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By FRANK JENKINS
From Costa Rica:
President Kennedy and the chiefl
executives of six middle Ameri
can nations reached an agreement
yesterday on what to do about
Cuba. Their findings from two
days of discussions of economic
issues and means of curbing Red
infiltration from Prime Minister
Fidel Castro's regime were
wrapped up in what is described
as a historic eight-page Declara
tion 01 Central America.
Article No. 1 of the declaration
reads:
It is essential to reinforce
measures to meet subversive ag
gression originating in focal points
oi communist agitation which So
viet imperialism may maintain
in Cuba, or ANY OTHER PLACE
IN AMERICA."
It's a good beginning.
It recognizes FACTS.
The grim No. 1 fact of the situ
ation that seems to be shaping
up in the Western Hemisphere is
that the Soviet Union is hoping
to make of Cuba an advanced
post from which communism can
be spread throughout Latin Amer
ica.
The Russians apparently pulled
their offensive missiles out of
Cuba. But the TROOPS they sent
to Cuba are remaining there. It
seems to be agreed that there are
at least 17,000 of them. All ef
forts to get them out have failed
so far.
What are they doing there?
The natural conclusion is that
their purpose is to make Cas
tro's Cuba so strong that Castro
can only be thrown out by ALL
OUT WAR led by the United
States.
When all out war starts, no one
can ever tell when or how it
w ill be stopped.
World War I started with the
killing of an Austrian, archduke
down in the Balkans.
It spread from there.
World War III could start from
an attack on Castro's Cuba. Craf
ty Old Kroosh probably reasons
that we won't take the chance of
starting World War III by going
to war against Castro.
At any rate, his purpose seems
to be to make of Castro Cuba an
outpost from which communism
can be spread throughout Latin
America. Not all at . once, of
course. A little at a time.
If he can keep all of Latin
America suspicious of the United
States, he will have made a lot
of progress toward the ultimate
communization of all of the West
ern Hemisphere south of the Rio
Grande.
So-
- It may be that in Costa Rica
a promising start has been made
t&ward lining up ALL OF LATIN
AMERICA against communism.
Let's hope so.
Ohio Rivers
Rise Again
By United Press International
Rivers on the rise today men
aced residents of the Ohio River
Valley in the wake of torrential
thunderstorms and damaging
winds.
Snow slugged northern Michi
gan and heavy snow warnings
were posted for the Northeast. t
Tornadoes, hail and violent
winds scored parts of Alabama,
Mississippi and Tennessee Mon
day, causing widespread damage.
Weston, W.Va., was on an
emergency status. Volunteer
workers were called out to aid
more than 100 families forced
from their homes by the rising
West Fork River.
Nearly 30 patients at Weston's
Stonewall Jackson Hospital were
moved to safety when several
inches of water covered the first
floor of the hospital. Water was
five feet deep in some areas of
the city.
Other cities in West Virginia
and southwestern Pennsylvania
braced for new flooding after
driving rain storms dropped up
to 22 inches of water on the area
Tuesday.
Ammonia Gas
Kills Worker
MEMPHIS. Tenn. (LTD
"I,
turned and saw it coming through
the door from the hall cooler
a white living cloud."
Roy Orman. 59, was the. first
person to see the deadly ammo
nia gas leaking into a local meat
plant Tuesday from a broken re
frigeration line in a cooling room.
One man died.
Orman shouted for the 400 oth
er employes to get out of the
plant. "It was a stampede," he
said. "One whiff of that knocks
vou down."
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King Saud's Jet
Crashes In Alps
SANTANNA DI VALDIERI,
Italy (UPIi-Saudi Arabian King
Saud's multimillion-dollar jetliner,
equipped with an airborne throne,
crashed in the Alps near Crazy
Mountain early today, apparently
killing all 16 persons aboard. Saud
himself was not on the plane.
Driving snow and dense fog pre
vented lescue workers from locat
ing the wreckage, although an
Italian National Police spokesman
said "there are not likely to be
any survivors."
A spokesman for the rescue
center in this mountain village
near the French border said, "Un
less the weather improves, the
chances' of finding the wreckage
tonight are very slim.
The same British-built Comet
IV had taken King Saud along
with four legal wives, 26 concu
bines, bodyguards and staff mem
bers from Geneva to Nice on the
French Riviera Tuesday for i
convalescent vacation.
