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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (March 13, 1961)
r ! The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS Text or today: Douglas William Johnson, the man who found the money bag on a busy Los Angeles Street. It had (alien out of a Brink armored car. The driver hadn't noticed the loss. Nobody had seen the bag fall out. It contained $240,000 in crisp new greenbacks none of them marked. The finder himself hadn't noticed the printing on the bag, which stated the contents. When he did notice it, the thought ap parently never occurred to him that here was an unexampled op portunity to SKIP THE COUNTRY and live the life of Riley from that time on. He took immediate steps to find the owner. Why? The answer is simple: He is an HONEST man. It was quite a story. The radio newscasts picked it up and made a feature of it. The newspapers front-paged it. J. B. Allen, ganeral manager of Brink's Pacific division, was in Houston (Texas) when he heard it and shortly afterward saw it con firmed in print. He grabbed a plane and rushed back to L. . Describing his emotions, he says this morning: "I spent a sleepless night. All I could think of was HOW COULD; WE FIND A WAY TO EXPRESS OUR THANKS TO A MAN LIKE THIS? "What could we possibly do to PROPERLY express our gratitude and our respect for his integrity?" Weather Klamath Falls and vicinity Cloudy with few periods of light rain and snow In the mountains. Highs 42-47;, Iowa 30-35. High Sunday 44 Low last night 37 Precip. past 24 hours .01 Since Oct. I 1.44. Same period last year 5.96 Average for period 8.20 Price Tea-Cents 12 Pages KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 13. 1961 Telephone TU 4-8111 Nn. 6M3 Won! her Ml. Shasta-SiikWou area Snow flurries above 4.000 fret and rain elsewhere through Tuesday; little temperature change, 4 Northern California Occasional rain from Ukiah and Red Bluff northward tonight and Tuesday. Snow in the northern mountains above 4,000 feet. Variable clouds elsewhere through Tuesday. Lit tle temperature change. Man Tells & M ttodties- By iongo Troops i-v?? 3i0)i IaMhA fJtaaaakdl '' i -- j - f sum CHARLTON CURRIN PHILLIP JAMESON JAMES VAN WORMER He adds: "I thought, of course, of giving him a MONEY reward. But THE TAX WOULD TAKE A SIZEABLE PART OF IT. Besides, he has been getting along without help for 50 years. The chances are a man like him doesn't need money now." Elks Name Scholarships Charlton Currin. 18-year-old Klamath Union High School sen-! ior, is winner of- the first placei award for 1961 in the annual scholarship contest sponsored by Klamath Falls Lodge No. 1247, BPOE. The $1,000 award will be presented at a meeting of the lodge March 23. Second place award of $350 went to Phillip Jameson, Henley High School senior, and the third place winner of the $150 check is James Van Wormer of Chil-j His decision? " H b , It was a good one. YounS C"mn tlle son of Dr. A LIFE JOB FOR JOHNSON, ! ana fllrs- 'ara i,urrin, i Lawrence Street, wamam raus. beginning of the fall term to pre-lwill enter Oregon Slate University pare for a teaching career. He1 and will major in the field of en will major in mathematics. Igineering. James Van Wormer is the son All three students have been ac of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Van Wor- tive in extracurricular activities mer of Fort Klamath. He also including school clubs and sports. and a college education for his oldest son, a boy of 16. As for Mr. Johnson, the finder, he can say to himself with sin cere conviction: HONESTY is the best policy. He will be right. Question: Who coined the phrase: Honesty I is the best policy? The earliest recorded user of it was Miguel de Cervantes,- author of Don Quixote, and creator of Don Quixote, the ragged knight, and Sancho Panza, his wise-cracking squire. He wrote back in the 16th cen tury. . Our own George Washington, in his Farewell Address to his coun trymen, picked up Cervantes' ad vice in these words: "I hold the maxim no less ap plicable to public than to private: affairs, that honesty is ALWAYS the best policy." He plans to enroll at the Univer sity of Oregon in the tall as a prc-medical student, and will con tinue advanced study at the Uni versity of Oregon Medical School. Phillip Jameson is the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Jameson, Route 3, Klamath Falls. He plans to en ter Oregon State University at the Jury To Get Finch Case Concert Plans Revue Comedy Tonight's program for the Com munity Concert at Mills Auditor ium will feature a delightful com bination of intricate dance rou tines and comedy of the highest quality. Myra Kinch and Company blend the two into an enjoyable mirth provoking dance revue. Doors to the auditorium open at 7:30 'p.m. with the concert scheduled for 8 p.m. ' LOS ANGELES (UPD -The fate