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V.OF 032. LIBRARY N2W3PAPER SECTION GEN.REF.AND DOCUMENTS DIV. tuaoi,oaea. COMP. In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS Trivia in the news: Albert P. Armour, said to be (he inventor of the door on tele phone booths, died yesterday at Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He was reputed to have sold his phone booth patent rights for three million dollars when he retired in 1329. That's what an IDEA can do Aftorlhniiehh I'll bet it never occurred to him that the lime would come when phone booths equipped with his gadget door would be used to see how many college students can be crowded into them. Afterthought No. 2: How long has it been since you read of a phone-booth-cramming incident? Quite a while, I'll wager. You may NEVER hear of one again. Fads come and go like epidemics of the measles. . Wore trivia: Elmer F. Lovejoy, inventor of (he automatic garage door opener and credited with helping develop the balloon tire and the automo bile steering knuckle, dies in San ta Ana at the age of 87. ; The automatic garage door open er, a potential boon to lazy mod ern man. failed to revolutionize the world 'because it costs too much for most of us to afford, but the balloon tire and the auto mobile steering knuckle well, we couldn't get along without either of them. , A lot of credit for the GOOD LIFE we lead is due to smart minds that thought up the gadgets that help to make life good. Also a Jot of credit is due to smart business - minds that thought up ways to ' make these gadgets at prices we can afford to pay. From Washington this morning comes a story to the effect that Senator Kennedy's forces are com ing around to the belief that Sena tor Lyndon Johnson of Texas may be the Massachusetts senator's chief rival for the Democratic nomination for President. Senator Johnson, it can be added here, comes as near to being a conser vative as anybody in politics these days can afford to be. Hmmmmmmmm. Do you reckon conservatism might be getting respectable again? Weatjier Northern California Partly cloudy tonight, but a few showers near Crescent City and a few snow flurries over the high mountains in the north. Increasing clouds Thursday. Little change in tem perature. Coastal winds southerly and 10-20 miles an hour Point Reyes northward and westerly to southwesterly 8-18 miles an hour elsewhere. ' Klamath Falls and vicinity Considerable clearing tonight with a few snow flurries. Partly cloudy With patchy valley fog Thursday. Low tonight 18-23; high Thursday J8-33. " High yesterday 41 - Low last night 26 1 Precip. last 24 hours 0.03 ; sfcnce Oct. 1 1-84 Same period last year 2.60 '. Low in area, Chiloquln 22 I CRATER LAKE j- High yesterday - I Low last night ; 8 a.m. today ' New snow Snow depth C Last year Year before ...28 ...23 ... 23 ..VA ...58 ... 54 117 .'.Chains are required for travel in the park today. It was snowing hard and continuously and visi bility was very poor this morning. Music Soothes Savage Pain Of Dental Drill DALLAS. Tex. (API Music and the recorded roar of a waterfall have been used successfully to stop pain during dental treatment. Dr. Harold Wirth of New Orleans aid at the Dallas Midwinter Den lal Clinic Tuesday. The machine was developed un der the auspices of Tufts Univer sity alter it had been discovered that workers In noisy industrial areas had suffered accidents with out experiencing pain, indicating. Dr. Wirth said, that noise numbs portions of the brain recording pain. Dental patients are fitted with tight-fitting earphones. Controls enable them to increase the vol ume as needed to knock out the pain. Airman Tests Nose Capsule In Chilly Waters Of Erie BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP)-An air man, fighting physical and mental fatigue, sat cramped in a metal pod, bobbing in Lake Erie's icy waters today. The assignment for Airman l.c Bruce C. Barwise. 