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, u.op oSS.LlBSASr SS?4PEa 8ECTI0I C03tf. In The- Day's News By FRANK JENKINS By a vote of 217 to 212, the house of representatives of the new congress backs Speaker Ray burn's move to upset the conserva tive majority in the important and powerful house rules committee which has wide powers in decid ing what bills shall come before the house for a final vote. It is a victory for President Kennedy's "liberal" program, but it is a narrow one. Twenty-two liberal Republicans joined 195 lib eral Democrats for a liberal total ot 217. Sixty-four conservative Democrats joined 148 conserva tive Republicans for a conserva tive total of 212. On the basis of this vote, which follows a bitter battle, (Ihe membership of the house of representatives in the new congress that has just con vened will be divided as follows: Liberals 217 Conservatives 212 Which is to say: A change of only three votes from the liberal side to the con servative side can upset the lib eral majority. That's a narrow margin. The San Francisco fra depart ment has a new gadget. It is a king-size alarm built right into the fire alarm boxes on the streets. When the lever is pulled to sound an alarm of fire, it lets go with a clang that can be heard for BLOCKS. So- If it's a false alarm artist who culls the lever, he is left there in FULL SIGHT OF EVERY BODY. If he pulls the lever and runs, everybody can see him run ning. The idea is to make it easier to catch and punish those who turn in false alarms. ? There have been other schemes to accomplish the same purpose. One gadget was a set of hand cuffs concealed in the alarm box. When the lever was pulled to sound an alarm, a door opened and the handcuffs reached out automatically and clamped around tie wrists of the sounder of the aiarm. It wasn't very popular, ' because it worked alike on the just and unjust. The just,- who were doing their civic duty by pulling the fire alarm lever when they saw a fire were consider ably annoyed when they found themselvesbained to the post. Another scheme for catching givers of false alarms was a de vice that smeared the hands of the lever pullers with an invisible dye that could be seen only un der ultra violet light. That also applied both to the just and the unjust. Besides, it developed, the inspec tors never could find the people with the invisible dye on their hands. The new device is a great im provement. When the honest citi zen sees a fire and pulls the lever on the alarm box, all he has to do is to stand there and wait, secure in the strength of his posi tion. The fire will be his prool that he is an honest citizen, in tent upon performing his civic duty. If the false alarm artist who pulls the lever RUNS he will be chased. If he stands pat, he will be in a bad fix. Now if we could only find a y to tag the weird character! who turns in false bomb alarms, we would be making real progress. Went her Klamath Falls and vicinity Considerable cloudiness with occa sional showers and brief clearing periods today through Thursday. Freezing level near 7,0(10 feet. High 43-48. Low tonight 28-34. High yesterday 51 Low last night 37 Precip. last 24 hours .SO Since Oct. 1 S.85 Same period last year 2.11 1 aW ft 4 'if 4, Price Ten Cents 20 Pages KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY I, 1961 Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 59 Weather Northern California Cloudy with local fog and showers north of Sun Francisco and Sacramento through Thursday; little tempera ture change, Mt. Shasta-Siskiyou area Show ers with little temperature change through Thursday. , i fflinuteman M issile Program Gets Big Boost From A Q mazin ccess Captive Ship Cautiously Moses Into Brazil Harbor RECIFE, Brazil (AP) Thelago in Caracas. Venezuela. It wasl The U.S. Navy spokesman said Sanla Maria headed in from the in Caracas that Galvao plotted Rear Adm. Allen E. Smith Jr., South Atlantic toward Recife with seizure of the $16.6 million Por- and Brazilian authorities con- her captive passengers today, butituguese liner in hopes of starting j ferred aboard the ship about land to unseat Portugal s premier, An tonio Salazar. Quadros showed concern lor the' stopped short of the dock for an other parley to determine future action. ing of the passengers and the San ta Maria's future. Officers of the U.S. destroyer Damato said the negotiations took PROPOSED NEW FOPEST . EXTERIOBI FOREST JtHJOTABT AEA raw KUMh1 icTS I AREA F6ut FEEMONT 3 AREA FKW Df SMJIf S . proposed mnm TO FREMONT KMST ; A U.S. Navy spokesman an-.passengers aboard, saving: nounced this development as "We accompany with profound President Janio Quadros met with feelings the fortunes- of Ihe hun-; his cabinet in Brasilia. 