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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 14, 1946)
fin nJ M n mm j. Bay's lows Br FRANK JENKINS UURHYINU toward adjourn- 1 intent, tin- gcnoral assembly of United Nations limt niKlit utianlmuualy approves bualc plan for world-wide arm reduc tion (IncludliiK atomic woiipons). Thli bualc plan, adopted by the whole aaxembly, will go to the j l-imuon security council, which will work out detailed plan to be submitted Inter to special session o( the assembly, If It gets past Hint hurdle. It will go to Individual nations or ratification or rejection. VVfE are impressed by tlio fact " that ALU the natlona voted for It. The significant fact la that Russia. Britain and the United Statea voted for It. Thai la what COUNTS. Peace doean't juat happen. It lina to be MADE to hiinprn rtiiMla, Britain and the United Statea posses the power to make peace happen, If theae three natlona alncerely want peaco and are willing to aland together through thick and thin to get it, the world will have peace. No combination of natlona In all the world can aland agalnat the UNITED WILL of Humia Britain and the United Statea to have peace OR ELSE. fHERE waa a wave ofapplauae In the aaxembly after the voting. All of in, In all the re mote parta of the earth feol like applauding. Rut we are learning alowly in the hard achool or ex pcrlence that DEEDS, not worda, are what count. It will be Juat aa well If we withhold our applauae until we have had time to SKE THE DEEDS that follow the brave worda anoken In New York laat night. The world la atlll full of suspicion, and tuaplclon la ex ploalve material. The natlona of the earth are (till walking through a powder factory with their pockcta full or matches. THE united Statea came through the aeaalon well. Ita representative made It flatly plain that we alone poaae.ia the atom bomb now. and are NOT going to give It up until a realiatlc and workable plan lor the control of atomic wrap. om In rtevlied and unnnlmoiMV adopted, with all necessary safe guard for universal enforce ment. The fact that we are willing to give It up at all. under ANY system of Inspection and en forcement, la a geature toward peace audi aa no nation ever waa willing to make before. We made another nice geature laat night. Ruaaia had been de manding a ccnaua of troops, at home and abroad, throughout the world. The assembly dodged auch a cenaua for the present. Rut our Secretary Byrnea came through voluntarily and gave a complete accounting of all of our troops everywhere In the world. ' Suspicion (which la the great Obstacle to peace) can be cleared away only by FRANKNESS. The United States, through its Secretary Byrnes, Is taking the lean in a policy or frankness so complete that It can hardly fail to command respect. fHERE are some Interesting slants In Hit home front news. Judge Claude McColloch, In federal court In Portland, re fuses to grant an Injunction to prevent a Crants Pass man from completing a motor court he had started laat spring and which alphabetical CPA sought to stop him from finishing. He points out the absurdities of a law that would estop a citi zen from building housing at a time when housing is more sore, ly needed than ever before In our history. fJP In Washington, the driver of a hit-and-run car AND HIS PASSENGER are sentenced to pay $30 a month for a three year period toward the support of nine children left motherless by the traffic accident from which they RAN AWAY. Again that sounds like justice. 14-Year-Old Boy Kills Policeman, Washington. Dec. 14 tm. A 14-year-old boy accused of killing policeman and then turning a pistol on himself dur ing a wild gun battle three blocks from the White House Inst night was held In a hospital today for observation. The boy, Townscnd Amies, motherless son of a hotel waiter, suffered a scalp wound and was in what Gal linger hospital at taches described as "fair" con dition. -.!... The pistol duel occurred In a 17th street night club section, Detectives G. W. Chapman and F, L. Qaver, who arrested Anncs, said In addition to an empty Lugor pistol he was armed with a single-shot air pistol, They said his first words on being captured were; "Did I kill the policeman?" Later, they reported he told them he turned the Luger on PRICE riVE CENTS IMP Pfesftger Plows Into Fraait w , c p: I,-- I in srni.u snjaaTii f'l'iirVi i i , a-' Wi-Lrv:-'- ' '''" J"--- mJM V tsiiH I Ceorae