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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 28, 1946)
' FRANK JENKINS MALCOLM EPLEV Editor ManaEinl Editor A consolidation of the Evenlnl Rerala and the Klamatn Newa. Published every afternoon except Sunday at Espla nade and Pine etreeta. Klamath Falli. Oregon, by the Herald PublUhlnf Co. and the Newa PublUhliu Company. Member, Asioclated Preas Member Audit Bureau Circulation of this community, are already receiving Infor mation from state institutions that they cannot be assured of educational opportunities there next year. The Barracks plan has been proposed as one means of meeting this critical problem facing the state.' Those who are trying to do some thing about it deserve public appreciation in stead of sly innuendoes about "political lmpli-' cations" that do not exist. Today's Roundup News Behind The News lsl EPLEY By MALCOLM EPLEY THE Eugene Register-Guard, opposing with mounting bitterness the plan for an emer gency educational center at the Klamath Marine Barracks, says editorially mat pwegaj the "political implications of ijr'J XS! the Klamatn project are oniy thinly concealed under the fine talk of 'doing something for the veterans'." That statement does no credit to the Eugene paper. Wholly without basis in fact, it is designed to throw unjust suspicion on the motives behind the Barracks plan, which has been remarkably free from community pressure or cheap politics. The Register-Guard does not attempt, in ita editorial, to tell what those "political implica tions" are; perhaps, having been active for many years in matters pertaining to higher education projects, its thinking on this question is influenced by methods with which it is familiar. To throw that nasty crack, unsupported, into this situation, is misleading, unworthy and unjust. One Purpose LET'S look for a moment into the background of this proposal for a state veterans' edu cational center at the Marine Barracks. The idea was first advanced in Washington by Dr. Lowell T. Coggeshall, who, we are sure, not even the Register-Guard would call a politician. Dr. Coggeshall discussed it with the federal agencies which would have to turn the Barracks over to the state if the plan were to be adopted. These were military people, not politicians. - Having reasonable assurance that it might be possible to obtain the plant for this purpose, Dr. Coggeshall informed Senator Guy Cordon about it. The senator, in turn, informed the governor of the possibilities that existed, and the governor proceeded to take it up with the proper authorities of the state of Oregon. Where, in this situation, are the political implications that are concealed by fine talk about "doing something for veterans?"' Doing something for the veterans of Oregon who need education and can't get it under the present facilities may possibly be interpreted as a "political motive" on the part of Governor Snell and Senator Cordon, but we do not think even the Register-Guard will question the worthiness of that political , motive. If there is anything else, why doesn't the Register-Guard tell what it is? It doesn't. There Isn't anything else. Independent Effort INCIDENTALLY, what Dr. Coggeshall did in Washington with respect to obtaining this opportunity for Oregon was not known, locally, until he returned. He did it independently, and with a worthiness of motive that deserves only gratitude from Oregon people. It is true that the Lions club of this city had suggested the possibility the Barracks might be constructively used for training of veterans, but this had nothing to do with Dr. Cogge shall's effort in Washington. The Lion idea had been advanced along the line of a voca tional training school, and there was some talk of the Klamath Union high school district spon soring the project. Dr. Coggeshall knew noth ing of this when he was in Washington. Thus, the plan did not come about as a community enterprise' of Klamath Falls, and what has been done to investigate it has not been in any way an attempt to please this section politically. Klamath Falls, may we add, does not need to lean upon tax-supported institutions for its economic livelihood. Klamath's fundamental economic interests lie in its industry and agri culture. Klamath people, naturally enough, would be pleased to have the Barracks used for this or some other worthy purpose, and any sensible taxpayer would feel the same way about this grand plant that would otherwise be disposed of at much less than its value. Klamath people, naturally enough, are In terested in educational prospects for Oregon' veterans and other Oregon young people. Klam ath war veterans, and non-service young people By PAUL MALLON WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 The announce ments said it was a "bold" program which Mr. Truman proposed for the building of 2,700,000 new houses this year and next. It was bold enough in a way, but those who know the inner workings or non-workings, at present of the building trades, recognized it, with their more practised eye, as a familiar, typical program of the Roosevelt type. It is sure-fire politically; otherwise a blunder buss (note: a blunderbuss is a noisy gun which does not shoot straight.) The troubles of the great lagging construction industry are twofold: (A) Prices, and (B) Labor. The report of Mr. Truman's housing adminis trator Wilson Wyatt considered the trouble as onefold: A shortage of materials. But material scarcity is the visible reaction from the two greater, deeper causes. Prices of materials, in general, have been held at 1941-42 levels. But building labor, in general, has had two or three raises in the war years. Producers of building materials simply could not make money, and were crushed by the pressure of increasing labor costs against a frozen price ceiling, as many another industry in this period. Not being able to make any money, these producers went out of business, curtailed unprofitable production, entered other lines, or retired to the sidelines. e e e Contracts Go Begging I HAVE heard of contracts for the building of roads going begging today, not because of the shortage of materials, but because no con tractor can make any money from them. In cidents of this revealing nature have occurred in New York, Minnesota and other states. The contracts offered by the states, municipalities or others are founded on the 1941-42 price level, and it is impossible for any contractor to get materials or labor at those levels. . In one. locality I checked, the common day labor wage, for example, is fixed at 65 cents an hour, but ..no builder can get common labor short of $1 an hour approximately one third more than the theoretical wage scale yet the actual wage-cost is much higher because labor has slowed down on work in the war years, and productivity per man is incalculably less. To meet this trouble, the Truman-Wyatt plan, in basic essence, proposed to pay a "premium" (cash bounty) to producers of building mater ials out of the federal treasury, in order to induce them to go back to production. No set scheme of payment was offered. The oppor tunities for favoritism and politics are left open by the wide federal power ' to pay one producer one amount, others another. Indeed, three different brickyards in the very same city could be handled differently. A high cost producer could get a government subsidy, a medium cost producer could make an average profit, and a low-cost producer could make a high profit without subsidies. The theory, thus, is to transfer the farm subsidy .plan to the building industry; and take the money of all the people from the federal treasury to pay to unprofiting opera tors in order to avoid a price increase which is justified by all the facts. e e Laughs Up Its Sleeve CONSEQUENTLY, the building industry Is largely laughing within its sleeve at the program, inwardly calling it "just another Washington proposition," while willing to take any money Washington wants to throw around. The politicians in congress, on the other hand, are taking it up eagerly, as they do all this type of spending, and no doubt legislation' set ting the program in motion will be enacted without much opposition. After all the defects, then, the only live, re maining question is whether the program will build the 2,700,000 houses which are needed. Will it do the job? It may. Mr. Wyatt, who will be in charge, is a pro moter rather than a builder. As a former Louisville mayor and new dealer, he is what the administration boys call "a live wire." He may build that many houses, as Greenbelt, Arthurdale and other places were built, but at an uneconomic cost. What the industry would prefer is a continu ance and expansion of the federal housing ad ministration, which has worked out well by making loans to encourage homebullding, and a realistic upward revision of the price ceilings to make the construction of building materials profitable. Morals Case Considered After a preliminary hearing in justice court yesterdav after noon, Justice J. A. Mahoney took the contributing to the delin- iiueuuy ol a minor case against James Quentin Anderson under advisement and will make a de cision later whether the youth is to be bound over to the grand jury. Anderson at present is free on $5000 bond. He was paroled irom me state penitentiary in December and arrested in Janu ary on this charge involving a 1 fi.vpnr.nlH crii-l A. C. Yaden' is representing