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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 19, 1946)
M A M mm In Tlw Day's to By mANK JENKINS AT lili picas conference ycslor diiy, President Truiimii an nounced tlmt he is going to do wlmt ho can lo dffful Repre sentative Slaughter (Ueniocrut, of Mlnmiurl) (or reiioiiiliittlloii. Slaughter, the President ex plained, him been iipiimt ubnut everything Unit ha (Truman) hm horn f nr unit so, ho think", ouuht to ha got rltl of. At the sumo lima, ha endorsed cundlilute by the nnina at Ax tell wlm Is nniiilnu ugulniit Slaughter. "THIS reaction It liitereNllng. 1 Slaughter goes on "o rudlo Iniinedliilely, welcomes lliu Presi dent's oppomtlon und ut'i l tlmt ha in "mud of Ilia opportunity to determine whether cuntllcliitva lor legislative positions uro to he picked ut tho whim of thu executive brunch of thu govern nieiit." Axtcll "expresses his uppreclu tlon for the President's support," but os nearly us muy ba luded from Ilia dispatches doesn't go iff ilia deep end in his pro fesslons of gruttliido. Keudlng tho dispatches, ona inspect thul ha would huva been Just n liuiipy If he hud been per milled In km nheiid running his own show. yllE political experts, of course, will recall President Koose- volt's attempted "purges" of member of congress who hud failed lo Jump when ha cruckod the whip. In splta of Roosevelt's Ureal populurily, these nttempts were uniformly unsuccessful. . The slluiillun In Missouri Is lightly different. Missouri is Trumun'n home slule. Viewed teehnleiilly, he Is thcrcforo not strictly "buttliiK In." It will bo remembered, how ever, Hint Mr. ItiHiscvelt, In his "purue" period, win never ublo to defeat even Representative Hum Klsh, from his own sliilo of New York. 'yllK principle Involved la -1 rulher Importunt. It is this: Shu II ONt oruncli of our gov ernment be iiermlllcd to nom inate Ilia OTiiKK brunches? I JNDEH lha constitution, our g o v ti r n m ii t bus tlireo brunches Ilia legliilutlve (congress-), tiie executive (lliu Presi dent) and tho Judicial (the courts.) Them three brunches of government were planned by the founding father to be EQUAL und to act as cliecks Slid buluncci uHin each other. In tho best yeurs of our history tlia yeurs in which Ilia United Stales of America wus growing up from a weak llltla nutlon to a great and powerful country universally respected because of its uniquely successful concept of KflKKDOM OK THE INDIVID UAL, these checks und balances WORKED. The Ideal of the founding fathers prevailed, and NO ONE brunch of government wus able to assert domlnnneo over tho other branches. t TV7E arc now witnessing a " STRUGGLE FOR POWER among ALL TllRfci; ot tnc bruueucs 01 our icucrui govern ment. Tho President strives to make congress subservient lo Ins will. Congress resists, and seeks to assert Us power ovor the Presi dent. In recent yeurs, tnc supremo court bus sought to as set t its power OVEH uuTU ot lha others. Especially over congress. TTHE founding fathers prob nbly tho ublcst set of men who ever guided the destinies of a new tuition were intlmntely familiar with the ubtises through out nil hlslory of TOO MUCH POWER In one set of hands. It wus to PREVENT too much power from railing Into one set of bunds In America that they devised this set of checks and bill uncos. Their Wlsdnm wna frrnnt nnA their purposes were pure. To the wisdom of their acts and tho purity of their motives wo owo this American wny of life which IConUnuvd on Paaa t, Cat. 1) Talmadge Governor Again But Not People's Choice ATLANTA. Ju v 19 Ml Rod-gnlluscd Gene Tulmadgo of the unruly forelocks und the acid phrase Is to be governor of Georgia again a fourth time but not by popular choice. This pnradox could come only out of Georgia. And It's 'the first tlmo it has ever happened in a governor's raco In Georgia, so far as anybody seems to know, . The simple but complicated fact is thnt Talmadge won a majority of county unit votes In Wedncsdny's democratic pri mary, open for the first tlmo to negroes, who voted In large numbers. But the candidate backed by Gov. Ellis Arnnll, 30-ycnr-old James V. Ciirmlchncl got a plurality of tho 7()0,0(IO-otld votes cast In .the primary, the actual election in Georgia. Tho county unit system, which was placed on the statute books in 1017, is