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Newspaper Page Textnuun JTHKOtt uKLcaiM rrpinr fnurad M aseood clan atattaf at tna poatomca at Klamata aUa. Ois.. ob Aufual SO. ttu4 uaMat act ol aoasraaa, Marca S. 1ST gang meets around mountain in July. the campfirt on Hart LAKEVIEW. at can be een. Inspires reminis cence. Tomorrow, we move into loss fa miliar country. Hereafter, there'll be more of the new and iess of the old in these chronicles. ht i Br mall , auucBipTio um m si as Br auU S aaantha sa sa Sl.go ur aaau aat w. Today's Roundup Br MALCOLM EPLEY LAKEVIEW, Ore. (Travel Correspondence V Eastward this afternoon through familiar country, over the Klamath Falls-Lakeview high way to that picturesque bit of the Old West that is called Lakeview. It's an easv two hour drive nowadays. We can re member when it took longer, and there was a horrible dust stretch over Bly mountain and Inlo Beatty. Old-timers, of. course, can remember when it was an all-day battle, and you were lucky if you didn't break down completely in that night mare of jagged rocks known as the Devil's Garden. Some where we've seen a picture of n v vnvironriall. Klamath at torney, and somebody else, stalled with an old-time car in the Devil s Gar den. The Devil's Garden was before our time, thank heavens. That BeattyBly mountain dust stretch was bad enough. It gave us something to write about and to campaign about in our early days of newspapering in Klamath Falls. Our sagebrush and pine country w-as clean and cool this afternoon. Great patches of cloud cast huge shadows on distant slopes. This was home country: the rugged shoulder of Swan Lake Point and a road sign pointing to Dairy creek touched off pleasant memories of fishing and hunting trips. Such things are among the compensations of long residence in a good country. , a a WE called Lakeview a picturesque bit of the Old West. It is still that, and we like it that way; but it is edging In the inevitable di rection of modernization. Its residential dis trict, especially, shows signs of modern trends, with many pleasant homes of late design. But the flavor of the Old West is still here. The barren, rock-studded mountains rising right out of the business district. People you don't know greet you with a friendly grin when you meet them on the street. Many of them bear unmistakable marks of the sheepman and the cattle man. There is still lots of early west ar chitecture notably the Lake county court house. a a a RIGHT now, civic Interest is directed to the forthcoming meeting of the famed Order of the Antelope. It will be the first post-war session of that unique organization, with mem bers of the clan gathering from far places in mid-July at the Blue Sky hotel on the high slope of Hart mountain. Jack Mayne, the busy young man who is manager of the Lake County chamber of com merce, tells us the interest is tremendous in this affair this year. Invitations were limited, neces sarily, but it looks as if everybody who got one will register at the Blue Sky hoteL We were on hand when the Order of the Antelope was formed back, we believe, in 1932. Frank Jenkins and this writer had a long tough day of it, getting to the mountain which later was dubbed the Blue Sky hotel. We missed lunch, we had a flat tire, we were bat tered by hail, and we lost our way. Finally, coming back toward the blue smoke rising on the mountain side which we at last recognized as camp and promise of dinner, we got stuck right down to the axle in a swamp. A stranger came down in a model A pick-up and pulled us out He was George Stephenson, whom we 'came to know with affection, and whose death the other day revived fond mem ories of just such Incidents, saddened by the thought that George won't be there when the News Behind The News Br PAUL MALLON WASHINGTON, June 23 Headlines said Men 38-44 to be drafted with 'teen agers." A headwaiter observed it over my head in a Chicago restaurant and exclaimed: "Good heavens, 1 just got out and now I am to go back." This is not true. The official Inside story is few are to be drafted perhaps not person. At least this is the story of the acting senate committee chair man, Thomas of