Herald and news., July 11, 1946, Page 2, Image 2

Priorities
Available
For Vets
Local World War II veterans
wanting to build a house may
easily secure priorities for the
materials and authority to go
ahead with the building by fil
ling out a priority form and
sending it to the federal hous
ing administration office, Piatt
building, Portland.
These forms may be obtained
at the Klamath County cham
ber of commerce or at any
building materials dealer, and
when sent to Portland must be
accompanied by a simple floor
plan drawing of the proposed
structure, showing floor dimen
sions. If the veteran is having a
contractor build the house for
hiin, the contractor may apply
for the priority ill the same
manner. These houses must be
priced under $10,000.
But, if a contractor is plan
ning to build a house for sale
or rental to veterans, he can
get the same priority by filling
out the same form and trans
mitting it with complete plans
and specifications of the build
ing to the Portland office.
No one is authorized to con
struct any building costing more
than $400 without authority of
the civilian production adminis
tration or the federal housing
authority. Farm structures ap
proval is made through the
county agent.
Charles Bayless, local housing
expediter for southern Oregon,
will answer any housing ques
tions from veterans concerning
priorities, permits and loans.
He may be contacted at 113..
Willamette, Eugene, Ore.
Police Probe
2 Car Thefts
City police are investigating
the theft of two automobiles
which were taken from used
car lots last night. To get an
ignition key to start one of the
cars, the thieves had to break
into an office building on the
lot.
A 1940 dark blue Plymouth
sedan was taken from the Rose
Motor company Ipt at 6th and
Plum after the switch key had
. been obtained by forcing the
door of the office building.
Also reported stolen was a
1929 maroon Buick sedan, taken
from the Selby Motor company
used car lot at 7th and Oak.
No key was necessary to start
this car.
Only one traffic arrest was
made by police last night. Jack
C. Jewell of the McCloud River
Lumber company was cited to
appear in court today for fail
ure to yield the right of way
at 6th and Spring.
Classified Ads Bring Results.
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For
Commercial
Refrigeration
SALES and SERVICE
See
Karl Urquhart
Refrigeration
Equipment Co.
611 Klamath
Phone 6151
A Fence to
Meet Every Need
Mad from selected 48 in.
full six wood slats, Tnly
spaced and wovn btwn 5
cabin of heavy wir. Colors,
red or green.
It's easily, quickly and per
manently rctd. Long last
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pearand. It's Inexpensive,
too.
. Available In any quantity.
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4784 So. 6th
Phon 7709
Veterans Housing Information
World War II veterans in this locality are asked to fill
out the blanks in this form and 1 mail or take it to the
Klamath County chamber of commerce building, 323 Main.
It is information needed to expedite the construction of
low-cost homes for veterans in the Klamath area.
1. Do you want to rent or purchase a house:
2. How much rent you can afford to pay:
3. For purchase how much can you afford to pay:
4. Present living conditions, doubled up with other families,
tourist cabin, apartment, single room, etc.:
Name - - Address ...
(This information will not be used for soliciting and is
considered confidential). ,
Divorces Hold Big Lead
Over Marriages In 1946
A survey of six montlis' court
house records reveals that the
"marry month of June" was the
only month of the year so far
that wedding licenses in Klam
ath county have exceeded appli
cations for divorce, a slight edge
Health Office
To Be Closed
The office of the Klamath
County Public Health associa
tion, room 5, county courthouse,
will be closed1 from July 12 un
til September 1.
Beginning September 1. a
schedule of appointments will be
made for the chest X-ray mobile
unit in the county. A picture can
be taken in one minute.
Mrs. Thomas C. Porker, ex
ecutive secretary, said she would
be glad to have persons enroll
by writing their name, address,
and telephone number on a slip
of paper and dropping it in the
door slot at the office. She will
be in from time to time to check
enrollments. In September a de
finite appointment will be given
to all enrollees.
Charles B. Larkin is county
chairman of the case finding
committee.
