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U.OF OHS.LIBjIAJI? tiZHiPAPZR SECTION OEN.REF.ANO fiOCOMEWS OIV. coup. NY Trains Sideswipe; Two Injured WESTFIELD, N.Y. (UPD-Two crack New York Central passen gcr trains sideswiped during a heavy fog early today, derailing 10 cars and causing at least two injuries. Scores ot the more than 500 passengers and crew members aboard the two trains the 20th Century Limited, bound from Chi cago to New York, and the New Kngland States, bound from Chi cago to Boston were shaken up. None of the derailed cars over turned, according to the railroad. But the accident blocked both tracks, forcing the Central to re route all Chicago-New York traf iic over another line. The accident occurred at 2:03 a.m. e.s.t. 57 miles west of Buf falo. At the time, state troopers said, the fog was "so thick you could hardly see your hand in front of your face." A railroad spokesman said both trains were proceeding "at a very slow rate of speed." He estimated the speeds at "about 20 miles an hour." coin oi me injured passengers were treated at Westfield Memo rial Hospital and released. They were identified as Mrs. Dwight Styles, 61, Chicago, and Sam Frank, Yonkers N.Y. W. T. Alexander, general manag er of the railroad's Western Di vision, said the accident occurred when the New Kngland Slates, carrying 284 passengers, went through a stop signal. A railroad spokesman in New York said the 20th Century Limit ed, carrying 186 passengers, had just passed the ,New England States on an adjacent track and was switching back on the same track when the two trains brushed. Three of the Limitcd's cars and seven from the New England States were derailed. They included four sleepers, two sleeper coaches, a dining car, a railroad postal car, a bar car and a baggage and crew car. Thieves Nab Firm's Payroll NEW YORK (AP)-Two armed bandits held up two guards and seized a $23,900 payroll outside the American Can Co. in Brooklyn to day. Gunfire seriously wounded both guards. The guards appeared at the plant in a Brink's armored truck. As they began walking into the plant with the payroll, two men appeared. One announced a stick up. Shots were fired and the two guards fell to the ground. They were taken to Maimonides Hospi tal Police said the bandits made their escape in a waiting black sedan which had a third man at the wheel. The guards were identified as Leo Dolan, 57, of Dumont, N.J., and William Feeney, 56, of New York. Dolan suffered a neck wound, and Feeney was struck in the shoulder by a bullet. Latin Tempers Flare In NY NEW YORK (UPI) Hot Latin tempers exploded into a ini ThnrsHav in the chill of a January afternoon. Pro - Castro and anti-Castro Cubans fought for right to honor Jose Marti, Cuba's rational liberal. Three persons were injured and 12 arrested, six from each side. . The anti - Castro White Rose movement held a birthday cele bration at the Central Park site at the head of the Avenue of the Americas where a Marti statue is to be erected. Only the pedes tal has been raised. House Approves Wheat Extension WASHINGTON (AP) A House Agriculture subcommittee Thurs day approved a senate-passed bill extending a special durum wheat quota in the Tulelake area of California for another two years. The measure would permit homesteaders in the Tulelake Ir rigation District to plant 8,000 acres of durum wheat this year and next. Rep. Harold T. Johnson (D Calif), James G. Stearns, chair man of the Tulelake durum wheat committee, and Kenneth Baghott. University of California agricul turist, said that without the bill this year's plantings in the area would be restricted to 15 acres per (arm, not enough to supply San Francisco millers. IN MOUNTAINS AND WINTER, Robert Service fbunTI a "white land IbTkld" tight as a drum." On a snowy walk, Robert Frost asked, "Let the heavenly lostness overwhelm me." There is poetry, too, in this study Don Kettler took from the top of a winter-locked world; silhouetted trees give it form, a distant horizon adds depth, and blended colors create a single mood. The KLAMATH Price Five Cents 16 Pages Crews Comb For Jet Plane PORTLAND (AP)-The search for a supersonic jet fighter that vanished on a landing approach to Portland Air Base turned today to Northern Clark County in Washington. The plane, an F102A "Delta Dag ger" with one man aboard, had reported at 4,000 feet and was cleared to come down to 3,000 feet Thursday when it dropped off a control tower radar screen. Authorities said reports from residents ot the Clark County area north of Battle Ground indicated the jet might have crashed in that area. A ground and- air search was started at dawn. A Portland Air Base spokesman said the pilot was not from Ore gon. He said the plane was from the 406th Fighter Interceptor Squadron and was on a routine training flight from the base. A Federal Aviation Agency spokesman said the pilot started a final approach from 20,000 feet ever Newberg. He said it was not a ground controlled landing and as the plane dropped down "for some reason or the other he dis appeared." "He was making what we con sider a normal approach," the FAA man said. "T h e first we knew that anything was wrong he was left of the on course. We were unable to locate him with our radar or our direction finding equipment. He ceased to answer our call. The only thing we could assume was that he had left our control." Two helicopters probed the area between Newberg and Sauvies Island in the Columbia Thursday, but failed to find anything by dark. Worsening weather also hampered the search. Safety Council Praises Belts CHICAGO (UPI) The Na tional Safety Council said Thurs day equipping cars with safety belts was" "probably the one single, factor" which can reduce the highway death toll. A council spokesman said the NSC was "100 per cent" be hind a bill introduced in the New York Legislature requiring auto manufacturers to equip every car with safety belts. The New York bill was opposed by Ford, Chrys ler and General Motors. - -SMi" . , . .... r . 