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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1959)
A HAPPY CROWD OF YOUNGSTERS gathered at the Klam ath Auditorium Sunday afternoon as guests of the Klamath Elks Lodge No. 1247. They were treated to a musical sere In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS As this is written, the body of 117-year-old Walter Williams lies in state in the rotunda of the county courthouse in Houston, Tex as. Hundreds of people are filing past. It will remain there until Wednesday of this week, when fu neral services will be held in Hou ston. Burial will be at Franklin, Texas, where he lived for many years. Who was Walter Williams? I think everyone who reads or listens to the news knows. He was the last veteran of the Civil War or, if hereditarily you prefer it that way, the War Between the States. . After the lapse of nearly a cen tury, let's put It this way; Walter Williams was the LAST REMNANT OF A TRAGIC MIS TAKE. The Civil War shouldn't have happened. It wouldn't have happened if there had been fewer hotheads and more wise and tol rant people on both sides. It was hotheads who led the at tack on the arsenal at Harper's Ferry. It was hotheads who or dered the firing on Fort Sumter. A sobering thought! We are living again in ticklish times. There is the cold war which could flame into HOT WAR If wrong decisions, resulting in hasty actions, were made. There is inflation, which could bankrupt us all if permitted to get out of control. These things stir fears of the future. They could result in trou ble if wrong decisions are made. What is our great need? For an answer. I think we can turn to Josiah Gilbert Holland, who lived and wrote about a century ago. In his poem "The Day's De mand" he says: . "God give us men! A time like this demands "Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands ... ; "Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog "In public duty and in private thinking." That is still the day's demand. Youngsters See Santa Crackup BLOOMFIELD, N. M. (UPI) -About 1,000 youngsters watched tn horror Sunday when a plane carrying Santa Claus crash-landed en a highway. T.;e plane's wing struck a mail box, throwing the craft off the highway and into a tree. Santa, otherwise unidentified, got out of the demolished plane, straightened his hat. - (and, whis- Iters) and went on his appointed rounds to distribute candy. NO ACT THIS TIME LONDON (UPI) - Magician David Berglas, who specializes in disappearing acts; said he 'came cut of the London nightclub where he is appearing and found his car, containing his show props, had vanished. SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS Vtf j M ' Price Five Cents 28 Pages Korean Bride Finds Santa In Policeman FORT . WORTH,. . Tex. (AP) Hope mingled with tears of ap preciation today in the eyes of Marie Maekey. because of a po liceman who was touched by her plight. Policeman R. I. Haddix went to the Korean war bride's apartment Sunday after alarmed neighbors reported the incessant crying of cniioren. "It was terrible," said Haddix. He found the tiny mother cuddling two whimpering little girls, Bev erly, 2'4, and Judy, Hi. The babies wore only underwear, Marie's husband had been gone four days. They hadn t eaten for two days," said Haddix. "She was just resigned to die with her girls." So Haddix went to a grocer. He had $3.82. The grocer matched it. A customer pitched in. And Had dix left with $10 worth of food. Police radios buzzed. A captain told his men to give money for his usual present to Marie Mac key and her girls. A cop brought a Christmas tree. Patrolmen took up money in local barrooms. Radio stations took up the cry. And Marie Mackey watched the parade of gifts come into the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Somers who gave her "refuge. Then Sunday night carolers from the First Congregational Church sang of Christmas. A tear rolled down the cheek of Marie Mackey who had found warm friends far from her native land. WELL PROTECTED NEW YORK (UPI) More than 123 million Americans were protected by some kind of health insurance by the end of 1958, the Health Insurance Institute said Sunday. Nationalist Chinese Mark Decade Of Peril, Progress TAIPEI, Formosa (AP) It's been just 10 years years of peril and progress since the govern ment of Nationalist China fled from the mainland to Formosa. .The. red shadow of Communism, constant and menacing, still looms across the 110 miles from the China coast to the island. It hangs even more heavily over the Que- moy and Matsu islands, crouched close to the shore 150 miles apart. At the moment, things are quiet, and have been comparatively so through the year. There is . little evidence of reinforcement among the Red forces across the For mosa Strait. For as long as a week at a time, the Communists skip their schedule of shelling the offshore islands on