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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 16, 1946)
Idllor MALCOLM tPLCT Manaslns Editor 1 EPLEY Today's Roundup By MALCOLM EPLEY A POINT of much interest that has been largely overlooked in the outside news paper and radio stories about the Tulelake homestead opening is that the fmtjWM World War II veterans was under 25 feet of water 35 years go. ' ' It was then the bottom of a huge lake. These 86 farms, as well as scores of other farms already operating in the neighboring area, were made available for agricultural pur poses through the unwatering of the bed of Tule lake, which once spread over some 100,000 Pnlifnrnia. HlltS 111 , , , j Tule lake was a fresh waier sv.w by the discharge of Lost river and occasional, but rare, overflow! from Klamath river. Its ancient water line is indicated by rows of willows to be seen at various places around the lake, especially on the west side. The well defined shore line lies at about 4055 feet above sea level. The early plans for. the development of the Klamath reclamation project contemplated as one feature the partial unwatering of the bed of Tulelake and inclusion of the lands thus exposed as a part of the farmed area of the project. The job was accomplished by shutting off the inflow into the lake. Clear lake dam, which controls the flow of Lost river from Its source, was constructed in 1911, creating a large reser voir. Gerber reservoir, controlling the flow of Miller creek, a Lost river tributary, was com pleted in 1925. These dams, alone, were not enough to pre vent a flow of water into Tule lake which would flood the potential farm lands there. An essential part of the program was the Lost river diversion dam and channel. The dam is on Lost river, and the channel runs from the reservoir thus formed to Klamath river. By this means, water running down Lost river may be shifted into Klamath river and prevented from running on down into Tule lake. In 1931, the diversion channel was enlarged to a capacity of 1200 second feet "An interesting feature of the diversion chan nel is that it is level, and water may be moved in either direction through it. In the irrigation season, if more water is needed in Lost river below the dam for irrigation purposes, it can be directed through the diversion channel from Klamath river Clear lake and Gerber dams, and the Lost river diversion channel, accomplished the in tended purpose, and by 1917, Tule lake water had evaporated sufficiently to make possible the opening of the first land there. In 1922, the first land of the Tulelake- division, proper, was opened and since then the area of home stead land on Tulelake has been steadily in creased. The original plans for reclaiming Tule lake bed contemplated reserving a large portion of the bed for sump purposes for storage of water which seemed certain to flow into the lake despite the upstream and diversion projects. This is the area known as the "sump," It was not originally intended for farming purposes. But through a series of dry years, it became plain that not all the sump area was needed for storage purposes, and the government leased thousands of acres in the sump for agricultural purposes. It still does. . Meanwhile, the government has proceeded with development of the unwatered lands out side the sump area and has opened them to homesteading. The land involved in the draw ing on Wednesday is a part of this development. Coppeck bay will follow into the homestead picture. Tule lake has proved to be a tremendous success as a reclamation project. The land is fertile, the water supply is ample, and the farm ers, largely veterans, who have settled there have made the most of the great opportunities it offers. The successful participants in Wednes day's drawing will be indeed fortunate to be 'given a chance to carve out a home and a living in that productive area where once lapped the waters of a great lake. News Behind The News By PAUL MALLON WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 My radio dinned it into me and at least one newspaper said at the top of its front page that Phil Murray had "accepted" the Nathan survey which held that American business can pay another 25 per cent wage increase without rais ing prices or reducing its pre-war profit margin. The CBS 11 p. m. broadcaster that day said no one had disputed Mr. Nathan's figures. He and others treated the news as something of a super-colossal sensation tossed like a bomb in the CIO campaign for more wage increases you know how they go on. The truth of the matter (which no one whom I read or heard pointed out) was that Nathan had