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THE EVENING HERALD. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
Mnrch 10, 1941
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Too Much Orange Paint
WHILE there is likely to be some protest in individual
cases, surely there will be approval in general of the
work of the special committee which surveyed the down
town district and brought in recommendations for changes
in loading zones, special prohibited areas, and short-time
parking spots.
A great deal of orange paint has been slapped on the
curbings of the downtown district tnrougn tne years.
For the most part, special restrictions have been applied
to different areas on an individual basis, and without re
gard to a general plan. The result has been that space
for general public parking has steadily shrunk, and in
some instances prohibited zones have survived after the
reason for their establishment has ceased.
It was no small undertaking to survey the entire area
covered by the committee's recommendations, and these
citizens deserve the thanks of the city officials and the
community in general. There is no evidence in their re
port of personal favoritism: rather, it appears the com
mittee undertook to do a job in the public interest. It
is the first comprehensive attempt of the kind here and,
with or without minor revision, it should survive council
consideration. At this week s meeting the council adopted
the recommendations, but their final effectiveness does
not occur until they are embodied in an ordinance and
passed through regular legislative procedure.
The recommendations propose the elimination of many
of the prohibited areas and will increase available park
ing space by several dozen cars.
Up Come the Buttons
SOME months ago, this column came forward with a
proposal that traffic buttons be removed from street
intersections as a means of saving tires. We are too
modest to claim we started something, but it is noted
that button-removal has now been undertaken in many
cities, and newspapers in towns where it hasn t been done
are calling for it. Fresno, Calif., as an example, has
just ordered the buttons yanked ud. t . . v . :
Not All of them have been taken up from the streets
of Klamath Falls. Presumably, that is because the up
right "stop" signs have not been installed at these inter
sections. The sooner these buttons come up, the safer
the streets will be for precious tires. Such obstacles in
the streets were never a very good idea, anyhow.
Game Appointment
rD R. CONN of Lakeview, appointed to the game
commission to fill the vacancy caused by the unfor
tunate death of Francis R. Olds, is widely known in Klam
ath and Lake counties. He is the first Lake county man
ever named on the game commission.
Klamath people, naturally enough, hoped for the ap
pointment of another Klamath county man to the position.
Although that did not happen, there is satisfaction here
In the selection of a man from this general area, and
Klamath and Lake counties have always been closely re
lated, with many common interests and problems. We
feel certain that Mr. Conn will consult the sportsmen's
groups in this area in all matters that affect them, and
we strongly urge that he do so. In particular, we suggest
frank consultation on those matters in which there is
divergent opinion and about which there has been honest
controversy.
As a lifelong resident of Lake county, Commissioner
Conn is conversant with all phases of the game problems
of this region. He knows the country as well as anybody
Jiving m it. He is public-spirited, has good judgment, and
should turn in a first rate job as game commissioner.
Cargo Vessel
Torpedoed Off
eastern Coast
' NORFOLK, Va., March 10(UP)
An axis submarine probably
Italian torpedoed and sank the
0-year-old Brazilian cargo ship
Arabutan o the North Carolina
coast Saturday and then crash
dived when two U .S. navy
pianes appeared overhead, sur
vivors revealed yesterday.
All but one of the Arabutan's
oo crew members survived the
attack and landed here safely.
They were rescued by a warship
after 26 hours afloat in four
lifeboats. Killed by the torpedo
explosion as he slept in his bunk
Was Manoel Florenclo Gombra.
The 7874-ton vessel was the
81st reported thus attacked or
presumed attacked off the U. S
Atlantic seacoast since mid-January
and the 28th sent to the
bottom, but this was the first
known instance in which an Ital
ian submarine was believed to
have participated in the under
leas warfare.
Without Warning
(Rome claimed last week that
Italian submarines had sunk
lome 27,500 tons of allied ship
olng recently in the western At
lantic.) - Belief the attacker was an
Italian was expressed by Jose
lobo do Madeiros .third officer,
who said:
"Tha submarine came possibly
within 200 yards of the lifeboats.
