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HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON May 21, 1948 PAGE FOUR iltmbt at Thi Amocmtib Pum Th AmooUM Pru ll ! Hrlr antUM to lln UM ol r rulHMtlon ol til n dUMleliM crr.lliM lo I' or oot ollurw trnlllnl In thl !. nl ' tl. lncl n.w. nubllh.d th.rem. All rlaht ol rtpuoHMti prcUl dlipit'b" r llu r FRANK JENKINS Bdllor A temporary eoulitnitma of th fcwilni Rtrtld ni the Klmth New. Published ery tftvrnooi) txovoi Sunday ! Kaplanid nd Pine trtU, KUinalh Kalis, Orgon. by the HrM Pnniiihlnt Co. and Ih Klamath Publishing Company Rotared at aeoond daei matter al ttir poatofflca of Stasia lb Pall. Ore., oa Auguit 10. ittM under art of eonireia, March t, lira. 3m6r Audit BuUAU Or ClKCVLATtOX lUprateotcdj Nationally by Vmt-Holmat Co., Inc. Ban PraneUfo. New York, Se attle, Chicago Port laud. Lot Aagvtea. MALCOL.V EPLEY Managing Editor Today's Roundup News Behind the News By MALCOLM EPLEY PERTINENT answers to pertinent questions which were put by Mrs. R. R. Macartney, Kipmath Falls' leader of the surgical dressing s , project, are contained in a lot- . ter to Mrs. Macartney from tfPi"' the headquarters of the Pa- cific Area of the American Red -. C-i " I Cross. s in her letter to the Red rVS 5' 1 Cross headquarters, Mrs. Ma- cartney raised a question as to whether or not surgical dressings as prepared by the Red Cross are really needed, for the a r m e d forces, or whether enough etui be ob tained through regular commercial channels. She stated that there has been difficulty In maintaining attendance here because of a feel ing that the program may not be necessary, and also because of detailed Inspections of the dressings made. Because we have a big job on our hands in this community in meeting our surgical dress ing quota, we give here today the substance of the reply to Mrs. Macartney's questions. a, f hi EPLEY Call From Army I THE letter from A. L. Schafer, ARC manager for the Pacific area, states in part: "Three years ago, when it became obvious that this country was headed into another World War, a survey was made by the national defense commission which showed that com mercial manufacturers of surgical dressings would be totally unable to provide the army with the necessary reserves of certain types. "The Red Cross in 1940, at the request of the U. S. army, agreed to create a- reserve stock of more than 40,000,000 units of these dressings, of the particular type which could not be fur nished by the commercial companies . . ." In 1940, the surgeon general of the United States army, Major James C. Magee, wrote to the Red Cross: "We realize that machine-made dressings can be produced in quantity only suf ficient for peace-time needs, and it is the studied opinion of this office, as well as yours, that In time of emergency full and complete reliance must be had upon the good offices of the Red Cross to furnish the ready-made, dressings; therefore, in anticipation of this program, this office, In conjunction with the navy department, has agreed upon the use of federal specifications using 20x12 gauze and federal specification cotton." . . i That Is the statement from the head of the army medical services. "In the face of these facts," says the letter from the ARC Pacific office, "it is hardly be lievable that anyone after knowing the facts could continue to say that the American Red Cross surgical dressings program is just 'some thing designed to afford an emotional outlet for housewives'." ,- Produces 80 THE American Red Cross is producing 80 per cent of the entire surgical dressings made for the armed forces, and the other 20 per cent are produced by the commercial, companies. On the question of inspections of the dress ings made, the letter says: "It should be realized by your workers that these dressings are made to the very exacting army-navy specifications, and unless they meet these specifications, they are destroyed. In the interest, therefore, of a continued precision job, these minute inspections are felt to be neces sary." O ' Let's Work WITH this Information before the people here, it seems that it is time to end the quibbling over the need for the Red Cross surgical dressings, and to do the job. The Klamath basin has thousands of men in the armed forces. The casualty