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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (April 7, 1960)
In Th- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS From Midlothian, Texas: The body of Alvin H. Snooty, 82, of Dallas was found under tons of rock at a quarry near here yesterday evening. He had apparently been caught in a cave In. His wife said he had gone to the area searching for FOOL'S GOLD (iron pyrites.) Ah. me! What memories that brings up. The Lower Forty. Its rolling bills, carpeted with blue grass. The shellbark hickory trees, scat tered here and there, providing shade for the cattle in the sum mer and hickory nuts to crack and pick out in the winter. Thej persimmon trees and their pink ish purple fruit, so bitter and puckery if eaten too soon and so luscious if allowed to nestle in the blue grass until purged ol'A- DjmJ fls unsavory acids by the first I ll Kflnrfl frosts of the fall. The creek that wandered mound at the foot of the hills.his candi(ac.y (or a jve-year post The bluish clay at the bottom oi:on thc Kam;ilh iion HlRh Schoo it. Two small boys, barefoot. .,,.,,. of education this week. He treading in the clay, soil and gooey after a sharp shower the right before. The delicious feel of the wet clay as it squiggled up between bare looes. The warm spring sunshine pouring down like a hrnediclion from a blue and flawless sky. The joy of living at a season when heavy clothes and stiff: boots had been relegated to lhesuburban area. attic for another summer. Then Suddenly The gleam that caught the ey The gleam came from something! metallic in the bluish clay, was yellow. It was shiny. What was it? It must gold. IT HAD TO BE GOLD. It just couldn't be anything else. When , . ;, . , ,, ., James Marshall spied a yellow- ish c earn in a lump ol dirt and J.'."'" w . i stooped in the ditch he -was dig ging up above Suiters Mill in Ihe late spring of 1848 to pick up Ihe stuff and RECOGNIZED ji A3 uulu, . ..s .1 MI..1 .U... .Un.'n Ill'A Ivtuc IIIUUVU IIIUII lllUaV VU UVJ.1 dling around in the wet clay at Ihe bottom of the Big Slough, as it was colloquially called back in the blue grass country Their eyes shining, Iheir hands shaking as Ihey scrabbled in the clay, Ihey picked out the lump of shining stuff and washed it off. It shone more brightly still w hen it was cleaned. . They dug for more. They FOUND more. It was reason- ably abundant. In the course of a half hour of frantic digging they collected a heap of it, may be a foot high. in meir c.xciicn imaniiiaiiuiis,icallon because he has one il was WEALTH lNCALCULA-VOungsler, Brian. 16, enrolled at BLE. Visions danced before their eyes. Papa could have a new buggy, with red wheels. Mama could have new dresses. The old house could be lorn down and a wonderful new one could be erected in its place. They were all rich. Rich as Croesus. NOTHING was loo big In dream about. They look off their shirts and lied Ihem at the bottom of Ihe tails and into the ca'lr Ihnc nivii-irtnH Ihev nniircH the lumps of wonderful, shiny .n... it i t ij t ycuuw dtuft aim iiiiiui-m iui borne, their feel hardly touching the ground. Then The horrible shock of it all. 11 wasn't real gold. It was FOOL'S GOLD iron pyrites, a compound of iron and sulphur, found widely over the world and worthless except (or the sulphur it contained. Their visions of sud den wealth collapsed like a house of cards when hit by the wind. Life is full of tragedy. Express Rider Said Critical TORRINGTON, Wyo. (AP) A rider participating in a rerun of lhe historic Pony Express was in critical condition today with a gunshot wound in his abdomen. Sheriff Ken Doby said the rider, Raymond Bowyer, 24. of Chilli cothe, Mo., was accidentally shot by another rider while they were target practicing Wednesday. Bowyer and David Hull, also of Missouri, were waiting for other riders to arrive on their trip west from St. Joseph. Mo. The rerun began Sunday. Other riders continued the trip today. Troop Withdrawal TUNIS (AP) - President Habib Bourguiba told the Tunisian Na-j tional Assembly today that France has agreed to withdraw all troops from installations around the big Bizerte naval base by Oct. 31. The French will re tain control of the Mediterranean base Itself and Ihe harbor. The base, manned by some 15,000 men. Is the last French outpost. In Tunisia. LEU STEVE WALKER Salesman Seeks Post Steve Walker, 42, announced ' filed near deadline last Friday. Thc post is held