la Tke-
Day's lews
By FRANK JENKINS
In New York the other day.
Dean Edward Barrett of the Co
lumbia Graduate School of Journal
ism, offered the interesting opinion
that in the average newspaper of
today the public gets too much
roth and too little substance.
Why?
Well, he says, the public gets
too much froth because too few
people WANT substance. The
newspaper is a private business
enterprise. Like the grocery store
or the apparel shop, it has to give
its customers what they want. Oth
erwise, they won't buy.
He adds:
"In too many American cities,
the newspaper is mediocre at best,
radio news is available chiefly in
an endless repetition of five-minute
capsules and television news is
often non-existent at normal eve
ning listening hours.
"As a result, the thoughtful citi
zen who seeks to be reasonably
well informed must make EX
TRAORDINARY efforts to do so."
Why this situation?
Dean Barrett thinks the funda
mental reason is that modern man
kind wants acutely to be ENTER
TAINED but isn't too' much con
cerned with gaining useful knowl
edge. So
He says in effect
Modern man tends to buy those
newspapers that entertain him and
to refrain from buying those that
insist on feeding him with a diet
of useful information. And, increas
ingly, he turns to radio and tele
visionwhich feed him entertain
ment with a soup ladle and give
him useful information with an
eye-dropper.
He concludes that the newspaper
that concentrates prime attention
on reporting and interpreting the
news has a much better chance
of success than one that strives to
make entertainment its main ap
peal, and adds:
"The paper that overemphasizes
entertainment values will be in for
trouble because it is bound to fall
behind television and radio in en
tertainment values."
The point he makes is that en
tertainment is the business of TV
and radio. Reporting and inter
preting the news is the business of
the newspaper. What he is saying
to. his journalistic brethren is:
"Shoemaker, stick to your last."
In conclusion, I'd like to add a
word.
Dean Barrett lives in a h.u g e
city. He reads the newspapers of a
huge city. Like the rest of us, he
is inclined to be influenced by his
environment. -
The news is based on people
people and what they do. News
about people we KNOW is im
mensely more interesting than
news about people we don't know
and never even heard of. In our
huge cities, people really know
very few other people. Their ac
quaintance is apt to be confined
to those with whom they are asso
ciated in their day-to-day jobs. In
the big cities, people seldom know
even their next-door neighbors.
So-
The big -metropolitan newspapers
can tell interestingly only of the
kind of people whose names are
known to everybody high society
people, show people, night spot
entertainers, the criminals and the
shady type of people who get fre
quently into the courts. The kind
of people who furnish the FLUFF
in the news.
In the smaller communities, we
know all kinds of people. Not just
the people who live in our block.
Because we know them, what they
do is NEWS to us. For this reason,
the news that is reported and in
terpreted by the smaller newspa
pers leans much less to entertain
ment and much more to construc
tive achievement.
It is MEATIER.
I'd like to suggest to Dean Bar
rett that, for a while, at least, he
do more reading of the so-called
country press and less reading of
the big metropolitans.
I think he'll find that out in the
eountry we print BETTER news
papersnewspapers with less fluff
and more solid NEWS.
Fidel Attacked
MEXICO CITY (AP) - A new
tabloid sized newspaper called
"Baragua" is being printed here
by a group calling itself "the
Cuban rebel army." The first is
sue attacked ail phases of the
Fidel Castro regime and claimed
200,000 Cubans are preparing a
rebellion inside the island.
SILENCE PLEASE!
MEMPHIS, Tenn. UPI) - City
Judge Beverly Bnushe fined Rich
ard Perutelli $11 Thursday be
cause the barking of Perutclli's
two bird dogs might result in a
catastrophe.
R. A. Robinson complained the
dogs were keeping him awake and
making him too sleepy on the job.
He drives ammunition trucks for
the government.
Tour Of South America
Begins Monday For Chief
By STANFORD BRADSHAW I minute speech to be carried na
WASHINGTON (API Presi- tionally on radio and television.
dent Eisenhower sets out next
week on a personal mission aimed!
at demonstrating that the United
States wants to be a good partner
and a good neighbor to Latin
America.
