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! The Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS In this space recently, this ques. tion was asked: Did'Melba, one of tho great operatic singers of all time, live for a period of her life in Klam ath Falls? Tfte answer seems to be that Meloa never lived here, but her husband and their son did. The husband was Captain Charles N. F. Armstrong. He lived here somewhere around the turn of the century. Their son was with him at this time. ' Weather ; Klamath Falls and vicinity Partly cloudy through Friday with a few snow flurries. Highs 37-42. Low tonight 23-30. High yesterday ' 41 Low last night .13 Preclp. last 24 hours none Since Oct. 1 S.J4 Same period last year 1.81 U.Or ORE. LIBRARY NSVSPAPER SECTION ccN.Rcr.Aio ooccacm mv. COIP. Price Tea Cfnts !0 Pages KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. THURSDAY. JANUARY 26. 191 Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 6594 Weather Northern California Shower through Friday with snow In mountalus above 5,500 feet; cold er in mountains. Ml. Shasta-Siskiyou area Show, ers through Friday with snow above 5,000 feet; little tempera' lure change. Melba was born (about 1861) in Australia, near Melbourne. Her christened name was Helen Por ter Mitchell, but when she be came world famous she adopted the name Mclba, in honor of Mel bourne. She is known in the rec- Al-Hc fie Npllip Molha Shn lianan to study the piano at the age Tof, t1 were aboard but 8 sPkes1 three, and sang to her own ac- mal a' McGuire Air Force Base companiment when she was six. in New Jersey said there were 23 In 1887, she made her Europeanlpersons 10 Navy crewmen and 13 U.S. Military Transport Lost With 28 Aboard ARGENTIA, Nfld. (AP)-A U.S. military transport plane disap peared today near the southeast tip of Newfoundland. Canadian and U.S. planes and ships began a search of the frigid waters. Information here was that 28 SUCCESS CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (API The Army has successfully fired a flare-carrying Pershing missile on a 160-mile flight down the At lantic missile range. Officials reported the 34-foot rocket Wednesday night achieved all test objectives Hhspiwl (EosS, cicduc in Brussels as (Jilda in Rigolclto. The records of the Met ropolitan Opera Association re- veal that in 1888 she married a Charles Nesbit Armstrong, said to have been the son of an Irish baronet. She made her American debut in the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. She remained at irregular intervals during five seasons. Her last appearance with the Metropolitan was during the season 1910-11. The improssion among people who knew Captain Armstrong here in the early days of Klamath Falls is that he had married Mel ba in Australia and had financed her musical education. They in cline to the belief that when she became world famous he couldn't take being merely the husband of a celebrity and urged her to re flate from the operatic stage, which she refused to do. It is known that they separat ed. There are some indications that they were later reunited, but apparently the reconciliation end ed in failure and they separated again. It seems to have been agreed that the son would be left with his father until he reached the age of 21, when he would be free to choose which parent he would remain with. At any rate, he was with his fa ther here. He is described as a frail youth, who needed the out doors. The high, dry Klamath cli mate seemed to be just what he needed.-"--'- ' Captain Armstrong Is described by those who knew him here as of the English type, big, strong and handsome. He was an ama teur boxer of great ability and spent much time training his son as a boxer. He is described as pleasant, courteous, well educated and "well raised" a charming person. He was generally believed to have been an officer in the British army. He was regarded as a man of considerable means. Interesting question: How did Captain Armstrong reach the Klamath country? There could be many answers. This fascinating region ot ours has attracted all kinds of people explorers, Indian fighters, gold seekers, railroad builders, bigj business people. But in this case there appears to have been anoth er reason. Rex Bordc, then owner of the Borde ranch out toward Olene, now owned by George Stevenson, had apparently been associated with Armstrong in the sheep busi ness in Australia. That made the Klamath country a natural place to come. He was associated with Mr. Borde in the sheep business while he was here. Anyway, that's the Mclba story. It is amply