by Mrs. Mar-j - m lcl.mjnale June 3a fan-! dj(j.)tcs 0her ,., Wakel. a,e m,.s. Sheridan, who lives at 5042 ; Miller Avenue in the South Sub- urban area: Henry Tayson, 16.15 Manzanita Street; and Mrs. Ray mond Tice. 950 Patterson Street. "For me," said "Walker, "the educational well-being of our chil dren has been and must con tinue to be of great personal con cern. "While realizing that Ihe pros- It ent-day educators, and conse quently school boards, are faced with complex problems as never !?fr0 nd lhat femP. lo f,fnd, sokl"",J 18 "ulte '"S of time and energy ot a good W , , pvnrpw a sincere rtpsire in servp ,-..r ...... "It would be my aim to feel exactly thc same responsibility to all concerned at all times ... to the student, the parent, the cdu- t.ator and lhe t..1M;avcr." - Walker says his position would be moderately conservative. Hei has no "axes lo grind." hut wants to serve, he says, because he feels the duly to serve. He is and has been for a long time, an automobile salesman in Klamath Falls. He and his par ents moved lo Los Angeles from Iowa in 1P24, when he was 6. He came to Klamath Falls in 1936. He never before has run for a public office of any kind and has never been a school board mem bcr. Walker adds he is very interest ed particularly in high school edu- Klamath Union High School; an other, Stephanie, who was grad uated from KUHS last year, and five more children who will soon or eventually go to school there. They are Ralph, 14, who at tends Fremont. School; Ruth, 12; "BZ," 10, and Allan, 7, all stu dents at Fairview School, and Melissa, 5. who probably will at tend Fairview soon. Murd(E?rGSS. 14. l Adjudged Delinquent ALICE. Tex. (AP) - Blonde Donna Dvorak, 14, who shot to death a schoolmate in the belief she was helping a friend, was ad judged a delinquent Wednesday and placed under court custody until she is 21, l County Judge Wash Storm told Donna he would decide next week where lo send her. The judge held that the girl w il fully shot and killed Bobby Whit- ford, 15. March 30 during a junior high school science class. She rose at her desk and fired a .22-caliber pistol at the boy he- fore her teacher or about 20 other students could slop her. Whilford died a few minutes later. Donna said she shot him because she feared he would harm a friend, Kate McCoy, 14, who had slopped dating him. Senate Refuses To Revise Bill WASHINGTON (AP)-The Sen ate refused by a 73-18 vote today to remove the key voting rights section from the civil rights bill Leaders then set their sights on passage of the measure tonight. Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas told his col leagues it is clear a majority of the Senate wants to pass a bill "the heart of which will protect every citizen's voting rights." Johnson went on to say he ex pected the Senate would be in ses sion until a late hour tonight "as late as a majority will stay to get action on this bill which has been before this body lor eight weeks." I Volunteers Manning Weak Levees Bv THF. ASSOCIATED PRKSS Hundreds of volunteers manned weakened levees in the most criti cal section of the Midwest flood belt today, hoping to hold back the muddy waters of the swollen Mississippi and Missouri rivers. They fought to prevent the suit ing rivers from further flooding lertile farm lands and communi ties in Illinois and Missouri. .,, ......., ., , ., . ... . ,. . , ..i.i JOHANNESBURG. South Africa lhe flood fighters patched lle(Ap,,.oljl.c and suIHlcrs toll;1v water sogged ear hen levees with milssive ion , thousands of s:mdbags. During the- infill nmmiii;iii3 2.1 ill L I mi lui cion if ,,n7hi h.-n-.L- ihmniw n i I ri ,a work bovcott against Ihe gov Patrols of men. some wearing,.,.,,-,.,,..,. ;.:.i.1i .li.. in ini uiiiii-.t? me jiuwis. cu rled aerial flares to shoot off if thev detected danger spots. Otficials said the major danger! , , ,' , , , , WAS- JL M-'-K L re gft was lhat the Ions of river water st'cm's ' bkmAy ;rl'Wi5 would spill through the dikeslhis w wlu:1' solrt'cs ami o- WJTlr-, 17 which seemingly appear solid but llcc made ralds Wllh tlllbs- Cl"ls K ,fV'J ' )l ' " ' which may be weakened inside by the seepage. " The two bis rivers have been un a rampage lor a wees, ineiuiyuui: uoi p.ni ui iiie iiitMuu chief danger spots were confined force. to the lower reaches of the Mis souri River and to the Mississippi about 150 miles to thc north and ihe same distance south of St. Louis. Farmers, townsmen, civil de