Utah, who has as much to do with the legislation as anyone. He says the army will get enough men by the pay raise (SO per cent up for privates, 10 to 20 per cent for officers) through volunteer enlistment to make a defense force of 1.070,000 for July, 1947, 11.550,000 now) which is what General Eisenhower, the chief of staff wants. Thus no one would be drafted, Thomas happily reasons. Not the 36-44S, not the 'teen-agers, about whom you have heard so much. The real story. I suspect. Is congress is In a hurry to get away July 15 for its re-election campaign and dares not leave the army under manned, (the navy does not want any draftees but will make up its quota entirely by volun teers). War is'possible, no matter what is done in Paris. Preparations are likely to be necessary in any event. The president must be able to act So congress leaves the drafting power with him during the recess, omitting 18-year-olds. a Up To Local Boards IN the end, then, the question will be up to your local draft board, as to whether you will be called, and the usual deferments apply, except that in peacetimes industrial deferments are impossible. Some authorities suspect President Truman of trying to get by indirection in this law the power he failed to get from the senate to call strikers to work. Lawyers may argue, and I have not gone through the act with a fine tooth comb, but I do not believe the rumors are true. He will not need an anti-strike draft be fore winter when the steel-auto contracts recent ly made will expire). As to drafting 'teen-agers, if only 19-year-olds, he will need the popular support of an emergency before he may act. Confusions and over-emphasis are bound to occur because of the nature of the legislation, passed first by one house, then the senate, then going to conference, now back to both houses, and finally to the White House. These four separate actions and forms are easily subject to over-interpretation, but the final form of the legislation was what the army wants plus the implications of the emergency). Watch for an international emergency! Then watch and consult your draft board for the next 6 months! a a a Political Complications WHAT a majority of congress seemed to want to do was to make up the defici ency in volunteers, by pressuring first the high school graduates and college students by this legislation, then fill the quotas in with the normal draftees but not married men) and then reach finally into the 36-44s who make the worst soldiers) and the 19-agers who make the best) as a last resort. But the complications of politics, (congress had to face an election from fathers and motors) and the vote of Representa tive Andrews proxy the wrong way, compli cated its effort to reach that goal, which Mr. Truman and the draft boards will reach any way, I hope and expect Therefore, there is much in the happy Inter pretation of the matter. Nearly all seemed satis fied here. Thus also Mr. Truman is gaining from congress less than half what he wanted on this subject his high water mark so far. While losing largely on OPA, the youth draft (18-year-olds and younger for training), perhaps also the army-navy merger and such issues, the demands of his war department for men pulled him nearly half through on this, along with the unsettled state of peace. SIDE GLANCES if- .... eon law a. w MHHI, KI.II lie I w O" "If you miss the bus. remember, clear, I tlon'l want vim to liitcliliike with stniniH-rs H.sk Ihcm tlicir names!" STATIC BOYLE'S NOTEBOOK Br HAL BOYLE BERLIN, June 25 (P) The golden era when an American soldier could translate a carton of cigarets In Germany into a $150 bank deposit back home is over. New currency restrictions in occupied Europe are sounding the death knell to one of the greatest military rackets in his tory, the introduction of serial numbered currency control books is ending a 13-month ride at the taxpayer's expense. The racket in its simplest form was based on the sale of cigarets, army food and candy to hungry Germans for exorbi tant sums in allied currency marks, most of which were printed by the Russians. It began with the first Ameri can troops to enter Berlin. Sol diers found that