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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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