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Pygmies Join Watusis
In Primitive Warfare
BRUSSELS, Belgium (UPI) -I
Ruanda, pygmies using poison
blowguns have joined the giant
Watusi warriors in a battle with
bahulus tribesmen in the Belgian
trusteeship territories in Africa,
reports reaching Brussels said
today. .
The Ministry of Colonies said it
had received reports that more
than 200 persons had been killed
in savage fighting carried out with
ancient spears and bows and ar
rows and now with blowguns, in
the mountainous territory in Cen
tral Africa.
The seven-foot-tall Watusis ap
parently were losing out in the
battles against the more numerous
In The-
Day's lews
By FRANK JENKINS
- From Washington:
' The nation pauses for a minute
Of silence today to honor the coun
try's war dead on Veterans Day.
Traditional Veterans Day ceremo
nies were held at Arlington Na
tional Cemetery outside Washing
ton. The ceremonies included plac
ing the President's wreath at the
Tomb of the Unknowns.
. The wreath-laying ceremony was
scheduled to be followed by one
minute of reverent silence to be
observed throughout the nation.
The ceremony of the wreath was
timed for the exact hour when the
guns ceased firing on the first
Armistice Day, November 11, 1918,
marking the end of World War I.
. Ah! That 11 o'clock hour on the
morning of November 11, 1918.
Will anyone then living and still
live EVER forget it?
The glory of it all. To the soldier
in the field it meant that he could
f tand up in his trench UNAFRAID.
To the fathers, the mothers, the
sisters, the sweethearts at home it
meant NOW HE CAN LIVE!
. Never in the world, I think, was
there such a day before. Never in
the world, one sometimes fears,
can there be such a day again.
We thought then THAT WAS THE
END OF WAR. Never again, we
were sure, could men be so foolish
as to let a world war get started.
We were so naive.
But-
It was such a blessed naivete:"
. After all, it's WONDERFUL to
be naive.
This much Is certain:
The efforts of all mankind should
be devoted to BANISHING WAR.
Can it be done?
Well. .'...-
IT CAN'T BE DONE BY
THROWING AWAY OUR GUNS.
It will have to go deeper than
that. Throwing away your gun is
just a temptation to the unprin
cipled. Total disarmament isn't the an
wer. What IS the answer?
Here's a thought: .
At this moment, candidacies for
the high office of President of the
United States are incubating. As
' pirants for this post of greatest
responsibility in the world are
starting out to show themselves
to the people. Another political
campaign is getting under way.
If the people of our nation will
forget all the hoorah, all the hoop
lap all the tommyrot that normal
ly characterized our Presidential
campaigns and will CONCEN-
CENTRATE on getting the best
possible man for the job, it will
help.
Only by GREAT leadership,
ABLE leadership, DEDICATED
leadership can war be banished.
Farm Program
Announced
WASHINGTON (AP) Presi
dent Eisenhower and Secretary of
Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson
have announced a farm program
they will present to Congress next
year.
Its key provisions arc:
1. To base price supports of
ilorablc commodities, particularly
wheat, on market prices rather
than on the old parity formula
The administration submitted
much the same plan to the Dcm
ocratic-controlled Congress this
year and it was rejected.
2. To expand the voluntary re
tirement of land from crop pro
duction for the next five or 10
vears. with particular reference
to areas with big crop surpluses.
This is an extension of Benson's
present conservation reserve pro
sram. Also included arc a stepping up
of research for developing new
markets and uses for farm prod
nets: a vicorous "food-for-peace"
program to use up surpluses by
mak nc more available 10 inenaiy
countries; and an expanded rural
dtvelonmcnt program to help low
income farmers obtain a higher
standard of living.
B:thutus, long their serfs, and
called on the four-foot high pg
mies to help them out.
The Bahulus outnumber the
Watusis 4,000,000 to 300,000. Re
ports said most of the dead were
Watusi warriors and that so far
the rampant Bahulus have spared
women and children. The Bahutus
went on the warpath because
they feared Belgium's plans lor
independence would perpetuate
Watusi domination.
A battalion of about 600 Colonial
Army (Force Publique) troops
sent in from the adjoining Belgian
Congo has so far been unable to
separate the warring tribes.
The battalion split up into 24
patrols but was able to make lit
tle contact with the fighting be
cause of Ihe mountainous terrain
and the barely perceptible jungle
trails along which the tribesmen
travel.
