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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 18, 1959)
HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls. Ore. Fririav. Dec 18. 1059 ..PAGR 3 B TJ. ua Pt on. ifM by NU fenlM, ho. "I'll say one thing! 1960 Invasion Of Cuba Seen By Fidel Castro HAVANA (AP)-With his mili tary courts again in full swing. Prime Minister Fidel Castro ex pressed belief today that there will be an invasion of Cuba hi 1PG0. "Next year we will have to de fend the revolution with weapons in hand," Castro declared in a televised, 4'a-hour speech. "It will come because there is a You were in magnificent voice today!" State Winter Wheat Crop To Reflect Slight Gain WASHINGTON (AP)-Oregon's winter wheat crop will be slightly larger than last year's and Wash ington's dawn a small amount, the Agriculture Department estimates. The estimates were included in (he department's final crop report of the year Wednesday. Nationally, the crop was placed at 923,449,000 bushels, somewhat below last year's revised estimate of 1,179, 269,000 bushels. This year's harvested acreage in Oregon was reported as 709,000 acres, with a 36 bushels an acre yield. The crop was estimated at 25,524,000 bushels, compared with the revised estimate of last year's crop of 25,305,000 bushels. The comparable figures for Washington were: 1,742,000 acres 37.5 bushels; estimated crop of 65,325,000 bushels; last year's re vised figures, 66,024,000 bushels. Other totals included: Spring wheat other than durum: Washington: 258,000 bushels; 31 bushels an acre; estimated crop 7,998,000 bushels; last year, 3,933, 000 bushels. Oregon: 105,000 ; 28; estimated crop, 2,940,000 bushels; last year 2,695,000 bushels. ; Barley - Washington: 703,000 acres; 38.5 bushels an acre; estimated crop, 27,066,000 bushels; last year, 22, 144.000 bushels. Oregon: 538,000; 36; estimated crop, 19,368,000 bushels; last year 19.890,000 bushels. Hops Washington: 18,600 acres; 1,640 pounds per acre; 28,310,000 pounds last year and 30,504,000 pounds this year. Oregon: 5,200; 1,340 ; 5,400,000 pounds last year and 6,968,000 pounds this year. Dry peas Washington: 146,000 acres; 1,500 pounds per acre; 1,071,000 hun dredweight last year and 2,190,000 hundredweight this year. " Sugar beets Washington: 34,300 acres; 22.9 tons per acre; 813,000 tons last year and 758,000 tons this year. Oregon; 19,000 ; 27; 521,000 tons last year and 513,000 tons this year. Apples (production only) Washington: 29,800,000 bushels last year and 23,040,000 this year, Oregon: 2,250,000 ; 2,200.000. Peaches (production only) Washington: 2,200,000 bushels last year and 2,200,000 this year. Pears (production only) Washington: 4,700,000 bushels last year and 4,350,000 this year, Oregon: 5,300,000; 5,640,000. Baptists Set Yule Fete The program, "The Three Gifts of Christmas" will be presented by the Bible Baptist Church Sun day School Sunday, December 20, 5:30 p.m. The entire Sunday School from the Cradle Roll through the Jun ior High departments are includ ed in this program which is pre sented through the use of visual aids. Vocal and Instrumental mu sic as well as a play are also included in the presentation. David Grimes will narrate. Billy Webb and John Howard will serve as keepers of the gifts. The pastor, Sunday school super intendent and teachers extend an invitation to all to this service. Cranberries Oregon: 540 acres harvested; 81.5 barrels per acre; 32.300 bar rels last year and 44,000 this year. Washington: 1,000 ; 98; 57,300 and 98,000. Potatoes Washington: 44,000 acres har vested; 239 hundredweight per acre; 11,040,000 hundredweight last year and 10,520,000 this year. Oregon: 38,500 ; 221; 9,750,O0O! hundredweight last year and 8, 510.000 this year. . The final estimate for other crops compared with the Novem ber estimate, last year's revised figure and the ten-year average, respectively, included: Hay: 112,764,000 tons; 113,884, 000. Potatoes: 242,998,000 hundred weight; 242,172,000 ; 265,729,000; and 229,829,000. Sugar beets: 17,036,000 tons; 16, 685,000; 15,183,000; and 12.070,000. Hops: 53,600,000 pounds; 53,402, 000; and 48,478,000. Apples: 118,227,000 bushels; 117, 727,000; 126,610,000 and 108,728,000. Peaches: .73,806,000 bushels; 72, 806,000 ; 71,069,000 and 61,483,000. Pears: 731,090,000 bushels; 30, 823,000 ; 28,890,000 and 29,590,000. Grapes; 3,228,000 tons; 3,231,000; 3,026,000 and 2,889,000. Cherries: 215,000 tons; 219,000; 192,000 and 224,000. Apricots: 230.000 tons, 230,000; 108,000 and 209,000. City Of The Star To Be Presented The Sanctuary Choir of Imman- uel Baptist Church, Eleventh and High streets, will present "The City of the Star," a Christmas cantata, Sunday, December 20 at 7 p.m. Soloists will be Leo Zell baritone; Vicki Schultz, alto, and Ann Rexford, soprano. "The City of the Star," is based on the carol, "O Little Town of Bethlehem." Consecrated voices and instruments will blend in sin cere melody to portray the real Christmas story as it unfolded. The pastor, the Rev. L. J (Ron) Hall invites the public to be present for the service. FIRST LIGHTED HOME The boarding house of Mrs. Sar ah Jordan, in Menlo Park, N.J., was the first home to be lit by 'he incandescent bulbs of Thomas Edison. great campaign outside and here. 1 hope 1 am wrong, but they will come. I am sure we will annihi late them." He didn't say who they would be. The bearded prime minister jibed at labor and racial conflicts in the United States to cheers from his immediate audience, about 1,200 delegates of the Con gress of Sugar Workers. He complained that the recent U.S. steel strike slowed the agrar ian reform program of this island nation which depends chieily on the United States for its steel prod uctsby halting tractor produc tion. He chided the United States for its industrial troubles and its ra cial problems. Of the growing reluctance of American tourists to come to Cuba. Castro said: "Why do they tell the tourists not to come to Cuba? Perhaps they are afraid the example of Cuba will become the example of America." Castro's military courts mean while picked up speed. A tribunal in Havana sentenced Maj. Hubert Matos, who resigned as commander of Camaguey Prov ince troops last Oct. 19 with a blast against communism, to 20 years in prison for sedition. Cas tro had been a star witness against his old comrade in arms. Twenty-one officers who defected with Matos drew terms of two to seven years. Thirteen others were acquitted. Two Cubans were condemned in Pinar del Rio to death before a firing squad. Luis Lara, corporal in the old Batista army, and Jose Antonio Morffi Reyes were ac cused of leading an anti-Castro band in west Cuba. John V. Martino, 49, an ailing businessman from Miami Beach, F!a., heard a prosecutor demand a 20-year sentence at the windup of his swift trial in La Cabana fortress for alleged counter-revolutionary activities. Martino, an American citizen arrested an hour after he arrived here last July 23, denied all the charges. President Osvaldo Dorticos re jected an appeal by William H. ,v tf tn mi tti r 4ti PING PONG TABLE TOPS And Stands Klamath Valley Lumber 1940 S. 6th Ph. 4-4816 Cowles, president of the Inter American Press Assn., for release of Miami Herald reporter James Buchanan. 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