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In The- Day's Hews ' By FRANK JENKINS Down at Weaverville the other day two armed and masked ban dits held up a U.S. mail stage, took from it a considerable sum in currency that was being trans mitted by registered mail and disappeared in the woods. To date, no trace of them has been reported. . A couple of days later two armed and masked men entered the Bank of Shedd in the upper Willamette valley, held up at gun's point the assistant cashier, the president and the president's secretary, stood them against a wall and while one robber men aced them with a pistol the other scooped up somewhere in the neighborhood of $19,000 and stuffed the loot in a sack. They then dashed through the door,-climbed into a waiting car and sped away. As this is being written, they have not been apprehended. Question: Weal her Klamath Falls and vicinity Mostly cloudy with occasional now but some brief clearing at time. Highs 12-40; low tonight 20-26. High Sunday Law last night Precip. past ?4 hours Since October 1 Same period last year U.0F OaE.LIBHART C0MP. NEWSPAPER SECTION J.RFaVINn nnmtmrMTS BTW. Won I her Northern California Snow flur. ries in mountains and showers In extreme north, probably spread ing southward late Tuesday. Japan Prime Minister To See Kennedy WASHINGTON (AP) - Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda of Japan will visit Washington June 20-22 for talks with President Kennedy and other high administration officials. In announcing this today, White House press secretary Pierre Sal inger said he had no information on specific subjects to be dis cussed. In Tokyo informed government Why did these two sets of high- sources said one of the main top waymen do what they did? Could it have been because they thought they had a good chance to get away with it? Well, at the moment, they seem to have got away with it. At least, as this is written, there has been no report of their capture. . But The arm of the law is long. Let's quote an instance of that which got mlo the news recently. Some 27 years ago, in Chicago, a young man stole a bolt of silk in a Chicago department store. His luck was bad. He was nabbed by the store detective and charged with shoplifting. He got out on bail, jumped his bond, and fled to the West. He ' came to the Bay Area, where he worked diligently and honestly for nearly three decades. Then Some two or three weeks ago, the FBI, in the course of a rou tine security check at the plant where he worked, matched up his fingerprints with those of the Chi cago shoplifter. This one had a happy ending. The Cook County (Chicago) authorities, when noti fied, took a look at his three dec ades of rectitude and dropped the charges against him. The San Francisco authorities took mercy on him and declined to disclose his identity. But . The fact still remains that the . arm of the law is long. No crim inal ever knows when he will be caught up with. One more tale: Back in the early days of our State of Jefferson, a Wells-Fargo stage carrying gold was held up by two bandits at the summit of the old Stagecoach Pass. The highwaymen took the gold. Then they compelled the passengers to line up beside the road. One held a gun on them.. The other went down the line relieving them. of i their valuables. The stage had an armed guard. He was riding on the top. He had a double-barreled shotgun, loaded with buckshot. When the hold-up came he dropped flat on the top of the stage, unseen, and waited. When the two bandits came to gether at the end of the line of passengers, the guard went into action with his shotgun and blew the heads off both of them. The passengers took back their val uables, the gold was put back in its box and the stage resumed its journey. In the days of the Old West, such incidents were not uncom mon. But still robbery went on. Bad men took their chances. its the Japanese leader wants to take up with the President is Communist China. The. sources said Ikeda wants to sound out the American attitude on U.S. recog nition of Red China and China's influence in Asia. They also said Ikeda wants to visit New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Hawaii but the announcement did not list an itin erary. Ikeda has accepted an invita tion extended by the President, Salinger said. --- - QEI. REf .AND DOCUMENTS PIV. . J JJj , . , - ' Price Ten Cents 12 Pages KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. MONDAY. MARCH 6. 