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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 24, 1960)
HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore, Sunday, January 24,1900 CITY BRIEFS m : The Degree of Honor will hold a potlucK dessert .Monday, Janu ary 25, at 7:15 p.m. All members in the drill team are requested to .0 &rJ-nL. attend. Clara Fink will conduct an or 3 j . f ganizational meeting for adult sew ing classes Monday, January 25, it iv- at 7:30 p.m. in Room 115 at the high school. For information, call Mrs. Fink, TU 4-7470 on the week end, or the vocational office, T'J 4-7595, during the week. PAGE 4 A V'.. . M & f:'Y-'i':''' 'i :i "JOE" JOINS HIS FAMILY during family nights at YMCA Headquarters twice a month for fraternity and frolic. Joe is the local Y's symbol during Worldwide YMCA week which ends today. The annual Y membership roundup begins Tuesday. . Family Aided By YMCA Though the YMCA is dedicated primarily to youth, it also serves adults particularly the family. Twice a month, on first and thud Fridays, families can get together evenings at YMCA head quarters and indulge in a variety of experiences. The family is thus itrengthened in its desire for scrv ice, its character and health, and becomes stronger as a unit, says Y Secretary Paul Campbell. Members can make use of all the ample facilities at headquar ters. What , is more, the program encompasses persons from tod dling age to the elderly. A portion, an important one, of the Y program for families is the annual campout at Camp Mc Loughlin at Lake of the Woods. In a setting perfumed by ever green forests and cooled by the lake's chill water, families are Urged to spend Labor Day week end just working off tensions pro duced by, pressure of daily life. If they want to, they may make Use of boating, swimming, water skiing and other facilities. The family camp program sup plements the Y's day camp and Diamond Lake camp programs for boys. Public Affairs Meet Slated A meeting to introduce the Great Decisions public affairs study program In Klamath County Is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Tues day evening, January 26, at the Klamath County Library in Klam ath Falls. The study program endorsed by President Eisenhower and other leading citizens covers eight sub jects over an eight-week period starting February 7. These foreign policy subjects In clude: Communist time table for I960; Divided Europe; Red China on the March: Chances for India's Middle Way: Middle East; Africa's Goals; Cuba's Revolution; and U.S. Global Strategy. Fact sheets tor each subject pre pared by the Foreign Policy As sociation are available. The Chris tian Science Monitor is carrying articles and additional sources of reading matter are outlined. A supply of fact sheets for use In study of this year's Great De cisions subjects has been received by Klamath County's Great Deci sions Committee and will be avail able for examination Tuesday eve ning at the county library. Jim Lattie, KOTI, Walt Jendrzojcwski, the County Agent's office, and Isa belle Brixner, county schools, arc serving on the committee. Jcndrzc jewski remarks that the size of the national debt and size ot the annual budget for foreign eco nomic and military aid and for na tional defense lends some urgency to public analysis of pressures af fecting American interests, secur ity and survival. A clearer pic ture of national objectives and a better understanding of foreign policy seem desirable. Duplicate Bridge Played Recently Nine and one-half tables of du plicate bridge were at play Thurs day night at the city library, ac cording to Mrs. David A. Richard son, director oi the Lakeshore Du plicate Club. Mrs. Leona Rubrrtson and Mrs. F. V. Hyde took top honors In north-south position, followed by Mis. Lena Smith and Mrs. Wil liam Grove, second, and Mrs. Claude Davis and Mrs. Lloyd Co ble, third. East-west first place winners were Mrs. II. 0. .luikeland and Mrs. Robert Thompson: second. Mrs. Frank Rickey and Mrs. Wil liam Cunningham, and. third. Mr. and Mrs, Chester Stonecyphcr. SAFE PEDALING is afforded children who use the McCol lam Safety Reflector thown here beneath the foot of Jim mie McCollam of Malin. His dad, James R. McCollam, in vented the gadget and hopes to market it. Court Records KIAMATH COUNTY DISTRICT COUKC Richard Alfred Hewlett, truck speed' Injr. dUmissed motion district attor ney. Edward E. Moorman, violation bas ic rule, 7.SO paid. Mike William Moreno, violation bai- lc rule, 10 forfeited. Albert Frank Patzke, group axle overload, $50. Leslie Edward Price, petit larceny. demurrer sustained; bail ordered re- funded to defendant; released. Benjamin Lee Davis, fall dim head hunts, a. Millard Junior Robinson, fail stop at slop sign, $.1. Milton nay Scsnler, passing on right aide of vehicle, $3. Jean Evelyn Nelson, fall slop at stop sign, S5. Keith J. Hedrfck, no operators li cense, $7.30 forfeited. flnland Emil West, violation basic rule, $10. John Doc, violation basic rule, dis missed motion district attorney. Glenn