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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
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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.
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Big Boost From A
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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."
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