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CCXP. H3S?APER SECriO-1 GN.REK.ANS HOCUKEWTS CIV. llllllllllUUUUUIWMMIIIIMIIIMailklWa Price Ten Cent In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS From Washington: A terrifying wave of arrests is going on in the Dominican Repub lic according to reliable reports reaching here. These reports say a special "detention camp" has been built in the countryside out side Ciudad Trujillo (capital of the Dominican Republic) and the fate of perhaps 1500 persons herded into it is completely un known. The persons arrested are re ported to have suffered extreme PHYSICAL ABUSE. They have ro communication at all with rel atives or friends on the outside and their names have never been announced by the Dominican gov ernment. What's in the wind? It's like this: The Dominican Republic is ruled by a despot who, AS LONG AS HE HAS ALL THE GUNS, has supreme power. He can do as he pleases with the lives and fortunes of the people and NOBODY (except somebody with MORE GUNS) can say him nay. That's despotism. What's despotism? N It's TOO MUCH POWER in too lew hands. A word here to the people of Cuba: In your country, one despot has Just overthrown another. It looks very much at the moment like iyour new despot may be worse Cfthan your old one. Among other things, he's flirting with COM MUNISM, which is as cruel a despotism as has ever existed. You'd better turn thumbs down on ALL the despots. They're dan gerous. They're as dangerous as an atom bomb in unscrupulous hands. More from Washington: The U.S. senate voted by a de cisive majority the other day to increase the federal aid to edu cation that is proposed in a, bill pending before the congress to $1,834,000,000 (a billion, 834 mil lion dollars) and to include aid or teacher salaries as well as chool construction. Under the bill, if enacted into law, the state of Washington would get $14,015,000 in federal funds for each of the next two years, Oregon would get $9,435,000 and Idaho would get $4,672,000. It's a lot of money. And- ' At the first glance, it looks like GIFT from our generous old Uncle Sam. But- It will all come out of the tax payers' pockets, exactly as if it were levied by the states. A tax dollar is a tax dollar. It comes out of the pockets of the people. After it is taken out, it isn't there for the people to spend for them lelves. There is, however, this differ ence. The local tax dollar can be spotted and the federal one can't. You can SEE the local tax dollar. i.. You CAN'T see the federal tax- dollar. If you don't like the way the local tax dollar is being spent, you can do something about it. If you don't like the way the fed eral tax dollar is being spent there isn't much you can do about it. Personally, I think it's better to finance our schools with local dollars than with dollars that are first shipped to Washington and then shipped back to us WITH THE FREIGHT TAKEN OUT. Minimum Pay Boost Looms WASHINGTON (UPI) The Eisenhower administration will ask Congress to increase the fed eral minimum wage of $1 an hour probably by 10 or 15 cents, in formed sources said Saturday. The sources told a United Press International reporter that Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell had decided- to recommend a higher floor under the wages of the 24 million workers now covered by the law. No new figure was mentioned But there was speculation that the administration would advocate a $1.10 or $115 minimum. The AFL-CIO is spearheading a drive to raise the minimum to $1 25 and extend coverage to an additional 7.5OO.00O workers. Mitchell previously has urged extension of minimum wage cov- crate to about 2,500.000 more workers, mostly in chain stores Be was expected to back such an extension again. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1960 . 