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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 14, 1960)
In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS At his press conference in his White House office in Washington yesterday, one of the reporters asked President Eisenhower a question that seemed to imply that the nation's defense program is being conducted on a partisan ba sis. " .The President asked what was meant by the question. The re porter told him that Republicans who met with him at the White House recently had suggested that ANYONE who raises a question as to the adequacy of our defense effort is displaying- partisanship. That is to say: The question implied that the President, who is a Republican, is using the nation's defense- pro gram to MAKE BIG MEDICINE for the Republican party. Ike, the dispatches report,, "bris tled." He asked the (woman) re porter whether she was making a speech or asking a question. 'She replied that she was putting a question and repeated in sub stance what she had said a mo ment earlier. President Eisenhower shot back that he RESENTED any implica ' tion that the defense program is being run on a partisan basis. In the first place, he said, he doesn't HAVE to be partisan. Secondly, he went on, he has devoted his entire life to defense without par tisanship. He added (hat he believes the program is being handled well, and that he believes he knows more about defense than anyone else in this country. Good for Ike! He is the world's most expe rienced soldier. As commander of the greatest military force ever assembled since the world began, he won the world's biggest and bloodiest war. It can be taken for granted, I think, that he knows more about our national defense than all his critics put together. - And . Let's add We can safely take it for grant ed that President Eisenhower isn't going to DELIBERATELY let our enemy get disastrously ahead of us just to make a few votes for the Republican party. What about the rest of us? . That's something else again. It sometimes looks like every body else in the country is using the defense program, in-one way or another, to butter his own bread. Professional GOP's want to use it to make" it appear that the Republican party is the na tion's only possible savior. Profes sional Democrats want to use it to make the GOP look like a band of crooks. There are times when even our three major military services look like a bunch of chil dren squabbling over a sack of candy to see who is going to get the MOST OF THE SUGAR. The space proponents appear at times to be contending that FUTURE space travel is more important than PRESENT defense against our enemies. There are moments when it looks like a mess. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and Ticinlty: Partly cloudy with oc casional snow flurries tonight, Clearing Friday. Low tonight 0 to g; high Friday 28-34. High yesterday 22 Low last night 10 Precip. last 24 hours trace Since Oct. 1 1.64 Same period last year 2.19 Low in area, Chiloquin 0 Northern California Showers tonight with snow in the nioun taint. Clearing in much of the area by early Friday. Little change in temperature. Northwesterly or northerly winds 15-30 miles an hour. , - I'lfiMw-iiiMgwararitf maritime "' """ DOING THEIR PART to keep their community safe from fire, the Chiloquin Firebelles pre sented the Chiloquin Fire Department with a check for $71 and a Scott Air Pack at a re cent meeting. Left to right Roger Wright, secretary, looks on at Luther Sherier, president, receives the presentation. Firebelles, in the tame order, are Mrt. Aubrey Starkey, Mrs. Lewis Jones, Mrt. George Hobbt, auxiliary preiident, Mrt. Luther Sherier, Mns. Bill Barnet, Mrs. George Pohl and Mrt. Roger Wright, wearing the mask on the new air pack. Nora's Ark FORT WORTH, Tel. (UPI) County Judge J. C. Duvall called Nora Perkins hfore the bench to answer charges of carrying a pistol. A tall, muscular Negro man strode forward. "You must have misunder stood me," Duvall said, "I called for Nora Perkins." "Yes, sir, judge, that's me, that's my name." "How did you get a name like that? Were your folks expect ing a girl when you were born?" "No, sir," Perkins replied. "They named me for the man who built that big boat. You know Nora's Ark." The judge dismissed the case. Engineer Sends Gift To New Born PASADENA, Calif. (AP)-They were strangers but they struck up a friendship in passing. Every other day he roared past at the throttle of a passenger train diesel