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PAGE FOUR HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON Jnnuary 20, 1948 Utmbtr cf Tbi AuociATts Pun Tht AitoeUUd tnu If nclu !.lr ntitltd to th. an of re publication of ill bcwi dl.Mtche crtdlud lo It or oo otherwlM credited In UiU pp, nd llw thi loel newt publl.hfd thtrclD. All rlghli of republication ol pedtl dlipst'-h" in tlw r l.rved. FRANK JENKINS Editor A temporary combination of tht ftvenlnf Rtrald m4 th KUmath "Stwt. Published avery afternoon cxcrpl fiiin'iajf at Kiplanade and Pint ilrtrti, Klamath Fa lit, Oregon, by the Herald PublUhlof Co. and tht Klamath Jiwt publishing Company Xntrrtd aa aeeond elaaa mat tar at tht poatofflc of Klamath Falli, Ore., on August 10, iW under aci of onngmi, March ft. 117ft. Mmbtr cf Audit Bouav a0r Cibculatiojt RtprtaanM Nationally by Wht-Holmday Co., Ixo. Ban Francisco, Nfw York, S. attic. Chicago, Portland. Lot Angclea. MALCOLM EPLEY Mnitapinff Editor Today's Roundup News Behind ihe News By MALCOLM EPLEY PRICE ceiling is mainly responsible for the fact that Klamath potato shipments are running well ahead o last year, indicating a f. , probable closing of the ship- ' ping season a month earlier than usual this spring. ' . 1 $ The ceiling has removed the A t f speculation factor from delay. Farmers know what they can " I-, get for their potatoes a few " weeks hence, and there is no ..NW?9! chance the price can rise sharp- y' 9' I I ly to bring them a reward for JsA'f I holding. , &M. MsmM the close of the count on EPLEY January 27, basin shipments as revealed In The Herald and News table totaled 4830 carloads, against 4608 on the same date a year ago. The difference is even greater than that, for n interesting reason that not all may have realized. This year, virtually all carloads of potatoes shipped from the basin contain 450 sacks, while a year ago most carloads contained 360 sacks. The increased loading was adopted to save car use in connection with the war transportation program. State-Federal Inspector Ross Aubrey, who pro vides the figures for The Herald, and News potato table, reduces the figures to terms of 860-sack carloads at the end of each month. At that time, the table is adjusted. But through the month, carload figures are added on the basis of actual carlot shipments, regardless of the load of the cars. - Likewise, truck shipments are added at the end of the month. Hence, it is only at the first of the month that the comparisons with last year are actually true. Through the remainder of the month, the comparisons are general rather than specific. Mr. Aubrey at this time estimates that the actual shipment of 360-sack carloads from the Klamath basin totals 5000 cars. He thinks that the season total will run, somewhere near 9500 carloads, an estimate which is somewhat higher than that offered by some other sources. Last year, shipments totaled a little more than 7900 carloads. v " Early Clean-Up BECAUSE of the heavy early and mid-season shipments from the Klamath basin, it now appears that the potatoes here will be cleaned up about May 1, or a month or six weeks earlier- than-usual ---wi; c: They are moving out pretty fast now? For - Instance, on January 16, some 89 carloads of potatoes were shipped from the basin, certainly one of the biggest shipping days in history. Although Klamath Falls did not get a potato dehydrator this ' year, as was promised last summer, a generous portion of this year's potato crop is going to dehydrators in California and the Willamette valley. About a fifth of December shipments was di verted to dehydrators, and . shipments for that" purpose are still running heavy. Farmers make a considerable saving in handling costs when the spuds go for dehydra tion. ' No such exhaustive job of sorting is re quired as in the: case of definite grading to No. l's and No. 2's. In general, ' dehydrating plants will take all of the potatoes except those unfit for human consumption.. v The price paid currently for dehydrator stock is $1.75 to $1.85, according to a reliable source. Dehydrated potatoes go almost exclusively to the armed forces. The above paragraphs contain what seemed to us interesting news about our huge potato industry gleaned from various good sources. It is difficult for us to realize the extent of potato production here and the part it plays in sup plying food for the civilian population, of the Pacific coast and the country's armed forces. The planting, irrigating, harvesting, handling and shipping of 7000 or 8000 carloads of po tatoes is truly an enormous activity in a basin the size of Klamath. That it is done smoothly and orderly is a tribute to the industry, ef ficiency, and good business judgment of the men and women who are active in the potato pro gram of our district. Anonymous Letters A MAN recently returned from Salem reports that Klamath's legislators have received a number of anonymous letters concerning legisla tive matters of interest here. The letters, he said, get little attention from the legislators, who justifiably resent that sort of