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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (March 13, 1946)
if FRANK JENKINS . MALCOLM RPLEV Editor Managing Editor R consolidation of tha Evening Herald and the Klamath ewi. Publlihd every afternoon except Sunday at E.nla ade and Fine street, Klamath Fain, Oregon, by the Herald Publishing Co. and tha Newa Publishing Company. Ey carrier , j mall SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ..month $1.00 . . By mall ..month 1.00 By mall w6 months ts.r .year 8.00 Member, Associated Presa Member Audit Bureau Circulation Today's Roundup By MALCOLM EPLEY TTHE aviation-minded public around here Is getting jumpy over the delay and confusion that dominate the post-war aviation picture in this area. Official situation with re spect to the Klamath . muni cipal airport (still a naval air station) is clogged with red tape and indecision, and the start of commercial airlines into the area is still before the CAB in Washington with no hint as to how soon action mav be expected. . Meanwhile flying weather te imnrnuiflff KfllPS of DriVBte planes are getting underway, EPLEY and people who need commercial airline serv ice in this area are impatient to see it started, started. ... There is a growing anxiety to begin realiza tion of the excellent opportunities for aviation activity and development in our region. . Airline Decision Pends WE have received some information from Mayor North of Lakeview, who wired Francis Brown, chief CAB examiner, urging more speed on the part of the CAB in action on the west coast airline cases. Those cases include the application of Nevada-Pacific to serve Klamath, Lakeview, Alturas, etc., and two major lines, as well as other feeder lines, to bring commercial airline service into long-neglected Klamath Falls. Mr. Brown replied with the customary "be assured that the board is doing everything possible to expedite the decision." He pointed out there are many applications involved in the west coast cases, but added that the board is now giving the thing "active consideration. Until the board acts, we don't know what we are going to get in the way of airline service. Klamath wants: 1. Major airline service connecting it with the big coast centers and the trans-continental airlines. 2. Adequate feeder ' service connections, especially with the major points in this region such as Lakeview, Alturas, Susanville, Burns, etc. e a a The Airport Situation THE situation with respect to the municipal airport is badly confused. The field is still in navy possession, but it is being used . by civilian fliers under a loose arrangement pending final decision on future jurisdiction of the huge port. . ' . There is no management set-up for the civilian aviation there. The private planes are kept in the old city hangar, while the two mighty navy hangars stand empty and idle. Traffic rules are what the fliers make them, and it is to their credit that they are maintain ing order and safety under the difficult circum stances which exist there, i The city some time ago was. offered a re vocable permit for civilian use of the field. It objected to certain clauses in this permit. With the assistance of Congressman Lowell Stockman, these objectionable features have been eliminated, but the city attitude, as ex pressed by Mayor Ostendorf, still indicates reluctance to make any municipal move on the field until there is still further clarification o . the whole situation. Thus, such matters as charging hangar rent and for sale of gasoline on the field, or any move toward municipal management, are being held in abeyance. ' We are informed that the Klamath airport, one of the best in the west, is not currently designated as open for public use, and aviators moving through this area do not know whether they can land there or not. The local airport Is not included in the weekly information for airmen put out by the CAA. Enterprise THERE are encouraging evidences of enter prise and planning by the aviation enthus iasts of the community. Several outfits are already in operation, and training programs are being organized. Air plane agencies are being established. The vla-tion-minded people hero are ready to step right out with a lot of activity as soon as the facility situation is cleared up. 1 Indications are that the training opportunities to be offered GI's under federal law will be fully utilized here. It all amounts to quite a problem which lies in the lap of the city aviation commission. With a new member, Marshall Cornett, replacing the veteran Gus Krausc, the commission has sched uled its next meeting for next Friday. Klamath Falls is loitering on the edge of the post-war aviation map. It would like to get on it in a big way soon. News Behind The News By PAUL MALLON WASHINGTON, March 13 Now let me explain the latest Truman-Bowles wage price policy issued Monday: Bars to wage increases are to be removed and patterns established with ifs, ands, and buts. One of the ifs provides an 18 H cents air hour increase if the local pattern permits, but not necessarily. In case this provision does not apply, the cost-of-living pattern- will be come a but, although not automatically. The cost-of-living pattern Is changed from and here I quote the