Conner, president o( climax ol ceremonies formally this morning. I Grade School Teacher Dies Alice Louisa Lytic, beloved Klamath cpunty grade school teacher for the past 2B years, died at 2:13 p .m. Friday at Klamath Valley hospital follow Ing a brief Illness. Death was at tributed to a heart condition. At the time of '.icr passing, Miss Lylle was primary teacher at the Kcno schools and also Instructed In music. Miss Lytle was 36 veara at -her death and was a native of Emer son, HI., moving here with her parents to Bonanza in 1908. In the full of 1817. Miss Lytle took over her first school, teaching in me one-room structure at Dairy and from there coiner to Hildebrand and later to Bonan za where she taught for five fears. Her work was with the lower grades and she devoted ter life to her Droffosaion. Miss Lytle studied at the old Aahlnnd normal and also took work at the University of Oregon. When school convened Friday morning. Miss Lytle failed to re port in the class room and Har vey Dcnham, Kcno principal called at the toacheraze and found Miss Lytle unconscious in the cottage. She was rushed to Klamath valley hospital by am. bulance but failed to regain consciousness prior to her death. Final rites will be -held Monday at Ward s chapel at 1 p. m'., with the Rev. George Bruce of the Ashland Methodist church nffi. dating. .Interment will take place in the family plot at Bo nanza. Miss Lvtlp Is survivor) hv thro sisters. Grace Lvtlo. Klamath county teacher who is now at Gilchrist. Effln Mpkxm- son of Ashland, Helen Scott of iviamain rails, and throe broth ers, Monroe, Portland; Harry, Molalla, and Robert of Ashland. Tries Suicide himself because "I just didn't want to be arrested. Police gave this version of the shooting: . Policeman William C. Qrooines saw two boys loitering In a park ing lot and started chasing them. Anncs fired once at Groomcs and missed. Darting between two parked cars young Anncs en countered Policeman Richard H. Taylor, 47, who had coma run ning up. Annes' second shot, fired at point blank rango, struck Taylor In the chest, mortally wounding him, Annes then took flight, only to run Into the two detectives who were cruising in a scout car. De tective Chapman jumped from the car and Anncs fired three wild shots at him, The detective returned the lire, but also missed. Then Annei turned the gun en himself. 1 KLAMAT',nOLS, Ribbon-Snipping Symbol! the South Sixth Street Improvement association k shown clipping opening widened South th tr eet to travel. The avent was held ' .' . s ....... ',. . .... Ribbon dipping-Ceremony Officially Opens S. Sixth held In front of t'.ie Tower thea tre, where an all-day free show waa combined with two hours of free skating at Skatcland down A huge pair of editor's scissors snipped a red and white ribbon this morning, and as the colorful barrier fell to the pavement the widened, elaborately designed and constructed S. Sixth street was formally opened to travel. George Conner, president of the South Sixth Improvement as sociation, handled the shears at Sheet Metal Decision Pends Sheet metal workers, who have aslced for a straight 50 cent an hour increase starting Monday, December 16, advised today that "some kind of a de cision would be reached Mon day," but that members of the locol would not report for work until after the decision is an nounced, - Roy Wilkinson, local repre sentative of the union, said to day that at . a meeting of the Association of Building Con tractors and Employes (ABC and E), held Friday night, the contractors agreed that all crafts should receive a 12 Vs cent an hour increase. It was brought out by union members that the sheet metal workers did not receive the two raises that other crafts received and therefore their asked increase is double but on a same level with comparative crafts. "The contractors did not take into consideration in our case that all other crafts have re ceived previous raises but the sheet metal workers had not," Wilkinson said today. "We feel we should receive the same wage as the plumbers who have gone back to work at $2 per hour until the Portland scale is published. Most of the shop owners feel we should get the same as the plumbers but the offer will come after a meeting of ABC 'and E Monday." f fl SHOPPING A 1 O DAYS IE FT J OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, zes South Sixth Opening the climax of an appropriate celebration of completion of a half-million dollar