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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 12, 1961)
O o Teen-Aged Terrorists Ordered Out Of San Francisco ; SAN FRANCISCO (UPD-May-or George Christopher today or dered police to clean up teen-aged terrorism on the city i buses ana streetcars. He was told Tuesday by busi ness agent Tom McGrath of the Carmen's Union that knife-wielding hoodlums were running wild on the city's transit system and needed police action. . Police Chief Thomas Cahill said he would meet with muni, school and police officials today map out action against the offenders. McGarth has been complaining; for months that teen-aged passen gers have been terrorizing the city's bus drivers, driving some of tiiem to ask for other jobs on dthcr lines. I Many of the men "live in fear Of their lives," he contends. And ha adds, "There have been cases! in which the passengers just stood there and watched an operator beaten." Official records seem to sup port McGrath, who is business agent for Carmen's Union No. 1380. Vandalism last year cost the city, which operates the Municipal Railway, $66,372.94. The price tag for cleaning buses and streetcars defaced with ob scene words and smeared with fruit, eggs and anything else that was handy came to more than $11,000. Many Buses Damaged Rocks thrown by the juveniles smashed or cracked 3,000,windows and nearly 4,000 seals were slashed with knives or razors. Muni manager Vernon Ander son cited two incidents. Last Thursday, he says, two junior high school students boarded a bus, dropped several pennir in the toll box, and ran toward the rear of the vehicle where they let some friends in through the window. The operator protested, but the youngsters "called him the most vile names and practically dared him to come back to do anything about it," said Anderson. The driv er completed his run and then put in for a transfer. Another driver was threatened with bodily harm under much the same circumstances, according to Anderson. McGrath reported another inci dent Tuesday. He said a gang of youths told an operator he "would get sliced up" if he came to work today. Wants Tough Cops McGrath asked the Public Util ities Commission to put some "rough, tough" cops on the buses. He said every major city has its Boy's Murder Trial Opent POIiTLAJiD (AP) Opening arguments were heard Monday in the first degree murder trial of a Portland teenager, charged with shooting his mother. David H. English, 18, has been held without bail since his mother, Mrs. Catherine C. English, was shot April 18. Deputy Disl. Ally. Oscar How lett said he would prove the shoot ing was premeditated. Defense counsel said it would show young Lnglish fired the fatal shot acci dentally after searching the fam ily property for prowlers. I HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Ore. Thursday, October 12, 1961 PAG 4 B own torce of special policemen to combat such hoodlums except San Francisco. "We'll soon get rid of these punks on the buses," he said. But Police Chief Thomas Cahill said his department lacked the men and the money for a special force. He told newsmen the police department could not afford 'o assign officers "just to ride buses." The PUC directed muni author ities to investigate how other cities meet the juvenile problem in their transit systems. "These incidents are shocking and will not be tolerated," said President Don Fazackerly. He suggested that muni officials bring up the problem at the convention ot the American Transit Associa tion next week in Dallas. r Uah 2te? Soatt From Falhut IN ALASKA Or. Paul Mossberg, formerly of Bonanza, now of Portland, was recently transferred to Anchorage, Alaska. He completed basic training at Fort Ord, Calif. . WASHINGTON (APl-Any g- (netic damage caused by fallout from the current series of Russian nuclear explosions will be so slight, in the opinion of a Public Health Service physician, that it may' not be discernible even after several generations. The physician in the service's division of radiological health! gave his views to this reporter, today but declined to permit ide.i tification by name. He said the radiation dose to reproductive cells from radioac tivity of levels measured in this country since Sept. 1 will not be as large as that received over a long period from natural back ground radiation. There is a considerable varia lion .worldwide in the amount ofnetic characteristics and any of these could be affected. The doctor's opinion was sought following a statement Sunday by Dr. Ralph E. Lapp, a physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb, that fallout from the Rus sian explosions in his opinion ex ceeds what was established by a group of scientists in 1957 to be the "safe annual limit." The Public Health Service is Concerned not only with the possi ble genetic effects of fallout radi ation but also with the possible effects on bone, bone marrow, natural background radiation. For! instance, the expert said that in the Monazite Sands areas of India it is possibly 20 times the usual maximum in this country. The official said it is not thought that any genetic changes caused by radiation of the levels recently recorded in this country would show up in the nation s younger people or in their imme diate offspring- , "If changes do occur in far distant generations, they may be in conditions not identifiable to radiation exposure," the doctor thyroid glands and tissues, added. He said genetic alterations It fs known, the doctor said, would not of necessity mean there that fallout contains certain spe would be deformed babies. Thereicific radionuclides which affect are hundreds of identifiable ge- these. bb s Faai?irDiitJ:aflire 2 - Psiv f illHI nil YOUR OLD FURNITURE IS NOW WORTH ru V 5 SETS!! Here are just a few examples of the BIG BARGAINS you'll find a Carlson's (REGARDLESS OF CONDITION) TRADE-IN ... 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