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The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS The Department of Agriculture announced yesterday morning that about 40 per cent of all milk sold at wholesale by farmers during 1959 was priced under terms of federal marketing orders. As of December 31, there were 78 of these "orders." The areas covered by them are scattered from Connecticut In the East to Utah in the West. More than 78 million consumers now reside in regulated milk marketing areas In the areas in which they oper ate, these orders establish the min imum price that handlers must pay farmers for their milk. These "orders" don't regulate the pro ducer and they don't set a retail price for milk, If the milk producer can show a profit (with his costs) at the mini' mum price, no limit is prescribed to the amount of milk he can produce. If he can't get his costs into line, he'd better get out of the business. With retail prices uncontrolled, there is room for the play of free enterprise in the market. The pro- ducer can run as many cows as he wants, within the limits of his feed supply. We might as well make up our minds that government will have its finger in business throughout the foreseeable future and adapt ourselves to that fact at the same time trying to see to it that that what the government does is reasonably sensible. This milk marketing "order" system seems to meet that standard, Something new in the world This is "SILENT RECORD WEEK. I'm not just sure what it's all about, but this is the way it's described in dispatches from Detroit: Shhhhhl This is silent record week, an international tribute to Jukebox peace and quiet. The week is being observed to mark the first anniversary of the appearance of SILENT records three minutes of SILENCE for a dime on Univer sity of Detroit jukeboxes. The observance is international since a man in Holland has written to Hush Label, the university's silent record organization,, for per mission to mark the occasion as "stilteplatte wee k." "Stilte- pJatte," according to Hush Label ' impresarios, is "silent record" in Dutch, ?- - How will it work? That isn't described in detail. But one presumes it means that when one is in a jukebox joint and gets fed to the ears with jukebox noise he can drop a dime in the slot and get THREE MINUTES OF SILENCE. I'm all for it! One reason I'm all for it is that It recognizes the principle that the rights of each individual are limited by the RIGHTS OF OTH ERS. Under that principle, the poor devil who wants a little si lence is entitled to get it if he's willing tfc pay for it. Hmmmmm. A word at this point en this business of freedom to do s you please. There was a time in our history when if you didn't like the way things were going in your neigh borhood you SOLD OUT and took the Westward trail into the big woods or the wide prairies where there would be nobody to worry you except some savages, and if you were a better shot or quicker on the trigger than they were you got them out of the way. If the savages were quicker on the trig ger and truer in their aim than you, they put YOU out of way, and that was that. All that has gone into the limbo of the past. There are few such places left to move on to. So- We have to find ways to adapt ourselves to a world in which com plete isolation and complete free dom to do as you darned well please is gone where the wood bine twineth. This "three minutes of silence for a dime" sounds like tolerably decent idea. MEN OF THE MIGHTY AIRCRAFT CARRIER Saratoga and her embarked air group sfaga a striking greeting to the New Ytar. Fighting Ai reraft aboard the Saratoga make an appro priate frame for the picture. NEA'Radio Telephoto O.Of OSE.LISRAat MEfSPAPCR SECTION She Knows 1 i Where ne is CINCINNATI (UPI) Where's Charley? , , , thought his wife Matlle Brilton, as she loaded her gun. The more she thought, the madder she became, and she had plenty of time to become mad. She sent her husband out for cigarets on New Year's Eve, and 24 hours later on New Year's Day still no Charley. But by the 25th hour, Charley came home with the cigarets. Mrs, Britton promptly shot him. "Isn't that a lousy way to spend a New Year's Eve wait ing for those damn cigarets New Year's Eve and he Just got back a few minutes ago." Britton, 35, was In fair con dition at Cincinnati General Hospital. He wasn't offering any explanations and he wasn't wil ling to listen to any joke about walking a mile for a camel. Snipe Killing Of Ohioan Admitted PAINESVILLE, Ohio (AP) Floyd E. Hargrove admitted Sat urday for a second time that he fired a sniper bullet that killed his paramour's husband, Charles R. Clark of Mentor, on Christmas Eve, Sheriff William B. Evans said. Hargrove, with whom Clark's beautiful brunette wife, Lois, 30, had admitted an eight-month love atfair