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' BOBBY PCHLEY It a big boy, but he celebrated his first official birthday at a party given for him by his mother Sunday, February 28. Twenty-three of Bobby's friends came to the party and a neighbor, Mrs. Frances Morton, provided a cake big enough to make up for the three missing birth days. Born February 29, 1956, at Oxford, Mississippi, he is the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pohley, Montague. He has a brother, Stevie, and a baby sister, Cory Lynne. Photo by Betty Dow Seven Killings Admitted By Youth, 17 WEST PALM BEACH, Fla (AP) Dennis Whitney has admit ted seven killings in a coast-to- coast murder rampage and au thorities are going to settle for that. "I think he's told us every thing now," Chief Deputy Harry L. Conyers of the Palm Beach sheriff's office said today. "We've been questioning him constantly and it seems to me that he has no more to tell." The red-haired, 17-ycar-old Cali- fornian said Monday that he killed two men in Phoenix, Ariz. Previously he had confessed to only one slaying in that city. Sheriff John Kirk said Whitney told him he fired a .22 slug into the brain of a "Phoenix bum" an abandoned bus in a parking lot. Phoenix police said the vie tim was Ira Lee Hardison, 55, a skid road character. Apparently he was killed Feb 21, the same day Whitney killed another Phoenix man, Spencer Frazier, 40, Negro, and stole his car. Whitney, who shot a Hialcah housewife to death last Friday earlier had killed two Dade (Miami) County gas station at tendants and wounded a third in holdups, police said. The day after his capture he admitted a slaying in Victorsvillc Calif., the killing of Frazier, and a slaying in Tucson, Ariz. The siring of murders started Feb. 12. In Los Angeles, the boy's father, Ralph Whitney, described Dennis as a quiet boy whose main inter est was art. "I don't know what to think. I have no idea why he would do it," said Whitney, an inspector in the Curtiss-Wright engine overhaul plant at North Hollywood. Eight Perish In Collision BERLIN, Conn. (AP)-A pas senger train collided with a sta tion wagon today, killing seven school children and an adult. The automobile, carrying the children and a woman driver, was hurled into Silver Lake, an ice- crusted five-foot-deep pond be side Norton Lane. Police identified the dead as Mrs. Emily Whitaker of Berlin and seven state wards, all Ne groes. Skin divers were called in to search for the bodies. The children were identified as Joseph Cormier and Patricia Heanue, both 14; Mary Ann De- Cruz, 12; Bryon Battle, Kenneth Salmoiraghi, and Doris Gomez, all 6; and Shelley McCaslin, 7. The accident occurred at an unprotected grade crossing on Norton Lane, just off the Wilbur Cross Parkway, on a roadway covered with half an inch of snow. It was near the home of Mrs. Whitaker and her husband, John, who were cited by the Catholic Transcript in 1957 for their care of foster school children. In 14 years they had cared for 16 foster children, o Mrs. Whitgkcr was taking the seven children to St. Paul's School in Kensington. The crash killed some of the car's occupants. Police reports in dicated the others may have died under water. Terrorist Executed o MADRID (AP) Antonio Abad Donoso was executed by garrotei in Carabanchel Prison today for two terror bombings in Madrid Feb. 18. A Cuban and two other Spaniards also were accused of setting off the bombs in Toledo Street and Madrid's City Hall. f Special Section Today's edition of the Herald and News contains a special 11 page tabloid section announcing J. C. Penney's 58(h anniversary celebration which is being ob served across the nation. The local J. C. Penney store is one of the growing number of firms which is following the trend toward curtailment of "throw-aways" in favor of reg ular newspaper home delivered supplements. x Civil Rights Offer Made WASHINGTON (AP) Demo cratic Leader Lyndon B. John son of Texas offered today to cease round-the-clock sessions of the Senate if Southerners would agree to a scries of votes on civil rights legislation. Johnson, in a bristling ex change with Sen. Spessard L. Hol land (D-FIa), denied he was try ing to wear down Dixie senators or was risking their health and lives by the continuous sessions Johnson in a sharp reply said some of Holland's remarks sounded much like a charge of "blood on my hands. "I don't think the senator meant that I was a murderer, but it sounded that way," Johnson said This capped a go - round in which Holland pictured the Sen ate leadership as floundering. 