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THE NEWS AND THE HERALD. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
December 27' 1937
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The Jury's Recommendations
THE coroner's jury in the Matthews case offers recom
mendations concerning South Sixth street that deserve
the earnest consideration of state and local authorities.
One of those recommendations was that the street
from Main street to the Merrill junction be zoned and
signed for moderate speeds.
We are told that some effort has been made along
that line, but that state authorities have rejected the
suggestion because sections-of the highway do not tech
nically rate as slow speed zones.
State law provides for a speed of 20 miles an hour
in a business district and 25 miles an hour in a residence
district A business district street is one which is
flanked, on one side, for 600 feet by buildings occupied
by businesses, or on both sides for 300 feet. A residence
district street is one on which the frontage for 300 feet
or more is mainly occupied by dwellings and build
ings used for business.
It is to be hoped that state engineers will examine
South Sixth street again with the purpose, if possible, of
establishing zones that will reduce the speed on that
thoroughfare. The law, if it prohibits such zoning,
should be changed to permit it. A definite 45-mile an
hour limit would be effective.
Another excellent idea offered by the jury was that
signs be placed on South Sixth street warning pedestrians
to use the left hand side of the highway. There is
enough pedestrian traffic on that street to justify a num
ber of such signs.
South Sixth street has been the scene of innumerable
accidents, and drastic action by the authorities is well
justified by the danger existing there. The coroner's
jury is to be commended for calling attention to the
situation and possible remedies.
An odd legal tangle in Chicago makes one wonder
whether our courts are not sometimes the instruments of
a complicated legal game rather than implements for at
taining exact justice. A Chicago woman whose husband
had vanished in 1926 went to court the other day to have
him declared legally dead, so that she could collect his
insurance. The jury heard the evidence and retired to
deliberate; while it was deliberating, word came that the
man was not dead at all, but alive in a town in Cali
fornia. The word came too late, and the jury brought
in a verdict that the man was legally dead. And the
judge, with this news at hand, held that he could not
reverse the jury's verdict, and ordered the insurance
company to pay up. Higher courts will probably over
turn the case; but doesn't this unbending adherence to
legalistic formula seem rather odd?
Better grub for British army men is accompanied by
menus in French. Recently a menu included "Filet de
Boeuf a la Pompadour" with "Espagnol Sauce" as well
as "Pommes de Terre a la Duchesse." Our French is a
SIDE GLANCES
g iit wV at .timet, wt th arc u. a. f at. err. I n.yj
"John got a pipe, smoking jacket and house slippers. I
won't be able to get hira out all winter. '
little rusty, but if British Tommies like beef and potatoes,
we imagine they won't care what they are called on
the menu.
It was a white' Christmas, after all, and that is some
thing that is pleasing to most Klamath people.
We note that wire stories frequently mention title
fogs in San Francisco. We would welcome a letter to the
editor enlightening us and our readers as to just what a
tule fog may be. We confess we don't know.
Ten Years
Ago
In Klamath
THE rear 1923 will go down In
th books as the greatest road
building period in the history of
Klamath Falls. With three major
state highway contracts let. with
the earn, number of county con
tracts let and with the major por
tion of a half million dollar road
bond issue to be spent, the first
days of spring will see general
road building activity in all parts
ot the county.
Just as Klamath folk began to
think the first taste of winter was
past, the arctic circle again placed
snow-bearing clouds In the path of
the cold wind which whipped the
Klamath basin. Klamath awoke to
a two-Inch covering ot white.
That the customary closure of
Klamath mills and remanufacyir
Ing plants, which usually begins
at Christmas time, will fall later
this rear was Indicated today in a
survey of Klamath Falls concerns.
Funerals
JAMES C. FLANERT
Funeral services for the late
James C. Flanery, who passed
away In this city Wednesday, De
cember 22. was held In the
chapel of Ward's Klamath Fun
eral Home, 925 High street, Mon
day, December 27, at 2 p.m., the
Rev. John Warrell ot the Metho
dist Episcopal church officiating.
Burial In the Llnkvillc cemetery.
Hl-Y SPREADS GIFT
BASKETS DESPITE
FRIDAY SNOWSTORM
Despite the heavy snows, ninety
of Klamath Falls ' needy were
helped to a Merry Christmas eve
from the food baskets delivered
by the Hl-Y club of Klamath Un
ion High school. Unless snow
makes delivery Impossible, twenty-four
more will be delivered on
Christmas morning.
The deliveries were made by
eight Hl-Y members, assisted by
Mr. and Mrs. Everett Vanderpool.
