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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 8, 1960)
! The- Daft km By FRANK JENKINS Ike, in bis State of the Union message to the congress: I960 can be our most prosperous year. ??????? It will be if we make It so. Prosperity won't just fall into our laps in 1960 or any other year. Cuba offers today to give back to American tourists one-half of their round trip fares In order to attract them to the luxurious and now mostly vacant Havana vacation hotels. : The 50 per cent refund was pio neered on flights from Florida to Cuba and has been extended to flights from New York. The Cuban tourism commission calls it "Oper ation Friendship." What does it mean? At least, it means that Ameri can money is highly esteemed in Cuba even if Americans aren t. : Winston Churchill, now vaca tioning on the Riviera, is living in the lap of luxury, a London news paper tells us this morning. i His penthouse apartment at Mon te Carlo's Hotel de Paris has three bathrooms done in pink, gray ivory and marble, and on his arrival Sir Winston spent an hour in a bath and then dined on, oysters, fish soup, roast duck, apple sauce and fruit. There was champagne, the story edds, to go along. Where does he get the where withal to pay for it? Mr. Churchill isn't hereditarily a rich man, as riches go in these days. But he has written a lot of books that people have bought and paid for, have read with much in terest and much improvement of their store of knowledge and in the final accounting have felt that, the books were worth every cent they cost. I think most of us will agree that he has earned his luxuries. In Washington the other day a reporter loured the Capitol build ing and described what he saw. One thing that intrigued and puz zled him was the rite of REFILL-1 INC- THE SNUFF BOXES in the senate chamber. , , He wrote in his story: "Since no senator I know, or know of, now sniffs snuff, I can't figure out why the boxes, become. emntv. I even find myself won dering why they are there at all," Hmmmmmm. I think maybe I can enlighten him. ' When the Capitol building was built .'and furnished, snuff boies were as essential as ash trays are now. So the government appropri ated the money to provide them and to keep them filled. When the federal government starts spending money for any thing, it NEVER QUITS. An ap propriation, once made, goes roll ing on down through the ages. That helps to explain why the fed eral payroll keeps on growing and taxes keep on rising. Adlai Opposes Name On Ballot . WASHINGTON (UPI) - Adlai E. Stevenson is "unequivocally" opposed to running in Oregon's presidential primary, Sen. Rich ard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) re ported today. Neuberger said, however, he be lieves Stevenson will be available in the event of a stalemate in the Democratic convention. The senator lunched with Stev enson in Chicago earlier this week. NEW OFFICERS of the Klamath Falls Shrine Club took over the.r duties et tne rveanesaay meeting in the Willard Hotel. Shown here, front row, left to r.ght. are Don Phelps, vice president; Keith O'Hair, president, and E. L. "Asia" Miner, secretary. Back row, ,m. order, Stuart Balsiger, treasurer, and Wally Thompson, new member ot the Board of Directors. Report Claims Reich Woman Is Anastasia HAMBURG. Germany (UPD Prof Otto Reche, Germany's fore most expert on anthropology, be lieves that a mystery woman liv ing in a hut in the Black Forest is really Anastasia, daughter of the last Russian Czar. The mystery woman is Mrs. Anna Anderson,' 59, who has lived the life of a recluse while waging a long struggle to prove that she is the heiress to the Czarist throne and perhaps to millions scattered across Europe in secret bank vaults. Reche filed a 62-page report with a Hamburg court saying he believes her claim to be Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia is correct. He had 'been appointed by the court as chief expert to give anthropological testimony in a two-year court fight. His findings were expected to weigh heavily with the judges, digging through tons of back ground material and listening to scores of witnesses in an attempt to solve the Anastasia mystery, one of the outstanding riddles of the century. Official history records that An astasia Nikoiaievna Romanov, youngest daughter of the last Czar, was killed by the Bolsheviks in the mass murder of the royal family at Ekaterinburg in 1918. Reche visited Mrs. Anderson in June at her Black Forest home for comparative scientific studies based on background material and some 200 pictures and photo graphs of the real Anastasia. When word of Reche's reports filtered out first yesterday Ger man bluebloods telephoned news paper offices in Hamburg for con firmation. The German royal house of Hesse, represented by Duchess Barbara of Mecklenburg, is