! 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
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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.
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A FATALITY resulted from this collision on slick Highway 97
of Klamath Falls late Thursday afternoon. Charles Edward
Klamath Valley Hospital. His
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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)
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at Algoma a few miles north
Rutherford, Eugene, died in
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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.
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