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CAMP,
MOTHERS of Klamath County, 90 strong, will march for the
' New March of Dimes fund campaign between 7 and 8 p.m.
Thursday, January 28. Venture Club girls who have organ
ized the I960 drive for the third consecutive year expect
all doorbells to be rung both in the city of Klamath Falls
.and rural towns and communities in an effort to top the
" 1959 total of $1,500. Porch lights may be left on to assist
the marchers. Some of those making plans, left to right
standing, are Mrs. Ode Nichols, Fremont School Dictrict,
Mrs. Virgil Mast and Mrs. Doris Holman, Falcon Heights,
Kingsley Field, and seated, Mrs. Gene Vallier, Venture Club
member.
In The-
Day's lews
r By FRANK JENKINS
. This modern world:
. Bomb hoaxes held up more than
S50 airline passengers Monday and
forced a luxury cruise liner sailing
with 350 passengers to drop an
chor before she could even leave
port. One of them was aimed at
a TWA jet liner about to take off
for Paris, another at a National
Airlines flight to Miami and the
third at an American Airlines
flight to Los Angeles. The cruise
ship was headed for the Carib
bean. All the hoaxes were perpetrated
In New York. All of them, of
course, scared the passengers out
of their boots. And . . . naturally
enough . , , spoiled their trips.
"Humanity" is a broad term.
It includes a lot of strange char
acters. More modern world stuff:
In Los Angeles, the clicking tele
types inform us this morning,
seats at the Finch murder trial
are selling for as high as $10. It
goes like this: Early risers line
up daily before dawn, filling the
corridors that lead to the court
room. Later arrivals bid for
places held by the early birds.
Prices start at four bits and go
up as the time nears for the doors
to open. When the doors swung
back this morning and the stam
pede started, a big man sneaked
into the line without buying his
place. An elderly woman snapped
angrily: "some people get away
with murder!
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' "I reckon it takes all kinds of
people to make a world.
Question:
-Are carryings-on like this calcu
lated to keep us ahead of Russia
in the race for scientific achieve
ment that will dominate the re
maining decades of the 20th cen
tury? Of course not.
: But let's not get too pessimistic.
People who indulge in shennani
gans such as these are not the
kind of people who make nations
great.
They're just the rag-tag and the
bob-tail.
Felons Escape
State Prison
POINT OF THE MOUNTAIN
Utah (AP) Taking advantage
Of a fog, two prisoners slipped
away from the Utah Slate Prison
Monday. They were still at large
Tuesday.
Warden John W. Turner said
both men were serving five years
to life terms one for rape and the
other for robbery and both could
be described as dangerous.
He identified them as Gary King
Brimhall, 23, Salt Lake City, and
Louis Malcom Woodford, 28, Port
land, Ore.
BULLETIN
. NEW YORK (AP) United
States Steel Corp. today reported
, . It earned $253,975,686. equal to
14.24 a share, in strike-hit 1959.
This was a smaller net income
Itian In 1958, reflecting a 116-day
teel strike. That year the com
pany earned $301,302,643 or $5.13
a share.
Divers Slate
Gulf Probe
NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) -Navy
divers plan to drop into the
Gulf of Mexico Wednesday to look
at an object officials hope is the
remains of an airliner that
crashed Nov. 16 and killed 42 per
sons.
Sounding apparatus located the
object in several hundred feet of
water off the Louisiana coast. But
experts said it could be the hulk
of an old ship and not the wreck
age of the National Airlines DC7B
If it proves to be the plane, in
vestigators will try to raise it.
They want to know whether a
bomb blew up the plane before it
plunged into the Gulf.
The USS Penguin, a 60-foot sub
marine vessel, and another Navy
vessel, the Vigor, fitted with sonar
equipment were headed for the
presumed crash site.
The searchers also will be look
ing for bodies. Only 13 have been
recovered.
Robert Vernon Spears of Dal
las, Tex., was listed as a heavily
insured passenger on the plane.
But the 65-year-old naturopath
turned up alive last week in Phoe
nix, Ariz. The FBI said Spears
took out $100,000 flight insurance
in his own name and had blasting
equipment in his luggage when he
was arrested.
Spears' wife has said her hus
band told her his place on the
plane was taken by an old friend,
William Allen Taylor, 60, of Tam
pa, Fla.
DDS 'Treated'
To $525 Fine
FREMONT, Calif. (AP) - A
dentist accused of tricking Hallo
ween youngsters with laxative
pills instead of treating them with
candy has been fined $525, placed
on two years probation and given
a four months suspended jail
sentence for "outraging public
decency."
