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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 3, 1961)
1b The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS Hasty sampling of the news 01 the morning of this third da; of Anno Domini 1961: Mother Earth is SL1MMINC DOWN THE BULGE around bei waistline. In the course of a mil' rlion years or so, she is expect- w 10 reduce tier middle age spread by maybe an inch or so. Hmmmmmmmm. Apparently patience and perse verance DO work wonders. Also She Is slowing down a bit as the sets older. Which is to say, the is reducing the speed with which she turns on her axis. What does that mean to us? Well, you know, the speed with which the earth turns on its axis regulates the LENGTH OF OUR DAY. This slowing down on the Id lady's part means that every new day you get up in the morn big to face will be one one thousandth of a second longer than the day before. : Rugged thought: One hundred million years from this particular morning after the night before the days will be 15 MINUTES LONGER! ., Who says so? No less a person than Dr. Gor don J. F. MacDonald, of the Na tional Aeronautics and Space Ad ministration. So we might as well begin to get ready for it. ' More to worry about: Dr. Harold Urey, Nobel prize winning chemist, warns this morn' ine that any day now a comet might strike the earth with the energy of 100 MILLION A-bombs, He adds that if that should occur all life in a circular area some S.000 miles across might be wiped out. But, he says, we have a gam bier's chance. The odds that this disaster might overtake us are one out of 50,000,000. At that point, he hedges. He MIGHT be wrong, he admits. The odds might be as small as one in FIVE mu lion. At any rate, it's a grim world we live in. More modern world stuff: Down in Dallas, Texas, yester day, it was a dull day in the fire department. So they fell back on a game of checkers to pass the time away. The players were Chief 0. G. Sartam, the depart. merit's checkers champion, and an IBM electronic brain. - Chief Sartain, the reporters tell us this morning, came up with a new approach that STUMPED THE MACHINE. He brought about a stalemate in which he had one king and FIVE players left, whereas the IBM had one king and FOUR players left. The machine is reported to nave rum bled in its innards for a few min utes, but in the end It had to concede defeat. The machine was coached by n IBM expert. The outcome left him with a red face. AU ne could gay was this: "The brain was beaten, all right, but it will never be beaten that way again. Now the series is recorded on tape, and the machine will counteract the play if anyone ever tries that approach again. Anyway, the electronic jigger learns bv experience which is something. vWhv all this weird stuff? At least, it's less shivery and nerhaps more instructive than the normal, run-of-the-mill aftermath of the news of a three-day New Year week-end holiday period, 75 To Testify On Plane Crash NEW YORK (AP) Seventy. five witnesses have been called to testify at a formal inquiry opening Wednesday into the na tion's worst air disaster the Dec, 16 collision and crash of two air liners here, killing 136 persons. The hearing, being conducted by the Civil Aeronautics Board, was described today by the CAB public information officer, Ed ward J.Jilattery Jr., as "one of the biggest ever held." Among those scheduled to testi fy are 10 persons listed as wit nesses to the accident. Asked if any of these actually saw the United Air Lines DCS jet and the Tram World Airline Con stellation collide over Staten Is- land, Stattery said only that "some of these witnesses saw pieces of plane falling." Bells To Toll War Centennial WASHINGTON (AP)-The Civil War Centennial Commission ex pects every church bell in Amer ica to ring at 11 o'clock next Sun day morning as a symbol that the bicentennial observance has official ly begun. . The commission says this four- year commemoration will be the greatest aver staged in this coun 7. Weather Klamath Palis aad vicinity Generally fair with variable Ugh clouds today aad tonight. Iacreas lag cloudiness Wednesday. Highs 36-42. Lew toaight 15-20. . High yesterday M Law last Bight It Preclp. last 24 hours aoae Siaet Oct. 1 S.lt Same period last year 1.06 "LIGHTS ON FOR EDUCATION," an education informational program, will be pre sented to tha public the evening of Jan. S In Mills Elementary School and Altamont Junior High School. In the photo, two of four Mills program speakers, Mrs. Margaret Sheridan, left, and Harold Ashley, canter, are discussing plans with Ray Hunsakar, superintendent of city schools, who is a member