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la The- Day's lews By FRAK JENKINS From Fort Dix, New Jersey: Elvis Presley leaves this army post for civilian life today, appar 0 entry ready, willing and able to resume his show business activi ties. He beard 5 a.m. geveille for the last time. With his separation papers and his final pay of $109.54, bt will be on hi own. As he passed through the gates ou his way out, the army prepared to heave a collective sigh of re lief. His tour of duty presented problems. One of the big problems wis PROTECTING Ghim from (creaming fans and milling news- rocn every time and everywhere he appeared. But, his superiors say, he made a. FINE soldier. He came in as a tyaw Remit and rose to the rank of sergeant. These fan demonstra tions never upset him. He stuck to his knittinge and learned his trade as a sofoicr, earning his pro motions the hardfyay. Personally, I think Elvis' hitch In thermy did Bm a lot of good. lf so, WHY? Well, it's like this: He became a celebrity very young. Being a celebrity is dan gerous business. It is UPSETTING business. It upsets all the normal standards. It leads those who achieve it to (ink they are some thing special and wonderful (flat they don't need t live by the standards that govern aragc peo ple. Nothing can be more danger-i- Cous than that. In his hitch in the army, Elvis Presley faced a routine of hard work and discipline. Nearly every body despises hard work and dis cipline. But they are good for near ly everybody. Especially a certain amount of hard work. The prim rose path seldom develops cfaraiT ter. More often than not, hard work and discipline DO develop character. . ' It may turn out that Elvis Pres ley's army service was the best thing that ever happened to him. Sentencing For Thief Set MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) A convicted supermarket robber, Donald M. Thompson of Klamath Falls, will be sentenced Monday, Thompson was convicted of a $2,700 holdup of a chain grocery (tore last Labor Day., State police arrested Thompson last year at his Klamath Falls home and took him, to Medford or. trial. He was arrested on a warrant from California, where police wanted to question him about a series of Northern California su permarket holdups. Thompson, prior to coming to Klamath Falls, worked as a dis trict manager of a San Francisco Bay Area supermarket chain. At Hlamath Falls he had worked as a consultant for a local market i chain. Nevada Slated As A-Test Site WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) has completed its under ground non-nuclear high explosive tests in. a Louisiana salt mine and will transfer the experiments to Nevada. The AEC experiments began in grotind in a section of the Carey salt mine near Winnfield, La. The tests included a series of 17 high explosive blasts ranging from 20 to 2.000 pounds. They con cluded Friday morning with two 200-pound shots. Worst Storm In Ten Years Surges Into Newfoundland NEW YORK (AP)-'Phe worst winter storm to hammer the Northeast in more than a decade surged into Newfoundland Satur day knocking out power lines and snarling traffic. Tbe gale, centering' mainly on the eastern part of the province, was expected to dump up to 10 inches of snow. Biting winds up to 55 miles an hour quickly piled up snowdrifts that clogged highways. In the United States from the Canadian border to Dixie snow blitzed residents still felt the storm's waning lash. Up to a foot of snow fell in southwest Michigan and northern Indiana. Tempera tures plummeted to near zero in some Southern states. Snow flur ries plagued New York and parts Of New England. The weather death toll across the nation totaled at least 160. The main concern for most was "operation digout" clearing snow-choked streets and highways and removing cars from under giant snowOmounds. Air, rail and highway transpor tation returned slowly to normal schedules, but some delays and cancellations were reported par Havana Ship Blast; Fidel Blames Yanks HAVANA (AP) Prime Min ister Fidel Castro declared Satur day night Vg. interests opposed to his revolution were responsible for explosions aboard a French munitions ship in Havana Bay. The exnlosions riDoed through the ship FridSy, killing from 54J lu ft) fjciauua aiiu mjuiiii uum 206 to 345. Unofficial pro - Castro sources here earlier had blamed the dis aJer on the United States. Speaking before a throng at a mass funeral service for the blast victims, Castro