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PAGE FOUR HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, .OREGON Juno S, 104a Bubbles SIDE GLANCES rRAKK JIXKIKni Ktfftor MALCOLM Bl'i.KV Mmilm EJltor Publlihtd wry t-fkmooa cpt bundsvy at KipltMdt wid flat VtmU, IlfcHUlh Ptlli, Oregon. BnUmd M Mood cUm mttr t th pottofftci of Klimiili rilli, Or, Junt ft, IMS undr ftrt of onfr, Narnh 6, )$7t X1KMHKR AUDIT BUKBAU OF CIRCULATION Ddlvrtd by Cirrtw la City Oat Mont , , -ti, Thrw Month! , , ' ., , , a On Vr .. , MO """" MAIL BATES PAYAHIK IN ADVANCE " m'" By Hill In KIuuUl, Uke, Mod oo and SUktjoa OourUm Three Month Six Uontl.i i t-to On Year i. -i.. m-.-i . . ,.. .,,.. tj , Rtpretrotd N Woo illy by WetMIoIliday Co.. Inc. Bitn Frwiclioo, Kv York, Detroit, Seattle, Chicago. Portland. Toa Anjrela, Rt. Ionia, Vancouver, B. C. Copiri of Th Itrmld and together with eoropWte ta form at loo iUout th Klamath Palla market, may b obtained for tha atking at any of Un office. Member of Th Aociatd Pre The Aeaoclated Preu li McJualvaly aotltlcd to thy at of rtpublleatkM of all atw dfipatcbea credited to It or not other in credited la thU paper, and bIm th local m (jabllihed thereto. AM right of repuhlloalioa of special dlipatco.es are also reamed. Six Months After Pearl Harbor AMERICA'S answer to Pearl Harbor, six months to the day after that treacherous attack, is to be a nation wide enrollment of navy recruits. These men, later on, will aid in Kivinar America's answer to Pearl Harbor in defeat of Japan and its axis accomplices on the sea and in the air. To concentrate recruiting on next Sunday, the "semi- anniversary" of Pearl Harbor, men who plan to enlist in the navy at any time in the next month are urged to do so immediately. In Klamath Falls, the thing for these men to do is to get in touch with Chief Gunner s Mate F. R. Duncan, the navy recruiting officer here, as early as possible this week. Klamath county has given many fine men to the navy. Interest in the navy runs high here, because of a general realization of its vital importance in the winning of the war. One looul organization, the Kiwanis club, has made the navy recruiting program one of its major activities for the year. It will be a fine thing if Klamath has a large class of candidates for Sunday s ceremony as this community's contribution to America's answer to Pearl Harbor on that day. An Old Problem NO one argues about the desirability of a food-handlers' medical examination, as required in a proposed city ordinance, but neither is anyone willing to stand the ex pense. Two or three years ago, when the matter was be fore the city council, there was an actual threat of work cessation if the fee for the examination were imposed upon employes. Union spokesmen again are resisting any suggestion that employes pay for the examinations; em ployers, jittery over the labor shortage, are fearful of the effects of the ordinance, and there is no provision whereby the public coffers can be taxed for the cost of the exam inations. Presumably, the principal reason for raising the issue at this time is that the army, or some federal authority, is demanding such examinations in communities where food supplies are to be purchased for federal use. It would be well to establish the exact truth about that situation. If the government does demand it, it will be necessary to do something about it. The cost of the examination as provided in the ordi nance is not over ?3, the examination to be taken every six months. While, individually, this amounts to very lit tle, employers point out that under conditions of rapid labor turnover, imposition of the fee on employers would constitute a heavy expense. Perhaps there can be worked out some compromise plan whereby employers would meet the charges for employes who continue in employ ment for a reasonable length of time, and transient work ers would provide their own examination fees. The problem needs careful and sympathetic consider ation oy an parnes concerned, at such a conference as Is now proposed with employe representatives, employers and the city health board participating. It would be an evidence of progressiveness and public spirit if Klamath raus coma soive wis proDiem m a way that would be lair u an. Clean-Up and Salvage -rms is ciean-up wek in Klamath Falls and vicinity. It I is a good time for tiie people who occupy property here to do the things' that are necessary to make it more at tractive, pleasant and safe. It is also a good time to gather up various materials that are worthwhile as war salvage, Dut which constitute rubbish when left around in attics, basements and baekvarrla. Many people complain they are unable to dispose of uuugo vuvy nave conectea ior salvage. Inquiry today reveals that th Sal take baled paper. Magazines and newspapers should be baled separately, in small bundles. If possible, these bun- uieo nouia De lerc at tne Army headquarters at Fourth street and Klamath avenue, but