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Today's Roundup
By MALCOLM EPLEY
THIS is toe season when Klamath's weather
receives its annual panning. A few loyal
'souls may point out that trie
provides variety, at least, but
i such I timid defense is soon
( drowned out by the loud yowls
ot complaint from newcomers,
.' old-timers and visitors.
' Some springs are worse
than others, and it has been
( our custom here to recall the
i worse ones by way of improv
i ing the general tone of
!. weather conversations here
1 abouts. There is danger in
I fiiaf t.miiDiroi' hppaiicp it inrli-
News Behind The News
By PAUL MALLON
i ASHINGTON. April 8 Mr. Truman and
VV his roconverter John Snyder have been
bragging that the "production of civilian goods
.i .w lms readied the peak of all time.
, ..ront in nrove bv some unexplained
generalized figures on income and dollar vol
ume that production nas dclmi mme man
stored and reconversion accomplished.
"Point en Thpre are tricks in it, to wit:
A foremost weekly index of actual produc
tion from a nongovernmental source places our
output for the week ending raarcn v ioj
mr,Drrt with 1 43 a vear ago and about 127
for 1941. Miscellaneous car loadings are less
than a year ago, as are steel, electric power and
lumber production, but "other car loadings
and paperboard production are above a year
"Messrs. Truman and Snyder did not tabulate
artual volume of production, but only dollar
...lmnne nnri illPOniB. Slid tllCY lliade 110 allOW'
ances for price increases. Furthermore, they
said onlv that "civilian" production was at
all time "peak. There is no way of telling how
ot, nf th ahove-cited production is sun
and marine, but a portion must be,
somewhat greater than
the figures must indicate.
3 i
EPLEY
; cates how bad things might
! get again, even in the current year,
j .One thing that can be said for this season
i we -haven't had much- of. that false spring
stuff- that raises hopes and then blasts them
i with a blizzard. When the weather has been
' good this spring, it has also been threatening,
' keeping everything on a realistic basis.
Even in this second April week, we must look
forward to only occasional touches of spring
for a few more weeks. But things are growing
: now, the grass is turning green, the fishing
' season is around the corner. What happens
I In the weather line this time of year can't
i blot out the truth that it's a great country.
Keep your shirt on and your coat over it. .
" '..
Music Lovers
KLAMATH Union high school and Klamath
Sacred Heart academy music students did
themselves proud at the Southern Oregon music
festival at Ashland last week. Both groups
! came through . with numerous superior ratings,
I and Andy Loney, the local public school music
I director,' is so enthusiastic that he is consider
i ing sending the KUHS groups to the national
! competitive events for Class A Oregon schools
f at Eugene in May.
This is going to take more money than is
available from regular sources. About $375
. will -be needed. In these times, that is not
enough to be a serious obstacle if these young
i sters deserve the chance at the national honors.
This writer, or Lois Stewart of our office,
' will be glad to talk to anyone who would
like to help out on this little project.
Malin Comes Through
; v. 1ALIN community, which has a habit of
: yl doing things in a big way, came through
! Sunday with a rousing celebration of the
. homecoming of its scores of service men and
' women.' '
The' affair took the shape of a get-together
hour at the Broadway hall and fine of those
; terrific Malin dinners at the high school. There
- was, of course, a large attendance.
Smaller communities have the advantage in
: projects of that kind, being able to throw one
big party that takes in everybody. But a lot
of smaller communities might easily overlook
: the opportunity that was seized,, and made the
.-. most of, by the good folks at Malin.
..-'
I Interest '.
D ORRIS is having a council election Tues
day, and Editor Robert Gross of the Butte
Valley Star is to. be commended and con
. gratulated on the fair manner in which his
paper has handled ' the ' advance coverage of
this local event. There are five candidates
for three offices, and an exceptional volume
i of political , activity for this, period when po
i htical interest seems generally at a low ebb.
Mr. Gross sees a hopeful sign in the fact
, that there is competition for the Dorris council
j offices. It indicates, he says, that Dorris citi
zens are interested in their city government,
i He thinks there will be a good turnout at the
; polls Tuesday.