of illicit lovers Dr. R. Ber nard Finch and Carole Tregoft may be placed in the hands of a predominantly maie jury una week. Onlv final arguments and the judge's instructions remain to be concluded in the third trial be fore the nine men and three wom- iurors begin their life and death deliberations on the couple accused of killing Finch's wife for; love and money. The murder trial moved into its 11th week today with Co-prosccu-, tor Joseph Powers expected by! late day to conclude final argu- ments he began last Friday. The jurors will listen to argu ments by attorneys for both Finch, 43, and his red-hairedj sweetheart, Carole, 24, and Co-! Snow, Tornadoes Menace Midwest Part Of Nation By United Press International .Randolph County but no damage A new snowstorm rocketed into was reported. Six persons were hospitalized the upper Midwest today powered by winds expected to reach gale' strength on the thawing Great! Lakes. Michigan and Wisconsin braced for up to a half-foot of snow and the U.S. Weather Bureau warned of sleet and snow accompanying 40 mile-an-hour gales on Lakes Huron, Erie, St. Clair and Michigan. Hich winds and tornado condi lions that threatened southern Illinois and Indiana during the: night shifted east Into the Ohio Valley. A Weather Bureau spokes man said the winds appeared to. be losing strength as the low pres sure center broadened. Tornadoes Sunday scraped Mis souri and Arkansas and hovered over southern Illinois. The Ozarkl twisters killed a woman and in jured her husband and 10 others at a West Plains, Mo., prayer meeting. At least 33 other persons! were reported injured in Missouri and Arkansas. Rain shifted inland from Van couver Bay and western Washing ton state, lacing the Rocky Moun tains with mixed showers and snow at higher elevations. Show ers also pelted most of the north ern Great Plains. Thunderstorms blanketed a wide area south and east of the Ohio Valley and lower Mississippi Val ley east to the Atlantic Coast. Sunday's tornadoes scraped a 150-mile border belt in Missouri! and pummeled at least six widely separated northwest Arkansas and eight others were treated for minor injuries at Busch, Ark., in a twister near the Missouri bor der. . . v JFK To Tell Latin Plan U.N. Facing Showdown orosecutor Clifford Crail during the week. Superior Judge David! communities. Funnel clouds were Coleman then will give final in- spotted at Sparta, Bremen and structions. Coulterville in southern Illinois Jones Gets Langell A ward BONANZA-Sanlford Jones, a Langell Valley rancher, was named Uie valley's "farmer of the year" for 1960 during the 19th annual meeting of the Langell Valley Soil Conservation District at the community hall here rn day evening. Lloyd Gift was reelected to the board of directors for a four-year term and Tony Kuatros of Bly; was elected to a position vacated by Dave Campbell. Jones' selection was based on his development of his ranch property into a profitable opera tion by improvement of his land through conservation practices and; by enlargement and improvement of his sheep flock. He has leveled most of the 739' acres of irrigated land, installed drainage ditches and reclaimed soil affected by alkali through sul fur application and proper irriga tion and drainage. He feeds his flock of 1.000 Ram- bouillel, Columbia and purebred Suffolk sheep white dutch clover and alfalfa that be raises. Jones also raises some potatoes and al ike clover. He was instrumental in revital :: V ' W' ; J' y y Ac WASHINGTON (AP) Presi. tent Kennedy today unveils plans for the alliance for progress with Latin America. He has de scribed his announcement in ad vance as a major statement. Kennedy will make -the state ment midway through a reception at the White House for Latin American . diplomats and digni taries starting at S p.m. The President plans to follow up with a special message to Con gress Tuesday implementing the program. All but two of Washington's planned consultations aimed Latin-American envoys are invited I bringing out once and for Whites Facing Threats Of Rampaging Soldiers LEOPOLDVILLE. The Congo i soldiers break into houses at anv (AP) Nuns have been stripped , time and help themselves to food. and one American missionary girl: money and jewelry. has been raped by Congolese sol diers on the rampage in the rebel province of Kivu. the United Na tions reported today. U. N. Malayan patrols arc push- primitive vegetable food. When the whites protest they are left with nothing to eat, the soldiers reply, "You can eat manioc like we do." Manioc is a ing out trom Kindu, trying to reach isolated villages where whites are at the mercy of the Congolese soldiers. Six Belgians and four other whites, believed to be Portuguese, were flown here trom Mvu Sun day. All were badly beaten, the U.N. spokesmen said. They told of daily beatings in the streets. pillaging and