lists grow with heartbreaking regularity. Only today, three of our men were killed. Our men lie wounded in hospitals and on the field of battle in all parts of the world. Red Cross dressings are used on their wounds. What are we yammering about? Let's get to work. ! . . ' '. Word comes of the death of J. A. Kincaid In Portland. Mr. Kincaid has been a citizen of Klamath Falls for several years, being engaged in the operation of the local radio station with his son, George. He was liked and respected by all who knew him. This newspaper joins in ex pressing its sincere sympathy to the members of the family who have suffered this great loss. By PAUL MALLON WASHINGTON, May 21 Churchill's broad explanation of allied strategy did not en tirely satisfy complainants in congress. What the fairly wide group immm$$ ehind Senator Chandler's jap' j&jg behind viewpoint has been trying to do is to induce the British to If put a formidable army infijsl put a formidable army nfL?? against Japan on the Burma line. They also wanted to draw out officially a British promise of full cooperation in running down the mikado. Official quarters here have Vtonn ritcturhnd for some months by Mr. Churchill's MALLON promise to demobilize some of the British mill tary forces after we get Hitler, a speech which Anthony Eden tried to explain away unsuccess fully when he was in Washington. The new firm Churchill pronouncements stilled these fears successfully, but left the Burma line proposal unsettled. He is up against a difficult proposition there. The Australian parliament recently extended the limit to which their draftees could fight. It now runs up almost to the equator in some areas where hitherto draftees could not even be sent off the Australian mainland (their vol unteers go anywhere). The Indian army runs nearly a million men, but most of these have been kept at home for protection against the Indians embarked on anti-British crusades, passive but occasionally bloody. This Indian army could be put into the field if Gandhi, et al, would quiet down at home, and if adequate British officer leadership was fur nished them. However, a large sea expedition- ." ary force would have to be organized. The driblet army which the British ' pushed through the high mountains on the Burma border and into the jungle has been driven back almost to the border and is too weak to do any- . thing. The congressional critics really believe China will collapse and fall out of the war unless the Burma road is opened. . A more general and equally authentic opinion in Washington still is that the Chinese may remain too weak to do anything under existing circumstances, but will be able to plod along until the Roosevelt Churchill strategy contemplates crushing the Japs (increased aviation help is apparently forthcoming, as Churchill implied). , Politics Did It Politics beat the Ruml plan administration politics. Mr. Roosevelt's threat of a veto may have carried some weight, but the house demo crats were simply determined not to let the re publicans get any more credit than necessary for having pushed tax easement. Leader Joe Martin, who made the Ruml plan republican by adoption, picked up plenty politi cal hay on the proposition. One worker con stituent in his district wrote significantly that he would save $56 of back debt to the govern ment, and did not care what Henry Ford saved. A leading democrat came up to Martin and told him the local Democratic club in his city had been discussing the Ruml plan, and one of the local leaders said: "This fellow Martin is like the Roosevelt of 10 years ago. He wants to give us something." The democrats tried to make out that the plan favored the rich, and succeeded in smear ing any common popular intelligent understand ing of the complex situation. . ' The truth is the plan would have raised less taxes than now from the man whose income is declining (not many of them); more taxes from the man whose income is increasing (the bulk of war salaries); and do nothing for the man whose income has been the same the past two years until he dies or his income does increase or decline. Then his back tax debt would be wiped out. In some few isolated instances, a rich man would have been helped (Senator Byrd men tioned these in the debate) above the poor