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allalilly voliUr In vallvy umltil; iimhI
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OVr. IihiImIiI and Friday. Warmwr Mum
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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.