Sunday night, on the eve of his
departure, Eisenhower will dis
cuss his plans for the trip in a Im
Revenue Hike
Granted
Water Firm
The Herald and News received
by telephone from Salem on Sat
urday a news release from the
office of the Public Utility Com
missioner. An annual gross revenue in
crease of $101,329 was granted to
Oregon Water Corporation on Sat -
s.oner junci c. nm.
He permanently suspended pro-
posed tariffs of the company for
uoscDurg ana wamatn fans torn
that the called-for additional an-
nual gross revenue was well in
excess of '"a fair and reason-
auie return, i
ine waici company was. mm .
to file amended or revised tariffs
wumn w ua.vs which wouiu .o-
duce an additional gross revenue
ai ruamam -r ans oi $44, allu,sucn plans
of $57,191 at Roseburg. The util
ity's original filing called for
amounts of $83,823 and $70,857, re
spectively, based on a 12-month
test period.
The return will enable Oregon
Water Corporation to meet its debt
obligations and provide an ade
quate return on the equity portion
of the capital invested in the en
terprise," Hill commented.
In answer to a protest by the
city of Klamath Falls that the
fringe-area customers should bear
the burden of increased rates, he
said it was more expensive and
"contrary to the public interest
to abandon the system-wide basis
of rate-making in favor of an area
basis.
"The increase in franchise tax
and in the number of fire hy
drants has indicated a consider
able growth in demand on the com-1
pany within the city limits," Hill
added.
The order for the increase was
signed at Salem on Saturday morn
ing, the commissioner's office said
Oregon Water Corporation has
approximately 8,000 domestic eus-'
tomers here. The average yearly .
walcr bill for domestic customers
-..ne km,t tl Animint nf (ho hil' '
runs about $30. Amount of the bil
of course, depends upon amount
of water used, but on the average,
the commissioner's new order
could be expected to result in not.puncned norti,war(i aong the At-
more than a $5 yearly increase in
cost of water to householders of
this area.
Buses Collide
Injuring 13
EVERETT, Wash. (AP) - Two
Greyhound buses collided Satur
day on the west side of Stevens
Pass, injuring 13 persons.
Three persons, including the
driver of one bus, were hospital
ized after the vehicles slammed
together on a highway glazed by
freezing rain. The others were ex
amined at the scene and released.
Eino N. Anttila, 46, of Edmonds,
Wash., driver of a bus headed for
Seattle from Butte, Mont., was
taken to a hospital at Monroe,
Wash, wilh a leg fracture, cuts
and bruises.
Taken to Virginia Mason Hos
pital ih Seattle were Mrs. Johanna
Montgomery, Harrison, Idaho,
possible leg fracture, and Mrs.
Bunny Jo Milne, 142 'i Poplar St.,
Spokane, knee abrasions.
Others listed as injured were
Mrs. James T. Albertson, Wcnat
chee, Wash., bruised back and
leg; Mrs. Ruth Packart, Wenat
chee, bruised knee and ankle;
Rose Tondcrvold, Cashmere,
Wash., bruised leg and neck;
W. D. Henson, Cashmore, possible
rib injury; Lola Gregory, Quincy,
Wash., bruised leg and shoulder
Bernice Rowe, 523 S. Washington
St., Spokane, bruised knee.
Mrs. Elizabeth Shea, Seattle,
black eye and bruised neck; Leon
ard J. Hermann, FL Lewis, possi
ble back injury; Mary Lund, 1301
Hastings St., Coeur d'Alene, Ida
ho, bruised leg and shoulder;
Thomas S h i m i z u, Larson Air
Force Base, bruised ankle.
State Patrolman John Loy said
all the injured apparently were in
Anttila's westbound bus.
Save Your Money
Dnn't put that penny or nickel
In the meter tomorrow. Re
member, It's Washington's birth
day, a lejtal holiday, by George.
Oh, and don't worry about post
dating those checks, as banks
will be open. And the Herald
and News will publish, -
The President worked Saturday
on the speech, which White House
press secretary James C. Hagcrty
said will also contain some refer
ences to the nation's defenses.
