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U.OP ORE.LIBRAR? NEISPAPER SECTION GEN.REF. AND DOCUMENTS DIV. COUP. SHOW Airliner Crashes Dn Pense Fog; 50 lilies! JOHN KERBOW, Klamath County representative in the Oregon Legislature, announced during a Junior Chamber of Commerce banquet Monday night that he will not run for a third term. At left is Les Snively, Jaycees president. In The- Day's lews ' By FRANK JENKINS From Washington: - Nearly one-eighlh of the federal budget for the next fiscal year (a fiscal year is a financial year) will go to pay interest on the pub lie debt. The Treasury estimates that in terest charges in the 1961 fiscal year will come to nine billion, 585 million dollars. That is more than it cost to run the entire federal government before World War II. Question: How much is a billion dollars? Somebody figured it out this way the other day: . If a man stood over a big hole In the ground and dropped in a $20 bill once every minute, day end night, it would take him 95 YEARS to throw a billion dollars into the hole. Put it like this: The annual interest charge on the federal, debt of the U.S.A. is approximately nine and a half bil lion dollars. Standing at the edge of a big hole and dropping into it a $20 bill once every minute, day and night, it would take a citizen of average ability 95 years to drop in ONE billion dollars. So- You see It would lake him a little belter than 900 YEARS to throw in enough to pay our interest bill for JUST ONE YEAR. The poor devil would probably die of bore dom before he got his job done. Pretty rough? You ain't heard nothin' yet. Listen: If the annual interest bill on our rational debt remains approxi mately stable at nine and a half billion dollars a year, the poor guy would fall behind at the rate of about 900 YEARS EVERY YEAR. (Continued on Page 2) TO HOLD TV HEARINGS WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Senate communications subcom mittee announced it will open hearings Feb. 2 on the allocation . of television channels with mem bers of the Federal Communica tions Commission as the first wit Besses. .4 FUN IN THE SNOW is reflected in this unique bit of snow sculpturing done by Carol Hanson, 15, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman T. Hanson, 446 Riverside, and a sophomore t KUHS. The family moved to Klamath Falls earlier this year from Sacramento, and Carol turned her artistic talents loose in this effort. With a bone in a dish, the dog is baying at the moon while a youngster in the background looks on. The snow scene attracted a great deal of attention from neighbors and others passing by. John Kerbow Will Not Run For 3rd Term John Kerbow, state representa tive from Klamath County, told an audience of Junior Chamber of Commerce members Monday night that he will not be a candi date for a third legislative term when his tenure runs out in a few months. Kerbow said he hopes to spear head a "Kennedy for President" campaign in Klamath County dur ing the primary elections period. If Sen. John Kennedy wins in the Oregon primaries, Kerbow would like to be the Democrat candi dale's campaign manager in Ore gon. Kerbow also said he hopes to be Oregon campaign manager for Sen. Richard Neuberger when the Ore gon Democrat runs again for elec tion to the U.S. Senate. 'Holding public office was a great experience," said Kerbow. "I hope I was of service to the county and state." "But I like organizational poll tics. I think I will be happier ringing doorbells in behalf of oth er candidates and the Democrat Party, and I think I will be of greater service to the county, state and party that way," he said. '"More people of both political parties ought to get into organiz ational politics," he added. "We should all lake more interest in is sues at stake and try to get more people to the polls. That way, we could get belter representation." Kerbow was elected for the first time in 1956. He was 25 years 'of age one of the youngest represen tatives ever sent to the Legisla ture by Klamath County. "Would you run again for pub lic office?" a Jaycee asked. "I would run if the right oppor tunity presented itself," Kerbow replied. Kerbow also slated he believes Harry Boivin, stale senator from Klamath Falls, will be elected the next president of the State Senate. ' ROBESONS IN RUSSIA MOSCOW (UPI) - The official Soviet news agency Tass reported the arrival in Moscow Monday of