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HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH 'FALLS, OREGON
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Today's Roundup News Behind the News
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jiy MALCOLM EPLl.iT
IN LINE with Klamath's part in the aviation
phase of the war effort is the conversion of
Summers school into a headquarters for the
nrop trnlnfnff KPrvlrA civilian
...o- -
authorities and the University
ot Oregon, sponsor of the WTS
here, have virtually completed
agreements on this project.
. ' which may mean an increase
4 in the number of pilots receiv
' .lng training at the Klamath
' municipal airport.
. Under this plan, the school
hullrlin0. which is virtually on
: Epley the airport property, is to be
used for class rooms, dormitory and dining
hall.
If and when this is accomplished, as seems
quite certain at present, those conversant with
the war training program here will breathe
more freely. By concentrating the ground
school program under one roof, the prospects
are good for increasing the activities here. Had
this not been done, the program was actually in
jeopardy, for government officials disapprove
scattering the activities over the community, as
has been done up to this time.
Heretofore, the students have lived in private
homes. The classes have been held downtown,
necessitating transportation of students back
and forth from the airport, scene of the flight
j activity."' No classrooms were available at the
airport, and until the Summers school con-
; version project developed, the situation was
I definitely unpromising.
In many ways, the Summers building is ideal
for this purpose. It is so close to the airport
that no transportation of students is involved. '
It has the space for the various facilities needed.
According to school authorities, its use as a
grade school can be terminated as a war meas
ure without seriously disrupting the school pro
gram in the suburban district or inconvenienc
ing students. "
At present, there are 40 students .in the WTS
program. Prospects are good for increasing the
quota to at least 60 under the new arrange
ment. The plan is for the university sponsors to'
lease the building. If this can be done without
financial disadvantage to the district, it will be .
a distinct local contribution to the war effort.
Incidentally, Summers school might eventual
ly become a part of the airport property. It is
close enough to serve as administration building
: or otherwise as an added facility on a field
, which is still short on buildings for offices, etc
- .i ' J ':
New Congressman
THE second district's hew congressman, Lowell
Stockman, is now launched on his con
gressional career. In Washington, he told the
press he stands for concentration of the victory
effort and for curtailment of government
bureaus which he feels are detrimental to that
program. He favors reduction of non-war
spending.
Whether Mr. Stockman will have any legis
lative hobbies remains to be seen. He has indi
cated he did not go to Washington with any
ideas of a great, single mission to fulfill. In
stead, he- conveyed the expectation that he
would meet the issues as they come, exercising
Judgment and horse sense and seeking to render
sensible, well-rounded service to his country
and district
Mr. Stockman is amazingly placid. While
others got excited, sometimes, about his political .
campaign against the veteran, "unbeatable"
Walter Pierce, he went serenely on his way.
For years, he had the idea that a candidate
of his type and qualifications could beat Pierce;
when the time came, he stepped in and did it.
The story is told that when a close supporter
of Mr. Stockman saw an advertisement in the
Lakeview Examiner in which the democratic
committee gave a lengthy list of reasons why
Walter Pierce should be retained, Stockman
was asked excitedly:
"What are we going to do about that?"
"NothinB.'f answered tho
He carried Lake county.
Industrial Outlook
ON a trip to Washington, D. C. this month,
Earl Reynolds, secretary of the chamber of
commerce, will do some investigating and "con
tacting" in behalf of the Industrial development
committee of the Klamath county chamber of
commerce.
Klamath needs to be alert to the possibilities
of bringing new industrial activities into this
community.
The war has tremendously stimulated timber
harvest. In the field of lumbering, new ideas
are being generated that may result in definite
changes from the present character of logging
and milling and box-maklng. The industrial
future of Klamath Falls may be enhanced, If
altered, if these developments are brought into
the lumberine rtlcttira hi
Weyerhaeuser's great new laboratory may be
of special significance in that outlook.
The Willard hotel Thursday night banqueted
the members of the state championship (please
note, Coos Bay Times) Klamath Union high
school football team. The hotel put heaps of
Inviting victuals in front of the 37 husky
gridsters. Their response was terrific.
Everybody evidently had money to buy 1943
uto licenses. It was Just a case of procrastlna
tlon. . We know.
Klamath ' Union high school basketeers will
play Redmond here tonight. The attendance
at games here has not been what it should be.
Lee Smith, president of the Klamath Quarter
backs, wants to build it up, and we pass along
his suggestion here that those games are worth
seeing.
