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Newspaper Page TextFebruary 18. 1943 PAGE FOUR HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON iltwb ' Tn Ahocuto Pant TM iwocMM Praw b td. Wnlr Ulk4 to th om d I. MblMMtlM of aJI r duplfe cran la n r M ounru ndltt to UK MF'- u4 lU Um lofA) Mt pibhils4 Uurcu. SB ! ntxbUoUo et A UttporT7 eoBMaalln of tb Krtetnf nrJ4 bb4 lb klanatii . IuI4thd rr afUrvooa iqk cVjaday al Etplteida i4 FtM ttrWu, KUath FRANK JEKKIKS Editor Orfo 7 U HeraJa PubUthtu Co. an4 lb KlaauLa Sin PBMtuu&c Coeapaiy Fetrtd aeod U ailtt t h poatofn ef KUuSb rails. Or., ec Aacuit to, tWt u4r act of eocfT, Marc 117. Vmbr Avsrt Bcuav Or CncrrATtov ft trd Xatioeally by WEvr-HotxsAT Cx, Inc. ItmaeteAX Jtro Terk, ftttK Chicago. rVrtit4, Lot Aa(iaa. MALCOLM EPLEY ilamafimj Editor EPLEY Today's Roundup Br MALCOLM EPLEY THE beat we have is what we want to give the men who are doing our fighting in combat area. Hence, there is cause of real r. .,-,.. satisfaction in the fact the armed forces are taking, for overseas shipment, the re mainder of the No. 1 potatoes In the Klamath basin. We have a war to win, and if Klamath potatoes help to win it. more power to them. That the army and navy are so anxious to get inese potatoes is further recognition of their quality. Because the spuds will take long journeys overseas, it was necessary to get the kind of potato that will hold up. Our spuds were se lected on that basis. Local people who got out and helped the farmers harvest these potatoes know now that there was real meaning to the description of the spuds last fall as "food for fighting" that had to be saved. No Unfavorable Effect IN GENERAL, the armed force purchase of . all the No. 1 potatoes here is not expected to have any notable effect on the basin economic situation. The potatoes were to be sold, anyhow, and they simply will g-; into armed force channels instead of civilian channels as, is usually the case. The army will buy under OPA price . which would prevail in buying for civilian consumption. It appears, however, that there may be some celling under prices which certain farmers would otherwise receive, for the peculiar reason that tome farmers have received offers above the '""g prices. This was brought out at the farmer-buyer meeting at Merrill with the army representatives. These farmers are not in violation of the OPA rulings by selling at above-ceiling figures, for the ceilings apply to, country shippers, not to growers. There is no OPA limit on what a grower may accept for his potatoes. But under any ordinary circumstance, it is not like- ; ly that anyone would pay growers more than the law allows the shipper to get for the potatoes.. : That this has been done was an odd dis closure, about which one can only draw his conclusions. It should be repeated, however, that such offer or acceptance of such offers are not m reflection upon the grower. May Boost No. 2's rE new potato deal does remove that many No. 1 potatoes from civilian consumption, and it appear from what the quartermaster corps representatives said that civilian stocks of high quality spuds are going to be pretty low. The effect here will probably be that No. 2 potatoes will assume new significance in the markets, there being no No. l's left. No. 2 spuds have been selling somewhat under the OPA ceiling for No. 2's. Under the new situation, it seems likely that No. 2's will increase to the ceiling level, and that farmers who still have No. 2's may receive more for them than they would had not this situation developed. County Agent Charles Henderson, who never misses a chance to put in a plug for Klamath potatoes, made the remark that Klamath No. 2's are better than tome No. l's from other areas, and, therefore, the civilians who must now eat our No. 2's need not feel too badly. The general conclusion to be drawn from the whole affair is that it emphasized the great importance of our fertile soil, our ample irri gation water supply, our able growers and our farm workers in this business of fighting a great war. Read Your Paper A FRIEND of ours asked us today about some news that has been appearing daily in this newspaper, but which appears on an inside page and therefore hasn't received his attention. He said he didn't take the time to read the whole paper, and yet he had been missing something about which he was sufficiently in terested to ask. Not all the newt can be placed on the front page. People who get full value out of their paper look through it. Furthermore, right now a vast amount of vital government information concerning ra tioning, etc, appears in the newspapers and affects the daily lives of everyone. Never was your paper more important to you. For Instance, the advance publication of the rationing book No. 2 blanks is now appearing in -newspaper. There will not be enough of these blanks to go around when the sign-up takes place. The clipped blank from the newspaper is expected to make up for this deficiency. est Ml MALLON News Behind the News By PAUL MALLON WASHINGTON. Feb. 18 A sub-division of farm bloc known as" "the house agricul tural appropriations sub-committee" has turned down the Wickard 8100,000, 000 subsidy program the idea of dipping into the treasury for this amount now and more later to pay farmers more than their vegetables can bring in the ceiling ed market, and then