Dr. William V. Shyne, 40, paid
the fine Monday without comment.
Several children who ate the
pills became ill, but none was
hospitalized.
Klamath Falls Residents
Face Cost Of Dying Hike
The price of dying may be going
up for Klamath Falls residents.
John Lee, superintendent of
Klamath Memorial Park cemete
ry, requested permission of the
city council Monday night to raise
rates on ground markers, concrete
liners and the opening and closing
of graves at the cemetery.
In his request, .Lee pointed out
that the price of ground markers
to the cemetery has increased sev
eral times in recent years without
a corresponding increase being ap
plied. "The last time we raised
our rates," he said, "was in April
1951."
HOWEVER, Councilman Floyd
Wynne voiced objection 'o passing
on a raise in prices at tnis time.
He pointed to the fund balances
in the cemetery account. At pres
ent these show cash on hand of
$12,970 and a time deposit of
$50,000. In addition, the cemetery
has a Mausoleum Fund of $67,803
and a Care Fund of $65,823.
He stated that the cemetery
shewed a net profit from last
ear's operation of $1,3,856 and said
Price Five Cents 12 Pages
Nation Issued Warning
By Premier Of France
PARIS (AP) Premier Michel
Debre warned Frenchmen today
that "all can be lost" if order is
not established and maintained in
Algeria.
Debre issued the warning in an
official statement after his return
from a middle-of-the-night visit to
Algiers, where French insurgents
still occupy the heart of the city
It was a clear warning to
Frenchmen that right-wing ex
tremists are threatening the fu
ture of France itself unless they
abandon their stubborn uprising.
The insurgent die - hards were
reported to have been promised the
French army will not shoot them
out of their barricades. But Debre
declared the policy of self-deter
mination for Algerians stands.
Nothing has happened that will
deter pursuit of the aim of Presi
dent Charles de Gaulle's admin
istration to let Algeria's nine mil
lion North Africans decide their
own future, he said.
The French Press Agency said
De Gaulle's military commander
and civil representative in Algeria
had promised the army will not
fire on the insurgents.
The agency quoted Echo D'Al-
ger, an Algiers newspaper, as say
ing Gen. Maurice Challe, army
commander, and Paul Delouvrier
De Gaulle's representative ir
the territory, gave the assurance
in a meeting with City Council
members.
The council members were re
ported to have asked the two Paris
representatives not to use force
against the insurgents dug in be
hind the barricades.
Word of the development came
UF Selects
Secretary
Glenn R. Jennings, 32, of Grants
Pass is the new executive secre
tary of Klamath County United
Fund.
He was hired this week by the
UF Personnel Committee with ap
proval of the c o u n t y Red Cross
chapter.
Jennings replaces Rex Dye, who
resigned recently to attend Los
Angeles City College.
He will take over duties Febru
ary 22. The family Jennings has
a wife and two small boys has
not yet located a home here.
Jennings was graduated from
Oregon State College with a bache
lor of science degree in business
administration. Since 1955 he has
been a member of the boards of
directors of the YMCA, the Mcd-
ford United Crusade, the Jackson
County Department of Public
Health, the Boy Scouts, and the
Jackson County Chamber of Com
merce.
He served on the United Crusade
Budget and Admittance Commit
tee, and was chairman of the Case
Finding Committee for the health
department. He was district fin
ance and campaign chairman for
Boy Scouts.
Jennings is t member of the
Toastmaster Club and is chairman
of the finance committee for his
church.
He was employed by Television
Station KBES in Medford for two
and one-half years, was in the in
surance business for two years
and presently is an employe of a
real estate firm in Grants Pass.
he felt, in view of these balances,
that there was no necessity of
passing on price increases at this
time.
Councilman Walter Fleet dis
agreed on the grounds that money
would be needed for future expan
sion of the cemetery. He also not
ed that the sale of lots amounted
.o $22,935 last year. Excluding
Ihis, he said, the cemetery ac
count would be running in the red.
Upon questioning, Lee indicated
that there would be no need for
future expansion needs for about
another 15 years, but that after
l hat money would be needed for
the opening of additional areas.
City Manager G. S. Vergeer sug
gested that the cemetery picture
be carefully studied to determine
it an increase is necessary to pro-j
tect future needs. This move was
adopted by the council.