The plane had returned to Ge
neva to pick up other members
of his party and was on its way
back to Nice when it lost con
tact with the Nice control tower
and disappeared.
Saud was at the swank Hotel
Negresco in Nice at the time of
the crash." He slept through a
bomb scare there when an anony
mous telephone caller said at S
a.m. that an explosive had been
planted in the building. Police
found no trace of a bomb. Saud
was not disturbed.
But when he awakened he said
through a hotel spokesman that
Floppy Dog
Saves Child
HODGENS, Okla. (UPI1 -Law
rence Graham has two flop-cared
hound dogs.
One of them he calls a "good
kid dog." In other words, the
pooch takes to children.
The faithful hound Tuesday did
what 200 soldiers, 300 civilians, a
helicopter and pack of blood
hounds could not do. He found 3-
year-old Danny Thomas who had
spent 26 hours wandering in the
rattlesnake-infested Ouachita Na
tional Forest.
"I looked up on a rock," said
Graham, "and the boy was pet
ting one of the dogs. He ran the
other one off.
Leflore County Sheriff Hosea
Austin said the youngster "was
sunburned and hungry, but in
good condition."
The boy chattered constantly to
police about the sights and sounds
of the dense, thickly wooded hills
and creeks he had visited.
I found a big snake, and it
sounded like a bell," he said. The
child was not bitten.
Danny, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Gene Thomas of Hodgens, his 4-
year-old brother. Gene, and 5-ycar-old
sister, Dee Ann, left the
house Monday and went to a near
by creek. Gene walked home.
The girl was found early Tues
day tangled in some briars.
Heavy rains fell throughout the
night and police feared that Dan
ny might have stumbled into one
of the rain-swollen streams.
But that was before a boy's
best friend came along.
Obscene
By JUNE A. JOHNSON
Alarmed b y the increasing
amount of commercial sex pub
lications flooding local news and
magazine stands, tnc Mamatn
County Ministerial Association
has taken an initial step toward
the elimination of such litera
ture
Th, 3,imn uac nnrnvvl i llw
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.March 11 meeting, which was at-
tended by two other persons who
have expressed an interest in the
problem. District Attorney Dale
btree and Mrs. Lewis Kandrailcm,and mo' Pt at lat-
Cral
of Merrill. Mrs. Kandra was in
strumental in removing certain ob-i
jectionable material from mag-
azine distribution points in the
Men ill area and is now w orking
with the Klamath County L a y
men's Crime Prevention C o m
mittce. Reports of a preliminary study
by its Social Action Committee
led the Ministerial Association to
autliorizc the committee and a
few selected persons to contact
the local distributor in an attempt
to effect a voluntary removal of
the obscene magazines from the
newsstands.
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he was "upset" about the crash
of the plane, which was carrying
nine crew members, seven mem
bers of his suite and some of the
King's baggage. Several domestic
workers, including an unidentified
German cook, were reported
aboard.
University
Heads Seek
uildings
SALEM (UPH-Collegeand uni
versity presidents launched higher
education's pitch for new build
ings Tuesday night before the
Ways and Means Subcommittee
on Education.
It was the first hearing on high
er education's building program
lor the coming biennium. Several
members of the full Ways and
Means Committee joined the sub
committee members.
A battery of higher education
officials and their architects at-
tended the hearing.
Eloquent pleas for buildings,
they want on their campuses
were made by Univesrity of Ore
gon President Arthur Flemming,
Oregon State University President
James Jensen, Portland State
President Branford Millar, and
Leonard Rice of Oregon College
of Education. Chancellor Roy E,
Lieuallen made the presentation
lor Oregon Technical Institute.
At the first hearing, plans were
presented for a number of build
ings to complete the Oregon Tech
nical Institute campus; a library
addition at the University of Ore
gon: a physical education build
ing for Portland State; a class
room addition to Cordley Hall at
Oregon State; and a classroom
building at Oregon College of Ed
ucation.
The higher education spokesmen
said some building needs were
critical. Aided by architects, they
gave detailed explanations of what
the proposed structures would
provide.
Committee members questioned
the college spokesmen at length
about building needs, uses and
priorities. The review w ill be con
tinued at later hearings.
