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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 20, 1960)
PAGE 10 A HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls. Ore. Wednesday. Jan. 20, 1960 Three Vie For Jaycee Award One of three candidates select ed Monday by the Klamath Kalis Junior Chamber of Commerce will win the year's Distinguished Serv ice Award during the annual Jay cee awards banquet Friday eve ning in the Willard lintel. The candidates are Wayne I'lais ted, Paul Cruikshank and the Itcv. Robert Groves. .Three candidates for the year's ' Outstanding Young Farmer' award also have been announced The men are Duane Blackmail Howard Holliday and Norman Ja cob. NAMES OF the three candidates for the "Senior Citizen" award, given for the first time this year, have not been announced. Plaistcd is an employe of Merit Service Supply in Klamath Falls He is an officer of the Klamath Falls Jaycecs. A member of the Church of the Brethren, he has served as church financial secre tary and is serving on the church board of directors. He has been a member of the church camp staff and of a com mittee to study ways to furnish the parsonage. He is also active in the church men's club. As a member of the county YMCA, Plaisted is volunteer ad viser to the Modoc Chapters, Hi-Y Club, a YMCA club for high school age youngsters. He is assistant instructor of the Y Rifle Club which he organized jix years ago. He is also an ac tive member of the Y Camp Com mittee, and a volunteer camp lead er during the Y's camping pro gram for boys during summer all Diamond Lake. often for hard work and drive major factors in the success of the l'Jfiu campaign. Goal was at tained for the first time since the drive began in 1953. Cruikshank is a member of the Board of Deacons of the local First Presbyterian Church. He is an ad viser of the Senior High West minster Fellowship. He and his wife, Alice, also are active in oth er church functions. He is a member of the Klam ath County Chamber of Com merce Board of Directors and was chairman of the chamber Indus trial Development Committee last year. He is a group discussion leader in a local course called "Practical Politics." He was co division chairman of the cham ber's fund raising drive last spring. Heverend Groves, 35, was grad uated in 1048 from Occidental Col lege. He also was graduated from San Francisco Theological Sem inary. He spent two years in the Navy. HE ItKCAME PASTOR of First Presbyterian Church in Ukiah California, in HHl and served there until 1!158 when he came to Klamath Falls. He was named young man of the year in Ukiah in IMS. Reverend Groves first planned to study engineering, but changed his mind. He "is very busy in civic af fairs," say Jaycecs. "He tackles community problems as though Ihey were his own." Reverend Gro.vcs and his wife. Jean, have three boys, Robert Michael, Thomas, and Eugene. PROP WASH By HAROLD JONES City Airport Manager Eighteen members of Klamath Falls Chapter, Oregon Pilots As sociation, in addition to members of other Oregon Chapters, gath ered January 9 at Corvallis and saw new state officers of OPA installed following a steak dinner at the Country Kitchen. Installing officers were Dick Boubel, retir ing state president, who with Jim I'oirot, retiring secretary-treasurer spoke briefly. A past-president's pin was pre sented to the retiring president, an electric coffee maker to Mr. and Mrs. Poirot. Members of various chapters were introduced and gave a few remarks. New officers of the Corvallis Chapter are all women pilots with Mrs. Livingston as president. The new state president, Ned Sentencing lis Delayed Putnam, Klamath Falls, outlined plans for advancing interest in fly ing and projects for the coming year, urging cooperation of all chapters. Sentencing of Leonard Marvin Lugo, 21, lound guilty last week Among these projects is publica- Brother Aids Po!Io Victim BOISE, Idaho (API-Polio vic tim J. C. Warren drives his wheel chair up and down stairs without help, thanks to an inventive col laboration with his brother. Van. Both are students at College of Idaho in nearby Caldwell. J. C. did all right on level surfaces, but he needed help getting up and down stairs. Van carried him wheel chair and all. They have invented a rubber- treaded platform which can climb and rincfpnH clairc nnuAi-nH hv ,nu umuvi w, , ,,vK, lwo srnall electric motors. The CRUIKSHANK CAME to Klam alh Falls in July, i'.m, and with in a month became associate chairman of the l!)59 United Fund campaign. He is superintendent of the Great Northern Railway in Klamath Falls at 2D. the young est man ever to hold that position. He was UF drive chairman for the 