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MALCOLM EPI.KY
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By MALCOLM EPLEY
DON'T get too excited about the prospect of
abandonment of the Buckaroo Days cele
, bratton.
Yesterday's story from President O. D. Mat
thews of Buckaroo Days com
mittee was a bid for public
pressure to help the commit
tee in an argument with the
county fair board.
The canny Buckaroo chief
wouldn't mind having little
public assistance in an effort
to get the city or county to
waive the $1500 license fee
for carnivals, so the commit
tee could collect that fee from
the Buckaroo Days carnival
instead of either of the local
governments collecting it.
Local people who want a celebration can't
be expected to do anything about the issues
with the Turtle association, the other complaint
of the committee. The fairgrounds fee and the
carnival license are the local questions involved.
Agitation
THE principal issue Is that with the fair
board.
In yesterday's paper was a story telling about
the action of the Pomona grange, backing up
subordinate granges in demanding that the fair
board require adequate fees from profit-making
enterprises for the use of the fairgrounds.
This is indicative of considerable agitation,
especially in the country districts, that has in
fluenced the fair board In asking 10 per cent
of the gross Buckaroo Days receipts (after fed
eral taxes) for use of the fairgrounds.
A member of the fair board has told us that
the board is willing to waive this 10 per cent
fee in case the Buckaroo Days gets rained out
or for some other reason fails to break even.
But if the show makes money, he said, the
board feels that it should pay 10 per cent of
the gross for use of the facilities.
Furthermore, he said that the board had been
willing to spend additional money for improve
ments that would be of benefit to the rodeo,
and would help produce more income for the
annual show.
Adequate Fees Justified
WE go along with the granges in their
opinion that the fair board should charge
' adequate fees when the fairground facilities are
used for enterprises that produce revenue. We
think there should be substantial payment for
the use of all publicly-owned facilities, such as
the armory, airport, fairgrounds, etc., when
these are used for activities for which there are
public admission charges or which are for pri
vate or semi-private profit.
We believe the board is fair-minded and that
its terms will be reasonable. If it is willing to
waive its fees in case of a bad break in the
weatner or some otner umavoraoie aeveiop
, ment, it displays a disposition to play fair that
" should make it possible for the fair board and
rodeo group to work out a reasonable program.
u sucKaroo xvays committeemen are m a
mood to do business, we think they can still do it
on a reasonable basis with the county fair
board whose members are Percy Murray, Ed
Crawford and Jess Johnson.
Gambling Question
RECENTLY, two letters to the editor appeared
on this page dealing with slot machines
and gambling. One urged the district attorney
to do his duty in stopping slot machine opera
tions. The other, in answer, said the D. A. had
tried, but had been squelched by the grand jury
which returned "not true" bills. This letter said
that Judge Vandenberg had delayed calling the
jury, implying he did so to aid the gambling in
terests. Here are our own observations:
1. The district attorney did undertake the
prosecution of slot machine cases some weeks
ago, after arrests were made by state police.
The grand jury returned not only "not true"
. bills, but also a unique report suggesting, among
other things, that law enforcement officers con
sider the topography of the country in enforc
ing the law.
2. There is nothing to indicate Judge Vanden
berg delayed calling the grand jury to aid slot
machine interests or for any other ulterior
motive at any time. We do not believe he has
done that or ever would do it.
It is doubtful if this flare-up of the gambling
issue has developed anything that should prop
erly apply politically either to Mr. Vandenberg
or Mr. Humble.
By PAUL MALLON
WASHINGTON, May 15 The coal strike is
a catastrophic phenomena which no one
here fully understands, not even the While
House.
Doubt me at your peril, the last meeting
of the operators with Lewis before the truce,
was concerned not with terms of settlement
but with backpay due some of the miners for
holidays taken without authorization in the
past, and for which the operators had refused
wages. The last several meetings of the con
ferees devoted themselves almost entirely to
that comparatively trivinl item, while rail travel
shut down, Ford curtailed, steel mills closed
and vast human suffering spread through the
nation for want of coal. They never got down
to business.
I would not believe such a revelation of
frittering in the face of catastrophe if it came
from either side of the dispute, but my informa
tion comes from objective knowledge in the
highest quarters.
This sort of negotiating foolishness had
been going on for the first three weeks of the
strike without causing concern. It was com
monly assumed the miners wanted a vacation
to run until stocks shrank low, and suffering
became acute, whereupon they would settle.
That time came two weeks back and yet noth
ing happened until Mr. Truman called Messrs.
Lewis and O'Neill for a two weeks truce. An
nouncements continued calling the confabs
"deadlocked." Actually they were dead, but
not near locking.
What's He Up To?
WHAT was Lewis up to? The question is
still going unanswered among authorities
who know the matter Inside and out. The ex
planation, generally believed amongst them, is
that the miners had gotten out of hand after
recent bad explosions in some of the mines and
could not be controlled either by Lewis, their
boss, or the national government. The miners
apparently believe the operators have not lived
up to federal safety regulations, but this is
difficult for an outsider to accept because there
are laws requiring observance, and such failures
could easily be punished by the government.
