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Newspaper Page Text! The- Weather Northern California-Night ao4l morning fog and locally In valleya through Wednesday, otherwise fair except cloudy in north Wednesday with rain likely north of Uklah. Ml. Shasta-Siskiyou area Fair today; cloudy tonight and Wednes day with showers likely Wednes day; warmer. Day's lews High yesterday Low last night Precip. last 24 hours Since Oct. 1 Same period last year By FRANK JENKINS Brace yourself! ' There's something new in the news. Price Ten Cents 14 Pages KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1961 Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 6.591 The luxury 20,900-ton Caribbe an cruise liner Santa Maria, fly ing the flag of Portugal, with 600 tun-seeking passengers aboard, is SEIZED BY PIRATES somewhere in the Caribbean sea. Some 50 to 100 men were in volved in the piracy, Armed with tommy-guns, grenades and pistols (there are no reports of cutlasses carried in their teeth) they rush the Santa Maria's bridge, kill one officer, wound another and take the captain prisoner. How the pi rates got on board has not yet been told. The passengers were terrified, but apparently none were hurt.' A later radio broadcast from the Santa Maria says the passen gers will be put ashore safely at the first port willing to guar antee that the seized ship won't be interned. Two U.S. destroyers and a Brit ish frigate are searching the aeas. The U.S. cans are under orders to search the Santa Maria AFTER locating her, and if an act of piracy has been committed to escort her to the nearest U.S, port. ' The British admiralty says Its vessels have been ordered to try to arrest the liner if it can be done peacefully outside territorial waters (that is, on the high seas) without loss of life or the risk of scuttling. . The leader of the pirate band ts reported as this is written to have Cot the National Broadcast' ing Company on the ship's radio and have stated that the seizure of the ship is the first step toward (overthrowing the Salazar govern ment of Portugal. Apparently the pirate crew includes a press agent. It's a screwball world. What next? A thrifty thought: Maybe, if youre planning a cruise, you'd better add piracy to the risks covered by your in- surance policy. ' Temperature report: At International Falls, Minneso ta, this morning it was 32 BE LOW, and at Anchorage, Alaska, It was 32 ABOVE. It was 31 be low at Devils Lake, North Dako- ta. and 31 above at Juneau. Even the weather has gone cockeyed. In conclusion: Here in the State of Jefferson, we're happy to report, there are no pirates on Klamath lake, the weather is mild, the recession Isn't biting too hard and nobody Is planning to overthrow the gov ernment. For which let us be thankful. Cold Weather Continues Hold In Two Regions By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS More biting cold spread into the Hortheast today but temperatures! moderated in most of chilled , South. ' " The season's longest and most severe cold wave showed no in dication of breaking up in the Midwest or Northeast. Frigid weatheu was expected most of the week. Gusty northerly winds powered a fresh, mass of arctic air into the Midwest, dropping tempera tures to nearly 30 degrees below tero in North Dakota and Minne sota. Mother Gets Jail Term For Doping CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) - A Juvenile Court judge sentenced the mother of the "sleeping beauty" Fratantonio sisters today to the maximum penalty of a year in jail and a fine of $500, plus costs, for secretly feeding the little girls sleep-inducing drugs. Judge Albert A. Woldman stern ly lectured the mother, Lillian Fratantonio. j "You were not only a bad mother to your children, you were a bad w ife to your husband. Un less there is a change in your personality, you should not be trusted with the upbringing of your children," the judge said. He told the 29-yoar-old" mother ' of five that she was fortunate she was charged only with ill-treatment of her two daughters, Ber adelte, 3, and Venita, 6. It is arty a matter of luck, the judge told her, that the children es taped 'death and the charge was not .more serious. 11 'W vgj AvT fw DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD candidates have been picked by local Junior Chamber of Commerce members. They are, from left, Bill Clark, John Heilbronner and Wes Sine. All have been outstanding in civic, business and religious activities, say Jaycees. The winner will ba announced during a public awards night banquet at the Klamath Union High School cafeteria Thursday evening. Senior Citizen' Award and Outstanding Young Farmer Award will be presented then, too. 071 Expansion Program -i ' '.''