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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 15, 1944)
,PACE TEN,. HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON Klamath Gets 5th Place in Oregon In E Boncl Sales HOLD EVERYTHING! Klamath county in the fifth war loan ranked fifth in the state in E bond sales, third in sales to Individuals, 27th in sales to corporations, ana 10m in loiai sales, This Ik shown in a final tabula' tion from the Oregon , war fi nance committee and. the treas ury department received oy joe Hicks, mm war loan drive cubit Klamath's E bond sales ' hit $1,331,000, or 134.6 per cent of quota. . Counties wnicn out ranked Klamath in E bond sales were Hood River, Grant, Baker and Harney, all comparatively small-population counties witn quotas ranging from $118,000 for Grant to 5378,000 for BSKer, Klamath's E bond quota was $989,000. . Hwp l lh summary of Klanv ath county's standing in final tabulations: E bonds sales $1,331,000; quota $989,000; per cent of quota 134.u; ran& win. Sales to individuals (including E's) sales $2,499,300; quota $1,289,000; per cent of quota 193.9; rank third. - Sales to comorations Sales $2,695,800; quota $2,526)000; per cent of quoia luo.v; ran sun. - Total sales Sales $5,195,100; quota $3,815,000; per cent of quota 136.2; rank 15th. Adiomine Lake county ranked first in sales to individuals, but dropped to 15th in E bond sales. In total sales, however. Lake was way ur there in fifth place. Here is the Lake county sum mary: . .... E bonds Sales $245,400; quota $206,000; per cent of quota 119.1;-rank 15th. Sales to individuals (including E's) Sales $507,900; quota $234,- 000; per cent of quota zi.i; rank first Sales to corporations Sales $268,200; quota $271,000; per cent of quota 99; rank 30th. " Total sales Sales $776,100; quota $505,000; per cent of quota 183.7; rank fifth. Worship Cancelled By Air Raid Fear ; NEW YORK, :Aug. 15" (IPh Because of the danger of United States air raids Japanese author ities in Korea have abandoned the use of a siren to summon the population for twice-a-day com pulsory worship of - Emperor Hirohito, it was disclosed by a broadcast over the controlled Keijo radio reported today to -the office of war information. MILLER DIES " ' EUGENE, Aug. 15 flP) Fu ji eral arrangements were being made today for Edward W. Mil ler, state senator from Josephine county in 1925-28, long-time op erator of the Hotel Del Rogue at .Grants Pass and former manager of the Oregon State Highway as sociation. - Miller died at his .home here Sunday at the age of 73. Born. In Newton, la., he came to Oregon in 1900. He held degrees from Central Wesleyan college. Boston - university and Kansas Wesleyan university, and 'Was an ex-college, professor. MECHANICAL PITCHFORK , . A new mechanical .pitchfork which does away with the work of 10 men and replaces three machines has been developed to help pea growers get their crops into canneries:. Hans Norland insures furni ture. 118 N. 7th. Phone 6060. Flashes of Life By The Associated Press NAUGATUCK. Conn. A scheduled necktie race at a fac tory outing here had to be post poned because nobody could be found wearing one. The temperature was 105 de grees in the sun - TURNS TO RED CROSS NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y. Here's a dot; that knows where to go when in trouble. A collie with an injured paw limped into the Red Cross surgi cal dressings headquarters. The women didn't interrupt their war work to bind up his wounds but a-volunteer did rush him off to the humane society shelter for attention. TRAVEL TROUBLE LEBANON, Ind. The ques tion is. did Miss Nancy Williams ever get to Chicago? En route there from Cincin nati Monday, her automobile was damaged in a collision near here. So she took a Lebanon-to-Chi- cago bus. The bus chugged four blocks. and broke down. So she took a train. The question is.'. . DRAW ONE! PUTNEY. Vt. While Leon O. Wood was milking a cow he dropped his wallet containing $100 in cash. A calf promptly guzzled it. Wood killed the calf and brought the evidence to a bank which identified the remnants of $75, which he received. He also recovered a darning needle, two fish hooks, a driver's license and his "A" gasoline book from the voracious calf. illy Pff3 If 8-IC HW. I you're doing I was . promised my old job baQfci" IT. A monument, is being, erected at Camp Lee-Stephenson in Maine, in memory of Lt. Cjg) George Stephenson of Klamath Falls and Lt. Irwin W. Leo, the first two officers of the civil en gineer corps to give their lives in combat -while serving with a United- States naval construction battalion. The camo'was named in honor of the two. men and now the monument is being built to be placed near the main gate of the camp, -it wui be bunt of con crete faced with a memorial plaque, 35. by 45 inches. . . Lt. Stephenson was the son of Mr. and Mrs..George Stephenson, formerly of this city and now living in Ashland. He was killed in action in the Solomons in July, 1943. - $700,000,000 