they could get S100 to $200 for a carton of cig arets, S5 to S10 for a bar of chocolate. They could then take the marks to the nearest ' army post office, convert them into money orders and mail them to relatives or banks in the United States against a post war rainy day. Spread Like Firs The racket spread like a prairie fire throughout the army of occupation. It knew no rank. Colonels and corporals played the game together, some times standing for hours at the post office windows. A new group of big-time operators arose known as "The Berlin Millionaires." Instead of rely ing on the peddling of extra army cigaret rations, they im ported their own cartons from the states by the hundreds. There were too many in the racket for it to have any social stigma. Some were reported to have made as much as fifty to a hundred thousand dollars in a few months. Embarrassed by the discovery that the army was sending home three times the amount It was being paid, authorities last fall made their first attempt to con trol the racket. They distrib uted currency exchange control books which listed each soldier's pay. Money transfers to Amer ica and sums spent in Germany in excess of $10 were deducted. fe-cjff. .S.-.A..L.. 1 Unfortunately however, no cen tral record of the books was kept. Enterprising warriors and civilians attached to the army found little difficulty in obtain ing several extra books. By astute private bookkeeping they could make their own entries and parley their earnings sever al times. Records Doctored A soldier with a $200 balance in his legal book, for example, j could prepare identical entries i in four extra books and send ! home $1000. ! The new books will be serial ly numbered and a central check made so that no soldier can man ipulate with extra books. Already the steady operators are looking for looDholes. "A smart guy can always find his way tnrougn any system, they say. But finance officers are con fident the new books will cut the flood of illegal postal money orders to a dribble by eliminat ing the "easy money ama teurs." They feel the average soldier is unwilling to risk de tection on open forgery. Still untouched is one way of capitalizing on black market nicotine profits the purchase of German glassware, antiques and RADIO PROGRAMS TUESDAY EVE KFLW 1450 kc. A:M Sales Concert Home Twi News WrlJ Kewi limmirr ::t0 Music of Manhattan :!.. EtiftajJc Bafrd ABC :.1S Sport by W lamer ABO 7:MVnar Navy Recruiter 1:1.1 Sar Ft with Music T m Mllcftrll 111IUB'C ?:!. -Vera. line :00Lam 'S Abner ABC Jumplnr Jacks lODark Ventare ABC 1:& " on HetrlbatUB ABC 15 - 30 Nwa Kir hard Lelbert, Oraaa 9 45 . 10 OOt al Tinner ABC Elmer Davit ABC I0:M Doctor Talk It Over ABC l:l Ambassador Orch ABC 1 1 :( oil JUNE 25 KFJI 1240 ke. Gabriel tleattcr MBS Araan1 Taws Fm4 far Fa mi Ac m Amir. Feram mt Alt MBS Dinner Dance Bed BrderMHB Gardenlnr Todav" Carmen Cavalier" The Kale an MBS Glen Hard. Htwi MB I James Crowley MBS Dane In c Party Stan Kenton Orch. MRS Sew A Cancert Hall Music As VetLike It Jack Barrow Orch. MB! Dance Orch. MBS Newt Eonndaa MBS WEDNESDAY A. uiwi rairai :45 Farm rare 1.M Newa, Breakfast EaMlien 1:13 Atop and Ga Shaw 1:1Jimtl Abba Observe ABC 9:15 Zvke Manners ABC Breakfast C lab ABO 1(1 Breakfast Clab ARC :3 Breakfast Clab ARC Breakfast Clab ABO atfXW Faalttfa M., JUNE 26 Wakr-L Tanes Mornlnr Reveille Newa MRS Rise and Shine MBS Headline News Today' Beat Be ye Island Melodies Fashion Flasbrs fake It Easy Time MR, Vlctar R. IJndlahr MBS KJJI realar WEDNESDAY A. KFLW 1450 kc. t.-M Glamaar Manor ABO Brt'kfast In Hollywood ABC :45 It MKellerr'i Hma Edit. ABO 10:15 Wards Ma sic 10:2a My raa Story ABC I0:S 10:55 Kawi dr Betty CrOcktr ABC 11:00 Stan and Shea 115 Men af Nate 11:15 Ethel and Albert ABC ll:MThe Listening Post ABC 1I:U Sammy Kayo Orch. M., JUNE 26 KFJI 1240 kc. tyla Van. 