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Day's Sews
By FRANK JENKINS
The news today?
. There's nothing very hot in the
world at large. Even the Congo
has quieted down (or the mo
ment. So let's talk about the weather
which in these parts is cold.
Well -.
Anyway
We have company in our mis
ery. The dispatches tell us that
storm system that had everything
near blizzard snows, a tornado,
temperatures near 50 degrees
below zero spread across the
nation from New .Mexico to New
England. In the West, the tem
perature was 48 below at 7:30
this morning at West Yellowstone
a record 18 below at Denver, 37
below at Butte and two
below at Dalhart, Texas.
In South Dakota, a rabbit hunt
er was found dead this morning
lrozcn still.
What ol Oregon where, a
short time back, the Weather Bu-
reau assured us, temperatures up
to and including February would
be ESSENTIALLY ABOVE NOR
MAL? In a report from Portland this
morning, the Bureau says in its
five-day forecast that Eastern
Oregon temperatures may be
near ALL TIME RECORD LOWS
of 10 to 30 BELOW in the next
few days.
Western Oregon is In for it, too,
the bureau says. Forecasts for
lows of five to ten above in the
Willamette valley tonight, and the
five-day outlook for that area lists
lows of FIVE BELOW 1
So much for the Weather Bu
reau. Let's take a look now at the
Farmers Almanac.
For the period from January
12 to 15, a COLD WAVE is in
prospect, the FA says. The pe
riod from the 16th to the 19th will
be fair at first in the Northwest,
turning unsettled. From the 20th
to the 23rd, there will be danger
ous storms in the Western states.
From the 24th to the 27th, there
will be a clearing spell, colder on
the plains and along the West
Coast, with frosts in California.
At the moment, this thought
occurs:
Maybe we'd better do away
with the Weather Bureau and de
pend our forecasts on the Farm
ers Almanac which, by the
way. has been predicting the
weather for 146 years.
At least, it would save the lax
payers quite a lot of money.
2 Brothers
Found Dead
BOCA RATON. Ha. UPI-Two
Connecticut brothers, one. of whom
hur?,; his Purple Heart decoration
on a White House fence in an
angry protest, were found dead
Thursday in their motel room.
Police said Jay V. Smith. 37,
and his brother. Roland. 33. both
of Greenwich, apparently killed
themselves with shotguns in a
bloody suicide pact.
The men rigged trigger mechan
ics with coat hangers, police said.
Each died from head wounds.
Police said the brothers told sev
eral persons that they planned to
commit suicide. Officers, acting on
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a tip. approaenca mcr ,,.,
room Wednesday nigiu. out weyi
did not enter u wnen wcy rn.-d.ui, Alruc,.nn f rnB.
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The motel owner entered
room Thursday and found
the
the
bodies.
Jay Smith gained national prom
inence during the Truman admin
istration when he hung his Pur
ple heart decoration on a White
House fence in protest against the
policies of tlve Small Business Ad
ministration. He had won the decoration while
serving aboard the Navy destroyer
Atlantic during World War II. He
.faced the protest when the SBA
turned down his application for
a loan.
The elder Smith was an un
successful candidate for represen
tative from tlie 4tn congiessiondi
District in Connecticut in 1952 and
1954.
He also was defeated when he
ran for Greenwich first selectman
in 1935. 1959 and 1SW1
The brothers recently armed in
Florida after selling their restau
rant in Greenwich. The eating
place a closed last August due
to financial difficulties.
The restaurant was started as
a small hamburger stand and
grew to become one of the most
popular eating plccs in south
western Connecticut.
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Committee
Posts Fire
Party Fight
WASHINGTON (LTD - Action
in the new 88th Congress moved
backstage today with House Dem
ocrats and Republicans feuding
separately over key committee
and leadership posts.
Outcome of their intramural
squabbles could bear heavily on
the fate of some of President Ken
nedy's legislative proposals in
cluding his controversial plan for
hospital care for the aged.
After a last, furious takeoff on
Wednesday, followed by routine
talkfcsts and no action Thursday,
the new Congress was in recess
today until Monday when Kenne
dy will deliver his State of the
Union Message to a joint House
Senate session at 12:30 p.m. EST.
At private huddles all over the
newly refurbished Capitol and its
associated array of office build
ings, speculation centered on who
will fill two Democratic vacan
cies on the House Ways & Means
Committee, which will handle not
only the medicare plan but the
President s pica for a tax cut.
