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PAGE TWELVE HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON Fobrunry 13, 1048 NOBIS L T, Industries now in the crowded centers of tha east are looking forward to placing plants in roomier , locations close to the source of raw materials, Earl C : Revnolds. secretary of the chanv ber of commerce, said today in reviewing experiences on his re cent trip to Washington o. c, and other eastern and midwest- em cities. Reynolds interviewed officials of various industries to deter mine their attitude toward west ern development, and to direct their interest toward raw mate rials and industrial opportune ties in this section. There is no chance, he said, of getting much action until after the war, but he said he found easterners "fed up" 01 the long standing policy of locating indus tries in centers of concentrated population and willing to look to the open spaces in connection with plans for the future.- He said that Industries are also Interested in finding new,sources of raw materials. Reynolds went to Washing ton D. C, to attend a meeting of the directors of the National Association of Commercial Or ganization secretaries. In Washington, he said, he visited with Lieutenant Law rence Slater, Klamath Falls, now With the weather bureau of the air corps. He said he found Sla ter tremendously interested in his work but not happy at living In the jammed capital. . ' Reynolds also talked with Lieutenant Colonel T. K. Gillen waters, former Klamath county district attorney, executive offi cer in the weather bureau. -The chamber secretary said that Congressman Lowell Stock man of this district is quickly adapting himself to his new situ ation in Washington. SALEM, Feb; 13 (JP) The house taxation and revenue com mittee made up its mind on amendments to the initiative measure which was passed last November to give surplus in come taxes to school districts to reduce property taxes. The committee voted to intro duce three bills containing the amendments. One would set a tentative fig ure of $5,000,000 as the maxi mum amount that could be giv en in any one year to school dis tricts having special school lev ies. The others would create a special state fund for the surplus revenues, and would set up ma chinery for distributing the money. . . 1 ' . ' The committee still is dead locked, however, on how to re duce income taxes. Half of the members want to make the same percentage reduction in all brackets, while the other half want to give bigger reductions to taxpayers with small incomes and smaller reductions to those . who pay on large incomes. Langell Valley Miss Marion Ekstrom of Se attle, has been visiting at the home of Mrs. W. D.. Campbell and family. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Dearborn entertained with a dinner on Tuesday in honor of Mike Dearborn's birthday. Guests Were Mr. and Mrs. Mike Dear born, Mrs. Mary Dearborn, O. C. Johnson and Helen, Marilyn and Charles Dearborn. Private James Romtvedt left Thursday for his station at Fort Chaffee, Ark., after visiting his parents, Mr, and Mrs. Sandre Romtvedt. ' Staff Sergeant and Mrs. Lakue House and Mr. and Mrs. Elliott House and Jean spent Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. Jerry McCartie and family. Mrs. Mary Leldy was a lunch eon guest of Mrs. Cora Leavitt on Wednesday. She also visited Mrs. Reg Thomas and Mrs. Harry Frazier. Mrs. Cleda Wells left Satur day for San Francisco after spending several weeks with her parents, Mi, and Mrs. Owen Pepple. : Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pepple and Bob visited on Monday with Mrs. Lloyd Pepple and sons in Klamath Falls. Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Dear born and Bill and Henry were dinner guests on Tuesday at the Les Leavitt home. Phyllis and Bobby Lee end Charles Dearborn have been ab sent from school because of se vere colds. D0KIN6WES SAYS REYNOLDS The average child's vocabu lary at one year is three words', at two about 200; at three about 600. .. , OUR MEN IN SERVICE H fefc iV ; 1 . Major Harlan P. Bosworth Jr., formerly manager of the Klam ath Falls district of the California-Oregon Power company, has been transferred from . Camp Claiborne, La., where he was commanding officer of the 715th Railroad Opera tion Battalion, to the utilities division of the North Atlantic Division of the fnrns nf Enfft. neera. and is now in New York. He has just completed two weeks of special instruction a t Camp Dix, N. J., and has been tentatively assigned to the Syra cuse, N. Y., sub-office of the North Atlantic Engineer divi sion. He will be in charge of the