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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 1946)
JTRANX J1ENKINS ICditor MALCOLM EPLKY Mnulnf Editor By cmtIbt - . month up man - SUBSCRIPTION RATES: sl.uu y man .w month fl.00 By malt I monthi 1 Dumber, Member Audit Bureau Circulation Today's Roundup By MALCOLM EPLEY HERB'S a message to Klamath Falls from Agana, Guam, which we think is just about the most pleasing New Year's greeting we have seen: Daar Edlton As I walk thasa jungles I olt.n wond.r about the town of Klamath Fall. I was on of the sailors stationed in that town and I miss it. along with alt th other boys who are doing duty out in th Pacific with ma. Aft.r leaving your "NTr Forgotten Town" w war shipped to Shoemaker, California for a week. During that week th boys pulled a liberty in 'Frisco and Oakland and cam back saying K. Falls was a town of all desires and they would gW anything to be back. As w rod and sailed all the boys wished, spoke of Klamath Falls. To you people of Klamath Falls, I assure everyone enjoyed duty there and the ones who did will never forget it. This universe is hungry for praise, as stated by Long fellow, and I'm going to give all I can to Klamath FaUs. BILL GULICK AEM 1e. On a number of occasions we have printed here statements from commissioned officers voicing their appreciation of the spirit of Klamath Falls after completing their duty here. But this is a statement from an enlisted man who did duty at the naval air station; it was unsolicited, and the original copy, which we have before us, conveys an impression of sin cerity even exceeding that of the printed version presented herewith. Above Average WE know, of course, that not all men who were stationed here felt that way. Any number of personal factors can enter into an individual attitude toward a post and a town; not everyone can have just the right exper ience, meet the most congenial people, find the most pleasant associations and entertainment. Being the home town of a military installa tion, and doing the proper job at it, is no cinch for any community. But the records indicate that Klamath fared above average in this difficult role. Thos who contributed, through organized and in dividual effort, to the success of the com munity's hospitality program, can take real satisfaction from expressions such as that of Mr. Gulick. Tulelake Camp Folding THE evacuee population of the Tulelake WRA center is 6217 now. At one time, it was Just under 20,000. The figures are mentioned to Indicate progress toward folding up th huge nearby installation as a WRA project, with February 1 still the goal as a closing date. Those evacuees among the 6217 who are definitely cleared to leave and have no family connections or other technicalities to hold them back, hav already obtained their train schedules. . i However,"" the rate'7 'of movement from- the camp depends to a considerable extent on wftat comes out of current hearings for some 3100 evacuees who have renounced U. S. citizen ship but want to stay in the country. The department of justice is now conducting those hearings. If it permits some renunciants to remain in the U. S., their departure from the camp will add to the problem of closing up the center. Those refused such permission pre sumably will be removed to Japan. It will take WRA some time to close out its business, even after the evacuees are all gone. Tulelake WRA damp is on its way out, but it won't be completely out for several months. News Behind The News By PAUL MALLON WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 The 17.5 per cent pay rise figure for General Motors was worked out arithmetically by the Truman fact finding board. It calculated what production would be this year on a 40-hour week basis, and then figured how much less pay the work ers would get from this production without a wage increase. The standard it fixed for wage Increases then was simply the original Truman proposi tion of maintaining war time earnings not fully making up for the heavy overtime pay which would b lost in peacetime production, but establishing a reasonable approximation of those wage-returns for the 40-hour week. In doing this it discarded the union proposi tion for establishing wage rates by calculating profits. It pointed out that wages in each auto mobile manufacturing plant would vary under such standard, because the profits of each were different, and General Motors profits were the highest. The report also seemed to discard tha cost-of-living theory for fixing wage rates, saying war earnings went up higher than war costs of living. This had been the basis of fixing wage rates through government policy during the war. It was the standard furnished by the little steel formula. General Motors had of fered in this case a 12 cents an hour increase based on the cost of living. This theory of government' policy is thus now definitely abandoned. Policy Makers THE fact finders, who really proved to b policy makers, concerned themselves with profits of the company