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In Th- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS This weird modern world tale: Some time ago Eberhard W. Shorrig, a University of Washing ton researcher, ordered from his native Germany a copy of a book entitled Satyricon written by one Gaius Petronius, a Roman who lived and wrote some 19 cen turies ago. Mr. Shorrig wanted the book for his son, aged 18, to use in a classic literature course. In due time, the book arrived in America where, along with oth er imports, it came under the scrutiny of the Customs Bureau, where an alert official held it up on grounds of obscenity and wrote Mr. Shorrig asking his permission to destroy it. Mr. Shorrig de murred. He said the book could be found in classic libraries all over the country. He didn't think one more copy added to what we've got now would do irreparable harm. The Customs Bureau stood pat. The book, it decreed, should be destroyed. The youth of our na tion must be protected against contaminating influences. So Mr. Shorrig, being a rather de termined character and having -iews of his own on the nature of the book in question, enlisted the aid of Henry M. (Scoop) Jackson, the state of Washington's junior senator, who went to the top, de manding a review of the situation at the highest level. The upshot of it was that the Commissioner of Customs himself, after goodness only knows how much literary and moral research, countermanded the decision of his underling down in the lower eche lons of the customs service and ordered the release of the copy of Satyricon to Mr. Shorrig for the use of his son in his literary studies. Hmmmmmmmm. It's a thorny problem, with many facets. Has the right of an intellectual freedom been upheld? Or have the morals of our nation been undermined? What shall we say? What shall we think? In reaching a decision, it might help to know who this Petronius was and what his book was about. It isn't known when he was born, but he died about 66 A.D He was called by Tacitus "Arbiter Elegantiarum" that is, judge of elegance. He was director of i court entertainment under the Em peror Nero. His Satyricon is his best known work. It is a frag mentary manuscript in prose and verse which is considered by the literary experts to be one of the first examples of the novel form, It gives a vivid, sardonic and ex tremely realistic picture of the luxuries, vices and social man ners of Rome's Imperial Age. According to Tacitus, the court entertainment provided by Petron ius, in his official capacity as di rector, didn't sit too well with Nero and Petronius committed su icide to escape being put to death by the emperor, his boss. In view of Nero's reputation as a hellion of the first magnitude, that might be taken as testimony to the good moral character of Petronius. Anyway Both Senator Jackson of Wash ington state and the august Com missioner of Customs in Washing ton D.C. have given him a clean bill of moral health. Speaking personally, I doubt if Petronius' Satyricon is any worse than a lot of the present-day scan dal sheets, which circulate freely among us maybe no worse than a modern metropolitan newspaper in a Big Burg where three or four newspapers are fighting for street tale circulation. - Also, I doubt if it could com- 'pletely wreck our morals, for it is written in LATIN and ' not too many of our people who go in for that kind of stuff read Latin with readiness and gusto. So . . . don't rush off an order for a copy of it. When your copy ar rived and you began to dip into It, you'd probably feel that you had been gypped. . Man Wounded PORTLAND (AP)' - Edgar Le roy Springer wa brought to a hospital in Portland Saturday with a bullet wound near his heart. Police said he was wounded hen he accidentally dropped his 22 caliber revolver and it dis charged at his home near Sandy. SHOOTING HOURS DUCKS, GEESE OREGON December 1J OPEN CLOSE 7:25 4:35 December 14 OPEN CLOSE 7:24 4:35 CALIFORNIA December 1 OPEN CLOSE 7:15 4:34 December 14 OPEV CLOSE 7:11 4:14 KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1959 Price Ten Cents 68 Pages Telephone TU 4-8111 Blame Laid In Blast At Roseburg WASHINGTON (AP)-The dyna mite blast that shattered down town Roseburg Aug. 7 resulted di rectly from violation of safety reg ulations, the Interstate Commerce Commission said Friday. Thirteen persons were killed and 125 injured by the explosion. Prop erty damage was estimated at 10 to 12 million dollars. "The blast with its attendant loss of lile, personal injuries and severe property damage, was the direct result of an explosives laden truck being left locked but unattended while parked upon a public street in the congested por tion of the city," the ICC s report said. The ICC investigation included a joint hearing with tne urcgon public utilities commissioner at Roseburg Sept. 1-3. The ICC said the truck driver, George Rutherford, whose name was not mentioned in the report, and the