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COUP. In The- Wpniher Northern California Cloudy with scattered showers today; clearing tonight and fair Tuesday; cooler. Day's ievs By FRANK JENKINS As this is written, the hijacked Portuguese cruise ship Santa Ma ria has just put into the harbor of Recife, Brazil, and the captive passengers and the captive origin al crew of the vessel have been Mt. Shasta-Siskiyou area Show, ers today with snow above 5,000 fret: clearing tonight and fair Tuesday; colder. U.OF 0RE.UB3ART Ht3PAPEH SECTION Since Oct. 1 .20 . . W O W Same period last year 2.39 - - - . . Price Ten Cents 14 Para KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. .MONDAY. FEBRUARY 6. 1961 Telephone TU 4-8111 No. R603 ....., ...HLHWJ- " ' " " " 1 I I I II I g Phn : ... , . .; .i Kennedy mid saving nan freed. The ship's owners have just announced that they will hon or the passengers' tickets and will return them to their homes. What of the pirate captain and his pirate crew? Well, at the moment, the pirate captain Is walking the streets of Recife (ap parently free to do as he pleases) and muttering in his beard about putting to sea again and resum ing his rebellion against the Sala zar regime of Portugal. About the only obstacle in his way, it seems at this distance and at this hour, is that the bulk of his pirate crew has taken to the Brazilian brush and can't be found. He can't sail the ship alone. And . . . besides ... he is out of provisions and out of fuel end OUT OF MONEY. But ... he isn't in durance vile. And . . , the Portuguese government has just indicated that its only real interest in the affair is the safe return of the hijacked liner and its 70 - man crew. A trifle odd, docs it seem to you? If so, you are right. Suppose you and I, commanding a motley crew of desperadoes, had hijacked a railroad train loaded with pas sengers somewhere in Portugal, or somewhere in Britain, or some where in the U.S.A. Suppose we had taken the engineer and his crew captives at gun's point and had started off on our own. Well, that would have been QUITE different. WHY would it have been differ ent? This is the answer: The hijacking of the Santa Ma ria took place on the HIGH SEAS. The high seas are No Man's Land. They belong to everybody in general and to nobody in par ticular. So strange is their statusl that on the high seas there are not even any TAXES, as you are aware if you have patronized the bars on the ships and the planes. Obviously, if there are no taxes on the high seas there can be very little government on the high seas for government and taxes are very closely related. Lei's put it like this: Suppose you covet your neigh bor's house or his business or perhaps his ranch which has come down to him since the time when his remote ancestor took it away from the Indians, or home steaded it after the government took it away from the Indians. Suppose you finally MOVE IN ON HIM and take what is his away from him by superior force. You won't be allowed to get away with it. Why? Because back of national government there is NA TIONAL LAW. And national law has teith. International law has no teeth. When one nation decides to t a k c over the possessions of another nation, it just goes ahead and does it it It is powenui enougn. , ., , .Soviet Communist Dloc. tie saia if .Jmii That .s why this pirate captain 1. days an(J hard work lieIRIl fyirinV snd his pirate crew weren't tossed Into the clink when lacK ot uiei and lack of food finally compelled them to come into port and give up the ship they had taken away from somebody else. The only law they had broken was interna tional law, and international law is a weak reed Maybe at some time in the distant future . . . when the people of all the world become wiser man iney are now mankind will have the wisdom to devise and adopt and enforce a structure ot international law that will have back of it the authority and the weight and the justice now exercised by national la v. If and when that time comes, we may have PEACE. McCulloch Heads NLRB lutin jwnucuj WASHINGTON IAP - Frankjrcsignalions of nine ambassadors W. McCulloch. administrative as-lasSigncd to their posts during the dislant to .vn. t aui n. uuukio. D ill., has