asserted the ex plosions were set off deliberately by parties interested in keeping arms from Cuba. Sheriff Aide Who Resigned Files For Job Dale Matti&n, veteran deputy sheriff who resigned Friday after 27 years service, climaxed his day by filing for sheriff on the Re publican ticket. Mattoon filed atst:30, after hav ing spent most of his afternoon accepting best wishes from court house friends at a coffce-and-cakc party in the sheriff's office. Mattoon to date has no opposi lion on the Republican ticket. Two Democrats, L. W. Harroun and Dale Smith of Bly, have filed for the office. Sheriff Red Britton, Democrat, has not yet filed for reelection, but he is expected to do so. Mattoon's decision caught mostjdropped 100 or 1,000 times, oi me courinuuae uy surprise, run had announced intentions to visit Florida for three or four weeks, then return here and go fishing. He and his wife Lavina left for Florida this morning and expect to return in early April. On his declaration of candidacy, Mattoon pledged "More efficient law enforcement with less cost to the taxpayers." He made no for mal statement. , . Floe Victims Safe, Sound FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) -Two men who lived on moose meat sausage and dry biscuits, slept in ice igloos and drank snow water for a week were safe in Kotzcbue today. George Baumann, 58, polar bear hunter from Nevada, Mo., and Lee Holen, 43, Anchorage pilot, were rescued Friday, a week aft er their light plane was forced to land on an,ice floe in Chukchi Sea. Holen described their ordeal in a telephone interview from Kotze bue, .about 200 miles north of Nome. He said they spent their m first night sleeping on the wings of the plane, which partially sank through the top layers of the floe. After two days Holen said they left because of the ice's instabili ty. Using a raft fashioned from the plane's gas tanks and often leap ing from one rotting ice cake to another, the two made it some 30 miles to shore. Only 'their sleeping bags and the snow igloos (hat protected them W,jij,!!b,t kejjtt them from freezing in me near zero temperatures, no len said. Holen said they hiked down the coast toward Kivalina for four days. Thursday night they met a parly of Eskimos who took, them into Kivalina ticularly in metropolitan areas. Snowdrifts of eight and nine feet were common in much of New England. Three feet of snow lin gered in upstate New York and more was forecast Sunday along the GrcSt Lakes. An Army ambulance helicopter and National Guardsmen went to the rescue of three ill persons in isolated farmhouses in Maryland. New York City was peppered with light snow flurries that taper ed off in the afternoon. Many streets in the five boroughs still had man-high mounds of snow along the sidewalks. But a force of 10,000 men worked to clear the snow, and gather refuse, uncollect ed since last Thursday. In contrast, much of Maine had sunny and mild weath-r. The storm that howled through the southern part of the state, veered to sea bypassing the rest of Maine. Elsewhere, biting cold prevailed over most of the nation east of the Rockies. Frigid temperatures ranging from zero to 10 above at noon were reported fronrflhe north and central plains into the middle and upper Mississippi Valley. IliiiPAHS.'i SJJIIOM Cj'i'.l. RSF. Ml) tOCL'i Among those interested In see ing that Cuba docs not get arms, he (ghoiited angrily, were "offi cials of the United StaVu govern ment." The bearded Prjaiftj-AVnister said eo dcOiforriig mechanism hut caused the blasts was put aboard the ship at a foreign port and was triggered as one of the grenade boxes was moved Castro charged that "a North American consul and military at tache in Belgium had tried to block the sale of Belgian arms to Cuba. Since they to triecPby diplomatic means to event that arms would be sold to us, we have the right to think they could have tried to prevent it by oilier means," Cas tro shouted. Castro led a mass funeral for victims. Six of the dead were French crewmen. The rest were Cuban soldiers and workers un loading a cargo of Belgian arms. All work in Havana except for the operations at the dockside 6 aster scene was halted in honor of the victims. Castro delivered the main funeral oration. Castro said the explosion ft curred in the ship's hold where 30 tonseof rifle grenades were stored. He discounted the possibili ty they could have detonated through the accidental dropping of a box. He told a huge crowd a test by his