supported by many people who knew Captain Arm strong intimately while he lived here. passengers on the four-engine Military Air Transport Service C118. It was on a flight from Port Lyautey, Morocco, to Norfolk Va., via the Azores and Argentia, The last word from the missing aircraft was a radio message to Air Traffic Control at Gander, Nfld. The pilot reported he was: 455 miles southeast of Argentia. There was no mention of trouble' The CI 18 left Lajes in the Azores Wednesday night. Royal Canadian Air Force search head quarters said it was due at Ar gentia at 6:37 a.m. There was an unconfirmed re port that a U.S. Navy pilot saw an explosion at 6:14 a.m. about 28 miles southeast of Argentia. Search officials said this might have been a flare. Gander Air Traffic Control de clared an emergency when the plane did not report by radio as scheduled Those aboard were given little chance of survival if the plane landed in the water. The air tern perature was near zero in New foundland this morning. The Weather Office said the ocean water would be between 32 and 35 degrees. Search planes had sunny weath- er to aid their hunt but high winds and flying spray created the haz ard of icing for surface vessels. The plane left the Azores with enough fuel for about ll'A hours flying. The fuel would have been d up by .V D a.cv today.. Bandit Hits Drain Bank, Gets $2,000 DRAIN, Ore. (API - Police searched in the wooded Coast Range west of Drain today for a man who held up the Drain branch of the U. S. National Bank of Portland Wednesday. Bank officials said the robber got about $2,000. Police believed the man was afoot in the hills west of here. The car used in his getaway was found bogged down in a soft spot on a logging road about three miles west of Drain a few hours after the robbery. Footprints led away from the car and into the woods. There were reports at first that two men were in the escape car, which had been stolen earlier from a used car lot at Springfield. Police later said, however, that they believed the reports of two men in the car were erroneous. Only one man held up the bank. Only one set ol footprints was found leading away from the abandoned car. A CROSS SECTION of the community attended e public meetinq Wednesday night at Fremont School to hear a progress report by the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce Hospital Committee. The 125 people who attended were representatives of a wide variety of local organizations. Here, Committee Chairman Dr. Mel Amsber ry answers a question from the floor. Other members of the committee in the front row are George Proctor, far left; and Del Wright, far right. Captive Ship Races Toward Africa; Leader Wants To Drop Passengers SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (API- Shadowed by a U.S. Navy patrol plane, the captive liner Santa Maria raced toward West Africa today. U.S. destroyers set out to intercept the fugitive ship but President Kennedy said American unites ihiu uui uuvu uiuvieu lu board her. , j-. Portugueserebel leader Hen rique Galvab, commanding the seized liner as "occupied"- Portu guese territory in his revolt launched on the high seas, bold ly announced his destination as Angola, the ancient Portuguese colony on the coast of southwest Africa. But this could be a ruse to mis lead interceptors. The Santa Ma ria at last report half way be tween Puerto Rico and West Af rica and heading on a southeast erly course still was in a posi tion to swing back toward South America. Galvao, in a radio talk with the U.S. Naval pilot who tracked him down, refused to turn around and The 60-year-old rebel loader, former army captain and leading Portuguese writer, told the Navy pilot, Lt. (j.g.) Daniel L. Krauss, he wanted to "discharge passen gers unharmed earliest." He has aboard 600 passengers, including 38 Americans, but messages from the Americans to their families indicated they were enjoying their unexpectedly extended cruise. Maritime experts calculated that, on its last reported course, the 20,906-ton Santa Maria could make the African coast sometime AEC Reports New Accident IDAHO FALLS. Idaho AP)- The Atomic , Energy Commission reported no danger existed today after a brief, accidental nuclear chain reaction occurred Wednes day at its Reactor Testing Station west of here. It happened in a chemical plant which processes and salvages atomic materials from nuclear reactor fuels. Somehow the ma terials combined to produce the chain reaction. There was no ex plosion. go to San Juan and bluntly told him: Destination Angola. But he added: "Will accept con ference on board Santa Maria with U.S. authorities or any other than Portuguese or Spanish (Sala- igures Qven Ms Heeiittg President Cold War Sees Thaw WASHINGTON (UPD - Prcsi-; dent Kennedy today looked for-i ward to a cold war thaw follow ing Russia's release of two Amer ican airmen who had been held for almost seven months. The two airmen, now en route home, are Capts. Freeman B. Olmstead, 24, of Elmira, N.Y., and John R. McKone. 