VERGEER reported to the coun
cil on his testimony before the
Public Utilities Commissioner Jan
uary 20, in which he opposed a
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KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON,
alter Premier Michel Debre re
turned to Paris from a middle-ot-the-night
visit to Algiers.
There were unconfirmed reports
in Paris that both Delouvrier and
Challe had warned Debre they
would resign if ordered to use
force against the insurgents.
Debre appeared at the presiden
tial palace at noon for a meeting
with De Gaulle.
Debre his moves cloaked in
MICHAEL DEBRE
secrecy since Monday when Presi
dent De Gaulle's government dis
patched him on the trouble-shoot'
ing mission arrived in the tense
North African city Monday night,
French army headquarters for
Algiers announced.
His plane whisked him back to
Paris again before the sleeping
populace was aware of his pres
ence.
The communique said Debre
had conferred with Gen. Maurice
Challe, commander in chief in Al
geria and Paul Delouvirer, De
Gaulle's representative in the ter
ritory. It was reported he also
conferred with 10 Algiers parlia
mentary deputies. ,
The 10 Algiers deputies arc ex
pected to come to Paris later to
day to continue the talks.
Meanwhile, both sides the 1.000
lo 3.000 insurgents and the para
troopers who ringed them held
tneir fire m the hope there would
be. a peaceful solution.
But a crowd of nearly 5,000
massed before a statue of Joan
of Arc in downtown Algiers early
today in a demonstration of their
sympathy for the embattled in
surgents.
Three Killed
In Air Crash
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) An
airplane, ferrying passengers
from Travis Air Force Base to
San Francisco, crashed here in a
grove of trees on a rain-swept hill
Monday night, killing two men
and a 12-year-old girl.
Two women aboard were in
jured, one critically.
The twin-engine Piper Apache
was carrying passengers who left
Tokyo Monday morning via a Mil
itary Air Transport Service craft.
Travis is 60 miles from San
Francisco's International Airport,
and Berkeley is across the bay
from San Francisco.
The dead:
Charles E. Edinger, 44, of Dan
ville, Calif., pilot for Travis Air
Service, which owned the plane.
Salvatore H. Messina of Brent
wood, Md.
Bertha M. Marenich, 12, of
Wichita, Kan.
Mrs. Connie Marenich, Bertha's
mother, was injured critically.
Mrs. Cora Glandon, 35, of Co
lumbus, Ohio is being treated for
head lacerations at Oak Knoll Na
val Hospital in nearby Oakland
Tribe Members
Check Progress
PORTLAND (AP) Members
of the Klamath Indian Tribe's
executive committee were here
Monday to check on progress of
the government's program to end
federal control over the tribe.
The Indians were represented
by Dclford Long, Boyd Jackson,
Dibbon Cook, Jesse Kirk and Joe
Ball.
They conferred with Perry
Skarra and Conrad Schelland of
the Bureau of Indian Affairs and
Ivan Luman and Harvey Wright,
representing the slate.
Water, mineral, hunting and
fishing rights on the Klamath
Reservation were discussed, along
w ith timber sales and loans.
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1960
SAX FRANCISCO (UPD-The
Taoist elders of he Kuan Yin
Temple have announced Iheir
annual prognostications for the
Year of The Mouse 4658.
The colorful New Year's cele
bration begins Thursday in San
Francisco's China Town.
The elders said the Year of
The Mouse would be good to
bankers, food handlers, people
with cancer, President Eisen
hower, Premier Khrushchev,
young British politicians, Red
Chinese cotlonpickers and mis
silcmen. However, they warned that It
would be a bad year for India,
field workers in the Western
United Slates, old British poli
ticians, and sending men to the
moon.
Program Cost
Set At Billion
WASHINGTON (AP)-The gov
ernment-sponsored school lunch
program is expected to become a
billion-dollar project before the
current school year is over.
As such, the great bulk of its
outlay will go for domestic farm
products.
The Agricultural Marketing
Service reports that federal, state
and local contributions to the pro
gram during the past school year
was about $985,400,000 compared
with 875 million dollars the previ
ous year.
But officials are expecting a 15
per cent increase this year in chil
dren participating in the program.
The program is carried on under
agreements with the Agriculture
Department and state education
departments.' The Agriculture De
partment makes contributions in
the form of cash and surplus
foods. State cash grants add at
least $3 for each federal dollar.
But state contributions made up
mostly of payments by children
for lunches and milk have far
exceeded this.
Finch Trial
Tickets High
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Seats
at the Finch murder trial are sell
ing for as high as $10.
