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Today's Roundup News Behind the News
EPLEY
By MALCOLM EPLEY
A CLEANER town that was the wish ex
pressed In a serious discussion at Monday
night's city council meeting. But when the
session ended, no definite plan
1 to bring about a cleaner town
f ' had been developed, except to
f 1 appeal again wi mu puunu
' J which throws waste paper
V I !'! '-ound on 016 Meets, hurls
" i bottles onto curbsldes and into
theatre entrances, ana oiner-
wise messes up a city that
could be far more attractive
than it is.
Night revelers ar respon
sible for a lot of the rubbish
and broken glass on downtown streets here.
And night revelers pay little attention to ap
peals from city councils, or in the editorial pages
of newspapers. They might be interested in a
newspaper story telling about the arrest and
punishment of one of their kind for breaking
glass on the street.
There are some things that can be done
through an awakened civic pride, and the local
Lions club is to be commended for its efforts to
arouse the officials and the public to a con
sciousness of unattractive things about town.
Local people can clean up their own property,
making improvements that will add to the bet
ter appearance of the community. Local people
can use the rubbish depositories on downtown
streets, instead of throwing bits of paper,
empty cigarette wrappings, etc., on the side
walks and into the gutters.
Ail paved streets of the city right now could
stand a good washing by the city sprinkler
equipment.
Note For Parents
PASSING more legislation is not going to
solve the problem of juvenile delinquency
that has Dave Bridge so badly worried these
days.
This is fundamentally a problem of the home
and of parental responsibility. Unless parents
do their job it's going to get worse.
The story is told of a Medford father who
went to an officer at Camp White with a report
that his daughter was in trouble, declaring that
a Camp White soldier was responsible.
To bis bitter demand that "something be
done," the officer replied:
"Mister, I have 38X100 man to take cue of,
and you. have one daughter. You had better
go home and take care of your daughter."
And our Mr. Bridge made a telling comment
Monday night when he said:
"The people here seem to be more interested
in what happens to their dogs than in what
happens to their children."
Evacuee Farming Area Cut
rE area in the Tula lake country to be used
by the war relocation project for agricul
tural purposes has greatly diminished from the
35,000 or so acres originally talked by the WRA.
In fac, ia down to 3700 acres, and there
is some opinion down there that that is too
much. The original plan of having the evacuees
carry on reclamation development in the area
has long since been abandoned, and that work,
according to reclamation officials, will have to
muk time until wartime restrictions on the
regular development program are called off.
. When the evacuees moved into the project, it
looked as if the tremendous volume of labor
there could be turned to extensive agricultural
and reclamation development It is true that a
farming program of considerable magnitude has
been carried on, but it has proved to be far
less than at first suggested.
Two factors involved have been the lack of
incentive for the evacuee farmers, and, more .
recently, the removal of many of the able and
industrious farmers from the project to jobs
outside the western defense areas.
An airplane struck a power line near the
end of one of the runways at the Klamath air
port Saturday afternoon, and power line work
ers, on poles repairing the break, reported that
two more planes passed between the poles at
such a height they would have struck the
wire had it been strung there at the time.
There has been a lot of discussion about re
moving that power line, and it would seem
that Saturday's incident would prove the neces
sity of doing something about it soon. That
old problem about the pending army lease
of the field probably has something to do with
the delay.
A pedestrian tells us that local people are
not "sharing the ride" as generously as they
could and should. He says that on several
occasions he has walked down town, while
dozens of cars have passed, him with only a
driver using up all that good space Inside.
There is no way of checking, but all indi
cations point to the greatest filing of federal
income tax returns in the history of the local
office of internal revenue in the period that
ended Monday night. Taxpayers were still
there until 11:48 p. m. While the filing period
was the busiest ever for the local office staff,
it seems probable also that more people mailed
returns than ever before to the internal revenue
office in Portland. Elimination of the neces
sity for notarizing the returns tended to en
courage mailing. We seemed to sense a local
feeling of relief today now that the painful job
is over.