official explanation "An in crease in straight-line hourly earnings in the appropriate unit to the extent" that increases had fallen short of a 33 per cent increase since January 1, 1941. That is the old, old pattern since February 14. It is to be changed to I quote again "Increases in basic wages if hourly wages of the appropriate unit have not risen 33 per cent since January 1, 1941." This is the different wage policy . as the official handouts present it. Different, isn't it? e e a Price Policy Explained THE price policy is explained with equal sim plicity. The new policy I quote again "Will not mean a new higher level of prices." There are no ifs, ands, or buts about this. Upon this Mr. Bowles is firm. His OPA, however, simultaneously provided a but, if not a butt or butte. At the very moment of the Bowles announcement, it made public a general in crease in the prices of men's and boys' clothing in order to induce manufacturers to release their stores to the public. Twenty-four hours earlier OPA authorized what it called "sub stantial rises in cotton textile prices" to spur production of shirts and dresses. Just before that, a general rise of 10 cents a barrel in the price of oil had been authorized by the same official agency under Mr. Bowles. Steel had been sent up by the government $2 to $12 a ton. Building material increases had been directed by OPA on lumber specifically and an announcement was issued bragging about the tremendous increases, which, the government said, no longer justified the weak production of such materials. Too numerous for this terse column were other additional price buts, butts or buttes. Now do you understand? If not I will put in a nutshell, where it seems to be anyhow. The recent wage increase formula is to be liberal ized, tremendously, but not too much, greatly, a little, maybe and maybe not, but the price formula is not to be liberalized one Inch in the struggle to hold the bulge against inflation: that is, not for anything, and by this I mean not anything so far except steel, building materials. fuel, clothing, shirts, dresses, sugar, butter and otner loods and other materials. This is the way they tell it officially. Yet they wonder why there is confusion. Detect Ray Of Light SERIOUSLY I do not think they are as con fused as they say. I think I can detect a ray of light behind the flimsy curtain of words, namely this: The government tried to Increase wages with out increasing prices and found this could not be done. Goods were backed up in some lines because these could not be sold at a profit. These were being kept in storage. Production was discouraged in other lines because it could not be attempted profitably. A readjustment was necessary in order to get distribution as well as production. This was further advisable as a discouragement to black markets. Indeed some black markets had become bigger than the white. (For further explanation look back upon my columns of the past two' weeks.) From a political standpoint also the relaxa tions were advisable in order to encourage congress to renew presidential authority over economics in the war powers -acts expiring June 30. This maneuver Is being covered by as confus ing a curtain of "explanations" as ever emanat ed from a government mimeograph machine, and this is saying something as those machines have seldom been geared for frankness. SIDE GLANCES car. iHe ay ma mrvkc. wct.m aio v. a. par. err. B-l mil From the Klamath Ntwi Mtirch 13. 193S Elevation of wtiltir In Iho Tule Itiku sump is 4U33.77 lent, a hlither level Hum In any record ed year to (lulu, it Is higher thnn it was nt tha time of tliu lust dlko break, "Yeah, I henr so many nrttiuuentii and see so ninny picket lines nnd people HMinf! over shorties. I'm going to rc-cnlisl I want a little peace and security 1" The World Today By DaWITT MacKENZIE AP World Traveler 4 Officers, 8 Enlisied Men At Naval Air Station The entire .personnel list of the Klamath naval air station can now be published, in fact all men on duty at the station could be crowded into an 8x10 picture wiin room to spare. ! Four officers and eight enlist ed men now make up the navy's crew manning the big installa tion just outside Klamath Falls. This is strong contrast to the full complement during wartime peaic activity. ' : Lt. Cmdr. S. A. Congdon is commanding officer, Lt. Cmdr. J. F. Fitzpatrick is public works officer, Lt. W. H. Campbell is station secretary and the fourth officer is Chief Machinist J. L. Brautigam. ! Enlisted men on duty are James Heaton, cox; James Lan man, CSK; Carl Livingston. ACOM; Delmar Steele, MOMM 3c; Arnold Vance, S 1c; J. TO NEGLECT SNIFFLES, SNEEZES OF Vaughn, SK 2c; William Walker, F 1c; E. A. Fansler, CBM. The station, which went on dfsestablished status January 1, 1946, has not been changed, offi cials said today. During peaK activity at the station, Klamath folks were ac customed to the constant hum of planes in the air. Planes which drop down at the station now are few but some have been com ing in from Astoria, Seattle, Pas co and Whidby Island, Wash., in the interest of materials still at the station. There are a num ber of civilians still employed on the base, 28 working at various duties and 22 employed as fire crew to protect the