threats of execution. A nun reaching Kindu trom a mission station at Kasongo told of 48 hours of terror, rape and bestiality soon after the death of ex-Premier Patrice Lumumba last month. The nun, whose name was not disclosed, said nine sis ters from the mission were bun dled into trucks and carted off to the local jail. A 75-ycar-old nun said she was thrown out of the truck and her arms broken and her shoulder dis located. That nun has reached Leopoldville. In a prison courtyard, the nuns were made to dance barefoot on stones and gravel, singing hymns to Lumumba. J Men they were locked up in a room for the night with three Congolese soldiers. They were made to lie on the ground and strip off their clothes "They did not rape us but they did things so disgusting to our poor bodies that we dare not speak of them, much less write of them," one nun said. White residents in small com munities around Kindu live in nightly terror of being ordered from their beds at bayonet point and made to parade naked before jeering Congolese In those communities- Congolese BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) The Belgian radio reported sol diers of Gen. Joseph Mobutu to day captured three platoons of the Lumumba army in Ikcla and Mondombe, near the Oriental Province border. Chiefs Agree On New Rule Over Congo to the reception. The two not invited: UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) A showdown is expected today or Tuesday on whether the cur rent session of the U.N. General Assembly is going to be short and sweet or long and bitter. Some smaller-power-delegations at all whether the Soviet Union and the The Cuban ! United States can agree on what V- I iff ' and Dominican Republican am bassadors to the Organization of American States. The United States has broken off diplomatic relations with both those countries. Kennedy is expected to refer to Cuba in the speech, but officials said the emphasis will be on a U.S. pledge for continuing help for nations which help themselves. Kennedy spoke of the "alliance for progress" in his inaugural address. ' In a campaign speech last Octo ber he used this description: "An alliance ol nations with a common interest in freedom and economic advance in a great common effort to develop the resources of the should be on the agenda The prospect is that the 2i-na tion steering committee of the 99- nation assembly would meet Wednesday or Thursday to fix a closing date for the session, which resumed last Tuesday. There was talk of closing on April 21 and leaving all unfinished business over to the 1961 regular session, which starts Sept. 19. Neither the steering committee, the political committee nor the special political committee has met yet because delegates have been waiting to see whether the Americans and the Soviets could reach an agreement. The agenda contains 39 items left over from the first part of the current session, these include entire hemisphere, strengthen the s"ch controversial issues as Ko- forees of democracy, and widen the vocational and educational op portunities of every person in all the Americas." rean unilication, U.N. member ship for Mauritania and Outer Mongolia, and racial troubles in South Africa. "A program like this is the ulti-j mate answer to Castro and the Communists for if Latin America is moving forward," he said. then eventually the people of Cuba too will demand freedom for themselves And Communist rule in Latin America will perish where it began in the streets of Havana." TANANARIVE, Malagasy Re public (API Anti-Communist .po litical leaders of the Congo have agreed to replace their centrally controlled parliamentary govern mcnl by a confederation of semi- independent states headed by Jo scph Kasavubu. The action of the political con ference which ended Sunday raised hopes in Leopoldville that the way had been opened to an eventual end to the chaos and warfare that has plagued the Cen tral African territory since it won independence from Belgium last summer. The conference s final com munique made no mention ot pro-Communist Antoine Gizenga whose forces control the eastern provinces of Oriental and Kivu He was the only major leader ab sent from the talks. Kasavubu told newsmen that if Gizenga re fuses to go along with the con ference decision, he will bo do- lared an outlaw. Presumably military measures then would be taken to supplant him. Diplomats at the United Nations were not available for comment Sunday night. Pravda, the Soviet Communist party organ, termed the conference decisions a coloni alist plan to break up the Congo. Hie Congo is a single country and it has one legal government," said Pravda. The Soviet bloc rec ognizes Gizcnga's regime as the only legal Congo government. Kasavubu, who has been the central government president in Leopoldville and the only Con golese authority recognized by the