Herald and news., March 29, 1946, Page 4, Image 4

FRANK JENKINS
Editor
MALCOLM EPLEY
Managing Editor
Today's Roundup
By MALCOLM EPLEY
KLAMATH milk producers, who have re
ceived a remarkable demonstration of con
fidence by tne local puouc, nwiuw jrarauj
igalnst action that might be
lonstrued as letting that
lUbllc down. ,
Unquestionably, a sense of
lubllc responsibility was the
lominant factor In Influenc
ng the producers against a
nilk strike here.
Throughout their contro
rersy with the OPA over milk
prices,, the dairymen have dis
posed a reluctance to resort
tn strike tactics. Some have
laid frarikly that such methods EPLEY
re abhorrent to them. It was quite evident
they were greatly relieved when the first
strike threat was called off. Their sentiment
at yesterday's meeting was against drastic
action that might put them in a bad light
with the public and would outlaw them with
the government agency with which they were
negotiating.
The dairymen's commendable sense of public
responsibility was heightened by the showing
of public support they received here. Some 38
organizations communicated with the OPA " in
sympathy with the plight of the Klamath pro
ducers. The chamber of commerce directors
and other groups formally declared their con
fidence in the dairymen.
An irresponsible group might have reacted
differently to this public demonstration, con
sidering it an opportunity ior radical action
without fear of rebuke. But the Klamath
dairymen took the opposite course.
Producing a product which they believe
essential to human health, they decided they
would not, by drastic action, shut off the
supply of that product to a public that had
backed them up in a difficult situation.
Determination
BUT there was no evidence of a weakening
in the determination of local dairymen to
get out of the business if adequate prices can
not be obtained. Individually, a majority of
them appear determined to sell their herds.
Under the circumstances, it is unlikely these
herds will be sold in the Klamath area, but
will go outside. If they do, the local production
of milk, already seriously reduced, will dimin
: ish to the point where it fills only a small
percentage of the demand, and what should be
thriving local industry will be shot to pieces.
One farmer claims that it costs him $1.53 to
produce a pound . of butterfat for which he
. now receives 85 cents, and for which the OPA
ruling would give him only 91 cents. Other
estimates range from 1.13 a pound up-
Those are the conditions that are forcing
' the ' decline in dairy production here and are
threatening the entire local industry. Even
though prices may return to a profitable level,
it will take years to build the industry back
i once it goes to the low state now in prospect.
Under unregulated conditions of supply and
', demand, prices would unquestionably be much
higher now than the OPA ceilings. There is
: strong evidence that the OPA is not giving
full consideration; to the cost factors involved.
The OPA people should jlook further into the
Klamath milk situation. ' They must consider
what their decisions are doing to an important
Industry.
News Behind The News
f By PAUL MALLON
WASHINGTON, March 29 The hokum
biennial is at hand.
, The usual band of whooper-uppers are sound
ing their A's for the usual pre-election cam
paign to save the common man from dire peril
by the special devices they have contrived for
that purpose. After Mr. Wallace succeeded in
getting Messrs. Truman and Hannegan to un
dertake a squabble for "the program," Senator
Pepper called a meeting to think about taking
up the; poll tax again. The "poll tax," as the
phrase is used in congress, is an issue raised
every two years just before election, by north
ern democrats to allure the negro votes in the
-Jarge cities and cause the southern democrats
to prevent its enactment which does not hurt
; them at home. '
,.; This biennial struggle-to-the-death over the
payment of 50 cents or a dollar for the
expenses of conducting an election generates
great fury which ignores persistently the fact
that the poll tax is only one of the minor laws
restraining voting in an inflationary age when
dollar bills are practically being given away
as wrappers on chewing gum.
Pure Hokum
THE ; poll tax hokum biennial works some
what like the recent FEPC struggle.- The
FEPC program proposed to make permanent
a government agency which is operating now,
has been furnished funds by congress, and
will continue to operate. . That was tlui only
issue to pledge the permanence of something
already being done. I must say that the real,
but intangible, issue was the struggle of the
ClO-new deal group for power and prestige
by forcing their will upon congress, and this
was the reason for the strenuous southern
resistance, but the overlooked point of the
matter I am trying to bring forth now is the
pure hokum of the claim that the common man
was in peril because of luck of permanency
of an agency already operating.
