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PAGE FOUR HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON Janunry 9, HM8 iitmbtr of Th Awaini Fin Jh AoiU4 rrsf It sct rirtlr mtll(H to th bm tyt r paMloUoa o UI f dlpttdi crMlUd to H or mot othtroi rrdll4 ta tbla oor, aed alM tb Intil rw pabllih4 thtfl. All rldiu of itiMeik o( tpitl dtpthft rt aim r- FRANK JESKINS A t'siponnr enebtoitioa of th Tcataf Hrld an! th KUtn(n Publiih4 rry fteno i-pt Sutvdiy ! EfpUnd nd Pin trU, KUatth FsHs, OrtfOD. by the Herald Publlthlaf Co, and the KUmvU ' Pnbllthtaf Compaiy Entvtrd mcdM date msttf t th jwtoffVor of SUraU FiHs, Or.. Auftitt M. 1KM tu4tt Act of Mmbr A tot Bnuc Or Cicvutio Keprvttst! XitlouH? a FYnrt Np Tort, tU atUe, CJUca, PortUd, Loe MALCOLM 'EPLEY v W 4 Today's Roundup Br MALCOLM EPLEY MAYBE it all harki back to a tradition founded In the three-courthouse fight. At any rate, there Is usually something rumblirjj In the Klamath county court- . .. bouse, ana, in tne aecaae we : have lived nearby, the old build ing has been shaken repeatedly by battle. ,- The proprieties do not permit . ? complete freedom of comment " J here on the current ruckus, for the reason that it involves a case pending in court. It is -i ootentiallv a iurv case. Citizens Jo with open minds and without Eplty opinions on its merits, may be called upon to decide it. Under those circumstances, news and edi torial comment are best confined to the actual developments and particularly the legal pro cesses. It is not proper for anyone to disseminate informal comment that will tend to prejudice the minds of potential jurors and make it dif ficult to find a jury which could decide the issue fairly without predetermined opinions. Maybe the simple principles involved here, which are certainly essential to the proper functioning of our system of justice, are not fully realized by everyone. But they are quite apparent to those who will think twice on the subject. Bond Notification A MATTER which has no direct bearing on the pending legal case, and which may justify soma additional clarification, is the situa tion concerning the bond of County Clerk Mae K. Short, who is fighting a charge of receiving unauthorized payments from the county. The company which had provided Mrs. Short's . bond notified county authorities that the bond would not be renewed at the begin ning of this year. Mrs. Short arranged another bond before the renewal date. There arose, in this connection, a question as to whether Mrs. Short had been notified with fair promptness of the bond situation by the county court. In fairness to all concerned, the county court's comment on this matter deserves to be reported. Court members state that the registered let ter from the agent of the bonding company, addressed to County Judge U. E. Reeder, was 1 dated December 18. It was received at the county court room on December 19, which was a Saturday. Members of the court were in Lend on the following Sunday and Monday. On Tuesday, Judge Reeder was at the courthouse office alone. The next court day was Wednes day," December 23, and it was on that day, court members said, that the letter was shown to Mrs. Short, with all court members agreeing that it should be shown to her... The renewal date on the bond was January Lu,imt--omm, Addison Advertising Roundup By D ELBERT ADDISON WE gather that the man doing the actual fighting of the war has two things to fear the enemy, and the folks at home. The soldier doesn't actually fear the enemy of course, but he does have to face the thought that he might be killed. Fear of the folks at home isn't so easy to explain. Word from men overseas, and the few real stories we get from front line correspond ents, sometimes hint of the soldier's fear that the folks at home will let him down, and that things won't be the same when he gets back. The various government bureaus also flood us with admonitions to wake up, a war Is on. Coming in the same mail with the latest batch of releases from the . Washington bureaus is a bit of reassuring information. It is found in the "Continuing Study of News paper Reading." This is the report of an in vestigation of how people read newspapers, which has been carried out for the past couple of years for a group of companies that buy advertising. ' This particular report covers the Herald Journal in Syracuse, New York, the 53rd daily newspaper covered by the study. Under "Findings of Special Interest": "The full-page appeal of the Onondaga County United War Fund received the second highest readership of any advertisement in any of the 53 papers examined by The Continuing Study of Newspaper Reading. It. was read by 82 of both the men and women interviewed." This ad showed a large picture of a sailor ramming a shell into a gun. The headline: "I've Got My Hands Kind of Full . . . will you look, after things at home?" Under the picture . was a second heading, "Here Is Onondaga County's Answer . . ." and copy appealing to