air force after the explosion proved his point. He said a plane dropped two boxes containing gre nades from altitudes of from 400 lo 600 feet. Then, dramatically holding up two grenades, he said "And here they are. They didn't go off. I can assure you they couldn t go off if they were rvjir-jmTr-yoa' anx iapiutct couldn't be accidental. It bad to be intentional," he added. Fifteen Die In Fifes By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Death-dealing fires struck hard at children throughout the nation Friday. At least 14 children and a moth er perished. In Little Rock,, 'ames . Edda Austin, 2, and his sister, Eliza beth, 5 months, died in a house fire. Their mother and a third child, were burned At Evansville, Ind., an explosion and blaze in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Ditsch took the lives of six of their seven, youngsters. Dead were Michael, 9, Gregory, 8,' Dennis, 5, Timothy, 4, Tommy, 3, and Roxanne, 20 months. At Easton, Md., four children died of suffocation in a fire which broke out after strong winds top pled the chimney of their two- story frame home. the victims, all Negroes, were Dorothea Mills, 9; her sister Yvonne, 1; Quinton Lewis, 8, and Margaret Thomas, 5. Six other children were carried, lo safety, At Buffalo, N.Y., truck driver Richard Jackson wonders how he is going to tell his wife Mary that their two children perished in a fire in their apartment home. Jackson was en route home when a flash fire' killed the. yotftigsters, Stephen, 4, and Cynthia, 14 months, and sent the 24-year-old mother to a hospital with critical bums. Jackson whispered to a nun at Mercy Hospital: "She doesp't Irnnw it vnl " ff 3e-rE8aB,l"WWf "if tefrOTiH"'""" fire skilled 25-ycar-old Shirley Green and seriously burned her four children, Richard, 7, Michael, 5, Deborah, 3, and a baby about 11 months old. All are Negroes. Accident toll Shows Increase PORTLAND (AP) More per sons were hurt in traffic accidents last year than in any previous year. The total number injured was 20,425, which was 17 per cent more than in 1958. ' The Oregon Motor Vehicles De partment also said the number of traffic accidents was 7 per cent greater, although total mileage driven increased only 3'i per cent from the year before. Oregon's mileage death, rate was computed at 6.2 deaths for each 100 million miles traveled, compared to 5.4 deaths per 100 million miles traveled for the nation as a whole. Brown Concedes 'Chances Slim' SACRAMENTO (UPI) - Gov- erncfr Edmund G. Brown, conced ing that there is almost no chance that the Legislature will abolish capital punishment this session, has indicated he will try again next year. "The climate is not good (or a fair discussion of the issue this year," he told a news conference Friday. ... DIV. BRIG. GEN. Curtis R. Low, left, arrived at Kingsley Field Friday to pay a farewell Visit to the base penonnel and his friends before leaving for his new assignment, Ent Air Force Base, Colorado. With the general are Capt. Ray Royse, 28th 0Air Division Hamilton Field, and Lt. Col. Wilson V. Edwards, acting base commander of Kingsley, right. A reception was held in the local officers' club for the genei$l Friday night. MMIHPlWWWIIMIIIIIUHPIWWWIIIIIIMIIIUHMIIWllWWHWin'Ml 1 1 1 1 1 IIMIBIIIIIltlUIIIIlWIIIMIIIIIHWMllfcllllllNllllllllllillllMlllIYIIIIIMIIW)lli)n7nflfnnr? KLAMATH Price Ten Ccnts-64 Pages Explosion KO's Bomarc - A Bomarc-B missile erupted into a fiery column on its launch pad Saturday. The failure, seventh straight for the interceptor rdeket, could kill its development pro gram. Shortly before the countdown reached zero, flames spurted from the base of the 47-foot missile, licked up itif side and consumed it. The Air Force said here was no cxolosion. An announcement re ported "a malfunction developed causing the missile to be destroy ed on the laungh pad by fire,!' The announcement,;raid '-no members of the launch crew were hurt but that some damage was done to the Dad. The Air .Force began an investigation. I The failure almost certainly will have an important bearing on whether the costly Bomarc-B pro gram is continued. A congression al committee has been critical of this missile and would like to drop it in favor of the Army's Nike- Hercules. Quake Report Conflict Told WASHINGTON (UPI) Quake experts said Saturday one U.S. and several European seismic stations recorded an earth shock on Feb. 2 about the time a tremendous blast was reported to have rocked a