Washington Spud Needs Glamour To
Compete With Klamath Basin Potato
By WILL LINbLEY -.
, OLYMP1A, Waiti-. Jan.StT
(VP) What the WasWiigtbtT po
tato needs is more glamour.
Stale Director of Agriculture
Fred Martin said today, i- ..
."Potatoes to the cast, of us,
otaloes to the south of -us'
ic said, referring to the Idaho
and Oregon crops -in a slightly
dramatic lone of voice as he
paraphrased Tennyson.. ;.
"The trouble," he went on,
"is that in Washington a 'spud
is a spud. In Idaho it is the key
stone of the stale, and in the
Klamath basin of Oregon it is
practically the center of the
universe." . ;.- .
' Martin pointed to the state's
1S45 crop report, which shows
Washington spud farmers har
vested 54,000 acres last year.
No Small Potatoes
"And that's no small pota
toes," he punned.
The 1945 crop was 7000 acres
larger than that of the previous
year. Yield per acre increased
last year, too, from 210 to 220
bushels an acre. This meant
11,880,000 bushels were har
vested last year. At an average
price of $1.40 a bushel, this
gave Washington farmers an av
erage of $308 an acre or a to
tal of $16,632,000 in 1945. Po
tatoes ranked eighth in Impor
tance in state crops. .
"People have been enjoying
Washington potatoes for years,"
Martin said. Fried, boiled,
baked, scalloped or in salads or
potato chips they rank with the
best Oregon and Idaho have to
offer.
Down in Klamath county.
Jean
Clauson
of the
STAR
Beauty Salon
Will Be At
Swansen's
Beauty Shop
for the next week or two,
until the Star location in
the Town : Shop is ready'.
January 15 Tax Questions
Answered By U. S. Experts
By J. W. MALONEY
Collector of Internal Revenue. Portland Oregon
1. Assuming I had enough Income in 1945 to be required
to file a declaration, is there a penalty for failing to file or
pay the tax due on a declaration?.. Yes. The penalty is 5 per
cent of the amount due and unpaid, plus one per cent for
each additional month the total penalty not to exceed 10 per
cent of the amount unpaid.
2. Is there a penalty for estimating my tax too low? Yes,
but only if you underestimate your tax by more than 33 13
per cent If you are a farmer, or by more than 20 per cent
if you are not farmer.
3. How much is the penalty for underestimating? The
penalty is 6 per cent of the difference between your estimate
and the correct tax (but not to exceed the total difference
between your estimate and 66 23 per cent of the correct tax
if you are a farmer, or the total difference between your
estimate and 80 per cent of the correct tax if you are not
farmer). .
4. Suppose I filed my 1945 declaration last March but now
find it is underestimated by more than 20 per cent. CanI
avoid the penalty? Yes, by filing an amended declaration or
your annual return by January 15 and correcting the under
estimate. .
5. Suppose I based my 1945 estimate on my actual 1944
income. Does that excuse me from the penalty for under
estimating? If you based your estimate on your actual 1944
income and figured the tax at 1945 rates and exemptions,
there will be no penalty. '
Oregon, Martin recalled, they
have a yearly potato festival.
A queen is selected and crown
ed at a big dance. People mark
it on their calendars as one of
the biggest days of the year.
"Just how they can glamor
ize such a characterless lump
of vegetable I don't know,"
Martin said. 'The way they
make great of the potato you'd
think you were in Hollywood.
The next thing you know fel
lows at -the University of Idaho
P.B.'s
Mobilgas
Station
llth and Main
Now Open
Lubrication
Washing
Polishing
Tiro Service
P. B. WILLCOXON
Phone 9177
will be hanging them on the
wall instead of pinup girls.
"I think the Irish started it,"
he said. "Ana you know, they
didn't discover the potato. It
was first found in Peru and
Chile and later some colonists
who got fed up with life in Vir
ginia took them back to Ire
land. So the Irish potato came
from America after all."
As far as Martin is concerned,
Oregon and Idaho can glamor
ize their potatoes the year
around. But when he says
"Pass the potatoes," he doesn't
care whether they're glamorous
or not.
He want his Washington
spuds. -
Cows And Phone
Strike Mixed Up
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.. Jan.
11 (A) rDairy cows and the tele
phone strike got mixed up here
today.
When a dairy official tried to
telephone an ad to the Jackson
ville Journal, he was told that
only emergency calls were being
handled.
'This is an emergency," he
said. 'These cows just have to
be milked. "-
The. call was put through.
Classified Ads Bring Results.
Nimitx Says Navy
Unfit To FigM
MIAMI, Fla.. Jan. U W) .
Admiral Chester W. Nimlta
told Associated Press manag
ing editori last night that de.
molibilation had left the navy
unfit to fight only five months
after Japan's defeat.