1,000 miles "'eds of passengers who find to the southwest, to ilecide what ' lnemselvcs under your guard and standing still in the water under to do about the hijacked ship, j responsibility. a noontime sun. As for the rebels themselves, Quadros sent assurances of politi cal asylum to their chief, Capt. Henrique Galvao. Quadros' message did not meas ure up completely to Galvao's re quest to unload passengers, refuel and return to sea to continue his fight against the dictatorial re gime in Portugal. The new chief executive, inau gurated Tuesday, radioed felicita tions to Galvao and recalled a meeting they had several months By HOWARD BENEDICT CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) A Minutcraan mis sile, America's hope for a pushbutton war weapon, scored an amazing success on ils first test Might today. A jubilant Air Force rc ported 20 minutes after the 11 a.m. EST launching thai 11 throe stages had fired successfully and that the rocket had landed on target in the south Atlantic Ocean, more than 4,000 miles away. The Air Force had gone all out on the initial firing of this second generation intercontinental range missile, which will prowl the countryside on hard-to-find railroad trains, or stand poised in hardened underground holes, ready for firing on instant notice. General Thomas D.l While, Air Force chief of staff, called the success "one will begin to close, many military experts predict. Many predict both nations will be even in num- place about three miles off the!0' the most significant stcpscr of long range missiles in 1965. port, outside Brazilian territorial waters. The Sanla Maria wasj 69,000-Yolr Line Kills Teenager In Salem Area this nation has ever taken 6ward gaining interconti nental missile supremacy in the critical years just ahead." Never before had so many rock et components been tested on a first launching here. All three sol id fuel stages, Ihe guidance sys tem and nose cone were tested to day. The distance covered was just 2.000 miles short of Ihe in The advent of Minutoman will begin an era when rockets rather than manned bombers will be the dominant deterrent force in the Strategic Air Command. The rocket also reverses a Uend to ward more expensive missile sys tems. Construction is expected to start soon on 200-ioot deep silos and other facilities for three 55-missila Minulcman squadrons at Malm slrom Air Force Base near Great ! ended operational range of 6,300 Falls, Mont. ,T ... . t r . I . 'ill kmltMMm-dmtm-tiMMimamimimM iimtM imiiiiMii wurii- nmnni.l I SoSons See Ho Drastic Futri -Phms' DETAILS OF THE PLAN to establish a new National Forest out of the lands of the former Klamath Indian Reservation plus some modifications in the other adjacent forest areas were outlined to a large group of Interested persons Tuesday afternoon at the Klamath County Library. Here, Bob Kent, left, president of the chamber of commerce, and Al Hattan, right, member of the committee which first prompted the move for the National Forest, talk with J. Herbert Stone, regional forester for the U.S. Forest Service, Stone outlined the new forest areas as indicated in the map above, and told the group a final decision on the matter would have to be made no later than April I, WASHINGTON UP) - Demo crats and Republicans who sl'ned farm legislation in Con wess in recent years had this advice today for Ihe Kennedy ad ministration: Build on existing farm programs, The legislators saw little chance li Congress for any drastic farm proposals. The advice comes before the nW administration gels down to drafting the farm proposals Prcsi ?nt Kennedy will submit to Con gress within the next two weeks. A three-member task force com mittee on "the key elements of Ihf agricultural situation" handed the new administration its farm program recommendations Tues- SALEM (AP) A teenageri climbed a' power transmission tower, brushed against two 69,000- volt lines and was killed outright flash of crackling blue: flame late Tuesday' night, sher iff's deputies said. The dead man was John Star! Ruggles, 18, of Turner. It took hours to remove his body, found draped over two power lines high on the' tower, said John Zabinski. chief investigator for the sheriff's office here. Zabinski said the events that led to Buggies' dealh began as he and two ollwr persons were driving in 'the Stayten area and the battery of the car went dead near a Consumers Power Co. sub station. ' Ruggles left his companions, Guy LcRoy Anderson, 20, of Mar ion, and Billie Parker, 17, Lyons, and climbed over an eight-foot fence into the substation, the dep uty said. The deputy quoted Anderson and Miss Parker as saying that Rug gles told them he was climb the tower, unhook a wire, run it to the car and use it to