of the planning committee. Public Invited To Education Programs Here The public is invited to attend local "Lights on for Education' programs in Mills Elementary School and Altamont Junior High School the evening of Thursday, Jan. a. The city schools' program will begin at 7:30 p.m. at Mills. Four speakers will discuss, each for 15 minutes, some issues that will come up for action before the state legislature this year. The audi ence will be invited to ask ques tions during the ensuing half hour. Speakers will be Mrs. Margaret Sheridan, member of the Klamath Union High School Board of Edu cation; Harold Ashley, clerk of city school districts; . Arnold Gra- lapp, school consultant, aad Mrs. Beulah Elliott, member of the Oregon Education Association Eth ics Committee. Specifically, the speakers will discuss education and child wel fare issues. Similar meetings will be con ducted in other schools outside the city and South Suburban area that evening. School adminis trations in rural areas are mak ing individual arrangements. The program is of statewide scope and is the first such pro gram to-be conducted in Oregon, It is sponsored by the Oregon Congress of Parents and Teach ers, the Oregon Education Asso ciation and the Oregon School Boards Association. Presumably such programs will be conducted on the eve of Ore gon's legislative session every two years. Road Toll Hits 338 On Weekend By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Traffic 338 Fires 66 Miscellaneous t 78 Total 482 The New Year's holiday traffic death toll stood at 338 today with straggling reports expected to boost the final figure even higher. The actual count of deaths com pared with a preholiday estimate by the National Safety Council that 340 lives might be lost in ve hide accidents during the long holiday weekend. The count for the 78-hour holi day period ended at midnight Monday. At that time deaths in traffic accidents reported num bered 338. However, as in all ma jor holiday traffic surveys, final figures are nol reported for sever al hours after the midnight dead line. The death rate eased during' the closing hours of the long New- Year weekend, apparently avert ing what safety experts feared would be a record for a three day celebration of the holiday. The record toll was 374 traffic fatalities a year ago. This Aew Year's holiday also was marred by scores of other accidental deaths, including 66 in fires and 78 in miscellaneous mis haps for an over-all total of 482. The totals compared to 63 fire deaths and 76 killed in miscellan eous accidents a year ago. The 1959-60 over-all total of 513 is a record for a 3-day New Year holiday. Price Tea Cents 12 Police Unsheath Sabers Against Belgium Rioters BRUSSELS, Belgium (UPI) 1 Mounted police, charging with drawn sabers, today drove back thousands of rock-throwing dem onstrators attempting to march on parliament. iwo rioters, one seriously in jured by a saber slash, were hos pitalized in Brussels. Other cas-l ualties were reported elsewhere in Belgium. An estimated 75,000 leftist-led strikers demonstrated against the government in Brussels and other Belgian cities in another day of! violence at the start of the third week of a nationwide strike. The demonstrations were start ed by the Socialists in' an attempt for austerity and tighter econo mic controls to make up for the loss of revenue from the Congo. They now have grown into a pow er struggle attempting to over throw the goverment of Roman Catholic Premier Gaston Eyskens, with the strikers using street vio lence and police and troops re taliating with force. Violence In Antwerp In the big port city of Antwerp, two policemen and 10 rioters were hurt when 10,000 strikers rampaged through the downtown area, attacking street ears and buses, molesting passersby and smashing store windows. In Bruges a crowd of 600 strik ers smashed windows of a build ing carrying a progovernment poster. One policeman was hurt in a scuffle. Later, 150 gendarmes on toot charged and drove the Republican Is Selected Disarmament Director PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP)-Re- publican John J. McCloy, an old hand at dealing with the Soviets, will have a key role in the new Democratic administration's quest for nuclear disarmament. President-elect John F. Kenne dy Monday night announced ap pointment of McCloy, former Allied high commissioner in Ger many, as director of the United States Disarmament Administra tion. In that field McCloy. 