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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 31, 1945)
EIGHT HERALD AND NEWS Tuesday, July 91, 1945 4-H GIRLS TO SWIM. BOAT AT LAKE 0 WOODS Bedrolls, lunches and eager 4 H girls arrived at the healtn cen ter Sunday morning at 10:311, ready to leave tor cool, inviting Lake o' the Woods. An hour later two school bus es, pilea nigh with luggage, and noisy with gay shouts ana songs of children, were rolling lake ward with no stop-overs planned en route. Before leaving, the girls, rang ing in age from 10 to 16 years, were examined by Dr. Peter Ro- zendal, ruamatn county puDiic health officer. Weights were checked and neignts measured by Lt. Marilyn ttryan, assisted by Mrs. Lydia Howard. A wild. Kay scramble to choose bunks lollowed the ar rival of the buses, with first choices juggled several times un til close friends were above, be low or next to each other, in the two-deck dormitory beds. After sleeping arrangements had been settled, those who had not eaten their lunches on the way found shady spots to picnic. No program was planned for Sunday, the time being devoted to getting settled and becoming acquainted with the surround ings, but vesper services were held about the campfire in the evening. The camp buildings, used by various organizations for sum mer camps, will be occupied by 4-H club members from Klam ath county for the next two weeks. They are located about 50 yards from the lake shore, where a fine shallow beach in sures safe swimming. Swimming and boating, under safety supervision by Cpl. Rob ert Henderson, marine lifeguard, will be high points of the week's program. Lt. Bryan is on duty at all times to take control of any emergency. Instructive classes in hand craft, planned entertainment each evening, and plenty of good food and exerciSe, guarantee a wonderful outing for the chil dren, some of whom earned the vacation through scholarships in 4-H club work. A new bulletin received from Oregon State college shows a higher percentage of its farm boys and girls are enrolled in 4-H club work than any other tate west of New Jersey. Oregon also led in percentage of club members in ratio to the total number of all rural youth. This includes non-farm boys and girls living in small communities as well as those living on farms. "If 4-H work is good for those who are members, it must also be good for others,'" Harry Sey mour, state 4-H club leader stated. Flashes of Life OFF COLOR ' TUCSON, Ariz., July 31 (fll Dr. F. H. Geldcrman says his 48 white hens are exchanging sus Dicious. dark glances. An unidentified member of the flock recently laid a black egg. TIME TO CELEBRATE ST. CHARLES, Mo., July 31 W) The St. Charles jail may be opened for inspection for the first time since it was built in 1911. The place is without a prisoner for the first time in 34 years, said Sheriff Lester Plackmeyer. ... FAMILY FLIGHT MOUNT VERNON, 111.. July 31 (&) When Sue Ann Egbert, 17, the first Mount Vernon girl to win a pilot's license, prepared to make her first passenger flight, her 80-year-old grand mother, Mrs. Mary Gregory, was at the airport. Mrs. Gregory, expressing confidence- in her granddaughter's ability, decided she would take her first plane ride, and became Miss Egbert's first plane pas senger. POINTLESS BOOTS NORMAL, 111., July 31 OT Mrs. C. A. Poulton has more than 800 pairs of shoes but she still needs her shoe ration stamp because she can't wear any of her collection. The shoes, a collection mostly of antique ornaments, are of glass, bisque, luster-ware and China. They include a miniature pair of gold slippers less than an inch long, a pair in the shape of a pipe and one shoe with an inlaid mother-of-pearl sole. FORMER TULELAKE TULELAKE PFC Conrad Schultz, USMC machine gunner, formerly of Tulelake, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Otto A. Schultz, now of Santa Ana, is recover ing from critical wounds suf fered several months ago while serving on a tank operating on Okinawa. He is a patient at Oak Knoll naval hospital, near Oak land. PFC Schultz, well known In musical circles here, suffered deep lacerations of his upper right arm, destroying the nerve. Severe burns on hands and face and lacerations on his legs and feet were also sustained. He and one other member of the tank crew of five escaped when the vehicle received a direct hit. He was visited last week by Conrad and Byron Johnson, Malin, who brought back word of his condition, refuting re ports here that Schultz had lost both arms as a result of the injury. While he has no control over his right arm, it is ex pected that his condition will improve. He asked that friends here be advised of his improvement. Truman Made Shrine Member WILKES -BARRE, Pa., July 31 (IP) President Harry S. Tru man has been made an honorary Shriner here. Potentate Rulison Evans of Irem Temple, ancient Arabic or der, nobles of the mystic shrine, said the nation's chief execu tive was elected at a special ceremony Saturday. WORK SHIRTS WORK PANTS OREGON WOOLEN Main and 8th EMPLOYMENT MEET In an effort to meet post-war employment problems which will rise with the war's end, a post-war planning conference of the United States employment service was held in Portland July 26 and 27. Attending from Klamath Falls was John G. Schroeder, senior employment officer witn ine uses. As an outcome of this meet ing Schroeder is planning to make a survey of conditions in local industries to determine the number of employees needed in peace-time production. This lo cal picture will include prospec tive work of the city and county. Besides the readjustment of lo cal industries, there