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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 6, 1945)
SIX HERALD AND HEWS Friday, July S. 1945 INS ill LABOR -PAY INCREASES ; " WASHINGTON, July 6 H'i ! President Truman today signed i legislation giving postal . em 1 ployes their first general pay -tipse since 1925.. "-"For regular postal employes "in so-called automatic grades, ' the legislation provides a 20 per ; cent increase in base pay. or "J400 fi. year, whichever is the Vsser. In no event will the i raise be less than $300. ' i It provides for overtime pay- : -ment at tne rate or time and one 3 half for time worked in excess 5 of a basic 260-workdays an J"nually, the payment to be in money or compensating time off, K and for a differential of ten per Hcent for employes who work regularly at night. The overtime provisions do not apply to super- f i!.ne iiii.o1 rar-inFf tnaralinf HWUlfll . ...... v. . . " jtmechanics and employes of the J- railway mail service and tlie .air mail service. It changes the salary rates of & postmasters by putting them on "a basis of 100 per cent of the rr gross receipts for their offices instead of the present 85 and -90 per cent K Postmasters in first-class of jifices, except those now receiving k$6000 or more, will get boosts -'of from $300 to $400 annually: second class, $400 to $600; third L class, $300, and fourth class, 20 per cent of their present base, ;, which now varies. Clerks in i third-class offices working not less than 40 hours weekly are it placed in automatic grades i-ranging from $1200 to $1700. HOLMER ASSIGNED Lt. Ralph Russel Holmer, who graduated in June from the Aleo airba.se in Texas, has been as signed to the first fighter com- II. s. T Scientific Starvation Plan Followed In Nazi Station mand for intensive training in the operations of the P-47 Thun derbolt at Richmond, Va. . Holmer is a eraduate of Klam ath Union high school with the class of 1942 and attended the University of Washington before entering the army in 1943. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Holmer, are now making their iiome in oeaiue, wasn. BAYLESS WRITES In a recent letter to his par ents. SSrt. William K. "Bill" Bay less writes of his camp in i" E. H. Thompson, manager of ine luamaw r aim uraiicu ox uie r." United States National bank, re- i- ports substantial gains in de- ) posits and resources lor this ; large Oregon financial .insula 1 lion. In its statement of condition a to the comptroller of the cur ijrency as per the official call of -June 30, the United States Ma- tional bank reported deposits of $509,589,564.41 and resources of il S53U,Uti4,92Z.93. " Deposits, now at an all time hlgh, represent an increase of V: $81,450,449.85 over the corres .t. nondine call date of a vear aeo: During the same period, re- - sources increased Dy ztt3,a23, 592.25. . ...-., ;, , . : t: . r rKoiser Optimistic iQyer Floating Dock "PORTLAND. Ore.. .Tnlv R IJPl ,.4Sdgar F. Kaiser, vice president ot iiaiser industries, and Austin Flegel, Willamette Iron and Steel president, were optimistic today over prospects for another floating drydock here. Back from a San Francisco meeting with navy officials,, they said the navy has promised to give careful consideration to Portland s request. Two naval officials. Rear Adm. Charles L. Brand, Wash ington, and Kear Adm. Charles W.' Fisher Jr., were here today '. inspecting shipbuilding and re pair iaciuues. :'- ' Truman Nominates Bradley For Post Washington, July e (p President Truman today formal ; ly Tiominated General Omar N. Bradley to be veterans admin istrator, and submitted his name to the senate. The chief executive an nounced .a month ago that he imci i-nusen .Bradley to succeed Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines as head of the veterans administra tion. General Bradley now is in Europe but he is expected to return to Washington late in ; that summer. E' ' - Italy. "We are now living at tne edge ot a small town in an old cavalry school stables." Bay- less says. "It used to be Ger man quarters, and out in back there is a place where 500 pris oners, Russian and Italian, were executed and buried. An old man who saw them all and speaks English told us about it ine uermans made the prison ers dig their own graves, and made the townspeople watch while generals , tortured them before shooting them dead." Bayless tells in detail of Ger man atrocities recounted bv the townspeople who were eyewit nesses. . He mentions being ter ribly homesick like all the other boys, but says they are "pretty well fixed" in their present location. Tney go swimming, play baseball and have parties, but "nothing can take the place oi nome. Bayless graduated from KUHS in 1942. He took his training at Camp Hale, Colo. His wife and son Kenneth reside in Med ford and his parents, Mr. and rars. ri. Bayless at 526 Main. Klamath Falls. He worked for Weyerhaeuser before ' entering we service. . . i BODY DISCOVERED PORTLAND, July 6 VP) Th5e body of Sophie Baumgart, 82j missing from a convalescent 1 home here since June 25, was found yesterday at the foot of a 30-foot embankment where she: apparently fell, detectives said today. f 'o Sale: f 1935 Ford .' Station Wagon 1936 Chevrolet .i Coupe Offics Equipment Misc. Buildings Surplus Insulation s! i! Two Boilers One on wheel 6"x6" 10 gauge Wire Mesh Brennan . and ' Cahoon 132 S. 7th Phone 7751 Crop Insurance On Winter Wheat Offered CORVALLIS, July 6 (P) The first all-risk federal, crop insurance on winter wheat since 1943 will be offered soon . in Oregon wheat producing coun ties, the state AAA said today. a armers may obtain three year contracts covering either 75 or 50 per cent of the aver age yield. Special guests ot a