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June 12, 1941 PAGE FOUR HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON ire JSKKIXS . AlCOUi XFLXT . wttor . Maaaslr-f Kdltor A tamroraiT omr,lnatlo of tin Ivanlnf ReraM and Uit Klamata Nnra. AHiM tnrj tUmoon nctpt Sunday t Kiplanada and Pint KUmalh ralla, Onsoa, bj lot Htrtld Publlahlnl Co. and Ina Klamalh liawa PublUhlni Company. SaUrad m aeoood dui mattrt at tin) poatoftlca of Klamath Mil, On, oo Jaa t, IH1 under art of oonaraaa. Marea Is Ul MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU Or CIRCULATION OM Month Thrr Montbi . Ooa Year Dalltared kj Carrier hi City MAIL RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE By Man la Klamath, Uit, alodoa ud Slaaljoo Coutlaa . i.U ThlM Montht . Ill Month! OH You . LOO RnmaraUd KaUoaailr by ; - lMt.llAllb4aw nn Inc. Saa flwolaro, Hew Tor, Detroit. Seattle. CMcato. Portland. Loa AuMlra, 8. loola, Vaeolrer T C. Cor.1.1 ot Tti. Herald and New a. tor.th with eomnlata , Woraatto. stout Mia Hanath Fall! market, may bo obtained for In. ualn at an? ol then ollloea. Member of The Aaaodated Preaa Tbi Aaaodated Praaa U aicliulvalj entitled to the hm of repobllettlon of all a., AlaDaUhea credited to It or not otheri credited to thli paper, and alao the local an publlahed therein. AU riihu of repnblloatlo. ef apedal dltpatchea m alao marred. Too Much Stoppaqe? KLAMATH'S traffic planners may find it advisable to give attention to indicated changes in traffic controls brought about by wartime conditions. Decreased auto traffic may make unnecessary various devices set up when the traffic volume was at its peacetime high. One thing due for study is the stop sign. Stoppage is costly in tires and gasoline, and it often hinders the easy and logics! flow of traffic. For a while, it seemed that local traffic planners had solved the problem of where to put stop signs by putting them at every inter section. There may be too many of them for wartime roffiV i-nnrlitinns. - The American Automobile association is urging black out of unnecessary traffic signal lights. Even in normal times, the association asserts, there were perhaps 80 per cent more traffic lights than were warranted by con ditions. The association says further that no traffic light should be installed at an intersection when the total ve hicular volume entering the intersection does not average at least 1000 vehicles an hour for eight hours. We do not know how traffic counts up here, but. we are inclined to the belief that our Main street traffic lights still serve a need. Discontinuance should be forthcoming once they definitely are unnecessary. . Decreased traffic certainly should be considered in connection, with parking regulations. Parking meters, inci dentally, are growing in disfavor under wartime traffic conditions, and Klamath can consider itself fortunate it has never permitted them to be installed on local streets. It Got Results THE vandalism of two Klamath youngsters who badly damaged eight.or nine local houses can lead to lengthy cogitation on the effects of heredity and environment, the peculiar quirks of the human mind and human be haviour, and fancy methods of attempted moral rehabili tation. :.'(:; 'i A friend of ours has a more practical idea.; He be lieves a good, old-fashioned woodshed threshing, such as some of us still remember with both pain and appreci ation, is the indicated treatment in cases such as this. ' There doesn't seem to be much of that any more. In stead we have in modern America whole armies of juve nile officers and special operatives busy ;on juvenile problems. Days-long conferences and conventions are devoted to the subject. The papers and speeches heard at these meetings are full of high-sounding terminology that wouldn't mean a thing to the stern parents who used to smack the orneriness out of youngsters in the woodshed. But the old-time methods, applied ;with the proper technique, sometimes got results. We know.' Not What It Deserved DESPITE an unusually good speaker and impressive ceremonies, the public flag day ceremonies conducted by the Elks lodge Thursday evening drew a scattering attendance of approximately 60. ' Whether the public is simply uninterested in patriotic demonstrations is a debatable question. At last Sunday's Avenge Pearl Harbor services, attendance far exceeded expectations and it was necessary to carry an additional 100 chairs into the meeting place to care for the overflow. , The Elks event is colorful, instructive and inspiring. It deserved better attendance than it received. Patriotic groups of Klamath Falls in the future should make an effort to send their members: to this service. Patriotic individuals should try to be there. ... ". .... From the Emmett, Idaho, . Index, .was clipped this Item: , . "David J. Borup of Boise, brother of W. T. Borup of Emmett, was struck by a bolt of lightning Saturday while fishing near Eagle on Sunday. Funeral services were held at Boise on Wed nesday." That Idaho lightning is speedy, to say the least. Dorris Ross and Paul Welch, both former Long-Bell employes at Dorris, are In army, service at opposite ends ot the world. Ross is a technical sergeant and me chanic in Hawaii, and his broth er Paul is believed to be on duty in Ireland. N. E. McGrew of Spokane ar rived last weekend for a month's