Paul Mellon
By PAUL MALLON
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 Solid fuelist Harold
Ickes announced everyone should convert
to coal, even though there is a minor shortage
in New England. People are ..wsjvw
Just refusing to do so because "te
it is an "inconvenience," hefcf x
said.
Well, Washington is not New Ik
England, so I decided to try ltiWjL
again. Six months ago, no
furnaces or grates were avail
able. Today my oil dealer, who
also handles coal and furnaces,
said:
"Fine. I have just the furn
ace for you. It will cost $200."
Now $200 is something more than an incon
venlence to me, but not as much inconvenience
as my inability to get oil here, adequate oil
coupons, or oil deliveries now at a time when
the government daily announces (erroneously)
plenty of oil is available.
I had finally obtained 300 gallons shortly
after my furnace went out last night. The
air line from the tank to the burner thus be
came locked with air and I had to call my
furnace repairman.
This in itself proved to be more than
minor inconvenience as the repairman was so
flooded with similar calls for help that he left
his telephone off the hook as a matter of neces
sity for half a day and does this regularly every
day.
No Promises
BUT I finally got the furnace going again
today and went in to see the aealer aoout
conversion, carrying my 2200 gallons of fuel
oil coupons with me to pay up for oil used
so far this winter, the same having been
allotted to me under the complicated tormula
of Mr. Leon -Henderson's bright young men,
who proved themselves to be such aamned
fools that . they figured only the floor space
of every house instead of the cubic footage
(heating space to the ceiling) in making oil
allocations.
The dealer took half my coupons, 1175 to
be exact, saying 1 bad already used them so
far this winter. As the winter has hardly
begun in this section, I could see I can't get
through on oil.
So I decided to suffer the $200 inconvenience,
on Mr. Ickes' advice, and told the dealer X
would order the furnace. He said:
. "Well $200 is the price without installation,
and I can't tell you when I could get it in-
1 stalled because we have no help."
" - I asked: ' ' --'' s
"But if I once get it installed, can I get all
the coal J want?
Half Gone
1 1 fvJO," he replied, "you see the coal miners
IN are still working a five-day week, seven
hours a day 33 hours a week. I have more
than 100 orders right here (and he showed
them) for nut coal.
"They say the miners are going to add seven
more hours a week, making 42 in the anthracite
mines, beginning this week, but that wont fill
my orders, and I can't make any promises."
I immediately asked why in the name-of-
bureaucracy, should anyone then convert to
coal.
r
' -"Yfl ' ' ft
Bad Propaganda
1 1 THAT'S what I say," broke in a nearby
I army officer just back from abroad.
"Those blankety blank government officials
Trover there (and he pointed in
' the general direction' of OPA
J and Mr. Ickes) cut me 60 per
cent from last year's mild win-
. ter for the hardest winter yet.
"I have got to go away to
'fight this war and leave an
86-year-old mother-in-law and
rtwo children with my wife to
Htrold Ickes, struggle through this winter
Fuelist fuel mess.
"The government is just putting out propa
ganda on this stuff, and It is the worst kind of
propaganda from the standpoint of domestic
morale.
"It makes me boiling mad, but I can't even
get in to see the ration board to get enough
coupons and now I can't get the oil for the
coupons I have, and, on my pay, I would be a
fool to convert to coal, especially when I can't
get coal either." .
While the bureaucrats here have been dally
announcing that dealers in this locality all have
sufficient oil, my dealer told me he has been
out of oil more than he has been in" since
last October 1.
No Gas to Get Coal
DOZENS of his customers were women and
children whose men are away to war,
some of whom went without heat for five days
when the temperature here was down to zero.
They sat In the kitchen huddled around their
electric stoves.
He said he could probably always dig .up
some kind of coal if the army officer and I
would get it, that he was unable to promise
deliveries because his men were quitting daliy
or laying off every few days. But bureaucrats
did not allow us enough gasoline to get our
own coal.
, The officer and I decided the dealer was
Just trying to sell us a new $200 furnace, and,
apparently, he considered we were in luck be
cause he had a couple.
Show Their Ignorance
THE OPA, an equal branch of government
with Mr. Ickes, has Just announced the
people had better locate a coal furnace before
deciding to convert. I might add they should,
also see if they can get it installed, at how
SIDE GLANCES
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COflt mi BY OTA tCTVKt. INC. T. M. Kltt. tt. 1. KT. OTT.
""Well, well! So you've been promoted to captain in the
artilleryl Guess 1 schooled you pretty well when you
were my delivery boy, eh, Bill?"
Yeslertltuis 1 '
From the files 40 1 ycori
, ogo end 10 years ago
From The Klamath Republican
January 1. 1903
There are now 63 telephones
in the local exchange.