if this is not possible the .Army will collect the paper. Everyone knows what to do with scrapiron, for which there is a ready market. Those who get rid of old iron and paper will be doing their country and their community a service, as well as improving their own property. The most enthusiastic supporters of gasoline rationing on the east coast and in the northwest are the people of the midwest, we gather from editorial comments appear ing in papers in that area. They are also the first to cry out m opposition when there is talk of nationwide rationing. Sprague River Boys Get Promotions in Military Service SPRAGUE RIVER Word has ben received here of the pro motion of Clifford Welch to the rank of sergeant in the army air corps. Clifford who Joined the army last summer has made rapid progress. He Is now sta tioned in a camp in Alabama. He expects n furlough during the month of June and his many friends here look forward to his visit. Clifford, a Bonanza high school graduate, moved to Spra gue River with his parents sev eral years ago. He was very prominent In town team ath letics and other community ac tivities. . Another promotion received by a Spragirj River boy was the promotion to first class private for Keith Powers, former clerk in Gienger's store here. Powers is stationed In San Jose, Cali fornia. He too expects to visit friends here when he receives leave this summer. Word has also been received that Dick Tompkins, who went into the army last fall has ar rived in Hawaii. Danny Waan, another local lad, who saw serv ice In Iceland is now back in the States. 1 The transportation of base ball, fans from the ball psrks to their homes Is presenting n very serious problem. Defense Transportation Di rector Joseph B. Eastman. You're safer having a corking good time when it isn't based on an uncorking good time. What to Do If ein Aid Raid Comes 1. In any air raid or blackout, take cover immediately, (a) If you are away from home, get off the street. You are 10 times safer in a building than standing or walking on the street If you are in a car, pull to the side of the road immedi ately. Do not double park. Keep clear of fire plugs. Get out of the car, bus, or street car and take shelter. (b) If you are at home, take Immediate blackout nrecautions. Extinguish all lights. Have your fire protection equipment ready. Go to your blackout room; it should be the safest room in your home. Stay away from windows. Bomb explosions shatter glass ior considerable distances. , '2. Don't use the telephone. Remember those persons who have been trained to protect you the air raid wardens, fire watchers, auxiliary firemen, auxiliary police and many others, must be able to get really important messages through. Your personal calls have got to wait until after the all-clear signal. 3. If you are caught in the open lie down on your stomach. You are twice as safe lying down as standing up. 4. If incendiary bombs fall, play a coarse spray of water on them. Put dut the fires started by the Incendiaries first, then devote your attention to the bomb. The coarse spray of water burns the bomb up .faster. A heavy jet, stream or bucket of water will make the bomb explode. II: you have no way of treat ing tne Domes witn water, cover with dry sand. Then with a blunt nosed shovel scoop the bomb onto a pile of sand, dump the sand and bomb Into a pail and take it outside. S. Remember obey your air raid warden and other members of the United States citizens defense corps they are trying to help you. 6. Above all keep cool stay home put' out lights take shelter lie down stay away from windows. You can help. (This has been approved by the civilian protection division of the United States office of civilian defense). Telling The Editor Uttm prtntad Mra mutt not M mora than MO word, in Imllh. must tM writ. In lulBlr an ONS HOB ot In. aapw nly. and muat als-wd. oantrlbullont foUoatfig that, njlaa, ana warmly atav WHAT TO DO IN A OAS ATTACK 1. Serious injury may result from exposure to liquid gas which may fall from airplanes. It Is, therefore, Imperative to re main Indoors and keep the windows closed. 2. War gases are heavier than air. If you are inside a building remain there, and, If possible, go upstairs. Do not com plicate the military effort by leaving your house unless circum stances make it absolutely necessary. If you are outside and not able to immediately go indoors walk do not run get out of the gas area. Avoid puddles of liquid gas, basements, valleys and other low places. .' 3. If the windows of your room are broken, go to another room, or get out of the building. 4. If you have been exposed to a war gas (a) Breathe through cloths wet with baking soda solution. (b) If you can go inside a building, do so, but first remove your outer clothing and leave it outside. (c) Wash your hands and then your face with laundry soap and water. (d) Wash your eyes at once with a large amount of a solution of baking soda; one teaspoonful of baking soda In a glass of water. (e) Take bath using plenty of laundry soap. (f) Wash your eyes again with baking soda solution. 