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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 7, 1946)
Vanport School Project Provides Safety Valve For Educational Needs PORTLAND, Aug. 7 (P) Oregon is taking a crack at one of its worst postwar log jams: the problem of roofing and teaching all the students who want to enter college. It's done it simply, by taking a modern tuck in Mohammet. If you can't bring the housing to the college, take the college to the housing. The result is a state center just 15 minutes from Portland which offers college courses complete with kitchen, bedroom and bath to all com ers. For a vear higher educational institutions have been groaning under unprecedented enroll ments. An American council of education poll showed 75 per cent of all colleges short of hous ing. In OreRon, the governor estimated 5000 veterans would be turned away next term. . Stickpin Clue In Stab Death SPOKANE, Aug. 7 (VP) A three-carat stickpin diamond was being sought by police today as a possible clue to the death of Dr. R. A. Hahn. 81 -year-old physician whose colorful life was brought to an end last night by a souvenir French army bayonet thrust through his heart. The doctor's body was discov ered by his son, Rudolph, who told police he found his father dead after a stranger in the hall way leading from his hotel apartment suite told him he had just been talking with the doctor. Dr. C. J. Abrams, Spokane county coroner, said Hahn had been dead less than an hour when police were summoned. He jsaid a three-carat diamond was missing from a stickpin usually worn by the doctor. Dr. Hahn was a principal in several court cases and was con victed in 1945 of performing two illegal operations. He was re leased on probation under $10, 000 surety bond. His former S75.000 home was the scene of the fatal shooting of his second wife, 32 years his junior, in 1940, which a coroner's jury found to be a suicide. Army Hopeful On McNary Job PORTLAND, Aug. 7 (P) De tails on the McNary dam must be supplied by the army engi neers for a decision on whether construction may go ahead after the federal construction mora torium ends September 30. Col. O. E. Walsh, district army engineer, said, however, that he j expected the McNary project .would be allowed to proceed on schedule. The Dorena dam, on which bids were called only Monday, will not be affected by the mora torium, which does not apply to work under way, and Col. Walsh said no other projects in this district would be affected. Walsh outlined the situation after receiving detailed instruc tions on the moratorium. He said no bids, notices to proceed, awards, or invitations can be issued during the period. Crash Fatal To Five Blamed On Fast Speed WHITE SALMON, Wash., Aug. 7 (TP) A coroner's jury yester day attributed the bus-truck crash which ended fatally for five per sons near Bingen, Wash., July 27, to "too great a speed for the condition of the highway." The jury said it also felt that "the schedule under which the bus driver was operating was too fast for the present road condi tion." Merle Nelson, driver of the bus, was among those killed. 'LUCAS1 NEW. . .ALL METAL EASY-CARRY TABLE WITH FOUR MATCHING SEATS SPACE-SAVER FOR FUN AT HOME. PACKS INTO COMPACT "PACKAGE" FOR FUN ON THE RUN. tft ttMnfyl ll'i lWr! It Moll Ml to fovr periont. AsmbltB toW. 'm )m 30 wcomh. Won't webb?. r untvn etetrmft Ey to rarry. Eaw to lot. I svto Iron, m ctoirt WW. voy cow cmbmoHom. Onft rOMABtf. wirf, nBH jfcrfj, tlif !... tallne p a mWmum e4 ipse.. Ceyig yv U toblrcenwr doubtn mbr.lla hold. Sm k today $28.75 Oregon couldn't Just put up a new college. In the first place, there's a state law about it: in the second place, where would the materials and the money come from? Look Brings Idee While educators were brood ing on the matter. Dr. Stephen Epler. veterans' advisor with the state system of higher educa tion, looked out his front win dow. Epler. a navy vet who couldn't find a house in Port land, was living in nearby Vanport, a war housing project that is emptying since the death of the shipyards. "Plenty of housing out here." thought Epler. "Why couldn't we bring the classes here'.''' So that's what the state sys tem of higher education did. Vanport Center is not strict ly a "college." It's a center of extension classes, which the state can offer without the red tape involved in starting a new institution. But the courses were chosen to include freshman and sophomore requirements in the most popular fields: Liberal arts, business administration, pre law, pre-medicine. ore-dental, architecture, forestry, journal ism. With Dr. Epler as director. Vanport Center opened this sum mer with 220 students, 94 of them veterans. The fall budget was built around an anticipated 500 enrollment. Officials think now it'll be more like 1500: and they could squeeze in several thousand more. Safety Valve "Vanport is a safety valve." explained Dr. J. F. Cramer, dean of the extension division. "It can exoand now to take the overflow from our permanent institutions, and