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nay xjva Editor Today's Roundup By MALCOLM EPLEY IT was a relieving circumstance that last week ; end'i regional violence, which filled the news ' yesterday, produced a hero. He 1 Henry V. Munday, known at Pete to hii acquaint ances, who rescued his 5-year-old daughter, Virginia, from their burning home on Crosby street. A modest fellow, Pete made no claims iu nvruuMi whch was interviewed on his hos pital cot by a representative of this newspaper. But the story speaks for it self. With the house on fire, h hctcd his wife and one sfriall daughter out of a win- EPLEY dpw, then ran to the window of the room where little Virginia was sleeping. Calling for her, tu? crawled into the flame and smoke-filled room, felt in her bed, and found her missing. i CQfcing and unable to see. he crawled about tlif rJ;m, feeling for her. Finally, he came upon ti.e child, frightened into speechlessness t sii crouched in a corner. ' He carried her to the window, put her Lkrough, crawled through after her, and the family of four was safe. It was probably not until then that Pete had time to think about the burns he had received on the lower part of his body when the fire first swept into his bedroom, burns that were bad enough to put him in the hospital for several days. ' Pete, a log scaler for Ewauna Box, will prob ably be surprised and maybe a bit miffed at being eulogized here as a hero. But there was need for something just like that to offset the unhappy picture of shootings, automobile acci dent tragedies, and beat-ups that filled . the njfws Monday, and Pete Munday supplied that rtlief admirably. i Expanding Tourist Season EXPANDING the tourist season at both ends is the interesting objective of the travel information department of the state highway commission. i In the past, Oregon's tourist promotion em phasis has been directed on the traditional tour ist season the three months of summer. It ia in that period that by far the largest number of tourists have visited the state, leaving those outside dollars that tourist promoters like to describe in astronomical figures. 1 But it has become apparent that you can't : Build a $200,000,000 tourist industry yes, We've heard that figure mentioned" on a three months' basis. It needs to be expanded over a longer period, and the state's attractions in fall and spring justify such expansion. Western Oregon's valleys especially have itiuch that is beautiful and interesting to offer tlie tourist in the spring, while the higher coun try, like the Klamath region, are in many ways at their best in the fall. Indian summer is especially grand in the east-of-the-Cascades country, So far as that is concerned, we have a great , potential winter attraction here in the Klamath country in Crater Lake National park. The roads to that marvelous winter wonderland are to be plowed out all this winter, and in suc ceeding winters. It offers beauty and winter sports activities to those who are fortunate enough to visit it in the snow season. hlews Behind The News . By PAUL MALLON " WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 Concluding my points of yesterday which were these: (A) The Nathan survey advocating another 25 per cent wage increase was hired by CIO's Phil Murray to promote propaganda for his cam paign in autos and steel, although the radio and some newspaper accounts termed it an indisputable figure survey which Murray had accepted"; (B) The survey covered every busi ness project but not alone the pertinent ones of autos and steel which are the two biggest, basic industries and have been in bad shape; (C) Nathan proposed to hold business profits to a pre-war level, while costs and wages have gone up in inflation since then, and industry cannot continue to- exist in isolation on a pre-war dollar level; (D) The promise of no su-ice increases was the same the CIO made in its losing 120 day strike a year ago although there have been Telling The Editor mt this &M words ta tcnfflb