B. Head, violation basic rule, $5. Lyle Dean McFarland, defacing building and contents, enter plea of guilty time for sentence set January 2.1 at 9:30 a.m.: bail set $300; re manded to sheriff. Gordon T. Emery, combination over load, demurrer filed; hearing set Jan uary 29 at 10 a.m.; released on $Jbu unit posted. Robert N. Rowlett, combination overload, demurrer filed: hearing set January 20, 1900 at 10 am.; released upon $07 ball posted. Charles Elmer Cooper, comb mat on overload, demurrer filed; hearing set January 29, WW) at 10 a.m.; released $41 Hail posted. Kenneth Eudaily, combination over load, demurrer filed; hearing set Jan uary 20 at 10 a.m.; released upon posting $o.t ball. Enlist Quotas Eased By CG Enlistment quotas have been eased (or the Coast Guard Re serve's six months active duty pro gram, said William L. McVey, of-liccr-in-charge of the Eugene sub recruiting station. Some vacancies have appeared on the Eugene reserve list, he said. The program allows men 17 to 21 years of age to participate ac tively for .six months, then attend weekly meetings and spend 14 days on active duly each year for a period thereafter. The program is (or men who want to attend civilian schools. More information is available at the recruiting station. Room 13 Post Otlice Building. Eugene. 3 From Klamath Emote In Play Three Klamath Kalis students at Southern Oregon College, Ashland will play parts in the cast of "The Sleeping Beauty." to ho presented February 5-6 by the Southern Ore gon Players, it is announced by Dr. Dorothy Stolp. director. Elano, the queen's page, will he taken by Larry Ferguson; the king, by Pete Lungrecn and Frytania by Mary Irving. New Gadget Improves Bike Safety A singular facet of a gadget in vented by a Malin man is that no one has thought of it before. James R. McCoIiam's safety bi- cyle reflectors arc simple as the hula hoop and probably increase night-riding safety immeasurably The reflecting tabs which hang beneath the bike's pedals can be tamped from thin metal and fin ished with reflecting tape in one or two easy operations. McCollam said he can buy a crude stamping machine for about $1(M). More sophisticated machines could stamp the plates, shape f'anges which hook to the bike pedal spindle and finish the prod uct almost automatically, he savs. Bi.t that equipment would have to be specially designed and- would cost much more, he said. He is looking for capital back ing, and may manufacture the (L'vice locally. I he tabs are absolutely sate for riders. They hang beneath t h e bike's pedals in all positions. Tlicy move as the pedals move and give a flashing effect, like blinking lights on an airplane. They are easily visible a third of a mile away. McCollam said he thought of the invention about four years ago while driving during a stormy night near Redding. Another idea he developed Is now employed by manufacturers ol Heavy earth moving equipment It is a safety device for prevent ing heavy loads of dirt from spill ing when cables break on carry alls. Unfortunately, some other in vontor apparently thought of the identical device about the same tune and beat' McCollam to the patent otlico. His latest invention, though, is in the hands of patent attorneys and the patent is pending. McCollam believes he can mar ket the reflectors at low prices cither wholesale or retail. He is a construction worker and log truck driver. His three chil dren have bikes, and all use the rellectors. PLANE LOSES DOOR EVERGREEN, Ala. (UPI A door from an Air Force C-130 cargo plane landed on a farm near here Friday touching off re ports of a plane crash. Some of the crew's personal belongings 1'iso were blown out, but LI. R. E. Oppejoy brought the plane down safely at Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Ala. NCO Wives Club of Kingslcy AFB will install officers at their meeting Tuesday, January 26, in the NCO Club at 8 p.m. Installa tion ceremonies will be followed by a social hour. All members and prospective members are urged to attend. Charles S. Riley, former resi dent of Klamath Falls, son of Charley Riley, this city, is a pa tient in the Oakland (California) Veterans Hospital at Thirteenth and Harrison streets. Letters and cards will reach him there. Mary Martha Circle of Immanu- el Baptist Church will meet at p.m. Tuesday, January 26, . at the church for installation of new officers. Secret sisters will be re vealed and new ones drawn. All interested women will be welcome Mrs. Hazel Drinkwater will be hostess to members of the Happy Hour Club at the home of Mrs. C. C. Heidrich, 328 Washington Street, at a 1:30 p.m. dessert luncheon Tuesday, January 26. Neighbors of Woodcraft Thimble Club will meet Wednesday, Janu ary 27, at 8 p.m. at the KC Hall. There will be potluck. Ingabord Wilkerson, 912 Pros pect Avenue, has returned home from two weeks in the hospital. Emma Burk, 1612 Manzanita, underwent surgery Friday in the Klamath Valley Hospital. Barge Blast Kills Welder PORTLAND (AP) One man was killed and four were injured when a gasoline barge blew up