.' ' ''.' In Hands Of Legislature PORTLAND (AP) The state Board of Higher. Education's Building Committee decided today to drop into the lap of the legis lature the question of how fast to Union Chief Corruption WASHINGTON (AP)-James G. Cross has quit as president of the Bakery and Confectionery Work ers International Union provided a pending corruption case against him is dropped and he is given a reported $250,000. The union's general executive board announced it had agreed to terms with Cross after sending a deputation to negotiate with him at his Palm Beach, Fla., home. The board said "complete de tails of the settlement agreement must await court approval" but they include dismissal of pending Jet Crashes With Bomb, Two Killed GOLDSBORO, N.C. (AP) - A multimillion-dollar jet bomber carrying two unarmed nuclear weapons crashed near here early today. Two men were killed, four parachuted to safety, one man survived the crash and one was missing. The Air Force said there was no danger of nuclear explosion or radiation. One of the' unidentified nuclear weapons was jettisoned before the crash and was parachuted safely, The second was found in the wreckage of the huge eight-jel B52G ot the Strategic Air Com mand which crashed about 15 miles north of Goldsboro. Arresfs Provide Partial Answer To Puzzling Crime LOS ANGELES (AP) - Theylinlo the truck, they said. said $113,200 just couldn't be missing but it was. They saidcleared. The route was re-traced the crime couldn't happen but it did. Investigators concluded: "Somebody goofed." With that puzzling observation, the case was put in a file marked "unsolved." That was 19 months ago. Monday the FBI disclosed the arrest of two men and said the mystery at least was partially solved. Here's what happened: At 9:30 a.m., June 4, 1959, truck No. 59 of Armored Trans port Co. picked up currency andwhat led to the arrests, said: "In coin at the Bank of America's vestigation indicated Lubin was 11th and Figueroa branch. 'unlawfully furnished keys to Ar In the next 6'i hours, the truck, mored Transport Co. trucks by made 17 rouline stops, picking up Tharp." money at banks and business firms. At the end of the run, a money bag containing the $113,- 200 was. gone The guards told investigators they had left the truck unguarded but locked not an unusual occur - rence at five brief slops. When1 they returned there was nothing to indicate anyone had broken; J expand facilities at Oregon Tech nical Institute. Hie legislature put OTI under the Board of Higher Education, effective last July. A major prob Sidesteps Suit, Quits litigation brought by some union subordinates alleging that Cross has systematically plundered' the union's treasury. It was reliably reported the board has agreed to give Cross over $250,000 cash to liquidate his pension rights, and that there are other considerations. For example, earlier drafts of proposed settlement agreements were said to have specified that in the event Cross is faced with new legal proceedings growing out of his eight-year union presi dency the union would pay for'HB defense counsel and all other costs. The suit pending in federal court here charges, among other things, that over $100,000 in union funds already has been used to pay va rious legal costs in defending Cross, and that union money was used to buy and maintain his Floridn home. It also was charged that va rious personal expenses for Cross and his wife, including food, auto mobiles and entertainment, were paid by the union. Cross has made his resignation conditional upon the litigation's being dismissed. It will be up to the court to decide whether this can be done. A private auditing firm reportedly has been investi gating the union's finances at court direction. Cross' union was expelled sev eral years ago from the AFL-CIO on grounds it was corruptly domi nated. The AFL-CIO established a rival union called the American Bakery & Confectionary Workers which has taken over approxi mately 80,000 of the original un ion's 140,000 members. The guards were checked and inch by inch for clues but noth ing turned up. Monday Eli Lubin, 40, a one time crony of ex-gambler Mickey Cohen, and Glenn M. Tharp Jr., 36, a salesman soliciting business for the armored truck firm until his arrest last week, were ar raigned. They pleaded innocent to charges of conspiracy and theft: of federally insured money. In-i vestigators said they refused to! discuss the case. The FBI, withholding details of William G. Simon, FBI agent;men of the U.S. Air Force C130 in charge here, said Lubin took, were delivered to U.S. officials the money from the truck while it was lelt unguarded possibly with the help of others. He in- dicaled there may be additional1 arrests, What happened to the money? That's still an unsolved question, the FBI said. lem now is moving the Klamath Falls institution to a new campus, Chairman Henry Cabell said the speed with which this should be done will have to be determined hy money available. The board has proposed a three- phase shift with $2 million worth of laboratory and classroom facil ities built on the new campus, and shop administration and dormitor ies moved gradually over a period of six years. Chancellor John Richards said the legislature might like a swifter move to keep up with industry's needs tor more technicians "If the legislature wants to re vamp the plans," said Cabell, "they will have to face up to the cost of moving dormitories and