selling the vegetables to the consumers at a govern ment loss. The true significance of the acuon was beclouded by a loud rhetorical controversy as to whether a subsidy is a subsidy or a "bonus" or merely an "incentive payment," and there has been some cheering around the country on the theory that the congress has again repelled radicalism. The cheering may have been some what premature. The real question involved in the scrap was how high farm prices should go. The farm bloc apparently believed Wickard program would not go high enough. They expect to get theirs later, in another way. When all this quibbling and farm prospects : are sifted, it is clear that before Sir. Roosevelt i will be able to free the world of fear, he is going to have to free the farmers from fear of prices, and fear of want of help, equipment, repair parts and gasoline. Both Mr. Wickard and congress are puttering around on these four fears of the farmer, but as usual, with the accent heavily on prices. Wrong Accent THAT they may have the accent in the wrong I place is becoming daily more obvious in the accumulating evidence. Typical of all plain farmer's mail is a public letter from Dirt Farmer Louis Bromfield, the author, who points out that inestimable thousands of acres of soy beans, corn, apples and even other products, lie rotting in the fields today from last year's crop not because of price, but because of lack of help, which will be accentuated further this year by depreciation of farm machinery and lack of gasoline. Mr. Bromfield says he found many ( a good farmer facing his uncertainties today with this thought: "I and my family are all right We will eat. When the city people have not enough to eat, maybe Washington will do something about the situation. The advertising given the situation makes it certain Washington will do something before that, but the question still is whether it will be the right toing. or whether it will just be another price increase or subsidy payment. Push the Price Button k IO MATTER how high the evidence from the I N farmer grows, the farm politicians, like others here, cannot seem to get away from the notion that to cure any deficiencies out in the ' country, all they have to do is to push a price button up or down. Yet it is plain that if the farm bloc boosts lettuce to a dollar a leaf, it will not increase the lettuce crop unless the farmer gets help, equipment and gasoline and in case he does get these things he can produce bis food with out an inordinately high, inflationary price. One ray of hope is the slight weakening of the army in its stand against releasing any men for the farm front It may release battalions but not individuals, to do farm work. Yet in England, the same U. S. army is allowing its jeeps to participate in plowing the fields for spring planting. Already the radicals (even the CIO) are tee ing their chance in this situation. They are publicly promoting a more or less communal farm program, which would create state or county quasi-soviets to pool help, machinery and gas. Everyone knows most of the nation's farmers already do this in a neighborhood and democratic manner, and this democratic way can be expanded without creating a communal organization in the red way.' Unless someone gives the farmers some cer tainty as to the future, the battle on the farm front will be lost this spring in planting. SIDE GLANCES a-'B The government won't have to worry. nbout us raising record crops this year I've got two sons in the Army and I know how they eat" Telling' The Editor LMtM trtHa Mn Ml Ml M M llwa Mt w m Miulft. mm M mil. lal M1M XI ONI HDI l IM MM "Jr. tmt mat m MrM- oiiiiuni MtoaMf Umw ma, tn t m About That Income Tax DEDUCTIONS FOR CASUAL' TY LOSSES AND THEFTS Losses arising from fires, storms, shipwrecks, or other cas ualties, or from theft are allow able deductions in computing net income for federal income tax purposes. Thus, if a taxpayer's home is destroyed by fire or damaged by flood or storm, or his automobile is wrecked, or if his property is stolen, he may claim a deduction for the loss sustained and not compensated for by insurance or otherwise. The amount of such loss, if in curred in connection with a trade or business, is entered in Schedule H to arrive at the net profit (or loss) shown in item 9 of the return; other losses are en tered as item 15 of deductions in return, Form 1040. and must be explained in Schedule C of the return form. The intent of the law regard ing deductions for casualties, generally, is to allow for losses caused by natural forces. Such losses may be either of a person al or a business nature. To be an allowable deduction, the ( loss may not arise from the willful act or negligence of the taxpay er. Damage sustained to one's car by collision or accident, for instance, is a deductible loss, un less the damage is due to a will ful act or negligence on the part of the taxpayer. Faulty driving would not be classified as negli gence, but driving while Intoxi cated would be so regarded. jbucewlse. In the case of claims for Joss of property by theft or burglary, it must be established that the property actually was stolen, and not merely mislaid or lost. In the case of insured Drooer- ty, the amount of recovery through insurance must be ta ken into account in determining the amount of loss. The amount of loss allowable in