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CHRISTMAS PARTY WELCOMED The generosity of people of the Klamath Basin
made the Friday Christmas party at the County Nursing Home one of the most
successful held in recent years. Presents were ample for members of the home and
everyone was extremely happy with the presents and the program. At left, some of
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By FRANK JENKINS
' In Washington as this is writ
ten. Secretary of State Rusk
urges the Western Allies to help
Russia win its power struggle
w ith the Chinese communists.
Question:
Is he right?
Or is he wrong?
Seeking an answer, let's try
another question:
Did you ever butt into a fam
ily quarrel in an effort to bring
peace and tolerance?
If so, you wiU be prepared to
say to Secretary Rusk:
"You're wrong, sir. NEVER
interfere in family quarrels.
Both sides will gang up on you,
and you'll corne out of it beat'
en to a pulp."
Let's STAY OUT OF IT!
Down in San Mateo county,
in the Bay Area, they have
what is known es the honor
camp system. Under the honor
camp system, prisoners in the
county jail go out each morning
to work on various public proj
ects. They give their word of
honor that they won't try to es
cape. So they are not guarded
while they work. In the evening,
when their shift is finished, they
come back to the jail house.
The ot!er morning a crew
of 70 was starting out to work.
On their way to the job. they
were led by a deputy sheriff,
whose job was to show them
where to work and what to do.
He had the keys in his pocket.
Suddenly, he fainted and fell
and hit his head on live con
crete floor, knocking him out
completely.
What did the convicts do?
Three of them ran to 1 h e
camp radio to tell the sheriff's
office of the deputy's accident.
Some of the rest gave emer
gency first aid to the deputy to
bring him back to conscious
ness. The rest went about their
work assignments.
Not one flew the coop.
You necr can tell about peo
ple. An ancient question
One that has puzzled us all
at one time or another
How does Santa Claus, who
Is reputedly round and roly
poly, wiih a waist measure
that would shock Hie average
tailor, get down the average
modern chimney?
It puzzled .John Deodluc. aged
three, who lives down ki San
ta Clara.
So-
He. decided the other day to
find out.
. He left his home in the lale
afternoon, climbed a six-foot
fence and walked up the slop
ing roof of the empty house
next door, climbed into the
fireplace chimney and with no
trouble at all he got halfway
down.
Thon-
DUaster struck.
He GOT STUCK. ?
As a small boy should, he
screamed for help. His mother
heard him and called for the
fire department. The fire lad
difs responded, and with their
help he reached the floor of
the fireplace some two hours
later. As special favor, he
asked his mother to let him
stay up ALL NIGHT on ChriM
mas e xi he could find out
bow Santa manages it.
"Veallier
Klamath Falli, Tulalaka and Lake
view Fair today. Increasing cloudi
nen tonight and Monday with a
chance of ihowers or tnow flurrlei.
Might today and Monday 37 te 43.
Lowe tonight 17 to IS. Southerly wind
five to IS mllet per hour.
High Friday SI
Low Saturday morning 7.5
High year ago 33
Low year ago 74
Preclp. pait 24 hour .00
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ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. (UPlI
The Union Pacific passenger
streamliner "City of Portland."
carrying nearly 400 passengers
and crew, crashed into a de
railed UP freight Saturday on
the southwest Wyoming desert.
There were no fatalities. Nine
teen persons were reported taken
to Rock Springs, 35 miles west
of the scene, and a total of 11
were admitted to Sweetwater
County Memorial Hospital.
A UP spokesman said 26 of
the 34 cars in the westbound
freight derailed because of a
"failed journal" a broken or
burned-out axle on the ninth
car.
The freight cars spilled out
over the tracks in front of the
east-bound, 17 - car passenger
streamliner about 10:37 a.m.
The "City of Portland" loco
motive and 12 cars derailed.
The locomotive and mail
and express cars were tipped on
their sides beside the tracks,
but the other cars which
jumped the tracks remained up
right, the railroad said.
A spokesman said the stream
liner carried about 330 passen
gers and about 27 crew mem
bers, and that the freight car
ried about 5 crewmen.
The railroad pulled the five
intact passenger cars back to
Rock Springs with about half
the passengers. Four buses
took 118 more.
Joyful Germans Reunited
BERLIN' (UPI - The hun
gry hearts of joyful West Ber
liners defeated bitter cold, snow
and red tape Saturday for week
end pre-Christmas reunions with
loved ones on the other side of
the Communist wall.
