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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1945)
TEW HEHAp AND WEW8 frlday, Aug. 17, 1848 Coal, Sheets. Towels. Tractors, Jeeps To Be Released By Government As Reconversion Takes Hold Of Nation By MAX HALL WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (P) The government, rocketing Americans toward the road to normal living again, took steps today to see that they had plenty of fun in the change over. Bant Lifted Three days after the war with Japan, all bans on sports travel for professionals and amateurs were lifted. And there was this news for the nation: 1. More goods released for civilian use. 2. More wartime controls wiped out. 3. More men looking for jobs. 4. The government striving to keep peace on the labor front. 5. Hints of coming battles in congress. This was the picture: More goods the army cut its I coal orders and said the nation's coal nroblem is solved. The solid fuels administration flatly, denied this. But there was no I doubt that the cut would help civilians. . The armv also announced more meat is being released fori civilians, and it threw on the! market .10,000 jeeps and vast quantities of other articles. It said, too, that reduced shipments should end railroad freight con gestion immediately. I Fewer controls me petrol eum administration said con trols over the oil industry will be removed fast and that the agency will start liquidating it self at once. ODT Allows Racing The office of defense trans portation abolished controls over thxicabs, rental cars, auto rac ing, state and local fairs. It also authorized bigger conven tions. ' More men the army an nounced it will bring back from overseas 4,000,000 troops in 101 months and will be releasing half a million a month by January 1. Wholesale canceling of war contracts threw thousands out of work today. . The civil serv ice commission announced it will accept federal job applica tions from veterans only. Industrial p e a c e President Truman asked labor and man agement to keep their no-strike and no-lockout pledges until n new plan can bo worked out lit a labor-management peace con ference this fall. Mr. Truman also announced that voluntary wage boosts will be permitted if they don't re sult in higher prices. The war labor board will keep operating for a time and the president said he expects industry and labor to obey it. But the board will start winding up its affairs soon after the autumn conference. CIO President Philip Murray indicated every nuqor CIO union 1 will ask for wage Increases right away unner the new policy. Possible struggles in congress (he presidents "honeymoon with congress may end if he fights for retaining the draft. Some congressional leaders want to kill the draft law quickly. Representative Colmer (D Miss.), chairman of the house postwar economic planning com mittee, came out against "hastily considered legislation" and said congress already has enacted most of the necessary recon version laws. Army officials announced re- Try Sdtenley Reserve ...BRIGHT and LIGHT as a SUNNY MORNING . MENDED WHISKEY 86 ""'rvffilfif1 60 grain neutral ipirrh. V ' -A- - lo-rK jeS. -ff$vC SdwnUy DimiUn Corp, N.T.C.'ggrTgih BCOm leass of 120 million tons of coal within the next 12 months, say ing this would solve the nation's "shortage of 25 million tons." Abe Fortas, acting as solid fuels administrator in the ab sence of Harold Iekes, said that regardless of army actions the situation on anthracite (used for heating homes in the cast) will not be substantially eased. Goods declared "surplus" by the army were valued at $121,. 000,000. They include not only jeeps but razor blades, pillows, sheets, towels, steam shovels, trains, tractors, barbed wire, paper bags, and spark plugs. It will be up to the commerce department to sell this merchan dise. More millions maybe bil. lions worth of surplus goods will be coming on the market in the next few months. The petroleum administration for war, announcing Its own onn snoruy, sum a few controls will bo kept fur u time but that these will not Interfere with the civilian consumer. The agency said the oil Industry Is in healthy condition and doesn't need any "reconversion" In the usual sense of the word, Oregon Needs More Railroad Workers POKTLAND. Aug. 17 Ml Al though applicants for railroad Jobs are Increasing, Oregon .still ueeas buuu more, ciipi. Hiupit u. Hugo of the army transportation corps reported today. He said new workers arc only permitting the railways to break even, since many employes have retired or returned to homes In the east or south. r1 Ti TRULOVE'S Chicken Center Portland Children Saved From Drowning PORTLAND, Aug. 17 (A1) Two rescues which saved Port land youngsters from drowning were reported today, Mrs. Maxluo Penlx, an expect ant mother, pulled her ID-year-old brother, Walter Cherry, irom uio sanuy river after he beenma caught In tin iwlft cur rent, Sho narrowly escaped drowning and was revived by rescucltatluil equipment, offic ials said. James. Swcatt, 10, saved his ll-year-old sister, Linda Jose phlne, from drowning In a pool at home. Although he learned how to swim only two weeks ago, the boy Jumped In and hold I tlio child1! hind abovt water utu til help arrived. f ) DfllVEH KILLED SALEM, Aug. 17 (!') Ray mond II. 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