provide power to start the car tower, the deputy said. A short time later, there was a shower of miles This was the first time that all flame crackled on slaRCS, f " f-,ckct WerC' sparks. Blue the tower. Coroner's deputies and power company linemen found the body at the 40-foot level on the tower. Space Mon5t Is Chipper; Is CAPE CANAVERAL, Sa. (AP) Winding up a space flight with a chipper, cheerful handshake, a chimpanzee called Ham today sig nalled a go-ahead for man to en- manufactured by different con tractors. Thiokol made the first stage, Aerojet the second and Hercules the third. Boeing Air craft Co. is assembly and test manager. Anything beyond the first stage will he strictly a bonus," a project official said. We decided to go for broke on the first launch hecauso success woald cut the test program by several months.' Previous multistage military rocket programs here started with testing of only one stage and worked up lo the full configura tion, gradually weaving in guid ance, nose cone and other refinements. The Air Force plans to have Minuleman ready for combat by mid-ir2. Once the missile is perfected ter space safely. I",e A,r t01ce P"ns ,n0 lastest Ham is due back this afternoon TP " T " iraai inn jtiiiiiiiiiiivii iu up ire- tn (die ru.Lnl Pnn n..! ..,t,:U nat itug-r p-- "-""'"'iploycd by 1964. About 450 of these going toihe 'eft mighty abrupt y Tuesday:.; b(j ' acnss wcslcrn atop a Redstone rocket, (See pictures Page 4-A.) The largest animal ever sent! John called me three times aloft, Ham's trip 155 miles high and he Has on the other side of the fence," the deputy quoted An derson as saying. "He told me he .1 .. . . TLn, nnn.a fllnpnv . nmn respectsto meeting promises of'kncw a," abo"' dcctrlclly and was the Republicans rather than of;flnR "nhk '" e r hu-or anH n,n ,1 In tho .or tn the Democrats in Ihe i960 cam paign. The committee opposed in creases in price supports for ma jor commodities and expressed kid- Utiles Six Americans Are Imprisoned HAVANA (AP) Six American adventurers, who faced possible execution as conspirators against Fidel Castro's regime, have been sentenced to 30 years imprisonment. The Americans were sentenced iee. the House Democratic lead- nia, both of whom have voting Tuesday, three days after their ership digs in today for a long records friendly lo legislation ex- entos Victory In Hani For Program WASHINGTON 'AP) After.for membership on Ihe committeelly wresting Rules Committee con- scoring an Wportant victory oniwere Reps. Carl Elliott of Ala-trol from the coalition, indicated think the best chances are lo enlargement of its Rules Commit- bama and B. F. Sisk of Califor-'that the coalition is a force that start it. 1 thought he was ding " Anderson and Miss Parker re lated that, moments later, Rug- the view that farmers would he '"km unlikely lo support rigid farm pro duction control measures. Kcfciedy's campaign farm pro gram and the Democratic plat form favored higher price sup: ports . and measures to control farm production and to halt sur plus output. On Capitol Hill today, Sen. Al len J. Ellender, D-La., chairman of the Senate Agriculture Commit tee, said: "With the possible ex ception of wheat and its surpluses, fight to enact President Kenne dy's legislative program. The fight probably will be pectcd to be advocated by the President. Three normally with the must be reckoned House floor. It found 22 Republicans joining il5 Democrats to uphold Ray conservative burn, and 64 Democrats and 148 trial before a military tribunal Castro himself reportedly had been weighing the verdict. Their sentences,' the maximum ,., . :,.. rn vin. Reoublicans had the inside track! Republicans voting against him prison terms under Cuban law,1, , .,' vpnnrdv ndministra- for vacant COP posts. They arcl Technically, the loser was were interpreted here as the Cas-Ljon an(j sj,. Sam Rayburn H. Allen Smith of California, EI-Chnirman Howard W. Smith, tro regime's reaction lo President jo Texas as won wjtn ony a!mer J. Hoffman of Illinois and D-Va., of the Rules Committee, Kennedy's denunciation in n's'fjve.vote margin. iKatharine St. (ienrge of Now who directed Ihe fight against State of the Union message Mon- ' i Vork. . jwhat he called "packing" the day of Communist influence in lne ""ST ,,. The House vote, while nominal-committee. rh rvf.n . 5aiH ihlhaclt Rayburn s plan to enlarge, , will appeal thc Rulos Comrn'Uce from 12 ,0 The Americans said they sailed'15 mers. tinS mmitteel . r.,h, . i,in nfH .h cirn control from a conservative coali- .-.vnlmion Thev are tore,' R lion TtKrelically this puts liber- Beck. 24. of Norton. Mass.; Tom- improve and continue our existing programs." and 420 miles southeast into the Atlantic into the rescuing handsi of the U.S. Navy carried several main significances: 1. It indicates manned space flight is feasible. An American astronaut is scheduled this spring to duplicate Ham's daring flight. 