' 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.
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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."
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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
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