34. of Bovey, Minn., is part of the Air Force's 72-hour endurance test of man and a new . ejection capsule designed for the supersonic B.iB Hustler. Barwise was strapped in the yellow pod and floated in the water near the Buffalo harbor at 2:15 p.m. Tuesday. One of his first chores was to man a bilge pump to run off seep age which enters the capsule at the rate of about an inch and a half, an hour. Barwise's only contact with the outside is by radio to the U.S. Coast Guard tender Maple to which the capsule is tethered. The weather in the lake was enough to chill the heartiest of ice fishermen. Temperatures ranged from 15 to 20 above zero Tuesday night and the water temperature was 32 degrees. Winds up to 35 miles an hour raked the hull of the unheated pod. Barwise is dressed in standard flying coveralls under a thermal Korea Melee Fatal To 31 SEOUL, South Korea (API Thirty-one holiday-bound Koreans were killed and 50 injured Tues day night in what one survivor called the "living hell" of a hu man stampede at the Seoul rail way station. Eleven of the victims were chil dren under 10. They either suffocated or were trampled to death when hundreds of ticket buyers, dashing wildly to crowd into the last night train to Mokpo, piled up at the bottom of a steep stairway. Officials said one person appar ently slipped on the snow-covered stairs, starting a human ava lanche. Transportation Minister Kim II Hwan resigned today after eye witnesses blamed station officials for the tragedy. The station mas ter also was relieved of his duties President Syngman Rhee ordered art investigation. More than 3,000 tickets had been sold for the train's 16 coaches more than twice the number of seats and the station gates were opene'd only five minutes before departure time. Sixteen of the dead were wom en. Most of them were servants en route to their home in Mokpo, a seaport in southwest Korea, to celebrate the lunar calendar New Year, which falls Thursday. Home Destroyed By Eruption KOAE, Hawaii (UPI) The Puna eruption on Hawaii de stroyed one home Tuesday, threat ened two others and cracked open the earth near Warm Springs Junction. The home of Harry Kenoi was burned in a brush fire touched off by falling hot cinders. It was the eighth home destroyed since the eruption began two weeks ago today. Meanwhile,- the lava flow ad vanced slowly on abandoned houses owned by William Eldergs and Rose Swain. At the main eruption front at Kapoho, a slow but forceful flow of lava exerted new pressure on dikes built to divert the flow. Massive chunks of lava crept to the top of the barrier below Ka poho, but moved slowly enough to cool before they could spill over. Test Scheduled For Jetmobile LOS ANGELES (AP) - An East Los Angeles physician is preparing a jet-propelled automo bile for an attempt at a new speed record on the Bonneville, Utah, salt flats. "Our goal is 5O0 miles an hour," said Dr. Nathan Ostich, who has been racing at Bonneville for years. "We expect to begin test ing the car within 60 days and will make the record attempt Aug. 14-20." The 28' j-foot-long car employs a turbojet engine of the type used in B36 bombers. The world record of 394.2 miles an hour was set in 1947 by the late John Cobb. Training Mishap EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla 'API Rough surf and a broken cable dumped 30 Army Rangers into the Gulf of Mexico during a training exercise. Two officers drowned, and a third is missing suit. He wears plastic booties over his GI shoes. His dinner consists of concen trated foods. An 8-inch window provides-' an icy scene. Under actual conditions, the capsule containing the crewman is ejected from the aircraft by rockets. An Air Force spokesman said the tests were designed to see "how a man reacts to such prob lems as cold, seasickness, damp ness and psychological factors of being alone in the confined space of a drifting capsule." Tests in warm water were con ducted last year near Key West, Fla. Barrymore Clues Sparse NEW YORK (UPI) - Authori- ties today sought the solution to the mystery of the death of Diana Barrymore. Deputy Police Inspector Joseph McLaughlin said Tuesday night the death of the 38-year-old ac tress would remain under invos tigation but added that there was no indication of suicide or foul play. The nude body of the daughter of matinee idol John Barrymore was found Monday afternoon in her $230-amonlh East Side Man hattan apartment. An autopsy Tuesday failed to disclose "any evident cause" for her death and a chemical analy sis of her vital organs was or dered. The body bore no signs of vio lence, police said. Miss Barrymore was known to have given a party in her apart ment the night before she died. Police found three empty liquor bottles one scotch, one gin and one