65, will be Kennedy's chief adviser and policy planner. During the campaign Kennedy sharply criticized the Eisenhower administration for what he called insufficient effort toward working out a disarmament agreement with the Soviet Union. He pledged that if elected he would make "one last great effort." McCloy is a man of wide ex perience in fields of law, banking and government He was an asS.s-scrve as a fjeM 8rtjl tant secretary of war in the Tru- L, Word War , man administration and rcccnt- He was jn jva(e ,aw ljce ly resigned as board chairman of.from 192, , ,M0 when he the Chase-Manhattan Bank in New York. In a statement Kennedy said McCloy's "long Interest in the subject of disarmament, his realis tic approach to the key issues'tice the next vcar. became nresi- facing the world today will assure the United States of the ablest leadership in this critical field, "I cannot think of a subject, more deserving of our attention today than that of disarmament, and I am extremely pleased that a man of his capabilities and background has seen fit to give, U.OF orv3.L.I3AA!U WVII40APER SECTION OEN.REF.AND DOCUMENTS Eugene, oaeG. Paget rioters away from the local Cath olic party headquarters. Another 5.000 strikers demon strating in Liege shouted for a 'march on Brussels." The Brussels clash was the most serious in a day of riots and demonstrations against the Eyskens government. The demonstrations were or. dered by leftist strike leaders to coincide with the return of parlia ment after a two-week Christmas recess to resume debate on the government's austerity package bill. ' Attack on Government When the Chamber of Deputies surrounded by hundreds of gen darmes, armored cars and barbed wire met, former Socialist Health Minister E d m o n d Leburton launched into a slashing personal attack against Eyskens.' Branding him "a man of catas trophe" and an "apprentice witch doctor," Leburton warned that even u parliament in whicn ey skens has a comfortable major ityapproves the measure, it ...:ll L. - I. 1ACI iron nnnnnl flni.Arn aeainst the will of the workinu against tne win ot ine wortc mg tlacs " n chnnlfwl nmiH Knnialiet class," he shouted amid Socialist cheers. "Withdraw your bill before it is too late and before you bring dramatic and immeasurable dis aster on the country." But Eyskens, in a short, mud reply, warned that any decrease in Belgium's economic strength must bring unemployment and lower -wages for workers. his time and energies in this vital area." The new job McCloy is taking was created by the Eisenhower administration last summer. An organization of about 30 people has been set up, but the top posi tion in the agency never was filled. "It is intended to be (in the new administration) the central planning agency in the field of disarmament," said Kennedy's press secretary, Pierre Salinger. There is no present plan for McCloy to sit down at the disar mament conference table with So viet representatives but he will be planning and working on how to deal with them. In appointing McCloy, the president-elect chose another Harvard man. McCloy won his law degree there in 1921 after first graduating from Amherst College. He inter rupted his studies at Amherst to assistant to Secretary of War Henry L. Slimson. President Tru man made McCloy assistant sec retary of war in 1945. McCloy returned to law prac dent of the World Bank in 1947. in 1949 he headed the military government in Germany and later was named first Allied high corn- missionor, . Kennedy took the afternoon off Monday for a trip to Miami where he rooted for Navy at the Orange Bowl football game. coup. DIV KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, h trunks Ms Laos Situation Is Grave; Advisers WASHINGTON AP) - Presi dent Eisenhower today received additional intelligence reports on the situation in Laos from his top military, diplomatic and intelli gence advisers. Another high-level White House conference followed Eisenhower's action ot Monday approving stepped-up military readiness in the Pacific. Bulletin WASHINGTON (AP) The United States today accused the Soviet Union and North Viet namese Communists of airlift ing "extensive air materials" and "substantial numbers" ot North Vietnamese Communists into Laos la support of Red rebels there. The State Department issued the accusation "in view ot the seriousnesi of the current situa tion in Laos." It said it has "hard evidence" that Soviet and North Vietnamese transport planes have made at least 180 flights into Laos since Dee. 15. The Slate Department said So viet planes brought howitzers, ammunition, gasoline and com bat rations, and other war ma teriel, into Vientiane before the Laotian capital was recaptured by government loroet Dec. J4. -" North Vietnamese Soldiers were also parachuted or landed to help rebel