So also with "the program." It is suffer
ing the same defects of lack of exciting sub
stance upon which to build a great fight. The
CIO's full employment bill has now become
law in an UHN. Its pledge of permanency
for government spending was emasculated, and
its words reduced to ashes, before it was fuv
ally enacted. It meant nothing in the first
place to an era in which the government is
spending many times more than Roosevelt at
his palmiest.
Minimum Wage Bill
STILL pending is the minimum wage bill to
establish 65 cents an hour now and 75 cents
in four years. A compromise will no doubt be
made for something like 60 cents now and
65 cents in . two years. But contractors are
being forced to pay $1 an hour to get common
labor in even cheap-price areas (u any remain),
With inflation already under way and further
price increases in prospect (see Baruch testi
mony), the minimum wage figures occupy a
realm of theory which the real live perils of
the common man, such as inflation and prices,
have reduced to infinitesimal size.
Also pending and stymied is unemployment
compensation proposing a few more dollars
for a few more weeks at a time when pro
duction is the thing upon which employment
will rise or fall.
These are the basic CIO program points with
which the Wallace-CIO-Pepper politicians are
trying to build up the life or death level. In
addition, fact finding (in practice but opposed
by CIO), price control continuance and housing
(greatly curtailed from the Truman and CIO
free-giving subsidy plane), fill out what might
be called the vital program.
As far as my agents on the capitol ground
can see, the whooper-upper campaign is not
likely to make as much difference this year,
as formerly. Congress seems determined not
to be ridden into enacting CIO programs. '.By
its action, it is writing its own program upon
wnich to run for re-election this fall.
South Road Story
Editor's Note: Concluding the South Road storv as told
by Lindsay Applegate. about 1890. to Frank Applegate and
Ed Loosley. Lindsay Applegate died a few years after his
account to the boys, and Frank Applepate and Ed Loosley
are now men in their sixties, living In Medford and Klamath
Falls, respectively. This utory was written by Ed's wife,
Mrs. Elizabeth Butler Loosley. and was published in insUll-
jncni uy me neraia ana news as a ContrtDUUon to the
oouin itoaa centennial anniversary observance.
L. Applegat
By ELIZABETH BUTLER LOOSLEY
lirNIDN'T you have any Indian fights?" Ed
U queried.
"No. We were not out to molest Indians.
We once found wagon tracks
leading into a gulch and bare
foot tracks beside them. Of
course it was not out of the
ordinary for the emigrants to
walk to ease the load for the
weary animals, but we sensed
trouble as these tracks led
away from the route. We
came to where the wagons
had been burned but found
no trace of any people; we
concluded the Indians had
killed them.
"Another time, on the re
turn journey, something hap
pened that convinced us we
must not become separated.
A Bannock Indian returned with us, as did five
other men, and he discovered he had left a
knife at our last camp. He tied his pony and
started in a trot looking for the knife. He never
showed up, no doubt the Digger Indians got
him.
"Also, Henry Boygus, hearing a friend was
starting for Canada, decided to try and over
take him and join the party. His gun and
horses were known to be in the possession of
an Indian who came to Fort Hall, but 'Boygus
never joined the party and never reached home.
"The Indians lived on crickets and grass
hoppers and led a miserable existence as com
pared to the Rogues and Klamaths who lived
in such a productive country.
"When we struck the Cascades on our re
turn trip, the work in the timber was very
heavy and the Indians harrassed us we dared
not take our eyes off them at all. You can
imagine trying to work while someone stood
guard. At every unusual noise we would
start and look for ourselves, sure an Indian
was upon us.
Our provisions got very low, and we had to
depend on game mostly so when we. arrived in
the . Umpqua valley we knew the route was
feasible, and passable and returned to our
homes,. October 3, 1846, being gone three
months and thirteen days."
Two wide-awake children were urged to bed.