Hull Advocates
Loan Passage
WASHINGTON, July 11 CP)
Former Secretary of State Cor
dell Hull, urging approval of
the $3,750,000,000 British loan,
said today that with its aid
Britain can help the United
States lead the world "in the
direction of peace and well
being."
Hull expressed his views in a
letter to Speaker Rayburn (D
Tex.) who made it public as the
house turned back to considers,
tion of the credit after a 24
hour interruption for other bus
iness. Support for the loan came al
so from the National Farmers
union which said in a wire to
Chairman Spence (D-Ky.) of the
banking committee:
"We strongly support approv
al of the British loan agreement
as indispensible to starting the
wheels of world trade moving
again and as of special benefit
to American farmers."
Spence read the telegram in
to the house record.
Rep. Springer (R-Ind.), in a
speech prepared for house de
livery, called for defeat of the
loan, declaring "I am con
vinced this proposal exceeds
our constitutional authority."
He said he could find no author
ity in the constitution to levy
taxes for a loan to a foreign
government.
63 Make Complaints
On Rent Hikes Here
Three hundred and seventy
one rent increase complaints
were filed with the Portland
office of OPA in the past two
days, the rent office reported
today, a number coming from
Klamath Falls.
There were 63 reports of an
increase of 20 per cent or less,
from Klamath Falls; one 20 to
50 per cent; 16 effective August
1, no amount stated; one from
$30 a month to $9 per day and
one from $35 a month to $12
a day, and 14 eviction notices
were served.
Rape Trial Held Up
By Lack Of Jurors
Depletion of the jury panel
temporarily halted the trial of
Thomas Lester Reilly, indicted
for assault with intent to com
mit rape, in circuit court this
morning, but a special jury
panel was called and the selec
tion of a trial jury was re
sumed this afternoon.
Reilly is charged with enter
ing the Klamath hotel room of
Mrs. Vivian U. Tipton several
weeks ago. He is defended by
U. S. Balentine.
Washing Machine
PARTS and SERVICE
Largest Parts stock be
tween Portland and San
Francisco. We will ship
parts anywhere!
Most completely equipped
hop of its type in South
ern Oregon
38 Years combined service
back of every job.
W have a large stock of
wringer rolls, all makes.
MERIT
WASHING MACHINE
SERVICE
Phon 5689 611 So. 6th
of 42 to 41, but for the entire
period divorce complaints are
far out in the lead.
From January 1 through June
30. there were 208 marriage li
censes issued, 258 divorce and
11 annulment suits brought and
238 final divorce decrees grant
ed. In every month but June there
were about 10 more divorce
suits, than marriage licenses is
sued in Klamath county. One
counterbalancing factor, how
ever, is that Oregon's three-day
cooling off period sends a lot of
couples to Reno to tie the knot.
Wives asked for 183 of the di
vorces and husbands only 75;
cruel and inhuman treatment
was given as the grounds in 230
of the suits, desertion for a pe
riod of more than a year in 27
and conviction of a felony in one
lone suit. Children were an is
sue in approximately half of the
suits placed.
Death Claims
Dorris Voman
Mrs. Edith Olive McKee of
Dorris. Calif., died Wednesday,
July 10, in Ashland following
an illness of one week. She had
been in poor health for some
time.
Mrs. KcKee was born Janu
ary 2, 1876, at Fort Jones,
Calif., and lived in Klamath
and Siskiyou counties most of
her life. Funeral services will
be held at the Dorris church
Monday. July 15. at 10 a. m.
She is survived by two sons,
O. F. Zumwalt of Klamath
Falls; J. V. McKee of Hayward,
Calif.; two sisters, Mrs. Elma
Hessig of Ashland; Mrs. Eliza
beth Hessig of Beswick, Calif.;
two brothers, Lee Varnum and
John Varnum of Dorris, Calif.,
and four grandchildren.
Hughes' Condition
Remains Critical
LOS ANGELES, July 11 .
The condition of Howard
Hughes, wealthy sportsman,
flier and film producer, was
still critical today, his fifth day
spent under constant medical
care since the spectacular crash
of an army experimental plane
he was flying.
