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PAGE 2 A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Friday, January 1, I960 ' Asia Trip Set By Nikita JAKARTA. Indonesia (AP) - Nikita Khrushchev wit make a trip to Southeast Asia before meeting with the Western Bit Three leaders at a summit con fcrence in Paris in mid-May The Indonesian Foreign Office announced today that the Soviet Premier will visit this neutralist republic in February. A Foreign Oflicc spokesman ;.id the visit will contribute to "further easing of international tension and strengthening of peace In Asia and the world." Khrushchev's visit to Indonesia Is the second trip abroad he ha; scheduled before the May 10 sum. mil talks. He is making an curlier visit to France beginning March 15. Anti-Semite Captured ANSBACH, Germany (AP)-Po Hce said today a 22-ycar-o!d car penlcr has annulled smearing swastikas and anti-Jewish slogans on the home of a Jew and the courthouse at nearby Schcinfcld Arresting officers quoted Lud wig Vogel as saying he carried out the acts because he is "basic. ally anli-Scmilic." They said he got the Idea to do the painting afler reading about the Christmas Eve desecralion of Cologne's new synagogue. The Cologne desecralion appar ently touched off the appearance of numerous slogans in widely separated seclions of West Ger many. Detective units arc looking for persons who smeared anti-Jewish and Nazi slogans on homes churches and other buildings In the industrial Ruhr, Hesse, Lower Saxony and Bavaria. Some officials said the on I break was primarily the work of juvc nilc hooligans. Others said it might indicate a resurgence of Nazi tendencies. ANOTHER RECORD BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - Pin up another record for California in babies. Dr. Malcolm II. Merrill, stale hetlth director, estimates 19r!) births at 356.000. That is 7,000 runic than during 1MB. "DENNIS THE MENACE" vj ! I flXED fAYOWH BREAKFAST. J HAD SOME PEANUTS, GOMB WTO CHIPS AN' WO GLASSES OF GIUGER ALB.. Crippling NY Bus Strike Averted At Eleventh Hour Editor Of Medical JoiiOWl JPoJice Probe Raps Government Action CHICAGO (AP) The govern mcnt's recent action against sell eis of cranberries, chickens and products colored with charcoal was criticized today by the editor of the Journal of the American Medical Assn. as causing undue alarm. Dr. John It. Talbott said in an editorial on aminotriazole, the can car-causing herbicide that promp ted the government to halt the sale of cranberries shortly before Thanksgiving: "If turnips and cabbage were included among the vegetables served or mustard was used as a condiment, minute quantities of aminotriazole might have been NEW YORK (UPl) A crip pling strike of all the city's sub way and bus lines was averted louay only one hour before the deadline. About 38,000 transit workers had been scheduled to strike at m. est. It would have brought public transportation for about six million daily riders to dead halt. Negotiations between the Trans port Workers Union, the Transit Authority and seven privately owned bus lines went on all through New Year's Eve in city hull. City mediators sat in. Massive crowds that jammed into Times Square to greet I'M) with horns, whistles and shouts were not sure whether they would be able to get home by their nor- nal route if their celebrating last ed too lung. Agreement had been reached shortly after midnight between (lie TWU and the Transit Author ity, which operates the subways and some bus lines. Mayor Robert F. Wagner said the present 15-ccnt bus and sub way fare would not be raised. tjl Hut he said the city would have to help the private bus lines. He already had announced plans to help the Transit Author ity by taking over the transit po lice payroll. This would save the Transit Authority about 13 million dollars over two ycais. Transit Authority workers will gi't a wage increase of 10 to 14 cents an hour, effective today, a second boost of 4 to 5',i cents on .Ian. 1, I'M, and a third increase or 4 to 5'i cents July 1, lutil Wagner said. Employes of Ihe private lines will get wage increases of 12 cents an hour in the first year and 10 cents in the second year, according to John McCarthy president of the Fifth Ave. Coach orp. NOW PLAYING! Continuoui Shewi Todoy t Tomorrow From 12:45 P.M. Feature Timet: 1:30 . 4:30 7:00 on MS ConHnuout Today, Saturday 4 Sunday F'om 12:45 NOW PLAYING! 