Soviet base near the Finnish border. The seismographic evidence was conflicting, nowever, as 10 whether the shock occurred in Russia or Northern Finland. week quoted unidcntilied TnifireiVl sources as saying a great explo sion hit the Soviet base at Ala kurtti inihe Karclo-Finnish Soviet Republic about mid-day Feb. 2. Alakurlti, in what used to be be a Russian missile base, the Helsinki dispatch said. "Hie base is just north of the Ajctic Circle across the border from Finland) Finnish seismologists, said to be amone the best in the worm. have just reported to theCf?asH and Geodetic Survey here that an earth shock occurred inside Rus sia and a little north of the Arctic circle at 12:32.45 p.m. Greenwich lime. Actors Guil4, Plans Strike HOLLYWOOD (UPI) - The Screen Actors Guild Saturday planned to go ahead with its sched uled strike Monday against major movie studios despite reaching agreement with three more inde pendent producers. The latest settlements came Fri day when the Guild signed con tracts with Otto Preminger's Cary&le-Alpina S. A. Productions. Phillip Jordan's Longridge Produc tions Inc. and George Sydney's International Pictures - Posa Films Intcrnacional S. A. Now signed are one major studio, Universal International, and five independents, including Frank Sinatra's Dorchester Pro ductions and Tony Curtis' Curl- leigh Organization. FALLS, OREGON, SUNDAY, DEADLINE The deadline for registering (or the May primary election is April 19. County Clerk Charley DcLap said a voter must regis ter If: 1. lUlt UUItCU,' U liniirvTVTTrn , one precinct to another, or even within your owl) pre cinct. 2. You moved from one county to another in Oregon. 3. Your name has been changed. 4.. Your political parly has been changed. S. You failed to vote In at ' least one county-wide elec tion In the past two years. Registrations are accepted at DeLap's office in the courthouse. Ike Postpones Trip Home . RAMEY AIR FORCE BASE, Puerto Rico (AP) President Ei senhower, retting in the balmy Caribbean from his South Ameri can tour, decided Saturday to put off his return to Washington until Monday afternoon. He originally planned to fly back Sunday. Eisenhower is feeling fine gen erally, but is still hoarse. White House Secretary James C. Hager ty told newsmen in announcing'that the President will prolong his stay at this U.S. Strategic Air Com mand base. Eisenhower arrived Thursday night, tired out after his 10-day tour. He said with a smile he was bushed. Supporting evidence came Fri day when the President, who usually shoots in the 80s, 4ook a 25-over-par 97 in a foursome under a scorching sun on the Dorado Beach Club's championship 18-holc golf course. Russell (Rusty) Gil bert, the Dora,do club pro, said: "He is Just tired nd worn out.' oaie lor anoiner game aaiur- tfaTmbWriFwis Within a few days after his re turn he will make a nationwide radio-TV report on his tour of Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Uru guay. He started, work en that re- morning. Refrigerators Said Dependable O o CO 03 O0 O 00 O LOS ANGELES (UPI) - If your electric refrigerator sudden ly goes haywire don't be cool to it, usually It's one of the most dependable of home appliances, according to a survey of 2.327 families here. Woodbury College Research Clin ic disclosed yesterday that 90 per cent of the families needed no service on their refrigerators dur ing 1959. Less than 8 per cent needed one service call and only 1.8 per cent required more than one repair call. Mrs. Dunbar Dies Mrs. Augusta Parker Dunbar, 74, who has been seriously ill fori the past eight weeks, died Satur day at Hillside Hospital. She wasl the widow of R. H. Dunbar, i former superintendent of the Klam ath Falls schools. Funeral arrangement are in charge of O'Hair's Memorial Cha pel and services will be held at the Presbyterian church on Tues day, March -7. More complete de tails will be announced on Monday. ft .""m t t ,1 Photo by M-igt. Charles Dennett MARCH 6, 1960 Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 6347 Blast Rips Atlas ICBM VAnKNRERCr AIR FORCE BASE, Calil. (APi An Atlas in-i tcrcontinental missile blew up while being fueled in a rgutinc training operation Saturday. The mysterious explosion oc curred on one of three operational Atlas launch sites, a spokesman said. It was not disclosed whether this West Coast missile base had another Atlas on stand-by 15-min- uie aieri. . The Air Force said no one was injured in the blast, which oc curred at