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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (March 6, 1947)
I1 JV UrDDOim Fine WEATHER Mai. (Mar. SI Ml". 1S rraciallallaa laal z ... . StrtaM year I Sal Laal raar IS-SS Naraial . Faracaatj Claar taSar laalght sat laMarraiv. VTaraar taiar. By FRANK JENKINS THERE ire big headlines to- day. Tim U. S supromo court up- holds tha conviction of John Lewis 4iiKl hln United Mine Workers (nr refund I to obey a nrl ordur INTKNDED to head off tho 17-dity oft coul strike limt November. TME nuijorlty opinion of the court (two Justice dissented In whole, two In purl) wm writ ten by Chief Justice Vlimon. He nays: "Tho gains, social and eco nomic, which tho miner and other citizent luive realized in the punt uro ultimntuly duo to the luct they enjoy the rights of free men under our system of liovernment. Upon tho muln tiMiimcn of Hint system depends till future progress to which they nmy Justly aspire." Ho adds; "In our complex noddy there In u ureut variety of LIMITED JnyiiltleH. but the over-riding hiyulty of ull In to our LOUN THY iind to the institutions un tier wlilch particular lulcrvirt muy be pursued. THAT lit to suy. In In situution mull us a ulrlke Involvliiu the Unfile economy of the nation, the intcrrata of the urcnter number Hunt prevail over the Intercuts of Hie leui-r number. Other wise there can bo no progress, IT In sound doctrine. We long uijo accepted It no far ai bus- ltifM III concerned. If the ownen of all the conl nilno, for exumplo, had got to- Itcthcr and mild 10 ino govern iiieut of tha United State "tilve u a sharp Inercuno In the price of our cnul or we will luil down our mine, produc ing no fuel to heut the people homes or to move ino trains or to keen the foctnrles operating until wc GET WHAT SVE DE MAND.'' we wouldn't have hcnl lalcd for an In.itnnl, We would liuve M'ized the mine and TAKEN THE COAL. FOR THE GREATEST good of the GREATEST NUMIiER." We luive hesitated to apply thin doctrine to labor because labor has long been weak. Kor that reason, wo were concerned for a Innu. lung time with pro viding- PROTECTION for labor, But now labor hus become STRONG. In many respects. It It atronucr than business. Gen erully peiikln8, 1U position be fore the law In an advantageous position. The supreme court of the United States, In the opinion Just delivered by Ciller Justice vuv son. recognizes that labor now has (at least) equal power with business before the law and therefore shares with business EQUAL RESIONSIBlLITY for the maintenance of our system of government. IT Is an epochal decision. It nuiiht to make easier the task of finding a solution of our grow ing problems of labor and man nuement relations. With Inbor and management now definitely and clearly recognized by the supreme court as EQUALS IN RESPONSIBILITY for the main, teniince of our system of govern. ment. it ought to bo possible to get somewhero In the direction of the co-operation we must have if our system Is to go on work- Ins. As long as one side or the other Is struggling for possession of TOO MUCH POWER, there can be Utile co-operation for the general good. Hut EQUALS can WORK TO qGETHER. , Controversy Grows Over Answer To "30" Question By KELLY ROBERTS Since we requested the an swer to the question, "What is the origin of the term "30" used at tlic end of telegraph and newspaper copy to donate an . ending'" we have received about 30 different answers. An old-time telegrapher phoned liwt night to suy that ho knew that the term originated in the old hand-set printing days, and that tho telegraphers had only adopted tho term from the frl:iteii. Tho next call clarified lis statcmcnU. This Informant used to be a hand-set printer by trudc, and he related that back In tho old duys printers would mciisure the amount of type set in "stlckfulls," each stick being tho amount of typo which could be hold in one composing stick (this was about two column inches according to one of The Herald und News' typesetters). When a typesetter had set 30 slicks of type, he considered his day done, according to our In formant, and signified that ho was through bv setting "30" at the end of his last stick. The foremim always roepgnizod this right, and even If tho man was through uevoral hours early, he was mild for tho entire day, Later we received several oth er culls confirming the above story, ond wrote a little; piece bout It, considering the incl- Ment closed. Not so. This morning Paul Alexander, KFLW's combination PRICE riVE CENTS V 1. ). Astoria Likes 'Em Tough! ASTORIA. March S (P) Log gers and fishermen . down this woy pride themselves on rug gedncss, but the children are even more so. Six year - old Bryan Brown was caught by a fire truck fender and tossed off the street, his leg broken and his body bruised. The next morning he was clamoring crossly to leave the hospital. Then Jtmmle Nichols. 