7iy V"j? r.'K. : C, FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1960 Telephone TU 4-8111 CARYL CHESSMAN Chessman Decision Due Today SAN FRANCISCO (UPD-Caryl Chessman, who studied law for nearly 12 years on San Quentin prison's death row, today faced what may be his final court ap pearance. The 38-year-old convict author took his life in his own hands Thursday in an effort to escape an appointment with the ' gas chamber in exactly three weeks He "discharged" his three at torneys and made a personal bid for a writ of habeas corpus be fore Federal District Judge Louis E. Goodman. The judge said he would announce his decision in the case late today. Chessman appeared at Thurs day's hearing with attorneys George T. Davis, Rosalie Asher and A. L. Wirin. They requested that Chessman be allowed to pre sent contested issues of fact. Goodman said that violated all rules of "orderly presentation" unless the convict wanted to dis charge his attorneys and "pro ceed on his own."" Chessman sur prised the court by declaring that was his desire. "You no longer desire to be rep resented by counsel?" the judge said. "That's not correct," Chessman replied. "I, don't want to dis charge counsel. I air) compelled to do so by your honor's ruling." r-;s - IhlA,!. ... Lava Spewed By Volcano KAPOHO VILLAGE, Hawaii (AP) Kilauca volcano, after de stroying a village, was spewing more lava than ever today over the ravaged countryside of this southeast Hawaiian island. It buried most of this once-thriv ing village of 300 people under a flaming 20-foot thick carpet of lava Thursday. Only eight small wooden buildings stood amidst a sea of charred and still-smoulder ing homes and buildings. Volcanologist. Wayne AuJt esti mated the lava flow covered two square miles of fertile forest lands, sugar cane fields, papaya fruit and coffee plantations. He said he saw no end in sight for the erup tion. Ault said the rate of lava output Thursday and early today was twice as great as any previous outpouring since the eruption be gan Jan. 13. Three roaring fountains poured millions of cubic yards of liquid flame into a black-crusted river about 4,000 yards wide. About one mile to the south is e community of 40 attractive beach homes, strung out along Waiakea Bay. Rock gardens and fish ponds decorate many of the yards. Today they are all aban doned in the face of the relentless lava flow. Kapoho's 300 habitants are shel tered at Pahoa Village, about five miles west of Kapoho. The Red Cross has set up temporary lodg ings and kitchens in Pahoa school Mothers' March Believed Success . Marching Mothers who sought funds Thursday night for the New March of Dimes in the crusade to help children, victims of birth de fects and those persons suffering from arthritis, tripled the 1959 drive effort, according to incom pleted reports. Venture Club girls who organized the drive for the third consecutive year, said that with some outly ing towns still to report, the amount brought' in to date totaled more than $4,100. . More than 90 women in the city and county volunteered to h e 1 p with the drive. Venture Club girls, JoAnne Bor den, chairman; Dixie Nendcl, co chairman and Esther Storts spear headed the drive. a . , ' "i . .? scene"Ts from FTaymaker Mountain above Keno not as tightTy"locked or as lost as it appears, A quarter of a mile away is the Air Force radar station, a little city in itself. A jet just streaked by, leaving a vapor trail seen in the upper right corner. Teenagers Collect Funds To Aid Seattle Waitress SEATTLE, Wash. (AP) - "You can't tell me there's anything wrong with these kids." It was Vivian Gilbert, "Sandy" to the teenagers who flock to the drivein restaurant where she works on Mercer Island, speak ing.. Dealing with teenagers as much as she- did, Sandy - had iaith aplenty in the teen set, and events of the past week have justified her faith. Last Friday Sandy's doctor said he had found a tumor. Worse, there was an ugly hint that can cer was present. A major opera tion was ordered. Miss Gilbert tried to keep the news from her teenage customers. But the secret became common knowledge as the 31-year-old Sandy's fellow employes quietly passed the word that Sandy faced major surgery, perhaps death from cancer. 