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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 -
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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
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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.
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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.
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