THE EVENING HERALD. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
afnnunry 12, 1048
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Party Committees Get Opportunity
CITIZENS elected to the republican and democratic
central committees of Klamath county get little op
portunity for work. The committees are fairly active be
fore general elections, which occur once every two years.
Otherwise, they do very little.
But now comes a rare opportunity for the central com
mitteemen to do a bit of highly important work for their
community and their country. We believe most of them
will welcome it. Their chairmen. Jack Henry of the demo
crats and William Kuykendall of the republicans, have
offered the full cooperation of their committees in mak
ing a success of "bond pledge day" in Klamath county
on January 20. .
Beginning on January 20, a campaign is to be made
to reach every eligible defense savings bond or stamp
purchaser in Oregon with pledge cards agreeing to buy
bonds or stamps. This is to be a nationwide effort, but
the Oregon campaign will precede those of other states
by 20 days. Oregon already leads the nation in defense
bond purchases, and the success of the pledgecard effort
in this state will show the way for the nationwide attempt.
In Klamath county, the January 20 "pledge day" cam
paign will be carried out like an election. Pre
cincts will be the divisions used. Polling places will be
opened and citizens are asked to come voluntarily to look
over the pledges, sign them if possible or at least to have
their names checked off to show they have been contacted.
. Precinct committeemen and committeewomen will have
general charge of the effort in each precinct. Regular
election boards will help at the polls. After the "elec
tion" is held, teams will go to work in each precinct to
' interview each citizen not reached at the polls.
- -If this plan succeeds, it will be a feather in the cap
of Klamath county, and a credit to the precinct commit-
ni.il AfMmtaAnnman Krttt, n Q Y" 1 0 3 Tt Will
succeed if work and cooperation are put into it
Coppeck Bay and Land Use
EXTENSION of permanent farming to additional acre
age in the Klamath basin has been suggested as a
possibility in the land use studies made periodically in
connection with agricultural, outlook conferences, cham
ber of commerce surveys,
one, the areas suggested for more intensive agricultural
use have been brought into the farming picture. Latest
success of this kind had to do with the land in the Tule
lake sump which is to be permanently reclaimed through
completion of the sump and tunnel project, now far along
and fully authorized.
Long eyed in connection
Coppeck bay, a 6000-acre area that forms a bay adjoin
ing Tule lake proper, south of the California line. When
this writer came to this community a decade ago, Cop
peck bay was pointed out
land that could be utilized
farming area."
Coppeck bay lies in the Tule lake sump area. It is
a part of the land that was set aside for possible flooding
in case of excess water in Tule lake. Not needed thus
far for that, it has been leased by the government to
private operators, but like other leased land permanent
improvements have not been made and it still, techni
cally, is flood land.
Now the land use and agricultural committees of the
chamber of commerce propose that this land be opened
to homestead entry at the expiration of present leases
in 1946. Thet suggestion will be made to the reclamation
bureau. It probably will get no immediate approval;
the bureau's present plan does not contemplate such ac
tion, and the bureau does not change its plans overnight.
But the current proposal may start the ball rolling, and
in a few years the thing may be done.
No doubt the reclamation bureau will want to await
a few years' experience with the tunnel and pump oper
ations on Tule lake. These are designed to carry off ex
cess water in the Tule lake sump. If it can be proved that
there will never be need of the Coppeck bay land for
flooding purposes, as a result of the tunnel and pump
operations, the bureau should be willing to change its
original plan to permit entry on the Coppeck bay area.
What the future holds in land utilization in the Klam
ath basin challenges the imagination. Men with fore
sight and vision must start each project, and thus far
there have always been men here to do that.
An appeal is being made to Klamath farmers to col
lect and sell scrap iron. There isn't as much scrap iron
as there used to be, because it was intensively collected
for years with Japan as America's best scrap iron cus
tomer. The customer isn't always right.
Sabotage Is suspected in the case of the Lakeshore
drive residents whose cars were drained of gasoline by
someone who made no effort to save the gas for himself.
Maybe we ought to keep a watch on Upper Klamath lake
for submarines.
Earl Reynolds, chamber secretary, left this week for
Washington, D. C, worried because he could get no hotel
reservations in the jammed capital. A wag suggested
he take the old sleeping bag along and use the White
House lawn, western style. We imagine those Chewaucan
ticks in Earl's sleeping bag would have the time of their
lives among the well-fed congressmen in Washington.
