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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 20, 1960)
In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS Trivia in the news: The U.S. department of com merce reports that foreign custo mers are complaining that many U.S. firms don't answer promptly inquiries from abroad about their products. Some of the foreigners quoted by the commerce depart ment say their letters and cable grams to American firms go un answered as long as two or three months. Hmmmmmmmmmm. Maybe a lot of these inquiries arrive during the coffee hour. More trivia: An upstate Oregon newspaper noted sapiently a while back that business men especially the up per bracket men of what we call Big Biz always have something to worry about. For years, it re marked, they have been worrying about reduction of defense spend ing, which might result in a de crease in orders. Now, it added, they are worry ing about this crackdown on ex pense accounts that the hold-over session of the congress that is just assembling appears to be acutely interested in. Let's put it this way: The proposed crackdown on big expense accounts works on the principle of what the medical men call a COUNTER IRRITANT. What's a counter irritant? It's something that makes you hurt SOMEWHERE ELSE to make you forget where you've been burling. There's always something to worry about. Even the politicians have their worries. One of them is the so-called CLEAN ELEC TIONS bill that has bobbed up in this hold-over session. One of its purposes is to require fuller re porting of campaign contributions. It's a hot potato. The politicians want all the campaign contribu tions they can get, but it's often embarrassing to report WHERE THEY CAME FROM. To make the situation even more embar rassing, Senator Hennings of Mis souriwho is a rather interesting character wants the rigid report' ing requirements extended to the state primary elections, as well as the general elections. He won an unexpected victory last night when the senate voted 50 to 39 to approve his amend ment to bring that about. ; Question: Why shouldn't conlribuliAns to primary election campaigns be just as fully reported as contribu tions to general election cam paigns? Isn't it just as important to know how much candidates are spend ing in the primary elections and WHERE THE MONEY IS COMING FROM as in the gen eral elections? In some ways, the primaries are more important than the gen eral elections. If we can't get good candidates, how are we go ing to get good officials? North Sea Hit By Fierce Gale LONDON (AP) A Dutch coast al vessel capsized and a German freighter was missing today in blizzard and hurricane force winds whipping the North Sea and the northern half of the British Isles. the 195-ton Dulch coaster Ber muda sank near The Hook of Hol land, the Norwegian radio at Stav anger reported. The number aboard was not learned. Five ships of three rations searched the raging North Sea for the 871-ton German freighter Lu hesand with 12 men on board. The Luhcsand radioed a desperate call for help Tuesday mWnight and had not been heard from since. A WILLING CREW of Klamath Union High School junior demonstrates tha services they will offer merchants January 23 in behalf of tha New March of Dimei. They are, from left, Beverly Herman, Sharon Vincie, Yie Alexander and Barbara Herman. Tough On Dads COLUMBUS, Ga. (UPD Wal lare E. Evans, 23, is living proof that childbirth Is sometimes harder on fathers than moth ers. Evans fainted when told by a doctor that he was the father of twin boys. When he hit the floor, he broke his nose, cut his lip, knocked out a tooth, sprained his bark and was admitted to the hospital as his wife was being wheeled out of the deliv ery room. Paratrooper Vows Loyalty To Army Boss PARIS (UPD-Paratroop Gen. Jacques Massu issued a carefully worded communique today pledg ing his loyalty to the chief of the French army in Algeria but not directly to President Charles de Gaulle. An angry De Gaulle abruptly summoned the major general to Paris Tuesday night for a show down on whether the paratroops hero was plotting an army-backed anti-De Gaulle uprising in Algiers. Massu was accused of harsh criticism of De Gaulle at a mo ment when unrest in Algeria was increasing every hour, both among the army and the right wing French settlers who fear a De Gaulle "sellout." It was Massu, 51, the lean and hawk-faced head of army and civilian affairs in Algiers that led the May 13, 1958, revolt which swept away the Fourth French Republic and brought De Gaulle to power. He was quoted this week by a German newspaper as saying in an interview the army was won dcring if it had made a mistake in backing De Gaulle, hinting at the use of force and accusing him of becoming a leftist. Later he denied making the statements Today after a long conference between Massu and Armed Forces Minister Pierre Guillaumat, Mas su again denied the interview and affirmed his loyally to the Algerian commander - in - chief, Gen. Andre Challe. Massu's third-person statement plso said "the efforts of General De Gaulle to restore peace in Al geria has conferred on him the confidence of the Moslem masses." His statement said nothing about the confidence of' the' Euro pean settlers in De Gaulle. But in Algiers it was eroding visibly, Army sound trucks rolled through the sunny streets of Al giers today blaring the declara lion last October of Paul de Louvrier, De Gaulle's chief civil administrator in Algeria: "France remains and will remain. The army remains and will remain.1 Preflight Search Bill Introduced WASHINGTON (AP) A bill which would require airlines to make preflight searches of lug gage and cargo for bombs and other destructive items was intro duced in the House today. Rep. James G. O'Hara (D Mich) offered the measure which would require examination of all articles except mail taken aboard commercial passenger aircraft. Private planes and cargo carriers would be exempt. O'Hara said it would not neces sarily require that passengers open all luggage because X-ray equipment "may provide adequate examinations." Senate investigators have sug gested that bombings may have been involved in the recent de struction of two airliners with a loss of 76 lives. Pi Ice Five Cents 20 Pages EARL AGER Supervisor Files Again TULELAKE Earl Ager, mem ber of the Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors, District No. 1, to day announced his candidacy for a second four-year term on the board. Ager, a native, and third gen eration member of a Siskiyou County family, was appointed four years ago to fill out the unexpired term of the late Howard Dayton, Tulelake, who died soon after be ing elected. The appointment, made by Gov. Goodwin Knight, was for the two-year period until another election. Ager, a candi date, was then elected for a two year term. The candidate was born at Ager, California, town named for his family, and came to Tulelake to engage in business in 1929 continu ing for many years in the retail grocery field and in ranching. The family ranch home is on Highway 139 near Tulelake. Hawaii Town Dies Slowly KAPOHO, Hawaii (UPD "Watching a town die is an ugly sight." This is the way a reporter de scribed the situation today at this tiny Hawaiian village, which ap pears certain to be buried by lava from Kilaeua Volcano's latest eruption. Weary bulldozer operators worked throughout the night build ing a huge dike of earth, but they admitted fears that the wall would not withstand the pressure of the moving mountain of lava which looms over Kapoho. If the 2,500-foot dike fails to hold, the creeping river of molten rock will have nothing to prevent it from smothering two million dollars worth of real estate lying along the Hawaii coast. At noon Tuesday, the lava flow was only 100 yards from the-Nak- amura store in the center of Ka poho. At 3 p.m. it was only 90 yards away, and all cars were or dered out of the village as huge cracks began splitting the side of the cinder cone facing Kapoho. By 6 p.m. the lava had advanced another 20 yards. BULLETIN WASHINGTON (AP) President Eisenhower will visit Japan start ing about June 20 on his way home from a tour of Russia. Dimes Drive Mark Sought Klamath Union High School stu dents are out to duplicate or bet ter a feat they performed for the March of Dimes last year. Beginning Thursday they will sell balloons, peanuts and doughnuts, wash windows maybe cars and canvass Main Street with canis ters, in an effort to top the more than $1,700 they collected last year. All proceeds will go again to the New March of Dimes, the charity organization dedicated to treatment of and research into polio, arth ritis and congenital defects. , At stake in competition between classes is the stupendous privilege of sitting in the senior section dur ing a major assembly in Pelican Court. No tradition at KUI1S is so jealously guarded as the "sen iors only" section on the main floor of the court. Each class president Is chair man for the class fund-raising drive. They are Don Piper for the freshmen, Kathleen Brauner, soph- (Continued en Page 6A) , i v - r KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, Either-Sex Deer Question To Be Resolved By Group SACRAMENTO (UPD -Assemblywoman Pauline L. Davis, chairman of the Assembly Fish and Game Committee, will ap point a citizens group this week to resolve the dispute over either- sex deer hunting in California. The committee agreed Tuesday to select a Citizens Advisory Com mittee on Big Game at a session held to discuss sportsmen's views or. policies of the Fish and Game Department. Assemblyman John Williamson U-Bakerslield mane a surprise motion to establish the group. The motion was approved without op position. Williamson said the committee, which he envisioned as having be tween 10 and 15 members, would be appointed by Mrs. Davis. Under the resolution adopted by the committee, Mrs. Davis would be required to make appointments that will provide a representative