MBit ,vm w KitfU 1EKJBI7 D tut Btue mi Ifi r" ana d Mfjuea. , HOW OLD? 5 KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., (To the Editor) Say, mister, how ojd do the people live to be in this community? Can anyone tell me? i Why, gee whiz, there must be some of the old timers around ltere who are bordering on the 2po mark, aren't they? ; There's young Mr. E. B. Hall, for example. He's going on 300, isn't he? And there's Elmer TUESDAY EVE.. DEC. XTL-V 1450 kc fcLW .on Concert 3:M If roe Town Newe -.ttv.orlu News Summary. -.3'ttuilw of Manhattan" Vour Navy Recruiter ; '" 'Sill Williams Show Malcolm Epler -n Ktnn nth Theatre Gvlde . !tt ; Como 'N AOnerABC '..'-I J-fsn I By Adventure vrt :', I Shod Musical Pint. .. . , " 1 " iellni : " V II" Stardoat Melodlei i inbiii. Hotel Orch. ABC W:MBIla Off Jl:lo 11:10 ; WEDNESDAY A. l:tS A. M. Serenade OrJO Don and Weatie . I M DEC. 18 Mnaical Reveille Newa MBS Blae and Sblne MBS Beadlina Newa Today'a Besl Bnys Garcelons Fashion riashes Connor'a Corral Cenrerl Victor B. Llndlabr MBS Art Bakor'a Notebook The Ceko Clnb MBS :I0 aarra faro :0N.we. Breakfast Pdltlon :1ft Stop nnd Go Show :S6 Jemea Abbe ObaervoaABO :4A Zeko Mannera ABO :O0 Breakfast Clnb ABO :loBreakfaet Clnb ABC f , -:!t Breakfaat Clnb ABO : Breakfast Clnb ABO Kenny Baker Show ABO MALCOLM EPLKT Manaflns Editor , i i nm Hosking, Bogue Dale, Sheriff Lloyd Low, Gary Cozad, Fred Garich, Bill Houston, Fred Houston, to say nothing of so many others. Demme, if I can figure it out! Why, when I was around here some 25 years ago, all these people were supposed to be "quite old" then. How come? Yet they're all (yes, all of them) still up and around and kicking the dust out from under their heels! Gosh, it's something to think about. How do they get that way? I know when I came here some 40 years ago, they were SUDDOSedlV Old nennle then iiu yet they're still kicking. 1 win someone please enlight en me on the subject? It can't be the climate, can it? If that be it, then tell them for me to suck Dy 11. uon t leave it, hop ing to find greener pastures in RADIO PROGRAMS 17 , WEDNESDAY A. KFLW 1450 kc. M Bre'kfait us Bollywood ABC 1:15 " !!?! 5,,ll; Edit abc 10:15 Words i, Music I0:M My free Story ABO 10:.W Scriptures tor Christmas 11:00 Homeetead Drawing 11:30 The Llstenlnr Post ABO 11:41 Ethel and Albert ABC KFJI 1240 kc. Aronnd Town Qui Show w Aratr. Forum of Air MBS Dinner Dani-e Bed JLrder MBS Playhouse of Favorites The Paleon HBS Glen Hardy, Newa MBS James Crowley MBS Basins WEDNESDAY P, Homestead Drawing News Music in March Time Homestead Drawing Baptist Bible Program Merrill Time Homeslsad Drawing Bride and Groom ARC Homestead Drawing 1450 Matinee Headline Editions Refiuestfnily Yours 1:M 13:15 11:30 12:4.1 1:00 1:15 1:30 1:45 8:00 2:1 ::t0 3:00 3:15 3:30 1:15 4:00 1:15 4:30 Moalo Aa Ton Llko II John Woloban Orch. MBS Veto Mnaio MBS Sterllnr Yonnc Orch. MBS Newa MBS 4:15 S:00 0:15 5:30 S:4 Tennessee Jed ABC Terry nnd the PixateoABO Sky King ABC Jack Armstrong ABO porta Llnavp KPLW Pealaro tare auto price increases at least to consum ers so far that I know of; (E) CIO is leading the unions into irreparable damage because the man on any kind of salary has already found he cannot keep up with an inflationary era in which prices are forced ever higher and higher; and (F) Such a campaign Is so poorly grounded in economy it is apt to lead Murray to the fate of John Lewis. Significant I PROMISED today to offer truly pertinent statistics which were inconspicuously an nounced to stockholders by U. S. Steel and GM, and here they are: Net sales of General Motors fell more than half from last year. The first nine months of 1945 sales were $2603 millions and in 1948 $1114 millions, GM reports to stockholders. Now this is a rather bad citation from which false deductions may be drawn (you college eco nomist classes please note), because last year was a bad year for production, being the earliest period of reconversion to peace and prices have actually been increased three