man but not in any general way. The truth remains that the Ruml plan was the only one proposed to put the country on pay-as-you-go without requiring some measure of double taxation for the current year. Any compromise, therefore, is not likely to be effective. The man'with an income of $100, 000 (cited by the president) now pays around $70,000 in federal income tax, and a state tax, in addition. He obviously cannot pay much if any additional taxes on his earnings. To him, any compromise would be a capital levy. . SIDE GLANCES VS1 ' cow. 1M3 tv hc aiKvtcc. wc. T. m. mo, u. a. pat, orr, "Here's an interesting article on child care you might want to rend, dear." Burned Marine Corporal Refuses to Give Up Ship SOMEWHERE IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC, May 8 (Delayed) (P) The story of a 22-year-old marine corporal who was burned in ac tion but refused to quit his ship has been told here. He is Corporal Jason I. Webb of Enterprise, Ore., and he was at his gun station, aboard a cruis er during the night battle off Tassafaronga, Guadalcanal, No vember 30-December I. The ship was damaged, but reached har bor and that is when Corporal Webb staged his sit-down strike. He figured this way that if the ship could take what she did, a few burns weren't going to stop him. ' Only what he said was "They wanted to evacuate me along with several other casual ties but I was afraid I would never get back to my ship." After treatment one day at a field hospital near the ship, Cor poral Webb overheard a doctor and pharmacist mate saying that the marine casualties would be evacuated by transport. Corporal Webb shoved out of there in a hurry and made him self scarce until the casualty party had been put aboard the transport. Then he reported back to his ship. He took further treatment at the field hospital during the days which followed and never lost any time from his duties. The records show ho was a member of a gun crew which shot down a Jap torpedo bomber in the .battle of the Coral Sea. Corporal Webb Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clay M.. Webb of Enterprise, and has one brother, Robert H. Webb, a sfcaff sergeant in the army, stationed at Fort Knox, Ky., and another brother, Raymond Webb, a coxswain, In the navy, stationed aboard USS San Francisco. s BRIEFS SEATTLE, May 21 VP) The war manpower commission in-; tensified today its campaign to i return loggers to the woods. I The appeal followed an emer-1 gency meeting called by the com- ' mission, at which Col. W. B. 1 Greeley, manager of the West ; Coast Lumberman's association. ! reported 6000 loggers are needed ! immediately. I On Grays Harbor, Greeley i said, mills and camps are fail ing by one-third to one-half to produce their last year's quotas of lumber. The Bigger They Come ' " ' ""' 1 ' M' -'"MtW"',i 'W .tJ' r '"""ll""." .n.Jii.iB Lin. -.,n, i,., Rating .Officer , For Navy Seabees To Be Here May 24 ' Rating officer for the Sea bees will be in Klamath Falls on May 24 instead of May 25, it was announced today by Special ist 1-c Dan Schreiber of the naval recruiting office. Schreiber stated that men with construction trades who are in terested in this battalion may contact the officer in the recruit ing office at the federal building, and he especially asks that they note the change in date. Liquor Enforcement Chief Commissioned PORTLAND, May 21 (IP) Clyde Warren, chief of the en forcement division of the state liquor control commission, has been commissioned captain In specialist reserve corps of the army and is awaiting assign ment orders, he announced to day. The specialist reserve corps Is tntt division set up to take over the military government control of occupied cities and districts. School for Childran The sug gested school for children whoso parents are working through the summer months has met with sufficient response to warrant the starting of the school next Monday, May 24. It is for chil dren from 3 through 10 years of age, and will meet at the Com munity Congregational church, 2160 Garden avenue. Parents interested are asked to register their children with Rev. Eugene V. Haynes, by calling 922S for all details. Return Mrs. R. F. Kemp, 1323 Martin street, and her sis ter Mrs. Eleanor Karsbeck of North Sixth street have returned from