"The saving grace ti there
is nobody who threatens to
light us at this time." said the
chief of naval operations.
"You all want your boyt
home as quickly at possible."
said Nimits. AI am wholly
sympathetic with the natural
desire, even If It Is more
emotional than practical. The
fact remains, however, that It
leaves the navy at this mo-
ment unfit to fight."
Firing Squad
Slays Traitor
BUDAPEST, Jan. 10 (Delayed)
OP) Laszlo do Bardossy, former
Hungarian prime minister who
led his country into war beside
Germany, died a traitor's death
today before a four-man firing
squad.
His last fanatical words
"God save Hungary from these
bandits" nearly started a riot
in the jail courtyard where the
watching crowd shouted back:
"T.nnff lli'A -pmninin' "
The silver-haired Bardossy
originally was sentenced to
hang. The supreme national
council denied a firing squad
"more honorable."
He entered the gloomy Mark
street jail courtyard at 8:45 a. m.
Bullets from rifles of four jail
ers thudded through his body
two minutes later.
Provoked by the doomed
man's last words, a crowd of on
lookers stormed against the police-held
barriers but drew back
as Bardossy half turned, sagged
and crumpled after the crack of
execution rifles.
Whiskey Deo
'Good Business'
SALEM. Ore., Jan. It (VP)
A legislative investigating com
mittee upheld the 1943 Oregon
Washington distilleries p'urchase
today as a good business deal
which kept the citizenry from
guzzling bad liquor.
The final report, filed with
Governor Earl Snell, held that
the state liquor control commis
sion acted entirely legally in
buying, jointly with Washing
ton, the Waterfill-Frazier and
Shawhan Distilleries. '
The committee, headed by
State Sen. Paul Patterson, said
Oregon expects an eventual pro-
tit Of $5,500,000 to $6,000,000
from the deal, and has "prevent
ed a great deal of illicit traffic
in inferior' whiskies." .. . .
Chelan Bus
Had Faulty
Drag Link
CHELAN, Wash., Jan. 11 (!)
The 25-Milo Creek grange issued
a report yesterday Miying that n
badly worn and incorrectly as
sembled drag link was recovered
from the steering gcur of the
school bus which plunged into
Lake Chelim last November 26
drowning 15 children and the
bus driver.
The grange, located in the
area where most of the children
resided, said in the report, "the
state patrol presented tho broken
front spring and pnrt of the
steering apparutus. The opinion
of the inspector was that the
spring was broken after the bus
left the road."
The statement said that a state
patrol report on the accident
gave 'a heavy snowfall and
driver failure as cause of the ac
cident, "and no mention was
made in regard to the condition
of the drag link."
"The drag link was found dis
connected when the bus was re
covered from the water. It was
the opinion of those present that
it was impossible to determine
whether tine drag link became
disconnected before or after the
machine left the road."
The statement added that
"present school bus inspections
are not thorough enough to re
veal the presence of worn drag
link."
57 Lumber Firms
Stiil Strikebound
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 11 OP)
The AFL Lumber and Sawmill
Workers reported today that
only 57 plants remain strike
bound in the Pacific northwest.
Some of these, snow-blanketed
logging operations, would not be
operating at this time of year in
any case. No exact count of
still remaining strikers was
available, but a spokesman esti
mated it would not be over 10,
000. The disputed pine operations
include 17 in Montana, 16 In
the Spokane district, three in the
Inland Empire district, 10 in
central Washington, four in cen
tral Oregon, four in the Klam
ath district, and three In the
Blue mountain district, the un
ion said.
Confab Held On
Steel Dispute
NEW YORK, Jan. 11 (iV) Six
men representing the U. S. Steal
corporation and the CIO United
Steolworkers union conferred
for tho second day todoy in nji
effort to avert an Industry-wide
walkout of 700,000 workers.
Philip Murray, president of
the union and the CIO. arrived
25 minutes late for today's ses
sion and said "I'll have some
thing to sny later." He Is tho
leader of the union's throe-man
delegation. Benjamin Falrless,
president of U. S. Steel, li head
of the company's group.
The men were in conference
for three hours yesterday, but
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adjourned without giving any
indication of making progress In
Bottling tho union's riumund for
a 30 pur cent wugo Increase
Child Better Larry Poole,
young son of Mr. and Mrs. Car
roll Poole of Walton drive, Is
Improving gradually at Klamath
Valley hospital where ho has re
ceived treatment for crltivnl In
juries sustained two weeks ago
HERALD AND NEWS TWfj
when he rode his bicycle Into
logging train at the Homedala
ni'mmlliif. '
STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL 7
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Lebanon's strawberry festival
will bo held May 31 and June
1, directors announced today.
Tho show, suspended during
the 1 war, again will feature
giant struwlxirry shortcake,
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