Aunt Ella, seeing they kept close together,
went with them.-.
2 Men Bring Damaged Plane
i To Klamath On Own Power
i Using special equipment de
signed for this particular job,
Ray Royse and Max Menti of
Klamath Falls this week brought
a damaged plane from Lake o'
the Woods to Klamath Falls on
its own power. ,
" The plane cracked up on the
lake ice while piloted by Joe
Hicks, local business man, two
weeks ago. As Hicks flew low
over the lake, the wheels struck
deep slush on the surface, and
the plane overturned. Both
Hicks and Mrs. Hicks, the two
occupants, escaped injury. They
left the lake area by toboggan
just after the mishap.
? Royse, who is with the Shasta
Cascade Flying service, owner of
the plane, and Menti, a private
mechanic at the airport, used a
Cub plane as rescue ship. They
flew the Cub to a field north of
fort Klamath, and set it down
in the snow on wheels. They
then equipped the little plane
, with skids, and took off, flying
to Lake o' the Woods where they
landed on the lake ice.
i , The two men installed a new
propeller and wing strut on the
damaged Aeronca 'Champion
which Hicks had flown. A spe
cial toboggan and ski devise was
then devised, and placed under
the Aeronca wheels. Royse took
the controls, and started the
plane on a swift skid across the
ice. He then lifted it out of the
skis, and flew it without trouble
to Klamath Falls, setting it down
on the naval air station field.
Except for the propeller and
strut, the Aeronca was virtually
undamaged.
Capt. Corcoran
Receives Orders
Capt. George Corcoran, Ma
rine Barracks quartermaster, has
received orders to move to Camp
Pendleton, Calif., April 3. Capt.
Corcoran will be engaged in
transportation work at Pendle
ton, and just returned from a
transportation conference at Chicago.
The quartermaster came to the
Marine Barracks on April 7,
1945, succeeding Capt. F. G.
Lewis. He and Mrs. Corcoran
are still living in married of
ficers' quarters on the post.
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Klamath's j
Yesterdays
From, the file-- 40 .yoar
From The Klamath Republican
March 22. 1906
Manager O'Brien of the
Southern Pacific railroad de
clared in Portland today that
work on the Oregon and East
ern railroad, extending from
Natron to- Klamath Falls, will
start immediately. He said fur
ther that this win boco.no a
part of the Southern Pacific
system. Locally, it is known
that when this line is built
through Klamath Falls as yet
without any railroad that it
will become the main line of
the Southern Pacific. (This ex
pectation was not realized until
20 years later.)
...
From The Klamath News,
March 29, 1936
Mayor W. E. Mahoncy, cam
paigning for the democratic
nomination to the U. S. senate,
told a La Grande audience that
he would stay in the race de
spite the refusal of Dr. Francis
Townsend. head of the pension
movement, to endorse him.
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Klamath county teachers'have
formed a credit union.
Goose Lake Box
To Build Plants
ALTURAS,' Calif., March 29
That a planing mill, box factory
and prestolog plant will be
erected on the Goose Lake Box
companies' property, was made
in a statement by Sam Jaksick,
owner of the company, Wednesday.
Fifty homes are to be erected.
he said, to house the new em
ployes. Mel Barron, local man
ager and an architect arc now
working on plans for the homes.
The mm is expected to run
two shifts this summer as soon as
living conditions are made available.
To Arrive George V. Crosby,
CCS, is expected to arrive this
weekend in Klamath Falls. He
arrived yesterday in San Fran
cisco from Manila. His wife, An
nabelle. is on the secretarial
staff at the city hall.
Bully Causes
Death Of Boy
ALBANY, March 20 (!') One
of two boys who ran across a
busy highway near Albany to
escape a rock-throwing bully
was struck by a car and died
four hours later in a hospital,
Deputy Coroner Walter Kropp
said today.
The deputy said Jimmle Hub
ler, 8, was liit by an auto after
he hesitated in the mlrttl le of
the road, then turned bnck. The
driver, the Rev. William Cough
lan of Roscburg. brought the
youngster to a hospital here.
