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'August 8, 1P4S PAGE FOUR HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON ittmbn of Thi Amocuto Pisa ' Th AmmIM rmi U aicta amir astuM Is tna om et ra. unllcaUon of ill mwi dtipattriai cradlta to U or ao olharwln cmlltttf IB Mill paw. mil alio tha total am ouMUhtd Utmia. Ad flihu o( nptialleaUaa of smUI dlipaWwa ara al ra aarvad, . FRANK JENKINS Sdlior Today's Roundup Br MALCOLM EPLEY IN these day. ot astronomical federal income taction, no one is likely to display much taterWt to local tax figures-not even those 10 .i,u favorable comparisons such as appear n ox. Local 3 taxation is now part of the averago u- ual's annual tax bill. N.vprtheleM. we are treat- a ' ' . . , . 1x. ;j ' v r 5s ujg a.s important ., thpt 1Q43 I verv 1 I erty tax rates ln Klamath I Y An I I county will be generally lower Li ii ilfci". AJ than those for the previous EPLET year, or those for a number of years back. Any measure of tax relief nowa days is of the "man bites dog" news classifi cation. .- The real property tax reduction provided for the coming year is mainly creditable to the state school support law, voted by the people at the last general election and somewhat re vised by the legislature. Under this law, excess funds from the state income tax (which has been building up more returns than the state has needed in recent years) are distributed to the school districts on a "pupil day" basis and serve as a property tax offset This is the first year these funds have been so distributed, and the resultant tax rate reductions will be deeper and more notice able this year than in the future. Governmental Costs Not Cut THE tax rate reductions announced today do not reflect any noteworthy decrease in the cost of local government. In these times of higher wages, higher materials costs, etc., it is not likely that any governmental unit is going to effect substantial reductions in actual bud gets. The amount to be raised by taxation in Klamath county, for instance, is virtually the same as last year. The county tax rate (ex clusive of schools) is actually up two-tenths of a mill, (19.7 as compared with 19.S last year) due to the fact that the county's assessed valua tion is slightly lower. This slight increase in the county tax rate is more, than offset, in your combined and final levy, by the decrease in school taxes brought about by the school sup port law. Likewise, the tax rate for Klamath Falls city purposes only, is higher than it was last year. The previous rate was 30.4 mills, while that for 194344 is 82.7 mills. - But here again, the reduction in school property taxes comes into the picture to reduce the final combined levy for city taxpayers from 74.1 mills to 72.4 mills. If this is somewhat confusing, it should be kept in mind that the final tax rate, on which your real property tax bill is figured, is com posed of several parts. If you live in Klamath Falls, the combined rate includes a county tax rate, a city tax rate, a rate for Klamath Union high school taxes, and a rate for city elemen tary school taxes. If you live in the country, your final rate includes the county elementary tax rate, the county high school tax rate, and the county tax rate. a , No Money Is "Saved" WITHOUT implying that local officials can be expected in these times to effect ma terial reductions ln governmental costs, (We think they are generally doing a good job) it is well for the public to realize where the . rate reductions come from. We should guard gainst a tendency, which may develop, to raise local governmental costs unnecessarily as result of the real property tax relief afforded through the school tax law. And it should also be realized that this school Relaxation Essential in Days of Wartime Stress Dr. Masters' Health Column By DR. THOMAS D. MASTERS Tension and overwork are growing problems in a nation at war, and recent evidences of political and economic unrest may be ln part attributed to in creased pressures from speeded up production as well as anxiety connected with our men at the front. Very few extremely busy people have learned along the way the invaluable knack of re laxing and loafing at the right times. Resting, genuinely resting, far from implying neglect of duties, is the necessary underside of the fabric of human activity. The body can stand just so much of effort and strain and then Na ture requires that it must rest and repair its worn-out cells. Resting may be partial, or whole and recreative. Sleep takes care of much of the wear and tear of the day, but time must also be set aside for doing nothing effective ly, if the mind and the spirit, inseparable from the body, are to find refreshment also. PLAY ON DAY OFF Doing any one thing for long .hours at a stretch is highly debi litating. Those who must work