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rRANK JKNKINi MALCOLM EPLEY Editor Managing Editor ft eonioMdatloii of tha Kvnlng Herald and the Klamath ide and Pint atreoU, Klamath Falli, Oregon, by tha Herald 'U DIM IUI1B .. - fty carrier . Vy mail SUOSCKIPTION RATES; .jnonth l!o0 By malt (t)BSCRlBEHS For correction! on delivery aervlce dial 111 ak 'or circulation department. After 7:00 p. m. call ilrctilatlon manager, dial 4255 or 7408. . Entered lecond clasi matter at the noitotf.ee of Klamath Falls. Ore., on August 20, 1000, under act ol congreu. ' March B, 1870 Member, Associated Press Member Audit Bureau Circulation Today's Round -Up By MALCOLM EPLEY REPORTS from competent observers indicate that the state highway department has not done a lood job on snow clearance on the Willamette Highway wis year. ; While it has. been a year of unusually heaw snow, with many attendant problems, it appears that on certain other road sections, notably Sun mountain on highway No. 97, the state has done a much better piece of work than on the Willamette, proving the contention that there is room lor improvement on the latter . . . Opinion of truck men and EPLEY others familiar with the situation up there i that the maintenance crew let the Willamette snow job get ahead of it at the start, with the result that it has been unable to catch up. Snow was permitted to pack on the highway to considerable depth, and the travel section between the high sides of snow has been gradually narrowed. . These men contend that Sun mountain is a more difficult section to handle than the Wil lamette, but they say that Tom Edwards, resi dent maintenance engineer, and his crew have done a bang-up job on the Sun mountain stretch. . The great importance of the cross-mountain route through Pengra pass and by Odell lake, connecting the Willamette valley with south central Oregon and all California points, calls for a competent job of all-year maintenance. Klamath people do well to raise the issue now, in order that the unfortunate early-season situation that occurred this year will not be repeated next winter. Pretty Deep INCIDENTALLY, the state highway depart ment needs also to revise its method of re porting winter road conditions. We noted, particularly, a report appearing in state papers yesterday morning, which included the following notation: "Klamath Falls Total snow 105 inches, with all roads sanded." If that doesn't say there are 105 inches of snow at Klamath Falls, we can't read. Truth of the matter is there was not more than an inch or two of snow at Klamath Falls on the day that report was published. Both Oregon and Washington highway de partments have a custom of indicating the off road depths of snow in mountain passes in their road reports. This can easily lead the casual reader to believe the specified amount of snow lies on the road. It seems to us the important question to be answered is the actual condition of the road; not the depth of snow in road side areas which the cars do not traverse. Temperatures, however, are proper information of interest to the prospective .traveler. . Those Heating Problems FOR the past three years, the problems of the Klamath Heating company and its custom ers have become steadily more acute. The company has run into difficulties in obtaining fuel supply, and in maintaining its plant. Customers have complained of inade quate and interrupted service. The matter has been brought before the state public utilities commissioner, and the relief granted through higher rates has not brought an end to service complaints. Now, customers are complaining about both rates and service. Klamath Heating company operated for many years at inadequate rates, and this is in part responsible for the current problems. While Klamath customers were getting heat for very low cost, a situation with respect to condition of the plant was building up that is now bringing them a headache. The company should have pressed then for a rate schedule that would have made possible plant mainte nance and improvements that would have pre vented many of the problems now harrassing both management and customers. We believe Klamath people who use central heating would be willing to pay whatever rate is reasonably necessary to assure good service, and that is a point of importance in working out the destiny of this local utility. Central heat is most desirable in the down town area from the standpoints of convenience, and fire protection and general public benefits. If the local utility can be worked over to provide good service at a fair rate even though that rate may seem high in comparison with the rates of a few years ago we believe it can be made a success. The recent extreme rates, of course, have resulted from emergency use of oil in a