy."
PAVING THE BYPASS last wek wtre crews of the Asphalt Paving Company of Klam
.'ath Falls. "Work is ntarly "complete and the fast itrttch should ba open for traffic in
about a month, barring dalays. ' i . '
President Goes To Augusta
In Attempt To Shake Cold
AUGUSTA, Ga.; (AP - Presi
dent Eisenhower arrived here at
11:37 a.m. in a heavy rain for a
five-day vacation - lh,at is hoped
will provide sunshine .to help him
shake a lingering cold.
The , temperature was about 54
degrees as the President's plane,
Columbine II, touched down at the
Augusta Airport. He flew in the
four-engined - propeller : plane he
used when he first took office be
cause the airport is too small for
his new: jet transport.
The trip from Washington took
two hours, nine minutes.
Accompanying the President on
the trip were two of his golfing
companions, Cliff Roberts, presi
dent of the Augusta National Golf
Club, and Ellis Slater, a member
of the club and chairman of the
board of National Distillers. '
Eisenhower plans, to return to
Washington Sunday evening or
early Monday morning.
While Eisenhower still has lin
gering traces of the com he
caught last month, press secre
tary James C. Hagerty said this
was not a major factor In the de
cision to go to Augusta. He also
said the President's - general
health is excellent.
Hagerty announced late Tues
day that in mid-afternoon Eisen
hower had made up his mind "just
like that" and the press secre
tary snapped his fingers to pay
Hospital Fire
Burns Patient
YREKA-A fire at about 3:33
Tuesday afternoon in a four-bed
ward of the southend annex of the
Siskiyou County Hospital, resulted
in singed eyebrows and hair and
painful burns to the hands of elder
ly patient, Loren Taylor, 79.
Hospital attendants said the eld
erly man was smoking and fire
from his cigarette apparently fell
into the bed clothing, starting the
blaze.
Nurse Margaret Jones was able
to move the patient, completely
disabled from a stroke, from his
bed before he suffered more seri
ous burns. '
Other nurses called the fire de
partment and damage was con
fined to the blankets, sheets and
mattress of Taylor's bed.
The only other occupant of the
ward, Doni Stevens, was unin
jured.
condition, were not weighed until
after their deaths.
Spokesman at Lackland Air
mm
his 23rd visit to the Augusta Na
tional Golf-Club since his election
1052. The famed course shut
down each ; year, from May ' until
mid-November is being opened
about three weeks early to receive
the President. c '
Hagerty said Eisenhower's deci
sion to go was prompted by fore
casts the Augusta weather will be
warm and sunny the rest of the
-week.. -ii
In order to make the trip the
President canceled a news con
ference he had scheduled for this
morning in ' Washington. He did
arrange separate White House
meetings, just ahead of departure,
with Secretary of State Christian
A. Herter and leaders of the gov
ernment's space and missiles pro
grams.
In response to a question, Hag
erty said the White House physi
cian, Maj. Gen. Howard M. Sny
der, had not urged Eisenhower to
go to Augusta.
Man Nabbed
For Arson
MOUNT SHASTA Five fires in
the Mount Shasta-Dunsmulr area
in the last 24 hours have resulted
in the arrest of L. C. "Graham,
who is being held for 72 hours on
suspicion of starting the fires,
Mount Shasta Police Chief Har
old Barnum and Deputy Sheriff
Bud Taylor are the investigating
officers.
The old school at Azalea, be
tween Dunsmuir and Mount Shas
ta, was the first building to burn
In the series of blazes. A garage
and other small buildings followed
in rapid succession, and Tuesday
night a barn, property of Mrs
Lucille Morgan, Mount Shasta
was destroyed by fire.
Mount Shasta Fire Chief Frank
Melo, first to suspect the fires
were of incendiary origin, started
the investigation.
The fire chief Is calling rcsl
dents in the area, warning them
to keep all buildings locked and to
dispose of combustible materials
about their homes.
Investigating officers said there
is a possibility Graham will be
taken to Siskiyou County Hospital
for mental examination.
Graham, a former employe of
the Mount Shasta Post Office, 're
signed from there two months ago
Force Base Hospital told news
men that everything that medical
science can do, including artificial
lespiration, is being done to save
the remaining hahy,
"1 have said lots of prayers,"
I he youthful appearing, crew-cut
Hying navigator told reporters aft
er the first baby died. "My wife
has, too, and it has done lots of
good before and now."
