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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 2, 1947)
WEATHER MKATIIKB OIIKOON Cloar l,l.y, lonlihl and VTWlAY, KCtH IMU'lMH Of Vlly flHf. allalilly voliUr In vallvy umltil; iimhI )! aaatorly wind oil oinmI. otrly OVr. IihiImIiI and Friday. Warmwr Mum JiMiMln vallov lNUy. Mrirti nnflll orly wind uff itunh ool and InMll aorthoilr off amiUtarn ouait. Relief Mm Mike Juavon of Hw warehousing division of the war uMlt administration In Han Fruiiclaco, returned to tlio buy area thli morning after upending Uin punt two week In Kluinulli Falls. Junvcn wai hero relieving M auperlnlrndcnt of wuichoim inil at Ilia Tuleluko camp during the ubaence of George Simlli. Hoy D. Nowlln of Berkeley will relieve Jaaven. Now Year's Spree W. A. Spanglcr, t'lno street, wua bout t a party held at Cul-Ore tav ern on ' New Year's Eve honor ing hi gurota, Mr. and Mr. Dun Wledler of Chicago. Other at the party Included Mr. and Mia. l.orm I'ulinorloiv, Mr. and Mrs. Hob Mclicynolda, Mr. and Mr a. Vermird Goodwin, Mr.. Lucy Sloddurd and Mr. and Mr. Curl Steliueifcr. In San Francisco Mr. und Mr. Henry Gerbcr are (-pending thi week In Sun Francisco. On New Year' Day they attended the Kaat-Wct game and plan to be hnek next Monday. Alito pending the holldny In the bay region are Mr. and Mr. Ilowurd Ilurnhlacl and Dr, and Mr. John Merryman. i .1 Back to School Muryellen Wright, daughter of Mr. and Mr. Leslie Wright of 438 High, returned to Eugene Thursday. She I a Junior at the Unlveralty of Oregon, and ho been home for the holiday lnce before C'hriatmus. Diachargod Among the sol. flier honorubly discharged from the carailon center at Fort Lew I till week were Pvt. Eve land Chiloquin of Chlloquln, and Pic. AuNtin II. Stewart, 3041 Miller, Klamuth Fall. Choir Mooting. The First Buptiiit church choir will meet at 7:110 tonight, Thursday, at the church. All member arc urged to attend. PnoumonU Pationt Jerome Shine, 2002 Kane, w moved by ambuinncc New Year' Eve to Klamuth Valley hopltaI where he I receiving treatment for a severe attack of pneumonia. Horn From Hoapltal Emery Purdiu of Wocua In at home after being in the hospital for the past 10 duy. Ho will be confined to hi home (or two or three week. '46 Gaudy Year For Crime The year 1946 wa a rather gaudy one on the crime calen dar In the Klamath country. These happening made the headlines: On January 1 at Bcatty, Wll lard William stabbed Egbert Hugo Smith in the throat. It was the second killing for Wil liams, and he was found guilty of second degree murder In fed eral court and on June 7 sen tenced to life Imprisonment. Toward the end of that mouth, on January 25, Clyde Edward Todd shot Ross Sim mers in an office at the Pacific Fruit Express ice dock.' Todd was charged with second do greo murder, later the count was reduced to manslaughter, he was indicted for voluntary manslaughter and he was found not guilty on July 16. Earl Hcuvcl, former Klamath Fall police chief, came to trial on a morals charge on January 28. On February 1, after 25 hour of deliberation the Jury was roported hopelessly dead locked. A retrial started the next day and on February 6 Hcuvcl was found not guilty. Two other Indictments against him were dismissed. On February 7, at Tulclake, C. A. Gundcrson, a veteran and a border patrolman, killed himself with his pistol while playing "Russian roulette.' An indictment agnlnst A. W. Downs, former city building In spector, for arson In connection with the burning of some con demned houses was tossed out Royal Neighbor The Royt.1 Nuighbor of America Instulla lion hu been postponed to Jun miry 24. Thero will bo no pruc II ci Sunday, The regular meet ing will be hold Junuury 10, and all old find new officer are urged to attend, Practice: for the installation will bo held after the meeting, To Loe Angola Beverly MelhaRe and iluth Fletcher of Klamuth Fall will leave Satur day morning for Lou Angclea, returning to claasc at Woodbury college. Loth young women spent the Christmas vacation hero with their parent. Installation Alona cliapter, Order of the Eastern Star, will install new officer for 1847 at 8 p. m., Saturday at the Masonic temple. All Eastern Star mem ber are aaked to attend. Return South Margaret Pearl