Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, March 21, 1947, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextThompson To Represent C-C Elton Thompton. chairman of the industrial development com mittee of the Klamath County chamber of commerce, will re present the chamber at a West ern States council conference slated for Monday, March 24, in San. Francisco. The council consists of all the chambers of commerce in the western states and is aimed at in dustrial development of its area. Topics to be discussed include wood waste utilization, phos phate deposits and possibilities of an integrated steel industry in the western states. At a meeting Thursday morn ing the industrial development committee made plans to tour the Hatfield starch factory on Friday. Preparations Underway For Woods Operations (Continued from Page One) ing performed by Garey and Fouls and the contractors will put the necessary crews in the woods. Fifty men are working in the mill, planer and dry kiln at the present time. At Klamath Lake Moulding company, familiarly known as the Boy Scout mill and located just north of Pelican City, the mill is operating on a single shift basis at the present time cutting some 75,000 feet per day. This concern is buying logs on con tract basis and logs are coming from various sources. The pres ent mill capacity and the 50 men employed, is expected to continue indefinitely, sources advised today. Bill Raymond holds the log ging contract for Klamath Lum ber and Box company, formerly the Di Giorgio Fruit corpora tion and located in Shippington, and he will get the woods camp in operation around April 1. Raymond is logging for Klamath Lumber beyond Langell valley and about 50 miles east of here. Big Lakes Box company is already cutting in the Sprague river area with contracting be ing done by Harry Mesner and Marion Reynolds. As soon as weather permits and the high snow melts in the Squaw valley tract southwest of Sprague river i logging will start there. A small crew went to work in the woods early this year but the bigger crew will get on the Job in a week or 10 days, the time mu tually confirmed by all other mill men as the opening of spring logging operations. The Crane Mills cutting has been going on an intermittent basis according to whether the roads are "frozen or soupy" since January 1. Powell and Cary have been marking and scaling on Horsefly mountain, according to the Bly section of Shasta-Cascade forestry report. R. L. Smith company opera tions have logged until the re cent thaw in northern Modoc county, and the mill is operating on logs brought out from the woods during that time. Log ging is expected to be resumed as soon as possible. Loveness Logging company is doing the logging. "FLYING" SPIDERS Balloon spiders have been found two miles above the earth by U. S. government scientists using insect traps on airplanes. These spiders do not have the power of flight, but are carried aloft by wind. Classified Ads Bring Results. Attention DO YOU PLAN ( TO PAINT THIS OfA YEAR? I If I can book your order in advance, we will both bene fit. You may be assured of a good job at a reasonable price. Dial 9598 for Free Estimate No Obligation H. C. HARRIS Painting Contractor "Not How Quick But How Good" AT Saturday March 22 Music by Pappy Gordon and his Oregon Hillbillies Dancing 10 Till 2 IB ill RC Disaster Committee To Meet Field Representatives The local disaster committee of the American Red Cross met Thursday with Boyd Burnside, disaster field representative from San Francisco, and dis cussed plans for the future in regards to disaster in this county. Burnside, who covers Idaho, Washington and Oregon, was field director with the famous 104th Timberwolf division of the U..S. army throughout the war in the European theater. Widow Gets $3000 Payment SALEM. March 21 (PI A proposed $3000 payment to the widow of state Police bgt. Ted Chambers, who was killed two years ago by bandits in an On tario school house, won the ap proval today of the joint legis lative ways and means commit tee. Mrs. Chambers has been get ting $152 a month from the state Industrial accident com mission, but this will be cut to $40 this month because her old est son is now 18 years old. Her younger son is blind, and the $3000 is to be used to educate him. Request for the money came from friends of Mrs. Chambers, who made no request herself. Coast Lakes To Be Cleared Of Weeds SALEM. March 21 (JP) The joint legislative ways and means committee voted today for a bill authorizing the state game com mission to take steps to remove weeds from Tahkenitch and Siltcoos lakes on the Oregon coast. The value of the lakes is being destroyed by the weed growth. The committee eliminated the $25,000 appropriation leaving it up to the game commission to spend its money. Sugar N' Spice To Sponsor Dance Tonight, Friday, from 8:30 to 11:30, members of Sugar, n' Spice, home economics club of Klamath Union high school, will sponsor a semi-formal dance, "Fountain Fantasy" in Pelican court The affair is for high school i students, and especially invited : are college students home for ; spring vacation. Programs will , be available at the dance. Baldy's band will play. j Dr. M. C. Cassel Chiropractic Physician Headaches, Gas, Stomach and Spinal Ailments TtUHOMI wo 127 So. 7th St. For Sale This Outstanding Grade Dairy A show place, this grade "A" dairy 'arm consists of 165 acres, located 4 miles from Portland city limits. This is rated as one of the finest dairy farms in the Northwest and would make a fine set-up for breeding farm for horses or cattle. Picture shows one barn, but there are three on the place with a modern. 