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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 17, 1947)
ISeralb anb JJettrS Champion Woman By HAL BOYLE TAm JIVXIXf Cdltor MALCOLM rPLET Minatnt Editor I 1 . EPLEY week. The et- Today's Round ! BT MALCOLM EPLEY IF anything is to be gained from the disastrous and tragic fire ot Sunday, It must be the leuon it teaches In the horrors of fire and the precautions that can and must be taken against it. Nothing that has happened here within our personal ex perience so dramatizes that les son. The impact on the public mind thus produced is the i major value that can be sal vaged from a fire wnose cost. . in lives and physical damage rates it as one of the worst and in some aspects the worst in local history. We are reminded of a series of automobile accidents a doz en or so years ago that took six lives within the space of feet on the public consciousness was terrific. For a long time after that, serious automobile accidents in the area showed a decline. But after while the lesson was forgotten; carelessness and negligence among drivers again became pre valent, and the death rate from auomobile ac cidents again rose. Will that pattern be repeated in this situation? Let us see that it is not Responsibility THE lesson involved concerns individual and public responsibility. We know now from what we have seen not just from fire prevention literature, speeches, and editorial preaching that a frightful holo caust can spring from one tiny spark. Fire Chief Keith Ambrose and his department, the national safety council, and such agencies as the fire underwriters associations, have cam paigned over the years for precautionary meas ures against fire on private premises. The story of the ashes in wooden or fibre-board containers which may have been the source of the Evans building fire has been told and re-told. Rub bish accumulations, defective heating equipment, and so on, have brought many warnings. Yet around our homes we grow careless and neg ligent, and permit exactly such dangerous con ditions to develop. We know now what to do. about that That is personal responsibility. In the bigger picture, we need to look critically at our fire department its equipment and manpower, and to determine whether we are living up to our responsibilities in supporting the agency which must be depended upon in emergency. There is constant pressure against annoying regulations in -building construction, and so on, that are set uo in the name of fire prevention.' We know now that those regulations are justi fied; that the exceptions that are demanded are dangerous. Let Us Not Forget IT is not necessary to go on. The lesson is clear today; the important thing is .that, we do hot forget; that we assume and . maintain a new determination never again to pejmit the occur rence of such a tragedy as struck here on the cold Sunday morning of February 16, 1947. ' Much can and will be said about heroism, re sourcefulness, and worthy effort tiat were dem onstrated in Sunday's emergency. Those things are all on the credit side but let's see to it that they are not again necessary. By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK. Feb. 15 W The champion all America woman of today is the kitten at the typewriter keys the stenographer. She is the keystone of American business and also American culture. Taken individually and as a class, she is the go-gettingest female since Cleopatra won her man and lost her empire. She is the twentieth century descendent of Horatio Alger's poor but proud bootblack but this little lady gets ahead by pluck, not luck. She can't save the banker's daughter from a runaway horse. The horses all run on tracks now. An ordinary stenographer gets about $40 a week in Manhattan. She's in the same wage bracket as a street cleaner. A smart girl gets herself classified as a private secretary, and that boosts her to $60 or more. The biggest mystery of money is how she manages to stretch it so far. Most stenographers fight, their way home on subway or bus, stopping off at the grocer's for the things they need for their evening meal. They usually cook it themselves. Full Day For Anyone THAT would be a full day for an average person. But the stenographer whips around tidying up the place before she steps out