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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 8, 1961)
1m The- (ajYfcra By FRANK JENKINS From the Corvallis Gazette Times presumably written by its editor, Bob Ingalls: "Someone is always calling at tention to what they think are the loveliest sounds in the world. Our nominations go to the plunk ef a golf ball in the cup when K is putted by you or your part ner, and the whir of the (me chanical) dishwasher after a large dinner party in your own home. Hmmmmmmmm. How about the plop of a duck as it hits the water after you've solved the mathematical prob lems involved in "shooting 'em where they ain't to hit 'em where they is?" If you happen to be built in a certain way, that's a lovely found. And- Speaking of lovely sounds- How about the click of a well adjusted typewriter when it is rattling out something WORTH ENSHRINING IN PRINT? From lovely sounds to lovely fights is only a step. One of the loveliest sights in Western America comes while sit ting in inky darkness in a blind nr Ivinff under a oile of wind- rowed straw left by the combines at harvest time) while dawn mis slnwlv to the Tule Lake basin and watching while the sun touches the tip of Shasta witn rosy fingers and converts it into a cone of strawberry ice cream If you haven't seen that, you've missed something. Ah mpt Would that life could be made iin evi-lusivplv of lovelv Sounds and lovely sights and charming experiences. Unfortunately, it is nni that wav. For example: As if we "didn't have troubles enough already. RABID BATS wem In be invadine our area. Two of the creatures have been found in the Klamath Basin, two over in the Rogue River valley and one up at The Dalles. One turned up the oilier day at ren- rilAtntv - Rahid hats have been fairly common in the Southwest for inms time, but have been un inmun here until recently. The theory is that they are migrat ing northward. - - - . That's one form of immigration we could do without. Los Angeles has a rabies scare. K got started in this way: Squirrel monkeys have become popular as pets down that way. They are flown in from South America from areas where rabid bats abound. These mon keys have a tendency to bite their owners. Since they come from regions where rabid bats are known to be numerous, the thought naturally occurs that maybe some of the imported monkeys have been bitten by rabid SblJS. No rabid monkeys have yet been found in L.A., but It could happen. At any rale, the Los Angeles .itv health officer has issued a warning to owners of squirrel monkeys tha' if they are bitten ihcv should isolate their pets im mediately, notify the city health office, turn the monkey over lor examination and wait to see what happens. What is rabies? It is an acute disease of the nervous system in man and ani mals. It is also called hydro-1 phobia, especially when it occurs in man. It received this name because it supposedly led to a fear of water. It usually causes death if it is not properly treat ed. Up to about a century ago, there was no known treatment for it. Then, in 1882, Louis Pas teur, who founded the science of bacteriology, treated a small neighbor boy who had been bit ten by a rabid dog and was suf fering from hydrophobia. His treatment worked. The boy recovered. Thus another deadly fear was removed from human life. The world owes a lot to its scientist.-:. Weather Klamath Falls and vicinity -Mostly cloudy today. Highs -5J. Low tonight U-U. High yesterday Low last night Preclp. last 24 hours Since Oct. 1 Same period last year n none S.ri 1.(4 Price Ten Cents 5 Pages ' KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. SUNDAY. JANUARY 8. 1961 Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 6578 Weather Northern California: Clearing early Sunday except showers per listing in the northwest and snow flurries la the high mountains. Not so cold, ' Mt. Shasla-Slskiyou area: Part ly cloudy Sunday probably with scattered snow flurries. Colder Sunday, S !:4l yn.7 Monday, completely organized and ready to tackle a long list of difficult issues. A MEMORIAL TO THE LATE JUDGE D. E. Van Vector wa: presented in circuit court Friday afternoon on behalf of the Klamath County' Bar Association by attorney George Proctor, left. Here, Proctor shows the memorial to Judge Hal F. Coe, new district court judge. The me morial praised Judge Van Vector for 36 years in the legal profession and resolved that, by his death, Klamath County has "suffered the loss of a capable and distin guished citizen and public officer as well as a warm and loyal friend." The memorial was adopted es a permanent court record. Urns fkinn Mrdmps & US Mrm Legislature Completes Preliminary'!;' Organization Vork Today In Salem By PAUL W. HARVEY JR. what steps lo take, if any, to draft Idcnt Insurance. SALEM AP The 51st Oregon!" new state Constitution. 