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U.Or ORE. LIBRARY CO MP. NEWSPAPER SECTION OKW.ReT.AMD DOCUMENTS BIT. UQENE.OBEO. ' .JUtA ' - " v '', ' In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS As this is written, steel is still the big news followed closely by the political implications of the steel agreement, in the reaching of which Vice-President Nixon and Secretary of Labor Mitchell played an important part. It seems certain that the strike will not be resumed. But prob lems remain. One of them is the wage-price spiral. Will it go on spiraling? Or can it be checked and maybe leveled off? Answers to these questions are not yet forthcoming. A suggestion to the steel peo pleon both sides: An agreement has been reached. The mills will go on producing. The workers will go on work ing. Steel will be available for the making of automobiles and all the myriad other things that are made of steel. The public will go on buying American steel pro ductsunless they are priced out of the market. Why not just accept what has been done and give it the old col lege try to see if it can be made to work? Maybe, if they go at it with courage and determination, the steel operators can trim out some unsound business practices. May be the workers, back at work af ter a long period of enforced idle ness, can eliminate some of their costlier work practices. Maybe some waste on both sides can be squeezed out, so that American steel prices can be kept competi tive with the prices of foreign pro ducers. That would be good for the na tion (and its 180 million people.) " what is good for the nation as a whole can hardly fail to be good for the steel people on both sides of the economic fence. A generation or so ago, some body drew a famous cartoon. It depicted two mules. They were standing between two shocks of hay. They were haltered together. Every time one mule started to ward a shock of hay, the other PULLED BACK. Thus pulling and hauling against each other, they were getting pretty hungry. Then Finally- One mule whispered in the other mule's ear. The other mule lis tened. As he listened, the anger and frustration on his face changed to enlightened comprehension. He whispered back. The upshot of it was that they quit pulling and hauling and WORKED TOGETHER. Working together, they trotted over to one shock of hay and polished it off. Then they trotted over to the oth er hayshock and polished it off. Thus COOPERATING, instead ofl checkmating each other's every move, they grew fat and sleek. And- Not- only VVere the MULES pleased with the results of this friendly and intelligent cooperation. Their OWNER was pleased be- cause he had better and more ef ficient mules. So they all lived happily ever afterward. Just a dream, you say? Well, dreams sometimes come true. Nurse Decides To Have Fun With Pay Check SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (UPI) Nurse Ruth Sweeney thought her dreams had come true Monday when she opened her pay enve lope and found a check made out to her for $994,SU9.50. Even though Mrs. Sweeny knew it must be' a mistake, she thought she would have a little fun anyhow. She went down to the Algonda Bank and handed it to the teller, announcing that she would take it all in cash. The teller did a double take. He called over the head teller and handed the check to him. The head teller didn't know what to do with it so he called over a vice president. He didn't know what to do with it either, so he called the bank president. Finally, after an hour of hur ried whispers and much mum bling, someone called the city hall where the check was issued. They explained it was all a mistake, a check-writing machine had gone haywire. Mrs. Sweeney took it all in good humor, but must have got a little perturbed when she was told that instead of receiving a check this week she actually owed $3 due to various contributions and deduc tions that had been taken from her pay. SHOOTING HOURS DUCKS, GEESE OREGON January ( OPEN CLOSE 7:15 4:45 CALIFORNIA January I OPEN CLOSE V.U HIGH SEAS SWEEP OVER THE AMERICAN FREIGHTER Valley Forge as she breaks up after running aground on rocks 50 miles south of Singapore. Photo was made from a British Royal Air Force plane which went out in search of survivors. Eight crewmen from the 7,202-ton ship wero rescued by a salvage tug. Crew Of Ill-Fated Vessel To Depart From Singapore SINGAPORE (AP) - All but one of the 37 crew members of the wrecked American freighter Valley Forge are expected to leave Singapore Wednesday. They will board a chartered American airliner to return to Portland, Ore., where their 7,202- ton vessel started its ill-fated trip. Only Perfecto Hierro of Manila will stay behind. He was hospi talized with injuries after he and 21 other crewmen were brought to Singapore Sunday by the Brit ish minesweeper Fiskerton. Eleven of the group went to the Royal Air Force headquarters Tuesday to thank the pilot and crew of the plane that spotted them on a tiny coral island five miles from where the Valley Forge struck a reef. The plane's captain, Flight Lt. K. E. Bennett, credited the men themselves with playing a major role in the rescue. He said that within 15 minutes after leaving Singapore to search for them, he saw the island. Five minutes later, flares arose from the trees and the men ran to the shore to signal. After supply