Syracuse office. His assign ment to Syracuse is expected to take effect on February 15, and until that time he will remain in New York. The North Atlantic division includes New York, New Jer sey, Delaware, Newfoundland, Greenland and Bermuda, with sub-offices in New York City, Syracuse and Philadelphia. The North Atlantic Engineer division handles operation, main tenance and. : repair of army buildings, grounds , and struc tures in the area as well as oper ation and maintenance, of all utilities and land acquisition and rentals. -; . . UNDERSEA MAN Roy- Wal lace Benedict,' 19, seaman first class, son of Mr. an'd Mrs. A. W. Benedict, 4CV Pine street,; has completed basic training at the submarine -.school, submarine jjf base, . New Lon don, Conn., for duty with . our growing fleet of iunderseas fights ers. X Seaman Bene dict will be en titled to wear the twin dophin insignia of the submarine service after further experience aboard a submarine during which he must demon strate to his commanding officer that he is fully qualified to carry out the duties of his rate. ; Benedict, a graduate of Klam ath Union high school in May, 1940, lettered in . football and wrestling and later was a stu dent of forestry at Oregon State college, Corvallis. He had ROTC training during the last three months of 1941. In December of that year, he joined the navy, re ceived . recruit instruction at Bremerton, Wash., and saw ac tion at Dutch Harbor. He said he chose submarine duty "for more action." -. - NOW AT SEA Louis Schwei- ger, 19, seaman second - class with Uncle Sam's navy, is now at sea, accord ing to word re ceived by the youth's parents, Mr. and Mrs. ' . Konrad Schwei 'ger, 526 Lytton street. Seaman Schweiger join cd the navy on November 8, 1942, just one year to the day after war was declared. He is a former Klamath Union high school student and at the time of his enlistment was employed by Fluhrer's bakery. He took his early training at Camp Farra gut, Ida., and was later sent to Treasure Island. ; FARRAGUT, Ida! Entered in a hospital corpsman's school at the U. S. navy hospital here for a six-weeks' training period is Russell R. Blnney, son of Mrs. Binney, 1745 Menloway, Klam ath Falls, Ore. During the time he is receiv ing this training, he will learn a great deal about the care of the injured and ill from the U. S. navy forces.. On gradua tion he will go into service at a navy hospital for a short pro bationary period, then be trans ferred to a permanent , assign ment. . . ...'., Sgt. Elwood Gilreath, nephew of Mrs. L. R. Stringfellow of 2260 Garden avenue, was the driver of a General Grant tank which went on a lone rampage when the Yanks took over in Oran, it has been learned here. The tank, unaccompanied, ac counted for three French :' 75 mm. guns and 50 motor vehicles, and emerged from the city with its armor plate pock-marked but all its men safe. Sgt. Gilreath, whose picture also appeared in the December 7 issue of Life magazine, is a na tive of Norcatur, Kan. A seemingly minor weather condition, low clouds, causes the greatest number of delays in air travel. CI t ' I -1 ft 'BEVV l1 RETURNED Wendell Prime, former Chiloquin business man, has returned to his duties at the naval air station at Corpus Chris- tl, Tex., after an lo-aay leaves. speni in me Klamath coun try. Prime en listed in the na val reserve in May, 1942, com pleted his pri mary training at San Diego and was sent to the Great Lakes navy school and the Ford navy school in Dearborn, Mich., for further training. Having com pleted this training, he now holds the rank of aviation ma chinist mate 3c. IN NEW MEXICO Private Robert L. Hosley is now sta- 1 1 o n e d as a Ssli clerk in opera tional engineer ing at the Unit- ...1 C4tAn " . 'Stcu umivo n.uij.- air base in Dem- f ing, N. M. Pvt. Hosley was for merly in the grocery b u s 1 ness in Chilo- ja quin. . IN TEXAS Private Lewis E. Wilkinson is now stationed with the medical detachment, 335th infantry, 84th division, iCamp Ho wze,-XTex. Pvt. Wilkinson was inducted in to the U. S. army in Decern- t ber, 1942, from g!0 Vallejo, Calif., where he owned a store and fill-! ing station. He I, is the son of" Mrs. Lee Sutton of Klamath Falls and attended Mills -school here. Portland Mother Will Christen Escort Vessel BOSTON, Feb. 13 (F) A Portland, , Ore., mother whose only son was killed in the war, will christen an escort vessel named in' his honor at a launch ing ceremony Monday at the Bethlehem-Hingham shipyard in Hingham, Mass., the navy an nounced today. The mother is Mrs. Sydney Lawrence, of 3115 S. E. Sixth Ave., Portland. Her son, Charles Lawrence, an aviation machin ist's mate, was killed in action. Poe Valley George Davis is expected home from the army in the near future by his father. John and Joe Nork are cutting juniper posts and wood tljis week. The county road scraper came through here early this week, opening up the road. It was im possible for the mail carrier to deliver mail Monday. Leslie Pruitt is expected here on a furlough from a training camp. ... .'