5. Reapportionment. The lcgis- Legislature will open at 10 a.m. I Labor. Ah interim committce.lature is directed to reapportion proposes holding elections to de- itself in accord with the new fed termine what union, if any, should cral census. be designated as bargaining agent 6. Education. Increased state Rnth hnncn u ill mmii. n..:. m '"bor uisputes. Labor wants aid lo schools has been proposed organization at caucuses Sundav!more ''ral ""employment bene-by Hatfield and a legislative in Solons Face Showdown On Two Liberal Moves WASHINGTON (AP) - The new Congress faces likely show downs this week on two liberal moves efforts to trim the power of the House Rules Committee and to make it easier to halt Senate filibusters. Opening routine, speeches and preliminary maneuvering stalled action in both houses last week during the initial days of the new session. But the Democratic Committee on Committees plans a meeting this week which may result in an attempt to purge Rep. William M. Colmer, D-Miss from the Rules Committee unless some compromise is agreed to before then House Speaker Sam Rayburn reportedly is wuling to throw Colmer off the committee If nec- essary to break the hold a coali tion of Republicans and Southern Democrats on the rules group has on legislation. Two anlifilibuster proposals face the Senate. The strongest- favored by liberals would per mit limitation of debate by a ma jority, or 51, of the 100 senators after a filibuster ran 15 days. A compromise proposal, generally given a better chance of adop tion, provides that filibusters could be halted by a three-fifths margin of the senators voting. It now requires approval of two- thirds of the senators voting to limit debate. Southern Senators fighting the antifilibuster proposals said Fri- day that giving "unbridled power ; to a temporary majority" would undermine basic constitutional principles. Rep. Howard Smith, D-Va., chairman of the House Rules Committee, said Friday he was willing to discuss "any honorable compromise" with Rayburn about his group. But Smith said he could not consider any proposal- to "pack the committee with left- wingers" or purge Colmer, Smith said he is willing lo agree not to try to kill any of the major legislative proposals backed by night. The Senate meets at 7:30 f "m " D,ewlnS p.m.. and the House 30 minutes over uwlhcr insurance compan lalcr I ics should wrile industrial acci- Sen. Harry Boivin, D-KlamaOY Falls, speaker of' the House 24 years ago, appears to have the Senate presidency nailed down. House Speaker Robert B. Duncan, D-Mcdford, will be reelected. Gov. Mark O. Hatfield, a Re publican, will deliver his message to a joint session at 2 p.m. Mon day. This message will contain his recommendations. Then the lawmakers will spend all day Tuesday at meetings to learn about legislative procedures. The session is expected to be a long one because of the complex ity of the stale problems. The 1959 session lasted 115 days, and this one might even last as long as the record 128-day session of 1957. But the key leaders are back, and a big proportion 28 of the 30 senators, and 43 of the 60 repre sentativesare experienced. Despite the fact that the Demo crats have 31-29 and 20-10 major ities in the House and Senate, it is doubtful if they will be able to hold the upper hand. It an lerim committee. There will be fights over how to distribute the money. Russians Ignore Church On Observance MOSCOW (AP) - Archbishop Alexci. patriarch of all Russia, celebrated the Orthodox Church's Christmas Saturday by officiat ing at midnight -Mass in Moscow' Cathedral in an atmosphere of mingled majesty and melancholy. Only a tew young persons at tended the services. Most of the congregation was made up of older persons, mostly women. Many of them were mar ried under the Czar mora than 43 years ago before the Communist revolution struck down the wealthy church and reduced it to I an almost pitiful remnant. Other midnight Masses were cel ebrated in scattered city and country churches throughout the WASHINGTON (AP) Prosi-.ncdy a report that he had drafted! Soviet Union to mark Christmas, dent-elect John F. Kennedy re-jn collaboration with Prof. Don which under the old calendar ceived a report Saturday recom-i Humphrey