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Newspaper Page Textfo) 0) mm j In ThO i Day's Jews By TRANK JENKINS THERE Is good news, mixed In with the bnd. Thla, (nr example, which Icacla off crop nrwa dispatch from W nxh liiittoii: "This country In wi'll mi the way toward Its SIXTH ennaecu live HUM PGR harvest. In fact, the department of aiiricunurc, in Ha luteal monlhly crop report, uya the current outlook (or total furni production has seldom been aurpuascd." v TTIIK roport referred to anya 1 i-ondltlniia pre vn Ulna on July 1 Imllciiled a RECORD corn crop, near-record crops of wheat, (in l, ixitiitoea and rice, and lame crop of vegetables and mot fruits. It adda that If the Ifrain crop turns out aa now Indicated the nation will be In a poalllon to curry out It commitment to aend 2.10 (11)11 11(10 btiihcla of wheat tu shortage arena durlnit the next 12 months and atlll maintnln pro duction of livestock products inent, milk, euiia and poultry at level near those of tho paat year. THERE la an ancient supcrall Hon (which, oddly enouKh, la faintly aupKrled by atntialic) tu the effect that III war time more boy bublea are born. Six rousecutlvo bumper cropa In tho United Statea at a time when the world la ravaiied by war and Ha aftermath la at leaat an equal co Incidence' If you refuse to re Kurd It aa anything mure than that. TT la hard to believe at the mo- ment, but there waa a lime not an long ago when aix bump er cropa in a row in thla country would have been generally re garded aa a CALAMITY. SUKI'LUSKS would have been piled up and we then looked upon aurplunca aa akin to small pox. bill collectora and maaa vlalts by In-lawa. We shivered and our tin til chattered every time tho word "aurplua" waa mentioned in public. It la less than a decade and a half (luce, in a frcnxlcd effort to : KT KlO of surpluses, we were killing little pigs before they grew ima oB one., plowing un-: i. Pi der cotton and paying farmers lor growing less. now a surplus of any thing looks like manna from heaven. , , . T ETS not fool ourselves there u will be aurpluaea AGAIN. Not thla year, or mnvho even next. But SOONKR OR LATER. That is Inevitable. Hut the scarcities of the war years, and of this war-aftermath year, have taught us something about surpluses. Wo have leariv ed. for one thing, that surpluses are USEFUL. Without surpluses, wo would be living always on the ragged edge, never knowing today whether we will have enough for tomorrow. THIS much, at least, we HAVE LEARNED: As between surpluses and shortages, it is better to have a surplus. So far as the good things of life are conccrnrd, it is far better to linvo too much than too little. Wo know that NOW. But we'll probably forget it quickly enough. Unless human nature has changed radically (and 11 HASN'T) It won't bo too Ions before demagogues will be yowl ing aguln about surpluses and yammering that there orta be a law forbidding them. TJEDE Is something to think about: IF LEFT ALONE, and unham pered, the law of supply and de mand, plus FREE enterprise, (Continues an rata S, (lama 1) Danger Cry From Oak Ridge Threatens Control Project WASHINGTON. July 1 (IP) A report that Onk Rldgc security officers think "the peace and se curity of tho United States is definitely In danger" throw a roadblock against the adminis tration's atomic control legisla tion today. House republicans showed disposition to sidetrack all A bills until world conditions be come more settled. Rep, Elston (R-Ohlo) put It lull way: , "Before we talk about enter ing into international agree ments concerning atomic energy we should reach other agree ments concerning the future, of world peace. Wo shouldn't put the cart before the horse." Ho was commenting on a re- Eort read to tho house yesterday y Rep. J. Parnell Thomas (R NJ), ranking minority mcmbci of the committee on un-American activities. The roport, by Ernie Adam son, chief Investigator for thf committee, said ho ancT Chair man Wood (D-Ga) had been In vestigating "subversive activi ties" at the Oak Ridge, Tonn.j atomic project and had founc that: 1. Members of scientific socie ties there "aro very active In support of International civilian control" of atomic materials and are "devoted to tho creation of some form of world govern ment." 2. Some officers of the socle- PRICE riVE CENTS Ofo KLAMATH FALLS, OHECON Senators To Bar Control Of Feed Grain WASHINGTON, July 12 (VP) New England aenutnra launched an effort toduy to keep price ceilings off feed grains In any re newal of Ol'A authority. Senator Bridges (R-N.1I ) said he and others hud drafted an amendment to pending OPA revival legislation which would ban controls over wheat and other grains when used for livestock and poultry feeds. It would retain ceilings on flour and cereala. The acnate rejected 411 to 112 Wednesday a move by Senator City Council Favors Vote On Manager City manager form of govern