20,000 LAUGHS UNDER THE i v" jf New Years Celebrated In Europe LONDON (UPI) - Car horns whistles, joyous church bells and "Auld Lango Syne" ushered in I'lliO in Europe Thursday night. There was champagne in Paris, firecrackers in Rome and a big Kremlin party in Moscow. In London, thousands joined hands in Trafalgar Square and Piccadilly Circus, cheering and making as much noise as they could, good-naturedly jostling po lice who were heavily reinforced lor the occasiun. Nightclubs were filled in Paris for Ihe traditional French night of revelry and other Western Eu ropean capitals reported the gay est and most carefree New Year's Eve in years. In Rome Ihe flash of fireworks and the bang of crackers mill gled with Ihe crash of empty bot ties hurled into the streets as pas sers-by ran for cover. One death was reportod. Mario Iliecio, 35, a peddler of illegal firecrackers, was run over by i car while fleeing a policeman Riccio was killed by his explod ing fireworks. In the quiet papal palace of the Vatican, Pope John XXIII and a few members of his court sang a '1c Deum of Thanksgiving for 1MB and prayed for God's help in the new year. In Moscow, 1.500 guests attend cd Moscow's traditional New Year's parly in the great Krem lin palace with Premier Nikita Mirusncncv leading an impres sive list of dignitaries. Khru shchev wished cverjbody a happy new year. Union Boss Sees Battle WASHINGTON (UPI) - AFL CIO President George Meany pre dicts today that I960 will be a "year of battle" with industry und congressional reactionaries lor survival of the American la bor movement. He called on union members Thursday night to resist the "gravest attacks" on organized labor since pre-New Deal days. Meany's appeal underscored previous warnings by Labor Sec retary James P. Mitchell and Federal Mediation Director Jo seph F. Finnegan that 1960 will be a year of sharp labor-manage menl strife. "We face new challenges at the bargaining table, on the picket line, in the legislative halls, at the polls and in international af fairs," the AFL-CIO chief said in a year-end statement. There Is every indication of a united effort by reactionaries in big business to destroy long-established union safeguards over working conditions, job security and individual rights," he said. 'A coalition of reactionaries in Congress is planning new re strictions on legitimate unions and the frustration of our pro gram for the nation's progress.' CtsfckMaV"''"'' k d 1 - i . - nr. CARY 111 TONY GRANT Um CURTIS r OPERATION PETTICOAT" in EoHmnn COLO" JQANO'BRIEN-OINA MERRILL GOff EVANS - DU SUM TWO' AIK.MEN KILLED REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPD- Two - U.S. airmen were killed Thursday when their F-89 jet fighter plane crashed, noar Rey kjavik. Names were withheld pending notification of next of kin. News of the fall of Troy was relayed to Greece by means of mountain top fires. 'Java' Spiced By Convicts SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (UPD- Prison authorities learned Thurs day a number of San Quentin convicts were taking seriously the adage "Variety Is the spice of life." They only reversed the word nig Robert Mcheller, 33, a prison counselor, was arrested on charge of smuggling a spice into the prison that turns coffee into an intoxicating drink. Assistant Warden W.D. Achuff said McKcller had been suspected of doing a brisk business for sev eral months. He said the parti cular spice (mace) is contraband in the prison. But New Year's Eve was not entirely dull for the 3,000 inmates. Top San Francisco night clubs provided an evening of enter tainment. ingested by the Pilgrims more than 300 years ago." He said the U. S. Agriculture Department after analyses begun in 1956 pronounced the compound suitable for use on cranberries, jet 18 months later the implica tion that the chemical could cause cancer prompted another govern ment department to ban the sale of cranberries.. ... "Little stress was placed on the well - documented evidence that aminotriazole occurs, naturally in vegetables, notably cabbage, tur nips and broccoli, as well as in mustard or that the antithyroid action is described in current text books of therapy," wrote Dr. Tal bot. He said carbon black was record ed in the Federal Registry Dec. 9, 1958 as a permissible food adul terant but omitted a year later. He added : "A fortnight after this action a supplementary document by the Food and Drug Administration permitted food processors and t h e users of charcoal in food and can dies a three-month period of grace to produce evidence that burned toast is harmless." He said chickens (iatrogenic ca pons) were under suspicion for few days last month because about 1 per cent of the chickens eaten in the United States had been given silbestrol as a fatten ing hormone. "However, neither poultry pro ducers, manufacturing chemists nor the chickens themselves had violated any