incessantly six days a week at their Jobs should plan to spend their free time in activity totally different from that of their rou tine. The postman who spends his holiday on foot brings a smile from everyone. His plight has many parallels elsewhere. Variety of interests Is essential A trmporarr rorablnalloa ef tha Rraalai laraM a. the Klamath Newt. Pubtuhtd arary aftaraoon aid-pa Sunday at lipluida ud Pint atraats, Klanath ralla, Oragoa, by the Hrra'd riitllthlaf Co. aod tha Klaaata. Xtwi PoMUhlag Coaapaay XaUrcd ai aeond daia natter at th pottofftca ! KlamaU Fall. Or., m Aagual to. 190 uadar art of aoafreaa, March a. I". on today's front real property only a minor v. j ; r c a uw - 44 real Dror to keep the mind alert and free of rigidity. Keeping the brain sensitive to many impressions, welcoming small novelties of ob servation, letting the fancy have free rein, all contribute to pow ers of reflection and absorption that hold human beings relative ly sane and happy in a mad world. Crowded and slowed-up trans portation to and from defense work may have its brighter side. The general good nature that prevails in most such circum stances is almost amazing. To the man who knows how to re lax, there is endless entertain ment to be found in observing the behavior and appearance of those about him. Furthermore, it is a great deal easier to see the countryside at 35 m. p. h. than at SO and far less wearing on the nerves. IMAGINATION REQUIRED Discipline and endurance are grim necessities in any national trial, of which war is the sharp est instance. But to outstrip the enemy, our people must em ploy imagination and Ingenuity, too, and these powers find their richest nourishment ln the pre cious hours of quiet, of appar ently aimless activity which In reality permit the deepest im pulses within a man's being to grow and seek expression. Read ing and knitting require a cer tain amount of concentration, and are therefore not enough for inner rest. Detaching oneself Jfmoar Avmt Bcuiu Or CoccrLATOir ttprMiaUd KatlaaaHj ar WiaT.Hou.ouT Co., 10. Sun rraarlara, yew Tori, Sa allla, CkKato. Poralaad, hot Aiialaa. MALCOLM EPLET money from the state came originally from the pockets of Oregon taxpayers. What has hap pened is that excess income tax money is being distributed to bring about real property re duction. This broadens the base of tax support of the schools, and it tends to equalise the distribution of tax money on a "need" basis. But it does not "save" any money, generally speaking. Money is "saved" by cautious budget-making, by limiting current expenditures to necessities and capital investments to sound projects, and by policies of general economy which should rule every governmental organization. The War Today Br DeWITT MacKErUIE FAST moving crises on all fronts combine to give the Impression ot Europe which is rushing headlong for the show-down not that the end necessarily is Imminent but that the final phase of Armageddon is close at hand. Italian Marshal Badoglio's delay in dealing with the allied demand for surrender is reported to have given Hitler the opportunity to estab lish a line of perhaps a quarter million German troops right across northern Italy as a buttress against an allied drive from the south. The nazis also are said to have occupied the great port of the Trieste at the head of the Adriatic, thus closing one important gateway to the Balkans. It isn't clear whether Badoglio connived at this, or whether he was forced into it un willingly by threats of reprisals against the Italian population by the nazi war lord. How ever, that's muddy water over .the dam. Of more immediate concern is the fact that the allies have a large problem on their hands, assuming that the reports of German troop movements are accurate. Defensive THE fuehrer's move Is, of course, purely de fensive. He expects the United Nations to overrun the lower two-thirds of the Italian peninsula. However, that no longer is useful to him and he probably doesn't intend to offer much opposition until the enemy reaches his first line of defense, which Madrid reports may be anchored at the naval base of La Spezia on the west coast and run eastward to the Adriatic. That would be about 200 miles north of Rome. . Hitler's main line will be hundred miles farther north, taking advantage of the strategic fortifications along the River Po. Here he will dispute the allied rights of way to France, Germany or the Balkans. . . If you will glance at your maps you. will see what a magnificent defensive line the Po affords. We may expect fierce fighting here, unless there's a great change in the picture as it appears now. Last Ditch Stand THE purpose of the nazi chiefs move Is to stand the allies off while he makes final preparations to defend his so-called inner fort ress, into which he will retire if