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Today's Roundup
By MALCOLM EPLEY
ONE day last fall Charles Henderson, the
county agent, dropped Into our office with
small paper sack full of dandelion roots.
He picked out a root. Drone
the brittle bark, and then
drew apart the two ends,
J which were held together by
ft tiny, rubberish threads. These
stretched a fraction of an inch,
and contracted as the ends
were released.
"That," said Mr. Henderson,
"is Klamath county rubber."
And so we used some news
stories and pictures at the
time about the experimental
growing of' Russian dandelion by E. G. Gross ih
the Spring Lake experimental area. We heard
that there were test plots of a similar nature all
over the country, and we were frankly skepti
cal about ever hearing much more about the
Klamath rubber deal.
Almost Forgotten
WE HAD almost forgotten it, until this week
we had a visit from Larry Mays of the
U. S. forest service, who introduced himself as
the man sent here to conduct the rubber project.
Mr. Mays explained that the experiment with
kok-saghyz, the Russian dandelion, conducted
here proved to be one of the most successful,
If not the most successful, of all the dozens of
tests made In many parts of the North Ameri
can continent.
As a result, a much larger planting is to be
undertaken here this year, and particular atten
tion will be paid to results on peat soil. We
have a lot of peat soil hereabouts, and that
type of soil is supposed to be the best for the
growing of Russian dandelion.
But it is interesting that the highly success
ful test made by Mr. Gross last year was not on
peat soil. Hence, it appears that climatic con
ditions in this area x are ideal for the rubber
plant. Combining the climate with peat soil
may produce even better results than those yet
attained.
This Year's Plan
WHAT is being done this year Is to make
a planting on considerable acreage chief
ly for seed purposes. A small portion of the
crop may be harvested this year for processing
of the roots, to determine further the-feasibility
of extending the planting on a large scale next
year.
The plants, incidentally, are heavier seed
producers the second year, and most of them
will be left in the ground for a seed harvest
In 1944.
Meanwhile, what happens to our rubber pro
tect may be determined by the war. If in the
tiext two years there is still imperative need
for a domestic source of rubber supply, Klam
ath may have .sweeping fields of dandelions
whose roots will be processed for all the various
Uses to which rubber is put.
The Russians have a huge acreage and kok
saghyz is their principal source of material for
synthetic rubber.
If a similar undertaking occurs in this
country, the Klamath area may have an im
portant part of it. You never can tell what's
likely to happen around here.
Tax Front Roundup
By JAMES MARLOW and GEORGE ZIELKE
iASHlNGTON. April 2 (P) The income
V V tax situation is foggy but clear.
It's clear to this extent: you'll have to pay
as much taxes this year as if nobody had
ever mentioned pay-as-you-go or any other
change in the present law.
It's foggy because the whole tax problem
is up in the air and probably will stay there
for months to come.
So for months to come, don't expect any
change in the way you are going to pay your
taxes or yin the amount you pay.
Remember tills, too, for your peace of mind
no matter what plans are offered in the months
ahead, no matter what else you hear, no new
tax arrangement will become a law until Presi
dent Roosevelt has signed it (or congress has
passed it over a presidential veto).
It May Rest
BUT the latest word from the tax front and
it may vary next week or be completely
changed around in a month is this:
Since the house flip-flop on the Ruml-Carlson
skip-a-year plan, Chairman Doughton (D-N.C.) of
the house ways and means committee talks
about letting the matter rest several months; at
the same time many congressmen talk of an
Easter recess and going back home to hear
personally from the voters what kind of tax
bill they want.
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau says it looks
as though collection of the tax . at the source
(a check-off from wage envelopes and pay
checks) will have to wait until next January 1.
SIDE GLANCES
Compromise
REPUBLICANS in the house who backed the
Ruml-Carlson plan and some democrats
. now talk of compromising on "forgiving" the
first 19 units of the tax on 1942 incomes
the 6 per cent normal tax and the first 13
per cent surtax bracket. This would mean that
the average taxpayer would have his 1942 tax
wiped off the slate.
