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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 30, 1943)
4rra tew HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON LAMATJ NAMES THIS WEEK FORWAC p ,., The following proclamation Was Issued by Mayor John Houston to designate the week of August 30 to September 5 as WAC week in Klamath Falls; PROCLAMATION , WHEREAS, members of the women's army auxiliary corps, having proven themselves wor thy and able adjuncts to our lighting forces, are taking the oath which places them in the regular army - of the united States on September 1, and whlheas, the women's army corps offers the greatest possible opportunity to those who wish to devote their skills and talents to hastening the day of victory and peace; NOW, THEREFORE, I, John H. Houston, mayor of the city of Klamath Falls, do hereby proclaim the week extending from August 30 to September 5 as WAC week and urge all cit izens of Klamath Falls to give thought to the effective way in which the womanhood of Amer ica is matching the contribution of our fighting men; and espe cially do I urge all women of this community to give serious consideration to opportunities for service and training offered by the women's army corps. . Whereunto, I have set my band this 30th. day of August, nineteen hundred and forty three. jumx xi. nuuoiun, Mayor, City of Klamath Falls. Fulmer Commends WFA Price Pledge WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 (JP) A pledge by War Food Adminis trator Marvin Jones that food prices would be supported at a level high enough to cover "the added risks and hazards that go with increased production" drew today the commendation of Chairman Fulmer (D-S.C.) of the house agriculture committee. At the same time, Fulmer de clared that it would be "help ful" if Jones would outline the ' "whole program" in order to furnish farmers a basis for plan ning their 1944. crops to meet bom civilian and military re quirements. Funeral to Be Held For President of . Wells-Forgo Bank SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30 m Funeral services will be held here tomorrow for Robert Burns Motherwell H, 58, president of the Wells Fargo bank and Union Trust company, who died yester day after an illness of two months. A native of Logan, O., Mother well studied at Western Reserve university in Cleveland and at the University of Oregon. Officers Selected For City Schools ' Officials of the joint city Ichool system for this school year have been selected. They are A. L. Gralapp, sup erintendent; Madge Coopey, sec retary; J. P. Wells, clerk; Peg gy Johnson, secretary; and Wil son Wiley, attorney. She'll Swoon Envy of a million girls Is Bar bara Hale, one-time Chicago model, who will play Frank Sinatra's sweetheart in a forth- PROG i (ir? i I OUR MEN AND WOMEN IN SERVICE fe fek if RADIO MAN An expert at establishing and maintaining ef ficient communications under battlefield conditions is Private Eddie Lee Young, 20-year-old Klamath Falls marine. He Is the son of Henry C. Young, Route 1, Box 794, Klam ath Falls. He is now . nearing completion of his training in the marine corps radio operators school in San Diego. Three months of highly specialized training both in the field and in the classroom, have gone into his course of study there. Private Young was sworn into the marine corps last March, un derwent recruit training in San Diego, and then entered the ra dio school. PFC Bernard Cavenaugh, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Caven augh of 2043 Melrose street, Klamath Falls,, graduated from the armament department of Lowry field, Colo., recently. He was graduated from Sacred Heart academy in Klamath Falls in 1938. In civilian life he worked for the Great Northern Railroad company as a steno grapher-clerk.- HOPES HELD Hope is still held by his- friends that Staff Sergeant John W. DeMille is alive or being held - prisoner. He had pre viously been re ported as miss ing but airmen who saw the plane shot down over Af rica in May say that they saw six men para chute from the plane. How ever, no word has been heard from him. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. M. DeMille of Ashland but he was em ployed In Klamath Falls before he left for the army air corps. He has lived with the Martin Tighe and the Francis Provost families in the Midland dis trict Recently graduated from the naval training school of machin ists located on the campus of the University of Kansas in Law rence, .Kan, were two Klamath Falls men. These graduates from Klam ath Falls and their new ratings are Alvin G. Anderson, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Bonham, 3744 LaVerne avenue, fireman first class; Gerald O. Hawkins, 31, son of Mrs. Edith M. Haw kins, 1866 Logan street, fire man second class. They will now be assigned to duty aboard a navy man-o-war, or to some naval shore station. Donald J. . Harris, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Harris, Box 1144, Merrill, a recent graduate of the naval training school for machinists' mates at the North Dakota State school of science, Wahpeto, N. D., is now awaiting orders to active duty aboard a j jBaaBBSSSBa ; .'v" i' -:-,' a ' I I I I Peaches and Tomatoes FOR CANNING Fancy Yakima Quality Get Them Today at the Lowest-of-the-Season Prices - Tomatoes- $1.19 Elberta Peaches $2.1 9 SafevaySfores -... warship in the U. S. fleet, or to some naval shore station. He was advanced to the rating of fireman first class upon grad uation. Storekeeper Third Class Jim Morley, former employe of Southern Pacific railroad, is now in the naval hospital at Treasure Island, San Francisco, recovering from . an . operation. Morley has been in the navy about a year, and went to store keeper's school at Farragut, Idaho. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Morley of Albany. Learning how to keep the U. S. navy's electric tools and motors in top running condition is James T. Edgar, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Edgar, Gilchrist, who was recently enrolled in the Naval Training school for elec tricians at Iowa State college at Ames, Iowa. " Second Lieutenant Forrest Alter in the ordinance depart ment of the air corps, is now in ipg Central Ameri ca. Lt. Alter has been trans ferred many times. He was stationed at the Aberdeen prov- j mg grounds in Maryland, at f Ft. Stevens camp, . Camp Clatsop, Boise, Ida., and final ly now in Cen tral America. Forrest grad uated from Klamath Union high school in 1940, and was a Herald-News employe before entering the 'service. , . Private Jack McNeis of Klam ath Falls has been released from army duty for at least six months and is now working at the Lake shore Gardens. He entered the army in February and was sta tioned for a while at Fort Lewis and then sent to Jefferson Bar racks, Mo. He lived and worked at the Lakeshore nursery for five years before entering the service. FORT SILL, Okla. PFC Car ney Berseth of Klamath Falls, a member of headquarters, serv ice battalion, field artillery of ficer candidate school regiment has been awarded the army Good Conduct MedaL Private Berseth, son of Mrs. P. M. Martinson, 803 Mitchell street, Klamath Falls, was a lumber-jack for the McCloud River Lumber company, McCloud, Calif, before he entered the serv ice. In order to receive the Good Conduct Medal an enlisted man must serve three years in peace time or one year in wartime and be recommended by his com manding officer. PROMOTED Harold Stevens, better known as "Tops," has been promoted to a seaman second class in the Seabees. Stevens formerly lived at 632 Oak street in Klamath Falls and is now stationed at Camp Peary, Va. Pvt. Allen Cline is now at Camp Hulen, Tex, with the med ical detachment of the United States army. Cline enlisted June 1. He is a graduate of the Klamath Union high school with the class of 1943 and was on the football squad. He is the nephew of Mrs.-Angus Walsh formerly of this city. Klamath Girl Makes Spring Honor Roll FOREST GROVE, Aug. 30 IIP) Pacific university today listed Helen Cox, Klamath Falls, and Elizabeth Odle, Salem, on the spring term honor roll. First rural free delivery serv ice in the United States was made In West Virginia in 1896. f 1 i "liberators m Ploesti (NEA Radio TeUphnio) Barely sktmmtnghetaps of tanks, refineries and oil wells, U. 8. heany Liberator bombing, planes are shown plastering ton after ton of bombs en the Ploesti olifleldsiof Rumania recently. This Is a Ninth Air Force photo radioed to New York. Courthouse Records Complaints Filed William M. Swift versus Nellie G. Swift. Suit for divorce, charge cruel and inhuman treat ment. Couple married in Klam ath Falls, August 2. 