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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. ,
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.