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! The- Day's Sews By FRANK JENKINS A Moscow dispatch informs us this morning that after a spec tacular PIGGY-BACK launching on Sunday a Soviet space station is hurtling toward a mid-May ren dezvous with the planet Venus. As this is written, there is no indication as to whether the "space station" will HIT Venus, or will scoot right by it and on out into space, or will go into orbit around this planet neighbor of ours that we call the Evening Star. About all we have been told is that after the first piggy - back! load took off the original rocket went into orbit around the earth. What's a piggy-back launching? Well, a multi-stage rocket car-j ried a sputnik into orbit. At a certain point, another jocket was fired from the sputnik. This sec ond rocket is then expected to fire off what the Russkies call "an automatic inter-planetary sta tion." The job of this automatic inter-planetary station is either to hit Venus or to go into orbit around it, presumably sending back pictures and other informa tion from the relatively close range of its orbit. The idea of the piggy-back Is to get more power into action. This Is for the book: This complicated jigger was fired off into space on Sunday, February 12. It is expected to hit Venus (or start orbiting around Venus) about the MID DLE OF MAY, when Venus will be only 26 million miles from the earth. That ought to give duck hunters something to talk about. If it works, it will be a new world record, in the way of "shooting 'em where they ain't to hit 'em where they is." It will be rough ly equivalent to firing a shotgun on a Klamath marsh on the 4th of July at a duck due to take off from the Arctic circle in late September, and HITTING THE DUCK! The purpose of this piggy-back space station is to investigate con ditions on and around Venus, whose perpetual mantle of clouds has made ft a mystery to scien tists. Venus, like the earth, has an atmosphere. It was long sup posed to lack oxygen, without which "human' beings can't exist. But a new telescope about a year ago provided information indicat ing that both free oxygen and water vapor may be present in the atmosphere of Venus. Late observations indicate that Venus has seasons. Venus is clos er to the sun than we are. So it's HOT. Current estimate!, put its daytime temperature at about 212 degrees the boiling point of water at sea level.) That's on its tunny side, in the day time. On its dark side, at night, the tcm- perature is believed to drop to about 10 degrees Fahrenheit. Venus circles the sun every 225' days, so its seasons are shorter. It isn't known definitely how long H takes Venus to turn on its axis. Some astronomers believe it turns only once on its axis in its 225 day circuit of the sun. Others think it may turn as often as once tvery three or four weeks. That would mean a LONG day. We earthlings would be bushed long before quitting time. But on the other hand think of the binges people so inclined could go on in a night three or four weeks long! There's another drawback. Ve nus, like the earth, has an at mosphere, but, unlike the earth, its clouds seem to form a com plete and perpetual wrapping around its surface. In other words, it's cloudy all the time. Hmmmmmmmmmmm. If it comes tn the point of call ing for volunteers to found a col ony on Venus, they can count me out. Daytime temperatures of 212 degrees. Night time temperatures of 10 degrees with no assurance as to what kind of fuel they have to heat the house at night. And CLOUDY ALL THE TIME! All in all. I prefer our State of Jefferson climate. Weather Klamath Falls and vicinity- Considerable cloudiness with oc casional rain or snow through Tuesday. High 42-46; low tonight 28-34. High Sunday 39 Low last night 32 Precip. last 24 hours .07 Since Oct. 1 7.47 Same period last year 4.32 ear U.OF ORE.LIBRART UV'lSf Arbn o .w OEN.REFAND D0O"EflrS DIV. COUP. Price Ten Cents 12 Pages 1 . - AJXL IVJLiL LIVU. JMF ii. M. J1 IJ VJ No. 6l KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1961 Telephone TU 4-81 1 1 Weather Mount Shasta-Siskiyou area Light rain or snow through Tues. day; little temperature change. Northern California Cloudy tn north with showers north of Santa Rosa and Chleo through Tuesday! fair elsewhere, little temperature change. F. m S fli mn m y er uvis mm ay irsgi MOSCOW (UPD A i-lon So-planctary trajectory, to check ra viet rocket ship hurtled throughldio communications over super the blackness of space towardjlong distances and the guiding of Venus today in man's first at if f' AN AIR FORCE SNOWPLOW overturned Sunday on the Green Springs Highway, tying up -traffic for four hours. The driver, Leonard Oscar Norris, 45, 112 High Street, suffered a bruised elbow, and a passenger, Sgt. Lester Horace Duncan, 3o, Kingsley Field, escaped injury. Stata fcSia!Sa. police said the plow was eastbound about seven miles out of Klamath Falls, when the "V-blade" dropped and dug into the road. The plow flipped over, throwing both men clear. The huge vehicle was removed by an Air Force crane. Okito, just outside their village Sunday night. He said the Ihree were, buried there. Flood Waters Ebb As Area Slowly Recovers PORTLAND (AP) Rain fell. trying to salvage furniture fromquille this morning and there;tified as Joyce McArthur, 23,rsep "vu"; ffJe'" s "Mnongo told reporters. I ELISABETHVILLE, The Congo (AP) African vil lagers killed former Premier Patrice Lumumba Sunday Inight, the Katanga government announced today. The announcement brought a new threat of civil war for all the Congo. Godefroid Munongo, interior minister of Katanga Province which has seceded from the rest of the Congo, said the villagers massacred Lumumba and two lieuten ants just two days after the Katanga government an nounced their escape from detention. Lumumba, firebrand of Congo independence and;" mum.' ,a,'".R, w ,n ma, "?lMn: mat fuc;imi;i I'l liic nc;w country, was 35. We will not disclose the name of the village nor the tribe to which the villagers belong because we do not want them to suffer any re prisals in the future" Mu nongo said. But he asserted Ihcy died not far from where their escape car had been found. This spot pre viously was described as 45 miles from the farmhouse the three men fled Friday. This, in turn, was 220 miles west of Elisabelhville. The death of Lumumba is bound to have widespread repercussions in the Congo, where tribal rival-! ries are fierce. He became premier when the Congo attained independence from Belgium last June 30. Soon Soviet technicians and equipment were flowing into the Congo, along with a U. N. peace force of 20.000 men wnicn uimumna ai nrst wei- Katan(,a Kovclnmcnt i left by ,u,.-u .c,,..... plane to see the bodies in order a.icinud , vmiibii ittiueni ou-i. iv.i.t (he Ictlllnes." Mu. Icmpt to reach out mechanically to earth's companion planets, The space probe called an "interplanetary station" by the Russians was launched Sunday from a "mother" satellite which had carried it beyond the heavi est pull of gravity. Western and Soviet scientists said tlie system indicated remark ably advanced guidance systems and powerful rockets. The method had been discussed for years but so far as was known this was the first time it had been tried. If successful, the space probe might be likened to standing in New York with a rifle and hitting ait apple in' San Francisco. Lung Trip Ahead The Russians,, elated at the shot, said the station would have Three cabinet ministers lot the 10 tra' ,for mo''e than lhreE montns neiore reacning uie area of the planet Venus" the latter part of May. Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev returned to Moscow Sunday from survey of the PATRICE LUMUMBA steadily today but flood waters ebbed slowly alter crippling railroads, m"n' . ,' , . , , , ' , , I Early in the weekend of flood- blocking highways and taking,jng a mammoth sHrie Kriday de.; three lives. jrailed a Union Pacific passenger Heavy rains sent rivers on a train in the Columbia Goree. The! three-day rampage but the flood hjne s( was blocked today, but crest moved into Portland today.trains we,-e rerouted to the Wash- Tributary streams edged up a jngton side of the river jwerej one-way traffic, sjxLs. Jnj Portland-.