odd-numbered days. . Communist leader Mao Tze- tuug could spark another incident in an attempt to torpedo further peace talks between President Ei senhower and Soviet Premier Ni kita Khrushchev. Whether real trouble comes or not, Generalissimo Chiang Kai- snen ana nis 11 million people on Formosa are in far better shape to meet. it than they were a dec ade ago. From a near impotent, near bankrupt state in December, 1949. Nationalist China has developed into a major military power in the Far East with 600,000 under arms. nade by the Elks band, left, directed by Ray Biggers. Bozo the Clown, a celebrated radio and TY laugh specialist, en tertained the crowd. Here he is shown in some pre-program KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, Era Ends, Nation Mourns Passing Of Aged Veteran HOUSTON, Tex. (AP)-The last of the faded ranks of the Blue and the Gray, Walter W. Williams, lay in state today in a gray and gold uniform, symbolizing his be loved Confederacy he served near ly a century ago. The nation's flags flew at half- staff by executive order in honor of the Civil War's last survivor, his comrades and the soldiers of the Union. "With millions of Americans throughout our land, I pause in respectful silence," President Eisenhower said in a statement released by the White House. Williams won countless battles against serious illness in recent years. He died Saturday of com plications that followed his fourth attack of pneumonia since sum mer. Relatives placed his age at 117. "The wounds of the deep and bitter dispute which once divided our nation have long since healed, Weather Klamath Falls and vicinity Mostly fair except for variable high clouds and patches of morn ing fog. Highs 38-46; low tonight 10-15. High yesterday 40 Low last night 14 Precip. last 24 hours. . 0 Since Oct. 1 ." .84 Same period last year 1.16 Low in area, Chiloquin 2 Eastern Oregon Fair through Tuesday except for some valley fog; little change in temperatures. Northern California Increasing cloudiness in north portion tonight; cloudy Tuesday with occasional light rain at low levels and light snow in high levels. At the same time, it has managed to stage a social and economic spurt. United States military and eco nomic aid has been a vital factor in the change. For an investment of something like a billion dollars in the eco nomic field and a billion and a half in the military over the past 10 years, America has obtained a greatly strengthened ally along side the bamboo curtain. Vice-Adm. Frederick N. Kivette, whose U.S. Seventh Fleet keeps watch over this part of the world, sized up the military situation re cently for newsmen aboard the carrier Hancock. During the last year, the admir al said, there has been no signifi cant expansion of Communist mil itary forces opposite Formosa, either on the ground or in the air. Rather, he said, there has been a leveling off in the Red build-up which poured thousands of jet planes and hundreds of thousands' of troops into the coast al zone. But Kivette said the lull may be. only temporary. He regards Communist China as a continuous military threat to all of Free Asia There is no indication the Reds have abandoned their idea of con quering the offshore islands and then Formosa itself, ha said. MONDAY. DECEMBER 21, 1959 and a united America in a divided world now holds up on a larger canvas the cherished traditions of liberty and justice for all," the President said. ' ' No longer are they the Blue and the Gray. All rest together as Americans in honored glory. An era has ended." Tributes also came from many other public officials, along with messages of sympathy from citi zens of all walks of life. ' Texas Gov. Price Daniel and South Carolina Gov. Fritz Hollings paid their respects personally. They were here on a weekend visit. ' The body lay .in a apecially de signed casket of.,, solid copper tinged with gray. On its velvet inner lining rested five white stars of the honorary rank of general given him by a service organiza tion. The old soldier will rest in the rotunda of the Harris County Civil Courts building for 48 hours, an honor guard of 4th U.S. Army soldiers at his side. Federal, state and local govern ments will pay tribute to him Tuesday night in special services at the Houston Music Hall. A military procession will escort the body to the South Main Baptist Church for funeral services at 11 a.m. Wednesday. Graveside mili tary rites will be held in the small town of Franklin, Tex., about 125 miles northwest of here. SHOOTING HOURS DUCKS, GEESE OREGON December 22 OPEN 7:30 CLOSE 4:40 CALIFORNIA December 22 OPEN 7:30 CLOSE 4:37 1 M . " A SHOPPING TOUR for children who might not otherwise have the opportunity because of lack of funds was con ducted by the Junior Chamber of Commerce Friday night. Twenty six children were each given $5, and with the help of a Jaycee member toured the town buying gifts. Here, Loyal