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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (April 2, 1947)
Jrain Vreck iln Oklahoma iFatal To One ARMSTRONG, Okla., April 2 The Missourl-Kansas-Texas I(Katy) Texas ipcclal passenger train and a freight train engine sidcswiped here today, killing J one person and injuring several i others, The dead man was Louis Han sen, engineer of the passenger Strain. A. T. Ballard, fireman of the passenger train, was critically ! injured and taken to the Katy I hospital in Dcnison. A witness at the scene of the wreck first reported Ballard :dead. Sydney Johnson, the ambu- lance driver from Denison who took Ballard to the hospital, es . timated there were 20 to 30 in. Jured. He described the wreck as 'terrible." ! Ambulances from as far away as McAlester, 70 miles northeast of Armstrong, were called to the I scene and the injured were .rushed to Durant, Okla., six a miles away. The M-K-T offices at Durant and Denison reported the name , of the dead engineer was Louis Hansen of Denison. He was be- tween 50 and 60 years old. The I passenger fireman was A. T. Bal- Cause Unknown ? The accident occurred about i 7:10 a. m. There was no official announcement of the cause of the wreck, but those investigat I ing believe a missed or defective a signal block might have been the reason. A M-K-T official said that the , freight train was going south r just before the accident, then started backing north into a sid J ing as the passenger train bore down. Only, the engine re- mained on the main track as the ! passenger engine struck it. S The engineer of the freight train was C. G. Brown and the fireman waa J. E. Wilson Jr. of m Denison. . ' ! RC Drive To i Continue 1 Red Cross chairmen are still on the job and the 1947 drive J will be continued until every- one in Klamath county has been a contacted, information from Red Cross headquarters advised to- day. a Due to extensive illness throughout the county these con- tacts were not able to be made during the time originally al JJ loted for the drive, and many firms, rural communities and churches have not been heard from. 2 At the latest report, eontribu- tion figures stand at $is,zou toward the goal of $25,000 for J this county. Communities which have sent In their reports and are over the ! top of their quotas are Bonanza, a Chemult, Chiloquin, Fort Klanv ath, Henley, Keno, Langell val- ley, Poe valley, Weyerhaeuser 5 camps four and six. Midland and k Mac's store. Cltr Delivery Service. Ph. 8417. i Fireman's New Truck Saturday April 5th Music by Pappy Gordon's Oregon Hillbillies Dancing 10 Till 2 Admission S1.00 Per Person (Tax Included) 7 m nuke For Sale GEM Seed Potatoes Grown at Macdoel from Art Small Montana Seed O-O-O Reading from and Oceanside, Calif,, Wanted to Buy TABLE STOCK Potatoes We want your potatoes-either large or small lots. WESLEY McKAIG Phone 7360 Res. Phone 3267 Stamp-Licking Abolished Byron Diskin. Klamath Falls postal clerk with nine years of service behind him, is shown here saving time with the new postage meter, which prints a label with the exact amount of postage for a package, plus city postmark and date of mailing. Postage Meter Used Here Weary tongues will no longer waggle from licking stamps in a mailing rush at the Klamath Falls post office. Recently added to the equipment is an electric postage meter, guaranteed to save hours of time at the parcel post window. The machine is a neat, com pact item with more interesting points than a glamour girl. After a parcel is weighed, the amount of postage computed and fee collected, the clerk touches levers on the electrically-operated meter. Out pops a small printed la bel, gummed and automatically moistened, complete with post age of exact total value, plus city postmark and date of mail ing. The label is slapped on the package and the transaction is over. Letters may be slipped through the machine and receive the stamp right on them. Time spent waiting in line is halved and unsanitary stamp licking is abolished. Gl's File For Yakima Land YAKIMA, April 2 WP Fif teen hundred and one veterans entered their names in the draw ing for 28 farm units to be given away by the Roza division of the Yakima reclamation project, the homestead office said today. Applications closed yesterday with Richard E. Grazer of Tilla mook, Ore., beating the deadline by seconds to deliver his papers. Of 670 applications already checked, 76 have been rejected because of insufficient capital, experience or incomplete entries. The remaining names were to be checked today. Seventeen hundred acres of land are involved in the drawing with the 28 units ranging in size from 40 to 100 irrigable acres. The drawing will be held later this month. Indians May Get Plywood Buildings PORTLAND, April 8 OP) The Celilo Indian village will be rebuilt with surplus plywood Duimmgs II congress will ap propriate the $50,000 needed for labor cost. E. Morgan Pryse, regional In dian service chief, reported '30 buildings and the needed mater ials have been purchased to eli minate the flimsy and unsani tary shacks used by the Indians during their fishing seasons. Helicopter Survey Proves Successful PORTLAND, April 2 W) In spection of Bonneville power transmission lines by helicopter is proving satisfactory, BPA Maintenance Supervisor Lee Murray reports. Murray and helicopter pilot John Steen, Monroe, Wash., flew over Portland yesterday on the last lap of a 2200-mile trip and Murray said lines which nor mally require two days to check by ground crew were inspected in minutes from the air. For good insurance see Hans Norland, 123 N. 6th St. field inipections growing test. Qgfe INFLATION NOTE KANSAS CITY, April 2 (&) William T. A. Cully, director of the Swope park zoo. learned that it'a going to be harder to knock down a good bargain in the giraffe market. A New York animal import firm (Meems Bros, and