cross section of sportsmen's groups and ot state and federal agencies. Williamson's resolution added that the committee would "meet 3 Children Die In Fire SMELTERV1LLE, Idaho (UPD Three children ranging from 2 months to 7 years died in their beds early today when their one story frame home was swept by flames. The youngsters were the chil dren of Mr. and Mrs. George Ackerman. Mrs. Ackerman escaped with singed hands and face but was taken to Shoshone General Hos pital in nearby Kellogg, Idaho. Her condition was listed as good. The father was away .. from home at the time. Kellogg Fire Chief Bill Linhart said an overheated oil stove out- side ...the,, door-. to , the .. bedroom. where the two older children slept probably set a wall on fire. The baby was sleeping in a room with the mother about 10 feet from the spot where the fire started. Linhart said Mrs. Ackerman awoke to find the home in flames and ran to the home of a neighbor who called the Kellogg fire de partment. "By the time we topped the hill going into smelterville the sky was all lit up," Linhart said. "The children never moved. They were right there in their beds as though they were asleep. There was noth ing we could do. They were dead long before we got there. Irate Widow Walks Home CINCINNATI (AP) A defiant '8-year-old widow who vowed ;he'd go to jail before giving up her driving license had to do both Tuesday. Mrs. Martha W. Schaelcr was carried to jail on a stretcher by police when she refused to ac company officers to a scheduled court session. The jail stay lasted nearly three hours. Mrs. Schaefcr was finally persuaded to enter Judge Gilbert Bellman's courtroom voluntarily. Officials of the state drivers' li cense department had been trying since last May to get Mrs. Schaefer to surrender her license. They contended her vision is too poor for driving. Tuesday's court session was to answer a charge of failure to sur render the permit. When she finally showed up, the judge made confiscation of the license official and fined her $25 and costs. She paid the fine in cash and turned down an offer of a ride home. "I'd rather walk," she said. Big Phone Bill To Be Discarded FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - That $1,042 in long distance telephone tolls talked up by 13-year-old Helen Jackson? The company has agreed to forget that. But Pacific Telephone Co. of ficials said Tuesday the padlock will remain on the phone at the Jackson home. An investigation disclosed Helen made 462 calls to Ixis Angeles in December 1958 and charged them to olher Fresno numbers. Com pany attorney Nathan Guthertz said the girl's widowed mother, Myrtle Jackson, admitted the lia bility but is unable to pay the bill, so the company wrote it off the books. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1960 at its discretion and report il opinions and recommendations on1 big game management to the 'F&G Committee! sometime prior to the 11 general session of the Legislature." Mrs. Davis raid she would ap point the committee late this week but was unable to say how many members would be asked to serve. Williamson said his move result ed from field trips taken by the committee at which he noted dis sension among individual sports club members over deer manage ment policies of Ihe Fish and Game Department and the com mission. Walter T. Shannon, new director of the fish and game agency, said he would push for either-sex deer hunts. He said such hunts were sound game management. But at Tuesday's committee ses sion. Shannon said the department had no desire to "shove antlerless hunts down people's throats." He pointed out that the great major ity of western states have cither- sex hunts. This comment came after Bur ton Banzhaf, president of the Ukiah Rod and Gun Club, had testified that his group believes Ihe department is spending loo much money trying to convince people that antlerless deer hunt ing will benefit deer herds. The final witness at the two-day hearing was Edward Bruce, pres ident of the California Wildlife Federation. He testified that his organization, which claims 100,000 members, would oppose Gov. Ed mund G. Brown's $1,750,000,000 water bond issue if the governor does not call a special session this year to make allowance for rec reational facilities in the water program. Identity Try Made By Kin RICHMOND, Va. (UPD-Griev- mg relatives of 50 men, women and children killed in the crash oi a jet-powered airliner con verged on Richmond today to try to identify the charred remains of their loved ones. The last of the blackened bodies was brought to the morgue at a downtown Richmond hospital Tuesday afternoon more than 15 hours after the Capital Air lines Viscount crashed into a creek bed near Holdcroft, Va. and burst into flames. Officials stood by to assist the relatives as they try to find their kin among the bits of remains lying in baskets side by side. Watches, rings and other items of jewelry, carefully labeled be fore being removed from the bodies, were