The troops armed with rifles
and machincguns usually arrive
alter a battle has taken place and
the tribesmen have melted awa
into the mountains and jungles
they know so well.
The Bahulus are operating in
groups ol between 200 and 250
which emerge from the jungles
and strike Watusi villages without
warming. After killing all who re
sist, they burn the village and the
surrounding coffee and banana
plantations and head back into the
jungle.
Solon Favors
Prison Camp
YREKA (UPD-State Sen. Ran
dolph Collier (D-Yreka) has come
out in favor of establishing a for
estry service honor prisoner
camp 30 miles south of Yreka.
Collier's statement was read
during the supervisors' meeting
here Tuesday. Earlier, two
ranchers who live near the pro
jected camp site presented a pe
tition signed by 47 persons op
posing the installation.
In his statement, Collier said
he was "100 per cent" in favor of
the disputed site.
The proposed camp, which
would house 80 state ' prisoners.
was announced, last Thursday by
A. Roy Bengard, forest ranger for
the California Division of Forestry
in Yreka. The 140-acro site would
be located on property five1 .miles
north of Fort Jones, at the mouth
of Clear Creek.
Philippines
Hold Election
MANILA (AP)
President
Carlos P. Garcia's big, well
heeled Nacionalista party machine
began piling up election leads
from remote areas of Ihe Philip
pines today. But five of Garcia's
opponents si ill led in the battle
for eight seats in the national
Senate.
With about a third of the votes
in Tuesday's nationwide election
reported, Garcia candidates were
pushing opposition leaders. But
the President's hopes for reelec
tion in 1961 were not helped by a
strong anti-Garcia vote in the
cities.
Garcia's own right-hand man,
former Executive Secretary Juan
C. Pajo, was far down on the list
of senatorial candidates in 14th
place. The top eight will be
elected.
Counting was expected to con
tinue into Thursday.
There was no possibility of the
government losing the 24-meinber
Senate since it controls 13 hold
over seats. But the election of the
eight senators and provincial and
local officials throughout the na
tion was watched for clues to the
next presidential race.
Foes of the President who
charged graft and corruption in
administration ranks swept to re
sounding victories m the two key
cities, Manila and Cebu,
Settlers
Demonstrate
ALGIERS 'UPD-Frcnch settler
extremists marched through Al
giers today shouting abuse against
President Charles de Gaulle and
his government.
"De Gaulle to the gallows," they
screamed.
The demonstration came at cer
emonies commemorating the 1918
Armistice that ended World War
I. Police vainly tried to restrain
them, but police officials pleading
for calm were pushed aside by
the mob.
"De Gaulle to the gallows,"
they continued. "Dcbrc. Treason!"
"Algeria is French!" There were
many insults hurled against Pre
mier Michel Debre.
The noisy demonstration fol
lowed De Gaulle's new appeal to
the Algerian Rebels to go to Paris
to negotiate an armistice.
Ml rMr '00htt
IT'S AN EASY DRIVE northwest from Klamath Falls to Lake
of the Woods or Rocky Point, and hundreds of people make
it regularly. It's a spectacular drive, and it is remarkable
because each time it seems new, and inviting, and relaxing.
A favorite spot lies north of Eagle Ridge, where the lake
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Horse Death
Reason Asked
umaiujUa, ure.
(AP)-Tt 'will.
Be a sad, long winter for Susie
Hams without .. her Captain. ;, .
The gentle stallion's broad back
and sturdy legs made the world
a wonderful place for Susie, 9.
For six months, Captain car
ried Susie to school and out into
the eastern Oregon countryside for
days of play with friends after
Susie had struggled up the rails of
a fence with her club feet to
mount the horse.
But somebody shot and killed
Susie's Captain last Sunday.
Somebody, according to police.
who "just wanted to see what a
double-barreled shotgun would do
to a horse from 10 feet away.
Now Susie mopes quietly around
her farm home, waiting for the
day next April when corrective
surgery will be performed on her
feet at the Shriners' Hospital in
Portland, Ore. Sometimes she
gazes wistfully out a window at
the big pasture where her Cap
tain used to wait.
Susie's mother, Lavcrne Hams,
has offered a $25 reward for in
formation about Captain's death.
