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PACE FOUR HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON : 4 Y- t .!: i, Mi' Ikralfc atlb News Behind the News r4 . Bv PAUL MALLON IHANK jrNlUNS MALCOLM EPLKT Sdllor Managing Kdltor l Muonrr eombtnaHoii of the Craning Harald and the n!T.ikiin Published avaiT afternoon except Sunday aknlanada and Fine atreaw. aunww w JwK pSbUaKag Co. and the Kiwi PublUhlng Compear. BUBSCBiPTION BATCH. Kearrler month 750 By mall month! J3.1S UJUiV v-" ri, so Br mall rear W-oo QaJdarntnTrftModoe, aukirou oountei year froo aatd .i Moond elaae mattar at tha pwtofnee of Klamath lumbar, Member Audit Bureau Circulation Today's Roundup By MALCOLM EPLEY THE amazing story of potato production In tha Klamath basin is best told by statistics dat ing back to 20 years ago, wnen me era oi major ft SH ft potato development here was just starting. This year, shipments of po tatoes from tha basin totaled 10,874 carloads, as will be seen in a story elsewhere in this paper. The value of the crop was about $9,330,000. In 1924-25, 37 carloads of spuds left the basin for mar ket, and the crop value was st at $49,554. In 1934-35, there were 5062 carloads of potatoes shipped, and the crop ' EPLEY value was $1,737,116. Compare that with this year's more than 10,000 carloads and nearly $10,000,000 In value. Now for the statistics on shipments for the 30-year period: By PAUL MALLON WASHINGTON, Juno 14 The great en thusiasm of the first day of the landing In France made ensuing reports of tha first week of the battle seem some what disappointing.' Most authorities would have expected the penetration to bo three or four times as deep by now. The unexpected strength of the German troops, the extent of underwater mine fields, and bad weather in the channel can be offered as valid explanations. The fighting, too, has been as tough or tougher than represented. But opti mism on this side was certain ly overplayed. It may possibly be five more days before the battle will have reached the point where any authentic guesses can be made as to how long the Job will take (adding three more days to the original forecast published June 8 for the three days of bad chanuel weather.) MALLON Developments Delayed 1924-25. 1025-26.. 1926- 37 1927-28. 1928- 29... 1929- 30.- 1930-31... 1931- 32... 1932- 33. 1933- 34. 1934- 35. J935-36. 1936- 37... 1937- 38 1938- 39... 1939- 40 1M0-4L- 1941-42. 1942-43... 1943-44... 27 carloads. 135 , 425 825 ... 1100 . 1250 2020 2100 2065 3113 5062 4173 6698 7149 8776 7653 9839 7914 7389 .10,374 Plant For Thlt Year IT APPEARS that production win again be high in the coming season, unless reduced by growing conditions. - Because of some loss of onions early in the season from wind and frost, some onion land was converted quickly to potato land, and that added several hundred acres to the area planted this year to potatoes. . The total for 1944-45 will probably be about 36,000 acres, and if per acre production runs up to that of the past year, the total production for the season will again set a new high. CONCENTRATIONS of power on both the landing and defensive sides always require much more time than people generally expect. After the North African landings, weeks passed before the Important conflicts. On the Anxlo beachhead in Italy, where no opposition was offered to our landing, the battle did not de velop until the eighth day. The truly unexplained mystery of the attack so far however, has been the almost total ab sence of the German air force. No more than 100 nazi planes a day appeared over the battle area In the first six days. The average was 30 to SO planes. We blackened the' skies the first day with 11,000 planes, and it is no mili tary secret that we have amassed forces which will increase that figure. ' The long unanswered question of "Where Is the German ajr force" is still unanswered. The Germans have allowed odds of 110 to 1 against them to prevail over the heads ot their troops. a a Shortage Unexplained v THE deduction that Hitler is saving his planes is natural, but does not explain the shortage of reconnaissance planes In the channel when our 4000 ships were plowing their way across the first day. If he is saving the Luftwaffe, It must be to meet a second invasion some where on the coast, which General Eisenhower constantly has threatened 'from day to day by ship and plane maneuvers. How it can be any more valuable to him then, than for the first invasion, I cannot understand. In