for the evening. As oftgn as not it is to a concert, play or lecture as to a movie or dance. And before she hits the sack that night she has to do her personal laundry. As a class she displays a great yearning for improvement. She joins book clubs, takes les sons in personal charm schools, learns to ski in winter and takes boat cruises in summer. And somehow or other she has enough socked away to make a down payment on a fur coat. How do they do it? Some housewives get clothes-sloppy alter mar riage. The stenographer keeps trim and chic always. She is much neater and better-dressed than her feminine counterpart in France, sup posedly the home of style. In America it takes a wise man to tell any difference between a stenographer and society deb on the street. The steno probably has better manners. Unheralded Diplomats STENOGRAPHERS and secretaries are also the unheralded diplomats of business. They take a lot of guff, but they keep down the personal frictions between their bosses and the rest of the world. If the boss sometimes marries his steno grapher, it likely isn't because she has been working overtime sitting on his lap. He has just got around to seeing the advantages of having a wife, mother, nurse and smart busi ness partner rolled into one highly personable bundle. And, of course, he won't have to pay her a salary anymore. x What would happen if every stenographer in America took to her bed and decided to stay home one month? Trade would become chaos. The cosmetics industry, lunch store counters, lecture bureaus, travel agencies, and the enter tainment worldall would be swimming in red ink. No bills would go out is that bad? because there would be no one to "take a letter." That's how dependent the modern world is on the young lady whom the boss often tosses off with the light phrase: 'My girl will take care of that." ' ' ' Your girl? She hates that term "my girl,' because she makes her own place, and knows it. SIDE GLANCES L i I'll I'll n i . eqwt. tw rt xt tmct. mc. t, m. ma u. . at. or r. The World Today Br J. M. ROBERTS JR. i AP rortlgn Affairs Analyit I NKtAl.n ww, m.m.m r.m, Ore, monbat, r.t, It, iit; r. "Now that I've graduated from my night school home management course, I'll expect a salary:" STATIC Br KELLY ROBERTS Telling The Editor Latter printed ber must net be more than wards In lenftb. most b written lefiblr on ONE SIDE ( the paper snly, and mast be slrned. Contributions followlnf these rales ra warmly welcomed. KLAMATH FALLS, Ore:; (To the Editor) Since the livestock interests are so vitally interested in livestock business and the Taylor grazing act in this matter, it occurred to me that you would be willing to publish this: In the 11 western states, not including Texas, there were 24, 631,000 sheep January 1, 1934, and 18,053,000 January 1, 1946, or a decline of 6,578,000 head, same being a decrease of some 27 per cent. In our Oregon, sheep declined 57 per cent, and horses and mules suffered about the same decrease. In all the other states of the union, including Texas, there were 23,613,000 sheep January 1,. 1934, and 26,188,000 January 1, 1946, or an increase of 2,575, 000 head, or some 11 per cent increase. You will see, therefore, that during the time the Taylor graz ing act has been in operation the number of sheep in the 11 western slates decreased 6,578, 000 head or 27 per cent, whereas during the same period in all the other states, including Texas, they increased 11 per cent. The i above figures are from the Unit ed Mates department of agri culture statistics. - . Of course there were some fluctuations during that period but it seems to me that the above lis cogent proof that the de- iplorable condition of the sheep land livestock business is primar ily aue 10 me layior act. jise why the vast difference between the 11 western or public land states where the Taylor act is in force and the other states where the Taylor act and its adminis tration do not prevail? Not only the starry - eyed minions of the new deal, but also the biological survey, fish and wild life service and organiza tions working with those bu reaus, have been responsible for withdrawals of vast areas for bird refuges, antelope refuges, national parks, national monu ments and the forest reserves, the lands withdrawn for those purposes being