been chosen by Prcsi- dent Kennedy to be chairman of Ihe National Labor Relations Board. I "It s a terrilic cnancnge ano a 6 -ereat honor." McCulloch said when his nomination was notinced Saturday night. McCulloch replaces Boyd Lee- flom as cnairman ot uie .lhd. Leedom. an Eisenhower appoint- tt. will remain on the board. The Stimpson Jr.. Paraguay; Thomas1 ' ' ' J recess appointment by Eisenhow-.E. Whclan. Nicaragua, and Whit- proposed bill to reinstate unem- er of Arthur Kimhall lo a p!ace!inS Wtllaucr, Costa Rica. Iployment insurance for persons on the board was withdrawn to Byington and Sparks are careeriBh0se benefits have run out. make room for McCulloch. The .. ..' J I. " 1 I ' .MCVUllOCn. aj. MH a iii-i in: fhicaco after tradtialion in 1929 Irom Harvard Law School. O 'i i . i c i av :? "'v. . . , - . i i h n a mm mam m m Msa ta am a 1 Hm-WfrrwKi Would Mash I K, - - ' ' ill. j . V. .. 7 -S' I i " IS"- I tMtlll-rf:-..x...,..f lrill, - ggg.:... . , ifii,?'- WORKMEN put -the finishing touches on unique railroad car the first to be es pecially designed and built as a roving carrier and launching platform for a missile. The missile is the Minuleman, a 58-foot, solid-fueled ICBM that can be stored longer and fired more quickly than liquid-fueled types. The U.S. plans to put about 150 of them on the rails by 1963, plans hundreds of others in fixed underground sites. The car, built at American Car and Foundry's Berwick, Pa., plant, is 88 feet long and fea tures special "three-way-stretch" cushioning to shockproof the missile. The sketch at lower right shows the clamshell doors open and the missile in firing position. Firms fined $150,000 y Court, Officer Jailed PHILADELPHIA (AP) Six larce electrical companies, Gen eral Electric and Westinghouse among them, were fined a total of $150,000 today on the first of 20 federal indictments charging bid rigging and price fixing in viola tion of antitrust laws. J. H. Chiles,' a Westinghouse vice president, was given a 30-day jail term, one of the few times a Red China Role En Arms Talks Mulled, Rusk Says WASHINGTON (API Secretary! of State Dean Rusk disclosed to- day that administration disarma- mpnt exnerts are studying the problem of whether and how Com-postponcment from Feb. 7 to the munist China can be brought inuvnew dale. proposed disarmament schemes. At his first news conference, Rusk also warned the American people against being unduly opti- mistic, as he put it, aooui lm- ,c . ,.,. i.h , ahead. I Rusk discussed U.S. foreign re lations issues and answered ques tions for about 40 minutes. .He said the State Department nublic relation policy would be one of candid disclosure wherever possible and declared he fully rec ognizes the importance of an in- formed public opinion. in iaicmpni Rusk called for J'",la.'e.m.efnt: , ':,J, n plan to bring peace and unity toiPersons wcre killed. auveiuun ii'ii L ui a wiiut-u noimu the strife torn Congo but he said the primary responsibility "rests with President Uosephi Kasavu-;in bu and other Congolese leaders. Rusk announced that Arthur H Dean, Ncw York attorney who has held some important diplomatic nssienmenLs n me nasi, wi I dc 9 Ambassadors Resign Posts WASHINGTON AP - Llnl L'nnnnl, tnlit, a..-&nl a1 tha tuennower administration. This means that Kennedy will be naming new envoys to replace (hn-e resigning Tile President accented these resignations: John Davis Lodge asi ambassador to Spain: Scott Mc- an-,Leod. Ireland; William A. M Burden, Bclcium: Homer M. By ington. Malaya: Ednaid J.j .sparks, Venezuela: A. Burks sum- mors. Luxembourg; Harry F. diplomats and presumably will be! TU. lis... II U,J .A inr "imc uvu.