federal regulation "When next fall rolls around, we hope that cranberries will be per milled for the festive dinners, that licorice and jelly beans will be for sale at the candy counter, and that Southern fried chicken will be permissible menu Item." Girl's Killing PHILADELPHIA (AP) Police report they have questioned several known sex offenders but have failed to connect any of them with Ihe sadistic slaying of Maryann Mitchell, 16. Detectives today continued to look into the possibility more than one person may have taken part in the brutal beating, of the Phila dtlphia girl. Her body was found Wednesday in a gully beside a desolate lov ers' lane in nearby Whitemarsh I'ownship. Some 250 law enforcement offi cers combed a 10 square mile area and found a trail of articles Maryann was carrying when she was last seen Monday night. Detectives questioned and re leased the owner of an auto which had been found abandoned in the vicinity. The window of the driv er's side was shattered and sliv ers of glass were still on the seat. Lawyer Tells Of Settlement With Greywuna dh CAM FRANCISCO -Attorney Melvin M. Belli an nounced Thursday he reached a S300.000 settlement with Greynounu L;nes on behalf of a Montana youth who lives a "vegetable ex istence" because of a bus acci dent. The attorney said the settle ment for 19-year-old ex-soldier Fred J. Leavitt, Bozeman, Mont was the largest ever reached in California. Leavitt was a passenger on a Greyhound bus traveling east over the Donner Pass of Califor nia's Sierra Nevada on Oct. 3. 1958. Belli said the bus was trav eling at excessive speed when n skidded broadside into a truck. The soldier was rushed to Let- terman Army Hospital in san Francisco for surgery which "un doubtedly saved his life," the at torney said. However, both front lobes of the youth s brain were damaged and surgeons were forced to remove considerable brain tissue. (UPI), e w"i "ve 8 vegetable ex. isitnee the rest ot nis me. Belli said. "He can't see. He is con. scious only in the sense that he responds like a sunflower, turn ing his head to light. He can barely be understood when he talks. He suffered epilepsy, but seizures are controlled." Belli said the settlement would be used to buy Leavitt an insur ance policy that will pay him $1,000 a month and buy his moth er a home in Bozeman so she can take care of him, with the aid of around-the-clock nursing care IDA HAS CORONARY HOLLYWOOD (UPD-lda Can tor, wife of veteran comedian Ed die Cantor, is undergoing treat, ment today for a coronary attack at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital. Mrs. Cantor was admitted for treatment Wednesday. Peat, or decayed vegetable mat. ter, is the basic fuel of Ireland. Industry Giants Complete Merge VANCOUVER, B. C. (AP) -Merger of Ihe Powell River Co. Ltd. and McMillan and Bloedcl, Ltd.. two giants of the Canadian forest industry, was completed Thursday. The companies announced that conditions for an exchange of shares had been met. Plans for the amalgamation were first an nounced in June. The company will be known as McMillan, Bloedcl and Powell River Ltd. A new board of direc tors will be appointed and the staffs and operations of the two companies integrated. HISTORICAL FIRST First intercollegiate basketball game in history was played at New Haven. Conn., on Dec. 10, 1896, with Yale defeating Wesley- an, 39-4. Reds Repeat Shell Charge LONDON ( API-Radio Moscow! said today a direct hit on the bridge of the Soviet survey ship Ungo killed the helmsman and wounded three seamen, and re peated ti e charge that the ship was fired on by a South Korean warship. The South Korean navy and coastguard have denied any of their ships fired on a Soviet ves sel. The radio said its account of the alleged attack was given to Soviet Fleet, the navy newspaper, by members of the Ungo. The broadcast said the Ungo was steaming with full navigation lights off the east coast of North Korea at 8:05 p.m. Monday when it was fired on by the South Ko rean warship No. 205. The Soviet news agency Tass gave the location of Ihe Ungo at the time of the alleged attack as 30 miles from the North Korean coast and 36 miles northeast of the South Korean border. COMICS WIFE ILL LOS ANGELES (AP) Come dian Eddie Cantor's wife, Ida, is in a hospital recovering from a Jieart attack. Cantor's secretary said Thursday her condition is not serious. GOOD!. Ktamtth Fa 111, Oregon Serving Southern Oregon and Northern California Published dally except Saturday by Southern Oregon Publishing Company Main at Esplanade Phone TtJxecIo 4-dlll FRANK JENKINS, Editor BILL JENKINS. 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