The ice harvest on Upper
Klamath lake has Just started.
although the product is rather
tnin as yet.
Great care should be exer
cised by skaters on the lake.
They should not venture too far
out where the ice is thin and
the water deep.
. .
Wood Is $3 and $4 a cord
here. That Is high enough, con
sidering our proximity to great
forests.
From The Klamath Newt
January 8, 1933
The News and Herald an'
nounced that the classified ad'
vertising section will be thrown
open for free use by local peo
ple In helping promote employ
ment and exchanging the ne
cessities of life. The measure
was announced as a means of
helping fight depression condi
tions.
Klamath people mourn death
of former Congressman Robert
R. Butler in Washington, D. G.
Herald and News editorial:
'Franklin D. Roosevelt has
come to personify hope in the
minds of a large section of the
people . . , What he will mean
in the memory of future years
depends to no small degree on
Mr. Roosevelt himself.
ODT Official to
Wrestle With Coast
Motor Transport
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 8 W)
Ray G. Atherton, associate direc
tor of the office of defense trans
portation, arrived here yester
day to confer with ODT officials
and to devote his attention to
keeping western trucks in opera
tion.
His conference with ODT offi
cials will be in an attempt to
avert a threatened breakdown of
motor transport on the Pacific
coast.
Harold C. Amot, regional
ODT manager, recently predict
ed a breakdown of truck trans
port by early summer if main
tenance and manpower problems
were not solved.
much cost, and whether they
can get coal after they have the
furnaces.
These personal experiences
have convinced me, just as they
must have convinced every citi
zen encountering such average
conditions everywhere in the
countrj, .that none of thesa
Washington officials know the
Individual human problem of
rationing in which they are
supposed to be leading us.
They do not understand. They
deal only In generalized statis
tics of supplies and transporta
tion in the nation as a whole.
They show their ignorance
every time they open their
mouths on the front pages be
cause every newspaper reader
knows different and can prove
it from his own experience.
Evidently the men in charge
have a far better estimation of
what can be done by the sense
of touch than . I, and they
should be commended for it.
The work and place can be
only described as ideal. Ed
ward P. Hamann, blind aircraft
worker who, with his seeing-
eye aog, won navy "is."
Telling
The Editor
Ltllw, prMltd hrt must not M mar
Ifcan 100 wordi in itnctlt. mutt b, writ
ln Itgibly on ONfl SIOI ot IM pp'
only, and must b oixntd. Contributions
following tnM ruloa, ,r warmly wa
coma.
NAVAL TRAINING LIFE
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (To the
Editor) I thought I would drop
you a line and give the home
town folks an inside view of our
naval training life.
Of course there are some men
In Klamath Falls and vicinity
that have not been called and I
can probably relieve them of
some undue suffering by warn
ing them of what to expect.
Virginia has a climate from
December till the first of March
that is comparable to Klamath
Falls, yesterday we had a bliz
zard and the weather cleared
last night, the temperature drop
ped to about zero.
Now recruits are arriving by
the hundreds and the camp is
only partly completed, some of
the men are sleeping on the
floors with no mattresses and
only two blankets. Last night
over a thousand men arrived
and stood In line getting chow
and bedding issued until a num
ber of frozen feet and hands and
ears were brought to the offi
cers' attention. Several men
were carried Infc barracks so
cold they could barely talk.
-Most of the men come down
here dressed In light clothes ex
pecting to find a nice balmy cli
mate. Don't let anyone kjd you
about the climate as it freezes
an inch of ice every night and
during the day mud is ankle
deep.
If any men In that vicinity
have or are planning to join
the Seabees they will be sent to
Camp Peary as this Is a new
camp and Is the only camp In
the future to train naval con
struction men in 'America. Our
chow is good, It Isn't fancy, but
there is plenty of It and if you
like beans for breakfast look us
up we have them and like it
or rather we have them.
I'd like to advise all men sign
ed up or planning to Join, if
you come down bring your long
handles, a pair of gloves and
your overshoes, as you may have
to run around in this weather
a day or two In your civilian
clothes..
Of course, the first three
weeks is spent in boot camp and
we are fenced in and restricted
to a certain area. We don't get
a chance to see anyone unless
we run into them in chow line.
Since I've been here I have met
about a dozen men from Klam
ath Falls.
I will try and give a list of
the Klamath men that I know.
Of course I realize that there
are soma I know that I haven't
had an opportunity to meet.