Dunes Approval
Claimed Near
WASHINGTON (UPD Interior
Secretary Stewart L. Udall said
Tuesday that agreement on the
proposed Oregon Dunes National
Seashore was closer than ever
before. I
Udall made the comment at a
press conlerence shortly after
Sen. Maurine B. Neuberger, D
Ore., introduced a bill calling for
a 42,000-acrc park.
Rep. Robert B. Duncan, D-Orc..
had indicated earlier he intended
to introduce legislation calling for
a park just under 30.000 acres in
size.
Literature Alarms
In support of Die movement,
Crabtrec reported that under ex
isting Oregon law the penalty for
disseminating obscene matter is
imprisonment in the county jail
for not more than six months or a
fine not to exceed $1,000, or both;
and if sold to a child under the
!8. he offender could0f (he legislature in making this
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tentiary lor a period not exceed- a(ut public would not be rele
ing five years. He stated that his catcd to a Dosilion nf re.-idins
omce is investigating tnc pron-
j.i.
The question thus arises as to0f tne problem, undcr existing
what constitutes obscenity in the'aw mattci
eyes ol the law.
The Oregon statute prohibiting (appeals to immorality. This pre
distribution of obscene malterjvents one or two objectionable
was originally passed by the slate pages of a book or magazine from
legislature in 19ol, but this law
was suierscded by a new statute
in WW. It slates that obscenity
shall be judged by applying con
temporary standards of the1 com
munity. Therefore what may be
considered obscene by a rural
jury may not be so considered.
by a metropolitan jury. The dif-
icring mores oi communities i
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HOSPITAL DRIVE CHALLENGE Weyerhaeuser Company challenged the Klamath
Basin to attain the $725,000 Intercommunity Hospital drive goal with a pledge of
$72,500 Wednesday contingent upon the community raising the remainder of the goal
or $650,000. Here C. Buz Larkin, left, co-chairman of the Memorial Gifts Division of
the drive, and A. M. Collier, chairman of ths Sponsors pommittee, receive the pledge
from J. B. Bishop, local Weyerhaeuser manager.
Intercommunity Hospital
Receives $72,500 Boost
John B. Bishop, local manager
of the Weyerhaeuser Company,
today announced a pledge by the
company of $72,500 to the Pres
byterian Intercommunity Hospi-,
tal building campaign. Bishop
pointed out -that the pledge is a
challenge to the Klamath Basin
to raise the total minimum goal
of $725,000 since the Weyerhaeus
er pledge is contingent on the rest
College Girl Weds
ia Crown Prince
GANGTOK, Sikkim (UPD
Hope Cooke, a 22-year-old Ameri
can girl just out of college, to
day became crown princess of!
this exotic Himalayan principality
in, a solemn Buddhist wedding
performed by 14 lamas.
The bridegroom, Crown Prince
Palden Thondup Namgyal, smiled
as he leaned over from his throne
to help his diminutive brunette
bride unwind a long white silk
scarf from around her neck to
complete the ancient ceremony in
the royal palace
He thus transformed Miss
Cooke into Her Highness Princess
Hope of Sikkim, "consort of the
deities."
Princess Hope, an Episcopalian,
watched with a faint smile as her
second cousin, John H. Hump
stone of New York, sealed the
match by placing a similar white
scarf around the neck of the 39-
year-old crown prince.
Rales Yellow Umbrella
The young New York socialite,
who graduated from Sarah Law
rence College iBronxvillo, N.Y.)
last month, is the first U.S. citi
zen to marry into Asian royalty.
She now rates the yellow-topped
umbrella of Oriental royalty
wherever she goes.
As crown princess of this isolat-!
ed mountain land the size of Yel
lowstone Park, she is considered
the social equal of another Ameri
can princess, Grace of Monaco,
and ahead of the Duchess of
Windsor.
make it impossible to formulaleiwith
an all-encompassing rule.
The law further requires that
the alleged obscene matter be
judged by adult standards, unless
it is shown that tlic matter is
specially directed to children un
der IB. It would seem the intent
" . .
stipulation was to insure mat tne
ony nat js morally fit for chil-
dren
Contributing In lhi rnmnlexitv
is obscene if, consid-ithat
icred a. . who D-rcdominantlv
.being isolated and the entire con
tents labeled as obscene.