'The leadership has the duty and obligation of showing us where we are going," Holland said, and of seeing to it that the Senate has before it a bill on which it can act, rather than the big stack of amendments now confronting the membership. Holland said he thought John son had accused either Holland or other Southerners of mislead ing the country. 'If there has been any mislead ing, Holland snapped, "it has been by the leadership. They took this valiant 100 (Senate's 100 members) down the Valley of Death," he said. Johnson said he didn't want the record to indicate that he had ac cused Holland of misleading. He predicted .that eventually he would not guess when a ma jority of the Senate will force a vote on the controversial issues. Headon Crash Kills Mailman LIVERMORE, Calif. (API- Rural mail carrier Jacob Reuss, 69, got to know dump truck driver Richard Stout because for years they met on the road and waved to each other. Monday, Stout told highway patrolmen, he saw Reuss ap proaching as usual, then: '"I saw his car moving toward my side of the road.-1 thought he was play ing a game. I stopped and waited." Reuss' car crashed head-on into Stout's truck. Rcuss died a few hours later. Officers thought he may have had a heart attack. Newest Atlas Takes To Skies CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. UPII A mighty "Atlas missile streaked into the sky today cgr- ijwg uie cramesi sei oi guiaance "brains" yet devised for an Amer ican intercontinental ballistic missile. The new all-inertia! guidance system was aboard the brawny missile as a "passenger" only to day on the scheduled 6.300-mile flight over the Atlantic Ocean. Experts called it an "important step forward" in development . of the Atlas as America's most for midable war weapon. Pi ice Five Cents 20 Paget Market Thief Given Life Imprisonment Donald Martin Thompson, t h e 'Safeway Bandit" from Klamath Falls, was sentenced to life im prisonment Monday in Medford. Thompson was convicted in De cember of a Labor Day robbery of a Medford supermarket at gun point. Sentencing by Circuit Judge Edward C. Kelly was delayed for pre-sentence investigation re quested by Thompson's attorney. Richard C. Becsley of Klamath Falls. The dapper, 34 year-old bandit is suspected of 17 supermarket hold ups in Oregon and California. Judge Kelly said he decided upon the life sentence because of nu merous other holds against Thompson. Last November police arrested Thompson in his $47,000 Klamath Falls home on a warrant from Paso Robles, Calif. Witnesses in the Medford robbery identified him and he was brought here for trial. Thompson, a neatly dressed man of medium height, is a for mer district manager for the Pur ity Foods chain in the San Fran cisco Bay area. Later he was an efficiency expert at Klamath Falls for a supermarket chain. He and his wife have two grade school-age children and are ex pecting another child. Before he is taken to the state penitentiary at Salem to begin his sentence, Thompson w i l 1 be arraigned Wednesday morning in district court here on a charge of taking part in a county jail riot Feb. 27 and 28. Cold Clings To The Est By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Cold clung like a sheet of ice to the eastern half of the nation today, but temperatures rose a bit west of the Mississippi River. New low records for the date were set in Ohio, where Colum bus felt the pinch of 2 below zero and Cleveland 1 below. It was the coldest weather of the winter in Ohio. Readings elsewhere include -20 in Marquette, Mich.; -10 in Mad ison, Wis.; -6 in Duluth, Minn. and -4 in Milwaukee. Freezing conditions projected southward into Oklahoma and central Georgia. Most of the East was chilly and snow flurries continued in the Northeast. Readings were mostly in the 20s and 30s. The 40s and 50s prevailed across southern areas outside the cold belt in the Southeast and along the Pacific Coast. The Southwest had mild temperatures in the 60s and 70s. Wet weather dampened wide areas in the West. Bus Driver Spurns Mom LUTON, England (AP) - Re jecting a tearful plea from his mother, Leo Moore says he and his wife will go ahead with plans to give their unborn baby to an American couple for adoption. 