- tl,M,,, n,,l U UI1CI-I let Jill V, IIHCW UUIIIUIIlUcl Ulll or uilice hiiq xem mi7i- m jail inr. mar U'octnm rirptrnn ' his flooded home. Slides ana wasnouts were com-i'y " .'"' -" .,1,1 -hri of orimM arainsi Higliway norm ot norence and weDD Mcweu, 25. t'ortiana, was " II f the North and Soulh .Santiam carried into the river, but swam "a""n- . , , , , iMnETIII rAll highways through the Cascaded shore. The woman was treated.! But even in de hon Lumumba UICII I I O J at uceaniaiie ior wnac auennanis ,. , ,, said were minor injuries. The storm deaths were those ol Bruce Anderson, 42. who w as car- Range, One-way traffic was in effect bit in the wake of heavy Sunday rains, but not enough to keep the Willamette above Oregon City from falling slowly. on the Coast Highway 13 miles north of Florence where a slide time of his death his followers were in control of about a third of the Congo. Tlto clshic nt llta r.iunli-u hac Sunday dumped a car 25 feetjried away by flooding Elk Creek'. ' , . .,,: u Highway lot, nine miles south down the washout. In the car was j near Drain Saturday; Richard lwcc(1 East ant West -ple ijnje() Bill Entered of Bandon, was cut by a huge washout. Highway department workmen said they hoped to have The streams, racing swiftly out1 it filled in for at least one-way of their banks, earlier had swept traffic some time today. Nations Security Council was as sembling in New York to deal with the problem today as the Mrs. Genie Turner. 39. Newport, IVernon Boettcher, 7, who was who was injured seriously. Sheswept away by Johnson Creek was taken to a Florence hospital. 'near Portland Saturday, and ... . ' . , . l.-ll... c ...!,- ..f Anotner car went on a r.-un- .ionn c gc, Kcuu, n ,,u " Katanga government made its an slifkoned hichwav and inln Iheifcrcd a fatal heart attack while " ... . t j.-.t. two persons to their deaths. A Water remained over Highway Salmon River near Otis. Both oc-trying to salvage nirnituie at nis third died of a heart attack while'42 between Myrtle Point and Co-jcupants escaped. A woman, iden-I.Mulino home Friday. Why Not? Ditchdigging Field Invaded By Woman nouncemcnt of Lumumba's death Some U.N. officials had ex pressed belief the Katanga gov. ernment's report of Lumumba's escape last Friday was a story designed to cover up his death. But Interior Minister Munongo insisted African villagers killed Goldberg Finishes Tour; Plans More Labor Studyfrench Say Why not? asks Esta Belle White.ias digging ditches with the pre- WASHINGTON (UPD - Labor Kennedy by telephone from Pitts-' ft . II 35, mother of four. "It may not; cision of an expert. Secretary Arthur J. Goldbcrg. burgh Sunday and said the Presi-tAffaf NAfA i ii-i i i ii i-.i Maw cho ran lianrllp all thp . - i it i. J U V B II ff I m Misleading PAINESVILLE, Ohio (AP) A on a practice area on their 70- lady ditchdigger? acre farm and within a few days be ladylike, but there are a lot; Now she can handle all the (rom a (ive.staie tour, sai(i do now that jobs connected with installing a of things women were unheard of a few years ago." lillllC Ul ltlOlllSUll H"iua " ,,1 i t . l . a in 1 i- oite lids uune wuii, iine nos . , ,. . , septic tank installers license in on,u ink DC uaw! Among the additional areas he equipment worker on a section of;noPe lo v,s'1 e V T" the Ohio North-South P'reeway. scpuc ianK sys , in,. , ,,rti- study of uncmpoymcnt p,.oblems " h v 5 in othej. aroas 1HK lOUCIll'.,. minlh Lake and Geauga counties and is a partner a working partner in the White Excavating Co., found- . , ' , . 