Aiiueiouil, Training Course The train ing course for Boy Scout lead ers will begin March 18, it was announced Dy Merlin Bleak, training committee chairman, today. The classes will be held at Klamath Union high school for six nights, three hours inBuiiy. xney win be on Mon days and Wednesdays until the muise is compietea. Camp Fire Girls The com mittee of awards will meet Sat urday, March 2, between 2 and 4 p. m. in the American Legion hall. All girls expecting to take rank or receive birthday hon ors at the grand council fire, March 22, must pass require ment at the committee meeting. Stromberg-C a r I s o n Radios. Derby's Music Co. Lake view Lions Lead Membership Contest LAKE VIEW, Feb. 28 The Lakeview Lions club, with 14 new members and three rein statements, led all Lions groups in southern and eastern Oregon in members secured in a contest held internationally during Jan uary. This announcement came lo- 9v fmm TJroeirlant 1A7.14ai IT Sandquist, following receipt of word to such effect from. Dis trict Governor Glenn H. Gregg of Bend. Sandquist said the contest was based on actual membership ob tained, not on a per capita popu lation basis. Lakeview, he pointed out; secured more new members than did clubs in far larger communities. Confers J. M. Clifford, ex ecutive secretary for extension service, OSC, was in Klamath Falls Monday and Tuesday con ferring with C. A. Henderson, Klamath county agent, Mrs. Winnifred K. Gillen, home dem onstration agent, and Francis Skinner, 4-H club agent. Stromberg-C a r 1 s o n Radios, Derby's Music Co. om where I sit Joe Marsfi OHie Mapes arid The Streamlined House SIDE GLANCES J "X. ( ""-T.I. v. A com, iwe bt wen stevicf. wc. T. m. ata u. a. r at. off. Z - 2 B "Oe. I'm sorry, Pop! For a inimile I lliouhl I was still driving u tnnkl" The World Today By DeWITT MacKENZIE AP World Traveler MacKENZIE FRANKFURT, Germany, Feb. 28 It would be easv for the traveler in Germany, to lose his perspective of the reich's truo position, because the terrific dev astation wrought in cities across the whole face of the land by allied bombing tends to ob scure every thing else. Berlin, Es sen, Cologne, Nuernberg, Munich and Frankfurt and scores of oth ers they're all the same J u s t ghastly. empty shells which once housed millions ghosts of places which not long ago were among the world's great centers. It's hard to believe that this unprecedented devastation isn't a mortal blow. You almost dis trust your eyes when they tell you that thousands of people are scurrying about and making their homes among the ruins. Not Mortal Blow But this destruction isn't a mortal blow, although it may be called the knockout blow. It isn't even the paramount prob lem of rehabilitation, as I see the picture. Didn't you ever get back into the wilds with a gun or fishing rod and sleep in your blanket on a pile of fir twigs beside the campfire? No? Well, you've missed sometmnR worthwhile, Houses aren't everything. In the last war, when there were long periods of trench duty, millions ot men uvea In dugouts and diet all right. More important than plush chairs and bay windows is food. And that Is the number one problem m uernumy at the moment. .- Interlocked with the food, of course, nre transport and fuel. It takes transport to distribute the lood, and coal to run the trans port, as well as to provide fuel for the use of the enmpers-out. Reconstruction Mutt Wait The American military govern ment in this zone, and ilio other three allied occupation author! tics, are having to proceed with rehabilitation on the basis of top priorities. These things which arc of the greatest importance must come first, and the others have to wait. Reconstruction of Germany s ruined cities Is not the top priority. And it must wait. Even when reconstruction be comes possible, it will take many years to rebuild any of the de stroyed clues, mis column in ready has reported that experts estimate it win require as long as 30 years even to clear out the rubble in places like Berlin and Essen, to say nothing of rebuild ing. Thus for a long time to come thousands upon thousands or city loin will be cave dwellers. (Jan the uermnns take It? WEATHER Max. ...... M 4H Eujrene Klamath Palli Sacramento 60 Portland 54 Reno 61 San Franclaco no Seattle ; -53 Med ford 62 Mln. Precln. to .2.'! 