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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 12, 1960)
la The- Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From Germany: Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, In a radio appeal last night, called for "quick and powerful" court ac tion against NEO-Nazis and other persons attacking Jews. What's a neo-Nazi? It comes from the Greek word neos, meaning NEW especially new and DIFFERENT or more re cent. So a NEO-Nazi is a new and more recent kind of Nazi. What's a NAZI? Well, generally speaking, Nazis are Germans who want the gov ernment to run everything. And- ' THEY WANT TO RUN THE GOVERNMENT. More trouble in Cuba where Castro's government is "expropri ating" more and more American property. The value of U.S. proper ty taken over so far is estimated In the tens of millions of dollars, and almost any time now the Cas tro government is expected to start moving in on the 1,700,000 acres of sugar land owned by Americans. What will happen if Castro goes through with his expropriation plans? the long run '. It won't be good for Cuba and (lie Cubans. Here in our State of Jefferson, for example, we have large holdings of timber land. Sup pose these lands were all taken away from their owners and divid- ed up among the rest of us. It may sound good, right off the bat BUT IT WOULDN'T BE GOOD. ' Over the long pull, it wouldn't be good for any of us, and here's why. If they were deprived of their timber lands, which provide them with raw material, the operators would have to shut down their mills for you can't run a saw- mill, or a plywood plant, or a hardboard plant, or a pulp plant without raw material. That would throw all their employees out of jobs. And- The individual holdings of all the rest of us would be so small that we couldn't command the capital with which to buy and operate the mills. If we tried to sell our small holdings to other big oper ators who could supply the capi tal, they'd laugh at us for, with the precedent of expropriation once established, who would know when the timber lands would be ex propriated AGAIN? So- If Castro starts taking every thing away from those who have it and giving it to those who DON'T have it, that will be the end of Cuba. Business is based on confidence. If there is no confidence, there is no business. If there is no busi ness, there are no jobs. British Author, Nevil Shute, Dies MELBOURNE (AP) Best gelling British author Nevil Shute, 60, died in a hospital here tonight, He suffered a stroke earlier in the day. Shute was the author of the book ''On the Beach," which was a best seller in America and recently had its premier as a film. It tells the story of the end of the human race through a nuclear war. Shute's real name was Nevil Shute Norway. In addition to a long and successful career as a novelist, he also had a career in aviation. He flew the Atlantic twice in 1930 in a dirigible. Recreation Center The city council gave the green light to a proposal by Park and Recreation Director George Price to convert the Klamath Auditor ium into a civic recreation center. Price first approached the council several weeks ago on the project, after first discussing it with the Armory Board. THE KLAMATH ACDITORIUM Is owned jointly by the city and the county and is operated by the Armory . Board, appointed jointly by the two governing units. . Price first indicated to the coun cil that he hoped to make the recreation center a self-supporting program, but admitted that it might take some additional fi nancing to get the program into operation. i In his revised statement last Monday. Price reported he ex pected $5,000 income from rentals of the auditorium. The figure was challenged by the council which FOX HUNTERS OUT FOXED BELTON, England (UPI) -Members of a fox hunt have learned that the man who showed Bp and blew the wrong calls on the hunting horn was a spy from the League Against Cruel Sports. Tobogganing Youngster! are invited by the Parks and Recreation Depart ment to sleigh or toboggan in Moore Park from 4 until 8 p.m. daily and to Ire skate on the Moore Park rink from 7 to 10 p.m. nightly. Supervisors will be present. The departments In coopera tion with Tomahawk Ski Bowl also is offering free ski lessons for children up to high school age each Saturday from 11 a.m. until noon at the bowl and at half price for persons of high school age and up from noon until 1 p.m. Lessons will be offered until the snow melts. Coffee Break Faces Slash NEW YORK (AP) The New York metropolitan area's electri cal construction workers have in creased the cost of their time so much that management says it can't afford to pay them to drink coffee any more. Electrical contractors and union leaders Monday announced a new two-year pact that will run the labor cost of wages and