vermouth in the kitchen. Seconal tablets and other seda lives were found in a bedroom cabinet. Police said, however, there was no indication she had taken an overdose of drugs. Two Shots Said Success CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) The United States has demon strated the power and accuracy of its biggest military rocket, the Atlas, with a pair of successful Inunchings from opposite ends of (he country. The launchings featured a heavy American missile schedule which also included the successful fir ings of a Redstone ballistic missile at White Sands, N.M., and a Jav elin test rocket from Wallop's Is land, Va. An Atlas launched at Cape Ca naveral Tuesday night carried an experimental nose cone to a tar get off the South Atlantic island of Ascension, 5,000 miles away. A few hours earlier. Strategic Air Command troops fired another At las into the Pacific from Vanden- berg Air Force Base, Calif. The Air Force announced both shots were completely successful. They were the 16th and 17th straight successes for the big mis sile in a remarkable string ex tending back to last July. Explosion Rocks Chemical Plant PAULSBORO, N. J. (AP)-An explosion rocked the Dixon Chem ical Co. plant across the Dela ware River from Philadelphia's International Airport today. The blast was heard as far as a mile away. Dark clouds of smoke filled the sky, but the fire was reported under control. Reports were conflicting on cas ualties. Paulsboro police said they understood one man was missing and another injured. Earlier re ports said one man was dead and one injured. Merchants Meet Set February 3 Spring promotion plans and a report on the proposed Park and Shop Corporation will highlight the meeting of the Klamath Falls Mer chants Association Wednesday, February 3, at the Winema Hotel. The meeting will be a no-host dinner starting at 6:30 p.m. Leo Morslad, president, urged ail merchants and others interest ed to attend this important I session. ". A discussion of promotion plans for the spring season will be held to coordinate thinking. Charlie Schuss will give the report on the Park and Shop organization which has called a stockholders meeting for Tuesday, February 9. Officers will be elected for the coming year. Price Five Cents 24 Pages ARMED ALGERIAN CIVILIANS convoy an ambulance to the scene of a recent street battle in the heart of Algiers as police and Army paratroopers stand by surrounding bar ricades thrown up by French settlers. Late reports indicate a new outburst of shooting has hit the area in which at least 19 persons were killed and many wounded earlier in the week. Eyes were focused on French President Charles do Gaulle's regime in Paris for the next move in the Algerian crisis. NEA Telephoto Four People Murdered; Slayer's Vehicle Found NORTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) A red and black taxicab, used as the getaway car by the slayer of four persons in a doc tor's home, was found nearly 25 miles away in Elizabeth early to day. The cab was abandoned a few blocks from the Newark line be fore 5 a.m. Police had seen noth ing in the residential area while on a routine patrol an hour ear lier. Newark and Elizabeth police im mediately swarmed about the area looking for a man fitting the de scription of the slayer. A police alarm had said lie was about 35, His victims were three women and a man, found in the large white mansion of Dr. Francis M. Clarke, a prominent surgeon. All had been shot through the left temple. The slayer's identity and his motive remained a mystery. ' The taxicab 'was taken to the Bodies Found Of Air Crew FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. AP- The remains of 10 men who died in the crash of a U.S. B25 aircraft on a high mountain in New Guinea May 22, 1944, have been found. The Department of the Army reported this to survivors of one of the victims. The B25, carrying a crew of three and seven passengers, dis appeared while on an administra tive mission between Nadzab and Saidor, New Guinea. Gen. R. V. Lee, adjutant gen eral of the Army, wrote survivors that in May, 1959, information was received that the Lutheran mis sion at Lae, New Guinea, had been given certain U.S. Army pub lications which had been recovered from the wreckage of the plane found by natives at the headwaters of the Corop and Erap Rivers in New Guinea. A