19B0 campaign which was completed recently. He was praised at 6:45 p.m.. Featured speaker wi be Harlan Bosworth, a former win ner of the Distinguished Service Award in Klamath Falls, now vice president and assistant gen eral manager of the California Ore gon Power Company. He is sta tioned in Medfnrd. wheel chair is rolled aboard, clamped in, and J. C. now handles the stairs easily. The device is heavy 200 pounds and its low center of gravity keeps the chair and passenger from tipping. Van, who says he has a patent pending on the device recently demonstrated it to offi- The seacoast of Maine is 3,47Rcials of the Roise Elks Rehahilita- milcs long. jtion Center. They were impressed. tion of a monthly bulletin to be compiled by his office and sent to officers of each chapter; a state wide picnic during the summer for exchange of ideas and cementing of friendships; increased visits among members of chapters and development of a special project by chapters for benefit of the stale organization. He also urged all chapters to schedule dates for events as far in advance as possible to prevent conflicting dates, and urged chap ters to send in news and pictures of new officers to the Oregon Air News. Earl Snyder, state director of Aeronautics, and Mrs. Snyder were dinner guests in addition to Bob Dunn, assistant slate direc tor, who is also the new presi dent of the Salem Chapter. Elmo Smith, new state director, especially urged each chapter to do everything possible to prevent the closing of any airports in their area and to work toward the build ing of more landing strips. "Because of the rapid growth of civil aviation we are going to run out of places for pilots to land at the rate that airports are be ing closed down for various rea sons, Smith said. He urged that chapters seek cooperation of city and county officials in keeping air ports activated. Two new areas in Oregon have applied for charters, Hillsboro and Newport with Madras, Coos Bay- North Bend, Bandon, Lakeview and The Dalles also showing in terest. President Putnam has already gone into action to set up com mittees to get new chapters or- anized in these areas. It is estimated there are ap proximately 3,000 pilots in the stale, who with their wives can become members of OPA. of first degree murder was de layed in circuit court Tuesday un til a defense motion for mistrial may be argued The motion offered by Attorney Glenn D. Ramiroz takes strong is sue with statements District At torney Arthur Beddoe made in his closing argument before the jury. Beddoe was quoted as saying, "It is a standing, joke throughout Oregon , . , that if you want to commit murder and get away with it, do your killing in Klamath County." The motion maintained this was improper argument and said the district attorney asked for a first degree conviction, "not based upon the evidence, but by an appeal to passion. It alleged that Beddoe asked the jury "to convict this de fendant because others have gone free." The motion also maintained that Beddoe was improper in telling the jury (1) Lugo lied from the witness stand, (2) Lugo "obvious ly was carefully groomed and carefully coached as a witness," and (31 that bartender Loyal John son of The Office bar lied about threats the victim made on Lugo's life. Lugo was convicted at the close of a week-and-a-half long trial of first degree murder in the shooting of Joseph Owen Martinez II, 26, over a dispute concerning Lugo's attentions toward Martinez', es tranged wife, Patty Gibbons Mar linez. t.fV, , OR. H. tributions support the research, education and community service programs of the American Heart Association, Its affiliates and chapters." Deaths due to diseases of heart have increased 11.8 per cent in the first nine months of 1059, com pared to the same period in 1958, the local chairman pointed out. "These figures from the Oregon State Board of Health show this is not only a national problem but one that must be faced In thi state, and in this community," the new chairman said. GET YOUR SHARE $1,000,000 in Prizes - Hurryl Ph. TU 4-8484 Alii. & Ev.i. M. AMSBERRY TO ATTEND FESTIVAL TAMPA. Fla. (UPI) Mayor Jose Llamusas of Havana, Cuba, will attend the annual Gasparilla Festival beginning here Feb. 8 to "help eliminate present misunder standings between America and Cuba," Cuban Consul Rene De- chard said Tuesday. Heart Post Given Dentist H. M. Amsberry, D.D.S., Klam ath f alls, has been named 1960 Heart Fund chairman for Klam ath County. The financial cam paign will open February 1 and climax on Heart Sunday, Febru ary 28, when local volunteers will make door-to-door visits. . R. L. 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