Rep. Phil Landrum, D-Ga., ap
peared to be a favorite for one
of the two posts, with the other
to go to either Rep. Ross Bass,
D-Tcnn., or Rep. Pal Jennings,
D-Va.
Landrum has made no public
commitment on medicare. Bass
and Jennings are reported ready
to support the President's plan.
Tlie committee is so closely di
vided a difference of one or two
votes could be crucial.
Meantime "young Turk" Re
publicans, who Tuesday ousted
their old guard caucus chairman
and installed a younger man of
their own. kept watchful eye on
pending GOP committee assign
ments.
UN Readies
Congo Drive
ELISABETHVILLE, Katanga,
The Congo (UPIl United Na
tions forces today were reported
poised for drives on the two re
maining centers of resistance by
supporters of Katanga's President
Moise Tshombe.
One U.N. force was in the area
around Sakania, near the north
ern Rhodcsian border, where Ka-
tangese Interior Minister Gode
froid Munungo was believed head
ing a large Kalangcse group.
Another U.N. force was report
ed west of Jadotville, about 80
miles southeast of Kolwezi, a min
ing center and major Katangese
air base.
The United Nations earlier this
week pinpointed Sakania and Kol
wezi as two spots that would
have to be cleaned up to give its
forces freedom of movement in
the operation to reunify the Congo.
Tshombe himself returned to
Elisabethville Thursday night aft
er a tour of his supporters in the
Mnkambo area near the Rhodc
sian border. . He apparently has
been given freedom of movement
ided he aocs not
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MAPS PLOT WEATHER A display in the lobby of the Municipal Airport at Kings
ley Field provides airline passengers and visitors a look at maps and charts used in
the forecasting of weather. Discussing thunderstorms are, left to right, Robert E.
Cardinal, meteoroloqitt, U.S. Weather Bureau; Joseph Sawyer, airport manager, and
Mai. William E. Harrell, commander of Weather Detachment Two of the 35th Weath
er Squadron, Ktnqsley Field. The display it arranged through the Air Force, Weather
Bureau and the airport.
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FIRST BANQUET Pacific Power & Light Co., Copco Division, assisted
by Bob Savage, farm adviser, Alturas, in charge of 4-H Club work in
the Tulelake area, was host Thursday night, Jan. 10, at a recognition
banquet for local 4-H Club leaders. Places wero marked for members
of the 4-H Leaders Council, their wives and special guests in the home
economics building at the Tulelake-Bufte Valley Fairgrounds. The ham
Mitchell Gets Death
For Theatre Slaying
Herbert Floyd Mitchell, 41,
stood before Judge David R. Van-
denberg in Circuit Court at 9:40!
a.m. today and heard the jurist
condemn him to death for the
gun slaying of Dmitre Dan Yer
kovich, 35, last Sept. 28.
Mitchell, sullen as he ap
proached the bench, impassively
received the death sentence which
marked him as the first man
condemned to die in more than 30
years of criminal trials held in
the Klamath County Court.
Judge Vandenberg ordered tlte
sheriff to have the slayer deliv
ered to the state penitentiary w ith-
the next 20 days. The execu
tion date is to be set later.
As Mitchell stood before t h e
hench, he gazed downward
Judge Vandenberg pronounced the
mandatory death sentence.
As the death sentence was pro
nounced, Mitchell became the first
man to be condemned here since
Aug. 1, 1932, when then Klamath
County Circuit Court Judge Will
Duncan sentenced Theodore Jor
dan to be hanged for the fatal
gas pipe bludgeoning of F. T.
Sullivan, a Southern Pacific pull
man train steward.
The ruling was twice appealed
to the Supreme Court and tw ice
the decision of the lower court
was upheld; however, several
weeks before the execution date,
the then governor, Julius L. Me
ier, commuted the sentence of the
slayer to life imprisonment. And
Plane Crash
i
Kills Seven
KODIAK. Alaska HIPI - A
Navy patrol plane with 12 men
aboard crashed and exploded on
a mountain Thursday night while
trying to land at Kodiak Naval
Station.
Seven men were missing and
presumed dead.
Jordan, whose criminal record in
cluded frequent arrests during a
period of 12 years in three states,
was spared.
As in the case of Jordan, Mitch
ell's execution date might also be
set aside. His case will be re
viewed by the Supreme Court as
are all cases in which the death
sentence is imposed.
