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Newspaper Page TextPAGE FOUR HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON October 80", lO-ii' nun -ixxmys . MAIOOLU BPLET iUaectaf S-lltor A IfBfiWUT eonbloiUoD of tha Imlna Barald and tha Klamath Kava. Publlthad arer. furaoo axaapt Sunday it Eaplaaada ud Pta ilrKU, Klamlth Fills, Orafoa), bj tha nrraia njoiianrag uo. man tfla kimoiui nm niDii.ama loopuT. Eatarad aa aMMd eUw matur at tha poatnrnea of Klamath Falla. Ora am Auguat 10, 1M uonnr act of ooarrau, asaron a. lafa. Mamber of Tba AaaoeUtad fraaa On Month Thraa Moatha Oa. Taar - LB r.u TVna IfoBlhi Cti MoaUia Cm Vaar MAIL BATIS PAYABLE IS ADVANCE Br Mall la Klamath, Lai a, Uodoo and RlOlyon CoottJaa Tha Aaaodatad Praaa i axdoalvary antltlad to iha oaa of rapabllcatloo of all ocva dUpatcbea cradltad to It or Dot otbenrtta credited bi this papar, and alao tha local kava publubad thereto. All Hi hla of repobUcaUoa of apadal dlapatchea ara alao waarrad. MEMBER AUDIT BDBKAD Of CIBCCLATIOS gepreaestd Kattonallr by a rrmadaao, Krw Tot. Detroit. Seattle, Chlcato. Portlasd. Loa Aualaa, St. loola. VaHoaTar, B. a Capita of Tba Bereld and Nea. together ttb complete tatomatlon kbcart th Klamath Falla market, mar ba obtained for the aakbg at aojr of tfatH offloaa. Separate Issues A FACT about city issues on the November S ballot f that may not be fully understood is that the charter proposal and the park board change are unrelated pro posals. They do fit into a general move toward central ization of authority and responsibility, but they did not spring from the same sources and either one may be passed and the other defeated without causing incon venience or confusion. Long before there was talk of a new city charter, some local citizens became interested in the peculiar eet-up of the park board, wherein the board members are appointed for life by the circuit judge. Inasmuch as this provision is made in state law, the matter was called to the attention of Klamath legislators at the time of the 1941 session. It was before the legislative com mittee of the Klamath chamber of commerce two or three years ago. Hence the suggestion of a change in the park board set-up did not begin with the more recent movement for the adoption of a new charter. This writer, for one, has long regarded the park board appointive set-up as peculiar and deserving of change, but the idea of a new charter when it started in the city council was entirely new to him. The park board proposal is to abolish the park board as now . constituted and transfer its responsibilities to the mayor and council. The presumption is that the mayor and council will adopt an ordinance setting np a park board appointive by the mayor and with lim ited terms. No doubt the interested members of the old board will be considered for appointment on the new one. If this is done, we believe that an amendment to the charter either the new one or the old one should be offered at the next election, setting up the park board in the charter. Two Minor Measures ONE measure on the November ballot which has re ceived little attention is a proposed amendment which would give the legislature authority to regulate the for feiture of voting privileges of persons who have been convicted of felonies. At present, there is a constitutional provision which 'denies the voting privilege to any person convicted in Oregon of a crime punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary. It is now proposed to adopt an amendment which will make it possible for the legislature (or the people) to determine what provisions shall be made re garding this voting forfeiture. The legislature has passed this question on to the people, the favorable argument in the voters pamphlet being written by Dorothy McCullough Lee, - Multnomah state senator. The main favorable argument is that once a convicted person has paid his debt to society, there is no just reason why he should not exercise the normal rights of citizenship, and his rehabilitation will be en couraged if that is possible. Those against the measure argue it is just another instance of the coddling of crim inals. Another measure on the ballot that has been little discussed is an amendment which would repeal the con stitutional provision for a rural credits loan fund. The main purpose here is to clear the constitution and the state records of an outmoded set-up which was estab lished about 