38, of Ton- ganoxie, Kan. They were the sur vivors of the six-man crew of a radio ference was broadcast to listeners around the world. Kennedy covered a wide range of foreign and domestic problems. He discussed Cuba, the Congo, Laos, the Chinese famine, recip rocal trade, the dollar gap and the seized cruise ship Santa Ma ria. On the domestic scene, he talked about the House rules fight, civil rights. New York poli By GUY W. FARMER The Klamath County Chamber of Commerce Hos pital Committee held a public meeting Wednesday night to report its progress toward a new hospital and to place the burden of responsibility squarely on the shoulders of the citizens of the Klamath Basin. More than 125 people in Fremont School Auditorium heard Dr. Mel Amsberry, committee chairman, discuss the hospital problem. The audience included representa tives from a wide variety of Klamath area clubs and organizations. Dr. Amsberry presented plane shot down by the Russians j'"--s. aid to the unemployed, free- over the Barents Sea July 1. zarVolosB ally V1 , miles a day. The ship reportedly has plenty of fuel and food to sail even farther. The Salazar government, de nouncing Galva'.y.n band as pi i-lrates, enlisted Uidid of the-Unit-j The President personally an nounced the Russian action at a nationally televised news confer ence Wednesday night. He said it 'removes a serious obstacle to improvement of Soviet-American elations." At the same time, Kennedy dis closed thai, he had promised So viet Premier Nikita Khrushchev that American U2 spy plane flights over Russia would not be resumed. The dramatic disclosures of si multaneous tension-casing conces sions in Moscow and Washington came at Kennedy's first formal meeting with Washington news men since taking office. In addi (Continued on Page 4-A) Governor Answers Tax Taunt -rSL. lJSltta. lo being televised.-.he con. ed States, Britain and other NATO I allies in the hunt after the cruise ship was taken over in the Carib bean early Sunday morning by an armed band who sneaked aboard in Venezuela and Curacao dis guised as passengers. But the United States, though Kennedy Starts Reorganization . Of Commission SALEM (AP) - Gov. Mark O. Hatfield, in reply to criticism from legislators, said Wednesday he never did endorse a cigarette tax or a cut in income tax rev enues Hatfield said his pica for an end lo slate income lax deductions and a percentage levy on all in come was designed to bring in the WASHINGTON (UPP - Presi dent Kennedy held his first formal cabinet meeting today and began reorganizing the top structure of, sending warships and planes to I the Interstate Commerce Commis keep watch on the ship, backed sion. a major government reguta away from earlier statements by ;tory agency. DOW. naval spokesmen that the Santa Maria would be boarded and taken in U.S. charge and her cap tors treated as pirates. Sanfa Fe, WP Say SP Aim Is To Cut Out Competition SAN FRANCISCO (AP)-Presi- dents of Western Pacific Railroad and the Santa Fe charge that the Southern Pacific seeks to elimin ate competition in its bid to gain control of Western Pacific. Statements to that effect were issued Wednesday in comment on a declaration by Southern Pacific Tuesday that it would propose joint trackage rights to Santa Fe in Northern California if the In terstate Commerce Commission approves SP's application to con trol Western Pacific. The ICC is expected lo conduct public hearings on the SP's appli cation this spring. Western Pacific and Santa Fe oppose the move. Union Pacific supports the SP. Ernest S. Marsh, president of Santa Fe Railway, said in Chi' cago that Southern Pacific's offer of joint track usage was a threat to rail competition. F. B. Whitman, president of Western Pacific, commented that the offer "makes it increasingly clear the SP's primary object in seeking control of Western Pacific is to effect dismemberment of WP and thus kill off competition." "As to the Union Pacific an nouncement," he added, "we re gret that it has seen fit lo support the SP effort to secure control ofi Western Pacific." Kennedy selected for menv bership on the ICC John William Bush, Columbus, Ohio, and Wil Iiam Tucker, Atliol, Mass. Bush is currently stato director of com merce in the cabinet of Ohio Gov. Michael DiSallc. Tucker Is an at torney who has a long record of practice before the ICC. A revamping of the practices and policies of the government's six top regulatory agencies nas been recommended to Kennedy In a special task force report. The special task force was head ed by James M. Landis. now special adviser to Kennedy. 