'I don't have to worry, Miie Atliu lie Mdncu leai-iiuifc, Wnjte his wife to operate excavating Mrs". whiie says when she goes iuui a yen ao-m i.e. ,CM..i.,,0 work pmp(, are , j(e con Massachusetts, the Mcsabi iron dent told him he thought the trip' had been "very worthwhile." "I am sure we will be able to within the next aicviate the effects of unemploy ment and put the county back to unrlf " thp lahm' sprrplarv KaiH on his return to Washington. PARIS (AP)-Franea told the! Goldberg said the nation's 5.4!'" unlon sunnay 11 cou,a n01; 'With the business in her hands 'e ranRe Minnesota, and some million jobless workers were go- accept some of the language Mos- ..jj southern and western states. ing through difficult times, but he predicted mat Kennedy s do something" policy would start help coming soon. He indicated he would rccom- ! POflTLAND (AP) A supple-1 mental appropriation bill which has been introduced in Congress would provide funds to pay Klam ath Indians for unsold timber lands on their reservation. This was reported Saturday by the Bureau of Indian Affairs here The bill would provide $MI mil lion which eventually will be dis tributed lo Indians who have withdrawn from the tribe under the government's' program of termination of federal control ' uijtoiiwrv, ,-icuiianu 'm i me The huge tracks of timber wore;oniv resident of New York. Scot- agricultural provinces to share in the celebra tion. The Communist party newspa per Pravda proclaimed new stage in conquest of outer space" and carried comments of praise from Soviet and western scientists. N. Barabbashov, director of the Kharkov State University Observ-j atory, said the new space shot opened "broadest possibilities" for discovering what is beneath the cloud cover around Venus, often termed earth's sister planet. Ship Being Tracked The Russians said a special "flight center" was tracking the rocket ship and controlling the times it radioed back to earth on 922.8 megacycles. There was no indication wheth er the rocket ship would hit Ve nus, circle aroilnd it or shoot right by into space. The "mother satellite which. carried the Interplanetary station aloft started In orbit around the earth, the announcement said. It did not say how much this satellite weighed but said it was launched by an "improved multi stage rocket." The heaviest previous object or bited by the Russians or anyone was a 7.1-ton sputnik launched a week ago Saturday. The Russians said there was no life aboard the 1,415.7-pound inter planetary station. "The main object of the probe is to check the methods of inject ing a space body into an inter- a space station, to check .mora exactly the size of the solar sys tem and to cany out a program of physical observations in outer space," the official announcement said. May Haw Rockets The reference to guidance indi cated the space ship might be equipped with rockets which could be used to change its course, if necessary. Soviet officials did not go into very much detail on just how the feat was accomplished but on Oct. 5, 11)59. astronomer V. Ar sentyev wrote in Pravda how It might be done. He said a rocket to Venus, starting from the carlh, would need an initial speed of 7.1 miles a second lo escape the earth's gravity. Other Soviet scientists es timated slightly higher. To reach Venus, Arsentyev said, the rocket would have to be launched in a direction opposite lo earth's movement. Venus is the planet nearest the earth in the di rection of the sun. It varies be tween 26 million and 160 million miles from earth. At present the two are separated by about SS million miles. Tass gave no indication what the launching speed of the rocket was but the Russians said the one that hit the moon in October, 1959, traveled at 7 miles a soc- ond. That one weighed about three times as much as the Venui ship. Only NY Resident offered for sale last year to pri vate buyers. Ten of the II tracts went unsold. Under provisions of the termination law, the tracts now will be purchased from the tribe by the federal government and incorporated into the national forest system. 