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COl?, SUQM,0&Sa la TIm- Day's Sews Weather Weather Klamath Falls, Tulelake and Lakeview Fair and cool again tonight. Lows J5-30. Sunny and pleasant Friday with a high near 53. Light Tariable winds. Ntfd Vtittnfty Lew Utf mM Hifl ytir 9 Low year a 90 High pit 14 ytart Lew pat I 14 ytart Pracip. patt 14 hours Sinct Jan. I Stmt pcrtod latt ytar ' 0131 it (mil Price Ten Cents 30 Pages KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, THURSDAY. MARCH 7, l3 Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 7083 o.or oRe.ussAftT HSISPAPER SECTION CEN.REF.AN3 DOCUJJSKTS DIV. By FRANK JENKLVS Stan Delaplane, columning in the Sonoma country, says in his Postcard column in the Chroni cle: "I drove through the Sonoma valley, where (back in 1846 1 Cali fornia raised the Bear Klag of In dependence that (lies over our 'California) schools and public buildings. ''An interesting point of this is that these rebellious Americans were loaded with Fort Sutler whiskey rather than wine (in which the valley now specializes). "A good many of them criti cised the artist they said the lar looked like a pig. The ar tist misspelled California, and had to insert the final 'i' above the line. "However, it was an historical monument and adds charm to the Biggest State in the Union." Tut! Tut! Stan. The artist you refer to so friv olously was William L. Todd, a nephew of the dark-eyed, lively Kentucky-born Mary Todd who. four years before the raising of the Bear Flag at Sonoma, had married Abraham Lincoln and had gone with him to live in a boarding house in Springfield. Il linois, where her 33-year-old hus band was practicing law. Their room and board, by the Way, cost them four dollars a week. Living was simpler for newlyweds in those days. Getting back to Mrs. Lincoln's nephew, he is said by the histori ans to have had a certain amount of artistic talent. But his materi als were crude. The historic Bear Flag that was raised at Sonoma that day was a piece of whitish brown cloth a yard and a half in length probably an empty flour sack, or something of the sort. There is a legend to the effect that Todd made a crude brush by pounding a twig until the end of it was reduced to fibers. In the absence of paint in the pio neer village of Sonoma, he is said to have dipped his brush in some pokeberry juice. He placed upon the cloth a large star in the upper right-hand cor ner, and facing the star he placed the figure of a grizzly bear. Hav ing come lately from the East, he wasn't too familiar with griz zly bears. Native Californians gaz ing contemptuously at this design were heard later to call it the shoat." ... '. .. But it served its purpose. The flag was raised and the Bear Republic came into being. ' And For your information, Slan Captain Fremont had just come down from KLAMATH LAKE, where he'had finally been found by Lieutenant Gillespie, the Ma rine who had traveled half around the world (he had to take a detour to the Sandwich Islands) to find Fremont and deliver to him the famous message that was so secret that somewhere! along Die way he committed it to memory and then ATE thei paper on which it was written. Also On the way down from Klamath Lake, Fremont had saved Kit Carson's life by riding down with his horse Sacramento an Indian who was draw ing a bead w ith his bow and arrow on the famous scout. Passing through what is now Klamath Falls, they are presumed to have used the route that we now call Kit Carson Way. Divers Scan Navy Ship SAN DIEGO i UP1 'Precaution ary measures were in force to day in the wake of reports of mysterious scuba divers seen swimming close to I'.S. warships in San Diego. Official Navy statements indi cated nothing untoward was con nected with the sightings, bull United Press International learned extra men were ordered to stand watch on the bridge and fantail of warships lying off the naval base here. It was learned Wednesday night a "precautionary message" ha gone out to all units to watch for swimmers near ships and six; cial lights have been installed on some vessels to aid in sighting the swimmers. The unclassified message also gives instructions to capture divers if possible or warn them to stay away from the thips. Numerous reports of scuba div em swimminc near warships have been made during the past month "We're sure of one thing, they don't belong to us." a Navy spokesman at the Llth Naval Dis trict Headquarters here said. Naval sources here declined to speculate on who the swimmers might be. However, in Washington tlie Navy said the mysterious frogmen probably were civilian scuba divers from San Diego. lailroads Ask Legislature Icy Flood Hikes East Death Toll Ry I'nitcd Press International Icy flood waters spread death and destruction throughout the East today. Drinking water was contaminat ed, power lines were driven1 down by high winds and towering ice floes swept down rain-swollen rivers to drive thousands of per sons from their