only to the extent of establishing that the company could pay this higher wage without an increase in price although it was not very definite about this and said the company might seek OPA ap proval for a price increase, or at least was not precluded by this report from doing so. The report thought the company could pay be cause it had increased the price of 1942 models 12 per cent over 1941, and had the largest earnings in its history that last peacetime year, but the report admitted materials costs had increased 15 per cent and might increase more, along with other costs of operation. Thus the General Motors standard fixed by the fact finders does not seem to have the gen eral application of establishing a national policy at least its 17.5 per cent figure could not logically be applied to industry in general. What it did lay down for general application is the theory that wages should be adjusted upward by a yardstick of reasonable approxi mation of what the workers would lose from war pay by going back to the 40-hour week, j with less overtime pay. So the new administration policy is anything but simple, and will require many fact finding boards and many months of detailed work in order to apply its loose standard in each vary ing case. Simultaneously, in steel, the second Truman fact finding commission was working out a price increase in order to justify a wage increase for that industry on a different basis. Other Increases increases for bus operators were VJ being worked out hy other fact finding commissions, creating other justifications for increases (the cross country bus drivers oper ating at slower speeds worked longer hours and got an increase for it during the war, but are now to get an increase pay to make up for what they would lose by doing their runs at higher speeds in fewer hours of work; and the maritime workers who got big bonuses for facing submarine dangers in the war, are get ting increases to make up for much of this loss.) By applying different reasons in each case, the only thing standardized by government policy is its desire to grant increases for loss of high war pay for whatever reasons can be found. Indeed, the economic complexities these tac tics require have gotten the government into apparent contradictions all along while it op poses price increases for fear of further infla tion for General Motors, it authorizes one for steel. Apparently Mr. Truman is hopeful only of staving off general increase of prices, but is not adverse to allowing increases specifically. 30-Day Cooling Period NOW if this policy was backed by a 30-day cooling period for major strikes (as Mr. Truman wants in his legislation) it might lead to stabilization of the labor situation in a few months time, depending upon whether labor and management accept the conclusions. It is true strikes are being called for a great variety of reasons, having nothing to do with wage increases. But on the other hand, the cooling bill, which will b enacted shortly, is likely to go much further than Mr. Truman would go, and greatly strengthen his hand for dealing with the unions and management. But the unions clearly are not getting much out of their strike policy. Experts tell me the unions could have gotten 17.5 per cent out of General Motors without a strike. The bus drivers went out on strike for many weeks only to accept a fact finding commission, in the end, and they could have gotten one anytime. The steel workers cooled themselves and tried ne gotiations, even after the strike call was voted. The possibilities for an end of this postwar strike campaign have thus become visible be hind all these confusing events if the people involved will accept them. SIDE GLANCES . Oom. wa rr hm atovw.. watm acq u. . fat, err: "By the way, I haven't heart! much about that big raise lately you said you were going lo tell the boss off just as soon as salaries were unfrozen I" Chief Signalman Will Be Recruiter For USCG Here Roger Herendeen, chief signal man for the United States coast guard, arrived in Klamath Falls Monday to establish a temporary recruiting office for the coast guard at Klaamth County cham- oer or commerce. Herendeen plans to be in Klamath Falls each Friday and Saturday during the remainder of January and the month of February, and all persons in terested in ODtalning informa tion concerning the coast guard piusi-am are urged to visit the new recruiting office. During the rest of each week, Herendeen will make regular visits to coast guara omces in Medford and iviarsntieia. j Mrs. Herendeen, the former Lela Marie Shelley, daughter of ,ana lvlrs- Everett Shelley, 1869 Manzanita, is visiting her parents while her husband is stationed here. They have a young son, David, whom the chief has' just met since his re turn irom tne soutn Pacific. During his four and one-half years in the coast guard, Her endeen has served on port se- vumy, mine sweeping, trans port, and recruiting duty, aboard the coast guard cutter Ariadne, the Arthur Middleton (APA 25), the Admiral E. W. Eberle (AP 123), and