'Wc can manage our own af fairs," said the 40-year-old bus driver after his mother, Ellen Moore, appealed to him and his wife, Yvonne, to drop their plans Mrs. Moore, 62, who made the 150-mile trip here from her home in Manchester, urged the Moores to let her raise the child if they did not want it. "She came in here crying and making a scene," said Moore "I'm not a child. I wish my moth er had not interfered." His 3!)-year-old wife leaves by plane Wednesday for the United States. She expects the baby, her first, in mid-April. It will be adopted by Wilbur and Billic Prescott, a childless North Charleston, S C., couple. They are paying Mrs. Moore's travel expenses and will take care of her until the baby is born. Mrs. Moore said earlier oTm giving the baby away pimply be cause f don't wnt it." Secretory Recovering SACRAMENTO (UPI) Cali fornia's, Secretary of State Frank M. Jordan was recovering today from an ulcer that required sur gery Monday at Sutter Hospital. His secretary. Mrs. Thclma Smith, said that thl 71-year-old Jordan underwent the operation Monday and that he was "just fine." He has been secretary of state since January, 1943. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. Youths Perform Atrocity On Body Of Colored Man HOUSTON, Tex. (AP) - Four masked white youths hung a Ne gro man from a tree by his heels Monday night and scratched two series of KKKs into his chest and stomach after beating him with chains, the Negro told police. Felton Turner, 27, said he (reed himself from ropes around his ankles and wrists, staggered to a nightwatchman's shack and tele phoned police. A doctor at Jefferson Davis Hospital said Turner was treated and released this morning. The six Ks ranged from l'i inches to 3 inches in length and went Irom Turner's chest to his stomach, the doctor said. Rope marks were on the Negro's wrists and ankles. Police said Turner told them he was walking near his home in a Negro residential area at 10:15 p.m. when two masked white youths leaped from a car and grabbed him. They carried guns and forced him into the back scat of a sedan. Two other masked while youths were in the front seat, Turner told officers. Turner said he struggled to free himself but the youths gagged him and beat him to the floor with chains. They took him to a wooded area where he was tied and hung from the tree by his heels, he said. There they beat him with chains Superintendent Of Schools Selected By County Board The Klamath County School Dis trict Board of Education hired the University of Oregon director of student teaching as its new su perintendent this week. He is Dr. Cliff Robinson, consid ered one of the nation's top educa tional authorities. Outgoing Superintendent Carrol Howe said he is very pleased with the choice. "Dr. Robinson teamed with Mrs. Isabelle Brixner should be a for tunate circumstance for the coun ty," he said. Mrs. Brixner, county supervisor of elementary education, is also recognized as one of the best in the business, Howe added. Dr. Robinson is also director of secondary education of Eugene public schools. Last year he was president of the National Asso ciation of Secondary Schools. He is a life member of the Na tional Education Association, a member of the Oregon Education Association, the National Society for the Study of Education, the American Association of Univer sity Professors and the National Association for Student Teaching. He is also a member of the general committee and the ad ministrative study committee for the National Study of Secondary School Evaluation, a member of the advisory council of Project Talent, and an advisory council member of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. Dr. Robinson was born Septem ber 1, 1908, in Benton County. He was graduated from Corvallis High School in 1927, received a bachelor of science degree in 1933 and a master of science degree in 1943 from Oregon State College, and a doctorate of education from the University of Oregon in 1955. From 1935 to 1942 he taught and coached and was principal-superin tendent of Coos River schools in Coos County. He undertook gradu ate study at Stanford University for the next year. He was prin cipal of , Ashland Senior High School from 1943 to 1944, and from 1944 to 1947, of Albany Senior High School. . For the next 10 years he served as director of .secondary educa Belqium Rejects Claim By French BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) .