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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (April 28, 1963)
Im The 1 Day's Hews I By FRANK JENKINS The big news today? It just could be the fact that! Oregon, after long years of bat tling, finally gave up the struggle and went along with its neighbors (in Daylight Saving Time. To those of us who know (and ADORE) this slightly screwball but utterly lnveable State of Ore gon, tKat is SOMETHING. Who knows what may happen next? Question: What IS Daylight Saving Time Well, it's a plan by which all clocks are set ahead by an hour. But no change is made in the usual clock time of people s activi ties. The result is that the dav's w'ork begins an hour earlier for everybody, ft was first designed as a means of saving fuel. It was used in Europe during World A War I and in the United States for one year 1918. The plan was revived during World War II and most large cities have continued it ever since. Question: Who first thought of Daylight Saving Time'.' You'll be surprised. It was BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. How come? The story goes that when he was ambassador to France he awoke unusually early one morn 1 ing and found daylight streaming through his windows, white most of the citizens of Paris still slept. It started him thinking. As ev eryone knows, Ben was a frugal! person. Waste appalled him. And here was sunlight GOING TO WASTE, while the people of Paris snoozed. Come that night, they would be BURNING CANDLES - whereas If they had the good, thrifty com mon sense to GET LP EARLY IN THE MORNING, when the sun was shining, and to go to bed earlier at night, before the sun sank in the west and darkness came along again, they could have SAVED all those candles. Out of his thinking came the Idea of advancing the clocks an hour, thus enabling the people toi use the sunlight in the morning, when there was plenty of it. and to SAVE their candles at night by going to bed an hour earlier. He even went so far as to cal culate how many candles this would save the people of Paris and it was a rather startling num ber. He had no luck, however, in selling the idea to the Paris iens who. then as nuw, were fond of staying up late at night and sleeping late the next morning to make up for it. They could sec no merit in get ting up at the crack of dawn and going to bed w ith the chickens just to save a few measly can dles. - So His thrifty scheme to save can dleji by getting up early in the morning' and going to bed early at night died a borning. It was nearly two centuries before it was finally revived to save fuel dur ing a great war. And- Aftcr the war was over To provide more time for LIV ING IT UP AT NIGHT by the, simple process of getting up ear-1 lier in the morning which is the chief value of Daylight Saving in these modern days. legislature Works Hard To Adjourn SALEM iL'PIi - Members ol the Oregon Legislature dug Saturday lor a hard day's work in an effort to adjourn by mid-May Although it was the 104th day a number of major pieces of leg islation still needed more commit tee work. The House met to act on 20 measures. Two key committees scheduled Saturday work sessions. The Ways and Means education subcommittee hoped to near final action on the budget for higher education, and to start looking at basic school support. " The House Committee on Con stitutional Revision hoped to get nearer to sending a proposed new constitution to (lie House floor for acti. The House Taxation Committee, Its big revenue bills out of the "Ijiicd 3 c2v-Kir.r session to'icton other bills'thalwere put! aside earlier. Durine the oast week, tbmiuhts of winding up the session took on doors again Saturday in its search a noticeable new note ol urgem y. for solution tn the sinking ol but much work remained to he 'the submarine Thresher with 129 done. 'men aboard. The Senate Taxation Committee At Boston harbor, workers pre planned to get down tn work thu pared to unload the bathyscaph week on the big revenue bills Trieste which arrived Friday passed by the House, with an im- from the West Coast The deep passe between the two chamhersjdiving device will he used to in looming and a conference com- spect and photograph the sunken miUe. lit likely result Weather Klimath Fatti Tutalako ontf Lakovlow Airily cloudy through Monday, not much clianoo to tomporatoro. High today Mj low tonight JJ-41. High on Monday M. Light westerly windl. High Saturday 14 Low Saturday morning It High yoar ago 43 Low yaar ago 3t Procip. pal 24 hour, m Sinca Jon. I 