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Newspaper Page TextPAGE FOUR HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON February 2fl, 1043 Utmbtr cf Tot Amocutis Pun Hi AMoelit4 fnu If fxelu llvirlr aotltlad to tha u of r publication of til tHt aUaiuMiM era4ltH to H r not otherwU. eredltd In thla paper, urn) lo tba lof.l atiri publlihrd tharelo. ill riibu of rtpubllutloo "I pcal dlapafhaa ra lao n larvad. FRANK JENKINS KMor A tfmporirr comblnttt'Mi of th Keolnf Hrratd anl til Kltinitlt Net. rilllh(Ml erfiy afternoon ni',t Pundsy ab E.imde ind Tint atr!, KUmith Fulls Orfoo, by Ida Hrrald Publishing Co, md th KliBUtb. News Publishing Compn Rntr-M s iond dsns mattr at tha postofflos cf Klamath Fall, Or., ob August to. 1900 unur act of congress, March 8, 179. Mmbr cf Audit Bin i att Of Cncn-ATioji Rcprstnttd Nationally by WroT-HcoxiDAT C!o, C, Fun PranoJioo, Kw York, 8. alt!, Chicago, lVirtlaod, Lot Angls. MALCOLM EPLEY Managing Editor Today's Roundup News Behind the News By MALCOLM EPLEY STATEHOUSE, Salem (Special Correspond ence) An economy-minded outsider, looking on at the legislature, Is Impressed by the large v number of Idle women on the ' - house floors. 1t Most of these women are "'' y secretaries of the house mem- j,-1 j oers. no qoudi uiey ou uu V t' t gome work, and some probably SIDE GLANCES a. vr htm EPLEY work more than others. But it I is apparent that most of their time Is spent in just sitting, reading the papers, gathering autographs, or carrying on social conversations with their neighbors, none of which is of any great value to the state which pays them. Here is a tremendous waste of womanpower. We would guess that a staff of IS good stenographers, working all the time, could do the secretarial work of the house of repre sentatives. . . When we think of all the surgical dressings that should be made, and see all of these girls and women sitting there doing nothing, we know that something is wrong. We suggested today to a friend that a surgical dressing pro ject be organized along the corridor at the side of the house and let these women make the bandages In their spare time which seems to be about all of their time. ; r Autographs THIS place has gone crazy about autographs. The current fad is to get all the members of both houses to sign souvenir cards, which are put out by the governor's office to statehouse visitors. Attached also is a gilt seal and the governor's signature. House pages and secretaries go about the floor obtaining the signatures of the legislators, to be sent home to some youngster or to some souvenir or autograph collector. At the annual "third house" session last night, a number of visiting soldiers were busy getting signatures of senators, representatives and other state offic ials. When an official had been located, the name was signed with the paper pressed against the soldier's back. The "third house" is an old established cus tom. At this rump session, lobbyists, press and others take over and deliver some of the punches at the state officials they have been pulling all session. There are many pointed wisecracks, all taken in good fun, so far as surface appear ance goes. Tuesday night's "third house" made much of the defeat of former Governor Sprague and also cracked about some of the methods by which Governor Snell made himself politically popular. Both of these gentlemen were sitting in prominent spots with everybody watching them. Under such circumstances, who would dare betray anything but vast pleasure at the dirtiest dig? This was the first rump session we've attended; hence, we can't compare the humor with that of previous sessions. But a lot of it belongs in the corny category. Three members of the house staged a clever Scandinavian skit, and the out side entertainment was swell. News From Home LEGISLATORS are great newspaper readers. After each mall arrival the papers are placed on their desks by house attaches, and the member and their secretaries spend much of their time reading the news from home. The secretaries do considerable clipping. The house and senate spend only a small part of the day in formal session. Committee meetings and informal conferences are as much a part of the legislature as the actual business sessions. Usually, Issues are determined and minds made up before the legislators go through the formal motions of acting on the floors of their respective chambers. We would say, on the basis of personal ob servation, that our legislators are generally hard working