fringe benefits to $6.18 an hour by 1961 Industry Board Chairman Harold A. Webster said all time- wasters must, go, and he listed the traditional coffee break as one of the first to be eliminated. The new pact, between electrical contractors and Local 3, Interna tional Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, increases wages from $3.90 an hour to $4.15 this year and to $4.40 next year for six hour days. 15 Remain On Ice Floe FAIRBANKS, Alaska (UPD- The Air Force said today that 15 men remained on disintegrating scientific ice station Charlie in the Arctic Ocean from which an "or derly withdrawal" was begun last week. Five men were removed Mon day. The ice station has been re duced to one fifth its original size by the repeated breaking of the ice from its edges. The Air Force said ice was still breaking off but "the seriousness was greatly less ened." Still on Charlie, located 450 miles west of Point Barrow, were 12 members of the original scien tific -crew including three civil ians, two Air Force evacuation experts and one Air Force pho tographer. City Of Angels Number 3 City, But Some 'Buts' PHILADELPHIA (AP) Phila delphia conceded today that Los Angeles has taken over as the nation's third largest city. Not without a couple of "buts," how ever. The chamber of commerce of Greater Philadelphia estimated this city's 1959 population at 2, 207,200, Los Angeles' at 2.397,500. If those figure's are right, Los An geles has an edge of 190,300. A spokesman for the chamber hastened to add, though, that Los Angeles spreads over 451 square miles whereas Philadelphia cov ers only 127. "Los Angeles still has a long way to go before it can beat us on the basis of population per square mile," he said. "It must be noted, too, that L. A. is able to annex suburban areas at will. But in fairness to that city, I should point out that it has not used this power since 1950." asked for an itemized breakdown. At last night's meeting, Price presented a breakdown on the fig ure showing that during the period July, 1958, through June, 1959, rentals for the facility amounted to more than $3,800. He stated that his expectations were to raise that figure by $1,200. After some discussion it was GEORGE PRICE U.OF 033. LIBRARY NEWSPAPER SECTION GEN. RCF AND DOCUMENTS DIV. My n i t . Lawyer Says Deb, Swain Near Paris PARIS (AP)-A New York deb utante and her Romanian born chauffeur friend are somewhere in the- Paris area, a lawyer for the Romanian indicated today. The attorney for 35-year-old An dre Porumbeanu refused to say where his client is or whether he is with Gamble Benedict, 18-year- old heiress. "With the press in full cry afler them, they had to sleep outside Paris to get a little quiet," said Jean Cosacesco. who said he had been retained by Porumbeanu. Search has been made here for the debutante and the chauffeur since they were reported to have left Antwerp on a Paris-bound ex press last Sunday. Miss Benedict, who had left her grandmother's Manhattan home, and the chauffeur crossed the Atlantic to Antwerp aboard a freighter. Cosacesco at first said he had seen both Miss Benedict and Po rumbeanu separately, but later declared he had received their in structions by letter. The lawyer insisted he could say nothing about their wherea bouts or movements. However he said he might have some state ment to make later in the day. On a tip, newsmen rushed to Cosacesco's apartment, hoping to find the couple there. They found no sign of them. Porumbeanu has a wife and daughter in New York. A New York friend, Miron Butariu, said the chauffeur and his wife are separated. Porumbeanu was a chauffeur-butler for Mrs. Arde Bulova, widow of the watchmak er, when he became acquainted with Miss Benedict. Friends of the girl said her grandmother, Mrs. Katherine Geddes Benedict, widow of Henry Harper Benedict, former presi dent of the Remington Typewriter Co., had objected to her seeing Porumbeanu. The girl and her 19-year-old brother, Douglas, had lived with their grandmother since the death of their mother from an overdose of sleeping pills in 1946. Bootlegger Pleads Guilty NEW YORK (AP)-The man federal agents call the nation's No. 1 bootlegger has pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy and operation of illicit stills. John Livigno, 57, of Brooklyn, who has five past convictions, made his plea Monday in U. S. District Court. Eight other men pleaded guilty with him to similar charges. U. -S. Atty. Cornelius W.Wick ersham said Kivigno, who evaded arrest for a long time by skillfully camouflaging his stills, operated liquor-making apparatus in such spots as an old coal barge in New York harbor, an abandoned Navy prison, and abandoned coal stor age bins. Wickersham said Kivig he made straight alcohol which he passed on to other operators to cut and color for sale as whisky The