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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 16, 1946)
Stark Voted To Top Post In C Of C Charles R. Stark, manager of Klamath County chamber of commerce, was elected presi dent of Oregon chamber execu tives at the two-day meeting In Portland. He returned Friday morning. Tourist promotion was one of the main subjects discussed, with Harold B. Say of the state highway department in charge. Fred Brenne, manager of Eu gene chamber of commerce, spoke on problems of housing, ' while veterans' problems other than housing weiv discussed by Hugh Rosson, st director of veterans' affairs. Financ. Round table discussions of trifl group covered chamber of ' commerce financing, and cham- v uer office procedure among . v. other topics of general interest. . The meeting was held in the . Portland chamber of commerce building and attending repre sentatives were guests ot the Portland group at the Oregon Ad club Wednesday luncheon. " " Other officers elected were ' first vice president, Orcn G. Allison, manager of Pendleton chamber; second vice president, Chester Moores, president of Portland chamber; Lucile Arch er of Coos Bay, re-elected as secretary-treasurer. Fort Klamath Mr. and' Mrs. Kenneth Bricco spent last weekend in Klamath Falls visiting friends. Weekend house guests at the home of Mrs. Alfred B. Castel Sr., were her bother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Church man of Tionesta, Calif. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Gray en tertained at their home here on Sunday evening with a dinner party honoring his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Gray, on the oc casion of their twenty-eighth wedding anniversary. Featur ing the dinner was a cake, which was cut by the guests of honor. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Bert Gray, Ann and Alice Gray, and the hosts, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Gray. Mr. and Mrs. William Zum brun have returned to their ranch here after spending the winter months in California. Donald Wimer, 16-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wimer, is recovering at the Hillside hos pital in Klamath Falls from an emergency appendectomy which he underwent early last Monday morning. He expects to be re leased from the hospital in a few days. The youth is a junior at Chiloquin high school. Private Clifford. Engle has been transferred to an U. S. air corps replacement " depots at Kearn, Utah, from Gieger field near Spokane, Wash., where" he was previously stationed, ac cording to word received here by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Engle. The youth recent ly enjoyed a furlough here visit ing his parents and brother in Fort Klamath. J. P. McAuliffe visited here this week from his ranch at Cottonwood, Calif., and was ac companied on his return to Cali fornia by Martin Hensen, who will be employed at the Mc Auliffe ranch for the next few weeks. - e Improving Friends of Don aid Plymale, 15-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Plymale of route 3, box 405, will be inter ested to learn he showed a lit tle improvement through the nignt at Klamath Vallev hosoi tal where he is beine treated. Donald suffered serious head injuries two weeks ago when he was kicked in the head by nis norse. He was able to re turn home but complications de veloped ana ne was re-admitted to the hospital. Donald is not to have visitors, authorities said toaay. Knight Named Assistant To University President WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY. Salem, Feb. 16 The board of Liistaat Af WilUrnDtlA imiver. sity,' upon the recommendation of President u. Mcroori omun, voted at their semi-annual meet ing held in Portland Thursday to name Professor John L. Knight assistant to the president, it has been announced. Since coming to Willamette in 1943 as assistant professor of re ligion, Prof. Knight has been as signed increasing administrative responsibilities. He has carried on an extensive schedule of off campus speaking engagements and for the past two years has held the office of counsellor on religious life at the university. In another action taken by the board and revealed by Presi dent Smith upon its adjourn ment, Dr. Lawrence A. Riggs, head of the department of edu cation at Willamette for the past two years, was named director of the Willamette university sum mer session which will open for an eight-week period on July 8. Dr. Riggs, who came to Willa mette In 1944 from the faculty of John Hopkins university, will have the academic responsibility for the