Some red faces are reported as a result of the
failure to name Klamath's Jim Bocchl on the
all-state basketball team. Jim's greatest per
formance in the tournament at Salem came,
however, in the final game after the selections
had been made. It looks as if some one
guessed wrong on the winning team Saturday
afternoon. V
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MALLON
By PAUL MALLON
WASHINGTON, March 16 Gov. Bricker of
Ohio today seems to have the best
chance of being the 1944 presidential nominee
of the republican party. He
is not yet a familiar national
figure. Few people know him
beyond his record as a good
three term governor who has
made some sense out of a be
wildered state government.
But he is already getting
promises of a substantial bloc
of delegates. He has inherited
the Taft organization through
out the south and that section
is confidently counted for him.
except possibly Georgia where a rattlesnake
situation exists. Add to these the votes of
Ohio and possibly New York, and you have
the beginning of a formidable candidacy.
Mr. Willkie has been getting all the pub
licity, but the question is where he will get
the votes. He is working on Indiana and
some of the northwestern states like Washing
ton and Oregon are counted at this advance
date as being "probable" for him. Obviously
New England and the middle west have not
proved especially fertile fields for his view
point. He will also certainly not get California,
Iowa or Illinois. So where is his delegate
strength to come from?
Most of the republican leaders seem to be
taking New York's Gov. Dewey at his de
clining word. He would, of course, have New
York, if he ran and could build up a strong
candidacy elsewhere.
But to get into the race at all, over the bar
rier of his official declination, he would have
to be drafted, and no draft movement has
been started or seems to be contemplated.
. This ' makes the pre-convention race stand
today as a contest between Bricker and Willkie
with the edge on Bricker's side.
No doubt many favorite son candidacies will
develop, Stassen in Minnesota, MacNlder in
Iowa, Saltonstall in Massachusetts, etc, but
most of these seem likely in the end to be
come allied with the major candidacies (Stassen
for Willkie for instance.)
Democratic Situation
THE democratic situation is still running loose.
The test blackout of politics for a fourth
term, aa staged the Bast few weeks, looked
good to some
Kooseveltian fol
lowers, poor to
others. No one
came out except
those . you would
expect Guffy,
Sabath, Mead, etc.
Nothing very en-
couraging was
heard from the
great bulk of the
party leaders in
congress whose
voices would have
sounded bigger.
True, the mere
mention of such a
hideous thou ght
(to republicans )
discouraged some John W. Bricker
of the opposition political figures. The Gallup
poll (incidentally it did not contain detailed
state figures which would have been more
convincing) suggested Mr. Roosevelt would
have a fourth term popular majority of only
52 or S3 per cent "if the war was still on" a
year from next November.
No one knows when, the war will be over.
The ideal time for it to end from a New Deal
political standpoint (if it could be ended by
political desire and it can't) would be along
about next summer. The campaign would then
catch FDR in the midst of peace negotiations.
He would then have the prestige of having
won and could beg not to be interrupted in the
peace.
Usually after wars, however, a natural popu
lar spirit of nationalism has developed among
the people. In all, it is impossible to tell what
the feeling of the country will be 15 months
hence, as to Mr. Roosevelt and his conduct, of
the war and peace, and anyone who tries to
do it is playing with fantasies.
As of today, the tactical situation of the
fourth term campaign is far weaker than the
average non-political person assumes it to be.
The south is strong anti-New Dealing territory,
looking for a place to go. Mr. Roosevelt will
have to win it back, if he can, before his re
nomination is assured. If it, and the other
loose ends of anti-New Dealism in the demo
cratic party are organized by Jim Farley or
anyone else for Senator Byrd or Senator George
or if the opposition just agrees on a course
of anti-Roosevelt political action the only thing
left in the democratic convention will be the
federal office holding groups, the Kelly-Nash
machine, the Hague machine and other smaller
machines working In cooperation with Harry
Hopkins and Ickes.'
point of political weakness,
where Mr. Roosevelt will need
strength.