always the best livestock producing areas. Soon most of our taxable wealth will be in government cold storage. A vast amount, of UVentirely too mucn, aireaay is in cold storage where it produces no taxable wealth and benefits nobody. In the January issue of For tune magazine appears an arti cle (evidently written by a Brit isher), which advises us to go out of the sheep and wool busi ness, but the republican party has always protected the wool raising business, as everyone fa miliar with our American politi cal nisiory Knows full well, out of a wise public policy which certainly we should have learned during the late war when we were cut off from so many materials that were vital in war time. The U. S. ETazin2 service has been in such bad odor and ill re pute that it has, following the new deal strategy, reorganized under the name of the Bureau of Land Management. The leop ard, however, cannot change its spots by reorganization a la new aeai. It is respectfully submitted that the Taylor grazing act snouia De repealed and Its mem ory blotted from our federal statutes. - Yours very truly, ; J. H. CARNAHAN, 406 N. 6th St. Dog Center Of Theft Mystery PflHTI.AKn Fh 17 (in Maybe it's an educated dog, but ponce toaay were tninKing ot adding a dog-catcher to the anti crime squad. Donna Hartmnn 13 rennrtari she was bicycling to a grocery store witn an envelope contain ing two $10 bills. A dog rushed flYim th nttrV, haclrinn f . eiously, and Donna dropped the envelope, ine aog quicKly grab bed the envelope, carried it a short distance and dropped it. When Donna retrieved the en velope the money was gone. RADIO PROGRAMS MONDAY EVE., FEB. 17 KFLW 1450 kc. :M Sports' Lineup 6:15 Home Town Newi S.ta Worn Newe Summary :S0 Klam. Theatre Guide Your Navy Recruiter 1:00 The Three Sum 7:13 Malcolm Epler" 7:90 Sherlock' llolmee ABC 11:08 Lam N' Aboer ABC 0:13 Muale of Manhattan 0:30 Court Mleainr Heira ABC 0:40 0:00 Drs, Talk It Over ABC 0:18 Veterans Adm. Pror. ABC 0:00 Want to Lead a Band ABC 0:45 " 10:00 Starduit Melodiea 10:80 Bed Nickel, Oroh. ABC 11:00 Nito Newe Summary 1:01 Sim Off 11:10 11:00 11:15 KFJI 1240 ke. Gabriel Heatter HBS QKli Show Aronnd Town Dinner Dance American Lee-Ion Conct. In Miniature Cisco Kid MBS Adven. Richard Davia MBS Hawaiian Monday Concert Glenn Hardy. News MBS Mel Ventnera Plct. MBS Let'a Dance Henry J. Taylor MBS Newa Boundup Y Concert Muilo Ae Vou Like It What Veteran! Want to Know MBS Golden Glove Beport MBS Newa MBS :1S 0:90 11:40 7:00 7:10 7:90 7:10 0:00 1:10 0:90 1:40 :00 v 0:10 0:90 0:40 10:00 10:10 10:90 10:40 10:.M 11:00 11:10 11:90 11:40 TUESDAY A. Klamath Theatre Gnide Farm Fare News Stop and Go Show Jamea Abbe Obaervel ABC Zeke Manner! ABC Breaklaal Club ABO Kennv Baker Show ABC Bkfit. In Hollywood ABC Galen Drake ARC Lilian to Lelbert .sHyTrtlo Story ABO Miniature Concert Your Favorite llymna Come and Get It Listening Port ABC Klhal and Albert ABC M.. FEB. 18 Sluskal Beveille P. Heminrway, New! MBS Rise and Rhine MBS Headline Newi Hell Burs Favorites of yesterday fashion Ftaihei Allen Preicott Victor H. Llndlahr MBS Art Baker'! Notebook Jackie Hill Show MBS Morninf Matinee Horn of the Ploneere Newi Jack Leonard Rlnti Jene Crawford, Organ Leo Erdody Glen Gray and Caaaloma Smile Time MBS Quern lor a Day MBS TUESDAY P. M., FEB. 18 KFLW 1450 kc. I:00 Newi 19:10 Dial Fun l:50 Oem Session 13:40 Southland Sinflnc 1:00 Tommy Bartlett Show 1:15 " 1:30 Cliff Edwards ABC 1:40 Merrill Time 9:00 What'! Doln' Ladlei ABC 9:10 " " " 9:95 Spotlight on Hollywood ABC 2:90 Bride and Groom ABC 3:00 Ladle! Be Seated ABC 3:30 Salon String! 3:40 " 3:50 " 4:00 Bequeitfully fours 4:10 " " 4:30 ' ' 4:40 Tenneuee Jed ABC 5:00 Terry and Pirates ABC 0:10 Sky King ABC 5:80 Jack Armstrong ABC 0:40 Prank Hemingway ABC KFLW Fealnra KFJI 1240 kc. Melodious Melodiea Newe four Dance Tones Farm Front Checkerboard Time MBS Johnion Family MBS Matinee Newe Mental Hygiene Bill Gwynna Uow MBS Ricky'! Requeit Haven of Rcit Tea Dance Organ Muilc Living With God Fulton Lewli Jr. MBS Rei Miller MBS Kay Kayaer Orch. Buck Roger! MBS Hop Kerrigan MBS Superman MBS Captain Mldnlle MBS Tom Mia MBS KFJI Feature TUESDAY EVE., FEB. 18 Sport! Lineup" Home Town News World News Summary Klam. Theatre Guide Conservation Program Music of Manhattan , Malcolm Kpley' Skip Farrell