In The-
Day's lews
By FRANK JENKINS
This is a strange world, and the
news it produces every day is a
strange mixture. There is the ease,
for instance, of little Vicki Pil
grim and her algae cookies.
Vicki's father is the head of the
BIOCHEMISTRY unit of the Boe
ing Airplane Company, in Seattle
What's biochemistry? Webster
tells us it is "the chemistry of
plant and animal life."
That prompts another question:
Why is Boeing, whose chief busi
ness is building airplanes (the big
ger the better), interested in bio
chemistry to the extent of main
(aining a biochemical unit head
ed by a distinguished biochemist?
It's a long story.
We'll merely brief it here.
Boeing is also interested in mis
tiles. Missiles, (in addition to car
rying warheads that can blow our
enemies, if they get too brash
into Kingdom Come) are the ve
hicles by means of which space
travelers hope eventually to reach
the unknown worlds that spin in
cuter space.
This is the point:
If mundane space travelers
(mundane meaning of or pertain
ing to THIS world) are to roach
these other worlds that spin in
outer space, THEY MUST HAVE
SOMETHING MUNDANE TO EAT
ON THE WAY THERE AND
BACK.
That's where Dr. Pilgrim and his
Boeing biochemical unit come in.
He thinks maybe ALGAE may be
IT. Algae is not only a possible
source of food for mundane be
ings. It is also a possible source
of OXYGEN, which mundane crea
tures must also have if they are
to go on living.
So he has been fooling around
with it in his biochemical labora
tory (we lowbrows call it fooling
around; the scientists call it re
searching.) Dr. Pilgrim's research
has made one thing plain to him.
Algae has a drawback. Its draw
back is that it looks like scum
and tastes like hay. If space trav
elers are to take to it willingly,
it must be improved.
As nearly as one can gather
from the souped-up story when a
Seattle feature writer got through
with it, Dr. Pilgrim blanched some
of the green stuff under fluores
cent lights, and it came out look
ing somewhat like ordinary white
flour.
That's where Vickl comes in.
She baked some of the green
stuff and Some of the white stuff
into cookies. The green ones came
out of the oven still looking like
scum and tasting like hay, but
the white stuff came out LOOK
ING LIKE COOKIES AND TAST
ING LIKE COOKIES.
So-
You see
A long step forward in the con
quest of outer space may have
been taken and all because of a
little girl who liked to put on her
apron and fool around in the kitch
en. The next time YOUR little;
girl wants to fool around in the
kitchen, don't discourage her. You
never can tell what may come of
it.
In conclusion a thought:
Here in our State of Jefferson,
this algae business interests us. In
Upper Klamath Lake and the
lakes down in California's Lake
county we have enough of it, it
sometimes seems to us, to feed
all the space travelers that may
ever take off into the far reaches
of outer space.
Giant Bulldozers
Erect New Dike
HONOLULU, Hawaii (API-Fifteen
giant bulldozers today were
hastily erecting a new dike in an
attempt to save another threatened
area from erupting Kilauea's lava
on Hawaii island.
A SPECIAL AWARD in the form of a permanent plaque, went to Carl W. Pendleton, long
time citizen of Lake County, at Monday night's annual banquet of the Lake County Cham
ber of Commerce. The honor, given for his many years of community service, is the first
mad. by the organization. Seated, left to right, are Carl W. Pendleton; Mrs. A n n .
Sprague, who received th. senior first citizen award; Thomas J. Flynn, receiver of th.
Junior first citizen award. Standing, left to right, are Ernest McKinney, secretary-manager
of th. Lake County chamber; Robert F. Nichols, banquet chairman; Don Maxwell, rftmng
pr.iident; Michael Drury, Irish vice-consul, San Francisco, who was guest speaker; Richard
ko.bite!, vie. pr.sid.nt of th. chamb.r; R. C. "Bud" Burgess, chamb.r president, and
Ed C.sfo, tr.asur.r. Photo by Jon.s Studio
Car Wrecker
In Plunge
Off Cliff
A heavy auto wrecker slipped
from its roadside hold last night
and plunged down a steep em
bankment onto a wrecked car 40
to 60 feet below.
A few minutes earlier the
wrecker had pulled up a stretcher
bearing the victim of the auto
accident.
At the time the wrecker slipped,
a state police officer was guiding
himself down the steep bank by
holding the wrecker cable. He
leaped aside after hearing a warn
ing shout, and narrowly escaped.
