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Newspaper Page TextCOUP. O.OP ORe.LI-WABl IIES?APB SSCTIOM Im The Day's JVews t By FRANK JENKINS Let's talk today about Egypt's Aswan dam, which has been in the big headlines for lo these many years. It's finally getting under way. On Saturday, President Ga mal Abdel Nasser pressed a button that set off ll'i tons of dynamite and started construction on this biggest project in Egypt since the isuez canal a century ago. It is getting under way with RUSSIAN MONEY - which is as sumed to be a diplomatic defeat for us and a great victory for Russian diplomacy. That, of course, is the assumption of the diplomats. It is just possible that American taxpayers (who put up the money the diplomats spend) may have a somewhat different opinion. It may occur to them that when the Russians put up the wherewithal to get the dam going the American taxpayer won't have to pay the bill. Anyway, the Russians are chip ping in the American equivalent of one hundred million dollars and are providing Russian engineers end technicians and Soviet-made equipment with which to get the job going. Here's a thought perhaps a cynical one: The Aswan dam will provide much more stored water with which to irrigate MUCH MORE of the iminemorially rich Nile val ley. This expansion will make available many, many more acres on which to grow more Egyptian cotton to be sold to the nations and the peoples who used to buy ,and use the American cotton that we now stash away in storage warehouses instead of selling it on the markets of the world at prices determined by the law of supply and demand. Well - At any rate That will be wonderful for the poor devils of Egyptian farmers who for centuries have been among the most poverty-stricken of the world's peoples. So let's re joice with them over what has happened. And- I suppose one should add Let's congratulate the Russians on getting into the business of doing good in the world. It will be a wonderful experience for them. It will' teach them a lot of things they don't know now. One thing remains to be seen: Just how long will it be until (he Egyptians begin to shout: "Russkies, GO HOME!" Getting closer home: In Louisiana Former Governor Jimmy Davis, singer of hillbilly songs and maker of hillbilly rec ords and hillbilly movies, defeats de Lesseps Morrison, New Orleans civic and business leader, for the governorship of the state. ???????? That seems to be what the people want. So Let's watch Louisiana and see what happens; Maybe it will all work out wonderfully. BULLETIN WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court today again de nied a hearing to Caryl Chessman, Los Angeles sex bandit who is scheduled to be executed Feb. 19. The high tribunal refused to re consider its action of last Dec. 14 when it rejected a lengthy ap peal filed on behalf of Chessman. Hitler Theory Lives On In Nazi Youth Movement BONN (UPD-The Hitler Youth may have changed its name, but it still lives on. Today, it is known as the "Na tional German Youth Movement." It is composed of seven of Ger many's largest Fascist youth groups. Its textbook is Hitler's "Mein Kampf." Members dress in Hitler Youth-type gray or brown shirts, black breeches. Sam Browne belts and carry hunting knives. Despite the change of name, the youth movement has exactly the same ideals and aims as did the Hitler Youth. One of the movement's princi ples is, "Our greatest honor is loyalty, loyalty to our Fatherland which extends from the river Meuse (which runs through France, Belgium and Holland) to the river Memel tin Lithuania." t This is the territory glorified in the forbidden first stanza of Germany's national anthem, "Deutschland Ucber Alles." The Bonn government has rec ognized the youth movement for what it is. The government, how ever, claims there are only 2.300 members In the nation's 15 to 18 fascist youth movements. Pollca and security officials gaMWWWMUWBjW0M''ii UU U U LVi m u u u J y lii u mi u u M A ' Price Five Cents 12 Pates STUART SYMINGTON Stu Symington Willing To Run For President WASHINGTON (UPI) Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo.) says he would like to be president next year, even though he is not an avowed candidate for the Demo cratic nomination. Symington, mentioned as a pos sible compromise selection by the Democrats, made it clear on a nationwide television program Sunday night that he is ready and willing to run if his party nomi nates him. He said he did not plan "at least at this time" to enter any presidential preferential primaries and was not actively seeking del egates to support him at the Democratic convention next July. But asked if he would like to be president