noon. A spokesman -said the missile. P82 feet tall, "destroyed itself it was being fueled in a routine training operation. At least one missile on Hie three combat-ready pads at Vandenbcrg reportedly is armed with compo nents of a nuclear bomb, ready to be launched cm 15 minutes no lice. There was no indication, how ever, whether the missile tha ex ploded contained these compo nents. There was no nuclear ex plosion. The Air Force said an investi gation was under way to deter mine the cause of the explosion. Crews Clear Agadir Debris AGADIR, Morocco (AP) - Troops wearing surgical masks Saturday bejjan .clearing earthquake-shattered Agadir so a new city may riso on the ruins where up to 12,000 persons died In the darkness between last Monday and Tuesday. Bulldozers tore at two Moroc can sections of the town where almost all hope was given up of finding any more survivors. And have been abandoned, King Mo hammed V ordered special care be takoji in any areas where sur vivals might miraculously be alive. ' The government denied that Khr"ira'S!x'?i(Kt'rr'out OidsW the strict quarantine and total evacuation of the city had been precautionary measures to avoid this very thing. It is estimated that perhaps 2.000 bodies still are in the areas where the' b'ullcWrert'frfSnB.' The final death toll of the quakes, tidal wave and fire may never be known although Crown Prince Moulay Hassan announced Friday night that 12,000 dead would not be an exaggerated estimate Judge Denies Stereo's Motion PORTLAND (AP) - Circuit1 Judge Arno Dcnecke denied Fri day a motion to dismiss an indict mcnt that charges stcreotyper Levi S. McDonald with a part in the bombing of 10 trucks in the Portland newspaper strike. McDonald's attorneys attacked the indictment as improper, con tending the grand jury that re turned It had been influenced by newspaper publication of state ments by McDonald's accusers. But the judge held McDonald tad not proved his rights were vioiieu ami inero was no prooi iiiui me ymiiu juiy was pieju diccd. He gave McDonald until Tues day afternoon to make his pica. Jury Makes Request To Rehear LOS ANGELES (AP)-The jury Saturday asked to heaV once more Dr. R. Bernard Finch's testimony iibout the day his wife was shot to death. Heading of an estimated 400 pages of transcript began Salur day afternoon in open court. At torneys said it would continue Monday. Jurors emerged from seclusion in the virtually empty county courthouse to make their request following a morning of dclibcra :ion. Their attention evidently was fo cused on the actual shooting of Mrs. Barbara Jean Finch and liio events immediately preceding it. Gmnt B. Cooper, Finch's lawyer, read his client's direct testimony lo the gry. GJs he read, Cooper was hall-buried in the witness stand behind sticks of transcript amounting to two million words, the equivalent of 23 book-length novels. Prosecutor Fred N. Whichello will read the testimony the doctor gave under cross-examination. The two defendants were pies ent as required by California law when Cooper' reread the testi mony. The jury was locked up at 4:45 p.m. It will reconvene 9:30 a.m. Monday. Before Ihcy were lockcrigup, t he jurors had heard 63 of the esti mated 400 pages Ihcy had asked to hear. two other requests by the jry foreman, Treasury Agent A. W, Aim, were turned down by the judge. One was for a .U8-caliber revolver, the other for a pair of Florida Police ilfwae JUPITER, Fla. (AP) A pesse tracked down Saturday a 17-ycar- old boy who told officers he killed two Miami gas station attendants and kidnaped and murdered a woman. Chief Investigator II. L. Con- ycrs of the Palm Beach County sheriff's office identified Ihc youth as Dennis Whitney, 17, of North Hollywood, Calif. "He admitted to me that ho Is the man who killed two Dade Coun ty gas station attendants," Con yers said. " The youth was trailed by foot prints over desolate, palmetto covered terrain for almost a mile from the spot where the body' of Virginia B. Sclby, 60, of Hiatcah. was found early Saturday, 81 mtles north of her home. The woman was reported miss ing after she failed to meet her husband in downtown Miami Fri day night. Conycrs said the youth admitted crawling into M.rs. Scl-i by's car in a parking lot as she awaited her husband. "He said he told her to get out, that he wanted the car, but she wouldn't get out," Conyeiv said. He said he tried to let her out a couple of times on the way up here, but she refused even when he pointed