The speech, starting at 6:15
p.m. will be carried live by the
ABC and CBS television networks
and by ABC and .Mutual Radio
There will be a film showing on
NBC-TV at 6:30 p.m. and delayed
radio broadcasts on CBS at 8:15
p.m. and on NBC at 8:35 p.m
Monday morning the President
will set out on a 15, 560-mile tour
that will take him to Brazil, Ar
gentina, Chile and ' Uruguay, the
four southernmost nations of the
hemisphere. His return to Wash
ington is scheduled for March 6,
following a rest in Puerto Rico.
The tour is the second of three
he has planned in an effort to
improve world understanding. In
December, he visited 11 nations
nf Knrnniv the Middle Fast and
Africa A June ,our of the Sovic(
Unjo1 and ,he far east is in (he
,. generally warm reception
ms assured for lne Presidcni
jn La(in Amerita. Bul of(icials
hcre are not overlooking lhe pos.
sibiIily r isola(cd dcmonslra.
tions by Yankee-haters,
Some dcmonslralions reportedly
had becn pianned in protest of the
scheduled execution nf kidnaner-
sex pervert Caryl Chessman. A
Friday reprieve for Chessman
may ,,ave lakcn (he gleam from
There has been some criticism
from U.S. and Latin American
sources that Eisenhower has neg
lected the lands to the South. The
President himself has said he feels
his administration has made great
efforts to develop better inter-
American understanding.
He apparently is seeking new
ways to improve such understand
ing, and is taking with him on his
tour the eight members of his Na
tional Advisory Committee on Inter-American
Relations.
East U.S.
Paralyzed
By . THE ASSOCIATED . PRESS
' A, staggering onslaught of snowls-; uj, A,U MJ',(r
-reinforced by bone - chilling rigiM V lin VVIIG
winds kept portions of the East
paralyzed Saturday while a new;
storm pasted the central, plains
and rolled northeastward.
Hundreds nf motorists remained
, randed on lne New York Slate
- rhruwav from ' Svracuse to Buf-
fa0 Gale-force winds scooped
.. . r
more - than two feet of snow Into
' . I
ine storm wnicn rouca across
.h. s.th .1 mMu-Mk and then
lantic seaboard buried vast sec
tions of Upstate New York, Penn
sylvania and Maryland.
At least 18 deaths as a result
of the storm were reported in
five states.
Traffic over the normally busy
Pennsylvania Turnpike was tied
up nearly 36 hours before men
and machines won a battle against
snow and wind. Parts of the big
superhighway were closed for 185
miles until traffic began movin
Saturday -evening. One stretch
had been closed since Thursday
night.
Poor Driver
Sent To Jail
HOUSTON, Tex. WW'I was al
ways in front, but after awhile it
seemed that everywhere I turned.
there was a police car," recalled
Carl Pickering.
After his chase with police at
110 miles an hour he was jailed
Friday under $6,400 bond.
Officers wrote out 32 traffic
tickets after curbing Pickering, 22,
in his 1!)59 sedan.
1 icy 1I1LU 9IA warning sinus anu.
said tne youin s car siiuc-r a nee,
a utility pole and a truck.
"I could have made it if I had
not blown that tire," Pickering
lold newsmen. "I was ahead of all
those police cars (28 took part).
I even went 20 blocks after
the tire blew out before they
caught me."
Weather
FORECAST Klamath Falls and
vicinity: Mostly sunny Sunday with
variable high clouds. High today
50-55; low tonight 25-30.
High yesterday 51
Low last night 27
Northern California Fair Sun
day, except for high clouds In ex
treme north. Slightly warmer.
Coastal winds north to northeast
10-20 miles an hour.
GO FOR BROKE
LONDON (LTD - Burglars
stole Alan Matthews' record col
lection last month. He said they
returned Friday and took his rec
ord player.
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, I960
Price Ton Cents 58 Pages Telephone TU -t-8111
jl S
M t4w.i-.-iin 111 iiir 1 ill
INTERMEDIATE TEACHERS of Klamath County School Association elected officers for
next school year recently. At left is Lois McGourty, outgoing president. Others ere,
from left, Noel Deets, president and outgoing vice president; Jim Patek, secretary, and
Mary Henzel, vice president end outgoing sscretary.
Assembly Line
Tactics Used
By SF Judge
SAN FRANCJSCO (API - Muni
cipal Court Judge Albeit A. Axcl-
lod had already married 15 cou
ples at City Hall Friday.