homes. The death toll from three days of flooding rose to 21. At least eight other persons were dead alter a late-winter snow storm hit the Midwest and flayed the Northeast with 55- mile-an-hour winds, snow and sleet. A lake dam. weakened by the heavy rams, burst at Norwich Conn., during the night and sent flood waters up to 12 feet deep swirling through a four-mile sec tion of the city. At least six per sons were killed, six injured and two missing. Power failures plunged the area into darkness and about 350 per sons fled their homes as the surg ing water caused damage estimat ed in the millions of dollars. Faubus Says Guard Pilots 'Betrayed' LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UP1) Gov. Orval Faubus accused the federal government Wednesday of secretly recruiting Arkansas. .Na tional Guard pilots of the 1962 Cu ban invasion and then "betraying" Ihem. Some of them flew in combat and one Air Guard plane was shot down, Faubus said. Brig. Gen. Frank Bailey, chief ot staff of the Arkansas Air Na tional Guard, said he did not know what Faubus was talking about. But he added the Arkan sas Air Guard "did not have any planes involved. The Defense Department ir Washington declined comment. Bailey said, however, that Fau bus may have some information he does not have. He said he did not want to put himself in the position of either denying or con- lorming what the governor said. Faubus did not say w ho recruit ed the pilots. He said he knew at the lime of the invasion that Ar kansas Air Guard pilots were in volved, but could say nothing at the time. These patriotic Americans were led to believe that this en terprise had not only the blessing but the full support of the fed eral government," he said. "We all know what happened at the Bay of Pigs. "This whole thing is a disgrace in American history. They tried to recruit some men in the north and couldn't do it. so they came down to the south where thev still have some patriotism and ;ot some volunteers among the National Guard." I in i in mum IK mi .Him fi .. I nlTiST? - NEW U.S. CITIZENS Thirteen residents of Klamath County who became naturalized U.S. citiians in circuit court Wednesday appear moments aftar Judge David R. Van. denbarg bestowed citizenship upon them. Tha group includes Mrs. Akiko Nakai Casa bear, second from left, who appeared at the naturalization proceedings in behalf of her son, Michael, 16, far left. Mrs. Casebaer had been naturalized soma tima ago. Tha other new citizens ara, left to right, Modaito Jiminez. Rosa Maria Holman, Shirley Patricia Hounshell. Erlinda Irrebaria Sabado, Alfonso Ranjel Franco, Olive Jean Stiles, Anna Elisabeth Sealy, Ina Curtis, Rosalina Santos Vickroy, Okeha Forssen, Jung Chin Wright, Adal Akaf El-Oubari. (Sea Story on Pag Four). Lock gates at the Shetucket River dam at Norwich were froz- sliut and officials feared ris ing pressure would send the ice- choked river churning through the istreets. Nearly all Ohio streams, with the exception of the Ohio River, were receding today, but a state of emergency was declared on the Ohio University campus at Alliens. A midnight curfew was imposed on men students for the first time. More than 1,500 persons includ ing 700 university students were taken from the flooded area. The Ohio River, which crested at Pittsburgh Wednesday, contin ued to surge toward a crest downstream and officials at Cin cinnati, Marietta, Portsmouth and smaller Ohio communities made emergency preparations. The Ohio was expected to crest at Cincin nati at 60 feet, or eight feet above flood stage, by Sunday. In Pennsylvania, serious flood ing continued today from Newport to the mouth of tlie Juniata Riv- Duncannon, Pa., Mayor John wells declared a stale of emer gency. Rescue workers helped residents from their homes at Dun- cannon, Amity Hall and Newport. Hood damage in the Chartiers Creek valley was expected to reach $10 million. The flood situation by states: Ohio The Ohio Water Polio lion control Board asked more than 100 flood-stricken communi ties to check their water supplies lor contamination. Residents in the Urichsville - Dennison area of Tuscarawas County had only two days' supply pt. drinking water on- hand. Tlie waterworks pumping station quit working because of a short cir cuit. At Greenfield, schools in two districts were closed today and Were not expected to re-open until the water situation is corrected Hatfield Visit 'Worthwhile' PORTLAND UPI Gov. Mark Hatfield said Wednesday nicht that he and Glenn Jackson had a "very worthwhile visit" with Gen Douglas MacArthur in New York Portland's bid for the 1968 Olympic Games. The governor and Jackson Medford and Portland financier and one of the leaders in the Olympics campaign, "informed! the general of Portland's bid and why Portland offers certain unique advantages," Hatfield said. But the governor added, "there is nothing we can disclose at this time." and it was not known Ahcthcr the Oregonians had ask ed MacArthur to present Port-i