engine. Joanne Wil- lens sat on her front porch 30 feet from the track. They started waving, as folks do. Mrs. Willens, expecting a baby and pretty much confined to home, began looking forward to 12:35 p.m. as a welcome break in the routine day. Then she went to the hospital A week later she brought little Steven Mark Willens home. Her first day back she proudly held her new baby up to the window when the train rolled by. The engineer gave a handclasp like that of a victorious fighter, Their minds must have been working alike. Two days later the engineer held up a sign: "A boy?" Even as the question was asked, Mrs. Willens answered it; she held up her own sign: "A boy!" A few days later the train ap proached much more slowly than usual. She was on the front porch. The engineer gestured for her to go close to the tracks. As the train slowed, the assist ant, engineer jumped ott and handed her a box. Inside was a little knit suit and a card: "To a sweet little boy. Best wishes to all, Dan C. Kurtz, 'engi neer, Santa Fe No.. 20. If Being Sought NATIONAL CITY, Calif. (UPI) The FBI and police in Mexico and here today sought a sex maniac who sexually assaulted Mary Lou Olson, 10, and stran gled her by stuffing paper in her mouth. Authorities attempted to check out the identity of a man report ed seen by a farm housewife leaving the barren scene 15 miles south of Tijuana, Mexico, where the body was discovered Tuesday night. The housewife said she saw the man get out of his car about four days ago, leap over a fence and disappear in the ravine where Mary Lou's body later was found. She said her son also saw the man, but neither of them could give police a detailed description. A preliminary autopsy Wednes day showed the girl might have been killed four to six days after she disappeared from her home here Jan. 3, but Dr. James T. Weston, chief autopsy surgeon for San Diego County, said Wednes day night it was possible she was killed shortly after her abduction He said her body was in water in the ditch for some time and that it may have been preserved. thus giving the appearance of having been dead a shorter time Price Five Cents 24 Pages Two Officials Of Mine Firm Die In Crash MINERSVILLE, Utah (UPI)- Two officials of the Utah") Con struction and Mining Co. were killed and four other persons in jured Wednesday when a twin- engined Lockheed Lodestar slammed into the side of a 6,400 foot mountain eight miles south of this southwestern Utah com munity. ' ' Killed in the crash were J.A. Mecia, 42, general vice president of the firm and manager, of the mining division, and Homer Mann, 40, manager of the mining services. Sheriff Otto Fife said Mecia died about three hours after the crash in an ambulance en route to Cedar City, about 33 miles south of the crash scene. Mann appar ently was killed outright and his body badly burned in a fire that followed the crash of the com pany plane. Survivors walked to the Miners-ville-Cedar City road about two miles east of the wreckage. Pilot Douglas D. Garneau, 40, Lafayettte, Calif., and copilot, James L. Wisman, 34, Concord, Calif., suffered minor cuts and were treated then released " from the Milford Hospital. Two mining engineers, B.B Greenlee, 49, and Keith G. Wal lace, 33, both of Los Altos, Calif., suffered burns, cuts and shock. Garneau reported to his firm that he was trying to "let down" near Milford because of an over cast. Plant Seizure Bill Offered WASHINGTON (AP) - Sens Jacob K. Javits (R-NY) and George D. Aiken (R-Vt) today introduced a bill to permit gov crnment seizure of plants to avert strikes that would endanger the national health or safety. They said the measure is de signed to avert economic dislo cations such as that caused by the just settled steel strike. In a statement Javits and Aiken said their bill would authorize the President first to appoint a public fact finding board to recommend terms of settlement of any labor dispute threatening to cause a national emergency. If that step should fail, the President would be empowered to direct the attorney general to pe tition the courts to throw the af fected facilities into receivership and appoint a special receiver to operate the facilities in the name of the government. Javits and Aiken said the meas ure would leave the Taft-Hartley Act procedures available as an alternative. The steel strike was settled while the men were back at work under an 80-day T-H law injunction. Without a settlement they would have been free to strike again Jan. 26. It Isn't Easy It isn't as easy as it looks in a TV western. Gary Lee Banta, 19, Bonanza, was practicing his fast draw yes terday when his .22 caliber high standard revolver fired before it cleared the holster. The bullet struck Banla's leg midway between the hip and knee Banta was treated by a local doctor. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, i (V MISS MARCH OF DIMES, selected Tuesday night, is Barbara Olson, dark-haired KUHS senior who was one of 10 girls competing for the title in the March of Dimes auction. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Olson, 1536 Eldora do, and has been active in school affairs and youth groups since her freshman year. She is shown here after receiving the honor and a floral tribute. Mine Boss Steps Down; Finishes WASHINGTON (AP) - John L.l Lewis steps down today from his spectacular ' 40-year-career as president Of the United Mine Workers Union. Lewis is retiring from a lifetime spent, improving the lot of the coal miners, organizing millions of workers in the steel, auto and iff JOHN L LEWIS other mass production industries, pioneering in pension - welfare plans, and engaging in epic battles with Presidents and the courts to achieve his aims. Lewis, who will be 80 on Feb. 12, reportedly plans to continue an active life. He is an influential figure in banking circles here. Also, he is considering writing his memoirs. Thomas Kennedy, 72, UMW vice president, was to take over the presidency at a union executive board this afternoon. Lewis informed the UMW mem bership just before Christmas that the time had come for him to retire. He said Kennedy, former lieu tenant governor of Pennsylvania and a UMW member for 60 years, would be an able successor. Interest centered on whom the union picks to succeed Kennedy as No. 2 man because, before Jf ' JiK .J I Annual UF Awards Banquet Fetes Workers Of County Employes of Klamath County firms were on hand during the annual county United Fund awards banquet at the Willard Hotel last night to receive Outstanding Citi zenship awards the most opulent provided by UF. The bronze plaques went for the third straight year to employes of LaPointe's Ladies Ready-To-Wear, Peyton and Company, Oregon Technical Institute, J. W. Kerns Oregon Limited, Eastside Electric Company and Medo-Land Cream ery. Winner for the second straight year was the Big Y Market. First time winners were Fluhrcr's Hol sum Bakery, Scars, Roebuck and Company, Bend Portland Truck Service and the South Sixth Street Safeway store. To win the awards, at least 65 per cent of an employe group must donate at least one hour's pay per month for a year to UF. Total donation must be $200 or more. Previous years' records must not THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1960 r ' 40-Year Career many years, this choice could be come the UMW's chief. Two long time aides of Lewis- W. A. (Tony) Boyle and Michael F. Widman Jr. top the list of possibilities to become the new UMW vice president. Boyle, president of the UMW's District 27 covering Montana, North Dakota and Alaska, spends all his time at union headquar ters here in charge of enforcing UMW contracts. . Widman, 59, is Lewis' . top assist ant,! credited with directing the Ford Motor Co. organizing drive when Lewis headed the old CIO. Trade Group To Be Formed PARIS (AP) The United States and 19 of its trading partners to day approved a proposal which will lead to establishment of a new Western trade and aid organization. Representatives of the group created a four-man committee to draw up a tentative charter. Im mediately named as members were W. Randolph Burgess, U.S. ambassador to NATO; Bernard Clapicr, French Finance Ministry economic expert; and Xenophon Zolotas, governor of the Bank of Greece. A fourth member will be British. He is expected to be Sir Paul Gore-Booth, Foreign Office economic adviser. U. S. Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon told a special meeting of Atlantic economic part ners that U. S. participation in the new organization was con ditioned only on the approval of Congress. Dillon spoke to a ministerial meeting of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC.), which the new organ ization will replace and strength en. The United States now partic ipates on a consultative basis, along with Canada, in OEEC dis cussions. . show more than 10 per cent pledge loss. Employers must provide withholding plan. Paul Cruikshank, I960 drive chairman, emphasized difficulty of winning the award. He said more than a thousand employe groups throughout the county were solicit ed last fall. During the banquet Rex Dye, outgoing executive secretary, de livered a farewell address and re ceived two standing ovations. Dye resigned, effective Friday, and plans to study, sociology at Los Angeles City College. He was chairman of the first UF campaign in Klamath County in 1953. That campaign was the first and only "successful" one un til the HHiO campaign last fall when the goal again was reached. Dye accepted the post of execu tive secretary, a paid position, in 1955, and has held it since. Officers and workers of last fall's campaign presented him a gift. Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 6603 High Winds, Tornadoes Rip Oklahoma OKLAHOMA CITY (API-High winds and tornadoes whipped across north central Texas and into Oklahoma early today, doing considerable damage. High winds and what police said was a tornado skipped across Oklahoma City, another funnel dipped down on a rural area near Ada in southeast Oklahoma, and a third was sighted in the air near McLoud in east central Okla homa. A small twister struck a flight line at Pcrrin Air Force Base near Denison, Tex., a few miles south of the Oklahoma border. Three planes and a trailer house used for a helicopter alert center were damaged. Widespread but minor wind damage was report ed in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, The path of the storm in Okla homa City, which hit about 5 a. ni., was described as one to two blocks wide and two miles long. Damage was confined prin cipally to broken windows and torn roofs. Residents of the Ditzhugh com munity 10 miles southwest of Ada said two houses had been un roofed, several barns damaged and numerous outbuildings on farms in the area blown down. That storm hit about 6 a. m. Ada is about 85 miles southwest of Oklahoma City and McLoud about 30 miles cast. Oklahoma City Police Lt. H. C. Briscoe said he had sighted the funnel cloud and trailed it across the city. Election Bill Bogs Down WASHINGTON (AP) Efforts to limit primary campaign spend ing as part of a clean elections bill ran into strong opposition to day from Republican and Southern Democratic senators.' Inclusion of primaries has been proposed as an amendment to bill which would require fuller re ports of campaign financing and increase legal spending ceilings for candidates and political commit tees. Present law, and the bill as drawn, apply only to general elec tion campaigns. S.en. Richard B. Russell (D-Ga) said the amendment is opposed by all the Southern senators and also, he believes, by more than half of the Republican senators. He said he couldn't conceive of majority of the senators voting for it. Sen. Carl T. Curtis (R-Ncb), top GOP member of the committee that handled the bill, said that he is opposed to the amendment and that so is Sen. Everett M. Dirk sen of Illinois, the Senate Repub lican leader. He told newsmen that in his opinion adoption of the amendment would kill the whole bill. The amendment to make the measure apply to primaries and nominating conventions was of fered by Sens. Thomas C. Hen nings Jr. (D-Mo) and Kenneth B. Keating(R-NY). They urged Its approval on the ground that in about a third of the stales victory in the primaries amounts to election. Leaders hoped to get a vote on the amendment late today and possibly complete Senate action on the bill Friday. , Fff" "JJJ''" "mi'B OUTSTANDING CITIZENSHIP AWARDS were received during a United Fund annual meet ing nd banquet latt night by thete employet of the following employe groupt: From left are Pat Kottman, Medo-Land Creamery; Jack Grewell, Oregon Technical Inttitutej Mrt. Fred Miller, Big Y Market; Ruby Sheridan, LaPointe't; Gene Yadon, Peyton and Company; Gilbert Morey, J. W. Kernt Oregon Limited; Jim Arnold, Rivertide School, and Fritz Hahn, Eaihide Electric Company. Peruvian Quake Victims Receive Supplies, Aid LIMA, Peru (API Supplies and other aid were rushed today to Arequipa, victim of Peru's second severe earthquake in less than a month. At least 63 persons were report ed killed and 200 injured in the south Peruvian city. Communica tions with the capital were broken Wednesday night and officials said the toll might be much high er. Five planeloads of medical sup plies were readied. President Manuel Prado and Premier Pedro Wilson Seen As New Chief Of Minnesota By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS There's a chance Dr. O. Mere dith Wilson, president of the Uni versity of Oregon, may