and conscientious. They earn their pay. MALLON Speak Up, Senator WE HAVE been hearing much favorable comment about Senator Cornett's appear ance on the legislative Lincoln day program, when he gave a reading. The program was broadcast and the Klamath senator's voice and delivery were said to be very effective. The value of a good voice is well demon strated here." Both houses of the legislature are pretty noisy, with typewriters clicking in the corners and numerous conversations going on. To be heard, a member must speak out. One senator speaks so low that everyone must strain to hear him and almost invariably, on roll call, the clerk repeats his name because his vote was not heard at the front of the chamber. He Is a veteran solon, and one would think that after a while he would learn to speak up, With Art Bremer, Klamath man who Is now United Press bureau manager here, we called upon Justice Arthur D. Hay of Lakeview in the supreme court building. He is the same scholarly humorist we knew in the sagebrush country. In the supreme court building we met Arthur Benson, long-time clerk of the court. Arthur Benson Is the son of the late Henry L. Benson, Klamath circuit judge who went to the supreme court. Mr. Benson remembers the Klamath Falls of our "Klamath's Yesterday's" column. ' Coming home, we stopped off Wednesday night to see Oregon State defeat the WSC Cou gars in a coast conference basketball game. It was our first experience as a spectator In a gym equipped with those fancy transparent backboards. It is great for the spectators on the end, who heretofore have been unable to tea' a ball shot at the near basket. V " ' Br PAUL MALLON WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 The fourth term movement is being developed here only slightly different from the third. It was almost exactly four years ago that Congressman Sabath, of the Kelly-Nash front in Chicago, emerged from the White House and spoke the first official word for third ' term, by publicly de manding it almost in Mr. Roosevelt's presence, His announcement then was along the same lines as his statement after a White House call last Monday namely, that the president's opponents might construe fourth term as a dictatorship, but that no one else could do the job. Mr. Sabath's original proclamation was pre ceded, four years ago, by a heavy publicity clamor, led by Mr. Ickes and New Deal public ists, to break down the popular acceptance of the anti-third term tradition. This time, the ground was prepared for Mr. Sabath only faintly by the publicists. One columnist wrote sympathetically of the fourth term idea a month ago, and some others follow ed the notion, indicating New Deal subalterns were preparing for it. The convention is still 16 months away, and intervening developments of war and peace may have more to do with the choice of leader than anything that anyone can say now. Impress the Southerners PROMOTION of the idea at this time is no doubt designed to impress southern con gressmen: the farm bloc and other revolting ele ments with the inevitability of another five years of Roosevelt. It is supposed to take the starch out of the revolt. Whether it will succeed in this purpose is doubtful. The psychological political revolution in the south has continued to expand since notice was first pointed seriously to it in this column six weeks ago. Eight Louisiana congressmen issued a public defiance to the president in connection with a judgeship matter only a few days ago. They did not rush out haphazardly on a limb without some careful assurances before they leaped, and the judgeship matter only furnished a relative ly minor vehicle for expression of their general purposes. The Itinerary of the recent return of Jim Farley from Mexico was followed more closely in Washington than, elsewhere. Either In his wake, or shortly before he arrived,' there arose in Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Georgia and elsewhere a quiet movement for independent democratic actionr possibly even a southern demo cratic party stand , ing separately on its own feet. One notion of southern men in terested i n this movement is that the southern dem- ocrats might well wait until both republican and democratic conven tions have made presidential nom inations next year, and then hold their own conven tion to decide whether it will support either or ' "er. Unfit lb i J I Z. I ' - . I til JIM FARLEY Eves on His Trip nominate a man of its own like Senator Byrd, of Virginia. The whole political