Then at 3:30 p.m., five more
howed up.
"Choose your partners and line
up, folks, he said.
He went down the line adminis
tering the vows.
"I now pronounce you men and
wives, he said. Kiss me pricics.
They did.
Officials said the heavy marry
ing schedule was due to the Ion;
Washington's birthday weekend
ahead. ., .
1 f' X
Of Deserter
DALTON, Kan. (AP) Hubert1
Sleedley, accused of deserting the
Army in World War II, might
have escaped arrest indefinitely if
hadn.t 'quarl.eled wilh nis wi(c
Kho knnw KlnnHtpv. 45 father of
. . --, - 7 , : ..,.
ner it cnnoren, naa nca ms mm.
in 1942 just before the outlit was
to be sent overseas from Camp
Kilmer, N. J.
"We just kept moving," she
said, until they settled hcre in
1M). Sometimes they were just
a jump ahead of military police.
Dalton has a population of 45.
On Wednesday, Mrs. Sleedley
filed a peace disturbance com
plaint with Undcrsheriff Bert
White. She said her husband had
threatened her in a quarrel.
He was brought to nearby Well
ington, given a 10-day jail sen-
lence and assessed $12.50 in costs.
He admitted he was a deserter.
Officers from Ft. Riley, Kan., took
custody and he faces a court
martial. Until his arrest, he had been a
low-paid construction worker. Now
lhe family is left with no money.
Their two-bedroom house is to be
sold for taxes.
The neighbors are trying to
raise money to send the mother
and 11 children back to Mrs
Stccdley's home in Chattanooga
Tenn.
Apology By U.S.
Termed Victory
HAVANA (AP) The newspaper
of Prime Minister Fidel Castro's
revolutionary movement Saturday'.count
called Washington's apology for a
private plane raid "a moral vic
tory." But it said apology was
not enough and demanded sweep
ing action against anti-Castro ac
tivities in the United States.
Revolucion provided the first
semiofficial reaction to the Wash
ington note of Friday expressing
regrets that lhe plane escaped
U. S. detection and took olf for
Cuba from a base near Miami.
Castro's government has yet to
comment on the note.
The United States must sec to
it that not a single plane "again
rises from North American soil
to altack Cuba," the newspaper
said.
Revolucion also called on Wash
ington to denounce activities "of
war criminals and their associ
ales who operate in that country
spurred by statements and atti
tudes of officials and legislators
bent on economic, diplomatic and
even military aggression," against
Cuba.
Air Force Releases Diary
Telling Of Desert Ordeal
WIESBADEN, Germany (AP) I everyone getting weak, can't get
"No hope yet, very cold nite." very far. Prayers all the time,
That's the despairing final nota- again p.m. . very warm, hell.
lion in a diary covering the Hoy-
an Desert trek of the crew of the
U.S. B24 bomber "Lady Be Good."
2nd LI. Robert F. Toner of!
North Attlehoro, Mass., one of
nine men who perished in what
llin I1C Aix V.irnn rlncirihnc oc
"one of the greatest mvslcrics in eyes are gone, everyone else's arc needed data on the chemical na
aviation history," pencilled the bad. Still going NW. ot tnc slals- 11 was a,v
words , into a small notebook in (The relercnccs were to S.Sgt.l ""uncetl Saturday,
ihr. rWH Anril i mis. I Samuel n Adams nf vrc.u ill 1 The University said the data ob
ru, oiohi rinr ihnv'KKnt v.r.n. i. , ' v,',',
-., l F nc and I nnb In Ihoir
naraehutes. Thev were Icturnine
to North Africa from an attack on
Naples, Italy, their first combat
mission-of World War II.
,H lie-. bombardier, 2nd Lt,-' Jolin
S. Woravka.of Cleveland, appar-lbad, not any travel. Still very lit
cntly was lost during the-jump. file water. Niles are about 35
The others rcassepibled and hiked
north toward the Mediterranean,:
nearly 500 miles away, In hopes of
reaching their base at Solukh
Field, Libya.'
Toner, a blond, 26-year-old for
mer garageman and car sales
man, lold of prayer and courage
: . ht,ln against the elements
-
thirst they could quench wilh only
about a thimbleful of water a day,
desert glare and blistering heal
by day, near-freezing cold by
night.