4. Samo portod lift yaar t.n MiMP niCACTEP D.l.t: j . , . ? "'"i"'" i"p" iNumoer i Mine victims look on as a mm. train brings up bodies found by rescue teams Friday after a disastrous explosion below ground. The sad scene took place at the Oola slope near Clarksburg, W. Va. UPI Telephoto Rescue Teams Remove Last Victim Of Mine Explosion DOU. W. Va. (UPli - Rescue teams retrieved the last body from deep in the Dola mine shaft early Saturday. Friends and rela tives, ended their vigil at the lonely facility where 22 miners were killed in an underground ex plosion. The blast caught the victims 330 feet below the surface in Com- pass Shaft No. 2 at 10:58 p.m. EST Thursday, two minutes be-i fore they were to have punched out for the day. Mine olficials said death apparently was in stantaneous. A steel shed which had served as a makeshift morgue was nearly j Time Confusion Starts Sunday In Most Of U.S. Ry United Press International Annual confusion for nearly half I lie nation begins Sunday when more than 100 million Americans turn their clocks ahead one hour at the start of daylight saving time. There are certain to be tlie usual missed church services, missed train and plane connec tions, and late arrivals at ball parks. And there will be the usual grumblings from farmers that "last time" disrupts their sleeping and working habits. In all. 21 states and parts ol seven others will change clocks and watches to daylight saving time. But not all of them make the switch Sunday and that adds to the confusion. Minnesota will move its clocks' ahead at 2 a. m. May 26 and remain on "last time" until the day after Labor Day. Some states remain on daylight saving time until the end ol October. Daylight saving time this year will be observed throughout the states of California, Connecitcut. Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts. Minnesota, Nevada, New Hamp shire. New Jersey, New York. Oregon. Pennsylvania. Khode Is land. Vermont. Virginia. West Virginia and Wisconsin. Parts of Idaho. Iowa. Michigan. agency. II the federal government Mississippi. Montana. New Mcxi- matched this amount, the state co and Ohio will also be on day- could hire three additional per liaht savin? time. 'sonnel. For years, one of the easiest means of stirring up controversy in state legislatures is tn men lion daylight saving time. The cllnrts of lawmakers lo settle the Navy Quiet On Thresher PORTSMOUTH. N H. ILTI'-A Saw court of inquiry gathered I secret evidence behind closed sub it and when it Is lound. Price Fifteen Cents 56 Ah -r - n . i descried early Saturday as the last cars drove away along the single lane road leading to this north ern West Virginia shaft. Anxiety had turned to despair Friday as word came from dust- covered rescuers underground that hrst one, then anotlier group of bodies had been discovered. Four teen bodies were located by noon, and seven more found later in the altcrnoon near a continuous mining machine. Then, retracing their steps, the searchers found the last body at arjout 8:30 p.m. in an area pre viously searched. Volunteers ap parently had overlooked it in their dispute sometimes only compound the confusion. In Iowa, only eastern border communities may go over to day light time. And local option per mits cities in the area to choose their own DST dates. Burlington. Ioua. residents ill change their clocks Sunday and revert to standard time Oct. 27: but at Wapello. Iowa, daylight time runs from May 25 to Aug. 26. Musa Seeks More Funds SALEM (LTD - Senate Prcsi- Hunt Rtn l nm cai4 PViriatr h jH i'h'u..., --j Mnn Committee to double the cut-down state Civil Defense budget to $100,000. Musa made the announcement after receiving a notice Irom fed eral Civil Defense officials that federal matching funds would be cut off if Oregon had less than a 12-man CD staff. The Senate President said "I will explain the situation to the Ways and Means Committee and ask them to double the ante " At present Orecon was budgeted ! funds to pay for a 3 - person Oregon SALEM iL'Ph A blistering review of Civil Defense perform ance during the Columbus Day storm Is included in a study of ctnmunity reaction In disaster re. leased Saturday by Willamette L'nivcrsily. Thr. Wi-nae reoortt "Our Com munity in Disaster. October 12. l2. Salem, Oregon." was pre pared by the Department of So ciology and An.hropoiogy of the umver-ity. A summary of the state Civil Defense activity states "it was felt that because of the confusion j within civil rielense itself, it could not generate the confidence nec esary lo meet any