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Auguftt 27, 104 PAGE FOUR HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON FRANK JENKINS . MALCOLM ItPLEY A iemporr.it f&mbtnatloa of the Kvenlne, Herald and the Klamath Krwa. Puhllihed aTery afternoon eneept Sunday it Raplanade and Pine atrfcu. Klanath Kalla, Oregon, by the llaiald iurllhlns Co. and tha Klamath Newe PublLhlni Company. - IBM under act of congreai, March a, 1ST. Member ol Tha Aaaoclated Prcaa Thl Aeoaaled Praia ! excliulvelj entitled to tha uia ol rrpvibllcatloB ol all taw fllipatchra credited to It or not otherwise credited in thli paper, and alao tha local Dew, pnolKhnl therein. All right- of republication of epeclal dupatchaa ara alao reaeteod. MKMI1ER AUDIT nURF.AU OP CIRCl'l.ATlON Reprraented Nationally by Weat-llolllday Co.. Inc. Kan rrandaeo. Ka Tor. Detroit, feattte. Oilcaco. Portland, Loa Ancelea. St. toule. Vanrouvdr. b. C. Coplea of Tha llerald and Newe. together Hth complrta Information ab..ul tha Klamath Falle market, may be obtained for tha aaklnt at any of thaaa oftioea. Delivered by Carrier In City One Month Threa Mrmtha x 3 Ona Vear MAIL RATKS PAVAI1I.R IN ADVANCE Ry M.ll In Klanath, Lake, Uodoo and Sliktyoa CounUea Three Mnnthj . Pla Mentha One Vear We Get a Dehydration Plant AN important industrial development for Klamath Falls is announcement of the definite location here of a - potato dehydration plant, which will be in operation by October 1 producing dehydrated potatoes for the armed services and other government use. This plant, to be established by the American Food Products corporation under specific government alloca tion, may be the forerunner of a permanent dehydration industry that will extend to the use of all of the various root products that can be grown here in abundance and lend themselves to dehydration, " As was. remarked in this column some weeks ago, if any new dehydration plants are to be established on the coast, Klamath Falls is a most favorable location. That view, evidently, was held by the government and dehydra tion experts, and we now get an industry that will employ 90 women and 30 men, working 24 hours a day. . Immense savings in weight, shipping facilities and costs are achieved through dehydration. It saves the entire fotjd value but saves the weight by about 90 per cent. The obvious advantages of this process, particu larly in war time, have brought a great upswing in dehy dration Of vegetables in the past year. Now Klamath cut in on this melon, with definite community advantages sure to result. The Klamath chamber of commerce, the county agent's office, and other local individuals or organizations, are doing a good and proper job of cooperating in bringing this industry here. And No Bird Troubles! AN Impressive statistic was offered by Louis Soukup, city airport manager, in his report to the city council that 2597 airplane landings were made at the Klamath municipal field in July. , : And these, we may add for the benefit of certain parties, were made without an encounter with birds. For, believe it or not, the old bird bugaboo, hung on the Klamath field without investigation and without jus tification, still persists in certain distant quarters. Local people who are familiar with this whole situation cannot be blamed, sometimes, for skepticism about the thorough ness of certain official departments. . Here was a hit-and-miss opinion that missed, but it has never been properlyfcorrected. Cabled Marriage Is Going To Ball Up Anniversaries SPOKANE, Aug. 27 W) When Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Vaughn get together after the war is over they will have the problem of deciding which day from July 13 to July 30, inclu sive, is their wedding anniver sary. ' Records filed here Tuesday by County Clerk Frank C. Nash revealed that Vaughn, of Libby, Mont., and Eleanor Lucile Gran lund were married by cable be tween Australia, where he is serving with the U. S. army, and Spokane, her home town. On July 13 Vaughn cabled Miss Granlund: "Darling, will you marry me Royalty Returns For Kent Funeral LONDON, Aug. 27 (P) King George VI, in naval uni form, and Queen Elizabeth, wearing black, returned to Lon don today for the funeral of the King's youngest brother, the Duke of Kent, who was killed Tuesday in an air crash on ac tive service for the RAF. A special train also brought back another royal brother, the Duke of Gloucester, and his duchess, for the funeral which probably will be held at Wind sor. A small bareheaded crowd gathered at the station when the Glousters' train arrived. Gen. MacArthur Visits U. S. Troops MELBOURNE, Aug. 27 (P) General Douglas