The wrecker shot down the hill,
knocked the car 16 feet, flipped
over, and landed on top of the
car. .
State police said the chain of
events began about 9 p.m.- when
the car driven by Sammy Floyd
Cannon, 42, 2244 Kiln Street,
rounded the "97 Viewpoint" curve
on Green Springs Drive just south
of the city, and plunged over the
bank. Police said Cannon may
have been driving too close to the
edge of the highway.
Peace Ambulance was called to
remove the driver, who was lying
at the foot of the bank a few feet
from the car. Peace called a
wrecker from Balsiger Motor Com
pany to pull up a stretcher be
cause the bank was too steep to
negotiate without help. "It was
impossible to get him up any oth
er way," Peace said.
Peace, the wrecker driver, and
State Police Officer Ronald John
son attached a wrecker cable to
the stretcher and guided the
stretcher up the hill. Peace took
Cannon to Klamath Valley Hos
pital. Shortly afterward Officer John
son was returning to the wrecked
car, using the wrecker cable to
steady his hold. "Somebody shout
ed to look out," Johnson said in
his noncommittal police report.
"and the wrecker came down
the bluff."
Bystanders said Johnson leaped
out of the way just before the
heavy wrecker rushed past him.
The wrecker hit the car on the
right side, knocked it 16 feet, and
flopped over on top of it. The
car was totally demolished.
Cause of the wrecker's plunge
still was undetermined early to
day. Garage personnel theorized
that locking hill-holder brakes had
failed.
We had a rock behind the
back wheel, and all that, when
we pulled the stretcher up," Peace
said. "I'm sure glad it didn't hap
pen earlier."
Cannon, the car accident victim.
was given X-rays at the hospital.
The extent of his injuries had not
been fully determined, but he was
reported in good condition.
Cancer Fight
Progress Told
LONDON (AP) Three doctors
working in a British hospital re
ported today they have success
fully treated victims of advanced
lung cancer with a new drug de
veloped from mustard gas.
A medical team led by Scots
man Dr. Gordon Jack used the
drug, tretamine, on 43 apparently
hopeless cases at Manchester's
Baguley Hospital.
But for tretamine most of them
would have been dead within
three months, they claim.
Writing in the medical maga
zine Lancet, the doctors report
that of 43 cases, 30 showed im
provement.
In 10 of these tumor growth was
halted and reduced. Four cases
showed even more startling re
sults.
STILL A PROBLEM
JACKSON, Miss. (UPD Police
today said they doubted they
would find the owner of a con
crete building that was destroyed
by an explosion Tuesday night.
The building housed a liquor still.
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2 Survivors
Continue Trip
Via Ship
MONTEGO BAY. Jamaica (AP)
Two survivors of the Colombian
airliner crash that killed 37 Der-
sons said today they will make
the last leg of their jinxed trip
to tcuador by ship.
"I don't care if we have to go
to Greenland to get a ship," said
Ian Kelton, 47, a United Nations
official traveling with his wife to
a new assignment in South Am
erica.
The Keltons, two Dutch passen
gers and five crew members es
caped virtually unhurt in the
crash early Thursday of the Avi-
anca airliner from New York.- All
17 Americans aboard were killed.
There had been one interruption
before the Super-Constellation of
the Avianca Colombian National
Airline met tragedy on this Car
ibbean holiday island. A coughing
engine forced a 10-hour stopover
for repairs in Miami. Four passen
gers quit the plane there.
Kelton, a Scotsman attached to
(lie U.N. Food and Agricultural
Organization, told relatives who
telephoned that he and his wife
were "both excellently all right.
"We are not even blemished,1
he said. "But I think we might
dispense with planes for a while.
We intend to wait for a ship if we
can get one to Ecuador. We might
have to go to Miami to get a ship
I don't care if we have to go to
Greenland.
When the big plane overturned
and exploded in flames after set
ting down here, the Keltons
wrenched their way out through
an emergency exit and splashed
through a swampy lagoon to safe
ty. "There was absolutely no warn
ing of the crash," said Kelton.
We came out of a rain squall at
Montego Bay and started onto the
runway."
Weather
Klamath Falls and vicinity
Partly cloudy through Saturday,
Low tonight 22-28; high Saturday
40-45.