1961 Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 6627 (Ho M. Sddieirs Killed! Stevenson, Congo Leader Set Talks UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) Hammarskjold said U.N. forces -U.S. Ambassador Adlai Steven- had been ordered to hold the big son talked today Willi unanas military base at Mlona and re- president, Kwame Nkrumah, on occupy Banana, the Congo crisis and arranged to This thought in closing: FEAR even the fear of death doesn't seem to deter BAD men from crime. Fear of the long arm of the law doesn't seem to deter them. Crime goes on. What to do? We might try more MORAL TEACHING. More stress on the Commandments: Thou Shalt Not Steal. Thou Shalt Not Kill. More emphasis on MORAL RECTI TUDE. It MIGHT work. Expect Conrad To Complete Record Flight MIAMI, Fla. UPl Pilot :Mux Conrad, 58. the flying grand father, is expected to touch down1 here late today in what he hopes is a record-breaking round-the world flight. Conrad left here a week ago in an attempt to set a record for time and distance travel in a small aircraft. Friends in Miami reported Con- fad landed in Dakar, French I West Africa. Sunday, slept for about two hours, and took off again for Port of Spain. He is expected to land here between 6 and 7 p.m. PST. Conrad admitted he was tired when he landed his twin-engined Piper Aztec plane in Dakar after the flight from Lagos, Nigeria, the last overland flight before the Atlantic crossing to Trinidad. "I haven't really slept since I left Miami," Conrad said. CAUGHT WITH SPRING SHOWING might be the caption of this picture taken by Wes Guderian early Monday morning in the wake of the snow storm that hit the area over the weekend. . These flowers had been placed at the Veterans Memorial Shaft on the courthouse lawn. Most of the area was caught unexpectedly by the winter outburst. Cong ress To Speed Expected Activity WASHINGTON (UPD Congress-concern that the farm proposals was set to take giant steps this week toward enacting President1 Kennedy's legislative program. The House Ways Means Com mittee was expected to approve today Kennedy's first-step plan to: stem the overseas drain of dollar! and gold reserves. The bill would cut from $500 to $100 the amount of duty-free goods Americans may bring back from abroad. The full House planned to vote Tuesday on the first money meas ure of the new Congress, a $773.5 million supplemental appropria tion bill. And Wednesday the chamber was scheduled to pass a $305 million bill to aid needy children of jobless workers. Other congressional news: might delay a vote scheduled thel REVENUE: Sen. Albert Gore, same day on the President's feed D .Tenn said (he Kennedy admin-1 ist ration needed a substantial in grain bill Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield, Mont., forecast Senate action later in the week on the crease in revenue "to do the things that must be done." He feed main measure, which would'old the American Road Builders hike price supports on corn andiAssocialion in a prepared speech certain other grains in exchange for reduced production. Mansfield also said he hoped the Senate Banking Committee at Atlantic City, N.J., that "we cannot afford any longer to let lack of revenue either dictate the1 level of our defense effort or re- meet later with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold also planned to discuss the growing crisis with Nkrumah as delegates assembled for resumption of the General Assembly Tuesday. Nkrumah will address the 99- nalion assembly when it resumes its 15th session after an 11-weck recess. , Hammarskjold discussed the la test Congo developments at an emergency meeting Sunday night with his 18-nation advisory com mittee. He dispatched instructions to the U.N. Command for urgent! action, but U.N. officials would, not disclose his plans. The secretary-general sent to! the Security Council a preliminary report on the fighting between Congolese and U.N. troops at the port cities of Banana and Matadi. The report covered the U.N withdrawal from Banana but was! prepared before Sunday night's evacuation of Matadi. In his talks here. Nkrumah was expected to press his demand that a solution of the Congo problem must be left in the hands of Af ricans only. would approve quickly the $394jtar(1 the expansion of our econo- million depressed areas bill and pave the way for a vote by the full Senate either late this week or next week. -He also voiced hope the cham ber would move fast to approve the House-passed unemployment Kennedy was to send his farm compensation bill,- up for consid-J message to Congress Tuesday, eration