SIGHT MUNCH
DRAYTON, N. D. 0P) The
city of Drayton hired a night
watchman to watch for intrud
ers, but when robberies con
tinued, they hired the day po
liceman to watch the night
watchman. -,
In district court, Antone Car
penter, the night watchman, was
sentenced to tlx months irj jail
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and similar projects. One by
with land use extension is
to him as a reserve of good
if "we ever want any more
on a charge of unlawfully enter
ing a building.
Robert Newne, day policeman,
had hidden In a cafe and caught
Carpenter as he entered the
building.
Foundation garments and gar
ters may be victims of rubber
priorities. Which may make the
gals a little less snappy.
News1
BEHINbI
By PaulMaliom
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 Mr.
Churchill paraded his pro
duction dynamo Lord Beaver
brook so conspiclously here that
a new pressure has been generat
ed on the Capitol Hill folk for a
complete rcjuggllng of the de
fense set-up which would leave
one man like the lord on top.
The British prime minister is
supposed to have talked closely
to FOR about eliminating boards
upon boards, commissions upon
commissions and authority upon
authority, as the existing set-up
provides.
The idea of one war control
has caught favor in congress
where they say that inasmuch as
Mr. Roosevelt wants one man to
run the price control regime (Mr.
Henderson) he should also select
one man with authority to cut
through the red tape in the de
fense production department.
Apparently Mr. Roosevelt has
not found a production man like
Lord Bcaverbrook. He allowed
the army and navy to slip into
their munitions board a few days
back a strange, unconcerned
civilian for the first time in his
tory. There are rumors that this
board will increase its energy
and function as a division of sup
ply, which is, in effect, the cen
tralized purchasing control for
which the critics have long
pined.
too
DISCONTENT
Mr. Roosevelt has said noth
ing. Rumors that his vice presi
dent Wallace was to take charge
(being at least as ill-suited as
anyone mentioned for a purely
administrative job) or that VV. L.
Batt, the real business organizer
in OPM, or perhaps Donald Nel
son, the man who is running it
now, might be hit by the magic
wand, have all been current for
days. Seekers have found no con
firmation. At bottom, unadvertised, is
certainly a personnel fever
against continuance of the pres
ent set-up. Economists, whose
loyalty to Roosevelt antedates
the war, are more or less openly
spreading discontent with exist
ing schedules. They contend vic
tory is being vitiated by the fail
ure and refusal of anyone to
make decisions.
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HENDERSON IN STRONG
Price Fixer Leon Henderson
has been made the butt of many
a congressional barb or joke,
but Mr. Roosevelt likes him, and
Mr. Henderson, therefore, will
continue to be the man whose
word is law in prices.
The congressmen had an in
surrection going against him
They thought him impetuous and
several other relative things.
The grumble against him was
large and foreboding.
FDR settled all that by dis-
patching a private letter to the
senate banking and currency
committee (considering the legis
lation) suppressing an army and
navy desire to handle the same
matter. Naturally it was not
made public. But from the in
tonations of the White House
move, the congressional authori
ties gathered that the president
was not adverse to letting Hen
derson. singlehanded, run the
price show.
The whole idea was Missis
sippi mud to legislators, but they
recognized that Mr. Roosevelt
was running this war, and they
only hoped Henderson's equi
librium (manifest in the many
corridor and cloakroom confer
ences which he has been hold
ing ad infinitum lately with the
congressmen) might be main
tained. too
Don't be too quick about add
ing up the navy announcements
of their successes with those of
the army. If you do you will
conclude the army has sunk
more Jap ships than the navy.
It is true the army sank that
initial Jap battleship, a sub
marine off the west coast, etc.
But the navy has a wise policy
of concealing its successes; its
announced successes Include the
damaging of a battleship of the
Kongo class, innumerable trans
ports and destroyers sunk by
submarines. Other submarine
sinkings will be coming out now
that sufficient time has expired.
But you can count on It, the
army and marine corps have, to
date, been far more successful in
this war than the navy.
Tulelake Red Cross
Fund Nearing Quota
TULELAKE With only $20
to go, the Tulelake Red Cross
emergency fund will go over the
top ahd the northern California
town will have done it's bit
nobly in the present world crisis.
Subscriptions may be left at the
Bank of America or given to
Mrs. Lillian Geaney, local Red
Cross chairman. The emergency
quota is in addition to the mem
bership quota subscribed the
last of November.