High yesterday .... 40
Low last night 28
Precip. last 24 hours trace
Since Oct. 1 1.80
Same period last year 2.20
Low In area, Chllnquin 22
CRATER LAKE
High yesterday 30
Low last night 23
8 a.m. today 25
New snow .3
Snow depth 51
Last year 34
Year before last 102
Skiing Very Good
Chains are advised for travel on
Highway 62 and from Annie
Springs to the rim. Skies slightly
overcast this morning and there
were intermittent light snow show
ers. The warming hut will be open
on Saturday and Sunday.
WARNER CANYON
Skiing expected to be good this
weekend with tows operating from
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday and
Sunday; snack bar and warming
hut open both days. Thirty inches
of new snow fell this week.
Northern California Scattered
showers through Saturday. Slightly
cooler tonight and occasional light
snow in the mountains. Southerly
coastal winds 20-35 miles an hour
from Point Reyes northward with
smallcraft warnings.
KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON.
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REPUBLICAN PROSPECTS for I960 were given a thorough review by Peter Gunnar, third
from left, Republican State Central Committee chairman, who spoke to Klamath County
Republicans Thursday night at the Winema. Shown here are Ed Geary, left, Ben Adair,
Klamath County Central Committee chairman; Gunnar, and Anne Wattors, central com
mittee vice chairman.
Wife Tells TV Audience
Mate Didn't Bomb Ship
DALLAS, Tex. (AP) Mrs
Frances Spears said today she
wouldn't have accepted insurance
money knowing her naturopath
husband was not aboard a crashed
airliner. She admitted the possi
bility Robert Vernon Spears had
hypnotized another man into
taking his seat on the doomed
plane.
The 36-year-old mother of two,
at a news conference at her home
said she told her husband during
his secret visit to Dallas two
weeks ago she wouldn't touch
penny of $100,000 in airline insur
ance he carried.
Authorities have speculated that
Spears hypnotized an " bid 'friend,
William Allen Taylor of Tampa,
Fla., to take his place on the Na
tional Airlines - operated plane
which fell Nov. 16 in the Gulf of
Cold Spell
Grips East
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
One of the winter season's cold
est spells held an icy grip across
the eastern two thirds of the coun
try today. A fresh surge of Arctic
air from central Canada dispelled
any hopes of immediate general
relief.
Most of the southland shivered
with other cold spots; The mer
cury dropped to below freezing
along the Gulf Coast and into
northwest Florida.
Miami was chilled with one of
the coldest mornings of the season
with a reading of 40 above. It was
27 at Tallahassee and 32 in Jack
sonville. New Orleans and Atlanta
each reported a frosty 27 and it
was 29 in Mobile, Ala.
The coldest weather was in the
northern plains as the new supply
of cold Canadian air moved into
the north central region.
Below zero readings were re
ported in the Dakotas and Minne
sota. Temperatures moderated in
Texas, with readings in the 40s
along the Gulf Coast compared to
the 30s Thursday.
Honor Given Lake Resident
For Service To Community
LAKEV1EW Carl W. Pendle
ton, longtime citizen of Lake Coun
ty, was recipient of a permanent
plaque as a special award for his
many years of service to the com
munity. He received the honor at
the annual installation banquet of
the Lake County Chamber of Com
merce Monday evening at St. Pat
rick's Parish Hall. This is the first
time such an award has been
made.
Named as senior citizen was
Mrs. Anne Sprague, county school
superintendent, and junior citizen
was Thomas J. Flynn, local insur
ance man. Awards were made by
Don Maxwell, outgoing president.
Flynn, master of ceremonies for
the occasion, introduced new offi
cers of the chamber, R. C. "Bud"
Burgess, president; Richard Procb
stel, vice president; and Ed Cas
te treasurer. The new directors
were also introduced.
Guest speaker on the program
was Michael Drury, Irish vice con
FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 19G0
Mexico, killing 42 persons. FBI
agents who searched the Spears
home in Dallas Thursday night
found many books on hypnotism.
Spears' Dallas lawyer, Charles W.
Tessmer, has told reporters he
feels hypnosis was involved in the
case.
At her news conference today,
Mrs. Spears was asked if it
would be possible to hypnotize a
man into boarding a plane. "I am
sure that a man under hypnosis
could be induced to board a
plane," she replied.
She added she has some knowl
edge of hypnosis herself and hyp
notized herself before giving birth
to her two babies. ,
In a dramatic television inter-
view Thursday night, Mrs. Spears
said she didn t believe her hus-llag of almost five years."
band placed a bomb aboard the! "As a result of this Democratic!
plane.