earlier this year, had con fessed the shooting a week ago but later repudiated his statement. He said he made up that admission to spare Mrs. Clark the strain of further investigation. The new oral admission from the 35-year-old delivery truck driver, a divorced father of five, was elicited with evidence that he bought a .22-caliber, bolt-action rifle the day before the shooting, Police Chief Frank D. Hathy of Mentor said handwriting experts had agreed a card filled out at a used gun dealer's store in nearby Chardon Dec. 23 was written by Hargrove. A hunt got under way promptly for the rifle. Chief Hathy said Har grove mentioned at least three lo cations where it might be found. A preliminary check failed to turn up the weapon. " Hargrove also led investigators to a lonely spot on a road south of Painesville. It was there, he said, that he fired a practice shot into a telephone pole after pur chasing the gun. A bullet was plucked from the pole and sent to the State Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation. (See Early Story on Page 2-A) Death Claims Coma Victim YONKERS, N.Y. (AP) Little Beverly Nilsson, 13, died in St. Joseph's hospital Saturday after lying in a coma for 7!4 years after a brain injury. Specific cause of death was not ai,iiuui,.cu Jiiiiiicuiaici j . i Medical experts had exhausted, the full resources of science in efforts to restore her conscious ness. Beverly suffered the brain in jury in an automobile accident at Keller, Va., July 12, 1952. First efforts to treat her were made at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Balti more. Further measures were un successful in a New York City institution before she was brought here seven years ago. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Er nest Nilsson, had spent much of their free time at the hospital, re fusing to give up hope for the girl's recovery. But not once dur ing the years was there a flicker of consciousness. Even so, the girl continued to grow and was close to normal weight and height at her death. Hospital attendants had fed her through a tube inserted in her stomach. A special rocking bed and a special standing box en abled attendants to give her daily exercise. ' Price Ten Cents 54 Pages Death Toll Moves Up; May Set Mark By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The traffic toll on the nation's highways Saturday night climbed ominously toward an all-time high for a three-day New Year observ ance. As the holiday period passed the two-thirds mark, the toll was running steadily ahead of the deadly pase of the 1955-56 week end, when 364 persons died in traffic accidents, a record for a three-day New Year's holiday. Afler the first 48 hours, the traf fic toll stood at 235 compared to 210 for a similar period during the record weekend of 1956-57. The holiday period is computed for the 78 hours between 6 p.m. (local time) Thursday and mid night Sunday. The National Safety Council said it appeared certain that the final count of the current holiday would exceed the council's fore cast that 320 persons might be killed in traffic accidents. "The pace of the toll has slowed a bit, but it still is running at a rate that would set a new three- day New Year record, a coun cil spokesman said. He said that while traffic deaths were occurring at a rate of five an hour the possibility that the final toll would surpass the rec ord 409 traffic fatalities of the four-day 1956-57 New Year week end appeared to have lessened. The toll climbed in clusters. The worst single accident of the weekend took nine lives' Saturday in the head-on collision of a car and a station wagon on U.S. 27 between South Bay and Miami Fla. For comparative purposes, The Associated Press conducted a non holiday survey of traffic deaths for the three-day period, Dec. 10- 13. It showed 324 persons killed during the 78-hour period. NY Hails Subway Peace NEW YORK (AP) - New York rs used their subways and buses oday with the assurance of at east two years of transit peace. The Transport Workers Union igned a new two-year contract .arly Friday, which provides a vage and benefits package .mounting to 40 cents an hour for he 29,000 city-employed workers. .Vage raises during the first year ange from 10 to 14 cents per our. Two second-year increases 'ill total 11 cents an hour. Under tie old contract, hourly pay anged from $2.04 to $2.72. The contract will cost the Tran it Authority 35 million dollars. Mayor Robert F. Wagner said . . . , . , ' . . , . . go up for at least the duration of the contract. Later the TWU signed a sepa rate two-year contract with seven irivate bus lines covering about 000 workers. The city will bear the cost of paying the transit police an assist which will amount to 13 mil- ions over two years. Quebec Premier Dead At Age 52 ST. EUSTACHE, Que. (UPD Paul Sauve, premier of