Intended to give political dominance to Park Meter Failure May Bring Tax Petitions will bo circulated among Qualified city voters In tho neur futuro on Ilia question of parking meters In an effort lo get thu issue on tho Novem ber ballot. A now angle on the fund raising potentialities of meters was ruised toduy by a city coiincllmun who suld that thu city needs the money which would bo brought In und that un occuputlomil tax wus being considered if purklng meters ara not Instullad. Ducking the petitions will bo Ilia Klumuth Merchants assocla. tlon, long opposed to tho In stullution of the truffle devices on the grounds thut tho people don't wuut them. Other groups, uotubly tho Suburban leugue, are on record as ngulnst hav ing meters In downtown Kluin ath Falls. Petitioner! Bought Tho merchants plan to have petitions drawn up und pluccd In vu r ions business houses for (nullified city voters to sign. Henry Perkins, city attorney, said today tlmt luw requires such petitions tix curry the sig natures of IS per cent of the number of voters who cast a bullot for muyor In tho last mnynrnlty election to huve the proposal put to a vote. The parking meter problem has been kicked around pro and con for several months here, und Councilman I'uul O. Landry, today said the city council wus slill giving serious conslderutlon to Installing the devices. Tho altitude of the council Is tlmt the meters will servo a two-fold purpose, Klrst, they will help solve tho business area parking problem, which Is getting to bo almost impossible, and second, tliey will bring some money In to the city ICanllaa, ts rst f, Cai, si 'Air Day' Due On August 1st Klumuth Air Duy has been selected as tlia official title for the city's ilcbratiun on the ad vent of United. Air Lines service to Klamath Fulls on August 1. The title of the show wns decided at a meeting of tho aviation com mittee at the chamber of com merco yesterday, Ray Byrnes lias been named as general chairman of tho show, and designated his committees as follows: Publicity, Luwrencc Ber tram, Lloyd Derby, E. G. New bill and Hoy Prcmo; reception and hospitality, Joe Hicks; cachet committee, Dr. C. V. Rugh, Roy Prcmo and Joe Hicks; facilities committee. Cliff Hnguc, Law rence Slater and Rny Roysc; pro gram committee, Ray Roysc, Joe Hicks, E. G. Ncwblll and Harold Mcl'herson. Master of ceremonies for the occasion, on August 1, will bo John Houston, who will be assist ed In his duties by both W. T. Melntyro, local station agent, and Tom Blanchard, traveling traffic representative of United. Blunchnrd has been in Klnmath Fulls for the past several days helping In arrangements for tho show. Plans at present call for a presentation to all through pas sengers on the first two planes Into the city of a small memento of Klamath, possibly a potato boxed and wrapped In a small wooden box If they arc available. If not, flowers will be presented lo seat holders on tho first two ships. , Plans have not yet been com- Clctcd for tho show, but it will o started at 9:43 on August 1, and will Include tho arrival ot the first two United planes at 10:0(1 and 10:10. The planes, one north and one south; will be held hero for about 13 or 20 minutes. Final pluns for the event will bo announced by Charles Stark, manager of the chamber of com merce. rural Georgia. Georgia has 130 counties, most of them small, mm uiuy h lew large cities. Talmadge, running on a plat form calling for restoration of the traditional "white" primary of tho south that the U. S. su premo court says must go, is strong In the rural areas. Generally, Carmichacl with tho backing of A r n a 1 1, who sparked a new liberalism in the south as governor of Georgia, got the big city vote as well as the negro vote, the latter esti mated at about 100,000. With returns complete In 151 of the stale's 150 counties, Tal madge had 234 unit votes. Only 200 are needed for nomination. Curmlehael hud 134 unit votes and ex-Gov, E. D. nivcrs, who run a poor third, had 18. Hoke O'Kelley, the fourth candidate, had none, The vole was tho largest In Georgia's history and the vote given Carmichacl was tho larg est over given any gubernatori al candidate. V J price riv . D ..1. C.ll. P Vl aajaji pr? r-i. . "M'l t rrf if It , . ; ''' - v4 : ' I . . --i-'' a LmmlfT m n i.iinf, .m., im -rh - - Vi