lent, long discuasud py Kiaif ath Falls citizens, was airefl again last night at an Informal merlins of the city council uui a decision as to placing such a measure on the November bal lot was tabled for the time be ing. The session, which was devot ed to discussing and clarifying the city manager set-up, was pre sided over by Councilman Paul O. Landry. A number of private citizens was invited to sit In on the meeting and express their vlrwa, Introducing voters to both a change to city manager method of government and a completely nmu xllu MimHmp Ufll Hl-rAlir. ',, by clty Attorney Henry ,,,.,,, who that there is noi m,(fcicnt t me to prepare a new charter to comply with tho (I'anllnatS an lafe S, CataMn I) United Makes Trial Flight A sleek Malnllner 102 dropped down at 10:12 a. m. today as United Air Lines made the first of three familiarization flights into Klamath Falls prior to the inauguration of regular services here on August 1. The Malnllner, sleeper type, got off the ground again at 10:37. It came In from, the south and continued north. The ship was expected back this afternoon on a second practice flight. According to CAA law, it is mandatory for pilots flying com mercial plants to make three flights into a area where service Is to be established. These flights are made with simulated instru ment approaches. Planes coming In "on top" or above the clouds, use Instruments entirely and the mandatory three flights give pilots a true picture of the new area they will fly. Civil aeronautics authority here has one of the highest pow ered ranges In this region and on all instrument approaches, planes will use CAA facilities. Pilots making the familiariza tion flights arc the same pilots who will fly the big Mainlincr 160's Into Klamath Ft!is when United establishes this route. ties "admit communication with persons outside of the United States ..." 3. "Tho security officers at Oak Ridge think that tho peace and security of tho United States Is definitely in danger." Walter C. Beard Jr. and John H. Bull of the Oak Ridge engi neers and scientists said In a statement last night their organi zation "has at all times remained within the security bounds" de fined by the Manhattan district security officer. : "Wo never have been accused of violating project security," they asserted. Along with the house commit tee's report, the lawmakers had a coldly matter-of-fact digest of the damage wrought by the Bl klni test bomb. This report, sub mitted by a special evaluation board composed of scientists and army and navy experts, was re leased by President Truman at his news conference yesterday. The experts said that although it exploded some 1500 to 2000 feet west of tho target, tho Bi kini bomb behaved about as ex pected, and that "in general no significant unexpected prenom ena occurred." They listed the ships sunk and damaged and noted: It should be pointed out that since the targets carried no per. sonncl the fires were uncon trolled and undoubtedly there was more damage than there would have been under battle conditions." Nght Heed til-Kan.) to exempt from controls grains and products manufactured from them Senator Wherry (R-Neb.) In dicated that he will offer an amendment which would guar antee wholesalers, retailers and distributors the same markups and discounts they enjoyed In 1940. Temporary Daisy With these and other amend ments lined up, the senate dis posed of other pending business temporarily delaying action on a bill to restore curtailed OPA authority for a year. A drive also waa on to clinch the exemptions previously vot ed for meat, milk and sundry other "Hems. Republicans got behind the new campaign after barely fall ing to rip from the measure provisions which Senator Taft (R-Ohio) said could prevent manufacturers from getting needed price Increases The GOP objective was to compel the house to vote spe cifically on the various decon trols ordered by the senate. Ad ministration leaders were wor ried over the outcome. They conceded privately that the house might go, along and that President Truman again might (eel compelled to toss out veto. Strategy Outllnad This is the strategy, as out lined by Taft to a reporter: Once the senate passes Its measuro to bring OPA back to life in slimmer, form, the bill will have to go to a conference committee so differences with the house can be straightened out. (So far the house has passed only a bill to continue OPA un til July 20 in its prc-dcath form). However, instructions are be ing drafted and the senate will be asked to approve them tell ing the senate conferees to stand pal on amendments outlawing any future price controls on: Meat, poultry, milk, petrole um, cottonseed, soy beans and their products. Senate Insistence almost cer tainly would compel the house conferees to lay these decon trols before the full chamber for test ballots. Taft said these votes probably would