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HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
Jnnuary 20, 1948
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MALCOLM EPLEY
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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.
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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. , ,
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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.
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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.
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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...
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'"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,"
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