! 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
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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.
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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
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Delays Irritate Congress
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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."
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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