Tuesday in tne Some House members expressed'Kinanca Committee. my DELINQUENCY: Chairman Thomas ,J. Doddr D-Conn... said his Senate subcommittee will hold hearings Thursday and Friday on. legislation . to help fight juvenile delinquency. The measures would, provide funds for states to train Senate specialists and set up pilot projects. Agents Will Assist In " Tax Returns Massive Storm Rakes Midwest Area By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Rain, sleet, fog, snow and tor- nadic winds battered sections of the Midwest today. A tornado swept through five blocks of a residential area Kokomo, Ind., today, killing an year - old woman. The storm damaged the Miller Transporta tion Inc., plant in north-central Indiana. Heavy snow continued falling in Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin. In the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, hundreds ot cars were stalled on highways and side roads piled high with snow that drifted under 20 m.p.h. winds. Six inches of snow fell in five hours up to midnight, atop four inches that fell Saturday over the area, the Weather Bureau saw no letup in the snowfall. In Iowa, the state patrol warned motorists that snow, rain and sleet had left "a sheet of ice across the state." In northwest 111., early today. There were re ports of excessive wind damage to property and utility lines. Damage was small except where one twister caused heavy damage to storage buildings and boats on the Gravois arm of the Lake of the Ozarks. In the Pacific Northwest Sun day, a. rain storm powered by winds of up to 83 m.p.h. raced through the state, then changed to a blinding snowstorm in the Cas cade Mountains. Property was damaged and utility lines downed. The snow continued today, with 18 inches reported at Mt. Hood. The same storm blew into Washington State and into Brit ish Columbia, with largely the1 same effect on property and util ity lines. In the East Sunday, tempera tures were generally moderate, though high in some areas. Wash ington, D. C, had an 80-degree reading, setting a record for the date. Heavy weekend rains in Ohio sent rivers and tributaries over flood stage in many communities. The threat of rising floodwaters along the Mobile River in Ala bama forced suspension of rail road passenger service on the main liner of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. Chicago Tornado Costs $5 Million; One Killed CHICAGO (API Utility and cily crews labored along barri caded streets today to clear de bris from n tornado that cut twisting 5!-mile swath through Iowa numerous communities re-Chicago's South Side at dusk Sat ported six inches of snow. A tornado struck Jerseyville, Daylight Delayed SAN FRANCISCO UPI The northbound Shasta Daylight was delayed three and one-half hours Sunday near Dunsmuir. Calif. A Southern Pacific spokesman here said the Oakland to Port land train was delayed because a diesel unit and two freight cars on another train became derailed Forced Labor GENEVA I API Ghana asked the International Labor Organiza- 75 so severely they could not be occupied. The U. S. Weather Bureau said the tornado touched down initial ly near 91st Street and Western Avenue, then took an erratic urday. Icourse northeast across a residen- The twister strum without'"' and shopping area then into warning, leaving one dead and 93, Lake Michigan injured. Property damage was cs timated at $5 million. Three clementarv schools were It collap.ed store fronts, tossed sutos about, uprooted trees, shook houses from their foundations. African territories of Portugal The proposal is to be put before the I-L-O governing body's ses sion Tuesday. closed for repairs. At least 25 : rooftop spinning, and spread buildings have been labeled un-!S,!,ss a) masonry in the street. Wires were felled, plunging the area into darkness. tion Thursday to investigate al-!safe for electrical service by leged forced labor practices in the; George Ramsey, city building commissioner. He said nine would be demolished. Merrill Tops Donor List Merrill is leading all other Klamath County towns in blood donor pledges for the March 7-8 visit of the Red Cross Bloodmo bile. Mrs. Virginia Dixon, Red Cross executive secretary of the Klam ath Basin chapter, reported Mon day that Merrill Chairman Jim Shuck and his committee have been beating the bushes for do nors in an effort to take top spot in the tri-town (Merrill-Malta-Tulelakel competition. The operation at Merrill Is scheduled lor 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Merrill Community