land's bid before the Olympic Committee later this month. Resolutions were adopted Wed ncsday by both tlie Multnomah Countv Board of Commissioners and the Portland City Council pledging support of the games if Portland gets them. 1 ! ."1 IP SuOxrif .4, tssslte DAM BREAK SCENE Rescue workers are shown here removing a survivor from the collapsed section of the twine mill in Norwich, Conn., which gave way after a dam weakened by heavy rain and ice chunks burst Wednesday afternoon. The swirling waters, foreground, cascade over a car and truck dragged ahead of the flood. Au thorities said at least six persons died in the disaster. UPI Talephoto Six Killed, City Inundated By Lake As Dam Collapses NORWICH, Co. (UPD - An earthen dam burst without warn ing late Wednesday night, flooding four square miles of this city of 40.000 in waters up to 12 feet deep. At least six persons were killed. Many more were injured. Hundreds were forced to flee when ice filled water from two ponds cascaded down upon them. The 15-acre Spalding pond burst through the dam and the rushing torrent swept away the waters of the Iwo-acre Mohican 1'ark pond below the dum. For a while, officials feared second dam might burst because of ine pressure of high water and foot-thick ice behind it. But the dam held. The surging torrents collapsed buildings, tumbled autos as if they were toys and left millions of dol lars in damage. Boosted KU Budget Slated For Ballot The budget committee of the KU school board agreed last week on a $1,153,395 total budget or 1963-64 to be put before the residents of District 2 for a vote on May 6. Tlie total figure is up $86,750 over last year, or eight per cent. An estimated $856,705 will have to be levied this year to balance tlie budget. This is $79.23! mor? lhan it was necessary to levy la.it year. A healing on the budget will be held at 8:30 p.m. April 8 al the KU cafeteria. The total 1962-63 budget was a 12 per cent jump over the fiscal '61-62 budget. The bulk of the boost for this year comes in the category ol instruction. The $753,053 budgeted Thomas Moodv was driving with his wife, their three young sons and a friend, Anthony Orsini. when the waters rushed down the treet and overturned their car. "We all climbed out and got into a tree," Moody said. "Then I looked around and my wife was gone. Mrs. Moody s body later was found near the w recked car. Their sons, Thomas, 6; James, 4, and Sean, 10 months, were injured and hospitalized. , . The waters, c-' rying chunks of ice weighing more than a ton, coursed along the narrow streets smashed plate glass windows and roared through homes. The bodies of three of the vic tims-were found in the sodden rubble of a three-story wing of a twine mill which collapsed afler chill floodwaters caused an explo sion in the boiler room. Four other for instruction is $43,457 over last year. Most of this is taken up in tlie $34,000 teacher salary jump over last year s figure of $562,787 All other categories arc up be tween $2,000 and $8,000, making up, along with the cost of instruc lion, the $86,750 jump in this year's total figure. Total administration expenses at $30,697 are up $4,169. Cost of attendance and health services al $13,233 results in a $1,985 hike Pupil transportation services took an $8,473 leap, at $76,556. and the cost of plant operation of $85,1.32 is a $7,122 hike over last vear's costs. Plant maintenance will cost $61,358 this year compared to $55,901 in the previous year where as fixed charges, which include retirement, social security and in suiancc, at $69,840 will ho up S6.I16. Student body activities and food services took a jump this year and are more than half as much more than last year. This year's figure is $22,236 compared to $14. 089 in fiscal 1962-63. The bulk of this bump comes in team travel and athletics, at $10,785 or $6,475 more than last year's allotment. Completing the cost hikes, capi tal outlays at $19,565 rose only a few dollars over last year. The estimate of receipts and net cash balance for 1963-64 is $365,- 226 compared to $343,594 in the past year. There will be $196,006 in the serial levy fund this year and $64,000 in the school lunch fund. The serial levy money has not been earmarked for any specific projects so lar this year, the Her ald and News learned. Settlement Seen K FRANCISCO 'I'PI '-Negotiation continued between South ern Pa'.'ilic Kaihod and the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks1 today, with Die "possibility" of a settlement by the end of tlie week To Amend Full Crew Imj mill workers were rescued, but one died al a hospital. Ml at once the building jusl sort of fell. Lights went out and that was it," Benjamin Dubecki, who was standing across the street, said. Tlie city council called an emer gency session to ' discuss what steps to take in the disaster. Waters of Spalding pond, nor mally up to 18 feet in depth but swollen by heavy, rains and melt ing snow, broke through the iMo iiicun Park Dam at