fact, I' am beginning to doubt gravely If there is Luft waffe in France, any more than there was one in Italy. Herr Goering's brave orders to it to fight to the death as the attack opened, probably were delivered to empty space. i Down in Italy, their flight from Rome has been accompanied by a collapse of German morale beyond our fondest hopes. They had plenty of time to prepare to get out, but even so, their troops have been sharply cut up. Their whole retreat has been disorderly, and their remaining armies have lost cohesion. - Plans For Alcohol Plant Move Ahead t SPRINGFIELD, June 14 (JP) Plans for construction of the Pacific northwest's first alcohol-from-wood-waste plant moved forward today under Clark Van Fleet, newly- appointed mana ger, and a former German in dustrialist. JErwin Schacfer, head of the Tornesch works in Germany be fore Hitler rose to power, ar rived here from Washington where he is consultant in plans for development of the nation's Wood industry. I "The biggest problem ahead .'Of us now will be to set the machinery built, and this is un ci er way in Cincinnati," van Fleet said. "Once the ' equip ment is ready it will not take very many weeks to erect the plant and set up operation." i TkA q Rnn Ann ,,ni h directed by the Willamette Val- jjcy wuuu jfuiiuauoii company. I Mil I III I , Five Killed When Tank Collapses ! PASCO, Wash., June 14 tfp) s lve workmen were killed and two injured, one seriously, in the collapse of a large storage tank under construction at the Aearby Hanford Engineer Works raay. The dead: Delbert A. Hickey. Bartlesville, Okla., I. M. Scott, Everett, J. C. Moore, Yakima, Charles I. Brazeal, Sanford, Tex., and C, A. Qualsett, Peters burg, Neb. G. F. Scott, New Plymouth, Ida., was in a serious Condition with a crushed chest. Less seriously hurt was T. J, Sit ters, Harshorne, Okla. J The underpinning holding the Jinn couapsea aDOut H.-4U a. m., inning the men down, t " j CHURCH BUYS FARM I MEDFORD, June 14 VP) A 4000-acre stock and hay ranch on Little Butte creek has been ought from Michael Hanley by the Christ Church of The Golden Rule, California organization, i. The ranch, to be used as a feeder farm to replenish Califor nia dairies, will remain under direction of Hanley. i Classified Ads Bring Results Sisters Forced to Bow to Rising Sun SOMEWHERE IN AUS TRALIA, June 14 UP) Japa nese captors of German Catho lic Sisters made them bow each morning to the rising sun, Sis ter Matilda said here today on her arrival from Dutch New Guinea. She and others were liberat ed by American troops who in vaded the Hollandia area. When 67-year-old Sister Christopha failed to do so, a Japanese sol dier struck her with a stick. - Sister Christopha added that one day the Japanese called for volunteers among the German Catholic priests to spy on Amer ican and Australian troops near Aiexisnaien, out got no otters, Officials Plan New River Bridge PORTLAND, June 14 UP) A new Columbia river bridge located just above The Dalles, Ore., was proposed today by Oregon and Washington high way officials. Burwell Bantz, director of Highways m Washington, and R. H. Baldock, Oregon state highway engineers, said in a report based on studies of do- tential inter-state traffic that The Dalles site was the only crossing justifying immediate postwar consideration. The interstate committee re jected proposals to purchase any present toll bridges, and turned thumbs down on pro posed bridges across the lower Columbia. A bridge at Umatilla would be feasible if made a part of Umatilla dam, the engineers said. TO BUILD HOSPITAL SALEM, June 14 UP) Salem Deaconess hospital directors an nounced today they would build a $500,000 five-story hos pital as soon as materials can be obtained. The building would be across the street from the present hospital. PARR KILLED PORTLAND June 14 lP Jacob Parr, Portland shioyard worker, was killed yesterday by a mobile crane which ran over him while he was at work. Telling The Editor tettere prlntatf hara mat not be mat than Ma erde In lnlh, muat ba writ ten lag) lily on ONI SI 01 el the gaper anltr, and muat a algrud. Contribution following thaaa fulat, are wamaf Mf- ASKS OPA RENT CONTROL KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., (To the Editor) Do we need OPA rent control in Klamath Falls? It seems quite evident that we An fni- tho frtllntlrlnff rMuini' i am one of four tenants that has recently had a raise in rent of 171 per cent. Increased cost of maintenance and