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Day's km
By FRANK JENKINS
The news today?
Some of it is on the weird side.
For example: Russian scientists
say they have brought two histor
ic Tritons (vertebrates resembling1
lizards) BACK TO LIFE after they
nad Iain Irozen solid for 5,000
years in Siberia.
The claim is made in a Moscow
radio broadcast heard in London.
The broadcast gave this ac
count of the find:
"Some time ago Soviet geolo
gists found something resembling
a lizard at a depth of about 25
lect in the frozen ground of north
ern Siberia. It revived after being
kept at room temperature for!
some time.
"Scientists finally classified it
as a four-toed Triton, one of the
oldest and most primitive orders
of tailed amphibia that inhabited
the earth in the Mesozoic Era (the
dinosaur age). Judging by the
state of the earth in which it was;
fuund, biologists concluded that
fihe Triton had been asleep for
'about 5,000 years."
Pretty creepy?
You haven't heard anything yet.
The broadcast went on to say:
"On awakening, the creature
behaved exactly as it presumably
acted thousands of years ago. It
ran around. It ate and slept. It
uas not afraid of people, willingly
eating wild berries, flies and mos
quitoes that were fed to it.
"It died after three weeks. An
other Triton was found frozen
about 13 feet underground. This
one also revived and lived prac
lically all summer."
Are the Russkies pulling our leg
to use tlie British phrase for
telling a tall tale? In the com
munist code of ethics, lying is a
creditable and patriotic thing
when it serves some allegedly
useful purpose such as spreading
the idea that Russian scientists
are supermen.
But-
Thcre are the entire bodies of
mammoths that have been found
frozen in the ground of Siberia.
These finds are fully authenticat
ed. The flesh of these frozen mon-i
stcr beasts was so good w hen it
thawed out that dogs ate it eag
erly. Presumably man could have
done so if his more civilized stom
ach hadn't rebelled at such fare
And-
The encyclopedias toll us
When the solid sheets of the ice
of the Ice Age melted, animals
and plants CAME BACK TO
LIFE. Then, these accepted sci
entific accounts continue, the ice
sheets moved in again and the
remains of these animals and
plants were buried again.
Presumably, what has happened
before can happen again.
Besides
Is a story to the effect that liz
ards that have remained froz
en in the ice in a state of sus
pended animation for thousands
of years any more eerie than thei
FACT that we have been able
to send for millions upon mil
lions upon millions of miles out
Into space a man - made ship
equipped with robots that are
able to send back to us in robot
language capable of being trans
lated into modern English words,
the news that the planet Venus is
incapable of sustaining human life
because its temperatures run up
wards of 800 degrees Fahrenheit?
It's a weird world and the
chances are that it w ill get even
weirder as time passes and rc
Vcarch proceeds.
Cuban Atom
War Warned
MOSCOW 'IT!1 Soviet Premi
er iLila Khvit-:irrpv warned In.
dav that Russian rockets and
bombers would return lo Cuba to
wage thermonuclear war if the
island were attacked by "im
perialists." In a major speech that lasted
1 hour and 27 minutes. Khrush
chev also said the Soviets would
rush to the aid of any Communisl
nation that might be attacked, in
cluding Communist China.
He said the Soviet t'nion had
agreed to pull its rockets and
bombers out of Cuba, but he
added:
"It doesn't mean we Iclt Cuba
In be ratcn by the sharks of im
perialism. We will come to the
aid of the Cuban people."
Tit Russian premier turned a
local election speech for his home
district into a widc-rangnig policy
statement on international affairs
"We warn, that if there is an
imperialist attack against Cuba or
China which is threatened from
Taiwan (Formosa by Chian; Kai
nhck or against Vict Nam or
the German Democratic Republic
or any eiher socialist state, the
So ict t'nion ill come lo the an
of its socialist brothers against
any aggression." Khrushcrev said.
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RENO FLIGHT DISCUSSED Representatives of various Eastern Oregon cities and
state agencies met here Tuesday with members of the Klamath County Chamber of
Commerce to discuss the petitioning of the Civil Aeronautics Board to establish a
commercial passenger air service linking Eastern Oregon cities with Reno. Observing
a chart of the proposed flight are, left to right, Joe Sawyer, manager of the Klamath
Falls Municipal Airport; Don Haarkenson, Public Utilities Commission; Bill Maddron,
State Board of Aeronautics and representative of the Eugene Chamber of Commerce;
Roger Ritchcy, State Board of Aeronautics, Administrative Services.