Hall Tuesday, March 7. Klamath Falls Lodge No. 1247, BPOE, has pledged to sponsori the second day of operation at the Elks Temple Wednesday from II a m. to 1 p.m. and from 5 to Assistance in preparing Oregon state income tax returns will be given by State Tax Commission personnel at Room 211, First Na tional Bank Building, in Klamath Falls between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m on Mondays through Fridays in March. Tax personnel will be available Wednesday, March 8, in Warm Springs between 9:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. at the administration building and at the office of GU christ Timber Company, Gilchrist, between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Thurs day and Friday, March 9 and 10. Taxpayers wishing help in filing their returns arc asked to bring earnings slips and other informa tion needed to determine the correct tax, including, if possible. a copy of their federal return filed for the year 1960. The Tax Commission points out that in order to be eligible for refund a taxpayer must file a re turn. Refunds are issued on a first come, first served" basis. It is also emphasized that if a joint return is filed, both spouses must sign it. Deadline for filing is April 17 this year, since the 15th comes on Saturday. Mark Signs Name Shift. OSC To OSU LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo (AP) Weary U. N. soldiers laid down their arms and withdrew from the key Congo port of Matadi after 24 hours of bitter street fighting with Congolese soldiers, a U. N. spokesman re ported today. Negotiations are going on with the Congolese gov ernment to get a U. N. garrison back into the town. If these break down, the United Nations is empowered to use force as a last resort, the spokesman said. Two Sudanese U. N. soldiers of the 130-man gar rison are known to have been killed in the battle, which raged throughout Saturday and until noon Sun day. Thirteen other Sudanese were wounded. Twelve are missing. A Canadian signal captain also is missing and the U. N. spokesman said there are grave fears for his safe ty- Snow, Chains Order Of Day DIES AFTER CAPTURE HOUSTON. Tex. tUPIi-Scrvice station employes caught Jack Harris. S3, an ex-convict, trying to rifle the cash register Thurs day night and grabbed him belore rip could run away. ' Policeman Jack Woodard ar rived a few minutes later and as he slipped a pair of handcuffs on Harris the suspect slumped over. Harris was dead, apparent ly of heart attack The twister's path, about 300 yards wide, was traced by a Ibr- Ramscy said at least 3.000 "ado expert at the University of;8 p.m. structures were damaged, about,1-'"1"". an aerial survey. march for the last nine years 'he injured were taken to 10 has been traditional for the Elks' 1 nosn'ta,s- At lcast 75 we 'real- sponsorship of the recruitment for I nmnrlAOC Sfrlh MlrtUfOCt ea m ""fRency rooms and re-donors. Warren Parr and Wallace 1 1 w w , iB TT w 1 leaded. ,Esgate are co-chairmen. Donors are needed, Mrs. Dix on report;, if the quota for the Elks is to be met. To date about 100 pledges have been received from tne Veterans of Foreign By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS I One twister cut a destructive A rash of tornadoes Slabbed path through Litchfield, in south into parts of the Midwest today eastern Illinois, damaging several killing three persons, injuring at buildings A woman resident of a Litch- least two others and causing ex tensive damage. Rain, snow and fog plagued widesprepd areas of the midcontl- bruises w hen his trailer home was I Ad Results! "Sold right away" was the comment of this Want Ad user. ncnt. A small tornado spun into a rural community near Stanton. Tenn.. killing an s-month-old child and two adults. All were Negroes. Their houses were badly damaged. Small tornadoes hit in southern Illinois and Indiana, but only two; injuries were reported. hurled SO feet through the air A tornado caused heavy wind damage at Jerseyville. High w inds smashed a concrete service station in Effingham. III., and tore down a theater screen in the area. The winds caused widespread damage to other buildings, trees and utility lines Miscellaneous for Sale" car ries a wide variety of useful goods for sale. Readers are going through it every day. Don't you have something you could convert to cash with a Want Ad? Just telephone the Herald and News. TU 4-0111. A Want Ad writer will be glad to help you. field housing project was cut bv COOD lumMr- s"i0 1,0 ' "- Wars, tne vrw Auxiliary, tne flying glass and a man 'suffered 'STSTJTZi club "d from d- nors eonincieu uy ncu v.russ siaii aides on the telephone. A heavy drain has been made in past months on Red Cross blood (hat is returned to Klam ath County, by local residents who needed large quantities All persons who can do so are urged to donate during the com ing visit ol thf bloodmobile from Portland. 