the pressure continues as at present. This is the circle within which he proposes to make his last-ditch stand to safeguard the reich and such of the occupied territories as he thinks he can hang onto. With this concentration of power, and a vast shortening on his now interminable communi cations, he will battle to force a stalemate. The all highest's plan is a scheme of despera tion. This is emphasized today as the Anglo American forces race for the coup de grace in Sicily, as the amazing Russians continue their slaughter of nazis in the fierce Orel offensive, and as the allied bombers deal crushing blows to great German cities while fear spreads throughout the reich. Beavers Defeat War Industries All Star Ball Men PORTLAND. Aiiff a" IJPi Th Portland Beavers of the Pacific UOast baseball lea Clin rlefentj.! an all-star lineup from the War inausmes league here, 3 to 1, last night. The Beavers scored twn nma in the second inning and three In the eighth. The lone AH- oiars tally came ln the third. cm Herring of the Beavers al lowed seven hits while Larry Jansen, formerly of the San Francisco Seals, yielded six. Admiral Hoover Changes Command SAN JUAN. Puerto Hlrm Aug. 3 W) Vice Admiral John m. .Hoover, United States rep resentative In the negotiations which resulted In Admiral Georges Robert turning over ht Martinique authority to the al lies, is being detached from his duties as commander of the Caribbean sea frontier for a new post at sea. Tenth naval district head quarters announced this today but did not disclose Hoover's new command nor his succes sor's name. from city and factory grinds, re veling in the sun and sky open to everyone in parks and coun try, developing one's natural ability as a human being to rise in contemplation above the trivial and the routine are the secret of creative rest. SIDE GLANCES aWyf-. " ,K ar a arum a, t. m. ato. u. a mt ort. A0.u,,,be linking or him when you're out (here ngnUng the Japs tut think of me. too, back here chanc . ing his pants r Luke Appling Leads League With Sticks NEW YORK. Aug. 3 (IP) Luke Appling, the Chicago White Sox man who came back,"-is leading the American league hit parade today and aiming at the batting championship he held seven years ago. The shortstop veteran tore opposing pitchers apart during the past week, thumping out 18 hits in 40 trips to the plate to boost his average 14 points, all the way to .331, and replace Rookie Dick Wakefield of the Detroit Tigers in the No. 1 slot among the junior circuit hitters. Wakefield fell off five points during the week to .321, for sec ond place. Newcomers to the top ten clouters after the past week's walloping were Nick Etten of the Yankees, Pete Fox of the Boston Red Sox and Wally Moses of the Chicago White Sox. Meantime, Stan Musial, the St. Louis Cardinals, "rhythm swinger," remained ten points in front of his nearest National league rival Brooklyn Billy Herman although he dropped six points during the week to .340 getting nine hits in 33 times at bat Biggest surge of the week saw Arky Vaughn of the Dodgers climb from sixth place to a tie for third with .313. trifrai'ii-i1!''!'! :i'HI,i'i; :"! From the Klamath Mews August 3, 1933 Earl H. Fehl, Jackson county judge charged with ballot theft, took the stand here today in his own defense. He denied the theft. a Orth Sisemore was elected president of the Klamath county junior chamber of commerce. Steps were taken today to of fer the local armory project as a work enterprise in connection with the struggle against unem ployment. From the Klamath Republican August t, 1903 A. C. and D. M. Griffith, own ers of the big stock ranch and summer resort at Odessa, were at the Falls Friday. They are build ing a two-deck steamer, 48 feet long, with 14-foot beam. It will have a stern wheel, will travel from 12 to 16 miles an hour and will be able to carry SO people. O. B. Gates arrived from Hills boro to assume management of the water anrl llffht olant and the telephone system at this place. He expects to remain nere permanently, Slivinski Joins Redskin Squad for Football Training SAN DIEGO, Calif., Aug. 3 (P) The Washington Redskins an nounced yesterday that Steve Slivinski, former University of Washington tackle, had joined the squad to begin training for the start of the 1943 professional football season. When in Madfoxd Star at HOTIL HOLLAND Thoroughly Modern Joe and Anne EirUy Proprietors yaaiaj!eajii"iaw 'r aeA Sports TVj Briefs VV! Br WM Hugh rulltrton. Jr. NEW YORK. Aug 3 W) Rudy Golomb, former Chicago Cardi nals guard who was captured in Tunisia, has written his old employer from a German prison camp asking for cigarettes . . . but only nearest of kin are per mitted to send packages to war prisoners, and the army and the Red Cross don't tell outsiders the addresses of those relatives . . . so if the nearest