Reno Air Link Supported
By DICK BRIGGS
The proposed establishment of
a commercial airline service link
ing Eastern Oregon cities with
Reno moved a significant step fur
ward at the Reamcs Country Club
Tuesday afternoon, as represent
atives of the Eugene, Redmond.
Medford and Lakeview Chambers
of Commerce met with members
of the Klamath County chamber
and pledged their support to the
plan.
The meeting had been arranged
several weeks ago by the local
chamber's aviation committee as
another in a series of attempts to
urge the Civil Aeronautics Board
to allow the setting up of a com
mercial airline flight connecting
certain cities in Eastern Oregon
with Reno.
In addition to the cities repre
sented at the meeting, two mem
bers of the Slate Board of Aero
nautics and a representative of
the Public IWi'ir-s Commission
were present to back the project
Other endorsements arrived ear
lier through the mails from
Giants Pass. North Bend and
both the Reno Chamber of Com
merce and the city of Reno.
Record Cold
Hits East
Ry L'nited Press International
Below zero temperatures set
more records in the bast today,
adding to the misery of the long,
cold winter.
For the ninth time this year,
Pittsburgh recorded a new low.
and for the 10th day in the steel
city the temperature dropped be
low zero. It was 9 below- in Pitts
burgh today, compared with the
old record of 3 below in WM.
The mercury also dropped In 32
below at Somerset, Pa., and 27
Mow at Erie. Pa., today. New
records included Burlington. Vt..
21 below, Columbus. Ohio. 11 be
low : Toledo and Cleveland. Ohio.
10 below. Akron. Ohio, 9 below ;
Indianapolis, Ind., 7 below; Syra
cuse and Rochester. N Y., 3 be
low, and Eric. Pa., 4 below.
Readings above zero of 2 al
Charleston. W. Va.; 9 at Raleigh.
N.C.; 18 at Macon, (la., and 26 at
Tallahassee. Fla.. al.sn were new
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Study Of Downtown Business Area
Slated By Planning Commission
, study of the Klamath Falls
downtown busines area will be
the main project lor the next 12
to IS months, the county plan
ning commission decided at its
Tuesday nisht meeting in Ihc
council chamber at city hall.
The commissioners unanimous
ly agreed to recommend to the
county court that such a study
be a joint undertaking between tne
city and county planning groups
Rod Bell and Dick Hicks, rep
resenting the downtown mer
chants association, addressed the
commissioners Tuesday night and
a.sked that the commission put
llic study on Us work a
year.
;da this
Bell said the downtown mrr -
chants were concerned over thej
possible decay of the downtown.
business area and Iclt that
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West Coast Airlines, which for
the past 10 years has sought to ob
tain a franchise to provide the Ore
gon-Reno air service, offered its
support through vice president
Tom Croson in charge of public
relations.
Following a three-hour program
and discussion period, the group
decided that those cities inter
ested in promoting the between
states flight would add their en
dorsement to a petition being pre
pared by the state Board of Aero
nautics and the Public Utilities
Commission. The petition would
Clerks Set
For Court
Order Fight
SAN FRANCISCO l'PI- The
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks
was expected to go to court today
to fight a restraining order which
prevented a scheduled strike by
the union against Southern Pacif
ic, the West's largest railroad.
The walkout in seven western
states was set to begin at 6 p.m.
PST Tuesday, but SP attorneys
obtained a 10-day restraining or
der from Superior Court Judge
James O'Keefe in suburban Red
wood City.
James Weaver, chairman of the
union's 11,000-mcmber SP unit,
said attorneys for the brotherhood
believe tlie surprise action was
invalid "in toto" and would be
vacated.
"It's a good idea for people to
stay off the rails if they don't
want to get hurt," Weaver added.
"The minute we got out of court,
we'll be gone."
Tlie railroad apparently felt tor-
tain the order would stand. It
lifted tlie freight embargo which
war ordered Tuesday when the
union announced the strike dead
line. The union official also ruled out
further negotiations with Federal
Mediator Frank O'Neill, who has
been conferring with both sides
since Feb. 6 in an attempt lo
avert the oft-postponed walkout.
