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Congress Opens; Politics Top List WASHINGTON (AP)-Congress got back into business today. And in this presidential election year every member was certain of one main item of business: Politics Out of this final session of the Eisenhower administration will be hammered the fresher issues for next fall's elections. It could make or break the hopes of mem bers aspiring to gain higher of fice or hold what they have. By FRANK JENKINS Hodgepodge in the news: A National Airlines plane with 84 persons aboard went down today or. a non-stop flight from New York to Miami. The news has been full of plane trouble recently. Does that mean (hat plane travel is getting more dangerous? Probably not. We can assume that the real reason is that there are more planes in the air. There are more highway fatalities because there are more cars on the road. Let's put it this way: More people are being killed and Injured by slipping in bathtubs. It isn't that bathtubs are more dan gerous. There are just more bath tubs and more people taking baths. Speaking of traffic: George A. Walter, who invented (he nation's first traffic signals, died the other day" in Stratford, Connecticut, at the age of 87. His invention was a manually operated contraption consisting of a square box at the top of a pole. Two sides of the box carried the word GO. The other two sides car ried the word STOP. The cop ma nipulated it by means of handles. When, in his judgment, traffic had flowed long enough in one direc tion, he changed the GO sign to STOP. He had a barricade around him to keep careless motorists from knocking him for a loop. A lot of water has flowed under the bridge since then. ' IMAGINE A JIGGER LIKE THAT AT A COMPLICATED COR NER ON A LOS ANGELES FREE WAY! Prison doors in Havana swing open for 1200 Cuban criminals granted a blanket pardon in ob servance of Epiphany the day when Latin Americans traditionally exchange Christmas presents. NO POLITICAL PRISONERS WERE INCLUDED AMONG THOSE TO BE RELEASED, Question: ' In a system like that, WHO is a political prisoner? -Answer: He's a guy who isn't going to vote for you if you happen to be running the show. Simple, isn't it? A, Columbia University graduate who worked his way through col lege has just presented to his alma mater the not inconsiderable sum of five million dollars. The money will be used to help build an 18 story medical research building at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons. Who is the donor? He is Wil liam Black, founder and president of Chock Full o' Nuts Corporation. How did he make his money? He got a good idea and ran it into a big pile. - Another question: Who is the greater benefactor of humanity Revolutionist Fidel Cas tro, or simple free enterpriser Wil liam Black, who made a fortune out of nuts and is using bis money wisely? . My vote goes to Black. Manufacturer Fits Him With PITTSBURGH (UPI) A per- son who is deaf finds it quite easy to sympathize with someone in a similar plight. L. M. Meyers is deaf. So is Bill. Bill's case is sadder than most. Bill is a puppy. And no one wants a pooch that can't hear. Bill was found on the streets of Pittsburgh homeless and nameless. He was taken in by the Animal Friends refuge. They soon discovered that Bill couldn't hear. So did all prospective masters. They were touched by the pathet ic looks of this short-haired, fawn colored pup. But a dog that couldn't hear? Too many prob lems. Meyers, the president of Radio tar Corp. which manufactures hearing aids, read about Bill in a Pittsburgh newspaper. In The . Day's km A consciousness of this stood out clearly amid the handshaking, backslapping, and good-fellowship that always attend the reconven ing of Congress. Already plans are shaping up for investigations in many fields foreign affairs, defense policy, television, outer space, drug prices and boxing. Such hearings keep a legislator's name before the pub lic and sometimes influence votes. Due for early consideration are civil rights and aid to education bills subjects that divide Con gress, carry a lot of emotional impact, and have political over tones. Today's House and Senate ses sions were limited to the formali ties of reconvening and swearing in new members. President Eisenhower will come up and deliver his annual State of the Union message to a joint session Thursday. The message will set out in general terms what he hopes to get from Congress. Later, special messages will give more details. Before Congress convened there was a hint that perhaps the Pres ident is a little sensitive to pros pective criticism of the gap be tween U. S. and Soviet missile progress. In a brief, informal talk to offi cials of his church the