1 Snow and' chains are two words which sum up driving conditions in all directions from .Klamath Falls. According to Oregon State Po lice Monday morning, snow was reported on all highways leading to and from Klamath Falls, and chains were required on Wil lamette Pass and Highway 97 south of the city. Chains were ad vised lor all other highways. Here are the reports: Willamette Pass Chains re quired. Eighteen inches of new snow. Green Springs Highway Chains advised. Seven inches of new snow. Lakeview Highway Chains ad vised. Intermittent snow. Highway 97 south (Siskiyou area l Chains required. Snowing hard and continuously. Eight inch- Jes of new snow. By PAUL W. HARVEY JR. SALEM (AP) Gov. Mark O, Hatfield today signed the bill changing the name of Oregon State College to Oregon State University. It will become effec tive 90 days after the legisla ture goes home. lhat would make the name change effective some time in July or August. , He signed the bill at a cere mony attended by Dr. A. L. Strand, other college officials and legislators. Strand said the name change is a matter of expressing "what we already are and have been for a long time, as recognized by the Association of American Universities." He pointed out that the college has nine major schools plus a graduate school, which he said makes it a true university. As the legislature returned to day for their ninth week, the tempo began to pick up. Many commitlcesstartcd action on im portant bills, and Senate Presi- dent Hurry Boivin predicted the Senate would finish action on Sen ate bills within the next two weeks. This would indicate that many bills would die in committee. The House State and Federal! Affairs Committee voted today to remove Lincoln's and Washing- tons birthdays from the list of le gal holidays, as recommended by Hatfield. But it rejected Hatfield's suggestion that the anniversary of Oregon's admission to the Un ionFeb. 14 be made a legal hol iday. It also turned down the gover nor s recommendation that elec tion days be eliminated as holi days. The committee approved memo rials asking Congress to ratify the treaty with Canada under which that country would provide up stream storage on the Columbia, and to speed construction of an atomic power plant at Hanford, Wash., and let Bonneville Power Administration market Its power. Ihe same committee voted to let the State Land Board make loans on suburban properties. It now can loan only on farm property. Matadi is the Congo's principal supply port and without control there the U. N. supply operation would be gravely endangered. Trouble blew up in the hillside town 60 miles up the Congo River when Congolese units erected road blocks to impede the move ment of U. N. personnel. Two helicopters also were seized as they touched down at nearby Boma. That was on Friday. Saturday Ihe Congolese tried to dislodge an 11-man guard of U.N. Sudanese which had been thrown around a hillside villa used as a communications center by a Ca nadian signal unit. The Congolese killed a Sudanese and wrecked the post. A Canadian captain who went out to talk with the attacking Congolese was not seen again. Vastly outnumbered and with their ammunition running low, the Canadian signal post and its! Sudanese guards surrendered Sat urday evening. Elsewhere in the town, fighting went on until noon Sunday, A five-man Danish movement control unit still Is operating In the port and the Congolese have pledged not to interfere with U.N. stores stacked in Matadi's dock- side warehouses. (Canadian army officials in Ot tawa said they had learned that eight of the nine Canadians at the radio station had reached Leo poldville "relatively unharmed."