Omaha, Neb., where they were recently called by the ill ness of their mother, Mrs. Anna Feten. Her condition seemed unchanged when they left her. Returns Mrs. H. C. Brown, 918 Owens street, returned the first of the week from a visit of several days in Eugene, where she was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Dawe and their infant son James. Mrs. Esther Billings oi Portland was also a guest there at that time. Mrs. Billings is a sister of H. C. Brown and Mrs. Dawe is their niece. Sister Visit Mrs. Laura Thomas and daughter Eva, of Walla Walla, Wash., are guests at the home of Mrs. Thomas' sister, Mrs. J. E. Allen, of Olene. This is the first time the sisters have met in thirty-seven years, They have also been guests at the home of Lloyd Allen, 2461 Orchard way, Mrs. Thomas' nephew. From Dayvllle Mrs. Law rence Naiman of Dayvllle, Ore., is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. E, Allen of Olene and Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Allen, 2461 Orchard way. 1 YOUR GROCER n OFFERS THIS FLAVOR SPECIAL' This is Germany's big six-englned Merseburg ME-323 troop-carrying glider that Is making an ex cellent target for allied warplanes over the Mediterranean. Believed the largest planes in opera tion In this war, the ME-323's have a wingspread of 180 teet (77 feet longer than the Flying For tress), cony 100 to 110 troops, fly up to 130 miles per hour and can be opened at the nose to take In tanks and trucks. Dozens of these Nazi power gliders have been shot down as they shuttle between Tunisia and axis European bases. O A combination sole of freih spring vegetables and Morion's Salt. Buy them together. RECORD CI REPORTED BY E RISER Passes TACOMA, May 21 WWoy erhaeuser Timber company, one of the nation's largest lumber companies, today reported a gross Income last year of $02, 038,306, a record for the com pany's 42 years of operation. The 1941 gross Income totaled $64,702,608, Net profit for last year was $8,600,173, compared with $8,613,529 in tho previous year. The company paid $16,700,000 in- taxes, more than $3,000,000 greater than In tho preceding year. Payrolls last year wcro up 23 per cent to $19,670,102. The amount of tuxes paid, tho company stated, was about 63 per cent of Income before such taxes. Divided payments totaled $8, 000,000 or $2.00 per shure, com pared with $9,000,000 and $3.00 per share in 1041. Employees working on nn hourly basis earned un overage of $2521 each last year. Weyerhaeuser hus operating branches at Vail, Everett, Long view, Montesimo, Wash,, Klam ath Falls, Oro., Newark, N. J., and St. Paul, Minn. The summary of tho Income account included that of wholly owned operating subsidiaries: Tho Weyerhaeuser Steamship company, Newark, N. J,; Atlantic Terminals, Inc., Newark: Lum ber Distributors, Inc., Stockton,1 Calif.; tho Chehalls Western Railroad company and tho Co-j lumbla and Cowlitz Railway company, Longvicw, Wash. . In addition, Weyerhaeuser also had eight partially owned opcr-i aung suDslcllurlcs: The Snoqunl mio Falls Lumber company, the White H Ivor Lumber company, the Willapa Harbor Lunibi'r Mills, tho Washington Veneer company, tho Snohomish Rive: i Boom company and tho Cowlitz Development company, all sltuat-j ed In Washington state, and the; Wood Conversion company, Clo-! quct, Minn., and Thompson Yards, Inc., at St. Paul. The company also has several other sales and service affilia tion, and non-operating subsi diaries. Tho report was made by J. P. Weyerhaeuser, executive vice president, who also reported that the company set a new all-time record in Its lumber production. "These records wcro attained under heavy handicaps such as difficulties in getting out logs, priority obstacles In securing supplies and equipment, tho in evitable Inexperience of many new employees and an over-ail loss to the armed forces of 17 per cent of the company's man power. FUNERAL GUST LEASA ; Funeral services for the Into Gust Lcasa who passed away at his residence west of Tuleloko, Calif., on Sunday, May 16, 1943, will be held In tho chapel of the Earl Whltlock Funeral homo, Pine street at Sixth, on Saturday, May 22, 1943, at 10.30 avm. with the Rev., Victor Phillips of the First Mothodlst church of this city officiating. Commitment ser vices and interment will follow In