fense workers and college stu dents made up the hundreds of volunteers working on Ihe levees. "People are in need here now," said Oscar Crist, a farmer who lives 35 miles west nf a battered Mississippi River levee at West Quincy. Mo. "That's lhe time to help. If we can't help each other, what good are we?" More workers were called in to strengthen a weakened levee be low Quincy, III. In nearby Meyer, III., only a few of Ihe 100 resi dents remained, staying in a grain elevator, one of lhe few buildings not flooded. Some of the pressure on levees south nf Gregory Landing, Mo., was relieved when a levee wasi dynamited at the confluence ol the' Fox and Mississippi rivers. Volun-; teers used baled hay, straw, sand bags and snow fences to protect other levees at Gregory Landing. A few of thc 33 residents nf the community defiantly slayed be hind and were living in a grain elcvalor, far above the murky waters. About 8n families moved oul of Canton, Mo., a community of some 2.400 but Mayor Earl Zonge was optimistic the levee would hold against thc Mississippi flood waters. Weather Klamath Falls and vicinitv i Partial clearing through Friday. Low- tonight 38-43; high Friday 63-r8. High yesterday Low last night Precip. last 24 hours Since Oct. 1 Same period last year K8, 42! trace! 7.M; 4.36 Northern California Mostly fair tonight. Partly cloudy Fri day with rain likely from I'kiah and Red Bluff northward. Cooler inland tonight. Downtown By NORM CARDOZA A downtown mall for Klamath Falls may have taken a step clos er to reality during a meeting of the Klamath Merchants Associa tion in Hie Winema Hotel Wed nesday night. Merchants listened silently, ob viously deep in thought, as Lloyd Anderson of the University of Oregon Bureau of Municipal Re search and Service drew for them a picture of a streamlined down town shopping core. Anderson has been working closely with the city planning commission in developing land use. traffic arterial, central busi ness district, school-park, city zoning and subdivision zoning plans. The study has taken two years. The sludy has been instrumen tal in making merchants aware that Klamath Falls is no longerjon both sides with fast roads into a small town but a growing city, town. "We've found lhat shoppers some merchants admitted during'want to gel in and get out quick the meeting. ily." he said, "without having to Most who expressed themselves said Ihey believe merchants' at tiludes are going to have to de velop progressively with the city. Remarkable Extent j This, they said, has happened; to a remarkable extent during the past live years. a well dcvclOea shopping core The merchants already are at-j w ill cost a lot of money. Mer tempting to solve the business chants need strong leadership district's acute parking shortage. Recently, they formed the Park and Shop corporation and have purchased at least one site to be converted to offslrect parking area. Thus, if the corporation's ef forts are successful, merchants will have solved one of the basic problems of extreme importance to a successful mall Another major problem, said Anderson, will be lo route traffic around the business core, for a convince property owners who a scries of such "informational mall is foremost a place wherellease improvements to merchantsmectings "every 9f days or so." Price Ton Cents 21 Panes Purge Set By Police purge strife-torn Nyanga Negro , , . . ., , Township of Negroes maintaining The two big African settlements Nyanga East and Nyanga West outside Cape Town were (lie " nll. A strong security cordon sur - rounding Nyanga, keeping out "" - The South African government said soldiers began patrolling in side the settlement is) give "pro tection to law-abiding natives." meaning those Negroes trying to go back to their jobs in nearby jCape Town. Simultaneously, police began searching lor Negroes the govern ment charges have been inciting others to slay away from work and threatening violence to those who returned to their jobs. The leader uf the militant Pan Africanisl Congress. Robert Man-i galiso Sobukwe. told a court in Johannesburg today that nnnwhiiel Africans "have no moral obliua- lion lo obey" South African laws' which are made by a while gov. eminent. Boy's Sight Returns COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP)-Rogcr Skaeus. hlind in his lelt eve lor eight ol his 13 years, suddenly re gained his sight while in his sixth-grade class. Roger said he reached for a textbook