nail down the exemptions. Munitions Men Balk At Probe WASHINGTON, July 12 W) Senate war investigations ex cused two key witnesses today Henry M. Garsson arid Benjamin F. Fields when they refused to waive immunity In testifying on operations of an Illinois muni tions combine. Ill an angry, flnger-shaklng exchange, Chairman Mead (D N.Y.) first told Fields he was through as a witness until ho was willing to answer questions frankly and completely. Then, only moments later, Mfiid told Garsson the same thing. ,. These rapldfire developments came on a day when the com mittee sought to get Rep. May (D-N.Y.) as a witness in a public hearing to testify on his activi ties in connection with the com bine. The committee formally in vited the chairman of the house banking committee to appear but May declined to tell reporters whether ho would comply. Garsson and Fields have been prominently identified with the Eric Basin Metal Products com pany and allied firms which pyramided what Mead called a "paper empire" into millions in war contracts. , Bulletin PARIS. July 12 (VP) Tha four-power foreign ministers' council andad its saaaion to night. U. S. Ssnator Arthur N. Vandanbtrg (R-Mich.) told re porters. Vandanbarg said that ha and San. Tom Connally (D-Tex.) would return to tha United States tomorrow. It was not datarmlnad whether Secretary of Stat Jamas F. Byrnes, American member of tha four-powar council, would return with them or remain in Paris until tha general European peace conference convenes July 29. FRIDAY. JULY 12. ssfssa""? ,-. -vITvr". ' , .---'-- ! .-., tv-i-pi--..W.Ja.nHa ! l'''lra)iMw.lajic.aaj nie"-- r. ...... - - , II - -""- r - rf- -aa. I r ynaim 11 1 -j- A A - -,,).- - a-(J --- -' Hi ' -r a ,.v - 2 if. A recant visit to tha Deschutes county seat of Bend resulted in these landscape-like pictures taken by Was Gudarian. The Herald and News photographer. Above, a park section of Mirror pond in the heart of the city and looking across to a residential section where long-tressed wil lows tween the water. A little Newport. Ore., visitor. Sue Louise Foster, stopped by to feed a few of tha wild ducks. Below, another view of Mirror pond, backwater an attractive home on the banks, flanked on one side by tha the Harmon foundation. . Deschutes City Is Shining Example By LOIS STEWART Klamath Falls grew out of the bobby sox stage some time ago but for some reason, she has Just forgotten to put her hair up! Loyal residents, the ones who lovo the bare hills, the smells and sounds that are peculiar to Klamath Falls are the first to admit that their town needs a good shot in the arm and only by concerted efforts of the citi zenry is Klamath Falls, so short a time ago Linkvillc, to emerge into the gracious lady.. Nothing makes a town so hop ping mad as to have another thrown in her teeth its beau tics, its accomplishments, its righteous ' and God-fearing citi zens. But Bend, to the north, in a country so basically like our own, can well be put down Klamath's throat whether she likes it or not. Passing through Bend, the County Trappers Lead Fur Sales Klamath county trappers led In sale of animal furs from their last winter's catch the state game commission's bulletin re ported today. A detailed summary of trap pers' activity showed 64 Klamath county men selling their furs for $28,649. Lane county's 150 licensed trappers followed with sales of $24,477, and Clatsop's received $22,367. Oregon's 2009 licensed trap pers received $326,141. The catch by species: Otter, 216; mink, 6S67; muskrats, 61, 395; wildcats, 1067; fox, 405; skunks, 1846; weasels, 382; rac coons, 4027; marten, 873; civet cats, 836; cougar, 33; coyotes, 2045: bear, 33; badgers, 40; nu tria, 31; opossum, 3. (Telephone Careful Planning Makes Bend Beautiful , s "if -- 4 Vv T-saaWi77J 'A ftf Viff "i. 4 JV-l- i . WP '.A Of Well-Planned Civic Enterprise average motorist gets an im pression of lawns so green they hurt the eye, and water so plen tiful that every house nestles on a lake or river bank. This isn't just exactly so, but of course the lawns are green to the eye as you merge from sage covered waste. Here Is a brief history of Bend, of its lovely Mirror pond, of the Pioneei park. Brooks and Drake parks, and the rushing, Icy Deschuter river; Timbtr Stately In the beginning the timber came down to the town. Tal) fiine trees, cone laden and state y, still stand in lawns and park. Redin Records To Be Played SEATTLE, July 12 W) "Whispering wire" transcrip tions of conversation by Lieut. Nicolal G. Redin, Russian naval officer on trial on espionage conspiracy charges, were order ed played today in the presence of a select group including RediD and his wife. What was contained In the transcriptions, played at the "urgent suggestion of Trial Judge Lloyd L. Black, was not disclosed immediately. The long-awaited action came when Defense Attorney Tracy E. Griffin, oocning the