11 urged major changes In ICC per sonnel and procedure, particularly a strengthening of the role of (lie ICC chairman. Bush, 51, and Tucker, 37, were named to vacancies created by the resignation last year of Anthony F. Arpaia and the expiration ot (he term of Commissioner John H. Winchcll. Both appointees arc Democrats. Their nominations will go to the Senate shortly. Tribes Will Receive Aid WASHINGTON (AP) - Secre tary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall announced Wednesday he has instructed the Indian Bureau lo make sure needy Indians bene fit from the expanded distribution of surplus food ordered by Presi dent Kennedy. The secretary said that a num ber of Indian reservations are among the hardest hit economic areas of the nation. . He said the Indian Bureau is working with the Department of. Agriculture as well as with state' and local agencies responsible for distributing surplus foods. All of the bureau's field offices have been instructed to cooperate in this effort. Because of the remote loca tions of many reservations and their lack of year-round employ ment, American Indians are among the groups least protected affabist economic suffering." ' L'dalt said. 'Never Lost Hope Say Wives Of Fliers same amount of revenue raised by income (axes, Rep. Clarence Barton, D-Co- quille, at a joint Senate-House tax committee meeting said Hatfield should come up with a new tax bill in view of his opposition to the cigarette tax. Chairman Dick Eymann, D-Mo-hawk, of the House Taxation Com mittee said the cigarette tax was part of a lax package that would make up revenue lost under the new income tax system. Eymann said the package pro vided for a $20 million income tax reduction and that this would be made up by the cigarette tax and a system of making quarterly tax payments which would bring more revenue. The Hatfield proposal would make persons with low incomes who now are exempt from taxes pay some. It also would give some relief to those in higher income brackets. Hatfield's reply came at a news conference shortly after Barton sparked the challenge. Eymann later sent a three-page letter to the governor asking a tax bill. You have been aware of the interim committee's recommenda tions for some time and you ex pressed approval of the package program in conference and in comments made to the press, Eymann said in the letter. Eymann said when the interim committee on taxation discussed this with the governor that Hat field went along with reducing the income lax base and passing the cigarette lax. the scope of the problem the costs of the proposed programs and the methods of financing a new hospital. The Chamber of Commerce be came involved in Uie hospital question in January 1957 after the Klamath County Medical Society released a report saying that med ical facilities would be inadequate with continued growth of the area. A more detailed study last year by the Stanford Research Institute, at a cost of $8,000, drew substan tially the same conclusions. The research group said the Klamath area would need a new 180-bcd hospital by 1UH5 lo replace exist ing facilities. The research group said further that a new hospital would cost $3.KK000 and the site an addition al $300,000. This amounts to $87 for every person in the Klamath Basin. Dr. Amsberry reviewed the many methods which have been suggested lo finance a new hos pital and said the most feasible seemed to be to form a hospital district which would have the pow cr lo levy taxes and issue bonds. ir.e responsibility tor a new hospital lies with the public." Dr. Amsncrry said. Chamber of Com merce President Bob Kent agreed years. He also said a plan to in clude northern Siskiyou County in the hospital area is being consid ered. David DcVoe of the City Planning Commission said a site near the new OTI campus would seem to be optimum. Members of the original hospital committee, besides Dr. Amsberry, are John Van Dorcn, Del Wright, f 1 .land Arlruv iut "fhn rhnmlw mii WASHINGTON (API The twol Andrews around noon today fromiMrs. Olmstead to Mrs. McKonelmy husband is dead, I wdl always American fliers released from So- Topeka, Kan., the home of Mc- weepingly. "I m