1916 to provide state loans to farmers. Since then, various federal agencies have been established to provide rural credit of this nature, and the state fund is not needed. This amendment would make it possible to eliminate the fund by paying the outstanding bonds and unwoiernng wnai is leir. to tne irreducible school fund. It is a sensible proposal and should be voted. Suspend Vandalism THE danger of property damage on Hallowe'en night 1 which cannot be replaced because of wartime re strictions on materials, labor, etc., has aroused real con cern here, and it is suggested that parents see to it their youngsters avoid such operations this Hallowe'en. 1 ta?rite act of vandalism of past years has been the deflation of automobile tires, and in some cases here tires have been seriously damaged on Hallowe'en eve. Destruction of anything made of rubber or metal should be strictly taboo this year. It would be a srood thino- if tolerated in the past on Hallowe'en, were not only sut pended for the duration but for all time. Save Those Feathers AILD ducks and geese of the Klamath country can T and should provide feathers for many cold weather garments, aviation suits and sleeping bags for our armed lorces. Local hunters and hunters' wives will, we know, be glad to save feathers for this purpose if they know they will be collected and used. The Izaak Walton league's local chapter is making plans for collecting feathers, or having them deposited in some central storage place. yjC1l peopIe ar! askeJ1 t dry-Pi the birds and put the feathers away for safe keeping. News B BtPaulMalion. LmI WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 Ecc- ' ( a C.kltl... Y I MVIMIU J 2 Ul 111 y Byrnes stabilized an important un-noticed wrinkle out of Mr. Roosevelt's executive order on the $25,000 salary limitation. Mr. Roosevelt's order direct ed that salaries be limited to 25,000 "alter payment of taxes allocable to the sum in excess of $25,000." This would really have cut the maximum al- lowable national 3 salary to $15,- 000, as the tax payer would have been re quired to pay on the average around $10,035 (married with no dependents) in taxes on his $25,000. But the Byrnes regulations came forth with some legalistic murabo jumbo which seems to mean different. It says: "No amount of salary . . . shall be paid . . . after reduc tion by federal Income taxes on the amount of such salary, would exceed $25,000." This means, according to offi cial interpreters, that the tax payer will get $25,000 net In truth, instead of limiting his actual salary to that figure, it means that on an average about $67,000 can be paid to the individual a horse of a dif ferent color than has been paint ed in the announcements and headlines. . SIDE GLANCES 1 AiiiaHnp.-Vil mVVkT - v-,-'aj i con. iwiv aiavici. inc. t. m. tco. u-a. pat. ( "With Tony gone, the war's wrecked me there are no young fellows left who would flock here for the other i chair, and the wives of my older customers now make them shave themselves." Telling The Editor Ltttara mrtntt hart mat nat kt mart than Ma aaanai In lanith. muat ba writ tan latlbly on ONI ml al tha papaf nlr. arm muat ba alfia Oentrlbutlona IoIIowUmj ihaaa rulaa, am warmly wat DONATE A DOILY TO THAT BAZAAR Ciaude Ferguson Really Celebrated An Anniversary It was aa anniversary for Claude M. Ferguson, Klamath Tails man, and he made the most of it. Ferguson, who has been as sociated with the Great Northern railroad for 11 years, was to Uava late frrlday for Portland to enter office' training for the U. S. army. Twenty-five years ago to the day, Ferguson enlisted for serv ice In the World war. Buy it througn the want-ads. TRUCKS FOR RENT You Drlva Move Yourself Sava H Long and Short Trips STILES' BEACON SERVICE Phone 8304 1201 East Main OLD-LINE PROCEDURE The navy has followed old line procedure on the transfer of Admiral Ghormley and his fleet command from the Pacific, No explanation has been offered beyond the bare announcement of orders. Stories are being told among congressmen that the three cruis ers lost there were not wide awake, and that this circum stance caused the decision to transfer Ghormley shortly there after, although the decision was not announced until now. The cruisers, however, were lost the night of August 8-9 in the oDen- ing of offensive operations, the first landing of the marines, and it is nard to believe they could nave been asleep. The date of Ghormley's