in 1960, Symington replied, "I certainly would." He added that anyone in politics would like to be promoted to the White House. Symington's statement climaxed a series of weekend political de velopments starting with the dis closure that Vice President Rich ard M. Nixon had become an avowed candidate for the GOP nomination. . Nixon slid into the presidential pool on Saturday, his 47th birth day, with scarcely a political splash. He left it up to his press secretary Herbert G. Klein, to an nounce that he would enter pre ferential primaries in New Hamp shire, Oregon and Ohio. Icicle Craze CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) Pedestrians and motorists along Memorial Drive look with amazement at a tricolored Icicle four stories high outside a Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology dormitory. The creation of bigger and better icicles is a new college craze hereabouts and three resi dents of Baker House claim a record. Steve Raphael, Brooklyn, N.Y., Robert Ratner, Short Hills, N.J., and William Tobin, Colorado Springs, Colo., ex plained their Icy creation this way: They tied an ice cube to a string and lowered It from their window. Then a trickle of water was siphoned from a barrel down the string. By using colored water at times, they got a red, white and blue icicle, which at one point is about 14 inches wide. maintain this number is nearer 30,000. The seven largest organizations merged June 17, in a meeting of their leaders in a tavern in the Taunus Hills near Frankfurt. One of the principles sworn to at that meeting was: "The Allied powers of the last world war who destroyed the German Reich cannot be consid ered as friendly powers, but for eign forces whose aims are in di rcct opposition to the interests of the German people.' The youth movement leaders all have either Nazi or Communist records. One of them, Alfred Zitzmann. was convicted by an American military court for a bomb plot on one of the Nuernberg war crimes trials. During the war, he was a high-ranking S.S. member. Another. Guenthcr Hessler, 37, was a leading Hitler Youth mem ber and an S.S. guard. Raoul Nahrath, 55. heads the "Viking Youth" section of the movement. He was a former functionary in the Nazi party and today is closely connected with the radical right German Reich Party, the party the Bonn gov ernment is considering banning. dl L ' ' KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, Solons Draw Battle Lines On Big Issues WASHINGTON (UPI) - The second session of the 86th Con gress plunged today into its first full working week with early skirmishing on two major battle fronts civil rights and missile- space spending. Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R-N.Y.) announced he would introduce to day package of five civil rights bills, including one calling for ap pointment of federal registrars to assure voting rights. Senate Republican Leader Ever ett M. Dirksen (111.) promptly predicted that the registrars pro posal would become one of the "controversial" issues of the new session which convened Wednes day. On the missile-space issue, Rep. Overton Brooks (D-La.) charged that the administration's program was clouded by "duplication, riv alry and indecision." He planned to announce today a witness list for House Space Committee in vestigation starting next Monday, Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo), a Democratic presidential pros pect, accused President Eisen hower Sunday night of giving the people mistaken information about the status of the defense and space programs. Other congressional develop ments: Assistant Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield (Mont.) urged the State Department to lodge a strong protest against Russia's "arrogant" plan to lest a powerful new rocket in the central Pacific. Sens. J. William Fullbright ID- Ark.) and John Marshall Butler IR-Md.) said in separate state ments that the Eisenhower ad ministration used threats and po litical maneuvers to force settle ment of the steel dispute. Sen. Albert Gore (D-Tenn.) proposed that the Senate Demo cratic Policy Committee be ex panded from 9 to 15 members to better reflect overall party senti ment on key issues. - v- Dirksen conceded that Eisen hower's forecast of a $4,200,000, 000 budget surplus for the next fiscal year would be a "terrible temptation and frightful lure" to big spending advocates. Other sources said spending this year is running $500,000,000 below expec tations and the President believes chances for a general tax cut in 1961 are strong. WOMEN BUY PANTS NEW YORK (UPI) Women! may not wear the pants in the family, but they probably buy them. A manufacturer of men's slacks conducted