Quebec since the death of Maurice Du p'.essis in September, died Satur day. Provincial police attributed the 52-year-old Sauve's death to cor onary thrombosis. Sauve died about 5 a.m., short ly after a priest was called to his home here to administer the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church. C0X?i KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, v. 1 WV f; 1 S jf MISS FIRST BABY 1960 made her appearance at Klamath Valley Hospital at 10:53 a.m. Friday, January I. She tipped the scale at 7 lbs., 12 ozs, and appeared well prepared to carve her special niche in the future at this picture was taken a few hours after birth. The young miss is shown here with her mother, Mrs. Phillip Wade, 1528 Dayton Street. SHOOTING HOURS DUCKS, GEESE OREGON January 4 OPEN 7:35 CLOSE 4:45 CALIFORNIA January 4 OPEN CLOSE 7:34 4:45 Babies News In Oregon By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Babies were in the Oregon news for the Ncu( Year holijay. . The Eugeiie' Bavper fimliy of Portland had a son on New Year's Eve. On New ' Year's Day last January they became the parents of a daughter. Donald A. Heinz Jr. of Portland, who was born on New Year's Day 29 years ago, became the father of a son on New Year's Day at Eugene. And his brother, David T. Heinz, Aumsville, Ore., also became a father on New Year's Day at Salem. A son was born Friday to Mr. and Mrs. Casper Custer of Port landtheir first afler 11 daugh ters. The oldest of their children is 17. Custer, 47, said he had a name picked for the past 17 years. It is John Joseph Custer. And Oregon Gov. and Mrs. Mark Hatfield, who had a baby last July, confirmed on New Year's Day they are expecting another in June. Tangier Police Is Mum On Murder Case Editor's Note: UPI correspon dent Robert Rooney of the Madrid bureau went to Tangier to look into the mysterious slaying of a girl believed to be an American. In the following dispatch he re ports how the new and untried Moroccan police force is moving slowly and carefully toward solu tion of the case. By ROBERT ROONEY TANGIER (UPI) Commis sioner Maazoouzi shakes hands and smiles all around. But he in sists he can say nothing. He wants to make no mistake. As a police official in Tangier, the city long wise to the ways of crime, he has his reasons. They are good ones. The youthful police official is investigating the most celebrated murder the city has seen in years. and until his case is complete he is keeping mum. In cafes, bars and on street cor ners the city's international popu lation of 200,000 confines itself to gossip the case is aireaay solved, to their own satisfaction at least. Now they are waiting. They are eager to see how the young Moroccan ponce iorce, which replaced Tangier's old bri gade after the nation achieved in dependence, would handle this murder. It was the first the city has known in more than two years. On Dec. 13, a young Moroccan shepherd boy, tending his flocks in the Kabiria Forest on the out skirts of Tangier, iound a burlap- wrapped bundle. The bundle contained the body of a young girl, mutilated and badly decomposed. SUNDAY, JANUARY 3, 19(10 , - - v - m ... ; Lost Fliers Found Safe EVANSTON, Wyo. (AP) - Two men who survived the crash of a light plane feasted on Christmas cookies and venison steaks while awaiting rescue. Robert E. Anderson, 25, a re cently discharged sailor from Sun nyvale, Calif., piloted the light plane which crashed Thursday on 9,275-foot Porcupine Mountain, 15 miles southwest of here in north- cast Utah. Anderson suffered a deep gash on Ids right leg, but his passenger. uelbeil L. Gbeen, 22, of San Jose, Calif., escaped injury. Rescue parties reached the two men Saturday. They had spent two nights and a day huddled in a makeshift lean-to built beside the wreckage of the plane. Temperatures plunged below zero and a snowstorm enveloped the area just after the crash but Anderson said he and Gheen built a fire and ate the five pounds of venison, pork chops and cookies his father had put in the plane for the trip to California from Wisconsin. Anderson had been visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred An derson of Almena, Wis., since his discharge from the Navy three weeks ago. He had a job waiting for him in California. Anderson picked up Gheen at Sidney, Neb. Official A police doctor said she died from strangulation, but while still alive she had been struck on the back of the head. The face was battered to prevent recogni tion. There seemed to be nothing for the police to go on. That the dead girl was a foreigner one of the thousands who flock here every year seemed certain. Nine days later her name leak ed out. Reports said the girl was Barbara Helen Mocllcr, a 19- year-old college coed from New York. A week passed and nothing happened. Then, on Dec. in, 26-year-old Englishman, William Edward