1943. W. Lamar Townsend, attorney for plaintiff. Genevieve R. Johnson versus Lester W. Johnson. Suit for di vorce, charge cruel and Inhuman treatment. Couple married in Reno, December 5, 1936. Plain tiff asks custody of one minor child. A. C. Yaden, attorney for plaintiff. Justice Court Robert LaFayette Lewis. Over- H l i i Oilfield Bombing w n Young Appointed V Weather Bureau ' Regional Director t WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 (VP) Floyd D. 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' r" fewfatheiisto.be E SALEM, Aug. 30 (P Only a small number of pre-Poarl Har bor fathers will be drafted In Oregon in October, and those will be men in non-dcforrablo or loss essential occupations, Col. Elmer V. Wooton, state selective service director, said today. Oregon's Octobor Quota Is rela tively small, and most of 'the men drafted in that month will be fatherless mon whose occu pational deferments are expir ing, or men becoming 18 years old. Building Permits , Top '42 Figures PORTLAND. Aug. 30 UP) Oregon building permits climbed to si2,7M,2o9 in the first six months of this year, an increase of 83 per cent over the first half of 1942. A survey by the Equitable Savings and Loan association showed Portland permits ac counted for most of the gain. reaching a record $11,747,010, a 102 per cent Increase over the comparable 1042 period. Lock of Manpower Key Problem In Paper Shortage SEATTLE, Aug, 30 (P) The lack of manpower in the woods is the key problem involved in solving the current newsprint shortage, Lyle H. Boren of Okla homa, head of a congressional newsprint Investigating commit tee, declared here last night. 'Mills are producing only about 63 per cent of their normal output of newsprint now," ha said. i ' .4 Oscar Observes it f ,Jl)Sf . A m Doing sentry duty from the rear is Oscar, crow mascot ot U. S. ordnance depot unit In England. Oscar rides around camp on the rifle ot his tamer and favorite soldier, Pvt. Richard C. Reedy , ot Mayo, Md. ' Firm Resumes Dalles Milk Deliveries THE DALLES, Aug. 30 (P) Milk deliveries were made to The Dalles homes today for the first time since July IS. A new distributing firm, the Mid-Columbia Milk company, entered business with a promise that supplies were adequate for all consumers. Deliveries halted when a num ber of dairies closed In protest against OPA price ceilings, slnco Increased. Now York City's Empire State building was struck by lightning 68 times in three years. The United States purchased 2,273,000 pounds of the 1641 to bacco crop of Sumatra. l, V ' it-; v m n 4'c-& i I' 4 i " , , ,y, J 4 . , I 4 t., t; ; ' k iir.:ir; f , i I't, -'1 : r Oregon News Notes . By The Associated Tit 1 Officials announced $100,000 was being set aside by local gov ernment In tho Portland area to hire a staff of experts, Including Robert Moses, New York City park commissioner, to plan a postwar public works program tp provide Jobs for an expected 00,000 unemployed , . . Delegates at' the annual con vention of tho Oregon state bar will attend the Saturday launch ing In Portland of a Liberty ship named for the lata Robert S. Bean, Oregon Jurist for 40 years . . . Rear Admiral Daniel Hunt of the navy modlcal corps in Portland termed the navy's health "very good" and praised Roar Admiral Ross T. Mclntlre, surgeon-general and Willamette university graduate ... ' The Buckler-Chapman ship Joiners, makers of fabricated wood for ship construction, re ceived the maritime commission M pennant and victory flat In Portland . . . Army and navy medical oKli-crs are scheduled for talks at tho annual meeting of the state medical society In Portland September 4 and 8. The federal public health service announced tuberculosis examinations will begin soon for Portland war plant workers . . . An unusually heavy huckleberry harvest was reported by pickers In tho Mount Hood area , . . Fotir-II club leaders announced a fat stock auction would ba held at the close of the Clack amas county 4-H fair September 7... First road of brick pavlnK'J laid In the United States was at Charleston. W. Vs., In 1870. 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