The interview with KRLD news
director Eddie Barker came about
24 hours after the FBI found her
portly, 65-year-old husband in
Phoenix, Ariz.
Here Was her answer when she
was asked if she believes Spears
a man with a 33-year criminal
record bombed the airliner:
"Regardless of his past. . . re
gardless of what he has done or
said, or what has been said about
him, I know he is a very kind
person to me, and to others. . .
I do not believe he was capable of
putting a bomb on a plane."
She said Spears gave his reser
vation on the flight to Taylor, a
60-ycar-old long-time friend from
Tampa, Fla. He told her that he
read the next day that the plane
had crashed and seized the ..op
portunity to disappear.
Jet Service Set
From SF To PNW
SAN FRANCISCO (UPD
United Air Lines announced
Thursday it will begin jet service
between San Francisco and Seat-
tle-Tacoma March 1.
The company said there would
be two DC8 flights daily in each
direction, with flying time of one
hour 50 minutes.
sul in San Francisco, who filled in
for the Hon. Kevin Rush, consul
who was unable to be present as
planned because of illness in his
family. Drury, in an informal talk
told of the parallel between Ire
land and the state of Oregon,
where so many Irish people emi
grated. In Oregon, land and re
sources were plentiful and people
were few in the early years. Land
and resources of Ireland were
scarce and people were many. It
was a natural state of events that
the resourceful people of Ireland
should make their way to the land
of promise in Oregon.
Drury also told of rapid progress
being made in air travel in Ire
land through service to Europe and
to the United States. He urged tra
velers planning to visit Europe to
make their first stop Ireland where
there was no language barrier and
the people were European in think
ing, providing an easy transition
to even a temporary way of life.
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No. 61110
GOP Leader
Of Oregon
Raps Truman
By FLOYD L. WYNNE
Peter Gunnar, Salem attorney
and chairman of the Republican
State Central Committee, leveled
an accusing finger at the Demo
cratic administration of Harry Tru
man as responsible (or the mis
sile lag behind Russia in an ad
dress to Klamath County Republi
cans at the Winema Thursday
night.
"The Democrats say we're be
hind Russia in the development of
surface-to-surface missiles because
of the present administration,'
Gunnar said, "but this is not
true. The U.S. stopped work - on
surface-to-surface missiles in 1947
under Harry Truman and did not
resume work on them until 1951, a
(failure, " he continued, "we are
behind Russia in this field and
have been unable to catch up to
date despite a tremendous effort
by this administration."
Kicking off the political year for
Klamath County, Gunnar praised
the Republican administration as
one of "peace and prosperity with
justice and freedom."
While labeling Vice President
Richard Nixon as the obviously
best qualified man for the presi
dency, Gunnar also listed such
Republicans as Fred Seaton, sec
retary of the interior; Thomas
Gates, secretary of defense, and
James Mitchell, labor secretary,
as well qualified to hold the of
fice. He listed only Democratic Sena
tor Lyndon Johnson as having suf
ficient experience to be able to
handle the task of President.
Turning his fire on the slate
level, Gunnar accused the Demo
crats of being deeply divided and
praised the dynamic, experienced
leadership of Gov. Mark Hatfield.
"His appointments reflect the ex
cellent type of government that
the Republicans are bringing to
the state, the chairman stated.
The assembled group of about
100 persons applauded reference
to the Hatfield appointment of
Howard Belton as state treasurer.
Gunnar intimated that both Bel-
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VV' up;'
NEW OFFICERS of th. Klamath Falls Kiw.nis Club were
at left, is new li.ut.nant gov.rnor. E. Ron Rice, li.ut.nant governor tor soutnern uregon
and Northern California. watches while th. outgoing pr.iident, Bob Kent, right, pr.s.ntl
th. pr.sid.nt's pin to new pr.sid.nt, Gen. Fav.ll. (S. Story on Page 4.),
Hopes Dwindling
For 400 Miners
In South Africa
COALBHOOK, South
Africa
(AP) Rescue teams worked
against dwindling nopes tonigiu to
save about 400 men trapped deep
in a coal mine.
The miners were trapped Thurs
nay by two rock slides at the
Clydesdale Colliery, 35 miles
south of Johannesburg.