1 land, celebrated her 80th birthday Saturday. She is Miss Betsy Mc lntyre known throughout the mountains and glens of Argyll shire as "Betsy New York." She still tends her flock of sheep! and her tiny patch of ground on the solitary croft on the wooded Meanwhile, the Forest Service! shores of Loch Awe, a 20-mile Goldberg expected to report to President Kennedy today or Tues day on his 2,300-mile weekend inois, Indiana, cow used in Its note protesting the French buzzing of .Soviet Pres ident Leonid Brezhnev's plane off the Algerian coast. The French note addressed to has announced appointment of Alexander Smith to be director of planning for transferring I lie half million acres of land to the For est Service. stretch of inland water on the road to Oban. The place got its name when an Englishman named York started a charcoal-burning business there 150 years ago. U.S. Lags By 3 Years, Experts Say WASHINGTON (UPI) Tfl.' United States is about three years away from matching Russia's feat of launching a spacecraft to ward Venus. Scientists said it would take this country that long to achieve the necessary rocket power to send a space probe to Venus or other planets, President Kennedy was informed Saturday night of the Soviet launching, before it was of ficially announced by Moscow, and the United States has been tracking the Russian eraft. However, White House P r e s i Secretary Pierre Salinger said Kennedy would have no com ment. This country maintained a news blackout on tracking infor mation about the Venus shot and the 7.1-ton sputnik launched Feb. 4. The target year for sending a U.S. rocket to the vicinity of Ve nus or Mars is 1964. The next ideal launching period for a shot to Venus will come late in 1962 but the United States apparently won't have sufficient rocket pow er for the attempt by then. American hopes for firing a re- connaissance rocket to Venus rest with the Saturn "super-booster," a rocket with 1.5 million pounds of thrust. The Saturn's first stage Is scheduled for a test flight later this year. What she knew about install- icerned when thev learn a woman swing through ing septic tanks you could stick s K0ing to do the job. but 1 Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania.mend that Kennedy prod states. Sovjct ForeiBn Minister Andrei A in ner ear, said wnne. ihaven t received any complaints n "uny jooiess conditions. land scnooi aisiucis to rrcea(;romyko said France will let the But Mrs. White went to work yet." I The cabinet member talked to work on construction projects loj Kremlin know the results of its ncip comoai tne recession. investigation. But the nole said The President has sent tele- "certain terms employed in the grams lo mayors of nearly 300i Soviet nole" sent here Saturday cities urging them to start work Le considered inadmissible, immediately on slum clearance F,-Cnth jot fighters intercepted and housinc nrocrams already ,t.. r..:. t i.i in.-,.u ,iVCTnV i:m, "Cmfl I nnmnl i in ,IJ l I Utt mfll,. i,,i., . . 1, ll. k. . " ' " ' """' I""" ""l ,,.-,.,n..,. - - .... ... 1,F.K..., '"-planned. .whHe Brezhnev was en route to Delays Irritate Congress LIVESTOCK This advertiser had eight calls and sold the horses. MUST 111 rtaiitrrni IMKOughbred rrw. rMionflblp one' refused Gentle Oin iy mare, wortderlul for children. Not a pony. 1'SO- Botti bred. Alio yearling al bino coll. Consrfler trade. X-xirx, Box n. wacdoel. exoren S-xxxx. The "Livestock ft Poultry" classification in the Want Ads has many readers every day who are ready to buy. Place your ad by calling Ihe Herald and News, TU 4-8111, or stop ping at m Esplanade. A Want Ad writer will he glad In help you word your ad. Pay cash, or pay your telephoned ad in five days, and receive 50 cents discount. 01 us. .ranKiv are gening gan an inquiry into the rising Goldberg also said he wouldMrocco and Guinea. Imnnlinnf " That tine hntll TiOVl t Ren AllOlltt V. .InhansPTI R. ... . ! . . .... ... Sam, el s . siration n. Y .Mich said- ' P"" instruction hold a series of town hall meet- Tne Frcm.n aid on9 fighter The lecislalive lull in Concress , """" '""K I""'" lml1' . "rc0 warning snois in auraci me ixbi, ic.i t ,Ui, v. ,, . , . n- . ., n. , ,..,r.pivp arlvire and rntirkm , r. .l- i I doubt whether the irain.Mii.3 nunt!,. ti- .