construction Job on one of Oregon's most heavily traveled highway sec tions. The ceremonies were the street as special features of the festivities. Arthur W. Schaupp, Klamath attorney and state highway com missioner, represented Governor Snell at the ceremonies, and made a short address. He con gratulated South Sixth street Seople and the entire Klamath asin on the outstanding project, and emphasized the traffic im portance of the improved -highway. Similar expressions were of fered by representatives of the highway department. Mayor Ed Ostendorf, State Legislator Rose M. Poole, Councilman R. F. Con. drey and City Engineer E. A. Thomas, City Attorney Henry Perkins, representing the city of Chilomiin, Managing Editor Mal colm Epley of The Herald and News, Sam I. Ritchey of the county traffic safety (council, unrian r. coswortn ot tile Cham, ber of commerce roads and high ways committee, President John M. Houston of the Klamath County chamber, and several others. Dick Maguire of KFJI introduced the speakers. After the speechmaking, cen ter oi interest turned to the street where Conner expertly cnppea ine riDDon. Ben Adair, chairman of the nroffram rnm. mittee for the South Sixth asso ciation, men took over the shears and cut the rihhnn iitn short sections for souvenirs for wnicn dozens of youngsters i-icuuurcu, j In the traffic circle at Alio mont drive and South Sixth, a large Christmas tree has been erecteo. it will be lighted at 7 o clock tonig-ht. A final event win oe giving of gifts at the Tower theatre at 9 p. m. Grand Jury Recessed Today The Klamath county grand jury is taking its second recess since being called into session two weeks ago, and is due to reconvene Monday morning. The jury v recessed for the week-end late yesterday after noon after interviewing several city and county officials with out bringing in a report. Three Hurt In Medford Accident MEDFORD, Ore., Dec. 14 OP) Two Tacoma residents and a San Franciscan were injured near here yesterday in a traffic acci dent, . F. A. Latcham, 72, Tacoma, suffered a broken rib; his wife a broken ankle and nose, and relative, George Peabody, San Francisco, 21, back Injuries. (Telephone red and white ribbon at the in front of the Tower theatre . . . : 1 . . . Irish Soldier Held Prisoner LONDON, Dec. 14 (P) Thomas Crossan, convicted of desertion from the Irish Guards regiment of the British army, testified today his British-hating grandmother kept him a prisoner In southern Ireland when he visited her on leave. . Crossan, 22, who was AWOL for more than a year, was con victed by a court martial and sentenced to 112 days detention. He said his grandmother, 70, took away his money and army papers, locked his bedroom door at night and made him work on her farm, IS miles from a police station. He finally escaped on a bicycle smuggled to him by an other guardsman. The grandmother. In a letter produced at the trial said: ' - "My policy bein gagainst a man from Eire joining the Brit ish forces, I decided to do all in my power to stop my grandson crossing to England." 1946 LEGION POST PLANS TO BUILD SPORTS Development of a multi-pur pose athletic, sporting and rodeo arena is planned by the Ameri can Legion on a 55-acre tract the Klamath post has acquired in the area known as the Enter prise tracts, north and west of Shasta way -and facing the new vughway route expected to go through there. After two years of considera tion, the post completed ' tie transaction under direction of Dr. M. E. Cooper, chairman of the building committee, accord ing to Dave Hoss, post com mander. He said the post had had the "patriotic cooperation" ot Claries Wood Eberlein, own er of the land and long-time citi zen of Klamath Falls, who made the Legion an extremely reason able price. Immediate plans, according to Hoss. call for necessary leveling and marking for rodeo grounds and baseball fields for the Jun ior Legion baseball program next spring and summer. The land contour on the tract provides a natural amphithea tre effect that will make pos sible seating facilities for 30,000 persons, without fire-viazardous wooden structures. As soon as materials are available, it was stated, construction and grading will be undertaken to provide complete facilities for- rodeos, horse racing, dog racing, midget auto racing and other types of outdoor sporting and athletic events. Following this, the projected plans Include a large community center biulding suitable for bas ketball