Garboden, first vice president of the Jayceei, helps two youngsters on the tour. A wrapping party was later held at Fremont Junior High School by the JaycaHes, ladies auxiliary. antics as he prepares to inoculate an adult member of the audience. Far right, a view of one section of the many small fry who were assembled for the entertainment. The program Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 6583 Iranian King, Young Pupil Trade Vows TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Pretty young Farah Diba became the new Queen of Iran today amid hopes that she will provide a son and heir for the throne. , With radiant smiles the 21-ycar- old brunette with brown eyes and light olive complexion married Shah Mohammed Rczi Pahlevi in a Moslem ritual in the marble palace. She thus became Queen Farah Pahlevi. , It was the .first marriage for the young Iranian commoner, who until recently was a student in architecture in Paris. It was the third marriage for the Shah, who at 40 still hopes for a son to suc ceed him. The couple sat and stood through a Moslem ceremony and the signing of the marriage con tract in the glittering Hall of Mir rors. Members of the family, members of the government and their wives and the diplomatic corps of Tehran look on. The bride wore a flowing bluish pearl gray wedding gown. Farah forsook the traditional white in fa vor of a shade specially designed for her by Yves Saint Laurent, head of the Paris house of Dior. The shade is just a bit off white in pearl grey with a slight tinge of blue. The Shah wore a full ceremoni al dress of dark imperial blue trousers and a navy blue coat cov ered with medals. The capital was in a gay, fes tive spirit. Flags flapped in the breeze. Many buildings were dec orated with bunting and the na tional colors. The Shah divorced his first two wives because they failed to bear him an heir to the throne. Western Three Ends Meet; Sends Khrushchev Invite PARIS (AP)-The Western Big Three today issued a communique on their momentous talks calling Russia to a summit meeting April 27, but they ruled out any added starters such as divided Germa ny, Red China or India. The communique reaffirmed the West's determination to yield to no threats on divided Berlin or surrender their basic interests there. West Berlin is the central issue facing the East-West sum mit. Despite this resolute stand, President Eisenhower is pictured as feeling there is ample room to discuss any and all problems in volving Berlin. White House press secretary James C. llagerty said, however. Eisenhower insists that the exist ing rights of the four powers can not be changed by any single pow er except by four-power agree ment. Soviet Premier Khrushchev in November 1958 threatened to go-it-alone to end the occupation status of Communist East Berlin The communique said the West expressed "the hope that the pro posed conference will contribute to the strengthening of peace with justice." The communique "reaffirmed the principles set forth in a four power communique of the 14th of December 1958 and the declara tion of the North Atlantic Council of the 16th of December 1958." These documents pledged to de fend Berlin against Soviet aggres sion. President Eisenhower, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and French President Charles de Gaulle wound up their talks by charting the steps to be taken to the summit that Khrushchev has long been clamoring for. West German Chancellor Kon- OPEN -Christmas shoppers are re minded that downtown stores and stores in the Town and Country Shopping Center will be open Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday until 9 p.m. Bus, Cattle Truck Crash Kills 9, Hospitalizes Many TUCSON, Ariz. (AP)-A Grey- hound bus and a cattle truck tra veling on the wrong side of the road collided about eight miles east of here Sunday killing nine persons. The bus driver and six passen gers were killed along with the truck driver and his relief man. Thirty-two others aboard the double-decked bus were Injured, five critically. Also killed were thirty head of cattle, mostly calves. Some other animals were maimed and had to be shot. , Highway Patrolman Jimmy Wil liams said (ruck driver James R. Stewart of Del Rio, Tex., appar ently missed a "keep right" sign where the road divided for re pairs. The truck, he said, was on the wrong side when it struck the Los Angeles to-New Orleans bus. The double-decked truck was hauling 67 steers from Jackson. Miss., to Arlington, Ariz. Killed besides Stewart were: Ranald Philip Spence, Las Ve gas, Nov.. and Hawthorne, Calif., relief truck driver. ' Barney Boyd,. 