58 Pagc Telephone TV 4-8111 4 JOHN SMITH Local Man Seeks Post In Legislature First candidate to file for State Representative entered the politi cal lists late Friday when John M. Smith, 308 Lytton Street, filed for election as Representative on the Republican ticket. Smith, 37, a resident of Klamath Falls for the past seven years, is chairman of the Klamath Falls unit Electricians Local 659. Upon filing his candidacy, Smith stated that' he intends to conduct a campaign on the issues with emphasis on a tax program based on the ability to pay and strong support for Oregon Technical In stitute. He listed his program as. in cluding advocacy of fair labor leg islation, including uniform work men's and unemployment compen sation and opposition to any so called "right to work" proposals. Smith also declared his support of property tax relief for our needy elderly citizens and increased state support for education to relieve the over-all property tax burden. In addition, Smith stated his be lief, that the Oregon Legislature, working in conjunction with the assemblies of other states, can be influential in convincing Congress to improve the Social Security laws to provide expanded benefits to recipients. Smith is a Marine Corps veter an of World War II. He is mar ried. Three Killed In Air Crash SAN FRANCISCO (UPD-Three persons were killed Friday when an airplane rammed the top ol Mt. Sutro in the middle of San Francisco. The plane crashed during heavy rains about a quarter of a mile behind the University of California Medical Center, but because of the storm, darkness and rugged ter rain, the plane's main section was not found for almost three hours after it crashed at 8:50 p.m. p.s.t. The bulk of the plane was lodged in trees, more than 40 feet above the ground. Sutro Forest, site of -the crash adjoins the Twin Peaks area in the center of San Francisco. The rugged wilderness area is approx imately a square mile in size with crowded residential districts on all sides. The Cessna monoplane had been rented from Harper Aircraft Co. by Tony Kirshimagi, 28, an em ploye of the American Shower Door Co., San 'Carlos. Kirshimagi, pilot of the plane, was killed out right. Another passenger, John W Drew, San Mateo, was also killed One man survived the crash, but died Saturday morning in Park Hospital. He was Joe Pardo, be lieved to be from Santa Clara. He was found 35 feet up in a tree in a heavily wooded section. Authorities said Kirshimagi rented the plane in San Carlos and was returning with the other two men from a round trip to Napa when the accident occurred. Decision On Plea Slated Monday TUCSON, Ariz. (UPI) Caryl Chessman, who has spent nearly 12 years in a San Quentin death row cell, will be told Monday whether he will get a new appeal hearing. Federal Judge Richard H. Chambers was scheduled to rule then on Chessman's request. Chessman is to be executed Feb. 19. A. L. Wirin, attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, said Friday Chessman should be granted an appeal hearing before the full U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals and not only Chief Judge Chambers. No. 6623 Two Wounded By Sniper In New York NEW YORK (UPI) - An eye sighting along a gun barrel fol lowed the noontime crowd in the shadow of the world's tallest building at one of the crossroads of New York City's millions. In a space of three hours, thou sands had passed the 34th Street entrance to the Empire State Building. Two were shot. Mrs. David Cleary, 46, was about to enter the building at 11 a.m. rnaay. !ne heard a noise like a firecracker pop, felt a sting and saw blood running down her leg. At 1:50 p.m. Knute Kyvik, 59, was nearing the entrance. He felt sting in his left shoulder, and recalled later he also had heard a ping but had not connected it with the pain in his shoulder. Mrs. Cleary was treated by a doctor in the building and sent to a hospital where a .22 caliber slug was removed from her hip ftyviK complained to his em ployer in the building and was given the afternoon off. At home he found his shirt bloody and called police. He was taken to a hospital where it was found a small cali ber bullet had pierced his should er from back to front. Police began an immediate search of the 34th Street area near Fifth Avenue and the of fices arid rooftops of the buildings rising above the street. They were looking for ejected .22 caliber short shells, the slug that passed through Kyvik's shoulder and a deranged sniper who picked human targets. Mrs. Cleary and Kyvik did not know one another. They apparent ly were shot at random. But they both know there is no true safety in a crowd, at noontime, under the world's tallest building. Isle Republic Revolt Looms WASHINGTON (UPI) - Domin ican dictator Rafael Trujillo faced the specter of revolt Saturday and his efforts to put it down by mass arrests brought a call for an immediate council meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS). Venezuela asked the OAS coun cil late Friday to hold a special