The Mitchell trial opened Dec.
17 and ended New Year'i Eve
when a. Circuit Court Jury re
turned a verdict of guilty of mur
der in the first degree without
recommendation for clemency.
Record Low
Chills Basin
The cold blast from the north
brought record tying low tempera
tures to tire Klamath Falls area
Thursday night and the weather
man reports the temperatures
will continue to dip to record
breaking lows tonight. Records
have been kept at the airport for
the last 14 years.
The temperature at the airport
plummeted to two above last
night tying the previous low for
a Jan. V set in 1955. Tempera
tures will probably drop to four
or five below Friday night, break
ing the old record of minus four
for a Jan. 12, the wcallwrman
predicts.
Unofficial reports of 11 below
at Wordcn and 12 below at Olene
this morninc were called in to
the weather bureau.
Oregon's coldest spot last night
was Pendleton with a nine below.
Other temperatures around the
state were seven below at Baker
and Burns, five below at Lake
view and eight below at Merrill
The cold spell is expected to
hold for a few days, but a slow
warming trend may begin Sunday
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON',
Tule Lauds
4-H Leaders
At Banquet
TULELAKE-4-H Club leaders
are developing character, enthusi
asm, careers, sportsmanship, in-l
itialive. discipline, the ability to
cooperate, optimism and future
lives that will center around the
home in the work with youth,
Lee R. Hansen, Portland, told his
audience Thursday night.
Hansen, director of Agricultural
Sales for pacific' fower "& Lighl
Co., was guest .speaker at the
first annual recognition banquet
held in Tulelake for members of
the Tulelake 4-H Leaders Council
He spoke to an interested audi
ence of about 85 persons in the
the fairgrounds. The speaker high
lighted his brief remark with car
toons of rural living.
Continuing, he said tli.it "4-H
work is democracy in action,
founded on belief and work of
the individual with equality for
all." PP&L, the banquet sponsor,
believes, he said, that "4-H is one
of the greatest youth groups now
existing, laying the ground work
(Continued on Page 4)
Storm Pours
Over Nation
By I'nitrd Press International
A storm system that had evcry-
hing near blizzard snows, a tor
nado, and temperatures nearly SO1
degrees below zerrj spread across
the nation from New Mexico to
New England today.
Bitterly cold Arctic air from thel
Yukon poured across the northern
tier of states all the way to Texas.
Temperatures dropped 50 degrees
24 hours. Highways were
treacherous ire lanes and big cit
ies were buffeted by snow-laden
winds.
The hallmarks of a major storm
schools closed, cold records set.
snows mounting were reported
through much of the nation's west
ern two thirds.
In the East and South there was
wintry rain and a tornadic colli
sion ol hot and cold air over
Tennessee. The clash triggered
twister which tore through a mile-
long stretch of business district
in Springhill, Tenn. At least three
persons were injured and many
homes and businesses were
wrecked.
The vicious weather played
direct role in the crash of two
military planes in which eight per
sons were feared dead.
Seven men were presumed dead
when a Navy patrol bomber skid
ded upon landing at the Kodiak.
Alaska. Naval Air Station, which
had boon closed for two days be
cause of bad weather. At Wichita.
Kan., a 1147 jet bomber crashed
iiion takeoff during a snow storm.
1 lie pilot as killed and two crew
members were injured.
Elsewhere, a rabbit hunter was
found dead near his abandoned
truck on the windswept South Da
kota plains. The norm stopped
the search for two light planes
missing in Colorado with six per
sons aboard.
.mo fitted
FRIDAY, JANUARY II, 1963
dinner, for about 85, was prepared and served by the members of the
Relief Society of the Tulelake LDS Church. At left is scene of banquet
room. Right is black. light cartoonist and speaker, Lee R. Hansen, Port
land, director of Agricultural Sales. C. A. Boyden, local manager of
PP&L, emceed the program.
House Po wer Struggle
May Stall
SALEM (UPIl The governor's
office had "no comment" today
on a House power struggle that
could delay Monday's scheduled
inauguration of Gov. Mark Hat
field and organization of the 19G31
House of Representatives.
At issue is the use ot a proxy
vote for Rep. Sidney Leiken, D
RoseburB. who is in Los Angeles
with his ill wife, and may not he
able to return here In time
Sundav..ni4;ht'B House caucus
Monday's f scheduled opening
the legislative session.
