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By FRANK JENKINS
Hats of( to the nation's latest
(ad this Marathon walking
craze.
U enough people will do enough
Marathon walking, there won't
be time enough left tor so much
hell-raising which is responsible
for a lot of our modern troubles.
Quick recall test:
Right off the bat
Without looking it up
Whence came this word MARA
THON, as applied to long distance
walking or running feats'.'
U derives from the plain of
Marathon, about 20 miles from
Athens, where in 490 B.C. the
Athenian general Milliades defeat
ed the mighty army of Darius
the Persian, who was bent upon
the conquest of Greece. When the
two armies came to grips, the
superior weapons and bodily
strength of the Greeks were de
cisive, although they were great
ly out-numbered. The Persians lost
MOO men. while the army of Mil
tiades lost only 192.
Miltiadcs chose his swiftest run
ner, Pheidippidcs, to carry the
news of the victory to Athens, 20
miles away. He raced the 20
miles and reached the city stum
bling and exhausted. He gasped
out "Rejoice, we conquer," and
fell dead.
Somehow or other although we
still call it a Marathon we've
raised the distance from twenty
miles to FIFTY which is prob-
ably a bit cocky on our part.
It just might be, if you're think
ing of tackling one of these Mara
thons that seem to be so popular,
you'd better cut the 50 miles to
50 yards at least for the first
try.
Book review note:
In Washington, the latest edi
tion of the Report of the Secre
tary of the Senate, a 980-page
volume listing the expenses of
the United States Senate, is just;
off the presses. It's quite a book
as you can judge for yourself
from 'he fact that its compilers
spent $3,411,197.44 Inote the 44
cents, which is an example of
the meticulous accuracy . w i t h
which its authors worked in their
labors of compilation . Every
item of Senate expenditure during
the year is listed including a
ten-cent phone call to New York
made by one of the investigators
All in all- .
The book reports
The U.S. Senate spent $27,346,
411.11 inote the 11 cents! in the
19(3 fiscal year. The total was
UP $158,233 from 1961. in spite
of the efforts of (lie Joint Com
mittee on Reduction of Non-Essential
Federal Expenditures,
which spent $26,967.52 in its
patriotic efforts to hold down non
essential spending.
What to say in reviewing the
book?
Let's put it this way:
There are 100 members of this
exclusive club that is known as
the U.S. Senate two members
from each of our 50 states.
If you will get out your pencil
and paper and divide the Senate
expenditures of $27,346,411.11 by
100 (the number of members of
the Senate), you will discover that
the COST PER SENATOR came
to the rather considerable figure
of $273,461.11.
H i lilte wonder that taxes are
high.
Cuban Photo
Release Eyed
WASHINGTON 'UPD-The De
fense Department may make pub
lic additional reconnaissance pho
tographs of Cuba in response to
assertions there was a "blank
space" in U S. intelligence on the
Soviet arms buildup.
The reported "blank space"
was between Sept. 5. when there
were no Cuban missile bases, and
Oct. 14, when the bases were in
an advanced state of construction
and within two weeks of becom
ing 0ierational.
No photograph; made during
that five and one-half weeks ever
have been released. Columnist
Walter Lippmann asked Tuesday
where was the U.S. photographic
intelligence during this period.
The Pentagon had no immedi
ate comment, but it was learned
that officials are considering a re
ply w-hich may or may not be ac
companied by some of the miss
ing photographs.
September and early October
included some bad weather in the:
area Hurrxane Ella howled
nut of the Caribbean. But it is
known that I S. reconnaissance
flight were conducted over Cuba,
with the expectation of obtaining
photographs, on lour widely sep
arated dates during the period
Defence Secretary Robert S
MeNamara Mid last week at his
rad;o-telewMon news conference
that such flmhls were conducted
on Sept 6. .V-nt 29. Oct 5 and
Oct. 10.