session this . weekend or Monday. Venezuela charged Trujillo with "flagrant violations" . of human rights. The meeting was expected to be held Monday. Reliable diplomatic sources hore said Trujillo was in the! deepest trouble at home of his 30- year regime. There was no organized rebel lion. But Trujillo's secret police roundup of , some 1,500 persons has caused an unprecedented up- swelling of public unrest, joined in by some key members of the army, diplomats said. Venezuelan Ambassador Marcos Falcon Briceno received instruc tions from his government to ask for an immediate council meeting and promptly made the request to council Chairman Vicente San chez Gavito of Mexico. SHIP TALKS ADJOURN NEW YORK (UPI) - Talks aimed at settling a strike of 16 000 workers at eight East Coast shipyards of the Bethlehem Steel Co. adjourned Friday and no date was set for resumption. The strike began Jan. 22. - 1 'wwwwrn (jm)iiiiiiiiii m iiuiimiimmmmm'ctiWII "THIS IS YOUR LIFE" might be the subject of this talk by Ralph Edwards, left, end Jim Brown, who explained use of the city tire department resuscltator to 200 Klamath Union High School girls last week. The girls got a good chuckle, though the subject matter was sober. Edwards is not related to the television personality. E.03SG, -THE POSTER for I9e0's Boy Many National Figures Have Worked For Scouts Boy Scouts and their leaders, both local and national, are proud of the long roster of personalities who have been members of the organization or who have worked closely with it. ... The list is topped by President Eisenhower, who, though no scout himself, has been a member of the National Executive Board since 1948 and has, since becoming Pres ident, been honorary president of scouting. Before him, President Harry Truman supported the movement by opening the second National Jamboree at Valley Forge in 1950. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first president to have been a scout leader He was president of the Greater New York Council of Boy Scouts for 24 years until he died in 1945. .. Herbert Hoover showed keen in terest in scouting and launched a forward movement and develop ment program at a dinner com memorating seouting's 20th anni versary. Calvin Coolidge's two sons were scouts. He frequently lauded the organization. Woodrow Wilson and his Con gress passed a bill giving the scouts their first federal charter in 1916. ' William Howard Taft in 1910 agreed to be the first honorary president of the organization. He set a precedent , followed by all succeeding presidents. That, inci dentally, was the year American scouting was organized. Since then, 33,500,000 Americans have Scout Week points proudly to a beeh members.1 ,' A Briton, Sir Robert Badcn-Pow-1j ell, started the scouts in England first. Plenty of Klamath County men were scouts or are. They include these who are working or practic ing locally now: Dr. Merle Swan sen, physician; Lloyd Seely Jr., bank teller; Bill Ely, Bureau of Reclamation; O. E. Pederson, for mer chief of city police; Edwin Slastny, farmer; Fred Lewis, manufacturer; Dillard Shipler, Leonard Weber and John Heilbron ner, teachers; Gene Favell; men's store owner; Bob Trotman, phar macist; Dr. George D. Massey, physician; Don Kenyon, implement dealer, and Paul Adams, a college student. That is only, a minute portion of the roster. Eagle Scouts of all ages will be feted the everting of February 13, the last day of National Boy Scout Week, during a banquet at the Wil- lard Hotel. They include those anywhere who once were mem bers of the Modoc Council and those living in Klamath County, no matter where they attained seout ing's highest rank. PULLED THE PLUG BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPI) - Police today sought the ill-man nered burglars who loosened all the light fuses in Mrs. Charles T Dyer's home -before making off with meat, eggs and canned goods. Mrs.. Dyer sleeps under an elec tric blanket. half century of public service. Plucky Hare MONMOUTH (AP) City Superintendent Bill Wilmot tells this story and Chief of Police Harold Slcvcns Is his witness. So it must be true. An urgent call came from a woman. She wanted police, and now. Stevens responded with alacrity. "What's the matter," he asked. "There's a while rabbit under my house and I want It taken out," she said. Stevens noticed she had both a dog and a cat. "Why don't you let them take it nut?" he