Some of the men are:
Clarence "Slats" Nelson, of
Big Basin; Al Royer, of Kester
son woods; Martle, of Oregon
Food butcher shops; Hutcheson,
of Klamath Packing company
and Klamath Falls Creamery;
Frank Lowell, of Klamath Pack
ing company; Howard Burkhart,
local building contractor; Em-'
mitt Sisemore, of Swan Lake
Moulding; Adln Fenwlck, of the
White Starr Inn, Dorrls; Everett
Wright, of California Utilities;
Floyd Crown, of Frankford's
Fuel company; Ed Barker, S. P.
brakeman; Henry Klinkhammer,
local carpenter.
Most of these men are here
but they don't hnve the same
address as mine as we are di
vided into companies and pla
toons and each platoon has a
different number or letter. We
would appreciate any letters
from friends at home. My ad
dress is:
Donald Dale Phelps, C.M.I.C.
67 Bat., Co. A, Plat. 8
N.C.T.C. Camp Peary
, Williamsburg, Va.
Midland ZmpuAe Aew4
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TO GET LICENSES
TULELAKE Registrations
for 1043 automotive licenses are
coming in slowly, according to
Highway Patrolman Fred Engla,
in charge of registration, and
motorists are warned that Feb
ruary 4 is tlie deadline. Appli
cation for registration renewal
may be murio by mull provided
tlio registration curd nnd ' the
proper amount of money Is eiv
closed Willi the request mailed
to the department of motor vo
hides, Sacramento.
Few new applications for li
cense tags will be filled out
this year, Engle stated, In com
parison to liiOO vehicles that
received plates for the first
time In California last year.
Car owners will receive this
year instead of the regulation
plate, a four-inch square steel
plate, with white background
embossed with a .red V that
will be pluced ubove tho 1042
number on last year's platus.
The metal tabs will ba mailed
to applicants at a later date, ap
plicants to receive In the mean
time a serially numbered re
ceipt.
The local office of the depart
ment of motor vehicles Is In tlia
city hull.
Tulelake
Mrs. Frances Carter, teacher In
tho Tulelako elementary school,
lias asked for a lcava of absenco
for one month and will spond
the time In Sacramento and oth
er California points with .her
husband, who has been granted
a month's furlough following his
return from Bctive servlco In tho
Aleutians. Mrs. Ruth Boyd will
substitute for Mrs. Carter.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Osborne
were hosts New Year's evo ut
dinner for Dr. C. O. Prentice,
daughters Barbara and Mrs. Her
bert Tildcn Osborne, Miss Mary
Knopp and Rev. Hugh L. Bron
son. Ensign Horbert Tilden Os
borne, on duty In foreign service,
cabled Mrs. Osborne and his par
ents, sending love and best
wishes for a Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year, saying
also that ho was well.
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 8 (P)
Orde..; for Idaho white plno,
ponderosa pine and sugar pine
and associated species for the
week ending January 2 totaled
53,025,000 board feet compared
with 71,600,000 for the previous
week -and 79,853,000 a year ago,
the Western Pino association re
ported today.
Shipments were 82,033,000
compared with 58,832,000 and
51,472,000, and production total
ed 41,018,000 compared with 45,
273J0OO and 30,332,000.
Bradford, Vt., was the site of
the first factory for the manufac
ture of terrestrial nnrl rt1ntlnr
globes, in 1813.
Fire Destroys
Cray Residence
CHILOQUIN Early Thurs
day morning, Januury 7, fire
completely destroyed the resi
dence of Mr, and Mrs. Wslter
Cray and family.
Flames were first noticed In
the attic by one ot Cray's sons,
who was sick In bed. Mr. and
Mrs. Cray were at work at tho
box factory and the othor chil
dren were attonding school
CIGARETTES GO TO
MALIN Boys of the' Malln
community who are sorvlng over
seas are not being forgotten by
folks at home. Through efforts
of the chamber ot commerce
and the Czech-American alliance,
cartons of cigarettes ro sent
each month to between 25 and
30 boys.
Money that would hava been
spent in preparing for tho an
nuul chamber ot commerce ban
quct this year Is going Into
smokes. The chamber completed
a successful membership drlvo
but folks of tho basin who year
after ycur have attended the big
dinner, usually served In Feb
ruary, will hove to wait until
tho war Is won before again ac
cepting the hospitality of tho
pcoplo at Mnlln.
Tho Czech-American alliance
meets on tho fourth Sunday of
eacn month in the homo of mem
bers, with Mayor A. Kallna pre
siding. '
A bond buying program,! bo
lng sponsored.
Tho lost mooting was held at
the home of Mrs. A. Henzol and
tho next meeting will be at tho
home ot Herman Sostak.