The power fight centers around
Clarcnco Parton. D - Coquille.
Speaker-designate of the House,
and House Minority Leader F. F.
Montgomery. R-Eugene.
Barton said Montgomery at first
Zero Cold
Hits State
PORTLAND i UPIl Tempera
tures plunged below zero in East
ern Oregon early today and be
low the freezing mark in all of
Western Oregon.
And, said tlie weather man, it's
going to get colder.
Meat-ham in the Blue Mountains
had an unofficial 39 below.
A blast of arctic air from the
north, coupled with a high pres
sure system sent the mercury
plummeting. There was some
cheer, though, because the h I g h
pressure kept snow out of the
state.
Tie Wealher Bureau said In its
five day outlook that Eastern
Oregon temperatures may near
all-time record lows of 10 to 30
below zero in the next few days.
Lows of zero to 20 below were
predicted there tonight.
Western Oregon is in for it too.
Forecasts called lor lows to S to
10 above in the Willamette Valley
tonight and the five-day outlook
listed lows to 5 bclaw.
Worried motorists put a rush on
antl - freeze while nurserymen
feared for their crops.
Jef Falls
In Flames
WICHITA. Kan 'ITU A B47
jet bomber crashed in flames
shortly alter takeolf during a
snowstorm Thursday night. Tlie
pilot was killed and two others
injured.
Killed was Capt. P. L. Tudwill,
29. of Detroit Lake. Minn, me in
jured were 1st U. F. J. Medrirk
26. the co-pilot, of Hastings, N Y.
and Capt. H. T. Jones. 34, Oak
land. Calif.
The bomber was assigned to the
.T07th Bomb Wing. Lincoln Air
Force Base, Lincoln, Neb.
The highway patrol said Med
rick and Jones were able to para
chule to safety. They were re
ported in good condition at the
hospital at McConnell Air Force
Base here.
Telephone
Ceremony
approved use of a proxy volo for1
Leiken, then notified him that he1
had withdrawn the approval and
would leave the proxy decision up
to the full Republican delegation
Edge Thin
The Democrats hold a 31-29'
edge in House membership. Lei-
- lken's absence would cut the Dem-
ocrats margin to one vote.
Barton said he was not sure tlie
torlHouse could be organized with
or such a close parly split,
of I He said adamantly "if we can
lorganizc the House, we'll just
have to wait."
If the House is not organized.
the constitutional requirement of.
the House canvassing the vote for
covcrnor could not be met, and
Monday's inauguration might have,
to be delayed.
Montgomery said Republicans
want to know what committee as
signmenls Barton plans to make
before the Republicans caucus at
7 p.m. Sunday.
".Statesmanship" Asked
"We want to know if Barton is
going to organize the House on
the basis of partisanship or states
manship," Montgomery said.
Montgomery has stated publicly
several times that Republicans
want committee appointments
based on "ability and experi
ence." not "partisanship."
Barton flatly refuses to an
nounce the assignments in ad
vance.
Shorf Term
DUNSMUIR-Windell Thom
as had a short tenure as Duns
muir dog catcher. He look of
fice Jan. I, looked the job
over on Jan. 2, and resigned
Jan. 3. Thomas said he had a
better Job offer.
At tlie last city council meet
ing there were no outstanding
applications for the post. "The
dogs are taking over the town,"
Mayor David Anderson rortK
mcnted sadly.
iii'piii!iiiisiairM
AWARD WINNERS HOLD PLAQUES Over 80 persons attended the Klamath Falls
Jsycees' annual Outstandinq Junior and Senior Citizens Awards Banquet at tha Wi
nema Motor Hotal Thursday night. "Tha banquet was big success and many laid
it was the best they had ever attended," stated Tim Peterson, eommittea chairman.
Featured guests for the evening war Marty Wyatt, Miss Oregon, and Donald R. Smith,
U.S. National Bank, speaker. From left, are Mayor Bob Veateh, Miss Wyatt, James
Monteith, tenior citizen, John Heilbronner, junior citizen, Smith and Peterson.
TU 4-8111 No. 7035
13 .
joinic uoan
ush 'Met m
chool
The three Klamath County,
school boards moved closer to
grcement and solution of their
mutual school problems when
they unanimously voted to pursue
equitable proposal for the re
organization of the school dis
tricts into one metropolitan and
county unit.,
The action came at the Thurs
day night meeting of the school
hoards association held at 7:30
the city Administration Build
ing. The association is comprised
the county school board and
the two city boards.