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Mlllc Tla SoKltr Saprrmaa MRU Cialala Midnlta MRS AOaat. al Ttm Mix MBS This one is for the younger listening audience. The young man shown today is the original Terry, of "Terry and the Pi rates'" and he's back on the Job after serving two years with the army. The name is Cliff Car penter. While with the armed forces he saw duty as a rifleman in the ETO. being a footslogger with the 102nd division. Now he's putting his efforts into dramatizing peacetime adven tures for his young friends. a Radio is a screwy business at best, but now its going way overboard. George Cornwall, a Kansas farmer, reports (honest) that he has installed a radio in his barn so that he can listen to ABC's "Breakfast Club.'' He claims he listens while he milks the cows, and that they (the cows) like it. What is more im portant, he says, is the fact that they give more milk while lis tening. a a a Sunday, June 30th, the Quiz Kids will celebrate their sixth anniversary of broadcasting over ABC. Since their begin ning in 1940 they have put on 312 shows, with 126 boys and 100 girls appearing as contest ants. To date. 3651 questions have been asked, and a total of 2.069.483 letters have been re ceived since the program start ed, averaging around four ques tions per letter. Quite a little record. a a a School days are back for a lot of GI's, who are currently squeezing themselves into the desks at the' high school to learn the finer opints of civil air regu lations four nights a week. Classes, handled by Bob Sproat and Bill Hayden, are well at tended with attentive (?) lads, bent on learning how to fly or bust. a a a The boys from the conserva tion departments keep telling us that there are going to be fewer and fewer ducks as time goes on, but there are certainly lots of them in Link river right now. The ruddy ducks, n full color and grandeur, are fooling around above the Copco dam with broods of young ones, and it looks like quite a crop. Lots of widgeon, too. Maybe we'll get a little shooting after all, if anyone can find any shells any place. Aircraft Men Needed Badly Shortage of qualified aircraft technicians is creating an emer gency in various army air de pots in the Pacific. Civilian In structors and supervisors in all phases of aircraft maintenance : are urgently needed in Japan, Korea, the Philippines. Guam, Okinawa and Hawaii. There is also an extreme shortage of radio repair super visors on aircraft equipment and electronic equipment repair foremen, the United States em ployment service office here re ports. Rates of pay for these over, seas jobs range from $1.80 to $2 an hour on a 40-hour week and the length of employment is from nine to 18 months, de pending on the area assigned. Transportation to the over seas station is at government ex pense, board and room provided by the government at a nominal charge. At present family housing ac commodations in these stations are non-existent, but as soon as adequate facilities can be erect ed, housing will be available to war department civilian em ploye families on the same basis as to military families. Application for one o( these vacancies may be made at the U. S. employment service office in Klamath Falls. 242 Main. Target Range Permit Asked Ait application for permission to construct a $9000 shooting gallery on Pine street behind tho Wlnema hotel was referred to the police committee for In vestigation by the city council last night. James R. tarlcy, an- Clicant, earlier applied for a inkling permit before obtain ing an application for the busi ness license. Permits granted by the coun cil included re-rm(ing at 323 Lincoln, 100; adding a front porch at 1327 Lakeview, $100; remodeling Riverside school, $200; remodeling at 20? Vine, 100; re-roof !ng, 607 Uphuni, $180; repairing roof at Kast Main, $300; remodeling, 3 Lyt ton. $130; construction of a ga rage at 843 Pacific Terrace, $350; remodeling buildings by KiMler miiH Klrlajr riimnlnv i $200: adding a porch at isis crescent, $.100; otiiimng oi a double garage, block S3, lot 33 ot Second Hot Springs. $300; a new roof at 1918 Erie. $230. and building a home at 922 Main by l-nard Howell and J. A. Blue, $6000. A request for permission to construct a garage and repair siiop, $200, 243 Nevada, was de nied until the council could get further information on whether the shop was to be for private or public use. The council denied the appli cation to remodel block 5. lots 6 and 7 in Mills addition until the matter could