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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 16, 1961)
C02P In Th- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS The little island of Tristan da Acuna. about midway in the At lantic between the Eastern Hem isphere and the Western Hemi sphere, has been much in the news of the past few days. It is lor WAS) about 42 square miles in area that is to say, about six miles by seven miles. It was destroyed the other day by the explosion of the long extinct 7500-feet high volcano in the island's center. The people of the island got away to the neighboring island of Nightingale, and are now being removed and . taken presumably to Britain, whence their ancestors came long ago. Note: " It was NATURE, not man, that did the blowing up. Sky Shield II, the big defense rehearsal of the past weekend, was directed this year from a center in downtown Colorado Springs. Three years from now, it will be directed from a head quarters in a hollowed-out moun J, In of granite ten miles east ol fkjVolorado Springs. The' rock on all sides of the space in the center of the moun tain will be 2,000 feet thick. It is expected to be impregnable to anything but a 100 megaton (100 million tons of TNT) nuclear bomb. A thought: Maybe it is in anticipation of tiiat which has led the Russians to be so cagey about their 100- megaton whopper bomb. They may have designed it for use on the Colorado center. More trivia in the news: Miss Margery Michelmore, of Foxboro, Massachusetts, is a member of a Peace Corps unit that was sent recently to Ibadan University in Nigeria (Africa) to help in teaching Nigerians the proper ways of modern life especially American ways of mod ern life. She wrote a postcard the other day to a friend in Foxboro. It! read, in part (the part that seems to have caused the trouble): "With all the training we had had, we were really not prepared for the squalor and absolutely primitive conditions that are ram pant here in both the cities and out in the bush. We had no idea of what "under-developed", really means. "It really was a revelation, and ' after we got over the initial, horri fied shock, it is a very reward ing experience. Everyone except us lives in the streets, cooks in the streets and even goes to the bathroom in the streets. "The University is great fun, and it is something, anyway, to be a foreign student here and especially to be the only white student in an all-African univer sity." All would have been well but for an unfortunate accident. She LOST the postcard before getting it mailed, and it. was FOUND by African students of Ibadan U. It created something of a sen sation when it was passed around for general reading. The president of the Ibadan student body was particularly upset. He issued a statement in which he said, among other things quite quite critical: "This Peace Corps was designed to spread American im- . perialist propaganda in our coun try and to SPY ON US." Possible moral for us: If we'd spend more time tend ,ing to our own business and may- e a little less time attending to the business of the rest of the world, we might GET ALONG BETTER with the rest of the world. Suppose some foreign country should send a slumming expedi tion here to the wilds of South ern Oregon and Far Northern Cal ifornia to teach us our P's and Q's. Suppose one of its members wrote a similarly innocent post card home and it got last and -we found it. We. too. might resent it and let go with some cynical cracks of our own. Sen's Shot W& Hunter By THE ASSOTUTED PRESS A deer hunter w alked out ahead of wife and son as they hiked into the woods north of Valsetz Sun-Oy. The son saw a deer and fired The father, m line of fire but out of sight behind some brush fell dead. The victim was Vernard Ralph Bloom. 41, VaVtj, a bc&er andj taller in a woods operation. The soj is Michael, 14. was the third Oregon deeri hunter shot dead since the season opened. 9 Weather Klamath Falls and vicinity Mostly fair and cooler. Loir to night 35-40: high Tuesday 70-75. High Sunday 79 Low last night 38 Precip. past 34 hours 0 Since Oct. 1 .31 Same period last yeaY .36 : 1! n : iSWt i- : '.vv-- I Ltiv..-i . ' r1 . V, ,. ' TT I : ' t ii i J ' j '. : i : .,..