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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 18, 1963)
H'-:s:-,A?i's ssciio.'i cuafias.oaea. Thousands In West Berlin Plan To Visit Behind Wall Weather Kllml Mill, TuMlak. ind Llkt vktw: IncrMSiM chMtfMMtt tMttM with lows 21 H 32. MMMv cloudy witM periods M rtim tr www Tlwridiy. D II t. 42. Hi.h yttttrdtV 4 Lew tftti mornlnf ti High ytir io 3 Lw ytr 190 21 Prtcip. Uit 14 Iwin .M Sine. Jan. I t.M Sim. MrM (lit Vtir ! Weather LONO ANO OUTLOOK Tmpritvrii to CMtlnu. mild nd bov. iiiMnibl. v.rio.. Period mt run or mow nr. Indlciltd for Tfiurv diy and Friday ind mm about Mon day. Price Ten Cents 20 Pages KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 18. 1963 Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 7657" BERLIN H'Pll-Thousands of West Berliners waited for hours in bitter cold today to obtain passes for Christmas vis its to Communist East Berlin for the first time in three years. Arrangements to permit an estimated 800.000 West Berlin ers with relatives in the Communist-controlled Eastern sector to cross the Red-built anti-refuse wall for Christmas were completed Tuesday. The East Germans opened 12 offices in West Berlin today to process applications for t h e passes, being issued for the In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS Historic note in the news: It was 60 years ago yester day that the Wright Brothers first got off the ground at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. They made four flights that day the longest of which lasted 59 sec onds. ' Al the end of the fourth flight, a gust of wind blew the ma chine over and wrecked it but they had proved that MAN CAN FLY. They might have been dumb founded if they could have known that day what their stunt would lead to. Slightly shivery thought: What will the NEXT 60 years lead to? Over in London, a young al truist is out to toss a monkey wrench into the machinery of the ancient and aristocratic sport of fox hunting. His name is John Prcstidge, his age is 21 and he is using an inheritance he has just come into to found a group he calls the Hunt Sab oteurs Association. The idea, he says, is to make it a movement of young people who hale cruelty and are pre pared to do something about it. Over on this side of the Big Water when we embark upon a mission of that sort, we go to the slate legislature or the con gress and get a law passed. Young Mr, Preslidge is by passing parliament and using di rect action. His plan is to throw the hounds off the scent of the fux by slipping into the hunt area beforehand and dragging pieces of meat over the fields. The hounds, he believes, will follow the hamburger trail and leave the fox to go his own sweet way back to his den and his family. It's quite a job he's tackling. To begin with, it will cost a lot of money to buy meat enough to drag all over the Eng lish lox - hunting country. And he'll let himself in for a lot of ill will. Fox hunting is an an cient sport in Merrie England, and its devotees aren't going to give it up without a struggle. So perhaps we'd better sug gest to him an alternate ap proach to his goal. Instead of drafting all the youth of England for the job of dragging meat over the hills and the downs, why not teach the English gentry the tech niques of the hillbilly country the Ozarks and the Cumber lands, whence came the Clam pils to the Beverlv Hills? As practiced there, fox hunt ing once went something like this: Instead of climbing up on a horse equipped with a skimpy little saddle with no horn to hang onto in the pinches, you named a date and called in your neighbors. They came, bringing their dogs, but no horses. Each brought also a jug of MOON. The procedure w as as f 0 1 lows: The party headed for the hills, with the dogs and the jugs. When the trail of the fox was found, the dogs all started off, giving tongue as they went. The fox hunters thereupon seated themselves at the roots of trees. Each hunter knew the voice of h:s hound as a mother knows tiie voice of her infant. Whenever a hound gave tongue, its owner took a swig out of the jug and bragged on his doe. And so on through the night. Tlie hunt ended when the fox finally gave the slip to the hounds, and they came trailing back. It was great sport, and it cost (lie lives of no foxes. They were all left to lead the dogs over the hills the next time when the moon was right and tlie still had psoduced its quota of moonshine. Maybe the English fox hunt ers would buy tlie idea. first time since the wall was built in August, mi. Each pass will be good for a one-day visit on any day from 7 a.m. to midnight, starting Thursday and ending Jan. 5. The visiting deadline is extend ed to 5 a.m. on New Year's Eve. One man. Dieter Gehrke, 31, a locksmith, said he and his wife wanted to see his wife's mother, "bringing all the food we can carry." The pass applications about the size of a postcard were is sued by East German postal workers, who were wearing new u n i f 0 r ms for the occasion. There was one pass office in each of West Berlin's 12 bor oughs. Christa Schliewe, 22. one of the applicants, said site wanted a pass for Dec. 22 to visit her husband's mother and father. In line since 4:45 a.m., Chris ta said she hadn't eaten since Tuesday night. 