The Air Force released lhe
diary Saturday: I
"Sunday, Apr. 4, Naples 28;Could make it if we had water,'
planes things well mixed up '
got lost returning, out ot gas,
jumped, landed in desert at 2 a.m.
morning, no one badly hurt, can't
find John, all olhcrs reset. (Mean
ing they reassembled.)
"Monday, Apr. 5, slart walking
NW (northwest), still no John. A
few rations, 'A canteen of water,
one cap full per day. Sun fairly
warm, good breeze from NW. Nile
very cold. No sleep. Rested and
walked.
"Tucs., Apr. 6, rested at 11.30,
sun very warm, no breeze, spent 0r the spot where their Liberator!
n n-i in hnll nn nlannc nlr rnvtndli I I A I.J
m in hn n. nis.n msind
until 5-nn p.m.. walked and rested
ail nite. 15 min. on, 5 min. off. It,e. desert sand nearly 17 years
"Wed., Apr. 7, same routine,' aao- Discovery ot the plane by a
Race By Twins
Just A Hoax
BANGOR. Wales (AP) A
pretty Welsh brunette said Satur
day night a much-publicized love
race belwecn identical twin broth-
ers to decide which would lead,
her lo the altar was a hoax.
Jean Gowans, 1!), gave this ac-
We dreamed lhe whole
thing up. It was a hoax from the
start. We wanted to put Bangor
on the map but we only expected
the slory to get in local Welsh
papers."
Instead, lhe announced 104-mile
race between Vaughn and How
ard Clarke was given worldwide
publicity.
The slunt was a climax to Rag
week a time of student high
jinks at the University College of
Bangor, where the twins and Miss
Gowans are students.
'Flying' Fish
LOS ANGELES (API - When
a Western Air Lines plane ar
rived Irom Mexico City Friday, a
maintenance crew found a five
inch fish, still alive, on the plane's
wing. .
It was placed in a pail of water.
One guess is that a sea gull
plucked the (ish from the Pacific
Ocean and dropped it as the plane
descended for 1 landing.
No. 6635
Everyone cant sleep, everyone
sore from gout.
"Thins., Apr. 8, hit sand dunes,
very miserable. Good wind but
, continuous blowing of sand, every
one now very weak, thought Sam
ailH Mnnro U'nt-n all Anna I ainnlln
Rntlnn flhin l.,H T Qrtl nk,.
E. Lamotte nf Lake Linden
Mich.) .
:;"Fri., Apr.-9, Shelly, Rip, Moore
separate and try to go for help
Kest ot us all very weak, eyes
degrees, good wind (omit good
wind) good, no wind, no shelter, I
parachute left.
("Shelly" was S.Sgt. Guy E
Shelley of New Cumberland,, Pa.,
and "Rip" was T.Sgt. Harold S.
Ripslingcr of Saginaw, Mich.)
oat., ,vpr. iu, sun navmg pray-
or meetings for help, no signs of)bccn known lo ,ake an cntire year
anytning. a coupie 01 oiras, gooa
wind from north. Really weak
now, can t walk, pains all over.
Nites very cold, no sleep
"Sun:, Apr. 11, still waiting for,,i, necessary information on an
help, still praying. Eyes bad, lost
all our weight. Aching all over.lhnrs 0f valuable time.
just enough left to put our tongue
to. Have hopes for help very soon,
no rest, still same place.
"Mon., Apr. 12, no hope yet,
very cold nite."
Sunbleachcd bones identified
tentatively as those o( Toner. La-
mn4lM A,l.,..,c let I I William T
Hatlon of Queens, N.Y., and 2nd
"T """. """ '"",s. McDonald of hiring men to blow
Lt. D. P. Hayes of Lee s Summit, , . ...
. , , j 1 , 1 u "I' newspaper trucks will come up
Mo., were found ast week by an ' , .' , , ,. ,
, , , ,. ... u for a hearing in sla e circuit court
exploration team of the British next Tucsda
Petroleum Co. . Attorncys (or McDonald asked
111c, uicu auu.il o ..h.u ".., . r,.rina anj n:c
u....... '...j a i
.- ,i,.,' ..7. k.ll,, lndin
team of British geologists
last
May had set off intensive searches
to learn the fate of the crew.