! The fate of the ninth Canadian was not known. (At U.N. headquarters in New York Secretary - General Dag Hammarskjold told his 18-nation Congo Advisory Committee he planned urgent action, but offi cials who reported this did not elaborate.) On the political front the round- table conference of Congo politi cal leaders opened in the Mala gasy Republic, formerly the is- land of Madagascar, amid reports that Antoine Gizenga, the head of the Communist-supported govern ment in Oriental Province, was on his way to join the conference. Cleophas Kanutatu, tormer president of the Leopoldville pro vincial government, represented Gizenga at the opening of the conference, which will try to work out a truce between the Congo's warring political factions. Others present were Kasavubu. his premier, Joseph Ileo: Presi dent Moise Tshombe of Katanga; Albert Kalonji, leader of the "Mining State" he has proclaimed in South Kasai Province; Jean Bolikongo of Equator Province, and Barthclemy Mukenge of North Kasai. A spokesman for Tshombe said Gizenga had arrived at Kamina air base, in Katanga, en route to Malagasy. The big base is neutral territory under U.N. protection. Gizenga s participation is essen tial for the success of any peace agreement. His troops control at least a third of the Congo and he and his associates are the po litical heirs of the slam ex-premier, Patrice Lumumba. Actress Winning Pneumonia Bout LONDON (UPD Movie star Elizabeth Taylor, 29, is winning her fignt for life against one of the most virulent types of pneu monia known to mankind, her doctor said today. Her husband, Eddie Fisher, said It is "fantastic, unbelievable it's just a miracle." The actress, suffering from staphylococcus pneumonia, was rushed to an exclusive London clinic Saturday after doctors had given her possibly one hour to live. She was reported "resting comfortably" today. Kennedy Order Curtails Servicemen In Buying WASHINGTON (AP (-Service men overseas can no longer buy foreign cars tax-free and ship them home duty-free with the government paying the freight. The new order was given Sun day by the Kennedy administra tion as part of the effort to cut down the outflow of gold and dol lars from the United States. Secretary of Defense Robert S McNamara previously had indl Klamath Farms Surveyed In Feed Grain Proposal A survey of all farms in Klam ath County which produce feed grains is now under way, accord ing to Earl Wilson, chairman. County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Office. Ths survey is being conducted throughout the "major feed grain producing area (which includes Klamath Co'inty) as an advance step in connection with proposed feed grain programs now under discussion. The proposals would include adjusting the 1951 acre ages of corn and other grains. To put such program into op eration for 1961 crops in a man ner which would be fair to all growers, accurate data must be obtained immediately for the pos sible establishment of feed grain base acreages for all farms in Ihe major feed grain producing area. Such information will include the acreage history of barley and oats, as well as the acreage de voted to other crops and land uses, for all farms in the area where one or more of these feed grains were produced within the past two years. Wilson explained that it is the intention, as far as possible, for some worker in the county office lo interview each farm operator or owner in Klamath County whose farm has produced feed feed i grains either in 1959 or I960. Because it will be necessary to obtain complete coverage of all feed grain farms in the county, farmers are urged to go to the ASC Office. In the Tower Theater Building, on one of the days scheduled for them, by postcard notification, to furnish the Infor mation for their farms. cated such a step would be taken. iThat was after President Kennedy rescinded the controversial order of the previous administration cutting the number of families of servicemen allowed to stay with them abroad. The foreign car order goes into effect immediately. On June 30 the administration said It intends to let a law lapse that allows servicemen to send $30 worth ot gifts home duty free. When the law expires the limit would re vert to $10 per shipment the amount now applicable to tourists. This action is separate from Kennedy's request to Congress to cut from $500 to $100 the amount of foreign goods U. S. tourists can bring back home without paying customs duties. The administration hopes to bring about a spending reduction of $75 to $110 a year for each serviceman abroad. This would save $ million to $110 million a year in foreign spending of dollars. The White House announcement said McNamara also will take steps to: 1. Make use of foreign curren cies held by the Treasury. z. -ncourage sale of U. S. goods at exchanges and commis saries and regulate sales of vari ous foreign articles. S. Direct military departments to reduce as much as possible the number of foreiim personnel employed in post exchange!, of. ucers' clubs and the like. t
