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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (March 15, 1945)
14 9tnaih Falls Exclusive yyftfi Automatic Traffic Signals Operating Here PAUL HAINE3 "... Lll In tllU UlllV L'llV 0"f". .. ffic signal now In r(l"".ii.. ..iiu iii-i'r. I?Vilcm wim put Into op I" P",.l TIlO MttltO hluh- com"' 1 liiHtullurl till! L 0 whlH. tho city as- KfWif the 1 1,0 ol,"'r """" ... wiiiiii 1 lu hwava. I "L!L.. Rv.lomi . ,(,,,, truffle systems In '.uto r 0 controlled by . fl S HgH HUH". .,i.u f. iwo lri!l or by (Hand h S utc...cl, of ihe four PKT Lath Foil. I! fa llc t l" inlcrwctloii. together Willi ,wlk IK"'" niucoci 111 1 1 Ck, 0( (lie Intersection, he .,1 lor movement uf pedes- MEN AND- WOMEN IN SERVICE BENNETT RETURNS r ri.xittitif nvfitntnn idlioti.'USN.'4041 Clin- I has r!Uirnvu iu i-wimiimii from i lour f clllty ll .lho hlie. where no whb uuuynuu r, .... .nn nnn the navy's font aircraft car- ;Iiic( Bennett was ono of the nltiiwicu men who kch mc jroiiD'ii fighter planes armed COnulUlinril nir lwimwwi, i,iu.- jrlnK the success of our ear .iniro nuulrmt Mich turuptx Siiuel Shoto, Formosa, the ippincs, rrcncli in(io-i;nina ihipplni! In the China sea. -...-I,...' ulroriift tilun tint. I tiiim ....... bird In the second buttle of PHillnnlnp urn. LnneU'i mother, Mm. Pcnrl Hollliier, ami ills lour-yrnr- j.Mahlnr llt.ltv, l.milan Mvn Uuhiiili - ... ..... KUiniith Falls address. DIVISION AWARDED mi THE DIXIE DIVISION MOROTAI For oulstiind devotion to duty In operat supply dumps under com renditions, the 31st infnntry alon CJM unit. In which PFC r. Edwnrds of Klnmnth !Ii li a d r 1 v.e r. has been tided Ihe meritorious sorv- unit pluquo. hdwards has hovenens moro than a year I has participated in tnc Mt-Sarml and Morotai cam- m. li'lium iind u Hupnriitu signal for movcincnl of truffle Thu imn-i iiiitUiin.i..ri illow vehicle, and pcdenlrlims to move slmullinifuuiily, nn )0tli ure controlled by unv nlxuul Automntlc Control Tho truffle HkIiIn are con. trolled jy u niuslur iiulomutlc control In tho city hall, Thomus Muted. Tho police department I" In churni! of oclmil operation of the nyiili.in unci the city enulnoer'H staff mnlntuins ef ficient perfonniince. The present act-up is Installed at seven main Intersections In the business district of Klamath rails ntitl the tdiui ..1 it... 1 i . . ....... iv.ii wi iiiv orlnlnal Instiillatlon was $15,0(10, said Thomas. Tho cost of oper- uiiun is approximately S(iO u muiith. Traffla Controls The traffic slimnl m a nn. and K. Mnln Ik n Kmvti.ii.,.rri.. actuated slu.mil system und was put lu ut the sanm time the pieneiu plan was inuuKurulcil, Thomas slated. Tho traffic on K. Main erossint! a bar installed ill tile street, operates the slu.mil and when thero Is no traffic on this street the lljjht remains urccil fur vehlrlea ntiM(ti,r ,m s. nth. Tho system causes little trouble, Thomas said, and the operation has been satisfactory with very Utile maintenance needed outside of o few minor repairs. Keeping the Traffic Lights In Order The War At a Glance By Th Associated Pri Tha Woitorn front! U. S. first army mochlneKun fire cut Into Huhr superhiKhwuy cast of lite nhine. Third army crossed Moselle after cllml nutlnit German pockets north of the stream; seventh ormy icuod new attack on Saar land. Tho Russian fronti Moscow silent on front beforo Berlin, where 11 a z I s reported Rus sians across Oder in force; new attack on Slovakia knitted; heavy assault opened on East Prussian coastal cor ridor; sIckc rlnRs tightened on Dnnzlu. Gdynia. Tho Italian front: Patrol operations continued In fifth army sector southwest of Uolnu.ua. Tha Pacific front: Ameri cans on Mindanao advanced five miles east of captured ZamboaiiKa; R 0 m b 1 0 n and Slmara, small Philippine is lands, Invaded, enemy Karri sons wiped out: Americans on Luzon drovo east, re pulsed counterattacks. Iwo murines hunting; down last enemy defenders. Ralph Yockey, abovo, omplovo of the East Side Electric com pany. works on a control box for the traffic system at Klamath and 6th, Klamath Falls is the only city in Oregon to use the type of automatic traffic signals now in operation here, according to t. A. I nomas, city ongineor. Nazi Sabotage Ring Smashed Before 1943 Big 3 Meeting YOUNGS SELL TRANSFER TO E.F. LONDON. March 15 W) Smashinit of a bold nn.i suho tiiRc rlim In Tehran a short time before the Biij Three meetinij there lute in 1043 was disclosed yesterday with the lifting of censorship on