games and many other indoor sports, with the facilities to be made available for com munity and civic enterprises. WEATHER Mai. (Dm. Ill 47 Mia,. It rradaltallaa lail 14 kaari T Stream Mar la Sala t.4S Laat jaar. 4.M Karaaal 1.47 Saraeaati Farllr w4r taiar, taalfat aaS Sana's? with acca alaaal llfkt fala. fill) Number 10810 Ohio Wreck Death Toll Reaches 19 SALT LAKE CITY. Dec. 14 (P) Two Western Pacific railroad trains, one a special passenger and the other a freight, crashed together in a head-on collision west of here today, injuring at least 15 persons No deaths were reported. St. Mark's hospital said 15 persons had been brought there. The wreck occurred about 13 miles west of Salt Lake City, not far from scene Great Salt lake. The eastbound passenger train was carrying home delegates, most of them from Texas and Louisiana, who had attended the American farm bureau conven tion at San Francisco. Cars D railed The freight train was west bound from Salt Lake City to Tooele, Utah. The force of the collision locked the two locomotives nose to nose in r tangle of steel. The baggage car and one tourist sleeper of the passenger train were derailed and tilted at an angle. Railroad officials said the freight train was scheduled to swing off on a siding near the site of the wreck. MANSFIELD, O., Dec. 14 VP) Another soldier died today, in creasing to 19 the death toll of the three-train collision on the Pennsylvania railroad at Coul ter, 12 miles southeast of here. The latest victim was Edwin Gene- Krautblatt, IS, of Chi cago, who died in a Crestline hospital of injuries received in yesterday's wreck. Four more soldiers, critically injured, remained in the Mans field hospital, and 18 others with leas serious injuries were in the army hospital at Fort Hayes in Columbus. The Injured list totaled 50, also mostly soldiers, four of them in critical condition here. Eighteen others were transferred to the Fort Hayes hospital In Columbus last night, eight by litter. Some were treated for minor injuries near the wreck scene. Lakeview Child Loses Arm LAKEVIEW. Dec. 14 Martie Rae Redmond, 4-year-old daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Andy Red mond lost her right arm Thurs day morning when she caught it in a rockwool cutting machine. A crew of men was at work in sulating the Redmond home when the little girl approached the machine unnoticed. Her arm was so badly cut and mangled, it hung by shreds when her father rushed her to Lakeview -hospital just before noon Thursday. 4. SHASTA WAY This rough sketch shows the location of th property acquired by the Klamath post of the American Leoion for develoDment ei multi-purpose sport area Legion and th publls. Nominated Maj. Gen. Lowell W. Rooks, USA. (above) has been nominat ed unanimously by the UNRRA central committee to succeed Fiorella LaGuardia as director general of the organisation on December 31. AP wlrephoto. Medford Man Named Head Mayor C. A. Meeker of Med ford was elected president of tie League of Oregon Cities at a spe cial meeting in Portland Thurs day. Meeker will fill out the un expired term of George Stadle- man, former mayor of The Dalles, who resigned the post as his defeat in the last election made htm ineligible, Mocker win xnima th. nffieat of president on January 1, 1947, and serve one year. Mayor Ed Ostendorf returned Friday night from a round of league meetings in Portland, Sa lem and Eugene. He reported today that league members at tending the Portland conference conferred with the executive committee of the County Judges association in that city. Many state congressmen from that dis trict were present and Mayor Ostendorf said that the league's program, particularly the pro- Sosed change in the present avia lon gas tax, was well received. The league, said tie mayor, filans to request the state legisl ature to change the division of funds of the present five cent gallonage tax so that four cents of the tax will be rebated to cities operating airports. The other cent will go toward oper ating expenses of the state avia tion commission. At present four of the five cent tax is returned to pur chasers of the fuel. Passengers Hurt In Minor Wreck OROVILLE, Calif., Dec. 14 UP) Several passengers) suffered minor hurts and a locomotive and three cars were derailed to day when Western Pacific s pas senger train No. 39, westbound, sideswiped freight cars on a sid ing near Oroville, 65 miles north of Sacramento. The - conductor's