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T HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON Folmmry 23, 194.1 PAGE SEVEN COME IH TAX SLASHES RECOMMENDED SALEM, Fob. 23 (IV- The Ii'Klsliituio's No. 1 Issue tuxes wnr. ready for Introduction In the limine IihIm.v, tint limine luxation mid rcvi'iiiic committee 1 ut v 1 1 1 u pi i pn ri'd two Income tux reduc tions which would becuino ef fective with piiyniunls made in IIM'I. Tim comitil tlco hud voted to make tint reductions effective with payments mudo thin your, Abut tills would compel the atuto tux coiiimliuilnn to niii ka thous ii i ui rs of rcnutos to persons who lind puld llii-lr tiixi'x before tliu new law would bccoinu offccllvo In June KcturnH must bo filed by April 1. The aixinember uiujorlty of tin) coinnilttcu recommended thiil tiixen In- reduced on 1111 nvcriiKe of 11.(11! per cent, tho majority opposing liny liirRer re (liictlun bcrniiM- It want to build up H sin plus Unit can bo iflvcn ..schools to reduce properly liixei. ;The three-man minority of the ' conimlttbe rvcominrnded nil uv ornnn reduction of, 2U.81 per cent. Tho lowetit group of tux puycni would got SO per cent cut, while those In higher brac kets would get imnllor cut. SALKM, Feb. 22 (J'J-, A ciuiiplete program for equal Ua tloii of school district tiixen mid time nld for schools win Intro duced In tho IcKlaluturo toduy by fctlie house tnxulion und revenue 'committee, the bill being a com panion meiiHiiro to one which would provldo n permnnenl plan fur state aid amounting to $35 for each child of school ngc. lioth bills would be Mibmltted (o the voters In November, 1044. The new bill provldoa for creation of rural school bourdii In each county to ucrvle school district budget!. Each county board would levy property taxes over the county, the total being equal to the tolul of nil school district budgets. SALEM, Feb. 22 (IV- The senate roads and highways com mittee was drafting a bill today to permit tho slate highway com mission lo permit the authoriza tion of longer and heavier trucks for the duration of the war and six months after. . The commission now permits trucks up to (HI feet long and 71,000 pounds to operate for tho duration. Tho new bill would nut specify any limits. The action of tho committee followed tho house's 43-15 de feat of a bill to make the high way commission's order perm anent. Trucking Interests will ask that a bill bo Introduced to per mit petroleum trucks to operate permanently under tho tempor ary limits. Logging trucks were given this privilege at the 1041 session. Where Lend-Lease Has Been Going I ft I I m I H3 typii ft Ain GREAT BRITISH diiccia CHINA TYPE OF AID BRTAN EMPIRE RUS5'A tm"A WS7.585.000 J 16.467,000 S5J7,JW,0O0 $60,527,000 5344,186,000 S4Bl.tBg.000 HH.9M.OO0 1)7,136.000 Zmm B BW am J7 14,897,000 Jl 17,414,000 $121,709,000 J 11,504,000 FOODS MB tti m 5880,891,000 $56,227,000 $101,169,000 $1,560,189,000 $719,897,000 $452,315,000 $45,171,000 TOTAL AID $1,959,950,000 $2,191,191,000 $1,512,230,000 I56,73B,000 PREVENTION OP GANDHI'S DEATH China's shore of U. S. Icnd-lcnso In 1041-42 was small, but limited transport facilities to that notion slowed delivery of wnr sld, Chart bused on March, 1041-Deecmbcr, 1042 figures released by admin litrator Edward Steltlnlua, Jr., allows where most of our 8,252, 733,000 in lend-lease went. Oilier countries received tome $210, 022,000 in goods and scrvlccn. War Production Training Asks More Women Enrollees Civilians who aro not in essen tial industries may receive train ing for such work In thu war production training classes, vo cational department, Klamath Union high school. In a recent conference of voca tional administrators, steps were taken to iiicrcaso the enrollment of women in all classes. Keccnt orders from the Columbia Air craft company of Portland ask for 35 women workers per week for aviation sheet metal. Women may qualify to go to work with from 100 to 300 hours of train ing. There are u few openings in all classes at present, according to Coordinator A. II. Fitch. Wom en are encouraged to enroll in general sheet metal. The course of 100 hours will qualify women for work in the Swan island and Vancouver yards in Portland, at 05 cents per hour. Men and women are also needed to fill classes in welding, machlno shop and electrical repair. Hcccnt enrollees placed are Bonlta Gooch, Elva McCleland, R. N. McCleland, Joseph