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HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
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the problem is
Today's Roundup
By MALCOLM EPLEY
HEN, In this column, an account was
olwon recently Ot a Klamatll Basin larmer
who was busy with some lease land operations.
we dlu noi reuuzo wc
opening a discussion of the ad
visability of getting the basin's
government-owned farm land
Into jrlvate ownership.
Tbt such has been the re
sult of our little story, never
theless, is pleasing to us. As
was said here the other day,
we favor any feasible plan for
getting all of this land pos
sible into private ownership.
Community consideration of
definitely in order, and we
welcome continuation and expansion of tne
discussion, as is done in a letter appearing on
this page today from A. M. Thomas of Malin.
At the outset, we relieve it is pretty well
understood by all that no criticism is intended
of the able farmers who operate on the leased
lands. We are sure many, if not all of them,
would agree that if it is possible, ultimate
homesteading of this government land is the
thing to do. The area constitutes a resource
of the community; it is functioning as a valu
able resource now, but if its value can be
enhanced and its benefits spread more widely,
that is the course to follow.
It is, of course, an engineering problem. . In
this column the other day we reported, briefly,
what appears to us to be the attitude of the
reclamation engineers toward it. What we said
was informal and unofficial, but in general we
repeat that government plans do not go farther
than " the homesteading of some 14,500 acres
included in the WBA project area and the
Coppeck bay district.
The community would do well to adopt a
project to keep it going from there.
Acreage Figures
AS A basis for any further discussion, let us
look at the acreage figures on Tule lake:
Now In homesteads 31,000.
Certain to be opened 7500.
Likely to be opened (Coppeck bay) 7000.
To remain in government-owned sump (part
ly armed, partly flooded, but all now subject
to flooding) 34,000 acres.
. Marginal, non-agricultural and right-of-way
lands 16,500 acres.
Total 96,000 acres.
We obtained those figures from the reclama
tion bureau. The area in question in the dis
cussion now opened is the 34,000 acres in sump
land.
Of that amount, no one seems to doubt that
about 10,000 acres must always be regarded as
necessary for confinement of excess waters.
The remaining 24,000 acres, presumably, is the
land Involved In this discussion of possible per
manent cultivation under private ownership.
That figure may be subject to revision, but
that is the way we get it. Divided into 60-acre
tracts, the area would provide 400 additional
homesteads. In 40-acre tracts, it would make
600 farms.
We are mentioning these figures in order to
give further "chewing material" in the discus
sion of the proposal, which we welcome from
any source.
It will be remembered that from community
discussion and civic effort came the final im
petus that put through the Tule lake tunnel
project. Through the medium of the chamber
of commerce, actual surveys were undertaken
locally, followed by official surveys and event
ual driving of the tunnel.
Land use is a subject of vital importance to
Klamath Falls and the entire basin community.
The economy of our community rests on in
dustry and agriculture, and we must make
the most , of all opportunities which present
themselves in both fields.
Water for the Garden
KLAMATH victory gardeners should not per
mit current moisture conditions to cause
them to overlook taking full advantage of
Copco's new victory garden credit refund plan.
All gardens are going to take a lot of water,
and now is the time to take the steps necessary
to obtain the credit refund for use of water
from the company's system.
The thing for the gardener to do is to meas
ure his garden space and then make application
at the Copco offices for victory garden credit.
Any garden of 200 square feet or more
qualifies for this refund. That means any gar
den, 10x20 feet in size, or larger.
Under the refund plan, a substantial offset is
provided for use of water for victory gardening
This fits into the local effort to raise as much
foodstuff as possible in family gardens. It is
an encouraging factor in the gardening program, ;
and the savings it offers should not be over
looked. Noted at Eighth and Main: A dog, running
the traffic lights. May 1 approaches, and local
dogs ought to realize they are subject to the
city's law.
...
Fish are biting on the Rogue, and the season
will be opening in a few days on this side of
the hill. A card, what good are you?
OPA has ordered a freeze of beverages. The
beverage commonly consumed hereabouts won't
freeze.
MALLON
News Behind the News
By PAUL MALLON
WASHINGTON, April 27 Rubber Maker
Jeffers' scrap with Elmer Davis' OWI
was just the usual government hair-pulling over
-i 1 U . . . LI. I U TTa.
ui-iaua, um Ilia lutv wnu uu-
der-Secretary Patterson will be
costly to American motorists
in both gasoline and rubber.
