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1b The- Day's News By FRANK JENKINS World verdict on Cuba: Castro'f charge that the United Elates is readying an immediate invasion of its communist-plagued neighbor in the Caribbean reach es the Security Council of United Nations. The USSR (Russia) votes with Castro. Ceylon and the United Arab Republic abstain from vot ing. Britain, Chile, Nationalist China, Ecuador, France, Liberia and Turkey agree with the United States and vote to discard Cuba's charge that she is facing imme diate invasion from the United Elates. Meanwhile Castro puts on a big military display to back up his invasion charges. He lines the Malecon, Havana's beautiful sea shore drive, with artillery a lot of which has been brought from Russia. He scatters guns all around his coastline. He alerts bis militia. Why is he doing it? Nobody knows why a madman does what he does. But the pre vailing opinion seems to be that he is putting on a show for the Cubans trying to convince them that the United States really is going to grab them. That makes at least a little sense. Most competent observers agree that Castro's greatest dan ger is a rebellion on the part of the Cuban people. His economics aren't working out too well, and the Cubans are getting hungry. But enough of Cuba. Let's change the subject. Mrs. JFK tops the list of the twelve best dressed women in the .orld. The decision is rendered by an organization known as the New York Couture Group, Inc. NOW who says we're losing Horld prestige? What of JFK himself? Well, he didn't fare so well. While the New York Couture Group, Inc., was looking over the best dressed women in the world and rendering a verdict, the members of the International As sociation of Clothing Designers, who are gathered in New York for their 50th annual convention, took a look at the sartorial hab its of the President-elect. They weren't much Impressed Here are some of their opinions of JFK's clothes: His coat lapels are of the old fashioned wide variety. The shoulders of his suits are much too broad which is to say that he must have bought "em hack in the days when a lot of padding was THE thing. There are only TWO buttons on his jacket and they are much too low on the suit. It's too bad, of course. But a lot of the men of America mill aeree that if no worse criti cism ever faces the man who in a couple of weeks more will be president of the United States he will be doing all right. A lot of the rest of us males are wearing out our old clothes, too. "feoivin To Give An Even Break SALEM AP) Sen. Harry Boivin, D-Klamath Falls, said today that those who opposed him for the Senate presidency would get an even break in committee assignments. Boivin is slated to become Senate president. Sen. Alfred H. Corbctt, D-Portland, also Is a candidate for the job. With sufficient pledges to as sure him the presidency, Boivin said he already has completed his list ot committee assign ments, "When the list is announced Monday morning," Boivin said, "you will see that I have made them solely 'on the basis of merit and Individual prefer ences." House Speaker-elect Robert B. Duncan, D-Mcdlord, also will an nounce his committee list Mon day morning. Weather Klamath Falls aad vicinity! Mostly cloud) today and tonight. A few showers today. Occasional rain Saturday. Periods of (reeling rain in some places. High today 40-45 and Saturday 48-41. Low to night 28-34. High yesterday 47 Low last oight V Precip. last 24 hours none tl.OF 0R5.LI3.rUY I1S.V3PAPER SECTION 4UJf3KfAND DOCUMENTS DIV. Price Tea Cents It Pages COUP. . . ub m mm .wm. mm w m mm mm mm mm m KLAMATH FALI.S, OREGON. FRIDAY, JANUARY C, 1961 Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 6577 Weather Northers California: Cloudy and warmer through Saturday with rain beginning north of Eu reka tonight and spreading to Santa Crus and Sacramento by Saturday evening; local south gales oa coast around Cape Men docino. Ml. Shasta-Siskiyou areat Cloudy today and tonight; snow Saturday; warmer tonight. J hmmm Bm h hid If 17 &X ilililll f tWikauMwii&e x v )i "1 ' 'in ill 1t '' lir 'D mm n im ii ilnriiMi i im i nir'i lit BBHIBansMMSl A mmmm M tZV M H I THE "LIGHTS ON FOR EDUCATION" PROGRAMS at Mills Elementary and Altamont Junior High schools Thursday evening attracted (mall but interested audiences. If in terest continues, more meetings may be scheduled (or explaining mora specifically matters pertaining to child welfare and education that will come before this session of the state legislature. Panelists at Altamont, serving county school district residents, were, from left, in the photo at right, Carrol Howe, Harvey Denham, Mrs. L. E. Saun ders and Francis Skinner, and at Mills school, serving residents of the city school dis trict, from left, Ray Hunsaker, Mrs. Margaret Sheridan, Harold Ashley and Mrs. George Elliott. Wide Range Of School Issues Is Discussed A wide range of issues that will affect Klamath County and Oregon school systems were prin cipal points of discussion at a