taxes are stated as the reasons. Now it is Questionable in my mind that property taxes and cost of maintenance nave in creased 17 i per cent. Another reason we need OPA rent control is the fact that we civilians doing essential work for the war effort, at ore-war wages. have to compete with members of the armed forces, who with their government allotments for rent, are willing to pay up to $100 per month for places in which to live. Ads of this nature have appeared in your paper. This is not Mended as a crack at any member of the armed forces, but proof, at least to me, that we do need OPA rent con trol in Klamath Falls. I am wiring Daniel Gage, dis trict OPA office, Bedell building, Portland, Ore., in protest to these conditions. Would advise all renters who feel as I do to pro test also. Very truly yours, ROY M. HAMMERS. IS THERE A SHORTAGE? KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., (To the Editor) For almost a year, various government agencies have been tell i 55 us that a seri ous lumber shortage faced the nation, and that if production wasn't stepped up, it might seri ously hamper the war effort, and as a result, even though there is SIDE GLANCES 1 '' - . v . . . . - ecmwf. MO. f. eowt tu tv at a aw. u. a. nr. "Love, mmrrcl nnd ninkc up some old stuff I Give me n good old cowboy picture where anybody is liable (o get 1 shot any minutel" a serious labor shortage, the men' be froze on the job, and will we and women working in the lum ber industry by working long hours of overtime, have managed to keep production almost nor mal, but labor in the lumber in dustry, instead of getting credit for tins wonderful showing, and their patriotic efforts, aro being damned because they don't do more. Frankly, the writer Is begin ning to wonder if there is a lum ber shortage. All the contracts our unions have with the opera tors provide for one week's vaca tion with pay. Last ycur, bo cause of the war, and the sup- fiosed lumber shortage, our un on didn't take their, vacations, they took the pay but continued to work, and we started the same program this year, but recently the west coast lumber commis sion of the war labor board mnde a ruling that no one could take the pay unless they took the va cation, unless they got special permission from the west coast lumber commission. This we will not do. If all the AFL unions in the woods and mills of this area take the week off, it will mean the loss of approximately 50,000,000 feet of lumber this year, and If the same program is carried out all over the lumber industry, as it seems likely It will be, it means that the loss will be very serious. Last year, because of the OPA's starvation program, many hundreds of loggers left the woods. This year the meat situ ation is better, but now we have some damn fool freeze orders, and the first of July they- are to be tightened up. Result, more men are now leaving the woods and there is no one to take their place. If the war manpower commission would freeze the men to the lumber Industry and stop, there would be a lot of men in the woods and mills that are not there now. The lumber worker always has been a rov ing character, and no law, or rules of man can change this, There is at this time a large num ber of experienced loggers back in the middle western and south ern states that normally came out here in the spring, and re turned home in the fall. Many of them did not come out this spring. I have had many letters from them, and almost every camp I go into 1 am asked the same question by someone who has friends back there who wrote to them, "If we come out and work this summer, will we YH NO St ni Im ft ilnttimt D -OB fttl hiatadiy after iithiKT O Bini get sour wipsitia$llj? ton. fill tini-Bstitts. Nowevaryona knows that to g at tha good out of tha food you t you mtut dlgett it proparly. But what moat paopla don't know ia that Nature muitproduea about two pints of tha dlgaatlva julw tlvar blla ach day to help digmt your food. If Nature faua,yourfoodmayrrnanun oUfaatad, lie sour and heavy within you. Thus, It Is simple to sea that one way to aid digMtlon 'la to Ineraare the flow of llrer blla. Now, Carter b Little Liver Fflla tart to inereaae tble flow quickly for thousand!) often In as little u thirty minute. When bile flow increaaea, your digettion may Improve. And, toon you're 00 the road to feeling better whlchjg what you're after. Don't depend oa artificial aide to court tenet indigestion when Carter", taken as directed, aid