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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (June 16, 1943)
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MALCOLM KPLET Ifolaoia Biittr Today's Roundup Br MALCOLM EPLEY THE Lake county proposal for reclamation of 200.000 acres of Goose lake bed as a post-war development directs attention to the great possiomiica uu Avin.,cinn in this ecneral sec- tion of southern and south central Oregon. Lake's proposition, as ex- plained to the Oregon posv- a war readjustment and develop ment commission this week, is 4m KIdc nut a rim rock and I V I 1 dig a ditch which would drain I V A I 1 the lake into the Pit river. UmmASsk itA Tne timely planning in Lake EPLEY county should serve as a re minder for all civic and development groups in this region to get busy on land use extension. The Sprague River valley development, the reclamation and greater use of lands adjoining Upper Klamath lake, and the permanent open ing of added lands in the Tule lake sump are three of a number of projects that come to mind in this connection. Some excellent work has been done on land use planning in connection with the agricul tural outlook conferences held here in the last decade. Now is the time to get these surveys out of the files, to study them in the light of post-war construction programs, and to develop a vitalized land development, pro gram for the Klamath-Lake country. Incidental!', the probability of extensive con struction to take up an anticipated employ- ment slack after the war, fits importantly into the suggested plan for opening the Tule lake sump area to homesteading. Skeptics, in commenting on what has been said on this page in recent . months on this subject, have indicated that the project would call for some additional construction work, such as the enlargement of the Lost river diversion canaL In view of the large benefits promised, such a construction program as a post-war measure, would be logical and justi fied. We shouldn't let too much grass grow under our feet. In any consideration of the future of the Klamath country, agriculture has a most . prominent place. Land use extension is agri cultural extension. News Behind ihe News By PAUL MALLON WASHINGTON, June 16 The peril on the home front was adequately presented recently by the simultaneous announcements issued by the government bur eaus in charge. A simple understanding of the confused administrative dangers can be obtained by just putting these official statements side-by-side. Labor Secretary Perkins announced a survey by her women's bureau had disclosed thousands of war workers in adeauatelv fpri ami h 1001 MALLOW mass feeding in lunches at the plants. Absenteeism she traced to debility ane mia and Indigestion, due primarily to "inade- 3St quate supply of food at place of work." On that same day, Donald Nelson announced that the goods upon which war workers and civilians live will have to be cut another 20 per cent from existing rations by the end of the year. At precisely that moment, also, the war de partment announced it was taking 45 per cent of the beef kill after June 14 for the army. In short, the government proposes to cut more of what the government says is already inadequate, or at least inadequately distributed. By varying and conflicting conclusions, it seems to proclaim it has reached the point where it cannot make both ends meet. To top this qf (still the same day), the national canners, in convention assembled, heard that canneries were being closed because increased wages would not permit profitable operations even with subsidies. To top this (also same day), the agriculture department announced food production this year would be far less than last year and less than estimated. Here then is the problem in all' its simple reality not alone the problem of food, because precisely the same elements of. trouble show in many lines (gasoline, synthetic rubber, even manpower and prices-wages, where both ends similarly are failing to meet.) The military is claiming first call, the home front bureaus are beginning to worry and doubt, and lend-lease is likewise grabbing sec retly from the dwindling basket. What is need ed is an equitable distribution among the three apparently another redistribution. If lend-lease or the military takes too much, there would be a collapse or breakdown on the home front, which is equally important with the fighting front. Only Solution WHAT do you do in a situation like that? The obvious and only possible solution is to set an over-all authority which will trt-h both points until they do meet, to make them meet by strong arbitrary action. It would be the duty of such an authority to establish on a basis of reasonableness the point at which the ends should meet the mini mum requirements of all sides, and then crack the whin to brinr them there, if it nnulm cutting through all the gold braid and red tape iu vvaanington. Such an authority could reasonably require the military and lend-lease to waste, take only what is essential not neces- mtiiy wwi iney iirsi asx, not wnat they would like to have under abundance or for political effect abroad. Someone must gauge mjnjmurn civilian requirements as well, and meet them also with the available suddIv. Such an authority recently has been created, but has not yet acted as far as anyone outside knows from reading the conflicting government auuiouncemenia. The Byrnes-Baruch nvar.aTT mnM ... .it the legal power in the world, but no one can give 11 me necessary courage to make the domestic economy work. It will first have to break down the "lealoux rnrnut;7." .11 the interested government bureaus, and do its re-aisoiDutions in such a fair and reasonable way as to inspire public confidence in the re sults u ooiains. In short, it must find lies and take the whole domestic war economy w mat point wimout much more delay. SIDE GLANCES com, iiu w nu uttvKi. mc t. m. ic. w, . rT. orr. EDITORIALS ON NEWS (Continued From Page One) eluding Gandhi and his crowd) that doesn't seem to care much who wins the war. His "prom ii.es" of Burmese and Phillppino independence are more eye wash. It is India he is aiming at (O "We ouelil to keep the old town like it was when the boys went to war. so if the people want me, I'm willing lo run for mayor again l'" West Coast Gasoline Movement May Have Subsidy, Says Brown WASHINGTON, June 18 (JP) frlce Administrator Prentiss Brown disclosed in testimony before the senate banking com mittee today that he is discuss ing with Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones the possibility of applying transportation sub sidies to facilitate the movement of gasoline to the west coast. Brown said that