'Cane Namers Adopt New Plan WASHINGTON (UPI) - The weather bureau's , hurricane name pickers have decided to make life easier on themselves. Instead of digging up a brand new list of never-before-used girls' names for the tropical storms each season, they're compiling four alphabetical sets of 21 names each which should serve, with minor modifications, from this year on. At the end of every four years, they'll just start over. The four sets of names haven't been finally okayed. The 84 names were expected to be made public in a week or two. Mamie Cancels Trip With Ike PALM SPRINGS, Calif. fAP)- On advice of her doctor,, Mrs Dwight D. Eisenhower has can celled plans to accompany the President on his trip to South America next month. Announcing this today, White House press secretary James C Haggerty told newsmen (he First Lady "is not ill." , ' ' Haggerty said Mrs. Eisenhow er's physician, Maj. Gen. Howard M. Snyder, feels that the forth coming 10-day tour of four South American countries would be too wearing for her. TO BE HOST CORVALLIS (AP) - Oregon State College will be host this weekend to some 1,200 high school seniors. ; Special exhibits are being pre pared by each department of the college to acquaint prospective students with programs offered. V .. . '.nJ "One afternoon this week 1 noticed the kids were coming in groups of them and they weren't just having a coke or a shake and then going home," Sandy said I Thursday night. "They stayed on until there was quite a gathering." Then Sandy's teenage customers formed a circle around her and thrust an envelope into her hand. "It was a card with 68. .signa- lures ana jzaj in casn. 1 was flabbergasted." Thursday, after the operation, Sandy got good news. "There was no malignancy, no cancer. How did Sandy's friends raise the money to help her? We just hopped into our car and started making the rounds," said one of seven teenagers who visited Sandy at the hospital. We rang doorbells. We tapped merchants , on Mercer Island. Some .of us skipped a couple of lunches. Some gave piggy banks a hard shake. The pot just kept growing as the crowd heard about the help Sandy campaign." Why? "Why, we just like Sandy," said a big teenager. And what docs Sandy think? "I think teenagers arc wonder ful. I stand up for them when people want to be strict with them and run them down. "You can't tell me there's any thing wrong with these kids. I think this is the most fabulous thing that has ever happened to me." Accident Costs For '59 Noted CHICAGO (AP)-The price of traffic accidents in 1959 added up this way today: Deaths:- 37,800. Disabling injuries: 1,400,000. Cost: $5,800,000,000. The National Safety Council, in totaling up the bill, found fatali ties increased 800 over the 1958 total and disabling injuries rose 50,000. While the council showed con cern, it figured the 'two per cent rise in'Jdea(hs .was less "than half of the five per cent gain jh motor vehicle mileage. 4". Travel was estimalod'",at a rcc ord-breaking 659 .million miles in 1959. Macmillan Honored . PETERSBURG, South Africa (API With a leopard skin draped over his shoulders, Prime Minis tcr Harold Macmillan was in stalled today : as! honorary para mount chief of all African tribes in northern Transvaal. This is high honor for a white man. The British Prime Minister is making a good will tour of Africa De Gaulle Orders Troops To Quell Insurrection PARIS (AP) President Charles de Gaulle said tonight he has giv en the French army a direct com mand to restore order in Algeria. "In the final analysis, public or der must be re-cstahlished," he said in a radio broadcast sent to France and Algeria. "The means to he used so that force remains on the side of the law may be of various sorts. But your duty is to succeed so that strength remains on the side ot tne law. I have given, and I give that order." He said the settlers of Algeria had asked him to retract his pol icy of self-determination for the territory and "that 1 will not do." He called the insurgents on the barricade of Algiers guilty men who dream of being "usurpers, To give in to them would be to destroy the trumps that France si ill holds, he said, and reduce France to a poor toy floating on a sea of adventures. "It is I who carry the destiny of the nation," De Gaulle said. "I must therefore be obeyed by every French soldier." Wearing his uniform as a briga dier general the rank he held as leader of the Free French during World War II-Dc Gaulle added: "1 believe I will be, because I know you, I esteem you. I love you. because I have confidence in General Challe (Gen. Maurice Challe, commander in chief in Al geria', whom I have, soldiers of Algeria, placed at your head, and .since, for France, 1 have need of you." ALGIERS (AP)-French insur gents virtually took over Algiers today in their battle to keep Al geria French. Die Moslem rebel leadership. fighting for independence, mus tered its forces for a showdown In between the two contending lorces, President Charles de Gaulle strove to make his pres tige felt and regain control of a situation that threatens his gov eminent and its tenuous hold on this strategic North African area. The rebel government-in-exile called via Radio Tunis for Mos lems in the 500,000-man French army to desert to the nationalist guerrilla forces. It urged the nine million Moslem civilians, wooed by both De Gaulle and his right ist French foes, to sit tight for the present. At the same lime, the national ist command, pursuing its five- year war for independence from France, ordered