search team found human re mains, an identification tag en graved "Randall M. Dorton Jr.," and a leather breastplate from a flight jacket stamped: "R. J. Arndt." The Army said the pas senger list included a Lt. Robert J. Arndt Jr. and a Capt. Randall M. Dorton. Gen. Lee said individual identi fication of the remains was noM possible. The letter from Gen. Lee was addressed to relatives of S. Sgt. David L. Carter of Cedar Creek Township, near here, who also was listed as a passenger. Carter, then 31, had been on brief leave after flying 30 combat missions as a tail gunner on a B17 bomber. Demolition Crew Unloads Truck TOPPENISH, Wash. (AP - An Air Force demolition crew from McChord Air Force Base Wednes day began the tricky job ofun loading 12.000 pounds of eight-inch Army projectiles and their detona tors from a wrecked truck 11 miles southeast of here. The freight truck, en route from Kermit. Utah, to McChord AFB near Tacoma, crashed into the rear of a farm truck on State Highway 3-A Tuesday. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 27. 1960 Elizabeth police garage, where it was dusted for fingerprints. About an hour after it was found a man fitting the descrip tion of the unknown suspect was picked up drunk in Elizabeth. Police waited to question him further but one detective who poke to the man said he was a doubtful suspect. The man was not identified. The trussed - up victims of the multiple shooting included the doctor's invalid wife, two women servants, and a stranger to the home, a Newark cab driver. The three women were Edith Clarke, in her 60s, wife of Dr. Francis. Clarke; a maid, Cora Thaddies, 29; and Dorothy Moore, Mrs. Clarke's elderly housekeeper and companion. Their bodies were found side by side on a narrow bed in Mrs Clarke's room. They had been tied hand mid foot with belts, tics and strips of cloth. The cab driver, Morris Michael, 56, of Newark, was in another bed room on the second floor, his body covered by a sheet. They were found by Mrs. Clarke's daughter, Cornelia Chap- in, 26, who had left the home ear lier on a shopping trip with her daughter, Nancy, 3',i. The only clues were the myster ious passenger in the cab and a liandlul of .32 caliber shells. The motive? "I wish I knew," said Middle ex County Prosecutor Warren T. Wilentz. Robbery? A few closets had been ransacked but nothing of value was missing. A sex attack? The women had net been sexually molested and showed no signs of struggle. Revenge? "I don't think 1 had any enemies who would go to that extreme," said Dr. Clarke, head surgeon at St. Peter's Hospital, New Brunswick. Clarke told Wilentz there were some people unfriendly to him but the prosecutor said "there were no exceptional leads." What, then? Wilentz could only say police would continue their investigation. Mother, 3 Tots, Monoxide Victims KINGSV1LLE, Tex. (API-Bea trice Hilda Davis, 27, and her three small children were found dead of carbon monoxide poison ing in their overheated home Tues day night. Their bodies were discovered by the husband and father, Arthur L. Davis, a second-class petty officer at the Naval Auxiliary Air Station here, when he returned home from a 36-hour tour of duty. Justice of the Peace R. J. Sims ruled death from carbon monoxide after autopsies had been per formed on the bodies of Mrs. Da vis and a daughter, Peggy Ann, 4. The other victims were Jerry Lee, 2, and Shirley Ann, 2 months. PARTIAL JUSTICE COVENTRY, England (UPI) -Mrs. June Smith, a 25-year-old strip .teaser fined $2.80 for "in decent exposure," told the court no charges were brought when she performed for a policemen's private party and asked why was "it not good enough for the work ing lads of Lancashire?" Telephone TU 4-8111 No. m Horse Rescued MIAMI (LPI) The whole neighborhood joined the search last Sunday when three horses and two goals wandered away from the home of Wayne R. Hart. Two of the horses and the goals were quickly rounded up. Only Bl Boy, a 10-year-old brown gelding, was missing. Tuesday afternoon, county road department workers Jmiics Wallace and Joe Zinkus hap pened by a 12-foot-dccp, water filled rockpit about three blocks from the Hart home. They spotted something moving in die water. It was Big Bny. The horse ap parently had been treading wa ter in the rockpit for nearly two full days. A call for help brought Hu mane