But it may .explain the anger of the miners and
their coolness toward the human misery caused
by unnecessary prolongation of their strike up
to the truce.
Certainly, it is the inside explanation of
why the White House failed to move to seize
the mines. Mr. Truman thought that even if the
federal government took over, the miners would
not return to work, and he would be faced
with the problem of how to get coal production
without them. Some legal people have said he
could have drafted miners into the army to
make them work, but his lawyers privately
told him he had no such authority. The miners
once refused to work for Mr. Roosevelt, when
he seized- the pits. The White House has been
afraid to act strongly, for fear of getting itself
into more trouble than that with which it was
already faced.
As a result, all the early moves were
against the public rather than the miners,
forcing people generally to accept hardships.
Power Complex
AS I say, this is what might be termed the
inside story current in official quarters,
but I have a feeling other inspirations lurk be
hind the sauntering gait of John Lewis in the
matter. Lewis, at 66, still has a power complex.
His demand for a private tax upon the people
for each ton of coal produced goes as far to
ward private government as Petrillo went in
levying a tax upon phonograph records. But
also, no one has the power of life and death
over the people and the nation, not even the
government, although Lewis has used such a
right in this strike. His friends say his extreme
and unreasonable attitude is a result of deter
mination to get everything he can for his union
now, all the loose ends of things he has wanted
for years past, because he knows the favorable
time is passing. This may well be his reasoning.
But it can also be said he is hastening the
passing of a favorable time by his cruelties
against the people.
Is he playing for nationalization of the
mines, in the manner of Britain and France?
Few think so. He can get more this way. He
has practically operated coal economics for
years with his demands. Do personalities enter
the situation? Well, one of the operators, Ed
Burke, likes to fight with Lewis, but O'Neill,
their chief negotiator, has a reputation as a
reasonable person. The personality of Lewis
dominates. What he wants controls the situa
tion. Is he needling CIO? Surely, his strike
has thrown CIO unions out of work in autos
and steel. Has the administration been inten
tionally or unintentionally stupid in handling
the negotiations? Mr. Truman early called on
Ed McGrady, the best labor negotiator in the
country perhaps and, as I said at the outset,
his ministrations have not been able to bring
either side even to talking terms, since his
arrival.
I suspect other explanations will be coming
out eventually.
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Bonanza Man
Dead At 65
Arthur Jake Hickman. 65, for
the past 35 years a resident of
Bonanza, died at his home Tues
day evening following a lengthy
illness. Mr. Hickman was owner
and operator of Hotel Hickman
at Bonanza at the time of his
death.
Born in Sevier county, Ten
nessee, March 31, 1881, Mr.
Hickman worked on the family
plantation and later was em
ployed by an uncle, Captain
Underwood, who oocrated a
store on tho farm. The family
later moved to Morgan county,
Illinois, and engaged in the stock
business. After farming In
Nebraska for five years, Mr.
Hickman went back to Tennessee
and in Knoxvillo opened a bar
ber shop, continuing until 1911.
That year he disposed of his
business and camo to Klamath
county. In Bonanza he opened
a barber shop, worked for The
California Oregon Power com
pany for eight years contracting
poles, operated a dairy adjoining
the town of Bonanza, and in 1921
purchased the hotel which he
named.
In 1915. Mr. Hickman home
steaded 80 acres of land and
carried on a dairy business. In
1926, he promoted the Kits Lum
ber company of Bonanza, a saw
mill, general logging and lum
ber company. He disposed of
this business in 1930. The mill
burned in 1932 and the box fac-,
tory was moved to Sprague
River.
Mr. Hickman bought 90 acres I
of land adjoining Bonanza, j
known as the John Shook addi-1
tion, platted and sold it in acre
age wuuuf. XUC rtna uuuiuei
company was on that tract. In
1939, Mr. Hickman bought a
convalescent hospital In Jackson
ville, Fla., which he owned at the
time of his passing.
Mr. Hickman and Daisy C.
Phillips were married in Knox
ville in 1909. Mrs. Hickman
survives as docs one daughter,
Mrs. George Bell of Miami, Fla.
Final rites were announced to
day by Whitlock's.
Bulletin
PORTLAND. May 15 (W Ap
proval of a $105,000 veterans
home development at Klamath
Falls was approved todny by tho
federal housing administration.
The project will build 14 homes
to sell at $7500.
Music Practice
Set For Tomorrow
Students of the seven ele
mentary schools of the city will
meet for practice Thursday' aft
ernoon in the Pelican court ot
KUHS, to make final arrange
ments for the all grade school
music festival slated for Friday
afternoon promptly a'. 2 p. m.
The public is invited to attend.