1 "I've been too excited," she added, her eyes glowing. The pass agreement was ne gotiated between West and East Berlin officials for what both sides said were "humane rea sons." West Berlin. West German and Western Allied authorities said the arrangement had Dial Santa "Hello Santa." an annual program carried on through the efforts of the Klamath Jayeccs, will allow area youngsters to talk to Santa Claus Wednesday and Thurs day evenings. Boys and girls can tell Santa what thev want for Christinas by dialing TU 2-5581 Wednesday or Thursday evenings. Jim Floyd, Jaycee chairman, said the jolly old man will be available both nights between 7 and 9 o'clock. Last year 736 K I a m a t h County youngsters took ad vantage of the program to talk to Santa Claus. Second Ellingson Mill Destroyed By Flames The second Ellingson Timber Company mill in little more than two weeks fell to flames early this morning. The Pelican City sawmill, which had been inoperative for about eight years, was con sumed by flames that broke out about 4. a.m. following an ex plosion. Residents of the area report ed that just before the flames became visible, there was an explosion and firemen said that during the height of the blaze, there were several more blasts from the interior of the mill. No cause of the fire has been determined. The mill, on the shores of Upper Klamath Lake, was the second Ellingson property to be destroyed by fire in little more than two weeks. Nov. 30, El lingson's mill on Lake Ewauna was leveled by flames. The Pelican City property re portedly wasn't insured, but an Ellingson spokesman could not be reached to comment on the value of the burned building and equipment. County firemen reached the burning mill shortly after 4 ANOTHER ELLINGSON MILL BURNS Fire early this morning destroyed the sec ond Ellingson Timber Company mill in little more than two weeks. These charred tim. bers were the highest remaining objects left in Ellington's Pelican City sawmill which was hit by flames at 4 a.m. No value of the lost has been established. changed nothing in their view that the East German and East Berlin regimes are legally non existent. But tlie Communists lost no time in making propaganda out of the agreement, while the West Berlin and West German press warned that the city must be on its guard to see that the arrangement cannot be used to undermine the -city's position. Tlie visits will be the first permitted West Berliners since 12 days after the Communists built the wall on Aug. 13, 1961, splitting (he city and many of its families. East Berliners, sealed behind the wall and guarded against escape attempts, will get no chance to come to West Berlin under the visiting agreement. Rusk Flies To London For Talks LONDON lUPIi-Secretary of State Dean Rusk arrived today from Paris lor talks with top level British officials. Informed sources said the talks would range over the whole aspect of East-West rela tions, with special emphasis on Britain's desire to keep up con tacts with the Soviet Union. Rusk's U.S. Air Force Con stellation airliner touched down at the Royal Air Force's Nor folk station. He was driven to London for his 24-hour working visit before leaving for Wash ington Thursday. The secretary of slate is to meet with Premier Sir Alec Douglas Home and Foreign Sec retary R. A. Butler. He told newsmen at Norfolk, "I'm de lighted to be here for talks with Mr. Butler." Butler said earlier in the day he hoped to meet shortly with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Rusk sees Butler this evening at a working dinner in the foreign secretary's official residence. . a.m. and found the building to be an inferno. Pumping water from the lake, they concentrated on keeping the lames from spreading. Firemen, working in below freezing weather, directed wa ter at three transformers on poles above the flames and saved them from destruction. County firemen were supple mented by men from the Sub urban. Klamath