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Rail Union Chief
Asked To Call SP
Walkout Saturday
SAN FRANCISCO UPH -The
chairman of Ihe Soulnern Pacific
unit of the Brotherhood of Rail
way Clerks has called for a strike
against the railroad at "the ear
liest possible moment," but na
tional on icers of the union con
tinued efforts today to avert the
walkout.
James Weaver, head of the SP
Driver Asks
To Impeach
President
WASHLNGTON IUPI A man
demanding that President Ken
nedy and his Cabinet be im
peached drove a car onto the
steps of the Justice Department
today and told police he had a
bomb wired to the automobile.
Police immediately closed oft
the section of Pennsylvania Ave
that runs in front of the building
and sent bomb experts to the site
The man, identifying himself as
Nathan Wiskowsky, lay under
neath the car and said he would
stay where he was until lie could
talk with FBI Director J. Edgar
Hoover.
Police described Wiskowsky as
'neat, well-dressed and
ticulate."
Justice Department police first
spotted the car. a 1956 Oldsmobile
with Arizona license plates, as it
swerved sharply from Pennsyl
vania Ave. onto the sidewalk.
It narrowlv missed some pe
destrians and then mounted the
three steps leading up to the main
entrance of the department. The
rear wheels rested on the side
walk and the front wheels on the
top step.
The building police said thel
driver quickly got out of the car
and climbed underneath. By the
time they arrived, he was holding
several wires "and some kind of
package," thev said. There
were several gasoline cans on the
rear seat.
Building police said they put
shocks around the wheels of the
car and then called local police
who said the driver told them he
had a bomb wired to the car and
planned to slay underneath it un
til he could talk with Hoover.
Election Won
By Macmillan
LONDON UPI Prime Min
ister Harold Macmillan moved
quickly from a fresh parliamen
lary vote of confidence today into
new efforts to spur Britain s I
gins economy.
Backed by the best display of
party unity since the Common
Market crisis broke. Macmillan
ordered full steam ahead on his
plans for a new wage policy,
world commodity pacts and in
creased trade with the United
States. Europe, and Ihe Common
wealth.
Fallout Shelter Program Blasted
In Testimony Before Legislators
SALEM iL'Pl Men and women
Irom three Orecon cities told a
legislative committee here Tues
day they don't want a fallout
shelter program.
They said the money and eilorl
spent on civil defense should be
spent instead on attaining perma
nent world peace and disarma
ment. Slielters are futile and decep
tive, they told the Senate Com
mittee on Military Affairs it
continued its review of civil de
lense. And. said Dr. George Streuing
er ol the University of Oregon, it
is ridiculous to talk about living
underground and then emerging
into a post - nuclear war world
where civilization is gone, ani
i r.
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Price Ten Tents 20 Pages
Killed Iks JeSfceir
unit, said Tuesday he feels that
further talks in the lengthy dis
pute over automation are "a
waste of time." He said he asked
the president of the union to order
Ihe withdrawal of clerks from SP
service at the earliest possible
moment, and under no event later
than 6 p.m. PST. Feb. 16, 1963."
But William McGovern. union
vice president and representative
of president George Harrison, con
tinued negotiations with the rail
road through federal mediator
Frank O'Neill.
Both O'Neill and McGovern ex
pressed cautious ontimism Tues
day that the oft-postponed walkout
could be averted. A strike bv the
ll.OOO-member union would tie up
50.000 SP employes in Oregon,
California, Nevada. Utah. Arizona.
New Mexico and west Texas.
When asked Tuesday if the sit
uation looked hopeful, McGovern
replied, "yes." Then he added,
"hope springs eternal."
He said he had talked to Har
rison by telephone and was told
lo continue talks as long as he
felt there was a chance for a
settlement.
K. K. Schomp. personnel man
ager for SP and chief negotiator
for the company, also was in fa
vor of the peace talks continuing.
As far as the Southern Pacific
is concerned," he said, "we will
continue to work in every way
possible with Mr. O'Neill in our
attempt to avert a strike and end
the threat that it poses to the pub
lic." - - - --
The union originally was sched
uled to go out at midnight last
Wednesday.