of "'o Fletcher School comes " days after the Western Youth Peace Corps Would Assist Backward Nations By ROBERT BERRELLEZ HAVANA (AP) The Cuban Defense Ministry, with forces deployed against the alleged threat of in vasion, claimed today two big airdrops of U.S. arms in tended for counterrevolutionaries have been in tercepted in separate areas of Cuba. A formal press announcement said the arms were dropped by planes "coming from the north" and were packed in the original crates of U.S. arms factories. Word of the seizures came as Fidel Castro's regime took new domestic and diplomatic action cracking down on Cubans trying lo flee and sounding another overture for U.S. reconciliation once President-elect John F. Kennedy is in office. Militiamen under Capt.l Manuel Borjas seized arms airdrop in Pinar one! f no exit permits for all Cuban , J and foreign residents but said Three Die As Wind Rips Roof By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS . A violent wind gust tore off the roof off a family-owned market just north of Eugene and killed three men who were trying to se cure it. Dead were James Mac Skeeters, 34, owner of a grocery section; a brother, Marvin Wayne Skeeters, 35, who operated an auto repair shop next door; and Willis Pad dock, 34, an auto mechanic. Southerly wind with gusts up to 80 miles an hour was blowing through the Willamette Valley and buffeting the roof of the open- faced market when the three went up to fasten it. A gust swept under the roof, knocking it and the men down. All were dead on arrival at hospital here. No others at the market were injured. But at Eugene, Virginia Harris, 22, was reported to have been hurt when a tree hit her trailer in an auto court. Another tree crashed onto a house. Trees were blown across several parked cars. Power lines were toppled and lights were out in many parts of the area. An abandoned hotel building damaEed some time aco by fire ing a House-Senate was threatened and police barri- Committee. caded around it to keep away But he added no such compro- pedestrians. Imise had been offered him. pears that, for session, Republicans wul gain enough Democratic support lo block the plans of liberal Demo crats. Here are the six big issues fac ing the lawmakers: 1. Finance. Hatfield recom mends a $359 milliot)(general fund budget without- additional tax rev enues. He supports the Legislative Interim Tax Committee's plan to enact a 3-cent cigarette tax, re duce the income tax, abolish in come tax exemptions, and levy a one per cent tax 'on all income in addition to existing taxes. 2. Reorganization, The governor wants state departments reorgan ized to centralize power under the governor. 3. Constitutional revision. The legislature will have to decide mending that a peace corps of tat entcd young men and women to assist underdeveloped nations be established on a pilot basis. Receipt of the report was one of a series of appointments for the president-elect during a busy one- day visit to Washington. The report was submitted by Max Millikan, director of the Cen ter of International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology. It is to be made public Tuesday. Millikan told newsmen that in his view it would not be wise or of International Law and Diploma cy at Tufts University in Medford, Mass. This report dealt with proposals for the economic development of India. Millikan declined lo discuss its contents before it is made public. ' Other morning callers included Sen. Henry Jackson of Washing ton, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and John M. Bailey, Connecticut State Demo cratic Chairman, who is expected to succeed Jackson as national chairman in thi near future. Kennedy and would consider waiv ing the committee's jurisdiction over bills that have passed both Senate and House and are await- Conference Portlander Is Picked For Post PORTLAND (AP) - Leon P. Minear, principal of Portland's Benson High School, will be Ore gon superintendent of public in struction next month. He was selected by Gov. Mark Hatfield Friday to fill the post being vacated by the retirement of Rex Putnam. His appointment was announced at a news con ference at Wilson High School in Portland by Travis Cross, the governor's administrative assistant. Minear, 45, may have to take a pay cut in his new job. As prin cipal of Benson, he was to have received $12,250 a year beginning next September. The superintend ent job will pay $11,500. Minear said he had been assured that a pay increase will be sought. Negroes May Enter Monday ATLANTA (AP) Two Atlanta Negroes who won a long court battle Ira admission lo the Uni versity ol Georgia may enter the School Monday. U.S. District Judge W. A. Bootlc ruled in Macon Friday that the two, Charlayne Hunter', 18. and Hamilton Holmes. 