The West Berlin Senate said
about 7,000 West Berliners were
permitted to cross the anti
refugee barrier on Saturday,
the second full day of the.
Communist approved, yuletide
opening in the iron curtain.
Friday was a working day and
about 3.500 crossed.
Communist police, standing
Mourning
WiU End
SAI-EM L'PP At sundown
Sunday the official period of
mourning for the late President
John F. Kennedy will be termi
nated in accord with a declara
tion by the U.S. State Depart
ment Gov. Mark Hatfield said
today.
A 30-day period of official
mournini! was declared after the
President's assassination in
Dalla.v Tex.. Nov. 22. .
Flass will. be flown acain at
full height Monday morning.
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Record
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By United Press International
Bitter cold continued through
the last full day of autumn
from the Rockies to the Atlan
tic Saturday, setting more low
temperature records and coat
ing much of Mississippi with up
to 5 inches of snow.
For the ninth consecutive day
the temperature dipped below
zero in Chicago, a December
record. It was 14 degrees be
low zero at Indianapolis, Ind.,
early in the day, 8 degrees be
low the record for the date, set
in 1901.
Temperatures hovered near
the zero mark early in the day
as far south as North Carolina,
where Raleigh recorded a low
of 7 degrees.
It was 31 degrees below zero
at Bemidji, Minn.; 28 below at
Devils Lake. N.D.: 7 below at
Columbus, Ohio; 12 below at
Des Moines, Iowa; 12 below at
Omaha, Neb.; 1 below at Kans
as City, Mo.; 21 below at Mo
line, III.; 4 below at St. Louis,
Mo., the coldest since last Jan.
11: and 19 below at Eau Claire,
Wis., where the mercury has
failed to climb above the zero
mark since Tuesday.
At Crownpoint, N.M., four Na
vajo Indians died of exposure.
A volunteer fireman died when
a chimney exploded while he
was battling flames in sub-zero
guard at the holes they chopped
through the concrete, steel and
barbed wire they erected 28
months ago. greeted the visitors
w ith a cheery "good morning."
For the most part, they de
clined to inspect the packages
of food and gifts carried into
East Berlin by those kicky
enough to obtain passes.
Information Bureau West, a
private anti-Communist intelli
gence agency, reported a high
rate of absenteeism Saturday
among East Berlin actory and
office workers.
It said many employes stayed
home to await visits from West
Berlin relatives.
One man, Erik Zatz, a 24-year-old
intern, dashed out of a
West Berlin charity hospital to
keep his appointment at the In
validen crossing point with his
sister whom he had rot seen
for more man two years.
Zatz, still wearing his hospi
tal garb and stethoscope, tear
fully embraced his sister while
the usually - grim Communist
guards looked on with Mniles.
Nearby, however, a Communist
party oflicial passed out propa
ganda leaflets to the visiting
West Berliners.
A pretty young red haired
West Berlin woman fell into the
arms of a frail elderly woman
and sobbed, "Oma, oma, oma.
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the many members of the home watch the program which featured musical events
and a special dog act. Second from left, Nora Page hands a present to Huey Barnes.
Third from left, Santa Claus (Mrs. Madeline Brown, nursing home superintendent)
presents a gift to Cornelius O'Connell, and at far right, Jack Smith reflects all the
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KLAMATH FALLS, ORKGON,
Cold Continues
Much Of US
cold on a farm near Moorcs
ville, Ind. At Lebanon, N.Y., a
light plane ''disintegrated" dur
ing a violent snow squall late
Friday, killing two men.
A passenger train struck a
broken rail and left the tracks
at Coon Rapids, Iowa, stalling
Shortage Of Coins
Not Serious Here
Only one out of three Klam
ath Kalis banks has been af
fected by the shortage of coins
to hit the rest of the state and
the ret of the nation.
It was reported Friday that
the Federal Reserve Bank in
Portland was completely out of
dimes and nickels are in short
supply.
But the only bank in Klamath
Falls to feel the pinch is the
First National Bank.
Jim Floyd, assistant opera
tions officer of the bank, said
it must depend on the other two
local banks to keep up its coin
supply, as tlie Federal Reserve
System has not been able to
fill orders. He said this situa
tion so far exists only in nickels
'grandmother, ' grandmother,
grandmother'. You haven't
changed in two years."