the case of property damaged or destroyed is frequently difft cult of determination. A gener al rule is that the loss is mea- sured by the difference in the value of the property immediate ly before and immediately after the casualty. The loss on a wrecked car would bo the' dif ference between its market value just before the accident and the salvage value after the accident. In the case of trees, or ornamen' tal shrubbery, destroyed by a sleet or snowstorm, the measure of the loss is the loss in the value of the property of which they were a part, that is. the reduc tion in the value of the property arising irom the casualty. - This may or may not be the tame as the value of the particular tree or shrubs destroyed. In determining the amount of loss, also, sentimental value are excluded, for the reason that such values are not susceptible to measurement. Losses claimed must, in general, be related to market value of the property af fected by the casualty. Losses claimed for the destruction, dam age, or theft of family portraits. heirlooms, or keepsakes, must be based upon loss of intrinsic val ue, apart from the sentimental value. A further rule regarding de ductions for losses from casual ties and thefts is that such losses are deductible only in the year in wmch they are sustained, even though they may not be discov ered until a later year. A deduction for loss from cas ualty or theft may be allowed only to the owner of the proper ty with respect to which the lost is sustained.' British Are Annoyed HERALDED arrival of the Richelieu and other French warships at American ports was a convincing tribute to the administration's policy of expediency in playing ball with Darlan in Tunisia. Just a day or to before Darlan was shot, he made the French governor of Dakar come through with the agreement releasing these ships to us. They will go into active combat service on our tide. But there are more French warship in the harbor of Alexandria, which the French com mander there hat been keeping beyond reach of British fingers. He has threatened to scuttle them at the first British move. The British are getting a little annoyed at this situation, and development toward getting better cooperation out of that Vichy command er may be expected. New Pine Creek PTA Clears $75 On Big Dance NEW PINE CREEK The big PTA Valentine' dance held here last Saturday turned out really better than was expected by those In charge. Around $73 was netted after expenses were paid. The light installation charge have now all been paid and there remains in the treas ury a little over'850 which will be used to begin work, possibly during tpring vacation, on cleaning and refinishing the school rooms. Committee member and workers wish to thank every one who cooperated in making the project a success, and are especially grateful to the East Side grange for donating the use of their hall and kitchen faculties. Music was furnished by an orchestra composed of Teresa O'Connor, piano; Mildred Ad amt, banjo, clarinet and saxes; Irvin Faris, fiddle; Frank Ross, electric guitar, and Coleman George, drums. The group was highly complimented on' their music, their first appearance playing together. Occupational deferment usu ally indicates that a man it mak ing a more valuable contribu tion to the war right now than if he were In uniform. Such men should remember that our fighting men need materials and supplies to carry on their fight; plenty of them. Manpow er Director Paul V, McNutt. Phone The Herald and News, 3124, to placa a classified ad. Klamath Banks. City Hall, Court House Close Monday Klamath Falls banks, the citv hall, and courthouse will be closed all day Monday, Febru ary 22, in observance of George Washington's birthday. The state liquor store will be closed from Saturday at 8 p. m., to Tuesday at 10 a. m. The city council's regular Monday night session will be held over until Tuesday night Juke Box, Pinball Tax Favored by Senate Committee SALEM, Feb. 18 W) The senate assessment and taxation committee recommended passage toaay of a Mil by Rep. John Steelhammer, Salem, to levy an nual taxes of $50 on pinball games and $10 on coin-operated phonographs. The committee also urged passage of three house bills to permit counties, cities and school districts to set up reserve funds for post-war use. We'd all sometimes like to do what an usher is paid for. Tell people where to go. GRAY HAIR? fiET GRAYVITA! Thit mirjrJe antf-my hir vitamin, Calcium Pantothe nate, hai von wide popu larlty aa th mull of tetta hown In a leading national majrazitie. Thle report re vealed that M of penona dene of a return of hair color. GRAYVITA it Calcium Pantothenate PUJS! A GRAYVITA tablet ii 1') mjrm. of Caldum Pantothenate PLUS 450 IJ.S.P. unlta of Vita min Biand thfl other uvlul H Complex Vita mine. Taken intemally.GRA YVITA fren.untlr uppliea a natural color pigment through lha hair rootaat th vitamin deficiency in the body n repinntheo. uroer ukatviia nowi uwy i -ou tor w-oty 9 upwy, '. (Formerly (2 00 an Iv. S4.0O for 100-djv iud- xmxrly 2 OCi and (5.00.) Pbooa 4m, OURHIN't FOR ORU0I ' FUNERAL JAMES MADISON BAKER Funeral services for the late James Madison Baker who passed away in this city on Monday, February 15, 1943, following an illness of six days will be held in the Elks Temple, Main street at Third on Friday, February 19, 1943 at 1:30 