2. The Soviets appear likely to win the race to be first to orbit a man around the earth. 3. A very slight misfiring in the rocket system hurling out Ham's capsule may well require further tests with or without a chimp aboard, before a man goes up. But this also produced valua ble dividends. , 4. Ham himself is reported In excellent shape, a smart 37 pounds of amiability. Plucked from the sea by a heli copter from the USS Donncr, he shook hands with the veterinarian NEW ROADS, La. (API Eight greeting him when his one-ton 8 Fighting For Lives After Gas United States in underground si los designed lo survive a near miss by a nuclear bomb. The re mainder will be on special rail road trains. Defense planners are talking of eventually having 2,000 Minute- men on station. As the Minuleman force is built up, Ihe so-called missile gap Be tween this country and Russia Once in place, the missiles will be manned and guarded only through remole controls. Each iiilo will be capped by a 10-ton concrete hatch. Nearby will be an underground checkout console whose electronic instruments will keep a close watch on the missile and report any technical trouble, a. About three miles away, two Air Force men will be in an un derground control center. They will keep tabs on 10 missilci m a squadron. In an emergency, any one of the five control posts in a squadron could fire all 55 mis siles in a mailer of minutes. -. The first Minuleman train la slated to start rolling over 100,000 miles of U.S. railroad trackage in 196.1. The five to eight missiles aboard will be concealed in a hori zontal position. Minuleman is the first U.S. ICBM powered by' solid fuel, which also is used in the Navy'j Polaris rocket and the Army') Pershing. This propellant is easy to handle and easy to store. With less complexity, size and weight Minutoman has the mobil ity that the liquid fuel Atlas and Titan lack, but its warhead will be smaller. Economy of personnel is anoth er Minuteman feature. Five hun dred men will be needed for a 55 missile squadron, or about 9 per mfcsile. Six hundred men are re quired for a 9-missile Atlas squad ron, about 66 men to a missile. Fishery Phase Of Dams Slated WASHINGTON (AP)-A federal official says the fisheries phase of a Power Commission hearing on competing applications or per-ivould persons, their lungs badly acaicd from chlorine gas which terror ized the tiny farm and lumber! community of nearby Labarre, fought for their lives in a hos pital today. Whiffs of the chlorine gas, which escaped fftpm a railway tank car derailed Tuesday, still hung in the air but the area is now consideicd safe. A chemist said the ground was saturated with chlorine and it take a long time to wear space capsule was unlocked three hours after launching. After a medical checkup, Ham drew a bonus of a banana and a bit more apple on top of his scientifically prescribed menu. Canadians Held ForThefi mils to build dams on the Snake River will open in Portland March mv L. Baker, 2H. of Dothan. Ala Donald Joe (Ireen. 28. of Clover. al Democrats 8-7 edge. control bv an NEW VORK IL'PII Policeland William Livingston. 33, (held four Canadians todav in con- David M. Ramsay. 3.1, Toronto. out." The area was covered with soda ash and liquid caustic acid to neutralize the deadly green Testimony on the possible effect gas. r- and ihe dams will have on migratory! SevVmecn people remain hospi- Ben-Gurion Bids Future The White House reported Ken-!nedion with the theft of HO.Ofio in i Miss Wade's attorney, lleibert SC.; James E. Bean. 34. of Cedar nedy was pleased with the out- jewels and $1,000 in cash from the, Strauss, said she could not be in Falls N.C Alfred E. Gibson 32. come. Officially he had laken no hotel suite of President Kennedy's volved in the Iheft because she jtalized, eight of them in "very lish will be heard. The competing applicants areicritical condition. the Washington Public Power Sup- The victims are likely to con ply System and the Pacific North-ltract chemical pneumonia on Ihe of Durham. N.C. Louis Schmidt. 