con testing Mrs. Anderson's claim in court and says she is actually Franziska Schanzkowski, born to a Polish peasant family. If the court upholds Reche's findings, European royalty which has treated Mrs. Anderson as an imposter, will have to reconsider its attitude. Court President Wilhelm Berg- meistcr is expected to call for another public hearing in the Anastasia .case and that may be one of the final sessions before a ruling is :issued. - Astronaut Said Ready WASHINGTON (UPI) Official , ources speculated today that the Russians are getting ready to put a man in space this year. hey raised ihe possibility that the Soviets are setting up a sys tem for recovering astronauts from manned satellites. I would be extremely alert starting right now," one Ameri can space authority said, "for news that the Russians had put a man in a rocket." The U. S. plans to launch men on brief ballistic missile rides some time this year but does not expect to put an astronaut into orbit before late 1961. Belief that the Soviets may be on the verge ot attempting manned space flights was intensi fied by disclosure in Moscow that Russia plans to fire powerful new rockets into the Central Pacific. DOOR STOP R0MSEY, England (UPI) Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Peckham said they used to kick their door stop for good luck until Army ex perts told them Thursday the 18- pound World War I bomb was still explosive. Snow Snafus Portland PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) An unexpected nowstorm marled Portland traffic ' today. More than three inches of wet, slippery anow fell before the usual morning rush hour. Cars and buses were unable to cope with many of Portland's slopes. Eastern Oregon also received snow, but in western Oregon the only ' affected points were those covered by a finger of (he snowstorm extending down the Columbia River Gorge to Port land. Rain fell elsewhere in the western part of the state. Big Storm Dumps Snow Over Oregon By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The first big storm of the winter dumped snow on a large area of Oregon early today. Only Western Oregon escaped, and that area was drenched by heavy rain. Weather made highway travel difficult and was a factor in a fatal traffic accident. More than a foot of snow fell in mountain passes. Eastern Oregon points also reported heavy snow. A cold east wind howled through the Columbia Gorge. Snow blank eted Portland and lesser amounts were reported at other points in the northern Willamette Valley. The Portland snow snarled traf fic and forced closure of several outlying schools. A few flakes fell at Salem. The traffic victim was Charles Edward Rutherford, 23, Eugene, who was killed Thursday night when his car skidded On ice and collided with another car near Klamath Falls. The Portland snowfall ended at midmorning. But the Weather Bu reau said that more would fall in. Portland and throughout much of Western Oregon tonight. East of the Cascades, snow is expected tonight with partial clearing and flurries Saturday. While Portland was having its snow storm last night, the rest of the area west of the Cascades was drencnea Dy neavy rain Brookings on the coast reported nearly two inches in the 24-hour period ending early today. Med- ford had more than an inch. Eu gene, Newport and Salem report ed more than half an inch. Elsewhere, Grants - Pass had nearly- two-iucbes. of precipitation. mostly rain. lesieraay s siusny snow was washed away by the downpour. Medford had nearly lvi inches of precipitation. Bend and Rose burg had more than half an inch, The Weather Bureau said that a new storm is rolling toward Ore gon from the Alaska area.- It is expected to hit Saturday night or Sunday. Forecasters said it was too early to determine whether this storm would bring rain or more wet snow. The snow. was wet and slippery at Portland, and it piled up to more than seven inches in some sections of the city. More than three inches fell at the Weather (Continued on Page 4) British Leader Visits Ghana TEMA, Ghana (AP) Bare headed and in shirtsleeves, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan of Britain today visited the Tema harbor project, designed to ship Ghana's cocoa bean crop to the world. The project, due to be com pleted later this year, will be one of the world's largest artificial harbors, costing about 28 million dollars. Polio Victim Was Man Of Courage DOWNEY. Calif., (AP)-"Kenny and I had too much to do together for him to give up; he was just too busy. That's why Kenneth Byllesby, 36, never quit, though dealt one of life's crudest blows. 