crLsis. "Perhaps by ecn redefining the puriiose of tlie organization to meet many different crises this U.OF oae.UBRARt iiraaPAPEJl fiECTIOtt oen.Rtr.Mi) pocumm v. cuasas0Kca Pages iTf- haste to set up fresh air sta tions and reach the blast site. As the news reached the shaft entrance, women broke into tears and veterans of the soil cual fields stood disconsolately discuss ing the rescue operation. When one woman emerged tear fully from the morgue, her young son asked frantically, "Where is lie? where is he?" Methane gas apparently causedwaters off Bimini. a Bahamas the oiast. sieve Canonico. v,cc president of Clinchlield Coal Co., said a spark of some. sort w-as believed to have set it off ..I1M tr.' W- r.. f - . Spwi i A HELP LIONS SAVE SIGHT Local Lions Club members will be asking residents to support "Operation Bright Light" when they come knocking door-to-door next Wednesday and Thursday nights, May I and 2. The Lions will be selling packages of light bulbs at $2 per package to get funds for their sight conservation program. Here, displaying the bulbs and the eye glasses they help buy, are Lions, from left, Dr. James Creswell, sight conservation chairman; Dr. Harold Catmull, club president, and Eldon Ewing, sale chairman. Lions Slate Light Bulb Sale The Klamath Falls Lion Club's annual light bulb sale. "Opera tion Bright Light." will get un derway with the local club mem bers calling on residents of Klam ath Falls Wednesday and Thurs day evening. May 1 and 2. Dr. Harold Catmull. club president. announced Thursday All funds raised through thelln assist in :he worthwhile pro- Civil Defense Program Blistered In confidence could be established "Questions arose concerning the Civil Delense generators. The slate institutions were all in need of emergency power. Fairvicw had access lo a generator furnished by Civil Defense but no one could operate it " ' The report, in its i2-pagc sec tion of cw'-'sions and recommen dations, r.ntes: "Many emergency agencies were caucht without adequate provision for emergency lighting. "Even operatise flashlights and candles were lacking. "In the state Ciil Defense ol ficca. a larce number of ga-ohne lanterns were stored for such an occasion. But tlie gasoline tn lill them cannot, according lo safety ordinances of the city, be stored COKP. JS. K MA KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, last Polaris Fuel Lab Building ROCKET CENTER. W. Va. i UPI i Three men were killed and 11 others injured Saturday when a devastating explosion tore through the Alleghany Ballistics Laboratory, one of the chief sources of fuel supply lor the Polaris missile. The thundei ous blast, w hich oc curred about 3:30 am., in a chemical processing building, shot imes 400 feet into the air, un loosed an atomic-looking cloud of smoke and rumbled the ground for distances up to 10 miles. The facility is operated by the Hercules Powder Company fori the U. S. Navy. Its number oncj product is solid fuel propellant and it was one of the prime de velopers of the Polaris missile. A spokesman for Hercules said the cause of tlie blast is "not now known" bet officials have begun an investigation. He added Death Ends Cruise MIAMI (UPI i - A gay boat- hopping party ended in tragedy late Friday night when a luxury yacht rammed a reef at high speed, capsized and sank. Two of the 25 persons aboard, many of them prominent, perished in the fishing resort 60 miles east of Miami. The accident took the lives of Dr. Roland PhillipsCoral Gablesllatef sale will he used to continue the Lions Club sight conservation pro gram. Dr. James Creswell, pro gram chairman, noted that 1't.o.Vl was allocated for eye glasses, examinations and exercises for 1.T7 individuals since 10. Eldon F.wing. sale chairman, urged residents of Klamalh Falls above ground within the city lim its. "Therefore, it was impossible tn have them ready to use at a mo ment's notice, or even lo lill them on short notice. "An underground storage tank mth a hand pump rould miIvp this difficulty " Cnmnunieationt Poor The report noted "on the whole, the community functioned pass ably during this disaster. "The most glaring deficiency was in communications. Great improvements need to be made." The study suggests placing key telephone lines enderground, pro viding auxiliary power for radio stations, and making battery pow ered transistor radio receivers "available In at leal every block SUNDAY. APRIL 28. 