plant not designed for that fuel. They are too high for normal conditions, but even so, we believe they would have been paid without serious complaint if service had been adequate and uninterrupted. News Behind The News By PAUL MALLON WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 The Pearl Harbor investigation has cleared the air over the greatest naval disaster of all history, only by dividing the fog into two parts. If you look carefully through the accumulated mass of testified details, you will find there is not much remaining confusion about the facts. But there is such a divergence of interpretation over what the facts mean that an agreed report is impossible. The democrats will write one version, the republicans another. Any objective historian will have to seek to assign the blame in future calmer, non-political years. But he can start with the following con clusions which represent the studied impression of impartial observers who have heard it all and were canvassed by me for their personal conclusions: Cleared Themselves ADM. KIMMEL and Gen. Short cleared them selves of lone responsibility and required Washington to share the blame. They showed they had not been advised sufficiently of in formation in the possession of Washington of ficials to take the precautions necessary or otherwise prepare themselves for such a dis aster. They did not escape responsibility, but the evidence showed clearly why Washington never dared court-martial them. Everyone here, in the White House, army and navy, failed to escape. Mr. Roosevelt escaped lighter than the others. His name was brought into the inquiry only In connection with his efforts a year or more earlier, to keep the fleet based in Hawaii instead of on the west coast. He was proved responsible for the over-all policy which kept the fleet there. By inference he shares some degree of the responsibility of Gen. Marshall and navy for failing to make their Hawaiian agents aware of an attack they knew was coming some where. Their testified excuse is that they got their information from secret code and did not want to use the normal avenues of communi cation, including the telephone, for fear the Japs would find out their code had been broken by us. Mr. Roosevelt also was shown to have been responsible for moving three battleships, an aircraft carrier and several destroyers into the Atlantic earlier, thereby weakening the fleet, but it was not shown definitely, as sus pected, that he and Churchill had an agree ment for aggressive parallel diplomatic action against Japan (some contended this provoked the Japs to attack). Knew Of 'Wind Code' WASHINGTON did know the Japs had established a "wind code" to notify their outlying forces ("east wind rain" meant a break with the United States). But the com mittee never found that a message executing this code had been received here. The Roberts commission is supposed to have seen one and a naval commander said he saw one, but no one could find it. Many facts of the Roberts investigation were confused when War Secretary Stimson and Naval Secretary For restal both sent investigators out checking, but these confusions do not alter the fact that it is practically impossible to point to one or two men and say he or they were wholly or chiefly to blame. As one democratic committeeman finally put it, everyone from "the highest in Washington to the lieutenant in Hawaii who misinterpreted the radar report muffed the situation." SIDE GLANCES WW fcV corw- nm wr ma mwnrw. mc T. m. wrq u. e. put, orr. 2-1 "You pick up with the strangest people Hint young man is with the CPA. and you know very well yottr fullicr is J a landlord !" The World Today By DeWITT MacKENZIE AP World Traveler HUB ERE IMS La n gel I Valley The Langell Valley Women's club sent a check for $35 to the infantile paralysis fund, the pro ceeds from the dance given Jan uary 26. Mrs. Nettie Davis was the chairman, assisted by Zula ttyier, ana Hood and Cora Leavitt. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. House and David House spent several days i ivieuiuru wiixi mr, ana Mrs. W. I. House. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Brown spent Tuesday evening with Mr. ana ivirs. ai Dearborn and family. Ray Marchant and Les Leavitt made a trip to Sprague River on Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Brown and Martin were Sunday din ner guests oi inr. ana Mrs. Henry Schmor and familv nf Bonanza Mrs. Mary Dearborn of Bo- . nanza entertained with a turkey dinner January 30 in honor of Mrs. Wesley Dearborn on her birthday. Guests were Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Dearborn and fam ily, ivir. ana Mrs. Mike Dearborn and sons, Mrs. Ella Dickenson and Doris Leavitt. ,' Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brown and Martin were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Owen Pepple and family on Friday. Deepest sympathy is extended to the family of J. O. Hamaker, , Bonanza pioneer who passed away in Klamath Falls. He had ; been in poor health for several years. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Turner of Spokane Bridge, Wash., were dinner guests at the home of their nephew Owen Pepple on Wednesday evening. The Turn ers were on their way home Merrill James Merrillees, associated with Robert Walker in the Val ley Service station, returned at Hillside hospital following a major operation two weeKs ago. Mrs. Merrillees, formerly Edna RpnsldV ftff If a mircn fn T"a Frank E. Trotman for the last iwo years, nas resigned her posi- r. nn ,ro win no ci i rranrari ki ... i VIA JsAS0 Angeles who assisted Dr. Trot man for a two-year period some time ago. Mrs. Alhpft Vrnhnn 4Ua tny. mer Vprn McTinnniH ' whn un turned here recently with her nusDana, lormcr Merrill resi- uem, recently aiscnarged from the service is pmnlnvpH in fno Office of Attnrnpv Th Chatburn. She succeeds Mrs. Hoi mer rleaton who with Mr. Hea- ion left recently Inr r'alifnmia to seek a Inratinn ITanhna ...o- an instructor in radar while in uie service and spent three months in the Philippines. He was dischareeri at Vnrt Mn nrnn Va. fmm V.stfintf ml a 41 1 roe frt TJr. field and San Francisco. Mr. ana Mrs. Frank Pepple and Bob Of Klamath Folic nirofrt nl .... - "1-1V. ouu guests at the Pepple home. Fa motif Brandt BOYS' JACKETS Suits, Ensembles, Shirts, Sport Shirts SUGARMAN'S lh and Mala Pioneer Community On Wednesday of last week W. L. Frain took his truck to Jenny creek to bring his brother, Rod M. Frain, from his ranch there to the bedside of his wife. Mollie, who was in Klamath Val ley Hospital. Mrs. Frain was critically injured when struck by an automobile on S. 6th street. This Monday she suc cumbed to injuries received in the accident. She is survived by her husband and one son, Hard man. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Colwell are spending a week's vacation in San Francisco, Calif. Mrs. Jack Biwer of this com munity has returned home from the hospital after having under gone a serious operation. She is reported as doing nicely. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Kerns went to Medford on Wednesday. Fred Herrick returned to his duties with the navy after spend ing his leave here with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Herrick. Mr. and Mrs. Ted Johnson and family of the JF ranch, Dorris, and Harry Hwihut were visitors at the R. E. Hurlbut home on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Everhart left Monday of last week on a motor triD alons the mast, in California points. They have a new trailer house and plan to be away about two months. They were accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Sines of Portland whn were former residents here. I Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Kerns plan to leave on a vacation to Califor nia this week. Sympathy is extended from residents of this community to 9 MacKENZIE MADRID, Feb. 1 One of the most impressive aspects of this changing Europe is the accelera tion in the disappearance of the landed gentry proprietors of vast estates whose hold i n g s have come to them through inher itance, some times through many genera tions. This landed aristocracy i s for one reason ar another be ing compelled to divest it self of its wealth in the soil The causes vary in different countries. High taxation is forcing the change in some; cost of maintenance has wiped out revenues in others; and in some there has been exproprla. tion and redistribution among small farmers by the state, In England high taxation has turned the trick. The position there was well summed up for me recently in London by an economic expert who cracked: "The idea of a duke in a red coat, riding to hounds across his estate with a cry of Tally- ho' is an anachronism, old boy. He just doesn t exist." No Longer "Landed' Well, of course. Britain still has her gentry, but broadly speaking the gentry no longer is landed." And on the conti nent the proprietors of wide acres are going the same way. though perhaps lor .different reasons. Spain, which geographically is rather isolated from the rest of Europe and hasn't felt the full fury of two world wars, still has many great haciendas in the hands of her landed gentry but she, too, is facing the necessity of change. This necessity would seem to be recognized in a government bill now before the cortes, pro viding for the expropriation of rural estates, with due indemni ty, and their redistribution among small farmers where such a step is necessary to meet social needs. This expropriation and re distribution would be carried