'He was never down in the dumps," his wife Connie says. What kept him going? What drove him to" live life to its fullest while flat on his back? "He had faith in everything. He was always interested in helping other people; he was happiest when he was doing something for someone. A Coast Guard veteran, Byllesby was a chemist at Douglas Aircraft Co. until polio put him in an iron lung more than 11 years ago. It didn't stop him. His body was completely paralyzed from the neck down. But his mind was as agile as ever. He spent 2,i years in hospitals. Within months after he got home. he was making speeches before service clubs and school children. Usually he taped his talk, lay in front of the group while his speech was delivered, then answered questions. His purpose: To widen interest in the plight of others similarly afflicted. He started a new business. With a partner who handled the manu facturing, he sold paralytic lifts which raise helpless persons to any position. By telephone he sold iron lung parts, rocking beds and other invalid equipment. He ran our household, says Mrs. Byllesby. "He was very much the head of his family. 'They told me a year ago Kenny couldn't live much longer, so 1 let him send me to school," Con nie said Thursday night. "It was his idea. This month I'll graduate from Compton Junior College." Kenneth will miss her gradua tion. His weakened body finally gave up Thursday. Vest Papers Praise Talk LONDON (AP) Many West European newspapers today rec ognized President Eisenhower's State of the Union message as call for America's Allies to join in aiding underdeveloped areas of the world. -:: ; ,. ,!.-.,.. : .... f The President's" reference " to the success ; and accuracy of i America's intercontinental Atlas missile also captured many head lines. "Ike's rocket is bang on," roared the headline in the London Daily Express. Several editorial writers said Eisenhower had "contradict ed himself by attempting to prove the United States must maintain its armaments while continuing the Geneva disarmament negoti ations." The broadcast said the President had "forgot to mention the U. S. has reserved the right to continue nuclear bomb tests." But Tass, the Soviet news agen cy, printed an unusually long summary of the speech, including many of the President's criti cisms of the Soviet government. Tass also reported that Moscow papers today gave detailed re ports of the speech. In Japan, both supporters of Premier Nobusuke Kishi's pro Western government and the op position Socialists approved the speech. The London Times, Rome's II Popolo, West Berlin's Tagesspieg el, Stockholm's Liberal Dagens Nyhctcr and Norway's Socialist government organ, Arbeider-Bla det, were among those giving spe cial attention to the President's call for concerted Allied aid to the underdeveloped nations. Film Here, Mark Asks SALEM (AP) Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer's plan to film in the state of Washington the life of Chief Joseph was termed "almost sac rilegious" today by Gov. Mark Hatfield of Oregon. The governor thinks the picture should be filmed in Oregon, where Chief Joseph,, former Nez Perce chief, lived. In a telegram to Los Angeles Mayor Norris Loulson, a former resident of Baker, Ore.,. Hatfield said "Oregon offers at least equal of variety and terrain. Our history clearly indicates Chief Joseph's greatest days were in what now is the state of Oregon." Gov. Hatfield telegraphed Sol Siegel of the MGM studio that Oregon "can offer every possible terrain to you and will be glad to personally arrange for your in spection of this area for possible location to make your production even more authentic." Hatfield said that the highlights of Chief Joseph's history took place in Wallowa County. He said Siegel could get more information from actor Walter Brennan. who has property at Joseph, Ore., which was named after the chief. E " U 1L JTV!! WtA M-r. if ms A FATALITY resulted from this collision on slick Highway 97 of Klamath Falls late Thursday afternoon. Charles Edward Klamath Valley Hospital. His II ... I ,1 was critically inurea in Tne KLAMATH Price Five Cents 16 Pages Program Of Work-Relief Eyed By Welfare Group By TOM ST1MMEL A welfare work-relief program tor Klamath County has been con sidered in the past, and may be further explored in the future. Should a program be started here, all able-bodied men receiv ing welfare payments would be re quired to work for their money, or get no more money. The county welfare commission met today, and was expected to discuss a work-relief program. Mrs. Richard Smith, commission chairman, expressed last week hearty agreement with Polk Coun ty's start on such a program. That effort. cndurSed by the State Pub lie Welfare .Commission, would pay ?8 a day for employment oriipublic works ;projects initiated1 by tho county. In ' Polk County, i work would be rotated in relation to a worker's dependents, but able-bod ied mei refusing work would no longer t eligible for welfare pay ments. 