Pacific Powder Co., which operated the truck, violated motor carrier safety regulations. These regulations require that vehicles transporting certain ex plosives avoid congested places and not be left unattended. The report said the company also vio lated in part the regulations re garding packaging and labeling of explosives and the use of proper names of commodities on shipping papers. The commission included in its report a recommendation that the ICC re-examine its present rules and regulations relating to the transportation of explosives and other dangerous articles to deter mine what revisions or amend ments should be made or to seek legislation if that is found to be needed. Car Victims Recovering YREKA (UPI) The Siskiyou General Hospital said Saturday that five persons injured in smashup, including two Southern Oregon College basketball players ana their coach were all in good condition. The four-car smashup in which the five were injured Friday took place on icy Highway 99 near the Oregon-California state line. Mrs Ida Nelson, 74, died in the mishap She was killed outright when her husband's car skidded over a bank. A car driven by James Riley of Vancouver, B.C., stopped to give assistance. Two cars carry ing members of the Southern Ore gon team and their coach skidded out of control trying to avoid the Riley car and crashed. Injured were Coach Theodore Schopf, 44, Ashland, Ore.; players Bradley Flanery, 18, Bend, Ore., and Merton White, 18, of Portland; Team Statistician Richard Scott 21, of Ashland, and Mrs. Rhoda Waugh, 59, of Vancouver, B.C., a passenger in the Riley automo bile. The hospital said that the three students would probably be re leased after sustaining only minor bruises. Coach Schopf and Mrs. Waugh were expected to re main for observation but were in good condition. The game went on as scheduled last night with Chico State win ning 59-33. Black Magic Cult Broken By Police In Switzerland BERN, Switzerland (AP) A black magic cult whose disciples were reported ruled by hypnotism ::nd torture behind clecirilicd barbed wire has been broken up by Swiss police raiders. Paul Baumann, 42, former pa tient in a mental home, is under arrest as the master mind on charges ranging from interference with personal freedom to embez zlement. . Police Commissioner Krnest Spoerri gave these details at a news conlerence Friday night: The raid was made last week on the fenced secluded Friedbcrg 'Mountain of Peace) estate at Linden, a village 12 miles south of Bern. Inside, raiding officers found 68 men, women and children in var ious stages of hypnotic trance. All ol the disciples were in a state of fear and subjection to Kallmann. The group, made up of Swiss and Germans, included a 15-year-old girl and Baumann's wife, 25. Several had to be transferred to mental hornet for psychiatric treatment. Tht estate compromised five SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS Explosion Rips Asunder Titan Missile CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. AP) An explosion tore a giant inter continental range Titan missile apart Saturday just as it was launched in an attempt to fire its second stage for (lie first lime. The 98-foot missile was engulfed by fire after it rose only a few feet from its launching pad. None of the 50 members of the launch crew in a block house 1(H) yards away was hurt. As the countdown reached zero, fire belched from the base of the missile. The flames roared up the length of the Titan. It was quickly hidden by giant billows of black smoke. The explosion sent up a mush room cloud like that of an atom bomb. Several minutes later when the wind had pushed the smoke away, the service tower was a fire blackened hulk. Nothing remained of the missile. This was the second time a Ti tan exploded in a try to achieve second-stage ignition. The first oc curred Aug. 14 when one of the big missiles blew apart much like the later one. That explosion was caused by a faulty release mech anism. There was no 'immediate report on what caused Saturday's disaster The latest blowup was another hitter blow for the Titan, which is being developed as this nation's most powerful rocket. The test program started out with great promise early in the year. The first four Titans flew successfully in tests of the first stage but since May the missile has been plagued by a series of technical troubles. Be It Ever So Humble, There's No Place As Jail JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Kermit Whisenhunt wanted to be home for Christmas, he told Fed eral Judge Bryan Simpson, Whis enhunt, charged with forgery asked the judge to reduce his bail from $1,500. "I haven't made it home for Christmas in 25 years, judge," he said Friday. Why not? the judge wanted to know. "I seem to be in prison every Christmas," Whisenhunt replied. Alter the judge heard that Whis enhunt had a police record dating back to 1928 including robbery burglary, forgery and jailbrcaking he relused to reduce the bail. "I don't blame you a cotton pickin' bit," the prisoner said as he turned away to go back to jail houses, a chapel with an altar dedicated to magic spirits, a mov- i.