the other day and sud denly his eye "popped." The eye had been damaged by an explod ing dynamite cap when hV lived near Painlsville, ly. "Mrs. Meyer, I can see," lhe boy shouted, interrupting the class. The teacher, Mary Meyer, quickly asked Ihe boy to turn his back. She wrote his name on lhe blackboard without the capital R. She covered Roger's good eye and asked him to read the word. "Roger, but Ihe 'R' should be capitalized," he answered. British Census LONDON (AP) Plans for a census of the United Kingdom in 19fil, were announced loday. Thc last official census in 1951 record ed 50,225,224 people in the U. K. England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Mall Takes shoppers may mill al leisure in that modernization is lo Iheir ad carless streets, enjoying freedom vantage. They must find a way from the hurly-burly of traffic. lo solve a financial problem for Rerouting could be accom- the merchant who is a mall ad- plished in a number of ways. A plan Anderson says might work well would make Walnut Avenue a major north-south ar terial, either with two-way traf fic or just northbound, with south bound traffic routed through Pine Street. Thus a "traffic ring" would form to feed cars into offstrcet parking areas within the business core. A third major problem solution, said Anderson, involves getting rid of South Sixth and South Sev- enth streets as major arterials bisecting the business core That might be solved when lhe Eastside Bypass is completed. That way. lhe city will be bound tigtil trallic. I lie idea has been tried ontft ni J Anderson also listed numcrouslmore limited scale in Oregon iwlCTIC r IGCeQ other problems that ought lo be 'solved before a mall is attempted II II Cost First, merchants, thc city. both will have to understand lhat Jfrom start to finish. They must fight opposition Irom some mer- chants, both inside and outside the mall area. They must battlc(scrvice, office, government, en absentee owners, who largely jtertainment and convention, resi have proved themselves opposed denlial and manufacturing center, to such downtown development. Those terms cannot be applied They should attack thc project to suburban shopping areas, new- aggressivcly and unskcptically. !ly popular in most cities, which They will have to win approval oftare inciting downtown merchants trucking companies and otherlaround the country to action. services that will be restricted in' Merchants have been conduct handling merchandise. They must ine and will continue to conduct KLAMATH i 'lllii ,iffTai tr jjrs i j-iVtt N -v 1 V . WORLD DISARMAMENT was given a boost by French today in his speech to the British Parliament. It was a that is generally only done for the Queen. Here, Prosident De Gaulle rides with Brit ain's Queen Elizabeth in an open landau. The picture serves to emphasize De Gaulle's statements to the joint session that Britain and France stand "shoulder to shoulder." NEA Telephoto Heiress Weds Beau HENDERSOWll I.E. N C. (AP Heiress Gamble Benedict ha: married her suave Knmaman-hurn sweetheart after kicking over fam ily and legal obstacles in a two day game uf hide and seek in the Carolinas. The 19-year-old (iambic and An dre Porumbeanu, 3.", were wed in a five-minute civil ceremony at a remote mountain lodge near here late Wednesday. The couple slipped into this summer resort center in the alter- noon. They took I lie ipiiicii physical examination and blood tests at a local hospital. At the office of Register of Deeds Marshall Watlcrson there was some question as lo whether a marriage license would be legal in view ot Forumbeanu's Mexican divorce obtained Mbrcll 15.'"", Watterson called in Arthur Red den, an attorney and biothcr of former Rep. Monroe M. Redden (D-NC). Redden consulted by tele phone w ith Ihe stale attorney gen eral. That official okayed issueL.len j ot me license. TV Moderator, Wife To Split Ntw OHIv (Al t television star John Daly and his wife were uivuricu hi an jwauama couil in February, according lo an author itative source here. Daly, 40, and his wile, Marga ret Neal Daly, were married 23 years and have three children, i Details of (he divorce were not made public. j Step Ahead vocatc, but. who cannot afford thc capital outlay, and they must convince the public, especially if tax money is lo be used, lhat the mall is advantageous lo the pub lic, loo. Anderson urged good planning. The project would have lo be i completed a step at a lime, and each