Snow Threat
Faces East
By United Press International
A broad arctic air mass pro
filed southward today, covering
the entire East Coast, posing
heavy snow warnings in the
Northeast and threatening cxtcn
sive damage to Texas' citrus and
vegetable crops.
Scores of schools were closed
in the Southeast.
The frigid air spawned torrcn
tial rains and high winds in Flor
ida where a Northwest Orient Air-I
line jet crashed and burned after
takeoff from Miami. All 43 per
sons aboard perished.
Rain and snow choked off main
highway arteries in Dixie, includ
ing parts of a 200-mile stretch be
tween Knoxville and Nashville.
Tcnn., and a mountain highway
in northwest Georgia. Sub-freezing
temperatures spread across Ala
bama, Georgia and Mississippi
The only reading of SO degrees
or higher was in Key West. Fla.
where tlie mercury reached 65.
The northern sections of Vcr
mont. New Hampshire and Maine
braced for as much as a foot of
fresh snow, while hazardous driv
ine warnings were oostefl lor
southern New England because ol
treacherous freezing rain.
mals and plants are dead, and in-l
-ets and disease are rampant.
Many of the witnesses stressed:
a lalse scne ot security iney
said is caused by shelter pro
grams. They said this impedes
leace efforts.
They make us "more and more
resigned." said Mrs. Harlan Bos
worth of Medford. She said shel
ters also delude the enemy into
"believing we will lake anything
ratlier than compromise."
"There is no defense against a
nuclear attack," said Mrs. Ben
Bradlvn of Portland. "The real
solution is lo arrance world dis
armament under law."
Official connected with civd
defense disagreed.
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Lions Club. The club has pli
has
here, left to right,
hospital fund general chairman, and Dr. Harold Catmull,
contribution and pledge were made at tha regular Tuesday noon luncheon of the
club at the Winema Hotel.
Civil Defense Agency Nixed
By Legislative Committee
SALEM IUPI Elimination of
Oregon's civil defense agency was
recommended today by a subcom-
mittee of tlie Senate-House Ways
and Means Committee.
The subcommittee voted 5-0 to
abolish the present IB-man de
partment, and replace it with the
addition of one man to the gover
nor's staff to coordinate civil de
fense-related activities.
Gov. Mark Hatfield's budget
had requested $195,125 for civil
defense.
The action climaxed a series of
stormy hearings during which the
department was labeled a "do
nothing" agency which was in
o)cralive during the Columbus
Day storm.
A Senate Military Affairs Com-
House Group
Talks Taxes
SALEM lUPD Discussion of
cigarette taxes and a "one shot"
revenue plan occupied the House
Taxation Committee Tuesday but
no mention was made of sending
Rep. Joe Rogers' sales tax biU
back to the House.
Rogers charged Monday thai
Democratic leadership was delay
ing action on tax measures. House
Speaker Clarence Barton threat
ened to call Rogers' bill out ol
committee Tax Committee Chair
man Richard Eymann indicated
the committee might take such
action.
Rogers' bill would establish
3 per cent sales tax on all but
agricultural sales
Tax Commissioner Fred Hocfkci
explained Tuesday that monthly
payments of stale taxes withheld
from wages would produce an
additional Si.5 million nexi men
mum. Tlie taxes are now remitted j
I quarterly.
"Our job Is to save lives," said
Dr. Richard Wilcox of the State
Board of Health, "and a great
numtier would be saved with
some preparation."
"I am fully aware of the horror
of war." said Portland Civil De-
lense Director Jack Iowe, citing
World War II experiences, "but I
believe it would save lives."
He said readiness to fight is
one ot me nest guarantees ol
ieaie If the nation spends nearly
SjO billion a year on military de
fense, including second strike ca
pability, he said, it should also
attend to non-military defense
Mreisint'er said shelters give
the impression that ... we can af
lord war."
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13. 1963
- This huge check, made out (or $1,000 to the Intercom
one fifth of the donation planned by the Klamath Fells
pledged itself to contribute
are ur. tolenroe uavis, vice president
mittee is conducting a separate!
review of the agency.