out by the national colonization institute, which already is in existence and has been pur chasing land for redistribution. For example, a few days ago the institute purchased some 3000 acres from Count Dela Puebla del Maestre in the Bada- joz area for redistribution among his 530 tenants. McNary Portrait To Be Exhibited PORTLAND. Feb. 1 Ml A 10-day exhibit at the Meier and Frank store is scheduled for the life-size portrait of the late Sen. Charles L. McNary which now hangs in Governor Snell's re ception room. The portrait, painted by Henrique Medina in Los Ange les, will be sent to Washington for display in the capitol after it is shown here. One of the greatest siens of better times will take place aboard the U. S. S. Missouri. the Ross Simmers family who are former residents of this community. TOMORROW ALRIGHT Dtptndabti 4-VIGITABLI LAXATIVI IHCflt 6ETA25'B0X Friendly Helpfulness To Every Creed and Purs Ward's Klamath Funeral Home Marguerite M. Ward and Son 25 High Phone 3334 KUIN Manager First Citizen GRANTS PASS. Feb. 1 (IP) Ralph Hanson, manager of radio station KUIN, was mimed Grants Pass' junior first citizen by the Junior cnumoer oi commerce when the group met last night to commemorate the silver anniver sary of the national organization. Hanson came to Grants Pass in November, 1943, as manager of the radio station. He had worked the previous year at the radio station at Eureka, Calif. Hanson is a grnduute of the Uni versity of Washington. USOOffers Arts Classes USO arts and crafts classes are being offered each week night to servicemen and women and hostesses. George Knoll teaches shell craft and spatter painting on Monday, and textile painting on Wednesday at 7 p. m. Percy Evans instructs plastic craft on Tuesday evenings, Joan Thomp son and Doris Arnet teach leatherwork Thursdays, and Vivian Eichendorf teaches shell craft from 2 to 6 p. m. each Friday. Tulelake Approximately $100 was col lected for the March of Dimes by students of the Tulelake grade school, it was announced Thurs day by the principal, Fletcher H. White. High school students made an excellent record also but the total had not been tabu lated at the close of school Thurs day. Gordon Jacobs, Hornbrook, Siskiyou county supervisor, and Mr. Parrott, Siskiyou county en gineer, were here early this week following a conference with coun ty commissioners in Klamath Falls. Report cards were handed out to students in the high school Thursday following the close of the first semester Monday. The present semester will end June 7, baccalaureate services are scheduled for Sunday June 2, and commencement is planned for Wednesday, June 5. Former Newspaper Worker Passes LOS ANGELES, Feb. 1 OF) Beverly B. Marcum, 61, former circulation director for the San Francisco Bulletin,, the El Paso Herald and the Los Angeles Ex aminer, died yesterday. Earlier in his career he worked in Mi ami, Portland, Ore., and Seattle. He retired from newspapering three years ago to enter the real estate field. HOUSING ASSIGNED WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (P) Assignment of 25 housing units to Cottage Grove, Ore , for oc cupancy by veterans and their families has been announced by the federal public housing authority. I EVERY . SATURDAY NIGHT 0 a DANCE I EVERY WED. and SAT. i ntJAnu Annum a m ..... .. . w Wed. 8:45 - 12:13 Q Sot, 9 til 1 ? D-U ' D I uuiuy a 0unu 60C p'.on Including Tax ' COMING 2 3 Thursday, Feb. 7 5 RAY HERBECK 3 SATURDAY NIGHT DANCING Snell Still Undecided In Dennis Case SALEM, Fob. 1 (!') Governor Earl Snell, still undecided, said ho would not have an minonnco ment until late today on whether he would commute tlio death sentenco on Andrew W, Dennis, 45, Portland railroad worker who Is scheduled .to tlio in tho prison gns chamber at 8:30 a. in. tomorrow. Tho governor said ho still Is working on the case, mid that he had to interview some more people this afternoon. Dennis, who was convicted of slaying Mrs. Anna Hullo Me N'lillen, 82, his motlicr-ln-liiw, In her Portland apartment on Jan uary 20, 11)44, is eating and sleeping well, showing no signs of nervousness. Prison Warden George Alexander said today. Unless the governor saves him, Dennis will be taken to the death cell this afternoon. Saved Twlct He already has been saved twice. The state supreme court postponed the original execu tion, which was to have been November 15, by finding that no death warrant existed. The governor, to obtain more time to study the case, granted him a reprieve a week ao. Dennis has steadfaxtly main tained his innocence, contending he was convicted only on cir cumstantial evidence. HLs sup porters in the plen for com mutation of the death sentence include the trial judge and dis trict attorney, who said he did no' have a fair trial. It has been 114 years