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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1943)
PAGE EIGHT HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON Janunry 1, 1048 FUN T .41 FIRES IN m PERIOD ". A total of 41 fires was sup pressed on the Fremont forest in 1942, according to Supervisor Ed Cliff. Twenty of these were started by lightning and 21 were man caused. Of the 21 man caused fires, 14 were started by smokers. Of the smokers' fires, 3 were started by hunters, 3 by timber men, 2 by fishermen, 1 by a Stockman, and 6 miscellaneous. Four fires were started by hunters' camp fires and one from a stockman's camp fire. One fire started from an eagle sitting on a power line and one by a farmer burning debris. The latter burned over 3280 acres of which 1280 were forest pro tected land. Two fires starting from children playing with matches burned over 378 acres. Sixteen of the 20 lightning fires were suppressed before they burned over i acre. Two were suppressed before reaching a size of 1 acre and 2 before reaching 10 acres. Lightning fires burned over a total of 69 acres; man-caused fires burned 1678 acres. Nineteen of the 41 fires were discovered and reported by for est users and ranchers. Inde pendent action to suppress the fires was taken in 8 instances and cooperation was given on 21 fires. The number of 1942 fires shows an approximate 50 de crease over the 5-year period. The cooperation by the public has shown a corresponding increase. Retail Selling Classes at KUHS Have Good Year The retail selling classes of the vocational department of the Klamath Union high school closed the school year with ex cellent response on the part of local merchants and fine cooper ation on the part of the faculty, it is reported by the local co ordinator. Thirty-five students have been enrolled in the department dur ing the first term and all of these have been placed where possible. Forty-nine have train ed in the night school classes which were open to adults and young people, both men and wo men. Classes of training in other vocational interests will be con tinued throughout the school year both in day school and night school for adults and young people. Plans are under way for newly organized classes to register early in January. This program is part of the war effort and is as vital as other operations on the Home Front. Merchants cooperating in this training program for the school year and summer are: Moe's Ready-to-Wear, Garce lon's Gift Shop, Currin's Drug, Woolworth's Variety, J. C. Pen ney company, Crater Lake Creamery, Greyhound Restau rant, Esquire Theatre, Shaw's Stationery, Sears Roebuck and company, Kennell-Ellis Studios, Lee Hendrick's Drug, Walgreen's Drug, Newberry's Variety, Eyer ley's Variety, Bell's Hardware, Wright's Candy, Pine Tree The atre, Pelican Theatre, Polin's Sporting Goods, Montgomery Ward and company. The high school store is lo cated in room 214 at the high school and Interested persons are invited to visit any morning while classes are in session: young persons who are needed in local stores may be obtained by calling Mrs. Sally Louis, vo cational coordinator at the high school. Documents Show Italians Fought Germans and Won E : STILLWATER, Okla. Miss Marguerite I. Parizek of 416 South Riverside street, Klamath Falls, Ore., has been advanced to the rating of yeoman, third class, in the Women's Reserve of the United States navy and has been assigned to active duty In the navy department, Wash ington, D. C. Miss Parizek re cently completed an indoctrina tion course at the naval train ing school, Oklahoma A. and M. college, in Stillwater. Six hundred and fifty mem bers of the Women's Reserve are enrolled at the. Stillwater Khool for yeoman training, ac cording to a statement by Lieu tenant Commander- George W. Whiteside, commanding officer ef the school. As yeomen, they will be assigned to office and clerical jobs in navy shore establishments throughout the Country. Each of the WAVES assigned to duty will relieve an enlisted seaman or an of ficer for work on board ship. Recruiting of more WAVES, for training as enlisted seamen or as officer candidates, is go ing on now in all navy procure ment offices. In addition to the Stillwater school, WAVES train ing schools are conducted for enlisted personnel at Madison, Wis., Bloomington, Ind., and Cedar Falls, Iowa. Officer can- CAIRO, Jan. 1 (iP) Docu ments captured by the British army in the pursuit of Marshal Erwin Rommel's forces show that an Italian unit fought an en gagement with Germans near El Alamein, Egypt by mistake and won it, British sources with access to the papers said Thursday. The Germans surrendered to the Italians before the mistake was discovered, the documents revealed. They showed that the axis command subsequently held a court of inquiry on the affair, which was pictured as follows: An Italian battalion was or dered to advance on foot as part of a general attack. During the advance, they came up under gun-fire and promptly gave bat tle. After hours of fighting the Italians' opponents surrendered. Then it was discovered that the prisoners were part of a Ger man battalion which had ad vanced faster than the Italians. The documents showed that cas ualties were 20 Germans and I five Italians, killed or wounded. didates are Indoctrinated at Northampton, Mass., and South Hadley, Mass. FORT DES MOINES, Iowa, Jan. 1 A member of the WAAC from Klamath Falls, Ore., recently completed ad vanced training in the specialist schools for members of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps here. She is Dorothy Kesterson, 1985 Portland street This corps member was given four weeks basic training in military routines and procedures on reporting for duty. She was chosen for advanced training in courses in the specialist schools because of the excellence of her work in basic training. The specialist schools comprise the baker's and cook's school. Motor transport school and administra tive specialist's school. She will be assigned to fill a non-combatant army job now held by a soldier thus fulfilling the purpose of the corps which is to release trained fighting manpower for combat duty. Britain Deplores Argentinian Policy LONDON, Jan. 1 The British government today of ficially deplored Argentina's pol icy of maintaining diplomatic re lations with the axis. A foreign office statement in dicated it was making Britain's position clear because of reports published in Argentine that Britain was in sympathy with the South American country's neutrality policy. Like Feeding Excelsior to Cow In Green Glasses ' PORTLAND, Jan. 1 (jTV-Tov- arlch didn't go for horsemcat, oui Artnur m. ureennall. Port land soo director, fixed that right away. Tovarich, a golden eagle res cued by a ship's crew after being mown out to sea, snubbed plain norsemeat proffered by Green- hall but pounced on a dead pigeon he offered her. That gave Greenhall an idea. He obtained feathers from poultry firm and put them over the horseflesh. It worked. Tovarich ' went for it. And, said Greenhlll. "the feathers will do her good pro vide her with needed roughage." PERSONAL NOTE GRANTS PASS, Ore. Winter Davidson has gone to California to visit his brother, Summer Davidson. Lots of folks these days are discovering that all work and no play makes jack. New Lidice Staged In Poland, British Radio Reports NEW YORK, Jan. 1 () The British radio, quoting "a report j from the German frontier," de- j clared Thursday the Germans had staged a new Lidice in Po land, shooting the entire male population of a Lublin province village and sending all the wom en and children to concentration camps. 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