A man of our world would be
able to leap lo a height of 1000
feet if he could live on Mars.
SIDE GLANCES
COWt. ,al iv M MaTict. IKC-T M ate u. a. r-aT. pry. -ri. '
"It's your privilege to complain about our stale of pre
paredness, Henry, but you ought to see somebody n little
higher up in the government than the mail man!"
For Your
Information
MAIL CLOSING TIME
(Effective September 28. 1941)
Train 17 Southbou.td: 6 a. m.
Train 20 Northbound: 10:00 a. m.
Train 19 Southbound: 5:45 p. m.
Train 16 Northbound: 9:00 p. m.
Auxiliary The Townttnd
auxiliary will meet at the home
of Mrs. Lora Brazee, 5353 Har
lan drive, Wednesday, January
14, at 1 o'clock. Refreshments
will be served by the hostesses,
Mrs. Long and Mrs. Brazee. All
members are urgently requested
to attend as there will be elec
tion of officers.
Shasta Study Group Th
Shasta Study group will meet j
Tuesday at 2:30 p. m. at the
home of Mrs. Claude Williams
at 1916 Logan street.
Women of Moos The women
of the Moose will hold a regular '
chapter meeting Tuesday, Janu- (
ary 13, at 8 p. m. at Moose hall
on Pine street. All members who I
have not brought towels and
wash cloths for Mooschcart are
asked to do so. Also the follow
ing committee chairmen are ask
ed to turn in reports: member
ship, Mooseheart, Moosehaven,
library, publicity and war re
lief. Women of tthe Moose exe
cutive board members were
asked to meet Monday at 7:30
p. m. in the Moose hall.
Home Economics Meeting
Shasta View Home Economics
club meets Wednesday afternoon
at 2:00 at the home of Mrs.
Hattie Lewis, 4781 Shasta Way,
with Mrs. Jessie Judkins as
hostess. Members are requested
to bring thimble and scissors.
Card Party The Eaglet auxil
iary will sponsor a pinochle
party Tuesday at 2 p. m. in the
Eagles hall. This is the second
of a series and the public is in
vited. Delta Camma Tha Delta
Gamma group of Delphian will
meet Tuesday at 8:45 a. m. with
Mrs. Horace Getz at her home on
Pacific Terrace with Mrs. J. F.
Kimball as leader, and the topic,
"Science Views the Living Age."
Aloha Chapter There will be
a regular meeting of Aloha chap
ter, Order of the Eastern Star,
on Tuesday at 8 p. m. in the
Masonic temple. Mrs. Charlotte
Martin, worthy matron, and Le-
Roy Erdmann, worthy patron,
invited all visiting members to
attend.
Evening Group Members of
the evening book club of AAUW
were to meet at 8 o'clock Mon
day night with Mrs. Harold
Teale, 1935 Auburn street. ,
WCTU Mrs. J. T. Totton,
1436 Crescent avenue, will en
tertain members of WCTU at
her home at 2 o'clock Tuesday
afternoon. There will be a book
review given by Mrs. A. Theo
dore Smith.
Executive Meet Members of
the board of executives of the
Business and Professional
Women's club were to meet at
7:30 o'clock Monday night at the
home of Catherine Brumbaugh,
Olcne road.
Study Group Tha social and
study group of Presbyterian
young people will meet at the
home of Pearl Jean Wilson, 130
Washington, Tuesday evening.
Church Meeting Klamath
Lutheran Aid meets Tuesday
afternoon at 2:00 in the church.
APPEAL
FORT WORTH, Tex., Jan. 12
VF) The Red Cross surgical
dressings department has Issued
an appeal for corset stays, ex
plaining that they are excellent
for smoothing and folding gauze
and make tho work at least 60
per cent easier.
Oregon Interests
Heard at Hearing
On Freight Rates
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Jan. 10
Oregon producers, shippers,
farmers, lumbermen, canncrs
and other vital industries had
their inning presented before the
ICC hearing here when Ormond
R. Bean, state public utilities
commissioner, represented them
at . the hearing called Wednes
day by the federal body on the
request of the railroads of the
nation for a 10 per cent increase
in freight rates. The hearing Is
being held by Clydo B Altchl-
son, formerly of Oregon, who
has been a member of the Inter
state commerce commission for
many years.
Bean, in his statement, point
ed out that Oregon takes no po
sition for or against the general
increases proposed but did op
pose the large increases proposed
on lumber, grain and other agri
cultural products of this state,
and "especially the percentage
method of increasing the rates
on these products."