p. m. under the auspices of Klamath Lodge No. 77 A. F. and A. M. Commitment services and vault entombment family plot in Linkville ceme tery. Friends are Invited. Ar rangements are under the direc tion of the Earl Whltlock Fu neral home of thl city. Ill at Homa Mr. Marshall E. Cornctt is confined to her home on Lavey street suffering from a severe cold. AN OLD TOM-CAT TO A NEW ONE vBr WILLIAM C. HURN In the group of 9B Klamath men who entrained from hero Thursday night, February 11, (or army service, la centered an in terestlng story. One of these boys was bearing a souvenir of World war 1, of 23 years ago that has more than a close con nection for this day of February 11, 1943. The lad was carrying It with him for what value it might have, to gain his acceptance Into the branch of the service he fa vored. While he was coming from double shift duties as a welder in a Portland shipyard on the swing shift and the day driver of a big fire truck out of the Multnomah fire station, a dual-defense rating, yet the fact that he had been rejected on all enlistment efforts previously, made him hope that in this draft call he might be passed o he was glad to pin his hopes that this souvenir might help him in case he was accepted for service this time. What he had. was the Julv. 3918 issue of the "Camp Colt "Treat 'cm Rough" Tanker Tom Cat News.' It was a descriptive edition of the camp magazine of the tank corps issued at Camp Colt, Gettysburg, Pa., where our first tank corps was organized In 1916. The boy's dad had enlist ed In the tank corps and had trained at Gettysburg and this relic was dug out from the suit case of the other war's memen tos for Bill to take alone in hopes of helping him, because of the relation between a yesterday of 1918 and today. In the pictorial section, on graphs In which the same person Is featured, our camp command ant. In the first one th 'C-O' Is shown with the army staff of ficer from Washington, who was head of the newly created branch of service and the other pictured him with the two Brit ish staff officer who were as signed to us for Instructors and tinder whom we did our actual field training. The character of Interest Is the Camp Colt commanding officer for the 'C-O' was Major Dwlght D. Elsenhower, and the very day this booklet was brought out and given to BUI, was the day that General 'Ike' Elsenhowor was nominated to become a full gen eral and was placed In supreme command of the allied force. And Incidentally, for a time, the second in command at Camp Colt was a Major Sorena Brltl, now General Britt and In com mand of a sector In the South Pa cific. Yep Bill is trying his darn dest to get Into th tank corps. Both he and I are hoping ha gets to serve under General Eisen hower, too. And somehow th dad In me believes that if BUI can only get In, somebody (?) Is going to be in for tome rough treatment from one 'Treat 'em Rough Tanker Tom Cat." ROAD COMPLAINT LANGELL VALLEY (To the Editor) Roads are In such bad shape In Langeli valley that school has been shut down for several days. The teachers had planned on having school on Saturday to Work could be caught up for th month school was out for the potato harvest, but now are unable to have any school. All fall the county road crew worked on what is called the Loke bottom road, or Teare road, which Is a side road with tlx families living on It. Rocks were blasted out, and the road was widened, graded and graveled Now I think that's fine to fix the first page, are two photo- "P side roads but I'm for fixing HENLEY On group of tlia Henley high school Victory ' corpt has let a goal of 800 book In a Victory book drive promot ed for men and women In th armed forces. The communities and organU ration of Olene, Po volley, Midland and Henley ar ankod to donate. General chairman of tills rilvl lion of the corpt It Bruce Hcs; chairman of the book drive It Margaret Murphy; co-workers are Mildred Spnrlln, Alice Cruminrlne, Pat Maston, Nnr. man Smith, Jannlo Carson, Bon nlo Smith, Glenora Chestnut and Leroy Stowart. Advltort are Mrs. Duncan and Mr. Marvin. Donated bookt may bo depot. ' Ited In boxes placed at the high school, grade school, Henley Cih store, Mullory'i (tore and Mac' dull ttora, "Please get behind thl drlv to retch our set goal," urged Bruce Hess. "Give a book you , would Ilk to koop (o help enter- ' tain the torvlce men and wom en." Rccontly published techni cal bookt, especially mathemat ' let, have been asked for. BRIDOES RUHNO' SAN FRANCISCO, Teb. 18 W Harry Bridges, west coast long shore leader, will surrender her March 3 to Immigration Director Irving F. Wlxon and then will be released on $3000 ball whllt ho await filing of an appeal to the U. S. circuit court of appealt from a deportation order. up the main road where the mall and school buset run. How about It, member of the county court? We all pay taxes and Mill have a vote. CORA LEAVITT. m . M N it New unJtr-am Cream Deodorant safely Stops Perspiration JL Doet not rot drrsie or men'i (him. Does not irritate ikin. 2 Nowaitingtodry, CanbeuKd fight after slaving. f, Intttntly itopi rvefipifitlon for 1 to 3 days. Prevents odor 4. A pure, white, greaielen, stainless vanishing crm. 6 Awarded Approval Seal of Arrftrican Institute of Launder ine for beins haimltm tn taofiCi I 39. J Alla!0u4SW)Mt ARRIS p. m m i r, 4 ,1 m '"to 9U the" H4 $095 $ imi tO 25 .....