Situation Bad
PRUJJUCEKS themselves tell me the situation
is bad. Ford publicly closed his plant lor
a week tno very uay the president spoke, be
cause he could not seep enough steel on hand
to warrant continuous operations. Every pro-
hoc turn same trouble in one way or
anotner. Manutacturers cannot get little tilings,
An air conditioning maker linos his particular
kind of steel tor certain parts difficult to obtain
because the steel companies win. noi manu
facture mucn of it, saying they lose $15 a ton
it hppanse of the OPA ceiling. The steel
companies are producing other more profitable
lines, men me air conaiuuiung man uuuo
a time he cannot get motors, unds a shortage
of bearings due to strikes, cannot get produc
tion of a special copper boit wnicn is essential.
Hi nrnanetion line oDerates off again, on again,
oft again and the doctors are operating on the
manmacturer.
As far as "civilian services", are concerned,
thpre are not anv restored around here. Clean
ers rami ire 3 to t weeks to clean a suit. Skirt-
makers! anrf manv other lines inform their
customers flatly: "We are not taking any more
orders." They will not even consiaer delivery
months hence. Parts for auto repairs are un
available throughout the United States in some
vital cases. A tailor took an order for a suit
the first of last November and gave the first
fitting at the end of March five .months later.
He will not promise the suit by summer. Some
outfitters are already stopping orders for sum
mer suits imagine it, next summer's suits.
Meat supplies . in Washington are getting bad
again, only inferior grades of a few lines hav
ing been available the past few Weeks.
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Production Not Restored
THERE are no autos, coal, refrigerators,
nylons, and only a few radios. A con
siderable (say 10 to 15 per cent) improvement
in sales-stocks can be noted in many lines, and
a bare beginning toward restoration is notice
able. The experience of the average citizen in
these parts will strictly deny, however, any
claim that production has been restored in
"civilian services."
Now there has been a great acceleration in
dollar volume of production in such lines as
liquor (but. not good liquor), department store
sales and some particular food products, and
these no doubt caused Mr. Snyder's figures
to swell to the conclusions he induced the
president to make from them.
But if you figure a 25 to 50 per cent increase
in such items (I have noticed in my purchases
price increases as high as 400 per cent) even
the visible results of greater production in
restricted lines do not loom formidably when
compared with the job of sizing the production
bottleneck up to demand. As measured with
demand, we cannot yet begin to speak of pro
duction." '
But if civilian goods and services are at an
all time peak and going higher in the next few
months to satisfy demands, then, Mr. Truman
will not need his OPA regulations much be
yond June 30, the date at which they are
scheduled to expire. If the shortages continue.
and no fulfilling relaxation of them is yet dis
cernible here, OPA will be needed for many a
month and perhaps another year or more. As
Mr. Truman simultaneously demanded OPA, I
judge, just Between us, he does not anticipate
the volume of production we need, anytime
soon.
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ABOUT SHASTA WAY
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (To
the Kilitor) Many people have
asked me lo write about the
Shasta way roail.
It is terrible, full of chuck
holes and dangerous to drive on.
One woman, in avoiding a chuck
hole and trying to let another
car bv was pushed Into another
rut and her ear was ditched.
The road authorities could be
sued bv her tor damages. This
condition has existed for six
weeks.
Are the roail constructionists
asleep? Do something now.
Shasta way Is a much-traveled
road.
DR. W. P. TABER,
4UtiU Shasla way.
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"Aunt Mary writes slie accepts my apology for last year's
rudeness, and will visit us again this summer to give you
a chance to show how sweet you really arc!"
BOYLE'S
NOTEBOOK
By HAL BOYLE
ATHENS, April 8 (AP) A
man knocked on my hotel door
and for a half hour gave me
back my faraway childhood.
When he first came in, he
stood there sharing with me
that lost helpless feeling two
people have when they meet
and have no sense of recogni
tion and yet feel they should
know one another. ' 1
He was a middle-aged man
of medium height and prema
turely white hair. He had a
slight, dark moustache. His face
wore an air of puzzlement.