of kin will get in touch with the Cards, maybe Rudy will get some smokes. . . . Mike Bclloise, ex featherweight chomp (New York version) wants to book a Cali fornia fight so he can visit his sister and brother here. a a a QUOTE. UNQUOTE Frank Howard, Clcmson col lege grid coach (upon viewing his squad of 33 players 17 years and under): "Trying to build a football team out of this bunch is going to be like trying to make a peach pie without peaches." w m 9 ONE-MINUTE SPORTS Kerby Farrell, who has been first-basing for the Braves since Johnny McCarthy busted a leg. doubled as manager and bull pen pitcher of the Erie (Pa.) Sailors last year. He could yank a pitcher and put himself in at the same time and ran up a string of 18 scoreless innings doing it. . The Washington Redskins season ticket sale has passed SlUU.OUO . . , well, the town is so prosperous that Clark Griffith cut the price of hot dogs to a dime. 1 a a TODAY'S GUEST STAR Harry Sheer, Chicago Daily News: "Now Bucky Harris has two presents from the City of Brotherly Love a wrist watch and a boot." a a DOGGED DOZEN Mike Casteel, U. of Arizona coach, has 12 players definitely lined up for his team next fall and says he can't decide whether to have two six-man teams or a regular eleven with a sub. . . . All of Arizona's home games have been cancelled by the other teams, too, so Roy Drachman suggests that Mike should ar range "telegraphic" games just like rifle meets "Thered be a hell of a lot of touchdowns," says Roy, "and that's what the crowd wants, so why not? a a a 8ERVICE DEPT. Pfc. Mike (K. O.) Janic of the marines, who admits he's quite a character," Is training a team of marine boxers some where in the Pacific Coast, and claims one of his fighters, Corp. Bob Donovan, is coming light- heavy champ, if we kayo them Japs In time." . , . The Fort Sheri dan, 111., baseball squad has been reduced to elevn men by personnel changes at the post which may explain why Frank McEIyea, former Braves out fielder, shifted from his regular third-base post to pitch a game the other day and Pitcher Gene Goforth played first base. More than 1000 sub-contractors now are producing wooden motor vehicle cargo bodies for army use that formerly wero manufactured by a few chassis builders.: TRUCKS FOR RENT You Drive Move .Yourself Save ? Long and Short Trips STILES' BEACON SERVICE Phone 1304 1301 East Main Brownies Bubble Busted Seventh Place Hot Funny To St. Louis Browns After Hitting High Placet BY SID FEDER Associated Press Sports Writer The meeting today will tnko up the rise and full of the Brownies ot St. Louis. A couple of weeks ago the Browns zoomed into the Amer ican league's first division and were bouncing along as merrily as a guy who's Just hud his gns ration raised and Is going homo to a steak dinner. Then the bubble busted and Luko (Laughing Boy) SpwpII sud denly found out there's nothing to laugh about. Or can you see something funny In seventh place? because that's exactly where the Brownies are after having dropped their fifth straight decision. This one was a 4-3 shiner pinned on them by Southpaw Milt Hncfncr and the Washington Senators lust niitht Incidentally. Milt's six-hit win put the Washington In a vir tual second place tio with the Chicago Whito Sox In the Amer ican league, since Jimmy Dykes' warriors had a lot of the wind taken out of them in Philadel phia. Thero the Athletics put on a two-run rally in the eighth to take a 5-3 verdict, which left the Nats only ono percentage point out of the second lot. In the only other big league game. Frankle Gu.itine singled home a ninth-Inning marker to give the Pittsburgh Pirates a 5-4 win over the Boston Braves and move the Bucs up to 10 games away from the St. Louis Cardinals in the National league parade. Fort Knox Officers School Has Oversupply of Gridders FORT KNOX. Ky.. Aug. 3 tP) While other schools are worry. Ing about getting 11 men for a football team this fall, the arm ored command officer candidato school here has plenty of former collegiate stars. Including fivo with bowl experience, but no football team. Graduates of the armored command school will bo officers in the armored divisions but the Job of learning how to operate tanks and guns rules out time for football except ln rem iniscing. Three stars of the 1943 Rose Bowl game between Georgia and UCLA met at the school for the first time since the southerners won 9 to 0. Officer Candidates Vic Smith and Milt Smith, both of Los An geles but not brothers, did 58 minutes of duty for UCLA last January In an unsuccessful ef fort to stop Candidate Van Davis of Atlanta and the University of Georgia. The Smith boys rate Davis, who also played in the Orange Bowl game In 1942, as the great est crashing end they ever played against and Milt played 'a pretty fair game at end himself. Vic alternated