orders has not been given, but it is understood to be much more re cent than the cruiser . sinkings Apparently, it came a few weeks ago, following the far more cost ly sinking of the aircraft carrier Wasp, which was caught by a submarine in a manner not fully explained. Ordinarily, dispositions of de stroyers and air scouts from an aircraft carrier are supposed to protect her, and generally do, but this one got in three tor pedoes. Another of our aircraft ear ners was also hit, and no claim has been made that either of the Jap submarines was sunk, The change in Pacific com mands may be more fullv ex plained wnen the details of these losses are made public a a TIGHTEN THE SPOT AFL is supposed to be work ing up a report against buffeted Maritime Commission Chairman fcmory Land, which will tighten the spot into which he Is beine pusnea Dy union labor groups, ostensibly, this new drive against Land is being predicated on the suggestion, made in a New York speech, that union labor organizers during this war snouid be shot at sunrise, or something approximating that. The suggestion was obvious hy perbole, as Land did not draw a pistol, and no serious move ment to shoot anyone has yet been started. The roots of AFL resentment against Land, however, run back into the closing of the Higgins yards in New Orleans and the Defensive Idea" Must Be Dropped From American Production, Says Kaiser BOSTON, Oct. 30 (if) Henry J. Kaiser, the west coast mass production shipbuilder, told hundreds of industrialists last night that people cannot sit on the lid of progress and that "if they do they will be blown to pieces." Declaring that "the defensive idea" must be dropped from production, he told a conference of the Associated Industries of Massachusetts that he had found from his own experiences that: "The old shipyards have not exactly agreed with the new shipyards; the old cement in dustry did its utmost to keep out the new; the old steel Industry has resisted innova tion and expansion; the airplane industry has not exactly wel comed the suggestion that things might be bigger and bet ter all of this is understand able. "But no man can sing 'Amer ica' with a clear conscience who lets these factors influence his enterprise." Telling of his own ventures into the construction or opera tion 01 air cargo ships, ship- yaras, cnemicai, magnesium, sicci ana sana plants, among ouiers, Kaiser declared: "In each instance I went Into industries which I felt to be at least partially outmoded, where I felt that the introduction of modern methods would serve the war purposes of the nation, "In very few instances did the owners and managers of the outmoded plants either of. fcr to do the Job themselves or cooperate with us in doing it; and, I repeat that American business and industry, caught Dy tne war at the end of period of political misfortune. have had difficulty in realizing that the days of caution and sen-defense are over. Joseph C. Grew, former am bassador to Japan, describing japan s intensive mobilization for war and power, told the meeting that any belief that "her successive adventures have weakened Japan's actual or oo- tential strength" were wishful thinking. Willkie Convinced That Allied Lands Will Hold NEW YORK, Oct. 30 (IP) Wendell L. Willkie says that after his world tour he is con vinced that Germany can never take Russia and that the Japa nese can never take the United States. The 1940 republican candidate for the presidency addressed a "March of Time" audience last night over the National Broad casting company's nationwide network, supplementing his re- cent report to the nation. "Before I visited Russia," said Willkie, "it was almost unbe lievable to me that any people could stand up under the con stant punishment that has been inflicted upon the Russian peo ple by the armies of Germany." Willkit. told how he spent the most of one day on the Russian re-purchase, after the war, of some ships sold before the war. Pending In the senate naval committee is Lands' nomination to be a full admiral, where it has strangely met delay. It was submitted by the president some weeks ago, before the New York remarks. Labor, which has In fluence on that committee, may be able to hold up the promo tion indefinitely. front and had fired Incessant questions at a young lieutenant general, finally inquiring how big a front he was defending. "I'm not defending anything," wniKie sam the general replied " 'I