2-year-old who wasn't even a native but a visitor from Portland, glummetcd from a car onto the unset highway. He bounced three times on the pavement, was grazed by ,two cars and wasn't hurt. announcer and engineer, told us to tuko a look at the old Morse land line circuit code and we'd find that "30" was used to do nate ending, Just as "22" was used to signify "get off the line." Paul also added that "73" was the signal used by the "hams" to sign off with "best regards," and the letters "SK" meaning "oil through" on the commer cial marine circles. Ten Bi'oeek Williamson of the bureau of reclamation called to say that in his Journalism days he was always told to put "30" at the ending of a story to sig nify to the printer that the end of the story should be followed by a 30-em line slug. , Another correspondent said that "30" was used because of the ease with which It could bo sent over a telegrapher's key. It sounded logical so we looked It up, but " doesn't look easy to us. Tho county library went beck into antiquity to find the orig inal expression, "If you don't know something at 30 you're done for." Tho librarian dug this little gem up from a book of "Uncommon Knowledge.' It ex plulns that the phrase nt first read "40," but thnt Tiberius Cae sar felt so good and gay at 30 that he had the phrase changed to read as it docs at present. In any case, wherever the thing started and whatever its use, here's "30" on the subject for the nonce. 13, r Si i ml " l a. 4V I 4 fAri February Warm Month Lest month was one of the warmest Februarys on record,, according to the figures of the bureau of reclamation. Since 1907, there have been only four years when the mean monthly temperature for February reached more thon last month's 40 degrees. The last month that Wie mean monthly temperature hit 40 was in 1941. The normal for the month Is 33.2 degrees. The maximum temperature for February was registered on the 23rd and 24th when the mercury reached 62 degrees. Tho minimum was morked on the 28th with 23 degrees. There were 21 days when the minimum was below 32 degrees. The total precipitation for the month was 0.64 of an inch which is the least since 1933, when the total was only 0.62. The normal precipitation Is 1.48 inches. The greatest amount of rainfall in any observational day during the month was 0.37 on the 12th. There were 13 clear days re ported, six partly cloudy and nine cloudy days during the month. Available storage in the bureau of reclamation reser voirs on March 1, 1946 and March 1, 1947 is shown below: Mb, I Map 1 nanrvoir 11)46 1047 Acre Ft. Aci-o Pt. .....147.090 2(1.1.030 244.1110 SI 1.2110 ..... 29.170 :UI.H40 ......14,200 813,140 Upper Klamath Lakt Clear Laka Western Timber Cut Hits Record MISSOULA, Mont., March 6 (P) Pressing national needs for wood resulted in a record timber cut from the national forests of Montana, northern Idaho and eastern Washington during the last half of 1946, regional U. S. Forester P. D. Hanson announced today. The total cut was 238,000,000 board feet, exceeding the previ ous similar peak period In 1944 by 37,000,000 board feet, Han son sntd In a prepared statement, "Translated into lumber for homes, the amount cut would build 23,000 average homes," the forester continued. "Actually, most ot it went into linisnect pro ducts of the kind used for home building." KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1947 r ..i . - ., u .. j Site Of Proposed This striking picture shows dam on upper Lost river at the California-Oregon state line. The white lines indicate the approximate outline of the proposed dam. The picture looks toward the south into California, and the state line crosses the river at about the center of the picture. The raft at center, right, is used in-drilling operations in connec tion with a geological investigation of the dam site. i Engineers Investigate Dam Site Oh Upper Lost River Investigations are proceeding on the feasibility of construction of a dam, 105 feet high, on upper Lost river at the state boundary, as a flood control and water con servation measure. The dam. and a number of alternative sugges tions, are being studied as a means of assuring protection to the irrigated Klamath .valley auainst flood conditions in sea sons of maximum run-off, and of making safe the opening of the Coppcck bay area on Tule1 lake for permanent homesteads. Boundary dam site is at the head of Langell valley. 