government said as much as 25 million dollars in taxes could have been collected on alcohol Livigno produced in the last 20 years. He was continued free in $5,000 bail awaiting sentence Jan. 28. He could get up to 15 years in prison and a $30,000 fine. His brother Maurice, 54, also of Brooklyn who spells his last name Levigno, was termed the nation's No. 2 bootlegger. Gets OK moved by the council that It would be willing to increase its annual appropriation to the Armory Board from $1,500 to $2,500, provided it meets the approval of the City Budget Committee, and provided it is matched by the county court. CITY MANAGER G.S. Vergeer gave his unqualified approval to the project, telling the council, This program is far greater than any use of the facility proposed in the past, and will give the com munity a program which it greatly desires." However, a word of caution was issued by Councilman Ladd Hoyt who reminded Price that such activities as conventions and other meetings that draw many people to Klamath Falls must be given preference in most instances over other activity, and must not be pushed out of the building. "This building performs an im portant function in this regard," Hoyt said, "and this use must be protected." Price is now expected to discuss the proposal in more detail with the Park and Recreation Com'; mission, and then approach the county court on its participation In the community recreation venture. C0MP. nnniiwnroiiiiMMnHwiiiinwwiMMiuu KLAMATH Price Five Cents 12 Pages 1 1 if I ,.. V iv v 'A lX ' END OF THE LINE for this year's Exchange Club "Block of Dimes" is where the young lady, Miss Paula Shipman, is seated. She and the other little girl in the picture, Terry Ann Fair less of Dorris, made donations to the line of currency that stretched from Eighth Street nearly to the end of Ninth Saturday. The club collected $206 for the March of Dimes. Members were assisted by Sherry Nelson, Sharon Russell, Anita Anderson and Roberta Renie of the KUHS Script and Microphone Club, pictured left to right. They handled the public address system. Exchange Club President Bob Rutter is pasting down the final contributions. East, West Resume Talks On A-Veapons Test Ban GENEVA (AP) - The United, States, the Soviet Union and Bri tain resume negotiations here to day for a ban on nuclear weapon iests, spurred by new urgency fol lowing a U.S. threat to resume test explosions at any time. The talks have been going on intermittently since Oct. 31, 1958. Except for a Soviet test scries in early November 1958, none of the three powers has set off any test blast since the talks opened. The voluntary U.S. moratorium on nuclear tests ended Dec. 31. President Eisenhower announced two days earlier the United States felt free to resume nuclear weapon testing at any time but would not do so without giving advance no tice. Eisenhower said the United States would resume negotiations in a "continuing spirit of seeking to reach a safeguarded agree- Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Partly cloudy today with snow flurries in the mountains. Fair tonight. Increasing high clouds Wednesday. High both days 32-38. Low tonight 5-15. High yesterday 37 Low last night 29 Preclp. last 24 hours 0.07 Since Oct. 1 1.64 Same period last year 2.19 Low In area, Chemult 0 Northern California. Fair tonight except Increasing cloudi ness late tonight. Rain spreading slowly southward Wednesday. Small craft warnings on the coast for northwesterly winds 20-35 miles an hour, diminishing tonight and Wednesday, but Increasing south erly winds from Point Arena north ward Wednesday. wrwir , r - , 1 ' " " 'TV r--rg , ,, - pf" f.i , ' r 4 " ''Jz'' THIS BUILDING would become a new Civic Recreation Center under provisions of proposal presented to the city council last night by Park and Recreation Director George Price. The proposal is subject to approval of the Armory Board end financial participa . tion of both the city and the county. The council indicated its willingness to take part in the program Monday night. Price would increase use of the building, both for space rentals as well as recreation and other uses. The Klamath Auditorium was built a num ber of years ago, financed by both the city and the county end is operated by an Ar mory' Board appointed by both groups. . ALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 10 Telephone TU 4-8111 ment." Many West European of ficials considered the Americans were trying to prod the Soviets into an agreement, a lactic which Soviet propaganda organs said would prove futile. ' The talks suspended for a three week Christmas recess on Dec. 13, after an East-West group ot scientists reported almost com plete failure to agree on new meth ods to police a ban on tests held underground. The American scientists, headed by Dr. James B. Fisk, executive