Society employes Fors llinn Anderson and Frank Blair with a horse trailer, ropes and pulleys. For more than an hour, (hey dived into the dirty water try ing to fasten a makeshift lilt ing harness under Big Boy. The exhausted animal finally was pulled to safety. Mrs. Hart was near tears as she wrapped blankets around Big Boy while the horse lay on the ground. In a few moments, Big Boy jumped to his feet and took a tuft of grass from one of the rescuers. A veterinarian said the horse would recover. Federal Agents Remain Silent PHOENIX, Ariz. (UPI) FBI agents remained tight-lipped today about their investigation to link Robert V. Spears to the Nov. 16 crash of an airliner in the Gulf of Mexico. Spears, 64, an ex-convict want ed for trial on abortion charges in Los Angeles, was questioned for the first time in four days Tuesday. Spears has been held on a car Iheft charge since last Wednesday when he was caught checking out of a hotel. He generally had been believed one of the 42 victims aboard the National Airliner up to his arrest. The car he admitted driving was that of William Taylor, 58, of Tampa, Fla. Spears, a self-styled doctor, said Taylor took his place aboard the ill-fated airliner. Olympic Flight Chances Poor A telegram to the Herald and News late Tuesday from Congress man Al Ullman indicates that the request for temporary service from Klamath Falls to Reno by West Coast Airlines during the pe riod of the Olympic jGames will be refused. Ullman said, "Regret to advise despite my urging of importance of Klamath Falls-Reno air serv ice, CAB continues in opposition. Board order denying exemption application for temporary service during Olympic Games to be is sued this week." POLITICAL PUZZLER SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (UPI) - A Democratic executive commit tee has the problem of trying to decide how to list on the ballot the names of R. L. (Bob) Strick land, an oilman, and R. L. (Bob) Strickland, a state representative, both candidates for the state Sen ate from the same county. Insurgents Asked To Lay Down Arms ALGIERS (LTD Police and soldiers opened fire today on hun dreds of .Moslems who staged (uiinlrr demonstration at Mos- l.igaiirni against their govern ment's Algerian policies. Arrording to unofficial reports, six persons were injured but none was killed. The shouting at Mnslngancm, a trading center of 60,000 persons close by the Mediterranean be tween Algiers and Oran, threw a dramatic new (wist Into the drama bring enacted in Algeria. It was (he first time (he Mos lem population had come into the incline In force. And the Moslng anein demonstrators were shout mi! for President Charles do (.iiullr, not against him as have hern the French settlers whn (hum Dc Gaulle is selling out ; 1-ranee in Algeria. PARIS (API President Charles dc Gaulle's chief representative in Algeria pleaded with insurgent Frenchmen today to lay down their arms and end a general strike against the policy of self-de termination for Algeria. Delegate General Paul Dclouv- rier, the civilian administrator in the North African territory, de plored the four-day uprising in a broadcast over army controlled radio Algiers. Even as he spoke, the thou sands of armed insurgents were strengthening their shoulder-high barricades in the streets of Al giers. Delouvrier said no one in Al giers wishes secession or a gov ernment crisis. "Certainly I understand the mo tives of those who, with the cour age of despair, have entrenched themselves to bear witness for French Algeria," he said. "I know that these motives arc shared by most people here. Met ropolitan France must know this." This was the first official ad mission that rioting Sunday in Al- icrs, in which 26 persons died and about 150 were injured, was a reflection of widespread senti ment and not the action of a rel atively few French rightists. As the deadlock went into its fourth day, rumors spread that the Picsidcnt might evoke constitu tional provisions thai would give him dictaturial powers if he feels Franco s integrity is menaced Reports also persisted that Pre mier Michel Dcbre would resign as a result of the crisis in which 26 persons died and about 150 were injured in a battle last Sunday pitting Frenchman against Charges Name Pill Firms NEW YORK (UPI) -The Jus tice Department filed antitrust ac tions today accusing the two lead