Linkvllle cemetery. Friends are Invited. Kennell-EUIs. J. A. Kincaid, prominent rti ldent, died 1st Thursday nlghf at the age of 81 years. Final rltot will bt held hore. TEN INITIATED BY L1 A class of 10 was initiated In to the Elks lodgo Thursday ove nlng In tho first Initiation cere monies conducted by the now of ficers of the lodgo, Tho Initiates were Troy V. Cook, DeLos Mills, R. W. Trux all, E. C. Biundeherry, Wllllum H. Warner, A, C. Luboroo, Lorcn F. Meeker, J. S, Matllck, Gcorgo C. West and Conrad C. Johnson. Luclen F. Costol was received on a release from Ashland loduo. Commandos provided enter tainment for tho Elks at tho close of tho business Houston, with the visiting murines present as guesls. Featured In specially dunces was tho tiny dniiKlvter of Mr. end Mrs. George Micka, Malin. Tho program was ar ranged by Roy Hnkestrnw, mi tertuinmeiil chairman, with the assistance of Lea Flnley Orders for Western Pine Slightly Up PORTLAND, Ore., May 21 (IP) Orders, shipments and produc tion were all slightly higher dur ing tho week ending May 15, the Western Pino association report ed today. Orders for various species' of western pine came to 70,0110.000 hoard feet compared with 75, 742,000 for tho previous week and 07,920,000 for the sumo week lust year. Slmiliir compar isons for shipments: 73,7-12.000; 74,031.000 and 83,040,000. Pro duction: 82.500,000; 70,004,000 and 70,174,000. J. A. HI . DIES THURSDAY IN PORILAND John A. Kincaid, 81, well known Klamath Fall resident, dloit ot 11:30 p. m. Thursday in St. Vincent') hospital, Port, land, following a brief Illness, At his bedside wore Mrs, Kin culd, and his son and wife, Mr, and Mrs. Gcorgo Kincaid. Funeral sorvlccs will be an nounced later by Ward's. Tin family Is expected to return hore Suturday. Mr. Kincaid wua associated with Ills son, Goorgo, for many yeurs as manager and the owner of Radio Station KFJI. He was a native of West Virginia and come to Oregon in 1080, having lived in various parts ot the stato where his business Interest! took him. l,sl,,, ,,,,, From The Klamath Republican May 21, 1S03 Work was started on tho new brewery building Monday, Miss ncllo Glendennlng passed through hero from Ash land to Illy, whero she will live on her homestead this summer, 1 Hurry Benson of the basebnll team is taking subscriptions to purchase uniforms (or tho local team. ... From Tho Klamath News W Mny 21, 1833 New commltteo heads of the chamber of commerce ora: John Houston, membership; George W, Ford, conservation; W. C Berry, forums; G. C. Loreni, hv duntrieii; Earl Whltlock, finance; ICd Geary, agriculture; G. A. Krauso, aviation; II. R. Macart ney, railroads. E. P. Ivory of Oakland, Calif; has moved to Klumulh Falls and will operate the Pelican City sawmill owned by F. Hill Hunter nnd Richard llovcy. Potluck Dtnnor The annual Stales dinner will be held at th Zlon Lutheran church at 102 lllch street. Snndny. May 23r Immediately after tho morning services. It will be a potln dinner and friends are Invited, Vlclti Band Webb Kennett of this city paid a visit to Bend this week, t WESTERN UNION OFFERS GIRLS and HOUSEWIVES PART or FULL TIME WORK You can play a vital part In winning the war by dollwlng tologrami to and from tho front linos of production, APPLY WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH CO. 718 Mnln Btroet THE OLD JUDGE SAYS... "Our men In the service In this war have pretty definite ideas about what they're fighting lor and the way they want to find our country when they come back.,, don't you think so, Judge?" " 1 certainly do, George. Just a week or so ago I was reading in a national magazine the results ol a poll taken among our soldiers, Each man was given a questionnaire con taining twenty-five 'assignments' lor the folks at home, He was asked to check the first five in order ol importance to him. 'Out ol thousands of replies the first assignment' to the folks back home was 'Make sure I'll have a job In my chosen field ol work when I get back'. Number 5 was 'Make sure that Prohibition Isn't put over on us again.' "When the men In the last war came home and found prohibition had been put over on them behind their backs they were sore as boils, You can see from what 1 just told you how they feel about It this time, too," 0 Gvik fl AkMU Bnmu niiuftto. lm.