Capt. Kong Le's forces outside Vientiane,, the United Slates said. Joseph W. Reap, Slate De partment press officer, said the U.S. evidence did net include a finding that Soviet personnel themselves were flying the in vading aircraft. " - J ' . ' retary of Defense James H. Doug. las, Central Intelligence Director Allen W. Dulles, and Gen. Lyman Lcmnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, headed the group calling at the White House this morning. White House press secretary James C. Hagerty said Laos was among several matters taken up at the conterence. Hagerty reiterated to newsmen today that the government re gards the situation in Laos as grave. In advance of today's meeting, Eisenhower was represented as convinced that fast and clear ac tion is the best way to avoid any Communist commitment to ag gression in Laos. But he was said to be hopeful of a solution short of military intervention by out side powers. On Saturday, after word arrived here of what the Laotian govern ment said was an invasion by seven battalions from neighboring Communist North Viet Nam, Ei senhower met with his top diplo matic, military and intelligence advisers. That afternoon the United States issued a public warning to North Viet Nam, Red China and other Communist powers not to inter vene in behalf of the Red Pathct Lao rebels. It also referred point edly to the U.S. obligation in the Nike Zeus Promised FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) -The secretary of the Army told a dedi cation gathering Monday that the Nike Zeus anti-missile missile! should be added to the nation's defenses as soon as possible. Secy. Wilber Brucker, who leaves office Jan. 20, spoke at the dedication of Ft. Jonathan M. Wainwright near Fairbanks. Then he flew back to Washington, D C. The installation was Ladd Air Force Base. It was given to the Army and named for Gen. Wain- wright, who commanded troops in the Philippines until they were overwhelmed by the Japanese early in World War IL TUESDAY, JANUARY J, 1961 Studying Report Southeast Asia Treaty Organiza tion for defense of the area. On Sunday the United States called for a meeting in Bangkok of the council of SEATO, whose members include the . United States, Britain, France. Australia. j New Zealand, the Philippines, inailand and Pakistan. Monday the Pentagon an nouncedwith White House back ingorders to step up the readi ness of U.S. forces in the Pacific, including fast-moving airlift capa bility, "in view of the present situation in Laos." Press secretary James C. Hag- erty said Eisenhower had ap proved the move "in light of the Oregon Opens New Year With 15 Violent Deaths By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS , The long New Year's weekend brought violent death to 15 per sons in Oregon. Ten died in highway accidents. four in a plane crash and one in a fall from a haymow The new year opened with sixl"1"1 Gary Dean Spanglcr, all of traffic deaths on Jan. 1 and an- other on Jan. 2, This was a sharp ly higher toll than the year before w hen only three were killed in the entire first week The old year closed with a De cember total of 40 highway deaths and 468 in the 12 months, com pared to 497 the previous year, Opening 1961 deaths: John H. Rathman, 60, Hillsboro, in an intersection collision near Hillsboro Sunday. Sen. Boivin Is Opposing Board Plan SALEM (AP)-Scn. Harry Boi vin, D-Klamath Falls, said today he is opposed to the proposal of oov. Mark O. Hatfield to abolish the Board of Control. Boivin, who is expected to be elected president of the Senate, took the same position as that already taken by Secretary of State Howell Appling and State Treasurer Howard Bclton in op position to the Hatfield proposal. Both Bclton and Appling, who with Hatfield form the board, have opposed abolishing it. All three are Republicans. I have voted consistently against abolishing the Board of Control since I have been in the Senate," Boivin said. "And haven't changed my mind." He said that in his opinion the reasons for retaining the board outweigh those for abolishing it, He said it is an excellent method, If you want to change it," Boivin said, "show me a better system." He said that he felt the three- man board is in a better position to supervise the state's institu tions than one man would be. The governors proposal would split up the institutions, putting them under various departments of state government. Boivin already has moved into the office of the Senate president. He said he did not anticipate the need for any move, a clear indi cation of his confidence that he will be elected to the post. Boivin is opposed by State Sen. Alfred