-T nmi iiv on he. her any ol the others will ;get new pots. defendant was sentenced to Jail General Electric and Westing in an antitrust case. Chiles also'house each received $40,000 fines was fined $2,000. Chief Judge J. Cullen Ganey de scribed the case involving 29 of the nation's biggest electrical firms as "a shocking indictment of a vast segment of our econ omy." He said the defendants "mocked the image" of the na tion's free enterprise system. , " chief U.S. negotiator when the nu- clear test ban conferences resume at Geneva March 21. Russia agreed Saturday to Avalanches In Europe ROME (API Sunny, springlike ua-ithor mmintf nflnr cnnwclm-mc has brought great masses of snow'or,a(1?' Car' Inmhlmfl Anw n 1 i-nm (Vin hinh luiiiuuug llv peaks in the Alps. Highways andf u Railroads are blocked, mountain lvillaces isolated and at least 37 1 .... Two giant avalanches 60 miles apart killed eight persons Sundav iiaiy s nonnern mountains, Many tons of snow smashedL,.,. ,h. .., rj j .u. ..ai.. ( uuvwi uuii me liny vuidge ul (ocncmoiies, o.iuo icet upon mi .Mellisse on the Halian-French uoiuui. Rescues dug out seven injured:and private industry customers to I persons from houses shattered by I the snow. Bodies of two men and . - kI :ri ... . u ...... stroved. The loll in the village of 250 Prcsi-Uoni. mieht have been hinher but .. 1 , 1 mosi oi me younger people nan cft home for Ihe winter lo work at nearby ski renrt.i. Jobless Pay Bill Sent WASHINGTON (AP Presi- . .. . i,aJ .... .., . ..j u. ,un ..i i iu. n.,- -h HOU a bill to authorize aid lo acperxicm cnunren ot ine uncm- jployed. j-J 'W on the first count, involving the sale of power transformer equip ment. On the same count, Judge Ganey fined Allis-Chalmers $25,- 000; McGraw-Edison $20,000; Mo loney Electric Co. $15,000, and Wagner Electric $10,000. In his pre-sentencing remarks: Judge Ganey said those wh-guid ed the companies "bear a grave responsibility for what has hap pened. Accordingly, heavy fines will be imposed on the compa nies." As for the individual defend ants, Ganey said he would impose jail terms only on those responsi ble for corporation policy. The case involves 2!) of the na tion's largest electrical equipment manufacturers and 45 of their employes. There was a total of 72 pleas of guilty and 89 of nolo conten dere (no defense! to 20 indict ments for fixing prices and rig ging bids at secret meetings all over the United States. The nation's biggest electrical makers Westinghouse and Gen eral Electric were named in 19 indictments each. Westinghouse pleaded guilty to seven; GE guilty to seven; nolo in the rest. for sentencing today. They in eluded 21 corporations, Cnrnoralinns are iah e !a a ;",. r... mciAiiiiUitl -tmu.vnnr mix; uii ui- rfiimni inHivitMait hiH n, $50,000 fine, can be sent to prisonM11- "Thcse unlrics arc amply If the maximum fines are I (L. l 1 .. U L to A . , , The government charged the conspiracy stifled competition in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. All the defendants ' vigorously denied this at first. then later switched their innocent i "' " - r----- fgp trial Fo,owing ,he sentcncinf!, thei Ut ,egal step, ii any, could r ;.-; i..-e;t u -.1 1 :. 1... . iivn idnau 19 uy uuvui uiiieiiLdi , i, recover damages for alleged oycr-M payments lor eauinment usea to i8 'lc',!lc' "a"sm" ann 01M,.,DUU;before they come in. icieciriciiy 10 almost every nomc in America. . i tAOtt OUITenaerS i WASHINGTON 'API - William Chester Cole, 22, one of the FBI's ten most wanted fugitives, surrendered loday to FBI agents at Gulf Breeze, Fla. Cole escaped from a prison camp at Fort Myers, Fla., last Aug with six other prisoners. He was serving a life sentence for armed robbery. Cole as Pul on the ''"B,' ,lsl (of ten most wanted criminals last Thursday, Today he telephoned an FBI lagent at Pensacola, Fla., to say neat ot we roi pur.-uii Ihe " heat" of the FBI ImuU fiirlUor flinkl ikmIocc f.R, , . c , a(ler av. himself up. as saying ill all over with." "lm gladj lIifeV 4 tw , - ' tLn-t-' "." J ,t-s'J -v .V j Share Load Is Aim Of Aid Fi dgram WASHINGTON (AP) Presi dent Kennedy may ask Congress soon to auihonze a five-year for eign aid program aimed at in ducing other free nations to share more of the burden, Sen. Mike, Mansfield, D-Mont., said loday. Mansfield, the Senate's Demo- cratic leader, said he expects! Kennedy to reshape the entire program. He will be surprised, the senator said in an interview, if Kennedy increases the $4-bil-! lion budget request of former President Dwiht D. Eisenhowerldering ruins. in this field. MiioM aiH ih.