all rebel army units to remain vigilant "in case there is need to protect the civil population of Algiers, or in case there is an attack by the insur gents. But the insurgents were uncon tested masters in Algiers, the cap- tal, with the departure . of Do Gaulle's two key men in Algeria for a countryside command post to get away from the immediate pressure of the uprising. No Changes; Flu Continues WASHINGTON (AP) - Local- ized influenza outbreaks arc con tinuing, but there was no great change in cases during the past week, the Public Health Service reported today.. Asian flu has now been con firmed in 14 stales and the Dis trict of Columbia. One isolation of Type B influenza virus in Lou isiana was reported last week by Dr. W. J. Mogabgab of Tulane University, New Orleans. The 14 states in which Asian has been confirmed are Califor nia, Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Missouri, Michigan, Iowa, Texas, Hawaii, Washington, Kansas, Minnesota and Colorado. Deaths from influenza and pneu monia in 108 large cities during the week of Jan. 23 exceeded by about 10 per cent such deaths in the preceding week. Pittsburgh, Detroit, Los Angeles and San Di ego showed substantial increases The Health Service said deaths from all causes in 117 cities in the week ended Jan. 23 were slightly fewer than in the preceding week but "significantly higher than the expected number." Timber Sale Changes Asked WASHINGTON, (AP) - The Interior Department Thurs day submitted to Congress pro posed legislation which would simplify sale of timber grown on Indian trust lands. One proposed change would au thorize the department to enter into timber sales contracts or tracts in multiple ownership with the approval of those owning a majority interest. The representatives are Dele gate General Paul Dclouvrier, the civil administrator, and Gen. Maurice Challe, the military com. mander in chief. They were lirst reported to be at Blida, 25 miles southwest of the city. Today word circulated that they had set tip headquarters at a French air biise near Raghaia, five miles closer to Algiers. Raghaia is 20 miles southeast of this city on the road to Con stantino. An official of the City Council announced over Radio Algiers that "the people" had occupied City Hall. Road Projects Near Klamath Get Approval Two projects approved bv the State Highway Commission yes terday will close glaring gaps in Oregon's share of the fast-develop ing vvinnemucca-to-thc-Sca High way. The projects are on either side of Klamath Falls. One project, to cost J2I5.00O, would grade the Adcl Greater Basin section of the high way in Lake County. The other, to cost $!)00.ooo. would grade and lightly surface 10 miles of a high way between Lakc-of-the-Woods and Mecltord. Details of the projects were not available today. However, the Lake-or-thc-Woocls section probably is the forest road leading from he north end of the lake throuch McAllister Springs toward Eagle. Point, not the Dead Indian Road to Ashland. The McAllister Springs road has been projected as a link in the Nevada-Oregon route to the coast. The two projects announced by the Slate Highway Commission are scheduled for the next fiscal year, beginning July 1. Their ad dition to slate highway plans brings Oregon's contribution to the Winnemucca highway to $1,446,000 plus a great amount o( work Lake County has done vir tually unaided north and west from the Nevada border. Oregon's work on the Winne mucca highway, at least those new sections east of Lakcview, it for grading only. Early this month Nevada let a contract for. about $200,000 to complete gradlnS and paving its extensive section of the road. By August Nevada's all paved section from Dcnio west lo the Oregon border 46 miles away should be completely paved. Planning a Winnemucca-to-ths- Sea Highway has been in prog ress for at least 10 years. Its purpose is lo provide a surfaced, all-wcalher route from U.S. 40 at Winnemucca lo the Northwest. The present route from the East to the Northwest requires driving over Ihe Sierra Nevada Mountains to Sacramento and up the Sacra mento Valley through Redding. Weather Klamath Falls and vicinity Considerable cloudiness through Saturday. Continued mild. Show cry Saturday. Low tonight 35-42; high Saturday 45-52. High yesterday 45 Low last night 31 Prcclp. last 24 hours 0.05 Since Oct. 1 2.11 Same period last year 3.01 Low in area, Chcmult, C'hiloquin 32 Northern California Rain to night, diminishing to showers Sat urday. Heavy snow In the northern mountains. Strong southerly winds in the north. Little change in tem perature. Gale warnings up from Point Arena northward for south erly winds up to 50 miles an hour. CRATER LAKE High yesterday 34 Low last night 29 S a.m. today 31 No new snow Snow depth 81 Last year 63 Year before 145 Snow Is wet for skiing In the park. This morning there was some overcast and wind. Chains arc advised for travel over High way 62 through the park and re quired from Annie Springs to the rim. The warming hut will be open this weekend. Total snowfall so far this season is 167 Inches compared with 183 Inches for the same pe riod last year. TOMAHAWK Tows are expected to operate this weekend and skiing is expected la he fair, Don Divens reported this morning. jJjTj'l 3m -am