But then what?
Even if this plan were enacted quickly, he'd
still have to pay his June 15 tax installment
(same as on March 15), only it .would apply on
1943 taxes and so would the March payment.
Then he'd go on a j)ay-as-you-earn basis
July 1, Starting on that date, he would have
20 per cent (over exemptions) of his pay de
ducted which would approximately cover his
taxes (including victory tax).
At the end of the year he'd still have to
file a report on his 1943 income, perhaps make
a small payment perhaps even get a small
refund on the difference between the actual
tax due, as figured on his report, and the
amount he had paid in taxes this year (the
March and June payments, plus the total de
ducted from his pay). .
Of course, if such a compromise plan were
adopted too late to start paycheck deductions
before January 1, the taxpayer still would
have to pay the September and December tax
installments now scheduled and then would
go on a pay-as-you-earn basis next year.
Whenever the deductions from pay started,
the average taxpayer would have no other fed
eral income tax payments to make except for
that adjustment at the end of the year.
The big taxpayer, of course, would be carry
ing over his upper bracket surtax payments
from year to year.
VICTORY GARDEN IDEA
Chemists could grow enough
potatoes in an area of 15 square
miles to feed the entire United
States, using growing solutions
instead of soil.
I believe all reasonable men
with sufficient military back
ground to properly evaluate the
results must realize the import
ance of both day and night
bombings in short, the ability
to strike at any time and at any
place where the enemy is build
ing his war machine or building
munitions to equip it. Maj.
Gen. Ira C. Eaker, 8th air force
commander.
TRANSCONTINENTAL
Estados Unidos de Colombia
is the only nation south of Pan
ama with ports and trade on
both the Atlantic and the Pacific
oceans.
In winning the war we shall
not have finished our job; we
will only have cleared the way
for a fresh beginning. Presi
dent Everett Case of Colgate.
At the moment we've a cosmic
struggle on our hands. Even
apart from the fact that we wish
to keep gossip from aiding the
enemy, wouldn't this be a grand
time to keep our thoughts on the
"Hush!" placards, and put a part
of that conserved energy into
pouring out ships and shells
rather than sound? Channing
Pollock, author and lecturer.
Pizarro's mummy lies in a
transparent case in an ancient
cathedral at Lima, Peru. Pizar
ro was the Spanish conqueror of
that country.
erj . no rt m Kwa. wc t. m. mo. u. a. mt. ot. ' -i
"Let our cry be 'Ou to Tokyo unci Yokohama!' Those
Japs will surrender pretty quick when we go marching
into their principal cities!"
OUR MEN AND WOMEN
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Klamath Gardeners Urged to
Plan Their Work Carefully;
Available Plots Reported
By J. R. McCAMBRIDGE,
Assistant County Agent
Planting time is drawing
near for the Victory gardener.
but there is no big hurry about
planting yet. Get your plan
ning done and then plant. A
good garden is a well planned
one.
In laying out the garden
tract We should reserve one
section of it for early vege
tables, such as spinach, peas,
lettuce, carrots, beets, onions
(sets), and radishes. This will
enable us to clear these off in
time to again prepare the
ground for planting of late
crops for early fall and winter
use. Successive plantings of
vegetables is a very important
practice, especially to those who
have limited garden space.
Time will be saved and bet
ter quality of vegetables will
be produced if people will get
their soil in good shape before
planting. A good application of
barnyard manure, well worked
into the soil will aid in warm
ing up the soil for planting as
well as furnishing plant food
for the vegetables.
Many people will get in a
hurry to plant their gardens
while the soil is still cold and
vegetables will not make a fast
growth until the soil does warm
up, so there is really no hurry
to start planting.
A number of people are
wanting space to plant a gar
den. If you have land available
and suitable for gardening, con
tact the county agent's office
and we will list these and try
to get an interested party to
contact you. Here are some
names and addresses of people
who have garden space:
Five acres Bill Burness, on
Lakeshore drive phone 6322.
Will furnish tractor to break
sod and will do . plowing if
someone will plant the ground
and use It. Has irrigation. Feat
soil.