10 miles below Clear lake dam, and would be an auxiliary to Clear lake reservoir. As proposed, the dam would be of earth construc tion, with rock facing, mted Wagner Case Heard Today A court hearing on a motion to quash the indictment against Verne L. Wagner, city police of ficer, Is being conducted in cir cuit . court this afternoon by Judge Charles H. Combs, and Wagner's attorney, Herbert P. Welch, this morning filed an ad ditional motion to dismiss the Indictment. Wagner was indicted last De cember for assault, armed with a dangerous weapon, as a result of a probe of allegations of po lice brutality maae Dy tne county gi-and jury. Today's move to have the in dictment thrown out Is based on a charge that Judge David R. Vandenberg, who touched off the police Investigation in his instructions to the grand jury, appeared as a witness before the jury while Wagner was being investigated, and that his name (ueniinaea aa rata p, ueiumB aj Dam on Lost River i the site of nroooied Boundary with spillways and outlet works. There are 135 square miles of watershed between Boundary dam site and Clear lake, and the new dam would store about 85,000 acre feet 60,000 for flood control and 25.000 for ir rigation water conservation. The dam would be about 2000 feet across the crest. No final f mure has been ar rived at on the cost of the dam, but preliminary estimates run around $3,ti3S,000 to $4,000,000. Geological investigations are now under way at the dam site, with diamond drills boring deep into the earth to determine tne foundation conditibns. Another method suggested for providing insurance against flood in the lower valley is rais ing the Tulelake main dikes to increase the storage capacity of the sump. Increasing the storage capacity of Gerber dam in the upper country is also being con sidered. Still another suggestion Is the construction of another tunnel between Tule lake and Lower Klamath lake, to make it possible to pump a larger vol ume of water out of the Tule lake basin in case of flood con ditions. ' : Certain protective steps have already' been authorized. One is the increase of the size of the Lost river diversion canal from 1200 second feet capacity io 3000 second feet. This would di vert additional water irom ijosi river and prevent spillage into the Tule lake country. With the installation of added pumping emitnment. the present tunnel between Tule lake and Lower Klamath lake is carrying 200 instead of 150 second icet. Engineers believe that addi tional flood control measures are necessary for protection of the basin should there develop an extreme wet cycle such as records indicate occurred at times in this country before ir rigation was undertaken and be fore Tule lake was partially re claimed for farming country. (Telephone 1111) Number 1087S '3 4, Influenza Hits Basin Klamath citizens were paying through the nose for two weeks of false spring with a mild form of influenza and an acute upper respiratory infection which kept 16 per cent of the city's school children at 'lome today. The Klamath county public health office observed that folks threw away their coats and mit tens, reveled in the sun and even in the rain, defying the elements and finally paying with their health as March swooped down with sub-freezing temperatures. The health officer Urged parents to put their children to bed and keep them there, watching care fully for high fewrs and coughs. Klamath Union high school, with 225 absences, was the hard est hit of any of the schools from a percentage hasis. Absences in other city scnoois was given as: Fremont, 63; Roosevelt, 40; Riv erside, 16; Mills, 80; Conger, 8; Fairview, 44; Pelican, 29; total, 280; KUHS, 225; total, 505.' ' Sacred Heart academy report ed a high percentage of absence in both the grade and high school divisions vlth 50 out of the total enrollment of 325 at home today. - Economic War; Warning Given WACO. Tex.. March 6 UP) President Truman warned the nation today that the alternative to lowering of international trade barriers is "economic war." The president spoke after a parade through Waco a few min utes following his arrival from Mexico. A cold rain mixed with sleet was falling as the president ar rived in his big c-54, called tne "Sacred Cow. Speaking at Baylor university upon his return from a "good neighbor" visit to Mexico, the president appealed for full con gressional support of the recipro cal trade agreements program and the forthcoming Geneva negotiations. . fv tA H Fight Starts To Save Cable Cars SAN FRANCISCO, March (JP) Take It from the ladies of the CCSCC "There'll always Oe cable cars in San Francisco. Delegates of 27 women's clubs organized the .Citizens' Commit tee to Save the Cable Cars to fight municipal economy advo cates who have recommended scrapping the hill climbing dinky cars. "They are ' costing " money, said Mrs. Hans Klussman, pres ident of the - Arts federation. 