defense re buttal, asked that records of the transcriptions be played in tho courtroom in the absence of the Jury. Assistant U. S. Attorney Allan Pomeroy objected, first to the transcriptions being' played at all in the absence of the jury, an objection overruled by the court, and secondly to their be ing played in open court, saying he did not want to make a "pub lic spectacle." f A v A v a. A - YYCAinCK MtYVJ jair it, iii Mil. tlmr II) Mia 41 Praelallallaa latl 4 aari .M aifMi jaar I Sala la.J Narmal lt.a ! Taar .. la.SS raracaalt tltar laaajr aaa Salar t'J. Sill) Number 1086S j Mm A? :4' slw- 4. of the icy Deschutes river, with city playground donated through It is one of the visual treats Bend lays out on an already richly laid table. The town was originally known as Farewell Bend and it so. appears on maps published by the U. S. geological survey Early pioneers, in. their trek west from the Prineville region, found water and grazing lands for their stock and as they con tinued "looking back saw a bend in the river and they called il Farewell Bend." In the 80 s and 90's it was re ferred to as The Bend. Today's name is just plain Bend. One or two stockman had cabins on the river and grazed stock in the country; it was a stopping place on the stage route south, but there was no little trading post such an Linkville in the early days. In the early part of the cen tury, Bend began to grow. Peo pic came in to take up timber claims between 1900 and 1910. After the individuals had proved (Cantlnard an Para S, Calumn 1) Baseball Scores NATIONAL First game R H E New York 15 0 St. Louis 2 9 2 Voiselle and Cooper, Lombard! (7); Pollet and Gargagiola. . R H E Boston 19 0 Cincinnati 0 11 Sain and Masi; Blackwell and Lamanno. R H E Brooklyn 2 5 0 Chicago 13 15 0 Barney, Herring (1), Gregg (6) and Anderson; Wyse and McCul lough. AMERICAN Detroit '. 2 8 1 Boston 4 8 0 Trucks and Tebbetts; Ferriss and H. Wagner. Dorris Tunnel Cave-In Traps Freight- Train Fifteen loaded cars of a northbound Southern Pacific freight train were trapped in the 2070-foot tunnel a mile north of Dorria by a cave-in and derailment at 2:05 this morninn Pnno,.r. service into Klamath Falls will be held up at least 36 hours aa a result. Conductor of the train, H. R. Bonney, 427 Alameda, waa slightly injured when the derailment occurred and was taken to xne orey nospiiai in uorr is where seven stitches were taken in a gash in his forehead. Bonney and James E. T ravers. Dunsmuir. hrakemnn ra n the caboose when the tunnel cave-in occurred. Travera was shaken up but did not require medical treatment. Bonney was thrown to the floor when the train suddenly stoDrjed and a walfr hnrrel ien over on mm, arencning him wun water ana Knocking mm I unconscious momentarily The freight, coming to Klam ath Falls from Dunsmuir. had left Dorris just a few minutes before the accident and was over halfway through the tun nel when several large military pontoons, lashed to gondolas, ripped loose from the cars. Tunnel Caved In The metal pontoons Jammed into the sides of the narrow tunnel, tearing loose side and roof timbers, and brought the roof down on the cars. The engine and 42 cars had already cleared the tunnel open ing, and this morning two de railed cars in the north end of the tunnel were pulled out. On the other end of the train the caboose and 19 cars were free and moved out, but in between, 13 more cars remain locked in by the slide of con crete, earth and timbers. Seven of the crushed pon toons have been pulled out, but at least three more are still jammed against the first car of the imprisoned string and must be removed before workmen can ascertain the extent of dam age to boxcars further back. - The first car of the string, badly damaged, was loaded with sugar, and is off the track. The others to the rear are believed to be off the track and are loaded with government ship ments. Free Cars Come la Engineer of the freight was Carlos Sylvia of Dunsmuir. He brought the free cars on the front end of the train on in to Klamath Falls this morning The train came into Dorris about 1 a. m, today and laid over there for several minutes. t-lt- jwas going' slovlr -when jt--eni tered the curving tunnel. The Cascade, fast Southern Pacific passenger train, - was 55 min utes behind the freight and was stopped at Dorris. After laying over there until about 6 a. m., it was turned back to Black tCantlnaa aa raia S, CalaM ) Hughes Tells Crash Cause LOS ANGELES, July 12 (VP) His battle for life suddenly weakening, Howard Hughes, 41, beckoned his doctor to his bed side last night and whispered a halting story of the cause of his fiery crash Sunday in an experi mental plane. "I want you to give this mes sage to the army. The accident was caused by the rear nan ot the right propeller," the million aire maker of planes and movies, told Dr. Verne R. Mason. "I don't want this to happen to anybody