Lights on for Education meet ing at Mills School Thursday night. Participating in a special pan el were Mrs. Margaret Sheridan, RUBS' board memberr'Harold Ashley, clerk of the city school districts; Mrs. Beulah blliott, member of the OEA Ethics Com mittee, and Ray Hunsaker, su perintendent of city schools. Moderator of the panel was Mrs. Ray A. Dunn, County Council PTA. District boundaries and meth ods of arriving at budget po tential were outlined by Ashley. He pointed out that 70 per cent of budget funds for KUHS come from the property lax lew.' and in the entire school district, slight ly more than SO per cent are lrom the property tax. Remain der of budget funds comes from state and federal source, he ex plained. New methods' of determining state aid, and new formulas for maximum levels of aid must be forthcoming, Ashley explained. He said that property taxpayers are protesting the excessive bur den imposed by present struc tures. Hunsaker discussed pending leg islation on school reorganization, establishment ot boundaries, equalization procedures, and fi nancing. A new law will call for notifi cation of all school board mem bers in a contemplated boundary change before the county court and county superintendent of i schools can proceed with change, Hunsaker said. Hunsaker said the intent of the reorganization law is to get all districts into a 12-grade category. Belief is that such schools would offer students more, and that taxpayers would be getting more for their dollars spent, he explained. KUHS. because of the Authorities Investigate Shots Fatal To 74 Persons In Jersey TRENTON, N.J. (UPI) - Au thorities today probed the possibil ity that a respected doctor acci dentally injected death into the veins of 14 of his patients with a virus-laden needle. Dr. Albert L. Werner, 43, of Ei Hon, N.J., has temporarily lost his license to practice as an os teopathic psychiatrist, because the persons who died last year were among 44 of his patients who be came ill with an "acute liver dis ease, presumably serum hepatitis." None of the patients, 10 women and 4 men, was being treated for Nixon Performs Necessary Task Jacqueline 'Best Clad', JFK 'Worst' NEW YORK (AP) Mrs. John F. Kennedy tops the best-dressed in the world of women's fashions, but her president-elect husband is low man on some clothes design ers' totem pole. The lovely first lady-to-be was selected Thursday night by the New York Couture Group, Inc., to head the list of the world's 12 best-attired women. Couture annu ally consults some 2.500 style ex perts and society leaders before announcing the winners, As for the president-elect, his current supply of suits were viewed with some anxiety by members of the International As sociation of Clothing Designers! who gathered at the Waldorf-As toria Hotel Thursday tor their 5n annual convention. Some opinions on Kennedy's dress: His coat lapels are of the old fashioned, wide variety. The shoulders of his suits are, much too broad. There are only two buttons on his jacket and the two buttons are too low on the suit. r After Mrs. Kennedy, the official 19fi0 list of best-drcsscd among the world's women names the follow ing: Vicomlesse Jacqueline de Ribes, of Paris. Mrs. Norman K. Winston, of New York and Paris. Donna Marella Agnelli, of Turin, Italy Mrs. Loci Guiness, of Paris and1 SALEM (AP) - Problems of! Palm Beach lSlate "nance and governmental $3 Billion Education Aid Asked NEW YORK (APl-A special task force recommended to Presi dent-elect Kennedy today a high priority program to pump $3'4 billion in loans and grants into the American educational system The objective would be to "lift the schools to a new level of excellence." The plan would provide extra federal cash for all public schools, for construction, and for teachers' salaries or other purposes related to improving education. It would provide a special program along similar lines for states in econom ic distress. And it would set up special aid plan for city schools. hepatitis by Werner, who is head of the neuropsychiatry at Cherry Hill, N.J., Hospital and has been a licensed physician for 18 years A health department spokesman said Thursday the attorney gen eral's office was investigating the possibility, among others, that the disease was transmitted to the pa tients accidentally through unsani tary hypodermic needles. The spokesman said Uiat . be cause Weiner ' dealt largely with" mental disorders, he frequently gave his patients tranquilizers, mental drugs, or sodium amytal, commonly known as truth serum. "It looks like he got hold of a dirty needle," the spokesman said. He said a patient of Weiner's may have had scrum hepatitis. I Slate Health Commissioner Ros- coe P. handle said Werner had been "most cooperative" during the investigation. The disease is not contagious by external contact. There is no danger to persons other than pa tients of Wciner and the odds are 90 to 1 against any more deaths, Kandle said. No charges have been filed in the case. Altamont Group Talks About Child