10-room home. Buildings insured for approximately $70,000. A $10,000 concrete dam across a rock bottom creek will irrigate about half the place. Price $150,000. with one-fourth down. For complete details writs or phone Ernest Lehman, owner, Beaverton, route 2, phone 3191. INSTALL Enjoy "sea breese" cool all summer! We have air eondi tioners available for residential or commercial use. Of the evaporative type, these can be connected to your present heating plant in many cases. This summer enjoy cool, fil tered air with, all dust eliminated! Immediate Installation Terms As Low As $5 Monthly Small Slses. Suitable for Home Installation. As Low as St per Month Free Estimates No Obligation Call 7708 "COOL AS A SEA BREEZE" BALL PORTER 80J Spring Phone 7708 Later he was assigned as field supervisor for Luzon and ended his assignment in Korea. He be came disaster field representa tive in May. 1946. and for a short time was aligned on the cast coast to cover the floods. He returned to the west coast in September and was recently assigned to the flood at Kent, Wash. Burnside complimented the local chapter for Its excellent work in the recent disaster in Klamath Falls, the Evans apart ment house fire. The local disaster committee members include. E. H. Thomp son and L. L. Lowe, co-chair men: Carl Schubert, Dr. Neil Black, Ted Reeves. Arnold Gra- lapp, Don Anderson. C. H. Fos ter, Lena Dennis. George Mc Intyre, E. M. Chilcote. Charles aeavev, . p. Livingston and Malcolm, Epley. Judge Combs To Sit Here Circuit Judge Charles H. Combs of Lakeview will preside on the Klamath county bench this coming week and is faced with a full docket. Circuit Judge David R. Vandenbere left today for Burns to preside in Harney county. Monday at 10 a. m. Judge Combs will hear a motion for the dismissal of the charges against Lewis H. Ankeny, form er Klamath Falls stockbroker. for embezzlement and larceny by bailee. The motion has been introduced by Ankeny 's attor ney, Ben Anderson of Portland, on the grounds that Howard Barnhisel, foreman of the grand Jury which indicted Ankeny, is also one of the defendants in the trial. Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock Judge Combs will open the trial of Verne L. Wagner, city police officer, charged with assault, armed with a dangerous weapon. The trial date was set laft Mon day after a previous motion to quash the indictment against Wagner was overruled. Wag ner's attorney, Herbert P. Welch of Lakeview, is in town today examining the jury list in preparation for the hearing. Less than 20,000.000 people speak Esperanto, only living in ternational language. PUMICE SAND Ideal for Brick Mortar and Plaster. Light and Tough. PROMPT DELIVERY Phone 9266 Western Pumice Sand Co. 2321 Eberlefn St. Farm NOW! $595,0 New Plywood Developed ABERDEEN, Wash.; March, 21 JP) A. R. Wuest, president of the West Coast Plywood com pany, today "unveiled" a new, improved-surface p 1 y w o o d, known as "welchboard," for A. R. Welch, vice president of the firm who invented and improved the product. The new panel production is on a limited scale but will reach v o lu m e production in six months. Plywood manufacturers will be licensed to make the new product through the Plywood Research foundation of Tacoma, non-profit organization set up by the industry two years ago tu eliminate waste d develop new products. The new process utilizes waste plywood aggregates, in the form of wood flour, bonded with resins to a plywood base. The same hot-plate presses used in making plywood are used to bond the new surface material to plywood panels. The surface was described as relatively hard and smoother than any present plywood surfaces and has the natural color of the pulverized wood fibers used light tan in the case of Douglas fir. Britain Gets Gale Warning LONDON. March 21 P Gale warnings went up through out Britain today and "worsen ing conditions" were reported in the nation's two most critical flood areas the fenland region in the east and the northern min ing town of Bentley. Rivers were reported receding in virtually all other areas, how ever, after the nation's wont flood disaster in living memory. British soldiers and volunteers stacked more sandbags on a 12 mile long, seven-foot high dyke holding back the swollen Wissey river in the fenlands, where en tire communities and 110 square miles of rich farm land already were under water. Trucks piled high with sand were dashing to the danger spots along roads dotted with fleeing flood refugees. RAF planes ranged over the region reporting the spread of ever widening waters. just asrtrvED AlllMl ART METAL t, t r 4-1) rawer Steel Letter or Legal Files WaUat. Oak ar Slaal Office Chairs "ZTtrytftlMc far lai OffMa PIONEER . Printing and Stationary Co. You'll have tetter land . . , better m$s...'mtt tetter income... vhenyou