been hired by Murray to make the survey. Bob Nathan, who operates a private statistical agency, made no secret of it in his invitation to newsmen to attend the announcement, say ing: "We have been retained by CIO to under take ..." the survey and have been working on it two months. Now anyone above the age of 10 (and some under) knows Murray hired Nathan for a job of statistical propaganda to boom the CIO Increase-wages-again campaign. That Murray "accepted" what he had bought was no more surprising than if a CIO attorney had said CIO was just wonderful, but the way the radio handled it, and some newspapers, would have made me believe if I had not known the true facts that an objective third party had just given CIO the go-ahead to get another per cent wage increase which is what CIO wanted. Deception SUCH propaganda statistic-king goes on all the time and is legal, if the public is not misled as to its true source, but the tricky deception this time is likely to involve the union and the country in an economic holo caust, to wit: Now any high school student, including the worst in the class of economics, can see on the surface, the two major things wrong with the statistics of Economist Nathan which utterly destroy their assigned value. In the first place he professes to calculate the prospective profits of all industry for the purpose of promoting a wage increase for the CIO in autos and steel whereas only autos and steel are pertinent. Nathan takes in profits of every business, good and bd, to promote a wage increase in the two, basic largest national industries which are ad mittedly bad. But this is not nearly the worst of his eco nomic offense against common sense. He says the wage increase again this year can be accomplished without "reducing pre-war pro fits." Certainly the thickest head in high school realizes we have gone far upwards in inflation since pre-war, that the dollar buys perhaps half as much as it did then. If in dustry is held to pre-war dollar figures of profits, their profits will be reduced by half or more reduced by as much as inflation has gone up. Only management then would be denied an inflation which labor itself is promot ing, and therefore management must be utterly destroyed by the economic events which Nathan advocates. Management cannot live on pre-war dollars in an inflated economy. That is the insidious danger of the Nathan figures to the union which apparently does not realize it and to the public. And as far as the public is concerned, CIO said its wage increase after a crippling 120-day strike last year at this time would not result in increased prices but the price of automo biles has been increased three times since then. Actually CIO is trying to get away with the same old hoax on the public about that, where as the public knows better. The Other Side Ik JOW we get up to the college level of eco- I nomics which may be required for under standing although the kids are right smart these days. The radio did not mention the pertinent figures which are announced just at that very same time. Nor did any front page headlines herald the actual profits of the two companies involved, issued then. You might find these back on the financial page, or not at .all, and the public certainly did not get them by ear on the radio. These figures show the other side of the Nathan story, restricted to industries pertinent to tne CIO wage campaign, an accounting pre sented by U. S. Steel and General Motors to stockholders. As I have no room left today, I will present them tomorrow in full substantia tion of my theory of the matter which is this: The CIO has taken on a very dangerous battle on exceedingly weak economic grounds. It has chosen the wrong course and is apt to suffer the fate of John Lewis in one way or another. The danger is it proposes to force the country higher into inflation (a game in which the work ing man must already realize he never catches up). Murray should have avoided this and the CIO shouldjiave attempted a campaign against inflation and for a stable economy which is what the wage earner urgently needs, if he is not to plunge the whole economic works down the sewer while groping ambitiously for re sults which cannot be realized. SIDE GLANCES 3 m i com iw rr at tssvtct. asc. w stc. v. a. m. "He broke his arm trying to hang by his knees to impress a girl, and she didn't visit' him once I'm afraid he has lost his faith In womanhood!" County Tax 85 Per Cent In The county tax office has col lected approximately 85 per cent of the money due on its current roll, and has already distributed about half of the amount to the various taxing districts. Through