.....;. Among the Klamath Falls shoppers from the valley Mon day were . Mr. and Mrs. '. Irvin Ross, Ray Freuer, F. Rodgers and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Nork. : Joy Phillis and Frank Ross visited at the home of their grandparents,. Mr. and Mrs. Los son Ross. Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Roberts went to Merrill Tuesday to visit some relatives. Clarence Webber is building a milk shed : for his cows this week. Charley Rife is helping Arch ie Roberts with the chores. Mr. and Mrs. Hallie Haines are planning on sending their daughter, Mary Louise, to the Shrine hospital to receive treat ment for a leg ailment. A shower was held at the Chet Barton ranch for a couple of newlyweds recently. - . ' Hank Holzhouser is sawing lumber for the Liskey brothers to build hop pens with; Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Johnson were callers hero recently from Klamath Falls. ' Siberia's first mass settle ments began in 1590, according to documents found in Vologda. WANTED . Experienced Lath Mill Men LINSCOTT MFG. CO. CENTRALIA, WASH. LZL lv s r j J E PORTLAND, Feb. 13 (IP) A 19-man committee, representing labor, management, war agen cies and the public, today sought a cure for absenteeism in Port land war industries. ' The problem was described as serious here, and the committee was named following a meeting of 200 persons from the war plants and government agencies. Time Off L. C. Stoll, Oregon manpower director, said the committee would attempt to get recommen dations on paper Wednesday. His organization will follow them "as far as practicable," he said. Speakers said many employes, new to industrial work, are tak ing time off to conduct personal business at their convenience, unaware of the disturbance "to production, and that others, un accustomed to high wages, arc laying off periodically to spend their money. Representatives from" labor said, however, that much of the absenteeism is due to sickness, often unreported. TREATY BLAMED FOR E MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 13 (P) William J. Hale, research, con sultant for the Doa Chemical Co., at Midland, Mich., charged that an "unnubliclzed" recipro cal trade treaty proposed with South American nations to de stroy all United States synthetic rubber plants after the war was he real reason for reluctance of nany companies in this country to start rubber production. Speaking, at the annual din ner of the Minnesota bankers' conference Thursday night, Hale declared that the. "state department in Washington is holding back' the country - In chemical development." "We have signed an agree ment in South' .America',;' Hale said, "saying all plants built to make synthetic-, rubber:, will be wrecked after 'the war-that is wrecking the : chemical industry for reciprocal" trade treaty." He said "time to inquire by Samuel Crowther exposed the treaty "which never was pub lished," and which "signed the rubber industry's . birthright away." ''' All attempts at making rub ber from oil, Hale said, have provided a "damnable flop," and a $500,000,000 government fund to develop synthetic rub ber "went into the oilmen's hands." The oilmen, he said, didn't know how to make rub ber." ' '''. ,'..'. NO PASSPORTS WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (AP) Canadians and British subjects resident in Canada soon will be permitted to visit the United States without passports, the state department announced Friday. ABS NTEEISM CURE SOUGHT PORTLAND THE OLD JUDGE SATS... "Here's a piece. Judge, that says that In spite of more cars and faster speeds, the first sis year of repeal showed 12 less deaths from automobile accidents than during the last six years of prohibition." "Now doesn't that just go to show you, Henry, you've got, to be on pretty solid ground aa far as your, facts go before you make an out-and-out prediction, Why, back in the days just before repeal quite a few folks around th. country made pretty power Cleaning Up n iter I i nittffiii jtokjLl Wit i hum SSSA-.i Handy horse trough somewhere In British paratrooper cleaning some . , oft his Legionnaires Challenge All - Promise to Lead Klamaih Bandage Rollers Tho fighting spirit has been aroused In the breasts