1963 Levels that sabotage "is not even being considered." Plant Manager John C. Foster said damage will run inlu "many thousands of dollars." He said the explosion, which scattered debris over a quarler-mile areu. would cause interruptions in some of the center's operations. About 200 workers were on the job during tlie "cat-eye" trick w hen the explosion cut loose. It hurled huge steel I-beams through the air, leaving them twisted like pretzels, and shatter ed thousands of windows on other buildings located on the 1.600- acre grounds. The dead men were working in the processing building, which was demolished. They were iden tified as Egil Ludvigscn. 29. Oak land, Md., David L. Wright. 27. Wcsternport, Md.. and Chester R Kcnner. 27, Midland, Md. physician described as a host for the party, and Mrs. Toy Perlc Oberndorf, wife of a Cleveland. Ohio, plumbing contractor. British Bahamas Island authori ties and the Coast Guard ques tioned tlie 23 survivors Saturday tn HptPrmin if nnv others had ' been lost and the cause of the accident. An Inquest was held gram through their purchase of the light bulb packages. The packages, priced at $2. con tain two 73 watt, four loo wait and two l.tO watt hulhs. "We'll have every member ol the Klamath Falls Linns Club knocking on the doors both eve nings. May 1 and 2." F.wing ed in cities, and every township or nousenoio in rural areas. "Police services, fire protection. military support for these In emergencies, and ambulance serv ices seem tn have Iteen fairly adequate and reflect tlieir planlul consideration of tlie possibility of emergencies. "Hospitals were also en an emergency fooling with little de lav or difficulty, again because 'ol planning and resources provided lor ahead ot time. "State, county, and private in stitutions varied in their readiness to meet the emergency. Most did well w th their available resour- tint .nnitliea nf wpler jinrl 'fuel for auxiliary power genera tors and for heal were small enough to threaten exhaustion If Telephone . ' ' 4i 1 Is"! . 2 1 w - Fr if '' ( o. I AjU CASTRO IN RUSSIA Cuban Premier Fidel Castro, right, wearing a Russian cos-sack-style hat, and Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mkoiyan. left, have warm smilai for each other Saturday after Castro arrived by Russian jet at Murmansk, according to official Soviet news agency Tass. Castro, who arrived a day earlier than expected, Is due in Moscow Sunday, and expected to spend about a month in the Soviet Union. UPI Telephoto Propaganda Presses Churn As Castro Visits Russians MOSCOW (UPlt Cuban Pre-I micr r idcl Castro headed lori Moscow by train Saturday night for a bear hug greeting by Pre mier Nikita S. Khrushchev and one of the most enthusiastic wel comes Russia has ever given a visiting foreign leader. Tlie Soviet capital already wasl gaily bedecked with flags NKans for the forthcoming May rVi.p IniVo-nlinn. ... I'ool o-'.i I was expected to eclipse those giv en to Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, President Tito and Chi Secret Radio Signals Direct Plane On Raid WASHINGTON UPI An American adventurer who claims lie went on a bombing raid over Cuba said Saturday that an under ground radio in Havana directed the plane to its target. Alexander Rorkc. u freelance reporter - photographer, said the plane maintained radio contact with underground people in the Cuba War Declared MIAMI 'UPli Filipe Vidal Santiago, a former naval com mantler for Fidel Castro, formally declared war against Cuba Satur day in the hope of gaining a base of operations for his liberation movement. Vidal. 37. said he was petition ing the White House and the am bassadors of the Organization of American Slates In Washington for recognition of his United Front for tlie Liberation of Cuba as "a belligerent under interna tional law." Vidal and an attorney. Charles It. Ashmann. said they were con- ftrlent if rei-nonit inn hv At least one Utin nation, even if the Whitem,ts cnt of(- House turns down tlie pctilmn With recognition from one nation. slat-llhey !. the group would have a legal "base of operations." the emergency had lasted signifi cantly longer." Cooperation Larking The report notes "lack nl ro oieriili"n and acceptance of the i Civil Defense 1 piogram was the rule rather than Ihe exception. "Allogethcr. Civil Defense seems to have played a very mi- nnr ri,l in I lirt erisic "lf chief useful..,,, perhaps. ; lh fncls calledi appar . ,n tw,o uhmninn.hnv on n"y not take the report scr winch to blame all the lack planning, preparation, and coordi- nation which the entire commun ity exhibited. "It is a matter ol dispute wheth er lhis was worth the cot of maintaining the organization Another