Plot 100x110 Chas. Knopt.
Pelican City has ground to
rent or will let someone use it
for Victory garden. Also has
fertilizer lor it.
Plot 3004 Summers Lane
One-half acre Pete Lesmeis-
ter, 3227 Altamont drive, phone
5834. Will give use of half this
land including free water and
three rows of raspberries to
someone who will help owner
make rows and plant his half of
the garden.
One-half acre G. A. Holt,
1312 Wordcn avenue, phone
5757. Property on Cottage ave
nue and Homcdale road, to be
used for Victory garden.
One-half acre Mrs. Dan
Fitzgerald on road running
north . at El Padre night club,
first house on right. Land to
rent for garden, irrigated.
From all indications there is
going to be a much greater de
mand for fresh vegetables this
year than ever before. At a
meeting of the Market Vege
table Producers in Portland, Mr.
B. K. Gage of the Quarter
master Marketing Center of Se
attle, Wash., said "Vegetables
and other food items for 1,
000,000 extra rations will be
required to supply needs In and
from western Oregon, western
Washington and Alaska during
1843. Mr. Gage stated that this
influx to the Pacific Northwest,
totaling 1,000,000 people, would
require the following quantities
of certain foods daily:
700,000 lbs. of potatoes.
105,000 lbs. of onions. .
75,000 lbs. of carrots.
50,000 lbs. of celery. '
75,000 lbs. of cabbage. ,
125,000 lbs. of tomatoes (In
season).
Take care of your garden this
summer it may have, to take
care of you this winter.
TWO IN 8ERVICE-Mr. and
Mrs. Francis E, Patterson. 2424
South Sixth street, have two
sons in the sorvlce, PFC Tom
Henry Patterson, left, 22, now In
Morocco, mid Robert Green Pat
terson, 27, now stationed at
Camp White, Ore.
Tom is a graduate of Klnmnth
Union high school, enlisted In
June, 1940, and trained at Mon
terey in the army engineers. Ho
was one ot tho first to orrlvo In
Ireland whero ho spent three
months before going to Africa.
Tom will be remembered as ono
of KUIIS' best basketball play
ers. Bob, at Camp White, Is a mem
ber of the 381st infantry and do
ing "KP" duty at the present
time. He Is a former Kcstcrson
mill employe. Tho following
poem was sent to Bob's mother
this week:
K. P. COMMANDO
I'm in the army now and I work
all day,
Can't ask for a raise though I
don't like my pay.
Plenty of action at the front of
the sink,
For me don't you think.
A soldier in action is what they
made of mc,
But I don't hear any guns for I'm
a fighting KP.
It's potatoes I peel, and onions
too,
A good combination for old
army stow.
You start at six and work till
late,
Though it's not the work but Hit
ler you hate.
You scrub a pot and shine a pan,
Then curse tho Japs that live in
Japan,
You don't get a chance to ever
feel blue
For you keep on cursing all
. nazis- too. v t '
Now when this war Is over, It's
lots of rest for me
For I'm darn sick of being a
fighting KP.
PVT. R. G. PATTERSON,
Camp White. Ore.
Robert A. Sham. 2e enman.
graduated from boot camp at
Farragut, Ida., March 27, 1043.
Sharp joined tho navy at Rapid
City, So Dnk. Ho graduated
from hlffh school In nnnlri ("llv
and was employed at Swandcr's
Daxery were lor four years.
Sharp left Farragut for Rapid
City after his graduation to
visit his wife and friends there.
He Is a son of Mr. end Mrs.
Arthur Sharp, 1527 Etna street,
Klamath Falls.