be investigated by the street committee, as there is no block of that number In Mills addition. ' nksai D a niws. m.ai.ia r.iu. ' Thy Won't Soy 'Y' Or 'No' r J J - - a. '1 'I'';' fiid 7r w -T or .ana ' ; 3 Ik ' , -rax . other property for resale or use in America. German goods of any kind are so high, however, that this trade is negligible in comparison. Many feel that the best way to reduce the black market to its minimum is to arrange for the shipment and sale of cigarets and tobacco to Germany in such 3uantities as to make illegal ealing unprofitable. Ma. Arthur Wermulh, "on man army" of Bataan, with Patricia Bltal. 11. Danvar. Colo., t paischuU Jumper In War. muth s air show, shows In Dsvenport, la., whin associates said thay'd wad. The couple won't affirm or dany, but anyhow tltalr plans ara delayad pandlng lattlamant of Warmulh'i former mar. rlage. NCA talaphoto. Old Hands Back On Jobs As Rangers At Lava Beds Changes Suggested In Community Fund Irl McSherry of Salem, execu tive director of the Oregon Chest, yesterday suggested to the board of directors of the lo cal community chest that this area's contribution to the state welfare agency be included in the budget of the community chest, but no action was taken on the request. The Oregon Chest Is tho peacetime counterpart of the Oregon War Chest and covers seven child-care agencies and the Oregon Mental Hygiene so ciety. Champion Milk Cow Dies In Calf-Birth SEATTLE. June 23 (Pi The champion milk producer of them all gave her life for her family yesterday. Carnation Ormsby Madcap Fayne ("Capper" to the farm hands) died giving birth tn a 93-pound bull calf at the Car nation Farms. It was the ninth addition to the milk queen's royal family, one member of which once brought $23,000 from a South American purchaser. The Madcap, a Holstein fresian, set a world record in 1942 with an annual vleld of 41.943 pounds of milk with 1392 pounds of butterfat. Rangers for the Lava Beds, national monument, 1946 sea son, are mostly old hands at the I Job. This is the third summer I at this work for Fred Schcpmun. mathematics teacher from North Urcul. I Roger D. Reld. veteran of ; World War 2 is also there for his third season and Lillian Ked key, KUHS teacher is manning the Schonchln 1) lit to lookout for her third summer. The two fire guards, George W. Liltcn, formerly with the Lava Beds C'CC. Is a recently discharged army air corps veter an, and Lester J. Kimbrel of Lauraucevillc, G , is a veteran of four years in the marine corps, formerly with the L'CC camp at Medford. All the caves at the I.ava Beds are now open and visitors to the monument are exceeding all previous records. Many tour ists are stopping en route to and from Lassen national park and Crater Lake national park. In quiries are being received at the Lava Beds from all over the United States, indicating a heavy tourist visitation for the rest of the summer. Approxi mately tUO visitors stop per day. according to Don C. Fisher, cus todian. The Fishers' lawn around their house Is the scene of un usual wildlife, with deer, rab bits, squirrels and even a big grey porcupine and a little black baby porcupine, enloylng the cool green grass In the eve nings. The fire road in Modoe na tional forest from the Lava Beds' west lioiinnury m iimne nimm tuln Is completed now and all equipment moved from the vi cinity. A lightning storm rt two fires in the Shusla nutlnimi forest north of Medicine lake last week. Shirley Robinson, KI'HS graduate of the class of I IMA, has accepted a position a clerk with George Fisher, dlatrirt ranger of the double head dia. trirt in Modoc national forest with olfii-es In Tulelnke, Calif. Classified Ads Bring Results. City Meat Shelves Bare Despite Reported Plenty By MARYELLEM WRIGHT Although packing companies report that there is plenty of meat in the county, display cases in .local markets still remain comparatively bare with what meat there is being sold almost immediately after it is put out. The main reason for the short age is that packing companies are permitted to kill only a cer tain quota of livestock under OPA regulations. As this quota is far short of normal consump tion, there