be named the new president of the Univers ity of Minnesota today. There have been reports for several days that Wilson was un der consideration for the new job Wilson left Eugene by plane Wednesday night for Minneapolis, and later a Minneapolis television station said Minnesota would an nounce the name of the new presi dent this afternoon. Neither Wilson nor the Minneso ta regents would comment on the reports. Said Wilson: "Anything as to those who are under consideration should come from those who arc on the board at Minnesota." Wilson has been president of the University of Oregon for six years. Prior to that, Wilson was secretary of the Ford Founda tion's Fund for the Advancement of Education. Wilson, 30, gets $20,000 a year in his present job, plus living quarters and a 1,500 a year ex pense account. If named to the new job, he presumably would get more mon ey, for the University of Minne sota has 23,000 students and 3.700 on the faculty three times more than Oregon. ALBERT SCHWEITZER Dr. Schweitzer Fetes Birthday BRAZZAVILLE, Congo Repub lic (AP) Dr. Albert Schweitzer celebrated his 85th birthday to day with friends and well-wishers from the United States, Europe and Africa. The winner of the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize remained at his hos pital in Lambarenc, 310 miles northwest of here on the African Coast. Motorists' Reward AMHERST, Mass. (AP) - Mo torists here will be rewarded for going through 1959 without a traf fic fatality. Town Manager Allen L. Torrey announced Wednesday night there will be no charge at the parking meters Friday. Vi'y 8 ' 9 ".t i - S k.SSSi OCT ill (ml Bellran planned to accompany en ot the planes. Many of Arequipa's 80,000 resi dents slept in the streets following the last of three tremors that leveled houses and stores and knocked over telephone poles. About 60 per cent of. the city and its suburbs was reported destroyed or seriously damaged. Officials said the city s morgue was filled with bodies dug from the debris and rubble. Immediate identification was impossible in many cases because of the- muti lated condition of the victims. Planes and troops arriving with rescue equipment and relief sup plies found large sections of the city and suburbs without water supplies and communication facil ities. The shocks, felt in Volivia and lihile, also cut off several high ways leading into Arequipa, which s about 460 miles southeast of Lima. Most residents of the city, lo cated at the foot of the El MistI volcano, were asleep when the first tremor came early Wednes day. Lasting about 50 seconds, it caused the major destruction. Alberto Malaga, a teacher who managed to get passage on a plane bringing out refugees, said he saw people running frantically to escape crumbling buildings only to fall under the wheels of auto mobiles racing through the streets. Another refugee reported seeing 10 persons buried when the roof of a market collapsed. The second and third shocks came at noon and 4 p.m., but by then most of the people were , hud dled in the streets and. clear of falling walls and roofs. Most of the casualties were re 'ortcd from the suburbs of Tingo, Tiabaya, San Lazaro and Miral- lores. A quake in 1958 took 28 lives in the samo area. - Wednesday's quake, caused strong tremors in Cuzco and l?a, but there were no reports of ma jor damage in either city. . The shocks also were felt in Lima. During Christmas week sis tremors violently shook, the Aya- eucho department in southern Peru, killing 17 and injuring. 50. Show Okayed By Musician MEMPHIS, Tenn. (UPI) Jazi pianist Dave Brubeck, threatened with a . breach of contract suit, agreed Wednesday to bring , his combo here for a performance at Memphis State University. The Memphis State engagement was part of a planned tour of southern colleges that collapsed when Brubeck insisted on using his regular bass player, a Negro. Dean of Students George Pratt criticized Brubeck for injecting 'an interracial proposition" into the proposed tour. ! He said the jazz musician agreed to keep his engagement here if a substitute date could be arranged. We agree to have you as a musical attraction, but we want no part of you as a social re former," Pratt told Brubeck. Move Over, Rover A little female pup named Tramp boarded a northbound freight train in Klamath Falls Wednesday. But her dreams ot adventure were disrupted by a traveling companion. The dog was brought to the city police station by a transient Walla Walla man who was sharing a boxcar with the dog. i