else." Explaining carefully that the rear set of propeller blades on the right engine of his twin-engine plane had suddenly re versed pitch during the first test hop, Hughes said: "It felt as if some giant had the right wing of the airplane in his hand and was pushing it back and down. "Tell the army to look in the wreckage, find the rear half ot the right propeller, and find out wnat went wrong. Hughes gave his message to Dr. Mason after asking "am I going to live?" and hearing the physician solemnly reply: , "I don't know." In a bulletin on Hughes con dition, Issued when he disclosed the airman's first words on the cause of the crash, the doctor said: "Howard Hughes has suffered a turn for the worse in his fight for life." Seattle Finds Rodeos Legal SEATTLE, July 12 (-T) Kide 'em cowboy, there's not law agin it in Seattle, after all! This was the discovery of J. Ampler Newton, assistant cor poration counsel, after he delved musty archives to find whether rodeos could be staged here. Newton found that back in 1907 an ordinance was passed enumerating a number of things like hospitals within 1000 feet of a public park as "pub lic nuisances," with fines and jail sentences prescribed. Came 1929 and the city coun cil added rodeos to the list. Then In 1941 they, deleted rodeos from the list and since then there's been no new legis lation on the subject. The hos pitals are still taboo, though. Newton said it was a matter of policy for the council to de cide on a pending rodeo license petition. Aiken Wants Sale Delayed On Barracks State Budget Director Cenrea Aiken said today in Salem that he would ask the state board oi higher education to reauest tha war assets administration to hold me jviamam rails Marine Bar racks off sale until October 1. By that time, Aiken said, tha board will have a better idea as to whether it would need tha $6,500,000 military installation as a college for veterans. The state department of voca tional education is also interest ed in the barracks for possible use as a trade school, and Oscar I. Paulson, director of vocational education, has said that it will - wucuicr lu lane over-- any or all of the installation. ' He said that he is studying tha question but the biggest etum- bling block ia where the state can get the money to convert and uyciuie ne acnooi. Board to Hear Paulson . Paulson will make his recom mendation to the state board of education when it meets in Sa. lem July 2Z. The board then, if it deciaes it wants the Marine Bar racks, will send up a request to the Portland WAa to keep tha barracks off sale. Me- said,- however, that the, state could take over and tjper. arte that-military installation as a vocational school only with per. mission from the surplus prop, erty division of tho 1 1 s of education.' There is no possibility of get ting federal funds for tho ect, Paulson said, as all federal money for vocational education .."" "ocaiea io scnooi dis tricts. Federal money ran ha spent only for salaries for in structors. Two representatives of the U, s. office of education from Wash ington were with Paulson when " inspection tour ot tne Marine Barrack w.ek; At that time Paulson said that in his opinion the local in steUation was ideally equipped lor a trade -school and could ba easily converted. Nation Keeps Food Promise WASHINGTON, July 12 (pi President Truman said today the nation, through the deter, mined efforts of everyone, has made good on it- first relief promises. Reporting on the fiscal year which ended June 30, he said that in the case of food gains the major relief commodity. exports exceeded the country's commitments. The president cautioned, how. ever, that continued cooperation will be necessary if the country is to do its full share to relieva the hunger he said still exists in the world. Mr. Truman's statement was issued in connection with a re port by Secretary of Agricul ture Anderson which said for. eign food shipments during the) past 12 months totaled mora than 16,500,000 long tons or about 16 23 per cent of the nation's supply. However, about 60 per cent of the shipments were food grains, such as wheat, corn, rice, rye and oats. For thesa Anderson said the government worked by two standards: (It the total quantity officially promised shortage areas 400,. 000,000 bushels; (2) the quantity the country hoped to be abla to ship 417,000,000 bushels. Strikers Picket Medford Garages 1 MEDFORD, July 12 (JP) . Three Medford garages wer picketed today following break down of negotiations last night between car dealers and repair shops and the AFL Automobila Mechanics' union. C. W. Thomson, employer spokesman, said the employers agreed to bargain on the basis of an open but not a closed of union shop. That, he said, was the only point at Issue as em ployers agreed to paid vacations, increased pay, and a 40-hour week with time and a half paid for four hours on Saturdays.