8. If splashes of liquid gas have gotten on you (a) Using small pieces of cloth, cleansing tissue or toilet paper, blot up as much of the liquid as you can, being careful not to spread it. (b) Dab the contaminated area with cloths wet with clorox, purex, sanl-clor, etc. (c) Steps b, c, d, e and f In above. ' 8. Do not get excited. Lie down and cover yourself with a blanket. Your air raid warden will summon medical aid. There Is no Immediate serious danger from exDosura to any known war gas if you follow these simple rules. Clip them out and memorize them. (This has been approved by the medical division of the United States office of civilian defense). Merrill MERRILL Vernon Kllpst rick, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Kllpatrlck has enlisted in the army and this week is In Port land. Following his six weeks basic training Kllpatrlck hopes to be transferred to 'the quarter master corps. Mr. and Mrs. Kllpatrlck and daughter Betty and Mrs. Kll Patrick's mother, Mrs. Etta Wiley, Salem, left Monday for a brief visit in Ashland with Mrs. Kilpatrick's sister. Twelve Camp Tire girls and their guardians enjoyed a-hlcycle ride countryward last week, re turning to the J. 8. Wilson home for a picnic lunch, Mrs. Woodrow Rouff, Nu bieber, Is the guest of her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Has kins. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn A. Yaple, were weekend guests in the home of Mrs. Yaple's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. King. We are going to have to spend more and more to tell the pub lic to buy less and less. Morton Simpson, Birmingham advertising executive. Give the little oldmouse credit for running up the clock. He wanted to be on time. ON K ALPINE CASE KLAMATH FALLS, Oro. (To the Editor) I am taking this means ox correcting the mlsln fnrmntlnn lKiifrl hv Hutfh n Haddock, president and business agent ot the Klamath basin dis trict council ot the Lumber and Sawmill Workers union, AFofL, in rcaord to a waco incrensa nnri vacation clnuse purportedly ne gotiated by the Kalplne AFofL Local and the Kalplne Plywood company. For sheer misstatement and disregard of all the principles of fair play, I have never scon its equal. The statement claims the man ager of the Kalpinc Plywood company, Don Drury, had guar anteed the employees of the company 7i cents pur hour wage increase, to go into effect now and to be retroactive to April 1, and with the further provision that upward adjustments may be made later, 'flie statement also gave the terms of the va cation clause which was also claimed to have been agreed upon. The truth is that no such agree ment was made with the Kalpine company, but on the contrary an agreement was reached that whatever increase the National War Labor Board granted in the fir Industry award, case No. 80, would be given to the employees at Kalpine. The matter of vaca tions is also subject to the de cision of the war labor board, in the same case. The national war labor board fir industry case No. 90, is the case submitted to the board by the fir operators and the IWA-CIO, and a cuso in which the AFofL has no interest whatsoever excent to shnre In the benefits which are a result of the IWA-CIO negotiations. The AFofL cannot even claim credit for negotiating the settle ment agreed upon with the Kal plne company, as the pino opera tors in the Klamath hn.ln anrl the IWA-CIO reached an agree ment on May 13th to settle the issues oi wages, vacations and hours of labor on tho hnl nl the decision of the national war labor board in the fir industry case above mentioned, whinh i. what the AFofL later accepted at Kalpine. The least they (working mn and women) can expect from a RtiinBOUl Elisabeth Bsrgnor , Randolph Scott in s "Forli Calling" , Ronald Reagan In "Nina Lives Are Not Enough" ,V1 By RULltlQNl . WASHINGTON, J u n e 2 In side congress a demand Is arising for a sltmlolu'itded bund ling of gns rationing and rubbur, just as strong as the movement which forced consolidation of war production under Donald Nelson with such excellent re sults. Threaded nil through the Tru man committee report are state ments attributing our tire, and hence our gns rationing con fusion to the division of author ity among many government bureaus. Other mistakes uro mentioned in connection with failures in every phase of tho problem (stock pile, synthetic rubber, etc.) Bickerslng has resulted be- iwccn jesje jnncs, tne war pro duction board, Henderson, war department. Ickes and svervnnn else who has had anything to do wun our prune civilian problem But in everv cn.ie. tlm rnmmit tee goes back to division of auth ority as trie root cause Of OUr fullurfl to uprnmiltntt. a rubber stock pllo, tho commll- ive mivt inert wits tiivinimi nr authority between OPM, rubber reserve corn., tne hkc nii ri. lary, and