Not for apprehension of the
person that did it," Mrs. . Hams
said, "but purely for the reason
why."
Tule Receives
Fire Truck
TULELAKE - Fire Chief Lyle
Sherer today accepted the. keys to
a new- fire truck on 'behalf of the
city jbf Tulclake. Harold Bowhay,
chief of the Fire and Rescue Divi
sion, California Disaster .Office
made the. presentation at a joint
luncheon) meeting of Rotary and
Kiwanis. c)ubs. . : t v
The truck, . replacing . one . de
stroyed by fire last August,' is a
1333 GMC; with a pumping capa
city of 1,000 gallons. and a-load
capacity of . 500 gallons. "
, California owns 100 such trucks
and places' them on loan to various
local governmental agencies to be
available for emergencies. The
trucks were purchased with match
ing state and federal funds by .vir
tue, of 'legislation introduced by
Sen. Randolph ColhW.'
Senator Collier,' who will attend
the luncheon, was instrumental jn
obtaining Ihe completely equipped
truck for the city.,.
PLANT SHUTS DOWN
ST. LOUIS (LTD Chevrolet
truck and Corvette , sports car
production lines here were to be
shut down - toaay because oi
steel shortage.
The shutdown will idle 1.600
employes, Chevrolet officials said
Tuesday.
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1959
Memo To New
Your Position
Editor's Note: The. fo!lo.wingi
tuemo was written by a news
man who has' -covered Berlin
since four-power occupation be
gan in 1945. He saw growing
East-West friction, the blockade,
the air-lift, West Berlin recon
struction and the East-West
struggle for the city. He has
known five Berlin commanders.
The memo is to the sixth, Maj.
Gen. Ralph M. Osborne: '
By JOSEPH B. FLEMING
BERLIN (UPI) Memo to a
new American commandant:
You have 4,000 American troops
and 100 State Department diplo
mats isolated 110 miles deep in
Communist territory.
You are surrounded ;by 30 So
viet divisions of more than 300,
000 men.
If war breaks out your position
is untenable. You will not be
relieved.' You will be expected to
fight courageously to the end as
American soldiers did at Bataan
with the hope of eventual victory.
You might not live to see. that
victory.
Army Changes
Berlin Chief
BERLIN (UPI) - The United
States Army today was taking ad
vantage of the Berlin breathing
spell to change its Berlin com
mandant.
Maj. Gen. Barksdale Hamlett
had been scheduled for reassign
ment at. the height of the Berlin
crisis last May. But the Army did
not want to change command at
that time.
Hamlett stayed on because Ihe
Army considered his knowledge
and experience here too valuable
to Jose at a time when the city
was threatened by the Soviet de
mand . the Western Allies get out.
Now that pressure on Ihe city
has relaxed for- the time being,
Hamlett is getting his long over
due reassignment.
The Army announced Tuesday
Hamlett will leave Berlin Dec. 15
for a top Pentagon post. He will
be replaced by Maj. Gen. Ralph
M. Osborne, a. veteran negotiator
with the Communists, .-
The switch was seen as a sign
of the. Army's belief the. Commu
nist heat is off the city temporar
ily' and no serious incidents arc
expected while the- Spviels are
pressing, for.., An- early: Big Four
summit meeting., i r
There was no thought here the
Soviets have, dropped their: plans
to get the Western Allies out ol
the city.
It was believed that if a sum
mit meeting fails the Communists
would ' revive their campaign
against the isolated Western out-
IposL
reappears, rugged mountains frame the horizon, and cattle
graze far below. Don Kettler found the source of that mood
in this photograph on the Rock Creek Ranch a mood
generated by lake and mountains, a rail fence, and a stand
of aspens and pines that rises like a castle above a moat.
Army Chief:
Untenable
It Is a grim thought. The 7,000
American Army wives and chjl-
dren-r- dependents in Army jar
gonwill share your fate.
You are coming to Berlin at
the most critical time the city
has seen since the Soviets cut all
land routes to the city in 1948
and began the one-year - Berlin
blockade.
An Anglo-American airlift beat
that blockade but the future is
uncertain.. ' :
The situation is fairly quiet
now. Things have calmed down
since the Berlin crisis began just
one year ago with Soviet Pre
mier Nikita S. Khrushchev's de
mand that your troops and the
7,000 British and French troops
get out of the city.