digeation after Nature's own order. Get Carter's Little Liver Pills today only 264. You'U be glad you did. r-A Gem of Thought From Idella's i Two sailors shipwrecked on an island afar . ' . Cased at each other and got quite a jar. One growled at the other, "What wui run lookin' for, brother A week-end with Hedy LaMar?" STRAW HATS AND EYE' SHADES FOR YOUR WEEK-END 4ss a. ft AT IDELLA'S Itiltat a Qall Phone S4H Merit Wash Complete REFRIGERATOR SERVICE FOR ALL MAKES! BERT EASTMAN, Service Man Belts Seals Controls Cos . Switches In Stock Now! in Machine Service be able to get gas to go home next tun?" x tia present rules of the war manpower commis sion docs freeze them on tlio Job. and the OPA says they can't havo gas to go home. The result Is, these men aro staying home. Most of thorn own (arms on which they muka u baro living, and thcro is no law or rule that can bo passed that will ninko these men leavo these farms. even though they are not contrib uting much to the wur effort, they would bo If they were work ing in the logging camps. This matter has been called to the at' tention of the war manpower commission, but instead of chang ing their orders so these men could go home this fall when the camps close down for the win ter, they era sending men to re cruit them, and the only result will be that someone will have a nice trip, probably several some- ones, and spend a lot o( money, and do no good. The plain facts are, that the lumber industry is in a mc.is. The men and women working in it have been lied to so much by various government Hitlerized bureaus, and in some Instances by the men they work for, until many of them aro confused and don't know what the answer Is. An example, not long ago high officials ot the OPA stated, that living costs, especially food costs, were lower than Inst year, even though a survey of 781 industries shows that profits for 1943 In creased after taxes, on clothing 107.3 per cent, canned and frozen foods 148.6 per cent, meat prod ucts 193.4 per cent, department stores 00 per cent and so on. The lumber Industry has a very large overdose bureau acracy, and is sadly In need nf some one in authority using a lit tle horse sense. We ot the Lumber and Saw mill Workers union, AFL, of this area, are very proud of the fact, that even though the cause was just, we had no strikes, nor did a single one of our unions call a meeting to take a strike vote. W. YEOMAN . Classified ads get results. From Other Editors THE CAMP HEWS (Uimil Uullutlii) Tim news thut nil UoikI luut known about for Out past wook but which could not bo printed without an official release was announced from tho hetitlquiir tcrs of tho ninth service com iiiuihI ut Kort Douglas yeslordny. The onglnucr personnel of Camp Abbot Is to be transferred to Kort Lewis ami engineer training at Abbot is to ba dlmintlnuvU. N Nothing . but Out baio an nmmcemJiit has yet been miule. No reasons fur or explanation of tho clumHo havo been given out. It is understood, however, tliat tho iirmy training urogram lias pusscd tho peak 11 ml that camps are being cl isml or are operating with greatly reduced personnel. Lewis Is siiltl to bo one of these on a reduced basis and being a fort, or permanent, rather than a camp, which is temporury, It muy t that it Is a better set up for groups sue h us the engineers. In saying thin, wo refer more particularly to housing. Abbot, all tho well-lnformdd agree, has uncqtmlled facilities for engineer training Including those that na ture provided and those utltletl In the past I'i months. Some of these may ba duplicated at Lewis but It will take time. It will take time, too to rebuild the splendid spirit and morale that have been achieved ut Abbot under Col. Benson's command and hound to be affected by this sudden and unexpected change. Though knowledge of the rea sons for Uiu change is lacking, und here and there the selfish are Inclined to grumble, their at titude is wrung. Until tho con trary is shown, this action, witli respect to Abbot and the engi neers is to be accepted as a step toward winning the wur. That is the goal of all of us. Dollar patriots who sec the engineers leave Abbot with ri-urrl because of the pocketbook effect are poor Americans. The regret that Is properly felt and felt by all but a small minority Is ovor the departure of a group with which wo have had such pleasant-' relations. There are few, If any, towns that havo enjoyed bettor relations with a nearby army camp than Bend has enjoyed with