packs were para chuted, the survivors made an L" of their lifebelts to indicate all was well, then grouped into Ohio Backs John Kennedy COLUMBUS, Ohio (UPD-Ohio today became the first big state to back the presidential candidacy of Sen. John F. Kennedy . ID- Mass.). Democratic Gov. Michael V. Di- Salle warmly endorsed Kennedy. The governor- said he would cam paign in the Ohio primary, pledged to lead the 56-vote Buck eye delegation, the fourth largest, to the Democratic national, con vention behind the Kennedy' can didacy. The governor invited other Democrats to compete in the May 3 primary, but none was expected to take him up on it. DiSalle, like Kennedy, a Cath olic, said a DiSalle-Kennedy tick et was "a political impossibility for obvious reasons." He said he would not accept a Washington job if Kennedy be comes president. The former federal price ad ministrator said he doubted that religion would play an important role in the selection of a candi date or in the election. But he conceded, "It can't help Ken nedy." The senator, who conferred with DiSalle a number of times and made several speaking tours of the state in 1959, was expected to enter the Ohio primary even if DiSalle chose to compete against him as a favorite son. No other large state Democrat ic organization has announced its support for any candidate. Demo crats in New York, California, Il linois and Pennsylvania all have said they are awaiting develop ments. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair with, variable high cloudiness through Wednesday. Low tonight 7-15; high Wednesday 2i-30. High yesterday - 23 Low last night . .. 2 Precip. last 24 hours Since Oct. 1 1.06 Same period last year 1.87 Low in area, Chiloquin Northern California Fair through Wednesday except partly cloudy in the north. Variable coastal winds 7-17 miles an hour CRATER LAKE A beautiful, clear day in the park was reported this morning by park rangers. No chains were re quired for travel over well sand ed highways and the roads through the park and from Annie Springs to the rim were in good condition. There was no new snow. 0 fives to indicate the number on the island. Eight other Valley Forge crew men were picked up from a life boat by a British tug. Capt. Peter F. Petrone of Absecon, N.J., and the six other crewmen made their way in a lifeboat to the Indone sian island of Bintan, 50 miles southeast of Singapore. An Indo nesian launch brought them here Monday. Plans Made To Lift Plane SEATTLE (UPI) The Navy said today it would attempt to raise a twin jet heavy attack bomber which crashed in the San Juan Islands on Puget Sound Monday, killing at least one of the four crewmen aboard. Fog and a light rain halted sal vage attempts Monday evening. The body of Ens. Richard L, McGrane, 23, Oak Harbor, Wash., was found floating in the water a little more than an hour after the crash. The other men were officially listed as missing and it was pre sumed they went down with the plane. , . They were:- Lt. Robert A. Miller, 29, Oak Harbor. His mother, Velta Reid Miller lives at Penguich, Utah Lt. (jg) ' John . Rennolds, 25, Richmond, Va. Aviation Machinist 3rd Class Lester D. Messenger, Pittsburgh Pa. " The A3D Skywarrior crashed in about 30 feet of water off Lopez Island. Candidacy Disclaimed WASHINGTON (UPI) - Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo.) said to day he is "not an avowed candi date" for the Democratic presi dential nomination, but would not take any steps to remove his name from the May 20 Oregon preferential primary. Symington said he planned no formal announcement at present for the nomination. "I'm not an avowed candidate and I'm not entering any primar ies," he said. "I think my name probably will go on the ballot in Oregon," Sy mington told a news conference, but "I have no plans to cam paign" there. Symington's "in-but-out" role as a Democratic possibility was in sharp contrast to the stand tak en by two of his colleagues, Sens. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.) and John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) who officially announced last week that they are avowed can didates for the Democratic nomination. Council Mulls Deputy Policy The question of city policemen carrying deputy sheriff badges was given a second round of discus sion Monday night at the meet ing of the city council. . Charles Howard, police chief, recommended to the council that juvenile officers, detective ser geants and patrol sergeants be authorized to carry a permanent deputy sheriff commission. He pointed out in his recommenda tion that approximately 50 per cent of the population of Klamath Falls resides outside the city limits and thus outside the jurisdiction of the city police department. Carrying of deputy sheriff badg es by the three departments list ed, he said, would enable them to complete investigation of cases in volving residents of the suburban area. ' HOWARD STATED that several policemen accepted deputy sheriff badges in the fall months when they take jobs patrolling private lands during the deer season, but that they surrender the badges at the end of the season. He asked that he be given au AP Wirephoto TID Chiefs Attend Meet On Tule Lake TULELAKE President Sam An derson of the Tulelake Irrigation District, Manager Maurice Strantz, board members Ivan Rose and Leslie