In his hands he hold a cable
from his son in Missouri saying
was in Athens and was an old
acquaintance and he should look
me up.
l. looked uncertainly at Char
ley Rounes across the space of
small hotel room and he looked
back at me and the space be
tween us was bieeer than anv
hotel room.
I lived almost 2 vears in
America," he said hesitantly.
-wnere, unariey?"
"In Kansas Citv I had a res.
taurant with my partner at 31st
street and Woodland."
' Remembered
That broke the dike of mem
ory. Each city boy's life is built
around a street corner iust as
oases are social centers of des
erts and for more than a dec
ade in the springtime of my life
31st and Woodland in Kansas
City, Mo., was the capital of rav
world. '
'I remember vmt nn, rkow
ley," I said. . '
He said he recalled me, too,
but I doubt it because there
was no reason he should. Char
ley and his partner, Mike Veil;
tros, used to operate "A Colo
nial Lunch" when I used to
stand on that corner almost 25
years ago.
It was a warm and wonder
ful place to crawl into on blus
tery Saturday nights, when the
wind was chill. Customers were
few and Sunday morning papers
were heavy. Chili was 15 cents
worth of steaming heaven, but
I was looking toward college
and only had a dime to spend.
Charley and Mike always
brought a bowl to me full and
overflowing with meat and
beans, nevertheless, and 1 grate-
luny remembered those two
Greeks more than I do Pericles
and Socrates, whom I read
about in school.
Returned to Greece
Mike is still in Kansas City.
Charley, who emigrated to
America from Arcady in 1907
at the age of 15, returned to
Greece in 1931,
"Business was slow, and I
thought it was the best time to
come back for a visit," he said.
His wife fell ill, and he has
been in Athens ever since. When
the Germans came in they took
over Charley's small restaurant
here, and since then he has trav
eled a rocky road.
His savings have' melted
slowly.
Charley wants, if his wife's
health permits, to come this
Snow Demolishes
Lake Summer Home
The Lake o' the Woods sum
mer home of Dr. and Mrs. K
Cecil Adams was completely de
stroyed when a heavy bank of
snow on the roof crushed the
porch and carried the remain
der of the structure with It.
The cabin, located on the
west side of the lake, will be re
built when the season opens,
Adams said. The residence was
located between summer homes
owned by Dr. Leslie W. Peate
and Dr. W. R. Boyd, both of
Klamath Falls.
IIKRAI.n NKW, Klawalh t Q. HNHr, April i,
District Head
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GLORIA DALMER
t
summer to Kansas City where
his son, Aristldes, is studying
English and teaching Greek at
the Greek orthodox church. He
wants to renew his old neigh
borhood acquaintanceship with
Mr. Hammer, the Jewish shoe
maker, and "Pop" Hudson, the
druggist, still doing business at
the old stands.
"America is the only land,"
he said when I took him out to
lunch two days later. During
the war he used to 1 risk the
death penalty by tuning his
radio to the American station
at Algiers to listen to big league
Diiseoau scores and suceehes bv
President Roosevelt, often stay
ing up until 3 a. m. to get pro
grams.
"What has happened to Will
Rogers lately?" he asked. 1
used to like to read his stuff.
He was a real funny man."
Pumpkins will usually keerj
through the year if thev are
stored In a dry, frost-proof
room.
Klamath Girl
Named To Post
Gloria Diilmer, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Dalmer, 1)30
Owens, was elected district
chairman ot the Futuro Home
makers of America at the district
convention held Murch 1 at
Grants Pass.
Miss Dalmer, a junior at Klam
ath Union high school, left April
5 for the state convention of fu
ture Ilomemakurs in Alhnny.
Also attending from hero were
Gailya Eichendorf and Lois Mil
liKiin, KUliS students.
Klamath Indian
Council To Meet
An important meeting of the
Klamath Indian general council
was called today for April 11 at
the council house at Klamath
Agency.
Matters to be discussed in
clude timber negotiations, dele
gate matters, loan board, land
ownership, and repayment cat
tle. All adult members of the
tribes were urged to bo present
at the all-day session.