Hannan interrupted a news con
ference to go to his wile's room
on the third floor of the hospital
when the death of the second baby
was announced.
The mother, joyous at the first
news o( the quintuplet births, was
reported doing well. Her husband
described her to newsmen as a
"pretty blue-eyed blonde with
short hair." He said she was about
5-foot-3 in height and weighed
about 120 pounds. The Hannans
GjptedSbQf
Bypass Set
For Opening
In November
The West Side Bypass, that will
send transient traffic whisking
through Klamath Falls in a wink,
is getting an application of make
up to ready it for opening.
State Highway Engineer R e I d
Meritt of the Klamath Falls State
Highway Commission office, says,
barring bad weather and other
delays, the road should be open for
public travel in about a month.
Workers are installing signs,
curbing, stripes and other finish
ing touches. Paving, begun last
month by the Asphalt Paving Com
pany of Klamath Falls, is com
pleted. ' '
No formal dedication ceremo
nies have been contemplated for
the four-milc-long, two-lane seg
ment for which $1,843,000 was
budgeted. -
The road took root in Septem
ber, 1058, and undoubtedly will be
completed well within the pre
dicted completion date late this
year or early, next year.
The road is expected to drain
(he city business district of much
truck and auto traffic. A second
segment,' to take up where the
present segment ends at Link
River Bridge and to curve around
Lake Ewauna's shores to the inter
section of Highway 07 and Green
Springs Highway, is planned but
contracts have not been let.
Roadbed preparation on the by
pass job so far was done by the
Rogers Construction Company of
Portland. Bridges, of unique
stressed concrete beam construe
tion, over California Avenue and
Nevada Avenue, were built by the
Lillibo Construction Company of
Rcedsport.
Weather
Klamath Kails and vicinity
Partly cloudy with a few showers
tonight and Thursday, Low tonight
34-40; high Thursday 60-66.
High yesterday 67
Low last night . 23
Precip. last 24 hours trace
Since Oct 1- 6.26
Same period last year . ' 0.31
Low In area, Ktamath Falls 23
Northern California Occa&lona!
rain spreading over the north to
night. Otherwise cloudy over north
era mountains through Thursday,
Westerly and northwesterly winds
12-26 miles an hour oa the coast.
were childhood sweet hearts at a
Catholic school in Taylor, Tex.,
before their marriage there.
The couple has two sons, ltcb
ert, 5, Pat 4. They had spent
more than two years in Japan be
fore returning to the United States
Aug. 1. 1(1.5"
Hannan told reporters he and
his wife both had hoped for a girl
this time, and when he walked into
his wife's hospital room aftc
tile births, she smiled ot him and
said, "Well, you wanted a girl and
now you've got live!"
lie said he kissed her for each
of the newly born quints.
Physicians said Ilic babies' col
or and breathing were good but
that they had not had a chance
to develop fully.
The world's only living quints
are the Dilijentis ot" Buenos Aires,
Argentina, who celebrated their
November 3
For Filing Hew Appeal
By The Associated Press
And
United Press International
WASHINGTON - The Supreme
Court today granted a stay of exe
cution for Caryl Chessman, under
sentence lo die Friday in Cali
fornia's gas chamber.
The stay was granted to permit
the convict-author to file a new
appeal. The appeal must be filed
by Nov. 3. '
Counsel for , Chessman had
asked Justice Douglas to grant a
stay, but Douglas referred the re
quest to the lull court. '
In granting the slay, the court
noled that Chief Justice Warren
had disqualified himself from the
case. Warren is a former gover
nor of California.
The decision lo grant a stay
thus was made by eight justices.
After the tiling of a new appeal
on behalf of Chessman, the state
of California may file a reply in
opposition to further Supreme
Court consideration of Hie case.
The eight justices then will de
cide in closed conference whether
they will grant a hearing on the
new appeal. A refusal to do so
would mean that Chessman's con
viction with the penalty would
stand.
Under routine circumstances,
the stay would mean that six or
eight weeks would elapse before
the court acts on Chessman's ap
peal. California has' 30 days under
court rules to reply to Chessman's
ptiition. lt then might be another
two weeks before the court acts.
However, this routine is not al
ways lollowed. . The court might
ask California to file its answer
sooner, or the stale might do so
voluntarily.
The court will be in session the
week of Nov. 0 and Nov. 16. It
will meet Nov! 23 for decisions
and then recess until Dec. 7.