focus of the southern revolt apparently is centered on preventing gain what happened to the southern democrats at the Kelly-Nash-Hopkins-Ickes convention in Chicago last time. Many southern delegates to that convention (and Mr. Farley, as well) had the idea they were sucked in or smothered over and required to follow a course repugnant to them. FDR Would Lose Today WHETHER Mr. Roosevelt, by promoting the fourth term Idea, and later harvesting the cotton crop in the south with the army, as in Arizona, etc., can overcome this situation re mains to be seen. It Is, of course, possible that he will, but his problem on the fourth term is much different than the third term in this respect. If the election were today, he would not succeed. , On the republican side, Mr. Willkie is run ning for 1944 even faster than the administra tion. He seems to have deduced that a pri mary cause of his failure last time was lack of support from the New York radicals. He has filled that gap markedly in the past two years at the expense of other support. Another defect has been the strong political opposition of all the republican leaders in his home state. They loft him when he wont to the Roosevelt foreign policy, and have called him a Roosevelt leader, but last week he made an Indiana speech which the New York Times reports won back some republican support though Indiana political authorities here doubt It. Politics Out in Front WILLKIE'S systematic campaigning for the job with ell the skill of a New York lawyer has set republican' leaders in congress here to talking about Dewey, They could get around Dewey's renunciation by drafting him. This, they expect would take no more effort than the New Deal drafting of Mr. Roosevelt. Certainly work has started already to erect a i hi i rM corit tw rr wi sinter inc. t. h ata v. pvt. u... "Well, our boy lins jmt one over on us he's seen the President, even if he did have to go to Africa to do it I' Klamaih Crop, Livestock Production Up 52,665,637 (Continued From Page One) $886,400, as compared to 1941's 7700 cows at $756,000. The total livestock figure for the 1942 season was given as TENTATIVE $4,621,700, as compared to 1941's $3,801,000. Following are figures pre pared by the county agent's offices: AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION ESTIMATED FOR 1342 -KLAMATH BASIN 39c Livestock Sheep 94,000 ewes Wool 440,000 lbs. at Lambs 32,000 at $8 Misc. sales Beef 62,000 head Sales 5500 cows at $65 2600 calves at $37 .... . 4000 heifers at $70 .. 4000 fed steers at $120 8000 grass steers at $85 2500 feeders at $80 Dairy 7000 cows Sales 500,000 lbs. fat at 70c 300,000 lbs. fat at 60c 810,000 lbs. fat at 44c Hogs 2500 brood sows 20,000 fat hogs at $25 ... Poultry 110,000 hens Sales 1,300,000 doz. eggs at 27c 30,000 fryers at 80c ................ 40,000 old hens at $1 Turkeys 36,000 at $4.50 Miscellaneous Livestock Sales Rabbits Furs 171.600 256,000 12,000 357,500 96.200 280,000 480,000 680,000 200,000 350,000 180,000 350,400 351,000 24,000 40,000 162,000 20,000 75,000 30,000 $ 439,600 2,003,700 886,400 500,000 577,000 125,000 MANY STOCKS PICK UP NEW CIS TODA y By VICTOR EUBANK NEW YORK, Feb. 2 (!) Many stocks continued to ac cumulate new recovery highs in today's market although numer ous leaders, unable to overcome profit cashing, backed Into losing territory. Transfers were around 1.400.- 000 shares against 1,777.200 the day before which were the sec ond largeit since late 1041. It was the fifteenth million-share session of 1943. Trices in the final hours were notably irregu lar. Tnere were assorted re vivals near the close. Notwithstanding further aood war news, inflation potentiali ties and investment demand, boardrooms seemed tn fool tha lengthy upturn called for a sub stantial technical adjustment and accounts, generally, wcro trim med without touching off much real weakness. Closing Quotations: American Con Am Cor & Fdy 32 J Am Tol & Tel 1421 Anaconda 271 Calif Packing 24 J v-ai Tractor 47 Comm'nw'lth & Sou 2318 General Electric 38 General Motors 481 Gt Nor Ry pfd ; 251 Illinois Central 91 Int Harvester 631 Kennecott 31 J Lockheed 201 Long-Bell "A" 71 Montgomery Ward 351 Nash-Kelv .,. Si N Y Central 14 Northern Pacific 10 Pao Gas & El 27 Packard Motor 4 Penna R R 281 C. Penney 841 168 TOTAL LIVESTOCK ... S 4,621,700 Farm Crops Hay Alfalfa, 18.500 A. 74,000 T. at $17....$ 1,258,000 Grass and Clover, 20,000 A. 36,000 T. at $13 468,000 Grain hay, 20,000 A. 40,000 T. at $9.. 