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U. OF ORE, LIBRARY NEWSPAPER SECTION EUGENE, OREO, COMP, ! The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS From Washington: "Representatives of the U.S. A and four of its allies will meet hire Monday to begin mapping strategy for critical disarmament negotiations with Russia . . . . 'The Western preparations took en a NEW SENSE OF URGENCY in the wake of Soviet Premier Ni kita Khrushchev's announcement Thursday that Russia has NOW ACHIEVED SUCH MISSILE MIGHT that he plans to cut his armed manpower by a third." What does he mean by that? Well Presumably . He is saying that if ANYBODY darts anything Russia will blow him to Kingdom Come with a mass of nuclear-armed missiles and what have you. - What does that amount to? It amounts to a threat of MAS SIVE RETALIATION. What's massive retaliation? It has been our ace in the hole (or a dozen years. So what? I'd say it sounds very much like copy-catting us. Copy-catting is imitation. There is an ancient and discerning proverb to the effect that IMITATION IS THE SIN CEREST FLATTERY. If Mr. K is imitating us, it means that he thinks we've got something worth imitating and fears that if he doesn't imitate us he'll come out in the short end of the horn. From flattery by imitation, Mr. K goes to veiled threats. He mut ters in his beard about a FAN TASTIC new Russian weapon that is i f horrible that he can't bring himself to mention it. .What is it? One of our atomic scientists thinks it might be "an orbital H- bomb" that could be stationed in space and fired or recalled by the Russkies on command. When you come right down to It, it sounds a trifle like the come back of the small boy who doesn't want to tackle the tough-looking other small boy and ends up by muttering that MY POP CAN LICK YOUR POP. . - Suppose the Russkies do have In the works an orbital H-bomb that ran h firpri hv nuchinff an electronic jigger. ; Instead of shivering in our boots and running for the brush, let's devise an orbital contraption that can chase the Russky contraption down and finish it off like a bat finishes off a mosquito. Let's adopt the motto of Sir Lancelot: "Our strength is as the strength of ten because our hearts are pure" and then but tress it with another and ruggeder : motto that goes like this: THE : bigger they are the hard '.er they fall. Then , '- Let's quit squabbling among our "selves. Let's agree on what ought -to be done and then DO IT. Quakes Rock Peru Again U, Peru (AP) Sharp earth quakes rocked Peru again today. Reports from lea Province in the south said four people were in jured when a building collapsed. . The shocks were relatively light here in the capital. They lasted .'for about two hours before dawn. Some residents spent the night in .the streets. Strong earth shocks were felt at Ancon, a Pacific beach resort '25 miles north of Lima. A near . tidal wave rolled in, and the spray splashed almost as high as the top of some 10-story buildings on the oceanfront. The quake was also strong in Nazca, badly damaged by a quake in 1942. There was no immediate word from Arequipa, a center of death and destruction this week. Com- munications with that southern 'city were still spotty because of quake damage. Last reports said 26 bodies had been recovered before another wave of shocks tumbled more homes and buildings and disrupt' ed communications. British Walker Fights Icy Wind CLASH.MORE, Scotland (AP) Dr. Barbara Moore, Britain's pre mier pedestrian, battled through an icy wind and deep snowdrifts today on her 1,000-mile walk from .one end of Britain to the other. After two days of walking across the snow j hills of northern Scot land,, she had covered only miles. Tht56-year-old dietician is far behind schedule, for she plans to complete the journey from John O'Groats, at the northern tip of Scotland, to Land's End, in the outhwest extremity of England , In I to 12 days. ItmiMUonniwnVoonTft feSni'i'i'a'lliliiii in"n """""""ni" " Price Five Cents 16 Pages University Of Gets Similar Minnesota Post EUGENE. Ore. (AP) Dr. 0. Meredith Wilson, named president of the University of Minnesota Thursday, was en route here by plane today. He comes home to wind up six years as president of the University of Oregon. Wilson's appointment was an O. MEREDITH WILSON nounced at a news conference in Minneapolis after he appeared be- fore the university's board of re- gents. He was named from among 150 candidates. "I have been attached to and happy at the University of Ore gon, and I leave it with consider able sorrow," Wilson said. Wilson, 50, said he would not "transplant Oregon to the Minne sota campus," but he felt some of his experience at Oregon "may betray itself" at Minnesota. His appointment is effective July 1. Mrs. Wilson appeared briefly with her husband. She said she was very pleased with the ap pointment and that they had a "beautiful drive" to the Minneso ta