Falls and Ore gon Technical Institute depart ments. Besides the transformers, the men also worked on keeping a long conveyor belt frame from burning, so as to conline the blaze to the mill building itself and protect other equipment stacked nearby. A pump house was saved, but a boiler room was destroyed. Firemen remained at the scene until after 8 o'clock this morning and the ruins were still smouldering late this morn ing. This morning's fire destroyed the last Ellingson mill in the area and marked the last in a series of spectacular blazes which have plagued Ellingson operations through the years. Vocational Jets Fly 101 Missions During 10-Hour Period F101 jet interceptor pilots o: Kingslcy Field flew a total of 101 missions during a 10-hour period yesterday to break tlie former record of 62 sorties es tablished by the airfield three weeks ago, the base informa tion office has reported. The first mission was flown early Tuesday morning by Col. Edwin J. W itzenburger, com manding officer of the airfield, and at 3:12 that afternoon the the 101st flight ended as Lt. Col. Richard C. Garrett, com mander of the 322nd Fighter Interceptor Squadron, lowered the wheels of his aircraft onto the runway at Kingslcy Field. A mission is completed w hen Little Girl To Receive New Doll By KITH KING There is a little girl, some where in the Klamath coun try who need never ask, like tlie Virginia of the past, "Is there really a Santa Claus?" Whoever she is, wherever she is, she will know on Christmas morning that the spirit of Christmas shines bright for those who need assurance, and a helping hand. A few days ago a doll thai had been purchased to make her happy disappeared from a downtown lor,. -Tlie Herald and News published a story seeking its return. Scarcely had the newspaper "hit the street." in newspaper jargon, when the telephone be gan to ring. A well-known busi nessman olfered to buy a doll, anonymously, "just let me know" ... a woman called, a young girl, the wife of a doctor, an aged man and an aged wom an, two businesswomen, a very small girl . . . voices ... 11 to be exact. Sleuthing failed to turn up a name, only a telephone num ber. The management of Pen ney's where the purchase had been made, and where it disap peared, perhaps into a shopping bag carried by someone who also desperately needed a gilt for a small girl . . . who knows . . . offered to replace the toy. Thursday morning the Her ald and News mail brought an unsigned letter, written on the same lined paper in the same hand, as the- original note that told the story of the doll's loss. It said, "Thanks to a story in your newspaper about a lost dolly, our little girl will get a doll for Christmas. The lost one was not returned but a very kind person saw to it that she would get one anyway . . . there are others that give with their hearts, and though they are unknown. I would like to wish them the tame Merry Christmas they have given my little girl. "A Happy Mother." 1 a jet fighter imercepts a simu lated enemy aircraft and re turns to the base. The missions were flown against T-33 training aircraft from Kingsley Field and B47s of (lie Strategic Air Command. Kingsley Field officials at tributed the breaking of its own record to teamwork between air crews and ground support per sonnel. As soon as an F10I completed a mission, it returned to King sley Field lo be refueled; this is where teamwork became vi tal, officials said. When tlie plane rolled to a stop on the flight line, ground crews refueled tlie plane, checked it over for malfunc tioning equipment and prepared it for another mission. During one of the operations the time consumed was two and one-half minutes, a base record. The ground crews completed their assignments so swiftly that the pilots barely had time for a cup of coffee before their planes were ready to fly other missions. "T" FLAG, NEW HONOR FOR KINGSLEY Col. Edwin J. Witzenburger, command ing officer of Kingsley Field, addresses a group of base military and civilian personnel upon accepting the Treasury Flag on behalf of the airfield during a special ceremony at base headquarters yesterday. The award was presented by the U.S. Treasury De partment in recognition of the base's outstanding participation in the U.S. Savings Bond program. Ninety per cent of the civilian and military personnel at the airfield have participated in the payroll deduction program. Local dignitaries and high Air Force officers were present at the ceremony. The banner is also called the Minuteman Flag. Kingsley Bond Effort Honored "We are not only a first rate flying unit but we have shown that we