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
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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
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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
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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.