California s present governor,
Edmund G. Brown, who also re
fused to grant clemency to Chess
man, declined to comment on the
Supreme Court's action. An aide
said Brown felt any comment
would be "improper" because the
case is before the Supreme Court
Davis, who was in New York,
said he was grateful for the stay
and "As a Californian I'm even
Steel Decision Imminent;
Federal Judge Reports j
PITTSBURGH (API A fcd-ian end of the strike could be de-
eral judge said today his decision
is imminent in a Tatt-tiarticy in
junction case wherebj' the govern
ment is seeking to halt the 09-duy
steel strike. Judge " Herbert P.
Sorg said he will announce his de
cision before the day is out.
Judge Sorg made the statement
to newsmen during a recess in
court proceedings.
His decision had been delayed
by a three-hour conference among
company and union officials over
retroactive pay.
Union attorneys told the judge
(hat, if the men return to work
under an injunction, any econom
ic settlement made in the mean
lime should be retroactive for the
length of the back-to-work order
During the delay, steel compa
ny counsel filed a legal brief with
the court staling opposition to the
union's retroactive pay request.
The brief said:
"If retroactivity should be or
dered, the court would be settling
in favor of the union one of the
most important terms of collec
tive bargaining."
I Even If an Injunction is granted
16th birthday last July 15. The
Dionne quints, probably the
world's most publicized, survived
lor 20 years, until Emilic Dionne
died at 20 in 1931.
Oliva Dionne, lather of Uie Ca
nadian quintuplets, was one of the
first to express congratulations
and best wishes to the Hannans.
"Mrs. Dionne and I," he told
a Callander. Out., newsman,
' want to send along our best wish
es to the parents." His comment
was made before the deaths were
announced,
llannan's reaction Tuesday re
called Dionne's 25 years ago.
"I'm flabbergasted," the lieu
tenant said first.
Obviously unnerved at the mul
tiple births in his log cabin home,
Dionne ran dazedly Irom the house
crying. "A man like me should be
kept in jail."
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more thankful that our people
will not be subjected to the bru
talizing effects of another Ro
man holiday at the San Quentin
gas chamber Friday."
Announcement of the court's ac
tion was contained in an order
which was distributed to news
men by the tribunal's public re
lations officer, B. E. Whitlington.
Chessman received news of
his stay of execution by the U. S.
Supreme Court today with icy com
posure. Castro Aide
Accused
Of Treason j
HAVANA (AP) -t Havana radio
station , VOZ said today Prima
Minister Fidel Castro's forces
have arrested Maj. Hubert Matos,
his military commander in Cama
gucy Province. ,
Matos had taken refuge at his
headquarters in Camagucy, the
provincial capital, after two of
Castro's other commanders ac
cused him of treason against the
Cuban revolution.
Castro himself flew from Ha
vana to Camagucy for an assault
on the headquarters. He paced up'
and down the main street there
while his radios appealed to work
ers and farmers lo join him in
the assault.
Matos, who had been one of,
Castro's most respected lield com
manders, had resigned as provin
cial military commander in proi
test, apparently, against the ap
pointment of Castro's brother
Raul, 29, as the new minister of
the Cuban armed forces. The ap-'
pointmcnt abolished the Defense
Ministry and gave the young man
complete control . over all the
armed forces.
BOAT FEARED LOST
TOKYO (UP1 A 50-ton Japa
ncse fishing boat with 18 crew
men was feared lost in the typhoon-whipped
seas off northern
japan, the Japanese Maritime
Safety Agency said today. j)
t
ayct by an appeals The court
could but would not have to
stay the injunction whilo an ap
peal was acted upon.
The government argued Tues--
day that lost steel production was
threatening the nation's health
and safety. The striking - United
Stcclworkcrs Union said the strike
was creating hardships but was
not endangering the national
economy. t
U.S. District Judge Herbert P.
Sorg took the case under advise
ment alter listening to arguments
by both sides for nearly three
hours. President Eisenhower
ordered the Justice Department
to seek the injunction.
The Stcolworkcrs Union and 96
steel companies were named de
fendants in the case. The steel
firms represent almost 90 por
cent of the nation's steel produc
tion capacity.
An injunction, if Issued by
Judge Sorg, would send the halt
million striking stcclworkcrs back
to the mills for an 80-day cooling
off period. , - , ., -. -
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