American Negro singer Paul Robeson and his wife. The Robe- sons came here on the invitation of the Soviet Peace Committee, Tass said. if - Price Five Cents 10 Pages Fire Razes In Pendleton PENDLETON (AP) - A three story building in the heart of downtown Pendleton was a smok ing shell at dawn today after fire raged through it for hours; Six business houses, a physi cian's office and a scries of apart ments were wiped out. Damage was in six figures but there were no reliable early esti mates of loss. No one was hurt. Every available fireman fought the blaze in biting cold and snow that drifted down over pools of ice that spread out over streets and sidewalks. Firemen, too, were ice-coated as spray from the hoses froze on them. The temperature was 12 de grees at the weather station and much colder on unofficial down town thermometers. The burned structure was the Slangier Building, commonly re garded as one but actually two joined buildings with apartments on the second and third floors. It had a frontage of about half a block at SE 1st Ave. and Court St. It was occupied on the ground floor by Carl Sherwood Appli ances; Gillette Music Co.; Credit Bureau of Pendleton; Witherall & Witherall, accountants; Guy F Johnson Co., realty; Sherwood and Roberts, insurance; and Dr. Stan ley Simons, physician. The alarm was sounded at 11:34 p.m. Eight hours later firemen were still pouring water on the embers. Downtown traffic was disrupted as firemen blocked off a wide area to protect their hoses and to keep people off the hazardous ice. Ex-Admiral Fights Birds PHILADELPHIA (AP) Vice Adm. Raymond J. Mauerman (USN, Ret.) is at war with the birds. Mauerman is deputy commis sioner of public property. Recently he hung wartime sur plus submarine nets on the city's courtyard entrances to keep thou sands of pigeons from flying in. But the admiral lost his battle with the pigeons. Like everybody else, they now walk' into the courtyard entrances. Mauerman turned his attention to the thousands of starlings which roost above the city hall courtyard at dusk. They perch around a sixth-floor ledge and make a massive nuisance of themselves. Monday Mauerman launched a campaign with his own secret weapon noise. He sent two assistants to the eighth-floor roof with a shotgun filled with blank ammunition They fired away for about 15 minutes. The sound boomed over Penn Square. The starlings swooped off in a body. When it was all over, they swooped back. W -v KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, North west Paralyzed By Heaviest Sno wfal By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The heaviest snowfall in years all but paralyzed normal activity in a broad area of Northwestern Oregon and Southwestern Wash ington Monday night and today. Driving east winds whipped the snow into drifts that plugged side roads and caused major trouble on main highways. The snow continued to fall and forecasters said it might last all day and into Wednesday. Oregon's Gov. Mark Hatfield called on all people in Northwest Oregon to stay off the streets and highways unless their business was necessary. He canceled an evening trip to Newport, on the coast, where he was to have spoken. There was ice from freezing rain at Eugene. The snow began north of there, was 6 inches deep at Salem and 3 inches at Toledo, Wash. Portland's airport had 4 inches early today and the city's west hills had more with many drifts two and three feet deep. In the Columbia Gorge the snow was 7 inches deep and was being driven by winds that cut visibility almost to zero. Motorists were warned to stay off the highway there, U. S. 30, unless travel was mandatory. Drifts ranged to 4 feet deep. .1 The snow extended into Central and Eastern areas. At Redmond it was 13 inches deep and at Pendle ton it was 9 inches. All schools in the stricken area Texas-Oklahoma Strip Hit By Far-Ranging Storm By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A " far-ranging snowstorm that developed over the Texas-Okla homa Panhandle over the week end hammered the Northeast to day, dumping heavy falls in many areas. Northerly winds, trailing the storm, powered cold Canadian air southward from the Rockies across broad areas eastward. It was far below zero in sections of the Rockies. i Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Partial clearing today, with snow late tonight and Wed nesday. Highs 30-40; low tonight 