campus from the airport past their future home. At Portland, Henry F. Cabell president of the Oregon Board of Higher Education, said ' proce dures for choosing a successor to Wilson would be established at its Portland meeting Jan. 25-26. "I greatly regret his departure. He has done a wonderful job in six years at the university," Ca bell said. "But he is too big a man to hold forever, and Minnesota is bigger. I wish him well." Cabell said the process of choos ing a successor cannot be rushed. He said if a man is not named Red Tests Now Ready HONOLULU (UPI) - The dead line arrived today for the test fir ing of super long-range Russian rockets into the Pacific and civil ian planes and ships gave a wide berth to a 45,000 square mile area 1,000 miles southwest of Hawaii. The Kremlin announced plans to launch an unspecified number of rockets into the Marshall and Johnston Island area favorite region of U.S. atomic and hydro gen bomb tests during the Jan. 15-Feb. 15 period. Three electronic equipped Rus sian missile - tracking vessels, shadowed by the U.S. Navy,- al ready had reached the scene, giv ing rise to speculation the tests would begin any minute. But there was no indication from Mos cow the tests would actually be gin today. Flying Squads Of Police Round Up 8 Fellow Officers CHICAGO (UPI) - Flying squads of police rounded up eight fellow officers in swift, predawn raids today and booked them on burglary charges in what authori ties said may develop into a ma jor police force scandal. Police officials said the raids, staged in secrecy reminiscent of the quickie roundups of Chicago's gang war years, turned up four patrol wagon loads of , stolen goods enough to fill two rooms at the state's attorney's office. The roundup was launched on the tip of a burglary suspect who charged that the eight policemen acted as fences for a gang of thieves. First Assistant State's Attorney Frank Ferlic said a "goodly" number of other policemen were believed involved. Some reports said the number might go as high as 40. But only eight had been seized. Police Commissioner Timothy J. O'Connor immediately suspend KLAMATH Oregon Prexy by next fall then an interim ad ministrator will be appointed until a new president is named. Wilson will be the ninth man to head the University of Minnesota since its founding. He was Ore gon's ninth president also. At Min nesota he will succeed Dr. J. L Morrill, who retires June 1 after 15 years as president. Wilson was graduated from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, and received his doc torate at the University of Califor nia. He also did advanced study at the University of Heidelberg, Ger many, and at the University of London, where he acquired back ground for his major field Amer ican colonial history. A Mormon, Wilson neither drinks or smokes. He has six children. At Minnesota he will get a sal ary of $27,500 yearly, $3,500 less than retiring President Morrill. At Oregon he received $20,000 annual ly. He also will get a $3,000 annual expense account, a residence, a car, a chauffeur and a housekeep er. He will be the first to occupy Eastcliff, a white Georgian man sion overlooking the Mississippi River donated by a benefactor of "e university. Weather Klamath Falls and vicinity Clearing tonight and fair Satur. day. Colder tonight with a low of zero to 10 below; high Saturday 27-35. High yesterday 33 Low last night .'. 10 Precip. last 24 hours 0.02 Since Oct. 1 1.66 Same period last year 2.20 Low in area, Chlloquin -1 Northern California Fair through Saturday. Colder tonight- Northerly to northwesterly coastal winds 15-28 miles an hour. CRATER LAKE High yesterday 22 Low last night night 5 S a.m. today ( New snow .. trace Snow depth 55 Last year 33 Skiing powder Chains are advised for travel over Highway 62 and required from Annie Springs to the rim Snow on both the advanced and in termediate trails is deep powder and a little slow today but should be well packed for weekend ski ing. Trails are about Vi miles in length. The warming hut will be open Saturday and Sunday, wea ther permitting. TOMAHAWK Skiing expected to be good this weekend at Tomahawk Ski Bowl, approximately 24 miles northwest of Klamath Falls on Lake of the Woods Road. The lounge will be open and food available. WARNER CANYON There is good skiing at Warner Canyon ski area near Lakeview. Warming hut and snack bar will be open Saturday and Sunday. GOOD MEMORY SARASOTA, Fla. (UPI)-Delec- tives hunting for the thief who stole six cases of beer questioned the city dump garbageman who remembered picking up a lot of empty beer cans at the home of Mrs. Jo Ella Behn, 40. Officers said they found the un- consumed portion of the stolen beer in Mrs. Behn's home and ar rested her. ed the arrested policemen from the force and they were booked on burglary charges by Deputy Chief of Detectives Howard Pierson. Pierson said the policemen probably would be brought into