National Presbyterian Eisenhower cau tioned Americans against becom ing, too hysterical about Soviet achievements in outer space. The President, Vice President Richard M. Nixon, some mem bers of Congress received Holy Communion at the 8 a. m. serv ice. Party leaders already have set a tentative adjournment date July 4, a week before the Demo cratic national convention starts in Los Angeles and three weeks before the Republicans gather in Chicago. The annual cry for economy came from Rep. Clarence Cannon (D-Mo), chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. "The budget goes up and up every year," complained Cannon Tuesday night. "The interest on the national debt goes up and up. Wartime tax rates are kept in ef fect and there is expectation of cutting taxes. "I am very much disappointed at the size of the budget (about 81 billion dollars). It must be cut, Ike Warns Americans WASHINGTON (AP) President Eisenhower today cautioned Americans against becoming "too hysterical" about Soviet achieve-' ments in outer space. The President called, for ex ploitation in this country -of the idea (hat "man is a creature of God and dignity." Eisenhower expressed his views in a brief informal talk to offi cials of the National Presbyterian Church. He attended morning services where he joined in pray er for success of the new session of the 86th Congress, convening today. The President, Vice President Richard M. Nixon, some mem bers of the Cabinet, and mem bers of Congress received Holy Communionat the 8 a. m. service. . Later a group of church offi cials showed Eisenhower archi tect's plans for a new National Presbyterian Church to be built in Washington. SHOOTING HOURS DUCKS, GEESE OREGON January 7 OPEN CLOSE 7:35 4:45 CALIFORNIA January 7 OPEN CLOSE 7:34 4:49 Helps Dog; Hearing Aid "Being deaf myself, I can sym pathize with the puppy's plight,' he explained. Meyers offered his firm's lab oratory to test the dog's hearing and last week Bill went to the laboratory in nearby Canonsburg for the tests. Attendants attached a hearing aid to his ear and a battery to his collar. Various tones were fed into his ear. Then a high frequency note. The dog reared up, tossed his head. There was hope. Meyers kept his promise the dog was fitted with a hearing aid. And now Bill is leading a dog's life which with a hearing aid isn't so bad after all. But Bill still needs one thing to make that dog's life complete a master. His new friends feel he'll have one soon. U.O? ORS. LIBRARY N3PA?ER SECTION GEN.REF.AND DOCUMENTS DJV. EUGft,oaQ. Price Five Cents 16 Pages Speaker Sam Celebrates Birthday 78 WASHINGTON (UPI) - House members of both political faiths dusted off some of their warmer superlatives for today's opening session. This is Speaker Sam Rayburn's 78th birthday, and the SAM RAYBURN members don't get a chance to say all those nice things very often. Rayburn's birthday, like Ray- burn himself, has become pretty much of an institution around the capitol, coming as it does on or pretty close to the opening day of each session. Except for four years embrac ing two Republican Congresses, Rayburn has been speaker since 1940, longer than most members of the House have been in Con gress. With so many of them behind him, Mr. Sam naturally is not quite as enthusiastic about birth days as some other people. He usually bears up well though un der the kind words everybody has for him on these occasions. Although Rayburn is and al ways has been an unqualified and unrepentant Democrat, even the Republicans speak highly of him on his birthday, and some times even between birthdays, This time President Eisenhower got into the act early, telegraph ing the Texan last week, "I am proud to have been born in your congressional district." As hard as this may be for some folks here to believe, Ray burn wasn't actually representing the district at the time of Eisen hower's birth. He's been in Con gress not .uite 47 years, merely an all -; time record for House membership. He also shattered, long ago, all records for tenure i speaker. Another ' prominent Republican who doesn't always see eye to eye with Rayburn is Rep. Charles A. Halleck, the House Republi can leader. Last March 4, when Rayburn shattered one more lon gevity record of some kind or an- Lother, Halleck called him a "mag nificent" speaker. Six May Vie On Ballot By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Six Democrats may be on the presidential primary ballot in Ore gen next May. That possibility loomed today after Sen. Stuart Symington (D Mo) said in Washington, D. C. that he will not file an affidavit asking for removal of his name from the Oregon ballot. The Oregon secretary of state will enter on the ballot the names of all generally recognized candi- dates. Also to be on the ballot will be candidates placed there by petition. Besides Symington, the candi- dates expected to be on the ballot are: Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massa chusetts, Sen. Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas and Adlai Ste venson. . Gator Gagger Fined SACRAMENTO (UPI) Rob ert Slye, 27, received a six month suspended jail term and was fined $150 Tuesday for lynching an alligator. Slye, who pleaded guilty to charges. of malicious mischief and cruelty to animals, said he and a companion tried to steal the alligator from a Sacramen to zoo on Nov, 16 to give It to a girl friend. They slipped a rope around the 90-pound reptile's necK and started to pull It over a fence surrounding Us pen. They be came frightened and fled, leav ing the alligator to strangle. uo Z C031P, KLAMATH FALLS, OKKliOX. land Of Dixie Shivers In Heavy Snow Storm Heavy By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A fast-moving snow storm which hit the Southwest swept into the South today, leaving a heavy blan ket of white from Arkansas into North Carolina. Dixie shivered in the fir. t big snow storm of the winter. - The season's first big snow fall and the biggest in many years in some areas curtailed travel. closed schools and disrupted tele phone and power service. The storms were blamed for at least five deaths. Nearly a foot of snow made a wintry scene in parts of the South land. The far-ranging storm dumped a snow covering that stretched from eastern New Mexico, Okla homa and the northern third of Texas eastward through Arkansas, southern Missouri and Tennessee into Kentucky, southwestern Vir ginia, the western Carolinas and north Georgia. Arkansas sloshed through the biggest snowfall in 38 years. The seasons first storm piled up 6 inches, by official reading, in Lit tle Rock, and from 2 to 6 inches in most of the slate. Heaviest ' snow falls in years were reported in many areas. The seven inches at Nashville was the deepest in nine years. Sleet added to the treacherous conditions on highways and on railroad tracks. Bus and train travel was delayed. Some plane All County Court Chiefs To Be Chosen By Voters Klamath County voters must choose all three members of the county court during this year's elec tions. So says an opinion from State Attorney General Robert Y. Thorn ton released late yesterday. Thorn ton was asked for the opinion by District Attorney Arthur Beddoe to clarify Klamath County's unusual election year dilemma THE OPEN STATUS of all coun ty court offices should add consid erable interest to elections this year, otherwise the county slate includes the sheriff, county clerk, assessor, and a justice of the peace in the Odell District. The filing deadline for all of fices is 5 p.m. March 11. The pri mary election is May 20: the gen eral election November 8. No members of the county court chose to decide at this time wheth er they would be candidates for reelection, or for what offices. The attorney general said voters must elect a county judge for a full four year term, a commissioner for a full term, and another commission er for a two-year term. The situation developed last Jan uary when former County Judge Charles H. Mack resigned to be come a state tax commissioner. Bob Walker had just won election as a county commissioner, and was named judge to replace Mack. Frank Ganong was appointed to fill Walker's commission seat. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S opinion says both these offices must be filled in the general elec tion in November. Ed Gowen, a veteran of 10 years on the county court, was not in- Weather Klamath Falls and vicinity Clearing tonight. Fair Thursday High 26-32; low 5-15. High yesterday 32 Low last night .. 4 Prccip. last 24 hours 0 Since Oct. 1 1.06 Same period last year 1.87 Low in area, Chiloquin 2 Northern California Light showers north of Fort Bragg and snow flurries in extreme northern mountains, possibly reaching Into the northern Sierra Nevadas. Oth crwise cloudy in the north por tion and mostly fair in central California. CRATER LAKE High yesterday Low last night' 8 a.m. today New snow , - Snow depth . 45 . z: . 21 trace . 27 88 . 119 This season total Last season Chains are advisrd for travel over Highway 62 and from Annie Springs to headquarters. The road is temporarily closed from headquarters to the rim. There was a light northwest wind this morning and It was snowing steadily. Skiing conditions were reported as powder snow, crusty underneath. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1960 flights were canceled, 'flie storm, which reached bliz zard intensity in parts of the Southwest Tuesday, swept east ward and heaviest snow during the night was in Tennessee and Kentucky. The storm in the Southwest forced schools to close, stalled scores of motorists and made driving hazardous. At least two deaths were blamed on the storm ir, the Southwest. Three others were reported in the Southeast. Three persons were missing in a pri vate plane in the Southwest storm belt. Snow measured up to 10 inch es in the central Texas Panhandle and nearly a foot in parts of Okla homa. Two to 6 inches fell in New Mexico. As the Southern areas battled winter's first big snow storm, the severe cold wave moderated in some Northern regions. It was still cold in other border areas. It was cold in the Southwest snow belt, as skies cleared in New Mexico and western parts of the Texas Panhandle. Tempera tures dipped to near zero in the Texas Panhandle. But it was much colder in north ern Minnesota as another surge of arctic air swept in from Cana da. It was near 20 degrees below zero again this morning in Inter national Falls, on the Canadian border as the early January cold snap continued in many parts of the Midwest. volved in the adjustment last Feb- ruary, but comes up for reelec tion this year because his normal term expires. Just what county court members must seek what offices, should they choose to shift positions, apparently was not made clear. Thornton said, ''Candidates for these offices will be determined under provisions of the primary election law." It's still too far from filing dead line for incumbents to express their views on candidacy. The only definite opinion about courthouse corridors today was a feeling that this year's county court election should draw a large primary field. Neither did other incumbents choose to express their views. These are County Clerk Charley DeLap, now completing his fourth four-year term in ofiice and back on the job daily since a serious operation last fall; Sheriff Red Britton, completing his second four- year term; and Assessor Hap Cald well, finishing his first four-year term. THESE MEN WILL announce their decisions later. The only other county office on this year's ballots will be that of justice of the peace in the Odell District. Richmond Walker was ap pointed to the office late last year after the death of E. W. Dunn. It is understood the election will be for a two-year unexpired term. One additional cautionary note was added by the attorney general regarding the county court race. It is imperative, he specified, "that the general election ballot contain the names of qualified candidates and the proper write-in space for two-year term and a four-year term of county commissioner." Agency Picks New Officer .Conrad Shetland has been named temporary replacement for Earlc Wilcox as acting officer in charge at Klamath Agency and the In dian Sales Office in Klamath Falls. Shetland arrived to assume the post Monday, replacing Wilcox who is in Washington, D. C, taking a six-month training program for manager development which is sponsored by the Department of the Interior. Shelland will serve in this dual capacity until Wilcox returns or until a replacement for him is named. The new officer is thoroughly familiar with the Klamath prob lems. He graduated from Purdue University in 1948, and went to work at the Klamath Indian Res ervation in September of that year, serving there until June of 1957. He was then transferred to the Portland area office as a forester and took part In much of the term ination program administered from the Portland office. Shelland is married and has two children, aged 10 and 8. He indicat ed that he would make his resi dence at Klamath Agency. Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 6596 Macmillan Begins Tour Of Colonies ACCRA, Ghana (AP) Prime Minister Harold Macmillan ar- rived at the brilliantly decorated Accra airport today on the first leg of his lS.ooOmile fact-finding tour through Britain's restive col HAROLD MACMILLAN onies and Commonwealth mem bers in Africa. Macmillan was greeted by Ghana's Prime Minister Kwamo Nkrumah, who led his country to freedom nearly three years age after being imprisoned by the British. Nkrumah noted that Macmillan is the first British prime minis ter to visit south of the Sahara while in office. He said he hopes the visit will strengthen good will, not only for Ghana and the Unit ed Kingdom, but for Africa and the world." Macmillan in reply said he had come to see ana icarn. About 2,000 Ghanians were at the airport, some in brightly col ored native robes. Macmillan's talks with Nkru mah are expected to deal mainly with Ghana's relations with Britainf. and particularly Nkru- mah's plans to make Ghana a re public within the British Com monwealth, like India and Pakis tan. This would elevate him to the status