The Jeffers Davis contro
versy developed when one of
Mr. Davis' bright young men
concocted a Sunday feature
story on the basis of old fig
ures from Jeffers' department
and gave them so black a slant
as to challenge the fulfillment
of the whole Jeffers (rubber
program.
All except one of the facts were more or
less straight in the OWI handout. This one,
suggesting that even essential motorists will
bo unable to get synthetic tires before Sep
tember, 1944, was killed out of the OWI an
nouncement when the mistake was called to
Mr. Davis' attention, and before the facts were
printed in the papers.
Mr. Jeffers could survive this critical pub
licity from the official government censors,
but whether his full program can survive Mr.
Patterson's demands is still a question.
The army and navy are submitting increased
demands not only for gasoline but for fuel oil,
and disrupting the established civilian pro
grams. In the end, the Patterson-Jeffers argu
ment probably will be settled by Mr. Jeffers
sacrificing a portion of the machinery and
values which were to be used in synthetic rub
ber production, for the military production of
airplane gasoline '
Much of the Jeffers program will no doubt
survive. In fact, it must survive, not only as a
civilian requirement, but as a military necessity,
because it is just as important that workers get
to the factories to build planes as it is for the
army to obtain gasoline to fly them.
No less authority than OWI substantiates this
opinion in another Sunday feature round-up
on transportation, saying:
"It is in the field of local transportation . . .
getting American workers to and from their
jobs . . . that the roost serious war-time pass
enger transportation exists, x x x By the end
of 1943, about four times more Americans
will be going to work every day as can be
carried at any one time in all available public
vehicles."
No stronger demand for gasoline and rub
ber for civilians has been made, even by Mr.
Jeffers.
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Fuel Oil
SO ALSO with fuel oil, which is not a part
of the present controversy.
Transportation Director Eastman has an
nounced next winter the eastern seaboard will
be getting 1,600,000 barrels of oil a day through
new pipe lines and otherwise. This would be
enough to permit abandonment of rationing, bul
me army ana navy are- supposed to be. taking
heavy quantities from the eastern seaboard
supply. -
Stocks here are much lower. Soon the armed
services will demand, one-third to one-fourth of
all that the eastern seaboard gets, they say.
Thus you have a similar conflict of expecta
tions between government departments as to
what the civilian will get. Piece-meal govern
ment publicity and even the slanted OWJ
roundup material merely adds to public
confusion.
Personally, it now appears to me that my
recent officially-inspired hopes that fuel oil ra
tioning would be abandoned were over-optimistic,
although the situation will no doubt
change three or four times before snow flies.
OWI Puzzle
NO WAY ever has been found to make a
, government publicity department harmon
ious and efficient. Mr. Davis came in.here with
a reputation for common sense. His radio broad
casts indicated he was not wedded to any
particular ideologies. At the outset, it appeared
he had a better chance to do a straight-forward
reporting job than any of the others.
But evidence developed by congressional com
mittees show his organization is permeated with
many left-wingers and ideologist promoters in
key positions as well as good newspapermen.
The Dies committee has found a 24-year-old
man in charge of foreign language newspapers
in this country who reads no foreign language.
The current newspaper curbstone joke in
Washington holds (with some over emphasis,
no doubt) that the OWI press plant is merely
a national government edition of the famous
leftist Journal PM in New York.
Many employees of that unprecedented news
paper are still working under Mr. Davis as top
ranking division heads. Mr. Davis now finds
himself defending acts of his bureau which
he would caustically denounce if he were still
an impartial radio commentator.
A housecleaning in OWI and a clearing of
the confused atmosphere over the gas and rub
ber programs, therefore, seem on the way.
The government publicity may not be much
better after the reorganization, but it will at
least be different and certainly less leftist and
less political.
The gas and rubber clearances appear likely
to leave the motorist and home heater with
less in the way of gas, tires, and fuel than he
had reason to expect, but probably enough to
get along by pinching.
SIDE GLANCES
Jefferson knew how to set
the interests of freedom and
progress above the egotistical in
terest; of separate groups of so
ciety. This principle of a great
democrat is of paramount sig
nificance in our day. Soviet
newspaper Izvcstia. ''
Belts are worn by Japanese
soldiers which are bolicved by
them to protect the wearer from
harm..
We're not cullc as bad off as
Little Bo Peep. We know
where our sheep are, but
haven't sufficient points to get
them.