--r . t, f .V' X i . ; 'n j ... - : W - Former Reservation Area Opened For , Duck Hunters A 3,700-acre segment of the -Wi- nema National Forest has been opened forwaterfowl hunting. The area is in the new Klamath For est National Wildlife Refuge which was formerly a part of the Klam ath Indian Reservation and not open to the public. In announcing the opening of the area, the Bureau of Sport Fish eries and Wildlife pointed out the area as located on the south end of the marsh including Little Wo cus Bay and the area north of-Big Wocus Bay. It will be open to ail persons possessing a valid Oregon State hunting license and a mi gratory waterfowl hunting stamo. (The migratory waterfowl hunt ing stamp is not required by ju veniles who have not attained their 16th birthday). The waterfowl hunting season opens at noon, Oct. 21, 1961, and continues through Jan. 3, 1962. Starting Oct. 22 shooting hours are from one-half hour before sun rise to sunset. The area is open to hunting of ducks, geese anJ coots. All other wildlife is pro tected. Hunters may not enter the public hunting area earlier than one and one-half hours be fore start of shooting time and must be off the area one hour after the close of shooting. Other Fish and Wildlife Service regula tions include, no fires nor camp ing: no more than two dogs per hunter; blinds must be construct ed of natural vegetation, and the digging of pits is prohibited. The waterfowl hunting area is posted at one-fourth mile inter vals with the U.S. Fish and Wild life red public hunting area signs. The public hunting area can be reached by turning east off U.S Highway 97 on the Klamath Marsn Road, which leaves U.S. Highway 97 about 20 miles north of Chiio- Stray Postcard IBADAN, Nigeria (AP A post card that went astray has given the American Peace Corps its first black eye in the field. . Nigerian university students de manded Sunday that the corps unit sent to tcSch Nigerians be expelled because of criticism of primitive living conditions in this ycOr-old African republic written by an enthusiastic but "thought less" girl in the group. Her postcard home, dropped ac- cidentallvon the campus, stirred 1.000 students at Ibadan Univer sity College to an angry demon iOation denouncing thfgmencan volunteers as "agents of Imper ialism 0 ,18-u.rf SECTION MS 3?A?S3 GBN.HEF EUSS.N2, Wtt Vrice Ten Cents 20 Pages KLAMATH FOREST NATIONAL WILDLIFE KtAWATH COUNTY. OREGON quin one-fourth tnile south of the Sand Creek Service Station, and traveling nine miles to the east side of the marsh, thence souch two miles to the red public hunt ing area signs. Boats are permitted; however, the marsh is shallow which lim its boat use. Small, light skiffs or duck boats which can be poled through the marsh may, give the more industrious hunter the op portunity to reach otherwise inac cessible areas. At the present low water stage, the east side access Saturn Super Rocket Launching CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (API Scientists plan to launch this week the first Saturn super rocket on an eight-minute flight which will start the United States on the long road to manned landings on the moon. The National Aeronautics ani" Space Administration reports the firing will take place within a few days if no problems arise. With 1.3 million pounds of thrust about 30 million horsepower the first Saturn is three times more powerful than any previous U.S. rocket. The maiden flight will test the first stage only. Two upper stages will be filled with 23.000 gallons ot water to simulate weight of the operational rocket. The flight plan calls for the 162-foot, 462-ton Saturn to accei erate to a speed of 3.700 miles an hour during the 1 minute 57 sec onds burning time of its eight big Margery Michelmore. 23. Smith College honor gradual? from Fox- Miss Michelmore ead written to boro, Mass., quickly apologized tola friend in Boston telling him: the university authorities for writ-"With all the training we had, ing the "thoughtless card" andiwe were really not prepared for offered to resign from the corps " attempt to quiet the up- roar. Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver said in Washington he talked (y Qie Nigerian ambassa dor and "he did not seem dis turbed. He said it was the type of thing you could expect in this kind of operation, and I agreed with him." The anti-American demonstra tion was organized after someone reportedly had found on the cam- o E REFUGE offers the only place to launch boats. Little Wocus Bay can be reached by leaving U.S. Highway 97 at the Kirk Junction and driv ing east on the Kirk Road six miles to the Wilson -Point turn off, thence north on this road to the bay. ' While Little Wocus Bay is dry and will probably remain dry or very low during the hunting season, the exposed marsh bottom and the vestige of the Williamson (Continued on Page 4-A) Test Set engines. In that time it will con sume 300 tons of fuel. ' When the engines cut off, the vehicle will coast upward on ballistic trajectory to -an altitude of 95 miles before plunging back into the Atlantic Ocean 235 miles to the southeast. No recovery at tempt will be made." The rocket has been wired to radio information on 510 aspects ot performance during the fhgnl. ivasa said the upcoming Right the first of 10 research and development launchings leading to an operational Saturn CI rock et, with a thrust of 1.5 million pounds, in 1964. Cautioning against overoptin ism on the early tests, officials said: "It is reasonable to expect a total ol 5 successes in the 10 launchings. In this first attempt, invaluable experience and engi neering data will be achieved even though the flight path is not com pletely