visit with his son, James Mc Grew. Willlne and Glyndell - Bra shears of Klamath Falls spent last weekend with their parents in Dorris. Ruth Stringer and Agnes and Pauline Holder are picking strawberries near Salem. Logging has been resumed at Doran's camp. John Huffman sold a truck load of hogs to a Sacramento meat dealer last week. Ethel Naught Is visiting her brother, Glenn McKlnnlsy nt Rocky Point. Mrs. Blanche McCollum and Mrs. Bob McCollum of Tulelake visited' at the Lloyd Lair home Monday, Jimmy Tyler and Ole Rtgo returned home from college Fri day night. Tyler attends the University ofOregon end Rlgo, St. Mary's.' VETERANS' PENSION UPPED WASHINGTON, June 12 () President Roosevelt signed Thursday a bill restoring to $40 monthly the pension payable to World war veterans suffering from permanent total' non-service-connected disability, ' The Blue mountains are In Maine. - iff and Sunday Only V GEO. HOUSTON l $ .."Frontier Scout" I'dD- I r TEST I Leo CarilUo ij II .. Andy Darin ' t. m " "ESCAPI 1 f FROM M HONG KONG" PWTrVTTOSSu 3pt News B Tfflm. WASHINGTON, June U The idea that a country which possesses unlimited supplies of petroleum and alcohol and a process for making rubber from either one, arid yet cannot make enough rubber tires to satisfy its needs, Is difficult to explain. If it were not officially of fered by various government de partments over a long period, you would not believe It. It is the. only treat confession of in adequacy this government has made durlctj this war, unless you consider the related subject of gasoline. The government got started early enough. Back in the spring of 1941, a Polish diplomat tip ped Leon Henderson's office about the Polish formula for making synthetic rubber from alcohol. The Poles had 1500 ag ricultural alcohol plants making synthetic rubber, and there were 36,000 in Germany and many in Russia way back in 1938. Henderson's office turned the Polish formula over to the agri culture department experts who found the key catalyst was miss ing. It was so secret it had never been In written form. The Polish inventor, Waclaw Suzkiewicx, was then a refugee in Italy. Thereafter he escaped to Rio De Janeiro, where Hen derson's men eventually found him. JONES GOT BUSY After five months of arguing with the state department over a visa, he came to this country. But all that was done with him and his formula was to install him In a large alcohol plant in Philadelphia to make synthetic rubber on a small scale. Then after Pearl Harbor, Jesse Jones got busy and Jan uary 12 started a synthetic rub ber program for 400,000 tons a year. It was to be made from a petroleum refining by-product (butadiene gas) then sent to Ak ron and other rubber centers to be made into the synthetic rub ber buna. This butadiene gas can also be made from corn, wheat, mo lasses and many farm products of which we have enormous sur pluses, but Jones claims the war production board did not think there would be much alcohol available for synthetic rubber, so- this phase was not pursued. People came Into the WPB from the midwest urging that agricultural products be used, but WPB said no steel and build ing materials were available to build new plants. This western group then showed that it could lay its hands on 80 per cent of the materials in second hand Junk shops and idle plants, but WPB would not give them the needed 20 per cent to go to work. The accepted estimate was that it would, cost S28.000.000 for the first 200,000 tons of ca pacity and thereafter $30,000,000 of plant expenditure to make each 100,000 tons of synthetic rubber annually from alcohol so that only about $6,000,000 worth of new building materials would be necessary' for each 100,000 tons, not enough to build the back end of a battleship. But WPB claimed It would take copper tubing and copper tubing was short. The agricul tural people showed that they ALWAYS 20c plus 2c tax ......22e Children 10c plus 1c ....1 lc , Today and ' Tomorrow 1 I 1 IT- I The Three 4 M I DORADO" ff . News H ) B SIDE GLANCES com. itr av hca stavttt. inc -r. m. ate u.t. rT. orr. ' trx "I hear the regiment is switching from horses to tnnks, Captain wonder if I could buy old Jnke nnd have a fur lough to take him home to (lie farm?" could use steel and wood for tubing, and concrete for vats. NO NEW PLANTS All that WPB has authorized, however, was the making of 200,000 tons 'from alcohol by converting distilleries and exist ing alcohol plants. It would not allow any new plants. The WPB said only enough alcohol was available to make 200,000 tons of rubber, but the westerners promised they could make enough more in four or five months to stop all talk of a nationwide gas rationing. By this time Jones had step ped his plan up . 