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rTV for the city. About mid
" afternoon of clear nd
sunny day. But sharp. The
puvrmcnt over Cougar mountain
(McUool summit, tha highway
sign now cnlla 11) la dry, but the
front it tlie ilde of the road Is
white.
TWHAT a saving the present
" route Isl A good half hour
over tho old and crooked route
throuiih Bniy. Wo room over It
with practically never a thouuht
of the winding, alow road- we
lined to travel. Likewise over
the new. fant road necessitated
by the bucking up of tho water
behind Shanta dam.
Thin easily la progress ab
aorbod and forgotten! The
wander of yesterday become! the
commonplace of today.
IMPERFECT human being that
we are, we seldom count our
blrsxlnga. In.tead, we Incline to
nurse our gripes.
For example:
There was a time (only a
couple of decades, or such a mat
ter, ago) whan the miraculous,
smooth, paved surface of the
road drew oh and a lis of pleas
ure and gratification from us.
The width seemed ample then,
and tho curves served only to
break the monotony of the drive.
And so It was with the gentle
grades. They helped to slow
one's speed lust enough to keep
the scenery from slipping by too
fast
Tha curves compel us to drop
down from cruising speed, and
the araHrs well, the Jesa aald
about the grades, five per cent
maximum though they may be,
the better In these hectic days,
The nradea alow ud tht trucks,
and when the trucks alow up
the fat Is In the lire.
And the air is thick and
sulnhurou with cusa -words.
Oldsters who In their youth went
to town In style at 7 mph benum
a spun of trotters, flashing
haughtily In bursts of ten or a
dozen mph around the loss
fortunate who were riding In a
farm wagon behind a team of
mules, growl like an embittered
bulldog when caught behind a
slow truck on a two-lane high
wav.
Instead of being thankful for
what the mechanical age has
brought us, we fume and fret
over what It hasn't got around
to yet.
WHEN the last war started, we
were Just getting adjusted
to cars tltat would (sometimes)
get us from where we started
from to where we were going
without breaking down. That,
was miracle enough, for the
moment.
Bv the time it ended, we
were thinking in terms of paved
highways wide enough to pass
on If we happened to meet an
other cur. (This was an example
of growing extravagance, for It
was rntner widely ncid at me
tlmo that a one-lane pavement
was aood enouah for anvuoov
gj-tlmt If it should come to pass that
one met a car It wouldn't hurt
anybody to get off the hard sur
face long enough to get Dy.j .
TTHUS do wa raise the sights of
ambition as achievements be
gin to pile up. Already, with
planes getting fairly competent
at navigation or mo lower ana
heavier air. we are looKing tor
-ward to getting up Into the
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Residential Districts In
Top Spot In
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Now projects for the chamber
of commerce cleanup commlttoe
were discussed at the first meet
ing.,of 1847, held Tuesday, and
print accomplishments were rc
' viewed.
Cleaning up the city's residen
tial districts will be the main
project of the committee for
lByl, It was agreed. Details of
how this will db done will be
worked out at an early February
mooting.
The lnattcr of new refuse cans
for- the downtown business dis
trict was referred to tho 20-30
club whidh had first started the
project, Bill Morrow, represent
ing 20-30 lit the absence of Ben
Burgess, regular representative,
took the matwr up with the club
at the Tuesdnly night meeting.
Present faculties for holding
street rubblslV at downtown
'points aro totally inadequate, it
jwas pointed outlduring the clean
Kip campaign last year. There are
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WILKES BARRE, Pa.. Jan. IS Thomas Miles Sr., (canter). taeaWaa eongratulatioiw from
his wife, Rachel, and his children In their Plymouth. Pa., heme near thara todar altar Miles
escaped uninjured in tha mine blast yesterday in tha Nottingham colliery ef the Qlen Aldan
Coal company. In which IS miners died. ; AP wlrephoto.
Bureau Of Prispns Takes . ( ,
Crack AifCounty Lockup
Tha federal bureau of pri
sons has taken another swing
at Klamath county's Jallhouse,
listing it as 49 per cent of what
the FBI would like in a good
Jail, but at that rating the local
Institution ranked higher than
did most of the county prison
in tha state.