Charles Hubler, Jimmic's
older brother, told officers a
"big boy" pelted them with
rocks on the way home from
school, and they cut across the
road in an attempt to lose him.
The accident happened In the
Millcrsburg district six miles
north of here.
Survivors include the parents,
Mr.- and Mrs. Charles Hubler,
and the brother.
Discontinue The Eagles aux
iliary drum corps will discon
tinue practice until a later date.
There will be no practice Sunday,
The World
Today
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
AP World Traveler
MacKENZIE
GANDER, Newfoundland,
March 21) Well, here wo arc
uroutulod wsiilri in the buttle
we've been
waging since
Inst Monday
night to reach
New York by
uir from Paris,
Gremlins
some folk
claim It Is
are Intorfertng
w 1 1 h radio
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eiitions, form
ing Ice on
wlnu s. moss-
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other pranks which are far from
humorous. More prosnlc people
attribute the radio Interference
to the Northern Lights mul the
leo to frouklith weather which Is
staging n driving snowstorm out
side tho nlr headquarters In
which this is being written.
Anyway wo arc stuck here In
the fur north at one of tho
world's great airbuses, which
was largely a development of
the world war unci remains as an
aid to commercial traffic be
tween the new world and the old.
Several other plane are held up
here and the lounge Is filled with
a crowd of travelers from many
countries.
There are, of course, the Inevi
table bridge and gin rumiii'y
games going forward and the
two Englishmen don't move
from their interminable game of
chess. But for the most part the
assemblage is broken up Into
small groups and if you move
about among those with whom
you have a speaking acquaint
ance you'll find that they aro
conversing about International
problems.
One part drew me Into a dis
cussion of the hot clash In the
United Nations Security council
over the Russian-Iranian Imbrog
lio and we arrived nt the conclu
sion that this was a most hopeful
development.
Thnt perhaps seems like n
strange thought since the busi
ness of a peace league Is to main
tain peace and yet It strikes mc
us a logical viewpoint.
This showdown means that the
council is getting down to real
business. It means that the UNO
intends to do what Its predeces
sor, the league of nations failed
to do. That is, to nip in tho bud
the threats of peace.
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2 States Show
Cattle Gains
WASHINGTON, March 20 (rt)
Oregon and Washington In.
creased their herds in ciiluo
appreciably during t It o wnr,
each statu showing' gains in
both milk and beef cattle,
Hep, Murray (ll-Wls.) Inserted
In the congressional record
tables prepured by tho bureau
of agricultural economics show
ing thut throughout tho nation
cattlemen and dairy herd own.
ers Increased their beef herds
10,0(10,00(1 and their dairy herds
by 4,000,000 from Jumiary 1,
11KUI, to January 1, J 040.
In Oregon dairy cattle In.
creased from :il)(l,000 In 10:10
to 400,000 in 1040 while beef
cuttle Jumped from (120,000 In
10311 to 712,000 In 1040 an
overall Increase of 103,000.
Man's Hand Injured
In Crusher Mishap
Frank Delger, 37, (118 N. 10th,
an employe of tho Insullte
Pumice Products Co., 034 Mar
ket, suffered a painful injury
to the right hand when it was
mutilated in the crusher yester
day, Driller was admitted to Klam
ath Valley hospital nt B p, m,
Thursduy and underwent sur
gery Including tho nmutiilitm of
the first finger on the injured
hand.
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coholic was generally treated as a' social ,
.outcast. Little if anything was done to
understand him or help him. But, during the
past few years, medical research and study
- has developed that alcoholics are really sick
' people , . . that there is usually a deep
rooted physical, social or emotional reason
behind their behavior. That's why today so
much is beiriK done to help them by finding
out and correcting the condition that leads
them to excess."
GEORGE: "How many folks arc there like
that, Judge?"
OLDJUDGE:"Vfe, according to scientific
research, 95 of the people who drink,
drink sensibly. 5 do so unwisely, at times.
Included in that 5 is the small percentage
of the sick people I'm talking about."
GEORGE: "That certainly gives me a
clearer picture. It's the most sensible ap
proach I've ever heard on the subject."
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