-t as I,p derstands il, Ihe long-range pro gram would be based primarily ion development loans and techni cal assistance for countries which recently have gained their inde- pendence. He said he expects a cutback in military aid. "t'ndnr Ihi-; nroiM-;im there WOUIO oe mole Mianng Ol uic burden bv ihe Western European,"""5!"""1 rome lo "rc "V". nations and by Japan," Mansfield :b!c now lo contribute lo the de im-'vciopmeni oi me - r less lonunaic worm neienoors. The Stale Department reported six months ago that Ihe United States and 14 other industrialized countries of Ihe free world had poured $13 billion worth ol cco . nomic aid into underdeveloped na tions during the previous six ys. The American lotal wa-i ., over $12 bJlion. The Democratic leader said he ZB ivioiiiti .. .. . -t r l" . ,.J- - "C UI UK I " " IHUMJ lit! HUM 3 gnt )o know jg . (() j .j i u ..m . THIS FAMOUS OLD building, .topping place for many yean of traveler! from Cali fornia to Klamath Falli, at Laird's Landing on Lower Klamath Lake wa destroyed by fi' lometime during the night of Jan. 30. Merrill firemen law a qlow in tha .ky about 2 a.m. Jan. 31. Cauie of the fire hei not been determined. The property ii owrid by M. R. Laird and hii lisler, Mn. Marguerite Dayton, both of Tulelake, whole parent! originally owned the land and buildings Fate Of New Satellite Kept Quiet By Russians - .m.ai dliu unusual B11V111.C luvmy uu m,i nrf ta.P r ii massive':. ..... .lh new opumiK. nesiern uacKing:ihe ncw satellite or he Soviets stations picked up no trace of the satellite. Soviet scientist. Prof. Yev lgcn geny Lconodivich Klinov, hinted the seven-ton satellite, whose launching was announced Friday, designed to study the earth and its environment. Moscow's official silence was in direct contrast to previous satel lite launchings, when Soviet scien tists routinely announced how equipment was functioning and Landmark Is Razed By Flames By RUTH KING One of Klamath County's fa mous old landmarks (hat contrib uted to the progress of this part of Southern Oregon and Northern California has been destroyed by fire. The property is owned by M. R. Laird and Mrs. Marguerite Dayton, brother and sister, of Tulelake. They are the son and daughter of Ihe late Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Laird, original own ers of the property, The two-story frame "residence and stopping place," connecting buildings, steamship . dock and warehouse were totally destroyed. Two or three small buildings escaped Ihe flames. Cause of the fire is unknown. The fire evidently started some- time during the night of Jan. 30-31 since members of the Mer-i rill Fire Department saw a glow in the sky in the general direction of the landing about 2 a.m. the morning of Jan. 31. Members of the Klamath Na ture Society on a field trip to the area on Feb. 4 found Ihe smoul- j Destruction of the old buildings un-imarks the end of a colorful era of slcamship travel from Ihe Port'Tcxas and Kansas and glazed of Klamath Falls to Laird's Land ing in California. The Klamath Lake Navigation Company was started in 1905 by a Captain Woodbury and a Col onel Wilkins, working in coopera tion with the McCloud Railroad. - ath Basin by construction of the steamer Klamath. The boat was;ljnuc(1 the massjve task of at- completed in July 1905 and was a unique vessel, 75 feet long, wilh 16-foot beam, four-foot draft, with a passenger capacity of 75. Because of business conditions I Ti... 1 A A.A t u.e - ' .f I - ea ny cnris mas oi i. a n u steamer trainc was not sianeu until 1906. Passengers then lelt the Port of Klamath Falls, trav eled by the Klamath River and Klamath Straits down Lower Klamath Lake to Laird's Landing where stage connections were made to Battle. Calif., for a three hour ride by McCloud Railroad to Upton, on the Southern Pacific u..:i i ...at:. n. i;m,,. of Mount Shasta. wpc nrn pvnpr e SllPClimicn Uiai were kecoinc some spectacular Idevclopment a secret until its. been expected to make a Isuccess was assured. !.., r n,;,. s: 'm hurry to answer speculation that the Sputnik might be carrying a man through space. The satellite js laroe cnouch to carry an astro naut and perhaps two. Italy's Communist parly news paper L'Unita reported in a Mos cow dispatch that the Sputnik almost certainly was un manned. Britain's leading satellite-track ing expert, Prof. Bernard Lovcll, director of Ihe Jodrcll Bank Tracking Station, said, "There is certainly something rather odd about the long Russian