Tha federal bureau recom
mended to the stata legislature
that the state supervise city
Court Funds
Protected
Couny Clork Charlie DoLap
today said that the state audi
tor's remarks concerning the In
adequacy of collaterals for cer
tain county fund bank accounts
did not take Into consideration a
$10,000 surety bond on his Job
which more than covers the
amount of money generally on
deposit In the bank.
The auditor commented . In his
recent report of the county's
financial standing that the
amount of the cash fund money
taken in on fees, alimony pay
ments, cash bonds from the cir
cuit court and the like at times
exceeded the $5000 maximum
protection given accounts by the
federal deposit Insurance com
pany. DeLep said that the FDIC
$5000 protection and his $10,000
bond, gave protection to $15,000,
and that his account at the bank
averages about $8000. On Jan
uary t the clerk's fund in the
bank amounted to slightly more
than $6000.
Cleanup Drive
only six receptacles where ap
proximately 48 are needed.
Those six in use now are "beat
up obsolete relics," almost im
possible to keep clean.
Due to the high cost of new
cans, the 20-30 club decided to
give the present cans the best
cleaning possible and new paint
Jobs until a means for obtaining
tho funds for new ones can be
worked out.
In reviewing the work of the
cleanup committee since its or
ganization last spring, Nicholas
Long, chairman, expressed ap
preciation of the work done in
cleaning up downtown alleys.
This result was obtained by call
ing the attention of city officials
to existing conditions and their
response with closer inspection.
Fire Inspector Roy Rowe, ap
pointed last July, was commend
ed by Long and Fire Chief Keith
Ambrose for his part in seeing
that rubbish creating fire haz
ards in tha alleys was removed.
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Survivor Of Mine Blast
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and county Jails, -either through
a board of control or a new
governmental department.
Sheriff Lloyd Low said this
morning that he considers his
Jail one of the best In the state,
and that it ia clean, well light
ed and heated, roomy enough
for the number of prisoners
usually confined and well-managed.
The building here Is 20 years
old and theories in Jail con
struction have changed consid
erably since 1927, when it was
built.
The federal bureau's report
characterized the Klamath lock
up as poorly designed and its
foatures obsolete and inade
quate, and listed several other
faults the federal inspector
found with the building and its
management last summer.
' The report also suggested
that adequate and decent facili
ties should be provided for
Juveniles and "the use of com
mon Jail quarters discontinued."
Klamath county has a Juvenile
cottage and docs not keep per
sons under 18 In the county
Jail except in rare instances.
Sheriff Low said that as for
tho management, not a single
felon had escaped from the
county jail in 20 years, but that
an occasional trusty working
outside the building takes
French leave from the estab
lishment. He said that, short of build
ing a new jail, the operation
and maintenance of the present
lockup is as good as it can be
made. The county and city have
plans for a modern combined
prison, but have been unable
to get priorities for the build
ing materials.
The county' jail here. Sheriff
Low said, la one of the few coun
ty Jails in the state which main
tains a 24-hour - jailer service.
Many of the lockups close up
after an eight-hour aay.
In its recent report the Klam
ath, county grand Jury gave the
local institution a very good re
port, saying that It should be a
model . lor . otner jans in tne
county.
Relief Wheat
Priorities Off
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 (P)
The Interstate commerce commlS'
slon cancelled today its priority
system for moving foreign relief
wheat in the northwest.
As of midnight last night, the
order requiring the railroads to
supply shippers with a specific
number of- freight1 cars each
week was cancelled. Wheat pro
duced in Oregon, Washington,
Idaho and western Montana and
destined for Pacific ports was in
volved. '
The order became effective
January 7 and was scheduled to
expire March 10.
The ICC said the priority sys
tem no longer is needed,
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Crater Ski
Winter sports fans who have
been Invading Crater Lake na
tional park by the, hundreds
each week-end since- the snow
season started, learned today
that ski trails should be excel
lent with a little preliminary
sKiing to pacK tne runs.
Assistant Park Superintend'
ent Thomas C. Parker said to
day that no new snow had fallen
In the park, depth was now 85
Inches and the top snow Is light
and powdery and not settling
very fast. Roads are . in good
shape, two-way travel through
out with plenty of parking
space, ine minimum tempera
ture was 10 above, maximum.