Elks Install
New Of f M
LAKEVIEW, April i
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iiiviii i, i-,i,i,-.-iiinav IllUhl
Ih mrmilnu'it
12-,Vfar-nld v I o I I nM
show. The yotnin mnil
Mniwn of lloli
route to Loh Aiigi'ip,'
parents where he lioiJ
linue in the ficki i
appear wild a plilllii,J
nllt.ui I'll. .miiniiliiK . 1
view, he was brouuliti.
meeting last night by
to. and played soviwui ..
with Mis. Orval miilrj
vn:v im iiviiui till J
has appeared over Hnjj
uiu i'ii u iiiuiiuei' (If r.
ami those who liciml ).
nesday night pimluln'
"musical wizard" wi
lined lo go places In Ih
music.
Farmers makn nn t
per cent of the popuUj
United Stales.
Sh dlthtt mora Intlda go
Hollywood than you could J
Hollywood Bowl, Tun In,..
STATIC
Today's Ravmond Gram Swinn
show will originate from New
,, none rawer than Washington,
as was previously announced on
, the program.
V
Having finished a two week
! presentation of "Strange Inter-
;juae- tne Theatre Guild on the
Air is now swinging to a long
time favorite of the American
.people for next week's show
"Seven Keys to Baldpate."
! Written by Earl Derr Biggers
and first dramatized by George
Cohan nearly a quarter of a
. century ago, the play will star
i Walter Pidgeon and Martha
Scott.,- Pidgeon is well known
for his appearances in Mrs. Mini
ver, -which won the academy
award, ' Madame Curie, Mrs.
Parkington and Weekend At The
Waldorf. Martha Scott has been
heard on two recent Theatre
Guild shows, "John Ferguson"
and "Storm Over Patsy."
Woke up to find a young bliz
zard blowing up and down the
river this morning, and found
that the covey of auail who use
our place as a summer sanctuary
had chosen that moment to show
up again. At last I'll have some
thing to do with those chunks of
onea out bread.
. .
It would seem that
the only place on the coast that
goi a Diizzard of one kind or an
other this morning. The net
work kept koine on and nff like
a broken light bulb, and right in
the middle of Breakfast Club,
too. That rings ud the wmnH
time in our short life that ,o',.o
been off the net. Hope our score
stays that low.
Fourteen - year - old Robert
RADIO PROGRAMS
Burke, one-time Quiz Kid. has
gone home to Texas, where he is
a iresnman in the Central Cath
olic high school in San Antonio.
ihe 6 foot 2 braintruster ap-
yeaiea on me yuiz JS.10S show
16 times while he was living in
Milwaukee.
Crescent Lake Snow
Depth Shows Gain
Crescent lake had 41.2 inches
of snow and 19.5 inches of water
uus season, according to the an
nual central uregon water fore
cast report made last weekend.
was a mg increase over
last year.
Ample water for irrigated
lanos in the Central Oregon
area was forecast. Ochoco res-
ci vuii as d,jou acre feet, com-
9nrnWIh 3 10-year average of
?H' An expected inflow of
ih? An leel W1U supplement
the 40.000 nnre foot -lV..j..
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Around Town
Spotlliht BandaMBS '. -
Bulldor Drummond MBS
Clioo Kid MBS :
Michael Shayne MBS, .'
Imperial Male Choral"
Ernest Armstrong, pli.no
Glenn Hardy, Newa MBS
Re Miller MBS
Dance
Ilenry J. Taylor MBS
""aaandup. Concert
Muslo A You Like It
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Ralph Ginsberah Orch.
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John J. Anthony MBS
Latin American
Leo Erdody Salon
Queen for a Day MBS
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1:011 Jack BerchABC
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3:25 Norman Vesbltl ABC
2:30 Jimmy Wakely Trio
2:45 Al and Lee Reiser
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4:30 Bill Bryan ABC
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KFLW Feature
Vour Dance Tunes
Farm Front
Orran Recital
Johnson Family MBS
World Llthl Opera
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Zeke Manners MBS
Local News
Request Hour
Haven of Rest
OPA
Klsa Maxwell MBS
Fulton Lewis Jr. MBS
Rex Miller MBS
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