Ward) wrote Qim that prices are spiral ing from $4000 to $20,000 per giraffe. With zoos in South America and Europe in the market again, hunters in East Africa have raised their price for a good animal in the "bush" by about 500 per cent, the importers wrote. SAWBUCKS PLENTIFUL NEBRASKA CITY, Neb., April 2 (P) "Anything smaller?" asked Bert Hershey, toll collector on the Missouri river bridge after a motorist handed him a $10 bill. "Don't you know," the motor ist replied, "that farmers don't have anything smaller than $10 bills these days?" The collector took the bill and gave the farmer his change. UNGRATEFUL GUEST UTICA, Mich., April 2 OP) A larceny warrant has been issued against the man who came to dinner, stayed a week and then left with some of the host's clothing, jewelry and silverware. Theodore Mulyk, who signed the complaint, said his dinner guest, and a woman companion he brought with him, took ad vantage of Mulyk's hospitality for one week. When they finally left, he said, they took a quantity of "souvenirs" with them. Few Port Patrol Officers Retained WASHINGTON, April 2 (IP) Customs Commissioner W. R. Johnson said today he will retain about 421 of 1340 port patrol of ficers given dismissal notices since the house voted a S3. 500. 000 cut in the bureau's operating funds. Johnson told a senate appro priations subcommittee, which has protested the mass firing that a revision of his plans will allow retention of skeleton port guards "at those seaports where experi ence indicated there is the great est smuggling hazard." The customs head said this in cludes the ports of Portland and Seattle. Wi flPEMG TOJIIGHTn---. ; WOODY HERMAN'S J f POPULAR INSTRUMENTALISTS J ( THE FOUR CHIPS ' YOU'VE HEARD THEM ON RECORDS! To Forget SA Offers Aid In Gl Burials The Salvation Army will as sist with re-burlal of war dead in every way' possible, accord ing to Major Roswall, local Sal vation Army officer. Just what the Army will do will depend upon individual need, but serv ice will be rendered in every way possible to facilitate re-internment and to linhteii the bur den placed upon family and friends. Offers of ministerial services where no regular minister is designated to officiate, Is one of the services offered by the Army whenever and wherever officers are culled upon. Because of the close contact throughout war years with sol diers on all fighting fronts, the Salvation Army feels a keen in terest in tho return of our hero dead. Not only did many Sal vution , Army officers serve throughout the war as chaplains, but through the ninny USO clubs operated by the Salvation Army in this country, they came into close contact with many thou sands of veterans. Major Roswall states that let ters have been sent to all pa triotic organizations in Klamath Falls expressing the Salvation Army's desire to assist, and all funeral directors have been noti fied of 'services available. Any one desiring assistance of the Salvation Army may call at the local office at 400 Klamath. Wandering Bus Driver Doesn't Know Why Yet HOLLYWOOD. Fla.. April 2 IP) The irrepressible spring time impulse that prompted Wil liam Lawrence Cimillo to take a 44-passenger bus on a solo odyssey of 1350 miles along the Atlantic seaboard has left the 37-year-old New Yorker with one major worry. What will his wife and chil dren think? "I have a swell family, a wife and three kids," the bus driver from the Bronx, N. Y.. said yes terday, "and I don't want to hurt 'em." Mimillos journey began last Friday when he left his regular bus route in the Bronx on a sudden impulse and headed south. It ended in the jail of this south Florida seaside resort. "I just wanted to get some where," Cimillo told reporters. Save Time in United MakUneto PORTLAND . . . 2Vihrs. SEATTLE .... 314 hrs. SAN FRANCISCO . . 2'i hrs. LOS ANGELES . . S'4 hrs. and "all rh East." IHi 11 LIESIME Inn YOU'VE HEARD THEIR RADIO . AND NOW SEE THEM IN Life's Bore, Try Lakeshore!" Tuleloke Men To Buy Stock Cattle , TULELAKE, April 2 N. C. Wilkinson of Tuleluke and Titer on Jones, Merrill, will go io Burns this week for purchaso of stock cattle, Tho two men have Just completed a deal Involving 1700 head of young llerefords which will be grazed this sum mer near Marysville. Some may be sent to the Big Klamath marsh. These animals were bought in Surprise valley. Headquarters for the stock buying operations are at the Nllcs hotel in Alturns. Portland Zoo Director Named PORTLAND, April 2 0V) Jack L. Marks, Seaside, has been appointed temporary director of the Portland zoo to succeed Dr. Arthur M. Greenhall who re sinned to direct the Detroit, Mich., zoo. Marks, a native of Albany, has worked under Dr. Greenhali and was recommended by the resigned director. " "STETSON HATS JfeteAfaiu! Manhattan Rayon PAJAMAS 7.95 - 10.00 Now showing at DREW'S . . . are rayon pajamas In color ful variety of grand pastel shades. SaUtlliaX ISIS 733 Main Nunn-Bush Shoes For wmtiontt Airport Terminal Call 3124 SHIP Y AIR FREIGHT THI MAIN LINi AIM WA Y j 5 PROGRAM! PERSON! Crash Survivor In Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., April 2 M') Paul Vick, 18-month-okl solo sur vivor of a plane crash In which his father, mother and 23 others were kllled-near Hankow, China, was being cared tor in a Berkeley home today before Juiirneylnu to his grandparents' home In Rochester, N. Y. The child arrived here by air yesterday and was met by Dr. and Mrs, Ralph E. Kmirisrn, who aid ho waa In. good health. Paul's father, the Rev. R. A. Vick of Rochester, saved the boy's life by Jumping from the plane before It crashed two months ago. He ordered Paul 1 sent to the boy's grnndpiirents. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Vick of ! Rochester. Tho father died two i days after the crush. Classified Ads Bring Results.' W.'rt proud of hh hill, ptnty . . . 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