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Rtctrft Newt Note
HITLER PRAYS?
He who has trampled 'ncath his ,
iinny lect,
All semblances of decency
and creed
Seeks now to call on God and to
beseech
His grace to gratify his ghoul
ish greed.
Does his perverted mind em
brace the thought
That God condones his im
becility And can he feel that God will
hear his plea
To lift him from his foul fu
tility? Does he with murder saturated
brain,
In truth believe that he can
justly say.
J One word in prayer and humility
That he a fiend is privi
leged to pray?
It Is so true that God is Infinite
That God is tender, merciful
and fine
But can true souls in faith and
love believe
That he would heed this slimy
snivelling swine?
Not It is blasphemous to enter
tain One thought that God could
ever even show
One parcel of compassion or of
grace
For one whose thoughts and
deeds are quite so low.
L. C. Carr.
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CLEVELAND. Jan. 12 Reor
ganization of what is considered
the strongest fraternal insurance
plan operated by any labor or
ganization in tho country was
announced hero by David U.
Robertson, international presi
dent of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Firemen and Englncmcn
Tho reorganized insurance
plan, effective January 1, is ex
pected to provide more and bet
ter Insurance service for tho 100.
000 members of the IILF&K on
a bnsis of the lowest adequate
cost to tho policy holders.
The insurance, department of
the union, with present assets
of $23,500,000. has been serving
brotherhood members for 61
years on a flat rale basis. Hut
to actuaries and other experts
who have long oilvled the
BLF&E on Insurance matters, it
becamo apparent some years ago
that n slightly higher charge,
varying with the type of Insur
ance desired, would eventually
be necessary to safeguard the in
terests of policy holders.
When the BLFfcK Insurance
department was started In 18110.
policy holders paid $1 a month
per $1000 worth of Insurance
and tho policy was paid upon
death or for the loss of n hand,
foot or eye. In 1009 the flnt
rate charge was raised to $1 10
per month on corn $1000 policy
and has remained at that figure
until now.
"On the basis of the long ex
perience of this organization In
the Insurance field. It was appar-
; pnt some time ago that a change
I fmm II, i fiirmni fin, v..,.. ......
ment plan was mandatory." Rob-
ertson snia. "under the new
plan, authorized by delegates to
our last International conven
tion, the Insurance department
will not only be of more service
to -the members, but will he
based on an Impregnable founda
tion." Under the new plan, all hold
ers of the former policies will
receive the benefit of the equit
ies they have built up. They
will have their choice of the dif
ferent policies and may carry
any policy in a reduced amount
for the present cost of $1.10 a
month per $1000 or In Its full
! face value at the Increased cost
less the reduction due to them
j through their equity. New pur
chasers of policies will pay the
new adequate rates according
i to age at entry
All of the new policies to be
i sold, or which will be exchanffert
for the old certificates, will hove
a cash surrender value, some
thing thot did not apply to the
oia policies.
RAILROAD PERSONALITIES
Her on Butinett II. J
Seyton. assistant chief engineer
from the Great Northern's Se
attle offices, and R. W. Gus-
tafson, ossistant bridge engineer
irom Seattle, were In the city
on business Friday.
Called to Spokane A. K.
and R. R. Bryant, both con
ductors oo the GN railroad,
have been called to Spokane by
tne death of their uncle, Hugh
Flynn, chief dispatcher on the
spokane International.
Leave for Seattle Mr. and
Mrs. William Shedd were to
leave Friday night for Seattle
where they were called on the
death of Mrs. Shcdd's father
ohedd is a master mechanic's
clerk for tho Great Northern
railroad.
Mschinltl III F. L. Kelley,
ureal Northern machinist, is
seriously 111 with pneumonia In
the Klamath Valley hospital.
ALL OUT '
WENATCHEE, Wash. (P)
When William A. Stoncr, 49,
read a navy recruiting sign
wnicn ouered "free tickets to
Japan and decided to take one.
It gave his family 100 per cent
enrollment for defense.
Three sons are In the armv
another In the navy. Mrs. Stoncr
and four daughters regularly
spend their spare time sewing
for the Red Cross.
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this charming Homo Sweet
Home chair set in simple , filet
t-rochet! Begin now unci have It
ready to transform your chairs
for spring. Pattern 7108 con-
tains charts and directions for
; making set: illustrations of set
'and of stitches: materials needed.