'but they are worth their weight in gold as an advertising med mm. ..i Red Forces ' Said Fleeing NANKING, March 6 (JP) The government rushed large quantities of heavy arms by .today, to its forces aiming new blows at retreating com munist troops in Manchuria, Chinese press -dispatches said. Nationalists established a bridgehead on the northern side of the Sungarf river for a drive on Harbin, 79 miles to the north, these reports said, j Har bin is one of the big Manchur lan cities still held by commu nists, i Gen. Tu Li-ming, government commander in Manchuria, as serted yesterday 'that his troops could capture Harbin within 10 days if given the go-ahead. CONCERT OK, NO TOMATOES MIAMI, Fla., March 6 (JP) Jose Iturbl, the pianist, gave his recital here last' night but without a tomato accompaniment. A barrage of tomatoes "good ana roiien- naa pmn p util ised the noted concert player by Mrs. Harmon Spencer Auguste, New York socialite who expressed annoyance at Iturbi s failure to attend a dinner.in his honor Tuesday night at Miami Beach, Illness, Iturbi said, kept him from the dinner, at which Mrs, Auguste was to have been one of the hostesses. Mrs Auguste, wife of a New York banker, told the pianist's slstery Maparo Iturbi, -that If they sought to stage the concert, she would "bust it up." The concert, however, went off peacefully. , ... Mrs. Auguste, who said she bought a ticket to a seat In the third row, danced and dined instead at a night club several miles) away. ' - Asked if she thought she would have hit Iturbi with tomato if she had attended the recital, Mrs. Auguste said: . . "I'm from Texas." , WASHINGTON, Match (iP The supreme court upheld 7 to today the contempt convictions of John L. Lewis and his United Mine Workers tor reiuslna to call oil their soft coal strike last November. Id an extraordinary midweek ruling that caught the nation by surprise, the high court in effect gave the Truman administration a smashing victory in its titantia struggle with Lewis ' and his miners. There was no immediate re action from Lewis. Union Fine Cut -The hiKh tribunal ordered the $3,500,000 fine against the union cut to f700,000, but threatened to raise it back to uie Higher figure unless the miners show complete compliance with the lower court's no-strike order within five days. The $10,000 fine against Lewis himself was affirmed without change. The court s order means that Lewis must withdraw the con tract termination notice sent Secretary of the Interior J. A. Krug last November. It was the government's contention that the contract runs throughout the period of government opera tion. This period must end by. law on June 30. When he sent the miners back to work pending a supreme court ruling, Lewis set April 1 as the end of the work period. The penalties grew out of Lewis' refusal to obey court order to send his miners back (taallaaaa a ran S. Colama Crash Victim Dies Today Klamath county's fifth traf fic fatality was chalked up at a: jo a. m. toaay witn tne deam ie aea 5 ox amun t,ox, dz-year-old Lapine log ger, injured early Sunday morning in a car -truck sideswipe norm of cnemurt. Cox died at Hill- side hospital without Fatality gaining consciousness. . xne m j urea man. picked up In ' a n i w e r to a call by the Klamath Ambulance Service, was strapped to the ambulance stretcher when the big machine overturned on the return run to Klamath Falls. Driver of the ambulance, Harold Fly, was slightly injured and his 18-year-old assistant, Jimmy Ms Farland, received three broken ribs and a leg injury in the crash. Cox's condition was not believed to have been aggravat ed by the fact that the ambu lance carrying him to the hos pital, overturned while ne was a passenger. , Dr. George H. Adler, Klam ath county coroner, said this morning that no inquest is to be held unless further evidence appears which would justify such action. Cox was the driver of a car which sideswiped a truck driv en by Robert Winston Kilpat rick of Alameda, Calif., at 2 a. m., Sunday, one mile north of Chemult. Cox was noruiDouna and Kilpatrick southbound at the time. Cox was thrown from the car to the pavement. State police exonerated Kilpatrick following investigation of the crash. After Cox was placed In the ambulance, the machine travel ing south overturned when Fly said he felt the left rear wheel of the car grab. The logger was a native of Snyder, Tex., was unmarried and employed at the Larson Logging company's tie mill at Lapine. He is survived by a brother, Gordon Smith, and a sister, Lucille Perkins, both of Medford, as well as four other sisters in the south. Both Med ford residents were at Cox's bedside when he died. Ward's will announce final rites. High School Has Tourney Tickets Wayne Scott of the Klamath Union high school staff announc ed today that he has received a number of reset ve seat tickets for the state basketball tourna. ment at Eugene. Anyone deslr. Ing tickets or information re garding them nust contact Scott at the high school Friday. The tickets must be returned to Eu gene Friday night. -