Four men were In the conning
tower. They were small of sta
ture, of swarthy complextion
and all appeared to have black
hair. This led us to believe they
were Italians.
Madeiros said the submarine
struck without warning In mid
afternoon. He was on the bridge
wrai me captain.
The captain," he said, "noti
fied all aboard to stand by the
lifeboats. We stood there for
about five minutes and then he
gave the order to abandon ship
We were loaded in four life
boats." "We pulled about two or
three hundred yards away from
the ship and waited until she
sank, which was about 20 min
utes after we had abandoned
ship."
FUNERAL
FRANK ANDER WILLARD
Funeral service for the late
Frank Ander Willard. who nan.
ed away in this city on Sunday,
March 8, will take place from
the chapel of Ward's Klamath
funeral home. 925 Man ntwi
on Wednesday, March 11 at 3 p.
m., the Rev. Victor Phillips of
the First Methodist church of
fiatlng. Commitment service and
Interment in Linkville cemetery.
Friends are respectfully Invited
to 'tend.
Nearly 12.000.000 Derson In
Great Britain use sag. desDite
The War Story
Retail Trade Analysis for
Oregon Made at University
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
Eugene. March 10 (Special) An
analysis of retail trade in Ore
gon based on bureau of census
figures has just been completed
by W. C. Ballaine, assistant pro
fessor of business administra
tion at the University of Oregon,
and released through the bureau
of business research.
Professor Ballaine found that
three classes of stores accounted
for a total of 55 per cent of the
state's retail sales. They were
food, with 23 per cent; department-variety
with 15.7 per cent,
and automobile, with 15.7 per
cent. The remaining 45 per cent
was divided among many differ
ent kinds of operations, the most
important of which were filling
stations with 7.8 per cent, eating
houses with 5.4 per cent and ap
parel stores with 4.9 per cent.
inese figures are based on
1939 statistics, the latest avail
able from the bureau of census,
and do not reflect the effect of
the war on retail sales.
Portland stores accounted for
41.5 per cent of all Oregon retail
sales. Because of its drawing
power, Portland has a larger
share than population figures
might indicate. The proportion
for the various types of retail
outlets was not at all uniform
Portland food dealers sold only
jo. per cent oi ine state s total
while department-variety stores
accounted for 67.4 per cent.
The remaining cities of the
state of more than 10,000 popu
lation ranked as follows: Salem,
o per cent; Eugene, 4.1 per
cent; Klamath Falls, 3.9 per cent.
Medford, 2.2 per cent; Astoria.
1.8 per cent; and Bend, 1.5 per
cent. In comparing 1939 retail
trade figures with a similar com
pilation in 1929, it was found
that the number of stores had in
creased 22 per cent, froia 13,544
to 16,458. During that time, dol
lar volume of sales remained
about the same, showing a de
crease of 0.3 per cent in the 10
years. The number of employes
dropped 6.9 per cent and pay
rolls were off 5.4 per cent.
The decade witnessed the vir
tual elimination of the general
store, where food constituted a
substantial proportion of total
sales, as an important retailing
outlet in Oregon. There were
21,777 of these stores in 1929
and only 7254 in 1939, a de
crease of 66.9 per cent. Filling
stations showed the greatest In
crease, from 16,957 to 34,642, or
104.2 per cent.
Portland's share in the state's
trade, measured In dollar vol
ume which disregards changes In
price level, declined during the
10-year period. It was 45.6 per
cent in 1929, 43.9 per cent in
1935, and 41.6 per cent in 1939.
However, there were substantial
price declines during this period
and it is doubtful whether physi
cal volume showed any de
crease. Some of the particular kinds
of trade in which Portland's
share declined most were food,
from 46 to 37 per cent; apparel,
from 63 to 57 per- cent; and fur
niture, from 51 to 43 per cent.
Sales in Portland department
variety stores ran counter to the
general trend, increasing their
share in the state's business from
66 to 67 per cent in the decade.
Fight Against
Inflation On,
Reports F. R.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 10 (UP)
President Roosevelt Monday
warned industry, labor and agri
culture that continued price in
creases will precipitate inflation
that will hurt the entire nation,
hamper the war effort and ulti
mately plunge everyone into
"ruinous" deflation.