The subcommittee s rccommen-
dation now goes to the full Ways!
and Means Committee for action
Shortly before Sen. Alfred Cor
Orbit Trip
Postponed
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla
UP! i The planned 22-orbit flight
uf astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr
I be delayed until the middle
of May by a new move to make
the booster rocket safer, it was
announced today.
Cooper's flight had been sched
uled for April 2, but ran into an
indefinite postponement about two
weeks ago following a technical
management board meeting.
The federal space agency said
today that a decision was made
to rewire the critical flight con
trol system under a proposed new
technique by General Dynamics
Astronautics, which makes the
Atlas booster rocket.
Officials said the rewiring was
called for alter experts decided
the control system posed a "pos
sible source of trouble.
Cooper, who will be 36 next
month, will be sent into orbit
aboard a bcll-shapid Mercury
capsule similar lo the one that
lifted fellow astronauts John H
Glenn Jr., M. Scott Carpenter and
Walter M. Schirra Jr. into space
last year.
If all goes well. Cooper will
spend at least 34 hours in space
covering 22 orbits of the globe to
return to a landing in the Pa
cific Ocean.
Lumber 'Hold!
Rule Rapped
PORTLAND lUPD A lumber
group today described as a "
vere blow" a rejection by tlie
Western Railroad Traffic Associa
tinn iWRT.M of a petition seeking
limited free hold time on east
bound lumber shipments.
Tlie Western Iximber Marketing
Association. iWLM.M, a group of
mills and wholesalers, had filed
the pelition.
Hcrshal Tanzer, president ol Uie
lumber group, said the proposal
would have granted a significant
measure of assistance to hundreds!
of smaller mills who must ship
by rail rather than by water.
"It is ironic, ne said, mat on
Ihe tery dale lhat tlie first for
eign vevsel loaded lumber from
an American port for Puerto Rico
under Ihe Jones Act modification
an act of assistance (or largr
water mills, the WRTA rejected
this vital rail proposition. "
He referred lo the loading at
Oras Bay of Japanese ship.
imlm
$5,000 to the fund. Shown
or tne club; James itilwell,
president of the club. Thi
belt, D-Portland, moved for aboli
tion of the agency and asked for
an alternate budget. Sen. Walter
Pearson, D-Portland, visited the
committee. He urged that civil
defense be abolished "as the big
gest boondoggle and waste
money the stale has ever seen
Pearson added, "I've never yet
seen them do anything. If you
want to save money, this is one
way to start. Get rid of it."
Sen. Lynn Newbry, R-Ashland
who seconded Cornell's motion.
had suggested retaining $22,000
state matching funds fur federal
appropriations. The committee de
cided the state should get out of
the business and Newbry dropped
his amendment.
The Columbus Day windstorm
played havoc with the agency.
Pearson said "everybody knew
about it by radio long before civil
defense broadcast anything, if;
they ever did.
Corbett added. "I have been
critical in the past, but had sup
ported it for its use in coordina
tion in a natural disaster. Its
performance in the last disaster
was a disappointment, to say the
least."
Flu Spreads
Over Nation
Bv United Press International
An outbreak of pneumonia and
influenza felled thousands across
the nation today, closing schools
and culling into the work force
Asian flu was delected in at least
a dozen states.
The Baltimore. Md., Public
Health Service said it did not
foresee any immediate decline in
four-week epidemic. At its
peak, 300 men in Baltimore's
3,740-man police force were
stricken
Kentucky State H?alth Commis
sioner Dr. Russell Tcague said it
appeared the state was in the
'beginning of a good epidemic
He said he was fairly sure it was
Ihe Asian flu strain.
Trigg County schools in Ken
tucky were closed Tuesday when
18 per rent of 2,000 enrolled itu
dents failed to show up for
daises. About 400 patients
jammed the emergency looms at
Ihe Louisville. Ky., General Hos
pital.