all." Under present dormitory finan cing plans, six years will! be re quired. Committee To Clarify Exemptions SALEM (AP) - The Senate Taxation Committee decided Mon day to try to clarify the laws governing property tax exemp tions. ' Confusion over the issue began two months ago when the State! Tax Commission instructed coun ty assessors to tax fraternal lodges. Carlisle Roberts, research head of the commission, told the com mittee that the commission be lieved that the legislature in tended that the lodges should go on the tax rolls. But members of the committee said they believe that the legis lature intended to keep them ex empt. Ted Turner, secretary of the Oregon Non-Profit Organizations, said that if the lodges are taxed, then churches and other religious and charitable ' organizations should be taxed, too. Mrs. Olga Wilson, representing the state grange, said ' that; granges should not be taxed be cause of the community service they perform. Some assessors have put grange halls on the tax rolls. Kenneth Omlid, Lane County assessor representing the asses sors of the stale, urged that the exemption law be clarified. Crewmen Alive, Article Reports NEW YORK (AP) - A Soviet magazine says the 11 missing crewmen of a U.S. reconnais sance plane shot down by Soviet fighters near the Turkish border on Sept. 2, 1958, parachuted to earth and were captured, the New York Times reported today from Moscow. The bodies of six of the 17 crew- at the Turkish Border 10 days after the plane was downed. The Soviets have never said what hap- pened to the other 11 men. The State Department told the Times it had asked the Soviet! Foreign Ministry for clarification of the magazine article. PktB$ 7dB President Will Address Congress On State Of Union Views Monday WASHINGTON (AP) - Presi dent Kennedy will deliver his first State of the Union message to a joint session of Congress Monday. House Speaker Sam Rayburn, D-Tex., told newsmen the date was agreed on at a meeting of Democratic congressional leaders with the President this morning. He said he assumed the hour far Kennedy's appearance before the joint session will be the usual one -12:30 p.m. EST. Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana told news men there was no discussion at today's meeting of the legislative recommendations that Kennedy win suDmii 10 congress later. He said that he expects sepa rate messages embodying legisla tive proposals will be sent to Con gress within a week or two atler Kennedy delivers his State of the Union message. Klamath Man Is Victim Of Accident Harold T. (Sync) Halaas, well known Klamath f ills barber and musician since 1928, was fatally injured in a one-car accident about 9 a.m. Monday on Highway 30 near Hermiston. He was 57 years old. Mrs. Halaas (Katheryne), prom inent in the local entertainment field, driver of the car, is in a Hermiston hospital with severe facial cuts and other injuries. Oregon Slate Police reported that the Halaas car went off Die highway 18 miles west of Pendle ton, slammed into a ditch and then veered back onto the road Halaas was thrown to the pave ment. The car then plunged into a roadside bank. Halaas is reported to have suf fered back and chest injuries. Mr. and Mrs. Halaas had been in La Grande visiting the Kyle Morgan family, former residents of Klamath Falls and were en route home at the time of the accident. Halaas who operated a barber shop at 121 North Eighth Street, had been involved in a traffic accident some months ago near the Tower Theater on South Sixth, He was totally blinded as a re suit of the accident and sold his shop a short time later. Two brothers of the victim K. J. Halaas and Merle E. Hal aas, both of Klamath Falls, left immediately for Hermiston on re ceiving word of the accident. third brother, Roy, has arrived from his home in Glide. Another brother, Lawrence, also lives here. Oregon's highway death toll now stands at 31 in the first 24 days of the year according to Assocl aled Press tabulation- THE ANNUAL RANGE READY IULL SALE is scheduled for tha Klamath County Fair grounds on Thursday, Jan, lb, This popular livestock event is sponsored by tha Klam ath Cattlemen's Association. Bulls to ba offered will be in top condition for range herds. Purebred bulls of the three popular breads will ba offered. Tha group of bulls shown here is antarad by Cecil Haley of Bonanza. This is ona of tha many groups r L-L l.i l ,, . a it... . , ot nign quanry ouut to do Republicans applauded the President's decision to outline his program within a week after, tak ing office. Sens. Tiiomas H. Kuchel of Cali fornia, the assistant Senate Re- puniican leaner, ana carry uoin-j naicr, h-aiiz., saia nicy nope Kennedy makes it clear how far he intends to go in carrying out the spending pledges in the Dem ocratic platform. "The people have a right to know what this New Frontier is going to cost them," Goldwater said. Kuchel said he hopes "the ex cessive platform promises in Los Angeles will not be the basis for the President's proposals." Mansfield said he is confident "every Democrat will go along as far as he can in good conscience in support of the President's pro gram." Mansfield said that in succeed ing Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson as the Senate's majority leader he realizes that he has had to give up some of his independ ence as a senator. He said this is particularly true of a Demo cratic leader dealing with a Dem ocratic president. The Montana senator said he does not agree with the view ex pressed by former Sen, William F. Knowland of California when former President Dwight D. Ei senhower first took office. Know- land said then he was the elected leader of the Senate's Republi cans and not the president's man, Knowland sometimes differed publicly with Eisenhower. His suc cessor, Sen. Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois, was a stanch advocate of all of Eisenhower's policies. I look on the job as one that entails a certain amount of loss of senatorial independence," Mclver Defends State's Veight-Mile Tax Theory SALEM (AP) The chairman of the Oregon Highway Commis sion told a Senate Highway Com mittee hearing Monday that as much as one-half of highway costs might be due to heavy trucks. Milo Mclver, the chairman, said this was the opinion of the men in the state Highway Department who helped formulate the weight- mile tax theory. "I say this because these ex perts of the department -. . . say that the actual cost responsibility today of heavy vehicles might be as high as 40 or 50 per cent," he said. He said that in other words these same experts say the "real heavy vehicle should pay as high as 40 or 50 per cent." Those over 6,000 pounds now pay on a for mula based on 34.6 per cent. Mclver said there are more large vehicles on highways today than were anticipated in 1951. sold starting at l p.m, inursaay. d Over Mansfield said. "In its place there1 must be a certain amount of ac commodation to the President's views iii getting through the ad ministration's program. "If the time ever comes when I can t in good conscience go along with the President and I don't anticipate that it will be my thought to take the matter up with the President and see how our differences can be threshed out." Mansfield said he has every ex pectation that Kennedy will invite Republican, as well as Demo cratic, members of .Congress to sit in for briefings on important international decisions. Oregon Man BLM Chief WASHINGTON (AP)-Carl S Landstrom, a long-time career conservationist, Tuesday was ap pointed director of the Bureau of Land Management. Secretary of the Interior Stew art L. Udall said Landstrom, i native of Lebanon, Ore., will take over the $18.500-a-year post on Feb. 1. He succeeds - Edward Woozley of Malad, Idaho, who is joining the stalf of Sen. Henry C. Dworsli&k,' R-Idalio. n v. Udall said Landstrom, a career civil servant, has had nearly 25 years of experience in the field of public land management. He served recently on the staff of the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee and was with the bu rcau from 1949 until he went with the committee several years ago He said Oregon is building roads and bridges heavier than we even thought of then." Mclver spoke against a Senate bill that would lessen the weight mileage tax on trucks with t gross weight of more than 44,000 pounds. It would iron out a tax curve that climbs abruptly up-! ward as truck weights increase past 44,000 pounds. "The bill before you," Mclver said, "would reduce highway rev enue in Oregon by $1 million year with 88 per cent of the re duction accruing to truck combin ations over 70,000 pounds." Mclver said action now would be hasty and should await the outcome of the Illinois test road, designed to determine just which vehicles are responsible for what per cent of highway costs, , He said the federal government had put $27 million Into this and another test, and that Oregon had Contnhutcd $150,000. r luxwy By EUGENE MCLOUGHLIN United Pratt International A band of gun-wielding pirates who seized a Portu guese luxury cruise liner proclaimed a rebellion against the government of Portugal today. With 600 vacation ing passengers aboard, the self-announced "occupation force" dodged pursuing American and British warships through Caribbean and South Atlantic seas. The passengers, including women and children and some Americans, were reported being held in terror. But a radio broadcast from the hijacked liner Santa Maria said they would be put safely ashore at the first port willing to guarantee that terned. Passengers appeared to stunned surprise. A crew member who was put ashore at the Island of St. Lucia after the uprising said the passengers all were very frightened but that apparently none tried to resist the pirates or to flee in the ship's lifeboats. "After all, it was useless,"! the crewman said, "they were not armed and where could they go? There was only the ocean around us." The rebels made no attempt to molest the passengers, he said. Revolt Against Portugal Details of the fantastic act of modern piracy began unfolding when the rebels broadcast that they had seized the ship in an up rising against