Chacklngout "Chlckan Little," ona of tha parennial bast sailers among small try. ax thesa two young mon on thsir lirst -visit to tha city library, rour-year-oid Donald, latt, and Honaid. five, right, ara son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Grasdal of 4505 Shasta way. Helping tha boys is Mrs, Addle May Nixon, children's librarian. Story on paga 6. Yorden Strike Ended Quickly Lloyd Georg, mamber of tha firm of Hanry Georga and Sons, contractors on tha Tulana Farms grain elavator job whara work man alruck at midnight last night advised Tha Harald and Naws lata this afternoon that "balow tha bait dealings" had been forced on his outfit. Said Gaorgai "We ware forced to pay a 10 cent an hour lncreaia due to tha walkout of most of tha craw In tha middle of an Important contract job, without sanction of tha union. It is tha first tlmo in 35 years of this firm's history that such below the bait dealings have baan forced upon us by lha workman belonging to tha AFL," A short-lived strike on the part of approximately 90 work men employed on the Tulana farms grain elevator at Wordcn was settled at 11:30 this morn ing. Unions Involved effected set tlement with Henry George and Sons, contractors on tho big $400,000 job, and workmen agreed to return to work for the balance of the day shift and all of the night shift at the old rate of $1.15 an hour and beginning Saturday morning, the rate will be $1.25, it was learned. The incident occurring on the Wordcn elevators, under con- (ConllnuaS an rasa 1, Cat. I) Buyers Spurn Butter Prices Klamath . buyers are not too sure that thoy want butter at 79 and 80 cents a pound and as a result stores now have a sufficient supply on hand. One grocer said tlmt some custom ers, advised of the price, bought only a half pound of butter. Lo cal creameries report that al though butter Is being sold, they believe that tho consumers are not buying as. much as they would if prices were lower. Despite butter price jumps In Portland, the price remained the same here after the Increase of several woeks ago. Sales In but ter substitutes were about equal with sales during the butter shortage. Indicating people are not really shifting from substi tutes to butter. KLAMATH Chicken Little" Raise In Realty Valuation Can By-Pass Bv HALE SCARBROUGH The much-discussed Bancroft act, a state law which controls improvement districts mat arc sold on bond issues, can be cir cumvented to the great benefit of the city of Klamath Falls by the 25 per cent boost now be ing made in all assessed property valuation in the county. This act forbids the city from undertaking improvements such as street paving adjacent to property which has an assessed valuation of less than the cost of Improvement, unless the prop erty owner pays the difference in cash. For example, the law stymies street paving which would cost $400 in front of a lot assessed at $200 unless the owner of the lot shells out the extra $200. Mayor Ed Ostendorf said that VAA Requests MB 'Freezing' SALEM, July 19 (if) The war assets administration has asked the navy to "freeze" all property, equipment and supplies at the Klamath Falls Marine Barracks for possible transfer to the state for educational purposes, Sen. Guy Cordon telegraphed today to Governor Earl Snell. The state board of higher education has been considering the barracks as a site for a junior college, while the state division of vocational education said it might want it for a vocational school. Senator Cordon said he re ceived the following report to day from tho office of real prop erty disposal of the war assets administration: "This office has requested the navy department to hold in place at Klnmath Falls Marine Bar racks all surplus personal prop erty, equipment and supplies for possible transfer of the instal lation with the essential personal property intact to the state of Oregon for educational pur poses." , Governor Snell, who has been promoting the Idea that the bar racks be used as a college for veterans, asked that the bar racks be frozen until October 1, FALLS, OREGON. FRIDAY, JULY If, l(4t Bancroft Act here in town there are at least five or six paving projects that are being held up because of very low assessments on certain pieces of property, when other owners in the district are clamor - ing for a paved