U.N., messaged U.N. headquar ters in New York to ask for rec ognition of the new setup and con tinued economic assistance. He said partial union has been achieved and the danger of civil war averted. ' SHRINERS MET TO TALK plans at the Willard Friday night for the annual Shriners Crippled Children's Benefit dance to be held at the Klamath Auditorium April 29. Here Chairman Harlan Dexter discusses publicity plans with his committee. Standing, left to right, are Duane Cassidy, Ed Hickman, Harry Glesin, Lynn Robertson, Charles Filtz and Van Mollison. Seated are Vic Stockebrand, Everett Miner, Carl Bartlett, Clem Lesueur. Harold Rush. Dr. Harry Scribner, Gus Vlahos and Chairman Harlan Dex ter. All the proceeds from this dance go directly to . the Portland Unit of the Shrine Hospital. - Guards Foil Cuba Attack HAVANA (UPD-Police guards foiled an armed attack by an anti-Castro band on the Soviet Embassy residence shortly before Maj. William A. Morgan of To ledo, Ohio, died before a firing squad for allegedly aiding the en cmics of Premier Fidel Castro, diplomatic sources reported. The incident was seen as an other indication of mounting op position to the Castro regime in spite of harsh reprisals. Observ ers said Ilia' rather than discour aging the counter-revolutionar ies, the cxeculions appeared to Family Reunited A Klamath Falls truck driver.twho had placed the children in Clarence Chaboudc, was reunited the foster homes and died a short over the weekend with an orphan time later. brother in Portland after 41 years. Chaboudc was among six broth ers and sisters found by Orman J. Schafcr, 43, a clerk for the railroad in Portland, after e search through a mountain of tele phone directories. They were separated and placed in foster homes after their mother died when Schafor was 2 years old. "I'm flying highy said Schafer, 4,1, a clerk for a railroad here. I couldn't feel any other way. have sharpened their detcrmina- We're going to have a family re turn to overthrow the revolution- union at Easter." ary government, The sources said the attempted attack on the Soviet Embassy residence in swank suburban Mir imar was made al 8:30 p.m., EST, Saturday night about 90 minutes before Morgan was ex ecuted in La Cabana prison for tress, about five miles away. Morgun. who protested his inno cence to the end, made a death cell request to see Castro for whom he had forfeited his U.S. citizenship. But his appeal went unanswered. Also unheeded was an appeal for mercy from the 34 -year -old Morgan's mother. The appeal was relayed by the United States through the Swiss Embassy since Washington broke off relations with the Castro regime. Schafer spent the weekend with a brother, Clarence Cha- boude ol Klamath rails, and a sister, Delia Dcppen of Ander son, Calif. They, like the other brothers and sisters, had been looking for Schafer for years, The others managed to track each other down over the years But to Schafcr, his background was a mystery. His foster mother, Schafer said, had only hinted at the existence of his real family. The search be gan in earnest, he added, after she died several months ago. Schafcr's wife remembered having seen, in the possession of his foster mother, a letter signed by somcono named Chaboudc. It turned out that the letter was from his father, Schafcr said, Mrs. Schafer set to work look ing through telephone books. Nine hours and 34 telcphono direc tories later, she finally ran across a Chaboudc, Archie Chaboudo of Mt. View, Calif. He turned out to be a cousin, who put Schafer in touch with his brother Clarence at Klamath Falls. .The Easter reunion will be held , at the home of another sister. Sadie Coslley of Cayucos. Calif. Also attending wliJ be three other brothers: Waller Chaboudo of Three Rivers, Calif.; Alberf Cha- boude of Pendlelon, Ore.; and Martin Hcskitt of Mansfield, Ohio. . . - - Fire Truck Race CRANDALL. Tex. (AP)-Thrce. boys stole the city's fire truck and raced over the countryside Sunday, siren screaming and red light flashing. Four other boys in a car chased the truck, thinking it would lead them to a fire. Boys in the fire truck, thinking the car occupied by police, swerved into a deadend road. Two boys on the truck fled. The third waited for police to arrest him. Officers are looking for the other two. England Opens Trial Of Spy Ring Honest Man Faces Choice LONDON 'UPD Britain's big gest spy trial in 10 years opened today with five persons accused o, stealing naval and atomic sub marine secrets and relaying them lo Moscow over a powerful radio hidden beneath the kitchen of a suburban cottage. (Two of the defendants Americans.) All five pleaded innocent when the trial opened. Not since 1950 when scientist , Klaus Fuchs was convicted of passing atomic information across it the Iron Curtain has Britain been so exercised about threats to its security. Fuchs got five years off for good behavior from a 14-year term and now is in East Ger many. a break of the Official Secrets Act and liable lo a maximum prison term of 14 years each if convicted arc: Gordon Arnold Lonsdale. 