step should be planned with tit mosl care so that the end-prod- uct will lit neatly together The mall idea has been tried on a limited scale around Ihe coun try. Anderson showed slide pho tographs of two showcase malls in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and To ledo, Ohio. Carless si roots blossomed with greenery, fountains and play grounds. They illustrated graphic ally the "good shopping atmos phere" that Anderson advocates. Limiled Scale notably at Springlield. Affected merchants voice mixed opinion about their malls. Most of those within Ihe mall area believe busi- ness has been stimulated. Most of those outside the mall area arc opposed to it, Anderson said. Anderson encouraged mer chants not lo lose faith in a cen tral business district. It still func tions as an employment, retail FALLS, OlthGON. THURSDAY, hYZK It T4 -z t r. . . Kir ji tjot t4Uk a i He Learned SAN PEIHtO. Calif. (I PD Kive-vear-olil Hilly (1. Sanson was taken along on a fishing (rip "just lu let the boy learn something" by his lather anil a friend. Hilly cauvM a 24-nmind crap pie while neither his father or the other man had a bite. Star Denies Red Leaning HOLLYWOOD ( API-Academy Award winner Simnne Sienoret saVs that, although she consiitcrsiaii lor siocks ol nuclear weapons lrr politics a personal mattcr.!to be destroyed, Ihe installations sle js .10( allr novor las been a mennr,01. inc Communist parly. The question came up because ,he was refused a visa to visit the United Slates in 1957. Someone said it was because lgiied - tire Stockholm appeal seeking lo end wars and stop Ihe manufacture of atom bombs," she, told interviewers Wednesday. 'Maybe that was the reason ! itn mil linmi' hilt 1 fin kllOW that ppiied again iii 1959 i gave tile same answers 10 an ine questions. And 1 got the visa." The French actress was quoted a copyrighted article by tliel Los Angeles Examiner as saying ,.,,,,1 i,.i 'cmn.iihied with ,,.:' .. u.i,i(.h rnmmunislsi also sympathized, especially a few years ago concerning things happening in France Lacks 6 Cents, Hour In Jail Spent By Man MAN1TOU SPRINGS, Colo. (UPI) 11 was embarrassing for Colorado Springs city council man Melvin D. Olsen lo be ar rested here for driving on lhe wrong side of Ihe street, but it was even more humiliating when he reached into his pockets to pay $25 bond. Olsen had only $24.94. He sat in jail for an hour until a friend showed up with six cenLs lo bail him out. Hike Granted Klamath Firm SALEM (API Consumers Healing Co. of Klamath Fall: Wednesday was granted permis sion lo increase its rales by $17, 000 a year. It asked for $20,270. Public Utility Commissioner ,lo ncl Hill, who issued thc order, gave the company 30 days lo file new rales lo meet lhe order. The firm sells steam and hot water to 255 customers. Us slock is owned mostly by the customers. In Hospital ROME (UPD Laurian Cardinal Hugambwa, 47, first Negro cardi- nal in modern Roman Catholic history, has been hospitalized with a heart condition. Vatican sources said today. Thc sources said the Tanganyi ka cardinal's heart was "weak ened" by (he strain and fatigue of last week's investiture. They said, however, his condi tion did not give rise -to concern. Arrives In Paris PARIS (AP) Marlcne Dietrich arrived by plane from New York today to select some Paris gowns for appearances In Austria and well. Cincinnati Zoo. Officials said it Germany. She brought 80 pieces Sprague Is editor and publlshcrjwas only the third rhino ever con of baggage with her. jof the Oregon Statesman here, jeeived in captivity in this country. APHIL 7, I960 President Charles rare joint session, de Gaul something Arms Plan Outlined LONDON i.P) - Gen. Charles de Gaulle declared today France will rpiil testing nuclear weapons and write off its investment in them if (he other nations of the world will agree on nuclear disarmament. Speaking In a joint session of Ihe British Parliament, thc visit ing French chief of slate said peace can be attained only if "the general lear of sudden annihila - lion is first removed." France, he said, "wishes above where they are made used for different purposes, the rockets and the aircralt capable ol carrying1 ihem u well :.; il.n flvoH le floating bases from which these!"1"- had to repeal its commands1 vehicles of death can he launched, "cvc.a! nines uejum guuwg ic in hh t:l ,Ui. :,.viii,.,. " sponse signals. " r " .r I Home Owner, Nose Counters Continue Feud DETROIT (UPII - I'm not liv - ing in Russia. 