He said the Western Allies
must end their occupation of
West Berlin and make it what he
called a "free, demilitarized
city."' . -
The West saw this proposal as
Soviet plot to get the West out
so they could swallow the city
and make it a part of the ."Ger
man Democratic Republic" the
surrounding Soviet Zone of Ger
many. The United States, Britain and
France rejected Khrushchev's
free city proposal and said they
would fight to hold West Berlin
You are coming here to make
good that pledge, if necessary.
Khrushchev's proposal and the
Western rejection of it led to
talks at Geneva of the Big Four
foreign ministers. The conference
ended in a deadlock.
But the Soviets made.no move
to take over the Western sectors
because it was agreed - that the
world's lop. men, President Ei
senhower, Khrushchev, the ' Brit
ish and French leaders -would
meet at a -so-called summit con
ference to try and settle the
East-West clash that has raged
since World War II ended.
Jet Runway
Was Blocked
GREAT FALLS, Mont: (AP
The only available jtmway at
Malmstrom Air Forcej Base here
was blocked by a crash-landing
T33 jet trainer when. a. flight of
Air Force , pghlcrs, wajs ; scattered
by a blizzard early Tuesday.
I'nablc to find refuge in the
blinding snow;, three of Jhe twin
jet 'r 89 -1 Scorpions. I plunged to
earth, killing four airmen.
Other planes in the flight used
their last reserves of luel to find
safe landings at fields and air
strips as far distant as 230 miles
A Malmstrom spokesman said he
believed fewer than 20 cralt were
involved.
Telephone TU 4-81U
No. 6548
Supervisors
Reject Bid
YREKA . Siskiyou : County's
Board of Supervisors at its Tues
day meeting rejected all bids sub
mitted for tne construction or a
new detention hall for Siskiyou
County. , - ; -
The lowest bid, with a base of
$63,337, . was considered too high
for the $30,000 allocated by the
budget committee for construction
of the hall. ' , . . , .
Bidders were the Earl Cummins
Construction Company of Yreka,
R. N. Kennicott of Redding and
the Cummings Construction Com
pany of Grants Pass.
The board expects' to discuss
construction of the hall and re
modeling of the existing county
jail at its December meeting. The
board hopes to work out a solu
tion whereby the detention hall
may be constructed within the $30,-
000 allocation.
SHOOTING HOURS
, DUCKS, GEESE
OREGON
November 12
OPEN
6:55
CLOSE
4:50
CALIFORNIA
November 12
OPEN
6:49
CLOSE
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CHRISTMAS WORKSHOPS will be conducted from about 9:30 a.m. until noon Saturday
in Peterson School to enable city and county teachers to exchange school Christmas
decoration ideas. Here, Mrs. Mary Ann Kerr, left, demonstrates pine needle basket
weaving to Mrs. Velme Clark and Jim Pat k. Sha will show the technique Saturday.
Former Top
Issues Stern Warning
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The nation paid tribute today to
veterans of past wars and heard a
warning from a former lop com
mander that freedom could be lost
by default to Communism.
The warning was sounded by re
tired Gen. Albei t Wcdcmcycr in a
talk at the Arlington National
Cemetery Amphitheater alter a
wreath was laid at the Tomb ol
the Unknowns as a climax of the
national observance of Veterans
Day.
Throughout the nation and at
military posts around the world
similar ceremonies were held.
There were parades, talks of glory
and of death and services in mem
ory ol the dead of past wars in
most cities.
"We could close our freedoms
PALL MAI.L, Tcnn. (AP) To
day is Veterans Day but it's
nothing special to Sgl. Ah in
York, Ihe World War I hero who
is ill, partly blind and not loo
prosperous.
However, the 71-yenr-old vet
eran, sitting el ect on the edge of
his bed, said his outlook could
be worse.
Despite a stroke which left
him paralyzed on one side and
sightless in. one rye, his health
is improving to the point he
dreams of fox hunting again.
lie hasn't heard from Ihe fed
eral government lately on the
$85,000 in tuxes he allegedly
owes on Income from the movie
"Sergeant York."
"We differ, the way all men
do," he said in an Interview.
"They claim I owe 'cm so much,
I sny 1 don't owe 'cm a dime."