Weaver said he still was willing
to talk to O'Neill, but commented,
"We're not going lo negotiate un
der this restraint."
complete study of the situation
could lead to steps preventing
loss of business and a resulting
economic blight in the area.
The proposal was aired at the
last city council meeting and
council members along with city
planning commissioners already1
agreed that such a study should
be implemented.
In other business, the county
planning commission voted to rec-
ommend to the county court an
amendment to tlie county subdi-lsiich
vision ordinance.
The amendment would read
that before the county accept aiit would cost the county in excess
subdivision plat any lands thatiof $20,0(in to segregate the ap-
are classified as reforestation
lands must be declassified before
the plat is accepted.
Such declassification requires
pavmcnt In Hie county of all
lamounla of unassessed back adite recover (he $20,000.
U.OF ORE.LIBSART
HEfSPAPM IKIWl
'oeii.RCf want
request that the CAB authorize es
tablishment of the proposed flight.
Jim Montcith, president of the
chamber, opened tlie meeting by
welcoming the 29 guests and mem
bers of the chamber and then
turned the session over to Los
Liston, chairman of the aviation
committee, who emceed the re
mainder of the program. I
The program featured the com
ments of Joe Sawyer, manager
of the Klamath Falls municipal
airport; Don Haakcnson, mem
ber of the Public Utilities Com
mission; and Roger G. Ritchcy.
member of tlie State Board of
Aeronautics.
Sawyer, who had indicated that
some members of the CAB were
receptive to the Reno flight pro
posal when he discussed the mat
ter with them Informally In Port
land last year, told those present
that "we must be unilicd if we re
going to got tlie Reno flight."
He suggested that the various
chambers circulate qucslionaires
to businessmen, ranchers, and oth
er segments of the population re
questing information as to how
frequently they would use a Reno
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Flu Cases
Said Rising
By l'nited Press International
A massive outbreak of influen
za covered 29 slates today and
kept thousands of students and
workers home in bed.
The U.S. Public Health Service!
(HSi said the danger of Asian flu
is expected to wane by the mid
die of next month but many areas
in the eastern half of the nation
reported rising sickness rates.
The Communicable Disease
Center at Atlanta said Asian flu
has been positively identified in
16 states. Other forms of influen
za and kindred ailments felled
residents of 1.1 other states.
Nearly 4.0H0 new cases of flu
were reported in nine Alabama
counties Tuesday, putting the
stale total well over 10.000
Health authorities said the out
break shows no sign of reaching
a peak. The current cold wave is
expected to push Alabama's flu
total still higher.
valorem laxes in excess of forest
fees and yield taxes already paid
If the county continues to ac
cept subdivision plats on refores
tation lands it will continue loi
lose all tax monies on these
lands." Ken Rlackman, planning
consultant, said.
"It costs the county approxi
mately $4 30 a lot to segregate!
and keep books on subdivided
lands," he said
This would mean that u a case
as the Bly Mountain sub-
division i7.(i0 acres of which are
Iclassilied as reforestation land
proximate 5.000 lots in this sub-'
division.
L'ndrr the present reforest al ion
law the county could not tax these
lands and would have no way
CO'iP.
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KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 27. 1063"
Wildlife
Hunters
Creation of an interim commit
tee to study the management of
Oregon's wildlife resources was
virtually assured Tuesday night
at a two and one-half hour hear-
ing held in the stale house by the
Senate State and Federal Affairs
Committee.
It was also equally certain
tlie the State Game Commission
would pick up the tab of $35,000
for expenses of that committee
out of current budget funds for
the commission.
Sen. Hairy Boivin. Klamath
Falls, chairman of tlie hearing,
expressed complete satisfaction
with the testimony and indicat
ed that the hearing had cleared
the air and paved the way for es
tablishment of the study.
Nearly 200 angry hunters at-!
tended tlie session and , re
affirmed their previous stand
that Oregon's deer herds are van
ishing and that protective mea
sures should be taken.
C. E. Milhorn of Bcatty. state
president of the recently formed
Oregon Fish and Game Council,
told the committee he found 12
sets of deer tracks in a survey
of snowy areas last year where
a few years ago there would have
been 300 to 400.