Speaking briefly over the
major radio networks in com
memoration of the ninth anni
versary of the new deal farm
program, he said the fight
against inflation calls for cooper
ation and restraint by all groups.
"It calls for mutual good will
and a willingness to believe in
the other fellow's good faith, he
said. "It calls for unflagging vig
ilance and effective action by the
government to prevent profiteer
ing and unfair returns, alike for
services and goods."
Getting Cooperation
Thus far, he said, there has
been only a moderate rise In
the cost of living. There have
been instances where a few
businessmen or a few workers.
or a few farmers, are demand
ing and getting "more than they
ought," he conceded.
But, In general, the Increase
to the different groups has been
kept fairly well in balance."
It seems to me." he said.
"that we ought to feel proud of
the undoubted fact that we are
getting cooperation and a reason
ably fair balance among 90 per
cent of our population and that
if less than 10 per cent of the
population Is chiseling we still
have a pretty good national rec
ord."
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From The Klamath Republican
March 13, 1902
The company recently Incor
porated for the construction of
the big ditch from Big Klamath
lake will meet in Merrill Thurs
day. It la a great undertaking,
and if carried out doubtless
will be one of the grandest
things that ever happened to
Klamath county. The first blow
of the pick will double the
value of the 40,000 acres to be
irrigated.
Several capitalists have been
here to look over Klamath
county timber. H. H. Smith of
Richmond, Wis., and C. A. Sim
mons, timber cruiser of Ash
land, were here this week. G.
W. Johnson and C. F. Lattimer,
capitalists oi Wisconsin, came
into town with John Gilpin, a
timber cruiser of Klamathon.
From Tho Erening Harald
March 10. 1932
A storm of protest arose here
today over a ruling by Secre
tary of the Interior Wilbur that
no whites may have grazing
rights on the Klamath Indian
reservation.
Mr. and Mrs. George Barth
left early this week for Port
land. The Klwanls club today gave
a birthday party to R. E. "Pat"
Patterson, music director of the
club. Dr. G. A. Massey made a
gift presentation of a tuxedo
suit for the music leader.
According to scientific com
putation, the prospective mother
has one chance In 8800 of giv
ing birth to triplets.
Hews
Behi
By PaulMaixon
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TVASIIINGTON, March 10 A
" sub-regional director of the
CIO steel workers organizing
committee from Pittsburgh ap
peared the past week at a plant
of tho American Locomotive
works which has Inrgn defense
orders mostly army.
lie told tho mimngemcnt thvlr
contract with CIO was satisfac
tory. Ho had no objections. 11c
was not demanding tho closed
shop or check-off, but, ho said,
many union members In tho
plant woro behind several
months in their duos, and some
employees had failed to Join the
union. Ha announced ho would
put pickets at tho entrance, col
lect those buck duos befora the
men could get In to work, and
cause non-conformists to Join the
union.
The name of the CIO officer
was Curtis (initials unspecified
In reports here.) The basis for
his picketing threat, he said, was
Donald Nelson's stirring appcul
for greater production, urging
creation of labor-management
committees for each plant.
Mr. Nelson said nothing about
enforcing check-offs and closed
shops where none existed, but
apparently Mr. Curtis took it to
mean the timo was rlpo for lilm
in all respects, lie said he hoped
it would not bo necessary for
him to shut tho plant.
This sent tho management
scurrying to the long dlstanco
telephone, seeking advice from
its master contractor the gov
ernment In Washington. Officials
here did not hesltato. Thoy told
tho management to inform Mr.
Curtis they would send troops
in to see that the workers got
a chance to turn out the precious
war materials so vitally needed.
Even the president's labor ad
viser, Sidney Hlllman got in
touch with Curtis and told him
to abandon his notion.
The last heard here was that
Mr. Curtis had retired with the
warning he would be back and
start picketing in ten days if the
matter were not cleared up to
his satisfaction.