others, adding: "It is possible that had com plete authority anil runnn.tMI. Hy been centered in the hands oi a single ogency, the follure might huvc been avoided." Conccrninii the iniideaiinrv nf our synthetic rubber planning, it mentions the conflict between tile old StoUlnliiB advlaorv com mittee and the reconstruction finance corporation as causing "great difficulty in obtaining a decision." Of the whole mra tnrinv It concludes: "At the present time It appears the principal difficulties prob ably result from a luck of cen tralized and sole responsibility." While the more spectacular clash of personalities Involved In the committee's generous dis tribution of blame has been drawing moat of the popular ot tentlon, this correctlblo cause of the whole existing muddled situntion has been overlooked. Disheartening ospect to the congressmen, however, is that a year and a half of agitation was necessary to cnuso centralized control of war production In Nelson, so ardently do tho vori ous officials fight to retain their authority. If it takes another year and a half before rubber and aas are out under ulnol control, the war could be over. RUBBER ' The unsatisfactory state of rubber affairs In the government was illustrated oinln President Roosevelt promised cany solution by manufacturing tires other than rubber. Around tho war production union is honest and competent leadership and at the verv lon.t an honest report on Issues as viiai to ineir welfare as wages and working conditions. Very truly yours, GEO. BROWN IWA-CIO Representative, PinETP.EC Ends Tonight I "I got your nute about my ton licinu in a flsl fight did he lick the oilier kid V board and the other government bureaus dealing with rubber, no explanation ot what KDH had in mind was uvallublu. It was said politely that the president was probably just talking orf hand (meaning he, did not know what he was talking about.) About 23 or SO Ideas for mnkt Ing wood, turrcd rone or steel spring tires without rubber have been submitted to the national Inventors council, but no govern ment rubber authority believes these will solvo the situation. Tho other officials swear the public cannot expect tires of ony kind for a least two or three years. They say the only pos sible solution Is synthetic rub ber, because no more than 40,000 to 60,000 tons a your Is possible from Brazil. 'J'iiey are pushing the buta- dlene process as font us they can, but II they succeed In all their plants, they say they can furnish only enough tiros for military and essential civilian (police, am bulance, etc.) Even Donald Nelson was caught short by tho president's optimism. His pessimistic stale mtint (founded on above men tioned facts) reached tho nubile Just before Mr, Uoosevelt spoke, ana Mr. Nelson thereupon emerged from his political, but not his rubber, difficulties by adding thnt he also hoped Amer ican ingenuity would save the situation. Here again was a perfect ex ample of division of authority resulting in ennos. ROUNDABOUT So also with tho administra tion of gas rationing. Praatlcnlly everybody has been sncnklnu his official plcco to tho public. Even Assistant War Secretary Patter, son issued a public warning a couple of weeks buck, although no ono seems to know exactly how he got In on that particular subject. As mutters stand now Patrol- cum Coordlnutur Ickes keeps truck of oil and gns (censoring tho figures also) ai,d then IrlU Donulii Nelson or Nelson's trims portutlun coordinator Eaitmnrj' about it, and this party or tln.no parties of the second part puts tho word on to Leon Henderson, the party of the third part, who does the rationing through his organization. Certainly gas rationing lacks singleheudod authority, just as rubber. If ono mun could bo appointed to run oititer or both, and all th rest told to shut up, existing confusion would at leust bo end ed unci a straight-line policy would be possible. Pilot Killed in Nova Scotia Crash DEDERT CAMP. N, S., June 2 (l) An airplane crash here Saturday killed Pilot Officer Al bert Hoffman of Rltzville, Wash., a member of tho R. C. A. F., andtm two members of tho RAF whoit were aboard tho plane wore In jured seriously. Hoffman, graduate of tho Uni versity of Washington school of Journullsm In 1040 and formerly associated with tho Kitzvilla paper, wnu fumlllurly known as "Brick" to his associates. His father, M. H. Hoffman of Rltzville, is his next of kin. Bltlnu off mora th an vnii nan chew Is almost ns bla a mltnW as going hungry. rSOOk - UU IhutUTllnr, niun ffvicniunil ROBUST ROMANCE! ) I HHNI SERENAM t 2$- J 7 1 i 1EBECCA I njgf J Is lilt not fj Vf I nl11'' '"tn1 Ti&f i r mm m if 'gf,ij m TOMORROW TWO ACTION PLUS FEATURES! 4 MICHAEL REDGRAVE $ A N D- Z00MING! DIVING! to new thrill-heights! W fOMUWtOWl niAHK AllHTSOM LAST SHOWING 5 pi v I UNIdH I ! t i.V vf. Indian ha m m 9 LJESkIj MU.'RAIG'JAGCtt STARTS TOMORROW The Surprise Plcturo of tho Year! When Bad-tomporod Andy Jackson Comet Back to Llfo in 19421 1
