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
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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
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CALIFORNIA
January 7
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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.