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Today's Roundup
By MALCOLM EPLEY
TWO interesting local cases of tardy service
; rejections have come to attention recently.
In both instances, the men involved passed
their first physical examinations in Portland,
and were told they were sure to go into the
service. So they closed up
their personal affairs, gave up
their jobs, and left on the
appointed day.
But the medicos who exam
ined them on the second oc
casion rejected them, and they
came back to pick up loose
ends and to resume their civil
ian life after an interruption
that was unnecessarily incon
venient and costly.
This doesn't happen often,
we are told, but it docs- once
EPLEY
in a while. The reason seems to lie in a
variance in the examinations and the examining
medicos.
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Legislation at Half-Way Point
OREGON'S legislature has now been in ses
sion 25 days, which is just half of the num
ber of days for which legislators will be paid. If
they keep going beyond 50- days legislative
sessions usually go well beyond the allotted
period they will- have to serve for nothing.
At Salem, an effort is made to curb the late
introduction of bills by making it necessary for
house members to get permission from the
legislation and rules committee for dropping in
bills after this date. That plan helps, but .usual
ly there are a lot of bills' that come in through
committees or with the approval of the rules
committee. No such rule exists in the senate,
where new legislation can be introduced with
out restriction. .
.In California, the legislature is now taking
its mid-session recess, giving gislators a chance
to catch their breaths and get the reaction of
their constituents to measures introduced in the
first half of the session. We have always re
garded this California plan as a good one.
County Manager
AT the November election, voters authorized
the preparation of legislation that would
set up the machinery for a county manager form
of government A bill to provide this machin
ery has now been introduced by Representative
piles French of Sherman county. ,
This bill, if .passed, will not force the county
manager plan on counties. It merely makes
It possible for those counties whose people
vote for it to set up the manager plan.
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Weyerhaeuser Land Policy
IN discussions of the forest land Exchange
issue, which has been in the forefront of
public Interest here for several weeks, the
question has frequently been raised as to what
would happen if Weyerhaeuser Timber company,
' Klamath's biggest private forest land holder,
would undertake a wholesale land exchange
jrogram with the forest service.
..Tiis is answered in the current issue of the-
-rch of Pine," Weyerhaeuser's local house
V : V Because the Weyerhaeuser holdings
are of such vital public interest from a tax
base and sustained industry standpoint,' we be
lieve the article is worth re-printing here. Here
it is:
The question has been asked recently: What
would happen in Klamath county if Weyer
haeuser should do as many others have done
and exchange their cut-over and timber lands
;for the privilege of cutting national forest
.service timber?
' This is not likely to happen for one very ' '
Igood reason the Klamath Falls logging op
ieration is a Western Pine Tree Farm and was 1
certified as such on August 5, 1943. The
term Tree Farm was adopted by forward
booking timber owners to show the extent
rto which privately owned commercial forest
I lands were to be managed on a "timber crop
ping" rather than a "cut out and get" basis.
Certain standards are set to qualify a Tree
Farm, the first of which is: "to maintain a
specified area of land for growing forest
.crops." Weyerhaeuser publicly accepted this
iobligation in accepting tho Tree Farm Cer
tificate and it is very unlikely that Weyer
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FOUR HERALD AND NEWS
dent of the round-up in 1940,
succeeding the late W. H. Switi
ler. Prior to that he had been
livestock director for the show,
during which he owned the cele
brated bucker, "No Name."
Editors' Meeting
Cancelled by Head
CHICAGO, Feb. 1 (.IP) John
S. Knight, president of the Amer
ican Society of Newspaper Edi
tors, said today the society's us
ual spring meeting in Washing
ton had been postponed.
He Issued the following state
ment: "It is the unanimous opinion
of the board of directors of the
American Society of Newspaper
Editors that the annual April
Washington conference should
be Indefinitely postponed.
"While we feel that our year
ly meetings with leaders of gov
ernment and the armed forces
have been of Inestimable value
to the war effort, it Is likewise
our considered judgment that
no exceptions should be made
to the general rule."
Iron filings spread on magna
tired plane propeller blades re
veal hidden flaws.
DBA
PENDLETON, Feb. 1 (p)
3. R. Thompson, 68, president of
the Pendleton Round-up, vice
president of the Rodeo Associa
tion of America and well-known
wheat and cattleman, died here
last night of a heart ailment.