street Valuations here were cut down during the depression, he said, and never raised back up so that I now the entire assessed value of Klamath county is only about 36 per cent ot true value. The 25 per cent overall boost now being made by the tax assessor is an attcnpt to bring this county's assessed value into parity with the rpst of the state. By boosting the assessed valua tions, the millage rate of taxation will be lowered correspondingly, and the amount of tax money paid by the property owner will be the same as under the old low valuation., The change is designated not to hurt anyone, but will be a big help, particularly in Klamath Falls, toward improving the city by making it possible to comply with the regulations of the Ban-, croft law, and also have the ad vantage of making the millage rate of taxation look better on the books to any business con templating coming into the city. Baseball Scores NATIONAL R H E Boston 6 12 0 Chicago 16 1 Spahn and Odea; Wyse, Meers (7), Fleming and McCullough. AMERICAN Chicago 2 4 0 Boston 9 16 2 Haynes, H a m n e r (8) and Hayes; Zuber and H. Wagner. Passing Motorist Kills Zoo Bobcat PORTLAND, July 19 (JP) A character who still thinks this is the wild west was be ing hunted by annoyed zoo officials today. A bobcat escaped his pen yesterday, fled up a tree. While zoo personnel were readying to get him down, up drove a man In a Pack ard, shot the . bobcat, and roared oft with the body. (Talephona till) Program To Avoid Third World War Told By Connally WASHINGTON. July 19 UP) Chairman Connally (D-Tex.) of the senate foreign relations com mittee outlined today a seven point program for United States action to prevent tne untninx able tragedy" of a third world war. In a report on the big four foreign ministers conference at Paris. Connally told tne senate it would be "rank insanity" for any of the great world powers to desert at this time tne objec tives of the United Nations. None of the major nations May Issued Subpoena In Arms Probe WASHINGTON, July 19 OP) The senate war investigating committee issued a subpoena today for the appearance of Rep. May (D-Ky.) and Chairman Mead CU-N.Y.) said it expects him to testify Tuesday. May told reporters he had "no com ment" Mead and his colleagues want to hear from May, in pub lic, on his activities in con nection with a midwest muni tions combine, whose war prof its the senate committee is in vestigating. Senator Ferguson (R-Mich.) said the committee will take "all steps the constitution will allow" in getting May on the stand. , Mead said the committee had given May ('ample opportunity" to appear and was- resorting to a subpoena "only because it is absolutely necessary for us to do so. Mead read the constitutional restriction on arrest of mem bers of senate or house during a session, except on treason, felony or breach of peace charges. Then he said: "The committee expects Con gressman May to respect this subpoena." May had indicated last week he might appear before the committee voluntarily if it would give him the right to call or cross examine witnesses or subpoena records. The com mittee refused to accede to such terms. In issuing the subpoena for May's appearance. Senator Fer guson (R-Mich.) remarked it should be made clear that the committee is "going to take all the steps the constitution al lows" to bring the house mem- 1 ber before it. Heat Company Elects Board The newly organized Consum ers Heating company, recent pur chasers of the Klamath Heating company plant on Klamath ave nue, elected directors this week and announced that the plant would be taken over for actual operation on August 1. Named to the board were G. C. Lorenz, Merle West, Harry Panning, Dick B. Miller and Lloyd Lamb. Directors then met and elected the following offi ces: G. C. Lorenz, president; Dick B. Miller, vice president; R. C. Dale, treasurer, and Martha McCollum, secretary. It was pointed out that the teasurer and secretary do not have to be mem bers of the board. As the result of an agreement between subscribers and Consum ers Heating company board, an advisory committee to work with the directors was named. This includes E. B. Hall, Paul O. Lan dry, Harlan Bosworth Jr., W. D. Miller, Nelson Reed, Joe Hicks, Ed Ostendorf and G. C. Motley. All named on the advisory com mittee are