fulfilled." Gives c?ps Blaeh Eye j pus grounds the postcard that the squalor and absolutely primi live living conditions rampant both in the cities and the bush. "We had had noidea about what 'underdeveloped' means. It really is a revelation, and once we got over the initial, horrified shock, it is a very rewarding ex perience. Everyone except us lives in the streets, cooks in the streets, and even goes to bath rooms in the streets." She descrCH the university as "great fun," but added, "I just ii iv ii iiir ii ii ii ii ijjfx ii ii ii ii KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, Jets ffietiurR KINGSLEY FIELD manding officer of 322nd Fighter Interceptor Squadron. touched down at 10:39 a.m. aircraft of the "Voodoo" squadron returning to King sley Field. "We've been looking forward to this for a long, long time," Colonel Welch said and townspeople gathered as he alighted from his aircraft. To repeated 'Welcome from those at the plane, Colonel Welch kept saying, "It's really great to be back." Colonel Welch performed various acrobatics tor 10 minutes before touching down. Less than 15 minutes after Colonel Welch parked his plane and alighted, four diamonds of F101-B fighters flew over Klamath Falls in perfect formation. They took four passes over the air base before beginning landing operations. Air Force personnel lined the operations building. Upon Colonel Welch's stopping his plane, they swarmed over the parking area. Radar intercept officer (or Colonel Welch was Capt. Frank R. Stockton. Captain Stockton said the flight from McChord Air Force Base at Tacoma took 2!) minutes. He was greeted bv his Troop Use In SE Asia Under Study HONOLULU (AP) - Gen. Max well D. Taylor apparently would recommend sending U.S. troops to South Viet Nam only as a last resort to save that key Southeast Asian nation from communism, , This was the; indication today as President Kennedy's personal military adviser "paused here for a day of conferences before re suming his fact-finding mission taking him halfway around the world. - Taylor, who flew in late Sun day With IS - specialist-aides planned to talk with Adm. Harry D. Felt about current conditions in South Viet Nam, which is un dor increasing red guerrilla as sault.. , ' Felt, U.S. commander for the Pacific, has just returned from a swing through South Viet Nam, Laos and Thailand, where he at tended a meeting of ' the South east Asia Treaty Organization. A decision on whether to rec ommend the use of U.S. troops in South Viet Nam awaits the re sults of what may be a two or three-week personal study on the scene. But it is known that any rec ommendation by Taylor to send in American GIs would be made unhappily. If the move did come, support- type troops likely would be land ed first. Combat units would go in only if there was an extreme need. . Talking with reporters on his arrival here, Taylor said: "I am not going to Viet Nam to offer American troops. I am going to see whether they are needed. "I might add that nobody wants to send American troops any where." WANT NEW ENGINE SUNNE, Sweden (UPI) Fire men here said today they might go on strike to get a new fire engine. They said their antique engine boils over every other mile and broke down half way to a burn ing building the last time thev used it. hope they do not repeat last year's Lumumba riots." This was a reference to antiwhile demon strations in Lagos, capital of this former British colony of 35 mil lion people, after former Congo Premier Patrice Lumumba was slain in Katanga. The American girl's postcard was copied and circulated among the 1,500 students here by the Ibadan University College Stu dents' Union, which described her comments as "damaging to our country. Before the student rally got un der way on the campus, Miss Michelmore, attractive daughter of Massachusetts' electronics o o MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1961 Col. Rupert C. Welch, com today, the first of 17 fighter to the 350 base personnel Back, Colonel" expressions wife, Billee, and their four chil dren. Colonel Welch was welcomed by his wife, Kathryn and their two children. His teen-age daugh ter brought along a bottle of champagne, with which Colonel Welch and Captain Stockton drank toasts to the jubilant crowd. Scattered around the field were various banners welcoming the fliers home. One little blue Air Force bus containing children ol the flying crews was emblazoned "Hi Daddy." Four girls wearing luminescent flight suits stood in the air. craft parking area holding sign. "Welcome Home, Voodjo Warriors." On their backs were placards, "Follow Me. (To The Club)." Another banner on the opera tions building exclaimed, "Wei come Back, Gang!" Small chil dren cloistered around the plane heating cymbals and other in struments adding to the gay mood. ' ' Colonel Welch and Captain Stockton were interviewed by the . Herald and News, and ra dio and television media. While the other fighters were roaring