thing. Persons who want to say something on mat ters of public interest should be willing to back up their statement with their signature. We long have followed a policy here of discarding letters to the editor which are unsigned, and we dislike running such letters without signa tures even though we may be informed as to the name of the writer. The principle involved here is one reason we have a liking for the new style in which we are conducting this column. The gent who writes it has his name at the top, and there is no question in any one's mind as to who said what. Here is a final appeal for our good readers to do their bit in the infantile paralysis fund cam paign which reaches its climax in Saturday night's birthday ball for the president at the' armory. Dances were generally discarded this year as a. part of the fund-raising program, but the local committee saw 'no reason for doing that here, and a dance is to be held.. There are various other methods of making small con tributions. ; The infantile paralysis fund program calls for a return of half the money raised in any county to that county for its own infantile paralysis victims. , , ....kAl&gJ MALLON Br PAUL MALLON A ASHINGTON, Jan. 29 Yes sir, the gov VY ernment rationers are certainly proving daily that a centralized arbitrary government will never do for the United States, By their inability to divide fairly and efficiently what stocks of non-military fuel oil and other things we have, they are convincing the Americans with bitter experience, that totalitarianism will not work here. If this necessary war rationing program was, in any one's mind, an experiment for a post-war managed economy it has failed. Take the experience of a small Connecticut medical supplies firm.. It is slightly worse, but in all ways similar to the 600 or more letters from farmers, oil dealers, clerks, small bust ness men, boarding house keepers and others, that lie on my desk. This operator of a necessary business, de livering medical supplies to hospitals and phy sicians, is only one of four such firms in Connecticut. He occupied a new building last year with a new type central heating plant. using fuel oil, and not suitable for conversion, He measured everything conscientiously, sent in reports indicating he needed 2200 gallons of oil this winter, and received an allowance of 430 gallons when the first coupons were handed out in December, By this time, he had used two-thirds of that amount, and knew he must do something. So he bought one of those three-legged, pot-bellied stoves for $40, the kind that Sears-Roebuck used to sell for $12, He paid $6 for a mason to make a hole in the chiinney, and $10 for pipes, a total of $56, but then he could get no coal. Finally he found one dealer who would sell coal if he would come for it. His office force got into their station wagon and went with paper bags to get. 500 pounds of coal, The coal dealer refused at first to sell, be cause the bags were marked by a rival coal company, but, after some negotiation and a half day of effort by the whole staff, they got 500 pounds into the office. Then the stove wouldn't work. It went out at night and occasionally during the day. An ad in the paper said the army was selling sur plus stocks of good stoves, known by the enticing title of "Warm Morning." That was what, he wanted, and he .located one, but the rationing board would not allow its" delivery. - Forms were furnished to him applying for it. No one in his position could honorably fill out such a form because it did not fit his circumstances and ' would require untruthful statements. He explained the circumstances to the board, but an official told him there were only two forms and he would have to fill out one or the other, truthful or not. . . . 4 The Last- Straw SIMULTANEOUSLY, the mail brought a post card from the rationing board marked: "Second notice. Call at once and get your fuel oil ration coupons." He did, and was awarded 650 gallons more for periods 3, 4, and 5, which would make his total allowance 1080 gallons as against a con sumption of 2200 gallons last year. Even so, this was manna from heaven until the same board wrote him the next day: "It is necessary for you to return at once all your fuel rationing coupons. Please fill in the , following information total area total area used for residential purposes percentage of your total area used for residential purposes bring this letter with you." Attached to the notice was a lot of incom prehensible legal verbiage, the substance of which seemed to be that he was applying for a stove and therefore his fuel oil was being cut off. , He is going to hire a lawyer to at least find out where he is. He paid $40 lawyer fees before getting gasoline rationing allowances for his necessary business. The Farmer's Annoyed OR, CONSIDER the situation of a Delaware farmer, who says he grows a little wheat and had to go 27 miles to the county seat to sign up for gas, to market it, losing one-half day's work and then had to return again for sugar, although his gas rationing allowance