360,000 Total hay 58,000 A. 150,000 T $ 2,086,000 Grain Barley, 43,000 A. 2,340,000 bu. at $83 1,942,200 Oats, 18,000 A. 940,000 bu. at $51 .... 479,400 Rye, 10,000 A. 128,000 bu 100,800 Wheat, 11,000 A. 220,000 bu 222,200 Total Grain, 82,000 A. 3,626,000 bu. .... $ 2,744,600 Field Crops Potatoes, 16,510 A. 5,894,070 bu. at $1 $ 5,894,070 30,192 100,800 642,175 5,000 Sugar beets. 402 A. 3774 T. at $8 Onions,' 200 A, 84,000 lbs Small seeds, 13,115 A 4,911,000 lbs... Miscellaneous, 100 A. Total Field Crops Truck and Fruit, 1,600 A. TOTAL CROPS 0,672,337 240,000 $11,742,837 TOTAL CROPS AND LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION, Republic Steel Richfield Oil 9 Safeway Stores 361 Scars Roebuck 65 Southern Pacific 181 Standard Brands 51 Sunshine Mining 51 Trans-America 81 Union Oil CalU 171 Union Pacific ...... 011 U S Steel 53 Warner Pictures 91 WHEAT CHICAGO, Feb. 26 (P) Wheat paced a sharp advance in grain prices today, spurting the permlssable limit of S cents a bushel at one time, as heavy buy ing entered all pits in response to Washington legislative devel opments. Senate passage of the Bank head bill late yostcrday and ap proval by the house banking committee today of a bill to In clude increased costs of farm la bor In computing parity stimu lated a flood of purchasing or ders from milling interests, com. mission houses and professional traders. After hitting new highs for at least the past six years, with the September contract at a peak since 1929, wheat closed 3-3ic higher, May $1,461-1, July $1.47 $1,461, corn was unchanged at ceilings, May $1.00, onts ad vanced i-lc and rye gained li lt cents. LIVESTOCK PORTLAND, Feb. 20 (AP USD A) CATTLI5: Kuliihla 25 total H5; calves sulublo 10; total 35; scattorod salps cows and bulls fully sti'udy; other dttimi's itonil ually steady; medium to good fed steers suluble $1:1.50-15.65; fed helfrrs salable $13, 00-14.0(1; or above; few canuiT and ctiltor enws sold $7.00-8.25; medium to good beet rows salable $10.50 12.60; odd medium bulls $12.00, good bulls quotable to $13.25; or above; good calves and vealer $14.00- 15.00; choice veulers quotable to $16.00. HOGS: Salable 100, total 360 scattered sales steady; few good to choice llghtwolghts $13.50; strictly choice quotable to $15.(15; medium light lights down to $14.50; feeder pigs strong to 25 cants higher, choice 70 to 05 lbs., $17.00-17.23. SHEEP: Salable none, total 25; murkct nominal: good to choico fed woolcd lumbs sulublo $15.00-25 and above; common to mod I inn grades In narrow do- mund, quotable $10.00-13.50; good awes unlablo $7.50-8.00. SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO Feb. 28 (AP-FSMN) CATTLE: Salable nono. Nominal; for week, receipts exceedingly light; medium to good steers quoted $14.00-15.50; good rango cows $13.50-13.00, low-grade cows 35 to 50 cents lower; medium to good bulls $11.00-13.00. Calves: None. Nominal: choice vealers quoted $14.00-13.00. HOGS: Sulabto none. Nomi nal; Thursday's closing top good barrows and gilts $13.30; good sows $14.23. SHEEP: Salable 200. Lambs and ewes steady; good to choice woolcd lambs quoted $15.00 to $15.75; package good 132 lb. woolcd owes $9.00, half car No, 2 shorn good awos $8.00. pern PORTLAND, Oro., Feb. 26 Oft A sharr gain tn orders for wost- orn pine lumber during the week ending February 20 was reported today by the Western Pino as sociation, Orders totaled 81.101.000 board feet as compared with 67 112,000 for the provious week and 58.094,000 for the corre spondlng week last year. Similar comparisons of ship mcnts wcro 63,041,000; 61, 313.- 00g and 71,645,000, and of pro duction 80.809,000; 47,443,000 and 58,177,000. . . . . , BOSTON WOOL BOSTON, Feb. 26 (P)An of fer of 40 cents for a lot of light shrinking southern Wyoming wool for spring delivery was re fused in the Boston wool mar ket today. Contracting in Toxin has practically come to a stand still. Purchasing of medium wools for spring delivery was reported from Kentucky at prices of about 46 to 47 cents. BURNS TO DEATH SEATTLE, Feb. 26 W) Frank Duncan, 50, of Denver, dlod early today of third degree burns suf fered last evening when he fell sleep in a chulr with a lighted cigarette In his hand, the cor oner's office reported. Duncan was district manager for Gen eral Foods Corp. His mother survives In Denver. TrlliiijU The lldiiov LiMmi ortntvrt tttrf mini not bt mora lhn DQ wrarot In Uitglli, mull ht writ Hn iMllily on ONS IIUI ol III! papal t"lr. anil ntual ba algtad. Uonltlliullwiia following lliaaa fulaa, iff warmly waa-oma, ABOUT CPT KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., (To the Editor) There seems to be a Int of lulsiiiiilci'ntaiHlliig by the people of Klamath Falls us to where lliu uniforms that the raduts at (ho war training serv ice, Summers school, are wear ing, canto from. The iinlforin.i ma fanned by the government for the cadols only, They urn the sumo fine mattirlal t hn regular army has except that llioy are dyed green (or the express purpone of In forming tha general piiblla Unit they ara not regular army sol diers. The program is progressing along with flying colors and the men are well established lu the Summers school with an iibuntl- anco of good subntantlal food and lodging. Shower facilities have been completed and tha men are under the military command of a squadron commander. Tha military orders are issued out by the squadron commander and uio curried out by tha nan- conimlnsioncd officers appointed by the squadron commnndur. Ilia men, as a vvholv, ura vary well pluused by the personal coiirtcjy and the friendliness shown them by the people of Klumolh Fulls and their squad ron commander (the writer of this urllcle) appreciates your ef forts to make them as welcome as you liuve. The setup of 11011-commls.iioucd officers: Sergeant J. A. Maglnnlg, night A Leader M. C. Clark. and Flight "B" Leader S. P. Hale. Thanks 0 million for your co operation folks, mid don't forget why wo ore here To . . . "KEEP 'KM FLYING," HAHOLD M. SHERMAN. Sqtiiidron Commander. til am a ih's YetitenitmH -;:;!(! I,. j,;Jjf Ivlijilli,,!;;.!:,,!,'! 'I ,J. .!!'. H;i!'i!l!l 1 1 alalwlwtia-ia'iMiia)a From;: 'ihe f IUo 4o yeori jk.ogo oridVlO ft ,999$$, From The Klamath Republican February 26. 1903 The Paisley Post reports that W. E. Barnes was injured when his homo full with him while riding on the Klnmuth marsh. Ho hits not yet regained the use of his right arm. (W. B. Barnes, now of Klamath Falls, Is a for mer local juntlce of tho peace), Tho legislature has passed a bill providing for the Incorpora tion of Merrill. From The Klamath News Feb. 26. 1933 Chlloquln high school today captured the county B league haskatball title. Doris Noah of Fort Klumath was elected queen of the seventh onnual Fort Klamath ski carni val. Tho Oregon Bank and Trust company closed lis doors yester day morning. State banking de partment has taken over the liquidation of tha local financial Institution, a casualty of the depression. $16,364,587 Dewey barrier against the nom ination of Willkie. But In the background, be hind these two, Ohio's Governor Bricker is unquestionably the current choice of the party lead ers. The country does not know him, but he is getting out mak ing speeches and getting to know the people. . When they say politics is "out" for the duration, appar ently everyone means out in front of many other considera tions. First Salmon Reach Rogue GRANTS PASS, Feb. 26 CP) The first salmon have reached this vicinity in the Rogue river, Joe Madarus, state gam war den, said today. Time of appearance for sal mon here is normally between March 4 and March 15, accord ing to Joe Wharton, local angling authority. However, river conditions are favorable this year for an early arrival of the salmon, Wharton said. A thermocouple is a thermom eter for a blast furnace In the steel industry. Pi LE S SUCCESSFULLY TREATED M0 MIM - NO MOIFITAUIATIOM No Um of Time Parmanant Ratultgl DR. E. M. MARSHA Ohlrepriollo pFtyilalu tra No. 7th - quire Thtitra 111. INCOME TAX RETURNS Prepared at M. L. Johnson Insurance Of f ice 412 Main Street, Klamath Falls, Oregon Will Be Open Daily, Sundays & Holidays THE OLD JUDGE SAYS... , icip JUL "Judge, there' been quite a bit of talk going around about prohibiting liquor in various tpols around the country . . . around tha Army camps for one thing. What do you make of it?" "Well, Henry, I ize It up about like tills. It looks to me like the folks who ore doing the talking are shooting a littlo bit higher, than most people seem to realize.. Sort of like the salesman who gets his foot in the door and before you know It he's sold you a bill of goods. Wouldn't surprise me a bit if what they're really aiming for is to take in the whole country again. W all know it didn't work the last time. All we got was boatlei liquor Instead of htnl liquor... plus racketeers, gangsters and the worst crime wavo the country ever saw. "Seems to me we've all got our hands full to win this war without starting up an argu ment we just got through settling a few years back." Ornlmna tAltnMIt Simii MiWrai, Int.