will be a re adjustment of soldiers to civilian life and the replacement of civil' ians who have been on war jobs According to Schroeder, approx imately 11 per cent of the nopu lation is in the armed forces. As these men will replace many civilians now working in indus tries, tne unemployment service expects to have as many people unemployed at the end of the war as were were in laid. There will be another post war planning conference Sep tember' 21 and 22. This will be held in Klamath Falls. Krizo Brothers To Build Elevator MERRILL John and Frank Krizo, operating as Krizo broth ers, will build a laminated crib type grain elevator on property adjacent to the Shell Oil com pany on the SP rieht-of-wav. The 40-foot high building will be constructed of 2 bv 6 tim bers and will hold approximate ly 70U0 sacks of grain. Work will get underway Wednesday. Karl Gentry is the contractor. Krizo brothers seeded 660 acres on Lower Klamath lake, and operate also a ranch in the Merrill district. ? uiw tilt mm V MORNING, Hon. Torn TtU 11 A. M. RADIO REPAIR Br Exptrt Technicians GOOD STOCK OF AVAILABLE TUBES-PARTS-AERIALS For All MakM oi Radio ZEMAN'S We buy, sell and trade radios Quick, Guaranteed Service t1 N. 9th Phone 7522 Aaron From Montgomery Ward on North 9th 3 The sponsors committee of the Klamath public utility district will hold a meeting at the Wll lard hotel at eight o'clock In the evening, Friday, August 3. Anyone interested In prepar ing the way for beginning con struction of the 230,000 K. W. transmission line from Golden- dale, Wash., to Klamath Falls as soon as materials and man power are available Is invited to attend this meeting, committee men said. The committee desires to add to its membership as many sub stantial citizens and business men of the town and county as are interested in quick, and permanent post-war development so that this section may be ready here as soon as the $160. 000,000 development program of the Bonneville Power Adminis tration gets under way, the an nouncement added. All Dersons having petitions out are urged to have them filled, acknowledged by a notary pub lic and presented at this meeting. The state hydroelectric commis sion is handicapped by a short age of man-Dower and early fil ing of petitions will aid it in making an early report In this area, it was stated. The 14 cotton-growing states have 737 cotton-spinning mills. Battle-Scarred Gl Admits ( He'll Be 15 In September TAUNTON, Mass., July 31 tPt A battle-scarred Texas GI, one of 1963 overseas veterans aboard tho 5S Claymount vic tory which docked at Boston yesterday, was en route today while army authorities rccheck ed his statement that ho was only 14 years old. Pvt. Robert Kelso of Houston, who wears the Purple Heart and two battle stars earned during his six months of fighting in France and Germany, told news men that ho would bo 15 Sep tember 20 and that he entered the army after going to a Hous ton draft boiiitf July 28, 1044, and declaring himself 18 that day. - After his Induction at Fort Sill, Okla., the freckled-faced youth, who said he left high school in his first year, tele phoned his mother. "Mom was going to report me to army authorities, but dad fixed everything," he said with a grin. r'It's his life, let him live it," Kelso quoted his father as say ing. Nicknamed "Junior" by his 342nd armored field artillery buddies, some of whom he said knew his age, Kelso was hospi talized for six weeks after being bayonetted during "mopping up" operations at Opperhopen, Germany. Taking a picture of a girl, whom he Identified only as "Gloria, tho cutest gal In Texas," from his barracks bug, he sulci ho was worried and hoped everything was all right as lp had not received a letter from her for about three months. At Houston, 18 - year old Gloria Neus said Privato Kelso has nothing to worry about. "I'm still crazy about Bob," she said. Supreme Court Judge Works On Railroad SPOKANE, July 31 W) Stale Supreme Court Justice William J. Millard, U2, lias been working as a railroad laborer on the "graveyard shift" at Tneonia since May 1, ho revealed In a letter yesterday. Commuting from his Olympia home, Justice Millard goes six days a week to a job as freight yard clerk for the Chlcuiio, Mil waukee, St. Paul Sc Pacific rail road in Tucoma, his letter to a friend snld, from 11 p. m. to 7 a. ni. During the daytime he conducts his supremo court affairs. FOR PACIFIC TOLD SEATTLE. July III W) Thousands of Jobs will be pro vided In tho Pacific Northwest with development of rivers and harbors In tho postwar period, Rep. Henry D. Larcado Jr., (if Louisiana, acting chairman of a rivers and harbors subcommit tee, said nt a press conference yesterday. Tho commlllco is conducting an Investigation of projects un der consideration for the Pacific and gulf coast "Beach erosion control has been at a standstill since the war," tho congressman snld, "and It is obvious that the gov ernment will have to embark on this program oh u big scale as soon as peaco comes, "Tho project Itself is Important and It furthermore will furnish employment In nuiny canes fur returning soldiers us well us those out of work because of tho cessation of war produc tion." , Tho committee, which In cludes Hep. Angell of Oregon, was to Inspect the Everett har bor ami Snohomish river, Two Injured In Explosion PORTLAND, Ore., July 31 Two men were recovering from injuries today ami a $20,000 motor cruiser was a wreck iik u result of ii bilge gas explosion. Frank llrrggieu, 411, who was Inspecting the bilge, was burned Boot Breeches For work or iport $3.85 up OREGON WOOLEN 800 Main M.k. 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