the nrrest of 170 suspected Iranian collaboration ists. In a delayed dispatch from Tehran, Associated Press Cor respondent Charles Grumich said nazi spies and saboteurs flown and parachuted from Ber lin fostered intrigue that en dangered Prime Minister Churchill on a visit thero in 1042 and later might have harmed Churchill, President Roosevelt and Premier Marshal Stalin. The dispatch, dated Feb. 10 hut received here only yester day, said the plotters had the assistance of the Japanese lega tion in Iran and capitalized on a tribal revolt incited by gun running agents. The plans also were to depose the shah and split Iran into two puppet states, Grumich said. British counter espionage tracked down the plotters be fore they could execute any vio lence against the allied states men. . Magdeburg, capital of the province of Saxony, which was nearly leveled by allied aerial bombs, was almost wiped off the man more than tnree cen turies ago during the Thirty Years war. After 19 years in the transfer business in Klamath Falls, Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Young disclosed today that they have sold the Klamath Falls Transfer and Storage business to E. F. An dersen of E. F. Andersen Motor Freight, Andersen is taking over the local business and will operate it in connection with his freight line, with John Janssen as man ager- here. The company will do S. Pi pickup work along with hauling household goods to any point in Oregon, Washington and California, and hauling any commodity to any Oregon point. The Youngs are retaining ownership of the building which they constructed at 101 Klamath avenue, and will rent it to An dersen, Their transfer headquarters when they went into the trans fer business two decades ago. was the Ewauna house at 4th and Main. Mr. and Mrs. Young plan to take a trip north in May and are not certain of their fu ture plans. New Superintendent Named In Vancouver VANCOUVER, Wash., March 15 iP) A. D. Whitenack. Wana- to school superintendent, has been appointed assistant super intendent of Vancouver schools. He will assume his duties in April, replacing Dr. Zeno B. Katterle, who becomes assistant superintendent of the Portland system. Lobby Chairs Filled At U. S. Tax Office PORTLAND, March 5 (VP) Lobby chairs which replaced lines this year at the federal in come tax office were fined early this morning as taxpayers hastened to comply with filing deadlines. Tax reports were figured for 1560 persons yesterday the largest single day total. J- ttty four clerks predicted even more customers today. logger boots ; workThoes OREGON WOOLEN STORE 8th and Main Air Medal -'4 ?; I if y Lt. Allen Gocio Official U. S. navy photo, LT. MEN GOCIO Thursday, March 15, 1948 ' HERALD AND MEWS SEVEN student at the University of Southern California when he en listed in the navy in the spring of 1942. He received his pri mary flight training at Long Beach, Calif., later transferring to the naval air station at Cor pus Christi, Tex. In June, 1943. he was assigned to a fighting task force in the South Pacific. The young fighter pilot also participated in the battles for the Gilberts, Marshalls and Palau and In raids on tho Philip pines, as well as the actions oft Formosa. Lt. Gocio lives at the bachelor officers quarters at the station. His home town is Den tonville. Ark. GOOBER STATES North Carolina, Georgia, Vir ginia, Alabama and Texas pro -duce the most peanuts. Of these. North Carolina has the greatest yield to the acre. Lt. (jg) Allen Gocio, USNR, was awarded the Air Medal and . the Gold Star, in lieu of a sec ond Air Medal, in a ceremony : at the Klamath naval air sta tion. The presentation was made by Commander R. R. Darron, ' USN. .."vl ' The citation, which accompan- led the medal, was from Vicei Admiral Mark A. Mitcher, USN, in the name of the president of the United States, and cited Lt. Gocio for action in the vicinity of Formosa on October 12 1944,. when he shot down and destroy ed an enemy fighter airplane. - The Gold Star was awarded for meritorious . achievement while , participating in aerial flight as pilot of a carrier based fighter airplane assigned to a combat air patrol on October 14, 1944. "Gocio personally shot down and destroyed one enemy bomb er airplane which was attempt ing to attack the task group," the citation read. Lt. Gocio, fighter pilot, was a C0LDSJ FIGHT MISERY - "Tf. where you feel it rub throat, r.hpftfc And back with time-tested . 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