" "d e cu n- 1 J' which had hauled paper for the
Woravka or Shelley, Ripslinger and 0 n.an apd MJ
Moore, lhe three sergeants who (, has denjcd wl
left the main party to go in scarchlThe (wo wcre struck
of help, investigalors of a U.S.;b (hc slcrcolvpers Nov. I0, bul
Army mortuary team said heylhave con(inucd , blish, puUing
are certain the remains of those fl joint cdi(jon
four wilj not be found in the imme-i McDonaUrs attorneys questioned
mu a,rCa'i , ,u i.i j d 'jurisdiction of the circuit court.
are certain the remains of those
ine .usC,aBe vi u,e .
uoou was unuamageu . . .u, .anu-l(aul m R number o( coun(s
ing. Its radio was still intact and, '
its water jugs wcre still filled
when the geologists found it. Air
officials said the crewmen prob -
ably would, have survived if they
had stayed aboard, or had fotlnd
the plane after bailing out.
Denmark Mourns
Minister Death
COPENHAGEN, Denmark
'UPI 1 Denmark mourned , today
for Prime Minister Hans Chris
tian Hansen who lost his gallant
18 months fight against cancer
Friday.
Most Danes believed that Han
sen, 53, knew that. he was strick
en by the dread disease. But, he
refused to give up until the end.
In September, 1H58, Hansen
opened a meeting of the Danish
Cancer League at Copenhagen
and a drive for new members in.
the fight against the disease.
Alturas Air Crash
Claims Passenger
ALTURAS One man was killed
and two critically burned in a plane
crash about IMS p.m. Friday al
the Alturas municipal airport.
Dead is Dolan Southard ot Biebcr,
California, one of two passengers
in a Piper Comanche piloted by
B. M. Buckley of Klamath Falls.
Buckley and the other passenger.
Drace Fountain, Alturas general
contractor, were severely burned.
According to the Modoc Counly
shcrilf's of lice, the plane had got
ten about so feet off the ground
when the engine conked out. The
plane bounced on the end of the
runway and over into a fenced
yard across Fourth Street where
Jack Gibbons had building materi
als stored.
The aircralt hurst into flames
and the flammable material in
the yard added to the inferno, o-
fleers said.
Deputy Sheriff Lynn Harris was
driving along Fourth Street and
virtually saw the accident happen.
Over his car telephone, he called
for an ambulance and the fire de
partment and dashed to the scene
He was assisted in pulling Buckley
and Fountain from the root scats
of the plane and out of the yard
by Brewster Ebbe. who had seen
the fire (rom Benny's Tavern
across the street. Southard was in
the back scat.
Buckley, a Great Northern
brakeman and part time salesman
for Klamath Aircraft Service m
Kiamath Falls, had brought the
plane on a demonstration flight
here.
Mrs. Buckley, supervisor for Pa-
c:fic Telephone Company in Klam
Electronic
Brain Devised
BERKELEY (UP1) A giant
electronic brain has been devised
by researchers at the University
of California to compute much
tained by the University's newly
aCqUirCO. lO.Vl IU1 CUlUUUlUl Will
I'"""1 a ".v
clearer picture
of stellar at
mosphcres.
The computer and other allied
electronic equipment are. Used . to
supply the scientists with neces
sary information and provide
them with an accurate and speedy
method of recording spectral lines
Horn the stars, according to a uni
vcrsity spokesman.
lie explained that under exist
ing melhods the location of each
spectral line has to be laboriously
determined wilh a microscope and
,,.. ,..,. in . nolebook. It has
, dcvci0D an adcauate record for
one molecule.
With lhe computer now being
developed it is possible to enter
irm card and save scientists
Dismissal
Move Slated
PORTLAND (AP)-A move to
. ..''.. . h.. hl,
.J"1" auomcy s siau asKca lor
'llnlc 10 study lne mallcr- Clrcml
Judge Charles W. Redding set the
hearing dale.
McDonald, a member of lhe
Stcrcotypcrs Union negotiating
committee, was accused of hiring
r,,P nn..nnc In klr,,., ,,r. Ic,,.!?..