Moore, was picked up for questioning. A short time later he allegedly attempted suicide while under police guard. He was hospitalized. Moore had been seen often with the Moeller girl. He had left her in her Tangier hotel two weeks before her body was found and had not been seen since. Offici ally, nothing else, was known. Commissioner Maazoouzi, stand ing in the sun in front of his office, could add only: "Within a few days at the most me will be able to release a complete story to the press. You understand, other than this I can say noth ing." ' ROSY HONEYMOON PASADENA, Calif. lUPI) George Harmon, 21, and his new wile, Kalhy, 19, spent their wed ding night in a sleeping bag along the route of the Tournament of Roses parade. "We've always wanted to see a Rose parade, Harmon said. No. 6593 Man, Blonde Kidnap Bay Policeman OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) An Oakland policeman was hand cuffed and kidnaped in his own patrol car Saturday by a young man and a blonde. Held at gunpoint for nearly an hour, Patrolman Claude Hardy 32, was released with his own handcuffs still on his wrists. The kidnaper, talking from the patrol car over police radio, kept converging patrol cars at a dis tance by saying: "I am holding him at gunpoint; I won't hurt him if you let me get away." Hardy was not harmed. His kid naper escaped. Hardy, on routine patrol, had noticed the rear tires of an old car were going flat. He pulled alongside to inform the driver and noticed a safe, covered by a blanket, in the rear scat. As the officer radioed headquar ters, the man slipped into the po lice car and got Hardy's gun and handcuffs. He and the officer struggled and the blonde, a passenger, joined in. Hold it, or you're dead!" the man exclaimed, pointing Hardy's gun at him. Hardy's wrists then were circled with his own handcuffs. Another patrolman, Kenneth llciser, radioed headquarters at 15 a.m. that two citizens had seen a man struggling with a pa trolman. Sgt. Roy Hooper, in the police radio room, called Hardy's car. There was no answer. But at 5:25 the safecracker used Hardy's radio to announce: "I have your officer. I am hold ing him at gunpoint. I won't hurt him if you let me get away." Hardy added his verification: This man is holding a gun on me. I'm handcuffed. Don't let any car come into the area. I'm cov ered." The kidnaper drove the police car some distance and released the officer. The police car was . recovered The kidnaper s old automobile was found near the Oakland water front, r - Police got a big surprise when they searched the old car. In the rear scat were a safe and a box containing bags. In the bags was $10,000 in cash. Police traced the license number of the old car aiid found it was registered to an Alameda woman. The woman, a young blonde, was taken into custody for ques tioning. Britain's Bevan Recuperating LONDON (UPI) Aneurin Bevan, 62-year-old leader of Brit ain's Labor Party, spent a fair night in the hospital where he is recuperating from a major ab dominal operation, a Labor Party spokesman said Saturday. A member of Transport House. labor party headquarters, said there was no change in- Bevan's condition. Bevan underwent surgery Dec. 29. The exact nature or his illness has not been revealed but he is considered seriously ill. Friday a spokesman at the Roy al Free Hospital said Bevan had spent a "more comfortable day" than previously. Telephone TU 4-8111 GETTING READY FOR TAKE-OFF on a flight in a T-33 jej trainer, teen ir. background, were these four men shown with Kingsley Field Base Commander Col. Jack Williams, far left. Left to right others are Capt. H. L. Douthit, Floyd Wynne, Bob Meit, and Capt. Q.C. i ti ri t i . t . i .ir .1 aL. Aim Casb Z.eaqier. ma Tiignr wai dott . n . lda story on rage j-a.j In The Spirit ROME UTI The New Year's Eve tradition in Italy Is to throw out the w indow old pots and puns, bottles and rubbish at midnight. The Rome afternoon newspa per Ciornale d'ltalia Friday said that a man In Pesrara whs carried away with the spirit and threw his wife out the win dow. The man was identified only as "Mr. Augusto R." The w ife, the newspaper said, was not badly injured and made up with her husband over an other bottle of wine. U.S. Vessel Breaks Up On Reefs SINGAPORE (AP)-The Amer ican freighter Valley Forge broke up Saturday on treacherous reefs 50 miles southeast of Singapore. The ship's agents said all 37 aboard were believed safe. The British minesweeper Fis-ker- ton headed for Singapore with 22 crewmen picked up on an unin habited island near the scene of the wreck. They had put out from the Valley Forge in a lifeboat. Eight other crewmen from the 7,202-ton ship were rescued by a salvage tug that battled gales and mountainous seas to reach the scene. In addition, the Indonesian gov ernment sent word that Capt. Pe ter F. Pctrone "and his crew" were on Binlan Island, the largest in the group south of Singapore. That might mean all six other crewmen who were with the cap- ain when they abandoned ship in o a lifeboat Friday morning were safe, a spokesman for the agents said. The British navy said the 22 men aboard I lie Fiskcrtnn includ ed the Valley Forge's second offi cer, Charles Kidd of Baltimore, Md. The navy also said it was keep ing two other warships in the area in the event all survivors might not be accounted for by Sunday. The Valley Forge, a Liberty ship built in 1943, is owned by the Peninsular Navigation Co. of New York. The freighter was en route to Singapore with 10,000 tons of wheat. Agents here said the ship, valued at about $300,000 without cargo, Is probably a complete loss. Then vessel ran.- aground off Mapor Island in Indonesian wa ters on New Year's Eve. ' First messages reported water was pouring into the engine room and holds. The salvage tug Griper reached the area just as the vessel was beginning to break apart. A life boat carrying eight crewmen was tossed dangerously by high waves but managed to reach the tug. The lifeboat with four crewmen returned to, the Valley Forgo and started back toward the tug with lii more passengers but was un able to reach the Griper. It drifted out of sight in the towering waves. Two British minesweepers and several British planes were routed to the area. Would-Be Bandit Makes Big Goof DENVER, Colo. (AP) - The first mistake the gunman made was to point his pistol at George Sawaya, 32. When Sawaya wrestled the gun away, the wound-De Dancnt pro posed "Let's just forget this I'll run." He dashed away with three bul lets flying over his head. A few minutes later, police ar rested a suspect identified as Al- phonse S. Marquez, 21. ot a communuv oneniaTion prwyiemi wi in D I I k k C -1 r-L -r-L- Dai Sen. Kennedy To Seek Presidency WASHINGTON (AP)-Sen. John F. Kennedy Saturday formally jumped into the Democratic pres. idcntial race and said he would not accept the vice presidential nomination under any circum stances. Tlie 42-year old Massachusetts senator said he would enter sev eral presidential primaries begin ning with the one in New Hamp shire on March 8. He challenged other prospective contenders for the presidential nomination to put their cases before the voters. Kennedy told a packed news conference in the Senate's big caucus room that he is convinced he can win both the presidential nomination of his party and the election next November. When a newsman asked Ken nedy if he would refuse the vice presidential nomination, Kennedy replied that he would not be a candidate for the vice presidency under any circumstances. "I'd rather be in the Senate," Kennedy said. He said that he will disclose within the next few weeks his de cision on going into primaries in Wisconsin, Oregon, Nebraska, Maryland, Ohio, and other states. Describing the presidency as "the most powerful office in the Free World." Kennedy's state ment said leadership at this time is vital in the life of the Ameri can people. "For it is in the executive branch that the most crucial de cisions of this century must be made in the next four years," Kennedy said. lie said these decisions involve "how to end or alter the burden some arms race, where Soviet gains . already threaten our very existence." Other decisions, Kennedy said, will involve maintaining the free dom and order in newly emerging nations, rebuilding the stature of American science and education. and "how to prevent the collapse of our farm economy and the de cay of our cities." Also involved, Kennedy said, are decisions on "how to achieve. without further inflation or unem ployment, expanded economic growth benefiting all Americans and how to give direction to our traditional moral purpose: awak ening every A:nrican to the dan gers and opportunities that con front us." ; , ... :- -Kennedy, the first olic to bid serlo: (Roman Catti ly for his party s nomination a'-u tec Al Smith was defeated fir IKIMsaid' se will campaign on (hose issues in the drive for the iioinination. j Second Ssby Due Mark Hatfields SALEM '(AP)-Gov. Mark iHtr, . field Friday confirmed that Mrs. Hatfield is expecting their second child with arrival due in mid- une. Antoinette and I are delighted, especially in view of the fact we are both from one-child families, that Elizabeth is to have a broth er or sister," the governor said. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Cloudy Sunday morning, becoming partly cloudy In the aft ernoon. High today 25-33; low to night 10-20. High yesterday JS Low last night It Northern California Partly cloudy Sunday with a chance of flurries in the northern Sierra Nevadas. Little change In temper ature. Variable coastal winds 8-11 miles an hour. ': ' : -V Photo by M. Sgt. Charlti BtnrwH in-m- IM ' I