Loss of 400 men would make this
(he second worst mining disaster
history. There was a loss of
1,549 men at Henkeiko Colliery in
Manchuria in 1942.
A report by a mine official that
rescuers had made contact with
some of the trapped men stirred
hope momentarily today, but the
contact was denied later by the
Department of Mines.
Canaries were carried into the
Clydesdale shafts by rescue teams
as a precaution.
Canaries are often used in mine
disasters to test the air, because
they are more susceptible to gas
than human beings.
The Mines Department said
there was no evidence of a gas
explosion. A fresh air base can
now be established not far from
the rock barrier and efforts to
reach the trapped men are being
carried out from this area, the
department said.
Originally 500 African Negroes
and 6 white men were believed
entombed. But the Department of
Mines and mining officials agreed
late today on a new estimate
about 400.
Mixed rescue teams ot whites
and Negroes worked side by side
to get an emergency supply of air
to the men. But 20 hours after
the miners were trapped the res
cuers still had not reached them-.
It's sheer hell down there,"
said one rescue worker who
emerged from the pit after digging
through the night.
Another said that the chances
of getting any out seemed hope
less.
An explosion damaged the
mine's surface ventilator and cut
off the air supply tor a time but
it was restored this afternoon.
Recipe By Dad
Provides Girl
With Space Food
SEATTLE, Wash. (AP)-A 14-
year-old girl popped a batch of.
sugar cookies into the oven and
came up with, guess what? Sugar
cookies for space men.
Don't give Vicki Pilgrim too
much credit, though. She used her
father's recipe.
Vicki's father, Dr. Arthur J. Pil
grim, is head of the biochemistry
unit of the Boeing Airplane Co.
The baking assignment was part
of papa's work on an algae experi
ment. Green algae, a kind of seaweed,
long has been considered a likely
source of food and oxygen for
space travelers, une arawnacK:
The stuff looks like scum and
tastes like hay.
Boeing scientists tried blanching
some under fluorescent lights. It
came out looking sort of like flour.
Encouraged, Pi 1 g r i m asked
Vicki to do the baking bit. She
used algae in place of flour green
algae in one batch, white algae
in another.
Then, like Alice in Wonderland,
she took a bite of each.
The green algae cookies tasted
like baked hay.
And the white algae cookies?
They tasted like cookies.
This represents considerable
progress," said ur. nigrim, 'in
providing a possible food for space
travel. With all of the myriad oth-
a nrnhlnmc taring n finarp trav
eler, it will be important to make
his meals as palatable as possi-
blc."
i There was fear of a snreart nr
deadly methane gas.
The mine is operated by Clydes
dale (Transvaal) Collieries Ltd.,
a firm with mining interests in tin
Orange Free State and the Trans
vaal. First warning of impending dis
aster came Thursday afternoon
when the earth began splitting on
the surface near the Clydesdale
mine.
Relatives and friends of tin
trapped workers rushed to the pit
head as soon as they received
news ot the rock fall. They stood
in hushed groups as the rescuers
prepared to go down into the
mine.
CARROL HOWE
Carrol Howe,
School Chief,
Quits Post
Carrol Howe resigned Thursday
as supervisor of county schools af-
" years on the job.
In a prepared statement, How.
said he has found it increasingly
difficult to shake the anxieties
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caused by the many and varied
responsibilities which are part ot
the - superintendence. - v - -
"I'm just tired, that's all," h.
told reporters. ' '
Howe also said that the schools
of the county district can best b.
served by a new administrator
"who can take a new look at th.
problems of our district and work
toward the continued improvement
of the schools."
He stated emphatically that no
animosity exists between- him
and the Board of Education. Board
members, present at the confer
ence, said they tried to discour
age Howe from resigning when he.
first notified them of his intention
to do so last March.
'I hope we can find another
man as good," said a board mem
ber. The man has not been se
lected. Board members said they
have contacted a man or two, but
declined to elaborate.
Howe will continue as supervisor
until his contract expires June 30.
Then he will work for the district
part time for the next fiscal year,
at a salary to be decided, to help
the new supervisor in the job,
to help supervise the district's
building program and to help se
lect a staff for the coming fiscal
year.
Major project in the building
program is construction of the pro
jected Falcon Heights Elementary
School.
Howe, in his written statement,
thanked supervisors and all certi
fied and non-certified school per
sonnel for their cooperation and
loyalty. "My years as superintend-
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installed recently. Jo. LaClair,