'SHOCKING" REPORT
Now comes also Irving Ab-
ramson, CIO councilor for New
Jersey, with a report to Nolson,
which he calls "shocking," to
the effect that plants In the
northern part of his state ara
working only 49 per cent of capacity.
Tho report may force some
needed corrections if the facts
Justify Mr. Abramson's asser
tion, but in submitting it to tho
press first, he attributed tho de
ficiency to management's "profit
motive." He said they did not
want to pay time-and-a-half for
overtime.
Nothing could make the situa
tion clearer. Mr. Abramson be
lieves It Is all right for him to
have a profit motive for labor
even an excess profit motive. Ho
wants a SO per cent wago In
crease for all overtime work.
But for an employer to have any
similar motive In protest is a
disgusting and unpatriotic thing
to Mr. Abramson.
The time and a half that Mr.
Abramson wants, would coma
out of tha treasury and the tax
payers of the country, if passed
long in the prico of tanks,
planes, etc., or out of the poc
kets of consumers in the price
of non-defense products. Yet he
did not recommend that labor
abandon Its 50 per cent over
time extra fee on orders to turn
out guns for the nations defense
in time of national peril.
This Is the day of labor. It
has been freed, as its leaders say,
SIDE GLANCES
m
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com 4 v NCA If IVKf. mc. T h ia v "
"Oh, those snmlbnss! The children were plnyinrt bomb dr
fense bill reully you should be more ulci l In wartime I'
from the shackles of enslave
ment. Not content with this, how
ever, some few of Its leaders al
ways want to put the shackles
on someone else Air. Curtis on
the workers who do not pay
their dues, and Mr. Abramson
on the manufacturers who do
not relish a 50 per cent wage in
crease for overtime work in war
time. Mr. Abramson may have re
ported to Mr. Nelson moro than
ho Intended.
HITLER PRESSES VICHY
Hitler Is desperately working
on Vichy again for tho French
fleet. He wants It for a sea at
tack an Alexandria to clear the
way for Rommel, and Invasion
straight on Into tho near eastern
oil fields .... Tho Chinese are
again getting supplies from Rus
sia, including much captured
Gcrmun ammunition. It fits Chi
nese guns. (Chinese, army was
originally trained by Germans.)
So many a Jap Is being brouuht
down by bullets modo In noil
land .... Tho foolproof test of
Chinese for Jop fifth columnists
requires inspection Insldo tho
big toe. If a callous is found
there, the man Is arrested. At
home, oil Japs formerly woro
sandals, the straps of which fit
insldo tho big too. Resulting tell
tale callouses last many years
. . Mr. Roosevelt's goal of
keeping our sea avenues of com
munications open Is being fully
achieved. Even tho ono to Vlndl
vostok Is still open .... When
Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones
was in Texas recently, a move
ment wus started to transfer his
export-Import bank to tho eco
nomic warfare board (Wallaco )
Jones crime hark In time to stop
It. but the new dealers are still
after him on this and many oth
er varied fronts ....
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Courthouse Records
MONDAY
Juillco Court
Clarenco N. Drown, no chauf
feur's license. Fined (10.
Elmer W. Giles, no vohlclo li
cense. Fined $5.30.
Norman M. Knnuss, no vohlcls
license. Fined $3 .10. suspended
Dallns D. Dlerdorff. no tall
light. Fined $3.30, suspended.
Fred A Ullss, no warning de
vice. Fined 3.30.
Carroll W. Chase, falling U
stop at stop sign. Fined 13.30.
Harold G. Stevens, permitting;
unlicensed person to drive. Fined
15.30, suspenrird.
Greydon G. Uroyles, Improper
muffler. Fined $3.30.
.Dean George. ,.o operators li
cense. Fined $7 or 4 days, com
mitted. Chester L. Langstet, no warn
ing device. Fined $3.80. suspend
ed. Amos Weber Johnson, rape.
Waived preliminary hearing.
Bond set at $2300 cash or $3000
property, committed.
John G. Jonssen, overloading
truck. Fined $10.
James Howard, no operator
license. Fined $7.
Michigan ranks first In hunt
Ing among the states of tha
Union, with 682,803 llcensod
hunters.
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