Rogers, Tulelake, accom panied by two attorneys for the district, Alvin Landis, Sacramen to, and Harry Horton, El Centro, and District Engineer Howard Stoddard, Los Banos, were en route today to Washington, D.C., to attend a meeting called by Sec retary of the Interior Fred Seaton. The session is being held in an attempt to reach an understand ing between the TID and the Fish and Wildlife Service on water lev els in the Tule Lake sump area, maintained by the irrigation dis trict, said by the government agen cy to have been too low during 19a9 for the best interests of mi gratory waterfowl. The local party left by plane from the Klamath Falls airport to join other officials in San Fran cisco for the flight east. Before leaving, Anderson made public a statement in which he said he believed there "is a good chance for agreement on the prob lem of lake levels. The district's position on the contract problem has been mistakenly presented to the secretary in a prejudiced man ner by the Fish and Wildlife Serv ice and the big city press. Recent information obtained from the Fish and Wildlife Serv ice indicated that the 'disaster' the service has attempted to show on the refuge has not been borne out by the facts. "The district has no plans for drying up Tule Lake (sump) and the problem of lake levels is one clearly related to needed flood protection which has long been recognized by both the bureau and the service in construction of facil ities on Tule Lake. "The district's position has been supported by engineering studies prepared by the district as well as those previously prepared by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation." Anderson confirmed that rep resentatives ot tne district are attending the meeting in a spirit of understanding of mutual problems He further stated that the TID be lieves that TID analysis of the ex isting contract between the water organization and the local officials of the Fish and Wildlife Service to be correct, but, "If it should be shown that the district has misun derstood or misinterpreted the con tract, it will of course make nec essary changes." Anderson concluded his remarks with the statement that, "When Secretary Seaton understands both sides of the issue there will be no question as to a proper decision AD LAI TO TOUR CHICAGO (UPD-Adlai E. Ste venson said today he will leave Feb. 9 on an 11-nation, two-month tour of South America. thority to approve or disapprove any request by other policemen to hold such badges. ' City Manager G. S. Vergeer re ported on letters sent to five other communities which were also coun ty seats. Replying, Medford said several members of their department held them by choice, but felt no definite advantage accrued to the depart ment. Pendleton renorted only one of ficer so deputized. They acknowl edged the need for sucn a com mission to complete investigations in suburban areas, but listed a pol icy of requiring chief approval in all cases. GRANTS PASS reported that no members of their department hold deputy sheriff commissions. Roseburs listed six members so deputized, including detective ser geants, captains and patrol ser geants. ' Bend renorted that it would be advisable for some members of the staff to hold such commissions to innc rail outside the city. Councilman Ladd Hoyt objected Price Five Cents 18 Pages Decision Due From Capitol On Yield Cut PORTLAND (AP) Decision! will be made in Washington, D.C., loday on approving or rejecting sustained yield cutting plans of (inns wanting to bid on the first big units of Klamath Indian Res ervation timberlunds which were put up for sale under a 1938 law. The firms will be notified Wed nesday whether their plans were satisfactory. Firms with approved plans will be able to bid. Their offers will be opened Jan. 20. Two more bid openings on other units are scheduled later in the year. Walter Lund of the regional U.S. Forest Service office here said plans were submitted on three of the four units up for Jan. 20 bid. He said that meant that one or more firms was interested in buy ing the timber which is being dis posed of as part of the break-up of the Klamath Reservation. Buyers must cut on a sustained yield basis under the plan sub mitted. ' He said there were no plans oflered on the Sycan unit, a 62,- 000-acre area containing 283 mil lion board feet of saw timber and 204,000 cords of pulpwood. But plans were offered and Lund would not say by how many lirms on these units: Antelope Desert, 92,000 acres with 69 mil lion board feet of sawtimbcr and 464,000 cords of pulpwood, mostly in lodgcpole pine; North Marsh 46,000 acres with 394 million feet of sawtimber and 175,000 cords of pulpwood; and Modoc Point, 56,- 000 acres with 375 million feet of sawtimber. Three more units will be up for bid April 1, and there was a dead line of Jan. 1 for filing cutting plans on them. Lund said plans were offered on all three. These are: Yainax, 50,000 acres with 244 million feet of sawtimbcr Chiloqum, 55,000 acres with 235 million feet of sawtimber and 149,000 cords of pulpwood; and Black Hills, 52,000 acres with 307 million board feet of sawtimbcr, and 38.000 cords of pulpwood. The third group Yansay Moun tain, Skellock, Saddle Mountain and South Calimus will be up for bid Aug. 1. Prospective bidders still have time to submit their cut ting plans on those. Gas Sought By Police