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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 24, 1960)
U.O? 03S.Lt3RAHY . SECTION GBN.REF.A.ND JjOCUJlSriTS CIV, EUJENc.O.HSG. COUP. am wmswm (Emsbes, 1mm Save Moftorisft In The- Day's flews By FRANK JENKINS Let's talk today about Algeria which is getting into the big head lines again. Algeria has some angles that are of at least academ ic interest to us here in our myth ical State of Jefferson. The French took Algeria over by military conquest about 130 years ago and for some four dec ades ruled it as a conquered prov ince. Then about 90 years ago France took Algeria into the family and made it a part of France just as, about the same time, the U.S.A. took over Call fornia and Oregon and gave them statehood. For centuries, before the French took over by military force, Al geria had been the home of native Moslem tribes chiefly Berbers and Arabs just as for centuries our State of Jefferson had been the borne of native Indian tribes. It is true that these Moslem tribes had taken the country over from somebody else. But it must be assumed that the Indian tribes who were here when the white men came had taken this coun try away from somebody else. Anyway When the French came into Al geria, they found the country in the possession of. the Berbers and the Arabs and various other smaller tribes. The French took possession by military force. When our ancestors came into what is now our State of Jcffer son, they found the country in the possession of the Klamaths, the Modocs, the Shastas, the Rogues and the Umpquas along with other minor tribes. We took possession by military force. So You see In their historical backgrounds, Algeria and our State of Jefferson have much in common. We might add, as an afterthought, that our State of Jefferson turned out to be full of gold. Algeria is turning out to be full of oil. So much for historical back grounds. Let's get down now to the meat of the situation espe cially the meat of the Algerian situation. . In the Algeria of today, there are roughly a million Frenchmen and seven or eight' times that number of native tribesmen. The Frenchmen own a whale of a lot of the valuable property of Al geria. The Frenchmen have been the DEVELOPERS. They have re claimed the better soil and made It fruitful. They have built beauti ful cities. They are now developing the oil. The Moslem tribesmen hang out in the rugged hills, and from time to time they make for ays against the properties of the French. These Algerian French feel quite strongly, one can be sure that if Algeria is given what " WE call statehood, the French, who are outnumbered seven or eight to one, will wind up in the email end of the horn, Let's now turn the chip over and look at the other side of it. Suppose someone proposed that our State of Jefferson be given back to its original owners. Sup pose the original tribesmen out numbered the .whites seven or eight to one as is the present case in Algeria. In that case, I have an idea there would be blood on the moon here in the State of Jefferson, as there is blood on the moon in Algeria. All this isn't designed to say that Algeria should be given back to ALL the Algerians. It isn't de signed to say that our State of Jefferson should be given back to its original Indian owners. As Omar the Tent Maker so vividly and musically says: "The moving finger writes, and having writ moves on; nor all your piety and wit can lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears wash out a word of it." This piece isn't a defense of the Algerian French. It isn't de signed as a defense of our an cestors who took over our State of Jefferson from its original own ers. It's just a statement of things as they are. It never does us any harm to look at things as they are. One of the interesting facts of life is that in nearly all hotly debated issues there are two sides. SCHEDULES CONFERENCE WASHINGTON (UPI) Chair man Warren G. Magnuson ID Wash.) Qf the Senate Commerce Committee has called for a confer ence Feb. 19 to find out what government regulatory agencies and the broadcasting industry have done "to solve the tangled television problem." Honor Paid To Three By Jaycees Ron Phair, Paul Cruikshank and Howard Holliday received special recognition Friday night at the annual banquet of the ' Junior Chamber of Commerce at the Willard Hotel. Phair was named Senior Citizen of Klamath County for 1960, Cruik shank was singled out for the Dis tinguished Service Award and Hol liday was chosen as the Outstand ing Young Farmer. PHAIR SERVED six years with the Klamath County United Fund Last year he was vice president of the fund and was elected chair man" for the. 1961 drive. Active in Boy Scouts, he member of the board of directors of Scout Regjon 11, including the Northwest states and Alaska; member of the local Scout Execu tive Committee, active in the lat est Explorer Scout program and a member of the Long Range Planning Committee of the area. Phair was presented the Silver Beaver award for outstanding adult participation in scouting Three of his sons have earned Eagle rank: Also considered for this top hon or were