times in many car lines since then. So GM sales are half as much as a period sustained by govern ment contract buying for war, and corporate usage of accumulated tax revenues for recon version. (AU figures cover three quarters). Net income of GM is shown on its annual statement to be $14,012,370 for the first nine months of 1946 which is about 10 per cent of earnings of last year's first nine months, $147, 749.167 millions. The actual amount earned per share of stock by GM has been reduced from $3.20 the first nine months of last year to 16 cents for the comparable period this year. As to next year no one can say, including particularly Messrs. Murray and Nathan. I do not intend to do a Dun and Bradstreet on General Motors, but the earnings prospect, I very well know, all depends on Mr. Murray's unions, whether they strike another 120 days this year or longer, or slow down, or production is accomplished. ' I know also I cannot buy a Cadillac like John Lewis in less than a year (salesmen prom ise it then and agree it may be longer) so ob viously GM does not know what its production will be, and only by production can it sell cars and earn money, being in that business. If anyone wanted me to do a D and B on GM, I would start off by seeing Mr. Murray, not the company. - Expenditures Cut US. STEEL sales were reported to stock . holders as being reduced about a third from last year (first nine months.) In 1945 they were $1368 millions and in 1946 were $1015 millions. But unlike GM, steel has made up for its loss of sales by reducing expenditures on nearly everything. For wages and pensions it reduced expenditures from $652 millions to $505 millions (college economists please note how Messrs. Murray and Nathan have reduced the income of their workers, even after wage increases by not getting U. S. Steel into full production and keeping it there.) U.iS. Steel buying of products and services was similarly reduced from $510 millions to $400 millions (with loss of that business for others); even dereciation was cut and state taxes were cut from $30 millions to $27 millions with loss of revenue to the states, and federal tax payments dropped from $28 millions down to $11 millions. So instead of U. S. Steel income per share being reduced after one third reduction in dollar volume of sales during this inflationary period, these were actually increased from $2.85 last year to $4.45 this year. My eagle eye does not detect from the state ments that either company increased its reserves or added to its net worth, but both suffered re ductions of same in this period, although steel bought a couple of western plants. (The stock market shows all this.) Now, as I say, maybe it will not require a college class in economics to figure out that Messrs. Murray and Nathan have just about as weak a case as they could get and are actually advocating the wrong thing for the welfare of their own union and its men. The-men need work and production and a stable economy. If these are forthcoming there would be good profits next year. If the union demanded a share in profits after the profits are made, their claim would make some economic sense. But by forcing industry back to pre-war dollar volume of profits they will reduce industry income actually by the extent of inflation, and by seeking a wage increase, yet unjustified economically, they will cause further inflation which would reduce the worth of any new wage increase just as it did last year's wage increase. Mr. Murray had better hire another economist. which to live. Tell them to stand by their guns, because they'll sure make a mistake should they leave it. A sad, very sad mistake. Yours sincerely, JAMES M. W ATKINS. Fire Destroys Machine Shop TULKLAKI, Dec. 17 Flames destroyed the machine shop on the Tulana Farms hold ings at the south end of Tule lake early Tuesday morning, and also lost were an automo bile and a . pickup owned by employes on the place. Origin of the fire is undetermined Men sleeping in the bunk house nearby