llullcy, daughter of Mr. and Mr. W. L. Hnllcy of 1528 Etna, returned to Sun Francisco Tuesday after spending Chrlat ma here. Social Club The Eastern Slur Sociul club will meet In the Ma acinic temple ut 1:45 p. m. Fri day. Hoatasac will bo Mr. Leo N. Hul and Mr. Calvin Hunt. Thero will bo a brief business meeting when new officer will aume their dutle. Back At Work Mr. Elsie Sie nicna, deputy tax collector. is back at work today after being away for two month recover ing from Injuries received In an automobile accident, lii-r work was done by Max Saunders while alio was out of the office. Pneumonia Juunlta Hrcocta, resident of neatly, was moved by ambulunca to Klumath Val ley hospital at 6:40 p. m. Wed nesday, suffering from a severe attack of pneumonia. VFW Meeting Pelican Post I3B.1, Veterans of Foreign Wars, will meet tonight, Thursday at 8 in the KC hall. Jobs Daughters Members of Jobs Daughters will meet to night, Thursday, ut 8 c clock In the Masonic temple. Pationt Mrs. Walter Kelly, Spraguo River, Is a patient at Hillside hospital. fturaorv Tnhh 1 -fill Sr Piillo. quln resident, hud major surgery Tueuduy morning at Klamath Valley hospital. Returns Dr. Sarah Ethel Smith. 205 Willits building, has returned to her office after an absence of one month. of court on February 20 be cause of a flaw In the wording of the charge. Charlie Twigg, watchman at El Runcho Tutc, was brutally murdered and about $10,000 stolen from two safes at the tav ern during tho night of March 3. Lead after lead popped for officers investigating this crime and it has never been solved. On that same day George Washington Harvey holed up in his cave home near MVrrill after a reported stlckup- at tempt. He was Jailed two days later fur assault, but was not held by the grand. Jury. Justin Oliver Looysen, a Cal ifornian, flashed brilliantly in tho news for a few days, start ing April 14 when he leaped from a passenger train and took a knife to a brakeman who tried to stop him. Looysen tried to slash his wrists in the county Jnil and was taken to tho medi cal clinic, from whore he es caped and entered a residence next door. Tho man was judged insane and ordered committed. On April 24 two men, Bob Farrls and Harold Gartln, were arrested here on morals charges and that arrest is still having repercussions in the news as 1946 comes to an end. Both were indicted for statutory rape. Gartln came to trial and was found not guilty on July S. The charge against Farrls was dropped. A bloody affair which was not adjudged a crime occurred on May 23, when Glen Harris astAi.a a Htm: siuia r.ay on. racsaesr, j. t, wot, re nv Rogue River Forest Figures Show Huge Demand For Lumber, Prices Reach Record High Level By JOHN SAROINSON District Hangar, Rogue River National Forest Woods operations on the Rogue Rlvor national forest, Klamath area, have shut down for the winter months but some road work will continue as long as weather permits. The year, 1946, climaxed the end of the war-time timber sale with the cut amounting to S3 million board feet of pine and fir. During the war period a total of 192 million board feet wa cut. This was valued at $1,021,000, with OPA ceiling price In effect. National forest timber was made available dur ing this period when other slumpage was held off the mar ket or sold only to a limited de gree because of celling price, under such conditions the na tional forest timber helped sus tain the Klamath basin milling capacity during the war and housing period immediately post. Selective Cut The timln-r cut during this period was all cut on a selective Duals with about 40 per cent of Copco Head Predicts Big Population Growth In Basin Prediction that the southern Oregon-northern California area served by The California Oregon Power company will see substan tial population growth and in creased economic activity In 1947 was voiced today by A. S. Cummins, president of the com- Cany. This optimistic view is aaed upon the record of the past year, which covered the first full year of reconversion from war to peacetime economy. The lumber industry account ed for a major portion of in creased business during the past year, Cummins said, although a marked improvement has also been apparent in agriculture, mining and general business. Like