Mrs. May Stllwcll of 317 Mnr.
tin. has received a letter frnm
her son, Blllie Stilwell, field
musician. Who is nnmovuhnrn In
the southwest Pacific. Stllwcll
says that he has gained weight
end Is feeling fine, but he would
Giraud Visits Tank Repair Base in Africa
mi iijum umphk
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Oreaon News Notes
French Central Henri Honor Giraud (right) inspects a tank repair depot behind the French
lines somewhere In North Africa. y
By The Associated Press
A group of 381 farmers and
dairy workers from Oklahoma
and Mississippi arrived at the
farm security 'administration's
Dayton camp for training which
will prepare them for Jobs on
western Oregon farms . . . Dis
trict Engineer H. G. Iverson of
the U. S. bureau of mines told
Albany businessmen that con
version of the old Albany col
lege campus into an electro
chemical laboratory will make
the city tho focal point of the
nortnwest's mineral Industry.
Astoria high school students
started a drive to sell enough
war bonds to purchase an army
Jeep and wound up by selling
enough to buy 20 . . ..Recent
bad weather in the North Bend
area forced suspension of woods
operations, resulting In log
shortages that closed all but
three sawmills . , , A false re
port that clothes rationing was
to ne invoked April 1 sent cus
tomers to Marshfleld stores on
a buying spree.
At Portland, Harold Puariea,
a gravel company executive,
took a shot at a prowler and
missed, then he reloaded his
gun which discharged accident
ly, wounding him in the leg . . .
Funeral services will be held
at Portland Saturday for Mrs.
Josephine Stapleton, 72, widow
oi tormer Circuit Judge James
P. Stapleton . . . Chairman
George J. Beggs of tho Portland
Red Cross drive reported con
tributions totaled $727,000 while
the quota was only S518.000 . . .
Forest Grove's Red Cross drive
has netted $2106, or $169 over
the quota, reported Mrs. C. A.
Brodcrson, chairman,
Dr. G. Canby Robinson, na
tlonal director of the Red Cross
blood plasma program, said at
Portland that blood donations
are the greatest contributions
non-combatants can make to the
war effort . . . Ellis McCurley,
17, Mcdford high school senior,
was Informed by Rep. Harris
Ellsworth that he has been
named principal appointee to
the U. S. naval academy at Ann
apolis. WITH ARMED ESCORT?
PORTLAND, Ore. (VP) Mrs.
Kenneth L. Simmons' ration
board granted her a supplemen
tal fuel oil ration.
Fuel Dealer John T. Carson
delivered personally the two
gallons in eight milk bottles.
ONE VOTE DECISION
Tucson was selected by a ma
jority of one vote when the peo
ple of Arizona Territory voted
for a capital city In 1867. Phoen
ix was chosen much later.
like to sno soma KUimutli snow,
ii i id also ho Is lout'ly and would
like soma of his friends from
here to write him. The address
con bo secured from his mother
INSTRUCTOR Donald Dnlo
riiolpx, who enlisted in tho Sou
bees In October, 11142, as C. M
1c, Is now an instructor,
n special school PJ
and then wits
assigned tho job
of Instructing
new recruits. In
his letter.
Phelps says that
he finds his
work very In
teresting and
educational and
that he hiii
come Into contact with a "swell
bunch of men." Ho slates that
ho is very proud to bo a part of
the Scabees. However, ho still
prefers Klnmnth Falls and the
west and misses his friends,
Phelps is stationed at Camp
Peory, Williamsburg, Va. His
wife is remaining here
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CZECH-AMERICANS
HOLD Ml PAHIY
MAL1N A public plnochlo
pnrty is being sponsored by the
Malin Czech-American alliance
the evening of Wednesday, Ap
ril 7. Play will begin at 8
o'clock In the Bohemian hall
with admission at 35 cents. In
cluding tax. Refreshments will
be free.
An Interesting foature of tho
evening will bo tho sale of a
feather quilt made by a number
of Czech women of the commun
ity who In the style of tho
homeland have stripped the
feathers for the filling. Feathers
stripped from tho quill are
downy soft.
The alliance Is raising funds to
help buy ond equip an ambu
lance for the armed forces.