recognize our other re sponsibilities." Thus did Col. Edwin J. Witz enburger, commanding officer of Kingslcy Field, praise the military and civilian personnel under his command upon their singular achievement of having attained 90 per cent participa tion in the U.S. Savings Bond program. The culmination of that attain Jaycees Begin Search For DSA Candidates The annual search for the community's "Young Man of the Year" and "Senior Citizen for 1963" was started today by the Klamath Jaycees. The two men, who will be se lected by a panel of judges from nominations submitted by the public, will be honored at the annual Distinguished Service Award banquet late in January. Phil Nciswanger, chairman for the sponsoring Jaycees, is sued an invitation today to Klamath organizations and the public at large to submit nomi nations. He .said nomination forms arc available at the chamber of commerce office, First National Bank and tlie United State National Bank in downtown Klarnath Falls, and the First National Bank on South Sixth Street. Persons un able to pick up a nomination form at any of tliese locations may write to DSA, Box 407, Emoted AIRMEN UNFURL BANNER T.Sgt. Manual C. Pimental (left) and S.Sgt. Richard D. McPhee attach the Minute man Flag to a lanyard before hoisting it to the top of the flagpole at Kingsley Field base headquarters. It marked the first time since World War II that the Treas ury Flag was awarded to a military establishment in Oregon. ment was noted during a spe cial ceremony al the Kingslcy Field Base Headquarters at 1 p.m., yesterday, when Thomas Pridcaux, chairman of the Ore gon Savings Bond Committee (Portland!, presented on be half of Secretary of the Treas ury Douglas Dillon the Minute man Flag to Colonel Witzenbur ger. in recognition of the air field's "extraordinary participa tion in the savings bonds drive." The ceremony marked the Klamath Falls and one will be mailed. The young man of the year must be between the ages of 21 and 36 Jaycee age however affiliation with the Jaycees is not necessary to be eligible for the award. Senior citizen candi dates must be over 35. Judging in both instances will be SO per cent on service to the community. 25 per cent on lead ership ability and Z per cent on business or personal success. Nciswanger said these points should be emphasized hy per sons submitting a candidate for one of Ihe awards. Tlie deadline for nomination! is Jan. 15, l4. The DSA ban quet is tentatively set for the week of Jan. 19 to 25. Winners last year were John Ifeilbronncr, young man of the year, and James Montcilh, se nior citizen. They will be asked to present the plaque to tlie two new winners at the Janu ary banquet, Nciswanger (aid. ... 'y j V ' !' first lime since the end of World War 1118 years ago that the Minuteman Flag has been awarded to a military unit in the slate of Oregon. Present at the brief proceed ings were Maj. Gen. II. It. Spi cer, commander of the 25th Air, Division; Brig. Gen. Carroll W. McColpin, Portland Air Defense Sector, and a numlwr of local bank presidents and civic lead ers, including Mayor Mobcrt Vcatch, Andy Collier, V c r n Owens, Buss Tisdalc. Myron Shannon, Les Offield, Jack Wil ton. Jack Holt and Gene Favell. The presentation was preced ed by a luncheon at the Offi cers' Club and got underway ns the military and their guests as cended a special platform in (Continurd on Page 4-A) IMTKD FL'ND CAMPAIGN Coil $148,311.00 Total To Dale 127.404.02 Percentage of Goal 85.1 l h l i Training Bill To Offset Automation Advance WASHINGTON (UPD-Presi- dent Johnson today signed leg islation designed to launch U.S. vocational education Into the new industrial age of automa tion. Tlie bill authorizes $1.5 billion in new spending to expand aid to vocational schools with em phasis on training workers in new skills, increase student loan funds and continue federal help lo schools crowded by children of federal workers or servicemen. Johnson signed tlie education measure at the start of another busy day highlighted by a ma jor conference with leaders of national farm organizations to discuss farm policy issues. Invited to the White House discussion were officials of the National Grange, National Farmers Organization, Cooper ative League of the United Stales and National Council of Farmer Cooperatives. The President called upon tlie nation's diverse farm organiza tions lo get together and help the government solve problems of commodity surplus es, rural poverty and other ag ricultural matters. Tlie 'President also set up a late afternoon meeting with Budget Director Kermit Gordon and Deputy Budget Director El