With everybody making the
Second War Loan travel at a
fast clip, it means a harder clip
on Hitler's jaw.
reowt ten err ma mrvtci. wc t. at ma e. a. pxr. or?.
t-xr
"Good thine vou took thai first nitl course, mother, bo
1 fore I started going to the U. S. O. dunces!"
Nelson Optimistic on Gas,
Rubber, Plane Production
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON. Aprlt 27 (TP)
Sharply critical of publicly-aired
"fighting" between government
officials, WPB Chairman Donald
M. Nelson testified today he be
lieves that not only the synthetic
rubber and high octane gasoline
programs can bo carried out this
year, but also the planned pro
duction of airplanes, escort ves
sels and merchant shipping.
Called before the Truman
committee inquiring into a dis
pute involving Rubber Director
Jeffers, Undersecretary of War
Patterson and Petroleum Admin
istrator Ickes, Nelson said:
"Everything that can be done
to expedite construction of
plants for manufacture of high
octane gasoline will be done,"
adding:'
'This can be done through co
operation, not through fighting."
Without mentioning either
Patterson or Jeffers by name, the
war production board chairman
declared:
Rivalries Out
"Any indulgence in personal
rivalries in time of war is com
pletely out of place."
Asserting that if any program
had been endangered, there was
an "established procedure" for
review, Nelson adding that noth
ing could be accomplished by
"stirring up personal rivalries."
"I never will object to any one
going to the press after all the
other actions for settlement are
taken," he said. "I've had exper
ience in personal rivalries. Any
indulgence of that sort In time
ot war is completely out of
place."
The committee donned a figur
ative chest -protector and shin
guards , today in setting out to
umpire the dispute.
'Are We Glad to See You!'
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with Joy written all over their faces, two survivors of a torpedoed Allied
reasel re pulled aboard s U. B. Coast Guard cutter that rescued them
from a watery life nit in mid-Atlantic, official Coast Guard photo.
Shade in a Slit Trench
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STOP FOREST
Resigns
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FIRE PARADE feKf.T
PCTQ DrnuiT ;
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UU I U I Ullllll I r.
Permission for a Stop Forest
Fires pnrndo was limited Coun
cilman Walter WlescndnnBcr.
chairman of the week's observ
ance, by other members of the
council In session MonHny night.
Date named was May 7.
Mayor John H. Houston was
welcomed back by the city dads
and conducted the weekly ses
sion after a two weeks' illness.
The mayor discussed the pro
posed Victory garden water rates
with the council and suggested
that a letter of appreciation on
behalf of the city bo sent to the
California Oregon Power com
pany. Grading of city streets camo
up for the usual amount of dis
cussion and City Engineer Frank
Z. Howard was asked to give
immediate attention to tho Old
Fort road in an effort to encour
age Klamathitcs to use the city
dump and clean up their prop
erty. Howard sold the blodo wos
broken Inst week but had been
repaired and work would bo un
der way Immediately.
Members of tho city adminis
tration will attond tho League of
Oregon Cities session in Portland
May 12 and 13 and the matter
of transportation will bo discussed.
Tolling
The Editor
lattan rtntaal Kara mat ml M mora
thai) a wet m lanath. mual ba mrU
Ian lavbli an ONI SIDI ol tha papar
aula, ana inual ba alpad. Oonlrlbuliona
loJIowtnf lhaaa nilaa, ara warmly an
In the slight shade of a silt trench in North Africa Pvt Ernest O.
Thompson of Sharpsburg, Ky., curls up with a good book. Trench
protects blm both from bombing and desert sun.
LEASE LAND QUESTION
MALIN, Ore., (To tho Editor)
Friends who ogree that the proc-
tice ot leasing lands is bad and
some who want as much land in
private ownership hero as pos
sible, who therefore apurovo of
my letter printed April zi, asK
that the statements of the recla
mation bureau reported In your
long editorial ot April 22 be re
futed. I can find nothing to refute.
There is no statement therein
that leasing lands Is a good pro
cedure, none that a goodly ocre
sge cannot be opened to perma
nent settlement in private owner
ship; only that these lands are
NOW subject to flooding and
WILL NOT BE fit for permanent
improvements "without exten
sive construction of diverting
facilities such as enlargement of
the diversion canal."
Without placing too much em
phasis on tha word "extensive,"
that statement is true.
The only thing of conscquenco
to the community which appcors
from your interview with the bu
reau is that they are veryi well
satisfied with things as they are,
do not wish to be bothered, and
will not prepare and open this
land for permanent private own
ership, except in llttlo dribs over
a period of several years, unless
some pressure Is brought to bear
upon their superiors.
