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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 22, 1963)
Sunday. December 22. 161 :: . HERALD AM) NEWS, Visiting Soviet Family Keeps Busy Schedule ' - PORTSMOUTH, Ohio UPI-r A Russian family of four visited 'a supermarket and kept busy ,n other sightseeing Junkets to ;day on a week-long visit to this Ohio River city. The Viktor Poidneev family, from Moscow was here for a "typical American Christmas visit" as an international good will gesture sponsored by the Portsmouth Junior Chamber of Commerce. ' Poidneev, his wife. Nina, and their children, Anatoli, 17. and Olga, 6. appeared to be enjoy ing themselves, despite a busy schedule mapped for them dur ing the holiday visit. They ar- Accidents Claim Trio By I'nited Press International Traffic accidents took three lives in Oregon Friday, two of them in a two-car collision near Scappoose. The victims were two-year-old Byron Hanson of Fortuna, Calif., Laverne Carl Lovell, 41, St. He lens, and Carol Jane Srissett, 3, of Scappoose. The Hanson boy died In a Medford hospital late Friday of head injuries suffered when in an accident on U.S. Highway 90 about 24 miles southwest of Grants Pass. State Police said a car driven by his father, iRonald B. 'Han son, slid on a curve and hit an embankment. Hanson and the boy were both thrown out and the boy struck (he wheel of an other vehicle which had stop ped to avoid a collision. Neiliher Hanson nor his wife, Gloria, were Injured. 0 OPINS TODAY AT :4 Enft nWWA'' - AUDII MUMHV I rciSfL." oionai ndch mm mm ntf f JITU AMD THE SINS') count .TICHHISCOK TUESDAY ! ! OUR 11th ANNUAL MERCHANT'S FREE CHRISTMAS SHOW Gel Your Free Tickets from Any of These Klamath Falls Merchants: KOTUTV I Mt O Nr. Mitwtf ton, in S'Mtr't Ok RMft'l Mt' H J. C. IUaI Jrrtlr Ufttfr4i Cmr Mirit'i AltatM Cm 0 Mtw Lmunimt awrrr 1 lT Mil Iff Wrt I Mlt' V'fciif StM MiMt CtMtf Hfl 4 N-l , -AT THI i inn MA H PA KtTTU Si DOORS OPEN AT BOTH THEATRES AT 9:30 A.M. . CONTINUOUS SHOWS TILL 7;C3 P.M. PAGE-2A Klamath Falll, Ore. rived here late Thursday night and spent the following day meeting local citizens and at tending a Chamber of Com merce lunch. However, a high school bas ketball game the family was supposed to attend Friday night was postponed until Saturday. Pozdneev, who cannot speak English, was presented a key to the city at the lunch attended by more tiian 200 chamber members and other guests. "I hope this will be a key to the hearts of everyone in Ports mouth," the (Moscow auto w ork er replied through an interpret er, Nadia Alay of Huntington, W. Va. "We are delighted to be in your great country and we feel lucky we were chosen to come here." Mrs. Pozdneev, a Moscow English teacher, was the only one of the family 'able to speak English. However, young Ana toli appeared to be getting past the language barrier with the son of the hoist, Portsmouth in surance man Jim JleKenzic. Anatoli and Philip McKenzie, 14, pointed with their fingers and managed to convey their ideas. iMdKenzie, his wife and five children live in an 11 room house here and volunteered to act as hosts In the "Peace on Earth" project. Legislator Succumbs WASHINGTON (UPI) - fllie House Saturday noted with sor row the death of Hop. William J. Green Jr., D-Pa. It adjourned an all-night session at 5:45 a.m. out of respect to his memory. Jlep. Thomas E. Morgan, ID Pa,, Chairman of Hie House Foreign Affairs Committee, an nounced Greenls death to Ills fellow lawmakers. "We shall miss him," Morgan said. "He was a warm friend and a kindly friend to us all." House GOP leader Charles Halleck of Indiana called Green "a great Democrat." "J had tlie highest respect (or him," Hsllcck said. "... I am very, very sorry at his pass ing." The Senate was officially no tified of Green's death shortly before it adjourned. Jt adooled a resolution of re gret and named Sens. Joseph S. Clark, D-l'a., and Hugh Scott, R-Pa., to represent the cham ber at tlie funeral. OMN$ TODAY AT JJ 4J .LAST TWO .DAYS! Simeon KA60 Nrv Hftrt fttmtU Afl kMf Otibr't Mtiii Cfe SfctAtYl P'lii .-' Va 7- a. ' '.- . " I :. :';. ; i I, , i' j -1 ) ..,.,-..r..iv...-.r.. . Lf?f. x i - -M-ifXif-.' 