as it was undergoing repairs at the Swan Island dock here of the Albina Engine Jt Machine Works. The blast blew Edward E. Soderberg, a Portland welder, off the craft, police said. His body was recovered four hours later after extensive drag operations. The injured, all reported in good condition at St. Vincent's hospital, are Archie M. Lichty, 54; Larry Bergevin Jr. 19; Horace Lincoln, 55; and James Banks, 47, all of Portland. The 200-foot-long, 900,000-gallon barge was damaged previously when a tug boat exploded Sept. 30 at Crescent City, Calif., and was being repaired at the Port land dock. Joe Smith, head of the crew working at the time of the blast Friday night, said "there was a big whoosh that blew me back several feet and everything turned black." He said he called roll call after he recovered and all answered except Soderberg. Fire Department Investigator Glen Richards estimated damage to the barge was in the thousands of dollars. He said the deck plates were torn up and seams were opened under water. The blast damaged the wharf and blew a manhole cover 125 feet into the air. Richards speculated that weld ing torches might have set off gasoline fumes, but said he did not know the cause pending an investigation now underway. The Crescent City explosion which initially damaged the barge endangered the entire Northern California community. It took one life. The resulting fire there set off drums containing highly com bustible fuel and shot flames 80 feet into the air. Firemen brought it under control just short o( 100 foot oil storage tanks. Judges Request Youth Corps PENDLETON (AP) The Ore gon Juvenile Judges Assn. urged early creation of a youth conser vation corps Friday before closing its annual meeting here. Judge Joseph D. Felton of Sa lem was reelected president. Others renamed were Judge's Harry Fowler of Prineville. vice president, and Robert D. Maclean of Newport, secretary-treasurer. The final speaker was Judge Donald Long of Portland, who discussed the White House Con ference on Youth scheduled (or March 27-April 1 in Washington. D. C. EU.IIT LEFT HOMELESS MINNEAPOLIS. Minn. (LTD -Robert Thompson. 9. thought he saw his cap gun under a bed. so he lighted a match to make sure Firemen said the discarded match started a fire which left Robert his six brothers and sisters and his mother, a divorcee on welfare aid, homeless. WALTER W. STRALEY Phone Firm Announces New Division Formation of Pacific Telephone Northwest as a new division of the Pacific Telephone and Tele graph Company was announced Friday by the firm's Board of Di rectors, according to word re ceived in Portland by Oregon Area Vice President and General Man ager F. M. Mitchell. The change takes place February 1. The board also elected Walter W. Straley, now vice president and general manager of the company's Southern Counties Area at San Di ego, first president of Pacific Telephone-Northwest. He also becomes a member of the Board of Direc tors of PT&T. At the same time it was an nounced PT&T President Mark R. Sullivan is stepping up to be come chairman of the Board of Directors and Carl 0. Lindcman of New Jersey Bell is succeeding him as president of PT&T. Growth of the Pacific Northwest, increasing complexity of phone company operations and a desire to bring top authority close to the communities the company serves were reasons given for the new setup. The new management unit will include Oregon, Washington and northern Idaho.' Headquarters for Pacific Tele phone-Northwest will be Seattle. Straley plans to maintain offices in Portland also. The Oregon Advisory Council of Pacific Telephone will continue to tunction as it has in the past, ac cording to Mitchell. The council is a group of Oregon business lead ers which meets monthly to review with phone company management progress and plans as they affect the communities served in Oregon. Pacific Telephone-Northwest will have a plant investment of 650 mil lion dollars, serve about a million and a half phones and employ more than 15,000. The annual pay roll and associated costs will be 94 million dollars. Currently the company has some 550,000 phones in Oregon and 950,- 000 in Washington. The Oregon employes number 6,000 against more than 9,000 in Washington, while Oregon plant investment is about 250 million dollars compared to a Washington plant investment total of 400 million dollars. Oregon 1959 annual payroll ran about 36 million dollars and the Washington payroll about 57 million dollars The population of Oregon Is 1,790, 000 and that of Washington 3,103 000. The Washington-Idaho Area and the Oregon Area and their advis ory councils will continue to func tion as at present. Sullivan said, however, that Ben E. Bowling, vice president and general manager for Washington-Idaho and Francis M, Mitchell, vice president and gener al manager for Oregon will report to the president. of Pacific Tele phone-Northwest. Fred Daggett Death Noted Junior Fred Daggett, 69. partner in the Backes and Daggett Insur ance Company firm, died at 9 a.m Saturday at his