- theater and mechajiical work shops. New disciples, found by per sonal contact, were taken to the estate and told they had been chosen by the spirits to join the community. They had to swear an oath of allegiance to Ihe sect on an electrified book of magic which sent a heavy charge through their bodies. Incoming disciples were re quired to turn over all their cash nd belongings to Baumann. The oflicers found a small fortune in cash and valuables. Anchor Lost PORT ARTHUR, Ont. (AP) - The new three-millinn-dnllar gov ernment icebreaker Alexander Henry sailed into this Lake Super ior port last week and proudly dropped its one-ton anchor. Skin divers are still looking for it. The anchor apparently broke free of its chain. So the Alexander Henry had to moor at the dock. No. 6576 LEGISLATIVE INTERIM COMMITTEE on Public Welfare, which received a complaint last week from Mrs. Richard Smifh of the County Welfare Commission that some welfare money is being spent for other than essentials, is composed of, from left, Dr. Ennis Keizer, Coos Bay; Richard P. Dickinson, Portland attorney; Rep. E. Benedict (D-Mult), and Sen. Richard Groener, I D-Milwaukie. I Power Outagejfo, Nehru Caused By 'Marksman' Klamath Falls residents who were inconvenienced by an elec tric power outage for three hours Saturday morning can blame the person who shot out three insulat ors on the California Oregon Pow er Company's line in the Shasta Way area, according to S. I. Rilehey, local Copco manager. Ihe three shattered insulators were on one pole, Ritchey said, and were hit, probably with a rif le, either Friday afternoon or ear ly Saturday. The snowfall on Sat urday morning caused a heavy short which apparently burned a jump wire. Crews were dispatched to repair that wire and thought the trouble had been taken care of. When the outage remained, they had to trace the trouble and found the insulators had been de stroyed by gunshot. Ritchey has reported the mat ter to the Klamath County sher iff's office. Sources Say Overthrow Try Fizzles ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) Informed sources said Saturday an attempted movement from Argen tina to overthrow the Paraguayan government has been "complete ly dominated." Informants said a government communique on the situation is in preparation. This capital remains calm. Reports reached here that a re volt against President Alfredo Stroessner had been launched Sat urday morning from Posadas, Ar gentina, across the Parana River from Encarnacion, Paraguay. In Buenos Aires, the Argentine news agency Saporiti said a "lib eration army" of Paraguayans living abroad invaded Paraguay from Argentine and Brazilian bor der points in seven columns. Clandestine radios in Misioncs Province of northern Argentina reported the liberation army was led by Juan Jose Rotclla, 26, and Mario Slcche, both identified as Paraguayan students. Despite the reports of revolt in various Paraguayan cities. Argon tine airlines said flights to the capital of Asuncion were normal. A correspondent at Asuncion re ported by telephone to Buenos Aires that all appeared quiet in the Paraguayan capital. The call placed here was put through immediately. The Asuncion report conflicted with information being broadcast by Buenos Aires radio stations, which said uprisings had occurred in Asuncion, Villarica, and Con- cepcion. Information from the northern Argentine cities of Posadas and Clorinda said disturbances had broken out in the three Paraguay an cities at the moment rebel forces started their invasion. New Jet Mark Set By AF Ship LOS ANGELES (API - A new- world speed record of 1.218 miles an hour for jet planes was claimed Saturday by the Air Force. The old record of 1. 100.421) m.p.h. was held by the French air force. Brig. Gen. Joseph Moore, 45. set the record Friday over a 100- kilometer course at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., in an F105 Thundcrchief, flying at 36,000 leet. Local Control Over Local Looming On Major World Woes NEW DELHI (API-President Eisenhower met last night with Prime Minister Nehru for a broad discussion of major problems per plexing Asia and Ihe world. The American President and the acknowledged leader of free Asia sat down together at a U.S. Embassy dinner given by Eisen hower in Nehru's honor. There they plunged anew into the earnest discussion for which the Indian Prime Minister has displayed notable eagerness. Neh ru, not ordinarily given to super latives, unstintingly heaped ad vance praise upon Eisenhower as a "messenger of peace" and a: an initiator of a "pilgrimage ot peace." It was In such an atmosphere, with the plaudits of thousands ot Indians supplying an accompani merit, that the two leaders tackled the complex problems of the Unit ed States role in free Asia's