MacArthur spent six hours Tuesday visiting United States troops in training in an undisclosed area of the Australian war zone, it was an nounced today. It was his second such trip of Inspection. The first, several months ago, was not disclosed at the time. RECORD PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 27 VP) Twenty-seven working days af ter her keel was laid, a navy sub-chaser will be launched Sat urday at the Alblna Engine and Machine Works plant for what tha management believes to be a new national record. Manaiiat Editor - I tl S.00 by cable? Today, I, Benjamin Vaughn, take you, Lucille Gran lund, to be my lawful wedded wife." Three days later she replied: ' Darling, I marry you by cable today. I, Eleanor Lucile Granlund, take your Benjamin Vaughn, to be my lawful wedded husband." That was about July 16, but the bridegroom didn't receive the reply until July 30 (which would be July 29 in Spokane), An army chaplain testified to Miss Granlund's acceptance and Nash was notified of the wed ding. Services Held For Dr. Leonard SALEM, Aug. 27 (P) Fu neral services were held here today for Dr. W; A.Leonard, 75, former Klamath Falls resi dent who died at his home here Tuesday. Survivors include the widow, Eva; and a daughter, Mrs. F. T. Brower, Salem. Services were conducted by the Masonic lodge, with burial in Mt. Crest Abbey mausoleum. QUEEN RETURNS LONDON. Atio. 57 I an Queen WUhelmina of the Neth erlands returned to England by air last night from a visit to the United States and Canada. She was welcomed at the airport by frince aernhard. Read Classified Adi for Results r f0dt Lal Ttn .iioA an Crook4 1A 11 "U TTUr II r ff News Behii DrypAULrlALLON. WASHINGTON. Aun. 27 Members of the war labor board have been tearing out what little hair they have left. After laying down the un- stretchable yardstick of the cost I -ws.tKs 0f living index va6&8!iS fn, t.Kor wann 1 f increases, th"e . is oonra now iincis jftflthe first viola tion of Its own 1 principle com- sine from its own fr-OkPi panel board in vhitor waae case. It !? enough Paul Mellon to make a board man tear something when you consider that they went to all the trouble in the Little Steel case to tell labor that increases would be granted only to the extent that previous increases have failed to make up for a 15 per cent swelling in the cost of living since January, 1941. That policy had been strictly followed by the board until its G. M. panel came in the other Hay with 3 new formula. The panel recommended an increase based, not on the cost of living, but on what Henry Ford's workers were making across the street. , If the panel had followed the board formula, it would have suggested an increase of 1 1 cents an hour, because General Mo tors workers have had the rest of their 15 per cent hike since January 1941. (The company claims their wages have been increased 54 per cent since the war started in 1939). But the panel recommended an increase of 5 cents an hour, simply be cause Ford's rates are higher. DITHERING That set the board to dither ing. It faced the alternatives of slapping down its own panel, or its own policy. If it was the first to violate its yardstick, there was strong prospect it might lose the confi dence of the country in the mud dling way its predecessors have done. If it over-ruled its panel, it would have to face crossfire from the CIO. What to do? Frankly, most of the board- men would like first to get Paul McNutt's right hand man. Fowler Harper, who was chairman of the panel, alone on a dark night It was Mr. Harper who cast the deciding vote to give the board its perplexity. One other panel member was a CIO man, Patrick Fagan, who naturally wanted a top increase, and the third was William H. Doran of the Metropolitan Edi son company, . a business - man and employer representative who wanted all cents increase, Not only for this but for other reasons, Mr. McNutt and his men around town have lately been taking some strong side line cussing from some very high administration officials. The general assumption is that Mr. McNutt is running for the presidency in 1944, and that he might have a chance if his manpower commission and va rious other enterprises would stop making a decision every now and then which can be jus tified only on the ground . of political expediency. ' For a long time he was looked on mainly as a handsome fel low, and he ran for the demo cratic presidential nomination last time largely on that ground, Nw, after working with him awhile, the administration groups are willing to concede he is smart, but just a little too smart on the politics side. Perhaps they also mean he is too smart for his own good, as any 1944 nominee is likely to need White House approval, and getting the labor board into an inextricable embarrassment is not going to help him that way. DELICATE SITUATION Finance Chairman George gets angry when anyone says his tax bill will not get through before the November elections, but that seems to be about the case for sure now, even though Mr. George will not agree. . The bill will probably pass the senate in October, but will be sent to conference, where it will be buried quietly in obscur ity, while the ballots are count ed, then to be resurrected and -"nine, a. . ' On, ft.!?