Aaron Forest of Alturas, Calif.,
said the California game agency
CD Budget
Cut Sparks
New Battle
SALEM (UPII - A $52.97l
aim n .-.. uu S .
suunmicu 10 a nays ana means
subcommittee Tuesday and
sparked ' an immediate outburst
from subcommittee members.
Sen. Alfred Corbctt, D-Portland,
charged the new budget "indicates
they are still thinking in Victorian
terms."
Sen. L. W. Newbry, R-Ashland,
commented, it looks like w e
asked the wrong people to revise
the budget."
The alternate proposal was
asked by the subcommittee after
it rejected the governors $410,65
request for the civil defense agen-
Freeman Holmer. director of the
Department of Finance and Ad
ministration which prepared the
alternate plan, admitted "the De
partment of Finance does not
recommend this."
The proposal would replace the
present 18-man civil defense agen
cy w ith a 3-mcmber staff working
out of the governor's office.
It calls for a coordinator, sccre-!
lary. and communications expert.
Half of the governor s requested
$410,675 budget would have been
paid by federal matching funds.-
Holmer admitted he did not know
if the federal government would
pick up half the alternate $52,974
amount.
"If you don't know, who does?"
Asked Hep. Beulah Hand. D-Mil-
waukie, subcommille chairman.
Corbctt asked "what is the
priority function of civil defense
supposed to he?"
Sales Tax
Plans Eyed
SALEM i I'PI i Two authors
of sales tax measures appeared
before the House Tax Committee
Tuesday night to detail their
plans.
Hep. Joe Rogers, Itlndrpcnd-
rnce, explained nis tnree-way taxl$i lor adults ana students over
nlan: Let the voters decide il
Ihey want any tax hike, a sales
tax. or a net receipts tax.
Hep. Don McKinnis. D-Summer-
villo, proposed a sales tax pro
cram that would funnel money
directly to county assessors for a
proerly tax nlKcl.
Apiiearing at tlie same meeting
were two opponents oi saies lax
proposals. Joe Spenncr. a farm
laborer from Stayton and C. H.
Brooks, Oregon State Grange,
voiced opposition.
The attitude of tax committee
t.wmiicii indicated tney na noi
favor any sales lax program.
Alter Tuesday night's hearing.
Committee Ch?irman Richard Ey-
mann. IKMarcola. announced an
other public meeting will be held'
at 7 pm. Thursday.
Eymann said at that meeting
committee memhers will n issc.i
to indicate the type of plan they
favor to rais needed revet iui.
Study Seen Assured As
Protest Vanishing Deer
"shocked tlie slate" earlier this
month when it admitted its man
agement policies were not work
ing. Ralph Rcnner of Lakcvicw, for
mer fish and game commissioner,
said. "Through my fields, a few
years age, some five to six thous
and deer migrated. Last year I
saw one doc.
Rcnner said he resigned from
the commission because it refused
to heed his warning.
Lawrence Hoiton, Klamath
County rancher, testified that at
one lime he noticed a terrific
decrease in the amount of the!
deer herds, that formerly he had
seen up to 240 at one time, but
now there were just a few to
be seen.
R. C. Burgess, a former BLM
manager from Southern Oregon,
said the open winters of this
Single Education
Proposed To Legislature
A bill to consolidate the State
Board of Education and the State
Board of Higher Education into
a single body was introduced into
the House today by Representa
tives Stafford Hansell and Joe
Rogers, both Republicans.
The bill was suggested by Gov.
Mark Hatfield in line with a
study on the needs of education.
However. Rep. Carrol Howe,
Klamath STatlc nvnro.Eixl nniwci
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formerly superintendent
f vi.ii, r,,iu
system for many years, said that
a single state board of education
was not the answer to tlie prob
lems of either higher education or
public education.
He said, "The board of high
er education is an administra
tive board and must carry out
this function regardless of any
oilier duty. The State Board of
Education is a policy-making
board over the regulation of pub
lic schools and community col
leges and has no reason to be
an administrative board over ci
ther."
Howe explained, "Community
colleges have a local administra
tion and board. The only duty
of (lie state scliool superintendent
in tliese schools is tlie approval of
courses and distribution of money
according to the formula estab
lished by the legislature."