Welfare New Bomber Is Unveiled In addition, increased grants overlapping of its jurisdiction, island loans to improve academic a unique school district in the facilities and housing at colleges stale. The present situation doesiand universities was blueprinted not meet existing state law re- for the president-elect, quirements, Hunsaker said. . The task force which drew up The existing reorganization law, the recommendations was headed calling for reorganization of all;by Dr. Frederick Hovde, presi-! school districts by 1962 is not a dent of Purdue University, practical situation, Hunsaker ex- Hovde handed the report to plained. He added that he did not Kennedy in the presence of Gov. believe reorganization of KUHS Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut, district would be forthcoming be-!who will be secretary of health, education and welfare, in the new (Continued on Page 4-A ladministralion. Panels of authorities on educa tion reviewed for the public some of the issues concerning child welfare and education that will face the state legislature, soon to convene in Mills Elementary and Altamont Junior High schools Thursday evening. At Altamont, they were Carrol Howe, representative-elect from Klamath County to the legisla ture and former superintendent of schools; Harvey Denham, prin cipal of Altamont Junior High School and legislative chairman for the Klamath County Unit, Oregon Education Association: Mrs. L. E. Saunders Jr.. presi dent of Altamont Parent Teacher Association and legislative chair man for the Klamath Council of Parents and Teachers, and Fran cis Skinner, 4-H Club leader in the county and chairman of the Klamath Committee of Children and Youth. Howe was concerned with measures pending that would change distribution of state basic school support funds. A legisla tive interim committee has intro duced a hill that would reduce the amount of basic school sup port funds allocated to the Klam ath County School District by $198,000 annually, Howe says, even though about three million dollars would be added annually to the total fund. The move is called "equalization," says Howe. District 1 in the city would break about even, he says, and District 2 (Klamath Union High School would benefit a trifle, probably. But overall, taxpayers law, therefore, would encourage lax assessment practices, he said. Another feature of the bill Is lhat it does not recognize varying cost, oi governmental services throughout the state. In Klamath County, for instance, farmers nav a levy oi irom 80 to 105 mills to put the same amount of water on their .Cropland that natural rain- tall puts on land In more humid portions of the slate. The attempt to equalize cduca (Continued on Page 4-A) WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A new model of the B52 bomber with more power and more punch is ready for the Air Force. The first B52H rolled out of the Boeing Airplane Co. plant here ;tlrouRhout the county would suf- Thursday. Perched beneath its wings were two test models of the Sky bolt, an air-launched ballistic missile. Both the range and the thrustl of the B52H will exceed that of its predecessors, B52G. Eight jet engines provide 17,000 pounds of thrust, an increase of about 4,000 pounds. Without giving any de fer. Howe added "They may mean well with their equalization plan," said Howe, "but it doesn't make sense." The plan is based on as sessment value and assessment practices over the state vary con siderahly. Some of those districts that would benefit most have never tails, the Air Force said the B52H even had property reappraised will have 10,000 miles more rangeJundcr the slate program. Such ainedy arrives from New York. Herter Has No Cheer For Solons Blaze Is Quelled But Erupts Again SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) A mattress fire believed extinguished suddenly erupted into a general alarm blaze in a Mission Street hotel here early today and fire offi cials said 17 persons were killed. Twenty seven other tenants, two firemen and two policemen were taken to emergency hospitals for treat ment of injuries. Others were treated on the scene. Most of the four-story, half-century old building's 150 occupants were elderly persons. Survivors in their night clothes leaped into fire nets and down light wells onto mattresses hastily placed in position by the 200 firemen who responded. Others scrambled down ladders. The fire was controlled after 90 minutes. Fire Chief William Mur-r ray said the fire might have been avoided had an alarm been sounded more prompt ly. He said the fire started in a first floor room when the occupant called a neigh bor to help extinguish a mattress fire during the night. They put out the fire and went back to sleep, according to Mur ray. The mattress rekindled, caus ing (he inferno. "They should have called us Uie first time it burst into flame," Murray said "That's a standard rule for anyone." The occupant of the room in which the fire started survived. Most of the dead were trapped in their rooms and