44, El Paso, Tex., driver of the bus. Florence Minium, 65, Kingsville, Tex. Johnny Lee Rodden, 7, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rodden, Re- dondo Beach, Calif. wound up with the appearance of Santa Claus and the dis tribution of bags of nuts and candy. The annual program it for Elks and their families as well as underprivileged children. rad Adenauer also attended the weekend Western summit meeting although he will not be at the con ference table with Khrushchev. Here are the salient points from the weekend session. FRANCISCO FRANCO Spain Extends Big Welcome MADRID (AP) - Hundreds of thousands of. cheering Spaniards today gave President Eisenhower the biggest welcome this country has roared out to a foreign visitor in modern times. Flag-waving crowds lined the streets and hung from trees and jammed balconies as the Presi dent rode into Madrid with Fran cisco Franco at his side. Eisen hower' is the first top Western leader to visit the Spanish dicta tor,' who wore his generalissimo's uniform. Spectators lot loose one roar of cheers after another as Eisenhow er, standing upright with out stretched arms, rode by in a bubble-top limousine. Eisenhower, making the next to last stop of his 11-nation tour, flew in at 4:21 p.m. Benito Casanova, 55,- Guantan- amo Oriente, Cuba. Carmen, 53, his wife. Carol Hall Reed, 38. 304 Chest nut St., Pensacola, Fla. Pearl Grogan, B4, Los Angeles. "God bless that man who told us to sit still and shut up." said Delois Gaines, 39, a restaurant worker from Los Angeles. "If it weren't for him, we probably would have hurt each other try ing to get out." Osbelia (Osbie) Butler, 21, of Moses Lake, Wash., and Rich mond, Calif., was taking her 5- ynar-old daughter Stella to San nlonio. Just across the aisle Johnny Lee Rodden ran ahead of Stella to the washroom for a drink. The boy was killed. "All of a sudden I stalled fly ing through the air," said Mrs Rutlcr. "Then about four people fell on me. I looked up. There was a cow's bleeding head looking at me through the window." "I could hear Stella crying. A woman was screaming. Then a man started pulling people off me. Stella, pushed under a broken seat, was almost unscratched. Margaret Rodden, Johnny's mother, said she and her two sons were going to Lubbock. Tex., to be with her mother, Beulah Easter. 1. To quiet West German fears the Big Three gave Adenauer as- surances that the Allies are de termined to hold on to their war- won occupation rights in West Berlin. 2. They agreed to press for the opening of disarmament talks by the 10-nation East-West commis sion before the proposed summit conference a move that could serve as a test of Soviet inten tions. Late March was talked of as a likely starting time. Original ly the commission had been ex pected to meet in February, in Geneva, but a new Western dis armament proposal will probably not be ready then. 8. De Gaulle accepted an in vitation to visit the United States in April only days in advance of the contemplated Paris summit meeting. By then, the French President will himself have been host to Khrushchev and formed a personal opinion of the Soviet leader. 4. Eisenhower suggested the possibility of a scries of summit " talks with the Soviets. The White House press secretary, James C. Hagerty, told newsmen, "The President feels it would be very difficult to solve all problems at one summit conference." S. Eisenhower failed to persuade De Gaulle to. abandon his opposi tion to giving the NATO military command control of French forces assigned to the defense of Western Europe. But Eisenhower reported ly convinced the Frenchman that, although the United States ab stained in the U.N. vote on the Algerian issue, Washington still endorses Po Gaulle's proposal for self-determination referendum in Algeria after peace is restored. 6. The Western Big Four moved toward setting up a sort of At lantic economic council aimed at averting a trade war among the Allies in Europe. It would seek to coordinate European and North American trade bodies and recon cile West Europe's rival economic groupings, the six-nation common market and the "outer seven" free traders led by Britain. House By Road Idea Ignored, Put Up For Sale CANDIA, N.H. (AP)-The Stat utcs are written in more severe meter than that employed by the late poet Samuel Walter Foss, who penned: "Let me live in a house by the side of the road "And be a friend of man." That house, Foss' birthplace and inspiration of the often quoted lines, faces sale to satisfy claims of the Stale Welfare Department. The last occupant-owner, a wid ow of 90, died a year ago. -, Foss died about 50 years ago. The Welfare Department had met taxes and repairs,' but the properly a two-story farmhouse and extensive farm buildings on some 20 acres has deteriorated extensively. The department seeks $2,000. '- No heir has put in a claim for the property which has a far high er estimated value than the amount of the lien. 1 , PUPIL PAYOLA WESTBURY, N.Y. (UP! School Superintendent Cecil I. Rice has sent out a .memoran dum warning teachers of "Christ mas payola." "If a kid gives you a $30 gift, you're going to think a long lime before you flunk that kid," Rice said.