19. both of At lanta, must be admitted immedi ately. He enjoined the university from discriminating against any eligible Negro students. D. L. Hollowcli, attorney for the two students, said, "I have an Idea they will enroll Monday." 1, tl .J 11,.. limA nl antn' noitowen ""' as settled over the weekend mth parents oi me io. Nine Denver Policemen Are Jailed As Department Investigates Thefts DENVER, Colo. IAP) Mne Winslanley later was convicted Hulton and whaley both are Denver patrolmen were held in 0f burglary. officers in the Denver Police jail Saturday as police brass 0fUxn arrcs(cd Thursdav Union. stepped up an investigation of were. They were arrested on the basis crime within the department. ' .. . , lot the burglary story related by Police Chief James Childersl va" ; """". . " "'" patrolman Harold E. Bailey, 25. who said the three of them shared world's Christmas. wig iiiiiu ouaiKui' . i ,i nUlKG3ru tn malfu cfii.,rtA ,n llin " in Kaui, i ,, pi upuseu peace cui ps an alterna tive to military duty. Kennedy, in a speech shortly be fore election, proposed establish ing a peace corps in which young: men could sorve for Uiree years in underdeveloped nations instead or being dratted - for military service. ' Millikan, however, said he thought it was clear that there would be sufficient volunteers to staff the proposed corps "without offering the bait of freedom from the draft." Standing on the steps of Ken nedy's Georgetown home, Millikan also told newsmen that initially he felt such a corps should be set up on a pilot basis. He added that it could be expanded after its worth had been tested. Millikan also submitted to Ken- Wild Atom Reaction Is Blamed Rebel Advance On Laos Royal City Threatens Workers Urged To Remain Out BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) A cabinet spokesman Saturday pre-! dieted a widespread return to work Monday. But the Socialist- led General Workers Federation said "the nation is in a virtual state of siege" and urged workers to continue their 19-day-old strike. The spokesman for Premier Gaston Eyskc's government said "Things are quiet in Liege. No new serious incidents have been reported there." IDAHO FALLS. Idaho (AP)-A runaway atomic reaction is sus pected as the cause of the explo sion which killed Uiree service men at the national reactor test ing station last Tuesday night. In a statement issued Friday, the Atomic Energy Commission said the men apparently were killed by the force of the explo sion. The statement added mat il the blast didn't immediately cause death, the high radiation level could have been fatal. From evidence now available, there are strong but not conclu sive indications that a nuclear ex cursion was involved in the inci dent. It cannot now be established whether or not there may have been an explosive chemical reac tion," the AEC said. The word "excursion" generally refers to an atomic reaction which goes out of control. The explosion was in a metal building which housed the proto type of a mobile reactor intended for use as a power source in re mote areas. Radioactivity was so high inside the building that ex perts probing the cause could stay inside only about a minute at a time. Carl L. Tollcfson, 36, said more arrests will follow. Va '"!' ". ""m The arrests from Denver's 796- ' '"" -f""s ine juu DuiKiary oi a lower uown town pawnshop last April 9. His man police force have been in the wake of charges and investiga tions spawned by the apprehen sion of patrolman Arthur R. Winslanley, 25. Prior to the probe of the de partment, a patrolman told su neriors that he had seen a safe (all from Winstanley's car aftcrburglary Dec. 20. 