FOR SPORT CnArtcmoii nnrl nnfnl-A Invprs in normal times spend about $700,000,000 annually in the TTnitpri fitatoc for RTieh things as sports clothing, fishing tackle, guns, lodging, licenses, guide services and transportation. Oscar Baker Bunch, Pioneer Of Fort Klamath, Passes By MRS. E. K. LOOSLEY Funeral services were held at Fort Klamath Monday for the late Oscar Baker Bunch. The passing of Oscar Bunch takes a pioneer, a man who knew the country before the railroad; in fact, he drove stage between Klamath Falls and Fort Klamath in the early nineties. Later he operated a livery stable; where now an automobile or truck cov ers the distance in an hour, he rented saddle and buggy horses that took a day and a half; good traveling, to make the same trip. He '-'put up" the freight teams. staying open late at night to wel come such well-known team sters as "Big Mitch," who might have aboard thousands of dollars sent by Jud Ager, of Ager, Calif., as "bolts and . nuts" this to thwart the hold-up-men and Ditsworth, who raised and ped dled the only green vegetables and. fruits. These he hauled all the way from Dead Indian' or Medford. The lives of such men were mellowed by these hard ships and experiences. - He kept a cutter and fast team of Hamiltonians for the SDecial purpose of bringing the Agency aoctor for emergency cases. He had an old-fashioned foot-warmer in the riE. and while he start ed out garbed in a bearskin coat in the below zero weather, gen erally the doctor or patient was wearing it before the trip was over. , Mr. . Bunch married. Fannie Loosley of a widely-known pi oneer family. They had three children, H. G. Bunch, now a rural mail carrier; Lola, deceased;- and Mrs. Loy Barker, whose husband has been affili ated with Klamath county schools until he went into train ing for the navy. Mrs. Barker, who was in Maryland with her husband, returned to be with her father. He. was an employe of the Chiloquin Lumber company of late years. -The communities of Fort Klamath and Chiloquin will mis; his kindly . interest, . as he welcomed progress and . kept abreast of the times.' It was re cently said . of him, "He num bered his friends by his ac quaintances." THE 'TAR WARDEN" Improved .ear protectors known as "ear wardens"- have been - developed from- a special neoprene. compound for use. by navy gunners, . aviators- and sub marine crews. Classified Ads Bring Results. V ' Some people, have asked.4 WHY THE RISING SUN IN YOUR TRADE MARK? s ... , ' ' ' i 'Fastest Gol-Darned Sawyer in World' Issues Challenge for Log-Cutting Go "I'm the fastest gol-darncd sawyer in the world!" That's the boast of Louie De Line (Canuonbull Louie) of John Day, Ore., who was in Klamath Falls last weekend to look over local'sawmills and down his nose at local sawyers. ' "Nobody here can touch- me," said Louie. "What's more, I'm willing to prove it. ' "I'll come hero any time, and saw for an hour or a day or what have- you against anybody, tak ing the logs as they como. "I'm the fastest gol-darncd sawyer in the world, and I'll stake a lot of money on myself." Louie left the challenge with The Herald and News, and any body interested in taking him up can write him direct at John Day or contact the , newspaper editorial offices. ' - Louie called a local news paper man at 8 a. m. Sunday. His identification over the tele phone was taken a bit skeptical ly, but that didn't faze him. "I'm Cannonbnll Louie Do- Line, the fastest gol-dnrned saw yer in the world!" said Louie over the phono. "Come down and we'll, talk things over." The newspaper man, suspect ins a ruse by some local ac quaintance who hadn't reached the Sunday morning handover stage yet, refused to budge from nis House. "Okeh. I'll come out." said Louie. ' . He came, in a taxicab, and sat in the pleasant shade on the lawn while he spun his boastful yarns. "This' sawing is second nature with me," said .Louie. "When I was 13 years old, back in Michi gan, I got a job as nightwatch man at a mill. I kept steam up all night and played with the shotgun feed and the nigger. That early training made me the fastest gol-darned sawyer in the world. I'm the best nigger oper ator in the world. (A nigger, if anybody doesn't know, is a power device for pushing logs on a mill carriage or turning them when neces sary.) "I set the world record at Warner, B. C, in 1910.. I cut 105,000 feet in one 10-hour, day, with no log over 16 feet long. I used a two-block shotgun feed. "In Big River, Saskatchewan, in 1915, on a North Pole Cannon ball rig, I handled 2209 logs over a single cut,' canting for a gang saw. That was a 10-hour day." Louie is now a hotel owner at John Day, but he has returned to sawing recently for the Blue Mountain mills there. "They were shorthar.ded, I got a boy in Burma, and I'm helping out," -said Louie. . . At Blue Mountain mills, he sawed 79,400 feet in seven hours plus on a left-hand double-cut T WASHINGTON, Aug, 13 (P) The scnato military committee voted unanimously today to rec ommend senate confirmation for promotion of Lt. Gen. George 5. Palton Jr., to tho permanent rank of major general. , The action had been predicted earlier by Senator Chandler (D Ky.) The committee, which had held up the nomination since lost October because of a soldier slapping incident during the St clllnu campaign, acted after Pat ton's leadership of the American third army In Normandy and Brittany was announced by Gen eral Dwight D. Elsenhower-at a command post in Normandy. 