many other concerns, Cop co has been faced with material and manpower shortages which have made it impossible for the company to fully meet fast grow ing demands for electric service. Prediction of future growth and prosperity of this area was also based upon a widespread in terest throughout the United States in Oregon which, from a fihysical viewpoint, is one of the ust frontiers. Polls conducted in other sections of the nation and analysis of new population here and Tex Alnsworth locked In mortal combat at 9th and Wal nut. Harris died of stab wounds and Alnsworth, shot five times, recovered. The grand Jury did not indict him. That happening also had a later chapter. A ins worth was arrested for writing a threaten ing letter against Mrs. Georgia Fisher at the rooming house where the previous fight had taken place. He pleaded guilty in a Portland federal court on November 21, and is still await ing sentence. On June 28 two cons escaped the state pen, Frederick E. Cleveland and Alfred W. Strain, and were captured in Tulclake. It was about that time of the year when the city police hot sheet began filling up with re ports of petty burglaries. There have been dozens of them since, some solved and some not. A man and wife, Brlnton and Frances McNeil, were caught shoplifting in local grocery stores. The method was to tuck packages under her ample skirt, They got county jail sentences on July 9. A fairly quiot period ensued during the hot weather, except for more burglaries and minor crimes. A woman committed suicide by Jumping in the canal, some saddles and riding gear were stolen from stables, cars were stolen and found. Then on Saturday night. Darvin Patrick Foster, who later proved to be just 16. stuck up the Western Union office and was immediately arrested. the merchantable saw timber left uncut. These are trees that the forester figures will stand for a number of year trees that are wind firm, trees that are fast growing, tree that will withstand insect attack, and trees that will furnish quality high grade wood. At the same time, the area was made acces sible by the construction of roads. These will greatly facll. ltate the protection of the area from fire and will also make small salvage operations econom. leal in the future. Lighter cuts will probably be made In the future, leaving approximately 60 per cent of the timber stand ing. This type of cutting was tried in 1946, and found to be economical During this period the counties and state by law received pay ments in lieu of taxes from Um ber receipts from this area alone, amounting to $253,428, and $102,170, respectively. Klamath county received $90,038.18, from national forest receipts in -the fiscal year 1943, and it Is esti mated $03,231.66, for the fiscal clearly Indicates a general "go west" trend. In spite of acute " shortages, The California Oregon Power company was able to complete a 66.000 volt transmission line to Crescent City and a 66,000 volt transmission line from DIxonvillc to Myrtle Creek. Re location of electric transmission and distribution lines and'watcr mains along South Sixth high way was also effected. A total of 185 miles of new distribution lines was constructed, extending service to many rural and resi dential customers. Keeping pace with the area's growth, Copco will undertake construction of a new 25,000 kilowatt hydro-electric plant on the north Umpqua river at Toke tce Foils in 1947, following re cent approval of the Federal Power commission and the Hydro-eleetric commission o f Oregon. It is expected that the Tokctee project will be com pleted by mid-summer of 1949. Further, negotiations are now under way with the reclamation service for 20,000 kilowatts of power from the Shasta project to be delivered to the company's transmission system at Delta.-Calif. In Klamath Basin He was sent back to the armv at Salina, Kans., but has since es caped twice and officers here are still getting messages to look for him. On September 6 a Lakeview child was kidnaped, then locat ed in Oklahoma. Toward the middle of September the heat was turned on slot machines in tha county and an arrest or two made.