was four gallons a week, which he could use on the side to hunt for help when he didn't have to go to the rationing board. "They made out the paper themselves," he complains, "but in three or four days they wrote me to come back and give more informa tion as to where my market was. I drove in and told them that if they was so DUM they didn't know where Lincoln, Del. was when it was in sight of their office, I didn't propose to tell them. "They granted my request to take my wheat to market, but when I went back to get brown sugar to cure my hogs, they said they had word from Washington not to allow it. I demanded to see his papers to that effect, but the pile in his office looked worse than a busted bunch of corn fodder on a windy day." SIDE GLANCES . tOHt 1WI Tf m 9VKt. wa T. M. tto. u. t. 9AT. 099. "I've got a son in the Navy, and if you people don't run more pictures about the war in the south Pacific I'm ga ins to stop coming to this theater 1" "Ark" Builder Is Coming Back Via First Class Boat KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Jan. 29 (IP) Paul Satko, who went to Alaska in a rickety home made 'ark." is coming back first class. Satko's was an argosy, which brought back to life the inde pendent spirit of the frontiers man. In order to stay oil re lief roles back in the days be fore war time industry he defied skeptics and the courts in trans porting his family north In the crude boat he had somehow hauled cross-country from Rich mond, Va. A court forbade Satko from taking his minor chil dren with him but he Ignored the order, arrived safely and carved out a homestead 26 miles from Juneau. Now he plans to head south in comparative style for his first look at the outside since 1939. Oregon News Notes By The Associated Prats Portland Municipal Judge J. J. QuiUin took away the gaso line rationing books of three mo torists arrested for exceeding the 35-mile wartime speed limit. Fire destroyed the 1600-volume Mark Schrock Memorial library at the Cascade Locks conscientl ous objectors' camp. . . . Mrs. Louise M. Holman. sec retary for Multnomah county district judges at Portland, Is the first officer candidate for the Telling The Editor Lettara printed hare mial not be mora than Ml worda In length, mutt be writ tan legibly on ONE tlDI of the paper only, tnd mutt be signed. Contribution following theet rultt, art warmly wet some This Tire Stuff THE farmer appealed to his representative in Washington, who passed the buck to the state board in Wilmington, which gave him three choices to use his table sugar, to turn his meat Over to any packer wh,o had a sur plus, or to buy a commercial preparation. - "I went out and got brown sugar and DITEN give up my table sugar eather," he says.. "Then, here came this tire stuff. I had tlx . SEES DISCIPLINE NEED KLAMATH FALLS. Ore., (To the Editor) Everyone has been thoroughly shocked by the re volting crime which was com- mitted on the southbound South- ern Pacific train the other night and while nothing can be done toward undoing it, there is ap parently much that can be done toward preventing its repetition, refer to the restoration of old- time discipline on trains, which would never have allowed cooks, waiters and other unauthorized personnel to roam at will through sleeping cars at night. putting their heads between cur tains and insulting and molesting women passengers. I would like especially to know where both the Southern Pacific and the Pullman conduc tors were while all the various episodes related in your papers. including the murder, were Be ing on. Yours very truly, WILLIAM L. WALES Two-Yea r-Old Girl Was Lucky . PORTLAND, Jan. 29 (IP) - Two-year-old Penelope Foster escaped with a fractured right leg yesterday in a slide down the family laundry chute to the basement floor 15 feet below. tires, one wheel was out of line. I had it fixed with blow out patches, but we had to give up all over five, so I turned in that one. "I got 20 cents from the gov ernment for it, drove 30 miles turning it in, although it was never flat and worth $4 or $5. Some GIG made some money out of that tire and more than 20 cents. "From the way we HAF to run to these rating boards and keep them Informed, wis won't have time to due much farm ing.". There seems to be some mil lions of . citizens who, in a more or less excruciating way, have come to the same conclusions as the Connecticut dealer In medi cal supplies and the Delaware farmer. SPARS, coast guard auxiliary, accepted in the 13th naval dis trict. . . The Shaver Transpor tation company at Portland re ported a fire caused $20,000 dam ago to one of its river tugs. . , , Funeral services were held at Oregon City for Capt. Oscar F. Antonsen, 66, veteran skipper of the fishing boat North King, which plied between. Portland and Alaska, . . . ,.v-. A few hours after he received service of divorce papers, Port land Policemen F. C. . Gauntt and Donald McKenzie found the body of Emil E. Lutz, 37, who ap parently had taken his own life with a rifle. . . . Oregon City police investigated an outbreak of burglaries, three