- VII lflilssir r a and Loo pT SIDE GLANCES AM !. H ' con, in, ay mA "These movie murders certainly nrc tamel Every day I think up much belter ones than we sa v in that picture." the final draft Written after everybody Is re-elected. Dropped faster, but for the same reason, is the proposal to draft 18 and 19 year olds. In fact it was dropped before being taken up. No bill has been proposed for such a draft. Clearly the army wants one, but may be conscious of what is supposed to be the delicate political situation in volved. It is evident the military au thorities want a much larger army than the 4,000,000 men Mr. Roosevelt says we have now. In the last war, the height' of our army strength, at the armis tice, was 3,634,000, of whom less ' than 2,000,000 were in France. Wholly unofficial talk has speculated that six, eight or ten millions might be needed this time, or possibly twice as many as are in the army now. Spe cific plans naturally are of a military nature, but the specu lation suggests this war may re quire an army twice as large as last time. Therefore, the 18 and 19 year olds must be called, and the only question seems to be whether something is done about it be fore or after election. EXPOSE The magazine Time and Life roused some interest and much anger in the top administration strata with their exposes of labor listlessness in Detroit, center of our production effort. They told of some strained feelings be tween boss and worker, with labor leaders unable to work up a proper war esprit de corps in the army of production. . Somewhat the same story could be written of practically any large newly unionized Industrial Pin. TDM Last Times Tonight ALSO SNUFFV SMITH and BARNEY GOOGLE in 'Hillbilly Blitzkrieg' TOMORROW First She dealt from the bottom of the deck to save her man! a 9itV 4 Sfiiil! 1MS ferfWv ivb? "v X V ST-7 rtnlwir" iil.f w "J-J Jll TV:p? , aoo attractions i fpH.S HF.jU K2?h $ ' "M-rchln, 0.d Glory" Mama, int-T.nne.ai T orr. 8-ZS center. There seems to author ities here to be nothing particu larly new about it. That is, the situation has come to bo normal. Labor relations just are not set tled, peaceful, pleasant and per manently established, and every one knows it. Much is being written about the Ford plant slowdown, for In stance It is no secret that Ford has not been able to maintain his usual production rate since he has had the closed shop. His employes contain many veternns of 20 years service, old company union men, about 20,000 AFL men, ' the others being In the CIO. Philip Murray, the CIO president, promised more than he was able to deliver, when he told Ford there would be no more trouble, once he signed the closed shop agreement. But these are not the workers who have been making the front pages lately with actual strike news. Most of the strikers have been in the damnedfool class, walkouts by touchy, poorly ad vised, unmanageable or inexper ienced new workers, which last a day or two before the strikers realize their actions do. not make sense. Whether a firm, fair wage price policy, promised now by l!gl PSILDt-Mi-l QodiJ BIG AS ALL TEXAS! I iCIAUTV AC TUB lirtl tUUM umm mi V I MT I ! WW I f af VII II X 1 ROBlM I I OT&CK Thundering adventure. ..born of thw Alamo BW ...bred of the courage of Sam HouitonI Klamath's Wester Ann iiliMllil' K-'l.iilir-ll' M1!''! .'!!"