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.
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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. '
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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-
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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."
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