a navy mine sweeper. He participated in the Battle of Midway and in the Battle for Manila. He has served 13 months in the Aleu tians. Throughout the war the only recruiting office for Oregon has been in Portland, and the Klam ath Falls unit is being estab lished to give all interested ter- sons the opportunity to have a personal interview with a coast guard recruiter. All persons whose applications are accepted will be sent to Port land for the physical examina tion and the complete processing u uieir enlistment papers. Recruiter From the Klamath News January 19, 1936 A snow-laden cedar crashed and killed Harvey Kinnan, a log ger, on Hayden mountain today. An extensive promotion pro gram for wooden boxes will be launched immediately by the lumber industry of the Klamath basin. The World Today By DeWITT MacKENZIE AP World Traveler MacKENZIE MADRID, Jan. 15 This is a crucial moment in the frequent ly turbulent history of Spain, for the signs are that the ques tion of restoration of the mon archy is coming to a head. Now, that's no light matter, since the coun try is sharply divided politi cally, as the world learned from the bloody Civil war of 1936 39. Things are quiet now, and have been for a considerable time, but - so has Vesuvius. This offers an ample explanation for the mystery which surrounds the re ported negotiations between Don Juan, pretender to the throne, and Generalissimo Franco. Ex treme caution is necessary. As I pointed out yesterday, a fresh indication that the mon archists and Franco are maneu vering into position for a deci sion lies in the official admission that Don Juan and his wife are to meet her parents for a visit to neutral Portuguese soil. This could be just a family affair, but the consensus here is that Don Juan's father-in-law, Don Carlos, is 10 act as an intermediary be tween the pretender and the gen eralissimo. Idea Strengthened It stands out like a sore fhumh that the Spanish Kovernment should confirm this to the for eign press representatives in Madrid. This idea is strength ened by the fact that the Span ish ambassador to Lisbon. Nicho las Franco, the generalissimo's brother, also confirmed Don Juan's visit at a press confer ence in the Portuguese capital last Saturday, as became known today in Spain when newspapers reported the statement. This is the first time the subject has been mentioned in the Spanish press. For my part and I have no authoritative inspiration for the observation it struck me as being highly significant that the question of this visit should be dealt with officially at the mo ment when America, Britain and France are to meet at the request of France to discuss allied rela tions with SDain. Talk of Don Juan's return to the throne might ease the position of the Spanish government, which hasn t been happy in its associa tions with Washfneton. London and Paris for a long time. raonarcny urged . The 33-vear-olri Dretender sev. eral times during World War II Roger Herendeen, CS, V. S. coast guard, will answer ques tions regarding this branch of th service every Friday and Saturday at the Klamath Coun ty chamber of commerce. From the Klamath Republican January 11, 1906 Formal dedication of the Klamath county high school will occur on January 20. President P. L. Campbell of the University of Oregon will be here for the event. H. F. Schallock will remodel his business buiding at Bonanza as soon as weather permits. Slromberg-C a r 1 s o n Radios. Derby's Music Co. Stromberg-C a r 1 s o n Radios. Derby's Music Co. PILES, SUCCESSFULLY TREATED NO PAIN NO HOSPITALIZATION No Loaa of Time Permaneot Remillal DR. E. M. MARSHA Chlropractlo Phyalclan tt No. Hk Enquire Thaalr. BIS(. Phono 70SS YOU KNOW You Own it! real property Is some thing you can't keep in a safe, but you can keep a Commonwealth Insured Title in your safe then you know you own your real property. Wilton Tlllo and Abilracl Co. Klonmh Folia urged the restoration of the mon archy and the joining of Spain with the allies. Foreign Minis ter Alberto Martin A'rtujo is re ported unofficially to have been negotiating between Don Juan and Franco. Well-lntormed quarters In Ma drid believe Don Juan takes the position that he already is king by right of succession. However, he snid he would not return with out a call. He advocates a con stitutional monarchy with a free press. Sgt. McNee Arrives Home SSgt. Wesley McNee, who served with military intelligence in Japan with the occupation of that country by United States forces, returned to Klamnth Falls Tuesday and is now at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wesley McNee, 1923 Au burn. Young McNee was in on the arrest of Tojo, took an active part in other history making ac tivities of the military and was able to return to the States, ar riving in Los Angeles January 5. McNee was given his honorable discharge from the army at Fort Lewis, Wash. His last post in Japan was at Iblraji, 100 miles north of Tokyo. Slromberg-C a r 1 1 o n Radios. Darby's Music Co. Classified Ads Bring Results. Attention!! SKIERS W ar