killed when they inhaled gases. Firemen saved several lives with swift action with the mat tresses. When they arrived on the scene several tenants were leaning out upper story windows over the1 lighlwcll shouting that they were going to jump, .... Firemen urged them to wait a few moments and piled several mattresses at the bottom. The tenants jumped and landed safe ly on the mattresses. At least two of the dead were women. At the height of the blaze a pil lar of flame shot up through the inside of the Thomas Hotel and 150 feet into the air. It was vis- WASHINGTON (AP)-Secrctary of State Christian A, Herter gave Senate Foreign Relations Commit Ice members a briefing on world trouble spots today Cuba, Laos, Berlin and elsewhere. "It was not a very encouraging review," Sen. Albert Gore, D- Tcnn., said after the two-hour closed session. Similarly, Sen. John Sparkman, D-Ala., told news men "it paints a bad picture." However, Sparkman said that Hel ler's review was "pretty much what we have been reading in the papers, that the secretary pre sented nothing essentially new. Gore and Sparkman were the first two senators to leave the meeting Asked if Herter had outlined any new steps to be taken to deal with the Cuba situation, Spark man said "No, I don't believe he did.1 Two subjects certain to come up are the civil war in Laos and the Cuban crisis, A briefing of another sort will lake place here later in the day when President-elect John F. Ken ible for miles and attracted a crowd of several hundred to the scene at 5th and Mission streets, just one block from Market Street in downlown San Francisco. The fire was general or five alarms highest number for the San Francisco fire department with a rare "emergency" alert for Ihe entire department. It was also the worst hotel fire here since 1944 when the New Amsterdam burned killing 24. Firemen wearing oxygen masks struggled through gas-filled upper hallways with hoses trying to put out the fire, and old men and worn- en were helped down ladders lit the front of the building. When some tenants jumped into fire nets at the rear, one of the nets caught on fire. ' Arson Inspector Earl Grimm found one of the dead slumped over the suitcase he was attempt ing to pack in his room when the fire started. Grimm said the man might have escaped alive if he had not dressed and tried to take ihis belongings. Lightly clad survivors w e r a bundled in blankets against a San Francisco cold snap in which the temperature was 36 degrees. Mrs. Gene Slagler, 57, a hotel clerk, said "I was in my room drinking coffee about 5 o'clock and heard someone holler fire. I got dressed, grabbed my birds and went to the window. The fire men told me to stay put. Then they came and pounded on my door and I walked out." Suspect In Robbery Held By Klamath Falls Police A 26-year-old airman was ar rested Thursday night and charged with armed robbery aft er he allegedly put a paper shop ping bag over his head and took $34 from Goldy's Cash Grocery, 2552 Shasta Way. Aii-man l.C. Linwood A. Thom as, 824A Kincheloe Avenue, of the base fire station, denied taking the money. Thomas was arrested Thursday night at the Falcon Heights home of a friend by city police detectives and air police. Police also are questioning Thomas about another robbery attempt earlier Thursday evening at Tucker's East Side Grocery, 902 East Main Street. Mrs. Hom er E. Stiles, a clerk, saw a man approaching the store with a sack over his head; she locked the door before he could gain entry. The following story evolved af ter police Investigation: Mrs. Slilcs called the station at 5:40 p.m. Thursday to report Finance, Reorganization hp Legislature Issues Mrs. Patrick Guiness, of Lau- daughter ol sanne. Switzerland Mrs. Loci Guiness. Princess Alexandra of Kent, 'daughter of the Duchess of Kent WASHINGTON (API - vice Mrs John Barry Ryan III, President Richard M. Nixon has -cw 0fc the ironic duty of officially pro claiming today that he lost the Nov. presidential election to John F. Kennedy. And he will name Lyndon B. Johnson official winner of the 'vice-presidential contest. Nixon will tell a joint session of the Senate and the House that Kennedy received 303 electoral otes and Nixon 219, with the re gaining 15 going to Sen. Harry F. Byrd, D-Va. Needed to win: 269. structure will top the heavy that the same thing will happenlcontroversial. Besides levying a again. 