It should be pointed out that
both the federal and state
stitutions guarantee freedom of
the press, but the United Stales
Supreme Court has repeatedly
held that obscene literature is not
protected by this guarantee. How-
ever, it has been argued that
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KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON,
of the area raising a minimum
of $650,000.
"The Weyerhaeuser Company is
acutely aware of the need for
modern hospital facilities in the
Klamath Basin. We recognize that
our employes arc belter employes
if they have excellent medical
facilities available for their use.
In addition the company knows
that it has a responsibility as a
good citizen to help provide the
Princess Grace's Riviera do-
main is smaller than New York's
Central Park.
The wedding in the royal pal
ace monastery and accompanying
festivities are expected to cost
$100,000. The expense, partly
from state funds, coupled with
the decision to marry, a Western
cr, had provoked some parlia
mentary opposition, but the cere
mony went off without incident.
Descendent Of Pilgrims
The bride, a descendent of May
flower Pilgrims, appeared com
posed as she sat on a low throne
during the ceremony, occasional
ly exchanging whispered com
ments and smiles with the groom,
who sat cross-legged on a throne
next to her and slightly higher.
The groom s father, 70-ycar-old
Maharaja Sir Tashi Namgyal, sat
c r o s s-legged on the highest:
throne.
Alter the marriage was com
plcted and the crown prince had
shown the bride how to sign a
civil registration book recording
the marriage, she spoke with his
three children by his late wife,
Tibetan.
Giving L'p Citizenship
The bride, who met her prince
on a vacation trip to India in
1(159. has announced she will give
up her American citizenship and
become a naturalized Sikkimesc
as soon as possible."
"I love my husband's people,"
she said, "and I want to be one
of Ihem."
Klamath
standard as vague as
obscenity, one of our, mnsl
precious freedoms may be depend
ent upon the convictions of a par
ticular group of jurors.
Justice O'Connell of the Ore
gon Supreme Court noted in
recent obscenity case that threats
of prosecution arc often made by
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piunciuuin, miui ill- s ui uiv: if
quest of private censor organiza
tions. Police or prosecuting at
torneys may then give notice to
distributors to withdraw publica-
lions annearinir on blacklists ore-
pared by these private censors .
Justice O'Connell thus contends!
"the test for obscenity may
become a weapon of censorship in
the hands of those whose inter
est in free expression Is over
ridden by an excess of zeal for
virtue as they underslind it" and
endangering freedom of the press.
For example, some of the more
con-iclaborate blacklists are those pre
pared by the National Organiza
lion for Decent Literature
(NODLi, an organization which
is backed by prominent persons!
and civic groups throughout the
United States.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 13
hospital facilities which will lielp
make the Klamath Basin a better
place to live," Bishop said.
C. Buz Larkin, co-chairman of
the Memorial Gifts Division, and
A. M. Collier, chairman of the
Citizen's Committee of Sponsors.
accepted the pledge on bchall
of the campaign.
In accepting the pledge from
Bishop, Collier said, "Klamath
Falls and the Klamath Basin is
fortunate to have such a won
derful corporate citizen as Weyer
haeuser. I know 1 speak for ev
eryone in the Basin when I accept
this pledge with our sincere ap
preciation.
This tremendous contribution
gives a great boost to our cam
paign and is a real challenge to
the rest of the area to really
go fc work and raise the rest of
our minimum goal. Our pledge
total now stands at $374,640.
In addition to the recognized need
for a new intercommunity hospi
tal, we now have the added mcen
live of a challenging gift from
the Weyerhaeuser Company,
Larkin said.
Boy Killed
By 'Sniffing'
PORTLAND (UPD - A mother
of a 14-year-old boy who died
March 6 told authorities Tuesday
her son died after sniffing glue,
not suicide by suffocation as the
youngster's death was ruled.
Mrs. Beulah Jane Myers dis
lused details of her son's death
to Multnomah County deputies.
Jack McKinley was found dead
in his locked bedroom with a
plastic bag over his head. The
coroner's office labeled the death
suicide.
Sheriff's Juvenile Officer James
Sim said Tuesday his staff has
investigated isolated cases of
gluc-snilfing" in flic past several
months.