at service stations, one at a drugstore. . . . Before drafting next year's budget, the Portland school board will study the salaries of all employes .... Oregon QPA officials warned that sugar ra tion stamp No. 10 must be used before midnight, January 31. . . . Portland FBI headquarters, ex panded into four offices former ly used by the department of agriculture in the US courthouse. Klamath mi ;liii;ii Fro 4r in liilirtl rom the file 090 and lw IIIIWUIIMllli! Willi SHBI liHlmllill From the Klamath Republican January 29, 1903 Medf ord denies that it has 'the seven-year itch, or virulent itch or any other type of Itch. Klamath Falls is not so well supplied with wood at this time as it ought to be, ' with billions of feet. of timber in this county, The Klamath County bank has lately installed an adding ma chine, which is a marvel . for speed and accuracy and a great saver 01 time and energy. It has a keyboard something like a typewriter. FEW, IF ANY TAX CHANGES SEEN FOR STATE Br PAUL W. HARVEY JR SALEM, Jan. 29 (P) Tho house taxation and revenue com mittee completed its preliminary hearings today on Orogon's com plicated tax problems, while Rep. Giles , L. French, Moro, committee chairman, predicted that few,' It any, tax changes would be mado. The committee wound up the hearings today with a discussion of proposals to collect stnto In come taxes by deducting them from salary checks, and to adopt community property laws so that man and wife would own their property jointly. The com mittee will meet tomorrow to discuss information collected at the hearings, which have been held dally since last Monday, No Fay Boost Sponsors of the withholding plan for paying Income taxes be lieve It would enable the state to collect from war workers who might leave the state without paying up, but the state tax com mission said the proposal would work a hardship on employers and that it is not necessary as tne state would lose little rev enue from, war workers. The commission, however, Is favor able to payment of Income taxes quarterly, Instead of semi-annually- The house voted 31 to 29 to day against increasing the pay of their employes $1 a day, to conform with Increases given senate employes. House stenog raphers get $5 a day. Rep. J. D. Perry, St. Helen's democrat, sponsor of the resolu tlon, said the increase Is neccs sary because employes can't live on their salaries, especially the 29 house employes whose hus bands are in the army. Milk Control Fight But Rep. Burt K. Snyder. Lakeview republican, said the people, who just increased the legislators pay from $3 to $8 a day, wouldn t like the Idea, since many representatives have relatives on the payroll. The milk control fight was re newed today when Rep. John Steelhammer, Salem, and Sen. Thomas R. Mahoney, Portland introduced bills to abolish milk control. Mahoney withdrew his bill yesterday to keep milk con trol, but to let the department of agriculture enforce It Instead of the milk control board. bills are sponsored by tho League of Oregon Cities. The highway bill would give cities 15 per cent of highway funds over $10,000,000 annually, distributed on a population basis, The cities would gut 16 per cent of liquor rovonucs, the mon ey to be used for police work. Another bill by tho cities and counties committee would lot counties sot up sinking funds for road building and repairs of oqulpmont. SALEM, Jan. 20 (P) Small possibilities for establishment of a reserve fund for po.st-war em ployment and coimtniction out of current surplus rovonucs wore soon today by tho house taxation and rovciuio committed. Governor Earl Snoll asked for such a resorvo fund, but tho law pasKpcl uy the ncoiilo last Novem ber givos nil surplus lucomo tax rovonucs to the schools. Rop. Burt K. Snyder, Luko vlew, said ho saw no chunco for sotting up an actual resorvo, but ihol "the best resorvo fund wo could possibly havo Is good cred it for tho stato." LUMBER IN URGED. TO PLAN FOR EXPANSION SALEM. Jan. 20 (IPS Sen. Marshall E. Cornett. Klamath Falls, said today he would In troduce, a bill to repeal the 1941 law increasing the cost of dri vers' licenses from $1 to $1.50 to create a fund to prpvido for care of Indigent traffic accident victims. Cornett said the extra 60 cents Is unnecessary, since little of the fund has been used. He said he believes indigent accident vic tims should receive care through relief agencies. SALEM, Jan. 29 (IP) Two bills to increase money available to cities from highway and li quor funds were Introduced in the house today by the cities and counties committee. The HI RESERVE According to information re ceived by the local army re cruiting offico applications aro now being accepted for enlist ment In the army enlisted re serve corps. "Young mon who have at tained their 17th birthday but who have not reached their 18th birthday are eliglblo for enlist ment provided they are other wise qualified," stated Sgt. Hu hin, commander of the local of fice. "They must be able to ob tain the consent of their paronts. Applicants enlisted under this authority will not be ordered