chamber of commerce luncheon which is scheduled for July 14 will be Ben B. Lawshe, manager of the commercial organization of the U. S. chamber of commerce, and Paul H. Good, secretary of the committee on education. The luncheon will be held at the Willard hotel and will be fol lowed immediately by a round table discussion. Lawshe is generally recog nized as the autiiority on organ ization management, and pro cedures, according to Charles Stark, Klamath county cham ber manager. Over 15 years ago, Good recognized a need for co operation between school teach ers and tne cnamoer oi com merce because students become chamber of commerce members. He maintains that business should be interested in schools and that the educators should assist those who are developing the growth and prosperity of the city. Board of directors, committee chairmen, members of the chanv ber of commerce, and other in terested individuals are invited to attend. 4-H'ers Make Good At Summer School Klamath 4-H club members made a cood showing at the summer session held in Cor- vallis for 10 da?s in June. Joanne Robinette played on the radio review and Virginia Thurman modeled a dress which she made in club work, at the style show. Jean Keller, athletic manager, Virginia Masten, song leader, and Mary Louise Haynes, vice president, were among the Klamath girls who stayed at the Kappa Kappa Gamma house. Bend Youth Injured In Bomb Explosion BEND, July 8 (P) John' Vernon Johnson, 15, Bend, was in a hospital here today after celebrating the Fourth of July with bombs. He and William Horsell Jr., Alfalfa, found some bombs used by P-38 pilots last year on a range near Horse Ridge. They set off several, and the Johnson boy picked up one that refused to work, State Of ficer Glen Ray reported. It exploded, injuring his right eye and mangling his hand. $8000 Damage In Repair Shop Fire MEDFORD. July 6 (P) Dam age was estimated at $8000 by the state forest patrol today after a blaze destroyed the re pair shop of the Goetz Lumber company sawmill at Prospect earlier this week. Mill workers and forest serv ice crews confined the blaze to the shop after it apparently started in the power plant. i EVERY SATURDAY I 9:00 until 1:00 4v IU)V5WD COMING ATTRACTIONS July 25 Jimmy Luncef ord Aug. 8 Bob Wills &adute Cffleaef Try Sdnnley Reserve ...BRIGHT and LIGHT as a SUNNY MORNING 1 life 0 aroln nwrtral mlrlH. 1 TBS fti3iB Zl'.Q SdwnUy Pltflllwt Coco, N.V.C.gj g . 'SS , fffi J Bv A. I. GOLDBERG MUNICH. July U tV) A nnzi "scientific stnrvution sta tion, whoso grisly experiments on children and adults were claiming victims until only a few days ago, has been uncov ered in Bavaria by two public health officials ot the American military government and three hospital attendants had been arrested at the station in the Kaufbcurcn area, 45 miles southeast of Munich. One wom an nurse confessed killing 211 children, for which she drew an extra bonus, the statement said. The station, masked under the title of a public sanatorium, was one of a scries of sys tematic starvation and drug ex periment laboratories scattered through Bavaria and Austria, the authorities said. Those who died were cremated. Mnj. Marvin Linick of New York City and Capt. Loyal Murphy of Memphis, Tcnrw who found the Kaufbeuren sta tion, reported that it housed 1578. men, women and children on June 30, and a branch at nearby Irsce had another 468 all in various stages of mal nutrition. Among the children found alive was a 10-year-old boy weighing less than 23 pounds. Those under arrest Included Dr. Valentup Falthauscr, 69, charged with operating the sta tion; Franziska Vill, his' secretary-food administrator; and tne head nurse of one of the chil dren's wards, a woman named Worle. The AMG's statement said the woman confessed to having poisoned or killed by intramus cular injection at least 211 minors for which she drew a monthly bonus of 35 rcichs marks, about eight dollars at the old U. S. exchange rate, or $3.50 at tho present U. S. military exchange. Llnlvk and Murphy said they found In an uncoolcd morgue tho bodies ot men and women who had died from 13 hours to three days earlier as a result of tho "experiments." Each body weighed only 58 to 0(1 pounds. Tho men said the extermina tion program included injection of chemicals to produce direct starvation, intended to kill cither within three months or to tuke six months or longer, FIRST TUNA ASTORIA, July 8 (IP) A 15 pound Albacore caught by Eddie Miller, captain of tho President Coolirige, 00 miles southwest of tho lightship whs tho first ot the season, fishermen rcoorled today, Tho Columbia River Salmon company processed tho tuna, rresiaont Arthur Anaerson siuo. C-8S SUITED FOB SEATTLE. July A M') C. L. Eglucdt, chairman of tho Mocing Aircraft company board of di rectors, said yesterday that C-07 transport airplanes, troop-currying counterpart to tho 13-20 Su perfortress, will go on produc tion at Boeing in tho lmniodliite futuro under a now army con tract. Tho contract calls for thrco de signs troop and cargo carriers Identical to the three built ex pui'liiiontnlly by lloriiiK, sumo with more poweriui engine unci design advancements and others with transport-typo seals. The experimental piano built uy uocing set a new transconii nenlal snued record lust Jumiury when It flow from Seattle to Washington, D. C, In six hours, thrcn minute and 55 second. Tho double-decked fimeliige of the C-07 wis snuco for 120 fully arnved troops und tho pliincs huvo a riingo of 4000 miles. HITLER S SILVER SHOWN PORTLAND, July 6 () Sumo of Hitler's pvrsonut silver ware was on display at u down town store today, "liberated" by an Oregon corporal who found FARMERS! 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