am attacking!' " "That is symbolic of the spirit ot Kussia, willkie said, "and that is why I am Just as sure the uermans will never take Russia as I am that the Japanese will never take the United States, even if they penetrate to a point wnere uenver becomes our Stalingrad." Guernsey Herd To Be Auctioned STLVERTON. Oct. 30 (P) The herd of 73 Guernsey cat tle, started 25 years ago by the late E. A. Rhoten. once editor of the Pacific Home stead, like many other Willam ette valley herds, will be sold at auction. Mrs. E. A. Rhoten. Salem, owner, said the sale was set for November 5. "I tried to keen the herd to- gether," she said, "and i t doesn't seem right to split It up now, but I can't help con, ditlons." She said she was un able to get help. CARNAHAN ON CHARTER KLAMATH FALL8, Ore., (To the Editor) The city of Klam ath Falls has placed upon the ballot for tha approval or rejec tion ot the people, first, a mca sure to abolish the park board is created under the Act of 1899, and vest Jurisdiction over the same In the mayor and city coun cil, and, second, to repeal the charter enacted March 10, 1913 and enact a new one In Its place, Judge Kuykendall, In a letter published In tha Herald and News of October 27, hits leveled some bitter and, as the writer thinks, unfair criticism against the city for having the hard! hood to give the people a chance to vote upon these measures. He docs not think that the peopl should be given this opportunity The city is not particularly lathering either of these mea sures but so many citizens had requested that the park board, as now constituted, be abolished and that It come under the Juris diction and control of the city, and that the old charter, with its archaic provisions, should be re pealed and a modern, up-to-date charter adopted, and this de mand was so persistent and great, that the mayor and coun cil did not feel that they could longer refuse to place these measures on the ballot for the people to do with as they see fit, - The learned lawyer likens the action of the city administration In placing these measures beforo the voters, to the actions of the yellow, stealthy Japs In their sur prise attack on Pearl Harbor, The members of the park board, as now constituted, are appointed by the circuit Judge for LIFE. No new blood can be put on the park board until one of the five appointed mem bers dies, although one or more of them may seldom attend park board meeting or take any interest in park board matters. Furthermore, some of our circuit Judges have not even owned real property In Klamath Falls, so why should the circuit Judge, rather than the mayor and city council have the right to ap point the park board members? It is not in accordance with the principles or spirit of American democracy for which we are fighting a huge, bloody war. The city levies taxes for and raises every ent of money that Is de voted to the upkeep of the city parKs, so why should the spend ing of the money and the run ning of the parks be vested in a board appointed by the circuit ludge who t-ocs not even have to be a resident of Klamath Falls? Anything that is here said Is not intended as criticism of any ot the members of our present ef ficient park board. The attorney In his article also says that any property could be purchased from any city off! clal at any price, and any city fund, including the bond sinking fund, could be used to pay for It.. Evidentally he has omitted to read the malfeasance In office law and other laws of this state which make it a criminal of fense for the council or any city official to do lust Ahat Judge Kuykendall says the council or the city officials could do under the new charter. Judge Kuykendall seems to assume that the mayor and com mon council would run the parks, and he says they have so many other duties they could not efficiently do this, but this is no true as they would them selves appoint a park board the same as they have appointed the airport board and the like, who would, in turn, run the parks. None' of the dire consequences predicted by Judge Kuykendall has resulted from the appoint ment of the airport board by the mayor and council. It, too, has operated rather efficiently, if we 7108 by Alice Brooke 'Round and 'round you go crocheting In string or finer cot ton. Soon you'll hnvn these at tractive star design dollies ready to beautify your buffet or lunch con tnb!o or to servo as Christ mas gifts. Pattern 740H