State Auditor Alleges Deputy Clerk
Altered Claims To Obtain Extra Pay;
Restitution Of $185 Follows Report
Klamath county court mem
bers announced today they had
received word that restitution
has been made by C. C. Heidrich.
former deputy county clerk, for
$185 which he had allegedly re
ceived from the county through
alteration of count' claims as re
ported in the 1944-45 slate audit.
According to County Commis
lioner John Reber, Heidrich has
given a certified check to his
bonding company for the amount
involved, and the company will
in turn reimourse xne coumy.
Disclosure of the Heidrich in
cident came today when copies
of the state audit were received.
Cordon Loses
Housing Scrap
WASHINGTON. Jan. 18
A lively scrap between Senator
Cordon (R-Ore.) and the recla
mation bureau over 43 surplus
houses at Richland, Wash., has
ended, at least temporarily, with
the bureau in technical pos
session. Cordon wanted the houses de
clared surplus and assigned to
the University of Oregon at Eu
gene and the State college at
Corvallis, Ore. The colleges al
ready had received 26 such sur
plus houses for use of students.
Everything was going nicely
for the schools when suddenly
Cordon was, notified that the
reclamation bureau with a
higher priority had taken the
houses for veterans who will be
employed on the Columbia basin
irrigation project in Washington.
Straus Summoned .
Cordon summoned Commis
sioner Michael W. Straus of the
reclamation bureau to his office
and asked that the bureau re
linquish claim to the houses.
Straus declined.
Cordon said he planned to
take his demand to Secretary
Ickes of the interior department,
declaring the houses had been
declared surplus at his request
and for use by the Oregon uni
versities. "There is no problem as far
as we are concerned," Straus
said, "for we have the 43 houses.
Grand Coulee is going back in
construction. Every house we
get, and we need 1000 of them,
will be occupied by a war vet
eran working on the project
We need them and we have the
priority to get them."-
The auditor said Heidrich had al
tered the claims in order to ob
tain pay he felt due him for over
time work in 1945.
After the unusual procedure
for collecting overtime pay was
reported to County Clerk Char
lie DeLap by the state auditor,
Heidrich resigned his deputy
clerk position. That was in No
vember. According to the audit, made
by Auditor Bernard C. Davis of
the state, Heidrich drew two
salary advances in June and Au
gust, 1945, the first for 585 and
the latter for $100. The ad
vances were approved by the
county court.
His salary warrants for those
months, as entered in the com
missioner's journal and pub
lished in this newspaper, gave
consideration of those advances,
with the amount of the ad
vances deducted.
Warrants Altered
But after the claims had been
signed by the county court and
entered in the journal by the
county clerk, the warrants were
altered by Heidrich to ignore
the advances and call for .his
regular salary, the auditor states.
His salary for June was $225
and foe August $260. With the
advances he drew warrants in
those months for $310 and $360.
In altering the warrants Heid
rich showed the salary advance
for June as "extra time, elec
tion June, 1945," the auditor re
ported. There was a legislative
measures election in June and
county officials said that he
probably had worked overtime.
Other office workers received
overtime pay for work on the
report says that Heid
rich stated that he felt he had
overtime pay due him and used
this method of obtaining it.
Heidrich was appointed to his
job two years ago by Mae K.
Short, DeLap's predecessor as
county clerk, and retained by
DeLap when he took over the
office a year ago.
With the exception of the
Heidrich incident, the 1944-45
audit contains largely routine
material with respect to the
county's financial affairs. Other-
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Since 1918
wise, Auditor Davis said, "test
checks of disbursements indi
cated that expenditures were
made on proper authorization
and for proper purposes."
Cash Surplus
Davis reported that all coun
ty funds, except the county li
brary fund (deficit of $264.08)
had a cash surplus at June 30,
1945, and were on a cash basis
during the year covered by the
audit. Current surplus of the
several county funds increased
in the year by $8,018.48, and to
taled $342,043.13 at the end of
the period.
The auditor emphasized his
advice that all county funds
should be included in the budget
regardless of the sources from
which their revenues are ob
tained. Davis noted that tax collec
tions have been exceptionally
heavy in this county, thus reduc
ing the taxes receivable by a
substantial amount. He said he
found the work of balancing the
tax rolls had been carefully and
accurately done.
The auditor pointed out that
the law requires that warrants
shall be issued in all cases -where
personal property taxes were de
linquent on June 14, 1941. He
added there are several personal
property tax accounts in Klam
ath county to which this- rule
applies, and action should be
taken.
With references to justices of
the peace, Davis said that Jus
tice Tom Chatburn of the Mer
rill district retains the total fines
in his court and applies the ex
cess against other costs, thus re-
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Portlanders Boo
Butter Shortage
PORTLAND, Jan. 18 (W)
Butter-starved Portlandcrs lined
up for two solid blocks to pur
chase 1000 half-pound packages
of the golden spread in the
Farmers' Murkct building.
At another store, Manager A.
J. Tacchclla numbered cards cor
responding to the packages on
hand. "It's a headache," he
complained. "People boo and
catcall and blame me for the
butter shortage. I'm going to
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duclng his claim to the county.
"This results in the improper
fund distribution of fines and is
contrary to the procedure pro
vided in the statutes," the re
port states.
Copies of tile audit are on file
at the county clerk's office and
are available for examination of
interested citizens.
Huge Boom
Expected In
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More than $1,708,000 Is ex
pected to bo spent during the
next five years by Klamath coun
ty home owners on remodeling
and repair work.
The year 1948 promises to In
augurate one of the greatest eras
in American history for homo re-
fmirs and modernization, accord
ng to estimates released by the
Tile Council of America. ''Few
developments will contribute
more to employment and general
prosperity In any community,"
according to R. E. Jordan, chair
man of the council's residential
construction committee.
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and manpower during the war,
majority of the county's 13,122
dwelling units aro in need of
some kind of repair or remodel
Inn work. Kitchen Improve
ments mid modernization of bath
rooms, installation of tiled show
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of a second bath, top the nation's
list of most wanted major Im
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Outside paint Jobs aro needed
on more than B0 per cent of the
homes, and addition of rooms
and construction of porches also
rank IiIkIi in remodeling plans,
according to the report. New
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required by many dwellings.
Homo owners In Oregon will
spend an estimated $48,290,000
and those of the nation more
than $5,500,000,000 for major re
pairs alone in tho next five
years, according to Jordan.
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