To obtain tills !nitern send lo
certs In coin to Tho Herald and
Your Federal
Income Tax
SIMPLIFIED RETURNS FOR
OPTIONAL TAX
The Revenue Act of 1041 pro
vides a simplified method of com
puting Income tax in the case of
Individuals whose gross income
Is derived wholly from salary.
j wages, or oilier compensation for
: personal services, dividends, In
, terest, rent, annuities, or royal
j ties, ami does not exceed $3000
I A new Form 1040A has been
j provided for taxpayers who are
entitled to and elect to use such
j method. A table on the reverse
j side if the form shows the
amount or lax on increasing
amounts of gross Income after
the proper allowance of $400 for
each dependent, If any.
The tax under tho simplified
method Is the sumo for each $25
block of gross Income and the
taxpayer need only ascertain In
which block his gross Income
(less allowance for dependents!
falls In determine his tax. A flat
reduction of 10 per cent has been
made In arriving ut the amount
of tax shown In the table for de
ductions such as charitable con
tributions and taxes paid, so that
the taxpayer who uses this
method does not list these but
gets an automatic deduction of
10 per cent.
Under the simplified method
the status of a person on the last
doy of the taxable year is the
governing factor In determining
tho exemption level ($7.10 for
Blnglo persons and married per
sons not living with husband or
wife, and $1500 for married per
sons living together) as well as
tho credit for dependents.
A husband and wife living to
gether on the lust duy of the tax
able year may file separate re
turns on Form 1040A If tho gross
Income of each Is from tho pre
scribed sources and does not ex
ceed $3000, or they may file a
single joint return on that form
If their combined Incomo Is from
the prescribed sources and docs
not exceed $3000. If they file a
separate return tho tax liability
of each under tho simplified
method is the tax Imposed upon
a single person. If husband and
wife file separato returns and
only one elects to mako a return
on Form 1040A, the tox liability
of the one so electing is tho tax
Imposed upon a single person. If
they file a single Joint return, or
if only one spouse makes a re
turn because the other spouse
has no gross income, the tax lia
bility is the tax Imposed upon a
married person.
Tho use of the simplified
method is optional with tho tax
payer, but once an election has
been made for any year, it Is Ir
revocable for that year. If a tax
payer files a return under the
simplified method for the tax
able year, he may not thereafter
filo a return under the general
provisions of tho law for that
year. Conversely, if ho flics a
return under tho general pro
visions for any taxable year, he
may not thereafter file a return
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Klamath Kails Do not ncml this
picture, but Keep It and tho num.
ber for reference IJo miro lo
wrap coin securely, its m loo&a
coin often slips out of the, en
velope Requests f'r intlorn
should read. "Semi pattern
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dress Lakeshore Drive
Residents Victim
to Vandal Tricks
Several Lakeshore drive re-,1-tlents
were victimized by a mull
eins vandal who subotaged their
automobiles sometime Friday
night or curly Saturday morning,
it was learned Saturday.
J. A. McDonald discovered
Saturday morning Ihul his i-iir
would ni,t run I'pon ttive-dij:;l-liun.
he found the tank was
empty and the Kns had been
siphoned out on the ground. K-d
streaks showed where It hud
been poured.
, McDonald wnlkt-d over lo tho
house of his neighbor. Churl,
Edwurds. Kdwurds was out
working wilh his car. The pel,
cock had been removed from tin
bottom of the gns lank and tin
gns had run out.
They went to the house of Jnrt
Crawford Crawford Investigated
and found a defroster fan and m
flashlight had been stolen front
his machine.
The marooned Lakeshore resi
dents caught a rule Into town.
On the way In they observed an
other motorist stulled beside the
road. The gas tank cup was goun
from his cur and It was uppnreiit
Unit he, loo, had been robbed by
the gasoline thieves who iluln t
want tho gas they Just wanted
the thievery.
Looking Backward
Br Th Aitoctttsd Prtat
One Year Ago II r 1 1 1 1 h
bombers oltack Turin and Pal
ermo. Two Years Ago Southern
Finland heavily bombed by
Russian air force.
Twenty-five Years Ago Pow
der plant explosion In Haskell,
N. J., causes $1,500,000 dam
age. Orltlsh successfully raid
German trenches north of Ar
ras. under the simplified method for
that year. However, a new elec
tion is allowed for each succeed
ing taxable year.
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