Mlksch, Doris Noblclt, Howard Noblett, Herbert Altmann, Loys Lowth- cr, Louise Grey, Kathleen Silver, Margaret Ray, Clyde Sackctt ond William Parker. Those trainees arc now working in war Industries in the Portland area. It is no longer necessary to sign up at tho U. S. employment office; trainees may register at either the school or the USES. The school may be reached by calling 7505 for further Informa tion. : ' Training Program Slated For Klamath Grocerymen Three Women Now On State Highway Maintenance Crew OREEDSPORT, Feb. 23 (IP) Three women have taken the places of men on the stato high way department maintenance crew here under Foroman W. H. Park, Park said he believed it was the first timo In the state's his tory that women had become members of a maintenance crew though not tho first time women had worked on department con struction operations. Three women at one time wore em ployed on a paving crow at Marshflcld, he said. The women on Park's crew arc Mis. Ray Wlllard, truck driver, Kind Mrs. Iriuo Abbott and Mrs. Laura Edwards, laborers. OSG Rooks Power Over Oregon Frosh Ofo Win Cage Series CORVALLIS, Fob. 23 (P) Tho Oregon Stulo Rooks defeat ed the University of Oregon Frosh, 42-30, lust night to win the an mini basketball series, three games to one, Tho Frosh held a 10-18 half time advantage and woro in tho running until tho last five min utes, when tho Rooks, paced by Whltey Konstud with 13 points, took a 30-33 load, Somport led tho Frosh scoring with 14 points. All grocerymen In Klamath Falls who are Interested In a training courso In point ration ing being offered to checkers, blllcrs, clerks and grocers who do their own checking, are in vited to attend a meeting to be held Tuesday (tonight) at Klam ath Union high school at 7:30 o'clock. , Mrs. Sally Louis and the re tail selling classes will be avail able to train any grocer, checker or clerk for any firm cooperat ing In the program. Classes will bo held in room 214 of the high school each day this week and any grocer wishing aid In check ing inventories or arranging stock, marking or detail work, may mnko arrangements at tho h!(ih school at this cvoning's meeting. Tho classes will be held this week from 3 to 4, 4 lo 5 p. iii., and 0 to 10 a. m. in room 214. They will run through Saturdoy of this week. It is Important, Mrs. Louis pointed out, that each store wish ing its employes trained, sched ule a definite time when their employes may attend. This sort of training is being offered in every stato in the west and has tho backing of grocer associa tions. It is offered without cost by the vocational department of KUIIS. All interested grocers arc urged to attend tonight's meeting. Central Turns Tables on Winko League Leaders ELLENSBURG, Feb. 23 VP) Central Washington turned the tables on the league leading Enst em Washington college basket ball squad Saturday night by taking a 52-51 Winko league basketball game after leading nearly all the way. CWC was ahead 28-26 at the half. Russ Wiseman, CWC for ward, scored 27 points to set a new leaguo scoring mark of 248 points, 10 above the old record, He still has two games to play. Hood River Enters District Finals by 32-31 Dalles Win THE DALLES, Feb. 23 (ZD Hood River won an overtime 32-31 decision from The Dalles last night to gain entry In the finals of the district two high school basketball playoff. Pendleton also will bs In the playoff along with a team from the Prinevllle- Redmond - Bend Burns area. URGED ON EDO CORVALLIS, Feb. 23 (.IP) Dr. E. Stanley Jones, who bus spent more tliun 30 years In In dia, lias wired President Roose velt urging intervention to pre vent Gandhi's deuth lest tho al lied cuurio In the cast Is endun gcrcd. Dr. Jones, hero for a three-day Christian mission In the city and at Oregon Stato college, fluid the Indian nation alist loader has "called our hand" in tho matter of freedom, and that the only way to get rid of Gandhi is 'to meet tho is suo lie raises." The wire to the president said: "Gandhi's death may be a mor tal blow to the allied cause in tho cast. Beg you intervene and mediate." Dual Nation Dr. Jones said that should he die, Gandhi will be more power ful dead than alive as he "Is the most terrible question mark on the world horizon today. Gandhi asked for the thing we said wo arc fighting for ond was Jailed for it," he said. "1 refuse to give up hope, but the sands