'i iky ' NEW EXPERIENCE Jumping into the jet-age after 64 years in prison. Richard Honeck sits In extra pilot jump seat in cockpit of jet passenger plan before leaving for flight to new home in California. Honeck, 85, entered Menard State Prison at Chester, III., in 1899, four years before Wright brothers made their first flight. He was re leased from prison this week to live his remaining years with a niece in California. UPI Tefephoto Brand New World Opens For Prisoner Of 64 Years SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -Richard Honeck, out of an Illi nois jail alter 64 years, today got better acquainted with the 20th Century. The balding 84-year-old con vict was released from Menard State Prison Friday and stepped into a wonderland of planes, au tomobiles and other machines taken for granted by those who regularly use them. Honeck was flown to San Francisco where he was met IFriday night by the niece who will take care of him, Mrs. Clara Orth, 62, of San Leandro, Calif. They planned to go to her trailer home in San Lenadro to day after spending the night in San Francisco. The stale of Illinois put Ho neck away in 1IW9, when Wil liam iMcKinley was president of His United Stales and Queen Victoria still ruled the British Empire. He had pleaded guilty to murdering a boyhood chum in Chicago. No Mall For more than a half century Honeck, called "the loneliest man in America," did not get even a Christmas card in pris on. He had been eligible for pa role since 1D45 but remained be hind bars an extra 18 years be cause he had no one to care for him on the outside. - Then his widowed niece read of her lonely uncle and began to NtlwitN'l Mftt iNr Jar Hawk Pitt Urn Klmt rll CraaMfT Uta'l la AMt Marfcal faikat Stai Mamlaa ImN ladtT Naak farti JtM'r Stcir'i TN' ApM) MLW It aria Whrt.l'i VatfJta A-M'tJ Ray Reft JlwlUfT Vaar Star tv C"' Cat Waik W. , Cat J. J. Nttfirv C AT THI- WnJiailal o S3 .4 e. I write to him. Finally she decid ed that she would make a home for him and his parole was rushed through to make sure that he would he home for Christmas. At 1:11 p.m. Friday Honeck walked through the prison gate with a big bag of mail from well-wishers and $190 In stale funds and gifts. hat is the world outside like to this little, bright-eyed man who was behind bars during World War I, when Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic, the Japa nese struck at Pearl Harbor and Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy died? "It's just like a child's story book," he said. "Very Smpoth" Honeck, who prided himself on being able to control his emotions through years of dis appointments in seeking free dom from prison, murmured smooth" as he was driven through the Illinois countryside in a new car. He said his last ride as a free man was by horseback. Tlie old man. who long ig nored by the world, drew a full house of newsmen at San Fran cisco International Airport for a brief interview upon his arrival here Friday night. "The flight was splendid, it was very easy. I enjoyed flying so much," the pink - cheeked Honeck said. Daughter's Life Saved By Transfer Of Kidney KANSAS CI1T. Mo. it PI Mrs. Ethel Mark gave her 26-year-old daughter tlie gilt o life for Christmas this year. The daughter. Mrs. l,ouis Sweet, 26, herself a mother o( three, suffered from a kidney disease and physicians said she would die unless a transplant operation were performed. Mrs. Mark. 53. agreed lo tlie operation and on IVc. 13 one of her kidneys was transplated into the body of her daughter. Mrs. Sweet still is under in tensive care at St. Luke's Hos pital and doctors said it would be "t least a month'' More they could lie sure her system will not reject the gilt kidney. But everything thus far is fav orable, they s,ud. Mrs. Maik alreailv has at tained the freedom of Hie hos pital. Friday she rode in a wheelchair to visit her daughter down the corridor. Mrs. Sweet, whose husband is j employed by the Rendix Corp., i sullered several years from a ' Cluhwein. a favorite after-ski i varnicr-iippcr, is mulled wine wine healed, sweetened and spired. ! KIm!H fin. Oft tiftlrd ( Wf 3rvift iNtMra onaaa naj NartHam Call-"! j KI.fT.am PaHhi-f ( I v n at tr' ! PDM TUiMI Mill ffMr4 "-Ui mttttr at ft PMl 'c t MmB wtm. i"-v n Avawtl H. 1a. MtMr rf C rM. March J, ll' ScPfl-eln Pa it H KUmalh aH, Or iM itoifWll mallitf r1i f Cimir j 1 Mrtth ...... . I MHW I Yar Mall in AtfvaM I Mt I MMIHt 1 Yr ; Carrier aft 0rt Waaky, Cv, . Iav. Ctf s i n III H an I I 'i HIM III M IK UNITIO PRISI INTIRN4TIONAL AUDIT UIU O CIRCULATION ' Swrir a rrivif eivnr Mir Nrt 14 Ntv. HUM MM rua Mill ra 7 .. New Weather Satellite Functions Yell In Orbit CAPE KENNEDY UPI -America orbited a sophisticat ed new weather satellite Satur day that quickly flashed back vivid pictures of a massive cloud and ice layer around the Great Lakes and a spectacular view of the Eastern Seaboard. "This is really coming through great much better than we had expected" said one scientist who viewed some of the initial pictures. 