of chief of state. At present the Queen is the head of state, represented here by a gov ernor general. The two leaders also are ex pected to discuss Nkrumah's as pirations to lead the emerging African nations into a huge fed eration of African states. One of these, Nigeria, which becomes in dependent in October, is next on Macmillan's schedule. After Nigeria, Macmillan goes to the Central African Federation, where Negro nationalists in the Protectorate of Nyasaland are trying to break away from their federation with the white-domi nated Rhodcsias. The last step on his itinerary Is the Union of South Africa, scat of the continent's bitterest racial issues. There will be a side trip to the neighboring British terri tories of Bechuanaland, Basuto land, and Swaziland. One Who Sues Learns Sioux; That's Sure, See MIAMI, Fla. (AP) Red-skinned Frank Brown Jr. faced a drunk enness charge and some Indian talking palefaces in court Tues day. ; "Ojus kechomee?" inquired Asst. Stale Atly. John Boyer, who said that meant "Plenty whisky?" in the language of the Seminoles tribe. "Drunk," Brown answered. Judge Ben C. Willard suspended sentence and said in Seminole "Ha-ee-pas" (You go now). Brown stood fast. Don't you understand your own Seminole language?" Boyer asked. , 'Me Sioux," the defendant grunted. Congratulations SALEM (AP) Gov. Mark Hatfield Tuesday claimed a share of Washington's Rose Bowl victory, because three Orcgonlans were members of the Husky football team, Hatfield sent this telegram lo Washington Gov. Rosellinl: "Congratulations on the great honor the Washington Huskies brought the West and particu larly the Northwest. We are mighty proud also of the role our Orcgonlan members of your team played in your season's success." Thirty-Four In Airplane BOLIVIA, N. C. (AP)-A Na tional Airlines night coach flying non-stop from New York to Mi ami crashed with 34 persons aboard before dawn today in swampy woodlands near here. "There will not be any survi vors," said Deputy Sheriff H. G. Ratcliff. Twenty five bodies had been recovered by this afternoon. Reporters on the scene said the big plane appeared to have ex ploded in the air and debris and bodies were scattered over an area of 20 acres. The four-engine DC6B, making one of two substitute flights carry ing vacation - bound passengers originally booked on a canceled flight, struck earth 2',i miles southwest of Bolivia, a hamlet 25 miles southwest of Wilmington. The other substitute plane, an Electra turbo-prop plane, reached Miami safely with 76 passengers and crew members. The plane that crashed carried 29 passengers and a crew of five. Its passengers included retired Vice Adm. Edward Orrick Mc Donnell, who held the Medal of: Honor, and numerous oilier dec orations for World War H service. He commanded an aircraft car rier in the Pacific. Most of the passengers were Easterners, bound for vacations at Florida's sunny resorts. The plane had been flying through rainy weather. The watch on the wrist of a crew member found in the cockpit was stopped at 2:45 a.m., indicat ing that the crash occurred some 14 minutes after the pilot reported in by radio. He indicated no trou ble at that time. The possibility that passengers were aware of trouble before the crash was seen in the fact that a number of the victims were clad in Mae West life preservers. The life preservers on some had been inflated. A piece of the wing and most of the ripped fuselage fell in a field, while the cockpit struck in woods 50 yards away. The plane crashed on the small farm of Richard Randolph. His wife, Letzie, was awakened by the . noise and she awakened her husband. We heard an engine going chug-a-chug," he said, "like it was cutting in and out. Then it sounded like tin doors and win- Department Warns TID WASHINGTON (UPI) Under secretary of Interior Elmer F. Bennett warned today that the department will go through with plans to take r.ver some functions of the Tulelake Irrigation District in California unless the district gives assurance it Will maintain adequate water levels. Bennett made the statement as he opened a conference of interior officials, representatives of the district, and interested legislators. On Dec. 11, the department an nounced it would take over part of the Tulelake operation within 65 days because the district had let the Reclamation Project's wa ter level drop to such a low level that wildlife in the region suf fered. Bennett reaffirmed that "unless we are satisfied that the district i3 prepared to meet these require ments and can provide assurances that it will do so, we intend to resume operation of these fa cilities." The undersecretary said that the district would be allowed to suomit proposals to department olficials. If they "fully meet wild life conservation objectives while serving the primary purpose of protecting agricultural lands" the department will consider them, he said. The meetings are expected lo continue through today and Thursday. Sweeping Tax To New York ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-Gov. Nel son A. Rockefeller proposed to the 1960 Legislature today a sweeping local-tax plan to help raise an ex tra 100 million dollars for schools. The governor also promised a strict pay-as-you-go budget for the state. In his annual message to the Legislature, the Republican gov ernor said his 1960-61 fecal pro gram would hold the line on state spending, which totals $2,021,000,- 000 in this fiscal year. "I am happy to report that we have restored fiscal integrity in the Empire State," Rockefeller declared. Other highlights of the message urged: 1. Use of state funds to offset declining revenues from the fed eral highway program and main tain long-range road programs at current levels. Dead Crash dows ripping off. Then there was a big boom like dynamite." Randolph arose and looked out the window. He could see nothing but a small flame which soon the plane. The Negro farmer drove to Bolivia, the nearest phone, and an operator connected him with the New Hanover Air port at Wilmington. He then wait ed in Bolivia until highway patrol men arrived about 7:30 a.m., and guided them to the scene. Water Supply Outlook Not Too Good PORTLAND (AP)-The outlook.' for Oregon's 1960 water supply ranges from only fair to very poor, W. T. Frost, snow survey super visor, said today. lie said that supplies of water in reservoirs is below normal, that watershed soils are drier than . normal and that the mountain snow pack is near a record low in many portions of the state. Frost, who works with the Soil Conservation Service and the Ore gon Agriculture Experiment Sta tion, said that the water content of the mountain snows was only 25 per cent of normal for Jan. 1, Last year at this time, however. Hie water conlent was even lower 17 per cent of normal. The snow pack this year is poorest in the Willamette and Hood River-Wasco areas. The best snow pack, which is only 39 per cent of normal, is in Northeastern Oregon water sheds. Normally, 37 per cent of the winter's snow falls by Jan. 1. Thus far Ibis year only 11 per cent of tlie normal winter snow has ac cumulated. In the northern third of the state, mountain watershed soils were re ported fairly well primed by fall rains. But in the rest of the state,. soils are exceptionally dry and will soak up much of the snow melt water before stream flows can begin, Frost said. , He lid that water stored in 19 major irrigation reservoirs is now fifl nwr ctmt nf tho avnrapp tnr th yoars 1943 , lfl57 Tnat js hat of lhe amount available for last year.- Frost said that precipitation in the state since Oct. ' 1 has been only about half normal. It is much less than in many areas. All this indicates that there will be below normal streamflow dur ing the 1960 Irrigation season- April through September unless winter storms produce much above average amount of snow. The next in a series of snow survey reports will be issued Feb. 8, Frost said. Ban Imposed On A-Shfo COPENHAGEN (UPI) - Den mark will not allow the U.S. nuclear freighter Savannah to visit here unless the United States supplies full information about its safety equipment, it was an nounced today. The Danes would not let the U.S. atomic submarine Nautilus call here last year because U.S. authorities refused to give details of the secret equipment that guards against radiation from its reactor engine. Atomic energy chief Christian L. Thomscn, who returned recent ly from Washington, said today he believes the U.S. will be more willing to talk about the safety devices that protect the Savannah. "Wo expect a report on the problems of nuclear vessels in harbor from a Danish engineer who spent nearly a year in the United States studying the sub ject," Thomscn said. Plan Offered Legislature 2. An Increase to $50 from $4S a week in unemployment insur ance and workmen's compensa tion benefits. 3. Tax relief for many small businesses, modification of truck tax, simplification of procedures for filing state income taxes and a $25 tax credit, instead of $10, for unmarried taxpayers who qual ify a3 heads of households. An estimated 250.000 taxpayers would benefit from the higher tax credit and the state would lose an esti mated $3,750,000 in annual rev enue. 4. Programs to help workers displaced by .automation learn new skills and find new jobs. 5 A broad program against ju venile delinquency, including work camps, improved probation facili ties, and tougher handling of 15-year-olds involved in . sellout crimes.