I do not know whether the fact
that the bureau will soon have
about one and one quarter mil
lion acres of irrigated land under
the Grand Coulee project in the
state of Washington to offer for
settlement has anything to do
with their reluctance to com
plete this project or not.
The significant thing for this
community to have in mind in
this matter is that it is eminently
practicable both from an engi
neering and the economic (i. e.,
construction cost per acre) stand
point to permanently reclaim an
area of productive land which
will support as many homes and
produce as much annual finan
cial return as the existing Klam
ath Irrigation district, which ex
tends from Klamath Falls to be
low Malin. This community, at
least, should accept no other
viewpoint unless and until some
competent engineering-economic
authority in no way Influenced
by any bureaucratic 'policy' has
declared to the contrary.
I cannot see how the reclama
tion bureau which once thought
it proper to lay a goodly part of
the cost of Gerber dam and al
most the whole cost of the con
struction of the dlveroion chan
nel and its appurtenances, plus
the cost of the "J" canal and lat
eral system, on 24,000 acres, can
without blushing hold a contrary
opinion.
The only thing for the leaders
of this community to decide is
whether they want tho commun
ity betterment that may be se
cured bad enough to work for it
until they get it or not. If they
do so decide and begin NOW
they won't get it any sooner than
the community will need It.
After the last war theno were
great preparations, getting land
ready for our returning soldier
boys. Why none now7 Tho boys
returning from the last war gavo
us all the fine development we
presently have In Modoc and
Siskiyou.
I hope the community decides
to push for tha rational comple
ct
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llrtilrwi iraiai ti -
A, u. Morrlion, who Is re
signing bscause of. ill htalth
after nine years as superinten
dent of Hit county firm and in
firmary. His successor has not
yet been chosen. County court
mombers pointed out that Mor
rlion made an outstanding rec
ord as manager of the Summers
line institution.
MORRISON TO
SON
FROM
INFIRMARYJDB
A. G. Morrison, for nlno years
superintendent ot tho county
fnrm and Inflrmnry, is resinning
becnuso of 111 hmilth, members
of the county court announced
today.
The court Is anxious to find
a succc.i.ior Immediately for
Morrison, who hus hud tho able
assistance of Mrs. Morrison In
tho yenrs of his outstanding work
at the farm, Judge U. E. Heedcr
Mild. Applications nro accoptuble
now, he snld, adding that tho
court Is especially onxlous to
fill tha positions with a compe
tent couple, rather than a slnglo
man for tho supcrlnteiidcncy
olono.
Morrison was appointed su
perintendent of the form In the
term of County Judgo George
Grizzle. Under his management,
tho operation of the Institution
has received widespread favor
able attention among public of
flclols ond social workers.
"We sincerely regret that Mr.
Morrison Is forced to resign,"
snld Judge Rcedcr. "Ills work
has been outstanding, not only
in Oregon, but throughout the
United Slutes."
Since Morrison took over, the
institution has moved Into the
modern plant on Summers lane,
following a fire which destroyed
an old building on the same
property.
FRONTIER CLOSED
LONDON. Anrii 27 (A't Dis
patches from Zurich, Switzer
land, said today the Italians
closed tho Swiss-French frontier
at 4 a. m. yesterdoy ond 1m
nnrtnnt trnnn movements are
proceeding on tho French side.
Hon of this project. If they do
not, then I novo anothor sugges
tion to ofier.
I do not believe any commun
ity will ba happy with half its
productivo land in private own
ership, tho other half national
ized. BUT If the reclamation bu.
rcau is to linger along here for
another 37 years, another gener
ation, sitting os on absentee land
lord, I suggest that we appeal to
it as a measure of improvement
over present practico to go tho
wholo Russian road and establish
on Its land a Kolkhoz, or collec
tive farm. I think that would bo
bettor for tho community than
creating a fow supor-Kulnks,
and I know It would be better
for the land, which will not re
mnln productive long under
pi--sent practices.
Now, a final word about our
neighbors who now lease this
land. OF COURSE no one
blames them for taking advan
tage of tho opportunity offarcd.
That is not the point it being
that vfrom tho COMMUNITY
standpoint it would be hotter if
the opportunity was not offered.
A. M. THOMAS.
Operation Friends of Mrs.