a poll of 14,600 couples in 10 cities to determine who de cides which trousers a man will purchase. Only 15 per cent of the men were able to say they made the decision. r "t; ,7,'c. 1 Id I 'f TEN PRETTY GIRLS, as sparkling as this morning's snow, will add an element of competition to tha I960 New March of Dimes auction starting at 6:30 tomorrow night in the show rooms of Dugan and Mest Garage. A girl will bring each item donated by Klamath Falls merchants to tha auctioneer and will wear a number corresponding to her position in this picture. As a bid is made, a vote will be cast for the girl of tha bidder's choice. Tha girl receiving the most votes will be Miss March of Dimes for Klamath Falls. Keep njikjawwuuauM minimum MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1960 hf I I C i 1 i Pacific Ocean - V .' HAWAIIAN ISLANDS WAKE ISLAND 4 '... -V -t Marshall islands 'I p 7 GILBERT ISLANDS QUATOK )NEWSMAP :-'.."1 "j" MOUNTING PROTESTS against the Russian plans to test fire rockets in the Pacific area are being heard in Congress. Newsmap shows deserted area of the central Pacific (x), about 1,100 miles southwest of the Hawaiian Islands, which Russia says she will use as impact area for a new series of rocket tests. The first firing, January 15, will probably come from Petropavlovsk, 3,600 miles from the target. Other possible launching sites are in western Rus sia near the Caspian Sea. Senator Mansfield Urges Protest On Rocket Firing WASHINGTON (UPI) Assis tant Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield has urged a strong U. S. protest against Rus sia's plan to test a powerful new rocket in the central Pacific. If the Soviet Union ignores such a protest, he said, the United States should seek a special ses sion of the United Nations to consider and deal with this high handed pronouncement." The Montana senator, a member of the Senate Foreign Relatiensj Committee, telegraphed his views Sunday night to Secretary of State Christian A. Herter. Mansfield described as "arro gant" the SoviqJ plan to set aside 27,000 square miles in the Pacific for the missile test. Russia an nounced last week it planned to conduct the test between Jan. 15 and Feb. 15, and warned ships and planes to stay out of the area. There was no immediate reply to Mansfield's demand for a U.S. protest. But the State Department said last week it planned -no pro test. Officials said there was no thing illegal in the Russian warn ing for ships and planes to stay away. The United States has taken similar action in every atomic weapons test in the Marshall Is lands since 1946. Russia once ob jected to U. S. Pacific H-bomb Telephone TU 4-8111 No. eiioo tests but did not question the declaration of a danger zone. The Russians have not protested against U. S. missile ranges. Mansfield said that President Eisenhower should reconsider his decision to attend a mid-May sum mit conference in Paris if the Russians go ahead with the test He declared that the Soviet plan was "contrary to interna tional policy" and would endanger sea areas which should remain open lo navigation and fishing. Census Men Name Aides SALEM (AP) Charles F. Bol linger, Portland, and Eugene S. Bates, Eugene, have been ap pointed district supervisors by the Bureau of the Census, Republican State Chairman Peter M. Gunnar announced Saturday. Bollinger will supervise the cen sus in the third Congressional District, and Bates in the Fourth District. The other two supervisors, Ron ald Blundell of Salem and Homer Rainey of Bend, were appointed several days ago. . District offices will be opened in a few days. this picture for identifying contestants. All local radio sta tions as well as the television station are cooperating in the drive, which will continue into the night until all merchan dise is sold. Left to right, with their numbers, the girls ara III Vivian Wilbanks, (21 Ginger Learning, (31 Jan Shep hard, (4) Pat Anderson, (51 Ethel Florei, (61 Sharon Kunz, (71 Sharon Vincze, (8) Trudie Turpin, (9 Carol Shannon, (101 Barbara Olson. NY Central Hurtles Ralls, 4 Killed, Many WELLINGTON, Ohio (AP) A 10-car New York Central passen ger train roared through a cross over switch at an estimated 80 miles an hour in mist and fog Sun day night and hurtled off the rails. t least (our persons died and more than 50 were hurt. The eastbound train was being detoured to the westbound track so it could pass a freight train ahead. A railroad official said the top speed for this crossover should have been only 15 miles an hour "Preliminary investigation indi cates that the train was traveling in excess of the maximum per missible speed." said a brief state ment from William B. Salter of Indianapolis, general