spread out on a ta ble to assist in making the iden tifications. Officials believed dental X-rays will be, required in most cases. The bodies were so badly burned that only seven could be identi fied immediately. Weather Klamath Falls and vicinity Variable clouds through Thursday. A few snow flurries In the moun tains. High 33-40; low tonight 20 30. , . ' High yesterday 38 Low last night 23 Precip. last 24 hours 0 Since Oct. 1 1.80 Same period last year 2.20 Low in area, Klamath Falls, Chiloquin 23 CRATER LAKE High yesterday 25 Low last night 21 8 a.m. today i. 24 No new snow Snow depth 53 Last year 34 Year before 101 Skiing powder Roads open; chains advised. Diamond Lake Road was closed officially for the season at noun on Tuesday, according to the klamath Falls office of the Oregon Slate Highway Department. This road, Oregon Route 230, had been reduced (n one-way traf fic with roadside snow depth of 62 Inches on the east side from Ihe direction of Klamath Falls, and 57 Inches from the west, or Rnseburg side. Northern California Rain at lower elevations and snow In the mountains from Yosemlle north ward by Thursday. Slightly warm er. Gale warnings on the coast for southerly winds, 30-50 miles an hour at times. ' Telephone TU 4-811 No. 66118 NIKOLAI BELYAEV Reds Remove Former Aide MOSCOW (UPD Radio Mos cow today announced a major re- liuffle in the government of the Kazakhstan Republic and con firmed that Nikolai BMyacv has been removed as the republic's Communist party chief. The broadcast said Kazakhstan Premier Dinmukhamcd Kunaev replaced Belyaev as Communist party first secretary. A session of the Kazakhstan Su preme Soviet in Alma Ata today named Z h u m a b e k Tashcnev, former chairman of the Supreme Soviet, to replace Kunaev as pre mier of the republic. Elected to replace Tashcnev was Deputy Korebzhannv (no first name given), Moscow Radio said. Leonid Brezhnev, member of the ruling party presidium in Moscow and a secretary of the Soviet Com munist party Central Committee, hltcndcd the Alma Ata session. The brief Moscow radio broad cast made no mention ot Belyaev by name. In li)57 Premier Nikila Khrush chev sent Belyaev to the huge grain-producing Kazakhstan Re public as a trouble shooter. Khrush chev's . massive virgin lands scheme centers largely on Kazak hstan. Last month, at a Central Com mittee meeting in Moscow, Khrushchev sternly criticized Bel yaev for failing to report to Mos cow serious shortcomings in the Kazakhstan agricultural situation. The first hint that more than a reprimand was in store for Bel yaev came last week when the So viet news agency Tass listed him without title among a number of people awarded a medal for "la bor valor." Belyaev has been the only mem ber of the ruling presidium work ing outside Moscow. He was also a secretary of the Central Com mittee. Last week, fellow presidium member Alcxei Kirichenko also apparently fell out of favor. He was assigned to the regional par ty secretaryship in far-off Rostov on the Don River. Apparently, Kirichenko was removed from the presidium and the Central Com mittee secretariat. Flu Estimate LOS ANGELES (AP) - Public health agencies estimate at least one million Los Angeles County residents have been stricken by Asian flu during Ihe current out break. Health officials said absen teeism was running about 15 per cent of the working population and 116.000 school children were absent in the city. i or ; 4 .1 lit " 4 t?WL .. , " J- - ..,rx FRIGID WINDS blowing off Warner Rim have frozen steam vapor from famous Crump geyier, creating a three-acre field of ice and burdening surrounding fences with a hard, brittle curtain, but sub-zero weather has neither diminished its 230 degree temperatura nor lessened its 150-foot spout. Tha spectacular eruption became tha subject of contro. veny when it blew in July I on land owned by Charlev Crump north of Adal in Lake Coun. ty and State Engineer Lewis A. Stanley ordered tha Nevada power firm that drilled tha well to cap it. In August Stanley agreed to rescind tha order and Lake County residents, who are claiming the world's tallest geyser, are waiting to lee if it will be a permanent at traction or will finally subsida at sceptics have predicted. Photo by Ernest McKinnay Fifty-Eight Perish In 2 Air ANKARA, Turkey (AP) Two planes crashed in Turkey a few hours apart Tuesday and all the 58 persons aboard them were be lieved killed. Wreckage of a U.S. Navy plane that disappeared with 10 persons on a daylight flight from liota, Spain, to the U.S. air base at Adana, Turkey, was sighted today on Karanfil t pink Mountain, 15 miles northwest ot Adana. Turkish sources said there was no sign of life. Forty-two persons, all aboard, were lost in the crash of a Scan dinavian Airlines jet Tuesday night on a hill near Ankara, 250 miles to the northwest. The Ankara disaster was the third crash of a commercial air liner since 1900 began less than three weeks ago. It broucht the death toll for commercial aviation this year to 126. 