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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 13, 1943)
X.. PAGE TEN HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON September 18, 1943 RECLAMATION PROJECT UNDER BOISE OFFICE Klamath reclamation project has been placed in region No. 1, with headquarters at Boise, un der a decentralization program announced Monday by the bu reau of reclamation. - The Klamath office heretofore has reported to a western office at Denver. It will now operate through the regional office at Boise. The change will not af fect local administration of reclamation affairs. The Tulelake division of the Klamath project, which is in California, is in the Boise area, along with the rest of the local project Other California recla mation projects will report through a Sacramento office. Director of region No. 1 Is Frank A Banks, now construc tion engineer in charge of the Columbia basin project Klamath Falls is to have the honor of being the only city in the state to be revisited by the U. S. army aviation cadet board, which is scheduled to be here Wednesday and Thursday, September 22 and 23. The intense interest shown in previous examinations have been given as their reason for a return trip. Men who were previously barred from aviation cadet training by inability ,to meet the visual requirements may re apply, since these have been lowered to 2030 correctable to 2020. ' Application may be made by those having reached their 17th birthday in the aviation cadet reserve corps. -Further details may be learned by inquiring at the lo cal army recruiting office, 219 Post Office building. Salem City Council To Hear of Fire Department Failure . SALEM, Sept 13 W The Salem city council will hear to night a special committee's re port on recent failures of the city fire department . The department is accused of permitting a house to burn down because firemen couldn't locate the outlet of a hydrant Last Saturday another house burned because of failure to get water on the blaze. The firemen got their hose laid all right but the hose, badly mildewed, burst The break was repaired, and the hose broke in another place. By the time the latter break was fixed, the house was destroyed. - Blood tests have been de veloped by the Japs to determine- "character and ability" for selection of workers in their war industries. OUR MEN AND WOMEN IN SERVICE te, fc. fct 1 IN SICILY Sergeant George Wolfe, son of George D. Wolfe of 140 East Main 1 street, is now in Sicily. He has been in the army for one and one-half years and is serving with the medical detach' ment. He writes his father, "Most of the prisoners think that they are going to the U. S. and look forward tn sec- 1 ing our country, If they do. it should affect their future out look on life, just as it does for us to be here." Sergeant Wolfe has a wife in Oakland, Calif. Clarice Katherlne Zumbrum, S 2c, has completed her basic training and indoctrination course at the naval training school, Bronx, New York, and is now going to the naval training school at Iowa State Teachers college at Cedar Falls, la. She is the daughter of Mrs. Margaret Forness and William Zumbrum. She was a member of the American Legion auxiliary and of the Catholic Daughters of America. ALASK A Technician 5th Grade Fred L. Follett, 24, son of Mrs. Grace Babcock, Klamath Falls, on duty with the 11th air force In Alaska, has recently been promoted to technician 4th grade, according to a recent an nouncement here. He enlisted in August, 1940, received his basic training at Fort Lewis, Wash., and has served in the Alaskan theater for 34 months. Technician Follett attended Franklin high school at Yakima, Wash., and was formerly em ployed by the Westfir Lumber company at Westfir, Ore. U. S. NAVY PRE-FLIGHT SCHOOL. ST. MARY'S COL LEGE, Calif. Palmer Norseth of Klamath Falls was graduated from the pre-flight school at St Mary's college this week. . Norseth will be transferred to the naval air station at Liver more, Calif., for his pre-flight training. KENO George Frasier, a member of the Seabees and for merly a resident of Keno, was visiting in this community last week. Frasier, a carpenters mate 2c, is on leave. He is to report back for assignment to duty on September 18. He is the older son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Frasier, who lived in Keno. for several years. He was a graduate of Keno high school. Frasier was in Alaska for some time, before leaving Keno. . FARRAGUT, Ida. Beginning training at this U. S. naval train ing station is William Donald Mast, son of Mrs. L. I. Ogden 4316 Bartlett street, Klamath Falls. KEARNS, Utah James M. Far-Sighted Eyes Open Evenings A Appointment Mean Trouble in School! It your boy or girl has difficulty seeing the blackboard or studying his lessons thai means trouble, poor grades, tool Play safe