Andrew Loncy Jr., director
of music education in the city
schools, announced that rehear
sal will start early. At 1 p. m.
combined orchestras will re
hearse under the direction of
John Best; 1:15, combined be
ginning strings, directed by
Jack O'Connor; 1:30 p. m., com
bined beginning band under
Mrs. Ola Mae Carter; 1:45 p.
m., combined advanced bands
under Olan Warcup. Bus trans
portation will be provided for
Pelican, Conger and Riverside
students.
Classified Ads Bring Results.
School Boards
Make Changes
Members of tho boards of
school dlalrlcls 1 and 3 complet
ed teacher appointments at a
Joint meeting held Monday night
Hn KUHS.
New staff members to bo em
ployed litis full will Include Den
nett l.oftswiiird, Chester Squire,
Both McMnnus, John Mt'Munus,
Florence l'lelku and May l.t
Clalre. McMnnus will assist In
the music department replacing
John Best who will move from
the community.
Resignation from the city sys
tem was accepted from Orplut
Hudson who, lit turn, was named
to an English assignment ut
KUHS. Ucrthell Mayfleld unit
llevu Snell also presented resig
nations. A leave of absence was
grunted Lilliu Durby of the mu
sic department.
It was announced that Gerald
R. Clemens, with the city school
system since 11135 with tho ex
ception of army service, would
take over Hie princlpalshlp of
Pelican school. The present prin
cipal, Joe LfClttlrc, will dike
over new duties as director uf
vlsunl education,
A leave of absence wits tirniit-
ed Mrs. Lucille O'Neill of the
KUHS English department and
the board announced thu name
of Mrs. Helen Llstoe to com
plete the year In the absence of
Mrs. Lila McMunu of the homo
economics department.
Classified Ails Bring Results.
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Board May Aid
Buckaroo Days
(Continued from PaK One)
the show should ctiino on days
when it snows or ruins anil they
cun't show u profit, then we'll
luuke a xii IIkihc lory iiiljuslnient."
"The fulr board himeslly (eels
thill 10 per cent of Ilia gross Miter
the government's fee 1 di-tltictetl
Is not only fulr but necessiny In
I lie maintenance of the fair
grounds. The Klumiith Iluck
lii'on Duys committee Is a closed
coriHimtlou ii ml Is using public
owned facilities," Murray con
cluded. It was brought out (hut the
fair bo I'd has been urged, not
only by Pomona grange but
subordinate granges, to change
the full-grounds set-up, deinaiiil
ing a wider public use of the
grounds.
In a resolution adopted this
past weekend by Pomona grunge,
ilfiniintlN were mado Unit "pri
vate or seml-prlvato ntn of the
fairgrounds fiicllitlt'S, In which
prlvule gain should Im a fiiclur,
should bear a greitler share of
costs of building and miilnlen
mice." Action of Pomoiin grunge
constituted an endorsement of a
t'liiiiiga In administering t. i
lull grounds by the II granges ni
Hie county. Thu Hulniibuv
l.t'iigun n I so him gone on rccoi
with a simlliii' resoiiiiiiiii,
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"Science, Salvation or De
stroyer of Mankind?" the ques
tion in the minds of thinking
people since the advent of the
atomic bomb, is the question for
Thursday night's "America's
Town Meeting" program over
KFLW. There will be three dis
tinguished scientists and one
journalist on hand to give out
the dope. They are Harold C.
Urey, head of the Institute of
Nuclear Research of the Univer
sity of Chicago; William L. Lau
rence, Pulitzer prize winning
reporter for the New York
Times; Dr. Selnan A. Waksman,
discoverer of streptomycin and
professor of micro biology at
Rutgers university, and Dr. Her
man N. Dundesen, health com
missioner of Chicago, columnist
and health editor of the Ladies
Home Journal. The broadcast
will originate in Syria Mosque,
Pittsburgh.
We may not have a rodeo or
Buckaroo Days here this year,
but Klamath got a foretaste of
the summer spirit in yesterday's
parade. Prancing horses and col
orfully dressed riders have an
appeal that no one can resist.
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Merrill Voters
At Polls Friday
MERRILL, May 15 Regis
tered voters of Merrill will go to
the polls Friday, May 17, to vote
on a $25,000 general obligation
bond issue which will appear on
a separate ballot. This fund Is
for reconstruction of parts of the
sewage disposal plant at a cost
of $12,000, and for replacement
of part of the old wooden water
main.
It is proposed that some 2000
feet of this main will be replaced
by cast jron pipe and there will
also be an extension to the sewer
line to serve an area west of the
city within the city limits.
The trucks in the front of the
line weren't so colorful, but
they're the boys that tear out to
the scene when you let your
campfire get away from you or
throw a cigarette in the brush
without grinding it out. With
the country already drying out
like a tinder box, let's be careful
of those "harmless" fires.
Lake Titicaca, the Lake In the
Clouds, lies 1100 feet above sea
level in the Andes between Peru
and Bolivia.
THURSDAY P. M MAY 16
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, . .fun and friendliness make the day
It's a whirl and a merry one with the whole crowd out to .make the
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when fun and friendliness are the order of the day. Have a Coc are
the words that keep a good time going smoothly. There's nothing like
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