At the beginning of the meet
ing, John Voth. association chair
man, briefed the group" on the
results of Wednesday night's
meeting of tlie city and county
citizens committees. Tlie commit
tees met to discuss the metro
reorganization proposal which had
been presented to the joint board
meeting Jan. 3.
The committees decided at their
Wednesday night meeting that
there was merit in the plan and
greed to recommend it to the
joint boards for study.
An exact boundary description
of the proposed metro unit was
not decided on, but the area
would include the entire KU
district with the possible inclusion
loi all or parts of the Rocky Point,
Keno, Fairhaven, Moyina Height:
and Shasta School areas.
Boundary changes were one
the points that needed further
Earth Slide
Buries Four
EUGENE (UPI) Four mem
bers of a logging party "ere
killed when buried In a sudden
mud and snow slide at a lumber
operation about SO miles east ofj
here Thursday.
One oilier member of the party
survived and was rescued.
The victims were Edward
Hinkle. 24, Springfield: William A.
Thompson. 23. Fall Creek: Ger
ald F.. Pitts, also of Springfield,
and Thomas Bowman, Finn Rock.
A. J. Irvin. 41, Springfield, was
rescued more than an hour after
the slide and was taken to a
Springfield hospital. He was re
ported In fair condition with a
broken ankle, bruises and cuts.
David Burwell, a forester who
witnessed the incident, said he
saw the party logging the side of
a deep canyon. Burwell said the
men had just attached a guy line
from a spar pole " tree stub
on the hillside when "the whole;
hillside gave way" without wani
ng.
Later at the hospital, Irvin told
Lane County sheriff's officers he
had Just started uphill to pick up
slag on the line when he noticed
some twigs begin to move.
'I knew what that meant, Ir
vin said, "I've been in plenty of
earth slides before.
Weather
Klamath Falls, Tulelake and
Lakerlew Fair and continued
very cold tonight and Saturday.
Lows tonight -IS in lower Klam
ath Basin to In Klamath Falls.
High Saturday 16. Light variable
winds. Weekend will be clear anrf
cold with some moderation in
temperatures on Sunday. No precipitation.
as
IPIaei
tudy and discussion, the group
decided.
One of the things that divides
the city and county people is the
question of who is going to
get how much assessed valuation
the reorganization.
It Is the county group's thinking
that an equitable solution would
to give the metro district about
million of the present county
unit's assessed valuation. All the
county schools in the suburbs
would also go into the metro dis
trict.
Tlie judgment of the city boards
that about $7.9 million would
a more equitable figure.
Ray Hunsaker and Cliff Robin-
superintendents of city and
o u n t y schools respectively,
orked out some millage rate
figures applicable to both situa
tions. If the metro district were to
gain $5 million, the levy in the
citv would Hrnn A miltc- cithiirhe
up 8.2 mills; west suburbs, up
,0 mills, and county, down 7.8
mills. If the $7.5 million figure
was agreed on city millage rates
would drop 2.5; suburbs up 6.3;
iwest suburbs up 9.0, and county.
down 6.4.
The problems of specific boun
dary changes and assessed val
uation were the things that needed
full 4 time study, the group
agreed. .
Since the reorganization propos
al would require enabling legisla
tion before the citizens are al
lowed to vote on the plan, the
boards decided speed was needed
in working out the details and
coming to a final agreement.
They agreed to contact Dr.
Clarence E. Ilines, professor of
education. University of Oregon,
and see if he would be available to
come to Klamath Falls to work
full time on the details of boun
dary changes, valuation and pupil
shifts.
The cost of the study would be
divided equally by the three
boards.
Pupils Jeer
At Meredith
OXFORD, Miss. (UPIl - More
than 400 University of Mississip
pi students, some screaming Go
home, you nigger," Thursday
night staged the rowdiest demon
stration against James H. Mere
dith since last fall.
The incident, the fourth In as
many nights, began at the cam
pus cafeteria where Meredith ar
rived for supper and continued
at the university library where
Meredith went to study. . .
No attempt was made to harm
the Negro, whose admission un
der federal Intervention last Sept.
30 touched off bloody, rioting
which claimed two lives, and
campus police gradually dis
persed the students.