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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (March 8, 1947)
Oregon Senate Approves Hike In Unemployment Compensation Benefits By PAUL W. HARVEY JR. SALEM, March B ) The Oregon senate gave unanimous approval today and sent to the house a bill making a slight in crease in unemployment com pensation benefits. The new schedule would be $20 a week or 20 weeks in any one year, compared with the present schedule of $18 a week for 20 weeks. Labor asked for $29 for 28 weeks, but employer representatives asked that no in crease be allowed. The session came to the end of its eighth week today, with about three weeks more of work to do. There are 864 bills before Vehicle Sale Held Today Forty-three pieces of heavy U. S. surplus equipment, tract ors, trucks and the like, are go ing t o ex-servicemen at the naval air station this afternoon. The war assets administration is conducting the sale on a lot drawing basis. Prospective buyers inspected the equipment this morning, and must be on hand at the drawing to complete the purchases. The sale is restricted to vet erans of World War II. George Sandy, state director of veterans affairs, will supervise the draw ing, assisted by Ted Case, Klam ath Falls selective service di rector, ana uaw nus awimc commander of the local Amer .jcan Legion post. Greek Coal Ship Explodes, Sinks DEAL, England, March 8 (P) The Ira, 7000-ton Greek coal ship built in the United States, exploded and broke in two today after running aground on Eng lish channel sands, but her 34 man crew was rescued despite panic in which some were in jured. The Ira, formerly the U. S. Liberty 6hip Harry Percy, was carrying coal from Newport News, Va., to Antwerp on her first Atlantic crossing under the Greek flag when she went aground -on the treacherous Goodwin sands about midnight. She shattered herself five hours later. Drunk Driving Charge Lodged Edith Wilson, 42, of 1848 Far Co. was jailed by city police early last night on a charge of drunk driving and two counts of hit-and-run driving. Her car sideswiped and slightly dam aged one car on Commercial and another on Klamath. She was arrested after a brief chase at 6th and Commercial. E. E. Withrow, SP employe from Dunsmuir staying at the Bell hotel last night, reported to police this morning that his un locked car was burglarized last night and a suitcase containing an amount of clothing taken. Spud Stock Feed Misuse Probed ; PORTLAND, March 8 UP) The department of agriculture said today it had uncovered scattered instances of misuse of livestock feed potatoes. Violators of the government's plan for surplus potatoes face prosecution and possible damage payments said E. H. Miller, chairman of the state production marketing committee. Violations included resale of the potatoes for human con sumption and for use as seed. Thpv nrioinnllv wsra mnA as surplus only for feed 'for live stock. Stock Handlers Return To Work SOUTH ST. PAUL, Minn., March 8 (P) Three hundred union stock handlers and yard men returned to work in the South St. Paul stockyards today, ending a 46-hour strike for higher wages. A settlement providing for a six-cent-an-hour increase was reached last night in a confer ence in the office of Governor Luther W. Youngdahl. Classified Ads Bring Results. SEWING MACHINE REPAIRING Expert, Guaranteed Work (All Makes) KeaBonabU prloea Frea Estimates Sewing Machine Service Yonr Independent Dealer Phon. (171 S21S Shasta Way en extre-careful the precaution of Insur tng with in will safe guard everything you own. Do It now! JDHa SAHDMEYTR C tOtlMSOM A4CMCV INSURANCE l 1 UNI T. - PHONf MM ) Whether you drive an J V oM car or a new one, u both are unsafe to drive H Jj without adequate intur- r at encel Evan if vau orai V I r en extre-careful driver, ti the legislature, compared with 710 at the same period of the 1943 session, when a total of 800 bills were mtronucea in me entire session. There are 412 senate bills, compared with 298 at the end of eight weeks of the 1 9 4 5 session. There are 452 house bills, against 412 two years ago. Paving the way for the final big rush, the house voted today to limit each member to five minutes of talking on any bill; but letting other members yield up to 30 minutes to any one member. The senate will adopt a similar rule next week. There was no debate today on the unemployment measure, something far different from previous sessions when such legislation would cause hours of bitter wrangling. The senate also sent to the house bills to let county courts pick courthouse sites different from those voted by the people, and permitting people to vote 1 mill tax levies to create county historical