last Saturday a total of $2,101,901.57. had been re ceived. The tax bill is $2,468, 077.29. Many taxpayers are paying their assessments in full to take advantage of a three per cent discount allowed, and the office has acknowledged discounts of $61,368.92. Two Teen-Agers Die In Crash IDAHO SPRINGS, Colo.. Dec. 16 (IP) A Denver teen-ager and his fiance were fatally injured and 13 other skiers returning from a Sunday outing were in jured yesterday when their open body truck plunged off a moun tain highway and into the icy waters of Clear creek. Guy Clifford Cowan, 18, of Denver, was crushed to death in the 40-foot plunge, and !iis fi ance, Helen Fouse, 18, also of Denver, died early today in Col orado General hospital, Denver. RADIO PROGRAMS Two Plead Guilty To Pistol Theft Two young Indian men, John Alfred Barkley, 19, and Lloyd Lela.id Hood, 26, pleaded guilty in justice court this morning to petty larceny in the theft of a pistol and were fined $25 each. The weapon, a .45-calibre Colt revolver, was stolen several weeks ago from Mrs. Myrtle Rae, 2250 S. 6th. State police located the pistol at Pine Ridge VesterriflV flnrl an-Aola Do..t.1.. and Hood. The latter is said by police to be an ex-convict. Classified Ads Bring Results. MONDAY EVE.. KFLW 1450 kc. :00 :li, 6:211 6:80 6:4ft 7:00 7:1ft ?: 7 :1ft 8:1)0 :1ft S:0 S:4I 9:00 :U 8:.in 0:45 10:00 Kl:4l 11:00 11:1ft 11:30 11:41 Muilo of Manhattan Home Town Newt" World News Summary OMen's Rumpui Room ABC Mfmnihl. m...i Malcolm Holey Klamath Theatre Guide Lorn N' Abner ABO Symphony of Melody The Fat Men ABC Dra. Talk It Over ABC Veteran Adm. Prof. ABC Fantasy In Melody ABC Stardust Melodlri Red Nickels Orch. ABC Sijn Off DECEMBER 16 KFJI 1240 kc. 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Kinda pretty though, don'tcha think? She's Doris Grundy, an ex Conover model, who free-lances in various bit roles on radio productions. , , Listeners to "Stardust Mel odies." KFLW at 10 p. m. Mon days through Saturdays, are busy jotting down reasons why they like the Chuck Cecil pro duction. Harwin's, sponsors of the broadcast, is offering a Fada combination radio-phono- Kraph for the best answer. All ya got to do is write to Stardust Melodies. KFLW. tellinit why you like the show in 100 words or less. Contest ends midnight Wednesday. Hurry, Hurry, Hurry. Cannon Beach Cafe Burns To Ground CANNON BEACH. Dec. 16 UP) The newly-constructed Cannon Beach cafe burned to the ground yesterday, but the Seaside fire department prevented the blaze fromspreading to adjacent build ings. Cannon Beach, which has no fire department, summoned help from nine-mile-distant Seaside. Cause of the blaze was not de termined. Bevos Schedule 12 Procrice Tilts PORTLAND, Dec. 18 (P) One of the heaviest pre-season schedules of recent years awaits thePortland Pacific Coast league Beavers during spring training General Manager William Mulli gan said today. The Beavers will play 12 practice games out of the River side, Calif., camp. Four will be against major league outfits and the remainder against Coast league rivals. All queen bees in charge of hives are widows. The drone of hives are widows. The drone dies after the honeymoon flight, and never returns home. Langell Valley Mrs. Orville DcVaul Is In Hill side hospital recovering from a major operation. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rueck spent Saturday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Owen Fcpple. Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Johnson left left Monday morning for Yuba City, Calif., to spend a week with Mr. and Mrs. George Smith and family. From there they will gotoLonePine, Calif., for Christ mas. They plan to spend the rest of the winter in Arizona. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Brown spent Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Leland Harris. Mr. and Mrs. Elliott House spent Sunday at Bonanza with their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Don Ross. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Leavltt and family were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Owen People and family. Mrs. Charles Walker spent Tuesday with Mrs. Clay Walker. Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Rupert and Mr. and Mrs. George tern lund spent Tuesday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Joe Potucck and enioyfed a taffy pull. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Myers are spending a few days at Medford before going to to California for a few weeks' vacation. Ruth Mary Thomas, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Reg. Thomas, has been quite 111 with an infec tion in her ear but Is now im proving. Mrs. Kate Phillips of Kerby visited last week with her grand' son, Ray Marchant and family. Mr. and Mrs. Al Dearborn spent Tuesday at the Les Leavitt home. Mr. and Mrs. Wes Dearborn and children left Wednesday morning for southern California to spend ten days with relatives and friends. They will bring his mother, Mrs. Mary Dearborn, home with them. She has been in Los Angeles for the past several months. Mr. and Mrs. Herb Marchant of Kerby are visiting their son, Ray and family. Cora Leavitt spent Wednesday with Hattie Walker. Most Australian taxicab driv ers wear uniforms and open and close cab doors for their fares. The World Today Br J. M. ROBERTS JR. AP Fortlgn Affairs Analyst For ten months and three weeks of HMtl the fiiiolgn min isters council ii nd the Unltrd Nations liuvo cause fur little ex cept pessimism. For eui'h step forward there seemed to bo a step back. Russia acctned dvlermlned to turn tlio iutorntitluiuil confer ences Into mere foruiui or firopagundH. Britain's prime min ster went to Paris in the sum mer for what lie termed "one Inst effort" to get the Russians to really co-onernle. Little seemed tu come of it, Tho Paris conferences and the first weeks of tho Now York conferences seemed merely to emphnsizo the cleavage between Russia and the English-speaking countries. SovioU Softsn Then, four weeks ugo, Russia began to show signs of soften ing. She decided that once dis armament plan was set up, she would not demand the right to veto the decisluns of Its enforce ment agencies. She compromised on Trieste, on freedom of Dun ube traffic, and other matters, lluving proposed general dis armament, she actually hogan. demobilizing her vast army of occupation in Europe. She took some beatings, such as on her efforts to have all UN members breuk relations with Franco Spain and to secure a nose-count of armies on foreign soil, with better grace than here tofore and with no walkouts. She displayed an apparent will ingness to lose her political po sition in Iran's province of Azur- Daijnn ratm-r tiuin siir up an other hornet's nest over it. De termined action by the central government at Tehran appar ently wiped nut within a few days, and with a minimum of fighting, the Soviet sponsored Azerbuijan local government and re-opened the province, which hud been virtually cut off from the rest of Iran since the Russian occupation during the war. QuMtlon Raised The reasons for the new atti tude, and whether it would last, j were, of course, the subjects of much speculation. Some UN del egates pointed out that Russia needed in her fields and factories the troops with which she had been bucking up her military diplomacy abroad, needed finan cial -help from abroad (or her five-year plan, and had found that her previous attitude was building up an unprofitable re sentment against her. There are also some Who hope that Russia's diplomats have through contin ued a.tsociaion, begun to feel more trustful of the west. On the question of whether the new Russian attitude would last also depended much of the value of the other developments during the New York meetings. nHALD N1U, lam.lb rails. Or.. MQNUAt, B... I., i r.t. ... FUNNY BUSINESS "W bought an old barn and rtmodalad It. but they rofui tofrlvetm!" Glass Jar Top Causes Accident Mrs. Aaron Hoffman, resident of Woi'us district unil Lutln In structor at Kliimut.i Union high school, suffered a painful injury lute Sunday morning w'.ien she cut her left hand on a glass Jar. Mi. Hoffman was udmltlcd to Klamath Valley hospital at 11:05 a. m, Sunday and later dis missed. The attending physician said the tendons of the left thumb .worn severed by the severe gash. House Hunting Problem Solved GOLD BEACH, Dec. IB (At Curry county officials solved the house-hunting problem of their welfare administrator when Miss Virginia Ulnis threatened to re sign for lack of accommodations.' A fourth-floor cupola in the Prowlers Steal Christmas Gifts Prowlers, poanlbly Juveniles, celebrated Christmas HUla curly Saturday night, swiping presents from under llie tree nt the home of Mr. und Mm, l.n vernc Molschcnbucher, 1(110 Lukevli'W, Mntsehenbuc-irr reporleil to police Hint the thlevew enlerril tho hoime through un snlockeil door early Snturduy night and made off with cosinrtlc set, shorts and socks, two dolls, a toy bout and a box of candy, total value of about $13. All, courthouse tower was quickly renovated, water piped In and Mlas Dials begun hoiiM-keepIng in the small octugon room. KIRBY Vacuum Cleaners Authorised Salot and Sorvic Telephone 9200 cnraoroDHT . foot ipccialisi Dr. Kenneth S. 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