"Hughes has a terrific deter
mination to live," said his phy
sician. Dr. Verne Mason. "He
has the constitution of a man of
steel."
Hughes is suffering from a
lung injury, burns and other
hurts.
Greyhound Lines Hold
Conference On Safety
A safety meeting was held at
the Winema hotel for the driv
ers and their wives of the Pacific
Greyhound Lines July 10, as one
of the many meetings held
throughout Oregon in an effort
to help eliminate accidents on
highways, as well as to uphold
the company's safety record. A
dinner was enjoyed by the group,
and motion pictures were also
shown.
Those who attended and par
ticipated in the meeting were
Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Sayre and
drivers Roy Felix and wife, D.
Lovelace and wife, W. R.
Roberts, H. O. Smith, Norman
Hand, A. D. Johnson, and A. S.
Thomas. Sayre is the Klamath
Fails agent.
State Patrolmen
Find New Homes
Two of the three homeless
state police officers and their
families were assured of homes
today following a story which
appeared in The Herald and
News at which time the officers
were threatening to pitch tents
on the sergeant's lawn.
Officer Dalford Reed and
family obtained a house nol
more than 70 yards from their
present residence and Officer
Mark Sullivan found a place
near the O'Connor feed plant.
Now Officer Lawrence Berg
mann is the only one left to
find a roof.
Jury Clears Autoist
In Bradbury Death
James Garland Melvin Jr.,
Berkeley motorist, was absolved
of all blame in the auto death of
Norman R. Bradbury last Mon
day by a coroner's jury in meet
ing1 last night. Bradbury, 59,
was killed instantly when he
jumped into the path of Mclvin's
car near the river bridge on
highway 87.
Members of the Jury included
Otto Smith, M. P. Lavenik, Clif
ton Richmond, E. B. Kiger, Rudy
Jeschke and D. H. McCool.
WORD TO THE WISE
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and economy. 12 tablet,
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State Accepts
Guard Units
SALEM. July 11 (V) The
Oregon military department to
day accepted mmi the national
guard bureau the assignment of
nulional guard units to the
state, totaling 10, 1)25 men.
The units include purls of
the 41st division, which will
include troops trom Oregon,
Washington and Idaho; and
coust artilleiy, anti-aircraft,
radar and other special units.
The strength of Oregon's na
tional guurd will be about
double tne pre-war strength.
Adjutant General Raymond F.
Olson said that hcaduuarlers of
the 41st division will be decid
ed in about a week, with Port
land likely to get it. Sulem
was headquarters before the
war.
He said the location of each
unit in the national guard will
be known in a week. The 41st
division commander will not be
announced for a few weeks.
Brig. Gen. Thomas E. Rilca,
who was assistant commander
of the 41st during the war, is
first in line for the assignment
as division commander, but he
first must pass his army phy
sical examination. He was in
poor health from tropical dis
eases and stomach ailments.
General Rilea, whose home
is Salem, is state adjutant gen
eral. General Olson is serving
in his absence. General Olson
said the adjutant general would
continue to have his office in
Salem, regardless of where the
41st division headquarters arc
located.
Plane Wreck
Kills 5 Men
READING. Pa., July 11 (Pi
Five crewmen were killed and a
sixth injured today as a trans
continental and Western Air
lines Constellation training plane
caught fire in the air and crashed
into an alfalfa field a mile north
of tho Reading airport.
A man identified at Commu
nity General hospital as Capt.
Norman A. Nilsen of Norfolk,
Mass., died a short time after he
was admitted. Before he died he
told hospital attendants six per
sons had been aboard the plane,
on a routine training flight from
a base at Reading. The sixth oc
cupant, as yet unidentified, was
reported in serious condition at
Reading hospital.
An instructor of the Reading
Aviation service, at the airport,
said he saw the plane approach
ing as though trying to make an
emergency landing on the north
runway. It was afire at the
time, he said, adding that it sud
denly lost altitude and crashed
into the field.
The burning plane skidded
several hundred yards before
coming to a stop atop a hill, leav
ing a trail ofctharred alfalfa.