contains instructions for making doilies; materials needed; illustrations of dollies and stitches. To ootuin mis pattern send 11 cents in coin to The Herald and Nows. Household Arts Dept.. Klamath Falls. Do not send this picture, but keep it and the number for reference. Bo sure to wrap coin securely, as a loose coin often slips out of tho envelope. Requests for pnttorns should read, "Send pattern No. to followed by your namo and address. EXPERTS DIG TO Ml REGULATIONS know what we here talk about. United States Attorney Goner- al Diddle has advised the Ameri can people. Including tho stato, city and county governments, to carry on our local government the same. In all respects, as they did before the war started. There is no reason, therefore, for the city and park board failing to function the same as If there wns no war Insofar as the Internal system of government of tho city and park board Is concerned. Judge Kuykendnll docs not think tha Jurisdiction over the park board should be vested In the city council because it changes every so often, but all of the cotincllmrn are not elect ed at the same time, thus leav ing at all times some old heads on the council who con prevent it from running away In unwise actions. The city hns no ulterior or corrupt motives In tho submis sion of tho now charter and the park board measure, which the honorable Judge ascribes to it. but the city, in prcscndlng Ihe new charter, which has been approved by a charter commit-1 tee of very able and honornble persons In this city, and the i park board measure, Is merely i responding to the wishes of the people. I If the people do not want to change tho charter or park I board, I am sure every city offl-! clal will bo entirely satisfied, but the people should have the right to make the choice. Yours slncoroly, J. H. CARNAHAN City Altomoy. By KENNETH L. DIXON WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 (AP) A hiuid-plclcod crew of treasury experts today (Inn Into tho Job of drafting dnlullvtl salary ntn. bill.iitlini regulation, tho liroml outline of which now Indicate Unit the only unorganized whlla collar workers definitely douin ed to go ralseloss for the dur ation nie tho.10 miming mora Hum $23,000 it yuar not Income. Except for deductions of foil, ernl Income, tiixen, cuKtoiniiry cliurltiihlo contributions, Ufa In surance premiums and fixed ob II i;nl Ions, the iinimtil take nf the boys In the upper brockets was firmly pegged lit the fii,. 000 fliiure. Rait Not Precluded Rut the treasury's Interpret, tlon of economic Director James F. n.vrnes's salary reKuliitlntm mude It 11 vanity different story for tho big majority of folk who earn less than that each year. In the long llt of uniu-Kiinlz-od executive, administrative anil professional people who receive less than $5(100, plus those of all classes between $5000 anil $2.1,000, tieusury spokesmen said there was scarcely a situa tion which itlnolutely precluded the possibility of a raise. Catch While the treasury version of the llyrnes regulation hud no hearing on the war labor boards responsibility, which In cludes all wage and many sal aries up to $3000, some ob servers fell this Interpretation might also be true In those brackets. However, the catch In the overall picture was the obvious fact that while tlies ralso still will be possible they wlll.be a lot less probable under the sta bilization progrnm. ,;! If It's a "frozen" article you need, advertise for a uirt-d one In the classified. W at . A.I 1 hi.ii-miiaifiiMiti iii .iiiita COLDS'MISERIES PemftrD Foreolda'couftlifl, naHnlronKMHon.mimrlo trJinfl get IVno t ro nvxJcrn modicnl ion i n a (PUtton fuot buo, 2.rrf, double supply '6U. Lowell Stockman Knows What Is Needed In Klamath County ' And all of the Second Congrosslonal District SEND HIM TO Congress Pi). Ail, by llookman Birtfcna niMfar, Oh'. Gur SoIdiers must have OREGON SALMON VOTE NO against this infamous, un patriotic bill which would kill 3 million pounds of Oregon Salmon as surely as the Japs killed Alaska's! seHaBam ii AdvOregos Flab ftofoHaa Aaa'q, c, iicooe. fia. A VOTE FOR MEASURE No. 312 IS A VOTE TO REDUCE PROPERTY TAX LEVY IN KLAMATH COUNTY County School District $148,400.00 City School. District No. 1 $ 65,800.00 Klamath Union High Dist $ 39,700.00 ' Estimated Saying for Klamath Property Taxpayers next year $253,900.00 VOTE MEASURE No. 312 "YES" ON NEXT TUESDAY Paid AifvirlHtmint . Klamalh (jaunty 0, , j, a.