of the vet erans of 1917-18. Fred LaForge,' commander, of tho local post of the Legion, read in tho paper that men of the town are going to help mnko surgical dressings, and forthwith sent a challenge to all and sun dry, asserting that American Le gionnaires will prove they can make more and better bandages than Elks, Kiwanians, or ' anyj body else. Here is LaForgo's statement: ."It has come to tho attention of the local Legion post, that certain civic groups namely the Elks, Klwanis and otiiers, arc gathering next Monday evening at' 7 p. m. forr tho purpose of making bandages. This Is to in form any and all organizations that the American Legion mem bers can make more and better Ediiors Pledge Spot News To American Public, in Spite of War-Vime Cuts Br KENNETH X,. DIXON WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 W1) No matter what else may be cut out. of the national newspaper diet due to wartime shortages, spot news will be served to the American reading public as long as the presses keep rolling. ; That was the pledge today of members of the American So ciety of Newspaper Editors" as they went into conferences with home front leaders to find out just how deeply the newsprint, zinc and manpower shortages will slash Into the industry's; op eration. Furthermore, these editors be lieve, the quality of America's free press may bo vastly Im proved by the industrial exigen cies born of world conflict. After discussing the handling of war news with federal war in formation and censorship offi cials, ' and conferring with the president and secretary of state, the 200 editors spent the last day of their 21st annual meeting with '.'-': l'V.- .... ful predictions about how automobile acci dents were going to jump up if wc got legal liquor back. ; . "About the only thing along that line you're ever safe In predicting, Henry, is this.' No community or county or nation, for that matter, ever became or ever will be come dry just because it voted that wdy. All that the votin' decides is whether you have legal or bootleg liquor. We had nearly 14 years of experience on that, didn't we?" in Tunisia i . . m wro i Tunisia makes a wash basin for of that embattled country's mud boots. surgical dressings than any other group or combination of groups that will be present on that eve ning. In order that wo will have some decent competition, the Legion has decided not to begin making bandages until the others (wo seriously doubt If many others show up) havo hod at least one hour's head start. As men and veterans, wo received a severe Jolt to our pride, when somebody Implied that men might, or maybe could, moke bandagos almost as good as the women. Our great and natural com munity spirits havo been aroused, so watch out you other sissy clubs, for our slogan. Is: "When more and better bandag es are made, tho American Le gion will make them." FRED La FORGE. Commander, Post No. 8. military leaders and the heads of various civilian war agencies. Considerable attention was fo cused on this morning's meet ings with General Georgo C. Marshall, army chief of staff, Admiral Ernest J. King, com mander In chief of tho U. S. fleet and other top-flight mili tary men. . Tho newsmen wanted to know just what shortages arc due and why. Once they find out the worst, well "Newspapers will have to pull in their horns and weather a few restrictions," said Wilbur Forrest, assistant editor of the New York Herald Trlbuno and Asno director. "In a way, it may be a good thing. Somo papers got too big. The cut In newsprint probably will result in closer and better editing newspapers will be even more readable." "We will cut everything else out before we cut the spot news," said Editor Walter Mor row of the Columbus (Ohio) Cit izen. CanJtitMi ej AUeketu Bnnmt MutoUt, Ini. 9 MAJOR BILLS still mm LEGISLATORS By PAUL W. HARVEY JR. SALEM, Fob. 13 (!) With houso leaders still hoping that tha session might one! two woolts from today, tho Oregon legisla ture finished lis fifth week to day with Its nine major pieces of legislation still unpussud by either houso, If tho session should end In two weeks, It would bo the 47th day, making It tho shortest ses sion in ninny years. Tho 1041 session lusted U3 days, and tho 1030 session, longest in history, lasted 08 duys. Slow Work Of tho 020 bills which have been Introduced, lid have been pussod by both houses. At this aiugu of. the 11)41 u-sslon, only 83 of 730 bills had boon ap proved by both houses. Tho No. 1 legislation ' Is the program to reduco income taxes and to amend tho 1042 Initiative giving surplus Income taxes to school districts. Chulrman Giles L, French of tha house