still completely blame President Eisenhower. If viet custody are expected to reach jKone. dry," said Mrs. McKone with a he had handled things differently Washington Friday afternoon. President Kennedy will meet them on their arrival at Andrews Air Force Base, They will remain al the air base tonight. Salinger said an Air Force phy sician accompanied the wives on The fliers, whose freedom fromllheir flight in an Air Force plane, seven months of Soviet detention Mrs. Olmstead, he said, expects was announced so dramatically i-jby Kennedy at a televised news conference Wednesday nignt, nad originally been expected to get to Washington this afternoon.. But the White House announced today that the two men Capts. Freeman B. Olmstead and John R. McKone will spend the night at Goose Bay. Labrador, where thev arrived this morning, instead of flying on to Washington, and into a predicted snow storm. Pierre Salinger. White House press secretary, said McKone and Olmstead landed at Goose Bay at 8:35 a.m. EST. Present prospects are that they will land at nearby Andrews' Air Force Base some time after noon Friday. Wives of the two men were at baby in another month V to have or so. Salinger said that Kennedy plans lo greet McKone and Olm stead at the airport, where they (reed. grin. The two women had gotten the word that their husbands were freed just five minutes before President Kennedy announced it during his televised news confer ence. The President telephoned Mrs. McKone after the conference and she said he told her how hap py he was that the fliers had been may make a brief statement but will not hold any interviews. McKone and Olmstead are the only known survivors of the U.S. RB47 reconnaissance plane which the Russians shot down over the Barents Sea last July I. There were six U.S. airmen in kind There was the same overwhelming joy in Elmira. where Olmstcad's parents got the news "like a bombshell out of the blue" as they watched Kennedy on TV. my husband would not be where he is wherever he is." She said she had sent a tele gram and a letter to Eisenhower, asking more information about her husband's fate, but received no answer. Mrs. Goforth said she has nev er given up hope that her hus- I A ; ..li.. nnA Unn. In1;-!...... fit Al U. DnU'. fUdilu i.i nu-i, pint inin nuca iu uijuijr. ui uic vmia, uuij i ami 9 r got a first-hand account of the body was returned. snowing uuii ui me (jioih: noiiu -mc missing men are Capt. KU' uimsicao ann ivicr.one. i am in gene E. Posa. 38. of Santa Monica a state ot suspense, sne said. "It's terrible." The body of a fourth victim, the truth and just what happened to the other boys." When a reporter expressed re grel that Mrs. Palm's husband could not return too, she "I'm sorry too. I certainly hope that God in his wisdom knows best," The six-jet RB47 was shot down last July 1. Olmstead and Mc Kone parachuted to safety, though Olmstead received a serious back We tears, simply broke said the father. down in It is the the plane. The Russians rcturnedmost marvelous birthday that I the body of one man to this coun- have ever had." He is 64 today. But there was bitterness and pilot Willaid Ridge, Tcnn., B. Palm of Oak was found by the B. Phillips, and 1st Lt. Calif., 1st Lt. Dean 25, of Inwood, N.Y., Goforth. Coming just two monlhs after; the U2 spy plane was shot down try. The fate of the oilier three is unknown. "We never gave up hope," said both Mrs. Olmstead and Mrs. Mc- r.one neanesaay nignt. une wasjare still missing calm, the other fighting tears-'dcad. Connie, Soviets, they said, floating in aHecn inside the Soviet Union, the rubber life raft In the icy Barents RB47 incident was seized on by grief in the Topeka home of Mrs. Oscar L. Goforth, wife of one of the plane's three crewmen who1 nd presumed Sea. Palm's body was returned and he was buried with honors at Arlington National Cemetery. Palm's widow had a different reaction. "I am so happy to hearjspying was continuing in spite of the news." she said. "I hope now, President Eisenhower's assurance the Soviets to add fuel to that fire. They said the RB47 had vio lated the Soviet Union's frontier and said it showed U.S. aerial I'm so happy," said .Mrs. Goforth told newsmen, "If we can find out a lot of things Ithat It was not. Black Cat Lives Up To Billing For Paper Boy If 1.1-ycar-old David Ford didn't believe the old superstition of black cats being unlucky yester day, he docs today. David, a Herald and News de livery boy, was on his paper route Wednesday evening, lie stopped in front of 320 Donald Street to pel a large black cat. As he reached down, the cat jumped on his head, scratching him on the face and the back of the head The boy was taken to Klamath Valley Hospital, where three stitches were required to close a gash on his forehead. His parents. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Ford, 1204 California Avenue, reported the in cident lo city police but, as of Thursday morning, the cat or its owner had not been located. David is just glad it wasn't Friday the 13th. provide organization and lead' ership but only the people can supply the incentive to give life! to such a large project. The Stanford Research Institute figure of $4,200,000 was higher than those provided by two other sources. Harry Palmer of the State Board of Health believes the Klamath area needs only 125-bcd hospital. The cost of such a structure would be $2,600,000, but it would probably have to be ex panded to 250 beds within 10 years. The American City Bu reau also made a survey and rec ommended a smaller hospital. based on the fact that lt discov ered a "dearth of millionaires" in the' area. Dr. Amsberry said it was en tirely possible the people would only pay one-third of the cost of a new hospital as Klamath Falls is one of three Oregon cities ell- for Hill-Burton Act federal funds for one-third of the cost. The remaining third could be fi nanced through available grants Irom philanthropic foundations. In response to a question from the audience, Dr. Amsberry said the average time for a hospital lo become "operational" from the time architects go to work is 4li DR. MEL AMSBERRY Carl Kcllcy and Dr. E. E. How ard. A new expanded committee will - meet .shortly to continue work. Citizens added to the com mittee are William jiweetland. Margaret Sheridan, George Proc- . tor, Herb Waits Jr., Dr. Wayne Esperson and AI Hattan. Kent called the committee a "representative cross section of the community." He said regular progress reports would be issued. Policeman Put On Probation ALBANY. (AP) - A merchant policeman, who admitted entering Lebanon business houses and damaging fixtures, was' placed on 18 months probation here Wednes day. Melvin Bruce Berry, 25, re ceived a postponed sentence and the probation from District Judge Carl G. Stanley. Berry was charged with wilful destruction of private property. Berry was caught by Lebanon police last Friday as be attempted to enter a closed drive-in restaur ant. He later admitted other en tries, which he explained were an attempt to get merchants to sub scribe to his merchant patrol service. Control Still In Doubt After Guatemala Revolt GUATEMALA (AP)-Control of El Salvador was in doubt today following a revolt by a self-pro claimed anti-Communist military junta and reports that supporters of the previous leftist junta were making a stand. Troops loyal to the former rul ing group were reported dug in at Zapote Port in San Salvador, strongest military post in the cap ital and located just across the street from the government pal ace held by the rebels. But re ports filtering across the border said the new junta was ncgotiat ing with the armed holdouts. Details were still sketchy as to the slate of the revolt which erupted Wednesday in the small est of the 21 American republics. A member of the new five-man junta. Antonio Rodriguez Port, broadcast over El Salvador radio that his group had full command over the armed forces. Port said his group had acted because the country faced "very serious dan ger from forces of both the ex treme right and extreme left. Reports from across the border said the rebel command had ar rested a number of leftist lead ers and that students were dem onstrating in favor of the old military-civilian junta that threw out President Jose Maria Lemus on Oct. 26. Travelers arriving from El Sal vador in Managua, capital of neighboring Nicaragua, said a child had been killed and a mem ber of the former junta wounded In fighting which followed the re volt. The official was not identi fied. These travelers said martial law has been clamped on the tense capital. Other reports reaching Guatemala told of looting in down town San Salvador with some stores ransacked. All normal communications with the city were cut off, but com mercial planes still used the cap ital's airport, six miles outside of the city. . The n'cw junta, which labeled itself "eminently anti-Communist," was headed by Col. Alonso Castillo Navarcttc, 40, minister of defense in the former junta. The others wero identified as Col, Anl bal Portillo, chief of staff fat the old junta; Col. Armando Mena Molina, Lt, Col. Julio Kibera and Dr. Port, wealthy conservative, lawyer.