the Portuguese gov ernment of longtime Premier An tonio de Oliveira Salazar. The radio communication picked up in New York was In the form of an announcement in Portuguese from "the occupation forces of the ship Santa Maria to alt the news papers of the Free World. . The rebels described themselves! as "the International junta of lib erals presided over by Gen. Hum berto Delgado, president-elect of the Portuguese republic fraudu lently deprived of hii rights by toe salazar government." - Delgado was defeated in an elec tion in 195S by Rear Adm. Americo de Deus Rodriguez Tonus, who, became president. But Delgado said he was, deprived of victory by the Salazar regime. Becoming an outspoken critic of the govern ment, he took refuge in the Bra zilian embassy in Lisbon and even tually went to Brazil where he re ceived political asylum. The hijacking of the ship was led- by Enrique Galvao, another foe of Salazar, according to an announcement in Lisbon. Call It First Step . The broadcast from the Santa Maria was signed by Galvao who said he and his followers were taking over the ship as the first step in "liberating" Portugal, The first "communique was dispatched by wireless to the Na tional Broadcasting Corporation in New York. Food Buying Program Set By Freeman WASHINGTON (AP) - Secre tary of Agriculture Orville L, Freeman announced today the government will buy meat, eggs and some other items not now in surplus stocks to provide greater variety in the program of food donations for the needy. Foods to be bought will be canned pork and gravy, dried edi ble pea beans and dried whole egg solids. Foods now being donated from surplus stocks are flour, corn meal, nonfat dry milk, rice, lard and butter. The expansion in variety is be ing made to carry out an order by President Kennedy for increased help to low income persons, Presently about 3',i million per sons m 42 states are receiving surplus food. Freeman did not specify the quantities of additional foods to be purchased. Funds for buying the food are those made available by Congress for disposal of farm surpluses. : - Bids Called SACRAMENTO (UPI) - The state will open bids here Feb. S3 for a $405,500 widening and recon struction job on County Road TM between Hill Road and Park Street In Tulelake, K was announced Monday, the ship would not be In accept the hijacking with Galvao reaffirmed the revolu- tionary movement in a second wireless message to United Press International. He signed it "com mander of the occupation forces of the ship Santa Maria." From 50 to 100 men were in. volved in the piracy. It took place early Sunday on the same seat where the notorious Blackbeard the pirate became the scourge of - the Caribbean with his forayt against shipping more than 200 years ago. Armed with tommy guns, gre nades, and pistols, the rebelt rushed to the bridge of the 20,-906-ton Santa Maria, shot one of- licer, wounded another and took the captain as a prisoner. The uprising terrorized the oas- sengers but there were no report! that any of them had been ia- mail in we onei sun name nr in uk reoei operation ot the ship that followed. ' ' DmUmUm la lakaewa There was no word on tha shio'a destination. One report said It would try to reach Brazil, dm Del Gado la in exile. "Passengers and crew ask that their families be informed that they are well and I add well and free,'.' the radio announcement said, t .-.....! - The British Admiralty in Lon don reported that the captain of one of the search ships said he had received word from an offi cer of the captured liner indicat ing that the pirates might be steering for Brazil. The Santa Maria had been head ed from the port of Caracas for Port Everglades, Fla., the port of Miami, when the pirates struck, overpowering the crew and pos sibly taking over control of tha terrorized vacationing passenger. Moving , swiIUy, toe pirates stopped briefly off the coast of tha island of St. Lucia, one of the la- lands that stretch in an arc from Puerto Rico almost to tha coast of Venezuela. The Santa Maria dropped off seven men at St. Lucia, including one man who was wounded, ona who was sick, and five other crew members. At the massive search continued the British Admiralty In London AmnUA rw.Wa that tWm GmU Ma ria was sighted in the West In dies off Trinidad. - We have no idea where she is," an admiralty spokesman said. Ellis Gets CD Position NEW ORLEANS. La. (AP) Frank Burton Ellis, President Kennedy's choice for civil defense) director, is regarded by intimate as a top-flight organizer. The President tabbed Ellis, S3, a New Orleans attorney, for tha post Monday. He will succeed Lea A. 'Hoegh, former Iowa governor who held the $25,000-a-year job un der the Eisenhower administra tion. Ellis has long been 'active ta politics, but associates rate hint better as a campaign director and organizer than a a vota getting politician. Friends believe Kennedy bad Ellis' organizational talent bj mind when he picked him for the civil defense post. ' The President said ha conoid. ered K imperative that tha cht defense fund km "ba and performed with effectMneja."