Show ABC Proudly We Mall Lum "N Abner ABC Stand By for Adventure Dark Venture ABC Boston Symphony ABC i Stardust Melodies i Freddy Martin Orch. ABC i Night Newe Summary I Sign Off Gabriel llealler Qui! Show Amer. Forum of Air MBS Reece Taylor MBS Red Ryder MBS Playhouse of Favorites The Falcon MRS (Urn Hardy. News MBS Let'! Dance Voice of Army Muslo As Voo Like It Orrln Tucker Oroh. MBS Art Kassel Orch. MBS Newi MBS As some ot you know, we also write (?) the radio's local newscasts, but today we have to bow our heads in shame. Comes the year's biggest local news story, the Evans apart ment house fire, only the radio to carry the news, and where are we? Safely at home tucked in bed. Yes. I'm happy to say, however, that our managing editor, Mac Epley; our city ect ltor, Lois Stewart, and our staff lensman, Wes Uuderlan, were all on the job from within 20 minutes after the fire broke out to the very end. No little credit also belongs to Lmiek Cecil, KFLW's Stardust Melo dier, who was the first to re ceive the call and sound the alarm to the others of the staff. While Lois and Mac were out gathering the news Chuck was at the mike reporting it as it came in. Audrey Honzei, me heart's delight of the front of fice, was called into extra duty. also, and stuck to the job of relaying and answering all in coming phone calls during the day. And where were we? Home. At least we succeeded in get ting . our floor scrubbed and our clothes laundered. Just as we were sitting down about twelve oclockt to enjoy break fast, having just set the coffee pot on the stove and started frying our eggs, we turned on the radio, borrowed from the editorial room and owned by Wes Guderian, and heard Mac and Lois presenting their story of the fire. Needless to say, we arrived at the fire about 12:30. Just six and a half hours late. I'll have to admit, with a sheepish sort of smile, that the radio station has never re ceived better coverage on any new3 event than that given, not by the radio news staff, but by the Herald and News editorial staff. Anyway, it was a good sleep while it lasted. We only won der if our eggs ever got done after we dashed from the house. o The new armory orchestra on Saturday nights isn't too awfully bad, as small combos go, but we wonder where the drummer learned to beat out sny rhythm. In sidewalk re vival mebbc? The best looking couple on the dance floor the other night were a couple about sixty years old. So take your rhum ba, or your samba, or your conga, or even your jitterbug ing, they still danced a darned nice waltz or glide. 0 All the prospective imitators, classical du liters, mimics, vocal ists and such are getting rcudy tor a new scries of amateur night features ut one of the lo cal theatres soon The evrnts will be run with four prelim inary bouts, and the first three winners from each contending for prizes in the fifth. Most of the Juke-boxes In town are carrying various ren ditions of "Jalousie" but none of them can come close to the one we heard several years . go in a Latin American recording. The only trouble Is t'.at the pressing isn't salable In the U. S. Some dealers, however, have it bootleg, get it if you can, it's good. A guy talking to us the other day in a local "bistro" was telling us all about now hi was bn Associated Press man. Wc disbelieved him somewhat. In the morning we intend to find out what he docs, it should be interesting. We thought we knew about every racket in the books, maybe we'll find a new one. Gunmen Kill Slot Operator CHICAGO. Feb. 17 (Pi- Prosecutor Edward Henly last January 28, told a criminal court 1 I- uU ,.i.l l nil.. H JUIV ill nil: UIMI Ul WU1IM Uolding, 47, a slot macnine col lector: "The worst thing that could happen to Golding now is to find him not guilty lot an assault to kill charge). If he is he'll be found dead soon." The jury acquitted Golding. Saturday Golding was shot and killed by two men as he sat in his automobile near the busy intersection of Madison and Hal stcd streets. One fired four bul lets through the front window; the other blasted two bullets through the rear window. Five bullets hit Golding. The assassins, unmindful ot several witnesses, fled through a vacant store and escaped in a car driven by a third man. Police attributed the slaying to the slot machine business. Burglar