the readers to contribute $1,145,997 for the United War Fund. Among all the ads published in S3 large daily papers,' this ad received next to the high est readership of both men and women. There is your answer to whether the average person knows there's a war on and that he must back up his soldier. Of even greater interest to those of us work ing at it, is this evidence of newspaper advertis ing doing a new job in our home war program. SIDE GLANCES "Just think if you weren't o nuirried womon vou'd probably have joined the WAACs, and you'd hove to answer reveille before breakfast!" From Now on, It's $5 When You Tear Up a Traffic Slip From now on it's a $5 fine when you fail to heed traffic tickets. Chief of Police Earl Heuvel announced Friday that his de partment would issue warrants to those refusing to bring traffic tickets to the desk sergeant's window, and warrants would Ads Relieve Manpower THE people of Syracuse employed advertising I to do a job that otherwise would have taken many people away from their regular work. . There is. no better endorsement than this of our way of doing business through advertis ing under war conditions, or in ordinary times. Newspaper advertising, after all, is merely From Other Editors 4, .although the - letter stated1 the date was telling a story in print and delivering it into January 6. That is' the story as related by members of the court. Minutes of the county court as kept in the journal are confined pretty strictly to actual motions, resolutions, etc., and do not always show such matters as this when . they receive the attention of the court.- Hence it is not alwavs nossible in en in th rwnr-A j&i, a question of dates, and that is the situation in . this case. We have always felt that somehow a more complete system of keeping minutes of county court sessions should be devised. A simple notation in this case that the letter concerning the bond had been received on such and such a day, and the clerk advised on such a day, would have removed all question of date. Enemy Claims SERGEANT HOWARD ABBEY of Klamath Falls told a story in yesterday's paper which shows the doubtful character of enemy claims of damage to our forces and equipment. Here was a bona fide case where the Japanese asserted they had blown a force off the map in an attack on an air field in India. But Sergeant Abbey, who was a part of that force, was able to write this newspaper afterwards to state that it was a narrow escape, but there were no casualties. . It is possible the Japs didn't know, for sure. And it is possible they made the claim, knowing it was false. In either case, this incident pro vides sound ground for doubting the enemy's boastful talk. . On the other hand, the opposite effect results when the enemy makes a true claim of damage which is denied or permitted to go unconfirmed for months by our own authorities. That sort of thing tends to strengthen confidence in enemy reports. Americans have access to enemy accounts of the war. Much of this sort of thing is dissemin ated through the regular news channels. Under our system, the public mind is trusted. Little by little, we learn to evaluate what we read and hear from enemy sources. Klamath salvage efforts brought in more than the quota of scrapiron in the last six months of 1942. Surprising to the salvage lead ers was the fact that December produced more scrapiron than any other month. It was a mat ter of getting the collected material in and weighed. Despite the size of last year's figures, there is still a great deal of scrap in this county, and in the forthcoming months It must be brought in. The need for scrap still exists. .-... The enthusiastic letters from- Camp White's 363rd infantry from the c. o. down show conclusively that Klamath ' Falls did a great Job of entertaining the boys over Christmas. .. The country is full of "essential drivers.'' our homes a 'more economical way of getting over a message than ringing the same number of doorbells. With the shortage of manpower one of our big problems on the civilian front, advertising can well step into line and relieve PEOPLE for other essential work. Getting back to the soldier and the folks at home there's going to be more to welcoming him home than putting fried chicken and apple pie on the table. Every soldier of every war has returned bitter, disillusioned and mad at the world in general. Maybe that can't be changed, but if our Klamath boys can come back and find stores to buy civvies, movies to see, and JOBS to step into, then we won't have fallen down on the job entirely. When you see a large ad in the paper don't think that your merchant is getting rich off the war. He's just trying to help you find the things that are still available, so that he can keep his doors open, pay his taxes, and have a job for your boy when he gets home again Victory Effort II A DVERTISING on the Pacific coast em- A barks on the year of 1943 with a pro gram for throwing all of its resources into a united campaign for winning the war. This is the start of a news release from the Pacific Advertising Association. It hardly can be called news, because advertising spontan eously embarked on this program in December OI IH-Ji The first all-war ads to appear in The Herald and News after Pearl Harbor were run on December 10th, 1941, by First Federal Savings and Loan of Klamath Falls and by the U. S. Navy. First Federal urged the purchase of what we called "Defense" Bonds, and the navy called for volunteers. Both ads got results. This same news release carries a statement from Laurence W. Lane, president of the as sociation, v.