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KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, THURSDAY. MARCH 7, l3
Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 7083
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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