manager ol the New York Central's southern district. Earlier Salter had said that speedometer recording tapes in each of the Southwest Limitcd's three diesels had been read and that two of them indicated the speed of 80 m.p.h. The third tape was questionable. The train's engineer, II. W. Kir- stein, 63, of Cleveland, Ohio, was injured and taken to a hospital. Marion Tudor, 20. a shipping clerk who was a witness to the accident, said he pulled Kirstein from the cab window. He quoted the 'engineer as saying his brakes and speedometer were not work ing. There were about 155 passen gers aboard some with destina tions as far east as New York Cily when the speeding train crumpled into a jagged line of steel in this village of 3.000 about 37 miles southwest of Cleve land. Leaking diesel fuel caught fire and (lashed up to a height of 50 feet for a brief period, the flames mingling with the (og. Coroner Paul Kopsch of Lorain County said bodies of these per sons had been recovered: Phil J. Lehman, 46. of Cleve land, the fireman on the wrecked Ballad Singer Avows Peace NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Ballad - singing jimmie Davis, winner oi l .nminH s Democratic runntl tor governor, today sought to return this political topsy-turvy state to "peace and harmony. The 58-year-old former governor said he would create a state sov ercignty commission to preserve segregation. Negroes have pressed suits in three parishes (counties) to begin school integration. I've been all over the nation, said Davis, "and I'm convinced the Southland is the happiest place in the nation. I think right-thinking white people and right-thinking colored people believe that." Davis also pledged to keep hands off an independent Legislature and promised he would not build a po litical machine in this state that remembers the web-like control of Huey P. Long. A record turnout signaled the end of the Long era. The ticket of lame duck Gov. Earl K. Long, Huey's brother, was soundly whipped in the Dec. 5 primary. train, who died in the locomotive George P. Hummel, 53. of In dianapolis, and Kenneth Hale, 42, of Route 1, ltosedale, Ind., both Pennsylvania Railroad conductors rn route to a meeting in Cleve land. Audrey G. Cox, 64. of St. Paris, Ohio, was dead on arrival at Allen Memorial Hospital in Obcr lm. Allen Memorial Hospital at Oberlin, which received most of the injured, said it had treated and released 33 persons and ad mitted 19. It is 10 miles from the wreck scene. Other injured were sent lo hos pitals in Elyria, Norwalk, Medina and Lodi. A New York Central spokesman said the carrier's investigators Boivin Doubts Strikebreaker Law Possible SALEM, Ore. (AP) The Ore gon Legislature s Interim Com mittee on Labor-Management Re lations will meet here Feb. 26 to consider testimony given at Satur day's hearing on importation of strikebreakers. But the committee's chairman- Senator Harry D. Boivin (D- Ktamath Falls' doubted wheth er legislation lo prohibit the im portation would be constitutional. Labor unions asked for passage of such a law. William D. Luhersky, Portland attorney for the struck Oregonian, Saturday defended the right of a newspaper to import new em ployes in the lace of a strike. Lubersky replied to charges by George Brown, Oregon AFL-CIO education chief, at the five-hour hearing. Brown said the Oregonian and Oregon Journal brought in profes sional strikebreakers in the walk out that began Nov. 10 when stcrcolypcrs struck both papers. Lubersky also Senicd a charge by Brown that the new employes are nrofessionnk from firm in ule business of sunnlvina labor to struck newspapers James P. Rogers, Journal at torncy, said "the unions want the state to hold the arms of the em poycrs so the unions can slug them. Earlier, a printer, Gerald E. Gish, Cleveland, Ohio, said the professional strikebreakers know six months to two years in ad vance when there will be a news paper strike. Gish, now a member of the In ternational Typographical Union, said he worked in 1955-57 as a professional strikebreaker and earned up to $627 a week. Attorneys for the struck news papers opposed legislation pro posed by labcr that would bar new employes from entering the stale in a labor dispute. The newspapers' attorneys said it would be unconstitutional and dis criminatory. Key members of the legislative committee said after the hearing they doubted if any legislation would result. REBELS AMBUSH FRENCH ALGIERS, Algeria (UPI)-Mos- lem rebels ambushed a French military detachment at Arago, 24 miles northwest of Constantine, Sunday. Six French soldiers were killed and two wounded. Businessmen Can Deter Castro Grab HAVANA (AP) - Many U.S. businessmen in Havana