Camp Ab bot and its personnel Fiend has given Its utmost In tho USO, the Red Cross camp and hospital committee, and In various other activities. The camp In turn has responded with its contributions to undertakings of many sorts. Friendships have developed based on mutual appreciation and rcspoct. How much longer our friends will be with us does not yet ap pear. Whenever they go and wherever they go wo wish them well. Silver Tea Set For Merrill MERRILL Water lilies In tho garden at tho Hugh O'Coiv nor homo aro exported to be at their best on June 20, when Ihe Altar society of St. Augus tine's church will entertain at a sllvor too which will be open to the public. Tho garden, which fs cared for by Mrs. O'Connor and her three attrac tive daughters. Is one of the rcenlc spots of the Merrill com munity and has been the bock ground for a number of social events In tho pant few years. A musical program is planned for the event. YOUR FLAG ItJY folds unfurl into Ilia breeze m Yur in it. ;mi1J,lv Plays with tho flminllng wlnd, umn llur colors, wave on wave of rod (llld wH Heavenly bluo, n whlt nj Are spread. A slmplo standard on a slnKu, ,tu( My stripes of red are dreiivlied In tho blood of Inspired men Mml ., , Who have lost (heir lives ol, , " 1 v" That 1 might wave on high rM' Above the homes of tho bruve llm , Unquestioning have my pu!tiuti Followed those principles for wliki, i 80 thai their wive, and loved , L And poople all over this glul.nl world Might llvo as free men should. Freedom from want and freed,,,,, ,rom . rreedom of speech, and freedom ol Tho blood of those patriots ' 01 w"lUp, Has not boon spilt In vnln. My stripes of red Immortallio thnlr courage And their sacrifices, ' My alternate stripes of slmplo wim. Signify the purity of principle And of purpose, of tho government Of the people, by the pe,.pk.. , ,ur Whom I serve as a symbol of freedom And Justice. Over tho face of tha world. In the deep blue of my slurry field, Is reflected the canopy of tlie Heavens Which embraces all the world st sleep, IN that dark field of night, tlia itari Little candles of a burning hope, Olvo promise of the light Hint never dlnu. That lights the wanderor's way, And leads him home to shores 0f hone And lands not torn will, treucharv. ' Each star a promise that Light and Truth and Justira Will reach Into tho gloom Of Treachery and Ignorance And shine Into their darkest corners Of tinbellef. Each star a Truth that wilt dlnpel Fear and Intolerance, nttd make to ihlns The light of Uiulorstuiullug. I fly aloft from mighty btilUlliigs In teeming cities, And amongst the smoke Of Industry. My colors know tho taata Of salt sea air, and Ihriils Tho wanderer In a foreign liuul. I stand for elf that you poncu, Or ever hope to have. My folds unfurled In any breete Might well create A tingling feeling up nnd down your spine I am the red of dawn and hope, , And opportunity, I am the white ot day aud pence And sweet tranquility. I am the blue of unity And ot harmony and promise. i nm youh ruo. ARTHUR L, ANDKRSON, 1st Lt. Hdqtrg Co. 1 10th Battalion Oregon State Guard. Contrary to a popular belief. I snakes are not afraid to crawl i over a rope. - J60I it Let's Get IN on the Invaslon--With BONDS! NnvTrMtMsi GftslluIRM I I I I I 1 Jut J). Jlouito I I EQUITABLE LIFE Assurance Society BIH K. IK ttoae ,M1J I Aerm to kamW rVfea im tonautlw IM raansa IkU tmuika wklHlaMI In .11 lul. ta t,l Ml erw Our art a farUaU I-" Mlllk, ol r-fl"K al ". Am ana BTewe-w-em eiai aa baM .lib Ik, olMTM at rU-SMM Ooelara h lfl tit r H"! lo ami .III! IkU Ml OIW" Vctar, Ikaolu la n l;rB l"f B.nll.r, trMrt), a a eel W lMlaMI bat ltn lM M2 4ru la lha ll .Iwrtt h nZ, lortM ol Dr. P. Jn Sta. worm. 1 r w. -. k ku art In a IMUI ? 'T2Z WnmuiJlul art rwf rW e and ta aura u (0 0 " -W euanl flll-Wons ntteM Buy more War Bonds A quicker Victory if 11 ; .-.'or welcoming a War Bond salesman Our fighting men ste fighting (or our way of life, for everything we treasure as American, You can put your dollars ia that fight BY INVESTING IN WAR BONDS, Your dollari will provide the tools for Victory. And thore'i no safer place for your money. Don't wait for someone to call oa you. Go out and buy War Bonds and keep them. If a volunteer salesman of War Bonds drops in at your house, give him the welcome he deserves. Be sure end sign op for as much la War Bonds as yoo can. You'll always be glad you did. ..t9CC?U B0TTLNG COMPANY OF KLAMATH FALLS BBS Spring St, Phone BB32 II South 8th St, Phone 6669