1 An Associated Press story from Dallas quoted welfare officials that 45 men were eligible for the pro gram, which went into effect Wed nesday. How many men would be eligible for a program here is difficult to pin down precisely, said Mrs. Ju lia Brown, county welfare admin istrator. The number could be de termined through a case-by-case examination by welfare workers. But Mrs. Brown said the number, at this moment, would be fewer than 100. Comparative statistics for De cember 1, the latest available. show Polk County had 52 families on its general assistance rolls, compared with; 121 for Klamath County. Mrs. Brown feels general assis Mag Reports Reds Ahead WASHINGTON (AP) - Missiles and Rockets magazine said today the Soviet Union has a semibal listic space bomber. It added that this could mean they are seven to eight years ahead of the United Slates in development of a Dyna soar type manned boost - glide pace vehicle. The magazine quoted European military sources as saying that the vehicle, called the T4A, is in the advanced testing stage but is not yet operational. The vehicle was described as similar- in design to a manned missile proposed during World War II , by Dr. Eugene Sacngcr, German rocket pioneer. The mag azine said it has these features: Maximum range, almost 10,000 miles; maximum speed, 13,910 miles an hour; over-all length, 121 feet, including a main stage en gine 60 feet long and 6.88 feet in diameter. The magazine said the T4A Is launched from a catapult pro pelled along a steel track by a booster of 300,000 to 360,000 pounds of thrust. . It said the vehicle is designed to level off at an altitude of 186 miles and to follow a semiballis- tic conrse, at 11.178 miles an hour for almost 6.000 miles. Boeing Airplane Co., Seattle, Wash., heads a manufacturing team developing the Dynasoar boost-glide vehicle, and the Mar tin Co.. Baltimore, Md., is devel loping the modified Titan booster rockets for tne craa, small daughter was injured. ,1 1 oiner car. FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1960 Telephone TU 4-8111 tance families would be those af fected under a work-relief pro gram, and she thinks any program would be "patterned somewhat aft er the WPA, based on the needs of the family." This brings complications. Jobs must be found that would nut replace present workers. Re- iief workers must be supervised, given equipment, and transported to and Irom their jobs. "This is not as easy as it sounds," Mrs. Brown said. 'It re quires effort and time. It would require some ingenuity to find Jobs that could carry on tor some amount of time.". - --Findttie lobs, Mrs. Bi'own . be lieves, would he a responslbility'Of the county court and-or the. .city council. " A more involved complication is payment and on what basis. If, the work-relief program were pat- t e r n e d after the WPA, Mrs. Brown thinks a worker could earn no more than the amount of the eeneral assistance payment to which he normally is entitled. He would earn the welfare money he gets each week, but he. gets only so much each week. After that amount is earned, he would stop work. He would have to,, if pay ments were made with general as-! sistance funds. This leads into questions of work-; er morale, just as the type of work could affect worker morale. Men don't want to do "busy work.' An applicant for general assis- tance now must apply for a job with the State Employment Office here, Mrs. Brown said. He must show proof of an employment in terview before he gets his first welfare check; and he must report to the employment office at least once every two weeks, even if he does not receive unemployment compensation. Even if a worker does receive employment checks, he sometimes is eligible for a general assistance supplement. For example, a man with a wife and four children be tween 8 and 12 years old is eligi ble for $23.60 a week the mini mum food standard under general assistance laws. The lowest amount of unemployment compen sation possible is $15 a week. In that case, the worker would draw his $15 unemployment and a sup plemental $8.60 assistance check. This, said Mrs. Brown, is a complex problem, a complex program." A MEMORIAL, shown in drawing above, is to be built above the -common grave of 1,102 sailors and Marines whose bodies still lie entombed in the hulk of the battleship USS Arizona, sunk at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, A rectangular concrete facade will stretch 186 feet from the outboard side of the ship to nearby Ford Island, spanning the main deck house which is still above water. The structure will house a muleum and 4) ceremonial bridge. The memorial will be completed in time for dedication on December 7, 1960. AP Wlrephofs) Z4 0 f at Algoma a few miles north Rutherford, Eugene, died in Alvin Lerov Flake of Euqene ' 3 No. 6.198 Weather Klamath Falls and vicinity Partly cloudy with scattered snow showers through tonight. Mostly sunny Saturday. High 32-38; lows 8-18. ' High yesterday 37 Low last night 30 Precip. lust 24 hours 0.41 Since Oct. 1 1.47 Same period lust year 1.87 Low in area, Chiloquin 26 Northern California Occasional rain tonight. Snow in the moun tains. Heavy amounts In much of the area. Cloudy Saturday with scattered showers. Colder in the mountains. CRATER LAKE High yesterday I Low last night .m.tfBirffi;.'