91 -Year-Old of Boston Stays On Job Despite Heat BOSTON, Aug. 18 (A') It was not. the 96 degrees of hunt that Irked John A. Dorothy of the Mattapon district of Bos ton.' - .... lt was tho fact that Mr.' Dorotliy's boss suggested that perhaps, under the circum stances, it was too hot for him to work yesterday and that It .might bo better 11 ho went home. . , ' . : Mr. Dorothy, who will bo 01 years old thrco weeks hence, refused his boss' sug gestion and stayed at his production-lino, war Job, a posi tion ho has hUd 24 yours with 'out being absent or late. "Thcros too much coddling of workers, going on," quoth Mr. Dorothy to his boss as ho wiped his brow and turned back to his work. OLCC Grog Shops to Close With Other Business V-Day PORTLAND, Aug. 15 (P) Tho, day Germany falls,: state liquor stores will close In Ore gon cities where other retail stores stop business to cele brate. The Portland retail trade bureau has announced its members will suspend busi ness'that day. The Oregon liquor control commission made the decision at its monthly meeting yester day and announced it will take udequato precautions against any disturbance that might en danger Its liquor stocks. Li quor stores will remnln open In areas whero business houses do not close. Restaurant and service li censes wero denied Forest C. Boatman and Lilllo Boatman .of the Sunset Inn, at South Beach, north of Newport. Tito's Forces Take Five Towns LONDON, Aug. 15 W) Mar shal Tito's Yugoslav army has smashed out in a new attack 35 miles west of the Italian border in Slovenia and captured five towns, a communique broadcast by Tito's headquarters an nounced today. Among the towns captured were Gornjo grad, 20 miles northeast, and Smartno, 13 miles east of the rail junction of Ljubljana. rig making seven-quarter stuff. "You got the story all straight?" asked Louie. ; "Yes," answered the reporter. "You're the fastest sawyer in the world." "You're . gol-darned right," said Louie. The area of Brazil is larger than the combined areas of the United States,- Denmark and Sweden. ... Bullitt Joins Up With French Army ALGIERS. Aug. 15 (!) Wll Hum C. Bullitt. 33. former American ambassador to France. yesterday Joined the rrenci. army as a commandant, equiva lent to the rank of major In the U. S. urmy. the French Informa tion ministry announced today. Bullitt, an honorary citizen of a number of rronch towns, es tablished that he could retain American citizenship and serve in the French army. Bullitt said his offer of active military duty had been rejected twice by U. S. Secretary of War aiimson Docouse oi nis age. MEDICATED POWDER 40 YEAR FAVORITE with thouMndanf families, u it relifm lthingof minor akin rush tttby'uftlo perruh. Sprinkle on MfixMn. toothing, tnodicated powder. Contain ingredient peelJUUW often ueo to reliev theee die eomforU. CotU tittle. Gel Muwu. It started soon after Pearl Harboa People wrote in and asked us to do some thing about the sun in our famous old trade mark. (They thought it was a rising sun and it reminded them of Japan, The answer is, of course, that the sun in our trade mark fa a setting sun, sym bolic of the West and of our pioneer Sunset Route between New Orleans and San IVancisco. : We like to th'fnk that this emblem is now symbolic of Japan, but in another . way. You can be sure that Southern Pacific and all the other railroads are trying hard to hasten the day when ; Japan's rising sun will set-permanently! The friendly Southern Pacific MM JWL lira Values Up To 6.95 Values Up To 9.95 , Values Up To 12.95 . ValuM Up To 11.95 1 5 3 We Need Space for Our Fall Merchandise i ALLEY TO RE-DPEN Innovation of tho Service men's bowling alley at Sixth and vln.iitli U muirlnir fmiinlnllfin and tho alley will ro-open soon, Sponsored by tho Klamath Businessmen's Service club ami t,iiiiiirH hv tlin Orotfnll Wnmon'tt Ambulance corns, the non-profit and non-compotltlvo bowling al loy will uo open tor inn use oi Klamath's military population ritni ft it n n I 1 IV m tin witnlr. days and on Sunday afternoons from i p. in. io u p. in. Consolidation At Salem Unlikely SALEM, Au. 18 (!') Tlioro Li little chance that West Salcin will bo consolidated with Sitlimi, tho city boundary-extension com mittee said hunt tiliiht, but If thora Is to bo such a cnnsolldif tion, residents of West Salem will tuko the Initiative. The main difficulty In'tlio pro posal Is that tho two arc In dif ferent counties, West Salem be Inii across the river In Polk county, and Salem bolnii ' In Marlon county. 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