37, al leged mastermind of the spy ring. He holds a Canadian passport, but at the preliminary hearing the arc prosecution said "he appears lo be a Russian, and slated it was in possession of letters exchanged between Lonsdale and his family an employe at the Portland base since 1952 and prior to that on the staff of the British naval at tache in Warsaw, His work gave him access to fleet orders and d r a w i n g s, but the prosecution seemed most concerned because a secret publication called "Par-i titulars of Warships" also was available to him. Ethel Elizabeth Gee, 46, Hough- Cohen) a book seller living in a cottage in suburban Rufslip. The prosecution will contend that this cottage in which the radio was found was the communications center for transmission of infor mation to Moscow. Mrs. Helen Joyce Kroger, 47, Kroger's wife (identified by the FBI as Lola Cohen). When ar rested, she was said to be in pos- MR. AND MRS. SANTFORD JONES are the toast, these days, of Langell Valley. Jones was named the valley's farmer of the year for I960 during the Langell Valley Soil Conservation District's annual meeting Friday. Photo by Core Leavitt I LOS ANGELES (AP)-The man who turned in almost a quarter-; million dollars lost by an mored car company decides nay n so ro wor cr pridcd in person over the lor the lirm. I proceedings at t h e Old Bailey. Brink s. Inc.. offered Douglas I The prosecution was handled bv W. Johnson, d a job as guard )he attornpy general, sjr Reginald (or a week. Johnson is un.Manningham Buller. cmpioyen. nen r 0rKs, as a At preliminary hearing for PORTLAND (APi - With an janitor, he makes 1100 a week. Ihe (jv. defendants Mannincham- cye toward preservation of salm ! He went into seclusion Sunday guller indicated documents dam- FPC Opens Dam Debate ion runs, the Federal Power Com-'to think the oiler over. Jones said the money he has Langell Valley in 1934. expended (or technical assistance! The meeting started with a'oot-i izing Horsefly Irrigation District in leveling and drainage engineer-, hick dinner. C. A. Henderson, after the depression and says he ing in conjunction with the SoiljGcne Gross, Pete Peterson and; is proud that the district is oper-iConservation Service has rcpaid Patty Burleigh of Merrill, winner atine on a sound financial basi. itself many limes. of the I960 Soil Conservation Scrv- The district supplies most of the' Mr. and Mrs. Jones operated ice speech contest, were water for his ranch several stores before coming toispeakers. r had disappeared from the Port land naval base. Under the terms ol the NATO alliance Britain is mission opens a hearing here to- j Johnson found a sack contain day on the plans of two rival! ing C40.000 in easily negotiable power, organizations lo build mas- $10 and CO bills Friday on a Los sive dams on the Snake River. iAngeles street where it had fall-'charged with a vital role in nlan- The hearing, to be' presided cn Horn me ojen rear ooor ot a ning how to counter a possible at-l over by FPC Examiner William Brink's armored car. tack by Russia's 450 submarines, C. Levy, is designed to obtainj He called the FBI and turned and Portland Is the nerve center from the two groups details of jin the money. Saturday BrinkVof that activity. The British nu fish conservation plans they offered him the job and offered clear submarine H.M.S. Dread- the would use in construction of the a four-year college scholarship for nought is based there. iproposcd dams. 'his son, Richard, 18. The five persons charged with I Today's trial was regarded as i , "J " M l'"n VtW' V I iof sufficient imnnrtance to hrins ', I :' ' A-'i i !. Is" - 1 t 1 I f Iwo Icadine fimires nf !h. Riituhi V 1 ' f 't 4 ' J L r ' I A ! government into it. The lord chief f'," "V' ' r f V- JT I to- justice of the realm I-nrrf Park-I'' :..J. " F ."'I .. . . f V. " .' ? HELEN KROGER . ton's aging to the security of the West PETER KROGER in Russia. He was depicted as fiancee. uti i. itwM- in ihe r.!mploye at the Portland base ,H diwrlnr of a London lock S"'e h h" iSv:i firm; 2i posing ns nn assistant American naval attache under Ihe name of Alex Johnson in order lo Rain the confidence of his ac complices. Henry Frederick Houghton, 33. lo the underwater weapons estab lishment and had access to what the prosecution called "highly se cret work." Peter John Kroger, SO, (actual ly an American named Morris GORDON LONSDALE session of a letter written in Rus sian and a sheet of paper bear ing a code. (The Krogcrs were thought at first to be Canadians but the FBI identified them as a New York couple who were under suspicion of espionage when they vanished from the United States.) 1