court Saturday. They were sub penacd to appear Monday before the Cook County Grand Jury. The suspects were taken to the swank Union League Club, which once served as headquarters for the "Secret Six" anticrime com mittee that functioned in the pro hibition era, and questioned there by Ferlic and his chief investi gator, Paul Ncwey. The investigation, one of the biggest scandals to hit the Chicago police force in recent years, start ed with a burglar awaiting trial on charges of theft. The suspect, whose name was not revealed, threatened with a 10-year to life sentence, told po lice he would cooperate for a lighter sentence by "breaking the town wide open." i FALLS, OREGON', FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 19ti0 ; - K " - - - t. i . wmMfc ff ED SPLOYD , $42,000 to Boys' Town Boys' Town Willed Estate Of Klamath Falls Bachelor By TOM STIMMEL Ed Sployd was a quiet, with tirawn man who never married, He spent his days at common labor. He spent evenings reading in his room at the Baldwin Hotel, or watching TV in the lobby. Few oeople knew him well. Per haps he was closest to two cocker spaniels belonging to his landlady, because he walked with them reg ularly in the park beside Lake Ewauna and he carried choco lates for them in his pocket. IN FACT Ed and the dogs had padded through the snow that morning just before Christmas an hour or two before Ed suf tered a heart attack. Shortly before noon on December 20 Eugene (Ed) Sployd died, at 66. His death was noticed only by the few friends he had taken unto himself and perhaps by the dogs, because one of Ed's hotel neighbors said the dogs howled late that afternoon "in a way I've never heard before." Ed left no relatives, no proper ty, and no possessions but the clothes, books, and personal pa pers in the hotel room he had occupied for three years. He had one thing more, but only two or three persons knew of this until his will was probated in cir cuit court this week: In a branch of the Crocker-Anglo National Bank in Sacramento, Ed Sployd maintained a savings account. He willed it to Boys' Town. The amount was $42,229. ONE PERSON , who knew the secret was Mrs. Vera Jones, whose family has operated the Baldwin Hotel for years. "Ed investigated II the agencies he could find, she said. "He decided on Father Flanagan's Boys' Town in Nebras ka. He told me that." One day in December 1958 Ed asked Mrs. Jones to accompany him to a lawyer's office. They talked with Attorney Joseph O'Neill, and the will was drawn. "Ed did common labor all his life," Mrs. Jones said. "This mon ey came from common labor." Mrs. Jones spoke quietly and warmly of the man who had been . -V . ,.,i-'"..ia'i BRUTAL TEMPERATURES, splashing water, and what we bined to create this frozen sunburst on the hubcap of a Rickbeil spotted the phenomenon one chill morning, t&C.WJ - iiSiail lit. ... IMSU her friend and had confided in her a? much as he had confided m anyone. HE HAD . COME from Maine many years ago, she said. He had worked in California and in Idaho and other places too, she supposed and had been with the giant Morrison-Knudsen construc tion firm when it was starting. Here he had helped build the Johns-Manville plant, and had worked briefly for Copco. Ed dressed well, Mrs. Jones re culled warmly, and he did not de prive himself of what he needed His tastes were inexpensive. He liked good literature, and he liked science.: "Most of his conversa tions, were .'yes' and 'no'." "Someone, at some time in his life, must have hurt him badly." If Ed Sployd had been hurt bad ly, he had not been hurt bitterly. He left that message in his will. Arctic Drama Nearing End FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP)-An Arctic drama which began with a small crack in an ice floe eight days ago neared its conclusion to day. A C130 transport plane evacu ated eight men late Thursday night from Station Charley, a crumbling mass of ice floating in the Arctic Ocean 440 miles north west of Barrow, Alaska, and the remaining four men were to be brought out early today. In all, twelve men were evacu ated Thursday. The Air Force earlier had flown the others in the original comple ment of some 30 civilian scientists and military personnel off the floe. The camp was the base for a close study of the depths and cur rents of the Arctic Ocean. The scientists and military personnel had been on the floe since last May. -'- -vf- V... J-v No. 6li0t Ice Storm Snags Traffic In New York By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS An ice storm lied up traffic and closed schools in some areas in New York Slate today, while win try winds, accompanied by snow and cold whistled into the Mid west. - The ice storm swept through the south central section of New York, including the Hudson and Mohawk valleys and northward Two persons were killed when an automobile skidded on an icy road near Syracuse. Forecasters predicted 4 to 8 inches