report said there were no serious injuries. The locomotive of No. 3 ov erturned, as did the baggage car following. Two other cars were derailed. Western Pacific began detour Ine Its traffic over Southern Pacific lines between Oroville and Marysville. and ether facilities for use of the High Water Ousts 1600 From Homes SEATTLE, Dec. 14 () The Red Cross reported today more than 1600 families had been driven from their homes in the flood-ravaged White River val ley south of here and that dam age to farms and homes would near $1,000,000. As snow and lower temper atures in the mountains prom ised that western Washington rivers would drop over the week-end, water, broke again-. , into Kent and ran a foot deep through the streets. Flood vic tims were urged to register at the Kent city hall and Red Cross disaster unit worker stood by to provide food and clothing. Damage to Homes E. A. Eastman, representing the Red Cross disaster commit tee, listed 500 families driven from homes at Auburn, 250 near there, 250 at Kent, 434 near there and 200 in and near Ren ton. He said inundated home might have suffered damage from $100 to $500 to furnish ings, and farms from $1000 to $5000 damage. Military rescue crews again stood ready with "ducks," skiffs and other boats for emergency calls, but only few were re ceived. Property damage over west ern Washington and Oregon had mounted into high figures, but no deaths had been attributed directly to the flood waters, as traffic accidents were not blamed on them. Livestock losses, however, may be numer- ous. with an estimates 700 head ft .tor.'.aCait. nd,,hos los in the White River valley, south of here. Red Cross relief workers re ported 870 families removed from inundated areas in the great lake of water between Renton and Auburn since Wednesday, and that more were rescued last night. The water broke back Into Kent last night. ABC Features Tule Drawing The forthcoming Tulelake homestead drawing will be fea tured on the American Broad casting company's "Report to the People" program on a coast network Sunday at 9:15 a. m. Ray Best, district engineer of the reclamation bureau, along with one of the qualified appli cants for a homestead, will be featured on the program, which will be released through KFLW, Klamath Falls. This will be the first network broadcast originated by KFLW, still in its first year of opera Uon. On Wednesday, the day of the drawing at the Klamath armory, KFJI will Initiate a broadcast on the Mutual net work from the armory, giving the opening ceremonies from 10:30 to 11. After that KFLW will take over for half an hour with a local broadcast, and the two stations will cooperate in alternating with broadcasts of the remainder of the drawing. At 4 p. m. on Wednesday, the drawing will be featured on ABC "Headline Edition" from New York with a spot summary of the drawing up to that time. ARENA HERE With the money derived from the sponsorship of these varied endeavors, the post plans to erect a modern meeting nan aim clubhouse on a portion of the grounds. With the advent of the new highway through the area, it will make the grounds acces sible from several streets and highways, and at present it is only 10 minutes from the center of the city. An added feature of the locations, is the known fact tiiat it is adjacent to hot-water wells. ' Hoss concluded nis announce ment by saying that no public subscription or donations will be asked. The post plans to fi nance the -huge undertaking en tirely within the membership, and through revenue derived from rodeos and other activities held on the grounds. Eberlein, who sold the tract to the Legion, a pioneer of the ba sin area, who arrived here in the fall oi 1904, for a number of years acted as roving land com missioner for the SP company to purchase right-of-way property. In his travels throughout the Pa cific coast, he foresaw the great" possibilities for the basin area, and devoted a great deal of his energy and money toward en couraging rail development and residential expansion, and, in number of instances, made dona tions of property to encourage road building. He and his asso ciates were instrumental in push ing the present OC&E railroad to completion and laid out ambi tious plans for development of the present Mills addition and S. 6th street territory. It I said that it was at (lis insistence that the present 100 foot width for S. 6th, was provided for in th very first day of planning, c