31 .11 Trace 40 .17 . . Trace .on Red Bluff ,.56 37 400 .3.1 Trace OREGON AND WASHINGTON Part It cloudy today, tonlfht and Friday with light rain In west portion Friday. Cooler todav cooler in eaat oortlon tonltfht. Moderate aouthweet to west wlnda of( 5 At .MIGHT "The King of the Saxophone" The other day a construction firm ! set up an exhibit in the courthouse square. They built a new "house of , the future" and invited folks to see it. . Drew quite a crowd with the women sighing over the shiny , kitchen, and the men admiring the heating units and insulation. All except OHie Mapes. He looks i around a spell and- goes home. ; When I get there, he's sitting be fore his old dutch fireplace, with his feet on the screen, and a mel low glass of beer in hand, n AND HIS "Yon know," quotes Ollle, "H takes a heap ef living to make a home." - Looking around, I see what Ollie means. A room crowded with mem ories of a life well spent and the friendly habits of a happy home, from a blazing old-fashioned fire, to a mellow glass of beer with friends. From where I sit, thoso things do more to make a homo than modern streamlined gadgets. Copyright, 1946, Umltd Stout Bmtmt Famdatum ORCHESTRA g Musicians Entertainers " Q Featuring Vocalists Phil Barton Fran Warren ' ' Dancing 9 'Til 1 - Doors Open 8:30 $1.50 Per Person, Inct. Tax Jury Favors Road Probe Tho Jackson county grand jury, in session llils week in Mod ford, recommended In part that an investigation bo made mi to conditions on tho Ornen.sprlngs highway between Ashlimd and Kliunuth Fulls, scene of numer ous winter accidents. The grand Jury recommended that when these roads tiro u men ace to motorists by reason of Ice and snow, that autolstn be stopped or provldod with an es cort patrol. Tho sumo recom mendation upplled to tho Pacific highway In tho Siskiyou mountains.- Tho Jackson county grand jury Inspected their Jail and re turned a favorable report on the Institution. Thursday, Feb, 28, 1S48 Radio Programs ISC II Mutual-Don Let ivrui kc. Thursday Evt February 28 t:ee m. Oearltl llaaller, Newi oila Areuni Tien Hit Trtaiute Hear el Sam lieu Sunny lleye lita Cl.tia.r al Muile lile K.4 Hr'tr RiOO Klamata County Mantra e90 Huiufl'a Oall.ry Bioo (Mann llaritr, Newa Wil.1 Jama OewUr, New line la eencl. WteMllllf Malrhea lemt Nmle Ai Teu Like II Friday, March 1 Stolen Auto Found Here No truce of two men who forced William Youna of tho Keno highway from his car and mndc off with his Dulck Tues day nlfiht, hud been reported by state police but YouiiR found tho i machine yesterday parked near ! the post office, lio advised off ! j cers, I AlthouRh police throughout j southern Oregon were asked to I bo on tho lookout for the pair, It I is thought that they might have turned around nnd driven bnck to Klamath Fulls where they ' abandoned the car which they realized would ho "hot." ID a. iii. Vk l o Tun., anil Vlilorl eua Living liae rrann tUmlnawer, Newt l it an afelne 110 ae'llae KtDl lilt ! Hare 1:06 Mane: MtlaOln aila riiklm riukn 1 11 Tae II Heir Time i on ni.... .. 111 ' ll Aln.'V' N'l 10 M'il..u I'l'Vl.n, " J,,' AII,.T.",I'U !'AV;'sv''.i. " N'loill.U! M.I.., 3 " if.vr" '- J '" Hi i..,.i. ... "H V,0,1'" i.i. m,ii "1'I.I.IN T,,,"( oe b., ,.. 1.1 (tup. ,,,,, 0 JO (-.,. Ml..lW ! Turn Mu LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE OF IMU)lOSKI VACATION OT i roimoN or Ai.i.r.Y in mlock . 1 MECO.SU HOT SI'HINCiS ADDITION I TO KLAMATH rAU-M. OHKtiflN. 1 NOTICE IS IIKItKliY GIVEN that on 1 Monday, the lit day of April, HHd. In Hie Council ChftmlMr ot tho City of , Klamath TaWt. Orron, at tho hour of 8 o'clock p. m., at m rvifuUr ttteeilnv of thp cmincll of ulil rity thorv wilt i be presented tn the Hon or attic Mayor and Common Council of Klamath IU. On-iron, a petition praylnjf for the va -cation of m portion of the allay In tlloch j 9. Hecuntt Hoi Spring Addition to the City of Klamath K - lie. Oron. the boundaries nf Mid proied vacated area being described a follow: Urehtnintt at lh Interaction nf the 1 Smitncfantrrly lino of the Alley In Uloc-k 9. Second Hut Hurlntfa Addition , to Klamath Kail. Orrimi. with the SouthwrtrrIy line nf Sprliif fflrvet in ( aald Addition; thence 8 30 dr greet M minute W . a Ion the Snuthweetar ly line of aald alley, a d I Ha nre nf I 83 7ft feet: thonce 8, M dree 54 I minute W., 43.31 feat to a point on the NorthweaUrly line of aald alley; t thence N. 2!) detfreca 34 mlnutci t along the Northwesterly line of ulti 1 alley a dUtance of 134 77 feet tn ; the Southweilerly lino of aald Spring; Street: thence 8. 33 degree 04 i minute E. along the Southwesterly I line of aald itrrvt, a dUtance of 22-53 feet to the point of beginning. I In order that aald alloy may remain open acrne aald Block S an eaement , In writing will he tendered to the City of Klamath Fall, twenty feet In width, acros t-ota 21 and 32 of eta Id Work. Dated thli 211th day of V(rurv, IfHfl UNION HJCH SCHOOL IMHTMICT NO 2 OK KLAMATH COUNTY.: 8TATR OK OHEGON. ' i By Helton Heed. Chairman, Hoard of Director!, r. 2ft: M. 7-14-31-No. 307. Stromborg-C arlion Radio. Dorby'g Muiic Co. 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