summer program in the absence of Dean Chester F. Luther, who will be away from the campus during the summer months on an extended vacation, his first since the intensive V-12 naval training program got underway on the campus in July of 1943. Hager Mr. and Mrs. A. Redinger and son, Laverne, and daughter, Jan ice, arrived last week from Nampa, Ida., for a week's visit with their daughter and hus band, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Coker. They returned to their home Wednesday. - Dale Klein has been quite ill with a severe cold and is con fined to his bed. Bob Coker has been working with the Fleming spud sorting crew but is off for a few days now. Douglas Kohler spent Tuesday night with Martin Snyder. Merrill Classified Ads Bring Results. Talent Scout Mi When Donna Reed, Bataan nurse in "They Were Expenda ble." was a farm girl in Iowa, high school teacher helped : her overcome her self-conscious awkwardness. She went on to become a movie star and, cor , responding with her former teacher, finally learned he was an atomic scientist. She' ar ranged his meeting with M-G-M officials, leading to the forth coming picture, "The Beginning or The End." Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Harris have with them their two sons, Henry T. Cole, 25, and Donald James Harris, 20, both dis charged from the navy after long service. The young men arrived home Wednesday night, accom panied by Mrs. Cole and their young daughter. They were dis charged at San Francisco. Young Cole, warrant officer in the navy, saw eight years service on a submarine, spending most of the time in foreign waters. His wife is the former Maxine Har tlerode. Fireman 1c Harris saw three years service helping move troops to Europe and back. Police Arrive In Nick Of Time PORTLAND, Feb. 16 (VP) Po lice, called by radio, were in the nick of time last night to save Mrs. Doris Fritz' car from being demolished by a train. The auto rolled onto the rail road tracks in a dense fog, with the train due seconds later. Pa trolmen flagged the train down before it reached the spot. Mrs. Fritz and a passenger, Berson Hall, were cut and bruised when the car bumped down the ties. . PLANT PLANNED SALEM, Feb. 16 (P) The Cascade Plywood corporation. Lebanon, announced today it would build a $500,000 battery separator plant in North Salem, employing several hundred men. Leaves Hospital Donald Wesely, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Wesely of 1639 Nimitz, was dismissed Saturday from Klamath Valley hospital where he had surgery recently. BARBARA STANWYCK Named To Post PROF. JOHN L. KNIGHT Mickey Rooney Awarded Medal FRANKFURT, Germany, Feb. 16 iP) T4 Mickey Roohey, former motion picture , actor, has been awarded the Bronze Star medal for "exceptional courage in the performance of his duties as an entertainer," U. S. army headquarters an nounced today. The citation, pointing out that Kooney traveled with small un armed groups through combat territory to take his shows to front line troops, said: "His superb personal contribution to the morale to the armed forces in the European theater of op erations cannot be measured." Rooney now is headed for the United States under the re deployment program. Housing Available For Section Men Living quarters are available for railroad section workers on the Southern Pacific company's Shasta division, officials stated toaay. The division covers Gerher tn Crescent Lake, West Five Line to Ashland, Klamath Falls to Al- turas and up to Lakeview. Quarters, lights and fuel are furnished the men. it was stated. Some live in railroad outfit cars but men may live at home and go out with the crews or drive their own cars. There are still plenty of openings for laborers on railroad track crews and men interested may apply to Otis Metsker, U. S. employment office, Klamath Falls. - Breaks Wrist Jimmy Bat man, 8-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Batman,- route 3, box 278, suffered a fracture of the left wrist Saturday mottl ing Whil nnctintf natf ---e. - tj 1H.B1 ma home. Jimmy struck a fence wnn nis siea, mulcting the in jury. He was treated at Klam ath Vallev hnsnitnl anA mn. mitted to return home. Hans Norland Auto Insur ance.' Phone 6060. Deer Count At 1500 Head Officials of Lava Beds national monument completing a three month deer count, estimated the deer population jn the area now to be in the neighborhood of 1500 head. ' Deer are reported to be in ex cellent condition in spite ot a rather severe winter. The ratio is estimated to be one buck to eight docs to four fawns, making the fawn crop only 50 per cent of what