a gun at her." Weather Klamath Falls and vicinity: Showers, and some brief clearing today. Highs 42-48; low tonight 32- 40. High yesterday 44 Low last night 31 Northern California: Rain today Russian, Eel and Feather River watersheds; snow In the mountains above 5,500 feet to 7,500 feet; lit tle change ill temperatures. Pair Of Dangerous Felons Captured By SALEM (AP) Police, follow ing footprints in the snow, Satur- ka.'i'WiWMMeVi!ft.PCM victs who sawed their way out ol the slato mental hospital Friday night. Neither of Ihe men put up a tight when police walked into a barn where they had been nming. The convicts arc James Norman Jensen, 30, who was convicted ol first degree murder in an ax slay ing at Medford six years ago, and James Stanley Amason, 29, sent to prison eight years ago for an assault and jobbery conviction. Both men were considered ex tremely dangerous and were the objects of a widespread search throughout the night. State police Capt. R. G. Howard said that a hospital attendant had admitted accepting a bribe and smuggling hacksaw blades and a supply of fuod to the prisoners to aid their escape. The two men sawed through the bars of their third-story cell win-1 dow and then climbed down a rope of bed sheets. The escape was made in a driving rain storm Friday night. The men were light ly clad. The two men had been trans Transcript libber surgical gloves similar to those Dr. Finch has testified he used in playing with his dog 4he night of the slaying. The judge said neither item was in evidence. California law does not permit a jury lo havo the transcript while deliberating. Testimony must be reread to the jurors un der com rolled conditions. WALTER H. TURNER SP Employe Seeks Post 'As State Rep Walter II. Turner, 57, announced today that he will file his candi dacy for Democratic candidate for slato representative with tlio sec- uiaiy ul aldtc a uliiiu ull AuliUdy. Turner resides at 4B88 Thompson Street with his wife. He is a con ductor and brakeman (or the Southern Pacific Railroad, and has been a resident of Klamath Coun ty since moving here from Duns- muir 15 years ago. Turner has had 12 years' expe rience in legislative work on both state and national levels, and at present is chairman and represen tative of the Oregon State Legis lative Committee of the Order ol Railway Conductors and Brake men. , He is an officer in tho Klamath County Civil Defense organization "I Ml is a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and of the Klamath Falls Elks Lodge. ' In filing for the stale post, Tur- ' ner said that if elected, "My expe rience in legislative work will help me to serve the people of Klam ath County in a fair, impartial manner. He also pledged himself "to work for the advancement and betterment of all in the county." He placed himself on record as in favor of the improvements that are being made at Oregon Tech nical Institute and said he would work toward continued support for the school. Commenting 'un the tax situation, Turner said, "Taxes on property arc at an all time high. We cannot continue to increase tiiis burden." Turner becomes the second can didate to file on the Democratic ticket for the representative posts. Previously, incumbent Carl Yancey announced his intentions of seek ing reelection. Telephone Boom NEW YORK (AP) The storm skyrocketed the telephone business in the metropolitan area. The Jd av' phonjngin the fivc B or- ougns nit a rccora oi zj,oiv,dms calls. The previous record for onj day was 26,983,930 on Dec. 9, 1957 during thS subway slrike. State Police ferrcd from the stale penitentiary to the mental hospital's ward for Jensen was convicted of Ihe iToirder of Mrs. Fern Hile of Med ford in 1954. He was sentenced to die in the state gas chamber but his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 1957. On the recommendation of the prison psy chiatrist, he was moved to the criminally insane ward in January of this year. Amason was moved to the ward in November, 1959. Police, checking the Pratum farming district east of Salem to day, found two sets of footprints in the snow. The prints led to a barn owned by tho J. D. Long family. A third inmate, William Hugh Mitchell, escaped with the two, went to his home in Salem, and was taken back to the hospital last night by his faniif. Soviet Aid MOSCOW (AP) - The Soviet Red Cross and Red Crescent voted to send medicine and food to quake victims in Morocco, Pravda said today. The amount was sol indicated.