when there isn't any overflow shrink back out of existence again." That elasticity is a boon to educators, baffled bv the fact thev don't know what future en rollment levels will be. No col lege wants to build facilities for 25.000 students if in a couple of years it's going to have only 10.000. Vanport Center Is designed for veterans, fathers oarticular ly. Unlike many campuses where married students live in tents or trailers and carry water for blocks, Vanport has com pletely furnished apartments, plus heavy shopping centers, school, library, hospital, recrea tion halls. If Mr. and Mrs. Veteran both want to go to school some Van port enrolees do that's simple, too. Vanport has nurseries where they can leave the small fry. There'll even be college spirit at Vanport, though it'll be ' more of the familv recreation ' than the rah-rah side. Counsel ors for men and women will di rect student activities and ath letics. "We don't want any of this hubba-hubba stuff." students ! told school officials. Picnics j with ice cream for the kiddies ; and family jaunts to the moun-; tains were favored. PROVES WONDERFUL to promptly relieve misery and kill cause of ATHLETE S FOOT Helps Guard Against Re-Infection! Here's a product that really does what it claims. It's s Doctor's wonderfully soothing yet powerfully medicated liquid called Zemo. First applications relieve Itching; and burning; between cracked, peeling toes and aid healing. Zemo actu ally kills on contact the vicious germs that cause and spread this trouble. That's whv Zemo has such an amazine record of coniinvou success. First trial j convinces. Buy Zemo at any drugstore. ZEMO " On The Bear ! I, M. c Walter A. Fleet came to Klam ath Falls with his family in 1939 from Spokane, Wash., and has been serving as internal revenue agent in this area since that time. Fleet has been with the revenue department for nine years, pre viously working with the fed eral land bank. The Fleets have two children. Verne, 12, and Glenn. 17 months old. He is on Maryellen Wright's federal build ing beat. Workman Dies In Flash Fire PORTLAND, Aug. 7 (if) Al bert W. Abernathy. 32. former Baker resident, burned to death yesterday in a flash fire that engulfed him within seconds after welding sparks hit the wood preservative he was applying. Fellow workmen at the Co lumbia Sand and Gravel com pany pit played a hose on the bunker underneath which he was working in a vain attempt to enable him to escape. A welder, Roy Louie Christian, 39, barely scrambled to safety -from above the bunker. Abernathy's mother, Mrs. Lee Chetwood, lives at Halfway, Ore., Army Recruiting Man Inspects KF Office Capt. Forrest Klciman of the Portland army recruiting station visited the Klamath Falls station Tuesday on an inspection tour of this section. He reported that the army enlistment program for July had exceeded the quota by more than five per cent. Reasons for the increased en listment, according to Kleiman, are believed to be the new higher pay for regular army, the can cellation of the man's service experience, and the approach of the deadline on the Gl bill of rights. COYERALLS Khaki or Tan Sixes 34 to 46 Oregon Woolen Store WASHING MACHINE SERVICE All Makes Phone 8805 TUCKER STEINKAMP APPLIANCES Elquire Bldg. softened wilh Lowed grosgiain and mist of, , veiling. (Extra charge for light colors.), Ai Advertised in LIFE Tehee Picked For New Post Appointment of Charles L. Tebcc to be director of the northern Rocky mountain forest and range experiment station at Missoula, Mont., has been an nounced by Lyle F. Watts, chief of the forest service. He will assume his new duties Septem ber 1. Since July, 1943, Tebeo has been assistant regional for ester in charge of the forct service division of state and private forestry at Portland. Tebee spent a year with the Caterpillar Tractor company in Klamath Falls, which led to em ployment as logging superin tendent for a concern in the Philippine islands. Returning to the United States in 1934, Tebeo entered the U. S. forest service. The northern Rocky moun tain region includes Montana, northern Idaho and northeastern Washington, Former Chancellor Dies In Germany BONN. Germany. Aug. 7 lP) Wilhelm Marx. 82. veteran states man who was chancellor of Ger many in 1923-24 and 1926-28 under the Weimar republic, died here Monday. He had been inactive politi cally since 1928. Gas on Stomach RJwtJ ta iwmmm i imwkU rw amr hk Wko tirvu tnnuvh 4 rid cu painful, mffottl. tm fj. tour tonarh atl heartburn, (jetton uiually priK-rib tii faitt-a.tlnf m!ktni ksonn ft ajnrtOBtatlc fllf wdlttnM hie trtoM to Bll-ar TihlM. No Uiatli. Hdl-artt brlnn wtaf.-rt In UErcruraUuU u ua for doubt twMf tack. Jftt, Centennial Special We hove just re ceived a shipment of Jumper dresses with Gibson Girl blouses in bright plaids. These blouses ore excel lent for Centennial costumes. We have also received a ship ment of new Ben galine fabrics in black for making up long skirts to go with these leg-o-mutton blouses. 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