since a death sentenco has been com muted by an Oregon governor. The last time was on July 3, 1934, when Governor Julius Meier saved Theodore Jordan, Klamath Falls negro, and Harry H. Riley, Burns, both of whom still arc In the prison. Jordan killed a Southern Pacific dining car conductor, and Hlloy killed his wife and father-in-law, and wounded his mother-in-law. Annual C Of C Meet Slated The annual forum meeting for all members of the cham ber of commerce will be held at the Willard hotel Friday, February 8, with dinner at 6:30 p. m. The program will consist of reports from various committee chairmen on chamber affairs. Activities of the committees since the beginning of the fis cal year, May 1, 1045, will be reported on and previews on activities hoped to be complet ed by April 30, will be given. Those planning to attend arc urged to make reservations early, for the dinner meeting, with the chamber of commerce. Friday, Fb. 1. !4A HERALD AND NEWS FOUll Tolling The Editor Ullm wrmut hwt mint not M imrt than Ul word In linmh. mutt Itn hilblf on ONI IIDI of tht MP only, and mual ba liana. Oonlrlliilllani tallowlni Ihaaa rulaa, art warmly mtt In memory of TFC. Carl Cox, 21, of tho U. S. army, who died on Luwiii February 1, 11145, his mother Florence Cox, 3751 Uls bee, has sent In the following poem by Raymond Snulur. A MOTHER TALKS WITH GOD God you must know a mother' heart, for oneo you gave a son To save u savage, sinful word whoso day was almost done. Toduy I'm giving up my boy that all who livo may see Tho altar light of hopu burn bright; that men may still bo free. I do not know If glittering days await to bid lilin hall, Or if Just darkness aits with death on war' long crimson trail. I do not want him spared, dear Lord: 1 lvc my boy to you, But help him to bo strong, O Lord, and keep him, keen him true. If in some garden in tho night alone ho sheds his tears, 0 God, Just let him feel your hand and help to calm his fears. In thoso dark hours ho'll turn to you for 1 have taught him prayer; Just let him know you're keep ing watch, and wait beside him there. If some stem fulo decrees a tryst In wild and distant land Ho will not fall, for there men go, and ho will understand, 1 do not want him spared, dear Lord, my son shall walk with men Who write in deeds and uuldo the hand that holds brave history pen. Colds arc said to cost Great Britain $30,000,000 annually In working lime. SYMPATHETIC BEES When death occurred In th family, it once wu a custom lit Knglaml and America to "toll It to tlio hues," and ovon to hang crcpo on the hives. It wm be lieved tho bees, too, would dl unless notified. Radio Programs If C II Mutual-Don L ftrJI 1240 ko. p. m. lhrll Htlltr, Newt IHitiirr iMinii Friday Ev.( ftbruiry 1 tfttt fliitQ tfpolllihl lUurfl 1i0 Tour l.in n4 Mint 1HA Kliinaih nitllr4f, Vlf tl fti 7i80 Lin lUnfir t oo Krhoti f iKt af Nlntllo I! 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Hhow Alia TraaaMfj HaUt ill I jkfiji'iiiiiiiiiiilw ! !i: i 'Nil! Iff! !!'! il" ' IP I i P ! I Pa W ftfllllliiim!,!!!'!! From th Klamath republican January 28. 1906 Several strangers have been In the city the last week looking for business locations. W. S. Worden reports that work is progressing on the rail road .building toward Klamath Falls from the Mt. Shasta dis trict. ' From The Klamath New February 1. 1836 Klamath county voted strongly against all measures before tho voters in a special state election yesterday. Klamath Pelicans defeated Bend, 28-22, last night. The wooden box camnaien la gaining momentum here. NOTICE! -AEROSOL- For direct application of fint penicillin mist to Infections of nose, throat and lungs. (Asthma, Bronchitis, Colds, Slnusllli, Hoy Fever, Etc.) McATEE CLINIC 122 So. 7th Phone 5939 J. M. Cronin, M. D. announces the opening of offices at 203-207 Odd Fellows Bldg., 432 Main St., for the practice of medicine. Phone 8334 MILLIONS ARE GUIDED ItiMo three ways when thoy buy napirin. (1) Purity (a) Bpocd (3) Economy. Buy Bt. Joaopn Aapirln, world's Unreal seller at 10c. Got 100 tablet sua for only 36o. "CLEANING1 FURNITURE and RUGS Don In Your Horn Or W Pick Up And Deliver DOREMUS Rug and Furniture Cleaners Mgr. We DavlcUon Phon 8175 "LET THERE BE LIGHT" Just received new hlpmnt of Lighting Flxtur. Wa ar building our Lighting Fixture stock a fait possible to meet every type of lighting need. WE FABRICATE FIXTURES TO SPECIAL ORDER 2-Dy Repair Serrlc on Most Small Appliance CASCADE ELECTRIC Lighting Specialists 623 Pin 1 RcwtcUo- ule (Formerly the New Roosevelt Club) K On Highway 39, near Calif.-Or, Stat Lin Bar Open at 10:00 a. m. Dally No Meal Served on Wadnaiday Dining and Dancing Wilbur Stiles at th piano D GUbart, drum Chicken Dinner Steak Dinnr , Clarence Shclato J. H. Brownfl.Id DANCE AND DINE AND HAVE A GOOD TIME!-