Each basket contained from six
to seven dollars worth of the food
collected by the Hl-Y boys.
News
Behin
the
By-Paul Mellon
Hiipfi
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AS1IINQTON, Hoc. 27
formula Una been finished hy
those house tax drafters who have
heon tinkering In aiu-iot tor weeks.
It hat bean passed around only
among th loyal democrats on the
drafting sub-committee. They
have been guarding It with their
lires even from their republican
colleagues on tlx drnttlng com
mittee. It came from the treasury
and Is due for a scinl-offlclnl trial
balloon ascension after the holi
days. All of It may never get off the
ground, because there Is a false
bottom In the basket now attached
to It which may prove to bo too
heavy even for the treasury to
sponsor officially. In fnct, official
denials may aoon be In order
spoofing the suggestion that such
a thing ever was thought of, but
just In order that you may have a
complete preview of the new rub
ber tax bag as It now lies flat on
the ground, before official Infla
tion by tho administration, here Is
tha scheme: (You will note It Is
far too ingenuous to ho anything
but authentic.)
FACE-SAVIXO
Plan is to advertise the corpor
ate tax revision as a face-saving
device. That la, the administration
will not Itself deny that lha ar
rangement Is purely a mensuro to
sava Its face on the old earnings
distribution tax which proved so
unpopular, (the revision of which
business has eagerly beeu await
ing.) Nub of the fnco-savlng s'hcmo
will be a series ot exemptions.
First there would bo a flat ex
emption of $50,000 or 30 per cunt
of the net Income ot corporations,
whichever Is the greater. This
would abandon the tax upon all
corporations earning less than
150,000 net Income a year and
would permit those with larger
Incomea to deduct 30 per cent of
their large Incomes before com
puting the tax. It would appear to
be virtually a repeal of the lax.
A second exemption would fur
ther limit application of the lax
to corporations which do not dis
tribute 60 per cent of their net In
come In dividends. This, of course,
would be a sop to tho Ollphant
theorists who Inaugurated thu tnx
for the announced purpose of forc
ing corporations to pay out their
earnings to the public.
JOKKIt
So far, so good. Then conies the
Joker. A final exemption says the
tax will still further'nol apply at
all to corporations whoso stock Is
51 per cent or more In public
hands.
This might he advertised offi
cially as an effort to cntrh only
one-family holding corporations
formed for the purpose of evading
taxes. That Is, those strictly per
sonal corporations which do not
distribute dividends and thus the
owners avoid payment of Income
surtaxes. "All oilier corporations
except those are to ho relieved."
"Thn administration la merely
trying to snvo Ha dice,"
Hut the wording ot this exemp
tion, unless II hna beun changed
within tho lust S hours, wuuld
nut only save llin churulila counte
nance of .Messrs. Mm gentium, Oll
phuui el al hut would oblllerate
r to in tho bnsiiivKS in up a lew nou
clierulia under this udmlnlatration
certainly Mr. Homy Ford, prob
ably the l)u I'uiits mid the Mot
Iomh, co it ii I n I y one largo groevry
clntiu mut diitout ot oilier one
until or oiiu-fiiiutly businesses.
Ml MTIONS Foil rit
Uest tax guosacis here think the
provision Is aimed particularly al
Ford and may be the government's
contribution to thu CIO drlvu
against lilui,
Ot course, It would not Immedi
ately aud directly put Ford out of
business. The tnx frumurs are ap
parently going tu put lilut on the
back, while taking out hla heart.
Thu plan calls (or ' a alight toduc
tiuu" In the old undistributed
oamlngs rates, which (oruierly
were at a peak of 34.2 per cent.
The new into schedule has not
been worked out yet.
lloweor, all of Mr. Ford's com
petitors, wlioso stocks are 61 per
cent or more in public hands, will
enjoy much lunar rates They will
pay, under the now schodulo work
ed out by the tnidriiftors and al
ready made public, upon the fol
iuwing basis:
Twelve and ouo-hnlf per cent on
Incomes up to 15000, and It per
cent up to 25, 0U0; approximately
20 per cent above J3!i,OU0, under
certain earnings cll.tr Unit Ion al
lowances which will make the av
erage rate 10 per cent above 36,
000. .NOT MITH CH.VNt'K
Such discrimination Is probably
unconstitutional and would not bo
Muitctloucd hy congress, oven un
der official pressure. It Is doubt
ful whether It will survive the
voto ot the full house ways and
means committee. So far It has
been accepted only by the demo
cratic majority In tho suh-coinmlt-Ice,
and their decision Is tentative.