no subsidies of this kind now are paid out side the eastern petroleum shortage area, but that he is having discussions with Jones "about the west coast situation." He did not elaborate. Quebec, Canada, has more churches than any other city on the American continent in proportion to its size and popu lation. Lollipops made of iron were licked by members of an ob scure Siberian tribe when they needed a tonic. Mahogany trees grow in trop ical forests, one or two trees to the acre. Class one railroads of the United States have more than 1,184,336 employes. Convicts Prepare Books for Mailing SALEM, June 18 VP) About one-third of the 1,000,000 copies of ration book No. 3 are ready iur mailing 10 uregon residents, the state prison said today. The convicts volunteered for the Whole 1nh nf mailino .11 ih. Oregon books. Sixty convicts worK on a day shift, while 150 work at night. The books will be mailed to about 45n nnn At. zerent addresses. The atmosphere is only one half as dense at an altitude of three and one-half miles as it is at sea level. "- I T " ' ' . ' 'liWi .HC 1 1I aiaa a '3 ''-nlSa? a!.A RS , SfAK C H'. IfT5Mtt ". 0. (left) and Helen D. Oarland, Los Angeles, Cal enjoy a ride in a Cout Guard natral boat at n im rv,.. Meailess Days Loom for Consumers at Seattle SEATTLE, June 16 W The threat of meatless days loomed today for Seattle's consumers. Markets started closing yes terday after the war boom city's already scant supply was cut drastically by a cessation of operations in four of the city's five packing houses because of what operators said was ine uncertainty of the government subsidy program. Two packing houses also were closed at Yakima and one at Ellensburg. Under the office of price ad ministration price roll-back plan, a compensating subsidy is scheduled for the packers, to be paid through the RFC's defense supplies corporation. With dwindling stocks in mar kets, I. W. Ringer, secretary of the Washington State Retail Meat Dealers' association, pre dicted that virtually aU of Se attle's . retail markets would have to close by tomorrow morning. An announcement by Secre tary of Commerce Jesse Jones yesterday said subsidy payments would be on a monthly basis. O. B. Joseph of the James Henry Packing company, on of the first to close here, said packers should receive weekly payments. He said payments due his firm on the present basis of operations would amount to $30,000 monthly, and delay in subsidy payments would leave the firm without operating capital. W. L. Murphy, executive sec retary of the Puget Sound Meat Packers' association, declared that the packers "can't go to ine names and get operating ex penses by saying the govern ment is going to take care of everything. Even before the roll-back of the packers' prices was ordered by the OPA, packers here have expressed acute dissatisfaction with the price control policies. iney nave insisted that the ceil- ings imposed on them, in the absence of any ceilings on what they pay to the producers, has meant actual losses for them on every beef they handled. Fresh beef has been a rare item in retail markets here for several months. Zoot-Suiter Held on Stolen Car Charge GRANTS PASS, June 18 UP) A 16-year-old Mexican, Estavan Tovar, San Francisco, who bragged that he is a zoot-suitcr. was held in county jail Wednes day under arrest after capture Tuesday near Grave creek. With Tovar is a 14-year-old run-away, James Jeffers of Eureka. According to Sgt. Lyle Har- rell of the state police, Tovar, driving a 1840 Buick coupe stolen from Eureka, had at tempted to purchase gasoline without a ration book at a local gasoline station. The operator notified the police who chased the pair to Grave creek where their car went over a bank. Tovar admitted stealing a car in San Francisco for the first part of the trip north, abandon ing it near Eureka, and taking the other car there, Sgt. Harrell said. The capstone of the Washing ton monument is crowned by a small pyramid of pure alumin um weighing 100 ounces. There is one accidental death for every five minutes in the year, according to calculations of the u. s. Census Bureau. The combined steel capacity of the United States, British Em pire and Russia is more than twice the axis total. So oily are the bodies of some sea birds that a wick threaded through them will bum like a candle. Part of Tennessee was called the "State of Franklin" from 1774 to 1788. UR planes bomb Rabaul, In New Britain, MORE HEAVILY than usual, leading some observers to think we are planning to go after it for blood. Rubaul is Japan's second most important base in the South Pa cific, exceeded only by Truk.) a If 1NG GEORGE shows up In Africa. He appears on the veranda (porch to you) of an officer villa at the edge of a Mediterranean brarh. Thousands of British soldiers swimming In the surf see him, recognize him and head for the sand, cheering wildly, to get a close look at him. The dispatches relate that he came down the steps onto the beach and mixed freely with the men. laughing and talking. This maneuver was not on the sched ule and "caught his aides so by surprise that he almost got away from them." That would have been tough. a a TIE sounds like a regular guy. About the only criticism we Americans can offer is that he was BORN to his job instead of ACHIEVING it by bis own ef forts. "THERE'S an interesting side 1 light. Two old Frenchmen on tho beach, responding to the emotional stimulus of the oc casion, shout "Vive le roll" (long live the king.) When the excitement passes, one looks sheepishly at the oth- SNOOD HA T Stark whIU with Amtrlran Bul row. It the dashlas color eomblnatioo of the wood hat worn by jvn Winn Bta aVlmi. The straw braid h.l Is worn bark on the. hS!A sUlkCbtac Tand wblta print dress completes her oulllU Q er and says: "It's been a Ions time since I've said those words." a a a WflTH a fourth term coming along more or less Inevit ably (unless an INSPIRED LEADER appears miraculously In the opposition) It must be con fessed that these little demon strations of how it Is done else where have a certain interest for us. Frozen Foods May Have Price Rise WASHINGTON. Juna 18 M Retail prices of frozen straw berries and asparagus will rise between ono and four cents t pound, the office of price nd ministration (OPA) said today Prices of frozen snap brans, corn, peas and spinach, how ever, will be uni'hntiKPd. The commodity credit corporation (CCC) Is subsidizing snap brans, corn and pras, and OPA said it will not allow any Inrrrais on spinach. The liicrrar, effective on 1043 packs, will amount to one cent a pound on frozen aspar agus, and three to four rents a pound on frozen strawbrrrlrs. 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