HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
May 21, 1948
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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.
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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'."
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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.
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"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
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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
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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.
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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
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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,"
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