What puis most fair-minded
democratic members of congress
against the Idea Is not love of
Ford but of fair-play and the Im
patlenco of certain now dealers
who seem to be unwilling to wall
a few years until they can sell
Ford's property under the confis
catory eatalea tax. The Idea of
picking out a few corporations In
certain industries to put them at
tho mercy of their competitors by
discriminatory laxes Is likewise
not generally relished. If the gov
ernment la able to destroy on
class of taxpayors by such means,
it can uso the same means to de
stroy others Inter, until no corpor
ations survive except those with
federnl sanction.
Thus, all It mny amount to In
thn end Is the brandishing of a
now political thrcnt. not against
business bigness hut against ono
fnmlly bigness.
And even If It never sees the of
ficial light of official sanction. It
will he a historic tribute to the
Ingenuousness of treasury lax-
niakers. They may have bean all
out lately, but I hey certainly have
not slopped llilnklni or haling
LAST
DAY
"THIS WAY PLEASE"
MARY LIVINGSTONE
CHARLES (BUDDY) ROGERS
today nLjeiiriTr, ?i?t
THOSE STARS YOU SAW III PERSON
Off to make this red-blooded Rex Beach
story of LOVE as primitive as the forest
... as undying as the mountains !
And Men as hard as the gold-mad Yukon!
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A LE0 CARRILL0 II
i4 ; V i 1 JEAN PARKER II
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tlW&ar L 0TT0 KRUGER II
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IT HffS SO
...IT JUST HAD TO
BE A KNOCKOUT!
Three hearts bleat
as one in this howl
arious comedy
MU&) .1
!-:- i"' I laa. - a-if
JH1 SIFTER
IIW
Olivia de Havilland
A w'sroecFInt Natl Pletnre
HELD OVER!
WALT DISNEY'S
ACADEMY AWARD
REVUE!"
THE GRANDEST
CARTOON EVER MADE
P.-T. A. NOTES
IllVlillHlDIi
A (!! I at Ii I fill Chiliilniaa iiroxiani
preceded Ilia Deceinlier meotliiR
of the lllversldo I'TA, Thursdny,
lleceiulier 13, Miss lliiell lead
the entire iroiiii In IiihIix old
Uhi'latinaa fuvorllos. HendliiKs
wore given by Mary Mllon lluieh-
klus, llruca llean and Nancy (111
hurt. Thn fourth Kindo ureNouted
a play enllllod, "bully llrny's
liii'iiiinas, the second and third
tirade eiilerlnlnlnii with a play,
"Walling For Santa."
Tho little first graders tang
"Jlimlo Hells." Tim closing num
ber by the combined Kliule. was a
pageant ot that heunUful old
story, "Tho lllrth of Christ.''
Following the program lha
rhlldren were given a treat by the
l'T.V members.
A short business session ot PTA
followed, with .Mrs. Clayton lllll
houao, president, presiding. Mrs.
II. r. Hosworth, past president,
was presented with a pin In ap
preciation of her service. rive
dollars was voted to help tho
THE GAYEST
NEW YEAR'S
EYE OF YOUR
LIFE!
PELICAN THEATRE
NEW YEAR'S EVE
JAMBOREE
O STAGE!
O SCREENI
O SINGING!
O NOVELTIES!
Watch for
Big
Announcement
Mills' nursery school In obtaining
food for tho lltllo pupils.
Mrs. Anilorsoii nnnoiinied tha
ttlverslde al "lily group will meet
at her homo, Sua West Mulu
si reel. January at I p. ni,
Obituary
MHH, JIJNTINA KI,i:SI
Mrs. Jtisllim Klein, wire of
Joseph Klein, pusscd nwny at th
family residence near Tiilnlaka,
t'nllf., at a lain hour Krltluy night,
Ileenmber 111, fnllowliig an Illness
of four years iltirnllou, Mr. anil
Mil. Klein were pioneer resldunla
of thn Mnllil ami Tillelnko dla
Irlcl, having resided lliero for th
past 17 yenrs. Mrs. Klom waa a
native of Csochoslovakla and aged
71 years, I months, 17 days at
tha lime of her pusslug. In addi
tion to her husband, she la sur
vived hy two dnuxhtora, Mrs.
James l.ytlo of Albany, Or., and
Mrs. W. B. Iteynnlila ot TuMoka;
one son, Anthony Klein, Kllia
lieth, N. J.; II grandchildren and
three great grandchildren. Th
remnlna rest al the ICarl Whltlock
Kuneral lloioe, t'lnn street al
Klith. Kluinath Kails. Ore.
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nnDATUV IAI I cnil ri
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