farn See your Agricultural Conservation Committee for Information oa helpful . v farming practices. Your local chairman is Burroll Short of Klamath Falls. This advertisement, presented in the interests of better soil conservation methods. Is sponsored by ' KLAMATH FALLS BRANCH FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF PORTLAND Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation POTATOES Baiin Potato Shipments In Carloads 11)47 1S46 March 20 48 14 March to Date .. Bllrt 587 Season to Date ..8998 10,168 CHICAGO, March 21 (AP USDAV Polntoes: arrivals 63; on track 203; total U. S. ship ments 1331; supplies moderate; demand fair for best westerns, very slow for Red River Valley sections; market about steady for westerns, dull with slightly weaker tendency for Red River Valley section; Idaho Ruaset Bur banks $3.65-3.90 unwashed: Col orado Red McClures $3.90-4.15 . ashed; Nebraska Bliss Tri umphs $3.90-4.00 washed; new stocks: Florida 50 lb. paper sucks Bliss Triumphs $2.50 (all U. S. No. 1 quality). LOS ANGELES, Murch 21 (AP-USDA) Potatoes: 16 brok en,' 13 unbroken curs on track; arrivals, California 1. Idaho 5, Nevada 2. Utah 3, Idaho Russets No. 1-A, 3.35-3.50. SAN FRANCISCO, March 21 (AP-USDA) Potatoes: 11 brok en, 14 unbroken cars on track; arrivals, Washington 1, Oregon 2, Nevada '3, Florida 1; market' about steady;- Deschutes Russets No. 1-A, 3.40-3.50. Unions Blamed For Failures WASHINGTON, March 21 () Fred A. Virkus, chairman of the conference of American small business organizations, testified today reports indicate thousands of small business men have been forced to close their doors "be cause of labor union dictator ship." Virkus Is a Chicago book pub lisher and chairman of the Illi nois legislative committee ' on small business. He told a house expenditures subcommittee: "We believe coercion of owner-operators to join unions can be brought to a halt by legis lation confining labor union membership to employes only. MICE TEMPERATURE Mean monthly temperature In Phoenix. Ariz., ranges from 81 degrees in anuary to 80 degree in July, with the annual mean being about 70 degrees. OUR NEW COFFEE SHOP I Now Open 7 A. M. to 9:30 P. M. Every Day Except Saturday WI-NE-MA HOTEL ft the Sonic Control Used On Model PORTLAND, March 21 W An airplane lipping around the sky In response to notoa from a duck call Is the latest of Jim my Walker's efforts at sonic con trol. The model alrplune hobbyist gave a demonstration here yes terday. When he didn't blow the horn, the plane circled to the left; a continuous blast turned It to the right; a steady writ of blasts kept it on course. K explained the rudder was set to turn the plane to the left, but that when It "heard" the sound of the duck cull, a switch pulled a rudder string, moving the plane to the right. A series nt a.intwU IrAttt llin rit.t,l..f mi mid-point, , Walker said he expected some day to see model planes put through acrobatics by sonic con trol. Mrs. Broadhurst Given Life Jolt VALE. Ore., March 21 A) Mrs. Gladys Lincoln Broadhurst, convicted slayer of her sixth hus band, W. D. Broadhurst of Cald well. Ida., was sentenced to life imprisonment today. The sentence, pronounced by Circuit Judge M. A. Bigg this afternoon, was mandatory under the verdict returned last Friday. "I have no statement," the 41-year-old red-head told the court before sentence was passed. Her eyes were swollen by weeping but she was outwardly calm. Jutt Received! At DREW'S Lightweight Underwear By Utlca Short Sleeve Ankle Length White Knit $2.50 SaUalUkta: Uli 731 Mala CURLEE CLOTHES , AM WILL BE OPEN Q Sunday, March 23rd at 4 p. m. To Accommodate Diner-Outers Phone now for reservations for on evening of top-flight entertainment plus the finest food in the west. DIAL 9063 NOW, AND BE SURE! JSEEG Will Present Five Quality Shows During the Evening . . . One of America's Top Singing Units ... Shows at 5 p. m. 7 p. m. 9 p. m. 1 1 p. m. -r- 1 a. m. SONGS OF THE SOUTHLAND - POPULAR HIT TUNES TRADITIONAL FOLK SONGS NARRATIVE SPIRITUALS DIRECT BROADCAST TONIGHT 8:45-9:00 KFJI atKAi.o a Nw, ui '". O"- Local Firm Given Contract MERRILL. March 21 Bids for the construe' 'on and exten sions of t ho new sewage cllspomil plunl and wutvr system woru opened here last night at t lit) city council niretliig. Two bids were entered for the Job, the low bid der being PlnnlKer and Wutklns of Klumalll Fulls with a bid, of $20,572.25. Clifford A. Dunn of Klamath Fulls entered a Did or $2U,39H. The awurd wus given to 1'lnniger and Walklns. The con struction will Include the re placement of the old wooden wuter main from Lost river court down Front with cast Iron pill ing and the revamping of the present plunt. The contract for the concrete blocks to be used as foundation fur the water lank was also uwuruVd to Plnnlger and Wat kins with a bid of $1137. Dunn bid $111110 on the Job. The bid for the .lO.OOO-giillon water tank had previously been awarded to BRING YOUR INTERNATIONAL TRUCK or PICK-UP TOME FOR SERVICE! FOR PARTS! DICK B. MILLER CO. INTERNATIONAL TRUCK DIVISION Uth and Klamath Phone 77JS :si minAT, Man ii, mi, r.t. t. tho I'lltsbuigh Dos Moines Steak company fur tH.OIHI. PILES Hurt Like Sin! 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