The dangerous fad provides
kicks by sniffing certain types of
Inc. usually airplane model glue.
which has contents that provide
jag" much like drunkenness.
Group
Included on the NODI, lists arc
William Faulkner's "Pylon;" Er-
skine Caldwell's "Tobacco Road;"
W. Somerset Maugham's "Fools
and Their Folly;" C. S. Forester's
"The African Queen:" Ernest
Nlemingway's "A Farewell to
Arms;" James A. Michencr's
"Tales of the South Pacific;" and
and Boccaccio's "Decameron
All of these books are regarded
by many recognized scholars and
critics as literary works of art
'inn therefore out of the realm of
lobsccnily,
Despite this compelling legal
argument, it is generally accept
ed that there is a need for
suppression of obscene and
moral publications. This is the
task which confronts the Minis
terial Association and other con
cerned civic and crime prevention
organizations. Although these
-
groups may wish to extend their
inquiries into other media where
obscenity is sometimes found, Ore
gun docs not have an obscenity
law regulating radio, television,
or mollon pictures it the preteot
time
Telephone
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listork Peclarafion
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (L'PP
President Kennedy climaxed te-s
historic visit to Costa Rica today
with presidential meetings on how-
best to speed Central America's
economic progress and strengthen
the area against Communist sub
version from Cuba.
The heads of state of six Cen
tral American countries who
signed a declaration with Kenne
dy Tuesday night, were unani
mous in their delight at a U.S.
pledge of stepped up aid under
the Alliance for Progress, but
some were disappointed at the
failure to obtain a promise for
stiffcr action against Fidel Cas
tro's Cuba.
Kennedy scheduled a series of
meetings with each of the presi
dents to put in motion the "dec
laration of Central America
pledging increased U.S. aid and
new measures to halt the flow of
men, money and propaganda
from Cuba.
The President planned to hop
by helicopter from the meeting to,
the University of Costa Rica for
a speech in late afternoon.
From the university the chief
executive will take a helicopter
directly to El Coco Airport for;
the return to the United States
The official United States atti
tude was that the three-day con
ference of Kennedy and the prcsi
Firemen Ask
Fag Tax Cash
SALEM (UPD-Firemen called
for a fraction of any cigarette
tax here Tuesday night to help
pay for fighting cigarette-caused
fires.
Two members of the house lax
committee, in response, rebuked
the firemen's chief spokesman
Harold Jacobson of Multnomah
County, who spoke for the Oregon
Fire Chiefs, Volunteer Firemen's,
and Rural Fire Protection Dis
tricts Association.
Jacobson said if a cigarette tax
was levied, liremen want one-
fifth of a penny of It for training
centers, strengthening the state
fire marshal's office, and setting
up a fund for relatives of firemen
killed in action. The sum would
amount to $900,000 a biennium.
He said some firemen have "in
timated" they would help refer a
cigarette tax if the firemen were
neglected.
Committee Chairman Richard
Eymann, D-Marcola, replied that
the firemen were taking the
wrong approach by asking for an
earmarked portion of a tax. He
suggested they seek a general
fund appropriation like other state
agencies.
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SHIP SINKS Two men awaiting rescue are shown on the stern of the sinking, three
masted barltentine Bear, former Coast Guard cutter, famed for her Arctic and
Antarctic voyages and thrilling lea rescues. The two men were taken aboard the
tug Irving Birch, left, Tuesday, and the Bear sank early this morning.
UPI Telephoto
Historic Sailing Ship Sinks
BOSTON 'L'PI'-Thc USS Bear,
the storied sailing ship that
weathered 45 Arctic voyages and
carried Adm. Richard K. Byrd In
the Antarctic, sank early today in
choppy seas off Nova Scotia.
The Coast Guard said the 9-
year-old three-masted barkentine
sank just as she appeared to be
winning her final battle against
the sea.
The tug Irving Birch had
planned to make another attempt
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dents of Costa Rica. El Salvador,
Guatemala. Nicaragua, Honduras
and Panama had been a success.