vice president ot Bell Telephone Laboratories, submitted detailed scientific data to show that a tech nical control plan the scientists had agreed on previously no long er was adequate to detect under ground tests. The Soviet scientists, headed by Prof. Evgenyi Federov, ridiculed the American data and said it was deliberately distorted to im pede the negotiations. Eisenhower's statement said this "intemperate and technical ly unsupportable" Soviet assertion had clouded the atmosphere of the talks. In their 14 months of negotia tions, the American, British and Soviet delegations have drafted only the administrative frame work for a worldwide organiza tion to police a test ban. Most of the practical control procedure remains in dispute. The collapse of the scientific' discussions has left doubts wheth er a reasonably foolproof control .system is even possible at the present stage of scientific know ledge. FORGETFUL LOS ANGELES (AP) - A small suitcase left behind by some one in Small Claims Court Monday contained a book on memory improvement. No. 6601 ROMULO BETANCOURT Hard Labor Given Rioters CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - President Romulo Betancourt to day ordered hard labor in a re mole jungle penal colony for nearly 200 rioters blamed for widespread violence in Caracas Betancourt'hurried to the capital from a tour of the Interior after roving gangs of young men and others Monday set fire to several business houses and vehicles, loot ed food shops and attacked police stations and telephone company installations. Twenly-one persons were report ed wounded in clashes with the police before officials announced the situation was under control. Minor disturbances continued in the suburbs Monday night. The rioting was touched off when police broke up a demon stration by about 1,200 unemployed workers demanding jobs. Presi dential secretary Ramon Valaz quez said others moved in to carry out a well organized plan to create internal problems. 1 It's His PORTLAND (AP)-Clly offi cials and police are trying to find Jacob Sprcitzer to tell him to make a claim for the $900 he found In his little hotel room last year. He turned over the money to police at the time, telling them, "I got enough to eat." He was living on $33 a month social se curity and what he earned on odd jobs. Police said the $900 had be longed to a deceased welfare recipient who once lived in the room. They held the money for months. Then the city attorney's office told police to advise Sprcitzer how to claim the mon ey. But the mayor's office said Monday Sprcitzer has niovrd without leaving an address and police have failed to locate him. Officer Raps B70 Cutting WASHINGTON (UPD-The Air Force chief of staff has indicated he will oppose in congressional testimony the Eisenhower admin istration's decision to practically eliminate the 2.000-milc-an-hour B70 jet bomber program. Gen. Thomas D. While said he would testify "honestly" and ac cording to his convictions when questioned about the cutback. White left no doubt what those convictions are when he praised the high-speed, high-altitude B70 as an all-purpose plane that could deliver troops and equipment quickly or fire H-bomb ballistic missiles al an enemy target from 1,000 miles away. The four-star general said he fought against, but accepted, the B70 cut. White's promise to testify against the B70 cutback came during a question and answer ses sion after a speech to the Nation al Press Club Monday, In his speech, While said the Air Force is developing a 1,000- mile bomber-launched Skybolt bal listic missile which will provide the nation with "the most mobile striking power ever achieved." He obviously was thinking of the B70 as the bomber to carry nuclear Skybolts. Sen. Clair Engle (D-Calif.) told the Senate Monday that the ad ministration's cutback in the B70 program was a blunder. The administration decided last December to abandon plans to de velop the B70 as a replacement for the Strategic Air Command's current B52 long-range bomber. About 500 million dollars already had been spent on the new plane to develop only two B70 Proto types. It estimated it would save 85 million dollars on the project this week. Salvage Men Win Gamble NORFOLK, Va. (AP) Four men who gambled their lives to raise the sunken tanker African Queen made a small profit on their venture Monday by taking one more desperate chance. The battered hulk of the sal vaged Queen was auctioned off for $134,000 but the price would have been far lower if one of the sal vagers hadn't kept on bidding on the pretense he wanted the ship for his own. "My belly had butterflies in it, said A. E. Sadler. "If I had finished as the top bidder, I'd have had to hock everything I had in the world." The bid that finally gave the salvagers a $22,000 profitwas by Samuel Kahn of New