ANOKA, Minn. (UPI) - Police cars mounting loudspeakers on their roofs cruised through dark ened residential areas of Anoka early today, blaring out a warn ing to residents against using an explosive mixture of gasoline and fuel oil in oil burning stoves. Officers tried to locate the last of 17 gallons of 150 gallons of the fluid mistakenly sold by a serv ice station Monday. Police found 133 gallons during a desperate search Monday night. Police Sgt. George Karkhoff said he feared some of the explo sive mixture never would be found. He said he was afraid some of it might have been taken north by sportsmen passing through Anoka and would find its way into hunting cabins and fish ing shanties. Orville Temple, manager of the service station, said 1,000 gallons of ethyl gasoline were pumped into a fuel oil tank by mistake New Year's Eve. to anyone other than the three categories listed by the chief hav ing deputy sheriff badges. Coun cilman Floyd Wynne pointed out that it was questionable in his mind whether the city could exer cise jurisdiction over a policeman when he was off duty in regard to other employment. After some discussion, the mat ter was postponed until next meet ing when Chief Howard was to be present to further explore his rec ommendations. ODORS EMANATING from the city's sewage treatment plant near the South Sixth overpass was the subject of some discussion also. Mayor Lawrence Slater told the council that complaints had been received in areas east and north of the plant regarding disagreeable odors.. "I checked with the plant operator," Slater said, and he agreed that the plant was giving off an odor, but he didn't know the cause." Slater speculated that the hot wa ter being drained into the sewer (Continued on Page 2) r KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, Murder Victim identified; Police Hint Killer Known TANGIER (UPI) Tangier's "murder sack" victim officially was identified today as Barbara Helen Moeller, 19, New York, and police indicated they knew her killer. A police spokesman said there no longer was any doubt that the mutilated corpse found in a gun nysack in Kadira Forest live miles from here on Dec. 13 was Rocky May Accept Draft At Conclave ALBANY, N. Y. (UPI) - Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, in the role of a stand-by candidate for the Republican presidential nomina tion, indicated .Monday he might accept a convention draft. The New York governor, al though certain that Vice President Richard M. Nixon has the GOP nomination sewed up at the pres ent time, is standing by in the event convention delegates have a change of heart at Chicago. After indicating at his news conference Monday that he might accept a convention draft if one were offered, he declined to say whether he would definitely with draw from the Oregon state pri mary. . He declined to reveal whether he would issue a "won't accept, won't run" statement. He declined to state whether he would attend the GOP convention as a favorite son candidate. When asked by a reporter whether he could be drafted to help the GOP ticket, Rockefeller said: 'There have been a lot of drafts in this country." There was no immediate com ment from Nixon. GOP National Chairman Thruston B. Morton said in a TV interview on NBC's "Today," that although "any thing Is possible in the realm of politics," he did not anticipate Rockefeller draft. But in Los Angeles a leader of the "Californians for Rockefeller1 organizations Monday night said he was encouraged by the gover nor's statement. Chairman Charles Lewsaddcr said the group would continue to work toward Rockefeller's nomin ation. Lewsadder said he was 'not anti-Nixon, but pro-Rockefel ler." He said he did not feci Nix on could be elected to the presi dency and that Rockefeller could. But California Republican State Chairman George W. Milias said, I think a draft would be highly unlikely with Dick Nixon so far ahead. However, there would be a great deal of support to draft Rockefeller for the vice presiden cy if he could be budged. There never was much support for Rock efeller in California, . and I ima gine there is less now than ever." Actor Files Suit For Car Crash REDDING Actor Aldo Ray filed a $75,000 damage suit Mon day, against Charles E. Thome of Mount Shasta as a result of an automobile accident last March 30. Ray claimed Thome was at fault when a car in which the actor was a passenger collided with an other driven by Thorne. The wreck occurred three miles south of the Shasta-Siskiyou County line on U.S. Highway 99. The actor was treated for facial cuts. t TAGGID FOR DESTRUCTION Is this obsolete- terminal building at tha municipal airport.. Constructed during World Wat II, the building has proved Inadequate to serve the ex., panding needs ot the air service into Klamath Falls. The Gospel Mission has undertakeir the task of tearing down the old building to clear the area for the new terminal rieerinj; completion behind this tower. The structuro should be rased within 40 days. 1 v TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1960 that ot the missing New York coed, who came to Tangier as a tourist seeking adventure. As they made their announce ment, authorities continued vir tual nonstop questioning ' of Wil liam Edward Moore, 26, itinerant English sailor who had been one of the Moeller girl's companions