-Mch is worth printing. .. "Advertising can't take the place of the boys on the front line," said President Lane, "but as a task force it can help mightily In doing many things. It can sell war bonds. It can inform people on every phase of the war effort. Jt ujapire me puDiic on me nome tront and instill a proper fighting spirit. It can soften the blows which come from a temporary de clining civilian standard of living. It can induce people to stay at home when the transportation system is strained under heavy wartime loads. It can influence people not to buy things scarce and difficult to produce. Jt can urge them to collect scrap or fats, or to do without meat. It can sell and re-sell the public on the full meaning of this war, and It can help to bridge the gap between hectic war economy and what comes after. All these things advertising can do and will do to further the war effort. And all these things it knows how to do better than any other group or segment of the population." . Again, advertising not only can, but has been doing these very things here, In Klamath, EUGENE IS A RAILROAD TOWN (Register-Guard) It is nearly 17 years since Eu gene staged the first of its spec tacular pageants to celebrate the completion of the Southern Pacific's short-line across the Cascades and the big freight ter minals here. At the time the promotion of the terminals was subject of considerable argu ment, but the community was elated to get the "million dollar payroll and some 600 new rail road familuj. Time and the war have brought some remarkable devel opments, and here are a few of the later official figures: 1. Southern Pacific's termi nal at Eugene is regarded as the fifth largest rail terminal on the Pacific coast being ex ceeded in size only by termi nals at Los Angeles, Sacra mento, Portland and Seattle. 2. There are 149(1 employes in Eugene with an annual pay roll of $3,623,840.00. 3. Tax valuation of South ern Pacific's properties in Lane county is $6,050,070. For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1943, the company paid the county $198,174.83 in taxes of 10.60 per cent of the total county tax. Do we hear some pessimists sayipg that when this war is over "there ain't gonna be no railroads?" It stands to reason that with the growing competi tion of air and highway and water transport, the rail carriers will have to be on their toes to meet progress. However, there is one fact which war needs seem to have demonstrated. The railroad is still invaluable for mass trans portation. The trucks are still carrying a vast tonnage, but it is tne old SP which Fortune magazine has called "the Life line of the Nation." There is still hope for railroading and Eu gene as a railroad town ought to Da interested. cost the offender $5 Instead of the usual $2. "Tho general public has been lax in answering tickets," Heu vel said. "Purpose of these tick ets is to give the offender an op portunity to come in within a period of three days to pay the fine. When this is not done it requires additional bookkeeping and the service of an officer In serving the warrants, creating an added expense to the tax payer. "In .e past, warrants have been $2. It seems this has not been a sufficient penalty as tick ets are still being ignored. In the future warrants will cost $5. The department has taken into consideration the decrease in traffic and has not been as strict as In the past, so whenever a ticket is served the offender has been well over the parking limit or committed other offenses." TWENTY CAPTURED TOWNS SWEEPING GAIN MPT. CARL, MODEL E y NEW YORK. Jan. 9 (At Capt. Marion E. Carl, marine corps hero pilot of Hubbard. Ore., and Miss Edna Kirvin, 19-year-old Brooklyn model and magazine cover girl," were married yesterday at Holy Inno cents rectory, Brooklyn. The marriage climaxed a six week courtship, which began when the couple met at a war morale rally in New York, and later, with other marine corps heroes toured war plants In an elort to speed up production. The bride's picture was on the cover of the January issue of the Cosmopolitan magazine. Captain Carl, who has 16 Japanese Zero planes to his credit, has received the navy, cross twice for his ex ploits In the South Pacific. - Phone Trie Herald and News. 3124, to place a classified ad. ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 9 (IP) Heroism in insisting on res cue of his three crew members while he was pinned under a burning plane won an American air medal today for Sergeant Major John Maurice Wallace, Royal Canadian air force pilot of 475 Chebucto road, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Serving with United States air forces, Wallace and his crew took off on a flight last Septem ber 21, their Canadian bomber loaded with depth charges and anti-submarine bombs. Barely off the ground, the port engine cut out but Wallace kept the craft aloft until it clear ed the-runway and bombs were jettisoned. But the plane was unable to maintain altitude and soon crashed, bursting into flames, with Wallace pinned un der the wreckage. The pilot and crew all were j rescued but "not until Wallace 1 had insisted rescuers 4eave him and save his men first," his cita tion said. It added his "extreme courage and coolness in face of probable death reflect outstand ing credit both upon himself and upon the Canadian military service." (Continued From Page One) base at Rostov, key to the whole nazi salient in the Caucasus. The nearest column was less than 65 miles away. The soviet communlmm M Germany's loaders had concealed the truth of the rctrcut from their people and "when it be came no longer possible to re main silent, the Hitlerite rulers decided to break their silence but in such a manner that no one should understand anything. "They have again lied," Town Captured Soviet dispatches reported that Lieut. Gen. Constanlln Ro kossovsky's red army column, leading a three-way race toward Rostov, had pushed on beyond the town of Strakhov and was now probably within 60 miles of tho German stronghold. To the south, another column under Col. Gen. Ycremenko cap tured the rail town of Zimovnikl, 125 miles southwest of Stalin grad. To the north, a third column under Col. Gen. Nikolai F. Vatu tin was battling stubborn Ger man resistance In a southward sweep across tho middle Don steppes, mopping up nazl aarri- sons after a drive to within less than 100 miles of Rostov. Soviet headquarters reported a battle that lasted for many hours before tho red armies crushed tho Germans and storm ed into two more nnniilni places in the lower Don valley. ivuiiiig iuu nazis. Oregon's Assembly May Lead Off With Senate Post Scrap (Continued From Page One) Ing tho democrats 78 to 12, It appeared that the legislators might work In harmony, except for the exploslveness of the la bor issues. It was learned today that em ployers will fight for ennctmont of a bill to prohibit secondary boycotting such as picketing u merchant who sells "unfair" merchandise. And tho employ ers also will try to get their un employment compensation toxos reduced. Labor will make a lost ditch fight againut bath propo.il lions. , BATTERED JAP CONVOY TAKES NEW POUND! (Continued From Page One) toward post-war plans, said those senators speaking "off the rec ord, is based on a belief that Americans are still essentially nationalistic. They expressed doubt that other senators, partic ularly those who look forward to reelection, would want to take a stand until they knew the temper of the returning soldiers. Senator Austin (R-Vt.), the un official republican whip, . who l.as been considered antl;lsola- iiomst, said for instance that the proposal of Gov. Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota for a Unit ed Nations of the world with a single parliament Is "very thought-provoking." "But the form of the past-war settlement remains to be worked out la'er," he said. EHG OF LABOR TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY (Continued From Page One) unemployment compensation, to supercede state jobless benefits, which in the opinion of the delegates are not on an equal basis in all states. The proposal also Included provisions for a minimum bene fit of $20 per week, and a maxi mum wait of one week, and asked that the system be ex tended to all wage earners. . Why is it that most of the men who try to grow mustaches are the ones who can't? A golden wedding anniversary is the result of a couple going 50-50. (Continued From Page One) plishment without the Invincible leadership which they have pro vided." He also gave high praise to "the magnificent conduct of the troops and elements of this command, operating under dif ficulties rarely If ever surpassed In a campaign." N. W. Division 'Through tho skill and cour age and indomitable will for victory they have defeated a bold and aggressive enemy, pos sessing a murkud superiority of resources and potentialities in areas of the campaign and com bat," the order of the day said. American and Australian air men, it added, "have set new horizons for the air conduct of the war." (Among the American troops lauded was tho 41st division. The division was originally made up entirely of national guard troops from the Pacific northwest. This was the first time it had been officially an nounced that the -41.it was fight ing under General MacArthur.) w