Early risers, mostly pensioners,
line up daily before dawn. Later
arrivals bid for places held by the
early birds. Prices start at 50
cents and go up.
Three persons were in line when
Times reporter Jerry Hulse joined
them at 6 a.m. outside the new
county courthouse.
Hope I make some more
money today," said one little old
lady. "Sold my place in line the
other day."
Another said, "The man next
to me Friday paid $10 for his
seat."
At 7 a.m., when the courthouse
doors open, there's a rush for the
elevators to the second floor. A
new line forms outside the court
room. What brings the people?
"I find it's like reading a book,"
a retired bus driver said. You
can't stop until you get to the
end."
The door opened. The stampede
was on into the courtroom. A big
man sneaked into line.
An elderly woman snapped:
some people get away with
murder!"
Hope Glum
For Miners
COALBROOK, South Africa
(UPD An estimated 440 miners
scaled deep underground by a
rockslide - will have to stay en
tombed for another month even
if they are still alive.
Officials at the rescue scene
of the collapsed coal mine said
today the only way the men can
be saved is first to successfully
drill a 13',4-inch air shaft to them
If this can be done, former
miner J.C. Burger has volun-
teered lo slip 515 feet down
through it to the spot under
ground where the miners are be
lieved to be.
Burger said someone would
have to go down because even if
the miners are alive they are
probably too weak or hurt to feed
or help themselves.
Food and supplies would have
to be painstakingly lowered
through the small air shaft for at
least a month until South Africa's
best shaft sinking team could dig
a major shaft down to the sealed
off spot.
The miners have been trapped
since last Thursday. There is no
way of knowing whether they are
alivt.
Telephone TU 4-8111
No. 6613
Spud Grower
Wins Contest
A young. Klamath County potato
grower, 9-year-old Steven Swisher,
has brought fame to Klamath
Falls.
Steven, a fourth grader at Twyla
Ferguson School, submitted an en
try in the 1!)."9 largest potato con
test sponsored by the Potato Chip
Institute of Cleveland, Ohio, and
came out national winner.
His potato, a While Rose vari
ety, weighed three pounds, 14
ounces. He helped irrigate the field
where it was grown by setting ir
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STEVEN SWISHER
ligation syphon tubes from ditch
to spud rows during his summer
vacation.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. F.
Keith Swisher, have farmed for
20 years on the Gus Hilyard
Ranch, 6744 Hilyard Avenue, in
the South Suburban area near the
Merrill-Lakeview Junction.
Announcement on the national
prize winning spud came from
Harvey t. Noss, executive vice
president of the Potato Chip In
stitute. Steven will receive a $100 sav
ings bond and publicity in the
Institute's trade magazine, "Pota
to Chipper." Judging of the hun
dreds of entries took four days
January 10-14.
He has an older brother, Phil,
student at Southern Oregon Col
lege, Ashland. Grandparents are
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Anderson
and Frank Swisher, all of Grants
Pass. .
Weather
FORECAST Klamath Falls and
vicinity: Partial clearing through
Wednesday. Low tonight 22 27;
high Wednesday 40-45.
High yesterday 47
Low last night 33
Prccip. last 24 hours 0.01
Since Oct. 1 1.81
Same period last year 2.59
Low in area, Chemult 27
Northern California Partly
cloudy through Wednesday. Con
siderable fog in coastal and interi
or valleys late tonight and Wednes
day morning. Slightly cooler to
night, Southwesterly or westerly
coastal winds 10-20 miles an hour.
HAMMARSKJOLD IN SPAIN
MADRID (UPD - United Na
tions Secretary General Dag Hnm
marskjold will spend Jan. 27-28
in Spain as guest of the Spanish
government, it was announced
Monday. He will be received by
Chief of Stale Francisco Franco
and confer with other govern
ment officials.
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SACRED HEART ACADEMY students and teachers moved into the top floor of tha naw
academy annex lait week. The ground ftoor will b completed soon. Dedication it
planned for March. Tha addition has three classrooms, a icienea lab and lecture room,
a spacious auditorium and other facilities.
Castro Reprisal
Ruled Out By Ike
WASHINGTON (API-President
F.isenhower today ruled out any
United States reprisals at this
lime against Cuba's Fidel Castro
regime.
The President told a news con
ference the Castro government's
WASHINGTON (AP) "There
Is no reason fur Americans to
hung their heads in shame over
the progress of the nation's
spare exploration program," the
President told his news con
terenee today.