about 10 p.m. Police said cracks had been re ported in the 20-foot dam Wednes day afternoon. From the park, which is situat ed on high ground in the north west part of the city, the waters surged down streets and side walks, spinning cars around and splashing into hundreds of homes and business establishments. Widespread power failures plunged the stricken area into darkness. State troopers rushed to the scene with emergency lighting equipment and stood guard at stores to prevent looting. Damage was estimated at many millions of dollars, and the great est since a hurricane hit Nor wich in 1938. The frigid floodwaters, which stood 12 feet deep at some points during the night, touched off sev eral boiler and furnace explo sions. Top Essays Announced Six judges from Daughters of I he American Revolution, tlie Re tired Teachers Association and the Association of American Uni versily Women, Mary liu O'Con nor, Mrs. Don Rice, Mrs. Arch Proctor for the junior division Mildred Dressier, Mrs. Willcska Ixxisley and Mrs. Claude Davis have announced 1963 winners in annual Americanism contest. Sponsor is the American legion Auxiliary which presents awards each year for essays. This year's topic was "Americanism Today -Not Tomorrow." Students from Henley, Alia mont, Klamath Union High School. Fremont Junior High, and Sacred Heart entered. Winning first place essays arc entered in stale competition. Mrs. Loy Barker, American Legion Auxiliary Americanism chairman, is in charge of the contest. Cash awards in the amount of $15 for lirst and $10 for second place are given. Winners were first place senior division, Kitty Stalker, Kl.'lIS daughter of Mr. and Mis. Rob ert A. Stalker, 425 Dumont; lirst junior division, Charlie Whitlatch, Henley; second, senior division. Diane Crawford, KUILS; second. senior division, Gail Cunningham, Kl US, secend junior division. Charley Is the son of Mrs. Kthcl Whitlatch, Henley; Dianne is the laughter of Mr. and Mrs. How- ard Lee Crawford, 4415 Altamonl Drive; Gail is the daughter of Mr. and Mis. Gordon Cunning, ham, 6307 Elder. Change Would Reduce Train Crew From 6 To. .5. In State.. SALEM (UPD-In the wake of I a U.S. Supreme Court decision, railroads brought their anli-feath-erbedding campaign before the Oregon Legislature Wednesday night with a plea for elimination of "an unneeded, unwanted, ex cess brakeman." They asked amendment of Ore gon's full crew law to reduce from six to five tlie number of crew men required on a freight train of more than 40 cars on a run of more than 15 miles. Spokesmen for Southern Pacific, Union Pacific and Great Northern accused the railroad brotherhoods of perpetuating a "make . work scheme." They s.iid 165 surplus brakemen in Oregon are costing tlie rail roads $1,750,000 a year for "use less, meaningless, soft jobs" that contribute nothing to train safety The unions, in a brief rebuttal. insisted tlie six - man crew is needed for safety. They disputed tlie railroads' safety and revenue statistics. The safely theme was borne out by an audience of several hun dred, filled with railway workers wearing name cards with the slo can, your salcty is our job. The unions will give their main testimony against the measure March 13 at a second hearing be fore the Senate Commerce and Utilities Committee. The railroads will get a brief rebuttal. The testimony came just a few days after tlie U. S. Supreme Court upheld the right of railroads lo change work rules to eliminate jobs. Laws such as Oregon's, however, remain in force. Oglcsby II. Young of Southern Court Sets . 3 Zoning Vote I he question whether zoning should be extended to the subur ban area of Klamath Falls will be decided by voters at the next general election, the Klamath County Court told the Herald and News Thursday. The decision was made by the court on the recommendation of the County Planning Commission which slated in a Idler to the court dated Feb. 5 that it would restudy parts of the proposed or dinance and "modify it where war ranted." Tlie letter advised the court that recent public hearings indi- atcd there was some concern regarding tlie ordinance's effect on restrictions involving farm ani mals, fences, setback regulations, occupations conducted at home. and variance procedure. Any mod ilication in the proXsed ordinance would lie advertised extensively in the Herald and News, the letter disclosed. A reply lo the letter is being prepared by the county court re questing the planning commission to submit the promised modifica tions when they become avail able. When these revisions are re ceived, tlie court will then "enter an order calling for an election on this proposal at the next gen oral election." it was said. It -.'"'i-v ,'' 1 ' ' ' ,. i : "'.: . V. - .r ' ) t ' . t s ,," ' iVL. L:,l A.,.y, -J ,4. GOOD NEWS High school students who competed in tha 1963 American Legion Auxiliary Americanism contest heard winners named this weak. They ara, left to right, Diane Crawford, Klamath Union High School