at half and full back for UCLA and Davis says Vic ran over his end more times than he likes to remember. The school has another pair of Bowl ends Truman Cox of Bonna, Texas, and Marion Slaughter of Houston, teammates at Texas A. Ic M., both veterans of the Cotton Bowl. Asked what playing ln the By the Associated Press NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet St. Louis 62 31 .B67 Pittsburgh 52 42 .553 Brooklyn 52 46 .531 Cincinnati 50 45 .526 Chicago 45 40 .470 Philadelphia 44 54 .449 Boston 39 52 .429 New York 35 60 .368 Yesterday's Results Pittsburgh 5, Boston 4. AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet. Now York 57 35 .620 Chicago 49 45 .521 Washington 51 47 .520 Detroit 48 48 .500 Cleveland 45 47 .489 Boston 46 48 .489 )webuy I qpgBI. )WESELl I fl? H. E. Hauger 1830 Main Three Teams Bunched in Coast Race By the Associated Press The l'uclflc Coast league of fers (omvlhing of u contest In thu monopolized first division to day with three teams bunched in the race for third pluco. Portland and Seattlo jointly occupy the birth under Los An geles and San Francisco, which huve shown absolutely no incli nation to relinquish secure holds on first and second places, re spectively. Oakluud tukrs on Hie Beuvors In Portland, whllo Scuttle, recent tenant of sixth place, entertains Hollywood. The stars enter the sorles In fifth position by the margin of only three games. The third game scheduled to day offers San Diego versus San Francisco at Seals stadium. Los Angeles and Sacramento, the two extremes or the standings, open a stand in Los Angeles to morrow. Montana Dropped From Cougar Grid Schedule This Year CORVALMS. Aug. 3 (Pi The University of Montana will be dropped from the Oregon State football schedule this fall, to be replaced by the Spokane air serv ice command train. Athletic Director Percy Locey unlet Montana may be uuablo to field a train this year hecaune of the player shortage. The Spo-, I ...III . L. ....... I KHIIC Itillll Will UJ. II III" W.VMUl. Stale schedulo hero October 9. Rose Bowl meant to a football player Vic Smith replied: 1 'The Rose Bowl Is to a foot ball player what the march Into Berlin will be to an American soldier." tnnniiiti GET nun iqc Hi Get your lire, inspected early Llko to be able to forget about tiro Inspections until nort year? You can do it and avoid the usual lost-minute, rush too, by getting the job done right now. If you have an "A" book just stop this week and soe any of us Standard folks who ore tire inspectors. Thon you'll bo finished with inspections till March, 1044. It's a smart way to steer clear of that stampede of folks who put off tiro inspections till just before September 30. iow to cure the creeps Standard' of CflMomla Mimaa RaflMnr Down in front Don't let your front wheel beat ings down. Every 6,000 miles they need a careful cleaning and greasing that we Standard folks are specially trained to do. For safe driving, let us check them next time you come In for one of oar never-mlss lubrication jobs. STANDARD OF I L T L - insn iuiiii Thrown to Youngsters Navy, Marine Studonts to Play Notre Dame Football Battles; Young BacMleld By CHARLES CHAMBERLAIN SOUTH REND, Ind.. Aug. 3 Wl Notre Dump, preparing to curry on lis great gridiron dynasty wth o mixture of navy and murine students and seven 11)43 Irttnrmcn, will spring one of Its youngest buckfiolds In his tory against football fons thl full. V' John Lujuck of Connellnvlllr, rii., will be at left half, Huh Kellv. hero of Cliicuuo'i rliv prep champions, nt right half, nnd Jules Hykovleh ot Gary, Ind., at fullhui'k. Their aver age age Is 18, and none hoi played In a college gumo. They will support Angelo "Bombslght" MerloUl, the passing witard who Is the only regulnr In the monogram group. Ho will be around only for five gnmrt before being sent elsewhere for additlonnl murine training. "We don't huve a chance for a great team and thut's not a professional moan." Coach Frank Leahy Insisted today as he ush ered some 70 boys through their second week of summer prac tices. "The powerhouses this year will be Michigan, Norths western, Army and Navy, wf) meet all of them, too." However, Leahy Is going to stick to tlio T formation. This alignment culls for quality In material, Indicating thnl the roach must think he has it despite his flash of pessimism. Highways departments see In the crumbling of hard-surfaced highways, under the Incessant pounding of heavy war traffic during the past winter, one of their gravest Immediate prob lems. Motor oils that creep away from hot spots loave your en gins exposed to extra woar. That's why we givo RPM Motor Oil a special ingredlont thnt makes it stick like a Sia mese twin to hot or cold metal. Even when your oar la idle it stays put, gives you Instant lubrication when you start. 'MM 4HMt! IU' CALIFORNIA