-. .. - pianes auenuon aner ui ioiii- viewed the progress or lack of it in the first six weeks of the 87th Congress continues. first l,0 nf .u- ,.,,,ai ia. Mud" cuiiMiucuun oniciais ana ; " ,ol airliner was louno ion u, t . v . ... ,u ,. f i i rr. . Jnn .i.ij lna,1xi,- rliirinn kit tnrm ., ... , , , , i . r-..r.ii -( PnuMem Kn. : mat-mo nrr, will twoin in"1" r oi cc ami Army omcers weie i ' " "" soutn oi lis scnenuien course ior nedy's "New Frontier"' legislative earnest for several more wceks."",UI7'on"1 ""i1 tlm ,0',n ""4 J , ,' L ! Morocco and failed to identify it program was just about to get un- The Republican members said exPlaln ,he tion. ! He reported he found broad self. derway as Congress entered ils'the "no business" agreement dur-j Russia: Ambassador to Moscow'supfwt from all segments of the France expressed "sincere re- seventh week today. ing their absence from the Sen-Lleweiiyn r,. Thompson was, rmim.uiii.j ., i."".y ": grots" for the incident but insist- But this probably won't be the ate and House this week would! scheduled to brief the Senate For-Icssim p,ln yin.cn ne said ,), ..,i. -m, .'A,!. litti. i( ... ...uiaiim, h. eicn Relations Committee nn all would revive the economy and far ed its patrols looking for arms shinmrnls to thp Aloerian rebels gressional leaders were planning cause nothing was ready for floor aspects ot U.S.-Russian relations. "' lu """" J"'" fnvaw in- have the right to inlercept any lo wait a few more davs to allowlaction. He was called to a closed, after- dusliy. .plane within an 80-rmle "zone ef Republican members to return, Congress convened Jan. 3. Then; noon session. Goidnerg lounn unemployment Responsibility" along the Algerian from arros the rountrv. where the House boeecd down in a lone Snow: Sen. Kenneth R Keatinr hanging from S to 12 per cent oLcoast. they have been making Lincoln tight over the make-up of its rules R-N.Y.. announced he would ask tnc lalor forf,e in '"Ro. Gary Soviets rejected tha tx Day speeches. committee. The Senate, after a the National Aeronautics and and South Bend, ind., Detroit, !panation. They demanded again Slratton, voicing his impatience, brief hattie over procedural rules, Space Administration and the,"0"""" "nu riusmirgn. .la( jh,, ouiltv fliers be punished in a letter to constituents, said had to tackle confirmation of thclWcalher Bureau "whether we But he said Ihe people had con-iaccused the French of trying to; "Indeed. I wonder if the country Kennedy Cabinet and other toplcant employ the tools of modern fidence that (he Kennedy admin- whitewash the incident and insist itself can really afford such a administration officials. "science to break up some of those i'tralkin would take steps to re-'ed the whole affair was "nothing leisurely pare." Other congressional news: jterrible snow norms befme they store full employment of both Idle but an act of international ban- And be wasn't the only one toi Misilles; The House military 'hit." plani and idle orker, 'ditry." t t t Jo W' v lH-ite&:yA', , - - ; . .--.-i. ' , ,. ,'.', .4. ;t--.t ACTIVE TWENTY-THIRTr CLUB .members earn, up with tome surprising statistics during their tour of the business district Saturday. They found that about 25 per eent of the people who parked on Main and Pin. streets and Klamath Avenue left the keys in their ear. About 30 per eent of those who parked in lots left th. keys behind. Club members who placed warning placards en car windshields that day were, front from left, Bob Baert, Bruce Nllei, Ted Houjer, Ron Worden, and, far right, John Ellis; in back, from left, George Anderson end Claud. Rodqers. Chief of City Police Charles Howard, second from right, qat In th. picture, toe, t shew that hit department sanctioned the elub't annuel activity, 4 f