fu ture. Earlier, the President's spec tacular visit to this country led an Indian diplomat to predict it will open "a new chapter in world history." M. C. Chagla, Indian ambassa dor to the United States, reported Prime Minister Nehru estimated the massive crowds that wel-i coined Eisenhower here Wednes-I day at 2',i million three times the size of New Delhi's reception for Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush chev in 1955. The 2'i million figure is thc,scarcn al)d 0(ners. biggest yet in estimates ot tne throngs which cheered, waved and crushed in upon the procession in which Eisenhower rode from the airport into New Delhi. Police had estimated 114 million. Eisenhower seized a chance Sat in day for his first real daylight rest since the beginning of his good will lour of three continents ten days ago. With only two formal functions on his schedule, he relaxed at the russet-colored mansion of India's President Rajendra Prasad and caught up on White House busi ness he is conducting 9.300 miles from Washington. Eisenhower, who Is bearing up well under the strain of his gruel ling trip, meets Nehru twice Sun day. The two leaders are expected to issue a communique summing up their talks before the President leaves for Iran Monday. Nehru told newsmen Saturday Eisenhower's visit is "a pilgrim age in quest of peace'' of special significance at this lime in world events. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Partly cloudy today; Highs 43-48; low tonight 18-23. High yesterday 4 Low taxi night 28 CRATER LAKE New snow 12 In. Snow depth .14 In. Maximum Friday 21 degrees minimum Friday nlghl 24 degrees. Chains required for all travel into the park on Sunday, The rangers hoped to have the road from park headquarters to the rim plowed for travel hy Sunday morn Ing. It was snowing steadily on Saturday. Northern California Fair Sun day escept local morning log In valleys and along the roast. Cold er In the mountains. Westerly to northwesterly coastal winds 12-23 miles an hour. As Distinct Possibility MUMinm-! Hold Meet Chagla said he himself looks for no Concrete results from the talks. "Nobody expected that," he added. "But when two great men dedicated to world peace meet to gether this way they can do a real deal indeed to change the atmosphere. "When the atmosphere changes, it is then that concrete and spe cific results can he expected." Committee Levels Blast WASHINGTON (UPD-The Sen ate Anti-Monopoly, subcommittee said Saturday the Upjohn Compa ny sold bulk quantities of a "won der drug" for arthritis to another manufacturer at a price 14 times below that charged to druggists as pills. Dr. E. G if lord Upjohn, president of the Upjohn Company, of Kala mazoo, Michigan, defended t h e 1,410 per cent price difference and told the subcommittee that the two types of transactions were not com parable. Upjohn claimed that the sale to the Schering Corporation was a bulk sale of the raw drug while the price quoted on Ihe sales to pharmacists involved "a great many more costs," advertising, selling, distributine. nackacinir. re. Upjohn was asked by Committee Counsel Rand Dixon about redni solene, used in treating arthritis. Upjohn produced 45 per cent of the nation's supply in 1958. Dixon referred to an Upjohn sale to Schering at $2.37 a gram and the price charged druggists al the same time of $35.80 per gram. Under questioning by Dixon, Up john conceded that the $2.37 cost to Schering was "probably in ex cess of our bare manufacturing cost" or in o t h e r words showed more profit for Upjohn. The subcommittee, headed by Chairman Estos Kefauver (D- Tcnn.) called Upjohn for question ing as to why American medicines cost less abroad than they do at home. ' TTTTff;rv ffX .QJ Vt : (fey,. WINNERS of a recent "I Speak For Democracy" contest, sponsored by Radio Ka-GO and the VFW, spoke during a Rotary luncheon meeting Friday. In tht photo, from left, era Vern Howard, winner from Henley High School; Ann Jendrzejewiki, Saerad Heart Acad amy; Mike Balsiger, Rotary president; Bob Bartlett, Ka-GO program director; Sharon Hob. ton ef Merrill High School, county winner, and Martha Plerson, Klamath Union HigH School, Randy Miller of Malin, the fifth winner, was unable to attend. Klamath County, All State Would Feel Change Effects By TOM STI.MMIX The possibility of local control over local public welfare programs a drastic departure from rigid state authority appeared to have moved a first step toward reality this weekend. The change, should it come about, would affect not only Klam ath County but all of Oregon. It certainly would be a vision be come tact for both the Klamath County Welfare Commission and the Klamath County Medical Soci ety. Indications that a change from state to local control was being considered arose from a meeting of Ihe Legislative Interim Com mittee on Public Welfare here Fri day and Saturday. The committee did not come to lake sides or make immediate recommendations: it came to hear facts. Eventually, it will present its findings to the 1961 Legislature for action. IT WAS FROM facts the com mittee heard, and from reactions to them, that the first feeble hints of a switch in authority were Iclt. Klamath County's doctors ar gued insistently against "rigid rules and regulations without real ism." The doctors were vehe mently supported by the county commission. Al tne Saturday morning ses sion. Miss Jeanne Jewett, state welfare administrator, indicated that the state administration felt some authority could be delegated to local levels without jeopardiz ing federal matching funds. "We arc moving toward a slate supervised sort of thing, where the physicians arc the decision makers,'-' she said. Later she commented, "I think we have es tablished here that the (state) commission is willing to go as far and as fast as it can to develop a program of that sort Dr. Ennis Keizer, a Coos Bay doctor and lay member of the leg islative committee, reviewed com ponents of a new plan tentatively proposed by Dr. James Stewart medical consultant for the state commission, and observed, "It seems to me the Intent of this whole program is to put It on lhes,x cardinals-designate are here local level. Earlier Dr. Keizer had said, The attitude of the doctors in Klamath Falls is just a step or two ahead of the attitude of the rest of the state." The next move may be a meet ing here of the State Public Wel fare Commission. Dr. Morton Goodman of Portland, only mem ber of the slate commission pres ent, said he would suggest such a meeting sometime between now and March. Dr. Hugh Currin said an invitation to join the meeting, if received, would be brought be fore the Klamath County Medical Society. He did not say the socie ty would attend. IT WAS departure of the Kiam- ath County society from participa tion in the slate-administered med ical care program that provoked Ihe legislative committee meeting here. Bruce Bishop, committee ex ecutive secretary, said no other area of the slate exhibited such public interest as did Klamath. The doctors' departure from the slate program decided August 11 and reaffirmed last Tuesday by 30 of the society's 42 members ac cused the State Public Welfare Commission of requiring a double standard of medical care for wel fare patients. Dr. Fletcher Conn, presenting the doctors' case and their subsc- quent proposals for exploring new itonij..teSw.. r-"! ) 1 i ' Welfare ideas, accused the state commis sion of "arbitrary third party In terference." He cited cases of enforced ne glect, emphasized that fees were not being considered, and said the society as a whole "feels definite ly that lit) would prcier to take care of welfare patients for noth ing rather Ihan have . . . methods dictated by a third party." Dr. Keizer asked, "What is the greatest drawback to working with Klamath County welfare cases?" "Foreign rule." Dr. Conn quipped, The State Public Welfare Com mission has no good understanding of the problems here." This returned attention to the lo cal comiol theme repeated again and again. County Commissioner Frank Ga- nong. a county welfare commission member, hit slate control vigor- (Continued on Page 4-A) Consistory To Elevate 8 As Cardinals VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope John X X I II will preside Monday at a secret consistory to elevate eight prelates of the Roman Cath olic Church to its College of; Car dinals. Among them are two from the United States, both native sons of Milwaukee. They are Archbishop Albert Gregory Meyer of Chicago and Archbishop Alois Joseph Muench, until now Bishop of Fargo, N.D., and for several years since the end of the war the Vatican's apos tolic nuncio to Germany. Last week, the two cardinals- designate and future princes of the church met joyously al Rome's Ci ampino air field when the Chicago Archbishop arrived fnr the con sistory. Archbishop Muench had arrived earlier from Bonn. With one excoption, all the other lor me consistory, rne exception is Archbishop Paolo Marella, 64-ycar-old apostolic nuncio to Franco. ' Following an old custom that exists between the Vatican and France, Archbishop Marella will receive official notification of his elevation to the College of Cardi nals in Paris, where he will also receive his biretta from President Charles de Gaulle of France. Queen Soraya Denies Rumor ROME (AP) Princess Soraya'i secretary said Saturday she is aulhorizcd to issue a "categoric denial" of reports that the former queen of Iran is about to announce her engagement and become a convert to Roman Catholicism. The secretary was asked to comment on newspaper reports saying the princess planned to be come engaged cither to Harald Krupp, of the German industrial family, or to Italian Prince Rai- mondo Orsini. "These stories are lies," the secretary said. ' I am authorized to deny them. Press reports that she intends to become a Catholic i are not true, either." - .!r,a.. mm . W:-..J I