1 He J.S. Navy plane, a twin- engine P4M reconnaissance am phibian, made a routine refueling stop Tuesday at Naples, Italy, and then took oft for Adana. It was due there at 3:45 p.m. 5:45 a.m. PST). A hunt by air! iround and sea was launched when the plane, after making ra dio contact with the base while about 50 miles from Adana, failed to show up. A British search plane was first to spot the wreckage, on a peak about 9,500 feet high. An Ameri can rescue team of 40 men set out for the area. Names of the persons on the Navy plane were withheld. The dead in the Ankara crash included one American, James Hopkins of Birmingham, Mich., a chemical engineer for the Pfizer Corp. stationed in Istanbul. He was going to Cairo on business. Also aboard was a Canadian woman identified as Mariclla Laurrendcn and two Britons. One victim. 37-year-old Per Ek- berg of Halsingborg, Sweden, was on his way to Cairo to bring home the ashes of his father, the Swed ish consul general there, who died Jan. 11. ine pianc was a r rcncn-nuiu twin-jet Caravelle operated by Scandinavian Airlines. It was the first commercial cvash for the Caravelle since Air France and the Scandinavian line began using it a year. jago. ,. , The plane encountered heavy rain and wind as . it approached Ankara,, but airport experts saidl the crash "was caused by techni cal reasons not the weather." The Caravelle had left Stockholm and Copenhagen Tuesday and had stopped in Duesseldorf, Germany, Vienna, Austria, and Istanbul From Ankara It was to fly on to Damascus and Cairo. As it ap proached Ankara it carried 3: passengers and a crew of 7. About five minutes before he was to land, the pilot asked the Ankara airport control tower for landing clearance. He reported an altitude of 6,500 feet, then went silent. Airport workers saw a bright flash and put out an alarm. Rescue teams found the wreck age scattered over anout sou square yards. Half the plane lay on one slope of a hill about 75 yards high. The rest lay on anoth- NW Jet Service Set For April PORTLAND (AP) United Air Lines will start DC-8 jet service from Portland April 5, a vice president of UAL says. H. J. Merchant, once UAL dis trict manager in Portland, said the flights will connect New York, San Francisco, Chicago and Los Angeles. Merchant flew lo Portland from his Chicago address and made the announcement in a Rotary Club speech. Crashes er slope. Bodies were strewn ovet too yards. Three persons were found alive. Two died soon after. The third, a woman, died in an Ankara hos pital this morning. Navy Photog Gives Account Of Sighting I HONOLULU (AP) - A Navy photographers' mate supplied an eyewitness account of the sighting of three Soviet ships deployed to participate in the Soviet rocket shoots southwest of Hawaii. Eugene Mccce, Daylon, Ohio, said he was on patrol in a P2V patrol plane Jan. 14 and 15 when the ships were sighted and photo graphed. "We picked up three ships in a heavy overcast with visibility limited to about six miles. All three were in line and steaming along at about six knots with the Sibir leading," Meece said Tues day. "Following Ihe Sibir were the Suchan and the Sakhalin." He said Ihe Sibir and the Sak halin were almost of equal size. The Suchan was smaller. He said the Sibir and Sakhalin had three bubble-like turrets. painted while, forward and aft. 'The largest of these appeared to be nearly 40 feet high," the sailor said. The ships were identified by the Soviet names -on their bows and their Soviet flags. On Jan. 15, Mccce said, "we flew out from Johnston Island to make another contact. This time the three ships were stationed in a triangular pattern, six miles apart and they appeared to be making no headway.", A Navy spokesman said movie I film Mccce exposed was sent to Washington for clearance and possjble relcase to tne pres5. . Court Nixes - SALEM (AP) The Oregon Su- preme Court today rejected an at- Icnipt by the state Legislature to increase the salaries of its 90 members from $600 a year to $2,100. The court ruled unconstitutional a 1959 law making that increase. It held that the people, and not the Legislature, should decide what legislators should be paid. The suit was brought by state Sen. Ben Chapman (D-Coos Bay), who contended that the $600 sal ary provided in the Constitution is not a limit on the salary. But the Supreme Court, in unanimous decision by Justice Hall S. Lusk, ruled that it is a limit. At (he same time that the Legis lature passed the law to increase its salaries, it also proposed a con stitutional amendment to boost the limit to $2,100 a year. This constitutional amendment will be on the ballot at the pri mary election on May 20. The people voted in 1950 to in crease legislative pay from $8 I day for the first 50 days of each session, lo a flat $600 a year. Since then, the people have voted three times against going beyond the $600 figure. These votes against further in creases were 296,008 to 216.545 in 1954 , 338,365 to 320,741 in 1956, and 316.437 to 236,000 in 1958.