of snow, or more, for the eastern half of New York state by nightfall. Connecticut reported a freezing rain with icy highways. Many traf fic accidents due to skidding ve hicles were reported. Light snow by late afternoon or early evening was forecast for Maine. Snow storms and freezing rains closed some schools in Michigan for the second time in a week. Saginaw ordered all schools closed at noon today, while many rural schools were closed. The Upper Peninsula of Michi gan recorded a 17-degree drop to 18 above. Planes were grounded at Flint, Muskegon and Saginaw. Cold spots across the nation were numerous, including Devils Lake, North Dakota's 15 ' below zero and Alamosa, Colorado's 11 below. Thirty vehicles collided in a sc ries of accidents on the Jersey turnpike between Newark and New York today. Six persons were injured and north-and-south commuter traffic was snarled. And, in southern Wisconsin a sneak snowstorm blocked many roads. About 5 inches of snow fell in Milwaukee. Motorists were cau tioned to remain off the streets No traffic moved in Janesville, Wis., and roads south of Madison were blocked. A cold wave moved. Into Iowa in the wake of a snowstorm which practically paralyzed highway travel in some sections. Norther ly winds up to 50 miles an hour whipped snow into drifts and cre ated near-blizzard conditions in some areas, especially in the west central portions of Iowa. The greatest amount of new snow re ported was 12 inches at Fort Dodge and 10 inches at Dubuque. Many schools in scattered areas of Iowa were closed today. Fore casters said Saturday morning's temperature readings were ex pected to plunge to 15 below zero in northwestern Iowa. Metal Repairman To Fix 'Big Ben' LONDON (AP)-For 100 years London's famed Big Ben has chimed out the hours with a re sounding "boi-oi-oing." Now two British metal repair men have offered to mend a crack in the 13',4-ton bell "as a patriotic duty" without removing it from atop its tower. They claim that would make It sound as it should just a simple "boing." A spokesman for the Ministry of Works said "We shall consider the offer, of course, but boi-oi-oing is a sound Ihe world has got used to. The crack docs not affect the safety of the bell." Telephone TU 4-8111 .... suppose is centrifugal force corn bus parked on Main Street. Art and Don Kettler got the picture. Airline Passenger Said Responsible For Recent Blast WASHINGTON (AP) - Blaming a suicide bomb for a Jan. 6 air liner crash which killed 34 per sons. Sen. A. S. .Mike Monroney iD-Okla) said today new laws may be needed to protect against such acls. He said the evidence is very strong that a passenger bent on suicide caused the disaster. The FBI reportedly moved into the case Thursday as the story was unfolded before Ihe Senate aviation subcommittee headed by Monroney. The subcommittee heard testi mony that insurance totaling near ly $!IOO.OO() had been issued since last April on the life of one of the crash victims. He was named as Julian Andrew Frank, 32-year-old W e s t p o r t, Conn., lawyer. He died with 33 others when a National Airlines plane plunged lo earth near Bo livia, N.C., while en route from New York to Miami. Oscar Bakke, chief of the Civil Aeronautics Board's safety divi sion, testified about the insurance. Bakke also described other evi dence found by CAB investigators which Monroney said made clear the grim story of what had hap pened. "I am convinced the explosion of a bomb of some sort was the cause of this disaster," Monroney announced. "It seems pretty pat that this bomb was carried into the wash room in the plane and set olt de liberately. "The evidence is very strong that it was a case of suicide by bombing." Bakke made no such direct statement, saying the CAB is re serving an official verdict until further investigation is completed. But he said some of the evidence points to a possible bomb ex plosion and said if that was the case, "it will be discovered and the cause precisely established." Mystery had shrouded exact cause of the disaster since the plane literally fell apart in the air and plunged to earth. Bodies of most of the victims the last was found Thursday1 were located in tho vicinity of Bolivia, N.C. Frank's body was found last Saturday 16 miles away, on the beach near Ft. Fisher, N.C, with some of the wreckage. Bakke said Frank could have been blown through the side of the plane by an explosion. Bakke said Frank's body had been deeply pierced by metal and wood fragments, and had been mutilated in a manner far differ ent from the injuries suffered by all of the other victims.' Such piercing of the body with flying fragments frequently occurs in ex plosion. Seven of the passengers were wearing life belts when their bodies were found, Bakke said, adding the plane could have trav eled 18 to 20 miles before disin tegrating. Bakke theorized that a blast It Could SAN ANTONIO, Tex. UPI The state tried to get