The ''Sweetheart Dance" at Be-
vier, Mo., tonight was called oil
along with all scheduled basket
ball games after 86 students and
7 of 17 teachers became ill.
School was dismissed for the rest
of the week.
A wave of absenteeism swept
Indiana's Floyd. Claik and liar
rison counties. HealW Otticcr Ur
Sam Adair said Ihe wave In Clark
County was the worst in 30 years
The flu reached epidemic propor
Hons in Floyd County.
Hundreds of students were ab
sent In Corydon, lnd., alone.
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Probers Find Wreckage
Scattered For 2 Miles
MIAMI. Fla. (UPi- Scattered
wreckage of a Northwest Orient
Airlines jetliner indicated today
that the plane may have shattered
in flight before it plunged into Ihe
Florida everglades with the loss
of 43 lives.
Newsmen at the scene found
wreckage scattered over an area
of about two square miles.
A score of government aviation
experts at the crash site 43 miles
west of Miami declined to specu
late on the cause of the crash as
they began their painstaking ex
amination of the w reckage.
Fifteen miles away, a morgue
was set up in a little two-room
Indian school house to begin re
ceiving the charred and broken
bodies of the victims.
There was no furrow to indicate
that the pilot of the ill-fated
Miami-to-Chicago airliner, which
disappeared seven minutes after
takeoff, had attempted any sort
of emergency landing. '
Other witnesses at the scene
also reported small broken pieces
of wreckage scattered in a path
for eight miles leading to the ma
jor portion of the fuselage that
lay crumpled like a cigar ground
under foot.
The detailed investigation that
began at dawn continued into mid-
morning. None of the bodies of 35
passengers, most of them mid
westerners returning from a Flor
ida vacation, and eight crew mem
bers had yet been taken to the
school by waiting helicopters.
The must vivid scone at tlie site
was the body ol a woman mat
was thrown clear, about 100 feet
ahead ot the main cabin.-
Clad In a, black skirt and. white
blouse, the dead woman lay as if
asleep in the gently waving saw.
grass. Her body was unmarked.
Most of tlie passengers were
still in the shattered remains of
the charred fuselage that lay
crushed almost flat to the ground
The top and sides -ol the cabin
were gone, apparently Burned
away.
A CAB spokesman said the in
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YOUNG REPUBLICANS 'ORGANIZE Officers were named" Tuesday night when the
Young Republican Club of Klamath County organiied. Heading the young GOP'ers
for the next year ere, left to right, Mrs. Donne Morgan, housewife, secretary; Wal
lace Hitt, vice president; Kurt Fiedler, assistant secretary; Phil Persons, president,
and Tom Troxel, student, treasurer. The group is assisting in joint sponsorship of the
Lincoln Day Dinner Thursday at the Winema Hotel.
Young Republicans
Lincoln Dinner Souvenirs
A special souvenir has been de
signed and prepared for all those
attending the Lincoln Day dinner
Thursday evening at the Winema
by members of the Young Repub
lican Club of Klamath County.
A slate of officers (or Ihe or
ganization was named at a meet
ing Tuesday night. Phil Parsons
will head the group as presklent
He was chosen on the first ballot
Other officers of the young
GOP'ern are. Wallace Il.tt, vice
president; Mrs. Donna Morgan
secretary; Kurt Fiedler, assistant
secretary, and Tom Troxel, treas
urer.
An Invitation has been extended
by the club to all young people
Ixtwern tlie ages of 18 and 36 to;
loin the group. Officials of the
TU 4-8111 No. 7063
isvergiaa
vestigators would review all pos
sible causes of the crash, includ
ing sabotage.
A Coast Guard helicopter pilot
found the wreckage of the four
engine Northwest Orient Airline
Boeing 720R about five hours aft
er the plane lost radio contact
with Miami International Airport.
Lt. Cmdr. James Dillon, Akron.
Ohio, located the wreckage 43
miles west of Miami.
"There are no survivors," Dil
lon reported. "I saw one body
that appeared to be intact. Lug
gage was strewn everywhere."