property. ine enlisted men. all of whom live "ashore" which means in town to the land lubber, were chosen because their families are located here. Three of the offi cers reside in homoja huts at the station and one, Lt. Campbell, lives ashore. Although work does not com pare to that demanded when the hangars and runways were filled with planes, the men on duty find plenty to keep them busy shipping stuff away from here, crating and checking material at nana and other jobs. Male Enrollment Shows Increase SALEM, March 13 (P) Male enrollment at Willamette uni versity exceeds enrollment of women for the first time since 1941, the university announced today. There were 319 men and 315 women enrolled for the snrine semester today. ine enrollment, which will be completed this week, probably win totai ou, mgnesi since ltiii. Mackenzie VIENNA, March 13 (JP) Present day total war is synonymous with obliteration in the minds of most folks and the destruc tion wrought in the late con flict certainly goes far to wards substan tiating that idea, but it's amazing to see how life flows on and cuts new channels for itself amidst the ruins of Eu rope. Mrs. Mack and I had that impressed on us again during our trip here from Switzerland by tram, for the curious mix ture of . people who fight for places on the crowded Vienna Express and the country through which it passes gives a cross section of this Austria which is trying to reassert it self. There were on the train refugees returning with their few belongings in Alpine packs which they carried aboard on their shoulders, and this I take It tells of longing lor what once was home and a hope that for tune will deal kindly with the motherland. Along with them was an en tirely different class which also radiated not only hope but con fidence and a determination to get the best out of a bad situa tion. They were the tanned young men and women skiers who seize every opportunity to pursue their favorite sport in the lyroi. There were a few obvious war profiteers who travel back and forth making a profit out of their country s suffering, and tnere were nonest tradesmen who still believe in Austria and are taking a hand in her re construction. There were, of course, the inevitable army officers, for at ono time or another during the 24-hour journey you' will en- counter British, American, French and Russians. These represent the forces of -Brings FAST relief that LASTS FOR HOURS in COUGHS from GUEST COLDS At the first sign of a chest cold rub Musterole on the chest, throat and back. Musterole Immediately starts right in to relieve coughs, sore throat and tight muscular soreness. It actually helps break up painful local congestion. Musterole offers all the advan tages of a warming, stimulating mustard plaster yet is so much easier to apply. No fuss. No muss. Just rub ll on for prompt relief. In 3 strengths. All drugstores. A bottle of Vicks Va-tro-nol Is mighty handy to have around the house be cause this double-duty nose drops . . . Quickly Relieves sneezy, sniffiy, ' . ' stuffy distress of head colds. Makes breathing easier. Helps Prevent many colds from developing if used at the first warning sniffle or sneeze. This Double-Duty Nose Drops should save you much misery. Works fine I ' Follow directions In the package. VICKS VATRONOL FILMS 35c DEVELOPED and PRINTED 6 or 8 Exposure Roll Reprints Ac Each Jumbo Prints 8c Ea. Photo Supplies Mail Orders Given Prompt Attention BUD'S 1031 Main Phone 3586 SPRING CLEAN-UP TIME! Furnaces, Stores, Oil Burners, Air Conditioning Equipt. Vacuum Cleaned and Repaired, Filters - Parts . Pipes Fittings OPEN SATURDAYS PHONE 6595 2325 So 6th occupation, which for years will maintain order while Aus tria Is undergoing rehabilitation and reform. There also were numerous UNRKA workers of various nationalities, represent ing humanitarian efforts to help the fallen country. The trip Into the occupied zones of Austria Is filled with thrills and some anxiety. Not only do civilian passengers have to carry passports, which are up to da to in every detail, but both civilians and military have to provide themselves with per mits to pass through the Amer ican, French and Russian con trol zones. Back on Business O. E. Thompson, formerly associated with the U. S. employment serv ice here, Is in town on a two day business trip. He is working out of Salem for the claims de partment of the unemployment compensation commission of US ES, covering all employment offices east of the Cascades. Claude McColloeh, democrat, cunio nut today for (lomucrutic iiiitluuul cummittucnum for Ore lion. From the Klamath Republican March B, 1UUB A dry kiln Is being erected at the Arklty llro.s. mill. C. S nnd 11. S. Monro mo erecting a now mill on thd south side of Lnko Ewuuna. Rumor has it that the Weyerhaeuser Tlmbei company has been negotiating for the pur chase of the Mouru mill. Locu tion of a Weyorhiuuisor mill close to this city is u part of tho schemo of things for a grcutcr Klamnth Falls. Lost Billfold Returned To Owner A billfold containing $00 nnd porsonnl pnpurs was found re cently by O. C. Motley of Motley Plumbing company mid returned to tho owner, Mrs. Gladys L. Bnslcr, 4023 W. lflllth street, Lawndnlc. Cnllf. 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