overhead. Colonel Welch said his last contact with the group said they were orbiting over Crater Lake awaiting land ing instructions. On his first pass over Klam ath Falls Colonel Welch triggered a sonic boom, officially saying that the 322nd Fighter Intercep tor Squadron was back home. New A-Sub Tests Rocket CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla (UPI) America's largest mis sile-firing - nuclear sub marine launched its first Polaris rocket today rom the Atlantic Ocean's depths about 200 miles southeast of this testing center. The 6,900-ton Ethan Allen, sixth member of the nation's growing fleet of Polaris submarines, con ducted the shot under stiff secre cy imposed by the Navy. The firing was not announced but United Press International learned the submarine triggered the 28-fdot bottle-shaped rocket from a tube in its deck at about 6:54 a.m. PST. The Polaris, an earlier model now being used with nuclear war heads in groups of 16 aboard five other nuclear subs, burst through; the surface in a geyser of water and hurled its dummy pay'.oad to the edge of space. The firing, believed to have had a range of about 1,100 miles, was apparently successful, sources said. The launching today was made' while the sleek black submarine cruised a little less than 100 feet below the surface of the Atlantic near Grand Bahama Island. The Ethan Allen is the first mi clear submarine designed especial ly to carry an advanced model Polaris missile called the A2. The updated "bird" can fly about 1, 725 miles, about 400 miles great er than the maximum range of the earlier models. The United States has a total of 29 Polaris subs cither built or in the planning stage. company executive, left the col lege where 37 Peace Corps mem bers are training for teaching as signments. Visibly upset on arriving in La gos, she said she had written the universil authorities saying she understood the students' "sense of insult and offense." Shriver said no action has been taken on Miss Michelmore's of fer to resign hut that she is free to quit at any time. At the rally in Ibadan, the president of the Students' Union, Uapo Salase, charged that the Peace Corps was designed to spread "American imperialist propaganda" in Africa and "to spy on what you are doing." Telephone To COngsley !?tr- ,r -XT , - 5 RETURN HOME The familiar "sound of safety," he rolling noise of F-I0I Voo doo jeh, rumbled across the Klamath Basin about 10:30 a.m. Monday as the jet in terceptors returned to their Kingsley Field base after an absence of just over five months. Returning units included the 322nd Fighter Interceptor Squadron and the Consolidated Aircraft Maintenance Squadron. Here, one of the F-101'i is shown dur ing landing with the tail parachute blossoming out. Operation Sky Shield II Finds Defenses Adequate WASHINGTON (AP)-The dis-. appearance of a bomber carry ing eight men has marred an otherwise highly successful major test of North American air de fenses. The B52G jet was one of more than 2,250 U.S., Canadian and Bri tish planes that participated Sat urday in the 12-hour mock aerial war. Sky Shield II. The North American Air Defense Command said: "The exercise was 99.9 per cent effective, and the results were as good as we could pos' sibly expect.". . ' The eight-jet bomber, attached to Seymour Johnson Air Force Coast Guard Rescues Cubun Refugee Force MIAMI, Fla. (AP) Forty-five Cuban refugees, 18 of them chil dren, arrived in Miami today aft- U.S., Russia Okay Thant UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UPI) Adlai Stevenson said Sunday the United States and Russia agree that Burmese Ambassador U Thant should become acting U.N. secretary general in place of the late Dag Hammarskjold. America's chief U.N. delegate added, however, that the two na tions are still at odds over the number of undersecretaries there should he in Thant s "cabinet-, and what parts of the world they should represent. On his bi-weekly TV program, Stevenson said Russia has dropped its demand for a troika three undersecretar ies, each witn me veio power. On another TV program (Youth Wants To Know), however. Red Bulgaria's Ambassador Peter G. Voutov praised the troika plan, aving he does not believe it would hamstring the United Na tions. ' - Voulov also said there Is no Iron Curtain and that Bulgaria is politically Iree. Nigerian Foreign Minuter Jaja Wachuku appeared on Stevenson's program to discuss last week's censure of South Africa, which had commented on the backward ness of black African nations in U.N. debate. Wachuku indicated the Afro-As ian bloc in the United Nations will try to isolate South Africa from U.N. affairs rather than move to expel the country from the organ ization. Stevenson said that although the United States disagrees with South Africa's racial segregation policies, it feels that country has a right to voice Its opinions In the United Nations. o a TU 4-8111 No. 6818 Base at Goldsboro, N.C., was bc-l lieved to have