1 don't have lo an- ... . ... . ' . , .' ' .......... Tou,;ship s)utcd atlc censlls' Thus, the clash between Kido, and the nose counters continues. II has been going on for three days despite a lineal by one cen sus taker lhat Kido was liable lo federal prosecution that could re sult in 60 days in jail and a $100 line. "Fine, go ahead and prosecute," the angry home owner retorted Census taker Janet Vukovichl said Kido answered most of ihcjcnargca mat nis income lor me questions but balked at answering questions about lhe number of rooms in his house, whether there's a toilet indoors and wheth er there's a tub or shower in the place. Kido tossed lhe special qucs-j lionnaire at Miss Vukovich early this week as he shouted her out of the huuse. The problem was reported lo her immediate super ior who was also run out of Kido's house when she tried. Miss Volkovich's boss passed the oblem case onto the district ccn - pr sus director in Port Huron. An aide Irom lhat office was lo try again today or tomorrow to com- 's'plcte the job al lhe Kido home. Tax Evasion Charge Dropped NEW YORK (AP)-The second of three income lax evasion charges against Rep. Adam Clay- Ion Powell Jr. (D-NY) was dis-! missed loday in U.S. District Court. The Negro congressman re mained on trial on the third charge. Judge Frederick van Pelt Bry-i ;an dismissed one count of the in- ",c n,r "ore "'" oiiiciany diclment Tuesday olid the sceond,cl'mi"',,erl 3 search for two fly- today. Thc charge dismissed held that Powell attempted to evade pay ment of $1,399.69 in taxes owed by his wife, jazz pianist Hazel Scott, for 1951. Under Surgery SALEM, Ore. (AP) .Charles A. Spraguc. a publisher and for mer Oregon governor, underwent a prostate operation her Wed nesday. Salem Memorial Hospital later reported lhat Sprague was doing'during birth Wednesday at the ll'lilinim TV 4-81 1 1 No. 8.17.' Var II Hero Raps Chief LOS ANGELES 'ITU-Thomas'' G. Lanphier charged WcdncMiay that one of thc nation's greatest military weakness stems from! President Eisenhower's apiarcntl',pnn'lc,nn disinlent in pressing lor weapons llo wage limited war. Lanphier, a World War II herofonvcntion trom the second dis who lasl month quit his $mi.oiio!"'M which includes the 18 East a year post with a missilo-mnkmg.ern Oregun counties, firm lo he free In criticize the! John Thompson, state elections government, told a gathering olsiiporvisor, said he didn't know public relations executives at a the error had been made untU conlcrcnce sMinsorcd by Ihe I'ui- lie received a telegram Wednes versity of Southern California and'day from State Senator Monroo the local Public Relations Society Sweet land iD-Milwaukic) who'is of America chapter: running for secretary of state "Our only alternatives in a cri-'ngainsl Howell' Appling Jr. sis such as that facing us in Bcr-I Thompson said he had checked lin are either lo give in or elselevery county clerk loday and push the builon lhat will start the:"lound that none had actually H-bumbs raining destruction onislarted printing the Democratic the world." Iballots," according to his state- Such alternatives arc madness,ment to the Associated Press in Lanphier said, and point, up fhelSalcm. ,eed tor weapons lo wage limited ine ni- commcnica, nowever, wurlnrc. 'hat "several days ago, he i "One of our cardinal weaknesses Thompson said that 75 per cent lis that the President has made of thc ballot had been printed or inn effort lo build up our limilcdorc being printed." war capability. The President is a The 41-inch Democratic ballot line, warm man. but he's out oflfor the Klamath Counly primary date in modern weaponry," said I Lanphier. Pioneer V Pulls Away WASHINGTON (AP) - Amer ica s I ar-ranging Pioneer V space is nil ine awav from con-1 probe is pulling " "'"1 "c 01 " "acMiig sia- j""s- 111,1 a molc powcrtul sta - 1 1011 51,11 ls communicating easily """ !" """ Pioneer was rc)orted to be about 3.50(1.0011 miles from the eaiih at noon today Space scientists said the track. nr"W antenna at South Point, 11a Pi.. u. ,.s,,ii :. slanlly lo commands from the primary tracking station at Man- chcslcr, England, and all of its, experiments were working well A more powerful transmitter, iihonrd the satellite will start op lcialing two or three weeks from now PQ jr Indicted On Tax Charge SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) A Ross dentist and a Walnut Grove garage owner wore indicted by the