Sprague River
ConRratulatlons are anlna tn
Mr. and Mrs. Snnricmnn Mnnhai
who are the proud parents of a
uuuy ooy, oorn Saturday m
Sprague Klver.
Mrs. Joa Youna hu rtiirn
home after being In Klamath
rans nospitai with pneumonia.
Mrs. SUss Shepherd Is again
confined to bed. She has been
under the doctor's care since un
dergoing a major operation some
time ago.
Mr. and Mr. Earl Atrhl.on
Mrs. Mortha Hayes. Pvt. Clifford
Hayes, Pvt. Stan Wallace and
Mrs. Wallace wera ffnnvta nf Mr
and Mrs. Byrd Tompkins last
ncancsaay,
Saturday visitors In Klnmnth
Falls Included Mr. and Mm. Wll.
l.am George, vMr. and Mrs. Silos
Shepherd, Mr. and Mrs. Hurley
McWllllams and son Tommy,
Mr. and Mrs. O. Hammnni Mr
and Mrs. Everett Hammons, and
Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Tompkins
and son, Sidney.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Campbell
ond Paul Eden, wcro Klamath
visitors las'. Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Klrnhor
spent New Year's with Mrs.
Klrcher's parents In Hood River.
They stopped at The Dalles to
visit l-ienas.
Thn Well Child Mlnln ;..
held Friday, January 8, In the
club building.
Read Classified Aai for Results
Ti
TULELAKE T. W. Chatburn.
Merrill attorney, guest speaker
at the Rotury club luncheon
Wednesday, guvs a comprehens
ive talk on the now victory tax
and on Incomo taxos, stale and
federal, answoring questions of
prospective taxpayers at tho
closa ot his dlscuiwion. lie was
Introduced by R. M. Prior, pro
gram chairman, after the meet
ing was oponad by President P.
C. Bergman. Tho mooting was
the first ot tho new year,
Glenn Kent of Klamath Fallr-
end Lawronca Runlcke, Yreka, -
supervisor of school attendance
and welfare in Siskiyou county,
were guests.
. C, C. Spears will let as chair
man of the program next weak.
Hager
Mrs. Annlce Anderson was a
shopper In Klamath Falls Thurs
day. Mrs. Charles Hess and Mrs.
Ellzuboth Campbell of Barnes
Valley returned from Portland
Friday. While on their way
here. Just after their train had
crossed a bridge near Eugene,
Ore., tho bridge washed out,
Several of tho side roods are
practically Impassable now.
Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Richard
son closed the store near the
Junction of SB and 60 highways
far tho duration Monday, but
will still resldo here.
Mr. Griffiths has had a crew
sorting spuds tho past week and"1''
is loading can here.
Chiloquin
Mr. and Mrs. Gelnger recently
motored to California on bus
iness. Eorl Hall has token over the
Shall service station following
the resignation of the former
station man, Mr. Cooley.
Cecil Matt, representative ot
Mason Ehrman and company,
was In Chiloquin Tuesday on
business.
E. II. Radkye has recently re
turned from Portland where he
wss under a doctor's core
Mae Hostatter, proprietor of
Mae's cafe In Chiloquin, has re
cently closed her business.
NO LEND-LEASE
NEW YORK George A- a.
Dewey, who used to live in
Brooklyn, now is with the U. S.
army In England.
He wrote George C. Tllyou,
Kings county ration administrat
or, that his fuel oil coupons,
which had Just reoched him in
England, are "not of much use
In this vicinity. I doubt very
much If the British ministry
would honor them even on the
lend-lease basis."
If you want to sell it phono
The Herald ond News "wont
ads," 3124
COLDS-
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WICKS?
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FIGHT MISERY
when you feel lt-rub
throat, client and
bock with Urns-tested
Statement of Condition of
First Federal Savings & Loan Association
s OF KLAMATH FALLS
As of Dec. 31, 1942
ASSETS
First Mortgage Loans $1,293,211.74
Loans on Passbooks 123.20
Properties Sold on
Contract 32,459.78
Real Estate Owned and in
Judgment 9,408,76
U. S. Government
Securities 363,429.01
Cash on Hand and In
Banks 120,525.66
Office Building and Equip- '
mont less depreciation 39,003.66
$1,858,161.81
LIABILITIES
Members' Share Accounts $1,758,892.90
Loam In Procei , 13,009,88
Other Liabilities 10,258.97
Specific Reserves 429.38
General Reserves 32,937.40
Undivided Profits 42,633.28
$1,858,161.81
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