York, rep resenting the Ocean Shipping and Trading Corp. It had cost Sadler and his three venturesome partners Paul Brady, Lloyd Dcir and Belden Lit tle about $112,080 to raise the 428-foot stern of the tanker from the Atlantic last year. They had hoped to make mil lionsfor the Queen had cost 6 million to build in Germany three years ago. Kahn said the Ocean Shipping and Trading Corp. plans to spend l'i million dollars to place a bow on the African Queen and put her back in business transporting oil The tanker split apart and sank in the Atlantic off the Maryland coast in December 1958. Fortune Given To Adopted Land PITTSBURGH (AP) - An im migrant from Russia who said she was "always well treated in this country," left her $74,150 estate to Uncle Sam. Jennie Silverman died last March 8. On Monday, after de ducting state taxes and adminjs trative expenses Allegheny County Orphans Court turned the remain ing $55,000 over to the U.S. gov ernment, as Mrs. Silverman di reeled in her will. More Gifts Sent Chief By Red Boss WASHINGTON (UPI) - Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev probably never heard of Emily Post. But she would be proud of the way he handled an internation al etiquette problem by sending gifts on two holidays. Christmas is just another cold day in December to the avowedly atheistic Russians. Nevertheless, Khrushchev sent President Eisen hower a plane full of Christmas gifts on Dec. 19. The Soviet boss also sent Christ mas presents to the four Eisen hower grandchildren. Then .Monday Khrushchev sent Eisenhower two more large gift packages containing New Year's presents. New Year's Day is the holiday on which Russians ex change gifts. White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said one of the New Year's boxes held caviar. He said he did not know what was in the other package. The latest Khrushchev presents were delivered by Soviet Ambas sador Mikhail' H. Mcnshikov dur ing a 20-minule White House con ference. He also relayed an oral message from the Soviet premier. Mcnshikov would not reveal to newsmen the text of Khrushchev's message. He said only, "I brought goodwill message from Chair- man Khrushchev to the President and also conveyed Mr. Khru shchev's New Year greetings to the President and all his family." Khrushchev's Christmas gift to Eisenhower last month was a plane load of 120 assorted trees, plants and shrubs. When the plants are released from quarantine, they will be sent to Eisenhower's Gettysburg, Pa., farm. It is not known what, if any, Christmas or New Year's gifts Ei senhower sent Khrushchev. Sam Rayburn Bows Out WASHINGTON (UPI) -Speaker Sam Rayburn formally bowed out today as permanent chairman of the Democratic National Conven tion a job he has had for the last three conventions. Rayburn gave as his reason lhat he wanted "to see one con vention from the floor." He conceded in response to a question that his decision not to serve again as the convention s permanent chairman also would leave him free to campaign for the nomination of his fellow Tex an. Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, for the presi dential nomination. Rayburn, who is 78, served as permanent chairman of the Dem ocratic Conventions of 1948, 1952, and 1956. The post at Los Angeles next July was his again for the asking. Rayburn declined to suggest a successor in the powerful conven tion post. He specifically denied a published report he was sup porting Rep. Hale Boggs ID-La.) to replace him. Head Shaver Loses Post SEOUL, Korea (UPI) The United Nations Command an nounced today that U.S. Army Capt. John W. McEnery has been relieved of his command for or dering the heads of two Korean prostitutes shaved. McEnery, Cheyenne, Wyo., also received 'a written reprimand from the commanding general of the 7th U.S. Infantry Division. First Sgt. Ora Curnutte, Chilli- cothe, Ohio, one of two enlisted men Involved in the Jan, 2 shav ing incident, was "admonished," the announcement said. The other enlisted man, Sgt. Harry K. Saunders, Kansas City, Mo., was not punished. The action came after the Re public of Korea lodged a formal protest with the United States over the incident. The ROK gov ernment demanded that "proper measures" be taken against the three and that steps be taken to prevent any recurrence. The U.N.- Command said the provocation that led to the shav ing was "grave" but nevertheless it did not condone the shaving. However, the three men will es cape court martial. The Korean women were shaved bald Jan. 2 after they were caught sneaking through a hole In t h e barbed wire around the camp of the U.S. 7th Division's 2nd Medi um Tank Battalion to solicit soldiers. ' TOMS TOP ITEM AOMORI. Japan (UPI) Cat dealers are doing a big businesi selling tomcats for top prices ia Aomori prefecture for "defense" against rice-eating rati.