"While the Russians have made
some spectacular advances in
space the United Statrs has a
pretty good record on a solid
M'lcnlific basis." he said.
anli - American campaign causes
concern and perplexes Ihis coun
try.
But, Eisenhower added, the
American people still have great
affection for the Cubans. The
United Stales, he went on, is not
going to be a party to any re
prisals against Castro at this mo
ment, and is certainly not going
to intervene in Cuba's internal af
fairs.
Immediately after the news con
ference. Eisenhower issued a
statement.
"The United States government
views with increasing concern the
tendency of spokesmen of the Cu
ban government, including Prime
Minister Castro, to create the il
lusion of aggressive acts, and
conspiratorial activities aimed at
the Cuban government and attrib
uted to United States officials or
agencies," it said.
Eisenhower called such accusa
tions "unfounded illusions and
said promotion of them can hard
ly contribute to good relations be
tween the United States and Cuba.
"We believe these charges to be
totally unfounded," the President
said.
In a TV broadcast last week.
Castro accused the U. S. Embas
sy of working with opponents of
his government, lie also de
nounced Vice President Richard
,L Nixon.
Alter this Castro broadcast, the
United States called Ambassador
Philip Bonsai home fur consulta
tions.
Eisenhower dealt with these oth
er topics in his news conference
SPACE This country has a
record in the space field of which
It can be proud, the President
said, particularly when you take
into account that the Soviet Union
has been working in that field since
1945.
DEFENSE The United States
has developed better intelligence
methods for evaluating the mili
tary strength of the Soviet Union.
Eisenhower made that remark
when asked for comment on what
a reporter called assertions by
Secretary of Defense Thomas S.
Gates Jr. that the United States
now is basing its conclusions on
WASHINGTON (AP) Presi
dent Eisenhower said today the
United Stales has better intelli
gence estimates on Soviet mili
Inry production that It had in
the past.
Elsenhower snid both capability
(the Industrial power to produce
weapons) and Intention whether
the Soviets will use the resources
they have to the limit are neces
ii ry elements of an intelligence
estimate.
The United States, Elsenhower
said, has all the power necessary
to destroy a good many countries,
hut the world knows Ihe United
Slates has no intention of using
Its power for that purpose.
Soviet intentions rather than mil
itary capabilities.
Eisenhower replied first of all
that he believes the meaning of
Gates' remarks has been misin
terpreted. Gates can be expected
to clarify what he did say. Eisen
hower added.
The whole business of military
intelligence is very intricate and
complex, Eisenhower said, and
you can't take any one aspect of
intelligence reports and come to
definite conclusions.
As for Gales, Eisenhower
praised him as a very splendid
civil servant.
POLITICS Eisenhower said he
had no comment except laughter
for Democratic attacks on Vice
President Richard M. Nixon as a
"juvenile delinquent."
His reaction was the same to
ward other Democratic criticisms
of Nixon and the Eisenhower administration.
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DALE
"SNUFFY" SMITH
Bly Justice
Seeks Post
Dale "Snuffy" Smith, justice, of
the peace at Bly and a former
deputy sheriff, is the first an
nounccd candidate for Klamath
County sheriff.
Smith, 34, filed as a Democrat
ic candidate in the May 20 pri
mary election. In his statement
of candidacy signed yesterday aft
ernoon, Smith pledged to "have
qualified officers throughout Klam
ath County, with honesty, efficien
cy, and impartiality as a must."
Smith is a timber grader for
Loveness Timber Company at Bly.
Since 1057 he has been magis
trate of the Sprague River Justice
Court.
The candidate served as a dep
uty sheriff in 1953 and 1954. He
said his resignation as a deputy
was "due to the lack of coopera
tion from that department (the
sheriff's office).
"Taxpayers in Klamath County
are paying thousands of dollars a
year for law enforcement, but def
initely are not getting value re
ceived for their tax dollar," he
maintained. "This can be correct
ed.
"For every dollar deputy sher
iffs in Chiloquin, Bly and Beatty
brought to courts through their ar
rests," the candidate said, "it
costs the taxpayers $30, or $30,000
against $947. Is this law enforce
ment? "If elected," Smith alleged in a
written statement, "I will correct
this. Not with promises but with
qualified law enforcement officers.
When you take public office, one
line of your oath states, 'to the
best of my ability, so help ma
God.' If the present administra
tion is operating by this oath of
office, then it is definitely not
enough."
Smith is married and the father
of four pre-school age children.
He is a veteran of Army service
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