run out of fuel. Air and surface craft swept a wide area in the Atlantic in search of the plane Sunday. Alter the defense test ended at midnight Saturday, commercial air travel resumed across the con tinent Except for mercy flights and a few other essential ones, no civilian planes were allowed to cross the skies during the mock war. Most of the larger airports in the United States reported pas senger increases of 20 per cent or more on both Friday, the day before the exercise, and Sunday. The exercise began with a sim- cr a Coast Guard rescue off the Bahamas island of Cay Sal with a U.S. destroyer standing by. The destroyer sped to the scene after reports that a Cuban boat1 had fired on the small, leaking craft bearing the refugees. But -efugee arrivals in Miami' said. they heard no shots. "We heard no shots, but later heard rumors that there had been some, was the unanimous re port of six women aboard. The women and children were taken to a Miami hotel. The 21 men aboard were detained by im migration authorities for ques tioning. P. S. Willmore, chief immigra tion official in Key West, and Sir Robert Staplcdon, governor of the British Bahamas, issued brief statements. The British governor, who sent policemen- to the tiny Island to investigate, said shots had been exchanged between "two Cuban fishing boats just offshore after: the refugees landed. Willmore told newsmen: spoke with the Cuban political re fugees, and they said that they were not shot at and that there was no shooting in their vicinity1 while they were on Cay Sal or while they were in the boat, Cay Sal is leased by Clarence B. Moody, 63, owner of a Miami dredging business and once builder of homes on islands near Miami. Moody said that he had notified the Coast Guard Satur day morning to pick up the re fugees after receiving a radio-tel ephone call from a caretaker on the island. Then in the afternoon, Moody said, he received another call from the caretaker, Cleo Sears. "This time he said to me, Cuban boat is firing on the re fugees on shore. We are desper ately in need of help.' I notified the Coast Guard," Moody said. The Coast Guard boat and destroyer, already en route, were told to wait offshore Saturday night. The pickup was made the next morning. Moody flew to the island 130 miles southeast of Mi amiSunday. Went her Ml. Shasta Kkkiyou area Fair and slightly cooler through Tuesday. Northern California Fair ex cept increasing coastal fog through Tuesday; cooler on coast today and inland Tuesday. Fieh 1 ulated mass missile attack. Then more than 200 U.S. Strategic Air iCommand and British Royal Air Force bombers playing the role iof "enemy" planes bored in for a follow-up assault. American and uanaaian lets roared alott in more than 6,000 sorties to head them, off. At the end of the lest, an of ficial at the air command head quarters at Colorado Springs, Colo., said. "The warning systems worked like a charm." The air defense commander, Gen. Laurence S. Kuter, who fol lowed the exercise from his head quarters, said: "This exercise was of inestimable value in Im proving the aerospace defense of North America." Although detailed results were not announced on the assumption they could be useful to an enemy, Kuter said what was achieved in the exercise could mean success in fighting off a real aerial as sault on the continent. : At Hyanni Port. Mass., Pres ident Kennedy was informed that Sky Shield If was the best test lyct of continental aerial defense systems and expressed gratifica tion. Big 4 Meet Is Cancelled WASHINGTON (AP) - Cancel- " lalion of a proposed Western Big Four meeting underlined today the difficulties the Allies will face among themselves if they ever get into negotiations with Rur.sia over Berlin. The proposed meeting of senior diplomats from the United Slates, Britain, France and West Ger many in London this week to work out a common negotiating position had been tentatively agieed on, a State Department spokesman said Saturday. Sunday the spokesman said there had been no decision on tho high-level parley and, instead, the Big Four ambassadorial group which has been meeting here reg ularly on the Berlin crisis "will continue here in Washington." The reason for the switch, in formants said, was France, which objected that it would be prema ture to get into discussions on negotiations when the Kremlin has offered nothing the West can negotiate about. The future of inter-allied talks remained obscure as the Western diplomats discussed what to do next. The United States had an invitation nut to the proposed par ticipants to come to Washington. In London the Foreign Office said its delegate, Deputy Under secretary Sir Evelyn Shuckburg'-i, would go to Washington. A West German spokesman said over tne weekend the Bonn delegate, Dep uty Foreign Minister Karl Car tens, planned to leave for London Wednesday as scheduled. In Washington, Asst. Secretary of Stale Floyd Kohler dropped his pun w go to London. 'ft. 1 J