are running out and it is five minutes to 12 in the cast." In reviewing the background of tho present crisis Jones said Britain is a dual nation the Britain of democracy which the world loves and the Britain of empire which after passing up 20 years of opportunity to set tle the Indian question, sent Cripps out in unholy haste with a proposal that looked good on the surface but which was a psychological blunder." Si V Mitt I3L3LH I 1 s-J&CS 1 Always read tho classified ads. Thousands Praise Simple PILE RELIEF This Quick, Easy Wayl Blmple pit" need not wrucV and torture wou with midden In Itch, burn and IrrlU 3n. Sluart't Pyramid fluppoiltarlte hrln Ti!lrk. welcome rtlltf. Thtlr 7way mtdlea Ifitn manna ml comfort, ridutw at rain htlpa ilahttn relaxed mtmhranM. fianlly lubricate and aoftena. Protective and antt rhaflntr, au ei? to urta. 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That was revealed last night when his fiancee, Corlnne Glandon of Tacoma, Wash., arrived- to visit him in Gowen Field hospital. ' They were to have been married during the time he was in the wilderness after the bomber with eight aboard crashed. All crewmen were rescued last week. But they are a determined couple. Miss Glandon said they would be married "as soon as he can leave the hos pital." Pruitt suffered toes and a sprained knee on his hike. Another Dairy Herd To Go On Block PORTLAND, Feb. 23 (P) As serting "you can't pay shipyard wages and the present feed prices with 15-cent-a-quart milk," E. G. Bates, owner of one of Port land's largest dairies announced today he would put his herd of Holstein, Jersey and Guernsey milch cows on the auction block Thursday. A vitamin that prevents gray hair Is being advertised. How are the shoe polish people going to like that? Fake Broadcast Brings Gas Bootlegger in Line NEW YORK, Feb, 23 (IP) Soft music came from a radio as police quizzed the suspected leader of a gusoline black mar ket gang about theft of coupons for 11,000,000 gallons. Tho strains were interrupted by the voice of a news commen tator. It was a faked news re port broadcast by a police of ficer in another room: "Horrible news. A terrible slaughter of American troops in Africa." Captain Richard Fcnnclly said Louis M 0 n g n 0 sat as though dazed, Tho report continued. Men were ambushed and slain because of Insufficient gasoline to bring up relief troops and supplies. The prisoner and po lice listened intently. "I did not realize this when I stole those stamps. I'm a traitor. I'll take you where the stamps are. Come with me. Give me my coat. Shut that off. I can't stand it," Mongno broke down. Fcnnclly said Mongno led po lice to a well-furnished apart ment on West 18th street and from a closet produced three po tato sacks filled with thousands of ration coupons Including the complete loot taken from OPA offices in Long Island City five weeks ago. LUNCH MONEY SALT LAKE CITY, (IP) A new garage employe left a note explaining he had gone to lunch. His boss waited for him to re turn. He'i still waiting. Also, he's looking for 60 he discovered was missing from the till. ABSENTEEISM BLAMED 0 I WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (IP) The house naval committee, ap proving a work-or-fight princi ple, blamed war plant employes today for laying off work to such an extent that "we are not doing a good enough job to win this war." 'The workers In our plants, for causes which we have not yet ascertained, are not on the job long enough, steady enough, reliably enough," the committee reported. : Report to Draft Board Describing such absenteeism as "a very ugly situation," it recommended transfer of absen tee workers into the armed forces if the conditions cannot be corrected. The committee's stand was stated in a report, prepared by Rep. Lyndon B, Johnson (D-Tex.), requiring officers of navy yards and stations to sup ply information to local draft boards on the number of days each man of draft age is absent from his job without prior au thorization. The report embraced a letter from the navy department giv ing figures on the prevalence of workers, failing to report for their jobs, especially on Satur days and Mondays. Mackeys Buy Ranch From W. Normile MALIN William Normile this week announced sale of his 133-acre ranch east of Malin to George and Sam Mackey, Tule lake potato growers. 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