before she vanished from her ho tel. "We are sure that Moore has important information to give us. information that we need in order to conclude our inquiries," the police spokesman said. Commissioner Mohammed Maa- zouri, 24, the official in charge of the investigation, said that on Thursday at the latest a murder charge would be filed before a lo cal judge. He declined to indicate against whom the charge would be lodged. Asked if Moore was implicated directly in the case, Maazouri re fused to answer. Moore, who came to Tangier some time ago as a hand on a private yacht, was arrested for questioning Dec. 19, six days af ter a shepherd boy made the gruesome hadira forest discov ery. ' Shortly after he was taken into custody police said Moore at tempted to take his life by punct uring a vein in his arm with his belt buckle. The wound apparent ly was serious and Moore re mained in the hospital, much of the time under sedation, until Monday. Questioning of Moore began Monday night and continued to day. 5 Patients Flee Hospital RALEIGH. NC. (UPI) Four male mental patients escaped from a maximum security build- ing for the criminally insane at Dorothea Dix State. Hospital to day, freed a woman patient and fled. The men overpowered two wom en attendants, took keys to two buildings and freed a young wom an committed as criminally in sane after killing her father last May. All five escaped in a hos pital employe's car which they later abandoned at Fuquay-Vari- na, N.C., 20 miles south of here. The big hospital, from which escapes have been frequent, faces the rear of North Carolina's Cen tral Prison in West Raleigh. It was from Central Prison that the leader of the recent break of 20 convicts from grim Ivy Bluff Pris on staged a daring escape about two months ago. The two institu tions are separate and under sep arate administrations. The four men had met the wom an patient at a dance tor tne mental patients recently. Hospital officials said the men apparently obtained two master keys to the maximum security unit and es caped through an unbarred win dow in a small basomcnt closet They then entered the women s building, overpowered two attend ants and released the woman. Three attendants on duty in the maximum security building were fired for laxity The women attendants managed to free themselves and spread the alarm. Officers said the patients were potentially dangerous but were not believed to be armed One of the men was a slayer and another a kidnaper, ' ti ' ... j. no . I I- L3V f-i Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 6595 Italy Train Skips Track; Many Killed MONZA, Italy (AP)-A jammed ID-car commuter train sped into a sharp curve today and the locomo tive and five cars hurtled from the rails into a tangle of wreckage. The Ministry of Transport said 25 persons were killed, but only 15 bodies were found in an all-day search. Police said it appeared 15 were killed. They put the number of injured at 124. The accident occurred in densa fog about two miles north of the station in this auto-racing capital of Italy. Monza is about 10 miles northeast of Milan. The Transport Ministry said preliminary investigation indicat ed the accident was caused by tha failure of the engineer to observe a 6-milc-an-hour speed limit set for the stretch where the derail ment occurred. The train ap peared to be going about 45 miles an hour. The engineer was among thosa killed, and his helper was serious ly injured. i There were about 1,000 passen gers on the train, most of them factory or office workers on their way to jobs or students. The train was pulled by an elec tric locomotive. It sped across a temporary bridge and whipped into the curve at about 45 miles an hour. A repoitcr, a passenger in tha fifth car ot the train, felt the train's brakes grab just as it en tered the curve. The locomotive hurtled off tha rails in a terrific scream of metal grinding against metal. The second coach, filled with workmen, turned upside down. The third car hurtled into the air and landed on the roof of a two-story factory, 100 feet from the tracks. A few survivors crawled out. Inside there wera mal,y injured, snouting tor neip. The tourth coach niPPed on slde and bounced upright again. " "-'uul ienul ul lau nau ""a through : the. - coach,., stabbing through a Catholic priest and two other passengers. The fifth coach skidded- on Its left side for 100 yards. Many of its passengers were bruised, and some were badly injured. They crawled through windows to get clear. The sixth coach was pulled from the rails but remained upright. Only the last four coaches stayed on the rails. Fog was so thick you couldn't see from one car to the next. 1 The overhead electric cables, which power the electric locomo tives on the line, snapped lika violin strings. Passengers had to pick their way carefully through them to get away from the wreck age. . ( BULLETIN WASHINGTON W) The Steel Workers Union Executive Board today unanimously approved tha new steel settlement. But a minor hitch held up full labor peace in the steel industry. j David J. McDonald, union pres ident, announced the board's ap proval. ; . McDonald said delay by soma iron ore companies in okaying the settlement might delay sign ing of the new agreement. . The major steel companies meanwhile, were reported ready to sign a new contract this after noon. 1 i