More than 25,000 West Berlin
ers stood in long, seemingly end
less lines waiting to apply to
East German postal officials for
the hoped-for passes.
More than 250 queued up at
the Ticrgarten School were told
over loudspeakers to "go home,
go home" because 800 appli
cants were already inside the
building and that no more could
be processed.
Those standing in line refused
to (cave. West Berlin police
rushed in a 20-man detail to
keep order when tempers grew
strained. They formed a human
barrier between the crowd and
the school, and those in line
finally did go home in disap
pointment. "I wish President' Kennedy
were alive." said Herbert
Schmidt, 48, a truck driver.
"He'd straighten this out."
Sohmid. said he wanted to
visit his mother in East Berlin.
"I've got to deliver her Christ
mas present," he said "She's
K) and cold all the time. I
bought her a giod warm woolen
sweater real wool, not that
Chinese cotton they call wool
over there."
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SUNDAY, DECEMBKR 22, 1963
ISO holiday-bound passengers in
sub-zero cold.
Off Halifax, N.S., crews of
two sinking freighters were res
cued by Canadian coast guards
men and a U.S. Coast Guard
vessel went to the aid of a
foundering'fishing boat off Port
land, Maine.
and enough of them are avail
able to meet normal demands.
A spokesman for the U.S. Na
tional Bank of Portland in
Klamath Falls said a few short
ages are noticed in dimes and
quarters and these haven't be
come serious.
The spokesman said the only
real effect of the shortage in his
bank is to limit orders from the
Federal Reserve Bank to short
term. One reason the shortage
hasn't become acute in the U.S.
National Bank is that it has sev
eral vending machine accounts
locally and these keep the sup
ply up.
The same situation exists for
the Bank of Klamath Falls.
Manager Jack Holt said vend
ing machine accounts keep its
supply up and it does a thrive
ing business in selling coins to
other bahks due to surpluses.
It was teported bhat the short
age has been felt ell over
,the country and has resulted in
strict rationing among banks
and among bank customers.
It is felt that collectors are
Jargely responsible for the
.shortage, although it has been
noted that today's society, be
cause of vending machines, de
mands more coins in use.
It is the policy of the three
banks in Klamath Falls to pro
mote the continued circulation
of the coins and avoid policies
which would tend to promote
persons or companies amassing
large supplies of coins.
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DESPERATE MOVE Walter Raleigh Sain, who at 42
has been blind for 'the pest 24 years, attempted to rob
the Detroit Bank and Trust Company of $50 Friday. He is
shown here leaving court with his wife, Lewanda, 19. The
destitute and desperate couple was given $85 by the
judge and his staff after the man was released on $1,000
personal bail and a promise to show up for a Jan. 15
hearing.
Destitute Blind Man Fails
In Attempted Bank Robbery
DETROIT (UPI - The
thought of Christmas without
food and warm clothing for his
pregnant wife was loo much for
Walter R. Sain, a 42-ycar-old
blind man.
He s b o w e d Federal Judge
Wade McCrec a tin cup Fridny
and said, "I tried standing on
street corners to get a few
cents but the police kept mov
ing mc on."
Sain and his wife, I.cWanda,
who is six months pregnant,
plotted to roh a bank. The at
tempt was a crude one.
They pic ked one of the busiest
and best guarded banks in De
troit. Sain and his wife walked up
to teller Stanley Mi llalc of the
Detroit Bank and Trust Comp
any's main nllice in the heart
of downtown Detroit and hand
ed him a scrawled note. It read
in part:
"This man is truly blind. We
gut his wile in the car. Do not
press the alarm, There are four
of us, two in the bank and two
are outside the bank."
The note demanded t-V).
Mcllale. however, pressed
the alarm and (he guard took
the couple Into custody. The
Federal Bureau of Investigation
said apparently no one else was
involved In the holdup attempt.
The couple was questioned ex
tensively by the FBI and taken
before McCree for arraignment.
Sain tnld the judge, "I waa
desperate. Our wedding rings
joy of the occasion as he poses for the photographer holding some of the gifts he re
ceived on the occasion. The 54 members of the home were all remembered by Santa
and received gifts that fulfilled their wishes. Everyone who contributed to the event
can share in the warm feeling of having shared their Christmas with these people.
Weather
LONO-KANGI OUTLOOK
Cool to mild ttmpraturi to con
limit With high about 40 and lows
near 10 at minor itormt movt through
th arta Monday and again about
Chrlttmat tDay
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are in layaway and so is a coat
for LeWanda. She also needs
more winter clothes 8nd we're
almost out of food.