Death came suddenly, al
though he had been in poor
health for some time.
A native of Chestervillc, Ont.,
Can., he came here at the age of
14, attended the old Weston nor
mal school and for a time was a
Bharmacist in LaGrando and
'ayton, Wash., before returning
to Pendleton to engage in farm
ing. ; Thompson was elected presl-
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February I. IMS
haeuser lands in Klamath's Tree Farm will
become government property, taken oft tax
WBut what would happen if this plan had not
been put into effect and the land cut clean
and exchanged. In Klamath county are ap
proximately 314,000 acres of land owned by
Weyerhaeuser with something like 201,000
acres logged to various degrees. Assessed
valuations on this land amount to about two
million dollars. Without the taxes from the
Weyerhaeuser holdings tho tax levy for other
property holders in the county would jump
from 30.2 mills to 32.7 mills, or for each
$1000 assessed value of property outside the
city of Klamath Falls and its suburban area
the increase would be 52 50. In the city itself
the increase would be $1.30 for each $1000
assessed value.
In Lake county the increase would be
greater for Weyerhaeuser owns 25 per cent
of the total assessed valuation of the county.
If Weyerhaeuser went off the county tax rolls
property owners could expect a 25 per cent
increase in their taxes.
Not only does Weyerhaeuser plan on main
taining the timber land already owned by the
company but in the pas' three years the com
pany has taken over nearly 63,000 acres of
deserted, cut-over timber land, much of which
had been taken by the county for tax de
linquencies. Of this reclaimed land about
4000 acres were bought from Klamath county
and 3000 acres were purchased from Jackson
county in 1944 alone. The rest of the acre
age had been purchased from individuals or
companies prior to becoming tax delinquent.
The largest area in this last classification
was some 43,000 acres of cut-over in both
Lake and Klamath counties previously owned
by Long-Bell Lumber company. Another
was approximately 10,000 acres bought from
Hovey-Walker interests and was only part of
their total cut-over area, the remainder of
which was within national forest boundaries
and went off the tax roll through the ex
change procedure. .
Property owners in Klamath and nearby,
counties can put a dollars and cents value
on the stake that they have in helping main-.
tain the Tree Farm. With community assist
ance these lands will stay in private owner
ship, help carry the tax burden and will be
managed so as to grow continuous crops of
trees under a policy of management similar
to that of the national forest service that
will still carry a share of the tax burden.
The War Today
By J. M. ROBERTS JR.
(Substituting for D,Witi McKniI)
REGARDLESS of the outcome of the battle
of the Oder,, which approaches hourly
nearer, there are two items in recent German
dispatches which, overshadowed by the Russian
advance along the Warthe, nevertheless may
play an important role in Hitler's collapse.
A few days will tell whether the Germans
have been able to devise any real defenses
before Berlin whether the Russians are to con
tinue unchecked, or whether they will have to
stop at the river to pull up their galluses as
they did at the Vistula last summer.
However, if the Russians are at Sorau farther
south, as the Germans say, any massing of nazl
strength in the Frankfurt area may mean little
more than have the holdouts at Torun, Posnan,
Elbing and Konlgsberg.
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Inside Defense Area
WHILE Sorau is twice as far from Berlin
as Frankfurt, there is one big difference.
It is 30 miles west of the Oder, well Inside the
area where Germany was supposed to have
strong defenses. That could mean much or little
regarding defenses farther north. The import
ant thing is that the 75 miles between what the
Germans call Marshal Konev's northern anchor
and Berlin is through flat country, somewhat
more wooded than Zhukov's direct route, but
criss-crossed by only minor water courses. If
Konex is making a major effort there (and it
would be normal for the Russians to keep
silent about such a move until its outcome
was foreseeable) the German army and Berlin
could be placed in a position similar to that
which would have occurred last fall had the
western allies, crossing at Arnhem, pushed up
the east bank of the Rhine toward Dortmund.
Clock Runs Down
THE other report serves more as a reminder
-that, regardless of any delays which may
occur at the Oder or because of such "banzai
charges" as that of the Belgian bulge, Hitler's
clock has about run down. The Germans men
tion renewed Russian attacks south of Lake
Balaton in Hungary.