, VEGETABLE PRICES BET
Minimum prices to Oregon
growers for throe more vegeta
bles for processing bcots, cab
bogo and carrots, have been an
nounced by the stnte USDA
War Board. The prices, repre
senting increases over last year,
arc: Bocts -No. 1, $28 a ton;
No. 2, $21; No. 3, $12. Cabbage,
$12 a ton, field run. Carrots,
$22 a ton, field run, Processors
who contract to pay growers at
loast the specified prices will
bo certified as ellglblo to par
ticipate in a government pur
chase program. Similar mini
mum prices were previously an
nounced for peas, tomatoes,
corn and snap beans.
I firmly believe that not until
there is Imposed on every man
and woman tho equal obligation
to render service in tho war ef
fort will this country make the
all-out war effort which is neces
sory and of which we ore ca
pable Undersecretary of War
Robert P. Patterson.
REPORT SHOWS
USE IN
RETAIL SALES
. WASHINGTON, April 3 (P)
Retail sales In 405 Independent
Oregon stores wore 38 per cent
higher In February than for the
sumo mouth a yrar ago and 11
per cent higher than January of
this year, tho census bureau re
ported today.
Women's ready-to-wear stores
had thn greatest gain over lint
year 113 per cent while slum
stores showed 88 per cent and
department stores 77 per cent in
dollar volume.
Salem retailers were up 84 per
cent over a year ago and En
geno registered a gain of 25 per
cent.
From Other
Editors
SOCIAL LIFE EBBS'
(Klumutli High Crater)
Tho social Ufa of Klamath
Union high seems to have hit
an all-tliua low. The old school,
to all appearances, has lapsed
Into a coma.
Tho students are moanlne
because of tho luck of school ac
tivities. No curnlvuls, no formal
dances, no hit assemblies, and
no student body or class plays.
in the questioning of thane
who should have something to
do with the entertainment of
tho student body, they merely
smilo ami mako somo trite ex
cuse such as, "Well, you know
we're In a war ond there's a
shortage .of everything. Guess A
you students will huvo to
umuso yourselves. There's no
time for entertainment In this
war. '
I believe that's where the big
gest mliiako is being made.
worllmu Is not the time to drop
social activities. It should not
be used as an excuse to do so
for those who have perhaps
tired of their duties as super
visors, heads of committees, etc.
It may bo merely cooperation
that is the bottleneck. Somo of
tho students seem willing to co
operate as do somo ot the fac
ulty. Yet others are definitely
lacking In this quullty.
Its true wo are all busy,
busier than most of us have
over been before. But let's not
let our own small plans and
enterprises Interfere with our A,
school spirit. If we all get InV'
there and pitch, togother we
may be able to raise the morale
of tho ontlre school to Its for-
mnr basis. Other schools have
done It, why not KUHS?
ARTLESS ANSWER
WASHINGTON (If) Wash-
Ington Post Staff Writer Chand
ler Brossard walked around the
Corcoran art gallory, seeking to
see how many art lovers agreed
with the Judges In giving Henry
Muttson's "Rocks' first place in
recent biennial competition.
Some did and some didn t.
Finally, a white-haired man
holding an old hat was asked.
Sold he, raising his eyebrows:
1 think it is a very good paint
ing."
"Why7" asked the scribe with
pencil poised.
"Because I painted It."
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Just Across Link River
Bridge
Moals Sandwiches
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THE OLD JUDGE SAYS...,
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swiofigi i i i ' i I i i i i xnasixs. c it -r.-.v.'.t.
"Had any news from George and his family
eince they moved away, Judge?"
"Yes, I had a letter from him day befora
yesterday. He's in Kentucky,,. the family's
fine and they oil like- it there. George says
he has a fine job in a beverage distillery.
He brought out an interesting point in his
letter I hadn't thought of before. Ho said
that whilo the beverage distillers are work
ing 24 hours a day, 7 days a week turning
out war alcohol for the government for
ammunition, tires, medical supplies and
chemicals, they still are able to account for
nearly a billion and a half dollars in taxes
each year. That's on account of the fact tho
beverage distillers, though working 100
for tho government, aro still able to supply
tho public with beverages from tho reserve
slocks made during peacetime.
"Quilo an unusual case, isn't It, Jim?"
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