1959. companion, Tollclson said, was another officer who was arrested earlier. Keith L. Hutton, 38, and Bobbie in the loot Bailey was arrested by officers who said they found a quantity of expensive clothing at his home All labels had been removed from the clothing Hutton and whaley were con- the robbery of a downtown cafe. Department offkeuls expressed belief the patrolman was suffer ing from delusions and he given sick leave. G. Whaley, M, accused by a fronted by Bailey at the police leuow oinccr oi a o,juu saie bu d ne. Wha ev denied the bur glary accusation. Hutton remained silent Officers arrested earlier in the George J. Zellner, who was questioned, released, and later arrested when superiors said investigation are patrolmen Jack was 'there were discrepancies In ac-IS. Snodgrass. K. Wayne Wcstor jcounls he gave of his activities, land Gerald C. Sanlord. A BIG HUG FOR DADDY is bestowed upon new District Court Judge Hal F. Coe by his daughter, Cindy, 3. Judge Coe was sworn into his new position Friday afternoon by his circuit court counterpart, Judge David R. Vandenberg. Coe, 29, it one of the younqest judges in the state. The new judge was appointed by Gov. Mark Hatfield after the death of Judge D. E. Van Vector on Dee. 14 Members ef the bar association, including President P. K. PuckeH, were en hand for the ceremony, t VIENTIANE. Laos (AP) - column of pro-Communist Pathet Lao rebels was reported advanc ing on Luang Prabang today from the north. Advices varied, however, as tc whether that royal capital was imminently threat ened. French sources said the threat to Luang Prabang was increasing. umcr western . military men placed the column still 60 miles north of the city and said it was in no immediate danger. The more optimistic view seem ed to be shared by King Savang VathaTia.-fle look 'off "Saturday irom Vientiane for Luang Pra bang after earlier delays that raisea questions about the secu rity of the city.' The king, in Vientiane for the formal installation of the new anti Communist government of Premier Prince Boun Oum, had delayed his departure but then started Friday. He returned in less than two hours, and a spokes man explained that there had been engine trouble. The king's second departure early Saturday indicated the rebel attacks in the Luang Prabang area are isolated clashes between guerrilla units and royal patrols and were not connected with a major Pathet Lao offensive. Military sources confirmed Ban Ban nn the east-west highway linking the strategic Plaine des Jarres with Communist North Viet Nam fell to pro-Communist forces practically without a fight. Rio Province, less than 50 miles west of Havana, the announcement said. Castro forces allegedly intercepted another batch in the fringes of the Escambray Mountains in Las Villas Province, the central Cuban scene of in surgent activity for months. The seizures represent the loss of thousands of dollars worth of arms to opposition forces, if the government claim is correct. El Mundo headlined: "Yankee planes drop arms in Escambray and Pinar del Rio." The covcrn- ment-controllcd newspaper called the incidents "new examples of aggression against Cuba." El Mundo also carried on its front page a Cuban news aeency dispatch from Moscow in which Tass, the Soviet news agency, called U.S. maintenance of its na val base at Guantanamo Bay weak, illogical and ridiculous. The story said Tass claimed the United States had no right to try to maintain a foreign base in a country with which it "did not consider it necessary to have dip lomatic or consular relations. Radio Havana, also controlled by the government, aaid govern ment agents, seized sis terrorists and a small bomb-making plant in downtown Havana Saturday. The radio said the explosives came from the United States as part of terrorist operations here financed by the U.S. Central In- Icllience Agency. The Cuban Cabinet approved a new law last week that authorizes death for convicted anti-Castro terrorists. ' . The government froze issuance American residents leaving will not require new permits to leave unless they intend to return. The pitch to Kennedy was made by Ernesto (Che) Guevara, presi dent of Cuba's national bank and architect of Castro's revolutionary economic policies. At the same time, Guevara ad- milled in a three-hour television speech Friday night that Cuba swapped its 1960-61 sugar crop to the Communist bloc for political considerations.' He did not say what the political considerations were. Frenchmen Optimistic On Voting Roy Premo Rites Set CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. AP) A Blue Scout I, largest solid fuel rocket ever flown here, suc cessfully propelled a package of sensitive measuring devices into the lower edge of the Van Allen radiation belt Saturday. Valuable information was ra dioed back from all eight experi ments packed into the 392-pound payload. REDDING Roy T. Premo, 53, died Friday of a heart attack at Burney, Calif. Mr. Premo was a native of Col by, Wash., and was a former resident of Klamath Falls. Funeral services are scheduled for Monday at 3 p.m. at the Presbyterian Church in Burney with the Rev. Galen Onstad offi ciating. Interment will be in the Burney