George Burth have learned that
sho is making a satisfactory re
covery following a serious oper
ation two weeks ago' In a Snlcm
hospital. Mrs. Barlh and daugh
ter, Marilyn, plan to remain in
Salem where two of Mrs. Bnrth's
sisters live. George Bnrth, for
mer Klamath merchant, is In do
fenso work In Portland.
Thousand! Praiie Simple
PILE RELIEF
Thfi Quick, Eaiy Wayl
Blmpla llla ntad not wrack anil turtiira
roll with madilanlnn Itch, burn and Irrita
tion. Staart'a Pyramid Suppailtarlaa brlna
oukk, walcoma ralltf. Thalr 7-way medica
tion maana real comfort, radueae alraln.
rieloa tlahtan ralaaad membranea, mntla
ubrleatae and enllene. Protective and antl.
rhenne:. au etay to ue. It'a wonderful to be
free of ml torlura eualn. Oat nenulne
ftluart'l Pyramid fluppsellarlee at your drua
elore without delay dOe and tl.t0a
eakar'a aoney.betk guarantee".
SMOKER SALES
TO PUT BOND
SALE OVER TOP
Union labor's drive for a
$n00,0nn sub-cliuscr was only
$30,000 short of Its uoiil Tuwlny
uml "K" bond purcluisfs for Fri
day night's smukor at the armory
worn selling so rapidly that C).
C, Tnlmiiii, lnbor clinlrimm, felt
nwuired Unit Kliimiith county
would go over the top.
Admission to the smolivr Is
on presentation of u ticket given
whon purchnso Is mtulo of un
"E" bond. A SS0 bond entitles
(ho holder to a rlngslda sent, a
$25 bond, iimionil admission.
Anyone having purchased an
"15" bond iiftur April 21, may
obtulit a ticket by showing evi
dence of purchnso at any of the
following places, First Niitlnnul
bank, U. S. National bunk, First
Federal Savings and Loan, T. II.
Watlers' offlte. Klamath Bil
liards, or tho Labor temple.
Applications for bonds will bo
taken at Walters' office, where
$5000 In "E" bonds were wild
up to Tuesday morning; at tho
Klamath Billiards or the Lubor
temple. Actual purchnso may ba
muda ut tho banks. Tickets will
bo Issued In nil of the six places.
The tickets nro tinted Friday,
May 110, n ml thorn holding the
pasteboards urn ndvlscd that this
date is Incorrect uml tho smoker
Is tills Friday, April 30.
Dick Reeder, local merchant,
purchased ticket) for each of his
employes, members of the com
mittee stated Tuesday,
Yefttert!!H
Prarn1 the files - 40
lii'iogo und.JO years ooo.
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From the Klsmath Republican
April 23, 1S03
George Llndbcy, un expert
electrician from San Francisco,
has been hero repairing tho
dynamo of the electric lighting
plant. We are told ho will fin
ish the work so the lights can
be turned on again tonight.
O. Austin has bought the Lnn
gell ranch In Langcll vullcy. He
left hero with a wagon loud of
seed ha proposes to plant. .
a w e '
G. M. Chine of Cliaso's station
was In town this week.
From the Klsmath News
April 28, 1933
Frank Drew, son of Mr. and
Mrs. N. B. Drow, is tho new
student body president at KUHS.
Othor officers are: Helen Kcn
ardson, secretary; George Dun
can, first vice president; Bob
Sparks, second vice president;
Ivor Hull, editor, El Ilodeo; Wal
ter Van Emon, manugcr, El
Rodeo; Bob Chllcotc, assistant
business manager of the Kralor.
' a a a
Klamath potatoes this spring
have brought as high us $1.05 a
hundred on Cullfomla markets,
showing a sharp Increase over
the winter quotations.
B Card Drivers
May Apply for
More Mileage
PORTLAND, April 27 (A't
Motorists whoso driving In the
course of work was limited to
B book mlleugo may opply for
720 monthly, the district OPA
announced today.
Tha action Is intended to help
cor owners who need more mile
age in the course of their work,
buit docs not chango the mile
age now allowed for driving be
tween home and work, OPA
said.
Called North Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Grimes wcro called to
Portland ot noon Tuesday by tho
critical 1 lncss of tho r ono-ycor-
old granddaughter, Sua, dough
tor of their son. Faith Grimes.
The child has been in ill health.
Faith Grimes is employed in a
dofenso Industry.
Of tha first 110 colleges es
tablished in the United States,
104 had a distinctly Christian
church origin.
A scientist predicts that some
day we will bo able to live on
air. And wo're beginning to
believe it.
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