be SUREI Have your children's precious eyes completely examined by the registered optometrist here bow. You'll be told frankly if glasses are HOT needed. -For Your Child, Choose- Sturdy, Guaranteed Glasses NO DOWN PAYMENT ONLY $1 A WEEK ' The West's Largest. Manufacturing and Dispensina Ooticlom Modern Optical Office Throughout the West . . . . In Klamath Faffs 775 Mam Dr. Byan Friedman Registered Optometrist in Charge Barnes of 11 Sheldon street, Klamath Falls, is now stationed at the army air forces basic train ing center at Kearns. He has been in the army air forces since December 11, 1S42. His wife is Mrs. Margaret P. Barnes of Klamath Falls. KEESLER FIELD, Biloxi, Miss. Private William Winford Wirth, son of J. P. Wlrth, Route 3, Klamath Falls, was promoted to the grade of private first class this week and enrolled in Kees ler's huge B-24 bomber mechan ics school. Corporal Jerry O'Callaghan, son of Mrs. Leo Sagehorn of Tulelake, is now in officers' can didate school at Fort - Benning, Ga. He has been there since August 16. He is a graduate of reserve officers' training course at the University of Oregon. Corporal O'Callaghan- is a graduate of .the University of Oregon where he was affiliated with Phi Kappa Psi. Second Lieutenant Henry Da vid, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dutton of Route 1, Box 938, graduated on Friday from bom- bardior school at Demlng field, Deming, New Mexico. He took his pre-flight training at Santa Ana, Calif. Lieutenant Davis was chosen as one of the three best camera men at the Deming base to go to Vlctoryvllle, Calif., for an exhibi tion. His sister, Inei Dutton, a stu dent at KUHS, has just recently returned from a summer spent at the Puget Sound naval yard where she is thought to be one of the first Klamath county peo ple to be a blood donor. Private Leo D, Molatore, son of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Mola tore of 1110 Main street, Klam ath Falls, is stationed at Provi dence college, Providence, R. I., where he is a member of the army specialized training pro gram. An alumnus of Klamath Union high school and the University of Oregon, he was ordered to Providence college from the star unit at City college of New York. Upon successful completion of his training at Providence col lege, he will be ordered to an advance unit for further study. Swift and Company now has 15,000 employes in the armed forces. One of these was former ly with the Klamath Falls plant. He is Corporal A. J. Hubbard, employed at the Klamath Falls branch since 1937. He joined the armed forces in November, 1942 in RSr- Til and received his basic training at Camp Robinson, Ark. - He is now stationed at Camp Fannin, Tex, FORT KNOX, Kentucky Pri vate Glen E. Huck, son of Mr. and Mrs. Christ Huck, Jr., 1320 Pleasant street, Klamath ' Falls, - vuinpiviot nil basic training preparatory for combat duty with an armored unit. .. Frank E.- Hanson, Neptune park at Agency lake, has re ceived word from his son, Nor man T. Hanson, chief radio oper ator USN, now in the South Pacific, It was the first news In months and was a letter written to his sister Marjorie, at Ocean side. He is now in charge of his outfit and well again after being in a naval hospital. In his letter he evasively described his trip back to the front and it passed the censor almost 100 per cent Aviation student Robert V. Scatcr, 23, of Klamath Falls, son of Frederick Earl Scatcr, An chorage, Alaska, has arrived at Michigan College of Mining and Technology for a course of army air force instruction lasting ap proximately five months prior to his appointment as an aviation cadet in the army air forces. FORT KNOX, Ky.-1-Included in the class of enlisted men en rolled In a special course of in struction in the gunnery depart ment of the Armored school In Fort Knox was Corporal Wil liam F. Johnson, Merrill, Word has come from Keesler field in Biloxi, Miss,, that PFC Howard Burrell, son of Mrs. M. P, Crowder o t Klamath Falls, was recently graduated from the B-24 Liberator Bomber school at that unit of the army air forces technical training command. ' He Is now an airplane mechanic, Supreme Court In Dark On Folkes' Projected Appeal SALEM, Sept. 13 (D Robert E. Folkes, negro youth under death sentence for the lower 13 murder near Albany last Jauuary 23 of Mrs. Martha Virginia James, has not yet even given the state supreme court an indi cation that he Is appealing his conviction, the court said today. Notice of appeal, however, has been filed with the Linn county circuit court. Fragmentation bombs are carried to earth by specially designed rayon chutes. J01DUII John Dunnlngton, SO, died of a gunshot wound at Klamath Val ley hospital Sunday afternoon. Mr. Dunnlngton was found ly ing In the washroom at the Southorn FaoUio depot about 3 p, m., with i gun, a Colt auto matic, lying beside him. Ho