silence on the satellite's progress." He suggested the Sputnik's radio may have broken down or the Soviets might be transmitting on frequencies not used before. "It may be, of course, that there is some living thing on board not necessarily a man and the Russians are saying nothing until they get the satellite safely back to earth," he said Northeast Is Stunned By Snowfall By THE ASSOCIATEDW'RESS Northeastern areas, stunned by one of the worst storms in history, struggled today to overcome the devastation of a weekend storm that buried the area under up to 40 inches of snow. In the nation's midsection, a ncw storm headed northeastward after dumping up to eight inches of i;now on portions of Oklahoma, nearby areas with freezing rain or sleet. The storm was expected to move across the Midwest and into the middle Mississippi Valley, Kentucky and Tennessee today but posed no immediate threat to the beleaguered Northeast. Communities from the Carolinas norlhward into Ncw England con tempting lo restore order Irom the havoc wrought by the sea son's third major storm that vir tually paralyzed the area over wce(Cn(' m howiing storm, accom- nicd by winds up lo 75 miles, ! I"! uoj blamcd fw . .... ... 100 dcalhs. Gale force winds whipped lltelfrom possibly freezing lo death snow into gigantic drifts, scvcred'until rescuers found them on the utility lines and reduced travel to-side of a snowy mountain early! a bare minimum Numerous towns and cities, mostly in New England and New York, were under emergency con ditions long alter lite storm rnarcd;ing mountains, out lo sea off the lip of Nova Scotia early Sunday. many years ago Photo by Ken McCloud ustoms WASHINGTON (AP) President Kennedy today asked Congress to cut sharply the amount of foreign goods which American tourists can bring back to the United States without paying customs duties. Kennedy proposed that the present $500 maximum be slashed to $100 in order to discourage tourists from buying costly souvenirs with dollars which foreigners could use to purchase American gold. This was the most dramatic recommendation mndp by Kennedy in a 4,500-word Promem wmcn is.enneay saw . . . t- r t"""- ' '" While the President had were surprised by the ex- tent of the proposed cut in the customs exemption. The move was certain to cause concern in some countries, partic ularly Canada which entertains! more American tourists than any other nation but which normally doesn't buy U.S. gold. Most oilier major proposals rep resented attempt;: to place new emphasis on policies adopted ear lier by the Eisenhower adminis (ration. For example, Kennedy promised new efforts to expand exports, attract foreign tourists, limit military spending abroad and channel foreign-aid dollars to American businessmen. One new idea: that Congress permit banks to pay foreign gov-' crnmcnts and central banks a higher rate of interest than Amer icans receive on savings accounts, The maximum rate now is three per cent.- Kennedy said action along this line "would enable American banks lo make a maximum com petitive effort to attract and hold dollar balances which might oth erwise be converted into gold." The elfect could be significant! since the foreign deposits involved total about $3 billion. Kennedy also said the United Stales will seek an international review of the free world's mone tary system, with the aim of iron ing out some kinks. He hinted at possible tax law changes later to discourage some kinds of private American investment in Europe. Kennedy said there is lime tol deal with the gold drain "calmly and deliberately" and declared it can be stemmed without erecting trade barriers or hamstringing military and foreign aid pro grams. He said Ihe first require ment "is to lake all possible steps to insure the effective per formance of our own economic system." He described the proposals out lined in' his message as supple mentary to that aim but said: They are not for that reason any less important or less urgent." He promised vigorous action where he has power lo act and urged "early consideration and approval" of those measures Cigarette Lighter Saves Three After Plane Crash ALAMOSA, Colo. (UPD cigarette lighter salvaged from wre(.kaBe of ,lcir iRht nlane saved two men and a woman ..... .. j r -. ' aunuay. They were taken lo an Alamosa; hospilal in fair condition after spending two nights on Ihe frccz- Bill Bradley. 