'cigarette tax and reducing the in- The financial mailers facing the come tax, they would abolish in agenda facing the 51st Oregonlawmakors center around thejeome tax exemptions, and levy a Legislative Assembly when opens here Monday morning. sort of super-tax that would most ly affect persons with low in- budget of Republican Gov. Mark O. Hatfield, Ihe Taxation Interim If past sessions are a criterion. I Committee's proposal to enact a comes. This plan has Hatfield's of the lawmaker w ill consider more 3-cent cigarette tax while reduc-; support, bu1 several legislators al-j than 1.300 bills and take more ing income taxes, and a new for- ready have condemned it Shooting Times OREGON January 7 7:05 a.m. 4:30 p.m. January 5 7:05 a.m. 4:50 p.m. CALIFORNIA January 7 7:04 a.m. 4:50 p.m. January I 7:04 a.m. 4:51 p.m. than 100 days to do it. The session will he loaded w ith controversy, with the Republican mula to distribute aid to school The Legislative Interim Com mittee on Education goes along with the governor's plan for more districts. Hatfield recommended a budget minority in u good position to holdlof $359 million. That includes school aid. Bui there are several the balance of power. more aid to the schools, higher plans to change the basis for His- The Democrats have majorities state salaries and medical care,tribulinfi the money. Each plan of 31-29 In the House and 20-10 in, for the aged the Senate. This budget would use up all In recent sessions, the Rcpub-I available state revenues in the bi- licans have been able to persuade ennium which starts next July 1. enough Democrats, to vote with So it is sure to draw fire from (hem on parly Issues, to that the legislators who want to spend GOP could block much of thejmore, or who want lo spend less. Democratic program. Chances are The tax proposals are highly hurts somebody. The governor's proposal to re organize the slate government, and thus put state agencies more firmly undo-' his control, faces heavy going. Many state depart ments are unlimbcring their guns to fight it. Opposition so far is heaviest against Hatfield's plans to abolish the Board pf Control, which runs state institutions, and to create a state Department of Natural Resources. The legislature also faces other conflicts, such as labor-management battles over labor, uncm-l ploymcnt and industrial accident legislation. Reapportionment o f the legislature will cause a ruck us, too. Two Southern Oregon lawyers will run the show. They are Sen Harry Boivin, 58, Klamath Falls Boivin was sneaker in 1937. Dun- can also was speaker in 1959. They will be elected at caucuses Sunday night, unless something unforeseen should happen. Boivin and Duncan are propos ing rules changes which they hope will shorten the session. The last session of less than too days was in 1949. That one was 97 days. The 1959 and 1955 sessions were 115 days, while the 1957 session of 128 days was the longest in his lory. Because of the expected coali who has thir Senate presidency i1'0" f Republicans and conserva-, wrapped up by a coalition of all i live Democrats in each house, this Republicans and some Demo crats; and Robert B. Duncan, 40, Mcdfnrd, who will be speaker of (ht House. session could be the most conser vatlve in several years, The House again faces a short- seven of them, which means there w ill not be enough to handle much of the technical legislation that requires legal knowledge. The Senate has 10 lawyers. In the Senate, there also will be nine businessmen, four farmers and four insurance men. The House will have 21 businessmen, 12 farmers and seven insurance men. Each house is lucky in that al most all of the key employes will be back again. Twenty-eight of the 30 senators, and 43 of tiie 60 representatives, have had previous legislative ex perience. That's fortunate, too. The deans of each house will be two Republicans Sen. Carl Fran cis, Dayton, a veteran of nine ses sions, and Rep. Gust Anderson n..l..J ...ill." age of lawyers. There are only -Portland, with seven sessions, an attempted robbery. She said the man ran down the block to Applegate Street, got in a car and drove off. About two hours later, at 7:29 pm., Floyd Goldy, owner of Goldy's Cash Grocery, said he had been robbed by "a Negro wearing a blue nylon jacket with a brown paper shopping bag over his head." Goldy said the bag had holes cut out for the eyes and mouth. Goldy said the robber walked Into the store 'and told him and Mrs. Goldy to give him the mon ey. we opened the till and the robber grabbed a handful of mon ey," Mrs. Goldy said. "We stood there like statues because we were scared." Mrs. Goldy said the thief kept one hand in his coat pocket, as if he had a weapon. The robber escaped with $34 In $5 and $1 bills. Later, air po lice told city police that they had suspected Thomas of being involved In a robbery of the East Side Grocery two years ago. They went to Falcon Heights and located his car, which was parked on the wrong side of the street with the lights on. A paper bag torn into three parts was found in the car and 13 $1 bills were found on the curb near the car. Thomas was located in a near by house. He said he had been with a friend in Klamath Falls earlier in the evening but the friend said he hadn't seen Thorn as after 3:30 p.m. When arrested. Thomas had seven $5 bills and three $1 bills in his possession. Mrs. Stiles and Goldy identi fied Thomas' car and clothes at similar to those used and worn by the robber. Thomas was charged with armed robbery the city police station. Aumoriues at ma air base Thomas had a good record was highly regarded by IV" nuimi. no is ii hi has been at Ktngsh tores years.