21, and Leonardjdirect part in the fight, but left sister. Patricia, and her actor hiis-larrived in New Vork from Canada west Power Co. Washington Public second day. doctors told newsmen JERUSALEM, Israeli Sector (AP) Stubborn old David Ben Gurion, one of the founding fa thers of (lie Israeli republic, onslaught of Ihe mothers, Oregon Sm For Motes' InviHira SALEM (AP)-The House Edu-I cation Committee braced itself to day for an invasion of hundreds of mothers who will protest against a bill that wild make children be a little older before they start school,. Rep. Tom Monaghan, D-Milwau- kic, committee chairman, said Ihe! Signs which did not comply would have to be removed by July 1, 1064. Rep. Thomas R. McClellan, D Neotsu, got into the controversy dftir whether fraternal Jodgcs should bo taxed, as dirorad by the state Tax Commissi. McClellan sponsored a bill to number of mother. Is ex'pected to'srant a $10,000 exemption on the he so large (hat he has engaged the biggest hearing room in the capitol. The hearing was sched uled to start at 3 p.m. The bill, sponsored by the Ore gon Education Association, would require that children who become six years old after July 1 would have to wait until the following year to start to school. Children now are accepted If they become six by Nov. 15. The OEA says the bill's puriwsc is to prevent immature children true cash value of lodge proper ty. This would exempt nearly all the Grange halls. Utah Man Is Named WASHINGTON (AP)-Dr. Slcr- of Chicago. Hippo For Sale I no doubt that he favored the Ray-band. Peter Lawford. afler it was committed. Power wants to build Ihe Nezl The gas killed an burn plan Chief of Detectives John T , The four already were being Perce Dam. Pacilic Northwest boy and sent about 100 people toj j Under Tuesday's action. Demo-Walsh broke the wall of silcncejheld in $10 Hon hail each in a shop- wants lo build Motinlain Sheep hospitals and clinics. Scores of (crals will add two members to surrounding the 2-weck-old rob-ili((ing case. IDam. 'farm animals were killed. slaked his political future today on getting his own way in the Lavon Affair. President Izhak Bcn-Zvi, ac- The billboard industry Intro duced ils bill loday to restrict bill boards on interstate freeways. This bill follows defeat last No- . month old ccpling Ihe 74-ycar-old patriarch's vembcr of a moasu that would resignation as prime minislcnhave virtually banned the boards Tuesday, gave no immediate in dication whether he would ask 'the cnmmiltce and Republicans he'y by announcing that three It was learned (hat a diamond A uumlier of state and private Eighteen cars of a Kansas Cify him lo Iry and form a new gov will add one. Repjblicans also, men and woman from Toronto brooch was found by detectives agencies and organizations will Southern freight piled up on Ihe ernmeht or call for new elections. NEW VORK IUPI' A BOO- have two vacancies to fill on the and Montrenl ere prime sin- in the tusiects' apartment here pound hippopotamus named Lily1 committee pects in the case. They were be-, last Sunday after the four were who has been on exhibit at the. The new lineup will be 10 Demo- ing questioned at a police stalionjarrrsted on charges of stealing a Central Park Zoo was offered for era Is and S Republicans The in the Borough of Queens. hariy'i suit from a Fifth Avenue todav supply testimonv. Several of them ; Louisiana and Arkansas tracks asked for the fisheries phase to bejalong Stale Highway I. bold in the Northwest. I The chlorine car burst Wcsteriy-Public Power opposed Officers and volunteers, open Official rea.-jChfor selling1 lakes up too murh room. Bcn-Gurion's Cabinet will continue. i a caretaker government. The veteran statesman has quit realiz- as prime minister seven limes be a political ma- She ocrats and 4 Republicans. police as Ronald Sprarv 30, and hrooc h was identified Tuesday asiand ii "Mnrneys say they ill ! can warning residents lo seek neuver and always has bounced Democrats slated to be lapped, Rosalind Wade, 21, Mon'real. part of the lawford loot. prolr)n move. Ihigh ground lo escape the fumes.lhack on lop. -,..:..lu e r I n, ,.. .t- unr ,Ar,t.(tnA U.. J .u.. tu. t-... v- v..iiu.:J, r r ,uH L,,,,.. i,iAri. ... .,.- in,.Ai.,.j (... .......It., n. from starting to school. But the linR M- McMurrin. 47, a quiet, bill is expected to die before the a,fable Philosopher who believes in in in uncial uiiuciion lo Hoep the nation's schools from drifting off course, is the new U.S. com missioner of education. The academic vice president at Ihe University of Utah was pointed Tuesday by President from freeways. Kennedy. He succeeds Lawrence The new ecislal on. nlroduccd Ui crimen in i.ne wu.ouo-a jcar by Uie Senate Highway Commit tee, would ban billboards fronV freeways, wilh Ihese exceptions: highway signs, signs advertising sale or lease of property along, MeMurr in says, job. . "I believe that certain types of federal aid are both desirable and necessary for education," the freeways, signs advertising activities conducted within 12 miles, and ligns giving traveling information to the public. I see no reason why federal aid to education must mean soma kind of federal dictation to local institutions." o 0o o 0 00 03 00 ? 0 e. Ocsooco $3 C-Jh OOCCOO O C8f o o OOO O