E. E. (Mike) Balsiger and Vern Owens. Balsiger, past exalted ruler of the Klamath Elks Lodge, was chairman of the Elks State Convention held in Klam ath Falls last summer. He is cur rent president of the Rotary Club, and active in the county chamber of commerce. Owens is an active member of the county chamber of commerce and chairmanned the Oregon Tech Institute Site Fund Committee to a successful conclusion. He is also active in Mason work. CRUIKSHANK, a comparatively recent arrival in Klamath Falls, is one of the youngest superintend ents in Great Northern Railroad history. He was United Fund drive chair man for the recent campaign which was concluded successfully. A member of the directors of the chamber of commerce, he was also chairman of the Industrial Development Committee of the chamber, and currently is an in structor in the "practical politics" (Continued on Page 4) Bogus Money Floods PKW VANCOUVER, B. C. (AP) - Police searched Saturday for a second press in their investigation of a money factory they believed flooded North American cities with million dollars in counterfeit Travellers' Checks and' American $20 bills. Early Friday they seized a one- ton press. But they said later the press is an old-style one and could not have printed the near-perfect counterfeit American $20 bills found. The 31 printing plates seized could not be used on the old press which apparently was used to print Travellers' checks, they said. The discoveries were made in raids on two homes, one contain ing the press and the other about $174,000 worth of partially printed Bank of Nova Scotia Travellers' Checks and United States $20 bills and printing equipment. A SUPERSONIC DOCTOR is a term that can now be applied to Capt. George S. McCan, right, shown here with Col. Jack W. Williams, Kingsley field commander. Dr. McCan re cently broke the sound barrier in an F-10 IB Voodoo piloted by Colonel Williams. Dr. Mc Can is flight surgeon for the 322nd Fighter-Interceptor Squadron. Photo by Sgt. Charles Bennett THIS IS THE ILL-FATED VEHICLE driven by Mrs. Louise Berg, Eagle Point, which plunged over an embankment and nosed into the Rogue River 12 miles east of Grants Pass Friday night. Seen in the rear seat of the car is some of Price Ten Cents 66 Pages Bathyscaph Sets Record WASHINGTON HI The U.S. Navy's bathyscaph .set a new world's record Saturday by diving to the bottom of the Marianas Trench in the Pacific, a depth of more than seven miles. Thfl Mnuv nvinnlinpnH Miaf epi. entist Jacques Piccard and Navy Lt. Don Walsh of San Diego were aboard the bathyscaph. The 37,800 foot dive, was com pleted shortly before 1 a.m., EST, when the bathyscaph, named the Trieste, came to the surface. The descent into the deepest known hole in the world's oceans also demonstrated that the depth was considerably greater than previously estimated. Until Saturday, studies had indi cated the depth of the Marianas Trench was 36,198 feet. This was based on soundings made in 1957 by a Soviet oceanographic ship. . . . This was the third deep explora tion made by the bathyscaph in recent months. Last November the Trieste descended to a then rec ord depth of 18,600 feet. Six weeks later Walsh and Pic card took the Trieste down to 24,- 000 feet. At the new depth of 7.15 miles, the stout hull of the bathyscaph was under a pressure of 16,883 pounds per square inch. STITCH IN TIME LONDON (UPI) - How to stay married to a millionaire? This object lesson was reported today. Canadian millionaire hotel owner George Gardiner lost a button on his overcoat at London Airport. His wife,- Anne, immediately took out a needle and thread and sewed it back on. ' - 1 il l I K I 1m tVr i 4 i , 1 Din III i'Ii 'l ' ttrnmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, Bull Session CHICAGO (AP)-Thcre was a bull session Friday night In a fraternity house at Northwestern University. But the bulls were throwing the people. The bulls, two live four-lcggcd beasts not yet two months old, were set loose by fraternity pledges at the Sigma Nu house In suburban Evanston. The pledges, staging p tradi tional revolt against their task masters, the full fledged frater nity members, put one bull in the parlor, another on the third floor. A handful of uppcrclass men, in the house at the time, were successfully held at bay by the pledges who then fled to nearby Madison, Wis. The up pcrclassmcn next were held at bay by the bulls which romped through the house for - nearly an hour before capture. Today, the bulls were at Evanston's animal hospital. The pledges were laughing it up in Madison. And the upper classmen were cleaning up the house. Credit Given To Rickenbacker WASHINGTON (AP)-Capt. Ed ward V. (Eddie) Rickenbacker, the nation's No. 1 air ace in World War I, has been credited with shooting down his 22nd German plane 42 years after the event. It was made official Friday by Secretary of the Air Force Dudley C. Sharp in approving a recom mendation by the Air Force Board for Correction of Military Records Rickenbacker submitted a claim for the 22nd plane last year. He shot it down in France on May 7, 1918. the luggage that rendered her unconscious when it struck her in the back of