Corbctt, D-Portland, who has the support of the Democrat ic party machinery. Boivin is ex- peeled to be elected by a coali- tion of Republican and Democrat ic votes. Boivin said he will announce the names of committee heads Monday. He said he is consider ing a plan to put all state govern ment reorganization proposals into the hands of one committee, but said he would not comment further on this now. Telephone (Emgrms (muenuos SEATO obligations." He spoke after Uie President had finished another White House session with Secretary of State Christian A. Herte'r, Undersecre tary , Livingston T. Merchant, Acting Secretary of Defense James H.' Douglas, Gen. Lyman L. Lemmtzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Central Intelligence Director Allen W. Dulles. The Defense Department orders were regarded as a preliminary alert to U.S. military commanders to be on the ready should further orders come. Some U.S. air and amphibious units are already headed for the crisis area. Francis Walter Hinklcy, 24. of Milwaukie, struck by a car as he neipea anoiner motorist remove tire chains on the Mt. Hood High way near Government Camp monaay. Shelby Anderson,' Gary Person Roscburg, who crashed down 60-foot embankment on the North Umpqua Highway Sunday. r -Lance Dean Frasier,- 9 months. sen of Mr. and Mrs, Lawrence Clyde Frasier, . Portland, nearl Meacham - in the Blue Mountains Sunday. Airs. Marion nomas, near Vernonia Sunday. Those killed in Satuiday road accidents: Mrs. Leota Barbara Lewis at Portland. Edmond Charles , Yarbough, Cave Junction. J. B. Payne, Yachats. The four killed in the plane crash had taken off from trout- dale Saturday for an outing at Reno. They crashed near Esta cada. They were Mr. and Mrs. David Lee Enger, Troutdale, and Mr. and Mrs. Everett Wayne Boyd, Portland. Killed in the fall from a hay mow at Tigard was Lloyd Donald Gunderson. Castro Orders Embassy Staff Cut To Eleven HAVANA (AP)-U.S.-Cuban re- lations grew more frayed today with a drastic order from Prime Minister Fidel Castro for a slash of Ibe U.S. Embassy staff here to ll by Wednesday night. In a wrathful prelude to the U.N. Security Council meeting Wednesday, when Cuba will air new charges that the United Slates plans to invade Cuba, Castro declared the U.S. Embassy was filled with spies directing counter-revolutionaries, He said the U.S. staff would be reduced to the same number that Cuba maintains in its embassy in Washington. Although the prime minister said he was not breaking relations with the United States, he invited the entire staff to leave Cuba. "We are not breaking with, them," he shouted. "If they want to go, let them go. Thousands of Castro's followers massed in Civic Plaza roared their approval with shouts of 'Cuba si, Yankees no" and with demands that the United States give up its naval base at Guan lanamo in eastern Cuba. At the big glass-walled U.S. Embassy, Charge d'Affaires Dan iel Braddock got his first word of the order to reduce the staff from 87 to 11 as he watched Castro on television. Six months ago there were 120 on the stall. U.S. Ambassador Philip Bonsai was recalled last lOctober and embassy wives and TU 4-tlll Ne. 6574 WASHINGTON (AP) The' 87th Congress opened today with Democratic insurgents in both Senate and House demanding changes in the way their business is run. . . Sen. Albert Gore, D-Tenn., had a resolution ready for a Democratic caucus before the noon opening ses sion. The resolution provides for filling all vacancies on the policy and steering committees by direct vote of sen ators. The House controversy involved the stranglehold the conservative Rules Committee has on what legisla tion can be considered by the House. Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas Monday agreed that this roadblock to many liberal measures must be broken down if necessary by purging Rep. William Colmer, D-Miss., from the committee. Colmer, who did not sup- port President-elect John F. Kennedy in the campaign, and Chairman Howard W. Smith, D-Va., often have voted with four conserva tive Republican committee members to block the kind of legislation Kennedy is pledged to support. It was not at all certain the House Democratic caucus would knock Colmer off the committee, however, or that the entire House would sustain the action if it did. Gore's resolution in the Senate caucus seemed likely to be re sisted by Sen. Mike Mansfield, D-Mont., who is scheduled to be elected by the caucus as major ity leader, succeeding Sen. Lyn don B. Johnson of Texas. Johnson was expected to resign immedi ately after being sworn in for new Senate term, in order to be come vice president on