ST S VIA SUPPLY PORT (Continued From Page One) rautlem left the trail In havoe in widespread raids on tunk con centrations, railroads and air fields. French Advance Thero wero no reports of land action on tho northern Tunisian front except putrol activity, Deep In the south, however, French forces wero reported to liovo raided another enemy pott and, taken sumo prisoners, (This presumably referred to tho sum action which, the fighting trench announced In London, resulted In the capture of El Outrun, sotithmist of Murzuch In tho Libyan Mescrt, and 177 prl roners by an clement of Brig. Gen. Jacques le Clerk' native camel corps troops.) E (Continued from Page One) that driving for fun was not worth the risk of losing their gasoline ration books. In New York City, nine ra tion books were taken up yes terday (Friday) by OPA agents. and police announced that 46,- 2J7 license numbers had been listed for checking. Joseph B. Eastman, director of defense transportation, called on taxicab operators and the gener al public today to halt all use of cabs for pleasure in the 17-tate eastern oil shortage area. Anderson Asks Trucking Permit E. F. Anderson, doing busi ness as the E. F. Anderson Motor Freight, Klamath Falls. has applied to the public util ities commissioner for permis sion to acquire the transfer per mit heretofore held by C. G. R.ymers of the Rcymcrs Auto Truck lines. A hearing on Anderson's ap plication will be held at the county courthouse at 10 a. m., January 18. Production of aircraft engines is up about 240 per cent meas ured in terms of horsepower. Buy It throttgn the want-ads Yanks Give Japs Taste of Own Medicine in Raid (Continued From Pago One) mid a cluster of fragmentation bombs. He Is singing "Pralso the Lord and Pass the Ammunition." Ho has already serntclicd "Mer ry Christmas, J up" on his bombs. Now we roar in from the ocean over thu field. The plan locks. "Keels Ilka ack-ack," shouts Howard. Wo sea gun flushes or tracers. We arc over the Japanese and without a stop on our second pass, Howard and Pitney heave out bombs like so many pump kins. Tho pilots let go with some bigger wlng bombi. rrom the lower one sees n black bomb slant to the ground 300 feet below, then a rod burst like a cnrbunclo. Our piano veers over th trt tops and wo head for the Japa nese' barracks and unload mor bombs. For two hours and 30 minutes we "Loulo tho Louse" the Jupt, coming In from new directions and hoping that our plane will make the huddling Japs very, very unhappy in their now ra in filled shrapnel escape holes, Guadalcanal murines have said that these nuisance raids are more terrifying than mass bomb dropping raids. Finally Lieut. Johnson, with whom we've been discussing Olympla bay oysters, says, "Too bad, but we 11 have to go back. Looks like stormy weather. It was. Tho PBY bounded and lurched like a punch-drunk chumpugno cork on stormy seas. We weru lost and shortly before daylight came the ugliest ot nois es, "beep beep beep" general quarters man your battle sta tions. Yes. It was worse than a policeman's whistle. In the darkness men scramb led for their guns. I missed cat walk and grazed my shank, fought with a garbage box and lost. I clawed peanut butter from my eyes. Tho alarm proved false. Tho storm took us 250 miles off our course. Throughout th long trip Johnson left his con trols once, for six minutes. Be sides dodging storm clouds any one of which might have been host to a plane-wrecking water spout he watched for enemy planes or submarines, studied the horizon for Japanese surface ships. Tomorrow Pilot Johnson and his staunch crew of ten mon wU be ready for another nuisance job. In Hospital Mrs. E. L. John son, 4641 Blsbco street, Is a pa tient at Hillside hospital where sho Is receiving treatment. OIL TO BURN For Union heating oils phone 8404, Klam ath Oil Co., 615 Klamath Ave. l-30m FOR SALE 1935 Ford pick up, good condition, good tires. Priced right. See at 104 Old Fort Road. 1-12 WILL care for one or two chil dren while mother works In my home. Phone 4480 or 2221 - Reclamation. i-12 TO TRADE town property lots with two houses for 5 or more acres. Or what have you. 1 A blocks from Mont- i gomery Wards. Phone 3447 or call 225 So. 5th. 1-12 WILL HAVE in stock for a few I days, 12x21 vine Axminster rug, $117.75. Lucas Furniture. 1-12 PUPPIES for sale cheap. 500 Broad. , 1-11 FOR SALE Davenport and chair with new slip covers. Phone 4268 or 5800. 4157tf FOR SALE Equity 8 acres. Two bedroom modern house, garage, chicken house and barn. On bus line, 2448 Madi son St. 1-9 For Sound Information and Dependable Service on Matters Pertaining to Life Insurance or War Savings Bonds, Consult a Member of the LIFE UNDERWRITERS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN OREGON Myrle C. Adamt Mclvin A. Bowman R. D. (Hod) Ellcr Ben H. Gibson John H. Houston Annabelle A. Newton James Patterson Lynn Roycroft Martin Swanion Geo. C. Ulrich Paul R. 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