...,M,;, New snow t Snow depth ..J-..- w .- This winter Last winter ,..,31 ....19 .....19 ...13, no 1 120 It was 'still snowing when the rangers reported this morning and a light southerly wind was blow lug. Chains were required and only four-wheel drive vehicles equipped with chains were ad visedfor travel over Highway 62 through the park. The road was open from Annie Springs to hend quarters and was closed today from headquarters to the rim. It was hoped that the road to the rim could be reopened to permit weekend skiing. Britain Hit By Dense Fog LONDON (AP) Dense fog set-l tied over much of Britain again' today, creating nightmares for motorists and stalling rail and air traffic. London itself was relatively clear, but it was a pea soupcr In Liverpool, Manchester, Birming ham and Scotland. Trains ran late for a second straight day. Planes were earth-bound at Liverpool and Manchester air ports. Services to Europe and the Middle East were delayed at Lon don airport, where the mist slow ly lifted as the day wore on. The fog at London airport dur ing the night was so thick fire men had trouble finding a British European Airways Viscount which tipped on its nose while taxiing at 70 miles an hour on a runway. First Fatal; Eugene Man Mishap Victim Charles Edward RnfhorfVirrt ,n . 740 East Broadway, Eugene, be came the county's first traffic fa tality following a two-car collision on a curve at Algoma 12 miles north of here on Highway 97 Thurs day afternoon. Two others, including Ruther ford's 20-month-old daughter, Sher ri, were injured. She suffered cuts and bruises aod was said to be "holding her own" at Klamalh Valley Hospital Fri day morning. She and her father were south bound when the car skidded on a slushy road and slammed broad side into a northbound car driven by Alvin Leroy Flake, 37, 1810 Har ris Street, Eugene. Flake was said to be in fair con dition at Klamath Valley Hospital Thursday morning. He suffered fa cial and body lacerations and sev eral broken ribs, the hosnital re. ported. Boln cars were demolished. The 1953 Oldsmobile convertible driven k D..IU r 1 i by Rutherford was caved nearly flat at midsection. Flake's car hit it squarely on the driver's side. Impact drove the engine of Flake's station wagon deep back into the chassis. He apparently was injured by the steering col umn. He was alone. Rutherford died at 6:55 p.m. Peace ambulance received the call at 4:15 p.m. His body was taken to Ward's Klamath Funeral Home where services are pending notification of the family. Tule Lake Concessions Reported WASHINGTON (UPI)' -Rep. Harold T. Johnson (D-Calif.) said today the Interior Department and the Tulclake Irrigation District are "closer together than ever be fore in their dispute over opera tion ot the district.' Johnson said the department has indicated it may make "sub stantial concessions" to the dis trict In rules governing operations ot tne lake during flood danger periods. ' . . The department has threatened to, take over certain functions irqm me district jr local officials fail to maintain adequate water levels for -the Tule Lake Wildlife Refuge. The district has said it can't provide for flood control in the area and still keep up the same water levels required by the department. Interior and district officials have met here most of this week in an attempt to solve the prob lem. . . Johnson said he has concluded ftcr sitting in on the conferences that "the only permanent solution ' is a small flood control project -which will give protection in the area at all times." "If this is accomplished the escrvoir always could be oper ated in sucn a manner as to satisfy irrigation officials and the federal agencies and duck hunt ers," the congressman said. Johnson said concessions pro posed by technical staffs of the Reclamation Bureau and Fish and Wildlife Service centered largely on the spring portion of the water season. The district presently if required to maintain stated levels . starting March 1. But under the proposed agreement, ' the bureau would not require any specific levels until April 1, thus giving the district an additional 30 days in which to operate for flood con trol benefits. Johnson said the department also indicated it might accept a reduction in water level require ments in the period Oct. 10-Nov. At present the Reclamation Bureau requires levels of 4,034.75 feet during most of this time. As proposed this would be dropped to 4,034.60 feet, providing some additional flood control capacity n the early fall. 4