30. At 8:30 a. m. today it was
15. The two giant Sno-Go's and
a number of push plows are pre
paring tne roads for an expected
neavy travel, tnis week-end.
Budget Action
Held Off
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 VP)
Congressional democrats and re
publicans disagreed today on the
need for speedy action on Presi
dent Truman's economic report.
but put off a showdown until
next Wednesday..
The question arose at a meet
ing of the senate-house commit
tee charged with translating Mr.
Truman's economic recom
mendations into, legislation.
Chairman O'Mahoney (D-Wyo.)
said afterwards the group will
meet again Wednesday to receive
his resignation. Presumably, the
members will elect Senator Taft
(R-Ohio) as new chairman, re
flecting GOP control of congress.
Taft told reporters he sees no
need for a report to congress by
the group before May 1. The law
colls for such a report by Febru
ary 1 but this deadline could be
extended by agreement of both
houses.
O'Mahoney told newsmen,
however, he will push for quick
action, particularly on Mr, Tru
man's recommendations for legis
lation to "equalize" the farm and
industrial prices..
US Newsmen Barred
From Soviet Ports
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 P)
The navy has barred American
reporters and business men from
naval vessels calling at Russian
controlled ports. It was disclosed
today at the state department.
Michael J. McDermott, press
officer, told a news conference
In response to questions that
the state ' department knew of
such an order. He added that
the department had not request
ed it and declined to make any
comment for publication.
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Men Pulled
From Shaft
PLYMOUTH. Pa.. Jan. 16 JP)
Fifteen miners were killed and
three others Injured in an ex
plosion last night that wrecked
the anthracite collier operated
by the Olen Alden Coal com
pany here, trapping some 22
workers 850 feet below the'
surface.
Edward Griffith, president
and general manager of the coal
firm which operates the Not
tingham collier, said the blast
was discovered by an unidenti
fied foot tender at the bottom of
a mine shaft. The man, noting
heavy clouds of dust and smell
ing ga fumes, sounded an
alarm, Griffith reported.
Sevan Rescued
Rescue crews, in constant
danger of cave-ins because of
weakened shorings, rescued
seven men after more than
three hours of frantic digging.
A short while later, Griffith
said, the bodies of the 15 dead
men found grouped in a gang
way leading from the shaft
were brought to the surface.
Griffith said the company was
unable to Ascertain the exact
number of night shift men work
ing in the blasted section lo
cated under the Susquehanna
river but reports from the
scene said only 22 men were in
the shaft.
The dead, all from Plymouth
or nearby - communities, were
Louis Kuplnski. Chester Os-
trowski, Carl Zlotek, John Zie
linski, Felix Konobroskl, Daniel
Lewis, Edward Parker, John
Wllrl. Luka ' Usefereu Joseph.
Krajnik, Pelf r Minkiewicz.
Charles Cylwik, James Smith,
Stanley ,-Nytych and William
Bockus. Ages : of the victims
were not available.
The dead were all from Ply.
mouth or nearby communities.
Thomas Miles, of Plymouth.
who was unhurt, recalled he had
been at work for about two
hours when he asked his laborer,
Charles Krawlec of Plymouth
(also uninjured) for the time.
"It's 8:45," Miles quoted Kra
wlec. "He shoved his watch
back into his pocket and then it
came.
Terrific Blast
'There was a terrific explo
sion. Everything seemed to go
topsy-turvy. My place is the
second one in from the foot of
the shaft. The others who real
ly were caught in the blast were
a lot farmer in man i was.
"My laborer and I went into
the gangway where we saw a
couple of men sprawled around
They didn't appear to be injured
too badly, so we assisted them
to the foot of the shaft."
It was here that the rescue
workers found them. .
11-Day London
Strike Ends
LONDON, Jan. 16 (P) Heads
of the Transport and General
Workers union announced today
that the 11-day-old London truck
strike, involving at least 50,000
men in work stoppages which
immobilized the port of London,
had ended and the strikers
would return to work Satur
day. Unofficially, it was under
stood that the strikers' demands
for a 44-hour week, eight-hour
day and the payment of over
time for shifts exceeding eight
hours had been granted by the
Road Haulage association, rep
resenting the employers.