That means the German army is under actual
attack, with the exception of a few very short,
stretches, on more than 1500 miles of front,'
Before the Russian offensive began, before the
losses which Hitler has taken recently on both
eastern and western fronts, he was credited
with 2000 men per mile and he couldn't hold
them. The conclusion is too obvious to mention.
German Oil Hit
By Yank Bombs
ROME, Feb. 1 (iP) Italy-based
bombers of the U. S. 15th air
force struck their heaviest blow
yet on a single target in drop
ping 1357 tons of bombs yester
day on nazi oil installations in
an area 22 miles northwest of
Vienna, allied headquarters an
nounced today.
Ground action along the en
tire fifth and eighth army
fronts again was confined to pa
trol engagements.
BORING MAN KILLED ,
GRESHAM, Feb. 1 (P) An
drew J. Minyard, 53, Boring,
was killed this morning when
struck by a car on a street here.
Deputy Sheriff Ralph Davis
said the car was driven by Mil
lard A. Chase, 34, Gresham.
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"Now stop fussing! Cim Johnny help it if he has a cold?
Here's his snow shovel and here's his list of customers
they mustn't be disappointed, so sec tint I you don't miss
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Marriage Licenses
The fact that .leap year van
Carolina Patrol
Plane Said Missing
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 1 W
A navy Catallna patrol plane,
with eight men aboard is missing
along tho northern California
coast, the western sea frontier
headquarters said today.
The big ship was en route
from San Francisco to Seattle on
a ferry flight.
The eignt men aboard were
navy personnel.
The last report from the plane
came by radio shortly after
noon yesterday.
ished with the arrival of 1945
has not changed the status of
cupid during the month of Jan
uary, according to the records at
the county clerk's office.
There were 48 applications for
marriage licenses, as compared
to eight decrees granted during
the first month of the new year.
The latter was not the final tab
ulation at the office of the cir
cuit court clerk, however.
You pride yourself on taking good
care of your nails, your hair, your
home a . . but how about your eyes?
Remember, your eyes should have a
complete scientific examination every
year to be sure they are giving you
the best possible service. So come in
tomorrow and see the registered op
tometrist at your nearby Standard
Optical Company office. You'll be
frankly told if glasses are not neededl
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From thi Klamath lUnubllcdii
r"bruary 2. 1805
Charles Morrill of Morrll .
will exhibit a pair of Kliiiimlli
county mules l tho Lewis and
Clark fair. t
James II. Drlscoll, home from
a visit to California, s.ild the
range Is wonderful rignt now In
the Marysvllle area and that ful
beeves are alrtudy being killed
there.
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From the Evanlna Hrald
February 1, 1835
The Herald came out editori
ally today with a doinnmt thiil
work be started on tho Weed
Klamath Falls highway between
Mldkind and tho Greensprlniis
highway rt a "sensible work-re-
llcf project."
A successful president's birth
day ball was held ut Mnlln.
Tanker Name to
Be Modoc Point
PORTLAND, Feb. 1 (P)
Names of Oregon landmarks will
be given to four tankers among
13 to be launched at Swan Is
lvind shipyard In April ami Mny,
Kaiser company officials snul
today.
One will bo christened Che
mawa, for the Indian school
north of Salem; others Modoc
Point, site of a Klamath county
Indian settlement; Fort Lane,
pioneer Jackson county fort, end
Bradford Island, which anchors
Bonneville dam.
TAKES OVER
EUGENE. Feb. 1 (') Dcane
Sccgcr, Eugene's new city man
ager, took over his adininlitrn
tive duties today. Seeger will
work in the offlco of the city
recorder until other room Is pro
vided. Twenty-one presidents of tho
United States were lawyers.
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registered optometrist in cnorga.
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murdor.. adult.rln. .
2nd Lt. Joiiph Z. Hlllli (right),
Klamath Fnlli. mat an old
friend from Llbby, Montana,
M'Sot. William Dean Court
right, crew chl( on a 15th
AAF B24. whan both were as
signed to fly on n combat mis
sion somewhat In Italy. Hlllla
was with the Oregon Equip.
mnt company her prior to his
nllatmtnt In tho army air
corps.
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thr. Whora? Why, up to
Chan's ollle. Room 203. Odd
Fallows' Building to ha thalr '
Incom Tax ilqured out. Let I
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