funds. The house completed action on a senate resolution asking the state board of control to hire ex perts to study proposals to en large the capitol, and to improve its heating, ventilating and light ing systems. The board would report to the 1949 legislature. The senate sent to the house a bill to prohibit anyone from building approaches to county reads without obtaining ap proval from the county court. House measures approved by the senate wculd increase the state forester's authority to con trol fire hazards, exempt Oregon insurance companies from the 2 per cent tax on premiums, and continue the interim committee on juvenile delinquency for another two years. Auxiliary Power Line Work Starts LAKEVIEW. March 8 An auxiliary power line from Lake view to Alturas to serve the Lakeview area in case of power interruption on the Klamath Falls-Lakeview line, and to be completed in about three months, was put under construction Tuesday morning by the Califor nia Oregon Power company crew working out of Lakeview. The new line is to be an auxili ary only, with the major service for the Lakeview area to con tinue over the Klamath Falls Lakeview line. Kidnaper's Plea Turned Down Again SAN FRANCISCO, March 8 (P) For the 15th time Harmon M. Waley, convicted kidnaper of George Weyerhaeuser, Ta coma. has failed in an attempt to secure a review of his con viction. Waley's petition for a writ of habeas corpus was de nied yesterday by Federal Judge Michael J. Roche. In his argu ments Waley contended his fed eral conviction was invalid on the -grounds it had not been proved he took his victim across a state line during the famous kidnaping more than a decade ago. CARD OF THANKS We wish to extend our heart felt thanks and appreciation for the acts of kindness, the mes sages of sympathy and the many beautiful floral offerings during our recent bereavement. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Patty. All Watches Timed Fof Accuracy MG&i -vtM By Precision ti Wotch Timers prs SiDAYsSERyiCy Kegerdless of the are or the make of roar clock or watch, we can pat It In accurate workine order. The fin. est equipment and factory methods need. FINE ENGRAVING WHILE YOU WAIT RING SETTING AND SIZING PEARL AND BEAD RESTRINGING 7Dt MAIN ST. - Acquitted- Jailed 1 Mrs. Evelyn Dick (above). Is back in jail at Hamilton. Ont., accused oi slaying a baby boy. although she had been acquitted on a charge of killing her hus band. John Dick. She had been convicted and sentenced to hang in a previous trial, but later won a new one. (AP Wirephoto). Building Probe Report Due Monday A committee of five local con tractors has completed an ex amination of the remains of the Evans apartment building at 10th and Alain to determine whether the building is safe for future use or should be razed. and is expected to report its find ings in the investigation to the city council Monday night. Members of the committee are Leo N. Huts, H. E. Roskamp, L. M. Watkins. Sheldon Brum baugh and Howard R. Perrin. First Exhibit BAKERSFIELD, Calif.. March 8 OP) With most of the regulars out of the lineup so untried re cruits may be tested, the beattle Rainiers will meet the Holly wood Stars at nearby Ontario today in the opening exhibition game for both Pacific Coast league baseball clubs. Manager Jo Jo White said he would handle the center field spot and use Johnny Sturm at first base. Newly-acquired Sigmund Jakucki, former St. Louis Browns hurler, will start on the mound. c 3 DISTRIBUTOR OPPORTUNITY Distributer want fr staple, non-per.Rbabla lint? of merchan dise, aotd to all hornet, individuals and building contractors. Merchandise It ma no far tared by cempany with established buil nets fer J3 ysan and new tell ing on a national basis. Investment Is required for Initial stark, disposition ( which la guaranteed. Exclusive territory la riven, and an active man, witn soma mechanical Inclination, has an pportnnltf for unlimited earn ing with a permanent future In n baslnesa all his own. Ta party aelected, complete training Is siren, with continued sales as sistance far futuro business. In reply please give references, age and baslnesa experience. Address Box 2130 This Newspaper (ntek9t, I DIVIMS CTIITO; Central Point Man Dies M. Peck, 95-ycar-old resident of Central Point, Ore., and for more than 40 years a summer home owner at Lake o' the Woods, died at 11 o'clock Friday morning at his home, according to word received hero by friends. Mr. Peck was one of the first valley residents to build a home at Lake o' the Woods and spent winters at the resort. For 30 years he had the boat concession there but save it uu about seven years ago due to his advanced years, bummer homo owners re member