U.S. officials said the United
States had three objectives, and
all of them had been accom
plished: To focus attention on the in
Costa Rica Pact
Highlights Listed
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (UPD i
The presidents of the United
Slates, Costa Rica, El Salvador,
Panama, Guatemala, Honduras
and Nicaragua Tuesday signed an
historic eight-page "Declaration
of Central America." Here arc
highlights from it;
CUBA
. It is essential to reinforce
measures to meet subversive ag
gression originaling in focal
points of Communist agitation
which Soviet imperialism mav
maintain in Cuba or in any oth
er place in America."
HOMF.S
"The presidents also agree that
opportunities should be given to
the people of Central America to
build and purchase their homes,
They suggested a "regional
home loan department" within
the Central American Bank for!
Economic Integration "and the
President of the United States
agrees to offer technical and fi
nancial assistance to it."
SCHOLARSHIPS
Recognizing that "trained man
power at all levels is needed fori
economic development (the presi
Indian Hoop Tourney
Slated At
, Chiloquin High School wl
play host for (lie 10th annual
National Invitational All-Indian
Basketball Tournament to be
held March 21, 22, 23, In the
high school gymnasium.
Competition begins Thursday
at 1:31) p.m. when the Nez
Perco Nation from Lapwal,
Idaho, faces the Red Foxes
from Chiloquin. Other partici
pating trains in the three-day
event will be Spraguc Klvcr
Ducks, Spraguc River; Crow
Indian Saints, Lodge Grass,
Mont.; Midwest Silver Kaglrs,
Fallon, Nov.; Warm Springs
Magpies, Warm Springs, Ore.;
anil Topprnish Papooses, Top
penish. Wash.
Highlighting the special
events program or (he tour:
niuni'iit will lie the special
guest apirarancc of Miss In
shortly after dawn to attach a tow
roic and haul the vessel to the
nearest port at Halifax, N.S., 8u
miles to the north. The seas were
subsiding, officials had said.
The sea going tug had stood by
throughout the night within 100
yards of the listing Rear as It
was tossed around In the Atlantic
Ocean off the coast of Canada.
The Beift's foremast snapped
and was hanging over tlie side.
The main and mizzen masts were
loose ami wobbling.
Weather
Klamath Falls, Tule lake and
Ijkf view Increasing cloudiness
tonight; mostly elondy with
showers on Thursday. Continued
mild; low. tonight 30-35. High
on Thursday 50. Westerly winds
5-15 m.p.h.
Sip
creased importance of the Central
American nations.
To encourage increased eco
nomic integration of the region.
To study steps w hich might be
taken to interrupt the flow of mon
ey, people and propaganda from
Cuba into Central America.
dents agree to a proposal of the
President of the United States to
establish a multi-million dollar
scholarship fund for vocational
training in agriculture and in in
dustry for young people of out
standing ability, such training to
which the United States will offer
substantial financial assistance."
DEVELOPMENT
The President of the United
States "proposes the fund for
Central American economic inte
gration to which the United States
would make an immediate sub-
tantial initial contribution to as
sist in carrying out regional de
velopment projects in accordance
with various sectional plans now
being developed by regional or
ganizations." LONG TERM AID
When an over-all regional de
velopment plan has been formu
lated and favorably evaluated
the United States will enlarge
and expand its participation in
the fund and will work with the
Central American countries in ob
taining other free world resources
so that the agreed plan can be
effectively implemented."
Chiloquin
dian America, Ramona Solo,
who will be present for the
opening rounds on Thursday.
Main attraction for the eve
ning will be the queen crown
ing. Candidates (or Hie tour
ney queen are Susan Amos,
Linda Jimenez, Catherine Wa
tah and Linda Castellanos.
Special entertainment will be
provided during halftime pe
riods when tribal groups pre
sent various dancing programs.
Cash awards for first, second
and third place teams will be
presented.
Sponsoring the tournament
will be the Klamath Reserva
tion Junior Chamber of Com
merce and all proceeds from
the event will go toward ob
taining lights for Chiloquin
High School's football field.
But officials had believed they
would be able to save tlie 198
foot vessel, onco known as "the
stoutest ship afloat."
The tug was towing tlie Bear to
Philadelphia as a museum piece
when they ran into 30-foot seas
ami the tow was lost.
The two men aboard, Perry Cof
fin and Henry Dingle, both of
Dartmouth, N.S., wero rescued
through tlie combined efforts of
nn amphibious piano from Salem,
Mass., and the tug.