home in Prine ville, following a stroke. He was born in California and moved with his family to Klam ath Falls as a small child. He attended schools here and was graduated from the old Central Union High School. For many years he was an of ficer in the old Ewauna Box Com pany of which his brother, the late H. C. Daggett, was president. He was a member of the State For estry Department for approximate ly 20 years. The family moved to Prineville in 1938 and he was associated with the Alexander Yawkey Lum ber Company at Prineville until he retired from his lumber inter ests about four years ago to de vote more time to the insurance business. He was operating the Prineville office of Backes and Daggett insurance Company at the time of his death. Survivors include the widow. Or- pha Daggett of Prineville; two daughters. Elizabeth Ann Lidstrom of Prineville and Margaret Mer- sereau of Crossct, Arkansas. He was the uncle of Mrs. George i .Jane Flitcraft of Klamath Falls also. Funeral arrangements are pending. FRESHMEN students of Klamath Union High School will sell peanuts for the New March of Dimes all next week, beginning January 25 after school, between classes and on Satur. day. Freshmen are competing with other classes in ah effort to make the largest amount of money to be turned into the school total. The class that accumulates the most cash during the drive will sit in the seats of the seniors at a major assembly after the drive. Left to right are Don Piper, Elian Frewing and Sue Ann Owens. Honor Paid (Continued from Page I) ' course being conauctea ny tne chamber. Others considered for this honor were the Rev. Robert Groves, pas tor of the First Presbyter ian Church who has been very ac tive in civic affairs including work on the Hospital Survey Fund board. Also considered was Wayne Plaisted, a Jaycee officer, who has been extremely active in church and the YMCA. THE YOUNG FARMER award went to Holliday who farms in partnership with his father, Lee. He earned the honor through his forward - looking techniques for coping with heavy-alkali land and with his records of cattle productivity on his ranch near the Weyerhaeuser mill. ' Two other young farmers, Du- ane Blackman and Normeui Jacob were also considered for the honor Funerals ANDERSON Funeral services for Peter Mar tin Anderson, 76, who died in this city January 22, will be held the Klamath Lutheran Church Monday, January 25, at 11 a.m. Interment will be made in Klam ath Memorial Park. O'Hair's Me morial Chapel is in charge of the arrangements. FORCE Frank Force, 79, a native of Grand Island, Nebraska, and a resident of this city for 20 years, died here January 22. He is sur vived by a son, M.Sgt. Robert Force, Portsmouth, N.H. Funeral services will be held in O'Hair's Memorial Chapel Tuesday, Janu ary 26, at 2 p.m. Interment will be made in Klamath Memorial Park. HAMEL Milise Hamcl, 91, a native of Montreal, Canada, and a resident of this city for 33 years, died here January 22. She is survived by a daughter, Irene Hamel, Klamath Falls. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, January 26, at 9:30 a.m. in the St. Pius X Church Recitation of the Holy Rosary will be in the church Monday evening at 8 o'clock. Father George Mur phy officiating. Interment will be made in Mt. Calvary Cemetery u Hair s Memorial Chapel is in charge of the arrangements. ACREE Funeral services for Claude E Acree, 65, who died in Tulelake January 19, will be h e 1 d in O'Hair's Memorial Chapel Monday January 25, at 2 pirn. Interment will be made in Klamath Memor ial Park. Pedestrian Killed In Accident NEWPORT, Ore. (AP) - Ern est Kelly Richardson, 54, died of head injuries after he was struck by a car as he attempted to cross Highway 101 here Friday night police said. Officers identified the driver of the car as William Gale Gillette 35. Newport service station opera tor. Richardson was a Portland construction worker employed on a project at nearby Toledo. FIRE KILLS THREE RENSSELAER. Ind. (L'PD A mother and two of her children burned to death Thursday in fire which trapped them on the second floor of their home. An other son and daughter survived The dead were Mrs.' Gladys Bu Ungton, 46. her daughter Con stance Marie, 12, and son Chris topher Faye. 9. Under New Management 97 Trailer Court Spaces With Cor Ports, Storogo, Closo to Shopping MR. It MRS. D. C. PITTS Ph. TU 2-2626 Gmonsprinai Dr. CHAMBER OMMENTS by GEORGE T. CALLISON Assistant Mgr. KLAMATH COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE A hurried trip east on personal business this past week kept me from being present at the annual meeting, into which so much prep aration had gone, but all reports indicate the meeting was an out standing success. There have been nothing but enthusiastic comments about the principal speaker Page Lamoreaux, a man with a burning mission to meet the world's under developed countries with the money and knowhow of the American busi nessman, loaned on a personal basis. Just about ready to go to press Motherhood Belt Given To Princess