- Foreign Minister Pierre Wigny today rejected a French claim to the Belgian Congo after it gets independence June 30. France claims an 1884 agree ment, granting France a priority on the Congo in case of sale or cession of the African territory, is still valid. Wigny said the 1884. agreement specified the priority right only if Belgium wished to "sell, ex change, lease or lend the terri tories to a foreign power." Ae Of Earth MOSCOW (Ar ) soviet scien tists figure that the earth is 4 '4 billion years old. Tass, the Soviet news agency, reported today that scientists in' Leningrad reached that conclusion after studying rocks found in some of the Baltic countries. TUESDAY, MARCH 8. i960 and rope, cut off his jacket and shirt and scratched the Ks on his stomach and chest with a knife. As the white youths were leav ing one of them told Turner that if he tried to escape one of them would kill him, the Negro said. Turner worked the ropes off his feet and hands and made his way to a nearby nighlwatchman's shack. Police Lt. Breckenridge Porter said Turner's wounds could not have been self-inflicted. Turner, unemployed, told police that a red-haired youth in the front of the car told him they were hired to do a job because of publicity Texas Southern Univer sity Negro students received over sit-ins at a lunch counter at Hous ton in the past few days. A group of students from the all-Negro university staged their first sit-in Friday at a lunch coun ter in a supermarket. The sit-ins spread to a drug store Saturday and a third store Monday. All were peaceful. Houston schools have 170,000 students. About 50,000 are Negroes. An integration suit is pending before U.S. Dist. Judge Ben Con nally but he has given no indica tion when he would hand down a decision. The sit-ins were in stores near the university on the opposite side of town from where Turner was beaten. . tion for the State Department ol Education in Salem. He obtained his present position in 1957. Dr. Robinson likes to hunt and collect stamps. He also enjoys amateur photography.- He and his wife, Laura, have a son, ' Roy, and a daughter, Ann, both juniors at the University of uregon. Howe surprised his friends re- DR. CLIFF ROBINSON cently with an announcement that he was resigning from the job after 12 years. He cited a need for a rest, and a belief that a new outlook might benefit the district. He announced later that he is a candidate for one of the county representative posts in the State Legislature. Police Shakeup Still Continues CHICAGO (UPI)-Chicago's new police superintendent went ahead with plans to shake-up the depart ment's top echelon Monday de spite a campaign to fire him. Superintendent Orlando Wilson, named last month to rid the force of crooked policemen, appointed a retired Army colonel. Minor K. Wilson, as a civilian aide. Wilson, no relation to the super intendent, replaced William A. Balswick, 66, one of "seven old men" who stayed on the force after their retirement. The new police boss, who until last month was dean of the Criminology School at tho?Univer- sity of California, announced the change in the face of a campaign to fire him. Boby& Boom ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The continuing baby boom in New York State is expected to- boost the population over 19 million by 1970, Stale Health Commissioner Herman E. Hilleboe said in his annual report to Gov. Nelson A Rockefeller Monday. He reported the number of babies born in 1959 363,124 was the largest ever and helped bring the state popula tion to an estimated ly,i million. Sir'' Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 6349 i' JyA--' ;ij,J- . . State Chief Raps Castro, Cuba Action WASHINGTON (AP) - In blunt language rarely heard in the polite world of diplomuuy, the United states has accused Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro of "extreme ly provocative" and "irresponsi ble" charges against this country. The angry protest was in an swer to Castro's accusation Satur day Ihut U.S. officials muy have been , responsible for the death- dealing explosion of a European munitions shipment March 4 in Havana harbor. Secretary of State Christian A. Hcrtcr called this "baseless, er loneous and misleading." Herter delivered the dressing down personally to the Cuban charge d'affaires, Enrique Patter son, and immediately made the text of his remarks available to newsmen. The Cuban, clearly upset by the 20-minute session in Hcrtor's of fice, left the Stale Department hurriedly. He said he would report lienor's statement to Castro with out comment. Herter wound up his statement by saying "This government finds itself increasingly obliged to ques tion the good faith of your excel lency's government with respect to a desire for