users of plant facili ties. At the present time the new company expects to retain all of the present employes of Klamath Heating company. New boiler tubes have been ordered by the Consumers com pany and when present boilers are re-tubed they will be "prac tically as good as new," It was said today. The new company starts off with the largest supply of fuel the plant has had on hand for the past number of years and winter heat is assured users throughout the city, A specialist from a Portland steam plant is expected here on July 29 to spend two weeks checking over lines and other facilities, including distribution of steam throughout the city, it was announced. WEATHER NEWS Jaljr II, Ills Mas. (Jala III II Mia. SI rfaelaltallaa M ktatl Slraani jaar la Sata 11.17 Narrnal II.IS l.al aar 11.11 raraeaall Sllfhllr tlr. Number 1087S wants war, the Texan said. Urg ing this country to "pin its hope and faith" in the United Nations, Connally proposed: 1. That in international deal ings "we stand firmly on those principles of law and justice ex pressed in the charter" and "ex pect other nations to do the same." 2. "We should unhesitatingly make available to the security council our full quota of troops, planes and ships necessary for the maintenance of world peace. 3. "We must maintain a strong army, navy and air force so that we may protect our land and our people and fulfill our obligations under the charter." 4. "We must put into treaty form the inter-American machin ery contemplated in the act of Chapultepec. ... 5. "We should accept the com pulsory jurisdiction of the inter national court of justice over those strictly legal disputes which affect the United States and any other state which has accepted the compulsory juris diction of the country. 6. "We should do our utmost to secure at the earliest practi cable time complete agreement with respect to the control of the atomic energy and other weapons of mass destruction, 7. "We should lend our full support to the economic, social and humanitarian program of the United Nations and thus help establish those conditions in the world which are essential for enduring peace, Connally told his colleagues that while difficulties had been encountered in reaching agree ments among the foreign min isters of the United States, Brit- ain, Russia and France, "we shall not despair." Little Relief Seen In Heat ' Slightly cooler, but still hot tern' Tophet, was the weather man's reply this afternoon when he answered questions as to thermometer readings at the CAA office. At 12 o'clock noon, the tem perature had reached a straight 90 degrees, but the barometer was falling. However, at 3 p. m. it was 95.' The rest of Oregon, outside of the southern portion of the state, was promised no relief over tne weeKend and tne weather bureau said folks will swelter again under a beaming sun as it did yesterday. Ther mometers here registered 87 at mid-afternoon Thursday, with a humidity of 27 which forest men did not consider dangerous. Along the Oregon coast, which has been the only cool spot in the state the last 24 hours, Tilla mook reported a 92-degree tem perature at 11:30 a. m. today. Medford, which recorded 100 yesterday, had 91 degrees at the pre-noon reading Friday ' and Roseburg reported 87, and Port land. 86. Nearby lakes and resorts were expected to do a land office bus iness over the weekend and folks in the valley as well as from here sought relief from the heat. "Prolonged relief from a sweltering heat wave that has sent some mid-western tempera tures above the 100-deeree mark. moved slowly across the plains states Friday and the United States weather bureau said it would continue a steady pace eastward, according to the na tional report. 