20. who operates !0LU'U UU a "- flio- .nrCi,. .h hil"otl 10 fln(l my cigarette light- a flying service here with his brother, left Denver Friday cve-j ning en route lo Alamosa. With him were Pat Floyd. 28, Alamosa city manager, and Floyd's sister, Betty, 19, Denver. "It was about 6:45 p.m. when we noticed ice on the wings, Floyd said. Bradley decided to try to land his Cessna 175 Sky- hawk. "We came in loo high and hit a tree," Floyd said. "The impact ripped one of the wings off." Floyd and Bradley came out with multiple face cuts and bruises and Miss Floyd suffered an in jured ankle and bruises. They had crashed on the side of 14.317-foot Mt. Blanca in the San Isabel National Forest, northeast of Alamosa. It was snowing light ly and the temperature was near zero. There were IS inches of snow on the ground. "All of our matches were wet, so we couldn't slart a fire," Floyd said. "We just walked around try- Limit special message on the goM i it- . , jusinics concern out not which are subject to the will of Congress. The President noted thai the :old dollar stems largely icam the fact that foreigners collect more than this country collects horn them $3.8 billion more in 1980. This represents the deficit in Ihe U.S. balance of international payments and means foreigners are receiving exUa dollars which they may use to buy U.S. gold. lheir gi ld purchases have ex ceeded $2 billion in the past six montlis and the U.S. bullion sup ply, at $17.4 billion, is at the low est level since 1939. "This loss of gold is naturally important lo us," Kennedy said, but it also concerns the whole free world. For we are the prin cipal banker of the free world and any potential weakness in our dol lar spells trouble, not only for us but also for our friends and al lies who rely on the dollar to fi nance a substantial portion of their trade." The President pledged aneiv that the price of gold will remain $35 an ounce and said all Ameri can gold w ill be available to meet foreign demand, even though $11.5 billion legally is set aside as back ing for part ot the domestic mon ay supply, .... . - Officials said Kennedy will not ask Congress to reduce or elim inate this gold reserve require ment. They said he will rely in stead on the Federal Reserve Board's present authority lo sus pend the requirement if it sees fit. These same officials said a Customs Bureau survey indicates that American tourisls- bring home each year $200 million to $300 million of foreign goods free of duly. Some of the goods would remain duty free under the $100 exemption Kennedy is proposing. Duties vary on ditlerent items having Ihe same price tags. At present, the tourist who is gone 12 days can bring back $500 in goods without paying duty. The limit is $209 for those who are Zone more than 48 hours but less than 12 days. Kennedy would impose the $100 limit on all tourisls. This was the 'ceiling before 1948, when it waa in creased lo encourage tourist sending abroad at a time when the rest of the world was short of dollars. Aline to keep warm. We took turn helping Betty to walk around bo- cause her ankle was hurt." u .u. j He said Ihe damaged plane of- fcred little shelter, but that they wrapped extra clothing from Miss Floyd's suitcase around their feel, legs and hands, and huodled together lo keep warm. Each had a coat. "When It gol light enough lo see Saturday morning, we i i ,i.- i i er," Floyd said. They built a fire by using brush and motor oil from the engine. "We just prayed all day lonij Saturday and tried to keep warm," Floyd said. They stamped out "Help" In the snow to aid searchers. Trailers The ad for this trailer house owner brought many calls and the desired results. FOR tuti :i ft Andtrwi homt trtiltr, in btd'Mm, MM model. tcHent cor liliwv Se ut 1K1 Hxkk or c.ll TU 2-xxx. The handy way to move a trail er house for cash Is to ad vertise it in the Herald and News Want Ads. Just call TU 4-8111 or slop in at 1301 Espla nade. A Want Ad writer will be glad lo help you word your ad. Pay cash, or pay your phoned ad within five daya, and receive a discount of soe. O