"I didn't have a gun and all
I asked for was not more than
$50," Sain said.
Sain, who has been blind
since he was 18, said he re
ceived only $103 a month from
the Aid to the Blind Association
and had been turned down for
welfare. He said he paid $M a
month rent. Authorities said he
had no chocs, only overshoes,
when arrested.
"Can I depend on you both to
be back here Jan. 15 for exam
ination?" McCree asked. After
they agreed he set personal
bond at $1,000 and released
them so they could "go home
(or Christmas."
McCree asked Sain what
moved him to the holdup at
tempt. "What can a man do when
everyone says 'no' to him?"
Sain explained.
"There are other solutions and
we'll talk about them when you
come back." McCree said "In
the meantime here's a little
something to tide you over
Christmas at least."
The judge handed the couple
an envelope containing $85
which had been collected from
the judge and his staff.
There were tears, then, from
Sain and his wife. McCree
cried, too.
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Demos Charge GOP
With 'Sit Down Strike'
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
88th Congress In a shouting
mad temper scuttled plans to
adjourn for the year Saturday
night and ordered sessions this
week in an effort to end a bit
ter deadlock over the foreign
aid spending bill.
A White House souice and a
top Democratic House leader
accused Republicans of waging
a legislative sit down strike
against the $.1 billion aid appro
priation. After waiting all day on a
stand by basis, the Senate sig
nalled the official end ot at
tempts to adjourn by recessing
until noon Monday..
An undoubtedly fighting mad
President Johnson put off his
scheduled departure Sunday to
spend the Christmas holidays at
his Texas ranch.
Hold Shouting Match
House Democratic leader Carl
Albert, Okla., and House Repub.
lican leader Charles A. Halleck,
Ind., engaged In a shouting
match over the situation before
the Hquse called it quits for the
weekend.
It was Albert who had up
braided Halleck and the Repub
licans for waging what he call
ed a legislative sit down
strike." Albert based his accu
sation on the fact that the House
Rules Committee could not of
ficially meet to clear the com
promise aid bill to the floor be
cause of a boycott by needed
Republican members.
A White House official also
used the phrase sit-down-strike.
At Hie heart of (he controver
sy was an amendment which
would curtail President John
son's powers to extend credit in
sales of wheat and other com
modities to Russia.
The House had twice attached
the amendment to the foreign
aid legislation and the Senate
had twice rejected It.
Reject Amendment
The House, hy a narrow par
tisan vote early Saturday morn
ing, had rejected a compromise
amendment which would have
voiced congressional dislike of
such a credit extension but al
lowed tlie President to do so in
the name of national interest.
Halleck stressed that the
House already had twice re-
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Christmas Lighting Contest .
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Christmas. Please enter me In this year's Christmas';
Lighting Contest.
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jected any softening of the wheat
credit ban.
"You lost in a clean fight,"
he told the Democrats. "You
come back today and want to
do it all over again."
Halleck said he was willing to
do even that, but wanted some
promise that would be the end
of the controversy. "Three times
and you strike out," he shouted.
I just am not going to plead
guilty in any respect to any mis
conduct on my part, Halleck.
said." ... I lust happen to be-".
lui. IkB AmnMlnoM nnl
with us in this controversy.
Senato Democratic Leader"
Mike Mansfield announced the
Senate would conduct no further
business sessions until the House
takes- action on the $3 billion
aid bill.
In the House, Democratic
leader Carl Albert, Okla., deliv
ered a searing speech accusing
Republicans of going on "a sit
down strike."
This echoed a charge by a
White House aide who had lev-
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Tribes Okay
Claim Offer
CHILOQUIN (UPI) Mem
bers of the Klamath and Modoc
Indian tribes and the Yahooskin
branch of the Snake River Tribe
have voted to accept an Indian '.
Claims Commission offer of $2.5 .
million In additional settlement-:
for lands taken from the Klam
ath Indian Reservation by the
federal government.
The vote was 49-1.
The three tribes claimed they
were paid too little for lands
purchased from tliem by the
government. The decision will
be reviewed by the commission
at a hearing in Washington Dec..
28.
The group also voted to com,
ply with a court order to elect
officers and a 10-man executive
committee to govern the con
federation. The group had been operating
with a five-member executive
board.
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