'Union Busting' Denied In Dismissals By Army WASHINGTON, July 19 (P) The army denied "union bust ing" charges today in the wake of an announcement that it had fired five civilian employes at the Aberdeen, Md., proving ground scene of many top secret tests. The war department" said the five, who included physicists and chemists, were discharged "in the interest of national se curity." It declined to go into details. The fact that all five are offi cers of Local 250 of the newly formed CIO Public Workers of America, it said, is "a coinci dence and a reflection on the union's discretion in permitting them to serve." Abram Flaxer, national presi dent of the union, who was in Washington attending a meet ing, told a reporter the action was "an obvious union busting device." Harry Spector, president of Missourian Fearful Of PAC Control KANSAS CITY. July 19 W Democratic Representative Roger Slaughter from Missouri's fifth district today welcomed the op position of President Truman to his candidacy for renomlnation aa a cnance lor what he called a long overdue showdown on tha ....... vvw.av ut UOMWV SMI, party." Expressing the fear that tha president "is a prisoner of tha political action committee," tha robust 40-year-old congressman in a radio speech last night said he was giad of the opportunity "to determine whether candi dates for legislative positions are to be picked at the whim of tha executive branch of the govern ment." Slaughter, seeking a third term, spoke a few hours after Truman at a White House press conference had endorsed noa Axtell, one of Slaughter's pri mary opponents. The congressman said the pres ident had cast the issues with, his statement that "If Slaughter is right, I am wrong." "I accept that challenge," ha added. "I accept the challenge) with all its implications, includ ing a fight to determine tha future course of the democratic party, for the president has made the race in the Him district ot Missouri a test case so far as tha country is concerned." Saas Communist Hand " r In his radio talk over a local station (WDAF), Slaughter charged the CIO political action committee, with which he claimed the president "now is working," takes its orders from the communist party and is "seeking to take over control of the democratic party." The president's endorsement set off a political whirl in his home county. It brought a state ment not only from Slaughter but from Axtell, Jerome Walsh, third candidate in the race, and James M. Pendergast, nephew and heir to the once-powerful democratic organization built by the late T. J. Pendergast but crippled by its loss of the city Kali hor-A in a rpfnrm nrlmini- -tration -t.t th.t V 1-4.11. T...Mnn n.ka1 klm tr support Axtell he had already decided to back the 37-year-old World War II veteran before the request had been made. Axtell expressed his appreciation for the presidential support while Walsh annouced. he was staying; in the race despite "the devils of politics." It is not the first time the Pen dergast faction has clashed with that of the late Joseph Shannon, for years congressman from tha fifth district. The Shannon group, now headed by Joseph, Shannon's son, Frank, is support ing Slaughter who also has tha backing of Mrs. James A. Reed, widow of the late senator. Marines Halt Kidnap Search TIENTSIN, July 19 (J5) Uni ted States marines today called, off their search for seven ma rines held prisoner by a band of Chinese to permit a truce headquarters team to negotiate for their release. - The marine corps has been scouring the country north of Chinwangtao since the detach ment was captured by a band of 80 armed Chinese a week ago. The marines, members of a unit guarding a bridge on the Peiplng-Mukden railway, were' taken prisoner in a nearby vil lage where they had gone to buy rice. Nationalist sources asserted the captors were communists, but Maj. Gen. Keller E. Rockey, China marine commander, has refused to identify them. Rockey likewise has declined to discuss the search or information on the safety of the captured men. the Aberdeen local and one of those dismissed, said: "This is strictly a union matter." Members of a UPWA delega tion which tried vainly to pro- ' test to Secretary of War Patter- son, said the union was carry ing on an organization anve hi Aberdeen and contended the dis charge of the local's officers was more than a coincidence. Maj. Gen. Floyd L. Parks, di rector of the war department's bureau of public relations, an nounced the action by Brig. Gen. Alfred B. Quinton Jr., commander at the proving grounds, where secret tests are cai ried out on rockets and other guided missiles as well as on guns, tanks and vehicles. Quinton acted under a law which empowers the secretaries of war and navy to remove "in the interest of national defense" any army or navy employes for subversive activities. Specific reasons for the discharges were not announced. A