- The machines are still out of operation. Horace Manning, central fig ure in one of the most sensa tional criminal trials ever held in Klamath Falls courts, died September 20. An eerie story broke on Octo ber 10. Someone found a bloody, bandaged foot and a bloody shoe at Algoma. Later it was identi fied as a skinned bear's foot. On that day near Dorria Edwin R. Seal was shot in the leg, and J. x. orewer jauea ior trie shoot ing. Beal's leg was amputated. Twenty-five persons were hurt in a bus wreck on Sun mountain October 16. On October 29 Rev. James T. Black was killed by a shotgun blast at Ft. Jones, and Sam Evans was sentenced to life In San Quentin for pulling the trigger. Time marched on and nn Thanksgiving Day Delbert Man uel unanaier was killed by a rifle bullet at Big Rock. Delbert (Dink) Lane, a hunting com panion, has been on the end of a strenuous Investigation and was indicted for threatening the commission of a felony threat ening to kill Chandler. He's still in Jail. year 1946. This amount prin cipally comvt from timber sales receipts, but grazing and sum mer home fees add some to the Klamath county total. Big Demand The present demand for na tional forest timber is three or four times the amount of stump-as- . available under sustained yield management. Access roads are needed In many localities so that timber can be made avail able. Through such road con struction, a 50 million foot tract has been made, available to the Klamath basin. This is in line with the forest service policy of cutting each operating area or working circle up to the max imum allowable cut and still maintain a permanent industry. With the OPA ceilings off, tim ber is being put on the market by competitive bidding. Some of the most recent bids are astounding. White fir is being bid in at prices that used to be considered tops for ponderosa pint $7 and $8 per thousand, pre-war prices being 50 cents and $1, if you could get someone to take it. Some speak of these as inflationary prices yes, to some extent, but possibly not entirely. There may be a small downward adjustment, but more truly the price indicates the large demand and corresponding lack of avail able timber. Economic adjust ments are being made and more are in the offing in the local lumbering picture. These no doubt will come about through competitive bidding. The immediate trend will be a reduction in sawmill capacity with some local Interest shown in manufacturing, followed by an alternate adjustment to the sustained yield cut for the basin as public and private timber, under various degrees of sus tained yield management will produce the timber for local In dustry. Considerable interest will be shown by local industry in any public timber advertised that can economically be manu factured In Klamath Falls in-, eluding douglas fir and white fir. New Year's Party Climbs Mr. Hood PORTLAND, Jan. 2 Iff) A party of six. Portlanders ascended Mount Hood early yes terday and planted flares on the summit on New Year's Day. Bill Gerbcr, one of the climb ers, said his group passed two ' other climbing parties while re turning to Silcox hut on the south slope. The county Brand iurv. called Into session December 2, was in structed to look into reports of police brutality. After days of session and recession, the 'jury returned an indictment against Police Officer Verne Wagner on a prisoner - beating allegation. The officer was released on $3000 bail. On December 14 Miss Mary McCorob, county librarian, was shot in the neck, and her assail ant, Donald Yancey, was jailed for assault with intent to kill. Miss McComb died a week later and the charge against Yancey was upped to first degree mur-. der. The Oregon state penitentiajry received a number o guasts from Klamath county this year, even though the number of ac tual convictions by juries in the local circuit court was negli gible. David Samuel Van Cleave was given life on a morals count, El2a H. Pryor received a life sentence for a morals offense, Raymond McLaughlin went up for 10 years on a sex charge, Merril Andrus got 10 years for larceny and a number of other persons were given tickets to the state pen for lesser periods on lesser counts. The city police department . had a big year, breaking U previous records with more than 4200 arrests. That figure is six elusive of persons arrested by the state police, sheriff's off fee or constables.