Federal Grand Jury Wednes day Hor income lax violations. Dr. William E. Bortfeld, 47, was accused of failing lo file income lax returns from the years 1954 oupii i jol- inaicimeni lour ycar pcriua was $00,719. Alfred P. Kammcycr, li'J. was charged with claiming fictitious business expenses for his garage partnership for 1954 through 195G. The government claimed it was cheated of taxes on $18,671. Appeal Plans Are Dropped INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Connicl Nicholas loday gave up plans for :'urthor appeals and entered the! Indinna Women's Prison lo start serving 2 to 21 years for slaying her millionaire lover, Forrest Tcel. The 45-ycar-old divorcee ap peared unexpectedly at the prison although she has asked the Indi ana Supreme Court lo rehear her iippcal. Thc court had upheld her, "'""""y manslaughter convic- lion. A jury of 12 married men con-; vicfed her last April 16 after a sensational 4'i-wcck trial. Missing Plane Search Halted 1 crs who left Kingslcy Field in a semi-private plane February 26 en route lo San Francisco and presumably were lost in thc mountains of Northern California. The flyers, Capt. Norman Mor gan and A. 1. C. Robert Brown of Larson Air Force Base near Sxikanc, arc listed as missing, status unknown. Rhino Dies CINCINNATI, Ohio (AP) A normal, 30-pound rhinoceros died One-Quarter Of Ballots Printed Approximately one-fourth of tha ballots, or nearly 4,000 ballots, lor the Democratic primary elec tion of May 20 for Klamath Coun ty had been printed by Wednes day afternoon, according to Klam ath County Clerk Charlie DcLap. At 4 30 p.m. Wednesday, the clerk's office received a telegram from thc secretary of state saying there was an error in the list of the 88 delegates at largo lo Ihe Democratic National Convention. The ballot listed Gene Conklin, Democrat, as a con- volition delegate at large. Actual- :ry. o is a candidate lor the election was being printed by the Lake County Examiner, because no commercial press in Klamath County is long enough to handle that size sheet. Type has been set by Guide Printing Company. "Conklin's name was No. 35 on the Klamath Counly Democratic ballot," DcLap said. "Candidates run numerically through No. 153. If Conklin's namo is removed from itn nrncnnl nnxilinn il nint insel.(1( wjth ,c )jst of con. . j, j ivenuon ueiegaies lor me sccona district where it should bo No. m That throws ol au thc num. u...in. fmm lm ti,miinh 153 "we don t sec how this can dono by ,.ubber samp as the secretary of stale suggests." he concluded. Gals, You Lose; Housework Is Part Of Deal PITTSBURGH (AP) The housework your wives do, men, is on the house. No pay. Judge Loran L. Lewis made this ruling Wednesday in dismiss ing a $5,670 suit brought by Sheard B. Davis against her hus band Benjamin. Mrs. Davis said her husband owed her the money under terms of an oral agreement by which she would be paid one dollar an hour before and after marriage. Judge Lewis said thc husband was entitled to expect housework from his jvifc without pay. Cuba To 'Pay' For Land Grab HAVANA (AP)-The head of Fidel Castro's land redistribution program says Cuba will pay the United Fruit Co. $6,118,407 in 20 year bonds for 272,472 acres of land in eastern Cuba ordered ex propriated from the American firm. The company values thc properly al 38 million dollars. Capt. Antonio Nunez Jimenez, executive secretary of the Nation al Agrarian Reform Institute, as serted Wednesday night the Cuban valuation is more than fair for an "economic octopus" he said had bought its vast land holdings in Cuba at bargain basement prices. Aged Plan Eyed By GOP Solons WASHINGTON (AP)-Scven Re publican senators offered today a bill to set up a system of federal stale aid for health insurance pro tection of persons over 65. The measure follows the lines of legislation Secretary of Wel fare Arthur S. Flemming has been developing in the adminis tration. However, the GOP senators did not claim administration backing for their proposal. One of Ihem told a reporter he believed the 480-million-dollar estimated an nual federal cost would be beyond what President Eisenhower would accept. . Cuban Aide Quits PARIS (AP) Andres Vargas Gomez, Cuban ambassador to United Nations organizations in Geneva, said today he has re signed his post because of oppo sition to Prime Minister Fidel Castro's regime. He declared: "Nobody can now deny that the Castro government is totalitarian and Communist-oriented." a