junior, second in tanior division; Charlia Whitlatch, Henley High School freshman, first in junior division; Gail Cunningham, KUHS freshman, second junior division. Winner of first placa In the senior division, Kitty Stalker, KUHS, was not present for picture due to other commitments. Pacific said even the term brakeman" has become obsolete i the 50 years since Oregon's law was passed. He said brake men no longer have anything to do with braking trains. Young said only six other states require a six-man crew, lie said accident rates are the same whether six or five men are used. Young said other employers from ranchers to mill operators are free to determine their own crew numbers. He said railroads should be allowed to do the same. The railroad witnesses said tlie railroads cannot afford to keep rates competitive for farmers and lumbermen unless they can mod ernize to cut costs. The excess brakeman is an ob- Chamber Talks Stand Against CD Spending The Klamath County Chamber I of Commerce went on record Wednesday as opposing "any fur ther expenditure of funds for the State Civil Defense Agency by the legislature," in one of four pro-! posed bills discussed by the cham ber during its regular weekly meeting at the Pelican Cafe. The lack of a quorum resulted in the chamber's delaying action on the recommendation until its' next meeting, but tlie views ex pressed by tlie membership indi cated that the chamber would en dorse the proposal, as well as oth er recommendations made by the State and Local Affairs Commit tee on various bills before the legislature. . In opposing any appropriation of funds for stale civil defense, the chamber added Its support to various groups and individuals throughout the state which have been "snipe-shooting" at the CD agency since the Columbus Day storm. Criticism against the agency has been that it was inept in provid ing assistance to tlie public dur ing the Oct. 12 storm, wnicn swept through parts of Oregon, California and Washington at hur ricane velocities, causing untold millions of dollars in damage lo communities in the three states. As a result of the criticism, some members of the legislature favor sacking civil defense at (he state level; others propose that the agency be officiated by a thrcc-man commission and that ils budget be pared from $420,000 to $52,000. Chairman Orth Sisemore of the Local and Slate Affairs Commit tee recommended that the cham ber align itself against the fur ther allocation of funds for civil defense but urged that it sup port three other measures. The recommendations, which develop from a meeting of the committee Tuesday. were unanimously approved by the chamber and endorsed passage of a bill which would make the "battering of an inlant" a misdemeanor, another which would require people treat ing unusual and unexplained in juries of juveniles to report facts vious drain on the railroad indus try and ultimately on the people . for it is they w ho pay the freight bills which pay his wages," said A. W. Kilborn of Southern Pacific. He said automation and radio equipment have vastly changed job conditions. The third brake- man is busy today, he said, only when he "assumes tasks that can be performed by one of tlie other men. Kilborn conceded the third brakeman could be a help in an emergency. -: But for the most part, he said, the idle brakeman in fact be comes a hazard: "Horseplay and foolishness result out of sheer boredom." of tlie cases to police, and still others which would place sex of fenders under closer surveillance of police. Sisemore explained that tlie mea sures affecting sex offenders are Senate Bills 1124 through 1129. One of the bills would increase the penalty for those convicted of sex crimes, another would require that convicted sex offenders reg ister wilh police in the city of their residence, a third would es tablish tlie state police as a clearing house which would keep lab on the movement of sex of fenders. : - "There is now hardly any way of knowing when a sex offender comes . ttt.4awn.j1nlasx-.the state 'police, a a matter of courtesy, lets us know about It," he said. In a question and answer period following discussion of the four (Continued on Page 4-A) Body Found At Lakeview LAKE V IE W Two motorists dis covered the body of Theresa Arz ner, about 60, Lakeview, on a county road four miles west of here about 7:45 a.m. Thursday. The body was found on a coun ty road which is about 125 feet off Highway 66. Norman Wolf, a rancher in tlie area who was head ing into Lakeview, and another motorist, Edward A. Fisher, Eu gene, reported tlie body lying on the road. Sheriff Don Woodruff and State Patrolman Todd Knapp Investigat ed. They found tlie body of the woman on the road, her belong ings scattered over a wide area and one side of her face badly smashed. Authorities speculate that she was hit by an automobile. An autopsy was being conduct ed, and an effort being made to determine how the woiian came to be in that area. -A