the head after the car came to a halt. Photo by DeLance Duncan SUNDAY, JANUARY 24, 1960 Rescue Operations Halted As Rockfall Seals Tomb COALBROOK, South Africa (UPI) A new rockfall forced a halt Saturday to rescue operations for some 400 to 500 entombed coal miners. . The rockfall, third to hit the Clydesdale Colliery since Thurs- Crews Rescue Trapped Man ELY,' Minn. (AP) - A hardy miner who joked through a 16- hour ordeal 1,500 feet under ground was rescued uninjured Friday night after being trapped by a tide of mud in the .red cav erns of Pioneer Mine. "Thanks Howie;" whispered Jo seph Mishmash, 50, to his life long friend, John "Howie" Say- ovitz, the first to reach him after rescue squads drilled and blast ed through a 16-foot wall of solid iron ore. Rescuers slapped him on the back and plied him with coffee and sandwiches and other .food from their lunch buckets. Mish mash had been without food or water since 8:30 a.m., when a mudflow sealed the bottom of the vertical shaft in which he was working. Rescuers reached him at 11:25 p.m. Flight Doctor Snaps Barrier Kingsley Field flight surgeon, Capt. George S. McCan, became a supersonic doctor last week. Dr. McCan broke the sound barrier in an F-101B Voodoo piloted by Col. Jack W. Williams, base com mander. "I was surprised at the smooth ness of the ride, Dr. McCan said. "The only indication of su personic speed was a fluctuation in some of the flight instru ments." Dr. McCan and Colonel Williams flew to McChord AFB for a meeting with Gen. Von R. Shores, commander of the 25th Air Division. Dr. McCan is the flight 'surgeon for the 322nd Fighter-Interceptor Squadron. The flight to McChord took slightly more than a half hour, Dr. McCan said. Although this was the first time the doctor has flown faster than sound, he has several previous flying hours in Ihe T-33 jet trainer. As a rated flight surgeon, the doctor is re quired to fly at least four hours a month. Dr. McCan Is originally from Bakersfield. He graduated from the Stanford University School of Medicine, interned at the Oregon Medical School Hospital in Port land, and entered the Air Force in June 1958. He was stationed at Randolph AFB, Texas, before being transferred to Kingsley Field in October, 1958. Dr. McCan and his wife, Beverley, live in Falcon Heights. Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 6611 day, further sealed the tomb of the miners. Officials of the colliery called a halt to the rescue operations, which many of them already con sidered futile. The first fall trapped 200 men, but they were later' freed. The second blocked a two-mile long gallery with 8,000 tons of rock and coal. Mine officials said that between 400 and 500 African and six white miners were sealed in the gallery No contact has been made with the men since the second fall cut them off Thursday afternoon 600 feet below surface. Outside the pithead, hundreds of sobbing wives, children, and rela tives received the news of the latest rockfall with an almost si multaneous wail of grief. The faint hopes that remained for rescue were almost extin guished with the new slide. Mine officials said, however, that there may be an air pocket in the gallery. They said the miners might save themselves from starving by eating the 70 horses trapped with them. They said canaries sent into the mine Friday night returned alive, indicating that methane gas in the gallery where the men were trapped may have dispersed, I'm convinced there is a space between the debris (of the cave- in wnicn trapped the miners Thursday) and the roof of the gallery," said shift boss Bill Mur ray. "I think the victims are able to breathe." . Digging crews braved the threat of new cave-ins in an effort to tunnel through a mile of rubble blocking the mine. Parking Group Schedules Meet The first meeting of the stock holders of the Klamath Falls Park and Shop Corporation has been scheduled for February 9 at 6:30 p.m. at the Chuck Wagon restau rant. Notices of the meeting are being sent to purchasers of stock in Park and Shop by the corpora tion's board of directors. Board members are Jim Maguire, Al Hatlan, Bob Beach and Lew Way burn. ! Points of business will be issu ing stock certificates to stock pur chasers, and a discussion of park ing lots under consideration for operation of the downtown off- treet parking program. Chi Police Chief Resigi ns Position CHICAGO (AP) - Timothy J. O'Connor stepped out as Chicago's police commissioner Saturday in the midst of one of the biggest scandals in the history of the Police Department. , , Mayor Richard J. Daley an nounced that he had accepted O'Connor's request to be relieved of his post es top commander of the force of more than 10,000 po licemen. Aide Lauds Grapplers For 'Thinking Clearly' GRANTS PASS (AP) Members of the Klamath Union High School wrestling team and their coaches. DeLance Duncan and Jack Peterson, were credited Satur day with saving the life of Mrs. Louise Berg of Eagle Point when her ear left Highway 99 Friday night some 12 miles east ot nere and came to rest teetering nose-down on a rock ledge on the south bank of the Rogue River. That was the situation the boys saw when they arrived