mer Staats lo work on the budget he will send to Congress next month. Second McRsurc The vocational school bill was the second educational measure to go to Johnson in three days. On Monday he signed the $1.2 billion college aid bill to help build classrooms, laboratories and libraries. The new measure authorize! $1.6 billion in new spending to: -i-Lxpand federal aid to voca lional schools four-fold, with strong new emphasis on train ing in skills that are in short. age now, rather than (hose which have been outmoded In the post World War II automa ton surge, 'flic expansion would cost $731 million over four years. Increase National Defense Education Act (NDEA) student loan funds by 50 per cent, and extend tlie life of the 1958 NDEA for another year to June 30, 1U05. The new NDEA au thority totals $304 million. Continue for two years be yond July 1, 1963, the 12-year- old impacted areas aid pro gram for grade and high schools crowded by tlie children of Jcderal workers and service men. The extension of expired portions of the program will cost $527 million for the years. Significant Portion Tlie vocational school two aid boost was considered the most significant portion of the three part bill. It would provide the first big increase in federal as sistance for job training courses in more than 15 years, and point and vocational education system in an entirely new di rection. At the end of tlie four year buildup period, federal aid will have increased from about Heavy Snowfall Clogs Highways In Midwest Hy I tilled Press International A blustery storm dumped record-breaking snows on Mi chigan today and threatened to pile up eight inches ot new snow from the Great Lakes lo the Appalachians. Slilf winds blew the snow In to drifts, closing highways in many areas and making driv ing trcaciierous. Three inches of fresh snow fell at Muskegon, Mich., today, to make a total of 30 inches on the ground. A total of 17.9 Inches In 24 hours broke a rec ord for that time period and new total I)ocemher snowfall No Justice YORK, England UPH A truck loaded with salt for Icy roads skidded and crashed on an Icy road Monday. $58 million a year to nearly $300 million annually. Tlie new program would em pluisize tlie teaching of skills for which there is employer de mand, even in the often criti cized field of home economics training. It would orovide for cnnstrne- ion nf arpa vocational u)wil. where complex equipment and nigiity trained teaching staffs could be more easily hronpht togetlier and for experimental se ot residential vocational hools and work-study plans for students in job ttaining courses. Final Action On Aid Bill In Question WASHINGTON (UPD-Senatc leaders hoped to call up for de bate today their embattled $3.3 billion foreign aid money bill in a drive to speed Congress to ward adjournment by Friday. ' But Hie objection of a singlo senator could force a delay un til Saturday, virtually wrecking administration hopes for final action on an aid appropriations bill before Congress goes home. The Senate Appropriations Committee approved the meas ure Tuesday. The bill includes $500 million more than the $2.8 billion voted by the House for the fiscal year that began July 1. Aid foes threatened new ef forts to cut the amount in the Senate bill and a scrap also loomed over tlie House approved provision to forbid the export-import bank from under writing credit for grain sales to Russia. The grain restriction is not in the Senate bill. Sen. Karl E. Mundl, R-S.D., Senate sponsor: of the proposal, said he would: insist on a roll call showdown on the amendment. The Senate rejected a similar proposal last month. A wrap-up of some other ap propriations bill also was on tlie congressional agenda. Shooting Hours OREGON December 19 Open Close 7 p.m. , 4:40 p.m. CALIFORNIA December 19 Open Close 7:00 a.m. 4:36 p.m. mark was established with 56 8 inches io far this month. Up to five inches of snow fell across Western Pennsylvania during the night. Pittsburgh. Pa., police broke a burglary case when they traced the rob bers' footsteps in the snow. The Coast Guard searched for the pilot of a private plane that crashed into tlie icy waters nf Lake Erie near Dunkirk, N. Y. The pilot reported carbure tor icing and loss of control be fore the crash Tuesday night. Tugboat operators at Cairo, III., held back their boats from trips to St. Louis, Mo., when the Weather Bureau said the Mississippi River would fall to record low stages by the weekend. Thick ice floes were reported going downriver at Cape Girardeau, Mo., and Ches ter. III. Heavy snows continued In the Western mountain states. I