signilicant point relatedi in the reuort is that Civil Defense was one of 1.1 organizations tele - TU 4-8111 No. 7127 nose Communist Leader Mao Tie- tung. The bearded Cuban flew into Murmanks early Saturday on a llight from Cuba in a Soviet iTU-llt transport. He received a "viva Fidel welcome Irom wail ing dignitaries and a long dist ance call from Khrushchev who andllnld him: "The whole Soviet people are1 waiting for you. I am looking for ward to seeing you In Moscow tomorrow. Diplomats her. .aid the unnre- cedented propaganda mnnmirhtg Havana area" as it flew towards Cuban oil refineries Thursday night. Itorkc, 36, refused to identify the amphibian plane or the three men he said accompanied him on the raid. He said the plane "was launched from an island south of Cuba" and picked him up in the Caribbean. "Other raids have been going on, and others are planned. liorkc said during an interview In his hotel room, "I will participate in more of them." The plane flew north along tlie coast line of Cuba at altout 90 feet, he said, until it reached Pinar Del Hio, the western most province of Cuba. . "We cut in over land, flew to the refineries, then nut over wa tcr," Koike said. When the plane was about l.V) feel over tlie refineries, Korke said, they dropied a too . pound high explosive bomb and four na palm bombs. "I think the 100 pounder went off, hut we couldn't see the oth ers liet-ause we were flying out to sea," Itorkc said during an In terview in his hotel room. Havana ftadio said none of tltc Itorke called claims that such la raid would have injured people looiish" because no one would Ibe working in a refinery at night Review phoned by the weather bureau at in a m. the day of the storm. The weather bureau had mis takenly predicted "Rusts up lo 60 miles per hour or better . . . the wind, reached 90 miles per hour rue weather bureau reported later that "about 75 per cent (of o(V - 11 ' "V in many instances that persons ans wering the warning call did not relay the information beyond the person answering the phone. "No reports were made from the weather bureau alter the storm began until the following Sunday afternoon, due to the 1 shortage ol power." Weather AGRICULTURAL FORECAST Vtry toed drying candltions Indicate for (Hi ntxt dirt dor. Wirmtr dy limt ttmpcrthim should ctuu toil ttm Ptntum to riM nptdty from fht prtkV nl 42 dtsrtH. on tlie eve of tlie visit was partly an attempt to line up Castro sol idly on tlie side of the Kremlin In the Sino-Soviet ideological dis pute. 11 successful, tltcy said, it could signal greater Soviet influence In Latin America, First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, who greeted Castro tn the northern Russian port, .ac- icompanied him to Moscow by train. ..l.-- Z, K "J" . . , . . , .vLrf.j , In Moscow at approximately !:J0 p.m. Sunday (9:30 a.m. EST). ' The government newspaper Tz- vestia devoted two of its six pages to the Castro visit and used such headlines as: "Welcome Dear Friend and Brother.' 'The Soviet People Heartily, 'Enthusiastically Receive the Wel come Guest From the Island of Freedom." "Long Live Cuba!" , Greetings were reported from throughout the country. Radio Moscow weighed in 'with more praise and Cuban music. Raul Takes Castro Job HAVAN A i UPI I - Armed Forces Minister Raul Castro moved in from his Orient Pro vince headquarters Saturday to take over as Interim premier while his brother Fidel tours Hussia. It was also announced Raul will replace Fidel as Havana's May Day speaker. Fidel, on that day, will share tlie tribunal of honor with Nikita S. Khrushchev in Moscow's Red Square. Castro was Journeying from Murmansk to Moscow Saturday for a welcome to be headed by Khrushchev. Castro decreed in I'.ij9 that "Haul shall take my place should anything happen to me." This "line of succession' was formal ized in l'.2 when Raul was named vice premier. Details of Castro's secret de parture to Murmansk aboard Soviet turbo-prop airliner early Friday came to light Saturday. The flight was unannounced lor security reasons. Harramore Wins Suit SAN FRANCISCO (UPP-Roh- ert G. Narramore, 31. Klamath Falls. Ore., Friday won an out- of-court award of $l.t7. of.t of the largest in California history. Narramore, a former Southern Pacific brakeman, was paralysed as the result of a fall from box car in 10 when be was tripped by a wire strung across a spur track in Canby, Modoc County, Calif. Trial of the suit had been scheduled to begin Monday. 4 ' to on to le- ;t I. oe ist re. en ar im dd he ge 41-Jl-ti- na or !d a 3, e ar 16 1