was still alive and was rushed to the hospital whore he expired In a fow minutes, Dr. Goorgo H, Adler, coroner, ASSOCIATED STOVE OIL For home tinting comfort and oil (ov efficiency, ux f him higher bil nnmi full. It It clean burning and economical. Balsiger OH Co. and city police, said the wound was apparently self-inflicted, Mr. Dunnlngton was a butcher here for many years, There was no apparent motive for taking his own Ufa, but associates said Mr, Dunnlngton was depressed by- war news and war conditions. t The body Is at Ward's, fish Transport Lew A Maine law says, "No fish or game can be transported by air. plane unions the fish or game bears a transportation tag signed by a fish and game warden, and pilots (of other than transports) must procure a license to trans port fish by air." If You Suffer 'PERIODIC With Its Weak, Cranky, Ntrveus reeNnge If at auch times you, Ilka ao many'' woman and slrla sunr from cramps, tlMdaohM. baokacha, dlalraaa ot "Irra. UlarlUca", partoda of tha bluaa dua to functional monthly dlaturbanaaa Start at onra try Ljtlla a. Plnk ham'a VwUMe Compound to rallara auch armptoma. It'a amoua not onlr to halp taliava monthly pais but alao accompanying tired, weak, narroua faal Inia of Uiia natur. Thla la baoauaa of Ita aoothlns aflaot on oars or woaiaN'a Moat iMroaTANT oaaatte. Tafcan racu larly nnkham'a Compound balps build up raaiaunoa asalnat auch eymp Soma, follow labal dlreeuons. VftfTMtl LYDM E. PINKHAM'S if ... - . - . ",, -7 mm A v 1. We're n Ike Walesa, bat we don't know. We an tell you how many different men and -skill it takes to perform eur part of the opera ' tion. If you begin with the geologist, pale ontologists, surveyors tnd seismograph crews that look lor oil land... 2....mnd eiaWrii rlf bulMars who put ap - die derrick; the drillers, derrickmen, rotary . helpers and firemen who drill the well; the. production foremen, pumpers and pulling crews who service it after it suns toproduce... . 3 the pipe tine mm, gaugers, refinery - stillmeo, chemists, truck drivers, warehouse men, bookkeepers, stenographers, painters, carpenters, welders, sslesmen and scores of . enxxm-emh Mr specializing in me farlimlar fhase cj the eferalion . .. 4. ...ytutlna that H rake mm than 400' diffirntikilh in the Union Oil Company thitt to bring you a $5c quart of Triton Motor Oil. But that's just the beginning. If we go back to the men who made the pipe that carries tht -crude that's refined into Tritoa S. ...tmd trace Hielr raw materials back , through steel mill and ore ship to the iron mine (puu fir bnaih htrl), then repeat the process with all our equipment-refineries, tools, trucks, cans, and even ftmih-k begins ' to look as if almost everyone in the country ' had s hind in the operation. ' 6. At any rate, no one could possibly figure out the exact number of men involved. And, fortunately, nobody has to. For under ourm economy those things are taken care of by the law of supply and demand. No one has to ' assign men and materials to different jobs as you do in s f!antitJ economy. (. 7. Thay flow where they're needed--itally. How efficiently this works has been brought home to all of us during this war, when the law of supply and demand has had . to be suspended temporarily in some cases snd (lamtJ economy instituted in Its place. 9. tut Hie bast renlmonlol it America Itself. For our. country, under Free Enterprise, hat achieved the highest standard' of living tnd the greatest capacity for war production the world his ever known. Without the alilnmitlk efficiency of a (m economy this could have nevet been don. Hit company thai btcami Union OH sent founded In 188S out of tht Pr imal tavingt ofnint Santa Paula, California builntu nun. Today, It b oumtd by 31,652 ptoplt, moit of whom llvt tight hm in tha Wat-3,628 in San Francisco, 434 At Stattlt, 7 in Cranti Past, Oregon, 274 in San Diego, ate. TheCompany'sprofUs uihlck,inl942, amounttdlo3.8on capital inmltd, art ihartd among that fopU. Latt ytar thlintt profit amounttd h $174.94 peritxhhotdtr. Of thltium, $147.42 was paid out in divldtndi- $27.S2 mil left tn tht tuilutu. In return for then profits, tht 31,052 owneri have financed tht tank ihipi, ollwclli.rcfincriesandserviaslatloni IhalmaktVmon'toperoiiotupotitbU. , This it tht ttory of most American corporation!. By pooling tha money , and talents of a lot of People, tot art able to do a Job collectively that tin could never do alone. o Hi Km aD Kr n e cd mip ov A I I F O WL JS W J& A M I R I C A' t f It T H t II I D O M 1 1 Mil . IN 1 1 PJl I SI eft t This series, sponsored by the people of a Union Oil Company, It dedicated to s , discussion o(lxuud why American bust- ,' ness functions. We hope you'll feel free ' to send In any tuggestiont ot criticisms you have to offer. Write: The President, Union Oil Compiny.Union Oil Building, , lot Angeles, California. . c