to nctivo duly until llioy have attained their 18th birthday but In every Instance will bo or dered to active service within tlx months after becoming 18." Sgt. Huhln also announced that "Applicants who aro quali fied for aviation cadet training under current standards may en list for service in the air corps enlisted reserve." Information and applications may be obtained without obliga tion at the army recruiting of fice, 219 Post Office building. County Commissioner Fred L. Pope said Frldoy thot there Is "considerable violation" of the load limits placed on various county roads and a stricter en forcement policy is being adopt ed by the county. Roads are well signed as to their limits, the commissioner said, but apparently some driv ers pay no attention to the signs. World's Largest Volcano Mt. Kilauea, Hawaii, Is the largest active , volcano In the world. Its enormous crater is three miles across. We havo every confidence In General Eisenhower and Gener al Anderson and the men of the allied forces. Clement R. Atlce, British deputy prime minister. TACOMA, Jan. 29 (IP) "Over and above the 48 to 60 hours of wur work (per wcok) wo have got to slip in extra hours to think about what wo are going to do when this war Is ovef," Orvlllo R. Millor, president, warned tho West Coast Lumber- men's ansoclatlon In a pupcr pre pared fur Its convention lunch con inuotlug 'huro today. "An Industry which It doing so much in the war certainly can bo prepared to face the ob ligations of peace with that siuno determination. Obligations Met "I am not suggotting a speci fic program, but it must Include tho fioldt(of progressive forest ry, research by industry and lo cal Instllutlom In forost prod ucts, and constructive work In public relations nil to the end of full employment under pri vate ontcrprlno." President Millor said the west const lumber industry carried out its war obligations by pro ducing a wookly avcrago latt year of 1.3 per cent more than in 1041 and 20 per cent more than In 1040, and "with no time out for plant conversions, with 110 delays for government fi nancing or federal defense plant construction when war wat de clared. , . . "Keep the logs coming. Koep tho saws turning," he urged. OF SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 39 UP) Copt. Henry Nelson, skip per of the Llnnr President Coolidge which struck a mine and tank while being used at a troopship In the South Pacific, disclosed In an Interview that he hnd been given a navy court- martini and cleared In connection with tho thlp't lost. Captain Nelson, speaking at his home here yesterday, tnld that If the 22,000-ton ship had not been beached quickly "we would have lost at least 45 per cent of those aboard she would have sunk in 20 minutes. The vessel carried 4000 troops when it sank somewhere In the Solomons area and only four men wore lost, according to an nouncements by the navy and Secretary Knox last December 15. Captain Nelson said, however, thot only two men, crew mem bers, were found to have boon lost when tho final check-up was made. The captain said, too, that his ship struck a second mine and that thlt blast was even more terrific than the first a few moments earlier. Earlier navy announcements said mere ly that tho ship "struck a mine." Tho captain disclosed that he was placed In protective custody along with hit offlcors after the sinking. The navy flew him to a South Pacific island, held the courtmartlal and acquitted him of all blame, he said. Always read the classified ads. From the Klamath News January 30, 1933 Josephine Jackson, 24, Indian woman, was found beaten to death today in the snow near Beatty. Doe license fees were reduced by ,the county dog board today. NO ANSWER PITTSBURGH (IP) Edwin L. Crone, a carpenter, disagreed when Judge W. Heber Dithrich told him he could not be ex cused from grand Jury duty next Monday. "Well, you'll have to." Crone insisted as court clerks stiffened in their chairs. "How is that?" snapped the jurist. "I'm going into the army on Saturday," the carpenter explained. In that case there Isn t any thing else to do." The court smiled. "We wish you well." THE OLD JUDGE SAYS... sT I '"Quite a discussion some of the boys wera having down at lodge meeting last night, Judge... you know, in the anteroom before the election of officers," "Sure was. ..and Herb was dead wrong. The alcoholic beverage industry does ac count for more taxes than any other indus try. I checked the figures in my office, this morning. Wh the figure on alcoholic bev erages is pretty close to a billion and a half dollars a year. Lucky thing we haven't got prohibition or the government would have to make up the money some other way. And there's only one answer to that more taxes. You know what that would add up to?... about $25 more taxes a year for every man and woman in the country. In other words you and Sue would have to pay about $50 more in some form of tax. I guess ab6ut the only ones who'd come out ahead on that deal would be the bootleggers and gangBters," Ccnlrma tfAluiallt Btutttl Indutttiu. 1m. o o ') o .0 o