were awakened by the flames and aided the Tulelake fire department which received the call at 4 a. m. and M DEC. It KFJI 1240 kc Moraine; Matinee Sons of the Pioneers Vewa MBS T.adfea Christmaa Party Homeatead Drawing Milt Berth Trio Smile Time MBS Rndolph Bocce Salon . M., DEC. 18 Melodioua Melodies News Homeslesd Drawing Farm Front and Market Living with Cod Johnson Family MBS Homestead Drawing Newa Home Demonstratlen John J. Anthony MBS Homestead Drawing Threa Suns Band Concert Xmas Story A Tea Dance Santa Clans Fulton Lewis Jr. MBS en Miller MBS Ersbine Johnson MBS Buck Rogers MBS P. Hemlngway-Newi MBS Superman MBS Captain Midnlta MBS Ad rent, of Tom Mix MBS KFJI reatura SIDE GLANCES "WlmllT'tn,!' "Don't tell anybody, but I'm wiring a stocking to give Santa Claut shock when he yells l'll come running down and see him!" STATIC Br KELLY ROBERTS The next 24 hours will be filled with local radio action. First on the bill of fare will be the one hour Christmas concert from the KUHS auditorium at 8:30 p.m. over KFLW. The concert will be presented by the high school chorus under the direction of Andrew Loney Jr. Carl Hagel will be soloist. o Immediately following the con cert at 9:30 p.m. KFLW will air Mack Lillard's big fight card from the armory. Don Neal will be on hand to describe the action and Bob McCarl will handle the color as Roy Hawkins, husky slugger from Portland, meets Joe Dixon, dusky pelter from Omaha, Neb. ' O ' SUrting at 10:30 Wednesday morning KFJI will take the open ing of the Tulelake homestead drawing from the armory. Heard on the half hour are expected to be the KUHS band. Nelson Reed, chairman ot the homestead ex amining board; Lawrence Carr. representing Gov. Warren of California at the occasion; Gov. Earl Snell of Oregon; R. L. Boko, regional director for the bureau of reclamation, and Olney Rudd, the veteran selected to draw the first capsule from the bowl. Plans Include getting many of the lucky winners who are pres ent at the armory to take the mike for a while. At 11 a.m., immediately fol lowing KFJI's broadcast, KFLW will take the air with a continu ation for the next half hour. The two stations will continue to alternate each half hour during the drawing until it is completed. KFJIjjn the half-hour. KFLW on the hour. KFJI's 10:30 to 11:00 broadcast, by the way, will be released through the Mutual-Don Lee network for west coast lis teners. 0 0 At 4 pjn. Wednesday KFLW will feed the American broad casting company about four min utes of homestead drawing re sults over "Headline Edition." This will be the second net work feed for KFLW, the other being just last Sunday on "Re port to the People." The pro gram will be heard from coast to coast. Berry Attorneys Ask $75,000 LOS ANGELES, Dec. 17 (P Joan Berry's attorneys have put a price of $75,000 on their suc cessful suit to have Comedian Charles Chaplin declared father of Miss Berry's child. Counsel Joseph Scott and A. H. Risse yes terday petitioned superior coOrt for a judgment against the actor for that fee. Chaplin' attorney, C. E. Millikan, told the court the actor was worth $3,000,000. arrived at the scene 45 min utes later. The Merrill fire de partment was also called but arrived too late to assist. Loss was estimated at $9000 on the machine shop. Tulana Farms is operated by Henzel and Liskey brothers. Carl Olney is fore man of operations. KFLW - ABC TONITE! 8:00-Hometewn News 6:30-Muslc of Manhattan 7:I5-Mae Epley 7:30-Theatre Guide 8:00-Lum 'n Abner, ABC 8:30-KUHS Xmas Program 9:00-Boxlng, Armory lOiOO-Stardust Melodies 10:30-Freddie Martin, ABC New Chamber Head Named PORTLAND, Dec. 17 Wl Sidney F. Woodbury took over the presidency of the Portland chamber of commerce today after an Inaugural address in which Cie said "We're in a very sad mess and we all know It." The civic and business leader, told members in his last night's speech that "we are a nation sick in spirit and in purpose. No one cares particularly if he worKs. mougn each is deter mined to get a hijrhcr rate of pay and just as determined not to fairly produce." He advocated the 'Golden Rule' but noted that "the rub is to get anyone to follow it.'