improved relations bclween our governments." In Havana, Cuban TV commen tators read Hcrtcr's remarks on the air in mocking tones, smiling at certain passages and then add ing the editorial comment that the United States is an aggressor. One source of friction was re moved when Cuban police re leased Donald Chapman, 26, an American photographer who had taken passage on the French freighter that blew up. Chapman had been questioned for days, but was released Monday. But he was removed from Miami-bound plane and taken into custody a second time before be ing permitted to fly to Miami. - A Slate Department official said1 Chapman s release probably elim mated the need for discussing his case in a formal protest. Castro's charges concerning the munitions ship have brought Am erican-Cuban relations to- a new low. High Stale Department sourc cs made it clear the official U.S. mood has gone beyond irritalion to anger. One official said "We have tried to show patience in our relation ships with Cuba, despite a series of great provocations, but we are not going lo sit back and take. things like this. U.S. Copter Saves Reds WASHINGTON (UPI) Four Russian soldiers, emaciated but in good spirits, were plucked from the storm-tossed Pacific by a U.S. helicopter Sunday after drifting helplessly for 49 days in a 50- foot landing craft, the Navy dis closed today. A message from the aircraft carrier Kearsarge, said the men were given emergency treatment for malnutrition and immediately fell asleep la their bunks. The Navy said the Soviet em bassy here has been notified. The Russians apparently had been on maneuvers off Elorofu-To Island in the Kurilcs north of Japan when their small boat was crippled by a storm. They had drifted 1,020 miles before a look out on the Kearsarge spotted them and the helicopter picked them up 1,000 miles west-north west of Midway Island. During their 49-day ordeal, the Russians had only three cans of jerk beef, a loaf of bread, and what water they could gather from rainfall. They .were com pletely out of both food and water when rescued. Facts Scanned By Finch Jury LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Finch trial jury has spent almost much time listening as de liberating since It got the murder case last Friday, and prospects of a verdict this week arc growing slimmer. The jury was to listen today to another reading of the secretly re corded statement Dr. R. Bernard Finch gave police after his wife was shot to death. The statement was sprung on the doctor as the state closed Its cross-examination of him more than a month ago. He said he hadn't realized lt was being re corded. The state said it indicated he changed his story at least twice MONTAGUE'S "MISS LEAP YEAR 1960" posed serenely in her hospital crib two days after! her debut at 3:47 p.m. February 29, at Siskiyou County General Hospital. Ronda Marie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Lorenzo Davis, weighed 6 pounds, 8 ounces at birth. . Photo by Batty Dow Weather CRATER LAKE High ycalerday Low last night 8 a.m. today New snow Snow depth 102 A southeast wind was Mowing this morning and it was snowing in the park when the rangers re ported. Chains were advised for travel over Highway 62 through the park and from Annie Springs to the rim chains were required. FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Partinl clearing tonight with low 23.28. Partly sunny Wed nesday with high 43-18. High yesterday 55 Low last night 41 Prccip. last 24 hours 0 Since Oct. 1 5.78 Same period last year 3.75 Low tn area, Chcmult 24 Northern California Fair through Wednesday. Slightly cool er. Northwesterly or wefttt-rly coastal winds 12-25 knots. Talk Tonight Set By Chief WASHINGTON (AP) - Back at the White House from an exhaust ing tour of South America, Pres ident Eisenhower toiled today over a report lo the people on what he saw and learned. All major radio and television networks arranged to broadcast the 15-minute report tonight at 4 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. Eisenhower gave quick atten tion, too, to a prime problem here at home the Senate filibuster over civil rights and the legisla tive logjam piling up. Republican congressional leaders were called to the White House to talk over maneuvers and prospects. Eisenhower's 15. 