As for Veterans Day: "Armis
tice Day is just another day. Ev
ery war is to end wars and
we've still got 'em going on or
coming up,"
At dawn on an October day in
1918, York killed 25 Germans
and almost singleluindrdly cap
tured 132 prisoners. For that he
received the Medal of Honor,
by default simply because we take
them for granted," Wedemeyer
told crowds gathered at the Tomb
of the Unknowns where Gen. Ly
man L. Lcmnitzer, Army chief of
staff laid the wreath of memory
VEvery informed American
knows that communism has infil
trated in varying degrees into our
schools, labor unions, . churches
and some branches of govern
ment, Wedemeyer said.
"This could never have hap
pened were it not for false con
cepts of Americanism and the
apathy of many of our fellow
citizens."
Still alive In receive Ihe tributes
are one Confederate veteran of the
Civil War, 60 veterans of the In
dian wars, 42,000 Spwiish Ameri
can War veterans, 2,750.000 veter
ans of World War I, 15,230,000 vet
erans of World War II, and 5,456,.
000 Korean War veterans.
Honored cs well are the millions
who fought for their nation and
died.
Under a rotation system, this
year's Washington ceremonies arc
in charge of the American Legion.
Other veterans' groups have
picked these other cities as sites
for their main services: The Am-
'Be Too Old,'
Says Ex-Chief
LIBERTY. Mo. (AP)-Harry S.
Truman lectured at William Jew
ell College Tuesday and an
swered students' questions.
'One exchange:
Q Are you going to run for
president in l!)(i0?
A I'll be 76 oil the eighth day
of May and I think that's old
enough to know better.
Commander
vets at Chicago, the Army Navy
Legion at Philadelphia, the Dis
abled Veterans at Dodge City,
Kan., the Marine Corps League at
llarrisburg. Pa., and the Veterans
lor Foreign Wars at Birmingham,
Ala.
In New York two parades were
scheduled. Veterans organizations
march down Fifth Avenue to the
eternal Light at Madison Square
and lo the Veterans Monument in
Union Square. Brooklyn's Ameri
can Legion parades in that bor
ough.
Federal workers were given the
day off. So were many school
children.
Labor Chief
Eats Fedora
Made Of Cake
WASHINGTON (AP) Secre
tary of Labor James P. Mitchell
today ate his hat a fedora made
of cake because unemployment
failed to fall below three million
last month as he had predicted.
But Mitchell sent a slice apiece
lo the leaders of the steel strike
which kept joblessness high, Pres
ident David J. McDonald of the
United Stcclworkers Union and the
industry's top bargainer R. Con
rad Cooper.
"I was a couple of hundred
thousand off in my predictions,
due entirely to the steel strike,
not to any weakness in our econ
omy," Mitchell said.
Unemployment in October was
3.270.000 though employment was
66.800,000, a record for the month.
Mitchell in April predicted that
by last month employment would
rise to 67 million and joblessness
would drop below 3 million.
When AFL - CIO President
George Meany accused him of
talking through his hat, Mitchell
promised to eat his headpiece on
the front steps of the Labor De
partment if he were proved
wrong, i
Aides to the secretary , had a
hat made of cake so. the boss
wouldn't get indigestion paying
off. ' -
The detailed figures given out
by the Labor Department after
the symbolic hat eating showed
that employment rose 484,000 . in
October to 66,831,000. Unemploy
ment rose - 42,000 to 3,272,000. .
The proportion of unemployment
to the work force rose from 5.S
per cent in September to 6 per
cent in October. The ratio was 5. J
per cent last April when Mitchell
made his predictions. ' .
Seymour Wolfbein, deputy . as
sistant secretary of labor, esti
mated the layoffs, due to the steel
strike rose to the neighborhood of
half a million before the strikers
went back to work under a Taft
Hartley law court injunction.'.
Officials calculated that unem
ployment in October would have
been In the neighborhood of 2,-
800,000, or nearly a half million
less than the actual figures, if
(here had been no steel strike.
Weather
Northern California Fair
through Thursday, but night and
morning fog near the coast. North
erly winds 10-20 miles an hour
from Cape Mendocino northward.
Klamath Falls and vicinity
Fair through Thursday with vari
able high cloudiness. Low tonight
20-28; high Thursday 52-57. '
High yesterday 6t
Low last night . 22
Prcclp. last 24 hours
Since Oct. 1 t.5f
Same period last year .4
Low In area, Chemult - IT