Howe said he appreciated the
governor s concern in the mat
ter of financing education, but
added that he felt a single board
Indian Hoop
Tourney Set
CHILOQU1N The annual Paci
fic Coast Elimination Basketball
Tournament will open Thursday,
Feb. 2B. at 4 p.m. in the Chilo
quin High Sujiool gymnasium.
Tournament play will continue
through Saturday. Sponsors are
tlie Reservation Jaycees.
Teams from Chico, Calif., and
the Bcatty Lakers will tangle for
the opening game. Two Chiloquin
High School teams, the Red Fox
es and the Carol Shadleys, will
toss for the first ball at 6 p.m.
Reno and Portland will play at
7 pm. followed by ToppenishJ
Wash., and the Warm Springs
Magpies.
Afternoon gale prices will be
12 years and 50 cents for children
under 12. Evening prices will be
$1.50 for adults and students, 60
cents for children under 12.
Semifinals will be played Fri
day night. March 1. at 7 o'clock
Finals will be played, starling at
7 pm. Saturday. March 1
All net proceeds will be turned
over to the high school athletic
lield lighting fund by the Jaycees
who have assumed responsibility
for tlie lighting program.
Winner and runnerup teams of
tlie Pacific Coast Tournament will
be seeded in the National All
Indian Basketball, Tournament,
March SI. 22 and 23 which draws
some of the best teams from the
West and Midwest.
Michel McNoise, 1907. queen.
will reign through the Pacific
Coast Tournament and t h e
Queens' Ball March 16 which will
determine this year's royal' ruler
and her court
Telephone
area were to blame for the lack
of migration of the interstate
lierd. He said It has been so warm
that tlie deer did not need lo mi
grate and that they simply scat
tered where hunters couldn't find
tliem.
Both the hunters and Rollin
Bowles, commission chairman,
said they would welcome an im
partial legislative committee to
look into the commission's activi
ties. "We have no objection to it
whatsoever," Bowles said, "this
committee would do a consider
able service lo the people of Ore
gon.
Bowles even reluctantly agreed
that if the stale can't pony up
$35,000 for Hie two-year interim
study, it could come out of the
commission's $10.5 million budget.
Alan Kelly, president of tlie
might actually force costs to a
higher level than under the dual
system.
He said, A lay board could not
possibly devote the time lor study
of the problems of the public
schools and still carry out the
administrative function. As a re
sult there would be a greater
growth in bureaucracy as the
board was compelled to rely more
upon tlie advice of paid employes
lor decisions affecting school dis
tricts, and there would be a re
sultant loss of controls at the
local level. The result there would
be less money at the classroomlstate level."
Ways, Means Eyes
Budgets For Leaks
Rep. George Flilcraft. member
of the Joint Ways and Means
Committee currently studying all
budgets, said today in Salem that
tins committee was taking a thor
ough look at budgets, and "indi
vidual items in those budgets on a
line-for-line basis."
Flitcraft said, "There is no
budget figure set as an objective,
but we are going to ascertain
whether each request for funds
has a real and urgent need for
the coming biennium
He also indicated that there was
no significance to be drawn from
the fact that the budget for the
State Engineer's Office was re
turned to the committee alter il
had been cut more than $100,000!
and passed by the House.
Flitcraft also indicated that the
report that this joint committee
will cut as much as $20 million
from the governor's budget is
mere speculation, and that there
is no substance to tlie report.
A plug for Klamath County's
potatoes was engineered in the1
legislature today when Jteprc-
sentatives Flitcraft and Carrollagemcnt relations for Oregon,
FAITHFUL rIDES The continuing affort to brine dot artists to Klamath Falls en
the Community Concert Aisociation programs calls (or the combined work of many
volunteer helpers. Some of those assisting with the membership drive now under way
have worked since the aisociation was organised in 1936 with the eld of Malcolm
Epley, then managing editor of the Evening Herald end the Morning News. Four
Klamath Falls women, left to right, Emilia Haldeman, Gertrude Toll, Mary Van Vector
end Dorothy Swenion, ere among those who have offered membership tickets end
served in other capacities for more than 20 years. The 1963-1964 membership drive
closet Friday, March I. See Story on Page 4.
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Izaak Walton League of Oregon,
said a study would be acceptable
but the money shouid not come.
from tlie commission s budget.