.and asscrlcd ,he indictments were
,
Kegret txprCSSed
l RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP)-The
Board of Regents of the Univer
sity of California has expressed
regret for an examination ques
tion on the FBI.
The question, since withdrawn,
was one of 12 in an admission
examination, lt described the rBI
as a national police organization
which "operates secretly and is
unresponsive to public criticism."
MEMORY ADMIRED
COLUMBIA. S.C. (UPI) - Traf
fic policeman Fred Gardner
thought a motorist he stopped
Friday seemed "mighty familiar"
and said so.
The driver. Impressed by the
policeman's memory, drove to the
police station and paid a fine in
curred four years ago when Gard
ner stopped him (or a minor traf
fic violation.
ath Falls came here Friday afters
i oon to be at her husband's bedside
at Modoc Medical Center.
A report from the hospital late
Saturday indicated that both Foun
tain and Buckley were "doing as
well as could be expected" but
were both on the critical list. Hos
pital authorities were giving them
both "a good chance" of recovery,
Punishment
Fight Vowed
By Solons
SACRAMENTO (LTD- Power
ful California legislators, angered
by Gov. Edmund G. Brown's 60
day reprieve for Caryl Chessman,
today promised to fight any bill
abolishing capital punishment.
The anger stemmed from feel
ings that Brown avoided a deci
sion that belonged only to him,
and from the opinion that he
should never have linked Chess
man's death with the capital pun
ishment issue.
State Sen. Hugh M. Burns ID
Fresno', president pro-tempore
and one of the most influential
men in the upper house, declared
Friday: "I see no excuse what
ever for allowing this convicted
criminal lo cheat the hangman
any longer."
Burns, who pushed Brown's
$1,750,000,000 water program
through the Senate last year, re
called that lhe legislature had
"repeatedly" turned down bills lo
end capital punishment.
"I am convinced," he said,
the Governor has let the people
of California down in refusing to
carry out the laws ot the state."
Burns was also convinced that
the governor places the Chess
man matter on a call for a spe
cial session, "the Senate will turn
down this proposal again." ;
In addition to Burns, other ot
Brown's leading lieutenants part
ed company with the governor
when he announced early Friday
that he would reprieve Chessman
and call a special session next
month on abolishing capital pun
ishment. ; 7 """
Even ' lawmakers who oppose
capital punfshment and who sup'-",
porled earlier attempts or its re
peal said they could not take the
same stand now that the Issue
had become part of the Chess
man case.
Scarlet Fever
Peri! Cited
"It is dangerous to think too
lightly of scarlet fever," Dr. S. M,
Kcrron, Klamath County health of
ficer, warned Saturday. "Scarlet
fever Is a streptococcic infection
which may be serious and which,
if not treated, may result in rheu
matic fever later."
Dr. Kcrron said that a number
of cases of the disease are known
to exist in suburban area: of Klam
ath Falls. The information has
reached the health department
through the schools and the cases
have not been reported officially
lo his department.
Scarlet fever responds very
well lo treatment," Dr. Kcrron
said, "but should not be allowed
lo go on without treatment. Par
ents should' call their family doc
tors and get treatment for the
children who are ill and prophylac
tic treatment for other members
of the family."
Symptoms of scarlet fever are
sore throat and temperature for 24
hours, the health officer explained.
Then a rash appears which lasts
for three or four days.
The Klamath County Public
Heallh office had 217 cases ot in
fluenza reported for the week.
'Parents should keep children at
home alter an attack of influenza
until temperature has been normal
for at least two days," Dr. Kcr
ron added.
Vow Recalled
By Chief Of Staff
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
Army chief of staff said Saturday
Soviet Communists declared three
decades ago that they would lull
the free world with a peace of
fensive, Ihcn hit it with clenched
fists.
Gen Lyman L. Lemnitzor, the
Army's top commander, warned
lhat is what the Communists are
trying to do. He made the remarks
in an address prepared for deliv
ery to the Political Study Club of
the District of Columbia.
Communist 'Scheme'
BUDAPEST. Hungary (AP)-A
Communist clinic has come up
wilh a scheme to soflen com
plaints about long waits in the
outpatient department. It shows
movies, mainly shorts on popular
scientific and health subjects. .