prepared to outfit tha sportsman with hit tki needs. St that quality ac cessoriM. SKI BOOTS 17.50 SKI PARKAS 10.85 up SKI MITTS 2.50 -Uut llll DREWS MJUfSTORE 73S Main St J Court Upholds ICC Demurrage Rate Increase A breath of hope cnnie to Klumath potato shippers Into yesterdny when the Klamath basin rates burcuu received a wire from Washington Inform ing shippers that the interstate commerce commission order in croasinu deiuurrnuo rntea on loaded refrigerator cars was upheld by u federal district court, Th order was suspended re cently when n question of the legality of the lCC's action arose. It whs tho court's deci sion that tho ICC was not over stepping Its authority. The purpose of the penalty demurrago rate was to put re frigerator cars Into circulation moro quickly because if ship pers were forced to pay a high er demurrage rule on reefer cars while they were waiting to ba unloaded the unloading process would be done more quickly and the ears put into use by other shippers. The court's only modification on the ICC order was that De cember 23, 24, 25, 21), and Janu ary 1 and 6 be considered free days. Rata Stt ' The demurrage rule stands at $11 for the first uuy. $22 for the second, and $44 for each succeeding day. Contacting the ICC on Janu ary 10 the Klamath Potato Growers association Inquired about the fact that Idaho po tato snippers are being sup plied with 275 cars dally. The association estimates that ap proximately 1100 cars of De cember crops cannot be moved and stated In Its wire to the ICC that there is serious need for 50 additional cars dally In January, February and March. The reply from the ICC stat ed that as conditions improve the supply of reefers will be increased. Erlyn Wallace Reported Alive Erlyn Eugene Wallace Is not dead. He is seriously in lured but has a chance to recover. That is the latest word con cerning the fate of tho Surprise Valley, Calif., youth who was reported last week as killed when an explosion occurred aboard an LST boat off Okin awa January 2. His sister. Mrs. William Cog burn of Lakcvlcw, received three messages. Tho first said Erlyn had been In lured, the second reported him dead and tne third corrected the death report to stato ho was inlured and might recover. Young Wallace Is a graduate of Surprise Valley high school and is well known In Goose lake and Surpriso valleys. TuMdty, Jan. 18, 1MB HERALD AND NEW TOTTH BEEKS NOMINATION PORTLAND, Or., Jan. 15 (IP) Charles T. McPhorson, 75, a re tired Methodist minister, has an nounced he will seek the demo cratic party nomination for con gress from the third (Multnomah county) Oregon congressional district In the May primary. Classified Ads Bring Results. Radio Programs KFJI Mutual-Don La 1240 ko. Tuesday Eva., January 15 :0o f. m. (labrlal llaallar, Nawa Ailll lllnnar Dane ttSO Amarlcaa Parana of It. Air TilS Ivanlnf Oonaart 7M Mad Bydar :00 Muiln Thai toarklia Ritn Calrudar of Mutlo HO World Llihl Optra (la. : Charlla Splv.k taranadaa ttl alarm Itardr, Nawa aim Jamaa Orawlar MO la canal, Wraatll. Maloaaa II. Mualo Aa Taa Llka n HiOO I.ala Danaa lliao Orian Itavarlaa and Nawa Ka.nd.a lliUO nlalodloua Malodlal Mill) rann front I ion . i I J I A J nhliaiMi Famllr Clark rtanult, la.t. mi Famllf ilSO Mallitaa Aluilual. tioo llama Ilamanalrall.a lilt Ton rink 'Ira ll0 Looal Nawa ..i T.wa f .ttaa aioo nr. I.onla T. 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They say that it never stops for gas." Dance Sat. Jan. 19 Malm Dancing 9 till 2 Music by THE Chicagoans Surplus Materials, Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Plant Facilities of Calship's Great Shipyard hots mrs to CArimy crakes In order to release items essential to the speedy reconversion of all lines of industry and business, Calship is immediately placing on sale all surplus ma terials, equipment, tools and facilities used in its wartime construction of ships. Everything in this huge, 14-way ship- yard at Terminal Island is to be sold. There are a total of nearly one half million individual items, covering 18,000 classifications. Many of them are difficult or impossible to buy. WIDE CHOICE OP MATERIAL In addition to metal working tools and equipment of every category, there are surplus materials consisting of all types of shipbuilding items such as turbines, gears, generators,' etc.; steel plates and shapes, pipe, pipe fittings, valves, and all other types of ship materials in large quan tities and all sizes. , QUANTITY BUYERS PREFERRED To facilitate the handling of this tre mendous stock of materials, sales will be limited to those prepared to make quantity purchases. There will be no bidding. All prices are fixed and f.o.b. Terminal Island. No red tape stands between purchasa and delivery. Material and equip ment is being sold as is. FOR DETAILS WRITE OR WIREt mtcAL nmss SURPLUS MATERIALS Steel Plttes and Shapes Pipa Pipe Fittings Valves and Flanges Plumbing Fixtures Heavy and Light Hardware General Stores All typei of Shipbuilding Materials' . 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