! Turkish Army Closes Press ISTANBUL. Dec. 17 fP The luricisn army padlocked eight publications in Istanbul today, prohibited the printing and dis tribution of organs of a "com- munisuc nature and outlawed branches of two new political parties it described as "directed ip a camouflaged manner by com munists and people having ex- iremisi communist tendencies. One usually .reliable source described the actions as a "small purge'' and said they might be considered a warning that the Turkish government was ready to resist any "subversive move ments." Ohcprvar-u In Tuisnl,,,! ....-, struck by the strong wording of uic army communique announc ing the swift steps and were quick to note that they coincided with a rise of anti-communist sentiment in Iran, Just to the east of Turkey, and other events re garded here as possible har bingers of a changing attitude to ward Soviet Russia. YOKOHAMA, Dec. 17 (JF Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelbergcr today said holidays for U. S. occupation troops will be limited to Christmas and New Year's and the afternoon preceding each. This revoked a previous order giving the troops extend ed holjdays. LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE Or FINAL ACCOUNT NOTICE IS HEREBY OIVEN, That the underairned. Executrix ot tho Esuut ol Myron Willis MeVay. Deceased, has tiled her rinal Account with the County Clerk of tho State of Oregon for Klam ath County, and the Court has set Thursday, the loth day of January, 147. at lh hnn. nt tn n'nlu.b A M J iJ I date. In tho Circuit Courtroom in the ioun nouee in Klamath county, Oregon, aa tho Urns and .place for hearing ob jections thereto and th settlement thereof. Dated this ISth day of December, 1840. PEARI, McVAY. Executrix of the Estate of Myron Willis McVay. Deceased. D. 17-M-31: J. 7-14 No. Ml. Your Home . NOW! Clean, glistening white ROCK WOOL WILL NOT DISCOLOR YOUR CEILING. Our agenfi carry credentials. If anyone representing himself to be our agent can't furnish these credentials, . please call us immediately. We can now insulate the attic of the average 5-room home, full 4" $Qf thickness, for about Ow Terms to Suit We Specialize in Commercial Jobs Phone 7709 for Free Estimate Suburban Lumber Cof The World Totfay Br DeWITT MucKENZIE AP Foreign Affairs Analyst There W before the constituent assembly In New Delhi a resolu tion culling for an Indt'peiHient, sovereign republic of India a highly explosive measure which, if adopted, could easily precipi tate civil war among the four -hundred millions of that vast sub-continent. 1 ho point I that the govern ment and assembly as now con stituted represent only one party the dominunt Hindus. The Moslem league, claiming to stand for U0.OU0.OOU Moslems, and the some 600 princes who rule over 90,000.000 subjects, h a v e ' n t agreed so fur to purticlputu In the provisional government. Thus any measure pussed by lite Icgislulure would in el feet be uniluterul, since it would repre sent only the Hindus. Trouble Looms There you have a kettle ot trouble ul least prolential trouble. Unhappily the political divisions in India are largely on religious and ruciul lines. The feud. between the Hindus and the Moslems has been the source of rivers of blood through the cen turies. As recently us the past summer thouMintls u( people died in fierce communal suite in va rious purts ul the country strife which was the outgrowth of the political warfare in the capital. Over a short period In August more than 300 were killed, and nobody knows how many In jured, in the great city of Cal cutta. Things got so terrible that the sewers were choked with the dead. If horrors like thai can grow out of political differences, what can we expect to result from a unilateral declaration of inde pendence by one of the political parties? Many observers believe that former British Prime Min ister Churchill guvc the