"We feel we've been blessed
with a fine program and we'd
like to see it sustained and im
proved," he said of the commis
sion. He termed the Southern Oregon
herds an "acute local condition
that could bo handled within the
existing framework.
Other witnesses, however, said
the Southeast Oregon deer de
pletion was too critical to wait
for a two-year study. They sug
gested a ban on shooting does or
young deer, or even a complete!
closed season.
Some action on this score was
assured Wednesday morning when
Rep. George Flitcraft along with
a group of other members of the'
level where children are affected
There is a real need," Howe
said, "for a belter definition of
the functions of these boards es
penally in the field of teacher
education. Hie supervision of spe
cial subjects is a job to be car
ried out by the public school dis
trict and the county superintend
ent's office where districts cannot
provide their own supervision. The
attempt to provide special sub
ject supervision by tlie state sim
ply will not work unless large
amounts ol money are taken from
district funds and placed at the
Howe presented each member of
the House with a 10-pound sack of
Klamath potatoes supplied by
Louis Kalina of Matin. Sen. Har
ry Boivin did the same In the,
Senate chambers.
Strikebreaker
Law Questioned
SALEM (UPII - Labor and
management bumped heads here
Tuesday on whether an "antl
strikebrcakcr" law for Oregon
would be advisable or even legal.
George Brown of the Oregon
AFL-CIO and oilier labor witness
es said it would keep undesirable
elements out and improve labor
management relations. Brown said
it was legal and successful in
eight states that have il.
W illiam Lubersky of Associated
Oregon Industries and other man
agement witnesses replied it
would weigh the bargaining
scales in favor of labor and
harm currently good labor-man-
Hoard
Weather
Klamath Falls, Tulrlake and
Lakeview Fair and cool again
tonight, lows 23. Increasing cloud
iness with brief showers possible
Thursday. Highs Thursday near
SO. Generally light winds.
Angry
House introduced House Bill 1458
which would prohibit tlie commis
sion from declaring more than one '
open season of not more than 16
days for hunting deer and eik.
The bill w ould also provide that
"a person shall not hunt for, nor
kill, any deer which has unforked
horns or elk which has not: at
least spike horns."
The measure would expire Jan.
1, 1966. and would in effect, pro
vide protection against doe killing
and special season shoots for the
next three-year peiod.
Also, Senate Joint Resolution 7,
introduced in the Senate by Sen.
Harry Boivin, chairman of the
State Local and Federal Affairs
Committee, seemed assured of
passage. Under its provisions, the
$35,000 for the interim study would
be financed out of funds of the
State Game Commission.
Boivin's proposal has the sig
natures of 12 Senators and 38 Rep
resentatives. At the conclusion of the Tues
day night hearing, Senator Boivin
said a study would help resolve a
controversy between two groups
of honest and sincere men.
Also present at the hearing
from Klamath County, although
not testifying, were Ted Hyde,
rancher, and Joe Smith, member
of the game commission.
Kidnaping
Count Aimed
M French
PARIS tUPH French security
agents were accused today of kid-
naplng a French terrorist leader
Herds
Irom West Germany in the same
way
Israeli agenis seized nazi
Adolf Elchmann In Argentina In
May, tm.
Police said ex-Cot. Antolne Ar-
goud, 52, was betrayed by his
friends in the terrorist Secret
Army Organization. He was found
beaten and bound hand and foot
In the back of a truck near Notre
Dame Cathedral Tuesday.
An anonymous caller telephoned
police, they said, and told them
Argoud had "betrayed" the move
ment and that lie could be found
very close" to police headquar
ters. The truck was just a block
away.
Argoud himself and several Par
is newspapers said he was kid
naped.
The government of President
Charles de Gaulle made no com
ment on tlie reports.
Argoud reportedly told police
!he French Secret Service seized
him from his hotel room in Mu
nich. Germany, and spirited him
to France, leaving him bound in'
the truck.
Ho said, according to the re
ports, that his kidnapers brought
him to France in this way to
avoid diplomatic recrimination
over a French arrest on German
territory.
Observers noted this theory fit
ted in with general doubts that
tlie OAS would Ict the bearded
ex-colonel, with his vast knowl
edge of OAS doings, fall into the
hands of police alive.