Admits Prison-Mode Tools PORTLAND, Feb. 17 (IP) . Detective William Brian report ed today that Wilbert Frederick Brown, charged with burglary, bad admitted three "lockpicks" in his possession had been made at tne Oregon stale penitentiary while he was serving a sentence there. The lockpicks were among burglary tools taken by police when Brown was arrested yesterday. A number ot peuplo have asked recently why I dnn'l write about tho problem of Pal estine. I have replied that I don't know enough about II, that a brief column is Insuffi cient oven to outline the high points of tho problem fit illy. Not being a Jew, never liny lug been in a mui Internment camp, not the victim of a Pol ish pogrom, I cuiinot presume to even try to place myself In tho position of one whoso eye Is on tho promised Innd, or one who yearns for actual physical safety. 1 know I cuiinot feel as does the man In Palestine whose aged mother, father, brothant and sisters in Europe may still live in a community to which their deaths would mean little more than the deaths of ants, might even be wel comed or encouraged, Not being a Moslem Arab, I cannot know his feeling of en croachment, his desert pride, his antipathy toward imporial 1st power, his fear of being commuted by ii smaller but more cohesive group than his own. Not being a British officer, I cannot know precisely wlutt Palestine means to Britain's safety, although I know It is a wutehtowcr over the middle eastern oil so essential for her fleet, and over the great artery of the Sue. I camuit know positively (hat British tradi tions, that British pride, do not play more of a rule in the Pal estine trouble than is admitted on the surface. National Stat Problem I don't know whether a Jewish national state should be formed in a world where national states now stand as probably the great, est barriers against solution of its general problems. 1 don't know whether there is any possibility of reconciling Jew and Arub po litical Interests In one country, any more than It has been proved possible for the Moslem and the Hindu In India. All I know Is that Palestine has become a battleground (or the Jew, the Arab and the Briton, representing three' of the world's most tenacious peo ples. I know that man's deepest emotions his religious beliefs, his possessiveness, his pride, his fear arc Involved. , The British have announced their intention of submitting the whole question to the United Nations, although that body is hardly yet prepared for such a problom. It is not only a mat. ter of economics, of land title. of military and social import. it nas aiso Decome a matter of the heart. Bitter propaganda flows from CARNIVAL B Dick Turner " Lew T .U IO M t 1 Otf irrfj.-ieW,'" f .i -viti v ,r. 7r core imt ty w Mnvtct, wc, "My telephone number it Clrcte. 222. find if a man answra It'i Just me with laryngitis ngnln!" NY Lathers Call Strike NEW YORK. Feb. 17 M'l One th.iusund metul lathers to day began a striko which was expected to force immediate suspension of work on half the construction projects In New York City and result In a com plete shutdown of building work within a few days if It continued. The strikers are members of local 46, Metal Lathers union (AFL) who are demanding all side, and from factions on all sides. It has reached the point where not even the most judicially equitable solution would be generally acceptable. All I know Is that companion Is needed, that some means of abating this heat must be found before anything else can be accomplished. .insoronUT . roor srrriAt.ii Dr. Kenneth S. Garvin feet Suresry . and . Oilkoaedles McATEE CLINIC n a. Ilk SI fkene till Classified Ads Bring Results. It Rates Applause! ii SINCE 1161 16 H 0 67.t. I yn,, I BLENDED WHISKEY II MOOf 75 CHAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS UNITED DISTILLERS (OF AMERICA) LTD. IALTIUIIE, II. S2.SU an hour and a seven-hour day. The present wuga Is 'M0 an hour. The lathers place reinforcing rods In concrete foundations and handle straight miMulllo lulli for planter, so that a strike on their part could halt build ing in several phiiM'S. Visitor Howell Thorpe, for mer resident and busineas nin of this city, now living in Los Angeles, was u visitor in Klam ath rails over the week-end. 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