These powerful undercurrents
controlling the political situa
tion on both sides have appar
ently been forgotten In the
strong running tides of public
ity which keeps both Mr.
Roosevelt and Mr. Willkie on
the front pages unchallenged
every day.
First recorded production of
nickel alloy steel in the United
States was in Pittsburgh, Fenna.,
in 1890.
Of the 6,230.000 farms in the
United States, not more than 16
per cent are located on all
weather roEds.
EAGLES PRESIDENT
TO SPEAK TONIGHT
National President Lester Lo
ble of the Fraternal Order of
Eagles arrived here Tuesday
and will speak at the Eagles at
a meeting to be held in the new
hall tonight.
This meeting will start at
7:45 p. m., according to Presi
dent M. L. Shepherd. All can
didates were Instructed to be
present at S p. m.
A dinner honoring President
Loble, with aerie officers and
their w Ives attending, was
scheduled for this evening at
the Elk hotel. A dance will fol
low the business meeting to
night. VITAL STATISTICS
BIRTHS
PALMER Born at Klamath
Valley hospital, Klamath Falls,
Ore., March 13, 1043, to Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur G. Palmer, 633 N.
12th street, a girl. Weight: 6
pounds B ounces.
MORGAN Born at the
Llghtfoot hospital, Klamath
Falls, Ore., March 15, 1943, to
Mr. and Mrs. Raphael V. Mor
gn, 633 South Riverside, a
son. Weight 7 pounds. Named
Raphael Verlln.
Always read the classified ads.
Six Dead After
Bomber, Fighter
Crash Over Sound
SEATTLE, March 16 (A') One
body has been recovered and five
men are reported to be "missing
and believed dead" by navy au
thorities after the collision of an
army fighter plane and a navy
bomber Sunday over Pugct
Sound,
The missing are Lieut. (Jg)
George R. Mllllkan, Shu Fran
cisco; Ensign Walter Raymond
Bammau, San Francisco; En
sign Gerald Silas Bennett, Free
port, Maine; James B. Krencl
prock, aviation radioman 2nd
class. Nlles, Ohio, and Frank
Ambrose Blala, aviation machin
ists mate, Sacramento, Calif.
Legion Anniversary In hon
or of this 24th anniversary of
the American Legion, the aux
iliary will entertain all Legion
naires with a dinner and spe
cial program at Memorial hall,
Fifth and Klamath avenue,
'ruffiiuy evonlng, March 16, at
0:30 p. m. Fred llollbronner Is
in churgn of the dinner, and
Mrs. Freil LaPorge Is planning
tho program. Bpnclal star cards
representing five, 10, 15, 20
and 25 year of membership
will be presented at that time.
All Legionnaires and auxiliary
members are cordially Invited.
Cotton can be spun so strong
that it Is used for airplane wings,
tires, awnlnga, tents, sails, and
bagging.
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Republican Control
DON'T forget that the republicans now con
trol most of the large state governments
even down . to the counties. If these various
state machines are tied together with national
leadership, the republicans this time will have
the first real working organization in 25 years.
Furthermore, the fourth term campaign Is
apparently to be handled by Hopkins and
David K. Niles (Walker will no doubt be re
placed as national chairman before the race
gets hot) and they are not Jim Farleys or
Charley Mlchaelsons. Also Mr. Roosevelt will
probably have to get another vice presidential
candidate if he tries it again.. Mr. Wallace's
standing aa a democrat hat diminished to tht
Here is a way to dispose of that suit ques
tion for the entire duration . . . Buy tha
suit from La Pointe's. They will stand the
wear and tear and hold their shapes
against time and trouble. The prices are
not nearly as big as their performance,
and that's the way it should be. Practi
cally all of them are wool, of course.
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