TOKYO (AP) Crown Princess Michiko was given a silken mater nity belt Saturday in a centuries-old court ceremony believed to as sure safe delivery of a child who may one day be the 126th emperor of Japan. For Jan. 23, according to an cient Oriental oracles, is the 'Day of the Dog," and belts pre sented this day are supposed to guarantee the mother an easy de livery. The imperial baby is due early in March. Actually the princess, 25, has been wearing a practical-purpose maternity belt since Oct. 7, im pcrial household officials said. This is in keeping with the Jap ancse belief that such belts help prevent the unborn child from growing too large and hold the baby in proper position. the ceremonial belt is more luxurious. It is an embroidered white silk cloth 12 feet long and 15 inches wide. Despite the many breaks with tradition that attended Michiko's marriage to Crown Prince Aki liilo, preparations for the imper ial infant are steeped with ancient ritual. ine ceremonial belt was brought to the young couple's res idence in Tokyo by an emissary of Prince Takamatsu, a younger brother of the Emperor. Emissaries of Akihito and Mich iko were dispatched to the three sacred shrines in the Imperial Pa lace to report to the imperial an cestors the belt delivery. If the baby is a boy, one day he will ascend the throne of a monarchy over 2.B00 years old according to legend. Since Emperor Meiji's time. girls have been excluded from the line of succession. The imperial household hospital inside the moated palace grounds has been readied for the imperial birth. Right after birth, a sword will be presented the baby if a boy, symbolic of the defense of his ex alted station. It a girl she will get a sword and a hakama, an ancient item of clothing something like an ankle length kilt. uinstening lanes place seven days after birth, followed by fur ther ancient ceremonies to choose a name and commemorate the baby's first official bath. The pomp and circumstance over, the baby will be brought to Akihito and Michiko for rearing The young couple are against the tradition of having imperial off spring brought up by court cham bcrlains. f WATCH REPAIR , wfttrhmaktr. All wrk fatly i , inartntffd. Till (' CHUCK METZ 1 1 TU 4-S779 or TU 2-2S66 is an industrial development bro chure which will stress this area's unlimited timber resources and un limited water resources in conjunct tion with excellent transportation facilities. Some of the booklet's many pictures help point out ths area's recreational opportunities, which give us what industrial re searchers would call "a high li ability factor." The importance of an adequate water supply is stressed in the brochure's introduction, which reads, "Since time began, man has thrived in direct proportion to the abundance or scarcity of water around him. The wealth in the Klamath Basin is testimony to the beneficial effects of the natural watersheds, and man-made water controls in this area. Utilization of the plentiful water supply in the Klamath Falls area for lrriga- ion. hydroelectric power, and gen' cral industry has made it one o the richest areas on the west- coast. This continuing prosperity, promises to make it the largest city between Portland and Sacra mento in the next 10 years." - Pretty heady words, some might think, but a close look at the facts would indicate that not enough can be said about the im portance of our abundant water. With water supplies dwindling in many areas some not too fat distant from Klamath County we are only beginning to appreci ate the truth of the equation which heads one section of the brochure, and that is that water equals wealth. " So much that is done in a com; munity today is done not for those ot us who are enjoying its benei fits today, but for those who will follow us. This fact was tellingly brought home to me as I waited A for plane connections in the stun ning Cleveland Hopkins Airport Terminal Building. On a huge bronze plate on one of the walls of the building is this inscription: "Built by the citizens of Cleveland as an obligation to the future. 1955." This same magnificent structure contains what seemed to me the perfect tribute to a man who was a prime mover for aviation de velopment in the Cleveland area. Major Jack Berry may also have been a Cleveland area Air Force hero, although no one I asked was able to say for certain. At any rate, another bronze plate con taining a bas-relief of the man, also bore this inscription beneath. replica of three sea gulls m flight: "Major Jack Berry if you seek his memorial, look about you. More Vandalism Vandals broke windows with large rocks at Fairview and Fre mont schools sometime Friday night, city police reported yester day. Special CHILOQUIN - Chiloquin Lodfd A.F.&A.M. will hold a special communications at 7:30 p m.i Tuesday, January 26, in the lodge hall. Degree work scheduled for Monday, January 25, has been can celled. FOR LEASE The Kern Hotel and a Ground Floor Corner Location in the Kern Hotel at 6th & Klamath James Stilwell & Co. Realtors S17 Main Stroot