- The vote to return to work
was almost unanimous, informed
sources reported.. The decision
was announced after a closed
meeting of delegates of the strik
ers and union officials, marked
from time to time by bursts of
applause.
Chamber To Talk .
Sales Tax Issue
The stute sales tax, a matter
of current importance, will be
taken up at a general meeting
of the hamber of commerce on
January 29.
This meeting will be held at
noon at the Willard, instead of
the regular Wednesday lunch
ean meeting of the chamber
board of directors and will be
open to all interested members.
No ation on the matter to be
discussed will be taken at the
meeting but a referendum will
be sent to members afterward
to be passed upon, it was stated.
Trapped
National Guard
On Watch At Doors,
Arnall Denied Entry
ATLANTA. Jan.. 16 (AP) Herman Talmada. In a pre-dawn coup backed bv national
guard officers and state highway patrolmen, seized Georgia'
and denied Ellis Arnall admission to either tho governor's
Arnall arrived at the executive offices thu morning to find Talmadge In the chambers
Arnall had occupied all day yesterday. Later whan Arnall went to the executive mansion
for lunch, he was met by four state patrolmen, who blocked hit entry.
"This completes, it seemt to me, the capture of the state government a far as physi
cal properties are concerned' Arnall told newsmen who accompanied him to the mansion.
"It has been done by gradual military infiltration, to that at tha moment storm trooc-
era ore in control . . . you have teen a military coup d'etat
private office and automobile.
Shortly after Arnall made hit statement to newtmen and
admitted Mrs. Herman Talmadge and her two children to
Arnall set up a personal
Basin Sees
Break In
Cold Wave
Despite the weatherman's
Wednesday forecast that the
mercury would sink two or
three degrees lower than the
previous night, Klamath - folks
learned with satisfaction this
morning that it was compara
tively warm with a tempera
ture reading of 4 above at 4:30
a. m. It was 1 below yesterday
morning.
The only sub-zero report re
ceived here today came from
the state highway foreman on
the Greensprings highway
where a minus 4 was chalked up
early this morning. It was 12
above at Odell lake on the Wil
liamette highway and all other
temperatures In the state were
higher than Wednesday's mar
row chilling cold.
All roads in the mountain
areas surrounding the Klamath
basin were icy or covered with
packed snow and motorists were
urged to carry chains. No ma
jor accidents had been reported
to state ponce here today which
could be attributed to .the recent
snow. All roads have been
sanded by highway crews and
no new snow had fallen in the
district
County Judge U. E. Reeder
said today that fewer complaints
had been received by his office
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Car Roars W
Ferry, Kills 2
COOS BAY, Ore., Jan. 16 OP)
An Automobile roared off the
end of a Coos river ferry east
of here late yesterday, carrying
a woman and her 4-year-old
daughter to their deaths.
Another daughter was rescued
by two young men who dived in
to the frigid water.
A heavy post holding the safe
ty barricade was torn loose as
the car slammed into it with the
engine running at what witnesses
said sounded like a wide-open
throttle, presumably caused by
the woman's foot slipping from
the brake to the accelerator.
Mrs. Henry C. Smith, 41, of
Allegany, small community
northeast of here, and her daugh
ter Janis Illeen, were the vic
tims. They came to this area
last March from Fort Wayne,
ina.
Eleanor Smith. 17. another
daughter, came to the surface
and Sherman Cutlip, 20, plunged
in and started swimming to
shore .with her. He suffered a
cramp and Lyle McGuire, 21,
dived in and completed the res
cue. She said she did not know
how she got out of the car.
Talmadge
ATLANTA. Ga., Jan. 18 Herman Talmadge. son of the late Gene Talmadge of Georgia, fits
In the governor's office at Athens, Ga., after he moved in this morning. He announced "as
governor of Georgia I have taken complete charge of the executive offices at the state capitol."