ing, U. S. tranquilizer manufac turers of conspiracy to fix high prices and monopolize their field. The civil complaint was lodged in U. S. District Court against Carter Products, Inc., makers of Millown, and American Home Products Corp., manufacturer of Equanil. Both companies' activities were already being investigated by the Senate antimonopoly subcommit tee studying drug prices. The government charged the two companies with conspiracy to monopolize the sale and distribu tion of mcprobamate, sole active ingredient in their branded drugs, and with conspiracy to determine who may manufacture the drug and other combinations using it. "This (conspiracy) has tended to eliminate competition between them in the sale, and distribution of the drug and the consuming public has been forced to pay high and noncompetitive prices," the complaint said. Gondola Found Of Space Balloon ABOARD USS VALLEY FORGE 'AP) A scientific gondola ditched from the world's largest balloon was located in the east ern Caribbean today. , The gondola, loaded with valu able scientific instruments, was jettisoned Tuesday night when the giant balloon headed for the trackless jungles of Venezuela. It was located by a search plane today and the destroyer Hyman, guided to the spot by the plane, reported that recovery operations would be started immediately. The gondola, carrying an 800- pound pack of supersensitive film to record cosmic ray activity, had been sought throughout the night by ships of the project skyhook fleet. Frenchman. Dcbre's aides denied the report. There was no sign of a solution lo the situation which posed the gravest threat to De Gaulle since '.he Algerian uprising of May lfl."i8 doomed the Fourth French Repub lic and vaulted him to power. lhe barricaded insurgents fearful that De Gaulle's moderate elf - determination policy would icad to eventual independence for Algiers demand that the largely Moslem land remain French. From his palace. Dc Gaulle re- affirmed his policy and called on the insurgents to lay down their arms. ELMO SMITH Ex-Governor Announces Candidacy Elmo Smith, ex-governor of Ore gon, announced today that he would be a candidate for Republi can national committeeman al the May primary. The post is present ly held by Robert Mautz, Port land attorney, who has announced he will not run for another term. Smith is publisher of the Al bany daily Democrat-Herald and has newspaper interests at John Day and Madras. He has resided in Albany since leaving the gov ernor's office in 1957. Prior to becoming governor Smith had served in the Oregon Senate for four sessions. In 1955 he was president of the Senate and then stepped to the governor ship. Over many years he has been a major influence in the develop ment of Oregon's modern high way system. The former governor regards himself as a middle-of-the-road Re publican. "I continue to retain my interest in good government at all levels. Business commitments keep me pretty busy but I do have time to engage some in political activity. "I have been encouraged to run for national committeeman by a number of long-time personal and political friends who share my in terest in government responsibil ity. 'I shall continue efforts to keep the Republican Party an instru ment of good government dedicate cd to the welfare and advance ment of all people," Smith stated in issuing his announcement. Ho added, "So many thousands of hard working Oregon Republicans have helped me in the past that I welcome any opportunity to help the party cause." Smith, a veteran pilot, serves as a member of the Oregon Board of Aeronautics on appointment by Gov. Mark Hatfield. During the past year he has also been a con sultant on continuity of govern ment for the western office of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobil ization. He is a director of the Insurance Company of Oregon, and a director of the Oregon Pi lots Association. The former governor first en tered public service as a youth when he served three terms as mayor of Ontario, Oregon's east ernmost city. Roads State police advised motorists Wednesday morning to use chains on all routes in the coun ty except Highway 39 to Tule lake and Alturas. Snowfall Is general, heavy and continuous In all county areas, they said. No reports were available lor Mt. Hebron on Highway 97 In California. 5 if . - J ft " rtr4