asked. , "Because," the woman re plied, "the rabbit has whipped them both," Cleric Hopes Pair Survives CHICAGO (UPI) A Methodist minister held out hope today that his daughter and her fiance, miss-! ing 39 days in the wilds of Alaska, still are alive. The Rev. L. D. McGladrey him self undertook a hazardous search for the couple over an area 350 miles long and 150 miles wide. The couple Donna McGladrey, 24, and Richard Newton, of An chorage disappeared Dec. 31, en route to Dillingham, a small fish ing village on Bristol Bay about 350 miles southwest of Anchorage The last word received from their single-engine, four-passenger Cessna 175, piloted by Newton was that they had encountered a blinding snowstorm and they were off .their course. But the Rev. McGladrey told the United Press International, there is every chance for their survival it they made a safe landing." "People have been known to survive under similar circum stances," he said. "No one . talked with considers it hopeless. They had three rifles aboard and plenty of ammunition," Rev McGladrey said. "They also wore heavy parkas, and had sleeping bags and other survival equip ment. "They wouldn't starve. Moose is known to be plentiful in the area and it could provide food. I knpw I ate it every day for two weeks last month." Ship Will Sail Without Women COOS BAY Wl Don Harrsch of Seattle, skipper of the battered colonist ship Alert, said Saturday the ship will sail on down the coast Tuesday with only men aboard. Harrsch Is leader of colonists en route to the Galapagos Islands, near the Equator. The colonists' vanguard 13' men, 4 women and 3 children made the trip from Seattle in the 30-year-old, 100-foot remodeled re frigerator ship Alert, The ship put In here last Tuesday after being battered by winds and high teas Iron Curtain Secrecy Placed Around Envoy HAVANA (UPI) - Cuban au- thorities pulled an iron curtain of secrecy Saturday around Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan's movements because of gunfire that nearly wrecked the formal opening of the Russian exposition Friday. Pro - government newspapers blamed "counter -revolutionaries" for the outbursts which touched off near-panic in the heart of Havana. There appeared to be no con nection between the anti-Communist demonstration staged by stu dents in Jose Marti Park and the hit-and-run machincgun attacks along the fashionable Prado, one block from (he Palace of Fine Arts which houses the Soviet ex position. A military guard stood watch through the night over the gaudy five-color wreath Mikoyan laid on Marti's statue to avoid any at- cmpts by Roman Catholic stu dents to replace it with one of their own. The Palace of Fine Arts also was under heavy army guard as was the nearby open parking lot where Soviet - made heavy farm machinery and equipment are on display. The scuffle in Marti Park broke out when anti-Communist students tried to cover the Mikoyan wreath emblazoned with the Soviet em blem with a Cuban flan. Almost simultaneously, anti-Cas- ro gunmen fired submachincgun bursts from speeding cars along the Prado, about a block from where Mikoyan and President Os- aldo Dorticos were standing about to start the exposition in auguralion ceremonies. There were no casualties. Several students were arrested, most of them from Santo Tomas de Villanueva, a Catholic university which draws its attendance mainly from Cuba s upper classes. Later, police also reported they stopped two cars and arrested the five occupants. The flurry of shots near the park and the chattering of the tommy guns near the exposition building sent passersby scattering for cover, Mikoyan and Dorticos were un ceremoniously hustled inside the building and a small crowd around Vessel Ends Naval Career NORFOLK, Va. (UPI) - A gray-hulled destroyer that saved scores of lives in World War II closed its Navy career in tragedy Saturday. The U.S.S, Daly left Newport, . I., Wednesday bound for the mothball fleet here. About 150 miles off the Virginia Capes the Daly was heading toward its final har bor at full 30-knot power when an 'abnormal swell" slapped the 376- foot ship 65 degrees to starboard. Seaman David Allen Dale of Kenmore, N. Y., was killed in stantly when flung against some thing that severed his arm. Ten other crewmen were swept nto the icy Atlantic. Five of them disappeared in the huge waves and are presumed dead, although the search for them continued Sat