District Cemetery with the McDonald-Burncy Chapel in charge of arrangements. Mr. Premo was a lay reader in the Episcopal Church and a member of the St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Klamath Falls. He had worked as office manag er for the Lorenz Lumber Com pany at Burney for the past five years. Prior to that time he was office manager and treasur er lor the Lorenz Company in Klamath Falls for a number of years. He is survived by the widow, Edna, Burney; two sons, Roy T. Jr. of Chico, and Jerry, a stu dent at the University of Califor nia; his mother, Mrs. Ethel Pre mo of Olympia; two sisters, Eva Stevens, Olympia, and Pearl Sry- itt, .Seattle, and a brother, Lyle, Olympia. Mr. Premo was a member of Klamath Falls Elks Lodge 1247, past president ot the Burney LI ons Club, and a member of the Burney Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. Those who wish may contribute to the Shrine Hospital In either Portland or San Francisco. Device Shot Into 'Belt1 ALGIERS (AP) - French of. ... ficials beamed optimism Saturday as the crucial referendum on President Charles de Gaulle's self-determination plan for Alger ia entered its third day. A voter turnout averaging St per cent Friday in (00 rural com munities bolstered official hopes for approval of De Gaulle's plan to end six years of strife in this French territory. De) Gaulle has pleaded for a heaty "yes" vote and rebel lead - eri have called for a boycott of the polling places. French offi cials frankly believe a heavy vol of approval would give De Gaulle greater chance of achieving a solution for the bloody Algerian question. The French army maintained a vigilant watch Saturday as about 570 communities voted. The army was ordered to prevent abstention. Moslems generally disregarded orders from the rebel National Front of Liberation (FLN), of- ficials stressed, and went to the polls. A major test and the possibil ity of violence comes Sunday when residents of urban centers, tense with agitation by Moslems and rightwing European settlers, cast their ballots. The settlers violently oppose De Gaulle's plan for making Algeria an autonomous state and giving the Algerians themselves political self-determination at a later date. African Nations Urge UN Disarm Congo Chief CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) I President Gamal Abdel Nasser Leaders of five left-leaning Afri can states urged the United Na lions today lo disarm the Congo forces of Col. Joseph Mobutu Im mediately and free the imprisoned ex-Premier Patrice Lumumba. Mobutu's soldiers were de nounced as "lawless bands." In one of a series of conference resolutions, the leaders of the United Arab Republic, Guinea Ghana, Mali and Morocco also urged the United Nations to recon vene the Congolese Parliament and expel all Belgian and other foreign military personnel who are not under U.N. command. They declared their "intention and determination" to withdraw their own men from the 20,000- man U.N. command unless this Is done. But they fixed no time limit. They have threatened this before. Of the five, only Mali has no troops in the Congo. It has contrib uted a small nonmilitary staff. ine group proclaimed a "char ter of new Africa" for cooperation in political, economic, military ana cultural auaira. The conference decided that group of tvthniclans will set up four commissions to organize the cooperation among African na tions. These technicians are ex pected to make their reports with in three months. of the U.A.R. failed to persuade the other African leaders to break, off relations with France immedi ately over Algeria. A watered-down version of Nas ser's plan was approved Friday in a resolution signed by the five nations warning France that tinuation of the Alaerian war would force them to "reconsider' relations. The resolution, released after a 6 '4-hour session of this Africaa summit, indicated a victory for the moderates Morocco, Mall and Ghana. Nasser bsi been backed only by Guinea. . All five reiterated their support for the Algerian rebels and ap- nrnvpd "the enlistment of African and other volunteers in the (Alge rian rebel) army of liberation. The resolution denounced me assistance given by aiv " France." in .rurat announcement, the conference blasted the French referendum now under way fa i Al geria, through which President Charles de Gaulle tapes t achieve eventual self-determine- Uon for the territory. - The conference said It supporU former Premier Patrice Lumunv ha as lbs only legitimate I meat leader W the Conga. 4 r v. ' 1 1 r