expressed doubt today that the United States is prepared to be firm enough with Fidel Castro's regime to save their threatened investments in Cuba from seizure. Deep pessimism continued in American business circles as U.S. Ambassador Philip W. Bonsai re turned from Washington, presum ably with a new U.S. policy toward the Castro regime. Bonsai, arriving Sunday night after a month in Washington, de clined to say whether he would re lay a policy statement to Cubans. But he expressed hope for an early meeting with Cuba's acting for eign minister, Marccllo Fernan dez. "Time is running out for us fast," commented one American business executive, citing a speed up in Castro's program of inter ventiondirect government super vision of operations and ex propriation. Several businessmen with heavy investments in Cuba said a Wash ington statement Indicating com promise with Castro "will be worse for us than a Munich Some said their only hope was to Injured had not determined what caused the wreck. He said the Southwest Limited moved at a "pretty good clip" through that area. Marion Tudor, 20. of Wellington, who saw the derailment and helped remove some of the in jured, said that as soon as the train hit the intersection with the Nickel Plate tracks "the engine rolled on its side, showering sparks and fire." The signal towciman, Edward Reish. 27, of Wellington, had climbed down beside the track lo hand the engineer an order. "I saw the train was coining too fast," Reish said, "and I took off running to the side. Something hit me on the leg and knocked me down, and I just laid there." The three-unit diesel flipped on its side, and the mail car, which was unoccupied, straddled the tracks crosswise behind it. The combination baggage-coach came to rest sideways against the mail ;ir, and the first coach mashed nto its middle. Two other coaches and three Pullmans that followed were de railed. Only the last car, a diner, remained on the tracks. Sgt. Arthur W. Cyphers, 43, of Piqua, who was on his way to Griffith Air Force Base in Rome, N.Y., was riding in the combina tion baggage-coach. "One minute we were speeding along, smoothly, and the next we were bouncing," he said. "The lights went out, and I could hear lot of moaning. Then we could see fire outside. We were trapped for 10 or 15 minutes." Margaret Taylor, an East Cleve land housewife and former news paperwoman, was on the third coach. She said-there was "a ter- ific jolt and baggage started fall- rig all over the place." Almost everyone was real .cared, and some had bruises. Then it seemed about two weeks until we all got out." Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Snow through tonight, di minishing to snow flurries and partial clearing Tuesday. Highs S4-40; law tonight 22-30. High Sunday 40 l.nw last night 23 Prectp. past 24 hours .04 Since Oct. 1 1.61 Same period last year 1.95 Low in area (Chiloquin) IS Northern California Occasional rain today with locally heavy snow In mountains; showers tonight; partly cloudy Tuesday with oc casional snow in mountains; slight ly cooler tonight. CRATER LAKE High yesterday ... 28 . 21 .23 .13 .54 ..39 . 94 .ow last night ... 8 a.m. today New snow Snow depth -- Last year Year before This season Last season 126 130 It was snowing steadily In the park this morning, a continuation of snowfall which began about I a.m. on Sunday. Chains are re quired for travel over Highway (2 through the park and from Annie Springs to park headquarters. The road from headquarters to the rim was opened to travel on Sunday but there were very few skiers, the rangers report. Today the road from headquarters to the rim Is closed. Doubt U.S. salvage what they could and pull out. Bonsai's return coincides with a mounting crisis in two areas of Cuban industrial and commercial life sugar and tourism. Both are also areas of major foreign in vestment. Castro's Institute of Agrarian Reform has served notice that after the harvest now under wny, it win start taking over the sugar fields, including those owned or controlled by American companies which produce about 35 per cent of Cuba's crop. About all the United States can do, however, is to press for quick, adequate compensation for th American owners. The U.S. gov ernment recognizes the right of (orcign countries to expropriate lands and privately owned busi nesses abroad, provided fair resti tution is made. The situation also is worsening for Havana's big American-owned or operated hotels. With virtually no tourist trade save for a brief yearend spurt sparked by a government cut-rata plan the hotel men say they may not have enough money to pay iheir employes at the end of Jan uary unless the Castro govern ment help them.