Mr. Peck for his unfail ing efforts to get his bear every fall and he frequently remained at the lake until be brought down a bear. He was also an ardent deer hunter. He lived at the south end of the lake on the cast side and in the early days had a little store, bringing sup plies in from Ashland by wagon. A son, Bert Peck of Central Point, survives. Portland Symphony Conductor Found PORTLAND. March 8 iiP) The first recent news of Wlllcm van Hoogstratcn... conductor of the Portland Symphony orches tra for 13 years, was received here today in a letter from a Nuernberg trial Interpreter. Emma Schwabeuland wrote her parents here that she came across Van Hoogstraten in Tut- zing, a small town south of Munich. She said Van Hoog straten, who left Portland for Germany in 1938, "isn't allowed to play or conduct in public, because he worked under Hitler. . . . He and his wife give private concerts on Sunday afternoons in their tmy little house." 1BBBBBBBBBBI i V v " t ? -. '. '''' You've got the sun in the morning and the moon at night just like everybody else. jYou've got little roads to explore, and pleasant places to go, and nice friends to enjoy life with, just as others do. But there's one' thing you can have that not everyone else can if you do something about it. It's in the extra lift you find in travel ing in car-styling as fresh as tomor row's morning glories, enduring as the classic lines of a Grecian vase. It's in roaming the quiet little roads or the busy big ones with plenty of eager horsepower under your bonnet, all ready to Fireball you along or drift you serenely through calm and quiet moments. It's in the feel-of a car that's really big enough. Roomy enough for threc-a-scat husky and solid enough to be 1330 Main More Snow Is Prediction Here Weok-cud weather prospects hold little chcrr for Klamath folk as the weatherman predict ed further diet of snow flur ries, cloudy skies and rain, In terspersed with a few scant rays of sunshine. By tills week most people felt they had suffered enough at the hands of the weather and were recuperating from colds rang ing from sniffles to flu after a brief false tusto'of spring last week. Snow and rain were wel comed in the farming areas of the basin in building up water reserves for this summer. Chains are advised for traveling on Sun mountain and the GreciispriiiKs, but roads are In fair ohnpe. At tlie Lava Beds, roads are passable despito five or six inches of snow on the ground. Lorenzen Estate Goes To Husband The estate of Mrs. Dorothy Gustafson Lorenzen, 26, who died in the tragic Evans apart ment fire February 16, Is not expected to amount to over $1000, according to probato fil ings, and the only heir listed Is her husband of a few weeks, William H., Lorenzen. Mrs. Lorenzen, Klamath Union high school physical education instructor, died without leaving a will. 300 Feet Jumps SALT LAKE CITY, March 8 OP) Leaps of up to 300 feet were forecast as possible today i as SO athletes prepared to com-I pete in Utah's centennial ski jumping championships. Utah s All Engen leaped Z4D feet from the Eckcr hill takeoff , during the recent intermountain championships. I In of H. E. '24 Fitzpatrick Gets Ranch An out-of-court compromise for $(1A00 in rush and settlement of various other claims has given Edward F. Filzpiilrlck title to the big Boyd ranch near Bly, at ono tlmo owned by tho late vera L. Crlslcr, Fitzpatrick and Miss Crlslcr had formed a partnership opera tion on t ho ranch and when she died Fitzpntrick filed a suit for titlo of the ranch as lliiuidiitlng partner against Dole N. Clem ens, administrator of tho Crlslcr estate. The suit was filed over a year ago In circuit court here, but never camo to trial. U. S. Union tine and E, E. Driscoll represent ed Fitzpatrick and J. 11. Carna hun was attorney for the Crlslcr estate. Bulentine said today that the amount of money involved In tho transfer of title to the ranch was considerably more than $6500, in that Fitzpatrick had sold some of the personal prop erty and stock lo satisfy bills against the ranch, but $8300 was the cash settlement paid to tho Crisler estate. Fitzpatrick acquired deeds to all the partnership ranch hold ings, stock and equipment. Classified Ads Bring Results. ROOFING GUARANTEED WORK FREE ESTIMATES For Every Need Phone 4833 GREM'S ROOFING SERVICE ever steady in its stride stout enough to take the most rugged going. It's in such plus-values ns soft coil springs on all four wheels bodies studiously mounted to be quiet and firm and true a wheel light yet firm under your hand an engine with the touch of perpetual youth in the fine ncss of its cylinder-wall finish. 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