in a school bus, after beating Grants Pass, 22-19, in a wrestling meet. v&K:7 JACK PETERSON Peterson credited the boys with "clear heads and clear thinking," during an interview with the Her ald and News from his home yes terday morning. Me said that he and Duncan were the first ones to the stricken Berg car, which was nose-down, Plans Told Of 'Medic' PHOENIX, Ariz. (UPI) Rob ert V. Spears wanted two things . to disappear to escape an abor tion trial and money for his family. The FBI Has been trying for . two days to find out if he sabotaged an airliner to accom plish both. He was questioned by FBI agents for hours Friday about the Nov. 16 crash of a National Air lines plane in the Gulf of Mexico which killed 42 persons. ' . Spears had: - - Access to dynamite caps, bat teries, friction tape and a dyna mite cache, the makings of a homemade bomb. . . . A $100,000 insurance policy payable to his wife. A friend, William Allen. Tay lor, who made the flight in Spears' name and who is presumed dead. Spears had bought a ticket on the Tampa, Fla., to New Orleans plane and was believed among the 42 persons who died in the crash. He persuaded Taylor, 58, a Tam pa salesman, to take his place aboard the ill-fated craft. Aide Mulls Crater Blast KAPOHO, Hawaii (UPI) - State civil defense director Fred Makin r.py Saturday considered bombing Ihe Puna lava flow on the island of Hawaii to help speed its progress into the sea. Makinney, who is State Adjutant General, said Marine Corps planes based at Kaneohe 'would do the bombing if it should become necessary. , . . A Marine Corps survey team consulted with Dr. Gordon Mac- Donald on the bombing plan late Friday but no decision was reached. MacDonald, who is in charge of the construction of lava dikes to contain the flow, is against any effort to bomb the lava near its source at the tiny village of Ka poho, fearful more harm than good would come of it. The survey team hoped the bombing might clear out obstacles in the lava's path and prevent fingers of the molten stuff from branching out In new directions. Weather' FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Snow flurries Sunday. Low Sunday 27-33; high today 37- 44. A . . ' . High yesterday 42 Low last night 27 Northern California Increasing cloudiness Sunday with snow flur ries , In the northern mountains. Occasional light rain from Cape Mendocino northward. Morning fog in the valleys. Little change In temperature. Southerly coastal winds 12-24 miles an hour from Point Arena northward. . v 'i' tf r 'y; q DeLANCE DUNCAN submerged three feet in the river. "Mrs. Berg was unconscious and it took us about 20 minutes to free her from the automobile, after we had gotten the tire . chains from the bus secured to the back of the car," he said. Peterson placed the time of the accident at 9:30 p.m. Some of the boys entered the car and pulled the unconscious Mrs. Berg out of it, She told state police that luggage piled high in the rear seat had slammed across the back of the driver's scat and knocked her out after the car left the roadway and crashed through brush down to the river's edge. She had only I minor injuries. Crcditedf with taking part in the rescue weij? wrestlers. John Han cock, Sam Henzel, Art Mills and Warren Olsen. ,''' What caused Mrs. Berg to lose control of the car was not im mediately determined. Launchings Scheduled ABOARD THE U.S.S. CAR RIER VALLEY FORGE (AP)- The carrier Valley Forge and six destroyers steamed eastward into the Atlantic Saturday to launch the world's largest balloons. ' But there was a big worry. Un expected strong winds blew more than 100,000 feet above the ocean. Expedition leader Marcel Scuein of the University of Chicago planned to send the balloons this week to an altitude of 22 miles to photograph mysterious, tremen dously powerful primary cosmic rays. Success could open an entirely new field of research into high energies. There have been almost no studies in this area of physics. But the balloons should remain at a constant high altitude for 48 to 80 hours for significant results. Winds of 115 miles an hour were reported recently from the launch area at altitudes of more than 20 miles. These would whip the huge plastic orbs, each filled with 10 million cubic feet of helium, to ward land faster than desired. Series Of Pleas Made By Caryl SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) - Con- vict Caryl Chessman made a se ries of requests through his attor ney here Friday to be spared from his Feb. 19 date with San Quentin's gas chamber. Attorney George T. Davis raised most of the legal technicalities that Chessman had presented in the past 11 years. But the major appeal was that Chessman's trial manuscript was inaccurate. ' Davis - will appear Monday be fore U, S. District Judge Louis E. Goodman to request a date for a full hearing on the convict's latest appeal. Custody Of Deb Given To Brother PARIS (AP) A Paris judge Saturday gave the custody of run away heiress Gamble Benedict te her brother, Douglas,' who Imme diately bundled her aboard a New York bound plane. She was weep ing. Now York lawyer Robert Hoff man aided the brother and sister in the dispute.