answer when he declared in the house of commons December 12. "Any attempt to establish a reign of Hindu numerical major ity in India will never be achieved without civil war." The British are said to have only about 50,000 English troops In that whole vast sub-continent. Attempting to restore order with them would be like trying to police New York City with two cops. Of course there is a big native standing army, but one would scarcely expect the British to try to employ that, made up as it is of both Moslems and Hindus. The only hope of averting catastrophe in India lies in find ing some formula which will permit the warring factions to join forces In crcutiug a new government to implement the independence which England has offered. Car Wreck Injures One Mrs. J. H. Bromficld, 123 S. 2nd, suffered injuries at 9:45 a. m. today when she was struck by a car operated by Byron P. Foster, 33, Colonial hotel, as Foster's car made a left turn at 7th and Klamath. Mrs. Brom field was moved to Klamath Val ley hosDital but her inhirif are said to be minor. City police, investigating the accident, were told by Foster that he was driving slowly on 7th and had stopped at the in tersection to make a left turn when Mrs, Bromfield stepped in the path of his car as he entered into the street. He stopped im mediately. Foster's occupation was given as dragline operator. He posted $10 bail at the police station in answer to a charge of failure to yield right-of-way. The first Canadian Expedition ary Force departed for France October 3, 1914. Venetian Blinds Patterson Furniture 230 Main Your Convenience ' ' Wo'od t j Phone Mill inM 7150 NKBALB NSWS. lanssus Falls. Pro. CARNIVAL "Chief Smoking Tepet heap fed up on ihortage--no can get-um battery foi new electric blanket!" Man Held On Murder Charge PORTLAND, Dec. 17 (fll Mrs. Laura Maria Riopelle, 55, was found shot to death curly today, a roomer coining home to find her body with bullet hole between the eyes. Deputy Sher iff Elmer Wiillensteln reported. Richard Bras, about A5, Is held in the county jail for ques tioning Wallenslcin sultl Brits lived In a one-room shuck at the rear of Mrs. Kiopellc's house In south east Portland and had been ar rested by state police following a minor automobile mishap a short time after the woman's body wns found. When sheriff's officers sought him for questioning, stute po lice reported he was In the Ore gon City jail, the deputy said. Dodge Employes Walk Out DETROIT, Dec. 17 ttT) A dis pute over a worker who said his religion prohibited his paying union dues left 800 foundry workers Idle Monday at Hit Dodge main plant of Chrysler corporation. Management said the employes left their jobs "because the company would not dismiss an employe the union said had re fused to Join the union," From South Odell Olson of the city police deportment has returned from a vacation spent with relatives in Los Angeles. GIFTS should be arranged for your family before Janu ary 1. AT YOUR SERVICE JOHN H. HOUSTON ntrataiNTiNO Tits EQUITABLE LIFE Assurance Society Hrr IK N. It rkoao SMI 1 1 at R6erL ftoerTan account. Pay ml!l.00i No extra fhSst" atBoeverl lJ5HrnH? 100 Veterans Employed TUkSDAT, BsO. It, ago roar B Dick Turner Pearl Harbor Drydocki Burn HONOLULU. Dec. 17 Mb Six men were overcome by smoke while fighting a fire whlrh damaged two drydocks in Penrl Harbor late yesterday and for time endangured shore In stallation. All six were re leaser! after treatment at a navy dlspensury. Cause of the blaie waa unreported. Forest fires coat the United States from 30 to 45 million dol Inra aniiuully. Gift Suggestions, from Drew' Pants Racks Tie Racks Clothes Brushes Round out your Christmas shopping with these useful gifts. ' COMING TO THE ARMORY Friday, Dec. 27 Dir t raoM Tin noixrwooo rALLAuitm TOMMY TUCKER Wllk Mis Orsslsst ORCHESTRA MMt'mrlANS ja RNTKttTAINSBI SBB lOMSDIA. BILLY OEE KAaiTONK DON BROWN Ta Mao That Comis Arsu- KtawiN soxiavtu.s Tn rotta two timibs . 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