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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1944)
PACE TWELVE HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON PEOPLE-URGED TO CONSIDER POSTWAR PLAN WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 OF) President Roosevelt today urged the American people to gradual ly form an opinion on the need of a one-year s postwar training for youths from 17.'to 23, both in B military and a civilian way. He told a news conference that he did not have compulsory military training in mind be cause the 1,000,000 to $1,250,000 boys who might be available for such training would be given a combination of. military and ci vilian training. He said that facilities could be found in the extensive training camp housing in and outside the United States proper, including Alaska and the Aleutians, and that such structures were built much stronger than those in the First World war. They probably would last 25 years, he said, as compared to the 10 or 12 esti mated for those built in 1917 most of which had to be scrapped before that time. The president said he wished the people would study the ques tion because of this tremendous housing surplus which will exist after the war. The housing In these camps, he added, could accommodate about 5,000,000 men, althotiRh he fig ures only about a fifth of that number would be needed for training. Oregon State Man Returns From China WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (IP) Prof. Fred O. McMillan, head of the department of electrical engineering of Oregon State col lege at Corvallis, has returned to this country after a year in China where he served as a specialist in electrical engineer ing under the cultural relations program of ' the state depart ment, Secretary of State Cor dell Hull has announced. In China. McMillan was de tained at the request of the Chi nese government to work with the ministries of education, eco nomic affairs and communica II E MA VIE YOU Taken Advantage of GOOD YEAR'S Open House Event? Stop By and Get Your FREE Gift TODAY Inspect the most modern tire service plant in Klamath county GOODYEAR SIRVICI . . . STOMS 8th & Klamath - Phone 8141-8142 The boy carrying the wound ed marine in the NEA radio-tel-ephoto printed in the Herald and Mews this Tuesday was Cpl. Vernon Eugene (Gene) House, of Klamath rails, it was revealed today by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. F. House, 1814 Etna. Cpl. House enlisted in Novem ber, 1942, and is now 19. The last letter his parents received from him was from Saipan on July 18. Two other boys in the picture, friends at Gene's, re cently sent his mother a picture of him taken shortly after the Marshall battle. 1097 Industrial Accidents Reported SALEM, Aug. 18 There were 1097 . industrial accidents reported in Oregon in the week inHftH VMtnrHnv tnnliii4lm, ...... fatality, the state industrial acci dent commission said today. Roy Clinton Wright, Portland road ' construction superinten dent, died after hplnv lrtti,inj July 22. About o Job You May WanV It's with Southern Pacific . . . and it's a job which best . fits your ability and your personal ideas of the work you'd like to do. Because it's one of a hun dred kinds of jobs. You have your choide. Maybe you're a machinist or carpenter or an ex-railroader an experienced man. Maybe you're unskilled or semi-skilled. That isn't so im portant. The big thing to re member is, that this is a rail road job , . . that it's "got some thing" other jobs don't always have the interest and excite ment that goes with railroad ing. It's a job with a permanent company . . . with people you'll like. A job with opportunity to get ahead ... a job you can really respect. S.P. needs men for all mechanical crafts . . '. needs inexperienced men too, as helpers or shop workers . . . men for every imaginable kind of job. If you're sincere in want ing a better-than-ordinary job, we'd like to talk to you. Liber al age limits. New, higher rail road wages. Railroad pass priv ileges. Fine pension plan. All the things that make a good job good. See or write Trainmaster, S. P. Station, Klamath Falls, or your nearest S. P. Agent. Run-Away Gives Officer Bad Time in Klamath A state police officer met a difficult assignment this week when he picked up a five-year-old run-away boy on AN tnmont drive, as tho small boy kept him driving over an area of 25 square miles while ho pointed out fictitious "places where ho lived." When tho officer finally took tho run-away out to tho juvenilo cottage to wait until his parents inquired about him, his charge insisted that he "tie him up and play Mors ie." When ho refused, the boy pulled a large police badge from his pocket and threat ened to arrest the policeman and take him in with him. The boy had walked from his home at 626 South Sixth, and said he was on his way to Lakcview. Penalties Asked. For Revealing Secret' Information WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (IP) WPB Chairman Donald M. Nel son asked congress today to provide stiff penalties for any one who - disclosed any of the vast amount of confidential in formation industry has given to government agencies. Chairman Sumners (D-Tex.) of tho house judiciary - committee promptly introduced the legislation. Laws now on the books. Nel son told Rayburn, hold no pro tection for a businessman who imparts trade secrets to the war production board, for example, against disclosure of those same facts to, perhaps, a competitor. The only bars raised are against revealing Information of a military character. Sumners said he did not know of any cases which prompted the WPB chairman's request. AFL Teamsters Urge Jap Exclusion SEATTLE, Aug. 18 (It) An aggressive campaign for "per manent exclusion of the Jap cheap labor menace" from the west was recommended by AFL teamster union leaders from 11 western states yesterday. Other resolutions included op position to what was described as a possibility of "sovietiza tlon" of industry and a recom mendation of a waiver of union initiation fees for returning war veterans. Mere Is Your IPresemi mnd JPost- War Opportunity Diesel Mechanic Service-Man Trouble Shooter Uperator Service-Manager Demonstrator Partsman STRIKE IN IDAHO PAYETTE,. Idaho, Aug. 18 (IP) Alcrton Patch, state emergency farm labor offlco assistant, said today 190 Bcxican nationals at tho Gala Gardens farm labor camp struck for higher wages Wconcsday. He said about 50 others went into the fields. A group of 100 which arrived from Washington stato Tuesday wore tho comer of the disturb ance, Patch said. They had been receiving higher pay at the pre vious work area, he explained. The labor official saia some of the farm workers started to go into the fields but 'others held them back with physical force." "I expect that it will bo set tled within the next day or so," he declared. Willkie Confab Reports False WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (IF) President Roosevelt told report ers today- there was nothing to published reports that ho nad invited Wendell L. Wlllkle, 1040 republican presidential candi date,, to a white House confer ence on postwar security ques tions. When asked w h e t h e r he would like to talk with Willkie on that subject, tho chief execu tive replied that was rather a personal matter. There- were published reports that Mr. Roosevelt had written Wlllkle. asking him to call at the White House to discuss foreign policy. ODT Pledges Aid To Truck-Tire Board PORTLAND, Aug. 18 UP) - District Ol'A and offlco of de fense transportation officials to day pledged support to tho now- i.. iA nivunn Kmnruntipv Truck Tiro committee In Its ef fort to muko more noiivy ruuuor available for tills ai'eu. Committee official said the two government agencies ap proved a program under which tlui army will he asked to check Its needs carefully. In addition, a plea will bo made that more mmiumvcr bo alluted lo llro man ufacturers and that more tiros be released from mock lines. The group already has asked tho army for permission to In spect tires on Idle trucks and In stockpiles of northwest ordnance depots lo determino tho number which might be available for release. EARLY NEWS by LOWELL THOMAS 7:15 p.m. DON LEE-MUTUAL Standard of California TRULOVE'S Chicken Center 7 mL I blvv For Your jiners BOY SCOUT GAMP El Boy Scout camp l Crescent lake is now In lid fifth and final week during which scouts who fulled lo get an opportun ity to attend curlier may go, Scouts who attended earlier and wish lo return also mo at Camp Miikualla this week. Two boys from troop II. of Klamuth Fulls, 10 boys (nun troop 44 ul Tuli'luku, and one boy from troop 1 of Klamath Fulls are the individual scouts who lire al tho camp now. I 11,11 lll IktT from KlngjSEffi The T Smartnn I. ,. T,,c.yld i J nd perfectly 1,11. !? 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