The other claimant to the Georgia throne. Ellis Arnall. is also still in the executive buildinf
pending court decision as to which man will governor. AP - wlrephoto.
office in the rotunda of the Capitol building and announced
mat nis secretarial stair would a
be quartered in a downtown of
fice building. I
He has been governor fori
the past four years and con
tends he is still the executive
because of what, he describes as
illegality of legislative action
in naming Talmadge to the !
term his father, Eugene Tal-
BULLETIN
ATLANTA. Jan. 16 UP)
An explosion of undetermined
origin rang through the corri
dors of the state capitol at
4:30 p. m. today Just a few
minutes after Gov. Ellis Ar
nall had left bis temporary
desk in the rotunda to return
home.
There was no immediate ex
planation what the explosion
was, nor was there any indica
tion of any damage to the
building itself or to any in
juries to any persons in the
corridors or rotunda. .
madge, waa prevented by death
from accepting. Had Eugene
lived he would have been in
ducted yesterday.
Amall charged that Talmadge
was attempting to rule the
state under a "military dicta-
lorsnip."
Talmadge attaches took over
the executive chambers today
after locks had been removed
from the doors. Arnall had sat
in the chambers - yesterday
while Talmadge occupied an
other office in the executive
suite less than 20 yards away.
national guard officers were
stationed outside the chambers
after Talmadge took) over.
ne Freienser"
Asked bv newsmen, who in-
liervjewed iim t bis. new deck.
who iiad Control of the state s
military forces,. Arnall pointed
toward me executive chambers
and said "the military forces
there are under the command
of Herman -the pretender."
. "I have no military forces
on duty, l need none. I need
no bruisers or- thugs or body
guards." i,
. Both Arnall and Talmadge
have appointed adjutants gen
eral. Arnall has ft. w. Collins.
former commander of the state
guard, .and Talmadge has Mar
vin Griffin, who resigned his
commission under Arnall to ac
cent Talmadge appointment.
Talmadge had not publicly
called on his forces for aid.
While the scramble over the
governorship was going on
down stairs, the legislature on
the floor above in the state cap
itol received a proposal from
three anti - Talmadge members
that it recess until the courts
decide who is' the legal gover
nor. ..
OREGON LUMBER ON WAY
PORTLAND, Jan. 16 VP)
A Portland-owned tug and two
barges loaded with lumber were
en repute to Hawaii today in the
start of barge service between
Columbia river ports and the
islands.
Takes Over Governor's
Putf
executive department todav
office or the official residence.
teixe the governor't mansion.
left the mansion, tha troopers
the residence.
Ford Gets
Praise For
Price Cut
By STERLING F. GREEN
WASHINGTON. Jan 18 fPI
Government officials today
hailed the cut in Ford car prices
ag an "encouraging" start toward
the - general price reductions
which President Truman has
asked of all industry.
Edwin G. Nourse, chairman
of the president's council of eco
nomic advisers, termed the Ford
action a "crucial" contribution to
sustained high production and
employment.
Nourse added to a reporter
that "a number of business peo
ple" have notified him of their
agreement in principle" with
the president's plea for lower
prices as a means of keeping pub
lic power high. Nourse's coun
cil wrote the frame work of Mr.
Truman's economic message to
congress last week. "
Mr. Fords statement was
made in most careful and
reasoned terms it should ap
peal to a large business follow.
Ing," said the economist, with
reference to yesterday's price
cutting announcement in Detroit
by Henry Ford II, president of
the tord oMtor company. ,
"If other manufacturers fol
low suit, they will make a real
contribution, to stabilizing buav
Ford'anhdunced immediate r
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Highvay Bills
Introduced ;
SALEM, Jan'. 16 (JP) The sen
ate roads and highways commit
tee voted today to introduce five
highway commission bills, and a
bill of its own.
The highway commission bills
would:
Permit the commission and its
contractors to remove gravel
and sand from navigable streams
without nayment, establish a
semi-autonomous state parks de
partment within the commis
sion, prohibit livestock from run
ning at large on state highways,
empower the commission to ap
point the assistant state highway
engineer (who now is appointed
by the chief engineer), and in
crease the highway revolving
fund from $350,000 to $700,000.
The committee's bill would
authorize the commission to
maintain sidewalks, trails and
paths along highways in order
to remove hazards faced by
school children, horsemen, stock
tenders and bicycle riders.
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