hasn't been enough meat to go around. Many of the packers admit that they have livestock on hand but cannot kill the animals because of hav ing filled their quota for this month. The situation will be somewhat relieved the first of July when packers will again be butchering, but they predict that the supply will not last through that month. In the meantime, the house wife is having to settle for lunch meats, sausages and frankfurt ers with which the markets are stocked. Some fresh fish is reaching the markets, brought In from the coast and Portland. This Includes salmon, halibut, ling cod and sea smelt. The supply of chickens is about average and they are be ing used in place of other meat. Rabbits are still scarce with only a few available to consumers. Some market owners manage to keep their cases partially fill ed by alloting only certain por tions of their meat for the day's LISTEN!! to tht Westinghouse Program Mon. thru Fri. 10:15 10:30 a. m. KFLW 1450 K.C. Chroma Dinette Chain 7.45 Choice of Red, Blue or Black Leatherette Cover ing, Hafter Furniture 9th and Klamath DON'T MISS KFLW's t "TOP TEN for TONIGHT" S:4S-Sports Lineup 6:00-Salon Concert 6:15-Home Town News 6:2S-World News ' 6:4S-Eugenie Baird, ABC 7:15 Say It With Music S:00-Lum 'n Abner, ABC 8:30-Dark Venture. ABC 9:00-Retrlbution, ABC 9:30-World News Taa Harali aW Nam ABO MFJjf MM KC sale. One market owner stated that he was getting about 30 per ; cent of the amount of beef he I usually gets, 10 per cent of the pork, 80 per cent of the lamb, and no veal. During the past week he received two hams and 40 pounds of bacon, an amount which didn't last through the hour. If OPA control and celling prices on meat are lifted pack ers believe that there will be plenty of meat for the remain der of the year In Klamath county. Prices would probably Jump about 3' cents per pound for grade A meat with the ex piration of government subsidies. To indicate how prices have Increased over a 10-year period, meat advertisements In the June 20. 1936. edition of the Klamath Daily News were compared with approximately average prices now being charged In local mar kets. The greatest increase has been in frankfurters which sold for 13 cents a pound as com pared with the present 48 cents. Choice steaks could then be bought for a mere 25 cents a pound while sirloins now cost 47 cents a pound and T-bones 36 cents providing you can find them. Of all the meat, bacon has re mained about the same price, selling for 43 cents in 1936 and 45 cents now. Prices on veal chops and sausage have Just about doubled while hens have raised from 22 cents to 41 cents. Rabbits have increased from 28 cents to 65 cents a pound. I Wood 1 1 Phone iJ 7150 Venation Blinds Patterson Furniture 230 Main Paul O. Landry this question: "We are forming a flying club and contemplate the purchase of e small mod ern sport plane. Can w, as a club, secure Insurance covering collision proper ty damage, passenger lia bility, fire, theft etc.T" For Information on any Insurance problem, consult THI LANDRY CO. 419 Main St. Ph. 56(2 Serving Klamath 20 Years The Courthouse Is Now One Block Down The Street From Our Office. STARTING Next Week! pWflftfr jj KFLW "fj p" ur dU1 MONDAY THRO HtlOAy For boys and girls, and grown-ups who don't want to grow old! Tha HrralS anl Naws ABC Mi.i?tV "C THE EMPORIUM: JUST ARRIVED! A New Shipment of U. S. Army Surplus Featherweight Sleeping Bags 19 95 Weighs only (H lbs. including water proof carrying bag. These are Deluxe Arctic sleeping bags. COMPACT . . LIGHTWEIGHT . . DOWN MIXTURE . . FEATHER P 1 1. 1. 1 MfX . rill.t. HEAVY DUTY ZIPPER. Rolls up Specially compactly into canvas waterproof Priced carrying case. REMEMBER. THEY ARE ALL BRAND NEW Canvas Folding Cots 4 Another shipment of government surplus has just been received. These are heavy duty cots with heavy frames and should not be confused with commercial coti. 95 Limited Quantity Sportsmen Hip Length Rubber Boots Lightweight yet built for plenty of hard usage. $9.95 Just Arrived! 12" Waterproofed Mountain Troopers' BOOTS Specially priced. leather soles. You cunnot dupllcnto this value in Klamnth Fall. 9.45 THE EMPORIUM Sit Main