1 The Tiros-8 satellite is equip ped with a new photographic system capable of sending "in stant" weather pictures to fore casters around the world. The new equipment elimin ates the time-consuming job Streamliner Derails Injuring 25 COON RAPIDS, Iowa (L'PP The streamliner "City of Los Angeles" jumped the tracks while speeding at 79 miles an hour across snow-covered west ern Iowa Saturday, injuring about 25 persons. Six of the injured were hos pitalized but none was listed In serious condition. The Union Pacific-Milwaukee Road train, carrying 160 pas sengers, many on Christmas holiday trips, and about 40 crewmen and employes, appar- ently struck a broken rail at the west edge of this small western Iowa 'community, rail road officials said. Sixteen of the 19 cars jumped the tracks and three cars Iwo sleeping cars and a diner top pled onto their sides. Most of the passengers were asleep when, the derailment oc curred about 2:15 a.m. Several said they were hurtled . from their beds: One crewman said "I was thrown from one end of the car to the other." A doctor at the scene said he Rave first aid treatment to about 25 persons. Six persons were admitted to SI. Anthony's Hospital in nearby Carroll but none was seriously hurt. They included two passengers and four crewmen. They were identified as Mrs. Dorothy Pickering, 74, Detroit, Mich.; Mrs. Mae Rlioda. 82, Milwaukee, Wis.; Henry Thom as. 60, Chicago: Edward Jqncs. Chicago; LeRoy Price. Los An geles, Calif., and Charles Duke, Chit-ago. Other injured passengers were treated by Dr. C.A. John son, the only doctor in this community of 1,560. The derailment occurred im mediately adjacent to the Coon Itapids High School football field and the passengers were taken to the school gymnasium to escape the 14-below-zero tem peratures. chronic kidney ailment which had crown progressively worse. When doctors decided her only hope for life was a kidney trans plant, a brother, Norman Mark, stepped forward. The doc tors turned him down because, they said, his kidney would not fit. The brother weighs 20u pounds. Mrs. Sweet is small and slender. f OWER 1 THEATRE "Who's Minding the Store?" ...with the purchase of any, CHANNEL MASTER RADIO or TV in our store! Finimt. his nullity Chsnntl Mitttr rtditt i TY sits irt liiturit is tsi pKtvn. in lit m( liar ttin it Mr sttn. Nelson TV -Radio Across from New Oregon Feed Store 300S Shasta Way earlier satellites had of sending their pictures to a few elabor ate ground stations' for proces sing. System Called "APT" With the new system, called "APT" for automatic picture transmission, weather stations using receiving facilities cost ing as little as VS2.000 can get a quick look at their weather as seen from more than 400 miles in space. The first three-frame series of pictures from the new equip ment was received at three stations in the mid - Atlantic coastal area. It showed the eastern coastline, its cloud cov er and a frontal system moving into the area. On the next pass over the U.S., three pictures were re ceived here from 1:13 p.m. EST to 1:25 p.m. One of these was the frame showing the massive cloud and ice layer around the Great Lakes. The second was washed out on the receiver at Cape Kenne dy but the third showed a spec tacular view ranging from Washington, D.C., to the mid Florida area. It showed the outline of the southeast coast distinctly with layers of clouds off the Atlantic Coast and stretching across the Georgia Florida border. Four Delays The T.iros satellite, launched at 4:30 a.m. EST alter four de lays caused by minor rocket troubles, was circling the earth every 9!) minutes. Its orbit ranged from 436 miles at its closest point to the earth Jo 468 miles high. Hope Heads For Annual Show Trip LOS ANGELES UPI "I'm going to Turkey." Where arc you going?" quipped Bob Hope to a serviceman at a Los Angeles International Airport waiting rocm Saturday where the come dian was preparing to board a jetliner to join his overseas Christmas entertainment troupe. The serviceman one of sev eral wailing on standby to sec if they could get aboard the Trans World Airlines plane that Hope mas taking east was go ing only as far as St. Ixwis. Hope, in a jovial mood, de parted at 10 a. m. for New York City where he was lo board another jet bound for An kara, Turkey. He will join his troupe there for a Christmas en tertainment tour of Mediterran ean military bases. The comedian, lingering a small flesh-colored eye patch that he wears to protect his left eye treated for a blood clot a week ago. said be was "feeling fine" now but explained he did have a virus infection a couple of days ago. "I look so many pills that if I walked fast I sounded like a crap game." he said. 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