18-24. High yesterday 35 Low last night 23 Precip. last 24 hours O.05 Since Oct. 1 1.; Same period last year 2.20 Low in area, Chemult 18 Northern California Rain spreading to most of the area to night and continuing Intermit tently Wednesday, becoming snow in the mountains; little change in temperatures. Coastal winds south erly, 20-30 miles an hour tonight with some stronger local gusts, diminishing to 15-25 miles an hour Wednesday. Personal Income Hits New Mark WASHINGTON (UPI) - Per sonal income hit a record high in December as factory production surged ahead to recoup steel strike losses. The Commerce Department said Monday incomes advanced about 1 per cent last month. The gain large for one month, lifted total personal income to an annual rate of $390,700,000,000. For all of 1959, incomes wages salaries, rents, profits, dividends and other payments to individuals totaled a reqord $380,100,000, 000. Sugar Fields Note Attacks HAVANA (AP) New fire-bomb attacks on several sugar cane fields were reported today. The semi-official newspaper Revolu cion said some of the planes came from the United Stales. Reports from Cicnfucgos said soldiers, militiamen, armed peas ants and workers opened fire Monday night on three light planes said to be dropping fire bombs on cane fields in the Sagua la Grande region. Another small plane dropped burning flares into a field near a sugar mill. TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1960 were closed. This extended from Eugene where ice caused it- through Salem, Portland and Van couver, Wash. Even Lewis and Clark Collese, in hilly southwest Portland, called off classes today. Portland's SW Broadway, the main business thoroughfare, was all but deserted at this morning's customary rush hour. But Monday night, when the snow came unexpectedly and caught motorists without chains, just about all streets in the city were jammed with stalled cars. Every uphill slope was fringed by abandoned aulomobiles. In the west hills many remained there this morning, under mounds of white. At Gresham, east of Portland, huge drifts closed highways and no early morning bus schedules were attempted. Hundreds of Gresham residents work in Port land and they were effectively cut off from their jobs. The toll bridge office between Portland and Vancouver said traf fic was thin this morning and the cars that were moving were go ing slowly. A truck-trailer rig upset this morning on the Banfield Express way at NE 83rd Ave. at Portland's eastern edge, further complicating traffic problems in that area. The Weather Bureau said there had not been so much snow in the Portland area since January, 1956. But to the south at Grants Pass, pavements were dry and the tern perature was 36 degrees. The Weather Bureau in Boston warned of heavy snow in southern New Hampshire and southern and central Maine, with falls of 4 to 8 inches in most areas and up to 10 inches along the Maine coast. Fairly heavy snow was reported in eastern New York. Sleet and freezing rain pelted southern New England, making driving hazardous. A fast moving coastal storm centered near southern Cape Cod during the early morning dumped 2 to 6 inches of snow from Massa chusetts northward into southern Vermont and New Hampshire and southwestern Maine. The snow belt extended from Michigan but westward the snow diminished considerably, wilh light falls in the upper and middle Mississippi Valley. Snow flurries continued in the Ohio Valley, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Tennes see and West Virginia. Light showers sprinkled areas from Connecticut southward through Virginia. Some fog also was re ported. The storm was blamed for at least 23 deaths. There were 7 in Nebraska, 5 in Colorado, 4 in Il linois, 3 in Wisconsin, 2 in New York and 1 each in Texas and Maine. Most of the deaths were in accidents on ice slicked and snow-covered highways. Crew Trying To Save Town KAPOHO, Hawaii (UPI) - Workmen began building two giant dikes early today in a grim race to keep a river of molten lava from destroying Kapoho. Giant bulldozers went to work on the eerie glow of Puna's lava fountains shortly after Gov. Wil liam Quinn declared the district a "major disaster area" and cabled President Eisenhower for federal emergency funds. The dike-building project was under the supervision of Dr. Gor don MacDonald, who directed the valiant but futile effort to save nearby Warm Springs resort Monday. MacDonald said he would build one earth barrier 1,500 feet long and a second barrier 1.000 feel long. They will be 20 feet high and 50 feet wide. The dikes will be used to divert a giant river of lava which threat ens this village, beach houses at Puna, and other populated areas. Quinn made his plea to Eisen hower Monday night after a two hour inspection tour of the strick en area. He said the lava flow, which is 30 feet deep in some sections, has covered 180 acres ol farm land. Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 6607 New Treaty Gives Japan Equal Status WASHINGTON ! (AP). - The United States and Japan today signed a treaty formally raising Japan, once a defeated, U.S.-oc- cupied World War 11 enemy, to the status of an equal partner in U.S.-Japanese relations. With President Eisenhower in attendance, Prime Minister No busuke Kishi signed for Japan and Secretary of Stale Christian A. Herter for the United States in a historic ceremony at the White House. Appropriately for historians, the signings took place in the East Room of the executive mansion the same room where Presidenl lames Buchanan received the first Japanese envoys when Japan resumed contact with (he outside world 100 years ago. The new defense treaty is sim ilar in many ways lo pacts Amer ica has signed wilh 41 othe.- free world Allies. America recognizes that an armed attack on Japan "would be dangerous lo its own peace and safety" and promises to "act to meet the common danger." Japan cannot pledge reciprocal ly to help defend U.S. territory in case of attack because her U.S. sponsored constitutional provision renouncing war is interpreted as barring her from sending troops outside Japan. But. Japan grants use of land, air and naval bases in Japan by U.S. forces without lime limit. The two countries agree to con sult "whenever the security of Japan or international peace and security in the Far East is threatened." They also promise lo collaborate economically and to settle any disputes between them by peaceful means .-- .The treaty will last at least 10 years, Alter that euner nauon must give a year's notice before canceling. New Petition Seen As Move SAN FRANCISCO (AP)-A new petition for a writ of habeas cor pus appears the next legal move in Caryl Chessman's 11 - year fight to cancel his date with death set for Feb. 19. This was indicated Monday by his attorney, George T. Davis, after U.S. Dist. Judge Louis E. Goodman denied a motion to set aside the convict-author's execu tion date. ' Davis had contended the Feb. 19 date was invalid on grounds a Los Angeles Superior Court, wHich set it, lacked jurisdiction. He argued that a slay granted by Judge Goodman in 1955 "remains in force." Goodman ruled thai his previ ous order "has long since been superseded by decisions of the State and U.S. Supreme Courts." fry, -S ' "'' j M I THIS CHARMING YOUNG MAN might be something of a charm himself. He attended th . OTI-Eastern Oregon basketball gams last Friday and encouraged OTI toward 64-6? victory, first in the Oregon Collegiate Conference, Next night OTI decided things mor decisively, 90-65. The charmer is 3-year-oU Billy Burrell, son of OTI yell king Glenn Bu roll. His admirers, from left, are Catherine Jeffries, Bev Casteel, Sharon McCollum, and Lynn Jordan. Plunge Of Turbo-Prop Ship Worst In Virginia History HOLDCROFT, Va. (AP) - A Norfolk-bound airliner groped er ratically through dense fog. then plunged into a swampy ravine near here late .Monday night. Fifty persons died in the flaming wreckage. The crash of the Capital Air lines prop-jet Viscount was the nation's worst air disaster in nearly a year and the worst in Virginia history. It wasn't until nearly 8 a.m. TAt'OMA (AP) Jerrold I). Knisely. 39, a Weyerhaeuser Company project engineer here, was among the 50 persons who died in the crash of a Capital Airlines Viscount in a marsh near Holdcroft, Va., Monday night. He was in the cast on company business. Knisely, a member of Weycr hacuser's engineering staff since 1951, is survived by the widow, Joyce, a daughter, Tallica Sue, 7, and a son, Mark Clayton, 2. He was born in Monte Vista, Coin., and was a 1951 graduate of the University of Washington as a major in electrical engineer ing. He was a Navy veteran and served from 1939 to 1945. more than nine hours after Ihe big four - engine plane dropped nearly straight down into the mushy ground thai rescue