500-mile swing around Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay ended Monday with his mid-afternoon arrival at near by Andrews Air Force Base. There were stops going and com ing in Puerto Rico. By all odds, it was the most arduous, punishing trip taken by Eisenhower in his seven years in the presidency. But officials around him figure it was worth the effort in so far as he will be able to tell his fellow Americans that it generated a better under standing and relationship with Latin America at a time when these were needed urgently, The heat of a South American summer, along with high humid ity, took its toll of Eisenhower's strength. Unlike his December visit to II nations in Asia, Europe and North Africa, there were few opportunities for the President to let up. Fluorides Safe, Says Dentist PORTLAND (AP)-Fluoridation of Water "has been proved safe, effective and economical," the president of the American Dental Assn. said here Monday. The official, -Dr.-Paul H. Jos- scrich, in discussing the matter, expressed surprise tha,!;: Portland, which he described 'i otherwise a progressive City, has'' not added fluorides to its wafer supply. Dr. Jesscrich. who Ik dean of the University of Michigan School of Dentistry, said he could "see no valid reason which would pre vent any city from using fluori dation. . ." - Meg's Intended Given Sport Car LONDON (UPI Princess Mar garet gave her commoner-fiance Antony Armstrong-Jones a $6,000 sports car for his 30th birthday, London newspapers reported today. There was no confirmation of the reports from Buckingham Palace, where Antony Monday night was honored at a party pre sided over by Margaret and at tended "few friends. Espee Train Belts Truck; No Injuries ANDERSON (UPI) A South- orn Pacific locomotive crashed in to a cement truck Monday, over turning the main engine, knocking three more engine units off the rack, derailing three cars and twisting 1,000 yards of track. Nobody was injured in the mis- lap, which a Shasta County dep uty summed up by commenting, "It's more of a mess than a tragedy." No trains were able to get hrough on the San Franclsco- ortland route until early this morning, more than 14 hours af ter the mishap occurred. Both the Shasta and Cascade passenger trains were held up at nearby stations until the track was cleared. The Shasta went through almost 8 hours late and the Day- ight was delayed 10 hours and i minutes. The accident occurred at a side road crossing just north of this Shasta County town on U. S. 99. California .Highway Patrolman J. R. Blakcnship said that the truck driver,. Harry Hammers, 28, of Anderson, jumped clear of his truck when he realized he could not stop In time. The engineer and fireman aboard the overturned Kicomoti've were identified as R. Morrell and Charles Barrett, both of Dunsmuir, Calif. They sustained no apparent injuries. Mayor Of SF Meets Nikita MOSCOW (AP)-San Francisco Mayor George Christopher and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush chev met in the Kremlin today in what was called a "spirit of San Francisco" atmosphere. It was the first meeting be tween the two since Christopher was host to Khrushchev during the Premier s U. S. tour last year. Khrushchev was on a South Asian tour when the mayor ar rived Feb. 25. The Soviet leader returned Saturday. The mayor and his party returned Sunday from a swing through Leningrad, Kiev and Tbilisi, a trip that left Chris topher looking a bit tired. San Francisco rates high In pop ularity among traveling Sovjet of ficials, from Khrushchev down. The relatively warm reception the Premier received in the city marked a thawing point in bis U. S.. visit. Christopher was expected to ex plore the possibility of an expand-.. cd cultural - exchange program between the Soviet Union and San Francisco and to seek Soviet per mission for relatives of 18 fami lies living in the San Francisco Bay area to leave the Soviet Un ion and join them. Miners Trapped Behind Fire CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Fifteen men were reported cut off underground behind a fire in the Island Creek No. 22 coal mine at Holden, Logan County, today. State Mines Director Crawford . Wilson said, "It looks encour aging, but they are still in there." Wilson said he was informed by mine officials that the fire broke out between the mine entrance and the area where the men are located sometime after the day shift came on at V' a.m. First A-Sub Ride TAIPEI. Formosa (AP)-Presl- dent Chiang Kai-shek took hli first ride In a nuclear submarine today. Nationalist China's leader cruised in north Formosan waters aboard the U.S. submarine Sword- fish, first nuclear sub to visit For mosa. f v