Nilsen either was thrown
clear of the debris or managed to
crawl out after the plane stop
ped. TWA has for some time op
erated a training school for its
international division here. Pi
lots, flight crews, and hostesses
scheduled for transocean and in
ternational routes undergo train
ing on four-engine planes before
beginning commercial service.
Buyers' Strike
Urged By CIO
PHILADELPHIA. July 11 IIP)
The executive board of the CIO
Philadelphia Industrial Union
council, representing 75 local
unions, urged its 175,000 mem
bers today "to buy only absolute
necessities." Additionally, the
group urged the national CIO to
initiate a buyers' strike until
prices return to former OPA
ceilings.
"The onslaught on the OPA
by special interests has assumed
such proportions that we are on
the verge of inflation," the board
said. "Every increase in prices
means a cut in take-home pay.
Further inflation will make
meaningless the recent wave
gains that workers have obtain
ed through collective bargain
ing. The only recourse left to
organized labor is further re
course to collective bargaining."
CIO pickets marched today in
front of the huge Reading ter
minal market in what they said
was a demonstration to focus
public attention on the drive
against higher prices.
Even as the pickets circled be.
fore the doors, customers were
lining up inside before counters
which displayed steaks and cuts
of beef at 69 cents a pound, but
ter at 85 cents a pound and eggs
on cents a dozen.
Food prices, generally, were
higher. A spot check showed
meat was selling in most places
at double OPA ceiling prices.
Restaurants hiked prices 5 to 10
cents a dish. Butter went as
high as $1.16 a pound in one
market.
Ambulance Manned
By Volunteer Group
A group of Klamath citizens
manned the Merchants Police
ambulance during the recent
Fourth of July rodeo and con
tributed their time as part of
the Red Cross program.
Roy Premo is chairman of
first aid, and others who assist
ed were Otto Smith, chairman
of the chapter, Jimmy McFar-
land, driver, Leo Northcott,
Stanley Picsor, Hugh Tolley,
Sterling Williver, Mrs. Joy
Ustick, Mrs. Mona Dixon, and
Mrs. W. N. Carothers.
The fact that blood circulates i
was not known until 300 years I
ago, when William Harvey made
his great discovery.
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At Horn Mr. and Mrs.
Clemens A. Lundy and 1clor
hhve returned from Sun Fran
cisco where they attended final
rites fi r Luiuly's mother. Re
turning with them for a few
days' visit is Mi's. Stanley Rug
gle of Los Angeles, duughlor
of the Luiutys. Mrs. Glen llur
ford, another daughter, is also
spending a few dnys in Klam
ath Falls. She will return to
her home in Los Angeles short
ly. Ntlghbori Meat The Royal
Neighbors of America will hold
a regular meeting Frliluy at 8
p. m., in the KC hall. There
will be InltlnlUiii. Officers are
asked to wour (ornuils. Hofresh
ments will ba served after
lodge.
Vacationing Mr. and Mrs.
John Hundull and Mrs. Lucille
Willis are spending a two
weeks' vacution in Seattle.
Both Mrs. Randall and Mrs.
Willis are employed at La
Pointe'i. To Forest Grove Mr. and
Mrs. W. R. Morgan, 5108 Ava
Ion, drove to Forest Grove with
their daughter, Mrs. William
Hill and children, to visit rela
tives. They will be gone sev
eral weeks.
Postal Receipts The post of.
fice reports $49,514.72 collected
from the sale of stamps during
the months of April, May and
June. Receipts for the same
quarter last year totaled $58,
667.41. Fire The Klamath Falls fire
department received a call
Wednesday afternoon from 6:18
Main street. They extinguished
a small blaze in the alley be
hind the building. There was
no damage.
In Portland Mrs. Karen
Ca'lson and daughter, Mrs.
Margaret Bailey, are In Port
land for several weeks. Mrs.
Carlson is to undergo medical
treatment there.
Official Visit Thomas Mc
Leod of Salem, grand patriarch
of the grand encampment of
Oregon, will pay an official
visit to Ewauna chapter Friday.