it should be. The report through out California whs about the- snmc, it was stated. About 15,000 acres in the south third of the monument has been set asldo for winter range of mule deer, , Santa Claus Stunt Pulled By Squeaky SPOKANE, Feb. 16 (&) When. Squeaky, a gray cat, wants in out of the cold, he wnnts in but quick. John E. King heard his pet howling at the back door. We went to the door. No cat. Then, the same business at the front door. Next a loud thud. King pulled back the fireplace screen. Squeaky, now a very black cat. was inside via the roof and fireplace chimney. Next Earthquake Might Be Worse PORTLAND, Feb. 16 () The northwest's next earth quake is likely to be worse than Thursday's says Edwin T, Hodge, of the Oregon State col lege department of geology, "Earthquakes In t hi s area have become more frequent in the last few years," Hodge said. ' "and they are becoming more and more intense." He Rdded, however, that noth ing could bo guaranteed on the matter. "Enrthmmkes are not prodlctuble," he said. "It's like a rock atop a steep slope. It's easy to see that the rock will Russia Vetoes U. S. Proposal LONDON, Feb. 16 (') this ila vetoed a United States pro posal tonight for solution of the Levant crisis In the United Nations security council, Tho veto, used for the first time, was Invoked by Soviet Vice Commissar of Foreign Af fairs Andrei Y, Vlshlnsky to overrule an affirmative vutc of seven members of the council on tho United States proposal, fall sooner or later; but who can say when?" Saturday, Feb. 16, 1146 HERALD AND NEWS TWO which would huve permitted direct negotiations botwecn Britain, Franco ami the Lovunt for withdrawal of Anglo-French troops from Syria und Lebanon. $900 Taken From Shoe Store Manager POHTLAND. Feb. 16 (!') Walter W. Anderson, shoe Blore inuniiKcr, today had lost both a uew-l'ound friend and JUO0. He and a stranger struck up a conversation ana went to din ner, Anderson reported. The man tugged hi in into his store whllo ho counted the day's re ceipts, conked him with wood en shoe lust, nnd fled with the money, the manager said. Negro Convicted Of Murdering Jap , YOKOHAMA, Feb. 16 (P) I'FC. Robert L. Dickons, 27, negro, of Memphis, Tenii., was sentenced Thursday by a gen eral court imii'tlul to Ufa Im prisonment and dishonorable discharge aflor being convicted on a charge of murdortng a middle aged Japaneso In Tokyo, the eighth army announced to day. Dickons, member of the 7 1st quartormastor depot unit, was convicted on the testimony of two soldier companions, a Jap anese doctor, the Japanese widow, 3 Tonight! 8:30 P. M. On The Stage The Su-Prize Show! "SHOOT THE WORKS" You May Participate! You May Win! On the Air KFJI Welt Gaait Starts Pmue. sUutUtf! Saturday Midnight! ipapaa" Doors open 11130 P. M. and met as strangers ..i.-V.--.; l.'Wifr. Nover-to -be -forgotten 'Mr. Chips' in new, heart- tabbing romance 1 , lactt,HCav,I tot wAui1 aW ...vt . U .AMI w in :el ffl ? M-G-M presents mm floir vacation Mflfsmaag bp - OOfi... OUf SL FOR INFORMATION DIAL 4572 OR 4567 :mmmmm III 'Jk' I ii '-vva ; Based on Clare Jaynes' pop ular novel of a few seasons back, Warner Bros' newest film drama, "My Reputation," makes its local debut soon in Klamath Falls. Starring Barbara Stan wyck in the highly dramatic role of a widowed young moth er who must choose between happiness and the conventions imposed by a narrow-minded society, the film also presents George Brent, Lucile Watson, Warner Anderson, John Ridgely and Eve Arden in other impor tant roles. Struggles Against Tradition An intelligent and highly dra matic account of one woman's struggle to attain happiness in the face of established tradition which has decreed her ineligible for love again, the film cuts its way boldly Into the life of Jes sica Drummond (Barbara Stan wyck) and paints a vivid dIc- ture of today's times in subur ban communities. hp A Y RED-BLOODED ROMANCE I RUGGED WIID-WEST ADVENTURE. ; A GARLAND OF II HIT SONGSI A BEVY OP BEAUTY 1 GORGEOUS SPECTACLE! WWW & Wf I A BEVY OP BEAUTY! U I 1 i f C I GORGEOUS SPECTACLE! yAjrpCyJ K3J W V xi JOHN RAY ANGELA - (!lfl mWASfa. Ill hu Jft.f 1 fRESTON VIROINIA KINNV - MY W , M JSt J FOSTER 'O'BRIEN BAKER f yjwi I ZJ W if A ,m0Vzj ' i MAiuomi chiu 0t Hear Judy Ting On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" and other top-hit tunes ( The Atchison, Topeka and the ' Santa Fe! 1 4Le XflTTTTfiiTTTTt LAST DAY! "Song of T .ffl IE A T DQ IE 9 ENDS TODAY 1 Screen! Hoy Rogers In "SUNSET IN ELDORADO" And "Ten Cents . a Dance" i ! S i I i i i m ii i i I ' t I II II I, ii i i: i I a i li Y. . ii it ii ii i i ii