work ers could enter the cooling wreck age in search of the 40 passen gers and 4 crew members. The first body was brought out at 7:50 a.m. and by 9:15 a.m. searchers, crawling through the tangle on hands and knees, had emerged with six stretchers. By 11:30 a.m. about three-quar ters of the victims had been re moved from the plane and hauled up the sides of the ravine. From there Army trucks carried them to Richmond. Bernard C. Doyle of the Civil Aeronautics Board, Washington, said identifications had been made of some passengers. He said these were Ihe few who were still recognizable. Some passengers had seat belts on, Doyle said, an indication they may have had some inkling of im .pending trouble. " "Hafe you ever seen an old shed that's been set on fire andl fallen down with the tin roof on top of it?" asked John Finnegan Jr., a Richmond fire battalion chief who drove the 30 miles to offer assistance. "That's what it looked like. I would say absolutely there was no chance for anyone to get out of it." Among the victims were Mrs. Eugene Gilbert, 25, of New York City, a partner with her husband in youth research work; Albert W. Rueff, 52, and Charles A. Truhn Jr., 42, Ford Motor Co. ex ecutives at Louisville, Ky., and Ihe wife and stepson of a pilot for another airline, Mary Blanche O'Conncll and Troy Woodall Dur ham, 10. The plane, Capital Flight 20, was en route Irom Chicago to Norfolk via Washington. It left Washington at 9:45 p.m. and the pilot, Capt. James B. Fornasero, 50, a veteran of almost 20 years of airline flying, made a routine radio check with the Norfolk tow er while over Tappahannock. He was due at Norfolk at 10:30 p.m. Then at 10:20 p.m. farmer Rob ert H. Tench heard the plane cir cling over his home, 50 miles northwest of Norfolk. It made one pass overhead, too low, Tench thought, but "not so severe." Then a minute or so lat er "long enough to read a few sentences in my book" it cam over again. This time the hous shook.. ' "The third time he came over, the motors were wide open. Then she hit. The noise just stopped.,. When I heard Ihe engines slop, then I figured he'd gone into the river." , The yard was filled with black smoke, Tench said. From an up stairs window he could see "just a little glow" in the chick woods about 300 yards behind his home. The cause of the crash, second major air disaster in Virginia within three months,, remained unknown. Officials of Capital, Ihe Civil Aeronautics Board, the FBI and other agencies made on-the-spot studies, then moved to Rich mond to open official investigations. Marine Cries For Wife, Baby Girl NORFOLK, Va. (AP) Ma- rine William Robinson shuffled stiffly down the long hall leading out of Norfolk's Municipal Air port. He reached a corner, stopped and turned to his friend. Marine Kenneth Lyons. i 'My God, Zip," Robinson sobbed. He buried his face in his hands. His wife and 6-month-old daughter were among the 46 pas sengers and four crew members who died in the flaming crash of a Norfolk-bound Capital Air lines Viscount near Holdcroft Monday night. Robinson and Lyons were among a dozen relatives and friends who waited fearfully Jor ' news of the overdue plane. The airliner was to touch down here at 10:30 p.m. It fell and burst into flames near the Chick ahominy River in Charles City County 30 miles southeast of Richmond just before U:QO p.m. It was . 1 a.m. before Capital I officials began breaking the news 'nervously, gently. Some wept. Others took, it in shocked silence. ' m By 1:30 the ordeal was over for James Riddelle, customer service manager for Capital, and other Capital officials. But for those who waited trag edy was only beginning. , , Strafford Moss seemed to keep himself under control. His wife was on the plane. i Mrs. D. A. Hunter learned at 1:15 a.m. that her mother-in-law, Ida Hunter, was among the dead. She broke into tears,. Dr.. T. C. Royer, called to the airport by Capital officials, went to her side. Relatives and friends waited nervously in a partitioned room. Some smoked, some drank coffee. One woman sat by herself. looking out the window at the air port lights and twisting her hands in attitudes of prayer. ;, Relatives and friends were tak en lo a second-story dining room. Separately, Ihey were told of tho tragedy. . MOTHERLY-TYPE THIEF MONTGOMERY, Ala,. (UPI) , Police said today a "motherly type" thief swiped two dozen di apers from a backyard wash lint here