All patriarchs are requested to
be present.
Mt. Laki The July meeting
of the Mt. Lakl Social club will
be held tonight, Thursday at 8
o'clock in the Henley grange
hall. All young couples in tha
community are invited.
Family Circle The Family
circle of the First Covenant
church will meet tonight at 823
Walnut. This is to be an all
hostess meeting and friends are
invited.
From Alturas James South
er, former manager of Miller's,
is here on business today from
Alturas. Calif., where he man
ages the Golden Rule store
there.
From Baker Mr. and Mrs.
H. M. Munscll returned Wednes
day from Baker where they
were colled by the death of Mrs.
Munsell's brother, Lawrence
Petit.
The birth of twins is more
common in Canada than In the
United States.
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KUHS Annual
In Mails Soon
The long overdue 1946 El
Rodeo, yearbook of the students
of Kliimuth Union high school,
is now in the bindery and will
bo received by subscribers
around tho first of next week,
according to Arthur Murkowlti,
miiuugcr of Uushong coiiipuny
in I'ortlnnd, which it printing
this year's books. Tho bonks
are to be mailed from Portland
July U.
After failure to deliver tho
annuuls previous to the end uf
school, the Portland company
wrote Barbara Roskumi), senior
editor of the book, tliut tho
company would be responsible
for delivery. lluwover, suld
Markoiiitz, due to repliu'rmcut
of equipment, sickness mid loss
of employes, tho annuuls huve
been hold up for seven weeks.
Originally, i'.l Kodco wns prom
ised to subscribers by Muy 20.
This is the first year of Kl
Rodro since 1941 for KUHS
students. The books cost $
each. Woman Visitor
Injured In Fall
Mrs. Percy Clopton of Berke
ley, Calif., aislcr-in-luw of Mrs.
Allen Sloan of 2U2 Payne, is
recovering in Hillside hospital
from serious injurira received
early Wednesday morning when
she fell down the stairway of
the Sloan home.
Mr. and Mrs. Clopton, with
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Huttigun
of Gurneyville, Calif., iiad
driven north Wednesday and
planned to stay at the Slouu
residence while vacationing in
this area. Mrs. Clopton gut up
in the night and fell some 14
feet down the stairs lending
from the second floor. She sul
fered a broken right arm, a lac
erated scalp and severe concus
sion of the brain. She was un
conscious for some hours but
today is thought to be out of
danger. Mrs. Sloan has been
visiting in Berkeley. Percy
Clopton is well known here, a
native of Bonanza and a former
Klamath resident.
Initiation Wlncma temple,
Pythian Sisters, will meet in tho
IOOF clubrooms at 8 p. m. Fri
day for a regular business ses
sion and initiation.
To North Dakota James
Casey and wife left lust week
for Fargo, N. D., where they
will spend the summer weeks
visiting friends.
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Flyers Resume
Use Of Field
Commercial flying" was rcsuni
...i ,,i ilm iiHinlalnul airfield to
day, following tontullvo ugio-
incut on rutea between i "'
mid the operators. A '!' ..
meeting f tl.o airport comiv
sion and lh operators wus hold
Tuesdav. and tliu live per c'
gross profit tux was reduced to
three ht cent, eliminating the
mum complaint of plane I'l"'1"'
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III llii'ir opinion wiry -
too high. Operations will he re-
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and final rates may ho worni'ii
out after It is soon now ino o
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sihlllty that rules may go either
up or down nepoiiniim
volume of buslines.
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Ciiscado Flying service mid Ore
gon Aircrull service, mnra
structlon ugaln this morning, and
Hay lloy.w and imu I. ru,
atructors, report that uluioal 1 00
per cent of their students were
present for renewed claws.
ReturnMr. and Mrs. A. G.
Wiggins, 820 Kldoiudo, have
returned home nftrr a week's
trip to southern California.
While traveling llo-y visited Mr,
and Mrs. I. J. Olson of Sun
llornurdino. ONon was for
mer inmiugor of the J. J- Now.
berry store in Kluinulh Kails.
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