revenue and taxation commlttco, which Is drafting the program, sulci he doubts that tho house will be ablo to act on It next week. And utter that, it must go to the senate. Ssnat Bills Bills to abolish milk control and to amend the unemploy ment compensation law are In both houses, and have been passed by nclthor. Uut these probably won't hold tha session up vary much, as tho attitude seems to be to lenvo luws on these subjects alone. Important senate bills, which have not boon passed by either house, would bring occupation al diseases under tho workmen's compensation law, make indus trial lnsuranco mandatory upon all employers, permit tho stuto fish commission to assume tho legislature's right to fix seasons, and give state liquor stores a monopoly on the sale of most wines. House bills to permit bigger trucks to operate on stuto high ways, and to establish civil service systom for state employ ers have received . c 1 1 o n in neither house. j' - Most of the remaining major bills should begin to receive consideration next week. AMOUR, INC. FORT GREELY, Alaska, (T) "If your lino Is tough end words como slow we'll wrlto that let ter and she'll never know." With this slogan, two soldiers established a confidential letter writing service Amour, Inc. for their Fort Grccly comrades. Their rates? To an old love, 25 cents; to someone you've never met, 75 cents; to a movlo star, $1; grounds for divorce letter to wife, $1.10; letter to Fort Greoly sweetheart, Rose Teed, frco of charge. THIS, TOO, -.' IS uni the task is War. Uddor the busy fingors of th ' long distance operators flow messages that niov . troops, locate and asaomblo supplies. ..that help to build ships, guns, tanks and planes. To handle the gigantic volume of long distance ' calls, we could use moro equipment if wo could get , it. But that would draw upon critical war matoriuli ' that are needed at tho fighting fronte. So we earnestly ask you to co-operate by making, j t to war-busy centers, only long distance calls that are absolutely necessary. . Thank you for your help and your understanding. For Victory... Buy United Statei Wor Bondi TItK PACIFIC TRLKFnONR lit North Ith Unit , r 1 NEWS from HOME (Killtor'l Nntnl llMMMrr, In trh Satltr ilny'l tpr, brief hmmt'iln flf (h w.rfc'l pent )cw Will hit Itrliltni lllltl.f tlm utmvc lirHillilv, to Ih rtl,iit,l mil l,y tlt wli wUli In timrl It to iiini fniitt llio K.lmtli IihiIii wliii rira In tlm irniH itrrlcfi mirt r tint Hrlllnx th ilnlly liatirr, 1'lia nnitlil. hi H ftililrr.ini to lorvlrn men mul .It li our lii(in Hi werVly n,iiriiiii will n ttiiiMKii lnenl t"nilfl In wtllt tltrilr li'iyi In Hi n.rvlr ftt leml uiimi week, flicluilnf Ida ollii!ni.) . Well, fellas, some Interesting news has boon coming through about somo of our mon In ser vice that makes tha home folks swell with pride. . , . There was a story about Lloiitoniint John Harding, who used to play In the lino for the Pelicans, and who skilfully pancaked a Flylngf") Fortress In North Africa after it hud been disabled by uttack on a bombing mlnsion, , . , And there wan another yarn about Robert Ntiues, Klamath Falls, who was cited as exemplary of the fighting spirit of tho men of the heavy cruiser Pensucola. Folks ut homo are having their rationing and food shortage troubles, but wo haven't seen anybody going hungry. , . , Out-1 tor and meat aren't as plentiful ' as they used to be. , , , Shoo ra tioning slgn-ups aro set for the middle of tho month, , , , Some local people who live Inside the city want to keep hogs as ono way of meeting tho food prob lem, and the city council has been asked to rolux city ordi nances to let them do It. Southern Pacific has asked lo cal business men and other city workors to work on tho S, P. tracks over weekends! making up for manpower shortage. , , , Men of tho town are going to. help the Red Cross moot Its' quota , of 03,000 surgical dress ings for overscus uso this month, Tho Pelicans took Bend In a couple of buskcthuil games last weekend. , . , They still aren't assured of a placo In the state tournament at Salem, This has been a real winter here. . . . More snow than usual. . . . There's still lot. of it around town and on the nearby hills. - Industrial Hazard Note for 1943 PORTLAND, Feb. 13 (P) Frances Plasha's hair caught In a machine at the Iron Fireman plant last night.- Condition of the 22-ycar-old woman wua not serious. Phone Tho Herald and News, 3124, to place classified ad. INCOME TAX RETURNS EXPERTLY PREPARED Reasonable charges. W hive II forms. Bring last year's roturni. Appointments eve nings and Sundays. 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