Lorenzo McCall, 36, to testify against Boyd Mahan, 25, In a narcotics case. Both McCall and Mahan are accused of selling marijuana to an undercover agent. Mahan is being tried first. McCall had heard of the Filth Amendment, and 20 times on the witness stand Thursday he invoked it with these words: "I refuse to testify on the grounds that It might trend to intimidate me." FCC Cites Four Big Firms For Misleading Advertising WASHINGTON (AP) - Those drops of moisture you might have seen described as "flavor gems" in television margarine commer cials are nothing more than a sprinkled-on liquid, says the Fed eral Trade Commission. "Sandpaper" being shaved in a shaving cream commercial is a piece of glass or plastic to which sand has been applied, the com mission says. The tired-looking ham wrapped in a competing foil looked that way before it was ever wrapped, the FTC says. And the toothpaste commercial using a cigaret-smoking machine doesn't prove what it claims, says the commission. The FTC listed these four ex amples Thursday In accusing four big companies of deceiving the public with their television com mercials. It said trickery was used in some cases to make con trived TV scenes look real. In all four cases, the FTC said may have knocked out the plane's radio, and that it started disin tegrating and crashed as the pilot was trying frantically in the dark ness lor a place to land. A small blue fabric bag, its bot tom violently lorn out, was viewed by Bakke and Monroney as key evidence in their joint inquiry. Monroney said the bag may have contained the bomb. Bakke said merely that the bag had been found, and that it looked like one Frank had carried aboard Ihe aircraft. Bakke said it was re ported as luggage carried by Frank that weighed 20 pounds. Frank was married to the form er Janet Wagner, a top photog rapher's model who formerly lived in Galesbury, 111. They had two children, Andrew, 2 and Ellen, 4. They moved to Connecticut about five years ago from New (Continued on Page 3-A) New Outbreak Of Asia Flu Hits Nation By United Prrss International Fresh outbreaks of Asian flu swelled across the nation today, causing high absenteeism from schools, jobs and in the entertain ment industry. The Asian bug, which as a wide-eyed foreigner to U.S. shores two years ago caused scores of deaths and laid millions on their backs for a few days, was not nearly as widespread as in 1957. But it had caused a "low grade epidemic" in Southern California and threatened serious outbreaks in the Detroit area, where anti flu vaccines were running low. Some states reported a higher than normal incidence of influenza-type cases, and across the country the damp, cold season was taking a heavy toll of school children, teachers and civic offi cials. An estimated half-million Los Angeles area residents were stricken with Asian flu and other viruses. Dr. Malcolm Merrill, state health officer, identified the disease as Asian influenza, but county health officer Roy O. Gil bert said half a dozen viruses probably were involved. Actors, actresses, crew mem bers and even producer-director Alfred Hitchcock were laid low with bloodshot eyes and fevers. Work on more than five TV shows and Hitchcock's movie, "Psycho," was delayed or postponed by flu attacks. In the Detroit area, Albert Pisa, president of the Detroit Board of Health, said doctors were order ing about five times as much vac cine as a short time ago and sup plies were running low. Detroit's city-county health di rector. Dr. Joseph Milner, said teachers have been absent from school at double the normal rate. A spot check indicated that fac tory absenteeism was 2 per cent above normal. Milner said 40,00ft persons in the Detroit area wen stricken with some type of flu. The first two cases of Asian flu were reported in Iowa Thursday. State officials said large numbers of people were suffering from an unidentified virus in the Daven port area and believed the flu was spreading in Iowa. Thousands were ill in a Texas flu outbreak, but state health de partment official Dr. Howard E. Smith said the illness was at "status quo." the TV demonstration failed to prove claims made for the pro ducts. " Complaints were filed against the following firms for allegedly deceptive advertising of the pro ducts named: Standard Brands, Inc., New York City, Blue Bonnet Margar ine: Colgate-Palmolive Co., New York City, Palmolive Rapid Shave Shaving Cream: Aluminum Co. of America, Pittsburgh, and its sub sidiary, Wear-Ever Aluminum Inc. Philadelphia, New Super Strength Alcoa wrap aluminum foil; and Lever Brothers Co., Hew York. City, Pepsodcnt Toothpaste. The FTC charged that the chal lenged commercials tend to de ceive the public and cause TV viewers to buy one brand Instead ot another on the basis of the al leged misrepresentations. The firms were accused of using un fair methods of competition made illegal under the Federal Trade Commission Act. '