Jan. 20, The policy move crossed the1 lines ot an effort by a group to1 revise the Senate s anu-fmbusler rule, Sen. Clinton P. Anderson, D- N.M., was prepared to move at the opening session for tha adop tion ot a new rule to easa the present requirement for approval by two-thirds of those voting be fore debate can be cut off. Anderson's proposal would be to permit 60 per cent of the senators to gag a filibuster. Others planned to offer an amendment to let a simple majority accomplish this end. Gore said he would not support a change in tne tmtxisur rule. Sen. A. S. Mike Monroney, D- Okla., backed Gore's policy move but said he also will oppose changing the debate limitation re quirement. Republicans, caucusing to re elect Sen. Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois as minority leader and other party leaders, expected to take no party position on the anti filibuster rule fight. It was the general under- children were sent home last September. Cuba ha not had an ambassador in ' Washington for months. The embassy said it was await ing official notification whether Castro's order meant to cut the staff to 11 persons in all or to 11 officials plus secretaries and other non-diplomatic personnel. The embassy said it will be necessary to reduce its services to the minimum. The visa section was closed , today to await In structions from the State Depart ment. About 50,000 Cubans have visa applications on file. Castro spoke on the second an niversary o( his revolution after staging the biggest military show in Cuban history In the plaza. For seven hours he reviewed soldiers and militiamen showing off weap ons from the Soviet bloc, includ ing 54 heavy tanks, 155mm and 105mm artillery and six-barreled rocket launchers. At the tail of the parade was what was labeled as a reconstruc tion of parts of the U.S. rocket tired from Cape Canaveral last Nov. 30 and destroyed because of a malfunction. The display in cluded a 30-foot dented aection with U.S. Air Force markings. At a reception in Moscow on the Cuban anniversary Soviet Premier Khrushchev picked up tha Cuban charge that the United States was planning an Invasion by Jan. II to wipe out alleged Soviet rocket bases being constructed to Cuba. Weather Northern Callforala-Falr with little temperature change through Wednesday except tog la central areas. Ml. Shasta-8lsklyou area: Fair today and tonight; cloudy Wednes day; little temperature change. standing the Senate would swear in and re-elect members today and postpone argument on tha rule until Wednesday. Mansfield Is Chosen WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Democrats today elected Sea. Mike Mansfield of Montana, a moderate liberal, as their floor leader. Mansfield succeeds Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, vice president-elect. Johnson is to resin shortly from the Senate seat to which he was re-elected In No vember, while also winning tha vice presidency. : Johnson told newsmen Mans field was elected unanimously by nis a teuow Democratic senators at the doscd-door meeting. - -- - Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota was elected assistant Democratic leader, a Job of ficially designated at whin, suc ceeding Mansfield. Republicans Pick Leader WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Republicans re-elected Sen. Ever ett M. Dirksen of Illinois as their floor leader today. The Republican conference also re-elected Sen. Thomas H. Kuchd of California as party whip, or as sistant leader, and chose Sen. Styles Bridges of New Hampshire for another term of chairman of the Senate GOP Policy Commit tee. - Sen. Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts was re-elected chairman of the conference of all Republican senators, and Sen. Milton R. Young of North Dakota re-elected secretary, N Trapped Thief Holds Door Of Closet Shut SAN MATEO, Calif. (AP) - Glenn Pennington tried to open tha closet door. An unseen force pulled it shut. Pennington tried again. It closed opened closed and so on. 1 knew I had him," Penning ton said, "but I couldn't get tha door open long enough to get at him." It was a burglar. Pennington be came suspicious when he and hit wife returned home to find tha front door ajar early Monday. Pennington, 29, sent his wife next door to a neighbor. He be gan a room-by-room search of tha house finally climaxed by tha closet door kig-of-war. ' "After awhile I figured I'd bet. ter call the cops. By tha time I !got back he was gone. Anyway, he didn't have a chance to taw anything," Pennington said. Shooting Timtt OREGON - January 4 T:W a.m.-4:S a. as. CALIFORNIA Jaaakry 4 T:M ajB.-4: fM. e 11 i