UPI photographer hugo Wessels
later flew close to tne wreckage
in a chartered helicopter and said
nearly all the bodies seemed to
be strapped in the cabin seats.
John McWhorter, CAB coordi
nator, said helicopiers would be
used to remove the bodies be
cause it took swamp vehicles
more than three hours to reach
Ihe wreckage through thick un-
dcrbrush in tlie snake-infested
wilderness.
The airliner, Flight 705, was
due to land in Chicago at 4:05
p.m. before continuing on to Se
Tourisis See Fireball
As Jet Faffs In Swamp
MIAMI tUPI Six tourlstsl
from the Midwest looked ruefully
at a black thunderhead cloud!
Tuesday afternoon trying to make!
the most of a rainy ttshing trip,
Tlie time wa about 1:55 p.m.
EST just about; the ..time a
Northwest Orient jetliner plunged
lo earth lo the north of them with
the loss of 43 lives.
The six persons were fishing In
Rookery Creek, near the "Little
Banana Patch" fishing hole in the
upper reaches of the Shark River
that meanders through the vast-
ncss of the Everglades National
Park.
Suddenly all saw a fireball!
club pointed out that this is a real
opportunity for those interested
to make a contribution toward
achieving stability and progress
both government and the na
tion's economic life.
Parsons told the group. "The
millions of youngsters have the
greatest stake in the future of our
country. The Democrat program!
of bigger and bigger government
more and more controls, and less
and less individual freedom must
he slopped. Membership in the
Young Republicans is how the
young people of Klamath Coun
ty can join In this fight to pre
serve our American way of life.
In reorganizing the group, the
Young Republicans laid down four
basic principles, listing them as1
Weal her
Klamath Falls, Tulelake and
Lakeview Variable cloudiness
through Thursday. Generally light
w inds. Cooler tonight, Iowa about
23, highs Thursday near 45.
attle and Portland. The jet took
off at 1:30 p.m. into a line of
squalls a few miles west of Mi
ami. There was a layer of black
clouds at about 800 leet at take
off. The pilot, Capt. Roy W. Aim-
quist, 47, of Rosemont, Minn.,
was in the midst of his post-take-
off check with the Miami tower
when radio communications with
the plane broke off.
"Leaving 17,000 feet," a routine
report that the plane was climb
ing to the prescribed 25.000-foot
level, were his last words.
Tower authorities said every
thing appeared normal up to the
time radio contact was lost.
About 13 minutes later, Gordon
Schwan of Mansfield, Ohio, fish
ing at the headwaters of the
Shark River In tlie Everglades,
said he saw a "fireball" in the
sky and debris flying and heard
an explosion.
The headwaters ot the Shark lie
deep in tlie center of the huge
Everglades Park in an area ac
cessible only by boats with veter
an Everglades guides at the
helm.
burst inside tlie thunderhead, then
a streak of red and smoky lire
all toward the horizon followed
by the thump ot a heavy explo
sion.
Aboard the boat were Gordon
Schwan and his wife. Marilou, of
Mansfield, Ohio, and their guests,
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Schwardt of
'Cleveland and Mr. and Mrs. John
Mortorff of Indianapolis.
Their report three hours later
when they reached the marina at
Flamingo, Fla., led the Coast
Guard to search the right area
and find the wreckage of the dis
aster. Prepare
(1) Bringing young people into the;
Republican Party and providing
an opportunity for them to find
political expression and recog
nition, (2) Training young people
as effective political workers. 3).
Fostering and encouraging loyalty
to the Republican Party and Its
ideals, and 4 Collecting, analyz
ing, reporting and disseminating
information concerning govern
ment and political affairs."
The club will jointly sponsor the;
Lincoln Day dinner Thursday eve-;
ning at 7 p.m. at the Winema.;
The Honorable John Pavij Lodge,
previously ambassador to Spain,
congressman, governor and pres
idential adviser, will be the guest
speaker.
Reservations for the dinner may
he made by phoning TU 4-4181.