urday. Capt. W. J. Steucil was appointed to begin an immediate investiga tion of the tragedy by talking to the Daly's captain, Cmdr. K. C. Gum morson of Middlclown, R. I., and three crewmen rescued from the sea by the destroyer Calvin Allen Sounders, 26, of Bethlehem, Pa.: Gary D. Hollingse, 19, of Murray Hill, N. J., and Larry Richard Hol land, 19, of Joy, Tex. Most of the men swept over board were snapping pictures of the huge Atlantic waves from the first deck above the main deck. The missing men were iden tified as Nicholas Calaluca o( Beacon, N. Y.; Robert Carlson of West Haven, Conn.: Charles Ellis of Madison, lnd.; Paul J. Har vcv of Lodi, N. J., and Jcrral J. Ncberz of Crystal Lake, 111. The merchant ship Alabama nicked up two survivors, David G Formichclla of Summit, N. J-, and John J. Buzzi of Barringlon R. I. Buzzi 'was badly cut. Graham Given Nicest Gift' KADUNA, Nigeria (AP)-Billy Graham has received what he calls "the nicest offering to Christ I have ever known" two Afri can pound notes from a leper. An elderly resident of the Al barka leper colony presented the money to the evangelist during a visit Friday. Miss Phoebe Lewsey, a British missionary who operates the col onv, said the donation to the Graham crusade represented months of saving by the lepers. The evangelist, deeply touched, thanked the donors through an interpreter and warmly shook hands. the speakers platform scattered. Mikoyan appeared unruffled when he returned to deliver his pcech. Premier Fidel Castro had joined the group by then and the exposition was formally opened. BOB WALKER Incumbent, Rancher File For Posts County Judge Bob Walker was the first member, of the incumbent county court to file for reelection. Walker, a Democrat, filed his no tice of candidacy with the county clerk's office Friday. A FEW MINUTES later Paul J. Hatched, a well known ranch fore man, filed for the four-year term as county commissioner. The county court race now in cludes six candidates for the three positions all of which come up for election this year through an unusual chain of circumstances. Other announced candidates are Bill Canton and Ralph Hill, both Republicans seeking V,aiker's job, Hatchett and Vac Kaliiia, both Republicans seeking the post held by veteran commissioner Ed Gow- en, and Donald McGee, a Bly Democrat seeking the two-year po sition now held by Frank Ganong. Gowen, a Republican, and G' nong, a Democrat, riave not in dicated their intentions. Walker and Gowen' both' were appointed to the court a year ago February 8, 1959. The ap pointments grew out of the ap pointment of Charley Mack, for mer county judge, to the State Tax Commission. Walker had been elected a commissioner, and was moved to judge when Mack left. Ganong was appointed to fill Walk er's newly-vacant seat. WALKER, A FORMER MAYOR of Morrill, is a partner in Walker Brothers farm and oil supply, busi ness in Merrill. He has been active in intrastate affairs since his ap pointment and recently was named (Continued on Page 6-C) Ideal Position Gives Gal Chance To Drive T-Bird TORONTO (AP) - "Female genius required. Kind, benevolent boss wants punctual secretary to drive my Thunderbird," read the advertisement irank ugden ran only once on the comic page of Toronto papers. He got 237 re plies. ; The job went to Mrs. Sheila Courricr, 24, a blondo mother married to an office worker. She is working : al Ogden's spacious, air-conditioned office, complete with hi-fi set and built-in bar, for a weekly salary of $60 . "plus laughs." .- 1 The ad also said: "Give your self a raise whenever you think you're worth- it." ' t Ogden finances mortgages and runs 150 commercial buildings but recently ' branched out Into air craft sales and swimming pools. "That's where I thought Sheila would be handy," said Ogden, a 39-ycar-old bachelor. "She is an ardent skin diver. and;'she could demonstrate some of the pools we have." " ' ' Said Sheila, formerly employed by an insurance company: "I think the offer to let me drive his Thunderbird attracted me. It was also the idea I would have re sponsibility without a lot of bosses." ' ' Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity; Partial clearing with a few scattered showers today. High today, 40-48; low tonight 30-36. ; High yesterday ;........'..... 31 Low last night 34 Northern California Partly rlnudy with a little rain today. Coastal winds southerly 18-21 mllea I an hour. Li ''I 4