200,000 tons and it then called for 800,000 tons a year not enough. His limiting factors too are all prior ities, not petroleum. By the end of this year he thinks he will have 100,000 tons capacity ready, by next July 250,000 tons and two and a half years from now he will have 700,000 tons. (He does not even promise to produce that much in 1943, only that he will have capacity for that production by the end of that year). His plants cost more than three times what the alcohol systems cost about $100,000,- 000 for each 100,000 tons ca pacity. Furthermore, the alcohol plants can bo built in eight months, the Jones petroleum plants require 15 to 18. Costs of the synthetic rubber itself is immaterial because all are with in reason and what we want is rubber at any price. After all these months of ar guing, the experts at WPB say that if everybody does all that is planned, there still cannot be a new tire made during this war for civilian use, that only mili tary needs can be filled. When this nation's tires wear out, it will be on the rim. That's tho prospect. Does that explain everything to you? It does not to me. It sounds to me like each official, TWO FEATURES--BOTH SWELL! First (""IrSTHE RED, HOT AHoTlMlf 'YK?SSS$? SHOW Of THE SEASON! . . s w- -.ff... jSSi. B a ft iJ... I - m? pen voroinf jun V IAHR L0VETT HAVOC BgJdy Palsy Sam EBSEN KELLY LEVENE Second , A ' H ft .' ! ROY ROGEEIS , ' r ' ' & a 1 1 1 oh the -Kair." r ' v' " wi,h J , . , ' ' 1 ''CABBY" AE'j 1 f I'l f ! ! 'I! 1 JflJ ilnii! oae and 10 t-eere i)o ii'i. 11 ut 1 1 1 1 I 1 is!! m From the Xlamath Rspubllcan June 12, 1(02 Robert Garrett of this city, superintendent of the Ashland Klamnth Falls 'stage route, was injured In a serious runaway on Keen creek mountain between here and Ashland. He wai driv ing the westbound stage when tho singletree brake at the bolt and tho horses lungad forward. The brake also broke. Garrett was thrown to tho ground and struck his hoad on a boulder. One of the horses from the run away stago broke looso and re turned along the road, almost trampling the prostrate drlvi? under the hoofs. Passing travel ers rescued Garrett. Articles of Incorporation have been filed for the Klamath Coun ty Fair association, whose pur pose Is to hold annual county fairs here. From th Evsnlna Herald Jun 12,' 1932 Unless a strong wind develop, the Tule lake flood will ba hold within bounds behind a tempo rary dike protecting 6000 acres of grain, Some 1300 acres were flooded. ' Lightning struck the porch ot the hotel at Elk lake yesterday. 0 Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ward, pioneer Klamath rosldcnts, woro rescued yesterday after their car plunged Into Sprague river from the Lakeview highway near Bcatty. Jones, Henderson, Nelson, Ickes, ot al., has only explained that somebody or some other thing beyond his Jurisdiction Is to blame. They have not explained that anyone who wanted this country to have tires and had single headed authority to go v about getting - them, could not' wade through this mass of conflicting authorities and interests, and get them produced. Telling The Editor Lallan srlnla MM mull ml M mart than tot war In lanilh, mutt t "It Ian lUIDIt on ONI UIDI 01 till !' and mual Da HirtM. Oanlilkullant lolloln Ihata fulaa, oarntlr CARPETBAG CHARGE - ItCrUTED PORTLAND, Oro. (To the Edi tor) During the post few days I have, been unpleasantly sur prised liy statements In the pri, attributed to city officials, charg ing that carpotbagiiori were com ing to Oregon to run our OPA. In my Judgment, next to the army,' the navy, the lr force and the marines, the Office of Price Administration and tho War Production Board aro with out doubt the right arms of tho United Statos In our tremendous war effort,' The undertaking of the OPA Is of extreme Im portance to the citizens of this tnto. I understand that ovary employe of the OPA Is a local citizen not carpetbaguor. Fur thermore, In the Immediate fu ture a district office Is to bo opened at La Grande, manned by citizens of that city. Immediate ly thereafter district offices will be opened In KuKmia and Klam ath Falls. Both ot those offices will bo manned by local citizens from each of those communities, and certainly none of the pa triotic citizens any place In tint state of Oregon should be con sidered carpotbaggers. Thoepurposo ot the OPA Is to prevent war profiteering which was so rampant In the last war; to prevent Inflation, and to pre pare us for sensible peace Condi- ANSWERS TO WAR QUIZ amm Questions on Pope t 1. Tho 40th division mi callttl the Sunshine division be cause 6f the tin'shln In which It trained. 2. Act Instituted Mloctlva mvvKnm. . ' 3. Chlorlnt gao wao first usod. Three) Men Qualify For Railroad Work . DOftniS C. E. Motschon. bather; Allen Tollwrt and Clyde iitvit wnt In Dtinamulr Fri day to quality for special rail road work nt Dorris. Ace Egellne, Vern Wolch and Arnold Davis qualified for em ployment of th same nature last Saturday. lions when the war Is at an end. When OPA offices were being organized by tho federal govern ment In all ot the states of the Union, what would the cltlzeni of our state have felt had wo been Ignored or overlooked by the federal government? A situ ation ot Uml kind would really have been something tor our of ficials la complain about. It seems to me tho time hsi come when local citizens, par. tlculiirly official!, should stop hooting at and slabbing In ths back those Bolides which ars et up for the sole and only pur pose "of, helping to win the war and lo prepare the peace and to protect tho citizens of our grot state of OrcKon and this nation. LEW WALLACE. Hand Printed Authontlo California Collento Washable Flat Crepe and Printed Sharkskin 1.00 J f Yh4 Montgomery Ward ,.. 1 11 1 a-" Todoy LTrrf'&meCf f Today I SATURDAY - WHAT A PICTURE! aanmat - 1 , ' a-3BSt" r-fcnst 1 - m r . - r. Bit V .. a 1 1 1 1 1 . 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