! H From the Klamath Republican August 28, 1802 The lni'Ho run of salmon Into the Klnmuth river continues. Fishermen near the nuntlh o( tho river are limited to 100 to ouch boat in a night, and (hoy find no trouble In catching that number of salmon lit a slnglo drift, A. Cuslcl has churgo of tho telephone bfflco In thu nbsunru of H. 11. Van Valkcnburg. The town schools will open Monday, September 8. From the Klamath Newt August 27, 1932 Tho Klamath Falls-Weed hlKh way has bcon placed on the fed eral aid system. Burglars this morning robbed tho Chiloquin Drug company o( $400. . . The district attorney's otflco is endeavoring to stop the steal ing of books from tho city li brary shelves. Former Teachers Asked to Resume Work in Schools SALEM, Aug. 27 (II Slate Superintendent of Public In struction Rex Putnam renewed his appeal today for former teachers to come back to school and thus relieve Oregon's criti cal shortage of teachers. Since his appeal of two weeks ago, 67 clemcnlory teachers liavo indicated their willingness to. como back, but 136 teachers ara still needed. There were 55 va cancies In high schools, and 53 former teachers registered. the administration, will solve the difficulty, it is Impossible to guess. The administration striko settling machino is work ing smoothly with cooperation between Davis and John R. Stcelman, head of the U. S. labor conciliation service on the 13 per cent cost of living formula. They went out together to Cleve land not long ago and made Joint speeches, complaining they were getting ' too much work from that area. The unsolved trouble Is a m tcr ' purely of labor ' discipline. The responsibility for that lies with the union leaders. OREGON CITIES WAGES OF EMPLOYEES UNIVEHSITY OK OHKCiON, Eugene, Aug. 27 (Special) Almost all cities In Oregon hav ing it population aver 1000 and a liiigt' number of smaller cltlos have found it necessary to mako upward adjustments In salaries of their principal employes since 1040, according to a bulletin just published by the bureau of municipal research and service ut the University of Oregon," Tho publication presents sal ary information for all but 43 of tho 105 incorporated cities In Oregon, Salary rates aro given for every city having a popula tion of over 2500 and for all but 1 1 cities with populations over 500. , Man-Power Demand While some of the Increases in salaries ara undoubtedly due lo regular salary Increments on thu basis of seniority and to In creased .duties of the position as a result of the city's growth, many wage adjustments have been necessary because of the Increased demand for man power by wnr Industries and because ol tho Increase In tha cost of living. Tho city of Portland has put into effect a salary standardiza tion and cost of living adjust ment plan whereby all employes of tho city have received a $5.40 per month salary Increase based on the cost of living Index of tho bureau of labor statistics. This milury adjustment will cost the city of Portland opproxlmately MiS.OOO for tho current fiscal year. 10 Per Cnt Boost In other cities of over 5000 population, most consistent gains hiivo been .registered by police men, firemen and water depart ment employes. Principal em ployes In Salom have been given a 10 per cent Increase over 1040, In' Albany the increases range (rem 25 to 50 per cent, and In Medford from no Increase to 16 per cent.' In cities having 2500 to 6000 population, the greatest number of solary Increases were reported for policemen, city recorders, laborers, attorneys, street super intendents, and firemen. In cities having 1000 to 2S00 population,- salary Increases were granted most frequently to po lice chiefs, ' water superintend ents, recorders and laborers, WAR QUIZ 1. If you should ie soldier with this ok leaf cluster pinned lo the ribbon of hit medal, you'd know ha was a man who (imii 1 rest on his I u r 1 1. What do lit decoration sig nify? a "Jeep" when you sea. one. but do you know the official nameT . , 3. For what branch of our fighting forces do the Initials ATC stand? ANSWERS TO WAR QUIZ 1, It signifies that soldier who has been dttcorated for heroism has performed another act which entitles him to ilml. lar decoration. 2, It is the "i-ton, 4x4, com-mand-rceonnalssanco car." 3, ATC stands for Air Trans port Command, whose Job is to fly men and materiel to the world's fighting fronts. ARJViy WILL ACCEPT 451 YEAR OLDS WASHINGTON. Aug. 27 fP) Secretary of War Stlmion dis closed today that the army has decided to accept enlistments of men 45 to 50 year of age who liavo particular skills or apti tudes for army service. They will be assigned to serv ice command or other army or war department units where they con release younger enlisted men for general military service, Previously the top au limit tor enlistment has been 45, ' Asked at his press conference whether this indicated that the army was finding a shortage of manpower, Stlmson replied, ,"lt Indicates that we are trying to raise a big army, and we are going about It prudently to as not to waste combatant mau powers." BUSINESS CLOSED MILTON FRCEWATEH. Aug. 27 tP) All business houses ex cept restaurants In these two towns Vera closed this morning for tha second day as orchardlst appealed for 1000 pickers to save an estimated 1400 carloads of Italian prunes, 1 r, - Sell It through the want-ads.
